July 22, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/22) - Jeremy Padawar comes on the show to talk about what a headache the rebuilding process has been after losing his home in the Palisades Fire. More on the negligence shown by city and county officials during the fires and the days/weeks after the fact. Why have gas prices have gone down briefly?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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yard signs spreading all of the palisades. Karen Bass resigned
now and my wife and I drove by a big
banner that somebody had displayed on their empty, burned out lot.
I took a photo of that right from the car,
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and it's on all the social media sites if you
want to take a look at it. That's that's the
increasing sentiment in palaks. I think everybody's done talking here,
everybody's done debating.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, they've done asking begging.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
They've already been had their lives destroyed, and now they're
in the humiliating They're in the humiliating position of begging.
Miss Castro Groupie for Permit's all they want is some paperwork,
and she won't give it to them so they could
rebuild their homes. And we're going to talk with Jeremy
Padawerk about this. Jeremy has been writing a blog at
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Pacific Palisades dot com. He's published series of posts questioning
Karen Bass's decisions going all the way back to her
trip to Ghana on January fourth, three days before the fire.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Let's get Jeremy Padower on right. Listen.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I will go by anything.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, I just you know, he just handed me the
pronunciation guide and I immediately screwed it up. Jeremy Pidow, Well,
you get what you pay for here. Jeremy, it's good
to have you on. Tell me what have you been
doing online to try to get some people? I guess
informed organized? What do you hope to accomplish here?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So look here, what I hope to accomplish is to
empower the community, because I think one thing that people
think about when they think about the Pacific Palisades is
they see it as this wealthy place that was gorgeous
and probably filled with people that have nothing but money
falling out of their pockets, which could not be further
from the truth. I mean, there's plenty of people fixed income,
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older families, multi generational homes that have been passed down,
people that use their home as a rental as their
primary income. There's a large percentage of really working class
folks in the Palisades. And for me, I've had a
phenomenal career. I've been very, very fortunate, and I had
this domain name I love to write, and I thought,
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you know what, let's put on a different hat, one
that I've never won before, a hat of advocacy, so
that I can really empower my neighbors to be in
a better position. There's a lot going on right now.
Let's be right in the middle of it and make
their lives a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I drove around this morning. There's not a lot going
on in terms of reconstruction, and I hear a lot
of friends of mine lost their homes, and I'm getting
the same story over and over again. What are you
lost your home? What are you experiencing there? And what
are your friends and neighbors experiencing.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well, you know what, I was joking last night with
a few friends and we were talking, and it's helpful
to be around people that are going through something similar.
I call it the Palisades despair. Okay, that's essentially the
feeling that a lot of people have right now. They're
feeling like there was a lot taken away, it was
done so in incredible ineptitude, with gross negligence, and they're
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feeling like they don't necessarily have a clear path to
mitigation to putting them so in a position that's a
little bit better. You look around and you see lot
after a lot, and thank goodness, the Army Corps of Engineer,
which is an arm of the federal government, came down
and cleared out these lots. They're primarily empty.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Of course, when you have an empty lot, it doesn't
mean that the land is ready to build upon. There's
lots of things that have to happen first. But there
has been some movement in that regard now in terms
of the state and local level, that's where all the
question marks are.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Are there city officials or state officials who come to
the town or come to a place where you can
all listen as to what the game plan is like,
what's to be expected over the next few months, and
how can anyone measure progress or success? It seems to me.
Mostly it's silence, it's emptiness. Nobody's saying anything.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I think that's a very interesting word that you used. Measure,
anything that has to do with measuring has been fascinatingly difficult. Okay,
there has not been a scenario where I can tell
you there's been a measurable element. Now I'll even give
you one early on with the Army Corps when they
came in to do the cleanup. The singular question that
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we asked over and over again is what's the timeline
and how much will it cost? And really that was
something that the state in the local area. They didn't answer.
This question was asked tens of times. They didn't answer
it because they wanted to take credit when it was done,
but they had no idea. They couldn't measure it, they
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couldn't communicate it. There is a lack of measurable There
is no measure. There is no language that's being used
about dollars, about time, on almost anything. So it's fascinating now.
In terms of people coming to visit, I think they do.
I mean, interestingly, Mayor Bass did come to the fourth
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of July event that was held for the Palisades in
Santa Monica. She showed up at like three o'clock and
she was out of there by three point thirty. She
grabbed like an ice cream cone or something. But here's
the reality of that. By at three thirty, maybe one
tenth of one percent of the people that were going
to show up would have shown up at that time.
So they're coming. God knows if they show up at
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a time where they can actually be held to any
sort of accountability.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So she showed up really early and missed most early. Yeah, okay,
got her ice cream cone and got out of there
and probably sent out a lot of photos on social
media a yay.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah and an excellent photo op and that was it
and then gone. So yeah, I mean, look, I don't
think that we trust. I don't think that we have
a lot of trust right now. Let's just put it
that way.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The signs that are popping up Karen Bass resigned. Now,
I would assume a lot of people there their anger
is really hardened. I mean, they just they just want
they want somebody else. They want somebody to come in
and take control, take leadership of this, do something.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Right. Yes, I think the fair statement is we don't
want the people that burned our city down to be
the ones that build it up again. It's just not
something that you want. We I don't want to use
the word victim because victim denotes victim mentality. But we
are certainly the plaintiffs.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
In this case, the defendant being.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
The grossly negligent operators who failed to protect a city.
I want you to think of one thing. I just
think about this. What if this fire had started at
one am instead of ten am? What would have happened then?
If they were so lacking of good judgment and ability
to help save a city, what would have happened if
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this fire had happened nine hours earlier and been in
the heat, in the absolute apex right as we were up.
You can't trust that system, I'm sorry, you just simply cannot.
