May 16, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/16) - Palisades resident and iHeartRadio employee David Howard comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with the Palisades Fire recovery efforts. An air traffic controller revealed the time there was a close call while they were on duty. Moist Line Rounds 1 & 2.
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at John Cobelt Radio. Well, I was talking earlier in
the last half hour about just the tremendous struggle that
people in Altadena and the Palisades are going through because
they have been dispersed all over southern California, and many
people dispersed all over the country, and there is just
no clear way on how to rebuild. It's in the
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It's excruciating how long it takes to deal with the
City of Los Angeles or the county and get permits.
Rick Caruso as engineered to deal with an Australian software company.
He got Gavin Newsom to push it as well, basically
forcing local officials here to accept AI for the permitting
process and maybe that's going to speed things up. Let's
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talk now David Howard. David is a sales manager here
at KFI and iHeart for many years. He lost he
and his family lost everything in the fire, and he
has been going to all the meetings in Zoom meetings
and making calls and talking to people to find out
just how how incompetent like the Bass administration is, how
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big are the roadblocks and what is anything changing? So David,
how are you welcome?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hey John, how are you well?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Give us a state of the rebuild address here? What
is going on? It seems like there's a brick wall
that's been put up against the residents.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, I feel like we can do an eight hour podcast,
probably an eight hour podcast, but before we get into it,
I thought you'd be happy to hear that or find
is pretty laughable. Yesterday we received a notice of for
brush clearance notification where the city actually sent out by
mail to our house or to our address that they
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wanted to see proof of brush clearance. So what I'm
going to do is I'm going to send them some
news clips from the January seventh fire, and I'm going
to say and I'm going to say, here's my proof.
And then they had the out of the warm, the
kindness of their heart. They asked to for me to
send them additional thirty five dollars as well. So when
you talk about incompetence, the fact that that even left
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a post office, the fact that they got printed, the
fact that taxpayers are paying for that mailer is just
another level of somebody's not minding the store. I mean,
I can't make that.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
One not brush No, No, that fire was pretty effective,
brush clearance. What do they want the thirty five dollars for?
They want to buy lunch for themselves?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
What?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What's the thirty five bucks?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Maybe it's for Bess's reelection committee. I'm not really sure,
but just to kind of give you some information that
I'm just finding out about that, I think the listeners
will find pretty fascinating. As you probably know, there's been
talk about the newsom lifting the guard and lifting HP
I think probably sometime right after the.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Memorial Day holiday.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think it's important that the PCH gets opened up
because Malibu is literally dying on the bune in those
businesses and those residents need help and they need access.
By part of taking away the CHP at taking away
the National Guard puts the LAPD in charge, and Bass
is saying that clearly there's no funding for the LAPD
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to man any type of checkpoints. But what we found
out today is you're not going to believe this. There's
a forty five million dollar RFP being circulated. What's an
another for a request for proposal for another consultancy firm
to come in and help Karen Bass's administration figure out
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to push the infrastructure forward and how to help them
write grants forty five million dollars. Now, if you remember Haggarty,
as you've been covering all too well with the corruption
and the lack of they're literally doing nothing. And I
think I even had a sound clip of me and
several other residents Hay the consulting Haggarty's consulting firm out
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of Iowa, I think right, And they got a.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Huge yeah, yeah, ten million dollars. And then when you
had a meeting with them, Haggarty had to admit is like, well,
we don't really have any experience doing this. They couldn't
name any past and all disasters that they helped out with.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Two minutes of radio silence. It was the most embarrassing
thing I think I've ever witnessed in my life in
terms of somebody being a spokesperson for something so serious,
And he couldn't really point to any one thing that
Haggarty has ever done that's made a difference. But here's
the crazy part again, Haggarty is part of this RFP.
Do I think they're going to get this contract. I
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would highly it just based on the sensitivity, But somebody
is going to try to get that contract. Now, you
don't need forty five million dollars for infrastructure planning, and
you certainly don't need it for grant writing. That's her
AI can come in and literally can do this for us.
Get you know, take five million, put it to the
infrastructure and to the grant writing, and take forty million.
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Put it back into the infrastructure to build the Palisades,
and most importantly now to protect it because as things
open up, it will be I'm very close to a
lot of big builders that are in the Palisades, and
they're all very nervous, as are their potential home builders.
Right that once you build one sall sites start to
get built. Even if we have you know, cameras and
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we have all the things that we can try to
do to protect it. If there's no one up there
minding the store. It's going to be a free for
all for bad guys and.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So climing having she doesn't have the money for LABD
to maintain security while people try to build their homes.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But she has a flush fund. And that flush fund
now obviously has at least forty five million dollars in it.
Because I know firsthand of people that have literally seen
the RFP and have talked to the County Board of Supervisors.
It's there the city, it's there, and it's being right now.
It's in people's hands and they're you know, going through
the bidding process. So John, where's the money going? Like
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that's the thing. I can't figure out. Where's the money going,
Where's the fire aid money going? Where's all the money
going that's supposed to be helping the victims and helping
people get this town rebuilt. But I will tell you
Army Corps has done a really good job of clearing lots.
You can see it when you go up there every time,
if you go up there on a weekly basis, you
see the progress. But the town itself it still looks
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like January it is. It just it's very depressing. Nothing's
going on in town other than the fact that Caruso
obviously has the village protected. And you know, we can't
wait for that to open because then hopefully commerce can
kind of shit back to something.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What do you hear about his his idea he got
this Australian artificial intelligence company to provide the or I
think Caruso's nonprofit is paying to have this AI dramatically
speed up the permitting process. Do you have you heard
anything about that plan?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, we've heard about it, we haven't. We know that
the mayor's office keeps talking about AI to expedite permitting,
but we haven't seen it. The other thing that Rick offered,
I think I don't know if you've covered this or not,
but I think very early after the fire he had
some high level contacts with Clear the you know, the
the airport that works with TSA to get people through
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the lines. Yeah, and he actually had the owner of
Clear or the CEO of Claire, actually produced an app
within like twenty four to forty eight hours that would
have could have been given to residents to expedite the
check the checkpoints, right, because a paper literally a xerox
copy of a red you know a piece of paper
that says resident, you can write a sharpie marks loot
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with your name and add on it and get through.
