February 26, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/26) - CA Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about the insurance crisis going on in the state of California. Pres. Trump wants illegal immigrants to add their names to a registry. Pacific Palisades resident Saied Kashani comes on the show to talk about the LADWP allegedly wiping records from their website. Two airline passengers had a sea turtle skull on board.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I Am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
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I didn't have time. But I'm looking at the video
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It's casual Wednesday. I know life has become a cartoon's
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talk with Carl Demyo because, as you know, the insurance
in this state is an absolute disaster. We have an
idiot as insurance commissioner. We have all kinds of We've
got a proposition that was passed, oh god, almost forty
years ago that puts some serious price controls on the
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insurance companies when it comes to charging premiums. Everybody still
thinks it's way too expensive. You saw what happened in
the Palisades. The insurance companies were canceling in advance of
the fires or not choosing not to renew. And with
all the natural disasters we've had, it is difficult for
a lot of people to get any kind of affordable
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life insurance, affordable home insurance. And if they do, you
find out, like in the Fair Plan, doesn't really cover
that much. A lot of people the Palisades are finding
that out that I think they're only getting two or
three million dollars. Big, big mess. Let's talk to Carl Demayo.
He's the Republican assemblyman. He's got a bill that would
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seriously reform the insurance industry and try to stabilize the rates. Carl,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Summarize in a way that the average person could understand.
What are the big issues with insurance in California.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, you highlighted a good number of them. That broke
the system. We've got these crazy regulations on insurance products
that make it impossible for the insurance companies to actually
give consumers what they want. The state of California has
all sorts of restrictive regulations. You have to cover this,
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you have to do it this way, and all of
these ad costs and restrictions. What my bill does is
it says, let's talk to the insurance industry and ask
them what regulations do we have to reduce, reform or
eliminate in order for you to drive down costs. Put
those entire reforms in one package and do an updown vote.
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But that's not enough.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The second thing we have to do is we have.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
To reduce the risk of catastrophic loss from wildfire. We
are not seeing increased fires because of climate change. Let
me repeat that climate change is not producing the fire
disasters that we're seeing. It's not the number of fires
that we're dealing with, it's the severity, and severity is
driven by the fact that we're not properly managing forests.
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We're not properly managing public lands like the canyons in
Los Angeles and in San Diego County that are owned
by government. By the way, government is the bad property
owner in this case, not sinning and clearing their own property.
And then finally, private property owners are not able to
clear defensive space around their homes. They're told by various
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regulatory agencies that you're not allowed to get rid of
that tree, that shrub, that brush, and so you're damned
if you damned if you don't. We've got to waive
those regulations. If a fire marshal says that it's appropriate
for fire risk management, then a homeowner, a property owner
should have a right with no encumbrance, a right to
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clear defensible space. Now, all those reforms will take some
time to achieve cost. I'm a realist. The problem didn't
happen overnight. We're not going to dig out of the
politicians mess overnight either. But I don't think the homeowners
should be the ones paying the price for the collapse.
I think we need to hold them harmless. And the
way we do that is we limit the increases in
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insurance to the national average. California should be no better,
no worse. I think we can be better, but at
least no worse than the national average increase each year,
and the way to achieve that is we waive the
insurance premium tax.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
People do not know this.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
The media is not covering it, but the state of
California politicians have added a massive insurance premium tax to
every premium and get this, John, when the rates go
up by double, their insurance tax revenues all so double.
And so we need to take away the incentive for
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the politicians to see higher rates by eliminating that insurance
tax and passing the savings directly on to the homeowners. Finally,
I do have in my plan insurance rate stabilization rebates
for homeowners for the next few years. And how we're
going to pay for it. We're going to take it
out of the climate change fund. The politicians say climate
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change produce the fires. I disagree. But while we have
money in that climate change fund, ten billion dollars slush
fund that pays for high speed rail, why don't we
cancel high speed rail and give that money directly to
homeowners to soften the bloat. That's the plan. It's it's comprehensive.
It will save the average homeowner between three hundred and
fifty dollars if you're on commercial policies, to three thousand
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dollars if you've been forced into the unfair government plan
called fair.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That thing is a disaster, and that's going to be
broke after these fires are process as.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It's yeah, but my plan fixes the problem. It's the
only comprehensive plan up in Sacramento. All the other plans
that have been offered literally are about CYA. It's saving face,
it's trying to divert attention, trying to pretend like you're
doing something. Now, we got to bend the cost curve.
And while we bend the cost curve, we cannot force
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the homeowners to pay for the mistakes of the politicians.
And I believe firmly that my bill is more about
consequence management than anything else. Politicians won't fix a problem
unless they're paying for the problem. You force them to
pay for the problem, they'll start fixing it. And that's
the brilliance I believe of the model that we've adopted.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Do you have any takers outside of your Republican friends
in the Assembly, Well.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Even my Republican friends are hesitant because they say, well, boy,
you know, we don't know if we want to give
up that money in the state budget. I'm not going
to name any names, but I will start naming names
if they don't get on board.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Really, how big is this tax? I didn't know there
was an insurance tax. You mean when we get a
new policy, we're paying a tax on that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yes, yes, and it's a percentage. It's a gross receipts tax.
And those are the worst forms of taxes because even
if you're not making money, you're still paying a higher tax.
It's a three percent gross receipts tax on the value
of the premium that you're paying. Now, you may say, well,
that's not a whole lot of money. We're talking about
three point six billion dollars in the state budget. Let
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me tell you, if you take all those insurance taxes
and just simply return them to homeowners, that's more than
enough to keep our insurance rates every year going forward
to a national average or less.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You know something what you said about the Republicans, they're
reluctant to give up that money. The state budgets three
hundred billion dollars. This is three much. This is three billion,
and it's coming out of the hides of everyone who
owns a home and has to pay exorbit into home
insurance rates. I mean, seriously, is anybody on our side?
