January 18, 2025 • 36 mins
Guest: Chip Yost, KTLA reporter joins Tim to talk about wildfire coverage and his experience covering the natural disaster. // Tim’s Big Tuna story from the show, The Office.// Tim shares a feel-good story about a firefighter who missed an appointment with his pregnant wife and receives an extra-extra surprise! / Southwest Airlines pilot arrested moments before takeoff for allegedly showing up to work intoxicated. Wendy's giving back to people who suffered from the wildfire out in Santa Anita Park and many companies + people showed up to help out/ Looters California officials propose harsher penalties for looting/ Woman paid-off her home and then loses home due to fires.
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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. Let's go
right to Chip Yost, who is a very talented reporter
for KTLA. Chip, you're on KFI. Can you talk?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So I've gotta be the opening act for the Big Tuna.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I understand that you're getting pulled over by the cops.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
There were some issues, yeah, but I'm I'm pulled over
now We're all good.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I had to make sure we had a good signal
for my opening act.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Here, all right? What happened?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
By by the way, Chip Yo, it's very talented reporter
for KTL. He's done a million stories on these fires.
A lot of them are burial, heart wrenching. You've really
been out in the community, you know, helping a lot
of people navigate this. So you and everybody at KTLA
deserves an Atta boy or an Ada girl for the
work you guys have.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Done huge well. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
A lot of the photographers getting I mean, some of
those images just and they speak for themselves. You just
kind of show them, show what's going on, and it's
it's just uh hard to explain sometimes, but yeah, you're right,
it's hard to hard to wrap your your head around it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
What is what?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What was your interaction with the cops just now? Were
you getting pulled over?
Speaker 6 (01:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
No, no, no, no?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
What I called in?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was on a I've got a uh a, let's
just say a not so great ear piece I had
in my ear. I'm going to try to talk to
you while I was driving and going in and out.
So I found a place to pull over, like just
as you were bringing me on, and I've got it
up to my ears so I can actually understand me hopefully.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But you know, you guys, I don't know what your
schedule has been. Like every time I turn on k
t l A, you're you're on, And I knew it
was an important story in the beginning. Anytime that I
turned on k t l A and you're not in
Orange County, the s is hit the fan.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, well I remember that when this started. Remember that day,
you know, when the when the Palisades fire broke out.
We had all those high winds predicted, and Orange County
was one of the areas they're predicting the high winds
as well, so they kind of had us all stationed
in different places and I was down actually in Trabuco
Canyon when when the Palisades fire broke out and and
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so I was sitting there waiting to go on, and
we're and the winds were really whipping around that they
were almost I had to change my camera angle because
the dirt and the dust was flying right into our
eyes and into the camera. But as we're about to
go on, we never made air because all of a
sudden we heard breaking news. Uh, there's a fire in
the Palisades. And it's one of those deals where it
happens a lot sometimes with car pursuits or whatever. You're
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waiting to go on for whatever story you're on, and
another story takes over, and uh, and before I knew it,
I was at Eaton Canyon the next day covering it,
covering up there. And I've been, you know, been an
Eating Canyon. That's where I've been covering it the last
week or so.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Ship you been on the ground in Palisades, and you
know they eating fire in Altadena, parts of Arcadia, parts
of Pasadena. What is what is the reaction to most homeowners?
Do they do they welcome the sublicity knowing that that's
going to get them more attention and more money, or
are they. I mean, it's very hard for you to,
you know, to walk up to somebody with a microphone
(03:08):
in their very worst moment of their life.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It is. And one thing interesting about that though, is,
especially in the beginning, the lack of information was what
was so concerning for the folks who had evacuated. I'll
give you an example before I even so the you know,
I told you about the first day, you know, when
the Polasads fire broke out. The next morning, they said, okay,
you're going to eaton king fire. We put an address
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in Altadena where we knew that they were. There were
fires already breaking out, and and so we started heading
up there. We didn't even make it to Altadena. But
as I was driving up there, I stopped. I stopped
at a supermarket outside the evacuation zone to put on
my fire gear because I wasn't wearing it while I
was driving up from Orange County. So I pulled over,
and as I did that, I wear I drive a
(03:52):
marked KTLA truck, And so people started coming up to
me and said, hey, are you going into the fire zone, Hey,
can you check on my property? Can you check on
this property? And and and it's one of those deals
where I was like, you know, I will if I can.
If I'm in the area, I've got to do what
I take care of my job and do that. But
if I can, I will. So I took their phone
numbers and addresses and this and that, and then I
stopped for myself for a second. I told this woman
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she had her little dog, and I said, hey, you
know one thing, I don't want to be the bearer
of bad news. I mean, what if I go to
your house, yeah, and it's gone. I don't know if
I'm the one that should be calling and breaking that
news to you. And she said no, she goes, not
knowing is the awful part. She goes, I would rather
have that bad news now, so I can start, you know,
(04:36):
filing claims with the insurance company. I can start doing this.
I can start doing that because a lot of people
they went days and days not knowing the status of
their property. But going forward in that story, so I
said we were heading to an address in Altadena. We
never made it to that address in Altadena because as
we're driving up there, we get into Pasadena, and we
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all of a sudden we see black smoke, or my photographer,
i should say, on her cocks noticed at first. He
was ahead of me and his truck and he said, dude,
I can't make it to our point because there's all
these you know, there's all these fires here in Pasadena
right now. We ended up in a neighborhood in Pasadena
where several homes were on fire, and there was only
one or two fire trucks available in that area at
(05:18):
the time, and there were there were you know, those
guys on those fire trucks were working their butts off,
going from house to house trying to get what they
could and do what they could to try to keep
the fires at base. They went and spread to other houses.
But it was but yeah, as far as talking to
people on their worst day, yeah, that was so.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I did.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Actually ended up in an area where that lady's house was,
the one who had the dog, but I couldn't get
to it because there was a there was a power
pole that was actually on fire and looked like it
was about to fall across the road, and and so
I just told us, I can't get close to where
your house is because it's just too dangerous to get
through that area. And in other situations, you know, we
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were kind of unrespectful. I try to be respectful to
people when I to them with the microphone, and and
they'll give you they if they don't want to talk,
they usually give you a quick signal like no, no, no,
no thing. They just kind of go away, and you
have no problem, and and you move on to someone
who maybe is willing to talk. But but like I said,
for most people, they they wanted to talk to us
because we were there their only source of information, you know,
(06:19):
the you know, in the first hours, just trying to
figure out what was going on.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Uh Chip Yoss with us from KTLA, a very talented reporter.
Did they have I don't. I don't know that I
heard any reports about this. But did they have fire
hydrant issues in the eating fire in Altadena?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I mean, I don't know how bad the issues were
we were when we were in that Pasadena area for instance.
I know they were they were working those fire hydrants hard.
I don't know if the problem there was. I don't
think there were enough fire hydrants to go around. So
this is one neighborhood and you know, you have typically
what how many fire hydrants per block. I'm not sure
what the number is, but there was one fire hydrant
(07:00):
on this one corner and there were let me think, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
seven houses on fire within the you know where that
that fire hydrant could have served, so they were they
had the I saw one of the firefighters run up
as I was coming into the area and a neighbor
(07:22):
was directing him to that fire hydrant. They hooked it
up and I saw them use that fire hydrant on
a couple different houses, and they were spreading it out
really long. So I don't know, but I don't know
all the issues with the fire hunder's. It's kind of
when you're up there in the middle of it, you're
the kind of in the silos. I haven't had the
time to go back and look and talk to people
about did you have the same issues they had that
(07:42):
they talked about in the Palisades. But I do know
it was stretched thin.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
What is the evacuation scene? There?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Are they allowing people to go see if their home
is still there?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Not that I'm not the latest that I've heard, because
that was a kind of an issue of concern, like
everyone's everybody we talked to they wanted, you know, some
sort of accommodation where they could do that, but they
were on the kind of the same along the same
lines as the palisades. They did do that for some people.
