January 29, 2025 • 34 mins
Tim kicks off the show with a pep in his step for garbage collection today and discusses how it’s a fresh start. Then, ABC’s Alex Stone joins the show to discuss hero Sherriff’s Deputies who checked a seemingly evacuated nursing home during the Eaton fire, only to find and subsequently rescue a 100-year-old woman. // Tim and The Foosh discuss what they’d do with the winnings if they were eligible to win the KFI Cash Contest, and Tim recounts a story about quitting weed gummies. // Tim talks about how it has become more common for people in SoCal to have emergency preparedness equipment, gear, and food. And, how much more common appealing, and practical it has become to own a generator. // A lot of the houses that survived the fires had some sort of sprinkler system built-in to protect their homes, and this is one of the considerations to rebuild more durable homes. And Tim breaks down a cost-analysis about having a sprinkler system like this built-in.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k if.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Conway Show. We
are together again?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
How about that? Yeah, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Pluging my headphones and here we go. We have another
exciting day. It's Wednesday. If there's a pep in my
step on Wednesdays, it's because I love the little things
in life, and it is my trash day. So I
get to put the four cans out on the on
the street tonight and a whole new beginning starts tomorrow.
I don't know what it is, but ever since I
(00:33):
was a kid, I feel like the houses is born again.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's refreshed. It's we start over.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We're cleaning up, we're getting rid of old, and we
got four empty cans to load up again, load them up.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
So if you're out.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
There and you are you shared tonight as your trash
night where you put the barrels out, I'm with you.
And you get excited about that, still, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Cans.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I got two greens, a black and a blue, and
I got two blues, or you do not got two blues?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Greens, blues and one black can.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wow, and you fill the blues? Yeah wow with they recycling.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I never the house of you know, three kids.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I never get close. Everything goes in the blue and
the black though that we I mixed match.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Sorry, all right, let's talk to you.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
I do too, but life gets irritated, said, go ahead
and take him out.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Baby.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The world's your trash can CROs remember that?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Indeed?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
All right?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Uh, Alex Stone is with us, Alex Stone, how you bob?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I want two blues.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
We used to have two blues, and then our waist
company up in Santa Clarita was like, now you got
to pay like thirty bucks a month for the second blue,
and I went, never mind, you can have the second.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Blue one back. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I think our blues are still free. I'd have to
check that out. I know we pay for the black
and the greens, but I think the blues are still free.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
And burd crows, you know, with like kids at home
and stuff, you fill those things up so fast. You
nice to have another blue because it was just like
having another black. Oh yeah, especially yeah, yeah, you're not
supposed to. And also, you know, we lived on an
alley for a long time. And so for seven years
I was splitting everything. You know, that's splitting the atoms
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at night, you know, with the blue and the black
and the green. I was separating everything. And then I
was outside one day early, like it's seven o'clock, and
the guy comes by and in one truck, he picks
up the green, picks up the black, picks up the.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Blue, and throws it all into one truck. So I
stopped him. I go, heyyy, what's what's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And he goes, oh, in the alleys in burbank, we
don't it's too dangerous to come down here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Three trucks.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We just throw it all into one, like okay, seven
years wasting my time splitting everything up.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Its our day too, and it does always flow.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Last week we got new trash cans broken, so I
put it in the class of ours. Are like shiny and new.
They off last week. I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I love trash day, man, I really do. I love
to get I love bringing in empty cans. They're louder,
you know, when you roll them in and they're ready
for all your other crap in your house, though.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
You know better making your twelve year old do it,
and then you just have nice empty trash cans and
you don't have to do the work.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh it's great.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I just got the twenty one year old to do that.
Oh yeah, set your claw, set your watch.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Or your phone. Every week, you know, Monday night, take
them out. Tuesday day aftern you bring them in.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
See I would do that with my wife or daughter.
But I don't trust them. I trust that I'm the
only guy that knows where they go because they have.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
My twelve year old does a good job emptying the
garbage around the house, but every Wednesday night I have
to get home and go, dude, get it done.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
It doesn't change when they're twenty one either.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Yeah. No, he doesn't do it well, but he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Do You separate the cans by two feet?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Are you supposed to? You're supposed to yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, they're supposed to be two feet between cans and
make it easier for the guy. And even I even
know my guy's name, Walter, I even know the guy
driving the truck around.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Are you going to the.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Neighborhood where you're supposed to like separate into that little
tiny bin and put They claim that like the trash
police were gonna come and take photos of our trash
and we're gonna get tickets.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh, we've had that before. We've had some guy.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They gave us a notice from Burbank saying here, we're
gonna come look at your blue can. We're not gonna
move anything, but we're gonna tell you what you're doing right,
what you're doing wrong. And I'm like, oh man, I'd
love to have that job.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
They pull out your pantyhose and they like, that's what
I'm doing with these and uh, yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The cottage industry right now with companies that clean your
cans too.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
They'll come out and wash them and yeah, mountains is
that a thing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
A buddy of mine, Mark Verge, owns one of those
companies and comes out, I think for like twenty five
hundred bucks will clean a can.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
But how nasty is your can?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Like, well, the black one's bad because it's got all,
you know, food and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, I got an old can, so mine mine's pretty nasty.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
That's what she said.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, I look I I do you ever hose them out?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Though?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I mean you tilt them over and the hose them out.
Oh oh that's that's you gotta do that.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Just let them get grody and you know then you.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Where do you? What?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What's are you in Valencia?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Or say Stevenson Ranch? Like birds feature made of gold
out there? You gotta get cans, new cans every week.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Ts doesn't stink out there?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
What do you hear more? Trash can talk on Alex Stone?
Oh the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Yeah, let's talk about a couple of heroes in the
Sheriff's right, what's going on? So they eaten fire January eighth.
It was exploding that morning and that's when everything was
taken off the nine of seventh into the eighth and
buildings where I mean I was right there. Buildings were
going up all around Altadena that morning. There were two
La County Sheriff's deputies not even assigned to Altadena, but
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they were the mutual aid that came in and they
got the assignment to go to a senior living facility
in Altadena, just off of Lake where it was already evacuated.
Just go in, double check it, make sure there's nobody
in there. Deputy Quinn Alconis and Deputy Nicholas Martinez. They
get there immediately they see an elderly confused resident out
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front walking a dog like nothing is going on, a
fire all around, And this is what it sounded like
on their body cam as they got out of their
patrol car.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Right now.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
So they said, all right, wait here, we've got to
go inside this building.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
We'll be right back. We'll take you out to safety.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
They had to go inside the evacuated, smoky, dark without electricity,
they thought empty senior living home to double check it.
Fire was moving in all around. You can hear them
watching as they're clearing the building. The fire that is
moving in on the senior living apartments.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Schars apartment, anybody inside service apartment, anybody inside just like
monitor looking out the windows to see like where the fire?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh, shoot that.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Shirt right now?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Oh it's gone.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
So then tim They hear a faint voice down the hallway,
and it was dark down the hallway, it was smoky,
and they hear someone asking for help.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Hello, Hello, where are you?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Wow? Where are you? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Hi, okay?
Speaker 10 (07:14):
Perfect? Is there anyone else with you?
Speaker 11 (07:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Okay, where are you at?
Speaker 8 (07:18):
What?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Which room were you from?
Speaker 10 (07:21):
I've been trying to find a way out.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
In the darkness. She is standing there, her walker, She's
fully dressed. She had been left behind the whole staff
and everybody somehow overlooked her, and she didn't hear the
orders to get out. She'd never hearing, aids and and
then this will break your heart, she says.
