September 25, 2024 • 32 mins
Michael Monks on the MTA Bus hijacking that killed a passenger // MTA bus hijacking timeline // Whip Around: What is Metro’s budget? 9 billion // WNBA Kaitlin Clark - Good for her // Tommy Lees dog was attacked by Coyote
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's Conway Show.
Michael Monks is with us because society is breaking down.
There's a passenger that has been killed after a bus
was hijacked or bus jacked or carjacked. And man, what
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a crazy society we live in. But you get to
hear it all right here on kfive. Michael Munks, how
you Bob Hey? Good afternoon, Tim.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Just back from Union Station where the Mayor of LA,
the County Supervisor Janis Han, who chairs the Metro Board
Metro Officials LAPD, all there to talk about this case
with the very latest.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So what's going on. This happened late at night early
in the morning, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It happened late night and then into the early morning hours,
starting in South LA where this bus was allegedly hijacked
by someone, and then a slow speed police pursuit took
place that led that bus to the Arts district here
in downtown Los Angeles, and that's where police were finally
able to get a board and take someone into custody.
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And that's also, unfortunately, where they found that one passenger
aboard that bus had been shot and killed. A Police
say that they've arrested fifty one year old Lamont Campbell.
They say he's from here in LA. They didn't release
a lot of details, in fact, no more details than
that about the circumstances, why the bus was hijacked, what
led to the shooting, why the shooting took place. What
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was emphasized by city, county and Metro officials is that
the bus driver was able to maintain some semblance of
control over that bus because he happened to be equipped
with one of those barriers that they're looking to install
on all of the buses by the end of the
year to help protect bus drivers. They've been the target
of many of the assaults and attacks across the system
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since the law enforcement surgia was called in the spring,
and so because that barrier was present, driver was able
to hit an emergency notification that alerted police what was
going on and also changed the sign on the bus
from destination to call nine one one emergency, and that
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did work. Nine one dispatchers did receive apparently many calls
from the public that happened to see this.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I ignore that's crazy. If you see something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I think we've all learned from this incident that it's
probably for real, I guess. And if you can call
nine one one to get some help to that bus driver.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Hey, So, so let me get this straight. The bus
driver is not the dead guy.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's right, Okay. The bus driver, in fact was hailed
by the mayor supervisor hunt.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But how did the bus driver get off the bus?
There was a shooting on the bus. Then the bus
driver bailed, but it flipped the signs and bailed. No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The bus driver was able to escape only when the
LAPDS swat team was able to use what they called
a distraction maneuver.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Right, So, but who was driving the bus? The bus driver,
the bus driver, bus server control of the bus. So
the guy, the guy that was arrested, was never driving
the bus.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He was never able to gain access of the bus
because of that bus barrier that separates the driver from
people who were boarding.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That is wild, man, that is crazy. What a crazy
night in La huh.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
A crazy night indeed, And it's something that's happening all
too often. I Mean, these are the types of headlines
that Metro really wants to get past, because we go
back to that murder of Murna Sooza on the B
Line subway just months ago. It prompted a call for
serious change, and they have implemented what has been referred
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to as a law enforcement surge. So there's supposed to
be a higher law enforcement presence, a higher security presence,
and more of those Metro ambassadors in stations around bus stops,
on board buses, on board the trains. And I got
to look at some data last week showing the efficacy
of this surge, and it has shown that attacks on
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passengers are against people rather are down.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, because nobody has taken the bus anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Writership, on the other hand, tim is actually up, but
the crimes against people are down, while crimes against bus
operators have actually risen during this So.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
What's the relationship between the gunman and the dead guy?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We don't know, and obviously there are a lot of
questions about that. The LAPD made it clear today that
the investigation is in the very early stages. He was
just booked today. They may know more, obviously than they
led onto us. They were not prepared to announce much publicly,
so we don't know at what point in this pursuit
did the shooting take place, what prompted it? Was it
a targeted situation and there's nobody else on the bus.
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There was another passenger who survived, one passenger who was killed.
It sounds like there were two passengers aboard the bus
when this suspected hijacker boarded the bus along with the driver.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And he wanted initially he wanted the bus driver out
and he wanted to drive the bus himself.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Those details are not confirmed, but again what was stated
very clearly was that that barrier installed on the bus
to protect the bus driver. It has been credited with
keeping the pace of that chase very slow and also
never allowing control of the bus to change hands to
the suspective hijacker.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And that guy couldn't get through that barrier. Those barriers
must be something else, man. They must be pretty strong
and very expensive, very.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Expensive, so that the system is spending a lot of
money to put these barriers on all of the buses.
So perhaps when all of the buses are equipped with them,
we'll see those attack numbers drop as well.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Man, This this MTA cannot catch a break. Every single week,
there's somebody getting killed, somebody getting raped, somebody hijacking, somebody
plowing into one, somebody getting hit by one.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
They just it seems like every single week. And this
is something that we have to talk about a lot.
And this is a system that is receiving significant public
investment for expansion. There's not really a city in this country.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And we got to clean this out before the Olympics,
you know, months, We got to clean it up. And
they want to clean it up.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
They want this to be the car free Olympics, and
Metro would obviously play the leading role in that you'd
be on a bus, you'd be on the train to
go to these venues. But people are going to be
turned off by these continued headlines, and not just that,
but the types of issues that you can't really quantify
through data, just the general unpleasantness and feelings of uneasiness
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that passengers have when they're on a smelly train, a
dark train, or a train with people having mental health
crisis or behaving inappropriately.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Or in other words, every train, every single but you
know what, I used to take the train. I used
to take the light rail from North Hollywood to downtown
with my daughter to go to a King's game. I
would never do that now.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's my bus route to get up there to Burbank,
you know, not bus route with the train route. And
you know I ride the system, and that particular line,
which is the one that ernis those was killed on
at the station, This is the dirtiest one. It's right
the most unpert This is obviously anecdotal, but as a parent,
are you riding that every day? You know when I
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come up if I'm not taking the news vehicle, Yes,
that's the one. I take a drops off right there
at Universal City and hop on a bird Bank bus
and come over to the station.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But are you on high alert when you're on that
train and you're looking around?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Have to be, And that's what I mean by the
unquantifiable things that face passengers on those trains and buses.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Is that and the unfortunate sirens in the background while
you're doing the report too.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You know, here at the downtown headquarters for KFI, it's
a little noisy, it is wild.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But I really appreciate coming on. Great report. Please come
back with us side the next hour and do it again,
because I'm tired today and I need more material. My
pleasure to sign at five o'clock. All right, there, you go.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I didn't know we had a downtown headquarters for KFI.
