November 27, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/27) - The Best Of The John Kobylt Show. The LA Times gave the head of LADWP Janisse Quiñones an award for leadership! California officials say that the water supply in SoCal at the time of the January fires was sufficient and that if the Santa Ynez Reservoir was filled it wouldn't have made a difference. A lot of people get stoned to deal with their families on Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app John Cobelt Show. I'm
I'm looking. I woke up and I couldn't believe well
Eric sent it. I'm just looking at the text eight
twenty two series of texts, and I'm thinking, this is
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a hoax. This is some internet meme. This is something
that's spinning around on Twitter. It's a parody, right, It's
a satire, and it's not. Janie Kinonyez. She is the
head of the LA's Department of Water and Power, the DWP.
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She was hired for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year. That was double the salary of the previous
head of the DWP. Infamously, she drained the Palisades Reservoir,
all one hundred and seventeen million gallons of it, because
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there was a torn cover. Think of like a torn
pool cover. You'd probably know this story. And so they
had to fix the cover. Well they didn't for a year.
They drained one hundred and seventeen million gallons and left
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it empty. This is her decision, left it empty. This
was the primary source of water for the fire department.
If you have a fire, eleven months went by, they
drained it in February of twenty twenty four. Here it
comes the dry season, nine months no rain. Now we're
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into the sant Ana win season. Fire starts, whole separate scandal,
Genie conunions, and those eleven months never filled up the reservoir.
Never criminal negligence. Twelve people died, almost seven thousand homes destroyed. Now,
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in any other world that I've ever existed in, and
I don't know how many other worlds I've lived in,
but somebody who makes such a catastrophic, stupid decision would
be fired, and should be indicted and charged seven hundred
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and fifty thousand dollars. She gets she drains a reservoir,
a huge one, a gigantic one. If it's empty, it's impossible,
impossible to put out a wildfire. Instead, what Eric said
was a link to an l Time Times dot com page.
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The fifth Annual Inspirational Women's Forum and Leadership Awards celebrating
women redefining leadership across Los Angeles. This exclusive event brought
together LA's top executives, entrepreneurs, and change makers, and they
handed out these awards and they gave one to Janice Keonez.
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The Los Angeles Times gave an award to Janice Konez
for her accomplishments as a woman. No, really, it happened.
Keez got an award from the LA Times. They reported
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how incompetent she was at draining the reservoir and not
filling it back up. They broke that story, they identified her,
and it wasn't that long ago. That was this year,
and now they decide she gets an award. Here's her
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bio page at the LA Times. I hope you haven't
had lunch. Janise Conunias is a distinguished executive with over
twenty five years of leadership experience, currently serving as the
Chief executive officer and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power, the nation's largest publicly owned
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water and power utility. Since her appointment in May of
twenty twenty four, she's led a workforce of nearly twelve
thousand employees in delivering get this safe, reliable water and
power to four million.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Residents and overcharging us.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Overcharging us, Well, somebody's got to pay the seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, So she takes over in May.
They had decided they were closing the reservoir in February.
By the way, the work to fix the cover took
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a month and it wasn't that much money. But May, June, July, August, September, October, November,
December into January, reservoirs dry, ken unions never refilled. It,
never fixed, the cover, never refilled. The reservoir. Fire happens,
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thousands of buildings destroyed, and twelve people die, literally die
in a fire. On top of that, she never had
the power turned off for parts of Palisades, and then
those wires crashed to the ground and started new fires,
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and she gets an Inspirational Women's Leadership Award. Is everybody
insane or something happened to me? I'm thinking, I'm not
even on the air right now, that I went crazy,
and they put me in a booth to simulate a
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radio studio, and I don't even know I'm not on
the air, but I'm actually in an insane asylum right now,
and they run video of view just to entertain on
this TV screen. No, this is real. I couldn't believe
it either.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
When Eric scented this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Did she see I thought it was I.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I don't understand. And you know the thing about this, Eric,
nobody nobody explains, Like there's nobody at the LA Times.
How can you look? I want to I thought their
fire coverage was really good. I've said that many times
and I still do. But how do you do that
kind of coverage? Pinpointing her major role in why the
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fire wasn't put out at all until everything that could
burn burn they had, They had no water. Fire hydrants
were all dry. They had three one million gallon tanks
sitting in the hills there, and those ran dry I
think by early the first evening of the fire. And
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then the one hundred and seventeen million gallon hole in
the ground. And I've driven there and I've seen it,
and it was a massive hole. In fact, there was
a second reservoir, much smaller, called the Chautauqua Reservoir that
was empty too, And I'll never forget. In the early
days of the fire, Rick Caruso came on and he said,
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almost in passing the reservoirs were empty, and like I
noticed he said that, but there were so many other
things we were talking about, so he knew he knew
right away that the reservoirs are empty. A lot of
people in government must have known a lot of business people.
This astonishes me. I guess, of all the pieces of
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this puzzle, this one astonishes me, you know, as much
as anything. How could you? How could you? Fire season?
Santana wins nine months of dry weather? How could she
do this? She's never apologized, she never talks about it.
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We have one of our listeners who actually goes to
the meetings. I've seen, I've seen video of some of
the things. She never discusses it. And this is where
I start to question my sanity. And maybe that's the point.
