1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Can't find a six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're out every day 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: from one until four o'clock, and then after four o'clock. 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: Whatever you missed, you go to the app for John 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Cobell Show on demand. That's the podcast, same as the 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: radio show. Are we done with Pope Mania for the day? No? 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: All right, okay, still it's the top news story. 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 3: But nobody knows who he is? Nobody? 9 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 1: But what does it matter who the pope is? I'm 10 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: just going to tell you all say the same thing. 11 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 2: It's going to be my lead story probably for the 12 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 2: rest of it. 13 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 3: Everybody knows. 14 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 4: What else? I mean, seriously, what else can I talk about? 15 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 4: It's more important today. 16 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 3: I have a list of things here. Okay, but everything 17 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,639 Speaker 3: we're on, everything we're going to do on the show 18 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 3: today is a news story. They did popes. 19 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: They they don't know who they are, right, we don't 20 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: know the guy's back round. 21 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 3: He takes a fake name. 22 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: All the popes take a fake name, right, suddenly they 23 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: have an alias that always find you're going. 24 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 4: To offend Catholics. 25 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 3: Well, I grew up Catholic, so I get special protection. 26 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 5: That. 27 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: Oh my god, why do you think I'm so crazy? 28 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: Huh well, yeah I was. You grew up in the 29 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: Catholic Church. So anyway, I enjoy yourself a new pope. 30 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: Whoop be. 31 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 4: I'll be the one to be talking about that. 32 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 3: John, Well, you could enjoy pope mania all day longer. 33 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,559 Speaker 2: I didn't say I'm enjoying pope media. I'm just saying, 34 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: as a newsperson, that's my main story today. 35 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:28,559 Speaker 1: You know, I saw an article in Slate magazine online magazine, 36 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: and they actually had a headline like why do cardinals 37 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: wear funny hats? It was a whole article about the 38 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: different kinds of hats it makes them pick out one 39 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: over the other. 40 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 4: Are you going to mention the thing you bought today 41 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 4: on Amazon? 42 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 3: Well yeah I should. Huh. Well, yes, the name of 43 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 3: my dog is Leo. 44 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: So when I heard it's Pope Leo, Pope Leo the fourteenth, right, yes, 45 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: I thought, oh that's funny, and so I looked up 46 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: I don't know, I just had this instinct and to 47 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: see if there's pope Halloween outfits for dogs, and shockingly 48 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: there was on Amazon for twenty bucks. 49 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 3: So I ordered one. 50 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: Okay, so I should get it next week and I'll 51 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: dress up my Leo. Yes, in the pope outfit. 52 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 4: You'll take a selfie. 53 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: Yes, I'll send pictures out and so everyone could enjoy it. 54 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: But yes, I've never seen a dog in a pope 55 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: outfit on Halloween or any other time, but it does exist. 56 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: And they had like large and extra large, and medium 57 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: and small, extra small. You know, they covered every dog 58 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: size there. 59 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 2: Well, somebody that doesn't care very much about the pope 60 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 2: goes and runs out right away and gets his dog 61 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 2: a pope outfit for Halloween. 62 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 4: I don't know. 63 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 3: I'm just saying I wonder if there's a rabbi outfit. 64 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 3: Oh that's you know what. Probably there is. 65 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: And they get the little long beard yeah Yamaica. Yeah, 66 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 1: you can glue onto a All right, Well it's Pope 67 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: Leo the fourteenth, and does anybody remember the first thirteen 68 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: Pope Leo's no see, there you go. 69 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 2: He's the first American. He's from Chicago. It's interesting, that's historical. 70 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard he may be the first pope that 71 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 3: was a Cub fan. Yes, all right, well how much 72 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 3: has he prayed for the Cubs over the years? And 73 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 3: you'd have to ask you what did they get? All right? 74 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: They got they got one World series in one hundred years. 75 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: You can do all a prayer your want. I don't 76 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: know if anybody's listening, but don't get me started. I've 77 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: long since fallen out of the faith. I had no faith. 78 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: I don't believe in anything. Where is oh? 79 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 3: All right? 80 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: Alex Michaelson, You know it's the Fox eleven anchor and 81 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: he uh presided over a panel at the Milken Institute 82 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: Global Conference here in Los Angeles, and it was one 83 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: of those panel discussions, and on the panel was Karen Bass. 84 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: I don't know who else is on the panel. It's 85 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: like they are about a half a dozen people, but 86 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. 87 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 3: Only she matters. 