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You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. John Cobelt Show Can't 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: But we're going to talk with say Ed Kashani, who's 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: an attorney from the Palisades lost his home in the fire, 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: and like many in the Palisades, as you heard from 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: the report we played before Brigida's news, they cannot believe 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: that the DWP is draining the reservoir a second time, 9 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir that was 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: drained in twenty twenty four before the fire, because the 11 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: cover was torn. Well, they put a new cover on. 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: Eventually it was too late, too late for to use 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: the reservoir to fight fire. But now it's been torn again, 14 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: and so they're going to shut the reservoir down for 15 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: another nine months, drain it all over again. And they're 16 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: still trying to sell that this doesn't matter, except they've 17 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: come up with a backup worters for fire safety. It's 18 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: hard to keep up with this. Let's get say Ed 19 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: Kashani on say It. 20 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 2: How are you well? 21 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 3: It's a couple of thanks for having me back. Appreciate 22 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 3: it makes. 23 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: My head spin. So let me get this straight. So 24 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: they're actually draining the thing again, but they've always claimed 25 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: they would have not done any good at the fire, 26 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: but they have a backup water system this time, like 27 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: just in case. 28 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 3: Well, i'll tell you right now, that backup system, as 29 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 3: they describe it, isn't going to help at all. They're 30 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 3: talking about a ten inch diameter water line that possibly 31 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 3: could bring more water over the hill from Topanga. Now, 32 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 3: the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You 33 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 3: cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a 34 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 3: ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're 35 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 3: recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir 36 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 3: is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know, 37 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 3: the interesting thing is when they first put this cover 38 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: on in two thy eleven, the DWP had reports and 39 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 3: public meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be 40 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: drained for a period of time. And back then the 41 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 3: LA Fire Department actually objected and said, we need this 42 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 3: reservoir for fire safety and if you drain it, there 43 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 3: has to be alternatives. And at the time there were 44 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 3: some alternatives. Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are 45 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,399 Speaker 3: like the Chautauqua Reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now 46 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 3: closed down, not even available. So they're you know, they're 47 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 3: putting the entire Palisage area at risk again over a. 48 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: Cover, and they keep insisting we have to protect drinking 49 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: water now this reservoir and correct me if I had 50 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: the dates wrong. Didn't have a cover. For over forty years, 51 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there was no 52 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: cover exactly. 53 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 3: This cover is, you might say, you might say, is 54 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 3: kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I don't 55 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: want to get into the details and the chemistry about it, 56 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 3: but the idea is that having a cover enables you 57 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 3: to use a different type of chlorinating agent that supposedly 58 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 3: is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact, there's a epedeomologist, 59 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 3: epidemiologist John Instrom out of UCLA speaking of UCLA who's 60 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 3: been quite vocal on this and pointing out that there's 61 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 3: absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary chlorine and no cover. 62 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: So that's why they got the cover. 63 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 4: Well, it's not. 64 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: It's probably not where they're one. It's absurd because they 65 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: drain this reservoir in early twenty twenty four, So the 66 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: Palisades went that whole year without that reservoir supplying water, 67 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: and it turns out I guess they didn't need it. 68 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 3: Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did 69 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 3: they train the resk, but the DWP never told anyone 70 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 3: for as far as I can tell, as far as 71 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 3: the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department. 72 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 3: So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the 73 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 3: fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty 74 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 3: and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of 75 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 3: DWP gave an announcement and he said, and I quote, 76 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 3: our reservoirs are full. What kind of thing to say 77 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 3: is that when you know that the most important reservoir 78 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 3: in that area is still empty at the time. 79 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: Why had they been lying so frequently for so long 80 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: before the fire? During the fire? After the fire, all 81 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: they do is lie, or at least they cover up 82 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: and withhole information. What are they doing? 