November 5, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/05) - Flights could be cancelled starting Friday because of the government shutdown. LAPD released an after-action report on the January fires. More on the government shutdown and the after action reports from the January fires. More clips of Zohran Mamdani from his crazy victory speech last night.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, so this is very disconcerting.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There's a family wedding this weekend and five of us
are flying in on yeah, five different planes, good luck,
all to the same place, mostly on Friday. And now
I find out that ten percent of the flights are
being canceled, right because they are not enough air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, so now this matters even more because it's affecting you,
it's affecting me. So now I have a stake inness
I'm not not sitting in some Ivory Tower looking down.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Well, you're not going to ruin our weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, that's what you said.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, So what are you.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Gonna do about that?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Somebody, somebody, somebody tell the people in Washington and the
White House that don't don't screw with my weekend?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Are you going to pay the air traffic controllers at
the different I did?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We're all taxed.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The money has been taken from us and is sitting
there in Washington. By shutting down the government, they're just
not spending the money that they have. It hasn't been
officially appropriated. See this is this is what's weird about this.
It's not like they're broke that they literally have no money.
The money is piling up in whatever accounts the government
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has as the taxes come out out of our check
and it's you know, they're getting interest on all this
tax money sitting in these accounts. They're making more money.
It's just not been appropriated. You'd probably have heard what
the issue is. You came to the end of the
budget year and they had an extension for seven weeks
(02:22):
to continue things as they are. You may have heard
of this clean cr What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, A CR is.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
A continuing resolution. It means both sides agree to keep
spending money at the same rate until they make a deal.
So fiscal year ended on September thirtieth, they wanted to
spend another seven weeks hashing out the new deal. A
clean CR means nobody adds any more taxes, nobody adds
any more spending. The Republicans voted for it passed in
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the House. It didn't pass in the Senate because you
need sixty votes in the Senate to defeat a filibuster.
And the Democrats decided to filibuster.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And they.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Have forty eight Democrats or people who vote with the Democrats.
Three of them have defected, So now the vote is
fifty five forty five.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
To open the government. That's not enough. You need sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You can do two things here. You can try to
find a way to bribe five more Democrats. I guess
they're cajole them. Or you can get rid of the filibuster.
But the Republicans want to hold on to it because
they want to use it when the Democrats take over.
None of them care about what's going on out here.
Don't be fooled. So yes, it is the Democrat's fault.
(03:43):
They want changes, they don't want to just another two
months of the same old thing. There are these Obamacare subsidies,
tax credits, they'll pay for your Obamacare premium. Those were
implemented during COVID. It was supposed to be a COVID
only subsidy because people were struggling, they weren't working, and
(04:09):
of course nothing's ever temporary when it comes to taxes
and spending. They want to make it permanent or at
least extended. Republicans say no, let's go back and negotiate this.
They were the Democrats wrote that into the bill back
in I don't know one it's that there is going
to be an end to these subsidies. And now it's
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come to the end, all right. That that that that's
the logjam here. By the way, the fact that they
have to pay these increasing subsidies to people, these tax credits,
shows you that Obamacare has not lowered people's health care costs.
But that's a different issue. Looks like that was another scam,
(04:53):
but a surprise. But now we come to this where
things that we need are not going to function. We're, uh,
what two and a half weeks from Thanksgiving, is it
three weeks from Thanksgiving weekend? I'm terrible with the calendar.
Three weeks Thanksgiving weekend. But more importantly, we got a
family wedding this weekend. We all have to get around.
(05:15):
My kids live all over the country.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well, maybe one of you will get there in time.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well it's probably not going to be me. Called Trump.
Aren't you a therapist?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, yeah, you know something. Maybe we ought to call
Trump and he's got to end this. He's got to
end this for me. I need it ended this weekend.
I don't want to be a hung up at an
airport all day Friday and then all day Sunday for
the return trip.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The money's there, the air traffic controllers are willing to work.
What they should do is have they should have funded
air traffic controllers. I'm not so concerned with people getting
food stamps because I think probably half the people on
food stamp that's fraudulent. And I don't really understand how
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you end up living for I don't know, thirty forty
fifty years and you haven't figured out to pay for
your food.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I find that ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't understand people who have a bunch of kids
and can't pay for their food. I'm always in the
camp of I don't know why I have to pay
for everybody else's problems, people who are elderly, people who
are sick, people who are disabled in some serious way.
(06:34):
Of course you help them out, but everybody knows that.
I mean, we got five and a half million people
in California on food stamps.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Five and a half million.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's one out of every seven people go walk the streets.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
One out of.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Seven people are in food stamps. How is everybody on
food stamps and everybody going hungry? When obesities that that
of thirty seven percent rate, and that's down three percent
because of the ozempic drugs. This is any we've been
getting away From my point though, is the president maybe
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they should blow up the filibuster. I never understood that
it should. It should take majority votes wins. I don't
I don't understand why in a lot of cases you
need sixty Well, no fifty to fifty one will do.