Does anybody say they've got enough money in Sacramento and
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they don't need to be taxing insurance policies.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
There are reformers that we've gotten elected it's the newer
class members. Yeah, and hopefully the Sacramento swamp doesn't tain them.
I don't think so. They're really, you know, true believers.
But what we need to do is put pressure on
all the politicians. That's why my email to our supporters
earlier this week, I didn't just say contact Democrat legislators.
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I said, contact every damn politician in Sacramento and put
your finger on their chest and pope and say, why
are you forcing me to pay double or triple my
insurance for your mistake? You need to take it out
of the state budget by giving up your portion of
the greed, suspend that insurance tax, and pass along the
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savings to homeowners.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
All right, Carl, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Thank you so much. Take here, Carl Douaya.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
We're probably going to assemble them in from San Diego
about completely reforming and restructuring insurance in this state. I
got going for hours and hours on it. Nobody wants
to listen to it. You just want to bake cheaper rates.
That's you don't want to You don't care how you
get there. You just want the cheaper rates. But I
think Carl did a good job outlying why the rates
are so high when we come back? What do I
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want to do here? You know, I got so many
good things. I can't. I can't choose.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
You want me to choose?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Huh, No, you'll, you'll, you'll choose. The fake egg story. Oh,
don't get her started. Yeah, never got a complimentary email
from Peta. She gets personal emails from Peta, and they
were giving her links to where she could buy fake eggs.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Even though I don't, I don't partake that. I sent
it along to you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I'll tell you what I got is uh the story
about Trump. Uh. Trump wants all the illegal aliens to
sign up with a registry, a national registry of illegal aliens,
and that has a lot of people with their panties
and a twist. That is next.
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tell me why I'm coming up on two thirty. Oh,
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that's right, Sai Kashani, and he is the gentleman from
Pacific Palisades who was burned out of his house and
actually had the uh had the courage to go and
stand before the DWP board and tell them how the
DWP chief, Genie Kinonyez failed the city of Los Angeles
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by being obsessed with diversity and equity and inclusion and
completely ignored the empty reservoir, the one hundred and seventeen
million gallon reservoir. Well, he has spoken out several times.
He's been on our show a couple of times, and
he'll be on again because he is finding that the
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DWP is deleting public records if you try to go
looking for information, for example on the reservoir and the
floating cover that was torn and never fixed, which led
to the fire department not having only really having a
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trickle of water to use on the fire. So we'll
talk to Sayid Kashani coming up after two thirty. All right,
So this is the way it should work in any
normal country. I know it's going to give progressives palpitations,
those who believe in anarchy and the destruction of the
United States, but the Trump administration has created a registry
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for illegal immigrants. You're going to have to submit your
personal information or you'll be fined, possibly go to prison.
That's according to a draft of a regulation. The Wall
Street Journals sought immigrants in this country illegally, including children
fourteen and older. You'll have to submit fingerprints and home
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addresses to the registry, and if you don't do it,
it could be five thousand dollars and six months in prison,
and then I imagine you get to ported. Now it's funny, Eric,
Do they still have selective service that you have to
sign up for when you're eighteen? Did you do that?
I signed up for it, Yes, when I was eighteen. Yeah, yeah,
I did too. And that was, you know, a while ago,
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and I remember being resentful of that. But ultimately there
was a penalty. I remember, you know, they were going
to possibly put me in jail, and I didn't do
it right away because my first reaction is to rebel
against the government. And you know, it was put into
place to well, it was the replacement for the draft.
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They went to an all volunteer army, but just in
case there were not enough volunteers and we had a
terrible war that we needed bodies for Selective Service meant
your name was on a list, you were on a registry.
And boy, that pissed me off because so many people
in the sixties and seventies, guys, this is something that
only affected guys were terrified that they would get drafted
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and then to be sent to Vietnam and get killed.
And you see what's happened in Ukraine and Russia, right,
hundreds of thousands of young men have been killed. And
you know, we live on this planet and the people
running many of these countries are psychos or they're stupid,
you know, political theories, and it's always the young guys
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who have to go and get blown up. So they
came up with selective Service and it's still operational and
you have to sign a registry and if you don't,
you go to prison. Well, hey, that's the way it goes.
I guess right, can't run your own country, unfortunately, So
these illegal immigrants are squatting in our nation illegally and
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they don't want to sign up for a registry. Well,
nobody knows who you are, nobody knows about you. If
you have terrorist ties, criminal ties, you are costing collectively
tens of billions of dollars to all of us. I mean,
we're paying for your lives. I don't care how many
jobs the immigrants groups claim they have and how much
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taxes they pay, which is very little, because when you
make very little money, you pay almost no taxes. Mostly,
we are subsidizing tens of millions of people in this country.
It's costing us a lot. It's crowding medical facilities, crowding schools.
Part of the reason for the housing shortage here in
La County is we have a million illegal aliens living here. Yeah,
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you're not supposed to say that out loud, but it's true.
Imagine if a million illegal aliens disappear, that would free
up some housing. So aliens in this country face a choice, Christina,
I'm the Homeland Security Secretary. They can return home and
follow the legal process to come to the US, or
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deal with the consequence of continuing to violate our laws.
And by the way, it's legal. They passed the one.
Nineteen forty there was an immigrant registry to catch suspected communists,
and also back before when George W. Bush was president,
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there was a registry to identify Muslim immigrants and some
of those people were deported as well. They used the
registry to catch communists from the nineteen forties into the
nineteen sixties until the government decided it was not worth it.
So this is this is the way it should be.
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You can't have millions of people in the country and
you don't know who they are, and you're paying for them,
and they broke the law and it looks like they're
gonna get away with it. Yeah, it's the Alien Registration
Act of nineteen forty and Bush created a registry for
Muslim majority countries after the nine to eleven attacks. And
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they're also spending money. They're gonna be spending millions of
dollars on an ad campaign trying to convince illegal aliens
to self deport. If you are here illegally, we will
find you and deport you. She said, all right, when
we come back, we're gonna talk to I say Ed Kashani.
