November 20, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (11/20) - More on the arrest of Gov. Newsom's former chief of staff Dana Williamson and the investigation into stolen campaign funds from Xavier Becerra. Jeffrey Epstein reportedly had an "egg-shaped" penis. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about LAFD Chief Jaime Moore after his first few days in his new position.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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And this is a day and I always say this
all the time, but we are really packed today two
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o'clock we're gonna have Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff
who is one of the top candidates to run for governor.
Chad Bianco coming on after two o'clock. After three o'clock,
Spencer Pratt, the reality television star who has become the
leading and most effective spokesperson publicly fighting all the idiocy
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from Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass's administrations. And he's living
through it along with the rest of the Palisades residents.
He lost his house as well, and he is putting
out constant social media videos and commentary on what's really
going on. And so we're going to get Spencer Pratt
on three o'clock hour. You want to be listening to
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that because he doesn't pull any punches at all, He
really lays it out.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Also coming up in a half an hour, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Michael Monks, he's got some interesting stuff on this new
LA fire chief Heimi Moore. This is day four and
rather than explain why his fire department didn't put out
the fire properly last January in the Palisades, he's angry
with the media, claiming that the media is smearing his firefighters,
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and I suppose that includes us here. I guess we're
part of the smear, although the media is actually just
reporting what his own firefighters have texted about what happened
after the January first blaze. And then you have an
open letter by a number of fire officials who wrote
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it publicly to give it to Channel seven and gave
it to city council people and Karen Bass. So it's
it's his firefighters who are telling the truth about what
went on, and he's accusing the media of a smear campaign.
It's just classic political garbage. So it didn't take him long.
(02:16):
So that would be boy. Karen Bass just cannot hire
anybody who's competent and honest. It's just one garbage pick
after another. And oh, by the way, Jenise Kenonians is
still making seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars um. All right, now,
let's get to the other one, the other buffoon up
in Sacramento. Now he's being he's under siege, Gavin Newsom
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because his chief of staff was arrested by the FBI
last week. And the FBI said that she's being charged
with federal crimes. That she paired up with a couple
of other Sacramento insiders to steal two hundred and twenty
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five thousand dollars from a political campaign account belonging to
the former Attorney General, Javier Bssera, who's now running for governor,
two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, and she helped
facilitate the theft and pocketed some of the money. Well,
we've got some audio to play for you because her
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her teammates are also in legal trouble. One of those
teammates is Sean McCluskey. Sean McCluskey was the chief of
staff for Xavier Besara. So McCluskey, with the help of
David Williamston, stole the money from Sarah's campaign fund and
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thundled it to his wife who had some fake no
show job. That's what they put on the paperwork. So
CASEYRA Channel three reporter Ashley Zavala and San in Sacramento,
again the only reporter in the entire state covering all
the corruption up there, confronted Sean McCluskey outside the courthouse.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Shawn, is there anything you can share with us now
that you've pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire in
bank fraudster? Mister mclusky, is.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
There anything that you have to say?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Anything you have to say to mister Bassa, Mister McClusky,
is there anything you have to say at this point?
Mister mcluskey, should other government officials be concerned?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You pulled it a gup punch any response wire in
bank fraud federal charges? He pleaded guilty, So if he's guilty,
then Dana Williamson, the former chief of staff who Gavin Newsom,
is probably also guilty. And there's a third person involved
in this, a lobbyist named Greg Campbell, and he was
charged in this federal investigation. He was involved in stealing
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Can't Paign money from Xavier Bessera's account. And this is
CACRA Channel three anchor Curtis Ming reporting what happened in.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Court today was the next step in their cases.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Both men pled not guilty, but as we've reported, they
have both signed plea agreements.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
With the US Attorney.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
This is our first time we've seen them since the
arrest of the former chief of staff to Governor Newsom
and also a co conspirator in this case. Dana Williamson,
faces charges including fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and making
false statements. Greg Campbell, a longtime political operative, is facing
two federal conspiracy charges. According to court documents, Williamson started
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paying ten thousand dollars a month to company C controlled
by Campbell. The company then used a payroll services provider
to pay ten thousand dollars into a bank account and
controlled by Sean McCluskey, the former chief of staff for
Javier Bussera, targeting Bassara's campaign funds after he entered federal office.
The payments were disguised as income to his wife or
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work supposedly done for Williamson the document site.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
McCluskey faces one charge of conspiracy.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Today, both men waive their right to a grand jury indictment,
and they were released with several conditions, including surrendering their passports,
no contact with co conspirators or the witnesses or anyone
tied to related cases.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Can you respond and tell us we're not going to
be making any more comments in the same thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Our crew tried speaking with both men only. Greg Campbell's
attorney made a comment.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I know Greg Campbell to be an honorable former public servant,
a respected and positive member of the community, who has
handled himself with great integrator integrity during these deeply troubling times.
Mister Campbell takes full accountability for his actions and is
cooperating fully with the legal process. Because the case is ongoing,
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mister Campbell does not intend to make any further public
comments at this time.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Today's hearing is the first step in their cases.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Both men will be in court again on separate dates
for a change of plea hearing, where they are expected
to plead guilty they're The judge would then sign off
on the plea deal well. Klusky and Campbell both have
time eyes to the governor's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson.
She appeared in court Wednesday and is accused of conspiring
to steal two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from
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a dormant political campaign for javiy Or Basera, the former
Health and Human Services secretary. She faces twenty three charges.
