March 4, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/04) - John reads a post from a Pacific Palisades resident about what she saw unfold during the first moments of the fire. More on Kristin Crowley's appeal being denied by LA City Council. There is going to be a fight when it comes to rebuilding the burn areas.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
John Cobelt Show on Demand is going to be posted
after four o'clock and it's a podcast version. It's the
radio show all over again. So if you miss stuff,
and we have, we've had some good stuff today. We
had Daniel guss On the journalist covering city Hall. We
had Michael Monks on cover City Hall for KFI, among
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other things, and they gave extensive reports about the council
meeting today where Kristin Crowley got axed again. She got
fired by Bass as you know, appealed and she lost
thirteen to two. One of the things I'm trying to
give an airing to is really the central issue is
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that we're governed by people. And when I was a
kid growing up in my naive lied tiny little brain
which really hasn't developed all that much since, but it
retains this idea that a government and the government is
us right. We all pitch in our tax money, and
there's certain things that we must have that you have
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to have for a civilization. You have to account for
human nature, so there's certain things you need in a
civilization and to me, there's only a handful of things
that are absolute musts, and that you have to have
a police department, you have to have a fire department.
You have to have somebody building and maintaining the roads.
You have to have a school system, you have to
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have electricity and water, and you know, then the list
gets more optional. Not one minute in my life growing
up did I ever encounter a place where I lived
where the priorities were not police, fire, schools, roads, et cetera.
And now we're at a place where the priorities are
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as I mentioned last hour, mental patients, drug addicts, you know,
meth addicts, Fenton, the lattics, criminals, illegal aliens, I mean,
and billions go there are billions from the city goat
into these categories. And this is all money that should
go to fire and police. And the school thing is
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another matter. But the firefighters there, there's no possible, there's
no way to defend giving a billion a billion four
to homeless people and eight hundred million to the fire department.
And I've heard a lot of and read a lot
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of back and forth. Well, Karen Bass cut the budget,
Oh no, she did it. There was a sucking budget
and they actually rate and it goes back and forth,
and it's like, guys, shut the f up. The total
funding is horrible. It's half of what it should be.
It doesn't matter if it went up or down three percent.
It's really bad. And by the way, often BASS politicians
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likes say, wow, we increased the budget.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It means you gave raises.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Out Raises do not mean that you have a better
funded fire department. If you're fifty percent short on staffing,
if you're fifty percent short on engines and equipment, it
means you're giving more money to the few people you've hired,
but you need twice as many people. So it's not like, well,
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you know, we increased funding. My seven percent doesn't know
where did the money go. That was always maybe crazy
about Landa. I mean increased the money for education. You
gave you gave raises to teachers. That doesn't improve the education.
To give raises to teachers, it just means the teachers
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make more money. It doesn't change the quality of the education.
It's what you spend the money on. I want to
get to a post I saw today and I believe
this was submitted by a woman named Christy Johnson, and
this was her. This is what she submitted to the
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La City Council, and it's in writing. I guess you
could do that, and I want to read part of
it because this matches what I am hearing in my
own life. I'm just going to read excerpts.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
She said.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
We want an honest answer to a direct question that
hasn't yet been given a practiced, hollow excuse. Miss Crowley,
please respond to a few of the dozens of eyewitness
accounts that we have collected. Here's one of them. I
was in the Palisades and we saw everything unfold in
real time for an entire week. Fact there were no
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first responders present for the first thirty six hours. Fact
the fire was left to burn everything in her neighborhood. Fact,
much of the Palisades burned as the result of small
spot fires, not a massive wall of fire that tore
through the town. In fact, many of the homes had
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running water garden hoses, and many others had pool water,
which those of us who stayed used, but the firefighters
never tapped. Into Fact, there were hundreds of fire trucks
parked in the will Rogers Beach parking lot as the
fire burned on January seventh and eighth. Even the next morning,
when the wind had died down, homes were left burning
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without a fight. The folks in charge dropped the ball,
evacuated the area, and then let it burn. I've seen
drone footage of my home starting to burn on January eighth.
It's clear from the footage there were no fire trucks
or fire personnel anywhere in the vicinity. They evacuated us
on the seventh and then abandoned our street. The city
claims due to high winds, water wouldn't have helped. Yet
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those on my street who stayed behind watering their homes
were able to save them. How does the city explain
that away. If they're going to abandoned us, they should
at the very least let us know so we can
have made informed decisions to either stay and water our
homes or to collect our valuables, knowing we'd never see
them again. I was there too. I lost my house
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and stuck around for forty eight hours watching this circus
of incompetency while the fire trucks were parked down at
the beach and over by Paul Revere School doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'd lived through twelve fires.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Four of them had a lot stronger winds, but were
successfully stopped before they hit any houses. No, the big
difference between this fire and others is that the fire
department disappeared instead of fighting. And normally I'd say, I
don't know if I believe this.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Is this a crank? Is this possible? Is it true?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Except I'm hearing from my friends and I'm reading posts
after posts online that yeah, this is true. There's a
lot of people who said the firefighters didn't show. Nobody
ever came, They evacuated homes, they closed the roads, you
couldn't get back, and then the homes were left to burn.
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And what is there a leaded burn policy? She talks
about the LAFT failures on January seventh, including the lack
of planning and preparation, not being aware of the empty reservoirs,
not ensuring the trucks were in working order, not testing hydrants,
not keeping a thousand staff on duty in light of
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the weather predictions, and not preassigning firefighters to the burn
site from January first. And this is really important. That's
where the kids shot the fireworks, and they started a
twenty four acre fire, which they put out relatively quickly,
and then the winds showed up six days later, and
strong winds can kick up an old fire real fast.
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Why wasn't there a crew standing around that spot? And
why won't they tell us whether that spot reignited? Or
why won't they tell us that was an arsonist? Or
why won't they tell us it was a bunch of
homeless people? Why after almost two full months though, they
don't tell us how this fire started or who started it? Now,
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going back to what she was saying, we demand now
as an honest answer to a direct question that hasn't
yet been given a practiced hollow response. Hold on here,
hold on, just please stand by. My screen is jumping
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around the most critical and pointed question we have to.