I never knew that myself. Very impressive.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Stephansh did you know we have a downtown office or
downtown studio? No idea? Bellio? Did you know? I had
no idea? Save you an extra ten minutes? Huh? Angel?
Did you know we had an office downtown?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
How is it possible that all five of us Krozier's
been here thirty eight years, Steph Fush has been here
four years. I've been here for a team. Balio's been
here twenty four. Angel's been here about twenty years. How
did we not know there was a studio and an
office in downtown LA? How is that possible? How is
that possible? I think that's the bigger issue, bigger than Metro.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You even get Michael Monks on that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, let's have Monks on again, Bellio. Can you book
them for five and six Little Burn today? Okay, thanks,
We're gonna do an hour's worth of the stories. Then
we're just gonna put on repeat for two hours to
Birth Today. I don't know what happened to Bert.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What a world we live in? Huh, I steals an MTA.
But we got an update on that. By the way,
I know Michael Monks is with us, but I think
we even have more of an update like stuff that
has just come in, and I'm sure he had it
as well. Let's see if there's anything new, all right,
Let's let's not over hype this thing, because Bellio said, Wow,
(09:18):
we got a lot of new more information like I
don't know, I don't know, Monks is pretty good. Let's
find out. Let's find out.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Still a lot of unanswered questions that the investigation on
this ultimately fatal incident continues. But one thing our city
officials can agree on is public safety needs to be
our top priority.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
They've been saying that for a long time, a long time.
As a matter of fact, since I was a kid.
Since I was a child, I've heard public safety is
our number one goal. Since I was a child growing
up in the San Fernando Valley. I see hear that
all the time, and now it's they're still promoting it.
That's kind of.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Odd, devastative.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Since he is a southun figure of approaching one twenty
or question back up their union supervisor.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Early Wednesday morning, a metro bus was hijacked, leaving one
person dead. A suspect hijacked the Line eighty one bus
at gunpoint just before one in the morning at Figure
Worre Street and Manchester Avenue in South Los Angeles. The
driver and two passengers were on board.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Possible mail was a holiday a possible hostage.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
That was generated by the bus driver pressing the nine
one one button that notifies the bus operations center that
notifies us that there was that there's an emergency on
the bus.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So I see, okay. I thought that there were a
lot of people who saw the call nine one one
flashing on the bus and then called nine one one,
and that may have happened as well. But this is
a direct line. This is like hitting the hotline or
the panic button at a bank. And they hit this
button and then all the cops swarm in.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, and they said that they that they had already
been getting a bunch of nine to one one calls
from people when they got that.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh is that right from the bus? Oh wow? All right,
So I guess that does work. But I've seen that
before and sort of ignored it, you know, Yeah, because
I didn't. I didn't know what it meant. It said
called nine to one. I'm like, well, why don't you
you know, you're the one that's uh, you know, in
the middle of it on.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
A big sun Why didn't you call nine one?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I got a phone, don't you. Somebody on that bus
is a phone.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
An hour long pursuit ensued, several spikes an hour log
couldn't pull its bus over for an hour and hour.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Long pursuit ensued.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Several spike strips were deployed, which ultimately punctured the right
tire of the bus. The bus eventually came to a
stop at six in Alameda Streets in downtown LA.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So this might be the only guy in the world
who's driving in a high speed chase and wants to
hit the spike strips. He's looking to hit spike strips
might be the only cat the only time this happens.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Once a bus stop, the officers disabled it to reenter
from moving again, a swat officers used a distraction device,
boarded the bus, rescued the bus driver. As many of
you saw through through the through the driver's window and
only took the suspect in the custody.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Wow, you know, so the bus driver should be allowed
to carry guns, you know, and put these guys down
when this happens.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Unfortunately, one of the passengers was shot multiple times and
pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Police say the suspect,
fifty one year old Lamont Campbell, was booked for murder.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
God, is that old to be in this game? Fifty one?
You know, retirements around the corner. You should be hanging
out the racetrack. I don't know, a sports book or something, casino,
I don't know, but fifty one is a little long
in the tooth to be involved. And that's a young
man's game, you know, hijacking buses and shooting people, not
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fifty one. What happened to this guy?
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Fifty one year old Lamont Campbell was booked for murder.
At the press conference today, Mayor Bass, Supervisor Han and
others called on stricter safety measures for public transportation.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
We now have a pilot program that is testing three
different weapons detection systems here at Union Station.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How expensive is that going to be? Where you have
a weapons detected detection system on every bus? Get out
of here, and.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
It's my hope they we'll be able to expand this
across our entire system.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
There is no place for this in LA, and we
will be working to ensure that all Angelo's writers and
operators are safe.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Okay, I look, I'm not an anti mayor basque guy.
I don't follow her long enough for closely enough to
see if she's doing a good job or not. But
this is this is crazy.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
There is no place for this in LA, and we
will be working to ensure that all Angelo's writers and
operators are safe.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
But they're not, and they haven't been for a long time.
Have they listened to Moe Kelly's show every night? He
has a story on Metro every night, and tonight he's
gonna have another one. He's gonna have another one tonight.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Along with the weapons detection system, a supervisor, Han also
mentioned re established establishing the Transit Public Community Safety Department
and having uniformed officers ride along bus routes.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Oh that's not okad. Look there's two people on buses
at night, you know, a homeless guy and a guy
you know trying to get home from a party. And
you're gonna put a cop on every bus.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Officers ride along bus routes. She also mentioned by the
end of the year, all of the buses will have
the bus barriers installed, which would fully enclose bus drivers
behind plexiglass.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Okay, that's where we are in life where we have
to have plexiglass, probably ten thousand dollars worth of plexiglass
and equipment and hinges and locks to protect these bus
drivers as.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
An added layer of safety precaution.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You know, I think we just shut it all down,
Just shut it all down, give people money for uber
and just shut it down. You know, if you take
an uber, the city will reimburse you. It'll be cheaper.
And let's take those buses and sell them. That's what
we got to do. Sell the buses, repaint the streets,
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no bus lanes anymore, and we're all going to uber
out and the city will reimburse you for your Uber.
That's my solution. I'm running for mayor. Please vote for me.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Hey, steffush, can we do a whip round or is
it too early in the program? Is it too early
in the program? It's never too Ah, You're the best buddy,
all right, let's do a whip around here. We write
the names down Steph Fuje Brosier, Lindsey, Angel and batting cleanup.
