1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio 4 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 3: app live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 3: one until four, then after four o'clock you could hear 6 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 3: the podcast same as the radio show. 7 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 2: She missed anything. 8 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 3: John Cobelt's show on demand again on the iHeart app. 9 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 3: And we are giving extensive coverage of Kristen Crowley, her 10 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 3: firing being upheld by a thirteen to vote of the 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 3: city council. She never had a chance. She did try 12 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 3: to defend herself. We'll play you some clips of that. 13 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 3: We've been going through the Los Angeles Time story this 14 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 3: morning that about one hundred people in LA City government 15 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 3: got the warning from the Emergency Management Department on the 16 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 3: Thursday before the Tuesday fire, including probably fifteen bass aids, 17 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 3: and yet I guess none of them called Karen up. 18 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 3: This was before before she went to Ghana. We'll talk 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 3: more about that, and I want to play a lot 20 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 3: of clips. Daniel Gus is coming on now. Daniel Guss 21 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 3: dot substack dot com. He's an independent journalist here in 22 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 3: La award winning and he loves to drive all the 23 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 3: idiots in the Bass office and in the city council crazy, uh, 24 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 3: and some of them start shoving him around, which is 25 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 3: a whole nother story we got to get to one day. 26 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 3: But let's let's let's stick to the fire department and 27 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 3: Kristin Crowley. Daniel Gus, Welcome, How are you. 28 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: Hey, John? Thanks for having me on. Quite a day, sir, 29 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: Quite a day. 30 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 3: Uh. What you you posted a story early on today 31 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 3: in advance. What did you explain what you expected to 32 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 3: happen and how close it came to your expectations. 33 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: I could have scripted what happened, John, So basically, by 34 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: the way, kudos to Michael Munk for correctly describing to 35 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: start the end, and that what happened was that at 36 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: the end of this multi hour charade, they did a political, 37 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: you know, rule of order type thing. But they say 38 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: that we're going to receive, meaning that they're going to 39 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: accept Crowley's appeal and file it, which basically means they 40 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: decided not to vote on it. They they took it 41 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 1: was such a it was such a cowardly thing. They 42 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: basically the issue is, at its core, does Karen Bass 43 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: have the right to fire Kristen Crowley for any reason? 44 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: Or no reason, and ultimately they decided that she does, 45 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: but they didn't even vote on it. What they did 46 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: was decide to not vote on it. Crowley's goal was 47 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: to get at least ten of the council members to 48 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: support her reinstatement to the job, meaning to overrule Karen 49 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: Bass's firing of her, but by not voting, Crowley failed 50 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: to get the ten votes. So it was a very passive, 51 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: aggressive non action and right from the core what happened 52 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: was it was a tug of war between the people 53 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 1: who backed Karen Bass were saying that if you don't 54 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: back Karen Bass, you're racist, versus the people on the 55 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: side of the firefighters and the firefighters' unions, which are 56 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: very powerful and very moneyed, and they were saying, well, 57 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: you know, union's strong type of stuff. 58 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 2: So who was saying it's racist to blame Karen Who? 59 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: Who? 60 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 4: What you mean? 61 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 3: You mean speakers, members of the public coming up or 62 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 3: people on the council. 63 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: I know the people members of the public, And you 64 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: could reasonably assume that it's the church community from the 65 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: southern portions of LA Basically, when a buzz and a 66 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, the reverends and the Church 67 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: and true. 68 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 3: So Karen Bass could get the worst fire warnings imaginable, 69 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 3: fly to Africa and Palisades burns down. And if you 70 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 3: criticize her, you're racist. 71 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: Wow, absolutely, that is what it boils down to union 72 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: power versus racism power. 