The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (10/23) - Tim Conway Jr. fills in for John. ABC News Crime & Terror Analyst Brad Garrett broke down shocking new details in the NBA gambling scandal — the Portland Trail Blazers’ head coach and a Miami Heat player were arrested alongside 30 others in two sweeping federal cases. The FBI says the groups ran multi-million-dollar betting and poker schemes allegedly tied to Mafia families, fixing outcomes and manipulating wagers. Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer, shared tips on “How to NOT Live in a Haunted House,” offering design and energy-flow advice to make homes feel peaceful and balanced. He also promoted the upcoming Kellogg House Ghost Tour in Santa Ana (Oct. 27) and discussed how California’s Coastal Commission is making it nearly impossible for Palisades fire victims to rebuild — only four permits have been approved so far. Sharp added that Malibu’s septic tank regulations are another major hurdle, with removal and replacement costs running sky-high. The hour closed with news that Gladstone’s, the iconic Pacific Palisades oceanfront restaurant, will soon be demolished and replaced by a celebrity chef fine-dining venue, signaling the end of a beloved L.A. landmark.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
App Conway sitting in for John Corvelt. He'll be back tomorrow.
He's been off on vacation for a little while and
when he comes back, he's always hotter than hell.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So one o'clock tomorrow, So.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We're gonna be on til four fifteen, then the Chargers
Minnesota till nine, and then Mark Thompson nine to ten.
And so there's your lineup, all right. Brad Garrett is
with us, not the Brad Garrett from Everybody Loves Braymon,
but the other one's maybe see news Brad.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
How you Bob?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm good man, thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
How often do you get that association? I'm like a
radio hack, so I brought it up. But do you
get that every day?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Not every day, but occasionally. I got it. A few
years ago. I got a check from ABC for the
Tall Town, for the Tall version of me, and I
percent it back. That's happened once, but no, we don't
typically get mixed up.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I was hoping that you come on on with with
your opening statement of.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Everybody loves gambling. That was his whole thing. Everybody loves Raymond.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, that's right now I haven't adopted that.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
On a scale of one to ten, I asked this
to Eric Sklar, how much does the NBA hate this news?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Eleven? What do you know what?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
First of all, this investigation has got to have been
had to have been going on for years.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Oh well, I don't know about years, but certainly a
number of months. Because obviously to get in the middle
of this, I assumed they were running undercovers into these
two scenarios, because you would have to collect the information
some way, in particular the poker games which are in person,
you know, the betting, betting part of this scam, you know,
(01:56):
not so much that could be done just for phones
texts except.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
But did all these guys know they were under investigation?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I doubt it?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh wow, I.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Mean it's hard to say. I have to note him
when they stopped, like, you know, like like Chauncey Phillips
from from from Portland Trail Blazers. He was a famous
you know, NBA and college and high school basketball player.
They make reference to him all the way back to
(02:28):
twenty nineteen being involved in these rig poker games.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So I don't know, you know, in current current tents
with that means.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know, Brat it doesn't make sense. Brag Gart's with us,
maybe C News, it doesn't make sense. These guys all
make you know, ten to fifteen million dollars a year
and over you know, seventy eighty ninety million over a career,
and then they're screwing around with two thousand dollars you
know prop bets.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Well, yeah, but we don't really know how much money
they made. Obviously they would if they didn't have to
get paid something to be part of the scam, right,
And that may that I'm going to guess this tempt.
It may also depend on how much money they would
take in in it. But in a particular game, you know,
they may obviously invited people to come to these games
(03:14):
unbeknownst that they were getting scammed because of the names
like Chauncey Phillips or somebody else that's well known, either
current or former in the NBA world. Because people just
you know, they like to rub elbows with things like that,
and so that was the draw. So once you get
in there, and if you get a high roller that's
got a lot of money, he or she could could
(03:37):
lose a lot in a few hours. So so who knows.
I you know, we don't have a lot of details,
which is typical at the beginning of these cases. They're
not going to put a lot of stuff in these
indictments as far as the details.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But we'll see, right, But isn't.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It highly unusual for the the head of the FBI
in this case, Cash Bettel, to do the news conference himself.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well, I've been saying that's since February when he became
the FBI director. He does all sorts of things that
other directors wouldn't do because it's appropriate for like, wherever
the case is based, the sac or the assistant director
of that particular part of the country is the one
(04:20):
that stands up in talks because it's his agents and
support employees to put the case together. So yeah, it's
a bit of big footing, but you know that's you know,
there's a lot of that going on.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You know, I'm sure that you read the story where NBC,
who I believe, paid nearly twenty seven billion dollars for
the rights to broadcast the games over the next ten years,
and they were they were on the hook for all
of that money, and there were you know, the ratings
aren't what they used to be, and they even came
(04:51):
out and said they're probably going to lose a billion
or billion and a half dollars a year. Wouldn't this
be a great opportunity for NBC to go back to
the NBA and and renegotiate that contract just based off
this information, you.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Would think, and tim obviously this number they're using something
around thirty or so people charged that numbers going to
get bigger. This is going to go deeper into I think,
deeper into the NBA, and it may end up going
deeper into other professional sports. We'll have to see, because
(05:25):
they just can't just be going on in basketball. Sure, yes,
I would say that, you know, NBC might want to rethink.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, and this has got to be the biggest nightmare
for these leagues, you know, football, basketball, baseball, and hockey,
because this is why they rejected betting and gambling for
so long, because they knew if their players and coaches
got tied up into this that people lose faith in
it and it's very hard to get that faith back.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
That's exactly right. So, yeah, not a good day for
the NBA or basketball in general, Right, how.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Does that silver handled is? Well?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I know he went on ESPN to discuss it earlier today,
but this has got to be a panic mode twenty
four hours a day for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You would think so, you would think so, And my
guess is even longer than that.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, it is. It truly is amazing. And the timing
couldn't have been worse. You know, the NBA just started
their season I think what last night or at night
before last, and for them to now have you know,
a brand new network NBC broadcasting their games and you know,
having to obviously go up against baseball, football, and hockey.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know, this is one of the.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Three or four weeks during the year where all four
professional leagues are are playing games. And for the NBA
to you know, to take this shot right now, I
think it's really going to hurt him.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I would be surprised if it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, that is unbelievable. Brad.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I really appreciate coming on and please, if you hear anything,
you know where to get a hold of us.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Sounds great, All right, thanks man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
All right, Brad Garrett with the ABC News, This is
just going to be the absolute worst for the NBA.
