1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 3: Coming up in a few minutes, we'll go through all 5 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 3: the fire news from yesterday and this morning. 6 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 2: Karen Bass late last night. 7 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 3: Released the results of the city's investigation, on top of 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 3: the big news yesterday that the FEDS had indicted the arsonist. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 3: Rick Caruso has weighed in and Bass is now angry 10 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 3: at Caruso for telling the truth. All that ahead, now 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 3: we have Bill o'rallies coming on. Bill O'Reilly is everywhere. 12 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 3: He's got a video podcast on the Internet, he's on television, 13 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 3: he's on the radio. He has a best selling book 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 3: at debuted number one on the New York Times list, 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 3: Confronting Evil. And he's going to be on News Nations 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 3: town Hall Wednesday, October fifteenth, Pacific time, five to seven o'clock. 17 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 3: It's going to be on News Dation and the CW 18 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: and he'll be on Chris quonall host and Stephen A. 19 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 2: Smith will be a panelist as well. Let's get Bill 20 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 2: O'Reilly on. 21 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: Bill. Welcome, John, Thanks for having me in. 22 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 3: How you been, Oh, I'm good. It's good to have 23 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 3: you on what do you think of California? Because I 24 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: spend my whole time on the radio just describing how 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 3: the place is collapsing into pieces. 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: What do you think is going on here? 27 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: Well, I've been every county in California we've ever lived there. 28 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: Almost got a job offer from San Diego and I 29 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: took another job. But I've always wanted to live in 30 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: California until about twenty years ago when the politics started 31 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: to change from a growth, quality of life situation to 32 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: an ideological situation. That's what happened to California. It used 33 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: to be the home of Ronald Reagan and entrepreneurs, and 34 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: people would go out, we're talented and drive success. It 35 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: was a success magnet. I remember early on in my 36 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: career being with Tom Snyder. Remember Tom Snyder, Yeah, big anchor, 37 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: and he was on k ABC, which I think has 38 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: fallen into the Pacific Ocean. You guys are wiping them out. 39 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: But I was out there with the Snyder, who was 40 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: very kind to me as a young journalist, and I 41 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: just said, boy, what a great place to have a 42 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: career and to you know, acquly your train and not 43 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: just in broadcasting but movies and all that So what 44 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: happened was the Ivy Lives got hold of it, and 45 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of immigration came in, some of them 46 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 1: very good, but some of it isolationists, and the combination 47 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: then tilted away from common sense into party politics, very 48 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: much like New York City. Is the reason that the 49 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: LA New York air route is the most traveled air 50 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: route in the world because it's a very similar environment. 51 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: What happened in New York happened in LA, and then 52 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: LA rippled through the rest of your state. So now 53 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: what you have is a bunch of people who are 54 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: incompetent running the nation's largest state. Now, Karen bass I 55 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: don't know the woman, but she cannot run Los Angeles. No, 56 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: she is incapable of running it, right. I think you 57 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,119 Speaker 1: would agree with that. You're there every day. 58 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 3: Oh, she's absolutely overwhelmed. She had most days you hear 59 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 3: nothing from her. 60 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: She could run Ghana, probably in Africa, but she cannot 61 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: run the nation's largest city because it's a complicated city 62 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: with the county and Newsom, who's not a stupid man. 63 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: His goals become president, not to be the best governor 64 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: that California can have. So my whole career has been. 65 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: The reason I've been successful is because I don't have ideology. 66 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: I don't do the party stuff. It's to a waste 67 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: of time for me. I'm a fact finder and then 68 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: I present the facts to people and you can take 69 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: them and leave them. Some people believe what they want 70 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: to believe. They don't care what O'Reilly says. But it's 71 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 1: been very successful for me because I'm a pretty good analyst. 72 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 1: You know, when we wrote Confronting Evil, we're way ahead 73 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: of that story that the book came out September ninth. 74 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: The next day, September tenth, Charlie Kirk was assassinated and 75 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: talk about evil and it focused. All the interviewers were going, 76 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: that is so eerie. You would put the book out 77 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: a note one day later you would see this And 78 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: I said, the reason that happened, because my books take 79 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: a year to write and research, John was because of 80 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: the rise. I saw the rise of evil about a 81 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 1: year ago, and I said, I've got to start to 82 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: expose this because there are more good people than evil people. 