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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're live on Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Belly O, come on, you got your nice pants on.
Let's get to work, right, huh, don't start nice?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Alright?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Alright? Were those the pants you wore to the meeting?
These are camouflage, but these are actual pants. Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You gave me a hard time about wearing a camouflage sweatpants.
We had a really important meeting with our old program director,
and I thought Bellio had dressed up. I just looked
at her. You know, I don't stare at people's pants.
You wore nice gray pants. I'm like, hey, hey, thanks
for dressed up for the for the meeting. And she
her response was.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh, rude, it was very rude. It wasn't that rude.
I was being sincere.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No, you were not your I was you were?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, all right, time to work, all right, this is great.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
We started off and Michael Monks came in, who's with us?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
My nice to see you, buddy. Hey, it's always good
to see you on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And you said, Hey, the head of LASA has just resigned.
Do you want me to come on and talk about that,
or do you want to talk about sea lions.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, the sea lions are dead. It's not like I
played with one today, right, and I said, let's go
with LASA. I think that'll affect more the Hey, the
sea lions matter too, that's right. Sea lions are mammals
two or mammals. They are, indeed, and there's a bunch
of them sick in San Pedro. We can talk about
that later or another time. But the big news that
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just came across is that LA Homeless Services Authority CEO
Valicia Adams Kellum has announced her resignation. You are no
stranger to news about LOSS are no strangers to news
about LASA. They've been under a microscope in recent weeks
and it did look like an untenable situation for her
at that organization. The whole organization may go away by
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next year because of the LA County's decision to basically
leave the organization by next year and pull billions or
there's of millions of dollars from it, and LA is
going to be left on its own with this co
managed organization that the county and the city started together.
But Felicia Kellum's Adam, who has led that troubled homeless
agency for the past couple of years, will lead it
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no more.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So it stands for LA Homeless Service Authority and they
are the ones in charge of taking our billions of
dollars in finding homes for homelessness.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
For a lot of programs.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes, I mean, you know, there are a lot of
cookie jars out there for homeless funding, but they are
the main provider. A lot of the county money, a
lot of the city money goes through LASA, and LASSA
pays a lot of the third party homeless services providers,
whether they're mental health organizations, drug organizations, shelters and so
that's where we've run into trouble recently is whether that
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money is accounted for properly.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Okay, now she was getting four hundred and thirty thousand
dollars a year. Well, when does her resignation take place?
Is it immediate?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It looks like it was.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
She announced it just this afternoon, and that looks like
a quite departure. The interesting thing is, just three hours
ago LASSA put out a slide show publicly for people
to look at their accomplishments over the past three years. Wow,
that's right, So they she has been there for exactly
two years. So really it's their perception of accomplishments under
her leadership. What was interesting and why I thought she
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might be on her way out, just from simple observance,
is on Tuesday, when the La County Board of Supervisors
was meeting to vote on creating their own homeless department
and basically defunding LASA, Kellen Adams excuse me, Adams Kellum
showed up to speak and she was treated basically like
anybody else who yea. They gave her a minute to
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start with, they gave her an extra thirty, and she
still didn't finish, and they cut her off and brushed
her aside.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, but isn't this a microcosm of what's wrong with
that agency where they're not talking to one another, where
there's one office putting together a sizzle reel on how
great we are, and two offices down the head of
the organizations resigning.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
That's exactly right. It does show that what was happening
in the waning moments of LA County and lassa's relationship
as we know it now, Because if the head of
LASA that you're about to defund is just showing up
in the gallery with the rank and file public describe
during public comment.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That's a perception issue.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
It seems like even if you're angry at the agency,
it is managed by your government. They could have given her, Hey,
we're gonna give you five minutes. Come out and say
what you gotta say, just for the public to hear
from you and for us to hear from you before
we do the vote that we know is going to
go the way that we expect it to.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Right, Okay, iHeartMedia is a private company and they couldn't
get away with that. For instance, two years ago on
December tenth, if there was a group of people putting
together a reel on how great the John and Ken
Show is, and then on December eleventh, Ken retires, that
the people putting that reel together be like, Hey, how
didn't you not know that? How did you not know that?
(04:57):
The next day Ken from the John and Ken Show
going to retire, And there'd be some you know, you
would have to respond to that, and there would be
some you know, conversations on where who dropped the ball.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I'm sure that we're going to learn more after the
hours it's always This is what we in the business
call a Friday news dump. If you are somebody in
a government agency, you're even a private business, but you've
got some bad news to share, you know, you've got
to put it out. You wait until the late afternoon,
early evening on Friday because at this point people are
clocking out of work and maybe clocking out for the
(05:27):
whole weekend. It's not as easy as it used to
be because we're still connected so much. But this is a
Friday news dump absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I think.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Also in that same vein with you know, Friday news
dump was the four billion dollars that La County has
to pay that people kids have been molested.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
They took that dump this morning though, So it was
an announcement that came out this morning and it's a
shocking amount of money and it's something that's going to
impact this county for years to come, decades for a
long time. It's four billion dollars. Now they have like
a fifty billion dollar budget. La County does, but it's
all allocated for it all has special design nations.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So there are services that are going to be depleted.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
We'll have to see they're not in the same financial
condition as the City of Los Angeles. The county is
in a better position. But this is a county that
just agreed to move forward with buying a skyscraper in
downtown Los Angeles to move the government from its current
location over into one of those empty office towers downtown.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So for people that don't know that story, I don't
know if you're following or not, but over the last
thirty years or so, seven thousand people, seven thousand kids miners,
I believe most of them came forward and said they
were molested, and a lot of them were in the
system in Los Angeles, were either.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
In the juvenile detention system, the probation department, or they
were in foster care. And like you said, about six thousand,
eight hundred of them have filed claims and at this
point the county has decided just to settle. It's not
formal yet because the Board of Supervisors has to vote
on it, but it does look like it's going that way.
The county CEO came out with a statement apologizing for
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this behavior that took place over.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The course of decades.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
This is more money than the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
spent to settle its own abuse case, then the Boy
Scouts spent to settle their abuse case. This is a
massive amount of money, and it's about a billion dollars
more than the county anticipated spending in this case.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Right, and LA was not a minor player in either
one of those the Boy Scouts or the Catholic Church scandals.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And this is the third big one in LA.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's obviously a problem that has persisted in this county
in a lot of different ways and a lot of
areas where kids are expected to be protected.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Right. Three D house of perverts is the name of law.
Say that one of the horses running this week.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think that's what Los Angeles means in English. Three
D house of child molesting perverts. It's a sad story.
