December 29, 2025 • 36 mins
This hour covers a wide range of timely and unusual topics, starting with an overview of the Braun Levi vehicular manslaughter and the public conversation surrounding the case. The conversation then shifts to the ongoing issue of skyrocketing rent prices in Los Angeles and how they’re impacting residents. Listeners are also introduced to a bizarre homeowner situation involving a bear living beneath a house, highlighting an unusual challenge of homeownership. The episode wraps up with an explanation of “dead week,” breaking down what it is and why it matters for students and the broader academic community.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I Am six forty and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is camp I Am six forty. We're life everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. This is the Conway Show. I'm
Andy Reestmeyer in for Tim Conway Junior. I gotta tell
you it's a big old honor to be asked to
do this show.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Something different about it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm looking across to see Foosh, I see Kroze, I
hear Angel. We got Michael Monks here. This is the
place to be right now on this Monday Croche, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Thank you man. How was your vaka?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You know this that not much of the other now I.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Want to get into not much of the other. Now
I know what this and that are, but you really
gave up not much of the other, huh.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
I you know.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
It's one of those ones where it was a home
vacation and once you're home, you're like, oh, all this
stuff needs to get done.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
And I had to make the concerted effort many times
to say no, I love.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That commercial where it's like, for the weekend, we're not
planning anything that requires us to do a chore.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's I think it's a progressive commercial for acting like
your parents, like no this weekend. You know you can't
mow the lawn to relax. That is not part of this.
We will get into so much tonight. We have a
lot to cover on the Big Show tonight for being
kind of a no nothing week. There has been a
literal bear under a man's house for months. California has
so far done nothing. Now he's filed a lawsuit. Will
(01:27):
Yogi get yo ass gone? And imagine a five hundred
dollars dinner at a steakhouse? How is it that the
restaurant is only making twenty five dollars on you?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Could it be? It's not all gravy.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Plus, it's dead week, the no Man's land between Christmas
and New Year's and it actually has some kind of
significance in cultures across the world. Then later Howie Weinberg,
who is a mastering engineer behind tens of thousands of songs,
will join us to talk about working with Nirvana, Red
Hot Chili Peppers, Elvis Costello, Smashing Pumpkins, and so many more.
(02:00):
You don't want to miss it. It's a stacked show
on this Monday night. But first joining us in studio,
the one and only Michael Monks to update us on
the news of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Tragic story here.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And I guess I'm not terribly surprised here that murder
is the case.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
It's a terrible, terrible double tragedy for this family, the Levees,
a family that lost their home in the Palisades fire
and raising eighteen year old Bron Levee very well. This
kid was a senior at Loyola High School, tennis star
was set to go to the University of Virginia. Not
an easy school to get into. No, and obviously a
(02:37):
very good kid. Happened to be walking around Manhattan Beach
on the night of May fourth. This family lost their
home and relocated to Manhattan Beach, and just months later,
an alleged drunk driver coming down the street barrels into
Bron Levey and kills him. Now we've known this story
for a while, it's a tragedy one that we've reported
(02:58):
on intensively. But today the La County DA's office confirmed
the charges against that driver, Janaia raschamp Belt, and one
of those charges includes murder.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, can we go back to that specifically, because I think,
you know, I know that the DA is now a
lot tougher on crime than maybe prior administrations. I know
that you maybe did you live did you live here
before Hawkman was the DA, So you recall, things are
moving very quickly now in the world of the Los
Angeles DAH, as far as as far as charging, as
(03:30):
far as making these grand statements about what we think
about crime.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They think that murder can stick.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
He is convinced that they will be able to get
a unanimous verdict. He said as much on the charges
that they presented today. Not only did they present these charges,
but bron Levy's mother was also on hand. And to
hear a mother who's lost their child speak on any
occasion is very difficult because it makes the situation so vivid.
(04:02):
You know, we in the news business can throw a
headline out all day every day about a crash on
the five to people dead. We know as humans that
that's a terrible, terrible thing. And although we just pass
by it as a piece of news, there are families
somewhere ye really dealing with the consequences. Yeah, it is
rare that in these moments of deep grief that you
(04:23):
get open honesty from the families because they're inaccessible. I mean,
you don't want to come out and talk to the
media about what you're feeling right now. You've never been
more vulnerable or sad in your life.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And as somebody who has worked in news for a
long time, you know how weird it feels to go
knock on the door and have to try to say, hey,
will you I know you've asked for privacy at this point,
but will you share? But I think there are some
people who are family members of victims who, at least
in this situation, it sounds like it's a way to
honor her son, to see justice serve. I know a
(04:54):
lot of people process the grief that way. That's exactly
what they're doing. They've started the foundation and their sons
and what they've also done in not just today, but
what they reiterated today alongside a state lawmaker and a
city council member and the La County DA is a
call for tougher penalties for people who are convicted of DUI.
Here is part of what Jennifer Levey said today about
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our son's loss.
Speaker 8 (05:18):
The pain we feel is indescribable. Our family has been shattered,
ripped apart, and left to pick up the pieces and
keep on living without Braun, who we all loved with
every cell in our body. We are no longer the
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people we once were. We are profoundly changed by the
depth of our grief. California's current DUI laws are broken
and weak and fail to protect families like ours, and
it's devastating. There have been previous bills and laws, but
they have been gutted and a mess, and it's inexcusable.
(06:02):
I will not stand for that status quo. We can
stop these tragedies. We have the solutions. My plea is
to Governor Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers. This is not
a political issue. This is a human issue. And I
(06:23):
guarantee if any of you had to identify the body
of your child or loved one in the manner that
my husband and I did a few months ago, you
would not be silent.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
The feeling, the sight, the smell of identifying our son's
body will never leave my mind, body, or soul. So
I will not be silent.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
That's the part that really gets you, because again, as humans,
when you hear that somebody was killed. You don't know them,
but you feel that that's a tragedy. It's sad, but
you can move on with your day. But when you
really think about a teenage boy with his whole life
ahead of him, obviously a good student, good athlete, headed
off to big things, struck down like this, and not
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only do you get that call as parents that your
child has been killed, but can you come down and
identify the body?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's unthinkable, and then you know it's already unnatural to
bury your child, to have something that's so avoidable. And
I say that because this woman shouldn't have been behind
the wheel for so many reasons. I don't know what
her blood alcohol content was. I don't know what the
level was. I saw the photos of her. She's clearly
(07:35):
not a lightweight, and I think if you look at
her prior arrest she has she's driving on a suspended
license because of a prior DUI or.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
That's important to note here because that's what they're calling
this woman. Jenia Belt was driving on a suspended license
from a previous DUI charge when this happened back in May,
So State Senator Bob Archiletta, the Democh from Pico Rivera
was also at this news conference. He has filed legislation
that he said would bring tougher penalties on folks who
(08:07):
are convicted of DUI, and it would require that there
be a breathalyzer or ignition interlock device test before a
vehicle can start if.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You have had a DUI. I've had a die.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I was unaware that that wasn't the case. I mean,
I haven't done a lot of Darren Kavinoki calling in
my day, but I but I am surprised that that's
not something that they do in California.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
There are laws about it involving multiple duys, but what
we heard today is that the judges are not always
enforcing that's art. That's according to La County DA Nathan Hawkman. Now,
by the way, Senator Archiletta earlier this excuse me this
time last year lost his granddaughter to an alleged drunk driver.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That's tough out there, man, and especially a car culture.
You know, and you go to these cities outside of
LA where the traffic is not as bad, or you
go to off hours and there are people moving around,
but people versus cars, the car is always gonna win.