When you have sixty, then you end up with stupid
situations like this. Everybody's willing to work, the money is
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sitting there. Everybody needs to fly around big Thanksgiving weekend
coming at the very least. Fund the air traffic controllers.
We're way short anyway. Now they're calling in, basically going
on strike. They have to take second jobs because other
jobs actually pay. You get paychecks when you work in
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other places. You've worked for the government. As an air
traffic controller, you don't get a paycheck. I don't expect
them to show up. I don't blame them for calling
in sick or calling in busy. They should do that.
That's the only leverage they have. But this is the crowd.
I don't understand this entire issue. They had all year
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to work this out. The fiscal year ended on September thirtieth.
They do a budget one year at a time. You
had twelve months to work this out. These people are failures,
both parties in Washington, failures the way we have nothing
but failures in this state in this city, Like the
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way the fire department failed us, And I'm going to
get to that later.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
There's new revelations on that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Apparently the police department failed us during the Palisades fire
as well, and the county fire department failed in the
in the Altadena fire. So I have a lot of
stories here about the failure locally, but this is a
failure nationally. This is a failure in the true administration.
This is a failure of the Republicans and especially the Democrats.
(09:05):
People shouldn't have their lives all scrambled up this weekend
or any day of the year. The money's there, the
guys are willing to work. Let's go fund it and
end this stupidity. I wish people change the way they vote,
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because as long as you keep voting for the same
and I wish both parties would rotten hell.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
They're just awful. Nobody cares about your life.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Nobody never ever ever give in to the temptation that
your party cares about your life.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
They don't talk more.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We come back about the new report, saying, oh, the
police waited in and they said they were all confused
when the Palisades fire occurred.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
The police department was confused.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
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Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well have they have they ended the shutdown yet? I
made a request, what about ten minutes ago?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Sorry, John, Nope, it's been ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Now, just fund the traffic controllers. At the least I've heard.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I've heard reports, nothing definitive that possibly maybe next week, but.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That won't happened. No, No, it's too late, too late.
Wedding's this weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I know, you know, you may get lucky. It's only
forty airports.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I didn't I didn't vote for people not to pay
air traffic controllers. That wasn't in anybody's campaign plan here.
I don't remember seeing any TV commercials.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Vote for me.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'll stop paying the air traffic controllers for Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You bozos get to work nothing but bozos in office.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Give your salaries to the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah. I like your idea. Yes, yeah, they shouldn't get
paid the card.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Why didn't you like? Eric suggested, call Trump and tell
him and tell him what we just decided.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, okay, yeah, call Trump tell him that. I said
to you, I'm busy, I'm doing a show.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well am I.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
All right?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Here's the LAPD well add them to the list of
failed entities during the fire.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
They released a report.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Just on Tuesday, ninety two pages, and they presented it
to the Police Commission the Oversight Panel at their public
meeting yesterday, and the LAPD said during the fire they
suffered from communications breakdowns, inconsistent record keeping, and poor coordination
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with other agents, most notably the fire department. Oh so
the police department was communicating poorly with the fire department.
You know, I am so far they s everybody fit
up with this. I'm sick of everyone's excuses. It's like
with the shutdown coverage thing. Well, you know, the Democrats
want this and the Republicans are not that. You know,
I don't care about your problems anymore. Go pay the
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traffic controllers. I don't care about your jockeying for position.
I don't care who started it. I don't care about
any of this stuff. I don't care about your agreements.
And well, you know what, but no, you fund the
traffic controllers here. You're a police department. How do you
not have the most modern communication system and apparently they
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have cell tower problems. Well, during disasters, you're gonna have
cell tower problems. I don't understand. You don't have a
workaround for that. Listen to this crazy admission. The department
was the lead agency, but coordination with the police Department
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was poor. On January seventh, first day at a fire,
both the personnel from both agencies were working out of
the same command post, but they failed to collectively establish
a unified command structure or identify shared objectives, missions or strategies.
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They were standing next to each other at the same
command post. I don't know if that's indoors or outdoors,
but they're standing next to each other, and they didn't
have the same mission, the same strategy, the same objective.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I don't understand. There's no excuse for this.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Doesn't one guy just turn and talk to the next guy,
like he got somebody in charge of the police command,
somebody in the fire command. It's like, Okay, here's what
we're gonna do. You do this, I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What are we are they poor communications?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
What are they all deaf? You can't hear the guy
standing next to you. He's not speaking English to you.
