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 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: from one until four o'clock and we have a new 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: podcast protocol. Every hour our podcast will be immediately be 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: put online so you could download it on the iHeartRadio 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: app John Cobelt Show on demand. So we just finished 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: the one o'clock hour and that will be posted very shortly, 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: and we'll do that every hour after the two and 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: after the three o'clock hour, So that's the new way. 10 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: It's going to be posted as soon as the hour 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: is over all. Right, let's let's move on. Now. We've 12 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: been talking a lot about the Palisades fire, because what 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: set everything off was this atrocious statement by the LA 14 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,639 Speaker 1: Fire chief Heimi Moore, who, after a reporter said, hey, 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: when are we going to know who watered down the 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: investigative report? We're going to know who did it? Why, 17 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: what was originally in there? And he said, well, you're 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: not going to know. What are people going to do 19 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: with that information? Just point fingers, point blame. So let's 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: look forward. Let's look ahead. Actually, Heimimore said that I'm 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: not making it up, and then we heard Bass's nonsense 22 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: in her state of the assessmental speech. We go now 23 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: to Altadena and Altadena, they've got the same problems. In 24 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: some ways, it's worse. You have a middle class neighborhood 25 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: in West Altadena, largely black neighborhood, people who'd owned their 26 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: homes for generations and wiped out in the fire. Because 27 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: in La County, neither the La County Sheriff's Department, nor 28 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: the fire department, nor emergency services let a lot of 29 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: these neighborhoods know that a deadly fire was coming. And 30 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: you had nineteen people who were killed, nineteen people burned 31 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: to death, and just you know, thousands of homes just 32 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: like in the Palisades, and they can't get any help. 33 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: So we're going to talk with Heavenly Hughes. First heard 34 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: about Heavenly because she was in the film All the 35 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: Walls Came Down about the Altadena Fire, and that was 36 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: done by a filmmaker named Andy Timiner. It's a short documentary. 37 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: You should look it up. It's quite moving. All the 38 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: Walls Came Down. Heavenly Hughes has become a community activists. 39 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: She's in the film and spoke with her a couple 40 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: of days ago, briefly, and it's not good for a 41 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: lot of the fire victims in the Palisades. Let's get 42 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: heavenly on. How are you. 43 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,119 Speaker 2: Hello. Thank you so much for having me, John Colebelt. 44 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 2: Appreciate the attention you're bringing to Altadena and the disaster 45 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 2: we are experiencing after the fire. 46 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 47 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: I know, it's almost four hundred days and it just 48 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: seems to get worse and worse. Talk to me about 49 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: the state that many of the homeowners are in. I understand. 50 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: You know, they're going to have to pay rent on 51 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 1: top of their mortgage, and they have insurance issues, and 52 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: they can't get permits, and they're going to get foreclosed on. 53 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: Talk about that whole mess. 54 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 2: Yes, all of the above is happening in Altadena. We 55 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 2: are holding the Edison International responsible and accountable for what 56 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 2: we see as another disaster homelessness for seven out of 57 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 2: ten of us who were impacted by the fire. Is 58 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 2: we are at risk right now of being unhoused. I 59 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 2: want to bring up that Padro Pizarro, the CEO of. 60 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: Edison International, is the parent company is SoCal Edison, and 61 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:42,839 Speaker 1: they started the fire. 62 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: Yes exactly. So they're receiving he's receiving twenty one million dollars, 63 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 2: but refuse us to put out the money necessary to 64 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: bring some stability to all of us who have been 65 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 2: on housed. There's twenty two thousand people who were displaced 66 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 2: due to the Eden canyons. I are here in Altadena, 67 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 2: and yes, I'm from westside Altadena, fifty years in west 68 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 2: side Altadena. And now we are being short shortened again 69 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: because insurance companies, of course are dropping survivors due to 70 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 2: fouling claims. So I believe that also needs to be 71 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 2: looked into by our representative. Our elected officials should not 72 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 2: be letting this happen. There should be a freeze on foreclosures, 73 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 2: a freeze on foreclosures at this time, and I know 74 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: that Haro Obedian is working on that, but we need 75 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 2: support to make sure that happens. We are being forced 76 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 2: out of our home, We're being forced out of Altadena, 77 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 2: and it looks like gentrification full force. 78 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: All right, let's take these things one thing at a time. Now, 79 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: did did some of the residents that they got money 80 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: to rent for a time and that's running out? 81 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, so a lot of residents receive additional living expenses. 