November 14, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (11/14) - More on the Senate hearing yesterday regarding the Palisades Fire. Where are Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla when it comes to this investigation into the Palisades Fire?! Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about the air traffic controllers finally getting paid today! Michel Shane comes on the show to talk about the fact that a plan for round-a-bouts on PCH is at risk of not being implemented.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty you're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app Welcome. We did a
lot last hour on Dana Williamson, who is the angry
bully who finally got caught. She got caught stealing money
from a political account, and she also got caught apparently
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she took a lot of COVID money and bought a
lot of fun goodies for herself. We talked to Katie
Grimes about that case and why. In many news stories
there was a few lines about how Williamson, the chief
of staff for Gavin Newsom, was approached on what she
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knew about a separate investigation the FBI may be doing
into Newsom. What would they be interested in? They asked
her to wear a wire. According to one report, they
asked her to give details on what bad things he
was up to. She apparently declined at least for now,
but hey, you know, maybe she'll flip in order to
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get a lighter sentence. But the FBI, during the Joe
Biden years, this goes back to twenty twenty two, has
been very interested in Newsom's shenanigans, and Katie had some
ideas what that might be about. So you listen to
the podcast and our number one later. Now the uh
yesterday was a hearing in the Palisades. We talked about
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a little bit yesterday in the Palisades at the I
think the American Legion Hall. It was two Republican senators
from way out of town, one in Wisconsin, Ron Johnson
and one in Florida, Rick Scott. And they're doing a
massive Senate investigation into what the hell's bit went on
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leading up to the fire and then the response or
non response to the fire, because there's there's I think
one of the senators said, there's layer after layer after
layer of incompetence and god knows what else. I mean,
it's astonishing how many things went wrong before, during, and
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after the fire, whether it was the fire department, the
fire chief, the mayor, the police, Gavin Newsom and the
state not getting rid of the brush on state land,
not putting out the original January first fire, and then
it reignited. You know, busted hydrants to the empty reservoir,
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busted fire engines, fire personnel directed away from the Palisades
instead of into the palisades. You know, this story, what
the hell and the thing is We've got two senators
who are supposed to represent California, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla,
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who've had no interest in investigating this because it's their
buddies in the Democratic Party. They're not going to investigate. Send.
Now two Republicans come to town and people going, what
are these out of town Republicans doing? Well, they're trying
to find the truth because there was I think criminal
incompetence here between Bass and Newsom and the fire chief
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Kristin Crowley and Genie Quinonez and the rest of them.
This is criminal incompetence, cost a lot of lives and
just tens of billions of dollars in property. And Adam
Schiff and Alex Padia what a shift busy doing readying
his defense in case he gets indicted. What is Alex
Padia doing trying to get the handcuffs off him after
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interrupting a Homeland Security press conference. He's so interested in
what happened to the illegal aliens, the criminal illegal aliens
that Christy Nooman was deporting. Has no interest in what
happened here in the Palisades and out to Diana none. Yeah,
So we had Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and the Senator
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from Florida, Rick Scott, come and they held a hearing
to see what's happened. And I want you to hear,
you know, some of the suffering, because this really got
to me. I watched the video of this. Here's a woman,
Rachel Schwartz, ninety four years old, survived the Holocaust three
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concentration camps. She was sitting at the witness table explaining
to these two senators from out of state what happened
to her during the fire.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
My name is Rachel Schwartz and I am ninety four
years old. Normally I don't acknowledge as a woman my age,
but today with the Meditan, I have been through a
lot in my life. As a little girl, I survived
three concentration camps and three weeks March for being freed
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by Russian and American soldiers.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I was born in Warsaw, Poland.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Somehow, by God's grace, I made it through. I came
to this country when I was fifteen years old, started
over and made their lives I was proud of. For
the past twenty five years, I lived peacefully in my
home in the Pacific Palisades. I worked almost thirty five
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years as a real estate doing accounting to have the
money to purchase this home. I lived people peacefully in
my home in Pacific Palisades. It was my safe place,
filled with memories, family, voters, and the comfort I had
waited my whole life to feel.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Then the fire came.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I watched everything I owned disappear in flame. At my age,
it's not easy to begin again. I've been with my
insurance company for over twenty five years, always paid my premiums,
never missed the payment, and now they tell me they
will not cover They will only cover about half of
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what I need to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It's not right.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
There are many singers here in the Palace Age who
are in the same situation. We've all down our part,
lived on its lives, and now we are left with
almost nothing. It doesn't seem fair after old years. Senators,
I am not asking for pity. I am asking for help,
not just for me, but for everyone who has lost
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their homes and feels forgotten.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Please do what you.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Can to make sure insurance companies are held to their promises,
especially for older people who have been loyal customers for decades.
We does want to live out our remaining years with
dignity and peace in the homes and communities we love.
Thank you for allowing me to testify with heartfelt gratitude,
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Racho Schwartz.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, the insurance companies pulled out on her. And you
know how that happened. We went through this, I believe
last week, huge story in the New York Times. A
month before the fires, Gavin Newsom and the insurance Commissioner
Ricardo calpart Lara came up with a new set of
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regulations that they claimed, we're going to ensure that most
people in fire zones would be able to buy insurance,
and instead they created a system that led to there
were so many loopholes that the insurance company, the insurance
companies pulled tens of thousands of policies, especially in the Palisades.
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Happened just a month or two later. So Gavin Newsom
and Riccardo Alara, and boy, you should look at the
campaign donations to those two from the insurance industry. Dousom
and Lara rewrote the rules. Next thing, you know, tens
of thousands insurance companies pulled their insurance and ninety four
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year old Holocaust survivor Rachel Schwartz has hardly any insurance.
