Speaker 1: Whether it is l.
Speaker 2: Kelly and six.
Speaker 3: I'm a Lane Colate and I'm one hundred percent about us.
Speaker 3: I'm a builder, I'm a developer, I'm a designer, and
Speaker 3: I'm a visionary casinos, hospitals, luxury homes. I've handled over
Speaker 3: a billion dollars worth of real estate. If it can
Speaker 3: be built, I can figure out a way.
Speaker 4: To do it.
Speaker 3: Growing up, my father was in the military. He was
Speaker 3: a fighter pilot. He flew F one hundreds and F
Speaker 3: one eleven's. My father was gone a lot and we traveled.
Speaker 3: But children that come from the military that move a
Speaker 3: lot are independent and really quick to make friends.
Speaker 1: I was able to figure it out being a woman
Speaker 1: that was in a man's world.
Speaker 3: My dad told me that the most important outfit that
Speaker 3: you could put on is confidence.
Speaker 4: Undercover Billionaire in Lane Colodia is a builder, interior designer,
Speaker 4: and the visionary behind standout projects like Santa Monica's iconic
Speaker 4: House of Rock. She also owned Big Z Ranch, a
Speaker 4: forty acre working farm supporting local agriculture and direct to
Speaker 4: consumer food distribution. While on the Discovery Plus series, Undercover
Speaker 4: Billionaire and Lane proved she could build from the ground
Speaker 4: up under extreme pressure now, after the devastating Palisades and
Speaker 4: Eating Canyon fires, she's leveraging decades of real world experience
Speaker 4: to cut through the noise, offering smart, actionable solutions and
Speaker 4: calling out leadership failures at every level. She joins us
Speaker 4: in the studio as part of our first YouTube simulcast,
Speaker 4: and Lane Claude's good see you.
Speaker 2: How are you this evening?
Speaker 3: I'm oh, my gosh, I'm so excited to be a
Speaker 3: virgin guest on your show.
Speaker 2: Oh you had to put it in that way, and
Speaker 2: we're all.
Speaker 3: Hey, well, you know what, I'll take any virgin I
Speaker 3: can get.
Speaker 1: Let's be fair here. I mean, you know, I'm really
Speaker 1: glad you're doing this. So great to stream live.
Speaker 4: It's great to have you, and it provides a completely
Speaker 4: different i'll say, ethic and energy to it.
Speaker 2: It's nice to be able to see you.
Speaker 4: It's nice that everyone could see us had this interaction.
Speaker 4: You are very familiar, obviously with southern California. What was
Speaker 4: going through your mind as these fires were unfurling and growing?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I was at work and I
Speaker 3: was I looked over it. Tim had called and said, hey, listen,
Speaker 3: this this thing looks like it's growing really quickly. And
Speaker 3: when I saw it and I said, oh no, it's
Speaker 3: far away, and he goes, no on lane, it's not
Speaker 3: it's close and it's fast. And we didn't even get
Speaker 3: a chance to get get anything out. I got nothing out.
Speaker 3: I literally had to pick him up. He had the
Speaker 3: dogs hit it, go all the way around, and it
Speaker 3: was it was.
Speaker 1: It, that was it. It was gone.
Speaker 3: It's done, it's all over. Whole thing's gone. Altadina's gone,
Speaker 3: Pasadena's gone. It's all that whole area gone. Palisades. People
Speaker 3: don't even talk about Malibu, Malibous completely leveled almost all
Speaker 3: the way to up.
Speaker 1: No boot you can't go to, you can't get down there.
Speaker 4: When I'm quite sure you knew a lot of people
Speaker 4: who lost their house. I'm put sure you knew a
Speaker 4: lot of people who had to start over. What were
Speaker 4: you hearing from them?
Speaker 3: I think, first of all, I think everybody's in shock.
Speaker 3: Let's just let's just be realistic. And I really want
Speaker 3: to talk about the Palisades because I want I want
Speaker 3: to talk about Palisades as in terms of its power.
Speaker 3: It's a it's ground zero for sort of the blue
Speaker 3: Czech Democrat. You know real California all in voter all
Speaker 3: this is this is the government that they elected, that
Speaker 3: we elected, and these are the people that change who
Speaker 3: gets into government.
Speaker 1: This is these are the people that run California.
Speaker 3: In the Palisades, it's one of the most expensive neighborhoods
Speaker 3: in California. And when you talk about California, that's meaningful.
Speaker 3: And now they've all we're responsible for this. These are
Speaker 3: our managers of our money, our spatter, our fire to apartment.
Speaker 3: It's our choice that we made to be managed like this.
Speaker 3: And they are not potted plants. To understand they can
Speaker 3: really change things because these people are the people that
Speaker 3: change everything.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, with different politicians, do we
Speaker 4: get a different result what we had, a different result
Speaker 4: from where you see?