And especially when you add alcohol, you add high speed,
and the amount of roads that we have here. You know,
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people don't take people don't take public transit, like in
New York and Chicago. They go out, they go drinking,
they get on the train, they go home. Los Angeles.
That it's not the case. It sounds like people are
just out here drinking and driving. And my heart goes
out to the family, and I think that you're right.
The feeling that as a newsperson or as somebody who
pays attention to the news is I know a lot
(09:30):
of the listeners do. It almost seems sometimes like it's
not real because you hear so much tragedy all the time.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And when you listen to a victim's mom, a teenage
boys victim's mom, teenage boy is the victim, his mom
speaking about what happened here and about her son, and
the explaining to us in graphic detail the experience. It
just makes it so real, and it makes it so horrible,
and I'm curious to see what happens here. But no
(10:07):
amount of jail time finds whatever penalties are going to
bring bring broadback. No, she does face life in prison. Wow,
that's a tough story. Well, mister Monk's stick with us.
For the next block. We're going to talk about a
new rent cap. No more rent increases for Los Angeles.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Counts or a lot of units. The rent increases by
law will be very small. But there was a post
on X by a LA City counciloman that's getting a
lot of attention from real estate developers who think she's
talking in word salad. I'm going to have that tweet
for you to see if you can decipher it for.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Not word salad. I don't even eat regular salad. Michael Munk,
get the addressing ready.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So much more coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's Conway Show though I'm Andy Reesmeyer in for Tim
Conway Junior.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It's k IF. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app joining me continually
in studio until I can release him from my grasp.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I hope you never do. Is Michael Monks got soft hands? Yeah,
I moisturize.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I do a lot of sitting behind a desk watching
a calidprompter roll up, you know, which is not backbreaking
work as they say. I wish sometimes I could stand,
especially like in the radio studio, you know, like because
like this is weird to me. I'm standing now, So
for all the people who are not watching, which is
everyone except for Michael Mount. Yeah, it's it's weird to
(11:28):
it's weird to be able to you know, you got
to move around stuff because you got to bring the energy.
But you're bringing the energy about this story. But rent
in Los Angeles the city, right, not necessarily the county here,
it's just the city of LA They've got what they
call a rent Stabilization Unit RSO, and this applies to
about six hundred and fifty thousand apartments. And that is
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to say that the property owners that operate these rental
units are only able to increase their rent by a
certain percentage as dictated by city hall. Now, it had
been a little more generous in the past, but some
of the members of city council thought that they needed
to get a little more aggressive on this. Originally they
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wanted to say there were no increases at all whatsoever,
only adjusted to the rate of inflation. Wish, if you
are a property owner, how are you keep in mind?
Probably owners have bills to pay too, right, and your
costs may be rising well, especially now, Yeah, absolutely are.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Unless to replace a kitchen, if you have to lay
down new carpet, if you have to put in a
new window, all of that stuff costs money. And if
the product that you are selling in this case I
rentally is not going up in price at all.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And everything is way more expensive than it was. Can
I tell you that when I was most of my
time in La up until about a year ago, I
was always the guy who was the renter, and I
was always like, Oh, these these landlords, these these guys
trying to rip us off of doing it. And now
I own a house and I wish, I just wish
I was read like, I want to go back to
(13:00):
that land, right, I didn't have to think about property
taxes and usage tax and homeowners' insurance and refinancing and
all these things that come with owning property that are
just truly like keep you up at night exactly. And look,
there are problems with property ownership rental property ownership. There
are larger companies that come in, They're not connected to
(13:21):
the tenants. They might not make the units safe, they
may not be responsive to concerns. There are you know,
venture capital firms that are private equity taking over some
of our residences, and those are worth keeping an eye on.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
But there's also people whose entire net worth is connected
to the four family house that they have out in
the valley, right, and that's their entire retirement plan. Is
that they've worked their whole lives, but they have four
rental units somewhere out here. And now this comes along.
So this rental proposal, which ended up being that landlords
(13:55):
could increase the rent between one and four percent, depending
on inflation. And that's still not enough according to a
lot of real estate agents, a lot of property developers,
a lot of property they've basically been iced out of
raising anything at all since COVID. So you're talking going
on six years here, and you think about how things
(14:17):
cost back in twenty twenty, twenty nineteen compared to where
they are.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Now, No doubt about it. It's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
And that's what they were saying, is you're basically putting
us out of business. No, keep in mind, this is
a city that the rent is comparatively higher than just
about anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
New York is higher. I think San Francisco is on
part of.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But astronomical compared to Indiana or exactly our home states
are much cheaper.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
But there's a reason. There's always been a reason for that.
This is a very desirable place to live. There is
we're here, We're he's rocking and rolling, the weather's great,
So the prices are naturally going to be higher because
it is a more attractive place to live.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
More people want to be here. I get it. I
left Indiana for the exact same reason.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
But there's also a supply and demand effect, just like
with any other commodity. And there are mini reports that
suggest La doesn't have enough apartment units. If you would
build more apartments, you would have less they would cheaper. Yeah,
but the city doesn't make it easy to build, of course,
not so what the city council does. In my now
two full years of paying attention to them, what I
have noticed is they are big fans of treating symptoms
(15:17):
but not looking at the disease, which may be their
own policies. Now Mayor Bass has but that's not sexy.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, and this is an opportunity to say when I
want to get reelected. Look, I did allow there to
be a little bit of an increase but I'm sure that, like,
how is this How is the spin.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Coming from the Mayor's department.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
It's not bad, It's what you would expect. Yeah, and
we're going to get to the spin right now. Because
Mayor Bass did sign this thing. They had a little
news conference last Friday. Councilman Isabelle Herado, who campaigned as
a tenants rights attorney, although she has also said she
was unemployed all last year because she was campaigning. So
I don't know what type of legal work she actually conducted,
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but that's what she says her specialty as is tenants rights.
Maybe she ran a day Possibly she posted on X
after this thing was signed by the mayor and I'm
asking for I'm trying not to be condescending. Okay, I
have to cover these people, but I didn't understand what
this meant. I want you to decide, right, Yeah, here's.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I will take. Where'd you go to college?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I went to Santa Monica College for two years and
then I went to UCLA for about six months.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
So and no, I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I'm on television. It's all a lot, which I was
told you need a master for see.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
I have a master's degree. And your father had an eye.
Here's what councilman Herado posted on Twitter. Evictions are a
modern vestige of imperialism and conquest. Mass displacement functions like
conquest itself, erasing people, culture and community dispossession turns residents
into tourists in their own hometowns, never able to return today.
(16:52):
Updating rent control and gapping the rent increase was a
huge win for Angelino's because housing stability is anti displacement policy.
What I felt like I was back at Santa Monica
College Bingo. That's exactly what I said earlier. We were
on with Gary and Shannon talking about this issue, and
I thought, that is college coursework one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's like, I need to reach a certain number of words,
So I'm going to put in as many as possible,
and I'm going to, by the way, use the Bingo
board of buzzwords that I see on Twitter or x
or whatever all day blue sky, and I'm assuming is
where they are now. But but it really does feel
like if you're trying to make a point to all
people and you talk like that, you're going to lose
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eighty percent of everybody in the first five seconds.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
You can look up that post on X and she
got a lot of engagement, a lot from uh, like
if she ran ratio to like people literally ratio. There
was not a lot of support for the way that
she characterized this. I mean you heard a lot from tenants.
