A helicopter crash at Huntington Beach made national headlines after dramatic video showed the chopper spinning out of control and slamming into a bridge near the Hyatt Hotel. It had been arriving for the “Cars N’ Copters” event when a rotor appeared to shear off mid-air. The pilot, reportedly known for flashy stunts, lost control as the craft hit the ground — miraculously, a young child trapped beneath the wreckage survived. Two people aboard and three on the ground were injured. The FAA and NTSB are investigating, though the ongoing government shutdown is delaying updates.
Retired KTLA Sky 5 pilot Tim Lynn later explained that the tail rotor was ripped clean off, likely causing the spin.
After the intense news segment, the show shifted gears with lighter moments — Tim’s birthday celebration plans at Morongo, a riff on companies sending you “who-cares” birthday cards, and some Sublime tunes.
The hour closed with weather warnings: heavy rain and flooding expected in burn-scar areas, with potential evacuation alerts across parts of Southern California.
Retired KTLA Sky 5 pilot Tim Lynn later explained that the tail rotor was ripped clean off, likely causing the spin.
After the intense news segment, the show shifted gears with lighter moments — Tim’s birthday celebration plans at Morongo, a riff on companies sending you “who-cares” birthday cards, and some Sublime tunes.
The hour closed with weather warnings: heavy rain and flooding expected in burn-scar areas, with potential evacuation alerts across parts of Southern California.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's CAMFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Camf I AM six forty. It is The Conway Show.
It is Monday. The Dodgers start today.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I think it's a five to thirty start today in Milwaukee.
So as the evening goes on, we'll have updates for you.
And if the Dodgers win four of these next seven games,
they're going on to the World Series. And I think
Shoe a Otani's gonna come out of that slump he's
in because they had a lot of let He's had
(00:40):
a lot of left handers thrown at him for the
first two series, and now he's going to have some
soft left handers and guys that are pitching right handed,
and I think he's gonna do what. I think he's
going to get four home runs a game in four
straight games. So there's my prediction.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Alex Stone from ABC News is with us. Alex, how
you bomb four home runs a game? That is quite
a prediction. Yeah, Okay, don't be a hater. Good, but
I don't know about that good.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
All right, don't be a hater, du you know, no
hate here maybe one home run per game too, Wow
against the brew crew.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Wow, it's crazy. Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Hey, there was an unbelievable video over the weekend. I'm
sure you saw it. Everybody saw it. The helicopter crashing
in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
That was pretty pretty yeah, pretty nuts. And then the
way that it was that it wedged in between the
palm trees and the stairs that go over pch over
to the Hiatt Hotel there, and that that protected all
the people who are around there, that it then didn't
spin out and and you know break apart or explode. Yeah,
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didn't explode, none of that. And yeah, here, let's just
the audio office boom as it goes right there, and
then it just stopped. Had that been into a crowd
or on the beach or in the parking lot where
they were trying to land, would have been a totally
different situation. But you know, I think the most incredible
part of all of this is that kid who was
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under He was on the stairs, but he was under
the chopper when it came down and almost looked like
he was in a fetal position after getting hit or
going down on his own, because it seems like he
has a head injury, but that it was only like
three feet above him where when it wedged into the
stair the structure right there and the trees, that it
(02:33):
didn't go all the way down onto the stairs, and
he was alive right under there. And then the bystanders
who went in, the Good Samaritans and saw there was
a child in there and pulled him out with the
sound of the the I mean, really, it sound like
a jet engine but with the engine still going. There
were no rotor blades, but the engine still on in
the chopper, and even the navigational lights that were blinking still.
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And those people went in with a loud noise and
dragged that kid out of there. That it had gotten
down another three feet, he would have been crushed by
the jew.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know, if if you let's say this was a
skateboard accident and the guy heard his spine and his ribs,
You're like, like, oh, he fell off a skateboard and
fractured his spine and his ribbed. You know, I'd be like, Wow,
what a big deal. But now it's said like, that's
the luckiest man in the world. That's all he got to,
you know, just an the ribs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, everybody involved that we know of, and it's hard
to get information because the government shut down.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The NTSB and the FAA.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
They're like, oh, we're investigating, but we're not gonna tell
you anything because we don't have enough staff right now
to deal with putting out public information. So they're saying
no because the government shutdown. But everything that we know
at this point from the pilot who his family says
he's been in the hospital, he's got some injuries, and
we don't know about the other person on board, but
all of those who were on the ground.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It seems like this could change.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It seems like that that in the long run, that
they're gonna be okay. But you look at you know,
that Reach helicopter crash that went down in Sacramento on
the freeway last run day. In that case, on Saturday night,
five days later, one person on board died, So you
never know. But this one, this Bell two twenty two
in nineteen eighty is when it was built, which for
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an aircraft isn't that old. But this is a chopper
that apparently people in Huntington Beach and along the beach
communities they know this well, that he flies it, he
does aerobatics, and you know, sometimes, according to some can
be a little annoying flying it near the buildings. But
this is a guy who knows the area well and
they know him as well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, I wonder I got a great idea for
a Huntington beach. So if Chief Para is listening, or
maybe the city council is, don't move that helicopter. Keep
it there and use it as a tourist attraction.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Because it's frozen there right now. Everybody's coming out to
see it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'd drive down there to see it, you know, just
leave it where it is, put a rope around it,
charge a couple of bucks, and have people take a
look at it.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It is frozen in time right now, and that's always
kind of creepy but interesting to me. You see an
a viation accident or any kind of accident where that's
how it froze in that moment of all of the
action that was going on and the lives that were
in danger, and then it froze right there and as
they're investigating and looking at how it's sitting there.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I got a question for you, Alex Jones with U
from ABC News. That helicopter is forty five years old. Yeah,
and you said that's not old. I got a pen.
Give me a number that's old for a helicopter, eight hundred.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Assuming that a helicopter is similar to a fixed wing aircraft,
I would say like the seventy early seventies, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, like this sixty eight year sixty eight year old helicopter.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
A lot of thesessinas that you see flying around are
very very old.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
There's even a lot of commercial aircraft that you fly
on that are very old. If you look at a
lot of those seven to sixty sevens that are flying.
Not to get too dorky here, but that Delta and
United are still flying. Those are from the early nineties,
many of them. And you know, you think for a
commercial airliner that that we're talking thirty some odd years old,
late eighties, early nineties, that still they're flying around and
(06:05):
they're gonna be around for a while.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
We used to take when we visit our grandparents in Cleveland.