What does that mean? How could you have two people
or two departments at the same place at the same
time and they're not communicating. And this is presented as
an excuse, And they even got compliments from some of
these commissioners. Rasha Gergez Shields, come this, Hi, I don't
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know what that is. Overall, she was impressed an officer
should be commended for their courage. They didn't know who
was in charge. They said, this is the police department's
own report. Uncertainty about who is in charge with another
persistent issue. And it got more confused when National Guard
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troops were showed up.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Excuse me a.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Second, Okay, no, Then they blamed it on a once
in a lifetime wildfire of unprecedented scale.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
In fact, I saw the La Times did some summaries
of these stories about all the things that didn't work,
and every one of the stories puts in a little
prayer about climate change. Oh, we had a storm driven
by climate No, it was not climate change. It was
an arsonist. And then the fire department failed to stay
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at the hotspot and put the hotspot completely out. Then
the winds, which were normal for Santa Ana wins happened
many times before, blew real hard and kicked up the hotspot.
Climate change had zero role in this. It's just something
that failed politicians and failed agency leaders hide behind. This
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is what failed fire department managers and failed police police
managers high behind, along with the mayor and the governor
and everybody else. Climate change had nothing to do with this.
Arsonists followed by massive incompetence. The report found that officials
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failed to maintain a chronological log about the comings and
goings of the personnel.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All right, we got to take a break.
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Speaker 2 (16:39):
The La Police Department released a report yesterday at a
public meeting that said they were all they bungled their response.
They said communication with the fire department was poor. Just
went through this, which is shocking considering that fire department
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and police personnel were both both working out of the
same command post on fire day. This comes just a
few days after the La Times had a lengthy story
on the Altadena fire, also known as the Eaton Fire.
This is the one started by SoCal Edison, not climate change.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So do we have this straight?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It was the arsonists started the Palisades fire, and then
the LA Fire Department abandoned the hotspot and that's what
burned Palisades down. And then in ALTADENI had the county
Fire Department and it looks like there was a number
of firefighters for La County told the incident commanders that
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they should evacuate the rest of the nearby foothill communities
West Altadena into Lakeaannata, Flintridge. East Altadena was evacuated. Firefighters
said West Altadena needs to go, but the residents were
never told they were not under an evacuation warning. In fact,
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after the firefighters noticed that West Altadena residents were still
in place and sleeping, it was the middle of the night.
It took another three hours and longer before officials issued
mandatory orders for West Altadena. Eighteen of the nine people
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eighteen of the nineteen people who died in that fire
were found in this section of Altadena. So understand this
that West Altadena at first didn't get any evacuation orders.
East Altadena did, and then when on the ground firefighter
said hey, we need to evacuate this section, it took
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three hours and more and it was too late, and
eighteen people died who shouldn't have died.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Now it looks like.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
The La County Fire Chief Anthony Moron is playing the
same game that Karen Bass does and everybody in the
city government. When he was asked to be interviewed for
the story on the three hour gap, Maron.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Declined to be interviewed.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
A spokeshole coughed up some gibberish, some goo that said,
Morone is committed to ensuring the department continues to improve
for future fires. Oh, let's look to the future fires.
Enough free hashing this old fire. Here's the overall question.
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Why is everybody so bad at what they do in government?
These are supposed to be the good guys. In both cases,
whether it was the Palisades fire or the Altadena fire,
you had firefighters on the ground in Palisades saying, hey,
we have a hot hotspot here, we should stay and
put it out.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
In Altadena it's.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Like, hey, we haven't given any evacuation warnings to West Altadena.
In both cases, management didn't do anything about it or
they overruled the firefighters.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Now, why is this?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Why is the management so bad right throughout the La
Fire Department? Why is it so bad in the La
County Fire Department? Why is it so bad in the
La Police Department that they had pure communication with the
fire department that they were standing next to at the
same command center. Put this all together, These are a
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lot of people who are very bad at their jobs
at the worst possible time.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Are they this bad every day? Has it always been
this way?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Tie this into the shutdown stuff we were talking about.
Why is everybody in Washington so bad at this? They
had a year, you know, to put together a new budget.
