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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tim's away, Mark Thompson here, and there is a lot
going on. I was talking to Chris Little who went
to Sofi had a bizarre experience even as he enjoyed
a great seat for SOFI concert. We'll get into that,
maybe something that you can relate to if you've been
to the SOFI set up for a concert.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We'll talk about that a little bit later in the hour.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's a I've got a breaking new situation too that
I'll get to.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It looks like there's been an arrestmates, so I'll have that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's weird how the crime blodder has, you know, slowly
invaded all content. But thankfully there have been arrests in
a lot of the crime blodder related stories, this among them.
Recyclers have been arrested in this stolen metal crackdown, and
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I think North Hollywood is one of the hardest hit
areas by these metal thieves. Monks from KFI News is
standing by the phillis in on Mark first establish what
the problem is, because I guess this is really a
huge issue.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Oh for sure, Mark Good afternoon. Yeah, definitely, all over La,
all over La County. I mean we're seeing neighborhoods that
have gone dark. We've seen the sixth Street bridge, that
new bridge, it's gone dark all because of people stealing
the copper wire and a lot of the wiring that
comes out of it. And you know, it's a lot
of these are like Christmas lights.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You take the lights.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Of the power out of one and suddenly they're all off.
So we're seeing a lot of darkness in this community.
And today was a big day for copper theft in
the city of La because not only did we get
some news about arrest in North Hollywood, but city Council
has taken action on a couple of issues trying to
combat this as well. So it's something that's top of mind.
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City Council President Paul Kercoran, who represents North Hollywood where
some of these metal recyclers exist. He and LAPD officials
announced today here downtown that a few arrests have been
made and that multiple recycling operations have been cited because
they are finding after a couple of weeks of investigation
and the recovery of more than sixteen hundred pounds of
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stolen metal that these folks who steal the metal are
turning to these folks at the recycling operations, and if
those folks aren't following state law or proper protocol, they
can face charges as well.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
And that's what's happened.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Wow, that's wild. What a great way to nail them,
you know, you know, this is just the thing we
were talking about talking about this to John Cobel. You know,
after the ripoff, you've got to move it, you've got
to turn it somehow. And what you're suggesting is that
the place they turn it, the place where it's of
a value, becomes the place where they nail them exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And state law dictates that if any of these operations
are turning over a certain amount of money to purchase
any of this recycled metal or recyclable metal, that they're
supposed to notify authorities. And apparently that wasn't happening in
some of these cases. Some of these workers have been arrested,
multiple operations have been sighted and the police are going
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to continue to monitor them. This was a special operation
over the past two weeks watching these folks out in
North Hollywood, and that was the announcement today that a
few people are now behind bars and the operations themselves
are going to be under higher scrutiny.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I was reading that they recovered more than sixteen hundred
pounds of stolen copper wire and hundreds of pounds of
stolen aluminum cable and backup batteries for roadway safety systems.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I mean, this is a massive haul.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It's a big hall, and apparently something like that could
be sold for about forty grand. The thing that challenges
LA officials and those of us who live here is
that for that forty grand, the damage that is done
could cost about a half a million dollars to repair.
So it's costing on multiple fronts. And so that's why
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LA is really trying to get back a handle on this,
because it's costing them to fix these street lights. And
so that was something that happened in city council today
a couple of different items. One thing that was approved
was that the city is going to investigate acquiring some
sort of etching machine so that any of their copper wire,
any of the city owned copper wire that goes into
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these lights or other public infrastructure, has their name on it. Basically,
so if it shows up at any of these recycling centers,
there's no question about who it belongs to. It belongs
to the City of La Another thing they approved was
investigating solar powered street lights because they are tired of
having to pay for all of this and so could
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be an alternative and quell this theft by not having
copper wire in the first place.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Now that's fascinating, that's really fascinating, and I love the
plan where you essentially create an id on all this wiring.
Although it would seem like there's some upfront costs associated
with that, it could save the city a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Ultimately, that's what we'll find out. Both of these approvals
that came out of City Council today basically asked the
departments to report back later on what that might look like,
how it might cost, and how they move forward from there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So they kind of staked out these places where these
recycling centers, where these guys are given a bunch of
money for what are essentially stolen goods. As those places
become places they can't go, I mean talking about bad
guys can't go with this bounty of stuff, they turn
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to what out of state recycling centers other I mean,
you know, this isn't I wouldn't think going to go away.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
No, it's something that we find out with a lot
of these crimes that break out. I know, last week
we were all talking about the speed of burglaries that
have popped up in Zino. And so these aren't just
regular joes who get you know, a wild hair and design.
They're going to break into somebody's home. A lot of
times you find out later that there is a pretty
sophisticated organization behind all that. And that appears to be
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the case with a lot of this metal theft as well.
Sure there are you know, regular joes who take a
bad turn in life and do some damage, but there's
also some organization to this as well. So they might
be able to shut it down in one part of town,
but these folks might be sophisticated enough to find another outlet.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Just to be clear, the arrests that were made where
the arrests were made with the people associated with the
recycling plant getting arrested, not those who had ripped the
copper out of the city street lines.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Well, some of the charges include receiving stolen property. Of course,
that is against the law, and so those are some
of the charges here. The police did make it clear
that fieves face charges as well. The operators are simply cited. Again,
this is a highly regulated industry and there are state
laws that govern that, and so they were basically reminded
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about what those protocols are and also told that they're
being watched out.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They were basically reminded what those protocols were. Yeah, guys,
maybe these arrests will remind you what the basic protocols are.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
If you like recycling, stop breaking the law.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Michael Monks, thank you. That's my players.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, and some interesting policy decisions ahead to maybe blunt
that entire thing. Wow, I mean they take everything. It's
been crazy. They've taken cemetery headstones, They've taken decorative plaques
of one sort or another. They're stripping metal off of
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everything for its recycling value. Crazy crazy. When we come
back breaking news.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So where were we?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I wanted to let you know that the fast food
wars are on in a big, big way. You like
fast food, You're not alone.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
The fastbo wars are heating up.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Subway just drop the price of every foot long in
that app.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Subway serving up a new six ninety nine any foot
long promo deal through their app at participating locations of
fifty percent savings on some sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I mean. The Subway move, of course, is to ask
them to do what hollow out the sandway? You gotta
hollow out the bread? Yeah, how about it?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know you kind of I'll take care of it.
