February 28, 2025 • 36 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/28) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about ICE enforcement beginning in LA and one member of LA City Council trying to help her residents avoid ICE. LA City Council is going after a Simpsons producer's tree house. Jamie Paige comes on the show to talk about LA City not releasing information related to the fire response 2 months later. More on the tense meeting at the White House today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio
app The worst run city in North America the city
of Los Angeles. You've heard what's going on the Karen
Bass The mayor wants to fire the Los Angeles Fire
Department chief Kristin Crowley. The hearing for her appeal before
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city council is going to be on Tuesday. You have
another councilwoman named Isabelle Morado who is photographed a sleep
in a city council meeting. Her response was I was reading.
And then you have an La City council women in
unic Is Hernandez breaking down in tears during the city
council meeting. Not over the Palisades fire victims. Not over
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the people who died in the Palisades or the thousands
who lost their homes and lives have been ruined. Not
over the children who lost their schools and friends. No,
it's about how criminal illegal aliens are getting arrested. Let's
play cut number eight.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Talk to your friends and neighbors.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We know that the best way to protect each other
is by knowing our rights.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So get make sure you go to.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Know your rights trainings, carry red cards, create an emergency plan,
get informed, and get together because we keep us safe.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So colleagues and everybody out there, please.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Please if you can, host know your Rights trainings in
your district community, and this is the edgels.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Learn your rights, because that's how we're keeping people from
being taken.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Trump declared English the national language right he signed an
executive orders. Dre what she's doing speaking Spanish? What's going
on there? That's violation of the executive order? Did we
get invaded by a foreign power? Did our government get
invaded by foreign power? Because she's standing there crying over
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a little gal alien criminals here. That's all ICE is
going after for now is criminals, and that's what she's
crying over.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Totally.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And that Democratic Socialist of America, boy, that's a bad organization.
I don't know how they ended up with four members
on the city council. Going to hell anyway. Michael Monks
is here to talk about a number of council people
who are upset over these ICE raids.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Michael, what do you know buenistad s.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
The official language of the John Comel Show is English.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
So this happened. The remarks that you just heard from
Councilman Unsses Hernandez. Happened after a little bit of council
business during their special meeting in Van Niser, doing this
once a month, they're moving in out the Van Night
City Hall and between the business and the public comments.
So it was almost as if something had been messaged
to her at that moment that she tearfully stood up
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and let the folks know what the latest was. She says, yes,
there are apparently reports that there are ICE activities taking
place in my district. And then we also heard from
Council President Marquis Harris Dawson, who represents South La him again,
him again, and Councilmen Current Price, who represents South Central
and parts of this he has been and so all
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of these folks have said, look, it's important that our
neighbors know that these activities are taking place, and we
want to make sure neighbors are looking out for their
illegal neighbors.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The guy who's been indicted is giving a warning out
to illegal alien criminals on how to get away from ICE.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
The verbige that they're using is know your rights, the
suggestion being that even if you're here illegally, you do
have some rights when it comes to the enforcement efforts
that are taking place, if they come to your home,
if they come to your place of business, and that's
what they're emphasizing. In fact, current Price said, my office
has held multiple I guess events where folks have come
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to learn about what his rights are, and Counselman hernandez
Haz also said, all of us need to be doing
this to make sure people know.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Dides' probably say anything about the palis Stages fire.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Not today, not today, Okay, not today. There are also
some activities. Look here, here's what we're seeing. We're seeing
social reports on social media from multiple parts of town,
Peaco Union areas around downtown, and then the reports from
South LA that immigration enforcement activities have taken place in
the city today. The scope of them, the specifics of them,
I don't know what they are yet. You know, we're
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trying to confirm what the scope of them are. Are
they looking for one person in particular? Are they looking
for a group of people? Are these criminals outside of
the illegal immigrant immigration aspect of it?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Right, right, are supposed to be going after people ex
criminal rats?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
There is a demonstration scheduled today at forty first Street
in Avalon in LA at five o'clock today because people
are hearing about these ice these ICE activities at least
three different locations. So a demonstration and support of illegal
immigrants who are here in LA is scheduled for five
o'clock today as well. So this is an area where
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these types of enforcement activities are probably going to be
met with the most resistance or to anywhere else in
the country.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, because we have a million illegal aliens that live
in It's.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
A significant portion of the population and a significant portion
of the economy, is what you hear. A lot of
the proponents and supporters of these folks say that you
could basically go into just about any restaurant in certain
parts of.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The city and asked to see you know, if you're
entitled time, I guess I have to cook my own food.
I'll go to the restaurant cook my own food. You
might have better luck. I know you had a bad
order this week. I had bad order this week. Say
at least i'd pay attention to my order, like when
I'm home, whatever I order I end up getting.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
But even the La Times just today had an article
about ICE agents coming into La and looking and they
wanted to.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They want employers to know what their rights are.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I know, the Times helping out the illegal alien criminals
by listing their rights.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
They're spelling out what folks should do in case any
of these immigration officials show up. To make sure that
your employees know who who can talk, who should talk,
who shouldn't talk, and what documentation might be necessary.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
We're in the upside down universe here. No, this is
just la everything's inverted.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It is just La Man.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Meantime, all the poor Palisades people are stuck in a
red tayeal try and try to get their homes rebuilt.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, I'll let you know.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Another piece of business that came out of Council today
is that they have eliminated, or they've taken a step
to eliminate all of the red tape for rebuilding any
structure for the Olympics in twenty twenty eight the Olympics,
So if you want to build a media center, you
won't have to go through the typical sequa and planning reviews.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So that was on the end of today.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So again, more foreigners people coming in from two hundred
other countries. You know they'll be taken care.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Of exactly any Look, we dealt with the fires in January.
We have the rebuild effort ahead right now at is
City Hall that is on fire with the political fallout
of this, and that's what we're monitoring now out of
the city building and more on that Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, that's gonna be exciting day, and I guess there is.
She Crowley's going to appear before the City Council.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That's what it looks like because she does have under
the city Charter the right to appeal the firing from
last week, and now she needs to see if she
can wrangle up ten supporters on the City Council. So
if she can, they do have the authority to reinstate her.
I don't think the math looks good for her, but
at the moment that will at least be good dramatic.
She should go scorch Dirth on Bass. I'm really sure
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to tell all the truth about Bass. I think if
you're Mare Bass, you want to get this behind you
as fast as possible. So in a way, this is
not a bad strategy if you oppose the mayor, because
it does keep the focus on this decision, which has
been controversial.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Michael monks, Thank you, my pleasure. KFI News exciting times
all right, when we come back, I don't know what
I want to do. Everything's happening so rapidly, and there's
new stuff all the time.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. It's
the podcast version, and you listen to what you missed,
and you've missed a lot already. We had John Decern,
the Cafe White House correspondent. We were playing clips in
the big fight between Zelenski and Trump and JD.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Vance.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We're going to play more of those clips and get
back into it after three o'clock. And meantime we're going
through all the incompetence, Boobery and scandals with the idiot
LA City Council and the idiot Karen Bass. Looks like
they're going to have the hearing on Tuesday. Kristin Crowley
is appealing her firing as the fire chief.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And you have.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
One city council woman and this is Hernandez breaking into tears.