This is supposed to be a seven week extension of
the same old budget. They have the money, they have
the workers willing to work, and now they're going to
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cut ten percent of the flights at forty airports around
the country starting Friday. Because while the money's sitting there
and hasn't been appropriated, they could appropriate it, they choose
not to. Why are they so bad at this? So
we got thousands of homes that burned, We got dozens
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of people that are dead here, We got thousands of
flights that are going to get canceled or delayed all
around the country.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Everybody's got lives to live.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They have the money, We've given them all the money
for the fire. Well, they took our tax money and
only funded the fire department in La by half because
you know, they had to give it to the homeless people.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Same thing in the county. And when you give them
the money.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
When the moment comes and you have firefighters and you
have a hose in the palisades, Oh, let's go home.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Oh I want to go home.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Huh when you know there's a whole section about the
demon that hasn't been evacuated. We should evacuate it. Okay,
we'll get to it three hours later. Yeah, yeah, we'll
get to it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Eighteen people died, Eighteen people burned to death.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Can you possibly imagine how horrible that is to burn
to death while you were sleeping? But they wake up
and there were flames sorts, how hot. That's the most
horrible thing I can imagine. Imagine fighting out your family
died in a fire like that, and the fire department
just forgot to evacuate your family.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
That's like one of the palasas. People going through.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now knowing that we know that the fire came from
the hotspot, and that the firefighters identified the hot spot
five days before the fire and were standing there and
wanted to put it out, and the battalion chief said, no,
let's go home. Mario Garcia, who's not commenting either, what
is this? Got four hundred and thirty five Congressman one
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hundred senators that can't pass a bill to fund air
traffic controllers. One of those people supposed to live on.
What's wrong with everyone? This is not hard stuff. You
see a hot spot, you put it out. You see
people have been evacuating, You evacuate them. You see that
we have thousands of planes in the sky every minute
of the day. You pay the air traffic controllers, the
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money's there. I don't get all this, and you know what,
everybody gets gets overwhelmed by the politics of it and
the politics, you know, the politics of it. And here
in LA you know all these these after action reports,
and it's a whole bunch of people who had a
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simple job and just failed at it, and failed at
it repeatedly for a long time, and nobody suffers any consequences.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Nobody was fired in the fire department, yet.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Nobody gets very few politicians get thrown out of office.
I don't understand any of this, and I don't understand
why people put up with it. I mean, you see
these cocka maybe protests every few days, and it's always
a nonsense, you know, nonsense like no king.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
We talked about no kings going.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
To be protesting that they're shutting down air traffic controllers.
People ought to be screaming about the fire department failures,
the police department failures. That's what you ought to be
screaming about stuff that really matters. All right, more coming up.
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got a little more and zoron mom We played you
a clip before he came out angry and he is
not the warm, cuddly guy people were fooled. He's another fake.
(25:13):
He's another scam artist. He's like Newsom. He has different
personas and once he got in, he's like the guy
that woos you for a few months and then you
marry him and he's beaten the crap out of you. Well,
the beating the crap out of you guy is the
one that gave the speech yesterday. I want to play
you the clipped from before again real quick play cut
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number one and you can see what I'm talking about here.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from
their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve,
rather than a list of excuses for what we are
too timid to attempt. Central to that vision will be
the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living
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crisis that this city has seen since the days of
Farrah La Guardia, an agenda that will freeze the rents
for more than two million rents, stabilized tenants, make buses.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Fast and free, and.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Deliver universal childcare across our city.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You got a lot of those guys from the Democratic
Socialist of America and a lot of those women in
our LA government.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This has coming here.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Eventually, Lejah Cut number three starts doing this call response
gimmick with the audience.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
It will be felt by each New Yorker when the
city they love finally loves them back together, New York.
We're going to freeze the together, New York. We're going
to make buses fast and.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Together, New York.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
We're going to deliver a universal let the words we've
spoken together, the dreams we've dreamt together, become the agenda
we deliver together.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
He's crazy, he's crazy, he's scary.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You had it all right, shut up, Denverer Socialists of America.
You look at their platform. It was in the New
York Times today, thirty two hour work week with no
reduction in pay or benefits.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That would be the law. Thirty two hours, No wonder.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Some of these losers in their twenties like this guy,
Free public, universal childcare and pre k college for all.
Somebody's got to pay for all this, the cancelation of
all student loan debt. Universal rent control that means the
government controls your house or apartment building, whatever you own.
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If you're renting it out, the government will tell you
what it rents for. Universal massive public investment to transition
away from fossil fuels.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well that already failed.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Guaranteed support for workers in the fossil fuel industry. I see,
destroy their jobs and put them on welfare, expensive paid
family leaves, and open borders so anybody who got into
the country would immediately benefit from all this. This is
their platform, Democratic Socialists of America. We've got five people
in the city Council that belonged to this organization. Zorn
(28:35):
Mamdani belongs to the organization. They are growing rapidly and
eating up the old Democratic Party, which people find to
be a failure. The way people found the old Republican
Party to be a failure before.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Trump came along. It is, it is.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
He's serious about this. He really is a communist. New
York City is like, I think, nine percent of our
economy and he wants to control it, and he wants
to take it over. And he thinks that all the
wealthy people and all those financial companies aren't going to
move out, but they will. We're coming up tomorrow. We've
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got Crozier with the news and then Conway. He's live
in the KFI twenty four our news center. Hey, you've
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, so this is very disconcerting.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There's a family wedding this weekend and five of us
are flying in on yeah, five different planes, good luck,
all to the same place, mostly on Friday. And now
I find out that ten percent of the flights are
being canceled, right because they are not enough air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, so now this matters even more because it's affecting you,
it's affecting me. So now I have a stake inness
I'm not not sitting in some Ivory Tower looking down.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Well, you're not going to ruin our weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, that's what you said.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, So what are you.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Gonna do about that?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Somebody, somebody, somebody tell the people in Washington and the
White House that don't don't screw with my weekend?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Are you going to pay the air traffic controllers at
the different I did?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We're all taxed.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The money has been taken from us and is sitting
there in Washington. By shutting down the government, they're just
not spending the money that they have. It hasn't been
officially appropriated. See this is this is what's weird about this.
