August 30, 2024 • 34 mins
Authorities respond to stabbing on Metro bus in South L.A. // Doctor charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s death appears in court after plea deal // Leah Remini Files for Divorce from Husband of 21 Years, Angelo Pagán // Bill to put up speed cameras on PCH in Malibu heads to Governor’s desk // Robbery near Langer’s Deli raises safety concerns as owner considers closing eatery // Updated COVID vaccine now available across SoCal, what you need to know // Boar's Head facility that had mold, mildew and bugs linked to listeria outbreak; records show. Insects in meats, rancid smell in cooler among findings of Boar's Head plant investigation
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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):
Mark Thompson in for Conway, who returns next week. We've
got Krozier. Lindsay's been amazing today producing hustling, really hustling.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
She's killing it. She really is. I'll tell you what.
I'm so very impressed.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And Angel, of course watching all things traffic related. I
will say that I was going to do this story
about what happened on the metro I mean, there was
a metro bus stabbing and this fifty something year old
guy I believe was was wounded with a stab wound
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to the neck and the suspect in the stabbing was
on a metro bus and by the time the cops
got there, the suspect had fled. So I kind of thought, well,
you know, probably not going to catch the guy who
they've made an arrest.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
A seventy year old man has been arrested.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I don't have a lot of details, but the cops
described the suspect as a seventy year old man with
a knee brace. They must have I guess, looked at
closed circuit stuff or work from witness accounts, but somehow.
I mean, it happened in the afternoon. It happened broad daylight,
(01:24):
the left of two o'clock. Man, when I'm seventy, I
think my stabbing days are going to be way done.
Like I'm just not I can't imagine that level of derangement.
But this is the problem. You know, on metro buses,
people just don't feel safe. An instance like this don't
help anyway. It's great that the cops made an arrest.
(01:47):
I'm really impressed because, as I say, once the suspect runs,
I didn't know how they would catch up to the suspect,
but they did, and arrest has been made on the
other side of town Matthew Perry. This case bizarre, shad
and extensive. One of the doctors and one of the
key people involved is this doctor Mark Chavez from San Diego. Well,
(02:11):
he was in court.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
He is now one of three people who have agreed
to plead guilty to try and help the government unravel
what led up to actor Matthew Perry's death.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Mark chav is doing everything he can.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Let's cooperated with the government.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
He's guilty and he's remorseful. What is he accepting.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Responsibility for conspiracy distribute a keademy.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Fifty four year old doctor Mark Chavez, that's him in
the blue shirt and glasses, arraigned in LA federal court
today in connection with the ketamine overdose death of actor
Matthew Perry.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
We're incredibly sorry that someone lost their life. It doesn't
matter that he was a famous celebrity, and I know
that he was incredibly universally loved by all, and it's
a shame of what happened here. But he's incredibly remorseful
that at the end of the day, someone who's trying
to seek treatment died.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean the reality is, though, that Chavez was just
really just one link in this chain of people who
were taking advantage of a guy who had a serious addiction. Right,
Matthew Perry desperate for this ketamine stuff, and those around
Matthew Perry were desperate to take advantage of Matthew Perry
and his fortune. So you saw the numbers who was
(03:24):
paying literally eleven thousand dollars to get ketamine that cost
them less than two hundred, not to mention this addiction
that would kill him. But the surrounding constellation of characters
is filled with people who are all predatory, really taking
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advantage of him.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
His defense attorney says Chavez is cooperating with federal investigators
and has admitted that he created false prescriptions to get
the kennemine supplied to Perry.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
My client is accepting responsibility. He's doing everything in his
power to cooperate to help in this situation.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Chavez has agreed to plete guilty to one count of
conspiracy to distribute kenemy and help federal prosecutors as they
now focus on Jazz being Sanghai nicknamed the Ketemine Queen,
and doctor Salvador Placentia, who was charged with illegally selling
ketemine to Perry.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And as I was telling you the other day, she
is like the rock star of drugs, you know, partying
with celebrities. She was I think a very high profile
kind of one of those Instagram type partiers, living life
out loud, her big bang in life, and it was
(04:45):
being fueled by this essentially this torrent of illegal drugs
that she was supplying to a lot of people. So
she became a distributor of all of this stuff that
ended up in part being the stuff that killed Matthew Carroll.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
At one point, mocking Perry in a text saying, I
wonder how much this moron will pay.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
There are other defendants in this case that have not
entered into a guilty plea, so since the case is ongoing,
it wouldn't be appropriate for myself or my clients to
make any statements about the case.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
As part of his plea agreement, Chavez will surrender his
medical license and still could face up to ten years
in federal prison. All right, The next step for Chavez
he will be back in federal court to formally plead
guilty to the charge, but so far no date has
been set for that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So again, after ten years, after a guilty plea, he
could get ten years. So even with his deal, this
is a pretty serious and steep incarceration turn that he's
looking at. And he's just really one part of this all. So,
as mentioned in that piece, doctor Salvador Placentia and this
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Jazz Vne Sanga and those pleas are in and they're
not guilty. Please, they're going to trial. So Perry, the
sad victim of a situation that involved kettamine. And kettamine,
I guess is prescribed and is legally used as a
treatment for depression. It's increasingly common apparently, but with an
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addict as Perry was, they had essentially someone who was
wealthy and had a limitless appetite for this stuff. Really sad.
I wonder how much this moron will pay. I can't
believe she said that, you know, I mean, it just
so speaks to the predatory nature the whole thing. Anyway,
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this guy who was a high profile, beloved actor, struggled
with addiction for years, ultimately succumbed to that addiction. And
now the root back to all the people who are
involved is an extensive one. It's a really extensive one.
Leah Remini has made her divorce official. She and her
(07:14):
husband splitting after twenty one years of marriage. She's fifty
four years old. She filed for divorce from her entrepreneur
husband irreconcilable differences.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
So how long were they married?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Twenty one years?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
So that was during the period when she was in
the whole scientology thing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh my god, Yes, he has to be as scientist.