Now what is she supposed to do? And you don't
see Gavin Newsom at this at this hearing. You don't
see Karen Bass at this hearing. You don't see Riccardo
Lara at this hearing. You don't see Adam Schiff at
this hearing. You don't see Alex Perdie at this hearing.
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Senator from Wisconsin and a Senator from Florida or here
to listen to this poor woman's story or coming up
about the Senate hearing yesterday. And after two point thirty,
we're going to have Alex Stone from ABC News because
things are getting better up in the sky. The air
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traffic controllers are largely back to work, fewer flights are
being canceled. See how it's shaken out with Alex.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
After two thirty, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
All right back to the Senate hearing yesterday that they
brought two Pacific palisades amid amidst the ruins, and we
had two Republican senators from far away, Ron Johnson from
Wisconsin and Rick Scott from Florida. They're doing the Senate investigation,
and they're threatening subpoenas, and they were talking to the
people affected yesterday and a lot of a lot of
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heartbreaking stories. And again, where is anybody who's paid for
by taxpayers to represent California, to run the California government? Again,
no Senators Alex Padilla or Adam Schiff, No Governor Gavin Newsom,
no Mayor Karen Bass, nobody from the city council. The hell,
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nobody in this state cares what happened to Californians on
January seventh, both here in Altadena. It's so agreed, it
looks so egregious and so awful to the rest of
the country that you have senators from other states coming.
I mean, Rick Scott represents people in Florida. They don't
have these problems in Florida. Ron Johnson represents people in Wisconsin.
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They don't have these problems there. Nobody around the country
can believe what's happened here. But we're in such a bubble.
Much of this is not covered by the media. None
of it's addressed by the people in charge, the people
responsible for all the death and destruction. So Senator Scott,
Senator Johnson come to town listening to this, to some
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of this, A lot of this is about Karen Bass.
Karen Bass alone could could have prevented this from happening
if she just stayed in town and convened a meeting
of fire department chiefs and asked one question, any hotspots
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left over from January first, we should be aware of
one meeting, a few fire officials, one question, Everything would
have been different. So here's John Alley. He's a Palisades businessman,
businesses in the Palisades and in Santa Monica and also
in the MacArthur Park area. And he was on the
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phone with Karen Bass as she was boarding the plane
to Ghana. Remember she left a few days before the
fire to go to Ghana. And he was worried that
the homeless drug addicts and MacArthur Park, since they start
fires all the time, they might burn down the park.
So listen to John Alley's testimony at the Senate hearing.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
To Karen Vass as she was boarding the plane to Ghana,
we were talking about the fires. She was inquiring about
another area where I owned properties, MacArthur Park, Westlake area.
We discussed predicted wins. I was concerned because of the
daily and nightly eighteen inch fires by met users and
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addicts running wild in the park and next to buildings.
I was concerned that that community would burn immediately, since
the buildings are thirties and forties era construction. We discussed
her leaving La without a deputy mayor in place in
charge of homeland security, police, fire, airport. Deputy Mayor Brian
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Williams was on paid leave while the FBI investigated his
reporting of false bomb threats at LA City Hall. Even
our own police chief was not aware that Brian Williams
was on paid leave. She seemed intent on leaving, became
angry and personally threatening on the phone. When I voiced
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my concerns. She told me she would miss just two dates.
I responded by saying she'd be away five days, that
being mayor of the nation's second largest city was a
twenty four to seven job, and that Saturdays and Sundays
counted upon her return. After the Palisades, my hometown burned
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and my family lost their homes, everything over fifty years' worth.
I continued texting Karen Bass and leaving voicemail messages. She
never returned my calls or responded to my text messages.
Again irresponsible, not right.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
To say the least, irresponsible and not right. That's psychotic.
This is what I'm talking about. These are dangerous psychopaths
running the government. He's going to Ghana no matter what.
There were extreme warnings from the National Weather Service about
fire danger and wind danger. She knew nothing of that
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hot spot, she claimed later. She didn't know anything about
the fire and wind warnings. Nobody told her, she said.
And he and again he was trying to Not only
was he was worried about MacArthur Park, where he had
some businesses, because they're all cracked out and meft out,
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These these insane homeless people, these mental patients, these drug addicts,
they run around MacArthur Park like some bizarre animal species,
their brains completely fried, and they start fires all the time.
And he's worried that the old buildings in the Westlake
neighborhood are made of wood and they were all gonna
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burn if a fire started out of the park. She
didn't care, didn't care what happened to the palisades. She
just cuts off contact, No more phone calls, no more text,
She makes no public appearances. Hey, what does it take?
What does it take to get somebody else in office.
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She's killing people, She's killing neighborhoods. I sometimes I wonder,
is everybody in this whole city in state whacked out
on meth at home or fentanyl or crack or something.
Don't they see what's happening? Can you believe that story?
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I'm only going to be gone two days. No, you're
not five days. She decided she's not there on the weekends. Wow,
that's crazy. There should be investigation just into that phone call.
They out have a hearing just for the phone call.
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All right, we come back. It should be getting better.
If you're traveling this weekend, we're gonna have Alex Stone
from ABC News with the shutdown over, and you've got
the air traffic controllers coming back and the flight cancelations
are being reduced. We'll see what's what coming up Alex Stone. Next.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. The
podcast is available after four o'clock on the iHeart app.
Today we spent much of the one o'clock hour on
the Dana Williamson scandal and with Gavitt Newsom. She's the
chief of staff that's been indicted. And are they investigating
Newsom and for what? Well, Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot
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Com had a lot to say about that. So you
should listen to the first hour for sure on the podcast.
