December 25, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (12/25) - Best Of The John Kobylt Show. Update on the Ocean Ave. mental health facility scandal. Ford is losing money on EVs. David Goldblum comes on the show to talk about the documentary he directed called "Big Rock Burning". Preview of the interview with John Alle.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One to four o'clock we're I Live every day on
KFI and on the iHeart app streaming, and then after
four o'clock we transform into a podcast. John Cobbet Show
on demand. You could hear what you missed This situation
in Santa Monica. Ocean Avenue, which I'm very familiar with.
It overlooks the beach and the ocean. It's right across
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the street from what was a beautiful, beautiful park called
Palastine Park. And along Ocean Avenue there's residential homes. Eventually
you get into hotels and restaurants, but on the northern
end it's residential homes. And in that area they were
going to place not one, but two buildings that we're
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going to house severely mentally ill people, severely mentally ill
homeless people. We're going to be moved in. I think
about fifty of them between the two buildings. Imagine that.
Imagine you live on those blocks or around the corner,
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because all the side streets leading to Ocean Avenue and
the Ocean are mostly residential. Yeah, all residential. There's no
there's no commerce at all. And suddenly you got fifty
mentally ill homeless patients wandering around because, as the former
mayor Lennon ne Grete said, it's not a locked facility,
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it's not a hospital. If they want to wander off
for lunch, if they want to go to the park,
they want to leave the program, nobody's forcing them to stay.
They can just leave for the day and meander in
the neighborhood and have a psychic have a psychosis break outside.
These are These are like forty fifty people who can
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all have psychotic breaks from reality at any given moment,
and they'd be wandering in this residential nameghborhood, across from
the nice park, across from the beach in the ocean.
Who did this? Well, we've gone through the whole mechanism.
The thing is, nobody told, you know. It was the city,
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it was the county, it was Saint Joseph's Hospital, it
was you know, some nonprofit guy, and I'm going to
tell you about him in a second. But but nobody
nobody told the residents. Residents found out, they completely freaked out,
and all the politicians ran for cover. They knew what
was going on. Now here's a central character in this
that we have not spoken about yet, Leo, who's still Nickoff,
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who's still Nickoff? P U s t I l n
I ko V Pusta Milkoff. I'm going to call him leoh.
Leo has talked with the Westside Current dot com and
admitted that they made mistakes in rolling out this project,
and he's blaming the bureaucracy that kept information reaching the public.
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How about this, Leo, It's not about the delay in information.
It's about this. This idea was even conceived, even considered,
let alone well on the way to implementation without anyone's knowledge.
How about this? No mental health facilities in residential neighborhoods,
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No severely mentally I homeless people in residential neighborhoods, and
they're not even locked down. How about no? Never, don't
even think about it. You're out of your mind. Who
the hell are you now? That's expensive real estate. You're
right near the ocean. That's millions of dollars in real estate.
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And you get fifty severely mentally ill patients allowed to
run out on the loose. No, no, no, never, And
that's got to be the uh yes, NIMBYs. Not in
my backyard, not in my front yard, not on my block,
not within ten miles of me out out and somebody's
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got to get that through the thick empties. Well can
they be thick and empty at the same time. Yeah,
their skulls are made a cement block, and inside the
cement block is dead air. And I'm talking about the
city council. I'm talking about this County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
She is a.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Disaster and she claims she was blindsided by this, that
the Department of Mental Health didn't inform her office about
the project until the funding had been secured. Oh stop it.
How many people know about a project where a guy
comes in and he goes, you know, I'm going to
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run two buildings, fifty mental patients, fifty severely ill mental patients,
and you know I'm taking gus, I'm taking tax money here. Yeah,
a lot of people knew about it, and they also
knew the best thing is to try to get this
jammed in, move the people into these two buildings. It
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would make it more difficult to get rid of them.
You know, ask ask for forgiveness, that permission. It's the
oldest game that every little kid learns. That's what they
were doing. And Leo, the developer, he said he understands
why they objected. The location became public about a month
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before it's launch. He said, he and his partners we're
talking with the city for a six month period. He said,
at any point officials had the opportunity to notify the public.
So that nobody in Santa Monica City government ever told
the public. The city council, no, whoever runs all these
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idiotic departments or these commissions that allow this sort of thing,
nobody knew, or no they knew. Nobody told. Nobody told
because they knew every single resident would hate this, hate it.
This stuff should be banned forever from residential neighborhoods and
any variation on it. No drug rehab centers, no alcohol centers,
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no homeless shelters, temporary homeless shelters, permit and homeless shelter shelters,
mental health, drug treatment, all of it, none of it
in residential neighborhoods. Not for five minutes. No, this guy,
Leo was stilling, the cough has owned and operated twenty
one buildings for the last year under the skid Row
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Housing Trust. So this guy is This guy's running some
kind of homeless empire. And he thought using the ocean
Avenue properties was a good idea because they need mental
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health and addiction services. Yeah, but not in a residential area,
he says on skid Row. There's a shortage of it.
And he said it would have been nice to open
the building in downtown, but there's already a lot of
those services in that area. It makes it difficult to
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get projects funded. I don't know what that means. Why
would it get Why because there's so many other homeless
mental health service buildings there? Why would it be hard
to get it funded? And bottom line is, who gives
a crap about your problems? Then go find another remote
area or some industrial area, or the desert or somewhere
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in the Angeles mountains, or maybe put them all on
a boat and toll them out to see and do
the treatment there. Always only you know, we really can't
do this, and we really can't go there, and we've
got all Nobody cares about your problems you brought. You
wanted to bring fifty mental patients to my neighborhood. How
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fast can I kick you in the ass and get
you out of town? Nobody? This is the plan. Of course,
the Santa Monica City Council and the Santa Monic bureaucrats
are all for this because they believe that people who
have jobs and own homes are to be punished for
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their success, and they have to take in their fair
share of drug addicts and mental patients and homeless people.
