March 5, 2025 • 34 mins
Guest: Fritz Coleman joins Tim to talk about his third and final fundraiser for Wildfire Recovery on March 30th, 2025. // Steve Carrell, helping Altadena and Pasadena high school seniors impacted by Eaton Fire attend prom // Evacuation warning issued for Sierra Madre ahead of storm/ Home Invasion in Woodland Hills
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
One of our favorite guests was on KMBC for I
think forty years.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Fritz Coleman, Conway. You're the best, buddy. I love having
you on.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I was so excited to see that you were on
the guest list today. Fritz Coleman, six oh five. That's
really a cool deal. I used to watch you and
Fred all the time. I think you started in the
mid early eighties.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Eighty Christmas Eve nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Eighty two, okay, all right, eighty two. I graduated in
eighty one.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And and I'm as a big sports fan in the
eighties with the Dodgers, the Kings, Lakers, Rams, and so
I tuned in and a big weather guy. I tuned
in for sports and weather. That was it so well.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
The great thing about Fred was he made it funny.
He made sports fun for people didn't even care about sports, right,
it was his big hook.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, wrote and I just.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Ride about the weather. But I tried to be entertained.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now, buddy, you aled it. I mean, let me ask
you a question.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Please, back when you were doing whether you got it
right ninety five percent of the time, ninety eight percent
of time? Whatever it is now, you know, other than
Dallas Rains and maybe a couple other guys or gals,
they're missing a lot of this crap. Is it just
it's harder to predict now? I don't think so, I
I you know, are they not doing the work?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You know, it's more important to have a cocktail dress
that's right and official.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
No, thank god, that's not true.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, the you know, I couldn't even get the job
if I applied now because all of these people you'll notice,
had that little seal in the lower right hand corner.
They have to be a meteorologist or don't have to
have a degree in atmospheric sciences or in meteorology, or
you don't get the gig. That's the way it is.
I I was a comic. I got hired at the
comedy store.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, but I'd rather have a comic do it, you know,
because because eighty nine percent of the time you have
nothing to report.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
No, that's true, you know, it's just coming up with
new ways to say morning clouds and fog hazy afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Every reason I always try to repeat the joke that
you used about on Shore Eddie and off.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, what was in we made characters on Shore Flow
and Coastal Eddie. We're having an inferious affair.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I still use that line. I love it. You know
it was great.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's not fun anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But you're you're a very charitable guy.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Every time I turned on Channel four, you were doing
something with the Studio City or to Luca Lake. You're
the mayor of to Luca Lake years thirty years, and
you're always doing you know, the toys for Tots with
the CHP. You were always doing charity work.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'll tell you it was the best part of my
job in my opinion. When I would put my head
down at night, I got more satisfaction out of having
contributed to community outreach organizations than being inaccurate about the
weather for out of five days a week. I just
felt better about doing the common.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'd like to direct you to the GoFundMe for our
cannon ball guy. All right, so you not only do
you work it, you know you charity work in Studio
City and Teluca Lake, but you're also involved with Hillside Homes,
which I heard was a fantastic organization.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I don't know much about it. What is Hillside Home.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's a home where they they protect and house battered
and abused children.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Wow from dysfunctional fact, you know, I mean nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And it's beautiful and these people are so passionate. And
I just did their fundraiser two weeks ago, and my
opening remarks had to be because it was the elephant
in the room. This is a place that's in the
foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains where they had to
eat in canyon fire. I had to describe the people
who had lost and seven board members in that organization
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lost their homes. Yet they still showed up and gave.
You know, the cost of their fires is going to
be a impossible to calculate. They still came and donated.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And Hillside Homes is it a group of homes? Is
it one home?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
It's like a dormitory situation. It's quite beautiful. When you
go to the campus, it looks like a college.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh good.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And they have just wonderful, passionate, caring people there. It's
a wonderful organization.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You have kids. I have a kid and I can't imagine,
and I hear stories of kids being abused all the time.
I don't know where that comes from, but I think
once you have your own, you you know you treat
them differently. But I guess the abuse from one generation
is just it's.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
The chain's breaking. The chain is tough'. It's like a
default thing. If you were abused, either sexually or physically
or emotionally, you will repeat that behavior, particularly in times
of stress.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Were you abused physically or emotionally.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Not at all. I came from a great family back
when I was an only child that was spoiled.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
My dad never raised his voice to me. He never
hit me, he never swore at me. I never hear
him swear at all. My mom, Well.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You know, I I read your sister's book. I love
the stories about you know, the homemade zipline and all that.
Your dad sounded like the cool first of all, it
was the funniest person on the planet.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, my dad put a zip line in the back
of our house over the pool, and he forgot to
tell my brother Sean, when you're over the pool, drop
off the zip line.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Lit go.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
He didn't let go, and he went right into a
phone poll bang right off to the Encito emergency room.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But not easy for you. And I have a little note,
but I have a little sense of what that was like.
When you are the parent. You're a parent that people know,
and you probably get a little bit in your career
as well, although it's not the same as TV. But
I experienced it with my older son where he was
intimidated by the fact that lots of people knew who
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I was and it made him feel like a failure
for it. Yes, and it was really hard.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I thought about.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, and but I when you had I mean, your
father is globally famous. It's not easy to be the
child or a really famous person unless he's a hands
on guy and concentrates on making it good.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, and like you and I've seen you at Denny's
do this. I was at Denny's, I don't know, maybe
two or three, four years ago, and I knew Fritz
was at a table, a couple of tables. I didn't
want to bother him, but somebody came up and asked
you for an autograph and sat there and talked to you.
And you wants to talk to that person for fifteen
minutes while you're eating with your kids and never bothered
you that my dad was the exact same one.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Now what you have to do, though, you have to
include your kids. For instance, if somebody stops me on
the sidewalk, O your Fritz Coleman, and they don't care
that your kids are there, they just recognize you. So
you have to break this is my son so and so,
and this is my son, and you know, lean down
and sort of bring them into the conversation so they
don't feel like they're less than or separate.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, I do that with my daughter.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know when when people say, hey, I hate the
show you're doing. You have a show you do every month. Yes,
with the great Wendyman Funny Lady.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We're open for Race Charles opens for Bill Maher had
her own showtime Space at the Airports Owl. She's my
opening act and has We've been there for a year
and a half. We launched it on your show. We're
still going a year and a half later.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And you also had a very famous musician, a guy
named Lawrence is.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
A Stewary Jewry. Yeah, Jewry's he's with us because we're
doing these fundraisers for the Wildfire Recovery Fund, which is
part of the California Community Foundation.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
He played for Paul McCartney.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He played for Paul McCartney and Wings. He was a
guitarist from nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty one. He's
a world class fingerstyle guitar player. He comes on at
the beginning of our show and does an acoustic set
and blows the roof off the place. It's yeah, he's
a wonderful guy. He's He's played on James Bond's soundtracks
and he's had an amazing career.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Did did you ever have the conversation with him? You know,
the real Paul McCartney died, Well, was he was the Lawrence.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
My connection with him is he was the band leader
on my old TV show that used to come on
after Saturday Night Live called It's Fritz, and he was
the bandleader and he was such a well known musician.
He got all these great Our drummer was Bruce Gary,
who was the drummer for the Knack My Charon Wow.