The lack of accountability versus what's being uncovered as they
go through some of the early discovery as to what
happened with Laedwt and mayor Baths specifically is astonishing.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
When you actually can you hang on for another segment?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, because I want to go through that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I never want I don't ever want to let go
of the original sins committed by by Bass and the
government in those early days and in the days before
the fire went crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
We're talking with Jeremy bad I'll get it right.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And he has a blog at Pacific Palisades dot com
and uh, he's one of the more vocal residents there
trying to get anybody to do anything at a city
and state government. The only positive movement has come from
the federal government when the Army Corps engineers came to
town to you know, collect the debris and scrape the
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top level of soil. We'll talk with him some more
coming up next.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We continue with Jeremy Petauer. He has a blog at
Pacific Palisades dot com. He's lost, he lost his house,
and he writes about what led to the fire, how
the city officials were just negligent and derelict and it
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led to the disaster. And now we're in the phase
of nobody seems at city hall to want to do
anything to rebuild the Palisades. Let's get Jeremy back on here.
Jeremy talk. Let's go through originally what happened, because it's
hard to believe I'm sure you must wake up. Everybody
wakes up in the middle of the night. And I
can't believe everything that went wrong, everything that was neglect,
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everything that they were incompetent about. And you start with
Karen Bass going to Ghana and ignoring the fire warnings,
the reservoir not being filled, the hydrant's not working. Basically
there was almost no water supply after a few hours,
the fire department showing up late, not nearly enough firefighters,
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the electricity never being turned off. I mean, looking back,
it's hard to believe that they whiffed on everything. Oh yeah,
it's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And I think there's one piece of information that's been
so buried and I don't understand why. So before we
litigate what occurred, let's talk about Karen Bass for a moment.
If you don't mind, Okay, go ahead. So Karen Bass
has deputy mayors, right, and one of her deputy mayors,
Brian Williams, was the deputy mayor of public safety in
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October of twenty twenty four. The deputy mayor of public safety,
who's in charge of what wildfires? Police, it's in charge
of fire, in charge of public safety of all kinds
emergency response. He called a bomb thread into city Hall.
Now that's important because he got rated by the FBI
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and he was out by December. The reason why that's
so critically important is what his oversight was. Number one
and two the fact that he wasn't replaced until April
of twenty twenty five. I don't have an issue with
a mayor taking a personal trip or a professional trip anywhere.
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I do have an issue with our mayor with an
entire week's notice of wins coming in ones that noticed
that she even put out on her own personal Twitter,
then leaving without ahead of a deputy mayor of public
safety who's helping direct traffic, and then putting us in
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this extraordinary risk, and then being an absolute not there,
unavailable during this incredible situation. It blows my mind. I mean,
I'm in the business world. I can't imagine what it
would be like to leave in the most critical time
period without your number two and then not replace that
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person for months. That's my issue, and that's one of
the critical reasons why I think Maribeth personally is grossly
negligent in the situation.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
She never even speaks about it. Nobody ever asks her either.
That's what's strange. Nobody ever says, well, what was with
this Brian Williams guy? Why didn't you replace him? How
did you end up with a guy who's calling in
bomb threats? I mean, I mean, the whole thing is
so preposterous and absurd, but it seems like six months
later none of it ever happened. She never addressed it,
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she's never asked about it. I just don't understand. I
feel like this is a twilight Zone episode.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It is a twilight Zone episode, and it's so bizarre
because why a deputy mayor of public safety would call
it an anti Israel bomb threat into city Hall then
subsequently get rated by the FBI. Then by the way,
he's he was found, he pleaded guilty, he's being he's
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going to receive his approximately ten year jail sentence in October.
Where is this? Why hasn't this covered? That's one of
the things I covered on precisipalis Ades dot com. I
am blown away at the lack of media attention on
this critical point that links Karen Bass to what we
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see is a disaster, and I call it an unnatural disaster.
There is nothing natural about this except for the wins
which were clocked at between sixteen and thirty miles an hour,
and it's wins that we had between ten and four
pm when those plays were flying at a critical time.
By the way, the Santa Inez being empty, that the
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reservoir being empty, that's ninety seven point five percent of
the water available to the Palisades when that was empty
because of a broken cover right, which would have cost
two hundred thousand dollars to fix over a year. They
fumbled that ball. They had to send those airplanes to Malibu.
We lost seven hours trying to put out that fire
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in the air, seven hours. Now the wind's picked up
later that night, but there's no excuse, and pointing to
this being a natural disaster is diabolical in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What do you think is going on?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
People are starting to invest in some wild, dark conspiracy theories,
and it's hard to understand.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's hard to.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Say they're wrong to when their minds wander in that direction,
because this is almost impossible to believe that it happened,
and then secondly that there's been no accountability since then.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
That's right, I mean, so, first of all, I would
say it is surreal, It is incredibly unusual, and it
requires a series of really bad decisions or lack of
decisions ahead of time. This is not a scenario where
it's like a commercial airliner when they say, you know,
God forbid two or three things have to go bad consecutively.
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This is a scenario where like six things have to
go bad. And that's the reason why I'll bet you
if we stayed on the phone for an hour, you
couldn't name another time in the last one hundred and
twenty five years that a major city in the world
burned down as a result of something that wasn't a
natural disaster. I think we could probably sit here all day,
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maybe bombings and stuff like that, But my god, that's war.
This is not I don't subscribe to. This was done
purposefully to destroy the piggybank of Los Angeles. Because, by
the way, while I said there are plenty of hard
working people in the Palisades that were underinsured or uninsured,
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and they're everyday people and they don't have the money
to build back, there are certainly a lot of people
with money, and the propensity of the average Palisades person
is to over index in terms of tax payments by
about ten times. I think we're about a half a
percent of the population in about six percent of the proceeds,
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although there's no way to know because they never share
transparently any of this information. You used to have to
do your own digging. I don't think that they would
destroy their piggybank on purpose, but they certainly mismanaged it terribly.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
What do you I still can't get over the reservoir.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I had not heard that statistic that it's ninety seven
percent of usable water in the Palisades, how and that
thing was empty for a year when the fire happened.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Did the public know this?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I yes, because you could look, you know, in various
parts of the palaceads. You could, depending on what house
you're in, you can look out the window and se
an empty reservoir. So yeah, I mean it was obvious.
