October 9, 2024 • 32 mins
Steve Gregory, Burbank officers cleared in Home Depot shooting // Mets Win and move on / MLB playoff standings // Charlotte Harbor experiencing Storm surge / NOAA Hurricane Hunters inside Milton // Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF. I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We're
keeping an eye on Hurricane Milton, and we'll have updates
for you all afternoon long. It's supposed the eye of
the storm is supposed to hit tonight and right about
(00:21):
an hour from now, and then it's going to go
clear across Florida tonight and it'll be off in the
Atlantic Ocean by tomorrow morning. And Steve Gregory joins the Steve,
how you Buffy buddy? Now, you have an aunt who's
in Ceria.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I have an aunt in Florida, and actually I'll be there.
I'll be I have to land in Tampa in a
week and a half. I'm heading down there to teach
for a week at a university. And the university I
was noticing it's in winter Haven, Florida. And when I
looked at the map today, that thing, the eye of
the storm is projected to go right over winter Haven.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What do you teach other you're still doing the online
dating course. Yeah, that's fighting all the way to Florida
to do it. Zoom there.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, that's part of my cop class. I get hired
by Sheriff Grady Judd. Wow, to go down there. It's
a no nonsense guy. I do one week of an
eight week course for executive leadership and how many hours
a day? It's eight hours a day. It's a forty
hour course. You do forty hours. I do forty hours
by myself.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, And I'll tell you something. I'm totally energized and
jazzed about it. I meet you exhausted afterwards. I am,
I really am when I get back here. In fact,
I land the night of your big shindig at Morongo
to be the first time I've missed it, and so
I get so fired up when I get done from there.
But I come back mentally drained because I'm dealing with
(01:43):
thirty chiefs, captains, commanders from around the country and they're
all down there for an eight week executive leadership course.
And so I go down there and I do a
whole week of media relations and crisis communications.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Isn't that the guy you mentioned what's his name of
Sheriff Grady Judd. Isn't that the guy had said if
you if if somebody breaks your helm, we hope you
turn him into Swiss cheese.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, it's that's kind of paraphrasing. He's the one that
in a press conference and I'm paraphrasing. A reporter asked
him if the number of times they shot at somebody
who fired at officers, he thought that that was excessive,
and he goes, no, he said, I'm just sorry they
ran out of bullets.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Wow, difference. It's a different, different state. And let me
tell you something.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It takes about a half a day for me to
go down there and explain to them I'm here to help,
you know, I mean helping officers in my training helps reporters.
They don't get that, but they automatically think I go
down there with a certain ideology because of where I'm from.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yahks, you're from California. Yeah, they where if you had
a let's say you show up to rob a store,
like a seven to eleven, and if you have a
fake gun on you and you rob the store and
then you're shot by cops, that they consider that to
be unarmed, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Assembly How crazy is that Assembly Bill fifteen oh six.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Then so the cop has to decide and nose split
and that split second where that that gun's real or not. Well,
I don't think they think about that at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What they think about is what the imminent threat is
in front of them, and if they see any kind
of a weapon at the time, an officer, there's no
human being that can can delineate that in such a
split second, and you know, they have to look at
that and what they're deciding is whether that individual is
going to be an imminent threat to themselves or to others.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Right, And this happened in Burbank. My home depot. A
guy got crazy in my home depot, which I take
personally right there on Flower Street, off the little bit
east of the five Freeway, and the Bourbank cops show up,
like they do every time you call them in Burbank.
They show up quickly and they take care business. Yeah,
we're talking about a case from May twenty seventh of
(03:43):
last year. It was a really highly publicized event because
it was a busy it was a holiday weekend, it
was a Memorial Day weekend. And this guy calls nine
one one and he says, I'm in a car in
the home depot parking lot and I'm going to shoot everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
He says, I have a gun. In fact, the news
stories that play. Okay, if I knews that I did.
I played some of the nine to one one audio
where he says I have a gun and he said,
I'm going to shoot everybody up, and then he starts
going off on this tangent about his daughter being kidnapped
and he was being chased. So officers show up, like
you said, they get there pretty quickly. They surround him
and it's a crowded parking lot. I mean, it's a
holiday weekend at a home depot, and you know what
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that's like. So the officers are doing everything they can
to de escalate the situation, talk the guy down. They
end up using some less lethal rounds and they're deploying those,
and everything seemed to be fine, kind of stabilized. And
the thing with cops, they've got a lot of time
on their hands. They would much rather sit there and
talk the guy down than to escalate it. Well, this
(04:41):
guy decided that he'd had enough, I suppose, and he
went off to the side of the car, took a stance,
a shooting stance, and then put up his arms and
pretended like he had a gun. And at that point
officers just have to react and respond because they think
in this crowded parking lot, he going to be a
danger to them and to others, so they opened fire.
(05:03):
At least three officers were identified as opening fire and
killing him. And so because as you mentioned, Assembly Bill
fifteen oh six that was signed into law a little
over a year ago, about a year and a half ago,
says that anybody who is killed by a peace officer
that is not armed has to be investigated by the state.
(05:25):
It's all part of that whole reform movement that happened
in twenty twenty. And so I took him that long
to clear these guys. Well, what happens because it's the state.
You've got to remember state investigators through the Department of Justice,
they're already busy then before this law was signed, they
were already overwhelmed and overworked. And now add to it,
(05:46):
every agency in California that has an officer involved shooting
or deputy involved shooting where there's someone that's unarmed, and
in this case, as you mentioned, that includes if they're
holding a knife. If they're holding a knife, the law
says they're still unarmed.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Really they're holding a replica gun, an actual knife is unarmed.
The guy that was shot at the home depot, had
a tactical knife with him in his hand. He's armed,
he was armed in our in our definition, he's harmed
by common sense, But the law says he's still unarmed.
Do you think t s A would consider that to
be an armed gun. I think that would be another
another uh national agency. Yeah, another federally fed federal agency.
(06:24):
But the but the State Department of Justice says it's unarmed. Well,
it wasn't the dj that passed it. You got to
remember those lawmakers that did that, right. Okay, So these guys,
these three Burbank cops were cleared, well, they were cleared
of any criminal wrongdoings. Okay. Now will this story appear
anywhere outside of K five because they all condemned him.
