January 21, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/21) - Pres. Trump fired 1,000 Biden appointees this morning. Elon Musk got rid of a bunch of DEI positions after Pres. Trump made the Department of Government Efficiency official. A whistleblower told Michael Shellenberger that DEI played a role in why the response to the LA fires was so lackluster. Firefighters were pre-positioned yesterday and today due to high winds in LA again.
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use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Trump woke
up this morning. I watched last night. Did you see
any of the balls?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I did not?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You did not.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
No, I didn't watch the balls.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
My wife was watching for the dresses. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well that's what I would have watched for too.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's like watching the Golden Club's red carpet or the
Academy Awards red carpet.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It's all about the dress.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's all about the dresses. So I got a lot
of dress analysis last night.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Which one was your favorite?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Which one was my favorite?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I know, I don't. Those dresses cover up everybody's body
from head to toe. So I okay, Okay, you don't
see any body parts with those dresses, so I long dressed.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, so nobody was showing anything off no cleavage.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Uh no, well, I guess Laurence sand.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, that was the inauguration.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was gonna say, I know Ucker liked, yeah, Zucker
br I saw that photo, Zucker staring down her down
her chest there, and I guess Bezos is happy.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But no, I mean I'm being silly. Dresses were beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
They're probably worth the thousands and thousands of dollars, right,
got so, But uh, Trump, I just noticed that Trump
was because I was watching like nine ten o'clock at
night and the balls were going on. I'm thinking, my god,
that's one o'clock in the morning and he's been going
for about eighteen hours. And I remember they couldn't pull
Biden's corpse out for even eighteen minutes. Watching in the
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afternoon and Trump was signing dozens and dozens of executive orders.
While doing a press conference, He's like signing away. You
hear the scribbling sound of his pen, and then he
looks up and he feels a question, and he scribbles
some more, looks up fields another question. Very relax is
like there are people with just extraordinary amounts of energy.
(02:23):
They're designed that way, and he only needs four or
five hours of sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well that's all I get tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Huh Yeah, Well, actually I got a story all right,
late a this hour. I'll do the story on that
because my wife is like that too, She only sleeps
four or five hours a night.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I need double that, so I know you do.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
And you like to brag about you got nine and
a half hours of sleep the other night.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh, the last three nights after the siege, the fires
and the looters and the power going out. I sung exhausted.
Last three nights. I slept really long and really well.
But what I read is that people like you and
Trump probably and my wife have a mutant gene. Yeah,
one of your genes is I wouldn't say defective, but
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somewhere mutated, right, And there's a biological reason you don't
need sleep. You actually don't produce a certain element. Will
I will tell you about that later. I mean, you're
stuck with it. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Can I Can I be tested to see if that's the.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I guess, yeah, it's a specific gene. You know
how genes have like a three letter code or a
numerical code. Yeah, they listened to the gene there and said, well,
there's there's a mutation in people who don't sleep very much.
They literally can't like biologically.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
They can't do it.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So anyway back to Trump. So he wakes up this
morning and he goes on his own social media site,
truth Social and fired a thousand people, a thousand government workers,
all appointees from Biden's had been.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
He actually closed the tweet with the phrase.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You're fired with an exclamation point and in capital letters,
just like he used to do on The Apprentice. Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And what about all those people working from home? They
have been ordered to go back to the office.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, yes, this is the greatest thing in the world.
And I heard I heard somebody on the news today
really give a common sense explanation. They're planning to downsize
government dramatically. Elon Musk and his DOGE agency.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
How do you.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Know who to keep and who to cut if they
don't show up for work and you can meet them
and you can watch them and see what.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It is everybody does.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
If everybody's got some vague government title or classification and
they sit at home well, how.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Do you know, how do you know if you need them?
You don't even know what they do.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So yeah, everybody's going to come in because if you
ever look, this would be a good thing to look
up how many employees the government has compared to you know,
twenty years ago or forty years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's astonishing.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And it's just up until COVID, it's just desks and
chairs and people giving computer terminals and who knows what
they do. And then they go work from home during
COVID because all you need is a desk and a
chair in a computer terminal. And from what I've read
is that CEOs for the most part, have said people
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do not work very much when they're working from home.
It's not efficient. You don't get the same productivity, you
don't get the same hours. There's no question about it.
Which is why so many companies are trying to force
workers to come in, is because you know, they tried
the experiment. People had talked about this sort of thing, telecommuting.
(05:55):
It was called years ago, and this was like the
great new frontier. All you needed was the technology, and
then we got the technology. We got Zoom and the
Internet and and all this and and uh, you know,
there's there's there's a certain percentage of people who it
works out, but in general it doesn't work out.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, I was gonna say, there are some jobs where
it does make sense to work from home at least
some of the time.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It just depends on the type of job and the
type of.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Person, right, But it's it's more specific broad based everyone
works at home. You really can't run a company that way.
I I you need FaceTime, Yeah, you need you need casual,
spontaneous conversations, right, it's what you need. And you'll also
you know, most people, especially government drones, which is largely
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what we're talking about here, government drones need oversight. They
need somebody looking and saying, hey, what'd you do today?
Did you get that done yet?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Where have you been a micromanager?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
There are uses for micromanagers if you have well they're cattle.