73 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 3: You can't cheapen that that word anymore than what they've done. 74 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: Right, right, It had zero zero to do with that. 75 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: And regarding all of the people, I did another search 76 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: on the City Controllers panel that you and I were 77 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: discussing offline about how many people work in the mayor's offices, 78 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: and it's like two hundred and thirty something. Yes, there 79 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: are fifteen people on Karen Bass's staff who make north 80 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: of two hundred thousand dollars in base and her chief 81 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: of staff makes over three She makes more than Bessue does. 82 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: Nobody could call her and nobody could tell her don't go. 83 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 3: And according to the La Times, there were fifteen of 84 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 3: her staff members who got this warning on the Thursday 85 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 3: before the fire. 86 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 2: Of course, this extreme it ten page attachment from the 87 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 2: National Weather Service. 88 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: Right, of course, And and whoever handles Bass's Twitter account, 89 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: presumably Gabby Mars or Zach Seidel, of course, they knew, 90 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: of course they knew. And and other than the recent 91 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: series of articles by the La Times that the local 92 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: media similarly doesn't want to be seen as criticizing a 93 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: black female mayor. 94 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 3: Just because she's just because she's blass, no other reasons. 95 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's preposterous. 96 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: It's preposterous, and it's Los Angeles. It's very very real. 97 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 3: And wait a second, hold of big because do they 98 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 3: feel it's racist or they just don't want all those 99 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 3: groups giving them a hard time? 100 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 2: Do they actually feel it's racist? 101 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: I think both. I think both both of the above 102 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: really don't want to be accused. Yeah, where I could, 103 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: I could pick up you read my column all the time. 104 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: I could apply these theories to any of the subjects 105 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: that I cover, not just this chaos. It applies to 106 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: all of them. There are so many stories that all 107 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: of the TV stations either don't report or substantially under report. 108 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: They don't want to be seen as criticizing a black 109 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: female mayor. In this case, my ja wasn't that difficult 110 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: because she's the power player. And really before this thing, 111 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: very few people knew who Kristin Crowley was. It is 112 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: that superficial. It is that vacuous and vapid. Well, no 113 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: wonder this stuff happens, of course, of course, and they didn't, 114 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: and they didn't assume that it would turn into a 115 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: major history, historic deadly and multi tens of billions of 116 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: dollars of damage. They never figured. But sure enough they 117 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: rolled the dice and it came up craps. 118 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 3: Then why is the La Times going full boar after Bass? 119 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 3: Because they were they were the cathedral of political correctness, 120 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 3: of woke ideology. And certainly they've had about a dozen different, 121 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 3: highly unflattering stories about Bass's response to the fire. 122 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 2: What's going on there? 123 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: Patrick Soon Shung, the the the billionaire owner of The Times, 124 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: have basically has been reading them the riot Act over 125 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: the past year or so, especially since the free election 126 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: last November. And there is a new direction to a 127 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: certain degree. But this is such a historic, such a 128 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: historic fire, that that it's tough to You can't there's 129 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: some things you can't dance around, and this was it. 130 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: And basically they the writing is on the wall at 131 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: the La Times. And the clearest, most transparent voice there 132 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,559 Speaker 1: is Patrick Soon Shong. David Zaneiser, who did the story 133 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: that you were reading. He's of them. He's one of 134 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: the straighter shooters of these things. But there's no way 135 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: you can get around what this was. But even still 136 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: they're not there should be a call, at least from 137 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: the editorial board for Bass to resign. Best versus Crowley 138 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: is like a Davy versus Goliath, but there should be 139 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: a call for her to resign. Not that Harris Dawson's 140 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: going to be any better, but he's not the mayor. 141 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: He was just the acting mayor. We literally don't We're 142 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: in a rowboat without oars. Literally we have nowhere to 143 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: go with this, and it's our own doing. And it's 144 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: the times. 145 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 3: Fault between this email story that came out today the 146 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 3: text messaging the Channel seven found yesterday where it seemed 147 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 3: everybody in charge had no idea. 148 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 2: What was going on. They literally didn't know what to do. 149 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 3: They were begging each other that somebody has to take 150 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 3: the lead on this. And this is after the fire 151 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 3: has already been burning for four or five hours, and 152 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 3: they knew. 153 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 2: They were running out of water, and they knew there. 