83 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 3: I think it all goes back to these environmental these 84 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 3: extreme environmental extremists, I mean, the environmental extremists at the 85 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 3: state water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk 86 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 3: of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, so 87 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 3: you need to cover the whole reservoir at enormous expense 88 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 3: and take it out of commission and put everyone at 89 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 3: risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as 90 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 3: you know, from the fire, that in order to protect 91 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 3: some native species of plans, oh, they were unable to 92 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 3: fight the fire. Probably, Well, how did that work out 93 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 3: for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed anyway, 94 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 3: This is all. 95 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: So crazy, it really is. All the environmental extremists, it 96 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: really is. You know, you hear this, people complain about it, 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: and you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's 98 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: just people taking political shots at one another. But this 99 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: is a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into 100 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: the government have insane policies that kill people and destroy 101 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: enormous amounts of real estate. 102 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 3: Well, the worst of it is, these are people and 103 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 3: programs that operate behind the scenes, that pass rules behind 104 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 3: the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature, 105 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: whatever you think of the legislature, at least as public 106 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 3: hearings in the public vote. This cover idea started with 107 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 3: a regulation that started in some you know, environmental bureaucracy 108 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 3: that was never voted on, that never had public hearings. 109 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 3: It was just some decision that someone decided that if 110 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 3: you use this type of chlorine instead of other type 111 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 3: of chlorine, then somehow that I don't know, it makes 112 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 3: a difference to the water supply. When the first type 113 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 3: of chlorine has been used for over one hundred years, 114 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 3: was no problems. 115 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, first first I heard of this, and now they're 116 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: going to close it down for nine months. Why do 117 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: they have to close it for nine months? They repaired 118 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: the old cover much more quickly than that. 119 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 5: You know. 120 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 3: This work. This is what happens when you only have 121 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 3: one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with 122 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 3: a single company I won't give its name, but they're 123 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 3: out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this 124 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 3: cover and it's only one company is a single source. Well, 125 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 3: guess what if your company knows that you're going to 126 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 3: get substantial business from repairing this cover, what's the incentive 127 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 3: to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier 128 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 3: just to keep coming back and back and back and 129 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 3: repair and repair and repair. I mean, I'm not saying 130 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 3: they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean I 131 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 3: think it would be a better idea to do it 132 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 3: do it right the first time so it works. But 133 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 3: like I said, the whole idea of a cover was 134 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 3: never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by 135 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 3: unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their 136 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 3: environmental agenda. 137 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as 138 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: they passed through the battles of the system. 139 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 2: We don't know their name. 140 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: We know Jennie Kenones. And by the way, what does 141 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: it take to get her removed? I mean, this is 142 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: one insane, stupid decision and one insane lie after another 143 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: after another. And she's making seven hundred and fifty thousand 144 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: a year and all she's brought is devastation. How does 145 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: she survives? 146 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 3: And it just gave her an award for Women of 147 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 3: the Years? 148 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,239 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the Times. The Times gave her a Woman 149 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: of the Year award. 150 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's completely ridiculous, but I mean, there's 151 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 3: no accountability. But look, the same people who made the 152 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 3: wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up. 153 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: For example, we sought a report from the state that 154 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 3: claimed that the reservoir wouldn't have made any difference. Well, 155 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 3: who was who provided that report? That report came from 156 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 3: state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover 157 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 3: regulation in the first place. In other words, three of 158 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 3: the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies 159 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 3: that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies 160 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 3: aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made 161 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 3: a mistake and you know, we let the whole city 162 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 3: burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going 163 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 3: to say, well, it never made any difference, say ed, Well, obviously. 164 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 1: One hundred and seventeen million gallons they claim would have 165 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 1: had no effect. I met a guy in the Palisades 166 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. He had a two inch hose 167 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: connected to his swimming pool, and he saved his home 168 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: and two weather homes near him watered it down well 169 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they didn't the 170 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: two inch holls one to his pool. 171 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 3: Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was 172 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 3: able to protect his house so long as there was water. 173 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 3: But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story. 