December 17, 2024 • 34 mins
New 2025 California laws: Artificial intelligence, octopuses, cannabis cafes and more.// Mark Thompson’s Plans for the Holidays/ US Postal Service issues warning about text message scam, ‘Smishing’. // Mega Millions jackpot continues to grow after no winning ticket was sold/U.S. policymakers embrace crypto expertise, aiming for clarity and fairness. // Powerful Santa Ana winds force road closures, could shut down power in Topanga Canyon area/ Trump considers privatizing US Postal Service.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's the Conway Show for Tuesday. Thompson here for Tim
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
It's one of those gorgeous days. I mean it is
just a little warmer than it has been the last
few days. And in southern California there is that sweet
spot and today we've got it. So wherever you are,
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thank you for taking us with you through the iHeartRadio
App or through the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There's a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I've got news out of Washington, news out of California,
news out of the Governor's office. New laws that are
coming down for twenty twenty five. They involve everything from cannabis, cafes,
to octopuses, artificial intelligence and more. I've got the full crew.
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I don't want you to worry. Conway's not here, but
Staffosi is here, and Croge is here. Yeah, yeah, Richie,
an Angel, the whole gang. Yeah, right on. So there
are many a new law. There is many a new law.
(01:22):
I guess might be the way to say it. Coming
in twenty twenty five, and a lot of the new legislation,
and this isn't just in California, this is everywhere is
related to AI, because AI and its impact is essentially
going to be felt in every part of American society.
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So as you might imagine, because there are a lot
of damage that's come through this, some of this stuff
applies to deep fakes and people's likenesses being used on
deep fakes. So here's a little bit of what we
can expect in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger part of our lives,
but not all of it in a positive way. Several
new laws offer some protection against abuse. It's now a
crime to create and post a sexually explicit image or
video of a real person that was created using artificial
intelligence but made to look real. Social media platforms now
have to provide mechanisms to report these deep fake videos,
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and they have to take them down quickly. If you're
a victim of doxing, when someone posts personal information about
you online, like your address or phone number, you can
now sue for up to thirty thousand dollars in damages.
Ever heard of a cannabis cafe, You will in twenty
twenty five, a new law allows cannabis retailers to prepare
and sell food and beverages and newly created lounges. That
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means customers can buy and use cannabis at a business
while they eat a meal or watch a live performance.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh, it's going to be twenty twenty five is going
to be the year of the buzz? What's happening? Will
you have become this decadent culture? You've got? The pod
cafe is going up? Every time I turn on the TV,
there's another star telling me to gamble. Gamble through MGM,
(03:17):
this gamble through Fan Duel, Gamble, this gamble that my
favorite radio and television personalities. They're telling me to gamble
between getting a buzz on and gambling not to mention
a cocktail. From now until the end of the year,
I'm saying, the rise of a decade into America.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Interested in buying pet insurance, providers now need to tell
you whether they base their premiums on the age of
your pet or where you live, and if their policies
exclude certain pre existing conditions.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I have to tell you I had pet insurance and
I did it for a short time. I've heard some
very good stories from people who've had very good experiences
through pet insurance. So I got it going for my
oldest cat, Charlie, who's had a kind of a rough
ride in the last few years. And the problem is,
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because he's older, I'm paying a high monthly for it,
and I realized there's no way. If you're paying a
monthly for insuring the cat of between two and three
hundred dollars, you know there's no way that it's worth it.
I mean, you know, you get one bill in there,
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and that's they're very expensive, these VET bills. But you
get one bill in there, and honestly, you will get
stuck with several thousand dollars. Maybe potentially, but you've already
paid several thousand dollars into the insurance. So at best
it's a wash. And if you don't get a vet visit,
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which is exactly what happened two years went buying, there
were no So now what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You're way in the whole.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So when it comes to pet insurance, I know there
are those of you who have done well with it,
and I've tried it. It's just to me, at least
for certain situations, it may not be optical.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Policies exclude certain pre existing conditions having trouble keeping track
of your online subscriptions. Service providers have to get clear
consent for automatic renewals or continuing service, and they have
to send you annual reminders of what you signed up for.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
This is really great. I mean these to me seem
to me to be consumer protections, and I say, bravo.
You know, again, we talk about government, we talk about
getting government off our back or over regulated whatever, but
regulations can oftentimes be protections. And there you saw it
the other day with Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster just got smacked. We'll
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have the story a little bit later. Yeah, Ticketmaster and
stub Hub. You can't now add these hidden fees that
come in at the eleventh hour as you you know,
as you've picked out your tickets, you know exactly where
you're sitting. You've decided you're going to swallow hard and
pay the few hundred dollars a seat or whatever, and
then you get to the end and it's like, oh yeah,
and there's a two hundred and fifty three dollars service fee.
