1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to our all 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: night fire coverage. Yes, it's me, and this is not 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: a recording. This is live John Cobelt here. Obviously this 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: is a special occasion because I can't. I haven't been 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: up in this hour working. I think there was only 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: one time I did an all night show for one night, 8 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: and it was a New Year's Eve show playing top 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: forty hits years ago. It's like a special taking requests 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: playing the hits. I volunteers gonna be a little opposite 11 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: of that tonight, right exactly. So this is now the 12 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: second time in my whole life. You know we should 13 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: we should call ken. Yeah, we should make them live 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: on the air. Hey, I'm working. What are you doing? 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: We got we got a catastrophe going on. Are you sleeping? 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: Move it? Yeah? So I'm gonna be on till three. 17 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: What happens after three? They find nil nil Savandro? Okay, 18 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: uh So he'll be on from three until five, and 19 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: then the normal schedule Amy King, Bill Handle and then 20 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: we're going to come back in the afternoon. I took 21 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: a nap for three hours eight o'clock, I just found 22 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: an empty bedroom in the house. They're all empty now, 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: but the kid's gone and fell asleep and had I 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: set an alarm at eleven o'clock. If I had sent 25 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: the alarm, I still may have been asleep because I 26 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: dropped my wife crazy because my wife's up all night. 27 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: And then Debora Mark, she's up all night. They actually 28 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: were texting each other two nights ago because neither one 29 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: of them sleeps, and both of them get pissed off 30 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: that I can fall asleep and wake up. And I 31 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: always say, it's like when it's time to go to sleep. 32 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: I always think, whatever the problems are going on, whatever 33 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 1: the issues are, is there anything I can do about 34 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: it now? And the answer every night is no, There's 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: nothing I can do. Therefore I'm going to sleep. I 36 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: can't do anything until tomorrow morning. Now. Last night we 37 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: did watch some fire coverage because the Hollywood Hills fire. 38 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: What are they calling that thing? The sunset fire? Right? 39 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: It's confusing to me. I screamed about this for many, 40 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 1: many years. Just call the fire by the name of 41 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: the town where it starts or the neighborhood where it starts, right, 42 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: like the Palisades fire. They call it the Palisades fire. 43 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: That makes sense to me. The Eaton fire gets me confused. 44 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: That's out Alta Dina. Call it the Outa Dina fire, 45 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: even if it's a couple of miles off. Just it 46 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 1: makes it easy. I don't know why the officials do this. 47 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: And then we have the Sunset fire, which is the 48 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills, which looked worse than I guess it's turned 49 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: out to be. I mean, the overhead coverage last night 50 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: had it looked like it was vast. But unless it's 51 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: an old acreage report I heard on the drive in, 52 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: maybe it is worse than So we'll see what that's about. 53 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: And then you've got there's another fire out there somewhere. 54 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: I think there were four major ones last night. Karen 55 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: Bastow got most of the attention from us. In the afternoon, 56 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: I tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna play 57 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: some new stuff. We've got a lot of news clips 58 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: to play for your entertainment, and some of them are new. 59 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: Some of them is from our show we did yesterday 60 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,839 Speaker 1: afternoon because we had Rick Caruso on, it'll probably play 61 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 1: a whole Caruso interview later on as well, because he 62 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: went on television last night and made a tour of 63 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: the TV stations and was ripping on LA government because 64 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: there's really no excuse for firefighters to show up in 65 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: the Palisades and run out of water. You could defend 66 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: government politicians fifty thousand different ways if that's what you're into, 67 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: but not on this one. There is no way that, 68 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: over the many decades that in modern life, LA has 69 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: been dealing with fires, that we should have a situation 70 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: where after seventeen hours the water runs out. All right. 71 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades may be the most remote part of LA 72 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: in a way, you have to go to the far 73 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: northwest quarter, and it is in a hilly region, especially 74 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: when you get up to the Pacific Highlands. It's adjacent 75 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: to Malibu, but in no way is it not very 76 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 1: close to modern Los Angeles civilization. And there is no excuse. 77 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: And again I'm never going to criticize the firefighters on 78 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: the front line, but it's it's management, and it's city politicians, 79 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: city bureaucrats, it's the people who make these decisions, their 80 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: decisions on how they're going to spend the money. And 81 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: they failed us, and they failed the people in Pacific 82 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: Palisades and sitting last night watching TV coverage and my 83 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: wife is on the phone and texting with a number 84 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: of and I said, how many people do we know 85 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: who lost the house? And I think she gave me 86 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: about ten different people because Palisades is adjacent to where 87 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: we live. And you know, over the years we had 88 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: three kids. You get to know a lot of parents 89 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: in three different classes. You get to meet a lot 90 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: of people through our kids, various sports teams and other 91 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: activities and friends of friends and all that people that 92 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: we work with. And it's like, oh, she kept going on, 93 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: it's like her two and him too, and oh it's 94 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 1: a big list. And the aerial shots. Yeah, it's funny 95 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: because all like I'm looking, we got all the TV 96 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 1: channels up, which normally like freaked me out. There's seven TVs. 97 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: This was the This is the major contribution of Garyan 98 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: Shannon Is. They introduced seven televisions. I don't know why. 99 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: I mean, they're out at nine in the morning. What's 100 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: going on at night in the morning? You need seven TVs? 101 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: You usually tell me to come in and turn all 102 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: of them off except for two. Oh, I know, because 103 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: there's too much