February 17, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/17) - A plane crashed in Toronto as they were landing. Mayor Karen Bass finally admitted that going to Africa before the fires broke out was a mistake. Pacific Palisades residents have been dealing with setbacks as they begin to start to rebuild. More on all of the fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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the iHeart app as well. Just a short time ago,
a plane flipped upside down after it landed. It's belly up,
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roof down in Toronto. It's fly a Delta plane flying
in for Minneapolis. I don't think I've ever seen that before.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
No, I'm watching CNN and I cannot even believe it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
No, it's the strangest thing to look at.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Eight injured, they say, one in critical condition.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, it seems like everybody should be injured, right, you
would think. But I guess you got the seat belt on.
They you know, you're just hanging upside down. Oh it's
so We're it's all snowy, all at nine inches of
snow over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What the heck with these plane crashes all the time now?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And they h and I guess they didn't clear the
runway very well. You know, she.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Shouldn't be lan I mean, everything on that runway looks
snow and ice covered, right, So you shouldn't be landing
planes on that right, or you.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Should be diverting them to another runway where it isn't
so snowy, or where you have had time to clean
up the.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Mess, like in Miami. That'd be a good place to
divert that plane. Yeah, but people people flying from Minneapolis
because they wanted colder weather in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's that's that's quite a sight.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
If anything anymore comes to the story, we will tell
you about it obviously, But right now there's eight injured,
one critically, and not much else information.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Now that's all we have right now.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Boy, if there was somebody in the in the restroom
at that moment, yeah, but you're.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Not supposed to be in the restroom when.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You're landing, I know. But you know what people always do.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
In fact, as soon as they announce that they're going
to land and everybody buckle up behind it, there's always
one guy suddenly realized I've got to go.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I've got to go.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I'll be quick, okay, And if I was the flight attendant,
I would buddy, it's up to you totally. You's trying
to end up with your head sticking out of.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The toilet and here right this waiver right.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Uh, Well, we've got some a lot of interesting stuff today.
We're gonna have at two o'clock. Chad Bianco on Chad
Beyanco is the Riverside County sheriff, and he's been on
with us a number of times and as long rumored.
In fact, he alluded to it last time he was
on the show. Uh, he is going to run for governor.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
He had fifteen hundred supporters at an event and he said,
I'm running for governor because our beautiful state, which I
absolutely love, is headed down the wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Track and has been for years. You know.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I I hope he gains traction because this is an emergency.
When I saw the poll last week that Kamala Harris
gets fifty seven percent of the Democratic vote among you know,
about ten candidates that they have listed, this would be
you know, for a Democratic primary. I saw that and
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I just like clutched my face in horror.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I mean, this was like.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
This, This was horrific, idea imaginable, and I do not
know what's wrong with people. I mean, she just thoroughly
embarrassed and disgraced herself running the silliest, emptiest campaign imaginable.
And I understand that there's a sizeable number of people
who hate Trump and would vote for a potted plant.
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She's pretty much a potted plant. And I hate to
insult potted plants with that comparison, but really, in the
absence of Trump running for governor, there is no there's
no reason in the universe to pick Kamala Harris for
goodness sakes, I mean, there is nothing going on there.
That candle is long blown out, and you look around
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and see what's happened and to this state and what's
going on here in Los Angeles, And honestly, I'm just
smacking myself in the head. It's like, you know, it
might be time to go, might be time you and
I yet go to Miami. I mean, this is just ridiculous.
So we'll talk to Chad Bianco because he's a fireball,
and you know the thing is he articulates things. Well
I'm not going to name names, but there's been about, oh,
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I'd say, uh, really, almost twenty years of bad candidates
running for governor and bad candidates running for Senate on
the Republican side. Not bad in terms of what their
issues were or you know, their values just bad in
terms of no personality, just flatline, just nothing that inspires people.
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And with all the horrific policies that are sinking the
state and that everybody's unhappy with, I can't believe that
nobody can articulate in a way that motivates people to say, yeah,
you know why, we got to do better, we got
to do differently.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, don't you say?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I think that it would be important that he would
talk about, Hey, guys, we don't have gas going anymore. Right,
they got rid of people in San Francisco. Right, they're
trying to clean up the mess in San Francisco and
in Oakland, and he can talk about the fiasco of
the fires and the gas prices.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I mean, he has a lot of things he.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Can work with. Yeah, he does.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, if you don't see now that we need
a complete change in philosophy, I don't know what to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But I was talking.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We're wandering around over the weekend, and we were talking
to somebody down in Manhattan Beach business owner and the
woman said she gets a lot of customers, you know,
from the West Side and his friends, and she said
she goes. You know, we were talking about Caruso and
Bass and the fires, and she said, you know, I
had friends when Caruso was running. They said, no, he's
too conservative. I said, well, what do you mean he's
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too conservative? He wants to get the homeless off the street.
That's not a political issue. It shouldn't It shouldn't be.
It's like, you can't live with seventy thousand homeless on
the street.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That that's not that's not politics.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's just you can't live with seventy thousand drug addicts
and mental patients on the street who are pooping and
vomiting all the time. How did that become conservative? Using
the word as a pejorative. Who Well, he wants to
take homeless people off the street. He's like, yeah, yeah,
how about that?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know that Marabas admitted that going to Africa was
a mistake.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yes, we actually have clips of that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Okay, coming up, I have I have one too if
you don't.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Have it, but no, I've got I've got several here.
We'll do that next. Conan Nolan from NBC. He's a
good guy and he got Bass to sit down. I've
heard some of this, but not all these so this
this should I got three of them, so this should
be fascinating, Karen Bass admitting.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
She but but she took how many weeks has it been? Six?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Took six weeks to say I shouldn't have gone Africa? Really,
I mean what, I will see that better late than ever. Yeah, yes,
it doesn't really help very much. You know, she needed
to make that decision on a January second, when they
first put out the horrific warnings from the National Weather
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Service about extreme fire danger.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
John, she needed to process the situation.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, well all right, so let's play that when we
come back, because I got a few of these, and
we'll see what else goes on with this Delta plane.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now, remember those of you might get unnerved by this.