He is the gentleman who went right to a DWP
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meeting and he wanted to know how come nobody ever
at one of these meetings ever discussed the empty reservoir
and whist in East Canonia is the CEO so obsessed
with diversity and equity but never talked about the empty
reservoir for a year. Well, now he's found on the website.
They've erased a lot of information about the reservoir. We'll
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talk to Sayed Kashani coming up next.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
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Speaker 1 (17:20):
Cobelts Show Moistline for Friday, Call eight seven seven Moist
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or the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. A lot
of government officials in the city and the county are
on the run. They're on the run because a lot
of corruption and ineptitude and stupidity was exposed by this
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terrible fire in the Palisades and in Altadena, and the
DWP was exposed as being an absolutely incompetent organization. They
left that one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir empty
a year. They spent not repairing a floating cover, which
really didn't matter anyway when it comes to fighting fires,
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which is what the reservoir was designed for. Sayed Kashani
lost his home in the Ballisades and confronted the DWP
board and is still investigating what went on and why
the reservoir, among other things, why the reservoir wasn't filled.
Let's get Sayid Kashani on because he's gone online to
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look at some of the DWP website and he's finding
things missing, sayed, how are you.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Thanks for having me on again? Yes, that's correct. Investigation
is getting a lot harder because the DWP is starting
to delete items from their website they used to be available.
There were items that I was able to retrieve that
pertained to the Centienez Reservoir that I was able to
retrieve in January. You go back to the same web
page now and it's access denied and closed off and
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the information is no longer available to the public. The
city council demanded transparency from the DWP, but I don't
think we're going to get any transparency if they're already
taking down documents from their website.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And what are these documents?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, that particular one was pretty critical. That document referred
to the cover installation of the Sentiene's reservoir and some
other work they did. In particular, it was stating and
referred to work they did on the reservoir only for
fire suppression and firefighting. Now this is very important because
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one of the gas lighting that the DWP has been
doing is claiming that this reservoir didn't matter. It's only
for drinking water and it doesn't fight fires, and your
house would have burned down anyway. These documents show what
we've been saying, which is the reservoir was designed and
built for firefighting.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yes, it was after the nineteen sixty one bel Air fire.
They built this reservoir in nineteen sixty four in case
there's there would be another one because Belair's right next
door to Pacific Palisades, it's on the other side of
Brentwood and exactly, and so if something starts in any
of those towns, all three towns will be affected potentially.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Correct and not only not only does the reservoir provide
a supply of water, but it provides a flow of
water because the reservoir sits at a pretty good elevation,
so you can flow down to the Palisades and into
the village in different areas without worrying about pumps and
those materials. One of the things that DWP said is
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that they lost pressure during the fire. Well, you can't
lose pressure on a reservoir. That's just dropping down the hill.
Because there's gravity feed, you don't need a pump. But
when the revervoir is empty, it doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I've read that Karen Bass's staff has has eliminated some
of the video of Bass at her press conferences being
given uncomfortable questions, and that those questions and those answers
have been edited out of the official videos on her website.
So this seems to be a standard operating procedure.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Now, well, what of them? Surprise me if they have
a whole crew editing things. This is my opinion. This
is my opinion, but it's informed by thirty five years
of practice. That DWP hired this law firm to represent them,
pay them ten million dollars to represent them. I think
that law firm is sending lawyers going through documents, emails,
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everything and seeing, well, I don't want to say what
should be retained and what shouldn't, but they're certainly marking
some items as sensitive, and those are items that maybe
are disappearing from the website. And I'll tell you something else.
I can tell you. I can promise you there's a
lawyer from that firm sitting in on every DWP meeting.
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At the high level meetings, the executive meetings. Why so
that they can later claim that those meetings were unquote
attorney client privileged and they don't have to testify about
what they discussed at those meetings. So if they're discussing
the investigation, if they're discussing even refilling the reservoir, more
than likely there's a lawyer present charging two thousand dollars
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an hour just to sit there and throw a cloak
of privilege and secrecy over that meeting.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Right, and the water and power customers are paying that
two thousand dollars an hour rate on paying.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We're all paying, Yeah, we're all pay, all paying. Well,
that law firm has to earn out that full ten
million dollars. So that's how they do it.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I tell you. The second worst thing, but behind the fire,
is the reaction by the government to the fire. What
they're doing, hiring expensive law firms, taking down evidence off websites,
editing video, refusing to answer questions, refusing to be honest.
I mean, it's making people angrier and angrier. They have
not made one friend since this happened. There's not one
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person who has any confidence in any of these apartment Okay,
at Denise Kinonia's I mean she still has her job, huh.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I don't think she's going anywhere. And I think the
board has decided that they're willing to spend ten million
dollars on lawyers to keep everyone in their place.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The only person who spoke out against the mayor, the
fire chief was fired.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, so everybody's covering their rear end now they want
to keep their six figure jobs.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, how mighty. They're willing to spend unlimited amounts of
our money, raypayers and taxpayers money to keep their jobs.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I guess you're going to keep on their case though,
aren't you.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to find out what
I can uh and keep researching. But as I said,
this firm and this DWP has made it's a lot
harder to research and find information. I don't think they're
going to be forthcoming on anything.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, No, they're definitely shutting down. All right, well said,
as you come across information, you can always come on
with us, all right, thank you very much, all right,
because you're a good source of information. It's very difficult
to get anything out of these bureaucracies. That's say Ed
Kashani from Pacific Palisades. When we come back. Have you
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heard about the turtle skull?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I have not?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
You have not heard about the passengers in the plane
bragging about the turtle skull they owned?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Uh huh uh. This is a terrible story if you
don't like animals being hunted and killed, which we used
as trophies. But it's also funny because they started bragging
while they're on a plane. They started bragging about what
they do and to the passengers next to them, and
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they didn't know what those passengers did for a living.