And we just went through some of the testimony at
the hearing on the fire and the palisades, and if
you miss that, that's another thing might want to catch
this weekend on the podcast. Now we go to Alex Stone.
ABC News corresponded. We have the air traffic controllers, most
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all of them are back. Plane cancelations are fewer. What's
it look like this weekend, Yeah, well it looks a
lot better, but still, John, there are hundreds of flights
that are canceled, but they're trending in the right direction.
They're down considerably today and much of that is because
the controllers are fully back on the job and so
they got their paychecks today. For their back pay, they
got seventy percent, some got a little bit more, but
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mainly seventy percent of their income from the last number
of weeks since the beginning of October when the shutdowns started.
So all of this money they've been missing out on
they got today, which is about the right timing that
Seann Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, had said it would be
twenty four to forty eight hours after the government reopened
that they would get paid and then the rest of
their missed money will come over the next couple of weeks.
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And none of you know, the President had talked about, well,
he may dock their pay or whatever. Legally, it was
actually President Trump who signed a law bill Intolaw in
twenty nineteen mandating the government workers get fully paid during
a shutdown when the shutdown is over, and so he
would have gone against his own law, and he did not.
That was a lot of talk, but in the end
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he didn't do anything with that. For those who did
call out sick, they're all getting paid, Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy saying, the money's coming.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They'll get seventy percent of their back paid, so very
quickly they're going to get money in their bank accounts.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But John, that doesn't mean everything is back to normal.
Because of the flight cuts that the FAA and the
Transportation Department put into effect last week, where they were
ramping up to ten percent of flights cut. They got
to they started at four percent last week, they got
to six percent. On Monday, about an hour ago, they
brought that down to three percent. They said they need
time to kind of ramp all of this up and
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figure out, you know, make sure staffing is good to
go before they tell the airlines okay, have at it.
You can just book all of your flights again. So
there are still today around six hundred and thirty five
flights that have been canceled, better than the last number
of days, but still not great, and like twenty three
hundred flights that have been delayed today. But Chicago, Atlanta, Newark, Dallas, Seattle,
and Denver the most heavily canceled airports today, sky West
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and Southwest have the most canceled flight So it's not perfect,
it's a little bit better. This lady was out traveling
today and she says, not all that bad. Yeah, they
felt a little impact, but not all that bad.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Going from Miami to DC three times in the past
three and a half weeks and we had no cancelation
in Miami. Got up here today. It's a forty five
minutes delay, but that's nothing compared to what a lot
of people have been too.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
But the other thing is you've got weather impacting all
of this today, that it's not only the effects of
the shutdown still lingering, but I mean, obviously look outside
that we know what's going on in southern California. Northern California.
Bay Area has got the same thing. Seattle's got some weather,
so there are a lot of areas where weather's coming
into play as well. The other thing is yesterday, we
don't have the numbers for today yet, but yesterday eighty
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six percent of flights that were still on the schedule
they were on time, and that was better than pre shutdown.
So having all the controllers back lightning the schedule that
they're able to keep those flights that are still scheduled
on time. That'll change when the airlines begin booking more
flights again once this cap goes away. That they put
down to three percent today. The other thing is a
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TSA officers who did not call in sick during the
shutdown and air traffic control get the same thing. They
are now receiving their ten thousand dollars bonus checks that
are being either electronically or symbolically. Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Nolan was handing them their checks. But they are
getting bonus checks if they did not call out sick.
I know somebody who is stuck in South America. All
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the flights have been canceled. That's no good and he
hasn't been able to get out. Yeah, I wonder how
many people have been marooned in weird places. All right, Alex,
thanks for coming on. You got it. Thanks, John, have
a good weekend. We're talking. So Alex was explaining how
everybody's supposed to get paid back, but NPR has this story.
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Some air traffic control only recently got paid back for
the last government shutdown in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. Seriously,
one controller who handles high altitude traffic in the Midwest said,
I got a four hundred dollars check maybe a week
before the shutdown for the twenty nineteen shutdown. He will
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give NPR his name. Because the FAA couldn't track overtime
and shift differentials during the twenty nineteen shutdown, and it's
really difficult, you know, to do the calculation because a
lot of people worked a lot of extra hours over
the last six weeks. But who's tracking it? I guess
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you have to do it yourself, either how you prove
it or disprove it. Dozens of controllers had to sue
the federal government for overtime and other compensation for that
last shutdown. Is that nuts? No nobody can do anything
when we come back. I've put a friend of mine on,
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Michelle Shane, have had him on before. Michelle's daughter Emily
was killed by a murderous, crazed driver on PCH And
you know, early on this week he wanted to come
on and talk about the Empty Chair Club, which the
Office of Traffic Safety and Caltrans and the Emily Shane
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Foundation that he and his wife run have launched to
recognize all the people who have been killed or severely
injured by by by traffic deaths collisions. But then this
week there's bad news in that they were going to
put roundabouts on pH but now the Malibu City Council
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may block it, and he's very upset about that. So
we'll talk about both issues coming up Michelle Shane next,
and then after three o'clock bumped from yesterday, James Gallagher
will be with us the State Assembly been to talk
about his plan to split California into two, because the
people in Eastern California say, fine, we've had it, Let's
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have a divorce. Let Coastal California be its own state
so we could at least have proper representation in Congress,
because Newsom's plan ripped away their Republican representatives from them
against their will, and it's like, no, we deserve federal
representation at the very least. We'll talk to James Gallagher.
