October 27, 2025 • 26 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (10/27) - Attorney Roger Behle comes on the show to talk about the latest going on in the lawsuit he is representing Palisades Fire victims in. Who is Mr. Krafty Pants? More on the Indian illegal immigrant who crashed a truck and killed 3 people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one
to four every day and after four o'clock John Cobelt's
show on demand on the iHeart app. Over the weekend,
a story broke that there's a video that a hiker
took the day after the New Year's Day fire in
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the Palace Age. It was originally known as the Lockman fire,
early morning hours of January first, and the story is
that the La Fire Department put it out. They thought
work is done. They left the scene. Well, on January second,
a hiker took some video and that site was smoldering.
(00:45):
There was little white wisps of smoke going into the air.
And it's just is it another layer of incompetence? And
remember what's going to happen tomorrow and Wednesday and Thursday.
Strong Santa Ana wins, hot temperatures. When I first got
(01:08):
to La, the first major fires I ever saw I
remember happened I believe in late October early November. It
was the Laguna Malibu Altadena fires. This is big fire
season right now, and so we've got the big sant
Ana wins blowing, and I'm wondering what's changed in the
(01:30):
city of Los Angeles. I mean, I'm some man, Karen
bass is going to stay in the country this week.
Somebody on a file a restraining order on her so
she can't leave. Well, let's get Roger bailing on. He's
the attorney for thousands of Palisades residents who are suing
everybody in sight over what happened last January seventh. Roger,
(01:51):
how are you good?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
John? How are you doing good? So?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Did your investigative team get this video? How where this
do you come from?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, we've known about this smoldering for months, and as
you may remember, back on the eighth of October, the
FEDS announced a criminal charge against an arson for the
Lochman fire, which occurred on January one, and during this
press conference they said, you know, the Lachman fire was
(02:25):
fully contained, but unbeknownst to anyone, neither firefighters nor the
public were aware that members were still smoldering. And we
were stunned because we had at that time video, multiple
videos from multiple people up in the palace that hiked
up there between January one and January sixth, and many
(02:47):
people reported seeing these whifts of smoke and smoldering smoke
coming out of the ground, and many even called nine
to one one to report it and were told, well,
unless you see flames, we're not going to do anything.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh no, no, wait wait, wait, stop right there, because
Deby and I were talking about this before, and first
thing she said is, well, did anybody call call it
into the fire department or nine one one? And you're
saying a lot of people did, but they decided not
to do anything. And they got multiple.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Calls, multiple calls from people that live in the area
that fiked up in the area and said I see
smoke and there was no response.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
What did the nine one one operator typically say.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I can tell you from experience. We had a
wildfire here a few years ago and it was extinguished,
so they believed and we saw smoke. Several days later,
my wife called nine one one and they said, well,
unless you can report flames, we're not going to respond. Now.
I don't know if that's a protocol, but apparently that's
(03:51):
the same message that these folks were too.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Right, But we had potential one hundred mile an hour winds.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Coming exactly right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It clearly is a hot spot and Everybody who studies
fires knows that a hotspot like that can whip up
into flames very quickly with that kind of wind.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Absolutely true. So it wasn't as if we had no
recent fire in the area. We had one day's prior.
Firefighters will tell you those embers can remain active for
weeks after a fire, so all the more reason for
the state. Now, remember, the key is this is on
state land. Where the Palisades fire started, which is different
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from the Lockman fire, was squarely on state land. That's
the state's newsom's responsibility to have watch crews up there
inspecting the area that burned on state land to make
sure it didn't be kindle, and they had nobody up there.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
State had nobody up there. The city wasn't going to
respond to any of these reports of smoke, so nobody, nobody,
nobody wanted to do anything.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well except fingerpoint. Now you've got a massive finger appointing
exercise this morning. The Governor's office said, well, even though
it state land, it's really the La County Fire Department's responsibility,
not ours. Oh my god, massive fingerpointing going on. But
all of this could have been prevented. What we know
of the Palisades fire could have been prevented if they
had watch brews up there to check these reports of
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smoldering embers, smoke coming out of the ground, not just
by one, but by multiple people with videos. On top
of it, there are multiple people with multiple videos.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Have you discovered why with so many reports of smoke
and the forecast was so dire, why nobody from any
fire department, city, state, county, nobody showed up to watch
the area. It wouldn't have cost anything to have a
few firefighters there just in case.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No explanation. The only thing we're told is they believed
it was fully contained and that it was undetectable. Well,
we said, well, wait a minute. Smoke coming out of
the ground, even to the untrained eye, looks like a problem. So,
whether you're a firefighter or not, seeing smoke coming out
of the ground after recent fire would indicate to anyone
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there's some problem there that needs to be addressed, especially.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
In the context of those forecasts.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, and then you add on top of that, the
city knew they had no water. If it rekindled, they
got no water to fight it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Anyway, This is so far worse than I even imagined.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, it just gets worse by the day.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And nobody addresses this. There's nobody in the last nine
ten months at any level of government who's come clean
about all this.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, it's a massive finger pointing exercise, and every time
we discover something new that implicates the city or the state,
they just point fingers at other people. No acceptance of responsibility.