I mean there are win It's very expensive here, Yeah,
there's no doubt about it, and wages may not be
keeping up with it. If you're spending more than thirty
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or thirty three percent of your income on rent, I
think that they call that house poor or something along
those lines. I mean it's like you are spending too
much of your money on housing. It can only be
a thirty percent of your take home pay. Yeah, and many,
many people in Los Angeles are experiencing payments that are
far more than that.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
So, yeah, there are issues, But.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
It seems that the biggest issue is how difficult it
is to build housing here.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And I think build housing. It's difficult not just because
of the policies. I understand, it's also difficult because people
who own single family homes in places like the Valley,
my neighborhood, they don't want large apartment buildings going up
on their streets because they probably correctly assume that that
will drive down the value of their homes. So it
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is a very complicated issue. And I think that there
are places in this city where you could see maybe
transit corridors or places where there are busier streets where
you could possibly put some buildings up for sure, well
very quickly before we have to go to the news.
There is a reference to that in the thread on
Councilman Herado's post. Somebody who is a housing activist in
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support a building more talked about Senate Bill seventy nine,
which authorizes large cities like La to permit more quickly
big apartment buildings next to heavy transit, light rail, heavy rail,
and those bus lines like the Orange line of the
J line. These they got a lot of pushback to the
City of La went on the record against this thing.
(19:30):
Councilman Herado voted against, you know, the resolution that would
have supported this. And so this user on x aster
is SB seventy nine, which would build more housing. Is
it imperialism and conquest too. They're so caught up in
the performance of the policy that they don't even have
the ability to get anything done.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Heroto's response was, it's a faint within a faint within
a faint, but nuance is lost on the internet.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh my god, they just love sniffing their own Fuck.
I'm so sick of it. I think you could say
that a politically, just get stuff done. We give you
all this money, you have all this power. You're increasing
your ability to do things all the time. Can you
just make it better for us? That would be okay.
(20:18):
I'd be okay given all of my money to the
government if they made things better.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I wouldn't be okay with.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Giving all of it, but I'd be okay with giving
as much as I do if I felt like there
was some kind of, some kind of thing that.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
We got out of it.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
This is the same city that told hotel operators and
restaurant operators concessioners at the airport you have to pay
your workers more, while at the same time admitting that
they don't have the funds to keep sixteen hundred people
on their own staff.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Ah Killing and Michael Monk, thank you so much for
joining us. Pleasure, have a good show.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
What's what's the rest of the night look like for you?
I'm leaving, Ah be safe out there.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Is it the Conway Show. I'm Andy Reesmeyer in for
Tim Conway Junior. Will be with you all the way
till seven pm. Until then, we've got lots to talk
about still, including the ongoing saga with a homeowner who
has a bear under the floorboards of his house. He's
been asking for help for what feels like six months.
(21:22):
It's been about I think eight weeks, but a bear
crawled under his house and now well after the state
was like, well, we don't it's not really our We're
kind of on vacation right now. In file a lawsuit under.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Pound black bear that made its den under an Alta
Dida home, still refusing to leave after more than a
month now.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
The homeowner love Rick Chambers so much, and the way
that he reads this is as if someone has been
trying to reason with the black bear under.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
An Alta Dida home, still refusing to leave after more
than a month now. The homeowner there says that this
massive bear has done damage to his pipes, forcing him
to shut off the gas, and that man says that
living with a bear under his house has now kind
of pushed him to the breaking point.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Cross you know what kind of times? Those are not
good times?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Very descriptive.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Wellino, because Rick Chambers is the voice of Marongo. Right,
good time, that's right.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
And he plans to sue the Department of Fish and
Wildlife after being told that the state will no longer help.
Kjla's Gillian Smuckler is live in Alta, Dina with this
story you'll see only on five.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Hi there, do you like this only on five story
that we're playing here on camfi either?
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Hi?
Speaker 13 (22:39):
Court, Yeah, it's just terrifying.
Speaker 14 (22:41):
This poor homeowner says he's just at his breaking point.
It's been over a month since that five hundred and
fifty pound black bear moved into his home, and as
you just mentioned, it's caused a lot of damage. He
can hear it from inside of his home. So now
he's deciding to sue the agency because they stopped helping
him get that bear out.
Speaker 13 (23:00):
Ken Johnson says the bear moved under his Altadena home
just before Thanksgiving and never really left.
Speaker 15 (23:08):
I kept track of everything I tried. It would be
you know bear fourteen homeowner zero caliber.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Also, what do they say it's like after three days?
House guests are like fish, they start to smell, it's
time for them to go. So this guy, this bear
has been bothering right dead fish. Do live fish stink too?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I don't think so. They have to have such wrong
with them. Well, they do smell.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
They have some kind of smell.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It's like it's that ocean smell that they soish.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You get out there and the smell and fly fish suffer.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I know that you got to get it just right otherwise, Yeah,
I will have a smell yeah the fish.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, Well that's we got to put that on a
ine Garten's website.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Got to get it just right.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Angel.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Do you have any experience with the with the fish
the fish? Yeah, Like when fish go bad? How long
it takes? For two questions? Now, how long does it
take for fish to stink? The first question I guess,
which is do live fish smell bad?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Oh? Boy?
Speaker 12 (24:14):
I think it depends on the fish going bad if
they're just left out in the sun just to like
rot away, or if you're refrigerating it and just leaving
it there and forgetting about it. So I think it
would take a lot shorter of a time for the
fish to just go fishy and turn nasty if it
was just left out to its own devices. But if
(24:36):
you've got it in the refrigerator or chilled or something,
it'll probably take an extra couple of days. I had
experience with it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, or specifically live fish, do you think they smell well?
Speaker 12 (24:47):
Sure, I mean they're fish fishy, but they don't smell
like rotten fish. They definitely have that you know, sea
scent to them.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You know we have to ask is the guy who
owns the San Peterro fish market, Glngaro?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I bet you he would know.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I'll reach out to him and see if he can
give us an insight on the I fish smell bad
before they get caught. I'm going to continue on with
this story and apologize to everybody for that very odd sidetrack.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
California Department of Fish and Wildlife stepped in at first,
setting a trap near the crawl space, but instead of
catching the large bear under Johnson's home, the trap caught
a smaller bear, the wrong one.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Do you hate it? You hate it when that happens,
you catch the wrong bear.
Speaker 13 (25:35):
That bear was hauled away and the bigger bear stayed put.
Speaker 15 (25:39):
Well, I was kind of sad. For the other bear
at first, but then I'm like, well, if this bear
comes out, now, where's.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
He going to go?
Speaker 13 (25:46):
Biologist later tried again, using air horns to flush the
bear out.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Sad he did a look courtesy Hank. Courtesy Hank.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
You know when like somebody like is obviously looking at
their phone and they're they're trying to cross the intersection,
but you don't want to be rude, and you just
want to give a little just a little bit of
an air horn.
Speaker 13 (26:10):
Hunk Johnson says it looked like it was finally working.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh that was croache. That was croach, I think, right?
And which which what part of your body are using
to make that sound?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
The one that shouldn't be on the micro Okay?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Great?
Speaker 13 (26:25):
Yeah, so he says they suddenly got a call ordering
them to stand down.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Very defeated.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Oh yeah, I mean, also, who is at the Department
of Fish and Wildlife, Who's like.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Tell them to stand down? We can't have any more help.
Stand down, gentlemen, you're too close.
Speaker 15 (26:44):
I mean I just dropped because like, well, now what
it's all up to me and what I'm supposed to
watch my phone? When he comes out in the middle
of the night, or like sleep in the kitchen and
listen for him every night. I even ask, like, okay,
so as long as you guys are gone, can I
still debate to get him.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
No, can't do that.