See a lot of people are cattle, okay, and you
need and you need a guy with a lastso or
a whip or something to move the cattle along. Somebody
have like mid level government workers. That that's a lot
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of cattle there, that's that's a lot of beef.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah. Sometimes when I walk by.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Uh, be careful what you're gonna say.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Maybe edit it first in your mind.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What did you want to hear me always unedited?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I hear it off the air. I'm just trying to
save you.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
From some you know, that's right. You know what I
I do.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's why I'm telling you to be careful.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I get the unedited John Gobel Show every day before
the show.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's that's the final front here.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
When I'm in here, I'm going on the internet, after
I've met all my money, I'm gonna sit there be
entirely unedited, and nobody's going to be able to do
anything about it. And I'll probably get a bigger audience
than every Oh, I'm sure that's right, just to go
with the unedited podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Probably get sued a lot too. Uh So we've got.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Uh so, we've got these these couple of hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
They lost count you know, you know what you know
what Trump did, and he would do this once he
figured because you know, they came into the first term,
first three months, they were unprepared because they didn't think
they were going to win. They had both political parties
against them. The establishment Republicans hated him as much as
the establishment Democrats, the Obama crowd at the time, and
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of course the media despised him, and so he had
everything working against him. He didn't have loyalists because everyone
was afraid to bet their career on Trump, and a
lot of them thought he was nuts and wrong about
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And over time he's turned out to be right on
a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know, we tried the old fashion way with Biden
and realized that, yeah, Trump actually figured out what was
wrong with Washington, and we can't run it the old
way anymore. And that's why he won such a big
victory much of the public. In fact, I saw a
poll that more people like his policies than like him.
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His personality will always be a drag on his approval rating,
but when they break out one by one, the policies,
all the policies, most of the major ones did really
well in poling. So people are voting some people on him,
but a lot of people are saying, you know what,
we tried it the other way. They had four years
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of pure undistilled progressivism, and boy did that wreck the place.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We'll talk Moore, we come back to.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (09:58):
Elon Musk is gone to work to try to slash
a trillion dollars at a government spending. It's Doze, Department
of Government Efficiency. And the first thing they shut down,
and this cracked me up, is, uh, the diversity, equity
and inclusion programs. In fact, there's a whole agency known
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as the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Counsel cd O e C.
And that website, if you try to access it now,
gives you one of those four oh four error messages.
He shut down the website and I guess they fired everybody.
(10:43):
This cde C was responsible for diversity, equity, inclusion, oh
and accessibility.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
They added another letter. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Everybody's always carrying on about DEI. Actually it was DEI A.
It's like all the letters that they add to like LGBTQ,
and they kept adding extra letters. The same thing here,
there's always groups that want to join, and so you
end up with a longer and longer and longer acronym into.
(11:14):
So the cd O e C was part of the
Office of Personal Personnel Management, also known as the OPM.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So you got this.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The cd O e C a subsidiary of O p M,
and they were in charge of enforcing d ei A.
That's why all this needs to be bull dozed. None
of this has anything to do with governing, nothing to
do with economic productivity. All it is is nonsense, burdens
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some nonsense. You hire people because they'll be good at
the job, period, There is nothing else. Are they good
at the job or will they potentially be good at
the job based on their talents and their experience.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And blah blah blah. We know what is.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
People have been hired since human beings existed, right back
when people are in caves. If you needed another guy
to move a rock in your family's cave, you'd go
to the other caves and say, oh, can you lift
this rock? And if he was strong enough and could
lift the rock, he was hired. But he was hired
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because he was strong enough to lift the rock. So
Trump signed an executive order, so do diversity equity inclusion
agencies are gone, and all programs inside every agency are
gone as well. It includes mandates, policies, programs, preferences, activities,
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any euphemism they have for government nonsense. And that's I
mean that is one of the best things that has happened.
Progressivism is dying very slowly here in California, you know,
witness Proposition thirty six and Nathan Hockman taking over his
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La County DA. But it is almost completely dead in
the rest of America. Nobody wants to hear about this
this stuff anymore. Some of the other executive orders he
stopped seventy eight executive actions that Biden had signed. Oh
withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords, so we can stop
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wasting money on climate change nonsense, which by the way,
has had zero effect.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
On the climate.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It became a huge racket, you know, like the homelessness
racket here in Los Angeles, well, worldwide, there's a climate
change racket. In fact, all these noble progressive causes are
actually fronts for rackets that reward loyalists in that community.
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All these progressive groups actually created companies and nonprofits in
order to qualify for whatever grants there were, whatever tax
revenue was available, in order to finance themselves and their organizations.
None of it provided any benefit to you or me,
and I dare anybody to show you tell me. Like
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in California, all the climate policies we have which has
given us four fifty a gallon gas, with the rest
of the country under three bucks. You tell me how
that benefit How has that benefited us? Not at all?
Fifteen fifteen years? What am I talking about? Eight nineteen years?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Now? This started two thousand and six.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Nineteen years of extremely expensive climate policy. Electricity rates that
are double the rest of the country, gas rates that
are two bucks more than the rest of the country,
and on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
What have we gotten out of it? Anything?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Can you tangibly point to anything that we have collectively
gotten out of nineteen years of being ripped off and
looted with all these taxes that they've charged us and
the energy companies, It doesn't exist. He also got rid
of Biden's order requiring that fifty percent of new cars
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in twenty thirty be electric vehicles, So that's gone. We're
going to be the last state suffering under this nonsense.
They're going to reopen Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to
oil and gas exploration because there is a ton of
oil and gas up there that will lower See the
thing about drilling for gas and oil. The more we
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drill and the more it looks like we're going to
drill that'll drive down the price of oil. And the
price of oil doesn't just affect the gasoline at the pump,
but it affects all the products we have. All the
products that we use have to be transported. There are
hundreds and hundreds of products that are manufactured with petroleum.
This is how you do a broad based You instigate
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a broad base decline in prices, make the manufacture of
all these goods and the transportation of all these goods cheaper.
And you do that by lowering the price of oil.
You lower the price of oil by increasing the supply.
The only way to do that is to drill for it.
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I wish somehow the US government could annex California and
take it over, because we have a tremendous amount of
oil and natural gas below the surface here. And I've
always thought, well, if it exists, why not use it.