And you have thousands of people who have lost homes,
twelve families, lost family members, and no accountability.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Zero, no explanation, no responsibility taking, no apology, no nothing.
That's that's right, that's astounding. Can you hang on? Yeah,
Roger Bailey, he's the attorney for thousands of Palisades residents.
Can you imagine this?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So multiple people people.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Called and what the nine one one operators are taught
that if they don't say flame, then nobody has to
come up. What's wrong with the fire departments that we have?
What's wrong with everybody? A massive failure.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Let's get Roger Bailey back on here. He's the attorney
representing thousands of Palisades residents from that fire and the
big news that broke over the weekend. Was there is
there's a hiker who took video January second, the day
after the original fire, known as the Lockman fire, was
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supposed to be put out, and on January second, he's
got video of smoldering, white wisps of smoke into the air.
And he was just telling us that they have multiple
people who were hiking in the area and they saw
the smoldering and they called nine one one and they
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reported it, and not once did the city of Los Angeles,
or the county or the state anybody send anyone to
check on the smoldering. Especially again, this is the context
of these extreme dire warnings from the National Weather Service
that winds might hit eighty to one hundred miles an hour. Roger,
(08:53):
you know, I know you can't reveal stuff that's confidential
at this point are necessary for the investigation or the positions,
the court hearings and all that. But did you have
you gone a sense anybody behind the scenes off the record,
just in a general way, has anybody explained why there
could be a massive failure by every single city, county,
(09:16):
state employee associated with you know, fire response.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, there there is no answer that's been forthcoming after
ten months, all we've had thus far, as I said
earlier's a lot of finger pointing, not my responsibility. You know,
talk to this agency, not their response. We talked to
the next agency, and it's just a lot of deflection.
The other thing that we've heard is the government, All
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government agencies enjoy what we call immunity from certain types
of activities, and so we've heard, you know, the city
and other you claim that they're immune from responsibility because
they're the government and they can do no wrong because
they're immune from it. But there's been no acceptance or
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explanation of anything other than finger pointing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So nobody feels bad. Nobody feels like they failed, they
let the public down. I mean, we had deaths, we
had massive destruction like LA has never seen. Nobody says,
you know, I should have done something, I should have
said something, or I know why this culture allowed this
to happen. Nobody, Huh.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
It's stunning to me.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
When you have a disaster of this scope and magnitude,
with thousands of families displaced in a matter of a
days and family members being lost to the wildfire, you'd
think some member of the government would step forward and
say you know, we accept responsibility. We you know, we're
(10:54):
sorry for your plight. It's been nothing. It's just just
been different election and finger pointing everything.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I'm just every aspect of this is insane, from the
empty reservoir to all the busted fire hydrants, to the
busted fire engines, to the firefighters not being assigned to duty.