Speaker 12 (07:40):
This, you don't worry.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Okay, Thank goodness, we've been yelling.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Did you hear us?
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I didn't hear.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
I'm deaf, okay, charge my hair is.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
One hundred years old. But her ask if don't lose me.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
And we caught up with the deputies today, Alconis and Martinez,
and they say that they were blown away. They thought
they were in an empty building, and then she called out,
and Deputy Alconis told us.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I was shocked, and I was relieved. I was relieved
that we were able to be that for this lady,
that we were able to save her and you know,
comfort her and get additional units there so that we
could help her down the stairs because she also had
a walk her and it was kind of tough for
her to get downstairs and things like that.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
We don't know how she got left behind the that
senior living apartment. It ended up not burning. It's been closed,
it's going to reopen soon. But they're in the fire
zone and there was all the everything around it burned
up and they had smoke damage and whatnot.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
But she's all right.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
The Sheriff's department is working now to reunite Deputies Alconis
and Martinez with her so they can give her a hug.
But they got her out of there. She was all
alone and looking for a way out. That's don't lose me.
I can't believe that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well, look, I'm glad she made it, obviously everybody's glad
she made it. But man, they got to have a
better plan on evacuating that joint.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Yeah, well yeah, and we don't know what happened here.
It was not as severe as in Santa Rosa in
twenty seventeen. In Santa Rosa there were senior living centers
at least one where the staff up and left, and
then some the children of the residents came to check
on their parents and realized everybody's here, Oh my god,
and called in Santa Rosa Police and Santa Rosa Fire
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and they fought the fire back. Well, they brought in
city buses. There's a book about it, city buses that
the bus drivers drove through the fire to get to them,
put down their wheelchair, ramps and to get people out
of there. And it's that is incredible bodycam from twenty
seventeen where you hear police officers saying who left all
these people here? And you know, so it gets that
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severe where but they drove overnight staff that's overwhelmed and
they bail out.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's not the case here, but they got your body
count over you know, like when you take off out
of lax or Burbank, they know how many people are
on that plane.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
They got to do the same thing there.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Yeah, I mean, who knows, maybe she was in the
bathroom and they missed her, you know as they were
counting and going through and who who knows, We don't
know yet, but but she was left behind and luckily
they came upon her.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
They deserve an Adda boy and an Ada girl for that.
I hope they get big plaques. Yeah, put he's Alconis
and Martinez. Yeah, yeah, they definitely did it.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
But there were so many, I mean, whether it be
sheriffs or LAPD or county fire or city fire, or
medics or Southern California Edison Cruise or you know, everybody
in there.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Everybody was doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, that's great that that she's out and she's one.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Hundred years old.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
One hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, man, oh man, what a life.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Without those hearing aids in She couldn't hear the yelling
to get out.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, maybe it was the sheriff's knocking that got her
hearing all crazy, you know, that made her like, you know,
because they My grandfather he couldn't hear it all, but
he could hear knocking and pinging, you know, like the
vibration of it. Maybe that's what helped drop.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Buddy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I appreciate you coming on. Alex Stone. Everybody nice to
see above.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Have a great trash night, can tell you tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I love the fact that we share the same trash knight.
You know, exacted something common here. Okay, all right, Alex Stone,
everybody that is great.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
All right, Ding dong with that. Dude.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
When we come back, we have one thousand bucks that
we can give away. Maybe you're gonna win, you know,
one thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Woo.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
All right, we'll come back and do that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We got a lot more show, including Patrick O'Neill's coming
on with us. He's the voice of one of the
guys there with the La Kings, Doctor ray Ka Sherry
at six oh five. He helped us out with COVID
and Tuola Sharp at six thirty five.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's too much show. It's almost too much. You know,
we got a lot of great guests coming up.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty steps.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
What would you do with one thousand dollars? Somebody laid
a grand on you? What would you do? Think about it?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Pay a couple of bills and maybe get some gummies.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay, you're here, hey, three D House of Honesty. Right,
that's great. What's your favorite gummy? How many milligrams?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
I usually do?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Ten minute, ten milligram?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh wow, they call those elephant tranquilizers. God a mighty
ten milligrams. Yeah wow, man, I take it half a milligram.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I'm on the moon.
Speaker 13 (12:14):
Well, they're also like the ones that I used to get,
were like to help you to sleep forever.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Woof ten milligrams? Those are expensive, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, the ten milligram ones have got to be what
twenty bucks a shot?
Speaker 13 (12:29):
Well, no, each camp or each little tin is uh?
I think like twenty five dollars and you get ten
of them?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh you get ten ten milligrams, you get a hundred
milligrams or twenty five bucks. I didn't know them.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, I might be taking the wrong things then, I
don't know I'm taking a They're called flintstones, you know, flintstone,
no flintstone don ed.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And they sell them.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Like that, and I thought, okay, they don't work for
me though, because I get too paranoid. I take one
and I think that, you know, the FBI is going
to be on the front porch, so I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Weed. Its one of those things I can't do. I
always get paranoid. I always think that the how it's
going to burn down, I won't be able to get out.
We'll be able to get family out.
Speaker 13 (13:13):
It's one of those things where you have to find
your find your level. Because I was like that too
in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh you were yeah, oh okay, all right, well I'm
glad there's hope. Then I didn't know that you were.
You were anxious and wild at the beginning.
Speaker 13 (13:25):
Yeah, but I also I also made the mistake that
you plowed through it though, right.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (13:30):
My friend was like she was she was eating a
week cookie and she had half of it and She's like,
all right, just have half. And I didn't know dosage
is then, and I took that and I could my
heart could barely stay in my chest.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It was bad. And I was like, oh, okay, this
is you have to take like little bites of it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'll tell you a quick story here that I was
unable to tell when Robin Berdlucci is here because she
would not let me tell the story of the air.
And I always told this story as if I was
a kala sex doing it, but actually happened right here.
When I first started here on kfive, Aaron Bender was
the news guy and somebody gave me a gummy before
the show and I didn't take it. I didn't feel like,
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you know, when you're just starting here, he should be,
you know, completely bombed when you're on the air. And
so a couple of days later, I was like, Okay,
maybe I'll take it, what the hell? And I took
half of it and didn't work, and I took the
other half. Bang about an hour into the show, I'm
flipping out.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
I am.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I don't know how many get through the next two hours.
I think that every time somebody opens a mic, they're
saying something that get him fired or something, you know,
sexual connotation. And I'm like, oh, no, Angel, you shouldn't
say you know, oh no, oh no, no, Bender shouldn't
say that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I was getting all crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And then Bender gets on the on the on the
PA here on the intercom with me and during the
commercial break, and he was buddy, yeah, yeah, what's going on?
Are you going to talk about it? What about being
on gummies? He says, no, no, no, I don't know what
you're on. We just had an earthquake and I thought
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it was just me on gummies. I didn't know that
we actually had an earthquake. And so now I've got
to come back on and for the next two hours
like take phone calls from people who are affected by
this earthquake. It was like a four point eight or something.
And then every commercial break, I'd call home to see
if my wife and daughter were Okay. That's the last
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gummy I took. That was a wrap that was in
twenty ten, and that was it. I learned my lesson
and I said I'm never doing that again. And I
said yeah, I said, God, if you get me through
this night, I will never take another gummy. And I
don't the guy I have. I have not gone the
gummy route, but I respect people that do the gummies.
(15:55):
I think everybody that's on them has a great time,
and it's just a little thing to have when you
go home. You know, you don't have to have the
bong and the smoke and the cherry popping out and
causing you know, all kinds of scars on your on
your tables and your rug and your chairs and all
that kind of crap. I'd like to get back into gummies.
