Hour 1 (9.8.2025)Â
Sepulveda Pass: A fatal crash involving a pedestrian shuts down several southbound 405 Freeway lanes. Meanwhile, crews were also clearing homeless encampments and brush in the Sepulveda Basin.Â
Sepulveda Pass: A fatal crash involving a pedestrian shuts down several southbound 405 Freeway lanes. Meanwhile, crews were also clearing homeless encampments and brush in the Sepulveda Basin.Â
- Supreme Court Ruling: Michael Monks discussed the Court lifting restrictions on L.A. immigration stops, which had been imposed after past sweeps mistakenly detained U.S. citizens.Â
- Light Moment: Monks joked about his old job running the register at El Pollo Loco in DTLA, sparking a quick âwhatâs your order?â conversation.Â
- Legal Action: California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit over inhumane conditions at L.A. County jails.Â
- Local Politics: A push to repeal L.A.âs $30 minimum wage for hotel workers failed to gather enough support to qualify for the ballot.Â
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's I Am six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
CAMF.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I Am six morny. It's Conway Show. Let's get right
to this. Of all of the pass something happened. I
think there was a posest that was killed.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's unfortunate, it's horrible, and now it is a nightmare
out there.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Angel.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I know you've been following this. What's the latest on this?
When did it happen?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What do you say? What do you know?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
So this happened right around one point thirty this afternoon,
and you know, I was curious to about whether or
not it was a pedestrian.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
But I do know this that there was a tow truck.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Involved and another car and something happened with the other
car and that tow truck. Some kind of an accident occurred.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And oh, it's southbound or northbound southbound right.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
On the southbound side around Scirball Center. And I believe
the driver of the not the tow truck, but the
other car is the person who perished. Now, I was
just listening to a live shot on KTLA, and their
airborne reporter said that the tow truck driver was given
a sobriety test and then taken into custody. Oh yeah,
(01:12):
so I don't I it wasn't confirmed that there was
a pedestrian, but there was definitely two cars involved.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
But isn't the minimum, you know, or maximum blood alcohol
for a tow truck driver?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Isn't that ten times what we have?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I think it's like, I think it's like eighteen percent
of your body can be alcohol when you're a tow
truck driver.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
It's the doll for the person in the world, for
the professionals, right, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right, that's right. Well, that's that's horrible. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
If that guy, Look if that guy was drunk and
they pulled and they put him in you know, cuffs, and
he works for a big company, Man, is that going
to be a lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh my gosh. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
When do they say it's going to be cleared for
people who have no art for the person that was killed,
which is almost everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
On the freeway.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So it would all depend on when they wrap up
this investigation. Now I haven't I've been seen when the
corner is out on the scene or if they've taken
the body away. But I heard from one source that
it could be eight o'clock this evening. High patrol. Yeah,
the highway Patrol also specifically said unknown duration.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So and how many lanes are open?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
One and it's the carpoolinge that's open.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Oh, bobbo, all right? Can you use it as a
single tin or do you have to have two in?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
You know what, go for it today, just you know,
go single in the carpooling today.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I live in that lane anyway. All right, let us
know if that opens up before seven?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
All right, Angel Martinez, everybody look at that. What a
horrible day on the freeways. That thing is backed up
for miles and miles and miles. Fortunately though it's southbound.
I mean if there's a silver line. If it was northbound,
that would even even worse. But that's not the only
thing going on in the Supulvta basin or on the
four or five. We also have the encampments brush being
(03:09):
cleaned in the Supulvta basin, and a lot of people
live around there definitely afraid of it catching fire and
burning your home down, because there's about seven hundred fires
for about three hundred and fifty fires a year in
the Subpulvta basin, and I look, I know that you
know they're caused by homeless guys, but I don't know
(03:30):
how homeless guys are causing so much fire.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And I don't know which came first.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Did you become homeless and then you started fires, or
did you start a lot of fires and that drew
you into homelessness.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I don't know we're able to clear out that. It's
the Army Corps of Engineers who's going to be out
here clearing this brush up for the next few weeks,
possibly even for the next few years. Because let me
put some of this into perspective for you. The Suppulvita
basin right here behind me, it's about six hundred acres.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Wow, I didn't know that's six hundred acres for people
who are not familiar with that. It's between Sepulvida and Balboa,
right along Burbank Boulevard. That's the whole Supulata Basin. From
Victory to Burbank that's your north south, and then Balboa
to Sepulvida is your east west.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And there's six hundred acres there.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
That's a lot, six hundred acres.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Look, if there's six hundred acres there let's build a stadium,
you know, let's built something for the valley. The valley
has nothing. We have no five star restaurant, we have
no museums, we have no zoo. We have no sports facility,
no racetrack. I had no big guy you know, auditorium
or world class theater.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There is no football.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Team, baseball, basketball, soccer.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The valley has two and a half million people that
live in the San Fernando Valley. And if we got
six hundred, builda Blakers out there. Let's go. Let's build
something that we all can look at. Maybe Disneyland West
can go out there. But there's nothing in the valley.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Nothing six hundred acres and it takes, according to one study,
about three weeks to clean up just one acre. So
you guys do the.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait what.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Study about three weeks to clean up just one acres?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It takes three weeks for the Army Corps of Engineers
to clean one to clear one acre. Okay, if that's
the case, then let's let them sit on the sidelines.
Go to Kerrent Valley and get a couple of farmers,
get guys who do this for a living, they'll clear
out the basin in about six hours, the entire thing.
Go get some heavy equipment, get the you know the
(05:33):
early bird, the guys that get up early the farmers.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Get them down here.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Get twenty of them, and they'll clean out the basin
in less than a week.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I guarantee you.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
That three weeks to clean up just one acre.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Three weeks for one acre.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
You guys, do the math. But take a look behind me.
You can see it's dents out here, the vegetation. There's
a lot of very dry brush. So it's really important
to get this cleared out. Now to mention the fact
that so many homeless encampments exist here and you can
see it as you drive along, excuse me, Bourbank Boulevard. Now,
clean up efforts we're supposed to start at six thirty
this morning. However, we have not seen cruise out here.
(06:09):
Take a look at this video. This is from Sky
five earlier this morning, really giving you a full scope
as far as the amount of land here that really
needs to be cleared out. We're talking about trash tents,
more than seven hundred reported fires.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
All right, let's do the math on this. All right.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Let's say if there's six hundred acres and it takes
three weeks to clear one acre. Okay, so that's eighteen
hundred weeks. Divide that by fifty two. There's fifty two
weeks in a year. That means the entire Supulvita basin
can be cleared in just a very short period of time,
(06:45):
thirty four and a half years, thirty four in a
half years. How old will you be in thirty four
in a half years. I'll be ninety five when they
clear this subulvit base Now, and look, here's the problem.