She's trying to she's trying to warn illegal alien criminals
that ice is coming for them, because ice raids are
supposedly going on today. And you have another idiot councilwoman,
Isabelle Herado, who fell asleep at a meeting and is
insisting that she was actually reading with her eyes closed.
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In fact, Devra's going to show off her talent because
I caught you dozing in there. I admit it, But
you can You can read a newscaster with your eyes closed.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Yes, I've been doing it so long that, yes, I
can do that.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Now, well, Deb's going to do that at two thirty.
Here's another stupid thing the council is doing. They're going
after a tree house. Rick Polizzi, if I'm pronouncing his
name right, is a producer with the symptoms The Simpsons.
Twenty four years ago, he built a treehouse on his
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property in Sherman Oaks for his daughters and it's become
a local landmark. And now, after twenty four years, the
city of Los Angeles is trying to destroy it. They
accused him of not having a proper building permit for
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the tree.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You believe this, you people.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
In the Palisades, You're doomed. Look what they're doing to
a guy who has a tree house from twenty four
years ago, four two thousand and one.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
They don't have better things to worry about.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And this is what they're doing. They harassed normal people, taxpayers.
He has spent fifty thousand dollars on legal fees and
zoning permits. It's a three story treehouse. It's his tree.
There's a trial coming in March. The city is pursuing
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criminal charges against him, criminal charges for having an illegal
tree house. So now he's gonna tear it down rather
than spend thousands more defending himself in court. What can
we not get a bulldozer and buldeoz city Hall and
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everybody inside. I don't see another solution because you can't
talk to these people. They're insane. There's are crazy people.
So six thousand people signed a petition to try to
save it and police. He said, if nothing happens in
the next few days, the demolition is going to happen.
I'm not spending another thirty thousand dollars in court for
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a silly treehouse. I know it means a lot to everybody,
but I've got to stop the bleeding.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I don't blame him now.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
This guy's actually accomplished things outside of unlike all the
morons of the city council. And these people really are
a bunch of brainstems. I mean they are vegetables. He's
won three Emmy Awards as the Simpsons producer. He built
it with another guy who produced The Symptoms Simpsons, Michael Mahon,
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and it's been a big attraction on Halloween, thousands of visitors.
He calls at Boney Island. Uh, there are a lot
of celebrities who are publicizing this, trying to save it.
And who are these who are these pinheaded bureaucrats that
want to tear it down? It really offends them so
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much that he didn't fill out the proper paperwork. Who
knew there was paperwork for a treehouse?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I I did. I'm just so.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And you know who's involved in this, Nthea Raman, another
one of the communists.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know what he needs to get This is what
he should do.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
He should go and draft up something that says that
if something happens with the treehouse, he and his own
insurance company will be responsible for paying out any damages
and then the city can just back away. They don't
have to worry about it. The city officials don't have
to worry about it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I would think his treehouse is already covered by his insurance.
I would think so too.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
But at least he can he could show proof and say, look,
something happens, we're not suing the city.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Let me nobody will sue the city.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Nythia Ramen had a homeless encampment in her district in
front of a school where the gang members had taken
over in the tents and they were selling drugs and
guns through the openings in the tent, like you wandered
up to the tent and they'll pull down the zipper.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And for that.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Interestingly, they didn't have purpots to sell guns and drugs
in front of the school. Yes, shockingly, and Nthia Rahman
was confronted about this and did nothing. There was a
guy on a restaurant Sherman Oaks, and a homeless guy
through a bag of his own feces. The restaurant owner
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was driving a car and and this crazy vagrant threw
a large bag of his feces and splattered it on
the window. I remember seeing the video. Here comes a
bag of poop, hits the window and splatters inside the bag.
Nathia Raman was shown this didn't care. The restaurant owner
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confronted her in person, and she got angry at him
because he brought a TV camera. Nythia Ramen sides with
people who'll sell guns in front of schools, who sell
drugs in front of schools. She sides with vagrants who
throw their own feces at business owners. And now you
have a guy here with his daughter's childhood treehouse, and
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Nythia Raman's gone after him. She claims she's worked with
him and the city departments to try to save this thing.
What do you mean you worked with to try to
save Why does somebody tell these departments.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
To go f off?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Our goal has always been to find a pathway to
preserve the treehouse. Just leave them alone. You don't need
a path way. Stop bothering them, Stop calling him, stop
sending him a threatening mail.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Just stop it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Go home, go away, Go clean up the drug addicts
and the gun runners. In front of the skulls with
the Aramen What an absolute vegetable head, I mean chest.
He built it along three gum trees. It has a
secret door at indoor bar, tiki torches, a hammock, and
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a open pulley system.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
That sounds like fun.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
An indoor bar. Wow, Oh, probably not for the kids.
I was gonna say, I don't know what he was mocktails.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, Now, this thing was built around two thousand and one.
The Los Angeles Department of Building Safety filed a code
enforcement violation in twenty seventeen because the treehouse lacked building permits.
I had a clubhouse in our backyard. It wasn't up
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in a tree, it was on the ground and we
used to all do sleep over in this little cabin
was well, it was prefabricated, and they hoisted it into
the backyard.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well, I don't know. Was I supposed to have a
building permit? I don't think so, not for prefab.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
The city filed misdemeanor charges against him in twenty twenty.
