February 20, 2025 • 32 mins
Officials warning people about tow truck scams that hold your vehicle till you pay. // 3 buses explode in suspected terror attack near Tel Aviv / Rick Caruso nonprofit bringing 80 to 100 modular homes to those most impacted by LA wildfires/ PCH area re-open but heavily guarded and limited with a pass to access into area. // Tim’s early radio mistake at KLSX by getting sued for $24 Million Dollars and being suspended // Costco is bringing back SLICE products to their food courts/ The Original Pantry Cafe owners threaten to close, workers' union says.
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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 app. Well, that hockey
game between Team USA and Team Canada is about to
start and game on. Let's see how loud it gets
in the garden in Boston. Last game was played in
Montreal on Saturday, so we'll see, We'll see see what
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happens there. It's gonna be a big, big ratings grabber,
big big ratings grabber for to.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Night to Night. All right.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
A story that came out yesterday, we didn't get an
opportunity to talk about it. The tow truck Bandits maybe
been a victim of this where tow trucks show up
at a crash scene and they say, hey, we'll tow
your car to the nearest garage or body shop will
help you out, and then they tow it to a
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garage that is not recognized or by your insurance company,
and they hold it hostage. And one guy had his
son's car towed and had to pay twenty three hundred
dollars to get it out of the towyard. And it's
illegal to do, but the cops can't do anything other
than issue the tow truck driver a minor ticket for
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not having a license.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And these guys are making millions of dollars, millions of
dollars off of us.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
A warning for drivers about a scam we are seeing
more often in our area. The California Department of Insurance
says some tow truck companies are targeting accident victims and
then holding their vehicles until a big payment is made.
The warning tonight be on alert now. It is happening
throughout southern California on streets and freeways, and if you're
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in a car accident, it could easily happen to you.
We're riding along with the LAPD during the morning rush
hour officers looking for what they call bandit tow trucks.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
This is obviously a banditope.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Once that show up at traffic collisions hoping to dupe
crash victims out of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So the cop knew it was a banded it was
an illegal toad truck operation, but they can't do anything.
They can literally just issue a minor infraction that will
cost them next to nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Nigel Sherry's family got caught up in the scam. For
these companies Aday night.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The car was driveable at the time, but something went
wrong with the electronics and it just stoled out.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
His son exited the freeway and was approached by a
seemingly friendly man who said his uncle would tow his
car for free.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
But they say, well it for free. Note problem, here
we go, and that's when the it was a nightmare.
That's when the nightmare started.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Nigel says his car was towed to a storage lot
five miles away, and when the toe operator opened back
up on Monday, he told Nigel it would cost twenty
three hundred dollars to get his car back.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Is that unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It was towed on a Friday or Saturday, and then
when he went to get the car on Monday, he
was told he has to come up with twenty three
hundred dollars to get his car out of that lot.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Nigel tried to negotiate the price down, but the tower
wouldn't budge. Instead, he filed to place a lean on
Nigel's car.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh what a nightmare for this guy and his kid.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
So Nigel finally paid the tower the twenty three hundred
dollars he demanded all in cash, there's a.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Complete nightmare for us because we weren't sure if we're
ever going to see the car again.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
LAPD Lieutenant Scott Moffatt says he hears this story again
and again.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
These scams are particularly advanced in that they've been in
the industry for a long time.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Tow truck operators are supposed to obtain permits from the
city through the Police Commission, but Lieutenant Moffatt says, bandit
tow trucks operate without a permit and charge sky high fees.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's particularly brazen, but it just semonstrates there's a lot
of money to be made here.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Lieutenant Moffatt showed us a bandit toe playing out.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, so the bandit tow truck driver is sitting right
in front of the cop, you know, trying to befriend
the guy who just had an accident. And when you've
had an accident, any time anybody tries to help you,
who's standing around you, you just thankfully, oh thanks man,
thanks for helping me out. And they befriend you and
then they turn around and screw you.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
He said. The guy in the reflective vest is called
a spotter. He races to the scene after hearing about it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
After hearing about the accident, he raises the scene, becomes
friends with the victim, and then that's when you know
the crime starts.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Enter he tells the victim that he witnesses the crash
and he'll help by working with their insurance company or
triple A to arrange a tow. But what he'll really
do is call a buddy, an unpermitted tower, who will
tow the car and hold it hostage until the owner
forks over thousands of dollars to get it back. Lieutenant
Moffett says, spotters and towers are slick and convince victims
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they're legit, and once a victim okays a toe, all
that police can do is cite the tower a minimal
amount for failing to have a permit.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This has got to stop. This has got to stop.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
There's way too many people losing thousands of dollars with
this scam.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There are instances where will respond to these and they're adamant.
They want this band a toe because they've just created
that friendship in a very short amount of time.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
In fact, that's exactly what happened at the next accident.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Right now, we're heading over to fifty ninth and eighth
Avenue for a traffic collision.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
By the time we arrived, the spot or head already
befriended the victim and called in a bandit tow truck
to haul away the victim's car.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Here we go happens three, four or five times a day.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
These people are professionals of what they do, right. They
understand that if they can gain your confidence, just like
a typical comment, if I can gain your confidence, I'm
going to believe or make you believe that I'm doing
you a service. Right, And that's exactly what's happening here.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Lieutenant Moffatt says, bandit tow trucks show up to accidents
ninety percent of the time. So if you're in an accident.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Wow, ninety percent of the time. These guys show up
at an accident ninety.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Percent accidents ninety percent of the time, So if you're
in an accident, chances are you'll be approached by one.
The LAPD has this advice when a tower comes to
the scene as to see their permit, it should be
a blue form. Take a picture of that permit along
with the tower himself and his license plate. Better yet,
if there are police at the scene, ask them to
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help you arrange a legitimate toe instead.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, that's that's some good advice. Look for the permit,
take a picture of the pom permit, take a picture
of the guy the license plate, and then ask the cop, hey,
is this guy legitimate? That's that's great advice from NBC
Channel four, the just.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Bandit look out.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Now, some insurance companies will cover the cost of these
bandit toes, but if you ask them to pay for it,
your premium may go up, or they might even drop
you when your policy is up for renewal. The insurance
industry is fighting this scam as well, but they say
it will take state legislation to put an end to it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
All right, well, welcome to LA. You know, every which
way you look, you're gonna get hammered and hosed by
people in Los Angeles. It is it's unbelievable the amount
of crime and the amount of dishonesty in Los Angeles.