If it takes thirty four years to clear the Subulvit
basin street three weeks for one acre?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is that what they said? Three weeks for one acre?
You guys do the math. Yeah, okay, I did the math.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Then that means that once they're done cleaning the Cumulata basin,
the areas that they've already cleared thirty three years ago
will already be filled with weeds and plants and trees
and homeless So it's impossible to.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Clean it up. Impossible.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
You guys, do the math.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I did it. I did it.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So how many, like, what kind of a crew would
they have out there working on one acre.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
How many people, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Know, but three weeks I could clear I can clear
an acre in three weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I can clear an acre in three weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Give me a give me a tractor.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I can ride on from home Deep or Lows, and
I can clean that acre out in a week, maybe
maybe a.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Week and a half.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I will race you. Let's have a little competition. You
get one acre, I get one ache.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You get equipment, and we'll have a contest. I'll wipe
you out.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
That the people living in the encampments, they're essentially living
in the middle of a tinder box. So far the
city has cleared out just a few acres, but the
process must be done properly. Considering all the health hazards,
the booby traps and the thick vegetation booby traps.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
How good are homeless guys at booby traps? God? Probably
pretty thin considering.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
All the health hazards, the booby traps, booby traps, the
booby traps.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
They're going to change that term, right, booby.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Traps, the booby traps, and the thick vegetation and lack
of manpower. Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom also issued an
executive order directing cities to clean up encampments. The governor
recently also announcing he is forming a task force to
remove dangerous encampments and to provide resources to the people
living in them. Now back out here, as you can see,
(08:57):
it's really dry out here. The weather is really drying,
is really hot. So the perfect time to do this
essentially now, considering this is a very vulnerable spot, I'm
Lena beven.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Partis all right, Lena Bobian.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's never going to be fake. So if you live
in that area, you're screwed.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
You're screwed. That's it. That's a wrap on you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We're live on KFI.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
KFI AM six forty is Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We got Monks. Michael Monks is here. How you buying?
I am well, Good afternoon to you, ten Nice to
see you.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
All right, we're talking about immigration. There was another decision
that went Trump's way, Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Big, big news that came out this morning just as
I was pulling into the garage, so I knew we
were in for a long day. You may recall that
local organizations and local governments, even the county, the city
of la and other smaller cities in the region had
sued the Trump administration and won right at the district
court level and again at the appeals court level to
stop what they've called roving immigration raids, where these folks
(09:53):
were showing up at the car washes, showing up at
home depots, and that sort of thing, saying, look, these
guys are targeting Latinos based on their skin color, based
on the language they hear, and based on where they are,
if they're at a car wash, if they're hanging out
outside the home depot, that is racial profiling.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
The courts agreed.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
One court, an important one, did not agree with that
decision as of this morning, and that is the United
States Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
They said it could be part of the overall reason
why you're stopping something.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
The question has been what amounts to reasonable suspicion? Is
a Hispanic man washing a car reasonable suspicion? And the
lower courts have said, no, you can't do that. The
Supreme Court says, yes you can. I remember when it happened.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
When you know, when the State of California won that decision,
Mayor Bass said, you can go back to your job,
you can go back to you know, the streets, you
can go back to do what you're doing, and then
a lot of people got arrested doing that.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well, think about what happened in early June and in
the weeks after those initial raids that took place across
southern California, it was dead There was a curfew implemented
downtown because of some violence that took place. That also
deadened the streets a lot. But folks were expressing fear
about even going to the grocery store, going to church.
You recall the Bishop of San Bernardino said, you don't
(11:10):
have to come to the church, you can attend virtually,
and that counts for now because of how afraid people
were to leave their house. But then with these lower
court rulings, life has kind of picked back up to
what we knew before this all started. But now we
don't know what to expect except for more enforcement. You know,
the White House borders are. Tom Holman was on our
(11:32):
air earlier this afternoon with John Cobalt. He played it twice.
It was such an important pot, you know, he had
that thing scheduled before this ruling came down. So it
was just the luck of the draw that a major
story developed before Tom Holman was coming on. And Tom
Holman comes on, he says, look, we are coming to
sanctuary cities with more force. That includes Los Angeles. Here
(11:52):
is what he had to say to folks in LA.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I think the president of a couple weeks ago each one,
do you want sant Suez cities prioritized? So that's where
the problem lies, at least the biggest problem. Right where
do we send a fireman? We send firemans to the
biggest flyers, and we're going to send agents to the
biggest problem, which are sanctuary cities because we know we
have a problem. We know public safety threats leased back
into the streets every day. We don't have that problem
(12:16):
like places like Florida. Let the chief and cherish working
with us, the honorary attainers. They've worked with us on
task forces. So you know, at bottom lineage, we know
sanctuary cities are recent criminal ali So where should we
send our law enforcement officers since we're prioritizing public safety
tracks to sanctuary cities.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
So this is a sanctuary city, and this appears to
be where they're going. As you can imagine. Governor Knws,
I'm not happy about this decision. Mayor bass is also
not happy about this decision, which she says has permitted
racial profiling.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Here's what she said.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
We know that this is simply un American, but as
enraging as the news is for Minnie Angelinos and people
across the country, let me make this very clear for
the press and to our country that we will not
allow the Supreme Court or anyone to divide us.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
We will bring justice to this issue to our community.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
We will not stand for this type of discrimination and racism,
and we will not participate in these cruel, in humane tactics.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
All right, did that sound like she's going to a
higher court than the Supreme Court. There's not a higher one.
But here's something important to note. This Supreme Court ruling
was about the temporary restraining order that the lower court implemented.
There is a hearing scheduled for September twenty fourth. That
is the next phase of that original case that's still
on as far as I can tell. The consideration at
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that point would be whether to make this a permanent
restraining order. So the case is not necessarily over, yet
it does sound like it's almost over. It had to
take some wind out of their sales, knowing that the
Supreme Court felt this way about the temporary order, that
they might feel doubly so on the per minute one.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, and so if that happens, what's bass and Newsome
and bond to.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
What's their next move? There's no move on this issue.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
The Supreme Court usually gets the final word on this
sort of thing, and they had had victories at court
and that's what they had been relying on. It's been
relatively quiet, aside from some high profile enforcement actions like
the Trojan Horse event at the home depot on Westlake.