154 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 3: Were no firefighters in position, and they knew that the 155 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,959 Speaker 3: place was literally going to hell. 156 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 2: And I just can't believe how flat foot it. They 157 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: all were. 158 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 3: There was like a non response, not just a bad response, 159 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 3: there was a non response. 160 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 1: Right, that's Harris Dawson, he was here. They elevate him 161 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: because again a person of color who clearly is not 162 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: prepared for the role, not because he's a person of color, 163 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: but because he doesn't have the merit to be an 164 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: acting mayor. That's how shaky it is. After him, I 165 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: think it's Bob Bloomenfield from the West Valley. But that's 166 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: what happens when you elevate people who aren't ready for 167 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: the job. And by the way, Zach Seidel, he's using 168 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: taxpayer funds. This is the only job he's ever had. 169 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: Graduated from UCLA about a decade ag go. The only 170 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: job he's ever had was aid to Karen Bass you know, 171 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: Deputy Community his job through Congress. 172 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 3: The job is to put out statements that's exactly the 173 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 3: opposite of reality and truth. 174 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: To do anything to defend the boss, regardless of whether 175 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: it's transparent, regardless of whether it's the truth. And by 176 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: the way, the various defenders of Kristin Crowley weren't being 177 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,839 Speaker 1: any more honest than anybody else. One of the two 178 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: defenders of Kristin Crowley, Monica Rodriguez, she's a council member 179 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: from the northern part of the San Fernando Valley, and 180 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: she's getting up there and saying, oh, you know, I 181 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: ran for office and I promised that I would always 182 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: stand on the side of fighting whenever there's a wrong. 183 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: Oh please, that's a load of hooey. John, uh, you know, 184 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: down down one thing that that that that I have 185 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: to research. But they were saying Kristin Crowley and the 186 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: council member Monica Rodriguez from the northern part of the valley, 187 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: they were saying that Crowley did not refuse to do 188 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: what do they call it an after a right because 189 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,559 Speaker 1: the money for it has not yet been approved. It 190 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: is supposedly going to be addressed in the Committee of 191 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: City Council later this afternoon. So how can she How 192 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: could Crowley have refused to do something if the money 193 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: for it hadn't been funded. But that's dubious because things 194 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: always get rolling on things like this before they're actually funded. 195 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: So they're all lying. The council member from Van Eyes 196 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: couldn't even say first responders. She was calling them first 197 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: responsors without the deed. This this is a clown beat 198 00:11:54,440 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 1: the band first responsor, right, she said, And I have 199 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: to check with somebody else. 200 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 2: I mean they're in and illiterate, some of some of 201 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 2: these council people. 202 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: Literally, Heather Hut in some later comments she's the one 203 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: who took over for uh Ridley Thomas's district instead of diaspora, Uh, 204 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: she said, dyspora. I mean they're literally at least I 205 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: mean dyspora. 206 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 2: Words if you don't know how to say them right. 207 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: And so it was literally a mess from start to finish. 208 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: The only thing that I should have predicted that I 209 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: didn't even realize was a cowardly receive and file of 210 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: the issue. So nobody is seen as they don't want 211 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: to upset the union by so they can say, well, 212 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: we didn't take the vote on Crowley. 213 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 2: Daniel, can you hang on? Can you hang on for 214 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 2: another segment? 215 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: Of course? 216 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 3: Okay, because I gotta I gotta do Deb's news here 217 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 3: and uh we will continue with Daniel Guss and his 218 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 3: you want you all to read his stories at Daniel 219 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 3: Guss dot substack dot com. 220 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,719 Speaker 2: Well, at least we're getting a good laugh out of 221 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 2: all this. 222 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 223 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 4: six forty. 