April 30, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/30) - John starts by questioning the logic of California lawmakers opposing a bill that would make buying sex from minors an automatic felony, specifically calling out State Senator Scott Wiener’s baffling opposition. ABC’s Alex Stone joins to break down the tragic golf-cart incident at Stagecoach involving John Elway and his agent, John Sperbeck. Plus, John highlights LADWP’s potential liability in the Palisades wildfire, and Rick Caruso steps up with announcements for Steadfast LA’s recovery efforts, addressing the gaps left by Mayor Karen Bass.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome. We're on every day
from one until four o'clock and then after four o'clock
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you can hear whatever you miss there, and it's good
that you're here. We have much to cover. Among the
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things we will be covering after one thirty, Alex Stone
will be on talk about that terrible death involving John Elway,
the Super Bowl quarterback for the Broncos, later an executive,
and he was driving with his agent and business partner,
Jeff Spurbeck, on a golf cart Saturday. They were at
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the Stagecoach Music Festival, but I guess they were driving
from an after party and Spurbeck was sitting in the
back of the golf cart. I don't know what happened,
but he went flying off the cart and smashed his
head and he's dead. So Alex, I'll have the latest
on that. Next hour, We're gonna have the attorney Roger
Bailey on. He's representing two judges who are suing LATWP.
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They both lost their homes in the Palisades fire, and
they're blaming lad WP because they could be guilty on
two fronts, not filling the reservoir and also not de
energizing the electrical lines, which may have started a second
fire in the Palisades that day. And are they still
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doing the control burned Yep, they've been doing that since
last night in the Palisades. I don't know exactly what
they're doing. Nobody's explaining. But if you didn't hear the
Palisades might see smoke and flames if you're through tomorrow
through tomorrow, So you spend like forty eight hours trying
to figure out what started the fire. And they do
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this by starting another fire. And I really don't understand this,
and there's nobody to talk to to explain, and then
three o'clock and I want to talk about this now,
but Carl Demayo is going to weigh in after three
on this ridiculous fight in Sacramento over legislation that would
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increase punishment to a felony for anyone who wants to
buy a sixteen or seventeen year old for sex. Because
there have been legislators from Democrats, well, Democratic and Republican
legislators who think that sex trafficking ought to be treated
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harshly felonies for people who want to buy children for sex,
even up to the age of seventeen. Of course, this
is very common with all the illegal immigration when they
bring in underage people from over the border. Very often
these young people are captured, basically kidnapped and forced into
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sexual slavery. But there always has to be a willing customer,
you know, somebody who wants to buy the girls or
the boys, and this legislation would go after the customers
and make it a felony, an automatic felony. I can't now,
you know, There's there's a lot of issues where you
can see how you can approach a problem two different ways,
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but not this one. Honestly, is there a single person
alive anybody listening who thinks that we shouldn't charge a
felony to someone who's buying a sixteen year old for sex?
Is there anybody? Well, apparently there's quite a few, and
they're all in the legislature. You know. I want to
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find the names of those who are blocking this because
I'm I wonder what kind of perverts they are? Do
I think that's legitimate if you publicly stake out a
position saying that sixteen and seventeen year olds it's it's
not a bad thing to buy them for sex, and
and you have the power to block a bill that
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would make it a felony. Boy, you ought to be outed.
What's going on? Who are you taking home at night?
I'm serious. I can't imagine. I can't. I don't understand
how this wasn't a felony already. Had they missed this.
It's the Assembly Public Safety Committee, which for many years now,
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for decades, has refused to treat criminals at criminals. And
this bill comes from a Democratic assembly woman named Maggie Krell.
It would criminalize loitering with the intent to buy sex.
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This is an add on to a bill last year.
Remember we had a state Senator, Shannon grove On she's
a Republican, and she had a pretty strong sex trafficking
bill that was temporarily blocked in the legislature until Newsom
came in and said, what are you people doing? Of
course this should pass. Well, it's happening again. There's no
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committee members on the assemblic Public Safety Committee. You know what, Ray,
if you could, could you print out the Democratic Assembly
members on the on the Public Safety Committee, because I
think it's time to highlight their opposition because the bill
came from another Democrat Assembly. When Tom Lackey is a Republican,
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he says, these are girls, these are people that are
society should be doing everything they can to So why
are we protecting the predator? And uh so now Newsome
is uh, it's getting involved in this. I would suspect
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Newsom has at least a couple of daughters. Is you
know one of the weirdos is I think is the
state Senator Scott Wiener. He's uh, he's a weirdo. He's strange.
You just don't like his name. No, but you know
he's one of these guys who like has grown into
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his name. Some people are defined by their name. And
he here it is, okay, I got a list, so
here here, yeah, Scott Wiener. It's it's always like I
don't understand there like some kind of weird bill that
is going to legalize certain sexual situations. Scott. And he's
already always in the room. He's always in the middle
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of the controversy, like what is this thing? I don't
think he has kids, so I guess maybe he doesn't
have sensitivity to this anyway. Let's see Democrats on the
California State Assembly. All right, we got a Mark Gonzalez here,
Matt Haney, John Harrabedian, Uh, Stephanie Wynn, James Ramos, doctor
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Leche Sharp, Hyphen Collins. Is that enough names there?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, god seven
Democrats and two Republicans. Nothing like one party rule. When
you have one party rule, then you could have a
collection of wirdos on the Public Safety Committee and they're
going to vote to block They're gonna vote to block
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uh something that uh, They're gonna to block a bill
that makes it a felony to buy a sixteen year
old for sex. Now out on which one of them
is against this? I don't understand what's going on. Must
be a big deal for Newsom to get involved though.