He had to be in the church as they call it. Yeah,
because she was there as a kid.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh that she grew up in the church.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Yeah, yeah, she did a whole documentary about it, Like,
so just real quick. So I was when I was
trying to get into the industry. I actually tried to
get a job as an assistant to the agent who
represented her. And she would tell me how everyone when
The King of Queens took off, like by the second
(08:02):
or third season, everyone was going to the Bahamas and traveling,
and she would go home and do.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Homework for scientology.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, it was insane. I was.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I was approached to take a part in a movie
about l Ron Hubbard because apparently I looked just like
him when he was younger.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
No kidding, Oh wow, I was in I was in
the odd brag, but yeah, I was.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I went down to their main church of Scientologe building
in Hollywood, and I was in the lobby and I
had more than a couple of people. As I was
sitting in the in the waiting room or whatever to
go back, a couple people would walk by me, stop
and then back up and look at me again. And
I was like this, what why are people looking at
me at this? And I go into the room and
they explained to me, oh, we're making this sort of
biography about l Ron and they pull out this gigantic
(08:49):
book and they leave it open and they showed me
this picture of him like on a boat, like a
captain's hat from like Gillian's Island, and it looked.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Just like me, Wow, very creepy. Luck you l r
oh you did not get it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Did Elvron wear the mesh tank tops and cut off shorts?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Also?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Okay, it was very sailor theme. So yes, he was
a sailor.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I think.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, he's got that whole or the best part of scientology.
They've got a part of their it's a division of
Scientology is Sea Org. You go there and you pledge
working with the Sea Org people for I think it's
a million years literally. Yeah, they had like they liked
those over the top contracts. I get apparently, but that's
(09:36):
wild didn't Yeah, so so he had to be in it.
I don't know if you fell out of it at
the same time she did. But Leah Remini obviously has
made her another name for herself now really exposing scientology
is what she would say. And that's an award winning
documentary series she did on A and E.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I believe it's on A and E. I think so
on I think you can watch on Hulu hud. I
think so.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Anyway, she's splitting with her husband and so that makes news.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
She's got a name available.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh yeah, look at you, mister lrih lookalike.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Maybe you give her a call.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty her.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Labor Day weekend. I know you'll be traveling. I just
mentioned a major thoroughfare. I mean, this is just one
we're up and down all the time, and that is PCH.
You know the thing about PCH around Malibu and just generally,
but this is particularly taking place around Malibu. The deaths
of those those kids, four kids, it was an inflection moment.
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And you know PCH and Malibu is plagued and talked
plagued by problems and talked about is having all.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Of these issues right?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And then there are these inflection moments like that one
incident where four Pepperdine students were killed last year, and
that brings to a head a lot of these things
that are talked about all the time, the danger of PCH.
People drive too fast. There are a lot of intoxicated
drivers on PCH. Mean, after all, people are stopping at restaurants,
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and various After a day at the beach, even you
may run into drivers who've had a couple of pops.
In any case, they put up center divider. You know
how the changes if you've lived in southern California for
any length of time, those changes on PCH are all
designed to handle what is an ongoing feeling among Malibu
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residents that PCH is more dangerous than it should be.
So now a bill to put speed cameras on PCH
is out of the California legislature and now on the
desk of Gavin Newsom. The bill was written in the
wake of that deadly crash it was. They call it
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dead Man's Curve. There a stretch of road they're in
Malibu on PCH and four pedestrians. There were students at
Pepperdine hit and killed by a speeding driver. The driver
was a twenty two year old kid, and he was
arrested and later charged. Anyway, these deaths led to calls
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from Malibu residents and those who were loved ones of
those four who passed away to increase safety measures on
this stretch of highway. So those speed cameras, it's hoped,
will help just reduce the danger. Five cameras are going
to be placed along a twenty one mile stretch of PCH.
(12:44):
They'll go up in strategic locations that have been identified
as high risk, those that have had historically the highest
incidents of speed related accidents and fatalities. And supporters of
this camera system hope that it'll tourist beating and reduce traffic.
You know, people already drive. And I know this because
I used to live there in Malibu, and I used
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to always say to people who are leaving my place,
it's not fifty five. That's not the PCH speed limit.
It's forty five. But and it depends exactly where you
are in on PCH, but in Malibu it's forty five for.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
The most part.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And speed cameras in other areas have helped to reduce fatalities.
So when you look at data from other areas, cameras
that are in spots that have a high incidence of
fatalities do help reduce collisions and those fatalities. It's a
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big move. It's past the legislature, as I say, and
it will go to Gavin Newsom's desk and will likely
be signed. It's I think one of the most beautiful
drives in all of America. Along PCH looking out onto
the Pacific Ocean, it's spectacular. And you know, if you've
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lived here a long time, you can take it for granted.
You know, you've heard Tim Tim and I go around
on this thing because he grew up here and I
grew up dreaming to live here. And there's just a
sense that and I think Tim would also recognize how
great piece, you know, the ocean is and all the rest.
But when we talk about problems, I'm more I'm more
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prone to tell you, yeah, but even with our problems,
it's a pretty terrific place to live. And Tim is,
I think in general like, yeah, but we got to
solve these problems, which I agree to as well. I'm
just saying you may lose track if you've been here
a long time with how great it is to live here.
So on PCH you're taking this magnificent ride down a
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spectacular piece of road where you're looking out on one
of the great vistas that's instantly changing with the ocean
and the sun and the moon that's reflected off the water,
and you can lose track of also how dangerous it is.
So I'm hoping that with these speed cameras going up
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in Malibu, it can become a little bit safer. So
many people want it to be that gorgeous piece of
road without or at least reducing the danger. If you
can't eliminate it when we come back. I can't believe this.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
A.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I mean, Langer's Deli has been in the news. Langer's
Delhi has been in the news for a lot of
reasons associated with crime and MacArthur Park and cutting off
Wilshire Boulevard and increasing the Gytha Park. We talked about
last few days, Norm Langer meeting with the mayor. You'll
never believe who ran into Langer's Deli. Lea Remedi hmm,
(16:01):
you're cold, You're cold, but keep the guesses coming. I'll
have the story next.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
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Speaker 2 (16:13):
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Speaker 3 (16:17):
Now? Who's she dating? Steffus? Do you follow that? The romantic.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Travails of all of these various pop stars, isn't she
I think she's been four the guy I played Thor
Is that right? I think so?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Oh wow, Kurry, I don't know if she's still with
no Thor is married, but she's dating Max wrong?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Wasn't she dating Hemsworth?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
The other brother?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Oh strong, very strong. You get all the power of
Thor without all the paparazzi. Yeah, very well done. It's
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. The the Langer's
Deli controversy that is sort of unfolded for a while,
but this week there was a crescendo.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You know, you got that Norm Langer and the mayor meeting.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And Norm Langer's point position is simple, too much crime
in MacArthur Park and it's spilling over into my business.