We'll get it to this when we come back. It's
actually turned out to be really funny. And then after
three o'clock we have Alex Stone from ABC News. Where'd
this come from? Now? Suddenly the Menendez brothers might be
given freedom by Gavin Newsom? Is he gonna talk about
that in this podcast? Newsom wants a risk assessment done
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of the Menandez brothers by the California Parole Board. That
doesn't sound good.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Coming up after three o'clock, Alex Stone, ABC News on
the Menendez brothers. Suddenly, what they're gonna get clemency from Newsom? Seriously,
Newsom is gonna let them Menendez brothers out. He wants
a risk assessment from the parole board. Well, you wouldn't
do that unless you're gonna let him out. We're also
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gonna talk about all the dirty, perverse messages that has
led to one hundred intelligence officers being fired by Tulsea Gabbard,
the dude Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
They were writing all this, all these disgusting sex messages
on one of those slack channels, one of those internal
messaging channels that companies have. But wait till you hear
about the content. One writer actually printed some of the
messages and I got to figure out how to explain
him to you. I have a dumb button.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's not it's not that it's just a bad word.
It's it's a it's a it's a it's a disgusting
concept that nobody's going on to hear. But she's firing
one hundred of these people. You're you're not gonn believe
the whole story that's coming up to next hour. But first,
what we have here is two people on board a plane.
They they brought Byron Leaf Fitzpatrick and Shannon Lee Page.
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They they went on a plane and they started chatting
to nearby passengers and uh, they're flying over California. And
you know, I hate passengers who talk to me on
a plane. I mean I give out every vibe that says,
don't even say hello. All right, you know, I got
baseball cap pulled down, sunglasses on a coat, hunched up,
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carrying something block in my face, PLoP into the chair,
lean away. Do not want to talk to people on
a play. And every once in a while you get
somebody chatty like and it's it's like an older woman
and they're really nice, and you can't really tell them
to shut up. Well you can, but that would be
awfully rude. It would be awfully rude. I try not
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to be rude. Actually, see that's the thing. But you
know if you push me. Well, these two are jabbering
away and they said that they'd hunted a mountain lion.
That was the adventure they were coming back from. In fact,
they said one of their relatives was a big fan
of wild animals, and they had stuffed and mounted a
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number of them, mounted ands wolverines, wolve. They had a
big trophy room. Now they're telling this to a couple
of other passengers nearby who were sitting in front of them,
and I guess the passengers saying, oh, really, go on,
go on, and so they they said, you know, we've
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got a sea turtle skull, got a seat turt and
so and so the other two passengers said you do,
Can we take a look at it? And that's when
they landed. They said, can we can we look at
the sea turtle skull? Well, the couple said yeah, well yeah,
but it's it's it's illegal for us to have this.
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So they waited until there was no one around, no
TSA agents, and then they showed off the turtle skull. Well,
the two passengers that they had been babbling to, these
two passengers who wanted to see the turtle skull were
two officers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Knew it is that crazy. Yes, karma, karma, karma, I
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mean these two idiots Byron and Shannon. They pulled the
skull from inside their jacket. It was inside a jacket
in their luggage, and it was part of a federally
listed endangered species illegal to possess, illegal to transport. So
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the wildlife officers got back to their office, they wrote
up search warrants, and they raided the couple's home in Chico,
and they raided the home of the family member who
had all the stuffed animals in his trophy room. They
found mountain lion claws, a ringtail cat, a mounted barn owl.
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You don't kill owls, No, you don't stuff owls. I
think that's bad luck? Is it bad luck to stuff
and owls? So they've been they're being prosecuted, they're being fined. Ah,
they're not even going to jail.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Did so those officers didn't confront them and tell them
who they were. They waited, as I would have loved
to see the looks on their faces.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Gotcha, No, they went back and filled up the paperwork
for a proper search warrant.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I know, I know, and but you know, I was
surprised they didn't get there wasn't one of them got
fined eighteen hundred dollars, another one thousand, another one six hundred.
That's the old relative. And they were all placed on probation.
And it's going to stop prohibited from hunting for a year. Well,
(30:43):
they were already already prohibited from doing what they were
doing because that, I mean, can imagine showing off a
turtle skull? No, I mean did they kill the turtle? Yes? Probably,
It's just you know, these people should be stuffed. They
should be taxidermied, absolutely, put up in somebody's basement. When
(31:09):
I'm in charge, you all these creepy people, all the
creepy people, that's right, all their insides carved out, replaced
with stuffing. Yeah, and formaldehydelly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I always thought there's something really sick about having like stuffed.
I agree. I mean, there's there's something wrong with you.
When we come back Alex Stone on the Menendez brothers,
Now they're going to get out because it looks like
Nathan Hoffman is not in favor of supporting their request
to be re sentenced or to be retried. So the
(31:47):
third avenue they always had was Gavin Newsome, and you know,
he's dumb as a brick, so he's looking at a
risk assessment to possibly release them. Alex Stone and then
a hundred intelligence officers getting fired by the new Director
of National Intelligence, Tulsa Gabbard for being on a chat platform,
(32:10):
discussing all kinds of sexual matters, things you may have
never heard of before. Seriously, I'm not just hyping this
things until this morning, and I read this before breakfast.
In fact, I even sent it to a friend of mine.
I said, read this, but you know, eat first, and
then wait a while after you eat. Debra Mark Live
(32:32):
in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
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Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. I didn't watch this this morning.
I didn't have time. But I'm looking at the video
of Elon Musk hosting Trump's cabinet meeting wearing a baseball cap.
It's you got all these stiff suits staring up at him.