And that is what the county CEO said today is that, Look,
this is sad, We're sorry, and this is what we're
going to do to make it up.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
They're not going to be writing the checks themselves. They're
basically going to give that four billion dollars to a
trust of some sort that will allocate how how much
individual victims get, and it will be paid out over
the course of a few years. But it is going
to impact the county's budget for a while.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I did some math and there there's nine point six
million people live in La County, so each of us
will have to pay four hundred and fifteen dollars for
that settlement.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Are you getting your check book out today? Every man,
woman and child. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's unbelievable. Don't know where it stops. La City is
a billion dollars in debt. We've got the you know,
you have to rebuild the Palisades, Alta Dina.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I don't know where all this money's gonna come.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
No, it's a scary situation, and this is something that
we need to sing about almost every day just so
people keep their eye on this.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm glad you're staying on top of it. I got
nothing else to do.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I don't know any of the TV stations that are
on top of it, or you know, the La Times.
You know, put something out today, but I don't remember
them following it for years.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It was months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I was saying in the newsroom, I don't know why
this is in front page news every day, every natural situation.
Because I was seeing it and I was asking questions
and talking to the controller and coming on these shows
and talking about No, I don't think you understand the
city is running out of money.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And by the way, for people who don't know Monks,
he's from Kentucky and you're not some kind of mega
far right lunatic. You know, you're a guy who's pretty
middle of the road. You know, a centrist, and you
understand that this is not the way to run the.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
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Speaker 2 (09:23):
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Speaker 1 (09:26):
It is The Conway Show, all right, A little bit
about where we are in California before we get into
some fun stuff. California is facing a significant financial challenge,
a crisis including a substantial budget deficit and growing debt,
with estimates suggesting listen to this.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
In twenty twenty four twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Five fiscal year, the state of California will be seventy
three billion dollars in debt, seventy three billion dollars short
of the money we need for the services the basic
services in California seventy three billion dollars short of where
we need to be seventy four billion, seventy three billion dollars. Okay,
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that's seventy three billion dollars. During COVID, thirty billion dollars
was stolen from the unemployment department. Thirty billion dollars was stolen.
Nobody got fired, nobody resigned, nobody got suspended, and nobody
got it talking to thirty billion dollars. If I cost
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I would either have to pay it, or I'd hear
about it, or they would fire me. If I went
out and you know, we did a remote, I got
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and the restaurant's like, hey, f you you know his
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were drunk and they busted up the place. Yeah, yours
three thousand dollars. This company would be pissed. And that's
three thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So we're seventy three billion dollars in debt as a state,
thirty billion dollars in unemployment gone stolen, twenty five billion
dollars for homelessness that is unaccounted for, two billion dollars
in the city of La that they are not quite
sure where it went over the last five years for homelessness,
four billion dollars over the lawsuit with these sixty eight
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hundred kids that got molested, one billion dollars in debt
for the for La city, and one hundred and thirty
billion dollars spent on high speed rail that will never
be completed. It started thirty billion, now it's at one
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hundred and thirty billion. It's one hundred billion dollars over budget,
and nobody cares. I guess we all sort of care,
but we just go home. You make your rice, ernie,
you watch your TV, you go to work the next
day because you don't feel like there's anything you can
really do about it, and then you get frustrated over it.
(12:17):
Maybe you're pissed right now listening to this.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like, oh, I can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Ah, I got to.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Do something about it. And then you realize we're all
going down together. It's the Titanic. Now, on that Titanic,
you can either be singing and playing banjo with the
Irish guys on deck, or you can be scrambling trying
to get into a lifeboat that is not there anymore.
(12:41):
Because the lifeboats are gone, says might as well has
some fun. You know, you can't do anything about it.
I'm going to add this up. I'm going to add
up all the money that I just I told you
about and see where we are debt wise. Okay, we
have one hundred and thirty billion dollars in high speed rail,
plus you've got five billion dollars with the lawsuit and
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the City of la in debt. Then homelessness twenty seven
billion dollars plus twenty seven. Then you got thirty billion
dollars in the unemployment department that went missing, and then
you have seventy three Okay, let's add this up. Seventy
three billion plus thirty plus twenty seven plus twenty seven
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billion plus.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
One thirty five one thirty five.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Okay, we're two hundred and sixty five billion dollars has
either been stolen, missing, or or were over budget. Two
hundred and sixty five two hundred and sixty five billion
dollars a quarter of a trillion dollars. One quarter of
a trillion dollars in the state of California has either
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been stolen, unaccounted for, or has been wasted, or has
been has gone out in lawsuits. Two hundred and sixty
five billion dollars. Okay, well, let's say the let me
see two hundred and sixty five billion dollars, there's million,
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there's billion, and then divide it by the forty million
people that live in the state of California. And if
every single one of us, every one of us, every man,
every woman, every child, had to pay off this debt
that I just told you about to be six thousand,
six hundred dollars per person, you would have to come
up everybody would have to come up with six thousand,
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six hundred dollars per person. That incredible level of mismanagement
is going to stay in office. Chances are a Democrat
will win again in Sacramento, in San Francisco, in Los Angeles,
probably in San Diego and all the you know, all
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the important offices that the control of the budget will
remain in one party. And so guess what the two
hundred and sixty five billion dollars in five years we
will hope it's just still to sixty five. It'll probably
closer to five hundred. There's two hundred and sixty five
billion dollars that's either unaccounted for, has been stolen or
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has gone out in lawsuits two hundred and sixty five
billion dollars. How did we get here? And what do
we do about it? Do we all just go down?
You know, smoking weed, partying, going to movies. Okay, watching
TV the bed.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I guess sounds good.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I mean, what else are we going to do? We
can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We might as well enjoy ourselves, you know, get out Saniita,
watch the Sanita Derby.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I say that's the way to go. I say that's
the way to go.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Look, California is melting and we're all going down with it.
So let's all have fun while we're doing it. All right,
Let's have a blast. Let's start eating more, Let's start
going to more fast food, Let's start drinking more. I
don't know, maybe more gummies is the answer. Maybe if
you blow a weed, you know, my buy an extra
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scoop they sultant scoops or ounces scoops. Get us up
a scoop of weed. God, almighty, what a state? What
a state we lived in?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
All right, we're live.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Welcome back and talk to Alex Michael sin See what's
going on that dude?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
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Am six forty every Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We have our good friend Alex Michael sin On and man,
he spent a lot of time with Jane Fond over
the last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Let's talk to him. Alex. Hi, you bob ing dog
with you? Dig dog with you? Man? A lot of
time with Jane Fonda.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Hun we did. Yeah, Yeah, that was that was a
really interesting show we did a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That's great. Man, What do you get out of that?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I mean, does she seem like a nice person, cares
about you? Was she sort of mean to you?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
She was a nice person. She seemed to care about me.
I think she cares about the issues that she's in
front of her, and I think she believes strongly in
what she is talking about. I know that you and
several people probably disagree with her on a lot of issues,
but I do think that she acts in good faith
and that she really deeply believes in what she's talking
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about and believes also in the power of activism and
getting involved in standing up for what you believe in.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Okay, I think if if you had you know, if
she was here right now in front of us. I
think we'd agree on more things that we disagree on.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yeah, she's an impressive person, and I know many you
and several of your listeners probably disagree with the way
she handled things in Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
She admitted.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Okay, she's a long times with how she handled things
in Vietnam, and it says it's the biggest regret of
her life and wishes that she would have done things differently.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, she was young and and she made a bad move.