They all condemned those cops when this happened. And now
(06:44):
will any of these uh these cowards on local news
other than this station? Will they run it? I did
see it on the NBC affiliate. Good for them.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I did see I didn't hear it, but I did
see it because I was in the newsroom when I
saw it, because we're in hurricane coverage mode, so I
was watching. I saw the video and I saw the
crop the chiron saying that this was the shooting from
last year. So but I but as soon as I
saw it come out, I went back and got audio
from that in the nine one one call, and I
spoke to the chief Chief, Allen Ease at per Bank PD,
(07:13):
just to clarify stuff, and then I put the story
on the air because you know, the thing is is
that's that's an important story because peep sharp, you know,
when people jump to conclusions and automatically, you know, the
call officers, you know, you know, they start to jump
to these conclusions about cops. It makes me laugh sometimes
when people think that that an officer gets up in
the morning and the first thing they say, while they're
(07:35):
shaving or washing their face, God, I can't go out
and wait to shoot somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, they don't do that. And then they also cleared
the two Bourbank cops that were accused of dumping the
homeless guy.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, now that that was a while back, but that was, yeah,
the investigation there. They cleared him in that because there
was a lot behind the scenes that the public didn't
know about. But again, the public indicted these officers based
on a twenty second viral video clip. That twenty second
video clip became sort of the beacon of what people
decided what the story was.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And what's always missing from these viral videos is context,
what led the people up to that event.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I've lived in I would say seven or eight different
communities that had seven or eight different police agencies. There
is nobody better than the Burbank cops. I'm telling you
I've experienced. No, I don't know about that. I'm telling you.
I had a motorcycle officer ticket me. Yeah, well you're
doing one hundred and third. No, I was do you
know where that target is over on Hollywood Way?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yes, I turned left to go in there to park right,
and I didn't they put a no left turn lane
or sign up there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But they didn't have it there when it opened.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Nah, and so but and then they put it in
a way where you can't see the eye line. You
can't see it unless you're already well, Steve, I don't
know if I have to beat you over the head
with this. You know the laws in the state of California, remember,
made for your protection.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Do you know that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So, why the hell did not the city planners blok
that left turn lane. They put a left turn lane. There,
there's a painted left turn lane there. He broke the law,
you got I didn't break the law.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Broke the law. There was already a painted left turn lane.
I took a broke the law, and you got to
I fought it because they didn't want to show up.
Because they showed up.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The officer showed up, and he reviewed his bodycam footage
of his exchange with me, just to refresh his memory.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They should come in here right now and restue. No, buddy,
I appreciate you coming on or whatever. Giants, it's as lawbreaker.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm not a law breaker. It was painted a left
turn lane. And then, well, here's the thing. The soccer
mom behind me did the same. She got a ticket,
she got a warning. Good, she got a warning. I
tell the motorcycle soccer mom, why did I get a ticket?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
She got a warning. And he goes. He just shrugged
his shoulders. So she's got kids. I get to sell
some kids. You'll get a break. Oh buddy, you're the best,
thanks for coming in whatever, all.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Right, just.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Whatever you Oh yeah, he walked out of here so angry.
He's great. I love's great. He's great when he's pissed.
He's the best. I relive on CAMF I were following
this storm, not the one that Gregory just threw when
he left here, but Milton about the same size.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, we're keeping on Milton. We're gonna have a
guy on named Chad, a friend of a friend who
lives in Tampa. But from what I understand, the cell
service in a lot of the area is down because
of the storm. So we're trying to get hold of him,
but it's going to be pretty tough to get hold
of anybody in Florida right now, anybody. And tomorrow. We've
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got a great segment we're working on for tomorrow. Matthew Anderson.
Matt Anderson, he's one of the big tech guys here. Yeah,
Matt's awesome. Yeah, he's the best. And he has a
he's a Ham Radio guy, which I love, you know,
I love these guys still into Ham Radio. He still exists,
he still exists, and Croach. A lot of people in
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North Carolina and Georgia, Florida who were affected by these hurricanes.
They had to rely on Ham radios initially to get
the word out, any kind word out.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
It's like the it's like the Congress dealing with passing
a requirement that AM radio stay in the cars, same reason, Yeah, exactly,
and everything else goes to crap Ham radios. AM radios.
They will be there.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Mets FO Philly one. The Phillies won. No, the Phillies lost,
but they had one. They had one run? Is it over? Yeah,
Philly one? No, Mets one, Philly one run, Mets four runs. God,
I'd be great with sports radio. Huh wouldn't you tune
(11:55):
in to listen to this idiot sports updates? Thank you?
Philadelphia one, New York Mets four? Wait what met at
Philadelphia one? But New York Mets four dead one? Philly one,
New York for no New York one, No in Philly one? Ah, Christ,
(12:17):
God to you in the studio.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The New York Mets. They move on in the playoffs.
This is an unbelievable year for the Mets and they
didn't get into the playoffs until after the regular season
was over. They had a play in game against Atlanta
and they snuck into the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
So there, so they're moving on. Yes, the best of five,
that's right. I don't understand why they do that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Make it seven, man, Yeah they should, It should be seven,
but it's not. It's five. And the Dodgers, if they
lose tonight, they're out. Yeah, so the Phillies are out.
The Phillies had a great record, I think the second
best record in baseball. Dodgers had the best record in baseball.
And both of them could be out on the same time,
how about them. So the Phillies are going home, the
(13:06):
Mets are moving on in the playoffs, and the Mets,
I believe, will be playing for the National League title?
Is that right? No, I can't be right, you know,
I think it is right. Yeah, I think it is. Yeah,
the Mets will be playing for the National League title
and they'll play either the Padres or the Dodgers. And
what a year for your New York Mets. Kind of
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an odd, crazy year for the Mets. They were all
but out. Yes, they were completely out of it. And
now they've they've they've won. They beat Atlanta, then they
won their first series. I remember who that was with
those American League teams. I don't know who they beat.
(13:51):
Mets fans are yelling at the radio right now. And
then they beat Brewers. Okay, they beat the Brewers, and
then they beat they just be filled the Phillies. Yeah.
They beat the Braves to get in, they beat the
Brewers to advance, and they beat the Phillies to advance
to the National League title. Wow, what a team.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Maya from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
We are keeping an eye on Hurricane Milton. It's a
big deal, big big deal, and it's going to cause
a lot of damage, tons and tons of damage. Let's
get an update here and find out exactly who's being affected,
who's getting hit the hardest here Hurricane Milton. An update
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just moments ago.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Twelve Florida coastline. It's less than fifty miles off. Short
hours the proflies. But again it's all about the angle
of attack and how it comes in. But we will
see a landfall, likely in the next couple of hours
or so, two to three hours. We'll see that. I'm
in Charlotte Harbor right now, but literally standing in Charlotte
har which is taken over the parking area here at
the Sunseeker in Port Charlotte places like Punta Gorda. We
(15:06):
know Port Charlotte forecasting eight to ten feet of storm surge.
We had over six with Helene.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And if you.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Remember with Ian, Ian went to our south, so the
winds were offshore, so we didn't get this storm surge.
So here's two huge storm search events in this area.
It's just a couple of weeks. I mean, y'all's two.
Can't tory and we continue our coverage of Milton.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You know what the the problems they had is the
last hurricane they had a week ago or two weeks ago, Helene.