83 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: I put the evil percentage about fifteen percent, probably a 84 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: little higher in Hollywood. You're up in the twenties there, 85 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: but most people are good people, but they looking away. 86 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: They're looking away, and when you do that, the incompetent 87 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: and the evil and a lot easier for them to 88 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: take control. 89 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 3: That leads in my next question, because looking away means 90 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 3: accepting the consequences here, and it's pretty stark. It's not 91 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 3: just people have an ideology of philosophy. They've fallen in 92 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 3: love with the consequences of that ideology is massive homeless 93 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 3: this massive crime, high taxes, high gas prices, high housing costs, 94 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 3: high electricity prices. It makes life much more difficult. Why 95 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 3: doesn't that cause them to change their voting patterns? 96 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 1: Excellent question. So two days after Christmas this year, I 97 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: took my twenty one year old son, who's a political 98 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: science major, to Yosemite, and then we drove down to Monterey, 99 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: where I have a lot of friends, and then we 100 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: drove down to LA and I booked a hotel in Westwood, 101 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: right adjacent to UCLA, which used to be where I'd 102 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: stayed when I was a corisponder for ABC and it 103 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: would send me out to Los Angeles to bureau duty. 104 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: Stay in Westwood. Westwood was a jewel. Yeah, it's now 105 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: a dump. It's shocking. And I mean literally shocking. Do 106 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: you go to Westwood no more bruin theater no more 107 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 1: you know, walking around the promenade. I went into the 108 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: stores because I was curious. And I went into the 109 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: stores and I was talking on emerging, what did deuce 110 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: happen here? And they said, we've been overrun by drug 111 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: addicts and they set up tents and they and they 112 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: mug people and they're all And I said, well, where's 113 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: the organized resistance to that? And they looked at me 114 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: and they go, if we call nine one one, if 115 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: a robbery is underway, cops don't answer, cops don'n't show up, 116 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: and the miscreants know it. And even if there's a 117 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: cop driving by and happens to caller one of these people, 118 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: they're not going to get prosecuted. They'll get kicked right 119 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: back out to the street to do the same thing. 120 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: And so for some reason, Santa Monica is exactly the 121 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: same way. 122 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 2: Oh Santa Monica. 123 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: They have camp there, right, they have camped there, and 124 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: roy quality of life in two jewels of southern California. 125 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: And I'm sure there are many many others, but I 126 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: saw that. I was shocked. I couldn't believe it. And 127 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: then I went back to the w Hotel, which is 128 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: still decent, and it's not going to manage what's it's 129 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: must be killing your business. He goes, We're down fifty 130 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,239 Speaker 1: percent because people don't want to come here anymore. 131 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't see the resistance forming at all 132 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 3: to try to change. 133 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: This, because people are living in bubbles now. They got 134 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: their cell phones, they got their computers, they got their cars. 135 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: They go from the car to the house, to the mall, 136 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 1: and they go and they look away. And as they said, 137 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: the only thing that evil needs is for people to 138 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: look away and to vote for people that don't know. 139 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: You know, the party says this politically correct, that woke this. 140 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: So yeah, I gotta go along with it. If I 141 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: want to get a job at Warner Brothers, I got 142 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: to do this. I'm afraid that if I say anything 143 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: in Burbank at Disney Headquarters have fire me. All of 144 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: that's in play now and I don't really know how 145 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: long it's going to take to clean it up. 146 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 3: Do you see a way out? Do you see anything 147 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 3: that would ignite some kind of rebellion from the people. 