January 16, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/16) - Will there be strings attached to the federal relief California will get for the wildfires in the LA area? More on the frustrations fire victims are feeling as they still can't get some answers from government officials. A SpaceX rocket failed and debris was seen entering Earth's atmosphere over Turks & Caicos.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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you could follow us at John Cobelt Radio. I mentioned
right before that we understand that Trump may be coming
to LA maybe sometime next week after the inauguration.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Is he gonna come visit you if he needs.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Another psychiatrist session? I think I think you might another
therapy session. Yeah, I'm always available. You know, I have
my own presidential hotline that I will answer and give
him whatever he needs. There's gonna be well, there's gonna
be a lot of controversies once he takes over because
this time he's got nothing to lose, right, He's not
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gonna be running for reelection. Nobody's standing in his way. Obviously,
California new some want money, and the response from a
lot of the Republican senators and congressmen have been, yeah,
we'll give you money, but there's going to be strings attached.
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And people in California, I've heard some of them go.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh my god, how could that be?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That is in human This is humanitarian assistance, is the
natural disaster.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It can't be strings attached. It's like, now you have
to look at it. Try to look at it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
From the point of view of the other forty nine states.
They see the woke, incompetent disaster that California and La
Government is. There isn't a single one of them that
would want Gavin news from running their state, and not
a single one of them that would want Karen Bass
to be their mayor. And they know how much money
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has been wasted here on homeless mental patients and drug
addicts and illegal aliens and all the rest. And they
know that Karen Bass intentionally underfunded the police and the
fire and that Gavin knew some intentionally cut state money
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for fire, so they know that, they know that that
water reservoir was drained and not refilled, and on and
on and on. Why should they give their tax money
to us?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Why should they.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
If it was the other way around, I wouldn't my
I wouldn't want my tax money going to eight which
didn't fund its its fire department and police department, didn't
fund brush clearing, forest thinning. I'd say, no, you people
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have insane politics. I'm not going to pay for that.
That's your deal. You voted for that, you live with it,
you pay for it. I'd be right, you'd be right.
Let's say, you know, as Arkansas had all kinds of
stupid policies scrowm, they're dumb enough to elect, you know,
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a Gavin Newsom. No, And that's how much of the
public feels, not just Republicans, wide swaths of independence, even Democrats.
They're looking at this nonsense. Really, this is a California
only story. They you should not expect to be bailed
out by the rest of the country if you don't
have the common sense to put rational people in charge
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of the government. These policies are absurd, They're insane. Billions
of dollars on homeless and another ones who start the fires.
It's another thing, the origin of the fires. Do you
I remember I knew this in just instinctively, but and
I'd heard of this. But Gigi Grassia out and Fox
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eleven said often when she covers fires, if it's started
by a homeless person, all the all the fire firefighters say, hey,
I can't say this on air, got to be off
the record, but yeah, it's a homeless guy. But we're
not allowed to say that. Stigma and so god knows
how many fires have happened that it were started by
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vagrants on drugs and it's not part of the news.
Same thing with the illegal aliens, and if it's an
illegal alien, homeless person forgetting Now, in the rest of
the country, they don't embrace illegal aliens by the millions
the way we do. They don't embrace homeless people by
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the hundreds of thousands by like we do. The rest
of the country doesn't spend billion dollars on billions of
dollars on those two categories because it's stupid, it's wasteful,
and it doesn't work. So of course they're going to
be strings. Do you think the Republican Congress is going
to write a blank check to Gavin Newsom. They're constituents
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were drive metal office. You think Trump's gonna do that?
Why should he? Newsom is busy trump proof in California.
It's like, fine, go ahead, trump proof. It means Trump's
not signing that bill to bail out California, and he shouldn't.
We've got to get rid of Bass and Newsom. We've
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got to get rid of all these idiotic policies.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We must. We can't.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
We can't spend billions dollars on the people who start
the fires fourteen thousand fires a year.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You try to sell that. You go to other states
and you say, hey.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Will you send us several billion dollars to clean up
our fire mess and the Palisades and in Owta, Dina.
And they'll look at you like, what don't you give
billions of dollars to the homeless who start the fires?
Oh yeah, you're coming to me for money. I we
work for a living.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
We got our own problems, and so stop getting outraged,
stop getting all self righteous. How dare they it's a
humanitarian problem. Nope, it's a humanitarian problem because of the
people we elect. They create horrible policies, and you've supported
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it through your voting, and you've supported it but not
paying attention to what they're doing. You tell me why
we spend forty billion dollars on homelessness, the legal aliens,
and climate change and we have half of the fire
department we should in Los Angeles? You explain that to me?
Is that what you voted for? Is that what you believe?
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Are you a progressive? I guess progressive people believe this.
I don't know. I never talked to them about these things.
I don't want to, because it's just it's like talking
to insane people who are high on meth. These progressive
policies are It's as if they were written by insane
people whacked out on meth. On what planet would you
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give billions of dollars to the people who start fires
and cut in half the funding for the people who
put out the fires? You tell me who else does this?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
What other state? What are the country? Maybe there's maybe
there is one. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know, it's not an issue I ever thought about.