There were plenty of questions asked. I will tell you
that the chief, our fire chief had plenty of warnings
to bass and made plenty of verbal warnings and written warnings,
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and then you can find them about the reservoir. Yeah, yeah, definitely,
Well about the reservoir or the lack the lack of preparedness,
I think is exactly what the warnings were, but in
my opinion, come on, that reservoir was built fifty plus
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years ago by a fire chief at the time that said,
this reservoir is being built because there is too much
fire risk in the palace heads or in this general area.
So that's the reason why it existed in the first place.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, one more quick, I only got about thirty seconds. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
The cause of the fire, there's no official cause yet.
That's hard to get.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Competence, in aptitude, gross negligence. I'll give you a cause.
It's when unpreparedness meets bad decision making equals fire. I mean,
we could get into absolute certainty. But yeah, this fire
probably started for a myriad of reasons, but it perpetuated
because of bad, bad, bad management.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
All right, Jeremy, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Let's talk again, okay, because they're not going to get
any better at their jobs. Jeremy Padouer, and he is
a resident of Palisades, lost his home, writes a blog
about all the aftermath of the fire at Pacific Palisades
dot com.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
If you're just joining us. We just had Jeffrey Padouer
on He is a businessman, except you, quite an accomplished businessman.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
We didn't get a chance to get into it.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
But he's a toy industry executive and Entrepreneur's invented a
lot of toys, and he lives in you know, he
lived in Pacific Palisades until.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Our city government helped burn it down.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And he's been writing on a blog Pacific Palisades dot com.
And quite interesting to hear his perspective. When we went
through the list of all the terrible preparation mistakes, it's actually,
actually it's not even a mistake. They didn't do any
preparation in so many ways. There was no preparation starting
with that reservoir, and then all the bad decisions and
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reacting to the fire. It's just astonishing. It really is overwhelming.
He writes about it all the time. So you want
to listen to that on the podcast at John Cobalt
Show on demand. And as I was talking to him,
I was thinking, my god, if you listen to this
conversation and you just listened to all the things that
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the city government did badly, Karen Bass put everything at
her doorstep, all the things they did badly, and yet
I had not seen the kind of intensive, investigatory media
coverage that would normally accompany this. There's no way she
should still be in office. She should have been driven
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out of office. There should have been an opposition party.
There should have been like, I mean, look what they
try to do to Trump every day. Why is why
do they not pile on Karen Bass at the El
Segundo Times and all the television stations.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, I heard early on. I talked to a reporter.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's like, well, she's a black woman, she gets that
special protection. That's what the reporter said, somebody in the
business on the inside. And I'm thinking, well, that's obviously
absurd and wrong. You get judged on your ability, and
you know that goes both ways. You don't get prejudged
based on your your gender and your race, but you
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don't not get judged. It's not supposed to be special
protection for you. Because I am astounded at the lack
of media coverage, the criticism is glancing, The criticism is
really not what you'd expect. After I mean, a lot
of people died, for God's sakes, they died in addition
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to the massive damage, and then you think if she
felt bad at all, you'd have the most incredible rebuild
operation going that you could see and hear and touch
every day. And like I said, it was in was
a palisades this morning. Nothing's going on. There's always this
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disconnect between real life and the media. I mean, even
when she went on Network TV on the not that
Network TV is much anymore, but on Sunday, she went
on two of those Sunday morning shows and they kind
of treated her with kid gloves. Kind of she did,
she was treated with kid gloves. Slightest bit of pushback.
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And then I saw this story and it's about an
entirely different topic, but it's the same idea. What the
media covers and then what goes on in real life.
Remember when that military helicopter and the commercial passenger plane
collided in Washington, d C. Back in January, and it
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was the first time that we had a deadly commercial
aviation accident in sixteen years. And at the same time,
Elon Musk and the Doge cuts were happening, and then
we found out like Newark's air traffic control was severely
understaffed and the equipment was failing, and so there was
a swarm of media coverage which warning people not to
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fly and insisting that a lot of people who are
not flying anymore. And Dominic Pino at the National Review
put together a list of headlines. I'm going to quickly
read them. These are all on major newspapers or major
online magazines. You'd recognize all the names. Fear of flying
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is different now. People worry about plane malfunctions, but the
systems directing flight can be more dangerous. What to do
if you're anxious about flying right now? Associated Press some
of the four hundred jobs that were cut at the
FAA helped support air safety. New Republic Trump's firing spree
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at the FAA was even more terrible than he admitted.
Business Insider Americans are afraid to fly after recent crashes.
Social media and dose aren't helping. Slate says why air
travel is getting dangerous Forbes, Aviation safety at risk amid
doze cuts and shut down fears. Newsweek Americans are canceling
flights over safety concerns, Axios, air traffic controllers worried about
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safety staffing, and more. New York Post fear of flying
is hurting ticket sales after multiple plane crashes. Dealt to
American Airlines, PBS how doses cutbacks at the FAA could
affect aviation and safety. NBC air traffic control centers struggle
with understaffing, and it goes on and on. Associated press
worries about flying seem to be taking off. Here's out
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of cope with in flight anxiety, and Dominic Pino points
out that, well, all those stories there's wrong. People aren't
afraid to fly at all. People don't think it's dangerous
to fly or scary to fly.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
June twenty second was the busiest day for commercial air
travel in US history, the busiest day in history. TSA
screened three point one million passengers on June twenty second.
