September 29, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (09/29) - Less than 10% of the burned down homes from the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Fires have permits to rebuild. More on how poor the evacuation alert system was during the fires in January. Illegal immigrants are decrying the conditions of ICE's largest detention center in California. Newsom lied again!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
A lot of good stuff today.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Our first hour, we went through Newsom still floundering because
he sold a big lie to the news media that
he was going to ban ICE agents from wearing masks,
and the media embarrassed themselves here in Los Angeles by
amplifying the big lie, and Bill Saley stuck it to
(00:36):
him saying, there's a memo out he's told everybody in
federal law enforcement to ignore Newsom and his mask band.
It's not a thing. It's known as a supremacy clause
federal law. Trump's your pardon the expression state law. And
(00:56):
he knewso claimed that he had no statistics to back
up the need for masks, and then Sally laid out
about eighty arrests that they've had so far, which is
far far above any other period in Ice history. Eighty arrests.
They've been violently attacked. So Newsomb really really got squashed
(01:21):
on that one. So you could listen to the whole
thing in the one o'clock hour on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
John Covelt Show on demand.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Now here's another big Newsom lie, a big Newsom and
Karen Bass lie. I don't know how many clips we
could play of Newsom and Bass saying that we are
going to streamline the permitting process, We're going to make
it faster than ever, We're going to remove all the roadblocks.
Blah blah blah blah. If their lips are moving, Bass
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and Newsom are lying. Well, the Los Angeles Daily News
has the truth. And this is easy to prove or disprove.
Like with Newsom's lie about no need for masks, it
was easy. There are eighty arrests and prosecutions on the
record that Bill a Sale has, and the same thing here.
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All the permits are part of a public record. In fact,
it's published on a public dashboard online by the government itself.
So there's two reporters, Michelle ma and John Gidtleson, and.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
He totals up all.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
The homes that burned in the Palisades and then the
ones that burned in Malibu and in Alta Dina. Let's
look just at the Palisades, about five thousand homes burned.
There have been one thousand, five hundred and sixty four
applications six hundred and twenty permits. So a lot of
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people haven't even applied for permits. But of those who
have applied, it looks like about sixty percent haven't got
their applications approved. Doesn't sound like a streamlined process here.
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You have barely over ten percent that have their permits.
And part of it is because Karen Bass allowed the
palisades to burn. It's caused a chain reaction, like a
domino effect, of so many terrible things that have happened.
It's very, very difficult for a lot of people to rebuild.
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They can't get to the permit application process because they
don't have the money. The insurance hasn't come through. Even
if the insurance is being paid, it's so little because
remember Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom didn't clear the brush
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in the palisades and they didn't fill the reservoirs. And
it looks like from what I'm hearing, the insurance companies
knew this and they started canceling policies last fall. Remember
there's a whole story about state farms canceling policies. Well,
they had done their own investigation and said, wow, this
place burns. There's no water and there's plenty of brush
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to burn because newsmen bashed into their job.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So they got out of there.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And these promises about streamlining the system are empty.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I'll give you some more facts here.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
According to La Daily News, let's look up Malibu, six
hundred homes burned. The city's issued two permits two two.
I get excited sometimes. They focused on one guy named
Andy Weyman. Andy's seventy three years old, and he said, well,
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he's a TV and stage director and he remodeled his
home five years before, and he had the blueprints in
hand with the same architect to oversee the reconstruction. But
now the city wants geological tests and this would have
been a Malibu to ensure the stability of his lot,
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which is up on a bluff. Construction costs are now
double his insurance coverage. And then in August his architect
died and Wayman says, we're flying to figure out the solution.
Every possibility is fraught with downsides and compromises, and Daily
News is rebuilding his inching forward and now the prices
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of lots are crashing, prices of burned out lots have
dropped as much as forty five percent in the Palisades.
In March they were much higher, but between March and
August they dropped forty five And the pace of sales
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is very slow, even if the prices are good. People
see all the problems in getting a house rebuilt. They
know they're not going to get a permit very quickly,
and they're they're a new buyer, so they may not
have the same plans and the same architect. Here's another one,
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Rich Wilkin. He's an architect. He lost his home the
Palisades after forty seven years, and he agreed to redesign
ten new houses for himself and friends. But he goes
to the LA Building Department and here's the real truth,
Karen and Gavin, the inspectors keep changing, he says, there's
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a changing cast of inspectors, and each inspector has a
different and conflicting opinion on his plans, and he keeps
having to submit and resubmit and resubmit, which costs a
lot of time and money. He says Karen Bass's Building Department,
their answers change every day.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Trump specked Bass and Newsom. He posted on social media
saying they have failed residents by allowing the area to burn.
That is correct, and they're holding back the building permits.
Newsom got all huffy and said that is a straight
up lie. Bass called it misinformation. She goes, I don't
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want Palacidians to lose hope. The hell are you talking about.