I don't know what Adam, you know, the commissioner does.
If I were him, i'd shut the league down and
you know, take four weeks off and go to each team,
tell him again, you know what the rules are, what
we expect of you, and then crank up the league again.
(07:27):
I think they need to have a real huge reaction
to this to show other players and in other leagues
that they're not going to tolerate this. They're not going
to tolerate all right, we'll come back one more segment
on this. What is Lebron James's connection to this? He
is connected. He's not being prosecuted, he's not being accused
(07:47):
of anything, but there is a Lebron James connection to
this on a on a much lower level.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
We'll go back.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
We'll tell you what that is. It's Convoy show in
for John colevelt. He'll be back tomorrow at one pm.
So fed in tomorrow one pm. Guy's always hotter than
hell when he comes back to vacation. We're live on
KFIM six forty. It's Conway Show.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
All right, before we get to Dean Sharp. Dean Sharp
is something cool, how not to live in a haunted house.
And so before we do that, let me tell you,
because I promised you, Lebron James connection or non connection
to this NBA story that is consuming the entire country.
And there's a lot of charges on former players, current coach,
(08:35):
current player that they've been involved in gambling and cheating,
and it's a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's a mess.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But Lebron James's connection is he's not being investigated, but
he he is mentioned in this report in a sort
of a secondary way.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Federal investigators now say that lakerstar Lebron James is mentioned
in the indictment, however, is not directly involved in the case.
James is not accused of any wrongdoing. Agents say that
former Cleveland Cavaliers player David Jones got a tip before
a Lakers game in February twenty twenty three that a
star Lakers player would be sitting out. That player turned
out to be Lebron James, and Jones allegedly use that
(09:14):
information to tip off other betters.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
In addition to Jones.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Portland Trailblazer's head coach Chauncey Billips and Miami heatguard Terry
Rogier are among more than thirty people charged in the
illegal gambling scheme. It consists of insider sports betting as
well as rigged poker games, both allegedly backed by the mafia.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Okay, all right, so Lebron James not investigated, but he
is mentioned in that report because he sat out during
a Milwaukee game. That information was used to win a
lot about it. Dean Sharp is the house whisper.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
He is on every.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Single Saturday and nine I'm sorry Saturday from six am
until eight am, and then he's on Sunday from nine
until noon, and he comes on with us all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
He's great. I listen to his show on Sunday. Yeah, Sunday.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
On the way back from Marongo, we had the big
party out at Marongo Casino on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Night and it was terrific.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
We had about one hundred people there, a lot of
KFI listeners. Marongo treated us like kings out there. And
I left Marongo. I went to bed at like six am,
and which I probably shouldn't be doing at this age,
but what the hell, and I got up at seven
thirty so I had an hour and a half worth
of sleep, and I turned on the TV and the
(10:32):
Rams were playing in England, and so I drove home
listening to the Rams game that was over, and I
flipped on the house whisper and listened to Dean Sharp.
And that was a great weekend show. It was all
the questions that people have had for Dean and his
lovely wife over the years, and now he joins us.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Dean Sharp, how you, Bob, I'm good. I'm good here
in the nick of time, Buddy.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I was listening to you on Sunday coming home and
you had a guy call up and he was replacing
the floor in his kitchen and you had some great
tips for him. And man, you just know everything about
you know about building houses and how to fix them
and everything. It's just a cool listen to. And I
love when you answer the phone where you tell people
(11:18):
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't know if you created that or who came
up with that, but that's a cool little tag, cool
little hang uh.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Yeah, you know, I think it just gets everybody in
the right mood. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
All right, We've got Halloween coming up, and this is
perfect timing. How not to live in a haunted house.
Creaking floors, squeaking floors, pipes, lights that flicker.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
I think we've all gone through that exactly. I'm just
you know, obviously it's just a play on words. There
are a lot of weird noises that houses can make,
and people are always wondering, what can I do to
stop this thing from making so much noise?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
My grandparents used to live in outside of Cleveland, Ohio,
and they had one of those old fashioned heat is.
There was run on hot water, so whenever they turned
it on, those pipes would would bang and chime and
cling for about twenty five minutes before you felt any heat.
But I sort of enjoyed that. I loved, you know,
listening to the pipes it was. It was sort of
(12:14):
methodic and and comforting.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
I agree with you. I had the same situation early
on in life, and we had a gravity heater, which
is just basically like a California basement, just enough room
for the heater to be down there and then no fan,
just heat rises and it comes up through the floor
ducts and when the when the heater gets turned on,
you just hear it. You hear you hear all of
(12:39):
that metal expanding as it's getting warm, and it's just
creaking all over the place. And I love the fact
that I was like, Okay, it's gonna get warm. Yes,
that's exactly when there it coming.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And so yeah, the old quick fix with a squeaky floor.
At least my grandparents used to do this baby powder.
They used to put baby powder on the floor, and
it was I guess it worked or didn't work.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Did you ever hear people doing that?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean baby baby powder is actually, you know,
among the weird hacks that you can do to a
hardwood floor, an old hardwood floor, baby powder actually does work.
Sometimes it's never gonna work for long though, that's the thing,
because you know, here's the thing. Most people don't know this,
they don't realize it. They think that a squeaky wood
floor is the wood buckling against the wood. But that's
(13:27):
not true. What's happening is the nails. Okay, old school floors,
you know that have been nailed down, not glued down.
