May 29, 2025 • 34 mins
Alex Stone, Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and cause US unemployment to spike as high as 20%, according to the chief executive of a top AI company.// Emailing 1K emails, not as easy as you may think. //Mark Whaling, Whaling Fire Line Equipment, Inc. / Huntington Beach Whaling's innovative Heli-Hydrant is transforming wildfire response efforts in Southern California. The invention, a small, open tank that rapidly fills with water, allows helicopters to quickly access water for firefighting, reducing the need for long flights to distant lakes or ponds. // Another jewelry store heist. They used a blowtorch used in the costly heist of Glendale jewelry store. // #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #WhiteCollarJobs #Unemployment #Emails #HeliHydrant #wildfire #fires #Crime #JewelryHeist
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps flying Am at sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It is the.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Conway Show, all righting and joy and man oh man,
it is beautiful outside. They said it was gonna be
hotter than hell, but I don't think it's that bad,
you know, I think tomorrow might be a little warm.
But don't don't let people scare you into not going outside.
It might be ninety degrees tomorrow. We can handle one
day of heat, all right. Stop with the world's ending
(00:35):
and the world's burning up, it's just not happening. As
a matter of fact. Why don't you type in Google
are we in an ice age? And see what where
you get back the answer? Yes, this earth that we
live on technically is still in an ice age. So
go out and get a sweater today. Prepare for tomorrow,
all right, Alex Stone is with us.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Maybec news Hi you Bob, Get ready tomorrow for all
the news stories about drink plenty of water, some shade
that around the air conditioning.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Why now, you know, I think you're we're on the
same h you know planet here When when it comes
to that answer me this because you're with ABC News.
How come they feel obligated, obligated to tell people that
are watching the news, which are you know, fairly bright people.
I think, why do they have to tell them all
that every time the heat goes past eighty five?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You know, I guess seniors need to know it, and
some people need to know it. People do get seniors.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Are already eighty five They've made.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
It eighty five years. They figured out how to do
it every year when it gets hot. It's a good point.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It drives me crazy, you know, get into some shade
where like.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Clothing users sound bite of Wow, what's really hot out
here in this park right now?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, I'm jogging in the middle of the valley
and it seems hot. Hey, all right, so let's talk
about blue collar jobs. They might be going away because
of AI, Well, the white collar ones. I'm sorry, yeah,
blue collar ones. I think back when the machines came around.
But yeah, I mean we've already hands clean money. That's
what I always said, exactly. And AI has gotten better
(02:06):
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You know, it's got the stereotype of like you make
a video or a photo and the person has eight
fingers and the people behind them all have gobbly gook
faces that already doesn't go on very much. The videos
can look super realistic. Photos can medical research. Now AI
can crunch the data and look at scans in ways
that humans would never be able to detect things in
(02:28):
an X ray or an MRI scan, any of those.
So today there is a CEO of an AI company
that they built the AI model, it's called Clad four,
and he's issuing a warning that he says fifty percent
of entry level white collar jobs could be wiped out
by AI within the next five years, and that he
(02:48):
believes it's going to drive up unemployment right now. I
think it's like four point six percent nationally going to
go up to like twenty percent based on all the
people who are going to not have a job.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Because AI is going to take it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
And the industry is saying, yeah, this is progressing so
quickly that it is getting so good so fast. In
another two years, three years, five years, ten years, what
AI is going to be. This is Molly Kinder and
analyst of Brookings Metro. She says, yeah, it could happen.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
These new generative AI technologies pose a real risk to
early career knowledge jobs.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So the warning that this guy is giving the axios,
he says jobs in law, in marketing, in tech, and
in finance are most at risk from AI. You could
argue news reporters as well, because in fact, the Arizona
Supreme Court they're now using AI avatars to be news
reporters to look at they don't need a human to
do it. The transcripts and the court reporting that's done
(03:46):
by the court itself to summarize all of that, put
it together and automatically put out a news report for
online viewers to know what goes on in the Arizona
Supreme Court. This is one of those AI news reporters.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I'm Victoria, one of the Arizona Supreme Court's new AI reporters.
If you're wondering why the court decided to use an
AI generated spokesperson like me to share its news, the
answer is simple. By providing timely updates directly from the court,
we help ensure you have accurate information about important legal
decisions affecting Arizonans.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No you would involve there. That's not a human, that's
a robot, that's AI. That's AI doing it on its own.
And yeah, the cadences a little bit where you can
go out, but it's getting better and better.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
We're in the infant stages of this, yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
It's already better than it was like two years ago
where you'd be like.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh, that's AI. But how are they going to incorporate
the the anti Trump angle into these stories?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, see, then you have to wonder if is a
slant that the computers get or will it be right
down the.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I also heard that AI is very close to curing
like ten to fifteen different aggressive cancers. Because of how
quickly AI can go through and and simulate you know,
a certain and strains of cancer and how to cure
it and how to cut it off. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
And if it can do that outstanding, and that's not
taking away any jobs because doctors weren't able to do
that on their own and research are so sure. But
in the you know, when it comes to law and
summarizing things and coming up with a marketing plan, AI
is going to be able to do that. And it's
really the young college educated workers who are trying to
get into their first job that's where this guy's saying
(05:27):
that that's where AI is going to take it. But yeah,
and Tim already Walmart getting rid of fifteen hundred corporate
jobs as part of a technology restructuring, microsoftling off six
thousand employees saying they're aligning with the AI era. So
it is going on. She says, Look, you gotta figure
out what AI can't do, and that's person to person
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and really making human connections, and that that's where the
jobs are going to be.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
She added this, if you can do your job locked
in a closet with a computer, those are the things
that are more worrying for AI.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That have to be in person and really with people
tend to.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Be safer, which is a problem because I am locked
in a closet with a computer right now talking to you.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I mean, that is literally what I am doing right now.
So there you go. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So you say, and I believe you that these college
careers that you know that it costs two hundred and
eighty thousand dollars when they go to look for a job,
there aren't going to be as many and they're not
going to pay as much.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
That is the prediction that's out there that if if
you go to college and you come out to get
into law, into technology, into finance, into marketing. That the
prediction that they are making is that a at least
half of them, a big chunk of him, are going
to be gone in the next five years.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow man, Okay, So and again you said that you
have to be personal, you have to have a you know, contact,
you want way I can't do, and personal skills. But
all those have gone away because of the phone.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
That's true. Nobody knows that a young up and coming Yeah,
they're not going to know how to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I walked by a guide today. He works on the
fifth floor. I know who he is, and I walked
past him today. He didn't have headphones, he wasn't looking
at his phone, which I can credit for. And I
walked by him as I was walking in today and
I said, Hey, how you doing? And he had no
response to me. He didn't look at me. I said
louder than hell, there's no way he didn't hear it.
And he had no response because I don't know how
he I don't know. I don't think he knows how
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to respond. It's that way you here at ABC as well.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You go down the hallways and you try to make
eye contact with somebody and it's just not there. Or
you're out on a walk and you say hi and
they don't even look up. Oka's not strange too, isn't
it strange?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It really is odd? Where did you? Where were you
born and raised? Santa Rosa, nor California. Okay, Northern California.
Northern California a very social place, sure, you know, Northern California.
