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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to the Conway
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Mark Thompson's here.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh yeah, thanks everybody, Well please you seen.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It before we get to Alex Stone. These guys are
back on the freeway. I guess now they're bailing off,
but they were on the one oh one freeway. Let's
crank up channel seven steph oosh and see what Chris
Christy has to say. But these the scientists were on
the freeway. Let's find out what they were doing here.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Idea was to keep them away from the Federal building,
and they have now done that. They've moved away from
the Federal Building. The few that are still over there
on Lameda Street are being detained. However, this group here
is continuing to march peacefully. We will see what LAPD
decides to do if they continue to block traffic.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Guys, Chris, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Mostly peaceful, Mostly peaceful violence, I think is what's going
on downtown.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
All right.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
Alex Stone is with us, Alex.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Have you gotten caught up in any other stuff?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, and not down there right now, but I'll be
back down there tomorrow. But did you see the CHP
a moment ago. They did not mess around. They came
out of nowhere. They immediately threw on their helmets, they
had their batons. They I mean that those protesters were
all over the one oh one on both sides, and
CHP was like, nope, we ain't doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, we should have done that day one, you know, Friday.
It should have been minutes and they were, they were
off the freeway. Yeah, that's what you know, that's what
it takes. It takes a heavy hand. Sorry, but when
you were a kid and you screwed around and mom
or dad gave you one to the back of the head,
you straightened up.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
They were, they were right out there. There was no
you know, please please walk off the freeway and nope,
it was batons and get out of here.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Yeah, did you et caught up in that mark the traffic?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I know, but I mean, as you know how you
know how I feel about when you block traffic and
when you're involved in something illegal like that, particularly in
southern California where things are you know, excruciating enough on
the open roads. Yeah, you got to handle that right away,
and it's got to be cleared. I mean, that isn't
that's a violation on the law and it should be
treated that wall.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
They walked right into speeding traffic too. I thought, watch somebody,
you decide. You know, they're just gonna keep going and
this isn't going to be real great.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
The one thing that can bring the far left and
the far right together is a closed freeway layer.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Like, oh man, look at these a holes. They should
have the death penalty.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Well what are they doing? What are they doing?
Speaker 6 (02:24):
They're blocking an on ram.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Now it's true.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's why I always say, you know, be careful, and
sometimes it works against you.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You know, I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Yeah, blocking of freeways is.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Nobody boo Weiss. But oh wait, no, get those guys.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Out there free. Don't have the ice guys do it.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
But yeah, you bought those guys, those guys from Woodland Hills.
You brought about it way well wait wait wait, whoa.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You can't do that?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So what's going on? ABC News has done a great job.
Chris Christie's been high over this emitting right, man, that
guy's unreal. But you know, I saw a little footage
from inside your ABC helicopter and it's a packed house.
You have four people in that. And there was some
woman who was flying that helicopter. I didn't get her name,
but man, is she under a lot of pressure. She's
got to go where the action is. She's got to
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avoid the other helicopters, she's got to avoid the buildings,
and then she's got to constantly look for people who
are firing crap at them from the high rises.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Absolutely, not even the high rises, but from around. Sometimes
you got to make a pilot. You got the reporter
in this case, Chris Christie, You've got the camera guy
in the back, and then sometimes somebody in the other
seats that's it's busy in there, that's right, gets hot
in there too, that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You know what steps When you play that sound effect,
I sound like an idiot?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Please got am mighty? All right?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
So what's going on?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What do you know?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Is this thing over her?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I wish it was over. And you know, we'll see
tonight last night was not as bad. What do we
have from the LAPD They made ninety six arrests for
failure to disperse. The numbers are up because there are
one more police officers who have come in. But two
things are calming down a little bit. They have the
chance to go in to make the arrest. On Sunday night,
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they couldn't do it, you know, it was about just
putting out the fires and people are firing things at
them and clearing out the streets. So the fact that
they have the ability to now make arrests means it's
calming down a little bit. But ninety six for failure
to disperse, one for assault with a deadly weapon, one
for resisting arrest, one for vandalism, fourteen for looting last night.
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So we'll see tonight, I'm sure the Yeah, it's typically
young men dressed all in black who come out and
want to battle the police. They'll probably come back out again.
