February 13, 2025 • 33 mins
Guest: Petros Papadakis continued... / Heavy inch rain in the San Fernando Valley.
Guest: Dean Sharp talks about roofing and vents and about home insurance companies and the dreaded process of it all. // Malibu is experiencing a flash flood warning/ Joann Fabrics closing down
Guest: Dean Sharp talks about roofing and vents and about home insurance companies and the dreaded process of it all. // Malibu is experiencing a flash flood warning/ Joann Fabrics closing down
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. And we got
a lot of rain going on, lots of rain. Before
we get back to Petros, let me give you some
storm totals here. People are interested in totals, and I've
got them for you here, at least some of them.
We got nord Off Ridge or nord Hoff they called
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it Ridge. They put an extra a letter in there.
Five and a quarter inches, Porter Ranch three inches, pacady
in a two inches, Downtown La two inches, and Northridge
inch and a half. That's a lot of rain that's
not over either of me. No continues flash flooding, eat
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an area, and all throughout the Inland Empire there's Mede,
a lot of firemen, a lot of cops up late
tonight dealing with this, and Petros papadecas joins us from
it from I guess five seventy am Sports or whatever
you call it, You guess what do you call it?
That was? What? What is?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The flip and attitude on this show? Buddy, buddy, buddy,
you know we love him. Try Charles grodon me but
let me let me ask Bellio something. I'm gonna ask
Bellius a question here off on the air, still wearing
her beanie. Yeah, she's got that. We're inside now, Yeah,
but now my hair's messed up. Yeah, there's a there's
(01:23):
a there's a bit of a slew over the cuckoo's
nest thing myself. Yeah, it's kind of got that. Uh
uh o. J wore a cat last man.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah. See, I thought you'd like look like she'd be
playing prize picks with Conway.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, yeah, we did that. All it's one flow over
the cuckoo's nest time over here. Yeah, that was it.
But let me ask you a question, Bob Bell Belly,
I'm buck right Belly. Who do I ask you more
often than any other guests to come on every day? Right? Yes? Okay?
And Petros it's now in your court. Any comments.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, I just thought the way you handled my my
very first attempt at an La River stand up was
less than you know, proplamentary.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, But I think you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Know, I mean, I doubt that that is how you
cat about it. I doubt Pat Hayden treated Jim Everett
like that would he arrived for your beloved La Ram,
your quarterback.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think what my client is saying is for someone
who makes such a big deal about trying to get
him on the air, and you most favorite guest that
if he feels you roughed him.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Up a little bit on the stand upright, Well, look
if he didn't half ass that video, I wouldn't. I mean,
it was on a whim.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I decided to make the left.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
There a lot of the left. That's classic, buddy. So
is the rain gone from your area of the woods? Well,
I don't know. I'm here on with you sitting through
commercial breaks. Do you have any windows, any access to windows.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm in a basement with my lizard, and I don't
have one car tune on, I have two of them.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh, you really have a lizard? Or is that a
I have a lizard?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Is I have a lizard tricked out with like you know, like,
oh yeah, you'd imagine the sports den kind of comra.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well sports, I don't have any sports Well I do
have some trophies and such, but uh, it's mostly just
you know, obscure things that I like.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
How big is your lizard? She's pretty big.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Now she's getting big. She's she's longer than my forearm
to the end of my hand. She's a big lizard.
She's only about two years old. But I love I
love the lizard.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What's the lizard's name?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Travis McGhee, after the detective from the John McDonald books
of the sixties.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Wow, Travis McGhee. Travis McGhee.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I I there was a party, a Christmas exchange party
for some local yuppie types around here, and uh, one
guy gave another guy a lizard, and the guy didn't
want the lizard, and I could see the lizard.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Was cold, and I took possession of the lizard. And
how long will that lizard live? Uh? Pretty long? I guess.
Can it stick? Can it go out of its cage?
Or it's glass? Oh? Yeah, she moves around. She leremy teeth.
It's a bearded dragon. Oh I've seen those before. Yeah.
They eat worms and crickets. Yeah, and that cucumbers, right,
And the kids like it? They don't. Everybody loves Travis McGee.
(04:21):
Does Travis bite anybody? There are no teeth again, I
gotta track this conversation better.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Why don't you go over to the Jim Henson thing
and see if Kermit the Frog has he?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I was I was in Hawaii when Jim Henson died
and the morning newspaper came and in big letters like
we just won World War two. On the front cover
of the Honolulu Gazette whatever that paper is called, it
says Jim Henderson died. I'm like, who's Jim Henderson? Do
he beats true?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Man?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
He changes the culture in the misspellous name. Ten to
fifteen years is the average lifeman of a bearded dragon.
Some live up to twenty years.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Wow. Yeah, they're they're pretty sturdy little lizards. It looks
like having a little dinosaur. And I've never been like
a reptile guy. I mean, you see, I don't wear
a leather vest or have a ponytail or wear a
black new Balance into the station ever. But I just
ended up with this reptile. I'm very allergic to dogs
and cats. So it's a nice diversion for the family.
(05:22):
And I keep the lizard and care for it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Do you keep it? And so it comes out of
the cage. How often do you play with your lizard?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
At least daily.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well, they say it's bad for your lizard, and you're
prostate if you don't.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Wow, they lump your doctor lump both those in together. Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
The Lizard is very calming, you know, right, because after
I take my kids just you ever see the last
scene and Predator sure where, Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the
Mayan Chick or whatever is in the helicopter and they're
you know, they've seen hell. You know it's been a
terrible ordeal, right, and they just fly away.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The music plays and the credits roll.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
That's how I am after I dropped the kids off
for school every morning. So what I like to do is,
you know, I spend a little time at the Lizard
and it calms me down.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's really that's a cool thing, and it's improved your
life without a doubt. Quality quality of life is soaring
over here. Did you come into work today or did
you stay home? You saw me? Okay? But did you?
Did you? Mark? I don't think I did. Yes, you did?
You actually interacted with him? When? When did I interact
with him? On his way out? He said, I'm gonna
talk to you later. I never I never saw very
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Oh it's possible.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
It's possible it was belly O and I saw you.
Maybe Tim came in after that? Yeah, sorry, Tim's right.
He came in after that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All three of you are wrong. But Petros, how long
did it take you to get home today? With this riting?
To pet Stampedro?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know, we live in a society of very frightened,
cowardly people, that's right, and I am among them. Okay,
But that being said, uh, when it I mean, there's
less people on the roads when it rains, you know,
you have all the work from home.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
People be like, I'm not coming in it's raining, you.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Know, so so the traffic, you know, it kind of
evens itself out traffic and lack of people on the roads.