He's been trying fighting for five years to get them
dismissed meantime. Meantime, the illegal alien criminals who've actually committed crimes,
they have council people crying for them and giving out
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public instructions on how to avoid ice. But here is
an American citizen, a taxpayer, an award winning television producer
on a show beloved by nearly everyone in the country
and he's getting chased over a treehouse he built for
his daughters.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Eric Garcetti and his daughter have visited the treehouse, but
the trouble started while Garcetti was mayor. I this is
just I so want everyone in La City government to
be removed permanently from city Hall, banished from the country, preferably.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
In fact, why I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I was just a way to deport all of them
and just start again Bulbos City Hall and start again.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, just.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
There's nothing left to say. This is so insane and
so crazy and so wrong knit.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
The Rahman.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
She actually one reelection last time around. This was after
she was protecting the drug and gun runners in front
of the school. After this is after she was protecting
the who's throwing bags of feces around. The voters in
that district elected her anyway, And now she's going after
a guy who has a twenty five year old tree
house for his kid.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That's just it's just overwhelming.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We are on from one until four o'clock. After three
o'clock where I got some entertaining clips. Huge blowout in
the Oval Office. Today on live television, they had a
press conference for the reporters. Voldemir Zelinski, the President of Ukraine,
was going to sign a deal with Donald Trump over
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us developing the minerals that they have very wealthy mineral
deposits in Ukraine and we were going to start developing
with American companies and split the proceeds fifty to fifty
so Ukraine could rebuild and we could get some of
the money back that we put into the war. And
of course everything went to hell and Trump started yelling
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at Zelensky and threw him out of the office. We
will give you some clips coming up now. As we've
been telling you, Tuesday's a big day because you're going
to have the LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley. There'll be
a hearing. She's appealing her firing. And there's so much,
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and you know, earlier in the show, I went through
all the things that they will not talk about, that
they will not explain, the lack of funding for the
fire department, the lack of fire engines that are that
are ready to go into battle.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
There's a hundred of them that are busted.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Why the firefighters, why the engines that were working were
not sent into the hillsides in advance of the fire.
There's oh in the reservoir and everybody in the Palisades
wants to know. And what the city is doing is
that we're refusing to explain anything, refusing to release any records,
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any documents.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Twent two months.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
We're going to talk now with Jamie Page and she's
with the Westside Current dot com. It's a good local
media site covering the West Side, and they've been trying
to get information and they're getting stonewalled and every turn, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
How are you, I'm good?
Speaker 8 (20:23):
How are you today?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'm fine?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tell me what you're trying to get out of the
city and what they're doing to block you from getting
the information?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
A basic information that you would expect to have as
a journalist. You know, these are just some basic questions
we ask, what were the nine one one calls, like
release the audio dispatch, tell us about preparations for this fire, especially,
you know, when we're talking about this is our district.
The Palisades is part of our coverage area. This is
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our community, and our readers want to have answers to
these questions within five minutes. A lot of these open
records requests that we have submitted have been closed with
the reason that this is now under an investigation and
they are giving some government California government section codes as
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a reason to not give us this information. The list
that you just had we have plus a couple of
other like was the emergency operation or chart launched before
the fire last year when we had all those rains.
You remember this that the operations team were there a
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day and a half ahead of time, giving us up
to the minute alerts for rain. We knew at least
five days ahead of time that this wind was coming.
So what were the measures that they took out a
city before this started?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It has Have they made any requests that would shed
some light on whether Karen Bass really didn't know that
the fire warnings were coming, because I don't believe her
at all, nobody does. But I wondered if there was
any recordings or paperwork or phone call, phone trail that
would shed some light on that.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
We've asked that question. And even though she left when
she did, we got the first weather announcement way ahead
of when she even left for Ghana. So unless she
has a really bad team or staff members who just
there's no explanation and she must have known this. Again,
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just part of the city charter when we have a
verse weather is to implement this emergency plan that nobody had.
It was not in place.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, because they have an emergency center, don't they They.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Do, And and like last year when those rains happened,
we had the emergency center up and running before the storm.
This time, when we knew that we had Hurricane Wins coming,
there was no there was no system in place. Well
that she did not start the system that was supposed
to be in place for us to even have everything centralized.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So we don't know the details minute by minute of
how many firefighters showed up, when they showed up, where
they were dispatched to, like the whole how the whole
organization responded over the hours and days ahead.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
There's been no story told at all.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
There isn't. But you know, we have history ourselves to
look back on. As journalists. We were live blogging last
year's rainstorm. Myself, I was ready to get the same
information when these winds were coming and it was not
coming to us. We couldn't inform our readers what was
happening because it wasn't coming to us. This is part
of the procol right. This is what we do as journalists.
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We inform people so they stay safe during these times,
and then we asked questions. We asked questions like why
didn't you give us the information? Where were the people,
how are the fire hydrants working? What were the nine
one one calls? And none of these questions have been answered.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I imagine you've spoken to a lot of Palisades residents. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I have a lot of friends in the Palisades,
so I can imagine, But describe for everybody what has
been their mood, What is their reaction to the stonewalling,
the lack of information, the lack of answers.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
A lot of people are really angry. You know. One
of the questions they have is just legally, what route
can they take to make themselves whole. We know that
the city also has you know, without having these answers,
a lot of people are in limble right now of
what they can do to move forward with just some
of the basic stuff filing insurance claims. Well, you have
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to know some of the stuff that filing insurance claims of.
You know, how what happened with the fire, What did
you have getting access to records? Again, a lot of
the information that they're looking for they don't have. The
other thing that I'm seeing is there's a lot of
theories out there, and typically when people come up even
with these conspiracy theories, it's because there's no information, so
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all they have to do is kind of come up
with their own theory on their own.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Well, when you have such a blackout of information, I
mean it's nearly a total blackout, and you've been driving
for two months to get information and you've gotten very little,
I mean, I wonder people are going to fill in
the blanks and maybe they're right, Maybe they aren't conspiracy theories.
Maybe maybe whatever threads they're pulling on might lead to
something real.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Well in your example of the lead of what's happening
in the nation right now, I mean, just bring it local. Right,
We're seeing everybody fight pointing fingers and there's no information.
Just is Steve Soberoff getting paid or is he not?
You know, was she's probably doing what she's supposed to
do or is she not? All we're seeing is finger
pointing and now very dysfunctional city and county leaders who
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are supposed to be in charge right now.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, the sober Off thing.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
He's claiming, you know, when he spoke at Harvard Westlake
that he was lied to by Bass. And according to
the La Times, these philanthropic organizations that were going to
finance sober Off, they felt they were lied to. They
weren't told that they were given sober Off a half
million dollars for three months work. I guess they thought
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they were giving money to some general fire fund to
help people. And so Bass is being accused of lying
to both sides on that one. And I just don't
understand how she keeps existing, is Mayor with all this
swirling around. I've never seen anybody perform this badly in
my life in a pressure situation.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I just it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And she's surviving because she's refusing to speak, and you're pushing,
but not enough, not enough journalists in this city are pushing.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Well. I think we all need to push hard and
get the answers. And you show was like yours, where
we're just raising awareness. I typically would not do a
story like we did about not getting the records, but
at some point that's the story, right that we've asked
for questions and very again basic questions that we ask
in an emergency situation like this. We want to we
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want to see the call log. We want to see
how nine to one one. We want to see how
quickly fire trucks respond into this, so that we can
tell people what the answers are. Now, we didn't have questions,
there's own timeline. Are our open records? Was just immediately closed.
I've never seen that either within five minutes of a
request one of mine was closed. We talk about no transparency.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
In your experience when you don't get answers, Is it
because they're covering up good news?
