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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
If you're dress driving home from work, you're not. But
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the hell out, you picked the wrong time to do that.
This is the exact wrong time to do that, and
you're adding to all the congestion. All right, Alex Stone
is with us from ABC News.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Alex, Hi, you Bob doing well?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Does this?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I mean I can start wearing white? Is that then
that's the rule?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah, start wearing white.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, and thing dong with your my guess you don't
have a lot of white pants white.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
No, No, I know you're not. They're not wearing white.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Hey, so the plane crash in San Diego. How did
this happen? Where in San Diego? I heard it's the
east of the fifteen.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
So first of all, we just got some new numbers
that they now believe there were six on board this morning.
I mean, it shows you how bad the what's left
of the plane is that they thought it was one
and then it went to two and then probably three,
and now the FAA is saying six. So it's just
north of Sarah Mesa and kind of the Mission Valley
area Montgomery gives Executive Airport, not far from San Diego State.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So uh yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh wait, how far from San Diego Stakes? And we
have a lot of parents who have kids that go
to San Diego State.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
It's not right there, but it's it's not a huge distance.
Oh so yeah, it's uh Claremont Linda Vista, kind of
that area north east of Old Town.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Okay, okay, so.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah, it's incredible that nobody on the ground was even
seriously injured in all this three forty seven this morning.
This Sessana five point fifty small private jet. They started
at Teterborough and New Jersey, stopped in witch To to
get fuel. Then they were heading to Montgomery Gibbs Executive
Airport in San Diego. Coming in the air traffic control audio,
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the pilot asking for the weather at Gibbs Executive Airport
because the weather system was out and he was only
getting it for Gillespie, which is another field in San Diego,
wanting to know if it was bad because heard it
was really foggy. He had any idea on the weather.
I got to the west the weather, but as sure
he knows the time supramatically different between the LESBI and Montgomery.
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The audio from live ATC so he was told, well,
Gillespie had fogged down to the minimums, to the minimum
level that it would be safe to land. He was
probably on instrument the landing instrument approach on this and
instrument flight rolls.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But he was told the weather's not good. He responded, all.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Right, it sounds great, but we'll give it a go.
It doesn't sound great, We'll give it a bit, And
then a moment later they slammed into the neighborhood, and
it's a military housing neighborhood, the largest in the country
of military houses, large houses, family houses for people who
are stationed with a family in San Diego. The first
home that is the closest to where they clipped a
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power line and then began down this street. That one
got it the worst, but they're about a dozen with
severe damage. Jet Fuel was rolling down the street on
fire into the drains, on fire. Looked like the street
was on fire. Looked like a movie set, according firefighters,
when they got there, of a plane that's on fire,
the buildings or the street burning. Jessica Schrader woke her up.
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She looked outside. There was a burning airplane. There were
homes on fire, jet fuel everywhere. Her family was trapped
inside their home.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Fire was up to like right in front of my
front door. So I'm trying to figure out how to
escape with my kids, and I'm just like, let's go,
and I'm calling the police.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
And she says that there was a dead pilot on
her front lawn. He was laying there. A neighbor brought
a ladder so they could go out in the back
fence and get away from all the fires.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So we were able to climb the ladder and jump
onto their trampoline to escape me and my children, and I.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Was able to throw my two we need dogs over
as well. The things want to.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Get dogs out there.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
So firefighters say there were a lot of people jumping
out the windows helping each other out, medically helping them.
That being a military neighborhood of all military they have,
you know, like first responders with first aid experience and
medical experience and response. So they all jumped into action
and everybody was helping everybody else out even before the
fire department got there, but they thought it was too
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on board. Now the FAA is saying six. We just
got a statement a moment ago from a sound talent group,
a talent agency saying we are devastated by the loss
of our co founder, colleagues and friends. Our hearts go
out to their families and everyone impacted by today's tragedy.
Thank you so much for respecting their privacy. They do
confirm that their co founder, Dave Shapiro, who is a pilot,
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actually has a flight school, was very well known on
Instagram for doing different flight stuff and different adventure type travel.