I never went to research, havingt googled this, having gone,
you know, to look at all the studies, but I
have a feeling we are the only state of any
government of any kind of the world that spends billions
so homeless people could start fires, and we massively cut
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and underfund the firefighter budget. Now, you tell me who
I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Be voting for.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Should I vote for the progressive like Aaron Bass and
Gavin Newsom who does that, who rewards the homeless and
punishes the firefighters? Or vote for somebody else who would
fund the fire department and stop spending billion.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Dollars on failed homeless programs. You tell me weren't coming up. Oh,
Debra has a has a positive story.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think we need a.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Little positivity here, right, I mean, it's been such a
negative week.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I think.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I just want to throw a little, tiny, tiny, little
specum some positive.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
All right, all right, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I know it's it comes against your better judgment.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, only because I need a rest. Okay, I know
you can talk, So I got you're back.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 3 (09:14):
I have a little bit of breaking news.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well this justin.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
A SpaceX rocket launched from Texas within the past hour
was apparently lost on takeoff. The spacecraft was a prototype
of a rocket that was designed to carry convoys of
people to Mars. This is not the same rocket that
was launched earlier today from Cape Canaveral. This SpaceX rocket
was lost about twenty minutes after it launched.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Washed Yeah, lost me, I think, yeah, oh okay, I thought.
I thought it went up and they couldn't find.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well they can't. It's destroyed. It's gone.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You said a lot of prototype though, with no people on.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
No, Yeah, just dummies, rummies.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Wrong.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, I would have been a little more aggressive if
people were on it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But thanks for pointing that out.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Aren't those two people still stuck in space?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Those two yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, butch Wilmore and
Sooney Williams.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Now they're still there.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Another Boeing production there.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, they're there.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah. Well you know what you get on a.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Space rocket made by Boeing. What do you think is
going to happen? You are going to get lost in space,
you know, for at least eight months. So the thing
in Florida, that was the Jeff Bezos yes rocket.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, that went off. That was fine.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The thing that blew up in Texas was an Elon
Musk rocket correct space Okay, yes, yes, yes, so Bezos
had a better day than Musk when it came to
launching rockets.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Now we've been telling you about how difficult it's extremely
difficult for everybody and out on the fringe where I'm
just dealing with a lack of power. Oh, you know
how I want to talk more about this. You know
how many robberies in my neighborhood last night?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I know because you've you've told me a few times today.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Up to five?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Now okay, it was four before, so there was another one.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It was three when I left the house. It's now
five last night. No, it's I'm getting updates from the
crime desk at home. Five five. So again, you know,
I asked the progressives how many am I supposed to
put up with? Because I know these are all like
guys with long rap sheets. You know, nobody's supposed to
go to jail. Nobody's supposed to go to prison. We're
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supposed to decarcerrate, rehabilitate. Okay, so how many robberies am
I supposed to put up with? Anybody have an answer?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Five in a night? Is that enough? Or should I
should I take on ten robberies.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You believe this? Now, this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
This is after all these years of dumping people out
of prisons, dumping them out of jail's George gascon the
whole thing. Right Now, I've got one night in my neighborhood,
a formerly peaceful neighborer neighborhood. But the artist formerly known
as Prince. I'm from a town that is formerly peaceful
and civilized. Now five robberies in a night, and I'm
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not supposed to be pissed at Karen Bass and Gascone
and all the these other bastards, huh who've ruined Los Angeles,
demonized the police.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Hey, I'll take a break.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
We have a positive story with the DWP.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
So, as I said, possible, Well, I told you yesterday
that I spent many hours going back and forth between
DWP and the Fire Department.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Because there's power lines. I'm up in the hills.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
There's power lines, and apparently there's high voltage power lines.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
There's low voltage low voltage power lines. It's hard to see.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yes, So when I spoke to somebody, very nice guy yesterday,
the DWP was able to get my address up.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
He said, oh, by your house. Don't worry. Those are
low voltage lines, communication lines. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Even if a tree fell on it not gonna cause
a fire. But I said to him, can you please
just send somebody out.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Just to make sure. I just want to make sure.
I'm scared. It's up in the hills. It's scary.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And then there are neighbors that have these humongous pine
trees on our street that are draping over the lines.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So I gave him that address too. This was yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Very nice guy, very helpful. He said, you know what,
I'm going to try and get somebody out there tomorrow. First,
he said, twenty four to forty eight hours. I'm on
my way to work, probably, I don't know. Nine this morning,
my phone rings. It's this guy from DWP.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Hey, I'm right at your house.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I'm outside and i'm looking at your house and I'm
looking at the low voltage lines and I'm telling you
it's safe. Even if the tree fell on it not
going to cause a fire. And U and he said,
I also got a report of the other house you're
talking about. So I'm going to call you right back,
and I'm going to go look at that house, calls
me right back.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Five service.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yes, the nicest guy. I'm telling you the people that
I've talked to, and I haven't really been a fan
of DWP.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You didn't say do you know who I am?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I did not. They have no idea. I did not
say that I was a news anchor on KFI.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I didn't use that card. I didn't have to because
they were really nice.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I've complained about the DWP. You know the prices and
the you know that there's no rhyme or reason. But
yesterday I think three different people, different departments of DWP.
But this guy, that's sure you're gonna call me back?
He said, let me go, let me get my truck
and go down the street. Let me go check out
that house for you.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Any Wow?
Speaker 7 (14:11):
He called me right back.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And had you met him?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Did he develop a crush on you or something? I know?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Really?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
No, I was in my car, John, I had just
missed him.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Call your new friend up and ask him when I
could get power back on my block.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I I did give you his phone number.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I did, so I should call him up.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Call him up.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
He was a very nice guy. He may not be
able to help you, but he might be able to
tell you who you can talk to because he's with
the tree trimming division.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I see, yeah, yeah, I need the turn the switch
on division, like re energize that.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
But you know what, he was so nice, and you
could even you could use my name and just say, hey,
my friend, do you know who I know?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Who?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
You could say do you know who I am?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So? I mean his that obviously they don't care.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I just thought that, all right, say something.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Hey, you know what two minutes for a compliment of
a public worker.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I guess. I guess that's.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
It was unnerving because I think it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Is when somebody does the right thing when you're dealing
with government, it throws you off because I always tense up.
