January 16, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/16) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about the fires and winds in the LA area. John and many other people just want answers and they don't seem to be getting them. Newsom is a "born again crime fighter."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Let me tell you
you need to take a deep breath. I know you
really do you know what's coming.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I have never seen John ever this angry and agitated
in all the years I have worked with him.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Because I'm pretty mellow off the air, right you are.
I channel all my rage on the air. That's why
I don't have to go to a psychiatrist. I don't
have to take any medication. I do the show. I
feel better, and everybody around me is much happier. As
long as I'm working, I will tell you lots of
things that we're dealing with in the inverted universe of
Los Angeles. But first I want to get Alex Stone
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on from ABC News because while it seems like the
threat is subsiding now, there's more wins possibly coming next week.
Wait wait, wait, you're mellow off the air. I am mellow.
See I don't see you much off the air. I'm
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very relaxed. This It's true.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, seriously, he is. He is very mellow. He told
me a story he's going to tell on the air later.
And I mean I said, whoa, whoa, whoa. I mean
he was screaming like a crazy person telling me the story.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh, I can't wait to hear it like a crazy person.
Not a crazy person. I would like one. Yeah. So
with the winds, there was a period this week where
we thought rain might be coming tomorrow, and now that's
that's not going to happen. But maybe a little bit
drizzle with the more of the marine layer coming in
and more moisture in the air, and give a little
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bit of a break for at least a couple of days.
And some of the firefighters who have been on the
front lines, the original group for nine days straight, now
they should be getting a couple of days off this
weekend and then right back to it next week. In
the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I've been
on the Palisades Fire and the Eating fire. They both
look really good right now. No active burning. We haven't
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real active burning since about Saturday on both of them.
But then on Monday red flag fire warnings could be
coming back. The Santa Ana winds are going to make
a return again. All next week could be Santa Ana
wind events, two different ones, one maybe later in the
week that could be stronger than earlier in the week
and to day, LAFD Chief Crowley saying, there are.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
More extreme winds on the horizons, like I said, next week,
and our community needs to remain ready.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So she's saying that the firefighters are going to keep
the staffing up, They're going to keep going, hopefully with
a little bit of a break over the weekend. And
then even without the rain, everything is so dry. But
then you've got this home in Pacific Palisades that was
ripped apart by a landslide today and they don't really
know why, but they think it was probably water that
they got into the soil, either from all the firefighting
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or broken water lines. They're trying to figure that out.
So it's a mudslide even without the rain. And that
home had survived the fire, seemed like it was doing okay,
and then now it's destroyed because it's broken in half.
Are you serious? I hadn't heard this. Yeah, So that
family's going to have to deal with that. And then, yeah,
and that's one of the concerns, you know, the people
going back in that if this family had gone back
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into their home and then it broke in half because
the hill gave way, and there are so many just
being in the fire zone, I can tell you so
many down power lines or nails everywhere, piles of burned
power poles, just stuff everywhere, and the evacuees. The La
County Fire Chief Maroni said today it could be a
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week or longer before evacuees are allowed to go in
and get back into the homes it survived and see
the areas it didn't survive. And we talked to Deputy
Mike Looom, a good friend of KFI. He loves KFI.
LA Sheriff's deputy runs the reserve program and he's on
the search and rescue team in the area around Alta Dina,
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and Mike was telling us today it's still pretty bad
all around the evacuated areas. We have open gas lines,
we have exposed water lines, and so they're evaluating each
property to determine if it's safe to enter. Yeah, So
it's still a mess in the areas because a lot
of people john are at the roadblock saying let us in.
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We don't see any active fire, and they're saying yeah,
but they've only searched a portion of the buildings for
human remains. We saw them yesterday on the beachfront homes
in Malibu as they came up to us and they
had their rakes and they were going through and looking
for human remains that were in those homes, and it
was quiet, it was solemn. It was a search and
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rescue team out of Menlo Park in northern California, and
they didn't find any of the homes that were around us,
but they're going through and looking right now. You know,
I live in the area. People are very angry, yeah,
for over a lot of issues. They're very frustrated, and
one of the things they're frustrated about is a lack
of information, a lack of because they have those dog
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and pony press conferences where the mayor and the police
chief and the fire choice yeah right, and they talk
in their platitudes and the cliches and the government gas.
What they're not. No one's getting is specifics and some
like one on one treatment. Here it's just people pontificating
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at a podium and it's not cutting it with most people.
There's a tremendous amount of anger and just a lack
of a lack of being forthcoming and honest with detail.
Not that we're working hard on the problem. And I'll
talk about my situation in a few minutes, which I
think perfectly encapsulated on a much, much less serious level.
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But I want to talk about it because I want
people are who are seriously in serious trouble because they
lost their homes. What you're in for with the city
and with the infrastructure, because I have a relatively minor
issue compared to what they have, and it is incredibly,
excruciatingly frustrating to deal with the government, to deal with
people in these bureaucracies and agencies, and there's just a
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lack of information and lack of honesty. Yeah, well, I
can imagine it's got to be frustrating. And you know,
when you drive into these areas, it will shock you
what it looks like, especially in Altadena where when you
go in and it's just neighborhood after neighborhood completely obliterated.
When you go into the Pacific Palisades area, same thing
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once you go up into Pacific Palisades. But if you
drive along PCH the beachfront homes, they many of them
are gone. Some did survive, but many of them are gone.
But it is right now. Just it was bumper to
bumper yesterday with just fire engines coming and going. There
are so many firefighters here right now from we saw
them from towns that you had never heard of, in
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Texas and in Colorado and in Oregon where it was
a traffic jam just of fire engines coming and going
off of the line. And then you've got lanes that
are shut down because power crews are cleaning up the
power poles and all of the down lined lines are
everywhere it is. It's still a mess, I know, it
seems like that, you know, they're just spewing all this
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stuff out. If it's not safe in there that you know,
people are gonna take care of themselves. They would probably
be fine, but it would be a madhouse with the
pch down to one lane because there's so much garbage,
not actual garbage, but burned stuff on the side of
the road, and with power lines and power poles still
down in the way. But kudos to the linemen who
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are in there. They're working I believe, twelve hour sixteen
hour shifts and they are chewing up those power poles
and putting them in giant dumpsters and picking up all
these heavy power lines that are everywhere. They're getting that
stuff cleaned up, but it's going to take a while.