That it should be spread equally throughout the districts. This
idea has been around for years in LA and in
La County. It's part of the progressive ideology that we
all have to share. It's like, no, we don't have
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to share in this. No, I don't want this. No,
there should be designated areas in the city where you
take care of it. Let all the mental patients live together
on the same block and they can all scream and
howl at the moon and entertain each other. Not here,
not ever, fifty of them, and they're not locked in.
They're not locked in, so they could wander into the
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restaurants while you're trying to have lunch. They could bother
your kids while you're sitting in the park on a blanket,
playing with your two year olds, while you're walking your dog.
You can have fifty of these people running around. Lindsey Horvath,
she got to be the first one put in one
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of these mental health institutions, along with almost everybody on
the Santa Monica City Council and the county supervisors, all
of them. This is really avirid behavior. All right, more
coming up.
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John Cobelt's Show. All Right, you know what to do,
Just go do it and then I can. I'll stop
annoying you with all these announcements. Well, one of the
biggest busts in business history is trying to force electric
vehicles on the public who didn't want them. And obviously
there was a lot of pressure from the federal government,
and Ford stupidly went along. One thing I didn't understand
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is why four GM and the rest of them didn't
fight back furiously. That's what bribes are for. That's what
lobbyists are for. But instead all the all the auto
companies bent over, and boy, they took it hard. They
had lost so much money. And this week the Ford
Motor Company announced their latest write down. They're writing off
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nineteen and a half billion dollars in losses. Almost all
of it is the electrical vehicle business. Nineteen and a
half billion. You think that's bad. Yeah, how much money
they've lost since twenty twenty two, thirty five billion dollars?
Thirty five billion. Do you know how much income Ford
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has had in that time? Eleven billion? They lost three
times as much money as they made from selling everything else.
That's just overwhelming. And if you remember, Biden pushed this hard.
Newsom pushed this hard. Congress issued a seventy five hundred
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dollars tax credit per vehicle, and that would phase out
after a manufacturer sold two hundred thousand electric cars. Obama
what had this goal a million evs on US roads
by twenty fifteen. The actual number is under four hundred thousand.
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The public didn't like them, and we know why. You
don't get much range. It takes too long to charge,
and they're very expensive. The whole thing was just too
much of a hassle unless you were really wealthy and
you bought a Tesla. Tesla owners seemed to be happy
until Musk got aligned with Donald Trump. Then suddenly Tesla
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owners decided the car didn't run all that well. But
there isn't a replacement for Tesla. None of the other
car companies came up with anything close, certainly not in
an affordable range. And so Ford announced that they're getting
rid of the f one point fifty Lightning that was
their election pickup truck, and they introduced that on the
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market and with a lot of fanfare. It got a
lot of publicity and excitement, and it turned out that
it was a bust because if you have a pickup truck,
you like to carry a lot of things. You like
to pull stuff, right, Maybe you want to pull a boat,
Maybe you want to fill the truck bed with all
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kinds of equipment. It turned out that if you have
a lot of stuff in the truck bed, or if
you're pulling something heavy, your electricity falls dramatically. You lose
juice rapidly, so you can't go very far. I guess
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nobody thought of this when they put them out on
the market because they were really expensive, so it didn't
take long, and you know, everybody communicates now immediately they
start posting things on various websites and bulletin boards, and
quickly the whole world realized that getting an ev an
EV pickup truck was going to be a huge hassle
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and a half and the car wouldn't go very far.
So now what they're going to do is, well, let
me tell you what the damage, right, thirty five billion dollars.
They lost thirteen billion dollars on its business just since
twenty twenty three. Add that another nineteen billion dollars with
this write off. They also they also now are getting
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rid of They're closing their Kentucky EV battery factory. They're
going to lay off thousands of people. They're going to
turn it eventually into a battery storage business for customers
utilities and wind and solar power developers who take those
energy sources converted into battery, and then there's this storage
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area that Ford is going to run. They're also massive
data centers that train art official intelligence that is also
going to require a lot of batteries. So they're going
to repurpose the battery factory but the idea of electric vehicles. Oh,
here's another reason didn't happen. We didn't have an electrical grid,
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especially in California. And this is what really flummocks me.
This was one of these subjects the last few years.
I thought I was insane. I thought there was something
wrong with me. How can you force tens of millions
of people to plug in an electric vehicle every day
when we're always running on the edge of running out
of power, especially in the summertime. I remember we did
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a few years ago, had a really hot summer, and
because stupid Newsome closed all these gas plants and he
was going to close a nuclear plant, we almost had blackouts. Well,
if you add millions and millions of electrical cars, well
then what's going to happen. Oh that's when they said,
well you only got you only can plug them in
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between ten at night and four and in the morning.
It's all right, Okay, I can see where this is going.
We're going to have our lives now twenty four hour controlled.
We can't charge the car when we want. It means
we can't drive when we want. It means our freedoms
are constricted. We can't go as far as we want.
You know, you can't buy a four f one fifty
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lightning and want to load it up with stuff and
pull a boat behind you if the thing's going to
peter out after fifty miles. And this always was about control,
and the public looked at it. I mean a lot
of people considered an EV but at those prices, with
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that range, with the charging stations, there were no charging stations.
