March 28, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I Am six forty and you're listening
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Can if I Am six forty, It's Conway Show. What
chase we had through the freeways and the streets of
Los Angeles and Wittier. They went through mostly the six
oh five got off on the twenty two. I thought
they're gonna go to Seal Beach. That he didn't. He
stayed on the on the twenty two, and then that
turns into Long Beach and man, oh man, they're probably
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twenty cars that were hit. Let's let's up, uh seth.
Let's turn on channel seven right now. They're over the
overhead of one of these poor women that got hit
by this car and had to be taken out of
the car and put into an ambulance. Let's find out
what Chris Christy's talking. Earthquake? Then we just missed it, okay,
all right? If you're watching, If you weren't watch or
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listening to John Colevelt and you were watching this chase, man,
I was most late for work. I could not get
off the couch watching this chase. And it's the only
piece of audio and video that my wife, my daughter,
and myself. My daughter's nineteen, my wife older than nineteen,
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and I'm a little older than my wife, right, and
all three of us sat there glued to the TV set.
There's nothing else the three of us watched together. You know.
Wicked came out on I guess what streaming this week,
and I started watching that, and twenty minutes into it,
my wife's like waking me up, like, hey, hey, hey, hey,
(01:38):
you're falling asleep. I'm like, God, I don't think I
can make it. I don't think I can make it
through three hours of Wicked, and I couldn't. And my
daughter loves it, my wife loves it. And then I'm
watching the King Game last night. My daughter's not interested,
my wife's semi interested. But man, when that chase happens,
we all sat there glued to the TV set. It's
(02:00):
I think it's the only TV show, if you can
call it, that that crosses over generations that you can
sit there with your six year old, your sixteen year old,
twenty six thirty six, fifty six, ninety six, and everybody
can watch it because you never know what's going to happen.
You don't know what's going to happen. It's super dangerous.
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I know there's a lot of people out there that say,
you know, you shouldn't highlight it, you shouldn't talk about
it on the radio. BS. You have to talk about
it on the radio. You have to warn people that
a holes like this are in their neighborhood and so
they can get their kids and their dogs and their
pets and their wives and their husbands inside the house
and be safe. You have to do that. So it's
a public service that we do it. And man, somebody's
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gonna get killed. These chases are getting more radical and
more radical. And I don't know what it is with
the economy, with all the fires we had, the floods
we had, people are broke, all the firings that are
going on. But people are desperate. They're desperate. And Doug
Steckler used to always say, the most dangerous people in
the world are people with nothing to lose, and we're
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seeing a lot of people with nothing to lose, nothing
to lose, and so they go out there and they're pissed.
They're pissed at people who've made money. They're pissed at
people who have decent lives who are paying their taxes,
raising their kids, putting their kids to school, and retiring
and enjoying themselves. And they don't see that life for themselves.
They didn't establish that life, they didn't create that life
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for themselves, and they're pissed. They're angry as hell, and
they're all out there now. And used to run into
these people every once in a while on the street,
but they're not in the street anymore. They're coworkers, they're
family members, their neighbors, their relatives. They're everywhere everywhere. You
see angry, aggressive people everywhere. And now we just saw
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today live on television, this guy plowing one car after
another after another after another. He probably totaled twenty cars.
Finally flew into a paint store, and then cash got
out of the car and walked away like he was
windows shopping. And then the cops finally caught up to him,
and the one cop that initially grabbed him turned around
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and got awkward with him and fell backwards, and this guy,
who probably weighs about two hundred and thirty two hundred
and forty pounds, maybe low two hundreds ten two fifteen,
landed on that cop. And then so it was the
guy landing on the cop, and the cop landed on
the pavement. So is the pavement the cop and then
the guy, and they smashed the guys. The cops head
(04:30):
into the pavement, and this guy's gonna have a concussion,
and I hope he doesn't, but he's probably gonna be
off the streets for a little while while he recovers.
And these A holes out there, super super a holes.
This guy. You know, people are just trying to get home.
People are just enjoying their Friday. They're gonna have a
nice weekend with their family, their friends, maybe going to
an vent or two. And now their car is totaled.
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Their insurance company has to get involved. Maybe you don't
have insurance, now you don't have a car. It's a mess,
and I don't know what the solution is. But I
heard somebody on John Colebelt's Moistline who had a great comment.
We're not ready for the Olympics, We're not ready for
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the World Cup. We don't have ours together as a community.
We don't. We're down tens of thousands of homes. We've
got radical people running away from the cops. We have
water mains breaking all the time. The city of Los
Angeles is a billion dollars in debt, the state of
California not doing well financially. It's a mess. Los Angeles
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is a mess. There's homeless people everywhere. Even though we
raised three four five billion dollars for homelessness, they're still everywhere.
And La is not ready for company. We're not ready
for company. We're just trying to get our house in order,
and we're not doing a good job about it. We're
not doing a good job of it at all. And
we're inviting the world for the World Cup, and we're
(06:02):
inviting the world for the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Nah.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Man, we're not ready. We are not ready for company.
We have got to get ours together before we invite
people over. We're not even close. All right. Here's the pursuit.
Some audio on the end of this pursuit. It was unbelievable.
If you haven't seen it, if you didn't get a
chance to see it, maybe you're working, maybe you're on
the road. You've got to watch the news tonight two four, five, seven,
(06:28):
nine eleven. They all covered it beautifully, and man, was
it radical. And I don't say that that often. We've
seen a lot of chases We've covered a lot of
them here on KFI, but that one was especially aggressive.
I haven't seen one like that in a long, long time.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
You know, inexplicable mental state of a person like that
after the joy ride that he just took, and.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
All of the lives is Chris Christie. I think it
is right. Chris Christie was ABC seven, great guy, and.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
All of the lives that he has affected, that's not
great threaten, but literally, as you could see here, I mean,
lives can change forever during a pursuit like that and
a crash ending like that where there were just one
I mean you just saw him crashing into one after
another after another in the final moments of that pursuit,
just rushing through every red light without any breaking in
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the oncoming.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Lanes of traffic and going against traffic like that in
seventy eighty miles an hour. Man, We are all lucky
that we didn't see somebody die live on television today,
all lucky.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Numerous head on collisions there, finally ending in a major
one here at the intersection of Termino and Seventh Street,
before he's basically lost control of the vehicle, jumped the curb,
and I can't get over the fact that there is
a food stand just a few feet away that could
have been impacted.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
And Chris, we're showing some earlier video where you just
see this driver just dramming his vehicle through intersection, pushing
several cars out of his way, without an absolute care
in the world at how the price is for these
people's cars, their safety. But we're watching some of the
video from earlier. Chris, I don't know if you could
see it, but when he starts losing control and just
(08:07):
kind of weaving, going up against head on traffic and
just just a menace on the road and Calle.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
There was that one moment I think when he was
still on the twenty two or getting off the twenty
two right there weren't even inches left. He was scraping
the side barrier wall and then cars on the other side.
There was absolutely no room left. I mean, he was
going right through what was left.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He must have not He must have hit thirty cars
easily and totaled ten to fifteen.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
That's what I kept saying. I hope there is not
a bicyclist because once he took those city streets.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Oh yeah, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Chris, I believe you said that the LAPD and the
CHP they ended up backing off this pursuit.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
And hey, guys, I think this may be a good
sign with this vehicle, this Rev.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Four. There's one stretcher.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I feel like if there was a passenger on the
right front, they'd maybe be tending to that side.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What a chase. You got to see it tonight on television.