The nails have gotten a little loose. They've opened up
a little bit, so now there's room for the floor,
the wood to ride up and down on that nail,
and it is the squeak comes from the shifting of
(13:49):
the wood up and down on the nail. So a
little bit of baby powder and just the right place
sometimes will kind of lubricate the nail long enough for
it to quiet down for a bit, but you know
it's going to be coming back.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh that's interesting. Hey, can you stay with us because
I did the Lebron James thing. Sure, okay, all right,
Dean Sharp's with us. I got a bunch more questions
of him. If you live in an older house like
I do. Our house is built in nineteen thirty eight,
it's constantly creaking and moving and pipes are banging, and
he's got a solution on how you can get rid
of all of that. He's on every single Saturday morning
(14:22):
here from six to eight am, and he's also on
Sunday from nine am until noon. We're keeping an eye
on that NBA story. That's the big story here in
southern California around the nation. Also the crash that happened
on the ten Freeway in Ontario. Some more information on
the driver of the big rig. And also the beloved
Pacific Palisades restaurant Gladstone's is going to be demolished and
(14:47):
they're going to replace that restaurant, and we'll tell you
what that's going to look like and when that's going
to be happening. So lot's going on here in southern
California and the Dodgers start tomorrow. Dodgers the very first
game tomorrow against Toronto, and man, there are four wins
away from repeating as national as World Series champs. That
(15:09):
would be great. I'm sure they're working on the parade
right now. You know, whether they win or lose, there
is people. There are people right now working on logistics
for that parade, and I hope it's the same as
last year where there's a parade and it ends up
at Dodger Stadium with fifty five thousand people screaming. I
was there last year and I'm going to go again
this year if they win. It's Conway Show in for
(15:31):
John Colevelt. He'll be on tomorrow at one o'clock.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Conway Show sitting in for John Colevelt. He'll be back
tomorrow at one o'clock. Will be on today until four fifteen.
Then the Chargers play the Minnesota Vikings. Dean Sharp is
on every weekend on the show very popular show six
to eight am on Saturday, nine am until noon on Sunday,
the house whispered Dean Sharp, Dean, welcome back to the program.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Hi you Bob, I'm good. I'm good. That's great.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Hey, before we get back into this, I read an
article in the La Times that in Malibu there are
only two percent of the permits that have been approved
so far that have been submitted, only two percent. And
I think it's the Coastal Commission that's probably holding things up.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
Have you ever had to deal with the Coastal Commission?
Oh my, yeah, no. Do you think it's the Coastal Commission. Absolutely,
the Coastal Commission.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know, at some point they you know, they they're
obviously they're they're in charge of the entire coast of
the state of California.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But that coast, you know, at some point.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
In California extends four or five miles inland.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Yeah, at some points, and they're only supposed to have
jurisdiction for a few hundred yards inland, right, But you know,
here's the thing, the Coastal Commission, I shouldn't say this
on the radio. I really shouldn't, because you have to do.
My house will probably blow up later. But the Coastal
Commission is as close to like a star chamber as
(17:09):
it gets wow in government. I mean the We're talking
about a handful of unelected people sitting up somewhere somewhere
in the Bay Area in a dark room with tiny
spotlights on their desks and making decisions about the entire
California coast. And it is vicious. I mean it is vicious.
(17:31):
Every time we find out that we are building and
or designing for something inside the Coastal Commission zone. I
just look at the clients and I'm like, see in.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Two years, they're brutal, and they're not answerable to anybody.
They don't even have to answer to the governor.
Speaker 9 (17:46):
No, No, that's what I'm saying. They are like an
independent government just sitting up there. Yeah, it's a thing.
It's that they have quite the reputation.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Right, but they but they look it's happened in a
very tragic way. But this is ultimately there to take
the California coast, take all the apartments, all the homes,
all the townhouse, everything away. From the coast and bring
it back to its natural beauty with the way it
was three hundred years ago.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Yeah, and you know what I got to tell you.
You know, if you've driven pch after the Palisades fire
and you realize, oh my gosh, I've never seen this
much ocean before driving through Malibu because it was all
just beach house, beach house, beach house, you know, something
in your heart says, maybe we shouldn't put these houses back.
But the fact of the matter is these are private properties.
(18:34):
Then they've got the right to build there, and so yeah,
but they are dragging their feet, dragging them.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Let me ask you a question here, because I you know,
Adam Krola has a great blog on, you know, the
progress that Malibu is making, and he had a great
point that a lot of these old septic tanks, they're
going to have to be replaced, you know, because they
either have been damaged or they're outdated. And to get
a septic tank just removed from that property is going
(19:01):
to take a long period of time. But then to
get the permits to put a new one in might
be next to them possible.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Uh yeah, yeah, I mean here's the thing. Septic septic
is not something we have to worry about for the
homes down on pH level. But when we're talking Malibu,
if you're talking up in the hills, there are a
lot of zones in Malibu that do not have sewer
service running to them, and so they're running on septic.
And for those eh, you know, uh, it's it's probably
(19:30):
not that tough to swap out a septic tank as
far as the permits and the cost is always you
know what it is. You got to dig up a tank,
you got to you know, deal with that, you got
to put a new one in. But I'm not seeing
there being a huge problem with the permitting.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh I say, okay, but isn't it ironic, Dean Sharp,
that the people who are constantly telling us that the
ocean's gonna rise and it's gonna wipe us out, they're
all building homes right on the ocean. Yeah, it's absolutely
iron it is. It's absolutely ironic. And these are homes
that are literally on the ocean. We're not talking about,
(20:05):
oh I have an ocean view.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Now.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
The homes that are happening west of pch through the
Malibu Corridor, they are homes with the pylons, usually going
down sixty to one hundred feet to bedrock because the
water is coming on high tide. High tide wraps up
underneath most balconies up there. Can you unneath them?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Can you use the old pilons or pilings, or do
you have to replace them?
Speaker 9 (20:31):
That all depends, Yeah, it really all depends. It depends
on how old they are. If they are, you know,
fifty plus years, which a lot of those buildings are,
then there's no way, no way the city is going
to allow to you know, because those are out of
date technically, seismically, they're out of date. If they're you know,
within the last twenty years or so, which some of
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them are, then and they're not that badly damaged by
the heat, then they might be able to reuse them.
But chances are the majority of those pylons will probably.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Have to be switched out. A nightmare. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Actually, what that means, by the way, is just abandon
You're not pulling a pylon out of the ground. You're
just gonna have to build next to it or near it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Oh they don't. They don't extra kid him, they don't
take them out. Oh they're sixty to one hundred feet deep. Okay,
all right, yeah, there's no pulling those out.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
This is your last show before Halloween, so this will
be the how not to Live in a Haunted House
weekend with your show on kfive.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Yes, sir, we're gonna be doing that, and we're actually
going to be talking about an actual, real haunted house
here in southern California. My sister, who is a professor
at cal State Fullerton also kind of sidelines as a
ghost tour a docent for the Kellogg House.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh yeah, down in OC And.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
So Sunday, actually all weekend, we're gonna be giving tickets
away because they've done us a real big solid. They've said,
you know what, guys, how about we do Monday night
a special VIP house whisper ghost tour of the Kellogg
House for you and like twenty five of your listeners.
