April 8, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – An in-depth conversation with “Designer, Developer, Entrepreneur, Sustainable Farmer and Undercover Billionaire” Elaine Culotti! With a goal to prove that “the American dream is still alive,” Elaine took on Season 2 of the hit Discovery+ series ‘Undercover Billionaire’ to prove that she could build something from scratch under extreme pressure. Now, in the wake of the devastating Palisades and Eaton Canyon fires, Elaine is utilizing her real-world experience to offer smart, actionable solutions and calling out leadership failures at every level - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Whether it is l.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Kelly and six.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm a Lane Colate and I'm one hundred percent about us.
I'm a builder, I'm a developer, I'm a designer, and
I'm a visionary casinos, hospitals, luxury homes. I've handled over
a billion dollars worth of real estate. If it can
be built, I can figure out a way.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Growing up, my father was in the military. He was
a fighter pilot. He flew F one hundreds and F
one eleven's. My father was gone a lot and we traveled.
But children that come from the military that move a
lot are independent and really quick to make friends.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I was able to figure it out being a woman
that was in a man's world.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
My dad told me that the most important outfit that
you could put on is confidence.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Undercover Billionaire in Lane Colodia is a builder, interior designer,
and the visionary behind standout projects like Santa Monica's iconic
House of Rock. She also owned Big Z Ranch, a
forty acre working farm supporting local agriculture and direct to
consumer food distribution. While on the Discovery Plus series, Undercover
Billionaire and Lane proved she could build from the ground
up under extreme pressure now, after the devastating Palisades and
(01:14):
Eating Canyon fires, she's leveraging decades of real world experience
to cut through the noise, offering smart, actionable solutions and
calling out leadership failures at every level. She joins us
in the studio as part of our first YouTube simulcast,
and Lane Claude's good see you.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
How are you this evening?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm oh, my gosh, I'm so excited to be a
virgin guest on your show.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh you had to put it in that way, and
we're all.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Hey, well, you know what, I'll take any virgin I
can get.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Let's be fair here. I mean, you know, I'm really
glad you're doing this. So great to stream live.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It's great to have you, and it provides a completely
different i'll say, ethic and energy to it.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's nice to be able to see you.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's nice that everyone could see us had this interaction.
You are very familiar, obviously with southern California. What was
going through your mind as these fires were unfurling and growing?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well, first of all, I was at work and I
was I looked over it. Tim had called and said, hey, listen,
this this thing looks like it's growing really quickly. And
when I saw it and I said, oh no, it's
far away, and he goes, no on lane, it's not
it's close and it's fast. And we didn't even get
a chance to get get anything out. I got nothing out.
(02:33):
I literally had to pick him up. He had the
dogs hit it, go all the way around, and it
was it was.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It, that was it. It was gone.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's done, it's all over. Whole thing's gone. Altadina's gone,
Pasadena's gone. It's all that whole area gone. Palisades. People
don't even talk about Malibu, Malibous completely leveled almost all
the way to up.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
No boot you can't go to, you can't get down there.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
When I'm quite sure you knew a lot of people
who lost their house. I'm put sure you knew a
lot of people who had to start over. What were
you hearing from them?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I think, first of all, I think everybody's in shock.
Let's just let's just be realistic. And I really want
to talk about the Palisades because I want I want
to talk about Palisades as in terms of its power.
It's a it's ground zero for sort of the blue
Czech Democrat. You know real California all in voter all
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this is this is the government that they elected, that
we elected, and these are the people that change who
gets into government.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
This is these are the people that run California.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
In the Palisades, it's one of the most expensive neighborhoods
in California. And when you talk about California, that's meaningful.
And now they've all we're responsible for this. These are
our managers of our money, our spatter, our fire to apartment.
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It's our choice that we made to be managed like this.
And they are not potted plants. To understand they can
really change things because these people are the people that
change everything.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Let me ask you this, with different politicians, do we
get a different result what we had, a different result
from where you see?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yes, we absolutely. First all, let me just say different management.
Let's not call them politicians. I don't I think when
you're running for office, you probably shouldn't be doing that.
I mean you should be you should be elected into office.
It shouldn't be something you pay for. And part of
the problem I think is, you know, we've lost we've
completely lost the whole you know, grassroots running for an
office because you know you live in the neighborhood, and
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you know your neighborhood, and you know your neighbors. It's
gone away and it's being paid for by you know,
citizens united in corporations and you're and this is the
result of that.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
The rubber has hit the road. The jig is up.
The Emperor has no close say whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It didn't work, the little speriment, the little democratic experiment,
it did not work. This is a perfect example of
it because now they got to work. They got to
roll up their sleeves and really manage it. And they
can't do it.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Short of waiting for the next election, which is going
to be in twenty twenty sixth in June and twenty
twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
What have you?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
What can Angelinos do now which could help change the
trajectory for the next fire or the next calamity, the
next disaster.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, okay, first it's a big question.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But first, the most I think active thing you can
do is register read literally, change your your make your
voice heard, and change yourself from a Democrat or a Republican.
Go on a register and just change it to red
because you will get the attention of absolutely everybody in Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I let me jump in there because you talk about
something I talked about. But it's more than registration. I
have been on the Republicans. You got to run somebody,
and you have to run somebody credible. And I can
tell you right now there is no one who is
running for mayor of Los Angeles who is a Republican
as of this moment.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well, Grick Cruso I think is a Republican.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No he is, but no, no, no, but in mindset.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
But since he is a registered Democrat, the Democratic Party
is not going to embrace him. And he and to
the people who are not paying close attention, they're still
going to see a D and not an R. Why
is it the Republican Party is not putting forth a candidate.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well again, this is this is the reason that Rick
Caruso ran as a Democrat is because he believed, like
everybody believes, you can't win in California, only show a Democrat.
The governor's race is kind of interesting because the governor's
race is a runoff, so it's not run like a
typical race where you have, like you know, basically two
groups of Republicans or three. You have the Republicans, the Democrats,
and the independents, and then everybody gets kind of their
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own like little primary, and then what's leftover gets to
run against.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's basically whoever gets the most votes against whoever got
the second most votes. Those are the top two, and
then they have a runoff a runoff election. It could
be two Democrats. So there's plenty of time. Funk coming
come up the jungle primary. Yeah, they're coming up with.