And there are fire engines parked everywhere, still pulling out hoses,
putting out hotspots in some of the homes are still
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flaring up from time to time, so they're still doing
quite a bit. Well. The picture you're painting is very
useful if there's anyone listening who wants to know what's
going on, how much work is being done, and what
the delays are about. See and that's what we're looking
for from the public officials to explain things the way
you're explaining them. So we could imagine that these these
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guys are working sixteen hours a day and dealing with
all the firefighters, fireflowers down, it's yeah, and they don't
know why they can't go see their homes. They don't
understand about the power lines being down. And a good
example is yesterday on PCH there was a home that
we were out in front of and Kern County Fire
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pulled up, pulled out their hoses because it had lit
up again and so there's still fire. In fact, they
were what they were going to do with a bunch
of the homes along the PCH. They were bringing in
a heavy duty crane because those homes all collapsed on
all the layers collapsed, So they were going to pull
in that crane to pull the roof off of the
ground level and then pull the upper level off of
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the bottom line to cool it down. There's still so
much heat in those levels and still fire in there
that they want to let them breathe and be able
to hose them down. So yeah, yeah, there's just different
stuff going on. But it is I keep saying, but
it is a mess. It would be tough to have.
Maybe they could escort them in somehow, which the LAPD
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tried to do and then they were overwhelmed by it.
But to just open up the barricades to all residents,
it would be mayhem in that area of traffic jams
and firefighters not being able to get around in southern California,
Edison crews not able to move that. There's just so
many crews in right now. All right, Alex, we'll talk
again soon. Thank you. Got it sounds good. Thanks to
like Stone, ABC News for KFI. I'll tell you about
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some of the nonsense that we're going through when we
come back. I'll tell you about my mental breakdown this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You're not going to scream again, are you?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I don't know. It's so enraged me if I relive
the moment, you know how you when you get PTSD,
you get traumatized and just go right back to that moment.
I'm I'm it's only like six hours since it happened. So,
but I didn't hurt anybody, Uh hurt my ears? Was
I that loud? You were very loud? I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Six forty, So I will I will tell you what
we're dealing with when it comes to the bureaucracy, with
our power being out and with the rampant looting still
going on in the neighborhood that nobody, uh from the
police department seems interested in. But I got to tell you,
it's been a stressful week because we have no power,
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it's been very cold in the house, and there was
a crazy looting going on. There were four homes on
our block broken into just last night. And my wife
doesn't want to leave because she does not want to
give in to the looters. So I come home and
we sit in the dark and have dinner and then
we go upstairs and sit in the dark, and well,
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it's it's you can't take it anymore, right, you know
my birds it's down to fifty eight degrees. I don't
know how much the birds can take and there's no
way I can move them.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And I know you meant to say this because you've
said it before, but you get that there are people
who lost their home, yes, and you still have your home.
And I know you're very sensitive about that, and you
have said it before, but I'm just saying it again
for you so that nobody thinks that you're insensitive.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm not trying to be a whining you know, entitled
west side. I don't know what words you use.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Not having power is very stressful, but it and what
I'm upset.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
About is I just call all these numbers, and we
know some people in government obviously we call and it's
just give us an answer. Three things. What's wrong? How
long is it going to take to fix? What do
you have to do to fix it? You know, if
there's a transformer, let's say, blew up and the parts
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are on a boat coming from China for two weeks,
just tell us and then what day it's likely to
come back, because we keep thinking it's going to come back,
and the next day and the next day. How long
can this go on? And I know a lot of people,
and I'm trying to speak for all the people now
who are frustrated because they are blocked out or locked
out of their neighborhoods with this evacuation, this curfew, or
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the worst case is you've lost your homes and they're
not letting you in to see the homes and start
that process. You don't know how bad it is. You
may not know if your home still exists or not
all that stuff, right, So I'm just on the fringe here,
But it's just being on the fringe and having a
relatively minor problem is incredibly frustrating because nobody in the
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city gives you an answer. Just put looking for an answer,
even if it's an answer we don't like. Just give
me an answer and I'll tell you more about that
in a second. But so, like you said, it's true,
I'm pretty mellow off the ear, and the way I
deal with the world is it created a radio show
where I have this going on in my head all day.
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I've been like this since I was a kid, and
so I just over time, I was able to develop it,
to communicate what I saw was going wrong with the
world and turn it into a radio show that people
would listen to. But every once in a while one
it takes every few years, maybe, and it's always something
to do with either a government, a government entity, or
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maybe a customer service rep. My wife wanted me to
go to Starbucks and get her a latte, which is.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Funny enough, why I had one this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I will just me going into Starbucks and say.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Does she get oat milk with it?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
No, not Oatmelkress. I parked my car behind the Starbucks
on a street legal space parking meter, but it's before
eight am, so the parking meter is not operating yet.
I pull up, stop the car. I look to my
left and here's this short little parking enforcement agent.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You didn't tell me she was short. She was short, Okay,
don't bag on short people.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Short people have no reason to live more than anything. Well,
she's and she's got an attitude. You know, parking enforcement
agents have this terrible attitude about them, many of them,
they do, and you know they are They're kings of
the world. So she looks at me. I look at
her and she waves with her right hand just a
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little bit to move forward. And I looked at her.
I was like what. I moved forward a couple of
inches and then she's waved the hand again, moved forward,
and I rolled down the window. It's like, what are
you doing? She goes, move forwar. You're a couple of
inches in the red zone behind you. I go, is
this what you're doing? I said, why don't you go
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help put out the fires. She's not a firefighter job.
Think of there's twenty thousand people with at home. Go
go to palis Ades put out the fires. What are
you doing? And she said, I'm just trying to keep you.
I'm trying to keep you from getting a ticket from me.
But she's ready to write a ticket. She's like poised,
ready to jump. And it's like, oh, I'm not you're
going to write a ticket? And I said what what?
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She goes, what's my job? I go, well, what kind
of a job is this? What did you fail high school?
And I'm I'm bellowing, I'm waving my arms. I'm totally
out of my mind. And then I thought, oh my god,
somebody's going to pull out a phone and I'm going
to be on the internet for the next twenty five years.
Chest And now I realize I can't get out of
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the car because she's probably gonna snap my license plate
and I'll end up with cops. The cops will come
and shoot me, right, they will. You sure I'll be here?
And so I got to go to another Starbucks. I
couldn't even stay there, and I was so angry, so crazy,
so much adrenaline that I took me a half hour.
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I didn't even want to go home because my wife
would see it, like I'm all upset, and I didn't
want to tell her the story. Like at that moment,
I just didn't want to get into it. I just
keep it to myself. And I admit that's probably the
angriest I've ever been. I never blow up like that
at home. I don't blow up like that at the station.
I just this. She just personified everything that's wrong with
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government and bureaucracy to me.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And can I just say that you tempered this so
much on the air, because when he was telling me
the story off the air, he was screaming, screaming, So
you've had a chance to calm down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So that's good. Look, you're on edge.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You've probably hardly had any sleep, and right, I mean
you not have sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Oh, I was up at four in the morning. I
can't I get up. I only sleep in and I'm
having terrible dreams too. Yeah, because we're like under, We're
like under a real threat, you know, first the threat
of the fire, then the threat of the looters, and
then the lack of power. And it's freezing cold, and
I'm constantly checking the birds and checking the cat and
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the dog, waiting to find them stiff as a board.