She put it not guilty.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Okay, now this is funny.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Gavin Newsom released this statement finally on the Dana Williamson arrest.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
When din'd she get arrested? It was like a week ago,
wasn't it. We could go Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Maybe he was off in Brazil prancing and preening at
at the climate change conference, right, and he was submitting
videos from the Amazon rainforest. All kinds of nonsense. Meantime,
do you know that dozens of people in his administration
had all had their phone conversations, text messages and emails
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intercepted by the FBI for several months as part of
this overall investigation and everybody's freaking out in his administration,
in addition to other people in the Sacramento political orbit,
So his whole staff knows that months and months of
what they thought were private text conversations, phone conversations, email
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conversations are now in the hands of the FBI. By
the way, this all started under Joe Biden. This goes
back to twenty twenty two, and that's important. As you
listened to newsome statement, my first reaction was real shock
and deep concern the seriousness of the allegation, the impact
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on Dani's children, and whether the Trump administration had politicized this. No,
you big stinking liar. This investigation started and progressed under
the Joe Biden administration. When they told Dana Williamson that
she was the target, it was November twenty twenty four,
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Biden was president.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So the first line a Newsome statement is a lie.
He goes on.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
We were first made aware of this investigation almost a
year ago, and the moment I learned of it, my
legal team and I placed her on leave while hoping
it would be appropriately resolved. I wasn't privy to any
details as it unfolded. And this is not the kind
of thing I'm used to seeing in public service.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
WHOA, where's the laugh track on that?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Newsom is not used to seeing corruption in public service.
I hold our team to very high standards of ethics
and accountability, and I'm still processing the serious the seriousness
of the allegations.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
What a buffoon he has taken.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Just for one example, so much money from PG and
E to give him sweetheart deals after they killed all
those people and burned down that town in northern California.
His wife takes huge amounts of money from PG and
E to finance her annoying feminism films. That's all corruption,
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but they find some legal loophole for it. That's new
some statement when we come back. We had a lot
of penis talk this week, but because there's been a
number of high profile figures over the years and it's
come out in the news that they had damaged penises
which might explain their weird sexual or violent behavior. Among those,
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Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton Hitler, the Golden State killer who
killed I think twenty six people. And now we have
another name added to the list, Marquee name. He's in
the news all this week.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
We'll tell you they'd be embarrassed, John, and they wouldn't
want to be showing it off.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But that's certainly not the case.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, exactly if I had like what these guys had, Huh,
you wouldn't see me come out of my house.
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Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You and I had a conversation this week. I don't
know why this has been the week of penis.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
To talk, But I don't know, John, why.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It could be a new podcast idea for us. You know,
we were talking about famous people who got involved in
either who were either extremely violent or got involved into
weird sexual situations. And the story just this week was
that Hitler had a very tiny penis. I don't know
if that explains World War two. But Harvey Weinstein was
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who all know has some damage, deformed, gnarled up thing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You could see what happened with him.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Bill Clinton bent like a banana sharply to the left.
These are terrible medical conditions, so terrible, yeah, and it
makes it makes men so craze that bad things happen.
Then the Golden State Killer, the guy who not only
committed a lot of murders but also rapes, And there
(12:23):
was a book by the Sacramento DA that just came
out this week that said he had a micro penis.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It was two inches.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And uh the Sacramento D eight Uh theme ho I
think his name is actually had one of his staff
members go and measure it. So this is this is
This is not gossips, this is not silacious. This was
an actual no, no, no, no, deadly serious all right.
(12:53):
New York Post has a story out that Jeffrey Epstein
he's got he's got a serious problem as well. He
apparently has a very small egg shaped penis. It's apparently
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it looks like a lemon.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
H it looks like a lemon.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It looks like a lemon or an egg. Okay, but
and it's really small.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I mean, is that before or after?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I I don't know what happens when it's getting enraged.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Now this also is a real thing, because I would
play you this clip and I can't believe this is real.
But I saw the video myself. Epstein was getting deposed
back in two thousand and nine after a number of
girls way back then said he was doing he was
doing bad things, and an attorney asks Epstein on this
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recording about his deformed member listen.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Could you please give us your name, Jeffrey Epstein. Is
it true, sir, that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You have what's been described as an egg shaped penis?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Form?
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Vague, indefinite and I'm going to.
Speaker 11 (14:21):
Give you this.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
This is his attorney in.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Mister Cuban that these types of questions are not only argumented,
it but directing and a manager embarrassed, mister Epstein, if
you continue with this type of question, I would join
the deposition immediately.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So his attorney stepped in. Yes, said enough of this.
Apparently the opposing attorney got one more in one wit
is described your penis this is an exact quote as
oval shaped.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It was thick.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Towards the bottom, but thin and small towards the head portion,
and called it egg shaped. Then Epstein's attorney abruptly ends
the interview and Epstein tore off his microphone.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Well, he was embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You got to see the look on his face.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
I can only imagine it's like, oh, I guess how
would you feel?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I can't believe you're bringing this up. Hey, Epstein, you're
the one who's molesting these girls. Okay, you've got you.
You don't have the moral high road here, And one
of his victims. Rina Oh has come out publicly to
confirm this. She told Tina Brown, who's a former magazine
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editor now has a substack a page. Oh told Tina
Brown that the predator had quote an extremely deformed penis
shape like a lemon. Oh said, some people have described
it as the shape of an egg. I think it
was more the shape of a lemon. And it was
really small when it was fully erect, it was probably
(15:49):
like two inches. Okay, so a two inch lemon, your turn.
