July 1, 2025 • 32 mins
You got Monks’ed - Tim opens the show with Michael Monks discussing his now-trending display-model couch story, which has a new ending twist, and then they discuss the ongoing tension between the Justice Department and the leadership of Los Angeles, namely, Mayor Karen Bass. // Tim gives an update on the Inland Empire fires which seem to thankfully be dissipating. And then Conway moves on to discuss some sad changes happening in Santa Monica, including the famous Nordstrom store closing. // California Gubernatorial candidate, Stephen Cloobeck joins the show to talk about his campaign and vision for Los Angeles. // Conway shifts to discussing dating apps and warns listeners to be careful of the scams going on – people are losing their life savings – and Tim questions what goes in the con process that someone would send money to a stranger they’ve never met. Tim plays a news clip of a tragic story about a mother who went on a date and wound-up dead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps KFI AM six.
It is The Conway Show. Ding Dog Bello's just walked in.
We got to giveaway today. Huh oh that's great. Okay,
what time were we gonna do that? You know, let's
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do it at six six o'clock. A big giveaway. Huge.
It's a beautiful sea crane radio. I'm looking at it
right now. Oh, that looks beautiful. We are into July July.
I know, it seems like yesterday that the fires were
raging in Altadena, in Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, parts of Arcadia, Pasadena.
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I think I said Alta Dina, all the Dinas. And
it's been six months on July seventh, So what is it, fourth, fifth, sixth,
and Monday will be six months Monday, yeah, because it
was on January seventh, February, March, April, May, June, July. Yeah,
six months, and we are already here. Before we get
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into monks, maybe I'll involve you this because this drives
me crazy. I'm drinking a water out of a plastic
bottle and it said and I keep reading that there's
microplastics that are going to wipe me out. Microplastics are
going to ruin me. Microplastics are going to get my
system and kill me. And I'm thinking to myself, these
are the same people that say you can't throw a
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plastic bottle into a landfill because it's going to take
ten thousand years for it to disappear. Ten thousand years
in the landfill. But I'm getting the plastic and my
lungs and my system just drinking out of it.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Get out of here. Think of all the things you've
done in your life. That's all of the substances you
have ingested.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That plastic won't touch it. I am half plastic, you know.
George Carlin had great Ronnie said, you know, plastic comes
from the ground. Maybe the Earth wanted plastic, you know,
maybe you put us here to create plastic.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That's possible.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Monks, what's going on, buddy? I very pop. I saw
the ratings on your Saturday show. It's through the roof. Yeah, huge, unbelievable.
They're looking at the afternoon drive slot.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
For me, is that.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, they're they're actually no, no, but they're you're number one.
Oh all right, Yeah, the management didn't tell you. Oh
I appreciate you telling me though.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh well they should have told you that. I saw
the ratings. You were number one. You flatter me. Yeah,
that is great if seriously, that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You know, to go from you know, just starting eight
weeks ago or ten weeks ago, whatever you started to
number one is a big deal. Hey, I you know,
let's let's keep it going. Yeah, what are we working
on today? What do you got to have out of everybody?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, you know it's you started me there. I didn't
know management was talking to you. You never know how
one of those talks end up. That's right, and it's
existently right. Yeah, let me tell you this. You may
be aware that there's some immigration stuff going on, right
I saw that it's heating up. We talked about it
yesterday because the DOJ filed this lawsuit against the city. Well,
the mayor came out today and she says, we're gonna fight.
(03:05):
We're gonna fight. Oh good, okay, and I'm gon Let
you hear a little bit of what she said today.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I personally won't be intimidated by these tactics. We will
not be intimidated.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
By these tactics.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I will always protect Angelinos against the unwarranted and cruel
actions of this administration. The lawsuit is an attempt to
overturn the will of the city, calling for a halt
to long standing policy to protect immigrant Angelinos. We know
that Los Angeles is the test case, and we will
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stand strong. And we do so because the people snatched
off city streets and chase through parking lots are our coworkers,
our neighbors, our family members, and they are Angelinos. Our
city remains committed to standing up for our constitutional rights
and the rights of our residents. We will defend our
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ordinance and continue to de been policies that reflect the
long standing values of our city.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So the mayor has said she wants Ice out of
Los Angeles and that she cannot. The Department of Homeland
Security said today in a tweet responding to the mayor statement,
that if the mayor wants to create some distance between
her and federal law enforcement, perhaps she could take another
diplomatic trip to Ghana. And that is an actual response
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real federal government. So they're getting Caddy, but they're also
getting a little suey because this is a thing that
could go to court. The city Council met today. They
are also responding to this lawsuit. They're ready to fight
over it. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is
meeting right now, right this minute, as this show broadcast
from coast to coast, and they are preparing for legal action.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
They don't know what that is yet.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
They're any legal action they can take against the federal
government and its immigration enforcement going on here. Other thing
that happened to day, it was a very busy day
on the immigration front here in Los Angeles. LAPD Chief
Jim McDonald, who's getting it from all sides at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
They have their weekly LAPD Commission meeting and he has
to go there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Usually they just talk about stats, and these are some
of the high profile things that happened this week. Sure,
but people seem to be uncertain or untrusting of what
LAPD's role is here. Regardless of where you stand on
the issue of illegal immigration. If you want to see
illegal immigrants supported, you want to know why the LAPED
is not getting more involved. What is the sanctuary policy
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doing to stop them from getting involved. But if you
want to uphold the sanctuary city policy, you want to
know why laped is showing up at these immigration enforcement
efforts and holding back protesters and all of that. He says, Look,
our position is, we are hands off in the enforcement
of the federal law. We do not turn over people
unless special circumstances. We do not ask people their status
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for the last fifty years. It's been a long time.
But if there is action taken, and one someone calls
the police, or two things are getting rowdy, we're going
to show up because it's our job to keep the peace.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
They have to.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, I things have changed in the last week or so.
I can't look at you without thinking about that eight
hundred dollars couch you bought. That's a great couch, but
it was a floor model. It was a floor I
wish I was with you. Yeah, we posted it on
Instagram today because I've been hit. I've been hitting the
whole talk show circuit talking about this bargain of a couch.
(06:31):
Everyone's so sick of me in this couch. I would
have talked to you out of the couch. You would
have Monks bought a five thousand dollars couch for eight
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But six hundred dollars it was twenty percent off? Why
off the clearance price? Do you have any idea how
long it had been on the floor? They said two
and a half years.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Buddy, two weeks is a lifetime and on the floor,
I know, but two and a half look years.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It was in the Macy's and Arcadia.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I think traffic has been down at the Macy's for
a while, you know, unfortunately I'm a Macy's fan, right,
But you know.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That how many guys have sat on that couch while
their wife went into cook wear or makeup or you know, shoes?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Probably a lot. Yeah, I've probably been on your couch.
