July 13, 2026 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/13) - John is back from vacation! The residents of Boyle Heights let Mayor Bass have it at a town hall meeting over the warehouse fire where the cleanup has been an absolute debacle. The LA Times is wondering if it is safe to eat from your garden after the Boyle Heights warehouse fire.
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
Finally, you've been gone for two frigging weeks.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I know it's been a long time. And so I'm
I'm John, and that's Deborah. Hi John, Nice to see
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(00:41):
I'm actually here. And so it's a brand new show,
brand new day, and welcome. And Eric's here hobbling on crutches.
He busted up his foot while we were gone.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, he wants me to do all kinds of things
now for him. Can you believe that I don't have
enough to do around here?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Oh you have to be his legs. Yes, do not
get me started right now.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, we're kind of busted up here. So you know,
it's gotten kind of tedious. Every time we do go
on a trip. Or if I do the show from
out of town, I come back and tell you just
how wonderful the rest of America is and how dramatically
different it is once you leave Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
And what do I tell you if you end up leaving,
you better tell me.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Well, I you know this trip, I went to see
two of our sons. We have three sons, and one
of them has been in North Platte, Nebraska this summer
playing baseball, and the other is moved to Wyoming and
he needed knee surgery towards acl He's very active, you know,
(01:46):
skiing and climbing mountains and things. So that that was
most of the two weeks, and then we came back
and spent a few days.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Up at Lake Arahead.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So it was almost entirely a rural vacation, small town America.
And uh, it is so weird when you first get
to these small towns because it is it is peaceful,
There is no crime, you have zero fear. There wasn't
a single person that we saw dying in the streets. Uh,
(02:18):
nobody was injecting any drugs, No crazed homeless people screaming,
And I I just I just it's it's it's you
marvel at it because before the last you know, ten
years in LA, I rarely ran into all that nonsense
in my life. And I lived in Chicago for a year,
and I lived in New York for a year with
my wife, and you know, there were there were issues
(02:40):
at times, but not this. And uh, boy, when you
when you go to uh, I hate to say this,
but when you go to the Red States, they just
don't put up with this crap. And and uh Nebraska
and Wyoming. Uh was it was just wonderful. It was
just easy. You feel free, things are fun. You just
(03:01):
go back to basic life. And then we got in, well,
we got him briefly on Thursday and then turned a
went turned right around and went up to the lake
and driving back to LA for good yesterday down the
ten freeway. Normally we take the two ten, but there
was some problem traffic issue, right, so the GPS was
(03:24):
directing us insistently get on the tent. So we did,
and we're driving and it's east LA and my wife
was driving and suddenly she goes, what's that smell? Oh?
She really reacted like what is that?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh that is awful? Oh my god, what is that?
And then she looks at me and goes, is that you?
Oh god?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
She did yes, she thought I had done something in polite,
maybe in the car, and then she goes and then
she looked at our dog.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Was that Leo? I go, no, it's it's not me,
and it's not the dog. It was east La.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And then looking at the news stories what finally got home,
it's like, oh, yeah, that's East La.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I didn't know this.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But it's two weeks later now and they haven't done
anything about the eighty five million.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Pounds of rotted food. How can that be? That was meat?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
A lot of that was meat. What's wrong with everybody?
Eighty five million pounds of rotted food? And it's it
goes on for miles of this stink. I don't have
a great I don't smell things all that much. I
don't know it's wrong, but I just don't. But even
it cut through on me too. It's like, oh, I
think I see what you mean.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Whoa. And it was.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Unlike anything else. It wasn't exactly garbage, it wasn't poop.
It was I guess, rotted food that was hanging in
the air because there's no movement in the air. I
was driving over the Supulvida Pass into the valley today
and it's got that thick brown haze that La is
famous for. There is no air movement out there, and
(05:07):
it's humid. As you probably heard, there's this humid flow
of air coming from Mexico and it's like the East
Coast I mean, and said, it's.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Stink oh oh. And then you have the added smoke from.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
The fire over the weekend too, which was filling up
the San Gabriel Valley. So the air quality is terrible,
even up in that lake Arrowhead, it was the air
quality was unhealthful, one hundred and fifty three. It should
be about thirty five. It was a one to fifty three.
And it's like, oh man, this place literally is rotting.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I haven't read an explanation. And for two weeks I
didn't watch a single newscast. I didn't listen to the news.
I read a few headlines every day to see if
anything particularly outrageous happened. And it was, I guess, a
pretty quiet period the last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, you really didn't miss a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, But I come back and the odor in the
air quality, and.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
How do you think those people that live in that
area feel.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, that's what I want to get to in the
next segment, because Thursday or Friday there was a big
town hall meeting and the people in Boyle Heights really
let Karen Bass have it, I mean hard. In fact,
they seem to be even more angry than the Palisades
people ever got. And the thing is Bass is trying
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to placate these people because she doesn't care about the
rich white people in the Palisades that they got all
burned out, But she cares more about these people because
you know, they're they're not wealthy, and they weren't having
any of it. And the thing is, there's nobody wants
to hear an explanation, nobody wants to hear a defense.
(06:49):
You're just supposed to clean this up, and there's no excuse,
There is zero excuse about this, and she is so
she is the world stupid this mayor, I mean, how
could this happen twice?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
How could this happen twice? It's just impossible.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And then she brought another colossal idiot, Hilda Salise, who's
the La County supervisor and she's been responsible for a
lot of bad laws she's going on to Congress most likely,
so she doesn't care for sure. But again, you know,
you got to look at the people there. If you
look at the voting veterans, these people who are screaming
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and booing. You voted for Bash, you voted for Salise.
