January 7, 2026 • 36 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/07) - Spencer Pratt announces his candidacy for L.A. Mayor at the "They Let Us Burn" Rally. Interview with Spencer Pratt and Jeremy Padawer, one of the organizers for the "They Let Us Burn" Rally. Mayor Bass's office requested revisions for the after-action reports.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome on really tumultuous day,
not only here, but in various places in the country.
We are going to bring you everything we can. We're
on every day from one until four o'clock. After four
o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That is the podcast
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version on the iHeartRadio app. And I told you yesterday
that we were going to be attending the Palisades rally demonstration.
It to the one put on by the reality TV
star Spencer Pratt and Jeremy Patawer, who is a producer,
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and it drew a huge crowd today in the Palisades.
We recorded quite a few interviews with local residents and
we're going to be playing those throughout the show today
and you will get a sense of how devastated everyone
still is. Extreme frustration and anger, and there has just
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been no help at all coming from any level of
this failed government, whether it is the city, state, the
fire department, the police department. It is a complete failure.
No one has spoken. Nobody in government speaks to any
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of the people there or any of the community leaders.
Everything is denied, everything is deflected, excused, or not responded
to it all. It is astonishing and it starts with
Karen Bass, and there's a lot to say about her,
and I don't think Karen Bass has a single vote
in the Palisades. But what happened The biggest news occurred
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just after we left. We got there early and we
started interviewing people, and then eventually, by about eleven o'clock
or so, we had to all head back to the
station here to sort out all the recordings and plan
plan the show and the speeches at this rally went
on for a while and after we left, and after
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I spoke with him off stage, Spencer Pratt announced that
he's going to run for mayor against Karen Bass. And
we'll play you now that moment cut number ten.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
NGOs, nonprofits and unions are running this town. Why do
you think one hundred million in fire aid money is missing?
The system in Los Angeles isn't struggling, it's fundamentally broken.
It to protect the people at the top and the
friends they exchanged favors with while the rest of us
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drown in toxic smoke and ash. Business as usual is
a death sentence. For Los Angeles and I'm done waiting
for someone to take real action.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's why I am running for mayor.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And let me be Claire.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
This just isn't a camp. This is a mission, and
we're gonna expose the system. We are going into every
dark corner of LA politics and disinfecting the.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
City with our light.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And when we are done, La is going to be
camera ready again.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That was a total surprise, and I think that captures
the mood of the Palisage residents really well. That does
one hundred percent support from the sound of it, from
the crowd. There is zero interest in even listening to
Karen Dass anymore. She is a complete liar and a
fraud and she has completely betrayed everybody in that section
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of town. And if there are any Karen Bass supporters
out there, for God's sake, stop it all right. She's
an absolute disaster. And you go, you spend a couple
hours talking to the people from Palisades, come to your
own conclusions about her leadership. We're gonna play now, Spencer Pratt.
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I spoke with him before he went on stage and
announced he's running for mayor and play cut number seven.
All we have Spencer Pratt here, Spencer, huge crowd. People
have really responded to your leadership online. It seems like
you're almost like you're the mayor of the Palisades for
the last year. What have you gotten any response yet
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from anybody in government on any level to sit down
and talk to you. Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Absolutely not just harassment.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Tw The mayor tried to insinuate that this event was
for profit, that people are making money off this. When
Jeremy and fire victims spent I think forty thousand of
his own money, There's nothing. Nobody's making a dollar here.
I think he even gave out five hundred shirts. So no,
all the leadership of the city and the state is
a harassment or you know, fees.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
They need money from the fire victims.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So you saw this week obviously that there's been seven
versions of the investigative report, and then along the way
it was sent to Bass's office and she wanted revisions, refinements,
she called them.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Yeah, two months ago, I had firefighters reach out to
me behind the scenes because they can't go public as
the fear of retaliation because we saw what Karen Bass
did to Crowley when she tried to speak any truth
and they told me that the ATF report was completely
cooked and that the actual battalion chief that worked on
it asked to have his name taken off it. And
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let's interesting choice of music. I don't know who's djaing.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
And so yeah, it's just it's unacceptable.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
And it's obviously a full cover up, and we know
the truth, and we knew the after action work it
didn't even have one word about the Lockman fire, which
is where the Ballacies fire originated.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So that's when you knew it was cooked from the jump.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
But of course the marriage just continues to lie, and
Newsom continues to lie.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Everyone is lying because if the truth.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Gets out, how can they still be in office. They
should all resign, They should go be podcasters and write books.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
A lot of truth has come out. Do you think
there's a lot more still to come?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I think one of the biggest stories it still is.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
You know, it sounds like insider baseball, but the amount
of money that Newsom is taken from the beds to
do prescribe burns in California and to do maintenance on
his state park which actually caused our fire.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
That's a big story that's going to be billions.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
You know, everyone got worked up just over one hundred
million in Minnesota. Well, I'm pretty sure we're gonna be
able to prove that Newsom has not used the billions
of federal money to actually maintain his state barks.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
What about the State Parks Department coming in and kicking
the LA Fire Department off the fire mark spot where
they were doing the mapa.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
You know, I think the more insane part is that
they took dead brush and covered up the fire breaks. Yeah,
because in their logic, oh, we don't want people to
go on these fire breaks.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, in your home park manual.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
You're supposed to be closing the state park until it's
not a dangerous condition.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
So once you leave the fire breaks, close your state
park and monitor.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
The fact that we have drome footage showing the whole
entire hill where the actual fire reignited on January seven,
We have drome footage and was released this week with
thermal showing the whole thing smoking, just shows you how flaker.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Why do you think they did it? Why do you
think they at displace burn?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well, I mean that's first, it's negligence. I think there's
just a lot of stupid people running these positions. And
then I also think they don't care, so you know
it's I don't want to go a conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So there's a lot of people I've been talking to
things there is something darker going on.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
You know, at the end of the day, now the Palisades,
if you see what's happening, they have a new vision
for it, and that's what we have to continue fighting
because they want to put whatever they want to put here.