174 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 3: But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a 175 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 3: source of water. As long as the city supplied water, 176 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 3: he was able to keep his house safe. Once the 177 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 3: water shut off the evening of the first fire, that's 178 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 3: when his house got fired and there was nothing he 179 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 3: would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said, 180 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 3: there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way, 181 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 3: the DWP's story that houses water lines broke and and 182 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 3: that's why they lost pressure, that doesn't hold up either, 183 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 3: because many areas of the palisades, if you see them 184 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 3: after the fire, they were bone dry. That means the 185 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 3: water means did not break and spill water over. That 186 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 3: means the fire got to these areas after the water 187 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 3: was shut off. So that story isn't going to hold 188 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 3: up either. Again, the only thing that's going to get 189 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 3: us the truth here is this pending litigation, and I'm 190 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 3: hoping the courts will let it go forward to the 191 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 3: point that we have a trial, we have witnesses, we 192 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 3: have documents, all presented in the light of days so 193 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 3: people can see exactly what happened. 194 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: Sia Kashani, thanks for coming on, no problem. Thanks for 195 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: having me saied as an attorney in the Palisades lost 196 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: his home there. When we come back. Spencer Pratt, the 197 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: reality star who lost his home in the Palisades. He 198 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: has seized on Karen Bass admitting on a video podcast 199 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: that La City botched the fire response. This was the 200 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: piece of video that is cut out of the final 201 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: version posted to YouTube. I'll play you Spencer Pratt's comments 202 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: on Twitter about this. That's next. 203 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 204 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:16,559 Speaker 6: six forty. 205 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show, caf I Am six forty live everywhere 206 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. You can follow us at John 207 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio on social media at John Cobelt Radio, and 208 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,599 Speaker 1: you should subscribe to our YouTube channel and then you 209 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: get notifications every time we put up a new video segment. 210 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: We're putting up longer segments on YouTube. YouTube dot com 211 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: slash at John Cobelt Show. That's the address to subscribe 212 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt Show, and it's 213 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: at John Cobelt Radio for all the other social media platforms. Well, 214 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: we just talked with Saya Kashani, the attorney out of 215 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: the Palisades, about this. The insanity of the of the 216 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: DWP now taking the cover off the reservoir again. They're 217 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: going to close the reservoir again for nine months. This 218 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 1: time they're proposing a ten inch water line from to 219 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: Panga Canyon. Reservoir has two thirty inch water lines that's 220 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: supposed to be used to fight fires. You can't replace 221 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: sixty inches of water line with a ten inch line. 222 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well, they're going 223 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: to do it for fire. Well, I thought having a 224 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in the fire. 225 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: They're so full of it. They're so absolutely full of it, 226 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: and they keep saying, well, we got to keep the 227 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 1: drinking water safe. Well, when they closed it in twenty 228 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: twenty four, there was no drinking water that year, and 229 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you think they need 230 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: it now? You know it's going to rain this week, 231 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: but you never know when the sant Ana wins may 232 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: hit in the summertime. All the rain now, everything could 233 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: be bone dry come July or August or September next year, 234 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: and there'll be a lot more there'll be a lot 235 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: more brush that had grown because of all the rain 236 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 1: we've had so far this winter. Spencer Pratt, the reality star. 237 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: We've had him on the show. He's responding to the 238 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: Karen Bass botch comment. Just to quickly run down Karen 239 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: Bass appeared on a podcast called a Fifth Column, and 240 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: it was originally a sixty six minute podcast. The last 241 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: four minutes came after the host said goodbye to Bass 242 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: on air, and then the video chems kept rolling and 243 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: she started talking about how La City botched the response 244 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: the La Fire Department and the video was posted in November. 245 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: At some point between November and this week, Bass's office 246 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: realized that that extra four minutes was up there and 247 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: she was admitting that the city had screwed up badly, 248 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: and so they took it down, and the weasel who 249 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: hosted the podcast agreed to take it down, then hung 250 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: up on the La Times when he was quite it. 251 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: I got to get his name while I look for 252 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: his name. Just to remind everybody who the weasel is. 253 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: Here is Spencer Pratt on X with a post going 254 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: after Bass Mayor. 255 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 7: Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the Palisades 256 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 7: fire was quote botched while on a hot mic at 257 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 7: the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't find 258 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 7: that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that they 259 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 7: scrubbed that footage from the internet. Well guess what. By 260 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 7: admitting that the Palisades fire response was botched, she just 261 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 7: earned herself a subpoena from our lawyers for the Palisades 262 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 7: Fire lawsuit. Her stunning admission is a massive departure from the. 263 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: Ooh, we did everything we could. 