What did you think you were going to get?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You wouldn't listen to a guy like me trying to
tell you that these two are the biggest idiots on
the planet. If I told you that, you wouldn't believe
it because I'm me, so I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But now you're screaming, Now you're upset, Now you're booing.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Huh Okay, you had several shots at these people years
ago to get them out of office, and you kept
renewing their contracts. So anyway we come back, we'll have
some entertaining clips of Bass being introduced at the town hall,
her trying to deal with the heckling, her introducing Hill
(08:12):
de Salis, and they were even upset with the mariachi band.
So this should be good fun. This is good re
entry for me. This gets me right back into the
swing of things. But I'm telling you, the rest of
the country doesn't live like this, It really doesn't, and
it's really nice. And I think you've been in the
bubble in the cult too long. You've breathed in too
(08:34):
much pollution, too much rotting food, too much smoke, and
it causes brain damage. I was just reading here about
the kinds of the toxins in these fires dangerous. Well
we'll get to that as well. Very good. We have
a whole presentation for you coming up. Okay, I'm ready
to go.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Actually I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I've done this in two weeks and after ten minutes like, oh,
that's enough, I've said everything I want to say.
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Speaker 1 (09:14):
And as I said in the last segment, our re
entry after being away for the last two weeks into
LA was driving down to ten and inhaling a horrific
stink from all the rotted food in East LA and
Boyle Heights from that refrigeration fire, which you know, I
figured that story would be pretty much over when we
(09:35):
left town. And I come back and I collected a
few things while I was well, I was gone, and
a lot of it was on the fire. I want
to bring you back though to like the week of
the fire, Karen Bass out of town again, headed for Chicago.
It wasn't Africa this time, it was Chicago. But she
(09:57):
wanted to go and worship Obama at his ugly opening
of the opening of the ugly Presidential Center. What a
horrific building that is. So she's enjoying another cocktail party.
Boyle Heights is burning the refrigeration center and just spewing
just a tremendous amount of smoke and toxic fumes into
(10:19):
the air. And when she came back and she was
getting hounded by reporters and everybody else, she made this claim.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Listen closely. No, the air is not dangerous.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The question from the reporter is the air dangerous? And
she says, no, the air is not dangerous. Okay, La Times,
Tony Briscoe, and Haley Smith says, according to preliminary data
from air officials, the air near the Lineage Refrigerated warehouse
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fire and Boyle Heights carried astronomically high levels of smoke
and soot. Now, that doesn't mean it's dangerous, surpassing some
of the worst air pollution during the Palisades fires and
the Altadena fires worse than that. The fire spewed thick,
(11:20):
black smoke for days, but our idiot mayor says the
air is not dangerous. From downtown LA to the San
Gabriel Valley, tens of thousands of people were enveloped in
unhealthful levels of smoke, even as some officials told residents
that the air posed no danger.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Play that again, no, the air is not dangerous.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Uh huh okay, this is unbelievable. There was an air
quality monitoring station at Eastman Avenue Elementary School that measured
seven hundred and fifty micrograms per cubic meter of fine particles.
(12:05):
That is in extremely hazardous territory, not hazardous, not very hazardous,
extremely hazardous. To compare, a Caltech monitor in Pasadena recorded
six hundred and fifty micrograms during the Altadena fire. Those
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high levels of fine particles probably resulted in a surge
of residence into local emergency rooms, and people still have
not been told what chemicals they were breathing. Michael Jarrett
is an environmental health professor at the UCLA Fielding School
of Public Health said his concern is the composition of materials.
(12:50):
These contain many particularly toxic components, and we know little
about how these mixtures affect health.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I just sent you an email from a list listener
about poly eurothene foam, which is cyanide poisoning. Now this
is she said, there's a big story here, So I
just I forded it to you guys.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
All right, that sounds dangerous just a little. Yeah, But
Karen Vass, the genius, says the air is not dangerous.
Oh now, remember some of the readings are worse than
the Palisades Outadena fires. Well, in twenty twenty five, monitors
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found elevated levels of brain damaging lead and cancer causing
arsenic from the paint. From the toxic paint and construction materials.
One person pointed out that public officials like Karen Bass
are quote speaking with a lot of confidence but not
(13:54):
a lot of information. What would possess her to tell
everybody the air is not dangerous?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Off guard.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And she just say, well look outside, that doesn't look good.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, to be honest and say I don't know yet,
we don't know. We haven't studied the air. I don't
know why you wouldn't say something like that instead of
something so definitive.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It's yet definitively not dangerous. I mean, just use common sense, right,
take in one inhale and go ooh.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I don't think so. It doesn't seem good. Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Mark Lopez is a community organizer. We've gotten in the
room with folks to discuss where the gaps lie and
where assumptions are being made the gaps. The gap is
between Karen Bass's left ear and her right ear. That's
where you're going to find the gaps. Now, let's play.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Let's start.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I got a couple of cuts here. Let me start
with this one. This is Karen Bass being introduced late
last week at the town hall in Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
UH. Crowd was not impressed.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
All right, now we are going to go ahead and
have Mayor Karen Bass come to the stage.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Good evening, everyone, Good evening, everyone, good evening, everyone, Thank
you everyone for coming, Thank you very much for coming.
I appreciate everybody for being here today.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And let me just say straight up.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
That this is a collaboration between a number of your
elected officials and community leaders and I am working close
at hand with your Councilwoman Isabelle Rado, you're supervisor killed
us Alice, you.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Are State Senator, Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Stint Senator Madia Elena Gaso, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Well, bad reviews for all of them. How clueless can
she be?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
She thought by trying to outshout them that they were
gonna all settle down. She treats them in such a
condescending manner. Those are grown men and women who work
all day and that stupid sing song voice of hers. Wow,
when we come back, we've got more because it didn't
get any better for the world's worst mayor.