But the troops are making their way in. We saw
today out in the Celbach area they are on soccer
fields learning how to do crowd control.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah? Late, huh yeah. Well, and that's where Jim McDonald
comes into it, LAPD chief saying, you know, they're not
on police radios, we're not working with them. There's a
lot of concerns here. They're learning how to do crowd
control right now. The LAPD the CHP of the Sheriff's department.
They are experts in it. They know how to do it.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
The chiefs saying this, the introduction of a federal military
personnel without direct coordination creates logistical challenges and risks confusion
during critical incidents.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
But we talked to the chief today and he said
that they are trying to work with the National Guarden. Look,
they work with the National Guard all the time, but
in this case they are federalized and working under a
federal framework and not working with local police. And he
says that they at this point are going to only
be around the federal building, and then the federal building
in Westwood and then the one down in sant Ana,
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and that is going to be it because they don't
have any law enforcement authority. Their guns, while they've got
the clips on there, they are unloaded. They do not
have bullets in there. Wow, that their job is because
they don't have any authority to stand around that building
and hold up their shields and look really menacing. Same
with the Marines. That's about all they can do. They
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cannot engage and clear the streets except for come out
a little bit to open up a path for federal
vehicles to get in the back of the roy Ball Building.
But that is it. The LAPD, the HP, the sheriff,
they've got to do all that stuff. It would take
the Insurrection Act from the President to give them law
enforcement capabilities and they could come out in the streets
and then they would be able to have loaded guns
(06:18):
and all that. So as of right now, it's a
lot of show in that sense. Yeah, they're protecting the
federal building, but they can't leave beyond that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Alex Stone is with us from ABC News. You know,
I'll bet you if you sat Jim McDonald down privately
right where he's not on camera and he's had like
an Irish whiskey or whatever, he would say his hands
are tied and he and I think he'd be very
critical of Mayra Baths. But we remember during the fires,
what happens when you're in charge of LAFD and you're
(06:48):
critical of marapaths, like Chris Kristen Crowley, you get fired.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, I mean, if you're the police chief of the
fire chief, you know who your boss is.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That's right, And so we can't he's in between a
rock and a rubber bullet.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's in a he knows, he knows how the game
is played, and you know he's not gonna, I don't
think say anything that's that's going to get himself in trouble.
But there there are some logistical things the way this
is going down that typically if it came from a
governor in any state for the National Guard, then the
local police can say, all right, we want this kind
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of unit. Here's how we want to use them. That
they can be best utilized this way, typically doing roadblocks.
That's what we see during the wildfires. Normally it's military police.
The president has sent in a combat battalion that is
here and is not where the LAPD needs them. They
don't know what they're doing. The LPED doesn't know, so
it's it's you know it. The way it has been
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carried out makes it much more difficult on police. Typically
the LAPD first would go to the sheriff's department, then
all the surrounding police papers run. Yeah, that was all
skipped and went right to just send these guys in,
men and women in, tell them to stand there with
the with their weapons across or two and had a
big plastic barrier and see what happens. Yeah, and then
see where we go from there.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
All right, but I appreciate you coming on Alex Stone.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Everybody.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The one oh one freeways closed downtown Los Angeles. So
if you're getting if your southbound looks like southbound, yeah,
southbound southbound on the one ten. But I'm sorry, the
one on one southbound one oh one is closed. So
if you're sitting in that traffic and you're pissed, it's
because these cats, these Rhodes scholars or scientists, they've gotten
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back out onto the freeway and they've shut it down.
So the freeway will open momentarily as soon as the
cops can clear it. But it looks like it's about
ninety nine percent there. And then we're following a fire
that we can see the flames from where we're sitting.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
It is truly chilling.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yes, pulling into the station today, it was like holy,
I mean that's you know, you can throw a stone
to where that is.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, the fire is unbelievable. All right, we got to
take a break. It's the Conway Show. Mark Thompson's here.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
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Speaker 1 (09:06):
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Speaker 3 (09:10):
Hot time in the summertime, Hot sun in the summertime.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Hot.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
It's fun in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, we predicted last Friday that this was going
to be a crazy summer. We didn't think it was
going to start an hour and a half later. That's true,
that was wild, but it's coming in hot. Okay, We've
got protests going on downtown the one oh one. It
looks like it's still closed. Even though they got most
of the cats off of the freeway, it's still closed.