88 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: And Alex started asking Karen Bass about the fire aftermath, 89 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: and Karen Bass is just I'm sorry, and I'm not sorry. 90 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: It's just an incredibly stupid, stubborn woman, smug look on 91 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: her face the whole time. And she's a liar. I 92 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: just a bald faced liar. She'll do it right on 93 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: stage in front of hundreds of people and say something 94 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: that is factorally not true and extremely important to this story. 95 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna start with cut number two, and this 96 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: is l asking Karen Bass about I guess the reservoir 97 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: and the Pacific Palisades being empty. So play cut two. 98 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 6: So one of the big issues was the reservoir and 99 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 6: the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty. 100 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 6: It was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for 101 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 6: drinking water? So it was covered and the problem was 102 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 6: there was a tear in the cover, and so the 103 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 6: state ordered it to be empty and closed, and it 104 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 6: hadn't been finished in time. 105 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: The reservoir was not for drinking water. It can be 106 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: used for drinking water, but it's not. The reservoir was 107 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: created for fire protection. She lied about that. And we 108 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: had an attorney on a few weeks ago who said 109 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: that in all the records, in the media coverage, it 110 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: was well known, well documented that the sant Inez Reservoir 111 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: in the Palisades was created for fire protection. Specific reason 112 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: for it that we'll get into, and he said, after 113 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: this whole debacle, suddenly everybody in government said, oh, no, 114 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: it was for drinking water. 115 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 7: You know. 116 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: They started rewriting the paperwork, rewriting history. So I saw 117 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: this clip this morning and I went to the La 118 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: Times website. And this is from January twenty second, not 119 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,679 Speaker 1: that long ago, but it was two weeks after the fire. 120 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: Now play that play that clip clip again, cut number two. 121 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 6: So one of the big issues was the reservoir and 122 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 6: the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty. 123 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 6: It was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for 124 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 6: drinking water? So it was covered and the problem was 125 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 6: there was a tear in the cover, and so the 126 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 6: state ordered it to be empty and closed, and it 127 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 6: hadn't been finished in time. 128 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: She was about to say it it wasn't for fire protection, 129 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: but she caught herself. She want to go that far, 130 00:06:58,240 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: so she claimed it was for drinking water. 131 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 3: Okay. 132 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: Matt Hamilton and David Zaneiser, Tuesday, January twenty second, I'm sorry. 133 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: January twenty second was the day they published this. After 134 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: flames leveled nearly five hundred homes in bel Air and 135 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: Brentwood in nineteen sixty one, Los Angeles had a reckoning 136 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: over firefighting. By nineteen sixty four, city leaders had added 137 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: thirteen fire stations, mapped out fire hydrants, purchased helicopters, and 138 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: dispatched more cruise to the Santa Monica Mountains. Here we 139 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: go to accommodate growth in Pacific Palisades. They built a 140 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: reservoir and sent in as canyon as well as a 141 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: pumping station to quote, increase fire protection, as the LA 142 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: Department of Water and Powers then chief water Engineer Gerald W. 143 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: Jones told The Times in nineteen seventy two. So you 144 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: can go to the La Times archive in nineteen seventy 145 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: two and you will see a quote by Errold W. Jones, 146 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: the chief water engineer for LADWP, and he said they're 147 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: building a reservoir to increase fire protection. Now, let's cut 148 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: back to January this year. The Times rites some Palisades 149 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: residents had initially fought having a reservoir so close, fearing 150 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: a repeat of the nineteen sixty three Baldwin Hills disaster, 151 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: when a reservoir failed killed five people and destroyed about 152 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty homes as the reservoir collapsed the 153 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: dam collapsed. In the decades since, the Santienez reservoir has 154 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: become a source of comfort. 155 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 3: Quote. 156 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: I used to say all the time, boy, I know 157 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: one thing that will never happen in our place. 158 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 3: I know one thing that will never happen is our place. 159 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: Will burned down, says Peggy Holter, who in nineteen seventy 160 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: eight purchased a townhouse and Palisades Highlands just a stone's 161 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: throw from the reservoir. It was the one thing I 162 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: never worried about. But on January seventh, the reservoir that 163 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: had long been a life flyne was empty when Palisades 164 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: residents needed it most as a wildfire spread rapidly ad 165 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: dangerously high winds. 