I mean, you know what, I think they got every
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reason to separate. I think we've got every reason to
split the state into two because the massive disrespect on
the part of the Progressive Democrats really has to be addressed.
It's just flat out wrong. We've got two runs of
the Moistline coming up. We got lots.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
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Speaker 1 (24:00):
On every day from one until four o'clock. You could
follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at
John Cobelt Radio. Two rounds of the Moist Line coming
up next hour. Also going to have James Gallagher of
the assembly Men on to talk about how Eastern California
wants to separate permanently divorce from coastal California, now that
Gavin Newsom has stripped away their longtime congressmen and women.
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We'll discuss that with James Gallagher coming up. But first
I'm on to want you to hear a friend of mine,
Michelle Shane. Michelle tragically lost his daughter Emily back in
twenty ten. A murderous maniac driver ran or over on PCH.
And he's been working tirelessly to try to civilize PCH.
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And he's got this concept that Sunday is to commemorate
the Empty Chair Club, people who have been killed or
seriously injured in I think accidents. You have the empty
chair designating the place that they used to they used
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to occupy, in the home and in the family. And
I also want to talk about this controversy over roundabouts
on PCH, because it looked like they were coming. Now
maybe not. Let's get Michelle Shane on. Michelle, how are
you good?
Speaker 6 (25:20):
How are you John? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I'm good. First, let let's talk about the Empty Chair
Club in this commer commemoration coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah, So on Sunday at caltrans Plaza in downtown La
twelve to four, we're doing commemoration with gun installation seven
hundred and ten empty chairs that represent all the people
that died in La County last year. And what happened
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is I came up with this idea about a year
ago when I was at an event with people who
had experienced loss traffic fatalities, and it just hit me
that I'll never forget the first time my wife set
the table when Emily had was gone, and she set
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the fifth seat and then realized that there was no
more fifth seat, and that was like a knife in
the heart. And to me, we're trying to scare everyone
straight with showing horrible things happening with car accidents and whatnot,
to try to get people to do the right thing.
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And I think this is more powerful an empty chair
sitting where someone used to be, and it's the hardest
seat to fill is one left empty. So don't join
the empty chair club, the only club nobody wants to
get into.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And so again, what's the day in time for the remembrance.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Sunday twelve to noon, the whole bunch of dignitaries and
we have art exhibit and some booths and whatnot. It'll
be a very interesting time and victims will come and
talk about their experience and how they're trying to figure
out how they'll continue to move on with it.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Now, your daughter was killed in PCH and this week
you sent an email out youah, almost like a newsletter.
The Malvou Planning Commission had voted to approve a fifty
five million dollar safety project on PCH. It was going
to be roundabouts to try to slow traffic down. That's
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the malv Planning Commission, and then the Malibu City Council
may block it. Can you explain this?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
So the fifty five million dollar expenditure, which has been
in the works for about seven years, is separate from
what they're doing with the roundabouts. The roundabouts is a
two million dollar test project and that hasn't gone to
any commissions yet as far as I know. What's happened
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is there's going to be two repaving projects. The McClure
tunnel too. I believe John Tyler and then John Tyler
all the way to venture up and they're going to
resurface PCH. And while the resurfing PCH, wy'll put in
bike lades, guardrails, black sky compliant lighting so that it
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makes PCH safer, and people have gone up in arms
because they think that we're changing the perception and of
who we are. And my argument is, we were never
that was a fantasy. We were never those people.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Wait a second, how is making the road safer and
resurfacing and putting in these safety applications. How does that
change who the people when Malibu?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Al right, well, sidewalks in a rural community, street lights
in a rural Oh, street lights, they.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Don't want street lights. Ludicrous.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Fifteen years I've been watching people die on PCH and
they're saying to me, the Malibu Township Council, they're saying, oh,
this is going to change the face of malib we
should still keep the way we are.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
No sidewalks, no street lights on PCH. Yeah. I mean,
as John, that's insanity. They know what happens. And you
just had those four Pepperdine girls get killed two years
ago exactly.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
And the argument is, well, this wouldn't have saved them.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, guess what.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Fifteen years I've waited for them to spend money on
pH They're not going to do it. And now people
are up in arms because they don't believe it's their
vision of pch. It's the nuthouse is out.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
That can't be most of the people in Malibu is
this like? No a lot now activists, right, A small
percentage who are really noisy.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
That's exactly correct. It's the minority pushing the majority.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh that that is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
So uh wait to see my article this week.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, so people should call cow up in arms. You
should be so, people should call the city council members.
The quiet people should call and tell them to knock you. Yeah,
and show.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Up and show up on the number twenty fourth that's
city council and make them do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, I hear crazy stuff every day, but that that's
really nuts. All right, Michelle got to do the news.
Thank you for coming on again. Thanks and let me
a lot let me know what happens. All right, we
come back, James Gallagher. The people in the eastern counties
of California a lot of counties lightly populated, and Gavin
up Newsom's plan is to rip away their federal representation.
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They can't choose their congress person anymore. They have to
be represented by Gavin Newsom's selection. Gavin Newsom is deciding
who represents these people in Congress, and if they're Republican,
no go. That's what Prop fifty really is all about.