It's casual Wednesday. I know life has become a cartoon's
(00:23):
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the same as the radio show. Now we're going to
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talk with Carl Demyo because, as you know, the insurance
in this state is an absolute disaster. We have an
idiot as insurance commissioner. We have all kinds of We've
got a proposition that was passed, oh god, almost forty
years ago that puts some serious price controls on the
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insurance companies when it comes to charging premiums. Everybody still
thinks it's way too expensive. You saw what happened in
the Palisades. The insurance companies were canceling in advance of
the fires or not choosing not to renew. And with
all the natural disasters we've had, it is difficult for
a lot of people to get any kind of affordable
(01:27):
life insurance, affordable home insurance. And if they do, you
find out, like in the Fair Plan, doesn't really cover
that much. A lot of people the Palisades are finding
that out that I think they're only getting two or
three million dollars. Big, big mess. Let's talk to Carl Demayo.
He's the Republican assemblyman. He's got a bill that would
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seriously reform the insurance industry and try to stabilize the rates. Carl,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Summarize in a way that the average person could understand.
What are the big issues with insurance in California.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, you highlighted a good number of them. That broke
the system. We've got these crazy regulations on insurance products
that make it impossible for the insurance companies to actually
give consumers what they want. The state of California has
all sorts of restrictive regulations. You have to cover this,
(02:27):
you have to do it this way, and all of
these ad costs and restrictions. What my bill does is
it says, let's talk to the insurance industry and ask
them what regulations do we have to reduce, reform or
eliminate in order for you to drive down costs. Put
those entire reforms in one package and do an updown vote.
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But that's not enough.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The second thing we have to do is we have.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
To reduce the risk of catastrophic loss from wildfire. We
are not seeing increased fires because of climate change. Let
me repeat that climate change is not producing the fire
disasters that we're seeing. It's not the number of fires
that we're dealing with, it's the severity, and severity is
driven by the fact that we're not properly managing forests.
(03:12):
We're not properly managing public lands like the canyons in
Los Angeles and in San Diego County that are owned
by government. By the way, government is the bad property
owner in this case, not sinning and clearing their own property.
And then finally, private property owners are not able to
clear defensive space around their homes. They're told by various
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regulatory agencies that you're not allowed to get rid of
that tree, that shrub, that brush, and so you're damned
if you damned if you don't. We've got to waive
those regulations. If a fire marshal says that it's appropriate
for fire risk management, then a homeowner, a property owner
should have a right with no encumbrance, a right to
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clear defensible space. Now, all those reforms will take some
time to achieve cost. I'm a realist. The problem didn't
happen overnight. We're not going to dig out of the
politicians mess overnight either. But I don't think the homeowners
should be the ones paying the price for the collapse.
I think we need to hold them harmless. And the
way we do that is we limit the increases in
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insurance to the national average. California should be no better,
no worse. I think we can be better, but at
least no worse than the national average increase each year,
and the way to achieve that is we waive the
insurance premium tax.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
People do not know this.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
The media is not covering it, but the state of
California politicians have added a massive insurance premium tax to
every premium and get this, John, when the rates go
up by double, their insurance tax revenues all so double.
And so we need to take away the incentive for
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the politicians to see higher rates by eliminating that insurance
tax and passing the savings directly on to the homeowners. Finally,
I do have in my plan insurance rate stabilization rebates
for homeowners for the next few years. And how we're
going to pay for it. We're going to take it
out of the climate change fund. The politicians say climate
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change produce the fires. I disagree. But while we have
money in that climate change fund, ten billion dollars slush
fund that pays for high speed rail, why don't we
cancel high speed rail and give that money directly to
homeowners to soften the bloat. That's the plan. It's it's comprehensive.
It will save the average homeowner between three hundred and
fifty dollars if you're on commercial policies, to three thousand
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dollars if you've been forced into the unfair government plan
called fair.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That thing is a disaster, and that's going to be
broke after these fires are process as.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It's yeah, but my plan fixes the problem. It's the
only comprehensive plan up in Sacramento. All the other plans
that have been offered literally are about CYA. It's saving face,
it's trying to divert attention, trying to pretend like you're
doing something. Now, we got to bend the cost curve.
And while we bend the cost curve, we cannot force
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the homeowners to pay for the mistakes of the politicians.
And I believe firmly that my bill is more about
consequence management than anything else. Politicians won't fix a problem
unless they're paying for the problem. You force them to
pay for the problem, they'll start fixing it. And that's
the brilliance I believe of the model that we've adopted.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Do you have any takers outside of your Republican friends
in the Assembly, Well.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Even my Republican friends are hesitant because they say, well, boy,
you know, we don't know if we want to give
up that money in the state budget. I'm not going
to name any names, but I will start naming names
if they don't get on board.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Really, how big is this tax? I didn't know there
was an insurance tax. You mean when we get a
new policy, we're paying a tax on that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yes, yes, and it's a percentage. It's a gross receipts tax.
And those are the worst forms of taxes because even
if you're not making money, you're still paying a higher tax.
It's a three percent gross receipts tax on the value
of the premium that you're paying. Now, you may say, well,
that's not a whole lot of money. We're talking about
three point six billion dollars in the state budget. Let
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me tell you, if you take all those insurance taxes
and just simply return them to homeowners, that's more than
enough to keep our insurance rates every year going forward
to a national average or less.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
You know something what you said about the Republicans, they're
reluctant to give up that money. The state budgets three
hundred billion dollars. This is three much. This is three billion,
and it's coming out of the hides of everyone who
owns a home and has to pay exorbit into home
insurance rates. I mean, seriously, is anybody on our side?
Does anybody say they've got enough money in Sacramento and
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they don't need to be taxing insurance policies.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
There are reformers that we've gotten elected it's the newer
class members. Yeah, and hopefully the Sacramento swamp doesn't tain them.
I don't think so. They're really, you know, true believers.
