1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty you're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app Welcome. We did a 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: lot last hour on Dana Williamson, who is the angry 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: bully who finally got caught. She got caught stealing money 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: from a political account, and she also got caught apparently 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: she took a lot of COVID money and bought a 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: lot of fun goodies for herself. We talked to Katie 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: Grimes about that case and why. In many news stories 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: there was a few lines about how Williamson, the chief 10 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: of staff for Gavin Newsom, was approached on what she 11 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: knew about a separate investigation the FBI may be doing 12 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: into Newsom. What would they be interested in? They asked 13 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: her to wear a wire. According to one report, they 14 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: asked her to give details on what bad things he 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: was up to. She apparently declined at least for now, 16 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: but hey, you know, maybe she'll flip in order to 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: get a lighter sentence. But the FBI, during the Joe 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: Biden years, this goes back to twenty twenty two, has 19 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: been very interested in Newsom's shenanigans, and Katie had some 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: ideas what that might be about. So you listen to 21 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: the podcast and our number one later. Now the uh 22 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: yesterday was a hearing in the Palisades. We talked about 23 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday in the Palisades at the I 24 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: think the American Legion Hall. It was two Republican senators 25 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: from way out of town, one in Wisconsin, Ron Johnson 26 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: and one in Florida, Rick Scott. And they're doing a 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: massive Senate investigation into what the hell's bit went on 28 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: leading up to the fire and then the response or 29 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: non response to the fire, because there's there's I think 30 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: one of the senators said, there's layer after layer after 31 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: layer of incompetence and god knows what else. I mean, 32 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: it's astonishing how many things went wrong before, during, and 33 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: after the fire, whether it was the fire department, the 34 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: fire chief, the mayor, the police, Gavin Newsom and the 35 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: state not getting rid of the brush on state land, 36 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: not putting out the original January first fire, and then 37 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: it reignited. You know, busted hydrants to the empty reservoir, 38 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: busted fire engines, fire personnel directed away from the Palisades 39 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: instead of into the palisades. You know, this story, what 40 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: the hell and the thing is We've got two senators 41 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: who are supposed to represent California, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, 42 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: who've had no interest in investigating this because it's their 43 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: buddies in the Democratic Party. They're not going to investigate. Send. 44 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: Now two Republicans come to town and people going, what 45 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: are these out of town Republicans doing? Well, they're trying 46 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: to find the truth because there was I think criminal 47 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: incompetence here between Bass and Newsom and the fire chief 48 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: Kristin Crowley and Genie Quinonez and the rest of them. 49 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: This is criminal incompetence, cost a lot of lives and 50 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: just tens of billions of dollars in property. And Adam 51 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: Schiff and Alex Padia what a shift busy doing readying 52 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: his defense in case he gets indicted. What is Alex 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: Padia doing trying to get the handcuffs off him after 54 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: interrupting a Homeland Security press conference. He's so interested in 55 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: what happened to the illegal aliens, the criminal illegal aliens 56 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: that Christy Nooman was deporting. Has no interest in what 57 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: happened here in the Palisades and out to Diana none. Yeah, 58 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: So we had Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and the Senator 59 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: from Florida, Rick Scott, come and they held a hearing 60 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: to see what's happened. And I want you to hear, 61 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, some of the suffering, because this really got 62 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: to me. I watched the video of this. Here's a woman, 63 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: Rachel Schwartz, ninety four years old, survived the Holocaust three 64 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: concentration camps. She was sitting at the witness table explaining 65 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: to these two senators from out of state what happened 66 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: to her during the fire. 67 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 2: My name is Rachel Schwartz and I am ninety four 68 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 2: years old. Normally I don't acknowledge as a woman my age, 69 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: but today with the Meditan, I have been through a 70 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 2: lot in my life. As a little girl, I survived 71 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 2: three concentration camps and three weeks March for being freed 72 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 2: by Russian and American soldiers. 