Speaker 13 (27:02):
Since then, Johnson says he can hear the bear moving around,
presumably doing a lot of damage under his home.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
What's tough now is that everybody knows that this is happening,
so he is very limited in what he can do.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Like, I know, he can't do anything on the sly now.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
No, there can't be any kind of any kind of
untoward behavior towards that bear down there. Yeah, because he's
gonna because they people will know.
Speaker 15 (27:27):
They hear being shredded underneath, and even one of the
cameras picked it up, just bulldozing through it. It's a
mess under there.
Speaker 13 (27:35):
This video of a broken pipe prompted him to shut
off his gas on Christmas Eve, and he hasn't had
any hot water since.
Speaker 15 (27:43):
I'm just exhausted from the whole thing. You know, I
get my mind off it for a little bit, and
then suddenly I get flooded back with Oh that's right.
I can't take a hot shower. I got to monitor
the situation all the time. Every time my phone buzzes,
It's like, is that him? Do I have to go
and keep him away?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
This sounds like a really bad relationship. This guy is just.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's not working out between the two of them. Sorry
to hear it. I hope Ken get some help here,
because oil boy, that is a nightmare. You and I
get to go home and do our normal thing, get
to go to bed, take a hot shower, and Ken
is just sitting there laying on the living room or
kitchen floor waiting for his phone to buzz see if
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his bear friend is out.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
That's life in the modern era.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Friends, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
If you'd like to say hello, you are more than
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They may have changed it for Christmas. It's Kwansas, so
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Speaker 3 (28:59):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I have been on the app for a minute, but
if you want to leave a message, there up to
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Speaker 3 (29:15):
Crows.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
What if it was like a creditor. What if it
was like somebody reaching out to be like, hey, it
wouldn't be the first time you're behind on your on
your car payment. You've been here a long time. I've
gone through some ups and some downs financially, so we've
gotten calls like that.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I had a thing where I didn't realize that I
wasn't on auto pay for my DWP bill, like this
was years ago. Yeah, And I got ell straighten out,
now do you Oh, it's all yeah, I got I
got power and water. I got all the power and
all the water I could ever want. But I was
I wasn't paying attention. And it takes I've found out
in La the city, a really long time for them
(29:51):
to shut your power off if you don't pay it,
like many years. And I kept I thought I was
you know, I would get like the bill and the mail.
But I thought it it was just like the receipt
of my of my payment because I assumed that it
was on and it was them sending collection notices over
and over again, and it started changing colors the envelope,
(30:11):
and that's when I started to realize.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I was like, oh, that's cool. They're doing them in green. Now,
Oh how fest is? Oh, look they're doing them in yellow.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
You're thinking about the holidays exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Just go in the trash. Oh this one's for Halloween. Oh,
this one's for Kwansa. And they were there, ghosts all gone.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
So uh. I had I had a bill for like
I don't know at the time. I think it was
three thousand dollars, which now seems like so cheap for
LEDWP bill, you know what I mean, like a turn
a lamp off.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Dude, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I mean I hadn't paid for like two years, so
that was pretty low relatively speaking. I mean a house now,
a house now in the valley. You're paying fifteen hundred
bucks for two months of of DWP, and like three
hundred dollars of that is trash. I don't get it.
And I asked my I called them and I said,
is this right? And they said, well, we can't tell
(31:05):
you if it's higher or lower than other other users,
Like why yeah, Like, well, who was that what does
that matter to you? Wouldn't you want me to know?
I think that that would be a really effective thing
if they would shame you, If they would say, wholl buddy,
you're using your You're using your power and your water
way more than everybody else is.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I think I would cut back on my usage.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
The only thing that works is public shaming. By the way,
this is called dead week. This week, this time between
Christmas and New Year. Let's listen to a KTLA's Andy
Reesmeyer explained it this morning at ten thirty five. Welcome
to dead week. Oh it's actually halfway over. It is
the time between Christmas and New Years. In a world
where everything gets a label, accept relationships, dead week is
(31:47):
a new trendy term.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
At least a course.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I would say that wasn't one of my best jokes,
and you can hear the reaction. I think that's kirk
week is a new label, accept relationships. Dead week is
a new train.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's the worst. I'd rather get no laugh than I
will say that.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Something that ruins a good punchline in the studio is
that I put them in the teleprompter when I write
them right, I write the scripts they have to be
in the prompter, and so all the other talent can
see that they're coming, so they get to they get
to blow through the because they're following a long looking.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Jerks im.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
At least according to the Atlantic. You may have also
heard it called twig smiths. You may have heard faral week,
or like me, you haven't heard any of these things.
All that stuff you wanted to get done before the holidays,
Who cares all the stuff you still need to do
that's next year?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Use problem.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It is the understanding culturally at least, that you can
just not do anything for a bit if you don't
work in news.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I was gonna say this is for the normal people.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Twix smith is a British term betwixt between Christmas and
New Year's They also call it Boxing Week, which starts
on Boxing Day, that is the day after Christmas. Turns out,
I learned this today. It's not about fighting boxing, but
when you box up the things that you got.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Did you know this? You knew this? Foujsh did you
know this?
Speaker 10 (33:10):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Boxing Day is not about boxing like fighting?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I was I thought that they just you know, had
it out in America most of the time after holidays
is for fighting, and the time before holidays is one
of these.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
The day after they hit the morning, hop out the
door in the front door. In the morning, we'll start
jogging down the street looking for people to fight. Yeah,
because you know, it's like it's boxing day.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
That's not stop.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
The right.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
And they're so civilized there that it would make sense
that they'd only have one day out of the year.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
It's like the Purge. It's there. I'm exchange fish to
caff I'll give you that what for. That's right, So
now I know it's not that I didn't like as
a gift and then regift them. That's one interpretation I see.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I was hoping that that is that Brits are so
passive aggressive that they made a national holiday of it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
But you're telling me that.
Speaker 11 (34:05):
That's not totally So some people believe it goes back
to a time when you would box up your things
that you don't want and provide them for the help.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Frank Buckley, incredible landing with that very carefully constructed sentence
saved you big states. Oh big, I see, so you're
regifting to like your butlers And yes, I mean, while
I've heard we can get allan on the phone. Obviously
in your house, you buy the butler and the maid
their own gifts because you myself.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Right, they all get rolled.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Nordic countries have robin jewel, which translates into a room
to celebrate the Uld Tide. Most people are actually working,
but let's be real, nothing is really getting done. This
week always.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Feels like a free for all.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
You eat cheese for breakfast, get drunk at eleven am,
fall asleep to a TNT show.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You know, it's always a TNT show.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It is, by the way, it's a Resolian Aisles. It's
a rerun of CSI Miami. It's a law and order.
Nothing puts you to sleep like a little sip of
JMO and some Olivia Benson. And you can do that
in the time from Thanksgiving or excuse me, from Christmas
to New Year's without much consternation from society. I think
(35:22):
that's a beautiful part about this time of year. Nobody
cares what you're doing. It doesn't matter. People who are
in the office are hardly doing anything at all.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I'm here and I'm very happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Coming up, we're talking about the New York City's metro
card era is over. They're getting rid of it, replacing
it with a tap card. Wow, you know, for New
York City being such a transit place. Los Angeles has
had a tap card since two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Get with it.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Plus that as it might rain on the Rose Parade,
officials have come out with a list of things.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
That you can do to be prepared for the rain.
Did we not just deal with the rain?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Is there new? Are there new tips for dealing with
the rain? Plus does champagne cause more headaches than other drinks?