And you know, there's gonna be billions of dollars being
made in taxes that they would have never had and
the state is broke, the city's broke.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So they need money.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Thank you, you've done great work, Spencer break And shortly
thereafter he went on stage and announced he's running for
mayor against Karen Bass, and the crowd went crazy. Some
of the things that he referred to in that little
conversation is as we're talking about this yesterday with Roger Bailey,
who's one of the lead attorneys for thousands of Palisades residents.
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And not only did the state parks employees kick the
LA Fire Department off the land whose Topanga State Park,
it's where the original fire started on January first, it's
where it was still smoldering. It's where there were still hotspots, rocks,
tree stumps. They were kicked off and they wouldn't allow bulldozers.
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They were the bulldozers off because that would tear up
the milk fetch plants. And what we found out yesterday
from Roger Bailey, and this was hard to believe, and
Spencer mentioned this, is they made the firefighters take some
brush that they had all had removed, go get it,
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and almost like the way you'd place a tupe on
a bald man's head, put the brush back on the
trail that they had carved out as a firebreak. They
claimed they didn't want people using it as a hiking trail. Well,
it was meant to be a fire break, but I
guess it dug up some milk vetch plants. And they
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wanted the milk vetch plants and whatever other brush they
had there to be placed back on top where they
had already carved out a path. It is its most
insane thing imaginable. Now, when we come back, I want
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to tell you about the La Times this morning. It
turns out that the Palisades Investigative Report, the after action
report that the Fire Department did yesterday. We told you
that there are seven different versions of it. It got
rewritten six times. Bass lied and claimed she had nothing
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to do with it. But now the Fire commisis and
President Janetha Hudley Hayes says that one of the drafts
was sent to Karen Bass and that she wanted some
refinements done to the report. In other words, she didn't
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like it. She wanted to rewritten. She wanted to continue
to lie in the cover up. That's what Karen Bass wanted.
So more truth came out today. Tell you about that.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
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we all went to the rally today in Pacific Pali
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Seeds and take this rally name literally. They let us
burn a lot of people really believe that the LA Government,
Fire Department, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass they let the
Palisades burn. Now the question is why. But it looks
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as if talking to more residents today, and these are
stories that I have heard repeatedly, talking to friends of
mine who got burned out and strangers that my wife
and I would meet on a hiking trail near the Palisades.
I have talked to so many people and they tell
frequently the same story that nobody showed up, Nobody showed
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up in the neighborhood, no firefighters were there, and their
homes burned on day two or day three of the fire.
And every time I hear another version of this story,
it shocks me all over again. This really happened. We
told you last segment that Spencer Pratt, who was the
one of the organizers of the rally, announced that he's
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running for mayor, the former reality television star. And what
fueled people today was the La Times with a new report.
And it looks as if we have been discussing how
there were seven different versions of the Fire Department's owned investigation.
They kept rewriting it and rewriting it and re re
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rewriting it and went on and on. Well along the line,
they sent a draft to Karen Bass, and Karen Bass
instructions is she wants some refinements, which is code for
you're not going to make me look bad. You're not
going to make the fire department or anybody in the
city government look bad, all right, that's the refinement. Refinement
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means lie and cover up. himI Moore, the fire Chief,
admitted to the LA Fire Commission yesterday that the after
action report had been edited to soften criticism. That's a
kind way to put it. There is like an endless
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endless euphemisms for lying, endless euphemisms for covering up the
truth when you're in public life. Interim Chief. Interim Fire
Chief Ronnie v a Aueva had told the Fire Commission
President Janethia Hudley Hayes that a working draft had been
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sent to Karen Bass and Genethia Hudley Hayes told that
to The Times on Tuesday, and in this conversation this
is going back to mid August maybe later, v in
Aeva said the mayor's office had asked for refinements. By
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the way, when you hear the mayor's office, it's the mayor.
It's Karen Bass looking at it and saying, well, though
we can't do this. She has been actively trying to
cover this up. Now. Hudley Hayes was appointed by Bass
in June of twenty twenty three. It's a five member commission,
and said she had learned. Hayes said she learned that
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words like refinement could mean troubling changes to a government
report made for the purpose of hiding facts. This is
Hudley Hayes's interpretation of Bass's order. So the president of
the Fire Commission thinks that Bass was up to no
good demanding refinements, and she's absolutely right. This is the
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code they write in to give them some type of
plausible deniability, some kind of distance. In fact, Hudley Hayes
was concerned enough about the edits that she contacted a
deputy city attorney, but these were her first public statements
that her concerns came what came from the mayor trying
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to influence the report. Now, the basis of the report
is what went wrong in fighting the Palaces fire and
how do we prevent the mistakes from happening again. That's
what the La Times says the report was supposed to do.
Bass looks at the report and says, oh, hit a second.
I don't like that I'm getting blamed, and there's other
people getting blamed who I want to protect because I'm
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running for reelection. Because the World Cup is coming did
you hear?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
The Olympics are coming to and I want to be
on stage for the World Cup and the Olympics and
all these annoying parasites in the Palisades be damned. She
looks at the Palisades fire now as a as a
chronic public relations problem, not as an immense tragedy that
she was responsible for.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
On Tuesday, the Times called Bass's office and they wouldn't
explain what the refinements were. Previously, they said they did
not demand changes to the draft. Well, that's a lie,
and they wanted to investigate how the weather and the
department's budget factored into the disaster. By the way, on
the weather, there weren't hurricane force wins as the fire
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started spreading that afternoon. That has been a lie, propaganda,
wildly overplayed. So of course that's what they wanted to question,
was the weather and the department's budget. The department was
only fifty percent funded. It's half funded by national standards.
It's supposed to have twice as many firefighters along with
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twice as many trucks, twice as much equipment. So the
LA Fire Department did not respond to any questions about
who ordered the changes to the report. Vanaweva, the interim chief,
did not respond. Hudley Hayes says she reached out to
Vanaweva around August the twenty first because there had been
such a delay in the report and the author of it,
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Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook, had eventually he disavowed the report.