264 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 7: It was just one hundred miles rough winds, BS and 265 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 7: narrative that they've been spinning to date. But in a 266 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 7: moment of accidental candor, she let the truth slip, and 267 00:14:58,160 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 7: this mistake will cost her dearly. 268 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: She has just. 269 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 7: Signaled that we were right. They did botch the fire response, 270 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 7: and now we have good cause to call her as 271 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 7: a witness. What did she mean by botched? What went wrong? 272 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: Who screwed up? 273 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 7: Thanks for playing, Mayor Bass. It's time for my lawyers 274 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 7: to go fishing. 275 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: That's great, That is great, And he's absolutely right. She 276 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: and all her stooge fire chiefs, and she's had three 277 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: of them this year, and countless other fire officials have 278 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: been insisting repeatedly, over and over again. 279 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 8: We did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One 280 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 8: hundred mile an hour winds. There was no one hundred 281 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 8: mile an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read 282 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 8: six days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service 283 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 8: and had a a firefighters at the site of the 284 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 8: original January first fire, which was still smoldering, and it 285 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 8: was smoldering because the ninnies in the State Park Department 286 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 8: went down and kicked the LA Fire Department out on 287 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 8: January second because they wanted to save the freaking milk 288 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 8: vetch plant, the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the 289 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 8: firefighters stepping on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want LAFD 290 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 8: bulldozers creating a fire line. And I remember another LA 291 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 8: time story early in the year where they had long 292 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 8: wanted to build a fire road out of the Palisades 293 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 8: up and over the mountain going to the north, and 294 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 8: they weren't allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan. 295 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 8: That was a story from US January or February. But yeah, 296 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 8: they botched it. Of course they botched it. They had 297 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 8: nobody there. 298 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 2: It. 299 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: Bass admitted it, and I hope she gets nailed by 300 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: the attorneys, but that's going to be a fight, because 301 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars 302 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at text 303 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: expense to keep her from testifying in front of a 304 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that 305 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are 306 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of 307 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: the Palisades residents with? Twenty five thirty five? By the way, 308 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: the name of the host of the Fifth Column is 309 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show 310 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so 311 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty 312 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city. She defunded 313 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: the fire department. What are these staff members? This is 314 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and 315 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: bully him to take down the last four minutes of 316 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 1: the podcast and he does it. 317 00:17:58,119 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 2: Wow. 318 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: Wow, I don't get how the world works anymore. Okay, 319 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: we've got more coming up on the John Cobelt Show. 320 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 321 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 6: six forty. 322 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show. I Am six forty live everywhere on 323 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day one till four o'clock. 324 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: After four o'clock it's John Cobelt Show on demand on 325 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: the iHeart app and you can listen to what you missed. 326 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: We are going to now talk with John Fleischman. He's 327 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: got a website, so does Itmatter dot com. He's a 328 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: political writer and a commentator. And there is a story 329 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: that has been bubbling in the background. We've covered it 330 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: some because there's only one reporter in the whole state 331 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: trying to find out the truth, and her name is 332 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:50,400 Speaker 1: Ashley Zavala for Channel three and Sacramento KCRA. And this thing, 333 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: like I said, for all the people just beside themselves 334 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: with anger and fury over Trump using private money to 335 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: build that ballroom and Wasshington, we got Newsome spending over 336 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: a billion dollars on something called the State Capital Annex project. 337 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: It's a new large section of the state Capitol over 338 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: a billion dollars, but nobody really knows how much it's 339 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: going to cost or when it's going to be built. 340 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: There's a tremendous amount of secrecy, a lot of non 341 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: disclosure agreements, and it looks like a big stinking boondoggle 342 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: that nobody wants to acknowledge. So we'll talk with John 343 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: Fleischman about this. John, how are you. 344 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 5: I'm doing fine, John, And you're not kidding, you know. 345 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 5: Gavin Newsom was very quick that he went on X 346 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 5: to call the expansion of the White House the knockoff 347 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 5: Versailles and really let Donald Trump have it while he's 348 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 5: got his own crazy thing going on at the Capitol. 