We'll we'll follow up with this guy. You know a
lot of times the chase is over and you know,
you do lose track of what happens to the guy.
We'll keep on top of this. I don't know which
DA is going to be involved, whether it be Los
Angeles or Orange County or maybe you know both of them.
But Todd Todd, what's his name, Todd Spitzer? Yes? And
(09:17):
also and then who's the in l A the new guy,
Nathan Hockmin. All right, we'll see which guy prosecutes this guy.
But man, we'll keep on top of it. What uh chase?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Man?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh man? It was radical. Alright, we come back, we'll
talk about March madness. March madness is huge. We got
a big weekend coming up and then so we'll come
back and talk to the Duke of Sports about what's
going on with March madness. Who's the favorite? Maybe we
make a couple of bucks. Who knows. We're live on
KFI huge chase ending up in the Long Beach area
(09:52):
and we man, oh man, you gotta watch it tonight
on the news. It was crazy.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Tomay from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, the Duke of Sports joins us, did you see
that chase? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I was watching the watching and Ray were in the
studio and that was a while. I said from the
beginning that guy did not know how to drive a
truck that heavy. From one turn he took off a freeway.
He just took it a little too wide. He was
going a little too fast, and lo and behold he
crashed into like seven cars.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
He's looking at a lot of time. You know, if
they charge it for every one of those hitt and runs.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Oh and they could charge him with attempted murder manslaughter exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, he's going to be cooling his heels for a while,
all right, March madness, how mad is it? Is?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Not really that crazy? Not really that Cinderella's stories left.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
No, I mean the lowest seed to make the Sweet
sixteen this year was it was?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, Old miss is a sixth seed, but ten seed
Arkansas with John Caliperry as the head coach, the former
Kentucky head coach. But they lost last night uh to
Texas Tech, the three seed, and they were down like
double digits. Texas Tech was and they ended up coming
back to beat Arkansas, who they were supposed to beat
as a three seed over a ten seed.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
But Arkansas did put up quite a fight. Okay, so
Texas Tech moves on, but they've got to play Florida, Yes,
a number one seed in the West. They might get
wiped out there, all right, So Texas Tech beat Arkansas
by two points. They move on. Any it doesn't look
like there's any huge favor to win it all though.
You've got some really good teams to left it. You know,
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Duke and Alabama are left, Auburn and Michigan. Is Michigan
any good this year?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Michigan's pretty good. They're they're the five seed in the
South region. They have a seven foot American Israeli basketball
player named Danny Wolf. So now that UCLA is out,
I'm kind of rooting for Michigan, just to root for
the home tribe team.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Okay, so put a seventh.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Footer, yeah, seven foot white American Israeli guy. Wow, Danny Wolf. Wow,
that's pretty rare. And who's he play for? He plays for?
He plays for Michigan. So they're playing. They're playing Auburn
tonight at six forty one seed versus the five seed.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, so all right, so Duke is still in. Yeah,
they beat Arizona last night and they play Alabama. Yes, okay,
they will play Alabama. Alabama last night wiped out BYU,
wiped him out. They made twenty five of forty one
to three point attach. You know, I was listening to
Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Twenty five fifty one, twenty five almost almost fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's huge. I was listening to Charles Barkley, and he's
got a point. He said, this game is so dull nowadays.
All they do is they get the rebound and they
go and they shoot a three because they see they
see the NBA guys doing it right. Oh no, he
was talking about the NBA. Charles Barkley was saying, the
NBA is so dull now, you know, that nobody you know,
(12:46):
goes into the paint to try to slam on anybody.
There's no contact anymore. You can't hand check a guy anymore,
get called for that. Yep, So they they've got to
change that rule, I think. Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It actually has been talked about bring in the handcheck
back into the NBA. So it'd be interesting to see
you can't hand check a guy at all.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
God, now, let's be real here.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
The ref isn't going to call it every time, right,
but he could, he could if he wanted to.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I mean, that's like taking checking out of hockey. Yeah,
you can't touch a guy. Yeah. God, well it's become
a less physical game. I mean maybe that's why you know,
guys are playing longer. All right, So where is the
where are the where's the Final four going to be played?
The Final Four is in San Antonio this year. Okay,
that's a cool place, cool place to hang. But all
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these you know, fifteen sixteen seeds are all gone. Yes,
everybody's gone. No, no real Cinderella story this year. All right.
You know it's really loading up their pants as Vegas
because there are a lot of open tickets left. All
these favorites are winning, right, so a lot of parlays
are still open. You know, five dollar bet they could get,
(13:52):
you know, get make you twelve thousand dollars, they're still open.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
So speak it's kind of speaking of Vegas and parlays. Yesterday,
obviously Major League Baseball Opening Day, Tyler O'Neill for the
Baltimore Orioles. He hit five straight opening days a home
run on opening Day, So five straight opening days he's
hit a home run. Wow. Yesterday, the guys over at
Barstool Sports, Dan Katz, Big Cat and the owner Dave Portnoy,
(14:17):
they both put like six grand each on him to
hit a home run yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What are the odds? They ended up winning thirty grand?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh god, because he hit a home run for his
sixth straight opening day.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The buddy of mine put five dollars on these three bets. Show, Hey,
o Tani, don't hit a home run, Taoskar Hernandez they
hit a home run, and Spencer is a toorkal sin
to hit a home run? They all did, and he
turned his five dollars bet into one thousand dollars. Now
(14:49):
that's what we call it. Ding dong. That's great, that's great,
but I mean, you know, pretty rare, yes, pretty rare air.
But all right, so are you also a Dodger fan.
The Dodgers are three and zero. Yes, their their magic
number is okay, but they're over under for the season
is one hundred and what was one hundred and four
(15:11):
and a half when the season started, so now that
numbers close to one hundred. Yeah, you know, one hundred
and a half, and so that's pretty doable.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I was talking to my uncle and he said, I
have never seen a lineup in any sport this dominant.
Like it's going to take a catastrophic injury for the
Dodgers to not win one hundred games this year.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They've got ten healthy pitchers or ten pitchers that that
the potentially are cy young winners or could be.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, and how many teams have an opportunity to have
a six man rotation these days where guys can pitch
once a week.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right exactly. And you've got guys, you got gold gloves
on the team, you got MVP, four MVPs, four MVPs
on one team. This is like this like an All
Star team. So I'm like, this is better than some
all starts, it really. Yeah. Also, are teams. That's crazy.
All right, So tonight what are the big games tonight?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We got Old Miss Michigan State going right now, it's
Michigan and Auburn, and then we got Purdue in Houston.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Okay, and one more game. Sorry, but the big one here,
I think Old Miss and Michigan. That's that's probably be
a pretty good game. Yeah, all right, buddy, thank you
for coming in the Duke of Sports on all social media.
Ye at the Duke of Sports, at the Duke of Sports,
appreciate it. Man. All right, radical chase. They're showing replays
right now on channel seven. If you missed it, you
(16:39):
must watch TV news tonight to watch this guy with
a truck just light up Long Beach and these freeways.