He refused to endorse it. That's not what I wrote,
in effect, is what he was saying. That was not
my report. So this is clearly a cover up by
the fire chief at the time VI in a wave,
clearly a cover up by the mayor, Karen Bass. And
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they got caught and people are starting to talk, and
they're starting to leak, and people are starting to tell
the truth. It's very dangerous to tell the truth under
Karen Bass. That's why she chopped Kristen Crowley's head off quickly,
just to send a message to everybody else. You don't
tell the truth about Karen Bass. If she's got the
power over you, she's going to use it and your
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career is over. So the firefighters have been busy leaking
text messages and drafts of reports any way they can
without assigning their name to it. Now, when we come back,
there's another organizer, Jeremy Pettiwer, and I talked with him
at the event in the context of Karen Bass smearing
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him on social media, implying that he designed the event
in order to profit, if you would believe profit, which
was preposterous, and we'll explain why.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
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Speaker 1 (19:20):
On the first anniversary of the Palisades and Altadena fires.
We're on from one until four o'clock and then after
four o'clock John Cobelts show on demand on the iHeart app.
So this morning a group of us, Eric Ray and
Tony Sorrentino, all of us went down to the Palisades
to interview public officials, organizers of the protest and citizens
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in the Palisades. They were attending the rally called they
Let Us Burn, They'd let Us Burn, and well were
a thousand people attended. It was a big crowd. Not
good at counting crowds, but this this was and they
were very upset, very enthusiastic with what they heard from
the various speakers. Later on, I'll talk to Well later
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and we'll play Tracy Park her conversation that I had
but I I And then after we left, Spencer Pratt,
the reality reality TV star who has been the most,
well the loudest voice, especially on social media about the
failings of Karen Bass and everybody else. He announced he's
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running from mayor. His partner in putting on this rally
they let us burn is Jeremy Padawer. Among other things.
He's a producer and he lost his house and he
lost an extremely valuable collection of pop culture American pop
culture artifacts. And Jeremy we've had on the show a
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couple of times, including yesterday, Yes, and he was shocked
on social media. Karen Bass smeared him, do you believe this?
Karen Bass smeared the guy who lost everything and was
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trying to put together a rally so that the residents
of the Palisades can get some attention because they, in
addition to everything else, their rebuild process is excruciating it's
extremely difficult. I've talked to so many people. I talked
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to more of them today. I know my friends. I've
talked to a number of strangers in the Palisades on
our hikes, and it is bad there. And Eddy promises
Bass made, she lied about him, she didn't come through.
They're still charging thirty to forty thousand dollars for permits.
She said, she's just gonna have that waved. Nothing's been waved.
Total lie, total failure. So this was posted that She
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was asked about they let us burn the rally being
held in the Palisades and if she thinks that's how
residents should commemorate the one year anniversary of the fire,
and she said, I don't think so. Who decides how
you're supposed to commemorate the day your entire town bird
to the ground. What the rally is inappropriate? The town
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is still gone. I was there today. I was there.
The town's not there. There was an over a thousand
people screaming about this. The town's not there. So she says,
I don't think so. But again, I think there are
people who are profiting off this, and that's why I
that's what I find very despicable, intentionally putting out misinformation,
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intentionally profiting from social media, book deals, et cetera. I
think that's unfortunate to me. I hope it's about healing
and moving forward, moving forward. How are you gonna move
forward when you don't have a roof over your head
anymore and you can't get the insurance payments and you
can't get the permits moving forward? Boy, that is the
last refuge of a failed politician when she tells you
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to move forward. How about no, how about you get
out of office. How about you get the hell out
of office, and maybe we'll get a mayor who actually
waives the fees and streamlines the rebuilding process. Move forward.
Every single politic, palacitian that wants to come back, that
should be the focus. Well, they can't come back because
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you and your incompetent, stupid government won't let them come back.
You let them burn. And now you're telling them to
move forward, and you're calling them despicable and claiming that
Jeremy Patterwer is making money off this, So he responded
on social media. I Jeremy Patterwer funded the rally at
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the total cost of roughly forty thousand dollars. I accepted
no contributions. One of our speakers paid for the signage.
I've earned zero dollars on the website Pacific Palisades dot com.
I've written seventy five articles there. Bass saying that this
is from profit is false. He spends forty thousand dollars,
there's no profit, and she accuses him of being despicable.
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You cannot make this stuff up anyway. We caught up
with Jeremy Padawa. Let me see which cut is that? Oh?
Cut number five? Played that one? Another interview at the
corner of Strathmore and Antiak. Yes, that's right. We're talking
to Jeremy Padawa. And Jeremy is one of the organizers
of they Let Us Burn rally, and we've talked with
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him a couple of times already on the air. And
since we talked with you yesterday, Karen Bass seemed to
accuse you at other people running this rally of profiting. Yes,
and you posted something last night about this concept that
you personally are profiting. Why don't you want you tell
everybody what you posted?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, first of all, my house burned down, a house
where I've raised my children. Secondly, I paid forty thousand
dollars for this event. We accepted no external money whatsoever.
One individual came and provided signage. I wanted to avoid
any conflict at all because I didn't want there to
be any question as to whether what my motivations were.
So no, I've written seventy five articles on Pacific Palisades
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dot com, which is the citizen journalism that I do,
and I haven't made a dime from that, and I
certainly didn't make a dime from this event.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
In fact, we gave away T shirts. We haven't sold
a thing. It must obviously it was appalling, angering because
you immediately posted what you did, and for her to
say that, instead of like coming here and telling everybody,
which she's really going to do it, apologizing for everything
that she's done, she attacks you. I couldn't believe it.
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I saw that last night and my mouth dropped open.
It's like, no, she can't be that bad.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Well, that's the classic relationship between a victim and a victimizer.
A victimizer wants to hold all the inform and they
all attack the victim.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
So in this case, we are the victim.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
We survived to fire, our home burned down, and we're
expressing our First Amendment rights here today. And so for
the mayor to attack that is attacking freedom of speech.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And you saw the LA Time story that she had
gotten one of the drafts. There were seven versions of
this investigative report and her office or she rather sent
it back. She wanted refinements right.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
She also deleted all of her texts despite the LA
Times requiring them. She also is partners with Gavin Newsom,
who has zero responsive messages to Pacific Palisades from January.