Anybody could do that in Maribeth's office decline they didn't
want it. So again, anytime, anytime someone offers outside helps
to make it better for us.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, but she doesn't have anybody that's going to do this.
She doesn't know. She's not very bright. She doesn't know
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Right, But that's why she needs to step aside on
the people that do know what's going on take over.
And it's just it's just one big giant quagmire where
a lot of necks are going up and down, but
nothing's getting done. And it's shameful.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It's shameful what happens when somebody sends in a permit?
Now it just disappears into the bureaucracy. How long does
it take for you? A year?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Back?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
To my knowledge, there's still very few permits that have
been issued. I don't think it's a Department of Building
and Safety issue from what I'm hearing. I think it's
more of a city issue that some people have been
turned away because they are not bringing their final debrewer
remove a certificate that you have to have when you
do go to put your plans in the building safety
will not allow you to submit plans without that approval.
(09:05):
But and that it's a very simple thing. You get
it online and you take it with you, and that's
more of a result. I think of some contractors and
aren't as responsible as they need to be because there
are some you know, obviously not every contractor is going
to be the best contractor and really understand what the
systems are because the systems change, you know, daily or weekly.
But my hope is and our hope is that you know,
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there's as you know, people start to build, and people
see people building that they'll kind of get into the
frame move forward at at a quicker pace and things
can start moving in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
How do you keep your spirits and energy up through this?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Because I talked to you it's been four and a
half months, I mean, and every day is a slog,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You know, it is if you let it be a slog.
But you know, you find out kind of what you're
made of, and you find out and it's really it's
not about me so much as yeah, I'm trying to
take care of my family as well. But really there
are people that really care and are dedicated, and you know,
not everybody's going to have the voice to step up
or people are. You know, there's a lot of frightened people.
There's a lot of people that were you know, they
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were you know, their financial situation is not what people
sometimes perceive it to be. Insurance is a major issue, John,
in terms of undercoverage. And I spoke to one of
the bigger builders today who actually, I think you'd really
enjoy having on your show because he has some insight
that goes away about my pay grade in terms of
some of the roadblocks. But he's his you know, his clients.
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He's built really really nice homes, and all these people
are under insured and they don't know what to do,
and the insurance companies are now trying. It's in the herd, right,
They're trying to see who's going to fight and who
is in and you know, they got time on their
hands and so they just I think I heard you
do a report where there was a safe farm client
that had I think already to date in what five months,
(10:52):
six months, seven different adjusters, six different adjusters, and they
try to start from the beginning again. So it's a
painful process, but you can't stop because if you stop,
then they win and then everybody else loses, and we
can't let that happen.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm with you, all right, David, Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
All rightybody else see on Monday.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
All right, we'll talk again, David Howard KFI. iHeart sales
manager going through the grind of just trying to get approval,
permit approval if you had plans to rebuild in the Palisades,
and the same thing's going on in Altadena with the county.
We have a first round of the Moistline coming up.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It is time once again you get to hear what's
on the listener's minds. The Moistline eight seven seven Moist
eighty six. You want to be on next week? Hey,
it's Sean. Thanks for calling the Moistline. I'm so excited
to hear from you to BAP time.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Not only has John turned me into an anti incrementalist,
but now I'm also an anti incumbent. Thanks John. If
you are not illegal citizen of the United States of America.
You should not be allowed to vote here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's just like.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Saying here open borders.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Everybody could come vote from any country and overthrow our government.
This is all we have. Gavin Newsom out here campaign.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
For president while California is literally on fire.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
But hey, as long as his hair looks good, that's all.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He cares about. You know, I drove out the pothole
in la I think it had his own zip code,
and even a Starbucks with liberals inside protesting.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Fix the stake, Gavin.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Okay, we've got to custom slack to this Amazon driver
who's pooping in people's yards.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean that's natural for her. Got give her some
credit that she's working.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Tell you it's a great day.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I hear that Gavin Newsom has discovered that the homeless
are a problem and he wants to make it illegal.
That's Fan Johnson.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
California love illegal as criminals and vagrants. Every illegal zone
to California because they get motor voter and meaning when
they get the license, they automatically get registered to vote.
They get freehow care, they get welfare, and they get
unemployment when they're unemployed.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So California.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So I'm watching Gavin Newsom give his speech today about
the homeless, housing and mental health treatment and how it
has been a minimum of a one to two decade
complete disaster, and yet he has been the one that
has had somewhat, if not all, control over that for
over the last decade.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
How can this guy talk.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Bs to us and get away with it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
When he's the one creating it?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Governor Newsom finally cares about homelessness and.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
People camping around and everywhere and injecting themselves.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Dude, your daily nippella short, your failure.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
I have a terrific idea. I demand every government official
the flying strictly out of Newark Airport.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And then have to take a bus to Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
That mental change things.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I think the Ananda's.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Brothers deserve to stay right where they are.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
And they should run in jail.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
They have no business getting out, and once again California,
looking like a bunch of liberal crazies, are going to
let them go.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
They're going to walk the streets just like OJ Simpson.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I don't know what's wrong with people in this state.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
I really don't. Thirty dollars an hour increase for hotel
workers salary, it'll expand to all food workers, all minimum
wage workers.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And it's designed to put businesses out of business.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
So that's a California.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Government can take over their properties.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
So we still have Jennie kennotates running the Department of
Water and Power. We have half a fire department and
within five years we'll have half of a police department.