The hippies. Everybody was talking everybody all the time. You
go up there, Now nobody's talking to anybody. No, it's
it's unreal.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Everybody's looking at their phones or looking down.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But you know, fortunately, look, I don't know how old
you are, and I'm not gonna you know, okay, forty four,
but can you imagine being fifteen right now?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I mean you asked him, my twelve year old son,
to make a phone call, and he's like, oh, yeah,
how do I do that? Well, they're gonna say Domino's
Pizza and you say, hi, I have a question about
and he's like, yeah, no, we're not gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
The simple things in life, very simple things. Man. It's tough.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Yeah, we're telling them.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
We're like, we used to have to call businesses if
you wanted to know the hours they were open.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Sure, you had to call them. You out that long ago.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You remember, a movie phone was a big advancement.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Oh yeah, you know in't want.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
To look in the newspaper to find the movie times, right, Yeah,
you had to do that exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
But but you know what, but maybe those were And
how about this when you got home and you had
an answer machine and that thing was beeping, Oh, touchdown.
Anybody could be anything, could be anybody. But if you
saw the solid light light, you're done the message over
and over again of hi, this is Alex. Sorry, I'm
not home right now. Right when we were at we
were at Marongo, this is about ten fifteen years ago.
(08:54):
And my daughter, who I think was like three or four,
she said, where's mom? And I said, she said pool area,
And she said, will you call her? I'm going to
talk to her, And I said, I want you to
do it. I want you to call her. I mean
in case I have a heart attack one day. I
want you to learn how to use the phone. So
she picks up She goes, what I do? I go
pick with the phone dial zero, ask the operator to
connect you to the pool area. So she picks up
(09:14):
the phone, puts it down. She goes, it's broken. I go,
what do you mean? She goes, it's making a weird
humming noise. Never heard a dial tone and you're life.
Never heard of dial tone? Not surprising, No, no, none
of these kids will hear dial tones. No, it's over.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's why two grandpa's watching six.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Ye yeah, we are old.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But I appreciate you coming back day. I appreciate you
coming on. All right, there, he goes Alex Stone.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
With ABC News.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That guy's great, man, that guy's the best.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I tried to email everybody last night about our big
trip that we're taking, and I ran into a roadblock
because Gmail doesn't allow you to email more than five
hundred people in a twenty four hour period. So I'm
gonna to do a lot more tonight, or you can
tune in tomorrow at five point thirty to find out
where we're going on this trip. Me and a lot
of listeners. We're going on a trip. It's gonna be great.
(10:06):
I might be a one off. I might never do
it again. This seems to be a lot of work
around here putting this together, lots of conversations, lots of emails,
lots of calls, lots of stuff going on here at
the station with this, with this trip or taking. But
it's gonna be fun. And if you miss out on it, man,
you're gonna you're gonna kick yourself. So tomorrow at five thirty,
we're announced where the trip is going, how many people
(10:28):
are going, what it involves, the whole deal. Tomorrow at
five point thirty. Right here on kf I.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Hey, I apologize if you emailed us Conway Trip at
gmail dot com. I went last night. I stayed up
till three o'clock trying to email everybody early on what
the trip is all about. So check your email. We
have eleven hundred people, almost twelve hundred people that are
interested in the trip that we're taking next year. And
I was up till, I don't know, maybe two thirty,
(11:03):
just emailing everybody, and I thought I had it down
and I was clicking through it real quick, just giving
you a simple idea where the trip was and where
we're going and everything. And then after I'm done on
my draft folder, it says seven hundred and one. Oh no,
and I'm like, wait a minute, what And then I
read online that you can only email with Gmail. You
(11:25):
can only email five hundred people in a twenty four
hour period and then they cut you off. And so
I figured out I said, okay, well they should have
told me that and said, hey, for an extra you know,
ten thousand dollars, you can email the rest of the people.
I'm like, oh, okay, I'll do that, or an extra
you know, fifteen dollars or fifty bucks, whatever it is.
I would have done that in a heartbeat. But they
(11:46):
said there's no real way with the with a free
Gmail account that you can expand that you have to
go into another you know, business area and stuff. And
I couldn't figure that out. So I'm going to try
tonight to finish up with emails and tell everybody where
we're going on the trip or if you don't get
one of our emails or one of my emails. Tomorrow
at five point thirty, we're going to announce where the
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trip is going to be, and it could be anywhere
a lot of people are guessing that it's Europe and
it's France, and I will tell you it ain't. It's
not France. I've been to France. I'm not going back
to France. Not a horrible experience. But I found the
(12:32):
people to be, I don't know, rude, and the country
is filthy. Nobody picks up their own dog feces. I
don't know if you know that. But in France, or
at least the part of France, I was in Niece.
There's dog crap all over the sidewalks and I said, Hey,
what's this and they said, oh, the dogs they go
I do do this. I said, are you Italian? Are
(12:54):
you French? What's going on with you? And I said,
why don't people pick it up? And you look at
me like I had three heads, like, oh, we don't
de touch the dog poo poos. I said, again, what
are you Italian? I can't understand what that in Italy? Yeah,
maybe I was in Italy. Maybe that's after them, but
(13:16):
you know, Italy is right next to France where they're
very close. I think Monaco is between them. I don't know,
but it's a It's a beautiful, beautiful part of the world.
But I couldn't understand the people. They're all speaking French,
you know, and I get that, you know, that's their language. Angel,
(13:37):
I swear to god, it's really early. It's not even
four thirty. I could get down to Long Beach by
six thirty. Key your car and be back here and
finish the show before MO came on. Do you realize that?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Well, prove it?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay. Hey, by the way, I told Angel where the
trip was because she's thinking about going with your mom.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Ah, that'd be great, that'd be fantastic. Maybe I'll take
my mom too. Oh yeah, I mean the Ashes.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
That should be Yeah, bring.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Aaron, yeah yeah, what a fun guy. Right. Hey, it's
Tim and his wife and his daughter. And wait he
brought his mom. Yeah yeah, yeah, Sorry, I mean to
bring everybody down. But you know, Mom's never seen this
part of the world, and uh, you know, I put
googly eyes on this thing, so uh, you know, she's
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in a red wig. So she's sort of with us.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's cool, and you have.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Good luck with her because last time you took her
on a cruise, you want to for a coach.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Right, right, yeah, I took I was on a cruise
with my mom and It was an Alaska cruise and
my mom was a life master at bridge. She was
one of the best bridge players in America, which I
thought was pretty impressive. And so she went on a
cruise ship to teach people how to play bridge. And
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she could go for free, and for an extra hundred bucks,
she could bring one of her kids. And she chose
me because I just graduated junior high. And that's where
the gift comes in our family. The junior high graduation
is where we celebrate the achievement of education. In our family.
Some didn't get quite through high school and very few
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through college, so we celebrate after they get out of
junior high. So I'm on a trip. I'm on a
cruise up in Alaska, and the very last night they
have blackout bingo two dollars a card, and I bought
a card and I had blackout and I won. I
won an eighteen thousand dollars mink coat, an authentic fur coat.
(15:43):
Back then it was acceptable, don't get down on me.
And I took it back. It was in a leather
like a case, like a traveling case. I took it
back to the room. I go, hey, ma, look, she goes,
did you steal that from the from the store down
on level three. I said no, no, no, no, But I'm
glad that's your first reaction. You know that I'm on
the ship stealing a mink coat. And I said no, no, no,
(16:06):
I said I wanted it. Bingo. She says, oh my god.