166 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 3: You know the rest of the story. 167 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: So Karen Bass lied, and she has created that to 168 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: be the official policy of the city of Los Angeles, 169 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: and it's used as a weapon to fight these lawsuits 170 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: and a weapon to manipulate the media. 171 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 3: Is completely false. The record is the record. 172 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 1: They built it because of the nineteen sixty one bel 173 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: Air fire, because the response from LA was really bad 174 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: then too. 175 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 3: They had nothing in place. 176 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: They didn't have a reservoir, they didn't have the fire hydrants, 177 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: they didn't have anything. Well, now we got the reservoir 178 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: and the fire hydrants, and we ended up with a 179 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: worse outcome because Karen Bass botched the preparation. Kristin Crowley, 180 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 1: the fire chief, watched it and this indestructible Genie Keinonias, 181 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: another colossal idiot who is still running the DWP. And 182 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: when we come back. Elix Michaelson asked Karen Bass directly 183 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: about Denise Kinnonias and her seven hundred and fifty thousand 184 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: dollars a year salary. But I I she's now forever 185 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: going to be known as Lion Karen Bess because that 186 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,079 Speaker 1: that is false. And you know you ought to everybody 187 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: in the world on a contactor and say, Karen, stop lying, 188 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: just stop it. The reservoir was built for fire protection, 189 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: not drinking water. You notice, I mean it was closed 190 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: for a year in twenty twenty four. There was no 191 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: shortage of drinking water in the Palisades. It's self evident. 192 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: If it was used for drinking water, there would have 193 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: been some kind of drinking water emergency in the Palisades. 194 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: There was no such thing. Because she's lying. It can 195 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: be used for drinking water, but with fire season, it 196 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: should have been used for fire protection. And they totally 197 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: botched up the repair. They're still botching up the repair. 198 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: It's been closed a year and a half. I only 199 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: hear all their stupid bureaucratic excuses. It's nonsense. They're incompetent, 200 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: they're incompetent, they're stupid, and they're liars. So more of 201 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: lying Karen Bass. When we come back. 202 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 203 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 8: six forty. 204 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: Lying Karen Bass. She spoke on a panel at the 205 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: Milken Institute Global Conference. Alex Michaelson is the Fox eleven anchor, 206 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: and he was moderating this discussion. And I'm gonna play 207 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: a larger clip now. The first clip was she claimed 208 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: the reservoir and the Palisades was a drinking water reservoir, 209 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: and that's why it had to be closed, the cover 210 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: to be fixed, and it was constructed to be a 211 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: fire protection reservoir. And it doesn't matter if a fire 212 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: protection reservoir has dirty water in it. 213 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 3: It can be used for drinking. 214 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: But clearly they weren't using it for drinking because all 215 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four when this thing was closed, nobody 216 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: ran out of drinking water in the Palisades. So Karen 217 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: Bass is blatantly lying. I'm going to play you a 218 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 1: larger clip now that includes the eighteen second snippet that 219 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: played a few minutes ago, And this is where Alex 220 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: Michaelson asks Karen Bass if she's satisfied with the LEDWP 221 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: and the idiot head Janie Kinonias. 222 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 7: Are you satisfied with the performance of the LADWP. There's 223 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 7: been a lot of questions about Janie Cononis, who's making 224 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 7: seven over seven hundred thousand dollars a year. Do you 225 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 7: think that she did a good job and should she 226 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 7: continue in that job? 227 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 6: Well, I certainly would not sit here and say she 228 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 6: shouldn't continue in her job, but. 229 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 3: Stop stop right there. 230 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: She let the reservoir run dry one hundred and seventeen 231 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: million gallons and dozens and dozens of fire hydrants maybe 232 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: hundreds didn't work. It's La DWP. The W stands for water, 233 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: the peace stands for power. The W part she completely 234 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: whiffed on. No water in the reservoir and most of 235 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: the fire hydrants robusted, so homes burned, people died. She 236 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: wasn't very good on the PEA part either, because she 237 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: they should have turned off the power to the electrical 238 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: lines in the Palisades because that night, as we found out, 239 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: a I think it's called an H beam, an H pole, 240 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 1: which held up the electrical lines collapsed and brought the 241 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: energized lines down on dried vegetation, which caused a second 242 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: massive fire. Apart from the one that happened in the morning, 243 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: there was a second one that caused a tremendous amount 244 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: of damage. So she is a menace, she's dangerous, she's 245 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: an idiot, and she's making seven hundred and fifty thousand 246 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: dollars a year. But Karen Bass is not going to 247 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: sit there and say that she should lose her job continue. 