I'm always like ready to fight and jump, and so's
my wife.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I mean, when I saw the phone number, I wasn't
even gonna answer. You know, I thought it was spam.
But usually when it's spam is a spam. So I thought, okay,
let me see who this is because.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
We well have problem. My wife, so, well, why don't
you call so and so?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
It's like, what what what point is that I'll be
on I'll be lost in voicemail. Hell, for twenty minutes,
I'll get somebody, they'll blame it on someone else, they
won't answer their phone, they'll lie to me, and then
I'll be all pissed off.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I go.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I know they're not going to have an answer. I
know they're not going to tell me the truth. Why
should I call? But in your case, it worked, it did.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Okay, I have an update on the SpaceX craft. What
there's video on the Internet of debris re entering Earth's
atmosphere over Turks and Caicos.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah? Another temper vacation spot. Whe were you there this week?
It would have been falling on your head.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
No, but I was here with the fires. That's not
my fault.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Every place you've gone has had some kind of disaster. Yeah,
I know, mostly when you're there. I know. All right,
we got more coming up.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
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Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm sure you have plenty. Let's get going.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We have a little bit of vacancy talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app will work as well. I want to
play this only because it makes me laugh up. This
is Gavin Newsom on with the former spokeshole for Joe Biden,
Jen Saki. She hosts a show on MSNBC, and he
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talks about being called names by Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm not naive.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
I get the California Derangement Center. I've been living that
for years and years. Newscumb and on the same seventh
grade I remember the guy on Baltimore Avenue that called
me newscumb I was in seventh grade.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I can handle that.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
We'll leave that aside. I understand what they're trying to do.
I want to work with them. It's not about me.
It's about people that we both represent. He represents and
I represent, and I'm honored and proud to represent these folks.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I won't spend the money to protect them from fire,
but I'm honored in Pratt, how many times do you
think he was beat up in seventh grade? That's a
good question, isn't Isn't he the kid that everybody would
have beat up isn't he the kid that would have
gotten his head push down in the toilet?
Speaker 7 (18:01):
I don't know, because the cheerleaders in high school had
a whole cheer for him. So maybe he was like
the star basketball player. So it's like, I don't know
what what. The girls liked him, yeah, but the guys.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Maybe the guys were jealous and beat him up.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think so, because he's a weenie too,
nothing worse than a good looking wiener.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't think that came out right, but.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Isolate that one.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Eric, Oh worry, Look you want to we'll bring out
your greatest hits. The other you put me to shame
with the stuff that comes flying out of your mouth.
Here is a list, all right. So he says he's
really proud to represent us. Here is the current California
state budget signed into law by Gavin Newsom. Okay, he
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cut five million dollars in spending on cal fire fuel
reduction teams that would be cutting brush on state land.
You got that cut five million dollars, Gavin Newsom, boy,
I'm glad he's representing us. He cut four million dollars
from a forest legacy program that was aimed at encouraging
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good management practices from landowners. He cut twenty eight million
dollars from funds for state conservancies to increase wildfire resistance.
You know, the local conservancies applied for the state money
and it was I guess appropriated at one point and
then cut and knew some signed it. He cut eight
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million dollars from monitoring and research spending which had been
given to cow fire and col universities. He cut three
million dollars funding for a forest data hub, twelve million
dollars for what they call a home hardening project. Home
hardening is when you make your property more resistant to fire.
And so just twelve million dollars he cut. In total,
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he cut one hundred and five million dollars in state
fire prevention programs and he's proud to represent us. Now
you add that to the Karen Bass list and also
other state projects. One hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir
that was empty. Then the two point seven billion that
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we passed in twenty fourteen, we were going to borrow
two point seven billion to build reservoirs that was never built.
We don't do the clearing of brush, we don't do
the controlled burns. The US Forest decision to stop prescribed
burning in California. That's a federal thing. The La City's
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fire department had warned that they didn't have money for overtime,
they didn't have money for fire response, and Bass cuts
seventeen million.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Anyway, Shim Garrity and the National Review just added all
this up. When you wonder why the Palisades was so
in danger and why the response was so weak, look
at all the fire prevention cuts that Newsom instituted and
then the fire department cuts that Bass instituted. Newsom was
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in charge of defense. Here Bass was in charge of offense.
She shortchanged the offense of the La Fire Department. He
shortchanged the defense the state programs that use to make
us more fire resistant. Here's another one. La Times reviewed records.
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CalFire decided not to fund almost four million dollars in
wildfire prevention grants for the Santa Monica Mountains, including Pacific
Palisades in Malibu.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Over the last four years.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
There were grants applied for to CalFire, and CalFire said no.