148 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: Economic deprivation is always the way out unless hope it 149 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: doesn't happen to America. As you know, of a fairly 150 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: good relationship with President Trump, who's demonies that in California's 151 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: approval rating out in your state's thirty eight percent, because 152 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's almost a collective loathing of him. 153 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: And you know, if you want to get invited to 154 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 1: the parties, you got to hate him. Logan, I hate 155 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: Trump party night, Okay, I'll come that kind of thing, 156 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: and I want economic deprivation. But that's you know, if 157 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: the fire isn't going to shake up, if the crime 158 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: isn't going to shake up, if the massive immigration isn't 159 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: going to shake you up, and I'm talking to the 160 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: voters now listening to KFI, then I don't know what 161 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: is going to shake you up. Somebody breaking into your 162 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: house with a bazooka. I mean, I don't know what 163 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: it's going to take. 164 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 3: Now, you've got a big event that you're going to 165 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 3: be a part of on Newsation and they're also on 166 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 3: the CW network. It's going to be Wednesday, October fifteenth 167 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 3: at the Kennedy Senator, Washington, d C, hosted by Chris Cuomo, 168 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 3: a live town Hall with you, Stephen A. 169 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 2: Smith and other big names. What's this all about? 170 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: Okay? I came up with a concept called Three Americans, 171 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: It Smith, Cuomo and Me and we do shows that 172 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: are fun, but obviously it is three high profilo guys 173 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: with different points of view on the country and on life, 174 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: and we get out there and we kick it around. 175 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: But in DC, we have rented at the Kennedy Center. 176 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: That's where this live show is going to be on 177 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: Wednesday night of next week. This coming Wednesday, it's gonna 178 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: be at five West Coast time. They'll reracket for prime time. 179 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: I'm sure on News Nation and c W is gonna 180 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: carry it. I guess the monster car races are going 181 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 1: to be delayed on CW for a day. Uh, and 182 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: then it's gonna be carried on serious. It's gonna be huge. 183 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: We're gonna have very famous people. I mean, they're still 184 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: working on the list now, come on in. I know 185 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy Junior is set to be there, but the 186 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: biggest names in politics, and we're gonna grill them and 187 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: they'll grill each other. And this is an example. And 188 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: I don't know whether you remember John about what John 189 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: Stewart and I used to do. Oh yeah, we made 190 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: it fun. 191 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 2: Yeah you went on tour with him, Dan, Well. 192 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: We did a number of shows, big, big shows, and 193 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: Stuart doesn't do that anymore. You know, I'm mocking him 194 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: on email. I mean, what's the metter with you? Because 195 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: he's into that Trump is the devil thing. But we're 196 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of information, good information out two folks. 197 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: But we're gonna have a good time doing it. And 198 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: if Colon doesn't show up, I'm gonna bring a hood. 199 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,319 Speaker 1: I'm gonna hood him like a falcon if I have to. 200 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,599 Speaker 3: All right, that's gonna be Wednesday the fifteenth at the 201 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 3: Kennedy Center, live on News Nation and the CW from 202 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 3: five to seven our time, and they'll probably rerunt it 203 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 3: in prime time out here. And Bill, it took a 204 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 3: long time, but I'm really thrilled to have you on 205 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 3: the show. 206 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 2: I've always admired you. 207 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: Don anytime you need us, and I want to just 208 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: remind people at Confronting Evil number one on the Times list, 209 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: it's well worth your time. So I hope people check 210 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,439 Speaker 1: it out. And if you ever need me, just ring 211 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: me on up and we'll do it. Again. 212 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 3: I'd love to have you on again, Bill Riley, Thank you, Ojay, 213 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 3: John appreciate it. 214 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 4: All right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from 215 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 4: KFI Am six forty. 216 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 2: Rest of the hour. We're going to talk about the fire. 217 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 3: So much news came out yesterday and then last night 218 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 3: when Karen Bass the city released an investigative report. But 219 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:25,719 Speaker 3: I Rick Caruso has gone public with a statement and 220 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 3: now I got to see if I can find it 221 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 3: because it was on Facebook and now I've got to 222 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 3: refresh it. And Karen Bass already had a response to it. 223 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 2: She's upset. Do you have that audio? By the way, 224 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 2: I have. 225 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 5: Karen Bass's audio. 226 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, let me if you could queue that up. I 227 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,599 Speaker 3: want to read Rick Caruso's statement. And I don't know 228 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 3: if he's running from mayor. I hope he does. It 229 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 3: seems like he's headed that way. But here's how he 230 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 3: reacted to yesterday's news. They found the arsonist and then 231 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 3: that report came out, and the LA Fire Department that night, 232 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 3: day and night and in general is in chaos, in 233 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 3: chaos because of Bass and Kristan Crowley. So Rick wrote 234 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 3: on social media today, this is a tragic day for 235 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 3: Los Angeles, and my heart goes out to all the 236 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 3: families who experienced so much devastation in January and now 237 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 3: are being forced to grapple with all of those emotions again. 