The point is is there. They do not address reality
at all. They pretend that our reality never happened, and
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so we go on talking about it, living with it,
reacting to it. After a while, it's like, I guess
I'm crazy. Maybe none of this really happened. Maybe when
I drive to the palace sides, maybe all the buildings
still are there and all the people are still walking
around and shopping. You see how you question your sanity
after a while.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I would love to have been in that meeting where
they made that decision to give her the award. Yes,
what did they say?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Who nominated her? Who said, you know, how about Janie Z?
And they go, oh, it's a great idea, and why
would you do this? Dude? You imagine everybody in the
Palisades right now, maybe right now they're hearing this for
the first time, their heads are exploding.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio. On social media at
John Cobelt Radio. Oh, and subscribe on YouTube. Right this
is new. We're putting up segments, not just short bits,
but we put a long segment that we had done
with Spencer prat YouTube dot com, slash at John Covelt's
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show to subscribe YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt's show.
And they're putting on longer and longer segments, and the
rest of the social media is at John Cobelt Radio.
And you know, Spencer Pratt apparently really hit a nerve
with a lot of people in our audience. A tremendous
number of people watching, listening, commenting, And somebody's asking me,
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it's like, why so many people following the Palisades story
since it just affects the residents in the Palisades. Everyone's
paying attention because if you listen to this show, certainly
and a lot of people beyond our little universe, everybody
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knows that the government's lying to you all day and night.
Everything that's wrong in the city, in the state is
because of the selfish incompetence of government, specific people like
Newsom and Bass and Jennie Canonias and the rest of them.
And this confirms what we're experiencing in our life. The
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homeless situation is the same thing stolen money. They lie constantly,
None of their projects ever improve things, nothing, And we
know we're being lied to. We know their numbers are fake.
Homeless numbers are fake, the crime numbers are fake. This
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information coming about the fire are fake. This is all.
This is all provable stuff. You notice Nobody like Newsom
or Bass ever opens themselves up to a real interrogation
from a reporter or somebody from an opposing political party.
They don't have to. It's one party rule. And then
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includes the media here. The media is either full progressive
or they're compliant. As Katie Grime says from California Globe,
they don't want to lose a seat at the table.
See most of the reporters and editors and producers, news directors.
They want access to these people, and if you criticize,
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no more access. See all the politicians don't really need
the media so much anymore. They can have their own
social media channels to communicate their propaganda, in their lies.
Most of what comes out of Sacramento and Gavin Newsom's
mouth or lies in propaganda. Most of what comes out
of Karen bass Or lies in propaganda. And I think
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everybody's onto it. And the Pacific Palisades story is a
perfect representation of everything that's wrong. You can apply what's
your se seeing and hearing to all the other issues
that are paralyzing life in California, Los Angeles. In competence,
lack of preparation, people taking money and stealing money, no accountability.
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They don't even bother to comment, They don't even bother
to deny it anymore. They just keep lying because they
know there is a You know, we've got a lot
of double digit IQs in our state and triple digit
SAT scores like Newsome. Okay, if you have a lot
of people a triple digit SATs and double digit IQs,
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it's not hard to fool people, not hard to whip
up their emotions, not hard to make them believe a
load of crap. And when there is not opposition, not
an oppositional party, doesn't exist in the state or in
the city, not an oppositional media, this is what you get.
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And so that's why people are following the story. It
confirms everything they already know about why the city in
the state is what it is. These people are criminals
and abusive and they don't care about you. So this
was predictable. La Times. After a ten month review, California
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officials concluded in a report that the water supply in
southern California was robust at the time of the fire,
that the water system isn't designed to handle such large
intense wildfires. That glides over the fact that it never
should have been a large intense wildfire had they just
put out the original fire on January first, and we
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all know that story. And then they say that the
Santa Ynez Reservoir, which can hold one hundred and seventeen
million gallons of drinking water, was empty for repairs at
the time, but that it really didn't make a difference. Yeah,
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really didn't matter. In fact, Ellen Chang write down this
woman's name, a spokeshole for the LA Department of Water
and Power, spokesperson for Genis Quinonias. The report confirms that
the Senianez Reservoir was offline to make necessary repairs, and
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that issues with water pressure during the fire response were
due to the extraordinary demand on the system, not because
of the inadequate water supply. In other words, us not
filling the reservoir had nothing to do with the fire
doing so much damage. One hundred and seventeen million gallons
wouldn't have made a difference. That's the message that Ellen
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Chang and this report is giving. So they just put
out their pile a horse crap. It's laying there in
front of us, steaming, and they walk away. Ellen Chang
turns away from her her computer screen. Out to her
publicity release. She sent out a quote satisfied the Times. Hey,
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you know, can we get a quote? Oh? Here's my quote? Yeah,
one hundred and seventeen million gallons doesn't matter. Okay, God?