349 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 5: The ballroom expansion that the White House is estimated to 350 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 5: cost around four hundred million dollars, and as you pointed out, 351 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 5: it's all coming from private money. But here in California 352 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 5: they're like massively expanding the state capitol like and the 353 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 5: last budget was one point one billion, but no one 354 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 5: thinks that's even going to come close to what it's 355 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 5: actually going to cost. There's no one in charge, no 356 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 5: one will say what it actually costs. And this is 357 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 5: my favorite part. There's over two thousand people working on 358 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 5: this project, and the government has had every single person 359 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 5: from the lawyers down to the construction workers, signing legal 360 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 5: non discrollosure agreements so that they cannot talk to the 361 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 5: media or anyone else. About what they're doing and how 362 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 5: much it costs. It's completely nuts. Newsom obviously has approved 363 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 5: the funny because he signed the budget bills that include 364 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 5: the money. And as you said, Ashley's of all of 365 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 5: the reporter from KCR TV and Sacramento has been on 366 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 5: this thing, but she's been the only one and so 367 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 5: there's been virtually no disclosure about this thing. And it's 368 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 5: absolutely boggers. I mean, it's I mean, I wish that 369 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 5: I know this is radio, but you know, if you 370 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 5: go to I'm sure your website, if you go to 371 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 5: so doesntmatter dot com, my piece has photos. It's just 372 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 5: it's like. 373 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 2: They're building the taj Mahal. 374 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 5: It's he's building his own Versailles at the same time 375 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,360 Speaker 5: that he's trying to criticize the president. 376 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 4: And it's it's it's it's not. 377 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: Hypocrisy. 378 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 5: And it's even better they they it's leaked out that 379 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 5: they have built this new structure of the building with 380 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 5: secure secret corridors that will allow the politicians to move 381 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 5: all around the Capitol without ever having to come out 382 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 5: to where the media or the public are. 383 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 2: So it's like they're. 384 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 5: They're literally creating this own little kind of like honeycombed 385 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 5: secret capital structure. 386 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 4: At the cost. 387 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 2: I mean, they're. 388 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 4: Spending more than on this than you would spend to. 389 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 2: Build like an NBA stadium. 390 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: And what's going to be what's going to be inside 391 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: this annis. 392 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 5: Well, supposedly it's just more office spaces, more rooms for 393 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 5: all these legislators to work out of. It's it's literally 394 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 5: a physical manifestation of the Grote enlargement of California state government. 395 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 5: You have to have a bigger capital because we're spending 396 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 5: more money and doing more stuff, and it's just and 397 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 5: again there's literally you know, it's not like the held 398 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 5: at press conference and said, Hi, I'm the architect. 399 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 2: We're building this up. 400 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 5: Here's the charts, here's what it's going to be, or 401 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 5: here's what it's going to cost. Ashley wrote an entire 402 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 5: story of the millions and millions and millions of dollars 403 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 5: they're spending, importing granted from like Italy to put into 404 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:29,640 Speaker 5: the capitol. 405 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: I mean, we're paying at porn that we're paying for 406 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,159 Speaker 1: that Italian granted. 407 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,719 Speaker 5: Yeah, but we don't know how much we're paying for it, 408 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 5: because anybody that could tell us is been locked down 409 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 5: with the non disclosure agreement and has been told delb 410 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 5: sou that if they disclose anything, and I've never even 411 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 5: heard of such a thing. And you know, literally after 412 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 5: years of covering this, Ashley like a week ago, got 413 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 5: some of. 414 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 4: These legislators that are in charge of this to go on. 415 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 5: Her program where they proceeded to tell everybody exactly nothing. 416 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 4: And so the whole thing is crazy. 417 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 5: And so I think it's going to be one more 418 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 5: of those questions that people are like, Okay, you really 419 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 5: want this guy to be the president of the United States. 420 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 5: It's completely nuts. Although you know, maybe you know, the 421 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:17,479 Speaker 5: whole thing is just crazy. 422 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,719 Speaker 1: He walks, He actually says out loud, it's a taxpayer, 423 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 1: I'd like to know what it costs. Well, you know 424 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 1: what it costs. You signed the bill authorizing the budget. 425 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 5: Oh not only that, Not only that, but he has 426 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 5: appointed his office has appointed there's a three member group 427 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 5: that oversees all of this, somebody from the state Senate, 428 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 5: a senator, somebody from the state Assembly, and. 429 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 2: The governor's representative. 430 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 5: So while he's telling us I'd like to know how 431 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 5: everything's spent, his representative is in every meeting, making every decision. 432 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 5: And so once again, it's a complete pile of dog 433 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 5: crap right that he's literally we've seen. 434 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 2: This guy before. 435 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 5: He's pathologically He goes on talk radio shows, he goes 436 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 5: on television, and he literally says whatever he wants. And 437 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 5: because of all of his friends. 438 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 2: In the media, this radio. 