flashing. Usually watch you know, the two 104 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: cable networks in case there's something spectacular around the world 105 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: going on, but you know, to see during the daytime, 106 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: it's all really really stupid talk shows. Yeah, I think 107 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: Gary likes to watch The view Is. Yeah, it was 108 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: yeah a download. Yeah, I think he's into that show 109 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 1: on three different screens. So you know, I come in 110 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: and everything's flashing at me, and it's like, you know, 111 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have an epileptic fit here. I can't take 112 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: all this flashing, so we turn them off. But now 113 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: this is this is quite the array here. It's like 114 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: seven different views of all the fires. Yeah. Meanwhile, we 115 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: don't have any chairs in the studio. I know, we 116 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: don't have chairs. We don't have a shade for the 117 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: back window, so we get a big glare in the 118 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: afternoon and I can't see the screens anyway. In any event, 119 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: we're gonna play some clips because we got off the 120 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: air at four and Karen Bass took over a press 121 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 1: conference at five o'clock. Now you know her story and 122 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: by the way, we're getting we're getting embarrassing headlines around 123 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: the country. I mean, just go to back to the 124 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: Palisades for a second. 125 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 2: That is. 126 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: I saw some aerial footage, And what I was going 127 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: to say is understandably the new stations right now are 128 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: covering what's happening immediately in the present, which they should, 129 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: and so that's why you have seven screens and seven 130 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: different views of the current fires. But the Palisades, and 131 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if the cameras just can't get in 132 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,239 Speaker 1: there right now because the police are blocking the media. 133 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: There are some aerial shots the massive devastation, like in 134 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: some neighborhoods where it looks like every single home is gone, 135 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: and in some of the business district it seemed as 136 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: if every single business is gone. And I guess if 137 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: you don't live near the Palisades, maybe you've only been 138 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: there once in a while on your way to the beach. 139 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: It's one thing, but since it's next door to me 140 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: and it's a place that my wife and family and 141 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: I we go frequently. You know, every block in the 142 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: commercial district has, you know, some kind of meeting, has 143 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: some kind of place you know. You know, that's the 144 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: grow a grocery store we go to, that's a restaurant 145 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: we go to frequently, and over and over and over again, 146 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: and the idea that all of that is gone is 147 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: just it's so disorienting. And for the people in these neighborhoods, 148 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: it's not just they lost their house. They lost they 149 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 1: lost where they go out to eat. They lost the 150 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: grocery store, they lost you know, the barbershop. They maybe 151 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: lost the doctor's office. They lost their neighbors, they lost 152 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 1: where their kids friends live, they lost their school. It's 153 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: at the whole life is gone and it's never going 154 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: to come back. In the same way, people are going 155 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 1: to move to other places. Some people might not rebuild, 156 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: some people might sell. A lot of the businesses are 157 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: never going to come back. I saw this after the 158 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: stupid COVID lockdown. How many businesses closed and to this 159 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: day the storefronts are empty and they're not and they 160 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: never went back. And there's you know, parts of Santa Monica, 161 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: parts of La along Wilshire ghost town, and the real 162 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 1: businesses never came back. Maybe they have some you know, 163 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: cheap nail or tattoo shops, but I don't know why 164 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: nail and tattoo shops brought up. But you know, the 165 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: the the the the the idiotic lockdown did tremendous permanent damage. 166 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: Amazon has done tremendous permanent damage to neighborhoods, and now 167 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: here we have this this fire disaster where everything is gone. 168 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,839 Speaker 1: I mean some people had no insurance. Do you know 169 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: in one zip code in the Palisades, UH State Farm 170 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 1: canceled seventy percent of the insurance policies just a few 171 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,599 Speaker 1: months ago, and there was nowhere no one else to 172 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: go to to buy new insurance. I think we're gonna 173 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: be hearing about that in the coming days. How many 174 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:18,199 Speaker 1: people are uninsured. And there's when we start seeing the 175 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: video and we start hearing from the people who are 176 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 1: suffering and the people without insurance. It's it's, you know, 177 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: it's almost like the worst there's even I don't know 178 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: the worst is losing your neighborhood, but it's it's going 179 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: to be bad to hear all these stories. And well, 180 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: here here's stories from around various newspapers that I was 181 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: looking at this evening in the La Times. Let's see 182 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. City officials 183 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: blame tremendous demand. No, it's not just tremendous demand. It 184 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: is lack of investment in preparation. It's irresponsibility by the 185 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: City of La. What they should do is stand up 186 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: and say we were widely irresponsible. We have spent way 187 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: too much money on homeless people, illegal aliens, criminals. What 188 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: we should have done is spent it protecting the people. 189 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: Because you knew. I think every neighborhood in LA, at 190 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: least the people, the normal people, know that your time 191 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,959 Speaker 1: is going to come. At some point, there's going to 192 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: be a wildfire that affects your neighborhood or very nearby. 193 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time. You go along the 194 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: whole stretch of the Santa Monica Mountains on both sides, 195 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: the foothills, all the way down the two ten, all 196 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: the way down along the one on one, and in 197 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: other places as well, and you know one day it's 198 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: going to be your town that's going to get hit. 199 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: Here's another thing, a healthscape in all directions. That's the 200 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. The devastating fires that ignited crisis and 201 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:07,719 Speaker 1: chaos in Los Angeles. Let's see New York Post. This 202 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: is one of my favorites. How years of corruption and 203 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 1: mismanagement led to La running out of water in the 204 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: middle of the Palisades wildfire. Yes, a lot of flattering 205 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: headlines here New York Times. In the Palisades, an evacuation 206 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: disaster was years in the making. Some Pacific Palisades residents 207 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: said the community had long asked for more detailed fire 208 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: preparation plans. When a fire raged through the community, gridlock ensued. 