March 26, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/26) - Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council President Lydia Grant comes on the show to talk about LA County dumping toxic soil from the Eaton Fire burn zone in the area. More on the disaster the fire recovery and rebuilding efforts has been. More on LA's budget shortfall.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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demand on the iHeart app. Later this hour, we're going
to do some more on the Palisades fire. Only four
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four homeowners have been given permits to rebuild. Four showing
you what liars and incompetence Karen Bass and Gavin Usom are.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Everything was supposed to be streamlined.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
They're going to cut red tape, blah blah blah blah,
A lot of gas passed at these news conferences in
public events, four in seventy five days. And a story
on FEMA getting overwhelmed. There's about thirteen thousand homeowners who've
lost their homes between the Palisades and Altadena, thirteen thousand.
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We're going to play another quiz when we come back
next segment, but I won't tell you the question because
I don't want you to look it up. Let's get
to uh, speaking of the fires. Lydia Grant is the
president of the Sunland to Hunga neighborhood Council and She
represents many residents in Sunland to Hunga that fear that
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toxic debris is going to be carried in to their
community for a long time from the eat and fire.
And they have their own tests that show how toxic
this this debris and dirt is and exactly what's in it.
So let's get lydia. Grant On, we've talked about lydia.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm great, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So explain to people who are not familiar. I mean
you're you're up in the I guess the like the
eastern San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Correct, we're in the northeast San Fernando Valley just before
you leave the count of the city line.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, what do you have there? You have some kind
of landfill there that they want to bring all this
debris to.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So what has happened is we have a sediment placement
site that was built I believe seventy years ago, and
they got the regulatory permits fifty years ago, and at
the time there were no homes. So now that this
has neighborhoods all surrounding the spot, this entire spot surrounded
by the city of Los Angeles, and it's at the
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top of a big hill. They've decided to start bringing
dirt from the Eaton fire area, from the sediment basement
and start dumping it on the top of the hill.
This is not a landfill, this is not a contained site.
This is just a dirt space. And what's happened is
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the county did not notify the community. The county didn't
a whole route. The county didn't call the school district.
They didn't do anything. They violated all of their own
policies and then started dumping about I think they said
one hundred and thirty five. Well they're saying now that
that one hundred and thirty five number they gave us
istounded both ways. So anyway, they've changed the number. They're
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saying they're only jumping about sixty five truckloads a day
in residential areas.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Let's go with the load number, sixty five truckloads a
day of You say toxic dirt.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now you've done your own testing, yes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So what happened was we we fought with the county
to do a test and the county was refusing, so
they did finally do a test, but by the time
the results came out, the community members were so concerned
because of this acrid burning smell that was infiltrating their
homes and the dirt that was flowing into their homes,
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they decided that they were going to test it themselves.
So they did the test level and the test level
showed that for arsenic, for the normal what they call
safe limit for ecological impact is zero point one one,
and the arsenic test showed four point six five, which
is forty two times the same limit.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh, zero point one and it's it's it's uh.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Four zero point one one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's zero point one one. And the and the real
uh arsenic level is the.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Community test showed that was done out laboratory showed it
to be four point six five, okay, so forty two
times the normal, forty.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Two times the allowable level liniumum yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And selenium sollennium what our test results showed eighteen point one.
The safe limit is one point five for four point
one according to the test results for safe limit ranges.
These are from we understand the lab used as a
call of Fournia EPA to do their testing right.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So nine times the level, nine times the level of selenium,
forty two times the level of arsenic in the dirt
that the county is dumping at this landfilled type site
in your in your neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, it's not a landfill, it's just a dirt lot.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, dirt lot.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hill.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And unfortunately, this is a high wind velocity area, so
anything on that hill blows over through the whole community
and into the San Fernando finally, the northeast portion.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Have you talked to one of the county supervisors?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Funny, they have not gotten back to me. The council
member has now stepped up, and when we were told
last night by the council office that the county has
said the city will not be allowed in to test that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Soil, the city can't test as the county tested to
confirm your readings.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They did, which is interesting. The only thing they showed
was arsenic. They didn't for anything else. And they're saying
their test was three point nine, which is still way
above the zero point eleven.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah right, that's that's still like thirty nine times too high.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
But they're saying that their test is normal, and that
they have refused on four occasions to give us what
they're considering their normal range. They will not tell me
what to say.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, if it's thirty nine times the safety level, then
it's not in any normal range.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
They're just fully They're saying, well.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Do you could expect this in a high in an
area that's had a fire, but we didn't have a fire.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, you didn't have a fire.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And whether you expect it or not, all that dust
is what everybody's breathing in, and it is being imported
from another site. Correct.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And we do have other issues because when you have
there are several funguses for example coccidio micosis that if
it's if it's drought, then it dies, but then once
the rains come it comes back to life. And now
you've disturbed all the soil and dumped it at the
top of the hill where it can go all over
the valley. And they're going to say, well, it already
exists in the valley. Yeah, but this soil has been
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disturbed and now is in a high wind area where
it could blow it out.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
All right, So this is the soil from the Altadena
fire that may have the fungus in it, and it's
been disturbed and the winds are blowing and now it's
in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Too.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh yes, and the county will all need test for metals.