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Speaker 2 (17:28):
Uh we are we are.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Enjoying the uh the Karen Bass town hall meeting from
late last week and uh Karen Bass was was booed heavily,
as was the idiot. The idiot County supervisor Hildes salise,
because Boyle heights those and all the people around. I mean,
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there are tens of thousands in the surrounding areas inhaled
some of the foulest, most toxic, most dangerous chemicals and
smoke that you'll ever Apparently it out did in some areas,
even what the Altaden and Palisades fire produced. If you
could imagine, because when you get into industrial factories or
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refrigeration plants burning, you're getting a whole new set of poisons. Well,
how'd you like to be a kid? And you because
because a lot of these people don't have much money,
where where can they take their kids? They can't they
can't go spend you know, three hundred dollars a night
at a hotel for for what a couple of weeks,
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So pick up the town hall meetings. She got an
introduction where everybody bowed her, and she just kind of
got in, didn't it, and tried to just overwhelm them
with her with her booming voice. Uh, here's cut number two.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Guarded with east La. Absolutely, the first evaluations will begin here.
We're gonna have a contest as to who can yell
the louders. So let me just say that the goal
of today is to listen, to learn, to respond, and
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to change.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Can you get your stop in sex? Stop? Second, you
got to figure out how to clean the air. It's
you know, this was from.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
At last Thursday or Friday. This this warehouse, this town
hall meeting. The warehouse fire was a couple of weeks ago.
And like I said, we drove through down to ten
yesterday afternoon. As the foulest, grossest odor imaginable. It makes
you want to wretch. And it's the eighty five million
pounds of food that's rotting. What are you talking about
(19:53):
listening and learning? You gotta do something. She should be
hauling out rotted meat with her bare hands. She's about
as intelligent as that rotted meat. Play some more.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
The goal of today is to listen, to learn, to respond,
and to change. Because our goal is to make sure
that this neighborhood is kept whole and made better. And
I just want you to know that my commitment one
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hundred and fifty percent is to fight for this neighborhood
and to make sure that whatever has happened here number
one people are resolved and provided the resources they need,
including housing, financial support, and anything else that this neighborhood
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depends on and needs.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Okay, let me say, if you want to listen, clap once.
If you want to listen, clap once. If you want
to listen, clap twice. Thank you stop.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
She's treating them like people are like little kids in kindergarten.
Boy is that condescending and obnoxious. If you want to listen,
clap once. Okay, if you want to listen, clap twice.
What a load you know? She's already let me tell
you your people in Boyle Heights you're gonna get the same
treatment that the people in Palisades got.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Nothing. Nothing. She's not gonna do anything. She's already proven,
she's overwhelmed. She can't handle any of this.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
She can't get any emergency crews in there to haul
out the rotted meat.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
She she was out of town again.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
She's not here to help anybody she wants to somehow
get reelected. And then you got that other monster waiting
to take over Ramen. How many? How many times do
you have to get hit over the head before people
get it. She's not interested in anybody's well being here,
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she made all these promises. Oh, I tell you, she's
way more passionate about the people in Boyle Heights. I mean,
the Palisades didn't get you know, one tenth of the
passion and emotion at her. Now she's all wrapped up.
She's headed towards anti ice territory. She's not gonna do anything,
just just inhale. You can smell the rot. Clap wants
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if they want to listen. She's seventy two years old.
These are adults with families. What are you doing? And then,
and this is what makes me nuts about human nature.
The idiots start clapping, Okay, she said, clap what?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Okay of a clip? Twice?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
First you vote for her, and then you start following
her instructions. After your after your your all your lungs
are poisoned, your children got poisoned, your pets got poison
You got poisoned. And this this lunatic comes in and
tells you clap once.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
And you want to listen clap once?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And what did she say when the fire was happening?
Played again? No, the air is not dangerous. Yeah, the
air is not dangerous. Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Now here's Bess introducing the La County supervisor.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Another another piece of work, held us.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Lease, let me invite up your supervisor killed us salise.
Let me just say, for those who want to hear,
thank you, clap.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
One, thank you man. The clap once trick didn't work
that time. Huh.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
If you want to hear clap once, well again? Why
do you vote for these these I don't know what
they are, just human vegetables. Here's another clip. Oh, here's
here's something that one resident was upset about in Boyle
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Heights ninety Mariachi.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
While we're in a crisis, Mariacci, We're wearing a crisis
to catastrophes, lineage, and the oil spill.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The part of Mario. What did bass hire the Mariachi band?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I'd like to create a party atmosphere as people's cancerous
lung tumors are just beginning to form, the cancer shells
are just starting to multiply. What was the oil spill?
And I missed that. Two catastrophes, she said, the fire
and the oil spill. You can't even keep track of
this stuff anymore. City's going to hell. You'll see, trust me.
(25:19):
I'm in the palace Ades three times a week. Not
much has been done, and whatever's been done, no help
from bass I.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
U oh, john O.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That was East La. That oil spill in May. In May,
it was four hundred gallons of crude oil in East La.
That's what she was referring.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh okay, all right, you know, if it's in your neighborhood,
it's a really big deal.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I don't remember that, but well, we covered it a
lot during the news. Yeah, but I listened to all
your newscats really really that closely.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
When we come back, Uh, the La Times, this is
the this is the funniest headline. Uh is it safe
to eat from your garden? After the Boyle Heights warehouse fire?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Did you see this? Is it safe to eat? Uh? Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Let me let me refer to the other La Times
story about all the terrible the smoke and the soot
and all the chemical particles in the air and toxic components.