It seems like at certain points, because there were you know,
we talked to different people said that they allowed me
to go do this. They allowed me to But then
(08:15):
they when they brought in the National Guard, it seems
like they took kind of a harder stance, saying, look,
there's too much danger up there with all the power
lines down, all the utility work being done. That said,
there are and like even if somebody I talked to yesterday,
they they're pushing some of the residents are pushing for
you know, some sort of accommodation so that they can
get up there and maybe see if there's anything to
(08:37):
be saved. But right now it's look, from what I've
seen just talking to people, they're they're still keeping a
pretty strict stance.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Wow, it's some believe.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The one thing that I hear from people over and
over and over is they are totally floored and completely
depressed with how much they can see from where their
house was. You know, when you when your house was
there and all those homes were there, you couldn't see
a block over. Now you can see six blocks in
every single direction, and that really freaks people out.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh yeah, and that's one thing we were talking about.
It's it's you know, we used to be you know,
we cover you know, how many wildfires have we covered
in the last fifteen twenty years. I can't even count.
We've never covered one in southern California on this scale.
And so usually when we you know, there's a neighborhood
and they're like, oh no, they're you know, they've lost
ten eleven homes. But luckily, you know, all these homes
(09:28):
are okay, and you call them the lucky ones. Now
I don't know if you call them the lucky ones,
because we were talking about it when we were in
the middle of one of these the other day. You
go when you drive around Altadena, and now we've been
thankfully able to see it from some of the aerial pictures.
Remember the first few days, we couldn't get the aerial
view of this, and I was trying to explain to people,
you don't understand how bad this damage is. It's like
(09:50):
literally I would drive around, you know, a few streets
and show them all, you know, the homes that were gone,
and I say, you could multiply this, but I don't
know how big of a number, but this is just
a fraction. And so you'll be driving around, you'll see
one home still standing and then just dust, and you know,
a desolate area all around that where their neighbors' homes
(10:11):
used to be. And so are they lucky? You know,
I don't know, because it's they can't live there? How
are they going to live there with all this rebuilding
going on too, and all the dust and contamination. And
he and actually, you know, don't know if you saw
the Bill Plashki piece.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, he went to back his house was there, and
then he got it very emotional because he's got to
take everything down to the studs. He's got to get
rid of his furniture. And he was very emotional. He
knew all his neighbors, you know, women across the street
used to come over and they would dance in there,
in there, you know, in the driveway when he had
parties and stuff and man, and you know, he's got
a new fiance there, and he was just completely devastated.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah, I think I'm I won't with a skill line.
I don't remember the exact line he had, but he says, I,
you know, my house was saved, but I lost everything,
talking about how he lost his whole community, he lost
his neighbors. Believable lost you know all his friends. Didn't
lose his friends, but lost them as neighbors. And they're
not gonna it's not gonna be the same community it
was that we moved into.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Buddy, I really appreciate calling up again. A fantastic job.
This is gonna be a story I think on the
news for the next two or three years every single day.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh yeah, more than that, maybe more than that.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, Buddy, I appreciate it. I hope you can get
some rest this weekend. A hell of a job, and
thanks for coming on all right, thanks for having me
right soon, Chip yos with KTLA, they've done an amazing job.
All these stations have two, four, five, seven, nine eleven.
They went wall to wall for six straight days, I
think seven straight days, no commercials, no interruptions, and they
(11:45):
brought you photos, they brought you information, and it was
it was unbelievable to watch just unreal.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I had a tuna fish sandwich out of veny machine.
I'm never gonna do that again. So sort of playing
this one but at a half speed half speed today.
But Stephanush found the audio when Jim was named big Tuna,
let's play that.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
This is great.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
I ate a tuna sandwich on my first day, so
and he started calling me a big Tuna. I don't
think any of them actually know my real name.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Big Tuna is a super ambitious guy. That's great, Big Tuna.
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Crozier again, you know, I'm in a daze here with
this tuna fish sandwich.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Did I hear you? Right though?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That Steve sober Off has been tapped to take over
the recovery effort here in La.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He is the chief recovery officer. Is that right? Yes, sir?
I don't know. Is that a bad thing? I don't know.
I know Steve sober Off, but I.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
You know, if it was for if Steve Soberoff had
his way, the team that of investors that own the
Dodgers right now would not be there. The mccourts would
still be with the Dodgers. Oh really, Yeah, he was
the last guy when everybody said the mccourts have to go.
Steve Soberff came out and defended him, and I was.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Like, what hell, where did he get this?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But there's an old article in the La Times, and
Steve Sobroff said the McCourt should be given the chance
to learn from his mistakes. Remember, he's the guy that
took one hundred million dollars out of the team to
spend it on him and his wife and their lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And then so where did it say that in this article?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Soberff, a former advisor for Mayor Richard Riarden, a mayoral
candidate and the developer of play Play of Vistam, was
hired by McCourt and and he came out and Steve
Sobroff said, Frank McCourt is financially fine, which turned out
I don't think to be all that one hundred percent honest.
(14:12):
See a Budd Sealik, who is running baseball at the time,
said to be shocked by that statement.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
But Sobroff didn't back down.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
He cited the Fox deal, potential real estate development at
Dodgers stadium, parking lot and other end quote other potential
new revenue sources and was were untapped sources of revenue
for McCourt that would put the Dodgers in a strong
financial position as almost any team in baseball, according to
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Steve Sobroff. Then Steve Sobroff said that sober Off acknowledged
that McCourt had made mistakes during his seven years running
the Dodgers, in particular more more than one hundred million
dollars that McCourt and his ex wife Jamie redirected from
the team's revenues towards their extravagant personal lifestyle. However, Soberoff
(15:03):
said McCourt should be given the chance to learn from
his mistakes and follow through on his promise to redouble
the Dodgers' involvement in the community.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
But Selig's words.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
On Wednesday said, I don't believe that's true. He says
that's not the issue, Okay. Then Steve Soiver said, that's
not the issue. They've made a decision and they want
somebody else. So he was defending McCourt, and then Steve
Soberoff said, we need more people like Frank McCourt. And
(15:35):
then on that following Wednesday, on his first full day
on the job, so Soberoff said he participated in interviews
with candidates for the job of Dodgers' security chief, the
full time position that had been vacant for four months.
Remember they had all those problems out down there. And
then on Thursday the same week, Sobroff said he intends
(15:59):
to keep his appointments in the morning with city officials
to discuss the Dodgers sportsmanship program at four hundred city
parks and recreation centers. And then it goes on and
on and on. But I remember how bizarre that was
that everybody turned on the courts. They wanted the team sold.
(16:20):
They were, you know, the Dodgers weren't, you know, making
the playoffs every year. They were spending the revenue from
the Dodgers on their own lifestyle, and everybody had turned
on the Dodgers. Everybody wanted new ownership, new life, and
wanted them sold.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Except Steve Soproff.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He's the last guy on board, last guy on board,
and so that always stuck with me. And that was
twenty eleven, I mean that was fourteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Did that happen?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
But I got a long remember long memory when it
comes to messing with the La Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Big Dodger fan, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
iHeartRadio is hosting a special California town hall with Governor
Newsom this the day after tomorrow, January nineteenth, nine am,
and it's gonna be on all iHeartRadio stations in California.