So we're giving tickets away this weekend. We're gonna be
talking with Darcy about this one hundred and twenty seven
(22:08):
year old custom built Victorian house that's down there, and
given tickets away for Monday night when we go down
to do the tour.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh that's great, Yeah, that almost built like in the
late eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
Yeah, yeah, it's eighty seven eighty eighteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah, that's great. All right, I'll be listening. Thanks for
coming on, man, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Thanks bro.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
All Right, Dean Sharp, everybody, I listen to this week's
show and you could win tickets to the Kellogg House
tour in Santa Anna. It's an hour and a half
tour age twelve or plus, so you can bring the kids.
And that house was built in nineteen eighty nine by
Clay Kellogg. And so that's gonna be great. Listen all
weekend for free tickets with Dean Sharp. It's Conway Show.
(22:52):
I'm filling in for John colevelt He'll be back tomorrow
at one pm. And listen to that. He's always hotter
than Hell, angry as Hell, comes back from vacation. It
should be a fantastic program. I'll be on til four
to fifteen. Then the Chargers take on the Minnesota Vikings.
Then after that Mark Thompson at nine o'clock. It's Conway
Show Live on KFI.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Conway Show sitting up for John coleblt he'll be back
tomorrow one pm. We'll be here till four fifteen. Then
the Chargers take on the Minnesota Vikings from four to
fifteen till about nine, and then Mark Thompson at nine o'clock.
Gladstone's is a beautiful restaurant. I'm sure most people listening
right now either have been there or you've driven past it.
You know where it is on Pch and it is
(23:39):
coming down. It was a great hang. It was a
great place to look at the ocean. Mostly for special occasions.
You know, somebody retiring, somebody graduating, somebody's getting married, you
go to Gladstone's, or if you had people from out
of town and they wanted some fairly expensive, average fish.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That's what it probably should have been called, and it was.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It was a great place to sit on the porch there,
drink you know, Margarita's or whatever you're enjoying, and have
a bowl of fish or a plate of fish. And
now it's going away. Things change and Gladstone's is being replaced.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
You know a lot of folks here in the Palisades
who I've been talking to, a lot of them also
are saying this morning, say it ain't.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
So that's because this restaurant.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
As you see right behind me, Gladstones has been around
for generations, so it is really part of their childhood memories.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Right.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Unfortunately, according to some and the California Commission, it is
now being replaced with an upscale restaurant. Let's take a look.
So these are some renderings of the reimagined space here
along Pacific Coast Highway.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
This is what it's going to look like. As you see.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
The unanimous of vote approved by that commission. It will
now be a fine dining restaurant designed by renowned architect
Rank Gary and celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
All right, Wolfgang Puck.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
People enjoy Wolfgang Puck's food, and maybe it'll be a
better place. You know, it's not gonna be the same.
It's not gonna be Gladstones. I think Mayor Reardon at
one point owned Gladstone's.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Guy owned everything.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But it might still be a decent restaurant to take
people from out of town or to take people there
on a special occasion.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
And calls for demolishing the existing twelve thousand square foot
Gladstones and building a new seventeen thousand, five hundred square
foot restaurant with a public deck and of course those
ocean views.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay, the public deck very key. That's what you want
to do when you go to the ocean. You don't
want to sit inside of a restaurant. You can do
that in Encino or Northridge. To sit inside a restaurant,
you want to be outside on the porch with the
protective glass there and you know, smelling the ocean and
it might be a really cool hang. You know, you
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gotta be positive about this. Yeah, you're gonna miss glads Stones,
but this place might have better food and a better view.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Located here at the seventeen thousand, three hundred block of
Pacific Coast Highway, but the project is facing a little
bit of opposition from residents still recovering from January's devastating firestorm.
They're concerned about over development and losing dozens of those
public beach parking spaces here in an area that will
be under construction for years. Some residents this morning are
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very sad to say goodbye.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Pretty sad about that.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I mean, I've been going to Gladstone's since I was little,
and it's such a special like beach restaurant. That you know,
just has so much history and so many memories baked
into Gladstones, like going for Father's Day with with my
dad and my husband and my son now and then
all the way back to graduating UCLA and going there
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for graduation.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
All right, all right, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You know, when the restaurant we have a ton of
memories goes away, part of those memories disappear too. I
do understand that. I do understand that. But it's not
like they're just, you know, going to wipe it out.
They're going to put a beautiful restaurant there. They will
create more memories for more people, and the food will
probably be a little.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Better than a Gladstone.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Sorry, if you're a big fan of Gladstone's food, it
was very expensive and fairly average.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
So yeah, it's definitely a special play.
Speaker 10 (27:27):
So many wonderful memories will Commissioners say the project includes
twenty special conditions addressing public access, coastal hazards, and environmental concerns,
and they believe it will ultimately be a positive asset
for the community when Wolfgang Puck and that new restaurant
moves in. So there's no clear timeline as of right
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now as to when demolition will begin, but.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That restaurant will not be open for the Olympics.
Speaker 10 (27:54):
The teardown will be happening. But back out here alive.
If you have ever been to this historic restaurant, yeah,
you know, that's called the Gladstone where we're zoomed in.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Right now, people right on it.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
It even says if you're frisky, give it a kiss
or give it a hug.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And I wouldn't give it a kiss.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
There's way too many people who have laid their Hollywood
lips on that and you have no idea what they've
got humming. I pass on the blarny Stone, or in
this case, the Gladstone where everybody puts their mouth on it.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Or give it a hug, and yeah, I give.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It a hug. A hug is your second your best bet.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Or give it a hug and rub it for good luck.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
So yeah, or just pass by, take a look at
it and go eat.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
This is probably one of your last chances to come
out here, take some selfies and really just enjoy the
last few days of this iconic restaurant.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
I'm putting life here in the Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Cheen Tank all right, Gladstone's is going away kind of sad,
but you know, maybe again it might be a nicer
joint than Gladstone's. Gleat Stones was great in the eighties
and nineties, and then in the last ten or fifteen
years it was very expensive and the.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Food was average.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
So against the my dging talk, Petros is buzzed around.
What's going on with you, Bud? Oh yeah, we're gonna
do a whole lot routine. What are you wearing board shorts?