We may see within a day it's more enforcement.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It is amazing how quickly the Supreme Court they usually
acts in a nails pace. Man, they take these issues
up in an hour, and they're not even in session
right now. They did this on an emergency basis. Really wow, Okay,
are you going to stay with us?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I am? We got a couple big stories talk about next?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh excellent, okay, Monks Every Saturday seven to nine pm
right here on kfi's the Pulvta Basin is still the
Pulvita pass, I should say, is still a mess. There
was a fatal accident there on the southbound four or
five it may not be cleared up, according to Angel
Martinez until about eight o'clock night. It's gonna take you
about an hour to get through there. But as Angel said,
(15:04):
why get off the freeway and sit on SUPULVTA. You're
gonna be in traffic there as well. So you got
to find an alter alternative way. Either go to the
one ten or the one oh one and go around
it that way, maybe go through the canyons. But if
you're on the on Supulva A southbound, it's gonna take
you at least an hour to get through there.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I know it sucks. We're live on KFI Monks as Weathers.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
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Speaker 1 (15:32):
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Speaker 3 (15:35):
Let's Oak.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I like a Batman vibe with that music. That's cool,
and they that's that's Midnight Oil. Yeah, that's Monks's nickname
around here. Batman was that the Midnight Oil.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
His nickname midnight O nice so proser you can call
me Midnight.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Monks is here formerly of LPY Loco. I believe, is
that right.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I spent some time working for Apoyo logo. What did
you do? Did you cook the chicken?
Speaker 8 (16:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I have one hundred El Poyoloco questions for you.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But yeah, you know, for folks who don't know, I know,
I've told the story on the air before. But as
I moved here, I could not find a job and
the only place that would hire me was the Alpoyo
logo at Third in Broadway in downtown LA because they
needed somebody who could speak English near the market there,
the Grand Central Markett. Yeah, so I worked the register
with my fifteen years journalism experience and master's degree.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Okay, I happen to be in order. I'm a big
Eloilo good food. The very first al Poyoloko that came
to the valley was on Dickens and Sepulvida, and it
was literally about three hundred yards from where I lived.
I used to walk there and it was the and
when that chicken was introduced to Los Angeles, everybody fainted.
(16:49):
It was the greatest chicken.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
In the world. It's the citrus, yes, glaze.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Now, when you get the tortillas, do you go corn
or flour? I gotta go corn because of my condition.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
That's too bad. The flower I'm so fluffy and good.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
But I love the flower ones. I just I can't
eat them. But that chicken that they cook is spectacular.
But I got a question for you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Sure, when I go in there at ten o'clock, right
before closing, what time did that chicken go on the grill?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
We were mostly good about making sure it was fresh.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I mean that that chicken.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
In fact, you don't work there anymore, you remember that,
I know, but I may have to again. You never
know what's gonna happen in this this business, so I'm
trying to keep a good relationship with them.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I was good at it. Yeah. I love that chicken.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah, but I mean it almost makes you want to
be a vegetarian if you're that close to it. Not
because the meat is bad, but the way they just
flop those chicken corpses on the grill. It's kind of
spread eagle out, you know, and you're looking at these little.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Bastards and they salt is terrific. Oh, it's all good.
It's the best. It's good.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I won't go into the details. It is fast food,
don't forget. It's all good. But when you see how
it's made, you're kind of shocked at how easy some
of the some of the side dishes come together.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
What today, you know, what's really good is the CBR
Is that what they call it?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
This CVR burrito, the BRC BRC beans, rice and cheese BRC.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, that's right. That's the cheap, the cheap little item
that people would sometimes come in and get.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And you know, I've noticed, and again we'll get back
to this, you know, immigration and all kinds of stories
you got going on, but I noticed that since the
pandemic COVID. Whereas my father in law says COVID, I've
not seen the salsa bar, the self serve salsa bar conveyed.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't know if they brought it back to other locations.
They're not our location now, the third and Broadway location,
if folks listening have ever been there was a bit
run down, very very old and dated, and the corporate
was on their butts about you guys, are you're supposed
to contractually update this. Uh, there's a big sign outside
of it now, so we'll live down near it. There's
a big sign says new management, the new prices. So
(18:47):
I guess somebody's coming in and they're gonna renovate it
because it's a nice look. It's a nice spot, but man,
it's a kind of a rundown.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
There's chewing Burbank, there's one on the Alameda that I liked,
I lived fairly close to. And then there's a drive
through out near Igno. I love that place.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Man, there's nothing like a hot Lpoyo Loco bowl or
a burrito.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
And you can go either way, Like if you're if
you're watching what you're eating, you can get something good.
If you're ready to just smash a big feast, you
can go there too. That's what I liked about. It's
like some days you're feeling good and you're eating a
salad with some good chicken on it. The best thing
is that creamy cilantro buddy on the salad on that
little salad serve it the best. I don't know, touchdown
(19:27):
with the creamy eating salsa. I think everybody is nodding
their head. Yeah, right now. People would ask for they
would pay a lot to have extra because I don't
know what they put in it. It's the best and
I worked there, but I don't know like what they're
When I finally tasted it, my mouth is water. Yeah,
I would put it on everything.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
But they give you a meal. You know, I'd get
a meal because I worked there. Take that meal break,
and if I was having mac and cheese, I would.
I would have just a mac and cheese, two flour
tortillas and and a big cup of that creamy.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Cilantro and it would be on all you got it
going on. It was just a great day.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
So that my order is I like the chicken brass,
I get a breast in a wing tortillas, and the
side is the rice.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
They got great rice, Yeah they do. And the mashed
potatoes are good. You know.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
The chicken breast I don't. I'm not a dark meat guy,
so it's just not either. It's just breast for me. Yeah,
Americans dark man. Americans aren't dark meat. I will call ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Or when I ordered Chinese food, I ordered a Kung
poud chicken on say hey can you make it with
white meat? And some restaurants will say we don't do that.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Really.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, there's a restaurant downtown La been there for one
hundred years or so, and said, hey can I get
white meat with that coming down?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
We don't do that. And like, wow, can you can
you do it? Like, no, we're not going to do
that for you.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, it's cheaper, and that's usually the base price when
you go into like a well your Loco for example,
and let's just say seven ninety nine for whatever meal.
That's the dark meat. If you want the white, the
upgrade costs more, all.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Right, and real quickly.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I don't like the fact that they prefer you to
order on computer when you go in there.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Ours was old cool. You had to walk up and
talk to me. Okay, all right, I like that, and
that's how I learned. I'm slower on the computer. So
kids would come in and and go and and leave
frog over me because I was slow on the computer.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
No, you know, our location, we would irritate people because
our location. And I think maybe they've changed this with
the new management that they're promoting at Third and Broadway.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
We didn't even take gift cards, no help your local
gift cards.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
We were so stingy that it was embarrassing to be
working and to get chewed out and like trying to
explain to you, like we're a franchised we're not.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We don't have to we don't take EBT.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
We don't take any of this, God Almighty, Wait, you
don't take EBT down. Some locations do, okay. Cars did
not take any for a while. We stopped taking coupons. Really,
and we're the most expensive location in the entire South
Southern California region.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Right, who'd running I think, no coupon? People that aren't
running it anymore, Mighty.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I got some stories if you want me to stay
on stay okay, Sorry, talking about poop on the walls
at the jail.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Okay, let's do that, and then bond is suing over that.