July sixth was the second highest day, July twentieth was
the third highest, both over three million, and he wrote, well,
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if it's really getting so much more dangerous to fly,
fewer people would be doing it. It seems like the
freak out over safety under Trump has been confined to
the media while the all Americans flock to the airports
in record numbers. And isn't this always the way? There's
these media hysterias and then suddenly they die down and
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disappear and then when you look back, and hardly anybody
looks back, you never see a story like this. Yeah,
all those crazy headlines was that real?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Was that true?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I mean I've got about almost twenty of them here. No,
people weren't afraid. I mean, there's always people afraid, and
you know they'll be the loudest. But in general, no,
three million people boarding planes each day, and you know
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this when you go to the airport, especially at Lax,
it's extremely crowded. Everything is backed up, There's long lines
all over the place. You can't even get a coffee
or a donut. There's a long line. Parking lots are jammed,
security lines. I mean, I just there's so much nonsense
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being fed to us every day. Sometimes it's a political agenda,
and sometimes it's just to scare you. Everything is it's
when everything switched to the Internet, and it was about
just getting hits immediate emotional reactions, and much of its nonsense.
I start every morning, probably look at thirty websites just
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to start, and I can't tell you how much nonsense
and garbage there is, how much stuff I skip. I
just refuse to read anymore because I can tell I
can tell now when it's hyped up, slanted, biased, nonsense.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Lies, scared.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
A lot of It's very tempting to want to discuss
here on the radio, but I know it's like, no,
that's not real life. That's not what people are really
concerned about, thinking about, worried about.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Not easy.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
A weird time when we come back, the gas prices
have gone down. We always talk about them going up
and up, and uh, this is not a California thing
that they're going down. It's it's a nationwide thing. But
all of the factors that is going to that are
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gonna cause California prices to go way up. They're still
in place. That's still very likely to happen. And we'll
tell you why prices here and everywhere else have briefly
gone down. And it's got nothing to do with California policies.
That's next. Deborah Mark is what falling off her chair?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
No, I'm not, don't exaggerate. Well, you duck down and disappeared,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I was looking at the tvcause I see Nathan Hafkman on,
so I want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So I had to go up. Well, what is he doing?
Is he reading recipes. I mean, no sel any charge
has been filed in the East Hollywood crash. Oh all right,
So I thought maybe it was not like major things.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
We had dunk down and I thought, well, maybe she
fell asleep. It wasn't a Coldplay concert, wasn't there's nobody
in the room with her.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Well, there you go. Remember you're on camera at
all times. Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
They've noticed that the gas prices have have dropped, and
the average in California is down to four forty nine
a gallon, although I'm paying four to twenty nine in
my neighborhood, and just a few weeks ago it was
four eighty nine, So that was a big drop to
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witness sixty cents in a matter of a couple of weeks.
And gas prices are lower all across the country. So,
right up front, it's got nothing to do with the
California government. It's not that they're suddenly doing anything right.
It's not like they're artificially lowering the prices, because we're
going to have those big increases coming later sometime this year.
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Between the low carbon fuel standard, the two big oil
refineries closing down, possibly our main oil pipeline being shut down.
You know, the predictions is the gas is going to
go over six bucks, maybe over eight bucks, maybe to
ten bucks. That's all still in the mix. But right
now what's happening is a series of factors. Outside of California,
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the national average is three fourteen. So if we're at
four forty nine, we're still paying a dollar and thirty
five cents higher than any where else in the country.
Mississ twenty one states are under three bucks, forty three states,
forty four states are under three forty, and you got
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states like Mississippi at two seventy one. So the proportions
are still the same. Gas prices are dropping for everyone,
and californiaglobe dot com they got a story about this
week the price of gas in California still was forty
two percent higher than the national average, Still forty percent
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higher than Arizona, forty six percent higher than Florida, sixty
three percent higher than Texas. How about that we're paying
sixty three percent more for gasoline. We have the highest
gas prices in the nation. But do you know when
it comes to how much petroleum we have stored underground.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
We are.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Number seven in the United States, and yet we're importing
our gas from Iraq, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Gula, Guyana. And
if the price is going down, it's because of the following.
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There is a worldwide drop in global crude oil prices
with the Trump administration their new energy policies. US oil
production is increasing. Number three, there's a growing world oil
supply that's lowering the price. Number four is Chinese oil
(31:36):
consumption has plateaued, flattened out. Number five. Having Iran their
nuclear program get bombed so effectively with our missiles, They're
anticipating more stability in the Middle East. All this leads
to lower oil prices. What happens in the Middle at
(32:00):
least China just the way. So that's why the price
is lower. The price is lower across the country, but
all the California centric factors they're still in place. US
oil production has reached it is expected to hit record
highs for twenty twenty five. Crude oil prices have fallen
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seventeen percent since Trump took office. See we don't know
this here because our oil price, our gas prices are
so high. We don't know the effect that these Trump
policies have had.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Along with these.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Issues that Trump or anyone else has no control over
things that are happening in foreign countries. OPEK is increasing
oil production by thirty four percent, and there's a reversal
obviously in California of tailpipe emission standards, fuel standards, the
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waiver to set our own emission stands, that electric vehicle
mandate has been blocked, and some Supreme Court rulings. Bottom
line is everything's in place for California prices to still
shoot up tremendously, and if nothing changes, those prices will
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go up.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
They have to. It's the law of economics, right.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If we lose two oil refineries, we lose twenty percent
of our gasoline, So the price has to go up.
If they turn off the pipeline and we've got to
import more oil from Saudi Arabia, gas to be refined
in South Korea from Saudi Arabia, that's going to drive
the price up. The low carbon fuel standard is going
to drive the price up. So I don't want anybody
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to think that all that bad stuff isn't going to happen.
It's still will happen unless the policies are reversed. It's
just that the overall national and world climate has led
to lower gas prices, which may look surprising considering all
the bad news you've heard. All right, we've got Conway
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Now, what's that less than one hundred and twenty, less
than one hundred and twenty. Well, let's get to it.
Let's get this done. Should get this done immediately? One
hundred and twenty people, and then tomorrow we're at thirty thousand,
and do I.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
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You miss anything, you missed a lot already. We had
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six eight seven seven moist steady six. So you used
the talk back feature on the iHeartRadio app. We have
yard signs spreading all of the palisades. Karen Bass resigned
now and my wife and I drove by a big
banner that somebody had displayed on their empty, burned out lot.