I'll take care of you at the register. Just a
little bit of hollowing out the bread.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Give me a.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Little one action.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Their way, and Burger King is teaming up with Walmart
to offer customers a whopper of a deal. Yes, a
free whopper every three months for Walmart Plus subscribers and
twenty five percent off any order made using the BK app.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There's a Walmart Plus subscribe I didn't even know this.
That then transfers over to Burger King. That's one of
the insane of being a member of Walmart Plus.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I love that.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Looking for a reason to try the new five dollar
meal deal at McDonald's.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
These deals coming after McDonald's extended their meal deal last month.
A mcdouble or chicken sandwich small fries, four piece nuggets,
and a small soft drink, all for five bucks at
participating location.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Well, could I eat this in one sitting?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I'm trying to a mcdouble or chicken sandwich, small fries,
four piece nuggets, and a small soft drink all for
five bucks at participating location.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You're not eating that by yourself, are you? I mean,
just the fries and the sandwich alone should fill you up.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
This isn't a I mean really.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
A mcdouble or chicken sandwich, small fries, four piece nuggets,
and a small soft drink all for five bucks at
participating location.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Maybe if you're a hungry, you could eat it all yourself.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
Those are the smaller sandwiches there.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I could. To start. You know,
it's a.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Fast food chains are serving up these new promotions trying
to draw inflation weary customers back.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Can we talk about how ridiculous fast food prices aren't?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Many taking to social media to complain about the price increases,
and the difference is very real. In March of this year,
the cost of fast food nearly thirty three percent more
than in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Inflation has hit everyone really hard, with fast food restaurants
it has impacted the cost of ingredients.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Course of action is to pass that on to consumers.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
So these businesses are hoping to become a part of
your routine, especially since a lot of families are in
the middle of back to school mode right now. Just
remember though, these deals are not permanent. They are promotion.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's how they get you.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Like drug dealers, and they start with the chicken sandwich
with the fries and the nuggets. Before you know it,
you come back in and you go, I'll tell my
chicken sandwich, my fries or my nuggets and they go, aha, sorry, dude,
that was last week. Now you got to pony it up. Yeah,
daddy wants the real money now, man. I have to
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say that one of the big things about fast food historically,
and one of the reasons it's really taken off. I
think this is this country is sort of a shrine
to fast food in a way that no other place
on earth is was the affordability.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I mean, you can say what you.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Want about it being junk food and about you know
it's it was convenient and it was inexpensive.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
That's the way it used to be.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now, I suppose you have the convenience, But it sounds
to me like the expense is something that has changed
meantime on the other side of town. How will food
prices be impacted by this Kroger Albertson's merger.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
Government is very skeptical that this would be good for
consumers when you look at how much consolidation there's already
been in the grocery space. I mean, you look at
Albertson's and Kroger's. They own probably the grocery store that
you shop head in your neighborhood. All of these brands
of these two are very very big players, and together
this would be the biggest grocery merger in history. And
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the government is saying, we don't think this fits in
with the Biden administration strategy of keeping prices low for customers.
About their in court over this.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, you know, Biden administration are not. It just is
against any sort of competition to have more and more mergers.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And we are, you know, replete with.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Examples of mergers of all sorts, media mergers, and you
find a financial institutions merging, and you find tech merging
in such a huge way, and who suffers the consumers?
There's still question about it. You know, have you tried
to get the cable company on the line. You know
that that's not an accident. They always tell you how
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much better is going to be for the consumer, and
it's just not And so it's not wrong that when
these merger of these huge supermarket chains come together, that
the customer is going to end up with a much
less competitive situation. On some level, it would have to
affect prices.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
I was just about to say for the average American shopper,
ultimately you think prices will go.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
Higher or lower.
Speaker 10 (13:15):
So prices are up twenty one percent since just after
the pandemic started. So this is really issue number one
for the government and Federal Trade Commission.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
Here.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
These companies are saying they would lower prices, they'd have
better scale, they'd be better together. They actually would be
better as competitors together.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They always say this.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I mean, how many times do you have to have
the football pulled away before you get the plan?
Speaker 10 (13:40):
The government is saying no, no, no no. When you start
taking players off the field and you have one big,
huge company, that's not good for competition.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
In reality, are some stores likely to close at this
Go serve.
Speaker 10 (13:50):
So they're going to have to divest some stores, so
maybe five hundred somebody would else would buy those right
where they overlap and when there's too much concentration.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
There had been a merging twenty again this is Alberton's
and Kroger's.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
If you're just joining us, there had been a merger
in twenty fifteen where one of these big chains had
said they were going to sell off some stores, and
then those stores went bankrupt and then they bought them
back and closed them anyway, So the government, and it's
in the courtroom, is very skeptical that excuse me, These
two companies will do what they will do and protect
jobs and keep prices steady.
Speaker 12 (14:22):
What I didn't realize until before this conversation is that
Walmart is the biggest food seller in this country, like
a third of the trillion dollar market right now. So
these these companies recognize that they're facing real pressure from
a lot of these big box stores.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
And that's what they're saying in court.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And what is that that's competition.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Look, the biggest grocery store in the United States is Walmart.