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There'll be no more of that. That is the kind
of government intervention that I like. It's a protection, it's
a regulation that I can get behind. So bravo for
these various again, call them regulations, call them protections, whatever,
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consumer protections, I'd call them.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
And they're great, great things.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
And they have to send you annual reminders of what
you signed up for. The law also makes it easier
to cancel automatic renewals.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
If you need to take.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Paid family leave to care for a sick family member
or a new baby, your employer can no longer require
you to take vacation to first. If you're a freelance worker,
employers now must provide a contract in writing indicating that
work will be performed and how much and when you'll
be paid. California is expanding its protections against racial discrimination
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to include traits such as hairstyles or textures that are
associated with certain races, and the minimum wage is going
up to sixteen fifty per hour. Fast food workers have
a higher minimum wage.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
There you go, that's a handful of the changes that
will be coming in twenty twenty five. There are a
bunch more that are not included in there. There's like
chemicals and cosmetics that are going to be regulated in
the new year, they're going to be certain health warnings
associated with cannabis and.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Other shall we say, related chemical intake.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So for example, when you go to buy cannabis, there
has to be some kind of document there to explain
the risk associated with cannabis use. So again, these are
all things coming in the new year, and a lot
of this has to do with consumer protections, but then
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some of it has to do with law and order
on the streets. I'll give you an example, side shows
and street racing. Newsom signed a few laws that impose
stricter penalties for people who are part of those side
shows and the street racing. So to make it easier
for law enforcement to arrest these side show participants and
impound their vehicles for illegal activities. I mean this is
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a good thing. And the smash and grab robberies in
the new year stiffer penalties for all of those involved
in smash and grab robberies. If the crime caused more
than fifty thousand dollars in damage to a property, the
court can impose an additional sentence of one year, and
additional years can be added to a sentence if the
property laws is higher.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
There is just a sense that you know, we're kind
of losing control. So these are things that I think
in a sense represent an advocacy for consumers when it
comes to like the the tickets and the renewal of
online digital subscriptions. But then there's also, as I say,
the law and order on the streets with the sideshow
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street raising, the smashing grab.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Good on them.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
There is a new scam though, and I'm betting it
has hit your phone one way or another. It has
hit mine. It is called smishing. I'll tell you what
that is and what to do about it.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Next.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Used to say some pretty funky stuff in his lyrics.
He was right up there, you know, good stuff the
back door Santa If I Am six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior.
Stefu's playing the funky Christmas offerings. As we roll into
an afternoon of the year, eight days to Christmas. Yeah, you've
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got time to do whatever. I was telling Crows before
the show that we were just talking about, like, you know,
what are you doing for Christmas? And you know, you
having a family over because Crows has got a great
house to entertain and I was just talking about the fact,
and we were both kind of exchanging thoughts about the
(10:35):
fact that this is a really when it comes to family,
like an obligation heavy period of the year.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Meaning you know, we love family, all of us.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I mean, you know, I understand there may be members
of your family that you're not crazy about, But the
point is the idea of getting people together and you're
generally in a good way is a nice idea, and
it's a warm idea.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's very holiday, okay.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
To the detriment of that, they demonize people who either
want to be alone or are alone that like it.
You know, it's like it's like a sin to be
like to the idea of being alone during a holiday
is like a sin.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's funny you say this because I always feel I
have to tell people who are single or have nothing
to do on Christmas Eve or whatever just to watch
a movie or you know, and may slip into loneliness
or something.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You're actually in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You do what you want to do, you eat what
you want to eat, You go to sleep when you
want to go to sleep. You don't have to be friendly,
you don't have to have a smile. I'm telling you, don't.
Don't give into the loneliness. Celebrate the fact that you're alone.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Yeah, I mean, I love you baby.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Christmas Day and we said to our friends, Hey, you know,
we're just having a casual conversation on the phone. And
I asked her, what do you I was doing Christmas Day?
And my pal, who I've known for many years, said, oh,
we're not doing anything. I said, well, maybe we'll come
by and just say hello. And I'm thinking later, why
did I say that. I don't want to do that.
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I mean, I think there's a basketball game on Christmas Day.
There may be a football game.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
On Christmas games on Netflix this year.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh wow, that's right, that's right. So I have to
figure out a way to wriggle out of that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now. I don't know anyway. Wherever you are, you do exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I would that was the only gift COVID gave us, right,
you'd say, my wife, I think we think it's COVID.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
We're not sure. We just don't want to take the chance.
So for that reason, we just can't be there.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
We're going to play it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Save you understand, yeah, exactly, and then you really have
to play the COVID card. You know, I'm sure there
was some COVID lying going on. You know, I heard
too many COVID excuses related to official events.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So anyway, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, be happy.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And if you haven't put things together, meaning you don't
have a plan, the cake is not baked yet, celebrate
that fact.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Live in the freedom. Smishing is the latest thing. This
is from the US Postal Service. It's a warning. There's
a text message scam. They call it smishing, and there
are well essentially, what they do is they send you
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a text and they say that they're trying to get
you something, that the post office is trying to get
you something, and they're texting you because they're double checking
your address and click on the link to update the information.
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So they send these fake text messages out fake in
the sense that they're not from the United States Post
Service to trick people into sharing information or clicking on
a link. So they're always going to say there's an
issue of delivery, and though they're going to pretend to
be a bank.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Is another one.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The postal service is issuing the warning, but the actual
way in which the scam may live relates to banking,
government agency, or a company of some kind. They may
ask for account numbers and passwords.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
When is it going to be a thing where we
don't have to keep telling people stop responding, stop replying
to numbers or messages from things or people that you
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
The problem is croch that they're really good. I mean,
I had one the other day and I had to
bring it to Courtney and I said, is this is
this legit? I know, I felt like, says the old guy.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I got one on Saturday too. Yeah, it's crazy. It
looks so legit. Like if I place an order and
I'm expecting like a box or a package, I'll definitely
think it would you know, follow up. But I've you know,
I've seen these many times.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'm kind of like, okay, yeah, right, But again they
take some different forms that You've got the text messages
that I've been talking about, that's smishing thing as they
call it. You also have it on your email, so
your email's out there on the dark web and all
it's being sold and resold and all that and so
you're going to get some of that too, So you're right.
When you have so many packages in play this time
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of year, you're expecting so much, it's reasonable to think
that maybe some information is needed to get you whatever.
So it sadly what I guess, what I'm saying is
they're getting better and better at it. But if you
look at these things carefully, you look at the return
email address for example, and certainly these text messages, just
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ignore them, just delete them. They you can see through
the scam. But it's really you know, they send out
a blast, so I don't know what they if they
send out, well, let's keep the mat simple. If they
send out ten thousand of these and I don't know,
five percent of the people respond, that's a pretty good response, right,
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that would be how many is that cross?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I'm not good A man out of ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Out of ten ten percent would be a thousand, so
five percent, yeah, so that's not bad on an email
blast that cost them nothing. The Post Office does have
legitimate ways to track customers packages, and that's free, and
one is by signing up for text tracking. But you
sign up for that. The Postal Service does not attempt
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to attain customers' personal information through text messages, emails or
phone calls, says Natashi Garvins of the US Postal Service.