It's not like they're broke that they literally have no money.
The money is piling up in whatever accounts the government
(01:58):
has as the taxes come out out of our check
and it's you know, they're getting interest on all this
tax money sitting in these accounts. They're making more money.
It's just not been appropriated. You'd probably have heard what
the issue is. You came to the end of the
budget year and they had an extension for seven weeks
(02:22):
to continue things as they are. You may have heard
of this clean cr What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, A CR is.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
A continuing resolution. It means both sides agree to keep
spending money at the same rate until they make a deal.
So fiscal year ended on September thirtieth, they wanted to
spend another seven weeks hashing out the new deal. A
clean CR means nobody adds any more taxes, nobody adds
any more spending. The Republicans voted for it passed in
(02:53):
the House. It didn't pass in the Senate because you
need sixty votes in the Senate to defeat a filibuster.
And the Democrats decided to filibuster.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And they.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Have forty eight Democrats or people who vote with the Democrats.
Three of them have defected, So now the vote is
fifty five forty five.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
To open the government. That's not enough. You need sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You can do two things here. You can try to
find a way to bribe five more Democrats. I guess
they're cajole them. Or you can get rid of the filibuster.
But the Republicans want to hold on to it because
they want to use it when the Democrats take over.
None of them care about what's going on out here.
Don't be fooled. So yes, it is the Democrat's fault.
(03:43):
They want changes, they don't want to just another two
months of the same old thing. There are these Obamacare subsidies,
tax credits, they'll pay for your Obamacare premium. Those were
implemented during COVID. It was supposed to be a COVID
only subsidy because people were struggling, they weren't working, and
(04:09):
of course nothing's ever temporary when it comes to taxes
and spending. They want to make it permanent or at
least extended. Republicans say no, let's go back and negotiate this.
They were the Democrats wrote that into the bill back
in I don't know one it's that there is going
to be an end to these subsidies. And now it's
(04:32):
come to the end, all right. That that that that's
the logjam here. By the way, the fact that they
have to pay these increasing subsidies to people, these tax credits,
shows you that Obamacare has not lowered people's health care costs.
But that's a different issue. Looks like that was another scam,
(04:53):
but a surprise. But now we come to this where
things that we need are not going to function. We're, uh,
what two and a half weeks from Thanksgiving, is it
three weeks from Thanksgiving weekend? I'm terrible with the calendar.
Three weeks Thanksgiving weekend. But more importantly, we got a
family wedding this weekend. We all have to get around.
(05:15):
My kids live all over the country.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well, maybe one of you will get there in time.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well it's probably not going to be me. Called Trump.
Aren't you a therapist?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, yeah, you know something. Maybe we ought to call
Trump and he's got to end this. He's got to
end this for me. I need it ended this weekend.
I don't want to be a hung up at an
airport all day Friday and then all day Sunday for
the return trip.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The money's there, the air traffic controllers are willing to work.
What they should do is have they should have funded
air traffic controllers. I'm not so concerned with people getting
food stamps because I think probably half the people on
food stamp that's fraudulent. And I don't really understand how
(06:04):
you end up living for I don't know, thirty forty
fifty years and you haven't figured out to pay for
your food.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I find that ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't understand people who have a bunch of kids
and can't pay for their food. I'm always in the
camp of I don't know why I have to pay
for everybody else's problems, people who are elderly, people who
are sick, people who are disabled in some serious way.
(06:34):
Of course you help them out, but everybody knows that.
I mean, we got five and a half million people
in California on food stamps.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Five and a half million.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's one out of every seven people go walk the streets.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
One out of.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Seven people are in food stamps. How is everybody on
food stamps and everybody going hungry? When obesities that that
of thirty seven percent rate, and that's down three percent
because of the ozempic drugs. This is any we've been
getting away From my point though, is the president maybe
(07:13):
they should blow up the filibuster. I never understood that
it should. It should take majority votes wins. I don't
I don't understand why in a lot of cases you
need sixty Well, no fifty to fifty one will do.