Kristin Crowley, please give us your explanation for the hundreds
of homes and businesses that were allowed to free burn,
meaning ignite and burn to the ground with zero firefighter effort,
with pools on the property or nearby in the Palisades.
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On January eighth, ninth and tenth, my husband and a
couple of neighbors the house on one particular street on
the seventh, no firefighters came to our aid. The homes
in that cul de sac were saved by a few
neighbors with hoses, pools, buckets, shovels of dirt and extinguishing
spotfires for a week. On January eighth, my husband and
I watched on Channel seven as a single unit in
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our townhouse complex on Palisades Drive caught fire. There was
zero firefire effort. The entire Upper and Lower Woodies complex
of approximately eighty homes was allowed to free burn to
the ground.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Our pool was full. We have post fire photos of
the full pool.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
We understand the residents were restricted from re entering the
highlands the Palisades Drive, preventing us from returning to defend
our residents. This is criminal negligence by the LA Fire Department,
considering that the LA Fire Department has demonstrated through its
actions a decision to abandon the Palisades on the eighth, ninth,
and tenth. And I'm telling you, I have heard this
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over and over and over again, but there doesn't seem
to be any investigative curiosity on the part of most
of the media, no intense coverage. Nobody in the city council,
not the mayor. You know, everybody wants to defend and
applaud the firefighters, and we should, but the fire management
and the decision making was atrocious, and the funding is atrocious.
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This is not a civilized city, This is not a
serious civilized government. These are clowns, boobs, and they're dangerous.
They cost thousands of homes to burn, They caused people
to die. And they's so smug and arrogant and obnoxious
and with their stupid weasel spokeshols spinning their lies and nonsense.
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And when is the media going to grow up and
become adults? And if what Daniel Guss said is true
last Hour, is it really because all the reporters and
anchors are afraid to criticize a black female mayor. He
thinks that's the root of all of this. Really, you
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gotta be ashamed of yourselves. Anybody who's in charge is
held accountable and should be removed for incompetence, regardless of
her color or gender. You don't get special protection. But
apparently the reporters, and I guess the news directors and
the anchors are not all of them, but some of
them really intimidated.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
We've been watching a wacky chase.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
During the commercial break, the cops did a pit maneuver
and spun a guy around and he ended up on
the side of the road, and there was an array
of police cars in front of him. And then the
guy was he was, you know, his cars stopped. He's
sitting in there with his door open. Looked like he
was about to surrender. And he suddenly realized, hey, nobody's
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behind me, backs up and turns around and.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Takes off again. And now they haven't pulled over on
the side of the road. This isn't Winetka, you.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Said, yeah, this may be uh bosy Croft Avenue and
Plummer Street, maybe Chasworth. That's and and so now they
did a close up of him sitting in the driver's seat.
He had the window and door open, and it looks
like he's looking at photos of women.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah or girls. I can't girls, yes, were they naked
or no?
Speaker 5 (12:29):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
No, no no no. I just saw a kind of headshots.
You can see him, he has his car door open
and he's looking at.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
These stopping for a porno breaks.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
It's it's it's strange and he's just sitting there looking
at pictures.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He made the cops look ridiculous though, when he just
backed away, one of the cop cars didn't drive behind
him because he was facing the wrong way on the road.
They'd spun him around, so he was pointed in the
wrong direction.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
No know, if anybody's in front of him. There's a
car in front of him, carved on the side. It's
not a cop car.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Look at it.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Look at what he has in his hand. Now I
can't she's not showing it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, they're not zooming in either.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Those were dirty pictures that they can't show on broadcast TV.
We're watching Channel five. Or they're afraid, you know, somebody
might give him a headshot.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Channel seven panned in a little bit, but now they're
panning out.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, all right, Well we'll keep track of this on
Playing more from today's Stupid Circus the LA City Council
with Kristin Crowley trying to save her job, but she
lost thirteen to two. One of the union guys, the
United Firefighters of Los Angeles director David Ryles He goes
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after Karen Bass during the public comment period, played cut seven.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Good morning, Dave Ryles, Director United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.
I'm a proud thirty two year veteran of the LAFD,
currently assigned the fire Station one oh seven out in Chatsworth,
which is Council Member Lee's district. I was raised in
the valley where I currently reside, in the San Fernando
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Valley and in our neck of the woods, We're not
unaccustomed to high winds and wildland fires. Like a majority
of the Los Angeles residents, I too, struggle with the
idea or the reality that Mayor Bass was unable to
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anticipate the horrendous windstorms that were coming that day. In fact,
the Mayor herself posted the following on.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Her social media account.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
There is an expected destructive and potentially life threatening windstorms
starting today Tuesday, January seventh. It's just inexplicable for the
MA of the Los Angeles to say that she didn't
know about the dangerous weather windstorms that day that were impending.
With all the forecasts all over the country, everybody knew
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about it. The mayor's own failure to be informed should
not lead to the dismissal of the fire chief. As
the mayor of the city of Los Angeles. The residents
expect her to be the one in command. She should
have been checking in with all of her department heads
to find out exactly what their needs would be for
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the impending weather event, to make sure that everybody was covered.
That's what a proactive mayor would do. Being the mayor
of the second largest city in America is a huge responsibility,
shifting a blame to those who are the boots on
the ground but doing their part to help you fix
everything in town.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Speaker that your time has expired.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, of course, yeahs. What strikes me is she's just
a coward. She will not take responsibility, and she comes
up with the flimsiest lie. Oh, I didn't know there
was going to be a wind storm. I didn't know
there was an extreme critical fire warning.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Wow, what crisis management team came up with that? That
is one hundred percent laughline. But maybe not. Apparently there's
one guy. I don't know if this guy was paid.