209 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 1: New York Times again raging wildfires in LA. Firefighters scrammling 210 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: to fight the worst fire in LA history with limited 211 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: water supply and strong winds. Limited water supply, It's just 212 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: it's unfathomable how that could be. You know, a seriously, 213 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,199 Speaker 1: you look, you look to the west, less than a 214 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: mile away, but a tenth of a mile away. Got 215 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean. It's it's it's not outrageous, it's it's 216 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: not absurd to say, wow, we've got this whole ocean. 217 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: Maybe at some point somebody should have built a desalination 218 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: plant and we could use all this water. I mean, 219 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: that's what you would do in a uh an irrational country. 220 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: Uh you would you would say, hey, wow, big big, 221 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: gigantic ocean out there, the largest one in the world, 222 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: the largest one in the whole solar system, and we 223 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: don't have one pipe to desalinate and and and use 224 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: for you know, drinking water and to put out fires. 225 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: Since the fire start right across the street from the ocean, 226 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: it's kind of astonishing. Uh, what is it? It's now 227 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 1: fifty five years since we landed on the moon, and 228 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: in fifty five years we could not build a pipe 229 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: to cross pch to go from the ocean to Pacific Palisades. 230 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,839 Speaker 1: I don't know, huh. See National Review, mayor out of 231 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: the country. As Los Angeles burns, residents plead for help. Boy? 232 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: Is that a devastating headlines? Somebody we should everybody should 233 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: blow this up, print this out and send it to 234 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: Karen Bass. Mayor out of the country. As Los Angeles burns, 235 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: See what else we got here? Sunset Boulevard in ruins. 236 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,239 Speaker 1: Fire's massive scale comes into focus in the Pacific Palisades. 237 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: That's the La Times. But you know, the La Times 238 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: was always cheerleading for Karen Bass and the city council 239 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: and the rest of these buffoons. Say hey, we got 240 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: something from the Washington Post. Much of Pacific Pacific Palisades 241 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: neighborhood is in Los Angeles is gone. As homes burned, 242 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: residents tried to douse fires with water from swimming pools. 243 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: So let's say we've got the LA Times, the New 244 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the 245 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: National Review, just terrible, terrible headlines and they're all true, 246 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: and much of it is about the response because the 247 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: fires were given to happen. Let's see her we got 248 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: with California Globe, LA Mayor Karen Bass heavily criticized for 249 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: delayed return from trip to Ghana with historic wildfire spreading. 250 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: That's nice, boy, do we look like a bunch of idiots. 251 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: There's not going to be a whole lot of sympathy 252 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: from people around the country. They're going to say, it's like, 253 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: why did you why'd you elect her? Exactly? Why would 254 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: she take off for Africa right before a firestorm? A 255 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: well predicted firestorm and windstorm. Two thousand structures destroyed her 256 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: damage La Times and so on. So let's let's start. 257 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: Let's see what she asks to say for herself. Five 258 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: o'clock there was a press conference Mayor Karen Bass. Oh, listen, 259 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: typ number one here. What do you think she's talking about? 260 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: Climate change? Yeah, that's it. 261 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 2: I just remember two years ago when we were here 262 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: for a first ever weather event in Los Angeles, a 263 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 2: potential hurricane. And I think we all understand in our 264 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 2: city the due to climate change, we're going to continue 265 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 2: to see very unusual weather events. And this is a 266 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 2: historic event considering the strength of the winds. 267 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: Climate change. Huh. And I remember when this fad began 268 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: really an earnest. It's been around for decades, but about 269 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: ten years ago they really pushed climate change causes everything 270 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: right in order to try to shame us into giving 271 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: up our modern life. You drink too much water, you 272 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: drive too much. You shouldn't have a lawn. You know, 273 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: you shouldn't have a driveway because having a driveway means 274 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: you have a car and then you're driving. You shouldn't 275 00:16:58,080 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: have that either. In fact, you should all live. 276 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 2: What is it? 277 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: The idea is that the fifteen minute city that we're 278 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: going to live in a little tiny box apartment over 279 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: a string of stores on the bottom floor of your 280 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 1: apartment building. And in those stores you can buy everything 281 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: you need. And then you take your little bicycle or 282 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: your tricycle and bike down a block or two and 283 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: you go to work, and then you go back at 284 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,120 Speaker 1: the end of the day. That's the fifteen minute city. 285 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: Then nobody has to drive anywhere, and nobody's entitled to 286 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: have you know, vast sprawling space like a fifty by 287 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: one hundred foot front yard, anything like that. Not supposed 288 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: to have swimming pool. You're not supposed to have plants, 289 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: remember right, drop resistant plants. Everybody have ugly cactuses for 290 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 1: a garden or for a front lawn. And it became 291 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: and every time, every time it turned on the TV, 292 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,239 Speaker 1: somebody scolding you, some public officialists scolding you. You got 293 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: a plant, a drought resistant lawn, and you look at 294 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: it's like, that's a lot of ugly cactuses, isn't it. Well, 295 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: it's because they haven't built, you know, a reservoir in 296 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: the last fifty years. They never built a pipe to 297 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: a desalination plant to get the ocean water. They diverted 298 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of gallons out into the Pacific Ocean 299 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: to save one lousy fish or another. Says man made. 300 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 1: You got forty million people in the state. You got 301 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: to build the infrastructure. You got to live