I have steamed their essence away. And I'll tell you
the couch is still. It's sturdy as new, okay, very comfortable.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's huge. It's a massive couch.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Did you when you were walking out with it, did
you look back to see if they were laughing.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I begged this guy to tell me the truth about
this couch. I told him I was a journalist and
I would find out if you were screwing me if
there was a body, because it made no sense. But
what color is it? It's olive green? Oh that's nice, Okay,
it looks great. It's gorgeous in my loft. I'm going
to buy curtains this weekend to go, you know, to
go with it. It's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I think that couch deserves its own Facebook page. Look,
everyone's talk talking about it.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I didn't go there to buy the couch. That I
guessed a miracle. I saw it. How do you pass
off a deal like that? It was a pain to move.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
That is a pain.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
That's a great mall. That Arcadie most beautiful. Yeah, it
was great. Two things. One.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I don't know if you know this, but Corey Perry
has been traded to the La King. I'm happy for him.
And Corey Perry has been in five of the last
six Stanley Cup finals with different teams and has lost
every single one of them. There is not a more
hated player in the NHL than Corey Perry amongst Kings fans.
So here's what I'm asking Ice to do. Please leave
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the guys at the car wash and the hotels and
the home depot alone. Please pick up Corey Perry and
take him the Canadian to Canada.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Please.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You will have so many fans, so many Hispanic, white, black,
Asian Kings fans on your side. If you just pick
him up and take him back to Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
That's how you want to welcome him to the city.
That's right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
This is what I mean when I tell people La
doesn't need you, La doesn't want you, even care about
you at all.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
This flatiques loves Cory Perry.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh, because you were probably a well you're a Orange
County he played in Orange County for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Angel. I'm stunned by what you just said.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I love his Shenanigans.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Come on, yes, I have never met a person. Well,
you're not a Kings fan. How about that?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
I the Kings are my favorite team. What are you
talking about it?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So you're thrilled with Corey Perry coming to the Kings.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I think it'll be interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh I have I have lost If you see Corey
Perry out, If you see Corey Perry while you're out
doing your your rounds, I know you like to run
around Little Week and you go to home depot the track,
you do your thing. If you see him, will you
ask him if he needs a couch? Because I got
another one I need to.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Get rid of. Oh you get you haven't got rid
of the old one.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I did.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Actually, I got a great story about it. We'll share
that another time. I want to share it Saturday on Saturday. Okay,
this Saturday. What time seven eight thirty? What time seven
to nine?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I'm gonna put it in.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'll give you a hint. I threw it in the
in the trash room. A homeless guy tied it to
his bike.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Thirty minutes later, a neighbor was hauling it up the
steps because he bought it from the homeless.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
How much did he pay?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You got it? I got as.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, that was in the first I was uncomfortable with
the whole thing. I was glad it ended up in.
It was a good shape. It was time for new
It was in good shape. It was my first big
boy couch.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It was It was the chase. I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It was a three piece thing, but it was a chase.
And this guy got the chase tied to a bike.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I know we have to go to a break, but
real quickly, buddy, you live in a building, yeah, where
people are buying couches from homeless people. This is a
nice looking chase, buddy, Do you think I was crazy
for buying the floor model. I understand you're you think
this guy's crazier for buying a chase off a bike
in downtown, but only in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is that kind of magic happened? Oh my god, Cory
Perry's gonna love it.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Here.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It is wild, downtown wild down there all right, seven
to nine pm. The number one show in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I need to see that on you. You got to
go go look at it. It's right there on the
on the ratings.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
We still have some fires burning, and I'll tell you
about them. It's not as bad as it was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The guys and gals are getting a little bit of
a break.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The Wolf fire is at twenty four hundred and thirteen acres,
which is almost exactly what it was yesterday. And that's
off south of the ten Freeway and east of the
seventy nine Freeway. You know, that's like the the Banning area.
You're on your way to Morongo, you'll pass it, you'll
see that. And then we have the Jupiter Jupiter fire,
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and what do they call Unipero uniper juniper. I think
that's a different place, seven hundred and fifty five and
a half acres, and that again was about the same
size yesterday. The one that's burning up near Lake Arrowhead
and Silverwood Lake, that's called the Lake Fire. Coincidentally enough,
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that's at four hundred and eighty five acres. And then
we have the Cable fire at nineteen acres and that's
just off the two ten two fifteen freeway near a DeVore,
So that looks like we've out covered it. The Mindy
fire is further south and that one's at one hundred
and nine acres, but that's way out where very very
(12:28):
few people live. And then there's a small vegetation fire
that doesn't seem to be that radical off the five
Freeway south of San Clementy.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Those are your local fires, and if anything changes, we
will have that for you immediately immediately. And you know,
we hope that this is not the start of a
crazy fire season. I think we've had enough with fire.
We've had the two huge fires on January and I
don't know how much warm we can take, but those
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fires really flipped everybody out, and rightfully so now whenever
there's a fire, everybody is conscious about how they could
wipe out an entire community. And when we saw that
on January seventh, it was unbelievable. Something we've never seen
before here in southern California, never seen fires like that before.
All right on other news here locally, this is not
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a good sign for Santa Monica. I like Santa Monica.
It's gotten a little lood out of control over the
last five ten years where they allow anybody to do
anything on the streets. A lot of homeless, some crime,
a lot of crime in the area, and the cops
try to, you know, keep a lid on it, but
it's tough. When there's that many people, you know, walking around,
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sleeping on the ground and sleeping in the parks, you're
gonna have some mischief makers. So they tried to revamp
Third Street promenade. You know, because in when I was
growing up, everyone would go to Westwood on Friday and
Saturday night. That was the hang Everybody in the valley
would drive over and go to Westwood and walk around.
There was thousands or tens of thousands of people on
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the street every Friday night, every Saturday night. There were
some great restaurants there and just you know, you just
walk around and meet people and you know, you'd run
into friends, you run into you did meet some new people,
and it was just a great place to go and
you know and meet people from the opposite sex or
the same sex or whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It was just a cool hang And then what happened.
Somebody got shot and killed and that was the end
of Westwood. That was the end of kids going to Westwood.
No longer would mom and dad let you go to
Westwood because that shooting and that killing was over. Was
all over the news, all over the TV, all of
the radio, and that was the beginning of the end
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of Westwood.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So that ended.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And that's one of the reasons why when you go
into a club, I don't know if you're in you know,
go into clubbing or not. Belly was into it, but
I'm she's the only one on the show that still
does it. The reason why they pat you down and
you go through metal detectors is because one person gets shot,
one person gets killed, and that wipes out the club.
People don't go back to the club. It happens all
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the time. That's why bouncers are there to try to
keep people alive, because as soon as somebody gets shot
and killed, that's usually the end of the club. Well,
so you know, you have to have that kind of security.
But as soon as some bad things start happen, people move.