This must be a real thing. I'm always looking to
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see as this hype is this distorted? Is this you
know some kind of you know, some kind of an
internet meme exaggeration. It's like, no, this is this is
a real thing. I don't understand anyway, Carl DeMier is
gonna come on after three o'clock and flesh out more
of than details, and I will continue investigating this situation.
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All right, I have some further information, an updated story.
Not that it makes this any any better for these
pervert democrats on the California Assembly Public Safety Committee. All right,
So there's a bill written by Democrat that would make
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it an automatic felony if you buy a sixteen or
seventeen year old for sex. Anybody against that? I didn't
think so. Well, the a number of Democrats in the
Assembly are and they that said that there was there
was there was there was a bill. Well, let me
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let me just get to get to this here. What
are the objections by these democrats with the with the
Assembly Public Safety Committee. The objections are that they're afraid
that parents who object to interracial or LGBTQ relationships involving
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older teens could prompt them to weaponize this, uh this law. Now,
I don't really understand that. I don't think the race
or sexual orientation of the person buying the teenage boy
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or girl is the problem. I don't think it doesn't
matter what the race is, and it doesn't matter what
the their sexual orientation is. What matters is they're buying
a sixteen or seventeen year old for sex on the street.
Remember what I said, This is loitering. The bill is
written that it criminalizes loitering for sex purchases. So it's
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people buying teenage hookers, whether they're girls or boys. So
that that's what's wrong with everybody here, That's what see.
That's not saying that. This is like, I guess Scott
Wiener's problem, the state senator. God, what a weirdo he is.
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He said he was floored that they wanted to expand
a law that they passed last year. Yet because last
year they wanted to do this and there was a
carve out for sixteen and seventeen year olds, which means
it's not a felony at the moment to buy a
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sixteen or seventeen year old for sex on the street.
An exception was made, and this is an exception that
Scott Weener approved of. Wanted Why what's the motivation for
wanting some protection for people who buy sixteen and seventeen
year olds for sex on the street. Why would you
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be that passionate about it. Wow. The woman who wrote
this is a former prosecutor. She is a Democrat, Maggie Corrall.
She says, I thought people would understand it's wrong to
buy sixteen and seventeen year olds for sex, that it
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should be treated as a felony. Yeah, it is wrong.
But he apparently Scott Wiener and many other Democrats are angry.
I don't you know, if we had a real media,
these people should be chase through the streets because these
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Public Safety Committee members were angry last year that the
original bill passed, and now they think this is a
bridge too far. And according to Politico, Democrats are tired
of getting backed into a corner over sex trafficking, which
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political describes as a GOP pet issue. What do you
mean it's a pet issue? Isn't this one hundred percent
agreement that you don't you don't buy teenagers for sex?
The way this is worded, politicals are real left wing
whack job news side Holy Jesus, backed into a corner.
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They should be backed into a corner. I bet you
one hundred percent of the public thought that it's already
a felony to buy a sixteen year old or a
seventeen year old for sex. I thought everybody would agree
that it should be the law, and I'm sure everybody
thought it already was the law underage people buying them
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for sex. Wow, they're really they're really sick that this
is This is crazy Land. Why is it about these
sexual issues? And their supposed excuse doesn't even make doesn't
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make any sense. They're afraid parents upset about interrational or
gay relationships could prompt them to weaponize solicitational The hell
are you talking about? We're talking about We're not talking
about a nineteen year old having a relationship with a
sixteen year old. We're talking about an adult buying the
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sixteen year old for sex on the street. It says
loitering with the intent. This is the most amazing thing
I've read in a long time. Look, you elect perverts
to the legislature, you're going to get perverted legislation. I
don't know what else to tell you. And a lot
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of these are guys. We're old with one of all
these men on the Assembly Public Safety Committee raising all
kinds of what's with Scott Wiener? Oh it's gross. Go ahead,
ask everybody you know, do you think sixteen and seven
year old, seventeen year old should be sold for sold
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for sex on the streets? Should you be able to
buy them for sex on the streets? Just ask everybody
you know, you know, even to ask the weirdo at
the in the back of the back of the office
in the corridor there hiding in the cubicle watching porn,
watching teenage porn on his computer. All right, and again,
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Carl Demile is going to be on after three o'clock
to talk about this. I don't know how that guy
survives in this climate up there in Sacramento. When we
were returning Alex Stone from ABC News, John Elway, the
superstar quarterback, won the Super Bowl twice, became an executive
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with the Broncos. He was driving a golf cart Saturday
night in Lakinta. They'd gone to the Stagecoach Music Festival
and he was with his longtime agent and business partner,
Jeff Spurbeck. Spurbeck was sitting in the golf cart and
fell and smashed his head and he's dead and Alex
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Stone will have the details on it.
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Speaker 2 (16:26):
Coming up after two o'clock. We're going to talk to
attorney Roger Bailey. He's representing two federal judges who lost
their homes in the Palisades fire. They're suing LAEDWP the judges.
So that's coming up. Now. How about Alex Stone, ABC News,
terrible story coming out of Laquinta. John Elway, the famous
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Super Bowl quarterback for the Broncos who later became their executive.