I took a photo of that right from the car,
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and it's on all the social media sites if you
want to take a look at it. That's that's the
increasing sentiment in palaks. I think everybody's done talking here,
everybody's done debating.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, they've done asking begging.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
They've already been had their lives destroyed, and now they're
in the humiliating They're in the humiliating position of begging.
Miss Castro Groupie for Permit's all they want is some paperwork,
and she won't give it to them so they could
rebuild their homes. And we're going to talk with Jeremy
Padawerk about this. Jeremy has been writing a blog at
(01:24):
Pacific Palisades dot com. He's published series of posts questioning
Karen Bass's decisions going all the way back to her
trip to Ghana on January fourth, three days before the fire.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Let's get Jeremy Padower on right. Listen.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I will go by anything.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, I just you know, he just handed me the
pronunciation guide and I immediately screwed it up. Jeremy Pidow, Well,
you get what you pay for here. Jeremy, it's good
to have you on. Tell me what have you been
doing online to try to get some people? I guess
informed organized? What do you hope to accomplish here?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So look here, what I hope to accomplish is to
empower the community, because I think one thing that people
think about when they think about the Pacific Palisades is
they see it as this wealthy place that was gorgeous
and probably filled with people that have nothing but money
falling out of their pockets, which could not be further
from the truth. I mean, there's plenty of people fixed income,
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older families, multi generational homes that have been passed down,
people that use their home as a rental as their
primary income. There's a large percentage of really working class
folks in the Palisades. And for me, I've had a
phenomenal career. I've been very, very fortunate, and I had
this domain name I love to write, and I thought,
(02:55):
you know what, let's put on a different hat, one
that I've never won before, a hat of advocacy, so
that I can really empower my neighbors to be in
a better position. There's a lot going on right now.
Let's be right in the middle of it and make
their lives a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I drove around this morning. There's not a lot going
on in terms of reconstruction, and I hear a lot
of friends of mine lost their homes, and I'm getting
the same story over and over again. What are you
lost your home? What are you experiencing there? And what
are your friends and neighbors experiencing.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well, you know what, I was joking last night with
a few friends and we were talking, and it's helpful
to be around people that are going through something similar.
I call it the Palisades despair. Okay, that's essentially the
feeling that a lot of people have right now. They're
feeling like there was a lot taken away, it was
done so in incredible ineptitude, with gross negligence, and they're
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feeling like they don't necessarily have a clear path to
mitigation to putting them so in a position that's a
little bit better. You look around and you see lot
after a lot, and thank goodness, the Army Corps of Engineer,
which is an arm of the federal government, came down
and cleared out these lots. They're primarily empty.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Of course, when you have an empty lot, it doesn't
mean that the land is ready to build upon. There's
lots of things that have to happen first. But there
has been some movement in that regard now in terms
of the state and local level, that's where all the
question marks are.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Are there city officials or state officials who come to
the town or come to a place where you can
all listen as to what the game plan is like,
what's to be expected over the next few months, and
how can anyone measure progress or success? It seems to me.
Mostly it's silence, it's emptiness. Nobody's saying anything.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I think that's a very interesting word that you used. Measure,
anything that has to do with measuring has been fascinatingly difficult. Okay,
there has not been a scenario where I can tell
you there's been a measurable element. Now I'll even give
you one early on with the Army Corps when they
came in to do the cleanup. The singular question that
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we asked over and over again is what's the timeline
and how much will it cost? And really that was
something that the state in the local area. They didn't answer.
This question was asked tens of times. They didn't answer
it because they wanted to take credit when it was done,
but they had no idea. They couldn't measure it, they
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couldn't communicate it. There is a lack of measurable There
is no measure. There is no language that's being used
about dollars, about time, on almost anything. So it's fascinating now.
In terms of people coming to visit, I think they do.
I mean, interestingly, Mayor Bass did come to the fourth
(06:03):
of July event that was held for the Palisades in
Santa Monica. She showed up at like three o'clock and
she was out of there by three point thirty. She
grabbed like an ice cream cone or something. But here's
the reality of that. By at three thirty, maybe one
tenth of one percent of the people that were going
to show up would have shown up at that time.
So they're coming. God knows if they show up at
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a time where they can actually be held to any
sort of accountability.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So she showed up really early and missed most early. Yeah, okay,
got her ice cream cone and got out of there
and probably sent out a lot of photos on social
media a yay.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah and an excellent photo op and that was it
and then gone. So yeah, I mean, look, I don't
think that we trust. I don't think that we have
a lot of trust right now. Let's just put it
that way.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The signs that are popping up Karen Bass resigned. Now,
I would assume a lot of people there their anger
is really hardened. I mean, they just they just want
they want somebody else. They want somebody to come in
and take control, take leadership of this, do something.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Right. Yes, I think the fair statement is we don't
want the people that burned our city down to be
the ones that build it up again. It's just not
something that you want. We I don't want to use
the word victim because victim denotes victim mentality. But we
are certainly the plaintiffs.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
In this case, the defendant being.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
The grossly negligent operators who failed to protect a city.
I want you to think of one thing. I just
think about this. What if this fire had started at
one am instead of ten am? What would have happened then?
If they were so lacking of good judgment and ability
to help save a city, what would have happened if
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this fire had happened nine hours earlier and been in
the heat, in the absolute apex right as we were up.
You can't trust that system, I'm sorry, you just simply cannot.
The lack of accountability versus what's being uncovered as they
go through some of the early discovery as to what
happened with Laedwt and mayor Baths specifically is astonishing.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
When you actually can you hang on for another segment?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, because I want to go through that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I never want I don't ever want to let go
of the original sins committed by by Bass and the
government in those early days and in the days before
the fire went crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
We're talking with Jeremy bad I'll get it right.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And he has a blog at Pacific Palisades dot com
and uh, he's one of the more vocal residents there
trying to get anybody to do anything at a city
and state government. The only positive movement has come from
the federal government when the Army Corps engineers came to
town to you know, collect the debris and scrape the
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top level of soil. We'll talk with him some more
coming up next.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We continue with Jeremy Petauer. He has a blog at
Pacific Palisades dot com. He's lost, he lost his house,
and he writes about what led to the fire, how
the city officials were just negligent and derelict and it
(09:37):
led to the disaster. And now we're in the phase
of nobody seems at city hall to want to do
anything to rebuild the Palisades. Let's get Jeremy back on here.