Our bass player was Phil Chen who was Rod Stewart's
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bass player. He was he brought all these wonderful players
in so as soon as he found out we were
doing a fundraiser for the fires. He just volunteered his
time and came over. He did it. This will be
the third month he's done it. Because it's the third
month we're doing these funds. Terrific the end of March show.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So, but did you did you talk to about the
fact that Paul, real Paul McCartney died in a car accident?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah? And the and the new Paul McCartney is the
fake Paul McCartney.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Wow, he looks great. Knew that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And who's the guy doing the concerts now?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Charge? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But you know I have I have a theory that
you can only have two conspiracy theories in your life.
Third one is you're crazy. You know you have three
or more, you're crazy. So the two that I have
are the real Paul McCartney died in a car accident
in the night, early late fifties, early sixties, and.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That was revealed because of the backwards player of that.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, and then Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. There's clues
all over, Fritz, you know that you're just playing, you know,
come because you're friends with this guy. But there's clues everywhere.
The second one is that we never landed on the moon.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That's an interesting stand. Yeah, and they and the whole
thing was green screen.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, I'm not a flat earth guy, but I'm kind
are well, I'm with the moon.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I'd like to see proof. Look, here's here's proof that
we didn't land on the moon. We just did. They
landed something over the weekend on the moon. You know,
there's a it was called Firefly from out of Texas,
the group out of Texas, and they landed an unmanned
vehicle on the Moon and they went nuts that they
finally got to the Moon with this unmanned Hello, and
we did that and yeah in nineteen sixties with one
(09:54):
billionth of the technology, we did that back then.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Get out of here, Fritz.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
You know, it's.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Conspiracy theories.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Not right off the time. My whole life is a
black hole of emotional despair. So everything's a conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You don't have one, like you know, there's like the
government is is you know, it's run by you know,
false flags and you know, and and there's uh, you
know sub guy politicians that are running the country.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well, I mean, I mean I have heard those in
the dark web and all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's the dark web.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, but you know I'm too dumb there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, I'm with you. I don't want to believe all
that stuff anyway. I just have Paul McCartney and we'd
lie to it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Because here's my theory. You know, they they all these
conspiracy theories, you know, come out there, They bubble to
the surface once a week. And I say, if there
was truth, the truth always finds a way out, particularly
in government. There's leaks in every corner of our government.
If there was truth to any of those rumors, somehow
the facts would work their way out.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And that's right now. Like the one there was a
rumor going around that Hillary Clinton was keeping children under
a pizza place, and the pizza place and the guy
went and shot the place up. I mean, that was
y I'm I'm I'm I'm a wait and see on
that one. I don't really believe that one yet. I know, Fritz,
you're into that, but I'm not into that. Can you
stay with us, we'll talk about the show. I'm here,
(11:13):
all right, Fritz Coleman's with us. Fritz said it would
be like this. Maybe didn't say it was going to
be like this.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (11:27):
Fritz Coleman is with us.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
He spent a four decades, the forty years, the forty
years that I retired.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Two weeks shy in my fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, all right, and you miss it at all? No, not, I.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Missed the people. I mean, I mean, I tell people,
even if you love what you do, forty years is
long enough.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah it is. Yeah, it is a long time. I
know you were busting my balls about wearing a T
shirt here, but I wore this other flannel shirt.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It was too hot in here. You're running around yelling
at people, got them?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I have to know. You know people won't behave around here.
I'm not surprised you. I know you're big with te
Luca Lake. I heard they're putting a Gelson's into Luca Lake.
Is that they are right down Riverside Drive, on the
north side of the street, across fright near Bob's Big Boy.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Down on the same side of the street, but down
front right across the street from Trader Joe's.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh really, yes, gonna be wars Yeah, oh man, but
that's gonna be a big complex there. They got apartments
and yeah, that building is really interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I'm just kind of learning lately. What's going to be
the top is going to be residences. I don't know
if they're gonna be like affordable housing. There's some mandate
now where whenever you put it in a structure, you
have to affordable housing. They're gonna have like thirty apartments.
They're gonna have the Whole Foods market or no Gelson's Smart,
and they're gonna have a tapas bar downstairs, which I
think is going to be partly exposed to the outdoors.
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So maybe it's gonna sidewalk up you up and it'd be.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Kind of cool. I like to Luca Lake, it's a
cool committity. It's a it's a cool hang you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You're still doing stand up and you've been sober for
let me guess forty years exactly? Is it forty years?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yes, March nineteen eighty four, two months before I got married.
I got sober.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Almost forty one years.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Wow, and you've not had a drink or a joint
or anything.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Now when you're sober, you're sober. Now they have a
new term now when I don't go to meetings anymore.
But they have a new term now called California sober.
Oh that's which you're eating gummies? Isn't that funny? So
people think there's so many good will me. Know, Hey,
I haven't had a drink in seven years, but I'm
California sober. I had seven gummies today.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You know, that's great, man. But that must have been
tough for you to be. And you know, because you're
at the go go eighties with all the coke flying around,
you know.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And I've talked about this. One of the best decisions
I ever made in my life was try to stay
away from coke. I know myself so well. I'm a
very addictive personality too that I would be dead now.
I would be in obituary somewhere.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It would have been fun.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, it would have been fine.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah. I probably have more kids than I have now.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And they'd always the mothers. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I did the same thing. I saw cocaine once in
a bathroom. Guy was doing blow and he and I said,
he said, you wanted LINE said, I'm not. You know,
I'm already pretty buzzed with uh, you know, alcohol, And
and he gave me a little bit. I put on
my finger and I put on my gums that you're
supposed to numb your gums with that, and it just
tastes like it tastes like aspirin. And I'm like, why
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am I doing this?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No, to do this?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But if I but I am, I've addicted personality as well,
Like I can't stop drinking and gambling, you know, and
that and that'll eventually kill me. But but I if
I did coke, I'd be dead by now. Oh no,
absolutely know this. Hart can't rink a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And I smoked a lot of pot. And I smoked
a lot of pot in the Navy. I threatened security
pot in the Navy. Yeah, I didn't know. I was
on a ship and I smoked pot. I do not.
I'm so embarrassed to tell you this, but it's, you know,
part of being sober is being truthful. We went we
went to Istanbul, Turkey, and you could buy a brick
of hash wow for five dollars. Now it would cost
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a couple one thousand dollars. So, I mean, it's what
ship were you on? I was on the USS John F. Kennedy,
which was the last battleship. It was an aircraft carrier.
It was the last conventionally empowered aircraft carrier CVA sixty
seven before they all went nuclear. They had the Enterprise
and the Nimens and the Eisenhower.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
How powerful? How long were on the ship?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
How many years?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Three and a half years?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh my god, you saw the world?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I did.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And when you came into harbor man that there was
a big show of fu if you f around with us, here.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Was what what the problem was. And that's so funny
that you mentioned that, because this was during the Vietnam War,
and although the name Kennedy had a lot of cachet
around the world, people loved it. So we were pulling
the port and there were people who came to see
it just because of the name. But there are also
the people that came to protest the Vietnam War. And
that's why when I was in the person in charge
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of the Navy, Admiral zoom Wall, they used to call
them z Grams. He would send these emails out and
he allowed sailors to start wearing civilian clothes because it
was so dangerous for American military guys to be walking
around in Naples and not get killed. I mean, you
know your what did you do? It was your job
on I was in E three. I worked for Armed
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Forces Radio and Television. I did radio, I did TV,
so I did the weather for the first time. I
didn't know anything about weather.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So you made announcements of the whole ship.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I did. I had a radio show in the morning.