And this area needs a cleanup. It needs a physical cleanup,
and it needs more police patrol, and it needs essentially
a setup that will make people feel secure down here.
And then that spills over into other policies like expanding
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MacArthur Park, cutting off Wilshire Boulevard, all of that. So
Langer's essential position was, well, if you do that, all
you're doing is expanding a lot of the bad stuff
that exists in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
By making MacArthur park bigger.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Great if you want to do something, but why don't
you clean up MacArthur Park first, reduce the crime threat
that exists now, and then you can do your increasing
the size of the park stuff. So essentially that so
it's against that backdrop that he met with the mayor.
And now after all of that and Langer Langer's Deli,
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he was talking about closing it. See things don't clean
up down here, we can't continue because my customers have
to feel secure. So yesterday around one thirty in the afternoon,
and you know that place is packed for lunch, Langers,
a woman runs in. She was fleeing an assailant. She
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was assaulted and robbed near Langer's Deli on Alvarado. The
assailant took a chain from her. According to the cops,
she was on the way to meet her daughter at
a store when she's confronted by this guy near MacArthur
Park and she fights the guy off. Both of them
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fall to the ground. The attacker runs off with the necklace,
and the woman walking by the deli in distress, crying,
talking on the phone trying to get some attention. The
customer noticed her and said, come into the restaurant, come
into Langers to calm down. So she goes into Langers
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and sits at a table in the corner, and a
Deli employee helped her, calmed her down, gave her water
while they waited for the cops to arrive. He said,
Norm Langer did, We've never seen anything like this before
in here. My customers, for all intents and purposes, are
safe coming from the parking lot. There was somebody who
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was eating at Languers at the time who actually posted
a photo of the woman at the restaurant and incorrectly said, Hey,
the robbery happened inside the Delhi, but that's not what happened.
It happened outside, and she actually ran into the Delhi
or walked into the Delhi to get away.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So weird that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
This happens on the very week that Langers is very
much in the news and Norm Langer literally met with
the mayor to talk about the future of MacArthur Park.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Pretty wild and that.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Is a to be continued situation because obviously the mayors
want to cut off Wheelshair and expand MacArthur Park, but
that is going to have to accompany a plan to
make the MacArthur Park area and that entire area more secure.
There's a new covid vaccine. I know, don't It's hey,
(20:34):
it's fresh, it still has the new smell. It's fresh
out of the lab today.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Wand the last kis rolled up his sleeves for the
flu shot as Maria of Huntington Park is getting the
new covid vaccine. What they don't realize is that they
can save time and get them together.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
The CDC actually confirmed that it's safe to.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Get both CBS pharmacists and district leader Alexi. He says
in terms of side effects, it's nice to get them
both out of the way at the same time.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
I had a little bit of arm soreness, but I
was still able to go to the gym. Still, I
was still able to be like physically active. This new
updated formulation of the code vaccine is actually targeting the
KP two strain.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Unlike the flu vaccine. You can get boosters of the
seasonal covid shots as long as it's been at least
two months since your last injection and a few months
since your last infection.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
If you just had covid, your body actually still has
community for about three months.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, that's my brag.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I just had it six weeks ago, not even right
within the last month I've had COVID, so I can Yeah,
I can peekcock about it for about two more months.
Then I got to go get the VACS.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
So it's recommended after three months if you had COVID
to now get the vaccine.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
What if you want to go traveling in December, if
you get it now, can you go ahead and get
it before you get on a plane.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
I would get it at least two weeks before traveling,
just to make sure that the vaccine is fully effective.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
But if you're eligible right now, experts say, don't wait,
because we're in between the end of the summer COVID
surge and their traditional win through wave of cold and flu.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And plus you got that flirt. The new.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Variant is called flirt. It's the old variant. Oh, it's
there's a new newer.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Yes, more contagious.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
The first reported cases came from Germany. It's called the XEC.
I don't know if they say it as a name,
but it's the XEC variant.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Wow, the Mercedes Benz of variants right off of a
factory floor in Germany.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Far more contagious than the flirt, which has been just
wrecking the place.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, I mean that's the way I think I had.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I got flirt, And well, I wonder if now I'm
susceptible because maybe I only I had the last variant.
This new variant could swim past my I'm sorry, could
swim past my. What are the immunity? Is what I'm
trying to is the word I was looking for? My
immune system? Anyway, leave me out of it. COVID vaccines,
(22:54):
brand new, are available at a pharmacy near you.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
The goal is to really make sure we're preventing serious
outcomes such as hospitalization and deaf.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Even though the CDC Bridge program has ended, the Department
of Health and Human Services says COVID nineteen vaccines are
one hundred percent free for people living in the US.
You can go to vaccines dot gov to find a
provider near you, even if you don't have insurance, and
if you did want to pay out of pocket, the
cash price is two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, I tell you what it's not absolutely free in
the US is the COVID tests. Because every time we
have sniffles in my house, we go get COVID tests
and now we have a bunch of them in the
cupboard and they they're not cheap.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I mean, the good ones aren't cheap. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Anyway, congratulations on the new COVID vaccine if you just
got it. The updated COVID nineteen vaccine now available at
pharmacies across southern California.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
You know what, kind of like what you were saying
about getting the new ones. Now, the health official has
been saying that September and October obviously the best times
to get them, but if you can wait a little
bit like further into October, you got a better chance
of being covered. As we get into the holiday seasons
around December, it will still be stronger in you.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh yeah, good, good good. Yeah. Timing is everything on this.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But you've got to factor in your travel plans too,
because you're in all those congregte settings in airports and airplanes.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
And holiday parties and yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, and there's a lot to think about when you're
you're thinking, you're about your COVID future. But I get
that flu vaccine every year, you know, so when they
hoole vax controversy hit, I'm think, no, I don't know
I get the flu vaccine every year.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I know whether the works or not, but.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Never got in the flu vaccine.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, there you go. That's the yen and the yend.
That's why we love each other. When we come back,
you'll never forget. You'll never believe, and you'll never forget
what they found at the Boreshead facility.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You know there was that big.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Recall of the deli meat, and wow, when you hear
what they found at the facility, you'll understand why there
was a recall.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
A boar. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. Steffush is working the tunes.