Speaker 8 (27:46):
It would yeah, oh not good news?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, good news.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Did they usually cover up good news when they refuse
to answer your questions?
Speaker 8 (27:55):
No, we're the first to hear about locking arms. Yeah,
that's that question. All right.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, Jamie, thank you for coming on, and if you
find out stuff, please let us know and we can
air it out here too.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
I will send your producer a text as soon as
I hear more.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
By the way, you have a great news site there
westside current dot com. I read that all the time.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
Thank you. You have a great show.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
A lot of useful news there, Jamie Page there Westside
Current dot com. You live on the West Side. That's
must read because there isn't much else. It's every man
for himself. Coming up after three o'clock, we've got some
entertaining fireworks between the Ukrainian president Zelenski Trump jd Vance.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They got into a big fight.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
They were supposed to sign an agreement that eventually this
would be step one towards peace. There was no peace,
not even close. A lot of yelling, I'm watching the replace.
Trump actually hit Vzelenski a couple of times on the arm.
It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
Listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Tom McLintock now coming on at three o'clock. Just got him,
Tom McClintock, the congressman from Northern California at three o'clock.
So well, I got a minute. Let me play some
of the clips today because these are great.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
This is now.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Zelensky was meeting with Trump and JD. Vance in the
Oval Office. It was televised. It was a press conference
and they were going to talk about a deal they
made to develop the mineral the mineral deposits in Ukraine,
very valuable rare earth minerals, and we were going.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
To get a fifty to fifty deal.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
We'd get some of the money back that we spent
on the war so far three hundred and fifty billion dollars,
and he'd be able to get some money to help
rebuild Ukraine. And this was going to be a precursor
to a peace agreement. This would be US making an investment,
and we'd want to protect the investment. And there's talk
of European country. He's supplying the actual military security. So
(30:03):
it was just step one. Uh, but Zelensky wants a
much more forceful promise of protection. I mean, you know,
he wants our troops if necessary, he wants a lot
more weapons, and Trump and Vance were really pissed off
by his resistance. Let's start with cut two.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
A lot of questions. Let's start from the bigin sure
fills to wall. During the war, everybody has problems, even you,
But you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but
you will feel it in the fusion. Bless you, I'm blessed.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
You're not.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. We're trying to
solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I'm not telling you because you're in no position to dictate.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
That's exactly what you do.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
You're in no position. Didn't dictate what we're going to feel.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
We're gonna feel very good.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
I feel we're gonna feel very.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Good and very strong influence.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
You're right now, not in a very good position.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
You've allowed you so to.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Be in a very bad position that he's able to
be right about the very beginning of the war.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Not in a good position. You don't have the cards
right now with us. You start having right now, you
don't wear spread. You're gambling with the lives of millions
of people.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
See, you're gambling with world War three. You're gambling with
world War three. And what you're doing is very disrespectful
to the country. This country that's.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
Back to you far more than a lot of people
said they should have.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, so let's he was saying, well, you're going to
feel the impact of the war with Russia. In other words,
you better step up because this is going to harm
you one day. And Trump was having none of that.
It's they don't tell me, don't tell me what we're
gonna feel like cut number three because jd. Vance jumps
in here. He had enough. Something set him off, and
he kept demanding that Winsky thank Trump in America.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Have you said thank you once that time? No, in
this entire meeting that you said thank you.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October.
Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of
America and the president who's trying to save your country.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Please, you're seeing that if you will speak very loudly
about the war.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
He's not speaking loudly.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
He's not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble. No, No,
you've done a lot of talking. Your country is in
big trouble. I know you're not winning all You're not
winning this. You have a damn good chance. We coming
out okay because of the president.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
We are staying Yawa country staying strong. From the very
beginning of the war, we've.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Been alone and we.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Are sankl I said, you haven't been giving it.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
He gave you, stupid president, three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
You will, We gave you military equipment. You and you
met up brave, but they had to use our MELI
one of the best. If you didn't have our military equipment.
If you didn't have our military equipment, this war would
have been over in two weeks. In three days, I heard.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It from Putin in three days. This is how maybe
less in two weeks. Of course.
Speaker 10 (33:14):
Yeah, it's gonna be a very hard thing to do
business like this.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Tell you to say thank you.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
I said it.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
All there except for America.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
He except that there are disagreements, and let's go litigate
those disagreements rather than trying to.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Fight it out of the American media when you're wrong.
We know that you're wrong, but you.
Speaker 10 (33:32):
See, I think it's good for the American people to
see what's going on. I think it's very important.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
That's why I kept this going so long.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, he's awfully billigerate, because eventually he agrees, you're right.
If America didn't come in, Russia would have taken over
the entire country in about three days, and instead he's
held him off for three years with Russia grabbing a
piece of eastern Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Let me see God, yeah, uh, let me play some
of this.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Trump is asked by a reporter what happens if Russia
breaks the ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Play cut number.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Five breaks They said.
Speaker 10 (34:13):
He what are you say?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
She's asking?
Speaker 9 (34:17):
What if Russia breaks the ceasefire?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Well, what if they? What if anything?
Speaker 10 (34:21):
What if the bomb drops on your head right now?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (34:25):
What if they broke it? I don't know. They broke
it with Biden because Biden didn't respect him. They didn't
respect Obama. They respect me. Let me tell you, Putin
went through a hell of a lot with me. He
went through a phony witch hunt where they used him
in Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia. You ever hear of that deal?
There was a phony. There was a phony Hunter Biden,
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Joe Biden scam, Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff who was
a Democrat scam. And he had to go through that,
and he did go through it.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
We didn't end up in a war. And he went
through it.
Speaker 10 (34:59):
He was accused of all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
He had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 10 (35:01):
It came out of Hunter Biden's bathroom. It came out
of Hunter Biden's bedroom.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
It was disgusting.
Speaker 10 (35:09):
And then they said, oh, oh, the laptop from Hell
was made by Russia, the fifty one agents. The whole
thing was a scam and he had to put up
with that he was being accused of all that stuff.
All I can say is this, he might have broken
deals with Obama and Bush, and he might have broken
them with Biden. He did maybe maybe he did. I
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don't know what happened, but he didn't break them with me.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
He wants to make a deal.
Speaker 10 (35:36):
I don't know if you can make a deal. The
problem is I've empowered you to be a tough guy,
and I don't think you'd be a tough guy without
the United States, and your people are very brave. But
you're either going to make a deal or we're out.
And if we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't
think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out.
(35:57):
But you don't have the cards. But once we signed that,
you're in a much better position. But you're not acting
at all thankful. And that's not a nice thing. I'll
be honest, that's not a nice thing.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
All right.