And then the frustration of making all these phone calls
to all these cocamaby agencies like the DWP.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Although I do have a positive DWP story, I'll tell
you about later, all right, because we do need some
positive I guess there should be balance, right, ye, all right?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
This just in. Governor Gavin Newsom is calling for looting
in fire evacuation zones to be treated as a felony.
Yesterday we had Todd Spitzer on the Orange County DA.
He and Nathan Hawkman in the La County DA is
demanding that the legislature make looting an absolute felony right now,
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it's what they call a wobbler. It's up to a
local prosecutor and then a judge to decide whether it
wobbles to the left and becomes a misdemeanor which is
a relatively light sentence no more than six months in
a county jail, or a felony and make it part
of the three strikes calculation. And you know what happens.
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You give certain prosecutors, like a gascon or a lot
of these left wing judges a choice. These all become wobblers,
These all become misdemeanors, are not felonies. Well, Newsom is
now agreeing that at least in fire evacuation zones, it
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should be a hold on. I'm getting another fire warning.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's a bunch of evacuation orders have been Did I
got it to?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Okay? All right, it's good news. Yes, I hear that.
I hear that sound from the watch Duty app and
you know your tense up and it's like which way
should I run? So so Newsom now has become a
born again crime fighter, This slippery, oily psychopath praying on
people at their most vulnerable is despicable. These criminals are
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among the worst kinds. This is a guy who fought
tooth and nail to try to defeat Prop thirty six,
to defeat the repeal of Prop forty seven. He never
had a bad word to say about forty seven, And
when Prop thirty six was going to get on the ballot,
he pulled all kinds of tricks. They all failed, and
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now all of a sudden, praying on people at their
most vulnerable is despicable. Looting has never been legal here,
Yes it has. Looting has been legal. Can you imagine
that he actually can say looting has never been legal here?
Prop forty seven in practical in effect made it legal.
And he knows this. It will not be tolerated. And
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that's why I've tasked support from Cowguard and CHP to
protect residents and their property. All right, nice, nice theater
from Newsom there. Performative theater is all that is. Let
me go back to what's going on in my neighborhood.
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And it's going on a lot of people's neighborhoods. So
we don't have power, and so it's really cold, and
it's obviously really dark, and my wife and I don't
want to leave the house because we don't want the
leaders to come and take stuff. And we have pets,
birds can't be moved. And we keep figuring this will
be over in a day, but it's not. And we
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call up all the phone numbers, the DWP, you name it.
Let me tell you everybody who answers the phone in government,
everyone so far is of oh help. Everybody says, well,
that's the other agency. DWP says, well, you got to
call the fire department. Fire department says called DWP. Fire
department says, call LAPD because they're putting up the blockades.
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Round and round and rounded goes why why do people
do that? Do you have a manual, one page manual
that says, when someone calls and complaints here at DWP,
blame the fire department. You call the fire department, blame
the police department. Is that your instructions? Just say so,
let us know what because nobody's in charge, everyone's covering
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their ass. Now, from what I understand through my sources,
I told you the three things. I want to know.
What's broken? How long is it going to take to fix? Like?
What do you need to fix it? Are we waiting
on parts. Is there a lack of personnel? Can you
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contract it out? And then when's it going to be done?
Just tell us the truth, because if you tell me
it's twenty four hours of a blackout, we have Plan A.
If it's gonna be two weeks, we've got Plan B.
It's two completely different directions. I don't think it's I
think with all the press conferences, you should explain this
or tell the council people, or you know, tell us
what website to read. Why don't you do that? Why
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aren't you Why don't you act like normal people? How
come people in government don't act like normal people and
just get the answer whatever it is. We're adults, we
can take bad news. Instead, they stonewall, they dither. From
what I understand, cal Fire will uh will not let
the work get underway. CalFire meets with LA Fire Department,
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and they meet with the d WP, they meet with
the police, and they have a committee of committees. And
you know what happened with a committee With a committee
of committees, nobody makes a decision. Everybody covers their ass
and everybody blames it on someone else. So every time
you call, they blame it on somebody else and give
you another number. What how do you get this to stop?
What do we have to do to get people in?
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People know this if you ever try to get a permit.
I remember a few years ago we had these eucalyptus
trees in the backyard that started not our backyard, but
the backyard behind us and catty quarter to us, and
they started coming down during one of the floods. We
had to get the trees on someone else's property chopped
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down for safety reasons. Good luck getting all the departments
to tell you the truth as to whether that can
be done and who's responsible for it, and who do
you have to call? Again? Everybody says, well, you go here,
you go there, you call this, you call that, you
can't do this, and it's infuriating, it's absolutely And you all,
you people in government, right, you wonder iers, complain about
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government people because it's true. You're all a bunch of
e f ups. You're liars, you're lazy, you don't tell
people the truth, you don't get things done. And now
you know we're dealing with we're dealing with again. This
is different from the firefighters fighting the fire. I'm talking
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about the bureaucrats. I'm talking about the people the titles.
I'm talking about the people of the offices, who set
the policies, who show up at these press conferences. Why
do you have to make so like this isn't tough
enough on everyone? Why didn't she explain to people trying
to get to see their homes in the Pacific Palisades,
do what Alex Stone did last half hour. Just talk
about all the downpower lines. Point out that the house
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that collapsed from the landslide. This is why we don't
want to let you in anywhere, because these homes are
not stable. They could collapse because the water undermined the foundation.
Talk about that. But why can't LAPD get in these
neighborhoods and take care of the looters? Why why repeated
phone calls begging what do you want? You want to bribe?
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What do you want? You want a firstborn child? You
want my dog? What is it going to take on
behalf of all the other people in my neighborhood, on
my side of town? What does it get What does
it take to get l APD cars in the neighborhoods
and chase the looters away and shoot to kill I
talked to a whole lot of neighbors and friends, and
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it was unanimous. Shoot to kill ought to be the
policy by the police. Please don't do this on your own.
Obviously you can't do that. That's a joke. But but
that's how people are feeling. There's gonna be a political
earthquake here. Bass should have packed already. I can find
nobody defending Bass. I think the only people defending them
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are internet trolls. I don't think anybody sincereally wants Karen
Bass to be the bear anymore. Okay, I see these headlines.
Is she the most hated mayor in America? Everyone hates
Karen Bass and l like, yes, that's true. Everybody does that.
That picture that that minute and a half where she
was stonewalling the report order from Sky News, that's going
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to live in infamy. The photo of her standing with
the UH, with the diplomats from Ghana or the president
of Ghana, that's going to live in infamy. She has
no business still being the mayor. Everybody believes that if
we could do like an instant recall, an instant firing UH,
it would be overwhelming against her. And there's something wrong
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with our system that when someone is this is a
dereliction of duty. Okay, this is like a captain jumping
off the ship right before the ship hits an iceberg
and everybody dies. All right, they'll find that captain, they'll
fish him out of the water, and he's going to
prison for the rest of his life. And we did
have people die in this fire. And there's no excuse.