I don't know how many there are, it's got to
be fifty sixty seventy a lot of them. Governor Newsom's
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gonna be taking questions from Californians.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
That's you me.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We're all Californians, most of us are who've been impacted
by the recent fires, and we'll just discuss plans for
the future of the state. So be sure to tune
in Sunday morning at nine am. It's gonna be on
this station. It'll be on KLAC, It'll be on Coast,
it will be on every station here in LA. That's iHeartMedia,
(17:42):
all ninety eight point seven Kiss FM, nine am on
every station.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I can't remember the last time we were on every
single station with one set of programming or one program
I think it was nine to eleven. When nine to
eleven happened, they took kfi's feed with Bill Handle and
they pushed it out to all the LA stations and
so I think that's the last time this happened. So
(18:10):
that's a big deal. That's a big deal. Nine am Sunday.
Turned on any iHeart Station and you're gonna hear the
governor field calls about these fires. Nine am Sunday, any
iHeart Station, KFI, KLAC, K Big Kiss, FM, Coast, all
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of them.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty's Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I got a letter here.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It starts with, Hey Conway, I have a the best
feel good story for you. Okay, I'm interested in that.
That's I got my attention. Here a young firefighter from
Kern County who's working on the Altadena fire, Zach Griffin.
Zach Griffin, he was unable to go to his wife's
ultrasound today to see their twin babies for the first time.
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His captain made sure he could be on the phone
at least. And the exciting part is there's not two babies,
there's three. Imagine fighting. Imagine finding out on the phone
while you're fighting a fire that you're gonna be a
father of triplets. So a huge shout out to Zach Griffin.
(19:26):
What a guy, What a guy.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
He's gonna have.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Three babies, triplets, So that's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
That's gonna be a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Three of everything, three binkies, three diapers, three bottles, maybe
three different bedtimes that's possible as well. That's gonna get
really noisy around the house. But man, he's gonna have
the time of his life. Three kids, three babies, triplets
(19:58):
for Zack Griffin. All right, that's great, that's great. Congratulations
to Zach Griffin with the Kern County Fire Department. Kern
County man. Everybody is sending aid to us. That is great.
That's fantastic. All right, victim assistance as your return home,
evacue's return home, you have to have victim assistance.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
We are outside the First Amy Church here in Pasadena
where a number hit ghost.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Let's find out more Pasadena where a number of community
and religious groups got together along with some of the
victims of the Eaton fire to talk about some of
the things they want to see in the reconstruction process.
Let's take a look inside here at the meeting, you
can see a lot of folks were in attendance. Here
was kind of a news conference slash rally. Not only
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did we hear from some of these community and religious groups,
we heard some stories personal stories from some of the
folks who lost everything in the fire, including one woman
who not only lost her home, she lost her business
because she ran a child daycare business from her home.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Here's more from her.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I need an affordable place to rent, but I've had
the added challenges of operating a daycare in my home.
A lot of the owners do not want businesses inside
of the home. Without housing, I can't operate my day
care and that's my income. We need long term support.
(21:20):
So we can all revealed.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Now we're joined here with Pastor Kirwin Manning. He is
a Pasadena church and you're one of the folks kind
of putting on this event. And in the event, you
made a point of some of the things you want
to see in this recovery and reconstruction process. Tell me
what were some of the main points you want people
to kind of keep in mind. Is that all these
decisions are being made by government agencies.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Yes, we want to make sure that the agencies and
the officials are sure to remember the humanity in all
of this, that that people that we have families that
need them right through here. And so we want to
preserve the historical legacy and the cultural legacy of Altadena,
and this is a very wonderful community, tight knit. We
want to make sure that in this next phase that
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their needs are actually being met, their actual needs for
assistance through FEMA and other organizations, so that as we rebuild,
they also won't be priced out of their homes and
it'll be a totally different community.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's a good idea, great idea.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Let's try to put these communities back exactly the way
they were, exactly the way they were.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
All right, we got time for this. This is not
related to the fires.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But we've got another pilot who had a couple of
shots or a couple of beers and was gonna fly
a plane full of people.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So this was a flight from Georgia to Chicago, and
it was all set to take off with passengers on board,
when law enforcement then boarded too, and they say, the
problem is the pilot showed up to work intoxicated.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Nowadays, I'm a little more relaxed than most people are.
I get a lot of email on this, but I
got a stay consistent. I you know, there's two guys
up there, and if one guy had a couple of pops.
I always look at crime this way, and I get
an s load of email on this, all of it negative.
(23:12):
But I always look for a victim, and when I
don't see a victim, I'm a purist when it comes
to that, no victim, no crime. Now, a lot of
people are on the opposite side of this. You know,
if a pilot's drinking, they want him out of the cockpit.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I get that. I get that. I totally understand that.
I get your point.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I'm just saying, what's the punishment here, Take him out
of the cockpit forever, because that's what happens. You get
caught drinking and flying one of these big commercial jets,
you're done. You get one of those and you're done.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
This morning, passengers are demanding answers after police arrested a
Southwest Airlines pilot for allegedly being intoxic cake at the airport.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
If I have to take my shoes off still before
I get on a plane, it seems a little weird
that I seem.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
To kind of have to wonder if my pilot is sober.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Pilot David Allsop was arrested early Wednesday morning at Savannah
Hilton Head Airport. Passenger Robert Newmarch says they were about
to take off, but then a flight attendant told them
there was a paperwork issue.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The flight attendant was the one that said, hey, something's
going on with one of these cats up front.
Speaker 12 (24:27):
Shortly after that, one of the officers came on to
the plane.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
He went into the cockpit and he came back out,
and he was gone for a couple minutes, and we
were just sitting there.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
The flight was delayed more than four hours.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Well, they looked for another pilot. According to a police report,
all Shop has been charged with driving under the influence.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Oh boy, Yeah, the pilot that comes in to take
over for this.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Guy got to be sober, got to be a guy
who's never had a drink in his life to assure
those passengers they're going to make it to Chicago.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
We tend to think of alcohol and transportation as a
driving situation. In other words, don't drive drunk, that's right,
But by the same token, we think of it above
or below a certain tolerance level. There really is no
tolerance level in commercial aviation that should be zero blood alcohol.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Southwest Airlines tells ABC they are aware of the situation
and the employee has been removed from duty.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, and that's a wrap. I don't think Southwest. I
don't think it's two strikes or three strikes, you're out.
I think with Southwest, you get one of those and
you're done.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You're done.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
There's nothing more important to Southwest than the safety of
our employees and customers. And Southwest also apologized to those
passengers impacted and said they were booked on new flights
if needed. The original scheduled flight.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Time and the time when police say the pilot was
intoxicated six oh five am.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Woo early early bird. It gets the worm there. I
wonder if if that pilot considers this rock bottom, Like
when he gets arrested and he's being hauled out of
the airport, the plane's not going anywhere, are pissed, His
wife is wondering what's going on. Maybe he's got kids,
Hey dad, what's going on with you. I wonder if
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if that's rock bottom yet? Maybe maybe not, that's possible,
but I don't know, man, you're a commercial airline pilot.