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You're Los Angeles producer Sharon Bellio. Okay, what is the
annual budget for Metro LA's Metro? The annual budget for
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the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles? What is their
annual budget? How much money do they have to spend
every year? Stepouche ten million, ten million? Okay, all right, Croach, Well,
(16:19):
let me come back to Croage. He's always keep good
at this crap. Angel. That was an accidental smoke, but
all but all in all a pretty good one. That
was a great one. That was a great one because
I said Crozier is too good at it. Let's come
back to them. And then bang, Angel, that was the smoke.
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Boom roasted, boom roasted. Would you call me yesterday a
tool or on Monday?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Monday?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
There?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
All right? Angel Martinez. Annual budget for Metro.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
One hundred and fifty million A.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Bellio, Uh thirty million, thirty million, all right?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Lindsey, uh fifteen million.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Right, Crozier five no, ten billion.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Is really good at this?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
That's that's really good.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
The winner is Krozier and cures nine billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Man almost nailed it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Nine billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yes? And the average uber ride in America is twenty
five dollars and thirty seven cents, which means it gets
like twenty bucks. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's twenty five
to thirty seven the average uber ride in the United States.
That means that with the budget of nine billion dollars,
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the city of Los Angeles or the County of Los
Angeles could reimburse us for three hundred and fifty five
million rides. Three hundred and fifty five million uber rides.
We can be reimbursed if we just take these stupid,
dangerous buses off the road. Because look, it makes sense too.
If you're an environmentalist like i am, then you know
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that the that having a forty five foot long bus
or forty foot long bus with two people on it
is not good for the atmosphere. It's not good to
run a bus with two people on it. It's not
good for the air, it's not good for the land,
the sea, it's not good for anything. It's just not
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And to be fair, most of them are priuses. Yet
and how much more, how many more jobs can we add?
I'm running for mayor and this is gonna be my
my main plank in my platform. We're gonna we're gonna
take Metro down and we're gonna give Uber rides to everybody.
Three hundred fifty five million Uber rides we can pay for,
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and that money would go right back into the economy
with guys like steph Ouche, and there'd be a lot
more rides. You know, people will give people and you know,
annual passes to Uber and then we'll reimburse them as
a county or or a city. I'm onto something and
I'll probably get shot because there's a lot of people that,
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you know, make money off of the MTA. You know, mechanics, drivers,
bus washers, bus installers, bus buyers, route you know, deciders.
There's a lot that goes into it. Route deciding, Yes, crazier,
it's an actual I knew you'd laugh at that, so
I looked it up. It's an actual title route deciders,
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you know, where should we go there with the route?
Where's your route? Bro, where's your route? So three we
could pay for the County of Los Angeles could reimburse
for three hundred and fifty five million rides a year.
And guess what, there ain't three hundred and fifty five
million rides because a lot of people never use Uber
and never use the metro. I think we could handle it.
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I think we'd tackle that. What's the drawback to it?
I don't know. I don't know that. You know, some
mechanics will be out of work, or some bus drivers
will be out of work.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
More cars on the road.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Oh okay, all right, more cars on the road. Yeah,
that's not bad. I don't mind that with the radio.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Well, you live a mile away from work, so it's
all good.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
That's right. And I purposely I always find a home
or an apartment or some whatever about a block or
two from work because I do. I'm not a traffic guy.
I don't like traffic. And I understand though, getting away
from work because every time there's an accident, and every
time there's a big fire and a flood and a
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president getting shot, the closest one to the station gets
the call. I get the call. You know, hey, Tim,
it's Rob And I know it's a Christmas morning you're
spending with your family. But we've had some rain drops
on the west side. Could you come in and knock
this out for about three or four hours? Sure, no problem,
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But that I think I'm onto something here. I think
we take Metro. We've experimented, didn't work out, and now
we're going to take the nine billion dollars a year
that we spend on Metro and we're gonna give it
to Uber and lyft drivers and you guys will enjoy that.
I'll look for you. Okay, you what I get my
first vote? That's great? All right? Do you live in
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the city of La dam nang it, there goes my vote.
Damn I don't live in the city of La either,
So I'd have to move to the city of La
in order to run from mayor. That's easy, just down
the block. It's like three blocks from me. How about
the mayor of Burbank, I don't know. I'm more interested
in power, and the mayor of Burbank is as powerful
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as the mayor of La. So I will tell you
one thing though, if I'm ever flying in a helicopter
over downtown La, I wouldn't say to the pilot of
the helicopter, hey, what freeway is that I would know
which freeway that was so if you vote for me,
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I'm taking MPa down and I know the freeways vote
ding and dog.
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Speaker 13 (23:08):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
They do it well, They do it well, all right.
And WNBA Caitlyn Clark is in the news. I believe
she is still playing basketball for the Fevers and they're
doing pretty well. They made the playoffs. Let's find out
what Caitlyn Clark is doing. Who is single handedly forced
(23:29):
everybody to watch the WNBA.
Speaker 13 (23:31):
Oh, the votes are in it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
It's unanimous.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:33):
Caitlyn Clark was voted WNBA Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Surprise, surprise, Yeah, what a surprise, huge surprise.
Speaker 12 (23:40):
Put up the stats that the league had never seen before.
She wrote the single season record with three hundred and
thirty seven assists, including a league record nineteen in one game.
Clark also scored the most points ever for a rookie.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
Good for her and got a shout out Las Vegas Ace.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'm with her. Good for her, Yeah, with that lady
whoever that was.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
Good for her and got a shout out.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Little condescending, I believe though, good for her. Let's got
a little too, Yeah, got a little. You know, we
know that you're not the best in the world, but uh,
good for her, Good for you.
Speaker 13 (24:11):
Good for her, and got to shout out Las Vegas Aces.
Star Asia Wilson the unanimous choice for the WNBA's Most
Valuable Player. She became the first player in league history
to score more than a thousand points in a season.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
This is Wilson's third MVP award, having won it in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Good for her, killing another good for her?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
You got too, good for her?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I've seemed a little bit more genuine though, Yeah it did,
didn't it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I mean the first one, let's see here, ever for
a rookie.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Good for her and good for her killing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, you're right, good for her.