It created a tremendous amount of damage and everybody put
all there's water logged furniture, TVs, mattresses, you know, dresser drawers,
all that crap went out onto the curb and the
city was going to combine and pick it all up. Well,
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the city didn't have time to stop by every house
and pick it up. So about fifty five sixty percent
of that trash is still outside, and that's going to
be thrown around the neighborhood and it's going to be
like missiles. Once the wind gets a hold of that
furniture that's already outside, it's going to go through the
neighborhood and wipe people out. So that's what they're afraid of,
(16:08):
this monster Hurricane Milton making land fall, and they are
officially saying that it has made landfall at this point. Yeah,
that's crazy, man, unbelievable. And it's going to be moved
quickly by by morning, it's going to be off the
east coast.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Gone, it's only got to travel one hundred and twenty
miles from coast to coast.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's it? Huh, that's about the distance. So at twelve
miles an hour, ten hours and it's over and then
it flies off to I don't know England or Scotland
wherever it goes.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Next five hurricane boggling the mind with some of the
things that it did in terms of deepening. But now
it's about have you prepared? Are you ready? We're seeing
the power ouches mount. We've had wind gusts sixty seventy
miles an hour now around Bradenton, and power ouch is
now more than three hundred thousand. That number is only
going up. We've got flood warnings and we also have
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an extreme wind warning across the area where you're going
to see the eye wall, come in, plenty of stuff
to talk about. We asked you to evacuate, we're here
to take you through it, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And obviously, hey Krozer, when you worked in Florida, when
you lived in Florida, the guy's covering the hurricanes for
you know, CNN, Fox, MSNBC. Was that Was that a
premier great job to get do people look forward to that?
Or they picked the guy a lowest guy on the ladder. Well,
it kind of depends on who you are.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Like I remember, Steve infamously talks about he went down
to New Orleans right after Katrina, and he says he
was there like right as it was just passing through,
so he had to deal with all of the bad
stuff there, you know, sleeping on overpasses or things like that.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And then he said a day later he saw.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
This gigantic mobile home just move in, or his motorhome
move in and outsteps Anderson Cooper from CNN. Oh wow,
you know, and he's he's dressed to the nines and
he's looking nice and the hair looks perfect.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So it kind of depends on who you are. He's
always got that T shirt look, you know, whatever he
said his story tight black T shirt. Yeah, like a
two hundred dollars T shirt. Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
And obviously with the water that's coming in here, we're
obviously ready to move to higher ground. This is a five,
But there.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Really is crows. Again, you're from Florida, you spend a
lot of time there. There really isn't a higher ground though,
is there? What's the ultimate highest ground in Florida? Twenty
feet It is a lot of flat land. Yeah, it's
a real and even.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
The mayor of Tampa was saying that it's it's like
you don't have to leave the state to evacuate. You
can go twenty miles north or south and you should
be okay. But the primary thing is to get the
higher ground. But like you said, there's a lot of
higher ground on that area of Florida.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And then they also said they're taking all of the
trash and all the debris, all the broken, water logged
furniture to a landfill. But how is there a landfill
in Florida? Everything? You know, you dig nine feet deep
and there's water. Yeah, where are those landfills? Yeah, I'd
like to know where they are. I think it's the Everglades.
They just dump all that crap in the everglades. Let
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the alligators do with That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
This is a five story parking garage. We can keep
going up as far as we want. Obviously we never
want to get to the fifth story. But you can
see coming into here has flooded. This is the same
thing that happened to Helene. We had water that was
up to about this red marker here, and so that
was about six feet, So think about this eight ten
to be worse, certainly in a perfect scenario. So we're
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just getting into this now.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Here have gusted over sixty miles an hour at times,
but I'm again in a tunnel around this corner, but
not the strongest winds.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
They exist. And look he's with a satellite feed and
it's still cutting out.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
They exist, just water coming in. Because really here in
Port Charlotte, input to Gorda, this is a third story.
This is a third story. This is really a dry
part of the storm. The southern part of the storm
has really dried out. That's why all the flood warnings
are north. And we talked about that Tampa. You know,
even if you don't get a storm center that goes
to your north, you're going to be on the wet
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and active side. We've had an incredible day, guys, of
several large tornado touchdowns with destruction Fort Pierce, Piero Beach,
some of these areas again in Day County. Just a
horrible situation with the tornadoes. That's taken the lead story
so far, even before landfall. All right, let's go down
to the police.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
All right. That guy sounds exactly like Donald Trump Junior.
I think it was. I think, especially with the guys. Yes,
all right here, the hurricane hunters inside the storm for Noah,
bag you my phone real quick. Yeah, grab my phone
(20:39):
real quick if you're busy at the moment, Steve, if
you want to see that video, I put it up
on my personal Twitter page, thank you very much. I
put about about five to ten videos a year, so
I think I'm still in the game. But if you
go to Tim Conway Junior at Tim Conway Jr. It's
the one of the videos up there. And I don't
even have that many people following me. Kind of a
(20:59):
loser in that area.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Yeah, that must mean the other people that don't have
as many or even bigger losers.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, let's see how many how many people you think
followed me personally on Twitter? On x how many think?
Fourteen thousand, eight hundred, right? And how many people? How
many do I follow? Four? Three?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
No, No, you're not.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I follow the Kings, the La Kings. There you go.
Personal pages. Yeah, I follow KFI, I like KFI, follow staff,
and I follow Elon Musk basically before he got into politics.
But I've been following him for years and years. But
those are the three and one of the reasons I
wanted to follow him because if anyone complains about me,
(21:49):
I'm like, hey, Elon, I follow you and there's somebody
complaining about me, can you keep me on here? Yeah?
Because I was suspended for three years on Twitter for
stupid crap and so I'm back baby, all right, So
we're gonna keep an eye on the storm here. But
this is the the guy's flying through it. What a
video that is. And again you can see it on
(22:11):
x or Twitter at Tim Conway. There you go. Check.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
You don't believe in very many conspiracy theories too, so uh,
this video in particular, I've seen people commenting, see it's
fake that they're No, it's proof that they're controlling the
weather because they're in this plane making the hurricane go
left or right or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay, all right, well I'm not there yet with your
weather yet. Yeah, I'm I'm with the I'm with the
no moon landing. I think that was a fake. And
I've gotten calls.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
What does that mean, you've gotten coach, I've got don't
talk about that anymore, or we agree with you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
No, don't talk about it anymore. I mean not nowadays.
But when you know, twenty five years ago, when I
was working at kalas X, I got called from somebody
in the government and say, hey, we prefer you not
to do that anymore. They didn't threatn me, they just hey,
can you stop doing that? Does that matchup right around
the time you were suspended? No, no, no, no, that
was for something else. But look, I think if you're
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not suspended in radio, you're not pushing hard enough. And
I've been suspended three times, so Patrick King, Patrick, But
I don't believe in the moon landing, and I'm still
up for you know, up forward if Amy wants to
prove it. But our new news anchor here is in
line with you on them. Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, you know what you know what. I feel like
that's my feminine side because everyone I talked to about it,
it's mostly women that don't believe that it is it's true.