It was a seven oh seven with the jet engines
on the back tail. Yeah, and they they ban those
from Burbank Airport because they're so effing loud. Oh yeah,
you know, and then when you sit next to one
of those engines on a plane, got it it? I
mean literally, you're sitting three feet from that engine.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The MD eighties used to be the same way, which
some still fly. Those are very into them. But you
sit in the back right next to that thing. It's
a totally different experience compared to upfront.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That is crazy. What do you doing for the Dodgers?
Do you have people over? Do you sit alone?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You mean, as I'm crying over by Rockies still, I
don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
We got to get the party together, mate.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Do you have a secondary club that you follow? Because
the Rockies aren't really.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Am because the Rockies aren't a real team. They're like
the Indians out of the movie Major League.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I heard they're in a fifty year rebuild. Is that true?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It might be even longer than that. Yeah, the A's
are my other team, but.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It is It is difficult to watch, you know, flipping
back and forth from baseball to football is just there's
no comparison. That's you know, just the slowness of baseball
and the tediousness.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And then you turn on.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
To speed it up. They're doing a lot to get
it moving.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You turn on football all these guys are, you know,
running around at full speed, crashing into each other.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's great, the greatest sport ever.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And I think, you know, last night there was a
fight after the Lions lost to the Kansas City's and
there was a fight on the field. And I think
the reason why some of these players are pissed because
if you're playing in the NFL and your team is
maybe not in that case, well, let's say your team
is one in five. You know, you maybe play for
Baltimore and you're one in five. Well, in your entire life,
you've never been one in five. You've always been on
(07:43):
a great high school team or a great college team,
and now you're one in five and aprobalygize these guys crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, and I was thinking that with Kansas City last
night too, and it looked like they might not win.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But this is a team that just in.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
The last five years eight years, has won every time
and goes to Super Bowl. And now you look what
are they at now? They're at like two and whatever
they are now, right, and to know that they're probably
not going back to the Super Bowl already, and that
they're having a tough season, that's gonna be that's gonna
be rough.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, and for people are in Kansas City too. I mean,
you know, I don't be The Royals aren't doing anything,
so it's tough, buddy.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I appreciate you coming on, all right, Ding dalk with you?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Ding John right there, he goes Alex Stone with ABC News.
I yeah, all right, we got the Dodgers going on today.
Is that a five thirty start? Crowises out?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
We're here.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I think first pitch was five to eight. Five oh eight,
are right, five oh eight. So as soon as this
game's over, Seattle is playing Toronto and Seattle is winning.
I can't see what ending it is here the sixth inning,
it's the sixth inning. It's Seattle seven to Toronto three.
If Seattle goes on to win this game, which they
probably will, then Seattle will be up two games to
(08:53):
none against Toronto before the Dodgers even swing a bat.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
The Seattle will have played.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Two games, two games under their belt before the Dodgers even,
you know, start their first game.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
We're very close to that. Yeah, it'll be very close.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
As a matter of fact, I don't think they're going
to start that Dodger game.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Until this game's over.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
For TV so the Seattle's gonna be up if they
finish this game where they are now, there could be
up two games to none before the Dodgers have one swing.
That's one of those things where it's like you see
it before that there's that.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's not always a great thing to be that far ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, maybe the little bit cold, Yeah maybe not. You're right,
maybe happened before. Hopefully you're right.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It could lead to a little rust going into the
next series.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Also the Dodgers could be a little rusty too. They
haven't played since Thursday, you know, so Thursday, what Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
four days off is a lot in baseball. They don't
get four days off except for All Star Break, and
so it'll be fun to watch. We will carry the well,
not the the game. I guess we can't do that.
I've had that happen before. It was a nightmare. I
(09:59):
put the game on the Lakers were in the championship,
I think against Boston. I worked at kalas X and
we were just watching the game. Everybody's watching the game,
so we said, oh, afit, let's just put the game
on the radio. And evidently the NBA licenses that to stations.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Yeah, don't they have that message. Any rebroadcasts, republishing, or
re enactment of whatever happens here without the express written
permission of the NBA is expressly forbidden.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah. Do you know when they play that after the game?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
They played that after the Yeah. They played it like
right at the very last part.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
They got to play that earlier for idiots like me.
You know, if I would have seen that, I wouldn't
have played it. And they sued KXLS for twenty four
million dollars and that was pretty hot for a while.
They settled for nothing, and the NBA was cool. Fortunately,
I had a friend who was an agent, a guy
(10:55):
named Jeff Werdick, and he made some calls and made
that go away. And I will always thank that that
lad for doing that. Saved my life. That Jeff Wernick.
What a guy. He's no longer with us, but the sweetest,
funniest guy, smartest guy I think I ever met, just
really a decent guy. And he called me up and
(11:16):
he goes, hey, he goes, I'll make some phone calls
to the NBA and see if I can help you
out here. And he got a twenty four million dollar
lawsuit thrown in the trash. Oh I bought well, I
bought him dinner afterwards. That's that's very kind of We
evened up at Arts Delli. So yeah, so it's a wash, Yeah,
(11:37):
because I only know because I knew he only likes
the soup there, so I got off light.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So he got him the half sandwich in the soup.
He didn't want to have sandwich.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It was just a soup, right, all right, Dodgers at
five eight, it's Conway's show. We're live on. Can't f
im six forty, can't fight am six forty? It is
the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And okay, that's cool. We have money here. Is this
a money deal or are we still doing that? All right?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We have a thousand dollars one thousand dollars and oh
oh oh, Tim Lynn is gonna Tim Lynn thinks he won.
Tim Lynn is well us, let's pop them up here.
Tim you can't win Europe.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Actually that's not true, Bello. I think Tim Lynn can
win the money. He doesn't work here. Oh man, yeah,
you can win the thousands.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Don't short me, buddy shirt anybody?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Hey, hey, birthday, Ah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I appreciate that, you know. I walked in, I told Bello.
I asked Bellio, I don't tell her anything, I asked her,
and she reminds me then and I said, Bellio, I said, please,
for the first time in you know, the fifteen years
we've been working together, please please don't make a big
deal out of it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I really don't like that. And she gave me my
birthday wish.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And there's no balloons, there's no streamers, no gifts, there's
no cake, there's nothing, which is great exactly why I
like it. Tim Lynn unfortunately is a Ducks fan, so
that's not going well. So you have plenty of time
to research of what happened with this helicopter.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Now you're tell people what is what's your background with helicopters.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I've been a helicopter pilot from about nineteen ninety eight.
When I started off with the Hunting Beach Police Department
probably thought I was a fixed wing instructor, so I
was already in aviation before I started flying. So yeah,
I went through Hunting and Beach PDE finally retired from there.