It is a shame. It really is a shame. We
treat people so poorly, so poorly in this country. And
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this this young guy or this guy who's you know,
young kid got into an Accident's probably you know, seventeen
eighteen flipped out. It's a very first accident. I think
a lot of people we've all had our first accident,
you know, traumatic that is. And when somebody comes up
and befriends you and says it, says you're going to
help you, you know, help you out, that's comforting. And
then you say yes, and then you know, dad has
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to pay twenty three hundred dollars to get this kid's
you know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Car back. That's it really is horrible. It really is horrible.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And I'm surprised that some of these tow truck drivers
don't get either thrown in jail or get their ass kicked,
you know, because that's some people don't even have that
kind of dough And what if you don't have twenty
three hundred bucks. A lot of people don't have twenty
three hundred dollars to get their car out. Oh that's crazy, Krusher.
When you got into an accident, will you approach by
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any of these clowns, these radical, dishonest tow truck drivers.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
No.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I was kind of waiting for it, though, and then
I realized, oh, my car is good. So I got
out of there as quick as like oh, good for you.
Oh you could drive it still? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh that's great. It's funny because just even recently, you
know those local social media things where people post the
things that have happened to them. Right, someone posted a
sign and showed a sign of one of those tow
truck parking the wrong place, get it towed away type things.
Oh yeah, And that's a whole racket in and of
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itself too, because they say, these these tow truck companies,
they don't look to see that you've either been there
for a certain amount of time outside of that, or
even should be there in the first place. Once they
get your car, there ain't nothing you can do.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And it's and it's it's ridiculous. How much money you
got to pay?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Yeah yeah, just to get it back and then you
can fight whether or not you can get your money
your money back.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, it is, it's crazy, it really is. I don't know,
you know what the answer is, but that is not
a good deal. So another way you can get hammered
in Los Angeles. Just another thing to worry about.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Great, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
They haven't faced off yet. They're still stinging the national
anthems in Boston. The US national anthem is playing now.
The Canadian national anthem has already been played and face
off in probably four or five minutes.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, I've got.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
A question for you, hockey related question. You know the
little kids that are on the ice with the with
the players. I guess those are the sons or daughters
of some of the players. I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Okay, all the little kids have the number twenty five
on their sweaters. Hmmm. I think is that because of
some twenty fifth anniversary thing or I think.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's twenty twenty five. I think that they were doing that.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
But the United States is playing for They have who
is that kid that played that got killed.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
They call him Johnny.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Hockey played out of Columbus and he got killed in
the car accident with his brother, and so they have
his his number, No, he was number thirteen. They have
his jersey sitting in the in the locker room. Because
he was a true Yeah Boudreau, he was Gudreau. He
was a big part of that team. He was he
was on that team that was a horrible accident.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I think it might be the year twenty twenty five.
That's possible. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I don't know. I don't know who else it could be.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But we'll be watching that and we will tell you
what the score is and what's going on Team USA
versus Team Canada. And that is a big deal going on.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Right now. We have some breaking news, Crows.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I don't know if you if this story has come
across yet, but in Israel, there's been a bus explosion,
oh a couple hours ago.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, nobody was killed, but yeah, people were hurt. That
looks horrible.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Bus explosion ISRAELI. A bus explosion rocks Tel Aviv area
in suspected terror attack. Three buses in Israel detonated Thursday
and what police are investigating as a suspected terror attack.
According to multiple reports, two empty buses exploded simultaneously in
different parking lots near Tel Aviv, before a third went
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up in flames as well. Additional bombs were also planned
on two other buses and failed to explode. They've been
since disabled, so the trauma and danger continues.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Here's one interesting thing that just came in just a
little bit ago, is that the Hamas apparently released the
bodies of four Israeli hostages that have been held in Gaza.
But Israel is now saying that in identifying the bodies,
three of which are supposed to be two young children
and a mother, they say that the body that was
supposed to be the mother's is not the mother and
it's an anonymous person.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Really yeah, wow, wow, man oh man Anah. What a tough,
tough part of the area, part of the world. Unbelievable.
All right, let's talk about Rick Caruso here and his nonprofit.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Rick Caruso, he's a doer.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
He gets things done, and they're putting together eighty to
one hundred temporary or modular homes for the people impacted
by these horrible fires, these wildfires.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
So many want to rebuild here in Altadena. They just
don't know how they're going to afford it. Well, the
first initiative from Steadfast LA will bring eighty to one
hundred modular homes to these fire ravaged communities, not just
the Eden fire, also homes in the Palisades fire, so
people can return to the communities that they love. Now,
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this starts with the Northern California modular home company Samara
and Airbnb with help from the Crusoe Family Foundation, they
will construct an install factory built homes that only take
five to six months. Steadfast LA, made up a private
sector leaders founded by Rick Caruso, says they believe prefab
construction is key to rebuilding lad.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, this guy gets things done.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
This Rick Caruso keeps costs down and limits delays. We
spoke with Ronald Dunlap, who's lived in Altadena since nineteen
seventy five, lost his home in the fire and said
insurance will only cover half of the cost to rebuild.
Rick Caruso said, that's exactly who this program is meant
to help.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Eighty to one hundred are going to get free homes.
These are permanent homes. It's going to be installed on
their lots at no costs. The driveways, the landscaping, the home,
and we're going to start getting the community back and
getting people into their homes. I hope the county and
the city run with this idea, or the state they
should be able to do this. But in the absence
of that, we're going to fill that need, and we're
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going to need help from the city and the county.
We want him to waive fees so that more money
can go into these homes. That's great, and we're not
spending a lot of money on Gunman Phaes.
Speaker 11 (13:55):
I just want to be home. But you know, if
we're not home, then we have to try to find
someplace else. And that is a daunting task, because Altony
was you don't really realize how perfect your life is
until it's gone. It looks like a place that we
could actually feel like being home again, that it's substantial
enough that we can put down roots again.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
And Rick Caruso says, this is just this start. Steadfast
LA hopes to partner with other home builders to bring
as many as one thousand modular homes to our fire.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Ravaged community, Excellent and Altadena.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Josh Haskell, ABC seven Eye, wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Snoop, Josh Haskell, That guy's great, all right, Rick Caruso
getting stuff done and oh man, he had won for
mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That guy gets a lot of stuff done. That Rick Caruso.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right out on PCH restricted, but parts of PCH
open again. They've been open and closed, open and closed
since January seventh. Now looks like they're open again. You
can't park on PCH twenty five mile an hour limit,
no U turns, no turns at all. You've got to
get in your car and drive through the restricted areas.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 12 (15:03):
We are at the main checkpoint here at PCH. And again,
if you want to get through here, you're going to
need a pass. Folks access to Pacific Coast Highway between
Santa Monica and Malibu. That's part of the expansion reopening.
If you want to get into Malibu, you go straight ahead.