It is not your neighborhood grocery store. It is a superstore.
So they're saying they've got to get together and have
this big scale so they can, you know, pressure producers
to lower prices the way that Walmart does, the way
Walmart uses its leverage to get low prices. So that
is what's.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
There's a great documentary. It's been out there for a while.
I'll recommend it quickly. It's called the it's called Walmart
The High Price. It's the high cost of low Prices.
I think it's called you can check me on that,
but I'm pretty sure that's what. It's called Walmart The
High Cost of low Prices, and it talks about what
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goes into ultimately those low prices. You know how you're
paying when I say we as a society in some
ways are paying in all kinds of different ways for
the low prices. But look, you don't need to be
some kind of social scientist or market guru to know
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that the mergers will absolutely lead to less competition. And
you also don't need to be a market guru to
know that. They'll always tell you it's better for the consumer,
and it seldom is.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Sharon Bellio, who produces this show, has come in with
I guess this is Instagram or what is this? A
live feed on Instagram? So this could be my big break.
So if I sound a little more nervous than normal,
it's because I am going live on Instagram right now
and I'm kind of counting on this being that's something
of a media opportunity for me.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I'm putting on my credibility glasses to enhance my look
for the Those are the only glasses you have, the
only glasses I need, Michael Krozer. They have matteral credibility.
How dare you mock my credibility glasses?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
They're very cute.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Roasted Tom Tom Girardi. This guy, Tom Girardi used to
be the lawyer who'd get these huge settlements. He was
the lawyer in the Aaron Brockovich case. Such a distinguished
career and it has really to ashes he.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
He was found guilty federal jury finding Tom Girardi guilty
of embezzling more than fifteen million dollars from his firm's clients.
It's a criminal conviction. The collapse of his practice, his
marriage to Erica Jane. She was a real Housewives of
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Beverly Hills, and seems like they had a big bang
in life, like a big right they live large.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Such a shame because they really seemed like they were
such a happy made for each other.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Cos I didn't watch the show, Sharon watched the show.
You watched the show, Sharon Bellio?
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Yeah, did she seem as love in love with him
on the show?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Was she in love with him on the show? Yeah,
so she did seem to love a Girardi. Now I
think there's a he's eighty five and she is not
eighty five. I don't know exactly how old she is,
but yeah, fifty something probably okay. Anyway, they know and
look in this town, that's not even a big deal.
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But he was trying to support this lifestyle, and apparently
he sifted through the moneies that were associated with settlements
that his clients were supposed to get. I mean, to
be fair, like where you're you supposed to get the money.
I mean, you know at some point you weren't making enough,
so you go into your client settlement money. So that's
what Tom Girardi was doing. And he was found guilty
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of embezzlement more than fifteen million.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Dollars prosecutor say the former high powered litigator of the
law firm Girardi and Key stole tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
He was a perpetrator of injustice, victimizing his own clients
when they were most vulnerable and most in need.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
That money was allegedly spent on his lavish lifestyle, including
golf clubs and private jets in the career of his
now estranged ex wife Real Housewives of Beverly hillstar Erica Jane.
People inside the courtroom say Girardi showed no visible reaction
when the verdict was read. He suffers from dementia, which
has been brought up a lot in this trial, but
he assisted in his own defense during the trial and
even testified last week.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I mean, that's the weird part of that whole dementia story.
You know, he's helping with his own defense and he's
testifying while claiming dementia. There's a lot of stuff going
on in this trial that pretty much points to.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
The theater of it.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Prosecutors say the massive fraud scheme lasted from twenty ten
to twenty twenty and involved many more ex clients than
the four who were involved in this case. It was
Attorney Martinez Strawna saying today that Gerardi took advantage of
his clients when they were most vulnerable.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
He even portrayed himself repeatedly as one of the top
lawyers in America in magazines and other publications.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
He was one of the top lawyers in America, and
then he became one of the dirtiest lawyers in America.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
And he used his success, he used a success in
fame to get more of those people that needed those big.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Pays exactly exactly.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
And he was paid very well for all that he did,
but that wasn't enough for he wanted even more.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Girardi also represented plaintiffs in the toxic groundwater case that
was dramatized in the Oscar winning film Aaron Bronkovich. We
spoke with former Girardi legal consultant and now activist for
the victims outside the courthouse and.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
I actually believed at one point that Tom Girardi was
a decent human being.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
But he was a hero.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know what they say about meeting their.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Heroes, right, I'm going to disappoint you. And it's a
shame that people watched the Aaron Brockovich movie for decades
and thought that even the slice of that movie was real.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Girardi faces a maximum sentence of eighty years in prison.
His sentencing data scheduled for December sixth in Downtown.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
LA Stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's a tough spot, tough spot for all of his clients.
It reminds me, you know, Krozier Abanati, right, is Michael
Abinati who did the same things Annials thing? Yeah, yeah,
serving time. It wasn't just storming Daniels money that he
was taking. He was taking again settlement money from those
I mean, one was an amputee. These horrible situations in
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which clients who are really at their most vulnerable I
think that's true, are suing and you're counting on your
lawyer to be fighting the righteous battle, and he's stealing
your money.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
And he's been doing it like even as recently as
well the Max planes, the seventy three seven Max planes
that went down in Indonesia that crashed one of the
two that went down. He was a part of the
settlement that Boeing has to pay hundreds of millions of
dollars to those victims families. So he's got another trial
in Chicago to deal with stealing money from those people.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Unbelievable. Tom Girardi guilty and disgraced. Now are we done
with the Instagram thing? Or how does that too? Where
are we still going? We're done?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
All right? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I thought that went very well, Thank you, Sharon. I
felt very good about the Instagram audience being satisfied with that.