Is that good enough? Yeah? That's good enough. Thanks, all right,
we come back. I'll tell you how much one hundred
and seventeen million gallons is I went I went to
chet GPT there's a fascinating place, and to Grock and
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to see I asked, could you quantify what one hundred
and seventeen million gallons are I'm going to do. I'm
going to read their response when we come back, and
then you decide whether it would have had an effect
on saving any homes of the fire. We'll do that next.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Right every day from one until four o'clock. After four o'clock,
John Cobelt's show on demand. That's the podcast, and we
had Spencer Pratt on listen to that. He's the reality
star who is the loudest, most effective activist for the
Palisades residents after the fire, and it was quite entertaining
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and quite informative. So that's on the podcast, and you
could also watch a video of much of the interview
on YouTube at John Cobelt's show. We have our own
channel now. So this is utterly predictable. Newsom had ordered
an investigation into the Palisades fire, and so the investigation
from the Newsom administration says, well, one hundred and seventeen
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million gallons that we're missing from the reservoir in the Palisades.
It didn't matter. You imagine that. So, you know, I
went to chet GPT to see if I could find
a quantifiable way to explain just how much water one
hundred and seventeen million gallons is right, because that's you know,
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you tell somebody big numbers gets lost in people.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, but you're not great with that's very true if
I get to fifteen or sixty years, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Out there.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Okay, So now I'll read you these comparisons and then
ask yourself, Okay, would that have had an effect? And
think about it as to maybe how many houses it
would have put out? One hundred and seventeen million gowns?
How many Olympic sized swimming pools is that? That's one
hundred and seventy seven Olympic sized swimming pools.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, even if each swimming pool could put out a
fire to protect one house, might have one hundred and
seventy seven home saved. Right, I don't think that's unreasonable.
Daily water use of in a city that was one
hundred and seventy million gallons is enough water for a
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city of one point four million people for one day.
Machine that one point four million people, about a third
of the city of Los Angeles. You think that would
have put out a few homes? What are tanker trucks? Now?
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I like this one right now? You could visualize this right,
One hundred and seventeen million gallons is enough for nineteen thousand,
five hundred tanker trunks full of water? What nineteen thousand,
five hundred. Now, if we had a line of nineteen thousand,
five hundred water trucks leading to the Pacific Palisades, do
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you think some of those trucks would have put out
a few.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
More than a few homes? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
All right? Look at it another way, If we had
nineteen thousand, five hundred tanker trunks trucks, it would have
been a line one hundred and forty eight miles long. Eric,
look up, what's one hundred and forty eight miles from
Los Angeles? And I'm doing this to show you that
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the News of Administration and the Department of Order and
Power is simply full of steaming horse crap. You're telling
me a line of one hundred and forty eight miles
of tanker trunks trucks would have no effect on the
fire one hundred and forty eight miles.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
You want to know how far one hundred and forty
eight miles south of Los Angeles is? Yeah, en Sonata, Mexico. Okay,
Now visualize that on the four h five.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Imagine one hundred and forty eight miles of traffic leading
you all the way into en Sonata, Mexico. And probably
most days we have a traffic jam that that's close
to one hundred and forty eight miles. I mean, it's
all tanks full of water, no effect on the Palisades fire. Really,
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tanker trucks from here to en Sonata. All right, how
about a football field analogy? A US football field is
fifty seven thousand, six hundred square feet, so one hundred
and seventeen million gallons is enough to cover an NFL
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field with two hundred and seventy one feet of water,
almost as tall as a twenty five story building that
includes end zones, bathtubs, bathtubs eighty gallons, yeah, one and
a half million full bathtubs, one and a half million buckets.
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Bet you a lot of people are throwing buckets of
water on the fire on their home, trying to beat
back the flames. Five gallon buckets? How much would you
get out of one hundred and seventeen million gallons? Twenty
three and a half million buckets? Would that have helped
maybe a little? So what you have here, And there's
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a lot of agencies that were a part of this bogus,
ridiculous garbage study that they did this investigation. And you know,
somebody tell all this to Ellen Cheng, the spokeshole for
the LADWP.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Was anybody challenging this report?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean you are, I am, no, We're doing everything
by ourselves here, seriously.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I mean, because what you're saying, hopefully somebody else is
going to be picking up on this, what you're saying
and rolling with this, because this is insane.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It is inconceivable that if you took one hundred and
seventeen million gallons out of the water system and they're saying, well,
you know, the water system isn't designed to handle such
you know, this much water. I know for a fact,
live witnesses, people I know who said the problem was
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there was a hundreds of higher fire hydrants that were broken.
There was no water coming out. Because they tried to
give this complicated explanation well, you wouldn't have the water pressure.
And they're also sticking to this lie that the reservoir
had to be closed to repair the terran It's cover. Now,
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the reservoir was built in nineteen sixty four strictly for
fire purposes. You had that terrible bell Air fire of
nineteen sixty one, go look it up. It's in the
La Times. In fact, they did a retrospective article on it.
This year sixty one bell Air fire burned hundreds of homes.
Sixty four they built the reservoir. It was specifically and
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you go back to the La Times story of nineteen
sixty four, specifically to deal with the fire. They claim, well,
you know, we had to change the cover, you know,
because regulations it was harmed the water supply. They never
needed it for the water supply. And you know what
the proof of that is the reservoir was closed for
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a year. Do you remember, do you remember any emergencies
were people in the Palisades didn't have water, They couldn't shower,
they couldn't fill their pools, they had nothing to drink. No,
there was no water shortage in the Palisades for the
year that the reservoir was closed. None, It's a total lie. Lie.