It's called, yes, toxic components, so it settles on your tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Should you bite into the tomato.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You can, you can wash them.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I wonder how much that stuff penetrates. Would you want
to know? All right, we're gonna continue this when we
come back.
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We have been discussing Karen Bass getting the hell booed
out of her by the crowd in Boyle Heights. This
time very similar to the Power Palisades because she claimed
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on like day two of the fire that the air
is not dangerous. Remember day one, she was flying to
Chicago for a cocktail party. She comes back says the
air is not dangerous. And all the stories started coming
out last week about how toxic the air is just
unprecedented levels worse than the Palisades alt thea dina air
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quality in some places, and the stink.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Is still there. And dever just told me. And the flies.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
They got all horrendous flies, and I imagine probably a
lot of animals are showing up right. I mean, how
could you have how could you have? How many million
pounds of I forgot meat and it's rotting and it's
stinking for miles and miles. I mean, there's got to
be coyotes and mountain lions and bears coming down from
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the San Bernardino Mountains and the Santa Monica Mountains. This
is the feast of all feasts here, million, eighty five
million pounds of food. Yeah, all rotting, all in the air.
That's got to be making the flies and just rats,
Oh my god, a rat feast. Who and and Bass
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has no acknowledgement of that. Instead, she starts playing kindergarten games.
Clap once if you want to listen, And she's got
nothing to say. In all of the bellowing she did,
there was nothing. There was no content know that. Hey,
you know, we did a contract with this company and
we're we got you gotta bulldoze that place. There should
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have been bulldozers in there immediately and bust it all
up into bits, and like they did in the Palisades.
You start throwing the debris in the back of in
the back of the trucks and get it out of there.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
What's wrong with her?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
She is just like she bellows and gets emotional and
there's no content, absolutely nothing useful out of her. Now
here's the uh, here's the funny part. So for eight
days it burned right, and the smells are horrific, chemicals, soot,
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smoke everything. But the La Times asks is it safe
to eat from your garden after the Boile Heights warehouse fire.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I think you gotta just throw out the tomatoes? What
do you say?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
But don't you feel bad for these people? They spend
so much time and effort in their gardens beautiful and
all these great fruits and veggies, and they can't even
use them.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
But it beats dying. Yeah, it beizza the cancer. That's
all I can say.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It sucks.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
My mother was a huge.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Vegetable I'd call it like a vegetable farmer, and we
lived in an ordinary suburban tracked house, but much of
the backyard was taken up with tomato plants and pepper
plants and.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
None of that.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You didn't eat any of that, did you?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, no, I would. I would pull some of the
tomatoes off the vines, but you.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Would never try them.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I think once.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
First, the first last time made a tomato.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
That most nearly every vegetable was there was just a
first and last time, so the la times. And who's
this guy? Christopher Buchanan another genius. Those who grow food
in nearby neighborhoods might be wondering, how will the fires
affect the plants and produce in my garden? Well, Christopher,
there's probably layers and layers of toxic chemicals all over,
(31:26):
and maybe you can wash it off. But I'm a
feeling maybe some of that stuff might penetrate inside the tomato.
You know, I'm not an expert on this. Eighty five
million pounds of food and any Here's what was burning,
charred foam insulation. Could that affect the taste of a tomato?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Metal exterior burned solar panels. Stick that in your pepper salad.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Huh. Lithium batteries.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yes, is it's safe to eat from your garden after
lithium batteries have burned for eight days. After a fire,
heavy metal particles can spread through the ash and smoke
over gardens and inhibit growth. According to a look Coyote Jiggetty,
(32:26):
an agriculture toxologist and professor at UC Davis, UH, they're
they're offering testing for lead, arsenic, chromium, and mercury. Are
the vegetables Okay? A little salt, a little pepper, anything bad?
(32:47):
A little lead and arsenic, a little olive oil. They
claim that the good news is plants and roots can
still be preserved, that gardens and poultry were not as
contaminated as one might expect. Well, what does that mean.
They didn't say it's not contaminated. It's just not as contaminated.
(33:11):
It's just a little bit of arsenic and chromium, not
a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Let me see here. Oh, here's what you should do.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Suit up in an N ninety five mask, long sleeved pants,
close toes, shoes and gloves before dealing with ash in
the garden. In other words, put on a hazmat suit
before we even walk into the garden to limit exposure
to potentially toxic contaminants.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, if you've got to put.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
On a hazmat suit just to walk through the garden,
how the hell are you gonna eat the tomatoes and
you should make sure all your gear is cleaned thoroughly
before you.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Go back inside the house.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I was gonna say, you might as well set fire
to your garden, but that probably would cause more problems.
Remove the top two inches of top soil from the garden,
then put it in a plastic bag and throw it
in the garbage. Don't put it in the green wastebins,
because just carrying it around will spread the airborne chemicals.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Well, no, you can't eat your tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Then not everybody's as smart as you ju apparently not.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I don't know how that could be.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I thought, I'm at a basic level here. If a
toxic fire burns for eight days, yeah, maybe the tomatoes
aren't so hot this year. All right, we come back. God,
John Alley's gonna come on. And there's a big article
in the Wall Street Journal on how the Santa Monica
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has gone completely to hell and the city manager was
caught on a recording actually blaming Trump. Okay, what's his name,
Oliver g Oliver g Yes, Trump is contributed to the
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It's the John Cobelt Show. We're back, We're back in order, finally.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Finally, you've been gone for two frigging weeks.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I know it's been a long time. And so I'm
I'm John, and that's Deborah. Hi John, Nice to see
you again. And we're supposed to be on every day
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I'm actually here. And so it's a brand new show,
brand new day, and welcome. And Eric's here hobbling on crutches.