But but yeah, you know what happened to me. I was, uh,
I was driving under the one ten one oh five underpass,
and I wore some huge like wash from.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
A car way above me.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah no, And it was like just like full chaos
for like one and a half second there. I couldn't
see anything, you know, it was like my car fell
into Lake Erie.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That's why you should have pulled over and gone to
that hustler casino it's right there. I would have had
to flip.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, I would have had I could have just continued
on down and then gotten off on Rosecrans it's funny
that that's the first thing he thinks of.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Mark.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah, that's not really Actually, I just spent some time
with him. It's pretty much on brand old. Uh what
was it Larry Flint's casino. Yeah, but there just a
notch above Bob Guccioni in the world of perference.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Buddy, I always think he was a.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Free speech champion. Tim, you can tell Petros no doubt. Yeah,
Petros is the best man. Hey, come back on with
us if you can tomorrow, that'd be great, dude.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What's tomorrow Friday? Friday? I'll do it. Do you have
a short show early show? Pether flex alert or flex
flex alert?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Okay, understand our schedule on my radio show is to
understand like Falker's pendulum like it is not. Are you
planning on filing another report by another watershed kind of
in the area. You know, now that I've been so
ill treated, I might consider it. You know, I feel
(08:53):
I mean, you know what it's like, you know, Tim,
and I don't, But you know, you know, you know
about the competition between whether people and I feel like
you know, yeah, I'm the young guy that just showed
up at the NBC and you know, step to Fritz.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Coleman a little bit yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And Fritz, you know, is a little bit of his
glasses are a bit fogged up over the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Time for you to h It's time for the new blood,
time for the new John. All right, thank you, buddy.
There he goes Petoes Pepadega's you can't love him. I
love that dude. We're live, we come back. We'll talk
to Dean Sharp. We're talking about the weather. What's going on.
I got a construction story to tell this guy. Dean
Sharp is the best We've got. All this rain we're
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covering as well. The storm is left Los Angeles. It's
on its way to Orange County, on its way to
the Inland Empire, up to Big Bear, Running Springs, Arrowhead, Bear, Arrow,
whatever those communities are called up there. They always have
a combination of names.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This storm is headed up there. And now it's gonna
the cold front has come through the valley. It's gonna
get colder and you're gonna get a lower snow level
well up in the mountains. Then you had all day.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
We have a weather warning for people in Rancho Cuca, Manga, Chino, Pomona, Glendora,
all the way out in Fontana, Riverside, mar Loma, Sunny Slope,
all those areas are going to get pounded by this rain.
It's on its way to you guys out there, San Berndino,
Crestline again, Riverside, Corona, Norco. All this rain that we've
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been experiencing all day is on its way or already there.
And so Mission Viejo down South Laguna, Miguel, Dana Point,
San Clemente, You're gonna get a lot of it as well.
Irvine Bellio is getting just worked right now. I got
a red spot right over Irvine, which means more than
an inch an hour. Huntington Beach is getting slammed as
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well off the coast. So it's not over yet. It's
to continue in the Inland Empire and in south of
you know, Orange County, Orange County, South Los Angeles County.
It's going to continue periodically throughout the night. But the
big storm right now is coming into the inland Empire, Temecula, Hemmet,
Riverside and the Big Bear area. All right, Dean Sharp
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is whether it's Dean I think that you know, with
that quick dam that you turned me on to a
couple of years ago, I bought a couple of those
and it really sort of saved our garage. I think
that is a game changer when it comes to people
who are maybe in their sixties, seventies, and eighties. They
can't afford to lift up these forty or fifty pound
you know, sand bags and to have that quick dam
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where you can just lay it down. It weighs maybe
a pound to pound and a half and it expands
as it gets wet. I think that's a sensational product.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I think it is literally one of the most brilliant inventions.
And it's really what it is the adaptation of diaper technology.
It's no is k Is laughing. No, it's true. That's
what's inside those you know it. That's why essentially, just
so everybody knows. You know, you know how light a
diaper is, and you know how much water a diaper
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can hold. Right, So imagine this long tube that you
roll out. It weighs you know, maybe a pound. You'll
roll that out, lay it in front of a door
threshold where you get frequent flooding or the garage door
or whatever the case may be. And then you just
wait for the water to show up. And when it does,
the first round of water that hits that thing, it
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absorbs it, it expands, it gets super heavy, and now
it's a sandbag, and now it's blocking out the rest
of the water. It is literally the kind of thing
that anybody can deploy. I mean, if you are in
any way ambulatory, you can lay these things out and
protect those critical areas.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And we found out yesterday Bellio did some research that
once they you know, the storm is gone, they dry
up and you can reuse them.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
They do, they should as soon as they they kind
of shrink back down again.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Wow. Yeah, they're amazing. But I think there's only one
company I heard of that does it. I mean it's
called Quick Damn. I've not seen anybody try to rip
them off or repeat it.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I don't know that anybody can right now. They may
have a patent that still hasn't expired yet. So yeah,
I mean they've cornered the market on house diapers.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
We live in southern California, where you know, we get
these evens, we get these occasional rains like we had today,
We get really hot summers, we get a lot of
wind and it really beats the hell out of our roof.
I called a guy today who runs ABI Construction. His
name is Levi, and he very a terrific guy. He's
got nothing but five star reviews, which is really tough
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in the roofing game. But he was telling me today
that the guarantee on roofs it's no longer ten or
fifteen years. If you go the high end, which isn't
much more expensive than you know, the mid range, that
you can get a fifty year guarantee. I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Oh yeah, it's actually I would say right now, your
typical kind of mid range asphalt composite roof normally has
like a twenty five to thirty year warranty, and the
high end stuff is yeah, fifty years plus.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's a lot.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
It is a lot. These are great materials being used.
They're fantastic materials. They are, by the way, fire rated
as well. They last an awful long time. Yeah, your roof,
your new asphalt composite roof, is not your dad's roof,
and it certainly ain't your grandpa's roof. It's a very
It may look very similar but it's a completely different animal.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And I was again talking to about leave. I had
like a half hour discussion about roofs. We may need
some help around the house, but he was talking about
the roof. The underlayment is not paper anymore, that they've
moved to a composite, and I think that is what
really helps the life of the roof absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Now.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
There are still some roofers out there who will throw down,
you know, roofing paper, right but I'll tell you that
we have not specked that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Or done that for I don't know how long.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I like a good self ceiling, like a bit amus
or a rubberized membrane, and there are so many versions
of it out there. You can find them on the
shelf at home depot right now. And what I'm talking
about is not a paper, not an asphalt embedded paper,
but a roll good that's got a little stretched to it,
which means that it can expand and contract in hot
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and cold weather, and the edges self seal onto the
next sheet. So by the time lay that, all those
courses of this and it's about a four foot wide roll,
so it's not a lot of courses, but by the
time you've laid all the courses of your underlying membrane out,
and before you lay the first shingle down, you have
essentially a single waterproof layer with no seams on it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Wow, for the entire roof. That's great. I mean that
kind of you know, synthetic roofing paper. I think Owen's
Corning makes you a version of that. But I mean,
so once you've laid that down, the synthetic what what
you know, replaced roof paper, you almost have a completely
watered sealed roof before you even put the tiles on.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
No, let me correct you you have oh, you don't
completely water sealed roof before at that point the tiles.