If you want to get into the Palisades, you go
to the right. But you're not going anywhere if you
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do not have a pass. Yeah, there's more traffic backed
up as motorists slowly move through the checkpoint at Pacific
Coast Highway and Chicago Boulevard. This has PCH reopening for
people who live, work, or go to school in the
fire damaged Palisades.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Give you a.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
Palisades residents need a prey.
Speaker 13 (15:48):
Okayment.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
If you're a resident, permit.
Speaker 13 (15:54):
Give as all right, permanent.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Permit man a few words. I like that.
Speaker 12 (16:00):
Pallisades residents need a permit to get through the checkpoint.
Malibu City Hall providing the passes.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
What do they need permit.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
Providing the passes? Residents we talked to saying they believe
the checkpoint insures the safety of residents and the community.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And you need permit very much.
Speaker 13 (16:19):
I'm very happy with that, and give us some security.
There are banks and the village, there are businesses, and
if you let some people who prive on stealing, they
probably do very well. So this is the best way
and it should continue, all right?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
What else is here?
Speaker 12 (16:40):
Wagi Ershi didn't lose his home, but feels horrible for
some of his neighbors and friends who lost everything. He adds,
as the community comes together to heal and rebuild, the
last thing they need is for tourists to pour into
town taking pictures of the overwhelming damage. He hopes the
checkpoint will stay in place for as long as.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, that is the nightmare out there, people going out
there making videos and posing with the damage, taking selfies.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
That's a bad look, all right. The game has started.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Canada zero USA zero in the finals of the Four
Nations tournament.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
We'll keep an eye on that for you. It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We're live on kfoh. By the way, when we come back.
You know they booed our national anthem in Toronto, Montreal
when the USA last played Team Canada on Saturday. Well,
let's see if Boston returned the favor we come back.
I'll play the Canadian national anthem for you. It was
heard just moments ago, about ten minutes ago. And we'll
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see if the Boston citizens people watching that game in
Boston repaid Canada for booing our national anthem.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We I thought I.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Could play this for you on the air, but I've
been told by I don't know legal here or management,
there has to be a certain amount of time go
by before I can play anything on TV when it
comes to these games. And I made a mistake early
on in radio. I was working at Kala SX with
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Doug Steckler and we're on the radio during Game seven
of the Lakers, I think it was Lakers Boston Game
seven in Los Angeles, and we're doing a show. We're
obviously watching the game on TV, and we're taking some
phone calls of people who weren't watching the game and
nobody was calling, zero calls, and so we said, everybody's
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watching the game. Everybody's watching Game seven. So we took
the microphone, put it up to the TV, and for
last ten minutes of the Boston Celtics LA Laker game,
we broadcast the audio on kalas X. What I didn't
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know and I do now is I guess they licensed
that Krosier. Is that true that they licensed programming like
that THEBA, the NBA licenses the programming. What about it
if they pray Lakers are playing in game seven? Yeah,
that means that you can't just play that audio on
TV if you wanted to.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
No, you could not without prior consent and probably some
money changing it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I found out the hardware the hard way. Our station
was sued for twenty four million dollars over then, and
I got suspended, and I got yelled at, and I
nearly lost my job. And fortunately a friend of mine,
a guy named Jeff Warnick, who was very close with
the NBA, he ran a little interference for me and.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I got to keep my job.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But man, it was close for a long time because
CBS did want to pay twenty four million dollars to
the NBA for ten minutes of that final game.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They weren't into it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I got yelled at by a bunch of people, high
level executives, low level executives, people who just you know,
sort of work for CBS.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Everybody hammered me on that one.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
All right, So we're watching USA play Team Canada, and
Team Canada, like on Saturday, has scored first. It is
one nothing Team Canada, four shots aside, four shots for
the Canadians, four shots for the Americans, and Team Canada
is winning one to zero.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So we'll see how this goes. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And I see if if indeed the Americans can come back,
who knows, but it's gonna be a great game either way.
If Canada wins this game, they win the championship. Yet
they will have the same record as the United States
two wins and one loss, so that's kind of odd.
But we'll see what happens. The game's going on right now.
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I don't know what channel it's on. Let me tell
you what channel it's on. And I know you're not
supposed to do that in radio, but screw it, ESPN.
It's a ESPN, Okay, I know you're not supposed to
do it in radio. I get that, but I have
a different philosophy. If we can, if we tell you
about stuff that's going on, and we're honest about you know,
there's something else going on another station, that you'll always
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listen knowing that if there's anything else going on, we'll
tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
But when they say, oh, on another.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Station, or it's been canceled or it's not happening right now,
I think it's really dishonest.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I don't like that. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So we run a different, little different program here where
we tell you about things going on on other stations,
hopefully that you go see it and you come back
because we were honest with you.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
All right, let's get into other news as we keep
one eye on the hockey game and one eye on
other news. Costco is in the news. Everybody loves Costco. Right, Well,
they're bringing some items back they haven't had.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
For a while.
Speaker 14 (21:54):
Five things I would never buy at Costco coming Number three,
We'll shock you. Number one one, well, tiss three chicken
additional spices at sea salt. It's pretty good. However, why
does chicken need modified food? Starch, which is a hidden
source of gluten.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Okay, I will give them that. The chicken is sensational
at Costco. I love I love it, but there there
is a reason for that. You know, they cook a
hundred of these things they send under those lights. And
one thing I found out about Costco chicken is it
tastes great when you buy it, but if you boil
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the bones to make soup, there's so much chemicals in
that chicken.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
The whole house smells like a chemical really. Oh, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, you have to buy a You got to get
a fresh chicken. Don't get those chickens that already cooked,
either at Gelson's or Costco or you know, whatever your
market is. You got to get a fresh chicken and
boil that to make chicken soup. Don't go with some
one of these things as nine hundred chemicals. You don't
know what's in it, right, you don't know what's in it,
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and it does smell like chemicals after you boil.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It happened to the other night. I cooked it late
at night.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
We had a Costco chicken that I think if we
didn't boil it, it probably would have gone bad in
a couple of days. So I boiled it at around
eleven o'clock at night. My daughter and my wife are sleeping,
and the whole house smelled like chemicals.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I had to open up the windows.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Yeah, I agree, it doesn't quite if you notice the
difference even in the texture to all that stuff, like
it hits all of your senses differently when it's like
a pre chicken from those.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
But that first bite is the best thing I've ever
had in my life.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, the first bite. The first bite is the deepest.
Isn't there a song about that? The first bite is
the greatest of those Costco chickens. Man, I get it now.