He was apparently the pilot it was registered to him,
and the fire department saying.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
All the fatalities right now look to be that they're
from the plane.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
We're working with the FAA right now to find out
how many actual people were registered on that plane.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
And Sound Talent Group is saying that three employees were
in the plane crash. The FAA is saying six were
on board. So either the FAA's numbers aren't yet right
as they've been fluctuating, or there are three people who
were also not employees of Sound Talent Group, but the FAA,
the NTSB, they're unseen. They're investigating trying to figure out
was it the fog, was it something else? Did they
they kind of rolled down the street like it was
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a well not they didn't roll down like it was
a runway, but the direction that they went it was
in that direction.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So did in the fog, did they misstake.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They clipped the wire?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, they did, but they were coming in they were
pretty much in line with that street. Were they seeing
it through the fog thinking that those were the runway
lights or was there some other malfunction or did they
just totally become discombobulated and miscalculated They're about three miles
away from the airport, so it wasn't right there, but
the fog may have played a role. This airport like
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so many smaller airports overnight, that it was not manned.
There was no control tower manning it. So the pilots
turn on the runway lights by clicking the runway or
the radio a certain number of times, and that turns
on the runway lights, and then they land on their
own and they announce on the radio, you know we're approaching.
You give your call sign, we're approaching from this direction,
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telling all other pilots in the area what you're going
to do. But they were not talking to an air
traffic controller. Once they got right to the airport, they
were on their own and they turned on their own
runway lights. So there may have been confusion in there,
or they may find that there was some kind of malfunction.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So the last thing the pilot said before he slammed
in these homes in San Diego is I'm going to
give it a go.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yeah, this so great, but we'll give it a go.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We'll give it a go.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
The weather doesn't sound great, but we'll give it a go.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, that's not what you want your pilot to say,
We'll give it a go. You know, that's what you
want your you know, your dumb buddies when you're building
a goat cart and you know, when you're in seventh
grade and you're like, oh, it doesn't really start with
a pole start, let's push it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, well, let's give it a go. Yeah, you know,
not a plane.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I mean, I think his give it a go was
not you know, we'll potentially crash this or you know,
it's more we'll we'll see what the weather's like.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
We'll get in there and then and then pull back up.
But unfortunately it didn't go that.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know, one of the first things that came out
and this this person was initially ridiculed and then they
realized it was a young person. But he somebody had
on Twitter or social media had said the scene, you
know with the ladder and the trampoline and the dogs,
and he goes it looks like Donkey Kong. But he
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wasn't saying that in a derogatory way. It's just like,
you know, people are climbing all over the place. But
he got a lot of crap for that because people
thought he was, you know, just being you know, stupid,
but he's just a young he was a young kid,
and just firefighters.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
All the people were coming out, they were doing everything
they could to get away from this.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, it was nutty, buddy, appreciate you coming on. You
go anywhere for a memorial the.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Weekend, I think I'll be around, what about you? Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't get involved. You know.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I saw this young couple that was leaving Lax. They
had four kids under six years old, and they were
flying back to Newark, New Jersey to go to a wedding.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
They left today.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
They're going to travel today and tomorrow they're driving upstate
New York. They're going to go to a New York
wedding on Saturday, drive back to Newark on Sunday, and
fly home on Monday and everything.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
But I can't speak.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I was supposed to fly to Newark last night and
for some training today and fly back from Newark tomorrow.
And I was the dumb one who booked Newark as well.
So I did it, but then I ended up not
being able to go, so I canceled it. But so
I can't I can't a fault them at all. I
was one too, going, Man, new work will be fine.
I get on United that.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Way that sounded. What kind of training were you you
involved in?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
We do hostile environment training for reporting where we get
kidnapped and we do they we do weapons stuff and
medical stuff. We have to do it every couple of years.
And I was scheduled for it and then something family
wise came up, so so I had to cancel that.
