January 17, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/17) - Matt Himes comes on the show to talk about losing his home in the Palisades Fire and how many Pacific Palisades residents are sick of the "woke" leadership in LA. Moist Line Rounds 1 & 2. Hack in a Dumpster.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
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thing again because we have gone through the specific failures
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here the fire chief. And also, if I have a
moment this hour, I want to play the clip from
Channel five yesterday the LA Assistant Fire Chief Joe Everett apologizing,
heartfelt apology to Pacific Palisades residents. Extremely extremely hard for
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me to look you in the eye knowing that quite honestly,
I feel like I've failed you, dis respect Moving on,
let's get into business. Hey, that's all a lot of
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people want to hear. Instead of Karen Bass giving us
a minute and a half of stony silence and all
kinds of excuses and defensiveness and denials, let's talk now
with Matt Himes. Matt Hymes is a writer and editor,
and his Pacific Palisades home burned down last week, and
he describes himself as a former liberal, former registered Democrat,
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and this should be it. This has been the last
straw for a lot of people who might be leaving,
giving up on the Democratic regime that's been governing California
for so long. Let's talk to Matt. How are you, Matt? Well,
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hold on, try try again. We had a distorted phone
line there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
How's that that's here now?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes I can Matt. Thanks for coming on, And I'm
really really sorry what's happened to your home? And I
feel like I've said that one hundred times this week
to people. It's just terrible.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, thank you. I mean, we're blessed to have lots
of friends and family and we're not in such a
bad position, but it's sad and it's happened to a
lot of people. Palisades looks like it's been firebombs.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, just completely flattened large spots of it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And I know Altadina is not doing very well either,
so you know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's very similar there. You wrote a piece in the
New York Post. I thought it was very powerful as
somebody who I guess spent a lot of time as
a liberal Democrat and supported this kind of government in
the city and the state, and you had it even
before this fire, but this is the final, the final blow,
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I think for a lot of people talk about it
about your current feelings and other people's feelings that you know, sure, well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know it's for me.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It was, uh, well, first.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I did not vote for Trump in twenty sixteen, and
I didn't particularly want to vote for Hillary, but I
believed all the propaganda that anything was better than Trump,
and it was. First, it was the reaction, the sort
of outsized reaction to Trump that discontinued long after the
votes were counted, people freaking out. I thought, this isn't
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this isn't normal. And then came COVID and the restrictive lockdowns,
which I know my fellow parents and I were happy that,
all right, we'll keep our kids home for a while,
but very soon it became about other things like white
supremacy and equity. And then we're getting these you know,
these these riots which apparently do not violate stay at
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home orders, let alone the criminal Code. So I think
that kind of radicalized a lot of people, including myself.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Some people though, still seem resistant to realizing what our
or what our reality is. I still hear I'm hearing
defenses of Karen Bass. We have a fire commissioner blaming
sexism and homophobia for the criticism against Bass. I.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, you've noticed that too.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I think in many ways, at least in California, it
was easier to go along to get along, and it's
much more it's much easier to be that kind of
vague liberal who I just accept people. I tolerate people.
You know, if if you come out and say complain
about a trans issue, it's automatically well, why do you
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why do you want to kill these people? And of
course that's not what it is, but that requires explaining
the nuances of what's going on. And many people just
live on the surface and they just want to They
look at the Republicans, why are you so angry? Which
is ironic because I see a lot of leftists shouting
and crying racist and who knows what it's going to
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be like at the inauguration.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, the emotional state is extreme and there's like no
rational thought, no reason whatsoever in their responses. It's almost
like some kind of madness has taken over much of
the population.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And yeah, and yeah, Caliquara has been a one party
state for so long. That's a big problem as well.
There's no counterbolence whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Why would people be so enamored with Gavin Newsom that
he's been able to be at the highest levels of
politics now for over twenty years. His existence confounds me.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I don't know, except that people they like he's presentable,
I suppose. I mean, I don't find him. I find
him devoid of charm. You could say he's he's good looking,
but to me, it's a very kind of a creepy
American psycho way I described him in the article. I said,
you know, he is everything they say Trump is, but
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on a smaller scale. And he doesn't he doesn't have
any of Trump's virtues. He's not funny. There's no empathy
from him. That clip you played the guy apologizing to
the palisase, I don't think I've seen one ounce of
contrition from from Newsome. It's almost been this kind of
smug Well, look, we're going to get to the bottom
of it. I mean this, these winds were fast, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, No, there's never an admission that they've done anything
wrong and that you're sorry about anything.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I was.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I was in New York City during nine to eleven.
I you know, I wasn't directly effected. I was in Brooklyn.
But I remember whatever you think of Juliani now, and
he wasn't that popular at the time. He stepped up,
and everybody across the person lines, Uh, they recognized his leadership.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Go ahead, Well yeah, yeah, sorry, we just stepped over
each other. Well I said this before. You know a
lot of days, and this is true in all jobs.
You don't You don't really earn your pay for the
normal days when nothing spectacular is going on. You earn
your pay when an extraordinary thing happens and you have
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to meet, You have to deal with it. You have
to execute exactly. And at the moment that we needed
Karen Bass and Christine Crowley and the head of the
d WP to execute, they all failed miserably. Bass didn't
even bother to stay on this continent.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yes, yes, that's egregious, and I agree. I tell us,
like these leadership positions, they're considered cushy now and yeah,
people aren't showing up when it gets fired. I don't,
I don't understand it. It just seems like a stepping stone.
Maybe I'm unfair to Newsom, but I've always gone the sense,
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it's just he wants to move on and use this
to get somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh, he wants to be president. That's that's only ever
wanted to be. All these stops are just a prelude
to becoming president. Is the damn gonna burst? Finally? Now?