He was driving a golf cart with his agent and
business partner on board, Jeff Spurbeck. Something happened and Spurbak
flew out of the golf cart, smashed his head and
now he's dead. Let's get Alex on there's some details here,
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hey there, John. Yeah, So earlier today, a couple hours ago,
we got word that the longtime agent and business partner,
they had gone into the wine industry together, John Elway
and Jeff Spurback. That Spurbek died from the injuries that
he got on Saturday evening. And so, as you mentioned,
what we know in details aren't real forthcoming from the
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Riverside County Sheriff's office or from cal Fire. So if
they're listening, we would love to know more. But he
was apparently riding in the back of a golf cart
at the Madison Club, which is a super exclusive club
in La Quita, as the Stage Coach music festival was
underway and they were either coming or going to or
from a party related to Stagecoach, and he fell off
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the back. Spurbek did, and TMC is reporting that they
have a source that he hit his head. The Riverside
County Sheriff save says that they're investigating, but they won't
see anything more than that except that they didn't get
called to it until Monday, and this happened on Saturday,
so it seems like initially it just seemed like an
accident and medics came and transported him, and law enforcement
wasn't notified. But Ali Simon was there and she saw
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the immediate aftermath, and she's telling us now, it was.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
So sad, and our hearts just go out to the families.
But we were heading out of the community and we
pulled up and it had to have happened probably one
minute before us pulling up.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, And she says it was clear right away that
Spurbeck was badly hurt, that there was a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
He was unfortunately lying on the ground and there are
people surrounding him just trying to make sure he was okay,
and people were on the phone just trying to get
help there as soon as they possibly could. It was
so scary. I mean it like it was nothing like
we've ever seen. You just don't think so skinner going
to ever witness anything like that. But his wife was
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like hysterical.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And she said said John Elway was right there. He
was calling desperately nine one one for help as well
to get medics there.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, he was on the phone trying to call nine
to one, call any one.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And John Spurbec reportedly was on life support at the
only traumas center in the Palm Springs area and then
he died today. The corner in Riverside County putting his
time of death at around one o'clock this morning. But
there's no indication of any wrongdoing. It appears it was
a bad accident and they are investigating it now because
it is a fatal accident. But this is going to
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be different being a golf cart on private property at
a club. You know, you think about even if and
we don't know if alcohol was involved, but even if
it was involved, that you go to a golf club
or on a golf course and there are beer carts
and you know, so it's the drinking and it's not
like you're in a vehicle on a major street or
on a public street at all. But we've reached out
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to Elways, reps, to Spurbeck's company, haven't heard back from
anybody yet, but seems like it was a tragic accident.
But they are going to be investigating it and we'll
see where it goes. But as of right now, it
doesn't look like anything criminal was done, so we don't
know what happened. But if if alcohol was involved, i mean,
do drunken driving laws probably not, yeah, because they're not
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on a public road and they wasn't in a vehicle
that would be considered a you know, a street legal
vehicle that would be on a public road. Now I'm
sure lawyers listening right now are saying, yeah, but you
could do and you know, and go a number of
different ways with it. But it just like, and again
we don't know if alcohol was involved, it wouldn't be
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surprising if it was based on that they were going
to and from parties and stage coach was going on
and it may have been something as simple as we've
all been on the back of a golf cart where
the driver accelerates. Those things accelerate very rapidly, especially the
battery operator. I hate sitting on the back of the
golf Yeah, and you don't know that they're going to accelerate,
and you kind of lurch forward and he may have
gone off in that way. Oh, I'm always clinging with
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a f grip on the on the metal bars. Yeah.
I don't like that feeling at all. All right, Well,
very good, Alex, thank you for coming on there. Alex Stone,
ABC News. I want to get into since two o'clock
we're gonna be talking to Roger Bailey about the judges
who are suing now uh LEDWP for the Palisades fire. Remember,
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there's there's two aspects to this. There's the the notorious
infamous empty reservoir and then did power lines start a
second fire that night because some power poles collapsed and
the transmission lines fell on dry brush and that may
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have ignited a second big blaze in the evening. And
there's video that suggests very strongly that that's what happened.
So laed WP is under a lot of fire, and
we had a guy on yesterday, we've had on several
times said help me out with the said Kashani. He's
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an attorney, he lost his house and he's been fighting
almost by himself against the DWP because they nobody will
talk about it out loud. There's no accountability at all.
Everybody's hoping it goes away now. It was Sayid's opinion
that because DWP's in so much trouble here, the lawyers
have told everybody to shut up. That's why Genie Kinone
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is the idiot. CEO prattles on about Earth Day at meetings,
played that clip yesterday and says nothing about the empty
reservoir or the power lines falling. And the reason the
power line thing is so important is they should have
cut off the power. This is twelve hours after the
original fire and these power lines were still energized. And
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Westside Current has a story that there's more than a
dozen lawsuits charging DWP with negligence and the resulting judgments
could cost anywhere from twenty billion to more than one
hundred billion dollars. And there are some celebrity plaintiffs involved,
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not just the two judges, but there's I guess these
are reality people. Never maybe you know who these people are.
I've heard their name, Spencer Pratt and Mighty Montague. What
do they do for a living? I don't know. What
do you know what they do? Now? There were reality
stars in Heidi is a singer. Now she's got she's
got a song, a song. I could tell you the name.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Once, If you do one song, it's a hit, you
got a career. I don't think it's a hit. I mean,
I don't know. You're being judgmental. I guess I am.
You haven't even heard it yet. I haven't. I'm not
really big on reality shows, reality stars. No, well, they
were among the first to fly lawsuits. I don't know.
Maybe it's not going well, maybe the song didn't sell,
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maybe the money they were right in line. Yeah, I
shouldn't say all these things. That's terribly mean. Let's just
get in. You are a bad influence. I have made
you a lot, really have. I don't remember you being
like this. You were it used to be very sweet.