They lost hope. They lost hope the next day when
they realized you weren't here. The reservoirs were empty, the
fire department is way understaffed.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A lot of engines were busted.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh and by the way, Genie Kinonia is still running
the DWP and making seven dred and forty five thousand dollars.
Bass didn't he even have the good sense to fire
her ass. So no, it's not misinformation, it's not a
straight up lie. Numbers are numbers. Less than ten percent
of permits to rebuild. The price of these lots are
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crashing because word is out. It's difficult to get a permit.
The insurance coverage was terrible. All these A lot of
these people were thrown into the California Fair Plan, which
has a hard cap, and those homes in the Palisades
were much more expensive than that. Here's one more thing
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in Malibu, the Woolsey Fire twenty eighteen, four hundred and
eighty eight homes burned. We are now seven years later,
only forty percent have completed reconstruction forty percent. And after
that fire, and after those seven years, then Newsom and
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Bass reclaiming, Oh, we're going to cut the red tape.
If they're breathing their lying, it's just disgusting. All and
more coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
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Speaker 1 (09:42):
Okay, last segment, we told you that despite the lives
of Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, the permitting process is
very slow in the Palisades, in Malibu. In Altadena, less
than ten percent have permits to rebuild out of eleven
thousand homes destroyed, and many reasons for it. Apparently the
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Los Angeles Building Department is a complete disaster. One of
the architects who's trying to get ten designs approved, he said,
it's a constantly changing cast of inspectors. I don't know
if these guys, I mean, why would be a changing cast.
Usually these these people get a job and they have
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it for life, even if they suck at it. So
why would there be well, And he said, they all
offer conflicting opinions on his plans, so he's got to
constantly resubmit. Takes time, it takes money. So you know,
the predictable chaos in the vast administration. Boy, I really
(10:53):
I hope Trump just keeps beating on their heads and
embarrassing them. Honestly, you bring keep bringing the national just
to take over city Hall or the Marines or somebody.
Now here's another story. And no, we weren't gonna let
this slip by, even though they released it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
On the weekend. This is out of the la times.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
They tried to figure out why why the Alta Tina
the Alta Dina evacuation investigation. Remember we told you last
week assigned no blame for the for the botched emergency
warning system failing. Remember there were a lot of people
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who never got the warnings to leave the neighborhoods and
they died, like nineteen of them died because the fire
went through in the middle of the night and they
nobody was told to leave.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Nobody came and got them. And white people all over the.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
County were getting fake warn including us here at CAFI.
We were getting warnings to evacuate this building in Burnbank.
Everybody across the whole city was getting the whole thing.
The whole thing was a bust. And the fire department
and the Sheriff's department and the Emergency managed department. Nobody
was talking to each other. Nobody understood each other. And
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this was done by the Crystal Group, the Crystal Group,
and it had a big name general who owns the
consulting firm. But this, uh, this investigation did not detail
exactly who or what was responsible for the breakdown. The investigation,
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this is the after action report. We are oh, just
wait to the after action report. You gotta be paid on,
you know, the after action report. We'll answer these questions, Jess.
We'll be talking publicly when the after well, it came
in and it did not single out a single person
as to who was responsible for all all the botched
emergency reactions. The preparation stunk, The tactics they used stunk.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
There was no detailed explanation as Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Evacuation orders in West Altadena, where most of the deaths happened,
came hours after the fire was threatening the area. County
officials said it's an epic failure them Crystal Group. We
can't blame anybody here in particular. In fact, at the
beginning of the report, it's one hundred and thirty two
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pages of gas. This report does not investigate wrongdoing or
assigned blame. Then what's the point do you know? They
spent two million dollars The La County Supervisors spent two
million dollars out of report that didn't find anyone responsible
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for the botched evacuation plans and botched warnings. This isn't
even covering the botched firefighting performance. This doesn't even cover
the palisades or Malibum. This is just warning people in
Alta Dina that there's a fire, which maybe somebody should
have gotten a car in a car with a bullhorn
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and a siren and started screaming, get out of your homes,
Get out of your homes, fire coming fire. That would
have worked better than the billions and millions of dollars
they spent on the stupid system. Its purpose is to
assess the counties alert and evacuation systems while they stink
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they're broken. Catherine Barger represents Altadena. She called for the review,
saying questions have a risen about the evacuation process.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well, after reviewing the report, she said she was pleased
with the findings.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Says, it's an.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
In depth report that delivered a whole holistic picture of
what worked and what the oh holistic?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What the hell does that mean? Who screwed up?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Who had the bad plan, who had the bad execution,
Who created the software or who pressed the button that
sent warnings to all the wrong places? Who decided not
to warn the dead people in West Altadena. There is
no one smoking gun, she said, I know that's problematic
for people to understand. No, there's probably about twelve smoking guns.
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There's no question there were failures. Well who But there's
not one specific individual, No kidding. A lot of government
workers are bad at their job. Maybe there's ten, maybe
there's twenty, maybe there's one hundred and fifty, List them all,
fire them. There's not one specific department. No, there's not one.