73 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: I was born in Warsaw, Poland. 74 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 2: Somehow, by God's grace, I made it through. I came 75 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: to this country when I was fifteen years old, started 76 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 2: over and made their lives I was proud of. For 77 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 2: the past twenty five years, I lived peacefully in my 78 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 2: home in the Pacific Palisades. I worked almost thirty five 79 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 2: years as a real estate doing accounting to have the 80 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 2: money to purchase this home. I lived people peacefully in 81 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 2: my home in Pacific Palisades. It was my safe place, 82 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 2: filled with memories, family, voters, and the comfort I had 83 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,799 Speaker 2: waited my whole life to feel. 84 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 3: Then the fire came. 85 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 2: I watched everything I owned disappear in flame. At my age, 86 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 2: it's not easy to begin again. I've been with my 87 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: insurance company for over twenty five years, always paid my premiums, 88 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 2: never missed the payment, and now they tell me they 89 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 2: will not cover They will only cover about half of 90 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 2: what I need to rebuild. 91 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: It's not right. 92 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 2: There are many singers here in the Palace Age who 93 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 2: are in the same situation. We've all down our part, 94 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 2: lived on its lives, and now we are left with 95 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 2: almost nothing. It doesn't seem fair after old years. Senators, 96 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 2: I am not asking for pity. I am asking for help, 97 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,239 Speaker 2: not just for me, but for everyone who has lost 98 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 2: their homes and feels forgotten. 99 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: Please do what you. 100 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 2: Can to make sure insurance companies are held to their promises, 101 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 2: especially for older people who have been loyal customers for decades. 102 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 2: We does want to live out our remaining years with 103 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 2: dignity and peace in the homes and communities we love. 104 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 2: Thank you for allowing me to testify with heartfelt gratitude, 105 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 2: Racho Schwartz. 106 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: Can you believe that? 107 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 3: Huh? 108 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, the insurance companies pulled out on her. And you 109 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,239 Speaker 1: know how that happened. We went through this, I believe 110 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: last week, huge story in the New York Times. A 111 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: month before the fires, Gavin Newsom and the insurance Commissioner 112 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: Ricardo calpart Lara came up with a new set of 113 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: regulations that they claimed, we're going to ensure that most 114 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: people in fire zones would be able to buy insurance, 115 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: and instead they created a system that led to there 116 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: were so many loopholes that the insurance company, the insurance 117 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: companies pulled tens of thousands of policies, especially in the Palisades. 118 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: Happened just a month or two later. So Gavin Newsom 119 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: and Riccardo Alara, and boy, you should look at the 120 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: campaign donations to those two from the insurance industry. Dousom 121 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: and Lara rewrote the rules. Next thing, you know, tens 122 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: of thousands insurance companies pulled their insurance and ninety four 123 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: year old Holocaust survivor Rachel Schwartz has hardly any insurance. 124 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: Now what is she supposed to do? And you don't 125 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: see Gavin Newsom at this at this hearing. You don't 126 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: see Karen Bass at this hearing. You don't see Riccardo 127 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: Lara at this hearing. You don't see Adam Schiff at 128 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: this hearing. You don't see Alex Perdie at this hearing. 129 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: Senator from Wisconsin and a Senator from Florida or here 130 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: to listen to this poor woman's story or coming up 131 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: about the Senate hearing yesterday. And after two point thirty, 132 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: we're going to have Alex Stone from ABC News because 133 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: things are getting better up in the sky. The air 134 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: traffic controllers are largely back to work, fewer flights are 135 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: being canceled. See how it's shaken out with Alex. 136 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 4: After two thirty, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand 137 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 4: from KFI AM six forty. 