He busted up his foot while we were gone.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, he wants me to do all kinds of things
now for him. Can you believe that I don't have
enough to do around here?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Oh you have to be his legs. Yes, do not
get me started right now.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, we're kind of busted up here. So you know,
it's gotten kind of tedious. Every time we do go
on a trip. Or if I do the show from
out of town, I come back and tell you just
how wonderful the rest of America is and how dramatically
different it is once you leave Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
And what do I tell you if you end up leaving,
you better tell me.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Well, I you know this trip, I went to see
two of our sons. We have three sons, and one
of them has been in North Platte, Nebraska this summer
playing baseball, and the other is moved to Wyoming and
he needed knee surgery towards acl He's very active, you know,
(01:46):
skiing and climbing mountains and things. So that that was
most of the two weeks, and then we came back
and spent a few days.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Up at Lake Arahead.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So it was almost entirely a rural vacation, small town America.
And uh, it is so weird when you first get
to these small towns because it is it is peaceful,
There is no crime, you have zero fear. There wasn't
a single person that we saw dying in the streets. Uh,
(02:18):
nobody was injecting any drugs, No crazed homeless people screaming,
And I I just I just it's it's it's you
marvel at it because before the last you know, ten
years in LA, I rarely ran into all that nonsense
in my life. And I lived in Chicago for a year,
and I lived in New York for a year with
my wife, and you know, there were there were issues
(02:40):
at times, but not this. And uh, boy, when you
when you go to uh, I hate to say this,
but when you go to the Red States, they just
don't put up with this crap. And and uh Nebraska
and Wyoming. Uh was it was just wonderful. It was
just easy. You feel free, things are fun. You just
(03:01):
go back to basic life. And then we got in, well,
we got him briefly on Thursday and then turned a
went turned right around and went up to the lake
and driving back to LA for good yesterday down the
ten freeway. Normally we take the two ten, but there
was some problem traffic issue, right, so the GPS was
(03:24):
directing us insistently get on the tent. So we did,
and we're driving and it's east LA and my wife
was driving and suddenly she goes, what's that smell? Oh?
She really reacted like what is that?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh that is awful? Oh my god, what is that?
And then she looks at me and goes, is that you?
Oh god?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
She did yes, she thought I had done something in polite,
maybe in the car, and then she goes and then
she looked at our dog.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Was that Leo? I go, no, it's it's not me,
and it's not the dog. It was east La.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And then looking at the news stories what finally got home,
it's like, oh, yeah, that's East La.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I didn't know this.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But it's two weeks later now and they haven't done
anything about the eighty five million.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Pounds of rotted food. How can that be? That was meat?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
A lot of that was meat. What's wrong with everybody?
Eighty five million pounds of rotted food? And it's it
goes on for miles of this stink. I don't have
a great I don't smell things all that much. I
don't know it's wrong, but I just don't. But even
it cut through on me too. It's like, oh, I
think I see what you mean.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Whoa. And it was.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Unlike anything else. It wasn't exactly garbage, it wasn't poop.
It was I guess, rotted food that was hanging in
the air because there's no movement in the air. I
was driving over the Supulvida Pass into the valley today
and it's got that thick brown haze that La is
famous for. There is no air movement out there, and
(05:07):
it's humid. As you probably heard, there's this humid flow
of air coming from Mexico and it's like the East
Coast I mean, and said, it's.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Stink oh oh. And then you have the added smoke from.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
The fire over the weekend too, which was filling up
the San Gabriel Valley. So the air quality is terrible,
even up in that lake Arrowhead, it was the air
quality was unhealthful, one hundred and fifty three. It should
be about thirty five. It was a one to fifty three.
And it's like, oh man, this place literally is rotting.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I haven't read an explanation. And for two weeks I
didn't watch a single newscast. I didn't listen to the news.
I read a few headlines every day to see if
anything particularly outrageous happened. And it was, I guess, a
pretty quiet period the last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, you really didn't miss a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, But I come back and the odor in the
air quality, and.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
How do you think those people that live in that
area feel.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, that's what I want to get to in the
next segment, because Thursday or Friday there was a big
town hall meeting and the people in Boyle Heights really
let Karen Bass have it, I mean hard. In fact,
they seem to be even more angry than the Palisades
people ever got. And the thing is Bass is trying
(06:28):
to placate these people because she doesn't care about the
rich white people in the Palisades that they got all
burned out, But she cares more about these people because
you know, they're they're not wealthy, and they weren't having
any of it. And the thing is, there's nobody wants
to hear an explanation, nobody wants to hear a defense.
(06:49):
You're just supposed to clean this up, and there's no excuse,
There is zero excuse about this, and she is so
she is the world stupid this mayor, I mean, how
could this happen twice?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
How could this happen twice? It's just impossible.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And then she brought another colossal idiot, Hilda Salise, who's
the La County supervisor and she's been responsible for a
lot of bad laws she's going on to Congress most likely,
so she doesn't care for sure. But again, you know,
you got to look at the people there. If you
look at the voting veterans, these people who are screaming
(07:32):
and booing. You voted for Bash, you voted for Salise.