They're coming up with They're going to come up with
really a couple of really good Republicans. There's there's going
to come up with a couple of really good Democrats.
Kamala Harris is probably going to run, and it concerns me,
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you know, if Rick Carusso does run, and he's got
no chance if she runs, because he's just going to
split it in two and some big Republican will win.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I just want somebody that's got boots on the ground,
that understands California is not about politics, but rather about resources.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
You mentioned resources before we go to this first break.
How did resources play a role or didn't play a
role in the preparation for the fires of the management
of them.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
From where you sit, it.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Depends on which one you want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But you know, thirty years ago we stopped cutting our
trees and stop cutting our brush.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I mean, it's a thirty year old problem.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's an environmental idea that you know, we want to
save all these brush, you know, and not cut fire lanes.
It's it's a respectable idea to be environmentally conscious, but
not at the cost of the health and safety of
the citizens that pay for that to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So it's just like it went too far, just went
off the and decided.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know, they have multiple groups in California that stop
you from building. They have these wildlife groups, they have
open space rules, and the problem is there's no one
to maintain those. So if you talk someone into literally
talk someone into giving up space that you'll give them
a permit and then say, you know, we'll maintain it,
and then no one maintains it. This is what you have.
You have houses that have debris in between them and
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it never nobody takes care of it. So those resources
are thirty years old from just being not taken care
of it. Then the water situation, I mean, water's a
completely different problem because in the farming world, you know,
we obviously need water. There's signs all up and down
the ninety nine Freeway everywhere he goes is to Gavin
Dear Gavin A, we are farmers stealing water, Like they
want to know why they don't get water and the
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water system and the watershed they've had come up with
all these ideas about stat water storage. All this money's
been poortant into it. There's no water storage. Where's the
money go?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Where's the money?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Why?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Why is it more important to make white wine? You're
using Central Valley grapes anyway, I mean the Rombar Shardonnay
and all the big chardonnays that make all the money
up in the Northern California. They're only required to use
I think like twenty percent of their own grapes. It's
ridiculous they get them all down for Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But the argument, I know, and I've heard the argument
is like, hey, we had enough water for the fires,
and the water which was released from the Central Valley
by President Trump would not have impacted the fires.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So where do you come out on that?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
How do you separate the water which would be used
for the Central Valley versus the water which was available
for the fires down here.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
If all our water's going in different directions other than
the Central Valley and down to Los Angeles in San
Diego County, if we're not getting any water, we're not
getting we don't need storage. It doesn't matter if it
just runs off. We have no storage and there's not
enough money. There's not enough money apparently left to make
storage for water. Water should be stored. It should be
stored for when you have a fire. And so when
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they went to open up fire hydrants and they went
to go use water, there's no water pressure because there's
no water because there's nothing stored. They have reservoirs that
are half full or not at all. They have reservoirs
that have holes in their lids, which it's important that
they're not dirty because the water it won't filter through.
Point being is they're not maintained. All of our resources
are not maintained. And it's not just water and are
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our forests. It's also our landfills. Our landfills are full.
So what are we going to do with eleven million
tons of debris that they're not even talking about? What
are we going to do with a million, six hundred
and fifty thousand trucks of debris. They're doing seven hundred
and fifty a day, and that's only the Army Corps.
It's going to take six years to clean up. I mean,
it's ridiculous. And by the way, they're going to be full.
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So the resources that we need are not being managed.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Nobody's even looking at it.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And on top of it, we're not talking about what
it really takes to clean it up because nobody understands
that because the people that are running it are politicians.
They're not construction people, they're not debris removal people. The
Army Corps of Engineers is a contract company under ECC,
which happens to be under the Federal Maytalk, which is
the Biden May Talk. It's not even the Trump may Talk.
(11:03):
I think it had one point one billion dollars in it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
They deployed him.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They're here, they're doing a great job, but it's not
anywhere near enough. And then poor Christy No, she hit
the ground running right, she's got her hands full. She's
in charge of FEMA, so she's got to sit down
and get her hands around what's going on here before
we get more money federally, and because our resources are
so mismanaged, Donald Trump doesn't want to just give us
the money, which I don't blame him, because where is
all the money, Where's the ula at tax money, Where's
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the homeless money, Where's the forest money, Where's the water money,
Where's the watershed money? So when you get down to it,
we're not going to get federal aid. Gavin Newsom, in
a simultaneous parallel lane, flew to Washington, DC to ask
for forty billion dollars while he's teeing up his fifty million
dollar fight against Donald Trump protection.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I hate to stop there.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
We have to go to a commercial break, but I
want to pick up there when we come back. How
does the federal contingent impact this situation, not only right
now but going forward. My guests on YouTube as well
as iHeartRadio is a Colotti who is a builder, interior
designer and visionary behind standout projects like Santa Monica's iconic
House of Rock. You might have seen her on Undercover
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Billionaire recently, and we'll have more with Elaine Colotti in
just a moment. It's later with mo Kelly Live everywhere
in the Heart Radio app and on YouTube at mister
mo Kelly m R M O K E L L Y.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Later with mo Kelly we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and also on YouTube at mister mo Kelly. Yes
a live video simulcast, and our first guest in studio
is Elaine Colotti. We're talking about the fires prior to
during and also the way forward, the people who might
be responsible, the things that we need, the resources we
need going forward, and Elaine, before the break, we're getting
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ready to get into the money of it, all the
money that has been spent, the money has yet to
be spent, in what federal aid we may need going forward.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
What would you say in regard to that, Well, I think.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
We have to be really so let's let's start with
us at the moment.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
We're talking about the people that have opted in or
opted out.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, and everybody's heard it, if.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Anyone's involved it all in the fires, they've heard about
opt in opt out, and opt in opt out has
to do with whether or not you're asking FEMA to
clean your lot.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Okay, that's the only thing that's really going on.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Six permits have been pulled since it happened, so there's
the permit, and the rebuilding thing hasn't even started yet.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
This is just getting your lot cleaned up.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And you know, you could imagine what it must be
like to, you know, have a house standing there and
nobody else around you has a house, and the lock
cleaning is going really slowly, and maybe only three lots
are cleaned in your neighborhood. And that's because the amount
of people that have opted in is somewhere between thirty
four hundred people and four thousand, you know, ish, it's
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not eighteen thousand. So and the reason that is is
because first of all, California Fair Plan has only twenty
five thousand dollars worth of debris insurance. And what you
got to understand is, if you're going to do all
the metrics on the news, if Karen bass is going
to get on a report on how great things are going,
she's only reporting on what she knows, and what she
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knows is what FEMA's doing because that's the only report
she's getting. So if she says we're fifteen percent done,
she's fifteen percent done of thirty four hundred and fifteen
percent done of eighteen thousand.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
But most people don't understand in the station she's talking
about La City, not La County. She's not talking about Altadina,
and people I think missed that she's.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Not talking about She's talking about a fraction of the
cleanup that's under contract with opt in.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's a fraction.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
And all the other contractors that are out there that
want to clean and do stuff, they are completely hogtide.