224 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 3: It's the John Cobelt Show and you can follow us 225 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 3: on social media at John Cobelt Radio. We continue with 226 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 3: local journalist Daniel Guss. Daniel Gus dot substack dot com 227 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 3: is where he writes about the internal I was going 228 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 3: to say the internal workings of city Hall, but it's 229 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 3: actually nothing's working. Everything is completely dysfunctional. Bass's office in 230 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 3: the city Council Kristin Crowley, as you heard today, she's 231 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 3: still fired. She lost to vote thirteen to two, and 232 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 3: she's really got nowhere to go. Now, let me, let me, 233 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 3: let me ask you something. Is everybody now going to 234 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 3: pretend that nothing happened and just going on? Michael Monks 235 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 3: used a phrase this morning she said. He said that 236 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 3: Bass has been coping with this by just tweeting her 237 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 3: way along every day. 238 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 2: Is that all they're gonna do. 239 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 3: They're just gonna stay isolated from reporters and prying journalists 240 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,439 Speaker 3: and just tweet about whatever trendy nonsense amuses them, and 241 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 3: the palisades will take ten years to rebuild. 242 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 2: Is that it? That's the end of the story. 243 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: That's literally it. That's the end of the story. Her 244 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: only two concerns about staying in office are Kenneth Maheita 245 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: from the left and Rick Caruso potentially from the right. 246 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:41,239 Speaker 1: And denial is a very strong opiate John Denial pervades 247 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: city Hall because they make the rules and they enforce 248 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: the rules. And Tracy Park, who's the council member for 249 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: the Palisades area, you know, made an interesting point about 250 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: you can't have the fire department investigate the fire department, 251 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: but that's what they do with the LAPD. I mean, 252 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: that's what they do here. There are layers of excuse 253 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: makers on top of excuse makers. They live in denial 254 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: and basically give everybody the middle finger until they're up 255 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: for reelection or they want to move up when they're 256 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: turned out. That's literally the entirety of the situation. 257 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 3: Does anyone feel bad that they've only half funded the 258 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 3: fire department? Does anybody on the city council say, Wow, 259 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 3: we shouldn't have done that, We should have given them 260 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 3: full funding all these years. I mean it's really well, 261 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 3: you know, we have less than one firefighter per a 262 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 3: thousand residents. You're supposed to have two, and you know 263 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 3: we're missing dozens and dozens of engines that are broken. 264 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 3: We don't have mechanics, we're short of firefighters, were short 265 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 3: of equipment, they had no war the reservoir was empty. 266 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: I mean all of this. 267 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 3: It is such an overwhelming, colossal failure. Does any of 268 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 3: them feel bad and say, you know what, we got 269 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 3: to do better? This is terrible. We just lost the 270 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 3: most expensive part of Los Angeles. 271 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 2: The whole thing has been destroyed, and it's partly our fault. 272 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: They feel bad for the most part that it blew 273 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: up in their face. There are some like Tim mcoscar 274 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: who's the council member for the fifteenth district, basically the 275 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: San Pedro and wass area in the detached southern part 276 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: of the city. Now he's got ties to the first 277 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: responders with a d the First Responders Union. His brother 278 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: was there today. He's a retired operative for the for 279 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: these you know, public sector public safety unions. And he 280 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: was apologetic when he was saying, oh, it's with a 281 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: heavy heart that I have to vote on the side 282 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 1: of the mayor because she and Crowley can't get along. 283 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 1: So it really was an issue of feeling bad. Blew up. 284 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 3: Why won't they fund the fire department, especially since we 285 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 3: have so much land prone to wildfires in certain parts 286 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 3: of the city, and we have homeless people running around 287 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 3: starting fourteen thousand fires a year. Why don't they want 288 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 3: to fund a response to that. 289 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: It's not that they don't want to fund it. It 290 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: would require them to go after the majority of them. 291 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: And remember, more than a quarter of city council are 292 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: socialists in their first full term. And so the writing 293 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: on the wall is at least in city Hall, money 294 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: should be sliced away from the parks, sliced away from 295 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: the fire department, all towards these this homeless industrial complex. 296 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 3: The homeless, uh, the illegal aliens, and the criminals. That's 297 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,239 Speaker 3: the three areas they want to fund. So no more, no, 298 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 3: no more Fire department. And they'd love to defund the 299 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 3: police even further too. 300 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, you could be sure of that. You can 301 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: be sure. By far the police department gets the lion's 302 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: share of the budget, or the or least the uh uh, 303 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: you know, the biggest slice of it, not the majority. 