Is this the moment? Because I can't imagine a more
disastrous moment that this ruling party could perpetrate us.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So, I think that'll be the silver lining. I mean, obviously,
this is bigger than politics. This is people, thank god,
not not having not many people died, thank god, but
just people losing their homes and and a lot of
these people are just normal middle class people who bought
in the neighborhood in the sixties. Yeah, it's gonna be
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very hard to read. So but so I hate to
say silver lining, but I because I but I hope
that this people can wake up.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
This is not even a partisan issues, just corruption and
and just bureacracy. I mean it is a partisan, but
you know it's Hey, they got a clean.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
House, Yeah, I mean really really flushed the system. Well listen, Matt,
really sorry, you have to go through all your all
your losses there with your home burning last week. Thank
you for coming on though, well it was my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And and and keep it up. But I think the
more people talking about this the better.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh yeah, we're gonna we're gonna keep it up. Thanks
very much, Matt.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Hins, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And you ought to read his piece of the New
York Post about having been a liberal Democrat most of
his life and finally, uh, he's given up on the
one party rule, and he said more and more friends
and neighbors are feeling the same way. I mean, if
this doesn't show you what this government is is capable
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of destroying, you see it with your own eyes. I mean,
sometime when it's when it's settled down and they allow
people to walk around the palisades, you should go there
and see what the bass Newsome regime has wrought. It's
so horrifying. When we come back. Two rounds of Hack
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and a dumps No one around a hack and a dumpster.
Two rounds of the moistline. That's next.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It is time now. They're a very very mentally and
emotionally exhausting week to let people vent on the moistline.
Eight seven seven moist eighty six, eight seven seven moist
eighty six. Round one. Let's go, may it's Sean.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Thanks for calling the moistline. I'm so excited to hear
from you. It's about time.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
I would like to personally congratulate Mayor Boss because her
incompetence has been recognized, not just nationwide but worldwide. Smith's
bad damn time. Same goes for Missolini Man.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
When I hear Rachel Darvish go up against Newsom, I
wish she was the governor, not him.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Mayor Beth says only one thing on her mind, and
that's the upcoming World Cup. She's going to be the
star of the world.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I think every single taxpayer should go on strike.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Nobody should pay their taxes.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What are they going to do about it?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
If all of LA or all of California for that matter,
doesn't pay their taxes, every California can pulled out until.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
These idiots get their together.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Everybody needs a swimming pool with a pump.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
Our skate isn't mismanaged, it's unmanaged.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
They were so busy concentrating on their green energy they
overlook what was right in front of them.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Never let a crisis go to waste. So I fear
not people of Pacific Palisade, because your governor just announced
that they're going to reimagine your community. That's code work
for small energy efficient, solar powered climate change homes, no
more mansions. Also a community for everyone. That's code work
for high density, high ride, low income housing, homeless shelbeers
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and rehab centers. He's right, Gavin Newsom has no idea
how to manage the state. It's time that it be recalled.
Speaker 11 (12:22):
The government has failed us. They're only protecting their assets.
They're feeling the resources from us. I do not have
any faith in my local government.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It hits the fat.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Keep ragging on these people.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Don't let it go.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Meat is so powerful they just want to point fingers
your crisis.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I'm listening right now to this bumbling fool talk about
what's important to hers through.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
An equity lens, and I can't take it.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I think I might throw up.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Than God training and Howkman's Gasco would have padded all
those on the back and gave them an ice cream company.
You might want to fund that fire department pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
There could be a major earthquake.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
At any second.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
That Levantina is she burnt down part of California before,
and now she's hitting the South Park.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
The one thing you're missing about this stupid Newsome is
that he's deflecting all the stuff towards the federal government
so that when it doesn't get rebuilt and the Olympics flock,
he's going to blame it on Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Pei is not working, is dead.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
That's why La is a third world country. We need
to fire all these moneys.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
LA County in general is all up right now.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Therefore all the four de soup members are all up too.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, that fire lady that wants to be rescued by
people that look like her. If she that went at
a restaurant, like when she gets a waiter waitress, they
need to look like her. Or wires a contractor they
need to look like her. Or she gets a doctor,
they have to look like her. She's a racist. The
state prepared more for the.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Possibility of Trump losing the election, and they're be at
rest than.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
They did for the fires.
Speaker 13 (14:10):
Of course, starn Vass and Newsom are incompetent, but that's not.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The main part of the story.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
They're on the take.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
They make money off the homeless, they make money off
the illegal aliens.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
There's no racket they can make money off in the
fire department.
Speaker 12 (14:25):
All this stuff, it's just self afflicted.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
They want to control the narrative because they have no accountability.
Speaker 13 (14:33):
How dare you ask questions of their behavior?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Who is this amateur botanist, this avid hiker who couldn't keep.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
His nose in his own business.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
They just cost hundreds of people their homes.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
No human could have changed anything.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You could have had three reservoirs and you still wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Have been able to do anything about it.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Oh, John, I don't know why you don't get any
answers from the don't.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You listen to the mayor?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
All you have to do is go to URL and
will answer everything.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Thank you for loving.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
You're not going to hang up goodbye.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
The guy before him, I don't even know what he's
doing listening to the show. He actually thinks that one
hundred and seventeen million gallons of water would have no effect.
You think maybe would have saved one home two five
one hundred and seventy seventeen million gallons. You think an
extra thousand firefighters they might have surrounded I don't know,
a block another forty engines. Forty engines, one thousand firefighters,
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and one hundred seventeen million gallons of water. Yeah, I
think that. Remember they ran out of water entirely. Everything
ran dry, the hydrants, nothing in it. You don't think
that reservoir would have done something. You don't think prepositioning
some of those forty extra engines would have. You didn't
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have to do the whole city. You just do the foothills,
north and south side of the mountains. I don't know.
Propaganda really works on a certain percentage of people. I
don't know what the IQ level is. I don't understand
anything anymore. We'd come back. There was somebody in that
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chain of calls that mentioned the heck, we're throwing in
the dumpster. We're gonna We're gonna throw her hard in
the dumpster next and then we're gonna have another round
of the moist line.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Head's on a stick. Yeah, it's time for John cobilt.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
To throw in a dumpster.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Don co belt show, can't I am six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and at john co Belt Radio.
You can follow us on social media. And yes, it's
the first hack in a dumpster for twenty twenty five,
first one we've had in a couple months, right, quite
some time, and really a Rookie of the Year early candidates.
Oh yes, she may go into Satan's Lake of Fire
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at the end of the year. It's going to be
hard to outdo the incompetence of our selection. She is
the CEO of the lad WP Department of Water and Power.
Her name Janie, Janie Kennyees. You know she's got a
little squiggle over the end. You're supposed to give that
little kenyonez kind of a limt. I can't do it.