This is the department of blame, finger pointing, second guessing,
and Monday morning quarterbacking. I find zero value in identifying
the culprits who cause disasters or make disasters worse.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And I.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Imagine that the people who want to say, well, now,
let's not play the blame game are actually to blame
or it's parties and supporters of the person who's to blame.
So your opinions are discredited and disqualified.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I don't want to hear it. Shut up. Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
When you decide you're going to run for office and
you take an oath, you're supposed to be there and
your number one priority is keep the residents safe as
best as possible, which means when the National Weather Surface
puts out an extreme fire danger warning, knowing the terrain,
knowing the history, knowing that what the sant Anawins can do,
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your responsibility is to stay in place.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What do they call that? Shelter in place?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
So on January second, we always have to go back
through the details. January second is when the National Weather
Service said extreme fire danger, and it was January seventh
when the Palisades and Altadena went to hell. So you
had quite a few days for Karen Bass to reconsider
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her trip, because I don't think she left until the fourth, right, yes,
or the fifth, the fourth anyway, she thought about it
for two days and then on Saturday she left. That
would have been the fourth, Sunday, the fifth, Monday, the sixth, Tuesday,
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the seventh, Yes, that's it. So she had forty eight
hours after so she had forty eight hours of extreme
fire danger warnings and there was like one hundred percent
chance that we were getting extremely bad.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Sant Ana Wins took the plane to Africa anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And now for the last six weeks she hasn't said
anything about it. She makes bland statements at press conferences,
takes no questions of any import hides behind other people
like Steve Sober, off positions in herself in news conferences
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where she speaks seventh or eighth and generally just rattles
off cliches and platitudes, and every once in a while,
does you know, shouts her pep rally phrases like Los
Angeles Strong or some such nonsense. By the way, that
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that whole thing just makes me gag, just at as
soon as I hear you know, that worked the first
time in Boston the marathon, which is like twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
We had Saga Strong the school shooting.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Oh that's right, that's right. Now we have l A
strong stop it. That sounds ridiculous. We have Conan Nolan
from Channel four. Uh, he's really good and he's got
I think a this is from a Sunday morning show,
does an interview show and Karen Bass came on and
in cut number one, she talks about the African decision.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
You came under a lot of criticism. That's for being
in Africa when the win, the storm started the firestorm.
Tell us a little bit about that if you don't mind,
and do you is your mission now to try to
regain confidence that may have you know, eroded.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Absolutely it is, and I think that I have to
demonstrate that every day by showing what we're doing, what
is working, what are the challenges, and to bring Los
Angeles forward. So that's why I was exciting yesterday to open.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Stop, stop stop? What did I get?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
How long did I get through of her speaking? Was
ten twelve seconds? About ten seconds? Yeah, right here we go.
How are we going to move Los Angeles forward?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Absolutely, she doesn't, she doesn't want to address this at all.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It gave her an open ended question.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
This is the time to sincerely apologize and sound like
you're really sorry, you're sad that thousands of people lost
their homes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It is really sad.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I know I know a number of people, so that
as my wife, and you don't want to talk to
somebody who's just lost the home that they raised their
kids in or their kids were still living in and
that they'd been in for decades and every single possession
is gone, and for her to immediately lapse into ten
seconds like we are going to move Los Angeles forward. Huh,
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that's not a person in there that is as a
political robot. All right, play some more to.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Open up the one stop center. Today, we're opening up
a center for impacted workers. So for those individuals in
the Palisades who had people who work in their homes
or on their property, and also the individuals that worked
in the commercial area. The Impacted Workers Center will open
up to provide job resources and other assistants to get
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make sure that.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
They are whole.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
In retrospect, that trip was a mistake.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Yeah, absolutely, there is no question about that mistake.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know what mistake is when you're not paying attention
for a few seconds and you pass your intersection and
it's like, oh, I made a mistake. I got to
do a U turn and come back. That's a mistake.
Do you know how long it takes to plan a
trip to Africa, especially you're on a government trip, and
then you have forty eight hours to reconsider. Yeah, she
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had forty hours to say, wow, extreme fire danger in
my city.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Maybe I should stay.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Maybe I should have a meeting with the fire chief,
who's another piece of work. Let me tell you I
got more on her later. You know, the fire chief
and that Ditsie DWP head, Genese Kenonias, Kristin Crowley, Genesee Kenonias,
and Karen Bass. Well, we sure I have a lot
of diversity there, but nothing else. Bass mentioned her one
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stop shop. And you're supposed to go I guests to
you know, some office, some desk, and they'll bring everything
together for you. Right, you're permitting and all all right,
glad she mentioned this the next door app for the Palisades.
I'm not gonna mention this woman's name. I'll call her
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the all right, because you know I don't even though
this is a public site, I don't want to publicize
her and cause her trouble. She wrote a post and
she lost her home. Now listen to this, clearly, right,
you just heard we're gonna make Los Angeles stronger and
by one stop shop. Well, the rights to our neighbors
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in the Palisades. As for Karen Bass's one stop shop
that she set up for us to get the ball rolling,
on reconstructing. We went there yesterday. Don't go unless you
want to waste at least half your day and leave
angry and dejected. You will be met by very hostile
persons from the Los Angeles Department of Buildings who will
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inform you that they don't give a damn about the
house you lost, and as far as they're concerned, you're
building a new ground up building.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Am I crazy?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But has there been NonStop talk about how if you
rebuild exactly the house you had before the fires, you
could get a permit, No questions asked.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's what they've been saying right.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
At the Department of Buildings, the rights the inspector, we
informed us that he didn't give a damn about the
house we lost, as far as he's concerned, we're trying
to build a new ground up building, and that we
had to supply all the documentation required for that, as
if we were miscreants trying to sneak through the process.
