February 3, 2026 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/03) - Heavenly Hughes comes on the show to talk about the problems Atladena residents are still facing when it comes to rebuilding after the Eaton Fire last year. The LA County Board of Supervisors are a bunch of losers who can't get anything done. The Palisades infrastructure rebuilding plan has still not been released and it is months late. More on Billie Eilish's "No one is illegal on stolen land' comment at the Grammys.
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is over all. Right, let's let's move on. Now. We've
been talking a lot about the Palisades fire, because what
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set everything off was this atrocious statement by the LA
Fire chief Heimi Moore, who, after a reporter said, hey,
when are we going to know who watered down the
investigative report? We're going to know who did it? Why,
what was originally in there? And he said, well, you're
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not going to know. What are people going to do
with that information? Just point fingers, point blame. So let's
look forward. Let's look ahead. Actually, Heimimore said that I'm
not making it up, and then we heard Bass's nonsense
in her state of the assessmental speech. We go now
to Altadena and Altadena, they've got the same problems. In
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some ways, it's worse. You have a middle class neighborhood
in West Altadena, largely black neighborhood, people who'd owned their
homes for generations and wiped out in the fire. Because
in La County, neither the La County Sheriff's Department, nor
the fire department, nor emergency services let a lot of
these neighborhoods know that a deadly fire was coming. And
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you had nineteen people who were killed, nineteen people burned
to death, and just you know, thousands of homes just
like in the Palisades, and they can't get any help.
So we're going to talk with Heavenly Hughes. First heard
about Heavenly because she was in the film All the
Walls Came Down about the Altadena Fire, and that was
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done by a filmmaker named Andy Timiner. It's a short documentary.
You should look it up. It's quite moving. All the
Walls Came Down. Heavenly Hughes has become a community activists.
She's in the film and spoke with her a couple
of days ago, briefly, and it's not good for a
lot of the fire victims in the Palisades. Let's get
heavenly on. How are you.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Hello. Thank you so much for having me, John Colebelt.
Appreciate the attention you're bringing to Altadena and the disaster
we are experiencing after the fire.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I know, it's almost four hundred days and it just
seems to get worse and worse. Talk to me about
the state that many of the homeowners are in. I understand.
You know, they're going to have to pay rent on
top of their mortgage, and they have insurance issues, and
they can't get permits, and they're going to get foreclosed on.
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Talk about that whole mess.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, all of the above is happening in Altadena. We
are holding the Edison International responsible and accountable for what
we see as another disaster homelessness for seven out of
ten of us who were impacted by the fire. Is
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we are at risk right now of being unhoused. I
want to bring up that Padro Pizarro, the CEO of.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Edison International, is the parent company is SoCal Edison, and
they started the fire.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes exactly. So they're receiving he's receiving twenty one million dollars,
but refuse us to put out the money necessary to
bring some stability to all of us who have been
on housed. There's twenty two thousand people who were displaced
due to the Eden canyons. I are here in Altadena,
and yes, I'm from westside Altadena, fifty years in west
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side Altadena. And now we are being short shortened again
because insurance companies, of course are dropping survivors due to
fouling claims. So I believe that also needs to be
looked into by our representative. Our elected officials should not
be letting this happen. There should be a freeze on foreclosures,
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a freeze on foreclosures at this time, and I know
that Haro Obedian is working on that, but we need
support to make sure that happens. We are being forced
out of our home, We're being forced out of Altadena,
and it looks like gentrification full force.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
All right, let's take these things one thing at a time. Now,
did did some of the residents that they got money
to rent for a time and that's running out?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, so a lot of residents receive additional living expenses.
Some also receive subsidies from different organizations. Those subsidies last
for one year, so that year is up and people
are now looking for housing. And remember these are people
who've lived in their homes for decades and so these
outrageous rent prices were already above what they could even access.
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It was not accessible for a lot of our survivors
to pay that amount.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So they're gonna have to pay. Let me just go
through this, so people understand they're gonna have to pay
mortgage on their burned out house, burned down house, they're
gonna have to pay rent in order to have some shelter.
So that's a double pay there. They're not getting their
benefits from the insurance company if they did get a
claim paid, they're getting dropped by their insurance company.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That's that's just that's unbelievable. And and you're telling me
now that some people are being forced to sell. And
so you have these big developers coming in and they
want to build like mega mansions.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That's what they want to do. Instead of us being
sensitive to a community that's asking for support, we need support.
These are these this is our generational wealth here in Altadena.
This is a working class community and instead of there
being even a freeze on developers coming and purchasing these properties,
they are using this as an opportunity to just snatch
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up our land. Many who don't have the funding to
hold on are feeling like the only option is to sell.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And is local politicians Catherine Barger, that's her district. There
is she is any health. Yes, you know, you got
nothing to lose now it's been a year.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, so that tells it by itself. There is another disaster.
Over sixty percent of the people survivors are looking at
being unhoused again. When you ask me supervisor bars or
being any help. She knows this. Yet people are still
in house. People are still living in their cars. We
have been waiting for her to address the four actions
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that we presented to her, and we're still waiting.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And she just doesn't respond.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We haven't gotten a response. I feel like in front
of cameras, and I know that some of her staffs
they're working hard to address some of the issues. Yet
we need our elected official to make statements and take actions.
So yeah, I will say that my tribe brides have
reached out. We did sit down with her one time
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since that films. Thank goodness that Andy Timinor created that
film that put pressure on her to sit down with
the black led organizations because it is the black and
brown community most at risk of losing everything. So I said,
down with Supervisor Barger and we we laid out for
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action plans that we needed her to respond to. Those.
That was months ago and we have not heard back
from her as of yet.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
How about permits, are people getting the permits easier?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
We really we're hearing that they're being deferred versus being
waived in Altadena.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Wait wait, wait, wait the payment Wait you still have
to pay for the permits, but it's being deferred.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, but what do you mean they're they're not waiving.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The permit fees in La County.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Seriously, they're not waving. Survivors are not receiving the support
they need, they're paying, They're still having to pay. They're
saying that it's being deferred. But just like they defer
these mortgage payments, they had the mortgage deferment and then
people got these balloon payments that with interest compound interest,
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which was causing foreclosures.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Hold what you say, so you got the people got there.