138 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: All right back to the Senate hearing yesterday that they 139 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: brought two Pacific palisades amid amidst the ruins, and we 140 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: had two Republican senators from far away, Ron Johnson from 141 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Rick Scott from Florida. They're doing the Senate investigation, 142 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: and they're threatening subpoenas, and they were talking to the 143 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: people affected yesterday and a lot of a lot of 144 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: heartbreaking stories. And again, where is anybody who's paid for 145 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: by taxpayers to represent California, to run the California government? Again, 146 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: no Senators Alex Padilla or Adam Schiff, No Governor Gavin Newsom, 147 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: no Mayor Karen Bass, nobody from the city council. The hell, 148 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: nobody in this state cares what happened to Californians on 149 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: January seventh, both here in Altadena. It's so agreed, it 150 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: looks so egregious and so awful to the rest of 151 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: the country that you have senators from other states coming. 152 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: I mean, Rick Scott represents people in Florida. They don't 153 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: have these problems in Florida. Ron Johnson represents people in Wisconsin. 154 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: They don't have these problems there. Nobody around the country 155 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: can believe what's happened here. But we're in such a bubble. 156 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: Much of this is not covered by the media. None 157 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: of it's addressed by the people in charge, the people 158 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: responsible for all the death and destruction. So Senator Scott, 159 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: Senator Johnson come to town listening to this, to some 160 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: of this, A lot of this is about Karen Bass. 161 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: Karen Bass alone could could have prevented this from happening 162 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: if she just stayed in town and convened a meeting 163 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: of fire department chiefs and asked one question, any hotspots 164 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: left over from January first, we should be aware of 165 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: one meeting, a few fire officials, one question, Everything would 166 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: have been different. So here's John Alley. He's a Palisades businessman, 167 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: businesses in the Palisades and in Santa Monica and also 168 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: in the MacArthur Park area. And he was on the 169 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: phone with Karen Bass as she was boarding the plane 170 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: to Ghana. Remember she left a few days before the 171 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: fire to go to Ghana. And he was worried that 172 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: the homeless drug addicts and MacArthur Park, since they start 173 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: fires all the time, they might burn down the park. 174 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: So listen to John Alley's testimony at the Senate hearing. 175 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 3: To Karen Vass as she was boarding the plane to Ghana, 176 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 3: we were talking about the fires. She was inquiring about 177 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 3: another area where I owned properties, MacArthur Park, Westlake area. 178 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 3: We discussed predicted wins. I was concerned because of the 179 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 3: daily and nightly eighteen inch fires by met users and 180 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 3: addicts running wild in the park and next to buildings. 181 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 3: I was concerned that that community would burn immediately, since 182 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: the buildings are thirties and forties era construction. We discussed 183 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 3: her leaving La without a deputy mayor in place in 184 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 3: charge of homeland security, police, fire, airport. Deputy Mayor Brian 185 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 3: Williams was on paid leave while the FBI investigated his 186 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 3: reporting of false bomb threats at LA City Hall. Even 187 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 3: our own police chief was not aware that Brian Williams 188 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 3: was on paid leave. She seemed intent on leaving, became 189 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 3: angry and personally threatening on the phone. When I voiced 190 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 3: my concerns. She told me she would miss just two dates. 191 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 3: I responded by saying she'd be away five days, that 192 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 3: being mayor of the nation's second largest city was a 193 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 3: twenty four to seven job, and that Saturdays and Sundays 194 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 3: counted upon her return. After the Palisades, my hometown burned 195 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 3: and my family lost their homes, everything over fifty years' worth. 196 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 3: I continued texting Karen Bass and leaving voicemail messages. She 197 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 3: never returned my calls or responded to my text messages. 198 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 3: Again irresponsible, not right. 199 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 1: To say the least, irresponsible and not right. That's psychotic. 200 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 1: This is what I'm talking about. These are dangerous psychopaths 201 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: running the government. He's going to Ghana no matter what. 202 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,839 Speaker 1: There were extreme warnings from the National Weather Service about 203 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: fire danger and wind danger. She knew nothing of that 204 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: hot spot, she claimed later. She didn't know anything about 205 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: the fire and wind warnings. Nobody told her, she said. 206 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: And he and again he was trying to Not only 207 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: was he was worried about MacArthur Park, where he had 208 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: some businesses, because they're all cracked out and meft out, 209 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: These these insane homeless people, these mental patients, these drug addicts, 210 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: they run around MacArthur Park like some bizarre animal species, 211 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: their brains completely fried, and they start fires all the time. 212 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: And he's worried that the old buildings in the Westlake 213 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: neighborhood are made of wood and they were all gonna 214 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: burn if a fire started out of the park. She 215 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: didn't care, didn't care what happened to the palisades. She 216 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: just cuts off contact, No more phone calls, no more text, 217 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: She makes no public appearances. Hey, what does it take? 218 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: What does it take to get somebody else in office. 