They would send us these AFN you know transcriptions, these
thirty three to third things, and I played records for
four hours in the morning. Then I would show sixteen
millimeters kinescopes of movies in the evening, and I would
do the news. I would do the news in the weather.
It was go out to all Armed forces. No, it
just went after our ship. But what happened was there
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were five thousand people in our ship, pilotinary. But what
happened is we would tape them. And this is before
microwave and satellites. We would tape them on big two
wing video tapes. Then helicopters would take these tapes to
other ships at Fortilla. And the beauty of this job was,
you know how your first job in broadcasting. I sucked.
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I was so bad. But in the Navy, you don't
get fired if you're doing what you were abillitted to
do right, and so I could. I I had the
I had the luxury of being really bad and it
was a gift.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Did you were you guys in Vietnam?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I was. I was in the sixth Fleet, which is
the east coast of the United States over to the Mediterranean.
I did two med cruises, as we call them. I
went to the most beautiful parts of the of the country.
I went to Road to Spain, Palma, Majorca, Naples, Italy, Malta, Istanbul, Turkey, Athens, Greece,
all the Greek islands.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I heard that when the aircraft carrier, like the Jay
John F. Kennedy, when you guys came into port, that
they had guys on the deck with guns and you
got a couple of warning shots if you came too close,
and then they'd sink you. Is that true?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You mean the same people from their ship if.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
If somebody came too close to your aircraft carrier.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Oh, they had.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, they had to be. They had to
be very strict with security. But there was also a
platoon of hookers that and you know, when the Kennedy
was in Europe, these women would follow them around they'd
get to try. Well, see you in Naples. Honest, for god,
it's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But back then it was only men, I believe. Was
it on the ship? Oh yes, no it was yeah,
no women.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And you could smoke cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You could smoke on the ship. Yeah, that's wild. You
can't do that now. No, you can't even vape on
those things.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, you can't vape.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And there's women on the ship, and.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
There's women on there.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, I don't know, because the good old days, right, Fritz, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It was the best next to not drinking during my
television career going into the Navy. This is this is true.
The first time I went to college, I went to
a place called Salem College in Clarksburg, West Virginia, which
is Appalachia. And I went there because it was a
college for high school underachievers. They didn't care what your
grades were. If you just write the tuition check, you're in.
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So I went there, and even as low maintenance as
that place was, I flunked out in my sophomore year.
And those were the days of the draft and if
you dropped below a C average in school you lost
your college deferment. So I cleared that bar by a mile.
My second year, I lost my deferment. I got a
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letter from the Pentagon saying, come down to four to
oh one North Broad Street in Philadelphia, we're considering you
for employment. So I went down for my physical and
I went there and there were all the recruiters lined
up in a row, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. And
if you got drafted into the Army at that time,
which is you're in Vietnam, there's no question about it,
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like in two weeks exactly. And so I had no
problem with serving my country, but I just thought I
could do it better without a gun. I'm not a
gun person. So I just picked up my clothes and
walked naked down the hall and went to the Navy
were Cruger had signed up. And it's the single best
decision that's made my life.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
All Right, where's the website? Where can people get a
hold of you?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Uh, Fritz Hoolmancomedy dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And you're going to be at el Porto.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Okay, we got to talk about not l Porto. God,
I wish I had that much money. Elport you're thinking
of Porto's Bakery. Now, this is the el Portalfia. We're
going to be there March thirtieth. It's our third month
doing one hundred percent of the profits to the Wildfire
Recovery Fund, which is part of the California Community Foundation. Right,
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we've got Lawrence Juber who was the guitarist for Paul
McCartney and Wings from nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty one.
He's going to open the show with an acoustics sets nice.
He's a world class fingers star guitar player. Then Wendy
Liebman and then me and we're doing this great show
and again one hundred percent of the profits. So go
to the l Portal Theater website which is elportelfeater dot com.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Come.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
We'd love to see you. I'll meet you after the show.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Fritz, you're the best, buddy.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I really agree. You're invited any day you want to combine.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
You are the best. You were here beginning to help
me launch the show and we've been doing it at
a year and a half.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Let's keep it up, Fritz Coleman.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
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KFI AM six forty Hey, Angel.
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Speaker 3 (21:40):
Rocketmand's at the seventy seven thirty four.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Wow, Rocketman, kick an ass. This guy, this Rocketman. People
are donating to the Rocketman who had a had a
mishap in Riverside. Missed the net, well almost missed the net.
He hit the net, but he fell to the ground
and he busted his liver, his ribs and his wrist.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I saw the video which we posted online, and that's
the first time I'd seen now.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, he did a spin there. At the end, we
got a lot of donations. Joan donated one hundred bucks
Joan Weezar is that her name? And then David Cabaz's
cabasas Cabasis, David Cabasis ten bucks, Xavier Para ten bucks.
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What's the other one Guzeppe Giuseppe Trici fifty bucks, Ding Dong,
Christy White twenty bucks, odd name, Aldo Martin five bucks,
Flying V Group, Flying V Group twenty bucks, John Moon
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ten twenty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Just saw which one?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Bill Duncan, Oh Duncan, I can't use that last name,
but that's a good one. Hugh Jazz huge Azz ten bucks.
So you can donate to the Rocket Man GoFundMe. Yeah,
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that's a cool, cool deal, all right. A lot of
people people are emailing me saying why don't we talk
more about the Russian Ukrainian War? And I'm like, I
don't know. I mean, I don't really know much about it.
I guess brush up on it. But there's a lot
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of arm there's a lot of conflicts going on in
the world right now, and that's just one of them.
I don't know if you ever look at the website
Geneva Academy, but they keep track of all the wars
going on around the world. And let me let me
bust a list out for you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Here.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
There's forty five armed conflicts going on right now in
the Middle East forty five, there's thirty five in Africa.
There's twenty one in Asia, seven in Europe, and six
in Latin America, for a total of one hundred and
fourteen wars are going on right now. One hundred and
fourteen different wars are happening as we speak. So why
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should we just talk about one of them. If we're
going to talk about them, we talk about all of them.
And I don't got time to go through all of them.
You know, we'll wait till they get here, and we'll
wait till they get to San Pedro or Long Beach.
Then we'll mention them with them, But we just don't
have time to go through all of them, and so
why favor one of them over the next. So if
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you want to know more about what's going on in
Ukraine and Russia and the whole deal, then you know,
go to the internet, look it up, check it out.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Steve Krell is in the news.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
How about that Steve Carell to pay for prom tickets
for Pacady students. That's right, Despicable me, star, I like
to call the office star, he said, Despicable of me.