(16:16):
I just don't know if I can. I don't think
I'm built for gummies. I'm just not built that way.
I don't know, just not a gummy guy. Crows, are
you in the gummies?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
You take it all?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
On the weekends and kind of like what stuff says.
Sometimes at night I take a little indigo one.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Helps me sleep really well through the night.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Maybe I gotta get back into it. Angel the Queen
of Gummies. You still on them gummy.
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Queen's bottom right now?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Are you all gummed up?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
All gummed up?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Man, all those Hawaii Hawaiian freeways.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
That's right, that's probably I should probably take a few
more and I'd be able to pronounce those words better.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Do you do you take gummies?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Well you don't have.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You don't have to say, you don't have to say,
but your silence speaks a lot.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
You know. I would ask Belly, Oh.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
She takes him, but she's at a gummy convention in Denver?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Oh is she?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, she's all gummed up in the Denver All right.
When we come back, we got a lot going on,
Doctor Ray, because Cherry's coming on at six oh five.
So if you got to go, you know, I don't
get gummies. Whatever you do, you got to be back
by six oh five. He's great. The CDC is warning
(17:34):
a high level of respiratory illness. You got to be
aware of that. Patrick O'Neill is coming on at five o'clock.
He's with the La Kings. I love that guy. We
talk hockey. Plus, he was allowed to return to his
home in Malibu and it's still smoldering three weeks later,
still smoldering, so we'll talk to him as well. Lot
(17:55):
going on. Plus I think Drew Dowdy's coming back with
the La Kings. He's not out the whole season with
an ankle or some kind of you know, leg injury.
All right, we've got a lot going on here. Keep
it on KFI. Really appreciate it. Yesterday, if you were
listening to the program, we were voted number one talk
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A lot of syndicated shows out there, so we really
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Speaker 10 (18:44):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Hey, congratulations to Dave Weeese, who's a big party for
him upstairs. He was responsible for millions of dollars and
millions of piece of clothing and food donated to the
Dream Center. And there's a big party for him upstairs
earlier today and and that was a that was a
(19:10):
cool deal. So Dave Weese, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
A lot of people.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Everybody got together in the red room here and had
some really cool Mexican food. Where was that food from, Leslie?
You know, you don't know. Yeah, I know, that's where
I asked you I was from. She said she didn't know.
But Leslie, who is in sales. She's in here. God
only knows why.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But she started talking to me, thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Guardrail's gone.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, So she started talking to me when I was
upstairs in line getting food, and then she started putting
food on her own plane. She cut the line by
like twelve people. She cut the line by twelve people,
Like well, Leslie, she had no idea how a line works,
you know, no idea at all. So all right we
have You know, back in the old days, if you
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had springinklers on your house, you're the crazy guy on
the block, right, the crazy guy on the block. If
you had a generator, you are the crazy guy, you know,
the end of the earth, the apocalyptic guy that the
whole world's.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Going to come to an end.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
If you had a bunker in your house, crazy, crazy, crazy, right,
If you had twenty five year food supply, you're the
crazy guy now now, totally normal behavior. They sell it
at Costco. Now, I saw it last night, twenty five
year shelf life food for six for a month. I
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think it's like, I don't know, eighty bucks or whatever.
And people always look at it and then they start
reading the ingredients. Well, when the whole city's on fire
and everybody's moving because of the earthquake and everybody's shaking,
you don't care what's.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
In that box. You'll eat it. You'll eat it.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You look now at the ingredients because you're at Costco
at five point thirty on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
But when all the buildings have.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Collapsed around you, you'll just start eating whatever in that
box and you'll enjoy it. But but Krazer, you know,
ten years ago or twenty years ago, I've been telling
people to get generated forever, and everyone always thought I
was crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
And that's fine. I get that all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But now a guy who has a generator is like
the stud on the block.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You know you want to be that guy, don't you think?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah, I I've been delaying getting one myself.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, you gotta get one.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, I keep looking at them. They're inexpensive.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Now, Yeah, I see.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
The ones in Costco, and I'm like, oh, we gotta
get that one. We've got to invest a little bit
in that thing.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, they're like four or five hundred bucks. You can
get a nice step generator.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's when you.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Get one of the ones that has the solar panels
that you know you can go with it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh, that's the battery operated one of those are the
battery packs.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah, yeah, because I won't run out of sun, but
I could run out of gas.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
But you also, I mean you plug anything into one
of those uh you know, solar packs and buries it.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
You know, it's in their phones off of the thing.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, you can't put a heater on or anything.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
You know, you put one heat like a space heater on, gone,
really no power nothing. So you got to get if
you want power for a while, you got to get
a step generator where it only puts out the amount
of power you use, so it saves you a lot
of gas. Like old old generators used to run on
full blast the whole time, you know, eight thousand RPMs,
and you'd hear them all over the block. Whenever the
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lights go out. It sounds like an airplane's landing on
your street.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I'm not fastidious enough though, to keep gas like in
the shed or something like that, because gas goes bad.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, gas goes bad, you're right.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
That's why you can take it to an auto parts
store and dump it, you know, like every six months
or three months or whatever.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I don't know that I'm that good about that stuff. Yeah,
that's what I Almos puts it in my head the
whole time. It's like, man, I got to replace that
gas every six months for something that I may never
use while I'm here.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Right, And you got to You got to burn the
gas out that's in it so the gas doesn't sit
in it. Yeah, So that's why you got to get
a That's why you gotta get a whole house generator
if you got that kind of dough because it runs
off natural gas. It runs off the gas that comes
in through the street, and it'll be on forever. And
we've had ours for I don't know, we've had ours
for maybe four years, and I think I've used it
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maybe five times. But the one time we did use
it is like six hours and the lights flicker, all
the lights go back on the house.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And we're good to go.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It's great, and you got to turn it on. It's
not automatic.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
You know it's automatic. Oh it is.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, as soon as the lights go off, it's about
three seconds of dark and then bang it hits and
everything is back to normal.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Completely normal.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
But if you do have a generator, I also recommend
a shotgun because if your house is the only house
lit up in the block, they're coming to get your stuff.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Oh, your neighbors are no longer your neighbors. That's right,
your competition.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Although you know, the generator I have produces so much
more power than we need that I can literally take
an extension court and give it to my neighbor and
he can power up over there. And I think he
feels bad about doing that, But I.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Remember growing up with my dad like that when he
was power listen in an apartment. Oh is that right,
borrowing the extension court, coming out, going into the guy
next door.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
He said, that's how he's a great. Look, all right,
we'll come back. I'm going to talk to you about
a company that does this, and it's it's the fence
system too, or whatever it is. But there's a couple
of companies that do this where you have a literally
like frontline protection does it where they come out and
they put sprinklers on your home. And again ten years
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ago lunatic with the sprinklers on the house. Nowadays guy
who's in his house, smart guy. So we'll come back.
I'm going to tell you the details on how to
put sprinklers on your house. There's some companies that do it.
I wouldn't do it on your own. You know, when
you mess with water and putting on your roof, that
can go squirrely about a billion different ways, and you
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don't want that because the insurance company is not going
to cover you when you try to put your house
into the sprinkler system. They're going to look at you
and cancel you, or you know, move on.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
We'll come back.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm going to tell you about sprinkler on houses because
I think that's the way of the future. If we
lived in a normal society where the fire department showed
up and the hydrants who were working, we wouldn't have
to do this.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
We live in a city.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
We live in a part of other world where sometimes
the hydrants don't work. Sometimes it gets very windy, and
you've got to be proactive now to save your house.