But what we need to do is put pressure on
all the politicians. That's why my email to our supporters
earlier this week, I didn't just say contact Democrat legislators.
(08:21):
I said, contact every damn politician in Sacramento and put
your finger on their chest and pope and say, why
are you forcing me to pay double or triple my
insurance for your mistake? You need to take it out
of the state budget by giving up your portion of
the greed, suspend that insurance tax, and pass along the
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savings to homeowners.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
All right, Carl, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Thank you so much. Take here, Carl Douaya.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
We're probably going to assemble them in from San Diego
about completely reforming and restructuring insurance in this state. I
got going for hours and hours on it. Nobody wants
to listen to it. You just want to bake cheaper rates.
That's you don't want to You don't care how you
get there. You just want the cheaper rates. But I
think Carl did a good job outlying why the rates
are so high when we come back? What do I
(09:11):
want to do here? You know, I got so many
good things. I can't. I can't choose.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
You want me to choose?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Huh, No, you'll, you'll, you'll choose. The fake egg story. Oh,
don't get her started. Yeah, never got a complimentary email
from Peta. She gets personal emails from Peta, and they
were giving her links to where she could buy fake eggs.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Even though I don't, I don't partake that. I sent
it along to you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I'll tell you what I got is uh the story
about Trump. Uh. Trump wants all the illegal aliens to
sign up with a registry, a national registry of illegal aliens,
and that has a lot of people with their panties
and a twist. That is next.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
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Speaker 1 (10:05):
Follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio at
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tell me why I'm coming up on two thirty. Oh,
(10:26):
that's right, Sai Kashani, and he is the gentleman from
Pacific Palisades who was burned out of his house and
actually had the uh had the courage to go and
stand before the DWP board and tell them how the
DWP chief, Genie Kinonyez failed the city of Los Angeles
(10:47):
by being obsessed with diversity and equity and inclusion and
completely ignored the empty reservoir, the one hundred and seventeen
million gallon reservoir. Well, he has spoken out several times.
He's been on our show a couple of times, and
he'll be on again because he is finding that the
(11:09):
DWP is deleting public records if you try to go
looking for information, for example on the reservoir and the
floating cover that was torn and never fixed, which led
to the fire department not having only really having a
(11:31):
trickle of water to use on the fire. So we'll
talk to Sayid Kashani coming up after two thirty. All right,
So this is the way it should work in any
normal country. I know it's going to give progressives palpitations,
those who believe in anarchy and the destruction of the
United States, but the Trump administration has created a registry
(11:52):
for illegal immigrants. You're going to have to submit your
personal information or you'll be fined, possibly go to prison.
That's according to a draft of a regulation. The Wall
Street Journals sought immigrants in this country illegally, including children
fourteen and older. You'll have to submit fingerprints and home
(12:12):
addresses to the registry, and if you don't do it,
it could be five thousand dollars and six months in prison,
and then I imagine you get to ported. Now it's funny, Eric,
Do they still have selective service that you have to
sign up for when you're eighteen? Did you do that?
I signed up for it, Yes, when I was eighteen. Yeah, yeah,
I did too. And that was, you know, a while ago,
(12:33):
and I remember being resentful of that. But ultimately there
was a penalty. I remember, you know, they were going
to possibly put me in jail, and I didn't do
it right away because my first reaction is to rebel
against the government. And you know, it was put into
place to well, it was the replacement for the draft.
(12:58):
They went to an all volunteer army, but just in
case there were not enough volunteers and we had a
terrible war that we needed bodies for Selective Service meant
your name was on a list, you were on a registry.
And boy, that pissed me off because so many people
in the sixties and seventies, guys, this is something that
only affected guys were terrified that they would get drafted
(13:20):
and then to be sent to Vietnam and get killed.
And you see what's happened in Ukraine and Russia, right,
hundreds of thousands of young men have been killed. And
you know, we live on this planet and the people
running many of these countries are psychos or they're stupid,
you know, political theories, and it's always the young guys
(13:43):
who have to go and get blown up. So they
came up with selective Service and it's still operational and
you have to sign a registry and if you don't,
you go to prison. Well, hey, that's the way it goes.
I guess right, can't run your own country, unfortunately, So
these illegal immigrants are squatting in our nation illegally and
(14:08):
they don't want to sign up for a registry. Well,
nobody knows who you are, nobody knows about you. If
you have terrorist ties, criminal ties, you are costing collectively
tens of billions of dollars to all of us. I mean,
we're paying for your lives. I don't care how many
jobs the immigrants groups claim they have and how much
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taxes they pay, which is very little, because when you
make very little money, you pay almost no taxes. Mostly,
we are subsidizing tens of millions of people in this country.
It's costing us a lot. It's crowding medical facilities, crowding schools.
Part of the reason for the housing shortage here in
La County is we have a million illegal aliens living here. Yeah,
(14:55):
you're not supposed to say that out loud, but it's true.
Imagine if a million illegal aliens disappear, that would free
up some housing. So aliens in this country face a choice, Christina,
I'm the Homeland Security Secretary. They can return home and
follow the legal process to come to the US, or
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deal with the consequence of continuing to violate our laws.
And by the way, it's legal. They passed the one.
Nineteen forty there was an immigrant registry to catch suspected communists,
and also back before when George W. Bush was president,
(15:39):
there was a registry to identify Muslim immigrants and some
of those people were deported as well. They used the
registry to catch communists from the nineteen forties into the
nineteen sixties until the government decided it was not worth it.
So this is this is the way it should be.
(16:03):
You can't have millions of people in the country and
you don't know who they are, and you're paying for them,
and they broke the law and it looks like they're
gonna get away with it. Yeah, it's the Alien Registration
Act of nineteen forty and Bush created a registry for
Muslim majority countries after the nine to eleven attacks. And
(16:25):
they're also spending money. They're gonna be spending millions of
dollars on an ad campaign trying to convince illegal aliens
to self deport. If you are here illegally, we will
find you and deport you. She said, all right, when
we come back, we're gonna talk to I say Ed Kashani.