Steve Corroll, Yeah, he delivered some really good news to
hundreds of southern California high school students affected by this
year's devastating wildfires. The beloved Office comedian I'm not going
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to use Despicable movie. I'm going with the Office, announced
yesterday on Tuesday that he's working with Virginia based charity
to send every senior at six Pasadena high schools to
their respective proms for free.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Absolutely free. That's a cool deal.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's a couple hundred bucks to go to the prom
and he's sending everybody for free. So that's a that's
a big cool deal for Steve Carell. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes that's the story. Yeah, that's the story. So congratulations
with Steve Carell. That's a big deal. That's a cool deal.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Rain, it's gonna be raining tonight until they say it's
gonna taper off here in a bit and then we're
gonna have some more rain tomorrow. But it's been raining
pretty steadily at least in the San Fernando Valley all
day and it's supposed to last until nine pm, and
then tomorrow, Thursday, it's gonna be not as bad, not
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as bad tomorrow, but then we got big rain coming
in next week next Wednesday Thursday and Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday of next week lots of rain. But it
has been raining in the valley all day. I don't
know where if it's raining where you are, but it's
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been a steady at least missing or drizzling all day,
all day, and it's cool. I like the rain. I
love the rain, especially on ASH Wednesday. Ash Wednesday in rain.
That's a good combination, except for the ash kind of
a where's off.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
We've got rain happening all day to night a little
bit tomorrow as well. But it looks like the big
storm is coming in next week, you know, Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
any of those days we could see significant amount of rain.
So we'll keep on top of that. You know, we're
not quite sure nowadays. You know, back in the old days,
when they predicted a storm, it was it was they
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were pretty on right on on the money, And now
I don't know, it just seems. I mean, I hear
moke Kelly talk about it all the time. Where you know,
Mark Ronner says it's going to rain, and then mo'
kelly doesn't see any rain, and I'm with him, you know,
he just can never tell whether these storms are for
real or not. Like the Sierra Madre evacuation warning, these
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are serious storms up in the Sierra Madre. That's a
big deal with a lot of snow coming in up north.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Warnings started six o'clock this morning and they're going to
be in place all the way until six am on Friday.
The warning sign behind me tells you exactly why. Now,
this is why emergency crew say now is the time
to get ready and to be ready to go to
We can tell you the evacuation warnings are in a
lot of those areas right in northern Sierra Madre. So
it's right above those little green flags that you see
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on your screen. It's those neighborhoods north of that. Now,
these areas are at high risk of mud and debrif flow.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, that's it. That's the sound effects for mud and
debrif Low's the major deal.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
Now, during the mid February storms, we saw that happen
at Little Santa Anita Creek, damaging homes and streets for blocks.
During those storms. A few weeks back, evacuation orders and
warnings were in place. The potential for those flows happening
again this week.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It sucks. You know, you went, you lost your home,
your neighborhood was all burned to the ground, and now
when rebuilding you have to worry about mud slides. It's
a nightmare. It's an absolute nightmare what you're going through.
And I don't think a lot of people understand, you know,
the tram that people are going through right now in
not having their home and having to drive by and
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see and burn to the ground. It's having heart wrenching
for people. You know, you can only ask a relative
or family member for so many favors to stay with
them or watch the dogs or the kids or whatever.
And you feel like, you know, you want to get ahead,
but you don't feel like you're getting ahead as quickly
as you should. And it might must be an absolute
nightmare for people having to go.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Through This is why those evacuation warnings are in place again.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
The storm is different than the last one.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
When the February storm hit, all of our debris basins
were empty.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
That is not the case this time.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
The last storm filled every debris basin to capacity, and
Will County and City contractors have been working tirelessly to
clear them.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
We are not starting from empty.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
You can pick up free sand bags today from eight
to four at the City Yards on Eastseer Madri Boulevard
behind the YMCA. Every household is limited to twenty five bags,
and you do need to show proof of residency. Bring
your own shovel to to scoop the sand into the bags.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Got almighty, what pain in the ass. You gotta go
get your own bags. You have to show proof of
residency and then you've got to fill your own bags
with the sand. Take those forty pound bags home in
your car and put them in your driveway. Doesn't any
help for people out there have lost their homes.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
He can pick up free sand bags today from eight
to four at the City Yards.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, and it's only eight to four. Some people work
a little later than four, and there go to work
before eight. So what are they supposed to do? They're
sol sob blank out of bags.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Dear Amandri Boulevard behind the ymcah.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You gotta go behind the YMCA. Now you gotta find
the YMCN. I you gotta go behind it where it's
dark and find the bags in your hands and knees.
Look around, Oh, there's a bag. Now what do I do?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You got to fill it on your own.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Every household is limited to twenty five bags.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Then you can only take twenty five bags, which doesn't
help a lot of people.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
And you do need to show proof of residency ye
live up.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
There, And then you got to do all the work.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Bring your own shovel too, to scoop the sand into
the bags.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
They don't even have a shovel for you. You've got to byos.
Bring your own shovel, fill your bags, then put them
in your car. Sand we'll probably get all over your car,
mess up your car, and you've got to do that
all on your own. Thanks for the help. Thanks for
the help.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Bring your own shovel too to scoop the sand into
the bags. Now back at your life. Another reminder from
city officials is that if you are in one of
those evacuation warning zones, no street parking is allowed. That's
because a lot of those okay another mighty no street
parking is allowed.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
And then your your home is burned out, your driveways
burned out. You got to park on the side of
the street. And when you're going back to look for
you know, valuables or maybe take somebody who is going
to survey your property to start rebuilding, and they can't
park on the street.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
No street parking is allowed.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
What's with all these rules with these people?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
That's because a lot of those zones are up behind us.
I do neighborhoods right at the foothills where streets can
get really curvy and small, So they want to make
sure that emergency crews have the right of way. We're
Liven's here, Madre Brittany help for today in la all right?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Is not there? It's just one bad news story after
another after another. All right. Every day we have an
home invasion or a business being robbed, and today is
no different. This time we go to Woodland Hills.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
New details on a home invasion in Woodland Hills. A mother, father,
and their son are okay after being zip tied by
a man armed with a gun. It happened yesterday morning
around six at a home off McFarlane Drive.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Six in the morning. Everybody's sleeping or just getting up
to start your day. Guy comes in, zip ties you,
your wife and your kid and takes all your crap.
It's happening in Woodland Hills.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
The LAPD says the family was shoved in a closet
with the door sealed shut. They eventually broke free and
rent neighbor for help. The mom was taken to a hospital.
It's still unclear what, if anything, was taken. The suspect
is a man in his thirties who was wearing a
black face mask, a white long sleeved shirt, and black pants.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It can happen to any of us, and it sucks,
and they can't get a hold of it, and they
can't stop it. I don't know what the answer is,
but every single day we do another story of a
home getting robbed or business getting robbed. So I like
to tell everybody for tonight, good luck. If you live
in LA, you live in southern California, I wish you
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luck tonight. Hope it's not you. Hope it's not you.
It could be like that family had no idea they
were gonna get robbed, and they got zip tied and
robbed and thrown in the closet. Now they'll never feel
the same about their house again. They'll always be a
little nervous. The wife had to go to the hospital.