Does Karen Bass understand anything in Capital letters about how
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government works in LA or that not filling up reservoirs
can be deadly in a fire. I'm shocked this place
is looking worse and worse. I would encourage Palacidians to
go to the Department of Buildings and try it out
and then write up a critique of how it goes
versus what's coming out of Bass's mouth. Whatman of the
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palace ades you lost everything. We're gonna have more and
more Bass clips. There's the reality, not her nonsense, her gas.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Can you imagine you lose your home and you're going
there and you're met with that animosity, you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Get a jackass who has a home, whose salary you're paying,
who gives you a hard time, and because you are
just asking for it, the mayor has publicly promised repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
We will continue.
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joining us, we played you a clip of Karen Bass
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Connor no on Channel four interviewed her and said, wasn't
this mistake and she's, you know, to go to Africa
after you had two days a warning about the extreme
fire danger. And she says, it's absolutely a mistake. But
you know, I'm working hard to make what what did
she say, make? Move Los Angeles forward?
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Just lapsed into this this nonsense speak that these idiot
politicians used. And she had promised one stop shopping to
start your rebuild, that you go to the office at
City Hall and you know the permit process is going
to be streamlined, and uh, it's it's not. It's not
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going to be a major hassle. You'll be able to
build an exact replica of the house you had.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
V from the Palisades wrote on the next door app
that in reality, you're going to be met by very
hostile persons from the Los Angeles Department of Buildings. The
inspector we met with said he didn't give a damn
about the house we lost, and as far as he's concerned,
we're trying to build a new ground up building and
we have to supply all the documentation required for that.
And she gave him a really hard time, which is
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not what Karen Dass promised, we're going to continue now
with another cut Conan no One from NBC four asking
how she takes criticism from people like Rick Caruso.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
You've had a lot of criticism. We saw Rick Caruso,
the man you defeated in the race, but you also
had Rocanna, a Democratic congressman from well respected from Silicon Valley.
He did an interview. He says, Hey, you know, Rob
bob Iger, the president of Disney, would make a great
mayor even now, do you take that personally?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
And you know what, I am focused on one thing
and one thing only exactly, and that is to make
sure that our city is able to recover and rebuild
and that all of those individuals that lived in the
Palisades can go home.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
That's my focus, that's my mission, and that's what I'm
going to do every day.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's not a person. I insist that that is a robot.
Somebody check her battery back. Well, there's like not a
moment of reflection and emotion and sadness. And I mean,
has the realization hit her in any way or is
it just well, this is on my to do list,
rebuild Los Angeles rebuild Palisage.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yes, that's my.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Wow, and that's what I'm going to do every day.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Good voting, excellent voting, everybody. Wow, here's another cut Tonrolan
asking Bass, Oh, here's a team.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
How how she get along with Kevin Newsom?
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Your relationship with the governor right now? Because there have
been some rumors that you don't see eyed eye.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Oh no, that's not the case. We've been working lockstep.
I've talked with him numerous times, and I think, I mean,
there's a lot of evidence in terms of the support
that he's given. But the way that he has stepped
up and told us that we can have the National Guard,
we can have the California Highway Patrol, and to stay
in touch with him if there's anything that we need,
I speak with him regularly.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He stepped up.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
She pulled the National Guard from the checkpoints at the Palisades.
People screamed bloody murder at her for twenty four hours,
and then she she got Newsome to bail her out.
But she's the one who wanted the National Guard out.
Oh my god, how there's got to be you know what,
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We got to have a new constitution or something in
this state. There's got to be a way to remove
somebody like this after they created such a horrific, such
a horrific disaster and then clearly has no normal response
to anything except give us some more cliches and slogans
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and latitudes. And does anybody believe she's getting along with
everybody really well and that all she's focusing on making
LA stronger and building LA back.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How are you going to do that? Exactly?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Nobody I know, nobody, especially those who are in the palisades,
has any confidence of her. It's zero. It's zero point zero, zero,
zero nothing. There's nobody who wants her to be mayor
right now, and she should know that. And if she
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was going to try to stay in office, she should
demonstrate that she has some emotional connection to people, she
has some depth to her thought process. She's she's got
she's got some empathy, she's got details to these plans
like she does, she understand, and she's been a government
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a long time. This this is this is what fries
me about this whole era because as this happened, Trump
and Musk took over and they're flushing out all the
deadwood from all the government agencies and they're going to save,
you know, hundreds of billions of dollars doing it. Do
these people who've been lifelong in government understand how frustrating
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and how bad it is and how stupid it is
to deal with the government. There is nothing worse than
dealing with permitting in the city of Los Angeles, even
if you're building a doghouse. It's excruciating, it's it's stupid.
And one of the things in life that I've known
for a long time. You give a stupid person just
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a little bit of power, just a and I have
worked for types like this, right, they're not too bright,
but they got they got a little bit of power.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
They got they got some say over how you operate.
Holy moly.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You know, smart people it's a whole different story because
they're aware of the power they have, and they understand
the consequences of what they do, and they usually think
through as to why they're doing it, uh, and that
they're you know, that there's a good rational reason for it,
even if it's not the same way you would do it. Right,
they can they can explain themselves and and it would
make sense if you looked at it, you know, through
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their their point of view. But but then there's people
who I guess, you know, they can't think very deeply
and they kind of just they have triggers and and
and they they they just decide something arbitrarily. They just
they say, Okay, well this is the way it's going
to be, and they can't explain it where they have
a reason that it is so stupid it defies belief,
like they're there an analytical process is not very sharp.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, you work for that long, long road, but.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
In this case, she just doesn't have it because she
doesn't have any executive experience. Executive you're born I think
with executive capabilities. As you mature into a grown man
or woman, you're able to make decisions quickly. You're able
to analyze things quickly. You know, you got a lot
of horsepower in your brain. You can look at various possibilities,
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different types of decisions you'd make, and you could quickly say, Okay,
this decision A is better than B, and here's why
it's better. And then if you make a mistake, you
can quickly pivot and go to decision B. It's like, okay,
here's why that was a mistake. But just got no
capability for that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Trust me.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I warned about not electing her for the last three years.
I said, don't do it. Caruso does this in a sleep.