But yeah, every every few years we have to go
through medical training and other things.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I did not know that, all right, I did not
know that. That's pretty cool, buddy, appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Thanks about all right now.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Alex Stone with ABC News Bad Vibes in San Diego. Man,
that was that could have been a horrible scene. I
mean it was horrible to begin with, but there could
be a lot of people on the ground that died.
But that plane landed right between if you see any
of the video the footage right down the street right
between and like you know, eighty houses on one side,
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eighty house.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
On the other.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Man, if that land on any of the houses, it
could have been you know, thirty people.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
Did You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
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Speaker 2 (10:06):
All right, the the dirtiest it's got to be beaches.
Somebody misspelled beaches, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Alright or did Yeah, okay, maybe it's maybe I should
listen to this before we play it on the air.
It's I think it's dirty as beaches, all right, not
b I T b e A. Okay, I hope so,
I hope so. Although it was not a more interesting list,
absolutely the dirtiest bachs, you know, dirtiest female dogs. Yeah,
(10:39):
I don't know how you'd rate them, you know, just
you know, dirty people.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
But here's the dirtiest beaches in southern California. It's always
a fun list to go through and to realize, you know,
that we're all living in the most beautiful place in
the world and none of us can go in the
ocean because it's filthy as hell.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Filthy.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Hey, stefuch or BELLYO can reach over and turn like
computer on. Thank you, relase.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
It's annual list of the dirtiest beaches in California. Claiming
the unwanted top spot is Plia Blanca in Baja California.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Oh, okay, okay, all.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
Right, Plia blanca in Baja California.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Plia blanca sounds beautiful. Oh, I'm going down to ply
a blanca.
Speaker 10 (11:23):
Oh, bya blanca in Baja California.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You are? Why are you going down there? Oh? To swim?
I'm a big beach guy. I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
The beach's water quality is considered dirty due to sewage pollution,
particularly from anir by treatment plant. The remaining top five
spots belong.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What what treatment plan? If there's then the lack of treatment.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
Plants, particularly from a near by treatment plant. The remaining
top five spots belong to Santa Monica Pier, Tijuana Slough
at Tijuana River, Tijuana River Mouth rather in San Diego County,
Chicken Ranch Beach at Channel in Marine County.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And wait, there's a beach still called Chicken Ranch.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
Chicken Ranch beach.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Almighty? That unbelievable. It sounds sturdy.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, but well, isn't chicken ranch a slang term for
uh uh?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Women of the night house? I can't say that.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Isn't the chicken isn't you know? Angels?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You didn't know that?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Wait, you've never heard that term in your life?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
That term you've never heard chicken ranch, croser, You've got
to have heard it. I've heard the term kitchen chicken ranch,
but uh.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The context.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, it's a broth heard, Yeah, the chicken ranch. No, yes,
I'm telling you. Yes, I've had two friends that went.
And matter of fact, I'm gonna tell you the story
of two friends that went. These are guys I went
to college with and not high school. So two friends
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are in Las Vegas and they want to go to
this chicken ranch or bunny ranch, whatever it was, and
they pick you up in a limousine and they drive
you out there. You spend your money, and then the
limousine takes you back to Las Vegas. It was pouring
rain when they went out there. It was just a torrential,
you know, downpour. They get out there, they spend two
(13:31):
hours there, you know, enjoying themselves. And then they get
back in the car and one of my buddies said
to the other one, Hey, what was that. Did they
put that black light over your junk? And he said, yeah,
they put that black light on me. I guess, you know,
to check for crabs or whatever. And then my other
buddy goes and then my other friend said, well, what's
(13:53):
that spray that they put on afterwards? And my buddy goes,
they didn't spray me. Oops, he walked right into it.
He walked right into it. What they didn't spray me?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You know?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Doug Steckler used to have a way to kill crabs,
not that he had him very often, but he said,
but he had a method, so he must have had
in some experience with them. But he said, this doesn't
really work for men. It works mostly for women who
(14:29):
have crabs. And don't try this at home because it's
really dangerous. I don't know if it works or not.