I'll play a little bit of this. This guy showed
up to speak out and support of bass firing. Kristin
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Crowley cut number ten. Now I'm changing cut number ten.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Good morning, Council President and the Steam Council. My name
is Eric Agiar and I'm with Brotherhood Crusade, and I'm
here to support Mayor Bass and her decision. Mayor Bass
made the right decision to remove the fire chief. Leadership
changes are necessary when performance doesn't meet the high stand
or require for public safety. The decision to remove the
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fire chief was about experience and accountability, not politics.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Sure, well what about Bass there? That argument doesn't apply
to Bass. Who's Crowley's boss. Crowley at least was in town.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Crowley was here, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, maybe maybe that organization he mentioned gets funding.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
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Speaker 2 (17:31):
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in to four every day and then after four o'clock
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it's been quite a program so far. As we cover
the Kristen Crowley firing. It she needed, she needed some
support a city council to reverse it. She didn't get it,
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thirteen to two loss, and there's nowhere else for her
to go. She's definitely getting punished in part for her
failures that day, but more so because she stood up
to Karen Bass and told the truth publicly that the
LA Fire Department is only fifty percent funded, fifty percent staffed.
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The money has been shoveled off to all the drug
addicts and mental patient vagrants and all the illegal alien help,
all the help the criminals get. I mean, the homeless
alone is a billion, four hundred million. Now people are
looking to rebuilding, and there's going to be a fight
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because the same socialists that have helped destroy Los Angeles
in California want to make sure it remains destroyed. Boy,
they hate these people hate Pacific Palisades, right. A lot
of people there were wealthy, but others had inherited their
home and they were paying They were paying tax taxes
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on it. I mean, there was a lot of tax
money coming out of the palisades, you know, considering they
didn't get much fire coverage. It's really that in itself
is criminal. But you know there were people living in
apartments as well. There's actually mobile home parks there, and
you know people either bought homes years ago before the
it was really expensive, or they got it from their
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parents and grandparents. What I'm saying is not they're all
independently wealthy. Some are, though I'll tell you this, though
virtually everybody there doesn't want affordable housing. And I don't
even want to use that term because I know it's
one of those stupid euphemisms. It's like the unhoused. Affordable
housing means you are letting in a bad element. Now,
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I grew up in a lower middle class suburb in Jersey.
My dad was a factory worker. My friend's dad was
an electrician. The neighbor was an electrician on one side.
The other neighbor was in construction, and so they all
worked with their hands. They all lifted things all day.
Dad theyde ten thousand dollars a year when I was
a little kid, and the house we bought at the
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time was nineteen thousand dollars if you could imagine. So, yeah,
you could call that affordable housing, except it was a
squeaky clean environment. There was no refrath, there was no
criminal activity, no drug activity, no homeless people, no nothing.
So what's happened today is affordable housing means you're letting
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in people who are involved in drug and criminal activity.
And again, the socialists in Los Angeles that's who they
want to cater to. They want to cater to not
just a different class economically, but a different class in
terms of behavior. And that's what the Palisades people are against,
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is they're afraid that they're going to deal with all
those city problems that other neighborhoods are hit with. And
why should you, because people raise their children badly in
some circles because they don't enforce the laws in Los Angeles.
They don't need burglaries and thefts, they don't need people
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laying in the streets and doing drugs. And so now
there's been several stories about the revolt that's developing against
any idea of affordable housing, and it was encapsulated. But
Joe Lonsdale, Joe Lonsdale is a founder of the data
analytics company Pallenteer Technologies. You may not know Palenteer. It
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is one of the premier tech companies out of Silicon
Valley and.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That they really are on cutting edge of the tech world.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And he's also on Caruso's foundation, Steadfast LA. And he
shared a headline from The Washington Examiner that claimed that
due to Los Angeles law, rebuilt residences in the Palisades
would require the inclusion of affordable housing, and Lonsdale wrote, sorry, guys,
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no rebuilding. And he's being sarcastic here, Sorry guys, no
rebuilding your fancy houses that burned down by the ocean
in La until there's a new crack den installed right
in the middle of the neighborhood. Actually posted that, and
that's what they're all worried about. He is articulating that
he's rich enough that he doesn't care if there's some
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some woke posse that's going to try to chase him
down and cancel him.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
He doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But these articulating what everybody's afraid of. Even in the
kind of neighborhood I grew up in, which again was
Laura middle class. Nobody wanted whatever. There was no such
term as affordable housing back then, but we all knew
what that concept was, even if it was not by
that name. You want to keep the neighborhood at a
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certain behavior level. People don't like to talk about this
out loud. Everybody gets all squirmy. The they're you know,
their anuses start to tighten up a little bit. But
it's true. You want to live with civilized people and
affordable housing. Well, you can't do a civilized person desk, now,
can you. You don't know if these people are poor
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but peaceful and they're raising their kids properly, or if
you're going to get all kinds of wild mayhem.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You don't know if the dad's going to keep working,
or maybe there is no dad and he's not working
at all. Here's another story in the Times about a
guy named Justin Kahanoff. He's the owner of a burned
out shell gas station. I know this place. What he
wants to do since his gas station is gone, He
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wants to build the neighborhood's tallest apartment building, including low
income residents.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well, low income.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Residents is a little more honest than affordable housing. He
wants to have a big, beautiful building with as many
as one hundred apartments, with some reserve for low income residents.
The average home in the Palisades costs three and a
half million. The median household earned three hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars. The total number of rental units restricted
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as affordable housing. How many you think of the Palisades.
Just take a guess. Throw out a number. How many
affordable housing units in the Palisades. Three you're close two
exactly two. The Palisades is unaffordable housing by design, and
people who work hard and honestly for a living want
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it that way. Most people aspire to that, people who
work and have semi ambition. Talking about the ninety four
percent of government workers who don't bother to show up
in the office. But people who work hard and have ambition.
We all want to live in a place where there
are no riff wrath. All right, that's the whole point
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of this. That's what my dad wanted, that's what I wanted,
that's what my kids want. That's why they're all working
every day. Doesn't mean you have to live wealthy. It
just you want people who are going to behave who
aren't going to break laws, who don't have all kinds
of weird addictions, who don't have dysfunctional lifestyles that spill
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out into the street, that have intact families. I don't
care if it sounds old fashioned and corny, whatever, that's
what most people want. And once you've achieved that, yeah,
you want to shut the door in case somebody gets
a wacky affordable housing idea. One of these weirdo socialists.