I mean, there's not to mention. Now the state's role
in this is you revealed with this that the fire
may have started, the big fire may have started on
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state land. And I'm going through one of the articles
on it, and there's there's all these departments and agencies
UH that have jurisdiction, UH California State Parks, the Mountains
Recreation and Conservation Authority to Panga State Park. And so
(11:44):
I guess these these multiple jurisdictions prevent anybody from fighting
out who's really responsible.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, all of them leads the state.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Like I said that one of the benefits of having
the ATF analysis is that they confirmed that what we
know is the Palisades Fire started squarely on state land.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So where does the buck stop when it comes to
the start of the Palisades fire. It stops with the
state that state land the state's legal obligation to inspect
its own property, even if they think they can contract
it out to this agency or that agency. Ultimately, the
landowner the state is responsible for inspecting its own property.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And the brush for the bus a brush not cleared, of.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Course not No, everything was overgrown. I mean they've changed
so many things for environmental reasons over the years that
the brush wasn't trimmed, hadn't been burned in years, hadn't
been trimmed in years. And then it just takes you know,
some members and an unprecedented sant Ana wind event and
nobody there to watch it, and you have a disaster
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of the scope and magnitude of the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I got to go after this one, but nobody got
spooked by the five days of forecasts about the extreme
winds and the high fire danger. Nobody got spooked by
that in government at any of these agencies.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, I think they're all out of the country at
that time. But it's actually stunning to me. Those of
us that have lived here know that when you get
a red flag warning, you're going to get dry conditions,
high winds, and all it takes is an errant spark
or in this case, smoldering embers, and you have a disaster.
So I can't believe with all of the warnings and
(13:34):
all of the notice that nobody thought, hey, maybe we
ought to go up there and take a look on
top of the nine one one calls.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah. Yeah, they were getting nine one one calls, and
they're getting these, you know, terrifying forecasts, and they know
the science, they know that easily you could have had
a fiery kindle. All right, Roger, we'll talk again soon.
Thank you for coming on my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
John, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Roger Bailey, the attorney for Palis States Homeowners. Uh, well,
coming up, we're going to talk about mister crafty Pants.
He hosts a channel on YouTube teaching arts and crafts.
Surprise you that a guy who does that might be
involved in a child porn scandal. It's next.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on
the iHeart app am. I are we all asking for
too much? Are we asking for too much? To have
even one employee somewhere in the state, county or city
system to wake up the day after a terrible fire,
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the original New Year's Day fire. I guess that wasn't terrible,
but it was. I think we should be a little
scare because you know, it was real. Fire turned a
you know, quite a few acres. They put it out,
and they're still white wisps of smoke emanating from the ground,
and the wind's supposed to blow it one hundred miles
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an hour, and nobody. Nobody responded, nobody from the state,
the city, the county. They never cleared any of the
brush away people who live in the foothills. I know
sometimes you're hounded to death by the inspectors, but they
never cleaned their own land. And the newsman and bass
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run around claiming, oh, everything will be expertided, and it's not.
And now nobody responds to any questions. In fact, according
to Roger Bailey, the attorney in the Palisades, there isn't
a single employee who's taken any responsibility or explained anything.
It just everybody blamed somebody else. I don't understand how
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we got here. It's astonishing how we got here, and
everybody's putting up with it, all right. I don't know
about you, but a grown man who calls himself mister
crafty pants publicly, I've never heard of this guy. Michael
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David Booth. He has six hundred thousand subscribers on his
YouTube channel, it's arts and crafts tutorials. He was arrested
Wednesday in Kentucky because he was sharing sexual images of
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children on social media. Seriously, six Not only did he
have these photos and they're explicit photos three children under
the age of twelve. Three others were teenagers, and he
was sharing them online on social media with fifteen times
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mister crafty Pants.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well that's a you know, an interesting name.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You know, sometimes people tell you what they are. Yeah, right,
Would you trust a guy? Would you have mister crafty
Pants as a babysitter for your kids?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I see. I'm very suspicious of guys who seem very
involved in children's activities when it's not their children, because
that's where you go for the action.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The action. How's sad?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I know? And this guy had a national six hundred
thousand subscribers. That's what's wrong with the world. That guy
gets six hundred thousand subscribers. Yeah, mister crafty pants. Meantime,
he's trading explicit sexual photos of little kids, like their
baseball cards. He's thirty nine years old. Who has another
(17:58):
bad sign? And? Uh, which which which social media app?
It's it's some it's some social media messaging app called
kick k I K I never heard of this? Was
that just for perverts? Look, Eric knows, I don't want
to know why. No, it's like, uh, like a signal
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or telegram. Yeah, it's like a messaging app that basically
says they can encrypt your messages and all of that
type of stuff. I see. Does it encrypt porn child
porn photos? Is that one of the features? Not well enough? Apparently? Uh,
they've the the company that owns kick flagged the account
and they traced it to an IP address linked to
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his home in uh and I'm trying to figure out
where this is from, Oh, Kentucky. I said that one
neighbor says it's scary to think what he could have
had access to, and she went right to her children
to see if they'd ever had any interaction with him.