They won't do any other testing for us. Even the
book County Health Department website as some of these fungus
is listed. The other thing that's that's concerned to us
is that they're also dumping the same soil in other
areas potentially so are. We just heard that the city
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of Glendale is now supporting our ability to test because
now they're demanding tests too, because they're dumping this up
a bust exchange in part.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You've done the tests, You've found out there's that the
toxic levels of arsenic are off the charge millennium is
off the charts. They don't care. The county doesn't want
to do anything about. Who's your county supervisor.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It's Catherine Barger, and you've talked to their office.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I've had the most respect for her. When we first
started getting all the complaints, we held the community meeting
and her staff was there. We had over eighty people
come to complain, and the county just kept telling us
we can do what we want. Nobody gives us permission.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Who says that and leave us alone.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's what the Public Works department told us.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So the Department of Public Works, that's the bureaucracy. They
basically flipped you off and said, don't bother us, not
your business. Yes, but you know what what's terrible is
is you guys didn't suffer from the fire, and now
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you've got to deal with all this toxic dirt being
dumped in your neighborhood and nobody wants to do anything
about it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Why can't the dirt be taken far far away?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That is a good question. And my concern is not
just for my own community. It's as Army, Corps of
engineers and all these others are dumping everywhere. There's no communications,
no coordination. So here we have, but we have trucks
coming through our area, going all over the place.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
This is a big states, This is a big state.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
This is a huge disaster.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
This is where the governor should say that no town
should have to suffer. Well, we already have alt to
be in suffering badly, and the ballistides suffering badly. We
shouldn't spread the suffering with toxic dirt to any other town.
There's got to be something out in the desert there.
I mean, we've all driven out there. You can drive
for hours and hours and hours, you don't see anybody
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or anything. There's gotta be some site there that they
can dump this dirt and it's not going to hurt anything.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Money told and the county told us at our meeting
that they're looking at how much of taxpayer money this
is this is taking up. And one of our community
members said, well, don't you think the health of those
community members is more important? But they just said no.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But they're they're worried about Wait, they're worried about tax
money since when they give them, they give away millions
and millions to illegal aliens. So worried about tax money.
When American citizens want to test the toxic art that's
been dumped in their neighborhoods oh forgot. I hate that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I cannot stand with it is close to go to
tax money. You don't care about tax money? Stop?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Do we really care all? I hope the soial tests
as normal, but if you don't let us go test it,
it just makes us suspect. Yeah, because our tests, they
had to they had to trespass to get the test
because they wouldn't allow the community in. So the community
got so scared of what could be there that this
is what their tests showed that a legitimate laboratory did.
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I have the results, and it has been We've been
fighting this for weeks, but finally when that test result
came back, we actually had something fight on.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
If if it's a four twenty two times or thirty
nine times the safe level of arsenic, if it's four
or five or six times the safe level of selenium,
then that's what it is. I mean, they have these
standards for a reason. All right, listen, you keep in
touch with us, all right. I know you're going to
keep fighting. And everybody in your group there, it's the
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Sunland Tahunga Neighborhood Council, Northeastern San Fernando Valley here in
Los Angeles, Lydia Grant. Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
All Right, when we come back, you have about thirteen
thousand homes destroyed by the fire. How many applications for
FEMA assistance do you think have come in? This is
the federal government. You're not going to believe this. Well,
you will believe this, and we'll talk about the four
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permits that have been approved for rebuilding in the palisations.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
You're listening to John Belts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Moistline eight seven seven moist daighty six. For Friday, let
it ramp eight seven seven moist d eaighty six. So
use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Every time
the government is offering aid, where members of the public
apply for the aid, usually online, there is an enormous
amount of fraud because in the federal government, and certainly
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under Gavenus and in the state government, thousands and thousands
of criminals sign up for the aid, and much of
the time they get it. We know this from the
Unemployment Department during COVID handing out thirty to fifty billion
dollars billion dollars of tax money that they could not
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recover because it went to fraudsters around the world. Eighty percent,
eighty five percent of the fraudulent payouts were people who
applied out of the country and got the money while
they're out of the country. And this is what plagues
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the federal and state government. I have no patience for
anybody who's upset with Elon Musk. We need like fifty
Elon Musks in every single state, and we certainly we
can use a dozen just in California. One for LA
and one for every other major city, and one in
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the state, and one day it's going to happen. This
can't go on forever because the state is broke, seventy
six billion dollar deficit.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
LA has broke.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They've got a huge deficit, and you got whack jobs
like the socialist Hugo Soda Martinez running around demanding more
money for illegal aliens. That day is over. Americans don't
want to pay for any of this anymore. They want
to deport it. It's an eighty twenty issue in California.
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Is this is not going to last even here. Here's
an example of this. Thirteen thousand homes destroyed between the
Palisades and Alta Dina and the fires. FEMA, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, guess how many applications it's received.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Zero? Zero.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Well, I mean, I've been wrong every time, so I
decided to.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Be extreme and I'm going to go on the high end.
Ten thousand, ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So you think for the thirteen thousand homes ten thousand
applications for assistance, ten thousand is wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Zero is very wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
The number two hundred and seventy thousand, who two hundred
and seventy thousand, or about twenty people for each home,
because I don't know the applications work. But let's say
every adult in the home can file a separate application.
I don't know if that's true, but just to give
them the benefit of the doubt here, that would take
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you up to about twenty six thousand, two hundred and
seventy thousand, twenty times the number of affected homes. It's
nothing but fraudulent applications. And many residents and we have
friends that this happened to when they applied for FEMA
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AID found that someone else had already applied in their
name with their address, and they were locked out of
the system. All you have to do is look up
any of those databases online, pick a street where you
know the fire hit pick an address and the name,
and fill out the form online and not only potentially
do they get the money, you are blocked.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You get no money. You can die in the street.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And this is why Trump wants to dismantle FEMA, because
it's an absurd agency. It's just completely busted.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
FEMA. And the thing is, the trouble is is.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
What FEMA used to have a system where it was
hard to get the money, so they tried to make
it easier. But in making it easier, it means the
whole world can steal the money. Same thing happened in Sacramento.
By the way, we still haven't paid that bill.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
FEMA said.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
One problem is, well, there's a new problem. They have
to close applications at the end of the month. The
local idiot Congressman Brad Sherman had asked that they extend
the period to the end of the year, and FEMA said, no,
because we got two hundred and seventy thousand applications from
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thirteen thousand homes. You extended to the end of the year,
we're going to have with millions and millions of fraudulent applications.