Natashi Garbins has made the point if you want to
get tracking statuses, informed delivery is the way to go.
She says that our text messages that you've received from
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Informed Delivery will not ask you for personal information. They
are not going to ask you for your credit card
information or anything like that, and anything that's personally associated
with identifying you will not be asked.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
So it's called submishing.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Again, it's USPS that they represent themselves as most of
the time, but it could also be any number of
other covers, meaning banking or any kind of business. And
it's out there in a big, big way, especially for
the holidays. Speaking of the Postal service, might it be privatized?
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There is that talk. There is always that talk. It's
been out there for a while, but now it's getting serious.
We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
All the holidays come together and just about eight days.
I think Hanukah is at the same time as Christmas,
maybe the day or the day before so and the
season of Kwanza. Whatever your deal is, we welcome you
and I hope that you win the Mega Millions jackpot,
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which has continued to grow ahead of tonight's drawing.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
The jackpot.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, you have to have all six numbers and
the new jackpot is seven hundred and sixty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So what time do they draw that? Seven forty five? Right?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Look at seven forty five tonight for two bucks? Talk
about an ROI Mega millions Way live seven hundred and
sixty million dollars massive? Yep, pretty great. Would be a
great way to spend the holidays.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Yeah, and if any listener that wins and needs a
new best friend, me and Marker here hello.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, I'm sure the winner would be uh, you know,
hard up for people who would be friends with them?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Are you on? I feel like you. I feel like
this crowd isn't really a crypto crowd, am I?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Is there anybody who's into crypto? No?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's kind of another one of those like lottery type things,
like if you got into bitcoin and you've taken the
ride up because bitcoin has had some lean years, but
the next few years and this year, wow, it is
a bitcoin and generally crypto period that they'll be tremendous
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return on crypto investment.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
From the looks of it.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I mean, you've got a very bitcoin friendly administration in
Donald Trump's administration, and they're lobbying the crypto people are
for more states to be open to crypto, for public
pension funds, and for treasuries to buy into it. I mean,
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this is a real crack in the door that has
been slammed shut on crypto, and we'll see. I mean,
you know, they argue that it's a people argue against it,
What are you what? Well, you can argue a couple
of things against it. First, it's incredibly volatile, right, So
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when you talk about a hedge against certain things, you
know you generally don't hedge in something that's really volatile.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
But the other thing is you can say, well, there's
no there there now that may be changing, meaning that
you know, you don't use bitcoin generally or any crypto
to buy anything. There are a handful of exceptions to that.
But point is that if bitcoin and crypto achieves a
sort of legitimacy through this incoming administration, it will completely
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change the way that investors look at crypto, and people
who are involved in the crypto world say, hey, look,
if there is increasing government buy in, that'll stabilize bitcoin
and crypto and give it more legitimacy, and it'll boost
what is already a sky high price. I mean bitcoin
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passed one hundred thousand I think a couple of weeks ago.
So this is you might think of as a kind
of because it's sort of one of these weird things,
a different kind of currency, But this is a currency
that's kind of met its moment, so we'll see. There
are a lot of crypto enthusiasts who are part of
this new Trump administration. Only a couple of public pension
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funds have invested in crypto, and there is a new
US Government Accountability Office study on four oh one K
plan investments in crypto, and that just came out. But
again they go back to what volatility. I mean, you
don't want your four oh one K plan to have
the kind of volatility that crypto has. You want it
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to have a solid base of growth so that your
retirement can be somewhat secure. Anyway, watch for it, because
crypto is going to be a big part of I
think the next few years you'll get an insanely crypto
friendly administration. Talk about bad luck. Father of five is
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hunting with his friends and they're hunting. I guess they're
hunting bear. Lester Harvey, fifty eight years old hunting. When
they've chased this black bear up a tree, one of
the other members of the party that he was in
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shoots the bear in the tree and the bear falls
out of the tree onto Lester Harvey, fifty eight years
of age. When the bear fell on Lester Harvey, he died.
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The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources said that it was
a group of hunters.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Everybody was licensed.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
They chased the bear up the tree, and then as
they walked away from the base of the tree, one
of the hunters shot. The animal fell onto Harvey standing
about ten feet from the bottom of the tree, and
he died.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
That's a very risky situation, all right.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Really really.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
He's described in his obituary as a friend to all
who never met a stranger. He's remembered as an abviod outdoorsman,
and he survived by his wife and his fire kids,
one of whom said he died doing what he loved
to do.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Most getting smashed by Bears.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Really, that's what he loved to do most but freak
ish accident.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
So I promised you the postal service. I'll get you.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'll get you that story when we come back. Also,
a cast member of a high profile show has just
passed away.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'll have that for you as well.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
By the way, somebody mentioned to me my friend Laurie,
who's a big KFI listener, mentioned in hearing us talk
about crypto that Netflix has a new documentary out focusing
on bitfinex, which was the big platform on which you
could trade crypto, buy and sell crypto, and they were
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part of a huge hack. So imagine your bank, because
that's what crypto is. You're buying it on one of
these platforms in kind of a bank situation, you're holding it.
It's almost like a stock brokerage might be a better example.
And then your bitcoin is held there in a wallet,
in a virtual wallet, and I say bitcoin, your crypto whatever.
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There are a bunch of different currencies, as you know,
and a hack was what happened with bitfinex, and a
ton of crypto was stolen and this apparently is a documentary.
It's a new one out on Netflix that talks about this.