Speaker 15 (24:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
The first one is like f you right, good for her,
good for her, but the second one.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
And for her killing it.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh wait, I gotta I've messed that up here just
a little bit. Hold on, wait a minute, let me
put some booming in here. Good for her, Oh yeah,
good for her. So we have one good for her
is like good for her, good for her, but the
second one.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Good for her?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, a little more enthusiastic.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
She meant that.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
All right. Let's see what is your favorite? Good for her?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Good for her, good for her?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, the second one. I like the second one, Like
if I said, hey, you know, Bellio just got us
an unbelievable number on social media. Right with Instagram, we've
eclipsed everybody at the station. If I said good for her,
she'd be pissed. But if I gave her a good
for her, good for her, absolutely you want that second one, right? Yeah,
(25:40):
all right, Angel Martinez. You get one or.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Two you get good for her or good for her.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Let's say, all right, Angel Martinez want a Golden Mic,
Golden Mic for best traffic report. You want number one.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Good for her?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Or number two good for her? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Number two?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yes, yeah, gotta go for number two.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Good for her.
Speaker 16 (26:02):
Loves number two, so funny Plio, although I believe Bellio
picked number two.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Two?
Speaker 11 (26:15):
Yeah, I think I think you guys both like number two.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
They were in France. It would be a doodoo Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Good for her.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, Bellio likes that number two, good for her, so
does Angel though, good for her, good for her, Although
somebody says, you're you really like number two?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You want for her?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I want the fast one you want to get out?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Good for her?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well, good for both of.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
You guys, good for her, good for her.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You guys should do a podcast Bellio and Angel together
and this should be.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
The title good for her, good for her, good for.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Good for her and Angel with their.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Podcast good for her, good for her.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Think off with you, guys. That's their that's her ding
dong people stealing my ideas all the time. She wanted
your d dog that you knew was taken, so she
had to do.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Good for her, good for her, good for her, good
for her?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
What the hell? All right? Tommy Lee's dog was attacked?
Big news, right, Tommy Lee, the singer, actor, writer, dancer.
Speaker 14 (27:14):
A terrifying coyote attack caught on security camera video at
the Woodland Hills home of rocker Tommy Lee and his
wife Britney Furlong. There are two small dogs by the
backyard pool, and the coyote quickly snatches Nina, a ten
year old long hair English Cream dosent pull dog, a
ten year old long hair English Cream docsent.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Man, oh man. When somebody says, what kind of dog
is that you got to go into that?
Speaker 14 (27:36):
A ten year old long hair English Cream.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Docsent, that's a long haired English I don't know. It
runs around in poops with.
Speaker 14 (27:44):
The dog and his jaws. The coyote tries to leap
back over the wall as Britney sprints behind. Brittany says
Tommy Lee was inside the house on a conference call
when he heard her screams. He's seen here on camera
after running outside to help, but Brittany had already faced
off with the coyote and.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Pulled her dog free.
Speaker 14 (27:59):
Brittany, who was an actress, had a comedian and says
she and Tommy had never seen a coyote in their
backyard before today.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Not her screaming in the background, I was wondering. Wow. Brittany,
who was.
Speaker 14 (28:08):
An actress, had a comedian and says she and Tommy
had never seen a coyote in their backyard before today.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
She should be up at Universal for that fright Nights thing,
you know, screaming everybody likes.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
That pads on slider around.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yes, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 14 (28:21):
She and Tommy had never seen a coyote in their
backyard before today, and this one jumped over a ten
foot wall.
Speaker 15 (28:28):
Brittany says, incredibly, Nina, Wow, a ten foot wall. A
coyote can get over ten foot wall? Wait a minute,
is that true?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
That is true?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, wait a minute, a ten foot wall a coyote
And how an angel and belly O the good for you.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Girls, good for her, good for her.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
How do you guys know that you're just making yours
guessing feet?
Speaker 17 (29:01):
Yeah, because you know it's a couldn't we have dogs.
It's a concern.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I'd like to see that.
Speaker 17 (29:06):
They say it could even get over a fourteen foot barrier.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I'd love to see that.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 11 (29:11):
They say it's not even safe to leave your dogs
in an enclosed yard because they can hop over. The
coyotes can hop over the fence and nab the dog
and take off.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yep, well, I understand a fence, but are ten or
fourteen feet? Come on?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 11 (29:25):
There's just a running start and just climb straight up
the wall.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Really wow?
Speaker 14 (29:29):
Oh yeah, and this one jumped over a ten foot wall,
Brittany says, incredibly, Nina suffered no serious injuries in that.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
If you think the coyote, after hearing all that screaming
and jumping back over the wall, do you think he
said to the other coyotes. I don't know how Tommy
Lee does it that kind of craziness, screaming like that.
I don't know what.
Speaker 17 (29:54):
If Abby was in the backyard and you looked out
and that coyote was there, wouldn't you scream?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I don't know if i'd scream. I try to. I
try to wrestle that coyote, though, I try to kick
that coyote's ass. Yeah, really go out there and work
that coyote. Yeah, you guys going to run from you? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Would you hold it?
Speaker 11 (30:12):
Up over your shoulders and like spin around and stuff
throw it.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Well, I tighten my belt first of all, like sindbad
good for him the can of spinach, and off to
the races with this pup. I'd knocked at it, he
would be gone. Good for her coyote once, Oh you did. Yeah,
we were on a trail up close to the foothills.
(30:37):
Aggressive one, well he was. It was a path and
he was about twenty feet ahead of us. He was
probably six or seven at the time, and he looked
right out stared us down, and I just I ran
after him, and.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
He took off.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You know, I read a story I don't know, may
have been ten or fifteen years ago, that a couple
was up in Big Bear and they had a child
and a stroller and the coyote took the out of
the stroller and ran away from it and dropped it.
But could have vanished with that kid, you know, the baby,
a little tiny baby. So it is crazy out there. Look,
the coyotes are just following our lead. We're, you know,
(31:14):
a city full of a holes, and so are the coyotes.
And now that they're building that bridge across the one
on one, they're coming to get you. They're coming to
get you and your dogies. And we paid for it.
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Why did you call it before the murder bridge.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, that's what it is. The Yeah, the murder murder
your pet animal bridge, because they're you know, you're we're
building a bridge over the one on one to get
mountain lions to come eat our pets. And we paid
for it, well, not me, but I guess private industry
paid for it. And now these mountain lions they've got
a fork in one hand and a knife in the other.
They got a little bib on and they're coming for us.
(31:51):
And we did it. We let them help them cross
that bridge. And now they're coming to eat the dogs
and the kids. They're eating dogs and cats. The people
of Thousand Oaks is now TERMP said, who's eating the dogs?
Who's eating the cats of Thousand Oaks? Something like that.
Maybe I got two stories confused, all right. Were live
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It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
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Michael Monks is with us because society is breaking down.