Apparently not if you do it right. That's all coming
up in the next hour of The Conway Show. I'll
be with you, I mean Andy Reesmeyer. It's KFI AM
six forty We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
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 on
demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's camp I Am six forty and you're listening to
The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is camp I Am six forty. We're life everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. This is the Conway Show. I'm
Andy Reestmeyer in for Tim Conway Junior. I gotta tell
you it's a big old honor to be asked to
do this show.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Something different about it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm looking across to see Foosh, I see Kroze, I
hear Angel. We got Michael Monks here. This is the
place to be right now on this Monday Croche, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Thank you man. How was your vaka?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You know this that not much of the other now I.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Want to get into not much of the other. Now
I know what this and that are, but you really
gave up not much of the other, huh.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
I you know.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
It's one of those ones where it was a home
vacation and once you're home, you're like, oh, all this
stuff needs to get done.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
And I had to make the concerted effort many times
to say no, I love.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That commercial where it's like, for the weekend, we're not
planning anything that requires us to do a chore.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's I think it's a progressive commercial for acting like
your parents, like no this weekend. You know you can't
mow the lawn to relax. That is not part of this.
We will get into so much tonight. We have a
lot to cover on the Big Show tonight for being
kind of a no nothing week. There has been a
literal bear under a man's house for months. California has
so far done nothing. Now he's filed a lawsuit. Will
(01:27):
Yogi get yo ass gone? And imagine a five hundred
dollars dinner at a steakhouse? How is it that the
restaurant is only making twenty five dollars on you?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Could it be? It's not all gravy.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Plus, it's dead week, the no Man's land between Christmas
and New Year's and it actually has some kind of
significance in cultures across the world. Then later Howie Weinberg,
who is a mastering engineer behind tens of thousands of songs,
will join us to talk about working with Nirvana, Red
Hot Chili Peppers, Elvis Costello, Smashing Pumpkins, and so many more.
(02:00):
You don't want to miss it. It's a stacked show
on this Monday night. But first joining us in studio,
the one and only Michael Monks to update us on
the news of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Tragic story here.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And I guess I'm not terribly surprised here that murder
is the case.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
It's a terrible, terrible double tragedy for this family, the Levees,
a family that lost their home in the Palisades fire
and raising eighteen year old Bron Levee very well. This
kid was a senior at Loyola High School, tennis star
was set to go to the University of Virginia. Not
an easy school to get into. No, and obviously a
(02:37):
very good kid. Happened to be walking around Manhattan Beach
on the night of May fourth. This family lost their
home and relocated to Manhattan Beach, and just months later,
an alleged drunk driver coming down the street barrels into
Bron Levey and kills him. Now we've known this story
for a while, it's a tragedy one that we've reported
(02:58):
on intensively. But today the La County DA's office confirmed
the charges against that driver, Janaia raschamp Belt, and one
of those charges includes murder.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, can we go back to that specifically, because I think,
you know, I know that the DA is now a
lot tougher on crime than maybe prior administrations. I know
that you maybe did you live did you live here
before Hawkman was the DA, So you recall, things are
moving very quickly now in the world of the Los
Angeles DAH, as far as as far as charging, as
(03:30):
far as making these grand statements about what we think
about crime.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They think that murder can stick.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
He is convinced that they will be able to get
a unanimous verdict. He said as much on the charges
that they presented today. Not only did they present these charges,
but bron Levy's mother was also on hand. And to
hear a mother who's lost their child speak on any
occasion is very difficult because it makes the situation so vivid.
(04:02):
You know, we in the news business can throw a
headline out all day every day about a crash on
the five to people dead. We know as humans that
that's a terrible, terrible thing. And although we just pass
by it as a piece of news, there are families
somewhere ye really dealing with the consequences. Yeah, it is
rare that in these moments of deep grief that you
(04:23):
get open honesty from the families because they're inaccessible. I mean,
you don't want to come out and talk to the
media about what you're feeling right now. You've never been
more vulnerable or sad in your life.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And as somebody who has worked in news for a
long time, you know how weird it feels to go
knock on the door and have to try to say, hey,
will you I know you've asked for privacy at this point,
but will you share? But I think there are some
people who are family members of victims who, at least
in this situation, it sounds like it's a way to
honor her son, to see justice serve. I know a
(04:54):
lot of people process the grief that way. That's exactly
what they're doing. They've started the foundation and their sons
and what they've also done in not just today, but
what they reiterated today alongside a state lawmaker and a
city council member and the La County DA is a
call for tougher penalties for people who are convicted of DUI.
Here is part of what Jennifer Levey said today about
(05:17):
our son's loss.
Speaker 8 (05:18):
The pain we feel is indescribable. Our family has been shattered,
ripped apart, and left to pick up the pieces and
keep on living without Braun, who we all loved with
every cell in our body. We are no longer the
(05:38):
people we once were. We are profoundly changed by the
depth of our grief. California's current DUI laws are broken
and weak and fail to protect families like ours, and
it's devastating. There have been previous bills and laws, but
they have been gutted and a mess, and it's inexcusable.
(06:02):
I will not stand for that status quo. We can
stop these tragedies. We have the solutions. My plea is
to Governor Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers. This is not
a political issue. This is a human issue. And I
(06:23):
guarantee if any of you had to identify the body
of your child or loved one in the manner that
my husband and I did a few months ago, you
would not be silent.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
The feeling, the sight, the smell of identifying our son's
body will never leave my mind, body, or soul. So
I will not be silent.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
That's the part that really gets you, because again, as humans,
when you hear that somebody was killed. You don't know them,
but you feel that that's a tragedy. It's sad, but
you can move on with your day. But when you
really think about a teenage boy with his whole life
ahead of him, obviously a good student, good athlete, headed
off to big things, struck down like this, and not
(07:09):
only do you get that call as parents that your
child has been killed, but can you come down and
identify the body?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's unthinkable, and then you know it's already unnatural to
bury your child, to have something that's so avoidable. And
I say that because this woman shouldn't have been behind
the wheel for so many reasons. I don't know what
her blood alcohol content was. I don't know what the
level was. I saw the photos of her. She's clearly
(07:35):
not a lightweight, and I think if you look at
her prior arrest she has she's driving on a suspended
license because of a prior DUI or.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
That's important to note here because that's what they're calling
this woman. Jenia Belt was driving on a suspended license
from a previous DUI charge when this happened back in May,
So State Senator Bob Archiletta, the Democh from Pico Rivera
was also at this news conference. He has filed legislation
that he said would bring tougher penalties on folks who
(08:07):
are convicted of DUI, and it would require that there
be a breathalyzer or ignition interlock device test before a
vehicle can start if.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You have had a DUI. I've had a die.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I was unaware that that wasn't the case. I mean,
I haven't done a lot of Darren Kavinoki calling in
my day, but I but I am surprised that that's
not something that they do in California.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
There are laws about it involving multiple duys, but what
we heard today is that the judges are not always
enforcing that's art. That's according to La County DA Nathan Hawkman. Now,
by the way, Senator Archiletta earlier this excuse me this
time last year lost his granddaughter to an alleged drunk driver.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That's tough out there, man, and especially a car culture.
You know, and you go to these cities outside of
LA where the traffic is not as bad, or you
go to off hours and there are people moving around,
but people versus cars, the car is always gonna win.
And especially when you add alcohol, you add high speed,
and the amount of roads that we have here. You know,
(09:09):
people don't take people don't take public transit, like in
New York and Chicago. They go out, they go drinking,
they get on the train, they go home. Los Angeles.
That it's not the case. It sounds like people are
just out here drinking and driving. And my heart goes
out to the family, and I think that you're right.
