November 21, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (11/21) - Ben Siegel comes on the show to talk about the meeting between Pres. Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House today. California officials say that the water supply in SoCal at the time of the January fires was sufficient and that if the Santa Ynez Reservoir was filled it wouldn't have made a difference. A lot of people get stoned to deal with their families on Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
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is do we have our Ben Siegel here yet? What's
(00:21):
that night yet? Okay, in a minute, we're gonna talk
with Ben Siegel, ABC News Deputy Political Director. All this
is just coming in in the last few minutes. Zoron.
Mom Donnie, the incoming New York City mayor, met with
Donald Trump face to face at the White House. And
(00:42):
you know, Trump and Mundamie have called each other all
kinds of terrible things over the last few months. We've
got a little clip because Trump does put on a
heck of his show. So he's got Mom Donnie in
the White House and they invite the orders in and
here's an exchange. Do we have that clip? Apparently it
(01:12):
froze up. Okay, well tell me when we have it,
because it's a good one. Uh Trump Uh and Mom Donnie?
Oh wait, okay, restarting, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I look forward to your answer step and Wilson.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
He asked about your comment called the president a fascist,
and your answer was.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
President Trump and I can clear about our positions.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And our views.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Are you affirming that you think President Trump.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Is a fascist?
Speaker 7 (01:40):
I've spoken about That's okay, Okay, that's easier.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's easier than explaining it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Metal, But reporters, are you affirming your view that you
think President Trump is a fascist? And he starts probably
a word salad, right, he starts tossing a word salad,
and goes, it's okay, just say yes, you know, it's
a lot easier than try to explain that's so that's hysterical. Yeah,
(02:08):
just say yes, you think I'm a fastest fine, okay,
whatever you want. All right, let's not go into these
tortured words. Settle that. Don't be a wind bag. So
this is live now that mom Donnie and Trump. Trump's
sitting at his seat. Uh yeah, just dipting. Some people
get a sensor what this is like, Mom, Donnie is
standing to his left. Do you think you're sitting next
(02:29):
to Johnnis right now in the Oval office?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
No?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
I know, but she's out there campaign and you know,
you say things sometimes in a campaign. She's a very
capable person, but you know, you really have to ask
her about that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I don't particularly.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I think I met with a very I.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Met with a man who's a very rational person.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I met with a man who wants to really wants
to see New York be great again.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And I can say again because New.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
York was great.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
You know when I came down to Washington and initially
the city was so hot, it was doing great. We
were having some telltale signs of problems. We had a
mayor that was not doing a great job, but still
it was moving along. And it went bad. It really went,
you know, pretty bad, and he can. I think it's
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been at lower points, but it went pretty bad. I
think he can bring it back. Now the question is
will bring it back all the way?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Will?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Will he bring it back greater than ever before? Which
is I guarantee that's his wish. I think it wants
to make it greater than ever before. And if he can,
we'll be out there cheering. I'll be cheering for him.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Right Trump with the zoron mom, do yes, you heard right?
There's so much of this is show business.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I was going to say, I mean, I don't know
you don't know you, I don't believe anything.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Everybody takes the stage, they play, the play a role.
You know, Trump's rolls whatever Moodi's in.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Right, because we know he doesn't he's not a fan.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, he's calling him a communist.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Right, So why didn't he I'm surprised that he didn't
just say, look, dude, you know, good luck to you,
but I do think you're a communist.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Let's go to Ben's Siegel see what he makes of this.
Ben Siegel is ABC News Deputy Political director in Washington.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Ben, I'm still trying to figure out what happened in
that meeting. It was one of the most interesting meetings
that we've seen in a long time in the White House,
and it seemed like the President was quite taken with
Marek Mom.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Donnie. Yeah, I was thinking about it this morning, and
I thought there was a chance that Trump would pull
a complete misdirection play because he finds that entertaining. And
he did. And they held their little press conference here
and we just played a short clip of it, but
they everybody's smiling and joking around.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I think, yeah, you know, that was the big takeaway.
I think two big things in there that you know,
Donnie clearly played to and you know, building this relationship
with the President is something that he talked about in
his campaign, which is that a lot of New Yorkers
voted for Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election.
And one of his first viral videos that he filmed
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was going to the Bronx, going to Queen's and talking
to New Yorkers, you know, of South Asian descent about
why they voted for Donald Trump, and almost all of
them said it was the issue of affordability. So you know,
it was interesting to see mom Donnie bring that up
in the meeting. He actually pointed out to the President
that there was somebody he spoke to on the street
who owned a pharmacy whose father was actually was someone
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who served Donald Trump's father in that same neighborhood in
Queens in the same family pharmacy. So there's clearly that
New York connective tissue there that the Mary a Lex
seem to take advantage of. And you heard the President
say he's clearly invested in the city doing well. You know,
we'll see what that means when rubber hits the road.
We've seen him have nice meetings with Democrats before, and
then when it comes to the relationship and his agenda,
(06:00):
you know, them sort of being an odds. But I
think both sides can walk away from this meeting feeling like, uh,
this was successful for them respectively.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Trump had called Mam Donnie a communist, Mam Donnie had
called Trump a despot during the campaign, and uh, it
was just kind of funny. Uh, I'm looking at it now,
the video, Mam Donnie looking down at Trump like he's uh,
like he's a little boy in the principal's office. Actually
he's got his hands folded in front of him, uh,
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looking looking very peaceful, very respectful. Uh, and Trump is
just doing his uh his comedy routine. What you said
is Trump, uh, you know, obviously loves New York City
and wants it to work. Uh, Mam Donnie can't get
anything done unless he gets along with you know, the
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Governor of New York and the President because that's where
the money is, you know. If he wants to have
this socialist utopia, he needs this thing funded and so
so he can't really go in there guns of blazing either.
It doesn't do his cause any good.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Yeah, I think I think that's a great point. And
I think that's why you saw him come back time
and time and again to this issue of making New
York City affordable. There are certain things in his campaign
that a lot of New Yorkers don't agree with, you know,
when it comes to policing, when it comes to this
idea of city runs grocery stores, they see some of that,
it's pie.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
In the sky.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
But there are other things like expanding pre K, universal
pre k in the city, making some buses of free
you know, that gets to this underlying issue of affordability
that mom Downey was clearly trying to argue is really
at the center of his politics, but also aligned with
things that President Trump campaigned on. So to the extent
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that he has any power to get things done in
New York, it won't be because he controls, you know,
the ability to raise taxes, like you said, he doesn't,
but he has clearly has a political movement behind him.