Not only you didn't have an electric grid, you didn't
you had very few charging stations. But it was like
a weird religion that they were forcing you to join,
like you had to join or we're going to destroy
your life. I mean, I think this year, coming year
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twenty twenty six, thirty five percent of the cars were
supposed to be electric vehicle sales here in California. Well,
they weren't going to come anywhere near that. I never
really understood if there's a penalty for that, and then
what they were going to do is drive up the
That's why the gasoline is is four to fifty a gallon,
and that's why it may be headed to six eight
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ten dollars a gallon with all the oil production problems
we have in the state. They were going to force
everybody into electric vehicles. That was going to be their
backdoor mandate in case we weren't buying thirty five percent evs,
we weren't meeting the goals. They were going to force
us all because we'd end up with ten dollars gas.
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So now now now Ford is backing way off. They
think hybrids eventually are going to sell very well. They
already are, and that would have been the logical way
to go. People seem to like hybrids, it makes more sense.
But the fanatics, the environmental fanatics and Newsom, we're demanding
all or nothing. There was no mid range compromise like EVS.
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So this this came from the Obama administration, the Biden administration,
the Newsom administration. By twenty thirty two, around the whole nation,
two thirds of new cars across the country would have
to be electric, even though nobody wanted them. But we
dodged that, dodged it not with any protests, We dodged
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it simply by not buying them. I always wandered in
the back of my mind, It's like, well, what if
people don't buy what kind of a standoff is going
to occur? If people refuse to show up to the
dealership and purchase one of these one of these losers. Okay,
we've got more coming up on the John Cobelt Show.
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After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand, that's the podcast,
and listen to what you missed. I want to get
right to David Goldbloom here. He is director of a
really a powerful emotional documentary called Big Rock Burning, and
it's about people who live in Malibu's Big Rock community
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as they try to come back after the fire that
wiped out many of the homes there. Let's get to
David Goldbloom.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
On Thanks for having me, John.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I'm really glad to have you, and I'm a little
fired up because we just found out, you know, the
new details about the Palisades fire. What got you in?
What motivated you to do this documentary?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Oh? Well, I guess a little bit of craziness.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
My home burned down and the fires and that night
my community, very tight knit community in Big Rock and Malibu.
We formed a WhatsApp group and people that's how we
were getting information out to each other. That's how we
were finding out that no help came. There was a
stand down order, no firefighters, no water, and the reservoirs
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were kind of became a news network overnight, and everybody
just kept saying, we have to get our story out there.
How come not one firefighter came to our mountain the
entire night of the fires. And I kept hearing that
for a couple of nights, and the more people kept saying,
we got to get our story out there. Eventually I
was just like, Okay, if we want to tell this story,
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I'll jump in the ring and I'll shepherd it. And
I think over forty residents who had lost their homes
reached out to me and said, you know, we're on board,
we'll do whatever we kind of help you.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And where is Big Rock in Malibu? Exactly? So people
not familiar can place.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So if you think about the Palisades fire, it went
down the pch and really the first mountain enclave leading
towards Malibu was Big Rock once you pass Pacific Palisades,
So it's kind of at the beginning of Malibu and
what fired.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Your station covers that community.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think La County.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, La County. So that's who you were waiting on
to come and nobody did.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Yeah, there were apparently there was a stand down order
and the standout or events. Yeah, one of the residents
heard it on a dispatch.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's really common in fires, right, a standout rather than
send more guys, send less guys, in fact, don't send anybody.
Stay home.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well, I guess let it burn with the mantra.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, you know what what it It really was, wasn't it.
It really was the philosophy. After the first a couple
of hours, it's like, ah, nothing we could do. Let
it go.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, And it wasn't just fire.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
To somebody in the film, she called nine one one
and they kind of just said, sorry, we can't help you.
And she was stranded on a mountain, like on a boulder, yeah,
with fire all in common, like all around her, and
just there was every man for themself.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
How do you feel like like today? I don't know
if you heard. We've got another round of stories from
the attorneys representing the Palisades owners, and it looks like
the state put a stop to the La Fire Department
cleaning up the January first fire, which is where the
rekindling happened because they wanted us to protect the Milk
Fitch plan. So no bulldozers, no fire lines, no tamping
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down the hospots. When you hear these things, and there's
been a lot of these stories, how do you feel, like,
what does that do to your psyche?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
It's really sad and it's really disappointing. And I was
on an La Times Studio podcast the other day and
I said, it makes.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You kind of not want to be here anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
You know the fact that nobody has stepped up, nobody's
taken accountability, nobody's said we messed up. And what I
wanted to do with our film is to show the
human story is of loss and grief and resilience too,
and kind of show these were a real peace people
who lost everything.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I felt and I didn't know anybody in your film.
I felt so sad for everybody. I few sad. I
felt angry, and it's like, this shouldn't happen to these people.
These are regular people just living their lives.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, it's what kind of reaction have you gotten to
the film? And where's it playing? And how can people
find it?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's been incredible because I think this whole issue has
become somewhat of a political hotbed, and I tried to
I tried to focus on the human stories.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yes, we call out a lot of people for what
they did.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Or didn't do, but it seems to have been well
received all over the map, maybe except for Caaren Bath.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But everybody's really appreciative.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
And we premiered at Malibu City Hall to a sold
out crowd in August, and I think almost everybody there
had lost their homes and some fire.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And then we've been around the country.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
We were at SCAD, Savannah, Mill Valley, Newport, Santa Fe.