And LAPD, the National Guard, the Sheriff's Department, and fourteen
(09:39):
other surrounding you know, police agencies are having to deal
with this, you know, twenty four hours a day since Friday,
and they're probably exhausted. But that's going on. We got
an earthquake off the Redondo Beach coast. I know Krozier
was really high on Redondo Beach and then bang, well
(10:00):
less than twenty four hours later, he gets hit by
a quick discarver.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
It enjoyed it.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Now it's destroyed. Now it's gone.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And then we got this fire in Burbank, a fire
in Burbank.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yeah, it's weird, and there's a lot of smoke.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And look, before the Altadena fire and before the Palisades
of Malibu burned down, you would look at this and go, oh,
they'll knock that out. Now you're like, let's put everything
on it. Let's get those guys from downtown, get the
Marines to go up there and put this out.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And they talk about the fact that, you know, with
Marines or National Guard more specifically involved in everything going
on now near downtown, that a lot of the fire
remediation associating they do assign some of these troops to
that stuff too, and they're being pulled away from that.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
So yeah, it hurts overall.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Here is more information on this fire burning in Burbank.
If you're on the five Freeway, you can see it.
It's up near the golf course up there and Castaways,
which is a beautiful restaurant, little price.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
But beautiful.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
A fire in the hills above Burbank. This Jovana is
the Bethany fire, and we have live images right now.
You can see firefighters working in steep, rugged terrain, the
fire at least moving up the hill and certainly a
lot of homes here in danger, at least the fire
moving away from those problems.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
The fire is near Holmes. This is eight to ten
acres at the moment.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
He just said it's burning away from homes, and she's like, yep,
it's burning towards homes.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
And certainly a lot of I think so, and certainly
a lot of homes here in danger. At least the
fire moving away from those problems, and the.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Fire is near Holmes. This is eight to ten acres
at the moment. Calling authorities calling this the Bethany Fire.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Okay, Bethany fire because of the actress that was on
Full House. Whenever there's a fire now in LA I
got this push through SETI Council. They name it for
the closest living celebrity because we're a celebrity community.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Of course, I think that makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So Bethany, who lives up in the hills there, she
was on Full House, one of the characters, main characters
on Full House. And that's called the Bethany Fire. I
love it.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
The Bethany Fire is started at the one thousand Bethany
Road Street, one thousand blocks.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Alright, Bello, I asked you to cut that out. Almighty,
she's so crazy with their licorice whips today. I've never
seen Bellio excited about anything. And she saw licorice whips
in the Dodgers studio. She kicked the door up and goes, wow,
I was streaming and what's going on? She never I've
(12:33):
never seen you get excited at all.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
That's anything.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
I love.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Those claims are good mood today. Yes, wild with these whips.
You know, I'm surprised you don't buy them. They're not,
you know, wildly expensive.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
It's more fun when someone else buys them.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Oh, I see you.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
There's a surprise, the magic of discovery. You can buy
a whole tub of them for like six bucks.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Then I wouldn't like them as much.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Alright, alright.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
In Burbank, all hiking trails above Burbank, including Wildwood Canyon
and Stone h Center areas are closed.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No, we're gonna We're gonna hike today. In this log
you have to change your plan. Why would you hike
in the fire anyways? Wrong, You've set the plan ahead
of time. Then the fire breaks get.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Due to this brush fire. If you are near or
on these hiking trails or in these recreation areas in
the Burbank Hills, you're asked to leave the area immediately right.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
On our way. All right, So it's it's radical.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I haven't gotten your take on this because you were
here Monday through Thursday, which I appreciate you filling in for.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Me when I know it is my pleasure. Boys.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, but I think you and I share an opinion.
I think we we you know, we compromise on a
lot of things here. I think when they get on
the freeway, that's a nightmare.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
That's a that's a total hard no.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And I also think that they've got to stop with
the foreign flags.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Well I said on my show today that you know,
it's just it's a game of images and if you
without taking a side here, but I mean, I think,
but I will say, you know, I can understand you
can make an argument for ice coming into heavy and
all this sort of thing. But whatever your message may be,
it's a world of images, and the images around the
community are just fleeting. What you're really dealing with is
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enduring images that go around the nation and worldwide, and
so they see that Mexican flag or Enduran flag or whatever,
and it's juxtaposed against the burning waymo car or the
damage to the CHP vehicle, and it's just an awful
image for your movement. So if your movement is to
reduce the presence of ice in the community, or change
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the way that ice comes in, or whatever your if
immigration writes is your message, you can be sympathetic to
that message without the Mexican flag being flown at this time. Again,
it's a bad look. And in a world of propaganda
and messaging and imprinting that way, I just think it's
better advice fly in an American flag.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Or screw it, put an Irish or a British flag
up there, sure and get it down. It's like, oh,
the British are invasion, innovating, Oh the Brits are here.