with it, 302 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: got to build a water system. You got to grab 303 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: all the available water because we want to live and 304 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: you know, you got you got to build a freeway 305 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: system so we can drive. You got to how you 306 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: drives in order to have a thriving economy, so we 307 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: all work. We're not all going to bike around carrying 308 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: our little reasonable grocery bags. And these people made all 309 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: their policy decisions all these decades, all these decades, they 310 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: made these policy decisions based on how can we curtail 311 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: human behavior, How can we limit human expression? How can 312 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: we limit the desire of humans to live in a 313 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: comfortable setting, because otherwise they're offending the planets. So of 314 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 1: course she's gonna blame it on climate change. Although most 315 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: of the fires that we had in in the teens, 316 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen eighteen, they were caused largely by power companies 317 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: who never spent the money on putting the power lines 318 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,959 Speaker 1: down below the ground. And it's funny, ever since they 319 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: started putting power lines below ground, none of those power 320 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: lines have started any fires. I don't know how that happened. Yeah, 321 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: it's like locking up prisoners. You're not got prisoners. Amazing, 322 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: the prisoners can't commit any more crime. And when you 323 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: put power lines in the prison underground, the power lines 324 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 1: can't fall and burn you know entire towns, hundreds of 325 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 1: thousands of acres can't happen, but they everyone has spent 326 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: the money on that because the corporate bastards that ran 327 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: these power companies had to pay themselves millions and millions 328 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: of dollars. They had to keep their stock price inflated, 329 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: so they weren't going to spend money on putting power 330 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 1: lines under ground. So the fires don't start. We start 331 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: most of the fires. I'm going to see how many 332 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: these fires. How many you think we're started by homeless people? 333 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: What do you think the over under on that is, 334 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: how many you think we're start by crazy pyromaniacs. It's people. 335 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: Climate change doesn't start fire. Lightning strikes could start fire, 336 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: but those have been around since the beginning of the planet. 337 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: But there were no lightning strikes in La County? Were 338 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: there no at least started by lightning? Start by humans 339 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: one way or the other. Let's see, we got a 340 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 1: question here from La Times reporter David Zaneiser to Karen 341 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: Bass about Rick Caruso criticizing her for being in Ghatta 342 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 1: when this whole firestorm broke out. Play cut two. 343 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 2: Well, let me just say that we are actively fighting 344 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 2: this fire, and this is a time for vigilance and action, 345 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 2: not speculation. This is a time for Angelinos to come together, 346 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 2: unite it to protect themselves and their families and also 347 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 2: each other. 348 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: Right stop there? So I hate when they pull that card. 349 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: Don't you hate that? This is a time to come together. 350 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: This is not a time to play the blame game. 351 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: This is not the time for finger pointing. Yes it is. 352 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: This is exactly the time, because everybody is angry, everybody's 353 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: in shock. Nobody can believe that their lives have been destroyed, 354 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: that a huge piece of Los Angeles has has burned 355 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 1: is now an ashes and you look around and go, 356 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: how's going on? How'd this happen? The fire department didn't 357 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: have enough order? Really really? Oh, Karen bass Cutt, you 358 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:52,239 Speaker 1: know seventeen million dollars from the fire department. Oh why 359 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: why would you do that? I think they asked that 360 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:56,959 Speaker 1: question later as well, play some more. 361 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 2: So, what we are seeing is the result of eight 362 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 2: months of negligible rain and wins that have not been 363 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 2: seen in La in at least fourteen years. It's a 364 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 2: deadly combination. And I've been in constant contact with our 365 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,360 Speaker 2: fire commanders on the ground and our partners at every 366 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 2: level of government. I've spoken to President Biden, President Biden's 367 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 2: chief of Staff, Secretary of Majorcis from Homeland Security. 368 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: Stop stop President Biden. Seriously, she says that, And I've 369 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: got to believe that most people at home are laughing 370 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: or putting their head in their hands. Oh really, you 371 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: spoke to him, and how'd that go. We have a 372 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: have a tape in that conversation. I'd like to hear 373 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: how he what he mumbled back, if he remembered there 374 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: was a California. Yeah, yeah, sorry, Oh yeah, that's what 375 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: you get. Play some more. 376 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 2: Secretary Marry Toddman from Housing and Urban Development, Senator Padilla, 377 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 2: Governor Newsom, all. 378 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: Right, it's not it's not there. And she had all 379 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: these conversations, and what does that produce? What does that produce? 380 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: Talk to Alejandra may Orcus, the guy who lied to 381 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: us for four years that the border is secure. What 382 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: did he have to say? Exactly? But the fire didn't 383 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: burn the Palisades Palisade didn't burn down. I think that 384 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: was his quote. Now the fire had ever happened, like 385 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: the border is closed. But what would you talk to 386 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: him about? What would you talk to news about exactly. 387 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: I don't understand this. I what can these guys do? Now? 388 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: How hard is it do you think for the Palisades 389 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: people and everybody else in how Ta Dina and anybody 390 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 1: who's had their homes to short by fire? How hard 391 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: is it going to be to rebuild this these how homes, 392 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 1: this neighborhood? How much red tape, how much bureaucracy, how 393 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: how difficult is it to get a permit? I know 394 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 1: a friend of mine who fought with the LA bureaucracy 395 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: for about a year just to get a permit to 396 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 1: expand his garage. Seriously, I meet with him for lunch 397 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: about once a month, and every month for a year 398 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: there was an update on how he's still fighting the 399 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: government to expand a garage. What do you think it's 400 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 1: going to be like for these people if they if 401 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: they stick around? All right, So we are going to 402 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: take a break, and when we come back, we have 403 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 1: more Karen Bass. Oh, we've got the really good stuff, 404 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: all right. We got David Well, we just played the 405 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: Zandheuser thing. Then we got an Eric Leonard clip from 406 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 1: a former KFI newsman now NBC four reporter Eric Leonard 407 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: made Karen Bass do a dance with another pointed question, 408 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 1: and then we'll play the David Blevins clips that we 409 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 1: played on the show yesterday afternoon. It is now yesterday afternoon. 