They went over to flying for the news at KTLA
and flew there for sixteen years.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And by the way, the last pilot slash reporter, I
believe you did both.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was two of us and both
of us retired around the same time.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And there's who was the other guy?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Actually, no pilot reporters left, Markcono he.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Was the guy.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So what do you think in your tunor opinion? Since
you were you know, I have a lot of experience,
what do you think happened to that helicopter in Huntington
Beach before wore it came down?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Well, it's the short of it. A pitch link on
the tail road or gearbox broke, which caused an imbalance,
caused the blaze to start rattling, and it tore the
transmission off the tail and without a tail rot to,
the helicopter will start spinning and there's not really too
much you can do about it at that point. So
that's the reader's judges, right.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And what's the name of the of the part that broke.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It's the pitch link, and that's a little piece of metal.
It's like a rod that hooks in the tail roador
transmission area and when you step on the pedals on
the floor of the helicopter. It actually moves that link,
and that link goes across to the blades and increases
and decreases the pitch so you can control the direction
(14:47):
of flight. So when you pull in power, you have
to add a little bit of pedal, as we say,
and what that has you increase the pitch of the
rotor blades to keep the cabin pointing in the direction
you want to go. Without that tail rotor, you have
no counteracting ability to overcome the torque on the fuselage
(15:08):
from the main rotor blades. That's why the cabin starts
turning right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
But there's no redundancy.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Good not when things break like that. No, that's like
driving down the free you and your wheel falling off
your much brief. Yeah, if there's no redundancy for that,
it's not a system inside that. Let's go Like if
the hydraulics quit working, there are mechanical parts that can
make it still operate. But his here is a catastrophic failure.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And how often too much you can do about it?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
How often is the pitch link replaced or repaired or
examined because it could be faulty.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
The pitch link is checked before every flight by the
pilot and by a daily mechanics. There is a rule
on the helicopter that I fly every ten hours. You
have to go back and check all that. But before
every flight I go by and check those pitch links
to make sure they're all secure, not moving, and there's
no cracks. So and then the FAA part of the
(16:07):
design of the helicopter, that pitch link is only good
for a certain amount of hours, and once it gets
to that time, you have to change it out. No
matter what the condition of that pitch link is. There's
time limits on different parts of the helicopter. This one
here is just one of those things where there could
have been a microscopic hairline crack in there that you
(16:27):
couldn't see the naked eye, and just you know, it
just was time to go. And it's very very unusual
for a pitch link to break like that. They do break,
they do come apart, become loose to the varying part,
but as far as the pitch link itself coming off,
off the transmission or off the actual horn on the
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tail roader is very unusual. But once he let go,
that guy was in the worst possible position you could be.
He was on approach, very low, very little air speed,
and a lot of power put in, and he did
the best job possible to keep that helicopter from flipping
over on its back or going completely out of control.
He rode the spin and then control the descent with
(17:11):
the collective So he did the best he could do
with what he had.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I appreciate you calling us up and letting us know
what happened with the pitch link. I'm going to add
that to my vocabulary. Hey, Tim, I didn't want to
do this off the air because I'm uncomfortable. It seems odd,
But I swear, I swear I was watching on the
internet and some news station footage coming out of Portland,
and I swear it was you part of that naked
(17:38):
bicycle ride up in Portland?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Is that? Is that how you spent your weekend?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You know, I've got a bad case of rash right
now and I'm using that with that stuff monkey.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
But to try to take care of it.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Yeah, all right, see seat, where's you out?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Okay? But you're the best.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But did you know that pilot that did there was
another thing that went down. Did you know that guy?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I didn't have never met him, but I do love him.
He's pretty famous and pretty well known in the world.
He has four other helicopters parked in his hangar.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
So he's the owner of a helicopter company and highly skilled,
highly uh you know, he has a lot of hours,
a lot of experience.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Do you recommend, like falling off, falling off a bike
or a horse, you get right back up on it.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Oh yeah, I mean it's gonna take him a while.
He got banged up pretty good, so it's gonna take
him in a while to get physically better. But yeah,
you need to jump back on the horse when stuff
like that happens. When I had my landing in Hollywood,
next day, I was back out there, So you can't
let that stuff get to you.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Good for you, all right, go docs, It's gonna be
a disappointing year. But plenty of room at Crypto if
you want to slide over there.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yeah, okay, but I got an open seat right next
to me. Anytime you aren't coming down and going to
the facility to actually treats their fans.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Dies. Yeah, I heard Corey Perry was flying that helicopter.
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah? No, he actually someone in the field before it took
a fine not Yeah, you were wishing he was next
weeks off.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's right, buddy. I appreciate you coming on. Thanks and
we'll talk to you soon. All right, Thanks Tim Lynn, everybody.
He flew for KTLA for a long time. He was
a pilot and a reporter, which is a very difficult
job to fly helicopter over a fire or earthquake or
flood or car accident. And he was able to fly
to look around, make sure they know helicopters or planes
(19:28):
were in around him, and talk literally for three four
five minutes at a time.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Very difficult job. And they don't make them like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
They don't make him like Tim Lynn flying and reporting
at the same time, which I call an aerial ding dong.
All right, we're live on KFI and six forty the
Dodgers starting about thirty eight minutes and we'll have updates
all night long.
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Speaker 2 (20:54):
Is that still open?
Speaker 8 (20:54):
No, it's closed. It is, yep.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So if you didn't get a ticket, you're rat aft.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
Well, I mean I think they're reaching out to people today.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh okay, all right, But if you didn't sign up before,
now you're rat aft.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
I guess that's a way of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Wouldn't you consider yourself that me personally? Yeah, if you
didn't get in. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's a big event.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
It's huge. It's your birthday.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
You got so many like kind birthday wishes from your
fabulous listeners.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Best, Well, you're the one that was telling me about it.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
What about being attacked, Yeah, I know you think it's
being attacked. But it's really very kind of people to
even bother to reach out and wish you happy birthday.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
That's right, it's not an attack.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
You know what.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I love your birthday.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I love the really impersonal happy birthday from a real
estate agent sye that I've never heard of, the thinking
of yeah, we at Valley Homes, I wish you a
happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
It's just good business.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You think that's good business.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Yeah, because you're gonna think of Valley Homes.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I think it's horrible business. I would never ever contact
the company that just sent a birthday wish the out
of the blue. Why because it's cheesy, you know, I mean,
it's it's it's odd. Look, I understand if you send
somebody like a gift, like if if Baskin Robbins reached
down and goes, hey, here's a certificate for a free
cone for your birthday.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I think, oh, that's cool, right.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But if it's just some company you've never heard of
and they're just trying to wiggle into, you know, wiggle
some money out of you on your birthday, I think
that's cold. I think it's pretty cold, and so I
don't know, just not to do it that birthday. They
party is going to be six to eight pm at Marongo.