When you have sixty, then you end up with stupid
situations like this. Everybody's willing to work, the money is
(07:33):
sitting there. Everybody needs to fly around big Thanksgiving weekend
coming at the very least. Fund the air traffic controllers.
We're way short anyway. Now they're calling in, basically going
on strike. They have to take second jobs because other
jobs actually pay. You get paychecks when you work in
(07:55):
other places. You've worked for the government. As an air
traffic controller, you don't get a paycheck. I don't expect
them to show up. I don't blame them for calling
in sick or calling in busy. They should do that.
That's the only leverage they have. But this is the crowd.
I don't understand this entire issue. They had all year
(08:17):
to work this out. The fiscal year ended on September thirtieth.
They do a budget one year at a time. You
had twelve months to work this out. These people are failures,
both parties in Washington, failures the way we have nothing
but failures in this state in this city, Like the
(08:39):
way the fire department failed us, And I'm going to
get to that later.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
There's new revelations on that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Apparently the police department failed us during the Palisades fire
as well, and the county fire department failed in the
in the Altadena fire. So I have a lot of
stories here about the failure locally, but this is a
failure nationally. This is a failure in the true administration.
This is a failure of the Republicans and especially the Democrats.
(09:05):
People shouldn't have their lives all scrambled up this weekend
or any day of the year. The money's there, the
guys are willing to work. Let's go fund it and
end this stupidity. I wish people change the way they vote,
(09:26):
because as long as you keep voting for the same
and I wish both parties would rotten hell.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
They're just awful. Nobody cares about your life.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Nobody never ever ever give in to the temptation that
your party cares about your life.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
They don't talk more.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We come back about the new report, saying, oh, the
police waited in and they said they were all confused
when the Palisades fire occurred.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
The police department was confused.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well have they have they ended the shutdown yet? I
made a request, what about ten minutes ago?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Sorry, John, Nope, it's been ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Now, just fund the traffic controllers. At the least I've heard.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I've heard reports, nothing definitive that possibly maybe next week, but.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That won't happened. No, No, it's too late, too late.
Wedding's this weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I know, you know, you may get lucky. It's only
forty airports.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I didn't I didn't vote for people not to pay
air traffic controllers. That wasn't in anybody's campaign plan here.
I don't remember seeing any TV commercials.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Vote for me.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'll stop paying the air traffic controllers for Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You bozos get to work nothing but bozos in office.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Give your salaries to the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah. I like your idea. Yes, yeah, they shouldn't get
paid the card.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Why didn't you like? Eric suggested, call Trump and tell
him and tell him what we just decided.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, okay, yeah, call Trump tell him that. I said
to you, I'm busy, I'm doing a show.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well am I.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
All right?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Here's the LAPD well add them to the list of
failed entities during the fire.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
They released a report.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Just on Tuesday, ninety two pages, and they presented it
to the Police Commission the Oversight Panel at their public
meeting yesterday, and the LAPD said during the fire they
suffered from communications breakdowns, inconsistent record keeping, and poor coordination
(11:59):
with other agents, most notably the fire department. Oh so
the police department was communicating poorly with the fire department.
You know, I am so far they s everybody fit
up with this. I'm sick of everyone's excuses. It's like
with the shutdown coverage thing. Well, you know, the Democrats
want this and the Republicans are not that. You know,
I don't care about your problems anymore. Go pay the
(12:21):
traffic controllers. I don't care about your jockeying for position.
I don't care who started it. I don't care about
any of this stuff. I don't care about your agreements.
And well, you know what, but no, you fund the
traffic controllers here. You're a police department. How do you
not have the most modern communication system and apparently they
(12:42):
have cell tower problems. Well, during disasters, you're gonna have
cell tower problems. I don't understand. You don't have a
workaround for that. Listen to this crazy admission. The department
was the lead agency, but coordination with the police Department
(13:04):
was poor. On January seventh, first day at a fire,
both the personnel from both agencies were working out of
the same command post, but they failed to collectively establish
a unified command structure or identify shared objectives, missions or strategies.
(13:27):
They were standing next to each other at the same
command post. I don't know if that's indoors or outdoors,
but they're standing next to each other, and they didn't
have the same mission, the same strategy, the same objective.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I don't understand. There's no excuse for this.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Doesn't one guy just turn and talk to the next guy,
like he got somebody in charge of the police command,
somebody in the fire command. It's like, Okay, here's what
we're gonna do. You do this, I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What are we are they poor communications?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
What are they all deaf? You can't hear the guy
standing next to you. He's not speaking English to you.