You could look at it in one sense that the
tiles are only there to protect that roofing membrane from
UV damage from the sun.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Wow. Now when it comes to and again a lot
of people have roofing issues, So I wanted to ask
you some questions. When you vent a roof, the roof
used to be vented, you know, just sort of like
a as a matter of fact, the roof never used
to be vented. And now what there's a strip along
the top of it that they told me not to
stand on, because that's where it vents off the top
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of the roof. Is that still happening.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
That's probably the most common application right now of a
new asphalt composite roof. And it's what we call the
ridge vent, the double double riod vent. And the reason
you don't stand on is because it's a it's a
it's usually some kind of abs uh platform there that
isn't really designed to have a lot of weight pushing
down in one spot, but it will last forever the
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life of the roof. And all it does is ever
so slightly elevate those ridge singles just up above. You
can barely see it as a vent, but it's a vent,
and it's super effective event because it runs the entire
length of the ridges of your roofline. And because of that,
all you need then are low vents down low in
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order to get the convection flowing properly inside the attic.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
All right, Dean sharks with us. He's going to stay
with us here. We'll come back and talk about dealing
with insurance companies with property damage. And there's a lot
of different layers to that, and Dean Sharp will tell
us exactly what is going on ton WAYN Thompson. We're
keeping an eye on the rain. It's headed towards the
Inland Empire. It's probably already there. You're probably already getting soaked.
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But this is the storm that we got about an
hour and a half ago. Now you're getting it. It's
going into South Orange County between six and nine pm.
South Orange County, mid and North Orange County is going
to get the same rain we got and it's a lot.
It's heavy, and it's a lot. Be aware of the
flooding that's going to go on.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty Conwayshell.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Before we get to Dean Shark, there was a car
that's flooded hand.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Of the right here in this underground park at one
point was a cascading mess going into this garage.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's probably two or three.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Feet deep when you get down in there. And all
along this curb here we had a number of vehicles
that were parked when this debris started coming down. Many
of them got shoved into each other. They have since
been pulled out and taken away to another site.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
But look up.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Sunset here you can see how all of this debris
came down here and half of the street was closed
because of this. The PD got here as quickly as
they could started shutting off intersections so people wouldn't unexpectedly
start driving into this mess. Right now, things have started
to subside, thank god. We haven't had any rain in
the last forty five minutes to an hour, but you
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can see the mess that's been left behind. They've been
bringing in heavy equipment here and there and just trying
to clear a path so vehicles can get in and out.
But if more rain starts coming down later, Micah, I
think this mess is just going to grow.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's the worst, all right. Dean Sharp is with us.
Dean you can hear every single Saturday on KF five
from six to eight am and on Sunday from nine
am until noon. Now, Dean, you know dealing with insurance
companies and property damage. You know, what's the real nature
of that and how difficult has your experience been in
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the past. Is that something you would deal with or
the homeowners would deal with?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Well, it's something that we've been asked to help homeowners with, Okah,
for sure. You know we've got clients who've had claims
and such and they're like.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Dean, what do we do?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
And so, yeah, what's the real nature of that relationship?
You know, insurance companies are a weird thing. It's a
weird system because you know they're there to help protect you.
You've paid them a bunch of money. Unfortunately though, and
I'm not being overly cynical. I'm just telling you the
truth here, and I don't want you to be a
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jerk about it, but just understand the nature of it.
When it comes time to make a claim, the adjuster,
nice as he may be, is there to do one thing,
primarily contractually, get you handled, but with the lowest possible payout.
That's what insurance adjusters are about. They don't want to
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have to pay out too much. And so what happens is,
I don't want to say it's outright, you know, well,
it's misdirection, is what it is. Because the insurance company
will come in and say, well, hey, and you know
we've got contractors that are on our approved list working
with them. You'll be able to fast track a lot
of this stuff and get it done faster. And you
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know what I'll tell you right now, No, don't go
that way. And it's not that those contractors are actually
technically working for the insurance company. But you got to
jump through a lot of hoops to get on that list,
and by the time you're on that list, your primary
income is from the insurance company. Oh and so that
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means you are going to do what the insurance company
wants you to do in regards to this client. And
those are not the contractors we want bidding and estimating
and calculating your damage.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Right like it seems to me. And again I'm not
speaking with any knowledge of any firsthand knowledge, but just
to the lay person, if a construction company is approved
by an insurance company, they're looking to, perhaps, you know,
please the insurance company more than the homeowner and the contractor.
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Is the exact opposite in the free market, That's exactly
the case. That's exactly the case. You have to look
at any business and say, well, you know, where where
is their line of income coming from? Is it from
pleasing this client?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
You know, have we built a reputation by satisfying our
clients or have we built a reputation by pleasing the
insurance company? And the contractors that are on the approved
lists have built their reputation, and they stay on those
lists by pleasing the insurance company, and that is rarely
in a client's best interest.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Right Like when we had we had a water damage
in my daughter's bathroom and it flooded out her bathroom
and then also a closet, and I called our insurance company.
We filed a claim and they said they would do
it for free if they're a contractor could do it.
And I said, nah, I said, give me whatever you'll
give me, and I'll pay a contractor that I know
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that we'll do it on my end. And I had
to pay another you know, nine or ten thousand dollars,
and I felt like the quality of the job was
going to be what I wanted it to be.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Well, that's true, But also my concern is for the
claim itself. In most cases, looking outside of that circle
to independent contractors and or a public insurance adjuster, or
even if you're experiencing really bad issues of damaged law attorney,
looking outside that circle will ensure that the size of
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the claim itself is handled. And what I mean by
that is, all right, let's say you got flooding in
you know, in a room, all right, and there's hardwood
in the room.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
All right, So the.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Claim comes in, You're like, well, okay, this is a
fourteen by sixteen foot room. We're going to replace the
hardwood in this room's I go okay, Well, wait a second.
This hardwood runs out of the room, down the hallway,
into the other bedrooms and across the living room. It's
it's you know, seventy years old. You can't replace this
hardwood with something that will match it exactly. So guess
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what the size of that claim actually is. It's all
of that hardwood everywhere, and if that hardwood runs under
a cabinet somewhere, then we have to remove the cabinet
to replace the floor. Now it includes the cabinet and
the stink. And so that's the real estimation of damage
claims like that. But that's the last thing in the
world that an insurance company wants you to essentially understand.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Right, And that's why people listen to your show on weekends.
Mark Thompson's brother is a die hard fan. Yeah, he is,
truly this.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I hear more about Dean Sharp from my brother than
I do from anybody else.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But just incredible. He's and he bought a new house.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
He lives in Texas and he listens to Dean and
integrates all of Dean's tips and everything from lighting to
VI It's quite extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Sound. I got to get out there, to get out.
He would blow his mind some of my work. Yeah,
you got to charge him. He's getting away with all
this free craft. But I appreciate coming on. Stay dry.