Neither our governor or mayor apparently had any text or
any communications about what happened to the palisades in the
month after the fire.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Has anybody from any level of government contacted you or
spensered talk about all the grievances, all the issues, to
plot a course to rebuild this place. Do you hear
from anybody? I have heard nothing, note the mayor.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
The first time the mayor has identified that I exist
was last night when she accused me of profiteering.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It seems like they think all these people here don't matter,
that they don't have to respond to all these people gathering.
I think that's fair. I think they're not used to it.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
I don't think they're used to the community pushing back,
and when the community pushes back, it's such a surprise
to them that they would really appreciate that they could
bury it. In fact, they've done everything that they could today,
in my opinion, to make sure that this didn't occur.
Like we barely even had we paid for permitting, and
we barely had blockades up forty five minutes before this
cars were coming through.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
It was scared me to death.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
I was ready to cancel the event.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I saw it. Heard an interview that she did with
Channel two and at the end of the interview she
wanted to point out, but the World Cup is coming
and we want all Angelios to rally together. I mean,
she's doing the misspeak she can to like pivot towards
something positive. I just don't want to hear all this
talk about the Palisades.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Misdirection, gas lighting, and I think, look, the truth of
the matter is the fact that these homes burn down
in an Altadena n Malibu that effects a very small
porn shit of Los Angeles. But the reason why it's
pertinent to everyone else is because this could happen to them,
especially if our leaders learn nothing from the situation. If
they don't analyze it and figure out the things that
went wrong, we will not gain as a community, not
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one bit, and this will happen again.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Jeremy, thanks for coming on. All right. That's Jeremy Padawak,
falsely accused by Karen Bass of profiting for organizing they
let us burn rally in the Palisades. He actually spent
forty thousand dollars of his own money to put together
the rally. More coming up next hour. We're going to
play eclipse of some of the experiences of the Palisades
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residents and their feelings and their emotions. And these people
are hot still, they're still upset, and they should be
because the failure is ongoing every day. Every day the
failure is extended.
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com slash at John Covelt Show. I was standing with
the crowd, uh, and they got, they got. They got
quite boisterous and quite noisy, especially when Spencer Pratt took
the stage. You know, I was thinking, Uh, I understand
how politics works. And Karen baskets a lot of votes
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from the city unions. They're guaranteed votes. I don't know
what percentage, but it's a significant enough percentage. And these
people get paid by Karen Bass and she, like all
the other mayors, agree to generous contracts that the city
cannot afford. That's why there's constantly crises because they're just
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isn't the tax revenue to cover these excessive contracts. But
in return, it's kind of like what Tim Waltz did
with the Somalis. Tim Waltz allowed billions of tax dollars
to flow to the Somalis through their fake, crooked childcare
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centers and feeding our future centers, and in return, the
Somalis voted as this gigantic block eighty one hundred thousand
votes that he had in the bank guaranteed right off
the top. Well, Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom have the
same scam going with state and city worker unions. One
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of the great one of the worst things that Jerry
Brown ever did, or ednie governor was allow state workers
to unionize. I think he signed that back in the seventies.
And then governors start pandering. And here's the way it works.
The governments basically bribe the union workers in exchange for votes,
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and in turn, I suspect that these unions then bribe
the politicians with campaign contributions or under the table contributions.
I think the reason these nonprofits both here in Los
Angeles and in Minnesota and everywhere else, the reason they're
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suddenly thriving this past decade. You know when something changes
that dramatically. It was just a few years ago I
didn't know what NGO meant. Non government organization. Well, what's that. Well,
it's these nonprofits that get these huge grants that run
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into the millions, the tens of millions totals up into
the billions of dollars. And somebody pointed out that the
politicians here in LA have been short changing funding the
police and fire. They shovel the money into the nonprofits
or into the unions. And I have to believe that
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the politicians, especially here in the city of Los Angeles,
are getting kickbacks from the nonprofits. They have to be,
because untold millions of dollars go into these and I'm
talking like homeless nonprofits, the legal alien nonprofits, poverty nonprofits,
all these fake industries that have sprung up just in
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recent years. They're extremely well funded. They accomplished nothing. Take
homelessness for example, it's only increased the more money would
put in. That was like the first morning in my
head is how could you put this much money in
every year? Every year, every year billions of dollars and
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every year goes up by the thousands. How is that possible?
Because almost none of it was used to help the
homeless people. It was pocketed by the people running the nonprofits.
I started looking at at the salaries and all the
executives are making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there's
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a lot of these people. Some of this information is
accessible online and it's like, these are tremendous salaries. And
then and this is off the books, they give kickbacks
to the politicians. Why would a politician, you know how
how specific they are with spending their money. They want
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to spend money on something that's going to benefit them,
So they spend the money on worker unions from police
and fire to all the loser workers in state and
city government because they want them votes. But I think now,
especially with the nonprofit organizations, it's because they're getting to
share the proceeds. It has to be that. You wonder
(34:49):
how politicians end up leaving office and they're millionaires and
they own multiple homes. They have to be skimming off
some of the money or getting kickbacks. It can't be
anything else. The money never gets to the destination, which
is why you still have lots lots of kids that
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were hungry. I mean, look look at what chef Bruno
has to do every year, right, Why isn't that all
taken care of by the billions of dollars Orange County
residents have spent supporting various government programs to relieve to
relieve hunger. Money doesn't get to the kids, money doesn't
get to the homeless. The money didn't build high speed rail.
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The money goes into the pockets of those running the
nonprofits and goes into the pockets of the politicians who
vote to disperse the money, and maybe the bureaucrats of
these agencies who facilitate the dispersement. It's got to be that,
because I can't think of where else the money has gone.
A lot of these programs are not complicated. They should work,
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they should do so them good. They don't, and the
problem gets worse, which means it's obvious now we have
like they have in Minnesota. And I'm glad Minnesota happened.
Maybe that'll get people here in LA to realize that's
what's going on here. I mean, they're prosecuting ninety people
in Minnesota. All Right, we come back. I'm gonna play
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Eclipse from some of the residents of the Palisades and
listen to what they've been going through and how they feel. Hey,
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version on the iHeartRadio app. And I told you yesterday
that we were going to be attending the Palisades rally demonstration.