Speaker 3: Yes, we absolutely. First all, let me just say different management.
Speaker 3: Let's not call them politicians. I don't I think when
Speaker 3: you're running for office, you probably shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 3: I mean you should be you should be elected into office.
Speaker 3: It shouldn't be something you pay for. And part of
Speaker 3: the problem I think is, you know, we've lost we've
Speaker 3: completely lost the whole you know, grassroots running for an
Speaker 3: office because you know you live in the neighborhood, and
Speaker 3: you know your neighborhood, and you know your neighbors. It's
Speaker 3: gone away and it's being paid for by you know,
Speaker 3: citizens united in corporations and you're and this is the
Speaker 3: result of that.
Speaker 1: The rubber has hit the road. The jig is up.
Speaker 1: The Emperor has no close say whatever you want.
Speaker 3: It didn't work, the little speriment, the little democratic experiment,
Speaker 3: it did not work. This is a perfect example of
Speaker 3: it because now they got to work. They got to
Speaker 3: roll up their sleeves and really manage it. And they
Speaker 3: can't do it.
Speaker 4: Short of waiting for the next election, which is going
Speaker 4: to be in twenty twenty sixth in June and twenty
Speaker 4: twenty eight.
Speaker 2: What have you?
Speaker 4: What can Angelinos do now which could help change the
Speaker 4: trajectory for the next fire or the next calamity, the
Speaker 4: next disaster.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, first it's a big question.
Speaker 3: But first, the most I think active thing you can
Speaker 3: do is register read literally, change your your make your
Speaker 3: voice heard, and change yourself from a Democrat or a Republican.
Speaker 3: Go on a register and just change it to red
Speaker 3: because you will get the attention of absolutely everybody in Sacramento.
Speaker 4: I let me jump in there because you talk about
Speaker 4: something I talked about. But it's more than registration. I
Speaker 4: have been on the Republicans. You got to run somebody,
Speaker 4: and you have to run somebody credible. And I can
Speaker 4: tell you right now there is no one who is
Speaker 4: running for mayor of Los Angeles who is a Republican
Speaker 4: as of this moment.
Speaker 1: Well, Grick Cruso I think is a Republican.
Speaker 2: No he is, but no, no, no, but in mindset.
Speaker 4: But since he is a registered Democrat, the Democratic Party
Speaker 4: is not going to embrace him. And he and to
Speaker 4: the people who are not paying close attention, they're still
Speaker 4: going to see a D and not an R. Why
Speaker 4: is it the Republican Party is not putting forth a candidate.
Speaker 3: Well again, this is this is the reason that Rick
Speaker 3: Caruso ran as a Democrat is because he believed, like
Speaker 3: everybody believes, you can't win in California, only show a Democrat.
Speaker 3: The governor's race is kind of interesting because the governor's
Speaker 3: race is a runoff, so it's not run like a
Speaker 3: typical race where you have, like you know, basically two
Speaker 3: groups of Republicans or three. You have the Republicans, the Democrats,
Speaker 3: and the independents, and then everybody gets kind of their
Speaker 3: own like little primary, and then what's leftover gets to
Speaker 3: run against.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 3: It's basically whoever gets the most votes against whoever got
Speaker 3: the second most votes. Those are the top two, and
Speaker 3: then they have a runoff a runoff election. It could
Speaker 3: be two Democrats. So there's plenty of time. Funk coming
Speaker 3: come up the jungle primary. Yeah, they're coming up with.
Speaker 3: They're coming up with They're going to come up with
Speaker 3: really a couple of really good Republicans. There's there's going
Speaker 3: to come up with a couple of really good Democrats.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris is probably going to run, and it concerns me,
Speaker 3: you know, if Rick Carusso does run, and he's got
Speaker 3: no chance if she runs, because he's just going to
Speaker 3: split it in two and some big Republican will win.
Speaker 1: And that's okay.
Speaker 3: I just want somebody that's got boots on the ground,
Speaker 3: that understands California is not about politics, but rather about resources.
Speaker 4: You mentioned resources before we go to this first break.
Speaker 4: How did resources play a role or didn't play a
Speaker 4: role in the preparation for the fires of the management
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 2: From where you sit, it.
Speaker 1: Depends on which one you want to talk about.
Speaker 3: But you know, thirty years ago we stopped cutting our
Speaker 3: trees and stop cutting our brush.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a thirty year old problem.
Speaker 3: It's an environmental idea that you know, we want to
Speaker 3: save all these brush, you know, and not cut fire lanes.
Speaker 3: It's it's a respectable idea to be environmentally conscious, but
Speaker 3: not at the cost of the health and safety of
Speaker 3: the citizens that pay for that to happen.
Speaker 1: So it's just like it went too far, just went
Speaker 1: off the and decided.