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I don't want to hear the spin. And please save
your your your racial rantings and ravings. It's garbage and nonsense.
And the same thing would newsome too. I mean, enough
is enough? What you you know? The thing is, I've
heard people say, if there's a burglary, you call LAPD,
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they won't show up, or they won't show up for
an hour, or they tell you to do it online.
Let me tell you something. You could have hundreds of
people calling LAPD in one section of town and they're
still not showing up. And you know, we got a
new new police chief, Jim McDonald, and well, obviously tough times,
but hey, you got to come through here. Everybody's got
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to come through. You know what calls me, We pay
for this. They all are supposed to be working for us.
People on that side of town pay tremendous amounts of
tax money. And I can tell you I have a
number of neighbor's, number of friends absolutely done. They're moving.
They're selling their house and moving. As soon as this
is over a lot of people, You're gonna lose a
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lot of tax revenue. Maybe you could turn it all
the all these blocks into homeless shelters. Maybe that was
the whole idea. Maybe that's the whole Marxist socialist idea
is just destroy the wealthier neighborhoods, make everybody move out,
and replace it with housing for illegal aliens and homeless
people and criminals. I mean, if that was the plan,
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working perfectly, isn't it. If that wasn't the plan, I mean,
what would you do differently if you wanted to destroy
the richest part of town and replace it with housing
for illegal aliens and homeless people and criminals. What would
you do differently? You cut the fire department to nothing,
defund the police. Once you get rid of the fire
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department and the police department, not clear sailing. Eventually the
bad guys take over and they win.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six fort.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Debora and I were just talking off the air that
this Pallisates fire and the fire now to Dina are
both the extremely severe worst case scenarios, but they are
limited to those two geographic areas.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
So what happens when the big one hits right?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
The San Andreas fault goes and we get a seven
eight nine earthquake and the entire city, entire county is ravaged,
not just one enclave like the Palisades or one smallish
town in the hills. What what if the entire region
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gets rocked by an earthquake and you have tens of
thousands of buildings and hundreds or thousands of people dead.
This crew is gonna show up Bass and Newsom. You
know they have. I know now that when they give
us rhetoric, and I'm going to talk a lot about rhetoric,
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somebody in the California globe rot a great peace on this.
All this rhetoric is nonsense. They don't have plans, they
don't have a program to implement to help mitigate the damage.
Everybody's on their own. Now, that's the first time in
life I felt like I am completely on my own.
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It's really scary thing. There's nobody to rely on. I mean,
most of my neighbors have left the ones that are
and got their homes looted. Say, that's the thing. That's
why I'm glad we stayed in the house, because I
think we've created just enough of an atmosphere like, hey,
there's people in here, and you don't know what's going
to happen. But four other families on very close to
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us looted last night. Police woen show up. We know
the fire didn't show up. Firemen didn't show up in time.
In the Palisades. We know Karen bass is in Africa.
Newsom's got his head up his ass pretending, you know,
lying to people on the phone with Joe Biden. This
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is what we're dealing with, clowns, lunatics. So what are
we supposed to do. Some people are starting to arm themselves.
There's a whole thing in the Wall Street Journal. I
got to get to that too. People in out the
DNA and Palisades arming themselves. They are running through the hillsides,
sneaking down alleyways to avoid the police checkpoints to go
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see their house. And everybody says the same things like
I don't care anymore. I kept reading this in the story.
I don't care anymore. So what happens when an earthquake
hits and instantly we're all gonna know. Now nobody from
the city, county, or state is going to come and
help us. And when the water lines are broke and
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the gas lines are broke, the electricity is out. The criminals,
I mean two criminals already have been detained who are
legal aliens. They let in millions of illegal aliens and
they joined the brigade of homegrown looters. It's like, great,
this is that's you know, it's federal government failing. The
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state government has failed. They have taken and I'm going
to go through this as well, many many, many billions
of dollars and spent it on so much unbelievable nonsense.
And they didn't fund the fire department and they don't
fund the police department here in LA and every jackass
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voter busy scrolling their TikTok doesn't even know it. Nobody
even is aware that the fire department is half staffed,
half funded. Do you know we have one hundred fire
engines in the shop, one hundred of them, no mechanics
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to fix them. It's fire season and Karen Bass and
the LA City Council. Half of them are criminals, half
of them are clowns, idiots, and they literally are criminals.
Half of no funding for the fire department just to
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hire mechanics to fix the engines. Somehow that was zeroed out.
That was crossed out. What you want mechanics to fix
fire engines to fight fires? No, here's some more homeless
money to those criminal nonprofits. Just keep scrolling, keep texting, scrolling,
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you know, Instagram, scroll away, social media. Everyone's mesmerized by
the screen, and nobody knows now that there was absolutely
no plan to protect us or to respond to the
greatest natural disaster to hit Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Is there a plan when the big earthquake hits? I mean,
if there wasn't a plan for this, do we have
a plan for when the earthquakes?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
What do you think if this was a dress rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I mean really that's terrifying. Yeah, and you would think
that this would be a wake up call and that
there will be a plan actually before the big earthquake
the summer. Can you imagine if we just get very
little rain, we're gonna have the Santa Anna's in the
dry conditions and the heat this summer.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah yeah, and when the fires hit again and the
earthquakes hit again after we're not allowed to buy gas
powered cars anymore, we're all going to jump into our
electric cars and oh we're out of juice. Oh we're
stuck in traffic for six hours, and our batteries are dying.
What kind of a hell? What kind of a hell
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hold they created for us? We can't pour gasoline into
our cars to get out of the fires and the earthquakes.
I mean, you know what, you know what I hope
dies in that fire. You know what I hope died
in that fire is progressive politics. I hope progressive politics
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died in that Palisades fire, the out the din of fire,
and all the rest. If we go one more day
under progressive politics, we're gonna end up like the victims
of these fires. We're just gonna end up dead, charge
beyond recognition. That's what progressive politics does. It kills you.
It destroys your home, it destroys your community. Like I said,
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I got friends they're moving out, neighbors they're moving out.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'm trying to figure out where to move John. Sorry
to say I might be leaving you.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
My wife wants to move, my best friend's out here.
All want to move, but that's what you did to
the community. And they're all serious. This isn't threats. They
can pack up and go anytime they want and sell
their house and make a good profit on it. Debora
Mark Live the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You can
always hear the show live on KFI Am six forty
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from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and
of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Let me tell you
you need to take a deep breath. I know you
really do you know what's coming.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I have never seen John ever this angry and agitated
in all the years I have worked with him.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Because I'm pretty mellow off the air, right you are.