He believes he has a mandate from voters in New
York City and from Democrat voters who will be influential
in the governor's race next year. So he is trying to,
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you know, make the case that actually, you know, some
of the things that he's proposing, and maybe some of
the things he'll try to enact, you know, aren't as
radical as some of his critics made them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
See, did they discuss publicly anything, any issue of substance,
Was anything they agreed or disagreed on in front of
the reporters or was it all happy talk?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
A lot with a lot of happy talk and atmospherics.
I think one interesting thing, you know, beyond this discussion
of affordability that came up, was they talked about, you know,
the cost of food, the cost of groceries, as the
President said, they.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Talked about housing.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
They seem to agree that you need to lower the
pre the cost of housing in New York City, and
you know, the presidents that he was surprised that Mom
Donnie actually supports building more houses, and you know, the
president comes from a family of developers who I'm sure
there's some common ground there. One thing they did not
seem to agree on, you know, is the issue of policing,
but he was very deferential to Mom Donnie on that.
(09:05):
Another issue that they glossed over, which is pretty interesting
is Mam Donnie's positions on the Middle East. The Maryleft
have been very clear that he sees the Israeli government
as responsible for genocide in the war with Famas, and
that he has said that he would respect international law
when asked if he would try to arrest Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin net Yahoo in New York. But the President
(09:26):
sort of alluded to that and kind of downplayed it
and suggested that, you know, when you get an office,
your policies changed. But they also you know, he also
seemed to say they both want piece of them at least,
and I think, you know, everybody, I think wants to
see peace of them at least. But Mam Donnie's vision
of what peace looks like, you know, is very different
than what President Trump sees. President Trump supports Israel as
a Jewish state very clearly, and and Zara Mandani has
(09:48):
been clear that he does not believe Israel should exist
as a Jewish day. He's like in the current state
of Israel to apartheid South Africa, and he wants to
see a different Israel, you know, one country for Palestinians
and Israel and Jewish Israelis. But that was sort of
glossed over in the meeting, which I found very interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Ben, thanks for coming on. Thank you, Ben Siegel, ABC
News Deputy Political director of Washington. The meeting between zoron Mon, Mom, Donnie,
it's m A M D A N I it is.
It does not flow and and Trump and you know
they're smiling and joking and everybody's friends with each other.
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Now suddenly he's not a communist, He's not a giehattist.
Trump is not a death spot.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
He likes some more than Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well what he what he what he likes? From what
I'm reading is is Zorn really knows how to handle
the media and is really adept and answering questions. Trump
loves good performers, even if he disagrees with everything they
stand for. But he gets excited by seeing people who
who can handle the stupid reporters. I mean that that
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get that gets them going. So there is some admiration there,
I think from Mom Donnie. All right, when we come
back story of the day. This morning, the state released
their report on the fire, and specifically there's a section
on the reservoir, and I get this is going to
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shock you, but the news of administration in the official
report doesn't think having an empty reservoir where there should
have been one hundred and sixteen million gallons of water
had any effect on fighting the fire. That's what the
report was about. So we'll talk next.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
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To subscribe YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt's show.
And they're putting on longer and longer segments, and the
rest of the social media is at John Cobelt Radio. Yes,
Spencer Pratt parent really hit a nerve with a lot
of people in our audience. A tremendous number of people watching, listening, commenting,
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And somebody who's asking me is like, why so many
people following the Palisades story since it just affects the
residence in the Palisades. Everyone's paying attention because if you
listen to this show, certainly and a lot of people
beyond our little universe. Everybody knows that the government's lying
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to you all day and night. Everything that's long in
the city, in the state is because of the selfish
incompetence of of government, specific people like Newsom and Bass
and Jennie Canunias and the rest of them. And this
confirms what we're experiencing in our life. The homeless situation
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is the same thing stolen money. They lie constantly, None
of their projects ever improve things, nothing, And we know
we're being lied to. We know their numbers are fake.
Homeless numbers are fake, the crime numbers are fake. This
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information coming about the fire are fake. This is all.
This is all provable stuff. You notice nobody like Newsom
or Bass ever opens themselves up to a real interrogation
from a reporter or somebody from an opposing political party.
They don't have to. It's one party rule. And then
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includes the media here. The media is either full progressive
or they're compliant. As Katie Grime says from California Globe,
they don't want to lose a seat at the table.
See most of the reporters and editors and producers, news directors.
They want access to these people. And if you criticize,
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no more access see all the politicians don't really need
the media so much anymore. They can have their own
social media channels to communicate their propaganda, in their lies.
Most of what comes out of Sacramento and Gavin Newsom's
mouth or lies in propaganda. Most of what comes out
of Karen bass Or lies in propaganda. And I think
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everybody's onto it. And the Pacific Palisades story is a
perfect representation of everything that's wrong. You can apply what
you're seeing and hearing to all the other issues that
are paralyzing life in California, Los Angeles. In competence, lack
of preparation, people taking money and stealing money, no accountability.
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They don't even bother to comment, they don't even bother
to deny it anymore. They just keep lying because they
know there is a You know, we've got a lot
of double digit IQs in our state and triple digit
SAT scores like Newsome. Okay, if you have a lot
of people in triple digit SATs and double digit IQs,
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it's not hard to fool people, not hard to whip
up their emotions, not hard to make them believe a
load of crap and when there is not opposition, not
an oppositional party, doesn't exist in the state or in
the city, not an oppositional media. This is what you get,
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and so that's why people are following the story. It
confirms everything they already know about why the city in
the state is what it is. These people are criminals
and abusive and they don't care about you. So this
was predictable times. After a ten month review, California officials
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concluded in a report that the water supply in southern
California was robust at the time of the fire, that
the water system isn't designed to handle such large intense wildfires.