Speaker 3: You know, they have multiple groups in California that stop
Speaker 3: you from building. They have these wildlife groups, they have
Speaker 3: open space rules, and the problem is there's no one
Speaker 3: to maintain those. So if you talk someone into literally
Speaker 3: talk someone into giving up space that you'll give them
Speaker 3: a permit and then say, you know, we'll maintain it,
Speaker 3: and then no one maintains it. This is what you have.
Speaker 3: You have houses that have debris in between them and
Speaker 3: it never nobody takes care of it. So those resources
Speaker 3: are thirty years old from just being not taken care
Speaker 3: of it. Then the water situation, I mean, water's a
Speaker 3: completely different problem because in the farming world, you know,
Speaker 3: we obviously need water. There's signs all up and down
Speaker 3: the ninety nine Freeway everywhere he goes is to Gavin
Speaker 3: Dear Gavin A, we are farmers stealing water, Like they
Speaker 3: want to know why they don't get water and the
Speaker 3: water system and the watershed they've had come up with
Speaker 3: all these ideas about stat water storage. All this money's
Speaker 3: been poortant into it. There's no water storage. Where's the
Speaker 3: money go?
Speaker 1: Where's the money?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: Why is it more important to make white wine? You're
Speaker 3: using Central Valley grapes anyway, I mean the Rombar Shardonnay
Speaker 3: and all the big chardonnays that make all the money
Speaker 3: up in the Northern California. They're only required to use
Speaker 3: I think like twenty percent of their own grapes. It's
Speaker 3: ridiculous they get them all down for Central Valley.
Speaker 4: But the argument, I know, and I've heard the argument
Speaker 4: is like, hey, we had enough water for the fires,
Speaker 4: and the water which was released from the Central Valley
Speaker 4: by President Trump would not have impacted the fires.
Speaker 2: So where do you come out on that?
Speaker 4: How do you separate the water which would be used
Speaker 4: for the Central Valley versus the water which was available
Speaker 4: for the fires down here.
Speaker 3: If all our water's going in different directions other than
Speaker 3: the Central Valley and down to Los Angeles in San
Speaker 3: Diego County, if we're not getting any water, we're not
Speaker 3: getting we don't need storage. It doesn't matter if it
Speaker 3: just runs off. We have no storage and there's not
Speaker 3: enough money. There's not enough money apparently left to make
Speaker 3: storage for water. Water should be stored. It should be
Speaker 3: stored for when you have a fire. And so when
Speaker 3: they went to open up fire hydrants and they went
Speaker 3: to go use water, there's no water pressure because there's
Speaker 3: no water because there's nothing stored. They have reservoirs that
Speaker 3: are half full or not at all. They have reservoirs
Speaker 3: that have holes in their lids, which it's important that
Speaker 3: they're not dirty because the water it won't filter through.
Speaker 3: Point being is they're not maintained. All of our resources
Speaker 3: are not maintained. And it's not just water and are
Speaker 3: our forests. It's also our landfills. Our landfills are full.
Speaker 3: So what are we going to do with eleven million
Speaker 3: tons of debris that they're not even talking about? What
Speaker 3: are we going to do with a million, six hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty thousand trucks of debris. They're doing seven hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty a day, and that's only the Army Corps.
Speaker 3: It's going to take six years to clean up. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's ridiculous. And by the way, they're going to be full.
Speaker 3: So the resources that we need are not being managed.
Speaker 1: Nobody's even looking at it.
Speaker 3: And on top of it, we're not talking about what
Speaker 3: it really takes to clean it up because nobody understands
Speaker 3: that because the people that are running it are politicians.
Speaker 3: They're not construction people, they're not debris removal people. The
Speaker 3: Army Corps of Engineers is a contract company under ECC,
Speaker 3: which happens to be under the Federal Maytalk, which is
Speaker 3: the Biden May Talk. It's not even the Trump may Talk.
Speaker 3: I think it had one point one billion dollars in it.
Speaker 1: They deployed him.
Speaker 3: They're here, they're doing a great job, but it's not
Speaker 3: anywhere near enough. And then poor Christy No, she hit
Speaker 3: the ground running right, she's got her hands full. She's
Speaker 3: in charge of FEMA, so she's got to sit down
Speaker 3: and get her hands around what's going on here before
Speaker 3: we get more money federally, and because our resources are
Speaker 3: so mismanaged, Donald Trump doesn't want to just give us
Speaker 3: the money, which I don't blame him, because where is
Speaker 3: all the money, Where's the ula at tax money, Where's
Speaker 3: the homeless money, Where's the forest money, Where's the water money,
Speaker 3: Where's the watershed money? So when you get down to it,
Speaker 3: we're not going to get federal aid. Gavin Newsom, in
Speaker 3: a simultaneous parallel lane, flew to Washington, DC to ask
Speaker 3: for forty billion dollars while he's teeing up his fifty million
Speaker 3: dollar fight against Donald Trump protection.