304 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: But but yeah, they figured that the handwriting is on 305 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: the wall. Four out of the fifteen are endorsed by 306 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: or are full blown socialists, and they figured slice off 307 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: ten million from this slice off ten million from that. 308 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 1: They can't even fix the damn sidewalks. John, They just 309 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 1: borrowed eighty million dollars for the sidewalks, and it's just 310 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: to settle the personal injuries, slip in fall cases, just 311 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: for the sidewalks. This city is broke. And and if 312 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: Doge in Washington, d C cuts off the spigots of 313 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles, I don't see how they 314 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: can sign the paychecks, let alone anything else. And by 315 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: the way, as as I wrote several months ago, this 316 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: whole sanctuary city thing was a total charade. They need 317 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 1: that federal money from Homeland Security to fund all sorts 318 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: of really serious stuff with the fired with the LAPD. 319 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: So all this talk on Friday and the weekly presentation 320 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: by Unicus Hernandez about ice raids, if there's human trafficking 321 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: going on right by MacArthur Park, it's all charade. 322 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 3: Well were they find like they just arrested some Guatemalan guys, 323 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 3: what was like twenty thousand people were trafficked in near 324 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 3: MacArthur Park. I mean that that is crazy that you 325 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 3: had a twenty thousand person smuggling operation going on right 326 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 3: in the heart of the city all for years. 327 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: And right, and John's that's the whole point. They want 328 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: to package it, and the media goes along with it 329 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles that if you're if you're against ice enforcement, 330 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 1: you're you're not interested in stopping the human trafficking. You're 331 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: you're racist because you're separating the ubwellas the grandmothers and 332 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: the grandfathers. That's literally the whole narrative, and it has 333 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: been supported by the Times, and the and and the 334 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: television news stations save for a few of the reporters 335 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: go along with it. 336 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 2: All right, Daniel guests, good talking with you again. 337 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: Thank you anytime. John, talk to you soon. 338 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 3: Daniel Guss dot substack dot com. Right read his stuff. 339 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 3: We come back finally get to some of the clips, 340 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 3: some of the highlights day from the Kristin Crowley hearing 341 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 3: before the City Council. She is gonna be finired anyway. 342 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 343 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 4: six forty. 344 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, when you spend so many years funding illegal aliens 345 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 3: and criminals and homeless people, at the end you end 346 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 3: up with only half the money you need for the 347 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 3: fire department, and then you end up with a huge 348 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 3: chunk of your city burning to the ground, and one 349 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 3: of the richest parts of the city. And there's a 350 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 3: lot of people suffering today. And you had all these 351 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 3: ninnies at the La City Council conducting their asinine hearing 352 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 3: today and nobody getting at the truth of this, Nobody 353 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 3: on the council. I'll say this for Kristin Crowley, she 354 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 3: is telling the truth. The fire department is so underfunded. 355 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 3: It's catastrophically underfunded, obviously. And I want to play this clip. 356 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 3: It's going to be number thirteen. Bess says Crowley was 357 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 3: fired for, among other things, she didn't do an after 358 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 3: action report, and that's its own controversy. And I really 359 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 3: don't want to get into the weeds on some of 360 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 3: these things. But this thousand firefighters, this is what the 361 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 3: La Times reported thousand and Bass is saying that this 362 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 3: is one of the big reasons that Crowley got fired. 363 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 3: A thousand firefighters from I guess the overnight shift and 364 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 3: they weren't kept on for the day shift to fight 365 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 3: the fire or be prepositioned in including about forty engines. 366 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 3: And Crowley tries to explain this, and she gives two 367 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 3: answers along the way. Listen it to this cut thirteen. 368 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 5: On the morning of the fire, I did not send 369 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 5: home one thousand firefighters who could have hopped on fire 370 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 5: engine and fought the Palisades fired, nor did I leave 371 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 5: forty available fire engines unstaffed. These are all false accusations. 