I will talk to you next week. Thanks Tim. All right,
there you goes Dean Sharp. That guy's great man. He's
really great. He really knows what he's doing, really knows you. Okay,
all right, We're gonna have one final wrap up here
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with the rain, and it's in Ukaipa right now, riverside Cabazon,
heading out towards Morongo. There's gonna be a lot more
snow once this cold front gets to you. The cold
front just came through the valley about an hour ago,
so you'll probably be getting in the next half hour
to forty five minutes, and you're gonna notice a real
drop in temperature when it comes through.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
You've really seen us through the storm, Tim, You've rarely
seen us through the storm.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And it's not over.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
I mean it's actually still crushing parts of the Inland
Empire in Orange County.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
We got a message from somebody listening Rancho Cucamonga, so hey, hey,
everybody in Rancho Cuckamonga. They got slammed, just slammed out there. So,
I mean everybody got slammed.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
It was just a question of you know, when it
was going to happen, starting on west to east.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, how did Malibu do? I guess they got to
work pretty good too. Let's check in with Malibu.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I can tell you it is very cold, wet
and rainy. It is raining as hard as has been
all day.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And this is a little earlier, so I don't want
to alarm you. This is from about this about an
hour and a half ago. Hard.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
This has been all day and we've been out here
for several hours now. I want to give you a
live look behind us here at Temescal Canyon Road and
PCH This is where we are at a road closure
that's in place. They're not letting anyone up those roadways
because of these hillsides over here. That's what we have
been monitoring all day long. But as has been.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Noted, already.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
A flash flood warning is in effect in the Palisades
Fire burn Zone, and a small example of that. I
want to show you both just how hard it's raining
and that this flash flooding is happening in a variety
of different places. You can see how it's gathered here
in this parking lot right by will Rogers, but you
can also see the intensity at which the rain is
(27:07):
falling right now. But I want to take you to
some video because of at Big Rock and PCH there
were crews that were spotted quickly with Caltrans. They had
a front loader out there. I talked to LAFD. They
told me that it had doubled in size over the
past twenty four hours and it continued to move, so
we are monitoring that. But I also talked to Eric
(27:29):
Scott with LAFD about the response tonight from their department.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
AfD is definitely leaning forward because of the rainstorms. We
are prepared and ready, so we have over a thousand
firefighters on duty every single day, but we put one
hundred and fifty plus additional firefighters because of this rain.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So that's from fire engines that they're.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
In to helicopters, urban search and rescue, and even nine
one one call takers. So we definitely are leaning forward
and prepared, and we want to make sure that the
public prepared as well, especially if they live in an
area where there was a recent burn, be prepared to
potentially evacuate if you have not already done so.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, the firemen are going to have a hell of
a job tonight cleaning streets. Cops will be out there.
I don't know if there's any National Guards still here,
but it's gonna be a lot of work tonight, man
to clean up these streets. Just a hell of a
lot of work. All right. Stories we didn't get today
because of all the rain. Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed,
(28:30):
and let's get a little audio show.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
The President Trump's cabinet nominees are facing tough confirmation fights. Today,
the Senate Judiciary Committee will decide whether to recommend FBI
Director nominee Cash Patel for a full Senate vote. In
his hearing last week, Ptel promised impartiality but avoided questions
about his ties to far right groups like QAnon. Education
Secretary nominee Linda McMahon will face senators for her confirmation hearing,
(28:53):
Senators are expected to press around President Trump's plan to
eliminate the Department of Education entirely, and the full Senate
set to vote on whether to confirm Robert F. Kennedy
Junior as Health and Human Services.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yes, so they did.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
That did, And Patel has also been clear to he'll
they'll vote on him now on the floor of the Senate.
That was going to be kind of a touch and
go with the Lynda McMahon thing there. She was questioned today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, so we didn't get to that because of all
the rain that we had and something else. We didn't
get to. A very sad day for ladies. Not so
much guys, ladies in southern California. Bad news meantime.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Joanne Fabrics is closing five hundred stores due to bankruptcy.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Joe Anne Fabrics, it's not being sexist. It's just that
every time I've ever been in there, I'm the only guy.
And what were you doing in there when you went in? Well,
my wife, you know, I like to she buys flannel
and she makes me shirts. Oh that's kind of nice, yeah,
kind of a cool deal. She made this one and
(30:01):
this one sleeve is three inches longer than that one.
I think it's lovely.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Actually, you can make that look sexy, tim Yeah, you
can sell that.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Look little off on the one. Soon everybody will have
one sleeve longer than the other one. I know, but
I think it's I think it's cool. I think so too,
And it certainly is a conversation piece at the track.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Well, let me tell you you're the best dressed guy at
that track.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I was wearing this shirt at the track and one
guy says he is one sleeve eight inches longer than
the other one. I said, no, it's three idiot, that's
wrong with you.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
Dozens of those stores here in southern.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So Joeanne Fabrics closing down.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Dozens of those stores here in southern California, including locations
in Long Beach, Hemmet, Laverne, Santa Clarita, Fullerton, and many more.
Only three hundred stores will be in operation after this. Nationwide.
Joe had file for bankruptcy last month for the second
time in a year.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh what's going on with Joanne Fabrics.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
The retailer is blaming this current filing on severe and
unexpected inventory issues.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, I don't know. I like that store. Joe Anne Fabrics.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I wonder what their problem really was. I mean that's
kind of a generic thing. Inventory issues.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, I don't know, maybe not getting enough inventory or
you know, everything in there is pretty inexpensive too, Maybe
that they weren't charging enough. I don't know, but we went.
I go to the one there. It's on Riverside, I
want to say, near Colfax or Woodman. I don't know,
I remember exactly where it is.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
You know, I'll go into there with you one more time,
if you know, for nostalgia, I mean for you know,
kind of sentimental reasons, you see, kind of kind of
broken up about it.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, it was on I think it was on near
Witsit and Riverside. Then they moved it to Riverside and
Woodman where a Ross Dressed for Less used to be
and now it's Joe Anne Fabrics. Okay, And I my
daughter makes some blankets, you know, knows how to make
a blanket. My wife taught her how to do that,
and so she makes blankets for people. And we're just
(32:00):
like a we're like the little house on the Prairie.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I mean, I'm not I don't want to be pushy,
but if I went in there with you do you
think I could pick something out and your wife would
make me a flannel shirt.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I don't know about a shirt. I think she's out
of the shirt business after the last run. But I
think we can make you a blanket. Are you like
a Raiders blanket, the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Dodgers, anything you want? I would I would have. I mean,
I'd be honored to have any any blanket made for me.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
All Right, we'll make you a blanket. Yeah, all right,
maybe a Maga blanket, could I yet? Yeah? I love
I'd love that. I met your hat. Yeah you get
you get crap for that wearing that hat? Run people.
I think love it. I get the high fives. Yeah,
there was an old joke. I don't think it's still
is uh is as popular as it used to be.
But why do guys who wear Maga hats, why do
(32:48):
they never wear them backwards so they can see who's
kicking their hands? It's an old Maga joke, and as
you as a Maga I can tell it. Yeah. Well,
I'm waiting for my Maga blanket. Thank you, all right,
I'll get your Maga blank all right, thank you? All right,
very good. Ronner and Moe Kelly the whole crew is
taking over with the Mo Kelly Show here on KFI
(33:12):
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Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. And we got
a lot of rain going on, lots of rain. Before
we get back to Petros, let me give you some
storm totals here. People are interested in totals, and I've
got them for you here, at least some of them.
