Hurdles To Rebuild (02/06)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.4 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/06) - Cheryl Pointdexter comes on the show to talk about SoCal Edison's culpability in the Hurst Fire in 2020 and how she has experienced a lot of hurdles from the state as she tries to rebuild her home 5 years later. LA is spending the more money on homeless people than it is on emergency services. Firefighters were held back from joining the front lines of the Palisades and Eaton Fires because of unserviced fire engines. Newsom was in Washington DC to talk with Trump about wildfire relief.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:06.1 | We're on from one to four every day. We've had quite a show. I would, uh, if you missed it, |
| 0:10.0 | go to the podcast, uh, post it after four o'clock, uh, John Cobell's show on demand on the |
| 0:14.8 | iHeart app. Just, uh, just like the radio show. I'll tell you more of what we did later on in the hour, and then you could enjoy it later this evening. |
| 0:24.6 | We've continued covering the fires, and we're trying to cut through these loads of horsemen who are being shoveled at us by civic leaders. |
| 0:34.1 | We've been talking the last couple of days about Steve Soberoff, who held a private meeting with the rich guys, the Hollywood agents, and telling them, hey, just hold on, hold on for a year. |
| 0:46.3 | And whatever you're being offered for your property now, you'll get triple it next year because of all the money coming in. |
| 0:52.0 | But he didn't want to talk about any of the causes of the horrific response here in L.A. City from fire management. |
| 1:02.1 | He didn't want to talk about the empty reservoir. |
| 1:04.3 | He called that politics or negativity or it's the bus to know. |
| 1:08.9 | He only wants raw, raw stuff. |
| 1:10.8 | Well, we're going to focus on reality here because... or it's the bus to know. He only wants rah-rah stuff. |
| 1:16.7 | Well, we're going to focus on reality here because that's what we do. |
| 1:24.8 | I can't imagine living in these fantasy worlds that politicians and public leaders love to hide in. |
| 1:29.5 | Their alternate universes they create. We're going to talk again now with Cheryl Pony Dexter. Cheryl came on our show way back in 2020, which is one of the worst years |
| 1:35.7 | in human history. And 2020, terrible fire, Bobcat Fire in the Juniper Hills area. |
| 1:46.1 | And she lost everything. |
| 1:50.4 | Home cabin, horse stalls, barn, motorhome trailer. |
| 1:54.7 | Five years later, she's rebuilt the house, but she can't get inside. |
| 2:02.1 | And she wants to tell her story as a warning to all of you in Altona and the Palisades, |
| 2:05.7 | who maybe you get caught up in the gas from Bass and Soberoff, and you think this is going to be easy. |
| 2:07.8 | Oh, and Newsom, too. |
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