You're wearing a bathing suit? Petro cut off sweats? Is
that right?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah? And you got it going on? Is that Burt's
bart Barts books and oh hi, I love books. All right,
you're the best buddy, quick guy. I wonder why you're
here so early. I'm filling in for John Cobo. Give
me the he's in Alaska. I saw that on Twitter. Yeah, no,
he said he was in Iceland. Come on, we're gonna
(29:43):
split hairs.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Well, you know it's a big difference between.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Iceland and the last Hemisphere when cold. All right, it's
gotten much. I'm meant for John if I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on kf I
Am six forty from one to four pm every Monday
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
App Conway sitting in for John Corvelt. He'll be back tomorrow.
He's been off on vacation for a little while and
when he comes back, he's always hotter than hell.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So one o'clock tomorrow, So.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We're gonna be on til four fifteen, then the Chargers
Minnesota till nine, and then Mark Thompson nine to ten.
And so there's your lineup, all right. Brad Garrett is
with us, not the Brad Garrett from Everybody Loves Braymon,
but the other one's maybe see news Brad.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
How you Bob?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm good man, thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
How often do you get that association? I'm like a
radio hack, so I brought it up. But do you
get that every day?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Not every day, but occasionally. I got it. A few
years ago. I got a check from ABC for the
Tall Town, for the Tall version of me, and I
percent it back. That's happened once, but no, we don't
typically get mixed up.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I was hoping that you come on on with with
your opening statement of.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Everybody loves gambling. That was his whole thing. Everybody loves Raymond.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, that's right now I haven't adopted that.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
On a scale of one to ten, I asked this
to Eric Sklar, how much does the NBA hate this news?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Eleven? What do you know what?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
First of all, this investigation has got to have been
had to have been going on for years.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Oh well, I don't know about years, but certainly a
number of months. Because obviously to get in the middle
of this, I assumed they were running undercovers into these
two scenarios, because you would have to collect the information
some way, in particular the poker games which are in person,
you know, the betting, betting part of this scam, you know,
(01:56):
not so much that could be done just for phones
texts except.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
But did all these guys know they were under investigation?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I doubt it?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh wow, I.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Mean it's hard to say. I have to note him
when they stopped, like, you know, like like Chauncey Phillips
from from from Portland Trail Blazers. He was a famous
you know, NBA and college and high school basketball player.
They make reference to him all the way back to
(02:28):
twenty nineteen being involved in these rig poker games.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So I don't know, you know, in current current tents
with that means.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know, Brat it doesn't make sense. Brag Gart's with us,
maybe C News, it doesn't make sense. These guys all
make you know, ten to fifteen million dollars a year
and over you know, seventy eighty ninety million over a career,
and then they're screwing around with two thousand dollars you
know prop bets.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Well, yeah, but we don't really know how much money
they made. Obviously they would if they didn't have to
get paid something to be part of the scam, right,
And that may that I'm going to guess this tempt.
It may also depend on how much money they would
take in in it. But in a particular game, you know,
they may obviously invited people to come to these games
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unbeknownst that they were getting scammed because of the names
like Chauncey Phillips or somebody else that's well known, either
current or former in the NBA world. Because people just
you know, they like to rub elbows with things like that,
and so that was the draw. So once you get
in there, and if you get a high roller that's
got a lot of money, he or she could could
(03:37):
lose a lot in a few hours. So so who knows.
I you know, we don't have a lot of details,
which is typical at the beginning of these cases. They're
not going to put a lot of stuff in these
indictments as far as the details.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But we'll see, right, But isn't.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It highly unusual for the the head of the FBI
in this case, Cash Bettel, to do the news conference himself.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well, I've been saying that's since February when he became
the FBI director. He does all sorts of things that
other directors wouldn't do because it's appropriate for like, wherever
the case is based, the sac or the assistant director
of that particular part of the country is the one
(04:20):
that stands up in talks because it's his agents and
support employees to put the case together. So yeah, it's
a bit of big footing, but you know that's you know,
there's a lot of that going on.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You know, I'm sure that you read the story where NBC,
who I believe, paid nearly twenty seven billion dollars for
the rights to broadcast the games over the next ten years,
and they were they were on the hook for all
of that money, and there were you know, the ratings
aren't what they used to be, and they even came
(04:51):
out and said they're probably going to lose a billion
or billion and a half dollars a year. Wouldn't this
be a great opportunity for NBC to go back to
the NBA and and renegotiate that contract just based off
this information, you.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Would think, and tim obviously this number they're using something
around thirty or so people charged that numbers going to
get bigger. This is going to go deeper into I think,
deeper into the NBA, and it may end up going
deeper into other professional sports. We'll have to see, because
(05:25):
they just can't just be going on in basketball. Sure, yes,
I would say that, you know, NBC might want to rethink.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, and this has got to be the biggest nightmare
for these leagues, you know, football, basketball, baseball, and hockey,
because this is why they rejected betting and gambling for
so long, because they knew if their players and coaches
got tied up into this that people lose faith in
it and it's very hard to get that faith back.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
That's exactly right. So, yeah, not a good day for
the NBA or basketball in general, Right, how.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Does that silver handled is? Well?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I know he went on ESPN to discuss it earlier today,
but this has got to be a panic mode twenty
four hours a day for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You would think so, you would think so, And my
guess is even longer than that.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, it is. It truly is amazing. And the timing
couldn't have been worse. You know, the NBA just started
their season I think what last night or at night
before last, and for them to now have you know,
a brand new network NBC broadcasting their games and you know,
having to obviously go up against baseball, football, and hockey.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know, this is one of the.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Three or four weeks during the year where all four
professional leagues are are playing games. And for the NBA
to you know, to take this shot right now, I
think it's really going to hurt him.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I would be surprised if it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, that is unbelievable. Brad.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I really appreciate coming on and please, if you hear anything,
you know where to get a hold of us.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Sounds great, All right, thanks man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
All right, Brad Garrett with the ABC News, This is
just going to be the absolute worst for the NBA.
I don't know what Adam, you know, the commissioner does.
If I were him, i'd shut the league down and
you know, take four weeks off and go to each team,
tell him again, you know what the rules are, what
we expect of you, and then crank up the league again.