I mean you have pick. I mean there's a woman
named Unsas Hernandez and her district is MacArthur Park. MacArthur
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Park has become so dangerous and disgusting it's beyond belief.
That's where they found these s Guatemalan, the Squatemalan smuggling
operation that ran twenty thousand migrants through that neighborhood in
the last few years.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Twenty thousand and a lot of those people.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Were being were basically being held hostage because they couldn't
all pay the bill to the smuggler. But that's this
is hernandez idea of a good neighborhood. And she's always
bellowing about affordable housing. It's like, no, no, no, people
who have built nice, clean neighborhoods. They want the nice,
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clean neighborhoods. And it's about behavior. Is it about ethnicity,
It isn't about color, It isn't about any of that stuff.
It's about how are you going to behave how are
you going to conduct your life? We don't want any trouble.
We want peace. We want peace and respect. You go
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through these neighborhoods well before the fire, there's a garbage
in the Palisades, there's a trash blowing around. You go
into like MacArthur Park, there's pilots of garbage everywhere. That's
what we're talking about. And yeah, there are crack deads
in affordable housing.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's all.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's what they did is they came up with a
really cute, really cool euphemism. But everyone sees through euphemisms.
You have to be very suspicious of language, especially the
language that the media uses, language that the government officials use, bureaucrats,
legislators have to be very wary of the code words.
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And people have decoded affordable housing. So that's going to
be a hell of a fight in the Palisades. More
coming up, people.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
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Speaker 2 (28:05):
You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio, on social
media at John Cobolt Radio and Conway Up in a
few minutes. I just want to what's the phrase they use,
circle back? Circle back, because I want Karen Bass somebody
to chase, be chased every day about her fake story
where she said she wasn't aware of the firestorm warning,
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which she told that on television to Alex Michaelson that
she frankly wasn't aware that there were warnings about an
extreme dangerous firestorm that was going to be likely and
if you didn't hear, the La Times found an email
dated Friday, January third, the day before she left for Ghana,
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which said that the National Weather Service was predicting damaging
winds elevated fire conditions the following week and there was
a high confidence in the accuracy of the forecast. This
was from the city's Emergency Management department and that by
Monday they were going to have a zoom meeting. They
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sent this email out to about fifteen Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Aids.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Fifteen people that work directly for Karen Bass, including two
of her very top aids, and one of them is
Christopher Anyaco Christopher aya on Yaquo, executive officer for Emergency
Operations for Karen Bass. And then there was also Jacqueline Sandoval,
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the policy director for Emergency Management. All right, so executive
officer for Emergency Operations, policy director for Emergency Management. They
got the email saying saying big emergency next Tuesday, likely
ten page attachment from the National Weather Service a graphic
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showing a large red flame icon critical fire conditions. Eventually
they updated the warning and made it a purple icon.
See a purple icon means extreme. We were wondering if
critical is the worst warning they could give. No, actually
it was extreme. Didn't matter. Carrie Bass went to Africa
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anyway and claims that she didn't know. Do you know
this went to one hundred city workers. One hundred of
them and fifteen worked for directly worked directly for Bass.
The first fire call from the National Weather Service was
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December the thirtieth, which is about nine days before the fire.
National Weather Service started conducting a one o'clock briefing on
the fire risk, inviting fire departments and emergency agencies from
La and Ventura County. First one was December thirtieth, next
one was January second, and they were saying at least
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eighty mile an hourw winds, extremely low humidity, dry vegetation,
extream critical fireworks. So the times blew that Karen Bass
light bits, We got Conway and tops a.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You know, look, Mayor Baths is not my mayor.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I don't live in the city of La and she's
your mayor and your mayor by the way. But she
said when she was running from mayor of Los Angeles.
She would never leave the country. And then she became mayor,
and she left the country five times. She went to Mexico, Ghana,
and three times to Paris.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh, she went five times. I had five times.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
I understood about the Ghana trip. Yeah, No, she wasn't here.
Remember the riot, the riots over Ucla with the palast. Yeah,
she wasn't here that night. Yeah, she was in France.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yes, well, yeah, the Olympics, right, Yeah, she wanted to
see how the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
I don't think she realized when she made that promise
that there was gonna be so much cool stuff to see.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
All over the world, but it finally hit her. That's
all I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Jay Leno is coming on with us the very important
topic of how to get old cars to pass a
small test.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oh, very important.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
It's good that you got Jay.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
There's a lot of laughs there. Yeah, we got It's funny.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Then we got monks at at four oh five, we'll
talk about the city council and the fire chief and
all that stuff. And then a local station lied to
me last night, lied to me on their newscast. Wow,
they said that oil change is going to go up
by fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Oil change.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
An oil change is going to go up because of
the tariffs. An oil change is going to go up
by fifty bucks.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
All right.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
First of all, fram auto oil filters are made in
this country. And that's the you know, that's a good one.
Ac Delco's made in China. But those things are eleven
dollars for an oil filter.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Now why they're not there's sixty three dollars and.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
The and the oil is all produced here in the
United States. Penn's oil mobilely you know mobile all that.
It's all so, how is that going up by fifty bucks?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Impossible? They just love they found it.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
They found a mechanic in New Jersey that said it,
and then they all reported, Yeah, it's like I remember
we said we used five hundred million straws a day
in this country.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Here where that came from its third grader? That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
That led to the ban on the that's right straws
because one straw went up one seed turtles sea turtles
nose right, and I think he was doing coke.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You got.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
And then at six o'clock we have President Trump coming.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
On with us. Oh, that's right, he's got a big
gun to do.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, it's not State of the Union officially, no, right,
but it's it's addressed the Congress.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
But it's but typically isn't typically steady Indians January and
February they do it right.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, but for some reason the first year they caught Yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Yeah, congressional address or an addressing congression. I like to
walk through the halls and look at the liberals here
and how they react to it.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, thank you, you know what?