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She was the one hired for seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year by Karen Bass, the old DWP
chief made only four hundred and fifty thousand. She was
given a three hundred thousand dollars increase. She has a
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six point seven billion dollar budget. She oversees eleven thousand employees.
Chief executive officer and chief engineer of the DWP. She's
got two jobs to transmit water from one place to
the next and transmit power from one place to the next. Now,
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let's say you had this job. I always like to
do this. I'd like to imagine if I had this job.
I woke up in the morning, I was magically the
CEO of the DWP, and somebody told me there's a
hole in the cover or a tear in the cover
of a one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir of
drinking water. I would say, well, let's repair that as
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quickly as possible, because we need the drinking water and
during fire season we're gonna need it to put out
the fire. Well back in back in February of last year,
she was told that there was a tear and they
have to fix it. And now to this day, eleven
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months later, it's still not fixed. People who work for
the DWP said, should it taken a month? Maybe one
hundred thousand dollars? Work was never done. You enter fire
season around September. Let's say you've got one hundred and
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seventeen million gallons of water not there, And somehow Kenoonias
did she not tell Christin Crowley, the fire chief for
the mayor, Karen Bass Bass appointed her and was confirmed
by the city council. Did she not say, hey, in
that high fire district up in the Palisades are our
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main reservoir. They had to pump in water from another
reservoir several miles away. Hydrants didn't work. The DWP did
have three one million dollar one million gallon water tanks,
but they all ran dry in seventeen hours, so firefighters
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had no water to fight the fire. I try to
think of the pain suffered by the five thousand or
so families who had everything they own gett incinerated. The
children in those five thousand families, the pain that you
find out your friends and neighbors are gone from a
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neighborhood forever, many of them will be. The school is gone,
church is gone. I can't imagine the loss, and I
can't imagine how a young child would process this. And
a lot of people still believe the government is competent
and they know what they're doing. They do. I've heard
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them say this, Oh, I'm not worried. They know what
they're doing. But Kristen Crowley didn't send the thousand firefighters
and the forty extra engines to the high risk areas,
and Genie Ken didn't fill up the reservoir for a
whole year and they're still getting paid. Let's listen to
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Genie Kens. You could see what a towering intellect she is.
We're going to play you about two minutes some of
her responses during the January eighth press conference after the
fire broke out, and also of audio on a radio
show talking about the DWP and viewing everything through an
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equity lens.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Roll that.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
She please correct me if I'm wrong, But we we
were trying to keep water at all altitudes on the Polisates,
and I think about three in the morning dusk when
the hydrants went drive above the brand what area we
are able to push water on that, on that trunk
line on the east side of that, and we have
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some water on higher elevations sixteen to eighteen thousand, but
at three thousand, all of the at three am, all
of the fire hydrants when dry. States to your question
of climate resiliency and how do we need to update
the system, I would say that that is true. We
were talking with the county supervisor and Mark on the
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change the way we operate our water systems for events
like this. This is an unprecedented event.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I think the twenty.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Eleven was significant from a power Irish perspective, but the
fires have really increased the response of this. We had
crews trying to mitigate this and we had to evacuate.
We worked with fire department to try to get back
in and try to fill the tents again safe to
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do so you're managing the fires, you're managing the water meets.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
There firefighting.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
So yes, we have to make seven resiliency as a region.
And it's it's going to be more than just a
w P. It's all the water agencies here the county.
It's important to me that everything we do it's with
an equivalence and social justice and making sure that we
write the bounds that we've done in the past from
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an infrastructure perspective, and that we involved the community.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Into the dumpsterre here the Ukradian Ukrai mob go ahead
down so Chi from never got her, never gave the
big Radberry. There you are still babbling away, rattling on. Yes,
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major responsibility for the complete destruction in the Pacific Palisades.
Couldn't fill a hole in the ground with water. Oh
my god, I've got a head. I'm never I can
never listen to that again. Honestly, I can't. This is
Karen Bass, this is her wisdom, like like she was
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better than everyone else they interviewed. Who came in second
for this job? Who is the person they rejected? I
want to hear them. This is what it's like in
the diversity world, and she's looking at everything through an
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equity lens. You're just supposed to send water down a
pipe and send electricity down a wire. That's all you
have to do. There's no equity lens here. You set
up the infrastructure, you deliver the water, you deliver the power,
people pay their bills, and you keep the system going.
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She's chief engineer. Does she sound like a chief engineer?
Chief engineer of what? She sounds like one of those
TikTok teenagers. How many words did she speak in that
in that minute and a half, like ten thousand? I
don't know what the hell she was talking about. Imagine
being stuck in a meeting for two hours. How does
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Karen Bass sit with her and say, yeah, that's it.
She's the one DWP. She's in charge of the water. Yeah,
we have a massive fire and she's in charge of
the water supply. Who would pick would you pick that anybody. Anybody,
if you're running a business and she's prattling in front
of you about your about inequity lens, would you put
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her in charge? I wouldn't put her in charge of
the cupcakes for a second great birthday party. Yeah, well,
there you go. There's your diversity. I guess diversity includes
hiring people who don't have a brain. Maybe that's another
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form of diversity that I wasn't aware of. Hire the
the intellectually challenged or the intellectually empty. Denise is our
first hack ass in a dumpster for twenty twenty five,
La first hack ass in a dumpster. You see female
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and she still has a job, Like you're gonna wake
up Monday morning, and she is still supplying you with
water and power. Really, and Karen Bass is still her boss.
All Right, we come back, Debra's gonna have the news,
and then we have another brand of the Moistline. John
Cobelt's show.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
You're listening to John Cobbelts on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Probably heard this a few times, but I'm sure this
will be entertaining. iHeartRadio hosting a special California town hall
with Newsom Governor Newsom this Sunday at nine am, or
at least that won't interfere with the football games. Right,
good time for it across iHeartRadio's California stations, including of
course I AM six forty. So Newsom is going to
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take questions from Californians who've been impacted by the recent fires,
and we'll discuss plans for the future of our state.
Maybe he'll announce that he's leaving so KFI This Sunday
morning at nine o'clock a special California town hall with
Gavin Newsom. Not in the morning, so eat your breakfast early.