This is what people do around the world. This is
all they do. Young guys in foreign countries. Their job
is to wake up in the morning, get on a
computer terminal, and start scamming. Sometimes they work for companies.
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I guess you could call them, well, it's organized crime.
Sometimes they're working against their will. Identity theft is not uncommon,
it's according to Breitbart, and maps of affected areas and
addresses available easily online. They've already rested a few people
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for ripping off FEMA in the LA fire. One of
them was suspected of collecting on similar applications for two
decades going back to Hurricane Katrina. This is what I'm
saying is this is a this is a lifetime job
waiting for disaster. A governor declares a certain site a
disaster area eligible for FEMA money, and this character has
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has lived off fake FEMA money for twenty years now.
Nathan Hackman says that fraudsters were coming to LA and
you have to call the FBI one eight hundred, call
FBI in case you're a victim of it. All right,
we come back. This was a contest we did earlier
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and Deborah failed at.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
This as well.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I failed every one of them. So you know what.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You go for Three on my quizzes, how many permits
have been processed by Karen Bass, who promised to streamline
the red and cut the red tape.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
We'll tell you when we returned.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Karen Bash went well, along with some of some of
the council people, went to a Sacramento to beg for money.
She's pretty much like one of those homeless bag ladies
on the street or the shopping cart banging a tin cup.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Well, what do you expect her to do? We have
such a terrible deficit.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Billion dollars short. But this is separate, This is separate
from the billion dollar deficit. She wants another two billion
to help clean up after the fire because she left
for Africa, because the reservoir wasn't filled, two of them,
because the fire chief didn't deploy firefighters, because the engines
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were all on blocks, broken, because there were no mechanics,
because the DWP electric polls collapsed and wires hit the
ground and started a second fire, which we found out yesterday. Well,
the damage is going to cost a lot of money,
and La doesn't have it. City councils busy shoveling out
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more money for illegal aliens. So she goes to Sacramento
to try to get the rest of the state taxpayers
to pay for this. So you people, the rest of
you in La County, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura County,
wherever you're listening, you're supposed to pay. You're supposed to
pay for their incompetence.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
They need.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Seven hundred and fifty million dollars for mitigation and resilience
for city residents. What is that, Well, seven hundred million
dollars would be a loan to upgrade the Palisades electrical grid.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So maybe they could put the wires underground. Boy, that
would have helped a lot. Maybe they should have done
those wires, the ones from the DWP.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Well, now they're saying they are going to do that
in the Palace Stades area moving forward, right.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
The rest of the state's gonna have to pay for it, yes,
because the DWP never did it themselves. Forty million dollars
to incentivize electric upgrades and appliance says.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh yeah, that's what somebody to. Several people have told
me this.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You the only people who are getting permits, the four people.
This is what I've heard. I don't know if it's true,
but I did hear this in a news story. You
have to agree to all electric appliances in your house.
You can't do any gas appliances. What so you have
to have like an electric stove, and yeah, who.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Has electric stoves?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The state has been trying to force this for quite
a while. There's some cities I think like Berkeley that
if you have a new house or you're buying a
new stove for your house has to be electric.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I've had that in the past. You know what, I
would rent an apartment. I hated that.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I hate them too. We have one up at the
lake and I don't like it. I don't even just
understand how to cook with it. It doesn't cook it on, Joe, No,
but it doesn't cook the same. There's something different.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I agree. I know, you just turn it on.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I don't understand it. This doesn't seem to cook the same.
So I don't understand what.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Okay, I'm glad that you cleared that up. I'm sorry
if I insulted.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, no, no, no, you'll do it again in a
few minutes. Six hundred and thirty eight million dollars. I'll
look at this. Six hundred and thirty eight million is
supposed to bail out the city's budget gap.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Look at that. I thought this was all of the fire. No,
they want the.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
State taxpayers to pay a quarter of a billion dollars
to improve the streets, the sidewalks, and the street lights,
because we have streets that look like the roads in Afghanistan.
Sidewalks are disaster. People are tripping by the hundreds, costing
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US millions of dollars. Street lights are out everywhere, So
how the state has to pay to upgrade our streets,
sidewalks and street lights.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What boy?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
If I was in other cities and counties, I'd say no.
Let me tell you. They have squandered the money here.
They squandered the money on the homeless. That's why they
have no money to pave roads and fix sidewalks. Two
hundred million dollars to fund liability payments. Wait a second,
state taxpayers have to pay for all the crazy lawsuits.
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One hundred and fifty million to refill the city's reserve fund.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
My reading this right? This is from CBS News. Yes,
out of the six budgetary.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Concerns in the lawmaker's letter, that's Bass and some of
the council members. Bob Bloomenfield is one of them. Thirty
eight million dollars to offset lost revenue from the Palisades fire.
Ten million to improve the traffic signal system.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
This is all.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Stuff that local taxes ought to cover, but they gave
it away.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
To the homeless and the illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Oh Man, Council budget chairwoman Kadye Rslavsky a complete waste.
This trip to Sacramento wasn't about a one time fix.
It was about laying the foundation for a stronger, more
resilient city.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You blew the money. You blew the money.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Four and thirty million would help LA's firefighting capabilities and
pay for recovery efforts like debris removal, building permit waivers,
and building permit waivers. Yes, they defunded the fire department
many years ago. It's only fifty percent funded. And the
firefighters have to chase seven nineteen thousand homeless fires a year.
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So now because we allowed tens of thousands of homeless
to live in our streets, the rest of the state
has to pay us to put out all the bumfires.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Seventy five million will expedite the processing of FEMA funds
from previous emergencies. Most of that is the COVID nineteen pandemic.