They're pretty strict with that crap up there, Pretty pretty
strict because God forbid, there's an emergency on the air,
in the air and they find out afterwards that that
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pilot was drunk. Could you imagine the lawsuit that that
airline would have to defend. Oh, it would, it would,
It would just it would bankrupt an airline, almost any
airline if, if God forbid, that plane went down and
they found out the pilot was drunk. Oh, even if
it wasn't his fault, it'd be over all. Right, we
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gotta take a quick break here. Don't forget nine o'clock
on Sunday. That's going to be the big Governor Knewso
press conference. He's gonna be taking calls from people like
you about the fires. Nine am on every single iHeart station.
It'll be on on KFI, on k Big, on Coast Kiss,
KLAC eleven to fifty am, all the stations here at
(27:11):
iHeart nine am Sunday. So that'd be cool, right, Everyone
will listen to that nine am Sunday right here on
all your iHeart stations.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
But listen to KFI. We prefer you to do that.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
They got to thank Wendy's. Wendy's always always, always giving
back to the community. They help us out with Catarina's Club.
They do a terrific job raising money, hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of dollars for Katarina's Club. A great partner
and really a very giving company. They were out all
day at Santa Anita where they had that collection for
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people who are victims of these fires, and they had
that Wendy's truck out there all day giving out free
food all day long. And it's just great. I mean,
it's unbelievable. I should say it. Shouldn't say it's unelieable.
It's very believable. How many companies, how many different people
have showed up. Yesterday, Petras and Money were doing a
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live remote from the Dream Center, which is a huge building,
huge ub charity downtown LA and we're involved with them
here at iHeartMedia. And they said the line to donate,
not the line to pick up supplies if you needed them,
but the line to donate was two and a half
hours long. You had to get a conga line there
(28:35):
and wait and inch up two and a half hours
just to literally donate clothes or blankets, food, gift cards, water,
whatever it was. And everybody they said, almost with that exception,
people got in that line and stayed in that line
until they got to the front.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
That is sensational. That's great.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Look, I think the silver lining in all of these
in the disaster over the last week and a half
is how many people have showed up to help other
people out. There's a lot of them, a lot of them,
a ton of them. And then there's the other crew
that wanted to take advantage of people who are either
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burned to the ground or their electricities out. Those are
the looters. The losers are looters. One of the two
are both.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Developing this morning.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
City and county officials arresting multiple people due to criminal
activity happening near the wildfire zones.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
For Thomas joins us live in studio its more on this.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Still can't believe that people just have it in them.
They're out there, they're out there.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
John Colebelt had seven burglaries on his block in the
last ten days, seven just on his block, on his
small little block. Seven in the last ten days to
do stuff like this.
Speaker 13 (29:57):
The number of arrest here is they also pretty shocking.
These are arrests are for charges of burglary, looting, vandalism,
and curfew violations, all of course in fire zones. It's
still going up again. Authorities say they've arrested ninety seven
people so far, and let me break it down for
you a bit. Santa Monica Police Department they say they've
made forty rest Ellie County Sheriff's Deputies they are reporting
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thirty nine arrests and the LAPD fourteen people.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Now.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
The La County Sheriff's Department says they've made two arrests
related to illegal drone incidents. Two more men in black
jumpsuits were arrested near the home of Vice President Kamala
Harris for curfew violations. A curfew continues to be in
effect nightly from six pm to six am in the
mandatory evacuation areas and the Palisades and Eaten fire zones.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, a lot of curfew is still underway. But it's
not just the curfew areas. There are parts of bel Air,
Brentwood that don't have any electricity and their electricity has
been out for a week, and it may not come
on for another three, four or five days. And so
you have to decide whether you're going to stay home
and protect your home in the night, in the dark
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with no electricity on your neighborhood, or are you going
to go to a hotel and leave your house susceptible
to being looted. I don't know. I don't know what
you do. I know that John Colevelt has designed to
dig in deep and stay at his home to try
to protect it. But it's twenty twenty five and there's
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no electricity in these very expensive areas, and you have
to stay home with a flashlight and a gun at
night to protect your valuables. It's odd, It really is odd.
There's a million stories. Here's one pacadying a woman just
paid off her house. I can't imagine what that feeling
(31:44):
is like when you send the final check and they
send you the deed and you have paid your house
off and she had just done it.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
This shell is all that is left now of the
home of a mother and son Pasadena Natives following the
Eton fire. As if this blow wasn't bad enough, now,
Tautris Beasley and her son Aaron and countless others displaced
by these wildfires are being victimized again.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
Well, we evacuated not knowing that our house was going
to be on fire, but came back to ruins is gone,
is gone, her home.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Gutted, her life upended. At sixty four years old, Pasadena
native Toutris Beasley and her son Aaron Miller are pressing
on while facing unimaginable challenges after the wind whip eaten
fire wiped out everything.
Speaker 14 (32:42):
We're in the circumstances with so many other people victims
of the fire.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Beasley shares that she had just paid off her mortgage
one day before the firestorm chased her away and gutted
her sanctuary. And shockingly, she and so many others are
discovering the victim is is not stopping there. Authorities say
many criminal landlords are now guilty of price gouging with
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rental properties.
Speaker 15 (33:09):
Still, there are people out there who have decided that
they are going to take advantage of this tragedy. They're
going to exploit this crisis.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
These these stories are despicable.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Guy who's renting a house out for thirty five hundred
dollars before this a month and now he wants seventeen
grand a month. It's unconsfortable, un comfortable. I don't know how,
I don't know how people sleep at night.
Speaker 15 (33:33):
And we have sent this warning, and I'll say it again.
The question is not if, but when you will be arrested.
You will then be prosecuted, and then you will be
punished to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And they're going to start to arrest people for this
price gouging.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You're going to start to see that where people, you know,
affluent people maybe got five or six homes in your family,
You got money, and you decided to overcharge some.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Those. The rest are coming as well.
Speaker 14 (34:03):
I've been quoted maybe five thousand. Some of my friends
have talked to people and they said six thousand plus.
And then one girl told me somebody was charging eight
thousand a month.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
And these are for tiny one bedroom apartments.
Speaker 14 (34:19):
One bedroom apartments.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Wow.
Speaker 14 (34:20):
So you have to just keep going until you find
somebody who cares more about humanity than their pocket.
Speaker 12 (34:27):
Of course, people are just trying to take advantage of it.
They use terms like we're gonna work with you, you know,
five six thousand dollars a month or one bedroom tiny
eight hundred square foot apartments where you're gonna end up
sleeping on the floor, even people who don't even have
bedrooms to lease, they're just leasing out their floor.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Housing and tenants rights advocates report the most extreme case
of price gouging showed a Santa Monica property on a
real estate website jumping from twelve thousand, seven hundred and
fifty dollars per month to twenty eight thousand.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
How about that? How about this guy jumping.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
From twelve one thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars per
month to.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Twenty eight thousand.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
That's a nearly one hundred and twenty percent increase. The
posting has been removed. During the current state of emergency,
landlords are banned from increasing rental prices by more than
ten percent above previously advertised rates.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I wonder if those names will get out there of
the people doing this, and I think they will, and
I think society is going to turn against them, I
really do. I don't know how you can be friends
or have a family member who's doing this and still
invite them over to Thanksgiving and treat them like a
normal person.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I don't know. I don't know how you do that.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
There's something wrong, something wrong with these people, something desperately wrong.
All right, welcome back. We're going to talk to Alex Michaelson.