So she had went and asked nine people if I
really want it, because she thought I still stole it
and I wanted And she said, wow, that's that's the
beautiful mink coat that was on the third floor at
the little snack stand or the little grocery store. And
I can't believe that. You know, we've all been looking
at that coat saying I'm beautiful, isn't And now it's yours.
I said, yeah, it's mine. I own it now. And
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she said I'll buy it off you for five hundred
dollars cash. And I sold it to her for five
hundred bucks. And man, I thought I was I was
in the catbird seat. I had five hundred dollars on
a ship where you can't really spend any money. I
thought I could retire on that little did I know
that the red bird was screwing me over on the
high seas.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
That's what was going on?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
The redbird got a seventeen thousan five hundred dollars discount
on that jacket or that coat.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
A loot there assumption that you stole it. It's like, uh,
who's going to steal an eighteen thousand dollars make on
a boat that you can't go anywhere?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
How are you getting off with that with an eighteen
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You know what? She even though we think that way,
she immediately always accused all her kids of being idiots,
anyone more than the other.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Did you get the lion's share of all that stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
No? That my no, no, you kidding. I have two
brothers that caught it all the time. But I remember
real quickly we broke windows. We lived in Tarzana, and
my brother and I were playing baseball with golf balls
and we broke a window in the house. You know,
when you break a window in the house as a kid,
you feel the world's over, you know, because tape it up.
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He got a guy come out and replace It's expensive.
It was a big window, and I remember my dad
yelled at my brother, yelled at me for doing it.
You know, he's like, Tim, I expect more out of you.
What the hell you guys doing out there? And they
didn't talk to my brother at all? I said, why
did you talk to him about it? He was the
you know, he actually hit the ball we did together,
but I pitched he hit it, and he said, I
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expect more out of you. That was the bottom line.
And I'm like, Okay, I get it, I get it.
I get it, all right, I get it. It was
sort of a compliment that he was paying me.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Alright, tomorrow five thirty renouncement the Big Trip, So come
back tomorrow five thirty. He has something today. Be here
tomorrow five thirty for the Big Trip. Where we're going,
I can tell you it's not gonna be Cuba, Ukraine, Russia, Iran,
South Korea, or Afghanistan. One two, three, four, five six
are out out. We're not going to any of those places.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We've got a guy with us who may save lives
and may allow us or allow the firemen and fire women,
fire people I guess, to put out these fires faster.
And his name is Mark Walling. Mark you there.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yes, Mark whaling Y Whaling.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh, I'm gonna write that down, buddy, that's a better name. Hey,
So Mark, give us your background before we get into
your invention. Where are you from, what do you do?
What do you say? What do you know.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
From? Orange County Fullerton nineteen seventy seven, started a career
in the fire service, worked for a bunch of different
fire departments, and after thirty years with La County, retired
as a battalion chief back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And I've come up with ideas and inventions, several of them,
and the one I think you're thinking of is the
Helle hydrant. That's currently what we're installing. Various water departments
are installing them all over southern California.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Did you say La County or LA City, La County,
La County? Okay, all right, all right, So the hydrant,
the Hella hydrant that you invented, You invented? This is
that correct?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah? I mean dip tanks for helicopters are pretty common
most of the time. They're portable. There are some permanent ones,
But the invention is all part of the communications between
the helicopter and the hydrant on the ground. The heli
hydrot on the ground. There's no ground support needed. Nobody
needs to be there. The pilot can turn them on,
turn them off, get all the water they need. And
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that is that just happened a few days ago on
the Sapphire fire that was in Chino Hills, right.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And so what you're saying is it's a big tank
of water that can that they're all over you know,
the city of in the County of la and the
helicopter instead of going out to the ocean or going
to Lake Casteak and filling up, they can use these
heli hydrants very close to the fire and get you know,
ten drops an hours supposed to two drops an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Exactly. I mean, think about the hydrants that you have
scattered all around your city. Sure, literally thousands of them.
And it's the same concepts except for helicopters. So we
have them up on the ridgetops near where the large
reservoir tanks are. You know, millions of gallons that can
be resupplied by you know, thousands of gallons an hour
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you know, from the city or more than that, right
and Mark?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Can these be portable as well? Can you move them
near a fire?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
No, they're just like hydrants. You they're permanently installed by
the city. They when needed, they are always there, and
every city has them, you know, installs them like they
would regular fire hydrants. You you wouldn't want just portable
hydrants if you for your fire engines, you want them
every six hundred eight hundred feet. So we do the
same thing with the heli hydrants. They're every two to
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three to four five miles.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And then how accurate does the helicopter pilot have to
be to actually get that net or get that you know,
that water catcher right into that tank.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It's the snorkel. And we actually work pilots and ask
them what size, Yeah, what size they needed. And we
went to the newer pilots that you know, are just
beginning to do this, and they said at tank approximately
fifteen feet in diameter by eight feet deep would be
just fine as wow as we built.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh that is great idea. So are any of these existing?
Have you actually built any of these yet?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, we've had several for the past five years. During
the Garden fire, it was actually credited with saving homes
that fire burned at the exact same time that the
Mountain Fire burned in Ventura, where we lost several homes
and sadly some lives. But over in Fallbrook, down in
San Diego County, where they used the Heli hydrant, the
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fire chief actually said, you know this, this stopped the
fire at forty acres.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Wow, Hey, when there's no fire going on, can we
fill these hydrants and make it a pool for the kids?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Absolutely not, they are not They're not for that whatsoever,
and they are in up remote places and secured away
from people. But thanks for the thought.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
What if we turn them in in the off season,
in the winter where you know there's not as many fires.
Turn it into a new form of fighting like UFC.
You know, people get in fire. We're fighting in the hydrant.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Tonight you're following in your dad's with Bethen comedian and
nothing an idiot. We can well, I'll let you put
the adge. No, they we experienced wildland fires year round,
and even though we might be in like a wet
couple of weeks, it doesn't take much work to dry
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out of the fire prone areas. So they're always on.
They're on standby three hundred and sixty five days, twenty
four hours a day, and all they need to hear
from is the pilot, and then they turn on filled
with water and the pilots can use them as they wish.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's a great simple idea, and I'm glad that somebody
like you has put that together. I've always wondered Mark
Whaling is with us ex fireman, and I guess I'm
inventor right, But I've always wondered why there isn't a
firefighter on these helicopters, you know, all strapped in five
point harnets with a big hose and using the water
(23:57):
below to actually really direct it to where the fire
Is that ever a thought of or is there a
reason they don't do that?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Too dangerous? The pilots that are flying do the very
best they can with what they do drop in the water.
Such an idea would be back in line with your other.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, just dumb as hell is what is one of
these things cost to put together?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Cities can purchase them for about one hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars and install them. We can install them
for additional costs, and then each site has different challenges.
That is, they can we might have to run thousands
of feet of pipe to get them out to where
the site is. We might have to run cables, and
we also connect these up to the water districts themselves
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so they can turn them on if they want to,
and there's also ways for firefighters to walk up to
them and turn them on. But during the big disaster,
you know, my experience over the decades was thenes don't
go well as far as trying to coordinate people to
get to these locations to turn them on. So if
the pilot can do it, that's the best person to
(25:09):
do it. Nobody else has to be involved. That's the
part I patented.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Buddy, It's a great idea. Is there a website people
can go look at.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It whalingfire dot com my last name Whaling and Fire
and then Yahoo dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
All right, Whaling Fire, w h A L I gfire
dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Correct if you type in If you type in Helly
Hydrant Helly dash Hydrant on Google, you'll see hundreds of
videos of the Helly hydrant in action at various locations.