What's the point of keeping it underground? It serves no
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purpose being underground. All Right, we come back.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Some more on.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's become pretty clear that the people who run the
LA Fire Department really screwed up and did not pre
deploy firefighters and engines to the Palisades and other areas
before the big wins hit on January sixth January seventh,
So now they were pre deploying for this new round
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of dangerous wins. It proves that what we were saying
two weeks ago was correct. They screwed up, and they
know they screwed up. And you don't have to wait
for the investigation to prove it. Look at their actions today.
Oh and I'll also give you an example. Michael Schellenberger
found of DEI embedded itself in the Los Angeles Fire
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Department and what the consequences of that has been.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That's all ahead.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
then after four o'clock John Cobet Show on demand on
the iHeart app. After two o'clock, we're going to talk
to Royal Oaks, the ABC News legal analyst dueling pardons
this week between Biden pardoning his entire family because he
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knew that they were up to their necks in corruption.
Trump then won up to them and pardoned everybody who
was jailed over the January sixth insurrection. Including the ones
who had been convicted on violent charges on violent on
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violence and also one guy who was convicted of sedition.
And so he did a pardon that tossed everyone out.
And so now the stupid fighting going on between insiders
in Washington is your guy did something unspeakable. Yeah, well,
your guy did something unspeakable. There's nothing you can do
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about the pardons. That's in the constitution. Nobody can fix that.
So now it's anything goes. You want to pardon guys
who are part of a violent insurrection, there, you go,
want to pardon corrupt family members that were raking in
big bucks for Joe. Hey, Joe can do it. We'll
talk about that with Royal Oaks coming up. After two o'clock.
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We were discussing how Eon Musk erased the US government's
diversity inclusion Diversity Equity and Inclusion program, I mean he
eliminated the entire office. If you try to access that
federal website, you get a four h four error. Diversity Equity,
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Inclusion and Accessibility, the Chief Diversity offers officers, executive counsel.
It's all god DEI though still infects the city of
Los Angeles, the government and the Fire Department, Michael Schellenberger
among many stories as he did, and listen, if you
have a few dollars, I would subscribe to. His site
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is called public and it's Public dot News. It's Michael
Schellenberger and other writers as well, and he has done
amazing stuff. We've had him on the show a number
of times. Amazing stuff on the inner workings of the
California government and Sacramento and what's been going on the
Los Angeles, especially in the fire department. Over the last
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two weeks. I've read a lot of his stuff on
the air, We've had him on.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He's had one piece in the last week that how
the city has not only mismanaged the fires, but it's
also greatly mismanaged the homelessness disaster. And he asks in
this column why is that. Part of the reason is
the city's diversity Equity Inclusion DEI programs. The city will
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only per This is according to whistleblower Firefighter, the city
will only purchase from vendors that support DEI. So we'll
go with a vendor that we have to pay twice
as much to or the shipment may take twice as
long in order for it to be a DEI vendor
rather than a vendor who has it at half the
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price and can get it to us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
This is a firefighter.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
He's talking about ordering fire equipment, but because of the
DEI rules in the Karen Bass administration, if fire officials
want to order fire equipment and supplies, they have to
go with a vendor, even if it costs twice as
much and the shipment takes twice as long. How could
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you anybody who does that ought to be erased out
of office. Musk auto erase I. I wish there was
a way to get this fever that Trump and Musk
have created in Washington into La and Sacramento. Are we
going to be the only state living like it's twenty
fourteen while everyone else moves into the late twenty twenties
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and twenty thirties. DEI, that is the past, ancient history.
It is a failed philosophy, a failed progressive philosophy. Somebody
justify to me why you would go with vendors that
cost twice as much and takes twice as long to
deliver just because they believe in DEI. What do they
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have to do to prove that they believe in DEI
or that they practice DEI. Do they actually have to
send in an application with proof detailing how committed they are.
This is more Schellenberger again, this is the whistleblower. He said,
the DEI programs put firefighters and the public in danger.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I personally witnessed in my own drill tower them making
and passing women to get their female quota numbers, even
though they didn't have to meet all the criteria that
the men did. Schellenberger asked what those criteria were, and
this person said, well, a certain amount of pushups, holding
a certain size hose line, throwing a certain ladder. We
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no longer require two firefighters to be able to throw
a thirty five foot ladder because of the amount of
women who were failing that requirement.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So now it's a three person ladder.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, this is what I want outside my house, if
it's on fire and I'm trapped inside, I want them
to hold a committee meeting down below to see if
it's a two person or a three person ladder, and
they're going to be counting how many you know, for
all the prattling about women in the fire department, it
was two point nine percent. And then Garcetti issued some
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kind of bandate and they got up to three point
three percent. But what they did is they degraded the
requirements for everyone, such as your ability to throw a ladder, pushups,
holding a hose line. All this stues is hurt fire response.
Oh and then they hired an assistant chief, the woman
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we played that clip last week, who said was answering
a criticism, well what if the woman isn't strong enough
to lift my husband? And her response was, well, then
your husband got himself in the wrong place. There's DEI
for you. In other words, hey, your husband has to
die because it's not equitable to require women to be
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able to lift grown men. This, this is insanity. So
they no longer have that as a job requirement. Throwing
a thirty five foot ladder in the field. That doesn't
work because we don't have enough people to spare when
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a fire is happening to just throw one ladder right
in a fire with all the chaos, you need people
assigned to their various duties. You can't steal extra people
to hoist up the ladder because too many firefighters aren't
strong enough to do it. The DEI programs are also expensive, said,
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this whistleblower distracting attention away from preventing and fighting fires. Oh,
should anything distract firefighters from preventing and fighting the actual fire.