I channel all my rage on the air. That's why
I don't have to go to a psychiatrist. I don't
have to take any medication. I do the show. I
feel better, and everybody around me is much happier. As
long as I'm working, I will tell you lots of
things that we're dealing with in the inverted universe of
Los Angeles. But first I want to get Alex Stone
(00:43):
on from ABC News because while it seems like the
threat is subsiding now, there's more wins possibly coming next week.
Wait wait, wait, you're mellow off the air. I am mellow.
See I don't see you much off the air. I'm
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very relaxed. This It's true.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, seriously, he is. He is very mellow. He told
me a story he's going to tell on the air later.
And I mean I said, whoa, whoa, whoa. I mean
he was screaming like a crazy person telling me the story.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh, I can't wait to hear it like a crazy person.
Not a crazy person. I would like one. Yeah. So
with the winds, there was a period this week where
we thought rain might be coming tomorrow, and now that's
that's not going to happen. But maybe a little bit
drizzle with the more of the marine layer coming in
and more moisture in the air, and give a little
(01:39):
bit of a break for at least a couple of days.
And some of the firefighters who have been on the
front lines, the original group for nine days straight, now
they should be getting a couple of days off this
weekend and then right back to it next week. In
the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I've been
on the Palisades Fire and the Eating fire. They both
look really good right now. No active burning. We haven't
(02:00):
real active burning since about Saturday on both of them.
But then on Monday red flag fire warnings could be
coming back. The Santa Ana winds are going to make
a return again. All next week could be Santa Ana
wind events, two different ones, one maybe later in the
week that could be stronger than earlier in the week
and to day, LAFD Chief Crowley saying, there are.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
More extreme winds on the horizons, like I said, next week,
and our community needs to remain ready.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So she's saying that the firefighters are going to keep
the staffing up, They're going to keep going, hopefully with
a little bit of a break over the weekend. And
then even without the rain, everything is so dry. But
then you've got this home in Pacific Palisades that was
ripped apart by a landslide today and they don't really
know why, but they think it was probably water that
they got into the soil, either from all the firefighting
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or broken water lines. They're trying to figure that out.
So it's a mudslide even without the rain. And that
home had survived the fire, seemed like it was doing okay,
and then now it's destroyed because it's broken in half.
Are you serious? I hadn't heard this. Yeah, So that
family's going to have to deal with that. And then, yeah,
and that's one of the concerns, you know, the people
going back in that if this family had gone back
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into their home and then it broke in half because
the hill gave way, and there are so many just
being in the fire zone, I can tell you so
many down power lines or nails everywhere, piles of burned
power poles, just stuff everywhere, and the evacuees. The La
County Fire Chief Maroni said today it could be a
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week or longer before evacuees are allowed to go in
and get back into the homes it survived and see
the areas it didn't survive. And we talked to Deputy
Mike Looom, a good friend of KFI. He loves KFI.
LA Sheriff's deputy runs the reserve program and he's on
the search and rescue team in the area around Alta Dina,
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and Mike was telling us today it's still pretty bad
all around the evacuated areas. We have open gas lines,
we have exposed water lines, and so they're evaluating each
property to determine if it's safe to enter. Yeah, So
it's still a mess in the areas because a lot
of people john are at the roadblock saying let us in.
(04:18):
We don't see any active fire, and they're saying yeah,
but they've only searched a portion of the buildings for
human remains. We saw them yesterday on the beachfront homes
in Malibu as they came up to us and they
had their rakes and they were going through and looking
for human remains that were in those homes, and it
was quiet, it was solemn. It was a search and
(04:39):
rescue team out of Menlo Park in northern California, and
they didn't find any of the homes that were around us,
but they're going through and looking right now. You know,
I live in the area. People are very angry, yeah,
for over a lot of issues. They're very frustrated, and
one of the things they're frustrated about is a lack
of information, a lack of because they have those dog
(05:01):
and pony press conferences where the mayor and the police
chief and the fire choice yeah right, and they talk
in their platitudes and the cliches and the government gas.
What they're not. No one's getting is specifics and some
like one on one treatment. Here it's just people pontificating
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at a podium and it's not cutting it with most people.
There's a tremendous amount of anger and just a lack
of a lack of being forthcoming and honest with detail.
Not that we're working hard on the problem. And I'll
talk about my situation in a few minutes, which I
think perfectly encapsulated on a much, much less serious level.
(05:42):
But I want to talk about it because I want
people are who are seriously in serious trouble because they
lost their homes. What you're in for with the city
and with the infrastructure, because I have a relatively minor
issue compared to what they have, and it is incredibly,
excruciatingly frustrating to deal with the government, to deal with
people in these bureaucracies and agencies, and there's just a
(06:05):
lack of information and lack of honesty. Yeah, well, I
can imagine it's got to be frustrating. And you know,
when you drive into these areas, it will shock you
what it looks like, especially in Altadena where when you
go in and it's just neighborhood after neighborhood completely obliterated.
When you go into the Pacific Palisades area, same thing
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once you go up into Pacific Palisades. But if you
drive along PCH the beachfront homes, they many of them
are gone. Some did survive, but many of them are gone.
But it is right now. Just it was bumper to
bumper yesterday with just fire engines coming and going. There
are so many firefighters here right now from we saw
them from towns that you had never heard of, in
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Texas and in Colorado and in Oregon where it was
a traffic jam just of fire engines coming and going
off of the line. And then you've got lanes that
are shut down because power crews are cleaning up the
power poles and all of the down lined lines are
everywhere it is. It's still a mess, I know, it
seems like that, you know, they're just spewing all this
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stuff out. If it's not safe in there that you know,
people are gonna take care of themselves. They would probably
be fine, but it would be a madhouse with the
pch down to one lane because there's so much garbage,
not actual garbage, but burned stuff on the side of
the road, and with power lines and power poles still
down in the way. But kudos to the linemen who
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are in there. They're working I believe, twelve hour sixteen
hour shifts and they are chewing up those power poles
and putting them in giant dumpsters and picking up all
these heavy power lines that are everywhere. They're getting that
stuff cleaned up, but it's going to take a while.
And there are fire engines parked everywhere, still pulling out hoses,
putting out hotspots in some of the homes are still
(07:55):
flaring up from time to time, so they're still doing
quite a bit. Well. The picture you're painting is very
useful if there's anyone listening who wants to know what's
going on, how much work is being done, and what
the delays are about. See and that's what we're looking
for from the public officials to explain things the way
you're explaining them. So we could imagine that these these
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guys are working sixteen hours a day and dealing with
all the firefighters, fireflowers down, it's yeah, and they don't
know why they can't go see their homes. They don't
understand about the power lines being down. And a good
example is yesterday on PCH there was a home that
we were out in front of and Kern County Fire
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pulled up, pulled out their hoses because it had lit
up again and so there's still fire. In fact, they
were what they were going to do with a bunch
of the homes along the PCH. They were bringing in
a heavy duty crane because those homes all collapsed on
all the layers collapsed, So they were going to pull
in that crane to pull the roof off of the
ground level and then pull the upper level off of
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the bottom line to cool it down. There's still so
much heat in those levels and still fire in there
that they want to let them breathe and be able
to hose them down. So yeah, yeah, there's just different
stuff going on. But it is I keep saying, but
it is a mess. It would be tough to have.