Another heriff, the sheriff's departments to any county. All right,
all right, we'll come back and talk about that. But
I had to get the al Poilo go out of
the way. That's one of my favorite joints in the world. Man,
I love that place, all right, relyve it's Conway and Monks. Okay,
if I am six forty is Conway and Monks back
together again. I know you came in to talk about immigration,
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and sorry to chew up the second segment talking about
El Poyloko, but I think if you go back and
look or listen to the show and and find out
what people are interested in mostly it's aloko.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
If we put it out to just say hey, get
on the talkback since it is your order, it would
blow up.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
That's right, people. We're a fast food nation. Yeah yeah.
And you know when when you go to are you
an in and out guy? Do you like it? Announce? Yeah?
You know it's fine.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
If you go to in and Out, you will be
the fortieth car and you'll be happy you're the fortieth car.
But if you go to Burger King and you're the
third car gone, it's it's about how quickly they move.
And we've talked about this before in one of our
fast food segments. You know, the looks that are better
than the hundred no wish ones have it together. Hundred
no wish ones are absolute nightmare. Stuff's not going to
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be working. They're not going to move the line fast enough.
You're gonna get to the window, you're gonna pay, and
then they're gonna ask you to pull up. It's not
that's the kiss of death. The key to fast food
is heat. You have to have The French fries have
to be hot, the burger has to be hot, or
else why eat it? You know, it's just it's crap.
If it's not hot, that's true. And I live walking
distance to McDonald's, yet I'll get in a car and
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drive to the one that's three miles away, because I
know that food is hotter over.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
There, the same you know, wish ones have it together.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I drive by three Jack in the boxes to get
to the one in Glendale on Pacifics. I know they're
always hot talked.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
But in and out Chick fil A they're not like that.
You know that whichever one you land at, they've got
the operation in tune. That's right, and the service is
going to be just what you would expect at any
other one, and you're gonna get the food that's right.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Move even if the line is long.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
As long as you know that line is functioning and moving,
I'm okay to stand in a line. Yeah, I'm If
I'm at the slow McDonald's on Olympic, forget it, I'm
going hungry.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I was at a fast food place the other day
and I said, when I drove through, I said, hey,
can you make the French fries really hot?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You want them well done?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I said, no, just hot, And then when I got
to the first window to pay, I said Hey, can
I get those tries hot?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You got it? Got to the window cold?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Try Do you think they're talking to each other in there?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
And I said, you know, I can't do anything more
about it.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
No, And you have to be like, look, they end
up being like seventeen year old kids in there.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
What are you going to do? But see, I don't
understand how people.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I constantly see this at McDonald's Jack in the Box
Carls Junior, where you go in and there's three or
four bags of food waiting for someone to come up
with uber to take them to somebody, and they're going
to take that bag of cold food.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I can't. I've ordered door dash McDonald's before. It was
a big mistake.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
That's not follow the company in. It's the delivery guys
themselves are not equipped. You know why pizza works delivery
because there's infrastructure, The cardboard box is there and then
the other bag that you put them in. If you're
not into the delivery business for the ivvery, the delivery
is not going to be good.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Very quickly, goodness, I got some equip things to get through,
all right. The State Attorney General Rob Bonta came to
LA to day to say he's suing not Trump this time,
but Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department over the condition.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
He's also personally suing the sheriff.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah, the sheriff is named directly in this lawsuit. He
says that they need comprehensive reform of the jails. He
says that not only are the conditions bad, he says
they're inhumane, they're unconstitutional, and they're uninhabitable.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Here's part of what he said.
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Okay, filthy and unsafe facilities with broken plumbing, with infestations
of rats and roaches, and inadequate access to drinking and
bathing water that include spoil bathing water, moldy meals, little
access to basic hygiene supplies including soap and toilet paper,
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menstrual products, and unsoiled clothing, and betting, the constant confinement
in cells, and inadequate or delayed medical, dental, and mental
health care leading to preventable injuries, suffering, and yes, deaths.
When we're talking about feces smeared on the walls and
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medical care denied to those in need, we're talking about
a disrespect for the basic dignity of our fellow humans
and a boast of their most fundamental constitutional rights.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I think they would kill for some cold McDonald's fries
in those jails. Considering what he just spelled out. If
he was talking about the rich Carlton, I'd say he's
got a case. But he's talking about lock up. It's
not supposed to be great. It's not supposed to be
great necessarily. But what he's saying is that these folks
still have constitutional rights and that does not that does
not include living amongst rats and in poop covered wall case.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But do the Democrats and I'm not calling you a
Democrat or Republican, I'm just saying there's the group who
call themselves the Democrats. Do they fear that every lawsuit
that is coming out against the government, against Trump or
against the you know, the Sheriff's department in this case,
that they're always fighting for criminals.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Well, regardless, I think this Attorney General would say, yes,
these people have been arrested, they're going through the due
process phase, but there are still rights and this is
a government facility.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
But wouldn't Bond did better serve himself and the party.
If he came to La and said, look, there's a
problem in Studio City, Woodland Hills, Sherman Oaks, and Sino
with burglaries.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Let me do a B and C see if I
can tackle that may be more popular.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
There are certain populations that are more sympathetic, and people
who are charged with crimes probably do not rank highly
on that list.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
So that's but so in a way, maybe you're saying
Rob BoNT is being quite brave and coming out in
favor of saying and by the way, La County and
the city, you know, they geld suit a lot, and
this might be a way to prevent some of those
if you clean broke, yeah, before you run me off
or we get down, give you fast, Yeah, let's get
(28:10):
the hook comes out and grabs me. I also wanted
to point out that you know that the some hotel
workers and some airport workers in the city of Los
Angeles are poised to get a raise that will go
up every year until it hits thirty dollars an hour
by the time the Olympics come in twenty twenty eight.
Well group of businesses, hotels and airport businesses, they've they
wanted to get it on the ballot for next year.
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I say, let's not do this because this will completely
collapse our industry. And they turned in about one hundred
and forty thousand signatures they needed more than ninety three.
The City Cloak's office has evaluated them all and said,
you didn't make it.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No way, is that right? Only you know about full
five or six thousand short?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Oh my god, well you know what that But that's
a scam. That's like when they tried to recall the
district attorney and they had four hundred, they said only
twenty thousand were valid.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
It's a scam. It's a whole weird, long process, and
it's horrible. Let's get But why run these hotels out
of business? If they say they can't make money at
paying people thirty bucks an hour, then what.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
If they close?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
This debate at city Hall was very interesting because it
was not a unanimous vote by the city Council to
approve this, and the ones against it says the economics
aren't there, Tourism is already down. Business is already down
in LA. This is really going to hurt us. So
what happens in you know, you're saying we need these
people to be making money because they're going to be
serving the big crowds for the Olympics. Right, Well, what
happens if the big crowds from the Olympics show up
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and there aren't any hotels?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, and they're not going to give them the discountered
rate either, you know what they promised they would and
now they're not going to if this happened.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So it's a mess. You know, it's a mess. But
it's Los.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Angeles, it's a county of LA and there's never a
shortage of stories. I'm crazies and thank goodness for us
to be here to talk us about that in chicken.