We've all learned that over the last month.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
You're listening to Tim conwaytunire on Demayo from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Doctor Ray Casherry, who's one of our favorite guests, is
coming on at six zh five. Patrick O'Neill, who's one
of our newer guests but quickly becoming a favorite guests,
is on at five oh five. And Tuala Sharp, I've
known forever, is one of my favorite dudes. I think
he's the last honest guy in radio. He's coming on
at six thirty five talk about the Los Angeles mission.
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They've got a great event going on, so we'll talk
about that for Altadena, and so it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's a lot going on, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The houses that survived, a lot of them had a
sprinkler system on their home. And again, twenty years ago,
that's the odd guy in the neighborhood. Now it's the
smart guy in the neighborhood. So times have change. Times
have change. Let's find out more information on how to
do this, how to potentially save your home in the future.
Speaker 12 (26:18):
I think everybody's saying we need to learn to build differently,
and some people got that message decades ago when they
had their home destroyed. Other people looking at why is
this house standing in this one not? And I think
there's a lot to learn here on how we construct
our homes and how they fare in a wildfire.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
She's right, she's right. Listen to this woman, she's right.
Speaker 12 (26:36):
Well, in some cases those steps started with how the
home was built. Others it's extra protection that came after.
Their strategies appear to have helped them avoid catastrophe. They
stand out amidst the devastation and the palace somehow made
it through the firestorm. Kelly Klein's house in Malibu wasn't
one of them.
Speaker 14 (26:54):
No firemen ever showed that at all.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Oh, that's got to be the worst. The fireman never
ever show up. Between the time you're exiting your house
and it burned to the ground, you never saw a fireman.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
There's no fireman, there's no help.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
So these houses were just sacrificed.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
But right next door, Klein's neighbor's home is still standing
and we walked around it. I don't see any damage.
Speaker 15 (27:17):
No, it's like a green oasis in the middle of
a war zone.
Speaker 12 (27:21):
Harry Statter founded Frontline Wildfire Defense System, one of a
growing number.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Of companies that what's the name of the company.
Speaker 12 (27:27):
Harry Statter founded Frontline Wildfire Defense System, one of a
growing number of companies that will install a sophisticated sprinkler
setup on your home. As we first reported back in
twenty twenty three, Frontline created an app that can deploy
the sprinklers and fire retardant even if you're not home.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oh how about that?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You can watch your app and then when the fire
gets closed, you can turn the sprinkler zon Man, oh Man.
Speaker 15 (27:54):
If a customer enables that, then our software platform will
detect fire relative to the location of your home, and
it'll also detects win gus and fuel conditions, and it'll
activate your system on your behalf. So when ember's land
on those materials, whether it be patio furniture, front door mats,
adjacent plant fuels, they're in a condition that's too.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Wet to burn.
Speaker 12 (28:16):
Starting at about five hundred dollars a month, the system
is far from cheap.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But it has okay, all right, So if it's five
hundred dollars a month, I imagine you'd also get a
discount from your insurance company that may come close to that.
I don't know, but you're going to get some kind
of discount. I believe, you know, if the if you
can prove to your insurance company that you're taking extra
steps to protect your house, there's got to be some
kind of discount. Hell, we get discounts if my daughter
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gets a B in a class, So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 12 (28:46):
Starting at about five hundred dollars a month, five.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Hundred bucks a month, six thousand dollars a year, I
don't know how you look and if you're if you
got that kind of money and you're not spending it
on trying to protect your house, I don't know where
it's going. I don't know where it's going. The house
is the most important thing I think we a lot
of us have learned.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
In our lives.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Even if you own, like let's say you own the
Lakers or a big shopping mall, or you have a
private jet, still your home is more valuable, I think
than a lot of those other assets because that's where
you've had Thanksgivings and birthdays, you know, births, new people
have come into the family, you've had you know, people
have pressed on who've been to that house. And a
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house after a while becomes part of the family, and
I think we we've learned in the last month. We
got to do everything we can to try to save it.
Speaker 12 (29:37):
The system is far from cheap, but it has Kelly
Klein's attention.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
Very surprised that any house could make it through that.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Okay, five hundred dollars a month, that's one hundred and
twenty five dollars a week. That's probably close to what
you spend at Starbucks. If you're getting two drinks a day,
that's what twelve fifteen dollars a day.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's it's close. You know what. Let's say you spend
twenty bucks a day.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
You got kids, your wife, you know, husband, whatever, You're
spending twenty dollars a day at Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
That happens.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I know people that do that. That's one hundred and
forty dollars a week. That's more than what this system costs.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
Will you build differently, I mean I would put the
frontline system clearly. I think absolutely have to build differently.
I think mostly everybody who's going to rebuild will build
with fire safety in mind.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I think that's right. I think what he just said
right here is something that everybody, if it's not on
the top of your mind, it certainly is close.
Speaker 14 (30:39):
Everybody who's going to rebuild will build with fire safety
in mind.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Definitely.
Speaker 11 (30:44):
We have a cement floor all the way through this
whole level. We have the slate which is also in
our bathrooms, in our showers and things, the cinder block
and the cinder block, and then we have our beautiful metal.
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Fireplace Nancy and Jim Evans designed there.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Sounds like he's living at the Flintstones House. Everything's cement
and the cinder.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
Block, and then we have our beautiful metal fireplace.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Altho way, I never thought about this, but the Flintstones
House was probably fireproof. It was made out of slate,
it was made out of rock. The whole thing probably
heavy as hell, especially the roof.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
Nancy and Jim Evans designed their home in the hills
above Malibu based on the trauma of losing their first
one in the Old Topanga Fire of nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oh my god, can you imagine that you lost a
house in the Tapanga fire and then you got caught
up in this fire.
Speaker 12 (31:34):
It consumed everything, including the valuable artwork Jim had created
over the course of his career.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
The devastation for me personally was like just like sucked
a piece of my shol out.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
It took us over two years to rebuild.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
It was kind of a revenge house where we decided
we're going to build on the same spot where we're
going to build a fortress.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
Their architect framed the fortress entirely of steel. Every door
is made of metal. The very few pieces of wood
inside are purely decorative. When the Palisades fire roared into
their neighborhood, nearly every structure here was destroyed or damaged.
It burned up to the Evans front door.
Speaker 9 (32:13):
Nothing defended this house. There were no water drops, There
was nobody with a hose. This house just like sat
here in the middle of the surrounded by fire.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
But their home was essentially untouched.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, but you know that's expensive. You know, to have
everything in your house built with cement and steel, that's
really expensive. That's a lot more than five hundred bucks
a month. That's you know, a half million dollars in upgrades.
At least untouched.
Speaker 15 (32:41):
There's a few places where the glass is cracked on
a couple of windows, but by and large it held
up really, really well.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
This time.
Speaker 12 (32:49):
The Evans home and Gym's aren't survived, but both their
hearts are breaking for so many neighbors who have so
much work ahead of them.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, I think we look, we just live in a
crazy time. Frontline Wildfire dot Com is one of the
companies that does that. And you know, sprinklers on the house.
Don't try to do that yourself. That's not to do
it yourself project. That could lead to a tremendous disaster, flooding, moisture, mildew,
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black guy, you know, toxins, black mildew, black boss, all
that stuff. You know, it's just not don't do that yourself.