Feels like a gut punch makes you feel really vulnerable
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it's terrifying to hear about something like this. It makes
you realize that you're not safe anymore. I say, you
find any thirty nine year old guy living next door
to you and he calls himself mister crafty pants, it's
up to you to protect your children. See every dad
would know. No, that's a child molester there. Okay, that's
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a guy with sexual damage. This woman the neighbor who
described their neighborhood as family friend, him family friendly. Oh
my god. He's got two hundred and fifty thousand followers
on Facebook and Instagram for arts and crafts. Oh and
he followed all the neighbors and friends online, so he
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is probably looking at the photos of everybody's children. I
knew he followed a bunch of my friends online. So
worries what he may have been viewing of their life? Well,
what do you think he was viewing? So he's charged
with possession and distribution portraying a sexual performance by a minor.
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A sexual performance, that's what's in the photos.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
His fellow inmates are not gonna be too happy with
miss crafty pants. No, no, can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
No, he's gonna have a He's gonna have a lot
of traffic going on through those crafty pants. They're gonna
be lined up in the shower for this guy. If
you look at him, he looks like such a goofball,
big stupid smile on his face.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Does he have a mustache, No, he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
He's very clean shaven. He's got a baseball cap on.
So I mean he's just, uh, he looks much younger
than thirty nine. I don't know. That's that's not that's
just that's a badly damaged person there, mister crafty pants.
Nobody suspects these things? Huh? Is it just me?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Well I would. I would suspect those things too.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
How could you not? I mean, I'm living next door
to mister crafty pants and he's single. There's don't mention
that he's got a wife and kids. You know, sometimes
guys can fool you, because, yeah, the ones that become
like a baseball coaches or boy scout leaders, you know,
they got a wife, they got three kids at home,
they work all day and so they can fool you.
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But guys living alone making mister crafty pants videos? All right,
we got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
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will well unleash the mob see what's on their on
their mind. Uh, we told you last week and you
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probably are very where because the video was all over
that illegal alien who got a trucking license here in
California and then he crashed his car on the ten Freeway.
It was slow moving traffic. He never stopped because he
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was on some kind of drug, so he smashed into
these people, into the back of an suv, then hit
several other vehicles and erupted into flames, killed three people,
four others injured. His name is just Sean pret Singh.
He's from India. He was an illegal alien who came
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here in twenty twenty two and the Biden administration immediately
released him. He came across the southern border and then
he was released into our country by the Biden administration.
This is according to the Department of Homeland Security. Now
(23:09):
a few weeks before the accident. The accident was last week.
The Trump administration had sent out an order that all
states have to rescind all the driver's licenses, all the
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commercial driver's licenses. They're called CDLs. Newsom ignored that order
because these are legal aliens. Of course they should drive big, heavy,
dangerous trucks. Sean Duffy, who's the UH Transportation Secretary, His
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department informed California officials of significant compliance failures, gave them
thirty days to audit its practices and void out rescind
all of these commercial driver's licenses. Instead, that Apartment of
(24:19):
Motor Vehicles lifted He was on it like a conditional permit.
He had some restrictions. Well, they lifted all the restrictions
on October fifteenth, it was his birthday, and did not
enforce the federal law. They've released. A report from the
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Transportation Department says Gavin Newsom was explicitly warned that his
commercial driver's license program was dangerously broken. This emergency rule
was issued to explicitly prevent drivers like sing from getting
behind the wheel of commercial motor vehicles. Singh was under
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the influence of drugs, plowed into a number of cars
on the ten Freeway again killed three injured four. But
because Newsom ignored the federal order had to protect the
illegal aliens, everybody else can go die in a fire
on a freeway. The report says that Newsom violated federal
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law by upgrading the driver's license of this Joshan Priet Singh.
He wasn't supposed to be in a truck behind the
wheel at all, and instead Gavin Newsom's administration gave him
more privileges, more driving privileges. So the the Department of
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Transportation out of Washington is holding Newsom responsible for the
deaths because it was his responsibility to give an order
to his departments to boyd alt all these trucker licenses,
but Newsom didn't because he was busy running for president. Right, yes,
(26:08):
but on a campaign tour. All right, we'll be back tomorrow.