238 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 3: As the US Attorney said, evil people will do evil things. 239 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 3: This was an evil act and the individual identified must 240 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 3: be held accountable for his reckless and malicious actions to 241 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 3: the fullest extent of the law. What makes today even 242 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 3: harder is that everything we feared about this disaster being 243 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 3: preventable turned out to be one hundred percent true. There 244 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 3: was a failure of government on an epic level, starting 245 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 3: with Mayor Bass. Her and the city's incompetence, mismanagement, and 246 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 3: failure to plan, prepare and pre deployed directly led to 247 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 3: people dying, thousands of lives being upended and put on 248 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 3: full dis play the consequences of ineffective and incapable leadership. 249 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 3: I commend the tireless work of federal authorities who led 250 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 3: the investigation, but we can't let today's news distract us 251 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 3: from how the city failed the people of Los Angeles. 252 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 3: There must be real accountability for these failures. Now you 253 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 3: want to play Karen Bass's response. 254 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 5: Yes, Okay, So Karen bass is responding, and this is 255 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 5: what she says. I just was saddened by it, honestly, 256 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 5: because I think that that response was beneath him. And 257 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 5: this is what she also said. I feel like it's 258 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 5: exploiting tragedy, it's exploiting grief. 259 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 3: It's beneath him. It's exploiting tragedy and exploiting grief. Yes, 260 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 3: are you serious. He's describing exactly what happened. There was 261 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 3: no plan, there was no preparation, there was no pre deployment, 262 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 3: there was no execution. Nothing was effectively done to prevent 263 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 3: the fire from spreading. They actually could have kept it 264 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 3: from ever happening had a fire crew been monitoring the 265 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 3: original site. And the execution after the fire started and 266 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 3: spread was terrible. There was no water in the reservoirs, 267 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 3: there were no fire hydrants or few fire hydrants that 268 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 3: were working. The power lines were never shut off. The 269 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 3: firefighters weren't deployed, they were sent home. The fire trucks 270 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 3: weren't all available, they were busted. It's a massive failure. 271 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 3: Everybody should be saying what Rick Crusoe said. Everybody in office, 272 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 3: on every level should say this. This is the truth. 273 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 3: This is what happened. It didn't have to be this way. 274 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 3: This is the worst tragedy La has ever gone through. 275 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 3: And she's still trying to manipulate people's emotions. Oh, it's 276 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 3: beneath him. He's exploiting tragedy. You know who says that. 277 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 3: I noticed that word you're exploiting tragedy always comes from 278 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 3: the people responsible for the tragedy because they refuse to 279 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 3: accept their failure. We're going to talk about that arsonists 280 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 3: the suspect. We're going to talk about the investigation investigative 281 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 3: report from the city, not just the federal report yesterday, 282 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 3: but the city report because they finally released it. 283 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 2: When we come back. 284 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 285 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 286 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 3: We are on every day from one until four o'clock 287 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 3: and then after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand 288 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 3: on the iHeart app. And that's the podcast version for 289 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 3: what you missed, and if you're just joining us now, 290 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 3: I hate to tell you this. He missed a lot. 291 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 3: We had Arnold Schwarzinger on for half an hour. He 292 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 3: is saying no on Prop fifty and Arnold is going 293 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 3: to guest host at least an hour of the show. 294 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 5: And he wants to be John's sidekick as well. Does 295 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 5: he do news? 296 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 3: No, I think you're going to be his sidekick at 297 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 3: least for an hour. Yeah, he didn't say sidekick. He 298 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 3: said apprentice. 299 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, but I thought he didn't. He know he's 300 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 5: the word sidekick. 301 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 3: But he says he wants, yeah, apprentice. He said, he'll 302 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 3: be my apprentice. He'll get your coffee. 