There's many. At the end of the day, it was
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truly the perfect storm. No stop high behind that lame, cliched,
phony excuse of a phrase, that's nonsense.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Perfect storm.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
How about everybody failed at their job? Why did everybody fail?
Why did not one single person in government was able
to figure out a way to warn nineteen people in
Altadena that there was a fire coming, and it was
coming with a lot of warning, but people were sleeping
and they didn't know, and the warnings were going to
the wrong parts of the county. Somebody pressed that button,
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or somebody didn't press the button, or something with screwy
in the software. Well, who programmed the software? A lot
of people in Outadena says, well, this lets everybody avoid accountability.
Someone needs to take responsibility, and nobody does that because
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they want to protect their authorities, said Art Batarelly used
to work at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. He
was the Emergency services coordinator. Responsibility just gets you hurt,
so there's a tendency to avoid that. Yes, so we've
got a county full of cowards. It's it's the La
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County Fire Department, the La County Sheriff's Department, the County
Office of Emergency Management. Nobody was named, not even the
fire chief Anthony Morony. He must have done something wrong,
or the sheriff, Robert Luna, he must have done something wrong.
Or maybe they should say who are their underlings?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Screwed up?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And maybe all these people ought to be out a government.
So you wait eight months. They cough up one hundred
and thirty two pages, cost two million dollars and nobody
did anything bad. That's a lot of garbage. Well, maybe
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the lawsuits will force people to talk under oath. Nobody
should settle, at least they at least you wait until
all the depositions are taken when they have to tell
the truth.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
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Speaker 1 (18:16):
Another shop story in the El Segundo Times about illegal
aliens who are sitting at ice detention centers. They have
one in the Mahave Desert. It's it's a privately operated
detention center call run by a company called Coar Civic,
used to be a state prison in the Majave Desert.
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And they talk about how the men sleep in locked
cells every night. They're on bunk beds, they walk in
straight lines with their hands behind their back in their
razor wire enclosed yard. Guards carry handcuffs and pat them down,
their head counts, lockdowns, segregation units. And you know, it's
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the typical way that the Times presents these stories that
everyone is unfairly treated, unfairly suffering. The thing is inside
these facilities there are signs on the wall offering one
thousand dollars and you can go like because these people
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are resisting their deportations, which hardly anybody's going to succeed
at that. So if you're gonna if you're gonna be
here illegally, and you must have done something that that
tracked you down. Maybe you had a deportation order that
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you ignored. Maybe you committed some kind of crime somewhere
along the way, even a minor one is a reason
that you popped up on ICE's radar early on in
the game. Yeah, some people were just rounded up random.
But again, you're not supposed to be here. Go try
to do this in the other two hundred countries and
see how you get treated. El Salvador, for example. You
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want to go to that super Max and El Salvador,
and the thing is they all have a ticket to
get out. Uh, they'll that In fact, you they'll pay
you a thousand bucks to leave. Now you're getting a
cash offer and you refuse to leave, and then you
bitch about the accommodations.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The hell that's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You broke the law. We're offering to pay you and
you don't want to cooperate. I don't know where where's
the where's the room.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
For empathy here?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
So some of these guys, one hundred of them, are
staging hunger strikes, protesting poor conditions. Well now how's that
going to go. You're gonna stop eating? And then they
stop eating and they claim they're getting sick. Well, yeah,
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take the thousand dollars and they'll give you a bus
ride home or a flight home. It says, men with
psychiatric conditions who arrived last month complain they can't get
their medication. Oh great, you're here illegally and you have
a psychiatric condition like we haven't, Like we don't have
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enough Americans in the street with bad psychiatric conditions. Toilet's
backed up and sinks clogged for days? Can I tell
you prison sucks? You talk back, you're putting handcuffs and
punished with isolation. So don't talk back. This stuff is
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self explanatory. A five year old could figure it out. Again.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Here's one thousand dollars. We'll give you a ride.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
One hung striker was taken out in a stretcher after
coughing up blood. Maybe you should start eating, I can
solve all these problems. Some of these guys are convicted
felons and they're fighting their deportation. You have been deported already,
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you're fighting it. So you're sitting in a prison and
bitching about everything, and now you go on a hunger strike.
The spokeswoman for Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, says,
everybody receives soap. Nobody's locked in cells all day. No
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one in retaliation is put in solitary confinement. They're all
provided with proper meals, medical treatment, and opportunities communicate to
communicate with their lawyers. But some of the detainees say no, Well,
why would you believe the detainees. Those guys are are troublemakers.
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One detainee went on a hunger strike to protest, protest
the lack of medical care.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, that's not going to make you healthier.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
There's one complaining that there's no television, radio, or books,
so we got to buy a book. We got to
buy you a television. Jesus, what part of you're violating
the law? Don't these people understand I they're complaining that
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they're lonely. Take the thousand dollars you're not going to win.
It's over. It's not twenty twenty two anymore. We're not
going back to the Biden administration. It's over. And this
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is the law. This is fascinating. This is federal law.