We've got Conway coming up. In minutes. We have Michael
Krazer live in the KFI twenty four hour news. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one
to four every day and after four o'clock John Cobelt's
show on demand on the iHeart app. Over the weekend,
a story broke that there's a video that a hiker
took the day after the New Year's Day fire in
(00:23):
the Palace Age. It was originally known as the Lockman fire,
early morning hours of January first, and the story is
that the La Fire Department put it out. They thought
work is done. They left the scene. Well, on January second,
a hiker took some video and that site was smoldering.
(00:45):
There was little white wisps of smoke going into the air.
And it's just is it another layer of incompetence? And
remember what's going to happen tomorrow and Wednesday and Thursday.
Strong Santa Ana wins, hot temperatures. When I first got
(01:08):
to La, the first major fires I ever saw I
remember happened I believe in late October early November. It
was the Laguna Malibu Altadena fires. This is big fire
season right now, and so we've got the big sant
Ana wins blowing, and I'm wondering what's changed in the
(01:30):
city of Los Angeles. I mean, I'm some man, Karen
bass is going to stay in the country this week.
Somebody on a file a restraining order on her so
she can't leave. Well, let's get Roger bailing on. He's
the attorney for thousands of Palisades residents who are suing
everybody in sight over what happened last January seventh. Roger,
(01:51):
how are you good?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
John? How are you doing good? So?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Did your investigative team get this video? How where this
do you come from?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, we've known about this smoldering for months, and as
you may remember, back on the eighth of October, the
FEDS announced a criminal charge against an arson for the
Lochman fire, which occurred on January one, and during this
press conference they said, you know, the Lachman fire was
(02:25):
fully contained, but unbeknownst to anyone, neither firefighters nor the
public were aware that members were still smoldering. And we
were stunned because we had at that time video, multiple
videos from multiple people up in the palace that hiked
up there between January one and January sixth, and many
(02:47):
people reported seeing these whifts of smoke and smoldering smoke
coming out of the ground, and many even called nine
to one one to report it and were told, well,
unless you see flames, we're not going to do anything.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh no, no, wait wait, wait, stop right there, because
Deby and I were talking about this before, and first
thing she said is, well, did anybody call call it
into the fire department or nine one one? And you're
saying a lot of people did, but they decided not
to do anything. And they got multiple.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Calls, multiple calls from people that live in the area
that fiked up in the area and said I see
smoke and there was no response.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
What did the nine one one operator typically say.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I can tell you from experience. We had a
wildfire here a few years ago and it was extinguished,
so they believed and we saw smoke. Several days later,
my wife called nine one one and they said, well,
unless you can report flames, we're not going to respond. Now.
I don't know if that's a protocol, but apparently that's
(03:51):
the same message that these folks were too.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Right, But we had potential one hundred mile an hour winds.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Coming exactly right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It clearly is a hot spot and Everybody who studies
fires knows that a hotspot like that can whip up
into flames very quickly with that kind of wind.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Absolutely true. So it wasn't as if we had no
recent fire in the area. We had one day's prior.
Firefighters will tell you those embers can remain active for
weeks after a fire, so all the more reason for
the state. Now, remember, the key is this is on
state land. Where the Palisades fire started, which is different
(04:29):
from the Lockman fire, was squarely on state land. That's
the state's newsom's responsibility to have watch crews up there
inspecting the area that burned on state land to make
sure it didn't be kindle, and they had nobody up there.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
State had nobody up there. The city wasn't going to
respond to any of these reports of smoke, so nobody, nobody,
nobody wanted to do anything.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well except fingerpoint. Now you've got a massive finger appointing
exercise this morning. The Governor's office said, well, even though
it state land, it's really the La County Fire Department's responsibility,
not ours. Oh my god, massive fingerpointing going on. But
all of this could have been prevented. What we know
of the Palisades fire could have been prevented if they
had watch brews up there to check these reports of
(05:19):
smoldering embers, smoke coming out of the ground, not just
by one, but by multiple people with videos. On top
of it, there are multiple people with multiple videos.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Have you discovered why with so many reports of smoke
and the forecast was so dire, why nobody from any
fire department, city, state, county, nobody showed up to watch
the area. It wouldn't have cost anything to have a
few firefighters there just in case.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No explanation. The only thing we're told is they believed
it was fully contained and that it was undetectable. Well,
we said, well, wait a minute. Smoke coming out of
the ground, even to the untrained eye, looks like a problem. So,
whether you're a firefighter or not, seeing smoke coming out
of the ground after recent fire would indicate to anyone
(06:15):
there's some problem there that needs to be addressed, especially.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
In the context of those forecasts.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, and then you add on top of that, the
city knew they had no water. If it rekindled, they
got no water to fight it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Anyway, This is so far worse than I even imagined.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, it just gets worse by the day.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And nobody addresses this. There's nobody in the last nine
ten months at any level of government who's come clean
about all this.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, it's a massive finger pointing exercise, and every time
we discover something new that implicates the city or the state,
they just point fingers at other people. No acceptance of responsibility.
