December 5, 2024 • 35 mins
United Healthcare headlines about shooting continues. / New Starbucks CEO speaks out on coffee prices and more. The Rose Cafe in Venice closing after 45 years / Guest: Ray Williams, executive director from Consumers Direct talks mortgage rates & homeownership. Norms proposed Takeover of Iconic Norms Restaurant Paused. The Rose Bowl announces $80 million refurbishment project / Hannah Kobayashi new details about scam green card arranged marriage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The Big Story continues, and that is the CEO, Ryan Thompson.
Oh Man, what an unbelievable story. It doesn't stop. Gunned
down in the streets of New York City, and they're
looking for the guy that did it. They want him
off the streets. They don't think. They're ninety nine percent sure.
(00:33):
This was not just random violence. This guy had it
out for this CEO and for some one reason or another,
whether it was some guy involved in a love triangle
trying to take the stink off by making it about insurance,
or some guy who was wronged in his eyes, in
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his mind by an insurance company.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Who knows. But they're gonna find this guy.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
They got a lot of pictures, a lot of resources,
and YPD has a reward out there for I think
ten thousand dollars that will surely go up if they
don't find this guy in the next couple of hours,
next couple of days. But they got a lot of clues,
a lot of clues, including a picture and a very
clear picture of what this guy looks like. Most of
the pictures that we have when he was taking these
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random pictures from security cameras, we're really sure what he
looked like. He was always covering his face. Well, they
have one picture of him dead on and you can
clearly see what he looks like. So it's just a
matter of time until they put this case together and
they arrest this guy or the guy goes down in
a big shootout. But the man wanted for questioning in
(01:41):
this shooting is going to have his life turned upside
down pretty shortly.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The latest happening here is we just spoke to a
tourist in the last couple of minutes staying at this
hospital Youth Hostel eight ninety one, Amsterdam. They stay overnight.
Two police officers came in and questioned several people. Now
this comes as police released new pictures taking here of
a person of interest they want to question. The NAPD
is not calling this person the suspect, but they would
(02:11):
like to interview them.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Now, let's walk through what we do know.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay, let's go with what we know now from.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
The latest from this investigation, CBS obtained surveillance video of
the suspect riding a bike leaving Central Park about fifteen
minutes after the shooting. Where did he go after that?
That is one of the key questions. Sources say police
are still hoping this image showing the suspect wearing all
black and that distinctive backpack taken out of Starbucks minutes
before the shooting, that it may have captured enough of
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the suspect's space to run it through facial recognition programs
and another man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How addicted to Starbucks are we? We're even guys who
are murdering people on the streets stop by for a
little pick me up before they know I kill somebody.
Everybody is into coffee now, everybody hey with either Starbucks
or you know, Dutch Brothers or what is that? Tea
(03:04):
leaf and me all those places me leaf and tea,
coffee bean and tea leaf. Yes, but we're not drinking
just coffee. We're drinking milkshakes. That's the rub yep. Seventy
five percent of the people in this country are overweight,
and we wonder why why aren't we all overweight? Well,
(03:26):
in the nineteen seventies, when my mom and dad wanted
a cup of coffee, they'd get a cup of coffee,
maybe a little sugar, maybe a little cream, But my
mom just.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Liked black coffee, nothing in it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Nowadays, we have a frappucino in the morning, pick me
up frappucino in the afternoon, and a frappuccino before we
go to bed. Three milkshakes a day. Those are essentially milkshakes,
is what they are. Three of them every day from
zero to three. That's a thousand milkshakes a year, a thousand.
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And we want where all this extra weight came from.
Even this guy who went on to allegedly killed the
CEO of United Healthcare stopped for his morning milkshake.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
To run it through facial recognition programs. And another development,
CBS News has learned from law enforcement sources that shellcasings
found at the scene had the words deny, defend, depose
meticulously written in sharpie. Investigators believe this could be a
reference to what's called the three d's of insurance, a
(04:34):
known reference made by critics of the health insurance industry.
It is still unclear why the gunman targeted the United
Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson in the first place. Police are
combing electronics to find out.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Now that could also just be to take the stink
off the fact that there was a romantic relationship, because
remember this guy who was shot, this Brian Thompson was
married to his college suite heart. He went to college
in Iowa Sons. But he wasn't living at home. They
were separated. He was living about a mile away from
his wife and his two kids. So there may have
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been some tension in the relationship as well. And how
do he take the stink off that it might be
a romantic connection to this turn it into an insurance connection,
to take the stink off it, So that might be Look,
if I were a detective of New York, I would
not be convinced that this is all about insurance yet,
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not yet if.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
There were any threats against the fifty year olds. Thompson
is a father of two from Minnesota. He was in
town for an investor's conference when he was shot. The
NYPD is working with authorities in Minnesota to determine where
the victim is from to dig deeper into any specific
threats against him, and police sources say detectives have uncovered
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rantings against Big Pharma directed at United Healthcare, but no
threats to Thompson's personal safety. Specifically, A short while ago,
we spoke to Rodney Harrison, former NYPD, who says this
was all clearly planned, but not perfect.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
There were some things that he did wrong. Once again,
as a phone was left behind. We believe that it
may be connected to him.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But that may not be his phone, you know, it
may be somebody else's phone that he stole to take
the stink off of him. That may again, also it
might be a false lead.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Once again is how his face was covered, but at
one point it was exposed, which you know, it will
help out with being identified through facial recognition.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Now again, a motive for the shooting remains a mystery.
Police fan out across the city looking for clues back
out here on this hostile on the Upper west Side. Again,
just minutes ago, we spoke to a tourist who said
there was some police activity here and we are still
looking to speak to other people who work at the
hostile here, and that's what we're doing in the next
couple minutes on the Upper west Side. Natalie dud Ridge,
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CBS News New York.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Now, this is also going to become a big, big
tourist attract people that go to New York will want
to see where this happened, and you're going to see
flowers on the street.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You're going to see it roped off.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
People going want to take pictures because this has become
a must see in New York.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
If you're in New.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
York right now and you're traveling there with family or friends,
or maybe you're on business and you've got a night off,
a couple hours off, you want to walk by there
and sort of get the vibe of the area. And
so this is still a huge, huge story.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Okay, Natalie, thank you. And the CEO of United Health Group,
which has United Healthcare under its umbrella, shared a message
to employees following Thompson's death.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
There are no words to describe how so many of
us are feeling right now. Brian was a truly extraordinary
person who touched the lives of countless people throughout our
organization and far beyond. It's a terrible tragedy, and I
know we are in shock and disbelief. Our hearts are
with his family. Please keep them in your thoughts and
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prayers and be assured will be there for them.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
He went on to encourage employees to support each other
as they collectively grieve Thompson's death.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right, we'll have updates all night long and until
this case is solved, we'll bring you all the different clues,
all the different theories on what happened in the streets
of New York. But when we come back, because of
the new president, a lot of things are changing. The
stock markets, up, our insurance, I'm sorry, our mortgage rates
(08:27):
coming down. Everybody always wants to refine when mortgage rates
come down? Is it time to buy a house right now?
What are mortgage rates all about?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well we come back, Ray Williams is gonna be with
his executive vice president of Consumer Direct and he will
tell us where mortgage rates are now and where they
are going. So if you're in the market buying a
house or selling house, you're going to want to hear
the next segment.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
We are keeping our eye on the United Healthcare CEO story.
Anywhere details come out, we'll have those for you immediately.