82 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:03,919 Speaker 2: Some also receive subsidies from different organizations. Those subsidies last 83 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 2: for one year, so that year is up and people 84 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 2: are now looking for housing. And remember these are people 85 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 2: who've lived in their homes for decades and so these 86 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 2: outrageous rent prices were already above what they could even access. 87 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 2: It was not accessible for a lot of our survivors 88 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: to pay that amount. 89 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: So they're gonna have to pay. Let me just go 90 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: through this, so people understand they're gonna have to pay 91 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: mortgage on their burned out house, burned down house, they're 92 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: gonna have to pay rent in order to have some shelter. 93 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: So that's a double pay there. They're not getting their 94 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: benefits from the insurance company if they did get a 95 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: claim paid, they're getting dropped by their insurance company. 96 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: That's exactly right. 97 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: That's that's just that's unbelievable. And and you're telling me 98 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: now that some people are being forced to sell. And 99 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: so you have these big developers coming in and they 100 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: want to build like mega mansions. 101 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 2: That's what they want to do. Instead of us being 102 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 2: sensitive to a community that's asking for support, we need support. 103 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 2: These are these this is our generational wealth here in Altadena. 104 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 2: This is a working class community and instead of there 105 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 2: being even a freeze on developers coming and purchasing these properties, 106 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 2: they are using this as an opportunity to just snatch 107 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 2: up our land. Many who don't have the funding to 108 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 2: hold on are feeling like the only option is to sell. 109 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: And is local politicians Catherine Barger, that's her district. There 110 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: is she is any health. Yes, you know, you got 111 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: nothing to lose now it's been a year. 112 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that tells it by itself. There is another disaster. 113 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 2: Over sixty percent of the people survivors are looking at 114 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 2: being unhoused again. When you ask me supervisor bars or 115 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 2: being any help. She knows this. Yet people are still 116 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: in house. People are still living in their cars. We 117 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 2: have been waiting for her to address the four actions 118 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: that we presented to her, and we're still waiting. 119 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: And she just doesn't respond. 120 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: We haven't gotten a response. I feel like in front 121 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 2: of cameras, and I know that some of her staffs 122 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 2: they're working hard to address some of the issues. Yet 123 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 2: we need our elected official to make statements and take actions. 124 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: So yeah, I will say that my tribe brides have 125 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 2: reached out. We did sit down with her one time 126 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 2: since that films. Thank goodness that Andy Timinor created that 127 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 2: film that put pressure on her to sit down with 128 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 2: the black led organizations because it is the black and 129 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: brown community most at risk of losing everything. So I said, 130 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 2: down with Supervisor Barger and we we laid out for 131 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: action plans that we needed her to respond to. Those. 132 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 2: That was months ago and we have not heard back 133 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 2: from her as of yet. 134 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: How about permits, are people getting the permits easier? 135 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 2: We really we're hearing that they're being deferred versus being 136 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: waived in Altadena. 137 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait the payment Wait you still have 138 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: to pay for the permits, but it's being deferred. 139 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 2: Yes, but what do you mean they're they're not waiving. 140 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: The permit fees in La County. 141 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 2: Seriously, they're not waving. Survivors are not receiving the support 142 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 2: they need, they're paying, They're still having to pay. They're 143 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 2: saying that it's being deferred. But just like they defer 144 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 2: these mortgage payments, they had the mortgage deferment and then 145 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 2: people got these balloon payments that with interest compound interest, 146 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 2: which was causing foreclosures. 147 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: Hold what you say, so you got the people got there. 148 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: Our mortgage payments deferred, but after that year period is up, 149 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: they have to pay it all back in a balloon 150 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: payment and start paying rent. 151 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 2: It's on top of paying rent, all right, and they 152 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 2: start paying the mortgage again. Exactly. 153 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: All right, Heavenly, hang on? Can you stay on for 154 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: another segment? I can't believe the depth of this. This 155 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: is incredible. I feel like I'm hallucinating. 156 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 157 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 2: six forty. 158 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: All right, we're going to continue here with Heavenly Hughes. 