And now we're coming to PBS on the anniversary of
the fire, so it'll be broadcast into twenty million homes
across California.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
All right, So you've done a lot of film festivals
and now PBS and it's going to be on January seventh.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yep, the anniversary of the fires.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh that's great. So it's going to be seeing all
over the country. I mean, it's impossible not to get
emotionally affected while you're watching it. I actually had to
stop it a couple of times because you know, I'm
covering this stuff every day, and you know, nothing bad
happened to me. That's why I cannot imagine what it
must feel like to suffer the trauma. And then you
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get reminded of it every day or every week. You know,
as more and more of these stories come out, it's
got to be just unbelievable. But you know, there was
a sense of optimism in some of the people also
with the sadness. Yea, it was fascinating to see like
all those human, human emotions playing out at once in
the aftermath.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, there's there's one character in the film. He stayed
behind and he fought with a garden hose, and that
was the kind of team of that night. The people
who stayed behind were fighting with garden hoses and pool
water and bathtub water. But his home survived the night
of the fires. And then the next morning he went
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around and he went from home to home. That's how
I found out my home had burned down. He took
everybody's address in the WhatsApp group, and he was driving
around telling people whether their housemade it or not, because
we were all kind of wanting this sense of closure.
And then he got back to his home and his
home was burning and.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, that's one of.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
The toughest parts of the film. Yeah, because he's just
standing there looking out over where the house used to
be and he had saved it, and then he tried
to help everybody else out and that's when the fire
came back and got him. It's just, yeah, that is
some story you mentioned in passing that Karen Bass didn't
necessarily have a good reaction. Has she seen or she
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heard about the movie? I mean, what.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You know, I when I we started three days after
the fire, and I had reached out to everybody, I
was trying to get everybody to just kind of have
a voice, and I reached out to Karen's office and
really was persistent, really trying to get her to, you know,
be on camera have an interview, and they kept just
saying she's done a lot for the community in Malibu already,
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and she has.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
A busy schedule. And I was kind of like, I'll
come anywhere.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I don't know where she's been in Malibu. I haven't
seen her, but she was not I don't think she
wanted to be part of this.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, no, Well, the movie is fantastic. I'm glad that
it's going to be on PBS and the whole nation
can see it, and you've had great reaction at the
film festivals. And it's thirty minutes, but it's some of
the most powerful thirty minutes you're ever going to experience.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, so good luck with it, and as time goes on,
anything you need from us to publicize it further or
in any way try to make life better for the
people there in Malibu, just let us know.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Okay, thank you, that's a good time to your show.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Thank you very much, David Goldblum. And again PBS. On
January seventh, the anniversary of the fire, you get to
see his documentary. Okay, We've got more coming up on
the John coblt Show.
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Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media. We're
going to play you audio from a video that John
Alley is posted. John's going to be with us right
after two o'clock news. He's a businessman who's been fighting
all the destructive sick policies that the Karen Bass government
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and the Santa Monica government have insisted upon by allowing
mental patients and drug addicts to run wild on the streets,
and there's many other crimes that flow from that policy.
Here in this audio, you're going to hear John Ally,
an LAPD officer, speaking to a homeless couple. Now, this
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homeless couple was trafficked across state borders. There's human trafficking
going on, and there's a drug rehab facility in LA
that flew them to LA and they're helped out by
a well known insurance company and they were kicked out
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eventually from the rehab because the payments dried up, I
guess from the insurance company. They were kicked out and
dropped off at in LA County. And uh, listen, listen
to this conversation.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Where is the last time you saw your kids?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So you say it again one more time. It's gonna
be how tough it is stated listening to be extremely tough.
And like I said, if it was easy, everyone else
would be doing well. But I know there's something in
you guys that you guys can cut through because you.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Have each other as well.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Okay, it's gonna take a whold. This is the comment
for here.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
All Right, someone's gonna be hurting more than another in
another day.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
You know what I'm talking about when you have to
overcome what brought you down here.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
In the first place, right And I wish you could
see you guys around there.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
He's got because we're gonna send it a great sure,
yea a picture, browse and dates, good take seats stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Stare their family, your family you can trust absolutely, Okay tomorrow, yes, tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Well, I'm glad that we bring them for your police officers.
But you know what, it's I'll come the job. What
we've got here are these these rehab facilities, and they're
funded with your tax money, and and they're flying people
in from out of state. And then the rehab facilities
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can get insurance money. And then eventually the insurance money
runs out, and this couple is left out of the street.
They're they're kicked out of the rehab facility. There's nobody
left to pay it, so they're not off the drugs.
But everybody else has made the money. This rehab facility
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has gotten the money from the insurance company. They get
funded by the government. It is an incredible racket. And
that's why the homeless situation ever gets any better. Because
people in the homeless industry keep bringing in more and
more vagrants from the outside, from other states. So when
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you hear that idiot Karen Bass talk about Inside Safe
taking people off the streets, the numbers aren't going down,
and they're not going down because there's replacements, and eventually
the tax money runs out for Inside Safe. It already has,
so they're going to have to let people go out
of the motels that they purchased. The money eventually runs out,
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but they make as much as they can for as
long as they can. Most of the public doesn't understand.
The whole thing is a scam. It's a racket. They
take tax money, they take insurance money, they take donations
from well intentioned progressive people. In the meantime, thousands of
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die in the streets, but thousands of new ones come in.
Karen Bass intentionally lies about the homeless numbers. When you
look at her report, the county report, and then compare
it to what the RAND Corporation did an independent count
it's not even close. Some of the districts RAND discovered
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the county undercounted. Karen Bass undercounted by up to forty percent.
So the whole thing is a lie. The whole thing
is a racket and a scam. They make numbers up up.
There's a story out of Washington d C today. You know,
the police chief of Washington d C just left. Turned
out she was lying about the number of crimes. They
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were making up numbers so they could say, well, we
don't need any help from the federal government. Crime numbers
are already down. Well, they were fake crime numbers. LAPD
has done this with fake crime numbers that's been reported
on here. We have fake homeless count numbers. They're getting
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wealthy people running these organizations. They're making money. We're gonna
talk more with John Alley about this and about his
fight in MacArthur Park as well. Okay, we've got more
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on demand. You could hear what you missed This situation
in Santa Monica. Ocean Avenue, which I'm very familiar with.