The fire department, he says, ends up hiring unqualified people.
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Do we really need to sink millions a year into DEI?
I don't think so. Another reason is corruption, which drains
money from the city coffers, including for firefighting. And then
he gets in to the homelessness debacle, which is another
interesting aspect of this as well. When we come back.
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We'll get now to the La Fire Department. They're doing
what they didn't do on January seventh. And this has
got to really hurt if you suffered in the Pacific
Palisades fire, because now yesterday and today the fire department
did what they should have done two weeks ago. We
talked about right away as soon as the La Times
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discovered it. They in the face of these alleged one
hundred mile an hour winds, they didn't have anybody deployed
in the Palisades or anywhere else in the foothills. We'll
talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, coming up after two o'clock, we're going to talk
with Royal Oaks and he's with ABC News, the legal
Analyst about Trump's a collection of pardons everybody involved in
the January sixth insurrection who was convicted imprisoned, including the
guys who committed the most violence, and including one guy
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who was charged with sedition. We will talk with Royal
Oaks coming up in just a few minutes. Now, you know,
January seventh was the January seventh is going to live
in infamy far longer than January sixth when it comes
to Los Angeles because of the fire that happened and
the lack of response by LA City government. I can't
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imagine how things might have been different for quite a
few people had the firefighters been allowed in early, if
they had been pre deployed, which they should have been.
And that is something that Kristin Crowley is going to
have to answer to soon. And consequences are consequences should
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be suffered for that decision, and Karen Bass too, since
she wasn't here to take part in that decision. There
should be consequences for both of those both of those
people because this was a serious serious, deadly, tragic screw up,
and to prove that they know now how they screwed up.
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The LA Fire Department staffed all its extra engines and
a thousand extra firefighters remained on duty once they got
reports of the extreme winds that were forecast. Now this time,
the winds haven't caused any particular damage in Los Angeles.
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There were a few small fires that were put out quickly,
but the big one happened two weeks ago, and if
you remember, Kristin Crowley did not send They had forty engines,
They had a thousand firefighters that they could have kept
on a second shift, and they chose to send those
thousand firefighters home and keep the forty engines in the
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garag Not to mention the one hundred engines that are broken,
but they don't have mechanics to fix them. If there's
not an overhaul of all overhauls coming up after this,
and it should happen soon, we don't need a two
year investigation. It's pretty clear what went wrong here and
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it should be fixed soon, and the money should be
spent and take the money out of the homeless programs
to fix it. Fire officials said that yesterday the thousand
firefighters remained on duty to staff an extra thirty engines.
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Kristin Crowley now says the pre deployment is very, very
thoughtful and strategic. I guess her decision two weeks ago
was not thoughtful, not strategic. She said, the fire patrols
and the engines were positioned in high risk areas, places
like West Los Angeles Woodland Hills. You'll be happy to know, Debra,
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you're covered.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I'm very happy to know that when the.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Firefighters are allowed to do their work, they do. They
do their work brilliantly. Just send them, assign them Hollywood,
Sunton Valley. And then she said, we're extremely busy in
the city too. Our job is to ensure that we're
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providing that nine to one to one service. That is
the homeless issue. Half of the fires in La are
set by homeless. This has to stop. This had There
has to be zero tolerance for homeless people living in
public and starting fires. Half of the fire department is
(30:54):
tied up on any given day putting out the bumfires.
So she says, our job is to ensure that we're
providing that nine to one one service. On top of
pre deploying augmenting and still responding into the Old Palisades Fire,
which is almost sixty percent contained at least as of yesterday.
(31:18):
I guess it's probably it contained better than that.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Now it's a little more.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah. And then there's rain coming this weekend.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yes, but now the worry is, of course, getting too
much rain at one time, because then we're going to
have mud and de brief flows.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's like one biblical plague after another.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Why can't we just have some light rain, A little
light rain on and off on Saturday, a little light
rain on and off on Sunday, give us a break
on Monday. Maybe come back a little bit on Tuesday,
just a little at a time exactly so we can
handle it.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well, that's not the way things are here. Yeah, I know,
by the way, we're another day closer to the earthquake.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I knew you're just yeah, that's all we need.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
But we're overdue.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I know.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
But you know what, but let's just tell the universe
to give us a break for now. I mean, we're
dealing with so much. We can't we cannot deal with
a big earthquake.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I think we have offended the universe.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
The universe is, well, what can we do.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I mean, we're gonna have to go out and sacrifice
an animal or something.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
I'm gonna go and I'm gonna have to get some sage,
right and smudge smudge everywhere.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
It's Los Angeles, run around chanting and waving your arms
in the air. Royal Oaks, what did I read up
in Northern California? And they were up in like one
of those hippie towns. They were going to have like
a like a meditation center. They were going to have
people come and gather together, and it sounded like they
were going to do some primitive ritual to try to
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appease the nature gods over.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
What's going on? All right?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Royal Oaks is next. ABC News legal analyst about the
avalanche of Trump pardons following the Biden swamp of pardons Biden.
I heard something funny. Trump said he didn't know that
Biden had pardoned his own family until after the speech,
because Biden did fifteen minutes before the end of his term.