He builds things. I you know, there should be a
new wave of people as long as you know, we're
finally getting out of the di I business. Not just merit,
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not just you went to the right school that you
have certain capabilities which are important to government work. If
you're building stuff, that's really good to take those skills
into government, because building things is complex because you yourself
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have to be successful at dealing with all the government
agencies and you know intimately how bad and arbitrary they
are and how ridiculous their rules are. Most of these
rules are in place only to give power to the
little pissant. Who's got that, you know, a tiny bit
of control over your life. You know, double digit IQ people,
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that's what government is filled with, double digits.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You know, eighty five ninety, that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And if you are accomplished in life, odds are you know,
you've got another twenty or thirty points And it's uh,
it's it's you know, it's like it's like talking to
a goldfish. I mean that that the gap is just
so wide. Did I play all these?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I played the lockstep thing. Oh that's another thing. She's
either locking arms, who she's in lockstep. She's just got
a bunch of there's no depth to her intelligence the
way she speaks. All right, when we come back, all right,
good Chad Bianco coming up after two o'clock. Chad is
going to run for governor as a Republican Riverside County sheriff.
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He's really good and we will talk to him next.
He announced today in front of fifteen hundred fans. That's
after too.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (26:31):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. The podcast on
the iHeart app coming up later in the show, since
we have spent a lot of time this hour on
Karen Bass's interview with Conan Nolan on NBC four and
her bag of stupid cliches. She'll admit, you know, I
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was looking for like a heartfelt. I would feel so
bad because you know, she should have had extensive meetings
in the days before for the fire, and then they
should have had the fire engines right placed all over
the Palisades and other areas well. Los Angeles Times, and
you know how I feel about the LA Times, but
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they've really really been doing a lot of great stories.
And maybe next hour, maybe after we finished talking to
Chad Bianco, I'm going to tell you about exactly how
former assistant chiefs of the Los Angeles Fire Department have
said that, yes, they should have had ten engines patrolling
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the Palisades Hills. This is from the former assistant chiefs
for LAFD. Because there's this whole courus and I don't
know if these people are trolls or you know, they're
just kiss ass dummies who were into the woke movement
and the Democratic Party and they, you know, they just
(27:57):
do kind of a reflex defense of whatever stupid politician
is getting criticized. But everything is all their responses are well,
it really wouldn't have mattered. It really wouldn't have battered
having a reservoir empty. It really wouldn't have mattered if
you had all the fire engines up there. It really
wouldn't have mattered. If you had a thousand firefighters up
in the hills. It really wouldn't have no, no, no,
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would have changed everything. And I'll explain why. Then these
fire chiefs are saying so, and the residents are saying
so because they lived through other fires and other fired risks.
All right, that's coming up after we talked to Chad.
Chad Bianco. We've talld you many times about the massive
fraud in California. At least fifty billion dollars went out
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the door under Gavin Newsom during the COVID emergency when
they had the unemployment money that they were handing out,
people couldn't work, and they did not do any vetting
of people's applications if you applied. They say the money
they gave fifty billion dollars to fraudsters, and eighty five
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percent of those fraudsters lived outside the country. Well happened
in other places too, according to federal prosecutors, one woman
in Las Vegas prepared and filed false tax returns and
others at a rate of nearly eighty per month. It
(29:28):
was a COVID tax credit scheme sixteen months starting in
June of twenty twenty two. The woman named Candy's good McCoy.
It's a hyphen Candies, that's not a name. She filed
twelve hundred tax returns to fraudulently claim COVID nineteen tax
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credits of nearly one hundred million dollars, and she's finally
pled guilty. She managed to get the Iras to pay
out about thirty three million. She took a million three
of that herself, and they got another eight hundred thousand
dollars from those who she for whom she prepared the
(30:13):
false returns, so she skimmed from both sides. She facilitated
about thirty three million dollars out of the IRS and
kept about two million from both ends. She could get
as much as ten years in prison. Guess what she
did with the money. Did She donated to care for
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puppies and kittens, No, maybe sick children. She used the
money to gamble at casinos, take vacations, and buy luxury cars.
Remember she's from Las Vegas. She also purchased clothing from
Dulce and Gabana, Gucci and Louis Vatan.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Very expensive.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, well, I mean, if you engineered a COVID tax scheme,
that's where you'd be shopping.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
According to prosecutors, good McCoy prepared taxes, they were not
eligible to receive the credits that she got, and they
were part of See, they were part of trillions of
dollars in money that got shoved out the door in
Washington during the post COVID frenzy. It's you know, this
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is why inflation skyrocketed, is because you had trillions of
dollars fleshed into the market, and people like this woman
had so much money. She started buying all kinds of stuff,
which just drives up the prices. Right, the more buyers
you have for an item, the higher the store can
charge for that item. You just you keep raising the
(31:47):
price as long as the buyers have the money. Here
are the names of the companies that she created to
facilitate these fake tax claims, the Changing Lives Movement, Exclusive Flavors,
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Queen Smith Professional Corporation, and Candy's King Elliott. She had
software to remotely file twelve hundred and twenty seven forms.
None of the people or businesses she applied for had
been eligible for those tax credits, so she either made
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up or used over twelve hundred people in businesses to
get them these and of course she kept much of
the money. Government investigators have struggled to keep up with
the pandemic fraud focusing on large, multimillion dollar cases. See
(32:50):
if you just had a if you were a small
time right and you just committed you know, two three
four frauds were happy with maybe a few hundred thous dollars,
You're gonna get away with it because the government never
bothered to check to begin with, and now they're so
overwhelmed with fraud cases, big ones like this lady, that
they're never going to come after you. And now Musk
(33:14):
and Trump are clearing out the all the departments anyway, So.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You won.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
When we come back after Deborah's news, Chad byonco seriously,
look at Chad Bionco to be your next governor. He's
the Riverside County sheriff and he's going to run as
a Republican. And you know, something's got to give here.