This has happened repeatedly since twenty twenty one, says state
authorities have repeated declined to fund wildfire prevention evidence. Wildfire
prevention efforts in the communities devastated by the Palisades fire
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almost four million, but projects in areas elsewhere in California
that the state thought was at lower risk received most
or all the money they requested, some instances even more
money than they requested. I'm glad the La Times is
looking into this. This has to be followed up. So
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why were low risk rural areas getting more money than
they ask and a high risk Palisades Malibu request was
repeatedly denied. Andrew Henning CalFire, Assistant Deputy director for Community
Wildfire Assistance and Fire Engineering.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Oh, how does well? What a title?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That is the longer the title, the dimmer the bulb
Assistant deputy director, He says, emphasis at each level is
placed on projects and activities that address hazards that reduce
potential risk from wildfire.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And in near communities. It doesn't tell me anything.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
In August, cal Fire refused to award three million dollars
for seven communities in the Santa Monica Mountains, including communities
in eastern Malibu and to Panga Canyon, both of which
burned quite a bit In this latest fire. Brent Woodworth
is the chairman CEO of the Los Angeles Emergency Prepared
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this foundation, they are the nonprofit that made the request
for the grant. They were going to use the money
to offer specific steps. They were going to identify specific
steps homeowners can take to reduce the risks of a
destructive fire. But CalFire said no, cal Fire was concerned
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about the high cost of the foundation's proposal.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But what's the.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Cost now that all the homes have burned? Are they
saying two hundred and fifty billion? I mean, we give
them the more tax money than any other state, a
higher rate of taxes than any state. They spend at
a higher rate than any other state, but they cut
it from fire funding, both on the state and local level,
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and whatever money they saved. And I don't know which,
you know, I don't know which of these programs would
work or not. But it seems that the theme of
all the news stories, almost all the news stories.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Is cut cut, cut cut.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
While the state bloated, state's budget bloated up, the LA
City's budget bloated up, and it bloated up on homeless
people and illegal aliens and.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
All the rest.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But this is the most fire prone state in the Union. Right,
it's been legendary ever since it's been settled for you know,
one hundred and fifty years plus. How many fires have
we seen? Like, like we had a guest on earlier
said ninety thirty fires in Malibu over the last ninety years.
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So why I got a half dozen stories in front
of me. I've been reading all week this cut, that cut,
everything's cut.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's one of the greatest dangers we have.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
And they cut, and they give the money to the
crowd that starts the fires, the vagrants.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
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Speaker 2 (25:56):
Change dot Org.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
The number of signature demanding the immediate resignation of Karen
Bass almost at one hundred and fifty thousand. Oh, we
can get there in minutes. One hundred and forty nine
five to nineteen. Go to change dot org typing Karen
Bass in the search box. It says demand the immediate
resignation and one hundred and fifty thousand. It's the next
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rung on the ladder. So go sign that and demand it.
It's not going to cost you anything, you know. One
of the things. I don't have a whole lot of
time here at the end of the show, but it's
a story in the Orange County Register that maybe we'll
get to in greater detail tomorrow. There's a story about this,
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this concept that municipal water systems can't handle the load
when it comes to what fired fighters need to put
out a large wildfire. That that's not the way a
city water system was designed, which may be true, which
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is why. But you know you can't show up a
couple hours late, then yeah, there isn't enough water to
spray quickly enough when the winds are blowing hard. But
that's why showing up within minutes is so important. Now,
I think we'll find out eventually officially, unless they lie,
which they might, we'll find out that it was the
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La Fire Department was understaffed and they did not prepare
for a Palisades fire, which they should have. Anybody who
tells you that's not high fire danger, you don't know
what you're talking about. I live very near there. Yes,
high fire danger where I live. I mean, I live
in the flats, and we moved out of the hills.
We moved out of the hills. It was in La
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north of Beverly Hills, because part of the reason was
high fire danger.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And there's no question anybody says that is a liar.
So you have.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Since La City obviously extends into the hills, then you
must have a water system that can handle it. And
in fact, that's the second part of the story. They
might not be designed to fight wildfires, but maybe they
should be. So this goes back to what are we
spending the money on. Why don't we have a municipal
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water system that handles big wildfires since the city is
partly in an area prone to big wildfires. It's the
cities I tell you about. You know, it's Pacific Palisades,
It's Brentwood, it's Westwood, bell Air, Beverly Hills, which is
its own thing, into West Hollywood also its own thing,
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Hollywood Hills. But the county, the county would cover them,
I think. And then out east and then on the
northern side you have Tarzana and Cino, Sherwan Oaks, Studio City,
Woodland Hills.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
To the west.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
And again, if you add up all the money that
we spend on illegal aliens and homeless people and climate change.
If we just spent one percent of that in l
A on the fire department, we would double the budget,
double the amount of firefighters, double the amount of engines,
and uh, you know a little bit more, and we
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could we could build a modern municipal water system to
handle the wire wildfires and and this is this is
what we have to demand in starting with next year's budget.
They got to do a massive, massive change and and
fund the fire and police like they never had before.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Conway he now, hey, now, Alex Stone is coming on
with us. We'll talk about the weather in so Cal
over the next few days. Patrick O'Neill, what are the
voices of the La Kings.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
You might know his father, Ryan O'Neil.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Uh, they just lost their home in Malibu.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh horrible, that is Yeah, he does all the like
the Angel pregame.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Shows too, Yes, Angels and uh and also the Kings
and and Sharon Belly has been texting him for two years,
Hey can you come on?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
You want to come on?
Speaker 8 (30:04):
And he kept saying I don't know really much about hockey,
and and then she thought that was odd, right, And
then he said, And then she said, how you doing
with the fires because they lost their family home and
he said, I've been living in New York for three years.
I don't know what you're talking about. Well, it turns
out she was texting the wrong Patrick O'Neill. This is
the Patrick O'Neill that owns a racehorse in Kentucky. Oh's
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that Sharon's a sharp cookie. Every once in a while
she one gets away. Yeah, you know, every once in
a while. Other than that, man, she's as sharp as.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Like somebody named Patrick O'Neill's coming on. There's probably a
lot of Patrick O'Neill's in the world. But you know what,
but here's something weird. I ran into him in a
King game and I introduced myself.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
I said, hey, we'd love to have you on, but
Sharon said, you don't know much about hockey, and he goes, Tim,
I'm doing the Kings. I know a lot about hockey.