It to the one put on by the reality TV
star Spencer Pratt and Jeremy Patawer, who is a producer,
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and it drew a huge crowd today in the Palisades.
We recorded quite a few interviews with local residents and
we're going to be playing those throughout the show today
and you will get a sense of how devastated everyone
still is. Extreme frustration and anger, and there has just
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been no help at all coming from any level of
this failed government, whether it is the city, state, the
fire department, the police department. It is a complete failure.
No one has spoken. Nobody in government speaks to any
(01:27):
of the people there or any of the community leaders.
Everything is denied, everything is deflected, excused, or not responded
to it all. It is astonishing and it starts with
Karen Bass, and there's a lot to say about her,
and I don't think Karen Bass has a single vote
in the Palisades. But what happened The biggest news occurred
(01:53):
just after we left. We got there early and we
started interviewing people, and then eventually, by about eleven o'clock
or so, we had to all head back to the
station here to sort out all the recordings and plan
plan the show and the speeches at this rally went
on for a while and after we left, and after
(02:14):
I spoke with him off stage, Spencer Pratt announced that
he's going to run for mayor against Karen Bass. And
we'll play you now that moment cut number ten.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
NGOs, nonprofits and unions are running this town. Why do
you think one hundred million in fire aid money is missing?
The system in Los Angeles isn't struggling, it's fundamentally broken.
It to protect the people at the top and the
friends they exchanged favors with while the rest of us
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drown in toxic smoke and ash. Business as usual is
a death sentence. For Los Angeles and I'm done waiting
for someone to take real action.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's why I am running for mayor.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And let me be Claire.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
This just isn't a camp. This is a mission, and
we're gonna expose the system. We are going into every
dark corner of LA politics and disinfecting the.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
City with our light.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And when we are done, La is going to be
camera ready again.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That was a total surprise, and I think that captures
the mood of the Palisage residents really well. That does
one hundred percent support from the sound of it, from
the crowd. There is zero interest in even listening to
Karen Dass anymore. She is a complete liar and a
fraud and she has completely betrayed everybody in that section
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of town. And if there are any Karen Bass supporters
out there, for God's sake, stop it all right. She's
an absolute disaster. And you go, you spend a couple
hours talking to the people from Palisades, come to your
own conclusions about her leadership. We're gonna play now, Spencer Pratt.
(04:29):
I spoke with him before he went on stage and
announced he's running for mayor and play cut number seven.
All we have Spencer Pratt here, Spencer, huge crowd. People
have really responded to your leadership online. It seems like
you're almost like you're the mayor of the Palisades for
the last year. What have you gotten any response yet
(04:53):
from anybody in government on any level to sit down
and talk to you. Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Absolutely not just harassment.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Tw The mayor tried to insinuate that this event was
for profit, that people are making money off this. When
Jeremy and fire victims spent I think forty thousand of
his own money, There's nothing. Nobody's making a dollar here.
I think he even gave out five hundred shirts. So no,
all the leadership of the city and the state is
a harassment or you know, fees.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
They need money from the fire victims.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So you saw this week obviously that there's been seven
versions of the investigative report, and then along the way
it was sent to Bass's office and she wanted revisions, refinements,
she called them.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Yeah, two months ago, I had firefighters reach out to
me behind the scenes because they can't go public as
the fear of retaliation because we saw what Karen Bass
did to Crowley when she tried to speak any truth
and they told me that the ATF report was completely
cooked and that the actual battalion chief that worked on
it asked to have his name taken off it. And
(05:59):
let's interesting choice of music. I don't know who's djaing.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
And so yeah, it's just it's unacceptable.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
And it's obviously a full cover up, and we know
the truth, and we knew the after action work it
didn't even have one word about the Lockman fire, which
is where the Ballacies fire originated.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So that's when you knew it was cooked from the jump.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
But of course the marriage just continues to lie, and
Newsom continues to lie.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Everyone is lying because if the truth.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Gets out, how can they still be in office. They
should all resign, They should go be podcasters and write books.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
A lot of truth has come out. Do you think
there's a lot more still to come?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I think one of the biggest stories it still is.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
You know, it sounds like insider baseball, but the amount
of money that Newsom is taken from the beds to
do prescribe burns in California and to do maintenance on
his state park which actually caused our fire.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
That's a big story that's going to be billions.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
You know, everyone got worked up just over one hundred
million in Minnesota. Well, I'm pretty sure we're gonna be
able to prove that Newsom has not used the billions
of federal money to actually maintain his state barks.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
What about the State Parks Department coming in and kicking
the LA Fire Department off the fire mark spot where
they were doing the mapa.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
You know, I think the more insane part is that
they took dead brush and covered up the fire breaks. Yeah,
because in their logic, oh, we don't want people to
go on these fire breaks.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, in your home park manual.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
You're supposed to be closing the state park until it's
not a dangerous condition.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
So once you leave the fire breaks, close your state
park and monitor.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
The fact that we have drome footage showing the whole
entire hill where the actual fire reignited on January seven,
We have drome footage and was released this week with
thermal showing the whole thing smoking, just shows you how flaker.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Why do you think they did it? Why do you
think they at displace burn?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well, I mean that's first, it's negligence. I think there's
just a lot of stupid people running these positions. And
then I also think they don't care, so you know
it's I don't want to go a conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So there's a lot of people I've been talking to
things there is something darker going on.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
You know, at the end of the day, now the Palisades,
if you see what's happening, they have a new vision
for it, and that's what we have to continue fighting
because they want to put whatever they want to put here.
And you know, there's gonna be billions of dollars being
made in taxes that they would have never had and
the state is broke, the city's broke.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So they need money.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Thank you, you've done great work, Spencer break And shortly
thereafter he went on stage and announced he's running for
mayor against Karen Bass, and the crowd went crazy. Some
of the things that he referred to in that little
conversation is as we're talking about this yesterday with Roger Bailey,
who's one of the lead attorneys for thousands of Palisades residents.
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And not only did the state parks employees kick the
LA Fire Department off the land whose Topanga State Park,
it's where the original fire started on January first, it's
where it was still smoldering. It's where there were still hotspots, rocks,
tree stumps. They were kicked off and they wouldn't allow bulldozers.