And the reason are hogtied is because there's this thing
called a haul route, which is how you get the
stuff to the dump.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
The hall route is.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
For ECC, FEMA, FEMA contractors, and everybody that's removing dirt
under the FEMA contracts. That's what they went and met
with the Board of Supervisors about. They had a big win.
They were able to get more trucks per day, not
more trucks in there in the long run, more more
yardage going into the dump, just more trucks per day.
So we've got a huge problem with the debris and
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the debris removal because there's just not enough hands on
deck and the only way to get that out is
femal money or government federal money. Because la is broke,
and we're broke because we mismanaged our money. We didn't
just mismanage our forests, and we didn't just mismanage our water.
We mismanaged all our money. We had a billion dollars surplus.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
We have no money. We're in the hole.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
When Gavin leaves or whoever takes over, has got this
massive deficit that they've got to fill. And then on
top of it, they they passed ula tax, which they
call a mansion tax. It doesn't tax mansions. It taxes
anybody transacting real estate over five million dollars, hospitals, low
income lots. Let me tell you, you have a burned
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out lot worth more than five million dollars, you're paying
mansion tax.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Does that seem right to you? That's circumventing Proposition thirteen.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You have to educate folks may not be old enough
to remember Proposition thirteen.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
And it's impact on property tax is.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Go ahead, well, everybody here, if you own property in California,
it is our Wall Street. Okay, so your real estate
and your equity is your stock investment.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
It is the Gold Coast. That's why they call it.
That is the best real estate in the world.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
We have the best temperatures, we have the most resources,
we have the most beautiful land in the world, and
they are trying.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
To get it from you. Why wake up?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The Proposition thirteen freezes your tax basis at like it's
one percent is one point two five percent. That's your
transfer tax when you sell that property, and you can
take it with you one time when you're older and
you retire, when you buy another piece of property. It
protects your investment. And they've been trying to get at
it since nineteen seventy ninety nineteen seventy nine. They've been
trying to figure out a way around it, and they
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got all these ideas about how to do it, and
they finally did it when they penetrated this mansion tax thing.
And they called it mansion tax, which is unfair because
it's not a mansion tax. It's a straight it's a
transactional tax. It's a levee, which is illegal. It's a
legal to tax real estate under a levee. It's gonna
lose ultimately, but not soon enough. And meanwhile, it froze
our market and not just La City, it froze everything
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because when you stop the Titanic, it takes a minute
to get it going again. And at the end of
the day, mansion tax ruined the Los Angeles, California real
estate market. Which ruined the real estate market here in California.
It brought it to its knees.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
We had a conversation off air that I wanted you
to circle back to. You were talking about Mayor Karen
Bass and what we as those who are Angelino's and
those who may be on the periphery of Los Angeles,
what we should we think of her, what we should
do in this moment.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, okay, a couple things. I mean, obviously, when she
got off the plane and she was in the airport
and she was, you know, the reporter came up to her,
she was like a dre in the headlights, and I
didn't It didn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling that
she's going to be a good leader. Okay, there's lack
of leadership, but the recalling hers is challenging. First of all,
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a lot of people don't understand if she is recalled,
city council chooses her replacement until there's an actual runoff.
Most people don't understand that. So it's you know, I
think Nicole Shanahan. God bless her. She put in one
point six million dollars ever recalled. You know, but it's
a twenty five million dollar proposition. It's ten months down
the road, and we need help now. And I think
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what would be far more prudent and productive is to
help Karen because she's she's not a dumb person, and
she has a lot of power. She has the power
of the emergency pen. She needs help, she needs legitimate
Like you know what I always say, ask for help,
Ask for help. She tried to go with Seve sober Off.
That's not where she where she needs to be. She's
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to pick a skill set. Like I personally would love
to sit down with her and talk to her about
the building department and how I can make a custom
program for immediate deployment of building permits for any permits
that are less than ten years old. Why are we
just package it up and hand it out. Because the
minute that you can those people invested, they keep their entitlements,
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It increases the value of their property. It encourages them
that they're going to be able to build. What you
don't want to have happen is a sell off. That
is it's never going to get done because those entitlements
will be lost forever. What we have to do is
we have to encourage people to sell and we cannot
be charging them for permits. There's gonna be plenty of
business for California. It's going to bring in lots of
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new jobs. They're going to have to figure out some
sort of a lay down area and staging area in
Palisades for all the new building materials and equipment. And
think of all the contractors are going to go to
work all the PPP money that's going to come in.
But you've got to give people permits. And Karen needs help.
She needs to understand that there are a lot of
states that structure this with outside consultants instead of trying
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to do it in the building department. Yes, they're going
to relieve coastal commission, but are they going to leave
it completely or just one of them because anything in
Palisades is double coastal. Yes, they're going to relieve SEQUA.
Well what does that really mean? Are they're just going
to give you SEQUA waiver? And what if you've never
had SEQUA? So I want to sit down with her
and say, what does it mean, let me help you
package it and let's create these fast track passes that
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take the burden out of the building department because they
don't have the resources either. They're buried coastal commissions like
twelve people that meet once a month that control the
entire coast.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I mean, think about that, Eleane.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I wish I could talk to you all night, but
I'm running out of time so very quickly. I know
that this is a conversation which is going to continue,
but also they are going to be other people who
are going to be joining you on this journey.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
How can people reach you and also join you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well, one thing that would be very helpful is to
follow me on Instagram on Lipstick Farmer. That would be
awesome because on Lipstick Farmer, I'm not much of a
social media person.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm gonna have to get better at that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
But on Lipstick Farmer, I do check it and I
do have, like, I don't know, twenty thousand followers or something.