We got nord Off Ridge or nord Hoff they called
(00:23):
it Ridge. They put an extra a letter in there.
Five and a quarter inches, Porter Ranch three inches, pacady
in a two inches, Downtown La two inches, and Northridge
inch and a half. That's a lot of rain that's
not over either of me. No continues flash flooding, eat
(00:43):
an area, and all throughout the Inland Empire there's Mede,
a lot of firemen, a lot of cops up late
tonight dealing with this, and Petros papadecas joins us from
it from I guess five seventy am Sports or whatever
you call it, You guess what do you call it?
That was? What? What is?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The flip and attitude on this show? Buddy, buddy, buddy,
you know we love him. Try Charles grodon me but
let me let me ask Bellio something. I'm gonna ask
Bellius a question here off on the air, still wearing
her beanie. Yeah, she's got that. We're inside now, Yeah,
but now my hair's messed up. Yeah, there's a there's
(01:23):
a there's a bit of a slew over the cuckoo's
nest thing myself. Yeah, it's kind of got that. Uh
uh o. J wore a cat last man.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah. See, I thought you'd like look like she'd be
playing prize picks with Conway.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, yeah, we did that. All it's one flow over
the cuckoo's nest time over here. Yeah, that was it.
But let me ask you a question, Bob Bell Belly,
I'm buck right Belly. Who do I ask you more
often than any other guests to come on every day? Right? Yes? Okay?
And Petros it's now in your court. Any comments.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, I just thought the way you handled my my
very first attempt at an La River stand up was
less than you know, proplamentary.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, But I think you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Know, I mean, I doubt that that is how you
cat about it. I doubt Pat Hayden treated Jim Everett
like that would he arrived for your beloved La Ram,
your quarterback.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think what my client is saying is for someone
who makes such a big deal about trying to get
him on the air, and you most favorite guest that
if he feels you roughed him.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Up a little bit on the stand upright, Well, look
if he didn't half ass that video, I wouldn't. I mean,
it was on a whim.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I decided to make the left.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
There a lot of the left. That's classic, buddy. So
is the rain gone from your area of the woods? Well,
I don't know. I'm here on with you sitting through
commercial breaks. Do you have any windows, any access to windows.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm in a basement with my lizard, and I don't
have one car tune on, I have two of them.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh, you really have a lizard? Or is that a
I have a lizard?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Is I have a lizard tricked out with like you know, like,
oh yeah, you'd imagine the sports den kind of comra.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well sports, I don't have any sports Well I do
have some trophies and such, but uh, it's mostly just
you know, obscure things that I like.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
How big is your lizard? She's pretty big.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Now she's getting big. She's she's longer than my forearm
to the end of my hand. She's a big lizard.
She's only about two years old. But I love I
love the lizard.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What's the lizard's name?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Travis McGhee, after the detective from the John McDonald books
of the sixties.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Wow, Travis McGhee. Travis McGhee.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I I there was a party, a Christmas exchange party
for some local yuppie types around here, and uh, one
guy gave another guy a lizard, and the guy didn't
want the lizard, and I could see the lizard.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Was cold, and I took possession of the lizard. And
how long will that lizard live? Uh? Pretty long? I guess.
Can it stick? Can it go out of its cage?
Or it's glass? Oh? Yeah, she moves around. She leremy teeth.
It's a bearded dragon. Oh I've seen those before. Yeah.
They eat worms and crickets. Yeah, and that cucumbers, right,
And the kids like it? They don't. Everybody loves Travis McGee.
(04:21):
Does Travis bite anybody? There are no teeth again, I
gotta track this conversation better.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Why don't you go over to the Jim Henson thing
and see if Kermit the Frog has he?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I was I was in Hawaii when Jim Henson died
and the morning newspaper came and in big letters like
we just won World War two. On the front cover
of the Honolulu Gazette whatever that paper is called, it
says Jim Henderson died. I'm like, who's Jim Henderson? Do
he beats true?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Man?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
He changes the culture in the misspellous name. Ten to
fifteen years is the average lifeman of a bearded dragon.
Some live up to twenty years.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Wow. Yeah, they're they're pretty sturdy little lizards. It looks
like having a little dinosaur. And I've never been like
a reptile guy. I mean, you see, I don't wear
a leather vest or have a ponytail or wear a
black new Balance into the station ever. But I just
ended up with this reptile. I'm very allergic to dogs
and cats. So it's a nice diversion for the family.
(05:22):
And I keep the lizard and care for it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Do you keep it? And so it comes out of
the cage. How often do you play with your lizard?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
At least daily.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well, they say it's bad for your lizard, and you're
prostate if you don't.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Wow, they lump your doctor lump both those in together. Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
The Lizard is very calming, you know, right, because after
I take my kids just you ever see the last
scene and Predator sure where, Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the
Mayan Chick or whatever is in the helicopter and they're
you know, they've seen hell. You know it's been a
terrible ordeal, right, and they just fly away.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The music plays and the credits roll.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
That's how I am after I dropped the kids off
for school every morning. So what I like to do is,
you know, I spend a little time at the Lizard
and it calms me down.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's really that's a cool thing, and it's improved your
life without a doubt. Quality quality of life is soaring
over here. Did you come into work today or did
you stay home? You saw me? Okay? But did you?
Did you? Mark? I don't think I did. Yes, you did?
You actually interacted with him? When? When did I interact
with him? On his way out? He said, I'm gonna
talk to you later. I never I never saw very
(06:37):
Oh it's possible.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
It's possible it was belly O and I saw you.
Maybe Tim came in after that? Yeah, sorry, Tim's right.
He came in after that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All three of you are wrong. But Petros, how long
did it take you to get home today? With this riting?
To pet Stampedro?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know, we live in a society of very frightened,
cowardly people, that's right, and I am among them. Okay,
But that being said, uh, when it I mean, there's
less people on the roads when it rains, you know,
you have all the work from home.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
People be like, I'm not coming in it's raining, you.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Know, so so the traffic, you know, it kind of
evens itself out traffic and lack of people on the roads.