219 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: She's killing people, She's killing neighborhoods. I sometimes I wonder, 220 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: is everybody in this whole city in state whacked out 221 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: on meth at home or fentanyl or crack or something. 222 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: Don't they see what's happening? Can you believe that story? 223 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: I'm only going to be gone two days. No, you're 224 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: not five days. She decided she's not there on the weekends. Wow, 225 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: that's crazy. There should be investigation just into that phone call. 226 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: They out have a hearing just for the phone call. 227 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: All right, we come back. It should be getting better. 228 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: If you're traveling this weekend, we're gonna have Alex Stone 229 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: from ABC News with the shutdown over, and you've got 230 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: the air traffic controllers coming back and the flight cancelations 231 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: are being reduced. We'll see what's what coming up Alex Stone. Next. 232 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 233 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 4: six forty. 234 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. The 235 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: podcast is available after four o'clock on the iHeart app. 236 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: Today we spent much of the one o'clock hour on 237 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: the Dana Williamson scandal and with Gavitt Newsom. She's the 238 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: chief of staff that's been indicted. And are they investigating 239 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: Newsom and for what? Well, Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot 240 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: Com had a lot to say about that. So you 241 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: should listen to the first hour for sure on the podcast. 242 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: And we just went through some of the testimony at 243 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: the hearing on the fire and the palisades, and if 244 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: you miss that, that's another thing might want to catch 245 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: this weekend on the podcast. Now we go to Alex Stone. 246 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 1: ABC News corresponded. We have the air traffic controllers, most 247 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: all of them are back. Plane cancelations are fewer. What's 248 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: it look like this weekend, Yeah, well it looks a 249 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: lot better, but still, John, there are hundreds of flights 250 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: that are canceled, but they're trending in the right direction. 251 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: They're down considerably today and much of that is because 252 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: the controllers are fully back on the job and so 253 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: they got their paychecks today. For their back pay, they 254 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: got seventy percent, some got a little bit more, but 255 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: mainly seventy percent of their income from the last number 256 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: of weeks since the beginning of October when the shutdowns started. 257 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 1: So all of this money they've been missing out on 258 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: they got today, which is about the right timing that 259 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 1: Seann Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, had said it would be 260 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: twenty four to forty eight hours after the government reopened 261 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: that they would get paid and then the rest of 262 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: their missed money will come over the next couple of weeks. 263 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: And none of you know, the President had talked about, well, 264 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: he may dock their pay or whatever. Legally, it was 265 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: actually President Trump who signed a law bill Intolaw in 266 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen mandating the government workers get fully paid during 267 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: a shutdown when the shutdown is over, and so he 268 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: would have gone against his own law, and he did not. 269 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: That was a lot of talk, but in the end 270 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: he didn't do anything with that. For those who did 271 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: call out sick, they're all getting paid, Transportation Secretary Sean 272 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: Duffy saying, the money's coming. 273 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 3: They'll get seventy percent of their back paid, so very 274 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 3: quickly they're going to get money in their bank accounts. 275 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: But John, that doesn't mean everything is back to normal. 