WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:01.240 Whether it is l. 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:09.480 Kelly and six. 3 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:13.800 I'm a Lane Colate and I'm one hundred percent about us. 4 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:16.839 I'm a builder, I'm a developer, I'm a designer, and 5 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:21.280 I'm a visionary casinos, hospitals, luxury homes. I've handled over 6 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:23.440 a billion dollars worth of real estate. If it can 7 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:25.199 be built, I can figure out a way to do it. 8 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.320 Growing up, my father was in the military. He was 9 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.920 a fighter pilot. He flew F one hundreds and F 10 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:34.679 one eleven's. My father was gone a lot and we traveled. 11 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.799 But children that come from the military that move a 12 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.280 lot are independent and really quick to make friends. 13 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.159 I was able to figure it out being a woman 14 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:45.520 that was in a man's world. 15 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.280 My dad told me that the most important outpit that 16 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:50.640 you could put on is confidence. 17 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.719 Undercover Billionaire in Lane Colodia is a builder, interior designer, 18 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:58.280 and the visionary behind standout projects like Santa Monica's iconic 19 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:01.000 House of Rock. She also owned Big Z Ranch, a 20 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:04.599 forty acre working farm supporting local agriculture and direct to 21 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:08.480 consumer food distribution. While on the Discovery Plus series, Undercover 22 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:10.799 Billionaire and Lane proved she could build from the ground 23 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.400 up under extreme pressure now, after the devastating Palisades and 24 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:18.200 Eating Canyon fires, she's leveraging decades of real world experience 25 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:21.519 to cut through the noise, offering smart, actionable solutions and 26 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.400 calling out leadership failures at every level. She joins us 27 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:28.599 in the studio as part of our first YouTube simulcast, 28 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:29.719 and Lane Claude's good see you. 29 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:30.439 How are you deceivending? 30 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:32.920 I'm oh, my gosh, I'm so excited to be a 31 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:34.319 virgin guest on your show. 32 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:36.959 Oh you had to put it in that way, and 33 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:38.040 we're all. 34 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:40.359 Hey, well, you know what, I'll take any virgin I 35 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:40.719 can get. 36 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.319 Let's be fair here. I mean, you know, I'm really 37 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:48.519 glad you're doing this. So great to stream live. 38 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.319 It's great to have you, and it provides a completely 39 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:56.879 different i'll say, ethic and energy to it. 40 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:58.040 It's nice to be able to see you. 41 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:01.239 It's nice that everyone could see us had this interaction. 42 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:05.040 You are very familiar, obviously with southern California. What was 43 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:10.199 going through your mind as these fires were unfurling and growing. 44 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:14.000 Well, first of all, I was at work and I 45 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.439 was I looked over it. Tim had called and said, hey, listen, 46 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:20.680 this this thing looks like it's growing really quickly. And 47 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:23.439 when I saw it and I said, oh no, it's 48 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:25.159 far away, and he goes, no on lane, it's not 49 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.560 it's close and it's fast. And we didn't even get 50 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:32.719 a chance to get get anything out. I got nothing out. 51 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.439 I literally had to pick him up. He had the 52 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:37.719 dogs hit it, go all the way around, and it 53 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.120 was it was it, that was it. 54 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:39.759 It was gone. 55 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:44.080 It's done, it's all over. Whole thing's gone. Altadina's gone, 56 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:48.800 Pasadena's gone. It's all that whole area gone. Palisades. People 57 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:51.560 don't even talk about Malibu. Malibou is completely leveled, almost 58 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:53.680 all the way to up. No boot you can't go 59 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:54.759 to you can't get down there. 60 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:58.719 When I'm quite sure you knew a lot of people 61 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.120 who lost their house. I'm put sure you knew a 62 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.800 lot of people who had to start over. What were 63 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:06.439 you hearing from them? 64 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:09.319 I think, first of all, I think everybody's in shock. 65 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:12.759 Let's just let's just be realistic. And I really want 66 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:14.319 to talk about the Palisades because I want to. I 67 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:16.680 want to talk about Palisades as in terms of its power. 