But but yeah, you know what happened to me. I was, uh,
I was driving under the one ten one oh five underpass,
and I wore some huge like wash from.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
A car way above me.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah no, And it was like just like full chaos
for like one and a half second there. I couldn't
see anything, you know, it was like my car fell
into Lake Erie.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
That's why you should have pulled over and gone to
that hustler casino it's right there. I would have had
to flip.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, I would have had I could have just continued
on down and then gotten off on Rosecrans it's funny
that that's the first thing he thinks of.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Mark.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah, that's not really Actually, I just spent some time
with him. It's pretty much on brand old. Uh what
was it Larry Flint's casino. Yeah, but there just a
notch above Bob Guccioni in the world of perference.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Buddy, I always think he was a.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Free speech champion. Tim, you can tell Petros no doubt. Yeah,
Petros is the best man. Hey, come back on with
us if you can tomorrow, that'd be great, dude.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What's tomorrow Friday? Friday? I'll do it. Do you have
a short show early show? Pether flex alert or flex
flex alert?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Okay, understand our schedule on my radio show is to
understand like Falker's pendulum like it is not. Are you
planning on filing another report by another watershed kind of
in the area. You know, now that I've been so
ill treated, I might consider it. You know, I feel
(08:53):
I mean, you know what it's like, you know, Tim,
and I don't, But you know, you know, you know
about the competition between whether people and I feel like
you know, yeah, I'm the young guy that just showed
up at the NBC and you know, step to Fritz.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Coleman a little bit yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And Fritz, you know, is a little bit of his
glasses are a bit fogged up over the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Time for you to h It's time for the new blood,
time for the new John. All right, thank you, buddy.
There he goes Petoes Pepadega's you can't love him. I
love that dude. We're live, we come back. We'll talk
to Dean Sharp. We're talking about the weather. What's going on.
I got a construction story to tell this guy. Dean
Sharp is the best We've got. All this rain we're
(09:37):
covering as well. The storm is left Los Angeles. It's
on its way to Orange County, on its way to
the Inland Empire, up to Big Bear, Running Springs, Arrowhead, Bear, Arrow,
whatever those communities are called up there. They always have
a combination of names.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
This storm is headed up there. And now it's gonna
the cold front has come through the valley. It's gonna
get colder and you're gonna get a lower snow level
well up in the mountains. Then you had all day.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
We have a weather warning for people in Rancho Cuca, Manga, Chino, Pomona, Glendora,
all the way out in Fontana, Riverside, mar Loma, Sunny Slope,
all those areas are going to get pounded by this rain.
It's on its way to you guys out there, San Berndino,
Crestline again, Riverside, Corona, Norco. All this rain that we've
(10:33):
been experiencing all day is on its way or already there.
And so Mission Viejo down South Laguna, Miguel, Dana Point,
San Clemente, You're gonna get a lot of it as well.
Irvine Bellio is getting just worked right now. I got
a red spot right over Irvine, which means more than
an inch an hour. Huntington Beach is getting slammed as
(10:56):
well off the coast. So it's not over yet. It's
to continue in the Inland Empire and in south of
you know, Orange County, Orange County, South Los Angeles County.
It's going to continue periodically throughout the night. But the
big storm right now is coming into the inland Empire, Temecula, Hemmet,
Riverside and the Big Bear area. All right, Dean Sharp
(11:18):
is whether it's Dean I think that you know, with
that quick dam that you turned me on to a
couple of years ago, I bought a couple of those
and it really sort of saved our garage. I think
that is a game changer when it comes to people
who are maybe in their sixties, seventies, and eighties. They
can't afford to lift up these forty or fifty pound
you know, sand bags and to have that quick dam
(11:40):
where you can just lay it down. It weighs maybe
a pound to pound and a half and it expands
as it gets wet. I think that's a sensational product.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I think it is literally one of the most brilliant inventions.
And it's really what it is the adaptation of diaper technology.
It's no is k Is laughing. No, it's true. That's
what's inside those you know it. That's why essentially, just
so everybody knows. You know, you know how light a
diaper is, and you know how much water a diaper
(12:11):
can hold. Right, So imagine this long tube that you
roll out. It weighs you know, maybe a pound. You'll
roll that out, lay it in front of a door
threshold where you get frequent flooding or the garage door
or whatever the case may be. And then you just
wait for the water to show up. And when it does,
the first round of water that hits that thing, it
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absorbs it, it expands, it gets super heavy, and now
it's a sandbag, and now it's blocking out the rest
of the water. It is literally the kind of thing
that anybody can deploy. I mean, if you are in
any way ambulatory, you can lay these things out and
protect those critical areas.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And we found out yesterday Bellio did some research that
once they you know, the storm is gone, they dry
up and you can reuse them.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
They do, they should as soon as they they kind
of shrink back down again.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Wow. Yeah, they're amazing. But I think there's only one
company I heard of that does it. I mean it's
called Quick Damn. I've not seen anybody try to rip
them off or repeat it.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I don't know that anybody can right now. They may
have a patent that still hasn't expired yet. So yeah,
I mean they've cornered the market on house diapers.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
We live in southern California, where you know, we get
these evens, we get these occasional rains like we had today,
We get really hot summers, we get a lot of
wind and it really beats the hell out of our roof.
I called a guy today who runs ABI Construction. His
name is Levi, and he very a terrific guy. He's
got nothing but five star reviews, which is really tough
(13:42):
in the roofing game. But he was telling me today
that the guarantee on roofs it's no longer ten or
fifteen years. If you go the high end, which isn't
much more expensive than you know, the mid range, that
you can get a fifty year guarantee. I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Oh yeah, it's actually I would say right now, your
typical kind of mid range asphalt composite roof normally has
like a twenty five to thirty year warranty, and the
high end stuff is yeah, fifty years plus.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's a lot.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
It is a lot. These are great materials being used.
They're fantastic materials. They are, by the way, fire rated
as well. They last an awful long time. Yeah, your roof,
your new asphalt composite roof, is not your dad's roof,
and it certainly ain't your grandpa's roof. It's a very
It may look very similar but it's a completely different animal.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And I was again talking to about leave. I had
like a half hour discussion about roofs. We may need
some help around the house, but he was talking about
the roof. The underlayment is not paper anymore, that they've
moved to a composite, and I think that is what
really helps the life of the roof absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Now.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
There are still some roofers out there who will throw down,
you know, roofing paper, right but I'll tell you that
we have not specked that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Or done that for I don't know how long.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I like a good self ceiling, like a bit amus
or a rubberized membrane, and there are so many versions
of it out there. You can find them on the
shelf at home depot right now. And what I'm talking
about is not a paper, not an asphalt embedded paper,
but a roll good that's got a little stretched to it,
which means that it can expand and contract in hot
(15:23):
and cold weather, and the edges self seal onto the
next sheet. So by the time lay that, all those
courses of this and it's about a four foot wide roll,
so it's not a lot of courses, but by the
time you've laid all the courses of your underlying membrane out,
and before you lay the first shingle down, you have
essentially a single waterproof layer with no seams on it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Wow, for the entire roof. That's great. I mean that
kind of you know, synthetic roofing paper. I think Owen's
Corning makes you a version of that. But I mean,
so once you've laid that down, the synthetic what what
you know, replaced roof paper, you almost have a completely
watered sealed roof before you even put the tiles on.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
No, let me correct you you have oh, you don't
completely water sealed roof before at that point the tiles.