I'm just reading the test.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
No.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
I just again, I said the same thing about the
Golden State killer. I mean, if it's too if it's
two inches two inches, how does it you know, how
do you rate people with the two inch penis? Is
what I'm delicately trying to say.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, well, yeah that.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I'm just spitting it out.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It's better to go blunt. I don't know. I guess
other things went on.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Or you know, there were well I mean, I mean,
you could sexually assault somebody with any kind of implement
or instrument, no, I know.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
But doing it with the two inch weren't they doing
it with these two inches?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I never read that deeply into the cases. And I
don't know if there's even a public record on that stuff,
but you know, that's what AI is for.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yes, I put it in. I think Eric's doing that
right now.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But I didn't notice. And one thing that stuck in
my head, I didn't know what it meant was all
the Epstein stories were about his his com pulse of
need for massages. Yeah you know, and you know, regular
massages and then special massages, and it might be that
was the only way that he could enjoy act and
get any play.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I'm just back to being blunts. It's too hard to
think of other ways, you.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Know, now that there's no rules anything exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Who's gonna what's anybody gonna say?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
This guy could bring the presidency down? Okay, it's sat.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
So why is it that all these guys with these
wacky penises do these things?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Again, I go back to my other question.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
I would think they'd be embarrassed and they wouldn't want
anybody to look at it, unless they feel so powerful
that they have to force people to.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I would if I had a lemon, if I had
what was the other thing, an egg? An egg, a lemon.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I'm two inches, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'm not leaving my room.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I'm growing up in my mother's ass I'm that's Ferry.
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After three o'clock, Spencer Pratt, the reality television star who
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has really made a name for himself as being the
leading advocate for Palisades residents who've been screwed over by
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And he's been fighting a one man fight, largely for
social media, has been extremely effective at it. And we're
going to have him on coming up after two. But
first Michael Monks is coming up to bat here. Michael
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has been covering the new fire chief, Haimi Moore, who
it's only day four and he's drawing a lot of
attention because he's angry with the media, saying that we're
all schmearing as firefighters when the media I see is
just reporting the words of his firefighters.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
It's been a very strange turn of events since last Friday.
So not even a week after the city Council voted
to approve Maribas's recommendation of Hi Maymor to be the
new chief of the fire department, last Friday, he's in
front of the council and he's talking about the need
to rebuild public trust.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
In fact, here's exactly what he said.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
They work tirelessly, often under unbearable conditions to protect lives, homes,
and our communities. They're bravery and professionalism or a reminder
of what this department is all about. I want them
to know that I see them, I stand with them,
and I will continue to stand up for them. At
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the same time, I recognize that we're at a crossroads,
not only for our department, but for public trust. The
media attention following the January wildfires has raised real concerns,
both within our ranks and across our city. I understand
these concerns. I believe that addressing them openly and honestly
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is essential for restoring confidence.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
In our leadership.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's why I fully support Mayor Bass's request for a
thorough independent investigation into the department's response to the Lachman's fire.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
The key words and what he said there, John, We're
at a crossroads. We need to regain the public trust,
real concerns raised by the recent media reporting about the
Lockman fire, which is believed to have led to the
Palisades fire because it was not entirely extinguished, and he
wants to address those concerns. He also name drops Mayor
Bass as if to suggest, I'm on her team here.
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This is a new day for the LAFD. It's not
a fire chief who is combating with her. That was
before the city council voted to affirm his nomination and
now he is the police chief. Tuesday, just a couple
days ago, and three days after that meeting, he's at
his first LA Fire Commission meeting as the chief, and
this is what he said.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Something that's been very frustrating for me as fire chief
and through this process is to watch my friends in
the media samear our name and the work that our
firefighters did to combat one of the most intense fires,
the Palisades, the wind driven monstrosity that it was that
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devastated a.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Community in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And our firefighters stood out there under these horrendous conditions
fighting those fires, chasing flames as they were going three
miles down wind, trying to save people and save their homes.
And the audacity for people to make comments and say
that there's text messages out there that says that we
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did not put the fire out, that we did not
extinguish the fire. Yet I have yet to see any
of those text messages.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
If the reservoir in the Palisades is ever empty again,
those water works might come in hand.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
That was was he really crying? There?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Was just completely choked up.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What the hell?
Speaker 11 (22:11):
So what do you think text messages are coming from
his firefighters. He went from saying we're at a crossroads,
let's regain public trust. There are real concerns with the
media reports, let's address them, let's get the review, to
saying it's a smear. The audacity of the media to
report this. He basically went from saying, let's get to
the bottom of this to saying fake news.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And he does a little slick slide of hand there.
People are primarily upset with fire department management, whoever made
the decision to pull the firefighters from the Lockman fire
the day after the blaze. Kristin Crowley for not sending
a strike team pre deployed the night before the fire
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broke out, because we had all these terrible warnings knowing
there was an old fire that could be rekindled, not
having the fire trucks there, not have the personnel assign
sending the personnel home that morning instead of keeping him
for a second shift. Those are all management issues. You're
not the only one to raise Kristin Crowley's name. Former
LA Union president Freddi Escobar, is still an active firefighter,
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was also at this meeting on Tuesday, and here's what
he said.
Speaker 12 (23:18):
With everything going on regarding the Lochman fire in the media,
I'd be remiss if I didn't address the obvious Our
members fear speaking up. That's probably why there's no signature
on that letter. Chief Crowley told the truth and she
was fired. I told the truth and I was removed
from office. I stand with the men and women of
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the LAFD. I will be their voice. No one's gonna
bully me around zero, but the men and women of
the LAFD today are scared to speak up and that
should be volume to everybody here. Why are they scared?
The mayor and the city council members have provided a
culture that if you speak up and you tell the truth,
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you're going to be removed, and that is wrong.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
That is Freddie Escobar who says he was removed from
office for speaking the truth. Let's keep in mind that,
according to reports, he was removed and suspended as president
of the union over allegations of financial mismanagement within the union.