All right, everybody behave.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Tina Marie, Now check this, somebody google this. But I
think she obviously had that big hit. And I think
there was a freakish accident that was in a hotel
room or something, and I believed that a big framed
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mirror or other picture fell on her.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Yeah, picked a large picture frame fell and struck her
on the crash.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I couldn't remember Tina Marie, but I can't remember that.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, And sadly, it like compromised her ability to do
a bunch of stuff for a long time for the
rest of her life. And she, you know, passed away young.
So pretty weird. But thank you Steffush for bringing me
with the throwback song. I remembered that that detail.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
About Tina Marie.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You have the breaking news of the Is there something
weird in Soilmar And there's a guy who's on a pole.
He's on a is that a telephone pole or electric pole?
And he won't come down, and cops and firefighters are
there and they're trying to coax this guy down, but
he won't come off of this pole where he.
Speaker 13 (23:19):
Was climbing even higher. So obviously we have the lapd
there handling this one. We know that there's a lot
more emphasis on their mental health teams, and I'm wondering
if perhaps they've called out some of those people to
try to talk with this person. He said to be
a male about thirty to forty years old.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
So weird to me, you know, you understand, because of
the way we have society set up now, they don't
view this as a crime. So he's able to come
down off of that pole, but he's not, so they're
coaxing him down, and so they view it as a
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mental health situation as opposed to a criminal situation. And
you may look at it and say, wait a minute.
The guy is able bodied, he's able to get up
the pole. Let's get him down off the pole. Let's
get him down right away. Otherwise he should be threatened
anyway with a rest, but that's just not what's happening.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
So we're looking at the clock. It's five forty seven.
This call came into LAPD at four forty eight, so
seemingly this man has been up on this utility pool
climbing it for one hour now in Silmar and Cruiser
out there. Of course, all traffic is not allowed to
get through because of the scene down below.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Now, yeah, again, I don't mean to be too tough,
but I am not a big one for indulging these situations.
But this is a tough one. I don't know how
you get this guy down cleanly. I mean you could.
You know, you can't fire beanbag at Adam or whatever
because you know the guy will fault.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Then you've got a real problem.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
But you're going to let essentially traffic be held up
for over an hour long.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It's the standoff is continuing right now.
Speaker 14 (25:08):
We've been watching this playoffs fifteen minutes or so, but
there hasn't been a long What's that? Is it off
of the freeway or is it along the surface streets
as long?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I believe it's long service streets, right, that's my sense
of it. And the reason I don't really know is
because the shot that was on television just didn't you know,
it didn't show you. It was kind of a tighter shot,
so I couldn't really tell, but it looked to me
like it was long surface streets. But I get it
if it was a freeway situation, but even more egregious.
But all I'm trying to say is, I mean, you've
got to get this guy off of here. And I
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don't understand why. It's this is the problem that law
enforcement faces, that society faces, that you know, the mental
health professionals face. It's this weird side show that we
have to indulge in society.
Speaker 14 (25:56):
We've been watching this play out for the last ten
fifteen minutes or so, but there hasn't been a lot
of movement. At one point we saw him make his
way just a couple of rings higher, but as far
as we can tell, he's kind of remained at the
same height.
Speaker 13 (26:12):
Clearly a concern about this person's mental well being here.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
All right, We'll keep a watch on.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
This for you.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
As I said earlier, more than is when we come back.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, Christine Devine and Marla, I I if it were
a bear what would you do if it's a bear, beauty, Yeah,
that's exactly right, man, it's a bear, you would set
up maybe one of those inflatable things, you'd shoot it,
and of course it would miss the inflatable thing. That's
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exactly what would happen if we were to try to
do this with an animal. Extraordinary. You've probably heard that
the much anticipated interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and
her running mate Tim Walls. It will be Thursday, six
(27:01):
o'clock our time. The apparently it's going to be a
I guess it's gonna be like an hour long conversation.
But this has been a drum beat as you know,
like when is she going to do this? When is
she going to do a sit down? And so apparently
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she had said she'd do it before the end of
the month. The end of the month is here, and
she's going to do the sit down with Wald. I
don't know how it's going to work out with Walls
and you know, one chair and her and the other
or if it's a I don't know how it's configured.
But Dana Bash, the CNN anchor who co moderated the
debate in June between President Biden and former President Trump
(27:49):
will conduct that interview. All of you who are haters, look,
Dana Bash got rid of one Democratic candidate.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Maybe it'll happen again.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
But those of you who love Kamala Harris and feel
as though she is the future, this is her first
chance to make some kind of impression.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
In a one on one interview with Dana Bash. Then,
of course, the.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Debate, as it's called, it's really a television show, right,
it's a media event. We call it a debate, but
you know, not much happens. It's very important, don't get
me wrong, But we call it a debate, it's not
really that. It's somewhere between a game show and a
media event and a debate. Anyway, that's September tenth, and
today a former President Trump agreed to those specifics associated
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with the ABC debate, So that'll happen September tenth. So
you're up to speed on everybody. Top of ticket. Next hour,
I believe is an next Chris is going to come
through and talk about this sofi situation that he experienced. Yeah, okay,
that'll happen next hour and two lottery tickets sold in
(29:03):
Southern California worth two million dollars. That's not the big
story associated with them. I will tell you the story
associated with them next hour. Also, last thing, major documentary
on Christopher Reeve. Christopher Reeve was the guy who played Superman.