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It's time for round two of the Moistline eight seven
seven moist eighty six. If you want to be on
next week, let's go round two.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Hey it Sean, thanks for calling the Moistline. I'm so
excited to hear from you. To boat time.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
Governor's two BC comforts in state and make sure that
all the illegal aliens are full sons it.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
All these people are too afraid of hurting people's feelings.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Unhoused really it's homeless people.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Let's call it what it is.
Speaker 13 (28:09):
You're John, I'm committed to streamlining and the processes and
then put in the flywheel in the throughput through an
equipless so we can smoot out the seque and anipa
as well as the ninas, the pizza, the set amara.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Whether that was in Africa or Antarctica, the result would
have been the same.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
They said, the firefighters couldn't have done its damn thing.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
And even if they had more water, couldn't have done
it damn thing.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Not so you know it made a difference.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
You're just guessing John Cobalt for mayor of La or
governor of California.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
The La City fire department is mismanaged, just like the
rest of the groups within the city and the county
and the state.
Speaker 12 (28:55):
The fire would happened in California.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
So the thing to do with.
Speaker 12 (28:59):
Climate change, it has to do with the bureaucracy and
money and fundamental failures that were done. It's a string
of unfortunate events that happen because of bad management.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Now that the city filled up all the available hotel
space with the vagrants, where are the people that lost
their homes, the working people, where are they going to
stay now?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I think, don't they a place to stay so they
can keep working? Runsome Newscomb is nothing but a shiny
cuplink that makes me sick.
Speaker 12 (29:30):
I know you're talking about Newsom and bath and no water,
but don't leave out the city manager of Los Angeles
and the county border supervisors.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
The primary funding of our tax dollars are for public safety, roads, infrastructure,
and parks. That's government's job. Those areas are now the
first to be cut for all these social programs.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Now that is all collapsed, our tax.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
Dollars will go to cleaning up the mess, hate, for
the lawsuits against the city, rebuild of infrastructure that was destroyed.
Bills will go up to pay for those lawsuits. And
if our homeowners insurance is dot counceled the rights of
skyrocket anyway you look at it, RISCOD, Thank you Mayor of.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
Bass I think he's a good governor.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So stop it.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
You're hurting my feelings and you talk about getting news
like that.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
They're holding meetings for more reasons and one reason only
to have the same story so that when someone.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Ask them, oh, it's not my department, Oh there wasn't
approved by the supervisor.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Oh oh oh the hilaryism. Why they have their meetings
bro to cover there is right that's it. So they
have the same story.
Speaker 14 (30:38):
So you can't get into.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
The circle, or man trying to brush into the circle
ain't happening.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
As an American citizen, I expect equal treatment from the
federal government independent of which way I vote.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
If I lost one hundred bucks at work, I would
be charged for it. Newsome and Bass and all these
people have lost billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They can't account for it.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
I guarantee you if they did a forensic level accounting,
they would find how much of this money went to
their friends and colleagues and how much of it got
kicked back.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Thank you for leaving your message, Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Eight seven seven moist eighty six for next week. Eight
seven seven moist eighty six. The last guy who mentioned
this phrase forensic accounting, which a number of people have
talked about. Why can't they go through line by line
and identify every dollar. I would have agreed with you
up until a couple of years ago, until we learned
about a number of audits that were done for high
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speed rail and for the state and Los Angeles homeless programs.
And you know what they found out, There is no
record where the money went. You can only do a
forensic audit and identify every expenditure if they write it
down and they keep the paperwork, or they keep the file,
they keep the computer file. But what they do is
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they pay out money and there are no records. I
remember with high speed rail they found out a lot
of money had gone to various contractors and the contractors
had had no invoices, the state had no records. The
money just evaporated. Same thing with the homeless payouts. With
these nonprofits, nobody writes down the transaction. No records are kept,
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so you can't do forensicc counting. They just outright it's
outright theft. It's like doing for forensic accounting. After somebody
steals all the money in your bedroom, they don't leave
a receipt conways here, thank you.
Speaker 15 (32:39):
That's why they fight so hard for these eighty thousand
dollars a year council jobs and supervisors, because they know
that if people get in there that aren't on that team,
that they're going to find everything out.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I was reading I think Michael Sellenberger wrote about this.
Is that you set up these homeless nonprofits and it's
staffed with friends and relatives of the council ends, and
so council members sends the money to that nonprofit and
then they friends and relatives pay themselves six figure salaries
and they give a cut to the Councilman.
Speaker 15 (33:12):
Yeah, that's all big skin and it's just all cash,
cash under the table, and nobody ever looks at it,
no noo, and there's no records to look at. Alex
Michaelson's coming on with Chippy O's from KTLA as well,
and we've got cash to give away. We've got a
lot going on, plus a lot of big football games
this weekend. Yes, try to figure out who's going to
win these suckers. I don't have a TV to watch them.
Speaker 14 (33:31):
But that's right, you're still out of electricity.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Whole week now. Wow man, yeah, man, seven break ins
on the block. Don't you have hotel money by now?
We don't want to leave everybody on the block who
left got broken into. I see what do you do
with lights? You put lights in the windows? How do
you tell people your home where? Yeah, we have lights
in the windows to signal that we're home. Yeah, yeah,
(33:53):
I do. We have a very loud dog. And you
know what, the whole neighborhood has hired these security guys
armed doing patrols up and down the block. Oh is
that right? We're paying for the foot patrol guy, two
mobile security services that are driving around, and taxes for
the LAPD.
Speaker 14 (34:13):
I told you years ago to move out of LA,
so I don't feel bad.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
You were right. You were right.
Speaker 15 (34:21):
I'll tell you I got three pretty good stories on
why I moved out of LA.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Look.
Speaker 15 (34:25):
I know, if you're entrenched and you've been there for
forty years, you got kids and grandkids, you can't move out.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I get that.
Speaker 15 (34:30):
But man, if you're brand new, you got the two
new kids, you want to move in LA. I don't
think twice about that.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Man.