Thanks a lot dance, you idiots, yam and do.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Some of the worst governor in America. That's how I
had money for President scares and the chievers out of me.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Listen for addicts, for alcoholics, very very simple.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Get your rear end to that meeting Jesus Coin of
Borde every day and if you're struggling throughout the day,
stay there, find another one. They're around the clock.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Buddy, Jesus Christ Almighty.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
His policies are just sending it around nonprofits that his
friends are in and stuff like that. That's evidence of
LASA and how that CEO was funding two and a
half million.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Dollars to her husband. This is just doing the same thing.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
He's just funding all his friends.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I was born and raised in California and now in
my sixties and a while back, I broke my hips.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Had no insurance, so I applied for Obamacare, which just started,
but I didn't qualify because I wasn't working.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
They put me on medical and had me sign a
paper saying that I would sign over my estate to
repay them.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
But immigrants don't have to repay it.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
All that's fair.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
We talked the other day about how much you hate
the Menendez brothers. I totally agree with you in this case,
but for me, I hate worse are these family members
and relatives that are out there supporting their move to
get free the crime and celebrating and saying, oh, what
a great thing. Those people should have been locked up
in the key thrown away. They're as bad as the
(16:08):
Minetta's brothers themselves. They're disgusting people. Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Leaving your message, Please hang up. I'm with that is
one crazy family, the Menendez family. The father was probably
sexually violating the sons. The sons respond by blowing the
mother's head off as well as the dad, and now
all the Menenda's family members want the sons out again free.
(16:36):
I really that whole genetic line needs to come to
an end before they do any more damage. Somebody in
there mentioned the air traffic control situation. I think he
said political leaders should be forced to fly. Newark would
be a good place to start. Why did you fly
it in out of Newark every day? I got a
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story for you. This is from the Wall Street Journal.
It's an exclusive they had about an air traffic controller
who's going to describe an absolutely terrifying moment that happened
on his watch. And when you hear this, you might
cancel your plane flights for the rest of the summer.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
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(17:47):
You should see the negotiations. I'd an agent, she had
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And Kretz Krozer, He's got the news coming up in
a few minutes. Conway after four o'clock. All right, I
think you know about the air traffic control situation at
Newark Airport, which they do remotely from Philadelphia, which is
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ninety miles away, and everybody's wondering what's going on now.
The last we heard is the target that the union
and the federal government had agreed to was fourteen air
traffic controllers on a specific shift, fourteen. The other day,
I think it was Monday night at Newark, they had
one guy. They had occasionally a trainee or two watching him,
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but it was one guy. So they're thirteen short. And
I was looking this up just to make sure how
much money the federal government spends of our tax dollars,
and in twenty nineteen they spent about four and a
half trillion dollars. This year they're going to spend over
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seven trillion, over seven million dollars, and the air traffic
controllers are wildly understaffed. How does that have I nobody knows.
Nobody can explain where the extra two and a half
trillion went. Similarly, here in California, going back about fifteen
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years ago, the budget was ninety eight billion. Now it's
three hundred and thirty billion. It more than tripled. Nobody
can tell you where it went. I think illegally in
healthcare has something to do with it, a little maybe,
But the federal government, you go from four and a
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quarter four and a half trillion to over seven trillion.
Wall Street Journal has an exclusive interview with a guy
named Jonathan Stewart. He has a job working for the FAA,
not specifically an air traffic controller. What he does is
he tracks planes in the Newark region. There's obviously many
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regional airports in big metropolitan areas, and he had seen
all the bad publicity that the air traffic controllers are
getting and he thought, you know, somebody's got to tell
our side of the story here. So he's overseeing planes.
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He's looking at a radar scope. These are smaller airports
near Newark. There's a business jet that just took off
from the Morristown Airport and I don't know, maybe you know,
twenty twenty five miles away. And so there's one jet
coming from Morristown. There's another small plane that took off
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from Teeterborough Airport, and that's where corporate planes take off from.
All this is near where I grew up, all right,
So you got one plane coming from Morristown, another coming
from Teeterborough. And this guy, Jonathan tour Story, is watching
the radar and he sees that they're speeding towards each
other knows to nose, and they were flying at the
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same altitude. Now he had been he knew that the
radar could could go out at any moment, so he'd
been scribbling in a notebook the call signs for the
planes and the flight information because he didn't know when
the radar and the radio might fail. And so he's
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you look at the radar, looking at the notebook, looking
at the raidar, looking at the notebook, and suddenly he realized,
oh my god, these two planes are about to hit
each other. And with seconds to go, he told the
pilots to turn their planes away from each other, but
he was really shook up. He then sent an email
off to FAA managers. He says, I take my job
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seriously as I do the safety of the flying public,
and it's a management apparently has completely screwed up for
many years. I don't understand government workers, even less government managers.
You've got one job. You got to train and hire
pay air traffic controllers so the planes don't crash. Why
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can't you do that, but just get up in the
morning and do your job, spend the money that we're
giving you. So Stuart is one of the guys who
took stress related trauma leave. He goes, I don't want
to be responsible for killing four hundred people. Now, Stuart
did this on his own. There's no pr off official
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with him. He just wanted to send the record straight.
He was kind of pissed off at the way air
traffic controllers were being characterized. He's from Pensacola. He was
in the US Air Force and the adrenaline rush of
this job hooked him. Now he gets paid very well.
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It gets a lot of overtime, but it's four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year. If you're paying four
hundred fifty thousand dollar year, you should be getting plenty
of people to sign up, especially with the younger generation.
This is basically one huge video game. You're playing. You
got screens, you got little planes beeping in front of you,
and all you got to do is track them and
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inform the planes what they should do and not do.
And he said, it's fun. You play god because you
cannot fail. You cannot make a mistake. And he's worked
for twenty five years Miami, New York, Philadelphia, but he said,
chronic understaffing for years, and now there's a string of
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tech outages. So first they ran out of bodies, and
now all the technology is failing because out of that
seven and a quarter trillion dollars that they spend every year,
these days, they don't spend anything on air traffic control.