You'll see the video of the of the fire fighting
down in the garden.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Fire they on January seventh, Tom.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, Yes, absolutely, there were other kinds of tanks that
were in the area they were utilized. But the definitely
the city could do a great job in getting more
locations where their pilots can dip from.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That's right, buddy. I appreciate you coming on. Congratulations and
thanks for thinking about everybody. Even after retirement.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yes, I still enjoy healthy.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, thanks, man, appreciate it all right. That guy's a
major stud. What a great guy.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
He invented the helihydrant. So get out there and let's
make that happen. Fortunately, the city of la has so
much cash they should order like one hundred of them tonight.
Their flush. But that's a great idea. That's a great idea.
Good luck, that's a great guy. Mark Whaling, Whaling? What
did he say? Fire dot com.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayl from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
This is a bad idea. File this under Oh sorry,
mean toil like that. File this under bad idea. Remember
people just to say that, file this under dumb guy.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
File it.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Nobody files things anymore. You can't use that term anymore.
It's too old. This woman staged a carjacking to try
to get insurance money. This might be the dumbest woman
in on today's show. Maybe maybe we're still early. We're
still only fifty minutes, fifty one minutes into this A
(27:26):
concert call it hold my beer. Yeah, we might have
some really, really dumb people on today.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
A concerting call into Madera nine one one Friday drew
deputies from across the county. A woman was carjacked and
left stranded on a rural road.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, here we go. So far the plan is
working right. Cops show up and they ship and they
think that she has been carjacked, crashing.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Heading towards the streelas from AMT six.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
She claimed early that morning she had pulled over on
the side of the road near av Knew twenty one
and Road twenty six to fix the load in her
panel van.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, so far, so good.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
When she was carjacked by two massmen with a knife,
she said her van was packed with sixty thousand dollars
worth of merchandise.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Okay, so far, plan is working beautifully. Everybody's on the
same page. Cops by it. There's gonna be insurance check written.
Everything's cool.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
She sells at swap meets. Deputies were pulled from their
posts to investigate and find the alleged suspects.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Be on the lookouts were sent out. We had other
agencs like CHP and you know, our Mideri agencies, and
you know, we're said, everybody out looking for this vehicle.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Sheriffies and Pogue says early on his deputies were suspicious,
but they weren't taking any chances.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Robberies are a violent and dangerous crime that span committed,
so you never know. I mean, there's always the possibility
that what if as they're driving off, they turn around
and they you know, shoot the victims so that they
can't make this report or commit some other type of
violence or use that soul and vehicle to go and
commit a robbery or murder.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
What they didn't know so then was Merced deputies had
found that van.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh bomb bomb bomb. The deputies found the van and
nothing inside.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
What they didn't know then was Merced deputies had found
that van and we're doing their own investigation, but appears.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
That they offloaded the merchandise saw the van, went and
dumped it out in the rural area of Merced County.
Merced County actually received a call of a SISSUS vehicle
two hours prior to reporting it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Uh oh uh oh.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
County actually received a call of as the SISUS vehicle
two hours prior to reporting it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Two hours before she reported the carjacking. That truck was
in the field with all of its crap unloaded, and.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
They determined that suspicious vehicle that was reported was actually
the van that was allegedly stolen.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Eventually, Pogue says the woman identified as fifty seven year
old Martha and gutier As de Romero.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Wow, man, that's the old to be in this game.
Fifty seven. You know, by fifty seven you're looking at,
you know, shutting it down in the next ten years,
getting social Security, not you know, insurance fraud.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
That's also when the adults think that they're old enough
and wise enough that they can get away with it.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Um, oh my god.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
These people identified as fifty seven year old Martha and
Gutierras de Romero admitted to scheming with her boyfriend Alfredo
de Lesma to commit insurance fraud.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh, the boyfriend was in on it too, the whole
old the boyfriend was Yeah, how about the long name
on this chick?
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Though, seven year old Martha Gutierre is de Romero.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Martha Gutierra is Dera Mero, nice name, but bad plan.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Marth and Gutierres de Romero admitted to scheming with her
boyfriend Alfredo de Lesma to commit insurance fraud. Sheriff Pogue
says it seems the two were the only ones involved
and the massmen likely didn't exist. Deri Merro was booked
into the Maderick County Jail on charge of felony fraud, conspiracy,
and filing a false police report. Her boyfriend Delesma hasn't
been arrested yet but could also face charges.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, he's going down to can I. Good morning, good afternoon,
and good night. You guys knew the rules, you knew
the boundaries. Mahallow. Here's a poor guy that you know
is running a jewelry store that's been in the family
family for I think since nineteen eighty and got robbed.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Everything taken from this Glendale jewelry store. Everything was wiped out.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
We are inside the jewelry store and as you can see,
there is nothing left. Those aspects took everything. They stole
millions of dollars in merchandise, and the owner tells me
that they entered through the roof. Take a look at
what happened here. This is at Protrusian Jewelry and on
Glendale Avenue in Glendale. It's a family owned business. It's
(31:40):
passed down from generations.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I know where this is. This is on right off
of Chevy Chase. Last time I bought a car, it
was like a block away from where this jewelry store.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Prodrusian hasn't been.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I don't know why you care, but I just wanted
to let you know. I've thought I've been in that area,
and if I didn't do this, but I've been in
that area, not last night either or the night before.
It's been months since I've been in that Can you
account for your whereabout months since I've been in that area? Crozier.
That's not all I have to say until like get
(32:11):
a lawyer.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Yes, Menil Padrusian has been in business for more than
two decades after taking over the store from his parents
many years ago. But Tuesday morning, when he arrived here,
he said he instantly knew something was wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Though.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, another guy coming through the roof with blow torches. Man,
these guys know what they're doing.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
The lights were on inside the store, he says, they're
always off. Also, the door leading to the back room
where the safe star was close shut. He says, that's
usually partially open. Then as you stepped inside the store,
he saw the shocking scene, empty glass cases, containers that
once had jewelry. Those suspects, he says, used a blow
torch to break into safes in.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
A back and by the way, this is a very
safe part of Glendale. This is not a you know,
a high crime area. That's amazing that they've spent that
much hours inside that store. It had to be three
or four hours inside the store, ripping everything off.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Room that had jewelry, including gold since Patrusian is a
licensed gold collector. The owner also had ammunition and guns
and one of the safs and said there was some
type of explosion when the suspects tried opening the safes.
So the police department Glendale PD had to send a
bomb squad unit that day just to make sure there
was no threat. It's unconfirmed right now, but so many similarities.
(33:28):
This jewelry heist may be tied to another recent incident
in Seemi Valley where those suspects also used a tool
and cut through the roof of a coffee shop. They
stole cash, They stole lots of merchandise.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
God, it's tough to own a business in Los Angeles.
You know, every night you locked the store up and
go home, all you think about is is it going
to be me tonight? Am I going to lose my business,
my fortune, my future, my livelihood tonight? And then it
(34:00):
it eats you alive. You know, when you're sitting at
dinner with your kids, you don't want to put that
that sour puss on, you know, that worried look, because
then the kids get worried, and now you got to
go home. You got to restart your life. This this
guy's got to restart his life. His brother in law
put together a gofund me for him and I don't
know if that's getting any action or not. And he's
(34:22):
got to start over. You know, he's got young kids
and now he's got nothing, and people have taken everything
from this guy. Welcome to Los Angeles, well in this
case Glendale, but La County. It's a rough place to live.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Man.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
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It's k IF.