(07:27):
I think they need to have a real huge reaction
to this to show other players and in other leagues
that they're not going to tolerate this. They're not going
to tolerate all right, we'll come back one more segment
on this. What is Lebron James's connection to this? He
is connected. He's not being prosecuted, he's not being accused
(07:47):
of anything, but there is a Lebron James connection to
this on a on a much lower level.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
We'll go back.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
We'll tell you what that is. It's Convoy show in
for John colevelt. He'll be back tomorrow at one pm.
So fed in tomorrow one pm. Guy's always hotter than
hell when he comes back to vacation. We're live on
KFIM six forty. It's Conway Show.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
All right, before we get to Dean Sharp. Dean Sharp
is something cool, how not to live in a haunted house.
And so before we do that, let me tell you,
because I promised you, Lebron James connection or non connection
to this NBA story that is consuming the entire country.
And there's a lot of charges on former players, current coach,
(08:35):
current player that they've been involved in gambling and cheating,
and it's a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's a mess.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But Lebron James's connection is he's not being investigated, but
he he is mentioned in this report in a sort
of a secondary way.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Federal investigators now say that lakerstar Lebron James is mentioned
in the indictment, however, is not directly involved in the case.
James is not accused of any wrongdoing. Agents say that
former Cleveland Cavaliers player David Jones got a tip before
a Lakers game in February twenty twenty three that a
star Lakers player would be sitting out. That player turned
out to be Lebron James, and Jones allegedly use that
(09:14):
information to tip off other betters.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
In addition to Jones.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Portland Trailblazer's head coach Chauncey Billips and Miami heatguard Terry
Rogier are among more than thirty people charged in the
illegal gambling scheme. It consists of insider sports betting as
well as rigged poker games, both allegedly backed by the mafia.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Okay, all right, so Lebron James not investigated, but he
is mentioned in that report because he sat out during
a Milwaukee game. That information was used to win a
lot about it. Dean Sharp is the house whisper.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
He is on every.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Single Saturday and nine I'm sorry Saturday from six am
until eight am, and then he's on Sunday from nine
until noon, and he comes on with us all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
He's great. I listen to his show on Sunday. Yeah, Sunday.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
On the way back from Marongo, we had the big
party out at Marongo Casino on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Night and it was terrific.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
We had about one hundred people there, a lot of
KFI listeners. Marongo treated us like kings out there. And
I left Marongo. I went to bed at like six am,
and which I probably shouldn't be doing at this age,
but what the hell, and I got up at seven
thirty so I had an hour and a half worth
of sleep, and I turned on the TV and the
(10:32):
Rams were playing in England, and so I drove home
listening to the Rams game that was over, and I
flipped on the house whisper and listened to Dean Sharp.
And that was a great weekend show. It was all
the questions that people have had for Dean and his
lovely wife over the years, and now he joins us.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Dean Sharp, how you, Bob, I'm good. I'm good here
in the nick of time, Buddy.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I was listening to you on Sunday coming home and
you had a guy call up and he was replacing
the floor in his kitchen and you had some great
tips for him. And man, you just know everything about
you know about building houses and how to fix them
and everything. It's just a cool listen to. And I
love when you answer the phone where you tell people
(11:18):
welcome home.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't know if you created that or who came
up with that, but that's a cool little tag, cool
little hang uh.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Yeah, you know, I think it just gets everybody in
the right mood. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
All right, We've got Halloween coming up, and this is
perfect timing. How not to live in a haunted house.
Creaking floors, squeaking floors, pipes, lights that flicker.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
I think we've all gone through that exactly. I'm just
you know, obviously it's just a play on words. There
are a lot of weird noises that houses can make,
and people are always wondering, what can I do to
stop this thing from making so much noise?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
My grandparents used to live in outside of Cleveland, Ohio,
and they had one of those old fashioned heat is.
There was run on hot water, so whenever they turned
it on, those pipes would would bang and chime and
cling for about twenty five minutes before you felt any heat.
But I sort of enjoyed that. I loved, you know,
listening to the pipes it was. It was sort of
(12:14):
methodic and and comforting.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
I agree with you. I had the same situation early
on in life, and we had a gravity heater, which
is just basically like a California basement, just enough room
for the heater to be down there and then no fan,
just heat rises and it comes up through the floor
ducts and when the when the heater gets turned on,
you just hear it. You hear you hear all of
(12:39):
that metal expanding as it's getting warm, and it's just
creaking all over the place. And I love the fact
that I was like, Okay, it's gonna get warm. Yes,
that's exactly when there it coming.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And so yeah, the old quick fix with a squeaky floor.
At least my grandparents used to do this baby powder.
They used to put baby powder on the floor, and
it was I guess it worked or didn't work.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Did you ever hear people doing that?
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean baby baby powder is actually, you know,
among the weird hacks that you can do to a
hardwood floor, an old hardwood floor, baby powder actually does work.
Sometimes it's never gonna work for long though, that's the thing,
because you know, here's the thing. Most people don't know this,
they don't realize it. They think that a squeaky wood
floor is the wood buckling against the wood. But that's
(13:27):
not true. What's happening is the nails. Okay, old school floors,
you know that have been nailed down, not glued down.
The nails have gotten a little loose. They've opened up
a little bit, so now there's room for the floor,
the wood to ride up and down on that nail,
and it is the squeak comes from the shifting of
(13:49):
the wood up and down on the nail. So a
little bit of baby powder and just the right place
sometimes will kind of lubricate the nail long enough for
it to quiet down for a bit, but you know
it's going to be coming back.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh that's interesting. Hey, can you stay with us because
I did the Lebron James thing. Sure, okay, all right,
Dean Sharp's with us. I got a bunch more questions
of him. If you live in an older house like
I do. Our house is built in nineteen thirty eight,
it's constantly creaking and moving and pipes are banging, and
he's got a solution on how you can get rid
of all of that. He's on every single Saturday morning
(14:22):
here from six to eight am, and he's also on
Sunday from nine am until noon. We're keeping an eye
on that NBA story. That's the big story here in
southern California around the nation. Also the crash that happened
on the ten Freeway in Ontario. Some more information on
the driver of the big rig. And also the beloved
Pacific Palisades restaurant Gladstone's is going to be demolished and
(14:47):
they're going to replace that restaurant, and we'll tell you
what that's going to look like and when that's going
to be happening. So lot's going on here in southern
California and the Dodgers start tomorrow. Dodgers the very first
game tomorrow against Toronto, and man, there are four wins
away from repeating as national as World Series champs. That
(15:09):
would be great. I'm sure they're working on the parade
right now. You know, whether they win or lose, there
is people. There are people right now working on logistics
for that parade, and I hope it's the same as
last year where there's a parade and it ends up
at Dodger Stadium with fifty five thousand people screaming. I
was there last year and I'm going to go again
this year if they win. It's Conway Show in for
(15:31):
John Colevelt. He'll be on tomorrow at one o'clock.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Conway Show sitting in for John Colevelt. He'll be back
tomorrow at one o'clock. Will be on today until four fifteen.