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It's called the Biggest Heist Ever and it uncovers this
entire ripoff scheme and also who was behind it and
canna spoil anything for you. So I'm just gonna leave
it at that. But apparently it's great. And as I say,
my friend who listens to Kophile the time and takes
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in a lot of different media, said that this is
just a terrific.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Documentary on crypto.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
So check it out on Netflix if that's your you know,
if that's your jam.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
It's called Biggest Heist Ever.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So what is this about the Santa Ana's they're gonna
they're gonna kick back up? Is that the situation powerful
Santa Anna Wins are coming back for.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yeah, they already got warnings out now till red flag
warnings till tomorrow at.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Six p Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Uh right in the same areas too, by the way
as Malibu and that.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's this is just I'm I'm grateful it's
only a one day event. You know, sometimes we get
these three day Santa An events. It's really bad, but
anything it Ain't that good?
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Only have to tell you everywhere we've gone today in
the Santa a Monica Mountains from Malibu to Topega, we
have seen firefighters strike teams. They are here for the
Franklin fire and now they are pre positioned for this
new wind event. But I can tell you we are
starting to feel some of those winds here in Topanga
and they are only going to get stronger.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
The return of red.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Flag conditions has all eyes on parts of La County
that did not see a fire last week, including Topanga
in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Although the Franklin fire got close.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
I'm concerned about a new fire as well as embers
from the old fire, the fire Malibu coming this way.
I'm pretty weary from all this. This has been going
on for a number of years where it's four or
five times a year rather than once every five years, which.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
Is why South Topenga Canyon Boulevard has now closed until
at least six pm Wednesday from Moholland to Pacific Coast
Highway and at Old Topega Canyon Road and Moholland.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It does it feel like there is more of it
now than there used to be. This is an interesting
thing because you know, it's a weather forecaster for many years,
and people would invariably say, like in a wind event,
they'd say, I've lived in this area for thirty years
and I've never remembered it as windy as this, or
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if it's a cold snap, I've lived in this area
for twenty five years, I've never remembered it so cold.
So I'd always go right back to the records, you know,
the climatology of the region.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
We have, you know, day and date.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I can tell you what the top wind velocities were,
what the temperatures were, and invariably they weren't the biggest
wins in thirty years or the coldest temperatures in twenty
five years. But I think we have a recency bias,
you know what I mean. We tend to feel like
what we're experiencing now is worse than anything ever in memory.
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And by the way, that doesn't mean that it's not
actually true. That's kind of what I'm asking. I mean,
it may indeed be worse than anything in memory, but
these wind events, it does feel as though the region
is succumbing in more and more ways. Pockets of southern
California and California to these extreme climate events, which include
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Santa Ana winds and offshore winds. So when I hear that, like,
we didn't used to have these this frequently, I always
think I'd like to go back and look at the
climatology on that and really see. But in any case,
you know it almost in some ways it doesn't matter.
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It certainly does feel as though there have been more
of these events in the last decade or so.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
Old to pinga canyon road and Mulholland, it would be much.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
Worse if everybody had to evacuate, and there's commuter traffic.
So at this point it's the numbers are not in
our favor. To get everybody out of the canyon could
take four to six hours, but a fire could burn
through in one to two hours.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
There's also a strong chance Southern California Edison will cut
power to Tapanga if the winds threatened power lines, which
has sparked fires in the past. This is the third
time Topanga has seen this situation this year, and businesses
say they're really hurting because there's a constant threat the
road will close.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
We are so grateful for all the firefighters and all
the people that are, you know, like putting their lives
and effort and energy, you know, to save us and
keep our save At the same time, we will love
to you know, be more accessible.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Just a few miles away, the Franklin Fire in Malibu
is sixty three percent contained, burning over four thousand acres.
Crews have spent the past few days making sure no
hotspots remain and resources are now pre positioned for this
new wind event. We ran into this strike team from
CalFire and La County fire keeping watch at the David M.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Brown Overlook on Payuma Road.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I mean, that's a you know, it's really a great
job these guys do, and I say guys generically men
and women who are out there on the fire lines
watching with a certain vigilance. It's such a dangerous job
and so many unexpected things happen.
Speaker 12 (31:12):
In Bravo two years, we've gotten a good amount of rain,
which is good. But you know sometimes when you get
a lot of rain and then come fall season that
still starts to dry out, grows out quite a bit,
and you know.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
That's what creates those fuels. Now, this red flag event
not just affecting Tipenga, it's also affecting the city of Malibu,
which is recovering from last week's Franklin fire. Today, the
city of Malibu opened up a fire assistance center with
twenty vendors from the state and the county to help
anyone who has been impacted. Well, I'm gonna have to
tell you everywhere we've gone to.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I will tell you that I'm reminded. And if Tim
were here, he'd make me tell you again of the story.
When I approached the firefighters who saved my home. You know,
my home was damn in the fire. The neighborhood was
burned to the ground. There were only three houses that survived.
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Mine was one of them on my street, and there
was a police barricade. No one, even if you lived
in the neighborhood was allowed in anymore. And a police
contact brought me up there and there it was, I mean,
stuff was still smoldering. Imagine there's smoke coming from the
ashes of homes and there's my house, and there's all
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the vegetation that's burned, and you can see where there
is this soot and ash all around the house. But
the house itself, for the most part, survived damaged, but
survived and there they are four firefighters in those yellow
slickers with ash actually on their face. They looked like
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they'd beden through a night of beating back these flames.
And they're standing right in front of my house. And
I get out of the car and I'm emotional. I've
been up all night and I'm choking back tears as
I'm thanking them, and I said, I just will never
be able to let you know how immense a job
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you've done, and how you've made such a difference in
my life by saving our home. And again I'm choking
back emotion as I say this, and the lead firefighters says, sir,
we're so glad that your housemate it, but we got
to be honest with you. We just got here fifteen
minutes ago. It was one of the great moments. But
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those people are still true heroes the work they do.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Just not for you.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Apparently those people were not the true heroes on my block.
But of course I said, I meant all of you.
I meant all of you generically, I meant all the
work you do. I tried to save the moment. You know,
I didn't mean you guys specifically. I met all of
you the effort. It's the Conway Show, Thompson sitting in.