410 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: He's from Sky News, British guy and the British guys 411 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: they don't worship politicians the way idiot American journalists do. 412 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: And this was entertaining because he's questioning Karen Bass about 413 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 1: whether she owes an apology for being in Ghana while 414 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: the fires were happening. So we'll do that coming up. 415 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI, A 416 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: six all night coverage of the fires in southern California. 417 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: John Cobelt here, I took a three hour and app 418 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: very excited. This is fun. Now it doesn't matter what 419 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,479 Speaker 1: I do. There's no pressure. I know there's a lot 420 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: of people listening, and since we're on at night, I 421 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: know we've got people listening probably in the western third 422 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: of the country, all the way to the Rocky Mountains. 423 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,199 Speaker 1: Sometimes the signal bounces into the Midwest. So if you're 424 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: listening because you're a ghoul, you heard and saw all 425 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: the headlines and video of the California hellscape, and you're wondering, 426 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: is it really that bad here? Yes, it's really that bad. Yes, 427 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: we are run by idiots that destructive. Everything you hear 428 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: is true. This is not just a media caricature. This 429 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: is actually the way we have to live with the 430 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: people who run this place. And we are going to 431 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: talk further about that issue after one o'clock. After one 432 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, we got Bill A. Saley. Look 433 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: at this. Nobody sleeps anymore. I think I'm the last 434 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,479 Speaker 1: guy who sleeps a night. Everybody seems to be up, 435 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: like you're up in a wake. You don't seem to 436 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: have any problem, Erica, No, I'm all right. I know. 437 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: I know my wife was up when I left. I'm 438 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: sure Debra's up. They're probably listening. Yeah, So anyway, Bill 439 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: is Saley to come on and we'll talk about all 440 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: the bad decisions that Gavin Newsom has made over the 441 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: years and Jerry Brown has made over the years regards water, because, 442 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,360 Speaker 1: in case you haven't heard, the La Fire Department ran 443 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: out of water in the Pacific Palisades while fighting the fire. 444 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: If you wondered why you were watching the Palisades burn 445 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: last night, and nobody was putting out the fires in 446 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: certain neighborhoods. Not the fault of the firefighters. They weren't 447 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 1: given the water because we have been run by idiots. 448 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 1: I hate to be repetitive, but there's no other way 449 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: to describe it. There's no defense for this. And Mayor 450 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: Karen Bass, fresh from her Africa trip, she landed here 451 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: and held a press conference yesterday afternoon, and one of 452 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: her questionnaires was our friend Eric Leonard from NBC four, 453 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: let's listen to cut three well. 454 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 2: I am confident that it did not. I will call 455 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 2: up a representative from the fire department to address that. 456 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: But I stop, We'll start it again. I should have 457 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 1: set it up. I forgot. He's asking about the budget 458 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: cuts because she did cut over seventeen million dollars Patrick 459 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 1: Sun Chong, publisher at the time, since it's twenty three million, 460 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: but the fire department not having enough resources. So he's 461 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: asking whether the budget cuts had a role here in 462 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 1: what happened right now? You play it well, I am 463 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: confident that it did not. 464 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 2: I will call up a representative from the fire department 465 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 2: to address that. But I will also say that within 466 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 2: this fiscal year LAFD actually would go above what was 467 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 2: allocated on July first? 468 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: Would you? 469 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 2: Did you want to make a comment. 470 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 3: So, good evening, Jacob Robbie, PIO LAFD. So when we discussed, 471 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 3: as a fire chief discussed earlier, this is an absolutely 472 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 3: unprecedented event. We have another fire that just broke out. 473 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 3: Any fire department, even our size, is stressed in, which 474 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 3: is why we call in our mutual aid partners our 475 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 3: additional resources. Of course, we can always use more resources, 476 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 3: which is why we ask for more resources, because we 477 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 3: always want to be the most prepared we possibly can. 478 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: Stop. Stop, stop, stop, Oh, the spokes soul. What's this 479 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: guy's name? Adam Jacob Robbie, Jacob Robbie, Jacob Robbie, the PIO, 480 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: it's the public information officer. So the guy identifies himself 481 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: with seven letters, p IO of LAFD and Taren Bass 482 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: doesn't have the guts to confront the question, so you 483 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: get the spokes stooge to answer the question and shower 484 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: you with with a lot of the alphabet. I'm the 485 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: PIO the LAFD, and of course we'd want more resources. 486 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. They have to explain why, And I'm 487 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: going to round off numbers here, why you would spend 488 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: eight hundred million dollars on a big city fire department 489 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: and but one point three billion dollars on failed homeless programs. 