It overlooks the beach and the ocean. It's right across
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the street from what was a beautiful, beautiful park called
Palastine Park. And along Ocean Avenue there's residential homes. Eventually
you get into hotels and restaurants, but on the northern
end it's residential homes. And in that area they were
going to place not one, but two buildings that we're
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going to house severely mentally ill people, severely mentally ill
homeless people. We're going to be moved in. I think
about fifty of them between the two buildings. Imagine that.
Imagine you live on those blocks or around the corner,
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because all the side streets leading to Ocean Avenue and
the Ocean are mostly residential. Yeah, all residential. There's no
there's no commerce at all. And suddenly you got fifty
mentally ill homeless patients wandering around because, as the former
mayor Lennon ne Grete said, it's not a locked facility,
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it's not a hospital. If they want to wander off
for lunch, if they want to go to the park,
they want to leave the program, nobody's forcing them to stay.
They can just leave for the day and meander in
the neighborhood and have a psychic have a psychosis break outside.
These are These are like forty fifty people who can
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all have psychotic breaks from reality at any given moment,
and they'd be wandering in this residential nameghborhood, across from
the nice park, across from the beach in the ocean.
Who did this? Well, we've gone through the whole mechanism.
The thing is, nobody told, you know. It was the city,
(02:13):
it was the county, it was Saint Joseph's Hospital, it
was you know, some nonprofit guy, and I'm going to
tell you about him in a second. But but nobody
nobody told the residents. Residents found out, they completely freaked out,
and all the politicians ran for cover. They knew what
was going on. Now here's a central character in this
that we have not spoken about yet, Leo, who's still Nickoff,
(02:39):
who's still Nickoff? P U s t I l n
I ko V Pusta Milkoff. I'm going to call him leoh.
Leo has talked with the Westside Current dot com and
admitted that they made mistakes in rolling out this project,
and he's blaming the bureaucracy that kept information reaching the public.
(03:02):
How about this, Leo, It's not about the delay in information.
It's about this. This idea was even conceived, even considered,
let alone well on the way to implementation without anyone's knowledge.
How about this? No mental health facilities in residential neighborhoods,
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No severely mentally I homeless people in residential neighborhoods, and
they're not even locked down. How about no? Never, don't
even think about it. You're out of your mind. Who
the hell are you now? That's expensive real estate. You're
right near the ocean. That's millions of dollars in real estate.
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And you get fifty severely mentally ill patients allowed to
run out on the loose. No, no, no, never, And
that's got to be the uh yes, NIMBYs. Not in
my backyard, not in my front yard, not on my block,
not within ten miles of me out out and somebody's
(04:09):
got to get that through the thick empties. Well can
they be thick and empty at the same time. Yeah,
their skulls are made a cement block, and inside the
cement block is dead air. And I'm talking about the
city council. I'm talking about this County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
She is a.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Disaster and she claims she was blindsided by this, that
the Department of Mental Health didn't inform her office about
the project until the funding had been secured. Oh stop it.
How many people know about a project where a guy
comes in and he goes, you know, I'm going to
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run two buildings, fifty mental patients, fifty severely ill mental patients,
and you know I'm taking gus, I'm taking tax money here. Yeah,
a lot of people knew about it, and they also
knew the best thing is to try to get this
jammed in, move the people into these two buildings. It
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would make it more difficult to get rid of them.
You know, ask ask for forgiveness, that permission. It's the
oldest game that every little kid learns. That's what they
were doing. And Leo, the developer, he said he understands
why they objected. The location became public about a month
(05:33):
before it's launch. He said, he and his partners we're
talking with the city for a six month period. He said,
at any point officials had the opportunity to notify the public.
So that nobody in Santa Monica City government ever told
the public. The city council, no, whoever runs all these
(05:58):
idiotic departments or these commissions that allow this sort of thing,
nobody knew, or no they knew. Nobody told. Nobody told
because they knew every single resident would hate this, hate it.
This stuff should be banned forever from residential neighborhoods and
any variation on it. No drug rehab centers, no alcohol centers,
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no homeless shelters, temporary homeless shelters, permit and homeless shelter shelters,
mental health, drug treatment, all of it, none of it
in residential neighborhoods. Not for five minutes. No, this guy,
Leo was stilling, the cough has owned and operated twenty
one buildings for the last year under the skid Row
(06:48):
Housing Trust. So this guy is This guy's running some
kind of homeless empire. And he thought using the ocean
Avenue properties was a good idea because they need mental
(07:08):
health and addiction services. Yeah, but not in a residential area,
he says on skid Row. There's a shortage of it.
And he said it would have been nice to open
the building in downtown, but there's already a lot of
those services in that area. It makes it difficult to
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get projects funded. I don't know what that means. Why
would it get Why because there's so many other homeless
mental health service buildings there? Why would it be hard
to get it funded? And bottom line is, who gives
a crap about your problems? Then go find another remote
area or some industrial area, or the desert or somewhere
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in the Angeles mountains, or maybe put them all on
a boat and toll them out to see and do
the treatment there. Always only you know, we really can't
do this, and we really can't go there, and we've
got all Nobody cares about your problems you brought. You
wanted to bring fifty mental patients to my neighborhood. How
(08:14):
fast can I kick you in the ass and get
you out of town? Nobody? This is the plan. Of course,
the Santa Monica City Council and the Santa Monic bureaucrats
are all for this because they believe that people who
have jobs and own homes are to be punished for
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their success, and they have to take in their fair
share of drug addicts and mental patients and homeless people.