248 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 6: I certainly would not sit here and say she shouldn't 249 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 6: continue in her job. But the issue with the DWP 250 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 6: actually is the DWP and the Fire Department as well. 251 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 6: So one of the big issues was the reservoir and 252 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 6: the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty, 253 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 6: it was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for 254 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 6: drinking water. So it was covered and the problem was 255 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 6: there was a tear in the cover, and so the 256 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 6: state ordered it to be empty and closed and it 257 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 6: hadn't been finished in time. The other issue that overlaps 258 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 6: with the fire department were the fire hydrants, and there 259 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 6: is a lot of evaluation and reporting that we need 260 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 6: to do to. 261 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 3: Fix that as well. 262 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 6: So the way it is done now is that the 263 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 6: fire department essentially inspects the fire hydrants and then they 264 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 6: give the information over to the DWP, and the DWP 265 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 6: then repairs them. That information was not received and so 266 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 6: that was a problem on the fire department. 267 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 3: But the issue I would raise is why do we 268 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: even do it that way? 269 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 6: And so I think that we have to take the 270 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 6: lessons from this tragedy to figure out how we strengthen 271 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 6: all of our systems, and most notably the Emergency Management 272 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 6: Department as well as the Fire department, both of those. 273 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: You were in charge for two years. Did you never 274 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: have a meeting with Kristan Crowley and Janice Q and 275 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: you sat down and say, okay, how does this whole 276 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: system work? Don't you get isn't there like weekly reports, 277 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: monthly reports, or all the fire hydrants in order, or 278 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: all the power lines working? 279 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 3: Are the reservoirs filled? 280 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: We have fire season coming, we have a lot of 281 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: high dollar homes, a lot of population in these don't 282 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: you routinely do this? What is this after the fact, DESI, well, 283 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: we have to learn lessons. 284 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 3: Why do you have to learn lessons? 285 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: Why does a huge chunk of la have to burn down, 286 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: and then you start talking about that. Why didn't you 287 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: do your job and prepare for it properly? You weren't 288 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: even here, lady. You were on another continent when you 289 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: should have been reviewing preparations with Chris Kristen Crowley and 290 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: Janice keinon Yez, the three stooges. They never even thought 291 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: to check if the hydrants are working. Nobody even thought 292 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: to see in advance, can we keep this reservoir filled? 293 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 3: Of course they could have. 294 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: They would not have violated to any law by keeping 295 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir full. It wasn't 296 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: being used for drinking water, so she's full of it. 297 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: She's lying. How can she stay as mayor? How can you, 298 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 1: if you live in Los Angeles keep her as mayor? 299 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: And this Genie Kenya is let's play it out a 300 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: little cliff uh. This is Alex Michaelson asking Bass about 301 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: ken and her salary. 302 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 7: But you understand how some people see that job performance 303 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 7: maybe not meriting seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that's 304 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 7: more than you make, that's more than Let. 305 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 6: Me let me just say that the DWP is the 306 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 6: nation's largest utility. And if you compare our utility to Omaha, Nebraska, 307 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 6: where the salary was around the same a small town, 308 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 6: I mean in bigtown maybe in Nebraska, but small compared 309 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 6: to Los Angeles. And so to me, I want to 310 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 6: get the best talent around the nation, and we did 311 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 6: a national search and that's what it took. She took 312 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 6: a significant pay cut to come to work for Los Angele. 313 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 3: Wow y right there. So what was her pay cut? 314 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 3: What was she making? You know, all that's irrelevant. 315 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 4: Significant, but still the. 316 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: Last guy that had her job was making the four 317 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars range. It doesn't matter what somebody in 318 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: Omaha is making. What matters is why do we have 319 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: to pay seven to fifty when the last guy did 320 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: it in the four hundred. I don't know if the 321 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: last guy was competent or not, but that was the 322 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: baseline there. And what did we get. We got an 323 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: idiot seven hundred. She took a pay cut. Well, whatever 324 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: job she had before, she must have been getting wildly overpaid. 