Speaker 2: I hate to stop there.
Speaker 4: We have to go to a commercial break, but I
Speaker 4: want to pick up there when we come back. How
Speaker 4: does the federal contingent impact this situation, not only right
Speaker 4: now but going forward. My guests on YouTube as well
Speaker 4: as iHeartRadio is a Colotti who is a builder, interior
Speaker 4: designer and visionary behind standout projects like Santa Monica's iconic
Speaker 4: House of Rock. You might have seen her on Undercover
Speaker 4: Billionaire recently, and we'll have more with Elaine Colotti in
Speaker 4: just a moment. It's later with mo Kelly Live everywhere
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Speaker 4: Later with mo Kelly we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 4: app and also on YouTube at mister mo Kelly. Yes
Speaker 4: a live video simulcast, and our first guest in studio
Speaker 4: is Elaine Colotti. We're talking about the fires prior to
Speaker 4: during and also the way forward, the people who might
Speaker 4: be responsible, the things that we need, the resources we
Speaker 4: need going forward, and Elaine, before the break, we're getting
Speaker 4: ready to get into the money of it, all the
Speaker 4: money that has been spent, the money has yet to
Speaker 4: be spent, in what federal aid we may need going forward.
Speaker 2: What would you say in regard to that, Well, I think.
Speaker 1: We have to be really so let's let's start with
Speaker 1: us at the moment.
Speaker 3: We're talking about the people that have opted in or
Speaker 3: opted out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and everybody's heard it, if.
Speaker 3: Anyone's involved it all in the fires, they've heard about
Speaker 3: opt in opt out, and opt in opt out has
Speaker 3: to do with whether or not you're asking FEMA to
Speaker 3: clean your lot.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the only thing that's really going on.
Speaker 3: Six permits have been pulled since it happened, so there's
Speaker 3: the permit, and the rebuilding thing hasn't even started yet.
Speaker 1: This is just getting your lot cleaned up.
Speaker 3: And you know, you could imagine what it must be
Speaker 3: like to, you know, have a house standing there and
Speaker 3: nobody else around you has a house, and the lock
Speaker 3: cleaning is going really slowly, and maybe only three lots
Speaker 3: are cleaned in your neighborhood. And that's because the amount
Speaker 3: of people that have opted in is somewhere between thirty
Speaker 3: four hundred people and four thousand, you know, ish, it's
Speaker 3: not eighteen thousand. So and the reason that is is
Speaker 3: because first of all, California Fair Plan has only twenty
Speaker 3: five thousand dollars worth of debris insurance. And what you
Speaker 3: got to understand is, if you're going to do all
Speaker 3: the metrics on the news, if Karen bass is going
Speaker 3: to get on a report on how great things are going,
Speaker 3: she's only reporting on what she knows, and what she
Speaker 3: knows is what FEMA's doing because that's the only report
Speaker 3: she's getting. So if she says we're fifteen percent done,
Speaker 3: she's fifteen percent done of thirty four hundred and fifteen
Speaker 3: percent done of eighteen thousand.
Speaker 4: But most people don't understand in the station she's talking
Speaker 4: about La City, not La County. She's not talking about Altadina,
Speaker 4: and people I think missed that she's.
Speaker 3: Not talking about She's talking about a fraction of the
Speaker 3: cleanup that's under contract with opt in.
Speaker 1: It's a fraction.
Speaker 3: And all the other contractors that are out there that
Speaker 3: want to clean and do stuff, they are completely hogtide.
Speaker 3: And the reason are hogtied is because there's this thing
Speaker 3: called a haul route, which is how you get the
Speaker 3: stuff to the dump.
Speaker 1: The hall route is.
Speaker 3: For ECC, FEMA, FEMA contractors, and everybody that's removing dirt
Speaker 3: under the FEMA contracts. That's what they went and met
Speaker 3: with the Board of Supervisors about. They had a big win.
Speaker 3: They were able to get more trucks per day, not
Speaker 3: more trucks in there in the long run, more more
Speaker 3: yardage going into the dump, just more trucks per day.
Speaker 3: So we've got a huge problem with the debris and
Speaker 3: the debris removal because there's just not enough hands on
Speaker 3: deck and the only way to get that out is
Speaker 3: femal money or government federal money. Because la is broke,
Speaker 3: and we're broke because we mismanaged our money. We didn't
Speaker 3: just mismanage our forests, and we didn't just mismanage our water.
Speaker 3: We mismanaged all our money. We had a billion dollars surplus.
Speaker 1: We have no money. We're in the hole.