I might go get one at night. I love that Costco.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Anyway, Costco is bringing something back that they haven't had
for a long time, and I think it's. Yeah, the
fan favorite on shelves loo come back. I'll tell you
what it is. There's a fan favorite from Costco that's
coming back, hasn't been around for fifteen years back.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'll tell you what it is. And by the.
Speaker 15 (24:04):
Way, you don't have to sit through the commercial break.
It's not going to be that impressive.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
I don't even know if I've been to Costco for
fifteen years, so really new to me.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Okay, here's a secret for you.
Speaker 15 (24:17):
The product that Costco is going to be a real
letdown for most of you. You're not going to be
very excited about the product that's coming back from fifteen
years ago.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Costco is bringing back a fan favorite after fifteen years,
and customers are delighted.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
All right, you think it is? What do you think
they're bringing back?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Let me tell you. Let me let me predict something.
Whoever is in your car with you? When I tell
you what they're bringing back, I think you guys will
look at it you and.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Go, what the hell? Is it a food product?
Speaker 12 (24:58):
Or No?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's yes, yes, yesh, yes, food product.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It's a drink. Oh it's called Slice. They're bringing back
slice Slice soda. What lemon lime soda?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I swear to got STEP's head just kind of lit
up when you said, are you a Slice guy?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I love Slice? Really, chngil you're into Slice? Well, I
saw it at Costco the other day.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Wow, yeah, I think it's like, isn't it one of
those like prebiotic drinks or something? Oh, I don't know,
because it was next to all the fruit juices. I
get rid of the juice that I wanted, and they
put the slice in there.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Insteads man Man. It's a lemon lime soda.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Originally described as Pepsi's answer to Sprite, it was first
introduced in nineteen eighty four. The soda made ten of
real fruit juice ten percent is real fruit juice and
had a healthier image than a lot of the other
fizzy drinks. Slice soda shot to popularity. Must have missed
that with its variety of unique and include flavors including orange, strawberry, pineapple,
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fruit punch, and grape man oh Man, steph off to
Costco with you, buddy off the Costco. Yeah, they're calling
it a healthy soda. The drink is is Yeah, it
is not. It comes in an eight pack. I've never
seen that before, an eight pack. It comes as Coca
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Cola announce who was launching a healthy, Hellier, Healthier prebiotic
soda this week, rivaling gen Z's favorite the Poppy or Ollipop.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Slice Soda used to be owned by Pepsi is now
having a second lease on life under the soda company
Shooda Life so you can go get slice at Costco,
enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Here you go, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
The Pantry downtown Los Angeles one of the oldest and
original restaurant. They've been around, I think over one hundred
years or very close to one hundred years now.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The owner is threatening to shut it down, shut it down.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I remember Mayor Reardeny used to own that place and
it got closed down a couple of times because of rats.
So let's find out why they're closing it down. Is
the price of everything is too much? Can we all
guess why they're closing down the homeless situation. It's dangerous,
food's expensive, there's probably you know, the whole host of LA's.
(27:32):
I call them LA's. The reason why businesses closed in
LA They get laed. And I think this is I
think we're on target.
Speaker 16 (27:41):
Here into the pantry, you see the familiar faces, and
that's because those employees have been there twenty thirty plus
years and sadly they could soon be losing their jobs.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
What the hell do we love to work at the pantry?
You know, all of us is more like a family.
Speaker 16 (27:56):
It's a difficult time for long time employees of the icon.
The original pantry cafe.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, the pantry.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
If you've ever been there, it's it's literally two or
three blocks, maybe four blocks from Staple Center, from Crypto
dot Com. If you walk north, it's it's right on
that same street. It's a beautiful little place to eat.
They're open, my I thought they used to be open
twenty four hours. I don't know if they still are.
But you get a lot of food for like an
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average you know, whatever the average did or breakfast or
lunch costs, you get a s load of food.
Speaker 16 (28:28):
One hundred year old landmark in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Put it three years of working up Pintree. I thought
when twenty.
Speaker 16 (28:36):
Year old in January, employees who have dedicated decades to
the pantry, we sid notice that the restaurant would soon
be sold. When union member employees asked for job protection
in a contract with a new buyer, they say they
were told.
Speaker 17 (28:50):
They came back and said, no, we don't want to
give you job security. We don't want to protect the union. Basically,
if you keep insisting that it happens, then we're going
to just close the restaurant. I'm right second at five.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Pm, March second at five pm. So if you like
the pantry. That might be your last opportunity to slide
in there and get yourself mail.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Close the restaurant.
Speaker 17 (29:12):
I'm right second at five pm.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
ConTroll What are they streaming? What do we want? Contra ConTroll?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
They got it, they got it. They got up their
game with that chan. That's not good. Get him anything.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
It's like playing a seventy eight on a thirty three.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Contra No One Wednesday.
Speaker 16 (29:46):
Union members hold the protest outside the pantry while employees
came outside during their breaks. Maria Hernandez is a representative
of Unite here Locally Loved.
Speaker 17 (29:56):
You know what we're asking for. It's not for you
to bring down the moon. It's common language that giant hotels, Marriott's, Hilten's.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I've never heard that term before, for you to bring
down the moon. It's not we're not asking for you
to bring down the moon. They might be getting some
sayings mixed up there. We're not asking to we're not
shooting for the stars. I've heard that before. We're not
asking for the moon, but we're not asking to bring
the moon down.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
For you to bring down the moon, asking.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
For the bring down the moon?
Speaker 17 (30:28):
Okay, for you to bring down the moon, it's common
language that John.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's not common language, is what that was.
Speaker 17 (30:34):
It's common language that Giant Hotels, Marriott's, Hilten's, other properties
that we represent, other restaurants that we represent have in
their contracts.
Speaker 16 (30:44):
The pantry previously owned by former La Mayor Richard Reard.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's right, Mayorriardon on That place was.
Speaker 16 (30:50):
Placed in a trust following his passing in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
He was a great guy. Have you ever cross you
ever meet maryor Reardon?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Once?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Super super guy. It's great dude.