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Number one on this issue is the reservoir was built
for fire protection. Number two, it's not needed for drinking water.
Otherwise the Palisades would have been out of drinking water
that whole year. Number three, even if it had to
be fixed, it only took a month, and it only
cost one hundred and forty thousand dollars. And the depth
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of the lies and the and the cover is incredible.
Ellen Cheng again spokeshole for LEDWP. The report confirms that
the Senianez Reservoir was offline to make necessary repairs. False.
And the issues with water pressure during the fire response
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was to do the extraordinary demand on the system, not
the inadequate water supply. So I me guess one hundred
and seventeen million gallons going through the system would not
increase the water pressure. I imagine she typed out this
statement because if she said it live, somebody would anybody
contradict this nonsense. They keep using the phrase extraordinary demands.
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And here's an idea, how about building a water system
that can handle wildfires? Have we had enough of them?
Why isn't our tax money being used to build a
modern age water system to handle wildfires.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Because our tax money is being used for other more
important things.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, like seventy thousand homeless people. What could we buy
with all the money we've spent on the people who
lay in the streets whacked out on meth and crack
and fent and il, leaving their bodily waste all over
the place, terrorizing people. We didn't spend the billions and
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billions of dollars of that seventy thousand. What could we
do to protect the lives and property of the tens
of thousands of people in the Palisades? I I just
we are going to keep ath this though.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yes, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
So all right, you know Thanksgiving and there was this
Wall Street Journal article about how many people get stoned
during Thanksgiving dinner in order to handle their family. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not speaking from experience, but
I know what happens.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It's called the Cousin Walk. That's right. Did you see
this story?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
No, but I know about it. It's a social media thing.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Oh yeah, that's it says behold the Cousin Walk. And
I thought I never heard that. Half of the guests
are stoned, according to the headline, because you might notice
in the middle of dinner some family members go to
walk the dog or pick up ice or whatever other
euphemism is popular now, and people grab their coats, they
(27:41):
glance towards the door, so they have some of the
cousins go with them, and then they get stoned, and
then they come back and everybody's happy. And that's how
they deal with family tension.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And they are hungrier, right, so they can eat more turkey.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's right, more stuff or more tofu I guess in
your kids. Uh. Marijuana is now legal in forty states
for medicinal use and recreational use in more than half
of those. Not that that's ever mattered. Uh. It's also
(28:21):
known as the pre dinner safety meeting. And it's it's
so popular that you've heard of, you know, Black Friday.
There's now Green Wednesday. Apparently there's a huge surge in
pot sales on Wednesday, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. And I,
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you know, I'd like to have a drink or two
if there's going to be a large group coming over. Yeah,
because I don't. I don't. I don't really enjoy being
around people. I know, well, why not both? Well, yeah,
I've never done that. Honestly, I've only had like a
few puffs of marijuana long time ago.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You're not a candidate to do both at the same time.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
And then I had that little present you.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Give me, Right, So I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
No, yeah, after the whole key to bacle earlier this week,
I don't know if that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
See, I don't. Yeah, I don't really need to mess
with my brain chemistry because I'm barely functional as is,
and I don't know whether all that would do. The
first rule of the Cousin Walker is we do not
discuss the cousin walk, said one writer. Like you, you
sneak out, you get stoned, you come back in, and
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you just giggle with everybody, and the remaining guests find
out that they're a lot funnier and a lot more interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
By gets along with it very nicely.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, you know, if I read one more article about
people fighting about politics at Thanksgiving dinner, I mean, but.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
That's the number one thing people fight about these days.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Right, I just won't do it. I have an ironclad rule,
and I tell my wife this and everybody I said,
I don't discuss any of this at all. I just don't.
And sometimes I got and you know, they're all they're
very excitable, you know, usually about Trump. And I'll listen
to them, whether they're right wrong, whether they're infuriating, whatever
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it is. I just have this smile plastered on my
face and I nod along, and I nod along, and
I wait until they run out of steam or venom
or whatever's motivating them, because I only think it in
my head. It's like, it really doesn't matter what you
think or what I think.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So what if they say, John, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I give a very careful political answer, depending on who
I'm dealing with, and to divert the conversation somewhere else
good because I just I don't want to do it.
First of all, I do this right, yeah, last people
think I want to talk about this when I don't
want to talk about this. All right, I already add
three hours. I got fifteen hours a week. I listen
to the podcast. You want to know what I think?
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I don't have to do a show at Thanksgiving dinner,
unless maybe if I'm stoned, Bud. You see, the thing is,
let's if I start telling like the real truth, because
I'm like, I'm really bottled up inside. I know you
are very bottled up inside. And if I take some
substance that lets out what I'm really thinking.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
That's like you're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No. Yes, nobody wants to know what's going on in
my head all day. I mean, you get a little
slip of it here, and it's bad.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Enough, and I get some off the air too.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Right, it's not good, is it?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's okay?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Now here's an update from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app John Cobelt Show. I'm
I'm looking. I woke up and I couldn't believe well
Eric sent it. I'm just looking at the text eight
twenty two series of texts, and I'm thinking, this is
(00:24):
a hoax. This is some internet meme. This is something
that's spinning around on Twitter. It's a parody, right, It's
a satire, and it's not. Janie Kinonyez. She is the
head of the LA's Department of Water and Power, the DWP.