(33:19):
So Trump and everybody else were getting ready to be
seated for the inauguration ceremony, and it was only after
that that Trump found out that Biden had pardoned hit,
two brothers, a sister, and two in laws. Well, now
Trump one optum by pardoning everybody connected to the January
sixth insurrection, including one's convicted of violent felonies and one
(33:40):
guy could convicted of sedition. Talk about that with Royal
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Seven seven sixty six four seven eight eight six, or
use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Trump woke
up this morning. I watched last night. Did you see
any of the balls?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I did not?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You did not.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
No, I didn't watch the balls.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
My wife was watching for the dresses. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well that's what I would have watched for too.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's like watching the Golden Club's red carpet or the
Academy Awards red carpet.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It's all about the dress.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's all about the dresses. So I got a lot
of dress analysis last night.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Which one was your favorite?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Which one was my favorite?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I know, I don't. Those dresses cover up everybody's body
from head to toe. So I okay, Okay, you don't
see any body parts with those dresses, so I long dressed.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, so nobody was showing anything off no cleavage.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Uh no, well, I guess Laurence sand.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, that was the inauguration.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was gonna say, I know Ucker liked, yeah, Zucker
br I saw that photo, Zucker staring down her down
her chest there, and I guess Bezos is happy.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But no, I mean I'm being silly. Dresses were beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
They're probably worth the thousands and thousands of dollars, right,
got so, But uh, Trump, I just noticed that Trump
was because I was watching like nine ten o'clock at
night and the balls were going on. I'm thinking, my god,
that's one o'clock in the morning and he's been going
for about eighteen hours. And I remember they couldn't pull
Biden's corpse out for even eighteen minutes. Watching in the
(02:02):
afternoon and Trump was signing dozens and dozens of executive orders.
While doing a press conference, He's like signing away. You
hear the scribbling sound of his pen, and then he
looks up and he feels a question, and he scribbles
some more, looks up fields another question. Very relax is
like there are people with just extraordinary amounts of energy.
(02:23):
They're designed that way, and he only needs four or
five hours of sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well that's all I get tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Huh Yeah, Well, actually I got a story all right,
late a this hour. I'll do the story on that
because my wife is like that too, She only sleeps
four or five hours a night.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I need double that, so I know you do.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
And you like to brag about you got nine and
a half hours of sleep the other night.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh, the last three nights after the siege, the fires
and the looters and the power going out. I sung exhausted.
Last three nights. I slept really long and really well.
But what I read is that people like you and
Trump probably and my wife have a mutant gene. Yeah,
one of your genes is I wouldn't say defective, but
(03:07):
somewhere mutated, right, And there's a biological reason you don't
need sleep. You actually don't produce a certain element. Will
I will tell you about that later. I mean, you're
stuck with it. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Can I Can I be tested to see if that's the.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I guess, yeah, it's a specific gene. You know
how genes have like a three letter code or a
numerical code. Yeah, they listened to the gene there and said, well,
there's there's a mutation in people who don't sleep very much.
They literally can't like biologically.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
They can't do it.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So anyway back to Trump. So he wakes up this
morning and he goes on his own social media site,
truth Social and fired a thousand people, a thousand government workers,
all appointees from Biden's had been.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
He actually closed the tweet with the phrase.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You're fired with an exclamation point and in capital letters,
just like he used to do on The Apprentice. Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And what about all those people working from home? They
have been ordered to go back to the office.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, yes, this is the greatest thing in the world.
And I heard I heard somebody on the news today
really give a common sense explanation. They're planning to downsize
government dramatically. Elon Musk and his DOGE agency.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
How do you.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Know who to keep and who to cut if they
don't show up for work and you can meet them
and you can watch them and see what.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It is everybody does.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
If everybody's got some vague government title or classification and
they sit at home well, how.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Do you know, how do you know if you need them?
You don't even know what they do.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So yeah, everybody's going to come in because if you
ever look, this would be a good thing to look
up how many employees the government has compared to you know,
twenty years ago or forty years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's astonishing.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And it's just up until COVID, it's just desks and
chairs and people giving computer terminals and who knows what
they do. And then they go work from home during
COVID because all you need is a desk and a
chair in a computer terminal. And from what I've read
is that CEOs for the most part, have said people
(05:34):
do not work very much when they're working from home.
It's not efficient. You don't get the same productivity, you
don't get the same hours. There's no question about it.
Which is why so many companies are trying to force
workers to come in, is because you know, they tried
the experiment. People had talked about this sort of thing, telecommuting.
(05:55):
It was called years ago, and this was like the
great new frontier. All you needed was the technology, and
then we got the technology. We got Zoom and the
Internet and and all this and and uh, you know,
there's there's there's a certain percentage of people who it
works out, but in general it doesn't work out.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, I was gonna say, there are some jobs where
it does make sense to work from home at least
some of the time.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It just depends on the type of job and the
type of.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Person, right, But it's it's more specific broad based everyone
works at home. You really can't run a company that way.
I I you need FaceTime, Yeah, you need you need casual,
spontaneous conversations, right, it's what you need. And you'll also
you know, most people, especially government drones, which is largely
(06:42):
what we're talking about here, government drones need oversight. They
need somebody looking and saying, hey, what'd you do today?
Did you get that done yet?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Where have you been a micromanager?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
There are uses for micromanagers if you have well they're cattle.
See a lot of people are cattle, okay, and you
need and you need a guy with a lastso or
a whip or something to move the cattle along. Somebody
have like mid level government workers. That that's a lot
(07:16):
of cattle there, that's that's a lot of beef.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah. Sometimes when I walk by.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Uh, be careful what you're gonna say.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Maybe edit it first in your mind.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What did you want to hear me always unedited?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I hear it off the air. I'm just trying to
save you.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
From some you know, that's right. You know what I
I do.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's why I'm telling you to be careful.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I get the unedited John Gobel Show every day before
the show.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's that's the final front here.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
When I'm in here, I'm going on the internet, after
I've met all my money, I'm gonna sit there be
entirely unedited, and nobody's going to be able to do
anything about it. And I'll probably get a bigger audience
than every Oh, I'm sure that's right, just to go
with the unedited podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Probably get sued a lot too. Uh So we've got.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Uh so, we've got these these couple of hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
They lost count you know, you know what you know
what Trump did, and he would do this once he
figured because you know, they came into the first term,
first three months, they were unprepared because they didn't think
they were going to win. They had both political parties
against them. The establishment Republicans hated him as much as
the establishment Democrats, the Obama crowd at the time, and
(08:38):
of course the media despised him, and so he had
everything working against him. He didn't have loyalists because everyone
was afraid to bet their career on Trump, and a
lot of them thought he was nuts and wrong about
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And over time he's turned out to be right on
a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know, we tried the old fashion way with Biden
and realized that, yeah, Trump actually figured out what was
wrong with Washington, and we can't run it the old
way anymore. And that's why he won such a big
victory much of the public. In fact, I saw a
poll that more people like his policies than like him.