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Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps flying Am at sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It is the.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Conway Show, all righting and joy and man oh man,
it is beautiful outside. They said it was gonna be
hotter than hell, but I don't think it's that bad,
you know, I think tomorrow might be a little warm.
But don't don't let people scare you into not going outside.
It might be ninety degrees tomorrow. We can handle one
day of heat, all right. Stop with the world's ending
(00:35):
and the world's burning up, it's just not happening. As
a matter of fact. Why don't you type in Google
are we in an ice age? And see what where
you get back the answer? Yes, this earth that we
live on technically is still in an ice age. So
go out and get a sweater today. Prepare for tomorrow,
all right, Alex Stone is with us.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Maybec news Hi you Bob, Get ready tomorrow for all
the news stories about drink plenty of water, some shade
that around the air conditioning.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Why now, you know, I think you're we're on the
same h you know planet here When when it comes
to that answer me this because you're with ABC News.
How come they feel obligated, obligated to tell people that
are watching the news, which are you know, fairly bright people.
I think, why do they have to tell them all
that every time the heat goes past eighty five?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You know, I guess seniors need to know it, and
some people need to know it. People do get seniors.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Are already eighty five They've made.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
It eighty five years. They figured out how to do
it every year when it gets hot. It's a good point.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It drives me crazy, you know, get into some shade
where like.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Clothing users sound bite of Wow, what's really hot out
here in this park right now?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, I'm jogging in the middle of the valley
and it seems hot. Hey, all right, so let's talk
about blue collar jobs. They might be going away because
of AI, Well, the white collar ones. I'm sorry, yeah,
blue collar ones. I think back when the machines came around.
But yeah, I mean we've already hands clean money. That's
what I always said, exactly. And AI has gotten better
(02:06):
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You know, it's got the stereotype of like you make
a video or a photo and the person has eight
fingers and the people behind them all have gobbly gook
faces that already doesn't go on very much. The videos
can look super realistic. Photos can medical research. Now AI
can crunch the data and look at scans in ways
that humans would never be able to detect things in
(02:28):
an X ray or an MRI scan, any of those.
So today there is a CEO of an AI company
that they built the AI model, it's called Clad four,
and he's issuing a warning that he says fifty percent
of entry level white collar jobs could be wiped out
by AI within the next five years, and that he
(02:48):
believes it's going to drive up unemployment right now. I
think it's like four point six percent nationally going to
go up to like twenty percent based on all the
people who are going to not have a job.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Because AI is going to take it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
And the industry is saying, yeah, this is progressing so
quickly that it is getting so good so fast. In
another two years, three years, five years, ten years, what
AI is going to be. This is Molly Kinder and
analyst of Brookings Metro. She says, yeah, it could happen.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
These new generative AI technologies pose a real risk to
early career knowledge jobs.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So the warning that this guy is giving the axios,
he says jobs in law, in marketing, in tech, and
in finance are most at risk from AI. You could
argue news reporters as well, because in fact, the Arizona
Supreme Court they're now using AI avatars to be news
reporters to look at they don't need a human to
do it. The transcripts and the court reporting that's done
(03:46):
by the court itself to summarize all of that, put
it together and automatically put out a news report for
online viewers to know what goes on in the Arizona
Supreme Court. This is one of those AI news reporters.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I'm Victoria, one of the Arizona Supreme Court's new AI reporters.
If you're wondering why the court decided to use an
AI generated spokesperson like me to share its news, the
answer is simple. By providing timely updates directly from the court,
we help ensure you have accurate information about important legal
decisions affecting Arizonans.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
No you would involve there. That's not a human, that's
a robot, that's AI. That's AI doing it on its own.
And yeah, the cadences a little bit where you can
go out, but it's getting better and better.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
We're in the infant stages of this, yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
It's already better than it was like two years ago
where you'd be like.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh, that's AI. But how are they going to incorporate
the the anti Trump angle into these stories?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, see, then you have to wonder if is a
slant that the computers get or will it be right
down the.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I also heard that AI is very close to curing
like ten to fifteen different aggressive cancers. Because of how
quickly AI can go through and and simulate you know,
a certain and strains of cancer and how to cure
it and how to cut it off. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
And if it can do that outstanding, and that's not
taking away any jobs because doctors weren't able to do
that on their own and research are so sure. But
in the you know, when it comes to law and
summarizing things and coming up with a marketing plan, AI
is going to be able to do that. And it's
really the young college educated workers who are trying to
get into their first job that's where this guy's saying
(05:27):
that that's where AI is going to take it. But yeah,
and Tim already Walmart getting rid of fifteen hundred corporate
jobs as part of a technology restructuring, microsoftling off six
thousand employees saying they're aligning with the AI era. So
it is going on. She says, Look, you gotta figure
out what AI can't do, and that's person to person
(05:48):
and really making human connections, and that that's where the
jobs are going to be.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
She added this, if you can do your job locked
in a closet with a computer, those are the things
that are more worrying for AI.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That have to be in person and really with people
tend to.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Be safer, which is a problem because I am locked
in a closet with a computer right now talking to you.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I mean, that is literally what I am doing right now.
So there you go. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So you say, and I believe you that these college
careers that you know that it costs two hundred and
eighty thousand dollars when they go to look for a job,
there aren't going to be as many and they're not
going to pay as much.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
That is the prediction that's out there that if if
you go to college and you come out to get
into law, into technology, into finance, into marketing. That the
prediction that they are making is that a at least
half of them, a big chunk of him, are going
to be gone in the next five years.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow man, Okay, So and again you said that you
have to be personal, you have to have a you know, contact,
you want way I can't do, and personal skills. But
all those have gone away because of the phone.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
That's true. Nobody knows that a young up and coming Yeah,
they're not going to know how to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I walked by a guide today. He works on the
fifth floor. I know who he is, and I walked
past him today. He didn't have headphones, he wasn't looking
at his phone, which I can credit for. And I
walked by him as I was walking in today and
I said, Hey, how you doing? And he had no
response to me. He didn't look at me. I said
louder than hell, there's no way he didn't hear it.
And he had no response because I don't know how
he I don't know. I don't think he knows how
(07:15):
to respond. It's that way you here at ABC as well.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You go down the hallways and you try to make
eye contact with somebody and it's just not there. Or
you're out on a walk and you say hi and
they don't even look up. Oka's not strange too, isn't
it strange?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It really is odd? Where did you? Where were you
born and raised? Santa Rosa, nor California. Okay, Northern California.
Northern California a very social place, sure, you know, Northern California.
The hippies. Everybody was talking everybody all the time. You
go up there, Now nobody's talking to anybody. No, it's
it's unreal.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Everybody's looking at their phones or looking down.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But you know, fortunately, look, I don't know how old
you are, and I'm not gonna you know, okay, forty four,
but can you imagine being fifteen right now?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I mean you asked him, my twelve year old son,
to make a phone call, and he's like, oh, yeah,
how do I do that? Well, they're gonna say Domino's
Pizza and you say, hi, I have a question about
and he's like, yeah, no, we're not gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
The simple things in life, very simple things. Man. It's tough.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Yeah, we're telling them.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
We're like, we used to have to call businesses if
you wanted to know the hours they were open.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Sure, you had to call them. You out that long ago.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You remember, a movie phone was a big advancement.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Oh yeah, you know in't want.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
To look in the newspaper to find the movie times, right, Yeah,
you had to do that exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
But but you know what, but maybe those were And
how about this when you got home and you had
an answer machine and that thing was beeping, Oh, touchdown.