What are you talking about. We haven't paid out COVID
nineteen money. Well, I guess that.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
All that was stolen too.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Bess actually went up to Sacramento and made these requests.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
These demands really.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Heads on a stick, John, I heard.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Well, I think Daniel said this on the air. The
Assembly gave her a standing ovation. She used to be
the Speaker of the Assembly, so she got a standing
ovation from all the other Democrats. So what if they're
gonna give her the money? Oh, but they don't have
the money.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Ye's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I don't know. They're seventy six billion in debt.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
They're actually going to spend two billion tax dollars from
everywhere else in the state to fix our streets, sidewalk
street lights, and to pay for our fire department because
we have blown all the money on homeless people and
illegal aliens. Oh, and ridiculous contracts, absurd contracts, and apparently
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we have thousands of employees that we don't really need
because they're going to be laigoff thousands. Matt Dizebo, the
LA's administrative offers, said it's nearly inevitable, but layoffs cannot
and will not be the only solution. Yeah, they got
to steal money from everyone else in the state. Are
we come back. I'll to get to the permit story.
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and I get prizes. You don't get anything. Tracy Park
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seems to be the only person on the city council.
Well there's two Tracy Park and Monica Rodriguez, who cares
about how the fires have devastated the people in Los
Angeles whose neighborhoods burned down. Now we have more neighborhoods
were being hurt by all the toxic waste being trucked
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in to their section of the city, and they're getting
lied to, of course by many people in government. But
one thing, and I, you know, maybe we've got to
get him on ties together of Karen Bass and Gavin
Newsom and who knows who else saying oh, we're gonna
streamline the process, we're gonna cut the red tape, we're
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gonna make it easy for people to rebuild as soon
as possible. All of that, all that's just a bunch
of lies, because it's Bass and Newsome because now two
months after the Palisades fire, only four permits have been
issued four one, two, three, four four permits thousands of
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homes and us As Tracy Park pointed out, we're on
day seventy five, post four post fire. And he goes,
I don't think it's a I don't think it's a
lack of interest in rebuilding.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
She's so polite. She says, I.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Suspect it is indicative of systemic issues that we need
to continue to focus on. What is wrong with people
in these offices. Would you like to go into these
offices and see what they do all day? I mean
they must have hundreds, if not thousands of permit applications.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
What do they do?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
They only approved for and like I said, I heard
you only got a quick you only got a quick
permit approval if you promise to use only electric appliances
because they're members of that climate change cult you may
have heard of that thinks even natural gas appliances.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Are incorrect.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Karen Bass hired a private consulting firm to oversee the recovery,
Haggardy Consulting. Remember that I think they're from Iowa. Ten
million dollars. We're paying ten million dollars. Nobody knows what
they do. Monica Rodriguez, the other councilwoman who seems to care.
We have city departments who know how to do this,
who have been involved in recovery efforts in the past,
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but they can't hire the personnel they need because city's broke.
But we can give ten million dollars to an outside agency,
who she says, is just going to help write a report.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
She says, it's obscene.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Why if they streamlined, if they cut red tape, that's
from cavenus and promise that's from Karen Bass's promise. How's
it seventy five days and four permits. See if anybody
in the media bothers to follow up on that. All right,
let's go to Conway.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Ding Dong with you.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
We've got another more home invasions, more home robberies. There's
a couple lives off of Magnolia in the I don't know,
I guess the Wilshire area that's been robbed three times
in the last year. Three home invasions, three times. They've
been robbed in the last year. And you know what
the cops told them, Hey, maybe it's time to move out.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Really you know, when somebody is robbed three times, I
start to wonder if there's something going on in their lives.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
I think that they have a lot of money cash,
you know, a lot of money, jewelry or watches, or
something going on in that house that people know about.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Also, you know, if you buy a safe.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Let's say you run out to you know, your favorite store, safe,
sar Us or whatever it is, and you buy a safe,
I think there's chatter among the people who know that you.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Bought that safe.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
That's that's very possible, you know, and like, why are
you buying a twelve hundred dollars safe.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Or there's somebody with inside information. That's right, that's right,
because I actually know of a couple and they got
broken into, stuff was stolen, and it turns out their
housekeeper had a brother or a cousin who is in
a criminal gang and was putting pressure on the housekeeper aheah, right,
let him know where stuff is.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
And I remember when I I was in just out
of high school, and I didn't have a lot of cash,
but you know, you know, a couple of thousand bucks
in savings, and I went to the bank to pull
out some money to go to the track. And the
guy who was the teller, who is the guy who
was always in detention at Birmingham Height School. He was
always a mischief maker. He was always stealing from people's
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cars and stuff, and he turned his life around. Now
he's a bank teller. I'm like, wait a minute, that
guy is now the bank teller.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Now he's got all my information. Yeah, get at anyway.
Today we've got you know, pirates on the high seas.
Now when you're on a cruise ship you have to
worry about pirates. Another thing you have to worry about.
Everybody's into crime now pirates. Everybody's into crime. God, we're
we pirates, I know. And then we got the Misak
coming in. He's a good friend of ours, he used
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to work at KLAC and we'll talk about his health
continuing health issues. I think he's you know, there's a
lot of people out there whose kidneys have failed and
they're looking to get a transplant. And man, is that
a difficult road to go down. Yeah, it's it's Adrad
to deal with it here instead dot Bondo's I got
a friend. And then Preston Smith Matt Money Smith's daughter,
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you know who.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
She's seventeen, eighteen nineteen, I don't know, maybe she's twenty.
She sang the national anthem last night at the King game.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Yeah, that's kind of a cool deal. We'll talk to
her about what the what's entailed in that?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
All right? Yeah, time way, it's a big show.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Plus, there's a rumor going around that Chipotle is closing down.
That's not true. It's just a murmur Chipotle. Yeah, all right,
and I and I and Andrew Caravell, who is going
to be in four Krozer all day.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
All right, and Andrew is up next KFI twenty four
our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every
Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on
the iHeartRadio app.
