November 11, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (11/11) - Joe Khalil from NewsNation comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with the government shutdown and if we are closer to a deal getting done. The airport situation is getting worse as the government shutdown continues. More is coming out about who knew that firefighters were sent home from the Lachman Fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year's Day. San Diego has "lid lifters" monitoring people's trash.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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makeup time. After four you can listen to the podcast,
same as the radio show. Yesterday, at this time, we
talked with Joe Khalil from News Nation and we're going
to speak with him again. He is covering the end
of the shutdown, the path to the end, and the
aftermath and the recriminations, and it seems like everybody on
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the Democrat side is a really angry, just pissed off
at everybody else. Let's talk with Joe Khalil, News Nation,
Cable News Network. Joe, how are you hey?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm all right? Well, he seems angry with each other
on the Democratic side. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, there's definitely some frustration there. And I think what's
going on is, you know, the whole shutdown fight for
Democrats was about one key issue it was about healthcare
subsidies and getting those extended because they expire at the
end of the year. Democrats did not get that, and
so the eight Senate Democrats who voted to reopen the
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government vote for what we call a c R a
funding bill. You know, they're getting a lot of flack
today and yesterday, as is Leader Chuck Schumer. And Schumer, mind,
you didn't even vote for this thing, but he is
still sort of getting flack for it because a lot
of folks think, well, he probably behind the scenes blessed it,
and even if he didn't, it shows, you know, in
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the view of some Democrats, he's not an effective leader
if he couldn't keep those eight moderate Democrats from up
the ranks and voting with Republicans. So I think it
just speaks to there's ben frustration already leading up to
this shutdown with the leadership of the party, with Democratic leadership.
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They wanted to have this fight, to have the fight
on healthcare, and the vast majority of Democrats sort of
stayed together. It was only these eight, although I imagined behind
the scenes there were probably some more who didn't want
to take the risky vote. But yeah, there's some frustrations
still boiling over in the fact that they feel like,
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you know, perhaps they let some of their voter base
down in this case.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, I think they may have provided cover for other
Democrats because I thought it amusing that it was exactly eight.
They needed eight Democrats to switch sides, and they got
exactly eight, And I'm thinking that probably was another eight
and then another eight behind that, because they were all
getting the same calls and criticism, whether it was about
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the airline problems or the food stamp problems. It's not
like the complaints only went to these eight senators, correct.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And you know, it's also not a coincidence that of
these eight senators, you've got i think two or three
retiring and the rests not up for reelection. In twenty
twenty six, in Virginia where federal workers there, it's a
huge population, you had only one senator who voted for this,
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which was Tim Kaine, and the other one who just
happens to be up in twenty six, Mark Warner, did
not vote for this bill to reopen a government. Yea,
it just sort of shows you there the split dynamic.
So yeah, I think there's some of that going on there,
and I believe Senator Tim Kaine told us expressly there
were a few no votes who came up to us
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yes votes afterward and said thank you for voting yes
on this.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So a lot of this is worked out behind the
scenes as far as who's going to take the hit,
who can afford to take the hit because they don't
have a reelection campaigning up for several years.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's fair, Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, because I mean there's really nothing that Chuck Schumer
can do if there's eight senators who don't want to
vote his way. I mean, I don't I don't really
understand all the because they were angry at him earlier
in the year for not shutting the government down. Then
he shuts the government down. But this is all the energy,
all the noise here is coming from progressive senators. And
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I heard Bernie Sanders say today, well, we only had
eight or nine, So you know, it's eight or nine
senators making a lot of noise because the rest of
the Democrats aren't as progressive as they are.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know, I think again, I think it goes beyond
the shutdown of the frustrations with Chef Schumer. I think,
you know, part of the reason you started to see
the frustration and the first go around when he avoided
a government shutdown altogether, there were progressives I think in
the base who just think, you know what, we need
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somebody who's a new blood. He's not in touch with
the base voters of the party. You know, whether you
love mom Donnie or you hate Mom Donnie. That was
another example. He was continually asked whether he was going
to endorse the guy. He did not, And you know,
so there are there's a progressive element of the of
the Democratic Party that just doesn't think that Chuck Schumer is.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Up to meeting the moment right now.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
They're seeing unprecedented you know, uh from from the Trump
administration two point zero what what these voters see as overreach,
and what they want to see is a Senate leader
that you know, stands firm against that and and sort
of has uh, maybe a better message capacity than Schumer does.
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I mean, these are things that I've heard from, you know,
the more progressive wings of the party and whether it's
voter bases or whether it's actual elected members. So this
shutdown site, you know, Schumer, I think objectively, was in
a pretty tough spot politically, right so he he led
the shutdown, and he voted against reopening, and he made
the arguments that everyone else is making about healthcare, and
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yet still he is getting the bulk of the blame.
There's more. There's more beef with Schumer from these progressoress
who voted with them this time than there is for
the eight who actually voted with Republicans. And I think
the reason is, again they think if he were a
more effective leader, he could have kept the conference together,
and you know, they prevented the eight people from voting
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against Democratic side, and a speaker Pelosi sort of had
that iron fift, you know, over her conference. And the
other thing is if it's true that maybe he sort
of blessed this but didn't want to have his hands
on it, which is what a lot of people also think,
then that's another reason that these voters might take issue
with him.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Do any of these senators and political insiders do they
ever think about how it's affecting normal people, regular people
in terms of food stamps or the airport problems. Do
they have any concerned for how we all feel out
here or is it just their own internal bickering?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, I think that, I mean, I think there
is a recognition a reality that life is painful for
people during a shutdown. You know, I mean, I genuinely do.
I know people are cynical about politics, and they should be,
and a lot of our lawmakers do things that we
wish they didn't, or their motivations or perverse a little bit.
(07:26):
One hundred percent correct, yes, but I do think that
it has an impact when lots of people are calling
the offices and saying, you know, look, it's going to
be my third paycheck that I'm not going to get.