372 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 5: As well, the forty fire engines in question were already 373 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 5: staffed and running nine one one calls with on duty 374 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 5: personnel in their normal configuration when the Palisades fire broke out. 375 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 5: Those fire engines were appropriately staffed and were used where 376 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 5: they were needed. Additionally, at eight hundred hours on January seventh, 377 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 5: twenty twenty five, the LAFD pre deployed twenty four engines, 378 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 5: three battalion command teams, five brush patrols, two water tenders, 379 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 5: additional air operations personnel, and additional dispatchers. These one hundred 380 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 5: and twenty eight pre deployed and augmented personnel were strategically 381 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 5: placed in wildfire prone areas across the entire city near 382 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 5: multiple freeways to ensure a rapid response. Our actions were 383 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 5: based on the recommendations of our subject matter experts, the 384 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 5: lafd's emergency operations staff. As for the thousand firefighters who 385 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 5: allegedly were sent home prior to the fires. We did 386 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,199 Speaker 5: not have enough apparatus to put them on because of 387 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 5: the budget cuts and lack of investments in our fleet maintenance. 388 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 5: Over one hundred of our fire engines, fire trucks and 389 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 5: ambulances sat broken down in our maintenance yards, unable to 390 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 5: be used to help during one of the worst wildfire 391 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 5: events in our history. And Third, it is also a 392 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 5: false allegation that we failed to notify the Mayor's office 393 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 5: about the upcoming weather event. I stand by our previous 394 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 5: statements about this. The LAFD engaged in all of its 395 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 5: standard communications, including emailing two separate media advisories, conducting multiple 396 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 5: live and recorded media interviews about the predicted extreme weather 397 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 5: and fire danger, and also notify in city officials about 398 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 5: the upcoming weather events. The Emergency Management Department also plays 399 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 5: a key role in notifying the Mayor's office in city officials. 400 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 5: Office itself also set out multiple media messages prior to 401 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 5: the fire's warnings about the expected destructive and potential life 402 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 5: threatening windstorm. 403 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 3: Karen Bass is lying about not knowing, as Curly pointed 404 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 3: out there, she was notified, and I told you earlier, 405 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 3: the La Times said there was a mass email sent 406 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 3: to one hundred city officials, including about fifteen of Bass's 407 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 3: top aids, and that was on Friday, January third. So 408 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 3: I don't know how long she's going to keep pushing 409 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 3: this nonsense. I don't know if eventually the media is 410 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 3: going to get tired of raising this issue. But she 411 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 3: and that weird little weenie of a spokesle Zach Sideal, 412 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:49,719 Speaker 3: are just flat out lying. But let me go back 413 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 3: to the thousand firefighters. She says that at first that 414 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 3: you know, she didn't send them home, and then says, well, 415 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,199 Speaker 3: we didn't have any place to put them, which is 416 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 3: something that the fire union leader on our show said 417 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 3: a week or so ago, Freddie Escobar, there was nowhere 418 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 3: for them to sit because there's so many fire engines 419 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 3: in the shop awaiting repair, like one hundred of them. 420 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 3: So you could have hundreds of firefighters ready to go, 421 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 3: but nowhere to sit. What do you do with them? 422 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 3: Maybe sounds like some of them must have gone home. 423 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 3: How do you have one hundred fire engines not repaired? Well, 424 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 3: they don't have the mechanics, we're told, Why don't they 425 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 3: have the mechanics? They don't have the money. Where does 426 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 3: that come from? Oh, we're going back to the city 427 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 3: council again, aren't we, And that genius, that vegetable Marquise 428 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 3: Harris Dawson. How do you not have funding at the 429 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 3: beginning of the fire season to repair all the fire engines? 430 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 3: You mean there isn't a meeting, a city council meeting 431 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 3: where he sits down with the fire chief and says, Okay, 432 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,640 Speaker 3: what do you need fire season coming? You know that 433 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 3: global warming and climate change is going to bring more 434 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 3: fires and they're gonna burn hotter and last longer. Right 435 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 3: that that they're always lecturing everybody about. 436 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 2: Fuck because they're all faking it. 437 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 3: None of them believe really in climate change, or if 438 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 3: they do, they don't care, Because then you'd fund the 439 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 3: fire department. You wouldn't have one hundred engines on the blocks, 440 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,120 Speaker 3: You wouldn't have a thousand firefighters with nothing to do. 441 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 3: And that other part was she said, well, there were 442 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 3: forty engines out, but they were doing routine nine to 443 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 3: one calls. 