February 6, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/06) - Saied Koshani comes on the show to talk about why he believes Janisse Quinones should resign as LADWP CEO. Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about cows being infected with another kind of bird flu. LA spends 10% of the city's budget on homeless services.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Well, let's get Sayaed Kashani right on here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We just played you about six minutes of say Ed
at the Board of Water and Power Commissioner's meeting. He
got burned out of his home. He showed up, he said,
wearing the only clothes that he owns, and he wanted
to know why did they not fill up the reservoir,
the San Inez Reservoir. And he even played a clip
of Genie Kenonez, the CEO of the DWP, babbling on
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something about diversity and Hispanic percentages and you know, all
the nonsense that they obsess on. He pointed out that
they never discussed the empty reservoir, not once during all
their meetings of the past year. Sayat Kashani, welcome, how
are you good?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Pronounce sir? Good to be on your show.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That was a great presentation that you made to the
DW Did anybody from that board respond to you, either
publicly or privately?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Commissioner Pinder made some helpful comments. She said they would
look into it, that that was appreciated, but no one else.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So everybody else had nothing to say.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
They went about their business. The room was actually full
of contractors who were there to get their contracts approved
with the DWP, that that was their main business.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right, So you were did you feel like you were
in the way?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I guess so they didn't seem to want to hear
from me.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Isn't that? Isn't that falling? I mean I get enraged
listening to you. I mean, you controlled yourself quite well.
I'm not sure I could have kept my composure the
way you did.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well. You know, the problem is deeper than even I
had a chance to say. Let's just take an example.
One of the points I made is that the city
approved Janus Cordonas as director of the Department of Water
and Power without a background check. Now, that wasn't rhetorical.
There's a council file on her approval that literally says
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the background check has not been done, has not been completed. Now,
if they had completed that background check, one of the
things they would have found is that in June twenty
twenty two, when Jenny's cornonas was head of gas natural
gas operations for Pacific Gas and Electric. Her division was
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fined one point three million dollars by the California Public
Utilities Commission for corroded and leaky gas pipelines. The Commission
found three hundred and ten instances of corrooted pipelines and
they cited her Genie quanonas as the responsible officer. So
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this happened at her watch at Pacific Gas and Electric.
None of this was disclosed or considered by the city
council when they appointed her.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So she had three hundred and and ten corroded pipes.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That's what the Public Untilities Commission found. They only find
her found her division. They find her division of Pacific
Gas and Electric while she was head. This happened on
her watch. She was head of gas pipeline operations. The
Public Commissions find her one point six on one point
three million dollars. They found three hundred and ten violations,
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and they specifically found that these violations quote present an
unacceptable risk to safe operations. How far the city hired
her to run the Department of Water Power.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, yeah, And then there was that that story you
told about Puerto Rico that she was in charge of
after the hurricane the electrification program in eighty percent of
Puerto Rico is without electricity a year later.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well even to this day, there are still electricity blackouts
in Puerto Rico. It's never been repaired.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
She's not good at this is.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It seems that she just went from one failed operation
to another, and somehow she got passed along until we
got her.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Are you aware of anybody supporting her, as anybody spoke
with you as to why she's still is standing, why
she's still the CEO of the DWP.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, what are they afraid of it? By getting rid
of her, what would happen?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I don't know. The commission appointed to the city council
all voting unanimously to appoint her, and the mayor recommended her.
So a lot of you know, the entire city government
supported her appointment. A lot of people would have egg
on their faces if she had to be removed.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I mean, talk about your situation for a minute. You
got completely burned out of.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Your home, that's correct. And and do you have a
family with you? Do you have a family home with children?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They were at school. Their school also was burned down,
so it was it was pretty frantic and on the
day of so, yes, we're you know, we're both so
the two children and and uh they lost their school too.
In fact, most of the schools in the area burned down.
And let me tell you something about that. The schools
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had sprinklers, obviously fire sprinkler systems. There was no water
supplied to the sprinklers.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, no water.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
They don't work without water.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And who's responsible for that? Were these public schools or
private schools a right?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Or? Or is this part of the DWP piping that failed?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Exactly? The DWP. The DWP provides water for the sprinkler systems,
of fire sprinkler systems, but when the necessity came, when
the time came, they didn't supply the water.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So the whole infrastructure failed.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Everybody in Pacific Palisades, the whole water infrastructure and the
fire infrastructure as well, just failed.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The hydrants weren't working.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Exactly, Everything involving fire safety failed. And the worst of
it was again the city drained that reservoir a year ago.
The Department of Water and Power never told anyone in
the area. They never sent up warning to the residents
saying extreme fire rists this reservoir which was originally built
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for fire safety, is now empty, so be advised. They
never told that. It's not even clear if the DWP
told the fire department that the reservoir was empty. So
they just drained the reservoir and left it that way.
And the worst of it is they have that cover
over it, so when you look at the reservoir you
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can't even tell that it's empty because of that cover.
I mean the angle that you see it. Before they
had the cover, you could tell if it was empty
or not. But with the cover, you can't even tell.
And they never told anyone.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And you haven't heard any information privately. Sometimes people talk.
Sometimes people will will whisper and say, look, here's the
real story, here's what's been going on. Have you heard
anything at all.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I've tried trying to find information by going into
their archives, and the public library has some information and
so forth, and it shows certain things. For example, they
drained the reservoir last January. They look for bids to
repair the cover in June, so it took them six
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months to even look for bids. They didn't approve a
contract until November, and there was only one bid and
it was the same company that installed the reservoir, so
they didn't have far to look, and to this day
the reservoir is still empty. So I don't know why
it takes them a year to go back to the
same company to fix the cover. Even assuming they have
to fix the cover. There's been some false reporting that
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the reservoir leaked. That was not the problem. It was
the cover over the reservoir that had a tear in it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, and only recently did the law require a cover.