He's what do they call it, a sound engineer, you
call sound design.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I actually really like that. I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, but your tunes have been on point today and
they still say on point.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
They sure do. Okay, I've got it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Once in a while, sort of check my phraseology to
see if some of what I'm saying is still cool.
Most of what I'm saying is not cool, and you
know it's weird. I'm going to share this with you, Steffush,
particularly because you're you know, you're a guy who's still cool.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh you kind of have to.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Stay cool because it just happens that one day you
wake up and you're not cool anymore, and nothing you
say is cool, and you know, you know it as
you get older, and then they're exceptions, and I think
like you might actually be an exception. I think Krozier's
kind of got one foot in being an exception because
you know, when you have kids, too, they sort of
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keep you hipper, they keep you a little more connected
to what's going on in pop culture.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Yeah, I would know nothing about K pop it if
it weren't for my daughter.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
So I mean, there it is, you know, yeah, I
can see that.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And you get somebody like Clive Davis, you know, like
the you know, the incredibly legendary music person. And if
you're in music, I feel like you're automatically if you're
still connected to the music industry, getting that, it's far
easier to kind of stay connected to that world because
I feel like the music world is where a lot
(26:33):
of that stuff happens. The hipness, you know, the trends,
cultural trends come out of the music business, I think
a lot of the time, but anyway, I am mad
respect and your and your tunes are on point.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So the recall that hit the bores Head meat world
was substantial. I mean they recalled a ton of meat
and boar's head is the high end stuff. You know,
you go into the store, you order at the boar's Head,
that's costing you more. You presume that everything at the
Boarshead facility is going to be super clean, super to code,
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and everything's going to be even a cut above. You know,
it's the first class between you know, first class and
coach when it comes to ordering delling meat, well, the
facility is a mess.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
Mold and mildew near hand washing, sinks, flies, near a
vada of pickles, amps traveling down a wall. Just a
few of the violations. Inspectors found out a Virginia plant
tied to the largest lasteria outbreak in more than a decade,
and the CDC now says at least nine people have died,
dozens more have been hospitalized. CBS News correspondent Alan Keyhana
(27:47):
is following the latest for us Elane. Pretty disturbing. What
else did inspectors find there and how is the company responding?
Speaker 12 (27:53):
Yeah, eye opening Indeed, colleague Alex Tin out of Washington
has been probing what happened at that Virginia planned a
head of the Lasteria outbreak, and newly released records obtained
by him for CBS News show that US Department of
Agriculture inspectors, in addition to what you mentioned, also discovered
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things like a number of issues with leaking and pooling water,
a puddle found to have quote green algal growth inside,
and condensation that was found to be dripping over product
being held. Number of records, as you mentioned, discussed the
sighting of insects in and around deli meats, including one
instance that prompted the agency to tag where the nine
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hundred and eighty pounds of ham in a smokehoust smokehouse hallway?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
What, oh my god, pounds of ham? How many pounds
of ham did you say.
Speaker 12 (28:45):
For the nine hundred and eighty pounds of ham in
a smokehoust smokehouse hallway to be retained for an investigation?
All in all, we are talking about nearly seventy so
sixty nine violations documented according to this newly obtained set
of information that Alexton was able to get.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, here's the story on this and why it's so serious.
I mean, it affected a ton of people. This isn't
like some you know, sometimes the issue a recall and
it has yet to affect anyone. But this was the
biggest outbreak of listeria I think since the early two thousands.
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It's involved fifty seven hospitalizations in eighteen states. At least
nine people have died from this stuff. South Carolina, Illinois,
New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, New Mexico, and New York.
(29:45):
That's where people were killed. But obviously the boarshead meet
distribution extends well beyond that. But when you hear this
laundry list of stuff that's going on at their factory,
it's no wonder And.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
What it paints is a picture of numerous kinds of
instances with cleanliness issues at that Jarrett, Virginia plant now Boreshead.
As a result of this lasteria outbreak has recalled more
than seven million pounds of deli meat, and in a statement,
a spokesperson said.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Quote how many pounds?
Speaker 12 (30:22):
More than seven million pounds of deli meat.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
And that is a lot of Deli meat, seven million
pounds corrupted by everything that we've heard out of that factory.
It's no wonder that this listaria outbreak was as widespread
as it was.
Speaker 12 (30:40):
More than seven million pounds of Deli meat, and in
a statement, a spokesperson said, quote, food safety is our
absolute priority.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, I can tell. I can tell clearly. Food safety
is your absolute priority.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
Food safety is our absolute priority.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I mean they found it was a huge petri dish.
This Deli production factory. Unbelievable. I mean, what they have
detailed are things so grotesque that just to listen to
them makes you sick. To actually consume the meat with
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mold and leaks of algal growth and insects. I mean,
people are eating this stuff. It's no wonder. I'm sorry,
but the statement that you care about safety and cleanliness
at your factory that doesn't exactly track with recent history.
Speaker 12 (31:40):
Food safety is our absolute priority, adding that the team
immediately addressed all issues that inspectors raised. But one open
question is whether or not.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Bored all issues that inspectors raised.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
They raise sixty nine different things that were going on there,
everything from insects to algole growth to mold. I'd say
that the company acted responsibly were it not for the
fact that nine people died.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I mean, what choice do you have at that point.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
But one open question is whether or not Bar's head
is going to be facing any kind of penalties from
the USDA for repeat issues At this point. We have
posed that question to USDA officials. We are waiting to
hear back. But according to reports published by USDA itself,
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so far, there have not been any records of enforcement
actions taken against the company in the past year and
lindsay that is the same timeframe approximately where these nearly
seventy so sixty nine violations have been discovered.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Well, here is what is going to happen. They are
going to have civil suits, which is an awfully poor
way to actually hold the company responsible, But they will
get civil suits that will be launched by the families
of the nine victims and others who are sickened by this.
But as I say, it's sadly in America, one of
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the few ways that you can get some kind of
justice as you hold the feet of the company to
the fire legally, But it takes forever to do it,
and it takes money to do it, and it doesn't
bring back those people who were I mean, this is obscene.