That glides over the fact that it never should have
been a large intense wildfire had they just put out
the original fire on January first, And we all know
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that that story. And then they say that the Santa
Ynez Reservoir, which can hold one hundred and seventeen million
gallons of drinking water, was empty for repairs at the time,
but that it really didn't make a difference. Yeah, really
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didn't matter. In fact, ellen Cheg write down this woman's name,
a spokeshole for the LA Department of Water and Power,
spokesper for Genis Quinonias. The report confirms that the Senianez
Reservoir was offline to make necessary repairs, and that issues
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with water pressure during the fire response were due to
the extraordinary demand on the system, not because of inadequate
water supply. In other words, us not filling the reservoir
had nothing to do with the fire doing so much damage.
One hundred and seventeen million gallons wouldn't have made a difference.
That's the message that Ellen Chang and this report is giving.
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So they just put out their pile a horse crap.
It's laying there in front of us, steaming, and they
walk away. Ellen Chang turns away from her her computer screen.
She sent out her publicity release. She sent out a
quote satisfied the Times. Hey, you know, can we get
a quote? Oh here's my quote. Yeah, one hundred and
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seventeen million gallons doesn't matter. Okay, God, is that good enough? Yeah?
That's good enough. Thanks, all right, we come back. I'll
tell you how much one hundred and seventeen million gallons is.
I went. I went to chet GPT there's a fascinating place,
and to Grock and to see I asked, could you
quantify what one hundred and seventeen million gallons are I'm
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going to do. I'm going to read their response when
we come back, and then you decide whether it would
have had an effect on saving any homes in the fire.
We'll do that next.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Right every day from one in till four o'clock after
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast.
And oh we got the moistline up twice today at
three twenty and three fifty because it is Friday and
we were talking. Yesterday, we had Spencer Pratt on for
the whole three o'clock hour. You should listen to that.
He's the reality star who is the loudest, most effective
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activist for the Palisades residents after the fire. And it
was quite entertaining and quite informative. So that's on the podcast,
and you could also watch a video of much of
the interview on YouTube to John Cobelt's show. We have
our own channel now. So today's atrocity and this is
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utterly predictable. NEWSOM had ordered an investigation into the Palisades fire,
and so the investigation from the News of Administration says, well,
one hundred and seventeen million gallons that we're missing from
the reservoir in the Palisades. It didn't matter, you imagine that. So,
you know, I went to chet GPT to see if
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I could find a quantifiable way to explain just how
much water one hundred and seventeen million gallons is right,
because that's you know, you tell somebody big numbers gets
lost in people.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I can't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, but you're not great with me. That's very true
if I get to fifteen or sixty.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Year out there.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Okay, So now I'll read you these comparisons and then
ask yourself, Okay, would that have had an effect? And
think about it as to maybe how many houses it
would have put out? One hundred and seventeen million gowns?
How many Olympic sized swimming pools is that? That's one
hundred and seventy seven Olympic sized swimming pools.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Now, even if each swimming pool could put out a
fire to protect one house, might have one hundred and
seventy seven home saved. Right, I don't think that's unreasonable.
Daily water use of in a city that was one
hundred and seventy million gawns? Is enough water for a
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city of one point four million people for one day?
Imagine that one point four million people, about a third
of the city of Los Angeles. You think that would
have put out a few homes? What are tanker trucks? Now?
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I like this one right now? You could visualize this right,
One hundred and seventeen million gallons is enough for nineteen thousand,
five hundred tanker trunks full of water? What nineteen thousand,
five hundred Now, if we had a line of nineteen thousand,
five hundred water trucks leading to the Pacific Palisades, do
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you think some of those trucks would have put out.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
A few more than a few homes?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Right? All right? Look at it another way, If we
had nineteen thousand, five hundred tanker trunks trucks, it would
have been a line one hundred and forty eight miles long. Eric,
look up, what's one hundred and forty eight miles from
Los Angeles? And I'm doing this to show you that
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the News of Administration and the Department of Order and
Power is simply full of steaming horse crap. You're telling
me a line of one hundred and forty eight miles
of tanker trunks trucks would have no effect on the fire.
One hundred and forty eight miles.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
You want to know how far one hundred and forty
eight miles south of Los Angeles is? Yeah, en Sonata, Mexico. Okay,
Now visualize that on the four h five.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Imagine one hundred and forty eight miles of traffic leading
you all the way into en Sonata, Mexico. And probably
most days we have a traffic jam that that's close
to one hundred and forty eight miles. I mean, it's
all tanks full of water, no effect on the Palisades fire. Really,
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tanker trucks from here to en Sonata. All right? How
about a football field analogy. A US football field is
fifty seven thousand, six hundred square feet, so one hundred
and seventeen million gallons is enough to cover an NFL
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field with two hundred and seventy one feet of water,
almost as tall as a twenty five story building that
includes end zones, bathtubs, bathtubs eighty gallons, yeah, one and
a half million full bathtubs, one and a half million
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buckets bet you a lot of people are throwing buckets
of water on the fire on their home, trying to
beat back the flames. Five gallon buckets. How much would
you get out of one hundred and seventeen million gallons?
Twenty three and a half million buckets? Would that have helped?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Maybe a little?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
So what you have here. And there's a lot of
agencies that were a part of this bogus, ridiculous garbage
study that they did this investigation. And you know, somebody
tell all this to Ellen Cheng, the spokeshole for the LADWP.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Was anybody challenging this report?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, you are, I am, No, We're doing everything
by ourselves here, seriously, I.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Mean, because what you're saying, hopefully somebody else is going
to be picking up on this, what you're saying and
rolling with this, because this is insane.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It is inconceivable that if you took one hundred and
seventeen million gallons out of the water system and they're saying, well,
you know, the water system isn't designed to handle such
you know, this much water. I know for a fact,
live witnesses, people I know who said the problem there
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was a hundreds of higher fire hydrants that were broken.
There was no water coming out. Because they tried to
give this complicated explanation, well, you wouldn't have the water pressure.
And they're also sticking to this lie that the reservoir
had to be closed to repair the terranet's cover. Now,
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the reservoir was built in nineteen sixty four strictly for
fire purposes. You had that terrible bell Air fire of
nineteen sixty one, go look it up. It's in the
La Times. In fact, they did a retrospective article on it.
This year sixty one bell Air fire burned hundreds of homes.