It was a radical, radical chase. End up in a
surewin Williams paint store. Lucky that that truck didn't fly
into the paint store. Wow, unbelievable chase. Today in Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You got to see that chase tonight on TV channel two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven. They were all on it and it was crazy.
It was crazy. Michael Monks is whether so you got Monks?
Did you see the Chase? I watched a little bit
of it.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Yeah, ah, you know, I love how small LA gets
when something like that happens.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Suddenly everybody's in it together. We're all watching the same
thing and it brings us all together. Yeah, people love.
And that was a brutal one. There were a lot
of crashes in that one. Yeah. It's one of the
very few things you still have to watch live on TV. Like,
if you watch it the next day, it doesn't have
the same important no, you know, as a transplant.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
I've asked in the newsroom, like, I guess the TV
stations wouldn't all go to this if they didn't have
data showing everybody tunes in, right, and I'm merg no, free,
yeah exactly, and they break into programming. And I think
if every other market had the number of helicopters in
the air, do the same thing, because you know, people
are going to watch these train wrecks.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I was watching it on KTLA and then they lost
their feed, which is death Oh yeah, chase, because I
immediately went to Channel seven. There's a kyle of sweat
in that control room. Yeah, and I landed on seven
and I watched Chris Christy for the rest of the time.
All right, So the Olympics are coming. We're not ready
for them, not even close. Yeah, how are we going
to pull this off? It's I got a great analogy
(18:21):
during the break. We're having a party, yet the kitchen's
not done and we have no food. No food.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
You haven't taken a shower yet, you haven't vetted the guests,
the kids, not at the babysitter. I mean, every problem
you can think of before a major party, and you
don't know where to begin. That's how many catastrophes this
city is dealing with right now, from its own budget crisis,
from its homeless situation, from its transportation infrastructure to the
aftermath of the wildfires.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's a mess. And today is a perfect example that
watching that chase and not being able to stop that
thing before he crashes into like thirty cars. And then
this is the city that's getting the World Cup and
then the Olympics. That's it. I mean, yeah, we talked
about a party.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
We got multiple parties coming up, right, you know, we're
hosting the Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont all in
rapid you know succession, and we are not prepared. But
in spite of this lack of preparedness, the city has
taken steps that are necessary legally by order of the
International Olympic Committee, Okay, which includes approving a venue schedule,
(19:28):
so where are all of the events going to be?
And they did finalize a report today that then has
to be turned over to the international guys early next month.
So just in a couple of weeks they got to
turn this thing over. But it didn't go great today.
So we're set on the venues and where it's going
to happen. Is is softball still in Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (19:45):
And some I know, you're a big competitive canoe guy.
Huge that's going to be in Oklahoma. I think as well.
They got something going on with that. So softball is
going to be in Oklahoma?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
How did they decide there's nothing between the you know,
Loss Angelus and Oklahoma Oklahoma City.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
The reason that they said last summer was related to
the type of venues that would be available, I think
for scheduling and that sort of thing. And it helps
for I guess one of the cities that's going to
be helping us out here Oklahoma City to have a
couple of different events.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I don't know. So you so you finally make it
to the Olympics, you go to opening ceremonies, then you
get on a plane and you go to Oklahoma for
two weeks.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Honestly, in the condition that we're in, if you're a
foreign visitor and you're great at softball, you might enjoy
the rodeo scenery of Oklahoma more so than what we
might have on offer by then.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
But if you're committed to watching softball, you can't see
other events because you'll be in Oklahoma. Well you'll see
rapid water canoeing, yeah, but that's it. You can't watch
the you know, you can't watch all the you know,
boxing or you know, all a track and field. You're
in Oklahoma. Imagine that you're a.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Star softball player in Poland and you think, okay, well
I'm not gonna be in LA for this one.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm just an Oklahoma city.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
It's not like you don't know the geography of America, right,
I mean, I don't know where you know Crackall or
Warsaw are if you pointed to Poland, I don't know
the difference. You know, they're not gonna have the difference
either until you get here. Okay, So where are we
locally here with events? And I know there's some people
pissed off there are, and today's city council meeting where
it should have been just what I thought was a formality. Yeah,
(21:24):
there's some concerns about who's making these decisions and when they're.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Made, but most of this stuff had been set in stone.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
You know, we're gonna have basketball in Inglewood, We'll have gymnastics,
you know, downtown and that sort of thing. But Tim McCosker,
a city councilman who represents the fifteenth council district that
includes the harbor communities you know San Pedro for example,
but also Watts and those communities. Man, he lost it today.
Why is he pissed? Okay because of the event known
(21:51):
as sailing. Okay, Long Beach Pier has been slated to
host the sailing events. But according to Councilman Tim mccoscar,
the wind is that are in San Pedro.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
What he had to say, here we go.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Moving sailing to San Pedro is better for the athlete,
it's better for the sport of sailing, it's better for safety.
And security. It's better for the viewer and it's better
for Los Angeles. Every single experansation from Olympians to folks
that run the sale GP event tell us that the
winds are consistent and better in Sam Peter and the.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Winds are the same. The winds are the same in
Long Beach as they are in San Petere.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
What will it be for the athlete? Better wind and textators? Now,
what will it be for safety and security? I guarantee
you that Sam Pedro would be the safest Olympic event
in the history.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I love his passion for trying to get sailing. Nine
people are going to watch.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Of the Olympics. But I will tell you that selling
tickets to the number of maybe ten thousand people, selling
tickets to the number of zero has a mathematical and
financial difference. And it's not gonna be born by Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's gonna be born by us.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
It's not gonna be born by Long Beach. Ten that's great,
It's gonna be borne by us. And so he got
really ticked off. And one thing that I'm saying is
that San Pedro is capable of hosting an event like
this with spectators. He doubts whether Long Beach can pull
it off, and so he thinks ten thousand people would
be able to come and watch sailing in San Pedro
and far fewer in Long Beach, and he thinks it
(23:18):
would also be a better television experience.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So we had a motion adopted today.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
It doesn't necessarily change anything, but it could be taken
under consideration. So no, we're not entirely sure yet. Now
you've been you've been in southern California a long time.
Have you felt the winds in Long Beach and the
winds in San Pedro and were they're.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Different the same? They're exactly the same. And it doesn't matter.
Nobody is going to watch that because you can't if
you're watch If you're going to watch sailing, you have
a boat and you're out there on the ocean watching it.
You don't care if it's San Pedro or Long Beach.
They're fairly close together. You know how many people are
on the shore watching sailing. Only the guys who own
homes there with binoculars. They're looking out for ten minutes
(23:55):
and then they go back to sleep. So this is
going to be July fourteenth to the thirtieth and twenty
twenty eight. So we're three years and three months away
from there, three.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Years and some change away from this, and I'm telling you,
I mean, it is only getting uglier at City Hall
as it relates to its financial condition. We know that
the homeless situation is still bad. We know that the
city is filthy, we know that traffic is a disaster,
we know that Metro is kind of a mess with
some of its projects.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And by the way, you're saying this as a guy
who lives downtown Los Angeles and wants it to improve.
You're not one of these guys like me who's gone
out to the suburbs and has a single family home.