What was going on in these plants anyway. That's the
latest though. Inspectors with dozens of violations at this bores
(33:33):
headplant in Virginia, and that's the thing that they link
to this nationwide recall of Deli meats. So when we
come back, all states get some good news for them,
bad news for us. Mark Thompson Here for Tim Conway
Junior on KFI AM sixty. We're live everywhere on the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Mark Thompson in for Conway, who returns next week. We've
got Krozier. Lindsay's been amazing today producing hustling, really hustling.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
She's killing it. She really is. I'll tell you what.
I'm so very impressed.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And Angel, of course watching all things traffic related. I
will say that I was going to do this story
about what happened on the metro I mean, there was
a metro bus stabbing and this fifty something year old
guy I believe was was wounded with a stab wound
(00:42):
to the neck and the suspect in the stabbing was
on a metro bus and by the time the cops
got there, the suspect had fled. So I kind of thought, well,
you know, probably not going to catch the guy who
they've made an arrest.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
A seventy year old man has been arrested.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I don't have a lot of details, but the cops
described the suspect as a seventy year old man with
a knee brace. They must have I guess, looked at
closed circuit stuff or work from witness accounts, but somehow.
I mean, it happened in the afternoon. It happened broad daylight,
(01:24):
the left of two o'clock. Man, when I'm seventy, I
think my stabbing days are going to be way done.
Like I'm just not I can't imagine that level of derangement.
But this is the problem. You know, on metro buses,
people just don't feel safe. An instance like this don't
help anyway. It's great that the cops made an arrest.
(01:47):
I'm really impressed because, as I say, once the suspect runs,
I didn't know how they would catch up to the suspect,
but they did, and arrest has been made on the
other side of town Matthew Perry. This case bizarre, shad
and extensive. One of the doctors and one of the
key people involved is this doctor Mark Chavez from San Diego. Well,
(02:11):
he was in court.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
He is now one of three people who have agreed
to plead guilty to try and help the government unravel
what led up to actor Matthew Perry's death.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Mark chav is doing everything he can.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Let's cooperated with the government.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
He's guilty and he's remorseful. What is he accepting.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Responsibility for conspiracy distribute a keademy.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Fifty four year old doctor Mark Chavez, that's him in
the blue shirt and glasses, arraigned in LA federal court
today in connection with the ketamine overdose death of actor
Matthew Perry.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
We're incredibly sorry that someone lost their life. It doesn't
matter that he was a famous celebrity, and I know
that he was incredibly universally loved by all, and it's
a shame of what happened here. But he's incredibly remorseful
that at the end of the day, someone who's trying
to seek treatment died.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean the reality is, though, that Chavez was just
really just one link in this chain of people who
were taking advantage of a guy who had a serious addiction. Right,
Matthew Perry desperate for this ketamine stuff, and those around
Matthew Perry were desperate to take advantage of Matthew Perry
and his fortune. So you saw the numbers who was
(03:24):
paying literally eleven thousand dollars to get ketamine that cost
them less than two hundred, not to mention this addiction
that would kill him. But the surrounding constellation of characters
is filled with people who are all predatory, really taking
(03:46):
advantage of him.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
His defense attorney says Chavez is cooperating with federal investigators
and has admitted that he created false prescriptions to get
the kennemine supplied to Perry.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
My client is accepting responsibility. He's doing everything in his
power to cooperate to help in this situation.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Chavez has agreed to plete guilty to one count of
conspiracy to distribute kenemy and help federal prosecutors as they
now focus on Jazz being Sanghai nicknamed the Ketemine Queen,
and doctor Salvador Placentia, who was charged with illegally selling
ketemine to Perry.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And as I was telling you the other day, she
is like the rock star of drugs, you know, partying
with celebrities. She was I think a very high profile
kind of one of those Instagram type partiers, living life
out loud, her big bang in life, and it was
(04:45):
being fueled by this essentially this torrent of illegal drugs
that she was supplying to a lot of people. So
she became a distributor of all of this stuff that
ended up in part being the stuff that killed Matthew Carroll.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
At one point, mocking Perry in a text saying, I
wonder how much this moron will pay.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
There are other defendants in this case that have not
entered into a guilty plea, so since the case is ongoing,
it wouldn't be appropriate for myself or my clients to
make any statements about the case.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
As part of his plea agreement, Chavez will surrender his
medical license and still could face up to ten years
in federal prison. All right, The next step for Chavez
he will be back in federal court to formally plead
guilty to the charge, but so far no date has
been set for that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So again, after ten years, after a guilty plea, he
could get ten years. So even with his deal, this
is a pretty serious and steep incarceration turn that he's
looking at. And he's just really one part of this all. So,
as mentioned in that piece, doctor Salvador Placentia and this
(06:01):
Jazz Vne Sanga and those pleas are in and they're
not guilty. Please, they're going to trial. So Perry, the
sad victim of a situation that involved kettamine. And kettamine,
I guess is prescribed and is legally used as a
treatment for depression. It's increasingly common apparently, but with an
(06:25):
addict as Perry was, they had essentially someone who was
wealthy and had a limitless appetite for this stuff. Really sad.
I wonder how much this moron will pay. I can't
believe she said that, you know, I mean, it just
so speaks to the predatory nature the whole thing. Anyway,
(06:49):
this guy who was a high profile, beloved actor, struggled
with addiction for years, ultimately succumbed to that addiction. And
now the root back to all the people who are
involved is an extensive one. It's a really extensive one.
Leah Remini has made her divorce official. She and her
(07:14):
husband splitting after twenty one years of marriage. She's fifty
four years old. She filed for divorce from her entrepreneur
husband irreconcilable differences.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
So how long were they married?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Twenty one years?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
So that was during the period when she was in
the whole scientology thing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh my god, Yes, he has to be as scientist.
He had to be in the church as they call it. Yeah,
because she was there as a kid.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh that she grew up in the church.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Yeah, yeah, she did a whole documentary about it, Like,
so just real quick. So I was when I was
trying to get into the industry. I actually tried to
get a job as an assistant to the agent who
represented her. And she would tell me how everyone when
The King of Queens took off, like by the second
(08:02):
or third season, everyone was going to the Bahamas and traveling,
and she would go home and do.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Homework for scientology.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, it was insane. I was.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I was approached to take a part in a movie
about l Ron Hubbard because apparently I looked just like
him when he was younger.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
No kidding, Oh wow, I was in I was in
the odd brag, but yeah, I was.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I went down to their main church of Scientologe building
in Hollywood, and I was in the lobby and I
had more than a couple of people. As I was
sitting in the in the waiting room or whatever to
go back, a couple people would walk by me, stop
and then back up and look at me again. And
I was like this, what why are people looking at
me at this? And I go into the room and
they explained to me, oh, we're making this sort of
biography about l Ron and they pull out this gigantic
(08:49):
book and they leave it open and they showed me
this picture of him like on a boat, like a
captain's hat from like Gillian's Island, and it looked.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Just like me, Wow, very creepy. Luck you l r
oh you did not get it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Did Elvron wear the mesh tank tops and cut off shorts?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Also?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Okay, it was very sailor theme. So yes, he was
a sailor.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I think.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, he's got that whole or the best part of scientology.