Speaker 16 (31:01):
Administrators for the trust issued a statement that say.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'll tell you a quick Mayor Reardon's story. Merrriarden called
us up at Kala Sex and he said because we
talked very favorably of him, and we and he came
on all the time. He was great, and we said hey,
he said, hey, you want to come on and take
a tour of Staple Center.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Oh yeah, we'd love to. You know, it was just
being built. They didn't even put the roof on you.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
So we show up at Staple Center and there's like
five or six of us, Mee Steckler, Jason Slako, Malbudan,
a couple other people and the foreman, the guy in
charge of the project, looks down and he sees that
Malabudan is wearing flip flops and and he says, that
guy's not going in here with flip flops on. And
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Mayor Reardon said, oh no, he's with me. And the
guy said the foreman said, I don't give an f
who he's with. He's not going in there, and he
didn't go in that's a great story, man.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
All right, we'll come back. We're live on KF I
am at six forty
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Well, that hockey
game between Team USA and Team Canada is about to
start and game on. Let's see how loud it gets
in the garden in Boston. Last game was played in
Montreal on Saturday, so we'll see, We'll see see what
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happens there. It's gonna be a big, big ratings grabber,
big big ratings grabber for to.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Night to Night. All right.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
A story that came out yesterday, we didn't get an
opportunity to talk about it. The tow truck Bandits maybe
been a victim of this where tow trucks show up
at a crash scene and they say, hey, we'll tow
your car to the nearest garage or body shop will
help you out, and then they tow it to a
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garage that is not recognized or by your insurance company,
and they hold it hostage. And one guy had his
son's car towed and had to pay twenty three hundred
dollars to get it out of the towyard. And it's
illegal to do, but the cops can't do anything other
than issue the tow truck driver a minor ticket for
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not having a license.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And these guys are making millions of dollars, millions of
dollars off of us.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
A warning for drivers about a scam we are seeing
more often in our area. The California Department of Insurance
says some tow truck companies are targeting accident victims and
then holding their vehicles until a big payment is made.
The warning tonight be on alert now. It is happening
throughout southern California on streets and freeways, and if you're
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in a car accident, it could easily happen to you.
We're riding along with the LAPD during the morning rush
hour officers looking for what they call bandit tow trucks.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
This is obviously a banditope.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Once that show up at traffic collisions hoping to dupe
crash victims out of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So the cop knew it was a banded it was
an illegal toad truck operation, but they can't do anything.
They can literally just issue a minor infraction that will
cost them next to nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Nigel Sherry's family got caught up in the scam. For
these companies Aday night.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The car was driveable at the time, but something went
wrong with the electronics and it just stoled out.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
His son exited the freeway and was approached by a
seemingly friendly man who said his uncle would tow his
car for free.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
But they say, well it for free. Note problem, here
we go, and that's when the it was a nightmare.
That's when the nightmare started.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Nigel says his car was towed to a storage lot
five miles away, and when the toe operator opened back
up on Monday, he told Nigel it would cost twenty
three hundred dollars to get his car back.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Is that unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It was towed on a Friday or Saturday, and then
when he went to get the car on Monday, he
was told he has to come up with twenty three
hundred dollars to get his car out of that lot.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Nigel tried to negotiate the price down, but the tower
wouldn't budge. Instead, he filed to place a lean on
Nigel's car.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh what a nightmare for this guy and his kid.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
So Nigel finally paid the tower the twenty three hundred
dollars he demanded all in cash, there's a.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Complete nightmare for us because we weren't sure if we're
ever going to see the car again.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
LAPD Lieutenant Scott Moffatt says he hears this story again
and again.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
These scams are particularly advanced in that they've been in
the industry for a long time.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Tow truck operators are supposed to obtain permits from the
city through the Police Commission, but Lieutenant Moffatt says, bandit
tow trucks operate without a permit and charge sky high fees.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's particularly brazen, but it just semonstrates there's a lot
of money to be made here.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Lieutenant Moffatt showed us a bandit toe playing out.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, so the bandit tow truck driver is sitting right
in front of the cop, you know, trying to befriend
the guy who just had an accident. And when you've
had an accident, any time anybody tries to help you,
who's standing around you, you just thankfully, oh thanks man,
thanks for helping me out. And they befriend you and
then they turn around and screw you.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
He said. The guy in the reflective vest is called
a spotter. He races to the scene after hearing about it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
After hearing about the accident, he raises the scene, becomes
friends with the victim, and then that's when you know
the crime starts.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Enter he tells the victim that he witnesses the crash
and he'll help by working with their insurance company or
triple A to arrange a tow. But what he'll really
do is call a buddy, an unpermitted tower, who will
tow the car and hold it hostage until the owner
forks over thousands of dollars to get it back. Lieutenant
Moffett says, spotters and towers are slick and convince victims
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they're legit, and once a victim okays a toe, all
that police can do is cite the tower a minimal
amount for failing to have a permit.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This has got to stop. This has got to stop.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
There's way too many people losing thousands of dollars with
this scam.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There are instances where will respond to these and they're adamant.
They want this band a toe because they've just created
that friendship in a very short amount of time.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
In fact, that's exactly what happened at the next accident.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Right now, we're heading over to fifty ninth and eighth
Avenue for a traffic collision.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
By the time we arrived, the spot or head already
befriended the victim and called in a bandit tow truck
to haul away the victim's car.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Here we go happens three, four or five times a day.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
These people are professionals of what they do, right. They
understand that if they can gain your confidence, just like
a typical comment, if I can gain your confidence, I'm
going to believe or make you believe that I'm doing
you a service. Right, And that's exactly what's happening here.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Lieutenant Moffatt says, bandit tow trucks show up to accidents
ninety percent of the time. So if you're in an accident.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Wow, ninety percent of the time. These guys show up
at an accident ninety.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Percent accidents ninety percent of the time, So if you're
in an accident, chances are you'll be approached by one.
The LAPD has this advice when a tower comes to
the scene as to see their permit, it should be
a blue form. Take a picture of that permit along
with the tower himself and his license plate. Better yet,
if there are police at the scene, ask them to
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help you arrange a legitimate toe instead.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, that's that's some good advice. Look for the permit,
take a picture of the pom permit, take a picture
of the guy the license plate, and then ask the cop, hey,
is this guy legitimate? That's that's great advice from NBC
Channel four, the just.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Bandit look out.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Now, some insurance companies will cover the cost of these
bandit toes, but if you ask them to pay for it,
your premium may go up, or they might even drop
you when your policy is up for renewal. The insurance
industry is fighting this scam as well, but they say
it will take state legislation to put an end to it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
All right, well, welcome to LA. You know, every which
way you look, you're gonna get hammered and hosed by
people in Los Angeles. It is it's unbelievable the amount
of crime and the amount of dishonesty in Los Angeles.
It is a shame. It really is a shame. We
treat people so poorly, so poorly in this country. And
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this this young guy or this guy who's you know,
young kid got into an Accident's probably you know, seventeen
eighteen flipped out. It's a very first accident. I think
a lot of people we've all had our first accident,
you know, traumatic that is. And when somebody comes up
and befriends you and says it, says you're going to
help you, you know, help you out, that's comforting. And
then you say yes, and then you know, dad has
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to pay twenty three hundred dollars to get this kid's
you know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Car back. That's it really is horrible. It really is horrible.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And I'm surprised that some of these tow truck drivers
don't get either thrown in jail or get their ass kicked,
you know, because that's some people don't even have that
kind of dough And what if you don't have twenty
three hundred bucks. A lot of people don't have twenty
three hundred dollars to get their car out. Oh that's crazy, Krusher.