68 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:18.879 It's a it's. 69 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:23.199 Ground zero for sort of the blue Czech Democrat, you know, 70 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.120 real California all in voter all this is, this is 71 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:34.120 the government that they elected, that we elected, and these 72 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:38.199 are the people that change who gets into government. 73 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.319 This is these are the people that run California. 74 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:44.560 In the Palisades, it's one of the most expensive neighborhoods 75 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:48.240 in California. And when you talk about California, that's meaningful. 76 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:55.919 And now they've all we're responsible for this. These are 77 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:00.520 our managers of our money, our spatter, our fire to apartment. 78 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:05.479 It's our choice that we made to be managed like this. 79 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.360 And they are not potted plants. To understand they can 80 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:14.039 really change things because these people are the people that 81 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:14.719 change everything. 82 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:15.120 Anyway. 83 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.600 Let me ask you this, with different politicians, do we 84 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:20.680 get a different result what we had? 85 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:24.519 A different result from where you see. Yes, we absolutely result. 86 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.120 Let me just say different management. Let's not call them politicians. 87 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.160 I don't I think when you're running for office, you 88 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.120 probably shouldn't be doing that. I mean you should be 89 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.560 you should be elected into office. It shouldn't be something 90 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.800 you pay for. And part of the problem I think is, 91 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:39.720 you know, we've lost we've completely lost the whole you know, 92 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:44.199 grassroots running for an office because you know, you live 93 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.120 in the neighborhood, and you know your neighborhood, and you 94 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.839 know your neighbors. It's gone away and it's being paid 95 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:52.600 for by you know, citizens united in corporations, and you're 96 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:53.800 and this is the result of that. 97 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:55.879 The rubber has hit the road. The jig is up. 98 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.040 The emperor has no close say whatever you want. 99 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:02.040 It didn't work, the little speriment, the little democratic experiment, 100 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.480 it did not work. This is a perfect example of 101 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:06.680 it because now they got to work. They got to 102 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.519 roll up their sleeves and really manage it. And they 103 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:10.240 can't do it. 104 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.920 Short of waiting for the next election, which is going 105 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:15.360 to be in twenty twenty sixth in June and twenty 106 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:15.920 twenty eight. 107 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:16.600 What have you? 108 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:23.519 What can Angelinos do now which could help change the 109 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.800 trajectory for the next fire or the next calamity, the 110 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:27.519 next disaster. 111 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.439 Well, okay, first it's a big question. 112 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.439 But first, the most I think active thing you can 113 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:41.279 do is register read literally, change your your make your 114 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.560 voice heard, and change yourself from a Democrat or a Republican. 115 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:46.240 Go on a register and just change it to red 116 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.160 because you will get the attention of absolutely everybody in Sacramento. 117 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:51.600 I let me jump in there because you talk about 118 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.319 something I talked about. But it's more than registration. I 119 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.920 have been on the Republicans. You got to run somebody, 120 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:58.920 and you have to run somebody credible. And I can 121 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.160 tell you right now there is no one who is 122 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.720 running for mayor of Los Angeles who is a Republican 123 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:05.639 as of this moment. 124 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.360 Well, Grick Cruso I think is a Republican. 125 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.319 No he is, but no, no, no, but in mindset. 126 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.000 But since he is a registered Democrat, the Democratic Party 127 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.800 is not going to embrace him. And he and to 128 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.360 the people who are not paying close attention, they're still 129 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.519 going to see a D and not an R. Why 130 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:25.600 is it the Republican Party is not putting forth a candidate. 131 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:29.560 Well again, this is this is the reason that Rick 132 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:32.319 Caruso ran as a Democrat is because he believed, like 133 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:35.000 everybody believes, you can't win in California, only show a Democrat. 