We cannot continue with this idiocy and nonsense. Deborah Mark
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Live the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
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Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Just like every day, we're on from one until four
o'clock and then after four o'clock. Whatever you missed, you
listen on the podcast John Cobel's show on demand on
the iHeart app as well. Just a short time ago,
a plane flipped upside down after it landed. It's belly up,
(00:26):
roof down in Toronto. It's fly a Delta plane flying
in for Minneapolis. I don't think I've ever seen that before.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
No, I'm watching CNN and I cannot even believe it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
No, it's the strangest thing to look at.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Eight injured, they say, one in critical condition.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, it seems like everybody should be injured, right, you
would think. But I guess you got the seat belt on.
They you know, you're just hanging upside down. Oh it's
so We're it's all snowy, all at nine inches of
snow over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What the heck with these plane crashes all the time now?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And they h and I guess they didn't clear the
runway very well. You know, she.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Shouldn't be lan I mean, everything on that runway looks
snow and ice covered, right, So you shouldn't be landing
planes on that right, or you.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Should be diverting them to another runway where it isn't
so snowy, or where you have had time to clean
up the.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Mess, like in Miami. That'd be a good place to
divert that plane. Yeah, but people people flying from Minneapolis
because they wanted colder weather in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's that's that's quite a sight.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
If anything anymore comes to the story, we will tell
you about it obviously, But right now there's eight injured,
one critically, and not much else information.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Now that's all we have right now.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Boy, if there was somebody in the in the restroom
at that moment, yeah, but you're.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Not supposed to be in the restroom when.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You're landing, I know. But you know what people always do.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
In fact, as soon as they announce that they're going
to land and everybody buckle up behind it, there's always
one guy suddenly realized I've got to go.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I've got to go.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I'll be quick, okay, And if I was the flight attendant,
I would buddy, it's up to you totally. You's trying
to end up with your head sticking out of.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The toilet and here right this waiver right.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Uh, Well, we've got some a lot of interesting stuff today.
We're gonna have at two o'clock. Chad Bianco on Chad
Beyanco is the Riverside County sheriff, and he's been on
with us a number of times and as long rumored.
In fact, he alluded to it last time he was
on the show. Uh, he is going to run for governor.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
He had fifteen hundred supporters at an event and he said,
I'm running for governor because our beautiful state, which I
absolutely love, is headed down the wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Track and has been for years. You know.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I I hope he gains traction because this is an emergency.
When I saw the poll last week that Kamala Harris
gets fifty seven percent of the Democratic vote among you know,
about ten candidates that they have listed, this would be
you know, for a Democratic primary. I saw that and
(03:09):
I just like clutched my face in horror.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I mean, this was like.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
This, This was horrific, idea imaginable, and I do not
know what's wrong with people. I mean, she just thoroughly
embarrassed and disgraced herself running the silliest, emptiest campaign imaginable.
And I understand that there's a sizeable number of people
who hate Trump and would vote for a potted plant.
(03:36):
She's pretty much a potted plant. And I hate to
insult potted plants with that comparison, but really, in the
absence of Trump running for governor, there is no there's
no reason in the universe to pick Kamala Harris for
goodness sakes, I mean, there is nothing going on there.
That candle is long blown out, and you look around
(03:59):
and see what's happened and to this state and what's
going on here in Los Angeles, And honestly, I'm just
smacking myself in the head. It's like, you know, it
might be time to go, might be time you and
I yet go to Miami. I mean, this is just ridiculous.
So we'll talk to Chad Bianco because he's a fireball,
and you know the thing is he articulates things. Well
I'm not going to name names, but there's been about, oh,
(04:23):
I'd say, uh, really, almost twenty years of bad candidates
running for governor and bad candidates running for Senate on
the Republican side. Not bad in terms of what their
issues were or you know, their values just bad in
terms of no personality, just flatline, just nothing that inspires people.
(04:45):
And with all the horrific policies that are sinking the
state and that everybody's unhappy with, I can't believe that
nobody can articulate in a way that motivates people to say, yeah,
you know why, we got to do better, we got
to do differently.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, don't you say?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I think that it would be important that he would
talk about, Hey, guys, we don't have gas going anymore. Right,
they got rid of people in San Francisco. Right, they're
trying to clean up the mess in San Francisco and
in Oakland, and he can talk about the fiasco of
the fires and the gas prices.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I mean, he has a lot of things he.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Can work with. Yeah, he does.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, if you don't see now that we need
a complete change in philosophy, I don't know what to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But I was talking.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We're wandering around over the weekend, and we were talking
to somebody down in Manhattan Beach business owner and the
woman said she gets a lot of customers, you know,
from the West Side and his friends, and she said
she goes. You know, we were talking about Caruso and
Bass and the fires, and she said, you know, I
had friends when Caruso was running. They said, no, he's
too conservative. I said, well, what do you mean he's
(05:51):
too conservative? He wants to get the homeless off the street.
That's not a political issue. It shouldn't It shouldn't be.
It's like, you can't live with seventy thousand homeless on
the street.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That that's not that's not politics.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's just you can't live with seventy thousand drug addicts
and mental patients on the street who are pooping and
vomiting all the time. How did that become conservative? Using
the word as a pejorative. Who Well, he wants to
take homeless people off the street. He's like, yeah, yeah,
how about that?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know that Marabas admitted that going to Africa was
a mistake.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yes, we actually have clips of that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Okay, coming up, I have I have one too if
you don't.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Have it, but no, I've got I've got several here.
We'll do that next. Conan Nolan from NBC. He's a
good guy and he got Bass to sit down. I've
heard some of this, but not all these so this
this should I got three of them, so this should
be fascinating, Karen Bass admitting.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
She but but she took how many weeks has it been? Six?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Took six weeks to say I shouldn't have gone Africa? Really,
I mean what, I will see that better late than ever. Yeah, yes,
it doesn't really help very much. You know, she needed
to make that decision on a January second, when they
first put out the horrific warnings from the National Weather
(07:11):
Service about extreme fire danger.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
John, she needed to process the situation.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, well all right, so let's play that when we
come back, because I got a few of these, and
we'll see what else goes on with this Delta plane.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now, remember those of you might get unnerved by this.