You're in the midst of it, and you still say
it needs help. That's how you know.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
You walk amongst it and you think, huh, this is interesting.
You know, I'm still I'm two years into my LA experience,
and I you know, I'm just smart enough.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I guess to look.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Around and doesn't take much brains to say, huh, it's
not going well here.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I don't know how you can. You know, LA, It's
always been that way. That's exactly right.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
But LA creates an image in people's minds even in
mind though I've visited many times. You have an idea
of what LA is and it's roma antic and it's sunny,
and it's Hollywood stars and that sort of thing, and then.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You show up and yeah, it is those things. You
have been watching too much Baywatch. Do you feel ripped off?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
No?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
I mean I did enough investigation know what I was
getting into. What I feel sad about is there's no
urgency to fix it. Okay, you know everybody knows what
the problems are, but like, are there really no brilliant
leaders that are saying it's time to do this now?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I can't believe you've got me here with tip off.
The Kentucky game is tipped off. I know you gotta
go watch that thing. I appreciate you coming on tonight
Saturday Night, Saturday Night Big Show.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
I'm talking to some multiple council members like at d
A Hawkman coming on to talk about some stuff. The
death only is back in LA, so I have that
for Olympic visit. You're kicking ass on that they should
give you that job permanently. Yeah, well let's see if
they do that. Did a good word for it. I
talked to the union all right.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You got Monks Saturday night, seven and nine pm right
here on KFI.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Thanks man, you're listening to Tim Conway. Jun You're on
demand from KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Talking to Michael Monks. The Olympics are coming to Los
Angeles in three years and three months. It's gonna fly by,
and we're gonna have the opening ceremonies at the Coliseum
and Sofi Stadium. And then if you're a big softball fan,
you're gonna have to get in your car and drive
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one thousand, three hundred and thirty miles to get to
your event. One thousand, three hundred and thirty miles to
get to softball. And I don't know canoeing. So that's
the equivalent of the Olympics being in New York City
(26:40):
and softball being in Miami, Florida. That's the equivalent. On
the East Coast. You go to New York City opening ceremony,
maybe it's Chase Stadium, maybe Yankee Stadium, maybe out of
the out where the Giants and the Jets play in
the whereas that the Netherlands or the Meadowlands or whatever
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that's called out there, probably not the Netherlands, but the Meadowlands,
and you go to opening ceremony, and then you have
to get in your car and you have to drive
eighteen hours and forty one minutes to get to Miami
because that's where they're going to be playing softball. Who goofed?
I've got to know who goofed? Where the Olympics are
(27:26):
in LA and softball is in Oklahoma City. Somebody signed
off on that. Somebody said, yep, that's our best decision,
that's our best offer. Let's go with it. And you
know why it's stuck because not enough people complained about it.
And so if you have a daughter who's a big
(27:48):
softball player, you're going to be going to Oklahoma City
if she makes the Olympics and not be able to
experience the real Olympics here in LA. It's the dumbest
decision ever. I don't understand it, But I don't know.
Maybe we're not supposed to understand it. That's possible, all right.
That pursuit that ended about an hour ago, almost exactly
(28:10):
an hour ago, that pursuit ended in Long Beach. It
was wild, it was crazy. Here's a little bit of
recap of what went on.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Literally a pursuit LAPD pursuing this reckless driver up and
down the freeway before he got off of the freeway
and started really amping things up. That speeds upwards of
one hundred miles per hour on the freeway and only
a little bit slower on surface streets before he started
colliding into other vehicles, running through every single red light
that he came upon with hardly any breaking. That vehicle
(28:40):
was starting to give up on him. It was a
very very heavy duty work truck traveling at a high
rate of speed. He had some flat tires and the
truck started really misbehaving on him, and that's when he
started losing control as he continued driving through these red lights,
ramming into more vehicles. This whole thing ended with an
insane crash at Seventh Street and Terminal Avenue here where
(29:01):
an elderly gentleman was pulled from the wreckage of that
suv right there as we come back out live at
the center of your screen. He was taken to the hospital.
Just moments ago, another van at the end of this
crash veered onto the curb there. Patients in that vehicle
being checked out as well. That van coming within feet
of a food stand here at the intersection of Seventh
(29:22):
Street and Termino Avenue, and then the driver crashing into
the front of a strip mall at a Sherman Williams
paint shop right there where. There were no casualties, but
the driver just casually stepped out of the vehicle, which
was basically experiencing several flat tires, and then just walked
away away from the crash team there before being taken
(29:43):
into custody along Miramar and Seventh.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You got to watch tonight on the news stations two, four, five,
seven to nine to eleven. They'll all have it if
you missed it, or go to YouTube and look at it.
It was incredible how many people dodged a bullet and
how many people are right now alive. They could have
been crushed to death or killed or maimed or hospitalized.
(30:10):
It's incredible that nobody died during this chase. I don't
know how we all survived.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Right there, you could see LAPD and the fire department
checking the suspect out before he's handed off to uh
well headed off to jail. Guys back to you.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
By the looks of it, it looks like that planter is
the only thing that prevented it from going into that
paint store.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I mean it really was. I mean, he kind of
by the time he got to the paint store, he
wasn't traveling terribly fast, but thankfully it did manage to
stop him before going through those double doors. There easily
could have been more injuries inside that paint store had
he not stopped right where he did.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
And when it comes to the analysis on this pursuit
being such a dangerous one such a big vehicle, there
aren't a whole lot of options for law enforcement. It's
too big to do a pit maneuver on and it
already had some flat tires, so there weren't a lot
of options in trying to get this guy to stopped.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
The only option was the one that they took, and
in the final moments of this pursuit, they did, in
fact give up the pursuit. In fact, when he crashed
through here, I believe they had already placed this into
tracking modes, so they had determined that it was too dangerous.
But pulling off and ending the pursuit did not end
the reckless driving, and so he continued blowing through every
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single red light, despite the fact that he wasn't even
being chased and the final moments of this pursuit. So
it was in pursuit mode for quite a while, in
excess of thirty or forty minutes at least, as he
made his way from South LA through East LA, up
and down the seven to ten Freeway over to the
six ZHO five, all the way down here to the
Long Beach before they now.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Thirty people are going to have to deal with their
own insurance company. Their insurance is going to go up
because chances are this guy had no insurance. The chances
of him being fully insured probably zero. So now you
don't have your car, maybe he's banged into you, your
neck is on fire, and now you have to deal
with your insurance company. You got to come out of pocket.
(32:04):
And this guy has ruined probably thirty lives or at
least temporarily. It's unreal what we experienced. You've got to
look at it on YouTube. I think we have it Bellio,
we have it on our social media as well. You've
got to see this chase. It was. It leads a
lot of people, left a lot of people just speechless.
(32:24):
How much damage this guy created. They're showing on all
the stations right now. It's the top story on all
the local stations now at five o'clock, every one of them, two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven,
they're all showing you the high lights or low lights
of this chase. All right, Alex Michaelson is on with
this one to come back, and we'll tell you what
(32:45):
fast food place has to raise their prices. You might
have to pay more for your double double. Sorry, maybe
he gave it away. We're live on KFI AM six
forty Sorry Bellio Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Can if I Am six forty, It's Conway Show. What
chase we had through the freeways and the streets of
Los Angeles and Wittier. They went through mostly the six
oh five got off on the twenty two. I thought
they're gonna go to Seal Beach. That he didn't. He
stayed on the on the twenty two, and then that
turns into Long Beach and man, oh man, they're probably
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twenty cars that were hit. Let's let's up, uh seth.