Big story coming on New York. But there's also other
news going on. Donald Trump will be taking over as
the forty seventh president. It's affected the stock market already,
and I don't know if it's affected rates, you know,
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mortgage rates, hee Lock? Is it time to REFI I
don't know. I don't know what that game is all about.
I'm not in that game. So we always have specialists
come on the show. Guy who's been in that game
for a long time. A guy named Ray Williams. He's
the executive vice president of Consumers Direct and he's with us.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Ray, How you, sir, Hi, my.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Long lost friend, how are you?
Speaker 11 (09:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Ding dong with you? Are you calling from a cave?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
I hope not. I'm in an office with the door closed.
And it's new American funding. Oh yeah, CD is a division.
But Matt, I haven't talked to you, and I've mistaken.
It's been about eleven years, my friend.
Speaker 12 (10:01):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Are you on a speaker phone? By chance?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
No?
Speaker 9 (10:05):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Really? Okay? All right, I'm sorry a little bit of
that going all right? So what is going on with
interest rates? Is it?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Have they come down? Is it time to refine? What's
happening about? Helocks? Give us the whole shakedown.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
Well, we'll try to make this interesting for the viewers.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
There's more for the listeners which you know to be
talked with more.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Put him on hold here I can barely hear him.
I ask him if he can pick up the phone,
if he's on speaker for you can get on a.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Phone that we can hear him. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm sorry to do that to you, Ray, but that's
either a speaker phone or somebody is in a tunnel.
Because that is it's hard to understand. It is very
difficult to understand, very very difficult. And so we'll we'll
try to put that back together. But until we do,
we've got more news.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
More news.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
A Venice cafe is closing down. The Rose Cafe very
popular joint. I've been there a bunch of times myself.
It is closing after forty five years.
Speaker 11 (11:07):
After forty five years, the Rose restaurant in Venice is
closing this month.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
I've been coming to the Rose Cafe since the eighties.
I grew up here in southern California, and it's gone
through a lot of changes.
Speaker 11 (11:19):
The restaurant, known for its coffee pastries in California cuisine,
has gone through multiple menu changes over the last four decades.
Longtime customers have been stopping by to savor what might
be their last meal.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh no, the last meal.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Why are all these really great restaurants closing? We always
hear about this. There are a couple of Arcadia, there's
another one in downtown LA. There's another one on Alvara
Street that's about to close. Why are all the great
restaurants that have been around for thirty forty fifty years?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Why are they all going away? All of the.
Speaker 12 (11:52):
Staff are always super nice and friendly, and they had
really great food.
Speaker 13 (11:57):
So yeah, it was just like an institution.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
And you know, I mean, even in my short time here,
this was one of the first places I went.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
To I wanted to give my goodbyes.
Speaker 14 (12:07):
I used to work in that building across the street,
so I was always.
Speaker 12 (12:10):
Coming to it kind of changed with Venice, so it'll
be really sad to see it go.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh yeah, it's a staple of Venice. The Rose Cafe
is Venice, and it's closing.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
Residents say they've seen homeless encampments come and go near
this intersection throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Okay, there's probably a reason why it's going away. I
can't have anything nice in this town anymore, making.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
This very neighborhoody restaurant, sometimes difficult to walk.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
To, sometimes difficult to walk through. Sometimes it's a nightmare.
You know, the difference between Santa Monica, it's its own
is its own city, and Santa Monica has their own
police force. So when you walk around Santa Monica and
the beach, you might see it a homeless guy or two,
but they do a pretty good job of cleaning that up,
except for on the cliffs of Santa Monica.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I haven't be able to tackle that yet.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
But Venice is part of LA and there's not enough
manpower out there, so a lot of the homeless they
flock south for the winter, and their southern home is Venice,
So you get a lot of homeless cats down there,
a lot and a place we used to bring maybe
the family for lunch, not anymore. Maybe that's the reason
when the Rose Cafe is closing up.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
Shop, making this very neighborhoody restaurant sometimes difficult to walk to.
Speaker 13 (13:24):
We're losing something familiar to us. We just lost Forma
up the way on Maine, and now this, I guess
things happen in what twos or three, so we'll see
what else happens.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Oh, yeah, I forgot that the other cafe was the.
Speaker 13 (13:38):
Forma and now this was it Forma they saw up
the way on Maine.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, I know that place too.
Speaker 13 (13:44):
Something familiar to us. We just lost Forma.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, it's the former cafe they they're gone to.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
I guess things happen in what twos or three, So
we'll see what else happens, though. I'm excited. Something new
will common, will be better. That's what we do.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, I don't know about tad Okay, so that's closing
Rose Cafe. Guess what's also closing? Norms the one in
Beverly Grove area closing down.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Possibly.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
This has been a staple here in LA for more
than sixty years now. It's even a historic landmark. So
there were some customers and people who even live and
work nearby who are pretty upset when they heard that
Raising Canes might be taking it over and turning it
into the Chicken Chain. But it sounds like the chain
actually heard those concerns from the community. This letter that
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appears to have been sent from Canes to the City
of LA's Cultural Heritage Commission says, quote, we have heard
the community's concerns and we are in discussions with NORMS
about the future of this site. The letter also says
that the Chicken chain will no longer present to the
Commission at a meeting as planned. All right, let's talk
about some background raising. Canes actually owns the site where
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this norm sits, but because the NORMS is a historic landmark,
Canes still would have to go through that commission to
tell them how they would preserve the building.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Okay, so the building might stay the same, but certainly
the food and the vibe is going to change.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It opened in nineteen fifty seven and it is one
of the last remaining examples of Google architecture in LA.
It's quintessentially California mid century Modern. It's an iconic building.
Speaker 15 (15:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
We talked to a pop culture historian and author about
the questions that are still swirling around this.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Why can't they find another location? Norms and the structure
need to stay together. That is what makes it a
cultural icon.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I like the old iconic places.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Farmers Market on Fairfax and Third is another one of
those places I like, going back old school. There's another
one called the Apple Pan out in West LA that's
been around for many, many decades, and.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
People like they like that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
They like old school restaurants like that. What's out near
your CROs it's been around? Is the Hat a restaurant
that's been around a long time.
Speaker 16 (15:58):
That has been around a long time, but not the
one that's in Upland that's there for been there for
just a number of years. I think the original Hats
like Nearpacity or something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, that's also another cool joint. But man, all these
great restaurants have been around forever. Yes, oh Tops, Yeah yeah, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Chili cheese fries.
Speaker 16 (16:15):
Oh man, that's the first place I ever had up
ASTROOMI burger, which I've never heard of before I came
out to La.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, we had I don't know if I could
say this on the air, but there was a place
called Tops with a Z. You know, they used to
have great chili dogs. And I accidentally said, oh, Tops
with the D gives you the s's with an S.
(16:41):
And the guy goes, Oh, this guy next to you
owns some place.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I'm like, it was a joke. It was a joke,
good going in.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It was a joke. It was a joke. But I
do like that Tops with the Z. They always had
the best chili. I was still around, but Tops with
a Z had a great chili.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Pinks.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
There is another great chili and sant Anita is the
best chili of them all. Sant Anita track chili. I
don't know what's in it. I don't know if it's
the three horse from the fourth race. I don't know
what the hell's in it. I just know that chili
at sant Anita is second to none. All right, we'll
go back. We'll talk about rates, mortgage rates. Where are they?
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Are they going up? Are they coming down? Is it
time to refine? Is it time to get a heelock?