But I put a lot of updates on there, especially
about the fires. But the most important thing is that
we can all kind of join together and communicate.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Create a platform.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
We are thinking grant cardon a friend of mine is
and I did undercover billionaire with who's a great guy
owns ten X?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I said, let's ten X.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
You know the Palisades on access this whole process, and
we are also meeting. I hope everybody's excited about this,
but I'm meeting with our California four, your railroad, and
our National railroad system to try to remove all of
our debris on rail and get it out of California,
which I think ultimately is what has to happen.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's a slow process, but I want everybody.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
To support this because it's we need to get it
out of California because okay, even our farthest stumps are
too close to our ocean.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Elaine Colotte, thank you so much for coming in, thank
you for sharing all of your knowledge of wisdom, and
thank you for staying in the fight for not only
the benefit of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, but
California at large. And welcome in here anytime.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
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pre promotion, but you know now is here you can
see the show as well as here the show and
you know, any expletives which are said on air that
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So you get the live, uncensored version of the show.
But I know what you want. I know you want
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You have to be avail to see the show. On Wednesday,
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And also, if you've been listening to the show, there's
a piece of information that we gave you that you
would only know if you had been watching the YouTube broadcast.
And I'm not going to tell you what that piece
of information is. You should have been watching all along.
But Twala, when he answers your phone call, you better
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and he needs to know that secret information that we
gave out earlier in the show. So, with no further ado,
let's hey, Stephan, how about you pick a number for
us between one and ten. All right, let's go with
number eight, number eight, caller number eight, or at least
that will start with caller eight. If your caller eight
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and know the secret information that you would only know
by looking at the YouTube simulcast, and no, we're not
gonna let you wait and try to pull it up
and try to figure it out as your answer, then
you will be going to see Harry Potter caller number eight.
You need to know the secret information that we gave
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Wednesday night.
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Tickets from the studio Tuesday night, from the station. I mean,
and you need to know the secret information. It's Later
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Speaker 5 (26:10):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 4 (26:16):
And Tonight was our inaugural video simulcast on YouTube. We've
been working on this for about a month at this point.
We've been talking about it for a number of years.
We want to have a video component for the show,
but we didn't know how we're going to do it.
Make sure it was feasible, make sure it was practical,
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and it didn't get in the way of the show.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
It's one thing to do a radio show.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
It's another thing when there's a video element and you're
trying to get in and out of a studio in
a timely fashion and not impact like Tim Conway Junior
show right before us.
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But I hope you enjoyed it.
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We're going to be tinkering with it as the week
goes on and you'll be able to look if you.
I think you should just go ahead and subscribe right
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Speaker 2 (27:03):
We're gonna be having guests and studio.
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We're gonna be giving way more prizes connected to you
watching the video simulcast, all sorts of fun, all sorts
of prizes, and it's all because you have shown such
love and support of the show. And yes, it's going
to be bigger and better as we grow it. So
we had some three thousand people tuning in tonight for
the inaugural video simulcast. We want to have a six
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thousand tomorrow night and another nine thousand of the night
after that. We have big dreams and big aspirations and
thank you because of you, you're making this happen. With
all that said, let me get to my final thought
and just go ahead and piss you off. Saturday, I
was driving through Torrance, a historically red city. I was
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on my way to the Japanese Bunkasai Festival, which was
being held at the Torrance Cultural Center right off the
corner of Torrans Boulevard Madrona. If you happen to know
the area, I'm driving west down to Horns Bulevard and
I run into this absolute sea of protesters on both
sides of the street.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
They had signs, they had horns.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
They were imploring drivers to show solidarity by honking their horns.
And it wasn't until hours later that I found out
that there was a name, an actual name for the protests,
the hands Off protests. Didn't know it until I got
home later that night. I didn't know because I didn't
hear about them, that they were actually going to happen.
And in case you're wondering, No, I didn't honk my horn. No,
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I didn't give anyone a smile or thumbs up. I'm
pretty much disdainful of public protests. You know where I stand.
For the most part, I'm really disdainful of public protests
in the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Saturday being no exception.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
But I can confirm there were hundreds of people, maybe
even a thousand, because they lined both sides of a
major thoroughfare for a number of blocks that can't be argued.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
The numbers didn't lie.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I was personally more offended that they were making my
trip more difficult. They were standing in my way, and
I know that, really he sounds selfish. I'm self aware
in that regard. I'm fully aware of what's going on
in the country. I talk about it most nights. I
talk about it in variety of media that I do.
And yes, I know at least half the country isn't
happy right now, but maybe it's just me. I'm still
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not convinced that standing on a corner, holding a sign
and shouting things like hey, hey, ho ho elon mousk
has got to go. I don't think that's really going
to make a big difference. I don't think so. I
might be wrong, but I doubt it. The world has
changed since the nineteen sixties. Media has changed, communication has changed,
and I'm not here to tell you that standing on
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a corner, chanting and holding a sign matters, because it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
It does not matter.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I politely nudge past the protesters and enjoyed the next
two hours at the bunk Asi Festival. I ate about
eight dongos, which are Japanese rice dumplings. They taste like
unsweetened donuts, but they were delicious. Even ran into some
listeners of the show. But by the time I left
Torrance and started home, the protesters were gone, and so
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was the moment.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And that's my point tonight. Was their news coverage, Yes
there was news coverage.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Were there interviews of random protesters who expressed their frustrate, frustration,
their outrage, their anger at President Trump, Elon musk doge, Yes,
all of that. It ain't a damn thing changed since
nor will a damn thing change. I'm equal opportunity when
it comes to protesting. The only thing I was looking for,
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and you can be sure I was looking, I was reading,
I was listening for it.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And that was the next step.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
The only thing I heard as the next step was
the next day of the next demonstration, which was being
coordinated as in the next day of standing on a
corner with signs imploring drivers to honk their horns, yelling
close slogans I'm sorry, but that's a silly recipe for change.
The only thing more silly, and I know this sounds
very arrogant, was the social media pushback that these protesters
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were somehow paid. Know they were not paid it even
if they were, Even if there were, it couldn't be
any worse than Elon Musk on TV literally paying people
to vote in a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice race and
give it away billion dollar checks to Republican operatives. And no,
I did not make up the last part, but I
do find it odd after all these years of that refrain.