(09:20):
His personality will always be a drag on his approval rating,
but when they break out one by one, the policies,
all the policies, most of the major ones did really
well in poling. So people are voting some people on him,
but a lot of people are saying, you know what,
we tried it the other way. They had four years
(09:42):
of pure undistilled progressivism, and boy did that wreck the place.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We'll talk Moore, we come back to.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Elon Musk is gone to work to try to slash
a trillion dollars at a government spending. It's Doze, Department
of Government Efficiency. And the first thing they shut down,
and this cracked me up, is, uh, the diversity, equity
and inclusion programs. In fact, there's a whole agency known
(10:20):
as the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Counsel cd O e C.
And that website, if you try to access it now,
gives you one of those four oh four error messages.
He shut down the website and I guess they fired everybody.
(10:43):
This cde C was responsible for diversity, equity, inclusion, oh
and accessibility.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
They added another letter. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Everybody's always carrying on about DEI. Actually it was DEI A.
It's like all the letters that they add to like LGBTQ,
and they kept adding extra letters. The same thing here,
there's always groups that want to join, and so you
end up with a longer and longer and longer acronym into.
(11:14):
So the cd O e C was part of the
Office of Personal Personnel Management, also known as the OPM.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So you got this.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The cd O e C a subsidiary of O p M,
and they were in charge of enforcing d ei A.
That's why all this needs to be bull dozed. None
of this has anything to do with governing, nothing to
do with economic productivity. All it is is nonsense, burdens
(11:45):
some nonsense. You hire people because they'll be good at
the job, period, There is nothing else. Are they good
at the job or will they potentially be good at
the job based on their talents and their experience.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And blah blah blah. We know what is.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
People have been hired since human beings existed, right back
when people are in caves. If you needed another guy
to move a rock in your family's cave, you'd go
to the other caves and say, oh, can you lift
this rock? And if he was strong enough and could
lift the rock, he was hired. But he was hired
(12:25):
because he was strong enough to lift the rock. So
Trump signed an executive order, so do diversity equity inclusion
agencies are gone, and all programs inside every agency are
gone as well. It includes mandates, policies, programs, preferences, activities,
(12:48):
any euphemism they have for government nonsense. And that's I
mean that is one of the best things that has happened.
Progressivism is dying very slowly here in California, you know,
witness Proposition thirty six and Nathan Hockman taking over his
(13:09):
La County DA. But it is almost completely dead in
the rest of America. Nobody wants to hear about this
this stuff anymore. Some of the other executive orders he
stopped seventy eight executive actions that Biden had signed. Oh
withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords, so we can stop
(13:29):
wasting money on climate change nonsense, which by the way,
has had zero effect.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
On the climate.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It became a huge racket, you know, like the homelessness
racket here in Los Angeles, well, worldwide, there's a climate
change racket. In fact, all these noble progressive causes are
actually fronts for rackets that reward loyalists in that community.
(13:59):
All these progressive groups actually created companies and nonprofits in
order to qualify for whatever grants there were, whatever tax
revenue was available, in order to finance themselves and their organizations.
None of it provided any benefit to you or me,
and I dare anybody to show you tell me. Like
(14:21):
in California, all the climate policies we have which has
given us four fifty a gallon gas, with the rest
of the country under three bucks. You tell me how
that benefit How has that benefited us? Not at all?
Fifteen fifteen years? What am I talking about? Eight nineteen years?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Now? This started two thousand and six.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Nineteen years of extremely expensive climate policy. Electricity rates that
are double the rest of the country, gas rates that
are two bucks more than the rest of the country,
and on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
What have we gotten out of it? Anything?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Can you tangibly point to anything that we have collectively
gotten out of nineteen years of being ripped off and
looted with all these taxes that they've charged us and
the energy companies, It doesn't exist. He also got rid
of Biden's order requiring that fifty percent of new cars
(15:16):
in twenty thirty be electric vehicles, So that's gone. We're
going to be the last state suffering under this nonsense.
They're going to reopen Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to
oil and gas exploration because there is a ton of
oil and gas up there that will lower See the
thing about drilling for gas and oil. The more we
(15:37):
drill and the more it looks like we're going to
drill that'll drive down the price of oil. And the
price of oil doesn't just affect the gasoline at the pump,
but it affects all the products we have. All the
products that we use have to be transported. There are
hundreds and hundreds of products that are manufactured with petroleum.
This is how you do a broad based You instigate
(16:01):
a broad base decline in prices, make the manufacture of
all these goods and the transportation of all these goods cheaper.
And you do that by lowering the price of oil.
You lower the price of oil by increasing the supply.
The only way to do that is to drill for it.
(16:21):
I wish somehow the US government could annex California and
take it over, because we have a tremendous amount of
oil and natural gas below the surface here. And I've
always thought, well, if it exists, why not use it.