Let's turn on channel seven right now. They're over the
overhead of one of these poor women that got hit
by this car and had to be taken out of
the car and put into an ambulance. Let's find out
what Chris Christy's talking. Earthquake? Then we just missed it, okay,
all right? If you're watching, If you weren't watch or
(00:54):
listening to John Colevelt and you were watching this chase, man,
I was most late for work. I could not get
off the couch watching this chase. And it's the only
piece of audio and video that my wife, my daughter,
and myself. My daughter's nineteen, my wife older than nineteen,
(01:16):
and I'm a little older than my wife, right, and
all three of us sat there glued to the TV set.
There's nothing else the three of us watched together. You know.
Wicked came out on I guess what streaming this week,
and I started watching that, and twenty minutes into it,
my wife's like waking me up, like, hey, hey, hey, hey,
(01:38):
you're falling asleep. I'm like, God, I don't think I
can make it. I don't think I can make it
through three hours of Wicked, and I couldn't. And my
daughter loves it, my wife loves it. And then I'm
watching the King Game last night. My daughter's not interested,
my wife's semi interested. But man, when that chase happens,
we all sat there glued to the TV set. It's
(02:00):
I think it's the only TV show, if you can
call it, that that crosses over generations that you can
sit there with your six year old, your sixteen year old,
twenty six thirty six, fifty six, ninety six, and everybody
can watch it because you never know what's going to happen.
You don't know what's going to happen. It's super dangerous.
(02:21):
I know there's a lot of people out there that say,
you know, you shouldn't highlight it, you shouldn't talk about
it on the radio. BS. You have to talk about
it on the radio. You have to warn people that
a holes like this are in their neighborhood and so
they can get their kids and their dogs and their
pets and their wives and their husbands inside the house
and be safe. You have to do that. So it's
a public service that we do it. And man, somebody's
(02:43):
gonna get killed. These chases are getting more radical and
more radical. And I don't know what it is with
the economy, with all the fires we had, the floods
we had, people are broke, all the firings that are
going on. But people are desperate. They're desperate. And Doug
Steckler used to always say, the most dangerous people in
the world are people with nothing to lose, and we're
(03:06):
seeing a lot of people with nothing to lose, nothing
to lose, and so they go out there and they're pissed.
They're pissed at people who've made money. They're pissed at
people who have decent lives who are paying their taxes,
raising their kids, putting their kids to school, and retiring
and enjoying themselves. And they don't see that life for themselves.
They didn't establish that life, they didn't create that life
(03:27):
for themselves, and they're pissed. They're angry as hell, and
they're all out there now. And used to run into
these people every once in a while on the street,
but they're not in the street anymore. They're coworkers, they're
family members, their neighbors, their relatives. They're everywhere everywhere. You
see angry, aggressive people everywhere. And now we just saw
(03:49):
today live on television, this guy plowing one car after
another after another after another. He probably totaled twenty cars.
Finally flew into a paint store, and then cash got
out of the car and walked away like he was
windows shopping. And then the cops finally caught up to him,
and the one cop that initially grabbed him turned around
(04:10):
and got awkward with him and fell backwards, and this guy,
who probably weighs about two hundred and thirty two hundred
and forty pounds, maybe low two hundreds ten two fifteen,
landed on that cop. And then so it was the
guy landing on the cop, and the cop landed on
the pavement. So is the pavement the cop and then
the guy, and they smashed the guys. The cops head
(04:30):
into the pavement, and this guy's gonna have a concussion,
and I hope he doesn't, but he's probably gonna be
off the streets for a little while while he recovers.
And these A holes out there, super super a holes.
This guy. You know, people are just trying to get home.
People are just enjoying their Friday. They're gonna have a
nice weekend with their family, their friends, maybe going to
an vent or two. And now their car is totaled.
(04:53):
Their insurance company has to get involved. Maybe you don't
have insurance, now you don't have a car. It's a mess,
and I don't know what the solution is. But I
heard somebody on John Colebelt's Moistline who had a great comment.
We're not ready for the Olympics, We're not ready for
(05:14):
the World Cup. We don't have ours together as a community.
We don't. We're down tens of thousands of homes. We've
got radical people running away from the cops. We have
water mains breaking all the time. The city of Los
Angeles is a billion dollars in debt, the state of
California not doing well financially. It's a mess. Los Angeles
(05:38):
is a mess. There's homeless people everywhere. Even though we
raised three four five billion dollars for homelessness, they're still everywhere.
And La is not ready for company. We're not ready
for company. We're just trying to get our house in order,
and we're not doing a good job about it. We're
not doing a good job of it at all. And
we're inviting the world for the World Cup, and we're
(06:02):
inviting the world for the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Nah.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Man, we're not ready. We are not ready for company.
We have got to get ours together before we invite
people over. We're not even close. All right. Here's the pursuit.
Some audio on the end of this pursuit. It was unbelievable.
If you haven't seen it, if you didn't get a
chance to see it, maybe you're working, maybe you're on
the road. You've got to watch the news tonight two four, five, seven,
(06:28):
nine eleven. They all covered it beautifully, and man, was
it radical. And I don't say that that often. We've
seen a lot of chases We've covered a lot of
them here on KFI, but that one was especially aggressive.
I haven't seen one like that in a long, long time.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
You know, inexplicable mental state of a person like that
after the joy ride that he just took, and.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
All of the lives is Chris Christie. I think it
is right. Chris Christie was ABC seven, great guy, and.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
All of the lives that he has affected, that's not
great threaten, but literally, as you could see here, I mean,
lives can change forever during a pursuit like that and
a crash ending like that where there were just one
I mean you just saw him crashing into one after
another after another in the final moments of that pursuit,
just rushing through every red light without any breaking in
(07:17):
the oncoming.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Lanes of traffic and going against traffic like that in
seventy eighty miles an hour. Man, We are all lucky
that we didn't see somebody die live on television today,
all lucky.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Numerous head on collisions there, finally ending in a major
one here at the intersection of Termino and Seventh Street,
before he's basically lost control of the vehicle, jumped the curb,
and I can't get over the fact that there is
a food stand just a few feet away that could
have been impacted.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
And Chris, we're showing some earlier video where you just
see this driver just dramming his vehicle through intersection, pushing
several cars out of his way, without an absolute care
in the world at how the price is for these
people's cars, their safety. But we're watching some of the
video from earlier. Chris, I don't know if you could
see it, but when he starts losing control and just
(08:07):
kind of weaving, going up against head on traffic and
just just a menace on the road and Calle.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
There was that one moment I think when he was
still on the twenty two or getting off the twenty
two right there weren't even inches left. He was scraping
the side barrier wall and then cars on the other side.