I'm a federal worker, and you know, the furloughs and
the air traffic control stuff. I think that's true. I
think that the tough part for this group that we're
talking about, these Democrats, is you know, people's healthcare premiums
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are going to go up. Objectively, that is a fact
I know personally. I My family got a letter too
that talked about healthcare increases. You know, we've got to
supplement mental health care plan that's on the exchange. So
I get that too. That you know, okay, you want
to They wanted to fight for this, and they wanted
an outcome, and their outcome they wanted was, let's you know,
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extend these subsidies, make sure people's premiums don't go up.
So there it's a really tough balancing act, right, like
do you do you exert pain on one portion of
the population to help health care costs and another part
portion of the population. It's it's a very tough balancing act.
And when you're the party that's shutting it down, which
in this case, despite what some of them have said,
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was the Democratic Party this time around with their votes,
that's always the delicate dance that you've got to do.
It was Republicans the previous two times and Democrats this
time around. So it's a you know, shutdowns are very
complicated for that reason.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Joe, thanks very much for coming on, great reporting, Really
appreciate so much.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Always going to be with you, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Joe Khalil from News Nation, the cable TV News News network,
very good network too, and you you could tell Joe
Khalil excellent reporter there. All right, We've got more on
this because the airport situation is getting worse each day
this week, not better, because the shutdown hasn't officially been
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passed through both the House and the Senate, and Trump
hasn't signed it. Yet in the meantime, you have the
same pressures on the system, and we'll discuss that coming
up next.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We just talked with Joe Khalil from News Nation, the
cable news network on the post. Well, the shutdown's not
over yet, but the path is clearly there. The build
to reopen. The government pass the Senate sixty forty, it's
going to the House, they'll pass it. I'll go to Trump.
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Trump will sign it. But still what you have is
airline you have cancelations by the thousands, and that's going
to go on for quite a few days. In fact,
by Friday, it's going to be ten percent of all
the flights will be canceled. Now, the good news, having
gone through this over the weekend is they let you
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know in advance by a few days, and they're trying
to For example, I heard if they have a route
where normally they take seven thirty seven planes, they will
get a wide body plane and try to get the
passengers from two flights into one plane. They have a
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lot of extra wide body planes sitting around because they
use them for the overseas flight flights to Europe and
other places. And now because it's winter times, approaching flights
overseas are way down. They have a lot of planes
not being used, so they're putting those planes in service
and they're consolidating from several flights to see if they can,
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you know, lighten the disruption. A byproduct of when you
change the schedule that rapidly is now you have a
lot of pilots and a lot of flight attendants that
are in the wrong place. You know, it's carefully calibrated.
If you notice, like I came home from a flight
to Philly at lax on Sunday night, and I noticed
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there was a pilot and there were pilots and flight
attendants ready to board my plane after the passengers got off. Well,
they were going to fly the plane back to Philly
for the Red Eye. Now, if for some reason that
flight is canceled, then these pilots and these flight attendants
are now in the wrong city because they're supposed to
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end up in Philly right and somewhere in a day
or two, they're supposed to get back on a plane
leaving Philly to go somewhere else. And you know, it's
amazing any of this works. It does work most of
the time. It's actually shocking because when you have thousands
of flights taking off every day, and not only planes
have to be in a certain place, but you have
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to have the stat the pilots and the flight attendant
personnel in the same place. You'd see the headache it becomes.
And when they finally open the government officially, it's still
going to take days to get back in order, and
they're hoping to get it all in place before the
holiday weekend, and so they have two weeks to get
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that back in order. Here's another major issue, and a
lot of these problems are many years in the making,
and nobody took care of them. For all the money
we waste on illegal aliens and foreign governments. Somehow we
are short, no kidding, three thousand air traffic controllers. We
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only have fourteen thousand. That's a big percentage. We should
have seventeen thousand. We have fourteen thousand. And this is
like the numbers we gave you on the LAPD yesterday.
So what happens. The current traffic controllers work long hours,
stressful schedules, no days off, a lot of overtime pay.
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Why because the FA was neglected for many years by
multiple administrations, multiple congresses. Well, why they spend the money
on all the garbage and nonsense, you know, on the
on the illegal aliens and the foreign governments and some
of the stupidest wars imaginable. That money gets shoveled out
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literally by the trillions. And then the basic basic stuff
we need, like our traffic controllers. They're not hired, they're
not trained. It takes two or three years to train them,
and and nobody's ready. Now oh oh, by the way, Yeah,
shutting down the world over COVID was an incredibly stupid
idea because a lot of pilot it's retired and or resigned.
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You had a lot of air traffic controllers retire and resigned,
and we never made up for that boondoggle. Well now
we got a second one. They shut down the government
for really no reason, and now it's going to take
years to dig out of that because more more air
traffic controllers resigned or retired. I mean, I mean, they
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just they're just stupid people, and they make especially the
legislative congress people and the senators, they make stupid, emotional,
impulsive decisions based on who's screaming at them at any
given moment, and all these activists and these progressive nut
jobs the Senate, according to Bernie Sanders, of all people,
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I heard him say it, because we only have eight
or nine progressives in the Senate, but they've been calling
the shots. They've been the ones demanding that we have
a shutdown. And if you're a relatively normal Democrat like
Chuck Schumer, you don't want to face AOC in a primary.
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So she's screaming for a shutdown and protect your sorry,
old wrinkled hide. You decide to lead everybody into the shutdown,
and it backfired because Trump doesn't give in. He's not
going to give this crowd you think he's gonna give
the progressives a win. He doesn't feel pain. People scream
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at him and call him names all day and night
for the last eleven years. He is a given. You
got to know your enemy, you got to know who
you're fighting against. It's really kind of stupid to expect
that he would he would, he'd be the one to collapse.