490 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: And this goes on every year. Eight hundred million for fire, 491 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: one point three billion for homeless. Which is an interesting 492 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: decision because the homeless in twenty twenty three started about 493 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: fourteen thousand fires in LA So you pay more money 494 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: to fund the people who start the fires and less 495 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: money to the people who put out the fires. This 496 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: is the question that I would ask Karen Bass if 497 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: she ever had the nerve to come in here. You 498 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: explain to me, why give an extra half a billion 499 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: dollars to the people who start the fires a half 500 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: a billion less dollars to the people who put them out. 501 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: But there's nobody in public life, in the media or 502 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: other politicians who connect all these dots. I bet you 503 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: you didn't know this was going on. You people living 504 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: in Colorado listening in Hawaii. Yeah, this is what it's 505 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: like here. But homeless get a half a billion dollars 506 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: more for starting the fires. You wonder why, they say again, 507 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep asking this because nobody else wants to 508 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: had these fires start. I mean, it's got to be 509 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: a human cause one way or the other. Continue with 510 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: this non answer because we don't know what these wins 511 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 1: are going to do. This is something that we have 512 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: not seen. 513 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 3: In my sixteen years in LAFD and five years and 514 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 3: another fire department, I've never seen wins that made it 515 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 3: to the Pacific Ocean turned around and went back up 516 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 3: the canyon. So this is not something that any fire 517 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 3: department can be prepared for. And we always want to 518 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 3: have more resources, and we're always going to ask the 519 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 3: mayor for more resources for that. 520 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: And you know that in the last six months since 521 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: the Christal years, again, has there been training. 522 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 4: That wasn't done, preparations that were it made? 523 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 3: Because you're looking down, I'm not going to be able 524 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 3: to speak on the fire chief on that aspect of it. 525 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: So I'm going to defer to Chief Proley on that. 526 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: So Beast defers to the PIO, who defers to the chief. 527 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 1: Nobody has any answers. Oh, I've never seen wind flight. 528 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: So in all these years, you didn't have all this 529 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: complex computer modeling. I mean, how many great universities do 530 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: we have in California? Right, we got USCA, we got UCLA, 531 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,959 Speaker 1: We've got Stanford, We've got Berkeley, the whole uc system. Right, 532 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: there's got to be various science departments with massive computers 533 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: that could model how this happens. The Santa and the 534 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: Wins are are his oldest time. Fires are his oldest time. 535 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: I read, in fact, I've read one expert. I gotta 536 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,959 Speaker 1: find this story maybe for tomorrow. Don't want to use 537 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: all the good material here. But one expert said this 538 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: has been going on at least for twenty million years, 539 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: what he called chaparral fires, in other words, brush fires, 540 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 1: all the stuff that naturally grows in southern California on 541 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: the hillsides right, chapparral, It's been burning for twenty million years, 542 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: he says. The only difference now is it's not climate change. 543 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: It's not anything other than we've got millions of humans 544 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: living in the hills. Now. We're build housing developments in 545 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: places that are gonna burn every so often, because fires 546 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 1: are natural, and because on top of the natural fires, 547 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 1: human beings start a lot of fires, sometimes on purpose, 548 00:33:55,080 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: sometimes inadvertently. So the problem is all the people living here. 549 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: That's not a problem necessarily, that's just the way it is. 550 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 1: But there's a reality in that if you pack millions 551 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 1: of people into a limited geographical area, in an area 552 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: which is been prone to droughts and heavy rainy seasons 553 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: since the beginning of time, you're going to get the 554 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: right conditions and the fires going to start. That's why 555 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,800 Speaker 1: fires cost more. Palisades fire may be the most expensive 556 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,840 Speaker 1: in history. That's a Lot's a sign of that's not 557 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,840 Speaker 1: a sign of anything other than that. You know, go 558 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: back on a hundred years ago, how many people were 559 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: living in the Palisades, Go back fifty years ago, how 560 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 1: many people were in the Palisades. They built up way 561 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,240 Speaker 1: way into the hills. You ever been to Pacific Highlands. 562 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 1: You go down Sunset Boulevard, you make a right Palisades 563 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 1: drive up, go up to the highlands. I've driven up there. 564 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,360 Speaker 1: I know people who had homes up there. Beautiful, gorgeous. 565 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: I understand view of the Pacific Ocean. It's wonderful, except 566 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 1: prone to fires because that's our climate and humans, especially 567 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,240 Speaker 1: when he allowed vagrants to live up in the up 568 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: in the brush. I remember some years ago, I think 569 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: this is in the Malibu area. There was there was 570 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 1: some kind there was some vagrant fires, right, and Garcetti 571 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 1: was the mayor, and this goof, this silly goof Garcetti 572 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: actually took law enforcement city workers and they went stopping 573 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: around the brush up in the hillside somewhere near Malibu Palisades. 574 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 1: I forget example, but they went look there. They were 575 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 1: looking to chase homeless people out seriously because one of 576 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,759 Speaker 1: the homeless people had started a fire and it was 577 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 1: it was bad, and you know, they had to show 578 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: It's like, no, no, we're getting control of this. But 579 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,120 Speaker 1: lots of people live in the woods or live in 580 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 1: the brush. You drive down PCH that, I mean, this 581 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,399 Speaker 1: is my neighborhood. I see this a thousand times. I've 582 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: seen this. You drive down PCH. You sometimes look on 583 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: the cliff side and you could see blue tarps and 584 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 1: structures and sometimes shopping carts sticking out of the side 585 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,839 Speaker 1: of the cliff and bedrolls and you know, and they're 586 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 1: out on the beach. That's what it is. How do 587 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,799 Speaker 1: you think there's people keep warm? How do you think 588 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 1: they cook food? They start fires, some of them are crazy. 