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Good times. I can't wait till tonight. The guy knows
how to nail the media and he knows how.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
To play the moment. I think this is going to
be very entertaining tonight, pulling their hair out. Yeah, Conway's
up next to go with you. Cruze has got the news. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on kf I Am
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and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
John Cobelt Show on Demand is going to be posted
after four o'clock and it's a podcast version. It's the
radio show all over again. So if you miss stuff,
and we have, we've had some good stuff today. We
had Daniel guss On the journalist covering city Hall. We
had Michael Monks on cover City Hall for KFI, among
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other things, and they gave extensive reports about the council
meeting today where Kristin Crowley got axed again. She got
fired by Bass as you know, appealed and she lost
thirteen to two. One of the things I'm trying to
give an airing to is really the central issue is
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that we're governed by people. And when I was a
kid growing up in my naive lied tiny little brain
which really hasn't developed all that much since, but it
retains this idea that a government and the government is
us right. We all pitch in our tax money, and
there's certain things that we must have that you have
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to have for a civilization. You have to account for
human nature, so there's certain things you need in a
civilization and to me, there's only a handful of things
that are absolute musts, and that you have to have
a police department, you have to have a fire department.
You have to have somebody building and maintaining the roads.
You have to have a school system, you have to
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have electricity and water, and you know, then the list
gets more optional. Not one minute in my life growing
up did I ever encounter a place where I lived
where the priorities were not police, fire, schools, roads, et cetera.
And now we're at a place where the priorities are
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as I mentioned last hour, mental patients, drug addicts, you know,
meth addicts, Fenton, the lattics, criminals, illegal aliens, I mean,
and billions go there are billions from the city goat
into these categories. And this is all money that should
go to fire and police. And the school thing is
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another matter. But the firefighters there, there's no possible, there's
no way to defend giving a billion a billion four
to homeless people and eight hundred million to the fire department.
And I've heard a lot of and read a lot
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of back and forth. Well, Karen Bass cut the budget,
Oh no, she did it. There was a sucking budget
and they actually rate and it goes back and forth,
and it's like, guys, shut the f up. The total
funding is horrible. It's half of what it should be.
It doesn't matter if it went up or down three percent.
It's really bad. And by the way, often BASS politicians
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likes say, wow, we increased the budget.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It means you gave raises.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Out Raises do not mean that you have a better
funded fire department. If you're fifty percent short on staffing,
if you're fifty percent short on engines and equipment, it
means you're giving more money to the few people you've hired,
but you need twice as many people. So it's not like, well,
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you know, we increased funding. My seven percent doesn't know
where did the money go. That was always maybe crazy
about Landa. I mean increased the money for education. You
gave you gave raises to teachers. That doesn't improve the education.
To give raises to teachers, it just means the teachers
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make more money. It doesn't change the quality of the education.
It's what you spend the money on. I want to
get to a post I saw today and I believe
this was submitted by a woman named Christy Johnson, and
this was her. This is what she submitted to the
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La City Council, and it's in writing. I guess you
could do that, and I want to read part of
it because this matches what I am hearing in my
own life. I'm just going to read excerpts.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
She said.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
We want an honest answer to a direct question that
hasn't yet been given a practiced, hollow excuse. Miss Crowley,
please respond to a few of the dozens of eyewitness
accounts that we have collected. Here's one of them. I
was in the Palisades and we saw everything unfold in
real time for an entire week. Fact there were no
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first responders present for the first thirty six hours. Fact
the fire was left to burn everything in her neighborhood. Fact,
much of the Palisades burned as the result of small
spot fires, not a massive wall of fire that tore
through the town. In fact, many of the homes had
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running water garden hoses, and many others had pool water,
which those of us who stayed used, but the firefighters
never tapped. Into Fact, there were hundreds of fire trucks
parked in the will Rogers Beach parking lot as the
fire burned on January seventh and eighth. Even the next morning,
when the wind had died down, homes were left burning
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without a fight. The folks in charge dropped the ball,
evacuated the area, and then let it burn. I've seen
drone footage of my home starting to burn on January eighth.
It's clear from the footage there were no fire trucks
or fire personnel anywhere in the vicinity. They evacuated us
on the seventh and then abandoned our street. The city
claims due to high winds, water wouldn't have helped. Yet
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those on my street who stayed behind watering their homes
were able to save them. How does the city explain
that away. If they're going to abandoned us, they should
at the very least let us know so we can
have made informed decisions to either stay and water our
homes or to collect our valuables, knowing we'd never see
them again. I was there too. I lost my house
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and stuck around for forty eight hours watching this circus
of incompetency while the fire trucks were parked down at
the beach and over by Paul Revere School doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'd lived through twelve fires.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Four of them had a lot stronger winds, but were
successfully stopped before they hit any houses. No, the big
difference between this fire and others is that the fire
department disappeared instead of fighting. And normally I'd say, I
don't know if I believe this.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Is this a crank? Is this possible? Is it true?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Except I'm hearing from my friends and I'm reading posts
after posts online that yeah, this is true. There's a
lot of people who said the firefighters didn't show. Nobody
ever came, They evacuated homes, they closed the roads, you
couldn't get back, and then the homes were left to burn.
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And what is there a leaded burn policy? She talks
about the LAFT failures on January seventh, including the lack
of planning and preparation, not being aware of the empty reservoirs,
not ensuring the trucks were in working order, not testing hydrants,
not keeping a thousand staff on duty in light of
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the weather predictions, and not preassigning firefighters to the burn
site from January first. And this is really important. That's
where the kids shot the fireworks, and they started a
twenty four acre fire, which they put out relatively quickly,
and then the winds showed up six days later, and
strong winds can kick up an old fire real fast.
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Why wasn't there a crew standing around that spot? And
why won't they tell us whether that spot reignited? Or
why won't they tell us that was an arsonist? Or
why won't they tell us it was a bunch of
homeless people? Why after almost two full months though, they
don't tell us how this fire started or who started it? Now,
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going back to what she was saying, we demand now
as an honest answer to a direct question that hasn't
yet been given a practiced hollow response. Hold on here,
hold on, just please stand by. My screen is jumping
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around the most critical and pointed question we have to.