So anyway, their complaint alleges gross negligence because of the
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one hundred and seventeen million gallons missing, And then there's
another lawsuit about the energized LEDWP power line. I guess
this is now can it has been accepted as a
as a as a real thing. The second second fire
after the Palisades Fire started in the morning, and the
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led WP is governed, of course by the city, and
according to one attorney, Alex Robertson, the city has made
it clear to us they're going to fight these cases too,
and Nail that's great. Yeah, you don't expect anybody in
the Karen Bass administration to accept responsibility for gross incompetence,
gross negligence and all kinds of stupidity. In fact, you know,
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in the next segment, I want to play for you
a little clip from Instagram. Rick Caruso posted on Instagram
yesterday because he's got this nonprofit organization called Steadfast LA
and the purpose is to get people to rebuild their
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homes much much more quickly than if you slog through
Bass's bureaucracy. And I want to play you his clip
and just compare it with Karen Bass coming off the
airplane after she returned from Africa, and imagine for a
moment an alternate universe where Rick Caruso or somebody like
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him had been running the city for the last two years.
I'm telling you this wouldn't have happened the same way.
It wouldn't have been so disastrous. I guarantee you that
the UH that the reservoir would be filled just for starters.
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By January twenty twenty five, when the fire broke out,
many homeowners in the Palisades had lost their insurance. State
Farm refused to renew seventy percent of its policies in
that zip code, citing catastrophic exposure. They knew that the
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reservoir was empty, They knew that brush wasn't cleared, They
knew that the fire department was half defunded. They insurance
companies doing that pre investigations all the time. Season in
Los Angeles, Santa Ana wins. They know that's coming sometime,
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it's gonna come. They know the Palisades had not burned
in a very long time, so they they prepared like
Caruso prepared and UH got his own miniature fire department.
And that's why the only thing standing in that neighborhood
is his shopping center. Because he was prepared. It's not
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because you had the money. It's not that he had
the money. He was prepared the city has the money too,
but they blew it all on the homelessness, on the
vagrants and mental patients. All right, we come back. I'll
play Rick Caruso what he sounds like and what Karen
Bass sounded like, and you know, you can just fantasize
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about what if, what could have been.
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Speaker 2 (28:03):
Somebody sent me this on Instagram. Rick Caruso was giving
an update on how his Steadfast LA nonprofit is doing.
He is working with a lot of the biggest companies
and most successful businessmen to get Palisage residents to rebuild
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their homes as quickly as possible. It's kind of the
opposite of what the city is doing. I wanted to
play this. It's just a minute, and you'll see what
the latest initiative is with Steadfast LA. And then I
want to compare it to Karen Bass coming off the
plane from Africa. Play cut three. First, let me tell you.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
What isn't working. What isn't working is the amount of
time it takes to plan check plans so people can
rebuild their homes or repair them. Let me tell you
what is working. Public private partnerships. Steadfast LA came up
with a big idea that we're going to go to
the best and the brightest in the tech industry develop
an AI model that will quickly process your plans and
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approve them in the city of Los Angeles and the county.
That's going to get you in your homes faster and
a lot less expensive. It's going to save a lot
of money. I want to give a big shout out
and thanks to Mike Hopkins of Amazon, to Arkasar who
came together and created this concredible AI application that we're
going to be using. And another big shout out to
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Gavin Newsom for his leadership and pushing this along, owning
it and making sure it gets adopted by the city
and by the county. And again when you see this,
it is so cool. But it's right in line what
steadfast LA does. We're all about getting you back home
and getting you back home quickly.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Have a good night. Artificial intelligence, you see that, and
that's going to get people to have these these plans
designed and evaluated and through the city hall bureaucracy so
much quicker. Now you heard how Rick Caruso speaks. You
hear the intelligence. Compare this to who to whom the
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public actually elected to be Mayor? Karen Bass coming off
the plane.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
department budget by millions of dollars?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Madam Mayor? Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Elon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering
your position, Madam Mayor? Have you absolutely nothing to say
to the citizens today? You're dealing with this disaster, No
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apology for them. Do you think you should have been
visiting Ghana while this was unfolding?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Back home?
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Adam Mayer, let me ask you just again, have you
anything to say to the citizens today as you returned,
Madam Mayor, just a few words for the citizens today
as you return.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
To do you the catastrophe?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, that's what we had, pre Maire, We got that
we could have had this Pike Carrisso again, compare the two.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Let me tell you what isn't working. What isn't working
is the amount of time it takes to plan check
plans so people can rebuild their homes or repair them.
Let me tell you what is working public private partnerships.
Steadfast LA came up with a big idea that we're
going to go to the best and the brightest in
the tech industry develop an AI model that will quickly
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process your plans and approve them in the city of
Los Angeles and the county. That's going to get you
in your homes faster and a lot less expensive. It's
going to save a lot of money. I want to
give a big shout out in thanks to Mike Hopkins
of Amazon, to Arkasar who came together and created this
confortible AI application that we're going to be using. And
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another big shout out to Gavin Newsom for his leadership
and push this along, owning it and making sure it
gets adopted by the city and by the county. And
again when you see this, it is so cool. But
it's right in line with stetfast LA does. We're all
about getting you back home and getting you back home quickly.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Have a good night. I don't know who do you
think should be mere pre Do you think choice a
choice B? He even got Newsome to help out. That's
all right. You keep voting the way you're voting. Coming
up in just a few minutes after Devers. Two o'clock News,
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Roger Bailey. He's an attorney. We've had him on before.
He's investigating on behalf of his clients the Palisades fire.