We could do it every day Saturday, seven and nine pm.
You got monks, You got Monksy'll be here alive again
this Saturday, all right live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Thanks Bob.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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It's I Am six forty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
CAMF.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I Am six morny. It's Conway Show. Let's get right
to this. Of all of the pass something happened. I
think there was a posest that was killed.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's unfortunate, it's horrible, and now it is a nightmare
out there.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Angel.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I know you've been following this. What's the latest on this?
When did it happen?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What do you say? What do you know?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
So this happened right around one point thirty this afternoon,
and you know, I was curious to about whether or
not it was a pedestrian.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
But I do know this that there was a tow truck.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Involved and another car and something happened with the other
car and that tow truck. Some kind of an accident occurred.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
And oh, it's southbound or northbound southbound right.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
On the southbound side around Scirball Center. And I believe
the driver of the not the tow truck, but the
other car is the person who perished. Now, I was
just listening to a live shot on KTLA, and their
airborne reporter said that the tow truck driver was given
a sobriety test and then taken into custody. Oh yeah,
(01:12):
so I don't I it wasn't confirmed that there was
a pedestrian, but there was definitely two cars involved.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
But isn't the minimum, you know, or maximum blood alcohol
for a tow truck driver?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Isn't that ten times what we have?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I think it's like, I think it's like eighteen percent
of your body can be alcohol when you're a tow
truck driver.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
It's the doll for the person in the world, for
the professionals, right, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right, that's right. Well, that's that's horrible. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
If that guy, Look if that guy was drunk and
they pulled and they put him in you know, cuffs, and
he works for a big company, Man, is that going
to be a lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh my gosh. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
When do they say it's going to be cleared for
people who have no art for the person that was killed,
which is almost everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
On the freeway.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So it would all depend on when they wrap up
this investigation. Now I haven't I've been seen when the
corner is out on the scene or if they've taken
the body away. But I heard from one source that
it could be eight o'clock this evening. High patrol. Yeah,
the highway Patrol also specifically said unknown duration.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So and how many lanes are open?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
One and it's the carpoolinge that's open.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Oh, bobbo, all right? Can you use it as a
single tin or do you have to have two in?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
You know what, go for it today, just you know,
go single in the carpooling today.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I live in that lane anyway. All right, let us
know if that opens up before seven?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
All right, Angel Martinez, everybody look at that. What a
horrible day on the freeways. That thing is backed up
for miles and miles and miles. Fortunately though it's southbound.
I mean if there's a silver line. If it was northbound,
that would even even worse. But that's not the only
thing going on in the Supulvta basin or on the
four or five. We also have the encampments brush being
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cleaned in the Supulvta basin, and a lot of people
live around there definitely afraid of it catching fire and
burning your home down, because there's about seven hundred fires
for about three hundred and fifty fires a year in
the Subpulvta basin, and I look, I know that you
know they're caused by homeless guys, but I don't know
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how homeless guys are causing so much fire.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And I don't know which came first.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Did you become homeless and then you started fires, or
did you start a lot of fires and that drew
you into homelessness.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I don't know we're able to clear out that. It's
the Army Corps of Engineers who's going to be out
here clearing this brush up for the next few weeks,
possibly even for the next few years. Because let me
put some of this into perspective for you. The Suppulvita
basin right here behind me, it's about six hundred acres.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Wow, I didn't know that's six hundred acres for people
who are not familiar with that. It's between Sepulvida and Balboa,
right along Burbank Boulevard. That's the whole Supulata Basin. From
Victory to Burbank that's your north south, and then Balboa
to Sepulvida is your east west.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And there's six hundred acres there.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
That's a lot, six hundred acres.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Look, if there's six hundred acres there let's build a stadium,
you know, let's built something for the valley. The valley
has nothing. We have no five star restaurant, we have
no museums, we have no zoo. We have no sports facility,
no racetrack. I had no big guy you know, auditorium
or world class theater.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There is no football.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Team, baseball, basketball, soccer.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The valley has two and a half million people that
live in the San Fernando Valley. And if we got
six hundred, builda Blakers out there. Let's go. Let's build
something that we all can look at. Maybe Disneyland West
can go out there. But there's nothing in the valley.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Nothing six hundred acres and it takes, according to one study,
about three weeks to clean up just one acre. So
you guys do the.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait what.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Study about three weeks to clean up just one acres?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It takes three weeks for the Army Corps of Engineers
to clean one to clear one acre. Okay, if that's
the case, then let's let them sit on the sidelines.
Go to Kerrent Valley and get a couple of farmers,
get guys who do this for a living, they'll clear
out the basin in about six hours, the entire thing.
Go get some heavy equipment, get the you know the
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early bird, the guys that get up early the farmers.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Get them down here.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Get twenty of them, and they'll clean out the basin
in less than a week.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I guarantee you.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
That three weeks to clean up just one acre.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Three weeks for one acre.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
You guys, do the math. But take a look behind me.
You can see it's dents out here, the vegetation. There's
a lot of very dry brush. So it's really important
to get this cleared out. Now to mention the fact
that so many homeless encampments exist here and you can
see it as you drive along, excuse me, Bourbank Boulevard. Now,
clean up efforts we're supposed to start at six thirty
this morning. However, we have not seen cruise out here.
(06:09):
Take a look at this video. This is from Sky
five earlier this morning, really giving you a full scope
as far as the amount of land here that really
needs to be cleared out. We're talking about trash tents,
more than seven hundred reported fires.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
All right, let's do the math on this. All right.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Let's say if there's six hundred acres and it takes
three weeks to clear one acre. Okay, so that's eighteen
hundred weeks. Divide that by fifty two. There's fifty two
weeks in a year. That means the entire Supulvita basin
can be cleared in just a very short period of time,
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thirty four and a half years, thirty four in a
half years. How old will you be in thirty four
in a half years. I'll be ninety five when they
clear this subulvit base Now, and look, here's the problem.
If it takes thirty four years to clear the Subulvit
basin street three weeks for one acre?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is that what they said? Three weeks for one acre?