Can't I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock. Whatever you missed John Cobelt's show on
demand on the iHeart app. Later this hour, we're going
to do some more on the Palisades fire. Only four
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four homeowners have been given permits to rebuild. Four showing
you what liars and incompetence Karen Bass and Gavin Usom are.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Everything was supposed to be streamlined.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
They're going to cut red tape, blah blah blah blah,
A lot of gas passed at these news conferences in
public events, four in seventy five days. And a story
on FEMA getting overwhelmed. There's about thirteen thousand homeowners who've
lost their homes between the Palisades and Altadena, thirteen thousand.
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We're going to play another quiz when we come back
next segment, but I won't tell you the question because
I don't want you to look it up. Let's get
to uh, speaking of the fires. Lydia Grant is the
president of the Sunland to Hunga neighborhood Council and She
represents many residents in Sunland to Hunga that fear that
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toxic debris is going to be carried in to their
community for a long time from the eat and fire.
And they have their own tests that show how toxic
this this debris and dirt is and exactly what's in it.
So let's get lydia. Grant On, we've talked about lydia.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm great, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So explain to people who are not familiar. I mean
you're you're up in the I guess the like the
eastern San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Correct, we're in the northeast San Fernando Valley just before
you leave the count of the city line.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, what do you have there? You have some kind
of landfill there that they want to bring all this
debris to.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So what has happened is we have a sediment placement
site that was built I believe seventy years ago, and
they got the regulatory permits fifty years ago, and at
the time there were no homes. So now that this
has neighborhoods all surrounding the spot, this entire spot surrounded
by the city of Los Angeles, and it's at the
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top of a big hill. They've decided to start bringing
dirt from the Eaton fire area, from the sediment basement
and start dumping it on the top of the hill.
This is not a landfill, this is not a contained site.
This is just a dirt space. And what's happened is
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the county did not notify the community. The county didn't
a whole route. The county didn't call the school district.
They didn't do anything. They violated all of their own
policies and then started dumping about I think they said
one hundred and thirty five. Well they're saying now that
that one hundred and thirty five number they gave us
istounded both ways. So anyway, they've changed the number. They're
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saying they're only jumping about sixty five truckloads a day
in residential areas.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Let's go with the load number, sixty five truckloads a
day of You say toxic dirt.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Now you've done your own testing, yes.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So what happened was we we fought with the county
to do a test and the county was refusing, so
they did finally do a test, but by the time
the results came out, the community members were so concerned
because of this acrid burning smell that was infiltrating their
homes and the dirt that was flowing into their homes,
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they decided that they were going to test it themselves.
So they did the test level and the test level
showed that for arsenic, for the normal what they call
safe limit for ecological impact is zero point one one,
and the arsenic test showed four point six five, which
is forty two times the same limit.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh, zero point one and it's it's it's uh.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Four zero point one one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's zero point one one. And the and the real
uh arsenic level is the.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Community test showed that was done out laboratory showed it
to be four point six five, okay, so forty two
times the normal, forty.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Two times the allowable level liniumum yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And selenium sollennium what our test results showed eighteen point one.
The safe limit is one point five for four point
one according to the test results for safe limit ranges.
These are from we understand the lab used as a
call of Fournia EPA to do their testing right.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So nine times the level, nine times the level of selenium,
forty two times the level of arsenic in the dirt
that the county is dumping at this landfilled type site
in your in your neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, it's not a landfill, it's just a dirt lot.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, dirt lot.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hill.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And unfortunately, this is a high wind velocity area, so
anything on that hill blows over through the whole community
and into the San Fernando finally, the northeast portion.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Have you talked to one of the county supervisors?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Funny, they have not gotten back to me. The council
member has now stepped up, and when we were told
last night by the council office that the county has
said the city will not be allowed in to test that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Soil, the city can't test as the county tested to
confirm your readings.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They did, which is interesting. The only thing they showed
was arsenic. They didn't for anything else. And they're saying
their test was three point nine, which is still way
above the zero point eleven.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah right, that's that's still like thirty nine times too high.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
But they're saying that their test is normal, and that
they have refused on four occasions to give us what
they're considering their normal range. They will not tell me
what to say.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, if it's thirty nine times the safety level, then
it's not in any normal range.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
They're just fully They're saying, well.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Do you could expect this in a high in an
area that's had a fire, but we didn't have a fire.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, you didn't have a fire.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And whether you expect it or not, all that dust
is what everybody's breathing in, and it is being imported
from another site. Correct.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And we do have other issues because when you have
there are several funguses for example coccidio micosis that if
it's if it's drought, then it dies, but then once
the rains come it comes back to life. And now
you've disturbed all the soil and dumped it at the
top of the hill where it can go all over
the valley. And they're going to say, well, it already
exists in the valley. Yeah, but this soil has been
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disturbed and now is in a high wind area where
it could blow it out.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
All right, So this is the soil from the Altadena
fire that may have the fungus in it, and it's
been disturbed and the winds are blowing and now it's
in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Too.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh yes, and the county will all need test for metals.
They won't do any other testing for us. Even the
book County Health Department website as some of these fungus
is listed. The other thing that's that's concerned to us
is that they're also dumping the same soil in other
areas potentially so are. We just heard that the city
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of Glendale is now supporting our ability to test because
now they're demanding tests too, because they're dumping this up
a bust exchange in part.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You've done the tests, You've found out there's that the
toxic levels of arsenic are off the charge millennium is
off the charts. They don't care. The county doesn't want
to do anything about. Who's your county supervisor.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It's Catherine Barger, and you've talked to their office.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I've had the most respect for her. When we first
started getting all the complaints, we held the community meeting
and her staff was there. We had over eighty people
come to complain, and the county just kept telling us
we can do what we want. Nobody gives us permission.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Who says that and leave us alone.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's what the Public Works department told us.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So the Department of Public Works, that's the bureaucracy. They
basically flipped you off and said, don't bother us, not
your business. Yes, but you know what what's terrible is
is you guys didn't suffer from the fire, and now
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you've got to deal with all this toxic dirt being
dumped in your neighborhood and nobody wants to do anything
about it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Why can't the dirt be taken far far away?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That is a good question. And my concern is not
just for my own community. It's as Army, Corps of
engineers and all these others are dumping everywhere. There's no communications,
no coordination. So here we have, but we have trucks
coming through our area, going all over the place.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
This is a big states, This is a big state.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
This is a huge disaster.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
This is where the governor should say that no town
should have to suffer. Well, we already have alt to
be in suffering badly, and the ballistides suffering badly. We
shouldn't spread the suffering with toxic dirt to any other town.