But he says there's a culture of fear. So it
looks as though Chief Himate Moore has inherited a bit
of disarray.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Right, But it seems he's taken the side of Karen Bass,
who the firefighters say is responsible for firing Crowley for
telling the truth, demoting Escobar for telling the truth. And
you have these firefighters with these text messages that have
been around since January January second and now suddenly in
(24:42):
November or October November they came to light through the
La Times. There's something here, I believe. Yes, there's a
lot of firefighters who know a lot of terrible, damaging
stories about fire management.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And they're afraid to speak.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
But what happened between Friday and Tuesday, where he was
all about calling for transparency to calling this fake news,
basically talking in support of the mayor on Friday very openly,
I support the mayor's process here to being very defensive
on behalf of the rank and file firefighters.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So I just thought that that was curious.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, because nothing about the story has changed, and I
don't know if somebody's actually going to produce the texts,
but I believe they're real. The Times is stood by
that story for weeks and weeks now. He was asked,
they must have seen it. I'm assuming the Times reporters
saw the text.
Speaker 11 (25:32):
That's right, Yes, they saw the text, right, Okay, they
claim that they are verified that these are real. These
exist in fact on Friday, I don't have this particular
clip to share, but when the chief was before the
city council, councilman current Price, who's also got his own
problems going on right now, asked directly about the articles
in the La Times, and this chief said, they're concerning
(25:54):
what changed. Yeah, And then you have that state representative
from the California Parks Department, and she there's photographic evidence
and record written record evidence that she showed up and
was bossing around those firefighters the day after the January
first fire, a tangled web.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
So there's a lot of dirt there and a lot
of people know stuff, and we're going to keep beating
it out of them. Indeed, fact, you go out there,
I've got my bat ready to go continue beating, all right,
because now, all right, he's thrown down the gauntlet here. Yeah, okay,
he thinks we're smearing him. Listen, anything we find out
through whatever grape, fine we can. We're going to be broadcasting.
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So I me, Moore, you want a battle, you got
a battle. Michael Monk's very good, Mike Pleasure and when
Deborah Mark Oh. Two o'clock, Chad Bianco is coming on.
He's Riverside County Sheriff. He's running for Governor's Republican one
of the top candidates. Three o'clock Spencer Pratt, the reality
star who has been the one man Citizens Brigade coming
(26:56):
out of the Palisades Fire.
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Speaker 1 (28:09):
That's right off the ninety one.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
All right, we're gonna have a chat beyond Colly, Riverside
County Sheriff coming up after Debor's news. There's another candidate
in the mixed, that nutball clown, Tom Steyer, another billionaire
who's been this climate change fanatic, and he's running for governor.
So we'll talk to chat about that and everything else
that's going on. I had I only got admitted, but
(28:34):
I had such a rotten morning yesterday.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I lost my keys.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I lost my keys for forty five minutes, and it's
entirely my fault because I'm a dope. I don't know
what people think. You know goes on in my life
in my house, but once I go through the studio
door here, yeah, I am a mess and competent. When
off of my workout in the morning, met my friend,
(29:01):
stopped at the grocery store, get home, and I have
a loaner car because my regular car is getting fixed,
which has kind of discombobulated me because the loaner car
is just everything's different, you know, the dashboard, all the buttons,
all the features that it has. It's got a lot
of annoying features. Talk about that some other time. But
(29:23):
I my wife is also recording her podcast, right she
does it in the living room, and she was recording
and said, well, don't make a lot of noise when
you come in.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Don't distract me.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So I had to park out in the street because
my loaner car doesn't have something that opens the garage gate.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
And I wanted to come in just once.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I don't want to go back and forth, back and forth,
because you know, the alarm goes off, you know, full
front door of that kind of thing. So I piled
up the bag from the grocery store and a couple
of sweatshirts and my my iPad, just all kinds of
stuff that I was juggling, Oh on my keys. It's
had like five or six things in my arms while
(30:05):
I'm trying to open the front gate door. And I
opened the door and then I drop everything on the ground.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
What did you think?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
iPad goes into the street. The groceries roll out of
the bed.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
You can balance You can't even balance one thing. How
could you balance all of those things?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
So I collect all the things, some of the things
off the ground, and now I forgot I couldn't find
my keys, and it didn't occur to me to look
in the lock of the gate door. So I can't
get in the house because she's recording. I don't know
what to do.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's like, I'm screwed. I didn't have I have a
backup key.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, but it's it's in my regular car, which is
there not helpful. So I mean, I rarely have a
loaner car. She rarely records at that hour, and I rarely.
She rarely sends me to the grocery store to get stuff.
So all these rare moments all coincided my car. I'd
come out of my car. My head was all scrambled
(31:05):
because it's just difficult to deal with.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I can't find it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So I go drive back to the rec center I
worked out, and I'm combing the grass, and then I
go to the grocery store and I'm going up and
down the aisles and I'm leaving my phone number here
and there, and I'm really just dumbfounded.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Oh wait, we're all of your keys together.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
All my keys are together. Oh well, not not the
key to the loaner car. That's another stupid thing I did.
I didn't put the loaner car key on the big
key chain.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So I'm texting my wife hoping she's got a break
in her recording, and she finally does, and she, you know,
says she wants to take me in for tests that
I obviously have dementia. This is like the supportive response,
I did I gonna get you an air tag or something? Oh, yes,
I did this morning. Oh I bought all kinds of
air tags. Oh, I got air tags for my keys,
(31:54):
for my wallet, I mean everything now because.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You came in asking me yesterday if you lost your
key card. Yes, I know.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I'm trying to explain to my wife that this is
not dementia. This is me and she should know by now.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
You could do an ri.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
You're no better. You really I gotta go. I surrender.
Oh you know what. I'm just gonna check myself into
a stake.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
We miss you here.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
No, let's let's wait a few years until it gets
really bad.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Deboramark Live and the KFI twenty. Oh I didn't finish it.
I looked at the key lock. There are my keys,
of course. Deverormark live in the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
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and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome,
how are you, Debra? Welcome back, Thank you, it's good
to see you. And we're on every day from one
until four o'clock. After four o'clock the podcast gets released
John Cobel's show on demand, same as the radio show.