And you have thousands of people who have lost homes,
twelve families, lost family members, and no accountability.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Zero, no explanation, no responsibility taking, no apology, no nothing.
That's that's right, that's astounding. Can you hang on? Yeah,
Roger Bailey, he's the attorney for thousands of Palisades residents.
Can you imagine this?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So multiple people people.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Called and what the nine one one operators are taught
that if they don't say flame, then nobody has to
come up. What's wrong with the fire departments that we have?
What's wrong with everybody? A massive failure.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Let's get Roger Bailey back on here. He's the attorney
representing thousands of Palisades residents from that fire and the
big news that broke over the weekend. Was there is
there's a hiker who took video January second, the day
after the original fire, known as the Lockman fire, was
(08:10):
supposed to be put out, and on January second, he's
got video of smoldering, white wisps of smoke into the air.
And he was just telling us that they have multiple
people who were hiking in the area and they saw
the smoldering and they called nine one one and they
(08:31):
reported it, and not once did the city of Los Angeles,
or the county or the state anybody send anyone to
check on the smoldering. Especially again, this is the context
of these extreme dire warnings from the National Weather Service
that winds might hit eighty to one hundred miles an hour. Roger,
(08:53):
you know, I know you can't reveal stuff that's confidential
at this point are necessary for the investigation or the positions,
the court hearings and all that. But did you have
you gone a sense anybody behind the scenes off the record,
just in a general way, has anybody explained why there
could be a massive failure by every single city, county,
(09:16):
state employee associated with you know, fire response.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, there there is no answer that's been forthcoming after
ten months, all we've had thus far, as I said
earlier's a lot of finger pointing, not my responsibility. You know,
talk to this agency, not their response. We talked to
the next agency, and it's just a lot of deflection.
The other thing that we've heard is the government, All
(09:48):
government agencies enjoy what we call immunity from certain types
of activities, and so we've heard, you know, the city
and other you claim that they're immune from responsibility because
they're the government and they can do no wrong because
they're immune from it. But there's been no acceptance or
(10:10):
explanation of anything other than finger pointing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So nobody feels bad. Nobody feels like they failed, they
let the public down. I mean, we had deaths, we
had massive destruction like LA has never seen. Nobody says,
you know, I should have done something, I should have
said something, or I know why this culture allowed this
to happen. Nobody, Huh.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
It's stunning to me.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
When you have a disaster of this scope and magnitude,
with thousands of families displaced in a matter of a
days and family members being lost to the wildfire, you'd
think some member of the government would step forward and
say you know, we accept responsibility. We you know, we're
(10:54):
sorry for your plight. It's been nothing. It's just just
been different election and finger pointing everything.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I'm just every aspect of this is insane, from the
empty reservoir to all the busted fire hydrants, to the
busted fire engines, to the firefighters not being assigned to duty.
I mean, there's not to mention. Now the state's role
in this is you revealed with this that the fire
may have started, the big fire may have started on
(11:24):
state land. And I'm going through one of the articles
on it, and there's there's all these departments and agencies
UH that have jurisdiction, UH California State Parks, the Mountains
Recreation and Conservation Authority to Panga State Park. And so
(11:44):
I guess these these multiple jurisdictions prevent anybody from fighting
out who's really responsible.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, all of them leads the state.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Like I said that one of the benefits of having
the ATF analysis is that they confirmed that what we
know is the Palisades Fire started squarely on state land.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So where does the buck stop when it comes to
the start of the Palisades fire. It stops with the
state that state land the state's legal obligation to inspect
its own property, even if they think they can contract
it out to this agency or that agency. Ultimately, the
landowner the state is responsible for inspecting its own property.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And the brush for the bus a brush not cleared, of.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Course not No, everything was overgrown. I mean they've changed
so many things for environmental reasons over the years that
the brush wasn't trimmed, hadn't been burned in years, hadn't
been trimmed in years. And then it just takes you know,
some members and an unprecedented sant Ana wind event and
nobody there to watch it, and you have a disaster
(12:57):
of the scope and magnitude of the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I got to go after this one, but nobody got
spooked by the five days of forecasts about the extreme
winds and the high fire danger. Nobody got spooked by
that in government at any of these agencies.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, I think they're all out of the country at
that time. But it's actually stunning to me. Those of
us that have lived here know that when you get
a red flag warning, you're going to get dry conditions,
high winds, and all it takes is an errant spark
or in this case, smoldering embers, and you have a disaster.