You've heard it, I've heard it that although George Soros
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is the great protest puppet master, I can't seem to
find one receipt, one VENMO transaction.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Nobody was able to infiltrate any of these protests and
provide any proofs of any payment to anyone, anyone, nobody,
not one shred of evidence. All the protesters I saw
were driving up and down the street, parking in their
own cars, mostly in the parking lot where I was
trying to park.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Didn't appreciate that there were no buses, there were no vans. Now.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Is there organization and coordination by certain groups, Absolutely, but
that's not the same. The protests were definitely organized, but
that it's far different than saying that some thousand people
I saw are in Torrance on Saturday were paid to appear,
and if they were whoever coordinated, they're complete idiots. Because
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and here's the main point, here's the takeaway, here's the message.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Because it led to nothing.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
It didn't change any race, it didn't prevent some law
being passed, it didn't influence Donald Trump to change directions
on tariffs.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It didn't show Elon Musk the door.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
In fact, it probably made the organizer's money, but not
the actual protesters. And maybe that was a goal, because
that's a distinct difference. Donald Trump is still president, Doge
is still Dojing, and the world just keeps on spinning.
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Speaker 2 (01:29):
How are you this evening?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm oh, my gosh, I'm so excited to be a
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Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh you had to put it in that way, and
we're all.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
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can get.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Let's be fair here. I mean, you know, I'm really
glad you're doing this. So great to stream live.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It's great to have you, and it provides a completely
different i'll say, ethic and energy to it.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's nice to be able to see you.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's nice that everyone could see us had this interaction.
You are very familiar, obviously with southern California. What was
going through your mind as these fires were unfurling and growing?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well, first of all, I was at work and I
was I looked over it. Tim had called and said, hey, listen,
this this thing looks like it's growing really quickly. And
when I saw it and I said, oh no, it's
far away, and he goes, no on lane, it's not
it's close and it's fast. And we didn't even get
a chance to get get anything out. I got nothing out.
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I literally had to pick him up. He had the
dogs hit it, go all the way around, and it
was it was.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It, that was it. It was gone.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's done, it's all over. Whole thing's gone. Altadina's gone,
Pasadena's gone. It's all that whole area gone. Palisades. People
don't even talk about Malibu, Malibous completely leveled almost all
the way to up.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
No boot you can't go to, you can't get down there.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
When I'm quite sure you knew a lot of people
who lost their house. I'm put sure you knew a
lot of people who had to start over. What were
you hearing from them?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I think, first of all, I think everybody's in shock.
Let's just let's just be realistic. And I really want
to talk about the Palisades because I want I want
to talk about Palisades as in terms of its power.
It's a it's ground zero for sort of the blue
Czech Democrat. You know real California all in voter all
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this is this is the government that they elected, that
we elected, and these are the people that change who
gets into government.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
This is these are the people that run California.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
In the Palisades, it's one of the most expensive neighborhoods
in California. And when you talk about California, that's meaningful.
And now they've all we're responsible for this. These are
our managers of our money, our spatter, our fire to apartment.
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It's our choice that we made to be managed like this.
And they are not potted plants. To understand they can
really change things because these people are the people that
change everything.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Let me ask you this, with different politicians, do we
get a different result what we had, a different result
from where you see?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yes, we absolutely. First all, let me just say different management.
Let's not call them politicians. I don't I think when
you're running for office, you probably shouldn't be doing that.
I mean you should be you should be elected into office.
It shouldn't be something you pay for. And part of
the problem I think is, you know, we've lost we've
completely lost the whole you know, grassroots running for an
office because you know you live in the neighborhood, and
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you know your neighborhood, and you know your neighbors. It's
gone away and it's being paid for by you know,
citizens united in corporations and you're and this is the
result of that.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
The rubber has hit the road. The jig is up.
The Emperor has no close say whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It didn't work, the little speriment, the little democratic experiment,
it did not work. This is a perfect example of
it because now they got to work. They got to
roll up their sleeves and really manage it. And they
can't do it.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Short of waiting for the next election, which is going
to be in twenty twenty sixth in June and twenty
twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
What have you?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
What can Angelinos do now which could help change the
trajectory for the next fire or the next calamity, the
next disaster.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, okay, first it's a big question.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But first, the most I think active thing you can
do is register read literally, change your your make your
voice heard, and change yourself from a Democrat or a Republican.
Go on a register and just change it to red
because you will get the attention of absolutely everybody in Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I let me jump in there because you talk about
something I talked about. But it's more than registration. I
have been on the Republicans. You got to run somebody,
and you have to run somebody credible. And I can
tell you right now there is no one who is
running for mayor of Los Angeles who is a Republican
as of this moment.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well, Grick Cruso I think is a Republican.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No he is, but no, no, no, but in mindset.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
But since he is a registered Democrat, the Democratic Party
is not going to embrace him. And he and to
the people who are not paying close attention, they're still
going to see a D and not an R. Why
is it the Republican Party is not putting forth a candidate.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well again, this is this is the reason that Rick
Caruso ran as a Democrat is because he believed, like
everybody believes, you can't win in California, only show a Democrat.
The governor's race is kind of interesting because the governor's
race is a runoff, so it's not run like a
typical race where you have, like you know, basically two
groups of Republicans or three. You have the Republicans, the Democrats,
and the independents, and then everybody gets kind of their
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own like little primary, and then what's leftover gets to
run against.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's basically whoever gets the most votes against whoever got
the second most votes. Those are the top two, and
then they have a runoff a runoff election. It could
be two Democrats. So there's plenty of time. Funk coming
come up the jungle primary. Yeah, they're coming up with.
They're coming up with They're going to come up with
really a couple of really good Republicans. There's there's going
to come up with a couple of really good Democrats.
Kamala Harris is probably going to run, and it concerns me,
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you know, if Rick Carusso does run, and he's got
no chance if she runs, because he's just going to
split it in two and some big Republican will win.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I just want somebody that's got boots on the ground,
that understands California is not about politics, but rather about resources.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
You mentioned resources before we go to this first break.