You could look at it in one sense that the
tiles are only there to protect that roofing membrane from
UV damage from the sun.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Wow. Now when it comes to and again a lot
of people have roofing issues, So I wanted to ask
you some questions. When you vent a roof, the roof
used to be vented, you know, just sort of like
a as a matter of fact, the roof never used
to be vented. And now what there's a strip along
the top of it that they told me not to
stand on, because that's where it vents off the top
(16:44):
of the roof. Is that still happening.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
That's probably the most common application right now of a
new asphalt composite roof. And it's what we call the
ridge vent, the double double riod vent. And the reason
you don't stand on is because it's a it's a
it's usually some kind of abs uh platform there that
isn't really designed to have a lot of weight pushing
down in one spot, but it will last forever the
(17:06):
life of the roof. And all it does is ever
so slightly elevate those ridge singles just up above. You
can barely see it as a vent, but it's a vent,
and it's super effective event because it runs the entire
length of the ridges of your roofline. And because of that,
all you need then are low vents down low in
(17:27):
order to get the convection flowing properly inside the attic.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
All right, Dean sharks with us. He's going to stay
with us here. We'll come back and talk about dealing
with insurance companies with property damage. And there's a lot
of different layers to that, and Dean Sharp will tell
us exactly what is going on ton WAYN Thompson. We're
keeping an eye on the rain. It's headed towards the
Inland Empire. It's probably already there. You're probably already getting soaked.
(17:52):
But this is the storm that we got about an
hour and a half ago. Now you're getting it. It's
going into South Orange County between six and nine pm.
South Orange County, mid and North Orange County is going
to get the same rain we got and it's a lot.
It's heavy, and it's a lot. Be aware of the
flooding that's going to go on.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty Conwayshell.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Before we get to Dean Shark, there was a car
that's flooded hand.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Of the right here in this underground park at one
point was a cascading mess going into this garage.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's probably two or three.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Feet deep when you get down in there. And all
along this curb here we had a number of vehicles
that were parked when this debris started coming down. Many
of them got shoved into each other. They have since
been pulled out and taken away to another site.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
But look up.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Sunset here you can see how all of this debris
came down here and half of the street was closed
because of this. The PD got here as quickly as
they could started shutting off intersections so people wouldn't unexpectedly
start driving into this mess. Right now, things have started
to subside, thank god. We haven't had any rain in
the last forty five minutes to an hour, but you
(19:08):
can see the mess that's been left behind. They've been
bringing in heavy equipment here and there and just trying
to clear a path so vehicles can get in and out.
But if more rain starts coming down later, Micah, I
think this mess is just going to grow.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's the worst, all right. Dean Sharp is with us.
Dean you can hear every single Saturday on KF five
from six to eight am and on Sunday from nine
am until noon. Now, Dean, you know dealing with insurance
companies and property damage. You know, what's the real nature
of that and how difficult has your experience been in
(19:45):
the past. Is that something you would deal with or
the homeowners would deal with?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Well, it's something that we've been asked to help homeowners with, Okah,
for sure. You know we've got clients who've had claims
and such and they're like.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Dean, what do we do?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
And so, yeah, what's the real nature of that relationship?
You know, insurance companies are a weird thing. It's a
weird system because you know they're there to help protect you.
You've paid them a bunch of money. Unfortunately though, and
I'm not being overly cynical. I'm just telling you the
truth here, and I don't want you to be a
(20:17):
jerk about it, but just understand the nature of it.
When it comes time to make a claim, the adjuster,
nice as he may be, is there to do one thing,
primarily contractually, get you handled, but with the lowest possible payout.
That's what insurance adjusters are about. They don't want to
(20:40):
have to pay out too much. And so what happens is,
I don't want to say it's outright, you know, well,
it's misdirection, is what it is. Because the insurance company
will come in and say, well, hey, and you know
we've got contractors that are on our approved list working
with them. You'll be able to fast track a lot
of this stuff and get it done faster. And you
(21:02):
know what I'll tell you right now, No, don't go
that way. And it's not that those contractors are actually
technically working for the insurance company. But you got to
jump through a lot of hoops to get on that list,
and by the time you're on that list, your primary
income is from the insurance company. Oh and so that
(21:22):
means you are going to do what the insurance company
wants you to do in regards to this client. And
those are not the contractors we want bidding and estimating
and calculating your damage.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Right like it seems to me. And again I'm not
speaking with any knowledge of any firsthand knowledge, but just
to the lay person, if a construction company is approved
by an insurance company, they're looking to, perhaps, you know,
please the insurance company more than the homeowner and the contractor.
(21:57):
Is the exact opposite in the free market, That's exactly
the case. That's exactly the case. You have to look
at any business and say, well, you know, where where
is their line of income coming from? Is it from
pleasing this client?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
You know, have we built a reputation by satisfying our
clients or have we built a reputation by pleasing the
insurance company? And the contractors that are on the approved
lists have built their reputation, and they stay on those
lists by pleasing the insurance company, and that is rarely
in a client's best interest.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Right Like when we had we had a water damage
in my daughter's bathroom and it flooded out her bathroom
and then also a closet, and I called our insurance company.
We filed a claim and they said they would do
it for free if they're a contractor could do it.
And I said, nah, I said, give me whatever you'll
give me, and I'll pay a contractor that I know
(22:53):
that we'll do it on my end. And I had
to pay another you know, nine or ten thousand dollars,
and I felt like the quality of the job was
going to be what I wanted it to be.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Well, that's true, But also my concern is for the
claim itself. In most cases, looking outside of that circle
to independent contractors and or a public insurance adjuster, or
even if you're experiencing really bad issues of damaged law attorney,
looking outside that circle will ensure that the size of
(23:25):
the claim itself is handled. And what I mean by
that is, all right, let's say you got flooding in
you know, in a room, all right, and there's hardwood
in the room.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
All right, So the.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Claim comes in, You're like, well, okay, this is a
fourteen by sixteen foot room. We're going to replace the
hardwood in this room's I go okay, Well, wait a second.
This hardwood runs out of the room, down the hallway,
into the other bedrooms and across the living room. It's
it's you know, seventy years old. You can't replace this
hardwood with something that will match it exactly. So guess
(24:01):
what the size of that claim actually is. It's all
of that hardwood everywhere, and if that hardwood runs under
a cabinet somewhere, then we have to remove the cabinet
to replace the floor. Now it includes the cabinet and
the stink. And so that's the real estimation of damage
claims like that. But that's the last thing in the
world that an insurance company wants you to essentially understand.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Right, And that's why people listen to your show on weekends.
Mark Thompson's brother is a die hard fan. Yeah, he is,
truly this.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I hear more about Dean Sharp from my brother than
I do from anybody else.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But just incredible. He's and he bought a new house.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
He lives in Texas and he listens to Dean and
integrates all of Dean's tips and everything from lighting to
VI It's quite extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Sound. I got to get out there, to get out.
He would blow his mind some of my work. Yeah,
you got to charge him. He's getting away with all
this free craft. But I appreciate coming on. Stay dry.