They've got a part of their it's a division of
Scientology is Sea Org. You go there and you pledge
working with the Sea Org people for I think it's
a million years literally. Yeah, they had like they liked
those over the top contracts. I get apparently, but that's
(09:36):
wild didn't Yeah, so so he had to be in it.
I don't know if you fell out of it at
the same time she did. But Leah Remini obviously has
made her another name for herself now really exposing scientology
is what she would say. And that's an award winning
documentary series she did on A and E.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I believe it's on A and E. I think so
on I think you can watch on Hulu hud. I
think so.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Anyway, she's splitting with her husband and so that makes news.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
She's got a name available.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh yeah, look at you, mister lrih lookalike.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Maybe you give her a call.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty her.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Labor Day weekend. I know you'll be traveling. I just
mentioned a major thoroughfare. I mean, this is just one
we're up and down all the time, and that is PCH.
You know the thing about PCH around Malibu and just generally,
but this is particularly taking place around Malibu. The deaths
of those those kids, four kids, it was an inflection moment.
(10:40):
And you know PCH and Malibu is plagued and talked
plagued by problems and talked about is having all.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Of these issues right?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And then there are these inflection moments like that one
incident where four Pepperdine students were killed last year, and
that brings to a head a lot of these things
that are talked about all the time, the danger of PCH.
People drive too fast. There are a lot of intoxicated
drivers on PCH. Mean, after all, people are stopping at restaurants,
(11:10):
and various After a day at the beach, even you
may run into drivers who've had a couple of pops.
In any case, they put up center divider. You know
how the changes if you've lived in southern California for
any length of time, those changes on PCH are all
designed to handle what is an ongoing feeling among Malibu
(11:31):
residents that PCH is more dangerous than it should be.
So now a bill to put speed cameras on PCH
is out of the California legislature and now on the
desk of Gavin Newsom. The bill was written in the
wake of that deadly crash it was. They call it
(11:57):
dead Man's Curve. There a stretch of road they're in
Malibu on PCH and four pedestrians. There were students at
Pepperdine hit and killed by a speeding driver. The driver
was a twenty two year old kid, and he was
arrested and later charged. Anyway, these deaths led to calls
(12:20):
from Malibu residents and those who were loved ones of
those four who passed away to increase safety measures on
this stretch of highway. So those speed cameras, it's hoped,
will help just reduce the danger. Five cameras are going
to be placed along a twenty one mile stretch of PCH.
(12:44):
They'll go up in strategic locations that have been identified
as high risk, those that have had historically the highest
incidents of speed related accidents and fatalities. And supporters of
this camera system hope that it'll tourist beating and reduce traffic.
You know, people already drive. And I know this because
I used to live there in Malibu, and I used
(13:08):
to always say to people who are leaving my place,
it's not fifty five. That's not the PCH speed limit.
It's forty five. But and it depends exactly where you
are in on PCH, but in Malibu it's forty five for.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
The most part.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And speed cameras in other areas have helped to reduce fatalities.
So when you look at data from other areas, cameras
that are in spots that have a high incidence of
fatalities do help reduce collisions and those fatalities. It's a
(13:48):
big move. It's past the legislature, as I say, and
it will go to Gavin Newsom's desk and will likely
be signed. It's I think one of the most beautiful
drives in all of America. Along PCH looking out onto
the Pacific Ocean, it's spectacular. And you know, if you've
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lived here a long time, you can take it for granted.
You know, you've heard Tim Tim and I go around
on this thing because he grew up here and I
grew up dreaming to live here. And there's just a
sense that and I think Tim would also recognize how
great piece, you know, the ocean is and all the rest.
But when we talk about problems, I'm more I'm more
(14:33):
prone to tell you, yeah, but even with our problems,
it's a pretty terrific place to live. And Tim is,
I think in general like, yeah, but we got to
solve these problems, which I agree to as well. I'm
just saying you may lose track if you've been here
a long time with how great it is to live here.
So on PCH you're taking this magnificent ride down a
(14:54):
spectacular piece of road where you're looking out on one
of the great vistas that's instantly changing with the ocean
and the sun and the moon that's reflected off the water,
and you can lose track of also how dangerous it is.
So I'm hoping that with these speed cameras going up
(15:16):
in Malibu, it can become a little bit safer. So
many people want it to be that gorgeous piece of
road without or at least reducing the danger. If you
can't eliminate it when we come back. I can't believe this.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
A.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I mean, Langer's Deli has been in the news. Langer's
Delhi has been in the news for a lot of
reasons associated with crime and MacArthur Park and cutting off
Wilshire Boulevard and increasing the Gytha Park. We talked about
last few days, Norm Langer meeting with the mayor. You'll
never believe who ran into Langer's Deli. Lea Remedi hmm,
(16:01):
you're cold, You're cold, but keep the guesses coming. I'll
have the story next.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
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Speaker 2 (16:13):
Miley Cyrus, Wowicab. Who's she with?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Now? Who's she dating? Steffus? Do you follow that? The romantic.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Travails of all of these various pop stars, isn't she
I think she's been four the guy I played Thor
Is that right? I think so?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Oh wow, Kurry, I don't know if she's still with
no Thor is married, but she's dating Max wrong?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Wasn't she dating Hemsworth?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
The other brother?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Oh strong, very strong. You get all the power of
Thor without all the paparazzi. Yeah, very well done. It's
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. The the Langer's
Deli controversy that is sort of unfolded for a while,
but this week there was a crescendo.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You know, you got that Norm Langer and the mayor meeting.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And Norm Langer's point position is simple, too much crime
in MacArthur Park and it's spilling over into my business.
And this area needs a cleanup. It needs a physical cleanup,
and it needs more police patrol, and it needs essentially
a setup that will make people feel secure down here.