I don't think it does, but please don't try this
at home. Yeah, what, thank you. What he would do
is you would take kerosene and you would soak your
your short hairs in kerosene, and then you would take
(14:53):
a razor and clear a swap between the two shrubs
on each side, soak and kerosene, and then light them
on fire. And when the crabs ran across the clearing,
you stab them with an ice pick. You see how
that could probably not end up working?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, all right, Back to the dirtiest beaches.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
The remaining top five spots belong to Santa Monica Pier.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Santa Monica Pier always has the worst water always.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
What's going on with Santa Monica Pier? Is it this?
You know?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
There are too many people on there? Are there filthy
people around Santa Monica Pier. Why are the pipes not
working at Santa Monica Pier? Is there any sewage going
from the restaurants toilets right into the water.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But why is Santa Monica Pierre always the worst water
in California?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's always in the top five always?
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Tijuana Slough at Tijuana River, Tijuana River Mouth rather in
San Diego County, Chicken Ranch Beach at Channel in Marin County,
and Lindamar Beach at San Pedro Creek in San Mateo County.
As for the states cleanest beaches.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh yeah, where's the cleanest beach in the state of California.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Where is it? It's in Maui.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
For the States cleanest beaches, the part we all want
to hear all ten, We're in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh how about that? How about that? Another another another sort.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Of example to back up my theory that that all
the people who can behave and all the people have
money have moved to Orange County because they also clean
the beaches up in Orange County. People in Orange County, man,
I tell you, they live right. They don't tolerate crap
in their life. They don't tolerate dirty, filthy beaches. They
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just don't. And so if you're a politician in Orange County,
you have to clean the beaches or you'll be out
on your ass and you'll be ridiculed and you'll be
thrown out of that community. So you have to reach
bond to your constituency in the In LA, you don't
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have to do that. You have to do anything but
try to rip off money from homeless homeless bonds, homeless taxes,
homeless issues. Your job is to try to line your
pockets with money that was supposed to go to homelessness.
That's what the politician's job is in Los Angeles. In
Orange County, it's the opposite. You have to react to
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what the voters want you to do, or else you
get thrown out of the community and thrown out of
Orange County eventually. That's the difference between Orange County and LA.
If you have a family and you want to raise
beautiful kids and have a beautiful life. Orange County is
the move I'm telling you. I know I've experienced both heavily.
I've lived in LA County. I've lived in Orange County.
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Orange County is much better than LA County.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Period.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
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Speaker 1 (17:58):
It is the Thursday before Memorial Day. It's the busiest
day of the year so far traffic wise. So you've
got Conway and now you've got Monks.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, Michael Monks, how you Bob? I am well? Always
good to be with you on a Memorial Day weekend. Yeah.
Did you watch you preak this? Did you look at that?
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
What a great race?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Yeah, journalism, I'm looking forward to the Belmont kicked ass.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah. Belmont's can be in three weeks now. Yeah. Yeah,
all right, So what's going on downtown?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
We have the deputy mayor who wants to bomb everybody,
and what a crazy day downtown.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
You got the Downtown beat a KFI. It's a busy
Thursday heading into a holiday weekend. This deputy mayor. You
probably remember that we heard about this guy, Brian Will.
You don't hear a lot about the deputy mayors right
by the way, But they're pretty cushy, John. They are
there several several and they're well paid gigs, and you
rarely see them, usually at ribbon cuttings. But they have
policy areas that they are experts of. This guy, Brian Williams,
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he's sixty one. He was the deputy mayor for get
this public safety, all right? And so what we learn
now that he has agreed to plead guilt to a
federal charge related to this fake bomb threat to city Hall.