Speaker 10 (36:09):
I think we've seen enough. What do you think this
is gonna be great television?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I will say that, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Debra Wark live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
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and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio
app The worst run city in North America the city
of Los Angeles. You've heard what's going on the Karen
Bass The mayor wants to fire the Los Angeles Fire
Department chief Kristin Crowley. The hearing for her appeal before
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city council is going to be on Tuesday. You have
another councilwoman named Isabelle Morado who is photographed a sleep
in a city council meeting. Her response was I was reading.
And then you have an La City council women in
unic Is Hernandez breaking down in tears during the city
council meeting. Not over the Palisades fire victims. Not over
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the people who died in the Palisades or the thousands
who lost their homes and lives have been ruined. Not
over the children who lost their schools and friends. No,
it's about how criminal illegal aliens are getting arrested. Let's
play cut number eight.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Talk to your friends and neighbors.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We know that the best way to protect each other
is by knowing our rights.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So get make sure you go to.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Know your rights trainings, carry red cards, create an emergency plan,
get informed, and get together because we keep us safe.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So colleagues and everybody out there, please.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Please if you can, host know your Rights trainings in
your district community, and this is the edgels.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Learn your rights, because that's how we're keeping people from
being taken.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Trump declared English the national language right he signed an
executive orders. Dre what she's doing speaking Spanish? What's going
on there? That's violation of the executive order? Did we
get invaded by a foreign power? Did our government get
invaded by foreign power? Because she's standing there crying over
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a little gal alien criminals here. That's all ICE is
going after for now is criminals, and that's what she's
crying over.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Totally.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And that Democratic Socialist of America, boy, that's a bad organization.
I don't know how they ended up with four members
on the city council. Going to hell anyway. Michael Monks
is here to talk about a number of council people
who are upset over these ICE raids.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Michael, what do you know buenistad s.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
The official language of the John Comel Show is English.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
So this happened. The remarks that you just heard from
Councilman Unsses Hernandez. Happened after a little bit of council
business during their special meeting in Van Niser, doing this
once a month, they're moving in out the Van Night
City Hall and between the business and the public comments.
So it was almost as if something had been messaged
to her at that moment that she tearfully stood up
(02:55):
and let the folks know what the latest was. She says, yes,
there are apparently reports that there are ICE activities taking
place in my district. And then we also heard from
Council President Marquis Harris Dawson, who represents South La him again,
him again, and Councilmen Current Price, who represents South Central
and parts of this he has been and so all
(03:17):
of these folks have said, look, it's important that our
neighbors know that these activities are taking place, and we
want to make sure neighbors are looking out for their
illegal neighbors.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The guy who's been indicted is giving a warning out
to illegal alien criminals on how to get away from ICE.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
The verbige that they're using is know your rights, the
suggestion being that even if you're here illegally, you do
have some rights when it comes to the enforcement efforts
that are taking place, if they come to your home,
if they come to your place of business, and that's
what they're emphasizing. In fact, current Price said, my office
has held multiple I guess events where folks have come
(03:54):
to learn about what his rights are, and Counselman hernandez
Haz also said, all of us need to be doing
this to make sure people know.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Dides' probably say anything about the palis Stages fire.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Not today, not today, Okay, not today. There are also
some activities. Look here, here's what we're seeing. We're seeing
social reports on social media from multiple parts of town,
Peaco Union areas around downtown, and then the reports from
South LA that immigration enforcement activities have taken place in
the city today. The scope of them, the specifics of them,
I don't know what they are yet. You know, we're
(04:23):
trying to confirm what the scope of them are. Are
they looking for one person in particular? Are they looking
for a group of people? Are these criminals outside of
the illegal immigrant immigration aspect of it?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Right, right, are supposed to be going after people ex
criminal rats?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
There is a demonstration scheduled today at forty first Street
in Avalon in LA at five o'clock today because people
are hearing about these ice these ICE activities at least
three different locations. So a demonstration and support of illegal
immigrants who are here in LA is scheduled for five
o'clock today as well. So this is an area where
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these types of enforcement activities are probably going to be
met with the most resistance or to anywhere else in
the country.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, because we have a million illegal aliens that live
in It's.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
A significant portion of the population and a significant portion
of the economy, is what you hear. A lot of
the proponents and supporters of these folks say that you
could basically go into just about any restaurant in certain
parts of.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The city and asked to see you know, if you're
entitled time, I guess I have to cook my own food.
I'll go to the restaurant cook my own food. You
might have better luck. I know you had a bad
order this week. I had bad order this week. Say
at least i'd pay attention to my order, like when
I'm home, whatever I order I end up getting.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
But even the La Times just today had an article
about ICE agents coming into La and looking and they
wanted to.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They want employers to know what their rights are.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I know, the Times helping out the illegal alien criminals
by listing their rights.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
They're spelling out what folks should do in case any
of these immigration officials show up. To make sure that
your employees know who who can talk, who should talk,
who shouldn't talk, and what documentation might be necessary.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
We're in the upside down universe here. No, this is
just la everything's inverted.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It is just La Man.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Meantime, all the poor Palisades people are stuck in a
red tayeal try and try to get their homes rebuilt.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, I'll let you know.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Another piece of business that came out of Council today
is that they have eliminated, or they've taken a step
to eliminate all of the red tape for rebuilding any
structure for the Olympics in twenty twenty eight the Olympics,
So if you want to build a media center, you
won't have to go through the typical sequa and planning reviews.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So that was on the end of today.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So again, more foreigners people coming in from two hundred
other countries. You know they'll be taken care.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Of exactly any Look, we dealt with the fires in January.
We have the rebuild effort ahead right now at is
City Hall that is on fire with the political fallout
of this, and that's what we're monitoring now out of
the city building and more on that Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, that's gonna be exciting day, and I guess there is.
She Crowley's going to appear before the City Council.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That's what it looks like because she does have under
the city Charter the right to appeal the firing from
last week, and now she needs to see if she
can wrangle up ten supporters on the City Council. So
if she can, they do have the authority to reinstate her.
I don't think the math looks good for her, but
at the moment that will at least be good dramatic.
She should go scorch Dirth on Bass. I'm really sure
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to tell all the truth about Bass. I think if
you're Mare Bass, you want to get this behind you
as fast as possible. So in a way, this is
not a bad strategy if you oppose the mayor, because
it does keep the focus on this decision, which has
been controversial.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Michael monks, Thank you, my pleasure. KFI News exciting times
all right, when we come back, I don't know what
I want to do. Everything's happening so rapidly, and there's
new stuff all the time.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. It's
the podcast version, and you listen to what you missed,
and you've missed a lot already. We had John Decern,
the Cafe White House correspondent. We were playing clips in
the big fight between Zelenski and Trump and JD.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Vance.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We're going to play more of those clips and get
back into it after three o'clock. And meantime we're going
through all the incompetence, Boobery and scandals with the idiot
LA City Council and the idiot Karen Bass. Looks like
they're going to have the hearing on Tuesday. Kristin Crowley
is appealing her firing as the fire chief.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And you have.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
One city council woman and this is Hernandez breaking into tears.