Kristin Crowley, please give us your explanation for the hundreds
of homes and businesses that were allowed to free burn,
meaning ignite and burn to the ground with zero firefighter effort,
with pools on the property or nearby in the Palisades.
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On January eighth, ninth and tenth, my husband and a
couple of neighbors the house on one particular street on
the seventh, no firefighters came to our aid. The homes
in that cul de sac were saved by a few
neighbors with hoses, pools, buckets, shovels of dirt and extinguishing
spotfires for a week. On January eighth, my husband and
I watched on Channel seven as a single unit in
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our townhouse complex on Palisades Drive caught fire. There was
zero firefire effort. The entire Upper and Lower Woodies complex
of approximately eighty homes was allowed to free burn to
the ground.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Our pool was full. We have post fire photos of
the full pool.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
We understand the residents were restricted from re entering the
highlands the Palisades Drive, preventing us from returning to defend
our residents. This is criminal negligence by the LA Fire Department,
considering that the LA Fire Department has demonstrated through its
actions a decision to abandon the Palisades on the eighth, ninth,
and tenth. And I'm telling you, I have heard this
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over and over and over again, but there doesn't seem
to be any investigative curiosity on the part of most
of the media, no intense coverage. Nobody in the city council,
not the mayor. You know, everybody wants to defend and
applaud the firefighters, and we should, but the fire management
and the decision making was atrocious, and the funding is atrocious.
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This is not a civilized city, This is not a
serious civilized government. These are clowns, boobs, and they're dangerous.
They cost thousands of homes to burn, They caused people
to die. And they's so smug and arrogant and obnoxious
and with their stupid weasel spokeshols spinning their lies and nonsense.
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And when is the media going to grow up and
become adults? And if what Daniel Guss said is true
last Hour, is it really because all the reporters and
anchors are afraid to criticize a black female mayor. He
thinks that's the root of all of this. Really, you
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gotta be ashamed of yourselves. Anybody who's in charge is
held accountable and should be removed for incompetence, regardless of
her color or gender. You don't get special protection. But
apparently the reporters, and I guess the news directors and
the anchors are not all of them, but some of
them really intimidated.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
We've been watching a wacky chase.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
During the commercial break, the cops did a pit maneuver
and spun a guy around and he ended up on
the side of the road, and there was an array
of police cars in front of him. And then the
guy was he was, you know, his cars stopped. He's
sitting in there with his door open. Looked like he
was about to surrender. And he suddenly realized, hey, nobody's
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behind me, backs up and turns around and.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Takes off again. And now they haven't pulled over on
the side of the road. This isn't Winetka, you.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Said, yeah, this may be uh bosy Croft Avenue and
Plummer Street, maybe Chasworth. That's and and so now they
did a close up of him sitting in the driver's seat.
He had the window and door open, and it looks
like he's looking at photos of women.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah or girls. I can't girls, yes, were they naked
or no?
Speaker 5 (12:29):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
No, no no no. I just saw a kind of headshots.
You can see him, he has his car door open
and he's looking at.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
These stopping for a porno breaks.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
It's it's it's strange and he's just sitting there looking
at pictures.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He made the cops look ridiculous though, when he just
backed away, one of the cop cars didn't drive behind
him because he was facing the wrong way on the road.
They'd spun him around, so he was pointed in the
wrong direction.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
No know, if anybody's in front of him. There's a
car in front of him, carved on the side. It's
not a cop car.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Look at it.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Look at what he has in his hand. Now I
can't she's not showing it.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, they're not zooming in either.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Those were dirty pictures that they can't show on broadcast TV.
We're watching Channel five. Or they're afraid, you know, somebody
might give him a headshot.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Channel seven panned in a little bit, but now they're
panning out.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, all right, Well we'll keep track of this on
Playing more from today's Stupid Circus the LA City Council
with Kristin Crowley trying to save her job, but she
lost thirteen to two. One of the union guys, the
United Firefighters of Los Angeles director David Ryles He goes
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after Karen Bass during the public comment period, played cut seven.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Good morning, Dave Ryles, Director United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.
I'm a proud thirty two year veteran of the LAFD,
currently assigned the fire Station one oh seven out in Chatsworth,
which is Council Member Lee's district. I was raised in
the valley where I currently reside, in the San Fernando
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Valley and in our neck of the woods, We're not
unaccustomed to high winds and wildland fires. Like a majority
of the Los Angeles residents, I too, struggle with the
idea or the reality that Mayor Bass was unable to
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anticipate the horrendous windstorms that were coming that day. In fact,
the Mayor herself posted the following on.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Her social media account.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
There is an expected destructive and potentially life threatening windstorms
starting today Tuesday, January seventh. It's just inexplicable for the
MA of the Los Angeles to say that she didn't
know about the dangerous weather windstorms that day that were impending.
With all the forecasts all over the country, everybody knew
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about it. The mayor's own failure to be informed should
not lead to the dismissal of the fire chief. As
the mayor of the city of Los Angeles. The residents
expect her to be the one in command. She should
have been checking in with all of her department heads
to find out exactly what their needs would be for
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the impending weather event, to make sure that everybody was covered.
That's what a proactive mayor would do. Being the mayor
of the second largest city in America is a huge responsibility,
shifting a blame to those who are the boots on
the ground but doing their part to help you fix
everything in town.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Speaker that your time has expired.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, of course, yeahs. What strikes me is she's just
a coward. She will not take responsibility, and she comes
up with the flimsiest lie. Oh, I didn't know there
was going to be a wind storm. I didn't know
there was an extreme critical fire warning.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Wow, what crisis management team came up with that? That
is one hundred percent laughline. But maybe not. Apparently there's
one guy. I don't know if this guy was paid.