And when did the bomb threat happen. It happened a
last fall. And here's what we know. This guy was
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sitting in a virtual meeting. You've been on a zoom call, right, okay,
And I've seen your soul leave your body while you're
talking to me. Okay, So I know that you have
no patience, But have you ever gone this far? This
guy's in some sort of zoom meeting, a virtual meeting
with colleagues, and he uses a Google phone Google Voice
app to call his own city issued phone. All right,
(19:32):
I got to take a call kind of thing, takes
the call and then comes back and leaves the meeting
entirely and calls up the Los Angeles Police Department says, hey,
some guy is threatening city hall with the bomb over
the city's perceived support for Israel, and so they come in,
you know, the law enforcement, they come in, they sweep
(19:54):
the place, they're investigating all of this money. Lapds seem
to catch on right away that something wasn't right about.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
This case is right out. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
The reason this is a federal case is because he
was the deputy mayor of public Safety, had a very
close relationship with the LAPD. So they turned it over
to the FBI. And now all these months later, it
looks like he has agreed to plead guilty to one
felon account related to this threat. But why did he
do it? That's what I don't know yet. There was
no description of the motive, so maybe we will find out.
(20:24):
He's going to be sentenced at a later date. He
faces ten years.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Wow, that's big. Yeah, I mean it's a serious sentence.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You know, usually those bomb threats are you know, a
guy's taken a plane to Paris, he's gonna miss it,
so he's bought. You know, he calls American Airlines becaues,
hey there's a bomb on the Paris flight, just to
delay it for a couple hours so he can get
on the plane and take off, or it's you know,
I don't want to work a full day to day.
Hey there's a bomb threat. You know, the bomb squad
comes in. You guys have to go home for the day.
Oh four day weekend. Okay, But it doesn't seem like
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this guy got any benefit out of it.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
That's what's so strange about it is, why did you
do this? The Mayor's office put out a statement shortly
after the news came out from the Department of Justice
that this guy's decided to plead guilty. They say, we
were shocked by the allegation and saddened by the outcome
of this.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Could could it or our third possibility, could it be possibly,
you know, just possible, And I'm going on, I don't
know this guy at all, but it could it be
just fairly or even you know, slightly possible that he's
just a moron at Ela City Hall.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Yeah, that's not a nice thing to suggest that Los
Angeles City Hall you think of moron is working.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I don't know, I don't know. That's not a fair characterization.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I've been in the area, but you really never know,
you don't know what's going on with by the way,
Brian Williams. Brian Williams, and he's sixty one years old.
This is a fully grown man.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Okay, this is a guy who has been around and
was hired directly by Marabas to oversee public safety for
her and ends up creating this public safety issue within
city Hall with a lie and now looks like he
could be going to prison.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Maybe that name comes with you know, people are trying
to one up the real the new NBC guys, the
news and Brian Williams bricaded.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
A few things.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah he fabricated him getting shot in the Iraq War.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah he did. But nobody had to leave their office.
So that's crazy. Okay, all right, So that's one thing
that's going on.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Yeah, a couple of other things, and these are a
little wonky. These are maybe even a little boring, but
it is exciting because it's how your services are going
to be delivered. Both the La Metro board and the
Los Angeles City Council putting the final touches on their
budgets today.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Metro did it pretty quickly.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
La City all has been going for more than six
hours now they're still talking about their budget right now,
cleaning it up, making some suggestions, hoping to make some changes.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I'm monitoring that.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Keep your ears tuned into Michael Krozer will have updates
in the newscast.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But Metro, what is the Metro budget?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You have nine point four billion dollars nine billion, four
hundred million a year.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
For this year.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Yes, that is a larger budget than the previous year,
which was nine point two six billion.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So the budget for the LA Sheriff's Department is like
a little right around two maybe two and a half billion.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Can't ride a sheriff to Long Beach. I can't believe it.
I tried.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You know, for nine point four let's just say nine
point five billion dollars, they could shut down Metro and
give everybody in LA a certificate for thirty free ubers.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
You know, here's the thing, and this is what I
think of, if you don't mind me editorializing for a moment.
We sit in traffic a lot in this community, and
there are people sitting in traffic right now listening to
this very broadcast thinking why why do I do it?
And as a I'm still relatively new, right, I'm two
plus years here, and I look at some of the traffic.
I think it doesn't have to be like this. I
don't get why Angelina's like, you know, it's how it is, Like, why.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Is it like this?