I don't know, I'm not my game. We'll talk to
Ray Williams, he's executive vice president of New and New
American Funding, and we'll find out exactly what we should
do when it comes to mortgage and refine.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
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AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Speaking a pastathon.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We are over a million dollars, that's right, one million,
two thousand and sixty nine dollars in cash going to
Catarina's Club.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Thank you, thank you, thank you to.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Everybody involved, everybody participated, everybody, they're donated thank you, and
seventy eight and fifty five pounds of pasta and sauce.
So a record year again, a record year. And it
is because of this audience, the best audience in all
of talk radio, maybe in all of radio in the world.
(18:18):
And I would put this audience up against any audience,
any of them. Okay, time to refinance? I don't know,
maybe it is, maybe it's not time to buy a house.
What are mortgage rates doing? Have they changed over the
last couple of months? Are they about to change? What
is the prediction? I don't out, So we got to
get a specialist in here. When I don't know anything.
(18:39):
Time to call the troops in Ray Williams. He's the
executive vice president of New American Funding. That's all they do.
They do mortgages. He locks refie the whole run. Ray Williams,
How you.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Bob, How are you doing so?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You sound great? You sound great? Man? Hey, So what
are raids doing now? Are they?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Have they come down in the last couple of weeks?
What's the trend and where do you see them going?
Speaker 17 (19:07):
Well?
Speaker 10 (19:07):
The best attempt at a crystal ball is this The
incoming administration has broadcasted that it wants to lower the
rates and it wants the lower inflation. Unfortunately, they're not
really clear on how they're going to do that. So
it's got people a little bit, you know, and the
bond market and the mortgage market is very unsure of
the future. So the day after the election they actually
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spiked up. They went the wrong way.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
So the last couple of days they've actually started to
come back down, and we're feeling pretty good about next
week of them coming down a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And what do they currently add for a jumbo loan?
Because I imagine most people have a house. What is
the jumbo right? Is that a million dollars?
Speaker 15 (19:54):
H Yeah?
Speaker 10 (19:55):
And the rates are your race right now is going
to be six to six and a half something like
that under jumbo over jumbo could be seven seven and
a half.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And what about helocks? Is it time to get a
helock or are people still getting them? Are they still
offering them?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Flocks are very popular right now.
Speaker 18 (20:13):
We do them.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
We do them very well. We do them every day.
A couple of good things about a helock. You can
get it done in seven eight nine days. Have the
money in your pocket, whoa fold digital experience. Yeah, you
don't have to go anywhere. Nobody has to come to
your house and sign docs. We could just digitally get
you a line to credit and it's very simple. Interest
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rates on helocks are about nine percent nine and a
half depending on your credit.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Not bad, okay, but still nine percent is better than
the thirty two percent on a credit card.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Well, that's exactly right. Credit cards are you know, good
credit people, good credit credit cards twenty one percent up
to thirty Like you say, it is definitely the cheapest
money in town. I mean personal loan, for cast out,
RV loans, boat loans, those are all ten, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen percent. So for twenty years going backwards, no matter
(21:06):
what you know, uh, borrowing cash against your home was
the cheapest money in the country and it still is.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And what are what are interest rates on mortgages tied
to the tenure? What is the what is the magic
number that makes them come down?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Well, not an exit on that, but is that it's
it's sort of tied to the tenure, Yes, kind of
does its own thing, and it's yeah, it's not exactly
tied to that, but that's yes, The answer is yes.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Okay, do you do you do you foresee us ever
in the future going back to you know two point
five three point two three point five, No.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Sir, I don't. Let's something really bad happens again. We
wouldn't want another pandemic. I wouldn't think it'd be worth it.
So the belief the belief system here is when you
get down to a five eight seventy five or a
five ninety nine. You know, historically that's been a very
good rate, and so we're not too far off.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Of that, right all right?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And so with the he lock, that's a home equity
line of credit. What do you have to have loan
to value? How much do you how much rick wiggle
room do you have to have to get one of these?
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (22:13):
It's up to ninety percent? Call it that. You you
could go up to ninety percent on a on a
he lock.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Really, so if you have a million dollar house that's
paid off, you can get a nine hundred thousand dollars
loan on it.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Uh, yeah, actually you could.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Wow, that's great. Then take it to sant Anita and
double it. You know, I don't reckon you.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Yeah, helock's are pretty big right now? You know, you
just got to do the math. But we tell people people,
you know, everybody else, what's the race? Is now a
good time should I buy a house? And the answer
is pretty much yes to every scenario. If it's you know,
if you're trying, if you have a first mortgage at
a certain interest rate and your only goal is to
lower that interest rate with the refinance, then probably not.
(22:56):
The answer is no, today, can't make that happen. But
if you're in the you're trying to buy a house,
yes it's the time to buy a house. If you
have trying to consolidate debt, trying to get out from
under some stress or some pressure, the answer is usually yes.
But a twenty minute phone call to us, we'll do
the math for you. We'll we'll, we'll, we'll analyze it
for you and tell you the truth.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And historically, over any ten year period in California, the
more the value of a house has gone up.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
Yeah, I mean, in you know, the nation four or
five percent annually lately, which is crazy. California seven percent
appreciation every year every year. And I don't think it's
going to going down anytime soon. You know, Trump has
signaled Trump wants to build houses and make it easier
to do housing starts all over the country. That's great news.
(23:47):
Make the permits easier to get and build, build, build,
and we should but even but you know that's take
that'll take years for him to make any impact in that.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Hey, what's the website for your company? People want to
dip their toe into a he lock.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
New American Funding dot Com. Thank you, sir, New American
Funding American Funding dot Com.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
All right, tell Chad, I said, hey, nice to talk
to you fellas.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
Yes, sir, keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Ray.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
All right, Ray Williams with new executive vice president, New
American Funding.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He Lock.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Ninety percent is unbelievable. Man, oh man, could we have
some fun with ninety percent? Let's roll, Let's go. All right,
We're live on KFI AM six forty. When we come back,
we've got a lot more news going on. We have
the earthquake. We talked to doctor Lucy Jones about If
you want to go back and listen to that segment,
you can do that. But we have some Rose Bowl
(24:44):
news coming up. Big news with the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Some news here on Hannah kobe Yashi. Also the Rose Bowl.
Let's get to the Rose Bowl real quick since we
promoted that. Lots going on with the Rose Bawl, then
we'll get the handed story as well. But big deal
going on with this Rose Bowl here in passages.
Speaker 18 (25:07):
While the Rose Bowl has announced plans to complete eighty
million dollars in enhancements to improve the guest experience at
the one hundred and two year old stadium. The Rose
Bowl will host his third Olympic Games in twenty twenty eight.
The Rose Bowl game is a quarterfinal site of the
college football playoffs. For the next two seasons. Oh N
campaign will be led by privately raised funds cultivated by
(25:31):
the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Hey BELLYO, is that Jim Hill's voice? You worked with
Jim Hill?
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Right?
Speaker 10 (25:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (25:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I love Jim Hill. He's the best.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Always been a very nice man to me, Always been
at cool as well.
Speaker 18 (25:42):
As the contributions from the venueses, third party partners and vendos.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know, one of my biggest screw ups in radio
was with Jim Hill. What was that?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Jim Hill said he had a brother who played football.
And he showed me a picture of the guy and
this is on the air, and underneath it it said
NFL football player Jim Hill.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And I said, did your mom name two kids? Jim?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Is your brother's name Jim? And he goes, no, no, no,
his name is not Jim. I think it's like Dave
or something. He said, doesn't say Jim under there. He
was saying, it's Jim's brother. It was my brother Jim. Like, oh, okay,
I'm sorry, He goes, you thought my mom named two
kids Jim. I mean, yeah, that's why I asked. I
(26:40):
thought it was odd. I thought it was weird, and
it was sort of like off put by.