He is the gentleman who went right to a DWP
(16:46):
meeting and he wanted to know how come nobody ever
at one of these meetings ever discussed the empty reservoir
and whist in East Canonia is the CEO so obsessed
with diversity and equity but never talked about the empty
reservoir for a year. Well, now he's found on the website.
They've erased a lot of information about the reservoir. We'll
(17:10):
talk to Sayed Kashani coming up next.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty John.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Cobelts Show Moistline for Friday, Call eight seven seven Moist
Dady six Do It eight seven seven Moist eighty six,
or the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. A lot
of government officials in the city and the county are
on the run. They're on the run because a lot
of corruption and ineptitude and stupidity was exposed by this
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terrible fire in the Palisades and in Altadena, and the
DWP was exposed as being an absolutely incompetent organization. They
left that one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir empty
a year. They spent not repairing a floating cover, which
really didn't matter anyway when it comes to fighting fires,
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which is what the reservoir was designed for. Sayed Kashani
lost his home in the Ballisades and confronted the DWP
board and is still investigating what went on and why
the reservoir, among other things, why the reservoir wasn't filled.
Let's get Sayid Kashani on because he's gone online to
(18:24):
look at some of the DWP website and he's finding
things missing, sayed, how are you.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Thanks for having me on again? Yes, that's correct. Investigation
is getting a lot harder because the DWP is starting
to delete items from their website they used to be available.
There were items that I was able to retrieve that
pertained to the Centienez Reservoir that I was able to
retrieve in January. You go back to the same web
page now and it's access denied and closed off and
(18:56):
the information is no longer available to the public. The
city council demanded transparency from the DWP, but I don't
think we're going to get any transparency if they're already
taking down documents from their website.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And what are these documents?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, that particular one was pretty critical. That document referred
to the cover installation of the Sentiene's reservoir and some
other work they did. In particular, it was stating and
referred to work they did on the reservoir only for
fire suppression and firefighting. Now this is very important because
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one of the gas lighting that the DWP has been
doing is claiming that this reservoir didn't matter. It's only
for drinking water and it doesn't fight fires, and your
house would have burned down anyway. These documents show what
we've been saying, which is the reservoir was designed and
built for firefighting.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yes, it was after the nineteen sixty one bel Air fire.
They built this reservoir in nineteen sixty four in case
there's there would be another one because Belair's right next
door to Pacific Palisades, it's on the other side of
Brentwood and exactly, and so if something starts in any
of those towns, all three towns will be affected potentially.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Correct and not only not only does the reservoir provide
a supply of water, but it provides a flow of
water because the reservoir sits at a pretty good elevation,
so you can flow down to the Palisades and into
the village in different areas without worrying about pumps and
those materials. One of the things that DWP said is
(20:35):
that they lost pressure during the fire. Well, you can't
lose pressure on a reservoir. That's just dropping down the hill.
Because there's gravity feed, you don't need a pump. But
when the revervoir is empty, it doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I've read that Karen Bass's staff has has eliminated some
of the video of Bass at her press conferences being
given uncomfortable questions, and that those questions and those answers
have been edited out of the official videos on her website.
So this seems to be a standard operating procedure.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Now, well, what of them? Surprise me if they have
a whole crew editing things. This is my opinion. This
is my opinion, but it's informed by thirty five years
of practice. That DWP hired this law firm to represent them,
pay them ten million dollars to represent them. I think
that law firm is sending lawyers going through documents, emails,
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everything and seeing, well, I don't want to say what
should be retained and what shouldn't, but they're certainly marking
some items as sensitive, and those are items that maybe
are disappearing from the website. And I'll tell you something else.
I can tell you. I can promise you there's a
lawyer from that firm sitting in on every DWP meeting.
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At the high level meetings, the executive meetings. Why so
that they can later claim that those meetings were unquote
attorney client privileged and they don't have to testify about
what they discussed at those meetings. So if they're discussing
the investigation, if they're discussing even refilling the reservoir, more
than likely there's a lawyer present charging two thousand dollars
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an hour just to sit there and throw a cloak
of privilege and secrecy over that meeting.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Right, and the water and power customers are paying that
two thousand dollars an hour rate on paying.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We're all paying, Yeah, we're all pay, all paying. Well,
that law firm has to earn out that full ten
million dollars. So that's how they do it.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I tell you. The second worst thing, but behind the fire,
is the reaction by the government to the fire. What
they're doing, hiring expensive law firms, taking down evidence off websites,
editing video, refusing to answer questions, refusing to be honest.
I mean, it's making people angrier and angrier. They have
not made one friend since this happened. There's not one
(22:57):
person who has any confidence in any of these apartment Okay,
at Denise Kinonia's I mean she still has her job, huh.
I mean.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I don't think she's going anywhere. And I think the
board has decided that they're willing to spend ten million
dollars on lawyers to keep everyone in their place.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
The only person who spoke out against the mayor, the
fire chief was fired.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, so everybody's covering their rear end now they want
to keep their six figure jobs.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, how mighty. They're willing to spend unlimited amounts of
our money, raypayers and taxpayers money to keep their jobs.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I guess you're going to keep on their case though,
aren't you.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to find out what
I can uh and keep researching. But as I said,
this firm and this DWP has made it's a lot
harder to research and find information. I don't think they're
going to be forthcoming on anything.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, No, they're definitely shutting down. All right, well said,
as you come across information, you can always come on
with us, all right, thank you very much, all right,
because you're a good source of information. It's very difficult
to get anything out of these bureaucracies. That's say Ed
Kashani from Pacific Palisades. When we come back. Have you
(24:17):
heard about the turtle skull?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I have not?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
You have not heard about the passengers in the plane
bragging about the turtle skull they owned?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Uh huh uh. This is a terrible story if you
don't like animals being hunted and killed, which we used
as trophies. But it's also funny because they started bragging
while they're on a plane. They started bragging about what
they do and to the passengers next to them, and
(24:52):
they didn't know what those passengers did for a living.