444 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 2: What are those? 445 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 3: Is that homeless people overdosing on fentanyl and meth starting 446 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 3: their daily allotment of fires. Fourteen thousand a year. Somebody 447 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 3: do a calculation. Can you fourteen thousand divide by three 448 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 3: sixty five? 449 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 2: Real? Quick? 450 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: Me? 451 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sorry the Harvard math scholar. Yes, yeah, this 452 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 2: is a jeopardy here, but I think Eric's doing it. 453 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 3: Fourteen thousand divided by uh, it's thirty eight point three 454 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 3: five six one six four that okay, let's write it 455 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 3: up about forty fires a day. So the vagrants are 456 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 3: starting forty fires a day, and that's what the fire. 457 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 2: Trucks are used for all day and night, forty a day. 458 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 3: It's astonishing, no wonder she doesn't have no one of 459 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 3: the engines are breaking down so often they're constantly on 460 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 3: the road putting out bum fires. Because the city council, 461 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 3: all these weird picho democratic socialists adore methaddicts and fentonel 462 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 3: addicts and crazy people, homeless people, illegal aliens, and criminals 463 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 3: adore them. And so people who go work for a living, 464 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 3: like those in the Palisades, just just pay your six 465 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 3: figure tax bills. You know, there's a lot of people 466 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 3: in Palisades. They pay six figure property tax bills. And 467 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 3: after three o'clock, I'm going to read you a post 468 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 3: by a Palisades woman, and she's describing what she saw 469 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 3: with her own eyes, the lack of fire response. And 470 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 3: I believe her because I have a couple of friends 471 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 3: who told me exactly the same thing. Many people in 472 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 3: Palace the Palisades have the same story. Nobody showed up 473 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 3: all day, all night, nobody showed up, and if they 474 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 3: did show up, they were out of water, which goes 475 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 3: back to Genie Kinonias. Now, I'm sorry, these people can't 476 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 3: continue working for the city, bass Kenonias, like Crowley, everybody's 477 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 3: got to go. Everybody's got to get fired. That's right, 478 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 3: you all have to go. You're not sneaking by on this. 479 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 3: We're onto it. This is a huge embarrassment, a huge failure, 480 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 3: and you're flailing away with your little weeny weirdo spokesholes 481 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 3: trying to tell us that the night is day and 482 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 3: white is black and up is down. No, it doesn't 483 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 3: work anymore. That way, We'll do more. We've got some 484 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 3: more clips to play coming back. 485 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 486 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 3: Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. On the day Kristin 487 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 3: Crowley was fired, for sure, she lost to thirteen to 488 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 3: two vote with the city Council. We're playing now some clips. 489 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 3: We have covered a lot of fascinating stuff today. So 490 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 3: today is a good day to go to the podcast 491 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 3: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app and 492 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 3: listen to whatever you missed. I don't have time to 493 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 3: go through all the stuff today, but just trust me, 494 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 3: you missed the first two hours of the show. Go there, 495 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 3: all right, I want to play you clip. This should 496 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 3: be cut three coming up. This is the union leader 497 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 3: in the United Fires of La City President, United Fires 498 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 3: of La City. The President, Freddie Escobar has been on 499 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 3: our show a couple of times and he's been a 500 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 3: loud defender of Kristin Crowley. Play cut three. 501 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 6: I'm here today with my brothers and sisters of a 502 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 6: LAFD to say what needs to be said. Fire Chief 503 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 6: Crowley is being terminated, fired for telling the truth. 504 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 2: Let me repeat myself. 505 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 6: Fire Chief Crowley is being terminated and fired for telling 506 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 6: the truth. For decades now, you Frock has been saying, 507 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 6: we're understaff, under budget fire department. We have half the 508 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,959 Speaker 6: firefighters we need to protect this city of Los Angeles. 509 00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: Truth. 