Now there are two judges. He's representing two judges who
lost their homes and they're suing DWP. Roger Bailey coming
up next. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
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the Super Bowl quarterback for the Broncos, later an executive,
and he was driving with his agent and business partner,
Jeff Spurbeck, on a golf cart Saturday. They were at
(00:44):
the Stagecoach Music Festival, but I guess they were driving
from an after party and Spurbeck was sitting in the
back of the golf cart. I don't know what happened,
but he went flying off the cart and smashed his
head and he's dead. So Alex, I'll have the latest
on that. Next hour, We're gonna have the attorney Roger
Bailey on. He's representing two judges who are suing LATWP.
(01:10):
They both lost their homes in the Palisades fire, and
they're blaming lad WP because they could be guilty on
two fronts, not filling the reservoir and also not de
energizing the electrical lines, which may have started a second
fire in the Palisades that day. And are they still
(01:34):
doing the control burned Yep, they've been doing that since
last night in the Palisades. I don't know exactly what
they're doing. Nobody's explaining. But if you didn't hear the
Palisades might see smoke and flames if you're through tomorrow
through tomorrow, So you spend like forty eight hours trying
to figure out what started the fire. And they do
(01:55):
this by starting another fire. And I really don't understand this,
and there's nobody to talk to to explain, and then
three o'clock and I want to talk about this now,
but Carl Demayo is going to weigh in after three
on this ridiculous fight in Sacramento over legislation that would
(02:16):
increase punishment to a felony for anyone who wants to
buy a sixteen or seventeen year old for sex. Because
there have been legislators from Democrats, well, Democratic and Republican
legislators who think that sex trafficking ought to be treated
(02:39):
harshly felonies for people who want to buy children for sex,
even up to the age of seventeen. Of course, this
is very common with all the illegal immigration when they
bring in underage people from over the border. Very often
these young people are captured, basically kidnapped and forced into
(03:03):
sexual slavery. But there always has to be a willing customer,
you know, somebody who wants to buy the girls or
the boys, and this legislation would go after the customers
and make it a felony, an automatic felony. I can't now,
you know, There's there's a lot of issues where you
can see how you can approach a problem two different ways,
(03:28):
but not this one. Honestly, is there a single person
alive anybody listening who thinks that we shouldn't charge a
felony to someone who's buying a sixteen year old for sex?
Is there anybody? Well, apparently there's quite a few, and
they're all in the legislature. You know. I want to
(03:52):
find the names of those who are blocking this because
I'm I wonder what kind of perverts they are? Do
I think that's legitimate if you publicly stake out a
position saying that sixteen and seventeen year olds it's it's
not a bad thing to buy them for sex, and
and you have the power to block a bill that
(04:15):
would make it a felony. Boy, you ought to be outed.
What's going on? Who are you taking home at night?
I'm serious. I can't imagine. I can't. I don't understand
how this wasn't a felony already. Had they missed this.
It's the Assembly Public Safety Committee, which for many years now,
(04:38):
for decades, has refused to treat criminals at criminals. And
this bill comes from a Democratic assembly woman named Maggie Krell.
It would criminalize loitering with the intent to buy sex.
(05:01):
This is an add on to a bill last year.
Remember we had a state Senator, Shannon grove On she's
a Republican, and she had a pretty strong sex trafficking
bill that was temporarily blocked in the legislature until Newsom
came in and said, what are you people doing? Of
course this should pass. Well, it's happening again. There's no
(05:30):
committee members on the assemblic Public Safety Committee. You know what, Ray,
if you could, could you print out the Democratic Assembly
members on the on the Public Safety Committee, because I
think it's time to highlight their opposition because the bill
came from another Democrat Assembly. When Tom Lackey is a Republican,
(05:54):
he says, these are girls, these are people that are
society should be doing everything they can to So why
are we protecting the predator? And uh so now Newsome
is uh, it's getting involved in this. I would suspect
(06:18):
Newsom has at least a couple of daughters. Is you
know one of the weirdos is I think is the
state Senator Scott Wiener. He's uh, he's a weirdo. He's strange.
You just don't like his name. No, but you know
he's one of these guys who like has grown into
(06:40):
his name. Some people are defined by their name. And
he here it is, okay, I got a list, so
here here, yeah, Scott Wiener. It's it's always like I
don't understand there like some kind of weird bill that
is going to legalize certain sexual situations. Scott. And he's
already always in the room. He's always in the middle
(07:02):
of the controversy, like what is this thing? I don't
think he has kids, so I guess maybe he doesn't
have sensitivity to this anyway. Let's see Democrats on the
California State Assembly. All right, we got a Mark Gonzalez here,
Matt Haney, John Harrabedian, Uh, Stephanie Wynn, James Ramos, doctor
(07:26):
Leche Sharp, Hyphen Collins. Is that enough names there?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, god seven
Democrats and two Republicans. Nothing like one party rule. When
you have one party rule, then you could have a
collection of wirdos on the Public Safety Committee and they're
going to vote to block They're gonna vote to block
(07:55):
uh something that uh, They're gonna to block a bill
that makes it a felony to buy a sixteen year
old for sex. Now out on which one of them
is against this? I don't understand what's going on. Must
be a big deal for Newsom to get involved though.
This must be a real thing. I'm always looking to
(08:16):
see as this hype is this distorted? Is this you
know some kind of you know, some kind of an
internet meme exaggeration. It's like, no, this is this is
a real thing. I don't understand anyway, Carl DeMier is
gonna come on after three o'clock and flesh out more
of than details, and I will continue investigating this situation.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
All right, I have some further information, an updated story.