And from what I read, the cover should have only
taken a month to fix.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
For one hundred and forty thousand.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, it was job information said you talk about inside information.
One thing I have heard is that some people in
the department wanted to repair it in house, but they
were refused and told to go to get an outside contractor,
and that, of course takes longer. There's been a lot
of false information put out by the DWP. Let me
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give you some examples. On the day of the fire,
the one of the tanks of three tanks left small
tanks supplying water in the Palisades had already failed by
four pm on January seventh, but at six point thirty
pm that same day, the DWP get out a public
notice in which they stated we're working to provide water
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for firefighting. They made no mention of the failed tank.
They never disclosed that the tanks failed. If they had
given even that information, I think some people might have
saved some property or maybe even lives if they had
known that the water system was failing. But the DWP
never gave that information.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Can you hang on a second instant? Well, just hold
hold on, hold on, because I had to take a break.
I want to hear all of this. So we're going
to continue with say Ed Koshani, resident in the Palisades,
who's done some of his own dest mistigation into the DWP.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
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Speaker 2 (10:08):
We're going to continue with Sayed because Shani Sayed was
the Pacific Palisages resident who spoke at the DWP meeting
last week and wanted to know why the reservoir was empty,
and why in the last year nobody did anything to
fix the cover, why nobody ever discusses this, and why
is Jennie Kinonia still have a job as CEO. Now,
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say Ed, all right, when we left you right before
this commercial break, you were talking about things that you
had found out on your own.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Can continue. You said, there were several things you told
us one give us the next one.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, the one of the thing. The DWPS releasing a
lot of misleading information. For example, on their website they
claim the correcting misinformation and they talk about the reservoir.
They refer to the reservoir as drinking water. Well, that's true,
but it's misleading because the reservoir also supplies the hydrants,
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the fire sprinklers, and it's not Yes, it does supply
drinking water, but that's not its primary purpose. If you
go back in history, this reservoir was incepted after the
bel Air fire in nineteen sixty one, when it was
determined that the city needed more fire to more water
to fight these essentially brush fires. The reservoir was accepted
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in nineteen sixty eight. I think it was completed in
nineteen seventy. Yes, it supplies drinking water, but its purpose
is emergency fire water. That's made clear in the original
documents when they built the reservoir. So when the DWP
now is saying, well, this is drinking water, it would
not have made a difference. I believe that's misleading and
that's not consistent with the record the y water.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Besides that, it's irrelevant it should have.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Been one hundred and seventeen million gallons available.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That's nuts. Go on, go on.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Well, the other thing that concerns me is that DWP
is talking about a so called independent investigation. They claim
they want to model to see what the effect would
have been if the reservoir was there. Well, I have
many problems with that. Number one, they should have modeled
that before they drained the reservoir. Now they should have
considered the effect on a fire if the reservoir is
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drained before they drained the reservoir, not afterwards. Now, who
are they going to get to do this investigation? Well,
they said they'll hire an engineering company. Any engineering company
in the country has either done business with the DWP
or wants to do business with the DWP. So how
are you going to get an independent assessment from an
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engineering company. The only maybe independent investment investigation could be
maybe from a federal agency. Maybe they would investigate it fairly.
But the DWP hiring an engineering company that it's not
an independent investigation.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
This whole thing is a racket, is it not? I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's a closed circle. Definitely is a close circle. It's
definitely close circle because you're talking about companies that do
business with the DWP, who are beholden to the DWP.
They make all their money from the DWP, so they
have no incentive to do a truly independent investigation. Even
the state may not necessarily do a fair investigation because
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the state water quality rules are apparently involved. And when
they decided to drain the reservoir, there's Eric Leonard either yeah,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Go ahead, go ahead, finish. What were you saying?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That part doesn't make sense either, because the DWP now
claims that when they had a little tear in the
cover of the reservoir, some bird droppings or something to
get into the reservoir and contaminated to drinking water. Well,
the whole thing's chlorinated, so I don't know how that
could happen. But there's another problem, which is for the
first couple of months they use the water in the reservoir,
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they used it for drinking in that area. So where's
the contamination again, This is because it's treated.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You're right, what you said is right. It was treated,
so there was no contamination.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Exactly it's chorinated. It's a chlorinated and before two thousand
and three it was uncovered and people drank it for
forty years and never had a problem.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, it's total nonsense. I gotta go in a minute.
I just want to point out. Eric Lennard of NBC
got a quote from the assistant general manager at DWP.
You probably saw this and Selmo Collins. Collins says, even
if the repairs to the Santa Andez Reservoir had been
completed before the fires, it is unclear whether or not
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the additional water would have made much of a difference.
And then he talks about the modeling experien they want
to do. I don't know why. I don't know how
they could keep trying to sell the idea that one
hundred and seventeen million gallons of water would not make
a difference. I can't nobody can quantify exactly how much,
but it's one hundred and seventeen million gallons of anything
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would make a difference.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, if it doesn't make it different, why did you
build a reservoir in the first place. Yeah, good talker.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, I know, sayed I've got to go. Thank you
for coming on, and I hope we can talk again.