And then that spills over into other policies like expanding
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MacArthur Park, cutting off Wilshire Boulevard, all of that. So
Langer's essential position was, well, if you do that, all
you're doing is expanding a lot of the bad stuff
that exists in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
By making MacArthur park bigger.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Great if you want to do something, but why don't
you clean up MacArthur Park first, reduce the crime threat
that exists now, and then you can do your increasing
the size of the park stuff. So essentially that so
it's against that backdrop that he met with the mayor.
And now after all of that and Langer Langer's Deli,
(18:11):
he was talking about closing it. See things don't clean
up down here, we can't continue because my customers have
to feel secure. So yesterday around one thirty in the afternoon,
and you know that place is packed for lunch, Langers,
a woman runs in. She was fleeing an assailant. She
(18:34):
was assaulted and robbed near Langer's Deli on Alvarado. The
assailant took a chain from her. According to the cops,
she was on the way to meet her daughter at
a store when she's confronted by this guy near MacArthur
Park and she fights the guy off. Both of them
(18:56):
fall to the ground. The attacker runs off with the necklace,
and the woman walking by the deli in distress, crying,
talking on the phone trying to get some attention. The
customer noticed her and said, come into the restaurant, come
into Langers to calm down. So she goes into Langers
(19:18):
and sits at a table in the corner, and a
Deli employee helped her, calmed her down, gave her water
while they waited for the cops to arrive. He said,
Norm Langer did, We've never seen anything like this before
in here. My customers, for all intents and purposes, are
safe coming from the parking lot. There was somebody who
(19:40):
was eating at Languers at the time who actually posted
a photo of the woman at the restaurant and incorrectly said, Hey,
the robbery happened inside the Delhi, but that's not what happened.
It happened outside, and she actually ran into the Delhi
or walked into the Delhi to get away.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So weird that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
This happens on the very week that Langers is very
much in the news and Norm Langer literally met with
the mayor to talk about the future of MacArthur Park.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Pretty wild and that.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Is a to be continued situation because obviously the mayors
want to cut off Wheelshair and expand MacArthur Park, but
that is going to have to accompany a plan to
make the MacArthur Park area and that entire area more secure.
There's a new covid vaccine. I know, don't It's hey,
(20:34):
it's fresh, it still has the new smell. It's fresh
out of the lab today.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Wand the last kis rolled up his sleeves for the
flu shot as Maria of Huntington Park is getting the
new covid vaccine. What they don't realize is that they
can save time and get them together.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
The CDC actually confirmed that it's safe to.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Get both CBS pharmacists and district leader Alexi. He says
in terms of side effects, it's nice to get them
both out of the way at the same time.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
I had a little bit of arm soreness, but I
was still able to go to the gym. Still, I
was still able to be like physically active. This new
updated formulation of the code vaccine is actually targeting the
KP two strain.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Unlike the flu vaccine. You can get boosters of the
seasonal covid shots as long as it's been at least
two months since your last injection and a few months
since your last infection.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
If you just had covid, your body actually still has
community for about three months.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, that's my brag.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I just had it six weeks ago, not even right
within the last month I've had COVID, so I can Yeah,
I can peekcock about it for about two more months.
Then I got to go get the VACS.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
So it's recommended after three months if you had COVID
to now get the vaccine.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
What if you want to go traveling in December, if
you get it now, can you go ahead and get
it before you get on a plane.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
I would get it at least two weeks before traveling,
just to make sure that the vaccine is fully effective.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
But if you're eligible right now, experts say, don't wait,
because we're in between the end of the summer COVID
surge and their traditional win through wave of cold and flu.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And plus you got that flirt. The new.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Variant is called flirt. It's the old variant. Oh, it's
there's a new newer.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Yes, more contagious.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
The first reported cases came from Germany. It's called the XEC.
I don't know if they say it as a name,
but it's the XEC variant.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Wow, the Mercedes Benz of variants right off of a
factory floor in Germany.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Far more contagious than the flirt, which has been just
wrecking the place.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, I mean that's the way I think I had.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I got flirt, And well, I wonder if now I'm
susceptible because maybe I only I had the last variant.
This new variant could swim past my I'm sorry, could
swim past my. What are the immunity? Is what I'm
trying to is the word I was looking for? My
immune system? Anyway, leave me out of it. COVID vaccines,
(22:54):
brand new, are available at a pharmacy near you.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
The goal is to really make sure we're preventing serious
outcomes such as hospitalization and deaf.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Even though the CDC Bridge program has ended, the Department
of Health and Human Services says COVID nineteen vaccines are
one hundred percent free for people living in the US.
You can go to vaccines dot gov to find a
provider near you, even if you don't have insurance, and
if you did want to pay out of pocket, the
cash price is two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, I tell you what it's not absolutely free in
the US is the COVID tests. Because every time we
have sniffles in my house, we go get COVID tests
and now we have a bunch of them in the
cupboard and they they're not cheap.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I mean, the good ones aren't cheap. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Anyway, congratulations on the new COVID vaccine if you just
got it. The updated COVID nineteen vaccine now available at
pharmacies across southern California.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
You know what, kind of like what you were saying
about getting the new ones. Now, the health official has
been saying that September and October obviously the best times
to get them, but if you can wait a little
bit like further into October, you got a better chance
of being covered. As we get into the holiday seasons
around December, it will still be stronger in you.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh yeah, good, good good. Yeah. Timing is everything on this.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But you've got to factor in your travel plans too,
because you're in all those congregte settings in airports and airplanes.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
And holiday parties and yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, and there's a lot to think about when you're
you're thinking, you're about your COVID future. But I get
that flu vaccine every year, you know, so when they
hoole vax controversy hit, I'm think, no, I don't know
I get the flu vaccine every year.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I know whether the works or not, but.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Never got in the flu vaccine.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, there you go. That's the yen and the yend.
That's why we love each other. When we come back,
you'll never forget. You'll never believe, and you'll never forget
what they found at the Boreshead facility.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You know there was that big.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Recall of the deli meat, and wow, when you hear
what they found at the facility, you'll understand why there
was a recall.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
A boar. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. Steffush is working the tunes.
He's what do they call it, a sound engineer, you
call sound design.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I actually really like that. I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, but your tunes have been on point today and
they still say on point.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
They sure do. Okay, I've got it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Once in a while, sort of check my phraseology to
see if some of what I'm saying is still cool.