And the one issue they have here that they that
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they shut down the government over was Obamacare subsidies. I'm
gonna say it again. These were temporary passed in twenty
twenty one as part of the COVID panic, supposed to
expire this year. Temporary things means they expire. And the
Democrats were in charge of everything back then, and they
put in the expiration date and they figured if anybody
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tried to enforce the expiration date, they would just screen
bloody murder and embarrass people. And it didn't work. And
that system's broken too. Obamacare was supposed to lower premiums
when it was unveiled fifteen years ago. They have skyrocketed
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and people are going to see how badly they've skyrocketed
now that the government subsidies are gone. There's a lot
more to say about all that. It gets complicated, but
that's the basics of it. And you know that can't continue.
That's a bad system that has to be bull dozed
and rebuilt and rewritten. But we only have stupid people
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running things, so that's not going to happen. They'll end
up maybe they'll end up with something worse. I don't know,
but we don't have We do not have men and
women in Washington, just like Sacramento, LA. Don't have people
who can govern the country. They're incapable of it, and
it's the fault of the voters because they send these
incapable uncapable What is it incapable or incapable? Well, what's that? Incapable?
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Incompetent idiots? And then you put one hundred of them
in a room or four hundred and thirty five in
a room. Well, what do you think is going to happen?
You have idiot times, idiot times, idiot up to the
four hundred and thirty fifth power. So there's no hope,
all right, when we come back. Another another revelation in
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the Palisades fire scandal, there was another guy in the
fire department who was told that the firefighters left early,
and he didn't tell anybody. We are going to talk
about that when we come back.
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
Six forty Moistline for Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty
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feature on the iHeartRadio app. Another another bombshell. This this
is a real, honest to God's scandal. It's being investigated
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by the federal government. There are subpoenas out from a
federal grand jury, and it is the Palisades fire, and
now the La Times, which this seems to be the only,
the only story that they're covering well and accurately. But
they're doing it. I've said it one hundred times. They're
doing a great job. And this article is by Paul
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Pringle and Aleen check Midian. And as you know, word
came out a few weeks ago that there were a
number of fives who were at the scene of the
original January first fire in the Palisades, and that fire
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had a hot spot. And on January second, these firefighters
were at the hot spot and the battalion chief, Mario Garcia,
said we're going home. Roll up the hoses, and the
firefighters protested, saying, well, no, the ground is smoking, the
tree stumps are hot, the rocks are hot. Things are smoldering. No,
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no hoses, roll them up. We're going out. And then
nobody knew about this for months and months until text
messages from those firefighters ended up in the hands of
the La Times and they publicized them. And now we
find out that there was another official, a another fire
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department management official, who was told that the firefighters had
left the hotspot early, and that second official told a
third official outside the department. That third official broke down
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the details of the story and now has revealed them
to the La Times. And if you remember, they had
a number of public meetings where the survivors and victims
of the fire were pleading, demanding that give us information.
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How did this happen? Why did it happen? Who's responsible?
And they were constantly patted on the head and told well,
there's going to be an after action report, there's going
to be an investigation. But you just wait till the
after action report comes out. And then it does and
it said nothing about the hot spot being left behind,
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still hot, and that's of course where the second fire originated.
That hot spot. Winds came and whipped it up. And
now you have the narcissistic psychopath Gavin Newsom in Brazil
battling at a climate conference blaming the Palisades fire on
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climate change. Complete lie, started by an arsonist. The fire
department didn't put it fully, put it out, and when
the normal Santa Ana winds came and blew, that's what
whipped up the fire. But let me read to you
from the Alley Time story for months, as victims plated
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for information, the Alley Fire Department kept secret that it's
firefighters were ordered to stop the mop up operations. At
least one department official learned that a battalion chief had
directed the firefighters to pack up their hoses and leave
the scene, even though they said the ground was smoking
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the rocks were hot. Now, the Times originally found this
out because of the text messages that the firefighters wrote.
Now this is another department official, but the department did
not include that story or any detailed examination of the
reignition in the after action report. So the fire department
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willfully covered it up and kept the secret. No respect
for all the people who lost their homes or for
the families who had loved ones who lost their lives.
None the Ali Fire Department. And I know you want
to think of everybody as a hero, right. I don't
know how many awards shows that they showed up at
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and stood up and got deployed it. And certainly, you know,
the regular firefighters did the best they could. But the
management is so bad. And I think there's a lot
of people that are really bad because when they issued
the report and it was supposed to identify shortcomings in
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the preparedness and response. There was only a brief mention
of the original fire, even though firefighters on the scene
knew that the original firefighter firefight site was the problem,
and then fire officials publicly somewhere between lied, misled, or
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were ignorant of the truth. Kristin Crowley, the fire chief
at the time, said we won't leave a fire that
has any hotspots. That's false. Did she know? I don't know.
Chief Deputy Joe Everett at same meeting a community meeting
January sixteenth, first, Crowley said flat out, we won't leave
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a fire that has any hotspots. Then Joe Everett said
that fire was dead out. If it was determined to
be the cause, it would be a phenomenon false. Crowley
said something false publicly. Everett said something false publicly. Again ignorant.
Did they do an investigation? Were they aware of what
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had really happened. Mario Garcia was the battalion chief listed
as being on duty. LA Times emailed him. He's unable
to comment due to the ongoing investigation. The interim fire chief,
Ronnie Vivanueva, declined to be interviewed or answered questions. Mayor
Karen Bass declined to be interviewed and did not respond
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directly to a question. So Bass won't talk, The interim chief,
THEANUEVA won't talk, the original Chief, Kristin Crowley woon talk,
wom talk, the chief Deputy Joe Everett won't talk, and
the battalion chief won't talk. But everybody gave out false
information and covered up the truth. So now you've got
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a federal grand jury subpoena. And the source of this
story is a high ranking fire official who works for
another agency in LA and he's the one who told
the Times that there was a second LA Fire Department
battalion chief named Nick Ferrari. Nick Ferrari told him in
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June that the department knew of the firefighters wanting to
stay at the hotspot and were told to go home.