There was absolutely no room left. I mean, he was
going right through what was left.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He must have not He must have hit thirty cars
easily and totaled ten to fifteen.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
That's what I kept saying. I hope there is not
a bicyclist because once he took those city streets.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Oh yeah, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Chris, I believe you said that the LAPD and the
CHP they ended up backing off this pursuit.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
And hey, guys, I think this may be a good
sign with this vehicle, this Rev.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Four. There's one stretcher.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I feel like if there was a passenger on the
right front, they'd maybe be tending to that side.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What a chase. You got to see it tonight on television.
We'll we'll follow up with this guy. You know a
lot of times the chase is over and you know,
you do lose track of what happens to the guy.
We'll keep on top of this. I don't know which
DA is going to be involved, whether it be Los
Angeles or Orange County or maybe you know both of them.
But Todd Todd, what's his name, Todd Spitzer? Yes? And
(09:17):
also and then who's the in l A the new guy,
Nathan Hockmin. All right, we'll see which guy prosecutes this guy.
But man, we'll keep on top of it. What uh chase?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Man?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh man? It was radical. Alright, we come back, we'll
talk about March madness. March madness is huge. We got
a big weekend coming up and then so we'll come
back and talk to the Duke of Sports about what's
going on with March madness. Who's the favorite? Maybe we
make a couple of bucks. Who knows. We're live on
KFI huge chase ending up in the Long Beach area
(09:52):
and we man, oh man, you gotta watch it tonight
on the news. It was crazy.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Tomay from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, the Duke of Sports joins us, did you see
that chase? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I was watching the watching and Ray were in the
studio and that was a while. I said from the
beginning that guy did not know how to drive a
truck that heavy. From one turn he took off a freeway.
He just took it a little too wide. He was
going a little too fast, and lo and behold he
crashed into like seven cars.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
He's looking at a lot of time. You know, if
they charge it for every one of those hitt and runs.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Oh and they could charge him with attempted murder manslaughter exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, he's going to be cooling his heels for a while,
all right, March madness, how mad is it? Is?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Not really that crazy? Not really that Cinderella's stories left.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
No, I mean the lowest seed to make the Sweet
sixteen this year was it was?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, Old miss is a sixth seed, but ten seed
Arkansas with John Caliperry as the head coach, the former
Kentucky head coach. But they lost last night uh to
Texas Tech, the three seed, and they were down like
double digits. Texas Tech was and they ended up coming
back to beat Arkansas, who they were supposed to beat
as a three seed over a ten seed.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
But Arkansas did put up quite a fight. Okay, so
Texas Tech moves on, but they've got to play Florida, Yes,
a number one seed in the West. They might get
wiped out there, all right, So Texas Tech beat Arkansas
by two points. They move on. Any it doesn't look
like there's any huge favor to win it all though.
You've got some really good teams to left it. You know,
(11:31):
Duke and Alabama are left, Auburn and Michigan. Is Michigan
any good this year?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Michigan's pretty good. They're they're the five seed in the
South region. They have a seven foot American Israeli basketball
player named Danny Wolf. So now that UCLA is out,
I'm kind of rooting for Michigan, just to root for
the home tribe team.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Okay, so put a seventh.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Footer, yeah, seven foot white American Israeli guy. Wow, Danny Wolf. Wow,
that's pretty rare. And who's he play for? He plays for?
He plays for Michigan. So they're playing. They're playing Auburn
tonight at six forty one seed versus the five seed.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, so all right, so Duke is still in. Yeah,
they beat Arizona last night and they play Alabama. Yes, okay,
they will play Alabama. Alabama last night wiped out BYU,
wiped him out. They made twenty five of forty one
to three point attach. You know, I was listening to
Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Twenty five fifty one, twenty five almost almost fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's huge. I was listening to Charles Barkley, and he's
got a point. He said, this game is so dull nowadays.
All they do is they get the rebound and they
go and they shoot a three because they see they
see the NBA guys doing it right. Oh no, he
was talking about the NBA. Charles Barkley was saying, the
NBA is so dull now, you know, that nobody you know,
(12:46):
goes into the paint to try to slam on anybody.
There's no contact anymore. You can't hand check a guy anymore,
get called for that. Yep, So they they've got to
change that rule, I think. Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It actually has been talked about bring in the handcheck
back into the NBA. So it'd be interesting to see
you can't hand check a guy at all.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
God, now, let's be real here.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
The ref isn't going to call it every time, right,
but he could, he could if he wanted to.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I mean, that's like taking checking out of hockey. Yeah,
you can't touch a guy. Yeah. God, well it's become
a less physical game. I mean maybe that's why you know,
guys are playing longer. All right, So where is the
where are the where's the Final four going to be played?
The Final Four is in San Antonio this year. Okay,
that's a cool place, cool place to hang. But all
(13:31):
these you know, fifteen sixteen seeds are all gone. Yes,
everybody's gone. No, no real Cinderella story this year. All right.
You know it's really loading up their pants as Vegas
because there are a lot of open tickets left. All
these favorites are winning, right, so a lot of parlays
are still open. You know, five dollar bet they could get,
(13:52):
you know, get make you twelve thousand dollars, they're still open.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
So speak it's kind of speaking of Vegas and parlays. Yesterday,
obviously Major League Baseball Opening Day, Tyler O'Neill for the
Baltimore Orioles. He hit five straight opening days a home
run on opening Day, So five straight opening days he's
hit a home run. Wow. Yesterday, the guys over at
Barstool Sports, Dan Katz, Big Cat and the owner Dave Portnoy,
(14:17):
they both put like six grand each on him to
hit a home run yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What are the odds? They ended up winning thirty grand?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh god, because he hit a home run for his
sixth straight opening day.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The buddy of mine put five dollars on these three bets. Show, Hey,
o Tani, don't hit a home run, Taoskar Hernandez they
hit a home run, and Spencer is a toorkal sin
to hit a home run? They all did, and he
turned his five dollars bet into one thousand dollars. Now
(14:49):
that's what we call it. Ding dong. That's great, that's great,
but I mean, you know, pretty rare, yes, pretty rare air.
But all right, so are you also a Dodger fan.
The Dodgers are three and zero. Yes, their their magic
number is okay, but they're over under for the season
is one hundred and what was one hundred and four
(15:11):
and a half when the season started, so now that
numbers close to one hundred. Yeah, you know, one hundred
and a half, and so that's pretty doable.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I was talking to my uncle and he said, I
have never seen a lineup in any sport this dominant.
Like it's going to take a catastrophic injury for the
Dodgers to not win one hundred games this year.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They've got ten healthy pitchers or ten pitchers that that
the potentially are cy young winners or could be.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, and how many teams have an opportunity to have
a six man rotation these days where guys can pitch
once a week.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right exactly. And you've got guys, you got gold gloves
on the team, you got MVP, four MVPs, four MVPs
on one team. This is like this like an All
Star team. So I'm like, this is better than some
all starts, it really. Yeah. Also, are teams. That's crazy.
All right, So tonight what are the big games tonight?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We got Old Miss Michigan State going right now, it's
Michigan and Auburn, and then we got Purdue in Houston.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Okay, and one more game. Sorry, but the big one here,
I think Old Miss and Michigan. That's that's probably be
a pretty good game. Yeah, all right, buddy, thank you
for coming in the Duke of Sports on all social media.
Ye at the Duke of Sports, at the Duke of Sports,
appreciate it. Man. All right, radical chase. They're showing replays
right now on channel seven. If you missed it, you
(16:39):
must watch TV news tonight to watch this guy with
a truck just light up Long Beach and these freeways.