What's the point of keeping it underground? It serves no
(16:42):
purpose being underground. All Right, we come back.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Some more on.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's become pretty clear that the people who run the
LA Fire Department really screwed up and did not pre
deploy firefighters and engines to the Palisades and other areas
before the big wins hit on January sixth January seventh,
So now they were pre deploying for this new round
(17:17):
of dangerous wins. It proves that what we were saying
two weeks ago was correct. They screwed up, and they
know they screwed up. And you don't have to wait
for the investigation to prove it. Look at their actions today.
Oh and I'll also give you an example. Michael Schellenberger
found of DEI embedded itself in the Los Angeles Fire
(17:38):
Department and what the consequences of that has been.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That's all ahead.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
then after four o'clock John Cobet Show on demand on
the iHeart app. After two o'clock, we're going to talk
to Royal Oaks, the ABC News legal analyst dueling pardons
this week between Biden pardoning his entire family because he
(18:12):
knew that they were up to their necks in corruption.
Trump then won up to them and pardoned everybody who
was jailed over the January sixth insurrection. Including the ones
who had been convicted on violent charges on violent on
(18:33):
violence and also one guy who was convicted of sedition.
And so he did a pardon that tossed everyone out.
And so now the stupid fighting going on between insiders
in Washington is your guy did something unspeakable. Yeah, well,
your guy did something unspeakable. There's nothing you can do
(18:57):
about the pardons. That's in the constitution. Nobody can fix that.
So now it's anything goes. You want to pardon guys
who are part of a violent insurrection, there, you go,
want to pardon corrupt family members that were raking in
big bucks for Joe. Hey, Joe can do it. We'll
talk about that with Royal Oaks coming up. After two o'clock.
(19:20):
We were discussing how Eon Musk erased the US government's
diversity inclusion Diversity Equity and Inclusion program, I mean he
eliminated the entire office. If you try to access that
federal website, you get a four h four error. Diversity Equity,
(19:43):
Inclusion and Accessibility, the Chief Diversity offers officers, executive counsel.
It's all god DEI though still infects the city of
Los Angeles, the government and the Fire Department, Michael Schellenberger
among many stories as he did, and listen, if you
have a few dollars, I would subscribe to. His site
(20:05):
is called public and it's Public dot News. It's Michael
Schellenberger and other writers as well, and he has done
amazing stuff. We've had him on the show a number
of times. Amazing stuff on the inner workings of the
California government and Sacramento and what's been going on the
Los Angeles, especially in the fire department. Over the last
(20:28):
two weeks. I've read a lot of his stuff on
the air, We've had him on.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He's had one piece in the last week that how
the city has not only mismanaged the fires, but it's
also greatly mismanaged the homelessness disaster. And he asks in
this column why is that. Part of the reason is
the city's diversity Equity Inclusion DEI programs. The city will
(20:58):
only per This is according to whistleblower Firefighter, the city
will only purchase from vendors that support DEI. So we'll
go with a vendor that we have to pay twice
as much to or the shipment may take twice as
long in order for it to be a DEI vendor
rather than a vendor who has it at half the
(21:20):
price and can get it to us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
This is a firefighter.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
He's talking about ordering fire equipment, but because of the
DEI rules in the Karen Bass administration, if fire officials
want to order fire equipment and supplies, they have to
go with a vendor, even if it costs twice as
much and the shipment takes twice as long. How could
(21:47):
you anybody who does that ought to be erased out
of office. Musk auto erase I. I wish there was
a way to get this fever that Trump and Musk
have created in Washington into La and Sacramento. Are we
going to be the only state living like it's twenty
fourteen while everyone else moves into the late twenty twenties
(22:08):
and twenty thirties. DEI, that is the past, ancient history.
It is a failed philosophy, a failed progressive philosophy. Somebody
justify to me why you would go with vendors that
cost twice as much and takes twice as long to
deliver just because they believe in DEI. What do they
(22:33):
have to do to prove that they believe in DEI
or that they practice DEI. Do they actually have to
send in an application with proof detailing how committed they are.
This is more Schellenberger again, this is the whistleblower. He said,
the DEI programs put firefighters and the public in danger.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I personally witnessed in my own drill tower them making
and passing women to get their female quota numbers, even
though they didn't have to meet all the criteria that
the men did. Schellenberger asked what those criteria were, and
this person said, well, a certain amount of pushups, holding
a certain size hose line, throwing a certain ladder. We
(23:19):
no longer require two firefighters to be able to throw
a thirty five foot ladder because of the amount of
women who were failing that requirement.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So now it's a three person ladder.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, this is what I want outside my house, if
it's on fire and I'm trapped inside, I want them
to hold a committee meeting down below to see if
it's a two person or a three person ladder, and
they're going to be counting how many you know, for
all the prattling about women in the fire department, it
was two point nine percent. And then Garcetti issued some
(23:53):
kind of bandate and they got up to three point
three percent. But what they did is they degraded the
requirements for everyone, such as your ability to throw a ladder, pushups,
holding a hose line. All this stues is hurt fire response.
Oh and then they hired an assistant chief, the woman
(24:16):
we played that clip last week, who said was answering
a criticism, well what if the woman isn't strong enough
to lift my husband? And her response was, well, then
your husband got himself in the wrong place. There's DEI
for you. In other words, hey, your husband has to
die because it's not equitable to require women to be
(24:39):
able to lift grown men. This, this is insanity. So
they no longer have that as a job requirement. Throwing
a thirty five foot ladder in the field. That doesn't
work because we don't have enough people to spare when
(25:01):
a fire is happening to just throw one ladder right
in a fire with all the chaos, you need people
assigned to their various duties. You can't steal extra people
to hoist up the ladder because too many firefighters aren't
strong enough to do it. The DEI programs are also expensive, said,
(25:23):
this whistleblower distracting attention away from preventing and fighting fires. Oh,
should anything distract firefighters from preventing and fighting the actual fire.