Have a professional to it anyway. All right, we got
to take a break when we got a lot of
guests coming on. Patrick O'Neil with the La Kings, he's
coming on with us. He is he has a house
in Malibu, an old family home that's still smoldering three
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weeks later, still smoldering.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
What's going on.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
It's right on the ocean too, I mean literally feet
away from quadrillions of gallons of water. Feet away. We're
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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are together again?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
How about that? Yeah, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Pluging my headphones and here we go. We have another
exciting day. It's Wednesday. If there's a pep in my
step on Wednesdays, it's because I love the little things
in life, and it is my trash day. So I
get to put the four cans out on the on
the street tonight and a whole new beginning starts tomorrow.
I don't know what it is, but ever since I
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was a kid, I feel like the houses is born again.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's refreshed. It's we start over.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We're cleaning up, we're getting rid of old, and we
got four empty cans to load up again, load them up.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
So if you're out.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
There and you are you shared tonight as your trash
night where you put the barrels out, I'm with you.
And you get excited about that, still, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Cans.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I got two greens, a black and a blue, and
I got two blues, or you do not got two blues?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Greens, blues and one black can.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wow, and you fill the blues? Yeah wow with they recycling.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I never the house of you know, three kids.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I never get close. Everything goes in the blue and
the black though that we I mixed match.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Sorry, all right, let's talk to you.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
I do too, but life gets irritated, said, go ahead
and take him out.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Baby.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The world's your trash can CROs remember that?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Indeed?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
All right?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Uh, Alex Stone is with us, Alex Stone, how you bob?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I want two blues.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
We used to have two blues, and then our waist
company up in Santa Clarita was like, now you got
to pay like thirty bucks a month for the second blue,
and I went, never mind, you can have the second.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Blue one back. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I think our blues are still free. I'd have to
check that out. I know we pay for the black
and the greens, but I think the blues are still free.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
And burd crows, you know, with like kids at home
and stuff, you fill those things up so fast. You
nice to have another blue because it was just like
having another black. Oh yeah, especially yeah, yeah, you're not
supposed to. And also, you know, we lived on an
alley for a long time. And so for seven years
I was splitting everything. You know, that's splitting the atoms
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at night, you know, with the blue and the black
and the green. I was separating everything. And then I
was outside one day early, like it's seven o'clock, and
the guy comes by and in one truck, he picks
up the green, picks up the black, picks up the.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Blue, and throws it all into one truck. So I
stopped him. I go, heyyy, what's what's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And he goes, oh, in the alleys in burbank, we
don't it's too dangerous to come down here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Three trucks.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We just throw it all into one, like okay, seven
years wasting my time splitting everything up.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Its our day too, and it does always flow.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Last week we got new trash cans broken, so I
put it in the class of ours. Are like shiny and new.
They off last week. I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I love trash day, man, I really do. I love
to get I love bringing in empty cans. They're louder,
you know, when you roll them in and they're ready
for all your other crap in your house, though.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
You know better making your twelve year old do it,
and then you just have nice empty trash cans and
you don't have to do the work.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh it's great.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I just got the twenty one year old to do that.
Oh yeah, set your claw, set your watch.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Or your phone. Every week, you know, Monday night, take
them out. Tuesday day aftern you bring them in.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
See I would do that with my wife or daughter.
But I don't trust them. I trust that I'm the
only guy that knows where they go because they have.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
My twelve year old does a good job emptying the
garbage around the house, but every Wednesday night I have
to get home and go, dude, get it done.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
It doesn't change when they're twenty one either.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Yeah. No, he doesn't do it well, but he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Do You separate the cans by two feet?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Are you supposed to? You're supposed to yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, they're supposed to be two feet between cans and
make it easier for the guy. And even I even
know my guy's name, Walter, I even know the guy
driving the truck around.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Are you going to the.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Neighborhood where you're supposed to like separate into that little
tiny bin and put They claim that like the trash
police were gonna come and take photos of our trash
and we're gonna get tickets.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh, we've had that before. We've had some guy.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They gave us a notice from Burbank saying here, we're
gonna come look at your blue can. We're not gonna
move anything, but we're gonna tell you what you're doing right,
what you're doing wrong. And I'm like, oh man, I'd
love to have that job.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
They pull out your pantyhose and they like, that's what
I'm doing with these and uh, yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The cottage industry right now with companies that clean your
cans too.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
They'll come out and wash them and yeah, mountains is
that a thing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
A buddy of mine, Mark Verge, owns one of those
companies and comes out, I think for like twenty five
hundred bucks will clean a can.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
But how nasty is your can?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Like, well, the black one's bad because it's got all,
you know, food and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, I got an old can, so mine mine's pretty nasty.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
That's what she said.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, I look I I do you ever hose them out?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Though?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I mean you tilt them over and the hose them out.
Oh oh that's that's you gotta do that.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Just let them get grody and you know then you.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Where do you? What?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What's are you in Valencia?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Or say Stevenson Ranch? Like birds feature made of gold
out there? You gotta get cans, new cans every week.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Ts doesn't stink out there?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
What do you hear more? Trash can talk on Alex Stone?
Oh the Sheriff's department.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Yeah, let's talk about a couple of heroes in the
Sheriff's right, what's going on? So they eaten fire January eighth.
It was exploding that morning and that's when everything was
taken off the nine of seventh into the eighth and
buildings where I mean I was right there. Buildings were
going up all around Altadena that morning. There were two
La County Sheriff's deputies not even assigned to Altadena, but
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they were the mutual aid that came in and they
got the assignment to go to a senior living facility
in Altadena, just off of Lake where it was already evacuated.
Just go in, double check it, make sure there's nobody
in there. Deputy Quinn Alconis and Deputy Nicholas Martinez. They
get there immediately they see an elderly confused resident out
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front walking a dog like nothing is going on, a
fire all around, And this is what it sounded like
on their body cam as they got out of their
patrol car.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Right now.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
So they said, all right, wait here, we've got to
go inside this building.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
We'll be right back. We'll take you out to safety.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
They had to go inside the evacuated, smoky, dark without electricity,
they thought empty senior living home to double check it.
Fire was moving in all around. You can hear them
watching as they're clearing the building. The fire that is
moving in on the senior living apartments.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Schars apartment, anybody inside service apartment, anybody inside just like
monitor looking out the windows to see like where the fire?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh, shoot that.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Shirt right now?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Oh it's gone.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
So then tim They hear a faint voice down the hallway,
and it was dark down the hallway, it was smoky,
and they hear someone asking for help.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Hello, Hello, where are you?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Wow? Where are you? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Hi, okay?
Speaker 10 (07:14):
Perfect? Is there anyone else with you?
Speaker 11 (07:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Okay, where are you at?
Speaker 8 (07:18):
What?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Which room were you from?
Speaker 10 (07:21):
I've been trying to find a way out.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
In the darkness. She is standing there, her walker, She's
fully dressed. She had been left behind the whole staff
and everybody somehow overlooked her, and she didn't hear the
orders to get out. She'd never hearing, aids and and
then this will break your heart, she says.
Speaker 12 (07:40):
This, you don't worry.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Okay, Thank goodness, we've been yelling.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Did you hear us?
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I didn't hear.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
I'm deaf, okay, charge my hair is.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
One hundred years old. But her ask if don't lose me.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
And we caught up with the deputies today, Alconis and Martinez,
and they say that they were blown away. They thought
they were in an empty building, and then she called out,
and Deputy Alconis told us.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I was shocked, and I was relieved. I was relieved
that we were able to be that for this lady,
that we were able to save her and you know,
comfort her and get additional units there so that we
could help her down the stairs because she also had
a walk her and it was kind of tough for
her to get downstairs and things like that.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
We don't know how she got left behind the that
senior living apartment. It ended up not burning. It's been closed,
it's going to reopen soon. But they're in the fire
zone and there was all the everything around it burned
up and they had smoke damage and whatnot.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
But she's all right.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
The Sheriff's department is working now to reunite Deputies Alconis
and Martinez with her so they can give her a hug.