(09:31):
They were the bulldozers off because that would tear up
the milk fetch plants. And what we found out yesterday
from Roger Bailey, and this was hard to believe, and
Spencer mentioned this, is they made the firefighters take some
brush that they had all had removed, go get it,
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and almost like the way you'd place a tupe on
a bald man's head, put the brush back on the
trail that they had carved out as a firebreak. They
claimed they didn't want people using it as a hiking trail. Well,
it was meant to be a fire break, but I
guess it dug up some milk vetch plants. And they
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wanted the milk vetch plants and whatever other brush they
had there to be placed back on top where they
had already carved out a path. It is its most
insane thing imaginable. Now, when we come back, I want
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to tell you about the La Times this morning. It
turns out that the Palisades Investigative Report, the after action
report that the Fire Department did yesterday. We told you
that there are seven different versions of it. It got
rewritten six times. Bass lied and claimed she had nothing
(10:56):
to do with it. But now the Fire commisis and
President Janetha Hudley Hayes says that one of the drafts
was sent to Karen Bass and that she wanted some
refinements done to the report. In other words, she didn't
(11:17):
like it. She wanted to rewritten. She wanted to continue
to lie in the cover up. That's what Karen Bass wanted.
So more truth came out today. Tell you about that.
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we all went to the rally today in Pacific Pali
(11:58):
Seeds and take this rally name literally. They let us
burn a lot of people really believe that the LA Government,
Fire Department, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass they let the
Palisades burn. Now the question is why. But it looks
(12:21):
as if talking to more residents today, and these are
stories that I have heard repeatedly, talking to friends of
mine who got burned out and strangers that my wife
and I would meet on a hiking trail near the Palisades.
I have talked to so many people and they tell
frequently the same story that nobody showed up, Nobody showed
(12:45):
up in the neighborhood, no firefighters were there, and their
homes burned on day two or day three of the fire.
And every time I hear another version of this story,
it shocks me all over again. This really happened. We
told you last segment that Spencer Pratt, who was the
one of the organizers of the rally, announced that he's
(13:07):
running for mayor, the former reality television star. And what
fueled people today was the La Times with a new report.
And it looks as if we have been discussing how
there were seven different versions of the Fire Department's owned investigation.
They kept rewriting it and rewriting it and re re
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rewriting it and went on and on. Well along the line,
they sent a draft to Karen Bass, and Karen Bass
instructions is she wants some refinements, which is code for
you're not going to make me look bad. You're not
going to make the fire department or anybody in the
city government look bad, all right, that's the refinement. Refinement
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means lie and cover up. himI Moore, the fire Chief,
admitted to the LA Fire Commission yesterday that the after
action report had been edited to soften criticism. That's a
kind way to put it. There is like an endless
(14:12):
endless euphemisms for lying, endless euphemisms for covering up the
truth when you're in public life. Interim Chief. Interim Fire
Chief Ronnie v a Aueva had told the Fire Commission
President Janethia Hudley Hayes that a working draft had been
(14:34):
sent to Karen Bass and Genethia Hudley Hayes told that
to The Times on Tuesday, and in this conversation this
is going back to mid August maybe later, v in
Aeva said the mayor's office had asked for refinements. By
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the way, when you hear the mayor's office, it's the mayor.
It's Karen Bass looking at it and saying, well, though
we can't do this. She has been actively trying to
cover this up. Now. Hudley Hayes was appointed by Bass
in June of twenty twenty three. It's a five member commission,
and said she had learned. Hayes said she learned that
(15:16):
words like refinement could mean troubling changes to a government
report made for the purpose of hiding facts. This is
Hudley Hayes's interpretation of Bass's order. So the president of
the Fire Commission thinks that Bass was up to no
good demanding refinements, and she's absolutely right. This is the
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code they write in to give them some type of
plausible deniability, some kind of distance. In fact, Hudley Hayes
was concerned enough about the edits that she contacted a
deputy city attorney, but these were her first public statements
that her concerns came what came from the mayor trying
(16:04):
to influence the report. Now, the basis of the report
is what went wrong in fighting the Palaces fire and
how do we prevent the mistakes from happening again. That's
what the La Times says the report was supposed to do.
Bass looks at the report and says, oh, hit a second.
I don't like that I'm getting blamed, and there's other
people getting blamed who I want to protect because I'm
(16:27):
running for reelection. Because the World Cup is coming did
you hear?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
The Olympics are coming to and I want to be
on stage for the World Cup and the Olympics and
all these annoying parasites in the Palisades be damned. She
looks at the Palisades fire now as a as a
chronic public relations problem, not as an immense tragedy that
she was responsible for.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
On Tuesday, the Times called Bass's office and they wouldn't
explain what the refinements were. Previously, they said they did
not demand changes to the draft. Well, that's a lie,
and they wanted to investigate how the weather and the
department's budget factored into the disaster. By the way, on
the weather, there weren't hurricane force wins as the fire
(17:13):
started spreading that afternoon. That has been a lie, propaganda,
wildly overplayed. So of course that's what they wanted to question,
was the weather and the department's budget. The department was
only fifty percent funded. It's half funded by national standards.
It's supposed to have twice as many firefighters along with
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twice as many trucks, twice as much equipment. So the
LA Fire Department did not respond to any questions about
who ordered the changes to the report. Vanaweva, the interim chief,
did not respond. Hudley Hayes says she reached out to
Vanaweva around August the twenty first because there had been
such a delay in the report and the author of it,
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Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook, had eventually he disavowed the report.
He refused to endorse it. That's not what I wrote,
in effect, is what he was saying. That was not
my report. So this is clearly a cover up by
the fire chief at the time VI in a wave,
clearly a cover up by the mayor, Karen Bass. And
(18:18):
they got caught and people are starting to talk, and
they're starting to leak, and people are starting to tell
the truth. It's very dangerous to tell the truth under
Karen Bass. That's why she chopped Kristen Crowley's head off quickly,
just to send a message to everybody else. You don't
tell the truth about Karen Bass. If she's got the
power over you, she's going to use it and your
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career is over. So the firefighters have been busy leaking
text messages and drafts of reports any way they can
without assigning their name to it. Now, when we come back,
there's another organizer, Jeremy Pettiwer, and I talked with him
at the event in the context of Karen Bass smearing
(19:03):
him on social media, implying that he designed the event
in order to profit, if you would believe profit, which
was preposterous, and we'll explain why.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
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Speaker 1 (19:20):
On the first anniversary of the Palisades and Altadena fires.