He said, there's there's a few people who've taken leave
because they keep having tech glitches. It interrupts the radios,
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the radar, the backups. They're all afraid of a catastrophe
every minute. He's a supervisor at the Terminal Radar Approach
Control TRAYCON, so he handles traffic for small regional airports
outside of Newark, and he has to toggle back and
forth between supervising other controllers and tracking the moving dots
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on his radar scopes. And he says it's like a
video game, but it's like playing three D chess at
two hundred and fifty miles an hour. We're the guys
that are guiding your pilots home. Now, for that four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars you're sacrificing a lot. Sixty
hour work weeks. You give up nights, weekends, holidays, birthdays, everything,
Your mental and physical health takes a toll. There is
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no reason to be driving these guys into a nervous breakdown.
I can't believe they can't hire plenty of military and
technically trained people, or it's set up a school. I mean,
with these kinds, with what these jobs pay, and with
all the tech oriented people we have in society now.
I mean, look at Silicon Valley. I mean it's it's
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like a couple of generations now of guys who know
how to do this stuff? How come there? See? Why
do we have so much talent working at Facebook? Where
they what are they? What are they produce?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Likes?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thumbs ups? That's what they produce is likes and posts instead?
How about guys who can land planes and avoid mid
air collisions? Are Round two of the Moistline had a
really good first round there. People very very focused, very strong.
(25:40):
We'll see what round two is like coming up next.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I was just talking about the Newark air traffic controller
who had you know, admitted he had to take a
trauma break because two airplanes were within seconds of a
head on mid air collision, because he is so overworked.
He's got too many screens and too many people to oversee.
He also went on to say that you can only
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really do this for about two hours at a shot,
because then you start losing focus and getting tired. And
when those two planes nearly hit each other head on,
he'd been working more than three hours without a break.
And then at Denver they had another glitch. Pilots could
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not speak with air traffic controllers for six minutes. Twenty
pilots were en route to the Denver airport and none
of the twenty could speak to any of the air
traffic controllers. There was a multiple radio transmitter outages. Disaster
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was averted when a controller was able to contact one
pilot on an emergency channel, which normally is used when
a pilot in distress, and then that pilot contacted the
other pilots who are trying to land. Everybody started changing frequencies.
There you go seven and a half trillion dollars we're
(27:13):
going to spend this year. All right, it's time for
the second round of the Moistline eight seven seven moist
eighty six. If you want to be on next week
eight seven seven moist eighty six, let's do round two.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Thanks Jehn, thanks for calling the moistline.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm so excited to hear from you fromout Come.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I heard you talking about gas potentially going up to
eight fifty plus a gallon.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Let's not forget our Our electric rates are significantly higher
as well as our water and.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Gas bills thanks to Newsome and CARB and all the
other schools in Sacramento. Hey, I'm a delivery driver. Could
you guys get me Gavin Newsom's home adreads so I
can take a giant on its presidential dreams.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Wow, did I hear Gavin Newsom's saying all that straight base?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
He is really sick. He's shit, He's truly wired long.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
My god, he's a true socio app Donald listening to
Gavin Newsom talks.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
About the bs he's speeling.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
On my way home from Marcus Short. He's got one.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
It's shut.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
But anyway, you know he's not.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Going to get any blowback from his Democratic friends because
they already know he's just saying this so he could
become president and He's going to make it up to
them so their shielding.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
He could stay whatever he wants.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
They don't be okay, who cares if the Menentz brothers
have been rehabilitated, or.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
If they're walking around with the therapy dogs, or if
they've been educating and have degrees.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Now, who cares?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
They still need to pay for their crimes.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Where are all the illegals living our housing crisis?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Where do you think they live? They took all of
our housing. Why is nobody talking about that?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Over a million illegal Elians getting re healthcare?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
That's just boy.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You know what, We're paying twice as much because don't
forget we have to pack for our.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Own healthcare and bears.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
That's just so wrong.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
That's why I'm leaving California in.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
August, and I'm heartbroken because.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
I'm a third generation California Great.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
So those guys can spend one hundred dollars a month
just for coming across the border. I've had to work
to last forty plus years to get health insurance and
retire and still pay one hundred and fifty dollars a minimum.
Life is great in California. Why do we allow Governor
Newsen to stay in office. Why is he above the law?
Speaker 8 (29:38):
We all know he's a crook and the ambezelous citizen's
money and laundry, it is back in his own pocket.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
On he can't account where the money went. We all
know where the money went. He buries it.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Maybe when gas costs to seven to eight bucks the gallon, time.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
For the Gavin recom Maybe there'll be some momentum.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
People are so pissed off about.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What they're paying for gas.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
You know, you don't have to be a rocket scientist
to solve the homeless problem. Just five bunch of property
out in the desert. Give everybody a tent. Put all
the homeless people out there. Every day you drive around
the bus, you pick them up and ship them out.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Thank you, mister.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
George gask Always.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
If you wouldn't have filed those papers and then this
wouldn't be getting out, it's all you, and thank you
for your final.
Speaker 9 (30:26):
View ureus Calafodia. The problem is everybody in California is
a dump.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
That's why I knew some still there. I just listened
to that new some things.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
He's an idiot.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Everybody in California is an idiot.
Speaker 10 (30:39):
We Californians have got to stop pretending that are one
percent property taxes some.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Sort of bargain.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
We still pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.
Thank you for leaving your message.
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Please hang up.
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Goodbye.
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at John Cobelt Radio. Well, I was talking earlier in
the last half hour about just the tremendous struggle that
people in Altadena and the Palisades are going through because
they have been dispersed all over southern California, and many
people dispersed all over the country, and there is just
no clear way on how to rebuild. It's in the
(00:48):
It's excruciating how long it takes to deal with the
City of Los Angeles or the county and get permits.