I saw Tom Homan on I heard the audio because
he does all the TV appearances in the world. He
shows up everywhere all the time, day and night, and
he said what he told us on this show. He said, Look,
if you don't like what we're doing, that have Congress
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change the law. Congress changes the law, then we won't
do this. We're doing what we're required to do by
federal law. Bring it up with Congress if you object exactly.
There's nothing they're doing that isn't written, that doesn't the
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whole process is written down in law. The powers given
to Ice here are powers they have had for many decades,
and the executive branch, the president, has had this power.
It's been backed up over and over by the Supreme Court,
it's been ratified by Congress. You don't like it, you've
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got to change the people in charge, and then they
have to they have to destroy these laws. Now, I
would say that for a number of years, I know
for sure in the Obama administration, they had Democrats running
the House, the Senate, and they had the presidency. They
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didn't change any of the laws. Well there was your shot.
And in fact, you know, when Biden was president, he
had control of Congress, in the House and Senate. You
didn't change immigration law. They basically suspended immigration law, but
they didn't change what's written down. And any president could
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come in and reverse anything Biden did and be in
total conformity with the law. And they'd gone to federal
court a thousand times, they've gone to the Supreme Court,
and it's like, well, no, that that's what it says.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Why is it so hard to understand?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
And these immigrants, we're told not to come here, not
to come here, Okay, So they come here and they
get caught.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Here's a thousand dollars go No.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay, Oh I had go sit in the detention center
have a good time.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I just don't understand.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
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Speaker 1 (26:43):
Well, we're gonna finish the Newsom lie sandwich to close
out the show. We started with a Newsom lie where
he had said he had the authority to ban federal
ice agents from wearing masks.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
He does not.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
He claimed that there was no statistics offered by the
federal government that federal agents were being attacked.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
That's false.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Bill of sale went through laid out that there are
eighty prosecutions, eighty cases of vice agents being attacked and
that's why they need masks. In fact, there are three
women here in the LA area who are up on
federal charges for dosing the three agents and showing up
in their neighborhood and live streaming their federal crimes to
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make it easy to arrest them.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So knew some light about that.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
A little while ago, we told you about Newsom's why
about the permitting process for the fire victims being streamlined.
It has not been less than ten percent of people
whose homes burned have received permits.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Third Newsom why. He had promised that if Trump's federal
government got rid of the big tax break on electric
car purchases, that California would replace it. And there was
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this seventy five hundred dollars tax credit that you would
get if you bought an electric car. Well that's running
out on September thirtieth, So on September thirtieth. Electric vehicles
are going to be are going to cost it cost
seventy five hundred dollars more. And Newsom had said, well,
(28:36):
you know, we're going to cover that, and he had
said that repeatedly. He promised he would replace the federal
tax credit with a state tax credit.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
He lied.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
He says, we can't make up for the federal vandalism
of those tax credits.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Excuse me, that's.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Federal money, that's federal tax man, that's my money. Why
should my tax money go to subsidize some rich guy
buying a Tesla? Why should anybody's taxes go to subsidize
a rich guy buy to Tesla? The hell is that?
And then he calls it vandalism. He's so full of
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stinking crap. He says, we can't make up for the
subsidies that were eliminated under the federal program. He needs
legislative action. In November, his office published a news release
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saying Governor Knewso commits to restarting the electric car rebate
program if the federal tax credit is eliminated. Oh, he
was committed to doing it. Well, I guess not. He's
blaming the budget deficit. Oh hmm, Could that be the
thirty five billion dollars you spend on illegal aliens? Could
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that be the thirteen billion dollars you spend on illegal
alien healthcare? See if there's a choice between subsidizing illegal
aliens and subsidizing something that's going to benefit the climate,
Newsom chose the illegal aliens. Screw the climate. That was
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all for show anyway, he was just pretending it was performative. Wow,
three lives in one show, a beginning, of middle and
an end. The newsome Lye Sandwich. All right, we'll I
have more tomorrow. And you know tomorrow we're supposed to
have on the governor of Oklahoma. His name is Kevin Stitt,
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because he's coming to Los Angeles this week and along
with other oklahom the leaders, and he's going to be
speaking with business owners and manufacturers about moving their operations
to Oklahoma. Costs are lower, permitting is faster. Yeah, maybe
people in the Palisades should just rebuild your home in Oklahoma.
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You'll get it done in about five minutes. They have
a very pro business environment. Oklahoma is growing quickly, like
many states in this country. So we're going to have
the Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt, who looks like he's
the opposite of Gavenue some, gavenus some and puts companies
out of business. Kevin Stitt is trying to create a
(31:38):
great business climate for companies to thrive, and he wants
to get some California companies to move. So we'll do
that tomorrow. We've got Michael Krozer live in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
live on KFI Am six forty from one to four
pm every Monday through Friday, of course, anytime on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
A lot of good stuff today.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Our first hour, we went through Newsom still floundering because
he sold a big lie to the news media that
he was going to ban ICE agents from wearing masks,
and the media embarrassed themselves here in Los Angeles by
amplifying the big lie, and Bill Saley stuck it to
(00:36):
him saying, there's a memo out he's told everybody in
federal law enforcement to ignore Newsom and his mask band.