And guess who's moving out of Santa Monica. Nordstrums. Nord
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Strums is moving out of Santa Monica. That's not a
good look for people in Santa Monica at all.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
For the last fifteen years, this Nordstorm on two twenty
Broadway has been greeting locals and tourists, people in the
community calling it an anchor of Santa Monica place.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I come here on anchor is leaving? How long? Twenty years?
For the last fifteen years, right, fifteen years?
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Come here, eye shop, I buy things.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
The three Level store that's been a very simple woman.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
I come here and I shop. I buy things.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, you deulled up on that too, you know, come
here and shop is kind of indicating that you also.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Pick some things up.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
I come here and I shop.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's all you need to say.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
I come here and I shop. I buy things.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The three Level store that's been here since twenty ten
is shutting its stores next month. The retailer announced the
closure on Monday.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
I'm very annoyed, frustrated, disappointed.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Those also mean the same thing.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
I'm very annoyed, frustrated, disappointed.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
This woman doubles and triples up on everything she says,
and Matt okay, all.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Four of those being the same. She had to add
that I'm.
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Very annoyed, frustrated, disappointed.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
And matt ah okay, the trifecta with a singleton at
the end.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
I don't want them to leave.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
Back where I'm from in Texas, a lot of department
sources are closing due to just less people come in.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
In a statement from a Nordstrom spokesperson to NBC four reads,
in part, we believe will be best able to serve
customers in the area by leveraging our surrounding stores and
through our digital channels. Decisions like this are never easy,
and we understand the impact they have on our team members.
We are committed to taking care of our employees through
this transition.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It's not a good look. It's I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
It is not a good look when you live in
an area and Nordstrom says, screw it, we're moving out.
That is the beginning of the end for a lot
of communities you got. I mean, I'm surprised and shocked
that they didn't bribe or really work out a deal
where Nordstrom could stay, because it is not a good
sign for a city when you got a big anchor
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like that taken off watch. I'm not look I wish
they stayed. I love Santa Monica, but whoever's running the
place is not paying enough attention. They should never allow
that to happen.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The next governor of the State of California is on
with a Stephen Kluebeck.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
How are you, Bob?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I am great. How are you today?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm doing excellent.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Stephen Klubek is a self made millionaire entrepreneur and he's
running for governor of the state of California. Man, I
don't I know you're you know you're you're you live
in southern California, You're you know you breathe the same
air we all do. I can't remember a time where
it's been There's been so much turmoil for so long,
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starting with the fires on January seventh.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Then the floods.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Uh, then you know, a series of earthquakes that we had,
and then going right into the riots. It doesn't seem
like we ever get a break.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Well, it's like the coming, right, it's time for a change.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's right, Yes, it is time for a change.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I think, Hey, so when you talk about change, what
is the first thing when when you step into and
again we haven't had the vote yet, so you haven't
you know, won yet. But if you do become governor
in the state of California, what's the one thing that
can change all of our lives for the better?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You know in the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Well, well, first of all, I'm not compromised. For the
other folks that are running today are compromised and their
qualification as well, we wouldn't be in the position we're in.
So fortunately I do have the experience. First, it's affordability.
I would pause, as govern Newsom did good thing he
did Los Angeles for the Palisades and the Eaton area,
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pause SEQUA all the regulations SEQUA Wildlife Species Act and
the Coastal Commission, and force the legislature to come up
with prudent legislation that could take us into the next
decade so allow people to build again, which will reduce
the costs. Nothing will be weaponized, and we'll be back
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to the days of the late eighties where we could
get planning approvals quick and efficiently, okay, and we'll be
able to turbo charge our great economy through affordability. And
then we also have to take a look at you know,
the federal government thankfully has clashed the CAA Romanete two,
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the Clean Air Act roman At two, that mandate on evs.
But there should be no mandates, you know. We should
be able to buy what we want, right and if
people want to use petroleum cars, then they shall. And
we're going to worry about gas prices. Gas prices are
not being checked right down. We've got too many regulations
to him in our state over thirty three hundred and
eighty thousand, wow, because we yeah, it's out of control,
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and regulations are good to keep bad actors out, but
we need good business to be allowed to do good business.
And the other thing I figured out, we're going to
go find the money that was lost during COVID, the
ed D fraud, the workers comp fraud, and the COVID funds.
That's like thirty thirty billion dollars. And how about all
this homeless money we can't account for in world, we
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account for every dollar, so that's like forty five billion dollars.
I'm gonna put a bounty to all of us in
California of ten percent. Find the money. That's four point
five billion dollars I'm willing to give away, to give
away to the great customers of California, and we're going
to collect our money because it's our money, not their money, right.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I mean, just just in the city of Los Angeles,
there's two and a half to four billion dollars that's missing.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It was for homeless people. We should go find that
as well.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
That's one hundred percent and that's recent. I mean, we
can't continue to have these leaders that can't account for
our money. It's not their money. Okay, period enough.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Right, But it does seem like a lot of the NGOs,
you know that the money gets funneled into a lot
of these NGOs, you know, these non.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Bill none yeah, non governmental organizations. No, that's gonna stop,
but that's it seems like.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
A complete ripoff every single time every die that goes
into those NGOs.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It just disappears.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Well, because I'm going to have a department of Performance
and Results in the State of California called the California
Department of Performance and Results, otherwise known as CPR, which
we desperately need. And we're going to approve every one
of these charities, every one of them. Every one of them.
We're going to look at their dollars and they're not
going to get certified and be allowed to do business
in our great state, our country of California.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That's great, take it and.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Take advantage of philanthropist nor our tax dollar. It's our
tax dollar.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
A buddy, Look, I know that you're you know that
you might be governor one day, But is there any
way to do this immediately? Is there any way that
you can undo the Corey Perry La Kings trade.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I can do a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
I can do a lot of things. Can do that.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I can't believe it. The most hated guy in the
history of the Kings is now a king. That's unbelievable.
Remember real sure, yeah, absolute, one hundred percent. Remember remember
these old goalies, they never wore masks.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
They went out there well and they and they had
no teeth. And you remember the King's colors. The King's colors.
We're purple purple.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, yeah, exactly like the Lakers. Buddy. I appreciate you
coming on.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Please come back with us as you get closer and
closer to Sacramento.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Thank you. We'll get there soon, and you know what,
I can take the keys tomorrow. I'm ready to drive,
ready to.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Drive and tell people how they get to you know,
support you on the website and everything.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Well, go to California get a clue dot com, California
get a clue dot com. That's c l o O
dot com. Stephen Jklubec for governor. But you can also
go to my podcast, Stephen J. Kluebeck podcast on iHeartRadio
and all the apps YouTube. Got a lot of great
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guests and you'll hear about how I think and my
California values. Because you know, Tim, I know the assignment
and I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Ready to excellent. But I appreciate you coming on. Thanks
to We'll talk again.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Hey, take care, You're the best.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Sorry Stephen Klubeck. He's running for governor of the state
of California. N boy, need some mine, need some A
quick action here in the state. It is followed apart.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyl from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You know, there's a lot of people dating on dating apps. Millions,
if not billions of people are on the dating apps,
and you've got to be careful. There are a lot
of scammers out there. It's not just scamming for money anymore.