What was that forty years ago? I think even more
fifty years ago? Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, you're right. It's
actually probably closer to sixty years ago.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How old is she is? She in her eighties?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
She is eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wow, she looks great for eighty seven.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
She looks great for any age.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean she looks like she's in her you know,
late seventies. Yep, that's a compliment. Yeah, shaved seventeen years
off of her.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What the what's on there? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Look, we've just gone through these numbers. I'd like your
opinion on this, Okay, Okay. There was thirty billion dollars
stolen from the Unemployment Department during COVID there's twenty five
billion dollars in homeless money from Sacramento that we don't
know what happened to. Right, two billion dollars, I'm sorry.
There's four billion dollars in a lawsuit that came out
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today that sixty eight hundred kids were molested, and there's
a four billion dollars settlement. La City is a billion
dollars in debt. Sure, there's two billion dollars in La
City's homeless that were that's sort of unaccounted for. We
don't really know where it went. And one hundred and
thirty billion dollars in high speed rail that has gotten
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us nothing. That's two hundred and sixty five billion dollars
that was either stolen, mismanaged, or given out in lawsuits
in the state of California. And we're as a state,
we're seventy three billion dollars in the red.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
And we're spending seven billion dollars in health insurance for
undocumented people who aren't even citizens.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
With all that happening, Okay, where does this all end?
That's well, that's almost like a trillion dollars.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
It seems like that's a good argument for a political
show that's going to ask some of these people what's
going on. So hopefully the next governor of California is
going to take that issue serious. And that's part of
what we get into this week on the issue is
with Javier Bessera, who is running for governor, former ag
former Health and Human Services secretary, and I started by
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asking him. He says, you know, California's unaffordable, And I said,
whose fault is that Democrats have run this state at
every level for decades? Don't you guys own this? And
then I asked over and over again, what specific policy
will you change to stop some of this? And there
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was not a real policy. He kept saying that we've
got to scrub the system and find places to fix it,
but there wasn't a specific answer. And I think that
that is an important responsibility that myself and that members
of the writers have is to is to bring up
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all the things that you just said over and over
again and try to get these people to acknowledge the
problem and then start talking abouts and then if voters
don't think there is a good solution, then give voters
an option to go a different direction.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Right, But javierar Butsara, isn't he just another insider.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
He did not make a compelling argument for how he
would break up the status quo.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, and I.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Don't know that.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Look, we're two hundred and sixty five billion dollars in
money that's gone, plus seven billion dollars in healthcare that
you brought up, and you're exactly right, so we're now
at two hundred and seventy two billion dollars. I'm not
sure Kamala Harris is the answer.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well, we don't know what her solution would be because
we haven't heard from her. We don't even know that
she's running for governor. But it seems to be that
we need a radically different approach than the status quo. Yes,
because what you're talking about is a whole lot of money,
and I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Care what party it's coming from. We'd need a new
a new direction in.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
This state, right and I And and that may end
up coming from the Democratic Party. I mean, there may
be a lane for a centrist Democrat who is willing
to take on the party and try to tackle some
of these issues in a creative way. And maybe that's
the kind of person that could get elected.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't know. Okay, but let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And I respect the work you do, all right, thank you,
and but there are very few of you. I mean,
these these these issues, uh, these money issues are ignored
by a lot of people in TV news and a
lot of people in radio news.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yes, well, it's complicated, and I think it's easier for
people to ignore the issues. But I think that there
is starting to be a bit of a tide turning,
not only in the way that the media handles some
of these issues, but in the way that voters see them,
and even among I think a lot of moderate Democrats frankly,
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are frustrated by the way that people in their own
party have handle these issues, and they're starting to demand
something else.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And we'll see, by the way, if that happens.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
But then again, there's a lot of you know, moderate
Republicans who are really frustrated with this idea of the
tariffs that are coming down with Donald Trump that at
least in the short term are really going to hurt
the US economy and make things harder for people. Maybe
long term it'll be good, may in the short term
it's really going to hurt people and make stuff more expensive,
and that really frustrates the situation, and so honestly, that
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may give Democrats an opening to not have to deal
with any of the issues I just mentioned. Just say
Trump is terrible, We're not him, and they may think that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That's enough, right, and then we go down even further.
I just turned on Channel eleven to see what big
issue you guys are tackling on the news tonight and
you have on the USA Hip Hop Dance Championship.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Guys on TV.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Well, I'm not there right now, so I can't answer
for that. I have the night off and I'm choosing
it to spend it with you.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
But that you could have called it or said you
couldn't make it tonight, It's okay.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I mean I'm still working on stuff and I'm on
TMZ Live tonight. We're still doing. The issue is tonight
TMZ Live at eight o'clock tonight, if you take any
time off. But uh, yeah, the the dance, you know,
if they need some love too, we need some we
need some levity. I'm sure they do. They work hard, right,
Everything you do is big jay substantive stuff on this show.
(24:24):
I'm sure if we looked at sure, if we looked
at some of the topics you've tackled. Not all of
them rise to like the level of the Financial Times.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
They're all they're all above the hip hop dance, all of.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Them all right, So what's on the issue is tonight.
I know it's a big show. You get good ratings
on the program.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah. So it's it's Javier Becerra's first interview as candidate
for governor, and you'll see some of that those that
back and forth. We also have a debate between Gloria
alright on the left and John Phillips on the right,
the radio talk show host.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, it's it's up to the viewer to decide that
I think.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But in your opinion, I.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Guess is my guess is from your perspective, you will
think that John Phillips, and of course open invite. We'd
love to have you be part of one of these
debates and be fun to hear you on there as well.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Did you notice that Corey Booker he beat strom Thurman's
record of speaking on the house floor. Yes, I mean
that's a lot. Twenty five straight hours of speaking.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Is a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I mean, yeah, I thought you could fill up a
lot of hot air. I mean that is buddy.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I also said, I noticed that when they said Corey Booker,
they said, oh, the Democrat has just beat the world
record of speaking on the House floor. They beat strom
Thurman's record. Yes, and then they didn't announce what party
strom Thurman was in.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Well strom strom Thurman, uh was? You know? It is
kind of sweet though, don't you think that strom Thurman,
who was a racist and a segregationist and whose speech
was all about how the country should continue segregation and
his record was broken by a black senator, was kind
of poetic justice?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
No, his record was broken by a fellow Democrat. How
about that?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Okayed a bit since then now, I think you're right
all right, but I do appreciate you coming on. You
are a good sport. Thank you on your night off.
You're still working on you got TMZ.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I have a friends party that I'm headed to tonight,
So I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That UFC friend. Yes, really what kind of party? A
birthday party?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah? And by the way, strom Thurman was a Republican.