134 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.040 The governor's race is kind of interesting because the governor's 135 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.040 race is a runoff, so it's not run like a 136 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.600 typical race where you have, like you know, basically two 137 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.639 groups of Republicans or three. You have the Republicans, the Democrats, 138 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.560 and the independents, and then everybody gets kind of their 139 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.040 own like little primary, and then what's leftover gets to 140 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:50.560 run against. 141 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:51.240 It doesn't work like that. 142 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.759 It's basically whoever gets the most votes against whoever got 143 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:55.600 the second most votes. Those are the top two, and 144 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.360 then they have a runoff a runoff election. It could 145 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.879 be two Democrats. So there's plenty of time fun coming. 146 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:02.680 Come up the jungle primary. 147 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:03.639 Yeah, they're coming up with. 148 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:05.000 They're coming up with They're going to come up with 149 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:08.240 really a couple of really good Republicans. There's there's going 150 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:09.639 to come up with a couple of really good Democrats. 151 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.199 Kamala Harris is probably going to run, and it concerns me, 152 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.759 you know, if Rick Caruso does run, and he's got 153 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.279 no chance if she runs, because it's just going to 154 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:19.680 split it in two and some big Republican will win. 155 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:20.639 And that's okay. 156 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:22.600 I just want somebody that's got boots on the ground, 157 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:26.480 that understands California is not about politics, but rather about resources. 158 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.519 You mentioned resources before we go to this first break. 159 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.839 How did resources play a role or didn't play a 160 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:35.639 role in the preparation for the fires? 161 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:37.720 Of the management of them. From where you sit, it. 162 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:39.160 Depends on which one you want to talk about. 163 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:41.079 But you know, thirty years ago we stopped cutting our 164 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:42.399 trees and stop cutting our brush. 165 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:44.000 I mean, it's a thirty year old problem. 166 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:46.839 It's an environmental idea that you know, we want to 167 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.560 save all these brush, you know, and not cut fire lanes. 168 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:53.560 It's it's a respectable idea to be environmentally conscious, but 169 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.000 not at the cost of the health and safety of 170 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.079 the citizens that pay for that to happen. So it's 171 00:07:58.120 --> 00:07:59.800 just like it went too far, just went off the 172 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:03.680 and decided. You know, they have multiple groups in California 173 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:06.399 that stop you from building. They have these wildlife groups, 174 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:09.160 they have open space rules, and the problem is there's 175 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.720 no one to maintain those. So if you talk someone 176 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:14.839 into literally talk someone into giving up space that you'll 177 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.399 give them a permit and then say, you know, we'll 178 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:18.959 maintain it, and then no one maintains it. 179 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:19.600 This is what you have. 180 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.240 You have houses that have debris in between them and 181 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:26.360 it never nobody takes care of it. So those resources 182 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.600 are thirty years old from just being not taken care 183 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.279 of it. Then the water situation, I mean, water's a 184 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:34.039 completely different problem because in the farming world, you know, 185 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.399 we obviously need water. Just signs all up and down 186 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:39.039 the ninety nine Freeway everywhere he goes is to Gavin 187 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:42.080 Dear Gavin A, we are farmers stealing water, Like they 188 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.759 want to know why they don't get water and the 189 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:47.080 water system and the watershed they've had come up with 190 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.759 all these ideas about storage, water storage, all this money's 191 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.240 been poortant into it. There's no water storage. Where's the 192 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:52.600 money go? 193 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.519 Where's the money? Why? 194 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:56.759 Why is it more important to make white wine? You're 195 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:01.039 using Central Valley grapes anyway, I mean the Rombar Shardonnay 196 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:02.720 and all the big chardonnays that make all the money 197 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:05.159 up in the Northern California. They're only required to use 198 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.279 I think twenty percent of their own grapes. It's ridiculous 199 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.039 they get them all down for Central Valley. 200 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.600 But the argument, I know, and I've heard the argument 201 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.440 is like, hey, we had enough water for the fires, 202 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:18.879 and the water which was released from the Central Valley 203 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.519 by President Trump would not have impacted the fires. 