People are being killed. And so if you're if you're
on it, maybe your kids are on it. You got
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to be careful. You know, people are losing millions of dollars.
People are losing life savings. I don't know how that works.
Every time I hear a story of, you know, somebody
who has sent another guy who they've never met in
person their life savings, I always wonder how that is possible.
(25:03):
You know, I've never been there before, so I don't know,
you know, the desperation that they have, or maybe these
guys are great at you know, convincing them to you know,
obviously great at convincing them to send money. But man,
oh man, it happens all the time. So, uh, here's
a great story on what you can do. I know
they're putting in facial recognition because twenty five up to
(25:27):
twenty five percent of new profiles on these dating apps
are created to scam people. So you got to really
really be careful and let your mom or dad know.
You know, maybe mom or dad is newly singled. You know,
maybe somebody had passed away and they're into dating now
and they want to go on the dating apps because
(25:47):
they're not going to meet anybody at the local grocery store.
You got to tell mom or dad to be extremely careful.
This could cost them their life savings and could cost
them their life. This is a listen to the story.
Speaker 12 (25:59):
I never thought that this could happen to our family.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
When Kewie Gow's widowed mother, Laura Kohole, went on match
dot com, she eventually was scammed out of a million
and a half dollars.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
How about that? A million and a half dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But that's not the worst of it, that's not I mean,
if that was the worst thing had happened, she learns
a lesson, She tries to recover. Maybe she has some
more money, she can move in with her daughter or
her son, or find a friend somebody to help her out.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
But that's not the worst of it.
Speaker 13 (26:29):
Laura's life would end at fifty seven. Her body found
in the Mississippi River.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
She also was killed, whether she killed herself or whether
somebody killed her. They're still looking into that. But this
is really very serious. Nobody talks about this.
Speaker 12 (26:44):
We are constantly chasing our tales.
Speaker 13 (26:47):
David Parrish is the sheriff in Lewis County, Missouri, where
Laura's body was discovered.
Speaker 12 (26:52):
Online romance scams are a scourge. We deal with it
every other week.
Speaker 13 (26:59):
But like law enforcement in small towns across America, Sheriff
Parish says he doesn't have the resources to fully investigate
these online scam cases, even when our body watches as shure, we.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Are always behind the eight ball on this always.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
But it's not just Sheriff Parish who's frustrated.
Speaker 12 (27:19):
It's a substantial problem, and it's one that's rapidly accelerating.
Speaker 13 (27:23):
Aaron raw the Justice Department official in Washington overseeing romance
scam cases, says his main challenge is that the scammers
are far away. The FBI has participated in operations in
the West African nations of Nigeria and god.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
We were shown video of scammers using artificial intelligence enhanced
video technology, and so it appeared to the victim in
the United States that they were speaking to another American citizen.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
Chilling as you're described.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Okay, so it appears that they're talking to somebody who
is in America, and in reality, it's an a. It's
artificial intelligence. It's not a person at all. And the
person fell for it. This woman fell for it.
Speaker 13 (28:06):
Chilling as you're describing at us.
Speaker 12 (28:07):
It is chilling, and it also makes it challenging for
law enforcement to intervene.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
But perhaps this former scammer who agreed to speak to
us from the West African country of Ghana, offers the
best approach to fighting this crime.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
You cannot do that without an online detail site.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
You need those online dating platforms.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Definitely, Definitely.
Speaker 13 (28:27):
A twenty nineteen Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleged it, between
twenty thirteen and twenty eighteen, as many as twenty five
to thirty percent of match dot com members who register
each day we're using match dot com to perpetrate scams.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Okay, that's worth repeating. This is how many people are
involved in this. Listen to the percentages.
Speaker 13 (28:48):
As many as twenty twenty five percent of Match dot
com members who register each day one out of every four.
We're using match dot com to perpetrate scams.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And you know what, if it didn't work, it wouldn't exist.
It does work, and you could make hundreds of thousands
of dollars scamming people.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
On these sites.
Speaker 13 (29:08):
In a statement, Match Group told us we believe the
FTC allegations.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Have no merit.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
Jim Max out from CBS News. After six months of
asking for an interview, we finally approached Bernard Kim, the
CEO of match Group, which operates at least a dozen
dating platforms, including hinge Okay, Cupid, and Tinder. Are those
the three big ones, including hinge Okay, Cupid, and Tinder?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Those the ones you use?
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Stuffush?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Those are the main ones? Are you on Tinder?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
There's also bumbole is pretty big, bulbost pretty big?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Did they really rattle off your lips on belly one?
Really know every one of them?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boo boom Hey one
of this I might meet up with this guy boom
boom boom.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Boom boom boll you recommend them? Wait, which one do
you use? Stuffus?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Tinder and bumbletoo, is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:02):
And what do you do?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You put up a profile and then you just wait
to get your bobber moves.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I wouldn't say it that way, but yeah, oh you wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, it's it's like fishing. Well yeah, I guess, yeah,
you wait to get a bite. I wouldn't say bobber
you ever been you've been fishing?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You haven't use a bobber no, I know, but I
just wouldn't put it that way when it comes to this, okay,
including how about a lure that sounds better?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Okay? Sink including hinge?
Speaker 13 (30:37):
Okay, Cupid and Tinder. We've talked to cameras in Africa,
by the.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Way, is it free to join?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
And then what do you where do they make the
money advertising?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I see? Okay?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
But then you can, if you want, you can pay
to like boost your account to make it available to
more people, more visible, yet more visible. A lot of
times you can't like respond, Like if somebody sends you
a message, you can't respond unless you pay, unless you pay,
unless you remember exactly I see, okay? And then how
often do you check it to see if anyone is
(31:12):
knocked on your door. Well, the door has been pretty quiet,
so I've kind of left it alone. Yeah, but one
of most listeners finds Fushie attractive.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
Wait wait, wait what one of Moo's listeners has a
crush on the fush Is that right?
Speaker 13 (31:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Wow, Yeah that happened.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Where have you?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Have you pursued it? No, because I don't I don't
know the information. They just said it on our live chat.
Oh I see it.
Speaker 13 (31:43):
Yeah, Okay, We've talked to cameras in Africa.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
They say there's no issue.
Speaker 13 (31:48):
There's no problem setting up fake profiles.
Speaker 11 (31:50):
I mean, if people looked at our community standards are guidelines,
We've reshifted the way that we've addressed people that can
come into our platforms. We're working really really hard every
single day to make sure that people aren't.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I don't really blame the guys who own, you know,
the the apps and the and those dating sites. I
think people are just really really lonely, you know, with
the with after COVID, we're all locked in for a
long time, and nobody gets out anymore. We text friends,
we don't call them anymore, and nobody goes out and
really does anything. And I think people are really desperate
(32:26):
for that kind of contact and and you know, and
it costs them sometimes their life savings been doing them.