It was a radical, radical chase. End up in a
surewin Williams paint store. Lucky that that truck didn't fly
into the paint store. Wow, unbelievable chase. Today in Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You got to see that chase tonight on TV channel two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven. They were all on it and it was crazy.
It was crazy. Michael Monks is whether so you got Monks?
Did you see the Chase? I watched a little bit
of it.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Yeah, ah, you know, I love how small LA gets
when something like that happens.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Suddenly everybody's in it together. We're all watching the same
thing and it brings us all together. Yeah, people love.
And that was a brutal one. There were a lot
of crashes in that one. Yeah. It's one of the
very few things you still have to watch live on TV. Like,
if you watch it the next day, it doesn't have
the same important no, you know, as a transplant.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
I've asked in the newsroom, like, I guess the TV
stations wouldn't all go to this if they didn't have
data showing everybody tunes in, right, and I'm merg no, free,
yeah exactly, and they break into programming. And I think
if every other market had the number of helicopters in
the air, do the same thing, because you know, people
are going to watch these train wrecks.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I was watching it on KTLA and then they lost
their feed, which is death Oh yeah, chase, because I
immediately went to Channel seven. There's a kyle of sweat
in that control room. Yeah, and I landed on seven
and I watched Chris Christy for the rest of the time.
All right, So the Olympics are coming. We're not ready
for them, not even close. Yeah, how are we going
to pull this off? It's I got a great analogy
(18:21):
during the break. We're having a party, yet the kitchen's
not done and we have no food. No food.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
You haven't taken a shower yet, you haven't vetted the guests,
the kids, not at the babysitter. I mean, every problem
you can think of before a major party, and you
don't know where to begin. That's how many catastrophes this
city is dealing with right now, from its own budget crisis,
from its homeless situation, from its transportation infrastructure to the
aftermath of the wildfires.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's a mess. And today is a perfect example that
watching that chase and not being able to stop that
thing before he crashes into like thirty cars. And then
this is the city that's getting the World Cup and
then the Olympics. That's it. I mean, yeah, we talked
about a party.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
We got multiple parties coming up, right, you know, we're
hosting the Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont all in
rapid you know succession, and we are not prepared. But
in spite of this lack of preparedness, the city has
taken steps that are necessary legally by order of the
International Olympic Committee, Okay, which includes approving a venue schedule,
(19:28):
so where are all of the events going to be?
And they did finalize a report today that then has
to be turned over to the international guys early next month.
So just in a couple of weeks they got to
turn this thing over. But it didn't go great today.
So we're set on the venues and where it's going
to happen. Is is softball still in Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (19:45):
And some I know, you're a big competitive canoe guy.
Huge that's going to be in Oklahoma. I think as well.
They got something going on with that. So softball is
going to be in Oklahoma?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
How did they decide there's nothing between the you know,
Loss Angelus and Oklahoma Oklahoma City.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
The reason that they said last summer was related to
the type of venues that would be available, I think
for scheduling and that sort of thing. And it helps
for I guess one of the cities that's going to
be helping us out here Oklahoma City to have a
couple of different events.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I don't know. So you so you finally make it
to the Olympics, you go to opening ceremonies, then you
get on a plane and you go to Oklahoma for
two weeks.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Honestly, in the condition that we're in, if you're a
foreign visitor and you're great at softball, you might enjoy
the rodeo scenery of Oklahoma more so than what we
might have on offer by then.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
But if you're committed to watching softball, you can't see
other events because you'll be in Oklahoma. Well you'll see
rapid water canoeing, yeah, but that's it. You can't watch
the you know, you can't watch all the you know,
boxing or you know, all a track and field. You're
in Oklahoma. Imagine that you're a.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
Star softball player in Poland and you think, okay, well
I'm not gonna be in LA for this one.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm just an Oklahoma city.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
It's not like you don't know the geography of America, right,
I mean, I don't know where you know Crackall or
Warsaw are if you pointed to Poland, I don't know
the difference. You know, they're not gonna have the difference
either until you get here. Okay, So where are we
locally here with events? And I know there's some people
pissed off there are, and today's city council meeting where
it should have been just what I thought was a formality. Yeah,
(21:24):
there's some concerns about who's making these decisions and when they're.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Made, but most of this stuff had been set in stone.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
You know, we're gonna have basketball in Inglewood, We'll have gymnastics,
you know, downtown and that sort of thing. But Tim McCosker,
a city councilman who represents the fifteenth council district that
includes the harbor communities you know San Pedro for example,
but also Watts and those communities. Man, he lost it today.
Why is he pissed? Okay because of the event known
(21:51):
as sailing. Okay, Long Beach Pier has been slated to
host the sailing events. But according to Councilman Tim mccoscar,
the wind is that are in San Pedro.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
What he had to say, here we go.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Moving sailing to San Pedro is better for the athlete,
it's better for the sport of sailing, it's better for safety.
And security. It's better for the viewer and it's better
for Los Angeles. Every single experansation from Olympians to folks
that run the sale GP event tell us that the
winds are consistent and better in Sam Peter and the.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Winds are the same. The winds are the same in
Long Beach as they are in San Petere.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
What will it be for the athlete? Better wind and textators? Now,
what will it be for safety and security? I guarantee
you that Sam Pedro would be the safest Olympic event
in the history.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I love his passion for trying to get sailing. Nine
people are going to watch.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Of the Olympics. But I will tell you that selling
tickets to the number of maybe ten thousand people, selling
tickets to the number of zero has a mathematical and
financial difference. And it's not gonna be born by Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's gonna be born by us.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
It's not gonna be born by Long Beach. Ten that's great,
It's gonna be borne by us. And so he got
really ticked off. And one thing that I'm saying is
that San Pedro is capable of hosting an event like
this with spectators. He doubts whether Long Beach can pull
it off, and so he thinks ten thousand people would
be able to come and watch sailing in San Pedro
and far fewer in Long Beach, and he thinks it
(23:18):
would also be a better television experience.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So we had a motion adopted today.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
It doesn't necessarily change anything, but it could be taken
under consideration. So no, we're not entirely sure yet. Now
you've been you've been in southern California a long time.
Have you felt the winds in Long Beach and the
winds in San Pedro and were they're.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Different the same? They're exactly the same. And it doesn't matter.
Nobody is going to watch that because you can't if
you're watch If you're going to watch sailing, you have
a boat and you're out there on the ocean watching it.
You don't care if it's San Pedro or Long Beach.
They're fairly close together. You know how many people are
on the shore watching sailing. Only the guys who own
homes there with binoculars. They're looking out for ten minutes
(23:55):
and then they go back to sleep. So this is
going to be July fourteenth to the thirtieth and twenty
twenty eight. So we're three years and three months away
from there, three.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Years and some change away from this, and I'm telling you,
I mean, it is only getting uglier at City Hall
as it relates to its financial condition. We know that
the homeless situation is still bad. We know that the
city is filthy, we know that traffic is a disaster,
we know that Metro is kind of a mess with
some of its projects.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And by the way, you're saying this as a guy
who lives downtown Los Angeles and wants it to improve.
You're not one of these guys like me who's gone
out to the suburbs and has a single family home.