There's a passenger that has been killed after a bus
was hijacked or bus jacked or carjacked. And man, what
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a crazy society we live in. But you get to
hear it all right here on kfive. Michael Munks, how
you Bob Hey? Good afternoon, Tim.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Just back from Union Station where the Mayor of LA,
the County Supervisor Janis Han, who chairs the Metro Board
Metro Officials LAPD, all there to talk about this case
with the very latest.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So what's going on. This happened late at night early
in the morning, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It happened late night and then into the early morning hours,
starting in South LA where this bus was allegedly hijacked
by someone, and then a slow speed police pursuit took
place that led that bus to the Arts district here
in downtown Los Angeles, and that's where police were finally
able to get a board and take someone into custody.
(01:08):
And that's also, unfortunately, where they found that one passenger
aboard that bus had been shot and killed. A Police
say that they've arrested fifty one year old Lamont Campbell.
They say he's from here in LA. They didn't release
a lot of details, in fact, no more details than
that about the circumstances, why the bus was hijacked, what
led to the shooting, why the shooting took place. What
(01:30):
was emphasized by city, county and Metro officials is that
the bus driver was able to maintain some semblance of
control over that bus because he happened to be equipped
with one of those barriers that they're looking to install
on all of the buses by the end of the
year to help protect bus drivers. They've been the target
of many of the assaults and attacks across the system
(01:52):
since the law enforcement surgia was called in the spring,
and so because that barrier was present, driver was able
to hit an emergency notification that alerted police what was
going on and also changed the sign on the bus
from destination to call nine one one emergency, and that
(02:14):
did work. Nine one dispatchers did receive apparently many calls
from the public that happened to see this.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I ignore that's crazy. If you see something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I think we've all learned from this incident that it's
probably for real, I guess. And if you can call
nine one one to get some help to that bus driver.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Hey, So, so let me get this straight. The bus
driver is not the dead guy.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's right, Okay. The bus driver, in fact was hailed
by the mayor supervisor hunt.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But how did the bus driver get off the bus?
There was a shooting on the bus. Then the bus
driver bailed, but it flipped the signs and bailed. No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The bus driver was able to escape only when the
LAPDS swat team was able to use what they called
a distraction maneuver.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Right, So, but who was driving the bus? The bus driver,
the bus driver, bus server control of the bus. So
the guy, the guy that was arrested, was never driving
the bus.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He was never able to gain access of the bus
because of that bus barrier that separates the driver from
people who were boarding.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That is wild, man, that is crazy. What a crazy
night in La huh.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
A crazy night indeed, And it's something that's happening all
too often. I Mean, these are the types of headlines
that Metro really wants to get past, because we go
back to that murder of Murna Sooza on the B
Line subway just months ago. It prompted a call for
serious change, and they have implemented what has been referred
(03:38):
to as a law enforcement surge. So there's supposed to
be a higher law enforcement presence, a higher security presence,
and more of those Metro ambassadors in stations around bus stops,
on board buses, on board the trains. And I got
to look at some data last week showing the efficacy
of this surge, and it has shown that attacks on
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passengers are against people rather are down.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, because nobody has taken the bus anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Writership, on the other hand, tim is actually up, but
the crimes against people are down, while crimes against bus
operators have actually risen during this So.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
What's the relationship between the gunman and the dead guy?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We don't know, and obviously there are a lot of
questions about that. The LAPD made it clear today that
the investigation is in the very early stages. He was
just booked today. They may know more, obviously than they
led onto us. They were not prepared to announce much publicly,
so we don't know at what point in this pursuit
did the shooting take place, what prompted it? Was it
a targeted situation and there's nobody else on the bus.
(04:42):
There was another passenger who survived, one passenger who was killed.
It sounds like there were two passengers aboard the bus
when this suspected hijacker boarded the bus along with the driver.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And he wanted initially he wanted the bus driver out
and he wanted to drive the bus himself.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Those details are not confirmed, but again what was stated
very clearly was that that barrier installed on the bus
to protect the bus driver. It has been credited with
keeping the pace of that chase very slow and also
never allowing control of the bus to change hands to
the suspective hijacker.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And that guy couldn't get through that barrier. Those barriers
must be something else, man. They must be pretty strong
and very expensive, very.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Expensive, so that the system is spending a lot of
money to put these barriers on all of the buses.
So perhaps when all of the buses are equipped with them,
we'll see those attack numbers drop as well.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Man, This this MTA cannot catch a break. Every single week,
there's somebody getting killed, somebody getting raped, somebody hijacking, somebody
plowing into one, somebody getting hit by one.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
They just it seems like every single week. And this
is something that we have to talk about a lot.
And this is a system that is receiving significant public
investment for expansion. There's not really a city in this country.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And we got to clean this out before the Olympics,
you know, months, We got to clean it up. And
they want to clean it up.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
They want this to be the car free Olympics, and
Metro would obviously play the leading role in that you'd
be on a bus, you'd be on the train to
go to these venues. But people are going to be
turned off by these continued headlines, and not just that,
but the types of issues that you can't really quantify
through data, just the general unpleasantness and feelings of uneasiness
(06:30):
that passengers have when they're on a smelly train, a
dark train, or a train with people having mental health
crisis or behaving inappropriately.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Or in other words, every train, every single but you
know what, I used to take the train. I used
to take the light rail from North Hollywood to downtown
with my daughter to go to a King's game. I
would never do that now.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's my bus route to get up there to Burbank,
you know, not bus route with the train route. And
you know I ride the system, and that particular line,
which is the one that ernis those was killed on
at the station, This is the dirtiest one. It's right
the most unpert This is obviously anecdotal, but as a parent,
are you riding that every day? You know when I
(07:12):
come up if I'm not taking the news vehicle, Yes,
that's the one. I take a drops off right there
at Universal City and hop on a bird Bank bus
and come over to the station.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But are you on high alert when you're on that
train and you're looking around?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Have to be, And that's what I mean by the
unquantifiable things that face passengers on those trains and buses.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Is that and the unfortunate sirens in the background while
you're doing the report too.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You know, here at the downtown headquarters for KFI, it's
a little noisy, it is wild.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But I really appreciate coming on. Great report. Please come
back with us side the next hour and do it again,
because I'm tired today and I need more material. My
pleasure to sign at five o'clock. All right, there, you go.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I didn't know we had a downtown headquarters for KFI.