It's not a thing. It's known as a supremacy clause
federal law. Trump's your pardon the expression state law. And
(00:56):
he knewso claimed that he had no statistics to back
up the need for masks, and then Sally laid out
about eighty arrests that they've had so far, which is
far far above any other period in Ice history. Eighty arrests.
They've been violently attacked. So Newsomb really really got squashed
(01:21):
on that one. So you could listen to the whole
thing in the one o'clock hour on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
John Covelt Show on demand.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Now here's another big Newsom lie, a big Newsom and
Karen Bass lie. I don't know how many clips we
could play of Newsom and Bass saying that we are
going to streamline the permitting process, We're going to make
it faster than ever, We're going to remove all the roadblocks.
Blah blah blah blah. If their lips are moving, Bass
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and Newsom are lying. Well, the Los Angeles Daily News
has the truth. And this is easy to prove or disprove.
Like with Newsom's lie about no need for masks, it
was easy. There are eighty arrests and prosecutions on the
record that Bill a Sale has, and the same thing here.
(02:12):
All the permits are part of a public record. In fact,
it's published on a public dashboard online by the government itself.
So there's two reporters, Michelle ma and John Gidtleson, and.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
He totals up all.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
The homes that burned in the Palisades and then the
ones that burned in Malibu and in Alta Dina. Let's
look just at the Palisades, about five thousand homes burned.
There have been one thousand, five hundred and sixty four
applications six hundred and twenty permits. So a lot of
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people haven't even applied for permits. But of those who
have applied, it looks like about sixty percent haven't got
their applications approved. Doesn't sound like a streamlined process here.
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You have barely over ten percent that have their permits.
And part of it is because Karen Bass allowed the
palisades to burn. It's caused a chain reaction, like a
domino effect, of so many terrible things that have happened.
It's very, very difficult for a lot of people to rebuild.
(03:44):
They can't get to the permit application process because they
don't have the money. The insurance hasn't come through. Even
if the insurance is being paid, it's so little because
remember Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom didn't clear the brush
(04:07):
in the palisades and they didn't fill the reservoirs. And
it looks like from what I'm hearing, the insurance companies
knew this and they started canceling policies last fall. Remember
there's a whole story about state farms canceling policies. Well,
they had done their own investigation and said, wow, this
place burns. There's no water and there's plenty of brush
(04:31):
to burn because newsmen bashed into their job.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So they got out of there.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And these promises about streamlining the system are empty.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I'll give you some more facts here.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
According to La Daily News, let's look up Malibu, six
hundred homes burned. The city's issued two permits two two.
I get excited sometimes. They focused on one guy named
Andy Weyman. Andy's seventy three years old, and he said, well,
(05:15):
he's a TV and stage director and he remodeled his
home five years before, and he had the blueprints in
hand with the same architect to oversee the reconstruction. But
now the city wants geological tests and this would have
been a Malibu to ensure the stability of his lot,
(05:36):
which is up on a bluff. Construction costs are now
double his insurance coverage. And then in August his architect
died and Wayman says, we're flying to figure out the solution.
Every possibility is fraught with downsides and compromises, and Daily
News is rebuilding his inching forward and now the prices
(06:02):
of lots are crashing, prices of burned out lots have
dropped as much as forty five percent in the Palisades.
In March they were much higher, but between March and
August they dropped forty five And the pace of sales
(06:28):
is very slow, even if the prices are good. People
see all the problems in getting a house rebuilt. They
know they're not going to get a permit very quickly,
and they're they're a new buyer, so they may not
have the same plans and the same architect. Here's another one,
(06:56):
Rich Wilkin. He's an architect. He lost his home the
Palisades after forty seven years, and he agreed to redesign
ten new houses for himself and friends. But he goes
to the LA Building Department and here's the real truth,
Karen and Gavin, the inspectors keep changing, he says, there's
(07:16):
a changing cast of inspectors, and each inspector has a
different and conflicting opinion on his plans, and he keeps
having to submit and resubmit and resubmit, which costs a
lot of time and money. He says Karen Bass's Building Department,
their answers change every day.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Trump specked Bass and Newsom. He posted on social media
saying they have failed residents by allowing the area to burn.
That is correct, and they're holding back the building permits.
Newsom got all huffy and said that is a straight
up lie. Bass called it misinformation. She goes, I don't
(08:00):
want Palacidians to lose hope. The hell are you talking about.
They lost hope. They lost hope the next day when
they realized you weren't here. The reservoirs were empty, the
fire department is way understaffed.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A lot of engines were busted.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh and by the way, Genie Kinonia is still running
the DWP and making seven dred and forty five thousand dollars.