I don't know what you're a.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
He was a Democrat, but he gave that speech. He
was a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
He later turned to the Republican party, but he was
a Democrat when he gave that speech that black people
and white people should separate and being separated.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Yeah, he left the Republican went to the Republican Party
in nineteen sixty four. So it's been it's been a minute.
That's even that, even before Jane fond Us sat on
the tank. Now the speech was given in sixty four.
He went to the party Republican Party after that.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
All right, buddy, look, I don't want to lose my
friendship with you over something.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I love quibbling, right, but it's just odd, all right,
It's just odd that nobody to do a channel, you know,
two four seven nine, nobody says it anything, you know,
just again, you know, again and again and again, buddy,
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You coming on, yeah, and ten thirty to night. The
issue is.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
We're all going down with the ship anyway, so it
doesn't matter, you know, we're all just you know, fiddler,
we got a fiddler on the on the deck of
the Titanic, and we're all sick. Rich that's right, alright,
thanks for coming on, man, all right, there he goes.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Alex Michaelson, Yes, Alex Michaelson, that guy's great.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
All right, things going with that dude? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
John Decker is gonna be on with us. He is
live from the Capital Center in Washington, where alex ovek
Ovechkin ovk Ovek was it Ovekin Ovechkin may break Gretzky's
record for the most amount of goals in the NHL.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
It's Conway Show. We are going to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
John Deckers with his White House correspondent for I Heart Media.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
John. How you, Bobky? Hey, hey you.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
I'm doing great, Tim, I'm athic Capitals game. And the
reason I'm here is because Alexandro Ovechkin is within two
goals of setting the all time NHL record for most
goals in a career. Really remarkable. You already got a
goal in the first periods one minutes in. Uh, he's
one goal away from tying Wayne Reretzki's all time record.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Man, the tickets to that game must have gone for
a boat load.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Oh, it's a sellout, no doubt about it. In fact,
wing Retzki is in the Capitol One Arena, as is
the NHL missioner Gary Bettman. In fact, they're coming up
to the press box in a short while to talk
to the media, but the crowd was just so excited.
Everybody here wants to see O Bets can get the
record this.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Evening, right, will he tie it with the next goal?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
With the next goal? And we are now an intermission
between the first and second period, so two more periods
just to tie. Hopefully we'll get a hat trick and
set the record this evening. That would set this arena
on fire.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Who's Washington Plain tonight?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
They're playing the Chicago Black Ows, one of the worst
teams in the league this season. So it's a one
one tie after the first period, and I think, you know, look,
the Capitals have one of the best teams that they
are fielding on ice this season, and I think that
they feel really good about their chances in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You know, I'm glad he's playing. They're playing Chicago. You know,
Chicago has two great players and then like eighteen homeless guys.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
Well, they've got a great up and comer name Connor Bdard.
Exciting to watch. But aside from that, it's it's really
rebuilding for the Chicago black Ops. I was at the
White House the two times they won the Stanley Cup.
President Barack Obama welcome them to the White House. But
they haven't had a team like that in over a decade.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So you're going to be at the White House on
Monday when the LA Dodgers come through.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
I will Yeah. You want me to say anything to
any of the Dodgers?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Oh, that'd be great. Hey, John, what is the protocol there?
What time does does the team get there? Are they
searched by Secret Service? Is there a background search on
these guys? And how are they treated and what kind
of tour do they give?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Well, it's different for every team. And what I found
is that President Trump in particular, loves to take visitors around,
bring them into the Oval Office, make them feel well.
So I would not be surprised if they get a
personal tour of the Oval Office while they're being celebrated
at the White House.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
And then where do they all go? Do they have
a lunch form or is it McDonald's.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Again, that was something that President Trump did in his
first term in the White House. You've got a good memory.
I think it was LSU that won the NCAA National
championship in football, treated them to their favorite fast foods,
a lot of them ordering McDonald's. I don't know if
the Dodgers are going to get that kind of welcome,
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but obviously it's exciting for any time you see a
professional sports team come to the White House, that ever
be honored, and I'm sure that they're pretty excited to
be welcome by President Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
On Monday, John Decker's with US White House correspondent with iHeartMedia. John,
on a scale of one to ten, how nervous are
the people who are in the world White House with
the stock market?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
They are nervous, There's no doubt about it. I mean
two straight days of a plunging stock market. And you
know what President Trump has said, what the people that
speak on behalf of him have said to him, is
that short term pain is to be expected. But the
question is how much patience do the American people have
to see these kinds of losses that we've seen. People
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are seeing the value of their four to oh one K,
the retirement funds go down significantly, and obviously for President Trump,
it's just a difficult time, but he maintains this is
the right approach, imposing these across the board tariffs. It's
the right approach in terms of getting manufacturing back to America.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
John Decker, I know you are historians, so you probably
already know this, but the audience may not. Did the
Great Depression was partially caused by tariffs.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
I did know that, and in fact, what's been pointed
out is that America at the time of the Great
Depression had a tremendous trade surplus. And that's what President
Trump is going for, is getting a surplus given the
trade and balances that we have and with so many countries.
But just because you have a trade surplus does not
mean that your economy is booming. In fact, that drid
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the Great Depression, Sim proves that out.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, you're right, buddy. I'm gonna let you go. I know,
I know you want to enjoy the game.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I really appreciate you coming on and maybe we can
talk next week when when he breaks the record.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
Yeah. Absolutely, it might be tonight, but we'll talk really soon. Sim.
Thanks for having me. I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
John, I really appreciate all right. John Decker.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
He is the White House correspondent for iHeartMedia and he's
in the Capital the Capital One Dome tonight to watch
Alex Ovechkin maybe win and beat Gretzky's record in goal
scoring in the NHL. He needs one more goal to
tie it two to be the all time champion, the
all time goal Scorervechkin.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's how unbelievable. That's h and you know, the NHL
just sort of hates this.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Oh yeah, because Gretzy's a big fan, right, big favorite
of everybody in Pvechkin, you know, he's got that Russian
stink on him.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
In the same time, it's funny because I heard this
week that apparently there's some backlash against Gretzy Gretzky because
of his friendship or whatever with Trump.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Oh is that rock?
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, apparently there's some backlash against him right now.
Speaker 8 (34:23):
So it's kind of weird how the guy who's gonna
break his record plays for DC.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, what a wild time.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
By the way, I play, I graduated from the Capitol's Arena.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
That's where my high school graduation was. But it was
the old one.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
It was the Capital Center, Oh okay, and that was
demolished in two thousand and two. The Capitol One Center
is actually in DC.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So where you graduated. That's where the Bullets used to play. Yes,
why did they change the name of that team?
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Because it was the murder capital of the world.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I knew there was something there. Ah, I really live
on k sixty.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
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you can always hear us live on KFI Am six
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're live on Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Belly O, come on, you got your nice pants on.
Let's get to work, right, huh, don't start nice?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Alright?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Alright? Were those the pants you wore to the meeting?