There's got to be something out in the desert there.
I mean, we've all driven out there. You can drive
for hours and hours and hours, you don't see anybody
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or anything. There's gotta be some site there that they
can dump this dirt and it's not going to hurt anything.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Money told and the county told us at our meeting
that they're looking at how much of taxpayer money this
is this is taking up. And one of our community
members said, well, don't you think the health of those
community members is more important? But they just said no.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But they're they're worried about Wait, they're worried about tax
money since when they give them, they give away millions
and millions to illegal aliens. So worried about tax money.
When American citizens want to test the toxic art that's
been dumped in their neighborhoods oh forgot. I hate that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I cannot stand with it is close to go to
tax money. You don't care about tax money? Stop?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Do we really care all? I hope the soial tests
as normal, but if you don't let us go test it,
it just makes us suspect. Yeah, because our tests, they
had to they had to trespass to get the test
because they wouldn't allow the community in. So the community
got so scared of what could be there that this
is what their tests showed that a legitimate laboratory did.
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I have the results, and it has been We've been
fighting this for weeks, but finally when that test result
came back, we actually had something fight on.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
If if it's a four twenty two times or thirty
nine times the safe level of arsenic, if it's four
or five or six times the safe level of selenium,
then that's what it is. I mean, they have these
standards for a reason. All right, listen, you keep in
touch with us, all right. I know you're going to
keep fighting. And everybody in your group there, it's the
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Sunland Tahunga Neighborhood Council, Northeastern San Fernando Valley here in
Los Angeles, Lydia Grant. Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
All Right, when we come back, you have about thirteen
thousand homes destroyed by the fire. How many applications for
FEMA assistance do you think have come in? This is
the federal government. You're not going to believe this. Well,
you will believe this, and we'll talk about the four
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permits that have been approved for rebuilding in the palisations.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
You're listening to John Belts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Moistline eight seven seven moist daighty six. For Friday, let
it ramp eight seven seven moist d eaighty six. So
use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Every time
the government is offering aid, where members of the public
apply for the aid, usually online, there is an enormous
amount of fraud because in the federal government, and certainly
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under Gavenus and in the state government, thousands and thousands
of criminals sign up for the aid, and much of
the time they get it. We know this from the
Unemployment Department during COVID handing out thirty to fifty billion
dollars billion dollars of tax money that they could not
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recover because it went to fraudsters around the world. Eighty percent,
eighty five percent of the fraudulent payouts were people who
applied out of the country and got the money while
they're out of the country. And this is what plagues
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the federal and state government. I have no patience for
anybody who's upset with Elon Musk. We need like fifty
Elon Musks in every single state, and we certainly we
can use a dozen just in California. One for LA
and one for every other major city, and one in
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the state, and one day it's going to happen. This
can't go on forever because the state is broke, seventy
six billion dollar deficit.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
LA has broke.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They've got a huge deficit, and you got whack jobs
like the socialist Hugo Soda Martinez running around demanding more
money for illegal aliens. That day is over. Americans don't
want to pay for any of this anymore. They want
to deport it. It's an eighty twenty issue in California.
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Is this is not going to last even here. Here's
an example of this. Thirteen thousand homes destroyed between the
Palisades and Alta Dina and the fires. FEMA, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, guess how many applications it's received.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Zero? Zero.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Well, I mean, I've been wrong every time, so I
decided to.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Be extreme and I'm going to go on the high end.
Ten thousand, ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So you think for the thirteen thousand homes ten thousand
applications for assistance, ten thousand is wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Zero is very wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
The number two hundred and seventy thousand, who two hundred
and seventy thousand, or about twenty people for each home,
because I don't know the applications work. But let's say
every adult in the home can file a separate application.
I don't know if that's true, but just to give
them the benefit of the doubt here, that would take
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you up to about twenty six thousand, two hundred and
seventy thousand, twenty times the number of affected homes. It's
nothing but fraudulent applications. And many residents and we have
friends that this happened to when they applied for FEMA
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AID found that someone else had already applied in their
name with their address, and they were locked out of
the system. All you have to do is look up
any of those databases online, pick a street where you
know the fire hit pick an address and the name,
and fill out the form online and not only potentially
do they get the money, you are blocked.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You get no money. You can die in the street.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And this is why Trump wants to dismantle FEMA, because
it's an absurd agency. It's just completely busted.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
FEMA. And the thing is, the trouble is is.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
What FEMA used to have a system where it was
hard to get the money, so they tried to make
it easier. But in making it easier, it means the
whole world can steal the money. Same thing happened in Sacramento.
By the way, we still haven't paid that bill.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
FEMA said.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
One problem is, well, there's a new problem. They have
to close applications at the end of the month. The
local idiot Congressman Brad Sherman had asked that they extend
the period to the end of the year, and FEMA said, no,
because we got two hundred and seventy thousand applications from
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thirteen thousand homes. You extended to the end of the year,
we're going to have with millions and millions of fraudulent applications.
This is what people do around the world. This is
all they do. Young guys in foreign countries. Their job
is to wake up in the morning, get on a
computer terminal, and start scamming. Sometimes they work for companies.