What did you think you were going to get?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You wouldn't listen to a guy like me trying to
tell you that these two are the biggest idiots on
the planet. If I told you that, you wouldn't believe
it because I'm me, so I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But now you're screaming, Now you're upset, Now you're booing.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Huh Okay, you had several shots at these people years
ago to get them out of office, and you kept
renewing their contracts. So anyway we come back, we'll have
some entertaining clips of Bass being introduced at the town hall,
her trying to deal with the heckling, her introducing Hill
(08:12):
de Salis, and they were even upset with the mariachi band.
So this should be good fun. This is good re
entry for me. This gets me right back into the
swing of things. But I'm telling you, the rest of
the country doesn't live like this, It really doesn't, and
it's really nice. And I think you've been in the
bubble in the cult too long. You've breathed in too
(08:34):
much pollution, too much rotting food, too much smoke, and
it causes brain damage. I was just reading here about
the kinds of the toxins in these fires dangerous. Well
we'll get to that as well. Very good. We have
a whole presentation for you coming up. Okay, I'm ready
to go.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Actually I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I've done this in two weeks and after ten minutes like, oh,
that's enough, I've said everything I want to say.
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We're back on, We're back together, back live.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And as I said in the last segment, our re
entry after being away for the last two weeks into
LA was driving down to ten and inhaling a horrific
stink from all the rotted food in East LA and
Boyle Heights from that refrigeration fire, which you know, I
figured that story would be pretty much over when we
(09:35):
left town. And I come back and I collected a
few things while I was well, I was gone, and
a lot of it was on the fire. I want
to bring you back though to like the week of
the fire, Karen Bass out of town again, headed for Chicago.
It wasn't Africa this time, it was Chicago. But she
(09:57):
wanted to go and worship Obama at his ugly opening
of the opening of the ugly Presidential Center. What a
horrific building that is. So she's enjoying another cocktail party.
Boyle Heights is burning the refrigeration center and just spewing
just a tremendous amount of smoke and toxic fumes into
(10:19):
the air. And when she came back and she was
getting hounded by reporters and everybody else, she made this claim.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Listen closely. No, the air is not dangerous.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The question from the reporter is the air dangerous? And
she says, no, the air is not dangerous. Okay, La Times,
Tony Briscoe, and Haley Smith says, according to preliminary data
from air officials, the air near the Lineage Refrigerated warehouse
(10:53):
fire and Boyle Heights carried astronomically high levels of smoke
and soot. Now, that doesn't mean it's dangerous, surpassing some
of the worst air pollution during the Palisades fires and
the Altadena fires worse than that. The fire spewed thick,
(11:20):
black smoke for days, but our idiot mayor says the
air is not dangerous. From downtown LA to the San
Gabriel Valley, tens of thousands of people were enveloped in
unhealthful levels of smoke, even as some officials told residents
that the air posed no danger.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Play that again, no, the air is not dangerous.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Uh huh okay, this is unbelievable. There was an air
quality monitoring station at Eastman Avenue Elementary School that measured
seven hundred and fifty micrograms per cubic meter of fine particles.
(12:05):
That is in extremely hazardous territory, not hazardous, not very hazardous,
extremely hazardous. To compare, a Caltech monitor in Pasadena recorded
six hundred and fifty micrograms during the Altadena fire. Those
(12:26):
high levels of fine particles probably resulted in a surge
of residence into local emergency rooms, and people still have
not been told what chemicals they were breathing. Michael Jarrett
is an environmental health professor at the UCLA Fielding School
of Public Health said his concern is the composition of materials.
(12:50):
These contain many particularly toxic components, and we know little
about how these mixtures affect health.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I just sent you an email from a list listener
about poly eurothene foam, which is cyanide poisoning. Now this
is she said, there's a big story here, So I
just I forded it to you guys.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
All right, that sounds dangerous just a little. Yeah, But
Karen Vass, the genius, says the air is not dangerous.
Oh now, remember some of the readings are worse than
the Palisades Outadena fires. Well, in twenty twenty five, monitors
(13:32):
found elevated levels of brain damaging lead and cancer causing
arsenic from the paint. From the toxic paint and construction materials.
One person pointed out that public officials like Karen Bass
are quote speaking with a lot of confidence but not
(13:54):
a lot of information. What would possess her to tell
everybody the air is not dangerous?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Off guard.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And she just say, well look outside, that doesn't look good.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, to be honest and say I don't know yet,
we don't know. We haven't studied the air. I don't
know why you wouldn't say something like that instead of
something so definitive.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It's yet definitively not dangerous. I mean, just use common sense, right,
take in one inhale and go ooh.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I don't think so. It doesn't seem good. Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Mark Lopez is a community organizer. We've gotten in the
room with folks to discuss where the gaps lie and
where assumptions are being made the gaps. The gap is
between Karen Bass's left ear and her right ear. That's
where you're going to find the gaps. Now, let's play.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Let's start.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I got a couple of cuts here. Let me start
with this one. This is Karen Bass being introduced late
last week at the town hall in Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
UH. Crowd was not impressed.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
All right, now we are going to go ahead and
have Mayor Karen Bass come to the stage.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Good evening, everyone, Good evening, everyone, good evening, everyone, Thank
you everyone for coming, Thank you very much for coming.
I appreciate everybody for being here today.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And let me just say straight up.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
That this is a collaboration between a number of your
elected officials and community leaders and I am working close
at hand with your Councilwoman Isabelle Rado, you're supervisor killed
us Alice, you.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Are State Senator, Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Stint Senator Madia Elena Gaso, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Well, bad reviews for all of them. How clueless can
she be?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
She thought by trying to outshout them that they were
gonna all settle down. She treats them in such a
condescending manner. Those are grown men and women who work
all day and that stupid sing song voice of hers. Wow,
when we come back, we've got more because it didn't
get any better for the world's worst mayor.