So be careful, especially if mom or dad is getting
into these you know, these websites. You want to have
a chat with them, You want them to you know,
blow all your inheritance. All right, We're live on KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
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Speaker 1 (32:47):
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It is The Conway Show. Ding Dog Bello's just walked in.
We got to giveaway today. Huh oh that's great. Okay,
what time were we gonna do that? You know, let's
(00:23):
do it at six six o'clock. A big giveaway. Huge.
It's a beautiful sea crane radio. I'm looking at it
right now. Oh, that looks beautiful. We are into July July.
I know, it seems like yesterday that the fires were
raging in Altadena, in Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, parts of Arcadia, Pasadena.
(00:46):
I think I said Alta Dina, all the Dinas. And
it's been six months on July seventh, So what is it, fourth, fifth, sixth,
and Monday will be six months Monday, yeah, because it
was on January seventh, February, March, April, May, June, July. Yeah,
six months, and we are already here. Before we get
(01:09):
into monks, maybe I'll involve you this because this drives
me crazy. I'm drinking a water out of a plastic
bottle and it said and I keep reading that there's
microplastics that are going to wipe me out. Microplastics are
going to ruin me. Microplastics are going to get my
system and kill me. And I'm thinking to myself, these
are the same people that say you can't throw a
(01:32):
plastic bottle into a landfill because it's going to take
ten thousand years for it to disappear. Ten thousand years
in the landfill. But I'm getting the plastic and my
lungs and my system just drinking out of it.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Get out of here. Think of all the things you've
done in your life. That's all of the substances you
have ingested.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That plastic won't touch it. I am half plastic, you know.
George Carlin had great Ronnie said, you know, plastic comes
from the ground. Maybe the Earth wanted plastic, you know,
maybe you put us here to create plastic.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That's possible.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Monks, what's going on, buddy? I very pop. I saw
the ratings on your Saturday show. It's through the roof. Yeah, huge, unbelievable.
They're looking at the afternoon drive slot.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
For me, is that.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, they're they're actually no, no, but they're you're number one.
Oh all right, Yeah, the management didn't tell you. Oh
I appreciate you telling me though.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh well they should have told you that. I saw
the ratings. You were number one. You flatter me. Yeah,
that is great if seriously, that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You know, to go from you know, just starting eight
weeks ago or ten weeks ago, whatever you started to
number one is a big deal. Hey, I you know,
let's let's keep it going. Yeah, what are we working
on today? What do you got to have out of everybody?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, you know it's you started me there. I didn't
know management was talking to you. You never know how
one of those talks end up. That's right, and it's
existently right. Yeah, let me tell you this. You may
be aware that there's some immigration stuff going on, right
I saw that it's heating up. We talked about it
yesterday because the DOJ filed this lawsuit against the city. Well,
the mayor came out today and she says, we're gonna fight.
(03:05):
We're gonna fight. Oh good, okay, and I'm gon Let
you hear a little bit of what she said today.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I personally won't be intimidated by these tactics. We will
not be intimidated.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
By these tactics.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I will always protect Angelinos against the unwarranted and cruel
actions of this administration. The lawsuit is an attempt to
overturn the will of the city, calling for a halt
to long standing policy to protect immigrant Angelinos. We know
that Los Angeles is the test case, and we will
(03:37):
stand strong. And we do so because the people snatched
off city streets and chase through parking lots are our coworkers,
our neighbors, our family members, and they are Angelinos. Our
city remains committed to standing up for our constitutional rights
and the rights of our residents. We will defend our
(03:58):
ordinance and continue to de been policies that reflect the
long standing values of our city.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So the mayor has said she wants Ice out of
Los Angeles and that she cannot. The Department of Homeland
Security said today in a tweet responding to the mayor statement,
that if the mayor wants to create some distance between
her and federal law enforcement, perhaps she could take another
diplomatic trip to Ghana. And that is an actual response
(04:27):
real federal government. So they're getting Caddy, but they're also
getting a little suey because this is a thing that
could go to court. The city Council met today. They
are also responding to this lawsuit. They're ready to fight
over it. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is
meeting right now, right this minute, as this show broadcast
from coast to coast, and they are preparing for legal action.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
They don't know what that is yet.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
They're any legal action they can take against the federal
government and its immigration enforcement going on here. Other thing
that happened to day, it was a very busy day
on the immigration front here in Los Angeles. LAPD Chief
Jim McDonald, who's getting it from all sides at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
They have their weekly LAPD Commission meeting and he has
to go there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Usually they just talk about stats, and these are some
of the high profile things that happened this week. Sure,
but people seem to be uncertain or untrusting of what
LAPD's role is here. Regardless of where you stand on
the issue of illegal immigration. If you want to see
illegal immigrants supported, you want to know why the LAPED
is not getting more involved. What is the sanctuary policy
(05:33):
doing to stop them from getting involved. But if you
want to uphold the sanctuary city policy, you want to
know why laped is showing up at these immigration enforcement
efforts and holding back protesters and all of that. He says, Look,
our position is, we are hands off in the enforcement
of the federal law. We do not turn over people
unless special circumstances. We do not ask people their status
(05:56):
for the last fifty years. It's been a long time.
But if there is action taken, and one someone calls
the police, or two things are getting rowdy, we're going
to show up because it's our job to keep the peace.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
They have to.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, I things have changed in the last week or so.
I can't look at you without thinking about that eight
hundred dollars couch you bought. That's a great couch, but
it was a floor model. It was a floor I
wish I was with you. Yeah, we posted it on
Instagram today because I've been hit. I've been hitting the
whole talk show circuit talking about this bargain of a couch.
(06:31):
Everyone's so sick of me in this couch. I would
have talked to you out of the couch. You would
have Monks bought a five thousand dollars couch for eight
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But six hundred dollars it was twenty percent off? Why
off the clearance price? Do you have any idea how
long it had been on the floor? They said two
and a half years.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Buddy, two weeks is a lifetime and on the floor,
I know, but two and a half look years.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It was in the Macy's and Arcadia.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I think traffic has been down at the Macy's for
a while, you know, unfortunately I'm a Macy's fan, right,
But you know.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That how many guys have sat on that couch while
their wife went into cook wear or makeup or you know, shoes?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Probably a lot. Yeah, I've probably been on your couch.
I have steamed their essence away. And I'll tell you
the couch is still. It's sturdy as new, okay, very comfortable.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's huge. It's a massive couch.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Did you when you were walking out with it, did
you look back to see if they were laughing.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I begged this guy to tell me the truth about
this couch. I told him I was a journalist and
I would find out if you were screwing me if
there was a body, because it made no sense. But
what color is it? It's olive green? Oh that's nice, Okay,
it looks great. It's gorgeous in my loft. I'm going
to buy curtains this weekend to go, you know, to
go with it. It's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I think that couch deserves its own Facebook page. Look,
everyone's talk talking about it.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I didn't go there to buy the couch. That I
guessed a miracle. I saw it. How do you pass
off a deal like that? It was a pain to move.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
That is a pain.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
That's a great mall. That Arcadie most beautiful. Yeah, it
was great. Two things. One.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I don't know if you know this, but Corey Perry
has been traded to the La King. I'm happy for him.