Of course, suffered that near fatal accident. There's now a
(29:26):
documentary coming out all about him, and we'll have that
trailer for you to hear. Much to Do on The
Conway Show. Mark Thompson is sitting in for Tim on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
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can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tim's away, Mark Thompson here, and there is a lot
going on. I was talking to Chris Little who went
to Sofi had a bizarre experience even as he enjoyed
a great seat for SOFI concert. We'll get into that,
maybe something that you can relate to if you've been
to the SOFI set up for a concert.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We'll talk about that a little bit later in the hour.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's a I've got a breaking new situation too that
I'll get to.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It looks like there's been an arrestmates, so I'll have that.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's weird how the crime blodder has, you know, slowly
invaded all content. But thankfully there have been arrests in
a lot of the crime blodder related stories, this among them.
Recyclers have been arrested in this stolen metal crackdown, and
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I think North Hollywood is one of the hardest hit
areas by these metal thieves. Monks from KFI News is
standing by the phillis in on Mark first establish what
the problem is, because I guess this is really a
huge issue.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Oh for sure, Mark Good afternoon. Yeah, definitely, all over La,
all over La County. I mean we're seeing neighborhoods that
have gone dark. We've seen the sixth Street bridge, that
new bridge, it's gone dark all because of people stealing
the copper wire and a lot of the wiring that
comes out of it. And you know, it's a lot
of these are like Christmas lights.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You take the lights.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Of the power out of one and suddenly they're all off.
So we're seeing a lot of darkness in this community.
And today was a big day for copper theft in
the city of La because not only did we get
some news about arrest in North Hollywood, but city Council
has taken action on a couple of issues trying to
combat this as well. So it's something that's top of mind.
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City Council President Paul Kercoran, who represents North Hollywood where
some of these metal recyclers exist. He and LAPD officials
announced today here downtown that a few arrests have been
made and that multiple recycling operations have been cited because
they are finding after a couple of weeks of investigation
and the recovery of more than sixteen hundred pounds of
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stolen metal that these folks who steal the metal are
turning to these folks at the recycling operations, and if
those folks aren't following state law or proper protocol, they
can face charges as well.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
And that's what's happened.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Wow, that's wild. What a great way to nail them,
you know, you know, this is just the thing we
were talking about talking about this to John Cobel. You know,
after the ripoff, you've got to move it, you've got
to turn it somehow. And what you're suggesting is that
the place they turn it, the place where it's of
a value, becomes the place where they nail them exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And state law dictates that if any of these operations
are turning over a certain amount of money to purchase
any of this recycled metal or recyclable metal, that they're
supposed to notify authorities. And apparently that wasn't happening in
some of these cases. Some of these workers have been arrested,
multiple operations have been sighted and the police are going
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to continue to monitor them. This was a special operation
over the past two weeks watching these folks out in
North Hollywood, and that was the announcement today that a
few people are now behind bars and the operations themselves
are going to be under higher scrutiny.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I was reading that they recovered more than sixteen hundred
pounds of stolen copper wire and hundreds of pounds of
stolen aluminum cable and backup batteries for roadway safety systems.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I mean, this is a massive haul.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It's a big hall, and apparently something like that could
be sold for about forty grand. The thing that challenges
LA officials and those of us who live here is
that for that forty grand, the damage that is done
could cost about a half a million dollars to repair.
So it's costing on multiple fronts. And so that's why
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LA is really trying to get back a handle on this,
because it's costing them to fix these street lights. And
so that was something that happened in city council today
a couple of different items. One thing that was approved
was that the city is going to investigate acquiring some
sort of etching machine so that any of their copper wire,
any of the city owned copper wire that goes into
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these lights or other public infrastructure, has their name on it. Basically,
so if it shows up at any of these recycling centers,
there's no question about who it belongs to. It belongs
to the City of La Another thing they approved was
investigating solar powered street lights because they are tired of
having to pay for all of this and so could
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be an alternative and quell this theft by not having
copper wire in the first place.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Now that's fascinating, that's really fascinating, and I love the
plan where you essentially create an id on all this wiring.
Although it would seem like there's some upfront costs associated
with that, it could save the city a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Ultimately, that's what we'll find out. Both of these approvals
that came out of City Council today basically asked the
departments to report back later on what that might look like,
how it might cost, and how they move forward from there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So they kind of staked out these places where these
recycling centers, where these guys are given a bunch of
money for what are essentially stolen goods. As those places
become places they can't go, I mean talking about bad
guys can't go with this bounty of stuff, they turn
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to what out of state recycling centers other I mean,
you know, this isn't I wouldn't think going to go away.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
No, it's something that we find out with a lot
of these crimes that break out. I know, last week
we were all talking about the speed of burglaries that
have popped up in Zino. And so these aren't just
regular joes who get you know, a wild hair and design.
They're going to break into somebody's home. A lot of
times you find out later that there is a pretty
sophisticated organization behind all that. And that appears to be
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the case with a lot of this metal theft as well.
Sure there are you know, regular joes who take a
bad turn in life and do some damage, but there's
also some organization to this as well. So they might
be able to shut it down in one part of town,
but these folks might be sophisticated enough to find another outlet.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Just to be clear, the arrests that were made where
the arrests were made with the people associated with the
recycling plant getting arrested, not those who had ripped the
copper out of the city street lines.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Well, some of the charges include receiving stolen property. Of course,
that is against the law, and so those are some
of the charges here. The police did make it clear
that fieves face charges as well. The operators are simply cited. Again,
this is a highly regulated industry and there are state
laws that govern that, and so they were basically reminded
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about what those protocols are and also told that they're
being watched out.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They were basically reminded what those protocols were. Yeah, guys,
maybe these arrests will remind you what the basic protocols are.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
If you like recycling, stop breaking the law.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Michael Monks, thank you. That's my players.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, and some interesting policy decisions ahead to maybe blunt
that entire thing. Wow, I mean they take everything. It's
been crazy. They've taken cemetery headstones, They've taken decorative plaques
of one sort or another. They're stripping metal off of
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everything for its recycling value. Crazy crazy. When we come
back breaking news.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So where were we?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I wanted to let you know that the fast food
wars are on in a big, big way. You like
fast food, You're not alone.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
The fastbo wars are heating up.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Subway just drop the price of every foot long in
that app.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Subway serving up a new six ninety nine any foot
long promo deal through their app at participating locations of
fifty percent savings on some sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I mean. The Subway move, of course, is to ask
them to do what hollow out the sandway? You gotta
hollow out the bread? Yeah, how about it?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know you kind of I'll take care of it.