Our mortgage payments deferred, but after that year period is up,
they have to pay it all back in a balloon
payment and start paying rent.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's on top of paying rent, all right, and they
start paying the mortgage again. Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
All right, Heavenly, hang on? Can you stay on for
another segment? I can't believe the depth of this. This
is incredible. I feel like I'm hallucinating.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
All right, we're going to continue here with Heavenly Hughes.
She was featured in a documentary which you should watch
called All the Walls Came Down. It's new It's by
Andy Timeter, and it's about the Altadena fire and what
people are going through. We're now at almost a four
hundred day mark, and all levels of government have continued
to fail. This is focusing on West Altadena, a largely
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middle class black enclave where which has existed for generation
and families have passed down their homes through the generations.
And they were given no warning about the fire by
emergency services, no warning from the County Fire Department, no
warning from the County sheriffs. They were literally left to
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dine a fire. Nineteen died, thousands of homes destroyed, and
now after a year, rental assistance is over, the mortgage
deferral they got from the banks, that's over. And these
people own a balloon payment insurance in many cases won't pay,
and if they do pay, then you get dropped. People
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are being forced to sell to developers at a cheap price,
and many of them are just going to get foreclosed
and maybe go bankrupt. And we have Heavenly hughes on
because she's a community leader and can't get any level
of government to respond. Not the county supervisors, including Catherine Barger, certainly,
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not anyone in the Assembly, the state Senate governor knews
them nothing, nobody cared. Heavenly back with you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Thank you John so much for having me with you.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
And there's a hard deadline on these people when it
comes to the foreclosures here, the or the decision to
sell to a developer. Like they've got to do something
because everybody's out of money, right.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Everybody's out of money. They need to automatically activate FEMA
and cal oh yes to do directly seeing which will
help survivors not to have to pay these outrageous costs
for rentals for some type of stable housing. They also
need to put a freeze, as I said on dropping
people from insurance, that should automatically for at least three years.
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Survivors should not even be having to worry about being
dropped from insurance because you know, once you're dropped from
one of these major insurance companies, you can't be It's
too hard to get reinstated. And people have to have
insurance to get these outrageous loans to rebuild their homes,
and most of them are very much under insured or uninsured.
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We're seeing gas from five hundred thousand to a million
dollars for people to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, they got thrown into the Fair Plan, and the
Fair plan doesn't pay much. That's a state run plan
that's bankrupt anyway, now.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Exactly right, And it didn't even include additional living expenses.
A lot of them didn't know that they have to
get all these additional arms of insurance through that California
state plan, which is, in my opinion, as a joke
when it comes to recovery.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Have you heard anything from Governor Newsom's office or the
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I know they're working hard to get Lara out of
there because I feel like they should be investigated for
fraud on how they have been treating our survivors and
how you're paying premium for decades and then when you
need it, they don't want to pay out, and then
they want to drop you after they give you pennies
to on something you've been paying on for decades. I
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will have to say I think Congresswoman Judy Chwo she
has stepped in to help us with these reverse mortgages,
help us with a dressing the foreclosures. I'm not going
to say that none of the elected officials, but the
ones who can make a difference, which a Supervisor Barger, Knewsom,
and also Trump Trump's We need these three people to
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make a stand now.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Now. Trump supposedly is sending a team here to southern
California later this week, I think maybe even tomorrow. We're
supposed to have a couple of people on from his
administration hopefully on this Are are they coming to Altadena?
Are you aware? I mean Lee Zelden, who's the head
of the EPA. He's been put in charge of the
fed's response to this rebuild because you know clearly the
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local politicians are go ahead.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Right Well, John, when Trump was here before, he did
not come to Altadena. I asked that he please come
to Altadena this time and see what is happening in
our community. I will say many of us have little
faith in him make taken action on our behalf. So
we act Trump to do what's right, to send the
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billions of dollars necessary to rebuild and secure our community.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah. I do know there's a problem that they're having
with trusting the state with the money because Gavin Newsom
has blown so many billions of dollars in federal funding
and and I think that's part of the hang up
is who you're going to give it to because you
know that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Is a concern. Why don't he come Trump and his
administration can come and sit with Alta Dina organization might
rise and talked about how can we really get this
money into the hands of survivors to rebuild our homes.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So you haven't heard if lee Zelden is coming to
Alta Dina, the EPA head who's supposedly in charge of this,
you have not heard. All right now, I just want
to circle back to the permits for a second, because
I'm actually keeping a list of all this. It's just
hard to believe the people people are are Is anybody
getting permits easily or is there a long, long delay
and unreasonable delay.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I just asked one of my staff members here at
my trib Brice. She said, she put in she's been
waiting three months and is at a stand still. She said,
I don't understand what's going on. Is there a fight
in regards to the water company. Because there's issues happening
with DWP and these different water companies. We don't know
what's holding up the permits. Of course, when you read
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things from the Los Angeles County's Office Catherine Barger, they're
saying things are moving forward. I feel like the survivors
are having a different experience.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, I know, everybody just lies now, all those pressure
releases from all the politicians, they're just they're just lies.
They're nonsense, and they get the media to repeat the lie,
and everybody thinks, oh, they're all being taken care of.
They're not being taken care of, and they still have
to pay for the permits. It's just they're they're allowing
a deferred payment. But the permits are not the permit
fees are not waived.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They are not being waived it and that is as
concerning as it would happen with these more mortgage is
being deferred instead of waved.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, this is really a disaster. This is horrible, and
this is affecting thousands of people, right because you had
a bit of a seven thousand six, seven thousand homes destroyed.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, ten thousand structures completely. Because we have to also
think about our local businesses. These were businesses ran by Altadinians.