And Corey Perry has been in five of the last
six Stanley Cup finals with different teams and has lost
every single one of them. There is not a more
hated player in the NHL than Corey Perry amongst Kings fans.
So here's what I'm asking Ice to do. Please leave
(08:36):
the guys at the car wash and the hotels and
the home depot alone. Please pick up Corey Perry and
take him the Canadian to Canada.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Please.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You will have so many fans, so many Hispanic, white, black,
Asian Kings fans on your side. If you just pick
him up and take him back to Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
That's how you want to welcome him to the city.
That's right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
This is what I mean when I tell people La
doesn't need you, La doesn't want you, even care about
you at all.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
This flatiques loves Cory Perry.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh, because you were probably a well you're a Orange
County he played in Orange County for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Angel. I'm stunned by what you just said.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I love his Shenanigans.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Come on, yes, I have never met a person. Well,
you're not a Kings fan. How about that?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
I the Kings are my favorite team. What are you
talking about it?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So you're thrilled with Corey Perry coming to the Kings.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I think it'll be interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh I have I have lost If you see Corey
Perry out, If you see Corey Perry while you're out
doing your your rounds, I know you like to run
around Little Week and you go to home depot the track,
you do your thing. If you see him, will you
ask him if he needs a couch? Because I got
another one I need to.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Get rid of. Oh you get you haven't got rid
of the old one.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I did.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Actually, I got a great story about it. We'll share
that another time. I want to share it Saturday on Saturday. Okay,
this Saturday. What time seven eight thirty? What time seven
to nine?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I'm gonna put it in.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'll give you a hint. I threw it in the
in the trash room. A homeless guy tied it to
his bike.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Thirty minutes later, a neighbor was hauling it up the
steps because he bought it from the homeless.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
How much did he pay?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You got it? I got as.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, that was in the first I was uncomfortable with
the whole thing. I was glad it ended up in.
It was a good shape. It was time for new
It was in good shape. It was my first big
boy couch.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It was It was the chase. I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It was a three piece thing, but it was a chase.
And this guy got the chase tied to a bike.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I know we have to go to a break, but
real quickly, buddy, you live in a building, yeah, where
people are buying couches from homeless people. This is a
nice looking chase, buddy, Do you think I was crazy
for buying the floor model. I understand you're you think
this guy's crazier for buying a chase off a bike
in downtown, but only in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is that kind of magic happened? Oh my god, Cory
Perry's gonna love it.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Here.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It is wild, downtown wild down there all right, seven
to nine pm. The number one show in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I need to see that on you. You got to
go go look at it. It's right there on the
on the ratings.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
We still have some fires burning, and I'll tell you
about them. It's not as bad as it was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The guys and gals are getting a little bit of
a break.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The Wolf fire is at twenty four hundred and thirteen acres,
which is almost exactly what it was yesterday. And that's
off south of the ten Freeway and east of the
seventy nine Freeway. You know, that's like the the Banning area.
You're on your way to Morongo, you'll pass it, you'll
see that. And then we have the Jupiter Jupiter fire,
(11:44):
and what do they call Unipero uniper juniper. I think
that's a different place, seven hundred and fifty five and
a half acres, and that again was about the same
size yesterday. The one that's burning up near Lake Arrowhead
and Silverwood Lake, that's called the Lake Fire. Coincidentally enough,
(12:07):
that's at four hundred and eighty five acres. And then
we have the Cable fire at nineteen acres and that's
just off the two ten two fifteen freeway near a DeVore,
So that looks like we've out covered it. The Mindy
fire is further south and that one's at one hundred
and nine acres, but that's way out where very very
(12:28):
few people live. And then there's a small vegetation fire
that doesn't seem to be that radical off the five
Freeway south of San Clementy.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Those are your local fires, and if anything changes, we
will have that for you immediately immediately. And you know,
we hope that this is not the start of a
crazy fire season. I think we've had enough with fire.
We've had the two huge fires on January and I
don't know how much warm we can take, but those
(13:02):
fires really flipped everybody out, and rightfully so now whenever
there's a fire, everybody is conscious about how they could
wipe out an entire community. And when we saw that
on January seventh, it was unbelievable. Something we've never seen
before here in southern California, never seen fires like that before.
All right on other news here locally, this is not
(13:26):
a good sign for Santa Monica. I like Santa Monica.
It's gotten a little lood out of control over the
last five ten years where they allow anybody to do
anything on the streets. A lot of homeless, some crime,
a lot of crime in the area, and the cops
try to, you know, keep a lid on it, but
it's tough. When there's that many people, you know, walking around,
(13:49):
sleeping on the ground and sleeping in the parks, you're
gonna have some mischief makers. So they tried to revamp
Third Street promenade. You know, because in when I was
growing up, everyone would go to Westwood on Friday and
Saturday night. That was the hang Everybody in the valley
would drive over and go to Westwood and walk around.
There was thousands or tens of thousands of people on
(14:11):
the street every Friday night, every Saturday night. There were
some great restaurants there and just you know, you just
walk around and meet people and you know, you'd run
into friends, you run into you did meet some new people,
and it was just a great place to go and
you know and meet people from the opposite sex or
the same sex or whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It was just a cool hang And then what happened.
Somebody got shot and killed and that was the end
of Westwood. That was the end of kids going to Westwood.
No longer would mom and dad let you go to
Westwood because that shooting and that killing was over. Was
all over the news, all over the TV, all of
the radio, and that was the beginning of the end
(14:49):
of Westwood.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So that ended.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And that's one of the reasons why when you go
into a club, I don't know if you're in you know,
go into clubbing or not. Belly was into it, but
I'm she's the only one on the show that still
does it. The reason why they pat you down and
you go through metal detectors is because one person gets shot,
one person gets killed, and that wipes out the club.
People don't go back to the club. It happens all
(15:12):
the time. That's why bouncers are there to try to
keep people alive, because as soon as somebody gets shot
and killed, that's usually the end of the club. Well,
so you know, you have to have that kind of security.
But as soon as some bad things start happen, people move.
And guess who's moving out of Santa Monica. Nordstrums. Nord
(15:34):
Strums is moving out of Santa Monica. That's not a
good look for people in Santa Monica at all.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
For the last fifteen years, this Nordstorm on two twenty
Broadway has been greeting locals and tourists, people in the
community calling it an anchor of Santa Monica place.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I come here on anchor is leaving? How long? Twenty years?
For the last fifteen years, right, fifteen years?