303 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 2: I am going to be gone. 304 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 3: For a little bit because a lot of listeners signed 305 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 3: up for that trip to Iceland that we were promoting 306 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 3: early in the year, and the trip is coming up 307 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,239 Speaker 3: very shortly. So while I'm gone, you'll hear the likes 308 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 3: of Mark Thompson and lou Penrose, and I think even 309 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 3: Tim Conway is going to fill in a day, and 310 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 3: Carl Demayo and maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger for an hour. 311 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 2: He agreed to. 312 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,959 Speaker 3: So listen to Arnold Schwarzenegger first half hour of our 313 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 3: show today. We just had Bill O'Reilly on about a 314 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 3: half an hour ago as well, because he's got a 315 00:18:54,600 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 3: TV special and a book that's already out. So there's 316 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 3: a lot going on here. And then last night you know, 317 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 3: in the morning, the FEDS had their press conference Bill 318 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 3: a Sale, the US Attorney, and they got the guy 319 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 3: who started the fire, and it is just an old 320 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 3: fashioned arsonist, just a crazy, crazy guy who got turned 321 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:26,239 Speaker 3: on by fires. Jonathan rinderdeckt okay, So he's locked up 322 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 3: for the moment. But last night Karen Bass announced that 323 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 3: they're releasing their investigation, which they had held on to 324 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 3: until the Feds were finished releasing theirs. And what I 325 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 3: remember after it was clear that Bass and Kristin Crowley 326 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:54,919 Speaker 3: and Janice Qinonias had botched badly the preparation and they 327 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 3: had botched the response to the fire. What did their 328 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 3: lackeys say? What were the talking point? Oh, well, if 329 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 3: we had water in the reservoir, it wouldn't have made 330 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 3: a difference. Well, if we had more firefighters deployed, it 331 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 3: wouldn't have made a difference. Well, if the fireman had 332 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 3: been there earlier, it No, it all would have made 333 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 3: a difference. And now they're coming around to admitting it, 334 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 3: even Bass in a backhanded way, because last night she 335 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 3: announced that LA firefighters will remain on duty for an 336 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 3: additional shift during red flag weather warnings mandatory protocol instituted 337 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 3: after Kristin Crowley failed to pre deploy engines to the 338 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 3: Palisades in advance of the fire. 339 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 2: Well, remember people said, well, how did they know what 340 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 2: was going to be there? 341 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 3: That was the most likely place because the old fire 342 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:53,679 Speaker 3: was still smoldering from January first, which led to the 343 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 3: revelation of another fire department failure. Why in God's name, 344 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 3: with all the warnings, wind warnings, high fired angel warnings, 345 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 3: did they not have a crew monitoring the remnants of 346 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 3: the January first fire fire which was still smoldering thick 347 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 3: vegetation on state land. Gavin Newsom didn't clear all the overgrowth, 348 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:26,439 Speaker 3: all the all the dense brush that he and everyone 349 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 3: else in government preaches about that you have to clear it, 350 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,159 Speaker 3: you have to clear it, you have to clear it. 351 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 3: They send inspectors over. They'll find you if you don't 352 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 3: clear it. He didn't clear the brush. It was burning underneath, 353 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 3: the root system was burning underground. And if the fire 354 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 3: department was monitoring that, it was only a week between 355 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 3: the original fire and then the palis States fire was 356 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 3: only a week. They should have been all over that 357 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 3: thing twenty four to seven. They should have been flying 358 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 3: drones or planes, heat sensors. In read, whatever it takes, 359 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 3: they have it. We already paid for it. This is 360 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:11,199 Speaker 3: the after action report, seventy pages, and it affirmed what 361 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 3: The Times had discovered way back in January. A week 362 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 3: after the fire, officials did not pre deploy any engines 363 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 3: to the Pali States despite the warnings. Remember Karen Bass 364 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 3: in Ghana, she had several days of warnings, bad wins, 365 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 3: bad fire. She left the country, Kristin Crowley. As she's 366 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 3: claiming the fire department was under resource, that is true, 367 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 3: according to this report. In preparing for the wins, officials 368 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 3: chose to staff only five of the more than forty 369 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 3: engines available to supplement the regular force. According to the 370 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 3: after action report, the firefighters who returned voluntarily could only 371 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 3: staff three engines. They could have been positioned in the 372 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 3: Palace Saints, which they'd done during previous threatening weather. The 373 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,479 Speaker 3: fire Department is now upgrading its preparation for fires, including 374 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 3: moving resources into position earlier, giving every officer advanced access 375 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 3: to briefings, and holding tactical meetings more often. Bass said 376 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 3: in her list of changes, why weren't these in effect 377 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 3: before the fire? Why didn't they always move resources into position. 378 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 3: Why didn't they always give officers advanced access to the briefings? 