So I can't believe with all of the warnings and
(13:34):
all of the notice that nobody thought, hey, maybe we
ought to go up there and take a look on
top of the nine one one calls.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah. Yeah, they were getting nine one one calls, and
they're getting these, you know, terrifying forecasts, and they know
the science, they know that easily you could have had
a fiery kindle. All right, Roger, we'll talk again soon.
Thank you for coming on my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
John, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Roger Bailey, the attorney for Palis States Homeowners. Uh, well,
coming up, we're going to talk about mister crafty Pants.
He hosts a channel on YouTube teaching arts and crafts.
Surprise you that a guy who does that might be
involved in a child porn scandal. It's next.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on
the iHeart app am. I are we all asking for
too much? Are we asking for too much? To have
even one employee somewhere in the state, county or city
system to wake up the day after a terrible fire,
(14:53):
the original New Year's Day fire. I guess that wasn't terrible,
but it was. I think we should be a little
scare because you know, it was real. Fire turned a
you know, quite a few acres. They put it out,
and they're still white wisps of smoke emanating from the ground,
and the wind's supposed to blow it one hundred miles
(15:14):
an hour, and nobody. Nobody responded, nobody from the state,
the city, the county. They never cleared any of the
brush away people who live in the foothills. I know
sometimes you're hounded to death by the inspectors, but they
never cleaned their own land. And the newsman and bass
(15:34):
run around claiming, oh, everything will be expertided, and it's not.
And now nobody responds to any questions. In fact, according
to Roger Bailey, the attorney in the Palisades, there isn't
a single employee who's taken any responsibility or explained anything.
It just everybody blamed somebody else. I don't understand how
(15:55):
we got here. It's astonishing how we got here, and
everybody's putting up with it, all right. I don't know
about you, but a grown man who calls himself mister
crafty pants publicly, I've never heard of this guy. Michael
(16:17):
David Booth. He has six hundred thousand subscribers on his
YouTube channel, it's arts and crafts tutorials. He was arrested
Wednesday in Kentucky because he was sharing sexual images of
(16:38):
children on social media. Seriously, six Not only did he
have these photos and they're explicit photos three children under
the age of twelve. Three others were teenagers, and he
was sharing them online on social media with fifteen times
(17:01):
mister crafty Pants.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well that's a you know, an interesting name.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You know, sometimes people tell you what they are. Yeah, right,
Would you trust a guy? Would you have mister crafty
Pants as a babysitter for your kids?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I see. I'm very suspicious of guys who seem very
involved in children's activities when it's not their children, because
that's where you go for the action.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The action. How's sad?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I know? And this guy had a national six hundred
thousand subscribers. That's what's wrong with the world. That guy
gets six hundred thousand subscribers. Yeah, mister crafty pants. Meantime,
he's trading explicit sexual photos of little kids, like their
baseball cards. He's thirty nine years old. Who has another
(17:58):
bad sign? And? Uh, which which which social media app?
It's it's some it's some social media messaging app called
kick k I K I never heard of this? Was
that just for perverts? Look, Eric knows, I don't want
to know why. No, it's like, uh, like a signal
(18:20):
or telegram. Yeah, it's like a messaging app that basically
says they can encrypt your messages and all of that
type of stuff. I see. Does it encrypt porn child
porn photos? Is that one of the features? Not well enough? Apparently? Uh,
they've the the company that owns kick flagged the account
and they traced it to an IP address linked to
(18:42):
his home in uh and I'm trying to figure out
where this is from, Oh, Kentucky. I said that one
neighbor says it's scary to think what he could have
had access to, and she went right to her children
to see if they'd ever had any interaction with him.