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Come here, eye shop, I buy things.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
The three Level store that's been a very simple woman.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
I come here and I shop. I buy things.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Well, you deulled up on that too, you know, come
here and shop is kind of indicating that you also.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Pick some things up.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
I come here and I shop.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's all you need to say.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
I come here and I shop. I buy things.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The three Level store that's been here since twenty ten
is shutting its stores next month. The retailer announced the
closure on Monday.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
I'm very annoyed, frustrated, disappointed.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Those also mean the same thing.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
I'm very annoyed, frustrated, disappointed.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
This woman doubles and triples up on everything she says,
and Matt okay, all.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Four of those being the same. She had to add
that I'm.
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Very annoyed, frustrated, disappointed.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
And matt ah okay, the trifecta with a singleton at
the end.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
I don't want them to leave.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
Back where I'm from in Texas, a lot of department
sources are closing due to just less people come in.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
In a statement from a Nordstrom spokesperson to NBC four reads,
in part, we believe will be best able to serve
customers in the area by leveraging our surrounding stores and
through our digital channels. Decisions like this are never easy,
and we understand the impact they have on our team members.
We are committed to taking care of our employees through
this transition.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It's not a good look. It's I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
It is not a good look when you live in
an area and Nordstrom says, screw it, we're moving out.
That is the beginning of the end for a lot
of communities you got. I mean, I'm surprised and shocked
that they didn't bribe or really work out a deal
where Nordstrom could stay, because it is not a good
sign for a city when you got a big anchor
(17:42):
like that taken off watch. I'm not look I wish
they stayed. I love Santa Monica, but whoever's running the
place is not paying enough attention. They should never allow
that to happen.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The next governor of the State of California is on
with a Stephen Kluebeck.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
How are you, Bob?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I am great. How are you today?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm doing excellent.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Stephen Klubek is a self made millionaire entrepreneur and he's
running for governor of the state of California. Man, I
don't I know you're you know you're you're you live
in southern California, You're you know you breathe the same
air we all do. I can't remember a time where
it's been There's been so much turmoil for so long,
(18:29):
starting with the fires on January seventh.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Then the floods.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Uh, then you know, a series of earthquakes that we had,
and then going right into the riots. It doesn't seem
like we ever get a break.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Well, it's like the coming, right, it's time for a change.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's right, Yes, it is time for a change.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I think, Hey, so when you talk about change, what
is the first thing when when you step into and
again we haven't had the vote yet, so you haven't
you know, won yet. But if you do become governor
in the state of California, what's the one thing that
can change all of our lives for the better?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You know in the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Well, well, first of all, I'm not compromised. For the
other folks that are running today are compromised and their
qualification as well, we wouldn't be in the position we're in.
So fortunately I do have the experience. First, it's affordability.
I would pause, as govern Newsom did good thing he
did Los Angeles for the Palisades and the Eaton area,
(19:31):
pause SEQUA all the regulations SEQUA Wildlife Species Act and
the Coastal Commission, and force the legislature to come up
with prudent legislation that could take us into the next
decade so allow people to build again, which will reduce
the costs. Nothing will be weaponized, and we'll be back
(19:53):
to the days of the late eighties where we could
get planning approvals quick and efficiently, okay, and we'll be
able to turbo charge our great economy through affordability. And
then we also have to take a look at you know,
the federal government thankfully has clashed the CAA Romanete two,
(20:14):
the Clean Air Act roman At two, that mandate on evs.
But there should be no mandates, you know. We should
be able to buy what we want, right and if
people want to use petroleum cars, then they shall. And
we're going to worry about gas prices. Gas prices are
not being checked right down. We've got too many regulations
to him in our state over thirty three hundred and
eighty thousand, wow, because we yeah, it's out of control,
(20:37):
and regulations are good to keep bad actors out, but
we need good business to be allowed to do good business.
And the other thing I figured out, we're going to
go find the money that was lost during COVID, the
ed D fraud, the workers comp fraud, and the COVID funds.
That's like thirty thirty billion dollars. And how about all
this homeless money we can't account for in world, we
(21:00):
account for every dollar, so that's like forty five billion dollars.
I'm gonna put a bounty to all of us in
California of ten percent. Find the money. That's four point
five billion dollars I'm willing to give away, to give
away to the great customers of California, and we're going
to collect our money because it's our money, not their money, right.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I mean, just just in the city of Los Angeles,
there's two and a half to four billion dollars that's missing.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It was for homeless people. We should go find that
as well.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
That's one hundred percent and that's recent. I mean, we
can't continue to have these leaders that can't account for
our money. It's not their money. Okay, period enough.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Right, But it does seem like a lot of the NGOs,
you know that the money gets funneled into a lot
of these NGOs, you know, these non.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Bill none yeah, non governmental organizations. No, that's gonna stop,
but that's it seems like.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
A complete ripoff every single time every die that goes
into those NGOs.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It just disappears.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Well, because I'm going to have a department of Performance
and Results in the State of California called the California
Department of Performance and Results, otherwise known as CPR, which
we desperately need. And we're going to approve every one
of these charities, every one of them. Every one of them.
We're going to look at their dollars and they're not
going to get certified and be allowed to do business
in our great state, our country of California.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That's great, take it and.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Take advantage of philanthropist nor our tax dollar. It's our
tax dollar.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
A buddy, Look, I know that you're you know that
you might be governor one day, But is there any
way to do this immediately? Is there any way that
you can undo the Corey Perry La Kings trade.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I can do a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
I can do a lot of things. Can do that.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I can't believe it. The most hated guy in the
history of the Kings is now a king. That's unbelievable.
Remember real sure, yeah, absolute, one hundred percent. Remember remember
these old goalies, they never wore masks.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
They went out there well and they and they had
no teeth. And you remember the King's colors. The King's colors.
We're purple purple.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, yeah, exactly like the Lakers. Buddy. I appreciate you
coming on.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Please come back with us as you get closer and
closer to Sacramento.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Thank you. We'll get there soon, and you know what,
I can take the keys tomorrow. I'm ready to drive,
ready to.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Drive and tell people how they get to you know,
support you on the website and everything.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Well, go to California get a clue dot com, California
get a clue dot com. That's c l o O
dot com. Stephen Jklubec for governor. But you can also
go to my podcast, Stephen J. Kluebeck podcast on iHeartRadio
and all the apps YouTube. Got a lot of great
(23:51):
guests and you'll hear about how I think and my
California values. Because you know, Tim, I know the assignment
and I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Ready to excellent. But I appreciate you coming on. Thanks
to We'll talk again.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Hey, take care, You're the best.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Sorry Stephen Klubeck. He's running for governor of the state
of California. N boy, need some mine, need some A
quick action here in the state. It is followed apart.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyl from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You know, there's a lot of people dating on dating apps. Millions,
if not billions of people are on the dating apps,
and you've got to be careful. There are a lot
of scammers out there. It's not just scamming for money anymore.
People are being killed. And so if you're if you're
on it, maybe your kids are on it. You got
(24:43):
to be careful. You know, people are losing millions of dollars.