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I guess you could call them, well, it's organized crime.
Sometimes they're working against their will. Identity theft is not uncommon,
it's according to Breitbart, and maps of affected areas and
addresses available easily online. They've already rested a few people
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for ripping off FEMA in the LA fire. One of
them was suspected of collecting on similar applications for two
decades going back to Hurricane Katrina. This is what I'm
saying is this is a this is a lifetime job
waiting for disaster. A governor declares a certain site a
disaster area eligible for FEMA money, and this character has
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has lived off fake FEMA money for twenty years now.
Nathan Hackman says that fraudsters were coming to LA and
you have to call the FBI one eight hundred, call
FBI in case you're a victim of it. All right,
we come back. This was a contest we did earlier
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and Deborah failed at.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
This as well.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I failed every one of them. So you know what.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You go for Three on my quizzes, how many permits
have been processed by Karen Bass, who promised to streamline
the red and cut the red tape.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
We'll tell you when we returned.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Karen Bash went well, along with some of some of
the council people, went to a Sacramento to beg for money.
She's pretty much like one of those homeless bag ladies
on the street or the shopping cart banging a tin cup.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Well, what do you expect her to do? We have
such a terrible deficit.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Billion dollars short. But this is separate, This is separate
from the billion dollar deficit. She wants another two billion
to help clean up after the fire because she left
for Africa, because the reservoir wasn't filled, two of them,
because the fire chief didn't deploy firefighters, because the engines
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were all on blocks, broken, because there were no mechanics,
because the DWP electric polls collapsed and wires hit the
ground and started a second fire, which we found out yesterday. Well,
the damage is going to cost a lot of money,
and La doesn't have it. City councils busy shoveling out
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more money for illegal aliens. So she goes to Sacramento
to try to get the rest of the state taxpayers
to pay for this. So you people, the rest of
you in La County, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura County,
wherever you're listening, you're supposed to pay. You're supposed to
pay for their incompetence.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
They need.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Seven hundred and fifty million dollars for mitigation and resilience
for city residents. What is that, Well, seven hundred million
dollars would be a loan to upgrade the Palisades electrical grid.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So maybe they could put the wires underground. Boy, that
would have helped a lot. Maybe they should have done
those wires, the ones from the DWP.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Well, now they're saying they are going to do that
in the Palace Stades area moving forward, right.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
The rest of the state's gonna have to pay for it, yes,
because the DWP never did it themselves. Forty million dollars
to incentivize electric upgrades and appliance says.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh yeah, that's what somebody to. Several people have told
me this.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You the only people who are getting permits, the four people.
This is what I've heard. I don't know if it's true,
but I did hear this in a news story. You
have to agree to all electric appliances in your house.
You can't do any gas appliances. What so you have
to have like an electric stove, and yeah, who.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Has electric stoves?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The state has been trying to force this for quite
a while. There's some cities I think like Berkeley that
if you have a new house or you're buying a
new stove for your house has to be electric.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I've had that in the past. You know what, I
would rent an apartment. I hated that.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I hate them too. We have one up at the
lake and I don't like it. I don't even just
understand how to cook with it. It doesn't cook it on, Joe, No,
but it doesn't cook the same. There's something different.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I agree. I know, you just turn it on.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I don't understand it. This doesn't seem to cook the same.
So I don't understand what.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Okay, I'm glad that you cleared that up. I'm sorry
if I insulted.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, no, no, no, you'll do it again in a
few minutes. Six hundred and thirty eight million dollars. I'll
look at this. Six hundred and thirty eight million is
supposed to bail out the city's budget gap.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Look at that. I thought this was all of the fire. No,
they want the.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
State taxpayers to pay a quarter of a billion dollars
to improve the streets, the sidewalks, and the street lights,
because we have streets that look like the roads in Afghanistan.
Sidewalks are disaster. People are tripping by the hundreds, costing
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US millions of dollars. Street lights are out everywhere, So
how the state has to pay to upgrade our streets,
sidewalks and street lights.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What boy?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
If I was in other cities and counties, I'd say no.
Let me tell you. They have squandered the money here.
They squandered the money on the homeless. That's why they
have no money to pave roads and fix sidewalks. Two
hundred million dollars to fund liability payments. Wait a second,
state taxpayers have to pay for all the crazy lawsuits.
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One hundred and fifty million to refill the city's reserve fund.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
My reading this right? This is from CBS News. Yes,
out of the six budgetary.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Concerns in the lawmaker's letter, that's Bass and some of
the council members. Bob Bloomenfield is one of them. Thirty
eight million dollars to offset lost revenue from the Palisades fire.
Ten million to improve the traffic signal system.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
This is all.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Stuff that local taxes ought to cover, but they gave
it away.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
To the homeless and the illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Oh Man, Council budget chairwoman Kadye Rslavsky a complete waste.
This trip to Sacramento wasn't about a one time fix.
It was about laying the foundation for a stronger, more
resilient city.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You blew the money. You blew the money.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Four and thirty million would help LA's firefighting capabilities and
pay for recovery efforts like debris removal, building permit waivers,
and building permit waivers. Yes, they defunded the fire department
many years ago. It's only fifty percent funded. And the
firefighters have to chase seven nineteen thousand homeless fires a year.
(25:02):
So now because we allowed tens of thousands of homeless
to live in our streets, the rest of the state
has to pay us to put out all the bumfires.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Seventy five million will expedite the processing of FEMA funds
from previous emergencies. Most of that is the COVID nineteen pandemic.