These are Altadenians that have built these businesses. So it's
ten thousand homes and businesses that was a way of
the ecosystem that was keeping us alive and it has
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been snatched away from it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We're going to have we're supposed to have the head
of the small business Association in the Trump administration on
the show tomorrow. Her name's Kelly Loffler, So I will
talk to her on Your Behalf tomorrow on the air, Okay,
and appreciate it. I am just astonished about how bad
it is, how terrible it is. Everybody in government should
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be ashamed of themselves. But I'm telling you the truth.
I think they're all sociopaths and they don't feel shame
and this doesn't bother them. So I uh, this.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Is Remember, most of us is going to run out
of insurance funds and housing coverage completely this year. In
the next couple of months, we're going to see another
catastrophe of thousands of people un housed.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, this is this is horrific. All right, we'll keep
in touch. I want you to come back on the air,
all right when when you've got more to tell us.
I want to keep track of whatever is happening here.
I can't say progress because there is no progress, but
I think we have to turn up the heat as
high and as consistently as we can. Heavenly hughes, thank
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you for coming on. All right, we'll speak again. So
all right, you're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from
KFI Am sixty. We're on every day from one until
four o'clock. After four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app. I want to highlight the five
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incompetent losers who are the LA County Supervisors. These are
five women, but hey, don't worry. It is a diverse
group of women, Catherine Barger, Hildesalis, Jenis Hahn, Lindsay Horvath,
who wants to be the next mayor of la and
Holly Mitchell. And this is the mess they created. They
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had a completely dysfunctional emergency operation system. They have a
sheriff's department and also a fire department that had such
terrible leadership that nobody ever warned West Altadena that a
terrible fire was coming through the neighborhood and nineteen people died.
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They didn't get any warnings until three in the morning.
The fire started at six the previous evening, so nine
hours and these people died in their sleep, died in
the beds, probably were in a sleep. Really, the worst
way to die, you would think, is in a fire.
Happened to nineteen of them, and it's Catherine Barger, Hildesalise,
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Lindsay Horvath, janishn Holly Mitchell. I'm sure they all slept
fine in their neighborhoods. And now in the aftermath, if
you just heard Heavenly hughes On, she's become a community
activist in West Aldadina, which is a middle class black enclave,
and really, after hearing these stories, it's hard not to
think that the lack of care for this neighborhood was
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based on their race. But the rental assistance is done
after a year, the mortgage deferral is done. Everybody now
owns those balloon payments, so they have to pay a
balloon payment for their mortgage. They have to continue paying
their mortgage every month. They have to pay rent every month.
Because everybody's homeless. The insurance won't pay many people. The
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ones that do get paid, they get dropped from insurance.
Many of them were cut off because of Ricardo Lara's
horrible deal, Gavin Newsom's horrible deal, so they were without insurance.
They were thrown into the Fair Plan. Fair plan doesn't
pay crap. A lot of people have to sell cheap
to developers who are going to build mega mansions for
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the wealthy. A lot of people are going to foreclose
and go bankrupt. And uh, nobody none of the La
County supervisors, Catherine Barger, Hilda Slise, Oh, the next mayor
of La Lindsay Horvath boy that that that's that's going
to be a ride. Janis Hahn and Holly Mitchell. These
women all sociopaths. They don't care. It doesn't matter to them.
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And and for all their nonsense and bs about worrying
about diversity and equity, apparently not not. The people in
Altadena no care for them, no matter who they are.
I've never seen such a group of horrible people. From
the city council in LA to the county supervisors, to
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the Assembly, to the state Senate right up to the governor.
This is the worst group of mility humans I have
ever seen in one place in my life. And that's
why everything is the way it is. And you want
some more on this, it's hard to believe, but we'll
go back to the Palisades for a second. Fox eleven
reporter Matthew Siedorf. There's supposed to be a rebuilding roadmap
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for the Palisades and this is all the infrastructure, and
it was supposed to come out months ago and it's
still not been released. So play Cut eleven Matthew Seedorf.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
A highly anticipated rebuilding roadmap for fire devastated Pacific Palisades
now considered weeks overdue.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Report was due back in mid November to the Mayor's office,
and now I don't know where it is.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
In June, Mayor Baths announced the city had hired ae
COM task with designing new infrastructure, stronger fire protection, and
updated evacuation routes.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
There's been a lot of work done, but.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
After months of public meetings like this, there's still no
public report.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
We're talking quite close to twenty million dollars in consulting
fees that's been paid.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
This report is crucial, critical, But more than anything, what's
critical is that we rebuild infrastructure properly.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Residents say they were told last week by city officials
the documents are now sitting in the city Attorney's office.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
What's the document doing with the city's attorney's office? I
can only question what could possibly require that much investigation.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
With ACoM also a consult for LEDAP. You know, where
can we trust anybody in this process.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
The scariest part for me is right before this report
was due, the leadership of a COM quit.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
The improved aecomm's contract.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
November, councilwoman Tracy Park said the report would be released
in about thirty days. It's now February, more than a
year since the fire, in still no report or plans
for city infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Six months too late. These you know, this information should
have been out there way earlier.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Fox eleven has repeatedly reached out to the Mayor's office,
city attorney, and AE COMM with questions about the delay.
So far, only Councilwoman Park has responded with the statement
saying Palisades residence deserve answers. I've pressed every city department
an outside partner to treat this with the urgency it demands.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Why would the head of a coom quit something's missing here?
Why is it stuck in the Attorney's office? Something's missing here?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Gino has showing you live what the lights look like
on this block and other blocks. It is dark, and
this plan includes things about power lines, water and roads,
and without it, some residents feel like the rebuild truly
can't begin here in Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
All the infrastructures and built. Excuse me, there's not even
a plan out to build it. You rebuild your home
in a place that doesn't have the water and the
power lines and the gas lines and all the stuff
that was burned or destroyed. There's not even a map
drawn up on how they would do it if they
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ever get to doing it. And Bassiet's got nothing to
stay say. Instead, we heard this kind of crap play
cut number four. This is from her State of the
Cesspool speech yesterday.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
We're not just rebuilding, we are rebuilding smarter, faster, and safer.