You're in the midst of it, and you still say
it needs help. That's how you know.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
You walk amongst it and you think, huh, this is interesting.
You know, I'm still I'm two years into my LA experience,
and I you know, I'm just smart enough.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I guess to look.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Around and doesn't take much brains to say, huh, it's
not going well here.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I don't know how you can. You know, LA, It's
always been that way. That's exactly right.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
But LA creates an image in people's minds even in
mind though I've visited many times. You have an idea
of what LA is and it's roma antic and it's sunny,
and it's Hollywood stars and that sort of thing, and then.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You show up and yeah, it is those things. You
have been watching too much Baywatch. Do you feel ripped off?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
No?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
I mean I did enough investigation know what I was
getting into. What I feel sad about is there's no
urgency to fix it. Okay, you know everybody knows what
the problems are, but like, are there really no brilliant
leaders that are saying it's time to do this now?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I can't believe you've got me here with tip off.
The Kentucky game is tipped off. I know you gotta
go watch that thing. I appreciate you coming on tonight
Saturday Night, Saturday Night Big Show.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
I'm talking to some multiple council members like at d
A Hawkman coming on to talk about some stuff. The
death only is back in LA, so I have that
for Olympic visit. You're kicking ass on that they should
give you that job permanently. Yeah, well let's see if
they do that. Did a good word for it. I
talked to the union all right.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You got Monks Saturday night, seven and nine pm right
here on KFI.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Thanks man, you're listening to Tim Conway. Jun You're on
demand from KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Talking to Michael Monks. The Olympics are coming to Los
Angeles in three years and three months. It's gonna fly by,
and we're gonna have the opening ceremonies at the Coliseum
and Sofi Stadium. And then if you're a big softball fan,
you're gonna have to get in your car and drive
(26:19):
one thousand, three hundred and thirty miles to get to
your event. One thousand, three hundred and thirty miles to
get to softball. And I don't know canoeing. So that's
the equivalent of the Olympics being in New York City
(26:40):
and softball being in Miami, Florida. That's the equivalent. On
the East Coast. You go to New York City opening ceremony,
maybe it's Chase Stadium, maybe Yankee Stadium, maybe out of
the out where the Giants and the Jets play in
the whereas that the Netherlands or the Meadowlands or whatever
(27:03):
that's called out there, probably not the Netherlands, but the Meadowlands,
and you go to opening ceremony, and then you have
to get in your car and you have to drive
eighteen hours and forty one minutes to get to Miami
because that's where they're going to be playing softball. Who goofed?
I've got to know who goofed? Where the Olympics are
(27:26):
in LA and softball is in Oklahoma City. Somebody signed
off on that. Somebody said, yep, that's our best decision,
that's our best offer. Let's go with it. And you
know why it's stuck because not enough people complained about it.
And so if you have a daughter who's a big
(27:48):
softball player, you're going to be going to Oklahoma City
if she makes the Olympics and not be able to
experience the real Olympics here in LA. It's the dumbest
decision ever. I don't understand it, But I don't know.
Maybe we're not supposed to understand it. That's possible, all right.
That pursuit that ended about an hour ago, almost exactly
(28:10):
an hour ago, that pursuit ended in Long Beach. It
was wild, it was crazy. Here's a little bit of
recap of what went on.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Literally a pursuit LAPD pursuing this reckless driver up and
down the freeway before he got off of the freeway
and started really amping things up. That speeds upwards of
one hundred miles per hour on the freeway and only
a little bit slower on surface streets before he started
colliding into other vehicles, running through every single red light
that he came upon with hardly any breaking. That vehicle
(28:40):
was starting to give up on him. It was a
very very heavy duty work truck traveling at a high
rate of speed. He had some flat tires and the
truck started really misbehaving on him, and that's when he
started losing control as he continued driving through these red lights,
ramming into more vehicles. This whole thing ended with an
insane crash at Seventh Street and Terminal Avenue here where
(29:01):
an elderly gentleman was pulled from the wreckage of that
suv right there as we come back out live at
the center of your screen. He was taken to the hospital.
Just moments ago, another van at the end of this
crash veered onto the curb there. Patients in that vehicle
being checked out as well. That van coming within feet
of a food stand here at the intersection of Seventh
(29:22):
Street and Termino Avenue, and then the driver crashing into
the front of a strip mall at a Sherman Williams
paint shop right there where. There were no casualties, but
the driver just casually stepped out of the vehicle, which
was basically experiencing several flat tires, and then just walked
away away from the crash team there before being taken
(29:43):
into custody along Miramar and Seventh.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You got to watch tonight on the news stations two, four, five,
seven to nine to eleven. They'll all have it if
you missed it, or go to YouTube and look at it.
It was incredible how many people dodged a bullet and
how many people are right now alive. They could have
been crushed to death or killed or maimed or hospitalized.
(30:10):
It's incredible that nobody died during this chase. I don't
know how we all survived.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Right there, you could see LAPD and the fire department
checking the suspect out before he's handed off to uh
well headed off to jail. Guys back to you.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
By the looks of it, it looks like that planter is
the only thing that prevented it from going into that
paint store.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I mean it really was. I mean, he kind of
by the time he got to the paint store, he
wasn't traveling terribly fast, but thankfully it did manage to
stop him before going through those double doors. There easily
could have been more injuries inside that paint store had
he not stopped right where he did.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
And when it comes to the analysis on this pursuit
being such a dangerous one such a big vehicle, there
aren't a whole lot of options for law enforcement. It's
too big to do a pit maneuver on and it
already had some flat tires, so there weren't a lot
of options in trying to get this guy to stopped.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
The only option was the one that they took, and
in the final moments of this pursuit, they did, in
fact give up the pursuit. In fact, when he crashed
through here, I believe they had already placed this into
tracking modes, so they had determined that it was too dangerous.
But pulling off and ending the pursuit did not end
the reckless driving, and so he continued blowing through every
(31:21):
single red light, despite the fact that he wasn't even
being chased and the final moments of this pursuit. So
it was in pursuit mode for quite a while, in
excess of thirty or forty minutes at least, as he
made his way from South LA through East LA, up
and down the seven to ten Freeway over to the
six ZHO five, all the way down here to the
Long Beach before they now.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Thirty people are going to have to deal with their
own insurance company. Their insurance is going to go up
because chances are this guy had no insurance. The chances
of him being fully insured probably zero. So now you
don't have your car, maybe he's banged into you, your
neck is on fire, and now you have to deal
with your insurance company. You got to come out of pocket.
(32:04):
And this guy has ruined probably thirty lives or at
least temporarily. It's unreal what we experienced. You've got to
look at it on YouTube. I think we have it Bellio,
we have it on our social media as well. You've
got to see this chase. It was. It leads a
lot of people, left a lot of people just speechless.
(32:24):
How much damage this guy created. They're showing on all
the stations right now. It's the top story on all
the local stations now at five o'clock, every one of them, two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven,
they're all showing you the high lights or low lights
of this chase. All right, Alex Michaelson is on with
this one to come back, and we'll tell you what
(32:45):
fast food place has to raise their prices. You might
have to pay more for your double double. Sorry, maybe
he gave it away. We're live on KFI AM six
forty Sorry Bellio Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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