Sixty four. They built the reservoir. It was specifically, and
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you go back to the La Times story of nineteen
sixty four, specifically to deal with the fire. They claim, well,
you know we had we had to change the cover,
you know, because regulations it's harmed the water supply. They
never needed it for the water supply. And you know
what the proof of that is the reservoir was closed
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for a year. Do you remember, do you remember any
emergencies were people in the Palisades didn't have water, They
couldn't shower, they couldn't fill their pools, they had nothing
to drink No, there was no water shortage in the
Palisades for the year that the reservoir was closed. None.
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It's a total lie. Lie Number one on this issue
is the reservoir was built for fire protection. Number two,
it's not needed for drinking water. Otherwise the Palisades would
have been out of drinking water that whole year. Number three,
even if it had to be fixed, it only took
a month, and it only cost one hundred and forty
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thousand dollars. And the depth of the lies and the
mis and the cover up is incredible. Ellen Cheng again
spokeshole for LEDWP. The report confirms that the Senianez Reservoir
was offline to make necessary repairs. False. And the issues
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with water pressure during the fire response was to do
the extraordinary demand on the system, not the inadequate water supply.
So let me guess one hundred and seventeen million gallons
going through the system would not increase the water pressure.
I imagine she typed out this statement because if she
said it live, somebody would anybody contradict this nonsense. They
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keep using the phrase extraordinary demands. And here's an idea,
how about building a water system that could handle wildfires?
Have we had enough of them? Why isn't our tax
money being used to build a modern age water system
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to handle wildfires?
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Because our tax money is being used for other more
important things.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, like seventy thousand homeless people. What could we buy
with all the money we've spent on the people who
lay in the streets whacked out on meth and crack
and fent and ill, leaving their bodily waste all over
the place, terrorizing people. We didn't spend the billions and
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billions of dollars of that seventy thousand. What could we
do to protect the lives and property of the tens
of thousands of people in the Palisades? I just we
are going to keep ath this though.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Yes, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI
A sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Coming up after two o'clock. What's going on after two o'clock?
Anybody know Karl de Mayo is coming on, and well
he's got the total that we're going to spend on
the legal alien healthcare in the current budgets now up
(29:09):
to thirteen billion dollars, double the original estimate from that
lying fiend Newsom. Newsom claimed it was six and a
half billion. It's now thirteen billion. By the way, we
have a massive budget deficit. So all right, next Thursday,
(29:31):
you know, Thanksgiving, and there was this Wall Street Journal
article about how many people get stoned during Thanksgiving dinner
in order to handle their family.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not speaking from experience, but
I know what happens.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It's called the cousin walk. That's right. Did you see
this story?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
No, but I know about it. Oh, it's a social
media thing.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh yeah, that's it says, behold the cousin. And I
thought I never heard that half of the guests are stoned,
according to the headline, because you might notice in the
middle of dinner, some family members go to walk the
dog or pick up ice or whatever other euphemism is
popular now, and people grab their coats, they glance towards
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the door, so they have some of the cousins go
with them, and then they get stoned, and then they
come back and everybody's happy. And that's how they deal
with family tension.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
And they are hungrier, right, so they can eat more
turkey that's right, we're stuffing.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Or more tofu I guess in your kids if marijuana
is now legal in forty states for medicinal use and
recreational use in more than half of those. Not that
that's ever mattered. Oh, it's also known as the pre
(31:02):
dinner safety meeting, and it's it's so popular that you've
heard of, you know, Black Friday. There's now Green Wednesday.
Apparently there's a huge surge in pot sales on Wednesday,
on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. And I, you know, I'd
(31:24):
like to have a drink or two if there's going
to be a large group coming over. Yeah, because I don't.
I don't. I don't really enjoy being around people. I know, Well,
why not both? Well, yeah, I've never done that. I'm honestly,
I've only had like a few puffs of marijuana a
long time ago.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
You're not a candidate to do both at the same time.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And then I had that little present you.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Give me, right, So I'm just saying no, Yeah, after the.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Whole key debacle earlier this week, I don't know if
that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
See, I don't. Yeah, I don't really need to mess
with my brain chemistry because I'm barely functional as is,
and I don't know whether all that would do. The
first rule of the cousin walk is we do not
discuss the cousin walk, said one writer. Like you sneak out,
(32:11):
you get stoned, you come back in and you just
giggle at everybody, and the remaining guests find out that
they're a lot funnier and a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
More interesting by gets along with it very nicely.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah. You know, if I read one more article about
people fighting about politics at Thanksgiving dinner, I mean, but
that's the.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Number one thing people fight about these.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Days, right, I just won't do it. I have an
ironclad rule, and I tell my wife this and everybody
I said, I don't discuss any of this at all.
I just don't. And sometimes I got friends, and you know,
they're all they're very excitable, you know, usually about Trump.
And I'll listen to them, whether they're right, wrong, whether
(32:49):
they're infuriating, whatever it is. I just have this smile
plastered on my face and I nod along, and I
nod along, and I wait until they run out of
steam or venom or whatever's motivating them, because I only
think in my head. It's like, it really doesn't matter
what you think or what I think.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
So what if they say John, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I give? I give a very careful political answer depending
on who I'm dealing with, and and and to divert
the conversation somewhere else. Good because I just I don't
want to do it. First of all, I do this right, yeah,
last people think I want to talk about this when
I don't want to talk about this. All right, I
already hit three hours. I got fifteen hours a week.
Go listen to the podcast. You want to know what
(33:29):
I think. I don't have to do a show at
Thanksgiving dinner, unless maybe if I'm stoned. But you see,
the thing is, let's if I start telling like the
real truth, because I'm like, I'm really bottled up inside.
I know you are very bottled up inside. And if
I take some substance that lets out what I'm really thinking.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
That's not You're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
No, yes, nobody wants to know what's going on in
my head all day. I mean, you get a little
slip of it here, and it's it's bad enough.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
And I get some off the air too, right, It's
not good, is it?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It's okay?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
All right, we come back. Carl Demile thirteen billion, thirteen billion,
big ones for illegal alien healthcare. That's double newsome promise.
Debormark is live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
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Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
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Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app and that's
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is do we have our Ben Siegel here yet? What's
(00:21):
that night yet? Okay, in a minute, we're gonna talk
with Ben Siegel, ABC News Deputy Political Director. All this
is just coming in in the last few minutes. Zoron.