Rick Caruso as engineered to deal with an Australian software company.
He got Gavin Newsom to push it as well, basically
forcing local officials here to accept AI for the permitting
process and maybe that's going to speed things up. Let's
(01:11):
talk now David Howard. David is a sales manager here
at KFI and iHeart for many years. He lost he
and his family lost everything in the fire, and he
has been going to all the meetings in Zoom meetings
and making calls and talking to people to find out
just how how incompetent like the Bass administration is, how
(01:34):
big are the roadblocks and what is anything changing? So David,
how are you welcome?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hey John, how are you well?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Give us a state of the rebuild address here? What
is going on? It seems like there's a brick wall
that's been put up against the residents.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, I feel like we can do an eight hour podcast,
probably an eight hour podcast, but before we get into it,
I thought you'd be happy to hear that or find
is pretty laughable. Yesterday we received a notice of for
brush clearance notification where the city actually sent out by
mail to our house or to our address that they
(02:15):
wanted to see proof of brush clearance. So what I'm
going to do is I'm going to send them some
news clips from the January seventh fire, and I'm going
to say and I'm going to say, here's my proof.
And then they had the out of the warm, the
kindness of their heart. They asked to for me to
send them additional thirty five dollars as well. So when
you talk about incompetence, the fact that that even left
(02:37):
a post office, the fact that they got printed, the
fact that taxpayers are paying for that mailer is just
another level of somebody's not minding the store. I mean,
I can't make that.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
One not brush No, No, that fire was pretty effective,
brush clearance. What do they want the thirty five dollars for?
They want to buy lunch for themselves?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
What?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What's the thirty five bucks?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Maybe it's for Bess's reelection committee. I'm not really sure,
but just to kind of give you some information that
I'm just finding out about that, I think the listeners
will find pretty fascinating. As you probably know, there's been
talk about the newsom lifting the guard and lifting HP
I think probably sometime right after the.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Memorial Day holiday.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think it's important that the PCH gets opened up
because Malibu is literally dying on the bune in those
businesses and those residents need help and they need access.
By part of taking away the CHP at taking away
the National Guard puts the LAPD in charge, and Bass
is saying that clearly there's no funding for the LAPD
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to man any type of checkpoints. But what we found
out today is you're not going to believe this. There's
a forty five million dollar RFP being circulated. What's an
another for a request for proposal for another consultancy firm
to come in and help Karen Bass's administration figure out
(04:00):
to push the infrastructure forward and how to help them
write grants forty five million dollars. Now, if you remember Haggarty,
as you've been covering all too well with the corruption
and the lack of they're literally doing nothing. And I
think I even had a sound clip of me and
several other residents Hay the consulting Haggarty's consulting firm out
(04:21):
of Iowa, I think right, And they got a.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Huge yeah, yeah, ten million dollars. And then when you
had a meeting with them, Haggarty had to admit is like, well,
we don't really have any experience doing this. They couldn't
name any past and all disasters that they helped out with.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Two minutes of radio silence. It was the most embarrassing
thing I think I've ever witnessed in my life in
terms of somebody being a spokesperson for something so serious,
And he couldn't really point to any one thing that
Haggarty has ever done that's made a difference. But here's
the crazy part again, Haggarty is part of this RFP.
Do I think they're going to get this contract. I
(04:59):
would highly it just based on the sensitivity, But somebody
is going to try to get that contract. Now, you
don't need forty five million dollars for infrastructure planning, and
you certainly don't need it for grant writing. That's her
AI can come in and literally can do this for us.
Get you know, take five million, put it to the
infrastructure and to the grant writing, and take forty million.
(05:19):
Put it back into the infrastructure to build the Palisades,
and most importantly now to protect it because as things
open up, it will be I'm very close to a
lot of big builders that are in the Palisades, and
they're all very nervous, as are their potential home builders.
Right that once you build one sall sites start to
get built. Even if we have you know, cameras and
(05:39):
we have all the things that we can try to
do to protect it. If there's no one up there
minding the store. It's going to be a free for
all for bad guys and.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So climing having she doesn't have the money for LABD
to maintain security while people try to build their homes.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
But she has a flush fund. And that flush fund
now obviously has at least forty five million dollars in it.
Because I know firsthand of people that have literally seen
the RFP and have talked to the County Board of Supervisors.
It's there the city, it's there, and it's being right now.
It's in people's hands and they're you know, going through
the bidding process. So John, where's the money going? Like
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that's the thing. I can't figure out. Where's the money going,
Where's the fire aid money going? Where's all the money
going that's supposed to be helping the victims and helping
people get this town rebuilt. But I will tell you
Army Corps has done a really good job of clearing lots.
You can see it when you go up there every time,
if you go up there on a weekly basis, you
see the progress. But the town itself it still looks
(06:38):
like January it is. It just it's very depressing. Nothing's
going on in town other than the fact that Caruso
obviously has the village protected. And you know, we can't
wait for that to open because then hopefully commerce can
kind of shit back to something.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What do you hear about his his idea he got
this Australian artificial intelligence company to provide the or I
think Caruso's nonprofit is paying to have this AI dramatically
speed up the permitting process. Do you have you heard
anything about that plan?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, we've heard about it, we haven't. We know that
the mayor's office keeps talking about AI to expedite permitting,
but we haven't seen it. The other thing that Rick offered,
I think I don't know if you've covered this or not,
but I think very early after the fire he had
some high level contacts with Clear the you know, the
the airport that works with TSA to get people through
(07:37):
the lines. Yeah, and he actually had the owner of
Clear or the CEO of Claire, actually produced an app
within like twenty four to forty eight hours that would
have could have been given to residents to expedite the
check the checkpoints, right, because a paper literally a xerox
copy of a red you know a piece of paper
that says resident, you can write a sharpie marks loot
(07:59):
with your name and add on it and get through.