And today more than four hundred homes are under construction.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Stuff right there. I don't believe that number, but let's
say it was true. That's only six percent of the
burned homes. I means ninety four percent of the homes
are not under construction because the permit process is too
slow and they're still fighting to make people pay for
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the permits. The city wants to make a profit on
the fire by charging people for the permits. And they say, oh, well,
it's going to cost us, you know, hundreds of millions
of dollars if we don't charge. Not going to cost
you anything that wasn't in the budget. Nobody planned the fire,
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or did you? If nobody planned the fire, nobody was
counting on all the permit fees. Why charge them same
thing in the county? Why are they charging permit fees.
They didn't show up to put out the fire in
the county either. In Altadena, they didn't show up to
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put out the city fire. Now you're gonna be charged
for a permit Why isn't this all criminal? Why aren't
all these people in cuffs? Wow, unbelievable. And where's the
infrastructure planned for the palisades? And where's somebody going to
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help out the Altadena people? But which you have here?
First of all, you have one party rule, so you
have that arrogance. They all are bulletproof, it's all they're
They're impenetrable. They don't care how many people screaming complain,
how much media coverage there is, how many names they're called.
They don't care. They can't get penalized in any way.
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And the people in the city are all part of
a you know, a grand homeless scam. So they're walking
away with tons of money kicked back to them from
all the homeless nonprofits. You're afraid of anything. There's no
media coverage, well, small amount of media coverage. I'll give
a lot of credit to Matthew Seedorf from Fox eleven,
but not much else in this city. There should be
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there should be a half a dozen of these reports
every day in all the stations. All right, we come back.
Billie Eilish is under a lot of pressure to give
her home away to the tongue of the Indians, We're
gonna play you how she popped off mouthd off at
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the Idiotic Grammy Awards on Sunday night and then everybody
found out. You know, she was saying that you know this,
this whole this whole area was invaded, land was stolen. Well,
she's one of the thieves. She should give up her
house to the tongue of us, talk about it, we
come back. You're listening to John Cobels on demand from
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And remember, at the end of every hour, we now
post the podcast John Cobelt Show on demand hour by hour.
We post our last hour as a podcast just a
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few minutes after three, and then the three o'clock hour
we posted a little bit after four. All Right. You know,
you might you might see you might see singers or actors, performers,
and you may think they're probably pretty smart people. Look
how much they've accomplished in life, like how much money
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they have, and then one day they open their mouth
and you realize they're They're dumb as a box of rocks.
And that's what the world found out about singer Billy Eilish.
She won Song of the Year for something called Wildflower
during the Grammys, but instead of just acknowledging the award
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and crediting all the people who work with her, she
decided to go on a rant against ice and about
how all the land here is stolen. So let's let's
play this clip and and and then I'll tell you
about part two of the story. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
I can't believe this. Everyone else in this category are
so amazing. I love you so much. I feel so
honored every time I get to be in this room.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
And just stop right there, I mean just, I mean
just that's where you stop the speech, right, everyone's amazing.
I feel so honored, and blah blah blah. And you know,
a few more thank yous to your producer, you know,
to your your family and all that, and just get
off the stage. And everybody thinks you might be halfway intelligent.
But no, no, she kept going.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
As grateful as I feel. I honestly don't feel like
I need to say any thing but that no one
is illegal on stolen land. And yeah, it's just really
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hard to know what to say and what to do
right now. And I just I feel really hopeful in
this room, and I feel like we just need to
keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices
really do matter and the people matter, and hyes is
all I want to say.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Sorry, path Eyes, thank you so much having this being
cheered by all the other people who have mansions on
stolen land. In fact, as she's getting an overwhelming demand
from the rest of the world, or at least the
intelligent people, that hey, if it's stolen land, you have
a multi million dollar house in the Hollywood and there's
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an aerial photo of it in the New York Post.
And she's got writing stables and a paddock paddock a
swimming pool, so I assume she's got horses and it
is the stolen land of the Tongva tribe Tonngva. I
have been at public meetings where the preening buzzos who
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are running the meeting, the virtue signalers, actually have a
moment of silence thanking the Tonguva tribe because we're on
their land. But nobody ever says, hey, let's give the
land back to the Tongva tribe. No that that that
never comes up, and she's gotten just everybody in the
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world is ripping around the internet because she's worth fifty
three million dollars. That says of twenty twenty. That doesn't
even count the last five years of record sales. She's
got a two point three million dollar horse ranch in Glendale.
She bought that when she was seventeen. I don't know
what land, stolen land that's on And now the Tonguvas
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have a response and I had it here and I
lost it because they said they've never been contacted by her,
and she's never made an offer to give the land back.
She's on stolen land. It's a multimillion dollar house. Give
it back. Here we go. The Tonga tribe has a
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message now for Billie Eilish. Eilish has not contacted our
tribe directly regarding her property. We do value when public
figures provide visibility to the true history of this country.
But she didn't call and say, you guys have it back.
I shouldn't be living on this. It was taken from here.
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This is yours. Don't done. In fact, she's got plenty
of money donated to the tongvas. Bring in a family
at least taking a few tongue of families as guests.
Let them ride the horses, let them swim in the pool. Now, actually,
you should give up the whole thing, all your homes,
You should give up and move somewhere else where the
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land wasn't stolen. What What an absolute fool this lady is.
What a foolish, uneducated, ignorant lunatic she is. If it's stolen,
why are you living on it? And all the all
the seals in the audience screaming and cheering away. You're
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all living in mansions on stolen land too. You're all
on stolen land. You're all a bunch of phonies, hypocrite losers,
and you're stupid and ignorant. Nobody intelligent would stand up
and say, oh this is stolen land when you have
a house on the stolen land. All right, we come back.