If you find out more stuff, would you let us know,
because you're better than most of the media here in
town and getting information on this.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Thank you, I will and I appreciate you bringing these
issues to light because we don't see it in a
lot of the media.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
They're not even trying, Sayid Kashani, a former resident of
Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You got burned out.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It seems every ten minutes there's another news story about
the price of eggs, which have a skyrocketed, the bird flu,
and now the bird flu is infecting dairy cows.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Does that make it the cow flu?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And if you're eating eggs and drinking milk, are you
going to get this? Well the man with the answers, well,
we think he has the answers. We'll find out. ABC
News corresponded Alex Stone. I play like I have the answers, right, You.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Just fake it? Yeah, that's all I'm doing there. You go.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
No, if you eat eggs, you're going to be fine.
If you drink pasteurized milk, you're going to be fine.
But there's been a lot of bird flu of the
previous strain, and now there's a news strain that we'll
talk about. But the previous strain found in the unpasteurized milk,
which can make you sick by drinking that. But the
first of all on the price is they are going
up quickly. If you've been to Costco or been anywhere
else and you see how quickly it's like toilet paper
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during the pandemic, where people go in first thing and
they grab them and then they're out of them. That
it's all supplying to me right now. And so many
farms are being impacted by bird flu across the country
and really around the world, where entire flocks are having
to be killed off because the bird flu is spread
so quickly and it's so deadly to birds that they
die pretty quickly and then it will spread through or
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the farm has to kill them off. And eggs have
become a hot commodity. And you know this Pennsylvania story
of one hundred thousand eggs that were stolen worth about
forty thousand bucks, taken from a farm in a truck
and Pennsylvania police are looking for whomever took that trailer
full of them. Now, and restaurants they're feeling the impact.
This guy owns a diner. He says, yeah, he's heard.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It's ruining my bottom line. There is no bottom line.
The bottom fell out of my bottom line right now.
And Anthony Benavide he owns a Delhi as well.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
My rich case us to be sixty seventy dollars today
I pay two hundred and twenty one dollars, so.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
From sixty bucks for a case two hundred twenty one bucks.
And a lot of restaurants are trying to figure out
now do they up prices or at this time when
the families are trying to save a little bit of money,
is that going to.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Scare people away?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
If for especially breakfast items, if you jack up the prices,
and he says, I'm.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Trying to hold on, you know the most I will
go up as a dollar bug, I don't even want
to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And waffle house, which we don't have here in California,
I don't think at all, or very few of them are.
It's now adding fifty cents per egg a surcharge onto
all orders because of the price of eggs, and the
Agriculture Department is predicting that We should be ready for
egg prices to go up about twenty percent more in
the next couple of months because of this if you
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can find them, and so many stores are now limiting
that you can get two cartons or they don't have
them at all, so that it can be tough to
find them. The other part of this now that chows
this isn't going to go away, is this new strain
found in Nevada, which is different and more severe in
this form of bird flu than what had been found
in the cattle in California and most of the birds,
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this one that has now been found for the first
time in cattle had been a train that was only
in wild birds. It is the one that a man
in Louisiana died from and somebody in Canada got severely
ill from, Whereas the other strain that we've been talking
about for a number of months it was pretty much
all mild in everybody, was mild in everybody in the US.
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This is our epidemiologist at ABC News. He's a doctor,
John Brownstein, and he says, you know, now it's jumping
from the more severe strain from wild birds to cattle.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
That that is worrisome.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That is a concern because it shows that there's persistent
risk of bird flu in cows and to the people
that work closely with them, because most of the cases
have been in California, and most of them have been
dairy workers those around cattle who have gotten that less
severe strains. So now they worry about this more severe strain,
the one that killed the guy in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
What that's going to mean.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Scientists John, they're trying to figure out what this new strain,
how it interacts between animals and humans, and how humans
get infected with it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Can they say they've got it, humans catch it from
other humans?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Can humans catch it for human At this point in
the US, at least, there has been no known human
to human transmission of bird flu in any form, and
the expectation is in the medical community that it probably
will go on at some point, but we don't know
of it going on yet. And again, until this strain,
the previous strain that was going around was pretty mild,
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so there wasn't a ton of concern about that. You know,
it's redness in the eyes and some other things, whereas
this other strain is a bit more deadly. But the
biggest thing that most of us have to deal with
right now is just the higher prices of eggs coming
out of it because it is so deadly to the birds.
Most of us are not going to be on a
dairy farm or around wild birds and have to worry
about that. But the average price of a dozen eggs
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up until twenty twenty two was was under two bucks.
The average cost right now is about four dollars and
fifteen cents, so they've gone up quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, and they.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Don't know what starts this blue foreign country.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, we don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Avian flu has been around for a while. You remember
years ago when there were news stories and concerned about it.
This one has just kind of blown up a little
bit more and went to cattle over the summer. When
it was only birds, it was kind of like, well,
you know what, we don't have to worry about it
that much. Yeah, I could mess with chicken prices and
turkey and eggs, but as long as it doesn't go
anywhere else. Then it went into cattle. It was found
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in the milk of cattle. That is how they have
now found this new strain in Nevada was in the
milk that was produced at a farm and then so
that's why the messages out there to drink pasteurized only
right now. And then the human cases in October November
began there and there have been a dozens in the US,
and again, except for the one guy in Louisiana, most
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of them have been mild. All right, Alex Stone, thank
you very much. You did have some answers later, John,
it is good, Yeah, all right, Oh, Debber, you don't
care about any of this, right because you don't eat
any eggs and you don't drink any milk, so you
couldn't care less what happens. You know who drinks raw
mouth is Robert Kennedy. He's big on that, which I
find disgusting. Unpasteurized milk. He just drinks the milk as
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if it just came, you know, straight out of the utter.
And you know pasteurization is is you heat them, you
heat it and then it kills everything.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But he ended up with worms in his brain. That's how.