And this is a day and I always say this
all the time, but we are really packed today two
(00:24):
o'clock we're gonna have Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff
who is one of the top candidates to run for governor.
Chad Bianco coming on after two o'clock. After three o'clock,
Spencer Pratt, the reality television star who has become the
leading and most effective spokesperson publicly fighting all the idiocy
(00:45):
from Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass's administrations. And he's living
through it along with the rest of the Palisades residents.
He lost his house as well, and he is putting
out constant social media videos and commentary on what's really
going on. And so we're going to get Spencer Pratt
on three o'clock hour. You want to be listening to
(01:06):
that because he doesn't pull any punches at all, He
really lays it out.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Also coming up in a half an hour, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Michael Monks, he's got some interesting stuff on this new
LA fire chief Heimi Moore. This is day four and
rather than explain why his fire department didn't put out
the fire properly last January in the Palisades, he's angry
with the media, claiming that the media is smearing his firefighters,
(01:36):
and I suppose that includes us here. I guess we're
part of the smear, although the media is actually just
reporting what his own firefighters have texted about what happened
after the January first blaze. And then you have an
open letter by a number of fire officials who wrote
(01:56):
it publicly to give it to Channel seven and gave
it to city council people and Karen Bass. So it's
it's his firefighters who are telling the truth about what
went on, and he's accusing the media of a smear campaign.
It's just classic political garbage. So it didn't take him long.
(02:16):
So that would be boy. Karen Bass just cannot hire
anybody who's competent and honest. It's just one garbage pick
after another. And oh, by the way, Jenise Kenonians is
still making seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars um. All right, now,
let's get to the other one, the other buffoon up
in Sacramento. Now he's being he's under siege, Gavin Newsom
(02:37):
because his chief of staff was arrested by the FBI
last week. And the FBI said that she's being charged
with federal crimes. That she paired up with a couple
of other Sacramento insiders to steal two hundred and twenty
(02:58):
five thousand dollars from a political campaign account belonging to
the former Attorney General, Javier Bssera, who's now running for governor,
two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, and she helped
facilitate the theft and pocketed some of the money. Well,
we've got some audio to play for you because her
(03:19):
her teammates are also in legal trouble. One of those
teammates is Sean McCluskey. Sean McCluskey was the chief of
staff for Xavier Besara. So McCluskey, with the help of
David Williamston, stole the money from Sarah's campaign fund and
(03:40):
thundled it to his wife who had some fake no
show job. That's what they put on the paperwork. So
CASEYRA Channel three reporter Ashley Zavala and San in Sacramento,
again the only reporter in the entire state covering all
the corruption up there, confronted Sean McCluskey outside the courthouse.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Shawn, is there anything you can share with us now
that you've pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire in
bank fraudster? Mister mclusky, is.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
There anything that you have to say?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Anything you have to say to mister Bassa, Mister McClusky,
is there anything you have to say at this point?
Mister mcluskey, should other government officials be concerned?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You pulled it a gup punch any response wire in
bank fraud federal charges? He pleaded guilty, So if he's guilty,
then Dana Williamson, the former chief of staff who Gavin Newsom,
is probably also guilty. And there's a third person involved
in this, a lobbyist named Greg Campbell, and he was
charged in this federal investigation. He was involved in stealing
(04:46):
Can't Paign money from Xavier Bessera's account. And this is
CACRA Channel three anchor Curtis Ming reporting what happened in.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Court today was the next step in their cases.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Both men pled not guilty, but as we've reported, they
have both signed plea agreements.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
With the US Attorney.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
This is our first time we've seen them since the
arrest of the former chief of staff to Governor Newsom
and also a co conspirator in this case. Dana Williamson,
faces charges including fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and making
false statements. Greg Campbell, a longtime political operative, is facing
two federal conspiracy charges. According to court documents, Williamson started
(05:25):
paying ten thousand dollars a month to company C controlled
by Campbell. The company then used a payroll services provider
to pay ten thousand dollars into a bank account and
controlled by Sean McCluskey, the former chief of staff for
Javier Bussera, targeting Bassara's campaign funds after he entered federal office.
The payments were disguised as income to his wife or
(05:47):
work supposedly done for Williamson the document site.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
McCluskey faces one charge of conspiracy.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Today, both men waive their right to a grand jury indictment,
and they were released with several conditions, including surrendering their passports,
no contact with co conspirators or the witnesses or anyone
tied to related cases.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Can you respond and tell us we're not going to
be making any more comments in the same thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Our crew tried speaking with both men only. Greg Campbell's
attorney made a comment.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I know Greg Campbell to be an honorable former public servant,
a respected and positive member of the community, who has
handled himself with great integrator integrity during these deeply troubling times.
Mister Campbell takes full accountability for his actions and is
cooperating fully with the legal process. Because the case is ongoing,
(06:42):
mister Campbell does not intend to make any further public
comments at this time.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Today's hearing is the first step in their cases.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Both men will be in court again on separate dates
for a change of plea hearing, where they are expected
to plead guilty they're The judge would then sign off
on the plea deal well. Klusky and Campbell both have
time eyes to the governor's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson.
She appeared in court Wednesday and is accused of conspiring
to steal two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from
(07:08):
a dormant political campaign for javiy Or Basera, the former
Health and Human Services secretary. She faces twenty three charges.