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been talking a lot about the Palisades fire, because what
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set everything off was this atrocious statement by the LA
Fire chief Heimi Moore, who, after a reporter said, hey,
when are we going to know who watered down the
investigative report? We're going to know who did it? Why,
what was originally in there? And he said, well, you're
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not going to know. What are people going to do
with that information? Just point fingers, point blame. So let's
look forward. Let's look ahead. Actually, Heimimore said that I'm
not making it up, and then we heard Bass's nonsense
in her state of the assessmental speech. We go now
to Altadena and Altadena, they've got the same problems. In
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some ways, it's worse. You have a middle class neighborhood
in West Altadena, largely black neighborhood, people who'd owned their
homes for generations and wiped out in the fire. Because
in La County, neither the La County Sheriff's Department, nor
the fire department, nor emergency services let a lot of
these neighborhoods know that a deadly fire was coming. And
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you had nineteen people who were killed, nineteen people burned
to death, and just you know, thousands of homes just
like in the Palisades, and they can't get any help.
So we're going to talk with Heavenly Hughes. First heard
about Heavenly because she was in the film All the
Walls Came Down about the Altadena Fire, and that was
(02:13):
done by a filmmaker named Andy Timiner. It's a short documentary.
You should look it up. It's quite moving. All the
Walls Came Down. Heavenly Hughes has become a community activists.
She's in the film and spoke with her a couple
of days ago, briefly, and it's not good for a
lot of the fire victims in the Palisades. Let's get
heavenly on. How are you.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Hello. Thank you so much for having me, John Colebelt.
Appreciate the attention you're bringing to Altadena and the disaster
we are experiencing after the fire.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I know, it's almost four hundred days and it just
seems to get worse and worse. Talk to me about
the state that many of the homeowners are in. I understand.
You know, they're going to have to pay rent on
top of their mortgage, and they have insurance issues, and
they can't get permits, and they're going to get foreclosed on.
(03:06):
Talk about that whole mess.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, all of the above is happening in Altadena. We
are holding the Edison International responsible and accountable for what
we see as another disaster homelessness for seven out of
ten of us who were impacted by the fire. Is
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we are at risk right now of being unhoused. I
want to bring up that Padro Pizarro, the CEO of.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Edison International, is the parent company is SoCal Edison, and
they started the fire.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes exactly. So they're receiving he's receiving twenty one million dollars,
but refuse us to put out the money necessary to
bring some stability to all of us who have been
on housed. There's twenty two thousand people who were displaced
due to the Eden canyons. I are here in Altadena,
and yes, I'm from westside Altadena, fifty years in west
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side Altadena. And now we are being short shortened again
because insurance companies, of course are dropping survivors due to
fouling claims. So I believe that also needs to be
looked into by our representative. Our elected officials should not
be letting this happen. There should be a freeze on foreclosures,
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a freeze on foreclosures at this time, and I know
that Haro Obedian is working on that, but we need
support to make sure that happens. We are being forced
out of our home, We're being forced out of Altadena,
and it looks like gentrification full force.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
All right, let's take these things one thing at a time. Now,
did did some of the residents that they got money
to rent for a time and that's running out?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, so a lot of residents receive additional living expenses.
Some also receive subsidies from different organizations. Those subsidies last
for one year, so that year is up and people
are now looking for housing. And remember these are people
who've lived in their homes for decades and so these
outrageous rent prices were already above what they could even access.
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It was not accessible for a lot of our survivors
to pay that amount.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So they're gonna have to pay. Let me just go
through this, so people understand they're gonna have to pay
mortgage on their burned out house, burned down house, they're
gonna have to pay rent in order to have some shelter.
So that's a double pay there. They're not getting their
benefits from the insurance company if they did get a
claim paid, they're getting dropped by their insurance company.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That's that's just that's unbelievable. And and you're telling me
now that some people are being forced to sell. And
so you have these big developers coming in and they
want to build like mega mansions.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That's what they want to do. Instead of us being
sensitive to a community that's asking for support, we need support.
These are these this is our generational wealth here in Altadena.
This is a working class community and instead of there
being even a freeze on developers coming and purchasing these properties,
they are using this as an opportunity to just snatch
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up our land. Many who don't have the funding to
hold on are feeling like the only option is to sell.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And is local politicians Catherine Barger, that's her district. There
is she is any health. Yes, you know, you got
nothing to lose now it's been a year.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, so that tells it by itself. There is another disaster.
Over sixty percent of the people survivors are looking at
being unhoused again. When you ask me supervisor bars or
being any help. She knows this. Yet people are still
in house. People are still living in their cars. We
have been waiting for her to address the four actions
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that we presented to her, and we're still waiting.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And she just doesn't respond.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
We haven't gotten a response. I feel like in front
of cameras, and I know that some of her staffs
they're working hard to address some of the issues. Yet
we need our elected official to make statements and take actions.
So yeah, I will say that my tribe brides have
reached out. We did sit down with her one time
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since that films. Thank goodness that Andy Timinor created that
film that put pressure on her to sit down with
the black led organizations because it is the black and
brown community most at risk of losing everything. So I said,
down with Supervisor Barger and we we laid out for
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action plans that we needed her to respond to. Those.
That was months ago and we have not heard back
from her as of yet.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
How about permits, are people getting the permits easier?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
We really we're hearing that they're being deferred versus being
waived in Altadena.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Wait wait, wait, wait the payment Wait you still have
to pay for the permits, but it's being deferred.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, but what do you mean they're they're not waiving.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The permit fees in La County.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Seriously, they're not waving. Survivors are not receiving the support
they need, they're paying, They're still having to pay. They're
saying that it's being deferred. But just like they defer
these mortgage payments, they had the mortgage deferment and then
people got these balloon payments that with interest compound interest,
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which was causing foreclosures.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Hold what you say, so you got the people got there.