325 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 7: I guess I'm in the wrong line of work. 326 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess we all are not to mention 327 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 2: our bills I mean the DWP and the way that 328 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 2: they bill. I mean, that's a whole another problem. Forget 329 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 2: about the fires, yeah or fire. 330 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,439 Speaker 1: Everything is wrong, and Karen Best defends her and defends 331 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: her seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. How could she fail 332 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,880 Speaker 1: any worse? How could bass fail any worse? Go ahead, Tommy, 333 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: somebody tell me what could they do worse? This is 334 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: the worst thing that's ever happened to the city since 335 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: since it existed, it's been over one hundred and fifty years. 336 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 1: This is the single worst thing that ever happened. And 337 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 1: she's worth seven hundred and fifty thousands that disuggested said, how. 338 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 4: Is she the best talent from this nationwide search? 339 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 3: Who are the candidates that lost? You gotta do some news. 340 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 341 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 8: six forty. 342 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 5: We'd like to formally welcome you to the rest home 343 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 5: of Old Joe. Welcome to Bidenville everyone, Oh. 344 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 9: Betther one were created by going You know that you 345 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 9: know the thing choose my words. Happy birthday, Happy. 346 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 3: Birthday to you. 347 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 9: I aware since the day he died, every single day 348 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 9: the rosary he got from her lady every time I 349 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 9: hear hell of the chief under where the hell is? 350 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 9: He turned around on where Where's where's the president? There's 351 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 9: some attention paid to some language and the report about 352 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 9: my recollection of events. I was the foot him assume 353 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 9: me the foothills of the Himalays with Shiji Pan. For 354 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 9: Secretary of Health and Educations, ever, I nominated hobbyer Bakaria. 355 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 9: As you know, initially the president of Mexico, CCI did 356 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 9: not want to open up the gate. I got the 357 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 9: one point nine relief so far. Yeah, cryptocracy, the guys 358 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 9: who were the kleptocracy representative Jackie you here? Where's Jackie? 359 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 9: I think she was going to be here. There's been 360 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 9: a response from the opposition, but yes, I'm sorry. From 361 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 9: Mama's Golfs want to mention commerce Debora Ross. Where's Deborah 362 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 9: this year? I just had to my picture take with her. 363 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 9: Oh she couldn't be here. 364 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: Actually. 365 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 5: Now, to give you a tour of Bidenville before your 366 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 5: extended stay, here's John Cobalt. 367 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 3: And you never know which tour will be your last. 368 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: I uh, you know, I every week or so. There's 369 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: another book out about how Fried Brden Biden's brain was 370 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 1: while he was president. Going back to his first day 371 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: in office, and increasingly as these books come out and 372 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,239 Speaker 1: all the evidence piles up that it was obvious and 373 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: well known on the inside that he was senile. You 374 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: had these journalists saying, well, I didn't know, I didn't 375 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: really notice. I mean, I just don't think it was fair. 376 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: I think we did the best. It's like, you guys 377 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 1: are all liars. 378 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 3: All right. 379 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: You hate Trump, which is fine, but it affected your 380 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:11,199 Speaker 1: news coverage, which is terrible. And you lied about not 381 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: realizing that Biden was senile. You're just a bunch of liars, 382 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: all right. You're a bunch of shills. There's a guy 383 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: the other day I read, Uh he used to be 384 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: on CNN. Uh he was a CNN correspondent, Chris Saliza, 385 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: And uh what did I read this week? He said that, uh, well, yeah, 386 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: we we could have done better. But you know, I 387 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: would bring it up with a Biden White House official 388 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: and they would shame you. They would, they would, they 389 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 1: would yell at you. And this guy's, you know, in 390 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: his fifties. It's like what some political hack yells at 391 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: you because you're telling the truth, and you get upset 392 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: and you go hide, and then you go and lie 393 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: to the public. You lied to all your viewers and 394 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: all your readers. What's wrong with you? You did all 395 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: these all these journalists should not be all They should 396 00:22:59,480 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: be deported. 397 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 3: That's what they should do. 398 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 1: Trump should deport all the journalists who lied and covered 399 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 1: up Biden's anility out. 400 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 3: Who needs them? Honestly, who needs them? 401 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: And all the politicians and all the TV anchors and 402 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: pundits who lied and covered up. It's like out all 403 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: of you, not watching you, not listening to you, not 404 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: reading you, not paying any attention. I don't care what 405 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: you say anymore. I don't care if you're right or wrong. 