He's in Washington, D C. For Monday's inauguration of Donald Trump.
We'll see what's going on. They're taking it insides. It's
so cold, it's going to be seven degrees. So we'll
talk to him when we come back and find out
what's going on in our nation's capital. We're live on
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Let's go
right to Chip Yost, who is a very talented reporter
for KTLA. Chip, you're on KFI. Can you talk?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So I've gotta be the opening act for the Big Tuna.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I understand that you're getting pulled over by the cops.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
There were some issues, yeah, but I'm I'm pulled over
now We're all good.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I had to make sure we had a good signal
for my opening act.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Here, all right? What happened?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
By by the way, Chip Yo, it's very talented reporter
for KTL. He's done a million stories on these fires.
A lot of them are burial, heart wrenching. You've really
been out in the community, you know, helping a lot
of people navigate this. So you and everybody at KTLA
deserves an Atta boy or an Ada girl for the
work you guys have.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Done huge well. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
A lot of the photographers getting I mean, some of
those images just and they speak for themselves. You just
kind of show them, show what's going on, and it's
it's just uh hard to explain sometimes, but yeah, you're right,
it's hard to hard to wrap your your head around it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
What is what?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What was your interaction with the cops just now? Were
you getting pulled over?
Speaker 6 (01:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
No, no, no, no?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
What I called in?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I was on a I've got a uh a, let's
just say a not so great ear piece I had
in my ear. I'm going to try to talk to
you while I was driving and going in and out.
So I found a place to pull over, like just
as you were bringing me on, and I've got it
up to my ears so I can actually understand me hopefully.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But you know, you guys, I don't know what your
schedule has been. Like every time I turn on k
t l A, you're you're on, And I knew it
was an important story in the beginning. Anytime that I
turned on k t l A and you're not in
Orange County, the s is hit the fan.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, well I remember that when this started. Remember that day,
you know, when the when the Palisades fire broke out.
We had all those high winds predicted, and Orange County
was one of the areas they're predicting the high winds
as well, so they kind of had us all stationed
in different places and I was down actually in Trabuco
Canyon when when the Palisades fire broke out and and
(02:11):
so I was sitting there waiting to go on, and
we're and the winds were really whipping around that they
were almost I had to change my camera angle because
the dirt and the dust was flying right into our
eyes and into the camera. But as we're about to
go on, we never made air because all of a
sudden we heard breaking news. Uh, there's a fire in
the Palisades. And it's one of those deals where it
happens a lot sometimes with car pursuits or whatever. You're
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waiting to go on for whatever story you're on, and
another story takes over, and uh, and before I knew it,
I was at Eaton Canyon the next day covering it,
covering up there. And I've been, you know, been an
Eating Canyon. That's where I've been covering it the last
week or so.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Ship you been on the ground in Palisades, and you
know they eating fire in Altadena, parts of Arcadia, parts
of Pasadena. What is what is the reaction to most homeowners?
Do they do they welcome the sublicity knowing that that's
going to get them more attention and more money, or
are they. I mean, it's very hard for you to,
you know, to walk up to somebody with a microphone
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in their very worst moment of their life.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It is. And one thing interesting about that though, is,
especially in the beginning, the lack of information was what
was so concerning for the folks who had evacuated. I'll
give you an example before I even so the you know,
I told you about the first day, you know, when
the Polasads fire broke out. The next morning, they said, okay,
you're going to eaton king fire. We put an address
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in Altadena where we knew that they were. There were
fires already breaking out, and and so we started heading
up there. We didn't even make it to Altadena. But
as I was driving up there, I stopped. I stopped
at a supermarket outside the evacuation zone to put on
my fire gear because I wasn't wearing it while I
was driving up from Orange County. So I pulled over,
and as I did that, I wear I drive a
(03:52):
marked KTLA truck, And so people started coming up to
me and said, hey, are you going into the fire zone, Hey,
can you check on my property? Can you check on
this property? And and and it's one of those deals
where I was like, you know, I will if I can.
If I'm in the area, I've got to do what
I take care of my job and do that. But
if I can, I will. So I took their phone
numbers and addresses and this and that, and then I
stopped for myself for a second. I told this woman
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she had her little dog, and I said, hey, you
know one thing, I don't want to be the bearer
of bad news. I mean, what if I go to
your house, yeah, and it's gone. I don't know if
I'm the one that should be calling and breaking that
news to you. And she said no, she goes, not
knowing is the awful part. She goes, I would rather
have that bad news now, so I can start, you know,
(04:36):
filing claims with the insurance company. I can start doing this.
I can start doing that because a lot of people
they went days and days not knowing the status of
their property. But going forward in that story, so I
said we were heading to an address in Altadena. We
never made it to that address in Altadena because as
we're driving up there, we get into Pasadena, and we
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all of a sudden we see black smoke, or my photographer,
i should say, on her cocks noticed at first. He
was ahead of me and his truck and he said, dude,
I can't make it to our point because there's all
these you know, there's all these fires here in Pasadena
right now. We ended up in a neighborhood in Pasadena
where several homes were on fire, and there was only
one or two fire trucks available in that area at
(05:18):
the time, and there were there were you know, those
guys on those fire trucks were working their butts off,
going from house to house trying to get what they
could and do what they could to try to keep
the fires at base. They went and spread to other houses.
But it was but yeah, as far as talking to
people on their worst day, yeah, that was so.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I did.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Actually ended up in an area where that lady's house was,
the one who had the dog, but I couldn't get
to it because there was a there was a power
pole that was actually on fire and looked like it
was about to fall across the road, and and so
I just told us, I can't get close to where
your house is because it's just too dangerous to get
through that area. And in other situations, you know, we
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were kind of unrespectful. I try to be respectful to
people when I to them with the microphone, and and
they'll give you they if they don't want to talk,
they usually give you a quick signal like no, no, no,
no thing. They just kind of go away, and you
have no problem, and and you move on to someone
who maybe is willing to talk. But but like I said,
for most people, they they wanted to talk to us
because we were there their only source of information, you know,
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the you know, in the first hours, just trying to
figure out what was going on.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Uh Chip Yoss with us from KTLA, a very talented reporter.
Did they have I don't. I don't know that I
heard any reports about this. But did they have fire
hydrant issues in the eating fire in Altadena?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I mean, I don't know how bad the issues were
we were when we were in that Pasadena area for instance.
I know they were they were working those fire hydrants hard.
I don't know if the problem there was. I don't
think there were enough fire hydrants to go around. So
this is one neighborhood and you know, you have typically
what how many fire hydrants per block. I'm not sure
what the number is, but there was one fire hydrant
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on this one corner and there were let me think, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
seven houses on fire within the you know where that
that fire hydrant could have served, so they were they
had the I saw one of the firefighters run up
as I was coming into the area and a neighbor
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was directing him to that fire hydrant. They hooked it
up and I saw them use that fire hydrant on
a couple different houses, and they were spreading it out
really long. So I don't know, but I don't know
all the issues with the fire hunder's. It's kind of
when you're up there in the middle of it, you're
the kind of in the silos. I haven't had the
time to go back and look and talk to people
about did you have the same issues they had that
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they talked about in the Palisades. But I do know
it was stretched thin.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
What is the evacuation scene? There?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Are they allowing people to go see if their home
is still there?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Not that I'm not the latest that I've heard, because
that was a kind of an issue of concern, like
everyone's everybody we talked to they wanted, you know, some
sort of accommodation where they could do that, but they
were on the kind of the same along the same
lines as the palisades. They did do that for some people.