That's how.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's what happens when you don't deal with the modern
ways of cooking food.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Coming up, there is a new story out in the
West Side Current about how much money we spend on
stuff in Los Angeles. I've got I'll tell you exactly
in case you want to know why the fire was
so devastating and we had such a feeble response. And
we have found out that the fire department is wildly
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understaffed and wildly underfinanced. There's some definitive numbers on what
the LA government spends the money on. Karen Bass in
the City Council. When you hear about this, you could
only assume that a fire response like we had in
the Palisades just had to happen.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
There's no way to avoid it. That's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
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Speaker 2 (23:19):
We're on from one to four every day, and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the
iHeart app after Debor's News at three o'clock, we are
gonna meet again Cheryl Poindexter. Cheryl was on our show
in twenty twenty because her eleven acre ranch burned to
the ground.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
In Juniper Hills.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It was a nonprofit animal rescue and she lost a lot,
her home, a one hundred year old barn, all, her
horse stalls, a guesthouse, a motorhom a trailer, and she
got her home rebuilt, but she still can't get into it.
And she's got a warning for those of you at
Altadena in the Palace Aids.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
You don't know what's coming.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You don't know what kind of bureaucratic hell is going
to be unleashed on your lives, because the people that
are supposed to make life easier for you are are idiots,
and they're going to make life much more difficult.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
There is nothing more.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Frustrating and more it's just flat out stupid than a
bunch of bureaucrats. And that's why we're in the situation
we're in. We're going to talk to Cheryl Poindexter. She
can't wait to talk about all this. One thing that
hit me in this email she sent to us. Eighty
five houses in our community burned to the ground. You
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know how many have been rebuilt, Like take a guess
at a eighty five.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Four.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
This is five years later, and a lot of people
cannot pay for the code upgrades that the county is demanding.
Costs you one hundre of thousands of dollars. We'll explain
all this coming up. Yeah, that's why when you see
Karen Bass and sober Off standing and going, oh, I'm strong,
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Oh I'm strong. We're going to be better than ever.
They don't tell you what's going to happen. And that's
why when that Hollywood agent brought up the absurd permitting
in La so sober Off shouted him down and saying, Oh,
we're not going to be political here, We're not going
to be negative.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
That's the bust to know.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
They don't want to talk about how horrible the government
is to people and how difficult it's going to be,
and they're not going to make it better. All right,
let me talk about something that really should make you crazy.
And it's not just true in Los Angeles. This is
true everywhere, but especially in Los Angeles where nearly everybody
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in government, in power, the city council, and the last
three mayors belonged to the Woke cult. It's a terrible
religious cult. And in the Woke cult, there are three
groups that are considered sacred above all other mortals, and
that is the homeless, the criminals, and the illegal aliens.
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And I always tell you about all the money we're spending,
and maybe you don't believe me, and you think it's
hyperbole or I've got some kind of weird political bent.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The West Side Current.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Has broken down what the City of Los Angeles spends
annually in the budget, and this is.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
The root of why the.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Fire, the city fire response was so feeble and was
so ineffective. This is from the twenty twenty three to
twenty four fiscal year, ten percent of the city's budget,
ten percent one point three billion dollars went to homeless services.
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Ten percent of the budget. The homeless makeup one percent
of the population, So ten percent of your tax money
in the city of La goes to help one percent
of the population. And you could see all these programs
are massive failures. In fact, two thirds of the homeless
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are unsheltered, means they don't even have a shelter bed
to go to or one of those disgusting motels. They're
in the streets. And that's ten percent of the budget.
You know who also gets ten percent of the budget
the La Fire Department and emergency medical services. They actually
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get a little less than the homeless.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The fire department, though, has to provide fire protection and
emergency medical services and disaster services for the entire city
of nearly four million people. They have to supply these
services fire and emergency medical to four million people, while
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the homeless department only has to service one percent of
the four million, but they get the same amount of money.
In fact, the homeless agencies get a little bit more
than the apartment. Now, that is an atrocity. That's disgusting,
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that is wrong, that is foul. I'm out of words.
And the thing is you can't go to a Karen
Bass because she's a high priestess in the cult, and
you can't go to the city council most of them
and say, hey, this is wrong. Should you be spending
more money on homeless people than the fire department when
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the fire department has to serve four million and the
homeless agencies are serving one percent of that.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Right on its face, it's absurd.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
And this has to go every year because they belonged
to this bizarro cult that provide that prizes homeless people
as well as illegal aliens and criminals above us ordinary citizens.
It is so angering, it is so crazy, but you
can't talk them out of it, which is why they
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have to be removed. They simply have to be removed
because this is crazy land. The LAPD gets sixteen percent
of the budget. But infrastructure and maintenance programs like brush removal, well,
let's take brush removal by itself. We only spend a
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million and a half dollars on brush clearance, which was
one of the reasons the Palisades fire blew up so big.
There was so much to burn up there. One and
a half million dollars. But we're spending we're spending one
point three billion. I'm the homeless who start the fires.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's got to be reversed.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Police and fire and emergency services and brush clearance, all
that stuff that should be billions of dollars and give
the homeless a few pennies to buy them bus there
and get them out of town. This experiment should be
over done. No further discussion. This has got a hind
We come back. We're going to talk with Cheryl Poindexter.