439 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 5: Show accepted, you know, nobody calls. 440 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 4: Him on it. 441 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 5: Well, and why he literally gets away with saying whatever 442 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 5: he wants? 443 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 1: Why so many friends in the media, the listeners and 444 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 1: the viewers and the readers of these media sites. They're 445 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: the taxpayers paying for this. The media's obligation should be 446 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: to its audience, to the taxpayers. Why is there obligation 447 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: to protecting newsome I don't understand. 448 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 449 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,239 Speaker 5: And by the way, the Los Angeles Times, the San 450 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 5: Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento all of these newspapers have standing 451 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 5: to go sue the government over these non disclosure agreements 452 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 5: and get the truth out. Do you think any of 453 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 5: them have taken the time to sue the government over this? 454 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: Well, that's what I want to ask. I want to ask, 455 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: how can it be legal for them to force two 456 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 1: thousand people to sign non disclosure agreements over a project 457 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 1: that's costing over a billion dollars of tax money. And 458 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: the purpose of the building is going to be making 459 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: law in California for the public. How can we not 460 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: have access to every detail and understand where every penny went. 461 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 5: Well, understand what they do in California is and this 462 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 5: is really it tells you something about the legislature. 463 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 2: Most of these invasive. 464 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 5: Laws that they passed that put restrictions on us or 465 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 5: open up the books. In almost every one of these laws, 466 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 5: they put boiler plate language at the end it says, 467 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 5: this public disclosure law shall not apply to the legislature 468 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 5: or the governor, and so they exempt themselves from all 469 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 5: these disclosure laws. But I don't think what they're doing 470 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 5: is legal. Hence I was saying somebody ought to sue 471 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 5: them and get this information. But you know, the media 472 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 5: is more interested in covering his hair than they are 473 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,880 Speaker 5: covering his versides. 474 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 4: His verside, So. 475 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: You mentioned those major newspapers. 476 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 2: Make it up. 477 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: We got to have about twenty five major television stations, 478 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: not to mention all the television networks and the cable 479 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: news channels, and nobody nobody wants to take him on. 480 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 9: Well apparently not, you know, So I mean I've now 481 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 9: written about it today and Ashley's of all of the 482 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 9: local Sacramento reporter has been writing about it, but it 483 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 9: has been virtually crickets from the state wide media, and 484 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 9: it's just a reminder that they do not exist to 485 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 9: be watchdogs on the left. 486 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 2: You could be sure if there was. 487 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 5: A Republican governor right now or a Republican. 488 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,959 Speaker 4: Legislature, they would be all over it. 489 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 5: But they're too excited, frankly, as biased media people for 490 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 5: what the policies are that are coming out of Sacramento, 491 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 5: and they don't want to provide a distraction, right because 492 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 5: Trump is. 493 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 1: Spending a fraction with private money on that ballroom, and 494 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: look at all the hysteria that goes on. 495 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 5: Well, like we said, Gavin Newsom himself, while he is 496 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,239 Speaker 5: overseeing this boondog, has the nerve to go on X 497 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 5: and accuse Donald Trump of building his own private Versailles. 498 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,679 Speaker 5: Those are his words, those are the governor's words, and 499 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 5: so really laying really stupid and uh, you know, hopefully 500 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 5: you know. 501 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, you know what, does it keep talking. 502 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 5: Aboube America deserves Maybe America deserves this guy, and we'll 503 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 5: get a new governor. Although Frankly, the batch of people 504 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 5: running behind him don't seem to be the brightest light 505 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 5: bulbs in the California either. 506 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: I mean no, there's nobody home. 507 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 4: At least not on the this not on the Democrat side. 508 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 4: All right, John, our attorney general may run. 509 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 2: He'll save us. 510 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 5: All right, Thanks John, Thanks for having me on, and 511 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 5: I'd encourage people to come visit. 512 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 2: So does itmatter? Dot com? 513 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 1: So does itmatter? Dot com? John Fleischman, He's got a 514 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: two part series on this, on this scandal, uh coming up. 515 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com. She's writing about this situation. 516 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: She also put together the Top fifty California issues, like 517 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: the Top fifty Gavin Newsom disasters. I'm not going to 518 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: read all fifty, touch on a few of them. There 519 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: are going to be many Democratic candidates running for president 520 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,679 Speaker 1: against Newsom, and they are collecting a tremendous amount of 521 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: opposition research on all this. He is going to get 522 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: pilloried like you won't believe we actually has competition for 523 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: the nomination. Okay, We've got more coming up on the 524 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show. 525 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 526 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,360 Speaker 6: six forty. 