Jeremy talk. Let's go through originally what happened, because it's
hard to believe I'm sure you must wake up. Everybody
wakes up in the middle of the night. And I
can't believe everything that went wrong, everything that was neglect,
(10:00):
everything that they were incompetent about. And you start with
Karen Bass going to Ghana and ignoring the fire warnings,
the reservoir not being filled, the hydrant's not working. Basically
there was almost no water supply after a few hours,
the fire department showing up late, not nearly enough firefighters,
(10:22):
the electricity never being turned off. I mean, looking back,
it's hard to believe that they whiffed on everything. Oh yeah,
it's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And I think there's one piece of information that's been
so buried and I don't understand why. So before we
litigate what occurred, let's talk about Karen Bass for a moment.
If you don't mind, Okay, go ahead. So Karen Bass
has deputy mayors, right, and one of her deputy mayors,
Brian Williams, was the deputy mayor of public safety in
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October of twenty twenty four. The deputy mayor of public safety,
who's in charge of what wildfires? Police, it's in charge
of fire, in charge of public safety of all kinds
emergency response. He called a bomb thread into city Hall.
Now that's important because he got rated by the FBI
(11:19):
and he was out by December. The reason why that's
so critically important is what his oversight was. Number one
and two the fact that he wasn't replaced until April
of twenty twenty five. I don't have an issue with
a mayor taking a personal trip or a professional trip anywhere.
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I do have an issue with our mayor with an
entire week's notice of wins coming in ones that noticed
that she even put out on her own personal Twitter,
then leaving without ahead of a deputy mayor of public
safety who's helping direct traffic, and then putting us in
(12:00):
this extraordinary risk, and then being an absolute not there,
unavailable during this incredible situation. It blows my mind. I mean,
I'm in the business world. I can't imagine what it
would be like to leave in the most critical time
period without your number two and then not replace that
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person for months. That's my issue, and that's one of
the critical reasons why I think Maribeth personally is grossly
negligent in the situation.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
She never even speaks about it. Nobody ever asks her either.
That's what's strange. Nobody ever says, well, what was with
this Brian Williams guy? Why didn't you replace him? How
did you end up with a guy who's calling in
bomb threats? I mean, I mean, the whole thing is
so preposterous and absurd, but it seems like six months
later none of it ever happened. She never addressed it,
(12:54):
she's never asked about it. I just don't understand. I
feel like this is a twilight Zone episode.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It is a twilight Zone episode, and it's so bizarre
because why a deputy mayor of public safety would call
it an anti Israel bomb threat into city Hall then
subsequently get rated by the FBI. Then by the way,
he's he was found, he pleaded guilty, he's being he's
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going to receive his approximately ten year jail sentence in October.
Where is this? Why hasn't this covered? That's one of
the things I covered on precisipalis Ades dot com. I
am blown away at the lack of media attention on
this critical point that links Karen Bass to what we
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see is a disaster, and I call it an unnatural disaster.
There is nothing natural about this except for the wins
which were clocked at between sixteen and thirty miles an hour,
and it's wins that we had between ten and four
pm when those plays were flying at a critical time.
By the way, the Santa Inez being empty, that the
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reservoir being empty, that's ninety seven point five percent of
the water available to the Palisades when that was empty
because of a broken cover right, which would have cost
two hundred thousand dollars to fix over a year. They
fumbled that ball. They had to send those airplanes to Malibu.
We lost seven hours trying to put out that fire
(14:27):
in the air, seven hours. Now the wind's picked up
later that night, but there's no excuse, and pointing to
this being a natural disaster is diabolical in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What do you think is going on?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
People are starting to invest in some wild, dark conspiracy theories,
and it's hard to understand.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's hard to.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Say they're wrong to when their minds wander in that direction,
because this is almost impossible to believe that it happened,
and then secondly that there's been no accountability since then.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
That's right, I mean, so, first of all, I would
say it is surreal, It is incredibly unusual, and it
requires a series of really bad decisions or lack of
decisions ahead of time. This is not a scenario where
it's like a commercial airliner when they say, you know,
God forbid two or three things have to go bad consecutively.
(15:23):
This is a scenario where like six things have to
go bad. And that's the reason why I'll bet you
if we stayed on the phone for an hour, you
couldn't name another time in the last one hundred and
twenty five years that a major city in the world
burned down as a result of something that wasn't a
natural disaster. I think we could probably sit here all day,
(15:45):
maybe bombings and stuff like that, But my god, that's war.
This is not I don't subscribe to. This was done
purposefully to destroy the piggybank of Los Angeles. Because, by
the way, while I said there are plenty of hard
working people in the Palisades that were underinsured or uninsured,
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and they're everyday people and they don't have the money
to build back, there are certainly a lot of people
with money, and the propensity of the average Palisades person
is to over index in terms of tax payments by
about ten times. I think we're about a half a
percent of the population in about six percent of the proceeds,
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although there's no way to know because they never share
transparently any of this information. You used to have to
do your own digging. I don't think that they would
destroy their piggybank on purpose, but they certainly mismanaged it terribly.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
What do you I still can't get over the reservoir.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I had not heard that statistic that it's ninety seven
percent of usable water in the Palisades, how and that
thing was empty for a year when the fire happened.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Did the public know this?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I yes, because you could look, you know, in various
parts of the palaceads. You could, depending on what house
you're in, you can look out the window and se
an empty reservoir. So yeah, I mean it was obvious.