Not that it makes this any any better for these
pervert democrats on the California Assembly Public Safety Committee. All right,
So there's a bill written by Democrat that would make
(09:05):
it an automatic felony if you buy a sixteen or
seventeen year old for sex. Anybody against that? I didn't
think so. Well, the a number of Democrats in the
Assembly are and they that said that there was there
was there was there was a bill. Well, let me
(09:27):
let me just get to get to this here. What
are the objections by these democrats with the with the
Assembly Public Safety Committee. The objections are that they're afraid
that parents who object to interracial or LGBTQ relationships involving
(09:52):
older teens could prompt them to weaponize this, uh this law. Now,
I don't really understand that. I don't think the race
or sexual orientation of the person buying the teenage boy
(10:17):
or girl is the problem. I don't think it doesn't
matter what the race is, and it doesn't matter what
the their sexual orientation is. What matters is they're buying
a sixteen or seventeen year old for sex on the street.
Remember what I said, This is loitering. The bill is
written that it criminalizes loitering for sex purchases. So it's
(10:41):
people buying teenage hookers, whether they're girls or boys. So
that that's what's wrong with everybody here, That's what see.
That's not saying that. This is like, I guess Scott
Wiener's problem, the state senator. God, what a weirdo he is.
(11:03):
He said he was floored that they wanted to expand
a law that they passed last year. Yet because last
year they wanted to do this and there was a
carve out for sixteen and seventeen year olds, which means
it's not a felony at the moment to buy a
(11:24):
sixteen or seventeen year old for sex on the street.
An exception was made, and this is an exception that
Scott Weener approved of. Wanted Why what's the motivation for
wanting some protection for people who buy sixteen and seventeen
year olds for sex on the street. Why would you
(11:47):
be that passionate about it. Wow. The woman who wrote
this is a former prosecutor. She is a Democrat, Maggie Corrall.
She says, I thought people would understand it's wrong to
buy sixteen and seventeen year olds for sex, that it
(12:08):
should be treated as a felony. Yeah, it is wrong.
But he apparently Scott Wiener and many other Democrats are angry.
I don't you know, if we had a real media,
these people should be chase through the streets because these
(12:34):
Public Safety Committee members were angry last year that the
original bill passed, and now they think this is a
bridge too far. And according to Politico, Democrats are tired
of getting backed into a corner over sex trafficking, which
(12:58):
political describes as a GOP pet issue. What do you
mean it's a pet issue? Isn't this one hundred percent
agreement that you don't you don't buy teenagers for sex?
The way this is worded, politicals are real left wing
whack job news side Holy Jesus, backed into a corner.
(13:21):
They should be backed into a corner. I bet you
one hundred percent of the public thought that it's already
a felony to buy a sixteen year old or a
seventeen year old for sex. I thought everybody would agree
that it should be the law, and I'm sure everybody
thought it already was the law underage people buying them
(13:45):
for sex. Wow, they're really they're really sick that this
is This is crazy Land. Why is it about these
sexual issues? And their supposed excuse doesn't even make doesn't
(14:06):
make any sense. They're afraid parents upset about interrational or
gay relationships could prompt them to weaponize solicitational The hell
are you talking about? We're talking about We're not talking
about a nineteen year old having a relationship with a
sixteen year old. We're talking about an adult buying the
(14:28):
sixteen year old for sex on the street. It says
loitering with the intent. This is the most amazing thing
I've read in a long time. Look, you elect perverts
to the legislature, you're going to get perverted legislation. I
don't know what else to tell you. And a lot
(14:51):
of these are guys. We're old with one of all
these men on the Assembly Public Safety Committee raising all
kinds of what's with Scott Wiener? Oh it's gross. Go ahead,
ask everybody you know, do you think sixteen and seven
year old, seventeen year old should be sold for sold
(15:12):
for sex on the streets? Should you be able to
buy them for sex on the streets? Just ask everybody
you know, you know, even to ask the weirdo at
the in the back of the back of the office
in the corridor there hiding in the cubicle watching porn,
watching teenage porn on his computer. All right, and again,
(15:35):
Carl Demile is going to be on after three o'clock
to talk about this. I don't know how that guy
survives in this climate up there in Sacramento. When we
were returning Alex Stone from ABC News, John Elway, the
superstar quarterback, won the Super Bowl twice, became an executive
(15:56):
with the Broncos. He was driving a golf cart Saturday
night in Lakinta. They'd gone to the Stagecoach Music Festival
and he was with his longtime agent and business partner,
Jeff Spurbeck. Spurbeck was sitting in the golf cart and
fell and smashed his head and he's dead and Alex
(16:18):
Stone will have the details on it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Coming up after two o'clock. We're going to talk to
attorney Roger Bailey. He's representing two federal judges who lost
their homes in the Palisades fire. They're suing LAEDWP the judges.
So that's coming up. Now. How about Alex Stone, ABC News,
terrible story coming out of Laquinta. John Elway, the famous
(16:49):
Super Bowl quarterback for the Broncos who later became their executive.
He was driving a golf cart with his agent and
business partner on board, Jeff Spurbeck. Something happened and Spurbak
flew out of the golf cart, smashed his head and
now he's dead. Let's get Alex on there's some details here,
(17:10):
hey there, John. Yeah, So earlier today, a couple hours ago,
we got word that the longtime agent and business partner,
they had gone into the wine industry together, John Elway
and Jeff Spurback. That Spurbek died from the injuries that
he got on Saturday evening. And so, as you mentioned,
what we know in details aren't real forthcoming from the
(17:30):
Riverside County Sheriff's office or from cal Fire. So if
they're listening, we would love to know more. But he
was apparently riding in the back of a golf cart
at the Madison Club, which is a super exclusive club
in La Quita, as the Stage Coach music festival was
underway and they were either coming or going to or
from a party related to Stagecoach, and he fell off
(17:55):
the back. Spurbek did, and TMC is reporting that they
have a source that he hit his head. The Riverside
County Sheriff save says that they're investigating, but they won't
see anything more than that except that they didn't get
called to it until Monday, and this happened on Saturday,
so it seems like initially it just seemed like an
accident and medics came and transported him, and law enforcement
wasn't notified. But Ali Simon was there and she saw
(18:17):
the immediate aftermath, and she's telling us now, it was.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
So sad, and our hearts just go out to the families.