It seems like at certain points, because there were you know,
we talked to different people said that they allowed me
to go do this. They allowed me to But then
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they when they brought in the National Guard, it seems
like they took kind of a harder stance, saying, look,
there's too much danger up there with all the power
lines down, all the utility work being done. That said,
there are and like even if somebody I talked to yesterday,
they they're pushing some of the residents are pushing for
you know, some sort of accommodation so that they can
get up there and maybe see if there's anything to
(08:37):
be saved. But right now it's look, from what I've
seen just talking to people, they're they're still keeping a
pretty strict stance.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Wow, it's some believe.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The one thing that I hear from people over and
over and over is they are totally floored and completely
depressed with how much they can see from where their
house was. You know, when you when your house was
there and all those homes were there, you couldn't see
a block over. Now you can see six blocks in
every single direction, and that really freaks people out.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh yeah, and that's one thing we were talking about.
It's it's you know, we used to be you know,
we cover you know, how many wildfires have we covered
in the last fifteen twenty years. I can't even count.
We've never covered one in southern California on this scale.
And so usually when we you know, there's a neighborhood
and they're like, oh no, they're you know, they've lost
ten eleven homes. But luckily, you know, all these homes
(09:28):
are okay, and you call them the lucky ones. Now
I don't know if you call them the lucky ones,
because we were talking about it when we were in
the middle of one of these the other day. You
go when you drive around Altadena, and now we've been
thankfully able to see it from some of the aerial pictures.
Remember the first few days, we couldn't get the aerial
view of this, and I was trying to explain to people,
you don't understand how bad this damage is. It's like
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literally I would drive around, you know, a few streets
and show them all, you know, the homes that were gone,
and I say, you could multiply this, but I don't
know how big of a number, but this is just
a fraction. And so you'll be driving around, you'll see
one home still standing and then just dust, and you know,
a desolate area all around that where their neighbors' homes
(10:11):
used to be. And so are they lucky? You know,
I don't know, because it's they can't live there? How
are they going to live there with all this rebuilding
going on too, and all the dust and contamination. And
he and actually, you know, don't know if you saw
the Bill Plashki piece.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, he went to back his house was there, and
then he got it very emotional because he's got to
take everything down to the studs. He's got to get
rid of his furniture. And he was very emotional. He
knew all his neighbors, you know, women across the street
used to come over and they would dance in there,
in there, you know, in the driveway when he had
parties and stuff and man, and you know, he's got
a new fiance there, and he was just completely devastated.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah, I think I'm I won't with a skill line.
I don't remember the exact line he had, but he says, I,
you know, my house was saved, but I lost everything,
talking about how he lost his whole community, he lost
his neighbors. Believable lost you know all his friends. Didn't
lose his friends, but lost them as neighbors. And they're
not gonna it's not gonna be the same community it
was that we moved into.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Buddy, I really appreciate calling up again. A fantastic job.
This is gonna be a story I think on the
news for the next two or three years every single day.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh yeah, more than that, maybe more than that.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, Buddy, I appreciate it. I hope you can get
some rest this weekend. A hell of a job, and
thanks for coming on all right, thanks for having me
right soon, Chip yos with KTLA, they've done an amazing job.
All these stations have two, four, five, seven, nine eleven.
They went wall to wall for six straight days, I
think seven straight days, no commercials, no interruptions, and they
(11:45):
brought you photos, they brought you information, and it was
it was unbelievable to watch just unreal.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I had a tuna fish sandwich out of veny machine.
I'm never gonna do that again. So sort of playing
this one but at a half speed half speed today.
But Stephanush found the audio when Jim was named big Tuna,
let's play that.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
This is great.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
I ate a tuna sandwich on my first day, so
and he started calling me a big Tuna. I don't
think any of them actually know my real name.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Big Tuna is a super ambitious guy. That's great, Big Tuna.
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Crozier again, you know, I'm in a daze here with
this tuna fish sandwich.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Did I hear you? Right though?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That Steve sober Off has been tapped to take over
the recovery effort here in La.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He is the chief recovery officer. Is that right? Yes, sir?
I don't know. Is that a bad thing? I don't know.
I know Steve sober Off, but I.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
You know, if it was for if Steve Soberoff had
his way, the team that of investors that own the
Dodgers right now would not be there. The mccourts would
still be with the Dodgers. Oh really, Yeah, he was
the last guy when everybody said the mccourts have to go.
Steve Soberff came out and defended him, and I was.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Like, what hell, where did he get this?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But there's an old article in the La Times, and
Steve Sobroff said the McCourt should be given the chance
to learn from his mistakes. Remember, he's the guy that
took one hundred million dollars out of the team to
spend it on him and his wife and their lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And then so where did it say that in this article?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Soberff, a former advisor for Mayor Richard Riarden, a mayoral
candidate and the developer of play Play of Vistam, was
hired by McCourt and and he came out and Steve
Sobroff said, Frank McCourt is financially fine, which turned out
I don't think to be all that one hundred percent honest.
(14:12):
See a Budd Sealik, who is running baseball at the time,
said to be shocked by that statement.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
But Sobroff didn't back down.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
He cited the Fox deal, potential real estate development at
Dodgers stadium, parking lot and other end quote other potential
new revenue sources and was were untapped sources of revenue
for McCourt that would put the Dodgers in a strong
financial position as almost any team in baseball, according to
(14:40):
Steve Sobroff. Then Steve Sobroff said that sober Off acknowledged
that McCourt had made mistakes during his seven years running
the Dodgers, in particular more more than one hundred million
dollars that McCourt and his ex wife Jamie redirected from
the team's revenues towards their extravagant personal lifestyle. However, Soberoff
(15:03):
said McCourt should be given the chance to learn from
his mistakes and follow through on his promise to redouble
the Dodgers' involvement in the community.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
But Selig's words.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
On Wednesday said, I don't believe that's true. He says
that's not the issue, Okay. Then Steve Soiver said, that's
not the issue. They've made a decision and they want
somebody else. So he was defending McCourt, and then Steve
Soberoff said, we need more people like Frank McCourt. And
(15:35):
then on that following Wednesday, on his first full day
on the job, so Soberoff said he participated in interviews
with candidates for the job of Dodgers' security chief, the
full time position that had been vacant for four months.
Remember they had all those problems out down there. And
then on Thursday the same week, Sobroff said he intends
(15:59):
to keep his appointments in the morning with city officials
to discuss the Dodgers sportsmanship program at four hundred city
parks and recreation centers. And then it goes on and
on and on. But I remember how bizarre that was
that everybody turned on the courts. They wanted the team sold.
(16:20):
They were, you know, the Dodgers weren't, you know, making
the playoffs every year. They were spending the revenue from
the Dodgers on their own lifestyle, and everybody had turned
on the Dodgers. Everybody wanted new ownership, new life, and
wanted them sold.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Except Steve Soproff.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He's the last guy on board, last guy on board,
and so that always stuck with me. And that was
twenty eleven, I mean that was fourteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Did that happen?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
But I got a long remember long memory when it
comes to messing with the La Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Big Dodger fan, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
iHeartRadio is hosting a special California town hall with Governor
Newsom this the day after tomorrow, January nineteenth, nine am,
and it's gonna be on all iHeartRadio stations in California.