Our mortgage payments deferred, but after that year period is up,
they have to pay it all back in a balloon
payment and start paying rent.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's on top of paying rent, all right, and they
start paying the mortgage again. Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
All right, Heavenly, hang on? Can you stay on for
another segment? I can't believe the depth of this. This
is incredible. I feel like I'm hallucinating.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
All right, we're going to continue here with Heavenly Hughes.
She was featured in a documentary which you should watch
called All the Walls Came Down. It's new It's by
Andy Timeter, and it's about the Altadena fire and what
people are going through. We're now at almost a four
hundred day mark, and all levels of government have continued
to fail. This is focusing on West Altadena, a largely
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middle class black enclave where which has existed for generation
and families have passed down their homes through the generations.
And they were given no warning about the fire by
emergency services, no warning from the County Fire Department, no
warning from the County sheriffs. They were literally left to
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dine a fire. Nineteen died, thousands of homes destroyed, and
now after a year, rental assistance is over, the mortgage
deferral they got from the banks, that's over. And these
people own a balloon payment insurance in many cases won't pay,
and if they do pay, then you get dropped. People
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are being forced to sell to developers at a cheap price,
and many of them are just going to get foreclosed
and maybe go bankrupt. And we have Heavenly hughes on
because she's a community leader and can't get any level
of government to respond. Not the county supervisors, including Catherine Barger, certainly,
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not anyone in the Assembly, the state Senate governor knews
them nothing, nobody cared. Heavenly back with you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Thank you John so much for having me with you.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
And there's a hard deadline on these people when it
comes to the foreclosures here, the or the decision to
sell to a developer. Like they've got to do something
because everybody's out of money, right.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Everybody's out of money. They need to automatically activate FEMA
and cal oh yes to do directly seeing which will
help survivors not to have to pay these outrageous costs
for rentals for some type of stable housing. They also
need to put a freeze, as I said on dropping
people from insurance, that should automatically for at least three years.
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Survivors should not even be having to worry about being
dropped from insurance because you know, once you're dropped from
one of these major insurance companies, you can't be It's
too hard to get reinstated. And people have to have
insurance to get these outrageous loans to rebuild their homes,
and most of them are very much under insured or uninsured.
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We're seeing gas from five hundred thousand to a million
dollars for people to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, they got thrown into the Fair Plan, and the
Fair plan doesn't pay much. That's a state run plan
that's bankrupt anyway, now.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Exactly right, And it didn't even include additional living expenses.
A lot of them didn't know that they have to
get all these additional arms of insurance through that California
state plan, which is, in my opinion, as a joke
when it comes to recovery.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Have you heard anything from Governor Newsom's office or the
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I know they're working hard to get Lara out of
there because I feel like they should be investigated for
fraud on how they have been treating our survivors and
how you're paying premium for decades and then when you
need it, they don't want to pay out, and then
they want to drop you after they give you pennies
to on something you've been paying on for decades. I
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will have to say I think Congresswoman Judy Chwo she
has stepped in to help us with these reverse mortgages,
help us with a dressing the foreclosures. I'm not going
to say that none of the elected officials, but the
ones who can make a difference, which a Supervisor Barger, Knewsom,
and also Trump Trump's We need these three people to
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make a stand now.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Now. Trump supposedly is sending a team here to southern
California later this week, I think maybe even tomorrow. We're
supposed to have a couple of people on from his
administration hopefully on this Are are they coming to Altadena?
Are you aware? I mean Lee Zelden, who's the head
of the EPA. He's been put in charge of the
fed's response to this rebuild because you know clearly the
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local politicians are go ahead.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Right Well, John, when Trump was here before, he did
not come to Altadena. I asked that he please come
to Altadena this time and see what is happening in
our community. I will say many of us have little
faith in him make taken action on our behalf. So
we act Trump to do what's right, to send the
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billions of dollars necessary to rebuild and secure our community.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah. I do know there's a problem that they're having
with trusting the state with the money because Gavin Newsom
has blown so many billions of dollars in federal funding
and and I think that's part of the hang up
is who you're going to give it to because you
know that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Is a concern. Why don't he come Trump and his
administration can come and sit with Alta Dina organization might
rise and talked about how can we really get this
money into the hands of survivors to rebuild our homes.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So you haven't heard if lee Zelden is coming to
Alta Dina, the EPA head who's supposedly in charge of this,
you have not heard. All right now, I just want
to circle back to the permits for a second, because
I'm actually keeping a list of all this. It's just
hard to believe the people people are are Is anybody
getting permits easily or is there a long, long delay
and unreasonable delay.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I just asked one of my staff members here at
my trib Brice. She said, she put in she's been
waiting three months and is at a stand still. She said,
I don't understand what's going on. Is there a fight
in regards to the water company. Because there's issues happening
with DWP and these different water companies. We don't know
what's holding up the permits. Of course, when you read
(15:23):
things from the Los Angeles County's Office Catherine Barger, they're
saying things are moving forward. I feel like the survivors
are having a different experience.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, I know, everybody just lies now, all those pressure
releases from all the politicians, they're just they're just lies.
They're nonsense, and they get the media to repeat the lie,
and everybody thinks, oh, they're all being taken care of.
They're not being taken care of, and they still have
to pay for the permits. It's just they're they're allowing
a deferred payment. But the permits are not the permit
fees are not waived.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They are not being waived it and that is as
concerning as it would happen with these more mortgage is
being deferred instead of waved.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, this is really a disaster. This is horrible, and
this is affecting thousands of people, right because you had
a bit of a seven thousand six, seven thousand homes destroyed.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, ten thousand structures completely. Because we have to also
think about our local businesses. These were businesses ran by Altadinians.
These are Altadenians that have built these businesses. So it's
ten thousand homes and businesses that was a way of
the ecosystem that was keeping us alive and it has
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been snatched away from it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We're going to have we're supposed to have the head
of the small business Association in the Trump administration on
the show tomorrow. Her name's Kelly Loffler, So I will
talk to her on Your Behalf tomorrow on the air, Okay,
and appreciate it. I am just astonished about how bad
it is, how terrible it is. Everybody in government should
(16:56):
be ashamed of themselves. But I'm telling you the truth.