379 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 3: Why didn't they always hold tactical meetings? Because we had 380 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 3: extreme warnings, we had extreme fire danger warnings from the 381 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 3: Weather Service, extreme high wind warnings. That's the moment to 382 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 3: have all the meetings and briefings. I don't understand how 383 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 3: did this happen? How nobody did their job at all? 384 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 3: And I keep reading in these reports or we didn't 385 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 3: have resources. We didn't have resources. Yes, because Karen Bass 386 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 3: and the La City Council only funded the fire apartment 387 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 3: at a fifty percent rate, and by the way, it's 388 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 3: still funded at close to a fifty percent rate. They 389 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 3: threw in a few extra bucks, but not that much 390 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 3: to change things, you know, I asked Bill O'Reilly this 391 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 3: half hour, Gys Schwartz, and think of this there? Why 392 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 3: do people keep voting these patterns? Are they in such 393 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 3: a headphone earbud, social media screen scrolling bubble that they 394 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 3: really don't know what's going on and they are so 395 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 3: emotionally manipulated to be part of whatever political cult they 396 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 3: think it's necessary for them to be. Maybe for social reasons, 397 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 3: for employment, reasons for family reasons. Everybody feels the need 398 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 3: to keep embracing These people aren't just clowns. 399 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 2: These are dangerous. Karen bass is dangerous. 400 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 3: People die, six thousand homes burned, tens of billions in damage. 401 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 2: She left the country. 402 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 3: Number one job for any elected official, the safety of 403 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: the residents, police and fire. Nothing else is number one. 404 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 3: That's number one. She abandoned the city. Kristin Crowley was 405 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 3: overwhelmed and incompetent. And I don't know what to say 406 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 3: about Jennie quinnonas anybody who leaves a one hundred and 407 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 3: seventeen million gallon reservoir empty during the Santa Anna wildfire 408 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 3: season boys at a mental hospital. Really, Yes, this fire 409 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 3: didn't have to happen. They could have had a monitor 410 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 3: guarding that area, monitoring the area where the original fire 411 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 3: was set on January first. Yes, they could have had 412 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 3: more engines and more firefighters up there. Yes, that reservoir 413 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,160 Speaker 3: could have been filled months and months earlier. Yes, all 414 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 3: the hydrants should have been repaired. They didn't even know 415 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 3: all those hydrants were broken. It is incompetence, absolute incompetence, stupidity. 416 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 3: They all should be removed from their jobs. Absolutely, everyone 417 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 3: should resign, Crowley was already kicked out. Bass should resign. 418 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 3: Genie Kenonias ought to resign, or they ought to be impeached, 419 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 3: or they ought to be sued something. 420 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 2: I mean, you can't have this. 421 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: You cannot have this. 422 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 3: Nobody would survive in any kind of other industry, any 423 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 3: kind of line of work after performing this badly, this tragically, 424 00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 3: and now it's been affirmed by her own by her 425 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 3: own investigative report. By her announcing these changes means yeah, 426 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 3: we didn't do it. We didn't have any of this 427 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 3: in place back in January because they're overwhelmed and incompetent. 428 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 3: And then she gets pissed off at Rick Caruso because 429 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 3: he's saying the same thing that she's saying in the 430 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 3: report that the FEDS were saying. She doesn't want to 431 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 3: that's the killer. 432 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 2: She doesn't. 433 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 3: She cannot stomach the responsibility. She should have been apologizing 434 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 3: to everybody repeatedly and then resign. This is psychopathic behavior. 435 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 3: This is narcissistic and psychopathic. When we come back, we're 436 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 3: gonna play a clip at Gavin Newsom explaining the cause 437 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,959 Speaker 3: of the fireback on January eighth, standing in front of 438 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 3: some burning homes. 439 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: Now that we found out what. 440 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 3: The cause was from the fed's investigation, we'll compare. 441 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 2: It to Gavin Newsom's theory. That's next. 442 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 443 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 3: Back in January eighth, Gavin Newsom went on television. He's 444 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 3: standing in front of the homes in flames in the 445 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 3: Palisades grand standing. He knew what caused the fire. Now 446 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 3: we found out yesterday it was Jonathan Rendernet connect and 447 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 3: Jonathan render Connect took a lighter up into the Palisades 448 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 3: Hills and he started the fire martialist. He was a firebug, 449 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 3: loved it. Had chet gpt drawings of forest burning and 450 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 3: people watching in horror. He listened to French rap song 451 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 3: that the video was all sorts of fire imagery. 452 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 2: This was his thing, This is what got him excited. 