She put it not guilty.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Okay, now this is funny.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Gavin Newsom released this statement finally on the Dana Williamson arrest.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
When din'd she get arrested? It was like a week ago,
wasn't it. We could go Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Maybe he was off in Brazil prancing and preening at
at the climate change conference, right, and he was submitting
videos from the Amazon rainforest. All kinds of nonsense. Meantime,
do you know that dozens of people in his administration
had all had their phone conversations, text messages and emails
(07:54):
intercepted by the FBI for several months as part of
this overall investigation and everybody's freaking out in his administration,
in addition to other people in the Sacramento political orbit,
So his whole staff knows that months and months of
what they thought were private text conversations, phone conversations, email
(08:16):
conversations are now in the hands of the FBI. By
the way, this all started under Joe Biden. This goes
back to twenty twenty two, and that's important. As you
listened to newsome statement, my first reaction was real shock
and deep concern the seriousness of the allegation, the impact
(08:38):
on Dani's children, and whether the Trump administration had politicized this. No,
you big stinking liar. This investigation started and progressed under
the Joe Biden administration. When they told Dana Williamson that
she was the target, it was November twenty twenty four,
(09:00):
Biden was president.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So the first line a Newsome statement is a lie.
He goes on.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
We were first made aware of this investigation almost a
year ago, and the moment I learned of it, my
legal team and I placed her on leave while hoping
it would be appropriately resolved. I wasn't privy to any
details as it unfolded. And this is not the kind
of thing I'm used to seeing in public service.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
WHOA, where's the laugh track on that?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Newsom is not used to seeing corruption in public service.
I hold our team to very high standards of ethics
and accountability, and I'm still processing the serious the seriousness
of the allegations.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
What a buffoon he has taken.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Just for one example, so much money from PG and
E to give him sweetheart deals after they killed all
those people and burned down that town in northern California.
His wife takes huge amounts of money from PG and
E to finance her annoying feminism films. That's all corruption,
(10:09):
but they find some legal loophole for it. That's new
some statement when we come back. We had a lot
of penis talk this week, but because there's been a
number of high profile figures over the years and it's
come out in the news that they had damaged penises
which might explain their weird sexual or violent behavior. Among those,
(10:32):
Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton Hitler, the Golden State killer who
killed I think twenty six people. And now we have
another name added to the list, Marquee name. He's in
the news all this week.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
We'll tell you they'd be embarrassed, John, and they wouldn't
want to be showing it off.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But that's certainly not the case.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, exactly if I had like what these guys had, Huh,
you wouldn't see me come out of my house.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
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Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You and I had a conversation this week. I don't
know why this has been the week of penis.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
To talk, But I don't know, John, why.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It could be a new podcast idea for us. You know,
we were talking about famous people who got involved in
either who were either extremely violent or got involved into
weird sexual situations. And the story just this week was
that Hitler had a very tiny penis. I don't know
if that explains World War two. But Harvey Weinstein was
(11:53):
who all know has some damage, deformed, gnarled up thing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You could see what happened with him.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Bill Clinton bent like a banana sharply to the left.
These are terrible medical conditions, so terrible, yeah, and it
makes it makes men so craze that bad things happen.
Then the Golden State Killer, the guy who not only
committed a lot of murders but also rapes, And there
(12:23):
was a book by the Sacramento DA that just came
out this week that said he had a micro penis.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It was two inches.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And uh the Sacramento D eight Uh theme ho I
think his name is actually had one of his staff
members go and measure it. So this is this is
This is not gossips, this is not silacious. This was
an actual no, no, no, no, deadly serious all right.
(12:53):
New York Post has a story out that Jeffrey Epstein
he's got he's got a serious problem as well. He
apparently has a very small egg shaped penis. It's apparently
(13:15):
it looks like a lemon.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
H it looks like a lemon.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It looks like a lemon or an egg. Okay, but
and it's really small.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I mean, is that before or after?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I I don't know what happens when it's getting enraged.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Now this also is a real thing, because I would
play you this clip and I can't believe this is real.
But I saw the video myself. Epstein was getting deposed
back in two thousand and nine after a number of
girls way back then said he was doing he was
doing bad things, and an attorney asks Epstein on this
(13:59):
recording about his deformed member listen.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Could you please give us your name, Jeffrey Epstein. Is
it true, sir, that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You have what's been described as an egg shaped penis?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Form?
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Vague, indefinite and I'm going to.
Speaker 11 (14:21):
Give you this.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
This is his attorney in.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Mister Cuban that these types of questions are not only argumented,
it but directing and a manager embarrassed, mister Epstein, if
you continue with this type of question, I would join
the deposition immediately.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So his attorney stepped in. Yes, said enough of this.
Apparently the opposing attorney got one more in one wit
is described your penis this is an exact quote as
oval shaped.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It was thick.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Towards the bottom, but thin and small towards the head portion,
and called it egg shaped. Then Epstein's attorney abruptly ends
the interview and Epstein tore off his microphone.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Well, he was embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You got to see the look on his face.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
I can only imagine it's like, oh, I guess how
would you feel?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I can't believe you're bringing this up. Hey, Epstein, you're
the one who's molesting these girls. Okay, you've got you.
You don't have the moral high road here, And one
of his victims. Rina Oh has come out publicly to
confirm this. She told Tina Brown, who's a former magazine
(15:29):
editor now has a substack a page. Oh told Tina
Brown that the predator had quote an extremely deformed penis
shape like a lemon. Oh said, some people have described
it as the shape of an egg. I think it
was more the shape of a lemon. And it was
really small when it was fully erect, it was probably
(15:49):
like two inches. Okay, so a two inch lemon, your turn.