And he made written notes at the time he had
the conversation, so he documented what Ferrari had said. So
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the firefighters knew what happened. Chief Mario Garcia knew what
happened because he told him to go home. This other person,
this other battalion chief, Nick Ferrari, knew, and all the
officials higher than them denied everything or covered it up,
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and These are the people that are supposed to be
working for us and protecting us when we come back
San Diego had This is what they do. This is
what they do in San Diego. They have a new
set of enforcers, law enforcement people. I don't know what
to call them. They'll cut They come by your house
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and they lid the lift. They lift the lid on
your garbage can to see if you're sorting the garbage properly. Seriously,
a team of San Diego city employees are going to
be showing up the people's homes to stick their heads
in your trash cans. Tell you about it next year.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We had been promoting that Tom McClintock was going to
be on the show today, and he will be on
the show very shortly. But obviously things are quite busy
and crazy in Washington, d C. Today, So we will
speak with him tomorrow or perhaps the next day, but
at some point soon. All right, this well a dumb
ass things that government wastes money on. This one wins
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a prize. It's the city of San Diego. They have
compliance officers sticking their noses into your trash cans. Let's
get this report from ABC ten San Diego reporter Jared Aarrens.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
One Candida time employees from the city's Environmental Services department
are checking the trash in this Bay Park neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
We've never been this detailed and thorough with it.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Officially, they're called compliance officers, and they're lifting lids all
across San Diego to make sure each of these bins
only dange trash recycling organic waste. It's a requirement under
Senateville thirteen eighty three, which made composting the law. In California,
Waste Reduction Program manager Alexander Galasso told me it's kind
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of a thrill.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm weird. I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I think it's cool to dig through trash, but I
get it, I'm not the normal person.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
They're not actually digging through anything, just a simple glance
at the top layer. And it's about safety as much
as sorting. Already this year, twenty five city waste trucks
have caught fire, mainly because of batteries that get improperly
thrown out.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The way the trucks are set up.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
They'll crush the compact the material and unfortunately battery, especially
lithium ion other types of material, when they get crushed,
those cells explode at fire as a real threat.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
That's why they're looking for this or that, but also
for anything in the wrong bin. And this is more
about education over enforcement. If the compliance officers lift this
lid and see something that doesn't belong, they have these
OOPS tags so remind people to do better.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
We're not going to be enforcing or we're doing any
kind of citations for minor and major contaminations.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
If it's really bad, workers may put a do not
collect sticker on the bin. Then it's up to the
homeowner to take it out and call for a new pickup.
There are no fees, no penalties, just education. Every home
will be checked at least once a year to help
people make this a habit.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Waste doesn't end when you come to the trash gun.
There is there is a life after waste, and we
want to make sure that these are sort of correctly
because not only one doesn't impact our chef and our
role in our trucks.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Well there's no penalties at least.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, well there's no penalties.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Just going to be educated on the right way to
throw things out.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Boy, what you need to do is a there should
be a very very interesting top layer of waste that
you leave so that they when they pick up the lid,
they get a blast right in their face as something
really unpleasant. I'm any. Yeah, maybe you could take your
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dog poop bags and cut them open and just sprinkle
the dog poop right on the top there, so that's
the first thing they see and smell. Who are he
admitted he's weird the guy? But seriously, these people need
to be in an asylum. They actually enjoy going through
and sniffing people's garbage.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Do you really think they enjoy it or that's the
only jobbing way That.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Little clip of the the guy if you can find it.
I don't know about all of them, but this guy,
he admitted he's a weirdo. He likes looking at people's garbage,
because you know, that is such a pain in the
ass thing separating. I don't do it anymore. I don't
do it either. In fact, I was up in San
Francisco some a couple of years ago, and they have
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these organic waste bins along with the regular trash bins.
And the recycled bins for cans and bottles, and I
intentionally like put my cans and bottles in the organic waste,
yes to mess up their compost pile. That yeah, I'm
very moved.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
There is there is a life after waste, and we
want to make sure that these are sort of correctly
because not only one does it impact our staff and
our our structural you know, our trucks, but also it
impacts what goes into a landfall.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
No, that's not it's someone where he says he enjoys
it and that he's weird. But you know he's getting
tax money. He's getting tax money too. All right, now
you found it, all right, But I get it. I'm
not the normal person.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Don't worry, they're not. It's kind of a thrill.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
I'm weird. Were excited. I think it's cool to dig
through trash.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But I get it. I'm not the normal person.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Okay, So one guy, one guy likes his job. I
mean that's good. I'm glad he likes his job.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Nobody should be paying this guy to fondle your garbage.
Fondle to look for your alex. Like a guy who
fondles the garbage and this organic waste in this composting thing.
When they passed you know, it's like mandatory composting. It's
supposed to be. And my first reaction when they pass
this thing is like, yeah, who's going to enforce it? Well,
(32:14):
now we found out in San Diego they're paying people
to stick their heads in your garbage can. And I
understand looking for batteries because those things do catch fire
and explode. And it shows you how stupid people are
that you throw lithium batteries away in regular garbage. It's
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just but yeah, it's a requirement. And under Senate Bill
thirteen eighty three requiring Californians to recycle organic waste, No,
that's a no. Ain't in the ass, busy bodies. God,
you have to compost when somebody comes over right to
visit at the house. Yeah, and these are people I
(32:56):
like it. Well, do you compost well?
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Because they're being respectful, John, they want to know if
you do that, they're going to throw away things in
the proper places.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I just look at them and I say, do I
look like a guy who composts? How long have we
known each other?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
You think?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I get up in the morning and I start composting.
I don't know you that one. Apparently not all right?
When we come back, Oh, this is this headline. The
national political press are starting to grease up Gavin Newsom.
Here's the headline from Politico. You might gag. The hottest
(33:35):
ticket in Brazil just might be a meeting with Gavin Newsom.