Speaker 14 (34:35):
That really would have a nice weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Bob, thank you. I can't be any worse. Kruzer is
the News Conway Next Michael Kreuzer live in the twenty
four hour CAFI Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
live on KFI AM six forty from one to four
pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one till
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demand on the iHeart app. It's the podcast version same
as the radio and you should listen to the whole
thing again because we have gone through the specific failures
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here the fire chief. And also, if I have a
moment this hour, I want to play the clip from
Channel five yesterday the LA Assistant Fire Chief Joe Everett apologizing,
heartfelt apology to Pacific Palisades residents. Extremely extremely hard for
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me to look you in the eye knowing that quite honestly,
I feel like I've failed you, dis respect Moving on,
let's get into business. Hey, that's all a lot of
(01:11):
people want to hear. Instead of Karen Bass giving us
a minute and a half of stony silence and all
kinds of excuses and defensiveness and denials, let's talk now
with Matt Himes. Matt Hymes is a writer and editor,
and his Pacific Palisades home burned down last week, and
he describes himself as a former liberal, former registered Democrat,
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and this should be it. This has been the last
straw for a lot of people who might be leaving,
giving up on the Democratic regime that's been governing California
for so long. Let's talk to Matt. How are you, Matt? Well,
(01:55):
hold on, try try again. We had a distorted phone
line there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
How's that that's here now?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes I can Matt. Thanks for coming on, And I'm
really really sorry what's happened to your home? And I
feel like I've said that one hundred times this week
to people. It's just terrible.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, thank you. I mean, we're blessed to have lots
of friends and family and we're not in such a
bad position, but it's sad and it's happened to a
lot of people. Palisades looks like it's been firebombs.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, just completely flattened large spots of it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And I know Altadina is not doing very well either,
so you know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's very similar there. You wrote a piece in the
New York Post. I thought it was very powerful as
somebody who I guess spent a lot of time as
a liberal Democrat and supported this kind of government in
the city and the state, and you had it even
before this fire, but this is the final, the final blow,
(02:59):
I think for a lot of people talk about it
about your current feelings and other people's feelings that you know, sure, well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know it's for me.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It was, uh, well, first.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I did not vote for Trump in twenty sixteen, and
I didn't particularly want to vote for Hillary, but I
believed all the propaganda that anything was better than Trump,
and it was. First, it was the reaction, the sort
of outsized reaction to Trump that discontinued long after the
votes were counted, people freaking out. I thought, this isn't
(03:34):
this isn't normal. And then came COVID and the restrictive lockdowns,
which I know my fellow parents and I were happy that,
all right, we'll keep our kids home for a while,
but very soon it became about other things like white
supremacy and equity. And then we're getting these you know,
these these riots which apparently do not violate stay at
(03:55):
home orders, let alone the criminal Code. So I think
that kind of radicalized a lot of people, including myself.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Some people though, still seem resistant to realizing what our
or what our reality is. I still hear I'm hearing
defenses of Karen Bass. We have a fire commissioner blaming
sexism and homophobia for the criticism against Bass. I.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, you've noticed that too.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I think in many ways, at least in California, it
was easier to go along to get along, and it's
much more it's much easier to be that kind of
vague liberal who I just accept people. I tolerate people.
You know, if if you come out and say complain
about a trans issue, it's automatically well, why do you
(04:54):
why do you want to kill these people? And of
course that's not what it is, but that requires explaining
the nuances of what's going on. And many people just
live on the surface and they just want to They
look at the Republicans, why are you so angry? Which
is ironic because I see a lot of leftists shouting
and crying racist and who knows what it's going to
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be like at the inauguration.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, the emotional state is extreme and there's like no
rational thought, no reason whatsoever in their responses. It's almost
like some kind of madness has taken over much of
the population.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And yeah, and yeah, Caliquara has been a one party
state for so long. That's a big problem as well.
There's no counterbolence whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Why would people be so enamored with Gavin Newsom that
he's been able to be at the highest levels of
politics now for over twenty years. His existence confounds me.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I don't know, except that people they like he's presentable,
I suppose. I mean, I don't find him. I find
him devoid of charm. You could say he's he's good looking,
but to me, it's a very kind of a creepy
American psycho way I described him in the article. I said,
you know, he is everything they say Trump is, but
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on a smaller scale. And he doesn't he doesn't have
any of Trump's virtues. He's not funny. There's no empathy
from him. That clip you played the guy apologizing to
the palisase, I don't think I've seen one ounce of
contrition from from Newsome. It's almost been this kind of
smug Well, look, we're going to get to the bottom
of it. I mean this, these winds were fast, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, No, there's never an admission that they've done anything
wrong and that you're sorry about anything.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I was.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I was in New York City during nine to eleven.
I you know, I wasn't directly effected. I was in Brooklyn.
But I remember whatever you think of Juliani now, and
he wasn't that popular at the time. He stepped up,
and everybody across the person lines, Uh, they recognized his leadership.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Go ahead, Well yeah, yeah, sorry, we just stepped over
each other. Well I said this before. You know a
lot of days, and this is true in all jobs.
You don't You don't really earn your pay for the
normal days when nothing spectacular is going on. You earn
your pay when an extraordinary thing happens and you have
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to meet, You have to deal with it. You have
to execute exactly. And at the moment that we needed
Karen Bass and Christine Crowley and the head of the
d WP to execute, they all failed miserably. Bass didn't
even bother to stay on this continent.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yes, yes, that's egregious, and I agree. I tell us,
like these leadership positions, they're considered cushy now and yeah,
people aren't showing up when it gets fired. I don't,
I don't understand it. It just seems like a stepping stone.
Maybe I'm unfair to Newsom, but I've always gone the sense,
(08:14):
it's just he wants to move on and use this
to get somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh, he wants to be president. That's that's only ever
wanted to be. All these stops are just a prelude
to becoming president. Is the damn gonna burst? Finally? Now?