We'll get it to this when we come back. It's
actually turned out to be really funny. And then after
three o'clock we have Alex Stone from ABC News. Where'd
this come from? Now? Suddenly the Menendez brothers might be
given freedom by Gavin Newsom? Is he gonna talk about
that in this podcast? Newsom wants a risk assessment done
(25:14):
of the Menandez brothers by the California Parole Board. That
doesn't sound good.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Coming up after three o'clock, Alex Stone, ABC News on
the Menendez brothers. Suddenly, what they're gonna get clemency from Newsom? Seriously,
Newsom is gonna let them Menendez brothers out. He wants
a risk assessment from the parole board. Well, you wouldn't
do that unless you're gonna let him out. We're also
(25:48):
gonna talk about all the dirty, perverse messages that has
led to one hundred intelligence officers being fired by Tulsea Gabbard,
the dude Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
They were writing all this, all these disgusting sex messages
on one of those slack channels, one of those internal
messaging channels that companies have. But wait till you hear
about the content. One writer actually printed some of the
messages and I got to figure out how to explain
him to you. I have a dumb button.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's not it's not that it's just a bad word.
It's it's a it's a it's a it's a disgusting
concept that nobody's going on to hear. But she's firing
one hundred of these people. You're you're not gonn believe
the whole story that's coming up to next hour. But first,
what we have here is two people on board a plane.
They they brought Byron Leaf Fitzpatrick and Shannon Lee Page.
(26:51):
They they went on a plane and they started chatting
to nearby passengers and uh, they're flying over California. And
you know, I hate passengers who talk to me on
a plane. I mean I give out every vibe that says,
don't even say hello. All right, you know, I got
baseball cap pulled down, sunglasses on a coat, hunched up,
(27:16):
carrying something block in my face, PLoP into the chair,
lean away. Do not want to talk to people on
a play. And every once in a while you get
somebody chatty like and it's it's like an older woman
and they're really nice, and you can't really tell them
to shut up. Well you can, but that would be
awfully rude. It would be awfully rude. I try not
(27:36):
to be rude. Actually, see that's the thing. But you
know if you push me. Well, these two are jabbering
away and they said that they'd hunted a mountain lion.
That was the adventure they were coming back from. In fact,
they said one of their relatives was a big fan
of wild animals, and they had stuffed and mounted a
(27:58):
number of them, mounted ands wolverines, wolve. They had a
big trophy room. Now they're telling this to a couple
of other passengers nearby who were sitting in front of them,
and I guess the passengers saying, oh, really, go on,
go on, and so they they said, you know, we've
(28:19):
got a sea turtle skull, got a seat turt and
so and so the other two passengers said you do,
Can we take a look at it? And that's when
they landed. They said, can we can we look at
the sea turtle skull? Well, the couple said yeah, well yeah,
but it's it's it's illegal for us to have this.
(28:41):
So they waited until there was no one around, no
TSA agents, and then they showed off the turtle skull. Well,
the two passengers that they had been babbling to, these
two passengers who wanted to see the turtle skull were
two officers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Knew it is that crazy. Yes, karma, karma, karma, I
(29:06):
mean these two idiots Byron and Shannon. They pulled the
skull from inside their jacket. It was inside a jacket
in their luggage, and it was part of a federally
listed endangered species illegal to possess, illegal to transport. So
(29:27):
the wildlife officers got back to their office, they wrote
up search warrants, and they raided the couple's home in Chico,
and they raided the home of the family member who
had all the stuffed animals in his trophy room. They
found mountain lion claws, a ringtail cat, a mounted barn owl.
(29:47):
You don't kill owls, No, you don't stuff owls. I
think that's bad luck? Is it bad luck to stuff
and owls? So they've been they're being prosecuted, they're being fined. Ah,
they're not even going to jail.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Did so those officers didn't confront them and tell them
who they were. They waited, as I would have loved
to see the looks on their faces.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Gotcha, No, they went back and filled up the paperwork
for a proper search warrant.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I know, I know, and but you know, I was
surprised they didn't get there wasn't one of them got
fined eighteen hundred dollars, another one thousand, another one six hundred.
That's the old relative. And they were all placed on probation.
And it's going to stop prohibited from hunting for a year. Well,
(30:43):
they were already already prohibited from doing what they were
doing because that, I mean, can imagine showing off a
turtle skull? No, I mean did they kill the turtle? Yes? Probably,
It's just you know, these people should be stuffed. They
should be taxidermied, absolutely, put up in somebody's basement. When
(31:09):
I'm in charge, you all these creepy people, all the
creepy people, that's right, all their insides carved out, replaced
with stuffing. Yeah, and formaldehydelly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I always thought there's something really sick about having like stuffed.
I agree. I mean, there's there's something wrong with you.
When we come back Alex Stone on the Menendez brothers,
Now they're going to get out because it looks like
Nathan Hoffman is not in favor of supporting their request
to be re sentenced or to be retried. So the
(31:47):
third avenue they always had was Gavin Newsome, and you know,
he's dumb as a brick, so he's looking at a
risk assessment to possibly release them. Alex Stone and then
a hundred intelligence officers getting fired by the new Director
of National Intelligence, Tulsa Gabbard for being on a chat platform,
(32:10):
discussing all kinds of sexual matters, things you may have
never heard of before. Seriously, I'm not just hyping this
things until this morning, and I read this before breakfast.
In fact, I even sent it to a friend of mine.
I said, read this, but you know, eat first, and
then wait a while after you eat. Debra Mark Live
(32:32):
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