I don't know how many there are, it's got to
be fifty sixty seventy a lot of them. Governor Newsom's
(17:15):
gonna be taking questions from Californians.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
That's you me.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We're all Californians, most of us are who've been impacted
by the recent fires, and we'll just discuss plans for
the future of the state. So be sure to tune
in Sunday morning at nine am. It's gonna be on
this station. It'll be on KLAC, It'll be on Coast,
it will be on every station here in LA. That's iHeartMedia,
(17:42):
all ninety eight point seven Kiss FM, nine am on
every station.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I can't remember the last time we were on every
single station with one set of programming or one program
I think it was nine to eleven. When nine to
eleven happened, they took kfi's feed with Bill Handle and
they pushed it out to all the LA stations and
so I think that's the last time this happened. So
(18:10):
that's a big deal. That's a big deal. Nine am Sunday.
Turned on any iHeart Station and you're gonna hear the
governor field calls about these fires. Nine am Sunday, any
iHeart Station, KFI, KLAC, K Big Kiss, FM, Coast, all
(18:31):
of them.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty's Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I got a letter here.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It starts with, Hey Conway, I have a the best
feel good story for you. Okay, I'm interested in that.
That's I got my attention. Here a young firefighter from
Kern County who's working on the Altadena fire, Zach Griffin.
Zach Griffin, he was unable to go to his wife's
ultrasound today to see their twin babies for the first time.
(19:04):
His captain made sure he could be on the phone
at least. And the exciting part is there's not two babies,
there's three. Imagine fighting. Imagine finding out on the phone
while you're fighting a fire that you're gonna be a
father of triplets. So a huge shout out to Zach Griffin.
(19:26):
What a guy, What a guy.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
He's gonna have.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Three babies, triplets, So that's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
That's gonna be a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Three of everything, three binkies, three diapers, three bottles, maybe
three different bedtimes that's possible as well. That's gonna get
really noisy around the house. But man, he's gonna have
the time of his life. Three kids, three babies, triplets
(19:58):
for Zack Griffin. All right, that's great, that's great. Congratulations
to Zach Griffin with the Kern County Fire Department. Kern
County man. Everybody is sending aid to us. That is great.
That's fantastic. All right, victim assistance as your return home,
evacue's return home, you have to have victim assistance.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
We are outside the First Amy Church here in Pasadena
where a number hit ghost.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Let's find out more Pasadena where a number of community
and religious groups got together along with some of the
victims of the Eaton fire to talk about some of
the things they want to see in the reconstruction process.
Let's take a look inside here at the meeting, you
can see a lot of folks were in attendance. Here
was kind of a news conference slash rally. Not only
(20:45):
did we hear from some of these community and religious groups,
we heard some stories personal stories from some of the
folks who lost everything in the fire, including one woman
who not only lost her home, she lost her business
because she ran a child daycare business from her home.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Here's more from her.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I need an affordable place to rent, but I've had
the added challenges of operating a daycare in my home.
A lot of the owners do not want businesses inside
of the home. Without housing, I can't operate my day
care and that's my income. We need long term support.
(21:20):
So we can all revealed.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Now we're joined here with Pastor Kirwin Manning. He is
a Pasadena church and you're one of the folks kind
of putting on this event. And in the event, you
made a point of some of the things you want
to see in this recovery and reconstruction process. Tell me
what were some of the main points you want people
to kind of keep in mind. Is that all these
decisions are being made by government agencies.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Yes, we want to make sure that the agencies and
the officials are sure to remember the humanity in all
of this, that that people that we have families that
need them right through here. And so we want to
preserve the historical legacy and the cultural legacy of Altadena,
and this is a very wonderful community, tight knit. We
want to make sure that in this next phase that
(22:04):
their needs are actually being met, their actual needs for
assistance through FEMA and other organizations, so that as we rebuild,
they also won't be priced out of their homes and
it'll be a totally different community.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's a good idea, great idea.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Let's try to put these communities back exactly the way
they were, exactly the way they were.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
All right, we got time for this. This is not
related to the fires.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But we've got another pilot who had a couple of
shots or a couple of beers and was gonna fly
a plane full of people.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So this was a flight from Georgia to Chicago, and
it was all set to take off with passengers on board,
when law enforcement then boarded too, and they say, the
problem is the pilot showed up to work intoxicated.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Nowadays, I'm a little more relaxed than most people are.
I get a lot of email on this, but I
got a stay consistent. I you know, there's two guys
up there, and if one guy had a couple of pops.
I always look at crime this way, and I get
an s load of email on this, all of it negative.
(23:12):
But I always look for a victim, and when I
don't see a victim, I'm a purist when it comes
to that, no victim, no crime. Now, a lot of
people are on the opposite side of this. You know,
if a pilot's drinking, they want him out of the cockpit.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I get that. I get that. I totally understand that.
I get your point.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I'm just saying, what's the punishment here, Take him out
of the cockpit forever, because that's what happens. You get
caught drinking and flying one of these big commercial jets,
you're done. You get one of those and you're done.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
This morning, passengers are demanding answers after police arrested a
Southwest Airlines pilot for allegedly being intoxic cake at the airport.
Speaker 11 (24:01):
If I have to take my shoes off still before
I get on a plane, it seems a little weird
that I seem.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
To kind of have to wonder if my pilot is sober.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Pilot David Allsop was arrested early Wednesday morning at Savannah
Hilton Head Airport. Passenger Robert Newmarch says they were about
to take off, but then a flight attendant told them
there was a paperwork issue.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The flight attendant was the one that said, hey, something's
going on with one of these cats up front.
Speaker 12 (24:27):
Shortly after that, one of the officers came on to
the plane.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
He went into the cockpit and he came back out,
and he was gone for a couple minutes, and we
were just sitting there.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
The flight was delayed more than four hours.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Well, they looked for another pilot. According to a police report,
all Shop has been charged with driving under the influence.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Oh boy, Yeah, the pilot that comes in to take
over for this.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Guy got to be sober, got to be a guy
who's never had a drink in his life to assure
those passengers they're going to make it to Chicago.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
We tend to think of alcohol and transportation as a
driving situation. In other words, don't drive drunk, that's right,
But by the same token, we think of it above
or below a certain tolerance level. There really is no
tolerance level in commercial aviation that should be zero blood alcohol.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Southwest Airlines tells ABC they are aware of the situation
and the employee has been removed from duty.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, and that's a wrap. I don't think Southwest. I
don't think it's two strikes or three strikes, you're out.
I think with Southwest, you get one of those and
you're done.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You're done.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
There's nothing more important to Southwest than the safety of
our employees and customers. And Southwest also apologized to those
passengers impacted and said they were booked on new flights
if needed. The original scheduled flight.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Time and the time when police say the pilot was
intoxicated six oh five am.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Woo early early bird. It gets the worm there. I
wonder if if that pilot considers this rock bottom, Like
when he gets arrested and he's being hauled out of
the airport, the plane's not going anywhere, are pissed, His
wife is wondering what's going on. Maybe he's got kids,
Hey dad, what's going on with you. I wonder if
(26:07):
if that's rock bottom yet? Maybe maybe not, that's possible,
but I don't know, man, you're a commercial airline pilot.
They're pretty strict with that crap up there, Pretty pretty
strict because God forbid, there's an emergency on the air,
in the air and they find out afterwards that that
(26:28):
pilot was drunk. Could you imagine the lawsuit that that
airline would have to defend. Oh, it would, it would,
It would just it would bankrupt an airline, almost any
airline if, if God forbid, that plane went down and
they found out the pilot was drunk. Oh, even if
it wasn't his fault, it'd be over all. Right, we
(26:49):
gotta take a quick break here. Don't forget nine o'clock
on Sunday. That's going to be the big Governor Knewso
press conference. He's gonna be taking calls from people like
you about the fires. Nine am on every single iHeart station.