What are you talking about. We haven't paid out COVID
nineteen money. Well, I guess that.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
All that was stolen too.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Bess actually went up to Sacramento and made these requests.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
These demands really.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Heads on a stick, John, I heard.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Well, I think Daniel said this on the air. The
Assembly gave her a standing ovation. She used to be
the Speaker of the Assembly, so she got a standing
ovation from all the other Democrats. So what if they're
gonna give her the money? Oh, but they don't have
the money.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Ye's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I don't know. They're seventy six billion in debt.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
They're actually going to spend two billion tax dollars from
everywhere else in the state to fix our streets, sidewalk
street lights, and to pay for our fire department because
we have blown all the money on homeless people and
illegal aliens. Oh, and ridiculous contracts, absurd contracts, and apparently
(26:38):
we have thousands of employees that we don't really need
because they're going to be laigoff thousands. Matt Dizebo, the
LA's administrative offers, said it's nearly inevitable, but layoffs cannot
and will not be the only solution. Yeah, they got
to steal money from everyone else in the state. Are
we come back. I'll to get to the permit story.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
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Speaker 2 (27:05):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio. You should have done
this by now I'm hearing an echo of myself. Is
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And if we hit that mark, we get prizes. Eric
and I get prizes. You don't get anything. Tracy Park
(27:31):
seems to be the only person on the city council.
Well there's two Tracy Park and Monica Rodriguez, who cares
about how the fires have devastated the people in Los
Angeles whose neighborhoods burned down. Now we have more neighborhoods
were being hurt by all the toxic waste being trucked
(27:51):
in to their section of the city, and they're getting
lied to, of course by many people in government. But
one thing, and I, you know, maybe we've got to
get him on ties together of Karen Bass and Gavin
Newsom and who knows who else saying oh, we're gonna
streamline the process, we're gonna cut the red tape, we're
(28:15):
gonna make it easy for people to rebuild as soon
as possible. All of that, all that's just a bunch
of lies, because it's Bass and Newsome because now two
months after the Palisades fire, only four permits have been
issued four one, two, three, four four permits thousands of
(28:37):
homes and us As Tracy Park pointed out, we're on
day seventy five, post four post fire. And he goes,
I don't think it's a I don't think it's a
lack of interest in rebuilding.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
She's so polite. She says, I.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Suspect it is indicative of systemic issues that we need
to continue to focus on. What is wrong with people
in these offices. Would you like to go into these
offices and see what they do all day? I mean
they must have hundreds, if not thousands of permit applications.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
What do they do?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
They only approved for and like I said, I heard
you only got a quick you only got a quick
permit approval if you promise to use only electric appliances
because they're members of that climate change cult you may
have heard of that thinks even natural gas appliances.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Are incorrect.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Karen Bass hired a private consulting firm to oversee the recovery,
Haggardy Consulting. Remember that I think they're from Iowa. Ten
million dollars. We're paying ten million dollars. Nobody knows what
they do. Monica Rodriguez, the other councilwoman who seems to care.
We have city departments who know how to do this,
who have been involved in recovery efforts in the past,
(29:58):
but they can't hire the personnel they need because city's broke.
But we can give ten million dollars to an outside agency,
who she says, is just going to help write a report.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
She says, it's obscene.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Why if they streamlined, if they cut red tape, that's
from cavenus and promise that's from Karen Bass's promise. How's
it seventy five days and four permits. See if anybody
in the media bothers to follow up on that. All right,
let's go to Conway.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Ding Dong with you.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
We've got another more home invasions, more home robberies. There's
a couple lives off of Magnolia in the I don't know,
I guess the Wilshire area that's been robbed three times
in the last year. Three home invasions, three times. They've
been robbed in the last year. And you know what
the cops told them, Hey, maybe it's time to move out.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Really you know, when somebody is robbed three times, I
start to wonder if there's something going on in their lives.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
I think that they have a lot of money cash,
you know, a lot of money, jewelry or watches, or
something going on in that house that people know about.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Also, you know, if you buy a safe.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Let's say you run out to you know, your favorite store, safe,
sar Us or whatever it is, and you buy a safe,
I think there's chatter among the people who know that you.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Bought that safe.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
That's that's very possible, you know, and like, why are
you buying a twelve hundred dollars safe.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Or there's somebody with inside information. That's right, that's right,
because I actually know of a couple and they got
broken into, stuff was stolen, and it turns out their
housekeeper had a brother or a cousin who is in
a criminal gang and was putting pressure on the housekeeper aheah, right,
let him know where stuff is.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
And I remember when I I was in just out
of high school, and I didn't have a lot of cash,
but you know, you know, a couple of thousand bucks
in savings, and I went to the bank to pull
out some money to go to the track. And the
guy who was the teller, who is the guy who
was always in detention at Birmingham Height School. He was
always a mischief maker. He was always stealing from people's
(32:03):
cars and stuff, and he turned his life around. Now
he's a bank teller. I'm like, wait a minute, that
guy is now the bank teller.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Now he's got all my information. Yeah, get at anyway.
Today we've got you know, pirates on the high seas.
Now when you're on a cruise ship you have to
worry about pirates. Another thing you have to worry about.
Everybody's into crime now pirates. Everybody's into crime. God, we're
we pirates, I know. And then we got the Misak
coming in. He's a good friend of ours, he used
(32:31):
to work at KLAC and we'll talk about his health
continuing health issues. I think he's you know, there's a
lot of people out there whose kidneys have failed and
they're looking to get a transplant. And man, is that
a difficult road to go down. Yeah, it's it's Adrad
to deal with it here instead dot Bondo's I got
a friend. And then Preston Smith Matt Money Smith's daughter,
(32:55):
you know who.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
She's seventeen, eighteen nineteen, I don't know, maybe she's twenty.
She sang the national anthem last night at the King game.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Yeah, that's kind of a cool deal. We'll talk to
her about what the what's entailed in that?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
All right? Yeah, time way, it's a big show.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Plus, there's a rumor going around that Chipotle is closing down.
That's not true. It's just a murmur Chipotle. Yeah, all right,
and I and I and Andrew Caravell, who is going
to be in four Krozer all day.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
All right, and Andrew is up next KFI twenty four
our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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