You guys do the math. Yeah, okay, I did the math.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Then that means that once they're done cleaning the Cumulata basin,
the areas that they've already cleared thirty three years ago
will already be filled with weeds and plants and trees
and homeless So it's impossible to.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Clean it up. Impossible.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
You guys, do the math.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I did it. I did it.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So how many, like, what kind of a crew would
they have out there working on one acre.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
How many people, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Know, but three weeks I could clear I can clear
an acre in three weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I can clear an acre in three weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Give me a give me a tractor.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I can ride on from home Deep or Lows, and
I can clean that acre out in a week, maybe
maybe a.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Week and a half.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I will race you. Let's have a little competition. You
get one acre, I get one ache.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You get equipment, and we'll have a contest. I'll wipe
you out.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
That the people living in the encampments, they're essentially living
in the middle of a tinder box. So far the
city has cleared out just a few acres, but the
process must be done properly. Considering all the health hazards,
the booby traps and the thick vegetation booby traps.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
How good are homeless guys at booby traps? God? Probably
pretty thin considering.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
All the health hazards, the booby traps, booby traps, the
booby traps.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
They're going to change that term, right, booby.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Traps, the booby traps, and the thick vegetation and lack
of manpower. Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom also issued an
executive order directing cities to clean up encampments. The governor
recently also announcing he is forming a task force to
remove dangerous encampments and to provide resources to the people
living in them. Now back out here, as you can see,
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it's really dry out here. The weather is really drying,
is really hot. So the perfect time to do this
essentially now, considering this is a very vulnerable spot, I'm
Lena beven.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Partis all right, Lena Bobian.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's never going to be fake. So if you live
in that area, you're screwed.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
You're screwed. That's it. That's a wrap on you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We're live on KFI.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
KFI AM six forty is Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We got Monks. Michael Monks is here. How you buying?
I am well, Good afternoon to you, ten Nice to
see you.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
All right, we're talking about immigration. There was another decision
that went Trump's way, Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Big, big news that came out this morning just as
I was pulling into the garage, so I knew we
were in for a long day. You may recall that
local organizations and local governments, even the county, the city
of la and other smaller cities in the region had
sued the Trump administration and won right at the district
court level and again at the appeals court level to
stop what they've called roving immigration raids, where these folks
(09:53):
were showing up at the car washes, showing up at
home depots, and that sort of thing, saying, look, these
guys are targeting Latinos based on their skin color, based
on the language they hear, and based on where they are,
if they're at a car wash, if they're hanging out
outside the home depot, that is racial profiling.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
The courts agreed.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
One court, an important one, did not agree with that
decision as of this morning, and that is the United
States Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
They said it could be part of the overall reason
why you're stopping something.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
The question has been what amounts to reasonable suspicion? Is
a Hispanic man washing a car reasonable suspicion? And the
lower courts have said, no, you can't do that. The
Supreme Court says, yes you can. I remember when it happened.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
When you know, when the State of California won that decision,
Mayor Bass said, you can go back to your job,
you can go back to you know, the streets, you
can go back to do what you're doing, and then
a lot of people got arrested doing that.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well, think about what happened in early June and in
the weeks after those initial raids that took place across
southern California, it was dead There was a curfew implemented
downtown because of some violence that took place. That also
deadened the streets a lot. But folks were expressing fear
about even going to the grocery store, going to church.
You recall the Bishop of San Bernardino said, you don't
(11:10):
have to come to the church, you can attend virtually,
and that counts for now because of how afraid people
were to leave their house. But then with these lower
court rulings, life has kind of picked back up to
what we knew before this all started. But now we
don't know what to expect except for more enforcement. You know,
the White House borders are. Tom Holman was on our
(11:32):
air earlier this afternoon with John Cobalt. He played it twice.
It was such an important pot, you know, he had
that thing scheduled before this ruling came down. So it
was just the luck of the draw that a major
story developed before Tom Holman was coming on. And Tom
Holman comes on, he says, look, we are coming to
sanctuary cities with more force. That includes Los Angeles. Here
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is what he had to say to folks in LA.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I think the president of a couple weeks ago each one,
do you want sant Suez cities prioritized? So that's where
the problem lies, at least the biggest problem. Right where
do we send a fireman? We send firemans to the
biggest flyers, and we're going to send agents to the
biggest problem, which are sanctuary cities because we know we
have a problem. We know public safety threats leased back
into the streets every day. We don't have that problem
(12:16):
like places like Florida. Let the chief and cherish working
with us, the honorary attainers. They've worked with us on
task forces. So you know, at bottom lineage, we know
sanctuary cities are recent criminal ali So where should we
send our law enforcement officers since we're prioritizing public safety
tracks to sanctuary cities.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
So this is a sanctuary city, and this appears to
be where they're going. As you can imagine. Governor Knws,
I'm not happy about this decision. Mayor bass is also
not happy about this decision, which she says has permitted
racial profiling.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Here's what she said.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
We know that this is simply un American, but as
enraging as the news is for Minnie Angelinos and people
across the country, let me make this very clear for
the press and to our country that we will not
allow the Supreme Court or anyone to divide us.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
We will bring justice to this issue to our community.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
We will not stand for this type of discrimination and racism,
and we will not participate in these cruel, in humane tactics.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
All right, did that sound like she's going to a
higher court than the Supreme Court. There's not a higher one.
But here's something important to note. This Supreme Court ruling
was about the temporary restraining order that the lower court implemented.
There is a hearing scheduled for September twenty fourth. That
is the next phase of that original case that's still
on as far as I can tell. The consideration at
(13:42):
that point would be whether to make this a permanent
restraining order. So the case is not necessarily over, yet
it does sound like it's almost over. It had to
take some wind out of their sales, knowing that the
Supreme Court felt this way about the temporary order, that
they might feel doubly so on the per minute one.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, and so if that happens, what's bass and Newsome
and bond to.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
What's their next move? There's no move on this issue.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
The Supreme Court usually gets the final word on this
sort of thing, and they had had victories at court
and that's what they had been relying on. It's been
relatively quiet, aside from some high profile enforcement actions like
the Trojan Horse event at the home depot on Westlake.
We may see within a day it's more enforcement.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It is amazing how quickly the Supreme Court they usually
acts in a nails pace. Man, they take these issues
up in an hour, and they're not even in session
right now. They did this on an emergency basis. Really wow, Okay,
are you going to stay with us?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I am? We got a couple big stories talk about next?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh excellent, okay, Monks Every Saturday seven to nine pm
right here on kfi's the Pulvta Basin is still the
Pulvita pass, I should say, is still a mess. There
was a fatal accident there on the southbound four or
five it may not be cleared up, according to Angel
Martinez until about eight o'clock night. It's gonna take you
about an hour to get through there. But as Angel said,
(15:04):
why get off the freeway and sit on SUPULVTA. You're
gonna be in traffic there as well. So you got
to find an alter alternative way. Either go to the
one ten or the one oh one and go around
it that way, maybe go through the canyons. But if
you're on the on Supulva A southbound, it's gonna take
you at least an hour to get through there.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I know it sucks. We're live on KFI Monks as Weathers.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
KFI AM sixty's Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Let's Oak.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I like a Batman vibe with that music. That's cool,
and they that's that's Midnight Oil. Yeah, that's Monks's nickname
around here. Batman was that the Midnight Oil.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
His nickname midnight O nice so proser you can call
me Midnight.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Monks is here formerly of LPY Loco. I believe, is
that right.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I spent some time working for Apoyo logo. What did
you do? Did you cook the chicken?