It'll be on on KFI, on k Big, on Coast Kiss,
KLAC eleven to fifty am, all the stations here at
(27:11):
iHeart nine am Sunday. So that'd be cool, right, Everyone
will listen to that nine am Sunday right here on
all your iHeart stations.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
But listen to KFI. We prefer you to do that.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
They got to thank Wendy's. Wendy's always always, always giving
back to the community. They help us out with Catarina's Club.
They do a terrific job raising money, hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of dollars for Katarina's Club. A great partner
and really a very giving company. They were out all
day at Santa Anita where they had that collection for
(27:52):
people who are victims of these fires, and they had
that Wendy's truck out there all day giving out free
food all day long. And it's just great. I mean,
it's unbelievable. I should say it. Shouldn't say it's unelieable.
It's very believable. How many companies, how many different people
have showed up. Yesterday, Petras and Money were doing a
(28:14):
live remote from the Dream Center, which is a huge building,
huge ub charity downtown LA and we're involved with them
here at iHeartMedia. And they said the line to donate,
not the line to pick up supplies if you needed them,
but the line to donate was two and a half
hours long. You had to get a conga line there
(28:35):
and wait and inch up two and a half hours
just to literally donate clothes or blankets, food, gift cards, water,
whatever it was. And everybody they said, almost with that exception,
people got in that line and stayed in that line
until they got to the front.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
That is sensational. That's great.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Look, I think the silver lining in all of these
in the disaster over the last week and a half
is how many people have showed up to help other
people out. There's a lot of them, a lot of them,
a ton of them. And then there's the other crew
that wanted to take advantage of people who are either
(29:21):
burned to the ground or their electricities out. Those are
the looters. The losers are looters. One of the two
are both.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Developing this morning.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
City and county officials arresting multiple people due to criminal
activity happening near the wildfire zones.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
For Thomas joins us live in studio its more on this.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Still can't believe that people just have it in them.
They're out there, they're out there.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
John Colebelt had seven burglaries on his block in the
last ten days, seven just on his block, on his
small little block. Seven in the last ten days to
do stuff like this.
Speaker 13 (29:57):
The number of arrest here is they also pretty shocking.
These are arrests are for charges of burglary, looting, vandalism,
and curfew violations, all of course in fire zones. It's
still going up again. Authorities say they've arrested ninety seven
people so far, and let me break it down for
you a bit. Santa Monica Police Department they say they've
made forty rest Ellie County Sheriff's Deputies they are reporting
(30:20):
thirty nine arrests and the LAPD fourteen people.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Now.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
The La County Sheriff's Department says they've made two arrests
related to illegal drone incidents. Two more men in black
jumpsuits were arrested near the home of Vice President Kamala
Harris for curfew violations. A curfew continues to be in
effect nightly from six pm to six am in the
mandatory evacuation areas and the Palisades and Eaten fire zones.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, a lot of curfew is still underway. But it's
not just the curfew areas. There are parts of bel Air,
Brentwood that don't have any electricity and their electricity has
been out for a week, and it may not come
on for another three, four or five days. And so
you have to decide whether you're going to stay home
and protect your home in the night, in the dark
(31:03):
with no electricity on your neighborhood, or are you going
to go to a hotel and leave your house susceptible
to being looted. I don't know. I don't know what
you do. I know that John Colevelt has designed to
dig in deep and stay at his home to try
to protect it. But it's twenty twenty five and there's
(31:23):
no electricity in these very expensive areas, and you have
to stay home with a flashlight and a gun at
night to protect your valuables. It's odd, It really is odd.
There's a million stories. Here's one pacadying a woman just
paid off her house. I can't imagine what that feeling
(31:44):
is like when you send the final check and they
send you the deed and you have paid your house
off and she had just done it.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
This shell is all that is left now of the
home of a mother and son Pasadena Natives following the
Eton fire. As if this blow wasn't bad enough, now,
Tautris Beasley and her son Aaron and countless others displaced
by these wildfires are being victimized again.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
Well, we evacuated not knowing that our house was going
to be on fire, but came back to ruins is gone,
is gone, her home.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Gutted, her life upended. At sixty four years old, Pasadena
native Toutris Beasley and her son Aaron Miller are pressing
on while facing unimaginable challenges after the wind whip eaten
fire wiped out everything.
Speaker 14 (32:42):
We're in the circumstances with so many other people victims
of the fire.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Beasley shares that she had just paid off her mortgage
one day before the firestorm chased her away and gutted
her sanctuary. And shockingly, she and so many others are
discovering the victim is is not stopping there. Authorities say
many criminal landlords are now guilty of price gouging with
(33:08):
rental properties.
Speaker 15 (33:09):
Still, there are people out there who have decided that
they are going to take advantage of this tragedy. They're
going to exploit this crisis.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
These these stories are despicable.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Guy who's renting a house out for thirty five hundred
dollars before this a month and now he wants seventeen
grand a month. It's unconsfortable, un comfortable. I don't know how,
I don't know how people sleep at night.
Speaker 15 (33:33):
And we have sent this warning, and I'll say it again.
The question is not if, but when you will be arrested.
You will then be prosecuted, and then you will be
punished to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And they're going to start to arrest people for this
price gouging.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You're going to start to see that where people, you know,
affluent people maybe got five or six homes in your family,
You got money, and you decided to overcharge some.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Those. The rest are coming as well.
Speaker 14 (34:03):
I've been quoted maybe five thousand. Some of my friends
have talked to people and they said six thousand plus.
And then one girl told me somebody was charging eight
thousand a month.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
And these are for tiny one bedroom apartments.
Speaker 14 (34:19):
One bedroom apartments.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Wow.
Speaker 14 (34:20):
So you have to just keep going until you find
somebody who cares more about humanity than their pocket.
Speaker 12 (34:27):
Of course, people are just trying to take advantage of it.
They use terms like we're gonna work with you, you know,
five six thousand dollars a month or one bedroom tiny
eight hundred square foot apartments where you're gonna end up
sleeping on the floor, even people who don't even have
bedrooms to lease, they're just leasing out their floor.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Housing and tenants rights advocates report the most extreme case
of price gouging showed a Santa Monica property on a
real estate website jumping from twelve thousand, seven hundred and
fifty dollars per month to twenty eight thousand.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
How about that? How about this guy jumping.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
From twelve one thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars per
month to.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Twenty eight thousand.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
That's a nearly one hundred and twenty percent increase. The
posting has been removed. During the current state of emergency,
landlords are banned from increasing rental prices by more than
ten percent above previously advertised rates.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I wonder if those names will get out there of
the people doing this, and I think they will, and
I think society is going to turn against them, I
really do. I don't know how you can be friends
or have a family member who's doing this and still
invite them over to Thanksgiving and treat them like a
normal person.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I don't know. I don't know how you do that.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
There's something wrong, something wrong with these people, something desperately wrong.
All right, welcome back. We're going to talk to Alex Michaelson.
He's in Washington, D C. For Monday's inauguration of Donald Trump.
We'll see what's going on. They're taking it insides. It's
so cold, it's going to be seven degrees. So we'll
talk to him when we come back and find out
what's going on in our nation's capital. We're live on
(36:02):
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