But we were heading out of the community and we
pulled up and it had to have happened probably one
minute before us pulling up.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, And she says it was clear right away that
Spurbeck was badly hurt, that there was a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
He was unfortunately lying on the ground and there are
people surrounding him just trying to make sure he was okay,
and people were on the phone just trying to get
help there as soon as they possibly could. It was
so scary. I mean it like it was nothing like
we've ever seen. You just don't think so skinner going
to ever witness anything like that. But his wife was
(18:58):
like hysterical.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And she said said John Elway was right there. He
was calling desperately nine one one for help as well
to get medics there.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, he was on the phone trying to call nine
to one, call any one.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And John Spurbec reportedly was on life support at the
only traumas center in the Palm Springs area and then
he died today. The corner in Riverside County putting his
time of death at around one o'clock this morning. But
there's no indication of any wrongdoing. It appears it was
a bad accident and they are investigating it now because
it is a fatal accident. But this is going to
(19:31):
be different being a golf cart on private property at
a club. You know, you think about even if and
we don't know if alcohol was involved, but even if
it was involved, that you go to a golf club
or on a golf course and there are beer carts
and you know, so it's the drinking and it's not
like you're in a vehicle on a major street or
on a public street at all. But we've reached out
(19:52):
to Elways, reps, to Spurbeck's company, haven't heard back from
anybody yet, but seems like it was a tragic accident.
But they are going to be investigating it and we'll
see where it goes. But as of right now, it
doesn't look like anything criminal was done, so we don't
know what happened. But if if alcohol was involved, i mean,
do drunken driving laws probably not, yeah, because they're not
(20:16):
on a public road and they wasn't in a vehicle
that would be considered a you know, a street legal
vehicle that would be on a public road. Now I'm
sure lawyers listening right now are saying, yeah, but you
could do and you know, and go a number of
different ways with it. But it just like, and again
we don't know if alcohol was involved, it wouldn't be
(20:37):
surprising if it was based on that they were going
to and from parties and stage coach was going on
and it may have been something as simple as we've
all been on the back of a golf cart where
the driver accelerates. Those things accelerate very rapidly, especially the
battery operator. I hate sitting on the back of the
golf Yeah, and you don't know that they're going to accelerate,
and you kind of lurch forward and he may have
gone off in that way. Oh, I'm always clinging with
(20:59):
a f grip on the on the metal bars. Yeah.
I don't like that feeling at all. All right, Well,
very good, Alex, thank you for coming on there. Alex Stone,
ABC News. I want to get into since two o'clock
we're gonna be talking to Roger Bailey about the judges
who are suing now uh LEDWP for the Palisades fire. Remember,
(21:23):
there's there's two aspects to this. There's the the notorious
infamous empty reservoir and then did power lines start a
second fire that night because some power poles collapsed and
the transmission lines fell on dry brush and that may
(21:43):
have ignited a second big blaze in the evening. And
there's video that suggests very strongly that that's what happened.
So laed WP is under a lot of fire, and
we had a guy on yesterday, we've had on several
times said help me out with the said Kashani. He's
(22:06):
an attorney, he lost his house and he's been fighting
almost by himself against the DWP because they nobody will
talk about it out loud. There's no accountability at all.
Everybody's hoping it goes away now. It was Sayid's opinion
that because DWP's in so much trouble here, the lawyers
have told everybody to shut up. That's why Genie Kinone
(22:28):
is the idiot. CEO prattles on about Earth Day at meetings,
played that clip yesterday and says nothing about the empty
reservoir or the power lines falling. And the reason the
power line thing is so important is they should have
cut off the power. This is twelve hours after the
original fire and these power lines were still energized. And
(22:53):
Westside Current has a story that there's more than a
dozen lawsuits charging DWP with negligence and the resulting judgments
could cost anywhere from twenty billion to more than one
hundred billion dollars. And there are some celebrity plaintiffs involved,
(23:16):
not just the two judges, but there's I guess these
are reality people. Never maybe you know who these people are.
I've heard their name, Spencer Pratt and Mighty Montague. What
do they do for a living? I don't know. What
do you know what they do? Now? There were reality
stars in Heidi is a singer. Now she's got she's
got a song, a song. I could tell you the name.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Once, If you do one song, it's a hit, you
got a career. I don't think it's a hit. I mean,
I don't know. You're being judgmental. I guess I am.
You haven't even heard it yet. I haven't. I'm not
really big on reality shows, reality stars. No, well, they
were among the first to fly lawsuits. I don't know.
Maybe it's not going well, maybe the song didn't sell,
(24:00):
maybe the money they were right in line. Yeah, I
shouldn't say all these things. That's terribly mean. Let's just
get in. You are a bad influence. I have made
you a lot, really have. I don't remember you being
like this. You were it used to be very sweet.