(30:34):
Five years ago she lost everything on her property to
a fire in Juniper Hills and still can't get into
her US. Wait till you hear about the nightmare of
actually dealing with the bureaucracy. Maybe somebody called Steve Sobrough
and ask him to listen to this, because this is
the reality, not his nonsensical cheerleading Deborah Mark live in
the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You can always hear the show lot ive on KFI
AM six forty from one to four pm every Monday
through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on the
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Well, let's get Sayaed Kashani right on here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We just played you about six minutes of say Ed
at the Board of Water and Power Commissioner's meeting. He
got burned out of his home. He showed up, he said,
wearing the only clothes that he owns, and he wanted
to know why did they not fill up the reservoir,
the San Inez Reservoir. And he even played a clip
of Genie Kenonez, the CEO of the DWP, babbling on
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something about diversity and Hispanic percentages and you know, all
the nonsense that they obsess on. He pointed out that
they never discussed the empty reservoir, not once during all
their meetings of the past year. Sayat Kashani, welcome, how
are you good?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Pronounce sir? Good to be on your show.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That was a great presentation that you made to the
DW Did anybody from that board respond to you, either
publicly or privately?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Commissioner Pinder made some helpful comments. She said they would
look into it, that that was appreciated, but no one else.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So everybody else had nothing to say.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
They went about their business. The room was actually full
of contractors who were there to get their contracts approved
with the DWP, that that was their main business.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right, So you were did you feel like you were
in the way?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I guess so they didn't seem to want to hear
from me.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Isn't that? Isn't that falling? I mean I get enraged
listening to you. I mean, you controlled yourself quite well.
I'm not sure I could have kept my composure the
way you did.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well. You know, the problem is deeper than even I
had a chance to say. Let's just take an example.
One of the points I made is that the city
approved Janus Cordonas as director of the Department of Water
and Power without a background check. Now, that wasn't rhetorical.
There's a council file on her approval that literally says
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the background check has not been done, has not been completed. Now,
if they had completed that background check, one of the
things they would have found is that in June twenty
twenty two, when Jenny's cornonas was head of gas natural
gas operations for Pacific Gas and Electric. Her division was
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fined one point three million dollars by the California Public
Utilities Commission for corroded and leaky gas pipelines. The Commission
found three hundred and ten instances of corrooted pipelines and
they cited her Genie quanonas as the responsible officer. So
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this happened at her watch at Pacific Gas and Electric.
None of this was disclosed or considered by the city
council when they appointed her.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So she had three hundred and and ten corroded pipes.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That's what the Public Untilities Commission found. They only find
her found her division. They find her division of Pacific
Gas and Electric while she was head. This happened on
her watch. She was head of gas pipeline operations. The
Public Commissions find her one point six on one point
three million dollars. They found three hundred and ten violations,
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and they specifically found that these violations quote present an
unacceptable risk to safe operations. How far the city hired
her to run the Department of Water Power.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, yeah, And then there was that that story you
told about Puerto Rico that she was in charge of
after the hurricane the electrification program in eighty percent of
Puerto Rico is without electricity a year later.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well even to this day, there are still electricity blackouts
in Puerto Rico. It's never been repaired.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
She's not good at this is.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It seems that she just went from one failed operation
to another, and somehow she got passed along until we
got her.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Are you aware of anybody supporting her, as anybody spoke
with you as to why she's still is standing, why
she's still the CEO of the DWP.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, what are they afraid of it? By getting rid
of her, what would happen?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I don't know. The commission appointed to the city council
all voting unanimously to appoint her, and the mayor recommended her.
So a lot of you know, the entire city government
supported her appointment. A lot of people would have egg
on their faces if she had to be removed.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I mean, talk about your situation for a minute. You
got completely burned out of.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Your home, that's correct. And and do you have a
family with you? Do you have a family home with children?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They were at school. Their school also was burned down,
so it was it was pretty frantic and on the
day of so, yes, we're you know, we're both so
the two children and and uh they lost their school too.
In fact, most of the schools in the area burned down.
And let me tell you something about that. The schools
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had sprinklers, obviously fire sprinkler systems. There was no water
supplied to the sprinklers.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, no water.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
They don't work without water.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And who's responsible for that? Were these public schools or
private schools a right?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Or? Or is this part of the DWP piping that failed?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Exactly? The DWP. The DWP provides water for the sprinkler systems,
of fire sprinkler systems, but when the necessity came, when
the time came, they didn't supply the water.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So the whole infrastructure failed.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Everybody in Pacific Palisades, the whole water infrastructure and the
fire infrastructure as well, just failed.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The hydrants weren't working.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Exactly, Everything involving fire safety failed. And the worst of
it was again the city drained that reservoir a year ago.
The Department of Water and Power never told anyone in
the area. They never sent up warning to the residents
saying extreme fire rists this reservoir which was originally built
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for fire safety, is now empty, so be advised. They
never told that. It's not even clear if the DWP
told the fire department that the reservoir was empty. So
they just drained the reservoir and left it that way.
And the worst of it is they have that cover
over it, so when you look at the reservoir you
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can't even tell that it's empty because of that cover.
I mean the angle that you see it. Before they
had the cover, you could tell if it was empty
or not. But with the cover, you can't even tell.
And they never told anyone.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And you haven't heard any information privately. Sometimes people talk.
Sometimes people will will whisper and say, look, here's the
real story, here's what's been going on. Have you heard
anything at all.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, I've tried trying to find information by going into
their archives, and the public library has some information and
so forth, and it shows certain things. For example, they
drained the reservoir last January. They look for bids to
repair the cover in June, so it took them six
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months to even look for bids. They didn't approve a
contract until November, and there was only one bid and
it was the same company that installed the reservoir, so
they didn't have far to look, and to this day
the reservoir is still empty. So I don't know why
it takes them a year to go back to the
same company to fix the cover. Even assuming they have
to fix the cover. There's been some false reporting that
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the reservoir leaked. That was not the problem. It was
the cover over the reservoir that had a tear in it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, and only recently did the law require a cover.