Maybe she had a mental breakdown of it, or maybe
she got physically hurt and it sucks, and they got
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to do something about it. They got to do something
about it, all right. Mo Kelly's up next right here
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
One of our favorite guests was on KMBC for I
think forty years.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Fritz Coleman, Conway. You're the best, buddy. I love having
you on.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I was so excited to see that you were on
the guest list today. Fritz Coleman, six oh five. That's
really a cool deal. I used to watch you and
Fred all the time. I think you started in the
mid early eighties.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Eighty Christmas Eve nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Eighty two, okay, all right, eighty two. I graduated in
eighty one.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And and I'm as a big sports fan in the
eighties with the Dodgers, the Kings, Lakers, Rams, and so
I tuned in and a big weather guy. I tuned
in for sports and weather. That was it so well.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
The great thing about Fred was he made it funny.
He made sports fun for people didn't even care about sports, right,
it was his big hook.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, wrote and I just.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Ride about the weather. But I tried to be entertained.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now, buddy, you aled it. I mean, let me ask
you a question.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Please, back when you were doing whether you got it
right ninety five percent of the time, ninety eight percent
of time? Whatever it is now, you know, other than
Dallas Rains and maybe a couple other guys or gals,
they're missing a lot of this crap. Is it just
it's harder to predict now? I don't think so, I
I you know, are they not doing the work?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You know, it's more important to have a cocktail dress
that's right and official.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
No, thank god, that's not true.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, the you know, I couldn't even get the job
if I applied now because all of these people you'll notice,
had that little seal in the lower right hand corner.
They have to be a meteorologist or don't have to
have a degree in atmospheric sciences or in meteorology, or
you don't get the gig. That's the way it is.
I I was a comic. I got hired at the
comedy store.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, but I'd rather have a comic do it, you know,
because because eighty nine percent of the time you have
nothing to report.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
No, that's true, you know, it's just coming up with
new ways to say morning clouds and fog hazy afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Every reason I always try to repeat the joke that
you used about on Shore Eddie and off.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, what was in we made characters on Shore Flow
and Coastal Eddie. We're having an inferious affair.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I still use that line. I love it. You know
it was great.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's not fun anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But you're you're a very charitable guy.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Every time I turned on Channel four, you were doing
something with the Studio City or to Luca Lake. You're
the mayor of to Luca Lake years thirty years, and
you're always doing you know, the toys for Tots with
the CHP. You were always doing charity work.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'll tell you it was the best part of my
job in my opinion. When I would put my head
down at night, I got more satisfaction out of having
contributed to community outreach organizations than being inaccurate about the
weather for out of five days a week. I just
felt better about doing the common.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'd like to direct you to the GoFundMe for our
cannon ball guy. All right, so you not only do
you work it, you know you charity work in Studio
City and Teluca Lake, but you're also involved with Hillside Homes,
which I heard was a fantastic organization.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I don't know much about it. What is Hillside Home.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's a home where they they protect and house battered
and abused children.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Wow from dysfunctional fact, you know, I mean nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And it's beautiful and these people are so passionate. And
I just did their fundraiser two weeks ago, and my
opening remarks had to be because it was the elephant
in the room. This is a place that's in the
foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains where they had to
eat in canyon fire. I had to describe the people
who had lost and seven board members in that organization
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lost their homes. Yet they still showed up and gave.
You know, the cost of their fires is going to
be a impossible to calculate. They still came and donated.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And Hillside Homes is it a group of homes? Is
it one home?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
It's like a dormitory situation. It's quite beautiful. When you
go to the campus, it looks like a college.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh good.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And they have just wonderful, passionate, caring people there. It's
a wonderful organization.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You have kids. I have a kid and I can't imagine,
and I hear stories of kids being abused all the time.
I don't know where that comes from, but I think
once you have your own, you you know you treat
them differently. But I guess the abuse from one generation
is just it's.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
The chain's breaking. The chain is tough'. It's like a
default thing. If you were abused, either sexually or physically
or emotionally, you will repeat that behavior, particularly in times
of stress.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Were you abused physically or emotionally.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Not at all. I came from a great family back
when I was an only child that was spoiled.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
My dad never raised his voice to me. He never
hit me, he never swore at me. I never hear
him swear at all. My mom, Well.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You know, I I read your sister's book. I love
the stories about you know, the homemade zipline and all that.
Your dad sounded like the cool first of all, it
was the funniest person on the planet.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, my dad put a zip line in the back
of our house over the pool, and he forgot to
tell my brother Sean, when you're over the pool, drop
off the zip line.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Lit go.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
He didn't let go, and he went right into a
phone poll bang right off to the Encito emergency room.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But not easy for you. And I have a little note,
but I have a little sense of what that was like.
When you are the parent. You're a parent that people know,
and you probably get a little bit in your career
as well, although it's not the same as TV. But
I experienced it with my older son where he was
intimidated by the fact that lots of people knew who
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I was and it made him feel like a failure
for it. Yes, and it was really hard.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I thought about.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, and but I when you had I mean, your
father is globally famous. It's not easy to be the
child or a really famous person unless he's a hands
on guy and concentrates on making it good.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, and like you and I've seen you at Denny's
do this. I was at Denny's, I don't know, maybe
two or three, four years ago, and I knew Fritz
was at a table, a couple of tables. I didn't
want to bother him, but somebody came up and asked
you for an autograph and sat there and talked to you.
And you wants to talk to that person for fifteen
minutes while you're eating with your kids and never bothered
you that my dad was the exact same one.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Now what you have to do, though, you have to
include your kids. For instance, if somebody stops me on
the sidewalk, O your Fritz Coleman, and they don't care
that your kids are there, they just recognize you. So
you have to break this is my son so and so,
and this is my son, and you know, lean down
and sort of bring them into the conversation so they
don't feel like they're less than or separate.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, I do that with my daughter.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know when when people say, hey, I hate the
show you're doing. You have a show you do every month. Yes,
with the great Wendyman Funny Lady.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We're open for Race Charles opens for Bill Maher had
her own showtime Space at the Airports Owl. She's my
opening act and has We've been there for a year
and a half. We launched it on your show. We're
still going a year and a half later.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And you also had a very famous musician, a guy
named Lawrence is.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
A Stewary Jewry. Yeah, Jewry's he's with us because we're
doing these fundraisers for the Wildfire Recovery Fund, which is
part of the California Community Foundation.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
He played for Paul McCartney.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He played for Paul McCartney and Wings. He was a
guitarist from nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty one. He's
a world class fingerstyle guitar player. He comes on at
the beginning of our show and does an acoustic set
and blows the roof off the place. It's yeah, he's
a wonderful guy. He's He's played on James Bond's soundtracks
and he's had an amazing career.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Did did you ever have the conversation with him? You know,
the real Paul McCartney died, Well, was he was the Lawrence.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
My connection with him is he was the band leader
on my old TV show that used to come on
after Saturday Night Live called It's Fritz, and he was
the bandleader and he was such a well known musician.
He got all these great Our drummer was Bruce Gary,
who was the drummer for the Knack My Charon Wow.
Our bass player was Phil Chen who was Rod Stewart's
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bass player. He was he brought all these wonderful players
in so as soon as he found out we were
doing a fundraiser for the fires. He just volunteered his
time and came over. He did it. This will be
the third month he's done it. Because it's the third
month we're doing these funds. Terrific the end of March show.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So, but did you did you talk to about the
fact that Paul, real Paul McCartney died in a car accident?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah? And the and the new Paul McCartney is the
fake Paul McCartney.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Wow, he looks great. Knew that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And who's the guy doing the concerts now?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Charge? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But you know I have I have a theory that
you can only have two conspiracy theories in your life.