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Speaker 2 (17:28):
Uh we are we are.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Enjoying the uh the Karen Bass town hall meeting from
late last week and uh Karen Bass was was booed heavily,
as was the idiot. The idiot County supervisor Hildes salise,
because Boyle heights those and all the people around. I mean,
(17:54):
there are tens of thousands in the surrounding areas inhaled
some of the foulest, most toxic, most dangerous chemicals and
smoke that you'll ever Apparently it out did in some areas,
even what the Altaden and Palisades fire produced. If you
could imagine, because when you get into industrial factories or
(18:15):
refrigeration plants burning, you're getting a whole new set of poisons. Well,
how'd you like to be a kid? And you because
because a lot of these people don't have much money,
where where can they take their kids? They can't they
can't go spend you know, three hundred dollars a night
at a hotel for for what a couple of weeks,
(18:42):
So pick up the town hall meetings. She got an
introduction where everybody bowed her, and she just kind of
got in, didn't it, and tried to just overwhelm them
with her with her booming voice. Uh, here's cut number two.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Guarded with east La. Absolutely, the first evaluations will begin here.
We're gonna have a contest as to who can yell
the louders. So let me just say that the goal
of today is to listen, to learn, to respond, and
(19:22):
to change.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Can you get your stop in sex? Stop? Second, you
got to figure out how to clean the air. It's
you know, this was from.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
At last Thursday or Friday. This this warehouse, this town
hall meeting. The warehouse fire was a couple of weeks ago.
And like I said, we drove through down to ten
yesterday afternoon. As the foulest, grossest odor imaginable. It makes
you want to wretch. And it's the eighty five million
pounds of food that's rotting. What are you talking about
(19:53):
listening and learning? You gotta do something. She should be
hauling out rotted meat with her bare hands. She's about
as intelligent as that rotted meat. Play some more.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
The goal of today is to listen, to learn, to respond,
and to change. Because our goal is to make sure
that this neighborhood is kept whole and made better. And
I just want you to know that my commitment one
(20:28):
hundred and fifty percent is to fight for this neighborhood
and to make sure that whatever has happened here number
one people are resolved and provided the resources they need,
including housing, financial support, and anything else that this neighborhood
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depends on and needs.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Okay, let me say, if you want to listen, clap once.
If you want to listen, clap once. If you want
to listen, clap twice. Thank you stop.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
She's treating them like people are like little kids in kindergarten.
Boy is that condescending and obnoxious. If you want to listen,
clap once. Okay, if you want to listen, clap twice.
What a load you know? She's already let me tell
you your people in Boyle Heights you're gonna get the same
treatment that the people in Palisades got.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Nothing. Nothing. She's not gonna do anything. She's already proven,
she's overwhelmed. She can't handle any of this.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
She can't get any emergency crews in there to haul
out the rotted meat.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
She she was out of town again.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
She's not here to help anybody she wants to somehow
get reelected. And then you got that other monster waiting
to take over Ramen. How many? How many times do
you have to get hit over the head before people
get it. She's not interested in anybody's well being here,
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she made all these promises. Oh, I tell you, she's
way more passionate about the people in Boyle Heights. I mean,
the Palisades didn't get you know, one tenth of the
passion and emotion at her. Now she's all wrapped up.
She's headed towards anti ice territory. She's not gonna do anything,
just just inhale. You can smell the rot. Clap wants
(22:45):
if they want to listen. She's seventy two years old.
These are adults with families. What are you doing? And then,
and this is what makes me nuts about human nature.
The idiots start clapping, Okay, she said, clap what?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Okay of a clip? Twice?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
First you vote for her, and then you start following
her instructions. After your after your your all your lungs
are poisoned, your children got poisoned, your pets got poison
You got poisoned. And this this lunatic comes in and
tells you clap once.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
And you want to listen clap once?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And what did she say when the fire was happening?
Played again? No, the air is not dangerous. Yeah, the
air is not dangerous. Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Now here's Bess introducing the La County supervisor.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Another another piece of work, held us.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Lease, let me invite up your supervisor killed us salise.
Let me just say, for those who want to hear,
thank you, clap.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
One, thank you man. The clap once trick didn't work
that time. Huh.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
If you want to hear clap once, well again? Why
do you vote for these these I don't know what
they are, just human vegetables. Here's another clip. Oh, here's
here's something that one resident was upset about in Boyle
(24:31):
Heights ninety Mariachi.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
While we're in a crisis, Mariacci, We're wearing a crisis
to catastrophes, lineage, and the oil spill.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The part of Mario. What did bass hire the Mariachi band?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I'd like to create a party atmosphere as people's cancerous
lung tumors are just beginning to form, the cancer shells
are just starting to multiply. What was the oil spill?
And I missed that. Two catastrophes, she said, the fire
and the oil spill. You can't even keep track of
this stuff anymore. City's going to hell. You'll see, trust me.
(25:19):
I'm in the palace Ades three times a week. Not
much has been done, and whatever's been done, no help
from bass I.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
U oh, john O.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That was East La. That oil spill in May. In May,
it was four hundred gallons of crude oil in East La.
That's what she was referring.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh okay, all right, you know, if it's in your neighborhood,
it's a really big deal.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I don't remember that, but well, we covered it a
lot during the news. Yeah, but I listened to all
your newscats really really that closely.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
When we come back, Uh, the La Times, this is
the this is the funniest headline. Uh is it safe
to eat from your garden? After the Boyle Heights warehouse fire?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Did you see this? Is it safe to eat? Uh? Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Let me let me refer to the other La Times
story about all the terrible the smoke and the soot
and all the chemical particles in the air and toxic components.