These are camouflage, but these are actual pants. Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You gave me a hard time about wearing a camouflage sweatpants.
We had a really important meeting with our old program director,
and I thought Bellio had dressed up. I just looked
at her. You know, I don't stare at people's pants.
You wore nice gray pants. I'm like, hey, hey, thanks
for dressed up for the for the meeting. And she
her response was.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh, rude, it was very rude. It wasn't that rude.
I was being sincere.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No, you were not your I was you were?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, all right, time to work, all right, this is great.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
We started off and Michael Monks came in, who's with us?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
My nice to see you, buddy. Hey, it's always good
to see you on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And you said, Hey, the head of LASA has just resigned.
Do you want me to come on and talk about that,
or do you want to talk about sea lions.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, the sea lions are dead. It's not like I
played with one today, right, and I said, let's go
with LASA. I think that'll affect more the Hey, the
sea lions matter too, that's right. Sea lions are mammals
two or mammals. They are, indeed, and there's a bunch
of them sick in San Pedro. We can talk about
that later or another time. But the big news that
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just came across is that LA Homeless Services Authority CEO
Valicia Adams Kellum has announced her resignation. You are no
stranger to news about LOSS are no strangers to news
about LASA. They've been under a microscope in recent weeks
and it did look like an untenable situation for her
at that organization. The whole organization may go away by
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next year because of the LA County's decision to basically
leave the organization by next year and pull billions or
there's of millions of dollars from it, and LA is
going to be left on its own with this co
managed organization that the county and the city started together.
But Felicia Kellum's Adam, who has led that troubled homeless
agency for the past couple of years, will lead it
(02:12):
no more.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So it stands for LA Homeless Service Authority and they
are the ones in charge of taking our billions of
dollars in finding homes for homelessness.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
For a lot of programs.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes, I mean, you know, there are a lot of
cookie jars out there for homeless funding, but they are
the main provider. A lot of the county money, a
lot of the city money goes through LASA, and LASSA
pays a lot of the third party homeless services providers,
whether they're mental health organizations, drug organizations, shelters and so
that's where we've run into trouble recently is whether that
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money is accounted for properly.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Okay, now she was getting four hundred and thirty thousand
dollars a year. Well, when does her resignation take place?
Is it immediate?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It looks like it was.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
She announced it just this afternoon, and that looks like
a quite departure. The interesting thing is, just three hours
ago LASSA put out a slide show publicly for people
to look at their accomplishments over the past three years. Wow,
that's right, So they she has been there for exactly
two years. So really it's their perception of accomplishments under
her leadership. What was interesting and why I thought she
(03:19):
might be on her way out, just from simple observance,
is on Tuesday, when the La County Board of Supervisors
was meeting to vote on creating their own homeless department
and basically defunding LASA, Kellen Adams excuse me, Adams Kellum
showed up to speak and she was treated basically like
anybody else who yea. They gave her a minute to
(03:39):
start with, they gave her an extra thirty, and she
still didn't finish, and they cut her off and brushed
her aside.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, but isn't this a microcosm of what's wrong with
that agency where they're not talking to one another, where
there's one office putting together a sizzle reel on how
great we are, and two offices down the head of
the organizations resigning.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
That's exactly right. It does show that what was happening
in the waning moments of LA County and lassa's relationship
as we know it now, Because if the head of
LASA that you're about to defund is just showing up
in the gallery with the rank and file public describe
during public comment.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That's a perception issue.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
It seems like even if you're angry at the agency,
it is managed by your government. They could have given her, Hey,
we're gonna give you five minutes. Come out and say
what you gotta say, just for the public to hear
from you and for us to hear from you before
we do the vote that we know is going to
go the way that we expect it to.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Right, Okay, iHeartMedia is a private company and they couldn't
get away with that. For instance, two years ago on
December tenth, if there was a group of people putting
together a reel on how great the John and Ken
Show is, and then on December eleventh, Ken retires, that
the people putting that reel together be like, Hey, how
didn't you not know that? How did you not know that?
(04:57):
The next day Ken from the John and Ken Show
going to retire, And there'd be some you know, you
would have to respond to that, and there would be
some you know, conversations on where who dropped the ball.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I'm sure that we're going to learn more after the
hours it's always This is what we in the business
call a Friday news dump. If you are somebody in
a government agency, you're even a private business, but you've
got some bad news to share, you know, you've got
to put it out. You wait until the late afternoon,
early evening on Friday because at this point people are
clocking out of work and maybe clocking out for the
(05:27):
whole weekend. It's not as easy as it used to
be because we're still connected so much. But this is a
Friday news dump absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I think.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Also in that same vein with you know, Friday news
dump was the four billion dollars that La County has
to pay that people kids have been molested.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
They took that dump this morning though, So it was
an announcement that came out this morning and it's a
shocking amount of money and it's something that's going to
impact this county for years to come, decades for a
long time. It's four billion dollars. Now they have like
a fifty billion dollar budget. La County does, but it's
all allocated for it all has special design nations.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So there are services that are going to be depleted.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
We'll have to see they're not in the same financial
condition as the City of Los Angeles. The county is
in a better position. But this is a county that
just agreed to move forward with buying a skyscraper in
downtown Los Angeles to move the government from its current
location over into one of those empty office towers downtown.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So for people that don't know that story, I don't
know if you're following or not, but over the last
thirty years or so, seven thousand people, seven thousand kids miners,
I believe most of them came forward and said they
were molested, and a lot of them were in the
system in Los Angeles, were either.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
In the juvenile detention system, the probation department, or they
were in foster care. And like you said, about six thousand,
eight hundred of them have filed claims and at this
point the county has decided just to settle. It's not
formal yet because the Board of Supervisors has to vote
on it, but it does look like it's going that way.
The county CEO came out with a statement apologizing for
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this behavior that took place over.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The course of decades.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
This is more money than the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
spent to settle its own abuse case, then the Boy
Scouts spent to settle their abuse case. This is a
massive amount of money, and it's about a billion dollars
more than the county anticipated spending in this case.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Right, and LA was not a minor player in either
one of those the Boy Scouts or the Catholic Church scandals.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And this is the third big one in LA.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's obviously a problem that has persisted in this county
in a lot of different ways and a lot of
areas where kids are expected to be protected.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Right. Three D house of perverts is the name of law.
Say that one of the horses running this week.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think that's what Los Angeles means in English. Three
D house of child molesting perverts. It's a sad story.
And that is what the county CEO said today is that, Look,
this is sad, We're sorry, and this is what we're
going to do to make it up.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
They're not going to be writing the checks themselves. They're
basically going to give that four billion dollars to a
trust of some sort that will allocate how how much
individual victims get, and it will be paid out over
the course of a few years. But it is going
to impact the county's budget for a while.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I did some math and there there's nine point six
million people live in La County, so each of us
will have to pay four hundred and fifteen dollars for
that settlement.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Are you getting your check book out today? Every man,
woman and child. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's unbelievable. Don't know where it stops. La City is
a billion dollars in debt. We've got the you know,
you have to rebuild the Palisades, Alta Dina.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I don't know where all this money's gonna come.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
No, it's a scary situation, and this is something that
we need to sing about almost every day just so
people keep their eye on this.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm glad you're staying on top of it. I got
nothing else to do.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I don't know any of the TV stations that are
on top of it, or you know, the La Times.