589 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 1: Then you have the pyros running around. I wonder, you know, 590 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,239 Speaker 1: once the big fire started and suddenly there was a 591 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,720 Speaker 1: spate of other fires, some of them big are still burning, 592 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,359 Speaker 1: some of them small, and the fire department was able 593 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,279 Speaker 1: to put them out. How many of those were the 594 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 1: pyromaniac crowd? Did we finish with Yeah, we finished with 595 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,319 Speaker 1: Karen Bats avoiding Eric Leonard's question. All right, so now 596 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:06,799 Speaker 1: this is this is my favorite moment yesterday, and we're 597 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,800 Speaker 1: going to play you David Blevins chasing Karen Bass around 598 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,440 Speaker 1: and then we had a quickie interview with him at 599 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 1: the very end of the show yesterday. So David Blevins 600 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,960 Speaker 1: is with Sky News. Sky News is one of Rupert 601 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:27,399 Speaker 1: Burdock's British satellite news operations out of the UK. It's 602 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,399 Speaker 1: a European satellite news channel along the lines of Fox 603 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 1: or CNN. So David Blevins met Karen Bass as she 604 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,239 Speaker 1: was coming. I guess she had a plane landing at 605 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,839 Speaker 1: the airport. She had a military plane. And then she's 606 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,400 Speaker 1: walking down a corridor and eventually out the door. And 607 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: this is about a minute and a half and I'm 608 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:48,279 Speaker 1: not going to say a word. I'm not going to 609 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,200 Speaker 1: stop this. So Bass is being questioned by David Blevins 610 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,719 Speaker 1: about whether she owes La residents and apology for being 611 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: in Africa during the start and bass never answers. Listen 612 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:01,560 Speaker 1: to this. 613 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,759 Speaker 5: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while 614 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,399 Speaker 5: their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire 615 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,280 Speaker 5: department budget by millions of dollars? 616 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:10,879 Speaker 1: Madam? There? 617 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:18,240 Speaker 5: Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing 618 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,279 Speaker 5: to say to the citizens today? Elon Mosk says that 619 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 5: you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position, Madam Mayor? 620 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,880 Speaker 5: Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today 621 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:44,080 Speaker 5: who're dealing with this disaster? No apology for them? Do 622 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,640 Speaker 5: you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this 623 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,280 Speaker 5: was unfolding? Back homes? 624 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 1: Nothing, nothing, not a syllable? Just keep walking, atom man. 625 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,200 Speaker 5: Let me ask you just again, have you anything to 626 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 5: say to the citizens today as. 627 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:20,759 Speaker 4: You returned. 628 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 1: Pulls upon. 629 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 5: Adam Mayor? Just a few words for the citizens today 630 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,759 Speaker 5: as you returned to do you think atostrophe? 631 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:45,360 Speaker 1: Keep walking? Keep walking? No shame. You know when she 632 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 1: finally did talk is driving in I heard Moe playing 633 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: her prepared speech. You know, she just read like a 634 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: cardboard cut out whatever they printed for her. But she 635 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,080 Speaker 1: had very little spontaneously to say. In the clips we 636 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,200 Speaker 1: pat played, she was always passing it off to you know, 637 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,520 Speaker 1: the Pio or the chief or whoever. She's got nothing 638 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,360 Speaker 1: to say because what she knows, she just landed from Africa, 639 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:16,680 Speaker 1: doesn't know. Apparently can't think on her feet. You think 640 00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: she'd have a message for Los Angeles and yeah, apology, 641 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,600 Speaker 1: and yeah, you got to explain why you cut the 642 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 1: budget eighteen million dollars. You got to explain why they 643 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,240 Speaker 1: run out of water. I'm gonna play you the interview 644 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,480 Speaker 1: did we did with Rick Caruso later tonight? You have 645 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,000 Speaker 1: to I'm gonna you know, I gotta dangle these treats 646 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 1: get you to stay up till three o'clock. But we 647 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,319 Speaker 1: had Rick Caruso on, and you listen to Caruso going 648 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 1: to great thoughtful detail on the problems with the water infrastructure. 649 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,920 Speaker 1: Because he used to be a commissioner with the DWP. 650 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:56,319 Speaker 1: He knows this, you know, obviously the most successful real 651 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,960 Speaker 1: estate developer in Los Angeles, certainly on the West coast, right, 652 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: he knows stuff. And uh, you listen to him talk 653 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,960 Speaker 1: and you compare it with a minute and thirty eight 654 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,960 Speaker 1: seconds of silence from Karen bass and then the cardboard 655 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:17,400 Speaker 1: cutout responses during the press conference. One thing I noticed 656 00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,320 Speaker 1: when I was driving in and I listened to the 657 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,880 Speaker 1: tape of a press conference. She was so wedded to 658 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: her script. She came to a point where she was giving, 659 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,919 Speaker 1: you know, a stream of public service announcements and then said, 660 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,560 Speaker 1: for more information, go to URL. And then she continued 661 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 1: on and I got r L and URL is the 662 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,040 Speaker 1: is the tech word for a website address. She had 663 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,640 Speaker 1: a Biden moment. Yeah, exactly, that's exactly what he does. 664 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:48,399 Speaker 1: What he would read his teleprompter and it's exit right. 665 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,840 Speaker 1: Well that's what she did. The URL should be you know, 666 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,680 Speaker 1: Cityofos Angeles dot com or whatever it is, but they 667 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,840 Speaker 1: forgot to type in the website address. So for more 668 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,399 Speaker 1: information go to URL. She was just reading. She wasn't 669 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,320 Speaker 1: even paying attention to what she was reading. And you 670 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:12,080 Speaker 1: could see without the script in front of her a teleprompter. 671 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:20,600 Speaker 1: What do you get here? Gets silence? Absolute silence. Uh. 672 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,160 Speaker 1: We had David Blevin's the Sky News reporter on with 673 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,719 Speaker 1: us right at very end of the show, so we 674 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 1: had about a minute to talk to him. But play 675 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,560 Speaker 1: the clip, all right, quickly, let's get David Blevins On, 676 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,720 Speaker 1: the reporter for Sky News who was questioning Karen Bass there, David, 677 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 1: I only got a minute. Yes, Hi, yeah, what what's 678 00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,319 Speaker 1: a pretty icy interview you had with her? Hun? Did 679 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 1: she acknowledge you in any way? 680 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:47,360 Speaker 5: Not in this lightness. 681 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,239 Speaker 4: But we were rather for Juesus because we thoughted her, 682 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,000 Speaker 4: or rather my eagle light camera mounts spotted her on 683 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:57,760 Speaker 4: our flight from Washington, DC to Los Angeles this afternoon, 684 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,839 Speaker 4: so we decided we would at least tempt to get 685 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,480 Speaker 4: a few words from her. But the lady was not 686 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,600 Speaker 4: for talking, as you could see. Didn't talk of trying, though. 