We'll talk to James Gallagher, the assemblyman who has got
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an idea about just splitting the state into two once
and for all. Debra Mark is off today. We've got
Eileen Gonzalez live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
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Can't I am six forty you're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app Welcome. We did a
lot last hour on Dana Williamson, who is the angry
bully who finally got caught. She got caught stealing money
from a political account, and she also got caught apparently
(00:21):
she took a lot of COVID money and bought a
lot of fun goodies for herself. We talked to Katie
Grimes about that case and why. In many news stories
there was a few lines about how Williamson, the chief
of staff for Gavin Newsom, was approached on what she
(00:42):
knew about a separate investigation the FBI may be doing
into Newsom. What would they be interested in? They asked
her to wear a wire. According to one report, they
asked her to give details on what bad things he
was up to. She apparently declined at least for now,
but hey, you know, maybe she'll flip in order to
(01:03):
get a lighter sentence. But the FBI, during the Joe
Biden years, this goes back to twenty twenty two, has
been very interested in Newsom's shenanigans, and Katie had some
ideas what that might be about. So you listen to
the podcast and our number one later. Now the uh
yesterday was a hearing in the Palisades. We talked about
(01:25):
a little bit yesterday in the Palisades at the I
think the American Legion Hall. It was two Republican senators
from way out of town, one in Wisconsin, Ron Johnson
and one in Florida, Rick Scott. And they're doing a
massive Senate investigation into what the hell's bit went on
(01:49):
leading up to the fire and then the response or
non response to the fire, because there's there's I think
one of the senators said, there's layer after layer after
layer of incompetence and god knows what else. I mean,
it's astonishing how many things went wrong before, during, and
(02:11):
after the fire, whether it was the fire department, the
fire chief, the mayor, the police, Gavin Newsom and the
state not getting rid of the brush on state land,
not putting out the original January first fire, and then
it reignited. You know, busted hydrants to the empty reservoir,
(02:34):
busted fire engines, fire personnel directed away from the Palisades
instead of into the palisades. You know, this story, what
the hell and the thing is We've got two senators
who are supposed to represent California, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla,
(02:55):
who've had no interest in investigating this because it's their
buddies in the Democratic Party. They're not going to investigate. Send.
Now two Republicans come to town and people going, what
are these out of town Republicans doing? Well, they're trying
to find the truth because there was I think criminal
incompetence here between Bass and Newsom and the fire chief
(03:19):
Kristin Crowley and Genie Quinonez and the rest of them.
This is criminal incompetence, cost a lot of lives and
just tens of billions of dollars in property. And Adam
Schiff and Alex Padia what a shift busy doing readying
his defense in case he gets indicted. What is Alex
Padia doing trying to get the handcuffs off him after
(03:43):
interrupting a Homeland Security press conference. He's so interested in
what happened to the illegal aliens, the criminal illegal aliens
that Christy Nooman was deporting. Has no interest in what
happened here in the Palisades and out to Diana none. Yeah,
So we had Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and the Senator
(04:04):
from Florida, Rick Scott, come and they held a hearing
to see what's happened. And I want you to hear,
you know, some of the suffering, because this really got
to me. I watched the video of this. Here's a woman,
Rachel Schwartz, ninety four years old, survived the Holocaust three
(04:25):
concentration camps. She was sitting at the witness table explaining
to these two senators from out of state what happened
to her during the fire.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
My name is Rachel Schwartz and I am ninety four
years old. Normally I don't acknowledge as a woman my age,
but today with the Meditan, I have been through a
lot in my life. As a little girl, I survived
three concentration camps and three weeks March for being freed
(05:01):
by Russian and American soldiers.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I was born in Warsaw, Poland.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Somehow, by God's grace, I made it through. I came
to this country when I was fifteen years old, started
over and made their lives I was proud of. For
the past twenty five years, I lived peacefully in my
home in the Pacific Palisades. I worked almost thirty five
(05:29):
years as a real estate doing accounting to have the
money to purchase this home. I lived people peacefully in
my home in Pacific Palisades. It was my safe place,
filled with memories, family, voters, and the comfort I had
waited my whole life to feel.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Then the fire came.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I watched everything I owned disappear in flame. At my age,
it's not easy to begin again. I've been with my
insurance company for over twenty five years, always paid my premiums,
never missed the payment, and now they tell me they
will not cover They will only cover about half of
(06:15):
what I need to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It's not right.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
There are many singers here in the Palace Age who
are in the same situation. We've all down our part,
lived on its lives, and now we are left with
almost nothing. It doesn't seem fair after old years. Senators,
I am not asking for pity. I am asking for help,
not just for me, but for everyone who has lost
(06:41):
their homes and feels forgotten.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Please do what you.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Can to make sure insurance companies are held to their promises,
especially for older people who have been loyal customers for decades.
We does want to live out our remaining years with
dignity and peace in the homes and communities we love.
Thank you for allowing me to testify with heartfelt gratitude,
(07:08):
Racho Schwartz.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, the insurance companies pulled out on her. And you
know how that happened. We went through this, I believe
last week, huge story in the New York Times. A
month before the fires, Gavin Newsom and the insurance Commissioner
Ricardo calpart Lara came up with a new set of
(07:34):
regulations that they claimed, we're going to ensure that most
people in fire zones would be able to buy insurance,
and instead they created a system that led to there
were so many loopholes that the insurance company, the insurance
companies pulled tens of thousands of policies, especially in the Palisades.
(08:01):
Happened just a month or two later. So Gavin Newsom
and Riccardo Alara, and boy, you should look at the
campaign donations to those two from the insurance industry. Dousom
and Lara rewrote the rules. Next thing, you know, tens
of thousands insurance companies pulled their insurance and ninety four
(08:25):
year old Holocaust survivor Rachel Schwartz has hardly any insurance.
Now what is she supposed to do? And you don't
see Gavin Newsom at this at this hearing. You don't
see Karen Bass at this hearing. You don't see Riccardo
Lara at this hearing. You don't see Adam Schiff at
this hearing. You don't see Alex Perdie at this hearing.