When you got into an accident, will you approach by
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any of these clowns, these radical, dishonest tow truck drivers.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
No.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I was kind of waiting for it, though, and then
I realized, oh, my car is good. So I got
out of there as quick as like oh, good for you.
Oh you could drive it still? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh that's great. It's funny because just even recently, you
know those local social media things where people post the
things that have happened to them. Right, someone posted a
sign and showed a sign of one of those tow
truck parking the wrong place, get it towed away type things.
Oh yeah, And that's a whole racket in and of
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itself too, because they say, these these tow truck companies,
they don't look to see that you've either been there
for a certain amount of time outside of that, or
even should be there in the first place. Once they
get your car, there ain't nothing you can do.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And it's and it's it's ridiculous. How much money you
got to pay?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Yeah yeah, just to get it back and then you
can fight whether or not you can get your money
your money back.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, it is, it's crazy, it really is. I don't know,
you know what the answer is, but that is not
a good deal. So another way you can get hammered
in Los Angeles. Just another thing to worry about.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Great, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
They haven't faced off yet. They're still stinging the national
anthems in Boston. The US national anthem is playing now.
The Canadian national anthem has already been played and face
off in probably four or five minutes.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, I've got.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
A question for you, hockey related question. You know the
little kids that are on the ice with the with
the players. I guess those are the sons or daughters
of some of the players. I'm guessing.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Okay, all the little kids have the number twenty five
on their sweaters. Hmmm. I think is that because of
some twenty fifth anniversary thing or I think.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's twenty twenty five. I think that they were doing that.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
But the United States is playing for They have who
is that kid that played that got killed.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
They call him Johnny.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Hockey played out of Columbus and he got killed in
the car accident with his brother, and so they have
his his number, No, he was number thirteen. They have
his jersey sitting in the in the locker room. Because
he was a true Yeah Boudreau, he was Gudreau. He
was a big part of that team. He was he
was on that team that was a horrible accident.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I think it might be the year twenty twenty five.
That's possible. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I don't know. I don't know who else it could be.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But we'll be watching that and we will tell you
what the score is and what's going on Team USA
versus Team Canada. And that is a big deal going on.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Right now. We have some breaking news, Crows.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I don't know if you if this story has come
across yet, but in Israel, there's been a bus explosion,
oh a couple hours ago.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, nobody was killed, but yeah, people were hurt. That
looks horrible.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Bus explosion ISRAELI. A bus explosion rocks Tel Aviv area
in suspected terror attack. Three buses in Israel detonated Thursday
and what police are investigating as a suspected terror attack.
According to multiple reports, two empty buses exploded simultaneously in
different parking lots near Tel Aviv, before a third went
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up in flames as well. Additional bombs were also planned
on two other buses and failed to explode. They've been
since disabled, so the trauma and danger continues.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Here's one interesting thing that just came in just a
little bit ago, is that the Hamas apparently released the
bodies of four Israeli hostages that have been held in Gaza.
But Israel is now saying that in identifying the bodies,
three of which are supposed to be two young children
and a mother, they say that the body that was
supposed to be the mother's is not the mother and
it's an anonymous person.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Really yeah, wow, wow, man oh man Anah. What a tough,
tough part of the area, part of the world. Unbelievable.
All right, let's talk about Rick Caruso here and his nonprofit.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Rick Caruso, he's a doer.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
He gets things done, and they're putting together eighty to
one hundred temporary or modular homes for the people impacted
by these horrible fires, these wildfires.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
So many want to rebuild here in Altadena. They just
don't know how they're going to afford it. Well, the
first initiative from Steadfast LA will bring eighty to one
hundred modular homes to these fire ravaged communities, not just
the Eden fire, also homes in the Palisades fire, so
people can return to the communities that they love. Now,
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this starts with the Northern California modular home company Samara
and Airbnb with help from the Crusoe Family Foundation, they
will construct an install factory built homes that only take
five to six months. Steadfast LA, made up a private
sector leaders founded by Rick Caruso, says they believe prefab
construction is key to rebuilding lad.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, this guy gets things done.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
This Rick Caruso keeps costs down and limits delays. We
spoke with Ronald Dunlap, who's lived in Altadena since nineteen
seventy five, lost his home in the fire and said
insurance will only cover half of the cost to rebuild.
Rick Caruso said, that's exactly who this program is meant
to help.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Eighty to one hundred are going to get free homes.
These are permanent homes. It's going to be installed on
their lots at no costs. The driveways, the landscaping, the home,
and we're going to start getting the community back and
getting people into their homes. I hope the county and
the city run with this idea, or the state they
should be able to do this. But in the absence
of that, we're going to fill that need, and we're
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going to need help from the city and the county.
We want him to waive fees so that more money
can go into these homes. That's great, and we're not
spending a lot of money on Gunman Phaes.
Speaker 11 (13:55):
I just want to be home. But you know, if
we're not home, then we have to try to find
someplace else. And that is a daunting task, because Altony
was you don't really realize how perfect your life is
until it's gone. It looks like a place that we
could actually feel like being home again, that it's substantial
enough that we can put down roots again.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
And Rick Caruso says, this is just this start. Steadfast
LA hopes to partner with other home builders to bring
as many as one thousand modular homes to our fire.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Ravaged community, Excellent and Altadena.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Josh Haskell, ABC seven Eye, wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Snoop, Josh Haskell, That guy's great, all right, Rick Caruso
getting stuff done and oh man, he had won for
mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That guy gets a lot of stuff done. That Rick Caruso.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right out on PCH restricted, but parts of PCH
open again. They've been open and closed, open and closed
since January seventh. Now looks like they're open again. You
can't park on PCH twenty five mile an hour limit,
no U turns, no turns at all. You've got to
get in your car and drive through the restricted areas.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 12 (15:03):
We are at the main checkpoint here at PCH. And again,
if you want to get through here, you're going to
need a pass. Folks access to Pacific Coast Highway between
Santa Monica and Malibu. That's part of the expansion reopening.
If you want to get into Malibu, you go straight ahead.
If you want to get into the Palisades, you go
to the right. But you're not going anywhere if you
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do not have a pass. Yeah, there's more traffic backed
up as motorists slowly move through the checkpoint at Pacific
Coast Highway and Chicago Boulevard. This has PCH reopening for
people who live, work, or go to school in the
fire damaged Palisades.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Give you a.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
Palisades residents need a prey.