687 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,960 Speaker 1: No, I'm glad you did. Nobody in Los Angeles media 688 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,000 Speaker 1: would would do that, or maybe a couple of people would, 689 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,880 Speaker 1: but most of them wouldn't. They're usually very very polite 690 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 1: and frightened of confronting politicians. It seems you British guys 691 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,239 Speaker 1: have a lot more time think. 692 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,399 Speaker 4: Well, I like to think I'm quite polite as well. 693 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:28,040 Speaker 4: But certainly our job was journalist, ask the questions. Whether 694 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,440 Speaker 4: or not we got the answers, well, that's another question. 695 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,480 Speaker 4: And today, certainly the mayor was not a day in 696 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,360 Speaker 4: the business of giving assumbers. 697 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:40,760 Speaker 1: Right, interesting that you got no explanation, no apology, no comment, 698 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:45,200 Speaker 1: no nothing, and the devastation is so severe. Yeah, we 699 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 1: definitely excellent work. That was a very memorable minute and 700 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,959 Speaker 1: a half. Thank you, Thank you so much. Okay, David 701 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,279 Speaker 1: Blevins from Sky News. And that was earlier today from 702 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:01,759 Speaker 1: the daytime show. And we're going to have Bill A. 703 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,200 Speaker 1: Salley coming up in just a few minutes after the 704 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:10,680 Speaker 1: one o'clock news, the one o'clock news, the one am news, 705 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:15,839 Speaker 1: bill of sale the state assemblyman who apparently has nothing 706 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,279 Speaker 1: better to do it one in the morning. Hey, maybe 707 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,719 Speaker 1: he's drinking, maybe he's loaded. Sacramento do that to you. Yeah, 708 00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,440 Speaker 1: I know, I wouldn't blame him, I mean, but we're 709 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: going to talk about the failures. Katie Grimes wrote a piece, 710 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,279 Speaker 1: a new piece in the Californiaglobe dot com that we 711 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:35,080 Speaker 1: want to talk about about about Well, let me set 712 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,960 Speaker 1: it up this way. We'll get into more detail. She writes, 713 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,879 Speaker 1: The wildfire lays at the feet of California's Democrat politicians, 714 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,520 Speaker 1: starting with Governor Gavin Newsom. This is a good one. 715 00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,160 Speaker 1: We've talked about this from time to time, but everybody 716 00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:55,000 Speaker 1: forgets when Gavin Newsom was Lieutenant governor California. Voters in 717 00:44:55,080 --> 00:45:02,880 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen approved a seven billion dollar bond for the 718 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:09,920 Speaker 1: state water supply infrastructure projects. Of that, two point seven 719 00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:18,120 Speaker 1: billion designated for water storage. Ten years later, there are 720 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:23,760 Speaker 1: no new dams or reservoirs, or any other water storage 721 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:30,160 Speaker 1: project to collect and store California's winter runoff. Eighty percent 722 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,240 Speaker 1: of the rain in California is sent to the Pacific 723 00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:43,680 Speaker 1: Ocean for environmental purposes, eighty percent. You know, the these 724 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: droughts there, the winters are drier than normal. Climate change, right, 725 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,719 Speaker 1: that's why we have these fires. It's like, no, we 726 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,960 Speaker 1: get plenty last two winters, come on, you couldn't get 727 00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,920 Speaker 1: more rain, right. The problem with too much rain flooding, flooding, 728 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:08,560 Speaker 1: mud slides, landslides. Eighty percent sent to the ocean. After 729 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,440 Speaker 1: we gave them the right to spend billions of dollars, 730 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,719 Speaker 1: and you know what's amazing, they didn't even spend the 731 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:19,000 Speaker 1: billions of dollars to waste it. They just didn't spend it. 732 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,000 Speaker 1: It's bond, so it's it's borrowing. We have the right 733 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:27,040 Speaker 1: to borrow seven billion. Uh, we didn't borrow it. That 734 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:32,279 Speaker 1: credit line is untouched, untapped. Why why did they put 735 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,439 Speaker 1: it on the ballot in twenty fourteen? How much would 736 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,920 Speaker 1: they have built by now? But again, this is one 737 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:45,439 Speaker 1: of those boring, you know, accounting stories that we vote 738 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:49,040 Speaker 1: on it. It's hardly covered. At the time of the election, 739 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,279 Speaker 1: you hear the result, you know, Proposition thirty two Bay 740 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,239 Speaker 1: passed today with fifty nine percent of the that's it. 741 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,080 Speaker 1: You don't even know. And then ten years later the 742 00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,480 Speaker 1: fire department shows up. It's like, hey, don't have any water. 743 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:12,640 Speaker 1: What happened? Seven billion dollars? Because the history of California 744 00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:17,319 Speaker 1: climate is to have big rainfall years and big drought years. 745 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:20,680 Speaker 1: Look at it. See I've actually looked at the year 746 00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,879 Speaker 1: by year rainfall totals. I think they have been going 747 00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:28,640 Speaker 1: back to eighteen seventy one. Look at it yourself. You'll 748 00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,920 Speaker 1: see a rough cycle where you have these wet periods 749 00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,160 Speaker 1: and you've got rainfall totals, you know, twenty five thirty 750 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,040 Speaker 1: thirty five inch range, and then you have periods where 751 00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:46,480 Speaker 1: it's four five seven inches. It all averages to fourteen 752 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,279 Speaker 1: you know, over one hundred and fifty years, but there 753 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:55,879 Speaker 1: are rarely years where you get fourteen inches. You don't 754 00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:01,680 Speaker 1: get fourteen very often. You get, you know, the five 755 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:06,359 Speaker 1: inch rainfall year, and then the twenty five inch rainfall year, 756 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:12,279 Speaker 1: and that averages roughly to fourteen or fifteen inches. So 757 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,719 Speaker 1: every year there's a good possibility you're gonna have a 758 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:19,080 Speaker 1: drought year, which means you have to have reservoirs and dams, 759 00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,799 Speaker 1: and we should have desalination plants all up and down 760 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,359 Speaker 1: the coast. That's what they do in the Middle East. 761 00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,279 Speaker 1: You see these thriving, wealthy nations in the Middle East. 762 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:38,360 Speaker 1: They've got much drier climates than we do. They have 763 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,759 Speaker 1: desalination plants. They draw water from the seas. It's not 764 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:48,640 Speaker 1: that hard to do. We just don't do it. I 765 00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,760 Speaker 1: don't know why. I don't know who would it defend 766 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,680 Speaker 1: if we took out the sea water and desalinated it 767 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,440 Speaker 1: and then used it. All Right, we got more coming up. 768 00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,520 Speaker 1: Bellisale the Assemblymen will be our special guest on the phone. 769 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:03,560 Speaker 1: Coming up, John Coblt with you KFI Am six forty. 770 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,600 Speaker 1: Now we got news from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 771 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,480 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 772 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,120 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 773 00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,920 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 774 00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:18,200 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.