This is the department of blame, finger pointing, second guessing,
and Monday morning quarterbacking. I find zero value in identifying
the culprits who cause disasters or make disasters worse.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And I.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Imagine that the people who want to say, well, now,
let's not play the blame game are actually to blame
or it's parties and supporters of the person who's to blame.
So your opinions are discredited and disqualified.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I don't want to hear it. Shut up. Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
When you decide you're going to run for office and
you take an oath, you're supposed to be there and
your number one priority is keep the residents safe as
best as possible, which means when the National Weather Surface
puts out an extreme fire danger warning, knowing the terrain,
knowing the history, knowing that what the sant Anawins can do,
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your responsibility is to stay in place.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What do they call that? Shelter in place?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
So on January second, we always have to go back
through the details. January second is when the National Weather
Service said extreme fire danger, and it was January seventh
when the Palisades and Altadena went to hell. So you
had quite a few days for Karen Bass to reconsider
(09:02):
her trip, because I don't think she left until the fourth, right, yes,
or the fifth, the fourth anyway, she thought about it
for two days and then on Saturday she left. That
would have been the fourth, Sunday, the fifth, Monday, the sixth, Tuesday,
(09:23):
the seventh, Yes, that's it. So she had forty eight
hours after so she had forty eight hours of extreme
fire danger warnings and there was like one hundred percent
chance that we were getting extremely bad.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Sant Ana Wins took the plane to Africa anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And now for the last six weeks she hasn't said
anything about it. She makes bland statements at press conferences,
takes no questions of any import hides behind other people
like Steve Sober, off positions in herself in news conferences
(10:00):
where she speaks seventh or eighth and generally just rattles
off cliches and platitudes, and every once in a while,
does you know, shouts her pep rally phrases like Los
Angeles Strong or some such nonsense. By the way, that
(10:20):
that whole thing just makes me gag, just at as
soon as I hear you know, that worked the first
time in Boston the marathon, which is like twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
We had Saga Strong the school shooting.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Oh that's right, that's right. Now we have l A
strong stop it. That sounds ridiculous. We have Conan Nolan
from Channel four. Uh, he's really good and he's got
I think a this is from a Sunday morning show,
does an interview show and Karen Bass came on and
in cut number one, she talks about the African decision.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
You came under a lot of criticism. That's for being
in Africa when the win, the storm started the firestorm.
Tell us a little bit about that if you don't mind,
and do you is your mission now to try to
regain confidence that may have you know, eroded.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Absolutely it is, and I think that I have to
demonstrate that every day by showing what we're doing, what
is working, what are the challenges, and to bring Los
Angeles forward. So that's why I was exciting yesterday to open.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Stop, stop stop? What did I get?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
How long did I get through of her speaking? Was
ten twelve seconds? About ten seconds? Yeah, right here we go.
How are we going to move Los Angeles forward?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Absolutely, she doesn't, she doesn't want to address this at all.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It gave her an open ended question.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
This is the time to sincerely apologize and sound like
you're really sorry, you're sad that thousands of people lost
their homes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It is really sad.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I know I know a number of people, so that
as my wife, and you don't want to talk to
somebody who's just lost the home that they raised their
kids in or their kids were still living in and
that they'd been in for decades and every single possession
is gone, and for her to immediately lapse into ten
seconds like we are going to move Los Angeles forward. Huh,
(12:21):
that's not a person in there that is as a
political robot. All right, play some more to.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Open up the one stop center. Today, we're opening up
a center for impacted workers. So for those individuals in
the Palisades who had people who work in their homes
or on their property, and also the individuals that worked
in the commercial area. The Impacted Workers Center will open
up to provide job resources and other assistants to get
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make sure that.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
They are whole.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
In retrospect, that trip was a mistake.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Yeah, absolutely, there is no question about that mistake.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know what mistake is when you're not paying attention
for a few seconds and you pass your intersection and
it's like, oh, I made a mistake. I got to
do a U turn and come back. That's a mistake.
Do you know how long it takes to plan a
trip to Africa, especially you're on a government trip, and
then you have forty eight hours to reconsider. Yeah, she
(13:25):
had forty hours to say, wow, extreme fire danger in
my city.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Maybe I should stay.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Maybe I should have a meeting with the fire chief,
who's another piece of work. Let me tell you I
got more on her later. You know, the fire chief
and that Ditsie DWP head, Genese Kenonias, Kristin Crowley, Genesee Kenonias,
and Karen Bass. Well, we sure I have a lot
of diversity there, but nothing else. Bass mentioned her one
(13:55):
stop shop. And you're supposed to go I guests to
you know, some office, some desk, and they'll bring everything
together for you. Right, you're permitting and all all right,
glad she mentioned this the next door app for the Palisades.
I'm not gonna mention this woman's name. I'll call her
(14:17):
the all right, because you know I don't even though
this is a public site, I don't want to publicize
her and cause her trouble. She wrote a post and
she lost her home. Now listen to this, clearly, right,
you just heard we're gonna make Los Angeles stronger and
by one stop shop. Well, the rights to our neighbors
(14:38):
in the Palisades. As for Karen Bass's one stop shop
that she set up for us to get the ball rolling,
on reconstructing. We went there yesterday. Don't go unless you
want to waste at least half your day and leave
angry and dejected. You will be met by very hostile
persons from the Los Angeles Department of Buildings who will
(15:00):
inform you that they don't give a damn about the
house you lost, and as far as they're concerned, you're
building a new ground up building.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Am I crazy?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But has there been NonStop talk about how if you
rebuild exactly the house you had before the fires, you
could get a permit, No questions asked.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's what they've been saying right.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
At the Department of Buildings, the rights the inspector, we
informed us that he didn't give a damn about the
house we lost, as far as he's concerned, we're trying
to build a new ground up building, and that we
had to supply all the documentation required for that, as
if we were miscreants trying to sneak through the process.