That should be a cool deal on this Saturday, and
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that'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Crozier's going across. You're going, right, you always go, damn right?
Is your whole family? Is Jen going, the kids.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Going, Gen's going? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Nice?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Hey Bellio?
Speaker 9 (23:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Do we invite Sam?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Everybody's invited?
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Oh okay, all right, Sam, you're going to Morongo. I
might be working that day if it's on this weekend. Yes,
if if I wasn't in this seat on that day,
I would absolutely be there.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
By the way, you have I just noticed it the
first time this weekend. I discovered you have a weekend
show here eleven fifty Right, Well, I mean it's a
show that's not mine. I help out with. It's I
co host with, it's Joe Escalante's show though.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I love Joe Escalante.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Yeah, it's live from Hollywood with Joe Escalante on KiB
It's on a Sunday nights, seven or five o'clock to seven.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Five to seven on Sundays. Yeah, all right. Joe Ascolanti
is great. Oh yeah, he's wonderful. One of the most
talented people I've ever met in my life. I've never
met a more busy person in the entire industry.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, he's ry, but he also has a great reputation too. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
He's the manager of Sublime right now, and they have
the real song in the country for like the last five.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Weeks, no kidding. Yeah, it's doing big things. That's great, man,
I love Sublime. That's one of my favorite groups. All Right,
it's gonna rain.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
What's your favorite song?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Christ I knew it was coming. It's always something you know.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
We'll give you a second.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
What I Got? Ooh, What I Gone? That's a good song.
It's good. What's what's the number one song in the
in the country?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
What's sublime? Is that the name of the song? Ooh
What I Gone? Or is that ten years old? Twenty
years old? I don't know. I like Sublime. I like
the name. I like that.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Ooh what I got?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That's the song is en sonata? Say remember that?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Remember that?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
What God do you have that? Samway?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
We can play a little snippet of that new one. Yeah, no,
not the new one, the what I got? Yeah, give
me a secre no me a new meat around here.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Let's go, yeah, get it for me now, damn it.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
That's not so new.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'm coming in there. If you don't play right away.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
One of the first words on the on the clip
is a bad word. So I'm trying to find it.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
There should be a radio version of it, clean version
of it. But didn't he also write the double Dutch buss?
Isn't that the Sublime? No different band? I think, Oh
what I got? I can't believe Sublimes the number one song, uh, Sublime,
number one song in America. Quick update for you, the
Toronto Blue Jays are getting their butts whip by your
(25:42):
Seattle Mariners ten to three, ten to three in the
seventh So Toronto's going to gonna go down two games
to none in the American League Championship Series, and if
Seattle wins two more games, they'll probably win this. Then
they're going to be in the World Series. If the
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Dodgers win, it'll be a West Coast World Series, the
first one ever. No, no, you might remember nineteen eighty
nine when there was an earthquake. It was the San
Francisco Giants versus the Oakland Athletics, and that was a
West Coast series. And I don't think the West Coast
series will do well in the ratings. I think you
(26:25):
need an East Coast team and a West Coast I
think Toronto and the Dodgers would be the game winner
when it comes to ratings, or I don't know, maybe Milwaukee.
I don't know who cares about Milwaukee, though, I think
like eight people live in southern Milwaukee follow that team
because if you're from that part of the country, you're
a Cubs fan. You know, whether you live in Wisconsin
(26:48):
or Illinois or whatever, you probably are a Cubs fan.
You're not a I don't know a single Brewers fan ever.
You know, you meet a lot of people in life.
I've never ever once met a guy goes oh die
hard Brewers fan. Never met a guy like that my life.
And I've known Reds fans, Indians fans, Tigers fans, Cubs fans,
(27:09):
but never once. Hey, I love the Brewers. It's almost
like a fake team. Watch them go, you know, sweet
to touch. All Right, we're live Dodgers start in eight
and fifteen, twenty three minutes, twenty three minutes from now.
We're live on KFI. I'm six forty AM, six forty
Conway Show. We got rain coming in tonight and tomorrow.
(27:29):
It should be a significant amount Santa Clarita. They're expecting
that to be the heaviest rain out there. Two inches
in Santa Clarita has a rain for quite some time,
so it might be flooding. The freeways are going to
be slick, so please be careful. Pomona inch and three quarters.
Those are the two heavy spots according to the National
Weather Service. Okay, we had really heavy rain back in
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twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three, from October twenty
two tomorrow March twenty three, so October November, December, January
February March six months. And let's do a whip around, Sammy,
a little whipski here. Let me get out of pen
so I can right cut the answers down here.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Okay, in those.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
In that six month period between October of twenty twenty
two in March of twenty twenty three, So six months
twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three that winter, how much
rain did California get? And we'll measure that in galleys?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Galleys? All right, let's start with the belly.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Oh oh, I think we got four gallons.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
For the state.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Oh for the state?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Oh shut up, Sam.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
One hundred gallons.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
For the state?
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Open? Two tons?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
How many gallons is that?
Speaker 8 (29:10):
I don't know what you do that math for me?
Twenty five hundred Oh that's five thousand. Okay, No, I'm
actually working on something.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, I'm worried about you.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Well, you're right.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
I'm not good with the math.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay, No, not wrongly. Let's go to Sammy. I'm just
going to cross your answers. They're too embarrassing, all right, Sam.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Two hundred and fifty seven billion.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Two and fifty seven billion, I'm going big two fifty
seven okay.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Krowzier ummm, one hundred million, one hundred million, alright.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Angel, one trillion, Timmy.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
One trillion, and Maddie, you can win.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
You with us.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Four hundred thousand for the state. Okay, No, not a
lot of meteorology school. I guess. Look, I didn't know
the answer either, but.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'll tell you you're going to be shocked.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's not the four gallons that Bellio guess. It's more.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, it's considerably more. It's seventy eight trillion gallons.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
That is way more than For sure, i't trillion.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
I met four trillion.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Who said a trillion? Angel angel one, Angel one, So
it's seventy eight times Angel's guests, who is the highest?
And she won seventy eight times seventy eight trillion gallons
of water? And where is all of it back out
in the ocean because we've not built enough dams and
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enough reservoirs since I don't know, the nineteenth seventies. You know,
the population of the state of California has grown a
lot since the nineteen seventies. But I remember a major
dam that was put together to collect this rain water.