We're on from one until four o'clock and then after
four o'clock John Cobelts show on demand on the iHeart app.
So this morning a group of us, Eric Ray and
Tony Sorrentino, all of us went down to the Palisades
to interview public officials, organizers of the protest and citizens
(19:48):
in the Palisades. They were attending the rally called they
Let Us Burn, They'd let Us Burn, and well were
a thousand people attended. It was a big crowd. Not
good at counting crowds, but this this was and they
were very upset, very enthusiastic with what they heard from
the various speakers. Later on, I'll talk to Well later
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and we'll play Tracy Park her conversation that I had
but I I And then after we left, Spencer Pratt,
the reality reality TV star who has been the most,
well the loudest voice, especially on social media about the
failings of Karen Bass and everybody else. He announced he's
(20:34):
running from mayor. His partner in putting on this rally
they let us burn is Jeremy Padawer. Among other things.
He's a producer and he lost his house and he
lost an extremely valuable collection of pop culture American pop
culture artifacts. And Jeremy we've had on the show a
(20:58):
couple of times, including yesterday, Yes, and he was shocked
on social media. Karen Bass smeared him, do you believe this?
Karen Bass smeared the guy who lost everything and was
(21:19):
trying to put together a rally so that the residents
of the Palisades can get some attention because they, in
addition to everything else, their rebuild process is excruciating it's
extremely difficult. I've talked to so many people. I talked
(21:40):
to more of them today. I know my friends. I've
talked to a number of strangers in the Palisades on
our hikes, and it is bad there. And Eddy promises
Bass made, she lied about him, she didn't come through.
They're still charging thirty to forty thousand dollars for permits.
She said, she's just gonna have that waved. Nothing's been waved.
Total lie, total failure. So this was posted that She
(22:02):
was asked about they let us burn the rally being
held in the Palisades and if she thinks that's how
residents should commemorate the one year anniversary of the fire,
and she said, I don't think so. Who decides how
you're supposed to commemorate the day your entire town bird
to the ground. What the rally is inappropriate? The town
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is still gone. I was there today. I was there.
The town's not there. There was an over a thousand
people screaming about this. The town's not there. So she says,
I don't think so. But again, I think there are
people who are profiting off this, and that's why I
that's what I find very despicable, intentionally putting out misinformation,
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intentionally profiting from social media, book deals, et cetera. I
think that's unfortunate to me. I hope it's about healing
and moving forward, moving forward. How are you gonna move
forward when you don't have a roof over your head
anymore and you can't get the insurance payments and you
can't get the permits moving forward? Boy, that is the
last refuge of a failed politician when she tells you
(23:09):
to move forward. How about no, how about you get
out of office. How about you get the hell out
of office, and maybe we'll get a mayor who actually
waives the fees and streamlines the rebuilding process. Move forward.
Every single politic, palacitian that wants to come back, that
should be the focus. Well, they can't come back because
(23:31):
you and your incompetent, stupid government won't let them come back.
You let them burn. And now you're telling them to
move forward, and you're calling them despicable and claiming that
Jeremy Patterwer is making money off this, So he responded
on social media. I Jeremy Patterwer funded the rally at
(23:52):
the total cost of roughly forty thousand dollars. I accepted
no contributions. One of our speakers paid for the signage.
I've earned zero dollars on the website Pacific Palisades dot com.
I've written seventy five articles there. Bass saying that this
is from profit is false. He spends forty thousand dollars,
there's no profit, and she accuses him of being despicable.
(24:17):
You cannot make this stuff up anyway. We caught up
with Jeremy Padawa. Let me see which cut is that? Oh?
Cut number five? Played that one? Another interview at the
corner of Strathmore and Antiak. Yes, that's right. We're talking
to Jeremy Padawa. And Jeremy is one of the organizers
of they Let Us Burn rally, and we've talked with
(24:38):
him a couple of times already on the air. And
since we talked with you yesterday, Karen Bass seemed to
accuse you at other people running this rally of profiting. Yes,
and you posted something last night about this concept that
you personally are profiting. Why don't you want you tell
everybody what you posted?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, first of all, my house burned down, a house
where I've raised my children. Secondly, I paid forty thousand
dollars for this event. We accepted no external money whatsoever.
One individual came and provided signage. I wanted to avoid
any conflict at all because I didn't want there to
be any question as to whether what my motivations were.
So no, I've written seventy five articles on Pacific Palisades
(25:21):
dot com, which is the citizen journalism that I do,
and I haven't made a dime from that, and I
certainly didn't make a dime from this event.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
In fact, we gave away T shirts. We haven't sold
a thing. It must obviously it was appalling, angering because
you immediately posted what you did, and for her to
say that, instead of like coming here and telling everybody,
which she's really going to do it, apologizing for everything
that she's done, she attacks you. I couldn't believe it.
(25:50):
I saw that last night and my mouth dropped open.
It's like, no, she can't be that bad.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Well, that's the classic relationship between a victim and a victimizer.
A victimizer wants to hold all the inform and they
all attack the victim.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
So in this case, we are the victim.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
We survived to fire, our home burned down, and we're
expressing our First Amendment rights here today. And so for
the mayor to attack that is attacking freedom of speech.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And you saw the LA Time story that she had
gotten one of the drafts. There were seven versions of
this investigative report and her office or she rather sent
it back. She wanted refinements right.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
She also deleted all of her texts despite the LA
Times requiring them. She also is partners with Gavin Newsom,
who has zero responsive messages to Pacific Palisades from January.