And then Dean Sharp is coming on. That guy's great. Well,
he's a custom home designer. You know who's the show
home every Saturday and Sunday, and we're going to talk
more about prepping your house and getting your house back
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up on its feet, So what's going on all right?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Conway Crozier with the news live in the twenty four
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right before that we understand that Trump may be coming
to LA maybe sometime next week after the inauguration.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Is he gonna come visit you if he needs.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Another psychiatrist session? I think I think you might another
therapy session. Yeah, I'm always available. You know, I have
my own presidential hotline that I will answer and give
him whatever he needs. There's gonna be well, there's gonna
be a lot of controversies once he takes over because
this time he's got nothing to lose, right, He's not
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gonna be running for reelection. Nobody's standing in his way. Obviously,
California new some want money, and the response from a
lot of the Republican senators and congressmen have been, yeah,
we'll give you money, but there's going to be strings attached.
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And people in California, I've heard some of them go.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh my god, how could that be?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That is in human This is humanitarian assistance, is the
natural disaster.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It can't be strings attached. It's like, now you have
to look at it. Try to look at it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
From the point of view of the other forty nine states.
They see the woke, incompetent disaster that California and La
Government is. There isn't a single one of them that
would want Gavin news from running their state, and not
a single one of them that would want Karen Bass
to be their mayor. And they know how much money
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has been wasted here on homeless mental patients and drug
addicts and illegal aliens and all the rest. And they
know that Karen Bass intentionally underfunded the police and the
fire and that Gavin knew some intentionally cut state money
(02:36):
for fire, so they know that, they know that that
water reservoir was drained and not refilled, and on and
on and on. Why should they give their tax money
to us?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Why should they.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
If it was the other way around, I wouldn't my
I wouldn't want my tax money going to eight which
didn't fund its its fire department and police department, didn't
fund brush clearing, forest thinning. I'd say, no, you people
(03:15):
have insane politics. I'm not going to pay for that.
That's your deal. You voted for that, you live with it,
you pay for it. I'd be right, you'd be right.
Let's say, you know, as Arkansas had all kinds of
stupid policies scrowm, they're dumb enough to elect, you know,
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a Gavin Newsom. No, And that's how much of the
public feels, not just Republicans, wide swaths of independence, even Democrats.
They're looking at this nonsense. Really, this is a California
only story. They you should not expect to be bailed
out by the rest of the country if you don't
have the common sense to put rational people in charge
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of the government. These policies are absurd, They're insane. Billions
of dollars on homeless and another ones who start the fires.
It's another thing, the origin of the fires. Do you
I remember I knew this in just instinctively, but and
I'd heard of this. But Gigi Grassia out and Fox
(04:18):
eleven said often when she covers fires, if it's started
by a homeless person, all the all the fire firefighters say, hey,
I can't say this on air, got to be off
the record, but yeah, it's a homeless guy. But we're
not allowed to say that. Stigma and so god knows
how many fires have happened that it were started by
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vagrants on drugs and it's not part of the news.
Same thing with the illegal aliens, and if it's an
illegal alien, homeless person forgetting Now, in the rest of
the country, they don't embrace illegal aliens by the millions
the way we do. They don't embrace homeless people by
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the hundreds of thousands by like we do. The rest
of the country doesn't spend billion dollars on billions of
dollars on those two categories because it's stupid, it's wasteful,
and it doesn't work. So of course they're going to
be strings. Do you think the Republican Congress is going
to write a blank check to Gavin Newsom. They're constituents
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were drive metal office. You think Trump's gonna do that?
Why should he? Newsom is busy trump proof in California.
It's like, fine, go ahead, trump proof. It means Trump's
not signing that bill to bail out California, and he shouldn't.
We've got to get rid of Bass and Newsom. We've
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got to get rid of all these idiotic policies.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We must. We can't.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
We can't spend billions dollars on the people who start
the fires fourteen thousand fires a year.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You try to sell that. You go to other states
and you say, hey.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Will you send us several billion dollars to clean up
our fire mess and the Palisades and in Owta, Dina.
And they'll look at you like, what don't you give
billions of dollars to the homeless who start the fires?
Oh yeah, you're coming to me for money. I we
work for a living.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
We got our own problems, and so stop getting outraged,
stop getting all self righteous. How dare they it's a
humanitarian problem. Nope, it's a humanitarian problem because of the
people we elect. They create horrible policies, and you've supported
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it through your voting, and you've supported it but not
paying attention to what they're doing. You tell me why
we spend forty billion dollars on homelessness, the legal aliens,
and climate change and we have half of the fire
department we should in Los Angeles? You explain that to me?
Is that what you voted for? Is that what you believe?
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Are you a progressive? I guess progressive people believe this.
I don't know. I never talked to them about these things.
I don't want to, because it's just it's like talking
to insane people who are high on meth. These progressive
policies are It's as if they were written by insane
people whacked out on meth. On what planet would you
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give billions of dollars to the people who start fires
and cut in half the funding for the people who
put out the fires? You tell me who else does this?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
What other state? What are the country? Maybe there's maybe
there is one. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know, it's not an issue I ever thought about.
I never went to research, havingt googled this, having gone,
you know, to look at all the studies, but I
have a feeling we are the only state of any
government of any kind of the world that spends billions
so homeless people could start fires, and we massively cut
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and underfund the firefighter budget. Now, you tell me who
I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Be voting for.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Should I vote for the progressive like Aaron Bass and
Gavin Newsom who does that, who rewards the homeless and
punishes the firefighters? Or vote for somebody else who would
fund the fire department and stop spending billion.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Dollars on failed homeless programs. You tell me weren't coming up. Oh,
Debra has a has a positive story.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think we need a.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Little positivity here, right, I mean, it's been such a
negative week.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I think.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I just want to throw a little, tiny, tiny, little
specum some positive.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
All right, all right, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I know it's it comes against your better judgment.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, only because I need a rest. Okay, I know
you can talk, So I got you're back.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I have a little bit of breaking news.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well this justin.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
A SpaceX rocket launched from Texas within the past hour
was apparently lost on takeoff. The spacecraft was a prototype
of a rocket that was designed to carry convoys of
people to Mars. This is not the same rocket that
was launched earlier today from Cape Canaveral. This SpaceX rocket
was lost about twenty minutes after it launched.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Washed Yeah, lost me, I think, yeah, oh okay, I thought.