159 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: She was featured in a documentary which you should watch 160 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: called All the Walls Came Down. It's new It's by 161 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: Andy Timeter, and it's about the Altadena fire and what 162 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: people are going through. We're now at almost a four 163 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: hundred day mark, and all levels of government have continued 164 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: to fail. This is focusing on West Altadena, a largely 165 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: middle class black enclave where which has existed for generation 166 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: and families have passed down their homes through the generations. 167 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: And they were given no warning about the fire by 168 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: emergency services, no warning from the County Fire Department, no 169 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: warning from the County sheriffs. They were literally left to 170 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: dine a fire. Nineteen died, thousands of homes destroyed, and 171 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: now after a year, rental assistance is over, the mortgage 172 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: deferral they got from the banks, that's over. And these 173 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: people own a balloon payment insurance in many cases won't pay, 174 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: and if they do pay, then you get dropped. People 175 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: are being forced to sell to developers at a cheap price, 176 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: and many of them are just going to get foreclosed 177 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: and maybe go bankrupt. And we have Heavenly hughes on 178 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: because she's a community leader and can't get any level 179 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: of government to respond. Not the county supervisors, including Catherine Barger, certainly, 180 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: not anyone in the Assembly, the state Senate governor knews 181 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: them nothing, nobody cared. Heavenly back with you. 182 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: Thank you John so much for having me with you. 183 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: And there's a hard deadline on these people when it 184 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: comes to the foreclosures here, the or the decision to 185 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: sell to a developer. Like they've got to do something 186 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: because everybody's out of money, right. 187 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 2: Everybody's out of money. They need to automatically activate FEMA 188 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 2: and cal oh yes to do directly seeing which will 189 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 2: help survivors not to have to pay these outrageous costs 190 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 2: for rentals for some type of stable housing. They also 191 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 2: need to put a freeze, as I said on dropping 192 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 2: people from insurance, that should automatically for at least three years. 193 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 2: Survivors should not even be having to worry about being 194 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 2: dropped from insurance because you know, once you're dropped from 195 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 2: one of these major insurance companies, you can't be It's 196 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 2: too hard to get reinstated. And people have to have 197 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 2: insurance to get these outrageous loans to rebuild their homes, 198 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 2: and most of them are very much under insured or uninsured. 199 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 2: We're seeing gas from five hundred thousand to a million 200 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 2: dollars for people to rebuild. 201 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, they got thrown into the Fair Plan, and the 202 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: Fair plan doesn't pay much. That's a state run plan 203 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: that's bankrupt anyway, now. 204 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 2: Exactly right, And it didn't even include additional living expenses. 205 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 2: A lot of them didn't know that they have to 206 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 2: get all these additional arms of insurance through that California 207 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 2: state plan, which is, in my opinion, as a joke 208 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 2: when it comes to recovery. 209 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: Have you heard anything from Governor Newsom's office or the 210 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. 211 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 2: I know they're working hard to get Lara out of 212 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 2: there because I feel like they should be investigated for 213 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: fraud on how they have been treating our survivors and 214 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 2: how you're paying premium for decades and then when you 215 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 2: need it, they don't want to pay out, and then 216 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 2: they want to drop you after they give you pennies 217 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 2: to on something you've been paying on for decades. I 218 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 2: will have to say I think Congresswoman Judy Chwo she 219 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 2: has stepped in to help us with these reverse mortgages, 220 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 2: help us with a dressing the foreclosures. I'm not going 221 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 2: to say that none of the elected officials, but the 222 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 2: ones who can make a difference, which a Supervisor Barger, Knewsom, 223 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 2: and also Trump Trump's We need these three people to 224 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 2: make a stand now. 225 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: Now. Trump supposedly is sending a team here to southern 226 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: California later this week, I think maybe even tomorrow. We're 227 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: supposed to have a couple of people on from his 228 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: administration hopefully on this Are are they coming to Altadena? 229 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: Are you aware? I mean Lee Zelden, who's the head 230 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: of the EPA. He's been put in charge of the 231 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: fed's response to this rebuild because you know clearly the 232 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: local politicians are go ahead. 233 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 2: Right Well, John, when Trump was here before, he did 234 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 2: not come to Altadena. I asked that he please come 235 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 2: to Altadena this time and see what is happening in 236 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 2: our community. I will say many of us have little 237 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 2: faith in him make taken action on our behalf. So 238 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: we act Trump to do what's right, to send the 239 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 2: billions of dollars necessary to rebuild and secure our community. 