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She was hired for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year. That was double the salary of the previous
head of the DWP. Infamously, she drained the Palisades Reservoir,
all one hundred and seventeen million gallons of it, because
(01:06):
there was a torn cover. Think of like a torn
pool cover. You'd probably know this story. And so they
had to fix the cover. Well they didn't for a year.
They drained one hundred and seventeen million gallons and left
(01:26):
it empty. This is her decision, left it empty. This
was the primary source of water for the fire department.
If you have a fire, eleven months went by, they
drained it in February of twenty twenty four. Here it
comes the dry season, nine months no rain. Now we're
(01:50):
into the sant Ana win season. Fire starts, whole separate scandal,
Genie conunions, and those eleven months never filled up the reservoir.
Never criminal negligence. Twelve people died, almost seven thousand homes destroyed. Now,
(02:14):
in any other world that I've ever existed in, and
I don't know how many other worlds I've lived in,
but somebody who makes such a catastrophic, stupid decision would
be fired, and should be indicted and charged seven hundred
(02:38):
and fifty thousand dollars. She gets she drains a reservoir,
a huge one, a gigantic one. If it's empty, it's impossible,
impossible to put out a wildfire. Instead, what Eric said
was a link to an l Time Times dot com page.
(03:02):
The fifth Annual Inspirational Women's Forum and Leadership Awards celebrating
women redefining leadership across Los Angeles. This exclusive event brought
together LA's top executives, entrepreneurs, and change makers, and they
handed out these awards and they gave one to Janice Keonez.
(03:27):
The Los Angeles Times gave an award to Janice Konez
for her accomplishments as a woman. No, really, it happened.
Keez got an award from the LA Times. They reported
(03:54):
how incompetent she was at draining the reservoir and not
filling it back up. They broke that story, they identified her,
and it wasn't that long ago. That was this year,
and now they decide she gets an award. Here's her
(04:15):
bio page at the LA Times. I hope you haven't
had lunch. Janise Conunias is a distinguished executive with over
twenty five years of leadership experience, currently serving as the
Chief executive officer and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power, the nation's largest publicly owned
(04:38):
water and power utility. Since her appointment in May of
twenty twenty four, she's led a workforce of nearly twelve
thousand employees in delivering get this safe, reliable water and
power to four million.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Residents and overcharging us.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Overcharging us, Well, somebody's got to pay the seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, So she takes over in May.
They had decided they were closing the reservoir in February.
By the way, the work to fix the cover took
(05:15):
a month and it wasn't that much money. But May, June, July, August, September, October, November,
December into January, reservoirs dry, ken unions never refilled. It,
never fixed, the cover, never refilled. The reservoir. Fire happens,
(05:41):
thousands of buildings destroyed, and twelve people die, literally die
in a fire. On top of that, she never had
the power turned off for parts of Palisades, and then
those wires crashed to the ground and started new fires,
(06:02):
and she gets an Inspirational Women's Leadership Award. Is everybody
insane or something happened to me? I'm thinking, I'm not
even on the air right now, that I went crazy,
and they put me in a booth to simulate a
(06:24):
radio studio, and I don't even know I'm not on
the air, but I'm actually in an insane asylum right now,
and they run video of view just to entertain on
this TV screen. No, this is real. I couldn't believe
it either.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
When Eric scented this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Did she see I thought it was I.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I don't understand. And you know the thing about this, Eric,
nobody nobody explains, Like there's nobody at the LA Times.
How can you look? I want to I thought their
fire coverage was really good. I've said that many times
and I still do. But how do you do that
kind of coverage? Pinpointing her major role in why the
(07:05):
fire wasn't put out at all until everything that could
burn burn they had, They had no water. Fire hydrants
were all dry. They had three one million gallon tanks
sitting in the hills there, and those ran dry I
think by early the first evening of the fire. And
(07:31):
then the one hundred and seventeen million gallon hole in
the ground. And I've driven there and I've seen it,
and it was a massive hole. In fact, there was
a second reservoir, much smaller, called the Chautauqua Reservoir that
was empty too, And I'll never forget. In the early
days of the fire, Rick Caruso came on and he said,
(07:51):
almost in passing the reservoirs were empty, and like I
noticed he said that, but there were so many other
things we were talking about, so he knew he knew
right away that the reservoirs are empty. A lot of
people in government must have known a lot of business people.
This astonishes me. I guess, of all the pieces of
(08:16):
this puzzle, this one astonishes me, you know, as much
as anything. How could you? How could you? Fire season?
Santana wins nine months of dry weather? How could she
do this? She's never apologized, she never talks about it.
(08:36):
We have one of our listeners who actually goes to
the meetings. I've seen, I've seen video of some of
the things. She never discusses it. And this is where
I start to question my sanity. And maybe that's the point.
The point is is there. They do not address reality
at all. They pretend that our reality never happened, and
(08:58):
so we go on talking about it, living with it,
reacting to it. After a while, it's like, I guess
I'm crazy. Maybe none of this really happened. Maybe when
I drive to the palace sides, maybe all the buildings
still are there and all the people are still walking
around and shopping. You see how you question your sanity
after a while.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I would love to have been in that meeting where
they made that decision to give her the award. Yes,
what did they say?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Who nominated her? Who said, you know, how about Janie Z?