Seventy eight trillion gallons, seventy eight trillion fell on California
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in the winter of twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three.
That is remarkable. All right, when we come back, we
will talk about the rain. We are going to get rain.
We'll tell you where there might be some flooding, we'll
tell you where, and we will also periodically give you
Dodger updates. Right now, Seattle is beating Toronto in the
top of the eighth inning. It looks like this one's
(31:42):
over Seattle ten to three.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Seattle ten to three over Toronto, and we'll see what
the Dodgers do today in Milwaukee. Starts around ten minutes
from now. We're live Conway Show 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 through Friday, and anytime
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It's CAMFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Camf I AM six forty. It is The Conway Show.
It is Monday. The Dodgers start today.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I think it's a five to thirty start today in Milwaukee.
So as the evening goes on, we'll have updates for you.
And if the Dodgers win four of these next seven games,
they're going on to the World Series. And I think
Shoe a Otani's gonna come out of that slump he's
in because they had a lot of let He's had
(00:40):
a lot of left handers thrown at him for the
first two series, and now he's going to have some
soft left handers and guys that are pitching right handed,
and I think he's gonna do what. I think he's
going to get four home runs a game in four
straight games. So there's my prediction.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Alex Stone from ABC News is with us. Alex, how
you bomb four home runs a game? That is quite
a prediction. Yeah, Okay, don't be a hater. Good, but
I don't know about that good.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
All right, don't be a hater, du you know, no
hate here maybe one home run per game too, Wow
against the brew crew.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Wow, it's crazy. Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Hey, there was an unbelievable video over the weekend. I'm
sure you saw it. Everybody saw it. The helicopter crashing
in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
That was pretty pretty yeah, pretty nuts. And then the
way that it was that it wedged in between the
palm trees and the stairs that go over pch over
to the Hiatt Hotel there, and that that protected all
the people who are around there, that it then didn't
spin out and and you know break apart or explode. Yeah,
(01:49):
didn't explode, none of that. And yeah, here, let's just
the audio office boom as it goes right there, and
then it just stopped. Had that been into a crowd
or on the beach or in the parking lot where
they were trying to land, would have been a totally
different situation. But you know, I think the most incredible
part of all of this is that kid who was
(02:12):
under He was on the stairs, but he was under
the chopper when it came down and almost looked like
he was in a fetal position after getting hit or
going down on his own, because it seems like he
has a head injury, but that it was only like
three feet above him where when it wedged into the
stair the structure right there and the trees, that it
(02:33):
didn't go all the way down onto the stairs, and
he was alive right under there. And then the bystanders
who went in, the Good Samaritans and saw there was
a child in there and pulled him out with the
sound of the the I mean, really, it sound like
a jet engine but with the engine still going. There
were no rotor blades, but the engine still on in
the chopper, and even the navigational lights that were blinking still.
(02:55):
And those people went in with a loud noise and
dragged that kid out of there. That it had gotten
down another three feet, he would have been crushed by
the jew.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know, if if you let's say this was a
skateboard accident and the guy heard his spine and his ribs,
You're like, like, oh, he fell off a skateboard and
fractured his spine and his ribbed. You know, I'd be like, Wow,
what a big deal. But now it's said like, that's
the luckiest man in the world. That's all he got to,
you know, just an the ribs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, everybody involved that we know of, and it's hard
to get information because the government shut down.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The NTSB and the FAA.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
They're like, oh, we're investigating, but we're not gonna tell
you anything because we don't have enough staff right now
to deal with putting out public information. So they're saying
no because the government shutdown. But everything that we know
at this point from the pilot who his family says
he's been in the hospital, he's got some injuries, and
we don't know about the other person on board, but
all of those who were on the ground.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It seems like this could change.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It seems like that that in the long run, that
they're gonna be okay. But you look at you know,
that Reach helicopter crash that went down in Sacramento on
the freeway last run day. In that case, on Saturday night,
five days later, one person on board died, So you
never know. But this one, this Bell two twenty two
in nineteen eighty is when it was built, which for
(04:11):
an aircraft isn't that old. But this is a chopper
that apparently people in Huntington Beach and along the beach
communities they know this well, that he flies it, he
does aerobatics, and you know, sometimes, according to some can
be a little annoying flying it near the buildings. But
this is a guy who knows the area well and
they know him as well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, I wonder I got a great idea for
a Huntington beach. So if Chief Para is listening, or
maybe the city council is, don't move that helicopter. Keep
it there and use it as a tourist attraction.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Because it's frozen there right now. Everybody's coming out to
see it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'd drive down there to see it, you know, just
leave it where it is, put a rope around it,
charge a couple of bucks, and have people take a
look at it.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It is frozen in time right now, and that's always
kind of creepy but interesting to me. You see an
a viation accident or any kind of accident where that's
how it froze in that moment of all of the
action that was going on and the lives that were
in danger, and then it froze right there and as
they're investigating and looking at how it's sitting there.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I got a question for you, Alex Jones with U
from ABC News. That helicopter is forty five years old. Yeah,
and you said that's not old. I got a pen.
Give me a number that's old for a helicopter, eight hundred.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Assuming that a helicopter is similar to a fixed wing aircraft,
I would say like the seventy early seventies, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, like this sixty eight year sixty eight year old helicopter.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
A lot of thesessinas that you see flying around are
very very old.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
There's even a lot of commercial aircraft that you fly
on that are very old. If you look at a
lot of those seven to sixty sevens that are flying.
Not to get too dorky here, but that Delta and
United are still flying. Those are from the early nineties,
many of them. And you know, you think for a
commercial airliner that that we're talking thirty some odd years old,
late eighties, early nineties, that still they're flying around and
(06:05):
they're gonna be around for a while.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
We used to take when we visit our grandparents in Cleveland.
It was a seven oh seven with the jet engines
on the back tail. Yeah, and they they ban those
from Burbank Airport because they're so effing loud. Oh yeah,
you know, and then when you sit next to one
of those engines on a plane, got it it? I
mean literally, you're sitting three feet from that engine.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The MD eighties used to be the same way, which
some still fly. Those are very into them. But you
sit in the back right next to that thing. It's
a totally different experience compared to upfront.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That is crazy. What do you doing for the Dodgers?