Mom Donnie, the incoming New York City mayor, met with
Donald Trump face to face at the White House. And
(00:42):
you know, Trump and Mundamie have called each other all
kinds of terrible things over the last few months. We've
got a little clip because Trump does put on a
heck of his show. So he's got Mom Donnie in
the White House and they invite the orders in and
here's an exchange. Do we have that clip? Apparently it
(01:12):
froze up. Okay, well tell me when we have it,
because it's a good one. Uh Trump Uh and Mom Donnie?
Oh wait, okay, restarting, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I look forward to your answer step and Wilson.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
He asked about your comment called the president a fascist,
and your answer was.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
President Trump and I can clear about our positions.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And our views.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Are you affirming that you think President Trump.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Is a fascist?
Speaker 7 (01:40):
I've spoken about That's okay, Okay, that's easier.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's easier than explaining it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Metal, But reporters, are you affirming your view that you
think President Trump is a fascist? And he starts probably
a word salad, right, he starts tossing a word salad,
and goes, it's okay, just say yes, you know, it's
a lot easier than try to explain that's so that's hysterical. Yeah,
(02:08):
just say yes, you think I'm a fastest fine, okay,
whatever you want. All right, let's not go into these
tortured words. Settle that. Don't be a wind bag. So
this is live now that mom Donnie and Trump. Trump's
sitting at his seat. Uh yeah, just dipting. Some people
get a sensor what this is like, Mom, Donnie is
standing to his left. Do you think you're sitting next
(02:29):
to Johnnis right now in the Oval office?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
No?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
I know, but she's out there campaign and you know,
you say things sometimes in a campaign. She's a very
capable person, but you know, you really have to ask
her about that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I don't particularly.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I think I met with a very I.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Met with a man who's a very rational person.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I met with a man who wants to really wants
to see New York be great again.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And I can say again because New.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
York was great.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
You know when I came down to Washington and initially
the city was so hot, it was doing great. We
were having some telltale signs of problems. We had a
mayor that was not doing a great job, but still
it was moving along. And it went bad. It really went,
you know, pretty bad, and he can. I think it's
(03:21):
been at lower points, but it went pretty bad. I
think he can bring it back. Now the question is
will bring it back all the way?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Will?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Will he bring it back greater than ever before? Which
is I guarantee that's his wish. I think it wants
to make it greater than ever before. And if he can,
we'll be out there cheering. I'll be cheering for him.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Right Trump with the zoron mom, do yes, you heard right?
There's so much of this is show business.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I was going to say, I mean, I don't know
you don't know you, I don't believe anything.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Everybody takes the stage, they play, the play a role.
You know, Trump's rolls whatever Moodi's in.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Right, because we know he doesn't he's not a fan.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, he's calling him a communist.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Right, So why didn't he I'm surprised that he didn't
just say, look, dude, you know, good luck to you,
but I do think you're a communist.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Let's go to Ben's Siegel see what he makes of this.
Ben Siegel is ABC News Deputy Political director in Washington.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Ben, I'm still trying to figure out what happened in
that meeting. It was one of the most interesting meetings
that we've seen in a long time in the White House,
and it seemed like the President was quite taken with
Marek Mom.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Donnie. Yeah, I was thinking about it this morning, and
I thought there was a chance that Trump would pull
a complete misdirection play because he finds that entertaining. And
he did. And they held their little press conference here
and we just played a short clip of it, but
they everybody's smiling and joking around.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I think, yeah, you know, that was the big takeaway.
I think two big things in there that you know,
Donnie clearly played to and you know, building this relationship
with the President is something that he talked about in
his campaign, which is that a lot of New Yorkers
voted for Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election.
And one of his first viral videos that he filmed
(05:14):
was going to the Bronx, going to Queen's and talking
to New Yorkers, you know, of South Asian descent about
why they voted for Donald Trump, and almost all of
them said it was the issue of affordability. So you know,
it was interesting to see mom Donnie bring that up
in the meeting. He actually pointed out to the President
that there was somebody he spoke to on the street
who owned a pharmacy whose father was actually was someone
(05:37):
who served Donald Trump's father in that same neighborhood in
Queens in the same family pharmacy. So there's clearly that
New York connective tissue there that the Mary a Lex
seem to take advantage of. And you heard the President
say he's clearly invested in the city doing well. You know,
we'll see what that means when rubber hits the road.
We've seen him have nice meetings with Democrats before, and
then when it comes to the relationship and his agenda,
(06:00):
you know, them sort of being an odds. But I
think both sides can walk away from this meeting feeling like, uh,
this was successful for them respectively.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Trump had called Mam Donnie a communist, Mam Donnie had
called Trump a despot during the campaign, and uh, it
was just kind of funny. Uh, I'm looking at it now,
the video, Mam Donnie looking down at Trump like he's uh,
like he's a little boy in the principal's office. Actually
he's got his hands folded in front of him, uh,
(06:29):
looking looking very peaceful, very respectful. Uh, and Trump is
just doing his uh his comedy routine. What you said
is Trump, uh, you know, obviously loves New York City
and wants it to work. Uh, Mam Donnie can't get
anything done unless he gets along with you know, the
(06:50):
Governor of New York and the President because that's where
the money is, you know. If he wants to have
this socialist utopia, he needs this thing funded and so
so he can't really go in there guns of blazing either.
It doesn't do his cause any good.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Yeah, I think I think that's a great point. And
I think that's why you saw him come back time
and time and again to this issue of making New
York City affordable. There are certain things in his campaign
that a lot of New Yorkers don't agree with, you know,
when it comes to policing, when it comes to this
idea of city runs grocery stores, they see some of that,
it's pie.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
In the sky.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
But there are other things like expanding pre K, universal
pre k in the city, making some buses of free
you know, that gets to this underlying issue of affordability
that mom Downey was clearly trying to argue is really
at the center of his politics, but also aligned with
things that President Trump campaigned on. So to the extent
(07:44):
that he has any power to get things done in
New York, it won't be because he controls, you know,
the ability to raise taxes, like you said, he doesn't,
but he has clearly has a political movement behind him.