Anybody could do that in Maribeth's office decline they didn't
want it. So again, anytime, anytime someone offers outside helps
to make it better for us.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, but she doesn't have anybody that's going to do this.
She doesn't know. She's not very bright. She doesn't know
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Right, But that's why she needs to step aside on
the people that do know what's going on take over.
And it's just it's just one big giant quagmire where
a lot of necks are going up and down, but
nothing's getting done. And it's shameful.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It's shameful what happens when somebody sends in a permit?
Now it just disappears into the bureaucracy. How long does
it take for you? A year?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Back?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
To my knowledge, there's still very few permits that have
been issued. I don't think it's a Department of Building
and Safety issue from what I'm hearing. I think it's
more of a city issue that some people have been
turned away because they are not bringing their final debrewer
remove a certificate that you have to have when you
do go to put your plans in the building safety
will not allow you to submit plans without that approval.
(09:05):
But and that it's a very simple thing. You get
it online and you take it with you, and that's
more of a result. I think of some contractors and
aren't as responsible as they need to be because there
are some you know, obviously not every contractor is going
to be the best contractor and really understand what the
systems are because the systems change, you know, daily or weekly.
But my hope is and our hope is that you know,
(09:26):
there's as you know, people start to build, and people
see people building that they'll kind of get into the
frame move forward at at a quicker pace and things
can start moving in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
How do you keep your spirits and energy up through this?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Because I talked to you it's been four and a
half months, I mean, and every day is a slog,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You know, it is if you let it be a slog.
But you know, you find out kind of what you're
made of, and you find out and it's really it's
not about me so much as yeah, I'm trying to
take care of my family as well. But really there
are people that really care and are dedicated, and you know,
not everybody's going to have the voice to step up
or people are. You know, there's a lot of frightened people.
There's a lot of people that were you know, they
(10:10):
were you know, their financial situation is not what people
sometimes perceive it to be. Insurance is a major issue, John,
in terms of undercoverage. And I spoke to one of
the bigger builders today who actually, I think you'd really
enjoy having on your show because he has some insight
that goes away about my pay grade in terms of
some of the roadblocks. But he's his you know, his clients.
(10:31):
He's built really really nice homes, and all these people
are under insured and they don't know what to do,
and the insurance companies are now trying. It's in the herd, right,
They're trying to see who's going to fight and who
is in and you know, they got time on their
hands and so they just I think I heard you
do a report where there was a safe farm client
that had I think already to date in what five months,
(10:52):
six months, seven different adjusters, six different adjusters, and they
try to start from the beginning again. So it's a
painful process, but you can't stop because if you stop,
then they win and then everybody else loses, and we
can't let that happen.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm with you, all right, David, Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
All rightybody else see on Monday.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
All right, we'll talk again, David Howard KFI. iHeart sales
manager going through the grind of just trying to get approval,
permit approval if you had plans to rebuild in the Palisades,
and the same thing's going on in Altadena with the county.
We have a first round of the Moistline coming up.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It is time once again you get to hear what's
on the listener's minds. The Moistline eight seven seven Moist
eighty six. You want to be on next week? Hey,
it's Sean. Thanks for calling the Moistline. I'm so excited
to hear from you to BAP time.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Not only has John turned me into an anti incrementalist,
but now I'm also an anti incumbent. Thanks John. If
you are not illegal citizen of the United States of America.
You should not be allowed to vote here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's just like.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Saying here open borders.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Everybody could come vote from any country and overthrow our government.
This is all we have. Gavin Newsom out here campaign.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
For president while California is literally on fire.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
But hey, as long as his hair looks good, that's all.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He cares about. You know, I drove out the pothole
in la I think it had his own zip code,
and even a Starbucks with liberals inside protesting.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Fix the stake, Gavin.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Okay, we've got to custom slack to this Amazon driver
who's pooping in people's yards.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean that's natural for her. Got give her some
credit that she's working.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Tell you it's a great day.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I hear that Gavin Newsom has discovered that the homeless
are a problem and he wants to make it illegal.
That's Fan Johnson.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
California love illegal as criminals and vagrants. Every illegal zone
to California because they get motor voter and meaning when
they get the license, they automatically get registered to vote.
They get freehow care, they get welfare, and they get
unemployment when they're unemployed.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So California.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So I'm watching Gavin Newsom give his speech today about
the homeless, housing and mental health treatment and how it
has been a minimum of a one to two decade
complete disaster, and yet he has been the one that
has had somewhat, if not all, control over that for
over the last decade.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
How can this guy talk.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Bs to us and get away with it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
When he's the one creating it?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Governor Newsom finally cares about homelessness and.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
People camping around and everywhere and injecting themselves.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Dude, your daily nippella short, your failure.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
I have a terrific idea. I demand every government official
the flying strictly out of Newark Airport.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And then have to take a bus to Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
That mental change things.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I think the Ananda's.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Brothers deserve to stay right where they are.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
And they should run in jail.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
They have no business getting out, and once again California,
looking like a bunch of liberal crazies, are going to
let them go.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
They're going to walk the streets just like OJ Simpson.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I don't know what's wrong with people in this state.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
I really don't. Thirty dollars an hour increase for hotel
workers salary, it'll expand to all food workers, all minimum
wage workers.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And it's designed to put businesses out of business.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
So that's a California.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Government can take over their properties.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
So we still have Jennie kennotates running the Department of
Water and Power. We have half a fire department and
within five years we'll have half of a police department.