People are losing life savings. I don't know how that works.
Every time I hear a story of, you know, somebody
who has sent another guy who they've never met in
person their life savings, I always wonder how that is possible.
(25:03):
You know, I've never been there before, so I don't know,
you know, the desperation that they have, or maybe these
guys are great at you know, convincing them to you know,
obviously great at convincing them to send money. But man,
oh man, it happens all the time. So, uh, here's
a great story on what you can do. I know
they're putting in facial recognition because twenty five up to
(25:27):
twenty five percent of new profiles on these dating apps
are created to scam people. So you got to really
really be careful and let your mom or dad know.
You know, maybe mom or dad is newly singled. You know,
maybe somebody had passed away and they're into dating now
and they want to go on the dating apps because
(25:47):
they're not going to meet anybody at the local grocery store.
You got to tell mom or dad to be extremely careful.
This could cost them their life savings and could cost
them their life. This is a listen to the story.
Speaker 12 (25:59):
I never thought that this could happen to our family.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
When Kewie Gow's widowed mother, Laura Kohole, went on match
dot com, she eventually was scammed out of a million
and a half dollars.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
How about that? A million and a half dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But that's not the worst of it, that's not I mean,
if that was the worst thing had happened, she learns
a lesson, She tries to recover. Maybe she has some
more money, she can move in with her daughter or
her son, or find a friend somebody to help her out.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
But that's not the worst of it.
Speaker 13 (26:29):
Laura's life would end at fifty seven. Her body found
in the Mississippi River.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
She also was killed, whether she killed herself or whether
somebody killed her. They're still looking into that. But this
is really very serious. Nobody talks about this.
Speaker 12 (26:44):
We are constantly chasing our tales.
Speaker 13 (26:47):
David Parrish is the sheriff in Lewis County, Missouri, where
Laura's body was discovered.
Speaker 12 (26:52):
Online romance scams are a scourge. We deal with it
every other week.
Speaker 13 (26:59):
But like law enforcement in small towns across America, Sheriff
Parish says he doesn't have the resources to fully investigate
these online scam cases, even when our body watches as shure, we.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Are always behind the eight ball on this always.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
But it's not just Sheriff Parish who's frustrated.
Speaker 12 (27:19):
It's a substantial problem, and it's one that's rapidly accelerating.
Speaker 13 (27:23):
Aaron raw the Justice Department official in Washington overseeing romance
scam cases, says his main challenge is that the scammers
are far away. The FBI has participated in operations in
the West African nations of Nigeria and god.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
We were shown video of scammers using artificial intelligence enhanced
video technology, and so it appeared to the victim in
the United States that they were speaking to another American citizen.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
Chilling as you're described.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Okay, so it appears that they're talking to somebody who
is in America, and in reality, it's an a. It's
artificial intelligence. It's not a person at all. And the
person fell for it. This woman fell for it.
Speaker 13 (28:06):
Chilling as you're describing at us.
Speaker 12 (28:07):
It is chilling, and it also makes it challenging for
law enforcement to intervene.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
But perhaps this former scammer who agreed to speak to
us from the West African country of Ghana, offers the
best approach to fighting this crime.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
You cannot do that without an online detail site.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
You need those online dating platforms.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Definitely, Definitely.
Speaker 13 (28:27):
A twenty nineteen Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleged it, between
twenty thirteen and twenty eighteen, as many as twenty five
to thirty percent of match dot com members who register
each day we're using match dot com to perpetrate scams.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Okay, that's worth repeating. This is how many people are
involved in this. Listen to the percentages.
Speaker 13 (28:48):
As many as twenty twenty five percent of Match dot
com members who register each day one out of every four.
We're using match dot com to perpetrate scams.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And you know what, if it didn't work, it wouldn't exist.
It does work, and you could make hundreds of thousands
of dollars scamming people.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
On these sites.
Speaker 13 (29:08):
In a statement, Match Group told us we believe the
FTC allegations.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Have no merit.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
Jim Max out from CBS News. After six months of
asking for an interview, we finally approached Bernard Kim, the
CEO of match Group, which operates at least a dozen
dating platforms, including hinge Okay, Cupid, and Tinder. Are those
the three big ones, including hinge Okay, Cupid, and Tinder?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Those the ones you use?
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Stuffush?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Those are the main ones? Are you on Tinder?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
There's also bumbole is pretty big, bulbost pretty big?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Did they really rattle off your lips on belly one?
Really know every one of them?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boo boom Hey one
of this I might meet up with this guy boom
boom boom.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Boom boom boll you recommend them? Wait, which one do
you use? Stuffus?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Tinder and bumbletoo, is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:02):
And what do you do?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You put up a profile and then you just wait
to get your bobber moves.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I wouldn't say it that way, but yeah, oh you wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, it's it's like fishing. Well yeah, I guess, yeah,
you wait to get a bite. I wouldn't say bobber
you ever been you've been fishing?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You haven't use a bobber no, I know, but I
just wouldn't put it that way when it comes to this, okay,
including how about a lure that sounds better?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Okay? Sink including hinge?
Speaker 13 (30:37):
Okay, Cupid and Tinder. We've talked to cameras in Africa,
by the.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Way, is it free to join?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
And then what do you where do they make the
money advertising?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I see? Okay?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
But then you can, if you want, you can pay
to like boost your account to make it available to
more people, more visible, yet more visible. A lot of
times you can't like respond, Like if somebody sends you
a message, you can't respond unless you pay, unless you pay,
unless you remember exactly I see, okay? And then how
often do you check it to see if anyone is
(31:12):
knocked on your door. Well, the door has been pretty quiet,
so I've kind of left it alone. Yeah, but one
of most listeners finds Fushie attractive.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
Wait wait, wait what one of Moo's listeners has a
crush on the fush Is that right?
Speaker 13 (31:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Wow, Yeah that happened.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Where have you?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Have you pursued it? No, because I don't I don't
know the information. They just said it on our live chat.
Oh I see it.
Speaker 13 (31:43):
Yeah, Okay, We've talked to cameras in Africa.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
They say there's no issue.
Speaker 13 (31:48):
There's no problem setting up fake profiles.
Speaker 11 (31:50):
I mean, if people looked at our community standards are guidelines,
We've reshifted the way that we've addressed people that can
come into our platforms. We're working really really hard every
single day to make sure that people aren't.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I don't really blame the guys who own, you know,
the the apps and the and those dating sites. I
think people are just really really lonely, you know, with
the with after COVID, we're all locked in for a
long time, and nobody gets out anymore. We text friends,
we don't call them anymore, and nobody goes out and
really does anything. And I think people are really desperate
(32:26):
for that kind of contact and and you know, and
it costs them sometimes their life savings been doing them.
So be careful, especially if mom or dad is getting
into these you know, these websites. You want to have
a chat with them, You want them to you know,
blow all your inheritance. All right, We're live on KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
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