Anybody could be anything, could be anybody. But if you
saw the solid light light, you're done the message over
and over again of hi, this is Alex. Sorry, I'm
not home right now. Right when we were at we
were at Marongo, this is about ten fifteen years ago.
(08:54):
And my daughter, who I think was like three or four,
she said, where's mom? And I said, she said pool area,
And she said, will you call her? I'm going to
talk to her, And I said, I want you to
do it. I want you to call her. I mean
in case I have a heart attack one day. I
want you to learn how to use the phone. So
she picks up She goes, what I do? I go
pick with the phone dial zero, ask the operator to
connect you to the pool area. So she picks up
(09:14):
the phone, puts it down. She goes, it's broken. I go,
what do you mean? She goes, it's making a weird
humming noise. Never heard a dial tone and you're life.
Never heard of dial tone? Not surprising, No, no, none
of these kids will hear dial tones. No, it's over.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's why two grandpa's watching six.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Ye yeah, we are old.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But I appreciate you coming back day. I appreciate you
coming on. All right, there, he goes Alex Stone.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
With ABC News.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That guy's great, man, that guy's the best.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I tried to email everybody last night about our big
trip that we're taking, and I ran into a roadblock
because Gmail doesn't allow you to email more than five
hundred people in a twenty four hour period. So I'm
gonna to do a lot more tonight, or you can
tune in tomorrow at five point thirty to find out
where we're going on this trip. Me and a lot
of listeners. We're going on a trip. It's gonna be great.
(10:06):
I might be a one off. I might never do
it again. This seems to be a lot of work
around here putting this together, lots of conversations, lots of emails,
lots of calls, lots of stuff going on here at
the station with this, with this trip or taking. But
it's gonna be fun. And if you miss out on it, man,
you're gonna you're gonna kick yourself. So tomorrow at five thirty,
we're announced where the trip is going, how many people
(10:28):
are going, what it involves, the whole deal. Tomorrow at
five point thirty. Right here on kf I.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Hey, I apologize if you emailed us Conway Trip at
gmail dot com. I went last night. I stayed up
till three o'clock trying to email everybody early on what
the trip is all about. So check your email. We
have eleven hundred people, almost twelve hundred people that are
interested in the trip that we're taking next year. And
I was up till, I don't know, maybe two thirty,
(11:03):
just emailing everybody, and I thought I had it down
and I was clicking through it real quick, just giving
you a simple idea where the trip was and where
we're going and everything. And then after I'm done on
my draft folder, it says seven hundred and one. Oh no,
and I'm like, wait a minute, what And then I
read online that you can only email with Gmail. You
(11:25):
can only email five hundred people in a twenty four
hour period and then they cut you off. And so
I figured out I said, okay, well they should have
told me that and said, hey, for an extra you know,
ten thousand dollars, you can email the rest of the people.
I'm like, oh, okay, I'll do that, or an extra
you know, fifteen dollars or fifty bucks, whatever it is.
I would have done that in a heartbeat. But they
(11:46):
said there's no real way with the with a free
Gmail account that you can expand that you have to
go into another you know, business area and stuff. And
I couldn't figure that out. So I'm going to try
tonight to finish up with emails and tell everybody where
we're going on the trip or if you don't get
one of our emails or one of my emails. Tomorrow
at five point thirty, we're going to announce where the
(12:08):
trip is going to be, and it could be anywhere
a lot of people are guessing that it's Europe and
it's France, and I will tell you it ain't. It's
not France. I've been to France. I'm not going back
to France. Not a horrible experience. But I found the
(12:32):
people to be, I don't know, rude, and the country
is filthy. Nobody picks up their own dog feces. I
don't know if you know that. But in France, or
at least the part of France, I was in Niece.
There's dog crap all over the sidewalks and I said, Hey,
what's this and they said, oh, the dogs they go
I do do this. I said, are you Italian? Are
(12:54):
you French? What's going on with you? And I said,
why don't people pick it up? And you look at
me like I had three heads, like, oh, we don't
de touch the dog poo poos. I said, again, what
are you Italian? I can't understand what that in Italy? Yeah,
maybe I was in Italy. Maybe that's after them, but
(13:16):
you know, Italy is right next to France where they're
very close. I think Monaco is between them. I don't know,
but it's a It's a beautiful, beautiful part of the world.
But I couldn't understand the people. They're all speaking French,
you know, and I get that, you know, that's their language. Angel,
(13:37):
I swear to god, it's really early. It's not even
four thirty. I could get down to Long Beach by
six thirty. Key your car and be back here and
finish the show before MO came on. Do you realize that?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Well, prove it?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay. Hey, by the way, I told Angel where the
trip was because she's thinking about going with your mom.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Ah, that'd be great, that'd be fantastic. Maybe I'll take
my mom too. Oh yeah, I mean the Ashes.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
That should be Yeah, bring.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Aaron, yeah yeah, what a fun guy. Right. Hey, it's
Tim and his wife and his daughter. And wait he
brought his mom. Yeah yeah, yeah, Sorry, I mean to
bring everybody down. But you know, Mom's never seen this
part of the world, and uh, you know, I put
googly eyes on this thing, so uh, you know, she's
(14:30):
in a red wig. So she's sort of with us.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's cool, and you have.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Good luck with her because last time you took her
on a cruise, you want to for a coach.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Right, right, yeah, I took I was on a cruise
with my mom and It was an Alaska cruise and
my mom was a life master at bridge. She was
one of the best bridge players in America, which I
thought was pretty impressive. And so she went on a
cruise ship to teach people how to play bridge. And
(15:02):
she could go for free, and for an extra hundred bucks,
she could bring one of her kids. And she chose
me because I just graduated junior high. And that's where
the gift comes in our family. The junior high graduation
is where we celebrate the achievement of education. In our family.
Some didn't get quite through high school and very few
(15:22):
through college, so we celebrate after they get out of
junior high. So I'm on a trip. I'm on a
cruise up in Alaska, and the very last night they
have blackout bingo two dollars a card, and I bought
a card and I had blackout and I won. I
won an eighteen thousand dollars mink coat, an authentic fur coat.
(15:43):
Back then it was acceptable, don't get down on me.
And I took it back. It was in a leather
like a case, like a traveling case. I took it
back to the room. I go, hey, ma, look, she goes,
did you steal that from the from the store down
on level three. I said no, no, no, no, But I'm
glad that's your first reaction. You know that I'm on
the ship stealing a mink coat. And I said no, no, no,
(16:06):
I said I wanted it. Bingo. She says, oh my god.
So she had went and asked nine people if I
really want it, because she thought I still stole it
and I wanted And she said, wow, that's that's the
beautiful mink coat that was on the third floor at
the little snack stand or the little grocery store. And
I can't believe that. You know, we've all been looking
at that coat saying I'm beautiful, isn't And now it's yours.