Thanks a lot dance, you idiots, yam and do.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Some of the worst governor in America. That's how I
had money for President scares and the chievers out of me.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Listen for addicts, for alcoholics, very very simple.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Get your rear end to that meeting Jesus Coin of
Borde every day and if you're struggling throughout the day,
stay there, find another one. They're around the clock.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Buddy, Jesus Christ Almighty.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
His policies are just sending it around nonprofits that his
friends are in and stuff like that. That's evidence of
LASA and how that CEO was funding two and a
half million.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Dollars to her husband. This is just doing the same thing.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
He's just funding all his friends.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I was born and raised in California and now in
my sixties and a while back, I broke my hips.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Had no insurance, so I applied for Obamacare, which just started,
but I didn't qualify because I wasn't working.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
They put me on medical and had me sign a
paper saying that I would sign over my estate to
repay them.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
But immigrants don't have to repay it.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
All that's fair.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
We talked the other day about how much you hate
the Menendez brothers. I totally agree with you in this case,
but for me, I hate worse are these family members
and relatives that are out there supporting their move to
get free the crime and celebrating and saying, oh, what
a great thing. Those people should have been locked up
in the key thrown away. They're as bad as the
(16:08):
Minetta's brothers themselves. They're disgusting people. Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Leaving your message, Please hang up. I'm with that is
one crazy family, the Menendez family. The father was probably
sexually violating the sons. The sons respond by blowing the
mother's head off as well as the dad, and now
all the Menenda's family members want the sons out again free.
(16:36):
I really that whole genetic line needs to come to
an end before they do any more damage. Somebody in
there mentioned the air traffic control situation. I think he
said political leaders should be forced to fly. Newark would
be a good place to start. Why did you fly
it in out of Newark every day? I got a
(16:59):
story for you. This is from the Wall Street Journal.
It's an exclusive they had about an air traffic controller
who's going to describe an absolutely terrifying moment that happened
on his watch. And when you hear this, you might
cancel your plane flights for the rest of the summer.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
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You want to see me on my wife's video show,
you should watch it. It's good. Deborah Cobelt Live. She
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go to Debora Cobet Live on YouTube or Facebook. The
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(17:47):
You should see the negotiations. I'd an agent, she had
an agent. Look, it's twenty five minutes if you'll like it.
And Kretz Krozer, He's got the news coming up in
a few minutes. Conway after four o'clock. All right, I
think you know about the air traffic control situation at
Newark Airport, which they do remotely from Philadelphia, which is
(18:09):
ninety miles away, and everybody's wondering what's going on now.
The last we heard is the target that the union
and the federal government had agreed to was fourteen air
traffic controllers on a specific shift, fourteen. The other day,
I think it was Monday night at Newark, they had
one guy. They had occasionally a trainee or two watching him,
(18:34):
but it was one guy. So they're thirteen short. And
I was looking this up just to make sure how
much money the federal government spends of our tax dollars,
and in twenty nineteen they spent about four and a
half trillion dollars. This year they're going to spend over
(18:56):
seven trillion, over seven million dollars, and the air traffic
controllers are wildly understaffed. How does that have I nobody knows.
Nobody can explain where the extra two and a half
trillion went. Similarly, here in California, going back about fifteen
(19:18):
years ago, the budget was ninety eight billion. Now it's
three hundred and thirty billion. It more than tripled. Nobody
can tell you where it went. I think illegally in
healthcare has something to do with it, a little maybe,
But the federal government, you go from four and a
(19:39):
quarter four and a half trillion to over seven trillion.
Wall Street Journal has an exclusive interview with a guy
named Jonathan Stewart. He has a job working for the FAA,
not specifically an air traffic controller. What he does is
he tracks planes in the Newark region. There's obviously many
(20:02):
regional airports in big metropolitan areas, and he had seen
all the bad publicity that the air traffic controllers are
getting and he thought, you know, somebody's got to tell
our side of the story here. So he's overseeing planes.
(20:23):
He's looking at a radar scope. These are smaller airports
near Newark. There's a business jet that just took off
from the Morristown Airport and I don't know, maybe you know,
twenty twenty five miles away. And so there's one jet
coming from Morristown. There's another small plane that took off
(20:44):
from Teeterborough Airport, and that's where corporate planes take off from.
All this is near where I grew up, all right,
So you got one plane coming from Morristown, another coming
from Teeterborough. And this guy, Jonathan tour Story, is watching
the radar and he sees that they're speeding towards each
other knows to nose, and they were flying at the
(21:05):
same altitude. Now he had been he knew that the
radar could could go out at any moment, so he'd
been scribbling in a notebook the call signs for the
planes and the flight information because he didn't know when
the radar and the radio might fail. And so he's
(21:25):
you look at the radar, looking at the notebook, looking
at the raidar, looking at the notebook, and suddenly he realized,
oh my god, these two planes are about to hit
each other. And with seconds to go, he told the
pilots to turn their planes away from each other, but
he was really shook up. He then sent an email
off to FAA managers. He says, I take my job
(21:46):
seriously as I do the safety of the flying public,
and it's a management apparently has completely screwed up for
many years. I don't understand government workers, even less government managers.
You've got one job. You got to train and hire
pay air traffic controllers so the planes don't crash. Why
(22:09):
can't you do that, but just get up in the
morning and do your job, spend the money that we're
giving you. So Stuart is one of the guys who
took stress related trauma leave. He goes, I don't want
to be responsible for killing four hundred people. Now, Stuart
did this on his own. There's no pr off official
(22:31):
with him. He just wanted to send the record straight.
He was kind of pissed off at the way air
traffic controllers were being characterized. He's from Pensacola. He was
in the US Air Force and the adrenaline rush of
this job hooked him. Now he gets paid very well.
(22:53):
It gets a lot of overtime, but it's four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year. If you're paying four
hundred fifty thousand dollar year, you should be getting plenty
of people to sign up, especially with the younger generation.
This is basically one huge video game. You're playing. You
got screens, you got little planes beeping in front of you,
and all you got to do is track them and
(23:14):
inform the planes what they should do and not do.