There were plenty of questions asked. I will tell you
that the chief, our fire chief had plenty of warnings
to bass and made plenty of verbal warnings and written warnings,
(17:24):
and then you can find them about the reservoir. Yeah, yeah, definitely,
Well about the reservoir or the lack the lack of preparedness,
I think is exactly what the warnings were, but in
my opinion, come on, that reservoir was built fifty plus
(17:45):
years ago by a fire chief at the time that said,
this reservoir is being built because there is too much
fire risk in the palace heads or in this general area.
So that's the reason why it existed in the first place.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, one more quick, I only got about thirty seconds. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
The cause of the fire, there's no official cause yet.
That's hard to get.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Competence, in aptitude, gross negligence. I'll give you a cause.
It's when unpreparedness meets bad decision making equals fire. I mean,
we could get into absolute certainty. But yeah, this fire
probably started for a myriad of reasons, but it perpetuated
because of bad, bad, bad management.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
All right, Jeremy, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Let's talk again, okay, because they're not going to get
any better at their jobs. Jeremy Padouer, and he is
a resident of Palisades, lost his home, writes a blog
about all the aftermath of the fire at Pacific Palisades
dot com.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
If you're just joining us. We just had Jeffrey Padouer
on He is a businessman, except you, quite an accomplished businessman.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
We didn't get a chance to get into it.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
But he's a toy industry executive and Entrepreneur's invented a
lot of toys, and he lives in you know, he
lived in Pacific Palisades until.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Our city government helped burn it down.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And he's been writing on a blog Pacific Palisades dot com.
And quite interesting to hear his perspective. When we went
through the list of all the terrible preparation mistakes, it's actually,
actually it's not even a mistake. They didn't do any
preparation in so many ways. There was no preparation starting
with that reservoir, and then all the bad decisions and
(19:42):
reacting to the fire. It's just astonishing. It really is overwhelming.
He writes about it all the time. So you want
to listen to that on the podcast at John Cobalt
Show on demand. And as I was talking to him,
I was thinking, my god, if you listen to this
conversation and you just listened to all the things that
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the city government did badly, Karen Bass put everything at
her doorstep, all the things they did badly, and yet
I had not seen the kind of intensive, investigatory media
coverage that would normally accompany this. There's no way she
should still be in office. She should have been driven
(20:28):
out of office. There should have been an opposition party.
There should have been like, I mean, look what they
try to do to Trump every day. Why is why
do they not pile on Karen Bass at the El
Segundo Times and all the television stations.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, I heard early on. I talked to a reporter.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's like, well, she's a black woman, she gets that
special protection. That's what the reporter said, somebody in the
business on the inside. And I'm thinking, well, that's obviously
absurd and wrong. You get judged on your ability, and
you know that goes both ways. You don't get prejudged
based on your your gender and your race, but you
(21:10):
don't not get judged. It's not supposed to be special
protection for you. Because I am astounded at the lack
of media coverage, the criticism is glancing, The criticism is
really not what you'd expect. After I mean, a lot
of people died, for God's sakes, they died in addition
(21:32):
to the massive damage, and then you think if she
felt bad at all, you'd have the most incredible rebuild
operation going that you could see and hear and touch
every day. And like I said, it was in was
a palisades this morning. Nothing's going on. There's always this
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disconnect between real life and the media. I mean, even
when she went on Network TV on the not that
Network TV is much anymore, but on Sunday, she went
on two of those Sunday morning shows and they kind
of treated her with kid gloves. Kind of she did,
she was treated with kid gloves. Slightest bit of pushback.
(22:12):
And then I saw this story and it's about an
entirely different topic, but it's the same idea. What the
media covers and then what goes on in real life.
Remember when that military helicopter and the commercial passenger plane
collided in Washington, d C. Back in January, and it
(22:33):
was the first time that we had a deadly commercial
aviation accident in sixteen years. And at the same time,
Elon Musk and the Doge cuts were happening, and then
we found out like Newark's air traffic control was severely
understaffed and the equipment was failing, and so there was
a swarm of media coverage which warning people not to
(22:56):
fly and insisting that a lot of people who are
not flying anymore. And Dominic Pino at the National Review
put together a list of headlines. I'm going to quickly
read them. These are all on major newspapers or major
online magazines. You'd recognize all the names. Fear of flying
(23:16):
is different now. People worry about plane malfunctions, but the
systems directing flight can be more dangerous. What to do
if you're anxious about flying right now? Associated Press some
of the four hundred jobs that were cut at the
FAA helped support air safety. New Republic Trump's firing spree
(23:37):
at the FAA was even more terrible than he admitted.
Business Insider Americans are afraid to fly after recent crashes.
Social media and dose aren't helping. Slate says why air
travel is getting dangerous Forbes, Aviation safety at risk amid
doze cuts and shut down fears. Newsweek Americans are canceling
flights over safety concerns, Axios, air traffic controllers worried about
(24:00):
safety staffing, and more. New York Post fear of flying
is hurting ticket sales after multiple plane crashes. Dealt to
American Airlines, PBS how doses cutbacks at the FAA could
affect aviation and safety. NBC air traffic control centers struggle
with understaffing, and it goes on and on. Associated press
worries about flying seem to be taking off. Here's out
(24:23):
of cope with in flight anxiety, and Dominic Pino points
out that, well, all those stories there's wrong. People aren't
afraid to fly at all. People don't think it's dangerous
to fly or scary to fly.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
June twenty second was the busiest day for commercial air
travel in US history, the busiest day in history. TSA
screened three point one million passengers on June twenty second.
July sixth was the second highest day, July twentieth was
the third highest, both over three million, and he wrote, well,
(25:02):
if it's really getting so much more dangerous to fly,
fewer people would be doing it. It seems like the
freak out over safety under Trump has been confined to
the media while the all Americans flock to the airports
in record numbers. And isn't this always the way? There's
these media hysterias and then suddenly they die down and
(25:26):
disappear and then when you look back, and hardly anybody
looks back, you never see a story like this. Yeah,
all those crazy headlines was that real?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Was that true?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I mean I've got about almost twenty of them here. No,
people weren't afraid. I mean, there's always people afraid, and
you know they'll be the loudest. But in general, no,
three million people boarding planes each day, and you know
(25:58):
this when you go to the airport, especially at Lax,
it's extremely crowded. Everything is backed up, There's long lines
all over the place. You can't even get a coffee
or a donut. There's a long line. Parking lots are jammed,
security lines. I mean, I just there's so much nonsense
(26:22):
being fed to us every day. Sometimes it's a political agenda,
and sometimes it's just to scare you. Everything is it's
when everything switched to the Internet, and it was about
just getting hits immediate emotional reactions, and much of its nonsense.