240 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 1: Yeah. I do know there's a problem that they're having 241 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: with trusting the state with the money because Gavin Newsom 242 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: has blown so many billions of dollars in federal funding 243 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: and and I think that's part of the hang up 244 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: is who you're going to give it to because you 245 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: know that. 246 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 2: Is a concern. Why don't he come Trump and his 247 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 2: administration can come and sit with Alta Dina organization might 248 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: rise and talked about how can we really get this 249 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 2: money into the hands of survivors to rebuild our homes. 250 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: So you haven't heard if lee Zelden is coming to 251 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: Alta Dina, the EPA head who's supposedly in charge of this, 252 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: you have not heard. All right now, I just want 253 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: to circle back to the permits for a second, because 254 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: I'm actually keeping a list of all this. It's just 255 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: hard to believe the people people are are Is anybody 256 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: getting permits easily or is there a long, long delay 257 00:14:58,400 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: and unreasonable delay. 258 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 2: I just asked one of my staff members here at 259 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 2: my trib Brice. She said, she put in she's been 260 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 2: waiting three months and is at a stand still. She said, 261 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 2: I don't understand what's going on. Is there a fight 262 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: in regards to the water company. Because there's issues happening 263 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 2: with DWP and these different water companies. We don't know 264 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 2: what's holding up the permits. Of course, when you read 265 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 2: things from the Los Angeles County's Office Catherine Barger, they're 266 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: saying things are moving forward. I feel like the survivors 267 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 2: are having a different experience. 268 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, everybody just lies now, all those pressure 269 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: releases from all the politicians, they're just they're just lies. 270 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: They're nonsense, and they get the media to repeat the lie, 271 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: and everybody thinks, oh, they're all being taken care of. 272 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: They're not being taken care of, and they still have 273 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: to pay for the permits. It's just they're they're allowing 274 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: a deferred payment. But the permits are not the permit 275 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: fees are not waived. 276 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 2: They are not being waived it and that is as 277 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 2: concerning as it would happen with these more mortgage is 278 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 2: being deferred instead of waved. 279 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: Well, this is really a disaster. This is horrible, and 280 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: this is affecting thousands of people, right because you had 281 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: a bit of a seven thousand six, seven thousand homes destroyed. 282 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, ten thousand structures completely. Because we have to also 283 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 2: think about our local businesses. These were businesses ran by Altadinians. 284 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 2: These are Altadenians that have built these businesses. So it's 285 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 2: ten thousand homes and businesses that was a way of 286 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 2: the ecosystem that was keeping us alive and it has 287 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 2: been snatched away from it. 288 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: We're going to have we're supposed to have the head 289 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: of the small business Association in the Trump administration on 290 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: the show tomorrow. Her name's Kelly Loffler, So I will 291 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: talk to her on Your Behalf tomorrow on the air, Okay, 292 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: and appreciate it. I am just astonished about how bad 293 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: it is, how terrible it is. Everybody in government should 294 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: be ashamed of themselves. But I'm telling you the truth. 295 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: I think they're all sociopaths and they don't feel shame 296 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 1: and this doesn't bother them. So I uh, this. 297 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 2: Is Remember, most of us is going to run out 298 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 2: of insurance funds and housing coverage completely this year. In 299 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 2: the next couple of months, we're going to see another 300 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 2: catastrophe of thousands of people un housed. 301 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is horrific. All right, we'll keep 302 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: in touch. I want you to come back on the air, 303 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: all right when when you've got more to tell us. 304 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: I want to keep track of whatever is happening here. 305 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: I can't say progress because there is no progress, but 306 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: I think we have to turn up the heat as 307 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: high and as consistently as we can. Heavenly hughes, thank 308 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: you for coming on. All right, we'll speak again. So 309 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: all right, you're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from 310 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: KFI Am sixty. We're on every day from one until 311 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: four o'clock. After four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand 312 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: on the iHeart app. I want to highlight the five 313 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: incompetent losers who are the LA County Supervisors. These are 314 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: five women, but hey, don't worry. It is a diverse 315 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: group of women, Catherine Barger, Hildesalis, Jenis Hahn, Lindsay Horvath, 316 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: who wants to be the next mayor of la and 317 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: Holly Mitchell. And this is the mess they created. They 318 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: had a completely dysfunctional emergency operation system. They have a 319 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: sheriff's department and also a fire department that had such 320 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: terrible leadership that nobody ever warned West Altadena that a 321 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: terrible fire was coming through the neighborhood and nineteen people died. 322 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: They didn't get any warnings until three in the morning. 