You know, put something out today, but I don't remember
them following it for years.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It was months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I was saying in the newsroom, I don't know why
this is in front page news every day, every natural situation.
Because I was seeing it and I was asking questions
and talking to the controller and coming on these shows
and talking about No, I don't think you understand the
city is running out of money.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And by the way, for people who don't know Monks,
he's from Kentucky and you're not some kind of mega
far right lunatic. You know, you're a guy who's pretty
middle of the road. You know, a centrist, and you
understand that this is not the way to run the.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It is The Conway Show, all right, A little bit
about where we are in California before we get into
some fun stuff. California is facing a significant financial challenge,
a crisis including a substantial budget deficit and growing debt,
with estimates suggesting listen to this.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
In twenty twenty four twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Five fiscal year, the state of California will be seventy
three billion dollars in debt, seventy three billion dollars short
of the money we need for the services the basic
services in California seventy three billion dollars short of where
we need to be seventy four billion, seventy three billion dollars. Okay,
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that's seventy three billion dollars. During COVID, thirty billion dollars
was stolen from the unemployment department. Thirty billion dollars was stolen.
Nobody got fired, nobody resigned, nobody got suspended, and nobody
got it talking to thirty billion dollars. If I cost
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this company three thousand dollars over something stupid I did,
I would either have to pay it, or I'd hear
about it, or they would fire me. If I went
out and you know, we did a remote, I got
drunk and I started breaking up the restaurant. If I
and the restaurant's like, hey, f you you know his
three grand Conway came out with his whole crew, him Krozier,
(11:00):
were drunk and they busted up the place. Yeah, yours
three thousand dollars. This company would be pissed. And that's
three thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So we're seventy three billion dollars in debt as a state,
thirty billion dollars in unemployment gone stolen, twenty five billion
dollars for homelessness that is unaccounted for, two billion dollars
in the city of La that they are not quite
sure where it went over the last five years for homelessness,
four billion dollars over the lawsuit with these sixty eight
(11:35):
hundred kids that got molested, one billion dollars in debt
for the for La city, and one hundred and thirty
billion dollars spent on high speed rail that will never
be completed. It started thirty billion, now it's at one
(11:55):
hundred and thirty billion. It's one hundred billion dollars over budget,
and nobody cares. I guess we all sort of care,
but we just go home. You make your rice, ernie,
you watch your TV, you go to work the next
day because you don't feel like there's anything you can
really do about it, and then you get frustrated over it.
(12:17):
Maybe you're pissed right now listening to this.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like, oh, I can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Ah, I got to.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Do something about it. And then you realize we're all
going down together. It's the Titanic. Now, on that Titanic,
you can either be singing and playing banjo with the
Irish guys on deck, or you can be scrambling trying
to get into a lifeboat that is not there anymore.
(12:41):
Because the lifeboats are gone, says might as well has
some fun. You know, you can't do anything about it.
I'm going to add this up. I'm going to add
up all the money that I just I told you
about and see where we are debt wise. Okay, we
have one hundred and thirty billion dollars in high speed rail,
plus you've got five billion dollars with the lawsuit and
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the City of la in debt. Then homelessness twenty seven
billion dollars plus twenty seven. Then you got thirty billion
dollars in the unemployment department that went missing, and then
you have seventy three Okay, let's add this up. Seventy
three billion plus thirty plus twenty seven plus twenty seven
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billion plus.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
One thirty five one thirty five.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Okay, we're two hundred and sixty five billion dollars has
either been stolen, missing, or or were over budget. Two
hundred and sixty five two hundred and sixty five billion
dollars a quarter of a trillion dollars. One quarter of
a trillion dollars in the state of California has either
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been stolen, unaccounted for, or has been wasted, or has
been has gone out in lawsuits. Two hundred and sixty
five billion dollars. Okay, well, let's say the let me
see two hundred and sixty five billion dollars, there's million,
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there's billion, and then divide it by the forty million
people that live in the state of California. And if
every single one of us, every one of us, every man,
every woman, every child, had to pay off this debt
that I just told you about to be six thousand,
six hundred dollars per person, you would have to come
up everybody would have to come up with six thousand,
(14:37):
six hundred dollars per person. That incredible level of mismanagement
is going to stay in office. Chances are a Democrat
will win again in Sacramento, in San Francisco, in Los Angeles,
probably in San Diego and all the you know, all
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the important offices that the control of the budget will
remain in one party. And so guess what the two
hundred and sixty five billion dollars in five years we
will hope it's just still to sixty five. It'll probably
closer to five hundred. There's two hundred and sixty five
billion dollars that's either unaccounted for, has been stolen or
(15:24):
has gone out in lawsuits two hundred and sixty five
billion dollars. How did we get here? And what do
we do about it? Do we all just go down?
You know, smoking weed, partying, going to movies. Okay, watching
TV the bed.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I guess sounds good.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I mean, what else are we going to do? We
can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We might as well enjoy ourselves, you know, get out Saniita,
watch the Sanita Derby.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I say that's the way to go. I say that's
the way to go.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Look, California is melting and we're all going down with it.
So let's all have fun while we're doing it. All right,
Let's have a blast. Let's start eating more, Let's start
going to more fast food, Let's start drinking more. I
don't know, maybe more gummies is the answer. Maybe if
you blow a weed, you know, my buy an extra
(16:16):
scoop they sultant scoops or ounces scoops. Get us up
a scoop of weed. God, almighty, what a state? What
a state we lived in?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
All right, we're live.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Welcome back and talk to Alex Michael sin See what's
going on that dude?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty every Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We have our good friend Alex Michael sin On and man,
he spent a lot of time with Jane Fond over
the last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Let's talk to him. Alex. Hi, you bob ing dog
with you? Dig dog with you? Man? A lot of
time with Jane Fonda.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Hun we did. Yeah, Yeah, that was that was a
really interesting show we did a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That's great. Man, What do you get out of that?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I mean, does she seem like a nice person, cares
about you? Was she sort of mean to you?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
She was a nice person. She seemed to care about me.
I think she cares about the issues that she's in
front of her, and I think she believes strongly in
what she is talking about. I know that you and
several people probably disagree with her on a lot of issues,
but I do think that she acts in good faith
and that she really deeply believes in what she's talking
(17:32):
about and believes also in the power of activism and
getting involved in standing up for what you believe in.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Okay, I think if if you had you know, if
she was here right now in front of us. I
think we'd agree on more things that we disagree on.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yeah, she's an impressive person, and I know many you
and several of your listeners probably disagree with the way
she handled things in Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
She admitted.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Okay, she's a long times with how she handled things
in Vietnam, and it says it's the biggest regret of
her life and wishes that she would have done things differently.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, she was young and and she made a bad move.