Most of what I'm saying is not cool, and you
know it's weird. I'm going to share this with you, Steffush,
particularly because you're you know, you're a guy who's still cool.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh you kind of have to.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Stay cool because it just happens that one day you
wake up and you're not cool anymore, and nothing you
say is cool, and you know, you know it as
you get older, and then they're exceptions, and I think
like you might actually be an exception. I think Krozier's
kind of got one foot in being an exception because
you know, when you have kids, too, they sort of
(26:02):
keep you hipper, they keep you a little more connected
to what's going on in pop culture.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Yeah, I would know nothing about K pop it if
it weren't for my daughter.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
So I mean, there it is, you know, yeah, I
can see that.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And you get somebody like Clive Davis, you know, like
the you know, the incredibly legendary music person. And if
you're in music, I feel like you're automatically if you're
still connected to the music industry, getting that, it's far
easier to kind of stay connected to that world because
I feel like the music world is where a lot
(26:33):
of that stuff happens. The hipness, you know, the trends,
cultural trends come out of the music business, I think
a lot of the time, but anyway, I am mad
respect and your and your tunes are on point.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So the recall that hit the bores Head meat world
was substantial. I mean they recalled a ton of meat
and boar's head is the high end stuff. You know,
you go into the store, you order at the boar's Head,
that's costing you more. You presume that everything at the
Boarshead facility is going to be super clean, super to code,
(27:11):
and everything's going to be even a cut above. You know,
it's the first class between you know, first class and
coach when it comes to ordering delling meat, well, the
facility is a mess.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
Mold and mildew near hand washing, sinks, flies, near a
vada of pickles, amps traveling down a wall. Just a
few of the violations. Inspectors found out a Virginia plant
tied to the largest lasteria outbreak in more than a decade,
and the CDC now says at least nine people have died,
dozens more have been hospitalized. CBS News correspondent Alan Keyhana
(27:47):
is following the latest for us Elane. Pretty disturbing. What
else did inspectors find there and how is the company responding?
Speaker 12 (27:53):
Yeah, eye opening Indeed, colleague Alex Tin out of Washington
has been probing what happened at that Virginia planned a
head of the Lasteria outbreak, and newly released records obtained
by him for CBS News show that US Department of
Agriculture inspectors, in addition to what you mentioned, also discovered
(28:13):
things like a number of issues with leaking and pooling water,
a puddle found to have quote green algal growth inside,
and condensation that was found to be dripping over product
being held. Number of records, as you mentioned, discussed the
sighting of insects in and around deli meats, including one
instance that prompted the agency to tag where the nine
(28:34):
hundred and eighty pounds of ham in a smokehoust smokehouse hallway?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
What, oh my god, pounds of ham? How many pounds
of ham did you say.
Speaker 12 (28:45):
For the nine hundred and eighty pounds of ham in
a smokehoust smokehouse hallway to be retained for an investigation?
All in all, we are talking about nearly seventy so
sixty nine violations documented according to this newly obtained set
of information that Alexton was able to get.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, here's the story on this and why it's so serious.
I mean, it affected a ton of people. This isn't
like some you know, sometimes the issue a recall and
it has yet to affect anyone. But this was the
biggest outbreak of listeria I think since the early two thousands.
(29:24):
It's involved fifty seven hospitalizations in eighteen states. At least
nine people have died from this stuff. South Carolina, Illinois,
New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, New Mexico, and New York.
(29:45):
That's where people were killed. But obviously the boarshead meet
distribution extends well beyond that. But when you hear this
laundry list of stuff that's going on at their factory,
it's no wonder And.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
What it paints is a picture of numerous kinds of
instances with cleanliness issues at that Jarrett, Virginia plant now Boreshead.
As a result of this lasteria outbreak has recalled more
than seven million pounds of deli meat, and in a statement,
a spokesperson said.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Quote how many pounds?
Speaker 12 (30:22):
More than seven million pounds of deli meat.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
And that is a lot of Deli meat, seven million
pounds corrupted by everything that we've heard out of that factory.
It's no wonder that this listaria outbreak was as widespread
as it was.
Speaker 12 (30:40):
More than seven million pounds of Deli meat, and in
a statement, a spokesperson said, quote, food safety is our
absolute priority.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, I can tell. I can tell clearly. Food safety
is your absolute priority.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
Food safety is our absolute priority.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I mean they found it was a huge petri dish.
This Deli production factory. Unbelievable. I mean, what they have
detailed are things so grotesque that just to listen to
them makes you sick. To actually consume the meat with
(31:19):
mold and leaks of algal growth and insects. I mean,
people are eating this stuff. It's no wonder. I'm sorry,
but the statement that you care about safety and cleanliness
at your factory that doesn't exactly track with recent history.
Speaker 12 (31:40):
Food safety is our absolute priority, adding that the team
immediately addressed all issues that inspectors raised. But one open
question is whether or not.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Bored all issues that inspectors raised.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
They raise sixty nine different things that were going on there,
everything from insects to algole growth to mold. I'd say
that the company acted responsibly were it not for the
fact that nine people died.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I mean, what choice do you have at that point.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
But one open question is whether or not Bar's head
is going to be facing any kind of penalties from
the USDA for repeat issues At this point. We have
posed that question to USDA officials. We are waiting to
hear back. But according to reports published by USDA itself,
(32:33):
so far, there have not been any records of enforcement
actions taken against the company in the past year and
lindsay that is the same timeframe approximately where these nearly
seventy so sixty nine violations have been discovered.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Well, here is what is going to happen. They are
going to have civil suits, which is an awfully poor
way to actually hold the company responsible, But they will
get civil suits that will be launched by the families
of the nine victims and others who are sickened by this.
But as I say, it's sadly in America, one of
(33:10):
the few ways that you can get some kind of
justice as you hold the feet of the company to
the fire legally, But it takes forever to do it,
and it takes money to do it, and it doesn't
bring back those people who were I mean, this is obscene.
What was going on in these plants anyway. That's the
latest though. Inspectors with dozens of violations at this bores
(33:33):
headplant in Virginia, and that's the thing that they link
to this nationwide recall of Deli meats. So when we
come back, all states get some good news for them,
bad news for us. Mark Thompson Here for Tim Conway
Junior on KFI AM sixty. We're live everywhere on the
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