We'll tell you about that. We come back, Debora Mark
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makeup time. After four you can listen to the podcast,
same as the radio show. Yesterday, at this time, we
talked with Joe Khalil from News Nation and we're going
to speak with him again. He is covering the end
of the shutdown, the path to the end, and the
aftermath and the recriminations, and it seems like everybody on
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the Democrat side is a really angry, just pissed off
at everybody else. Let's talk with Joe Khalil, News Nation,
Cable News Network. Joe, how are you hey?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm all right? Well, he seems angry with each other
on the Democratic side. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, there's definitely some frustration there. And I think what's
going on is, you know, the whole shutdown fight for
Democrats was about one key issue it was about healthcare
subsidies and getting those extended because they expire at the
end of the year. Democrats did not get that, and
so the eight Senate Democrats who voted to reopen the
(01:30):
government vote for what we call a c R a
funding bill. You know, they're getting a lot of flack
today and yesterday, as is Leader Chuck Schumer. And Schumer, mind,
you didn't even vote for this thing, but he is
still sort of getting flack for it because a lot
of folks think, well, he probably behind the scenes blessed it,
and even if he didn't, it shows, you know, in
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the view of some Democrats, he's not an effective leader
if he couldn't keep those eight moderate Democrats from up
the ranks and voting with Republicans. So I think it
just speaks to there's ben frustration already leading up to
this shutdown with the leadership of the party, with Democratic leadership.
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They wanted to have this fight, to have the fight
on healthcare, and the vast majority of Democrats sort of
stayed together. It was only these eight, although I imagined behind
the scenes there were probably some more who didn't want
to take the risky vote. But yeah, there's some frustrations
still boiling over in the fact that they feel like,
(02:33):
you know, perhaps they let some of their voter base
down in this case.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, I think they may have provided cover for other
Democrats because I thought it amusing that it was exactly eight.
They needed eight Democrats to switch sides, and they got
exactly eight, And I'm thinking that probably was another eight
and then another eight behind that, because they were all
getting the same calls and criticism, whether it was about
(02:57):
the airline problems or the food stamp problems. It's not
like the complaints only went to these eight senators, correct.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And you know, it's also not a coincidence that of
these eight senators, you've got i think two or three
retiring and the rests not up for reelection. In twenty
twenty six, in Virginia where federal workers there, it's a
huge population, you had only one senator who voted for this,
(03:26):
which was Tim Kaine, and the other one who just
happens to be up in twenty six, Mark Warner, did
not vote for this bill to reopen a government. Yea,
it just sort of shows you there the split dynamic.
So yeah, I think there's some of that going on there,
and I believe Senator Tim Kaine told us expressly there
were a few no votes who came up to us
(03:48):
yes votes afterward and said thank you for voting yes
on this.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So a lot of this is worked out behind the
scenes as far as who's going to take the hit,
who can afford to take the hit because they don't
have a reelection campaigning up for several years.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's fair, Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, because I mean there's really nothing that Chuck Schumer
can do if there's eight senators who don't want to
vote his way. I mean, I don't I don't really
understand all the because they were angry at him earlier
in the year for not shutting the government down. Then
he shuts the government down. But this is all the energy,
all the noise here is coming from progressive senators. And
(04:25):
I heard Bernie Sanders say today, well, we only had
eight or nine, So you know, it's eight or nine
senators making a lot of noise because the rest of
the Democrats aren't as progressive as they are.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know, I think again, I think it goes beyond
the shutdown of the frustrations with Chef Schumer. I think,
you know, part of the reason you started to see
the frustration and the first go around when he avoided
a government shutdown altogether, there were progressives I think in
the base who just think, you know what, we need
(04:57):
somebody who's a new blood. He's not in touch with
the base voters of the party. You know, whether you
love mom Donnie or you hate Mom Donnie. That was
another example. He was continually asked whether he was going
to endorse the guy. He did not, And you know,
so there are there's a progressive element of the of
the Democratic Party that just doesn't think that Chuck Schumer is.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Up to meeting the moment right now.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
They're seeing unprecedented you know, uh from from the Trump
administration two point zero what what these voters see as overreach,
and what they want to see is a Senate leader
that you know, stands firm against that and and sort
of has uh, maybe a better message capacity than Schumer does.
(05:43):
I mean, these are things that I've heard from, you know,
the more progressive wings of the party and whether it's
voter bases or whether it's actual elected members. So this
shutdown site, you know, Schumer, I think objectively, was in
a pretty tough spot politically, right so he he led
the shutdown, and he voted against reopening, and he made
the arguments that everyone else is making about healthcare, and
(06:05):
yet still he is getting the bulk of the blame.
There's more. There's more beef with Schumer from these progressoress
who voted with them this time than there is for
the eight who actually voted with Republicans. And I think
the reason is, again they think if he were a
more effective leader, he could have kept the conference together,
and you know, they prevented the eight people from voting
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against Democratic side, and a speaker Pelosi sort of had
that iron fift, you know, over her conference. And the
other thing is if it's true that maybe he sort
of blessed this but didn't want to have his hands
on it, which is what a lot of people also think,
then that's another reason that these voters might take issue
with him.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Do any of these senators and political insiders do they
ever think about how it's affecting normal people, regular people
in terms of food stamps or the airport problems. Do
they have any concerned for how we all feel out
here or is it just their own internal bickering?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, I think that, I mean, I think there
is a recognition a reality that life is painful for
people during a shutdown. You know, I mean, I genuinely do.
I know people are cynical about politics, and they should be,
and a lot of our lawmakers do things that we
wish they didn't, or their motivations or perverse a little bit.
(07:26):
One hundred percent correct, yes, but I do think that
it has an impact when lots of people are calling
the offices and saying, you know, look, it's going to
be my third paycheck that I'm not going to get.
I'm a federal worker, and you know, the furloughs and
the air traffic control stuff. I think that's true. I
think that the tough part for this group that we're
talking about, these Democrats, is you know, people's healthcare premiums
(07:49):
are going to go up. Objectively, that is a fact
I know personally. I My family got a letter too
that talked about healthcare increases. You know, we've got to
supplement mental health care plan that's on the exchange. So
I get that too. That you know, okay, you want
to They wanted to fight for this, and they wanted
an outcome, and their outcome they wanted was, let's you know,
(08:11):
extend these subsidies, make sure people's premiums don't go up.