It's called, yes, toxic components, so it settles on your tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Should you bite into the tomato.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You can, you can wash them.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I wonder how much that stuff penetrates. Would you want
to know? All right, we're gonna continue this when we
come back.
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on the iHeart Radio app and that is for Friday.
We have been discussing Karen Bass getting the hell booed
out of her by the crowd in Boyle Heights. This
time very similar to the Power Palisades because she claimed
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on like day two of the fire that the air
is not dangerous. Remember day one, she was flying to
Chicago for a cocktail party. She comes back says the
air is not dangerous. And all the stories started coming
out last week about how toxic the air is just
unprecedented levels worse than the Palisades alt thea dina air
(27:57):
quality in some places, and the stink.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Is still there. And dever just told me. And the flies.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
They got all horrendous flies, and I imagine probably a
lot of animals are showing up right. I mean, how
could you have how could you have? How many million
pounds of I forgot meat and it's rotting and it's
stinking for miles and miles. I mean, there's got to
be coyotes and mountain lions and bears coming down from
(28:29):
the San Bernardino Mountains and the Santa Monica Mountains. This
is the feast of all feasts here, million, eighty five
million pounds of food. Yeah, all rotting, all in the air.
That's got to be making the flies and just rats,
Oh my god, a rat feast. Who and and Bass
(28:54):
has no acknowledgement of that. Instead, she starts playing kindergarten games.
Clap once if you want to listen, And she's got
nothing to say. In all of the bellowing she did,
there was nothing. There was no content know that. Hey,
you know, we did a contract with this company and
we're we got you gotta bulldoze that place. There should
(29:16):
have been bulldozers in there immediately and bust it all
up into bits, and like they did in the Palisades.
You start throwing the debris in the back of in
the back of the trucks and get it out of there.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
What's wrong with her?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
She is just like she bellows and gets emotional and
there's no content, absolutely nothing useful out of her. Now
here's the uh, here's the funny part. So for eight
days it burned right, and the smells are horrific, chemicals, soot,
(30:03):
smoke everything. But the La Times asks is it safe
to eat from your garden after the Boile Heights warehouse fire.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I think you gotta just throw out the tomatoes? What
do you say?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
But don't you feel bad for these people? They spend
so much time and effort in their gardens beautiful and
all these great fruits and veggies, and they can't even
use them.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
But it beats dying. Yeah, it beizza the cancer. That's
all I can say.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It sucks.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
My mother was a huge.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Vegetable I'd call it like a vegetable farmer, and we
lived in an ordinary suburban tracked house, but much of
the backyard was taken up with tomato plants and pepper
plants and.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
None of that.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You didn't eat any of that, did you?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, no, I would. I would pull some of the
tomatoes off the vines, but you.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Would never try them.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I think once.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
First, the first last time made a tomato.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
That most nearly every vegetable was there was just a
first and last time, so the la times. And who's
this guy? Christopher Buchanan another genius. Those who grow food
in nearby neighborhoods might be wondering, how will the fires
affect the plants and produce in my garden? Well, Christopher,
there's probably layers and layers of toxic chemicals all over,
(31:26):
and maybe you can wash it off. But I'm a
feeling maybe some of that stuff might penetrate inside the tomato.
You know, I'm not an expert on this. Eighty five
million pounds of food and any Here's what was burning,
charred foam insulation. Could that affect the taste of a tomato?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Metal exterior burned solar panels. Stick that in your pepper salad.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Huh. Lithium batteries.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yes, is it's safe to eat from your garden after
lithium batteries have burned for eight days. After a fire,
heavy metal particles can spread through the ash and smoke
over gardens and inhibit growth. According to a look Coyote Jiggetty,
(32:26):
an agriculture toxologist and professor at UC Davis, UH, they're
they're offering testing for lead, arsenic, chromium, and mercury. Are
the vegetables Okay? A little salt, a little pepper, anything bad?
(32:47):
A little lead and arsenic, a little olive oil. They
claim that the good news is plants and roots can
still be preserved, that gardens and poultry were not as
contaminated as one might expect. Well, what does that mean.
They didn't say it's not contaminated. It's just not as contaminated.
(33:11):
It's just a little bit of arsenic and chromium, not
a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Let me see here. Oh, here's what you should do.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Suit up in an N ninety five mask, long sleeved pants,
close toes, shoes and gloves before dealing with ash in
the garden. In other words, put on a hazmat suit
before we even walk into the garden to limit exposure
to potentially toxic contaminants.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, if you've got to put.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
On a hazmat suit just to walk through the garden,
how the hell are you gonna eat the tomatoes and
you should make sure all your gear is cleaned thoroughly
before you.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Go back inside the house.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I was gonna say, you might as well set fire
to your garden, but that probably would cause more problems.
Remove the top two inches of top soil from the garden,
then put it in a plastic bag and throw it
in the garbage. Don't put it in the green wastebins,
because just carrying it around will spread the airborne chemicals.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Well, no, you can't eat your tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Then not everybody's as smart as you ju apparently not.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I don't know how that could be.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I thought, I'm at a basic level here. If a
toxic fire burns for eight days, yeah, maybe the tomatoes
aren't so hot this year. All right, we come back. God,
John Alley's gonna come on. And there's a big article
in the Wall Street Journal on how the Santa Monica
(34:54):
has gone completely to hell and the city manager was
caught on a recording actually blaming Trump. Okay, what's his name,
Oliver g Oliver g Yes, Trump is contributed to the
decline in Santa Monica tourism. Jabra Bark is live in
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