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We're KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's the Conway Show for Tuesday. Thompson here for Tim
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
It's one of those gorgeous days. I mean it is
just a little warmer than it has been the last
few days. And in southern California there is that sweet
spot and today we've got it. So wherever you are,
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thank you for taking us with you through the iHeartRadio
App or through the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There's a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I've got news out of Washington, news out of California,
news out of the Governor's office. New laws that are
coming down for twenty twenty five. They involve everything from cannabis, cafes,
to octopuses, artificial intelligence and more. I've got the full crew.
(01:00):
I don't want you to worry. Conway's not here, but
Staffosi is here, and Croge is here. Yeah, yeah, Richie,
an Angel, the whole gang. Yeah, right on. So there
are many a new law. There is many a new law.
(01:22):
I guess might be the way to say it. Coming
in twenty twenty five, and a lot of the new legislation,
and this isn't just in California, this is everywhere is
related to AI, because AI and its impact is essentially
going to be felt in every part of American society.
(01:43):
So as you might imagine, because there are a lot
of damage that's come through this, some of this stuff
applies to deep fakes and people's likenesses being used on
deep fakes. So here's a little bit of what we
can expect in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger part of our lives,
but not all of it in a positive way. Several
new laws offer some protection against abuse. It's now a
crime to create and post a sexually explicit image or
video of a real person that was created using artificial
intelligence but made to look real. Social media platforms now
have to provide mechanisms to report these deep fake videos,
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and they have to take them down quickly. If you're
a victim of doxing, when someone posts personal information about
you online, like your address or phone number, you can
now sue for up to thirty thousand dollars in damages.
Ever heard of a cannabis cafe, You will in twenty
twenty five, a new law allows cannabis retailers to prepare
and sell food and beverages and newly created lounges. That
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means customers can buy and use cannabis at a business
while they eat a meal or watch a live performance.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh, it's going to be twenty twenty five is going
to be the year of the buzz? What's happening? Will
you have become this decadent culture? You've got? The pod
cafe is going up? Every time I turn on the TV,
there's another star telling me to gamble. Gamble through MGM,
(03:17):
this gamble through Fan Duel, Gamble, this gamble that my
favorite radio and television personalities. They're telling me to gamble
between getting a buzz on and gambling not to mention
a cocktail. From now until the end of the year,
I'm saying, the rise of a decade into America.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Interested in buying pet insurance, providers now need to tell
you whether they base their premiums on the age of
your pet or where you live, and if their policies
exclude certain pre existing conditions.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I have to tell you I had pet insurance and
I did it for a short time. I've heard some
very good stories from people who've had very good experiences
through pet insurance. So I got it going for my
oldest cat, Charlie, who's had a kind of a rough
ride in the last few years. And the problem is,
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because he's older, I'm paying a high monthly for it,
and I realized there's no way. If you're paying a
monthly for insuring the cat of between two and three
hundred dollars, you know there's no way that it's worth it.
I mean, you know, you get one bill in there,
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and that's they're very expensive, these VET bills. But you
get one bill in there, and honestly, you will get
stuck with several thousand dollars. Maybe potentially, but you've already
paid several thousand dollars into the insurance. So at best
it's a wash. And if you don't get a vet visit,
(04:58):
which is exactly what happened two years went buying, there
were no So now what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You're way in the whole.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So when it comes to pet insurance, I know there
are those of you who have done well with it,
and I've tried it. It's just to me, at least
for certain situations, it may not be optical.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Policies exclude certain pre existing conditions having trouble keeping track
of your online subscriptions. Service providers have to get clear
consent for automatic renewals or continuing service, and they have
to send you annual reminders of what you signed up for.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
This is really great. I mean these to me seem
to me to be consumer protections, and I say, bravo.
You know, again, we talk about government, we talk about
getting government off our back or over regulated whatever, but
regulations can oftentimes be protections. And there you saw it
the other day with Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster just got smacked. We'll
(05:56):
have the story a little bit later. Yeah, Ticketmaster and
stub Hub. You can't now add these hidden fees that
come in at the eleventh hour as you you know,
as you've picked out your tickets, you know exactly where
you're sitting. You've decided you're going to swallow hard and
pay the few hundred dollars a seat or whatever, and
then you get to the end and it's like, oh yeah,
and there's a two hundred and fifty three dollars service fee.
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There'll be no more of that. That is the kind
of government intervention that I like. It's a protection, it's
a regulation that I can get behind. So bravo for
these various again, call them regulations, call them protections, whatever,
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consumer protections, I'd call them.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
And they're great, great things.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
And they have to send you annual reminders of what
you signed up for. The law also makes it easier
to cancel automatic renewals.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
If you need to take.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Paid family leave to care for a sick family member
or a new baby, your employer can no longer require
you to take vacation to first. If you're a freelance worker,
employers now must provide a contract in writing indicating that
work will be performed and how much and when you'll
be paid. California is expanding its protections against racial discrimination
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to include traits such as hairstyles or textures that are
associated with certain races, and the minimum wage is going
up to sixteen fifty per hour. Fast food workers have
a higher minimum wage.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
There you go, that's a handful of the changes that
will be coming in twenty twenty five. There are a
bunch more that are not included in there. There's like
chemicals and cosmetics that are going to be regulated in
the new year, they're going to be certain health warnings
associated with cannabis and.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Other shall we say, related chemical intake.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So for example, when you go to buy cannabis, there
has to be some kind of document there to explain
the risk associated with cannabis use. So again, these are
all things coming in the new year, and a lot
of this has to do with consumer protections, but then
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some of it has to do with law and order
on the streets. I'll give you an example, side shows
and street racing. Newsom signed a few laws that impose
stricter penalties for people who are part of those side
shows and the street racing. So to make it easier
for law enforcement to arrest these side show participants and
impound their vehicles for illegal activities. I mean this is
(08:39):
a good thing. And the smash and grab robberies in
the new year stiffer penalties for all of those involved
in smash and grab robberies. If the crime caused more
than fifty thousand dollars in damage to a property, the
court can impose an additional sentence of one year, and
additional years can be added to a sentence if the
property laws is higher.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
There is just a sense that you know, we're kind
of losing control. So these are things that I think
in a sense represent an advocacy for consumers when it
comes to like the the tickets and the renewal of
online digital subscriptions. But then there's also, as I say,
the law and order on the streets with the sideshow
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street raising, the smashing grab.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Good on them.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
There is a new scam though, and I'm betting it
has hit your phone one way or another. It has
hit mine. It is called smishing. I'll tell you what
that is and what to do about it.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Next.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Used to say some pretty funky stuff in his lyrics.