That it should be spread equally throughout the districts. This
idea has been around for years in LA and in
La County. It's part of the progressive ideology that we
all have to share. It's like, no, we don't have
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to share in this. No, I don't want this. No,
there should be designated areas in the city where you
take care of it. Let all the mental patients live together
on the same block and they can all scream and
howl at the moon and entertain each other. Not here,
not ever, fifty of them, and they're not locked in.
They're not locked in, so they could wander into the
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restaurants while you're trying to have lunch. They could bother
your kids while you're sitting in the park on a blanket,
playing with your two year olds, while you're walking your dog.
You can have fifty of these people running around. Lindsey Horvath,
she got to be the first one put in one
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of these mental health institutions, along with almost everybody on
the Santa Monica City Council and the county supervisors, all
of them. This is really avirid behavior. All right, more
coming up.
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John Cobelt's Show. All Right, you know what to do,
Just go do it and then I can. I'll stop
annoying you with all these announcements. Well, one of the
biggest busts in business history is trying to force electric
vehicles on the public who didn't want them. And obviously
there was a lot of pressure from the federal government,
and Ford stupidly went along. One thing I didn't understand
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is why four GM and the rest of them didn't
fight back furiously. That's what bribes are for. That's what
lobbyists are for. But instead all the all the auto
companies bent over, and boy, they took it hard. They
had lost so much money. And this week the Ford
Motor Company announced their latest write down. They're writing off
(11:08):
nineteen and a half billion dollars in losses. Almost all
of it is the electrical vehicle business. Nineteen and a
half billion. You think that's bad. Yeah, how much money
they've lost since twenty twenty two, thirty five billion dollars?
Thirty five billion. Do you know how much income Ford
(11:32):
has had in that time? Eleven billion? They lost three
times as much money as they made from selling everything else.
That's just overwhelming. And if you remember, Biden pushed this hard.
Newsom pushed this hard. Congress issued a seventy five hundred
(11:54):
dollars tax credit per vehicle, and that would phase out
after a manufacturer sold two hundred thousand electric cars. Obama
what had this goal a million evs on US roads
by twenty fifteen. The actual number is under four hundred thousand.
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The public didn't like them, and we know why. You
don't get much range. It takes too long to charge,
and they're very expensive. The whole thing was just too
much of a hassle unless you were really wealthy and
you bought a Tesla. Tesla owners seemed to be happy
until Musk got aligned with Donald Trump. Then suddenly Tesla
(12:39):
owners decided the car didn't run all that well. But
there isn't a replacement for Tesla. None of the other
car companies came up with anything close, certainly not in
an affordable range. And so Ford announced that they're getting
rid of the f one point fifty Lightning that was
their election pickup truck, and they introduced that on the
(13:02):
market and with a lot of fanfare. It got a
lot of publicity and excitement, and it turned out that
it was a bust because if you have a pickup truck,
you like to carry a lot of things. You like
to pull stuff, right, Maybe you want to pull a boat,
Maybe you want to fill the truck bed with all
(13:23):
kinds of equipment. It turned out that if you have
a lot of stuff in the truck bed, or if
you're pulling something heavy, your electricity falls dramatically. You lose
juice rapidly, so you can't go very far. I guess
(13:45):
nobody thought of this when they put them out on
the market because they were really expensive, so it didn't
take long, and you know, everybody communicates now immediately they
start posting things on various websites and bulletin boards, and
quickly the whole world realized that getting an ev an
EV pickup truck was going to be a huge hassle
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and a half and the car wouldn't go very far.
So now what they're going to do is, well, let
me tell you what the damage, right, thirty five billion dollars.
They lost thirteen billion dollars on its business just since
twenty twenty three. Add that another nineteen billion dollars with
this write off. They also they also now are getting
(14:31):
rid of They're closing their Kentucky EV battery factory. They're
going to lay off thousands of people. They're going to
turn it eventually into a battery storage business for customers
utilities and wind and solar power developers who take those
energy sources converted into battery, and then there's this storage
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area that Ford is going to run. They're also massive
data centers that train art official intelligence that is also
going to require a lot of batteries. So they're going
to repurpose the battery factory but the idea of electric vehicles. Oh,
here's another reason didn't happen. We didn't have an electrical grid,
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especially in California. And this is what really flummocks me.
This was one of these subjects the last few years.
I thought I was insane. I thought there was something
wrong with me. How can you force tens of millions
of people to plug in an electric vehicle every day
when we're always running on the edge of running out
of power, especially in the summertime. I remember we did
(15:37):
a few years ago, had a really hot summer, and
because stupid Newsome closed all these gas plants and he
was going to close a nuclear plant, we almost had blackouts. Well,
if you add millions and millions of electrical cars, well
then what's going to happen. Oh that's when they said,
well you only got you only can plug them in
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between ten at night and four and in the morning.
It's all right, Okay, I can see where this is going.
We're going to have our lives now twenty four hour controlled.
We can't charge the car when we want. It means
we can't drive when we want. It means our freedoms
are constricted. We can't go as far as we want.
You know, you can't buy a four f one fifty
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lightning and want to load it up with stuff and
pull a boat behind you if the thing's going to
peter out after fifty miles. And this always was about control,
and the public looked at it. I mean a lot
of people considered an EV but at those prices, with
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that range, with the charging stations, there were no charging stations.
Not only you didn't have an electric grid, you didn't
you had very few charging stations. But it was like
a weird religion that they were forcing you to join,
like you had to join or we're going to destroy
your life. I mean, I think this year, coming year
(17:03):
twenty twenty six, thirty five percent of the cars were
supposed to be electric vehicle sales here in California. Well,
they weren't going to come anywhere near that. I never
really understood if there's a penalty for that, and then
what they were going to do is drive up the
That's why the gasoline is is four to fifty a gallon,
and that's why it may be headed to six eight
(17:24):
ten dollars a gallon with all the oil production problems
we have in the state. They were going to force
everybody into electric vehicles. That was going to be their
backdoor mandate in case we weren't buying thirty five percent evs,
we weren't meeting the goals. They were going to force
us all because we'd end up with ten dollars gas.