527 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show, caf I Am six forty live everywhere 528 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. You can follow us at John 529 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio on social media at John Cobelt Radio, and 530 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: you should subscribe to our YouTube channel and then you 531 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: get notifications every time we put up a new video segment. 532 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: We're putting up longer segments on YouTube. YouTube dot com, 533 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: slash at John Cobelt Show. That's the address to subscribe 534 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt Show, and it's 535 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: at John Cobelt Radio for all the other social platforms. 536 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: All right, Well, we just had John Fleischmann on from 537 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: sodesitmatter dot com. One of our other favorite reporters, Katie 538 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: Grimes from California Globe. She was on with us yesterday 539 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: and this week she wrote a piece about the Top 540 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: fifty disasters. The top fifty disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has 541 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: ushered into California. We should do it. We should do 542 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: a countdown. We could probably fill four hours of a countdown. Well, 543 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: here we go. I'm not going to read all fifty, 544 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: but the ones that some of them are old, some 545 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: of them are are newly discovered or newly rediscovered because 546 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: they're a few years old and probably everybody's forgotten. How 547 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: about this one. Just found this out a few days ago. 548 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: Under Gavin Newsom, Well, eight hundred and seventeen thousand Californians 549 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: left California in twenty twenty two. Eight one hundred and 550 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: seventeen thousand people left the state in twenty twenty two. 551 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: More than two hundred thousand of them were ages twenty 552 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: five or older, most of them with four year or 553 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: two year college degrees, and they went to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, 554 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: and the Carolinas. Joel Kotkin, the demographicer, scholar, researcher, he 555 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: went through the numbers and you could track how many 556 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: people leave the state, how many moved to other states, 557 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: and what their socio income status is. And so what 558 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: you had here is a huge percentage of the two 559 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: hundred thousand net migrants lost were college educated, and he 560 00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 1: had Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Florida into businesses have fled 561 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 1: to other states. That's just one number two. I talk 562 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: about this all the time, and I'll never stop talking 563 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: about it. Highest taxes in the nation, California ranks among 564 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: the worst for high taxes, the bottom two for worse 565 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: for individual taxes, worst gas tax, highest business tax. And 566 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: he's looking for more tax He's trying to pass a 567 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: retroactive billionaire's tax. He's going after two hundred and twenty 568 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 1: billionaires who live in California and it's going to make 569 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 1: them pay for the past in case they leave. And 570 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: this is going to drive some of them out. In 571 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, he here's another one twenty twenty, planned to 572 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: close two state prisons. He's closed five. Remember after we've 573 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: passed Prop thirty six over his objections, which made stealing 574 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: illegal again and drug use illegal again and created a 575 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:06,479 Speaker 1: set of fentanyl laws. Well, he was so pissed that 576 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: it passed against his objections that he hasn't funded it. 577 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: He refuses to funder the treatment programs for the drug addicts. 578 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is the first governor to make homelessness a 579 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: way of life. The number of mentally ill drug addicted 580 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: people littering the streets with thess and drug needles, tent 581 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: encampments and filth has grown dramatically. I think it's about 582 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seven thousand in the state. He 583 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: has spent thirty seven billion dollars on homelessness in the 584 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: last six years, and homelessness has exploded in the state. 585 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: These are all from Katie Grimes, and I'm just getting 586 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: a fraction of them. You should go to californiaglobe dot com. 587 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: You could read the whole list. Eight to twelve dollars 588 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: gas coming. We used to have forty three refineries, We're 589 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: down to seven. Our oil production has declined by sixty 590 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: five percent. Our foreign imports have increased by seventy percent 591 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: or increased two seventy percent. Let's not forget the COVID lockdowns, 592 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: which destroyed thousands of businesses and destroyed the childhoods and 593 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: the learning capabilities of hundreds of thousands of children. He 594 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: spent four and a half million dollars on free immigration, 595 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: legal services, and of course the big whopper. He passed 596 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: a bill that guaranteed free healthcare to every illegal immigrant 597 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: in the state. It's costing US thirteen billion dollars now 598 00:33:50,080 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: thirteen billion. The medical program is insolvent, it's broke. What 599 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 1: do you do with a broke plan like that? Well, 600 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: he's going to cut medical to any poor or disabled 601 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 1: elderly person who has two thousand dollars in assets. So 602 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 1: if your parents or grandparents are down to their last 603 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars, Newsome wants that two grand or they 604 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: don't get medical because he blew thirteen billion on illegal aliens. 605 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: That's enough for now. I'm holding on to this Katie 606 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: Grimes in the Californiaglobe dot com. You have to read 607 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,280 Speaker 1: that because there's plenty more and it just makes you sick. Okay, 608 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: we've got more coming up on The John Cobelt Show. 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