I'm just reading the test.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
No.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
I just again, I said the same thing about the
Golden State killer. I mean, if it's too if it's
two inches two inches, how does it you know, how
do you rate people with the two inch penis? Is
what I'm delicately trying to say.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, well, yeah that.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I'm just spitting it out.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It's better to go blunt. I don't know. I guess
other things went on.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Or you know, there were well I mean, I mean,
you could sexually assault somebody with any kind of implement
or instrument, no, I know.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
But doing it with the two inch weren't they doing
it with these two inches?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I never read that deeply into the cases. And I
don't know if there's even a public record on that stuff,
but you know, that's what AI is for.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yes, I put it in. I think Eric's doing that
right now.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But I didn't notice. And one thing that stuck in
my head, I didn't know what it meant was all
the Epstein stories were about his his com pulse of
need for massages. Yeah you know, and you know, regular
massages and then special massages, and it might be that
was the only way that he could enjoy act and
get any play.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I'm just back to being blunts. It's too hard to
think of other ways, you.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Know, now that there's no rules anything exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Who's gonna what's anybody gonna say?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
This guy could bring the presidency down? Okay, it's sat.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
So why is it that all these guys with these
wacky penises do these things?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Again, I go back to my other question.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
I would think they'd be embarrassed and they wouldn't want
anybody to look at it, unless they feel so powerful
that they have to force people to.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I would if I had a lemon, if I had
what was the other thing, an egg? An egg, a lemon.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I'm two inches, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I'm not leaving my room.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I'm growing up in my mother's ass I'm that's Ferry.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We are on from one until four. After four o'clock,
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That's the podcast. Whatever you miss you listen. Then Chad
Bianco on with us after two o'clock. Riverside County sheriff
running for governor, one of the top candidates in the polls.
After three o'clock, Spencer Pratt, the reality television star who
(18:29):
has really made a name for himself as being the
leading advocate for Palisades residents who've been screwed over by
just about every agency and every politician from here to Sacramento.
And he's been fighting a one man fight, largely for
social media, has been extremely effective at it. And we're
going to have him on coming up after two. But
first Michael Monks is coming up to bat here. Michael
(18:53):
has been covering the new fire chief, Haimi Moore, who
it's only day four and he's drawing a lot of
attention because he's angry with the media, saying that we're
all schmearing as firefighters when the media I see is
just reporting the words of his firefighters.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
It's been a very strange turn of events since last Friday.
So not even a week after the city Council voted
to approve Maribas's recommendation of Hi Maymor to be the
new chief of the fire department, last Friday, he's in
front of the council and he's talking about the need
to rebuild public trust.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
In fact, here's exactly what he said.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
They work tirelessly, often under unbearable conditions to protect lives, homes,
and our communities. They're bravery and professionalism or a reminder
of what this department is all about. I want them
to know that I see them, I stand with them,
and I will continue to stand up for them. At
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the same time, I recognize that we're at a crossroads,
not only for our department, but for public trust. The
media attention following the January wildfires has raised real concerns,
both within our ranks and across our city. I understand
these concerns. I believe that addressing them openly and honestly
(20:12):
is essential for restoring confidence.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
In our leadership.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's why I fully support Mayor Bass's request for a
thorough independent investigation into the department's response to the Lachman's fire.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
The key words and what he said there, John, We're
at a crossroads. We need to regain the public trust,
real concerns raised by the recent media reporting about the
Lockman fire, which is believed to have led to the
Palisades fire because it was not entirely extinguished, and he
wants to address those concerns. He also name drops Mayor
Bass as if to suggest, I'm on her team here.
(20:45):
This is a new day for the LAFD. It's not
a fire chief who is combating with her. That was
before the city council voted to affirm his nomination and
now he is the police chief. Tuesday, just a couple
days ago, and three days after that meeting, he's at
his first LA Fire Commission meeting as the chief, and
this is what he said.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Something that's been very frustrating for me as fire chief
and through this process is to watch my friends in
the media samear our name and the work that our
firefighters did to combat one of the most intense fires,
the Palisades, the wind driven monstrosity that it was that
(21:25):
devastated a.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Community in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And our firefighters stood out there under these horrendous conditions
fighting those fires, chasing flames as they were going three
miles down wind, trying to save people and save their homes.
And the audacity for people to make comments and say
that there's text messages out there that says that we
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did not put the fire out, that we did not
extinguish the fire. Yet I have yet to see any
of those text messages.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
If the reservoir in the Palisades is ever empty again,
those water works might come in hand.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
That was was he really crying? There?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Was just completely choked up.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What the hell?
Speaker 11 (22:11):
So what do you think text messages are coming from
his firefighters. He went from saying we're at a crossroads,
let's regain public trust. There are real concerns with the
media reports, let's address them, let's get the review, to
saying it's a smear. The audacity of the media to
report this. He basically went from saying, let's get to
the bottom of this to saying fake news.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And he does a little slick slide of hand there.
People are primarily upset with fire department management, whoever made
the decision to pull the firefighters from the Lockman fire
the day after the blaze. Kristin Crowley for not sending
a strike team pre deployed the night before the fire
(22:52):
broke out, because we had all these terrible warnings knowing
there was an old fire that could be rekindled, not
having the fire trucks there, not have the personnel assign
sending the personnel home that morning instead of keeping him
for a second shift. Those are all management issues. You're
not the only one to raise Kristin Crowley's name. Former
LA Union president Freddi Escobar, is still an active firefighter,
(23:15):
was also at this meeting on Tuesday, and here's what
he said.
Speaker 12 (23:18):
With everything going on regarding the Lochman fire in the media,
I'd be remiss if I didn't address the obvious Our
members fear speaking up. That's probably why there's no signature
on that letter. Chief Crowley told the truth and she
was fired. I told the truth and I was removed
from office. I stand with the men and women of
(23:40):
the LAFD. I will be their voice. No one's gonna
bully me around zero, but the men and women of
the LAFD today are scared to speak up and that
should be volume to everybody here. Why are they scared?
The mayor and the city council members have provided a
culture that if you speak up and you tell the truth,
(24:00):
you're going to be removed, and that is wrong.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
That is Freddie Escobar who says he was removed from
office for speaking the truth. Let's keep in mind that,
according to reports, he was removed and suspended as president
of the union over allegations of financial mismanagement within the union.