And from what I read, the cover should have only
taken a month to fix.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
For one hundred and forty thousand.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, it was job information said you talk about inside information.
One thing I have heard is that some people in
the department wanted to repair it in house, but they
were refused and told to go to get an outside contractor,
and that, of course takes longer. There's been a lot
of false information put out by the DWP. Let me
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give you some examples. On the day of the fire,
the one of the tanks of three tanks left small
tanks supplying water in the Palisades had already failed by
four pm on January seventh, but at six point thirty
pm that same day, the DWP get out a public
notice in which they stated we're working to provide water
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for firefighting. They made no mention of the failed tank.
They never disclosed that the tanks failed. If they had
given even that information, I think some people might have
saved some property or maybe even lives if they had
known that the water system was failing. But the DWP
never gave that information.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Can you hang on a second instant? Well, just hold
hold on, hold on, because I had to take a break.
I want to hear all of this. So we're going
to continue with say Ed Koshani, resident in the Palisades,
who's done some of his own dest mistigation into the DWP.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We're going to continue with Sayed because Shani Sayed was
the Pacific Palisages resident who spoke at the DWP meeting
last week and wanted to know why the reservoir was empty,
and why in the last year nobody did anything to
fix the cover, why nobody ever discusses this, and why
is Jennie Kinonia still have a job as CEO. Now,
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say Ed, all right, when we left you right before
this commercial break, you were talking about things that you
had found out on your own.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Can continue. You said, there were several things you told
us one give us the next one.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, the one of the thing. The DWPS releasing a
lot of misleading information. For example, on their website they
claim the correcting misinformation and they talk about the reservoir.
They refer to the reservoir as drinking water. Well, that's true,
but it's misleading because the reservoir also supplies the hydrants,
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the fire sprinklers, and it's not Yes, it does supply
drinking water, but that's not its primary purpose. If you
go back in history, this reservoir was incepted after the
bel Air fire in nineteen sixty one, when it was
determined that the city needed more fire to more water
to fight these essentially brush fires. The reservoir was accepted
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in nineteen sixty eight. I think it was completed in
nineteen seventy. Yes, it supplies drinking water, but its purpose
is emergency fire water. That's made clear in the original
documents when they built the reservoir. So when the DWP
now is saying, well, this is drinking water, it would
not have made a difference. I believe that's misleading and
that's not consistent with the record the y water.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Besides that, it's irrelevant it should have.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Been one hundred and seventeen million gallons available.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That's nuts. Go on, go on.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Well, the other thing that concerns me is that DWP
is talking about a so called independent investigation. They claim
they want to model to see what the effect would
have been if the reservoir was there. Well, I have
many problems with that. Number one, they should have modeled
that before they drained the reservoir. Now they should have
considered the effect on a fire if the reservoir is
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drained before they drained the reservoir, not afterwards. Now, who
are they going to get to do this investigation? Well,
they said they'll hire an engineering company. Any engineering company
in the country has either done business with the DWP
or wants to do business with the DWP. So how
are you going to get an independent assessment from an
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engineering company. The only maybe independent investment investigation could be
maybe from a federal agency. Maybe they would investigate it fairly.
But the DWP hiring an engineering company that it's not
an independent investigation.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
This whole thing is a racket, is it not? I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's a closed circle. Definitely is a close circle. It's
definitely close circle because you're talking about companies that do
business with the DWP, who are beholden to the DWP.
They make all their money from the DWP, so they
have no incentive to do a truly independent investigation. Even
the state may not necessarily do a fair investigation because
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the state water quality rules are apparently involved. And when
they decided to drain the reservoir, there's Eric Leonard either yeah,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Go ahead, go ahead, finish. What were you saying?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That part doesn't make sense either, because the DWP now
claims that when they had a little tear in the
cover of the reservoir, some bird droppings or something to
get into the reservoir and contaminated to drinking water. Well,
the whole thing's chlorinated, so I don't know how that
could happen. But there's another problem, which is for the
first couple of months they use the water in the reservoir,
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they used it for drinking in that area. So where's
the contamination again, This is because it's treated.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You're right, what you said is right. It was treated,
so there was no contamination.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Exactly it's chorinated. It's a chlorinated and before two thousand
and three it was uncovered and people drank it for
forty years and never had a problem.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, it's total nonsense. I gotta go in a minute.
I just want to point out. Eric Lennard of NBC
got a quote from the assistant general manager at DWP.
You probably saw this and Selmo Collins. Collins says, even
if the repairs to the Santa Andez Reservoir had been
completed before the fires, it is unclear whether or not
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the additional water would have made much of a difference.
And then he talks about the modeling experien they want
to do. I don't know why. I don't know how
they could keep trying to sell the idea that one
hundred and seventeen million gallons of water would not make
a difference. I can't nobody can quantify exactly how much,
but it's one hundred and seventeen million gallons of anything
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would make a difference.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, if it doesn't make it different, why did you
build a reservoir in the first place. Yeah, good talker.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, I know, sayed I've got to go. Thank you
for coming on, and I hope we can talk again.
If you find out more stuff, would you let us know,
because you're better than most of the media here in
town and getting information on this.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Thank you, I will and I appreciate you bringing these
issues to light because we don't see it in a
lot of the media.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
They're not even trying, Sayid Kashani, a former resident of
Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You got burned out.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It seems every ten minutes there's another news story about
the price of eggs, which have a skyrocketed, the bird flu,
and now the bird flu is infecting dairy cows.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Does that make it the cow flu?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And if you're eating eggs and drinking milk, are you
going to get this? Well the man with the answers, well,
we think he has the answers. We'll find out. ABC
News corresponded Alex Stone. I play like I have the answers, right, You.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Just fake it? Yeah, that's all I'm doing there. You go.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
No, if you eat eggs, you're going to be fine.