Give everybody a different nations flag. I thought we pushed
them back British. All right, let's go to Channel four
real quick. Here it looks like they have cornered. They
put all of the people who are on the freeway
now into a box and there's cops on all four
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sides and all of those people are going to be arrested.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
There were dispersal orders that were made an hour or
so ago, and they're updated.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
If I'm not mistaken, what every ten or fifteen minutes
to leave the area.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
It's an unlawful assembly.
Speaker 12 (15:36):
Correct, correct, Yeah, So that dispersal order was given what
seems like a couple hours ago now, and as you said,
they repeat it multiple times, they repeat it in different languages,
they do it over the loudspeaker, they do it from
the helicopters, so it is very clear that you are
to leave. One of the things that dispersal order didn't
say was dump get on the freeway, but that's what
these folks did. So they were on the freeway. They
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were on the one on one freeway of course, just
causing major delays here on the southbound side of the
one oh one freeways. So the CHPA was able to
get everyone off. They ended up on Commercial Street and
then at that point most of the demonstrators walked away.
They walked away back toward the federal building at Temple
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and Alameda, but this group stuck around, and they stuck
around long enough to be detained, and that is what
has now taking place.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Okay, if you're not watching this on TV, it's on
channel four LAPD and the CHP got together and they
surrounded them. So they're in a box and there's probably
one hundred and fifty cops surrounding these fifty people are
on the inside, and it looks like they're all going
to be arrested, all of them. They're all going to.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
The big house.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I don't know, maybe a big house, small house at
an holding house, holding house for sure, but they're all
going to be arrested, and they're all going to have
a record. And yesterday when we're listening to d A Hawkman,
he said he's going to pursue charges against a lot
of these people and it may end. You may end
up in state prison for three, four or five years.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And you can't have that on your record and expect
to have a normal life. So you got to be
careful how far you push these cops. Because these cops
are now on day four and yeah, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Monday to day five. They're on day five and they
have they've had very little sleep, they've had very little rest,
very little time off. A lot of them had canceled vacations,
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and they're pissed. They're in these black uniforms that are
hotter than the hell. It's eighty degrees downtown and they're
angry as hell. They've had rockets and fireworks thrown at
them every single night. They've had people spit on them,
They've had people throw rocks at them, and they're angry
as hell, and so don't piss them off today.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
This is not the day to piss these guys off.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
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Speaker 6 (18:00):
And look, you just rolled in. You got Monks. You
got a Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
All right, Before we get into Michael Monks, I gotta
do some real quick. I heard something really cool. There's
a guy that I know named Nick who runs some
Mountain View Chevy out on Upland. And he said to me,
I saw him at a concert at the Wango Tango
concert by the way, the iHeart concert, and he says, hey,
he goes, He goes.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
He goes.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
My guy's in the shop, you know, all the guys
repairing the chevyes.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
He goes.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
They listen to music all day long, and bang at
four o'clock they turn you on on K five.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
That's a compliment. That's super good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So Matt Ivan, Jonathan A, j Andrea, Adrian and Guiero
all out there Oh, there's an Andrea. There, there's a
woman working on cars. Yeah, wow, is that a miss print? Well,
it's not a what do they do this gender specific
thing anymore?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
All right, Michael, A mechanic, not a mechanicky. All right,
Monks is here, how you Bob? I'm good.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You know, it's been another busy day here in La Man.
You just see on Channel four how they boxed everybody in.
I'm telling you something has changed over the last twenty
four to thirty six hours. The tactics that the LAPD
is deployed. They are moving much faster.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
They moved now.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
We had a lot of chaos late last night and overnight,
but rounding up the protests, stopping the protests, that was
a different approach than they had used the previous two days.