But they got her out of there. She was all
alone and looking for a way out. That's don't lose me.
I can't believe that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well, look, I'm glad she made it, obviously everybody's glad
she made it. But man, they got to have a
better plan on evacuating that joint.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Yeah, well yeah, and we don't know what happened here.
It was not as severe as in Santa Rosa in
twenty seventeen. In Santa Rosa there were senior living centers
at least one where the staff up and left, and
then some the children of the residents came to check
on their parents and realized everybody's here, Oh my god,
and called in Santa Rosa Police and Santa Rosa Fire
(09:20):
and they fought the fire back. Well, they brought in
city buses. There's a book about it, city buses that
the bus drivers drove through the fire to get to them,
put down their wheelchair, ramps and to get people out
of there. And it's that is incredible bodycam from twenty
seventeen where you hear police officers saying who left all
these people here? And you know, so it gets that
(09:41):
severe where but they drove overnight staff that's overwhelmed and
they bail out.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's not the case here, but they got your body
count over you know, like when you take off out
of lax or Burbank, they know how many people are
on that plane.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
They got to do the same thing there.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Yeah, I mean, who knows, maybe she was in the
bathroom and they missed her, you know as they were
counting and going through and who who knows, We don't
know yet, but but she was left behind and luckily
they came upon her.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
They deserve an Adda boy and an Ada girl for that.
I hope they get big plaques. Yeah, put he's Alconis
and Martinez. Yeah, yeah, they definitely did it.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
But there were so many, I mean, whether it be
sheriffs or LAPD or county fire or city fire, or
medics or Southern California Edison Cruise or you know, everybody
in there.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Everybody was doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, that's great that that she's out and she's one.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Hundred years old.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
One hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, man, oh man, what a life.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Without those hearing aids in She couldn't hear the yelling
to get out.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, maybe it was the sheriff's knocking that got her
hearing all crazy, you know, that made her like, you know,
because they My grandfather he couldn't hear it all, but
he could hear knocking and pinging, you know, like the
vibration of it. Maybe that's what helped drop.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Buddy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I appreciate you coming on. Alex Stone. Everybody nice to
see above.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Have a great trash night, can tell you tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I love the fact that we share the same trash knight.
You know, exacted something common here. Okay, all right, Alex Stone,
everybody that is great.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
All right, Ding dong with that. Dude.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
When we come back, we have one thousand bucks that
we can give away. Maybe you're gonna win, you know,
one thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Woo.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
All right, we'll come back and do that.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We got a lot more show, including Patrick O'Neill's coming
on with us. He's the voice of one of the
guys there with the La Kings, Doctor ray Ka Sherry
at six oh five. He helped us out with COVID
and Tuola Sharp at six thirty five.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's too much show. It's almost too much. You know,
we got a lot of great guests coming up.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty steps.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
What would you do with one thousand dollars? Somebody laid
a grand on you? What would you do? Think about it?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Pay a couple of bills and maybe get some gummies.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay, you're here, hey, three D House of Honesty. Right,
that's great. What's your favorite gummy? How many milligrams?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
I usually do?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Ten minute, ten milligram?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh wow, they call those elephant tranquilizers. God a mighty
ten milligrams. Yeah wow, man, I take it half a milligram.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I'm on the moon.
Speaker 13 (12:14):
Well, they're also like the ones that I used to get,
were like to help you to sleep forever.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Woof ten milligrams? Those are expensive, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, the ten milligram ones have got to be what
twenty bucks a shot?
Speaker 13 (12:29):
Well, no, each camp or each little tin is uh?
I think like twenty five dollars and you get ten
of them?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh you get ten ten milligrams, you get a hundred
milligrams or twenty five bucks. I didn't know them.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, I might be taking the wrong things then, I
don't know I'm taking a They're called flintstones, you know, flintstone,
no flintstone don ed.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And they sell them.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Like that, and I thought, okay, they don't work for
me though, because I get too paranoid. I take one
and I think that, you know, the FBI is going
to be on the front porch, so I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Weed. Its one of those things I can't do. I
always get paranoid. I always think that the how it's
going to burn down, I won't be able to get out.
We'll be able to get family out.
Speaker 13 (13:13):
It's one of those things where you have to find
your find your level. Because I was like that too
in the beginning.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh you were yeah, oh okay, all right, well I'm
glad there's hope. Then I didn't know that you were.
You were anxious and wild at the beginning.
Speaker 13 (13:25):
Yeah, but I also I also made the mistake that
you plowed through it though, right.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (13:30):
My friend was like she was she was eating a
week cookie and she had half of it and She's like,
all right, just have half. And I didn't know dosage
is then, and I took that and I could my
heart could barely stay in my chest.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It was bad. And I was like, oh, okay, this
is you have to take like little bites of it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'll tell you a quick story here that I was
unable to tell when Robin Berdlucci is here because she
would not let me tell the story of the air.
And I always told this story as if I was
a kala sex doing it, but actually happened right here.
When I first started here on kfive, Aaron Bender was
the news guy and somebody gave me a gummy before
the show and I didn't take it. I didn't feel like,
(14:12):
you know, when you're just starting here, he should be,
you know, completely bombed when you're on the air. And
so a couple of days later, I was like, Okay,
maybe I'll take it, what the hell? And I took
half of it and didn't work, and I took the
other half. Bang about an hour into the show, I'm
flipping out.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
I am.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I don't know how many get through the next two hours.
I think that every time somebody opens a mic, they're
saying something that get him fired or something, you know,
sexual connotation. And I'm like, oh, no, Angel, you shouldn't
say you know, oh no, oh no, no, Bender shouldn't
say that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I was getting all crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And then Bender gets on the on the on the
PA here on the intercom with me and during the
commercial break, and he was buddy, yeah, yeah, what's going on?
Are you going to talk about it? What about being
on gummies? He says, no, no, no, I don't know what
you're on. We just had an earthquake and I thought
(15:11):
it was just me on gummies. I didn't know that
we actually had an earthquake. And so now I've got
to come back on and for the next two hours
like take phone calls from people who are affected by
this earthquake. It was like a four point eight or something.
And then every commercial break, I'd call home to see
if my wife and daughter were Okay. That's the last
(15:33):
gummy I took. That was a wrap that was in
twenty ten, and that was it. I learned my lesson
and I said I'm never doing that again. And I
said yeah, I said, God, if you get me through
this night, I will never take another gummy. And I
don't the guy I have. I have not gone the
gummy route, but I respect people that do the gummies.
(15:55):
I think everybody that's on them has a great time,
and it's just a little thing to have when you
go home. You know, you don't have to have the
bong and the smoke and the cherry popping out and
causing you know, all kinds of scars on your on
your tables and your rug and your chairs and all
that kind of crap. I'd like to get back into gummies.
(16:16):
I just don't know if I can. I don't think
I'm built for gummies. I'm just not built that way.
I don't know, just not a gummy guy. Crows, are
you in the gummies?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
You take it all?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
On the weekends and kind of like what stuff says.
Sometimes at night I take a little indigo one.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Helps me sleep really well through the night.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Maybe I gotta get back into it. Angel the Queen
of Gummies. You still on them gummy.