The feeling that as a newsperson or as somebody who
pays attention to the news is I know a lot
(09:30):
of the listeners do. It almost seems sometimes like it's
not real because you hear so much tragedy all the time.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And when you listen to a victim's mom, a teenage
boys victim's mom, teenage boy is the victim, his mom
speaking about what happened here and about her son, and
the explaining to us in graphic detail the experience. It
just makes it so real, and it makes it so horrible,
and I'm curious to see what happens here. But no
(10:07):
amount of jail time finds whatever penalties are going to
bring bring broadback. No, she does face life in prison. Wow,
that's a tough story. Well, mister Monk's stick with us.
For the next block. We're going to talk about a
new rent cap. No more rent increases for Los Angeles.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Counts or a lot of units. The rent increases by
law will be very small. But there was a post
on X by a LA City counciloman that's getting a
lot of attention from real estate developers who think she's
talking in word salad. I'm going to have that tweet
for you to see if you can decipher it for.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Not word salad. I don't even eat regular salad. Michael Munk,
get the addressing ready.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So much more coming up.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's Conway Show though I'm Andy Reesmeyer in for Tim
Conway Junior.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It's k IF. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app joining me continually
in studio until I can release him from my grasp.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I hope you never do. Is Michael Monks got soft hands? Yeah,
I moisturize.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I do a lot of sitting behind a desk watching
a calidprompter roll up, you know, which is not backbreaking
work as they say. I wish sometimes I could stand,
especially like in the radio studio, you know, like because
like this is weird to me. I'm standing now, So
for all the people who are not watching, which is
everyone except for Michael Mount. Yeah, it's it's weird to
(11:28):
it's weird to be able to you know, you got
to move around stuff because you got to bring the energy.
But you're bringing the energy about this story. But rent
in Los Angeles the city, right, not necessarily the county here,
it's just the city of LA They've got what they
call a rent Stabilization Unit RSO, and this applies to
about six hundred and fifty thousand apartments. And that is
(11:49):
to say that the property owners that operate these rental
units are only able to increase their rent by a
certain percentage as dictated by city hall. Now, it had
been a little more generous in the past, but some
of the members of city council thought that they needed
to get a little more aggressive on this. Originally they
(12:10):
wanted to say there were no increases at all whatsoever,
only adjusted to the rate of inflation. Wish, if you
are a property owner, how are you keep in mind?
Probably owners have bills to pay too, right, and your
costs may be rising well, especially now, Yeah, absolutely are.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Unless to replace a kitchen, if you have to lay
down new carpet, if you have to put in a
new window, all of that stuff costs money. And if
the product that you are selling in this case I
rentally is not going up in price at all.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And everything is way more expensive than it was. Can
I tell you that when I was most of my
time in La up until about a year ago, I
was always the guy who was the renter, and I
was always like, Oh, these these landlords, these these guys
trying to rip us off of doing it. And now
I own a house and I wish, I just wish
I was read like, I want to go back to
(13:00):
that land, right, I didn't have to think about property
taxes and usage tax and homeowners' insurance and refinancing and
all these things that come with owning property that are
just truly like keep you up at night exactly. And look,
there are problems with property ownership rental property ownership. There
are larger companies that come in, They're not connected to
(13:21):
the tenants. They might not make the units safe, they
may not be responsive to concerns. There are you know,
venture capital firms that are private equity taking over some
of our residences, and those are worth keeping an eye on.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
But there's also people whose entire net worth is connected
to the four family house that they have out in
the valley, right, and that's their entire retirement plan. Is
that they've worked their whole lives, but they have four
rental units somewhere out here. And now this comes along.
So this rental proposal, which ended up being that landlords
(13:55):
could increase the rent between one and four percent, depending
on inflation. And that's still not enough according to a
lot of real estate agents, a lot of property developers,
a lot of property they've basically been iced out of
raising anything at all since COVID. So you're talking going
on six years here, and you think about how things
(14:17):
cost back in twenty twenty, twenty nineteen compared to where
they are.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Now, No doubt about it. It's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
And that's what they were saying, is you're basically putting
us out of business. No, keep in mind, this is
a city that the rent is comparatively higher than just
about anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
New York is higher. I think San Francisco is on
part of.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But astronomical compared to Indiana or exactly our home states
are much cheaper.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
But there's a reason. There's always been a reason for that.
This is a very desirable place to live. There is
we're here, We're he's rocking and rolling, the weather's great,
So the prices are naturally going to be higher because
it is a more attractive place to live.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
More people want to be here. I get it. I
left Indiana for the exact same reason.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
But there's also a supply and demand effect, just like
with any other commodity. And there are mini reports that
suggest La doesn't have enough apartment units. If you would
build more apartments, you would have less they would cheaper. Yeah,
but the city doesn't make it easy to build, of course,
not so what the city council does. In my now
two full years of paying attention to them, what I
have noticed is they are big fans of treating symptoms
(15:17):
but not looking at the disease, which may be their
own policies. Now Mayor Bass has but that's not sexy.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, and this is an opportunity to say when I
want to get reelected. Look, I did allow there to
be a little bit of an increase but I'm sure that, like,
how is this How is the spin.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Coming from the Mayor's department.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
It's not bad, It's what you would expect. Yeah, and
we're going to get to the spin right now. Because
Mayor Bass did sign this thing. They had a little
news conference last Friday. Councilman Isabelle Herado, who campaigned as
a tenants rights attorney, although she has also said she
was unemployed all last year because she was campaigning. So
I don't know what type of legal work she actually conducted,
(15:55):
but that's what she says her specialty as is tenants rights.
Maybe she ran a day Possibly she posted on X
after this thing was signed by the mayor and I'm
asking for I'm trying not to be condescending. Okay, I
have to cover these people, but I didn't understand what
this meant. I want you to decide, right, Yeah, here's.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I will take. Where'd you go to college?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I went to Santa Monica College for two years and
then I went to UCLA for about six months.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
So and no, I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I'm on television. It's all a lot, which I was
told you need a master for see.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
I have a master's degree. And your father had an eye.
Here's what councilman Herado posted on Twitter. Evictions are a
modern vestige of imperialism and conquest. Mass displacement functions like
conquest itself, erasing people, culture and community dispossession turns residents
into tourists in their own hometowns, never able to return today.
(16:52):
Updating rent control and gapping the rent increase was a
huge win for Angelino's because housing stability is anti displacement policy.
What I felt like I was back at Santa Monica
College Bingo. That's exactly what I said earlier. We were
on with Gary and Shannon talking about this issue, and
I thought, that is college coursework one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's like, I need to reach a certain number of words,
So I'm going to put in as many as possible,
and I'm going to, by the way, use the Bingo
board of buzzwords that I see on Twitter or x
or whatever all day blue sky, and I'm assuming is
where they are now. But but it really does feel
like if you're trying to make a point to all
people and you talk like that, you're going to lose
(17:36):
eighty percent of everybody in the first five seconds.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
You can look up that post on X and she
got a lot of engagement, a lot from uh, like
if she ran ratio to like people literally ratio. There
was not a lot of support for the way that
she characterized this. I mean you heard a lot from tenants.