I thought it went up and they couldn't find.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well they can't. It's destroyed. It's gone.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You said a lot of prototype though, with no people on.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
No, Yeah, just dummies, rummies.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Wrong.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, I would have been a little more aggressive if
people were on it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But thanks for pointing that out.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Aren't those two people still stuck in space?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Those two yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, butch Wilmore and
Sooney Williams.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Now they're still there.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Another Boeing production there.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, they're there.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah. Well you know what you get on a.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Space rocket made by Boeing. What do you think is
going to happen? You are going to get lost in space,
you know, for at least eight months. So the thing
in Florida, that was the Jeff Bezos yes rocket.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, that went off. That was fine.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The thing that blew up in Texas was an Elon
Musk rocket correct space Okay, yes, yes, yes, so Bezos
had a better day than Musk when it came to
launching rockets.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Now we've been telling you about how difficult it's extremely
difficult for everybody and out on the fringe where I'm
just dealing with a lack of power. Oh, you know
how I want to talk more about this. You know
how many robberies in my neighborhood last night?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I know because you've you've told me a few times today.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Up to five?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Now okay, it was four before, so there was another one.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It was three when I left the house. It's now
five last night. No, it's I'm getting updates from the
crime desk at home. Five five. So again, you know,
I asked the progressives how many am I supposed to
put up with? Because I know these are all like
guys with long rap sheets. You know, nobody's supposed to
go to jail. Nobody's supposed to go to prison. We're
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supposed to decarcerrate, rehabilitate. Okay, so how many robberies am
I supposed to put up with? Anybody have an answer?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Five in a night? Is that enough? Or should I
should I take on ten robberies.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You believe this? Now, this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
This is after all these years of dumping people out
of prisons, dumping them out of jail's George gascon the
whole thing. Right Now, I've got one night in my neighborhood,
a formerly peaceful neighborer neighborhood. But the artist formerly known
as Prince. I'm from a town that is formerly peaceful
and civilized. Now five robberies in a night, and I'm
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not supposed to be pissed at Karen Bass and Gascone
and all the these other bastards, huh who've ruined Los Angeles,
demonized the police.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Hey, I'll take a break.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
We have a positive story with the DWP.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
So, as I said, possible, Well, I told you yesterday
that I spent many hours going back and forth between
DWP and the Fire Department.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Because there's power lines. I'm up in the hills.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
There's power lines, and apparently there's high voltage power lines.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
There's low voltage low voltage power lines. It's hard to see.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yes, So when I spoke to somebody, very nice guy yesterday,
the DWP was able to get my address up.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
He said, oh, by your house. Don't worry. Those are
low voltage lines, communication lines. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Even if a tree fell on it not gonna cause
a fire. But I said to him, can you please
just send somebody out.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Just to make sure. I just want to make sure.
I'm scared. It's up in the hills. It's scary.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And then there are neighbors that have these humongous pine
trees on our street that are draping over the lines.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So I gave him that address too. This was yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Very nice guy, very helpful. He said, you know what,
I'm going to try and get somebody out there tomorrow. First,
he said, twenty four to forty eight hours. I'm on
my way to work, probably, I don't know. Nine this morning,
my phone rings. It's this guy from DWP.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Hey, I'm right at your house.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I'm outside and i'm looking at your house and I'm
looking at the low voltage lines and I'm telling you
it's safe. Even if the tree fell on it not
going to cause a fire. And U and he said,
I also got a report of the other house you're
talking about. So I'm going to call you right back,
and I'm going to go look at that house, calls
me right back.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Five service.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yes, the nicest guy. I'm telling you the people that
I've talked to, and I haven't really been a fan
of DWP.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You didn't say do you know who I am?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I did not. They have no idea. I did not
say that I was a news anchor on KFI.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I didn't use that card. I didn't have to because
they were really nice.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I've complained about the DWP. You know the prices and
the you know that there's no rhyme or reason. But
yesterday I think three different people, different departments of DWP.
But this guy, that's sure you're gonna call me back?
He said, let me go, let me get my truck
and go down the street. Let me go check out
that house for you.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Any Wow?
Speaker 7 (14:11):
He called me right back.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And had you met him?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Did he develop a crush on you or something? I know?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Really?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
No, I was in my car, John, I had just
missed him.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Call your new friend up and ask him when I
could get power back on my block.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I I did give you his phone number.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I did, so I should call him up.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Call him up.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
He was a very nice guy. He may not be
able to help you, but he might be able to
tell you who you can talk to because he's with
the tree trimming division.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I see, yeah, yeah, I need the turn the switch
on division, like re energize that.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
But you know what, he was so nice, and you
could even you could use my name and just say, hey,
my friend, do you know who I know?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Who?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
You could say do you know who I am?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So? I mean his that obviously they don't care.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I just thought that, all right, say something.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Hey, you know what two minutes for a compliment of
a public worker.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I guess. I guess that's.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
It was unnerving because I think it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Is when somebody does the right thing when you're dealing
with government, it throws you off because I always tense up.
I'm always like ready to fight and jump, and so's
my wife.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I mean, when I saw the phone number, I wasn't
even gonna answer. You know, I thought it was spam.