She's trying to she's trying to warn illegal alien criminals
that ice is coming for them, because ice raids are
supposedly going on today. And you have another idiot councilwoman,
Isabelle Herado, who fell asleep at a meeting and is
insisting that she was actually reading with her eyes closed.
(09:04):
In fact, Devra's going to show off her talent because
I caught you dozing in there. I admit it, But
you can You can read a newscaster with your eyes closed.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Yes, I've been doing it so long that, yes, I
can do that.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Now, well, Deb's going to do that at two thirty.
Here's another stupid thing the council is doing. They're going
after a tree house. Rick Polizzi, if I'm pronouncing his
name right, is a producer with the symptoms The Simpsons.
Twenty four years ago, he built a treehouse on his
(09:40):
property in Sherman Oaks for his daughters and it's become
a local landmark. And now, after twenty four years, the
city of Los Angeles is trying to destroy it. They
accused him of not having a proper building permit for
(10:01):
the tree.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You believe this, you people.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
In the Palisades, You're doomed. Look what they're doing to
a guy who has a tree house from twenty four
years ago, four two thousand and one.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
They don't have better things to worry about.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And this is what they're doing. They harassed normal people, taxpayers.
He has spent fifty thousand dollars on legal fees and
zoning permits. It's a three story treehouse. It's his tree.
There's a trial coming in March. The city is pursuing
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criminal charges against him, criminal charges for having an illegal
tree house. So now he's gonna tear it down rather
than spend thousands more defending himself in court. What can
we not get a bulldozer and buldeoz city Hall and
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everybody inside. I don't see another solution because you can't
talk to these people. They're insane. There's are crazy people.
So six thousand people signed a petition to try to
save it and police. He said, if nothing happens in
the next few days, the demolition is going to happen.
I'm not spending another thirty thousand dollars in court for
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a silly treehouse. I know it means a lot to everybody,
but I've got to stop the bleeding.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I don't blame him now.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
This guy's actually accomplished things outside of unlike all the
morons of the city council. And these people really are
a bunch of brainstems. I mean they are vegetables. He's
won three Emmy Awards as the Simpsons producer. He built
it with another guy who produced The Symptoms Simpsons, Michael Mahon,
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and it's been a big attraction on Halloween, thousands of visitors.
He calls at Boney Island. Uh, there are a lot
of celebrities who are publicizing this, trying to save it.
And who are these who are these pinheaded bureaucrats that
want to tear it down? It really offends them so
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much that he didn't fill out the proper paperwork. Who
knew there was paperwork for a treehouse?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I I did. I'm just so.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And you know who's involved in this, Nthea Raman, another
one of the communists.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know what he needs to get This is what
he should do.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
He should go and draft up something that says that
if something happens with the treehouse, he and his own
insurance company will be responsible for paying out any damages
and then the city can just back away. They don't
have to worry about it. The city officials don't have
to worry about it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I would think his treehouse is already covered by his insurance.
I would think so too.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
But at least he can he could show proof and say, look,
something happens, we're not suing the city.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Let me nobody will sue the city.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Nythia Ramen had a homeless encampment in her district in
front of a school where the gang members had taken
over in the tents and they were selling drugs and
guns through the openings in the tent, like you wandered
up to the tent and they'll pull down the zipper.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And for that.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Interestingly, they didn't have purpots to sell guns and drugs
in front of the school. Yes, shockingly, and Nthia Rahman
was confronted about this and did nothing. There was a
guy on a restaurant Sherman Oaks, and a homeless guy
through a bag of his own feces. The restaurant owner
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was driving a car and and this crazy vagrant threw
a large bag of his feces and splattered it on
the window. I remember seeing the video. Here comes a
bag of poop, hits the window and splatters inside the bag.
Nathia Raman was shown this didn't care. The restaurant owner
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confronted her in person, and she got angry at him
because he brought a TV camera. Nythia Ramen sides with
people who'll sell guns in front of schools, who sell
drugs in front of schools. She sides with vagrants who
throw their own feces at business owners. And now you
have a guy here with his daughter's childhood treehouse, and
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Nythia Raman's gone after him. She claims she's worked with
him and the city departments to try to save this thing.
What do you mean you worked with to try to
save Why does somebody tell these departments.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
To go f off?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Our goal has always been to find a pathway to
preserve the treehouse. Just leave them alone. You don't need
a path way. Stop bothering them, Stop calling him, stop
sending him a threatening mail.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Just stop it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Go home, go away, Go clean up the drug addicts
and the gun runners. In front of the skulls with
the Aramen What an absolute vegetable head, I mean chest.
He built it along three gum trees. It has a
secret door at indoor bar, tiki torches, a hammock, and
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a open pulley system.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
That sounds like fun.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
An indoor bar. Wow, Oh, probably not for the kids.
I was gonna say, I don't know what he was mocktails.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, Now, this thing was built around two thousand and one.
The Los Angeles Department of Building Safety filed a code
enforcement violation in twenty seventeen because the treehouse lacked building permits.
I had a clubhouse in our backyard. It wasn't up
(15:56):
in a tree, it was on the ground and we
used to all do sleep over in this little cabin
was well, it was prefabricated, and they hoisted it into
the backyard.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well, I don't know. Was I supposed to have a
building permit? I don't think so, not for prefab.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
The city filed misdemeanor charges against him in twenty twenty.
He's been trying fighting for five years to get them
dismissed meantime. Meantime, the illegal alien criminals who've actually committed crimes,
they have council people crying for them and giving out
(16:39):
public instructions on how to avoid ice. But here is
an American citizen, a taxpayer, an award winning television producer
on a show beloved by nearly everyone in the country
and he's getting chased over a treehouse he built for
his daughters.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Eric Garcetti and his daughter have visited the treehouse, but
the trouble started while Garcetti was mayor. I this is
just I so want everyone in La City government to
be removed permanently from city Hall, banished from the country, preferably.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
In fact, why I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I was just a way to deport all of them
and just start again Bulbos City Hall and start again.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, just.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
There's nothing left to say. This is so insane and
so crazy and so wrong knit.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
The Rahman.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
She actually one reelection last time around. This was after
she was protecting the drug and gun runners in front
of the school. After this is after she was protecting
the who's throwing bags of feces around. The voters in
that district elected her anyway, And now she's going after
a guy who has a twenty five year old tree
house for his kid.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That's just it's just overwhelming.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We are on from one until four o'clock. After three
o'clock where I got some entertaining clips. Huge blowout in
the Oval Office. Today on live television, they had a
press conference for the reporters. Voldemir Zelinski, the President of Ukraine,
was going to sign a deal with Donald Trump over
(18:42):
us developing the minerals that they have very wealthy mineral
deposits in Ukraine and we were going to start developing
with American companies and split the proceeds fifty to fifty
so Ukraine could rebuild and we could get some of
the money back that we put into the war. And
of course everything went to hell and Trump started yelling
(19:04):
at Zelensky and threw him out of the office. We
will give you some clips coming up now. As we've
been telling you, Tuesday's a big day because you're going
to have the LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley. There'll be
a hearing. She's appealing her firing. And there's so much,
(19:26):
and you know, earlier in the show, I went through
all the things that they will not talk about, that
they will not explain, the lack of funding for the
fire department, the lack of fire engines that are that
are ready to go into battle.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
There's a hundred of them that are busted.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Why the firefighters, why the engines that were working were
not sent into the hillsides in advance of the fire.