I think they're all sociopaths and they don't feel shame
and this doesn't bother them. So I uh, this.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Is Remember, most of us is going to run out
of insurance funds and housing coverage completely this year. In
the next couple of months, we're going to see another
catastrophe of thousands of people un housed.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, this is this is horrific. All right, we'll keep
in touch. I want you to come back on the air,
all right when when you've got more to tell us.
I want to keep track of whatever is happening here.
I can't say progress because there is no progress, but
I think we have to turn up the heat as
high and as consistently as we can. Heavenly hughes, thank
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you for coming on. All right, we'll speak again. So
all right, you're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from
KFI Am sixty. We're on every day from one until
four o'clock. After four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app. I want to highlight the five
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incompetent losers who are the LA County Supervisors. These are
five women, but hey, don't worry. It is a diverse
group of women, Catherine Barger, Hildesalis, Jenis Hahn, Lindsay Horvath,
who wants to be the next mayor of la and
Holly Mitchell. And this is the mess they created. They
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had a completely dysfunctional emergency operation system. They have a
sheriff's department and also a fire department that had such
terrible leadership that nobody ever warned West Altadena that a
terrible fire was coming through the neighborhood and nineteen people died.
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They didn't get any warnings until three in the morning.
The fire started at six the previous evening, so nine
hours and these people died in their sleep, died in
the beds, probably were in a sleep. Really, the worst
way to die, you would think, is in a fire.
Happened to nineteen of them, and it's Catherine Barger, Hildesalise,
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Lindsay Horvath, janishn Holly Mitchell. I'm sure they all slept
fine in their neighborhoods. And now in the aftermath, if
you just heard Heavenly hughes On, she's become a community
activist in West Aldadina, which is a middle class black enclave,
and really, after hearing these stories, it's hard not to
think that the lack of care for this neighborhood was
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based on their race. But the rental assistance is done
after a year, the mortgage deferral is done. Everybody now
owns those balloon payments, so they have to pay a
balloon payment for their mortgage. They have to continue paying
their mortgage every month. They have to pay rent every month.
Because everybody's homeless. The insurance won't pay many people. The
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ones that do get paid, they get dropped from insurance.
Many of them were cut off because of Ricardo Lara's
horrible deal, Gavin Newsom's horrible deal, so they were without insurance.
They were thrown into the Fair Plan. Fair plan doesn't
pay crap. A lot of people have to sell cheap
to developers who are going to build mega mansions for
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the wealthy. A lot of people are going to foreclose
and go bankrupt. And uh, nobody none of the La
County supervisors, Catherine Barger, Hilda Slise, Oh, the next mayor
of La Lindsay Horvath boy that that that's that's going
to be a ride. Janis Hahn and Holly Mitchell. These
women all sociopaths. They don't care. It doesn't matter to them.
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And and for all their nonsense and bs about worrying
about diversity and equity, apparently not not. The people in
Altadena no care for them, no matter who they are.
I've never seen such a group of horrible people. From
the city council in LA to the county supervisors, to
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the Assembly, to the state Senate right up to the governor.
This is the worst group of mility humans I have
ever seen in one place in my life. And that's
why everything is the way it is. And you want
some more on this, it's hard to believe, but we'll
go back to the Palisades for a second. Fox eleven
reporter Matthew Siedorf. There's supposed to be a rebuilding roadmap
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for the Palisades and this is all the infrastructure, and
it was supposed to come out months ago and it's
still not been released. So play Cut eleven Matthew Seedorf.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
A highly anticipated rebuilding roadmap for fire devastated Pacific Palisades
now considered weeks overdue.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Report was due back in mid November to the Mayor's office,
and now I don't know where it is.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
In June, Mayor Baths announced the city had hired ae
COM task with designing new infrastructure, stronger fire protection, and
updated evacuation routes.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
There's been a lot of work done, but.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
After months of public meetings like this, there's still no
public report.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
We're talking quite close to twenty million dollars in consulting
fees that's been paid.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
This report is crucial, critical, But more than anything, what's
critical is that we rebuild infrastructure properly.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Residents say they were told last week by city officials
the documents are now sitting in the city Attorney's office.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
What's the document doing with the city's attorney's office? I
can only question what could possibly require that much investigation.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
With ACoM also a consult for LEDAP. You know, where
can we trust anybody in this process.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
The scariest part for me is right before this report
was due, the leadership of a COM quit.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
The improved aecomm's contract.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
November, councilwoman Tracy Park said the report would be released
in about thirty days. It's now February, more than a
year since the fire, in still no report or plans
for city infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Six months too late. These you know, this information should
have been out there way earlier.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Fox eleven has repeatedly reached out to the Mayor's office,
city attorney, and AE COMM with questions about the delay.
So far, only Councilwoman Park has responded with the statement
saying Palisades residence deserve answers. I've pressed every city department
an outside partner to treat this with the urgency it demands.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Why would the head of a coom quit something's missing here?
Why is it stuck in the Attorney's office? Something's missing here?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Gino has showing you live what the lights look like
on this block and other blocks. It is dark, and
this plan includes things about power lines, water and roads,
and without it, some residents feel like the rebuild truly
can't begin here in Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
All the infrastructures and built. Excuse me, there's not even
a plan out to build it. You rebuild your home
in a place that doesn't have the water and the
power lines and the gas lines and all the stuff
that was burned or destroyed. There's not even a map
drawn up on how they would do it if they
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ever get to doing it. And Bassiet's got nothing to
stay say. Instead, we heard this kind of crap play
cut number four. This is from her State of the
Cesspool speech yesterday.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
We're not just rebuilding, we are rebuilding smarter, faster, and safer.