Does Karen Bass understand anything in Capital letters about how
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government works in LA or that not filling up reservoirs
can be deadly in a fire. I'm shocked this place
is looking worse and worse. I would encourage Palacidians to
go to the Department of Buildings and try it out
and then write up a critique of how it goes
versus what's coming out of Bass's mouth. Whatman of the
(16:00):
palace ades you lost everything. We're gonna have more and
more Bass clips. There's the reality, not her nonsense, her gas.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Can you imagine you lose your home and you're going
there and you're met with that animosity, you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Get a jackass who has a home, whose salary you're paying,
who gives you a hard time, and because you are
just asking for it, the mayor has publicly promised repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
We will continue.
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(16:59):
Connor no on Channel four interviewed her and said, wasn't
this mistake and she's, you know, to go to Africa
after you had two days a warning about the extreme
fire danger. And she says, it's absolutely a mistake. But
you know, I'm working hard to make what what did
she say, make? Move Los Angeles forward?
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Just lapsed into this this nonsense speak that these idiot
politicians used. And she had promised one stop shopping to
start your rebuild, that you go to the office at
City Hall and you know the permit process is going
to be streamlined, and uh, it's it's not. It's not
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going to be a major hassle. You'll be able to
build an exact replica of the house you had.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
V from the Palisades wrote on the next door app
that in reality, you're going to be met by very
hostile persons from the Los Angeles Department of Buildings. The
inspector we met with said he didn't give a damn
about the house we lost, and as far as he's concerned,
we're trying to build a new ground up building and
we have to supply all the documentation required for that.
And she gave him a really hard time, which is
(18:12):
not what Karen Dass promised, we're going to continue now
with another cut Conan no One from NBC four asking
how she takes criticism from people like Rick Caruso.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
You've had a lot of criticism. We saw Rick Caruso,
the man you defeated in the race, but you also
had Rocanna, a Democratic congressman from well respected from Silicon Valley.
He did an interview. He says, Hey, you know, Rob
bob Iger, the president of Disney, would make a great
mayor even now, do you take that personally?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
And you know what, I am focused on one thing
and one thing only exactly, and that is to make
sure that our city is able to recover and rebuild
and that all of those individuals that lived in the
Palisades can go home.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
That's my focus, that's my mission, and that's what I'm
going to do every day.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's not a person. I insist that that is a robot.
Somebody check her battery back. Well, there's like not a
moment of reflection and emotion and sadness. And I mean,
has the realization hit her in any way or is
it just well, this is on my to do list,
rebuild Los Angeles rebuild Palisage.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yes, that's my.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Wow, and that's what I'm going to do every day.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Good voting, excellent voting, everybody. Wow, here's another cut Tonrolan
asking Bass, Oh, here's a team.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
How how she get along with Kevin Newsom?
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Your relationship with the governor right now? Because there have
been some rumors that you don't see eyed eye.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Oh no, that's not the case. We've been working lockstep.
I've talked with him numerous times, and I think, I mean,
there's a lot of evidence in terms of the support
that he's given. But the way that he has stepped
up and told us that we can have the National Guard,
we can have the California Highway Patrol, and to stay
in touch with him if there's anything that we need,
I speak with him regularly.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He stepped up.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
She pulled the National Guard from the checkpoints at the Palisades.
People screamed bloody murder at her for twenty four hours,
and then she she got Newsome to bail her out.
But she's the one who wanted the National Guard out.
Oh my god, how there's got to be you know what,
(20:33):
We got to have a new constitution or something in
this state. There's got to be a way to remove
somebody like this after they created such a horrific, such
a horrific disaster and then clearly has no normal response
to anything except give us some more cliches and slogans
(20:54):
and latitudes. And does anybody believe she's getting along with
everybody really well and that all she's focusing on making
LA stronger and building LA back.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How are you going to do that? Exactly?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Nobody I know, nobody, especially those who are in the palisades,
has any confidence of her. It's zero. It's zero point zero, zero,
zero nothing. There's nobody who wants her to be mayor
right now, and she should know that. And if she
(21:33):
was going to try to stay in office, she should
demonstrate that she has some emotional connection to people, she
has some depth to her thought process. She's she's got
she's got some empathy, she's got details to these plans
like she does, she understand, and she's been a government
(21:55):
a long time. This this is this is what fries
me about this whole era because as this happened, Trump
and Musk took over and they're flushing out all the
deadwood from all the government agencies and they're going to save,
you know, hundreds of billions of dollars doing it. Do
these people who've been lifelong in government understand how frustrating
(22:15):
and how bad it is and how stupid it is
to deal with the government. There is nothing worse than
dealing with permitting in the city of Los Angeles, even
if you're building a doghouse. It's excruciating, it's it's stupid.
And one of the things in life that I've known
for a long time. You give a stupid person just
(22:38):
a little bit of power, just a and I have
worked for types like this, right, they're not too bright,
but they got they got a little bit of power.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
They got they got some say over how you operate.
Holy moly.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You know, smart people it's a whole different story because
they're aware of the power they have, and they understand
the consequences of what they do, and they usually think
through as to why they're doing it, uh, and that
they're you know, that there's a good rational reason for it,
even if it's not the same way you would do it. Right,
they can they can explain themselves and and it would
make sense if you looked at it, you know, through
(23:15):
their their point of view. But but then there's people
who I guess, you know, they can't think very deeply
and they kind of just they have triggers and and
and they they they just decide something arbitrarily. They just
they say, Okay, well this is the way it's going
to be, and they can't explain it where they have
a reason that it is so stupid it defies belief,
like they're there an analytical process is not very sharp.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, you work for that long, long road, but.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
In this case, she just doesn't have it because she
doesn't have any executive experience. Executive you're born I think
with executive capabilities. As you mature into a grown man
or woman, you're able to make decisions quickly. You're able
to analyze things quickly. You know, you got a lot
of horsepower in your brain. You can look at various possibilities,
(24:07):
different types of decisions you'd make, and you could quickly say, Okay,
this decision A is better than B, and here's why
it's better. And then if you make a mistake, you
can quickly pivot and go to decision B. It's like, okay,
here's why that was a mistake. But just got no
capability for that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Trust me.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I warned about not electing her for the last three years.
I said, don't do it. Caruso does this in a sleep.