There's oh in the reservoir and everybody in the Palisades
wants to know. And what the city is doing is
that we're refusing to explain anything, refusing to release any records,
(20:04):
any documents.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Twent two months.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
We're going to talk now with Jamie Page and she's
with the Westside Current dot com. It's a good local
media site covering the West Side, and they've been trying
to get information and they're getting stonewalled and every turn, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
How are you, I'm good?
Speaker 8 (20:23):
How are you today?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'm fine?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tell me what you're trying to get out of the
city and what they're doing to block you from getting
the information?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
A basic information that you would expect to have as
a journalist. You know, these are just some basic questions
we ask, what were the nine one one calls, like
release the audio dispatch, tell us about preparations for this fire, especially,
you know, when we're talking about this is our district.
The Palisades is part of our coverage area. This is
(20:55):
our community, and our readers want to have answers to
these questions within five minutes. A lot of these open
records requests that we have submitted have been closed with
the reason that this is now under an investigation and
they are giving some government California government section codes as
(21:16):
a reason to not give us this information. The list
that you just had we have plus a couple of
other like was the emergency operation or chart launched before
the fire last year when we had all those rains.
You remember this that the operations team were there a
(21:37):
day and a half ahead of time, giving us up
to the minute alerts for rain. We knew at least
five days ahead of time that this wind was coming.
So what were the measures that they took out a
city before this started?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It has Have they made any requests that would shed
some light on whether Karen Bass really didn't know that
the fire warnings were coming, because I don't believe her
at all, nobody does. But I wondered if there was
any recordings or paperwork or phone call, phone trail that
would shed some light on that.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
We've asked that question. And even though she left when
she did, we got the first weather announcement way ahead
of when she even left for Ghana. So unless she
has a really bad team or staff members who just
there's no explanation and she must have known this. Again,
(22:33):
just part of the city charter when we have a
verse weather is to implement this emergency plan that nobody had.
It was not in place.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, because they have an emergency center, don't they They.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Do, And and like last year when those rains happened,
we had the emergency center up and running before the storm.
This time, when we knew that we had Hurricane Wins coming,
there was no there was no system in place. Well
that she did not start the system that was supposed
to be in place for us to even have everything centralized.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So we don't know the details minute by minute of
how many firefighters showed up, when they showed up, where
they were dispatched to, like the whole how the whole
organization responded over the hours and days ahead.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
There's been no story told at all.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
There isn't. But you know, we have history ourselves to
look back on. As journalists. We were live blogging last
year's rainstorm. Myself, I was ready to get the same
information when these winds were coming and it was not
coming to us. We couldn't inform our readers what was
happening because it wasn't coming to us. This is part
of the procol right. This is what we do as journalists.
(23:53):
We inform people so they stay safe during these times,
and then we asked questions. We asked questions like why
didn't you give us the information? Where were the people,
how are the fire hydrants working? What were the nine
one one calls? And none of these questions have been answered.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I imagine you've spoken to a lot of Palisades residents. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I have a lot of friends in the Palisades,
so I can imagine, But describe for everybody what has
been their mood, What is their reaction to the stonewalling,
the lack of information, the lack of answers.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
A lot of people are really angry. You know. One
of the questions they have is just legally, what route
can they take to make themselves whole. We know that
the city also has you know, without having these answers,
a lot of people are in limble right now of
what they can do to move forward with just some
of the basic stuff filing insurance claims. Well, you have
(24:51):
to know some of the stuff that filing insurance claims of.
You know, how what happened with the fire, What did
you have getting access to records? Again, a lot of
the information that they're looking for they don't have. The
other thing that I'm seeing is there's a lot of
theories out there, and typically when people come up even
with these conspiracy theories, it's because there's no information, so
(25:13):
all they have to do is kind of come up
with their own theory on their own.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Well, when you have such a blackout of information, I
mean it's nearly a total blackout, and you've been driving
for two months to get information and you've gotten very little,
I mean, I wonder people are going to fill in
the blanks and maybe they're right, Maybe they aren't conspiracy theories.
Maybe maybe whatever threads they're pulling on might lead to
something real.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Well in your example of the lead of what's happening
in the nation right now, I mean, just bring it local. Right,
We're seeing everybody fight pointing fingers and there's no information.
Just is Steve Soberoff getting paid or is he not?
You know, was she's probably doing what she's supposed to
do or is she not? All we're seeing is finger
pointing and now very dysfunctional city and county leaders who
(26:02):
are supposed to be in charge right now.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, the sober Off thing.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
He's claiming, you know, when he spoke at Harvard Westlake
that he was lied to by Bass. And according to
the La Times, these philanthropic organizations that were going to
finance sober Off, they felt they were lied to. They
weren't told that they were given sober Off a half
million dollars for three months work. I guess they thought
(26:26):
they were giving money to some general fire fund to
help people. And so Bass is being accused of lying
to both sides on that one. And I just don't
understand how she keeps existing, is Mayor with all this
swirling around. I've never seen anybody perform this badly in
my life in a pressure situation.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I just it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And she's surviving because she's refusing to speak, and you're pushing,
but not enough, not enough journalists in this city are pushing.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Well. I think we all need to push hard and
get the answers. And you show was like yours, where
we're just raising awareness. I typically would not do a
story like we did about not getting the records, but
at some point that's the story, right that we've asked
for questions and very again basic questions that we ask
in an emergency situation like this. We want to we
(27:18):
want to see the call log. We want to see
how nine to one one. We want to see how
quickly fire trucks respond into this, so that we can
tell people what the answers are. Now, we didn't have questions,
there's own timeline. Are our open records? Was just immediately closed.
I've never seen that either within five minutes of a
request one of mine was closed. We talk about no transparency.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
In your experience when you don't get answers, Is it
because they're covering up good news?