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Queen's bottom right now?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Are you all gummed up?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
All gummed up?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Man, all those Hawaii Hawaiian freeways.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
That's right, that's probably I should probably take a few
more and I'd be able to pronounce those words better.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Do you do you take gummies?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Well you don't have.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You don't have to say, you don't have to say,
but your silence speaks a lot.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
You know. I would ask Belly, Oh.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
She takes him, but she's at a gummy convention in Denver?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Oh is she?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, she's all gummed up in the Denver All right.
When we come back, we got a lot going on,
Doctor Ray, because Cherry's coming on at six oh five.
So if you got to go, you know, I don't
get gummies. Whatever you do, you got to be back
by six oh five. He's great. The CDC is warning
(17:34):
a high level of respiratory illness. You got to be
aware of that. Patrick O'Neill is coming on at five o'clock.
He's with the La Kings. I love that guy. We
talk hockey. Plus, he was allowed to return to his
home in Malibu and it's still smoldering three weeks later,
still smoldering, so we'll talk to him as well. Lot
(17:55):
going on. Plus I think Drew Dowdy's coming back with
the La Kings. He's not out the whole season with
an ankle or some kind of you know, leg injury.
All right, we've got a lot going on here. Keep
it on KFI. Really appreciate it. Yesterday, if you were
listening to the program, we were voted number one talk
show in the entire nation. So if you're listening to
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KFI between four and seven, it's because of you. You
guys made us number one. So thank you, thank you,
thank you. According to Barrett News, which is the bible
of talk radio and all around AM and FM radio,
every all the program directors and people got together and
they voted this show number one in the entire nation.
A lot of syndicated shows out there, so we really
(18:37):
appreciate that you guys doing that, So thank you whoever
voted for us, and whoever didn't, please walk first next year.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Hey, congratulations to Dave Weeese, who's a big party for
him upstairs. He was responsible for millions of dollars and
millions of piece of clothing and food donated to the
Dream Center. And there's a big party for him upstairs
earlier today and and that was a that was a
(19:10):
cool deal. So Dave Weese, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
A lot of people.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Everybody got together in the red room here and had
some really cool Mexican food. Where was that food from, Leslie?
You know, you don't know. Yeah, I know, that's where
I asked you I was from. She said she didn't know.
But Leslie, who is in sales. She's in here. God
only knows why.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But she started talking to me, thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Guardrail's gone.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, So she started talking to me when I was
upstairs in line getting food, and then she started putting
food on her own plane. She cut the line by
like twelve people. She cut the line by twelve people,
Like well, Leslie, she had no idea how a line works,
you know, no idea at all. So all right we
have You know, back in the old days, if you
(19:59):
had springinklers on your house, you're the crazy guy on
the block, right, the crazy guy on the block. If
you had a generator, you are the crazy guy, you know,
the end of the earth, the apocalyptic guy that the
whole world's.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Going to come to an end.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
If you had a bunker in your house, crazy, crazy, crazy, right,
If you had twenty five year food supply, you're the
crazy guy now now, totally normal behavior. They sell it
at Costco. Now, I saw it last night, twenty five
year shelf life food for six for a month. I
(20:35):
think it's like, I don't know, eighty bucks or whatever.
And people always look at it and then they start
reading the ingredients. Well, when the whole city's on fire
and everybody's moving because of the earthquake and everybody's shaking,
you don't care what's.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
In that box. You'll eat it. You'll eat it.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You look now at the ingredients because you're at Costco
at five point thirty on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
But when all the buildings have.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Collapsed around you, you'll just start eating whatever in that
box and you'll enjoy it. But but Krazer, you know,
ten years ago or twenty years ago, I've been telling
people to get generated forever, and everyone always thought I
was crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
And that's fine. I get that all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But now a guy who has a generator is like
the stud on the block.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You know you want to be that guy, don't you think?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah, I I've been delaying getting one myself.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, you gotta get one.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, I keep looking at them. They're inexpensive.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Now, Yeah, I see.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
The ones in Costco, and I'm like, oh, we gotta
get that one. We've got to invest a little bit
in that thing.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, they're like four or five hundred bucks. You can
get a nice step generator.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's when you.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Get one of the ones that has the solar panels
that you know you can go with it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh, that's the battery operated one of those are the
battery packs.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah, yeah, because I won't run out of sun, but
I could run out of gas.
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
But you also, I mean you plug anything into one
of those uh you know, solar packs and buries it.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
You know, it's in their phones off of the thing.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, you can't put a heater on or anything.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
You know, you put one heat like a space heater on, gone,
really no power nothing. So you got to get if
you want power for a while, you got to get
a step generator where it only puts out the amount
of power you use, so it saves you a lot
of gas. Like old old generators used to run on
full blast the whole time, you know, eight thousand RPMs,
and you'd hear them all over the block. Whenever the
(22:24):
lights go out. It sounds like an airplane's landing on
your street.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I'm not fastidious enough though, to keep gas like in
the shed or something like that, because gas goes bad.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, gas goes bad, you're right.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
That's why you can take it to an auto parts
store and dump it, you know, like every six months
or three months or whatever.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I don't know that I'm that good about that stuff. Yeah,
that's what I Almos puts it in my head the
whole time. It's like, man, I got to replace that
gas every six months for something that I may never
use while I'm here.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Right, And you got to You got to burn the
gas out that's in it so the gas doesn't sit
in it. Yeah, So that's why you got to get
a That's why you gotta get a whole house generator
if you got that kind of dough because it runs
off natural gas. It runs off the gas that comes
in through the street, and it'll be on forever. And
we've had ours for I don't know, we've had ours
for maybe four years, and I think I've used it
(23:11):
maybe five times. But the one time we did use
it is like six hours and the lights flicker, all
the lights go back on the house.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And we're good to go.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It's great, and you got to turn it on. It's
not automatic.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
You know it's automatic. Oh it is.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, as soon as the lights go off, it's about
three seconds of dark and then bang it hits and
everything is back to normal.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Completely normal.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
But if you do have a generator, I also recommend
a shotgun because if your house is the only house
lit up in the block, they're coming to get your stuff.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Oh, your neighbors are no longer your neighbors. That's right,
your competition.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Although you know, the generator I have produces so much
more power than we need that I can literally take
an extension court and give it to my neighbor and
he can power up over there. And I think he
feels bad about doing that, But I.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Remember growing up with my dad like that when he
was power listen in an apartment. Oh is that right,
borrowing the extension court, coming out, going into the guy
next door.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
He said, that's how he's a great. Look, all right,
we'll come back. I'm going to talk to you about
a company that does this, and it's it's the fence
system too, or whatever it is. But there's a couple
of companies that do this where you have a literally
like frontline protection does it where they come out and
they put sprinklers on your home. And again ten years
(24:28):
ago lunatic with the sprinklers on the house. Nowadays guy
who's in his house, smart guy. So we'll come back.
I'm going to tell you the details on how to
put sprinklers on your house. There's some companies that do it.
I wouldn't do it on your own. You know, when
you mess with water and putting on your roof, that
can go squirrely about a billion different ways, and you
(24:48):
don't want that because the insurance company is not going
to cover you when you try to put your house
into the sprinkler system. They're going to look at you
and cancel you, or you know, move on.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
We'll come back.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm going to tell you about sprinkler on houses because
I think that's the way of the future. If we
lived in a normal society where the fire department showed
up and the hydrants who were working, we wouldn't have
to do this.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
We live in a city.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
We live in a part of other world where sometimes
the hydrants don't work. Sometimes it gets very windy, and
you've got to be proactive now to save your house.