And he said, it's fun. You play god because you
cannot fail. You cannot make a mistake. And he's worked
for twenty five years Miami, New York, Philadelphia, but he said,
chronic understaffing for years, and now there's a string of
(23:36):
tech outages. So first they ran out of bodies, and
now all the technology is failing because out of that
seven and a quarter trillion dollars that they spend every year,
these days, they don't spend anything on air traffic control.
He said, there's there's a few people who've taken leave
because they keep having tech glitches. It interrupts the radios,
(23:58):
the radar, the backups. They're all afraid of a catastrophe
every minute. He's a supervisor at the Terminal Radar Approach
Control TRAYCON, so he handles traffic for small regional airports
outside of Newark, and he has to toggle back and
forth between supervising other controllers and tracking the moving dots
(24:19):
on his radar scopes. And he says it's like a
video game, but it's like playing three D chess at
two hundred and fifty miles an hour. We're the guys
that are guiding your pilots home. Now, for that four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars you're sacrificing a lot. Sixty
hour work weeks. You give up nights, weekends, holidays, birthdays, everything,
Your mental and physical health takes a toll. There is
(24:39):
no reason to be driving these guys into a nervous breakdown.
I can't believe they can't hire plenty of military and
technically trained people, or it's set up a school. I mean,
with these kinds, with what these jobs pay, and with
all the tech oriented people we have in society now.
I mean, look at Silicon Valley. I mean it's it's
(25:01):
like a couple of generations now of guys who know
how to do this stuff? How come there? See? Why
do we have so much talent working at Facebook? Where
they what are they? What are they produce?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Likes?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thumbs ups? That's what they produce is likes and posts instead?
How about guys who can land planes and avoid mid
air collisions? Are Round two of the Moistline had a
really good first round there. People very very focused, very strong.
(25:40):
We'll see what round two is like coming up next.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I was just talking about the Newark air traffic controller
who had you know, admitted he had to take a
trauma break because two airplanes were within seconds of a
head on mid air collision, because he is so overworked.
He's got too many screens and too many people to oversee.
He also went on to say that you can only
(26:10):
really do this for about two hours at a shot,
because then you start losing focus and getting tired. And
when those two planes nearly hit each other head on,
he'd been working more than three hours without a break.
And then at Denver they had another glitch. Pilots could
(26:31):
not speak with air traffic controllers for six minutes. Twenty
pilots were en route to the Denver airport and none
of the twenty could speak to any of the air
traffic controllers. There was a multiple radio transmitter outages. Disaster
(26:52):
was averted when a controller was able to contact one
pilot on an emergency channel, which normally is used when
a pilot in distress, and then that pilot contacted the
other pilots who are trying to land. Everybody started changing frequencies.
There you go seven and a half trillion dollars we're
(27:13):
going to spend this year. All right, it's time for
the second round of the Moistline eight seven seven moist
eighty six. If you want to be on next week
eight seven seven moist eighty six, let's do round two.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Thanks Jehn, thanks for calling the moistline.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm so excited to hear from you fromout Come.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I heard you talking about gas potentially going up to
eight fifty plus a gallon.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Let's not forget our Our electric rates are significantly higher
as well as our water and.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Gas bills thanks to Newsome and CARB and all the
other schools in Sacramento. Hey, I'm a delivery driver. Could
you guys get me Gavin Newsom's home adreads so I
can take a giant on its presidential dreams.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Wow, did I hear Gavin Newsom's saying all that straight base?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
He is really sick. He's shit, He's truly wired long.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
My god, he's a true socio app Donald listening to
Gavin Newsom talks.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
About the bs he's speeling.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
On my way home from Marcus Short. He's got one.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
It's shut.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
But anyway, you know he's not.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Going to get any blowback from his Democratic friends because
they already know he's just saying this so he could
become president and He's going to make it up to
them so their shielding.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
He could stay whatever he wants.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
They don't be okay, who cares if the Menentz brothers
have been rehabilitated, or.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
If they're walking around with the therapy dogs, or if
they've been educating and have degrees.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Now, who cares?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
They still need to pay for their crimes.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Where are all the illegals living our housing crisis?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Where do you think they live? They took all of
our housing. Why is nobody talking about that?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Over a million illegal Elians getting re healthcare?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
That's just boy.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You know what, We're paying twice as much because don't
forget we have to pack for our.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Own healthcare and bears.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
That's just so wrong.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
That's why I'm leaving California in.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
August, and I'm heartbroken because.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
I'm a third generation California Great.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
So those guys can spend one hundred dollars a month
just for coming across the border. I've had to work
to last forty plus years to get health insurance and
retire and still pay one hundred and fifty dollars a minimum.
Life is great in California. Why do we allow Governor
Newsen to stay in office. Why is he above the law?
Speaker 8 (29:38):
We all know he's a crook and the ambezelous citizen's
money and laundry, it is back in his own pocket.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
On he can't account where the money went. We all
know where the money went. He buries it.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Maybe when gas costs to seven to eight bucks the gallon, time.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
For the Gavin recom Maybe there'll be some momentum.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
People are so pissed off about.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What they're paying for gas.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
You know, you don't have to be a rocket scientist
to solve the homeless problem. Just five bunch of property
out in the desert. Give everybody a tent. Put all
the homeless people out there. Every day you drive around
the bus, you pick them up and ship them out.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Thank you, mister.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
George gask Always.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
If you wouldn't have filed those papers and then this
wouldn't be getting out, it's all you, and thank you
for your final.
Speaker 9 (30:26):
View ureus Calafodia. The problem is everybody in California is
a dump.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
That's why I knew some still there. I just listened
to that new some things.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
He's an idiot.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Everybody in California is an idiot.
Speaker 10 (30:39):
We Californians have got to stop pretending that are one
percent property taxes some.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Sort of bargain.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
We still pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Please hang up.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Boy that knew some press conference or he discovered homelessness
that really didn't go over well, ah, well, that was good,
very good. Eight seven seven moist eighty six for next
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