He was right up there, you know, good stuff the
back door Santa If I Am six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior.
Stefu's playing the funky Christmas offerings. As we roll into
an afternoon of the year, eight days to Christmas. Yeah, you've
(10:15):
got time to do whatever. I was telling Crows before
the show that we were just talking about, like, you know,
what are you doing for Christmas? And you know, you
having a family over because Crows has got a great
house to entertain and I was just talking about the fact,
and we were both kind of exchanging thoughts about the
(10:35):
fact that this is a really when it comes to family,
like an obligation heavy period of the year.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Meaning you know, we love family, all of us.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I mean, you know, I understand there may be members
of your family that you're not crazy about, But the
point is the idea of getting people together and you're
generally in a good way is a nice idea, and
it's a warm idea.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's very holiday, okay.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
To the detriment of that, they demonize people who either
want to be alone or are alone that like it.
You know, it's like it's like a sin to be
like to the idea of being alone during a holiday
is like a sin.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's funny you say this because I always feel I
have to tell people who are single or have nothing
to do on Christmas Eve or whatever just to watch
a movie or you know, and may slip into loneliness
or something.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You're actually in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You do what you want to do, you eat what
you want to eat, You go to sleep when you
want to go to sleep. You don't have to be friendly,
you don't have to have a smile. I'm telling you, don't.
Don't give into the loneliness. Celebrate the fact that you're alone.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Yeah, I mean, I love you baby.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Christmas Day and we said to our friends, Hey, you know,
we're just having a casual conversation on the phone. And
I asked her, what do you I was doing Christmas Day?
And my pal, who I've known for many years, said, oh,
we're not doing anything. I said, well, maybe we'll come
by and just say hello. And I'm thinking later, why
did I say that. I don't want to do that.
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I mean, I think there's a basketball game on Christmas Day.
There may be a football game.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
On Christmas games on Netflix this year.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh wow, that's right, that's right. So I have to
figure out a way to wriggle out of that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now. I don't know anyway. Wherever you are, you do exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I would that was the only gift COVID gave us, right,
you'd say, my wife, I think we think it's COVID.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
We're not sure. We just don't want to take the chance.
So for that reason, we just can't be there.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
We're going to play it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Save you understand, yeah, exactly, and then you really have
to play the COVID card. You know, I'm sure there
was some COVID lying going on. You know, I heard
too many COVID excuses related to official events.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So anyway, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, be happy.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And if you haven't put things together, meaning you don't
have a plan, the cake is not baked yet, celebrate
that fact.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Live in the freedom. Smishing is the latest thing. This
is from the US Postal Service. It's a warning. There's
a text message scam. They call it smishing, and there
are well essentially, what they do is they send you
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a text and they say that they're trying to get
you something, that the post office is trying to get
you something, and they're texting you because they're double checking
your address and click on the link to update the information.
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So they send these fake text messages out fake in
the sense that they're not from the United States Post
Service to trick people into sharing information or clicking on
a link. So they're always going to say there's an
issue of delivery, and though they're going to pretend to
be a bank.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Is another one.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The postal service is issuing the warning, but the actual
way in which the scam may live relates to banking,
government agency, or a company of some kind. They may
ask for account numbers and passwords.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
When is it going to be a thing where we
don't have to keep telling people stop responding, stop replying
to numbers or messages from things or people that you
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
The problem is croch that they're really good. I mean,
I had one the other day and I had to
bring it to Courtney and I said, is this is
this legit? I know, I felt like, says the old guy.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I got one on Saturday too. Yeah, it's crazy. It
looks so legit. Like if I place an order and
I'm expecting like a box or a package, I'll definitely
think it would you know, follow up. But I've you know,
I've seen these many times.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'm kind of like, okay, yeah, right, But again they
take some different forms that You've got the text messages
that I've been talking about, that's smishing thing as they
call it. You also have it on your email, so
your email's out there on the dark web and all
it's being sold and resold and all that and so
you're going to get some of that too, So you're right.
When you have so many packages in play this time
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of year, you're expecting so much, it's reasonable to think
that maybe some information is needed to get you whatever.
So it sadly what I guess, what I'm saying is
they're getting better and better at it. But if you
look at these things carefully, you look at the return
email address for example, and certainly these text messages, just
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ignore them, just delete them. They you can see through
the scam. But it's really you know, they send out
a blast, so I don't know what they if they
send out, well, let's keep the mat simple. If they
send out ten thousand of these and I don't know,
five percent of the people respond, that's a pretty good response, right,
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that would be how many is that cross?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I'm not good A man out of ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Out of ten ten percent would be a thousand, so
five percent, yeah, so that's not bad on an email
blast that cost them nothing. The Post Office does have
legitimate ways to track customers packages, and that's free, and
one is by signing up for text tracking. But you
sign up for that. The Postal Service does not attempt
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to attain customers' personal information through text messages, emails or
phone calls, says Natashi Garvins of the US Postal Service.
Natashi Garbins has made the point if you want to
get tracking statuses, informed delivery is the way to go.