Guys are like, yeah, we're wit to the moon, man,
where are the best? And we're like, yeah, I just
don't see it. I don't see it. Yeah, why have
we been back since? You know, there's a lot of
a lot of interesting articles written about how we didn't go.
(23:55):
If we have the technology and back in nineteen sixty nine,
we don't have it in twenty twenty four. I don't know.
That's something going on. So I don't believe until the moon.
And I don't believe that the real Paul McCartney is
still with the Beatles. I think it's a fake Paul McCartney.
So those are one. Two I believe in, and I
think if you believe in three or more, you've got
you know, issues. But I'm open to a third. I
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guess I don't know the weather control. I could jump
on that if I see some proof. I don't know
right now. It's just you know, Marjorie Green, that's sick. Yeah,
I don't when I get met the camp, do you no?
And originally when she said that everyone thought she was
talking about Jews, you know, the Jews control lass and
she had to clear it up. No, No, it's just
(24:39):
the government control another thing.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, that's another thing. I don't believe that the Jews.
I don't believe any of those conspiracy theories you know
about you know, running show business or the world or
money or weather and all that stuff. I don't bind
it a crap. Oh Anderson Cooper and Bradenton, Florida right now.
Oh he is, Oh, let's crank him up. Well, let's
come back and put out Henderson Cooper with his T
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shirt in Florida.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Okay, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
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Speaker 1 (25:12):
Milton is hitting Tampa right now, and it is pretty bad,
pretty pretty bad. Hurricane Milton making landfall near Siesta Key.
I think that's part of Tampa Siesta Key, which I
believe means the sleeping Keys as far as I know.
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All right, let's we're gonna flip on CNN here in
a second and see if we can check out Anderson Cooper.
He's always entertaining. He's got like two or three other
CNN guys out there. As well. One of them is
already in knee deep water.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I love when they're in knee deep water or in
a canoe and a guy walks in the water behind
him and he does it's almost like in slow motion.
He just looks at the camera like, yeah, it's great
how they out these guys. But this is a really
horrific storm, and it's it's gonna you know, a lot
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of people are going to be affected for months to come,
months to come, and you know they're expecting ten to
twelve foot thirteen foot surge and it's it's it's just
a brutal storm. It's just horrible. The guys that flew
through it and they were being bounced all around. I
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think you may have seen the.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Video on that those are hurricane hunters can be thrown
around by Hurricane Milton's turbulence.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
But they're up there to collect.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Data on this massive storm for all of the meteorologists
so they know where it's going, how strong it is,
and helping all of us get prepared.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
All right, Krozer, again, we rely on you to be
our Florida specialist. What is the theory on and the
timing of hurricanes? Is it better that they come ashore
at night where they're not as powerful, or is it
better when they come during the day where people can see,
where they're a little more powerful.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
A lot of it depends on whether or not it
is the ebb or the flow of the high tides, right,
and specifically with Florida, their high tide was a six
nineteen this evening. Oh that was kind of close to
the worst time for to becoming because the water is
already high there.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You know this is not a conspiracy theory, but I
only learned this this year that the tides don't move.
The earth moves. Yes, So the tide stays the same,
like high water stays the same, and the earth rotates
into it. Yes. So like if it's for it's all
because of the moon, right, yeah, And so you know
that's how they can predict the high tide for you know,
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years from now, they know what it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Oh yeah, that's why the high tide is also in
the evening because you think about it, that's that's as
the night comes in, that's when the moon is is
right there, the closest to you, so it's pulling that
ocean towards it is that right towards the land, especially
on the west coast side out of the Gulf.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'll rely on you for that. But anyway, so we're
keep an eye on on this horrible storm. Maybe you
have some friends or family live in Florida. You're nervous
about them. You've been keeping in touch with them. Maybe
if they have satellite radio? What does that what does
that thing that Elon Musk has star Starling starlink? Yeah,
I guess that starlink works, you know, whether you you
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know you have you need electricity obviously, but very little
you know, just to power that up. You can use
uh you know, a generator power that thing up, and
you can still communicate, you know, with your computer. You
have all the you know, the Internet you need and.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
As and as you've said, those satellites for starlink are
in low earth orbits. So if you just take a
look in the sky you can see it.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Is that right? I didn't know that. You don't know that, right,
You didn't know that you can you can or cannot?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
You can?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, you can the naked eye. Oh I see. Okay,
but we were talking about uh, and we're gonna we're gonna,
let's go to CNN right now. I think Anderson Cooper
is there with his black hat on his shirt.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Everyone. I mean, you look at it on a on
a map and and being on the ground. It just
it's so interesting how quickly things shift. Just in the
last two minutes before we came back from break, suddenly
the Manatee River is now churning. We had seen some
white caps on some water, but I mean these are
now really, these are now waves churning on the Manatee River,
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and the water is really starting to come over. I
mean you can see it now, just running it. This
is all water both from the river and also water
coming from higher ground from this rain which is just
been coming down obviously for for much of the day.
But this is the first time we really I don't know, Neil,
if you can even kind of come up and just
get a sense.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Of just how choppy this water has suddenly, I guess.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
As the wind has shifted somewhat. But I'm very curious
to see over the next you know, how long, whether
it's this wind pattern lasts, how much water starts to
come up.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Here Lauderdale's twenty one miles an hour. This is the
river walk here in in Bradenton, Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
And we have been out here now for for several hours,
and this is really the first time. This looks similar
to what Bill Weir was experiencing in Saint Petersburg about
an hour or two ago. Water really coming up on
the on the piers there. This is the first time
now that we are seeing this here.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Bill. Let's Bill.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I want to bring you in here getting because this
reminds me of your live shot earlier in their day.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's just fascinating that this is Bill. Bill, we're the
science guy. I think it's differ different.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yeah, this is that, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Being on the northern side of this storm, we got
the slop, we got so much more of the rain
blow them away. Branches around Bill Weir got blown away.
He did, he did. Now, it's really gusting. That was
a monster. That was a that was a take you're
breath the way whoa watch out, watch out.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
The problem is at Anderson where he's at in that
river walk that is south of Tampa Bay, like just south.
So he's getting at least a little bit of the
benefit of some of those winds being cut down by
some of the land that's there. Where Bill is he's
further north across the bay. He's getting directly hit from
Tampa Bay water in those winds. So he's got nothing
that's stopping him. That's why his his dvantage point is
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much worse.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Hill were used to be a guy here, you know,
local guy here in Los Angeles, m Steph. He was like, yep,
I think he did sports here, right, Yeah, he did
sports and he was a big golfer and just a
normal guy. Then he got the normal, got crazy. He
deal with Anderson Cooper. Yeah, and he say he got
into politics, got all weird. But let's crank this up here.
(31:45):
This CNN will watch us. We're gonna take a break,
welcome back and continue here with our watch of Hurricane Milton.
And also the Dodgers are starting momentarily, Lots going on.