I will talk to you next week. Thanks Tim. All right,
there you goes Dean Sharp. That guy's great man. He's
really great. He really knows what he's doing, really knows you. Okay,
all right, We're gonna have one final wrap up here
(25:11):
with the rain, and it's in Ukaipa right now, riverside Cabazon,
heading out towards Morongo. There's gonna be a lot more
snow once this cold front gets to you. The cold
front just came through the valley about an hour ago,
so you'll probably be getting in the next half hour
to forty five minutes, and you're gonna notice a real
drop in temperature when it comes through.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
You've really seen us through the storm, Tim, You've rarely
seen us through the storm.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And it's not over.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
I mean it's actually still crushing parts of the Inland
Empire in Orange County.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
We got a message from somebody listening Rancho Cucamonga, so hey, hey,
everybody in Rancho Cuckamonga. They got slammed, just slammed out there. So,
I mean everybody got slammed.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
It was just a question of you know, when it
was going to happen, starting on west to east.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, how did Malibu do? I guess they got to
work pretty good too. Let's check in with Malibu.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, I can tell you it is very cold, wet
and rainy. It is raining as hard as has been
all day.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And this is a little earlier, so I don't want
to alarm you. This is from about this about an
hour and a half ago. Hard.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
This has been all day and we've been out here
for several hours now. I want to give you a
live look behind us here at Temescal Canyon Road and
PCH This is where we are at a road closure
that's in place. They're not letting anyone up those roadways
because of these hillsides over here. That's what we have
been monitoring all day long. But as has been.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Noted, already.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
A flash flood warning is in effect in the Palisades
Fire burn Zone, and a small example of that. I
want to show you both just how hard it's raining
and that this flash flooding is happening in a variety
of different places. You can see how it's gathered here
in this parking lot right by will Rogers, but you
can also see the intensity at which the rain is
(27:07):
falling right now. But I want to take you to
some video because of at Big Rock and PCH there
were crews that were spotted quickly with Caltrans. They had
a front loader out there. I talked to LAFD. They
told me that it had doubled in size over the
past twenty four hours and it continued to move, so
we are monitoring that. But I also talked to Eric
(27:29):
Scott with LAFD about the response tonight from their department.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
AfD is definitely leaning forward because of the rainstorms. We
are prepared and ready, so we have over a thousand
firefighters on duty every single day, but we put one
hundred and fifty plus additional firefighters because of this rain.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So that's from fire engines that they're.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
In to helicopters, urban search and rescue, and even nine
one one call takers. So we definitely are leaning forward
and prepared, and we want to make sure that the
public prepared as well, especially if they live in an
area where there was a recent burn, be prepared to
potentially evacuate if you have not already done so.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, the firemen are going to have a hell of
a job tonight cleaning streets. Cops will be out there.
I don't know if there's any National Guards still here,
but it's gonna be a lot of work tonight, man
to clean up these streets. Just a hell of a
lot of work. All right. Stories we didn't get today
because of all the rain. Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed,
(28:30):
and let's get a little audio show.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
The President Trump's cabinet nominees are facing tough confirmation fights. Today,
the Senate Judiciary Committee will decide whether to recommend FBI
Director nominee Cash Patel for a full Senate vote. In
his hearing last week, Ptel promised impartiality but avoided questions
about his ties to far right groups like QAnon. Education
Secretary nominee Linda McMahon will face senators for her confirmation hearing,
(28:53):
Senators are expected to press around President Trump's plan to
eliminate the Department of Education entirely, and the full Senate
set to vote on whether to confirm Robert F. Kennedy
Junior as Health and Human Services.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yes, so they did.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
That did, And Patel has also been clear to he'll
they'll vote on him now on the floor of the Senate.
That was going to be kind of a touch and
go with the Lynda McMahon thing there. She was questioned today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, so we didn't get to that because of all
the rain that we had and something else. We didn't
get to. A very sad day for ladies. Not so
much guys, ladies in southern California. Bad news meantime.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
Joanne Fabrics is closing five hundred stores due to bankruptcy.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Joe Anne Fabrics, it's not being sexist. It's just that
every time I've ever been in there, I'm the only guy.
And what were you doing in there when you went in? Well,
my wife, you know, I like to she buys flannel
and she makes me shirts. Oh that's kind of nice, yeah,
kind of a cool deal. She made this one and
(30:01):
this one sleeve is three inches longer than that one.
I think it's lovely.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Actually, you can make that look sexy, tim Yeah, you
can sell that.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Look little off on the one. Soon everybody will have
one sleeve longer than the other one. I know, but
I think it's I think it's cool. I think so too,
And it certainly is a conversation piece at the track.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Well, let me tell you you're the best dressed guy at
that track.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I was wearing this shirt at the track and one
guy says he is one sleeve eight inches longer than
the other one. I said, no, it's three idiot, that's
wrong with you.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
Dozens of those stores here in southern.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So Joeanne Fabrics closing down.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Dozens of those stores here in southern California, including locations
in Long Beach, Hemmet, Laverne, Santa Clarita, Fullerton, and many more.
Only three hundred stores will be in operation after this. Nationwide.
Joe had file for bankruptcy last month for the second
time in a year.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh what's going on with Joanne Fabrics.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
The retailer is blaming this current filing on severe and
unexpected inventory issues.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, I don't know. I like that store. Joe Anne Fabrics.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I wonder what their problem really was. I mean that's
kind of a generic thing. Inventory issues.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, I don't know, maybe not getting enough inventory or
you know, everything in there is pretty inexpensive too, Maybe
that they weren't charging enough. I don't know, but we went.
I go to the one there. It's on Riverside, I
want to say, near Colfax or Woodman. I don't know,
I remember exactly where it is.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
You know, I'll go into there with you one more time,
if you know, for nostalgia, I mean for you know,
kind of sentimental reasons, you see, kind of kind of
broken up about it.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, it was on I think it was on near
Witsit and Riverside. Then they moved it to Riverside and
Woodman where a Ross Dressed for Less used to be
and now it's Joe Anne Fabrics. Okay, And I my
daughter makes some blankets, you know, knows how to make
a blanket. My wife taught her how to do that,
and so she makes blankets for people. And we're just
(32:00):
like a we're like the little house on the Prairie.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I mean, I'm not I don't want to be pushy,
but if I went in there with you do you
think I could pick something out and your wife would
make me a flannel shirt.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I don't know about a shirt. I think she's out
of the shirt business after the last run. But I
think we can make you a blanket. Are you like
a Raiders blanket, the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Dodgers, anything you want? I would I would have. I mean,
I'd be honored to have any any blanket made for me.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
All Right, we'll make you a blanket. Yeah, all right,
maybe a Maga blanket, could I yet? Yeah? I love
I'd love that. I met your hat. Yeah you get
you get crap for that wearing that hat? Run people.
I think love it. I get the high fives. Yeah,
there was an old joke. I don't think it's still
is uh is as popular as it used to be.
But why do guys who wear Maga hats, why do
(32:48):
they never wear them backwards so they can see who's
kicking their hands? It's an old Maga joke, and as
you as a Maga I can tell it. Yeah. Well,
I'm waiting for my Maga blanket. Thank you, all right,
I'll get your Maga blank all right, thank you? All right,
very good. Ronner and Moe Kelly the whole crew is
taking over with the Mo Kelly Show here on KFI
(33:12):
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