510 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 6: Crowley had the guts and the courage to speak out 511 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 6: to make sure her troops on the ground have what 512 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 6: they need. 513 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 2: To do their jobs. 514 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 6: For the first time, the public and this city Council 515 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 6: started paying attention. But her honesty cost her her job. Today, 516 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 6: I'm asking this council to allow Chief Crowley to speak, 517 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 6: give her a chance to set the record straight, because 518 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 6: what's happening right now is simply not right, and everybody 519 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 6: knows it. That's in here. I know each one of you. 520 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 6: You all tell us how much you support your firefighters, 521 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 6: how much you love labor. Hugo Soda Martinez, you're the 522 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 6: biggest champion for labor. That's what you've said publicly. Well, 523 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 6: Labor is with Chief Crowley on this. She is the 524 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 6: first fire chief to speak up on behalf of the 525 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 6: men and women to say what has been said for decades. 526 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 6: The LAFD cannot continue and sustain what's asked of us. 527 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 6: We are understaff, under budgeted, and we cannot do more 528 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 6: with less. Enough is enough. Everybody is watching and we're 529 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 6: asking you to do the right thing. Stand with labor, 530 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 6: labors with management on this. Chief Crowley is being terminated 531 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 6: for telling the truth and my thirty five years on 532 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 6: the job. Not one fire chief has represented the men 533 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 6: and women like she has that day, and we thank 534 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 6: her for her courage and for firing her for telling 535 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 6: the truth is simply wrong. 536 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your time. 537 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 3: And now that the fires happened, that is the major 538 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 3: issue hanging in the air, that they're only half funded. 539 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 3: We have a fifty percent funded, fifty percent staff fire 540 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 3: department for the city of Los Angeles, nearly four million people, 541 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 3: and the city council people, starting with Marquise Harris Dawson, 542 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 3: have no shame, do not care. They aren't going to 543 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 3: cut the money to the drug addicts and the lunatics. 544 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 3: They're not going to cut the money to the illegal aliens, 545 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,839 Speaker 3: the socialist crowd there and there's four of them now 546 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 3: out of the fifteen they're they're do. They don't care 547 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,760 Speaker 3: if people burn to death. 548 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 2: Did you see it. 549 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,399 Speaker 3: It's hard for people to accept it, like, oh, that's 550 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 3: really harsh. 551 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: That's me. 552 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 3: It's like, look at what they do when you choose 553 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:32,280 Speaker 3: to fund homeless people, mental patience, meth addicts, sentinel addicts, 554 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 3: and you're not even helping them. Two thousand a year 555 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,919 Speaker 3: die in the streets, another two thousand die in shelters. 556 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,279 Speaker 3: When you choose to fund that whole corrupt process over 557 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,760 Speaker 3: the fire department, that means you don't care if people's 558 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 3: homes burn, and you don't care if the people themselves 559 00:34:53,680 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 3: burn to death. And twelve people did more thing. This 560 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 3: is not so serious. When you have public comment, you 561 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 3: get all kinds of characters showing up. This is a 562 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 3: woman supporting Christian Crowley, and she sang her support play 563 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 3: cut four. 564 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 7: While the mayor was far, Los Angeles had a windy 565 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 7: day that started a rowing blaze. It devoured people's homes. 566 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,880 Speaker 7: When the mayor came back to town, she decided to 567 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 7: pass the blamer around. She said, Crowley, you're fired now. 568 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 7: The mayor couldn't be more wrong. The people say, Criley, 569 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,720 Speaker 7: you are refined chief. We know you did all you could. 570 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 7: I don't know if the council supports you, but they should. 571 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:05,920 Speaker 2: Bravo, bravo. Oh wow, that was awesome. 572 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,760 Speaker 3: Okay, come back, I'm gonna you know, all choked up. Priana, 573 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 3: I'm so emotional. 574 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 2: Really got me. I want to read you. 575 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 3: A post by one woman of the Palisades who gave 576 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,479 Speaker 3: a first hand account of what she saw on that day. 577 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 3: And this is the crux of it, and it's what 578 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 3: Freddy Escobar said. They there's no money for the fire department. 579 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,520 Speaker 3: That is the original sin here and she, this woman, 580 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 3: with her testimony explains exactly what a lot of people, 581 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 3: people I know, we're seeing that day. 582 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:43,959 Speaker 2: Nobody's showing up. 583 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,760 Speaker 3: Nobody's showing up because fire engines were in the shop, 584 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 3: because there's no money for mechanics, no money to fix. 585 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 2: And again you had the water issue. Talk about it. 586 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 3: We come back Deborah, Mark Lyden and the CAFI twenty 587 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 3: four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 588 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 3: Cobalt Show podcast. 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