And they go, oh, it's a great idea, and why
would you do this? Dude? You imagine everybody in the
Palisades right now, maybe right now they're hearing this for
the first time, their heads are exploding.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio. On social media at
John Cobelt Radio. Oh, and subscribe on YouTube. Right this
is new. We're putting up segments, not just short bits,
but we put a long segment that we had done
with Spencer prat YouTube dot com, slash at John Covelt's
(10:15):
show to subscribe YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt's show.
And they're putting on longer and longer segments, and the
rest of the social media is at John Cobelt Radio.
And you know, Spencer Pratt apparently really hit a nerve
with a lot of people in our audience. A tremendous
number of people watching, listening, commenting, And somebody's asking me,
(10:39):
it's like, why so many people following the Palisades story
since it just affects the residents in the Palisades. Everyone's
paying attention because if you listen to this show, certainly
and a lot of people beyond our little universe, everybody
(10:59):
knows that the government's lying to you all day and night.
Everything that's wrong in the city, in the state is
because of the selfish incompetence of government, specific people like
Newsom and Bass and Jennie Canonias and the rest of them.
And this confirms what we're experiencing in our life. The
(11:23):
homeless situation is the same thing stolen money. They lie constantly,
None of their projects ever improve things, nothing, And we
know we're being lied to. We know their numbers are fake.
Homeless numbers are fake, the crime numbers are fake. This
(11:45):
information coming about the fire are fake. This is all.
This is all provable stuff. You notice Nobody like Newsom
or Bass ever opens themselves up to a real interrogation
from a reporter or somebody from an opposing political party.
They don't have to. It's one party rule. And then
(12:05):
includes the media here. The media is either full progressive
or they're compliant. As Katie Grime says from California Globe,
they don't want to lose a seat at the table.
See most of the reporters and editors and producers, news directors.
They want access to these people, and if you criticize,
(12:28):
no more access. See all the politicians don't really need
the media so much anymore. They can have their own
social media channels to communicate their propaganda, in their lies.
Most of what comes out of Sacramento and Gavin Newsom's
mouth or lies in propaganda. Most of what comes out
of Karen bass Or lies in propaganda. And I think
(12:50):
everybody's onto it. And the Pacific Palisades story is a
perfect representation of everything that's wrong. You can apply what's
your se seeing and hearing to all the other issues
that are paralyzing life in California, Los Angeles. In competence,
lack of preparation, people taking money and stealing money, no accountability.
(13:15):
They don't even bother to comment, They don't even bother
to deny it anymore. They just keep lying because they
know there is a You know, we've got a lot
of double digit IQs in our state and triple digit
SAT scores like Newsome. Okay, if you have a lot
of people a triple digit SATs and double digit IQs,
(13:35):
it's not hard to fool people, not hard to whip
up their emotions, not hard to make them believe a
load of crap. And when there is not opposition, not
an oppositional party, doesn't exist in the state or in
the city, not an oppositional media, this is what you get.
(13:56):
And so that's why people are following the story. It
confirms everything they already know about why the city in
the state is what it is. These people are criminals
and abusive and they don't care about you. So this
was predictable. La Times. After a ten month review, California
(14:17):
officials concluded in a report that the water supply in
southern California was robust at the time of the fire,
that the water system isn't designed to handle such large
intense wildfires. That glides over the fact that it never
should have been a large intense wildfire had they just
put out the original fire on January first, and we
(14:41):
all know that story. And then they say that the
Santa Ynez Reservoir, which can hold one hundred and seventeen
million gallons of drinking water, was empty for repairs at
the time, but that it really didn't make a difference. Yeah,
(15:02):
really didn't matter. In fact, Ellen Chang write down this
woman's name, a spokeshole for the LA Department of Water
and Power, spokesperson for Genis Quinonias. The report confirms that
the Senianez Reservoir was offline to make necessary repairs, and
(15:23):
that issues with water pressure during the fire response were
due to the extraordinary demand on the system, not because
of the inadequate water supply. In other words, us not
filling the reservoir had nothing to do with the fire
doing so much damage. One hundred and seventeen million gallons
wouldn't have made a difference. That's the message that Ellen
(15:43):
Chang and this report is giving. So they just put
out their pile a horse crap. It's laying there in
front of us, steaming, and they walk away. Ellen Chang
turns away from her her computer screen. Out to her
publicity release. She sent out a quote satisfied the Times. Hey,
(16:04):
you know, can we get a quote? Oh? Here's my quote? Yeah,
one hundred and seventeen million gallons doesn't matter. Okay, God?