So anyway, their complaint alleges gross negligence because of the
(24:25):
one hundred and seventeen million gallons missing, And then there's
another lawsuit about the energized LEDWP power line. I guess
this is now can it has been accepted as a
as a as a real thing. The second second fire
after the Palisades Fire started in the morning, and the
(24:50):
led WP is governed, of course by the city, and
according to one attorney, Alex Robertson, the city has made
it clear to us they're going to fight these cases too,
and Nail that's great. Yeah, you don't expect anybody in
the Karen Bass administration to accept responsibility for gross incompetence,
gross negligence and all kinds of stupidity. In fact, you know,
(25:14):
in the next segment, I want to play for you
a little clip from Instagram. Rick Caruso posted on Instagram
yesterday because he's got this nonprofit organization called Steadfast LA
and the purpose is to get people to rebuild their
(25:36):
homes much much more quickly than if you slog through
Bass's bureaucracy. And I want to play you his clip
and just compare it with Karen Bass coming off the
airplane after she returned from Africa, and imagine for a
moment an alternate universe where Rick Caruso or somebody like
(25:59):
him had been running the city for the last two years.
I'm telling you this wouldn't have happened the same way.
It wouldn't have been so disastrous. I guarantee you that
the UH that the reservoir would be filled just for starters.
(26:22):
By January twenty twenty five, when the fire broke out,
many homeowners in the Palisades had lost their insurance. State
Farm refused to renew seventy percent of its policies in
that zip code, citing catastrophic exposure. They knew that the
(26:44):
reservoir was empty, They knew that brush wasn't cleared, They
knew that the fire department was half defunded. They insurance
companies doing that pre investigations all the time. Season in
Los Angeles, Santa Ana wins. They know that's coming sometime,
(27:07):
it's gonna come. They know the Palisades had not burned
in a very long time, so they they prepared like
Caruso prepared and UH got his own miniature fire department.
And that's why the only thing standing in that neighborhood
is his shopping center. Because he was prepared. It's not
(27:30):
because you had the money. It's not that he had
the money. He was prepared the city has the money too,
but they blew it all on the homelessness, on the
vagrants and mental patients. All right, we come back. I'll
play Rick Caruso what he sounds like and what Karen
Bass sounded like, and you know, you can just fantasize
(27:54):
about what if, what could have been.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
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Speaker 2 (28:03):
Somebody sent me this on Instagram. Rick Caruso was giving
an update on how his Steadfast LA nonprofit is doing.
He is working with a lot of the biggest companies
and most successful businessmen to get Palisage residents to rebuild
(28:26):
their homes as quickly as possible. It's kind of the
opposite of what the city is doing. I wanted to
play this. It's just a minute, and you'll see what
the latest initiative is with Steadfast LA. And then I
want to compare it to Karen Bass coming off the
plane from Africa. Play cut three. First, let me tell you.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
What isn't working. What isn't working is the amount of
time it takes to plan check plans so people can
rebuild their homes or repair them. Let me tell you
what is working. Public private partnerships. Steadfast LA came up
with a big idea that we're going to go to
the best and the brightest in the tech industry develop
an AI model that will quickly process your plans and
(29:11):
approve them in the city of Los Angeles and the county.
That's going to get you in your homes faster and
a lot less expensive. It's going to save a lot
of money. I want to give a big shout out
and thanks to Mike Hopkins of Amazon, to Arkasar who
came together and created this concredible AI application that we're
going to be using. And another big shout out to
(29:33):
Gavin Newsom for his leadership and pushing this along, owning
it and making sure it gets adopted by the city
and by the county. And again when you see this,
it is so cool. But it's right in line what
steadfast LA does. We're all about getting you back home
and getting you back home quickly.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Have a good night. Artificial intelligence, you see that, and
that's going to get people to have these these plans
designed and evaluated and through the city hall bureaucracy so
much quicker. Now you heard how Rick Caruso speaks. You
hear the intelligence. Compare this to who to whom the
(30:17):
public actually elected to be Mayor? Karen Bass coming off
the plane.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
department budget by millions of dollars?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Madam Mayor? Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Elon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering
your position, Madam Mayor? Have you absolutely nothing to say
to the citizens today? You're dealing with this disaster, No
(31:00):
apology for them. Do you think you should have been
visiting Ghana while this was unfolding?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Back home?
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Adam Mayer, let me ask you just again, have you
anything to say to the citizens today as you returned,
Madam Mayor, just a few words for the citizens today
as you return.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
To do you the catastrophe?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, that's what we had, pre Maire, We got that
we could have had this Pike Carrisso again, compare the two.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Let me tell you what isn't working. What isn't working
is the amount of time it takes to plan check
plans so people can rebuild their homes or repair them.
Let me tell you what is working public private partnerships.
Steadfast LA came up with a big idea that we're
going to go to the best and the brightest in
the tech industry develop an AI model that will quickly
(32:33):
process your plans and approve them in the city of
Los Angeles and the county. That's going to get you
in your homes faster and a lot less expensive. It's
going to save a lot of money. I want to
give a big shout out in thanks to Mike Hopkins
of Amazon, to Arkasar who came together and created this
confortible AI application that we're going to be using. And
(32:55):
another big shout out to Gavin Newsom for his leadership
and push this along, owning it and making sure it
gets adopted by the city and by the county. And
again when you see this, it is so cool. But
it's right in line with stetfast LA does. We're all
about getting you back home and getting you back home quickly.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Have a good night. I don't know who do you
think should be mere pre Do you think choice a
choice B? He even got Newsome to help out. That's
all right. You keep voting the way you're voting. Coming
up in just a few minutes after Devers. Two o'clock News,
(33:37):
Roger Bailey. He's an attorney. We've had him on before.
He's investigating on behalf of his clients the Palisades fire.
Now there are two judges. He's representing two judges who
lost their homes and they're suing DWP. Roger Bailey coming
up next. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
(33:57):
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