406 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 1: You're totally thoroughly discretited. You're a phony and a fraud 407 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: to fake. But they actually tracked Biden out again, brought 408 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 1: him on the view to be questioned by those cackling hens, 409 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 1: and somebody asked, this is from the view, right, somebody 410 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: asked Biden about his cognitive decline. And Jill is sitting 411 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: next to him, and that's important. Listen to this cut eight. 412 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 10: Yeah, mister president. Since you left office, there have been 413 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 10: a number of books that have come out deeply sourced 414 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 10: from democratic sources, that claim in your Finally, there was 415 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 10: a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities in the in 416 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 10: the final year of your presidency. What is your response 417 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 10: to these allegations? Are these sources wrong? 418 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 9: They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that number one. 419 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 9: Number two, you know, think of what we were left with. 420 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 9: We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection, 421 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 9: I started nonsense of civil war. We had a circumstance 422 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 9: where we were in a position that we well, the 423 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 9: pandemic because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end 424 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 9: up over a million people dying, million people dying. We're 425 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:47,239 Speaker 9: also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to 426 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 9: deal with a lot of just basic issues and that 427 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 9: won't going to in interest of time. And so we 428 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 9: went to work and we got it done. And you know, 429 00:24:58,640 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 9: one of the things. 430 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 11: That uh, well, well, and as you know, one of 431 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 11: the things I think is. 432 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 3: That this is Jill. 433 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 11: The people who wrote those books were not in the 434 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 11: White House with us. 435 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 3: Wait stop a second. So he fades out. 436 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: She tries to rescue him because you know, he kind 437 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: of lost his train of thought there, lost track, you know, 438 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to go through the details in 439 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: the interest of time. No, it's in the interest of 440 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: he can't remember what all the problems and details were. 441 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 3: So Jill jumps in, continue, well, well, and. 442 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 11: You know, one of the things I think is that 443 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 11: the people who wrote those books were not in the 444 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 11: White House with us, and they didn't see how hard 445 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 11: Joe worked every single day. 446 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 3: I mean he'd get up. 447 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 11: Four hours, put in a full day, and then at 448 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 11: night he would I'd be in bed, you know, reading 449 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 11: my book, and he was still on the phone, reading 450 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 11: his briefings, working with staff. I mean, it was NonStop. 451 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 11: It's the White House. Being president is not like a job. 452 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 11: It's a lifestyle. It's a life that you live. You 453 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 11: live at twenty four hours a day. That phone can 454 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 11: ring at eleven o'clock at. 455 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 4: Night or two in the morning. It's constant. 456 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 3: Anyone's answer, he leave it. 457 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 11: And Joe worked really hard. I think he was a 458 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 11: great president. 459 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 4: And if you look. 460 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 3: At yet, hear this. They got this. We're all the 461 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 3: happy seals in the audience. 462 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 11: If you get things today, give me Joe Biden anytime. 463 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 9: That's worth the invitation to come to the show. 464 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 3: There you go. 465 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: We'd have twenty five million illegal aliens in here by 466 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: now they know they're full of it. Biden knows he 467 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: a senile, person knows they're senile, and Jill knows he's senile. 468 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: This is all theatrics. You got the view hens there 469 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: and they're gonna cackle along and I the audience members, 470 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: Holy jeez, they should have their vote taken away. Really, yeah, 471 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: they deport that whole audience. My god, you wonder why 472 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: things are the way they are. Yeah, they have votes. 473 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:25,199 Speaker 1: Just I just look it like my cognitive decline and 474 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: the trails off lost in the woods. There we come back. 475 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 1: We've got more stuff coming up that's fascinating. 476 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A. 477 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: Six moistline eight seven seven moist eighty six, eight seven 478 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: seven moist eighty six. How are we doing on the moistline? 479 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 1: Any they can see? Still still some room. So if 480 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,679 Speaker 1: you want to vent unleash, you can also use the 481 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app or again eight seven 482 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: seven moist eighty six. All right, every day we try 483 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: to stir up debris Phobia's I forgot you didn't sleep 484 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 1: last night? 485 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 3: Again? 486 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 2: Well, you know I've been fighting I don't know if 487 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 2: it's I don't think it's a cold. It's some kind 488 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 2: of sinus allergy something or other. 