I never knew that myself. Very impressive.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Stephansh did you know we have a downtown office or
downtown studio? No idea? Bellio? Did you know? I had
no idea? Save you an extra ten minutes? Huh? Angel?
Did you know we had an office downtown?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
How is it possible that all five of us Krozier's
been here thirty eight years, Steph Fush has been here
four years. I've been here for a team. Balio's been
here twenty four. Angel's been here about twenty years. How
did we not know there was a studio and an
office in downtown LA? How is that possible? How is
that possible? I think that's the bigger issue, bigger than Metro.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You even get Michael Monks on that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, let's have Monks on again, Bellio. Can you book
them for five and six Little Burn today? Okay, thanks,
We're gonna do an hour's worth of the stories. Then
we're just gonna put on repeat for two hours to
Birth Today. I don't know what happened to Bert.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What a world we live in? Huh, I steals an MTA.
But we got an update on that. By the way,
I know Michael Monks is with us, but I think
we even have more of an update like stuff that
has just come in, and I'm sure he had it
as well. Let's see if there's anything new, all right,
Let's let's not over hype this thing, because Bellio said, Wow,
(09:18):
we got a lot of new more information like I
don't know, I don't know, Monks is pretty good. Let's
find out. Let's find out.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Still a lot of unanswered questions that the investigation on
this ultimately fatal incident continues. But one thing our city
officials can agree on is public safety needs to be
our top priority.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
They've been saying that for a long time, a long time.
As a matter of fact, since I was a kid.
Since I was a child, I've heard public safety is
our number one goal. Since I was a child growing
up in the San Fernando Valley. I see hear that
all the time, and now it's they're still promoting it.
That's kind of.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Odd, devastative.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Since he is a southun figure of approaching one twenty
or question back up their union supervisor.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Early Wednesday morning, a metro bus was hijacked, leaving one
person dead. A suspect hijacked the Line eighty one bus
at gunpoint just before one in the morning at Figure
Worre Street and Manchester Avenue in South Los Angeles. The
driver and two passengers were on board.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Possible mail was a holiday a possible hostage.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
That was generated by the bus driver pressing the nine
one one button that notifies the bus operations center that
notifies us that there was that there's an emergency on
the bus.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So I see, okay. I thought that there were a
lot of people who saw the call nine one one
flashing on the bus and then called nine one one,
and that may have happened as well. But this is
a direct line. This is like hitting the hotline or
the panic button at a bank. And they hit this
button and then all the cops swarm in.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, and they said that they that they had already
been getting a bunch of nine to one one calls
from people when they got that.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh is that right from the bus? Oh wow? All right,
So I guess that does work. But I've seen that
before and sort of ignored it, you know, Yeah, because
I didn't. I didn't know what it meant. It said
called nine to one. I'm like, well, why don't you
you know, you're the one that's uh, you know, in
the middle of it on.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
A big sun Why didn't you call nine one?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I got a phone, don't you. Somebody on that bus
is a phone.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
An hour long pursuit ensued, several spikes an hour log
couldn't pull its bus over for an hour and hour.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Long pursuit ensued.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Several spike strips were deployed, which ultimately punctured the right
tire of the bus. The bus eventually came to a
stop at six in Alameda Streets in downtown LA.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So this might be the only guy in the world
who's driving in a high speed chase and wants to
hit the spike strips. He's looking to hit spike strips
might be the only cat the only time this happens.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Once a bus stop, the officers disabled it to reenter
from moving again, a swat officers used a distraction device,
boarded the bus, rescued the bus driver. As many of
you saw through through the through the driver's window and
only took the suspect in the custody.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Wow, you know, so the bus driver should be allowed
to carry guns, you know, and put these guys down
when this happens.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Unfortunately, one of the passengers was shot multiple times and
pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Police say the suspect,
fifty one year old Lamont Campbell, was booked for murder.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
God, is that old to be in this game? Fifty one?
You know, retirements around the corner. You should be hanging
out the racetrack. I don't know, a sports book or something, casino,
I don't know, but fifty one is a little long
in the tooth to be involved. And that's a young
man's game, you know, hijacking buses and shooting people, not
(12:35):
fifty one. What happened to this guy?
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Fifty one year old Lamont Campbell was booked for murder.
At the press conference today, Mayor Bass, Supervisor Han and
others called on stricter safety measures for public transportation.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
We now have a pilot program that is testing three
different weapons detection systems here at Union Station.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How expensive is that going to be? Where you have
a weapons detected detection system on every bus? Get out
of here, and.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
It's my hope they we'll be able to expand this
across our entire system.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
There is no place for this in LA, and we
will be working to ensure that all Angelo's writers and
operators are safe.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Okay, I look, I'm not an anti mayor basque guy.
I don't follow her long enough for closely enough to
see if she's doing a good job or not. But
this is this is crazy.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
There is no place for this in LA, and we
will be working to ensure that all Angelo's writers and
operators are safe.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
But they're not, and they haven't been for a long time.
Have they listened to Moe Kelly's show every night? He
has a story on Metro every night, and tonight he's
gonna have another one. He's gonna have another one tonight.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Along with the weapons detection system, a supervisor, Han also
mentioned re established establishing the Transit Public Community Safety Department
and having uniformed officers ride along bus routes.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Oh that's not okad. Look there's two people on buses
at night, you know, a homeless guy and a guy
you know trying to get home from a party. And
you're gonna put a cop on every bus.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Officers ride along bus routes. She also mentioned by the
end of the year, all of the buses will have
the bus barriers installed, which would fully enclose bus drivers
behind plexiglass.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Okay, that's where we are in life where we have
to have plexiglass, probably ten thousand dollars worth of plexiglass
and equipment and hinges and locks to protect these bus
drivers as.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
An added layer of safety precaution.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You know, I think we just shut it all down,
Just shut it all down, give people money for uber
and just shut it down. You know, if you take
an uber, the city will reimburse you. It'll be cheaper.
And let's take those buses and sell them. That's what
we got to do. Sell the buses, repaint the streets,
(14:59):
no bus lanes anymore, and we're all going to uber
out and the city will reimburse you for your Uber.
That's my solution. I'm running for mayor. Please vote for me.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Hey, steffush, can we do a whip round or is
it too early in the program? Is it too early
in the program? It's never too Ah, You're the best buddy,
all right, let's do a whip around here. We write
the names down Steph Fuje Brosier, Lindsey, Angel and batting cleanup.