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Because you can see some configuration of the roadways and
the entrance rams and the exits and the way that
the interstates merge at weird weird spots that make no
sense like this can be fixed, right, But the easiest
fix for a lot of us is to use Metro,
and we don't and we won't, and there are many
reasons for that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So why don't they you shut it down? Well, why
don't they improve it? Be more efficient, be more effective?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
If you had nine point four billion dollars year overseeing Metro,
what do you think are the top areas of concern
that you would pour money into to get people off
of the five and into the bee line?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, two things. One security. You know, people feel like
they're going to get killed on this thing. It's filthy
as hell. There's too many homeless people buzzing around, and
it doesn't go anywhere we want to go.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, do I have news for you.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
All three of those are the highlights of the Vice
budget because they are trying to spend more on that.
It seems like they got the message that people don't
like being killed on their commute, so we should increase
our security.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And we already know.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
They're putting a police force together in house. They're no
longer going to contract with the LAPD, the Sheriff's Office,
Long Beach Police. They're going to stand up their own
police face like they used to have in the nineties. Okay,
so they have put an increase.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Have you ever been on Metro? Have you ever been
on redline, Green line? Write it alone? You have a
regular writer. I used to write it a lot more
up here when I would come. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
I live right downtown, so I'm at the center of it,
so i can go in any But you're right, it
doesn't go everywhere. So one more funding for security, two
more funding for cleaning. They're going to clean the stations.
They're even gonna add some restrooms. You can have a
poop before you go to create. Wow, is that right?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I used to take the Metro down to go to
a Kings game, and I would take my daughter and
we go on the Metro to the Kings game. I'd
never do that right now.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
And you're not alone. And that's what I mean about
it's there, and you could go from Burbank too. You
could catch the pink bus from Burbank right outside this office,
go down a universal city and go right downtown and
it's not that bad. And even if it takes you
thirty five minutes, right, you can read a book, you
can listen. You're not yanking your face off because of
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some jerk in front of you who won't get out
of your way for an inexplicable traffic.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And it's relatively inexpensive too. It's cheap. It's less than
two bucks to buy you a ticket, and you can
go to and fro. That's what I mean.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
If you make it attractive, it's there and you don't
have to sit in this traffic anymore. And that's what
it seems like they're you know, they're at least looking
at doing more security, cleaner stations, and go more places.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
A lot of funding in there for the lax station
we got we got to take right here. But I'm
just going to tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I see the orange line all the time, I see
the red line all the time. I see the line
that goes out to I think it's a gold line
that goes out to Arcadia. All those trains are always
empty bingo always.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Isn't that a shame because on paper, I say this
a lot on paper, this system looks great.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
It does on paper it looks great. Yeah, they can't
use it, but.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I appreciate coming. Always a Plush'd be a Memorial Day
week tell you too. All right, Saturday seven to nine
p all right with Monks. You got Monks on Saturday.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
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Speaker 1 (26:44):
We just had Michael Monks in and he said the
budget for Metro, for the buses, the light rail, fixing
the buses, buying new buses, paying the bus drivers, the
light rail drivers, the gasoline, the electricity, all the stuff.
They have a budget of nine billion, four hundred million dollars.
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Nine billion, four hundred million dollars. Well, you know what
if you take LAPD, LA Police Department, LA Fire Department,
LA Street Services, and LA Sheriff's Department, that adds up
to seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We spend more.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
We spend two point four billion dollars more on the
Metro than we do on fire, police, street services. In
La and the Sheriff's department. So the money in this
city is being thrown in the toilet. That's why there
are so many potholes. That's why the water mains are breaking.
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That's why it's filthy. That's why you see plants growing
in the middle of the street and the pavement uneven.
The sidewalks are all messed up. The city of La sucks.
And you have to look. If you're you've been there
for a long time, your family's there, you're you know,
you've got the deep roots in the city of La.