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the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We're
keeping an eye on Hurricane Milton, and we'll have updates
for you all afternoon long. It's supposed the eye of
the storm is supposed to hit tonight and right about
(00:21):
an hour from now, and then it's going to go
clear across Florida tonight and it'll be off in the
Atlantic Ocean by tomorrow morning. And Steve Gregory joins the Steve,
how you Buffy buddy? Now, you have an aunt who's
in Ceria.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I have an aunt in Florida, and actually I'll be there.
I'll be I have to land in Tampa in a
week and a half. I'm heading down there to teach
for a week at a university. And the university I
was noticing it's in winter Haven, Florida. And when I
looked at the map today, that thing, the eye of
the storm is projected to go right over winter Haven.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What do you teach other you're still doing the online
dating course. Yeah, that's fighting all the way to Florida
to do it. Zoom there.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, that's part of my cop class. I get hired
by Sheriff Grady Judd. Wow, to go down there. It's
a no nonsense guy. I do one week of an
eight week course for executive leadership and how many hours
a day? It's eight hours a day. It's a forty
hour course. You do forty hours. I do forty hours
by myself.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, And I'll tell you something. I'm totally energized and
jazzed about it. I meet you exhausted afterwards. I am,
I really am when I get back here. In fact,
I land the night of your big shindig at Morongo
to be the first time I've missed it, and so
I get so fired up when I get done from there.
But I come back mentally drained because I'm dealing with
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thirty chiefs, captains, commanders from around the country and they're
all down there for an eight week executive leadership course.
And so I go down there and I do a
whole week of media relations and crisis communications.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Isn't that the guy you mentioned what's his name of
Sheriff Grady Judd. Isn't that the guy had said if
you if if somebody breaks your helm, we hope you
turn him into Swiss cheese.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, it's that's kind of paraphrasing. He's the one that
in a press conference and I'm paraphrasing. A reporter asked
him if the number of times they shot at somebody
who fired at officers, he thought that that was excessive,
and he goes, no, he said, I'm just sorry they
ran out of bullets.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Wow, difference. It's a different, different state. And let me
tell you something.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It takes about a half a day for me to
go down there and explain to them I'm here to help,
you know, I mean helping officers in my training helps reporters.
They don't get that, but they automatically think I go
down there with a certain ideology because of where I'm from.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yahks, you're from California. Yeah, they where if you had
a let's say you show up to rob a store,
like a seven to eleven, and if you have a
fake gun on you and you rob the store and
then you're shot by cops, that they consider that to
be unarmed, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Assembly How crazy is that Assembly Bill fifteen oh six.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Then so the cop has to decide and nose split
and that split second where that that gun's real or not. Well,
I don't think they think about that at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What they think about is what the imminent threat is
in front of them, and if they see any kind
of a weapon at the time, an officer, there's no
human being that can can delineate that in such a
split second, and you know, they have to look at
that and what they're deciding is whether that individual is
going to be an imminent threat to themselves or to others.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Right, And this happened in Burbank. My home depot. A
guy got crazy in my home depot, which I take
personally right there on Flower Street, off the little bit
east of the five Freeway, and the Bourbank cops show up,
like they do every time you call them in Burbank.
They show up quickly and they take care business. Yeah,
we're talking about a case from May twenty seventh of
(03:43):
last year. It was a really highly publicized event because
it was a busy it was a holiday weekend, it
was a Memorial Day weekend. And this guy calls nine
one one and he says, I'm in a car in
the home depot parking lot and I'm going to shoot everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
He says, I have a gun. In fact, the news
stories that play. Okay, if I knews that I did.
I played some of the nine to one one audio
where he says I have a gun and he said,
I'm going to shoot everybody up, and then he starts
going off on this tangent about his daughter being kidnapped
and he was being chased. So officers show up, like
you said, they get there pretty quickly. They surround him
and it's a crowded parking lot. I mean, it's a
holiday weekend at a home depot, and you know what
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that's like. So the officers are doing everything they can
to de escalate the situation, talk the guy down. They
end up using some less lethal rounds and they're deploying those,
and everything seemed to be fine, kind of stabilized. And
the thing with cops, they've got a lot of time
on their hands. They would much rather sit there and
talk the guy down than to escalate it. Well, this
(04:41):
guy decided that he'd had enough, I suppose, and he
went off to the side of the car, took a stance,
a shooting stance, and then put up his arms and
pretended like he had a gun. And at that point
officers just have to react and respond because they think
in this crowded parking lot, he going to be a
danger to them and to others, so they opened fire.
(05:03):
At least three officers were identified as opening fire and
killing him. And so because as you mentioned, Assembly Bill
fifteen oh six that was signed into law a little
over a year ago, about a year and a half ago,
says that anybody who is killed by a peace officer
that is not armed has to be investigated by the state.
(05:25):
It's all part of that whole reform movement that happened
in twenty twenty. And so I took him that long
to clear these guys. Well, what happens because it's the state.
You've got to remember state investigators through the Department of Justice,
they're already busy then before this law was signed, they
were already overwhelmed and overworked. And now add to it,
(05:46):
every agency in California that has an officer involved shooting
or deputy involved shooting where there's someone that's unarmed, and
in this case, as you mentioned, that includes if they're
holding a knife. If they're holding a knife, the law
says they're still unarmed.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Really they're holding a replica gun, an actual knife is unarmed.
The guy that was shot at the home depot, had
a tactical knife with him in his hand. He's armed,
he was armed in our in our definition, he's harmed
by common sense, But the law says he's still unarmed.
Do you think t s A would consider that to
be an armed gun. I think that would be another
another uh national agency. Yeah, another federally fed federal agency.
(06:24):
But the but the State Department of Justice says it's unarmed. Well,
it wasn't the dj that passed it. You got to
remember those lawmakers that did that, right. Okay, So these guys,
these three Burbank cops were cleared, well, they were cleared
of any criminal wrongdoings. Okay. Now will this story appear
anywhere outside of K five because they all condemned him.
They all condemned those cops when this happened. And now
(06:44):
will any of these uh these cowards on local news
other than this station? Will they run it? I did
see it on the NBC affiliate. Good for them.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I did see I didn't hear it, but I did
see it because I was in the newsroom when I
saw it, because we're in hurricane coverage mode, so I
was watching. I saw the video and I saw the
crop the chiron saying that this was the shooting from
last year. So but I but as soon as I
saw it come out, I went back and got audio
from that in the nine one one call, and I
spoke to the chief Chief, Allen Ease at per Bank PD,
(07:13):
just to clarify stuff, and then I put the story
on the air because you know, the thing is is
that's that's an important story because peep sharp, you know,
when people jump to conclusions and automatically, you know, the
call officers, you know, you know, they start to jump
to these conclusions about cops. It makes me laugh sometimes
when people think that that an officer gets up in
the morning and the first thing they say, while they're
(07:35):
shaving or washing their face, God, I can't go out
and wait to shoot somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, they don't do that. And then they also cleared
the two Bourbank cops that were accused of dumping the
homeless guy.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, now that that was a while back, but that was, yeah,
the investigation there. They cleared him in that because there
was a lot behind the scenes that the public didn't
know about. But again, the public indicted these officers based
on a twenty second viral video clip. That twenty second
video clip became sort of the beacon of what people
decided what the story was.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And what's always missing from these viral videos is context,
what led the people up to that event.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I've lived in I would say seven or eight different
communities that had seven or eight different police agencies. There
is nobody better than the Burbank cops. I'm telling you
I've experienced. No, I don't know about that. I'm telling you.