Speaker 3: When Gavin leaves or whoever takes over, has got this
Speaker 3: massive deficit that they've got to fill. And then on
Speaker 3: top of it, they they passed ula tax, which they
Speaker 3: call a mansion tax. It doesn't tax mansions. It taxes
Speaker 3: anybody transacting real estate over five million dollars, hospitals, low
Speaker 3: income lots. Let me tell you, you have a burned
Speaker 3: out lot worth more than five million dollars, you're paying
Speaker 3: mansion tax.
Speaker 1: Does that seem right to you? That's circumventing Proposition thirteen.
Speaker 4: You have to educate folks may not be old enough
Speaker 4: to remember Proposition thirteen.
Speaker 2: And it's impact on property tax is.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, well, everybody here, if you own property in California,
Speaker 3: it is our Wall Street. Okay, so your real estate
Speaker 3: and your equity is your stock investment.
Speaker 1: It is the Gold Coast. That's why they call it.
Speaker 1: That is the best real estate in the world.
Speaker 3: We have the best temperatures, we have the most resources,
Speaker 3: we have the most beautiful land in the world, and
Speaker 3: they are trying.
Speaker 1: To get it from you. Why wake up?
Speaker 3: The Proposition thirteen freezes your tax basis at like it's
Speaker 3: one percent is one point two five percent. That's your
Speaker 3: transfer tax when you sell that property, and you can
Speaker 3: take it with you one time when you're older and
Speaker 3: you retire, when you buy another piece of property. It
Speaker 3: protects your investment. And they've been trying to get at
Speaker 3: it since nineteen seventy ninety nineteen seventy nine. They've been
Speaker 3: trying to figure out a way around it, and they
Speaker 3: got all these ideas about how to do it, and
Speaker 3: they finally did it when they penetrated this mansion tax thing.
Speaker 3: And they called it mansion tax, which is unfair because
Speaker 3: it's not a mansion tax. It's a straight it's a
Speaker 3: transactional tax. It's a levee, which is illegal. It's a
Speaker 3: legal to tax real estate under a levee. It's gonna
Speaker 3: lose ultimately, but not soon enough. And meanwhile, it froze
Speaker 3: our market and not just La City, it froze everything
Speaker 3: because when you stop the Titanic, it takes a minute
Speaker 3: to get it going again. And at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, mansion tax ruined the Los Angeles, California real
Speaker 3: estate market. Which ruined the real estate market here in California.
Speaker 3: It brought it to its knees.
Speaker 4: We had a conversation off air that I wanted you
Speaker 4: to circle back to. You were talking about Mayor Karen
Speaker 4: Bass and what we as those who are Angelino's and
Speaker 4: those who may be on the periphery of Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: what we should we think of her, what we should
Speaker 4: do in this moment.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, a couple things. I mean, obviously, when she
Speaker 3: got off the plane and she was in the airport
Speaker 3: and she was, you know, the reporter came up to her,
Speaker 3: she was like a dre in the headlights, and I
Speaker 3: didn't It didn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling that
Speaker 3: she's going to be a good leader. Okay, there's lack
Speaker 3: of leadership, but the recalling hers is challenging. First of all,
Speaker 3: a lot of people don't understand if she is recalled,
Speaker 3: city council chooses her replacement until there's an actual runoff.
Speaker 3: Most people don't understand that. So it's you know, I
Speaker 3: think Nicole Shanahan. God bless her. She put in one
Speaker 3: point six million dollars ever recalled. You know, but it's
Speaker 3: a twenty five million dollar proposition. It's ten months down
Speaker 3: the road, and we need help now. And I think
Speaker 3: what would be far more prudent and productive is to
Speaker 3: help Karen because she's she's not a dumb person, and
Speaker 3: she has a lot of power. She has the power
Speaker 3: of the emergency pen. She needs help, she needs legitimate
Speaker 3: Like you know what I always say, ask for help,
Speaker 3: Ask for help. She tried to go with Seve sober Off.
Speaker 3: That's not where she where she needs to be. She's
Speaker 3: to pick a skill set. Like I personally would love
Speaker 3: to sit down with her and talk to her about
Speaker 3: the building department and how I can make a custom
Speaker 3: program for immediate deployment of building permits for any permits
Speaker 3: that are less than ten years old. Why are we
Speaker 3: just package it up and hand it out. Because the
Speaker 3: minute that you can those people invested, they keep their entitlements,
Speaker 3: It increases the value of their property. It encourages them
Speaker 3: that they're going to be able to build. What you
Speaker 3: don't want to have happen is a sell off. That
Speaker 3: is it's never going to get done because those entitlements
Speaker 3: will be lost forever. What we have to do is
Speaker 3: we have to encourage people to sell and we cannot
Speaker 3: be charging them for permits. There's gonna be plenty of
Speaker 3: business for California. It's going to bring in lots of
Speaker 3: new jobs. They're going to have to figure out some
Speaker 3: sort of a lay down area and staging area in
Speaker 3: Palisades for all the new building materials and equipment. And
Speaker 3: think of all the contractors are going to go to
Speaker 3: work all the PPP money that's going to come in.