I mean there are win It's very expensive here, Yeah,
there's no doubt about it, and wages may not be
keeping up with it. If you're spending more than thirty
(17:59):
or thirty three percent of your income on rent, I
think that they call that house poor or something along
those lines. I mean it's like you are spending too
much of your money on housing. It can only be
a thirty percent of your take home pay. Yeah, and many,
many people in Los Angeles are experiencing payments that are
far more than that.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
So, yeah, there are issues, But.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
It seems that the biggest issue is how difficult it
is to build housing here.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And I think build housing. It's difficult not just because
of the policies. I understand, it's also difficult because people
who own single family homes in places like the Valley,
my neighborhood, they don't want large apartment buildings going up
on their streets because they probably correctly assume that that
will drive down the value of their homes. So it
(18:47):
is a very complicated issue. And I think that there
are places in this city where you could see maybe
transit corridors or places where there are busier streets where
you could possibly put some buildings up for sure, well
very quickly before we have to go to the news.
There is a reference to that in the thread on
Councilman Herado's post. Somebody who is a housing activist in
(19:09):
support a building more talked about Senate Bill seventy nine,
which authorizes large cities like La to permit more quickly
big apartment buildings next to heavy transit, light rail, heavy rail,
and those bus lines like the Orange line of the
J line. These they got a lot of pushback to the
City of La went on the record against this thing.
(19:30):
Councilman Herado voted against, you know, the resolution that would
have supported this. And so this user on x aster
is SB seventy nine, which would build more housing. Is
it imperialism and conquest too. They're so caught up in
the performance of the policy that they don't even have
the ability to get anything done.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Heroto's response was, it's a faint within a faint within
a faint, but nuance is lost on the internet.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh my god, they just love sniffing their own Fuck.
I'm so sick of it. I think you could say
that a politically, just get stuff done. We give you
all this money, you have all this power. You're increasing
your ability to do things all the time. Can you
just make it better for us? That would be okay.
(20:18):
I'd be okay given all of my money to the
government if they made things better.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I wouldn't be okay with.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Giving all of it, but I'd be okay with giving
as much as I do if I felt like there
was some kind of, some kind of thing that.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
We got out of it.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
This is the same city that told hotel operators and
restaurant operators concessioners at the airport you have to pay
your workers more, while at the same time admitting that
they don't have the funds to keep sixteen hundred people
on their own staff.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Ah Killing and Michael Monk, thank you so much for
joining us. Pleasure, have a good show.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
What's what's the rest of the night look like for you?
I'm leaving, Ah be safe out there.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Is it the Conway Show. I'm Andy Reesmeyer in for
Tim Conway Junior. Will be with you all the way
till seven pm. Until then, we've got lots to talk
about still, including the ongoing saga with a homeowner who
has a bear under the floorboards of his house. He's
been asking for help for what feels like six months.
(21:22):
It's been about I think eight weeks, but a bear
crawled under his house and now well after the state
was like, well, we don't it's not really our We're
kind of on vacation right now. In file a lawsuit under.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Pound black bear that made its den under an Alta
Dida home, still refusing to leave after more than a
month now.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
The homeowner love Rick Chambers so much, and the way
that he reads this is as if someone has been
trying to reason with the black bear under.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
An Alta Dida home, still refusing to leave after more
than a month now. The homeowner there says that this
massive bear has done damage to his pipes, forcing him
to shut off the gas, and that man says that
living with a bear under his house has now kind
of pushed him to the breaking point.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Cross you know what kind of times? Those are not
good times?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Very descriptive.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Wellino, because Rick Chambers is the voice of Marongo. Right,
good time, that's right.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
And he plans to sue the Department of Fish and
Wildlife after being told that the state will no longer help.
Kjla's Gillian Smuckler is live in Alta, Dina with this
story you'll see only on five.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Hi there, do you like this only on five story
that we're playing here on camfi either?
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Hi?
Speaker 13 (22:39):
Court, Yeah, it's just terrifying.
Speaker 14 (22:41):
This poor homeowner says he's just at his breaking point.
It's been over a month since that five hundred and
fifty pound black bear moved into his home, and as
you just mentioned, it's caused a lot of damage. He
can hear it from inside of his home. So now
he's deciding to sue the agency because they stopped helping
him get that bear out.
Speaker 13 (23:00):
Ken Johnson says the bear moved under his Altadena home
just before Thanksgiving and never really left.
Speaker 15 (23:08):
I kept track of everything I tried. It would be
you know bear fourteen homeowner zero caliber.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Also, what do they say it's like after three days?
House guests are like fish, they start to smell, it's
time for them to go. So this guy, this bear
has been bothering right dead fish. Do live fish stink too?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I don't think so. They have to have such wrong
with them. Well, they do smell.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
They have some kind of smell.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It's like it's that ocean smell that they soish.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You get out there and the smell and fly fish suffer.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I know that you got to get it just right otherwise, Yeah,
I will have a smell yeah the fish.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, Well that's we got to put that on a
ine Garten's website.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Got to get it just right.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Angel.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Do you have any experience with the with the fish
the fish? Yeah, Like when fish go bad? How long
it takes? For two questions? Now, how long does it
take for fish to stink? The first question I guess,
which is do live fish smell bad?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Oh? Boy?
Speaker 12 (24:14):
I think it depends on the fish going bad if
they're just left out in the sun just to like
rot away, or if you're refrigerating it and just leaving
it there and forgetting about it. So I think it
would take a lot shorter of a time for the
fish to just go fishy and turn nasty if it
was just left out to its own devices. But if
(24:36):
you've got it in the refrigerator or chilled or something,
it'll probably take an extra couple of days. I had
experience with it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, or specifically live fish, do you think they smell well?
Speaker 12 (24:47):
Sure, I mean they're fish fishy, but they don't smell
like rotten fish. They definitely have that you know, sea
scent to them.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You know we have to ask is the guy who
owns the San Peterro fish market, Glngaro?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I bet you he would know.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I'll reach out to him and see if he can
give us an insight on the I fish smell bad
before they get caught. I'm going to continue on with
this story and apologize to everybody for that very odd sidetrack.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
California Department of Fish and Wildlife stepped in at first,
setting a trap near the crawl space, but instead of
catching the large bear under Johnson's home, the trap caught
a smaller bear, the wrong one.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Do you hate it? You hate it when that happens,
you catch the wrong bear.
Speaker 13 (25:35):
That bear was hauled away and the bigger bear stayed put.
Speaker 15 (25:39):
Well, I was kind of sad. For the other bear
at first, but then I'm like, well, if this bear
comes out, now, where's.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
He going to go?
Speaker 13 (25:46):
Biologist later tried again, using air horns to flush the
bear out.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Sad he did a look courtesy Hank. Courtesy Hank.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
You know when like somebody like is obviously looking at
their phone and they're they're trying to cross the intersection,
but you don't want to be rude, and you just
want to give a little just a little bit of
an air horn.
Speaker 13 (26:10):
Hunk Johnson says it looked like it was finally working.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh that was croache. That was croach, I think, right?
And which which what part of your body are using
to make that sound?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
The one that shouldn't be on the micro Okay?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Great?
Speaker 13 (26:25):
Yeah, so he says they suddenly got a call ordering
them to stand down.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Very defeated.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Oh yeah, I mean, also, who is at the Department
of Fish and Wildlife, Who's like.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Tell them to stand down? We can't have any more help.
Stand down, gentlemen, you're too close.
Speaker 15 (26:44):
I mean I just dropped because like, well, now what
it's all up to me and what I'm supposed to
watch my phone? When he comes out in the middle
of the night, or like sleep in the kitchen and
listen for him every night. I even ask, like, okay,
so as long as you guys are gone, can I
still debate to get him.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
No, can't do that.
Speaker 13 (27:02):
Since then, Johnson says he can hear the bear moving around,
presumably doing a lot of damage under his home.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
What's tough now is that everybody knows that this is happening,
so he is very limited in what he can do.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Like, I know, he can't do anything on the sly now.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
No, there can't be any kind of any kind of
untoward behavior towards that bear down there. Yeah, because he's
gonna because they people will know.