(17:45):
So now now now Ford is backing way off. They
think hybrids eventually are going to sell very well. They
already are, and that would have been the logical way
to go. People seem to like hybrids, it makes more sense.
But the fanatics, the environmental fanatics and Newsom, we're demanding
all or nothing. There was no mid range compromise like EVS.
(18:07):
So this this came from the Obama administration, the Biden administration,
the Newsom administration. By twenty thirty two, around the whole nation,
two thirds of new cars across the country would have
to be electric, even though nobody wanted them. But we
dodged that, dodged it not with any protests, We dodged
(18:31):
it simply by not buying them. I always wandered in
the back of my mind, It's like, well, what if
people don't buy what kind of a standoff is going
to occur? If people refuse to show up to the
dealership and purchase one of these one of these losers. Okay,
we've got more coming up on the John Cobelt Show.
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After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand, that's the podcast,
and listen to what you missed. I want to get
right to David Goldbloom here. He is director of a
really a powerful emotional documentary called Big Rock Burning, and
it's about people who live in Malibu's Big Rock community
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as they try to come back after the fire that
wiped out many of the homes there. Let's get to
David Goldbloom.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
On Thanks for having me, John.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I'm really glad to have you, and I'm a little
fired up because we just found out, you know, the
new details about the Palisades fire. What got you in?
What motivated you to do this documentary?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Oh? Well, I guess a little bit of craziness.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
My home burned down and the fires and that night
my community, very tight knit community in Big Rock and Malibu.
We formed a WhatsApp group and people that's how we
were getting information out to each other. That's how we
were finding out that no help came. There was a
stand down order, no firefighters, no water, and the reservoirs
(20:04):
were kind of became a news network overnight, and everybody
just kept saying, we have to get our story out there.
How come not one firefighter came to our mountain the
entire night of the fires. And I kept hearing that
for a couple of nights, and the more people kept saying,
we got to get our story out there. Eventually I
was just like, Okay, if we want to tell this story,
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I'll jump in the ring and I'll shepherd it. And
I think over forty residents who had lost their homes
reached out to me and said, you know, we're on board,
we'll do whatever we kind of help you.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And where is Big Rock in Malibu? Exactly? So people
not familiar can place.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So if you think about the Palisades fire, it went
down the pch and really the first mountain enclave leading
towards Malibu was Big Rock once you pass Pacific Palisades,
So it's kind of at the beginning of Malibu and
what fired.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Your station covers that community.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think La County.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, La County. So that's who you were waiting on
to come and nobody did.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Yeah, there were apparently there was a stand down order
and the standout or events. Yeah, one of the residents
heard it on a dispatch.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's really common in fires, right, a standout rather than
send more guys, send less guys, in fact, don't send anybody.
Stay home.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well, I guess let it burn with the mantra.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, you know what what it It really was, wasn't it.
It really was the philosophy. After the first a couple
of hours, it's like, ah, nothing we could do. Let
it go.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, And it wasn't just fire.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
To somebody in the film, she called nine one one
and they kind of just said, sorry, we can't help you.
And she was stranded on a mountain, like on a boulder, yeah,
with fire all in common, like all around her, and
just there was every man for themself.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
How do you feel like like today? I don't know
if you heard. We've got another round of stories from
the attorneys representing the Palisades owners, and it looks like
the state put a stop to the La Fire Department
cleaning up the January first fire, which is where the
rekindling happened because they wanted us to protect the Milk
Fitch plan. So no bulldozers, no fire lines, no tamping
(22:25):
down the hospots. When you hear these things, and there's
been a lot of these stories, how do you feel, like,
what does that do to your psyche?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
It's really sad and it's really disappointing. And I was
on an La Times Studio podcast the other day and
I said, it makes.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You kind of not want to be here anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
You know the fact that nobody has stepped up, nobody's
taken accountability, nobody's said we messed up. And what I
wanted to do with our film is to show the
human story is of loss and grief and resilience too,
and kind of show these were a real peace people
who lost everything.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I felt and I didn't know anybody in your film.
I felt so sad for everybody. I few sad. I
felt angry, and it's like, this shouldn't happen to these people.
These are regular people just living their lives.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, it's what kind of reaction have you gotten to
the film? And where's it playing? And how can people
find it?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's been incredible because I think this whole issue has
become somewhat of a political hotbed, and I tried to
I tried to focus on the human stories.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yes, we call out a lot of people for what
they did.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Or didn't do, but it seems to have been well
received all over the map, maybe except for Caaren Bath.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But everybody's really appreciative.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
And we premiered at Malibu City Hall to a sold
out crowd in August, and I think almost everybody there
had lost their homes and some fire.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And then we've been around the country.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
We were at SCAD, Savannah, Mill Valley, Newport, Santa Fe.
And now we're coming to PBS on the anniversary of
the fire, so it'll be broadcast into twenty million homes
across California.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
All right, So you've done a lot of film festivals
and now PBS and it's going to be on January seventh.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yep, the anniversary of the fires.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh that's great. So it's going to be seeing all
over the country. I mean, it's impossible not to get
emotionally affected while you're watching it. I actually had to
stop it a couple of times because you know, I'm
covering this stuff every day, and you know, nothing bad
happened to me. That's why I cannot imagine what it
must feel like to suffer the trauma. And then you
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get reminded of it every day or every week. You know,
as more and more of these stories come out, it's
got to be just unbelievable. But you know, there was
a sense of optimism in some of the people also
with the sadness. Yea, it was fascinating to see like
all those human, human emotions playing out at once in
the aftermath.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, there's there's one character in the film. He stayed
behind and he fought with a garden hose, and that
was the kind of team of that night. The people
who stayed behind were fighting with garden hoses and pool
water and bathtub water. But his home survived the night
of the fires. And then the next morning he went
(25:29):
around and he went from home to home. That's how
I found out my home had burned down. He took
everybody's address in the WhatsApp group, and he was driving
around telling people whether their housemade it or not, because
we were all kind of wanting this sense of closure.