Bass didn't he even have the good sense to fire
her ass. So no, it's not misinformation, it's not a
straight up lie. Numbers are numbers. Less than ten percent
of permits to rebuild. The price of these lots are
(08:41):
crashing because word is out. It's difficult to get a permit.
The insurance coverage was terrible. All these A lot of
these people were thrown into the California Fair Plan, which
has a hard cap, and those homes in the Palisades
were much more expensive than that. Here's one more thing
(09:02):
in Malibu, the Woolsey Fire twenty eighteen, four hundred and
eighty eight homes burned. We are now seven years later,
only forty percent have completed reconstruction forty percent. And after
that fire, and after those seven years, then Newsom and
(09:25):
Bass reclaiming, Oh, we're going to cut the red tape.
If they're breathing their lying, it's just disgusting. All and
more coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Okay, last segment, we told you that despite the lives
of Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, the permitting process is
very slow in the Palisades, in Malibu. In Altadena, less
than ten percent have permits to rebuild out of eleven
thousand homes destroyed, and many reasons for it. Apparently the
(10:08):
Los Angeles Building Department is a complete disaster. One of
the architects who's trying to get ten designs approved, he said,
it's a constantly changing cast of inspectors. I don't know
if these guys, I mean, why would be a changing cast.
Usually these these people get a job and they have
(10:31):
it for life, even if they suck at it. So
why would there be well, And he said, they all
offer conflicting opinions on his plans, so he's got to
constantly resubmit. Takes time, it takes money. So you know,
the predictable chaos in the vast administration. Boy, I really
(10:53):
I hope Trump just keeps beating on their heads and
embarrassing them. Honestly, you bring keep bringing the national just
to take over city Hall or the Marines or somebody.
Now here's another story. And no, we weren't gonna let
this slip by, even though they released it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
On the weekend. This is out of the la times.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
They tried to figure out why why the Alta Tina
the Alta Dina evacuation investigation. Remember we told you last
week assigned no blame for the for the botched emergency
warning system failing. Remember there were a lot of people
(11:43):
who never got the warnings to leave the neighborhoods and
they died, like nineteen of them died because the fire
went through in the middle of the night and they
nobody was told to leave.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Nobody came and got them. And white people all over the.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
County were getting fake warn including us here at CAFI.
We were getting warnings to evacuate this building in Burnbank.
Everybody across the whole city was getting the whole thing.
The whole thing was a bust. And the fire department
and the Sheriff's department and the Emergency managed department. Nobody
was talking to each other. Nobody understood each other. And
(12:20):
this was done by the Crystal Group, the Crystal Group,
and it had a big name general who owns the
consulting firm. But this, uh, this investigation did not detail
exactly who or what was responsible for the breakdown. The investigation,
(12:45):
this is the after action report. We are oh, just
wait to the after action report. You gotta be paid on,
you know, the after action report. We'll answer these questions, Jess.
We'll be talking publicly when the after well, it came
in and it did not single out a single person
as to who was responsible for all all the botched
emergency reactions. The preparation stunk, The tactics they used stunk.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
There was no detailed explanation as Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Evacuation orders in West Altadena, where most of the deaths happened,
came hours after the fire was threatening the area. County
officials said it's an epic failure them Crystal Group. We
can't blame anybody here in particular. In fact, at the
beginning of the report, it's one hundred and thirty two
(13:36):
pages of gas. This report does not investigate wrongdoing or
assigned blame. Then what's the point do you know? They
spent two million dollars The La County Supervisors spent two
million dollars out of report that didn't find anyone responsible
(13:57):
for the botched evacuation plans and botched warnings. This isn't
even covering the botched firefighting performance. This doesn't even cover
the palisades or Malibum. This is just warning people in
Alta Dina that there's a fire, which maybe somebody should
have gotten a car in a car with a bullhorn
(14:19):
and a siren and started screaming, get out of your homes,
Get out of your homes, fire coming fire. That would
have worked better than the billions and millions of dollars
they spent on the stupid system. Its purpose is to
assess the counties alert and evacuation systems while they stink
(14:39):
they're broken. Catherine Barger represents Altadena. She called for the review,
saying questions have a risen about the evacuation process.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well, after reviewing the report, she said she was pleased
with the findings.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Says, it's an.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
In depth report that delivered a whole holistic picture of
what worked and what the oh holistic?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What the hell does that mean? Who screwed up?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Who had the bad plan, who had the bad execution,
Who created the software or who pressed the button that
sent warnings to all the wrong places? Who decided not
to warn the dead people in West Altadena. There is
no one smoking gun, she said, I know that's problematic
for people to understand. No, there's probably about twelve smoking guns.
(15:31):
There's no question there were failures. Well who But there's
not one specific individual, No kidding. A lot of government
workers are bad at their job. Maybe there's ten, maybe
there's twenty, maybe there's one hundred and fifty, List them all,
fire them. There's not one specific department. No, there's not one.
There's many. At the end of the day, it was
(15:56):
truly the perfect storm. No stop high behind that lame, cliched,
phony excuse of a phrase, that's nonsense.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Perfect storm.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
How about everybody failed at their job? Why did everybody fail?