So there it's a really tough balancing act, right, like
do you do you exert pain on one portion of
the population to help health care costs and another part
portion of the population. It's it's a very tough balancing act.
And when you're the party that's shutting it down, which
in this case, despite what some of them have said,
(08:33):
was the Democratic Party this time around with their votes,
that's always the delicate dance that you've got to do.
It was Republicans the previous two times and Democrats this
time around. So it's a you know, shutdowns are very
complicated for that reason.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Joe, thanks very much for coming on, great reporting, Really
appreciate so much.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Always going to be with you, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Joe Khalil from News Nation, the cable TV News News network,
very good network too, and you you could tell Joe
Khalil excellent reporter there. All right, We've got more on
this because the airport situation is getting worse each day
this week, not better, because the shutdown hasn't officially been
(09:16):
passed through both the House and the Senate, and Trump
hasn't signed it. Yet in the meantime, you have the
same pressures on the system, and we'll discuss that coming
up next.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We just talked with Joe Khalil from News Nation, the
cable news network on the post. Well, the shutdown's not
over yet, but the path is clearly there. The build
to reopen. The government pass the Senate sixty forty, it's
going to the House, they'll pass it. I'll go to Trump.
(09:55):
Trump will sign it. But still what you have is
airline you have cancelations by the thousands, and that's going
to go on for quite a few days. In fact,
by Friday, it's going to be ten percent of all
the flights will be canceled. Now, the good news, having
gone through this over the weekend is they let you
(10:16):
know in advance by a few days, and they're trying
to For example, I heard if they have a route
where normally they take seven thirty seven planes, they will
get a wide body plane and try to get the
passengers from two flights into one plane. They have a
(10:39):
lot of extra wide body planes sitting around because they
use them for the overseas flight flights to Europe and
other places. And now because it's winter times, approaching flights
overseas are way down. They have a lot of planes
not being used, so they're putting those planes in service
and they're consolidating from several flights to see if they can,
(11:04):
you know, lighten the disruption. A byproduct of when you
change the schedule that rapidly is now you have a
lot of pilots and a lot of flight attendants that
are in the wrong place. You know, it's carefully calibrated.
If you notice, like I came home from a flight
to Philly at lax on Sunday night, and I noticed
(11:26):
there was a pilot and there were pilots and flight
attendants ready to board my plane after the passengers got off. Well,
they were going to fly the plane back to Philly
for the Red Eye. Now, if for some reason that
flight is canceled, then these pilots and these flight attendants
are now in the wrong city because they're supposed to
(11:47):
end up in Philly right and somewhere in a day
or two, they're supposed to get back on a plane
leaving Philly to go somewhere else. And you know, it's
amazing any of this works. It does work most of
the time. It's actually shocking because when you have thousands
of flights taking off every day, and not only planes
have to be in a certain place, but you have
(12:08):
to have the stat the pilots and the flight attendant
personnel in the same place. You'd see the headache it becomes.
And when they finally open the government officially, it's still
going to take days to get back in order, and
they're hoping to get it all in place before the
holiday weekend, and so they have two weeks to get
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that back in order. Here's another major issue, and a
lot of these problems are many years in the making,
and nobody took care of them. For all the money
we waste on illegal aliens and foreign governments. Somehow we
are short, no kidding, three thousand air traffic controllers. We
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only have fourteen thousand. That's a big percentage. We should
have seventeen thousand. We have fourteen thousand. And this is
like the numbers we gave you on the LAPD yesterday.
So what happens. The current traffic controllers work long hours,
stressful schedules, no days off, a lot of overtime pay.
(13:16):
Why because the FA was neglected for many years by
multiple administrations, multiple congresses. Well, why they spend the money
on all the garbage and nonsense, you know, on the
on the illegal aliens and the foreign governments and some
of the stupidest wars imaginable. That money gets shoveled out
(13:39):
literally by the trillions. And then the basic basic stuff
we need, like our traffic controllers. They're not hired, they're
not trained. It takes two or three years to train them,
and and nobody's ready. Now oh oh, by the way, Yeah,
shutting down the world over COVID was an incredibly stupid
idea because a lot of pilot it's retired and or resigned.
(14:03):
You had a lot of air traffic controllers retire and resigned,
and we never made up for that boondoggle. Well now
we got a second one. They shut down the government
for really no reason, and now it's going to take
years to dig out of that because more more air
traffic controllers resigned or retired. I mean, I mean, they
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just they're just stupid people, and they make especially the
legislative congress people and the senators, they make stupid, emotional,
impulsive decisions based on who's screaming at them at any
given moment, and all these activists and these progressive nut
jobs the Senate, according to Bernie Sanders, of all people,
(14:47):
I heard him say it, because we only have eight
or nine progressives in the Senate, but they've been calling
the shots. They've been the ones demanding that we have
a shutdown. And if you're a relatively normal Democrat like
Chuck Schumer, you don't want to face AOC in a primary.
(15:09):
So she's screaming for a shutdown and protect your sorry,
old wrinkled hide. You decide to lead everybody into the shutdown,
and it backfired because Trump doesn't give in. He's not
going to give this crowd you think he's gonna give
the progressives a win. He doesn't feel pain. People scream
(15:31):
at him and call him names all day and night
for the last eleven years. He is a given. You
got to know your enemy, you got to know who
you're fighting against. It's really kind of stupid to expect
that he would he would, he'd be the one to collapse.
And the one issue they have here that they that
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they shut down the government over was Obamacare subsidies. I'm
gonna say it again. These were temporary passed in twenty
twenty one as part of the COVID panic, supposed to
expire this year. Temporary things means they expire. And the
Democrats were in charge of everything back then, and they
put in the expiration date and they figured if anybody
(16:17):
tried to enforce the expiration date, they would just screen
bloody murder and embarrass people. And it didn't work. And
that system's broken too. Obamacare was supposed to lower premiums
when it was unveiled fifteen years ago. They have skyrocketed
(16:37):
and people are going to see how badly they've skyrocketed
now that the government subsidies are gone. There's a lot
more to say about all that. It gets complicated, but
that's the basics of it. And you know that can't continue.