They nipped in the butt a lot more quickly, and
today even earlier they sent this dispersal order out and
of course, unfortunately these folks dispersed to the one oh
one at one point those two buses were watching on
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Channel four right now are loaded with these Rhodes scholars
that are done. And that's the other thing is they're
not messing around with that either. They say leave or
you will be arrested. And they were kind of nice
about it the first couple of days. They're not so
nice about it.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Now you're on the bus, right, And I knew it
was trouble for them once these CEOs got onto the
one oh one, because because that's I mean, you know,
they're they're tired of that being blocked. They ruined it
with the rocks at the CHP.
Speaker 11 (20:05):
Absolutely. I mean, we see these with protests no matter
what the issue is. It gonna be Palestine or any
other movement that's taking place. Remember the Das, we're doing
it for a while. Yeah, they're closing down the glen.
They're not winning any friends and even other Armenians said no, no, no,
you're not doing.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I'm trying to get home.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
This is rush hour.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I got Conway on.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
I'm trying to enjoy the afternoon, that's right, And now
these yahoos are in the middle of the road.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I was in the Bay Area they blocked the Golden
Gate Bridge all the time because that's sort of a
high profile, iconic thing, and I would always say, you
just lost me whatever your case exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So can you hear this from your your apartment or
condo or townhouse or whatever you got.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
You're right on the belly of the beach.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
I am in the belly of the beast. I am
on the other side of Los Angeles Street. But you
can hear all those helicopters, all those sirens, the flash bangs,
the fireworks.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
And the thing is, and.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
I mentioned this to you and on other programs here,
is that it's pretty loud in downtown LA.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Anyway.
Speaker 11 (20:59):
It's a lot of sirens, a lot of helicopters, a
lot of just random bangs, a lot of random moaning.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Right, you know, you hear a lot of shelling.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
That's really underreported, right, but it has certainly intensified over
the past five days.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Does that excite you as a reporter to hear all
the sounds of the city as it kind of becomes
a place that's.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Unglued When I'm on the clock, Yeah, But when I'm
off the clock, you know, I got a cup of coffee,
I'm doing the wordle you know, like just a gamy.
It got the show on and then you hear this nonsense,
and you think, why did I move here?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, well, but I'm surprised it's saken you two years.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
You know.
Speaker 11 (21:37):
Yeah, you guys figured that out in six. Well, by
the way, I'm in it to win it. I'm not leaving.
You're not okay, all right, I'm not leaving. You're stuck
with me. You know what, I don't believe that. I
believe you're about ninety five percent. God No, I've wanted
my whole life to be here and these people aren't
ruining it for me, my whole life. I finally hit
you know, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I'm going to deal with it. This isn't This isn't
rock bottom for you. I lived in Kentucky, right but
this going on downtown right now within three blocks for you,
I tell you, it's not.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It would be.
Speaker 11 (22:06):
Nice if people showed some respect in general too. It
would be nice if the local city officials that we
vote for and elect and expect to lead the city
showed some attention to the city center, which is a
disaster all the time, regardless of the protests happening. You know,
we have we always talk about rock Bottom on the show.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
You know, term bottom a lot. You know you visited
a couple of.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Times, and it's usually with your It's usually personable, overweight, alcoholic, cigarettes, drugs, whatever,
And a lot of photos come from weddings. You know,
when you see yourself in a wedding photo going to
somebody's wedding and you're like, wow, man, I'm yeah, let
myself go, yeah, one hundred, I'm in two hundred and
eighty pounds.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
I got to get some help. But this is a
great rock bottom story.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Friend of mine's driving across country from LA to New
York to go visit family and spend a couple of
weeks there. He stops in Saint Louis. He orders a
large pizza with a large soda, finishes the pizza guy
who owns the place comes by and goes, here's a
check for five hundred plus. Can we take a picture
of you? And he said, what do you mean? He said, Wow,
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our policy at this restaurant, if any two guys can
finish that pizza in a half hour, we give him
a check for five hundred. And you knocked it off
by yourself in twenty five minutes.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
And he said he wasn't really even really that full,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
So they you get him a check for five hundred dollars,
took a photo and put it on the wall, and
as he was driving New York he thought, maybe that's
rock bottom.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Oh yeah, you know, maybe yeah, maybe I'm here. You
don't want to be bigger than the big apple on
your ELA pulling up. Where do we go from here? Well,
that's what we've been trying to figure out.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
So we finally it's Tuesday, right, So on a Tuesday,
you got all of the government meetings for the first
time since all this started. So today we heard from
the LA City Council, we heard from the LA Board
of Supervisors.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Got too much? We got say, can you stay with us?