Do you have people over? Do you sit alone?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You mean, as I'm crying over by Rockies still, I
don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
We got to get the party together, mate.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Do you have a secondary club that you follow? Because
the Rockies aren't really.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Am because the Rockies aren't a real team. They're like
the Indians out of the movie Major League.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I heard they're in a fifty year rebuild. Is that true?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It might be even longer than that. Yeah, the A's
are my other team, but.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It is It is difficult to watch, you know, flipping
back and forth from baseball to football is just there's
no comparison. That's you know, just the slowness of baseball
and the tediousness.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And then you turn on.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
To speed it up. They're doing a lot to get
it moving.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You turn on football all these guys are, you know,
running around at full speed, crashing into each other.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's great, the greatest sport ever.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And I think, you know, last night there was a
fight after the Lions lost to the Kansas City's and
there was a fight on the field. And I think
the reason why some of these players are pissed because
if you're playing in the NFL and your team is
maybe not in that case, well, let's say your team
is one in five. You know, you maybe play for
Baltimore and you're one in five. Well, in your entire life,
you've never been one in five. You've always been on
(07:43):
a great high school team or a great college team,
and now you're one in five and aprobalygize these guys crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, and I was thinking that with Kansas City last
night too, and it looked like they might not win.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But this is a team that just in.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
The last five years eight years, has won every time
and goes to Super Bowl. And now you look what
are they at now? They're at like two and whatever
they are now, right, and to know that they're probably
not going back to the Super Bowl already, and that
they're having a tough season, that's gonna be that's gonna
be rough.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, and for people are in Kansas City too. I mean,
you know, I don't be The Royals aren't doing anything,
so it's tough, buddy.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I appreciate you coming on, all right, Ding dalk with you?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Ding John right there, he goes Alex Stone with ABC News.
I yeah, all right, we got the Dodgers going on today.
Is that a five thirty start? Crowises out?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
We're here.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I think first pitch was five to eight. Five oh eight,
are right, five oh eight. So as soon as this
game's over, Seattle is playing Toronto and Seattle is winning.
I can't see what ending it is here the sixth inning,
it's the sixth inning. It's Seattle seven to Toronto three.
If Seattle goes on to win this game, which they
probably will, then Seattle will be up two games to
(08:53):
none against Toronto before the Dodgers even swing a bat.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
The Seattle will have played.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Two games, two games under their belt before the Dodgers even,
you know, start their first game.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
We're very close to that. Yeah, it'll be very close.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
As a matter of fact, I don't think they're going
to start that Dodger game.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Until this game's over.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
For TV so the Seattle's gonna be up if they
finish this game where they are now, there could be
up two games to none before the Dodgers have one swing.
That's one of those things where it's like you see
it before that there's that.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's not always a great thing to be that far ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, maybe the little bit cold, Yeah maybe not. You're right,
maybe happened before. Hopefully you're right.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It could lead to a little rust going into the
next series.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Also the Dodgers could be a little rusty too. They
haven't played since Thursday, you know, so Thursday, what Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
four days off is a lot in baseball. They don't
get four days off except for All Star Break, and
so it'll be fun to watch. We will carry the well,
not the the game. I guess we can't do that.
I've had that happen before. It was a nightmare. I
(09:59):
put the game on the Lakers were in the championship,
I think against Boston. I worked at kalas X and
we were just watching the game. Everybody's watching the game,
so we said, oh, afit, let's just put the game
on the radio. And evidently the NBA licenses that to stations.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Yeah, don't they have that message. Any rebroadcasts, republishing, or
re enactment of whatever happens here without the express written
permission of the NBA is expressly forbidden.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah. Do you know when they play that after the game?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
They played that after the Yeah. They played it like
right at the very last part.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
They got to play that earlier for idiots like me.
You know, if I would have seen that, I wouldn't
have played it. And they sued KXLS for twenty four
million dollars and that was pretty hot for a while.
They settled for nothing, and the NBA was cool. Fortunately,
I had a friend who was an agent, a guy
(10:55):
named Jeff Werdick, and he made some calls and made
that go away. And I will always thank that that
lad for doing that. Saved my life. That Jeff Wernick.
What a guy. He's no longer with us, but the sweetest,
funniest guy, smartest guy I think I ever met, just
really a decent guy. And he called me up and
(11:16):
he goes, hey, he goes, I'll make some phone calls
to the NBA and see if I can help you
out here. And he got a twenty four million dollar
lawsuit thrown in the trash. Oh I bought well, I
bought him dinner afterwards. That's that's very kind of We
evened up at Arts Delli. So yeah, so it's a wash, Yeah,
(11:37):
because I only know because I knew he only likes
the soup there, so I got off light.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So he got him the half sandwich in the soup.
He didn't want to have sandwich.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It was just a soup, right, all right, Dodgers at
five eight, it's Conway's show. We're live on. Can't f
im six forty, can't fight am six forty? It is
the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And okay, that's cool. We have money here. Is this
a money deal or are we still doing that? All right?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We have a thousand dollars one thousand dollars and oh
oh oh, Tim Lynn is gonna Tim Lynn thinks he won.
Tim Lynn is well us, let's pop them up here.
Tim you can't win Europe.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Actually that's not true, Bello. I think Tim Lynn can
win the money. He doesn't work here. Oh man, yeah,
you can win the thousands.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Don't short me, buddy shirt anybody?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Hey, hey, birthday, Ah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I appreciate that, you know. I walked in, I told Bello.
I asked Bellio, I don't tell her anything, I asked her,
and she reminds me then and I said, Bellio, I said, please,
for the first time in you know, the fifteen years
we've been working together, please please don't make a big
deal out of it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I really don't like that. And she gave me my
birthday wish.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And there's no balloons, there's no streamers, no gifts, there's
no cake, there's nothing, which is great exactly why I
like it. Tim Lynn unfortunately is a Ducks fan, so
that's not going well. So you have plenty of time
to research of what happened with this helicopter.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Now you're tell people what is what's your background with helicopters.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I've been a helicopter pilot from about nineteen ninety eight.
When I started off with the Hunting Beach Police Department
probably thought I was a fixed wing instructor, so I
was already in aviation before I started flying. So yeah,
I went through Hunting and Beach PDE finally retired from there.
They went over to flying for the news at KTLA
and flew there for sixteen years.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And by the way, the last pilot slash reporter, I
believe you did both.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was two of us and both
of us retired around the same time.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And there's who was the other guy?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Actually, no pilot reporters left, Markcono he.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Was the guy.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So what do you think in your tunor opinion? Since
you were you know, I have a lot of experience,
what do you think happened to that helicopter in Huntington
Beach before wore it came down?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Well, it's the short of it. A pitch link on
the tail road or gearbox broke, which caused an imbalance,
caused the blaze to start rattling, and it tore the
transmission off the tail and without a tail rot to,
the helicopter will start spinning and there's not really too
much you can do about it at that point. So
that's the reader's judges, right.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And what's the name of the of the part that broke.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It's the pitch link, and that's a little piece of metal.