Speaker 16 (26:45):
Would you rather have not have said anything and just
thought you had a brother named Jim?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But he's been he's been really cool to me every
time I've run into him. He's been a very.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Compromised, very nice man.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You know who else has been really cool to me?
Bellio in radio since I started, Oh won don't you guess? Okay,
why don't you take guess who?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I'm about to say, Bob Miller with the Kings.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh okay, that's a great choice. I would say Bob Miller. Yeah,
not who I was thinking of. But yes, Bob Miller
one of the greatest announcers in the world. And I
got to watch him as a child called Kings Games
in the nineteen seventies at the Great Western form back
then the Fabulous Forum, and I wanted to get into
(27:32):
radio because I to watch, you know, Bob Miller call
the game was like, it was really cool. No, it
wasn't Bob Miller. All right, guest number two, who do
you think it is?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Rickty's?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Another great choice? Another great choice. I've known Rick Dy's
for a long time. I text him all the time.
He texted me comedy bits all the time. He's great,
one of the great talents in radio. He I think
is responsible for radio beings as big as it is
in Los Angeles right now. And he gave me a
great piece of advice when when I was much younger
and just starting in radio. He said, always be enthusiastic
(28:08):
and get very close to the sales staff. They do
all the work. And get close to that crew smart
and they have the hardest job in radio. So no,
it was I think Rick D's certainly would fall in
the category of somebody's been very nice to me, But
it wasn't Rick D's I'll give you one more shot.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
Doctor Ray, Doctor Ray is sharing Doctor Ray.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I love doctor Man. He helped us throughout the pandemic. Oh,
he'd come on with us every night, sometimes three hours
a night. He'll come on with us as he did.
He did the whole show was yeah, and you talk
about how you know this pandemic is horrible for kids.
They should put them back in school. Kids don't pose
a threat, and to keep kids out of school is
doing a tremendous disservice to them. And he was right
(28:56):
on everything he said. Every time he said something it
was controversial six months to eight months later turned out
to be one hundred percent true, including the least the
recent study that said that that COVID most likely came
out of a lab leak in in China, And he
was right about that. And he got a lot of
ridicule when he said that, but he was right about it. Yes, okay, no,
(29:19):
So it wasn't those those are three good choices.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Who's really been a really nice guy, really cool to
me is a guy named Mike Diamond from Mike Diamond Plumbing.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
He's been really like a cool gully. Really really, that's right. Oh,
let me guess maybe you have a plumbing.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Problem, belly.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
You know what, I get sick to my stomach when
you accused me of being like shallow.
Speaker 14 (29:42):
And you got you got a leak or something as
some flooding up.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I'm not going to I'm not going to tolerate that.
I'm not going to take that from you. No, no, no,
I know what it is. You're looking for a new endorsement.
Get out of you. I'm not that shallow. I wouldn't
do that on the air. I would not do that
on the air. You are not.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You are crazy that that drive from Irvine is getting
you nuts.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Talk about sick. You make me sick.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I get I get nauseous when I look at you
and when I when I talk.
Speaker 14 (30:11):
To you, because I.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
See you, I'm about to throw up in this trash
can when you walk in here, when you walk in.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Here, I want to throw up. I'm throwing up now.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I throw up at night when I think about you,
when you text me, I throw up.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I just bar everywhere too. It's gross.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
And I might like dinner table with my wife, my daughter.
It's like, oh, it's a text, Bellary, you wretch everywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
You know when I threw up when you said that.
My diamond has been the one that's been.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
He's been very sweet to me. He's been very nice
to me. You stop, don't what's wrong? Yeah, he's great,
So don't get down on him. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Texting? Got to get near a toilet and Bellio texts
wretch everywhere? All right, let's talk about this.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Hannah Kobyashi new information this woman that is was missing
from Hawaii. They discovered her in Mexico, and her father,
who was looking for got so distraught he jumped off
a parking structure at lax Oh my god, And how
you ever come back from that? But let's find out
the latest of what's going on with this young lady.
Speaker 15 (31:34):
Yeah, this is a story that adds twist upon twist. Right,
it has disappearance, it has death, and now allegations of
fraud as well as FBI involvement in the case of
that missing Maui woman who's gone incognito. Just when you
thought you heard the last twist in Hanna Kobyashi's life,
(31:54):
the Maui Woman's story finds a new way to grab
the headlines. First missing for weeks after depla laning at
lax Then her father turns up dead after flying to
search for her in Los Angeles, the medical examiner calling
it suicide, and shortly after that, Kobeyashi was tracked down
in Mexico allegedly just looking to go off the grid.
(32:15):
Now allegations at Kobyashi's disappearance may be related to a
fake marriage designed to get a foreign man US citizenship.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh my god, another twist with this case was that real?
Was that arranged? Was that fake?
Speaker 19 (32:27):
Was it fraud?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You know, we don't know any of that.
Speaker 15 (32:30):
Attorney Sarah Azari represents Kobyashi's family. She says the scam
marriage information is based on an Internet tip sent to
the missing woman's sister.
Speaker 17 (32:39):
They found on Reddit that Hannah had been married and
it was some sort of arranged marriage for money type
of situation, essentially for a green card whatever. Hannah's sister
immediately turned over that information to law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Don't people get married because they're in love anymore? Always
has to be some kind of financial angle to it.
What happened to love, Bellio?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
When you got married? You were in love?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You loved John? Yeah, Yeah, for sure, you didn't do
it for the money. No. No, I'm sorry, what was
that I just said no? He said no. Okay.
Speaker 15 (33:18):
The FBI tells I Witness News it has been assisting LAPD,
which is leading the investigation. As for the allegations of
that bogus marriage, LAPD tells us we are aware of
these claims, but they had no impact on our investigation.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Bellio, one more question, I'll leave you alone. Yeah, Tim,
when John married you didn't he did? He think you
were loaded?
Speaker 12 (33:40):
He did?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
He thought I was really loaded.
Speaker 14 (33:44):
Why was that because I worked with the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
For like ten fifteen years.
Speaker 14 (33:48):
Yeah, and so he assumed I was set in the house,
hooked up.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Helicopter yep.
Speaker 14 (33:55):
He thought I traveled by helicopter. Absolutely. He was very
disappointed they found out you had.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Some college dad and I had some MYRS problems.
Speaker 16 (34:08):
Student loans yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I was quite the catch.
Speaker 15 (34:13):
Earlier this week, la PD announced Kobyashi was seen on
video safely crossing the border into Mexico and classified her
case as a voluntarily missing person. We reached out to
Kobyashi's aunt, a Repigeon, who says she believes her niece
is still in Mexico, and that it's been nearly a
month since Kobyashi has spoken with any family or friends.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
What was the ant's named?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
The repigeon re pigeon, Pigeon, one of the Pigeon sisters.
Where what that's from? The Pigeon Sisters? Anybody, anybody? Any
of you people that go and see Broadway plays, The Pigeons.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Sisters, the Odd Couple. Yeah, the Odd Couple, the Pigeons Sisters.
You guys are unwashed.
Speaker 15 (34:56):
Pigeon tells us I and my family have parted ways
at the point. My only goal is to make sure
Hannah is safe and doing this on her own accord
the rest of the Kobayashi family expecting additional surprises.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Oh no, how much more can this family take?
Speaker 19 (35:11):
I think there'll be more twists. To be honest with you,
it's so unusual that she would plan this trip and
be in contact with her family in New York and
look forward to it, and then just completely divert and
go off the grid.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, it is odd. It was an odd, odd story.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
All right, we're live, and the next hour we have
Dean Sharp coming on the house.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The Big Story continues, and that is the CEO, Ryan Thompson.