I'll take care of you at the register. Just a
little bit of hollowing out the bread.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Give me a.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Little one action.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Their way, and Burger King is teaming up with Walmart
to offer customers a whopper of a deal. Yes, a
free whopper every three months for Walmart Plus subscribers and
twenty five percent off any order made using the BK app.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There's a Walmart Plus subscribe I didn't even know this.
That then transfers over to Burger King. That's one of
the insane of being a member of Walmart Plus.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I love that.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Looking for a reason to try the new five dollar
meal deal at McDonald's.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
These deals coming after McDonald's extended their meal deal last month.
A mcdouble or chicken sandwich small fries, four piece nuggets,
and a small soft drink, all for five bucks at
participating location.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Well, could I eat this in one sitting?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I'm trying to a mcdouble or chicken sandwich, small fries,
four piece nuggets, and a small soft drink all for
five bucks at participating location.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You're not eating that by yourself, are you? I mean,
just the fries and the sandwich alone should fill you up.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
This isn't a I mean really.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
A mcdouble or chicken sandwich, small fries, four piece nuggets,
and a small soft drink all for five bucks at
participating location.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Maybe if you're a hungry, you could eat it all yourself.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
Those are the smaller sandwiches there.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I could. To start. You know,
it's a.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Fast food chains are serving up these new promotions trying
to draw inflation weary customers back.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Can we talk about how ridiculous fast food prices aren't?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Many taking to social media to complain about the price increases,
and the difference is very real. In March of this year,
the cost of fast food nearly thirty three percent more
than in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Inflation has hit everyone really hard, with fast food restaurants
it has impacted the cost of ingredients.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Course of action is to pass that on to consumers.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
So these businesses are hoping to become a part of
your routine, especially since a lot of families are in
the middle of back to school mode right now. Just
remember though, these deals are not permanent. They are promotion.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's how they get you.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Like drug dealers, and they start with the chicken sandwich
with the fries and the nuggets. Before you know it,
you come back in and you go, I'll tell my
chicken sandwich, my fries or my nuggets and they go, aha, sorry, dude,
that was last week. Now you got to pony it up. Yeah,
daddy wants the real money now, man. I have to
(11:10):
say that one of the big things about fast food historically,
and one of the reasons it's really taken off. I
think this is this country is sort of a shrine
to fast food in a way that no other place
on earth is was the affordability.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I mean, you can say what you.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Want about it being junk food and about you know
it's it was convenient and it was inexpensive.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
That's the way it used to be.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now, I suppose you have the convenience, But it sounds
to me like the expense is something that has changed
meantime on the other side of town. How will food
prices be impacted by this Kroger Albertson's merger.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
Government is very skeptical that this would be good for
consumers when you look at how much consolidation there's already
been in the grocery space. I mean, you look at
Albertson's and Kroger's. They own probably the grocery store that
you shop head in your neighborhood. All of these brands
of these two are very very big players, and together
this would be the biggest grocery merger in history. And
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the government is saying, we don't think this fits in
with the Biden administration strategy of keeping prices low for customers.
About their in court over this.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, you know, Biden administration are not. It just is
against any sort of competition to have more and more mergers.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And we are, you know, replete with.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Examples of mergers of all sorts, media mergers, and you
find a financial institutions merging, and you find tech merging
in such a huge way, and who suffers the consumers?
There's still question about it. You know, have you tried
to get the cable company on the line. You know
that that's not an accident. They always tell you how
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much better is going to be for the consumer, and
it's just not And so it's not wrong that when
these merger of these huge supermarket chains come together, that
the customer is going to end up with a much
less competitive situation. On some level, it would have to
affect prices.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
I was just about to say for the average American shopper,
ultimately you think prices will go.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
Higher or lower.
Speaker 10 (13:15):
So prices are up twenty one percent since just after
the pandemic started. So this is really issue number one
for the government and Federal Trade Commission.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
Here.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
These companies are saying they would lower prices, they'd have
better scale, they'd be better together. They actually would be
better as competitors together.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
They always say this.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I mean, how many times do you have to have
the football pulled away before you get the plan?
Speaker 10 (13:40):
The government is saying no, no, no no. When you start
taking players off the field and you have one big,
huge company, that's not good for competition.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
In reality, are some stores likely to close at this
Go serve.
Speaker 10 (13:50):
So they're going to have to divest some stores, so
maybe five hundred somebody would else would buy those right
where they overlap and when there's too much concentration.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
There had been a merging twenty again this is Alberton's
and Kroger's.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
If you're just joining us, there had been a merger
in twenty fifteen where one of these big chains had
said they were going to sell off some stores, and
then those stores went bankrupt and then they bought them
back and closed them anyway, So the government, and it's
in the courtroom, is very skeptical that excuse me, These
two companies will do what they will do and protect
jobs and keep prices steady.
Speaker 12 (14:22):
What I didn't realize until before this conversation is that
Walmart is the biggest food seller in this country, like
a third of the trillion dollar market right now. So
these these companies recognize that they're facing real pressure from
a lot of these big box stores.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
And that's what they're saying in court.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And what is that that's competition.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Look, the biggest grocery store in the United States is Walmart.