It's like a rod that hooks in the tail roador
transmission area and when you step on the pedals on
the floor of the helicopter. It actually moves that link,
and that link goes across to the blades and increases
and decreases the pitch so you can control the direction
(14:47):
of flight. So when you pull in power, you have
to add a little bit of pedal, as we say,
and what that has you increase the pitch of the
rotor blades to keep the cabin pointing in the direction
you want to go. Without that tail rotor, you have
no counteracting ability to overcome the torque on the fuselage
(15:08):
from the main rotor blades. That's why the cabin starts
turning right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
But there's no redundancy.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Good not when things break like that. No, that's like
driving down the free you and your wheel falling off
your much brief. Yeah, if there's no redundancy for that,
it's not a system inside that. Let's go Like if
the hydraulics quit working, there are mechanical parts that can
make it still operate. But his here is a catastrophic failure.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And how often too much you can do about it?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
How often is the pitch link replaced or repaired or
examined because it could be faulty.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
The pitch link is checked before every flight by the
pilot and by a daily mechanics. There is a rule
on the helicopter that I fly every ten hours. You
have to go back and check all that. But before
every flight I go by and check those pitch links
to make sure they're all secure, not moving, and there's
no cracks. So and then the FAA part of the
(16:07):
design of the helicopter, that pitch link is only good
for a certain amount of hours, and once it gets
to that time, you have to change it out. No
matter what the condition of that pitch link is. There's
time limits on different parts of the helicopter. This one
here is just one of those things where there could
have been a microscopic hairline crack in there that you
(16:27):
couldn't see the naked eye, and just you know, it
just was time to go. And it's very very unusual
for a pitch link to break like that. They do break,
they do come apart, become loose to the varying part,
but as far as the pitch link itself coming off,
off the transmission or off the actual horn on the
(16:48):
tail roader is very unusual. But once he let go,
that guy was in the worst possible position you could be.
He was on approach, very low, very little air speed,
and a lot of power put in, and he did
the best job possible to keep that helicopter from flipping
over on its back or going completely out of control.
He rode the spin and then control the descent with
(17:11):
the collective So he did the best he could do
with what he had.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I appreciate you calling us up and letting us know
what happened with the pitch link. I'm going to add
that to my vocabulary. Hey, Tim, I didn't want to
do this off the air because I'm uncomfortable. It seems odd,
But I swear, I swear I was watching on the
internet and some news station footage coming out of Portland,
and I swear it was you part of that naked
(17:38):
bicycle ride up in Portland?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Is that? Is that how you spent your weekend?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You know, I've got a bad case of rash right
now and I'm using that with that stuff monkey.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
But to try to take care of it.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Yeah, all right, see seat, where's you out?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Okay? But you're the best.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But did you know that pilot that did there was
another thing that went down. Did you know that guy?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I didn't have never met him, but I do love him.
He's pretty famous and pretty well known in the world.
He has four other helicopters parked in his hangar.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
So he's the owner of a helicopter company and highly skilled,
highly uh you know, he has a lot of hours,
a lot of experience.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Do you recommend, like falling off, falling off a bike
or a horse, you get right back up on it.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Oh yeah, I mean it's gonna take him a while.
He got banged up pretty good, so it's gonna take
him in a while to get physically better. But yeah,
you need to jump back on the horse when stuff
like that happens. When I had my landing in Hollywood,
next day, I was back out there, So you can't
let that stuff get to you.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Good for you, all right, go docs, It's gonna be
a disappointing year. But plenty of room at Crypto if
you want to slide over there.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yeah, okay, but I got an open seat right next
to me. Anytime you aren't coming down and going to
the facility to actually treats their fans.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Dies. Yeah, I heard Corey Perry was flying that helicopter.
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah? No, he actually someone in the field before it took
a fine not Yeah, you were wishing he was next
weeks off.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's right, buddy. I appreciate you coming on. Thanks and
we'll talk to you soon. All right, Thanks Tim Lynn, everybody.
He flew for KTLA for a long time. He was
a pilot and a reporter, which is a very difficult
job to fly helicopter over a fire or earthquake or
flood or car accident. And he was able to fly
to look around, make sure they know helicopters or planes
(19:28):
were in around him, and talk literally for three four
five minutes at a time.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Very difficult job. And they don't make them like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
They don't make him like Tim Lynn flying and reporting
at the same time, which I call an aerial ding dong.
All right, we're live on KFI and six forty the
Dodgers starting about thirty eight minutes and we'll have updates
all night long.
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a belly. Are we still accepting people on the invitation
(20:52):
list for Marongo?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Is that still open?
Speaker 8 (20:54):
No, it's closed. It is, yep.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So if you didn't get a ticket, you're rat aft.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
Well, I mean I think they're reaching out to people today.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh okay, all right, But if you didn't sign up before,
now you're rat aft.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
I guess that's a way of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Wouldn't you consider yourself that me personally? Yeah, if you
didn't get in. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It's a big event.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
It's huge. It's your birthday.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
You got so many like kind birthday wishes from your
fabulous listeners.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Best, Well, you're the one that was telling me about it.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
What about being attacked, Yeah, I know you think it's
being attacked. But it's really very kind of people to
even bother to reach out and wish you happy birthday.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
That's right, it's not an attack.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
You know what.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I love your birthday.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I love the really impersonal happy birthday from a real
estate agent sye that I've never heard of, the thinking
of yeah, we at Valley Homes, I wish you a
happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
It's just good business.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You think that's good business.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Yeah, because you're gonna think of Valley Homes.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I think it's horrible business. I would never ever contact
the company that just sent a birthday wish the out
of the blue. Why because it's cheesy, you know, I mean,
it's it's it's odd. Look, I understand if you send
somebody like a gift, like if if Baskin Robbins reached
down and goes, hey, here's a certificate for a free
cone for your birthday.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I think, oh, that's cool, right.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But if it's just some company you've never heard of
and they're just trying to wiggle into, you know, wiggle
some money out of you on your birthday, I think
that's cold. I think it's pretty cold, and so I
don't know, just not to do it that birthday. They
party is going to be six to eight pm at Marongo.
That should be a cool deal on this Saturday, and
(22:50):
that'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Crozier's going across. You're going, right, you always go, damn right?
Is your whole family? Is Jen going, the kids.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Going, Gen's going? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Nice?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Hey Bellio?
Speaker 9 (23:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Do we invite Sam?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Everybody's invited?