I got nowhere to go. I'm go on the freeway,
all right? You got Monks. Monks is here. He's on
every Saturday from seven to nine pm, does a great job.
And now he's with us today and we'll continue talking
about downtown. We got a lot of arrest going on.
LAPED has changed their tactics, so has the highway Patrol,
and they're not going to allow these freeways to be
shut down anymore.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
That is a wrap on that kind of activity.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
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Speaker 1 (24:25):
Forty before we get back into the protests. The Bethany
Fire in Burbank near Amherst and Bethany Road. Evacuations are
in place for north of Walnut to bel Air Ballfield
and east of bel Air. All hiking trails are closed
that should be obvious, including Wood Wildwood Canyon and Strow
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Nature Center. So anyway, stay out of there. Evacuation site
if you want to evacuate, or you have to mc
cambridge Recreation Center, which by the way, is across from Tommy's,
so you can get your selfish. There's a Carls Junior there,
and then there's a Tommy's. And here's the move. You
got to get your your burger from Tommy's and then
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go to Carls to get your coke because the Tommy's
is a pepsi thing, and you walk across while your
burger's being cooked. You go to Carls, get your coke
and come back pick.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Up your burger.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Is that rock bottom? No, not yet.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And then there's but it's a nice little area a monks.
You like this because there's McDonald's across the street. There's
a Taco Bell, and there's a Popeyes right there and
then there's a shade uh a straw, Shaky's Pizza all
within within like a block of the fitness center.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
No, well of the park, but Cambridge Park.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Okay, I don't know where the fitness center is. We
bulldozed the fitness center for that. I haven't worked out
since junior high. Oh yeah, so I'm thinking about it. Yeah,
but you know, I'm a night guy, so I'm I
don't know.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
We got that gym downstairs. You could go right to you. Yeah,
it seems a little small.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'm looking for a twenty four hour fit and it's
I guess they don't have those though.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
I work out at home with a streaming service. Oh
you do, really absolutely? What is that personally? And they're
not endorsing me, and they wouldn't now I've injured myself
and I've eaten too much. Less Mills. It's a company
on New Zealand and it's they emphasize lightweight, heavy rep
and I thought that was interesting. And I've been hooked
for five years.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I want to give all those things where you you
pedal a bike, just peddle on your feet, whether you're
sitting on the couch, punch tving a smoke, drinking beer.
All right, So downtown LA there's gonna be a big
I think it's six o'clock today.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Six they're gonna.
Speaker 11 (26:39):
Pray for Los Angeles and Mayor Bass is expected to
attend that she talked about it earlier. We finally heard
from a lot of different city officials today and then
their official capacity. Mayor Bass spoke earlier this morning, and
and just so you know, all of the violence and
the looting and the vandalism we saw in downtown Los Angeles,
it's apparently going to be consequences.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Here's a little bit of what she said.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
The violence and the damage is unacceptable. It is not
going to be tolerated, and individuals will be arrested and
prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And no
individual that is involved in vandalism should think because they
went home that night that they're off scott free, because
investigations will take place, and I am assured by the
(27:21):
police department that there will be follow.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Up and arrests.
Speaker 11 (27:25):
So they're going to be looking at videos and all
kinds of different investigation techniques to find the people who
decided they needed to break down the doors of a
sushi restaurant in downtown Los Angeles because they disagree with
the federal immigration policy.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But it did seem to me, and maybe you guys
have a different take on this, but it did seem
to me that the mayor of Los Angeles was siding
with the rioters.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Did that seem the same to you, fellows.
Speaker 11 (27:51):
There's a certain level of sympathy that comes from the
local elected officials because they are saying, these are hardworking
angelina Us and there's a lot of true to that.
The people who have come here illegally have come from
a variety of different circumstances. The Trump administration has emphasized
that they're going after people with additional criminal backgrounds, and
they have busted some that have either been convicted in
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other countries or accused in other countries of very serious crimes.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Right, thank you, put one hundred and fifty guys on
a planet send in China.