(08:48):
Senator from Wisconsin and a Senator from Florida or here
to listen to this poor woman's story or coming up
about the Senate hearing yesterday. And after two point thirty,
we're going to have Alex Stone from ABC News because
things are getting better up in the sky. The air
(09:10):
traffic controllers are largely back to work, fewer flights are
being canceled. See how it's shaken out with Alex.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
After two thirty, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
All right back to the Senate hearing yesterday that they
brought two Pacific palisades amid amidst the ruins, and we
had two Republican senators from far away, Ron Johnson from
Wisconsin and Rick Scott from Florida. They're doing the Senate investigation,
and they're threatening subpoenas, and they were talking to the
people affected yesterday and a lot of a lot of
(09:47):
heartbreaking stories. And again, where is anybody who's paid for
by taxpayers to represent California, to run the California government? Again,
no Senators Alex Padilla or Adam Schiff, No Governor Gavin Newsom,
no Mayor Karen Bass, nobody from the city council. The hell,
(10:12):
nobody in this state cares what happened to Californians on
January seventh, both here in Altadena. It's so agreed, it
looks so egregious and so awful to the rest of
the country that you have senators from other states coming.
I mean, Rick Scott represents people in Florida. They don't
have these problems in Florida. Ron Johnson represents people in Wisconsin.
(10:34):
They don't have these problems there. Nobody around the country
can believe what's happened here. But we're in such a bubble.
Much of this is not covered by the media. None
of it's addressed by the people in charge, the people
responsible for all the death and destruction. So Senator Scott,
Senator Johnson come to town listening to this, to some
(10:56):
of this, A lot of this is about Karen Bass.
Karen Bass alone could could have prevented this from happening
if she just stayed in town and convened a meeting
of fire department chiefs and asked one question, any hotspots
(11:17):
left over from January first, we should be aware of
one meeting, a few fire officials, one question, Everything would
have been different. So here's John Alley. He's a Palisades businessman,
businesses in the Palisades and in Santa Monica and also
in the MacArthur Park area. And he was on the
(11:37):
phone with Karen Bass as she was boarding the plane
to Ghana. Remember she left a few days before the
fire to go to Ghana. And he was worried that
the homeless drug addicts and MacArthur Park, since they start
fires all the time, they might burn down the park.
So listen to John Alley's testimony at the Senate hearing.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
To Karen Vass as she was boarding the plane to Ghana,
we were talking about the fires. She was inquiring about
another area where I owned properties, MacArthur Park, Westlake area.
We discussed predicted wins. I was concerned because of the
daily and nightly eighteen inch fires by met users and
(12:22):
addicts running wild in the park and next to buildings.
I was concerned that that community would burn immediately, since
the buildings are thirties and forties era construction. We discussed
her leaving La without a deputy mayor in place in
charge of homeland security, police, fire, airport. Deputy Mayor Brian
(12:45):
Williams was on paid leave while the FBI investigated his
reporting of false bomb threats at LA City Hall. Even
our own police chief was not aware that Brian Williams
was on paid leave. She seemed intent on leaving, became
angry and personally threatening on the phone. When I voiced
(13:05):
my concerns. She told me she would miss just two dates.
I responded by saying she'd be away five days, that
being mayor of the nation's second largest city was a
twenty four to seven job, and that Saturdays and Sundays
counted upon her return. After the Palisades, my hometown burned
(13:27):
and my family lost their homes, everything over fifty years' worth.
I continued texting Karen Bass and leaving voicemail messages. She
never returned my calls or responded to my text messages.
Again irresponsible, not right.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
To say the least, irresponsible and not right. That's psychotic.
This is what I'm talking about. These are dangerous psychopaths
running the government. He's going to Ghana no matter what.
There were extreme warnings from the National Weather Service about
fire danger and wind danger. She knew nothing of that
(14:12):
hot spot, she claimed later. She didn't know anything about
the fire and wind warnings. Nobody told her, she said.
And he and again he was trying to Not only
was he was worried about MacArthur Park, where he had
some businesses, because they're all cracked out and meft out,
(14:34):
These these insane homeless people, these mental patients, these drug addicts,
they run around MacArthur Park like some bizarre animal species,
their brains completely fried, and they start fires all the time.
And he's worried that the old buildings in the Westlake
neighborhood are made of wood and they were all gonna
(14:55):
burn if a fire started out of the park. She
didn't care, didn't care what happened to the palisades. She
just cuts off contact, No more phone calls, no more text,
She makes no public appearances. Hey, what does it take?
What does it take to get somebody else in office.
(15:20):
She's killing people, She's killing neighborhoods. I sometimes I wonder,
is everybody in this whole city in state whacked out
on meth at home or fentanyl or crack or something.
Don't they see what's happening? Can you believe that story?
(15:40):
I'm only going to be gone two days. No, you're
not five days. She decided she's not there on the weekends. Wow,
that's crazy. There should be investigation just into that phone call.
They out have a hearing just for the phone call.
(16:01):
All right, we come back. It should be getting better.
If you're traveling this weekend, we're gonna have Alex Stone
from ABC News with the shutdown over, and you've got
the air traffic controllers coming back and the flight cancelations
are being reduced. We'll see what's what coming up Alex Stone. Next.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. The
podcast is available after four o'clock on the iHeart app.
Today we spent much of the one o'clock hour on
the Dana Williamson scandal and with Gavitt Newsom. She's the
chief of staff that's been indicted. And are they investigating
Newsom and for what? Well, Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot
(16:46):
Com had a lot to say about that. So you
should listen to the first hour for sure on the podcast.