204 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:23.919 So where do you come out on that? 205 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.720 How do you separate the water which would be used 206 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.960 for the Central Valley versus the water which was available 207 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:31.080 for the fires down here. 208 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.320 If all our water's going in different directions other than 209 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:36.320 the Central Valley and down to Los Angeles in San 210 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.960 Diego County, if we're not getting any water, we're not 211 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.360 getting we don't need storage. I mean, it doesn't matter 212 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.840 if it just runs off. We have no storage and 213 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.360 there's not enough money. There's not enough money apparently left 214 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.720 to make storage for water. Water should be stored. It 215 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.120 should be stored for when you have a fire. And 216 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.039 so when they went to open up fire hydrants and 217 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:55.720 they went to go use water, there's no water pressure 218 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.240 because there's no water because there's nothing stored. They have 219 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.159 reservoirs that are half full or not at all. They 220 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:04.159 have reservoirs that have holes in their lids, which it's 221 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.759 important that they're not dirty because the water it won't 222 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:10.200 filter through. Point being is they're not maintained. All of 223 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.159 our resources are not maintained. And it's not just water 224 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:17.960 and are our forests. It's also our landfills. Our landfills 225 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:19.720 are full. So what are we going to do with 226 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.799 eleven million tons of debris that they're not even talking about? 227 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:24.320 What are we going to do with a million, six 228 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:27.679 hundred and fifty thousand trucks of debris. They're doing seven 229 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.279 hundred and fifty a day, and that's only the Army Corps. 230 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:32.399 It's going to take six years to clean up. I mean, 231 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.120 it's ridiculous. And by the way, they're going to be full. 232 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.440 So the resources that we need are not being managed. 233 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:40.879 Nobody's even looking at it. 234 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:44.679 And on top of it, we're not talking about what 235 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:47.919 it really takes to clean it up because nobody understands 236 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.600 that because the people that are running it are politicians. 237 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.639 They're not construction people, they're not debris removal people. The 238 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.919 Army Corps of Engineers is a contract company under ECC, 239 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:00.360 which happens to be under the Federal Maytalk, which is 240 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.879 the Biden May Talk. It's not even the Trump may Talk. 241 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.240 I think it had one point one billion dollars in it. 242 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:05.919 They deployed him. 243 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.919 They're here, they're doing a great job, but it's not 244 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.240 anywhere near enough. And then poor Christy No, she hit 245 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.559 the ground running right, she's got her hands full. She's 246 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.080 in charge of FEMA, so she's got to sit down 247 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:17.960 and get her hands around what's going on here before 248 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.399 we get more money federally, and because our resources are 249 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.080 so mismanaged, Donald Trump doesn't want to just give us 250 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:25.840 the money, which I don't blame him, because where is 251 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:28.799 all the money, Where's the ula attax money, Where's the 252 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:31.720 homeless money, Where's the forest money, Where's the water money, 253 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.639 Where's the watershed money? So when you get down to it, 254 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.320 we're not going to get federal aid. Gavin Newsom, in 255 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.960 a simultaneous parallel lane, flew to Washington, DC to ask 256 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.320 for forty billion dollars while he's teeing up his fifty million 257 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.720 dollar fight against Donald Trump protection. 258 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:48.200 I hate to stop there. 259 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:49.759 We have to go to a commercial break, but I 260 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:51.720 want to pick up there when we come back. How 261 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:56.080 does the federal contingent impact this situation, not only right 262 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.799 now but going forward. My guests on YouTube as well 263 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.960 as iHeartRadio is a Colotti who is a builder, interior 264 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.720 designer and visionary behind standout projects like Santa Monica's iconic 265 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.240 House of Rock. You might have seen her on Undercover 266 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.559 Billionaire recently, and we'll have more with Elaine Collotti in 267 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.759 just a moment. It's later with mo Kelly Live everywhere 268 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.080 in the Heart Radio app and on YouTube at mister 269 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.120 mo Kelly m R M O K E L L Y. 270 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.480 You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from 271 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:24.559 HEFI AM six forty Later. 