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Oh okay, all right, Sam, you're going to Morongo. I
might be working that day if it's on this weekend. Yes,
if if I wasn't in this seat on that day,
I would absolutely be there.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
By the way, you have I just noticed it the
first time this weekend. I discovered you have a weekend
show here eleven fifty Right, Well, I mean it's a
show that's not mine. I help out with. It's I
co host with, it's Joe Escalante's show though.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I love Joe Escalante.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Yeah, it's live from Hollywood with Joe Escalante on KiB
It's on a Sunday nights, seven or five o'clock to seven.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Five to seven on Sundays. Yeah, all right. Joe Ascolanti
is great. Oh yeah, he's wonderful. One of the most
talented people I've ever met in my life. I've never
met a more busy person in the entire industry.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, he's ry, but he also has a great reputation too. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
He's the manager of Sublime right now, and they have
the real song in the country for like the last five.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Weeks, no kidding. Yeah, it's doing big things. That's great, man,
I love Sublime. That's one of my favorite groups. All Right,
it's gonna rain.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
What's your favorite song?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Christ I knew it was coming. It's always something you know.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
We'll give you a second.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
What I Got? Ooh, What I Gone? That's a good song.
It's good. What's what's the number one song in the
in the country?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
What's sublime? Is that the name of the song? Ooh
What I Gone? Or is that ten years old? Twenty
years old? I don't know. I like Sublime. I like
the name. I like that.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Ooh what I got?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That's the song is en sonata? Say remember that?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Remember that?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
What God do you have that? Samway?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
We can play a little snippet of that new one. Yeah, no,
not the new one, the what I got? Yeah, give
me a secre no me a new meat around here.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Let's go, yeah, get it for me now, damn it.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
That's not so new.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'm coming in there. If you don't play right away.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
One of the first words on the on the clip
is a bad word. So I'm trying to find it.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
There should be a radio version of it, clean version
of it. But didn't he also write the double Dutch buss?
Isn't that the Sublime? No different band? I think, Oh
what I got? I can't believe Sublimes the number one song, uh, Sublime,
number one song in America. Quick update for you, the
Toronto Blue Jays are getting their butts whip by your
(25:42):
Seattle Mariners ten to three, ten to three in the
seventh So Toronto's going to gonna go down two games
to none in the American League Championship Series, and if
Seattle wins two more games, they'll probably win this. Then
they're going to be in the World Series. If the
(26:03):
Dodgers win, it'll be a West Coast World Series, the
first one ever. No, no, you might remember nineteen eighty
nine when there was an earthquake. It was the San
Francisco Giants versus the Oakland Athletics, and that was a
West Coast series. And I don't think the West Coast
series will do well in the ratings. I think you
(26:25):
need an East Coast team and a West Coast I
think Toronto and the Dodgers would be the game winner
when it comes to ratings, or I don't know, maybe Milwaukee.
I don't know who cares about Milwaukee, though, I think
like eight people live in southern Milwaukee follow that team
because if you're from that part of the country, you're
a Cubs fan. You know, whether you live in Wisconsin
(26:48):
or Illinois or whatever, you probably are a Cubs fan.
You're not a I don't know a single Brewers fan ever.
You know, you meet a lot of people in life.
I've never ever once met a guy goes oh die
hard Brewers fan. Never met a guy like that my life.
And I've known Reds fans, Indians fans, Tigers fans, Cubs fans,
(27:09):
but never once. Hey, I love the Brewers. It's almost
like a fake team. Watch them go, you know, sweet
to touch. All Right, we're live Dodgers start in eight
and fifteen, twenty three minutes, twenty three minutes from now.
We're live on KFI. I'm six forty AM, six forty
Conway Show. We got rain coming in tonight and tomorrow.
(27:29):
It should be a significant amount Santa Clarita. They're expecting
that to be the heaviest rain out there. Two inches
in Santa Clarita has a rain for quite some time,
so it might be flooding. The freeways are going to
be slick, so please be careful. Pomona inch and three quarters.
Those are the two heavy spots according to the National
Weather Service. Okay, we had really heavy rain back in
(27:54):
twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three, from October twenty
two tomorrow March twenty three, so October November, December, January
February March six months. And let's do a whip around, Sammy,
a little whipski here. Let me get out of pen
so I can right cut the answers down here.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Okay, in those.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
In that six month period between October of twenty twenty
two in March of twenty twenty three, So six months
twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three that winter, how much
rain did California get? And we'll measure that in galleys?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Galleys? All right, let's start with the belly.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Oh oh, I think we got four gallons.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
For the state.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Oh for the state?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Oh shut up, Sam.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
One hundred gallons.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
For the state?
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Open? Two tons?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
How many gallons is that?
Speaker 8 (29:10):
I don't know what you do that math for me?
Twenty five hundred Oh that's five thousand. Okay, No, I'm
actually working on something.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, I'm worried about you.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Well, you're right.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
I'm not good with the math.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay, No, not wrongly. Let's go to Sammy. I'm just
going to cross your answers. They're too embarrassing, all right, Sam.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Two hundred and fifty seven billion.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Two and fifty seven billion, I'm going big two fifty
seven okay.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Krowzier ummm, one hundred million, one hundred million, alright.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Angel, one trillion, Timmy.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
One trillion, and Maddie, you can win.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
You with us.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Four hundred thousand for the state. Okay, No, not a
lot of meteorology school. I guess. Look, I didn't know
the answer either, but.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'll tell you you're going to be shocked.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's not the four gallons that Bellio guess. It's more.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, it's considerably more. It's seventy eight trillion gallons.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
That is way more than For sure, i't trillion.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
I met four trillion.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Who said a trillion? Angel angel one, Angel one, So
it's seventy eight times Angel's guests, who is the highest?
And she won seventy eight times seventy eight trillion gallons
of water? And where is all of it back out
in the ocean because we've not built enough dams and
(30:57):
enough reservoirs since I don't know, the nineteenth seventies. You know,
the population of the state of California has grown a
lot since the nineteen seventies. But I remember a major
dam that was put together to collect this rain water.
Seventy eight trillion gallons, seventy eight trillion fell on California
(31:21):
in the winter of twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three.
That is remarkable. All right, when we come back, we
will talk about the rain. We are going to get rain.
We'll tell you where there might be some flooding, we'll
tell you where, and we will also periodically give you
Dodger updates. Right now, Seattle is beating Toronto in the
top of the eighth inning. It looks like this one's
(31:42):
over Seattle ten to three.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Seattle ten to three over Toronto, and we'll see what
the Dodgers do today in Milwaukee. Starts around ten minutes
from now. We're live Conway Show on KFI AM six
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