I said, yeah, it's mine. I own it now. And
(16:27):
she said I'll buy it off you for five hundred
dollars cash. And I sold it to her for five
hundred bucks. And man, I thought I was I was
in the catbird seat. I had five hundred dollars on
a ship where you can't really spend any money. I
thought I could retire on that little did I know
that the red bird was screwing me over on the
high seas.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
That's what was going on?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
The redbird got a seventeen thousan five hundred dollars discount
on that jacket or that coat.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
A loot there assumption that you stole it. It's like, uh,
who's going to steal an eighteen thousand dollars make on
a boat that you can't go anywhere?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
How are you getting off with that with an eighteen
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You know what? She even though we think that way,
she immediately always accused all her kids of being idiots,
anyone more than the other.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Did you get the lion's share of all that stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
No? That my no, no, you kidding. I have two
brothers that caught it all the time. But I remember
real quickly we broke windows. We lived in Tarzana, and
my brother and I were playing baseball with golf balls
and we broke a window in the house. You know,
when you break a window in the house as a kid,
you feel the world's over, you know, because tape it up.
(17:38):
He got a guy come out and replace It's expensive.
It was a big window, and I remember my dad
yelled at my brother, yelled at me for doing it.
You know, he's like, Tim, I expect more out of you.
What the hell you guys doing out there? And they
didn't talk to my brother at all? I said, why
did you talk to him about it? He was the
you know, he actually hit the ball we did together,
but I pitched he hit it, and he said, I
(18:00):
expect more out of you. That was the bottom line.
And I'm like, Okay, I get it, I get it.
I get it, all right, I get it. It was
sort of a compliment that he was paying me.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Alright, tomorrow five thirty renouncement the Big Trip, So come
back tomorrow five thirty. He has something today. Be here
tomorrow five thirty for the Big Trip. Where we're going,
I can tell you it's not gonna be Cuba, Ukraine, Russia, Iran,
South Korea, or Afghanistan. One two, three, four, five six
are out out. We're not going to any of those places.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We've got a guy with us who may save lives
and may allow us or allow the firemen and fire women,
fire people I guess, to put out these fires faster.
And his name is Mark Walling. Mark you there.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yes, Mark whaling Y Whaling.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh, I'm gonna write that down, buddy, that's a better name. Hey,
So Mark, give us your background before we get into
your invention. Where are you from, what do you do?
What do you say? What do you know.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
From? Orange County Fullerton nineteen seventy seven, started a career
in the fire service, worked for a bunch of different
fire departments, and after thirty years with La County, retired
as a battalion chief back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And I've come up with ideas and inventions, several of them,
and the one I think you're thinking of is the
Helle hydrant. That's currently what we're installing. Various water departments
are installing them all over southern California.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Did you say La County or LA City, La County,
La County? Okay, all right, all right, So the hydrant,
the Hella hydrant that you invented, You invented? This is
that correct?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah? I mean dip tanks for helicopters are pretty common
most of the time. They're portable. There are some permanent ones,
But the invention is all part of the communications between
the helicopter and the hydrant on the ground. The heli
hydrot on the ground. There's no ground support needed. Nobody
needs to be there. The pilot can turn them on,
turn them off, get all the water they need. And
(20:11):
that is that just happened a few days ago on
the Sapphire fire that was in Chino Hills, right.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And so what you're saying is it's a big tank
of water that can that they're all over you know,
the city of in the County of la and the
helicopter instead of going out to the ocean or going
to Lake Casteak and filling up, they can use these
heli hydrants very close to the fire and get you know,
ten drops an hours supposed to two drops an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Exactly. I mean, think about the hydrants that you have
scattered all around your city. Sure, literally thousands of them.
And it's the same concepts except for helicopters. So we
have them up on the ridgetops near where the large
reservoir tanks are. You know, millions of gallons that can
be resupplied by you know, thousands of gallons an hour
(21:00):
you know, from the city or more than that, right
and Mark?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Can these be portable as well? Can you move them
near a fire?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
No, they're just like hydrants. You they're permanently installed by
the city. They when needed, they are always there, and
every city has them, you know, installs them like they
would regular fire hydrants. You you wouldn't want just portable
hydrants if you for your fire engines, you want them
every six hundred eight hundred feet. So we do the
same thing with the heli hydrants. They're every two to
(21:28):
three to four five miles.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And then how accurate does the helicopter pilot have to
be to actually get that net or get that you know,
that water catcher right into that tank.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It's the snorkel. And we actually work pilots and ask
them what size, Yeah, what size they needed. And we
went to the newer pilots that you know, are just
beginning to do this, and they said at tank approximately
fifteen feet in diameter by eight feet deep would be
just fine as wow as we built.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh that is great idea. So are any of these existing?
Have you actually built any of these yet?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, we've had several for the past five years. During
the Garden fire, it was actually credited with saving homes
that fire burned at the exact same time that the
Mountain Fire burned in Ventura, where we lost several homes
and sadly some lives. But over in Fallbrook, down in
San Diego County, where they used the Heli hydrant, the
(22:27):
fire chief actually said, you know this, this stopped the
fire at forty acres.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Wow, Hey, when there's no fire going on, can we
fill these hydrants and make it a pool for the kids?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Absolutely not, they are not They're not for that whatsoever,
and they are in up remote places and secured away
from people. But thanks for the thought.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
What if we turn them in in the off season,
in the winter where you know there's not as many fires.
Turn it into a new form of fighting like UFC.
You know, people get in fire. We're fighting in the hydrant.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Tonight you're following in your dad's with Bethen comedian and
nothing an idiot. We can well, I'll let you put
the adge. No, they we experienced wildland fires year round,
and even though we might be in like a wet
couple of weeks, it doesn't take much work to dry
(23:20):
out of the fire prone areas. So they're always on.
They're on standby three hundred and sixty five days, twenty
four hours a day, and all they need to hear
from is the pilot, and then they turn on filled
with water and the pilots can use them as they wish.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's a great simple idea, and I'm glad that somebody
like you has put that together. I've always wondered Mark
Whaling is with us ex fireman, and I guess I'm
inventor right, But I've always wondered why there isn't a
firefighter on these helicopters, you know, all strapped in five
point harnets with a big hose and using the water
(23:57):
below to actually really direct it to where the fire
Is that ever a thought of or is there a
reason they don't do that?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Too dangerous? The pilots that are flying do the very
best they can with what they do drop in the water.
Such an idea would be back in line with your other.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, just dumb as hell is what is one of
these things cost to put together?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Cities can purchase them for about one hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars and install them. We can install them
for additional costs, and then each site has different challenges.
That is, they can we might have to run thousands
of feet of pipe to get them out to where
the site is. We might have to run cables, and
we also connect these up to the water districts themselves
(24:48):
so they can turn them on if they want to,
and there's also ways for firefighters to walk up to
them and turn them on. But during the big disaster,
you know, my experience over the decades was thenes don't
go well as far as trying to coordinate people to
get to these locations to turn them on. So if
the pilot can do it, that's the best person to
(25:09):
do it. Nobody else has to be involved. That's the
part I patented.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Buddy, It's a great idea. Is there a website people
can go look at.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It whalingfire dot com my last name Whaling and Fire
and then Yahoo dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
All right, Whaling Fire, w h A L I gfire
dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Correct if you type in If you type in Helly
Hydrant Helly dash Hydrant on Google, you'll see hundreds of
videos of the Helly hydrant in action at various locations.