272 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:27.039 With mo Kelly, we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app 273 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:29.480 and also on YouTube at mister mo Kelly. Yes a 274 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:33.159 live video sumocast, and our first guest in studio is 275 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:33.960 Elaine Colotti. 276 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.279 We're talking about the fires prior to. 277 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:40.759 During and also the way forward, the people who might 278 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:43.639 be responsible, the things that we need, the resources we 279 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.480 need going forward, and Elaine, before the break, we're getting 280 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.639 ready to get into the money of it, all the 281 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:52.600 money that has been spent, the money has yet to 282 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:56.440 be spent, in what federal aid we may need going forward. 283 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.000 What would you say in regard to that? 284 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.879 Well, I think we have to be really so let's 285 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:03.519 let's start with this. 286 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:06.759 At the moment, we're talking about the people that have 287 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:11.159 opted in or opted out. Yeah, and everybody's heard it, 288 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.200 if anyone's involved it all in the fires, they've heard 289 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.039 about opt in opt out, and opt in opt out 290 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:17.440 has to do with whether or not you're asking FEMA 291 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:18.240 to clean your lot. 292 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.440 Okay, that's the only thing that's really going on. 293 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:23.320 Six permits have been pulled since it happened, so there's 294 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:25.600 the permit, and the rebuilding thing hasn't even started yet. 295 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:27.159 This is just getting your lot cleaned up. 296 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:29.919 And you know, you could imagine what it must be 297 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.159 like to, you know, have a house standing there and 298 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.799 nobody else around you has a house, and the lock 299 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:37.399 cleaning is going really slowly, and maybe only three lots 300 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:42.360 are cleaned in your neighborhood. And that's because the amount 301 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:44.320 of people that have opted in is somewhere between thirty 302 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:48.120 four hundred people and four thousand, you know, ish, it's 303 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:52.159 not eighteen thousand. So and the reason that is is 304 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:54.960 because first of all, California Fair Plan has only twenty 305 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.000 five thousand dollars worth of debris insurance. And what you 306 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.879 got to understand is, if you're going to do all 307 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:03.240 the metrics on the news, if Karen bass is going 308 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:05.399 to get on a report on how great things are going, 309 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.639 she's only reporting on what she knows, and what she 310 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:10.039 knows is what FEMA's doing. 311 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:11.399 Because that's the only report she's getting. 312 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.159 So if she says we're fifteen percent done, she's fifteen 313 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.279 percent done of thirty four hundred and fifteen percent done 314 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:16.960 of eighteen thousand. 315 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:19.159 But most people don't understand in the station she's talking 316 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:22.399 about La City, not La County. She's not talking about Altadena, 317 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:23.960 and people I think missed. 318 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:27.120 That she's not talking about She's talking about a fraction 319 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:30.559 of the cleanup that's under contract with opt in. 320 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:31.639 It's a fraction. 321 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:34.679 And all the other contractors that are out there that 322 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:38.279 want to clean and do stuff, they are completely hogtide. 323 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:40.600 And the reason are hogtied is because there's this thing 324 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:42.840 called haul route, which is how you get the stuff 325 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:46.799 to the dump. The hall route is for ECC, FEMA, 326 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:51.440 FEMA contractors and everybody that's removing dirt under the FEMA contracts. 327 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:53.360 That's what they went and met with the Board of 328 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.120 Supervisors about. They had a big win. They were able 329 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.279 to get more trucks per day, not more trucks in 330 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:02.320 there in the long run, more more yargage going into 331 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.159 the dump, just more trucks per day. So we've got 332 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.480 a huge problem with the debris and the debris removal 333 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.279 because there's just not enough hands on deck and the 334 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:12.840 only way to get that out is femal money or 335 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:17.240 government federal money. Because La is broke, and we're broke 336 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:20.639 because we mismanaged our money. We didn't just mismanage our forests, 337 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.320 and we didn't just mismanage our water. We mismanaged all 338 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.759 our money. We had a billion dollars surplus. 