What was that forty years ago? I think even more
fifty years ago? Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, you're right. It's
actually probably closer to sixty years ago.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
How old is she is? She in her eighties?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
She is eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wow, she looks great for eighty seven.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
She looks great for any age.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean she looks like she's in her you know,
late seventies. Yep, that's a compliment. Yeah, shaved seventeen years
off of her.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What the what's on there? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Look, we've just gone through these numbers. I'd like your
opinion on this, Okay, Okay. There was thirty billion dollars
stolen from the Unemployment Department during COVID there's twenty five
billion dollars in homeless money from Sacramento that we don't
know what happened to. Right, two billion dollars, I'm sorry.
There's four billion dollars in a lawsuit that came out
(18:58):
today that sixty eight hundred kids were molested, and there's
a four billion dollars settlement. La City is a billion
dollars in debt. Sure, there's two billion dollars in La
City's homeless that were that's sort of unaccounted for. We
don't really know where it went. And one hundred and
thirty billion dollars in high speed rail that has gotten
(19:19):
us nothing. That's two hundred and sixty five billion dollars
that was either stolen, mismanaged, or given out in lawsuits
in the state of California. And we're as a state,
we're seventy three billion dollars in the red.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
And we're spending seven billion dollars in health insurance for
undocumented people who aren't even citizens.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
With all that happening, Okay, where does this all end?
That's well, that's almost like a trillion dollars.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
It seems like that's a good argument for a political
show that's going to ask some of these people what's
going on. So hopefully the next governor of California is
going to take that issue serious. And that's part of
what we get into this week on the issue is
with Javier Bessera, who is running for governor, former ag
former Health and Human Services secretary, and I started by
(20:11):
asking him. He says, you know, California's unaffordable, And I said,
whose fault is that Democrats have run this state at
every level for decades? Don't you guys own this? And
then I asked over and over again, what specific policy
will you change to stop some of this? And there
(20:32):
was not a real policy. He kept saying that we've
got to scrub the system and find places to fix it,
but there wasn't a specific answer. And I think that
that is an important responsibility that myself and that members
of the writers have is to is to bring up
(20:52):
all the things that you just said over and over
again and try to get these people to acknowledge the
problem and then start talking abouts and then if voters
don't think there is a good solution, then give voters
an option to go a different direction.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Right, But javierar Butsara, isn't he just another insider.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
He did not make a compelling argument for how he
would break up the status quo.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, and I.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Don't know that.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Look, we're two hundred and sixty five billion dollars in
money that's gone, plus seven billion dollars in healthcare that
you brought up, and you're exactly right, so we're now
at two hundred and seventy two billion dollars. I'm not
sure Kamala Harris is the answer.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Well, we don't know what her solution would be because
we haven't heard from her. We don't even know that
she's running for governor. But it seems to be that
we need a radically different approach than the status quo. Yes,
because what you're talking about is a whole lot of money,
and I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Care what party it's coming from. We'd need a new
a new direction in.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
This state, right and I And and that may end
up coming from the Democratic Party. I mean, there may
be a lane for a centrist Democrat who is willing
to take on the party and try to tackle some
of these issues in a creative way. And maybe that's
the kind of person that could get elected.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't know. Okay, but let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And I respect the work you do, all right, thank you,
and but there are very few of you. I mean,
these these these issues, uh, these money issues are ignored
by a lot of people in TV news and a
lot of people in radio news.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Yes, well, it's complicated, and I think it's easier for
people to ignore the issues. But I think that there
is starting to be a bit of a tide turning,
not only in the way that the media handles some
of these issues, but in the way that voters see them,
and even among I think a lot of moderate Democrats frankly,
(22:56):
are frustrated by the way that people in their own
party have handle these issues, and they're starting to demand
something else.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And we'll see, by the way, if that happens.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
But then again, there's a lot of you know, moderate
Republicans who are really frustrated with this idea of the
tariffs that are coming down with Donald Trump that at
least in the short term are really going to hurt
the US economy and make things harder for people. Maybe
long term it'll be good, may in the short term
it's really going to hurt people and make stuff more expensive,
and that really frustrates the situation, and so honestly, that
(23:29):
may give Democrats an opening to not have to deal
with any of the issues I just mentioned. Just say
Trump is terrible, We're not him, and they may think that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That's enough, right, and then we go down even further.
I just turned on Channel eleven to see what big
issue you guys are tackling on the news tonight and
you have on the USA Hip Hop Dance Championship.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Guys on TV.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Well, I'm not there right now, so I can't answer
for that. I have the night off and I'm choosing
it to spend it with you.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
But that you could have called it or said you
couldn't make it tonight, It's okay.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I mean I'm still working on stuff and I'm on
TMZ Live tonight. We're still doing. The issue is tonight
TMZ Live at eight o'clock tonight, if you take any
time off. But uh, yeah, the the dance, you know,
if they need some love too, we need some we
need some levity. I'm sure they do. They work hard, right,
Everything you do is big jay substantive stuff on this show.
(24:24):
I'm sure if we looked at sure, if we looked
at some of the topics you've tackled. Not all of
them rise to like the level of the Financial Times.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
They're all they're all above the hip hop dance, all of.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Them all right, So what's on the issue is tonight.
I know it's a big show. You get good ratings
on the program.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah. So it's it's Javier Becerra's first interview as candidate
for governor, and you'll see some of that those that
back and forth. We also have a debate between Gloria
alright on the left and John Phillips on the right,
the radio talk show host.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, it's it's up to the viewer to decide that
I think.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But in your opinion, I.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Guess is my guess is from your perspective, you will
think that John Phillips, and of course open invite. We'd
love to have you be part of one of these
debates and be fun to hear you on there as well.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Did you notice that Corey Booker he beat strom Thurman's
record of speaking on the house floor. Yes, I mean
that's a lot. Twenty five straight hours of speaking.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Is a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I mean, yeah, I thought you could fill up a
lot of hot air. I mean that is buddy.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I also said, I noticed that when they said Corey Booker,
they said, oh, the Democrat has just beat the world
record of speaking on the House floor. They beat strom
Thurman's record. Yes, and then they didn't announce what party
strom Thurman was in.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Well strom strom Thurman, uh was? You know? It is
kind of sweet though, don't you think that strom Thurman,
who was a racist and a segregationist and whose speech
was all about how the country should continue segregation and
his record was broken by a black senator, was kind
of poetic justice?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
No, his record was broken by a fellow Democrat. How
about that?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Okayed a bit since then now, I think you're right
all right, but I do appreciate you coming on. You
are a good sport. Thank you on your night off.