It is not your neighborhood grocery store. It is a superstore.
So they're saying they've got to get together and have
this big scale so they can, you know, pressure producers
to lower prices the way that Walmart does, the way
Walmart uses its leverage to get low prices. So that
is what's.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
There's a great documentary. It's been out there for a while.
I'll recommend it quickly. It's called the it's called Walmart
The High Price. It's the high cost of low Prices.
I think it's called you can check me on that,
but I'm pretty sure that's what. It's called Walmart The
High Cost of low Prices, and it talks about what
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goes into ultimately those low prices. You know how you're
paying when I say we as a society in some
ways are paying in all kinds of different ways for
the low prices. But look, you don't need to be
some kind of social scientist or market guru to know
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that the mergers will absolutely lead to less competition. And
you also don't need to be a market guru to
know that. They'll always tell you it's better for the consumer,
and it seldom is.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Sharon Bellio, who produces this show, has come in with
I guess this is Instagram or what is this? A
live feed on Instagram? So this could be my big break.
So if I sound a little more nervous than normal,
it's because I am going live on Instagram right now
and I'm kind of counting on this being that's something
of a media opportunity for me.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I'm putting on my credibility glasses to enhance my look
for the Those are the only glasses you have, the
only glasses I need, Michael Krozer. They have matteral credibility.
How dare you mock my credibility glasses?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
They're very cute.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Roasted Tom Tom Girardi. This guy, Tom Girardi used to
be the lawyer who'd get these huge settlements. He was
the lawyer in the Aaron Brockovich case. Such a distinguished
career and it has really to ashes he.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
He was found guilty federal jury finding Tom Girardi guilty
of embezzling more than fifteen million dollars from his firm's clients.
It's a criminal conviction. The collapse of his practice, his
marriage to Erica Jane. She was a real Housewives of
(17:25):
Beverly Hills, and seems like they had a big bang
in life, like a big right they live large.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Such a shame because they really seemed like they were
such a happy made for each other.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Cos I didn't watch the show, Sharon watched the show.
You watched the show, Sharon Bellio?
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Yeah, did she seem as love in love with him
on the show?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Was she in love with him on the show? Yeah,
so she did seem to love a Girardi. Now I
think there's a he's eighty five and she is not
eighty five. I don't know exactly how old she is,
but yeah, fifty something probably okay. Anyway, they know and
look in this town, that's not even a big deal.
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But he was trying to support this lifestyle, and apparently
he sifted through the moneies that were associated with settlements
that his clients were supposed to get. I mean, to
be fair, like where you're you supposed to get the money.
I mean, you know at some point you weren't making enough,
so you go into your client settlement money. So that's
what Tom Girardi was doing. And he was found guilty
(18:27):
of embezzlement more than fifteen million.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Dollars prosecutor say the former high powered litigator of the
law firm Girardi and Key stole tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
He was a perpetrator of injustice, victimizing his own clients
when they were most vulnerable and most in need.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
That money was allegedly spent on his lavish lifestyle, including
golf clubs and private jets in the career of his
now estranged ex wife Real Housewives of Beverly hillstar Erica Jane.
People inside the courtroom say Girardi showed no visible reaction
when the verdict was read. He suffers from dementia, which
has been brought up a lot in this trial, but
he assisted in his own defense during the trial and
even testified last week.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I mean, that's the weird part of that whole dementia story.
You know, he's helping with his own defense and he's
testifying while claiming dementia. There's a lot of stuff going
on in this trial that pretty much points to.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
The theater of it.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Prosecutors say the massive fraud scheme lasted from twenty ten
to twenty twenty and involved many more ex clients than
the four who were involved in this case. It was
Attorney Martinez Strawna saying today that Gerardi took advantage of
his clients when they were most vulnerable.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
He even portrayed himself repeatedly as one of the top
lawyers in America in magazines and other publications.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
He was one of the top lawyers in America, and
then he became one of the dirtiest lawyers in America.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
And he used his success, he used a success in
fame to get more of those people that needed those big.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Pays exactly exactly.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
And he was paid very well for all that he did,
but that wasn't enough for he wanted even more.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Girardi also represented plaintiffs in the toxic groundwater case that
was dramatized in the Oscar winning film Aaron Bronkovich. We
spoke with former Girardi legal consultant and now activist for
the victims outside the courthouse and.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
I actually believed at one point that Tom Girardi was
a decent human being.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
But he was a hero.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know what they say about meeting their.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Heroes, right, I'm going to disappoint you. And it's a
shame that people watched the Aaron Brockovich movie for decades
and thought that even the slice of that movie was real.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Girardi faces a maximum sentence of eighty years in prison.
His sentencing data scheduled for December sixth in Downtown.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
LA Stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's a tough spot, tough spot for all of his clients.
It reminds me, you know, Krozier Abanati, right, is Michael
Abinati who did the same things Annials thing? Yeah, yeah,
serving time. It wasn't just storming Daniels money that he
was taking. He was taking again settlement money from those
I mean, one was an amputee. These horrible situations in
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which clients who are really at their most vulnerable I
think that's true, are suing and you're counting on your
lawyer to be fighting the righteous battle, and he's stealing
your money.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
And he's been doing it like even as recently as
well the Max planes, the seventy three seven Max planes
that went down in Indonesia that crashed one of the
two that went down. He was a part of the
settlement that Boeing has to pay hundreds of millions of
dollars to those victims families. So he's got another trial
in Chicago to deal with stealing money from those people.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Unbelievable. Tom Girardi guilty and disgraced. Now are we done
with the Instagram thing? Or how does that too? Where
are we still going? We're done?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
All right? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I thought that went very well, Thank you, Sharon. I
felt very good about the Instagram audience being satisfied with that.