And today more than four hundred homes are under construction.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Stuff right there. I don't believe that number, but let's
say it was true. That's only six percent of the
burned homes. I means ninety four percent of the homes
are not under construction because the permit process is too
slow and they're still fighting to make people pay for
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the permits. The city wants to make a profit on
the fire by charging people for the permits. And they say, oh, well,
it's going to cost us, you know, hundreds of millions
of dollars if we don't charge. Not going to cost
you anything that wasn't in the budget. Nobody planned the fire,
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or did you? If nobody planned the fire, nobody was
counting on all the permit fees. Why charge them same
thing in the county? Why are they charging permit fees.
They didn't show up to put out the fire in
the county either. In Altadena, they didn't show up to
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put out the city fire. Now you're gonna be charged
for a permit Why isn't this all criminal? Why aren't
all these people in cuffs? Wow, unbelievable. And where's the
infrastructure planned for the palisades? And where's somebody going to
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help out the Altadena people? But which you have here?
First of all, you have one party rule, so you
have that arrogance. They all are bulletproof, it's all they're
They're impenetrable. They don't care how many people screaming complain,
how much media coverage there is, how many names they're called.
They don't care. They can't get penalized in any way.
(26:00):
And the people in the city are all part of
a you know, a grand homeless scam. So they're walking
away with tons of money kicked back to them from
all the homeless nonprofits. You're afraid of anything. There's no
media coverage, well, small amount of media coverage. I'll give
a lot of credit to Matthew Seedorf from Fox eleven,
but not much else in this city. There should be
(26:20):
there should be a half a dozen of these reports
every day in all the stations. All right, we come back.
Billie Eilish is under a lot of pressure to give
her home away to the tongue of the Indians, We're
gonna play you how she popped off mouthd off at
(26:41):
the Idiotic Grammy Awards on Sunday night and then everybody
found out. You know, she was saying that you know this,
this whole this whole area was invaded, land was stolen. Well,
she's one of the thieves. She should give up her
house to the tongue of us, talk about it, we
come back. You're listening to John Cobels on demand from
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few minutes after three, and then the three o'clock hour
we posted a little bit after four. All Right. You know,
you might you might see you might see singers or actors, performers,
and you may think they're probably pretty smart people. Look
how much they've accomplished in life, like how much money
(27:46):
they have, and then one day they open their mouth
and you realize they're They're dumb as a box of rocks.
And that's what the world found out about singer Billy Eilish.
She won Song of the Year for something called Wildflower
during the Grammys, but instead of just acknowledging the award
(28:09):
and crediting all the people who work with her, she
decided to go on a rant against ice and about
how all the land here is stolen. So let's let's
play this clip and and and then I'll tell you
about part two of the story. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
I can't believe this. Everyone else in this category are
so amazing. I love you so much. I feel so
honored every time I get to be in this room.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
And just stop right there, I mean just, I mean
just that's where you stop the speech, right, everyone's amazing.
I feel so honored, and blah blah blah. And you know,
a few more thank yous to your producer, you know,
to your your family and all that, and just get
off the stage. And everybody thinks you might be halfway intelligent.
But no, no, she kept going.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
As grateful as I feel. I honestly don't feel like
I need to say any thing but that no one
is illegal on stolen land. And yeah, it's just really
(29:21):
hard to know what to say and what to do
right now. And I just I feel really hopeful in
this room, and I feel like we just need to
keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices
really do matter and the people matter, and hyes is
all I want to say.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Sorry, path Eyes, thank you so much having this being
cheered by all the other people who have mansions on
stolen land. In fact, as she's getting an overwhelming demand
from the rest of the world, or at least the
intelligent people, that hey, if it's stolen land, you have
a multi million dollar house in the Hollywood and there's
(30:01):
an aerial photo of it in the New York Post.
And she's got writing stables and a paddock paddock a
swimming pool, so I assume she's got horses and it
is the stolen land of the Tongva tribe Tonngva. I
have been at public meetings where the preening buzzos who
(30:25):
are running the meeting, the virtue signalers, actually have a
moment of silence thanking the Tonguva tribe because we're on
their land. But nobody ever says, hey, let's give the
land back to the Tongva tribe. No that that that
never comes up, and she's gotten just everybody in the
(30:49):
world is ripping around the internet because she's worth fifty
three million dollars. That says of twenty twenty. That doesn't
even count the last five years of record sales. She's
got a two point three million dollar horse ranch in Glendale.
She bought that when she was seventeen. I don't know
what land, stolen land that's on And now the Tonguvas
(31:13):
have a response and I had it here and I
lost it because they said they've never been contacted by her,
and she's never made an offer to give the land back.
She's on stolen land. It's a multimillion dollar house. Give
it back. Here we go. The Tonga tribe has a
(31:36):
message now for Billie Eilish. Eilish has not contacted our
tribe directly regarding her property. We do value when public
figures provide visibility to the true history of this country.
But she didn't call and say, you guys have it back.
I shouldn't be living on this. It was taken from here.
(32:01):
This is yours. Don't done. In fact, she's got plenty
of money donated to the tongvas. Bring in a family
at least taking a few tongue of families as guests.
Let them ride the horses, let them swim in the pool. Now, actually,
you should give up the whole thing, all your homes,
You should give up and move somewhere else where the
(32:22):
land wasn't stolen. What What an absolute fool this lady is.
What a foolish, uneducated, ignorant lunatic she is. If it's stolen,
why are you living on it? And all the all
the seals in the audience screaming and cheering away. You're
(32:44):
all living in mansions on stolen land too. You're all
on stolen land. You're all a bunch of phonies, hypocrite losers,
and you're stupid and ignorant. Nobody intelligent would stand up
and say, oh this is stolen land when you have
a house on the stolen land. All right, we come back.
(33:06):
Oh jeez, we're going to talk with We're going to
talk with John Manley. It looks like the doctor James Heaps,
he's the pervert gynecologist at UCLA. He's getting another trial. Yeah,
remark Live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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