Speaker 3: But you've got to give people permits. And Karen needs help.
Speaker 3: She needs to understand that there are a lot of
Speaker 3: states that structure this with outside consultants instead of trying
Speaker 3: to do it in the building department. Yes, they're going
Speaker 3: to relieve coastal commission, but are they going to leave
Speaker 3: it completely or just one of them because anything in
Speaker 3: Palisades is double coastal. Yes, they're going to relieve SEQUA.
Speaker 3: Well what does that really mean? Are they're just going
Speaker 3: to give you SEQUA waiver? And what if you've never
Speaker 3: had SEQUA? So I want to sit down with her
Speaker 3: and say, what does it mean, let me help you
Speaker 3: package it and let's create these fast track passes that
Speaker 3: take the burden out of the building department because they
Speaker 3: don't have the resources either. They're buried coastal commissions like
Speaker 3: twelve people that meet once a month that control the
Speaker 3: entire coast.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about that, Eleane.
Speaker 4: I wish I could talk to you all night, but
Speaker 4: I'm running out of time so very quickly. I know
Speaker 4: that this is a conversation which is going to continue,
Speaker 4: but also they are going to be other people who
Speaker 4: are going to be joining you on this journey.
Speaker 2: How can people reach you and also join you.
Speaker 3: Well, one thing that would be very helpful is to
Speaker 3: follow me on Instagram on Lipstick Farmer. That would be
Speaker 3: awesome because on Lipstick Farmer, I'm not much of a
Speaker 3: social media person.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get better at that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: But on Lipstick Farmer, I do check it and I
Speaker 3: do have, like, I don't know, twenty thousand followers or something.
Speaker 3: But I put a lot of updates on there, especially
Speaker 3: about the fires. But the most important thing is that
Speaker 3: we can all kind of join together and communicate.
Speaker 1: Create a platform.
Speaker 3: We are thinking grant cardon a friend of mine is
Speaker 3: and I did undercover billionaire with who's a great guy
Speaker 3: owns ten X?
Speaker 1: I said, let's ten X.
Speaker 3: You know the Palisades on access this whole process, and
Speaker 3: we are also meeting. I hope everybody's excited about this,
Speaker 3: but I'm meeting with our California four, your railroad, and
Speaker 3: our National railroad system to try to remove all of
Speaker 3: our debris on rail and get it out of California,
Speaker 3: which I think ultimately is what has to happen.
Speaker 1: It's a slow process, but I want everybody.
Speaker 3: To support this because it's we need to get it
Speaker 3: out of California because okay, even our farthest stumps are
Speaker 3: too close to our ocean.
Speaker 4: Elaine Colotte, thank you so much for coming in, thank
Speaker 4: you for sharing all of your knowledge of wisdom, and
Speaker 4: thank you for staying in the fight for not only
Speaker 4: the benefit of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, but
Speaker 4: California at large. And welcome in here anytime.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 4: It's later with mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube app
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Speaker 4: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and also on
Speaker 4: YouTube of our inaugural YouTube simulcast. Imagine that both on
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Speaker 4: you know, any expletives which are said on air that
Speaker 4: we didn't, we had a few already, had a few already.
Speaker 4: So you get the live, uncensored version of the show.
Speaker 4: But I know what you want. I know you want
Speaker 4: these tickets to see Harry Potter at the Pantagious Theater. Now,
Speaker 4: before I give away, I'm gonna do it this segment.
Speaker 4: You have to be avail to see the show. On Wednesday,
Speaker 4: Tawaala Sharp will be taking the calls and the winner
Speaker 4: you'll talk to him about making the arrangement for the tickets.
Speaker 2: But you have to be available.
Speaker 4: And also, if you've been listening to the show, there's
Speaker 4: a piece of information that we gave you that you
Speaker 4: would only know if you had been watching the YouTube broadcast.
Speaker 4: And I'm not going to tell you what that piece
Speaker 4: of information is. You should have been watching all along.
Speaker 4: But Twala, when he answers your phone call, you better
Speaker 4: have that information or you're not going to win the tickets.
Speaker 6: Quick note, if you are calling for these tickets, I
Speaker 6: have just found out that you're going to need to
Speaker 6: be able to pick them up tomorrow between I believe
Speaker 6: it is ten am and six pm.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, let me
Speaker 2: double check. Let's and make sure between noon and that
Speaker 2: means in Burbank at CAFI Studios.
Speaker 6: Yes, you're gonna have to be able to come here
Speaker 6: and pick them up. When I get you on the line,
Speaker 6: I will give you all the information about where we are.