(15:37):
You're Los Angeles producer Sharon Bellio. Okay, what is the
annual budget for Metro LA's Metro? The annual budget for
(15:58):
the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles? What is their
annual budget? How much money do they have to spend
every year? Stepouche ten million, ten million? Okay, all right, Croach, Well,
(16:19):
let me come back to Croage. He's always keep good
at this crap. Angel. That was an accidental smoke, but
all but all in all a pretty good one. That
was a great one. That was a great one because
I said Crozier is too good at it. Let's come
back to them. And then bang, Angel, that was the smoke.
(16:42):
Boom roasted, boom roasted. Would you call me yesterday a
tool or on Monday?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Monday?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
There?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
All right? Angel Martinez. Annual budget for Metro.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
One hundred and fifty million A.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Bellio, Uh thirty million, thirty million, all right?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Lindsey, uh fifteen million.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Right, Crozier five no, ten billion.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Is really good at this?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
That's that's really good.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
The winner is Krozier and cures nine billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Man almost nailed it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Nine billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yes? And the average uber ride in America is twenty
five dollars and thirty seven cents, which means it gets
like twenty bucks. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's twenty five
to thirty seven the average uber ride in the United States.
That means that with the budget of nine billion dollars,
(18:01):
the city of Los Angeles or the County of Los
Angeles could reimburse us for three hundred and fifty five
million rides. Three hundred and fifty five million uber rides.
We can be reimbursed if we just take these stupid,
dangerous buses off the road. Because look, it makes sense too.
If you're an environmentalist like i am, then you know
(18:24):
that the that having a forty five foot long bus
or forty foot long bus with two people on it
is not good for the atmosphere. It's not good to
run a bus with two people on it. It's not
good for the air, it's not good for the land,
the sea, it's not good for anything. It's just not
(18:44):
And to be fair, most of them are priuses. Yet
and how much more, how many more jobs can we add?
I'm running for mayor and this is gonna be my
my main plank in my platform. We're gonna we're gonna
take Metro down and we're gonna give Uber rides to everybody.
Three hundred fifty five million Uber rides we can pay for,
(19:04):
and that money would go right back into the economy
with guys like steph Ouche, and there'd be a lot
more rides. You know, people will give people and you know,
annual passes to Uber and then we'll reimburse them as
a county or or a city. I'm onto something and
I'll probably get shot because there's a lot of people that,
(19:25):
you know, make money off of the MTA. You know, mechanics, drivers,
bus washers, bus installers, bus buyers, route you know, deciders.
There's a lot that goes into it. Route deciding, Yes, crazier,
it's an actual I knew you'd laugh at that, so
I looked it up. It's an actual title route deciders,
(19:46):
you know, where should we go there with the route?
Where's your route? Bro, where's your route? So three we
could pay for the County of Los Angeles could reimburse
for three hundred and fifty five million rides a year.
And guess what, there ain't three hundred and fifty five
million rides because a lot of people never use Uber
and never use the metro. I think we could handle it.
(20:09):
I think we'd tackle that. What's the drawback to it?
I don't know. I don't know that. You know, some
mechanics will be out of work, or some bus drivers
will be out of work.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
More cars on the road.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Oh okay, all right, more cars on the road. Yeah,
that's not bad. I don't mind that with the radio.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Well, you live a mile away from work, so it's
all good.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
That's right. And I purposely I always find a home
or an apartment or some whatever about a block or
two from work because I do. I'm not a traffic guy.
I don't like traffic. And I understand though, getting away
from work because every time there's an accident, and every
time there's a big fire and a flood and a
(20:47):
president getting shot, the closest one to the station gets
the call. I get the call. You know, hey, Tim,
it's Rob And I know it's a Christmas morning you're
spending with your family. But we've had some rain drops
on the west side. Could you come in and knock
this out for about three or four hours? Sure, no problem,
(21:08):
But that I think I'm onto something here. I think
we take Metro. We've experimented, didn't work out, and now
we're going to take the nine billion dollars a year
that we spend on Metro and we're gonna give it
to Uber and lyft drivers and you guys will enjoy that.
I'll look for you. Okay, you what I get my
first vote? That's great? All right? Do you live in
(21:30):
the city of La dam nang it, there goes my vote.
Damn I don't live in the city of La either,
So I'd have to move to the city of La
in order to run from mayor. That's easy, just down
the block. It's like three blocks from me. How about
the mayor of Burbank, I don't know. I'm more interested
in power, and the mayor of Burbank is as powerful
(21:51):
as the mayor of La. So I will tell you
one thing though, if I'm ever flying in a helicopter
over downtown La, I wouldn't say to the pilot of
the helicopter, hey, what freeway is that I would know
which freeway that was so if you vote for me,
(22:12):
I'm taking MPa down and I know the freeways vote
ding and dog.
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Speaker 13 (23:08):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
They do it well, They do it well, all right.
And WNBA Caitlyn Clark is in the news. I believe
she is still playing basketball for the Fevers and they're
doing pretty well. They made the playoffs. Let's find out
what Caitlyn Clark is doing. Who is single handedly forced
(23:29):
everybody to watch the WNBA.
Speaker 13 (23:31):
Oh, the votes are in it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
It's unanimous.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:33):
Caitlyn Clark was voted WNBA Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Surprise, surprise, Yeah, what a surprise, huge surprise.
Speaker 12 (23:40):
Put up the stats that the league had never seen before.
She wrote the single season record with three hundred and
thirty seven assists, including a league record nineteen in one game.
Clark also scored the most points ever for a rookie.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
Good for her and got a shout out Las Vegas Ace.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'm with her. Good for her, Yeah, with that lady
whoever that was.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
Good for her and got a shout out.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Little condescending, I believe though, good for her. Let's got
a little too, Yeah, got a little. You know, we
know that you're not the best in the world, but uh,
good for her, Good for you.
Speaker 13 (24:11):
Good for her, and got to shout out Las Vegas Aces.
Star Asia Wilson the unanimous choice for the WNBA's Most
Valuable Player. She became the first player in league history
to score more than a thousand points in a season.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
This is Wilson's third MVP award, having won it in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Good for her, killing another good for her?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
You got too, good for her?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I've seemed a little bit more genuine though, Yeah it did,
didn't it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I mean the first one, let's see here, ever for
a rookie.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Good for her and good for her killing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, you're right, good for her.