Then the Chargers play the Minnesota Vikings. Dean Sharp is
on every weekend on the show very popular show six
to eight am on Saturday, nine am until noon on Sunday,
the house whispered Dean Sharp, Dean, welcome back to the program.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Hi you Bob, I'm good. I'm good. That's great.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Hey, before we get back into this, I read an
article in the La Times that in Malibu there are
only two percent of the permits that have been approved
so far that have been submitted, only two percent. And
I think it's the Coastal Commission that's probably holding things up.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
Have you ever had to deal with the Coastal Commission?
Oh my, yeah, no. Do you think it's the Coastal Commission. Absolutely,
the Coastal Commission.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know, at some point they you know, they they're
obviously they're they're in charge of the entire coast of
the state of California.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But that coast, you know, at some point.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
In California extends four or five miles inland.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Yeah, at some points, and they're only supposed to have
jurisdiction for a few hundred yards inland, right, But you know,
here's the thing, the Coastal Commission, I shouldn't say this
on the radio. I really shouldn't, because you have to do.
My house will probably blow up later. But the Coastal
Commission is as close to like a star chamber as
(17:09):
it gets wow in government. I mean the We're talking
about a handful of unelected people sitting up somewhere somewhere
in the Bay Area in a dark room with tiny
spotlights on their desks and making decisions about the entire
California coast. And it is vicious. I mean it is vicious.
(17:31):
Every time we find out that we are building and
or designing for something inside the Coastal Commission zone. I
just look at the clients and I'm like, see in.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Two years, they're brutal, and they're not answerable to anybody.
They don't even have to answer to the governor.
Speaker 9 (17:46):
No, No, that's what I'm saying. They are like an
independent government just sitting up there. Yeah, it's a thing.
It's that they have quite the reputation.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Right, but they but they look it's happened in a
very tragic way. But this is ultimately there to take
the California coast, take all the apartments, all the homes,
all the townhouse, everything away. From the coast and bring
it back to its natural beauty with the way it
was three hundred years ago.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Yeah, and you know what I got to tell you.
You know, if you've driven pch after the Palisades fire
and you realize, oh my gosh, I've never seen this
much ocean before driving through Malibu because it was all
just beach house, beach house, beach house, you know, something
in your heart says, maybe we shouldn't put these houses back.
But the fact of the matter is these are private properties.
(18:34):
Then they've got the right to build there, and so yeah,
but they are dragging their feet, dragging them.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Let me ask you a question here, because I you know,
Adam Krola has a great blog on, you know, the
progress that Malibu is making, and he had a great
point that a lot of these old septic tanks, they're
going to have to be replaced, you know, because they
either have been damaged or they're outdated. And to get
a septic tank just removed from that property is going
(19:01):
to take a long period of time. But then to
get the permits to put a new one in might
be next to them possible.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Uh yeah, yeah, I mean here's the thing. Septic septic
is not something we have to worry about for the
homes down on pH level. But when we're talking Malibu,
if you're talking up in the hills, there are a
lot of zones in Malibu that do not have sewer
service running to them, and so they're running on septic.
And for those eh, you know, uh, it's it's probably
(19:30):
not that tough to swap out a septic tank as
far as the permits and the cost is always you
know what it is. You got to dig up a tank,
you got to you know, deal with that, you got
to put a new one in. But I'm not seeing
there being a huge problem with the permitting.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh I say, okay, but isn't it ironic, Dean Sharp,
that the people who are constantly telling us that the
ocean's gonna rise and it's gonna wipe us out, they're
all building homes right on the ocean. Yeah, it's absolutely
iron it is. It's absolutely ironic. And these are homes
that are literally on the ocean. We're not talking about,
(20:05):
oh I have an ocean view.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Now.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
The homes that are happening west of pch through the
Malibu Corridor, they are homes with the pylons, usually going
down sixty to one hundred feet to bedrock because the
water is coming on high tide. High tide wraps up
underneath most balconies up there. Can you unneath them?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Can you use the old pilons or pilings, or do
you have to replace them?
Speaker 9 (20:31):
That all depends, Yeah, it really all depends. It depends
on how old they are. If they are, you know,
fifty plus years, which a lot of those buildings are,
then there's no way, no way the city is going
to allow to you know, because those are out of
date technically, seismically, they're out of date. If they're you know,
within the last twenty years or so, which some of
(20:52):
them are, then and they're not that badly damaged by
the heat, then they might be able to reuse them.
But chances are the majority of those pylons will probably.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Have to be switched out. A nightmare. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Actually, what that means, by the way, is just abandon
You're not pulling a pylon out of the ground. You're
just gonna have to build next to it or near it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Oh they don't. They don't extra kid him, they don't
take them out. Oh they're sixty to one hundred feet deep. Okay,
all right, yeah, there's no pulling those out.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
This is your last show before Halloween, so this will
be the how not to Live in a Haunted House
weekend with your show on kfive.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Yes, sir, we're gonna be doing that, and we're actually
going to be talking about an actual, real haunted house
here in southern California. My sister, who is a professor
at cal State Fullerton also kind of sidelines as a
ghost tour a docent for the Kellogg House.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh yeah, down in OC And.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
So Sunday, actually all weekend, we're gonna be giving tickets
away because they've done us a real big solid. They've said,
you know what, guys, how about we do Monday night
a special VIP house whisper ghost tour of the Kellogg
House for you and like twenty five of your listeners.
So we're giving tickets away this weekend. We're gonna be
talking with Darcy about this one hundred and twenty seven
(22:08):
year old custom built Victorian house that's down there, and
given tickets away for Monday night when we go down
to do the tour.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh that's great, Yeah, that almost built like in the
late eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
Yeah, yeah, it's eighty seven eighty eighteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah, that's great. All right, I'll be listening. Thanks for
coming on, man, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Thanks bro.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
All Right, Dean Sharp, everybody, I listen to this week's
show and you could win tickets to the Kellogg House
tour in Santa Anna. It's an hour and a half
tour age twelve or plus, so you can bring the kids.