Is that good enough? Yeah? That's good enough. Thanks, all right,
we come back. I'll tell you how much one hundred
and seventeen million gallons is I went I went to
chet GPT there's a fascinating place, and to Grock and
(16:25):
to see I asked, could you quantify what one hundred
and seventeen million gallons are I'm going to do. I'm
going to read their response when we come back, and
then you decide whether it would have had an effect
on saving any homes of the fire. We'll do that next.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Right every day from one until four o'clock. After four o'clock,
John Cobelt's show on demand. That's the podcast, and we
had Spencer Pratt on listen to that. He's the reality
star who is the loudest, most effective activist for the
Palisades residents after the fire, and it was quite entertaining
(17:08):
and quite informative. So that's on the podcast, and you
could also watch a video of much of the interview
on YouTube at John Cobelt's show. We have our own
channel now. So this is utterly predictable. Newsom had ordered
an investigation into the Palisades fire, and so the investigation
from the Newsom administration says, well, one hundred and seventeen
(17:32):
million gallons that we're missing from the reservoir in the Palisades.
It didn't matter. You imagine that. So, you know, I
went to chet GPT to see if I could find
a quantifiable way to explain just how much water one
hundred and seventeen million gallons is right, because that's you know,
(17:54):
you tell somebody big numbers gets lost in people.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, but you're not great with that's very true if
I get to fifteen or sixty years, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Out there.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Okay, So now I'll read you these comparisons and then
ask yourself, Okay, would that have had an effect? And
think about it as to maybe how many houses it
would have put out? One hundred and seventeen million gowns?
How many Olympic sized swimming pools is that? That's one
hundred and seventy seven Olympic sized swimming pools.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, even if each swimming pool could put out a
fire to protect one house, might have one hundred and
seventy seven home saved. Right, I don't think that's unreasonable.
Daily water use of in a city that was one
hundred and seventy million gallons is enough water for a
(18:50):
city of one point four million people for one day.
Machine that one point four million people, about a third
of the city of Los Angeles. You think that would
have put out a few homes? What are tanker trucks? Now?
(19:11):
I like this one right now? You could visualize this right,
One hundred and seventeen million gallons is enough for nineteen thousand,
five hundred tanker trunks full of water? What nineteen thousand,
five hundred. Now, if we had a line of nineteen thousand,
five hundred water trucks leading to the Pacific Palisades, do
(19:34):
you think some of those trucks would have put out
a few.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
More than a few homes? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
All right? Look at it another way, If we had
nineteen thousand, five hundred tanker trunks trucks, it would have
been a line one hundred and forty eight miles long. Eric,
look up, what's one hundred and forty eight miles from
Los Angeles? And I'm doing this to show you that
(20:03):
the News of Administration and the Department of Order and
Power is simply full of steaming horse crap. You're telling
me a line of one hundred and forty eight miles
of tanker trunks trucks would have no effect on the
fire one hundred and forty eight miles.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
You want to know how far one hundred and forty
eight miles south of Los Angeles is? Yeah, en Sonata, Mexico. Okay,
Now visualize that on the four h five.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Imagine one hundred and forty eight miles of traffic leading
you all the way into en Sonata, Mexico. And probably
most days we have a traffic jam that that's close
to one hundred and forty eight miles. I mean, it's
all tanks full of water, no effect on the Palisades fire. Really,
(20:54):
tanker trucks from here to en Sonata. All right, how
about a football field analogy? A US football field is
fifty seven thousand, six hundred square feet, so one hundred
and seventeen million gallons is enough to cover an NFL
(21:19):
field with two hundred and seventy one feet of water,
almost as tall as a twenty five story building that
includes end zones, bathtubs, bathtubs eighty gallons, yeah, one and
a half million full bathtubs, one and a half million buckets.
(21:48):
Bet you a lot of people are throwing buckets of
water on the fire on their home, trying to beat
back the flames. Five gallon buckets? How much would you
get out of one hundred and seventeen million gallons? Twenty
three and a half million buckets? Would that have helped
maybe a little? So what you have here, And there's
(22:08):
a lot of agencies that were a part of this bogus,
ridiculous garbage study that they did this investigation. And you know,
somebody tell all this to Ellen Cheng, the spokeshole for
the LADWP.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Was anybody challenging this report?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean you are, I am, no, We're doing everything
by ourselves here, seriously.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I mean, because what you're saying, hopefully somebody else is
going to be picking up on this, what you're saying
and rolling with this, because this is insane.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It is inconceivable that if you took one hundred and
seventeen million gallons out of the water system and they're saying, well,
you know, the water system isn't designed to handle such
you know, this much water. I know for a fact,
live witnesses, people I know who said the problem was
(23:01):
there was a hundreds of higher fire hydrants that were broken.
There was no water coming out. Because they tried to
give this complicated explanation well, you wouldn't have the water pressure.
And they're also sticking to this lie that the reservoir
had to be closed to repair the terran It's cover. Now,
(23:25):
the reservoir was built in nineteen sixty four strictly for
fire purposes. You had that terrible bell Air fire of
nineteen sixty one, go look it up. It's in the
La Times. In fact, they did a retrospective article on it.
This year sixty one bell Air fire burned hundreds of homes.
Sixty four they built the reservoir. It was specifically and
(23:48):
you go back to the La Times story of nineteen
sixty four, specifically to deal with the fire. They claim, well,
you know, we had to change the cover, you know,
because regulations it was harmed the water supply. They never
needed it for the water supply. And you know what
the proof of that is the reservoir was closed for
(24:09):
a year. Do you remember, do you remember any emergencies
were people in the Palisades didn't have water, They couldn't shower,
they couldn't fill their pools, they had nothing to drink. No,
there was no water shortage in the Palisades for the
year that the reservoir was closed. None, It's a total lie. Lie.