276 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: Because of the flight cuts that the FAA and the 277 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: Transportation Department put into effect last week, where they were 278 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,880 Speaker 1: ramping up to ten percent of flights cut. They got 279 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: to they started at four percent last week, they got 280 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: to six percent. On Monday, about an hour ago, they 281 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 1: brought that down to three percent. They said they need 282 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 1: time to kind of ramp all of this up and 283 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: figure out, you know, make sure staffing is good to 284 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: go before they tell the airlines okay, have at it. 285 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: You can just book all of your flights again. So 286 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,360 Speaker 1: there are still today around six hundred and thirty five 287 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: flights that have been canceled, better than the last number 288 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: of days, but still not great, and like twenty three 289 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: hundred flights that have been delayed today. But Chicago, Atlanta, Newark, Dallas, Seattle, 290 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: and Denver the most heavily canceled airports today, sky West 291 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: and Southwest have the most canceled flight So it's not perfect, 292 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: it's a little bit better. This lady was out traveling 293 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: today and she says, not all that bad. Yeah, they 294 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: felt a little impact, but not all that bad. 295 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 5: Going from Miami to DC three times in the past 296 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 5: three and a half weeks and we had no cancelation 297 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 5: in Miami. Got up here today. It's a forty five 298 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 5: minutes delay, but that's nothing compared to what a lot 299 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 5: of people have been too. 300 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 1: But the other thing is you've got weather impacting all 301 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: of this today, that it's not only the effects of 302 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: the shutdown still lingering, but I mean, obviously look outside 303 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,360 Speaker 1: that we know what's going on in southern California. Northern California. 304 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: Bay Area has got the same thing. Seattle's got some weather, 305 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: so there are a lot of areas where weather's coming 306 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: into play as well. The other thing is yesterday, we 307 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: don't have the numbers for today yet, but yesterday eighty 308 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: six percent of flights that were still on the schedule 309 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: they were on time, and that was better than pre shutdown. 310 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: So having all the controllers back lightning the schedule that 311 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: they're able to keep those flights that are still scheduled 312 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: on time. That'll change when the airlines begin booking more 313 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: flights again once this cap goes away. That they put 314 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: down to three percent today. The other thing is a 315 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: TSA officers who did not call in sick during the 316 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: shutdown and air traffic control get the same thing. They 317 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: are now receiving their ten thousand dollars bonus checks that 318 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: are being either electronically or symbolically. Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary 319 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,479 Speaker 1: Christy Nolan was handing them their checks. But they are 320 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 1: getting bonus checks if they did not call out sick. 321 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: I know somebody who is stuck in South America. All 322 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: the flights have been canceled. That's no good and he 323 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:43,959 Speaker 1: hasn't been able to get out. Yeah, I wonder how 324 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: many people have been marooned in weird places. All right, Alex, 325 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. You got it. Thanks, John, have 326 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: a good weekend. We're talking. So Alex was explaining how 327 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 1: everybody's supposed to get paid back, but NPR has this story. 328 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: Some air traffic control only recently got paid back for 329 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: the last government shutdown in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. Seriously, 330 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: one controller who handles high altitude traffic in the Midwest said, 331 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: I got a four hundred dollars check maybe a week 332 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: before the shutdown for the twenty nineteen shutdown. He will 333 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: give NPR his name. Because the FAA couldn't track overtime 334 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 1: and shift differentials during the twenty nineteen shutdown, and it's 335 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: really difficult, you know, to do the calculation because a 336 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 1: lot of people worked a lot of extra hours over 337 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: the last six weeks. But who's tracking it? I guess 338 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: you have to do it yourself, either how you prove 339 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: it or disprove it. Dozens of controllers had to sue 340 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: the federal government for overtime and other compensation for that 341 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: last shutdown. Is that nuts? No nobody can do anything 342 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: when we come back. I've put a friend of mine on, 343 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: Michelle Shane, have had him on before. Michelle's daughter Emily 344 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: was killed by a murderous, crazed driver on PCH And 345 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,360 Speaker 1: you know, early on this week he wanted to come 346 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 1: on and talk about the Empty Chair Club, which