323 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: The fire started at six the previous evening, so nine 324 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: hours and these people died in their sleep, died in 325 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: the beds, probably were in a sleep. Really, the worst 326 00:18:58,080 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: way to die, you would think, is in a fire. 327 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: Happened to nineteen of them, and it's Catherine Barger, Hildesalise, 328 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: Lindsay Horvath, janishn Holly Mitchell. I'm sure they all slept 329 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: fine in their neighborhoods. And now in the aftermath, if 330 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: you just heard Heavenly hughes On, she's become a community 331 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: activist in West Aldadina, which is a middle class black enclave, 332 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: and really, after hearing these stories, it's hard not to 333 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: think that the lack of care for this neighborhood was 334 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: based on their race. But the rental assistance is done 335 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 1: after a year, the mortgage deferral is done. Everybody now 336 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: owns those balloon payments, so they have to pay a 337 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: balloon payment for their mortgage. They have to continue paying 338 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: their mortgage every month. They have to pay rent every month. 339 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: Because everybody's homeless. The insurance won't pay many people. The 340 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: ones that do get paid, they get dropped from insurance. 341 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: Many of them were cut off because of Ricardo Lara's 342 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: horrible deal, Gavin Newsom's horrible deal, so they were without insurance. 343 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 1: They were thrown into the Fair Plan. Fair plan doesn't 344 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: pay crap. A lot of people have to sell cheap 345 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: to developers who are going to build mega mansions for 346 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: the wealthy. A lot of people are going to foreclose 347 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: and go bankrupt. And uh, nobody none of the La 348 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: County supervisors, Catherine Barger, Hilda Slise, Oh, the next mayor 349 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: of La Lindsay Horvath boy that that that's that's going 350 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: to be a ride. Janis Hahn and Holly Mitchell. These 351 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 1: women all sociopaths. They don't care. It doesn't matter to them. 352 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: And and for all their nonsense and bs about worrying 353 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: about diversity and equity, apparently not not. The people in 354 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: Altadena no care for them, no matter who they are. 355 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: I've never seen such a group of horrible people. From 356 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,199 Speaker 1: the city council in LA to the county supervisors, to 357 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 1: the Assembly, to the state Senate right up to the governor. 358 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: This is the worst group of mility humans I have 359 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: ever seen in one place in my life. And that's 360 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: why everything is the way it is. And you want 361 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: some more on this, it's hard to believe, but we'll 362 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,479 Speaker 1: go back to the Palisades for a second. Fox eleven 363 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 1: reporter Matthew Siedorf. There's supposed to be a rebuilding roadmap 364 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: for the Palisades and this is all the infrastructure, and 365 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: it was supposed to come out months ago and it's 366 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: still not been released. So play Cut eleven Matthew Seedorf. 367 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 4: A highly anticipated rebuilding roadmap for fire devastated Pacific Palisades 368 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 4: now considered weeks overdue. 369 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 3: Report was due back in mid November to the Mayor's office, 370 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 3: and now I don't know where it is. 371 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 4: In June, Mayor Baths announced the city had hired ae 372 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 4: COM task with designing new infrastructure, stronger fire protection, and 373 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 4: updated evacuation routes. 374 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: There's been a lot of work done, but. 375 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 4: After months of public meetings like this, there's still no 376 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:50,959 Speaker 4: public report. 377 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 3: We're talking quite close to twenty million dollars in consulting 378 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 3: fees that's been paid. 379 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 5: This report is crucial, critical, But more than anything, what's 380 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 5: critical is that we rebuild infrastructure properly. 381 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 4: Residents say they were told last week by city officials 382 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 4: the documents are now sitting in the city Attorney's office. 383 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 5: What's the document doing with the city's attorney's office? I 384 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 5: can only question what could possibly require that much investigation. 385 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 3: With ACoM also a consult for LEDAP. You know, where 386 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 3: can we trust anybody in this process. 387 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 5: The scariest part for me is right before this report 388 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 5: was due, the leadership of a COM quit. 389 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: The improved aecomm's contract. 390 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 4: November, councilwoman Tracy Park said the report would be released 391 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 4: in about thirty days. It's now February, more than a 392 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 4: year since the fire, in still no report or plans 393 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 4: for city infrastructure. 394 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 3: Six months too late. These you know, this information should 395 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 3: have been out there way earlier. 396 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 4: Fox eleven has repeatedly reached out to the Mayor's office, 397 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,959 Speaker 4: city attorney, and AE COMM with questions about the delay. 