Third one is you're crazy. You know you have three
or more, you're crazy. So the two that I have
are the real Paul McCartney died in a car accident
in the night, early late fifties, early sixties, and.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That was revealed because of the backwards player of that.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, and then Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. There's clues
all over, Fritz, you know that you're just playing, you know,
come because you're friends with this guy. But there's clues everywhere.
The second one is that we never landed on the moon.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That's an interesting stand. Yeah, and they and the whole
thing was green screen.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, I'm not a flat earth guy, but I'm kind
are well, I'm with the moon.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I'd like to see proof. Look, here's here's proof that
we didn't land on the moon. We just did. They
landed something over the weekend on the moon. You know,
there's a it was called Firefly from out of Texas,
the group out of Texas, and they landed an unmanned
vehicle on the Moon and they went nuts that they
finally got to the Moon with this unmanned Hello, and
we did that and yeah in nineteen sixties with one
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billionth of the technology, we did that back then.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Get out of here, Fritz.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
You know, it's.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Conspiracy theories.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Not right off the time. My whole life is a
black hole of emotional despair. So everything's a conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You don't have one, like you know, there's like the
government is is you know, it's run by you know,
false flags and you know, and and there's uh, you
know sub guy politicians that are running the country.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well, I mean, I mean I have heard those in
the dark web and all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's the dark web.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, but you know I'm too dumb there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, I'm with you. I don't want to believe all
that stuff anyway. I just have Paul McCartney and we'd
lie to it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Because here's my theory. You know, they they all these
conspiracy theories, you know, come out there, They bubble to
the surface once a week. And I say, if there
was truth, the truth always finds a way out, particularly
in government. There's leaks in every corner of our government.
If there was truth to any of those rumors, somehow
the facts would work their way out.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And that's right now. Like the one there was a
rumor going around that Hillary Clinton was keeping children under
a pizza place, and the pizza place and the guy
went and shot the place up. I mean, that was
y I'm I'm I'm I'm a wait and see on
that one. I don't really believe that one yet. I know, Fritz,
you're into that, but I'm not into that. Can you
stay with us, we'll talk about the show. I'm here,
(11:13):
all right, Fritz Coleman's with us. Fritz said it would
be like this. Maybe didn't say it was going to
be like this.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Fritz Coleman is with us.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
He spent a four decades, the forty years, the forty
years that I retired.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Two weeks shy in my fortieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, all right, and you miss it at all? No, not, I.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Missed the people. I mean, I mean, I tell people,
even if you love what you do, forty years is
long enough.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah it is. Yeah, it is a long time. I
know you were busting my balls about wearing a T
shirt here, but I wore this other flannel shirt.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It was too hot in here. You're running around yelling
at people, got them?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I have to know. You know people won't behave around here.
I'm not surprised you. I know you're big with te
Luca Lake. I heard they're putting a Gelson's into Luca Lake.
Is that they are right down Riverside Drive, on the
north side of the street, across fright near Bob's Big Boy.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Down on the same side of the street, but down
front right across the street from Trader Joe's.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh really, yes, gonna be wars Yeah, oh man, but
that's gonna be a big complex there. They got apartments
and yeah, that building is really interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I'm just kind of learning lately. What's going to be
the top is going to be residences. I don't know
if they're gonna be like affordable housing. There's some mandate
now where whenever you put it in a structure, you
have to affordable housing. They're gonna have like thirty apartments.
They're gonna have the Whole Foods market or no Gelson's Smart,
and they're gonna have a tapas bar downstairs, which I
think is going to be partly exposed to the outdoors.
(12:47):
So maybe it's gonna sidewalk up you up and it'd be.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Kind of cool. I like to Luca Lake, it's a
cool committity. It's a it's a cool hang you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You're still doing stand up and you've been sober for
let me guess forty years exactly? Is it forty years?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yes, March nineteen eighty four, two months before I got married.
I got sober.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Almost forty one years.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Wow, and you've not had a drink or a joint
or anything.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Now when you're sober, you're sober. Now they have a
new term now when I don't go to meetings anymore.
But they have a new term now called California sober.
Oh that's which you're eating gummies? Isn't that funny? So
people think there's so many good will me. Know, Hey,
I haven't had a drink in seven years, but I'm
California sober. I had seven gummies today.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You know, that's great, man. But that must have been
tough for you to be. And you know, because you're
at the go go eighties with all the coke flying around,
you know.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And I've talked about this. One of the best decisions
I ever made in my life was try to stay
away from coke. I know myself so well. I'm a
very addictive personality too that I would be dead now.
I would be in obituary somewhere.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It would have been fun.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, it would have been fine.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah. I probably have more kids than I have now.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And they'd always the mothers. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I did the same thing. I saw cocaine once in
a bathroom. Guy was doing blow and he and I said,
he said, you wanted LINE said, I'm not. You know,
I'm already pretty buzzed with uh, you know, alcohol, And
and he gave me a little bit. I put on
my finger and I put on my gums that you're
supposed to numb your gums with that, and it just
tastes like it tastes like aspirin. And I'm like, why
(14:22):
am I doing this?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No, to do this?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But if I but I am, I've addicted personality as well,
Like I can't stop drinking and gambling, you know, and
that and that'll eventually kill me. But but I if
I did coke, I'd be dead by now. Oh no,
absolutely know this. Hart can't rink a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And I smoked a lot of pot. And I smoked
a lot of pot in the Navy. I threatened security
pot in the Navy. Yeah, I didn't know. I was
on a ship and I smoked pot. I do not.
I'm so embarrassed to tell you this, but it's, you know,
part of being sober is being truthful. We went we
went to Istanbul, Turkey, and you could buy a brick
of hash wow for five dollars. Now it would cost
(14:59):
a couple one thousand dollars. So, I mean, it's what
ship were you on? I was on the USS John F. Kennedy,
which was the last battleship. It was an aircraft carrier.
It was the last conventionally empowered aircraft carrier CVA sixty
seven before they all went nuclear. They had the Enterprise
and the Nimens and the Eisenhower.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
How powerful? How long were on the ship?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
How many years?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Three and a half years?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh my god, you saw the world?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I did.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And when you came into harbor man that there was
a big show of fu if you f around with us, here.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Was what what the problem was. And that's so funny
that you mentioned that, because this was during the Vietnam War,
and although the name Kennedy had a lot of cachet
around the world, people loved it. So we were pulling
the port and there were people who came to see
it just because of the name. But there are also
the people that came to protest the Vietnam War. And
that's why when I was in the person in charge
(15:54):
of the Navy, Admiral zoom Wall, they used to call
them z Grams. He would send these emails out and
he allowed sailors to start wearing civilian clothes because it
was so dangerous for American military guys to be walking
around in Naples and not get killed. I mean, you
know your what did you do? It was your job
on I was in E three. I worked for Armed
(16:15):
Forces Radio and Television. I did radio, I did TV,
so I did the weather for the first time. I
didn't know anything about weather.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So you made announcements of the whole ship.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I did. I had a radio show in the morning.