And then he got back to his home and his
home was burning and.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, that's one of.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
The toughest parts of the film. Yeah, because he's just
standing there looking out over where the house used to
be and he had saved it, and then he tried
to help everybody else out and that's when the fire
came back and got him. It's just, yeah, that is
some story you mentioned in passing that Karen Bass didn't
necessarily have a good reaction. Has she seen or she
(26:13):
heard about the movie? I mean, what.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You know, I when I we started three days after
the fire, and I had reached out to everybody, I
was trying to get everybody to just kind of have
a voice, and I reached out to Karen's office and
really was persistent, really trying to get her to, you know,
be on camera have an interview, and they kept just
saying she's done a lot for the community in Malibu already,
(26:40):
and she has.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
A busy schedule. And I was kind of like, I'll
come anywhere.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I don't know where she's been in Malibu. I haven't
seen her, but she was not I don't think she
wanted to be part of this.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, no, Well, the movie is fantastic. I'm glad that
it's going to be on PBS and the whole nation
can see it, and you've had great reaction at the
film festivals. And it's thirty minutes, but it's some of
the most powerful thirty minutes you're ever going to experience.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, so good luck with it, and as time goes on,
anything you need from us to publicize it further or
in any way try to make life better for the
people there in Malibu, just let us know.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Okay, thank you, that's a good time to your show.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Thank you very much, David Goldblum. And again PBS. On
January seventh, the anniversary of the fire, you get to
see his documentary. Okay, We've got more coming up on
the John coblt Show.
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Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media. We're
going to play you audio from a video that John
Alley is posted. John's going to be with us right
after two o'clock news. He's a businessman who's been fighting
all the destructive sick policies that the Karen Bass government
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and the Santa Monica government have insisted upon by allowing
mental patients and drug addicts to run wild on the streets,
and there's many other crimes that flow from that policy.
Here in this audio, you're going to hear John Ally,
an LAPD officer, speaking to a homeless couple. Now, this
(28:33):
homeless couple was trafficked across state borders. There's human trafficking
going on, and there's a drug rehab facility in LA
that flew them to LA and they're helped out by
a well known insurance company and they were kicked out
(28:57):
eventually from the rehab because the payments dried up, I
guess from the insurance company. They were kicked out and
dropped off at in LA County. And uh, listen, listen
to this conversation.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Where is the last time you saw your kids?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So you say it again one more time. It's gonna
be how tough it is stated listening to be extremely tough.
And like I said, if it was easy, everyone else
would be doing well. But I know there's something in
you guys that you guys can cut through because you.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Have each other as well.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Okay, it's gonna take a whold. This is the comment
for here.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
All Right, someone's gonna be hurting more than another in
another day.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
You know what I'm talking about when you have to
overcome what brought you down here.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
In the first place, right And I wish you could
see you guys around there.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
He's got because we're gonna send it a great sure,
yea a picture, browse and dates, good take seats stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Stare their family, your family you can trust absolutely, Okay tomorrow, yes, tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Well, I'm glad that we bring them for your police officers.
But you know what, it's I'll come the job. What
we've got here are these these rehab facilities, and they're
funded with your tax money, and and they're flying people
in from out of state. And then the rehab facilities
(30:46):
can get insurance money. And then eventually the insurance money
runs out, and this couple is left out of the street.
They're they're kicked out of the rehab facility. There's nobody
left to pay it, so they're not off the drugs.
But everybody else has made the money. This rehab facility
(31:09):
has gotten the money from the insurance company. They get
funded by the government. It is an incredible racket. And
that's why the homeless situation ever gets any better. Because
people in the homeless industry keep bringing in more and
more vagrants from the outside, from other states. So when
(31:30):
you hear that idiot Karen Bass talk about Inside Safe
taking people off the streets, the numbers aren't going down,
and they're not going down because there's replacements, and eventually
the tax money runs out for Inside Safe. It already has,
so they're going to have to let people go out
of the motels that they purchased. The money eventually runs out,
(31:57):
but they make as much as they can for as
long as they can. Most of the public doesn't understand.
The whole thing is a scam. It's a racket. They
take tax money, they take insurance money, they take donations
from well intentioned progressive people. In the meantime, thousands of
(32:24):
die in the streets, but thousands of new ones come in.
Karen Bass intentionally lies about the homeless numbers. When you
look at her report, the county report, and then compare
it to what the RAND Corporation did an independent count
it's not even close. Some of the districts RAND discovered
(32:49):
the county undercounted. Karen Bass undercounted by up to forty percent.
So the whole thing is a lie. The whole thing
is a racket and a scam. They make numbers up up.
There's a story out of Washington d C today. You know,
the police chief of Washington d C just left. Turned
out she was lying about the number of crimes. They
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were making up numbers so they could say, well, we
don't need any help from the federal government. Crime numbers
are already down. Well, they were fake crime numbers. LAPD
has done this with fake crime numbers that's been reported
on here. We have fake homeless count numbers. They're getting
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wealthy people running these organizations. They're making money. We're gonna
talk more with John Alley about this and about his
fight in MacArthur Park as well. Okay, we've got more
coming up on the John Cobelt Show. Now here's an
update from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've
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