Neither our governor or mayor apparently had any text or
any communications about what happened to the palisades in the
month after the fire.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Has anybody from any level of government contacted you or
spensered talk about all the grievances, all the issues, to
plot a course to rebuild this place. Do you hear
from anybody? I have heard nothing, note the mayor.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
The first time the mayor has identified that I exist
was last night when she accused me of profiteering.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It seems like they think all these people here don't matter,
that they don't have to respond to all these people gathering.
I think that's fair. I think they're not used to it.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
I don't think they're used to the community pushing back,
and when the community pushes back, it's such a surprise
to them that they would really appreciate that they could
bury it. In fact, they've done everything that they could today,
in my opinion, to make sure that this didn't occur.
Like we barely even had we paid for permitting, and
we barely had blockades up forty five minutes before this
cars were coming through.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
It was scared me to death.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
I was ready to cancel the event.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I saw it. Heard an interview that she did with
Channel two and at the end of the interview she
wanted to point out, but the World Cup is coming
and we want all Angelios to rally together. I mean,
she's doing the misspeak she can to like pivot towards
something positive. I just don't want to hear all this
talk about the Palisades.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Misdirection, gas lighting, and I think, look, the truth of
the matter is the fact that these homes burn down
in an Altadena n Malibu that effects a very small
porn shit of Los Angeles. But the reason why it's
pertinent to everyone else is because this could happen to them,
especially if our leaders learn nothing from the situation. If
they don't analyze it and figure out the things that
went wrong, we will not gain as a community, not
(28:22):
one bit, and this will happen again.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Jeremy, thanks for coming on. All right. That's Jeremy Padawak,
falsely accused by Karen Bass of profiting for organizing they
let us burn rally in the Palisades. He actually spent
forty thousand dollars of his own money to put together
the rally. More coming up next hour. We're going to
play eclipse of some of the experiences of the Palisades
(28:48):
residents and their feelings and their emotions. And these people
are hot still, they're still upset, and they should be
because the failure is ongoing every day. Every day the
failure is extended.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
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(29:54):
com slash at John Covelt Show. I was standing with
the crowd, uh, and they got, they got. They got
quite boisterous and quite noisy, especially when Spencer Pratt took
the stage. You know, I was thinking, Uh, I understand
how politics works. And Karen baskets a lot of votes
(30:18):
from the city unions. They're guaranteed votes. I don't know
what percentage, but it's a significant enough percentage. And these
people get paid by Karen Bass and she, like all
the other mayors, agree to generous contracts that the city
cannot afford. That's why there's constantly crises because they're just
(30:42):
isn't the tax revenue to cover these excessive contracts. But
in return, it's kind of like what Tim Waltz did
with the Somalis. Tim Waltz allowed billions of tax dollars
to flow to the Somalis through their fake, crooked childcare
(31:03):
centers and feeding our future centers, and in return, the
Somalis voted as this gigantic block eighty one hundred thousand
votes that he had in the bank guaranteed right off
the top. Well, Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom have the
same scam going with state and city worker unions. One
(31:26):
of the great one of the worst things that Jerry
Brown ever did, or ednie governor was allow state workers
to unionize. I think he signed that back in the seventies.
And then governors start pandering. And here's the way it works.
The governments basically bribe the union workers in exchange for votes,
(31:53):
and in turn, I suspect that these unions then bribe
the politicians with campaign contributions or under the table contributions.
I think the reason these nonprofits both here in Los
Angeles and in Minnesota and everywhere else, the reason they're
(32:15):
suddenly thriving this past decade. You know when something changes
that dramatically. It was just a few years ago I
didn't know what NGO meant. Non government organization. Well, what's that. Well,
it's these nonprofits that get these huge grants that run
(32:35):
into the millions, the tens of millions totals up into
the billions of dollars. And somebody pointed out that the
politicians here in LA have been short changing funding the
police and fire. They shovel the money into the nonprofits
or into the unions. And I have to believe that
(33:01):
the politicians, especially here in the city of Los Angeles,
are getting kickbacks from the nonprofits. They have to be,
because untold millions of dollars go into these and I'm
talking like homeless nonprofits, the legal alien nonprofits, poverty nonprofits,
all these fake industries that have sprung up just in
(33:22):
recent years. They're extremely well funded. They accomplished nothing. Take
homelessness for example, it's only increased the more money would
put in. That was like the first morning in my
head is how could you put this much money in
every year? Every year, every year billions of dollars and
(33:43):
every year goes up by the thousands. How is that possible?
Because almost none of it was used to help the
homeless people. It was pocketed by the people running the nonprofits.
I started looking at at the salaries and all the
executives are making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there's
(34:05):
a lot of these people. Some of this information is
accessible online and it's like, these are tremendous salaries. And
then and this is off the books, they give kickbacks
to the politicians. Why would a politician, you know how
how specific they are with spending their money. They want
(34:25):
to spend money on something that's going to benefit them,
So they spend the money on worker unions from police
and fire to all the loser workers in state and
city government because they want them votes. But I think now,
especially with the nonprofit organizations, it's because they're getting to
share the proceeds. It has to be that. You wonder
(34:49):
how politicians end up leaving office and they're millionaires and
they own multiple homes. They have to be skimming off
some of the money or getting kickbacks. It can't be
anything else. The money never gets to the destination, which
is why you still have lots lots of kids that
(35:11):
were hungry. I mean, look look at what chef Bruno
has to do every year, right, Why isn't that all
taken care of by the billions of dollars Orange County
residents have spent supporting various government programs to relieve to
relieve hunger. Money doesn't get to the kids, money doesn't
get to the homeless. The money didn't build high speed rail.
(35:36):
The money goes into the pockets of those running the
nonprofits and goes into the pockets of the politicians who
vote to disperse the money, and maybe the bureaucrats of
these agencies who facilitate the dispersement. It's got to be that,
because I can't think of where else the money has gone.
A lot of these programs are not complicated. They should work,
(35:59):
they should do so them good. They don't, and the
problem gets worse, which means it's obvious now we have
like they have in Minnesota. And I'm glad Minnesota happened.
Maybe that'll get people here in LA to realize that's
what's going on here. I mean, they're prosecuting ninety people
in Minnesota. All Right, we come back. I'm gonna play
(36:21):
Eclipse from some of the residents of the Palisades and
listen to what they've been going through and how they feel. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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