I had a motorcycle officer ticket me. Yeah, well you're
doing one hundred and third. No, I was do you
know where that target is over on Hollywood Way?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yes, I turned left to go in there to park right,
and I didn't they put a no left turn lane
or sign up there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But they didn't have it there when it opened.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Nah, and so but and then they put it in
a way where you can't see the eye line. You
can't see it unless you're already well, Steve, I don't
know if I have to beat you over the head
with this. You know the laws in the state of California, remember,
made for your protection.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Do you know that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So, why the hell did not the city planners blok
that left turn lane. They put a left turn lane. There,
there's a painted left turn lane there. He broke the law,
you got I didn't break the law.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Broke the law. There was already a painted left turn lane.
I took a broke the law, and you got to
I fought it because they didn't want to show up.
Because they showed up.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The officer showed up, and he reviewed his bodycam footage
of his exchange with me, just to refresh his memory.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They should come in here right now and restue. No, buddy,
I appreciate you coming on or whatever. Giants, it's as lawbreaker.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm not a law breaker. It was painted a left
turn lane. And then, well, here's the thing. The soccer
mom behind me did the same. She got a ticket,
she got a warning. Good, she got a warning. I
tell the motorcycle soccer mom, why did I get a ticket?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
She got a warning. And he goes. He just shrugged
his shoulders. So she's got kids. I get to sell
some kids. You'll get a break. Oh buddy, you're the best,
thanks for coming in whatever, all.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Right, just.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Whatever you Oh yeah, he walked out of here so angry.
He's great. I love's great. He's great when he's pissed.
He's the best. I relive on CAMF I were following
this storm, not the one that Gregory just threw when
he left here, but Milton about the same size.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
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Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, we're keeping on Milton. We're gonna have a
guy on named Chad, a friend of a friend who
lives in Tampa. But from what I understand, the cell
service in a lot of the area is down because
of the storm. So we're trying to get hold of him,
but it's going to be pretty tough to get hold
of anybody in Florida right now, anybody. And tomorrow. We've
(10:50):
got a great segment we're working on for tomorrow. Matthew Anderson.
Matt Anderson, he's one of the big tech guys here. Yeah,
Matt's awesome. Yeah, he's the best. And he has a
he's a Ham Radio guy, which I love, you know,
I love these guys still into Ham Radio. He still exists,
he still exists, and Croach. A lot of people in
(11:12):
North Carolina and Georgia, Florida who were affected by these hurricanes.
They had to rely on Ham radios initially to get
the word out, any kind word out.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
It's like the it's like the Congress dealing with passing
a requirement that AM radio stay in the cars, same reason, Yeah, exactly,
and everything else goes to crap Ham radios. AM radios.
They will be there.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Mets FO Philly one. The Phillies won. No, the Phillies lost,
but they had one. They had one run? Is it over? Yeah,
Philly one? No, Mets one, Philly one run, Mets four runs. God,
I'd be great with sports radio. Huh wouldn't you tune
(11:55):
in to listen to this idiot sports updates? Thank you?
Philadelphia one, New York Mets four? Wait what met at
Philadelphia one? But New York Mets four dead one? Philly one,
New York for no New York one, No in Philly one? Ah, Christ,
(12:17):
God to you in the studio.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The New York Mets. They move on in the playoffs.
This is an unbelievable year for the Mets and they
didn't get into the playoffs until after the regular season
was over. They had a play in game against Atlanta
and they snuck into the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
So there, so they're moving on. Yes, the best of five,
that's right. I don't understand why they do that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Make it seven, man, Yeah they should, It should be seven,
but it's not. It's five. And the Dodgers, if they
lose tonight, they're out. Yeah, so the Phillies are out.
The Phillies had a great record, I think the second
best record in baseball. Dodgers had the best record in baseball.
And both of them could be out on the same time,
how about them. So the Phillies are going home, the
(13:06):
Mets are moving on in the playoffs, and the Mets,
I believe, will be playing for the National League title?
Is that right? No, I can't be right, you know,
I think it is right. Yeah, I think it is. Yeah,
the Mets will be playing for the National League title
and they'll play either the Padres or the Dodgers. And
what a year for your New York Mets. Kind of
(13:31):
an odd, crazy year for the Mets. They were all
but out. Yes, they were completely out of it. And
now they've they've they've won. They beat Atlanta, then they
won their first series. I remember who that was with
those American League teams. I don't know who they beat.
(13:51):
Mets fans are yelling at the radio right now. And
then they beat Brewers. Okay, they beat the Brewers, and
then they beat they just be filled the Phillies. Yeah.
They beat the Braves to get in, they beat the
Brewers to advance, and they beat the Phillies to advance
to the National League title. Wow, what a team.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
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Speaker 1 (14:18):
We are keeping an eye on Hurricane Milton. It's a
big deal, big big deal, and it's going to cause
a lot of damage, tons and tons of damage. Let's
get an update here and find out exactly who's being affected,
who's getting hit the hardest here Hurricane Milton. An update
(14:42):
just moments ago.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Twelve Florida coastline. It's less than fifty miles off. Short
hours the proflies. But again it's all about the angle
of attack and how it comes in. But we will
see a landfall, likely in the next couple of hours
or so, two to three hours. We'll see that. I'm
in Charlotte Harbor right now, but literally standing in Charlotte
har which is taken over the parking area here at
the Sunseeker in Port Charlotte places like Punta Gorda. We
(15:06):
know Port Charlotte forecasting eight to ten feet of storm surge.
We had over six with Helene.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And if you.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Remember with Ian, Ian went to our south, so the
winds were offshore, so we didn't get this storm surge.
So here's two huge storm search events in this area.
It's just a couple of weeks. I mean, y'all's two.
Can't tory and we continue our coverage of Milton.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You know what the the problems they had is the
last hurricane they had a week ago or two weeks ago, Helene.