But usually when it's spam is a spam. So I thought, okay,
let me see who this is because.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
We well have problem. My wife, so, well, why don't
you call so and so?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
It's like, what what what point is that I'll be
on I'll be lost in voicemail. Hell, for twenty minutes,
I'll get somebody, they'll blame it on someone else, they
won't answer their phone, they'll lie to me, and then
I'll be all pissed off.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I go.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I know they're not going to have an answer. I
know they're not going to tell me the truth. Why
should I call? But in your case, it worked, it did.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Okay, I have an update on the SpaceX craft. What
there's video on the Internet of debris re entering Earth's
atmosphere over Turks and Caicos.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah? Another temper vacation spot. Whe were you there this week?
It would have been falling on your head.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
No, but I was here with the fires. That's not
my fault.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Every place you've gone has had some kind of disaster. Yeah,
I know, mostly when you're there. I know. All right,
we got more coming up.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
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Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm sure you have plenty. Let's get going.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We have a little bit of vacancy talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app will work as well. I want to
play this only because it makes me laugh up. This
is Gavin Newsom on with the former spokeshole for Joe Biden,
Jen Saki. She hosts a show on MSNBC, and he
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talks about being called names by Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm not naive.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
I get the California Derangement Center. I've been living that
for years and years. Newscumb and on the same seventh
grade I remember the guy on Baltimore Avenue that called
me newscumb I was in seventh grade.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I can handle that.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
We'll leave that aside. I understand what they're trying to do.
I want to work with them. It's not about me.
It's about people that we both represent. He represents and
I represent, and I'm honored and proud to represent these folks.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I won't spend the money to protect them from fire,
but I'm honored in Pratt, how many times do you
think he was beat up in seventh grade? That's a
good question, isn't Isn't he the kid that everybody would
have beat up isn't he the kid that would have
gotten his head push down in the toilet?
Speaker 7 (18:01):
I don't know, because the cheerleaders in high school had
a whole cheer for him. So maybe he was like
the star basketball player. So it's like, I don't know
what what. The girls liked him, yeah, but the guys.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Maybe the guys were jealous and beat him up.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think so, because he's a weenie too,
nothing worse than a good looking wiener.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't think that came out right, but.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Isolate that one.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Eric, Oh worry, Look you want to we'll bring out
your greatest hits. The other you put me to shame
with the stuff that comes flying out of your mouth.
Here is a list, all right. So he says he's
really proud to represent us. Here is the current California
state budget signed into law by Gavin Newsom. Okay, he
(18:45):
cut five million dollars in spending on cal fire fuel
reduction teams that would be cutting brush on state land.
You got that cut five million dollars, Gavin Newsom, boy,
I'm glad he's representing us. He cut four million dollars
from a forest legacy program that was aimed at encouraging
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good management practices from landowners. He cut twenty eight million
dollars from funds for state conservancies to increase wildfire resistance.
You know, the local conservancies applied for the state money
and it was I guess appropriated at one point and
then cut and knew some signed it. He cut eight
(19:28):
million dollars from monitoring and research spending which had been
given to cow fire and col universities. He cut three
million dollars funding for a forest data hub, twelve million
dollars for what they call a home hardening project. Home
hardening is when you make your property more resistant to fire.
And so just twelve million dollars he cut. In total,
(19:51):
he cut one hundred and five million dollars in state
fire prevention programs and he's proud to represent us. Now
you add that to the Karen Bass list and also
other state projects. One hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir
that was empty. Then the two point seven billion that
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we passed in twenty fourteen, we were going to borrow
two point seven billion to build reservoirs that was never built.
We don't do the clearing of brush, we don't do
the controlled burns. The US Forest decision to stop prescribed
burning in California. That's a federal thing. The La City's
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fire department had warned that they didn't have money for overtime,
they didn't have money for fire response, and Bass cuts
seventeen million.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Anyway, Shim Garrity and the National Review just added all
this up. When you wonder why the Palisades was so
in danger and why the response was so weak, look
at all the fire prevention cuts that Newsom instituted and
then the fire department cuts that Bass instituted. Newsom was
(21:11):
in charge of defense. Here Bass was in charge of offense.
She shortchanged the offense of the La Fire Department. He
shortchanged the defense the state programs that use to make
us more fire resistant. Here's another one. La Times reviewed records.
(21:34):
CalFire decided not to fund almost four million dollars in
wildfire prevention grants for the Santa Monica Mountains, including Pacific
Palisades in Malibu.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Over the last four years.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
There were grants applied for to CalFire, and CalFire said no.