Speaker 8 (16:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I have one hundred El Poyoloco questions for you.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But yeah, you know, for folks who don't know, I know,
I've told the story on the air before. But as
I moved here, I could not find a job and
the only place that would hire me was the Alpoyo
logo at Third in Broadway in downtown LA because they
needed somebody who could speak English near the market there,
the Grand Central Markett. Yeah, so I worked the register
with my fifteen years journalism experience and master's degree.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Okay, I happen to be in order. I'm a big
Eloilo good food. The very first al Poyoloko that came
to the valley was on Dickens and Sepulvida, and it
was literally about three hundred yards from where I lived.
I used to walk there and it was the and
when that chicken was introduced to Los Angeles, everybody fainted.
(16:49):
It was the greatest chicken.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
In the world. It's the citrus, yes, glaze.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Now, when you get the tortillas, do you go corn
or flour? I gotta go corn because of my condition.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
That's too bad. The flower I'm so fluffy and good.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
But I love the flower ones. I just I can't
eat them. But that chicken that they cook is spectacular.
But I got a question for you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Sure, when I go in there at ten o'clock, right
before closing, what time did that chicken go on the grill?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
We were mostly good about making sure it was fresh.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I mean that that chicken.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
In fact, you don't work there anymore, you remember that,
I know, but I may have to again. You never
know what's gonna happen in this this business, so I'm
trying to keep a good relationship with them.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I was good at it. Yeah. I love that chicken.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah, but I mean it almost makes you want to
be a vegetarian if you're that close to it. Not
because the meat is bad, but the way they just
flop those chicken corpses on the grill. It's kind of
spread eagle out, you know, and you're looking at these little.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Bastards and they salt is terrific. Oh, it's all good.
It's the best. It's good.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I won't go into the details. It is fast food,
don't forget. It's all good. But when you see how
it's made, you're kind of shocked at how easy some
of the some of the side dishes come together.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
What today, you know, what's really good is the CBR
Is that what they call it?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
This CVR burrito, the BRC BRC beans, rice and cheese BRC.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, that's right. That's the cheap, the cheap little item
that people would sometimes come in and get.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And you know, I've noticed, and again we'll get back
to this, you know, immigration and all kinds of stories
you got going on, but I noticed that since the
pandemic COVID. Whereas my father in law says COVID, I've
not seen the salsa bar, the self serve salsa bar conveyed.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't know if they brought it back to other locations.
They're not our location now, the third and Broadway location,
if folks listening have ever been there was a bit
run down, very very old and dated, and the corporate
was on their butts about you guys, are you're supposed
to contractually update this. Uh, there's a big sign outside
of it now, so we'll live down near it. There's
a big sign says new management, the new prices. So
(18:47):
I guess somebody's coming in and they're gonna renovate it
because it's a nice look. It's a nice spot, but man,
it's a kind of a rundown.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
There's chewing Burbank, there's one on the Alameda that I liked,
I lived fairly close to. And then there's a drive
through out near Igno. I love that place.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Man, there's nothing like a hot Lpoyo Loco bowl or
a burrito.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
And you can go either way, Like if you're if
you're watching what you're eating, you can get something good.
If you're ready to just smash a big feast, you
can go there too. That's what I liked about. It's
like some days you're feeling good and you're eating a
salad with some good chicken on it. The best thing
is that creamy cilantro buddy on the salad on that
little salad serve it the best. I don't know, touchdown
(19:27):
with the creamy eating salsa. I think everybody is nodding
their head. Yeah, right now. People would ask for they
would pay a lot to have extra because I don't
know what they put in it. It's the best and
I worked there, but I don't know like what they're
When I finally tasted it, my mouth is water. Yeah,
I would put it on everything.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
But they give you a meal. You know, I'd get
a meal because I worked there. Take that meal break,
and if I was having mac and cheese, I would.
I would have just a mac and cheese, two flour
tortillas and and a big cup of that creamy.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Cilantro and it would be on all you got it
going on. It was just a great day.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
So that my order is I like the chicken brass,
I get a breast in a wing tortillas, and the
side is the rice.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
They got great rice, Yeah they do. And the mashed
potatoes are good. You know.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
The chicken breast I don't. I'm not a dark meat guy,
so it's just not either. It's just breast for me. Yeah,
Americans dark man. Americans aren't dark meat. I will call ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Or when I ordered Chinese food, I ordered a Kung
poud chicken on say hey can you make it with
white meat? And some restaurants will say we don't do that.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Really.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, there's a restaurant downtown La been there for one
hundred years or so, and said, hey can I get
white meat with that coming down?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
We don't do that. And like, wow, can you can
you do it? Like, no, we're not going to do
that for you.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, it's cheaper, and that's usually the base price when
you go into like a well your Loco for example,
and let's just say seven ninety nine for whatever meal.
That's the dark meat. If you want the white, the
upgrade costs more, all.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Right, and real quickly.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I don't like the fact that they prefer you to
order on computer when you go in there.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Ours was old cool. You had to walk up and
talk to me. Okay, all right, I like that, and
that's how I learned. I'm slower on the computer. So
kids would come in and and go and and leave
frog over me because I was slow on the computer.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
No, you know, our location, we would irritate people because
our location. And I think maybe they've changed this with
the new management that they're promoting at Third and Broadway.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
We didn't even take gift cards, no help your local
gift cards.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
We were so stingy that it was embarrassing to be
working and to get chewed out and like trying to
explain to you, like we're a franchised we're not.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We don't have to we don't take EBT.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
We don't take any of this, God Almighty, Wait, you
don't take EBT down. Some locations do, okay. Cars did
not take any for a while. We stopped taking coupons. Really,
and we're the most expensive location in the entire South
Southern California region.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Right, who'd running I think, no coupon? People that aren't
running it anymore, Mighty.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I got some stories if you want me to stay
on stay okay, Sorry, talking about poop on the walls
at the jail.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Okay, let's do that, and then bond is suing over that.
Another heriff, the sheriff's departments to any county. All right,
all right, we'll come back and talk about that. But
I had to get the al Poilo go out of
the way. That's one of my favorite joints in the world. Man,
I love that place, all right, relyve it's Conway and Monks. Okay,
if I am six forty is Conway and Monks back
together again. I know you came in to talk about immigration,
(22:18):
and sorry to chew up the second segment talking about
El Poyloko, but I think if you go back and
look or listen to the show and and find out
what people are interested in mostly it's aloko.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
If we put it out to just say hey, get
on the talkback since it is your order, it would
blow up.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
That's right, people. We're a fast food nation. Yeah yeah.