Oh Man, what an unbelievable story. It doesn't stop. Gunned
down in the streets of New York City, and they're
looking for the guy that did it. They want him
off the streets. They don't think. They're ninety nine percent sure.
(00:33):
This was not just random violence. This guy had it
out for this CEO and for some one reason or another,
whether it was some guy involved in a love triangle
trying to take the stink off by making it about insurance,
or some guy who was wronged in his eyes, in
(00:55):
his mind by an insurance company.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Who knows. But they're gonna find this guy.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
They got a lot of pictures, a lot of resources,
and YPD has a reward out there for I think
ten thousand dollars that will surely go up if they
don't find this guy in the next couple of hours,
next couple of days. But they got a lot of clues,
a lot of clues, including a picture and a very
clear picture of what this guy looks like. Most of
the pictures that we have when he was taking these
(01:21):
random pictures from security cameras, we're really sure what he
looked like. He was always covering his face. Well, they
have one picture of him dead on and you can
clearly see what he looks like. So it's just a
matter of time until they put this case together and
they arrest this guy or the guy goes down in
a big shootout. But the man wanted for questioning in
(01:41):
this shooting is going to have his life turned upside
down pretty shortly.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The latest happening here is we just spoke to a
tourist in the last couple of minutes staying at this
hospital Youth Hostel eight ninety one, Amsterdam. They stay overnight.
Two police officers came in and questioned several people. Now
this comes as police released new pictures taking here of
a person of interest they want to question. The NAPD
is not calling this person the suspect, but they would
(02:11):
like to interview them.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Now, let's walk through what we do know.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay, let's go with what we know now from.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
The latest from this investigation, CBS obtained surveillance video of
the suspect riding a bike leaving Central Park about fifteen
minutes after the shooting. Where did he go after that?
That is one of the key questions. Sources say police
are still hoping this image showing the suspect wearing all
black and that distinctive backpack taken out of Starbucks minutes
before the shooting, that it may have captured enough of
(02:38):
the suspect's space to run it through facial recognition programs
and another man.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How addicted to Starbucks are we? We're even guys who
are murdering people on the streets stop by for a
little pick me up before they know I kill somebody.
Everybody is into coffee now, everybody hey with either Starbucks
or you know, Dutch Brothers or what is that? Tea
(03:04):
leaf and me all those places me leaf and tea,
coffee bean and tea leaf. Yes, but we're not drinking
just coffee. We're drinking milkshakes. That's the rub yep. Seventy
five percent of the people in this country are overweight,
and we wonder why why aren't we all overweight? Well,
(03:26):
in the nineteen seventies, when my mom and dad wanted
a cup of coffee, they'd get a cup of coffee,
maybe a little sugar, maybe a little cream, But my
mom just.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Liked black coffee, nothing in it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Nowadays, we have a frappucino in the morning, pick me
up frappucino in the afternoon, and a frappuccino before we
go to bed. Three milkshakes a day. Those are essentially milkshakes,
is what they are. Three of them every day from
zero to three. That's a thousand milkshakes a year, a thousand.
(03:59):
And we want where all this extra weight came from.
Even this guy who went on to allegedly killed the
CEO of United Healthcare stopped for his morning milkshake.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
To run it through facial recognition programs. And another development,
CBS News has learned from law enforcement sources that shellcasings
found at the scene had the words deny, defend, depose
meticulously written in sharpie. Investigators believe this could be a
reference to what's called the three d's of insurance, a
(04:34):
known reference made by critics of the health insurance industry.
It is still unclear why the gunman targeted the United
Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson in the first place. Police are
combing electronics to find out.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Now that could also just be to take the stink
off the fact that there was a romantic relationship, because
remember this guy who was shot, this Brian Thompson was
married to his college suite heart. He went to college
in Iowa Sons. But he wasn't living at home. They
were separated. He was living about a mile away from
his wife and his two kids. So there may have
(05:09):
been some tension in the relationship as well. And how
do he take the stink off that it might be
a romantic connection to this turn it into an insurance connection,
to take the stink off it, So that might be Look,
if I were a detective of New York, I would
not be convinced that this is all about insurance yet,
(05:30):
not yet if.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
There were any threats against the fifty year olds. Thompson
is a father of two from Minnesota. He was in
town for an investor's conference when he was shot. The
NYPD is working with authorities in Minnesota to determine where
the victim is from to dig deeper into any specific
threats against him, and police sources say detectives have uncovered
(05:51):
rantings against Big Pharma directed at United Healthcare, but no
threats to Thompson's personal safety. Specifically, A short while ago,
we spoke to Rodney Harrison, former NYPD, who says this
was all clearly planned, but not perfect.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
There were some things that he did wrong. Once again,
as a phone was left behind. We believe that it
may be connected to him.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But that may not be his phone, you know, it
may be somebody else's phone that he stole to take
the stink off of him. That may again, also it
might be a false lead.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Once again is how his face was covered, but at
one point it was exposed, which you know, it will
help out with being identified through facial recognition.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Now again, a motive for the shooting remains a mystery.
Police fan out across the city looking for clues back
out here on this hostile on the Upper west Side. Again,
just minutes ago, we spoke to a tourist who said
there was some police activity here and we are still
looking to speak to other people who work at the
hostile here, and that's what we're doing in the next
couple minutes on the Upper west Side. Natalie dud Ridge,
(06:55):
CBS News New York.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Now, this is also going to become a big, big
tourist attract people that go to New York will want
to see where this happened, and you're going to see
flowers on the street.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You're going to see it roped off.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
People going want to take pictures because this has become
a must see in New York.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
If you're in New.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
York right now and you're traveling there with family or friends,
or maybe you're on business and you've got a night off,
a couple hours off, you want to walk by there
and sort of get the vibe of the area. And
so this is still a huge, huge story.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Okay, Natalie, thank you. And the CEO of United Health Group,
which has United Healthcare under its umbrella, shared a message
to employees following Thompson's death.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
There are no words to describe how so many of
us are feeling right now. Brian was a truly extraordinary
person who touched the lives of countless people throughout our
organization and far beyond. It's a terrible tragedy, and I
know we are in shock and disbelief. Our hearts are
with his family. Please keep them in your thoughts and
(07:57):
prayers and be assured will be there for them.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
He went on to encourage employees to support each other
as they collectively grieve Thompson's death.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right, we'll have updates all night long and until
this case is solved, we'll bring you all the different clues,
all the different theories on what happened in the streets
of New York. But when we come back, because of
the new president, a lot of things are changing. The
stock markets, up, our insurance, I'm sorry, our mortgage rates
(08:27):
coming down. Everybody always wants to refine when mortgage rates
come down? Is it time to buy a house right now?
What are mortgage rates all about?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well we come back, Ray Williams is gonna be with
his executive vice president of Consumer Direct and he will
tell us where mortgage rates are now and where they
are going. So if you're in the market buying a
house or selling house, you're going to want to hear
the next segment.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
We are keeping our eye on the United Healthcare CEO story.
Anywhere details come out, we'll have those for you immediately.
Big story coming on New York. But there's also other
news going on. Donald Trump will be taking over as
the forty seventh president. It's affected the stock market already,
and I don't know if it's affected rates, you know,
(09:21):
mortgage rates, hee Lock? Is it time to REFI I
don't know. I don't know what that game is all about.