The fire department, he says, ends up hiring unqualified people.
(25:45):
Do we really need to sink millions a year into DEI?
I don't think so. Another reason is corruption, which drains
money from the city coffers, including for firefighting. And then
he gets in to the homelessness debacle, which is another
interesting aspect of this as well. When we come back.
(26:07):
We'll get now to the La Fire Department. They're doing
what they didn't do on January seventh. And this has
got to really hurt if you suffered in the Pacific
Palisades fire, because now yesterday and today the fire department
did what they should have done two weeks ago. We
talked about right away as soon as the La Times
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discovered it. They in the face of these alleged one
hundred mile an hour winds, they didn't have anybody deployed
in the Palisades or anywhere else in the foothills. We'll
talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, coming up after two o'clock, we're going to talk
with Royal Oaks and he's with ABC News, the legal
Analyst about Trump's a collection of pardons everybody involved in
the January sixth insurrection who was convicted imprisoned, including the
guys who committed the most violence, and including one guy
(27:08):
who was charged with sedition. We will talk with Royal
Oaks coming up in just a few minutes. Now, you know,
January seventh was the January seventh is going to live
in infamy far longer than January sixth when it comes
to Los Angeles because of the fire that happened and
the lack of response by LA City government. I can't
(27:31):
imagine how things might have been different for quite a
few people had the firefighters been allowed in early, if
they had been pre deployed, which they should have been.
And that is something that Kristin Crowley is going to
have to answer to soon. And consequences are consequences should
(27:53):
be suffered for that decision, and Karen Bass too, since
she wasn't here to take part in that decision. There
should be consequences for both of those both of those
people because this was a serious serious, deadly, tragic screw up,
and to prove that they know now how they screwed up.
(28:16):
The LA Fire Department staffed all its extra engines and
a thousand extra firefighters remained on duty once they got
reports of the extreme winds that were forecast. Now this time,
the winds haven't caused any particular damage in Los Angeles.
(28:38):
There were a few small fires that were put out quickly,
but the big one happened two weeks ago, and if
you remember, Kristin Crowley did not send They had forty engines,
They had a thousand firefighters that they could have kept
on a second shift, and they chose to send those
thousand firefighters home and keep the forty engines in the
(28:59):
garag Not to mention the one hundred engines that are broken,
but they don't have mechanics to fix them. If there's
not an overhaul of all overhauls coming up after this,
and it should happen soon, we don't need a two
year investigation. It's pretty clear what went wrong here and
(29:21):
it should be fixed soon, and the money should be
spent and take the money out of the homeless programs
to fix it. Fire officials said that yesterday the thousand
firefighters remained on duty to staff an extra thirty engines.
(29:43):
Kristin Crowley now says the pre deployment is very, very
thoughtful and strategic. I guess her decision two weeks ago
was not thoughtful, not strategic. She said, the fire patrols
and the engines were positioned in high risk areas, places
like West Los Angeles Woodland Hills. You'll be happy to know, Debra,
(30:06):
you're covered.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I'm very happy to know that when the.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Firefighters are allowed to do their work, they do. They
do their work brilliantly. Just send them, assign them Hollywood,
Sunton Valley. And then she said, we're extremely busy in
the city too. Our job is to ensure that we're
(30:31):
providing that nine to one to one service. That is
the homeless issue. Half of the fires in La are
set by homeless. This has to stop. This had There
has to be zero tolerance for homeless people living in
public and starting fires. Half of the fire department is
(30:54):
tied up on any given day putting out the bumfires.
So she says, our job is to ensure that we're
providing that nine to one one service. On top of
pre deploying augmenting and still responding into the Old Palisades Fire,
which is almost sixty percent contained at least as of yesterday.
(31:18):
I guess it's probably it contained better than that.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Now it's a little more.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah. And then there's rain coming this weekend.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yes, but now the worry is, of course, getting too
much rain at one time, because then we're going to
have mud and de brief flows.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's like one biblical plague after another.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Why can't we just have some light rain, A little
light rain on and off on Saturday, a little light
rain on and off on Sunday, give us a break
on Monday. Maybe come back a little bit on Tuesday,
just a little at a time exactly so we can
handle it.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well, that's not the way things are here. Yeah, I know,
by the way, we're another day closer to the earthquake.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I knew you're just yeah, that's all we need.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
But we're overdue.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I know.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
But you know what, but let's just tell the universe
to give us a break for now. I mean, we're
dealing with so much. We can't we cannot deal with
a big earthquake.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I think we have offended the universe.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
The universe is, well, what can we do.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I mean, we're gonna have to go out and sacrifice
an animal or something.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
I'm gonna go and I'm gonna have to get some sage,
right and smudge smudge everywhere.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
It's Los Angeles, run around chanting and waving your arms
in the air. Royal Oaks, what did I read up
in Northern California? And they were up in like one
of those hippie towns. They were going to have like
a like a meditation center. They were going to have
people come and gather together, and it sounded like they
were going to do some primitive ritual to try to
(32:52):
appease the nature gods over.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
What's going on? All right?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Royal Oaks is next. ABC News legal analyst about the
avalanche of Trump pardons following the Biden swamp of pardons Biden.
I heard something funny. Trump said he didn't know that
Biden had pardoned his own family until after the speech,
because Biden did fifteen minutes before the end of his term.
(33:19):
So Trump and everybody else were getting ready to be
seated for the inauguration ceremony, and it was only after
that that Trump found out that Biden had pardoned hit,
two brothers, a sister, and two in laws. Well, now
Trump one optum by pardoning everybody connected to the January
sixth insurrection, including one's convicted of violent felonies and one
(33:40):
guy could convicted of sedition. Talk about that with Royal
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