It created a tremendous amount of damage and everybody put
all there's water logged furniture, TVs, mattresses, you know, dresser drawers,
all that crap went out onto the curb and the
city was going to combine and pick it all up. Well,
(15:47):
the city didn't have time to stop by every house
and pick it up. So about fifty five sixty percent
of that trash is still outside, and that's going to
be thrown around the neighborhood and it's going to be
like missiles. Once the wind gets a hold of that
furniture that's already outside, it's going to go through the
neighborhood and wipe people out. So that's what they're afraid of,
(16:08):
this monster Hurricane Milton making land fall, and they are
officially saying that it has made landfall at this point. Yeah,
that's crazy, man, unbelievable. And it's going to be moved
quickly by by morning, it's going to be off the
east coast.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Gone, it's only got to travel one hundred and twenty
miles from coast to coast.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's it? Huh, that's about the distance. So at twelve
miles an hour, ten hours and it's over and then
it flies off to I don't know England or Scotland
wherever it goes.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Next five hurricane boggling the mind with some of the
things that it did in terms of deepening. But now
it's about have you prepared? Are you ready? We're seeing
the power ouches mount. We've had wind gusts sixty seventy
miles an hour now around Bradenton, and power ouch is
now more than three hundred thousand. That number is only
going up. We've got flood warnings and we also have
(16:54):
an extreme wind warning across the area where you're going
to see the eye wall, come in, plenty of stuff
to talk about. We asked you to evacuate, we're here
to take you through it, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And obviously, hey Krozer, when you worked in Florida, when
you lived in Florida, the guy's covering the hurricanes for
you know, CNN, Fox, MSNBC. Was that Was that a
premier great job to get do people look forward to that?
Or they picked the guy a lowest guy on the ladder. Well,
it kind of depends on who you are.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Like I remember, Steve infamously talks about he went down
to New Orleans right after Katrina, and he says he
was there like right as it was just passing through,
so he had to deal with all of the bad
stuff there, you know, sleeping on overpasses or things like that.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And then he said a day later he saw.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
This gigantic mobile home just move in, or his motorhome
move in and outsteps Anderson Cooper from CNN. Oh wow,
you know, and he's he's dressed to the nines and
he's looking nice and the hair looks perfect.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So it kind of depends on who you are. He's
always got that T shirt look, you know, whatever he
said his story tight black T shirt. Yeah, like a
two hundred dollars T shirt. Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
And obviously with the water that's coming in here, we're
obviously ready to move to higher ground. This is a five,
But there.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Really is crows. Again, you're from Florida, you spend a
lot of time there. There really isn't a higher ground though,
is there? What's the ultimate highest ground in Florida? Twenty
feet It is a lot of flat land. Yeah, it's
a real and even.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
The mayor of Tampa was saying that it's it's like
you don't have to leave the state to evacuate. You
can go twenty miles north or south and you should
be okay. But the primary thing is to get the
higher ground. But like you said, there's a lot of
higher ground on that area of Florida.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And then they also said they're taking all of the
trash and all the debris, all the broken, water logged
furniture to a landfill. But how is there a landfill
in Florida? Everything? You know, you dig nine feet deep
and there's water. Yeah, where are those landfills? Yeah, I'd
like to know where they are. I think it's the Everglades.
They just dump all that crap in the everglades. Let
(18:56):
the alligators do with That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
This is a five story parking garage. We can keep
going up as far as we want. Obviously we never
want to get to the fifth story. But you can
see coming into here has flooded. This is the same
thing that happened to Helene. We had water that was
up to about this red marker here, and so that
was about six feet, So think about this eight ten
to be worse, certainly in a perfect scenario. So we're
(19:19):
just getting into this now.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Here have gusted over sixty miles an hour at times,
but I'm again in a tunnel around this corner, but
not the strongest winds.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
They exist. And look he's with a satellite feed and
it's still cutting out.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
They exist, just water coming in. Because really here in
Port Charlotte, input to Gorda, this is a third story.
This is a third story. This is really a dry
part of the storm. The southern part of the storm
has really dried out. That's why all the flood warnings
are north. And we talked about that Tampa. You know,
even if you don't get a storm center that goes
to your north, you're going to be on the wet
(19:54):
and active side. We've had an incredible day, guys, of
several large tornado touchdowns with destruction Fort Pierce, Piero Beach,
some of these areas again in Day County. Just a
horrible situation with the tornadoes. That's taken the lead story
so far, even before landfall. All right, let's go down
to the police.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
All right. That guy sounds exactly like Donald Trump Junior.
I think it was. I think, especially with the guys. Yes,
all right here, the hurricane hunters inside the storm for Noah,
bag you my phone real quick. Yeah, grab my phone
(20:39):
real quick if you're busy at the moment, Steve, if
you want to see that video, I put it up
on my personal Twitter page, thank you very much. I
put about about five to ten videos a year, so
I think I'm still in the game. But if you
go to Tim Conway Junior at Tim Conway Jr. It's
the one of the videos up there. And I don't
even have that many people following me. Kind of a
(20:59):
loser in that area.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Yeah, that must mean the other people that don't have
as many or even bigger losers.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, let's see how many how many people you think
followed me personally on Twitter? On x how many think?
Fourteen thousand, eight hundred, right? And how many people? How
many do I follow? Four? Three?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
No, No, you're not.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I follow the Kings, the La Kings. There you go.
Personal pages. Yeah, I follow KFI, I like KFI, follow staff,
and I follow Elon Musk basically before he got into politics.
But I've been following him for years and years. But
those are the three and one of the reasons I
wanted to follow him because if anyone complains about me,
(21:49):
I'm like, hey, Elon, I follow you and there's somebody
complaining about me, can you keep me on here? Yeah?
Because I was suspended for three years on Twitter for
stupid crap and so I'm back baby, all right, So
we're gonna keep an eye on the storm here. But
this is the the guy's flying through it. What a
video that is. And again you can see it on
(22:11):
x or Twitter at Tim Conway. There you go. Check.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
You don't believe in very many conspiracy theories too, so uh,
this video in particular, I've seen people commenting, see it's
fake that they're No, it's proof that they're controlling the
weather because they're in this plane making the hurricane go
left or right or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay, all right, well I'm not there yet with your
weather yet. Yeah, I'm I'm with the I'm with the
no moon landing. I think that was a fake. And
I've gotten calls.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
What does that mean, you've gotten coach, I've got don't
talk about that anymore, or we agree with you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
No, don't talk about it anymore. I mean not nowadays.
But when you know, twenty five years ago, when I
was working at kalas X, I got called from somebody
in the government and say, hey, we prefer you not
to do that anymore. They didn't threatn me, they just hey,
can you stop doing that? Does that matchup right around
the time you were suspended? No, no, no, no, that
was for something else. But look, I think if you're
(23:10):
not suspended in radio, you're not pushing hard enough. And
I've been suspended three times, so Patrick King, Patrick, But
I don't believe in the moon landing, and I'm still
up for you know, up forward if Amy wants to
prove it. But our new news anchor here is in
line with you on them. Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, you know what you know what. I feel like
that's my feminine side because everyone I talked to about it,
it's mostly women that don't believe that it is it's true.