Is this the moment? Because I can't imagine a more
disastrous moment that this ruling party could perpetrate us.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So, I think that'll be the silver lining. I mean, obviously,
this is bigger than politics. This is people, thank god,
not not having not many people died, thank god, but
just people losing their homes and and a lot of
these people are just normal middle class people who bought
in the neighborhood in the sixties. Yeah, it's gonna be
(08:59):
very hard to read. So but so I hate to
say silver lining, but I because I but I hope
that this people can wake up.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
This is not even a partisan issues, just corruption and
and just bureacracy. I mean it is a partisan, but
you know it's Hey, they got a clean.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
House, Yeah, I mean really really flushed the system. Well listen, Matt,
really sorry, you have to go through all your all
your losses there with your home burning last week. Thank
you for coming on though, well it was my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And and and keep it up. But I think the
more people talking about this the better.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh yeah, we're gonna we're gonna keep it up. Thanks
very much, Matt.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Hins, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And you ought to read his piece of the New
York Post about having been a liberal Democrat most of
his life and finally, uh, he's given up on the
one party rule, and he said more and more friends
and neighbors are feeling the same way. I mean, if
this doesn't show you what this government is is capable
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of destroying, you see it with your own eyes. I mean,
sometime when it's when it's settled down and they allow
people to walk around the palisades, you should go there
and see what the bass Newsome regime has wrought. It's
so horrifying. When we come back. Two rounds of Hack
(10:27):
and a dumps No one around a hack and a dumpster.
Two rounds of the moistline. That's next.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It is time now. They're a very very mentally and
emotionally exhausting week to let people vent on the moistline.
Eight seven seven moist eighty six, eight seven seven moist
eighty six. Round one. Let's go, may it's Sean.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Thanks for calling the moistline. I'm so excited to hear
from you. It's about time.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
I would like to personally congratulate Mayor Boss because her
incompetence has been recognized, not just nationwide but worldwide. Smith's
bad damn time. Same goes for Missolini Man.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
When I hear Rachel Darvish go up against Newsom, I
wish she was the governor, not him.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Mayor Beth says only one thing on her mind, and
that's the upcoming World Cup. She's going to be the
star of the world.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I think every single taxpayer should go on strike.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Nobody should pay their taxes.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What are they going to do about it?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
If all of LA or all of California for that matter,
doesn't pay their taxes, every California can pulled out until.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
These idiots get their together.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Everybody needs a swimming pool with a pump.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
Our skate isn't mismanaged, it's unmanaged.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
They were so busy concentrating on their green energy they
overlook what was right in front of them.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Never let a crisis go to waste. So I fear
not people of Pacific Palisade, because your governor just announced
that they're going to reimagine your community. That's code work
for small energy efficient, solar powered climate change homes, no
more mansions. Also a community for everyone. That's code work
for high density, high ride, low income housing, homeless shelbeers
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and rehab centers. He's right, Gavin Newsom has no idea
how to manage the state. It's time that it be recalled.
Speaker 11 (12:22):
The government has failed us. They're only protecting their assets.
They're feeling the resources from us. I do not have
any faith in my local government.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It hits the fat.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Keep ragging on these people.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Don't let it go.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Meat is so powerful they just want to point fingers
your crisis.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I'm listening right now to this bumbling fool talk about
what's important to hers through.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
An equity lens, and I can't take it.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I think I might throw up.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Than God training and Howkman's Gasco would have padded all
those on the back and gave them an ice cream company.
You might want to fund that fire department pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
There could be a major earthquake.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
At any second.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
That Levantina is she burnt down part of California before,
and now she's hitting the South Park.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
The one thing you're missing about this stupid Newsome is
that he's deflecting all the stuff towards the federal government
so that when it doesn't get rebuilt and the Olympics flock,
he's going to blame it on Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Pei is not working, is dead.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
That's why La is a third world country. We need
to fire all these moneys.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
LA County in general is all up right now.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Therefore all the four de soup members are all up too.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, that fire lady that wants to be rescued by
people that look like her. If she that went at
a restaurant, like when she gets a waiter waitress, they
need to look like her. Or wires a contractor they
need to look like her. Or she gets a doctor,
they have to look like her. She's a racist. The
state prepared more for the.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Possibility of Trump losing the election, and they're be at
rest than.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
They did for the fires.
Speaker 13 (14:10):
Of course, starn Vass and Newsom are incompetent, but that's not.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The main part of the story.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
They're on the take.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
They make money off the homeless, they make money off
the illegal aliens.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
There's no racket they can make money off in the
fire department.
Speaker 12 (14:25):
All this stuff, it's just self afflicted.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
They want to control the narrative because they have no accountability.
Speaker 13 (14:33):
How dare you ask questions of their behavior?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Who is this amateur botanist, this avid hiker who couldn't keep.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
His nose in his own business.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
They just cost hundreds of people their homes.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
No human could have changed anything.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You could have had three reservoirs and you still wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Have been able to do anything about it.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Oh, John, I don't know why you don't get any
answers from the don't.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You listen to the mayor?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
All you have to do is go to URL and
will answer everything.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Thank you for loving.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
You're not going to hang up goodbye.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
The guy before him, I don't even know what he's
doing listening to the show. He actually thinks that one
hundred and seventeen million gallons of water would have no effect.
You think maybe would have saved one home two five
one hundred and seventy seventeen million gallons. You think an
extra thousand firefighters they might have surrounded I don't know,
a block another forty engines. Forty engines, one thousand firefighters,
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and one hundred seventeen million gallons of water. Yeah, I
think that. Remember they ran out of water entirely. Everything
ran dry, the hydrants, nothing in it. You don't think
that reservoir would have done something. You don't think prepositioning
some of those forty extra engines would have. You didn't
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have to do the whole city. You just do the foothills,
north and south side of the mountains. I don't know.
Propaganda really works on a certain percentage of people. I
don't know what the IQ level is. I don't understand
anything anymore. We'd come back. There was somebody in that
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chain of calls that mentioned the heck, we're throwing in
the dumpster. We're gonna We're gonna throw her hard in
the dumpster next and then we're gonna have another round
of the moist line.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Head's on a stick. Yeah, it's time for John cobilt.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
To throw in a dumpster.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Don co belt show, can't I am six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and at john co Belt Radio.
You can follow us on social media. And yes, it's
the first hack in a dumpster for twenty twenty five,
first one we've had in a couple months, right, quite
some time, and really a Rookie of the Year early candidates.
Oh yes, she may go into Satan's Lake of Fire
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at the end of the year. It's going to be
hard to outdo the incompetence of our selection. She is
the CEO of the lad WP Department of Water and Power.
Her name Janie, Janie Kennyees. You know she's got a
little squiggle over the end. You're supposed to give that
little kenyonez kind of a limt. I can't do it.