That's a bad system that has to be bull dozed
and rebuilt and rewritten. But we only have stupid people
(16:59):
running things, so that's not going to happen. They'll end
up maybe they'll end up with something worse. I don't know,
but we don't have We do not have men and
women in Washington, just like Sacramento, LA. Don't have people
who can govern the country. They're incapable of it, and
it's the fault of the voters because they send these
incapable uncapable What is it incapable or incapable? Well, what's that? Incapable?
(17:25):
Incompetent idiots? And then you put one hundred of them
in a room or four hundred and thirty five in
a room. Well, what do you think is going to happen?
You have idiot times, idiot times, idiot up to the
four hundred and thirty fifth power. So there's no hope,
all right, when we come back. Another another revelation in
(17:47):
the Palisades fire scandal, there was another guy in the
fire department who was told that the firefighters left early,
and he didn't tell anybody. We are going to talk
about that when we come back.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
Six forty Moistline for Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty
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feature on the iHeartRadio app. Another another bombshell. This this
is a real, honest to God's scandal. It's being investigated
(18:27):
by the federal government. There are subpoenas out from a
federal grand jury, and it is the Palisades fire, and
now the La Times, which this seems to be the only,
the only story that they're covering well and accurately. But
they're doing it. I've said it one hundred times. They're
doing a great job. And this article is by Paul
(18:49):
Pringle and Aleen check Midian. And as you know, word
came out a few weeks ago that there were a
number of fives who were at the scene of the
original January first fire in the Palisades, and that fire
(19:09):
had a hot spot. And on January second, these firefighters
were at the hot spot and the battalion chief, Mario Garcia,
said we're going home. Roll up the hoses, and the
firefighters protested, saying, well, no, the ground is smoking, the
tree stumps are hot, the rocks are hot. Things are smoldering. No,
(19:33):
no hoses, roll them up. We're going out. And then
nobody knew about this for months and months until text
messages from those firefighters ended up in the hands of
the La Times and they publicized them. And now we
find out that there was another official, a another fire
(20:01):
department management official, who was told that the firefighters had
left the hotspot early, and that second official told a
third official outside the department. That third official broke down
(20:23):
the details of the story and now has revealed them
to the La Times. And if you remember, they had
a number of public meetings where the survivors and victims
of the fire were pleading, demanding that give us information.
(20:45):
How did this happen? Why did it happen? Who's responsible?
And they were constantly patted on the head and told well,
there's going to be an after action report, there's going
to be an investigation. But you just wait till the
after action report comes out. And then it does and
it said nothing about the hot spot being left behind,
(21:07):
still hot, and that's of course where the second fire originated.
That hot spot. Winds came and whipped it up. And
now you have the narcissistic psychopath Gavin Newsom in Brazil
battling at a climate conference blaming the Palisades fire on
(21:28):
climate change. Complete lie, started by an arsonist. The fire
department didn't put it fully, put it out, and when
the normal Santa Ana winds came and blew, that's what
whipped up the fire. But let me read to you
from the Alley Time story for months, as victims plated
(21:50):
for information, the Alley Fire Department kept secret that it's
firefighters were ordered to stop the mop up operations. At
least one department official learned that a battalion chief had
directed the firefighters to pack up their hoses and leave
the scene, even though they said the ground was smoking
(22:12):
the rocks were hot. Now, the Times originally found this
out because of the text messages that the firefighters wrote.
Now this is another department official, but the department did
not include that story or any detailed examination of the
reignition in the after action report. So the fire department
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willfully covered it up and kept the secret. No respect
for all the people who lost their homes or for
the families who had loved ones who lost their lives.
None the Ali Fire Department. And I know you want
to think of everybody as a hero, right. I don't
know how many awards shows that they showed up at
(22:57):
and stood up and got deployed it. And certainly, you know,
the regular firefighters did the best they could. But the
management is so bad. And I think there's a lot
of people that are really bad because when they issued
the report and it was supposed to identify shortcomings in
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the preparedness and response. There was only a brief mention
of the original fire, even though firefighters on the scene
knew that the original firefighter firefight site was the problem,
and then fire officials publicly somewhere between lied, misled, or
(23:42):
were ignorant of the truth. Kristin Crowley, the fire chief
at the time, said we won't leave a fire that
has any hotspots. That's false. Did she know? I don't know.
Chief Deputy Joe Everett at same meeting a community meeting
January sixteenth, first, Crowley said flat out, we won't leave
(24:05):
a fire that has any hotspots. Then Joe Everett said
that fire was dead out. If it was determined to
be the cause, it would be a phenomenon false. Crowley
said something false publicly. Everett said something false publicly. Again ignorant.
Did they do an investigation? Were they aware of what
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had really happened. Mario Garcia was the battalion chief listed
as being on duty. LA Times emailed him. He's unable
to comment due to the ongoing investigation. The interim fire chief,
Ronnie Vivanueva, declined to be interviewed or answered questions. Mayor
Karen Bass declined to be interviewed and did not respond
(24:47):
directly to a question. So Bass won't talk, The interim chief,
THEANUEVA won't talk, the original Chief, Kristin Crowley woon talk,
wom talk, the chief Deputy Joe Everett won't talk, and
the battalion chief won't talk. But everybody gave out false
information and covered up the truth. So now you've got
(25:09):
a federal grand jury subpoena. And the source of this
story is a high ranking fire official who works for
another agency in LA and he's the one who told
the Times that there was a second LA Fire Department
battalion chief named Nick Ferrari. Nick Ferrari told him in
(25:34):
June that the department knew of the firefighters wanting to
stay at the hotspot and were told to go home.