Feels like a gut punch makes you feel really vulnerable
(19:03):
it's terrifying to hear about something like this. It makes
you realize that you're not safe anymore. I say, you
find any thirty nine year old guy living next door
to you and he calls himself mister crafty pants, it's
up to you to protect your children. See every dad
would know. No, that's a child molester there. Okay, that's
(19:23):
a guy with sexual damage. This woman the neighbor who
described their neighborhood as family friend, him family friendly. Oh
my god. He's got two hundred and fifty thousand followers
on Facebook and Instagram for arts and crafts. Oh and
he followed all the neighbors and friends online, so he
(19:45):
is probably looking at the photos of everybody's children. I
knew he followed a bunch of my friends online. So
worries what he may have been viewing of their life? Well,
what do you think he was viewing? So he's charged
with possession and distribution portraying a sexual performance by a minor.
(20:08):
A sexual performance, that's what's in the photos.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
His fellow inmates are not gonna be too happy with
miss crafty pants. No, no, can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
No, he's gonna have a He's gonna have a lot
of traffic going on through those crafty pants. They're gonna
be lined up in the shower for this guy. If
you look at him, he looks like such a goofball,
big stupid smile on his face.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Does he have a mustache, No, he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
He's very clean shaven. He's got a baseball cap on.
So I mean he's just, uh, he looks much younger
than thirty nine. I don't know. That's that's not that's
just that's a badly damaged person there, mister crafty pants.
Nobody suspects these things? Huh? Is it just me?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Well I would. I would suspect those things too.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
How could you not? I mean, I'm living next door
to mister crafty pants and he's single. There's don't mention
that he's got a wife and kids. You know, sometimes
guys can fool you, because, yeah, the ones that become
like a baseball coaches or boy scout leaders, you know,
they got a wife, they got three kids at home,
they work all day and so they can fool you.
(21:25):
But guys living alone making mister crafty pants videos? All right,
we got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
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will well unleash the mob see what's on their on
their mind. Uh, we told you last week and you
(21:59):
probably are very where because the video was all over
that illegal alien who got a trucking license here in
California and then he crashed his car on the ten Freeway.
It was slow moving traffic. He never stopped because he
(22:21):
was on some kind of drug, so he smashed into
these people, into the back of an suv, then hit
several other vehicles and erupted into flames, killed three people,
four others injured. His name is just Sean pret Singh.
He's from India. He was an illegal alien who came
(22:44):
here in twenty twenty two and the Biden administration immediately
released him. He came across the southern border and then
he was released into our country by the Biden administration.
This is according to the Department of Homeland Security. Now
(23:09):
a few weeks before the accident. The accident was last week.
The Trump administration had sent out an order that all
states have to rescind all the driver's licenses, all the
(23:29):
commercial driver's licenses. They're called CDLs. Newsom ignored that order
because these are legal aliens. Of course they should drive big, heavy,
dangerous trucks. Sean Duffy, who's the UH Transportation Secretary, His
(23:56):
department informed California officials of significant compliance failures, gave them
thirty days to audit its practices and void out rescind
all of these commercial driver's licenses. Instead, that Apartment of
(24:19):
Motor Vehicles lifted He was on it like a conditional permit.
He had some restrictions. Well, they lifted all the restrictions
on October fifteenth, it was his birthday, and did not
enforce the federal law. They've released. A report from the
(24:39):
Transportation Department says Gavin Newsom was explicitly warned that his
commercial driver's license program was dangerously broken. This emergency rule
was issued to explicitly prevent drivers like sing from getting
behind the wheel of commercial motor vehicles. Singh was under
(25:03):
the influence of drugs, plowed into a number of cars
on the ten Freeway again killed three injured four. But
because Newsom ignored the federal order had to protect the
illegal aliens, everybody else can go die in a fire
on a freeway. The report says that Newsom violated federal
(25:26):
law by upgrading the driver's license of this Joshan Priet Singh.
He wasn't supposed to be in a truck behind the
wheel at all, and instead Gavin Newsom's administration gave him
more privileges, more driving privileges. So the the Department of
(25:47):
Transportation out of Washington is holding Newsom responsible for the
deaths because it was his responsibility to give an order
to his departments to boyd alt all these trucker licenses,
but Newsom didn't because he was busy running for president. Right, yes,
(26:08):
but on a campaign tour. All right, we'll be back tomorrow.
We've got Conway coming up. In minutes. We have Michael
Krazer live in the KFI twenty four hour news. 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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