How did resources play a role or didn't play a
role in the preparation for the fires of the management
of them.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
From where you sit, it.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Depends on which one you want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But you know, thirty years ago we stopped cutting our
trees and stop cutting our brush.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I mean, it's a thirty year old problem.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's an environmental idea that you know, we want to
save all these brush, you know, and not cut fire lanes.
It's it's a respectable idea to be environmentally conscious, but
not at the cost of the health and safety of
the citizens that pay for that to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So it's just like it went too far, just went
off the and decided.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know, they have multiple groups in California that stop
you from building. They have these wildlife groups, they have
open space rules, and the problem is there's no one
to maintain those. So if you talk someone into literally
talk someone into giving up space that you'll give them
a permit and then say, you know, we'll maintain it,
and then no one maintains it. This is what you have.
You have houses that have debris in between them and
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it never nobody takes care of it. So those resources
are thirty years old from just being not taken care
of it. Then the water situation, I mean, water's a
completely different problem because in the farming world, you know,
we obviously need water. There's signs all up and down
the ninety nine Freeway everywhere he goes is to Gavin
Dear Gavin A, we are farmers stealing water, Like they
want to know why they don't get water and the
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water system and the watershed they've had come up with
all these ideas about stat water storage. All this money's
been poortant into it. There's no water storage. Where's the
money go?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Where's the money?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Why?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Why is it more important to make white wine? You're
using Central Valley grapes anyway, I mean the Rombar Shardonnay
and all the big chardonnays that make all the money
up in the Northern California. They're only required to use
I think like twenty percent of their own grapes. It's
ridiculous they get them all down for Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But the argument, I know, and I've heard the argument
is like, hey, we had enough water for the fires,
and the water which was released from the Central Valley
by President Trump would not have impacted the fires.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So where do you come out on that?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
How do you separate the water which would be used
for the Central Valley versus the water which was available
for the fires down here.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
If all our water's going in different directions other than
the Central Valley and down to Los Angeles in San
Diego County, if we're not getting any water, we're not
getting we don't need storage. It doesn't matter if it
just runs off. We have no storage and there's not
enough money. There's not enough money apparently left to make
storage for water. Water should be stored. It should be
stored for when you have a fire. And so when
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they went to open up fire hydrants and they went
to go use water, there's no water pressure because there's
no water because there's nothing stored. They have reservoirs that
are half full or not at all. They have reservoirs
that have holes in their lids, which it's important that
they're not dirty because the water it won't filter through.
Point being is they're not maintained. All of our resources
are not maintained. And it's not just water and are
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our forests. It's also our landfills. Our landfills are full.
So what are we going to do with eleven million
tons of debris that they're not even talking about? What
are we going to do with a million, six hundred
and fifty thousand trucks of debris. They're doing seven hundred
and fifty a day, and that's only the Army Corps.
It's going to take six years to clean up. I mean,
it's ridiculous. And by the way, they're going to be full.
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So the resources that we need are not being managed.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Nobody's even looking at it.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And on top of it, we're not talking about what
it really takes to clean it up because nobody understands
that because the people that are running it are politicians.
They're not construction people, they're not debris removal people. The
Army Corps of Engineers is a contract company under ECC,
which happens to be under the Federal Maytalk, which is
the Biden May Talk. It's not even the Trump may Talk.
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I think it had one point one billion dollars in it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
They deployed him.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They're here, they're doing a great job, but it's not
anywhere near enough. And then poor Christy No, she hit
the ground running right, she's got her hands full. She's
in charge of FEMA, so she's got to sit down
and get her hands around what's going on here before
we get more money federally, and because our resources are
so mismanaged, Donald Trump doesn't want to just give us
the money, which I don't blame him, because where is
all the money, Where's the ula at tax money, Where's
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the homeless money, Where's the forest money, Where's the water money,
Where's the watershed money? So when you get down to it,
we're not going to get federal aid. Gavin Newsom, in
a simultaneous parallel lane, flew to Washington, DC to ask
for forty billion dollars while he's teeing up his fifty million
dollar fight against Donald Trump protection.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I hate to stop there.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
We have to go to a commercial break, but I
want to pick up there when we come back. How
does the federal contingent impact this situation, not only right
now but going forward. My guests on YouTube as well
as iHeartRadio is a Colotti who is a builder, interior
designer and visionary behind standout projects like Santa Monica's iconic
House of Rock. You might have seen her on Undercover
(12:08):
Billionaire recently, and we'll have more with Elaine Colotti in
just a moment. It's later with mo Kelly Live everywhere
in the Heart Radio app and on YouTube at mister
mo Kelly m R M O K E L L Y.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Later with mo Kelly we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and also on YouTube at mister mo Kelly. Yes
a live video simulcast, and our first guest in studio
is Elaine Colotti. We're talking about the fires prior to
during and also the way forward, the people who might
be responsible, the things that we need, the resources we
need going forward, and Elaine, before the break, we're getting
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ready to get into the money of it, all the
money that has been spent, the money has yet to
be spent, in what federal aid we may need going forward.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
What would you say in regard to that, Well, I think.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
We have to be really so let's let's start with
us at the moment.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
We're talking about the people that have opted in or
opted out.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, and everybody's heard it, if.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Anyone's involved it all in the fires, they've heard about
opt in opt out, and opt in opt out has
to do with whether or not you're asking FEMA to
clean your lot.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Okay, that's the only thing that's really going on.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Six permits have been pulled since it happened, so there's
the permit, and the rebuilding thing hasn't even started yet.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
This is just getting your lot cleaned up.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And you know, you could imagine what it must be
like to, you know, have a house standing there and
nobody else around you has a house, and the lock
cleaning is going really slowly, and maybe only three lots
are cleaned in your neighborhood. And that's because the amount
of people that have opted in is somewhere between thirty
four hundred people and four thousand, you know, ish, it's
(13:48):
not eighteen thousand. So and the reason that is is
because first of all, California Fair Plan has only twenty
five thousand dollars worth of debris insurance. And what you
got to understand is, if you're going to do all
the metrics on the news, if Karen bass is going
to get on a report on how great things are going,
she's only reporting on what she knows, and what she
(14:08):
knows is what FEMA's doing because that's the only report
she's getting. So if she says we're fifteen percent done,
she's fifteen percent done of thirty four hundred and fifteen
percent done of eighteen thousand.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
But most people don't understand in the station she's talking
about La City, not La County. She's not talking about Altadina,
and people I think missed that she's.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Not talking about She's talking about a fraction of the
cleanup that's under contract with opt in.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's a fraction.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
And all the other contractors that are out there that
want to clean and do stuff, they are completely hogtide.