Why did not one single person in government was able
to figure out a way to warn nineteen people in
Altadena that there was a fire coming, and it was
coming with a lot of warning, but people were sleeping
and they didn't know, and the warnings were going to
the wrong parts of the county. Somebody pressed that button,
(16:33):
or somebody didn't press the button, or something with screwy
in the software. Well, who programmed the software? A lot
of people in Outadena says, well, this lets everybody avoid accountability.
Someone needs to take responsibility, and nobody does that because
(16:55):
they want to protect their authorities, said Art Batarelly used
to work at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. He
was the Emergency services coordinator. Responsibility just gets you hurt,
so there's a tendency to avoid that. Yes, so we've
got a county full of cowards. It's it's the La
(17:18):
County Fire Department, the La County Sheriff's Department, the County
Office of Emergency Management. Nobody was named, not even the
fire chief Anthony Morony. He must have done something wrong,
or the sheriff, Robert Luna, he must have done something wrong.
Or maybe they should say who are their underlings?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Screwed up?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And maybe all these people ought to be out a government.
So you wait eight months. They cough up one hundred
and thirty two pages, cost two million dollars and nobody
did anything bad. That's a lot of garbage. Well, maybe
(17:57):
the lawsuits will force people to talk under oath. Nobody
should settle, at least they at least you wait until
all the depositions are taken when they have to tell
the truth.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You're listening to John Kobel's on Demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Another shop story in the El Segundo Times about illegal
aliens who are sitting at ice detention centers. They have
one in the Mahave Desert. It's it's a privately operated
detention center call run by a company called Coar Civic,
used to be a state prison in the Majave Desert.
(18:37):
And they talk about how the men sleep in locked
cells every night. They're on bunk beds, they walk in
straight lines with their hands behind their back in their
razor wire enclosed yard. Guards carry handcuffs and pat them down,
their head counts, lockdowns, segregation units. And you know, it's
(19:02):
the typical way that the Times presents these stories that
everyone is unfairly treated, unfairly suffering. The thing is inside
these facilities there are signs on the wall offering one
thousand dollars and you can go like because these people
(19:24):
are resisting their deportations, which hardly anybody's going to succeed
at that. So if you're gonna if you're gonna be
here illegally, and you must have done something that that
tracked you down. Maybe you had a deportation order that
(19:47):
you ignored. Maybe you committed some kind of crime somewhere
along the way, even a minor one is a reason
that you popped up on ICE's radar early on in
the game. Yeah, some people were just rounded up random.
But again, you're not supposed to be here. Go try
to do this in the other two hundred countries and
see how you get treated. El Salvador, for example. You
(20:09):
want to go to that super Max and El Salvador,
and the thing is they all have a ticket to
get out. Uh, they'll that In fact, you they'll pay
you a thousand bucks to leave. Now you're getting a
cash offer and you refuse to leave, and then you
bitch about the accommodations.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The hell that's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You broke the law. We're offering to pay you and
you don't want to cooperate. I don't know where where's
the where's the room.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
For empathy here?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
So some of these guys, one hundred of them, are
staging hunger strikes, protesting poor conditions. Well now how's that
going to go. You're gonna stop eating? And then they
stop eating and they claim they're getting sick. Well, yeah,
(21:03):
take the thousand dollars and they'll give you a bus
ride home or a flight home. It says, men with
psychiatric conditions who arrived last month complain they can't get
their medication. Oh great, you're here illegally and you have
a psychiatric condition like we haven't, Like we don't have
(21:27):
enough Americans in the street with bad psychiatric conditions. Toilet's
backed up and sinks clogged for days? Can I tell
you prison sucks? You talk back, you're putting handcuffs and
punished with isolation. So don't talk back. This stuff is
(21:49):
self explanatory. A five year old could figure it out. Again.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Here's one thousand dollars. We'll give you a ride.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
One hung striker was taken out in a stretcher after
coughing up blood. Maybe you should start eating, I can
solve all these problems. Some of these guys are convicted
felons and they're fighting their deportation. You have been deported already,
(22:24):
you're fighting it. So you're sitting in a prison and
bitching about everything, and now you go on a hunger strike.
The spokeswoman for Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, says,
everybody receives soap. Nobody's locked in cells all day. No
(22:47):
one in retaliation is put in solitary confinement. They're all
provided with proper meals, medical treatment, and opportunities communicate to
communicate with their lawyers. But some of the detainees say no, Well,
why would you believe the detainees. Those guys are are troublemakers.
(23:11):
One detainee went on a hunger strike to protest, protest
the lack of medical care.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, that's not going to make you healthier.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
There's one complaining that there's no television, radio, or books,
so we got to buy a book. We got to
buy you a television. Jesus, what part of you're violating
the law? Don't these people understand I they're complaining that
(23:49):
they're lonely. Take the thousand dollars you're not going to win.