If you drink pasteurized milk, you're going to be fine.
But there's been a lot of bird flu of the
previous strain, and now there's a news strain that we'll
talk about. But the previous strain found in the unpasteurized milk,
which can make you sick by drinking that. But the
first of all on the price is they are going
up quickly. If you've been to Costco or been anywhere
else and you see how quickly it's like toilet paper
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during the pandemic, where people go in first thing and
they grab them and then they're out of them. That
it's all supplying to me right now. And so many
farms are being impacted by bird flu across the country
and really around the world, where entire flocks are having
to be killed off because the bird flu is spread
so quickly and it's so deadly to birds that they
die pretty quickly and then it will spread through or
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the farm has to kill them off. And eggs have
become a hot commodity. And you know this Pennsylvania story
of one hundred thousand eggs that were stolen worth about
forty thousand bucks, taken from a farm in a truck
and Pennsylvania police are looking for whomever took that trailer
full of them. Now, and restaurants they're feeling the impact.
This guy owns a diner. He says, yeah, he's heard.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It's ruining my bottom line. There is no bottom line.
The bottom fell out of my bottom line right now.
And Anthony Benavide he owns a Delhi as well.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
My rich case us to be sixty seventy dollars today
I pay two hundred and twenty one dollars, so.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
From sixty bucks for a case two hundred twenty one bucks.
And a lot of restaurants are trying to figure out
now do they up prices or at this time when
the families are trying to save a little bit of money,
is that going to.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Scare people away?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
If for especially breakfast items, if you jack up the prices,
and he says, I'm.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Trying to hold on, you know the most I will
go up as a dollar bug, I don't even want
to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And waffle house, which we don't have here in California,
I don't think at all, or very few of them are.
It's now adding fifty cents per egg a surcharge onto
all orders because of the price of eggs, and the
Agriculture Department is predicting that We should be ready for
egg prices to go up about twenty percent more in
the next couple of months because of this if you
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can find them, and so many stores are now limiting
that you can get two cartons or they don't have
them at all, so that it can be tough to
find them. The other part of this now that chows
this isn't going to go away, is this new strain
found in Nevada, which is different and more severe in
this form of bird flu than what had been found
in the cattle in California and most of the birds,
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this one that has now been found for the first
time in cattle had been a train that was only
in wild birds. It is the one that a man
in Louisiana died from and somebody in Canada got severely
ill from, Whereas the other strain that we've been talking
about for a number of months it was pretty much
all mild in everybody, was mild in everybody in the US.
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This is our epidemiologist at ABC News. He's a doctor,
John Brownstein, and he says, you know, now it's jumping
from the more severe strain from wild birds to cattle.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
That that is worrisome.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That is a concern because it shows that there's persistent
risk of bird flu in cows and to the people
that work closely with them, because most of the cases
have been in California, and most of them have been
dairy workers those around cattle who have gotten that less
severe strains. So now they worry about this more severe strain,
the one that killed the guy in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
What that's going to mean.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Scientists John, they're trying to figure out what this new strain,
how it interacts between animals and humans, and how humans
get infected with it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Can they say they've got it, humans catch it from
other humans?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Can humans catch it for human At this point in
the US, at least, there has been no known human
to human transmission of bird flu in any form, and
the expectation is in the medical community that it probably
will go on at some point, but we don't know
of it going on yet. And again, until this strain,
the previous strain that was going around was pretty mild,
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so there wasn't a ton of concern about that. You know,
it's redness in the eyes and some other things, whereas
this other strain is a bit more deadly. But the
biggest thing that most of us have to deal with
right now is just the higher prices of eggs coming
out of it because it is so deadly to the birds.
Most of us are not going to be on a
dairy farm or around wild birds and have to worry
about that. But the average price of a dozen eggs
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up until twenty twenty two was was under two bucks.
The average cost right now is about four dollars and
fifteen cents, so they've gone up quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, and they.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Don't know what starts this blue foreign country.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, we don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Avian flu has been around for a while. You remember
years ago when there were news stories and concerned about it.
This one has just kind of blown up a little
bit more and went to cattle over the summer. When
it was only birds, it was kind of like, well,
you know what, we don't have to worry about it
that much. Yeah, I could mess with chicken prices and
turkey and eggs, but as long as it doesn't go
anywhere else. Then it went into cattle. It was found
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in the milk of cattle. That is how they have
now found this new strain in Nevada was in the
milk that was produced at a farm and then so
that's why the messages out there to drink pasteurized only
right now. And then the human cases in October November
began there and there have been a dozens in the US,
and again, except for the one guy in Louisiana, most
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of them have been mild. All right, Alex Stone, thank
you very much. You did have some answers later, John,
it is good, Yeah, all right, Oh, Debber, you don't
care about any of this, right because you don't eat
any eggs and you don't drink any milk, so you
couldn't care less what happens. You know who drinks raw
mouth is Robert Kennedy. He's big on that, which I
find disgusting. Unpasteurized milk. He just drinks the milk as
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if it just came, you know, straight out of the utter.
And you know pasteurization is is you heat them, you
heat it and then it kills everything.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But he ended up with worms in his brain. That's how.