She says that our text messages that you've received from
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Informed Delivery will not ask you for personal information. They
are not going to ask you for your credit card
information or anything like that, and anything that's personally associated
with identifying you will not be asked.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
So it's called submishing.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Again, it's USPS that they represent themselves as most of
the time, but it could also be any number of
other covers, meaning banking or any kind of business. And
it's out there in a big, big way, especially for
the holidays. Speaking of the Postal service, might it be privatized?
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There is that talk. There is always that talk. It's
been out there for a while, but now it's getting serious.
We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
All the holidays come together and just about eight days.
I think Hanukah is at the same time as Christmas,
maybe the day or the day before so and the
season of Kwanza. Whatever your deal is, we welcome you
and I hope that you win the Mega Millions jackpot,
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which has continued to grow ahead of tonight's drawing.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
The jackpot.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, you have to have all six numbers and
the new jackpot is seven hundred and sixty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So what time do they draw that? Seven forty five? Right?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Look at seven forty five tonight for two bucks? Talk
about an ROI Mega millions Way live seven hundred and
sixty million dollars massive? Yep, pretty great. Would be a
great way to spend the holidays.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Yeah, and if any listener that wins and needs a
new best friend, me and Marker here hello.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, I'm sure the winner would be uh, you know,
hard up for people who would be friends with them?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Are you on? I feel like you. I feel like
this crowd isn't really a crypto crowd, am I?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Is there anybody who's into crypto? No?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's kind of another one of those like lottery type things,
like if you got into bitcoin and you've taken the
ride up because bitcoin has had some lean years, but
the next few years and this year, wow, it is
a bitcoin and generally crypto period that they'll be tremendous
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return on crypto investment.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
From the looks of it.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I mean, you've got a very bitcoin friendly administration in
Donald Trump's administration, and they're lobbying the crypto people are
for more states to be open to crypto, for public
pension funds, and for treasuries to buy into it. I mean,
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this is a real crack in the door that has
been slammed shut on crypto, and we'll see. I mean,
you know, they argue that it's a people argue against it,
What are you what? Well, you can argue a couple
of things against it. First, it's incredibly volatile, right, So
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when you talk about a hedge against certain things, you
know you generally don't hedge in something that's really volatile.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
But the other thing is you can say, well, there's
no there there now that may be changing, meaning that
you know, you don't use bitcoin generally or any crypto
to buy anything. There are a handful of exceptions to that.
But point is that if bitcoin and crypto achieves a
sort of legitimacy through this incoming administration, it will completely
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change the way that investors look at crypto, and people
who are involved in the crypto world say, hey, look,
if there is increasing government buy in, that'll stabilize bitcoin
and crypto and give it more legitimacy, and it'll boost
what is already a sky high price. I mean bitcoin
(21:24):
passed one hundred thousand I think a couple of weeks ago.
So this is you might think of as a kind
of because it's sort of one of these weird things,
a different kind of currency, But this is a currency
that's kind of met its moment, so we'll see. There
are a lot of crypto enthusiasts who are part of
this new Trump administration. Only a couple of public pension
(21:49):
funds have invested in crypto, and there is a new
US Government Accountability Office study on four oh one K
plan investments in crypto, and that just came out. But
again they go back to what volatility. I mean, you
don't want your four oh one K plan to have
the kind of volatility that crypto has. You want it
(22:11):
to have a solid base of growth so that your
retirement can be somewhat secure. Anyway, watch for it, because
crypto is going to be a big part of I
think the next few years you'll get an insanely crypto
friendly administration. Talk about bad luck. Father of five is
(22:36):
hunting with his friends and they're hunting. I guess they're
hunting bear. Lester Harvey, fifty eight years old hunting. When
they've chased this black bear up a tree, one of
the other members of the party that he was in
(23:00):
shoots the bear in the tree and the bear falls
out of the tree onto Lester Harvey, fifty eight years
of age. When the bear fell on Lester Harvey, he died.
(23:20):
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources said that it was
a group of hunters.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Everybody was licensed.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
They chased the bear up the tree, and then as
they walked away from the base of the tree, one
of the hunters shot. The animal fell onto Harvey standing
about ten feet from the bottom of the tree, and
he died.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
That's a very risky situation, all right.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Really really.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
He's described in his obituary as a friend to all
who never met a stranger. He's remembered as an abviod outdoorsman,
and he survived by his wife and his fire kids,
one of whom said he died doing what he loved
to do.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Most getting smashed by Bears.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Really, that's what he loved to do most but freak
ish accident.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
So I promised you the postal service. I'll get you.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'll get you that story when we come back. Also,
a cast member of a high profile show has just
passed away.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'll have that for you as well.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
By the way, somebody mentioned to me my friend Laurie,
who's a big KFI listener, mentioned in hearing us talk
about crypto that Netflix has a new documentary out focusing
on bitfinex, which was the big platform on which you
could trade crypto, buy and sell crypto, and they were
(25:07):
part of a huge hack. So imagine your bank, because
that's what crypto is. You're buying it on one of
these platforms in kind of a bank situation, you're holding it.
It's almost like a stock brokerage might be a better example.
And then your bitcoin is held there in a wallet,
in a virtual wallet, and I say bitcoin, your crypto whatever.
(25:29):
There are a bunch of different currencies, as you know,
and a hack was what happened with bitfinex, and a
ton of crypto was stolen and this apparently is a documentary.
It's a new one out on Netflix that talks about this.
(25:49):
It's called the Biggest Heist Ever and it uncovers this
entire ripoff scheme and also who was behind it and
canna spoil anything for you. So I'm just gonna leave
it at that. But apparently it's great. And as I say,
my friend who listens to Kophile the time and takes
(26:10):
in a lot of different media, said that this is
just a terrific.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Documentary on crypto.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
So check it out on Netflix if that's your you know,
if that's your jam.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
It's called Biggest Heist Ever.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So what is this about the Santa Ana's they're gonna
they're gonna kick back up? Is that the situation powerful
Santa Anna Wins are coming back for.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yeah, they already got warnings out now till red flag
warnings till tomorrow at.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Six p Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Uh right in the same areas too, by the way
as Malibu and that.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's this is just I'm I'm grateful it's
only a one day event. You know, sometimes we get
these three day Santa An events. It's really bad, but
anything it Ain't that good?