Speaker 6: But but, but but do not call if you cannot
Speaker 6: come and get these tickets for Wednesdays showing of Harry
Speaker 6: Potter and the Kersechild tomorrow between twelve and six pm.
Speaker 2: Okay, here it is. You need to know.
Speaker 4: The secret piece of information. I'm not telling you what
Speaker 4: it is because it defeats the purpose of the people
Speaker 4: who've been watching on YouTube all evening. So if you
Speaker 4: don't know the secret piece of information, ta Wata's gonna
Speaker 4: ask you when he answers the phone. You are not
Speaker 4: going to win tickets to see Harry Potter at the
Speaker 4: Pantations on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: If you can't come pick up the tickets tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Between the prescribed times at KFI, don't call.
Speaker 2: All right, So you got to be able to go
Speaker 2: on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: You gotta be able to pick I'm up on Tuesday,
Speaker 4: and he needs to know that secret information that we
Speaker 4: gave out earlier in the show. So, with no further ado,
Speaker 4: let's hey, Stephan, how about you pick a number for
Speaker 4: us between one and ten. All right, let's go with
Speaker 4: number eight, number eight, caller number eight, or at least
Speaker 4: that will start with caller eight. If your caller eight
Speaker 4: and know the secret information that you would only know
Speaker 4: by looking at the YouTube simulcast, and no, we're not
Speaker 4: gonna let you wait and try to pull it up
Speaker 4: and try to figure it out as your answer, then
Speaker 4: you will be going to see Harry Potter caller number eight.
Speaker 4: You need to know the secret information that we gave
Speaker 4: out earlier in the show that you'd only know if
Speaker 4: you were watching the YouTube simulcast Harry Potter Pantagous Theater
Speaker 4: Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: You need to pick up the.
Speaker 4: Tickets from the studio Tuesday night, from the station. I mean,
Speaker 4: and you need to know the secret information. It's Later
Speaker 4: with mo Kelly. We're live in the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 4: I hear of Twala in the background. Uh, we'll find
Speaker 4: out just a moment. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 4: And Tonight was our inaugural video simulcast on YouTube. We've
Speaker 4: been working on this for about a month at this point.
Speaker 4: We've been talking about it for a number of years.
Speaker 4: We want to have a video component for the show,
Speaker 4: but we didn't know how we're going to do it.
Speaker 4: Make sure it was feasible, make sure it was practical,
Speaker 4: and it didn't get in the way of the show.
Speaker 2: It's one thing to do a radio show.
Speaker 4: It's another thing when there's a video element and you're
Speaker 4: trying to get in and out of a studio in
Speaker 4: a timely fashion and not impact like Tim Conway Junior
Speaker 4: show right before us.
Speaker 2: But I hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: We're going to be tinkering with it as the week
Speaker 4: goes on and you'll be able to look if you.
Speaker 4: I think you should just go ahead and subscribe right
Speaker 4: now at mister Mokelly on YouTube and you'll be able
Speaker 4: to find it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be having guests and studio.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be giving way more prizes connected to you
Speaker 4: watching the video simulcast, all sorts of fun, all sorts
Speaker 4: of prizes, and it's all because you have shown such
Speaker 4: love and support of the show. And yes, it's going
Speaker 4: to be bigger and better as we grow it. So
Speaker 4: we had some three thousand people tuning in tonight for
Speaker 4: the inaugural video simulcast. We want to have a six
Speaker 4: thousand tomorrow night and another nine thousand of the night
Speaker 4: after that. We have big dreams and big aspirations and
Speaker 4: thank you because of you, you're making this happen. With
Speaker 4: all that said, let me get to my final thought
Speaker 4: and just go ahead and piss you off. Saturday, I
Speaker 4: was driving through Torrance, a historically red city. I was
Speaker 4: on my way to the Japanese Bunkasai Festival, which was
Speaker 4: being held at the Torrance Cultural Center right off the
Speaker 4: corner of Torrans Boulevard Madrona. If you happen to know
Speaker 4: the area, I'm driving west down to Horns Bulevard and
Speaker 4: I run into this absolute sea of protesters on both
Speaker 4: sides of the street.
Speaker 2: They had signs, they had horns.
Speaker 4: They were imploring drivers to show solidarity by honking their horns.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't until hours later that I found out
Speaker 4: that there was a name, an actual name for the protests,
Speaker 4: the hands Off protests. Didn't know it until I got
Speaker 4: home later that night. I didn't know because I didn't
Speaker 4: hear about them, that they were actually going to happen.
Speaker 4: And in case you're wondering, No, I didn't honk my horn. No,
Speaker 4: I didn't give anyone a smile or thumbs up. I'm
Speaker 4: pretty much disdainful of public protests. You know where I stand.
Speaker 4: For the most part, I'm really disdainful of public protests
Speaker 4: in the twenty first century.
Speaker 2: Saturday being no exception.