(24:32):
Number one on this issue is the reservoir was built
for fire protection. Number two, it's not needed for drinking water.
Otherwise the Palisades would have been out of drinking water
that whole year. Number three, even if it had to
be fixed, it only took a month, and it only
cost one hundred and forty thousand dollars. And the depth
(24:56):
of the lies and the and the cover is incredible.
Ellen Cheng again spokeshole for LEDWP. The report confirms that
the Senianez Reservoir was offline to make necessary repairs. False.
And the issues with water pressure during the fire response
(25:16):
was to do the extraordinary demand on the system, not
the inadequate water supply. So I me guess one hundred
and seventeen million gallons going through the system would not
increase the water pressure. I imagine she typed out this
statement because if she said it live, somebody would anybody
contradict this nonsense. They keep using the phrase extraordinary demands.
(25:45):
And here's an idea, how about building a water system
that can handle wildfires? Have we had enough of them?
Why isn't our tax money being used to build a
modern age water system to handle wildfires.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Because our tax money is being used for other more
important things.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, like seventy thousand homeless people. What could we buy
with all the money we've spent on the people who
lay in the streets whacked out on meth and crack
and fent and il, leaving their bodily waste all over
the place, terrorizing people. We didn't spend the billions and
(26:27):
billions of dollars of that seventy thousand. What could we
do to protect the lives and property of the tens
of thousands of people in the Palisades? I I just
we are going to keep ath this though.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yes, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
So all right, you know Thanksgiving and there was this
Wall Street Journal article about how many people get stoned
during Thanksgiving dinner in order to handle their family. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not speaking from experience, but
I know what happens.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It's called the Cousin Walk. That's right. Did you see
this story?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
No, but I know about it. It's a social media thing.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Oh yeah, that's it says behold the Cousin Walk. And
I thought I never heard that. Half of the guests
are stoned, according to the headline, because you might notice
in the middle of dinner some family members go to
walk the dog or pick up ice or whatever other
euphemism is popular now, and people grab their coats, they
(27:41):
glance towards the door, so they have some of the
cousins go with them, and then they get stoned, and
then they come back and everybody's happy. And that's how
they deal with family tension.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And they are hungrier, right, so they can eat more turkey.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's right, more stuff or more tofu I guess in
your kids. Uh. Marijuana is now legal in forty states
for medicinal use and recreational use in more than half
of those. Not that that's ever mattered. Uh. It's also
(28:21):
known as the pre dinner safety meeting. And it's it's
so popular that you've heard of, you know, Black Friday.
There's now Green Wednesday. Apparently there's a huge surge in
pot sales on Wednesday, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. And I,
(28:43):
you know, I'd like to have a drink or two
if there's going to be a large group coming over. Yeah,
because I don't. I don't. I don't really enjoy being
around people. I know, well, why not both? Well, yeah,
I've never done that. Honestly, I've only had like a
few puffs of marijuana long time ago.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You're not a candidate to do both at the same time.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
And then I had that little present you.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Give me, Right, So I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
No, yeah, after the whole key to bacle earlier this week,
I don't know if that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
See, I don't. Yeah, I don't really need to mess
with my brain chemistry because I'm barely functional as is,
and I don't know whether all that would do. The
first rule of the Cousin Walker is we do not
discuss the cousin walk, said one writer. Like you, you
sneak out, you get stoned, you come back in, and
(29:33):
you just giggle with everybody, and the remaining guests find
out that they're a lot funnier and a lot more interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
By gets along with it very nicely.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, you know, if I read one more article about
people fighting about politics at Thanksgiving dinner, I mean, but.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
That's the number one thing people fight about these days.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Right, I just won't do it. I have an ironclad rule,
and I tell my wife this and everybody I said,
I don't discuss any of this at all. I just don't.
And sometimes I got and you know, they're all they're
very excitable, you know, usually about Trump. And I'll listen
to them, whether they're right wrong, whether they're infuriating, whatever
(30:10):
it is. I just have this smile plastered on my
face and I nod along, and I nod along, and
I wait until they run out of steam or venom
or whatever's motivating them, because I only think it in
my head. It's like, it really doesn't matter what you
think or what I think.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So what if they say, John, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I give a very careful political answer, depending on who
I'm dealing with, and to divert the conversation somewhere else
good because I just I don't want to do it.
First of all, I do this right, yeah, last people
think I want to talk about this when I don't
want to talk about this. All right, I already add
three hours. I got fifteen hours a week. I listen
to the podcast. You want to know what I think?
(30:50):
I don't have to do a show at Thanksgiving dinner,
unless maybe if I'm stoned, Bud. You see, the thing is,
let's if I start telling like the real truth, because
I'm like, I'm really bottled up inside. I know you
are very bottled up inside. And if I take some
substance that lets out what I'm really thinking.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
That's like you're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No. Yes, nobody wants to know what's going on in
my head all day. I mean, you get a little
slip of it here, and it's bad.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Enough, and I get some off the air too.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Right, it's not good, is it?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's okay?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
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