He believes he has a mandate from voters in New
York City and from Democrat voters who will be influential
in the governor's race next year. So he is trying to,
(08:05):
you know, make the case that actually, you know, some
of the things that he's proposing, and maybe some of
the things he'll try to enact, you know, aren't as
radical as some of his critics made them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
See, did they discuss publicly anything, any issue of substance,
Was anything they agreed or disagreed on in front of
the reporters or was it all happy talk?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
A lot with a lot of happy talk and atmospherics.
I think one interesting thing, you know, beyond this discussion
of affordability that came up, was they talked about, you know,
the cost of food, the cost of groceries, as the
President said, they.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Talked about housing.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
They seem to agree that you need to lower the
pre the cost of housing in New York City, and
you know, the presidents that he was surprised that Mom
Donnie actually supports building more houses, and you know, the
president comes from a family of developers who I'm sure
there's some common ground there. One thing they did not
seem to agree on, you know, is the issue of policing,
but he was very deferential to Mom Donnie on that.
(09:05):
Another issue that they glossed over, which is pretty interesting
is Mam Donnie's positions on the Middle East. The Maryleft
have been very clear that he sees the Israeli government
as responsible for genocide in the war with Famas, and
that he has said that he would respect international law
when asked if he would try to arrest Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin net Yahoo in New York. But the President
(09:26):
sort of alluded to that and kind of downplayed it
and suggested that, you know, when you get an office,
your policies changed. But they also you know, he also
seemed to say they both want piece of them at least,
and I think, you know, everybody, I think wants to
see peace of them at least. But Mam Donnie's vision
of what peace looks like, you know, is very different
than what President Trump sees. President Trump supports Israel as
a Jewish state very clearly, and and Zara Mandani has
(09:48):
been clear that he does not believe Israel should exist
as a Jewish day. He's like in the current state
of Israel to apartheid South Africa, and he wants to
see a different Israel, you know, one country for Palestinians
and Israel and Jewish Israelis. But that was sort of
glossed over in the meeting, which I found very interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Ben, thanks for coming on. Thank you, Ben Siegel, ABC
News Deputy Political director of Washington. The meeting between zoron Mon, Mom, Donnie,
it's m A M D A N I it is.
It does not flow and and Trump and you know
they're smiling and joking and everybody's friends with each other.
(10:25):
Now suddenly he's not a communist, He's not a giehattist.
Trump is not a death spot.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
He likes some more than Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well what he what he what he likes? From what
I'm reading is is Zorn really knows how to handle
the media and is really adept and answering questions. Trump
loves good performers, even if he disagrees with everything they
stand for. But he gets excited by seeing people who
who can handle the stupid reporters. I mean that that
(10:55):
get that gets them going. So there is some admiration there,
I think from Mom Donnie. All right, when we come
back story of the day. This morning, the state released
their report on the fire, and specifically there's a section
on the reservoir, and I get this is going to
(11:17):
shock you, but the news of administration in the official
report doesn't think having an empty reservoir where there should
have been one hundred and sixteen million gallons of water
had any effect on fighting the fire. That's what the
report was about. So we'll talk next.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
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but we put a long segment that we had done
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To subscribe YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt's show.
And they're putting on longer and longer segments, and the
rest of the social media is at John Cobelt Radio. Yes,
Spencer Pratt parent really hit a nerve with a lot
of people in our audience. A tremendous number of people watching, listening, commenting,
(12:23):
And somebody who's asking me is like, why so many
people following the Palisades story since it just affects the
residence in the Palisades. Everyone's paying attention because if you
listen to this show, certainly and a lot of people
beyond our little universe. Everybody knows that the government's lying
(12:47):
to you all day and night. Everything that's long in
the city, in the state is because of the selfish
incompetence of of government, specific people like Newsom and Bass
and Jennie Canunias and the rest of them. And this
confirms what we're experiencing in our life. The homeless situation
(13:10):
is the same thing stolen money. They lie constantly, None
of their projects ever improve things, nothing, And we know
we're being lied to. We know their numbers are fake.
Homeless numbers are fake, the crime numbers are fake. This
(13:31):
information coming about the fire are fake. This is all.
This is all provable stuff. You notice nobody like Newsom
or Bass ever opens themselves up to a real interrogation
from a reporter or somebody from an opposing political party.
They don't have to. It's one party rule. And then
(13:51):
includes the media here. The media is either full progressive
or they're compliant. As Katie Grime says from California Globe,
they don't want to lose a seat at the table.
See most of the reporters and editors and producers, news directors.
They want access to these people. And if you criticize,
(14:14):
no more access see all the politicians don't really need
the media so much anymore. They can have their own
social media channels to communicate their propaganda, in their lies.
Most of what comes out of Sacramento and Gavin Newsom's
mouth or lies in propaganda. Most of what comes out
of Karen bass Or lies in propaganda. And I think
(14:36):
everybody's onto it. And the Pacific Palisades story is a
perfect representation of everything that's wrong. You can apply what
you're seeing and hearing to all the other issues that
are paralyzing life in California, Los Angeles. In competence, lack
of preparation, people taking money and stealing money, no accountability.
(15:01):
They don't even bother to comment, they don't even bother
to deny it anymore. They just keep lying because they
know there is a You know, we've got a lot
of double digit IQs in our state and triple digit
SAT scores like Newsome. Okay, if you have a lot
of people in triple digit SATs and double digit IQs,
(15:22):
it's not hard to fool people, not hard to whip
up their emotions, not hard to make them believe a
load of crap and when there is not opposition, not
an oppositional party, doesn't exist in the state or in
the city, not an oppositional media. This is what you get,
(15:42):
and so that's why people are following the story. It
confirms everything they already know about why the city in
the state is what it is. These people are criminals
and abusive and they don't care about you. So this
was predictable times. After a ten month review, California officials
(16:04):
concluded in a report that the water supply in southern
California was robust at the time of the fire, that
the water system isn't designed to handle such large intense wildfires.