I'm not in that game. So we always have specialists
come on the show. Guy who's been in that game
for a long time. A guy named Ray Williams. He's
the executive vice president of Consumers Direct and he's with us.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Ray, How you, sir, Hi, my.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Long lost friend, how are you?
Speaker 11 (09:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Ding dong with you? Are you calling from a cave?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
I hope not. I'm in an office with the door closed.
And it's new American funding. Oh yeah, CD is a division.
But Matt, I haven't talked to you, and I've mistaken.
It's been about eleven years, my friend.
Speaker 12 (10:01):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Are you on a speaker phone? By chance?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
No?
Speaker 9 (10:05):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Really? Okay? All right, I'm sorry a little bit of
that going all right? So what is going on with
interest rates? Is it?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Have they come down? Is it time to refine? What's
happening about? Helocks? Give us the whole shakedown.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
Well, we'll try to make this interesting for the viewers.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
There's more for the listeners which you know to be
talked with more.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Put him on hold here I can barely hear him.
I ask him if he can pick up the phone,
if he's on speaker for you can get on a.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Phone that we can hear him. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm sorry to do that to you, Ray, but that's
either a speaker phone or somebody is in a tunnel.
Because that is it's hard to understand. It is very
difficult to understand, very very difficult. And so we'll we'll
try to put that back together. But until we do,
we've got more news.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
More news.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
A Venice cafe is closing down. The Rose Cafe very
popular joint. I've been there a bunch of times myself.
It is closing after forty five years.
Speaker 11 (11:07):
After forty five years, the Rose restaurant in Venice is
closing this month.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
I've been coming to the Rose Cafe since the eighties.
I grew up here in southern California, and it's gone
through a lot of changes.
Speaker 11 (11:19):
The restaurant, known for its coffee pastries in California cuisine,
has gone through multiple menu changes over the last four decades.
Longtime customers have been stopping by to savor what might
be their last meal.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Oh no, the last meal.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Why are all these really great restaurants closing? We always
hear about this. There are a couple of Arcadia, there's
another one in downtown LA. There's another one on Alvara
Street that's about to close. Why are all the great
restaurants that have been around for thirty forty fifty years?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Why are they all going away? All of the.
Speaker 12 (11:52):
Staff are always super nice and friendly, and they had
really great food.
Speaker 13 (11:57):
So yeah, it was just like an institution.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
And you know, I mean, even in my short time here,
this was one of the first places I went.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
To I wanted to give my goodbyes.
Speaker 14 (12:07):
I used to work in that building across the street,
so I was always.
Speaker 12 (12:10):
Coming to it kind of changed with Venice, so it'll
be really sad to see it go.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh yeah, it's a staple of Venice. The Rose Cafe
is Venice, and it's closing.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
Residents say they've seen homeless encampments come and go near
this intersection throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Okay, there's probably a reason why it's going away. I
can't have anything nice in this town anymore, making.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
This very neighborhoody restaurant, sometimes difficult to walk.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
To, sometimes difficult to walk through. Sometimes it's a nightmare.
You know, the difference between Santa Monica, it's its own
is its own city, and Santa Monica has their own
police force. So when you walk around Santa Monica and
the beach, you might see it a homeless guy or two,
but they do a pretty good job of cleaning that up,
except for on the cliffs of Santa Monica.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I haven't be able to tackle that yet.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
But Venice is part of LA and there's not enough
manpower out there, so a lot of the homeless they
flock south for the winter, and their southern home is Venice,
So you get a lot of homeless cats down there,
a lot and a place we used to bring maybe
the family for lunch, not anymore. Maybe that's the reason
when the Rose Cafe is closing up.
Speaker 11 (13:19):
Shop, making this very neighborhoody restaurant sometimes difficult to walk to.
Speaker 13 (13:24):
We're losing something familiar to us. We just lost Forma
up the way on Maine, and now this, I guess
things happen in what twos or three, so we'll see
what else happens.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Oh, yeah, I forgot that the other cafe was the.
Speaker 13 (13:38):
Forma and now this was it Forma they saw up
the way on Maine.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, I know that place too.
Speaker 13 (13:44):
Something familiar to us. We just lost Forma.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, it's the former cafe they they're gone to.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
I guess things happen in what twos or three, So
we'll see what else happens, though. I'm excited. Something new
will common, will be better. That's what we do.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, I don't know about tad Okay, so that's closing
Rose Cafe. Guess what's also closing? Norms the one in
Beverly Grove area closing down.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Possibly.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
This has been a staple here in LA for more
than sixty years now. It's even a historic landmark. So
there were some customers and people who even live and
work nearby who are pretty upset when they heard that
Raising Canes might be taking it over and turning it
into the Chicken Chain. But it sounds like the chain
actually heard those concerns from the community. This letter that
(14:30):
appears to have been sent from Canes to the City
of LA's Cultural Heritage Commission says, quote, we have heard
the community's concerns and we are in discussions with NORMS
about the future of this site. The letter also says
that the Chicken chain will no longer present to the
Commission at a meeting as planned. All right, let's talk
about some background raising. Canes actually owns the site where
(14:53):
this norm sits, but because the NORMS is a historic landmark,
Canes still would have to go through that commission to
tell them how they would preserve the building.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Okay, so the building might stay the same, but certainly
the food and the vibe is going to change.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It opened in nineteen fifty seven and it is one
of the last remaining examples of Google architecture in LA.
It's quintessentially California mid century Modern. It's an iconic building.
Speaker 15 (15:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
We talked to a pop culture historian and author about
the questions that are still swirling around this.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Why can't they find another location? Norms and the structure
need to stay together. That is what makes it a
cultural icon.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I like the old iconic places.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Farmers Market on Fairfax and Third is another one of
those places I like, going back old school. There's another
one called the Apple Pan out in West LA that's
been around for many, many decades, and.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
People like they like that.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
They like old school restaurants like that. What's out near
your CROs it's been around? Is the Hat a restaurant
that's been around a long time.
Speaker 16 (15:58):
That has been around a long time, but not the
one that's in Upland that's there for been there for
just a number of years. I think the original Hats
like Nearpacity or something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, that's also another cool joint. But man, all these
great restaurants have been around forever. Yes, oh Tops, Yeah yeah, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Chili cheese fries.
Speaker 16 (16:15):
Oh man, that's the first place I ever had up
ASTROOMI burger, which I've never heard of before I came
out to La.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know, we had I don't know if I could
say this on the air, but there was a place
called Tops with a Z. You know, they used to
have great chili dogs. And I accidentally said, oh, Tops
with the D gives you the s's with an S.
(16:41):
And the guy goes, Oh, this guy next to you
owns some place.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I'm like, it was a joke. It was a joke,
good going in.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It was a joke. It was a joke. But I
do like that Tops with the Z. They always had
the best chili. I was still around, but Tops with
a Z had a great chili.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Pinks.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
There is another great chili and sant Anita is the
best chili of them all. Sant Anita track chili. I
don't know what's in it. I don't know if it's
the three horse from the fourth race. I don't know
what the hell's in it. I just know that chili
at sant Anita is second to none. All right, we'll
go back. We'll talk about rates, mortgage rates. Where are they?
(17:18):
Are they going up? Are they coming down? Is it
time to refine? Is it time to get a heelock?
I don't know, I'm not my game. We'll talk to
Ray Williams, he's executive vice president of New and New
American Funding, and we'll find out exactly what we should
do when it comes to mortgage and refine.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Speaking a pastathon.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We are over a million dollars, that's right, one million,
two thousand and sixty nine dollars in cash going to
Catarina's Club.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Thank you, thank you, thank you to.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Everybody involved, everybody participated, everybody, they're donated thank you, and
seventy eight and fifty five pounds of pasta and sauce.