(17:38):
She was the one hired for seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year by Karen Bass, the old DWP
chief made only four hundred and fifty thousand. She was
given a three hundred thousand dollars increase. She has a
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six point seven billion dollar budget. She oversees eleven thousand employees.
Chief executive officer and chief engineer of the DWP. She's
got two jobs to transmit water from one place to
the next and transmit power from one place to the next. Now,
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let's say you had this job. I always like to
do this. I'd like to imagine if I had this job.
I woke up in the morning, I was magically the
CEO of the DWP, and somebody told me there's a
hole in the cover or a tear in the cover
of a one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir of
drinking water. I would say, well, let's repair that as
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quickly as possible, because we need the drinking water and
during fire season we're gonna need it to put out
the fire. Well back in back in February of last year,
she was told that there was a tear and they
have to fix it. And now to this day, eleven
(19:05):
months later, it's still not fixed. People who work for
the DWP said, should it taken a month? Maybe one
hundred thousand dollars? Work was never done. You enter fire
season around September. Let's say you've got one hundred and
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seventeen million gallons of water not there, And somehow Kenoonias
did she not tell Christin Crowley, the fire chief for
the mayor, Karen Bass Bass appointed her and was confirmed
by the city council. Did she not say, hey, in
that high fire district up in the Palisades are our
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main reservoir. They had to pump in water from another
reservoir several miles away. Hydrants didn't work. The DWP did
have three one million dollar one million gallon water tanks,
but they all ran dry in seventeen hours, so firefighters
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had no water to fight the fire. I try to
think of the pain suffered by the five thousand or
so families who had everything they own gett incinerated. The
children in those five thousand families, the pain that you
find out your friends and neighbors are gone from a
(20:36):
neighborhood forever, many of them will be. The school is gone,
church is gone. I can't imagine the loss, and I
can't imagine how a young child would process this. And
a lot of people still believe the government is competent
and they know what they're doing. They do. I've heard
(20:56):
them say this, Oh, I'm not worried. They know what
they're doing. But Kristen Crowley didn't send the thousand firefighters
and the forty extra engines to the high risk areas,
and Genie Ken didn't fill up the reservoir for a
whole year and they're still getting paid. Let's listen to
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Genie Kens. You could see what a towering intellect she is.
We're going to play you about two minutes some of
her responses during the January eighth press conference after the
fire broke out, and also of audio on a radio
show talking about the DWP and viewing everything through an
(21:43):
equity lens.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Roll that.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
She please correct me if I'm wrong, But we we
were trying to keep water at all altitudes on the Polisates,
and I think about three in the morning dusk when
the hydrants went drive above the brand what area we
are able to push water on that, on that trunk
line on the east side of that, and we have
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some water on higher elevations sixteen to eighteen thousand, but
at three thousand, all of the at three am, all
of the fire hydrants when dry. States to your question
of climate resiliency and how do we need to update
the system, I would say that that is true. We
were talking with the county supervisor and Mark on the
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change the way we operate our water systems for events
like this. This is an unprecedented event.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I think the twenty.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Eleven was significant from a power Irish perspective, but the
fires have really increased the response of this. We had
crews trying to mitigate this and we had to evacuate.
We worked with fire department to try to get back
in and try to fill the tents again safe to
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do so you're managing the fires, you're managing the water meets.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
There firefighting.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
So yes, we have to make seven resiliency as a region.
And it's it's going to be more than just a
w P. It's all the water agencies here the county.
It's important to me that everything we do it's with
an equivalence and social justice and making sure that we
write the bounds that we've done in the past from
(23:27):
an infrastructure perspective, and that we involved the community.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Into the dumpsterre here the Ukradian Ukrai mob go ahead
down so Chi from never got her, never gave the
big Radberry. There you are still babbling away, rattling on. Yes,
(23:56):
major responsibility for the complete destruction in the Pacific Palisades.
Couldn't fill a hole in the ground with water. Oh
my god, I've got a head. I'm never I can
never listen to that again. Honestly, I can't. This is
Karen Bass, this is her wisdom, like like she was
(24:18):
better than everyone else they interviewed. Who came in second
for this job? Who is the person they rejected? I
want to hear them. This is what it's like in
the diversity world, and she's looking at everything through an
(24:38):
equity lens. You're just supposed to send water down a
pipe and send electricity down a wire. That's all you
have to do. There's no equity lens here. You set
up the infrastructure, you deliver the water, you deliver the power,
people pay their bills, and you keep the system going.
(25:01):
She's chief engineer. Does she sound like a chief engineer?
Chief engineer of what? She sounds like one of those
TikTok teenagers. How many words did she speak in that
in that minute and a half, like ten thousand? I
don't know what the hell she was talking about. Imagine
being stuck in a meeting for two hours. How does
(25:24):
Karen Bass sit with her and say, yeah, that's it.
She's the one DWP. She's in charge of the water. Yeah,
we have a massive fire and she's in charge of
the water supply. Who would pick would you pick that anybody. Anybody,
if you're running a business and she's prattling in front
of you about your about inequity lens, would you put
(25:45):
her in charge? I wouldn't put her in charge of
the cupcakes for a second great birthday party. Yeah, well,
there you go. There's your diversity. I guess diversity includes
hiring people who don't have a brain. Maybe that's another
(26:08):
form of diversity that I wasn't aware of. Hire the
the intellectually challenged or the intellectually empty. Denise is our
first hack ass in a dumpster for twenty twenty five,
La first hack ass in a dumpster. You see female
(26:29):
and she still has a job, Like you're gonna wake
up Monday morning, and she is still supplying you with
water and power. Really, and Karen Bass is still her boss.
All Right, we come back, Debra's gonna have the news,
and then we have another brand of the Moistline. John
Cobelt's show.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
You're listening to John Cobbelts on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Probably heard this a few times, but I'm sure this
will be entertaining. iHeartRadio hosting a special California town hall
with Newsom Governor Newsom this Sunday at nine am, or
at least that won't interfere with the football games. Right,
good time for it across iHeartRadio's California stations, including of
course I AM six forty. So Newsom is going to
(27:18):
take questions from Californians who've been impacted by the recent fires,
and we'll discuss plans for the future of our state.