That glides over the fact that it never should have
been a large intense wildfire had they just put out
the original fire on January first, And we all know
(16:28):
that that story. And then they say that the Santa
Ynez Reservoir, which can hold one hundred and seventeen million
gallons of drinking water, was empty for repairs at the time,
but that it really didn't make a difference. Yeah, really
(16:49):
didn't matter. In fact, ellen Cheg write down this woman's name,
a spokeshole for the LA Department of Water and Power,
spokesper for Genis Quinonias. The report confirms that the Senianez
Reservoir was offline to make necessary repairs, and that issues
(17:10):
with water pressure during the fire response were due to
the extraordinary demand on the system, not because of inadequate
water supply. In other words, us not filling the reservoir
had nothing to do with the fire doing so much damage.
One hundred and seventeen million gallons wouldn't have made a difference.
That's the message that Ellen Chang and this report is giving.
(17:33):
So they just put out their pile a horse crap.
It's laying there in front of us, steaming, and they
walk away. Ellen Chang turns away from her her computer screen.
She sent out her publicity release. She sent out a
quote satisfied the Times. Hey, you know, can we get
a quote? Oh here's my quote. Yeah, one hundred and
(17:54):
seventeen million gallons doesn't matter. Okay, God, is that good enough? Yeah?
That's good enough. Thanks, all right, we come back. I'll
tell you how much one hundred and seventeen million gallons is.
I went. I went to chet GPT there's a fascinating place,
and to Grock and to see I asked, could you
quantify what one hundred and seventeen million gallons are I'm
(18:17):
going to do. I'm going to read their response when
we come back, and then you decide whether it would
have had an effect on saving any homes in the fire.
We'll do that next.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Right every day from one in till four o'clock after
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast.
And oh we got the moistline up twice today at
three twenty and three fifty because it is Friday and
we were talking. Yesterday, we had Spencer Pratt on for
the whole three o'clock hour. You should listen to that.
He's the reality star who is the loudest, most effective
(18:56):
activist for the Palisades residents after the fire. And it
was quite entertaining and quite informative. So that's on the podcast,
and you could also watch a video of much of
the interview on YouTube to John Cobelt's show. We have
our own channel now. So today's atrocity and this is
(19:20):
utterly predictable. NEWSOM had ordered an investigation into the Palisades fire,
and so the investigation from the News of Administration says, well,
one hundred and seventeen million gallons that we're missing from
the reservoir in the Palisades. It didn't matter, you imagine that. So,
you know, I went to chet GPT to see if
(19:44):
I could find a quantifiable way to explain just how
much water one hundred and seventeen million gallons is right,
because that's you know, you tell somebody big numbers gets
lost in people.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I can't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, but you're not great with me. That's very true
if I get to fifteen or sixty.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Year out there.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Okay, So now I'll read you these comparisons and then
ask yourself, Okay, would that have had an effect? And
think about it as to maybe how many houses it
would have put out? One hundred and seventeen million gowns?
How many Olympic sized swimming pools is that? That's one
hundred and seventy seven Olympic sized swimming pools.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Now, even if each swimming pool could put out a
fire to protect one house, might have one hundred and
seventy seven home saved. Right, I don't think that's unreasonable.
Daily water use of in a city that was one
hundred and seventy million gawns? Is enough water for a
(20:49):
city of one point four million people for one day?
Imagine that one point four million people, about a third
of the city of Los Angeles. You think that would
have put out a few homes? What are tanker trucks? Now?
(21:10):
I like this one right now? You could visualize this right,
One hundred and seventeen million gallons is enough for nineteen thousand,
five hundred tanker trunks full of water? What nineteen thousand,
five hundred Now, if we had a line of nineteen thousand,
five hundred water trucks leading to the Pacific Palisades, do
(21:33):
you think some of those trucks would have put out.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
A few more than a few homes?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Right? All right? Look at it another way, If we
had nineteen thousand, five hundred tanker trunks trucks, it would
have been a line one hundred and forty eight miles long. Eric,
look up, what's one hundred and forty eight miles from
Los Angeles? And I'm doing this to show you that
(22:02):
the News of Administration and the Department of Order and
Power is simply full of steaming horse crap. You're telling
me a line of one hundred and forty eight miles
of tanker trunks trucks would have no effect on the fire.
One hundred and forty eight miles.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
You want to know how far one hundred and forty
eight miles south of Los Angeles is? Yeah, en Sonata, Mexico. Okay,
Now visualize that on the four h five.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Imagine one hundred and forty eight miles of traffic leading
you all the way into en Sonata, Mexico. And probably
most days we have a traffic jam that that's close
to one hundred and forty eight miles. I mean, it's
all tanks full of water, no effect on the Palisades fire. Really,
(22:53):
tanker trucks from here to en Sonata. All right? How
about a football field analogy. A US football field is
fifty seven thousand, six hundred square feet, so one hundred
and seventeen million gallons is enough to cover an NFL
(23:18):
field with two hundred and seventy one feet of water,
almost as tall as a twenty five story building that
includes end zones, bathtubs, bathtubs eighty gallons, yeah, one and
a half million full bathtubs, one and a half million
(23:45):
buckets bet you a lot of people are throwing buckets
of water on the fire on their home, trying to
beat back the flames. Five gallon buckets. How much would
you get out of one hundred and seventeen million gallons?
Twenty three and a half million buckets? Would that have helped?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Maybe a little?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
So what you have here. And there's a lot of
agencies that were a part of this bogus, ridiculous garbage
study that they did this investigation. And you know, somebody
tell all this to Ellen Cheng, the spokeshole for the LADWP.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Was anybody challenging this report?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, you are, I am, No, We're doing everything
by ourselves here, seriously, I.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Mean, because what you're saying, hopefully somebody else is going
to be picking up on this, what you're saying and
rolling with this, because this is insane.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It is inconceivable that if you took one hundred and
seventeen million gallons out of the water system and they're saying, well,
you know, the water system isn't designed to handle such
you know, this much water. I know for a fact,
live witnesses, people I know who said the problem there
(25:01):
was a hundreds of higher fire hydrants that were broken.
There was no water coming out. Because they tried to
give this complicated explanation, well, you wouldn't have the water pressure.
And they're also sticking to this lie that the reservoir
had to be closed to repair the terranet's cover. Now,
(25:24):
the reservoir was built in nineteen sixty four strictly for
fire purposes. You had that terrible bell Air fire of
nineteen sixty one, go look it up. It's in the
La Times. In fact, they did a retrospective article on it.
This year sixty one bell Air fire burned hundreds of homes.