All right, everybody behave.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Tina Marie, Now check this, somebody google this. But I
think she obviously had that big hit. And I think
there was a freakish accident that was in a hotel
room or something, and I believed that a big framed
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mirror or other picture fell on her.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Yeah, picked a large picture frame fell and struck her
on the crash.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I couldn't remember Tina Marie, but I can't remember that.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, And sadly, it like compromised her ability to do
a bunch of stuff for a long time for the
rest of her life. And she, you know, passed away young.
So pretty weird. But thank you Steffush for bringing me
with the throwback song. I remembered that that detail.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
About Tina Marie.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You have the breaking news of the Is there something
weird in Soilmar And there's a guy who's on a pole.
He's on a is that a telephone pole or electric pole?
And he won't come down, and cops and firefighters are
there and they're trying to coax this guy down, but
he won't come off of this pole where he.
Speaker 13 (23:19):
Was climbing even higher. So obviously we have the lapd
there handling this one. We know that there's a lot
more emphasis on their mental health teams, and I'm wondering
if perhaps they've called out some of those people to
try to talk with this person. He said to be
a male about thirty to forty years old.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
So weird to me, you know, you understand, because of
the way we have society set up now, they don't
view this as a crime. So he's able to come
down off of that pole, but he's not, so they're
coaxing him down, and so they view it as a
(24:00):
mental health situation as opposed to a criminal situation. And
you may look at it and say, wait a minute.
The guy is able bodied, he's able to get up
the pole. Let's get him down off the pole. Let's
get him down right away. Otherwise he should be threatened
anyway with a rest, but that's just not what's happening.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
So we're looking at the clock. It's five forty seven.
This call came into LAPD at four forty eight, so
seemingly this man has been up on this utility pool
climbing it for one hour now in Silmar and Cruiser
out there. Of course, all traffic is not allowed to
get through because of the scene down below.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Now, yeah, again, I don't mean to be too tough,
but I am not a big one for indulging these situations.
But this is a tough one. I don't know how
you get this guy down cleanly. I mean you could.
You know, you can't fire beanbag at Adam or whatever
because you know the guy will fault.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Then you've got a real problem.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
But you're going to let essentially traffic be held up
for over an hour long.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It's the standoff is continuing right now.
Speaker 14 (25:08):
We've been watching this playoffs fifteen minutes or so, but
there hasn't been a long What's that? Is it off
of the freeway or is it along the surface streets
as long?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I believe it's long service streets, right, that's my sense
of it. And the reason I don't really know is
because the shot that was on television just didn't you know,
it didn't show you. It was kind of a tighter shot,
so I couldn't really tell, but it looked to me
like it was long surface streets. But I get it
if it was a freeway situation, but even more egregious.
But all I'm trying to say is, I mean, you've
got to get this guy off of here. And I
(25:39):
don't understand why. It's this is the problem that law
enforcement faces, that society faces, that you know, the mental
health professionals face. It's this weird side show that we
have to indulge in society.
Speaker 14 (25:56):
We've been watching this play out for the last ten
fifteen minutes or so, but there hasn't been a lot
of movement. At one point we saw him make his
way just a couple of rings higher, but as far
as we can tell, he's kind of remained at the
same height.
Speaker 13 (26:12):
Clearly a concern about this person's mental well being here.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
All right, We'll keep a watch on.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
This for you.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
As I said earlier, more than is when we come back.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, Christine Devine and Marla, I I if it were
a bear what would you do if it's a bear, beauty, Yeah,
that's exactly right, man, it's a bear, you would set
up maybe one of those inflatable things, you'd shoot it,
and of course it would miss the inflatable thing. That's
(26:40):
exactly what would happen if we were to try to
do this with an animal. Extraordinary. You've probably heard that
the much anticipated interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and
her running mate Tim Walls. It will be Thursday, six
(27:01):
o'clock our time. The apparently it's going to be a
I guess it's gonna be like an hour long conversation.
But this has been a drum beat as you know,
like when is she going to do this? When is
she going to do a sit down? And so apparently
(27:24):
she had said she'd do it before the end of
the month. The end of the month is here, and
she's going to do the sit down with Wald. I
don't know how it's going to work out with Walls
and you know, one chair and her and the other
or if it's a I don't know how it's configured.
But Dana Bash, the CNN anchor who co moderated the
debate in June between President Biden and former President Trump
(27:49):
will conduct that interview. All of you who are haters, look,
Dana Bash got rid of one Democratic candidate.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Maybe it'll happen again.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
But those of you who love Kamala Harris and feel
as though she is the future, this is her first
chance to make some kind of impression.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
In a one on one interview with Dana Bash. Then,
of course, the.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Debate, as it's called, it's really a television show, right,
it's a media event. We call it a debate, but
you know, not much happens. It's very important, don't get
me wrong, But we call it a debate, it's not
really that. It's somewhere between a game show and a
media event and a debate. Anyway, that's September tenth, and
today a former President Trump agreed to those specifics associated
(28:42):
with the ABC debate, So that'll happen September tenth. So
you're up to speed on everybody. Top of ticket. Next hour,
I believe is an next Chris is going to come
through and talk about this sofi situation that he experienced. Yeah, okay,
that'll happen next hour and two lottery tickets sold in
(29:03):
Southern California worth two million dollars. That's not the big
story associated with them. I will tell you the story
associated with them next hour. Also, last thing, major documentary
on Christopher Reeve. Christopher Reeve was the guy who played Superman.
Of course, suffered that near fatal accident. There's now a
(29:26):
documentary coming out all about him, and we'll have that
trailer for you to hear. Much to Do on The
Conway Show. Mark Thompson is sitting in for Tim on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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