Speaker 13 (15:48):
Okayment.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
If you're a resident, permit.
Speaker 13 (15:54):
Give as all right, permanent.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Permit man a few words. I like that.
Speaker 12 (16:00):
Pallisades residents need a permit to get through the checkpoint.
Malibu City Hall providing the passes.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
What do they need permit.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
Providing the passes? Residents we talked to saying they believe
the checkpoint insures the safety of residents and the community.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And you need permit very much.
Speaker 13 (16:19):
I'm very happy with that, and give us some security.
There are banks and the village, there are businesses, and
if you let some people who prive on stealing, they
probably do very well. So this is the best way
and it should continue, all right?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
What else is here?
Speaker 12 (16:40):
Wagi Ershi didn't lose his home, but feels horrible for
some of his neighbors and friends who lost everything. He adds,
as the community comes together to heal and rebuild, the
last thing they need is for tourists to pour into
town taking pictures of the overwhelming damage. He hopes the
checkpoint will stay in place for as long as.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, that is the nightmare out there, people going out
there making videos and posing with the damage, taking selfies.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
That's a bad look, all right. The game has started.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Canada zero USA zero in the finals of the Four
Nations tournament.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
We'll keep an eye on that for you. It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We're live on kfoh. By the way, when we come back.
You know they booed our national anthem in Toronto, Montreal
when the USA last played Team Canada on Saturday. Well,
let's see if Boston returned the favor we come back.
I'll play the Canadian national anthem for you. It was
heard just moments ago, about ten minutes ago. And we'll
(17:39):
see if the Boston citizens people watching that game in
Boston repaid Canada for booing our national anthem.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We I thought I.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Could play this for you on the air, but I've
been told by I don't know legal here or management,
there has to be a certain amount of time go
by before I can play anything on TV when it
comes to these games. And I made a mistake early
on in radio. I was working at Kala SX with
(18:17):
Doug Steckler and we're on the radio during Game seven
of the Lakers, I think it was Lakers Boston Game
seven in Los Angeles, and we're doing a show. We're
obviously watching the game on TV, and we're taking some
phone calls of people who weren't watching the game and
nobody was calling, zero calls, and so we said, everybody's
(18:41):
watching the game. Everybody's watching Game seven. So we took
the microphone, put it up to the TV, and for
last ten minutes of the Boston Celtics LA Laker game,
we broadcast the audio on kalas X. What I didn't
(19:02):
know and I do now is I guess they licensed
that Krosier. Is that true that they licensed programming like
that THEBA, the NBA licenses the programming. What about it
if they pray Lakers are playing in game seven? Yeah,
that means that you can't just play that audio on
TV if you wanted to.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
No, you could not without prior consent and probably some
money changing it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I found out the hardware the hard way. Our station
was sued for twenty four million dollars over then, and
I got suspended, and I got yelled at, and I
nearly lost my job. And fortunately a friend of mine,
a guy named Jeff Warnick, who was very close with
the NBA, he ran a little interference for me and.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I got to keep my job.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But man, it was close for a long time because
CBS did want to pay twenty four million dollars to
the NBA for ten minutes of that final game.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They weren't into it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I got yelled at by a bunch of people, high
level executives, low level executives, people who just you know,
sort of work for CBS.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Everybody hammered me on that one.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
All right, So we're watching USA play Team Canada, and
Team Canada, like on Saturday, has scored first. It is
one nothing Team Canada, four shots aside, four shots for
the Canadians, four shots for the Americans, and Team Canada
is winning one to zero.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So we'll see how this goes. We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And I see if if indeed the Americans can come back,
who knows, but it's gonna be a great game either way.
If Canada wins this game, they win the championship. Yet
they will have the same record as the United States
two wins and one loss, so that's kind of odd.
But we'll see what happens. The game's going on right now.
(20:57):
I don't know what channel it's on. Let me tell
you what channel it's on. And I know you're not
supposed to do that in radio, but screw it, ESPN.
It's a ESPN, Okay, I know you're not supposed to
do it in radio. I get that, but I have
a different philosophy. If we can, if we tell you
about stuff that's going on, and we're honest about you know,
there's something else going on another station, that you'll always
(21:17):
listen knowing that if there's anything else going on, we'll
tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
But when they say, oh, on another.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Station, or it's been canceled or it's not happening right now,
I think it's really dishonest.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I don't like that. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So we run a different, little different program here where
we tell you about things going on on other stations,
hopefully that you go see it and you come back
because we were honest with you.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
All right, let's get into other news as we keep
one eye on the hockey game and one eye on
other news. Costco is in the news. Everybody loves Costco. Right, Well,
they're bringing some items back they haven't had.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
For a while.
Speaker 14 (21:54):
Five things I would never buy at Costco coming Number three,
We'll shock you. Number one one, well, tiss three chicken
additional spices at sea salt. It's pretty good. However, why
does chicken need modified food? Starch, which is a hidden
source of gluten.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Okay, I will give them that. The chicken is sensational
at Costco. I love I love it, but there there
is a reason for that. You know, they cook a
hundred of these things they send under those lights. And
one thing I found out about Costco chicken is it
tastes great when you buy it, but if you boil
(22:31):
the bones to make soup, there's so much chemicals in
that chicken.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
The whole house smells like a chemical really. Oh, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, you have to buy a You got to get
a fresh chicken. Don't get those chickens that already cooked,
either at Gelson's or Costco or you know, whatever your
market is. You got to get a fresh chicken and
boil that to make chicken soup. Don't go with some
one of these things as nine hundred chemicals. You don't
know what's in it, right, you don't know what's in it,
(22:59):
and it does smell like chemicals after you boil.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It happened to the other night. I cooked it late
at night.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
We had a Costco chicken that I think if we
didn't boil it, it probably would have gone bad in
a couple of days. So I boiled it at around
eleven o'clock at night. My daughter and my wife are sleeping,
and the whole house smelled like chemicals.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I had to open up the windows.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Yeah, I agree, it doesn't quite if you notice the
difference even in the texture to all that stuff, like
it hits all of your senses differently when it's like
a pre chicken from those.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
But that first bite is the best thing I've ever
had in my life.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, the first bite. The first bite is the deepest.
Isn't there a song about that? The first bite is
the greatest of those Costco chickens. Man, I get it now.
I might go get one at night. I love that Costco.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Anyway, Costco is bringing something back that they haven't had
for a long time, and I think it's. Yeah, the
fan favorite on shelves loo come back. I'll tell you
what it is. There's a fan favorite from Costco that's
coming back, hasn't been around for fifteen years back.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'll tell you what it is. And by the.