And we just went through some of the testimony at
the hearing on the fire and the palisades, and if
you miss that, that's another thing might want to catch
this weekend on the podcast. Now we go to Alex Stone.
ABC News corresponded. We have the air traffic controllers, most
(17:08):
all of them are back. Plane cancelations are fewer. What's
it look like this weekend, Yeah, well it looks a
lot better, but still, John, there are hundreds of flights
that are canceled, but they're trending in the right direction.
They're down considerably today and much of that is because
the controllers are fully back on the job and so
they got their paychecks today. For their back pay, they
got seventy percent, some got a little bit more, but
(17:31):
mainly seventy percent of their income from the last number
of weeks since the beginning of October when the shutdowns started.
So all of this money they've been missing out on
they got today, which is about the right timing that
Seann Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, had said it would be
twenty four to forty eight hours after the government reopened
that they would get paid and then the rest of
their missed money will come over the next couple of weeks.
(17:53):
And none of you know, the President had talked about, well,
he may dock their pay or whatever. Legally, it was
actually President Trump who signed a law bill Intolaw in
twenty nineteen mandating the government workers get fully paid during
a shutdown when the shutdown is over, and so he
would have gone against his own law, and he did not.
That was a lot of talk, but in the end
(18:13):
he didn't do anything with that. For those who did
call out sick, they're all getting paid, Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy saying, the money's coming.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They'll get seventy percent of their back paid, so very
quickly they're going to get money in their bank accounts.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But John, that doesn't mean everything is back to normal.
Because of the flight cuts that the FAA and the
Transportation Department put into effect last week, where they were
ramping up to ten percent of flights cut. They got
to they started at four percent last week, they got
to six percent. On Monday, about an hour ago, they
brought that down to three percent. They said they need
time to kind of ramp all of this up and
(18:46):
figure out, you know, make sure staffing is good to
go before they tell the airlines okay, have at it.
You can just book all of your flights again. So
there are still today around six hundred and thirty five
flights that have been canceled, better than the last number
of days, but still not great, and like twenty three
hundred flights that have been delayed today. But Chicago, Atlanta, Newark, Dallas, Seattle,
and Denver the most heavily canceled airports today, sky West
(19:09):
and Southwest have the most canceled flight So it's not perfect,
it's a little bit better. This lady was out traveling
today and she says, not all that bad. Yeah, they
felt a little impact, but not all that bad.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Going from Miami to DC three times in the past
three and a half weeks and we had no cancelation
in Miami. Got up here today. It's a forty five
minutes delay, but that's nothing compared to what a lot
of people have been too.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
But the other thing is you've got weather impacting all
of this today, that it's not only the effects of
the shutdown still lingering, but I mean, obviously look outside
that we know what's going on in southern California. Northern California.
Bay Area has got the same thing. Seattle's got some weather,
so there are a lot of areas where weather's coming
into play as well. The other thing is yesterday, we
don't have the numbers for today yet, but yesterday eighty
(19:54):
six percent of flights that were still on the schedule
they were on time, and that was better than pre shutdown.
So having all the controllers back lightning the schedule that
they're able to keep those flights that are still scheduled
on time. That'll change when the airlines begin booking more
flights again once this cap goes away. That they put
down to three percent today. The other thing is a
(20:14):
TSA officers who did not call in sick during the
shutdown and air traffic control get the same thing. They
are now receiving their ten thousand dollars bonus checks that
are being either electronically or symbolically. Yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Nolan was handing them their checks. But they are
getting bonus checks if they did not call out sick.
I know somebody who is stuck in South America. All
(20:37):
the flights have been canceled. That's no good and he
hasn't been able to get out. Yeah, I wonder how
many people have been marooned in weird places. All right, Alex,
thanks for coming on. You got it. Thanks, John, have
a good weekend. We're talking. So Alex was explaining how
everybody's supposed to get paid back, but NPR has this story.
(20:58):
Some air traffic control only recently got paid back for
the last government shutdown in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. Seriously,
one controller who handles high altitude traffic in the Midwest said,
I got a four hundred dollars check maybe a week
before the shutdown for the twenty nineteen shutdown. He will
(21:23):
give NPR his name. Because the FAA couldn't track overtime
and shift differentials during the twenty nineteen shutdown, and it's
really difficult, you know, to do the calculation because a
lot of people worked a lot of extra hours over
the last six weeks. But who's tracking it? I guess
(21:47):
you have to do it yourself, either how you prove
it or disprove it. Dozens of controllers had to sue
the federal government for overtime and other compensation for that
last shutdown. Is that nuts? No nobody can do anything
when we come back. I've put a friend of mine on,
(22:08):
Michelle Shane, have had him on before. Michelle's daughter Emily
was killed by a murderous, crazed driver on PCH And
you know, early on this week he wanted to come
on and talk about the Empty Chair Club, which the
Office of Traffic Safety and Caltrans and the Emily Shane
(22:29):
Foundation that he and his wife run have launched to
recognize all the people who have been killed or severely
injured by by by traffic deaths collisions. But then this
week there's bad news in that they were going to
put roundabouts on pH but now the Malibu City Council
(22:53):
may block it, and he's very upset about that. So
we'll talk about both issues coming up Michelle Shane next,
and then after three o'clock bumped from yesterday, James Gallagher
will be with us the State Assembly been to talk
about his plan to split California into two, because the
people in Eastern California say, fine, we've had it, Let's
(23:14):
have a divorce. Let Coastal California be its own state
so we could at least have proper representation in Congress,
because Newsom's plan ripped away their Republican representatives from them
against their will, and it's like, no, we deserve federal
representation at the very least. We'll talk to James Gallagher.