Maybe they could escort them in somehow, which the LAPD
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tried to do and then they were overwhelmed by it.
But to just open up the barricades to all residents,
it would be mayhem in that area of traffic jams
and firefighters not being able to get around in southern California,
Edison crews not able to move that. There's just so
many crews in right now. All right, Alex, we'll talk
again soon. Thank you. Got it sounds good. Thanks to
like Stone, ABC News for KFI. I'll tell you about
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some of the nonsense that we're going through when we
come back. I'll tell you about my mental breakdown this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You're not going to scream again, are you?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I don't know. It's so enraged me if I relive
the moment, you know how you when you get PTSD,
you get traumatized and just go right back to that moment.
I'm I'm it's only like six hours since it happened. So,
but I didn't hurt anybody, Uh hurt my ears? Was
I that loud? You were very loud? I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Six forty, So I will I will tell you what
we're dealing with when it comes to the bureaucracy, with
our power being out and with the rampant looting still
going on in the neighborhood that nobody, uh from the
police department seems interested in. But I got to tell you,
it's been a stressful week because we have no power,
(10:40):
it's been very cold in the house, and there was
a crazy looting going on. There were four homes on
our block broken into just last night. And my wife
doesn't want to leave because she does not want to
give in to the looters. So I come home and
we sit in the dark and have dinner and then
we go upstairs and sit in the dark, and well,
(11:04):
it's it's you can't take it anymore, right, you know
my birds it's down to fifty eight degrees. I don't
know how much the birds can take and there's no
way I can move them.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And I know you meant to say this because you've
said it before, but you get that there are people
who lost their home, yes, and you still have your home.
And I know you're very sensitive about that, and you
have said it before, but I'm just saying it again
for you so that nobody thinks that you're insensitive.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm not trying to be a whining you know, entitled
west side. I don't know what words you use.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Not having power is very stressful, but it and what
I'm upset.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
About is I just call all these numbers, and we
know some people in government obviously we call and it's
just give us an answer. Three things. What's wrong? How
long is it going to take to fix? What do
you have to do to fix it? You know, if
there's a transformer, let's say, blew up and the parts
(12:04):
are on a boat coming from China for two weeks,
just tell us and then what day it's likely to
come back, because we keep thinking it's going to come back,
and the next day and the next day. How long
can this go on? And I know a lot of people,
and I'm trying to speak for all the people now
who are frustrated because they are blocked out or locked
out of their neighborhoods with this evacuation, this curfew, or
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the worst case is you've lost your homes and they're
not letting you in to see the homes and start
that process. You don't know how bad it is. You
may not know if your home still exists or not
all that stuff, right, So I'm just on the fringe here,
But it's just being on the fringe and having a
relatively minor problem is incredibly frustrating because nobody in the
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city gives you an answer. Just put looking for an answer,
even if it's an answer we don't like. Just give
me an answer and I'll tell you more about that
in a second. But so, like you said, it's true,
I'm pretty mellow off the ear, and the way I
deal with the world is it created a radio show
where I have this going on in my head all day.
(13:13):
I've been like this since I was a kid, and
so I just over time, I was able to develop it,
to communicate what I saw was going wrong with the
world and turn it into a radio show that people
would listen to. But every once in a while one
it takes every few years, maybe, and it's always something
to do with either a government, a government entity, or
(13:38):
maybe a customer service rep. My wife wanted me to
go to Starbucks and get her a latte, which is.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Funny enough, why I had one this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I will just me going into Starbucks and say.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Does she get oat milk with it?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
No, not Oatmelkress. I parked my car behind the Starbucks
on a street legal space parking meter, but it's before
eight am, so the parking meter is not operating yet.
I pull up, stop the car. I look to my
left and here's this short little parking enforcement agent.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You didn't tell me she was short. She was short, Okay,
don't bag on short people.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Short people have no reason to live more than anything. Well,
she's and she's got an attitude. You know, parking enforcement
agents have this terrible attitude about them, many of them,
they do, and you know they are They're kings of
the world. So she looks at me. I look at
her and she waves with her right hand just a
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little bit to move forward. And I looked at her.
I was like what. I moved forward a couple of
inches and then she's waved the hand again, moved forward,
and I rolled down the window. It's like, what are
you doing? She goes, move forwar. You're a couple of
inches in the red zone behind you. I go, is
this what you're doing? I said, why don't you go
(15:08):
help put out the fires. She's not a firefighter job.
Think of there's twenty thousand people with at home. Go
go to palis Ades put out the fires. What are
you doing? And she said, I'm just trying to keep you.
I'm trying to keep you from getting a ticket from me.
But she's ready to write a ticket. She's like poised,
ready to jump. And it's like, oh, I'm not you're
going to write a ticket? And I said what what?
(15:30):
She goes, what's my job? I go, well, what kind
of a job is this? What did you fail high school?
And I'm I'm bellowing, I'm waving my arms. I'm totally
out of my mind. And then I thought, oh my god,
somebody's going to pull out a phone and I'm going
to be on the internet for the next twenty five years.
Chest And now I realize I can't get out of
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the car because she's probably gonna snap my license plate
and I'll end up with cops. The cops will come
and shoot me, right, they will. You sure I'll be here?
And so I got to go to another Starbucks. I
couldn't even stay there, and I was so angry, so crazy,
so much adrenaline that I took me a half hour.
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I didn't even want to go home because my wife
would see it, like I'm all upset, and I didn't
want to tell her the story. Like at that moment,
I just didn't want to get into it. I just
keep it to myself. And I admit that's probably the
angriest I've ever been. I never blow up like that
at home. I don't blow up like that at the station.
I just this. She just personified everything that's wrong with
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government and bureaucracy to me.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And can I just say that you tempered this so
much on the air, because when he was telling me
the story off the air, he was screaming, screaming, So
you've had a chance to calm down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So that's good. Look, you're on edge.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You've probably hardly had any sleep, and right, I mean
you not have sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Oh, I was up at four in the morning. I
can't I get up. I only sleep in and I'm
having terrible dreams too. Yeah, because we're like under, We're
like under a real threat, you know, first the threat
of the fire, then the threat of the looters, and
then the lack of power. And it's freezing cold, and
I'm constantly checking the birds and checking the cat and
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the dog, waiting to find them stiff as a board.