Speaker 15 (24:04):
Way, you don't have to sit through the commercial break.
It's not going to be that impressive.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
I don't even know if I've been to Costco for
fifteen years, so really new to me.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Okay, here's a secret for you.
Speaker 15 (24:17):
The product that Costco is going to be a real
letdown for most of you. You're not going to be
very excited about the product that's coming back from fifteen
years ago.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Costco is bringing back a fan favorite after fifteen years,
and customers are delighted.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
All right, you think it is? What do you think
they're bringing back?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Let me tell you. Let me let me predict something.
Whoever is in your car with you? When I tell
you what they're bringing back, I think you guys will
look at it you and.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Go, what the hell? Is it a food product?
Speaker 12 (24:58):
Or No?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's yes, yes, yesh, yes, food product.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It's a drink. Oh it's called Slice. They're bringing back
slice Slice soda. What lemon lime soda?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I swear to got STEP's head just kind of lit
up when you said, are you a Slice guy?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I love Slice? Really, chngil you're into Slice? Well, I
saw it at Costco the other day.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Wow, yeah, I think it's like, isn't it one of
those like prebiotic drinks or something? Oh, I don't know,
because it was next to all the fruit juices. I
get rid of the juice that I wanted, and they
put the slice in there.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Insteads man Man. It's a lemon lime soda.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Originally described as Pepsi's answer to Sprite, it was first
introduced in nineteen eighty four. The soda made ten of
real fruit juice ten percent is real fruit juice and
had a healthier image than a lot of the other
fizzy drinks. Slice soda shot to popularity. Must have missed
that with its variety of unique and include flavors including orange, strawberry, pineapple,
(26:05):
fruit punch, and grape man oh Man, steph off to
Costco with you, buddy off the Costco. Yeah, they're calling
it a healthy soda. The drink is is Yeah, it
is not. It comes in an eight pack. I've never
seen that before, an eight pack. It comes as Coca
(26:26):
Cola announce who was launching a healthy, Hellier, Healthier prebiotic
soda this week, rivaling gen Z's favorite the Poppy or Ollipop.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Slice Soda used to be owned by Pepsi is now
having a second lease on life under the soda company
Shooda Life so you can go get slice at Costco,
enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Here you go, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
The Pantry downtown Los Angeles one of the oldest and
original restaurant. They've been around, I think over one hundred
years or very close to one hundred years now.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The owner is threatening to shut it down, shut it down.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I remember Mayor Reardeny used to own that place and
it got closed down a couple of times because of rats.
So let's find out why they're closing it down. Is
the price of everything is too much? Can we all
guess why they're closing down the homeless situation. It's dangerous,
food's expensive, there's probably you know, the whole host of LA's.
(27:32):
I call them LA's. The reason why businesses closed in
LA They get laed. And I think this is I
think we're on target.
Speaker 16 (27:41):
Here into the pantry, you see the familiar faces, and
that's because those employees have been there twenty thirty plus
years and sadly they could soon be losing their jobs.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
What the hell do we love to work at the pantry?
You know, all of us is more like a family.
Speaker 16 (27:56):
It's a difficult time for long time employees of the icon.
The original pantry cafe.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, the pantry.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
If you've ever been there, it's it's literally two or
three blocks, maybe four blocks from Staple Center, from Crypto
dot Com. If you walk north, it's it's right on
that same street. It's a beautiful little place to eat.
They're open, my I thought they used to be open
twenty four hours. I don't know if they still are.
But you get a lot of food for like an
(28:23):
average you know, whatever the average did or breakfast or
lunch costs, you get a s load of food.
Speaker 16 (28:28):
One hundred year old landmark in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Put it three years of working up Pintree. I thought
when twenty.
Speaker 16 (28:36):
Year old in January, employees who have dedicated decades to
the pantry, we sid notice that the restaurant would soon
be sold. When union member employees asked for job protection
in a contract with a new buyer, they say they
were told.
Speaker 17 (28:50):
They came back and said, no, we don't want to
give you job security. We don't want to protect the union. Basically,
if you keep insisting that it happens, then we're going
to just close the restaurant. I'm right second at five.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Pm, March second at five pm. So if you like
the pantry. That might be your last opportunity to slide
in there and get yourself mail.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Close the restaurant.
Speaker 17 (29:12):
I'm right second at five pm.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
ConTroll What are they streaming? What do we want? Contra ConTroll?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
They got it, they got it. They got up their
game with that chan. That's not good. Get him anything.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
It's like playing a seventy eight on a thirty three.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Contra No One Wednesday.
Speaker 16 (29:46):
Union members hold the protest outside the pantry while employees
came outside during their breaks. Maria Hernandez is a representative
of Unite here Locally Loved.
Speaker 17 (29:56):
You know what we're asking for. It's not for you
to bring down the moon. It's common language that giant hotels, Marriott's, Hilten's.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I've never heard that term before, for you to bring
down the moon. It's not we're not asking for you
to bring down the moon. They might be getting some
sayings mixed up there. We're not asking to we're not
shooting for the stars. I've heard that before. We're not
asking for the moon, but we're not asking to bring
the moon down.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
For you to bring down the moon, asking.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
For the bring down the moon?
Speaker 17 (30:28):
Okay, for you to bring down the moon, it's common
language that John.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's not common language, is what that was.
Speaker 17 (30:34):
It's common language that Giant Hotels, Marriott's, Hilten's, other properties
that we represent, other restaurants that we represent have in
their contracts.
Speaker 16 (30:44):
The pantry previously owned by former La Mayor Richard Reard.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's right, Mayorriardon on That place was.
Speaker 16 (30:50):
Placed in a trust following his passing in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
He was a great guy. Have you ever cross you
ever meet maryor Reardon?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Once?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Super super guy. It's great dude.
Speaker 16 (31:01):
Administrators for the trust issued a statement that say.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'll tell you a quick Mayor Reardon's story. Merrriarden called
us up at Kala Sex and he said because we
talked very favorably of him, and we and he came
on all the time. He was great, and we said hey,
he said, hey, you want to come on and take
a tour of Staple Center.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Oh yeah, we'd love to. You know, it was just
being built. They didn't even put the roof on you.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
So we show up at Staple Center and there's like
five or six of us, Mee Steckler, Jason Slako, Malbudan,
a couple other people and the foreman, the guy in
charge of the project, looks down and he sees that
Malabudan is wearing flip flops and and he says, that
guy's not going in here with flip flops on. And
(31:44):
Mayor Reardon said, oh no, he's with me. And the
guy said the foreman said, I don't give an f
who he's with. He's not going in there, and he
didn't go in that's a great story, man.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
All right, we'll come back. We're live on KF I
am at six forty
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