That's how.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's what happens when you don't deal with the modern
ways of cooking food.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Coming up, there is a new story out in the
West Side Current about how much money we spend on
stuff in Los Angeles. I've got I'll tell you exactly
in case you want to know why the fire was
so devastating and we had such a feeble response. And
we have found out that the fire department is wildly
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understaffed and wildly underfinanced. There's some definitive numbers on what
the LA government spends the money on. Karen Bass in
the City Council. When you hear about this, you could
only assume that a fire response like we had in
the Palisades just had to happen.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
There's no way to avoid it. That's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
We're on from one to four every day, and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the
iHeart app after Debor's News at three o'clock, we are
gonna meet again Cheryl Poindexter. Cheryl was on our show
in twenty twenty because her eleven acre ranch burned to
the ground.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
In Juniper Hills.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
It was a nonprofit animal rescue and she lost a lot,
her home, a one hundred year old barn, all, her
horse stalls, a guesthouse, a motorhom a trailer, and she
got her home rebuilt, but she still can't get into it.
And she's got a warning for those of you at
Altadena in the Palace Aids.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
You don't know what's coming.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You don't know what kind of bureaucratic hell is going
to be unleashed on your lives, because the people that
are supposed to make life easier for you are are idiots,
and they're going to make life much more difficult.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
There is nothing more.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Frustrating and more it's just flat out stupid than a
bunch of bureaucrats. And that's why we're in the situation
we're in. We're going to talk to Cheryl Poindexter. She
can't wait to talk about all this. One thing that
hit me in this email she sent to us. Eighty
five houses in our community burned to the ground. You
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know how many have been rebuilt, Like take a guess
at a eighty five.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Four.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
This is five years later, and a lot of people
cannot pay for the code upgrades that the county is demanding.
Costs you one hundre of thousands of dollars. We'll explain
all this coming up. Yeah, that's why when you see
Karen Bass and sober Off standing and going, oh, I'm strong,
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Oh I'm strong. We're going to be better than ever.
They don't tell you what's going to happen. And that's
why when that Hollywood agent brought up the absurd permitting
in La so sober Off shouted him down and saying, Oh,
we're not going to be political here, We're not going
to be negative.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
That's the bust to know.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
They don't want to talk about how horrible the government
is to people and how difficult it's going to be,
and they're not going to make it better. All right,
let me talk about something that really should make you crazy.
And it's not just true in Los Angeles. This is
true everywhere, but especially in Los Angeles where nearly everybody
(25:45):
in government, in power, the city council, and the last
three mayors belonged to the Woke cult. It's a terrible
religious cult. And in the Woke cult, there are three
groups that are considered sacred above all other mortals, and
that is the homeless, the criminals, and the illegal aliens.
(26:06):
And I always tell you about all the money we're spending,
and maybe you don't believe me, and you think it's
hyperbole or I've got some kind of weird political bent.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The West Side Current.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Has broken down what the City of Los Angeles spends
annually in the budget, and this is.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
The root of why the.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Fire, the city fire response was so feeble and was
so ineffective. This is from the twenty twenty three to
twenty four fiscal year, ten percent of the city's budget,
ten percent one point three billion dollars went to homeless services.
(26:53):
Ten percent of the budget. The homeless makeup one percent
of the population, So ten percent of your tax money
in the city of La goes to help one percent
of the population. And you could see all these programs
are massive failures. In fact, two thirds of the homeless
(27:16):
are unsheltered, means they don't even have a shelter bed
to go to or one of those disgusting motels. They're
in the streets. And that's ten percent of the budget.
You know who also gets ten percent of the budget
the La Fire Department and emergency medical services. They actually
(27:38):
get a little less than the homeless.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The fire department, though, has to provide fire protection and
emergency medical services and disaster services for the entire city
of nearly four million people. They have to supply these
services fire and emergency medical to four million people, while
(28:06):
the homeless department only has to service one percent of
the four million, but they get the same amount of money.
In fact, the homeless agencies get a little bit more
than the apartment. Now, that is an atrocity. That's disgusting,
(28:27):
that is wrong, that is foul. I'm out of words.
And the thing is you can't go to a Karen
Bass because she's a high priestess in the cult, and
you can't go to the city council most of them
and say, hey, this is wrong. Should you be spending
more money on homeless people than the fire department when
(28:50):
the fire department has to serve four million and the
homeless agencies are serving one percent of that.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Right on its face, it's absurd.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
And this has to go every year because they belonged
to this bizarro cult that provide that prizes homeless people
as well as illegal aliens and criminals above us ordinary citizens.
It is so angering, it is so crazy, but you
can't talk them out of it, which is why they
(29:19):
have to be removed. They simply have to be removed
because this is crazy land. The LAPD gets sixteen percent
of the budget. But infrastructure and maintenance programs like brush removal, well,
let's take brush removal by itself. We only spend a
(29:43):
million and a half dollars on brush clearance, which was
one of the reasons the Palisades fire blew up so big.
There was so much to burn up there. One and
a half million dollars. But we're spending we're spending one
point three billion. I'm the homeless who start the fires.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's got to be reversed.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Police and fire and emergency services and brush clearance, all
that stuff that should be billions of dollars and give
the homeless a few pennies to buy them bus there
and get them out of town. This experiment should be
over done. No further discussion. This has got a hind
We come back. We're going to talk with Cheryl Poindexter.
(30:34):
Five years ago she lost everything on her property to
a fire in Juniper Hills and still can't get into
her US. Wait till you hear about the nightmare of
actually dealing with the bureaucracy. Maybe somebody called Steve Sobrough
and ask him to listen to this, because this is
the reality, not his nonsensical cheerleading Deborah Mark live in
the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
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