We've all learned that over the last month.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
You're listening to Tim conwaytunire on Demayo from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Doctor Ray Casherry, who's one of our favorite guests, is
coming on at six zh five. Patrick O'Neill, who's one
of our newer guests but quickly becoming a favorite guests,
is on at five oh five. And Tuala Sharp, I've
known forever, is one of my favorite dudes. I think
he's the last honest guy in radio. He's coming on
at six thirty five talk about the Los Angeles mission.
(25:48):
They've got a great event going on, so we'll talk
about that for Altadena, and so it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's a lot going on, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The houses that survived, a lot of them had a
sprinkler system on their home. And again, twenty years ago,
that's the odd guy in the neighborhood. Now it's the
smart guy in the neighborhood. So times have change. Times
have change. Let's find out more information on how to
do this, how to potentially save your home in the future.
Speaker 12 (26:18):
I think everybody's saying we need to learn to build differently,
and some people got that message decades ago when they
had their home destroyed. Other people looking at why is
this house standing in this one not? And I think
there's a lot to learn here on how we construct
our homes and how they fare in a wildfire.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
She's right, she's right. Listen to this woman, she's right.
Speaker 12 (26:36):
Well, in some cases those steps started with how the
home was built. Others it's extra protection that came after.
Their strategies appear to have helped them avoid catastrophe. They
stand out amidst the devastation and the palace somehow made
it through the firestorm. Kelly Klein's house in Malibu wasn't
one of them.
Speaker 14 (26:54):
No firemen ever showed that at all.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Oh, that's got to be the worst. The fireman never
ever show up. Between the time you're exiting your house
and it burned to the ground, you never saw a fireman.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
There's no fireman, there's no help.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
So these houses were just sacrificed.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
But right next door, Klein's neighbor's home is still standing
and we walked around it. I don't see any damage.
Speaker 15 (27:17):
No, it's like a green oasis in the middle of
a war zone.
Speaker 12 (27:21):
Harry Statter founded Frontline Wildfire Defense System, one of a
growing number.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Of companies that what's the name of the company.
Speaker 12 (27:27):
Harry Statter founded Frontline Wildfire Defense System, one of a
growing number of companies that will install a sophisticated sprinkler
setup on your home. As we first reported back in
twenty twenty three, Frontline created an app that can deploy
the sprinklers and fire retardant even if you're not home.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oh how about that?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You can watch your app and then when the fire
gets closed, you can turn the sprinkler zon Man, oh Man.
Speaker 15 (27:54):
If a customer enables that, then our software platform will
detect fire relative to the location of your home, and
it'll also detects win gus and fuel conditions, and it'll
activate your system on your behalf. So when ember's land
on those materials, whether it be patio furniture, front door mats,
adjacent plant fuels, they're in a condition that's too.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Wet to burn.
Speaker 12 (28:16):
Starting at about five hundred dollars a month, the system
is far from cheap.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But it has okay, all right, So if it's five
hundred dollars a month, I imagine you'd also get a
discount from your insurance company that may come close to that.
I don't know, but you're going to get some kind
of discount. I believe, you know, if the if you
can prove to your insurance company that you're taking extra
steps to protect your house, there's got to be some
kind of discount. Hell, we get discounts if my daughter
(28:42):
gets a B in a class, So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 12 (28:46):
Starting at about five hundred dollars a month, five.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Hundred bucks a month, six thousand dollars a year, I
don't know how you look and if you're if you
got that kind of money and you're not spending it
on trying to protect your house, I don't know where
it's going. I don't know where it's going. The house
is the most important thing I think we a lot
of us have learned.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
In our lives.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Even if you own, like let's say you own the
Lakers or a big shopping mall, or you have a
private jet, still your home is more valuable, I think
than a lot of those other assets because that's where
you've had Thanksgivings and birthdays, you know, births, new people
have come into the family, you've had you know, people
have pressed on who've been to that house. And a
(29:29):
house after a while becomes part of the family, and
I think we we've learned in the last month. We
got to do everything we can to try to save it.
Speaker 12 (29:37):
The system is far from cheap, but it has Kelly
Klein's attention.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
Very surprised that any house could make it through that.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Okay, five hundred dollars a month, that's one hundred and
twenty five dollars a week. That's probably close to what
you spend at Starbucks. If you're getting two drinks a day,
that's what twelve fifteen dollars a day.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's it's close. You know what. Let's say you spend
twenty bucks a day.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
You got kids, your wife, you know, husband, whatever, You're
spending twenty dollars a day at Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
That happens.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I know people that do that. That's one hundred and
forty dollars a week. That's more than what this system costs.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
Will you build differently, I mean I would put the
frontline system clearly. I think absolutely have to build differently.
I think mostly everybody who's going to rebuild will build
with fire safety in mind.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I think that's right. I think what he just said
right here is something that everybody, if it's not on
the top of your mind, it certainly is close.
Speaker 14 (30:39):
Everybody who's going to rebuild will build with fire safety
in mind.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Definitely.
Speaker 11 (30:44):
We have a cement floor all the way through this
whole level. We have the slate which is also in
our bathrooms, in our showers and things, the cinder block
and the cinder block, and then we have our beautiful metal.
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Fireplace Nancy and Jim Evans designed there.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Sounds like he's living at the Flintstones House. Everything's cement
and the cinder.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
Block, and then we have our beautiful metal fireplace.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Altho way, I never thought about this, but the Flintstones
House was probably fireproof. It was made out of slate,
it was made out of rock. The whole thing probably
heavy as hell, especially the roof.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
Nancy and Jim Evans designed their home in the hills
above Malibu based on the trauma of losing their first
one in the Old Topanga Fire of nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oh my god, can you imagine that you lost a
house in the Tapanga fire and then you got caught
up in this fire.
Speaker 12 (31:34):
It consumed everything, including the valuable artwork Jim had created
over the course of his career.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
The devastation for me personally was like just like sucked
a piece of my shol out.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
It took us over two years to rebuild.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
It was kind of a revenge house where we decided
we're going to build on the same spot where we're
going to build a fortress.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
Their architect framed the fortress entirely of steel. Every door
is made of metal. The very few pieces of wood
inside are purely decorative. When the Palisades fire roared into
their neighborhood, nearly every structure here was destroyed or damaged.
It burned up to the Evans front door.
Speaker 9 (32:13):
Nothing defended this house. There were no water drops, There
was nobody with a hose. This house just like sat
here in the middle of the surrounded by fire.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
But their home was essentially untouched.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, but you know that's expensive. You know, to have
everything in your house built with cement and steel, that's
really expensive. That's a lot more than five hundred bucks
a month. That's you know, a half million dollars in upgrades.
At least untouched.
Speaker 15 (32:41):
There's a few places where the glass is cracked on
a couple of windows, but by and large it held
up really, really well.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
This time.
Speaker 12 (32:49):
The Evans home and Gym's aren't survived, but both their
hearts are breaking for so many neighbors who have so
much work ahead of them.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, I think we look, we just live in a
crazy time. Frontline Wildfire dot Com is one of the
companies that does that. And you know, sprinklers on the house.
Don't try to do that yourself. That's not to do
it yourself project. That could lead to a tremendous disaster, flooding, moisture, mildew,
(33:19):
black guy, you know, toxins, black mildew, black boss, all
that stuff. You know, it's just not don't do that yourself.
Have a professional to it anyway. All right, we got
to take a break when we got a lot of
guests coming on. Patrick O'Neil with the La Kings, he's
coming on with us. He is he has a house
in Malibu, an old family home that's still smoldering three
(33:42):
weeks later, still smoldering.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
What's going on.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
It's right on the ocean too, I mean literally feet
away from quadrillions of gallons of water. Feet away. We're
live on KFIX Conway Show on the on the iHeartRadio app.
Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
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