What does that mean? How could you have two people
or two departments at the same place at the same
time and they're not communicating. And this is presented as
an excuse, And they even got compliments from some of
these commissioners. Rasha Gergez Shields, come this, Hi, I don't
(14:28):
know what that is. Overall, she was impressed an officer
should be commended for their courage. They didn't know who
was in charge. They said, this is the police department's
own report. Uncertainty about who is in charge with another
persistent issue. And it got more confused when National Guard
(14:51):
troops were showed up.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Excuse me a.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Second, Okay, no, Then they blamed it on a once
in a lifetime wildfire of unprecedented scale.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
In fact, I saw the La Times did some summaries
of these stories about all the things that didn't work,
and every one of the stories puts in a little
prayer about climate change. Oh, we had a storm driven
by climate No, it was not climate change. It was
an arsonist. And then the fire department failed to stay
(15:29):
at the hotspot and put the hotspot completely out. Then
the winds, which were normal for Santa Ana wins happened
many times before, blew real hard and kicked up the hotspot.
Climate change had zero role in this. It's just something
that failed politicians and failed agency leaders hide behind. This
(15:55):
is what failed fire department managers and failed police police
managers high behind, along with the mayor and the governor
and everybody else. Climate change had nothing to do with this.
Arsonists followed by massive incompetence. The report found that officials
(16:18):
failed to maintain a chronological log about the comings and
goings of the personnel.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All right, we got to take a break.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
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Speaker 2 (16:30):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and then after four o'clock John Cobelt.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
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told you that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
The La Police Department released a report yesterday at a
public meeting that said they were all they bungled their response.
They said communication with the fire department was poor. Just
went through this, which is shocking considering that fire department
(17:03):
and police personnel were both both working out of the
same command post on fire day. This comes just a
few days after the La Times had a lengthy story
on the Altadena fire, also known as the Eaton Fire.
This is the one started by SoCal Edison, not climate change.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So do we have this straight?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It was the arsonists started the Palisades fire, and then
the LA Fire Department abandoned the hotspot and that's what
burned Palisades down. And then in ALTADENI had the county
Fire Department and it looks like there was a number
of firefighters for La County told the incident commanders that
(17:51):
they should evacuate the rest of the nearby foothill communities
West Altadena into Lakeaannata, Flintridge. East Altadena was evacuated. Firefighters
said West Altadena needs to go, but the residents were
never told they were not under an evacuation warning. In fact,
(18:14):
after the firefighters noticed that West Altadena residents were still
in place and sleeping, it was the middle of the night.
It took another three hours and longer before officials issued
mandatory orders for West Altadena. Eighteen of the nine people
(18:36):
eighteen of the nineteen people who died in that fire
were found in this section of Altadena. So understand this
that West Altadena at first didn't get any evacuation orders.
East Altadena did, and then when on the ground firefighter
said hey, we need to evacuate this section, it took
(18:58):
three hours and more and it was too late, and
eighteen people died who shouldn't have died.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Now it looks like.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
The La County Fire Chief Anthony Moron is playing the
same game that Karen Bass does and everybody in the
city government. When he was asked to be interviewed for
the story on the three hour gap, Maron.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Declined to be interviewed.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
A spokeshole coughed up some gibberish, some goo that said,
Morone is committed to ensuring the department continues to improve
for future fires. Oh, let's look to the future fires.
Enough free hashing this old fire. Here's the overall question.
(19:48):
Why is everybody so bad at what they do in government?
These are supposed to be the good guys. In both cases,
whether it was the Palisades fire or the Altadena fire,
you had firefighters on the ground in Palisades saying, hey,
we have a hot hotspot here, we should stay and
put it out.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
In Altadena it's.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Like, hey, we haven't given any evacuation warnings to West Altadena.
In both cases, management didn't do anything about it or
they overruled the firefighters.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Now, why is this?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Why is the management so bad right throughout the La
Fire Department? Why is it so bad in the La
County Fire Department? Why is it so bad in the
La Police Department that they had pure communication with the
fire department that they were standing next to at the
same command center. Put this all together, These are a
(20:44):
lot of people who are very bad at their jobs
at the worst possible time.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Are they this bad every day? Has it always been
this way?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Tie this into the shutdown stuff we were talking about.
Why is everybody in Washington so bad at this? They
had a year, you know, to put together a new budget.