This has happened repeatedly since twenty twenty one, says state
authorities have repeated declined to fund wildfire prevention evidence. Wildfire
prevention efforts in the communities devastated by the Palisades fire
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almost four million, but projects in areas elsewhere in California
that the state thought was at lower risk received most
or all the money they requested, some instances even more
money than they requested. I'm glad the La Times is
looking into this. This has to be followed up. So
(22:31):
why were low risk rural areas getting more money than
they ask and a high risk Palisades Malibu request was
repeatedly denied. Andrew Henning CalFire, Assistant Deputy director for Community
Wildfire Assistance and Fire Engineering.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Oh, how does well? What a title?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That is the longer the title, the dimmer the bulb
Assistant deputy director, He says, emphasis at each level is
placed on projects and activities that address hazards that reduce
potential risk from wildfire.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And in near communities. It doesn't tell me anything.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
In August, cal Fire refused to award three million dollars
for seven communities in the Santa Monica Mountains, including communities
in eastern Malibu and to Panga Canyon, both of which
burned quite a bit In this latest fire. Brent Woodworth
is the chairman CEO of the Los Angeles Emergency Prepared
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this foundation, they are the nonprofit that made the request
for the grant. They were going to use the money
to offer specific steps. They were going to identify specific
steps homeowners can take to reduce the risks of a
destructive fire. But CalFire said no, cal Fire was concerned
(24:01):
about the high cost of the foundation's proposal.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But what's the.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Cost now that all the homes have burned? Are they
saying two hundred and fifty billion? I mean, we give
them the more tax money than any other state, a
higher rate of taxes than any state. They spend at
a higher rate than any other state, but they cut
it from fire funding, both on the state and local level,
(24:28):
and whatever money they saved. And I don't know which,
you know, I don't know which of these programs would
work or not. But it seems that the theme of
all the news stories, almost all the news stories.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Is cut cut, cut cut.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
While the state bloated, state's budget bloated up, the LA
City's budget bloated up, and it bloated up on homeless
people and illegal aliens and.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
All the rest.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But this is the most fire prone state in the Union. Right,
it's been legendary ever since it's been settled for you know,
one hundred and fifty years plus. How many fires have
we seen? Like, like we had a guest on earlier
said ninety thirty fires in Malibu over the last ninety years.
(25:20):
So why I got a half dozen stories in front
of me. I've been reading all week this cut, that cut,
everything's cut.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's one of the greatest dangers we have.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
And they cut, and they give the money to the
crowd that starts the fires, the vagrants.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
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Speaker 1 (25:48):
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Speaker 2 (25:56):
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Speaker 1 (25:58):
The number of signature demanding the immediate resignation of Karen
Bass almost at one hundred and fifty thousand. Oh, we
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Bass in the search box. It says demand the immediate
resignation and one hundred and fifty thousand. It's the next
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rung on the ladder. So go sign that and demand it.
It's not going to cost you anything, you know. One
of the things. I don't have a whole lot of
time here at the end of the show, but it's
a story in the Orange County Register that maybe we'll
get to in greater detail tomorrow. There's a story about this,
(26:43):
this concept that municipal water systems can't handle the load
when it comes to what fired fighters need to put
out a large wildfire. That that's not the way a
city water system was designed, which may be true, which
(27:07):
is why. But you know you can't show up a
couple hours late, then yeah, there isn't enough water to
spray quickly enough when the winds are blowing hard. But
that's why showing up within minutes is so important. Now,
I think we'll find out eventually officially, unless they lie,
which they might, we'll find out that it was the
(27:29):
La Fire Department was understaffed and they did not prepare
for a Palisades fire, which they should have. Anybody who
tells you that's not high fire danger, you don't know
what you're talking about. I live very near there. Yes,
high fire danger where I live. I mean, I live
in the flats, and we moved out of the hills.
We moved out of the hills. It was in La
(27:51):
north of Beverly Hills, because part of the reason was
high fire danger.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And there's no question anybody says that is a liar.
So you have.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Since La City obviously extends into the hills, then you
must have a water system that can handle it. And
in fact, that's the second part of the story. They
might not be designed to fight wildfires, but maybe they
should be. So this goes back to what are we
spending the money on. Why don't we have a municipal
(28:21):
water system that handles big wildfires since the city is
partly in an area prone to big wildfires. It's the
cities I tell you about. You know, it's Pacific Palisades,
It's Brentwood, it's Westwood, bell Air, Beverly Hills, which is
its own thing, into West Hollywood also its own thing,
(28:46):
Hollywood Hills. But the county, the county would cover them,
I think. And then out east and then on the
northern side you have Tarzana and Cino, Sherwan Oaks, Studio City,
Woodland Hills.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
To the west.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
And again, if you add up all the money that
we spend on illegal aliens and homeless people and climate change.
If we just spent one percent of that in l
A on the fire department, we would double the budget,
double the amount of firefighters, double the amount of engines,
and uh, you know a little bit more, and we
(29:19):
could we could build a modern municipal water system to
handle the wire wildfires and and this is this is
what we have to demand in starting with next year's budget.
They got to do a massive, massive change and and
fund the fire and police like they never had before.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Conway he now, hey, now, Alex Stone is coming on
with us. We'll talk about the weather in so Cal
over the next few days. Patrick O'Neill, what are the
voices of the La Kings.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
You might know his father, Ryan O'Neil.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Uh, they just lost their home in Malibu.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh horrible, that is Yeah, he does all the like
the Angel pregame.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Shows too, Yes, Angels and uh and also the Kings
and and Sharon Belly has been texting him for two years,
Hey can you come on?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
You want to come on?
Speaker 8 (30:04):
And he kept saying I don't know really much about hockey,
and and then she thought that was odd, right, And
then he said, And then she said, how you doing
with the fires because they lost their family home and
he said, I've been living in New York for three years.
I don't know what you're talking about. Well, it turns
out she was texting the wrong Patrick O'Neill. This is
the Patrick O'Neill that owns a racehorse in Kentucky. Oh's
(30:28):
that Sharon's a sharp cookie. Every once in a while
she one gets away. Yeah, you know, every once in
a while. Other than that, man, she's as sharp as.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Like somebody named Patrick O'Neill's coming on. There's probably a
lot of Patrick O'Neill's in the world. But you know what,
but here's something weird. I ran into him in a
King game and I introduced myself.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
I said, hey, we'd love to have you on, but
Sharon said, you don't know much about hockey, and he goes, Tim,
I'm doing the Kings. I know a lot about hockey.
And then Dean Sharp is coming on. That guy's great. Well,
he's a custom home designer. You know who's the show
home every Saturday and Sunday, and we're going to talk
more about prepping your house and getting your house back
(31:07):
up on its feet, So what's going on all right?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
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hour CAFI Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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