489 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 3: And so so it wasn't a fright night. It wasn't. 490 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 4: It was just I wasn't feeling great. 491 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 3: Okay, you wear fearing earthquakes or well, no, I. 492 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 4: Did when I was up. I do always every night. 493 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 4: I think about earthquakes every night, almost every night. 494 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 3: Okay, all right. 495 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: I was in Florida recently, and in fact, my wife 496 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: is still there, and we sent you a photo. Yes, 497 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: we were sitting at a restaurant had an outdoor deck 498 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: over this marshy Lagoon area and it had a beware 499 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: of Alligators sign on the fence next to the table. 500 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 2: Then after that, right, because that was a fine example 501 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 2: of why I would never live there, Well. 502 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 3: You'll enjoy this story. 503 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: Then this happened near the mouth of the Tiger Creek 504 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: as it feeds into Lake Kissing Me just south of Orlando. 505 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: This is a report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife 506 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: Conservation Commission, and this involved a couple. The woman sixty 507 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: one year old Cynthia Decama of Davenport, Florida. She and 508 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: her husband were canoeing and they were canoeing near the 509 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: location where another woman had been bitten on the elbow 510 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: back in March by an alligator. Yeah, this woman was 511 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: kayaking and she got chomped but survived. Just you know, 512 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: I guess lost an elbow wasn't that bad. So they're 513 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: in the same area and they're in a canoe and 514 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: what happened is and you should know what irritates alligators. 515 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,959 Speaker 4: Oh, you know what irritates alligators. 516 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll explain right here. It's the canoe drifted over 517 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: on top of the alligator. 518 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 4: They didn't like that. 519 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 3: No, they didn't like that. 520 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: The alligator was startled, like they normally don't come at 521 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: you if you're startled, unless you know, they wake up, 522 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: and they said, hey, there's a canoe on my back. 523 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 3: I don't like this. 524 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: So the angry alligator started thrashing about, tipped the canoe 525 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: over and sent the husband and wife into the water. 526 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: And they never found Cynthia again. They trapped the alligator 527 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: and they're going to try to figure out if they 528 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 1: got the right one. I guess they're going to have 529 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: to open them up and see if Cynthia is inside. 530 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: But there's another large alligator nearby that was caught, and 531 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: that alligator might have been the one responsible, or maybe 532 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: he shared a meal with the first. 533 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 2: One just because it didn't like to have the canoe 534 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 2: on it. 535 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 3: They're very touchy. 536 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 4: Wow, they have to eat you. Yeah, they can't. Just 537 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 4: you know, maybe you know, just knock you over a 538 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 4: little bit. 539 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 3: I would just say, excuse me, mister alligator. 540 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, I'm so sorry. Please forgive us. We'll be 541 00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 4: on our way. 542 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: No, no, no, they did the big chomp and poor 543 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: Cynthia is no longer with us. 544 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 2: You don't you kayak in those waters? 545 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: It's similar? Yeah, yeah, I was thinking of this. I'm 546 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: debating whether to send this to my wife or oh 547 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: god no, because she's been kayaking. 548 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 4: Yes, then you you should. 549 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: Well I'm kind of screwed either way. If I said 550 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: it to her, she's gonna say, why are you scaring me? 551 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: If I don't send it to her, then it's like, well, 552 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: well don't you care if I get eaten by an alligator? 553 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 2: Okay, I'll tell you what, John, I'm gonna make the 554 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 2: decision for you. 555 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 3: But please, you're more in that speech. 556 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 4: Yes, send it to. 557 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 2: Her and just say, hey, I'm just doing my due diligence, 558 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 2: because I do. 559 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 4: Care about you. That's how you see doing. 560 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: Okay, you have to write these for me. Invariably I 561 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: screw up almost. 562 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 4: Do what I said. 563 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 3: Just do what I said, yes, Like I don't hear 564 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 3: that all day. Just do what I said, all right? 565 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: When when we come back, there is there's a lot 566 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: of Gavin Newso news. It looks like much of the 567 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: state is fed up with Gavin Newsom running for president. 568 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: This is actually entertaining most of the states convinced he 569 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: is running for president and they think he doesn't give 570 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: a rats ass about California anymore. We will tell you 571 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: all about it when we come back. 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