Speaker 4: But I can confirm there were hundreds of people, maybe
Speaker 4: even a thousand, because they lined both sides of a
Speaker 4: major thoroughfare for a number of blocks that can't be argued.
Speaker 2: The numbers didn't lie.
Speaker 4: I was personally more offended that they were making my
Speaker 4: trip more difficult. They were standing in my way, and
Speaker 4: I know that, really he sounds selfish. I'm self aware
Speaker 4: in that regard. I'm fully aware of what's going on
Speaker 4: in the country. I talk about it most nights. I
Speaker 4: talk about it in variety of media that I do.
Speaker 4: And yes, I know at least half the country isn't
Speaker 4: happy right now, but maybe it's just me. I'm still
Speaker 4: not convinced that standing on a corner, holding a sign
Speaker 4: and shouting things like hey, hey, ho ho elon mousk
Speaker 4: has got to go. I don't think that's really going
Speaker 4: to make a big difference. I don't think so. I
Speaker 4: might be wrong, but I doubt it. The world has
Speaker 4: changed since the nineteen sixties. Media has changed, communication has changed,
Speaker 4: and I'm not here to tell you that standing on
Speaker 4: a corner, chanting and holding a sign matters, because it doesn't.
Speaker 2: It does not matter.
Speaker 4: I politely nudge past the protesters and enjoyed the next
Speaker 4: two hours at the bunk Asi Festival. I ate about
Speaker 4: eight dongos, which are Japanese rice dumplings. They taste like
Speaker 4: unsweetened donuts, but they were delicious. Even ran into some
Speaker 4: listeners of the show. But by the time I left
Speaker 4: Torrance and started home, the protesters were gone, and so
Speaker 4: was the moment.
Speaker 2: And that's my point tonight. Was their news coverage, Yes
Speaker 2: there was news coverage.
Speaker 4: Were there interviews of random protesters who expressed their frustrate, frustration,
Speaker 4: their outrage, their anger at President Trump, Elon musk doge, Yes,
Speaker 4: all of that. It ain't a damn thing changed since
Speaker 4: nor will a damn thing change. I'm equal opportunity when
Speaker 4: it comes to protesting. The only thing I was looking for,
Speaker 4: and you can be sure I was looking, I was reading,
Speaker 4: I was listening for it.
Speaker 2: And that was the next step.
Speaker 4: The only thing I heard as the next step was
Speaker 4: the next day of the next demonstration, which was being
Speaker 4: coordinated as in the next day of standing on a
Speaker 4: corner with signs imploring drivers to honk their horns, yelling
Speaker 4: close slogans I'm sorry, but that's a silly recipe for change.
Speaker 4: The only thing more silly, and I know this sounds
Speaker 4: very arrogant, was the social media pushback that these protesters
Speaker 4: were somehow paid. Know they were not paid it even
Speaker 4: if they were, Even if there were, it couldn't be
Speaker 4: any worse than Elon Musk on TV literally paying people
Speaker 4: to vote in a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice race and
Speaker 4: give it away billion dollar checks to Republican operatives. And no,
Speaker 4: I did not make up the last part, but I
Speaker 4: do find it odd after all these years of that refrain.
Speaker 4: You've heard it, I've heard it that although George Soros
Speaker 4: is the great protest puppet master, I can't seem to
Speaker 4: find one receipt, one VENMO transaction.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 4: Nobody was able to infiltrate any of these protests and
Speaker 4: provide any proofs of any payment to anyone, anyone, nobody,
Speaker 4: not one shred of evidence. All the protesters I saw
Speaker 4: were driving up and down the street, parking in their
Speaker 4: own cars, mostly in the parking lot where I was
Speaker 4: trying to park.
Speaker 2: Didn't appreciate that there were no buses, there were no vans. Now.
Speaker 4: Is there organization and coordination by certain groups, Absolutely, but
Speaker 4: that's not the same. The protests were definitely organized, but
Speaker 4: that it's far different than saying that some thousand people
Speaker 4: I saw are in Torrance on Saturday were paid to appear,
Speaker 4: and if they were whoever coordinated, they're complete idiots. Because
Speaker 4: and here's the main point, here's the takeaway, here's the message.
Speaker 2: Because it led to nothing.
Speaker 4: It didn't change any race, it didn't prevent some law
Speaker 4: being passed, it didn't influence Donald Trump to change directions
Speaker 4: on tariffs.
Speaker 2: It didn't show Elon Musk the door.
Speaker 4: In fact, it probably made the organizer's money, but not
Speaker 4: the actual protesters. And maybe that was a goal, because
Speaker 4: that's a distinct difference. Donald Trump is still president, Doge
Speaker 4: is still Dojing, and the world just keeps on spinning.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but that protest meant nothing for KF I
Speaker 4: am six forty, I'm mo Kelly.
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