And you know when when you go to are you
an in and out guy? Do you like it? Announce? Yeah?
You know it's fine.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
If you go to in and Out, you will be
the fortieth car and you'll be happy you're the fortieth car.
But if you go to Burger King and you're the
third car gone, it's it's about how quickly they move.
And we've talked about this before in one of our
fast food segments. You know, the looks that are better
than the hundred no wish ones have it together. Hundred
no wish ones are absolute nightmare. Stuff's not going to
(23:06):
be working. They're not going to move the line fast enough.
You're gonna get to the window, you're gonna pay, and
then they're gonna ask you to pull up. It's not
that's the kiss of death. The key to fast food
is heat. You have to have The French fries have
to be hot, the burger has to be hot, or
else why eat it? You know, it's just it's crap.
If it's not hot, that's true. And I live walking
distance to McDonald's, yet I'll get in a car and
(23:26):
drive to the one that's three miles away, because I
know that food is hotter over.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
There, the same you know, wish ones have it together.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I drive by three Jack in the boxes to get
to the one in Glendale on Pacifics. I know they're
always hot talked.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
But in and out Chick fil A they're not like that.
You know that whichever one you land at, they've got
the operation in tune. That's right, and the service is
going to be just what you would expect at any
other one, and you're gonna get the food that's right.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Move even if the line is long.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
As long as you know that line is functioning and moving,
I'm okay to stand in a line. Yeah, I'm If
I'm at the slow McDonald's on Olympic, forget it, I'm
going hungry.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I was at a fast food place the other day
and I said, when I drove through, I said, hey,
can you make the French fries really hot?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You want them well done?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I said, no, just hot, And then when I got
to the first window to pay, I said Hey, can
I get those tries hot?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You got it? Got to the window cold?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Try Do you think they're talking to each other in there?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
And I said, you know, I can't do anything more
about it.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
No, And you have to be like, look, they end
up being like seventeen year old kids in there.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
What are you going to do? But see, I don't
understand how people.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I constantly see this at McDonald's Jack in the Box
Carls Junior, where you go in and there's three or
four bags of food waiting for someone to come up
with uber to take them to somebody, and they're going
to take that bag of cold food.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I can't. I've ordered door dash McDonald's before. It was
a big mistake.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
That's not follow the company in. It's the delivery guys
themselves are not equipped. You know why pizza works delivery
because there's infrastructure, The cardboard box is there and then
the other bag that you put them in. If you're
not into the delivery business for the ivvery, the delivery
is not going to be good.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Very quickly, goodness, I got some equip things to get through,
all right. The State Attorney General Rob Bonta came to
LA to day to say he's suing not Trump this time,
but Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department over the condition.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
He's also personally suing the sheriff.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah, the sheriff is named directly in this lawsuit. He
says that they need comprehensive reform of the jails. He
says that not only are the conditions bad, he says
they're inhumane, they're unconstitutional, and they're uninhabitable.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Here's part of what he said.
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Okay, filthy and unsafe facilities with broken plumbing, with infestations
of rats and roaches, and inadequate access to drinking and
bathing water that include spoil bathing water, moldy meals, little
access to basic hygiene supplies including soap and toilet paper,
(25:55):
menstrual products, and unsoiled clothing, and betting, the constant confinement
in cells, and inadequate or delayed medical, dental, and mental
health care leading to preventable injuries, suffering, and yes, deaths.
When we're talking about feces smeared on the walls and
(26:18):
medical care denied to those in need, we're talking about
a disrespect for the basic dignity of our fellow humans
and a boast of their most fundamental constitutional rights.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I think they would kill for some cold McDonald's fries
in those jails. Considering what he just spelled out. If
he was talking about the rich Carlton, I'd say he's
got a case. But he's talking about lock up. It's
not supposed to be great. It's not supposed to be
great necessarily. But what he's saying is that these folks
still have constitutional rights and that does not that does
not include living amongst rats and in poop covered wall case.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But do the Democrats and I'm not calling you a
Democrat or Republican, I'm just saying there's the group who
call themselves the Democrats. Do they fear that every lawsuit
that is coming out against the government, against Trump or
against the you know, the Sheriff's department in this case,
that they're always fighting for criminals.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Well, regardless, I think this Attorney General would say, yes,
these people have been arrested, they're going through the due
process phase, but there are still rights and this is
a government facility.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
But wouldn't Bond did better serve himself and the party.
If he came to La and said, look, there's a
problem in Studio City, Woodland Hills, Sherman Oaks, and Sino
with burglaries.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Let me do a B and C see if I
can tackle that may be more popular.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
There are certain populations that are more sympathetic, and people
who are charged with crimes probably do not rank highly
on that list.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
So that's but so in a way, maybe you're saying
Rob BoNT is being quite brave and coming out in
favor of saying and by the way, La County and
the city, you know, they geld suit a lot, and
this might be a way to prevent some of those
if you clean broke, yeah, before you run me off
or we get down, give you fast, Yeah, let's get
(28:10):
the hook comes out and grabs me. I also wanted
to point out that you know that the some hotel
workers and some airport workers in the city of Los
Angeles are poised to get a raise that will go
up every year until it hits thirty dollars an hour
by the time the Olympics come in twenty twenty eight.
Well group of businesses, hotels and airport businesses, they've they
wanted to get it on the ballot for next year.
(28:31):
I say, let's not do this because this will completely
collapse our industry. And they turned in about one hundred
and forty thousand signatures they needed more than ninety three.
The City Cloak's office has evaluated them all and said,
you didn't make it.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No way, is that right? Only you know about full
five or six thousand short?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Oh my god, well you know what that But that's
a scam. That's like when they tried to recall the
district attorney and they had four hundred, they said only
twenty thousand were valid.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
It's a scam. It's a whole weird, long process, and
it's horrible. Let's get But why run these hotels out
of business? If they say they can't make money at
paying people thirty bucks an hour, then what.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
If they close?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
This debate at city Hall was very interesting because it
was not a unanimous vote by the city Council to
approve this, and the ones against it says the economics
aren't there, Tourism is already down. Business is already down
in LA. This is really going to hurt us. So
what happens in you know, you're saying we need these
people to be making money because they're going to be
serving the big crowds for the Olympics. Right, Well, what
happens if the big crowds from the Olympics show up
(29:34):
and there aren't any hotels?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, and they're not going to give them the discountered
rate either, you know what they promised they would and
now they're not going to if this happened.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So it's a mess. You know, it's a mess. But
it's Los.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Angeles, it's a county of LA and there's never a
shortage of stories. I'm crazies and thank goodness for us
to be here to talk us about that in chicken.
We could do it every day Saturday, seven and nine pm.
You got monks, You got Monksy'll be here alive again
this Saturday, all right live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Thanks Bob.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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