And then the frustration of making all these phone calls
to all these cocamaby agencies like the DWP.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Although I do have a positive DWP story, I'll tell
you about later, all right, because we do need some
positive I guess there should be balance, right, ye, all right?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
This just in. Governor Gavin Newsom is calling for looting
in fire evacuation zones to be treated as a felony.
Yesterday we had Todd Spitzer on the Orange County DA.
He and Nathan Hawkman in the La County DA is
demanding that the legislature make looting an absolute felony right now,
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it's what they call a wobbler. It's up to a
local prosecutor and then a judge to decide whether it
wobbles to the left and becomes a misdemeanor which is
a relatively light sentence no more than six months in
a county jail, or a felony and make it part
of the three strikes calculation. And you know what happens.
(18:31):
You give certain prosecutors, like a gascon or a lot
of these left wing judges a choice. These all become wobblers,
These all become misdemeanors, are not felonies. Well, Newsom is
now agreeing that at least in fire evacuation zones, it
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should be a hold on. I'm getting another fire warning.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It's a bunch of evacuation orders have been Did I
got it to?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Okay? All right, it's good news. Yes, I hear that.
I hear that sound from the watch Duty app and
you know your tense up and it's like which way
should I run? So so Newsom now has become a
born again crime fighter, This slippery, oily psychopath praying on
people at their most vulnerable is despicable. These criminals are
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among the worst kinds. This is a guy who fought
tooth and nail to try to defeat Prop thirty six,
to defeat the repeal of Prop forty seven. He never
had a bad word to say about forty seven, And
when Prop thirty six was going to get on the ballot,
he pulled all kinds of tricks. They all failed, and
(19:43):
now all of a sudden, praying on people at their
most vulnerable is despicable. Looting has never been legal here,
Yes it has. Looting has been legal. Can you imagine
that he actually can say looting has never been legal here?
Prop forty seven in practical in effect made it legal.
And he knows this. It will not be tolerated. And
(20:06):
that's why I've tasked support from Cowguard and CHP to
protect residents and their property. All right, nice, nice theater
from Newsom there. Performative theater is all that is. Let
me go back to what's going on in my neighborhood.
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And it's going on a lot of people's neighborhoods. So
we don't have power, and so it's really cold, and
it's obviously really dark, and my wife and I don't
want to leave the house because we don't want the
leaders to come and take stuff. And we have pets,
birds can't be moved. And we keep figuring this will
be over in a day, but it's not. And we
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call up all the phone numbers, the DWP, you name it.
Let me tell you everybody who answers the phone in government,
everyone so far is of oh help. Everybody says, well,
that's the other agency. DWP says, well, you got to
call the fire department. Fire department says called DWP. Fire
department says, call LAPD because they're putting up the blockades.
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Round and round and rounded goes why why do people
do that? Do you have a manual, one page manual
that says, when someone calls and complaints here at DWP,
blame the fire department. You call the fire department, blame
the police department. Is that your instructions? Just say so,
let us know what because nobody's in charge, everyone's covering
(21:33):
their ass. Now, from what I understand through my sources,
I told you the three things. I want to know.
What's broken? How long is it going to take to fix? Like?
What do you need to fix it? Are we waiting
on parts. Is there a lack of personnel? Can you
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contract it out? And then when's it going to be done?
Just tell us the truth, because if you tell me
it's twenty four hours of a blackout, we have Plan A.
If it's gonna be two weeks, we've got Plan B.
It's two completely different directions. I don't think it's I
think with all the press conferences, you should explain this
or tell the council people, or you know, tell us
what website to read. Why don't you do that? Why
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aren't you Why don't you act like normal people? How
come people in government don't act like normal people and
just get the answer whatever it is. We're adults, we
can take bad news. Instead, they stonewall, they dither. From
what I understand, cal Fire will uh will not let
the work get underway. CalFire meets with LA Fire Department,
(22:41):
and they meet with the d WP, they meet with
the police, and they have a committee of committees. And
you know what happened with a committee With a committee
of committees, nobody makes a decision. Everybody covers their ass
and everybody blames it on someone else. So every time
you call, they blame it on somebody else and give
you another number. What how do you get this to stop?
What do we have to do to get people in?
(23:05):
People know this if you ever try to get a permit.
I remember a few years ago we had these eucalyptus
trees in the backyard that started not our backyard, but
the backyard behind us and catty quarter to us, and
they started coming down during one of the floods. We
had to get the trees on someone else's property chopped
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down for safety reasons. Good luck getting all the departments
to tell you the truth as to whether that can
be done and who's responsible for it, and who do
you have to call? Again? Everybody says, well, you go here,
you go there, you call this, you call that, you
can't do this, and it's infuriating, it's absolutely And you all,
you people in government, right, you wonder iers, complain about
(23:48):
government people because it's true. You're all a bunch of
e f ups. You're liars, you're lazy, you don't tell
people the truth, you don't get things done. And now
you know we're dealing with we're dealing with again. This
is different from the firefighters fighting the fire. I'm talking
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about the bureaucrats. I'm talking about the people the titles.
I'm talking about the people of the offices, who set
the policies, who show up at these press conferences. Why
do you have to make so like this isn't tough
enough on everyone? Why didn't she explain to people trying
to get to see their homes in the Pacific Palisades,
do what Alex Stone did last half hour. Just talk
about all the downpower lines. Point out that the house
(24:30):
that collapsed from the landslide. This is why we don't
want to let you in anywhere, because these homes are
not stable. They could collapse because the water undermined the foundation.
Talk about that. But why can't LAPD get in these
neighborhoods and take care of the looters? Why why repeated
phone calls begging what do you want? You want to bribe?
(24:55):
What do you want? You want a firstborn child? You
want my dog? What is it going to take on
behalf of all the other people in my neighborhood, on
my side of town? What does it get What does
it take to get l APD cars in the neighborhoods
and chase the looters away and shoot to kill I
talked to a whole lot of neighbors and friends, and
(25:17):
it was unanimous. Shoot to kill ought to be the
policy by the police. Please don't do this on your own.
Obviously you can't do that. That's a joke. But but
that's how people are feeling. There's gonna be a political
earthquake here. Bass should have packed already. I can find
nobody defending Bass. I think the only people defending them
(25:40):
are internet trolls. I don't think anybody sincereally wants Karen
Bass to be the bear anymore. Okay, I see these headlines.
Is she the most hated mayor in America? Everyone hates
Karen Bass and l like, yes, that's true. Everybody does that.
That picture that that minute and a half where she
was stonewalling the report order from Sky News, that's going
(26:01):
to live in infamy. The photo of her standing with
the UH, with the diplomats from Ghana or the president
of Ghana, that's going to live in infamy. She has
no business still being the mayor. Everybody believes that if
we could do like an instant recall, an instant firing UH,
it would be overwhelming against her. And there's something wrong
(26:23):
with our system that when someone is this is a
dereliction of duty. Okay, this is like a captain jumping
off the ship right before the ship hits an iceberg
and everybody dies. All right, they'll find that captain, they'll
fish him out of the water, and he's going to
prison for the rest of his life. And we did
have people die in this fire. And there's no excuse.