Sixty four. They built the reservoir. It was specifically, and
(25:47):
you go back to the La Times story of nineteen
sixty four, specifically to deal with the fire. They claim, well,
you know we had we had to change the cover,
you know, because regulations it's harmed the water supply. They
never needed it for the water supply. And you know
what the proof of that is the reservoir was closed
(26:08):
for a year. Do you remember, do you remember any
emergencies were people in the Palisades didn't have water, They
couldn't shower, they couldn't fill their pools, they had nothing
to drink No, there was no water shortage in the
Palisades for the year that the reservoir was closed. None.
(26:29):
It's a total lie. Lie Number one on this issue
is the reservoir was built for fire protection. Number two,
it's not needed for drinking water. Otherwise the Palisades would
have been out of drinking water that whole year. Number three,
even if it had to be fixed, it only took
a month, and it only cost one hundred and forty
(26:50):
thousand dollars. And the depth of the lies and the
mis and the cover up is incredible. Ellen Cheng again
spokeshole for LEDWP. The report confirms that the Senianez Reservoir
was offline to make necessary repairs. False. And the issues
(27:13):
with water pressure during the fire response was to do
the extraordinary demand on the system, not the inadequate water supply.
So let me guess one hundred and seventeen million gallons
going through the system would not increase the water pressure.
I imagine she typed out this statement because if she
said it live, somebody would anybody contradict this nonsense. They
(27:38):
keep using the phrase extraordinary demands. And here's an idea,
how about building a water system that could handle wildfires?
Have we had enough of them? Why isn't our tax
money being used to build a modern age water system
(28:01):
to handle wildfires?
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Because our tax money is being used for other more
important things.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, like seventy thousand homeless people. What could we buy
with all the money we've spent on the people who
lay in the streets whacked out on meth and crack
and fent and ill, leaving their bodily waste all over
the place, terrorizing people. We didn't spend the billions and
(28:26):
billions of dollars of that seventy thousand. What could we
do to protect the lives and property of the tens
of thousands of people in the Palisades? I just we
are going to keep ath this though.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Yes, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI
A sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Coming up after two o'clock. What's going on after two o'clock?
Anybody know Karl de Mayo is coming on, and well
he's got the total that we're going to spend on
the legal alien healthcare in the current budgets now up
(29:09):
to thirteen billion dollars, double the original estimate from that
lying fiend Newsom. Newsom claimed it was six and a
half billion. It's now thirteen billion. By the way, we
have a massive budget deficit. So all right, next Thursday,
(29:31):
you know, Thanksgiving, and there was this Wall Street Journal
article about how many people get stoned during Thanksgiving dinner
in order to handle their family.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not speaking from experience, but
I know what happens.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It's called the cousin walk. That's right. Did you see
this story?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
No, but I know about it. Oh, it's a social
media thing.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh yeah, that's it says, behold the cousin. And I
thought I never heard that half of the guests are stoned,
according to the headline, because you might notice in the
middle of dinner, some family members go to walk the
dog or pick up ice or whatever other euphemism is
popular now, and people grab their coats, they glance towards
(30:22):
the door, so they have some of the cousins go
with them, and then they get stoned, and then they
come back and everybody's happy. And that's how they deal
with family tension.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
And they are hungrier, right, so they can eat more
turkey that's right, we're stuffing.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Or more tofu I guess in your kids if marijuana
is now legal in forty states for medicinal use and
recreational use in more than half of those. Not that
that's ever mattered. Oh, it's also known as the pre
(31:02):
dinner safety meeting, and it's it's so popular that you've
heard of, you know, Black Friday. There's now Green Wednesday.
Apparently there's a huge surge in pot sales on Wednesday,
on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. And I, you know, I'd
(31:24):
like to have a drink or two if there's going
to be a large group coming over. Yeah, because I don't.
I don't. I don't really enjoy being around people. I know, Well,
why not both? Well, yeah, I've never done that. I'm honestly,
I've only had like a few puffs of marijuana a
long time ago.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
You're not a candidate to do both at the same time.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And then I had that little present you.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Give me, right, So I'm just saying no, Yeah, after the.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Whole key debacle earlier this week, I don't know if
that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
See, I don't. Yeah, I don't really need to mess
with my brain chemistry because I'm barely functional as is,
and I don't know whether all that would do. The
first rule of the cousin walk is we do not
discuss the cousin walk, said one writer. Like you sneak out,
(32:11):
you get stoned, you come back in and you just
giggle at everybody, and the remaining guests find out that
they're a lot funnier and a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
More interesting by gets along with it very nicely.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah. You know, if I read one more article about
people fighting about politics at Thanksgiving dinner, I mean, but
that's the.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Number one thing people fight about these.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Days, right, I just won't do it. I have an
ironclad rule, and I tell my wife this and everybody
I said, I don't discuss any of this at all.
I just don't. And sometimes I got friends, and you know,
they're all they're very excitable, you know, usually about Trump.
And I'll listen to them, whether they're right, wrong, whether
(32:49):
they're infuriating, whatever it is. I just have this smile
plastered on my face and I nod along, and I
nod along, and I wait until they run out of
steam or venom or whatever's motivating them, because I only
think in my head. It's like, it really doesn't matter
what you think or what I think.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
So what if they say John, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I give? I give a very careful political answer depending
on who I'm dealing with, and and and to divert
the conversation somewhere else. Good because I just I don't
want to do it. First of all, I do this right, yeah,
last people think I want to talk about this when
I don't want to talk about this. All right, I
already hit three hours. I got fifteen hours a week.
Go listen to the podcast. You want to know what
(33:29):
I think. I don't have to do a show at
Thanksgiving dinner, unless maybe if I'm stoned. But you see,
the thing is, let's if I start telling like the
real truth, because I'm like, I'm really bottled up inside.
I know you are very bottled up inside. And if
I take some substance that lets out what I'm really thinking.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
That's not You're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
No, yes, nobody wants to know what's going on in
my head all day. I mean, you get a little
slip of it here, and it's it's bad enough.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
And I get some off the air too, right, It's
not good, is it?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It's okay?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
All right, we come back. Carl Demile thirteen billion, thirteen billion,
big ones for illegal alien healthcare. That's double newsome promise.
Debormark is live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
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