He builds things. I you know, there should be a
new wave of people as long as you know, we're
finally getting out of the di I business. Not just merit,
(24:51):
not just you went to the right school that you
have certain capabilities which are important to government work. If
you're building stuff, that's really good to take those skills
into government, because building things is complex because you yourself
(25:12):
have to be successful at dealing with all the government
agencies and you know intimately how bad and arbitrary they
are and how ridiculous their rules are. Most of these
rules are in place only to give power to the
little pissant. Who's got that, you know, a tiny bit
of control over your life. You know, double digit IQ people,
(25:33):
that's what government is filled with, double digits.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You know, eighty five ninety, that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And if you are accomplished in life, odds are you know,
you've got another twenty or thirty points And it's uh,
it's it's you know, it's like it's like talking to
a goldfish. I mean that that the gap is just
so wide. Did I play all these?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I played the lockstep thing. Oh that's another thing. She's
either locking arms, who she's in lockstep. She's just got
a bunch of there's no depth to her intelligence the
way she speaks. All right, when we come back, all right,
good Chad Bianco coming up after two o'clock. Chad is
going to run for governor as a Republican Riverside County sheriff.
(26:19):
He's really good and we will talk to him next.
He announced today in front of fifteen hundred fans. That's
after too.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. The podcast on
the iHeart app coming up later in the show, since
we have spent a lot of time this hour on
Karen Bass's interview with Conan Nolan on NBC four and
her bag of stupid cliches. She'll admit, you know, I
(26:52):
was looking for like a heartfelt. I would feel so
bad because you know, she should have had extensive meetings
in the days before for the fire, and then they
should have had the fire engines right placed all over
the Palisades and other areas well. Los Angeles Times, and
you know how I feel about the LA Times, but
(27:13):
they've really really been doing a lot of great stories.
And maybe next hour, maybe after we finished talking to
Chad Bianco, I'm going to tell you about exactly how
former assistant chiefs of the Los Angeles Fire Department have
said that, yes, they should have had ten engines patrolling
(27:35):
the Palisades Hills. This is from the former assistant chiefs
for LAFD. Because there's this whole courus and I don't
know if these people are trolls or you know, they're
just kiss ass dummies who were into the woke movement
and the Democratic Party and they, you know, they just
(27:57):
do kind of a reflex defense of whatever stupid politician
is getting criticized. But everything is all their responses are well,
it really wouldn't have mattered. It really wouldn't have battered
having a reservoir empty. It really wouldn't have mattered if
you had all the fire engines up there. It really
wouldn't have mattered. If you had a thousand firefighters up
in the hills. It really wouldn't have no, no, no,
(28:19):
would have changed everything. And I'll explain why. Then these
fire chiefs are saying so, and the residents are saying
so because they lived through other fires and other fired risks.
All right, that's coming up after we talked to Chad.
Chad Bianco. We've talld you many times about the massive
fraud in California. At least fifty billion dollars went out
(28:43):
the door under Gavin Newsom during the COVID emergency when
they had the unemployment money that they were handing out,
people couldn't work, and they did not do any vetting
of people's applications if you applied. They say the money
they gave fifty billion dollars to fraudsters, and eighty five
(29:05):
percent of those fraudsters lived outside the country. Well happened
in other places too, according to federal prosecutors, one woman
in Las Vegas prepared and filed false tax returns and
others at a rate of nearly eighty per month. It
(29:28):
was a COVID tax credit scheme sixteen months starting in
June of twenty twenty two. The woman named Candy's good McCoy.
It's a hyphen Candies, that's not a name. She filed
twelve hundred tax returns to fraudulently claim COVID nineteen tax
(29:51):
credits of nearly one hundred million dollars, and she's finally
pled guilty. She managed to get the Iras to pay
out about thirty three million. She took a million three
of that herself, and they got another eight hundred thousand
dollars from those who she for whom she prepared the
(30:13):
false returns, so she skimmed from both sides. She facilitated
about thirty three million dollars out of the IRS and
kept about two million from both ends. She could get
as much as ten years in prison. Guess what she
did with the money. Did She donated to care for
(30:35):
puppies and kittens, No, maybe sick children. She used the
money to gamble at casinos, take vacations, and buy luxury cars.
Remember she's from Las Vegas. She also purchased clothing from
Dulce and Gabana, Gucci and Louis Vatan.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Very expensive.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, well, I mean, if you engineered a COVID tax scheme,
that's where you'd be shopping.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
According to prosecutors, good McCoy prepared taxes, they were not
eligible to receive the credits that she got, and they
were part of See, they were part of trillions of
dollars in money that got shoved out the door in
Washington during the post COVID frenzy. It's you know, this
(31:26):
is why inflation skyrocketed, is because you had trillions of
dollars fleshed into the market, and people like this woman
had so much money. She started buying all kinds of stuff,
which just drives up the prices. Right, the more buyers
you have for an item, the higher the store can
charge for that item. You just you keep raising the
(31:47):
price as long as the buyers have the money. Here
are the names of the companies that she created to
facilitate these fake tax claims, the Changing Lives Movement, Exclusive Flavors,
(32:08):
Queen Smith Professional Corporation, and Candy's King Elliott. She had
software to remotely file twelve hundred and twenty seven forms.
None of the people or businesses she applied for had
been eligible for those tax credits, so she either made
(32:29):
up or used over twelve hundred people in businesses to
get them these and of course she kept much of
the money. Government investigators have struggled to keep up with
the pandemic fraud focusing on large, multimillion dollar cases. See
(32:50):
if you just had a if you were a small
time right and you just committed you know, two three
four frauds were happy with maybe a few hundred thous dollars,
You're gonna get away with it because the government never
bothered to check to begin with, and now they're so
overwhelmed with fraud cases, big ones like this lady, that
they're never going to come after you. And now Musk
(33:14):
and Trump are clearing out the all the departments anyway, So.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You won.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
When we come back after Deborah's news, Chad byonco seriously,
look at Chad Bionco to be your next governor. He's
the Riverside County sheriff and he's going to run as
a Republican. And you know, something's got to give here.
We cannot continue with this idiocy and nonsense. Deborah Mark
(33:40):
Live the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
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