This is supposed to be a seven week extension of
the same old budget. They have the money, they have
the workers willing to work, and now they're going to
(21:15):
cut ten percent of the flights at forty airports around
the country starting Friday. Because while the money's sitting there
and hasn't been appropriated, they could appropriate it, they choose
not to. Why are they so bad at this? So
we got thousands of homes that burned, We got dozens
(21:35):
of people that are dead here, We got thousands of
flights that are going to get canceled or delayed all
around the country.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Everybody's got lives to live.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They have the money, We've given them all the money
for the fire. Well, they took our tax money and
only funded the fire department in La by half because
you know, they had to give it to the homeless people.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Same thing in the county. And when you give them
the money.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
When the moment comes and you have firefighters and you
have a hose in the palisades, Oh, let's go home.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Oh I want to go home.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Huh when you know there's a whole section about the
demon that hasn't been evacuated. We should evacuate it. Okay,
we'll get to it three hours later. Yeah, yeah, we'll
get to it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Eighteen people died, Eighteen people burned to death.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Can you possibly imagine how horrible that is to burn
to death while you were sleeping? But they wake up
and there were flames sorts, how hot. That's the most
horrible thing I can imagine. Imagine fighting out your family
died in a fire like that, and the fire department
just forgot to evacuate your family.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
That's like one of the palasas. People going through.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now knowing that we know that the fire came from
the hotspot, and that the firefighters identified the hot spot
five days before the fire and were standing there and
wanted to put it out, and the battalion chief said, no,
let's go home. Mario Garcia, who's not commenting either, what
is this? Got four hundred and thirty five Congressman one
(23:11):
hundred senators that can't pass a bill to fund air
traffic controllers. One of those people supposed to live on.
What's wrong with everyone? This is not hard stuff. You
see a hot spot, you put it out. You see
people have been evacuating, You evacuate them. You see that
we have thousands of planes in the sky every minute
of the day. You pay the air traffic controllers, the
(23:33):
money's there. I don't get all this, and you know what,
everybody gets gets overwhelmed by the politics of it and
the politics, you know, the politics of it. And here
in LA you know all these these after action reports,
and it's a whole bunch of people who had a
(23:55):
simple job and just failed at it, and failed at
it repeatedly for a long time, and nobody suffers any consequences.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Nobody was fired in the fire department, yet.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Nobody gets very few politicians get thrown out of office.
I don't understand any of this, and I don't understand
why people put up with it. I mean, you see
these cocka maybe protests every few days, and it's always
a nonsense, you know, nonsense like no king.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
We talked about no kings going.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
To be protesting that they're shutting down air traffic controllers.
People ought to be screaming about the fire department failures,
the police department failures. That's what you ought to be
screaming about stuff that really matters. All right, more coming up.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
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got a little more and zoron mom We played you
a clip before he came out angry and he is
not the warm, cuddly guy people were fooled. He's another fake.
(25:13):
He's another scam artist. He's like Newsom. He has different
personas and once he got in, he's like the guy
that woos you for a few months and then you
marry him and he's beaten the crap out of you. Well,
the beating the crap out of you guy is the
one that gave the speech yesterday. I want to play
you the clipped from before again real quick play cut
(25:35):
number one and you can see what I'm talking about here.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from
their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve,
rather than a list of excuses for what we are
too timid to attempt. Central to that vision will be
the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living
(25:58):
crisis that this city has seen since the days of
Farrah La Guardia, an agenda that will freeze the rents
for more than two million rents, stabilized tenants, make buses.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Fast and free, and.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Deliver universal childcare across our city.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
You got a lot of those guys from the Democratic
Socialist of America and a lot of those women in
our LA government.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This has coming here.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Eventually, Lejah Cut number three starts doing this call response
gimmick with the audience.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
It will be felt by each New Yorker when the
city they love finally loves them back together, New York.
We're going to freeze the together, New York. We're going
to make buses fast and.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Together, New York.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
We're going to deliver a universal let the words we've
spoken together, the dreams we've dreamt together, become the agenda
we deliver together.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
He's crazy, he's crazy, he's scary.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You had it all right, shut up, Denverer Socialists of America.
You look at their platform. It was in the New
York Times today, thirty two hour work week with no
reduction in pay or benefits.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That would be the law. Thirty two hours, No wonder.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Some of these losers in their twenties like this guy,
Free public, universal childcare and pre k college for all.
Somebody's got to pay for all this, the cancelation of
all student loan debt. Universal rent control that means the
government controls your house or apartment building, whatever you own.
(28:02):
If you're renting it out, the government will tell you
what it rents for. Universal massive public investment to transition
away from fossil fuels.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well that already failed.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Guaranteed support for workers in the fossil fuel industry. I see,
destroy their jobs and put them on welfare, expensive paid
family leaves, and open borders so anybody who got into
the country would immediately benefit from all this. This is
their platform, Democratic Socialists of America. We've got five people
in the city Council that belonged to this organization. Zorn
(28:35):
Mamdani belongs to the organization. They are growing rapidly and
eating up the old Democratic Party, which people find to
be a failure. The way people found the old Republican
Party to be a failure before.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Trump came along. It is, it is.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
He's serious about this. He really is a communist. New
York City is like, I think, nine percent of our
economy and he wants to control it, and he wants
to take it over. And he thinks that all the
wealthy people and all those financial companies aren't going to
move out, but they will. We're coming up tomorrow. We've
(29:18):
got Crozier with the news and then Conway. He's live
in the KFI twenty four our news center. Hey, you've
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