(26:44):
I don't want to hear the spin. And please save
your your your racial rantings and ravings. It's garbage and nonsense.
And the same thing would newsome too. I mean, enough
is enough? What you you know? The thing is, I've
heard people say, if there's a burglary, you call LAPD,
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they won't show up, or they won't show up for
an hour, or they tell you to do it online.
Let me tell you something. You could have hundreds of
people calling LAPD in one section of town and they're
still not showing up. And you know, we got a
new new police chief, Jim McDonald, and well, obviously tough times,
but hey, you got to come through here. Everybody's got
(27:26):
to come through. You know what calls me, We pay
for this. They all are supposed to be working for us.
People on that side of town pay tremendous amounts of
tax money. And I can tell you I have a
number of neighbor's, number of friends absolutely done. They're moving.
They're selling their house and moving. As soon as this
is over a lot of people, You're gonna lose a
(27:48):
lot of tax revenue. Maybe you could turn it all
the all these blocks into homeless shelters. Maybe that was
the whole idea. Maybe that's the whole Marxist socialist idea
is just destroy the wealthier neighborhoods, make everybody move out,
and replace it with housing for illegal aliens and homeless
people and criminals. I mean, if that was the plan,
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working perfectly, isn't it. If that wasn't the plan, I mean,
what would you do differently if you wanted to destroy
the richest part of town and replace it with housing
for illegal aliens and homeless people and criminals. What would
you do differently? You cut the fire department to nothing,
defund the police. Once you get rid of the fire
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department and the police department, not clear sailing. Eventually the
bad guys take over and they win.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six fort.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Debora and I were just talking off the air that
this Pallisates fire and the fire now to Dina are
both the extremely severe worst case scenarios, but they are
limited to those two geographic areas.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
So what happens when the big one hits right?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
The San Andreas fault goes and we get a seven
eight nine earthquake and the entire city, entire county is ravaged,
not just one enclave like the Palisades or one smallish
town in the hills. What what if the entire region
(29:29):
gets rocked by an earthquake and you have tens of
thousands of buildings and hundreds or thousands of people dead.
This crew is gonna show up Bass and Newsom. You
know they have. I know now that when they give
us rhetoric, and I'm going to talk a lot about rhetoric,
(29:51):
somebody in the California globe rot a great peace on this.
All this rhetoric is nonsense. They don't have plans, they
don't have a program to implement to help mitigate the damage.
Everybody's on their own. Now, that's the first time in
life I felt like I am completely on my own.
(30:13):
It's really scary thing. There's nobody to rely on. I mean,
most of my neighbors have left the ones that are
and got their homes looted. Say, that's the thing. That's
why I'm glad we stayed in the house, because I
think we've created just enough of an atmosphere like, hey,
there's people in here, and you don't know what's going
to happen. But four other families on very close to
(30:36):
us looted last night. Police woen show up. We know
the fire didn't show up. Firemen didn't show up in time.
In the Palisades. We know Karen bass is in Africa.
Newsom's got his head up his ass pretending, you know,
lying to people on the phone with Joe Biden. This
(30:56):
is what we're dealing with, clowns, lunatics. So what are
we supposed to do. Some people are starting to arm themselves.
There's a whole thing in the Wall Street Journal. I
got to get to that too. People in out the
DNA and Palisades arming themselves. They are running through the hillsides,
sneaking down alleyways to avoid the police checkpoints to go
(31:17):
see their house. And everybody says the same things like
I don't care anymore. I kept reading this in the story.
I don't care anymore. So what happens when an earthquake
hits and instantly we're all gonna know. Now nobody from
the city, county, or state is going to come and
help us. And when the water lines are broke and
(31:39):
the gas lines are broke, the electricity is out. The criminals,
I mean two criminals already have been detained who are
legal aliens. They let in millions of illegal aliens and
they joined the brigade of homegrown looters. It's like, great,
this is that's you know, it's federal government failing. The
(32:01):
state government has failed. They have taken and I'm going
to go through this as well, many many, many billions
of dollars and spent it on so much unbelievable nonsense.
And they didn't fund the fire department and they don't
fund the police department here in LA and every jackass
(32:22):
voter busy scrolling their TikTok doesn't even know it. Nobody
even is aware that the fire department is half staffed,
half funded. Do you know we have one hundred fire
engines in the shop, one hundred of them, no mechanics
(32:43):
to fix them. It's fire season and Karen Bass and
the LA City Council. Half of them are criminals, half
of them are clowns, idiots, and they literally are criminals.
Half of no funding for the fire department just to
(33:06):
hire mechanics to fix the engines. Somehow that was zeroed out.
That was crossed out. What you want mechanics to fix
fire engines to fight fires? No, here's some more homeless
money to those criminal nonprofits. Just keep scrolling, keep texting, scrolling,
(33:30):
you know, Instagram, scroll away, social media. Everyone's mesmerized by
the screen, and nobody knows now that there was absolutely
no plan to protect us or to respond to the
greatest natural disaster to hit Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Is there a plan when the big earthquake hits? I mean,
if there wasn't a plan for this, do we have
a plan for when the earthquakes?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
What do you think if this was a dress rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I mean really that's terrifying. Yeah, and you would think
that this would be a wake up call and that
there will be a plan actually before the big earthquake
the summer. Can you imagine if we just get very
little rain, we're gonna have the Santa Anna's in the
dry conditions and the heat this summer.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah yeah, and when the fires hit again and the
earthquakes hit again after we're not allowed to buy gas
powered cars anymore, we're all going to jump into our
electric cars and oh we're out of juice. Oh we're
stuck in traffic for six hours, and our batteries are dying.
What kind of a hell? What kind of a hell
(34:31):
hold they created for us? We can't pour gasoline into
our cars to get out of the fires and the earthquakes.
I mean, you know what, you know what I hope
dies in that fire. You know what I hope died
in that fire is progressive politics. I hope progressive politics
(34:52):
died in that Palisades fire, the out the din of fire,
and all the rest. If we go one more day
under progressive politics, we're gonna end up like the victims
of these fires. We're just gonna end up dead, charge
beyond recognition. That's what progressive politics does. It kills you.
It destroys your home, it destroys your community. Like I said,
(35:13):
I got friends they're moving out, neighbors they're moving out.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'm trying to figure out where to move John. Sorry
to say I might be leaving you.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
My wife wants to move, my best friend's out here.
All want to move, but that's what you did to
the community. And they're all serious. This isn't threats. They
can pack up and go anytime they want and sell
their house and make a good profit on it. Debora
Mark Live the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
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