339 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:27.159 We have no money. We're in the hole. 340 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:30.759 When Gavin leaves or whoever takes over, has got this 341 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.879 massive deficit that they've got to fill. And then on 342 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:37.519 top of it, they they passed ula tax, which they 343 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.720 call a mansion tax. It doesn't tax mansions. It taxes 344 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:46.279 anybody transacting real estate over five million dollars, hospitals, low 345 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:49.120 income lots. Let me tell you, you have a burned 346 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:51.120 out lot worth more than five million dollars, you're paying 347 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:54.879 mansion tax. Does that seem right to you? That's circumventing 348 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:56.159 Proposition thirteen. 349 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:59.519 You have to educate folks may not be old enough 350 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:01.159 to remember Proposition thirteen. 351 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:02.879 And it's impact on property tax. 352 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:05.480 Is Go ahead, well, everybody here, if you own property 353 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.639 in California, it is our Wall Street. Okay, so your 354 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:11.320 real estate and your equity is your stock investment. 355 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:14.039 It is the Gold Coast. That's why they call it. 356 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:15.840 That is the best real estate in the world. 357 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.000 We have the best temperatures, we have the most resources, 358 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:20.279 We have the most beautiful land in the world, and 359 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:21.399 they are trying. 360 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:23.440 To get it from you. Why wake up? 361 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:28.320 The Proposition thirteen freezes your tax basis at like it's 362 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.919 one percent is one point two five percent. That's your 363 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.360 transfer tax when you sell that property, and you can 364 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:35.320 take it with you one time when you're older and 365 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:36.600 you retire, when you buy another. 366 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.519 Piece of property. It protects your investment. 367 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.080 And they've been trying to get at it since nineteen 368 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.879 seventy ninety nineteen seventy nine. They've been trying to figure 369 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:45.960 out a way around it, and they got all these 370 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:47.679 ideas about how to do it, and they finally did 371 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:49.919 it when they penetrated this mansion tax thing. And they 372 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:52.679 called it mansion tax, which is unfair because it's not 373 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:55.759 a mansion tax. It's a straight it's a transactional tax. 374 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:58.320 It's a levee, which is illegal. It's a legal to 375 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.519 tax real estate under a levee. It's gonna lose ultimately, 376 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:05.640 but not soon enough. And meanwhile, it froze our market 377 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.240 and not just La City, it froze everything because when 378 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:11.440 you stop the Titanic, it takes a minute to get 379 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.599 it going again. And at the end of the day, 380 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:17.319 mansion tax ruined the Los Angeles, California real estate market. 381 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:19.680 Which ruined the real estate market here in California. It 382 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:21.279 brought it to its knees. 383 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.079 We had a conversation off air that I wanted you 384 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:28.119 to circle back to. You were talking about Mayor Karen 385 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:32.000 Bass and what we as those who are Angelino's and 386 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.799 those who may be on the periphery of Los Angeles, 387 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:37.079 what we should we think of her, what we should 388 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:38.000 do in this moment. 389 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:40.680 Well, okay, a couple of things. 390 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:42.880 I mean, obviously, when she got off the plane and 391 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:44.480 she was in the airport and she was, you know, 392 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:47.799 the reporter came up to her, she was like a 393 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.960 deer in the headlights. And I didn't It didn't give 394 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.559 me a warm, fuzzy feeling that she's going to be 395 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.440 a good leader. Okay, there's lack of leadership, but. 396 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:58.640 The recalling hers is challenging. 397 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:00.680 First of all, a lot of people don't understand if 398 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.000 she is recalled, city council chooses her replacement until there's 399 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.119 an actual runoff. Most people don't understand that. So it's 400 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:11.400 you know, I think Nicole Shanahan. God bless her. She 401 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:13.640