Speaker 15 (24:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
The first one is like f you right, good for her,
good for her, but the second one.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
And for her killing it.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh wait, I gotta I've messed that up here just
a little bit. Hold on, wait a minute, let me
put some booming in here. Good for her, Oh yeah,
good for her. So we have one good for her
is like good for her, good for her, but the
second one.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Good for her?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, a little more enthusiastic.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
She meant that.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
All right. Let's see what is your favorite? Good for her?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Good for her, good for her?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, the second one. I like the second one, Like
if I said, hey, you know, Bellio just got us
an unbelievable number on social media. Right with Instagram, we've
eclipsed everybody at the station. If I said good for her,
she'd be pissed. But if I gave her a good
for her, good for her, absolutely you want that second one, right? Yeah,
(25:40):
all right, Angel Martinez. You get one or.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Two you get good for her or good for her.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Let's say, all right, Angel Martinez want a Golden Mic,
Golden Mic for best traffic report. You want number one.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Good for her?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Or number two good for her? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Number two?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yes, yeah, gotta go for number two.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Good for her.
Speaker 16 (26:02):
Loves number two, so funny Plio, although I believe Bellio
picked number two.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Two?
Speaker 11 (26:15):
Yeah, I think I think you guys both like number two.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
They were in France. It would be a doodoo Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Good for her.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, Bellio likes that number two, good for her, so
does Angel though, good for her, good for her, Although
somebody says, you're you really like number two?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You want for her?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I want the fast one you want to get out?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Good for her?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well, good for both of.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
You guys, good for her, good for her.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You guys should do a podcast Bellio and Angel together
and this should be.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
The title good for her, good for her, good for.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Good for her and Angel with their.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Podcast good for her, good for her.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Think off with you, guys. That's their that's her ding
dong people stealing my ideas all the time. She wanted
your d dog that you knew was taken, so she
had to do.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Good for her, good for her, good for her, good
for her?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
What the hell? All right? Tommy Lee's dog was attacked?
Big news, right, Tommy Lee, the singer, actor, writer, dancer.
Speaker 14 (27:14):
A terrifying coyote attack caught on security camera video at
the Woodland Hills home of rocker Tommy Lee and his
wife Britney Furlong. There are two small dogs by the
backyard pool, and the coyote quickly snatches Nina, a ten
year old long hair English Cream dosent pull dog, a
ten year old long hair English Cream docsent.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Man, oh man. When somebody says, what kind of dog
is that you got to go into that?
Speaker 14 (27:36):
A ten year old long hair English Cream.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Docsent, that's a long haired English I don't know. It
runs around in poops with.
Speaker 14 (27:44):
The dog and his jaws. The coyote tries to leap
back over the wall as Britney sprints behind. Brittany says
Tommy Lee was inside the house on a conference call
when he heard her screams. He's seen here on camera
after running outside to help, but Brittany had already faced
off with the coyote and.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Pulled her dog free.
Speaker 14 (27:59):
Brittany, who was an actress, had a comedian and says
she and Tommy had never seen a coyote in their
backyard before today.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Not her screaming in the background, I was wondering. Wow. Brittany,
who was.
Speaker 14 (28:08):
An actress, had a comedian and says she and Tommy
had never seen a coyote in their backyard before today.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
She should be up at Universal for that fright Nights thing,
you know, screaming everybody likes.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
That pads on slider around.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yes, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 14 (28:21):
She and Tommy had never seen a coyote in their
backyard before today, and this one jumped over a ten
foot wall.
Speaker 15 (28:28):
Brittany says, incredibly, Nina, Wow, a ten foot wall. A
coyote can get over ten foot wall? Wait a minute,
is that true?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
That is true?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, wait a minute, a ten foot wall a coyote
And how an angel and belly O the good for you.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Girls, good for her, good for her.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
How do you guys know that you're just making yours
guessing feet?
Speaker 17 (29:01):
Yeah, because you know it's a couldn't we have dogs.
It's a concern.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I'd like to see that.
Speaker 17 (29:06):
They say it could even get over a fourteen foot barrier.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I'd love to see that.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 11 (29:11):
They say it's not even safe to leave your dogs
in an enclosed yard because they can hop over. The
coyotes can hop over the fence and nab the dog
and take off.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yep, well, I understand a fence, but are ten or
fourteen feet? Come on?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 11 (29:25):
There's just a running start and just climb straight up
the wall.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Really wow?
Speaker 14 (29:29):
Oh yeah, and this one jumped over a ten foot wall,
Brittany says, incredibly, Nina suffered no serious injuries in that.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
If you think the coyote, after hearing all that screaming
and jumping back over the wall, do you think he
said to the other coyotes. I don't know how Tommy
Lee does it that kind of craziness, screaming like that.
I don't know what.
Speaker 17 (29:54):
If Abby was in the backyard and you looked out
and that coyote was there, wouldn't you scream?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I don't know if i'd scream. I try to. I
try to wrestle that coyote, though, I try to kick
that coyote's ass. Yeah, really go out there and work
that coyote. Yeah, you guys going to run from you? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Would you hold it?
Speaker 11 (30:12):
Up over your shoulders and like spin around and stuff
throw it.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Well, I tighten my belt first of all, like sindbad
good for him the can of spinach, and off to
the races with this pup. I'd knocked at it, he
would be gone. Good for her coyote once, Oh you did. Yeah,
we were on a trail up close to the foothills.
(30:37):
Aggressive one, well he was. It was a path and
he was about twenty feet ahead of us. He was
probably six or seven at the time, and he looked
right out stared us down, and I just I ran
after him, and.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
He took off.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
You know, I read a story I don't know, may
have been ten or fifteen years ago, that a couple
was up in Big Bear and they had a child
and a stroller and the coyote took the out of
the stroller and ran away from it and dropped it.
But could have vanished with that kid, you know, the baby,
a little tiny baby. So it is crazy out there. Look,
the coyotes are just following our lead. We're, you know,
(31:14):
a city full of a holes, and so are the coyotes.
And now that they're building that bridge across the one
on one, they're coming to get you. They're coming to
get you and your dogies. And we paid for it.
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Why did you call it before the murder bridge.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, that's what it is. The Yeah, the murder murder
your pet animal bridge, because they're you know, you're we're
building a bridge over the one on one to get
mountain lions to come eat our pets. And we paid
for it, well, not me, but I guess private industry
paid for it. And now these mountain lions they've got
a fork in one hand and a knife in the other.
They got a little bib on and they're coming for us.
(31:51):
And we did it. We let them help them cross
that bridge. And now they're coming to eat the dogs
and the kids. They're eating dogs and cats. The people
of Thousand Oaks is now TERMP said, who's eating the dogs?
Who's eating the cats of Thousand Oaks? Something like that.
Maybe I got two stories confused, all right. Were live
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