They would send us these AFN you know transcriptions, these
thirty three to third things, and I played records for
four hours in the morning. Then I would show sixteen
millimeters kinescopes of movies in the evening, and I would
do the news. I would do the news in the weather.
It was go out to all Armed forces. No, it
just went after our ship. But what happened was there
(16:45):
were five thousand people in our ship, pilotinary. But what
happened is we would tape them. And this is before
microwave and satellites. We would tape them on big two
wing video tapes. Then helicopters would take these tapes to
other ships at Fortilla. And the beauty of this job was,
you know how your first job in broadcasting. I sucked.
(17:06):
I was so bad. But in the Navy, you don't
get fired if you're doing what you were abillitted to
do right, and so I could. I I had the
I had the luxury of being really bad and it
was a gift.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Did you were you guys in Vietnam?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I was. I was in the sixth Fleet, which is
the east coast of the United States over to the Mediterranean.
I did two med cruises, as we call them. I
went to the most beautiful parts of the of the country.
I went to Road to Spain, Palma, Majorca, Naples, Italy, Malta, Istanbul, Turkey, Athens, Greece,
all the Greek islands.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I heard that when the aircraft carrier, like the Jay
John F. Kennedy, when you guys came into port, that
they had guys on the deck with guns and you
got a couple of warning shots if you came too close,
and then they'd sink you. Is that true?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You mean the same people from their ship if.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
If somebody came too close to your aircraft carrier.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Oh, they had.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, they had to be. They had to
be very strict with security. But there was also a
platoon of hookers that and you know, when the Kennedy
was in Europe, these women would follow them around they'd
get to try. Well, see you in Naples. Honest, for god,
it's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But back then it was only men, I believe. Was
it on the ship? Oh yes, no it was yeah,
no women.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And you could smoke cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You could smoke on the ship. Yeah, that's wild. You
can't do that now. No, you can't even vape on
those things.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, you can't vape.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And there's women on the ship, and.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
There's women on there.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, I don't know, because the good old days, right, Fritz, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It was the best next to not drinking during my
television career going into the Navy. This is this is true.
The first time I went to college, I went to
a place called Salem College in Clarksburg, West Virginia, which
is Appalachia. And I went there because it was a
college for high school underachievers. They didn't care what your
grades were. If you just write the tuition check, you're in.
(19:03):
So I went there, and even as low maintenance as
that place was, I flunked out in my sophomore year.
And those were the days of the draft and if
you dropped below a C average in school you lost
your college deferment. So I cleared that bar by a mile.
My second year, I lost my deferment. I got a
(19:24):
letter from the Pentagon saying, come down to four to
oh one North Broad Street in Philadelphia, we're considering you
for employment. So I went down for my physical and
I went there and there were all the recruiters lined
up in a row, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. And
if you got drafted into the Army at that time,
which is you're in Vietnam, there's no question about it,
(19:47):
like in two weeks exactly. And so I had no
problem with serving my country, but I just thought I
could do it better without a gun. I'm not a
gun person. So I just picked up my clothes and
walked naked down the hall and went to the Navy
were Cruger had signed up. And it's the single best
decision that's made my life.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
All Right, where's the website? Where can people get a
hold of you?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Uh, Fritz Hoolmancomedy dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And you're going to be at el Porto.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Okay, we got to talk about not l Porto. God,
I wish I had that much money. Elport you're thinking
of Porto's Bakery. Now, this is the el Portalfia. We're
going to be there March thirtieth. It's our third month
doing one hundred percent of the profits to the Wildfire
Recovery Fund, which is part of the California Community Foundation. Right,
(20:32):
we've got Lawrence Juber who was the guitarist for Paul
McCartney and Wings from nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty one.
He's going to open the show with an acoustics sets nice.
He's a world class fingers star guitar player. Then Wendy
Liebman and then me and we're doing this great show
and again one hundred percent of the profits. So go
to the l Portal Theater website which is elportelfeater dot com.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Come.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
We'd love to see you. I'll meet you after the show.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Fritz, you're the best, buddy.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I really agree. You're invited any day you want to combine.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
You are the best. You were here beginning to help
me launch the show and we've been doing it at
a year and a half.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Let's keep it up, Fritz Coleman.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Everybody, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty Hey, Angel.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
CITYFC kicks off their twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
That's a big deal Sunday.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
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San Diego Wave. Every fan of the Tenants will receive a
souvenir flag and a schedule magnet. Get your tickets before
they sell out angelcity dot com, Angelcity dot com and
stream all the games in HD on the IHEARTRADIOPP.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Rocketmand's at the seventy seven thirty four.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Wow, Rocketman, kick an ass. This guy, this Rocketman. People
are donating to the Rocketman who had a had a
mishap in Riverside. Missed the net, well almost missed the net.
He hit the net, but he fell to the ground
and he busted his liver, his ribs and his wrist.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I saw the video which we posted online, and that's
the first time I'd seen now.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, he did a spin there. At the end, we
got a lot of donations. Joan donated one hundred bucks
Joan Weezar is that her name? And then David Cabaz's
cabasas Cabasis, David Cabasis ten bucks, Xavier Para ten bucks.
(22:30):
What's the other one Guzeppe Giuseppe Trici fifty bucks, Ding Dong,
Christy White twenty bucks, odd name, Aldo Martin five bucks,
Flying V Group, Flying V Group twenty bucks, John Moon
(22:53):
ten twenty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Just saw which one?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Bill Duncan, Oh Duncan, I can't use that last name,
but that's a good one. Hugh Jazz huge Azz ten bucks.
So you can donate to the Rocket Man GoFundMe. Yeah,
(23:21):
that's a cool, cool deal, all right. A lot of
people people are emailing me saying why don't we talk
more about the Russian Ukrainian War? And I'm like, I
don't know. I mean, I don't really know much about it.
I guess brush up on it. But there's a lot
(23:41):
of arm there's a lot of conflicts going on in
the world right now, and that's just one of them.
I don't know if you ever look at the website
Geneva Academy, but they keep track of all the wars
going on around the world. And let me let me
bust a list out for you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Here.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
There's forty five armed conflicts going on right now in
the Middle East forty five, there's thirty five in Africa.
There's twenty one in Asia, seven in Europe, and six
in Latin America, for a total of one hundred and
fourteen wars are going on right now. One hundred and
fourteen different wars are happening as we speak. So why
(24:23):
should we just talk about one of them. If we're
going to talk about them, we talk about all of them.
And I don't got time to go through all of them.
You know, we'll wait till they get here, and we'll
wait till they get to San Pedro or Long Beach.
Then we'll mention them with them, But we just don't
have time to go through all of them, and so
why favor one of them over the next. So if
(24:45):
you want to know more about what's going on in
Ukraine and Russia and the whole deal, then you know,
go to the internet, look it up, check it out.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Steve Krell is in the news.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
How about that Steve Carell to pay for prom tickets
for Pacady students. That's right, Despicable me, star, I like
to call the office star, he said, Despicable of me.