Maybe he'll announce that he's leaving so KFI This Sunday
morning at nine o'clock a special California town hall with
Gavin Newsom. Not in the morning, so eat your breakfast early.
(27:42):
It's time for round two of the Moistline eight seven
seven moist eighty six. If you want to be on
next week, let's go round two.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Hey it Sean, thanks for calling the Moistline. I'm so
excited to hear from you. To boat time.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
Governor's two BC comforts in state and make sure that
all the illegal aliens are full sons it.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
All these people are too afraid of hurting people's feelings.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Unhoused really it's homeless people.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Let's call it what it is.
Speaker 13 (28:09):
You're John, I'm committed to streamlining and the processes and
then put in the flywheel in the throughput through an
equipless so we can smoot out the seque and anipa
as well as the ninas, the pizza, the set amara.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Whether that was in Africa or Antarctica, the result would
have been the same.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
They said, the firefighters couldn't have done its damn thing.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
And even if they had more water, couldn't have done
it damn thing.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Not so you know it made a difference.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
You're just guessing John Cobalt for mayor of La or
governor of California.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
The La City fire department is mismanaged, just like the
rest of the groups within the city and the county
and the state.
Speaker 12 (28:55):
The fire would happened in California.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
So the thing to do with.
Speaker 12 (28:59):
Climate change, it has to do with the bureaucracy and
money and fundamental failures that were done. It's a string
of unfortunate events that happen because of bad management.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Now that the city filled up all the available hotel
space with the vagrants, where are the people that lost
their homes, the working people, where are they going to
stay now?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I think, don't they a place to stay so they
can keep working? Runsome Newscomb is nothing but a shiny
cuplink that makes me sick.
Speaker 12 (29:30):
I know you're talking about Newsom and bath and no water,
but don't leave out the city manager of Los Angeles
and the county border supervisors.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
The primary funding of our tax dollars are for public safety, roads, infrastructure,
and parks. That's government's job. Those areas are now the
first to be cut for all these social programs.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Now that is all collapsed, our tax.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
Dollars will go to cleaning up the mess, hate, for
the lawsuits against the city, rebuild of infrastructure that was destroyed.
Bills will go up to pay for those lawsuits. And
if our homeowners insurance is dot counceled the rights of
skyrocket anyway you look at it, RISCOD, Thank you Mayor of.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
Bass I think he's a good governor.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So stop it.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
You're hurting my feelings and you talk about getting news
like that.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
They're holding meetings for more reasons and one reason only
to have the same story so that when someone.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Ask them, oh, it's not my department, Oh there wasn't
approved by the supervisor.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Oh oh oh the hilaryism. Why they have their meetings
bro to cover there is right that's it. So they
have the same story.
Speaker 14 (30:38):
So you can't get into.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
The circle, or man trying to brush into the circle
ain't happening.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
As an American citizen, I expect equal treatment from the
federal government independent of which way I vote.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
If I lost one hundred bucks at work, I would
be charged for it. Newsome and Bass and all these
people have lost billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They can't account for it.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
I guarantee you if they did a forensic level accounting,
they would find how much of this money went to
their friends and colleagues and how much of it got
kicked back.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Thank you for leaving your message, Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Eight seven seven moist eighty six for next week. Eight
seven seven moist eighty six. The last guy who mentioned
this phrase forensic accounting, which a number of people have
talked about. Why can't they go through line by line
and identify every dollar. I would have agreed with you
up until a couple of years ago, until we learned
about a number of audits that were done for high
(31:38):
speed rail and for the state and Los Angeles homeless programs.
And you know what they found out, There is no
record where the money went. You can only do a
forensic audit and identify every expenditure if they write it
down and they keep the paperwork, or they keep the file,
they keep the computer file. But what they do is
(32:01):
they pay out money and there are no records. I
remember with high speed rail they found out a lot
of money had gone to various contractors and the contractors
had had no invoices, the state had no records. The
money just evaporated. Same thing with the homeless payouts. With
these nonprofits, nobody writes down the transaction. No records are kept,
(32:25):
so you can't do forensicc counting. They just outright it's
outright theft. It's like doing for forensic accounting. After somebody
steals all the money in your bedroom, they don't leave
a receipt conways here, thank you.
Speaker 15 (32:39):
That's why they fight so hard for these eighty thousand
dollars a year council jobs and supervisors, because they know
that if people get in there that aren't on that team,
that they're going to find everything out.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I was reading I think Michael Sellenberger wrote about this.
Is that you set up these homeless nonprofits and it's
staffed with friends and relatives of the council ends, and
so council members sends the money to that nonprofit and
then they friends and relatives pay themselves six figure salaries
and they give a cut to the Councilman.
Speaker 15 (33:12):
Yeah, that's all big skin and it's just all cash,
cash under the table, and nobody ever looks at it,
no noo, and there's no records to look at. Alex
Michaelson's coming on with Chippy O's from KTLA as well,
and we've got cash to give away. We've got a
lot going on, plus a lot of big football games
this weekend. Yes, try to figure out who's going to
win these suckers. I don't have a TV to watch them.
Speaker 14 (33:31):
But that's right, you're still out of electricity.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Whole week now. Wow man, yeah, man, seven break ins
on the block. Don't you have hotel money by now?
We don't want to leave everybody on the block who
left got broken into. I see what do you do
with lights? You put lights in the windows? How do
you tell people your home where? Yeah, we have lights
in the windows to signal that we're home. Yeah, yeah,
(33:53):
I do. We have a very loud dog. And you
know what, the whole neighborhood has hired these security guys
armed doing patrols up and down the block. Oh is
that right? We're paying for the foot patrol guy, two
mobile security services that are driving around, and taxes for
the LAPD.
Speaker 14 (34:13):
I told you years ago to move out of LA,
so I don't feel bad.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
You were right. You were right.
Speaker 15 (34:21):
I'll tell you I got three pretty good stories on
why I moved out of LA.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Look.
Speaker 15 (34:25):
I know, if you're entrenched and you've been there for
forty years, you got kids and grandkids, you can't move out.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I get that.
Speaker 15 (34:30):
But man, if you're brand new, you got the two
new kids, you want to move in LA. I don't
think twice about that.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Man.
Speaker 14 (34:35):
That really would have a nice weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Bob, thank you. I can't be any worse. Kruzer is
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