Speaker 8 (27:46):
It would yeah, oh not good news?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, good news.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Did they usually cover up good news when they refuse
to answer your questions?
Speaker 8 (27:55):
No, we're the first to hear about locking arms. Yeah,
that's that question. All right.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, Jamie, thank you for coming on, and if you
find out stuff, please let us know and we can
air it out here too.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
I will send your producer a text as soon as
I hear more.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
By the way, you have a great news site there
westside current dot com. I read that all the time.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
Thank you. You have a great show.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
A lot of useful news there, Jamie Page there Westside
Current dot com. You live on the West Side. That's
must read because there isn't much else. It's every man
for himself. Coming up after three o'clock, we've got some
entertaining fireworks between the Ukrainian president Zelenski Trump jd Vance.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They got into a big fight.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
They were supposed to sign an agreement that eventually this
would be step one towards peace. There was no peace,
not even close. A lot of yelling, I'm watching the replace.
Trump actually hit Vzelenski a couple of times on the arm.
It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
Listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Tom McLintock now coming on at three o'clock. Just got him,
Tom McClintock, the congressman from Northern California at three o'clock.
So well, I got a minute. Let me play some
of the clips today because these are great.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
This is now.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Zelensky was meeting with Trump and JD. Vance in the
Oval Office. It was televised. It was a press conference
and they were going to talk about a deal they
made to develop the mineral the mineral deposits in Ukraine,
very valuable rare earth minerals, and we were going.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
To get a fifty to fifty deal.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
We'd get some of the money back that we spent
on the war so far three hundred and fifty billion dollars,
and he'd be able to get some money to help
rebuild Ukraine. And this was going to be a precursor
to a peace agreement. This would be US making an investment,
and we'd want to protect the investment. And there's talk
of European country. He's supplying the actual military security. So
(30:03):
it was just step one. Uh, but Zelensky wants a
much more forceful promise of protection. I mean, you know,
he wants our troops if necessary, he wants a lot
more weapons, and Trump and Vance were really pissed off
by his resistance. Let's start with cut two.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
A lot of questions. Let's start from the bigin sure
fills to wall. During the war, everybody has problems, even you,
But you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but
you will feel it in the fusion. Bless you, I'm blessed.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
You're not.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. We're trying to
solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I'm not telling you because you're in no position to dictate.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
That's exactly what you do.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
You're in no position. Didn't dictate what we're going to feel.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
We're gonna feel very good.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
I feel we're gonna feel very.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Good and very strong influence.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
You're right now, not in a very good position.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
You've allowed you so to.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Be in a very bad position that he's able to
be right about the very beginning of the war.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Not in a good position. You don't have the cards
right now with us. You start having right now, you
don't wear spread. You're gambling with the lives of millions
of people.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
See, you're gambling with world War three. You're gambling with
world War three. And what you're doing is very disrespectful
to the country. This country that's.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
Back to you far more than a lot of people
said they should have.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, so let's he was saying, well, you're going to
feel the impact of the war with Russia. In other words,
you better step up because this is going to harm
you one day. And Trump was having none of that.
It's they don't tell me, don't tell me what we're
gonna feel like cut number three because jd. Vance jumps
in here. He had enough. Something set him off, and
he kept demanding that Winsky thank Trump in America.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Have you said thank you once that time? No, in
this entire meeting that you said thank you.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October.
Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of
America and the president who's trying to save your country.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Please, you're seeing that if you will speak very loudly
about the war.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
He's not speaking loudly.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
He's not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble. No, No,
you've done a lot of talking. Your country is in
big trouble. I know you're not winning all You're not
winning this. You have a damn good chance. We coming
out okay because of the president.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
We are staying Yawa country staying strong. From the very
beginning of the war, we've.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Been alone and we.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Are sankl I said, you haven't been giving it.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
He gave you, stupid president, three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
You will, We gave you military equipment. You and you
met up brave, but they had to use our MELI
one of the best. If you didn't have our military equipment.
If you didn't have our military equipment, this war would
have been over in two weeks. In three days, I heard.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It from Putin in three days. This is how maybe
less in two weeks. Of course.
Speaker 10 (33:14):
Yeah, it's gonna be a very hard thing to do
business like this.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Tell you to say thank you.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
I said it.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
All there except for America.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
He except that there are disagreements, and let's go litigate
those disagreements rather than trying to.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Fight it out of the American media when you're wrong.
We know that you're wrong, but you.
Speaker 10 (33:32):
See, I think it's good for the American people to
see what's going on. I think it's very important.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
That's why I kept this going so long.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, he's awfully billigerate, because eventually he agrees, you're right.
If America didn't come in, Russia would have taken over
the entire country in about three days, and instead he's
held him off for three years with Russia grabbing a
piece of eastern Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Let me see God, yeah, uh, let me play some
of this.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Trump is asked by a reporter what happens if Russia
breaks the ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Play cut number.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Five breaks They said.
Speaker 10 (34:13):
He what are you say?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
She's asking?
Speaker 9 (34:17):
What if Russia breaks the ceasefire?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Well, what if they? What if anything?
Speaker 10 (34:21):
What if the bomb drops on your head right now?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (34:25):
What if they broke it? I don't know. They broke
it with Biden because Biden didn't respect him. They didn't
respect Obama. They respect me. Let me tell you, Putin
went through a hell of a lot with me. He
went through a phony witch hunt where they used him
in Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia. You ever hear of that deal?
There was a phony. There was a phony Hunter Biden,
(34:46):
Joe Biden scam, Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff who was
a Democrat scam. And he had to go through that,
and he did go through it.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
We didn't end up in a war. And he went
through it.
Speaker 10 (34:59):
He was accused of all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
He had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 10 (35:01):
It came out of Hunter Biden's bathroom. It came out
of Hunter Biden's bedroom.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
It was disgusting.
Speaker 10 (35:09):
And then they said, oh, oh, the laptop from Hell
was made by Russia, the fifty one agents. The whole
thing was a scam and he had to put up
with that he was being accused of all that stuff.
All I can say is this, he might have broken
deals with Obama and Bush, and he might have broken
them with Biden. He did maybe maybe he did. I
(35:32):
don't know what happened, but he didn't break them with me.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
He wants to make a deal.
Speaker 10 (35:36):
I don't know if you can make a deal. The
problem is I've empowered you to be a tough guy,
and I don't think you'd be a tough guy without
the United States, and your people are very brave. But
you're either going to make a deal or we're out.
And if we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't
think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out.
(35:57):
But you don't have the cards. But once we signed that,
you're in a much better position. But you're not acting
at all thankful. And that's not a nice thing. I'll
be honest, that's not a nice thing.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
All right.
Speaker 10 (36:09):
I think we've seen enough. What do you think this
is gonna be great television?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I will say that, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
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