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Only have to tell you everywhere we've gone today in
the Santa a Monica Mountains from Malibu to Topega, we
have seen firefighters strike teams. They are here for the
Franklin fire and now they are pre positioned for this
new wind event. But I can tell you we are
starting to feel some of those winds here in Topanga
and they are only going to get stronger.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
The return of red.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Flag conditions has all eyes on parts of La County
that did not see a fire last week, including Topanga
in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Although the Franklin fire got close.
Speaker 10 (27:31):
I'm concerned about a new fire as well as embers
from the old fire, the fire Malibu coming this way.
I'm pretty weary from all this. This has been going
on for a number of years where it's four or
five times a year rather than once every five years, which.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
Is why South Topenga Canyon Boulevard has now closed until
at least six pm Wednesday from Moholland to Pacific Coast
Highway and at Old Topega Canyon Road and Moholland.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It does it feel like there is more of it
now than there used to be. This is an interesting
thing because you know, it's a weather forecaster for many years,
and people would invariably say, like in a wind event,
they'd say, I've lived in this area for thirty years
and I've never remembered it as windy as this, or
(28:17):
if it's a cold snap, I've lived in this area
for twenty five years, I've never remembered it so cold.
So I'd always go right back to the records, you know,
the climatology of the region.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
We have, you know, day and date.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I can tell you what the top wind velocities were,
what the temperatures were, and invariably they weren't the biggest
wins in thirty years or the coldest temperatures in twenty
five years. But I think we have a recency bias,
you know what I mean. We tend to feel like
what we're experiencing now is worse than anything ever in memory.
(28:54):
And by the way, that doesn't mean that it's not
actually true. That's kind of what I'm asking. I mean,
it may indeed be worse than anything in memory, but
these wind events, it does feel as though the region
is succumbing in more and more ways. Pockets of southern
California and California to these extreme climate events, which include
(29:19):
Santa Ana winds and offshore winds. So when I hear that, like,
we didn't used to have these this frequently, I always
think I'd like to go back and look at the
climatology on that and really see. But in any case,
you know it almost in some ways it doesn't matter.
(29:41):
It certainly does feel as though there have been more
of these events in the last decade or so.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
Old to pinga canyon road and Mulholland, it would be much.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
Worse if everybody had to evacuate, and there's commuter traffic.
So at this point it's the numbers are not in
our favor. To get everybody out of the canyon could
take four to six hours, but a fire could burn
through in one to two hours.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
There's also a strong chance Southern California Edison will cut
power to Tapanga if the winds threatened power lines, which
has sparked fires in the past. This is the third
time Topanga has seen this situation this year, and businesses
say they're really hurting because there's a constant threat the
road will close.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
We are so grateful for all the firefighters and all
the people that are, you know, like putting their lives
and effort and energy, you know, to save us and
keep our save At the same time, we will love
to you know, be more accessible.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Just a few miles away, the Franklin Fire in Malibu
is sixty three percent contained, burning over four thousand acres.
Crews have spent the past few days making sure no
hotspots remain and resources are now pre positioned for this
new wind event. We ran into this strike team from
CalFire and La County fire keeping watch at the David M.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Brown Overlook on Payuma Road.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I mean, that's a you know, it's really a great
job these guys do, and I say guys generically men
and women who are out there on the fire lines
watching with a certain vigilance. It's such a dangerous job
and so many unexpected things happen.
Speaker 12 (31:12):
In Bravo two years, we've gotten a good amount of rain,
which is good. But you know sometimes when you get
a lot of rain and then come fall season that
still starts to dry out, grows out quite a bit,
and you know.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
That's what creates those fuels. Now, this red flag event
not just affecting Tipenga, it's also affecting the city of Malibu,
which is recovering from last week's Franklin fire. Today, the
city of Malibu opened up a fire assistance center with
twenty vendors from the state and the county to help
anyone who has been impacted. Well, I'm gonna have to
tell you everywhere we've gone to.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I will tell you that I'm reminded. And if Tim
were here, he'd make me tell you again of the story.
When I approached the firefighters who saved my home. You know,
my home was damn in the fire. The neighborhood was
burned to the ground. There were only three houses that survived.
(32:05):
Mine was one of them on my street, and there
was a police barricade. No one, even if you lived
in the neighborhood was allowed in anymore. And a police
contact brought me up there and there it was, I mean,
stuff was still smoldering. Imagine there's smoke coming from the
ashes of homes and there's my house, and there's all
(32:28):
the vegetation that's burned, and you can see where there
is this soot and ash all around the house. But
the house itself, for the most part, survived damaged, but
survived and there they are four firefighters in those yellow
slickers with ash actually on their face. They looked like
(32:48):
they'd beden through a night of beating back these flames.
And they're standing right in front of my house. And
I get out of the car and I'm emotional. I've
been up all night and I'm choking back tears as
I'm thanking them, and I said, I just will never
be able to let you know how immense a job
(33:12):
you've done, and how you've made such a difference in
my life by saving our home. And again I'm choking
back emotion as I say this, and the lead firefighters says, sir,
we're so glad that your housemate it, but we got
to be honest with you. We just got here fifteen
minutes ago. It was one of the great moments. But
(33:37):
those people are still true heroes the work they do.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Just not for you.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Apparently those people were not the true heroes on my block.
But of course I said, I meant all of you.
I meant all of you generically, I meant all the
work you do. I tried to save the moment. You know,
I didn't mean you guys specifically. I met all of
you the effort. It's the Conway Show, Thompson sitting in.
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