398 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 4: So far, only Councilwoman Park has responded with the statement 399 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 4: saying Palisades residence deserve answers. I've pressed every city department 400 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 4: an outside partner to treat this with the urgency it demands. 401 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 5: Why would the head of a coom quit something's missing here? 402 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 5: Why is it stuck in the Attorney's office? Something's missing here? 403 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 4: Gino has showing you live what the lights look like 404 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 4: on this block and other blocks. It is dark, and 405 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 4: this plan includes things about power lines, water and roads, 406 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,479 Speaker 4: and without it, some residents feel like the rebuild truly 407 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 4: can't begin here in Pacific Palisades. 408 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: All the infrastructures and built. Excuse me, there's not even 409 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: a plan out to build it. You rebuild your home 410 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: in a place that doesn't have the water and the 411 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: power lines and the gas lines and all the stuff 412 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: that was burned or destroyed. There's not even a map 413 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,479 Speaker 1: drawn up on how they would do it if they 414 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: ever get to doing it. And Bassiet's got nothing to 415 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: stay say. Instead, we heard this kind of crap play 416 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: cut number four. This is from her State of the 417 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: Cesspool speech yesterday. 418 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 6: We're not just rebuilding, we are rebuilding smarter, faster, and safer. 419 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 6: And today more than four hundred homes are under construction. 420 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: Stuff right there. I don't believe that number, but let's 421 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: say it was true. That's only six percent of the 422 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: burned homes. I means ninety four percent of the homes 423 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: are not under construction because the permit process is too 424 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 1: slow and they're still fighting to make people pay for 425 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: the permits. The city wants to make a profit on 426 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: the fire by charging people for the permits. And they say, oh, well, 427 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 1: it's going to cost us, you know, hundreds of millions 428 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: of dollars if we don't charge. Not going to cost 429 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: you anything that wasn't in the budget. Nobody planned the fire, 430 00:24:55,040 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 1: or did you? If nobody planned the fire, nobody was 431 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: counting on all the permit fees. Why charge them same 432 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: thing in the county? Why are they charging permit fees. 433 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: They didn't show up to put out the fire in 434 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: the county either. In Altadena, they didn't show up to 435 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: put out the city fire. Now you're gonna be charged 436 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: for a permit Why isn't this all criminal? Why aren't 437 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: all these people in cuffs? Wow, unbelievable. And where's the 438 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: infrastructure planned for the palisades? And where's somebody going to 439 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: help out the Altadena people? But which you have here? 440 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: First of all, you have one party rule, so you 441 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: have that arrogance. They all are bulletproof, it's all they're 442 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: They're impenetrable. They don't care how many people screaming complain, 443 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: how much media coverage there is, how many names they're called. 444 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: They don't care. They can't get penalized in any way. 445 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: And the people in the city are all part of 446 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: a you know, a grand homeless scam. So they're walking 447 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: away with tons of money kicked back to them from 448 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: all the homeless nonprofits. You're afraid of anything. There's no 449 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: media coverage, well, small amount of media coverage. I'll give 450 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: a lot of credit to Matthew Seedorf from Fox eleven, 451 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: but not much else in this city. There should be 452 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: there should be a half a dozen of these reports 453 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: every day in all the stations. All right, we come back. 454 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: Billie Eilish is under a lot of pressure to give 455 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: her home away to the tongue of the Indians, We're 456 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: gonna play you how she popped off mouthd off at 457 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: the Idiotic Grammy Awards on Sunday night and then everybody 458 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: found out. You know, she was saying that you know this, 459 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 1: this whole this whole area was invaded, land was stolen. Well, 460 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: she's one of the thieves. She should give up her 461 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: house to the tongue of us, talk about it, we 462 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: come back. You're listening to John Cobels on demand from 463 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: KFI Am sixty, Moistline eight seven seven, Moist eighty six, 464 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or usually talkback feature 465 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. We've certainly given you plenty today. 466 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 1: And remember, at the end of every hour, we now 467 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,640 Speaker 1: post the podcast John Cobelt Show on demand hour by hour. 468 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: We post our last hour as a podcast just a 469 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: few minutes after three, and then the three o'clock hour 470 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: we posted a little bit after four. All Right. You know, 471 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: you might you might see you might see singers or actors, performers, 472 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: and you may think they're probably pretty smart people. Look 473 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: how much they've accomplished in life, like how much money 474 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: they have, and then one day they open their mouth 475 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 1: and you realize they're They're dumb as a box of rocks. 476 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: And that's what the world found out about singer Billy Eilish. 