Guys are like, yeah, we're wit to the moon, man,
where are the best? And we're like, yeah, I just
don't see it. I don't see it. Yeah, why have
we been back since? You know, there's a lot of
a lot of interesting articles written about how we didn't go.
(23:55):
If we have the technology and back in nineteen sixty nine,
we don't have it in twenty twenty four. I don't know.
That's something going on. So I don't believe until the moon.
And I don't believe that the real Paul McCartney is
still with the Beatles. I think it's a fake Paul McCartney.
So those are one. Two I believe in, and I
think if you believe in three or more, you've got
you know, issues. But I'm open to a third. I
(24:18):
guess I don't know the weather control. I could jump
on that if I see some proof. I don't know
right now. It's just you know, Marjorie Green, that's sick. Yeah,
I don't when I get met the camp, do you no?
And originally when she said that everyone thought she was
talking about Jews, you know, the Jews control lass and
she had to clear it up. No, No, it's just
(24:39):
the government control another thing.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, that's another thing. I don't believe that the Jews.
I don't believe any of those conspiracy theories you know
about you know, running show business or the world or
money or weather and all that stuff. I don't bind
it a crap. Oh Anderson Cooper and Bradenton, Florida right now.
Oh he is, Oh, let's crank him up. Well, let's
come back and put out Henderson Cooper with his T
(25:03):
shirt in Florida.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Okay, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Milton is hitting Tampa right now, and it is pretty bad,
pretty pretty bad. Hurricane Milton making landfall near Siesta Key.
I think that's part of Tampa Siesta Key, which I
believe means the sleeping Keys as far as I know.
(25:36):
All right, let's we're gonna flip on CNN here in
a second and see if we can check out Anderson Cooper.
He's always entertaining. He's got like two or three other
CNN guys out there. As well. One of them is
already in knee deep water.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I love when they're in knee deep water or in
a canoe and a guy walks in the water behind
him and he does it's almost like in slow motion.
He just looks at the camera like, yeah, it's great
how they out these guys. But this is a really
horrific storm, and it's it's gonna you know, a lot
(26:13):
of people are going to be affected for months to come,
months to come, and you know they're expecting ten to
twelve foot thirteen foot surge and it's it's it's just
a brutal storm. It's just horrible. The guys that flew
through it and they were being bounced all around. I
(26:34):
think you may have seen the.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Video on that those are hurricane hunters can be thrown
around by Hurricane Milton's turbulence.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
But they're up there to collect.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Data on this massive storm for all of the meteorologists
so they know where it's going, how strong it is,
and helping all of us get prepared.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
All right, Krozer, again, we rely on you to be
our Florida specialist. What is the theory on and the
timing of hurricanes? Is it better that they come ashore
at night where they're not as powerful, or is it
better when they come during the day where people can see,
where they're a little more powerful.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
A lot of it depends on whether or not it
is the ebb or the flow of the high tides, right,
and specifically with Florida, their high tide was a six
nineteen this evening. Oh that was kind of close to
the worst time for to becoming because the water is
already high there.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You know this is not a conspiracy theory, but I
only learned this this year that the tides don't move.
The earth moves. Yes, So the tide stays the same,
like high water stays the same, and the earth rotates
into it. Yes. So like if it's for it's all
because of the moon, right, yeah, And so you know
that's how they can predict the high tide for you know,
(27:45):
years from now, they know what it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Oh yeah, that's why the high tide is also in
the evening because you think about it, that's that's as
the night comes in, that's when the moon is is
right there, the closest to you, so it's pulling that
ocean towards it is that right towards the land, especially
on the west coast side out of the Gulf.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'll rely on you for that. But anyway, so we're
keep an eye on on this horrible storm. Maybe you
have some friends or family live in Florida. You're nervous
about them. You've been keeping in touch with them. Maybe
if they have satellite radio? What does that what does
that thing that Elon Musk has star Starling starlink? Yeah,
I guess that starlink works, you know, whether you you
(28:23):
know you have you need electricity obviously, but very little
you know, just to power that up. You can use
uh you know, a generator power that thing up, and
you can still communicate, you know, with your computer. You
have all the you know, the Internet you need and.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
As and as you've said, those satellites for starlink are
in low earth orbits. So if you just take a
look in the sky you can see it.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Is that right? I didn't know that. You don't know that, right,
You didn't know that you can you can or cannot?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
You can?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, you can the naked eye. Oh I see. Okay,
but we were talking about uh, and we're gonna we're gonna,
let's go to CNN right now. I think Anderson Cooper
is there with his black hat on his shirt.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Everyone. I mean, you look at it on a on
a map and and being on the ground. It just
it's so interesting how quickly things shift. Just in the
last two minutes before we came back from break, suddenly
the Manatee River is now churning. We had seen some
white caps on some water, but I mean these are
now really, these are now waves churning on the Manatee River,
(29:24):
and the water is really starting to come over. I
mean you can see it now, just running it. This
is all water both from the river and also water
coming from higher ground from this rain which is just
been coming down obviously for for much of the day.
But this is the first time we really I don't know, Neil,
if you can even kind of come up and just
get a sense.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Of just how choppy this water has suddenly, I guess.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
As the wind has shifted somewhat. But I'm very curious
to see over the next you know, how long, whether
it's this wind pattern lasts, how much water starts to
come up.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Here Lauderdale's twenty one miles an hour. This is the
river walk here in in Bradenton, Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
And we have been out here now for for several hours,
and this is really the first time. This looks similar
to what Bill Weir was experiencing in Saint Petersburg about
an hour or two ago. Water really coming up on
the on the piers there. This is the first time
now that we are seeing this here.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Bill. Let's Bill.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I want to bring you in here getting because this
reminds me of your live shot earlier in their day.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's just fascinating that this is Bill. Bill, we're the
science guy. I think it's differ different.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yeah, this is that, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Being on the northern side of this storm, we got
the slop, we got so much more of the rain
blow them away. Branches around Bill Weir got blown away.
He did, he did. Now, it's really gusting. That was
a monster. That was a that was a take you're
breath the way whoa watch out, watch out.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
The problem is at Anderson where he's at in that
river walk that is south of Tampa Bay, like just south.
So he's getting at least a little bit of the
benefit of some of those winds being cut down by
some of the land that's there. Where Bill is he's
further north across the bay. He's getting directly hit from
Tampa Bay water in those winds. So he's got nothing
that's stopping him. That's why his his dvantage point is
(31:23):
much worse.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Hill were used to be a guy here, you know,
local guy here in Los Angeles, m Steph. He was like, yep,
I think he did sports here, right, Yeah, he did
sports and he was a big golfer and just a
normal guy. Then he got the normal, got crazy. He
deal with Anderson Cooper. Yeah, and he say he got
into politics, got all weird. But let's crank this up here.
(31:45):
This CNN will watch us. We're gonna take a break,
welcome back and continue here with our watch of Hurricane Milton.
And also the Dodgers are starting momentarily, Lots going on.
We're covering all right here on KFI AM six forty
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