I'll play a little bit of this. This guy showed
up to speak out and support of bass firing. Kristin
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Crowley cut number ten. Now I'm changing cut number ten.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Good morning, Council President and the Steam Council. My name
is Eric Agiar and I'm with Brotherhood Crusade, and I'm
here to support Mayor Bass and her decision. Mayor Bass
made the right decision to remove the fire chief. Leadership
changes are necessary when performance doesn't meet the high stand
or require for public safety. The decision to remove the
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fire chief was about experience and accountability, not politics.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Sure, well what about Bass there? That argument doesn't apply
to Bass. Who's Crowley's boss. Crowley at least was in town.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Crowley was here, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, maybe maybe that organization he mentioned gets funding.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one
in to four every day and then after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. And
it's been quite a program so far. As we cover
the Kristen Crowley firing. It she needed, she needed some
support a city council to reverse it. She didn't get it,
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thirteen to two loss, and there's nowhere else for her
to go. She's definitely getting punished in part for her
failures that day, but more so because she stood up
to Karen Bass and told the truth publicly that the
LA Fire Department is only fifty percent funded, fifty percent staffed.
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The money has been shoveled off to all the drug
addicts and mental patient vagrants and all the illegal alien help,
all the help the criminals get. I mean, the homeless
alone is a billion, four hundred million. Now people are
looking to rebuilding, and there's going to be a fight
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because the same socialists that have helped destroy Los Angeles
in California want to make sure it remains destroyed. Boy,
they hate these people hate Pacific Palisades, right. A lot
of people there were wealthy, but others had inherited their
home and they were paying They were paying tax taxes
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on it. I mean, there was a lot of tax
money coming out of the palisades, you know, considering they
didn't get much fire coverage. It's really that in itself
is criminal. But you know there were people living in
apartments as well. There's actually mobile home parks there, and
you know people either bought homes years ago before the
it was really expensive, or they got it from their
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parents and grandparents. What I'm saying is not they're all
independently wealthy. Some are, though I'll tell you this, though
virtually everybody there doesn't want affordable housing. And I don't
even want to use that term because I know it's
one of those stupid euphemisms. It's like the unhoused. Affordable
housing means you are letting in a bad element. Now,
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I grew up in a lower middle class suburb in Jersey.
My dad was a factory worker. My friend's dad was
an electrician. The neighbor was an electrician on one side.
The other neighbor was in construction, and so they all
worked with their hands. They all lifted things all day.
Dad theyde ten thousand dollars a year when I was
a little kid, and the house we bought at the
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time was nineteen thousand dollars if you could imagine. So, yeah,
you could call that affordable housing, except it was a
squeaky clean environment. There was no refrath, there was no
criminal activity, no drug activity, no homeless people, no nothing.
So what's happened today is affordable housing means you're letting
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in people who are involved in drug and criminal activity.
And again, the socialists in Los Angeles that's who they
want to cater to. They want to cater to not
just a different class economically, but a different class in
terms of behavior. And that's what the Palisades people are against,
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is they're afraid that they're going to deal with all
those city problems that other neighborhoods are hit with. And
why should you, because people raise their children badly in
some circles because they don't enforce the laws in Los Angeles.
They don't need burglaries and thefts, they don't need people
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laying in the streets and doing drugs. And so now
there's been several stories about the revolt that's developing against
any idea of affordable housing, and it was encapsulated. But
Joe Lonsdale, Joe Lonsdale is a founder of the data
analytics company Pallenteer Technologies. You may not know Palenteer. It
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is one of the premier tech companies out of Silicon
Valley and.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That they really are on cutting edge of the tech world.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And he's also on Caruso's foundation, Steadfast LA. And he
shared a headline from The Washington Examiner that claimed that
due to Los Angeles law, rebuilt residences in the Palisades
would require the inclusion of affordable housing, and Lonsdale wrote, sorry, guys,
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no rebuilding. And he's being sarcastic here, Sorry guys, no
rebuilding your fancy houses that burned down by the ocean
in La until there's a new crack den installed right
in the middle of the neighborhood. Actually posted that, and
that's what they're all worried about. He is articulating that
he's rich enough that he doesn't care if there's some
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some woke posse that's going to try to chase him
down and cancel him.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
He doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But these articulating what everybody's afraid of. Even in the
kind of neighborhood I grew up in, which again was
Laura middle class. Nobody wanted whatever. There was no such
term as affordable housing back then, but we all knew
what that concept was, even if it was not by
that name. You want to keep the neighborhood at a
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certain behavior level. People don't like to talk about this
out loud. Everybody gets all squirmy. The they're you know,
their anuses start to tighten up a little bit. But
it's true. You want to live with civilized people and
affordable housing. Well, you can't do a civilized person desk, now,
can you. You don't know if these people are poor
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but peaceful and they're raising their kids properly, or if
you're going to get all kinds of wild mayhem.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You don't know if the dad's going to keep working,
or maybe there is no dad and he's not working
at all. Here's another story in the Times about a
guy named Justin Kahanoff. He's the owner of a burned
out shell gas station. I know this place. What he
wants to do since his gas station is gone, He
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wants to build the neighborhood's tallest apartment building, including low
income residents.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well, low income.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Residents is a little more honest than affordable housing. He
wants to have a big, beautiful building with as many
as one hundred apartments, with some reserve for low income residents.
The average home in the Palisades costs three and a
half million. The median household earned three hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars. The total number of rental units restricted
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as affordable housing. How many you think of the Palisades.
Just take a guess. Throw out a number. How many
affordable housing units in the Palisades. Three you're close two
exactly two. The Palisades is unaffordable housing by design, and
people who work hard and honestly for a living want
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it that way. Most people aspire to that, people who
work and have semi ambition. Talking about the ninety four
percent of government workers who don't bother to show up
in the office. But people who work hard and have ambition.
We all want to live in a place where there
are no riff wrath. All right, that's the whole point
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of this. That's what my dad wanted, that's what I wanted,
that's what my kids want. That's why they're all working
every day. Doesn't mean you have to live wealthy. It
just you want people who are going to behave who
aren't going to break laws, who don't have all kinds
of weird addictions, who don't have dysfunctional lifestyles that spill
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out into the street, that have intact families. I don't
care if it sounds old fashioned and corny, whatever, that's
what most people want. And once you've achieved that, yeah,
you want to shut the door in case somebody gets
a wacky affordable housing idea. One of these weirdo socialists.
I mean you have pick. I mean there's a woman
named Unsas Hernandez and her district is MacArthur Park. MacArthur
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Park has become so dangerous and disgusting it's beyond belief.