So a record year again, a record year. And it
is because of this audience, the best audience in all
of talk radio, maybe in all of radio in the world.
(18:18):
And I would put this audience up against any audience,
any of them. Okay, time to refinance? I don't know,
maybe it is, maybe it's not time to buy a house.
What are mortgage rates doing? Have they changed over the
last couple of months? Are they about to change? What
is the prediction? I don't out, So we got to
get a specialist in here. When I don't know anything.
(18:39):
Time to call the troops in Ray Williams. He's the
executive vice president of New American Funding. That's all they do.
They do mortgages. He locks refie the whole run. Ray Williams,
How you.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Bob, How are you doing so?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You sound great? You sound great? Man? Hey, So what
are raids doing now? Are they?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Have they come down in the last couple of weeks?
What's the trend and where do you see them going?
Speaker 17 (19:07):
Well?
Speaker 10 (19:07):
The best attempt at a crystal ball is this The
incoming administration has broadcasted that it wants to lower the
rates and it wants the lower inflation. Unfortunately, they're not
really clear on how they're going to do that. So
it's got people a little bit, you know, and the
bond market and the mortgage market is very unsure of
the future. So the day after the election they actually
(19:32):
spiked up. They went the wrong way.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
So the last couple of days they've actually started to
come back down, and we're feeling pretty good about next
week of them coming down a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And what do they currently add for a jumbo loan?
Because I imagine most people have a house. What is
the jumbo right? Is that a million dollars?
Speaker 15 (19:54):
H Yeah?
Speaker 10 (19:55):
And the rates are your race right now is going
to be six to six and a half something like
that under jumbo over jumbo could be seven seven and
a half.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And what about helocks? Is it time to get a
helock or are people still getting them? Are they still
offering them?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Flocks are very popular right now.
Speaker 18 (20:13):
We do them.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
We do them very well. We do them every day.
A couple of good things about a helock. You can
get it done in seven eight nine days. Have the
money in your pocket, whoa fold digital experience. Yeah, you
don't have to go anywhere. Nobody has to come to
your house and sign docs. We could just digitally get
you a line to credit and it's very simple. Interest
(20:34):
rates on helocks are about nine percent nine and a
half depending on your credit.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Not bad, okay, but still nine percent is better than
the thirty two percent on a credit card.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Well, that's exactly right. Credit cards are you know, good
credit people, good credit credit cards twenty one percent up
to thirty Like you say, it is definitely the cheapest
money in town. I mean personal loan, for cast out,
RV loans, boat loans, those are all ten, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen percent. So for twenty years going backwards, no matter
(21:06):
what you know, uh, borrowing cash against your home was
the cheapest money in the country and it still is.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And what are what are interest rates on mortgages tied
to the tenure? What is the what is the magic
number that makes them come down?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Well, not an exit on that, but is that it's
it's sort of tied to the tenure, Yes, kind of
does its own thing, and it's yeah, it's not exactly
tied to that, but that's yes, The answer is yes.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Okay, do you do you do you foresee us ever
in the future going back to you know two point
five three point two three point five, No.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Sir, I don't. Let's something really bad happens again. We
wouldn't want another pandemic. I wouldn't think it'd be worth it.
So the belief the belief system here is when you
get down to a five eight seventy five or a
five ninety nine. You know, historically that's been a very
good rate, and so we're not too far off.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Of that, right all right?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And so with the he lock, that's a home equity
line of credit. What do you have to have loan
to value? How much do you how much rick wiggle
room do you have to have to get one of these?
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (22:13):
It's up to ninety percent? Call it that. You you
could go up to ninety percent on a on a
he lock.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Really, so if you have a million dollar house that's
paid off, you can get a nine hundred thousand dollars
loan on it.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Uh, yeah, actually you could.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Wow, that's great. Then take it to sant Anita and
double it. You know, I don't reckon you.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Yeah, helock's are pretty big right now? You know, you
just got to do the math. But we tell people people,
you know, everybody else, what's the race? Is now a
good time should I buy a house? And the answer
is pretty much yes to every scenario. If it's you know,
if you're trying, if you have a first mortgage at
a certain interest rate and your only goal is to
lower that interest rate with the refinance, then probably not.
(22:56):
The answer is no, today, can't make that happen. But
if you're in the you're trying to buy a house,
yes it's the time to buy a house. If you
have trying to consolidate debt, trying to get out from
under some stress or some pressure, the answer is usually yes.
But a twenty minute phone call to us, we'll do
the math for you. We'll we'll, we'll, we'll analyze it
for you and tell you the truth.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And historically, over any ten year period in California, the
more the value of a house has gone up.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
Yeah, I mean, in you know, the nation four or
five percent annually lately, which is crazy. California seven percent
appreciation every year every year. And I don't think it's
going to going down anytime soon. You know, Trump has
signaled Trump wants to build houses and make it easier
to do housing starts all over the country. That's great news.
(23:47):
Make the permits easier to get and build, build, build,
and we should but even but you know that's take
that'll take years for him to make any impact in that.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Hey, what's the website for your company? People want to
dip their toe into a he lock.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
New American Funding dot Com. Thank you, sir, New American
Funding American Funding dot Com.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
All right, tell Chad, I said, hey, nice to talk
to you fellas.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
Yes, sir, keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Ray.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
All right, Ray Williams with new executive vice president, New
American Funding.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He Lock.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Ninety percent is unbelievable. Man, oh man, could we have
some fun with ninety percent? Let's roll, Let's go. All right,
We're live on KFI AM six forty. When we come back,
we've got a lot more news going on. We have
the earthquake. We talked to doctor Lucy Jones about If
you want to go back and listen to that segment,
you can do that. But we have some Rose Bowl
(24:44):
news coming up. Big news with the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Some news here on Hannah kobe Yashi. Also the Rose Bowl.
Let's get to the Rose Bowl real quick since we
promoted that. Lots going on with the Rose Bawl, then
we'll get the handed story as well. But big deal
going on with this Rose Bowl here in passages.
Speaker 18 (25:07):
While the Rose Bowl has announced plans to complete eighty
million dollars in enhancements to improve the guest experience at
the one hundred and two year old stadium. The Rose
Bowl will host his third Olympic Games in twenty twenty eight.
The Rose Bowl game is a quarterfinal site of the
college football playoffs. For the next two seasons. Oh N
campaign will be led by privately raised funds cultivated by
(25:31):
the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Hey BELLYO, is that Jim Hill's voice? You worked with
Jim Hill?
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Right?
Speaker 10 (25:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (25:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I love Jim Hill. He's the best.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Always been a very nice man to me, Always been
at cool as well.
Speaker 18 (25:42):
As the contributions from the venueses, third party partners and vendos.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know, one of my biggest screw ups in radio
was with Jim Hill. What was that?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Jim Hill said he had a brother who played football.
And he showed me a picture of the guy and
this is on the air, and underneath it it said
NFL football player Jim Hill.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And I said, did your mom name two kids? Jim?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Is your brother's name Jim? And he goes, no, no, no,
his name is not Jim. I think it's like Dave
or something. He said, doesn't say Jim under there. He
was saying, it's Jim's brother. It was my brother Jim. Like, oh, okay,
I'm sorry, He goes, you thought my mom named two
kids Jim. I mean, yeah, that's why I asked. I
(26:40):
thought it was odd. I thought it was weird, and
it was sort of like off put by.