477 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: She won Song of the Year for something called Wildflower 478 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: during the Grammys, but instead of just acknowledging the award 479 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: and crediting all the people who work with her, she 480 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: decided to go on a rant against ice and about 481 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 1: how all the land here is stolen. So let's let's 482 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: play this clip and and and then I'll tell you 483 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: about part two of the story. Thank you so much. 484 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 6: I can't believe this. Everyone else in this category are 485 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 6: so amazing. I love you so much. I feel so 486 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 6: honored every time I get to be in this room. 487 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: And just stop right there, I mean just, I mean 488 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: just that's where you stop the speech, right, everyone's amazing. 489 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: I feel so honored, and blah blah blah. And you know, 490 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: a few more thank yous to your producer, you know, 491 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: to your your family and all that, and just get 492 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: off the stage. And everybody thinks you might be halfway intelligent. 493 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: But no, no, she kept going. 494 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 6: As grateful as I feel. I honestly don't feel like 495 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 6: I need to say any thing but that no one 496 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 6: is illegal on stolen land. And yeah, it's just really 497 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,959 Speaker 6: hard to know what to say and what to do 498 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 6: right now. And I just I feel really hopeful in 499 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 6: this room, and I feel like we just need to 500 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 6: keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices 501 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 6: really do matter and the people matter, and hyes is 502 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 6: all I want to say. 503 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: Sorry, path Eyes, thank you so much having this being 504 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: cheered by all the other people who have mansions on 505 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: stolen land. In fact, as she's getting an overwhelming demand 506 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: from the rest of the world, or at least the 507 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: intelligent people, that hey, if it's stolen land, you have 508 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: a multi million dollar house in the Hollywood and there's 509 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 1: an aerial photo of it in the New York Post. 510 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: And she's got writing stables and a paddock paddock a 511 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: swimming pool, so I assume she's got horses and it 512 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: is the stolen land of the Tongva tribe Tonngva. I 513 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: have been at public meetings where the preening buzzos who 514 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:30,239 Speaker 1: are running the meeting, the virtue signalers, actually have a 515 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: moment of silence thanking the Tonguva tribe because we're on 516 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: their land. But nobody ever says, hey, let's give the 517 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: land back to the Tongva tribe. No that that that 518 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: never comes up, and she's gotten just everybody in the 519 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: world is ripping around the internet because she's worth fifty 520 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: three million dollars. That says of twenty twenty. That doesn't 521 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: even count the last five years of record sales. She's 522 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: got a two point three million dollar horse ranch in Glendale. 523 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: She bought that when she was seventeen. I don't know 524 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: what land, stolen land that's on And now the Tonguvas 525 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: have a response and I had it here and I 526 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: lost it because they said they've never been contacted by her, 527 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: and she's never made an offer to give the land back. 528 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: She's on stolen land. It's a multimillion dollar house. Give 529 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: it back. Here we go. The Tonga tribe has a 530 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: message now for Billie Eilish. Eilish has not contacted our 531 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: tribe directly regarding her property. We do value when public 532 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: figures provide visibility to the true history of this country. 533 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: But she didn't call and say, you guys have it back. 534 00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: I shouldn't be living on this. It was taken from here. 535 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: This is yours. Don't done. In fact, she's got plenty 536 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: of money donated to the tongvas. Bring in a family 537 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: at least taking a few tongue of families as guests. 538 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: Let them ride the horses, let them swim in the pool. Now, actually, 539 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: you should give up the whole thing, all your homes, 540 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: You should give up and move somewhere else where the 541 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: land wasn't stolen. What What an absolute fool this lady is. 542 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: What a foolish, uneducated, ignorant lunatic she is. If it's stolen, 543 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: why are you living on it? And all the all 544 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: the seals in the audience screaming and cheering away. You're 545 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: all living in mansions on stolen land too. You're all 546 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: on stolen land. You're all a bunch of phonies, hypocrite losers, 547 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: and you're stupid and ignorant. Nobody intelligent would stand up 548 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: and say, oh this is stolen land when you have 549 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: a house on the stolen land. All right, we come back. 550 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: Oh jeez, we're going to talk with We're going to 551 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: talk with John Manley. It looks like the doctor James Heaps, 552 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: he's the pervert gynecologist at UCLA. He's getting another trial. Yeah, 553 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 1: remark Live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 554 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 555 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 556 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 557 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.