Steve Corroll, Yeah, he delivered some really good news to
hundreds of southern California high school students affected by this
year's devastating wildfires. The beloved Office comedian I'm not going
(25:19):
to use Despicable movie. I'm going with the Office, announced
yesterday on Tuesday that he's working with Virginia based charity
to send every senior at six Pasadena high schools to
their respective proms for free.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Absolutely free. That's a cool deal.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's a couple hundred bucks to go to the prom
and he's sending everybody for free. So that's a that's
a big cool deal for Steve Carell. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes that's the story. Yeah, that's the story. So congratulations
with Steve Carell. That's a big deal. That's a cool deal.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Rain, it's gonna be raining tonight until they say it's
gonna taper off here in a bit and then we're
gonna have some more rain tomorrow. But it's been raining
pretty steadily at least in the San Fernando Valley all
day and it's supposed to last until nine pm, and
then tomorrow, Thursday, it's gonna be not as bad, not
(26:17):
as bad tomorrow, but then we got big rain coming
in next week next Wednesday Thursday and Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday of next week lots of rain. But it
has been raining in the valley all day. I don't
know where if it's raining where you are, but it's
(26:38):
been a steady at least missing or drizzling all day,
all day, and it's cool. I like the rain. I
love the rain, especially on ASH Wednesday. Ash Wednesday in rain.
That's a good combination, except for the ash kind of
a where's off.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
We've got rain happening all day to night a little
bit tomorrow as well. But it looks like the big
storm is coming in next week, you know, Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
any of those days we could see significant amount of rain.
So we'll keep on top of that. You know, we're
not quite sure nowadays. You know, back in the old days,
when they predicted a storm, it was it was they
(27:24):
were pretty on right on on the money, And now
I don't know, it just seems. I mean, I hear
moke Kelly talk about it all the time. Where you know,
Mark Ronner says it's going to rain, and then mo'
kelly doesn't see any rain, and I'm with him, you know,
he just can never tell whether these storms are for
real or not. Like the Sierra Madre evacuation warning, these
(27:47):
are serious storms up in the Sierra Madre. That's a
big deal with a lot of snow coming in up north.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Warnings started six o'clock this morning and they're going to
be in place all the way until six am on Friday.
The warning sign behind me tells you exactly why. Now,
this is why emergency crew say now is the time
to get ready and to be ready to go to
We can tell you the evacuation warnings are in a
lot of those areas right in northern Sierra Madre. So
it's right above those little green flags that you see
(28:16):
on your screen. It's those neighborhoods north of that. Now,
these areas are at high risk of mud and debrif flow.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, that's it. That's the sound effects for mud and
debrif Low's the major deal.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
Now, during the mid February storms, we saw that happen
at Little Santa Anita Creek, damaging homes and streets for blocks.
During those storms. A few weeks back, evacuation orders and
warnings were in place. The potential for those flows happening
again this week.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It sucks. You know, you went, you lost your home,
your neighborhood was all burned to the ground, and now
when rebuilding you have to worry about mud slides. It's
a nightmare. It's an absolute nightmare what you're going through.
And I don't think a lot of people understand, you know,
the tram that people are going through right now in
not having their home and having to drive by and
(29:05):
see and burn to the ground. It's having heart wrenching
for people. You know, you can only ask a relative
or family member for so many favors to stay with
them or watch the dogs or the kids or whatever.
And you feel like, you know, you want to get ahead,
but you don't feel like you're getting ahead as quickly
as you should. And it might must be an absolute
nightmare for people having to go.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Through This is why those evacuation warnings are in place again.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
The storm is different than the last one.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
When the February storm hit, all of our debris basins
were empty.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
That is not the case this time.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
The last storm filled every debris basin to capacity, and
Will County and City contractors have been working tirelessly to
clear them.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
We are not starting from empty.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
You can pick up free sand bags today from eight
to four at the City Yards on Eastseer Madri Boulevard
behind the YMCA. Every household is limited to twenty five bags,
and you do need to show proof of residency. Bring
your own shovel to to scoop the sand into the bags.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Got almighty, what pain in the ass. You gotta go
get your own bags. You have to show proof of
residency and then you've got to fill your own bags
with the sand. Take those forty pound bags home in
your car and put them in your driveway. Doesn't any
help for people out there have lost their homes.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
He can pick up free sand bags today from eight
to four at the City Yards.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, and it's only eight to four. Some people work
a little later than four, and there go to work
before eight. So what are they supposed to do? They're
sol sob blank out of bags.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Dear Amandri Boulevard behind the ymcah.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You gotta go behind the YMCA. Now you gotta find
the YMCN. I you gotta go behind it where it's
dark and find the bags in your hands and knees.
Look around, Oh, there's a bag. Now what do I do?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You got to fill it on your own.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Every household is limited to twenty five bags.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Then you can only take twenty five bags, which doesn't
help a lot of people.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
And you do need to show proof of residency ye
live up.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
There, And then you got to do all the work.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Bring your own shovel too, to scoop the sand into
the bags.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
They don't even have a shovel for you. You've got to byos.
Bring your own shovel, fill your bags, then put them
in your car. Sand we'll probably get all over your car,
mess up your car, and you've got to do that
all on your own. Thanks for the help. Thanks for
the help.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Bring your own shovel too to scoop the sand into
the bags. Now back at your life. Another reminder from
city officials is that if you are in one of
those evacuation warning zones, no street parking is allowed. That's
because a lot of those okay another mighty no street
parking is allowed.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
And then your your home is burned out, your driveways
burned out. You got to park on the side of
the street. And when you're going back to look for
you know, valuables or maybe take somebody who is going
to survey your property to start rebuilding, and they can't
park on the street.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
No street parking is allowed.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
What's with all these rules with these people?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
That's because a lot of those zones are up behind us.
I do neighborhoods right at the foothills where streets can
get really curvy and small, So they want to make
sure that emergency crews have the right of way. We're
Liven's here, Madre Brittany help for today in la all right?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Is not there? It's just one bad news story after
another after another. All right. Every day we have an
home invasion or a business being robbed, and today is
no different. This time we go to Woodland Hills.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
New details on a home invasion in Woodland Hills. A mother, father,
and their son are okay after being zip tied by
a man armed with a gun. It happened yesterday morning
around six at a home off McFarlane Drive.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Six in the morning. Everybody's sleeping or just getting up
to start your day. Guy comes in, zip ties you,
your wife and your kid and takes all your crap.
It's happening in Woodland Hills.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
The LAPD says the family was shoved in a closet
with the door sealed shut. They eventually broke free and
rent neighbor for help. The mom was taken to a hospital.
It's still unclear what, if anything, was taken. The suspect
is a man in his thirties who was wearing a
black face mask, a white long sleeved shirt, and black pants.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It can happen to any of us, and it sucks,
and they can't get a hold of it, and they
can't stop it. I don't know what the answer is,
but every single day we do another story of a
home getting robbed or business getting robbed. So I like
to tell everybody for tonight, good luck. If you live
in LA, you live in southern California, I wish you
(33:34):
luck tonight. Hope it's not you. Hope it's not you.
It could be like that family had no idea they
were gonna get robbed, and they got zip tied and
robbed and thrown in the closet. Now they'll never feel
the same about their house again. They'll always be a
little nervous. The wife had to go to the hospital.
Maybe she had a mental breakdown of it, or maybe
she got physically hurt and it sucks, and they got
(33:57):
to do something about it. They got to do something
about it, all right. Mo Kelly's up next right here
on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Now, you can always hear us live
on KFI AM six forty four to seven pm Monday
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
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