You're still working on you got TMZ.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I have a friends party that I'm headed to tonight,
So I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That UFC friend. Yes, really what kind of party? A
birthday party?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah? And by the way, strom Thurman was a Republican.
I don't know what you're a.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
He was a Democrat, but he gave that speech. He
was a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
He later turned to the Republican party, but he was
a Democrat when he gave that speech that black people
and white people should separate and being separated.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Yeah, he left the Republican went to the Republican Party
in nineteen sixty four. So it's been it's been a minute.
That's even that, even before Jane fond Us sat on
the tank. Now the speech was given in sixty four.
He went to the party Republican Party after that.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
All right, buddy, look, I don't want to lose my
friendship with you over something.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I love quibbling, right, but it's just odd, all right,
It's just odd that nobody to do a channel, you know,
two four seven nine, nobody says it anything, you know,
just again, you know, again and again and again, buddy,
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You coming on, yeah, and ten thirty to night. The
issue is.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
We're all going down with the ship anyway, so it
doesn't matter, you know, we're all just you know, fiddler,
we got a fiddler on the on the deck of
the Titanic, and we're all sick. Rich that's right, alright,
thanks for coming on, man, all right, there he goes.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Alex Michaelson, Yes, Alex Michaelson, that guy's great.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
All right, things going with that dude? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
John Decker is gonna be on with us. He is
live from the Capital Center in Washington, where alex ovek
Ovechkin ovk Ovek was it Ovekin Ovechkin may break Gretzky's
record for the most amount of goals in the NHL.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
It's Conway Show. We are going to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
John Deckers with his White House correspondent for I Heart Media.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
John. How you, Bobky? Hey, hey you.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
I'm doing great, Tim, I'm athic Capitals game. And the
reason I'm here is because Alexandro Ovechkin is within two
goals of setting the all time NHL record for most
goals in a career. Really remarkable. You already got a
goal in the first periods one minutes in. Uh, he's
one goal away from tying Wayne Reretzki's all time record.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Man, the tickets to that game must have gone for
a boat load.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Oh, it's a sellout, no doubt about it. In fact,
wing Retzki is in the Capitol One Arena, as is
the NHL missioner Gary Bettman. In fact, they're coming up
to the press box in a short while to talk
to the media, but the crowd was just so excited.
Everybody here wants to see O Bets can get the
record this.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Evening, right, will he tie it with the next goal?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
With the next goal? And we are now an intermission
between the first and second period, so two more periods
just to tie. Hopefully we'll get a hat trick and
set the record this evening. That would set this arena
on fire.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Who's Washington Plain tonight?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
They're playing the Chicago Black Ows, one of the worst
teams in the league this season. So it's a one
one tie after the first period, and I think, you know, look,
the Capitals have one of the best teams that they
are fielding on ice this season, and I think that
they feel really good about their chances in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You know, I'm glad he's playing. They're playing Chicago. You know,
Chicago has two great players and then like eighteen homeless guys.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
Well, they've got a great up and comer name Connor Bdard.
Exciting to watch. But aside from that, it's it's really
rebuilding for the Chicago black Ops. I was at the
White House the two times they won the Stanley Cup.
President Barack Obama welcome them to the White House. But
they haven't had a team like that in over a decade.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So you're going to be at the White House on
Monday when the LA Dodgers come through.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
I will Yeah. You want me to say anything to
any of the Dodgers?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Oh, that'd be great. Hey, John, what is the protocol there?
What time does does the team get there? Are they
searched by Secret Service? Is there a background search on
these guys? And how are they treated and what kind
of tour do they give?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Well, it's different for every team. And what I found
is that President Trump in particular, loves to take visitors around,
bring them into the Oval Office, make them feel well.
So I would not be surprised if they get a
personal tour of the Oval Office while they're being celebrated
at the White House.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
And then where do they all go? Do they have
a lunch form or is it McDonald's.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Again, that was something that President Trump did in his
first term in the White House. You've got a good memory.
I think it was LSU that won the NCAA National
championship in football, treated them to their favorite fast foods,
a lot of them ordering McDonald's. I don't know if
the Dodgers are going to get that kind of welcome,
(31:40):
but obviously it's exciting for any time you see a
professional sports team come to the White House, that ever
be honored, and I'm sure that they're pretty excited to
be welcome by President Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
On Monday, John Decker's with US White House correspondent with iHeartMedia. John,
on a scale of one to ten, how nervous are
the people who are in the world White House with
the stock market?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
They are nervous, There's no doubt about it. I mean
two straight days of a plunging stock market. And you
know what President Trump has said, what the people that
speak on behalf of him have said to him, is
that short term pain is to be expected. But the
question is how much patience do the American people have
to see these kinds of losses that we've seen. People
(32:25):
are seeing the value of their four to oh one K,
the retirement funds go down significantly, and obviously for President Trump,
it's just a difficult time, but he maintains this is
the right approach, imposing these across the board tariffs. It's
the right approach in terms of getting manufacturing back to America.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
John Decker, I know you are historians, so you probably
already know this, but the audience may not. Did the
Great Depression was partially caused by tariffs.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
I did know that, and in fact, what's been pointed
out is that America at the time of the Great
Depression had a tremendous trade surplus. And that's what President
Trump is going for, is getting a surplus given the
trade and balances that we have and with so many countries.
But just because you have a trade surplus does not
mean that your economy is booming. In fact, that drid
(33:18):
the Great Depression, Sim proves that out.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, you're right, buddy. I'm gonna let you go. I know,
I know you want to enjoy the game.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I really appreciate you coming on and maybe we can
talk next week when when he breaks the record.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
Yeah. Absolutely, it might be tonight, but we'll talk really soon. Sim.
Thanks for having me. I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
John, I really appreciate all right. John Decker.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
He is the White House correspondent for iHeartMedia and he's
in the Capital the Capital One Dome tonight to watch
Alex Ovechkin maybe win and beat Gretzky's record in goal
scoring in the NHL. He needs one more goal to
tie it two to be the all time champion, the
all time goal Scorervechkin.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's how unbelievable. That's h and you know, the NHL
just sort of hates this.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Oh yeah, because Gretzy's a big fan, right, big favorite
of everybody in Pvechkin, you know, he's got that Russian
stink on him.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
In the same time, it's funny because I heard this
week that apparently there's some backlash against Gretzy Gretzky because
of his friendship or whatever with Trump.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Oh is that rock?
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, apparently there's some backlash against him right now.
Speaker 8 (34:23):
So it's kind of weird how the guy who's gonna
break his record plays for DC.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, what a wild time.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
By the way, I play, I graduated from the Capitol's Arena.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
That's where my high school graduation was. But it was
the old one.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
It was the Capital Center, Oh okay, and that was
demolished in two thousand and two. The Capitol One Center
is actually in DC.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So where you graduated. That's where the Bullets used to play. Yes,
why did they change the name of that team?
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Because it was the murder capital of the world.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I knew there was something there. Ah, I really live
on k sixty.
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