Speaker 16 (26:45):
Would you rather have not have said anything and just
thought you had a brother named Jim?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But he's been he's been really cool to me every
time I've run into him. He's been a very.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Compromised, very nice man.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You know who else has been really cool to me?
Bellio in radio since I started, Oh won don't you guess? Okay,
why don't you take guess who?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I'm about to say, Bob Miller with the Kings.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh okay, that's a great choice. I would say Bob Miller. Yeah,
not who I was thinking of. But yes, Bob Miller
one of the greatest announcers in the world. And I
got to watch him as a child called Kings Games
in the nineteen seventies at the Great Western form back
then the Fabulous Forum, and I wanted to get into
(27:32):
radio because I to watch, you know, Bob Miller call
the game was like, it was really cool. No, it
wasn't Bob Miller. All right, guest number two, who do
you think it is?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Rickty's?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Another great choice? Another great choice. I've known Rick Dy's
for a long time. I text him all the time.
He texted me comedy bits all the time. He's great,
one of the great talents in radio. He I think
is responsible for radio beings as big as it is
in Los Angeles right now. And he gave me a
great piece of advice when when I was much younger
and just starting in radio. He said, always be enthusiastic
(28:08):
and get very close to the sales staff. They do
all the work. And get close to that crew smart
and they have the hardest job in radio. So no,
it was I think Rick D's certainly would fall in
the category of somebody's been very nice to me, But
it wasn't Rick D's I'll give you one more shot.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
Doctor Ray, Doctor Ray is sharing Doctor Ray.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I love doctor Man. He helped us throughout the pandemic. Oh,
he'd come on with us every night, sometimes three hours
a night. He'll come on with us as he did.
He did the whole show was yeah, and you talk
about how you know this pandemic is horrible for kids.
They should put them back in school. Kids don't pose
a threat, and to keep kids out of school is
doing a tremendous disservice to them. And he was right
(28:56):
on everything he said. Every time he said something it
was controversial six months to eight months later turned out
to be one hundred percent true, including the least the
recent study that said that that COVID most likely came
out of a lab leak in in China, And he
was right about that. And he got a lot of
ridicule when he said that, but he was right about it. Yes, okay, no,
(29:19):
So it wasn't those those are three good choices.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Who's really been a really nice guy, really cool to
me is a guy named Mike Diamond from Mike Diamond Plumbing.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
He's been really like a cool gully. Really really, that's right. Oh,
let me guess maybe you have a plumbing.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Problem, belly.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
You know what, I get sick to my stomach when
you accused me of being like shallow.
Speaker 14 (29:42):
And you got you got a leak or something as
some flooding up.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I'm not going to I'm not going to tolerate that.
I'm not going to take that from you. No, no, no,
I know what it is. You're looking for a new endorsement.
Get out of you. I'm not that shallow. I wouldn't
do that on the air. I would not do that
on the air. You are not.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You are crazy that that drive from Irvine is getting
you nuts.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Talk about sick. You make me sick.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I get I get nauseous when I look at you
and when I when I talk.
Speaker 14 (30:11):
To you, because I.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
See you, I'm about to throw up in this trash
can when you walk in here, when you walk in.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Here, I want to throw up. I'm throwing up now.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I throw up at night when I think about you,
when you text me, I throw up.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I just bar everywhere too. It's gross.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
And I might like dinner table with my wife, my daughter.
It's like, oh, it's a text, Bellary, you wretch everywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
You know when I threw up when you said that.
My diamond has been the one that's been.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
He's been very sweet to me. He's been very nice
to me. You stop, don't what's wrong? Yeah, he's great,
So don't get down on him. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Texting? Got to get near a toilet and Bellio texts
wretch everywhere? All right, let's talk about this.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Hannah Kobyashi new information this woman that is was missing
from Hawaii. They discovered her in Mexico, and her father,
who was looking for got so distraught he jumped off
a parking structure at lax Oh my god, And how
you ever come back from that? But let's find out
the latest of what's going on with this young lady.
Speaker 15 (31:34):
Yeah, this is a story that adds twist upon twist. Right,
it has disappearance, it has death, and now allegations of
fraud as well as FBI involvement in the case of
that missing Maui woman who's gone incognito. Just when you
thought you heard the last twist in Hanna Kobyashi's life,
(31:54):
the Maui Woman's story finds a new way to grab
the headlines. First missing for weeks after depla laning at
lax Then her father turns up dead after flying to
search for her in Los Angeles, the medical examiner calling
it suicide, and shortly after that, Kobeyashi was tracked down
in Mexico allegedly just looking to go off the grid.
(32:15):
Now allegations at Kobyashi's disappearance may be related to a
fake marriage designed to get a foreign man US citizenship.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh my god, another twist with this case was that real?
Was that arranged? Was that fake?
Speaker 19 (32:27):
Was it fraud?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You know, we don't know any of that.
Speaker 15 (32:30):
Attorney Sarah Azari represents Kobyashi's family. She says the scam
marriage information is based on an Internet tip sent to
the missing woman's sister.
Speaker 17 (32:39):
They found on Reddit that Hannah had been married and
it was some sort of arranged marriage for money type
of situation, essentially for a green card whatever. Hannah's sister
immediately turned over that information to law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Don't people get married because they're in love anymore? Always
has to be some kind of financial angle to it.
What happened to love, Bellio?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
When you got married? You were in love?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You loved John? Yeah, Yeah, for sure, you didn't do
it for the money. No. No, I'm sorry, what was
that I just said no? He said no. Okay.
Speaker 15 (33:18):
The FBI tells I Witness News it has been assisting LAPD,
which is leading the investigation. As for the allegations of
that bogus marriage, LAPD tells us we are aware of
these claims, but they had no impact on our investigation.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Bellio, one more question, I'll leave you alone. Yeah, Tim,
when John married you didn't he did? He think you
were loaded?
Speaker 12 (33:40):
He did?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
He thought I was really loaded.
Speaker 14 (33:44):
Why was that because I worked with the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
For like ten fifteen years.
Speaker 14 (33:48):
Yeah, and so he assumed I was set in the house,
hooked up.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Helicopter yep.
Speaker 14 (33:55):
He thought I traveled by helicopter. Absolutely. He was very
disappointed they found out you had.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Some college dad and I had some MYRS problems.
Speaker 16 (34:08):
Student loans yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I was quite the catch.
Speaker 15 (34:13):
Earlier this week, la PD announced Kobyashi was seen on
video safely crossing the border into Mexico and classified her
case as a voluntarily missing person. We reached out to
Kobyashi's aunt, a Repigeon, who says she believes her niece
is still in Mexico, and that it's been nearly a
month since Kobyashi has spoken with any family or friends.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
What was the ant's named?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
The repigeon re pigeon, Pigeon, one of the Pigeon sisters.
Where what that's from? The Pigeon Sisters? Anybody, anybody? Any
of you people that go and see Broadway plays, The Pigeons.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Sisters, the Odd Couple. Yeah, the Odd Couple, the Pigeons Sisters.
You guys are unwashed.
Speaker 15 (34:56):
Pigeon tells us I and my family have parted ways
at the point. My only goal is to make sure
Hannah is safe and doing this on her own accord
the rest of the Kobayashi family expecting additional surprises.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Oh no, how much more can this family take?
Speaker 19 (35:11):
I think there'll be more twists. To be honest with you,
it's so unusual that she would plan this trip and
be in contact with her family in New York and
look forward to it, and then just completely divert and
go off the grid.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, it is odd. It was an odd, odd story.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
All right, we're live, and the next hour we have
Dean Sharp coming on the house.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Whisper. He's great we're live on CAFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
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