Speaker 11 (28:18):
But they are also capturing in that process just what
they've called collaterals, people who might be near those folks
but didn't necessarily do anything else other than the initial
crime of crossing the border illegally. And we got a
lot of folks here in Los Angeles and Los Angeles
County who have come here illegally, but you know them,
you know, you give them money. You might have bought fist,
(28:38):
you might have bought your coke I'm sure, at a
fast food restaurant from one of these folks. And they're
just here trying to make a living because they couldn't
do that back where they were. So there's a lot
of sympathy from this government and they're at first was
not a lot of urgency on regaining a sense of
order in the community.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Right, But such a good point.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
But I think the sanctuary city has something to do
with that, because if these guys were sent to jail
and to prison, you know, to send to jail, and
then they were they notified ICE that these guys are
here illegally, they would come into the jails and pick
these guys up. But because it's a sanctuary city, they
let them back in the community and now ICE has
to go find these guys.
Speaker 11 (29:16):
Well, the sanctuary city policy only forbids city resources from
being used to execute civil immigration enforcement, right, but they've
taken the ICE offices out of the local jails. Yeah,
that's right, So that would be part of it, right,
because that's a city of property, right, but.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
That causes this kind of collateral damage.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
It also gives a sense of safety to folks who
are evading any type of enforcement that they might come here.
And I think the Trump administration is taking this opportunity
to show how strong they're going to be on this
by coming directly into Los Angeles just.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
To comment on what you were asking about or what
you were commenting on, which was that local officials just
seemed to you know, be sympathetic or you know, seem
to be showing sympathies to the protesters or with the protesters.
I think, in addition to everything that Michael's saying, there
was a sense of being bigfooted by the administration and
that only emboldened them in sort of an oppositional way.
(30:15):
And so that is to the Trump administration, you know,
sending in the National Guard essentially sort of seizing this
situation from local authorities. And so I think many of
the local authorities in LA and state authorities, including the governor,
sort of fell out no, no, no, we got this, we
didn't ask your help, and that automatically kind of casts
you in a posture which seems sympathetic to the protesters.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Right, But it goes back to Friday, where you know,
we saw that LAPD had a delayed response to ICE
picking up some of these guys. And I think if LAPD,
and again Jim McDonald who's the chief, has denied this.
He said it was thirty eight minutes, not two hours.
But if the cops were there protecting Ice, I don't
think the National Guard would have ever showed up.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
I think in this is speculation, but we heard Jim
McDonnell a couple days ago admit that things had gotten
out of control at the same time that local officials
were saying, no, we can handle this. So there was
now a conflicting message coming from local officials, right. And
now that the National Guard is here in force. We
saw them in force. They're the ones who put the
tear gas out on Elementa Street on Sunday afternoon while
(31:19):
while we were broadcasting. Now you are seeing these new
tactics from LAPD, and I don't know if that's related
or not, but they're like, we really need to try
something different to show that we can get this under
control without the help of the federal government, or this
situation is going to escalate, not necessarily in the amount
of violence that's taking place, but the amount of military
that are going to be sent in by President Trump,
(31:40):
who's also just scoring some political points here.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I don't know which one of you said this, because
I was looking at the fire out the window. But
if you can't if you can't govern, you are going
to have a strong man show up.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
I think we were talking off air about that.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (31:55):
Absolutely, and that's what that's what maybe happened. You know,
I'm not calling the president a strong man in the
sense that we've had strongmen internationally, but he does posture
as one. I think we can all agree to that.
He likes the idea of being totally in charge. And
when you've got a government that is in chaos, and
certainly the border did not have a lot of order
to it for a long time during the Biden administration,
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you can come in and say that's a disaster.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I'm the guy who's going to fix it. And that's
what's going on in downtown LA right now.
Speaker 11 (32:24):
He's pulling the same type of messaging and applying it
to Los Angeles. It placed at the narrative that this
place is out of control.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I know, we got to take a break but I
heard Max sim Waters today say that we're that none
of us are really seeing what's going on. There's no
violence downtown.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
I don't know why there's this proclivity to deny that
businesses have been vandalized and broken into, that police officers
have been attacked, and that the neighborhood has been.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
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Speaker 11 (33:03):
Damage in a way that's going to be very expensive
to clean up and repair. Sure, I just don't know
why that proclivity is there.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Well, it's also bad flex. I mean, look on the television,
you can see all.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
This so easily disprove all. But I think that's old school.
You know your eyes are lying to you. Yeah, but
we don't have to wait for the morning paper anymore.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
It's old school time.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
And look, I love her. She's old school man.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Her whole get up, her clothes or her do everything
is old school, dude, She's old school man.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
I like that, Maximum Waters.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
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