It's over. It's not twenty twenty two anymore. We're not
going back to the Biden administration. It's over. And this
(24:10):
is the law. This is fascinating. This is federal law.
I saw Tom Homan on I heard the audio because
he does all the TV appearances in the world. He
shows up everywhere all the time, day and night, and
he said what he told us on this show. He said, Look,
if you don't like what we're doing, that have Congress
(24:35):
change the law. Congress changes the law, then we won't
do this. We're doing what we're required to do by
federal law. Bring it up with Congress if you object exactly.
There's nothing they're doing that isn't written, that doesn't the
(24:59):
whole process is written down in law. The powers given
to Ice here are powers they have had for many decades,
and the executive branch, the president, has had this power.
It's been backed up over and over by the Supreme Court,
it's been ratified by Congress. You don't like it, you've
(25:19):
got to change the people in charge, and then they
have to they have to destroy these laws. Now, I
would say that for a number of years, I know
for sure in the Obama administration, they had Democrats running
the House, the Senate, and they had the presidency. They
(25:39):
didn't change any of the laws. Well there was your shot.
And in fact, you know, when Biden was president, he
had control of Congress, in the House and Senate. You
didn't change immigration law. They basically suspended immigration law, but
they didn't change what's written down. And any president could
(26:03):
come in and reverse anything Biden did and be in
total conformity with the law. And they'd gone to federal
court a thousand times, they've gone to the Supreme Court,
and it's like, well, no, that that's what it says.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Why is it so hard to understand?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
And these immigrants, we're told not to come here, not
to come here, Okay, So they come here and they
get caught.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Here's a thousand dollars go No.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay, Oh I had go sit in the detention center
have a good time.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I just don't understand.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Well, we're gonna finish the Newsom lie sandwich to close
out the show. We started with a Newsom lie where
he had said he had the authority to ban federal
ice agents from wearing masks.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
He does not.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
He claimed that there was no statistics offered by the
federal government that federal agents were being attacked.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
That's false.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Bill of sale went through laid out that there are
eighty prosecutions, eighty cases of vice agents being attacked and
that's why they need masks. In fact, there are three
women here in the LA area who are up on
federal charges for dosing the three agents and showing up
in their neighborhood and live streaming their federal crimes to
(27:33):
make it easy to arrest them.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So knew some light about that.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
A little while ago, we told you about Newsom's why
about the permitting process for the fire victims being streamlined.
It has not been less than ten percent of people
whose homes burned have received permits.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Third Newsom why. He had promised that if Trump's federal
government got rid of the big tax break on electric
car purchases, that California would replace it. And there was
(28:14):
this seventy five hundred dollars tax credit that you would
get if you bought an electric car. Well that's running
out on September thirtieth, So on September thirtieth. Electric vehicles
are going to be are going to cost it cost
seventy five hundred dollars more. And Newsom had said, well,
(28:36):
you know, we're going to cover that, and he had
said that repeatedly. He promised he would replace the federal
tax credit with a state tax credit.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
He lied.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
He says, we can't make up for the federal vandalism
of those tax credits.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Excuse me, that's.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Federal money, that's federal tax man, that's my money. Why
should my tax money go to subsidize some rich guy
buying a Tesla? Why should anybody's taxes go to subsidize
a rich guy buy to Tesla? The hell is that?
And then he calls it vandalism. He's so full of
(29:23):
stinking crap. He says, we can't make up for the
subsidies that were eliminated under the federal program. He needs
legislative action. In November, his office published a news release
(29:47):
saying Governor Knewso commits to restarting the electric car rebate
program if the federal tax credit is eliminated. Oh, he
was committed to doing it. Well, I guess not. He's
blaming the budget deficit. Oh hmm, Could that be the
thirty five billion dollars you spend on illegal aliens? Could
(30:10):
that be the thirteen billion dollars you spend on illegal
alien healthcare? See if there's a choice between subsidizing illegal
aliens and subsidizing something that's going to benefit the climate,
Newsom chose the illegal aliens. Screw the climate. That was
(30:31):
all for show anyway, he was just pretending it was performative. Wow,
three lives in one show, a beginning, of middle and
an end. The newsome Lye Sandwich. All right, we'll I
have more tomorrow. And you know tomorrow we're supposed to
have on the governor of Oklahoma. His name is Kevin Stitt,
(30:55):
because he's coming to Los Angeles this week and along
with other oklahom the leaders, and he's going to be
speaking with business owners and manufacturers about moving their operations
to Oklahoma. Costs are lower, permitting is faster. Yeah, maybe
people in the Palisades should just rebuild your home in Oklahoma.
(31:15):
You'll get it done in about five minutes. They have
a very pro business environment. Oklahoma is growing quickly, like
many states in this country. So we're going to have
the Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt, who looks like he's
the opposite of Gavenue some, gavenus some and puts companies
out of business. Kevin Stitt is trying to create a
(31:38):
great business climate for companies to thrive, and he wants
to get some California companies to move. So we'll do
that tomorrow. We've got Michael Krozer live in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
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(32:01):
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