That's where they found these s Guatemalan, the Squatemalan smuggling
operation that ran twenty thousand migrants through that neighborhood in
the last few years.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Twenty thousand and a lot of those people.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Were being were basically being held hostage because they couldn't
all pay the bill to the smuggler. But that's this
is hernandez idea of a good neighborhood. And she's always
bellowing about affordable housing. It's like, no, no, no, people
who have built nice, clean neighborhoods. They want the nice,
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clean neighborhoods. And it's about behavior. Is it about ethnicity,
It isn't about color, It isn't about any of that stuff.
It's about how are you going to behave how are
you going to conduct your life? We don't want any trouble.
We want peace. We want peace and respect. You go
(27:09):
through these neighborhoods well before the fire, there's a garbage
in the Palisades, there's a trash blowing around. You go
into like MacArthur Park, there's pilots of garbage everywhere. That's
what we're talking about. And yeah, there are crack deads
in affordable housing.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's all.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's what they did is they came up with a
really cute, really cool euphemism. But everyone sees through euphemisms.
You have to be very suspicious of language, especially the
language that the media uses, language that the government officials use, bureaucrats,
legislators have to be very wary of the code words.
(27:52):
And people have decoded affordable housing. So that's going to
be a hell of a fight in the Palisades. More
coming up, people.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio, on social
media at John Cobolt Radio and Conway Up in a
few minutes. I just want to what's the phrase they use,
circle back? Circle back, because I want Karen Bass somebody
to chase, be chased every day about her fake story
where she said she wasn't aware of the firestorm warning,
(28:28):
which she told that on television to Alex Michaelson that
she frankly wasn't aware that there were warnings about an
extreme dangerous firestorm that was going to be likely and
if you didn't hear, the La Times found an email
dated Friday, January third, the day before she left for Ghana,
(28:50):
which said that the National Weather Service was predicting damaging
winds elevated fire conditions the following week and there was
a high confidence in the accuracy of the forecast. This
was from the city's Emergency Management department and that by
Monday they were going to have a zoom meeting. They
(29:13):
sent this email out to about fifteen Karen Bass.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Aids.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Fifteen people that work directly for Karen Bass, including two
of her very top aids, and one of them is
Christopher Anyaco Christopher aya on Yaquo, executive officer for Emergency
Operations for Karen Bass. And then there was also Jacqueline Sandoval,
(29:48):
the policy director for Emergency Management. All right, so executive
officer for Emergency Operations, policy director for Emergency Management. They
got the email saying saying big emergency next Tuesday, likely
ten page attachment from the National Weather Service a graphic
(30:09):
showing a large red flame icon critical fire conditions. Eventually
they updated the warning and made it a purple icon.
See a purple icon means extreme. We were wondering if
critical is the worst warning they could give. No, actually
it was extreme. Didn't matter. Carrie Bass went to Africa
(30:33):
anyway and claims that she didn't know. Do you know
this went to one hundred city workers. One hundred of
them and fifteen worked for directly worked directly for Bass.
The first fire call from the National Weather Service was
(30:55):
December the thirtieth, which is about nine days before the fire.
National Weather Service started conducting a one o'clock briefing on
the fire risk, inviting fire departments and emergency agencies from
La and Ventura County. First one was December thirtieth, next
one was January second, and they were saying at least
(31:19):
eighty mile an hourw winds, extremely low humidity, dry vegetation,
extream critical fireworks. So the times blew that Karen Bass
light bits, We got Conway and tops a.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You know, look, Mayor Baths is not my mayor.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I don't live in the city of La and she's
your mayor and your mayor by the way. But she
said when she was running from mayor of Los Angeles.
She would never leave the country. And then she became mayor,
and she left the country five times. She went to Mexico, Ghana,
and three times to Paris.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh, she went five times. I had five times.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
I understood about the Ghana trip. Yeah, No, she wasn't here.
Remember the riot, the riots over Ucla with the palast. Yeah,
she wasn't here that night. Yeah, she was in France.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yes, well, yeah, the Olympics, right, Yeah, she wanted to
see how the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
I don't think she realized when she made that promise
that there was gonna be so much cool stuff to see.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
All over the world, but it finally hit her. That's
all I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Jay Leno is coming on with us the very important
topic of how to get old cars to pass a
small test.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oh, very important.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
It's good that you got Jay.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
There's a lot of laughs there. Yeah, we got It's funny.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Then we got monks at at four oh five, we'll
talk about the city council and the fire chief and
all that stuff. And then a local station lied to
me last night, lied to me on their newscast. Wow,
they said that oil change is going to go up
by fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Oil change.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
An oil change is going to go up because of
the tariffs. An oil change is going to go up
by fifty bucks.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
All right.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
First of all, fram auto oil filters are made in
this country. And that's the you know, that's a good one.
Ac Delco's made in China. But those things are eleven
dollars for an oil filter.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Now why they're not there's sixty three dollars and.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
The and the oil is all produced here in the
United States. Penn's oil mobilely you know mobile all that.
It's all so, how is that going up by fifty bucks?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Impossible? They just love they found it.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
They found a mechanic in New Jersey that said it,
and then they all reported, Yeah, it's like I remember
we said we used five hundred million straws a day
in this country.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Here where that came from its third grader? That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
That led to the ban on the that's right straws
because one straw went up one seed turtles sea turtles
nose right, and I think he was doing coke.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You got.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
And then at six o'clock we have President Trump coming.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
On with us. Oh, that's right, he's got a big
gun to do.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, it's not State of the Union officially, no, right,
but it's it's addressed the Congress.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
But it's but typically isn't typically steady Indians January and
February they do it right.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, but for some reason the first year they caught Yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Yeah, congressional address or an addressing congression. I like to
walk through the halls and look at the liberals here
and how they react to it.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, thank you, you know what?
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Good times. I can't wait till tonight. The guy knows
how to nail the media and he knows how.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
To play the moment. I think this is going to
be very entertaining tonight, pulling their hair out. Yeah, Conway's
up next to go with you. Cruze has got the news. Hey,
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