But he says there's a culture of fear. So it
looks as though Chief Himate Moore has inherited a bit
of disarray.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Right, But it seems he's taken the side of Karen Bass,
who the firefighters say is responsible for firing Crowley for
telling the truth, demoting Escobar for telling the truth. And
you have these firefighters with these text messages that have
been around since January January second and now suddenly in
(24:42):
November or October November they came to light through the
La Times. There's something here, I believe. Yes, there's a
lot of firefighters who know a lot of terrible, damaging
stories about fire management.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And they're afraid to speak.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
But what happened between Friday and Tuesday, where he was
all about calling for transparency to calling this fake news,
basically talking in support of the mayor on Friday very openly,
I support the mayor's process here to being very defensive
on behalf of the rank and file firefighters.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So I just thought that that was curious.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, because nothing about the story has changed, and I
don't know if somebody's actually going to produce the texts,
but I believe they're real. The Times is stood by
that story for weeks and weeks now. He was asked,
they must have seen it. I'm assuming the Times reporters
saw the text.
Speaker 11 (25:32):
That's right, Yes, they saw the text, right, Okay, they
claim that they are verified that these are real. These
exist in fact on Friday, I don't have this particular
clip to share, but when the chief was before the
city council, councilman current Price, who's also got his own
problems going on right now, asked directly about the articles
in the La Times, and this chief said, they're concerning
(25:54):
what changed. Yeah, And then you have that state representative
from the California Parks Department, and she there's photographic evidence
and record written record evidence that she showed up and
was bossing around those firefighters the day after the January
first fire, a tangled web.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
So there's a lot of dirt there and a lot
of people know stuff, and we're going to keep beating
it out of them. Indeed, fact, you go out there,
I've got my bat ready to go continue beating, all right,
because now, all right, he's thrown down the gauntlet here. Yeah, okay,
he thinks we're smearing him. Listen, anything we find out
through whatever grape, fine we can. We're going to be broadcasting.
(26:33):
So I me, Moore, you want a battle, you got
a battle. Michael Monk's very good, Mike Pleasure and when
Deborah Mark Oh. Two o'clock, Chad Bianco is coming on.
He's Riverside County Sheriff. He's running for Governor's Republican one
of the top candidates. Three o'clock Spencer Pratt, the reality
star who has been the one man Citizens Brigade coming
(26:56):
out of the Palisades Fire.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
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So we'll talk to chat about that and everything else
that's going on. I had I only got admitted, but
(28:34):
I had such a rotten morning yesterday.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I lost my keys.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I lost my keys for forty five minutes, and it's
entirely my fault because I'm a dope. I don't know
what people think. You know goes on in my life
in my house, but once I go through the studio
door here, yeah, I am a mess and competent. When
off of my workout in the morning, met my friend,
(29:01):
stopped at the grocery store, get home, and I have
a loaner car because my regular car is getting fixed,
which has kind of discombobulated me because the loaner car
is just everything's different, you know, the dashboard, all the buttons,
all the features that it has. It's got a lot
of annoying features. Talk about that some other time. But
(29:23):
I my wife is also recording her podcast, right she
does it in the living room, and she was recording
and said, well, don't make a lot of noise when
you come in.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Don't distract me.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So I had to park out in the street because
my loaner car doesn't have something that opens the garage gate.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
And I wanted to come in just once.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I don't want to go back and forth, back and forth,
because you know, the alarm goes off, you know, full
front door of that kind of thing. So I piled
up the bag from the grocery store and a couple
of sweatshirts and my my iPad, just all kinds of
stuff that I was juggling, Oh on my keys. It's
had like five or six things in my arms while
(30:05):
I'm trying to open the front gate door. And I
opened the door and then I drop everything on the ground.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
What did you think?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
iPad goes into the street. The groceries roll out of
the bed.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
You can balance You can't even balance one thing. How
could you balance all of those things?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
So I collect all the things, some of the things
off the ground, and now I forgot I couldn't find
my keys, and it didn't occur to me to look
in the lock of the gate door. So I can't
get in the house because she's recording. I don't know
what to do.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's like, I'm screwed. I didn't have I have a
backup key.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, but it's it's in my regular car, which is
there not helpful. So I mean, I rarely have a
loaner car. She rarely records at that hour, and I rarely.
She rarely sends me to the grocery store to get stuff.
So all these rare moments all coincided my car. I'd
come out of my car. My head was all scrambled
(31:05):
because it's just difficult to deal with.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I can't find it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So I go drive back to the rec center I
worked out, and I'm combing the grass, and then I
go to the grocery store and I'm going up and
down the aisles and I'm leaving my phone number here
and there, and I'm really just dumbfounded.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Oh wait, we're all of your keys together.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
All my keys are together. Oh well, not not the
key to the loaner car. That's another stupid thing I did.
I didn't put the loaner car key on the big
key chain.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So I'm texting my wife hoping she's got a break
in her recording, and she finally does, and she, you know,
says she wants to take me in for tests that
I obviously have dementia. This is like the supportive response,
I did I gonna get you an air tag or something? Oh, yes,
I did this morning. Oh I bought all kinds of
air tags. Oh, I got air tags for my keys,
(31:54):
for my wallet, I mean everything now because.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You came in asking me yesterday if you lost your
key card. Yes, I know.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I'm trying to explain to my wife that this is
not dementia. This is me and she should know by now.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
You could do an ri.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
You're no better. You really I gotta go. I surrender.
Oh you know what. I'm just gonna check myself into
a stake.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
We miss you here.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
No, let's let's wait a few years until it gets
really bad.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Deboramark Live and the KFI twenty. Oh I didn't finish it.
I looked at the key lock. There are my keys,
of course. Deverormark live in the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
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