And the reason are hogtied is because there's this thing
called a haul route, which is how you get the
stuff to the dump.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
The hall route is.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
For ECC, FEMA, FEMA contractors, and everybody that's removing dirt
under the FEMA contracts. That's what they went and met
with the Board of Supervisors about. They had a big win.
They were able to get more trucks per day, not
more trucks in there in the long run, more more
yardage going into the dump, just more trucks per day.
So we've got a huge problem with the debris and
(15:06):
the debris removal because there's just not enough hands on
deck and the only way to get that out is
femal money or government federal money. Because la is broke,
and we're broke because we mismanaged our money. We didn't
just mismanage our forests, and we didn't just mismanage our water.
We mismanaged all our money. We had a billion dollars surplus.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
We have no money. We're in the hole.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
When Gavin leaves or whoever takes over, has got this
massive deficit that they've got to fill. And then on
top of it, they they passed ula tax, which they
call a mansion tax. It doesn't tax mansions. It taxes
anybody transacting real estate over five million dollars, hospitals, low
income lots. Let me tell you, you have a burned
(15:49):
out lot worth more than five million dollars, you're paying
mansion tax.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Does that seem right to you? That's circumventing Proposition thirteen.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You have to educate folks may not be old enough
to remember Proposition thirteen.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
And it's impact on property tax is.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Go ahead, well, everybody here, if you own property in California,
it is our Wall Street. Okay, so your real estate
and your equity is your stock investment.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
It is the Gold Coast. That's why they call it.
That is the best real estate in the world.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
We have the best temperatures, we have the most resources,
we have the most beautiful land in the world, and
they are trying.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
To get it from you. Why wake up?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The Proposition thirteen freezes your tax basis at like it's
one percent is one point two five percent. That's your
transfer tax when you sell that property, and you can
take it with you one time when you're older and
you retire, when you buy another piece of property. It
protects your investment. And they've been trying to get at
it since nineteen seventy ninety nineteen seventy nine. They've been
trying to figure out a way around it, and they
(16:45):
got all these ideas about how to do it, and
they finally did it when they penetrated this mansion tax thing.
And they called it mansion tax, which is unfair because
it's not a mansion tax. It's a straight it's a
transactional tax. It's a levee, which is illegal. It's a
legal to tax real estate under a levee. It's gonna
lose ultimately, but not soon enough. And meanwhile, it froze
our market and not just La City, it froze everything
(17:08):
because when you stop the Titanic, it takes a minute
to get it going again. And at the end of
the day, mansion tax ruined the Los Angeles, California real
estate market. Which ruined the real estate market here in California.
It brought it to its knees.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
We had a conversation off air that I wanted you
to circle back to. You were talking about Mayor Karen
Bass and what we as those who are Angelino's and
those who may be on the periphery of Los Angeles,
what we should we think of her, what we should
do in this moment.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, okay, a couple things. I mean, obviously, when she
got off the plane and she was in the airport
and she was, you know, the reporter came up to her,
she was like a dre in the headlights, and I
didn't It didn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling that
she's going to be a good leader. Okay, there's lack
of leadership, but the recalling hers is challenging. First of all,
(17:59):
a lot of people don't understand if she is recalled,
city council chooses her replacement until there's an actual runoff.
Most people don't understand that. So it's you know, I
think Nicole Shanahan. God bless her. She put in one
point six million dollars ever recalled. You know, but it's
a twenty five million dollar proposition. It's ten months down
the road, and we need help now. And I think
(18:19):
what would be far more prudent and productive is to
help Karen because she's she's not a dumb person, and
she has a lot of power. She has the power
of the emergency pen. She needs help, she needs legitimate
Like you know what I always say, ask for help,
Ask for help. She tried to go with Seve sober Off.
That's not where she where she needs to be. She's
(18:41):
to pick a skill set. Like I personally would love
to sit down with her and talk to her about
the building department and how I can make a custom
program for immediate deployment of building permits for any permits
that are less than ten years old. Why are we
just package it up and hand it out. Because the
minute that you can those people invested, they keep their entitlements,
(19:02):
It increases the value of their property. It encourages them
that they're going to be able to build. What you
don't want to have happen is a sell off. That
is it's never going to get done because those entitlements
will be lost forever. What we have to do is
we have to encourage people to sell and we cannot
be charging them for permits. There's gonna be plenty of
business for California. It's going to bring in lots of
(19:22):
new jobs. They're going to have to figure out some
sort of a lay down area and staging area in
Palisades for all the new building materials and equipment. And
think of all the contractors are going to go to
work all the PPP money that's going to come in.
But you've got to give people permits. And Karen needs help.
She needs to understand that there are a lot of
states that structure this with outside consultants instead of trying
(19:43):
to do it in the building department. Yes, they're going
to relieve coastal commission, but are they going to leave
it completely or just one of them because anything in
Palisades is double coastal. Yes, they're going to relieve SEQUA.
Well what does that really mean? Are they're just going
to give you SEQUA waiver? And what if you've never
had SEQUA? So I want to sit down with her
and say, what does it mean, let me help you
package it and let's create these fast track passes that
(20:05):
take the burden out of the building department because they
don't have the resources either. They're buried coastal commissions like
twelve people that meet once a month that control the
entire coast.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I mean, think about that, Eleane.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I wish I could talk to you all night, but
I'm running out of time so very quickly. I know
that this is a conversation which is going to continue,
but also they are going to be other people who
are going to be joining you on this journey.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
How can people reach you and also join you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well, one thing that would be very helpful is to
follow me on Instagram on Lipstick Farmer. That would be
awesome because on Lipstick Farmer, I'm not much of a
social media person.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm gonna have to get better at that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
But on Lipstick Farmer, I do check it and I
do have, like, I don't know, twenty thousand followers or something.