I mean, you know what, I think they got every
(23:36):
reason to separate. I think we've got every reason to
split the state into two because the massive disrespect on
the part of the Progressive Democrats really has to be addressed.
It's just flat out wrong. We've got two runs of
the Moistline coming up. We got lots.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
On every day from one until four o'clock. You could
follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at
John Cobelt Radio. Two rounds of the Moist Line coming
up next hour. Also going to have James Gallagher of
the assembly Men on to talk about how Eastern California
wants to separate permanently divorce from coastal California, now that
Gavin Newsom has stripped away their longtime congressmen and women.
(24:22):
We'll discuss that with James Gallagher coming up. But first
I'm on to want you to hear a friend of mine,
Michelle Shane. Michelle tragically lost his daughter Emily back in
twenty ten. A murderous maniac driver ran or over on PCH.
And he's been working tirelessly to try to civilize PCH.
(24:44):
And he's got this concept that Sunday is to commemorate
the Empty Chair Club, people who have been killed or
seriously injured in I think accidents. You have the empty
chair designating the place that they used to they used
(25:07):
to occupy, in the home and in the family. And
I also want to talk about this controversy over roundabouts
on PCH, because it looked like they were coming. Now
maybe not. Let's get Michelle Shane on. Michelle, how are
you good?
Speaker 6 (25:20):
How are you John? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I'm good. First, let let's talk about the Empty Chair
Club in this commer commemoration coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah, So on Sunday at caltrans Plaza in downtown La
twelve to four, we're doing commemoration with gun installation seven
hundred and ten empty chairs that represent all the people
that died in La County last year. And what happened
(25:51):
is I came up with this idea about a year
ago when I was at an event with people who
had experienced loss traffic fatalities, and it just hit me
that I'll never forget the first time my wife set
the table when Emily had was gone, and she set
(26:12):
the fifth seat and then realized that there was no
more fifth seat, and that was like a knife in
the heart. And to me, we're trying to scare everyone
straight with showing horrible things happening with car accidents and whatnot,
to try to get people to do the right thing.
(26:34):
And I think this is more powerful an empty chair
sitting where someone used to be, and it's the hardest
seat to fill is one left empty. So don't join
the empty chair club, the only club nobody wants to
get into.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And so again, what's the day in time for the remembrance.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Sunday twelve to noon, the whole bunch of dignitaries and
we have art exhibit and some booths and whatnot. It'll
be a very interesting time and victims will come and
talk about their experience and how they're trying to figure
out how they'll continue to move on with it.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Now, your daughter was killed in PCH and this week
you sent an email out youah, almost like a newsletter.
The Malvou Planning Commission had voted to approve a fifty
five million dollar safety project on PCH. It was going
to be roundabouts to try to slow traffic down. That's
(27:38):
the malv Planning Commission, and then the Malibu City Council
may block it. Can you explain this?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
So the fifty five million dollar expenditure, which has been
in the works for about seven years, is separate from
what they're doing with the roundabouts. The roundabouts is a
two million dollar test project and that hasn't gone to
any commissions yet as far as I know. What's happened
(28:09):
is there's going to be two repaving projects. The McClure
tunnel too. I believe John Tyler and then John Tyler
all the way to venture up and they're going to
resurface PCH. And while the resurfing PCH, wy'll put in
bike lades, guardrails, black sky compliant lighting so that it
(28:31):
makes PCH safer, and people have gone up in arms
because they think that we're changing the perception and of
who we are. And my argument is, we were never
that was a fantasy. We were never those people.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Wait a second, how is making the road safer and
resurfacing and putting in these safety applications. How does that
change who the people when Malibu?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Al right, well, sidewalks in a rural community, street lights
in a rural Oh, street lights, they.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Don't want street lights. Ludicrous.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Fifteen years I've been watching people die on PCH and
they're saying to me, the Malibu Township Council, they're saying, oh,
this is going to change the face of malib we
should still keep the way we are.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
No sidewalks, no street lights on PCH. Yeah. I mean,
as John, that's insanity. They know what happens. And you
just had those four Pepperdine girls get killed two years
ago exactly.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
And the argument is, well, this wouldn't have saved them.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, guess what.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Fifteen years I've waited for them to spend money on
pH They're not going to do it. And now people
are up in arms because they don't believe it's their
vision of pch. It's the nuthouse is out.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
That can't be most of the people in Malibu is
this like? No a lot now activists, right, A small
percentage who are really noisy.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
That's exactly correct. It's the minority pushing the majority.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh that that is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
So uh wait to see my article this week.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, so people should call cow up in arms. You
should be so, people should call the city council members.
The quiet people should call and tell them to knock you. Yeah,
and show.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Up and show up on the number twenty fourth that's
city council and make them do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, I hear crazy stuff every day, but that that's
really nuts. All right, Michelle got to do the news.
Thank you for coming on again. Thanks and let me
a lot let me know what happens. All right, we
come back, James Gallagher. The people in the eastern counties
of California a lot of counties lightly populated, and Gavin
up Newsom's plan is to rip away their federal representation.
(31:00):
They can't choose their congress person anymore. They have to
be represented by Gavin Newsom's selection. Gavin Newsom is deciding
who represents these people in Congress, and if they're Republican,
no go. That's what Prop fifty really is all about.
We'll talk to James Gallagher, the assemblyman who has got
(31:21):
an idea about just splitting the state into two once
and for all. Debra Mark is off today. We've got
Eileen Gonzalez live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
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Ruthie's Table 4
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.