And that house was built in nineteen eighty nine by
Clay Kellogg. And so that's gonna be great. Listen all
weekend for free tickets with Dean Sharp. It's Conway Show.
(22:52):
I'm filling in for John colevelt He'll be back tomorrow
at one pm. And listen to that. He's always hotter
than Hell, angry as Hell, comes back from vacation. It
should be a fantastic program. I'll be on til four
to fifteen. Then the Chargers take on the Minnesota Vikings.
Then after that Mark Thompson at nine o'clock. It's Conway
Show Live on KFI.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Conway Show sitting up for John coleblt he'll be back
tomorrow one pm. We'll be here till four fifteen. Then
the Chargers take on the Minnesota Vikings from four to
fifteen till about nine, and then Mark Thompson at nine o'clock.
Gladstone's is a beautiful restaurant. I'm sure most people listening
right now either have been there or you've driven past it.
You know where it is on Pch and it is
(23:39):
coming down. It was a great hang. It was a
great place to look at the ocean. Mostly for special occasions.
You know, somebody retiring, somebody graduating, somebody's getting married, you
go to Gladstone's, or if you had people from out
of town and they wanted some fairly expensive, average fish.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That's what it probably should have been called, and it was.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It was a great place to sit on the porch there,
drink you know, Margarita's or whatever you're enjoying, and have
a bowl of fish or a plate of fish. And
now it's going away. Things change and Gladstone's is being replaced.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
You know a lot of folks here in the Palisades
who I've been talking to, a lot of them also
are saying this morning, say it ain't.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
So that's because this restaurant.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
As you see right behind me, Gladstones has been around
for generations, so it is really part of their childhood memories.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Right.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Unfortunately, according to some and the California Commission, it is
now being replaced with an upscale restaurant. Let's take a look.
So these are some renderings of the reimagined space here
along Pacific Coast Highway.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
This is what it's going to look like. As you see.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
The unanimous of vote approved by that commission. It will
now be a fine dining restaurant designed by renowned architect
Rank Gary and celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
All right, Wolfgang Puck.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
People enjoy Wolfgang Puck's food, and maybe it'll be a
better place. You know, it's not gonna be the same.
It's not gonna be Gladstones. I think Mayor Reardon at
one point owned Gladstone's.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Guy owned everything.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
But it might still be a decent restaurant to take
people from out of town or to take people there
on a special occasion.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
And calls for demolishing the existing twelve thousand square foot
Gladstones and building a new seventeen thousand, five hundred square
foot restaurant with a public deck and of course those
ocean views.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay, the public deck very key. That's what you want
to do when you go to the ocean. You don't
want to sit inside of a restaurant. You can do
that in Encino or Northridge. To sit inside a restaurant,
you want to be outside on the porch with the
protective glass there and you know, smelling the ocean and
it might be a really cool hang. You know, you
(25:57):
gotta be positive about this. Yeah, you're gonna miss glads Stones,
but this place might have better food and a better view.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Located here at the seventeen thousand, three hundred block of
Pacific Coast Highway, but the project is facing a little
bit of opposition from residents still recovering from January's devastating firestorm.
They're concerned about over development and losing dozens of those
public beach parking spaces here in an area that will
be under construction for years. Some residents this morning are
(26:28):
very sad to say goodbye.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Pretty sad about that.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I mean, I've been going to Gladstone's since I was little,
and it's such a special like beach restaurant. That you know,
just has so much history and so many memories baked
into Gladstones, like going for Father's Day with with my
dad and my husband and my son now and then
all the way back to graduating UCLA and going there
(26:52):
for graduation.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
All right, all right, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You know, when the restaurant we have a ton of
memories goes away, part of those memories disappear too. I
do understand that. I do understand that. But it's not
like they're just, you know, going to wipe it out.
They're going to put a beautiful restaurant there. They will
create more memories for more people, and the food will
probably be a little.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Better than a Gladstone.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Sorry, if you're a big fan of Gladstone's food, it
was very expensive and fairly average.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
So yeah, it's definitely a special play.
Speaker 10 (27:27):
So many wonderful memories will Commissioners say the project includes
twenty special conditions addressing public access, coastal hazards, and environmental concerns,
and they believe it will ultimately be a positive asset
for the community when Wolfgang Puck and that new restaurant
moves in. So there's no clear timeline as of right
(27:49):
now as to when demolition will begin, but.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That restaurant will not be open for the Olympics.
Speaker 10 (27:54):
The teardown will be happening. But back out here alive.
If you have ever been to this historic restaurant, yeah,
you know, that's called the Gladstone where we're zoomed in.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Right now, people right on it.
Speaker 10 (28:05):
It even says if you're frisky, give it a kiss
or give it a hug.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And I wouldn't give it a kiss.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
There's way too many people who have laid their Hollywood
lips on that and you have no idea what they've
got humming. I pass on the blarny Stone, or in
this case, the Gladstone where everybody puts their mouth on it.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Or give it a hug, and yeah, I give.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It a hug. A hug is your second your best bet.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Or give it a hug and rub it for good luck.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
So yeah, or just pass by, take a look at
it and go eat.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
This is probably one of your last chances to come
out here, take some selfies and really just enjoy the
last few days of this iconic restaurant.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
I'm putting life here in the Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Cheen Tank all right, Gladstone's is going away kind of sad,
but you know, maybe again it might be a nicer
joint than Gladstone's. Gleat Stones was great in the eighties
and nineties, and then in the last ten or fifteen
years it was very expensive and the.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Food was average.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
So against the my dging talk, Petros is buzzed around.
What's going on with you, Bud? Oh yeah, we're gonna
do a whole lot routine. What are you wearing board shorts?
You're wearing a bathing suit? Petro cut off sweats? Is
that right?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah? And you got it going on? Is that Burt's
bart Barts books and oh hi, I love books. All right,
you're the best buddy, quick guy. I wonder why you're
here so early. I'm filling in for John Cobo. Give
me the he's in Alaska. I saw that on Twitter. Yeah, no,
he said he was in Iceland. Come on, we're gonna
(29:43):
split hairs.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Well, you know it's a big difference between.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Iceland and the last Hemisphere when cold. All right, it's
gotten much. I'm meant for John if I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
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