the 347 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: Office of Traffic Safety and Caltrans and the Emily Shane 348 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: Foundation that he and his wife run have launched to 349 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: recognize all the people who have been killed or severely 350 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: injured by by by traffic deaths collisions. But then this 351 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: week there's bad news in that they were going to 352 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: put roundabouts on pH but now the Malibu City Council 353 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,239 Speaker 1: may block it, and he's very upset about that. So 354 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: we'll talk about both issues coming up Michelle Shane next, 355 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: and then after three o'clock bumped from yesterday, James Gallagher 356 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: will be with us the State Assembly been to talk 357 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 1: about his plan to split California into two, because the 358 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: people in Eastern California say, fine, we've had it, Let's 359 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: have a divorce. Let Coastal California be its own state 360 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: so we could at least have proper representation in Congress, 361 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: because Newsom's plan ripped away their Republican representatives from them 362 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: against their will, and it's like, no, we deserve federal 363 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 1: representation at the very least. We'll talk to James Gallagher. 364 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, I think they got every 365 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: reason to separate. I think we've got every reason to 366 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: split the state into two because the massive disrespect on 367 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: the part of the Progressive Democrats really has to be addressed. 368 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 1: It's just flat out wrong. We've got two runs of 369 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: the Moistline coming up. We got lots. 370 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 371 00:23:58,560 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 4: six forty. 372 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: On every day from one until four o'clock. You could 373 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at 374 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio. Two rounds of the Moist Line coming 375 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: up next hour. Also going to have James Gallagher of 376 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: the assembly Men on to talk about how Eastern California 377 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: wants to separate permanently divorce from coastal California, now that 378 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has stripped away their longtime congressmen and women. 379 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: We'll discuss that with James Gallagher coming up. But first 380 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: I'm on to want you to hear a friend of mine, 381 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 1: Michelle Shane. Michelle tragically lost his daughter Emily back in 382 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: twenty ten. A murderous maniac driver ran or over on PCH. 383 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: And he's been working tirelessly to try to civilize PCH. 384 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: And he's got this concept that Sunday is to commemorate 385 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: the Empty Chair Club, people who have been killed or 386 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: seriously injured in I think accidents. You have the empty 387 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: chair designating the place that they used to they used 388 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 1: to occupy, in the home and in the family. And 389 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: I also want to talk about this controversy over roundabouts 390 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,160 Speaker 1: on PCH, because it looked like they were coming. Now 391 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: maybe not. Let's get Michelle Shane on. Michelle, how are 392 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: you good? 393 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 6: How are you John? Thanks for having me on. 394 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: I'm good. First, let let's talk about the Empty Chair 395 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: Club in this commer commemoration coming up on Sunday. 396 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 6: Yeah, So on Sunday at caltrans Plaza in downtown La 397 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 6: twelve to four, we're doing commemoration with gun installation seven 398 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 6: hundred and ten empty chairs that represent all the people 399 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 6: that died in La County last year. And what happened 400 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 6: is I came up with this idea about a year 401 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 6: ago when I was at an event with people who 402 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 6: had experienced loss traffic fatalities, and it just hit me 403 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 6: that I'll never forget the first time my wife set 404 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 6: the table when Emily had was gone, and she set 405 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 6: the fifth seat and then realized that there was no 406 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 6: more fifth seat, and that was like a knife in 407 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 6: the heart. And to me, we're trying to scare everyone 408 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 6: straight with showing horrible things happening with car accidents and whatnot, 409 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 6: to try to get people to do the right thing. 410 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 6: And I think this is more powerful an empty chair 411 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 6: sitting where someone used to be, and it's the hardest 412 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 6: seat to fill is one left empty. So don't join 413 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 6: the empty chair club, the only club nobody wants to 414 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 6: get into. 415 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: And so again, what's the day in time for the remembrance. 