Speaker 15 (27:27):
They hear being shredded underneath, and even one of the
cameras picked it up, just bulldozing through it. It's a
mess under there.
Speaker 13 (27:35):
This video of a broken pipe prompted him to shut
off his gas on Christmas Eve, and he hasn't had
any hot water since.
Speaker 15 (27:43):
I'm just exhausted from the whole thing. You know, I
get my mind off it for a little bit, and
then suddenly I get flooded back with Oh that's right.
I can't take a hot shower. I got to monitor
the situation all the time. Every time my phone buzzes,
It's like, is that him? Do I have to go
and keep him away?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
This sounds like a really bad relationship. This guy is just.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's not working out between the two of them. Sorry
to hear it. I hope Ken get some help here,
because oil boy, that is a nightmare. You and I
get to go home and do our normal thing, get
to go to bed, take a hot shower, and Ken
is just sitting there laying on the living room or
kitchen floor waiting for his phone to buzz see if
(28:28):
his bear friend is out.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
That's life in the modern era.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
Friends, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
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Speaker 2 (28:39):
If you'd like to say hello, you are more than
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I believe it's white, might be a little red icon.
They may have changed it for Christmas. It's Kwansas, so
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Speaker 3 (28:59):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I have been on the app for a minute, but
if you want to leave a message, there up to
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Speaker 3 (29:15):
Crows.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
What if it was like a creditor. What if it
was like somebody reaching out to be like, hey, it
wouldn't be the first time you're behind on your on
your car payment. You've been here a long time. I've
gone through some ups and some downs financially, so we've
gotten calls like that.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I had a thing where I didn't realize that I
wasn't on auto pay for my DWP bill, like this
was years ago. Yeah, And I got ell straighten out,
now do you Oh, it's all yeah, I got I
got power and water. I got all the power and
all the water I could ever want. But I was
I wasn't paying attention. And it takes I've found out
in La the city, a really long time for them
(29:51):
to shut your power off if you don't pay it,
like many years. And I kept I thought I was
you know, I would get like the bill and the mail.
But I thought it it was just like the receipt
of my of my payment because I assumed that it
was on and it was them sending collection notices over
and over again, and it started changing colors the envelope,
(30:11):
and that's when I started to realize.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I was like, oh, that's cool. They're doing them in green. Now,
Oh how fest is? Oh, look they're doing them in yellow.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
You're thinking about the holidays exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Just go in the trash. Oh this one's for Halloween. Oh,
this one's for Kwansa. And they were there, ghosts all gone.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
So uh. I had I had a bill for like
I don't know at the time. I think it was
three thousand dollars, which now seems like so cheap for
LEDWP bill, you know what I mean, like a turn
a lamp off.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Dude, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I mean I hadn't paid for like two years, so
that was pretty low relatively speaking. I mean a house now,
a house now in the valley. You're paying fifteen hundred
bucks for two months of of DWP, and like three
hundred dollars of that is trash. I don't get it.
And I asked my I called them and I said,
is this right? And they said, well, we can't tell
(31:05):
you if it's higher or lower than other other users,
Like why yeah, Like, well, who was that what does
that matter to you? Wouldn't you want me to know?
I think that that would be a really effective thing
if they would shame you, If they would say, wholl buddy,
you're using your You're using your power and your water
way more than everybody else is.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I think I would cut back on my usage.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
The only thing that works is public shaming. By the way,
this is called dead week. This week, this time between
Christmas and New Year. Let's listen to a KTLA's Andy
Reesmeyer explained it this morning at ten thirty five. Welcome
to dead week. Oh it's actually halfway over. It is
the time between Christmas and New Years. In a world
where everything gets a label, accept relationships, dead week is
(31:47):
a new trendy term.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
At least a course.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I would say that wasn't one of my best jokes,
and you can hear the reaction. I think that's kirk
week is a new label, accept relationships. Dead week is
a new train.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's the worst. I'd rather get no laugh than I
will say that.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Something that ruins a good punchline in the studio is
that I put them in the teleprompter when I write
them right, I write the scripts they have to be
in the prompter, and so all the other talent can
see that they're coming, so they get to they get
to blow through the because they're following a long looking.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Jerks im.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
At least according to the Atlantic. You may have also
heard it called twig smiths. You may have heard faral week,
or like me, you haven't heard any of these things.
All that stuff you wanted to get done before the holidays,
Who cares all the stuff you still need to do
that's next year?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Use problem.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It is the understanding culturally at least, that you can
just not do anything for a bit if you don't
work in news.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I was gonna say this is for the normal people.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Twix smith is a British term betwixt between Christmas and
New Year's They also call it Boxing Week, which starts
on Boxing Day, that is the day after Christmas. Turns out,
I learned this today. It's not about fighting boxing, but
when you box up the things that you got.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Did you know this? You knew this? Foujsh did you
know this?
Speaker 10 (33:10):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Boxing Day is not about boxing like fighting?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I was I thought that they just you know, had
it out in America most of the time after holidays
is for fighting, and the time before holidays is one
of these.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
The day after they hit the morning, hop out the
door in the front door. In the morning, we'll start
jogging down the street looking for people to fight. Yeah,
because you know, it's like it's boxing day.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
That's not stop.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
The right.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
And they're so civilized there that it would make sense
that they'd only have one day out of the year.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
It's like the Purge. It's there. I'm exchange fish to
caff I'll give you that what for. That's right, So
now I know it's not that I didn't like as
a gift and then regift them. That's one interpretation I see.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I was hoping that that is that Brits are so
passive aggressive that they made a national holiday of it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
But you're telling me that.
Speaker 11 (34:05):
That's not totally So some people believe it goes back
to a time when you would box up your things
that you don't want and provide them for the help.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Frank Buckley, incredible landing with that very carefully constructed sentence
saved you big states. Oh big, I see, so you're
regifting to like your butlers And yes, I mean, while
I've heard we can get allan on the phone. Obviously
in your house, you buy the butler and the maid
their own gifts because you myself.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Right, they all get rolled.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Nordic countries have robin jewel, which translates into a room
to celebrate the Uld Tide. Most people are actually working,
but let's be real, nothing is really getting done. This
week always.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Feels like a free for all.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
You eat cheese for breakfast, get drunk at eleven am,
fall asleep to a TNT show.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You know, it's always a TNT show.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It is, by the way, it's a Resolian Aisles. It's
a rerun of CSI Miami. It's a law and order.
Nothing puts you to sleep like a little sip of
JMO and some Olivia Benson. And you can do that
in the time from Thanksgiving or excuse me, from Christmas
to New Year's without much consternation from society. I think
(35:22):
that's a beautiful part about this time of year. Nobody
cares what you're doing. It doesn't matter. People who are
in the office are hardly doing anything at all.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I'm here and I'm very happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Coming up, we're talking about the New York City's metro
card era is over. They're getting rid of it, replacing
it with a tap card. Wow, you know, for New
York City being such a transit place. Los Angeles has
had a tap card since two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Get with it.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Plus that as it might rain on the Rose Parade,
officials have come out with a list of things.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
That you can do to be prepared for the rain.
Did we not just deal with the rain?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Is there new? Are there new tips for dealing with
the rain? Plus does champagne cause more headaches than other drinks?
Apparently not if you do it right. That's all coming
up in the next hour of The Conway Show. I'll
be with you, I mean Andy Reesmeyer. It's KFI AM
six forty We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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The Burden
The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.