But I put a lot of updates on there, especially
about the fires. But the most important thing is that
we can all kind of join together and communicate.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Create a platform.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
We are thinking grant cardon a friend of mine is
and I did undercover billionaire with who's a great guy
owns ten X?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I said, let's ten X.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
You know the Palisades on access this whole process, and
we are also meeting. I hope everybody's excited about this,
but I'm meeting with our California four, your railroad, and
our National railroad system to try to remove all of
our debris on rail and get it out of California,
which I think ultimately is what has to happen.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's a slow process, but I want everybody.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
To support this because it's we need to get it
out of California because okay, even our farthest stumps are
too close to our ocean.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Elaine Colotte, thank you so much for coming in, thank
you for sharing all of your knowledge of wisdom, and
thank you for staying in the fight for not only
the benefit of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, but
California at large. And welcome in here anytime.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
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(22:38):
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(23:32):
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(25:20):
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and try to figure it out as your answer, then
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You need to know the secret information that we gave
(25:42):
out earlier in the show that you'd only know if
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Wednesday night.
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And Tonight was our inaugural video simulcast on YouTube. We've
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We've been talking about it for a number of years.
We want to have a video component for the show,
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Make sure it was feasible, make sure it was practical,
(26:36):
and it didn't get in the way of the show.
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It's one thing to do a radio show.
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It's another thing when there's a video element and you're
trying to get in and out of a studio in
a timely fashion and not impact like Tim Conway Junior
show right before us.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
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We're going to be tinkering with it as the week
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I think you should just go ahead and subscribe right
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Speaker 2 (27:03):
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Speaker 4 (27:04):
We're gonna be giving way more prizes connected to you
watching the video simulcast, all sorts of fun, all sorts
of prizes, and it's all because you have shown such
love and support of the show. And yes, it's going
to be bigger and better as we grow it. So
we had some three thousand people tuning in tonight for
the inaugural video simulcast. We want to have a six
(27:27):
thousand tomorrow night and another nine thousand of the night
after that. We have big dreams and big aspirations and
thank you because of you, you're making this happen. With
all that said, let me get to my final thought
and just go ahead and piss you off. Saturday, I
was driving through Torrance, a historically red city. I was
(27:49):
on my way to the Japanese Bunkasai Festival, which was
being held at the Torrance Cultural Center right off the
corner of Torrans Boulevard Madrona. If you happen to know
the area, I'm driving west down to Horns Bulevard and
I run into this absolute sea of protesters on both
sides of the street.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
They had signs, they had horns.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
They were imploring drivers to show solidarity by honking their horns.
And it wasn't until hours later that I found out
that there was a name, an actual name for the protests,
the hands Off protests. Didn't know it until I got
home later that night. I didn't know because I didn't
hear about them, that they were actually going to happen.
And in case you're wondering, No, I didn't honk my horn. No,
(28:29):
I didn't give anyone a smile or thumbs up. I'm
pretty much disdainful of public protests. You know where I stand.
For the most part, I'm really disdainful of public protests
in the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Saturday being no exception.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
But I can confirm there were hundreds of people, maybe
even a thousand, because they lined both sides of a
major thoroughfare for a number of blocks that can't be argued.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
The numbers didn't lie.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I was personally more offended that they were making my
trip more difficult. They were standing in my way, and
I know that, really he sounds selfish. I'm self aware
in that regard. I'm fully aware of what's going on
in the country. I talk about it most nights. I
talk about it in variety of media that I do.
And yes, I know at least half the country isn't
happy right now, but maybe it's just me. I'm still
(29:15):
not convinced that standing on a corner, holding a sign
and shouting things like hey, hey, ho ho elon mousk
has got to go. I don't think that's really going
to make a big difference. I don't think so. I
might be wrong, but I doubt it. The world has
changed since the nineteen sixties. Media has changed, communication has changed,
and I'm not here to tell you that standing on
(29:36):
a corner, chanting and holding a sign matters, because it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
It does not matter.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I politely nudge past the protesters and enjoyed the next
two hours at the bunk Asi Festival. I ate about
eight dongos, which are Japanese rice dumplings. They taste like
unsweetened donuts, but they were delicious. Even ran into some
listeners of the show. But by the time I left
Torrance and started home, the protesters were gone, and so
(30:04):
was the moment.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And that's my point tonight. Was their news coverage, Yes
there was news coverage.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Were there interviews of random protesters who expressed their frustrate, frustration,
their outrage, their anger at President Trump, Elon musk doge, Yes,
all of that. It ain't a damn thing changed since
nor will a damn thing change. I'm equal opportunity when
it comes to protesting. The only thing I was looking for,
(30:29):
and you can be sure I was looking, I was reading,
I was listening for it.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And that was the next step.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
The only thing I heard as the next step was
the next day of the next demonstration, which was being
coordinated as in the next day of standing on a
corner with signs imploring drivers to honk their horns, yelling
close slogans I'm sorry, but that's a silly recipe for change.
The only thing more silly, and I know this sounds
very arrogant, was the social media pushback that these protesters
(30:58):
were somehow paid. Know they were not paid it even
if they were, Even if there were, it couldn't be
any worse than Elon Musk on TV literally paying people
to vote in a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice race and
give it away billion dollar checks to Republican operatives. And no,
I did not make up the last part, but I
do find it odd after all these years of that refrain.
You've heard it, I've heard it that although George Soros
(31:22):
is the great protest puppet master, I can't seem to
find one receipt, one VENMO transaction.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Nobody was able to infiltrate any of these protests and
provide any proofs of any payment to anyone, anyone, nobody,
not one shred of evidence. All the protesters I saw
were driving up and down the street, parking in their
own cars, mostly in the parking lot where I was
trying to park.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Didn't appreciate that there were no buses, there were no vans. Now.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Is there organization and coordination by certain groups, Absolutely, but
that's not the same. The protests were definitely organized, but
that it's far different than saying that some thousand people
I saw are in Torrance on Saturday were paid to appear,
and if they were whoever coordinated, they're complete idiots. Because
(32:12):
and here's the main point, here's the takeaway, here's the message.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Because it led to nothing.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
It didn't change any race, it didn't prevent some law
being passed, it didn't influence Donald Trump to change directions
on tariffs.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It didn't show Elon Musk the door.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
In fact, it probably made the organizer's money, but not
the actual protesters. And maybe that was a goal, because
that's a distinct difference. Donald Trump is still president, Doge
is still Dojing, and the world just keeps on spinning.
(32:45):
I'm sorry, but that protest meant nothing for KF I
am six forty, I'm mo Kelly.
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