And he made written notes at the time he had
the conversation, so he documented what Ferrari had said. So
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the firefighters knew what happened. Chief Mario Garcia knew what
happened because he told him to go home. This other person,
this other battalion chief, Nick Ferrari, knew, and all the
officials higher than them denied everything or covered it up,
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and These are the people that are supposed to be
working for us and protecting us when we come back
San Diego had This is what they do. This is
what they do in San Diego. They have a new
set of enforcers, law enforcement people. I don't know what
to call them. They'll cut They come by your house
(26:39):
and they lid the lift. They lift the lid on
your garbage can to see if you're sorting the garbage properly. Seriously,
a team of San Diego city employees are going to
be showing up the people's homes to stick their heads
in your trash cans. Tell you about it next year.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We had been promoting that Tom McClintock was going to
be on the show today, and he will be on
the show very shortly. But obviously things are quite busy
and crazy in Washington, d C. Today, So we will
speak with him tomorrow or perhaps the next day, but
at some point soon. All right, this well a dumb
ass things that government wastes money on. This one wins
(27:30):
a prize. It's the city of San Diego. They have
compliance officers sticking their noses into your trash cans. Let's
get this report from ABC ten San Diego reporter Jared Aarrens.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
One Candida time employees from the city's Environmental Services department
are checking the trash in this Bay Park neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
We've never been this detailed and thorough with it.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Officially, they're called compliance officers, and they're lifting lids all
across San Diego to make sure each of these bins
only dange trash recycling organic waste. It's a requirement under
Senateville thirteen eighty three, which made composting the law. In California,
Waste Reduction Program manager Alexander Galasso told me it's kind
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of a thrill.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm weird. I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I think it's cool to dig through trash, but I
get it, I'm not the normal person.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
They're not actually digging through anything, just a simple glance
at the top layer. And it's about safety as much
as sorting. Already this year, twenty five city waste trucks
have caught fire, mainly because of batteries that get improperly
thrown out.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The way the trucks are set up.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
They'll crush the compact the material and unfortunately battery, especially
lithium ion other types of material, when they get crushed,
those cells explode at fire as a real threat.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
That's why they're looking for this or that, but also
for anything in the wrong bin. And this is more
about education over enforcement. If the compliance officers lift this
lid and see something that doesn't belong, they have these
OOPS tags so remind people to do better.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
We're not going to be enforcing or we're doing any
kind of citations for minor and major contaminations.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
If it's really bad, workers may put a do not
collect sticker on the bin. Then it's up to the
homeowner to take it out and call for a new pickup.
There are no fees, no penalties, just education. Every home
will be checked at least once a year to help
people make this a habit.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Waste doesn't end when you come to the trash gun.
There is there is a life after waste, and we
want to make sure that these are sort of correctly
because not only one doesn't impact our chef and our
role in our trucks.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Well there's no penalties at least.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, well there's no penalties.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Just going to be educated on the right way to
throw things out.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Boy, what you need to do is a there should
be a very very interesting top layer of waste that
you leave so that they when they pick up the lid,
they get a blast right in their face as something
really unpleasant. I'm any. Yeah, maybe you could take your
(30:10):
dog poop bags and cut them open and just sprinkle
the dog poop right on the top there, so that's
the first thing they see and smell. Who are he
admitted he's weird the guy? But seriously, these people need
to be in an asylum. They actually enjoy going through
and sniffing people's garbage.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Do you really think they enjoy it or that's the
only jobbing way That.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Little clip of the the guy if you can find it.
I don't know about all of them, but this guy,
he admitted he's a weirdo. He likes looking at people's garbage,
because you know, that is such a pain in the
ass thing separating. I don't do it anymore. I don't
do it either. In fact, I was up in San
Francisco some a couple of years ago, and they have
(30:51):
these organic waste bins along with the regular trash bins.
And the recycled bins for cans and bottles, and I
intentionally like put my cans and bottles in the organic waste,
yes to mess up their compost pile. That yeah, I'm
very moved.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
There is there is a life after waste, and we
want to make sure that these are sort of correctly
because not only one does it impact our staff and
our our structural you know, our trucks, but also it
impacts what goes into a landfall.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
No, that's not it's someone where he says he enjoys
it and that he's weird. But you know he's getting
tax money. He's getting tax money too. All right, now
you found it, all right, But I get it. I'm
not the normal person.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Don't worry, they're not. It's kind of a thrill.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
I'm weird. Were excited. I think it's cool to dig
through trash.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But I get it. I'm not the normal person.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Okay, So one guy, one guy likes his job. I
mean that's good. I'm glad he likes his job.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Nobody should be paying this guy to fondle your garbage.
Fondle to look for your alex. Like a guy who
fondles the garbage and this organic waste in this composting thing.
When they passed you know, it's like mandatory composting. It's
supposed to be. And my first reaction when they pass
this thing is like, yeah, who's going to enforce it? Well,
(32:14):
now we found out in San Diego they're paying people
to stick their heads in your garbage can. And I
understand looking for batteries because those things do catch fire
and explode. And it shows you how stupid people are
that you throw lithium batteries away in regular garbage. It's
(32:34):
just but yeah, it's a requirement. And under Senate Bill
thirteen eighty three requiring Californians to recycle organic waste, No,
that's a no. Ain't in the ass, busy bodies. God,
you have to compost when somebody comes over right to
visit at the house. Yeah, and these are people I
(32:56):
like it. Well, do you compost well?
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Because they're being respectful, John, they want to know if
you do that, they're going to throw away things in
the proper places.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I just look at them and I say, do I
look like a guy who composts? How long have we
known each other?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
You think?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I get up in the morning and I start composting.
I don't know you that one. Apparently not all right?
When we come back, Oh, this is this headline. The
national political press are starting to grease up Gavin Newsom.
Here's the headline from Politico. You might gag. The hottest
(33:35):
ticket in Brazil just might be a meeting with Gavin Newsom.
We'll tell you about that. We come back, Debora Mark
live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've
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