You'll see the video of the of the fire fighting
down in the garden.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Fire they on January seventh, Tom.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, Yes, absolutely, there were other kinds of tanks that
were in the area they were utilized. But the definitely
the city could do a great job in getting more
locations where their pilots can dip from.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That's right, buddy. I appreciate you coming on. Congratulations and
thanks for thinking about everybody. Even after retirement.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yes, I still enjoy healthy.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, thanks, man, appreciate it all right. That guy's a
major stud. What a great guy.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
He invented the helihydrant. So get out there and let's
make that happen. Fortunately, the city of la has so
much cash they should order like one hundred of them tonight.
Their flush. But that's a great idea. That's a great idea.
Good luck, that's a great guy. Mark Whaling, Whaling? What
did he say? Fire dot com.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayl from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
This is a bad idea. File this under Oh sorry,
mean toil like that. File this under bad idea. Remember
people just to say that, file this under dumb guy.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
File it.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Nobody files things anymore. You can't use that term anymore.
It's too old. This woman staged a carjacking to try
to get insurance money. This might be the dumbest woman
in on today's show. Maybe maybe we're still early. We're
still only fifty minutes, fifty one minutes into this A
(27:26):
concert call it hold my beer. Yeah, we might have
some really, really dumb people on today.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
A concerting call into Madera nine one one Friday drew
deputies from across the county. A woman was carjacked and
left stranded on a rural road.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, here we go. So far the plan is
working right. Cops show up and they ship and they
think that she has been carjacked, crashing.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Heading towards the streelas from AMT six.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
She claimed early that morning she had pulled over on
the side of the road near av Knew twenty one
and Road twenty six to fix the load in her
panel van.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, so far, so good.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
When she was carjacked by two massmen with a knife,
she said her van was packed with sixty thousand dollars
worth of merchandise.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Okay, so far, plan is working beautifully. Everybody's on the
same page. Cops by it. There's gonna be insurance check written.
Everything's cool.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
She sells at swap meets. Deputies were pulled from their
posts to investigate and find the alleged suspects.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Be on the lookouts were sent out. We had other
agencs like CHP and you know, our Mideri agencies, and
you know, we're said, everybody out looking for this vehicle.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Sheriffies and Pogue says early on his deputies were suspicious,
but they weren't taking any chances.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Robberies are a violent and dangerous crime that span committed,
so you never know. I mean, there's always the possibility
that what if as they're driving off, they turn around
and they you know, shoot the victims so that they
can't make this report or commit some other type of
violence or use that soul and vehicle to go and
commit a robbery or murder.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
What they didn't know so then was Merced deputies had
found that van.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh bomb bomb bomb. The deputies found the van and
nothing inside.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
What they didn't know then was Merced deputies had found
that van and we're doing their own investigation, but appears.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
That they offloaded the merchandise saw the van, went and
dumped it out in the rural area of Merced County.
Merced County actually received a call of a SISSUS vehicle
two hours prior to reporting it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Uh oh uh oh.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
County actually received a call of as the SISUS vehicle
two hours prior to reporting it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Two hours before she reported the carjacking. That truck was
in the field with all of its crap unloaded, and.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
They determined that suspicious vehicle that was reported was actually
the van that was allegedly stolen.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Eventually, Pogue says the woman identified as fifty seven year
old Martha and gutier As de Romero.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Wow, man, that's the old to be in this game.
Fifty seven. You know, by fifty seven you're looking at,
you know, shutting it down in the next ten years,
getting social Security, not you know, insurance fraud.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
That's also when the adults think that they're old enough
and wise enough that they can get away with it.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Um, oh my god.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
These people identified as fifty seven year old Martha and
Gutierras de Romero admitted to scheming with her boyfriend Alfredo
de Lesma to commit insurance fraud.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh, the boyfriend was in on it too, the whole
old the boyfriend was Yeah, how about the long name
on this chick?
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Though, seven year old Martha Gutierre is de Romero.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Martha Gutierra is Dera Mero, nice name, but bad plan.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Marth and Gutierres de Romero admitted to scheming with her
boyfriend Alfredo de Lesma to commit insurance fraud. Sheriff Pogue
says it seems the two were the only ones involved
and the massmen likely didn't exist. Deri Merro was booked
into the Maderick County Jail on charge of felony fraud, conspiracy,
and filing a false police report. Her boyfriend Delesma hasn't
been arrested yet but could also face charges.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, he's going down to can I. Good morning, good afternoon,
and good night. You guys knew the rules, you knew
the boundaries. Mahallow. Here's a poor guy that you know
is running a jewelry store that's been in the family
family for I think since nineteen eighty and got robbed.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Everything taken from this Glendale jewelry store. Everything was wiped out.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
We are inside the jewelry store and as you can see,
there is nothing left. Those aspects took everything. They stole
millions of dollars in merchandise, and the owner tells me
that they entered through the roof. Take a look at
what happened here. This is at Protrusian Jewelry and on
Glendale Avenue in Glendale. It's a family owned business. It's
(31:40):
passed down from generations.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I know where this is. This is on right off
of Chevy Chase. Last time I bought a car, it
was like a block away from where this jewelry store.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Prodrusian hasn't been.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I don't know why you care, but I just wanted
to let you know. I've thought I've been in that area,
and if I didn't do this, but I've been in
that area, not last night either or the night before.
It's been months since I've been in that Can you
account for your whereabout months since I've been in that area? Crozier.
That's not all I have to say until like get
(32:11):
a lawyer.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Yes, Menil Padrusian has been in business for more than
two decades after taking over the store from his parents
many years ago. But Tuesday morning, when he arrived here,
he said he instantly knew something was wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Though.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, another guy coming through the roof with blow torches. Man,
these guys know what they're doing.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
The lights were on inside the store, he says, they're
always off. Also, the door leading to the back room
where the safe star was close shut. He says, that's
usually partially open. Then as you stepped inside the store,
he saw the shocking scene, empty glass cases, containers that
once had jewelry. Those suspects, he says, used a blow
torch to break into safes in.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
A back and by the way, this is a very
safe part of Glendale. This is not a you know,
a high crime area. That's amazing that they've spent that
much hours inside that store. It had to be three
or four hours inside the store, ripping everything off.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Room that had jewelry, including gold since Patrusian is a
licensed gold collector. The owner also had ammunition and guns
and one of the safs and said there was some
type of explosion when the suspects tried opening the safes.
So the police department Glendale PD had to send a
bomb squad unit that day just to make sure there
was no threat. It's unconfirmed right now, but so many similarities.
(33:28):
This jewelry heist may be tied to another recent incident
in Seemi Valley where those suspects also used a tool
and cut through the roof of a coffee shop. They
stole cash, They stole lots of merchandise.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
God, it's tough to own a business in Los Angeles.
You know, every night you locked the store up and
go home, all you think about is is it going
to be me tonight? Am I going to lose my business,
my fortune, my future, my livelihood tonight? And then it
(34:00):
it eats you alive. You know, when you're sitting at
dinner with your kids, you don't want to put that
that sour puss on, you know, that worried look, because
then the kids get worried, and now you got to
go home. You got to restart your life. This this
guy's got to restart his life. His brother in law
put together a gofund me for him and I don't
know if that's getting any action or not. And he's
(34:22):
got to start over. You know, he's got young kids
and now he's got nothing, and people have taken everything
from this guy. Welcome to Los Angeles, well in this
case Glendale, but La County. It's a rough place to live.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Man.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
We're live on kf I am six forty
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