416 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 6: Sunday twelve to noon, the whole bunch of dignitaries and 417 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 6: we have art exhibit and some booths and whatnot. It'll 418 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 6: be a very interesting time and victims will come and 419 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 6: talk about their experience and how they're trying to figure 420 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 6: out how they'll continue to move on with it. 421 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: Now, your daughter was killed in PCH and this week 422 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: you sent an email out youah, almost like a newsletter. 423 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: The Malvou Planning Commission had voted to approve a fifty 424 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: five million dollar safety project on PCH. It was going 425 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: to be roundabouts to try to slow traffic down. That's 426 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: the malv Planning Commission, and then the Malibu City Council 427 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: may block it. Can you explain this? 428 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 3: Sure? 429 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 6: So the fifty five million dollar expenditure, which has been 430 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 6: in the works for about seven years, is separate from 431 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 6: what they're doing with the roundabouts. The roundabouts is a 432 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 6: two million dollar test project and that hasn't gone to 433 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 6: any commissions yet as far as I know. What's happened 434 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 6: is there's going to be two repaving projects. The McClure 435 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 6: tunnel too. I believe John Tyler and then John Tyler 436 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 6: all the way to venture up and they're going to 437 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 6: resurface PCH. And while the resurfing PCH, wy'll put in 438 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 6: bike lades, guardrails, black sky compliant lighting so that it 439 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 6: makes PCH safer, and people have gone up in arms 440 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 6: because they think that we're changing the perception and of 441 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 6: who we are. And my argument is, we were never 442 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 6: that was a fantasy. We were never those people. 443 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 3: What is it? 444 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: Wait a second, how is making the road safer and 445 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: resurfacing and putting in these safety applications. How does that 446 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: change who the people when Malibu? 447 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 6: Al right, well, sidewalks in a rural community, street lights 448 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 6: in a rural Oh, street lights, they. 449 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: Don't want street lights. Ludicrous. 450 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 6: Fifteen years I've been watching people die on PCH and 451 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 6: they're saying to me, the Malibu Township Council, they're saying, oh, 452 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 6: this is going to change the face of malib we 453 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 6: should still keep the way we are. 454 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: No sidewalks, no street lights on PCH. Yeah. I mean, 455 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: as John, that's insanity. They know what happens. And you 456 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: just had those four Pepperdine girls get killed two years 457 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: ago exactly. 458 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 6: And the argument is, well, this wouldn't have saved them. 459 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: Well, guess what. 460 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 6: Fifteen years I've waited for them to spend money on 461 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 6: pH They're not going to do it. And now people 462 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 6: are up in arms because they don't believe it's their 463 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 6: vision of pch. It's the nuthouse is out. 464 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: That can't be most of the people in Malibu is 465 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: this like? No a lot now activists, right, A small 466 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: percentage who are really noisy. 467 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 6: That's exactly correct. It's the minority pushing the majority. 468 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: Oh that that is absolutely crazy. 469 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 6: So uh wait to see my article this week. 470 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, so people should call cow up in arms. You 471 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: should be so, people should call the city council members. 472 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: The quiet people should call and tell them to knock you. Yeah, 473 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: and show. 474 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 6: Up and show up on the number twenty fourth that's 475 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 6: city council and make them do the right thing. 476 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: Well, I hear crazy stuff every day, but that that's 477 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: really nuts. All right, Michelle got to do the news. 478 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on again. Thanks and let me 479 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: a lot let me know what happens. All right, we 480 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: come back, James Gallagher. The people in the eastern counties 481 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: of California a lot of counties lightly populated, and Gavin 482 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: up Newsom's plan is to rip away their federal representation. 483 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: They can't choose their congress person anymore. They have to 484 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: be represented by Gavin Newsom's selection. Gavin Newsom is deciding 485 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: who represents these people in Congress, and if they're Republican, 486 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: no go. That's what Prop fifty really is all about. 487 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 1: We'll talk to James Gallagher, the assemblyman who has got 488 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: an idea about just splitting the state into two once 489 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: and for all. Debra Mark is off today. 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