453 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 3: He even called nine one one, and people ask me 454 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 3: why would he call nine one one? Because he wants 455 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 3: to see the excitement. That's his work. He wants the 456 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 3: police to come. Often the guy who set the fire 457 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 3: is standing in the crowd watching the fire. Part of 458 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 3: a whole weird complex psychological sickness. Who knows where it 459 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 3: comes from. But back on January eighth, Gavin Newsom had 460 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 3: another theory. 461 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 2: Let's play this. 462 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 6: This is an omalous even you know, I remember Paradise 463 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 6: happened in November. I mean, so there's no fire season 464 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 6: in California and it's year round. But to have this 465 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,479 Speaker 6: level the acuity of fires without president, These wins are 466 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 6: without president, and the challenges these winds are going to 467 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 6: continue on and off a little bit less intense. Last 468 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 6: night he had eighty ninety mile hour wins. These guys 469 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 6: were just up there to try to mitigate the emverse 470 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 6: going two miles and get him just to go a 471 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 6: quarter mile to side of say. 472 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 2: Some what is the situation with the wall? 473 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 3: Obviously in the Palasage ran out last night and the 474 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 3: hydrants I was turned the firefighter on this block they 475 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 3: left because there was no water in the hydrants here. 476 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 6: The local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean, 477 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 6: just when you have a system, it's not dissimilar to 478 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 6: what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether 479 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 6: it be pipe electricity or whether it just be the 480 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 6: complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants are 481 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 6: typical for two or three fires. Maybe one fire, you 482 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,239 Speaker 6: have something at this scale, but again, and that's going 483 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 6: to be determined by the local authorities. 484 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 3: So he was saying it was climate change. The winds 485 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 3: were blowing. This never happened before. That's false. I found 486 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 3: newspaper clippings go back and going back to the nineteen 487 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 3: thirties winds in the eighty ninety one hundred mile an 488 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 3: hour range. Wasn't climate change. It was Jonathan renderconnect with 489 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 3: a lighter. It was a Los Angeles fire department under 490 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 3: Kristin Crowley and Karen Bass drawing yourself in Ghana. They 491 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 3: did not oversee the hotspot, so the fire was still 492 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 3: smoldering underneath the vegetation was I'm sorry, it was Gavin 493 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 3: Newson's vegetation. That was state land. He didn't have the 494 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 3: land cleared. He didn't have the land cleared. Karen Bass 495 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 3: and Kristen Crowley didn't have the fire department monitor the 496 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 3: hotspot in case it flared up again. The winds were 497 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 3: Santa Na winds which hit LA every year, and they 498 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 3: had been that strong a number of times in the 499 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 3: documented past. He's lying. He's lying. That was with Anderson 500 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 3: Cooper of CNN. He's just completely utterly full of it 501 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 3: and render Connect. They found him in Florida. He was 502 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 3: living with his brother in law and sister, and they 503 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 3: called nine one one twice in five months, once after 504 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 3: an argument because rinder Connect threatened to burn the house down. 505 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 3: Now he went there after setting the Palisades fire. They 506 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 3: didn't know that, and so the cause of the fire 507 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 3: was his sickness, his mental illness. I was on September nineteenth. 508 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 3: September twenty fifth, rinder Connect's father was visiting from France, 509 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 3: and the dad called nine one one. He comes from France. 510 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 3: He calls ninety one. Because render Connect made a comment 511 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 3: that he would use a gun on his brother in 512 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 3: law on self defense. Everybody had to move out of 513 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 3: the house. The sister, the brother in law, their two children. 514 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 3: They left rinder Connect. They let him live there. They 515 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 3: left him behind, and they offered to support him. They 516 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 3: offered fifteen thousand dollars in two months to help him move. 517 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 3: They wanted to go back to California. He had a 518 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 3: magazine with a three eighty caliber bullets on him when 519 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 3: he was arrested, but no gun. That's who started the fire. 520 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 3: Somebody tell Gavin Newsom that Somebody tell Gavin Newsom that 521 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 3: Trump ended the Israeli Gozam war today, the Israel Hamas war. 522 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 3: I don't know what Gavin Newsom did today, but Trump 523 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 3: ended the war between Israel and amass all right, more 524 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 3: coming up conways here Next Kruzer is the News live 525 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,479 Speaker 3: in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been 526 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 3: listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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