I start every morning, probably look at thirty websites just
(26:44):
to start, and I can't tell you how much nonsense
and garbage there is, how much stuff I skip. I
just refuse to read anymore because I can tell I
can tell now when it's hyped up, slanted, biased, nonsense.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Lies, scared.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
A lot of It's very tempting to want to discuss
here on the radio, but I know it's like, no,
that's not real life. That's not what people are really
concerned about, thinking about, worried about.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Not easy.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
A weird time when we come back, the gas prices
have gone down. We always talk about them going up
and up, and uh, this is not a California thing
that they're going down. It's it's a nationwide thing. But
all of the factors that is going to that are
(27:38):
gonna cause California prices to go way up. They're still
in place. That's still very likely to happen. And we'll
tell you why prices here and everywhere else have briefly
gone down. And it's got nothing to do with California policies.
That's next. Deborah Mark is what falling off her chair?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
No, I'm not, don't exaggerate. Well, you duck down and disappeared,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I was looking at the tvcause I see Nathan Hafkman on,
so I want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So I had to go up. Well, what is he doing?
Is he reading recipes. I mean, no sel any charge
has been filed in the East Hollywood crash. Oh all right,
So I thought maybe it was not like major things.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
We had dunk down and I thought, well, maybe she
fell asleep. It wasn't a Coldplay concert, wasn't there's nobody
in the room with her.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Well, there you go. Remember you're on camera at
all times. Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
They've noticed that the gas prices have have dropped, and
the average in California is down to four forty nine
a gallon, although I'm paying four to twenty nine in
my neighborhood, and just a few weeks ago it was
four eighty nine, So that was a big drop to
(29:01):
witness sixty cents in a matter of a couple of weeks.
And gas prices are lower all across the country. So,
right up front, it's got nothing to do with the
California government. It's not that they're suddenly doing anything right.
It's not like they're artificially lowering the prices, because we're
going to have those big increases coming later sometime this year.
(29:25):
Between the low carbon fuel standard, the two big oil
refineries closing down, possibly our main oil pipeline being shut down.
You know, the predictions is the gas is going to
go over six bucks, maybe over eight bucks, maybe to
ten bucks. That's all still in the mix. But right
now what's happening is a series of factors. Outside of California,
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the national average is three fourteen. So if we're at
four forty nine, we're still paying a dollar and thirty
five cents higher than any where else in the country.
Mississ twenty one states are under three bucks, forty three states,
forty four states are under three forty, and you got
(30:11):
states like Mississippi at two seventy one. So the proportions
are still the same. Gas prices are dropping for everyone,
and californiaglobe dot com they got a story about this
week the price of gas in California still was forty
two percent higher than the national average, Still forty percent
(30:31):
higher than Arizona, forty six percent higher than Florida, sixty
three percent higher than Texas. How about that we're paying
sixty three percent more for gasoline. We have the highest
gas prices in the nation. But do you know when
it comes to how much petroleum we have stored underground.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
We are.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Number seven in the United States, and yet we're importing
our gas from Iraq, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Gula, Guyana. And
if the price is going down, it's because of the following.
(31:14):
There is a worldwide drop in global crude oil prices
with the Trump administration their new energy policies. US oil
production is increasing. Number three, there's a growing world oil
supply that's lowering the price. Number four is Chinese oil
(31:36):
consumption has plateaued, flattened out. Number five. Having Iran their
nuclear program get bombed so effectively with our missiles, They're
anticipating more stability in the Middle East. All this leads
to lower oil prices. What happens in the Middle at
(32:00):
least China just the way. So that's why the price
is lower. The price is lower across the country, but
all the California centric factors they're still in place. US
oil production has reached it is expected to hit record
highs for twenty twenty five. Crude oil prices have fallen
(32:25):
seventeen percent since Trump took office. See we don't know
this here because our oil price, our gas prices are
so high. We don't know the effect that these Trump
policies have had.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Along with these.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Issues that Trump or anyone else has no control over
things that are happening in foreign countries. OPEK is increasing
oil production by thirty four percent, and there's a reversal
obviously in California of tailpipe emission standards, fuel standards, the
(33:07):
waiver to set our own emission stands, that electric vehicle
mandate has been blocked, and some Supreme Court rulings. Bottom
line is everything's in place for California prices to still
shoot up tremendously, and if nothing changes, those prices will
(33:29):
go up.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
They have to. It's the law of economics, right.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If we lose two oil refineries, we lose twenty percent
of our gasoline, So the price has to go up.
If they turn off the pipeline and we've got to
import more oil from Saudi Arabia, gas to be refined
in South Korea from Saudi Arabia, that's going to drive
the price up. The low carbon fuel standard is going
to drive the price up. So I don't want anybody
(33:56):
to think that all that bad stuff isn't going to happen.
It's still will happen unless the policies are reversed. It's
just that the overall national and world climate has led
to lower gas prices, which may look surprising considering all
the bad news you've heard. All right, we've got Conway
coming up next. Don't forget the podcast to be posted
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Cobelt Radio. We need less than one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1 (34:26):
Thousand, and let's seat it on twenty.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Now, what's that less than one hundred and twenty, less
than one hundred and twenty. Well, let's get to it.
Let's get this done. Should get this done immediately? One
hundred and twenty people, and then tomorrow we're at thirty thousand,
and do I.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Win a prize? No?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No, just the next girl's thirty five. We never stopped
chasing the rabbit, do we? All right, Michael Krazer is
the news, and then Conway's coming up and he's live
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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