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That's that's great. You'll live there forever, your kids will
live there, and so on. But if you're just moving
to southern California and you want to start a family,
you really got to think about where you live. You
really got to think and and and crews around, you know,
crews around the city and the county, Orange County, La County,
Ventura County, and see where the services are great. But
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it's not in the City of La it's not. It's
getting worse. I was in Sherman Oaks the other day
and I think we talked about this on the air.
On the sidewalk there's bushes coming through the cracks of
the sidewalk that aren't just about an inch and an
inch and a half tall, they're like a foot and
a half almost two feet tall. Weeds, bushes, and it
just looks like something you'd see, you know, in our
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way out in the middle of the desert. And there's
like there's a car, there's a used car dealership, and
it's their sidewalk, and they don't see interested in cleaning
that up.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I was astonished.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
They sell high end cars and they don't seem to
be interested in cleaning the sidewalks around their business.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I find that astonishing.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I mean, just the lack of awareness of what's going
on in the city of la and it's not getting
better at all. It's getting worse, absolutely worse. And then
you have nuts like this a hole in Tarzana. There's
a suspected arsonist in Tarzana. Pretty cool place to live,
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very expensive place to live. Guy going around lighting it up.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It spread so fast the fire was.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Roaring by the time Tabby Molina smelled smoke just outside
her front door.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I was in my room playing video games Oblivion, if
you know, you know, and I got a call from wait, is.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
That the game she was playing, or is she just
saying she's oblivious.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Playing video games? Oblivion? If you know you know?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Is that a video game?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I guess you don't know, Oblivia. If you know, yeah,
and it's called if you know, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
No, she's saying. If you know the game, then you
know what she's talking about. Oh okay, is that really
an addictive game? It's kind of like an RPG game.
I don't know. That's cultist game. I think like Doom,
those old games like that. First person Yeah, it is
like Pong. Yeah, like it's like breakoutlly.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Honestly, god, okay, belly o, I, why don't you tell
me what this game is all about?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
It's Oblivion all about it's a first person shooter, that's right.
Is it really a shooting game? Yeah? Yeah? Is it right? Okay,
all right, okay, Oblivion.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I'm stunn I'm stunned that Bellio knows what that is.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, if you know, you know, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You're not secretly like a gamer putting on the headset
with your three screens when you get home and you're
in your power chair, your gamer's chair.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Maybe I am a game the speakers in it. Maybe
I am I just think those role playing games. That's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Oblivion if you know, you know. And I got a
call from my neighbor saying that there's a fire outside
our house.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And at that, in that moment the game, she doesn't know, Hey,
I got a call for that. Your house is on fire.
Oh okay, well I'm I'm almost to the to the
next gate. I'm almost the next level. Can you guys
call the fire department for me?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
And at that, in that moment, I'm like, oh wow,
I actually smell smoke right now.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
She called nine one one. Then her neighbor told her
the troubling news.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
My neighbor said was that there was a man who
had set the fire.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
This man captured on her home security camera.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
She saw a man who was throwing liquid on there
and he ran away and he put he had some
sort of ski mask on.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
It's hard to make out clearly, but you can see
the smoke, right.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
She talked about the game or the guy I can't tell.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Throwing liquid on there and he ran away and he
put he had some sort of ski mask on.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Is that part of the game or is that the
arts of this? I guess I can't tell. I don't
know where the line is here.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
It's hard to make out clearly, but you can see
the smoke rising from the dry grass and a guy
walking around it. The neighbor who witnessed.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
The ordeal, and is he talking about the game or
the guy.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
It's hard to make out clearly, but you can see
the smoke rising from the dry grass and a guy
walking around it.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh, that's the game, okay.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
The neighbor who witnessed the ordeal did not want to
speak on camera, but tells us the man looked aimless
and appeared to be pouring flammable liquid from a glass
bottle on the flames.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Fun guy to be around, huh, fun guy to have
in your neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
It all happened just before fourth on the eighteen thousand
block of Martha Street in Tarzana. The street runs parallel
to the one oh one Freeway. Neighbors say homeless encampments
have been an ongoing problem.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
In the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, welcome to LA. That's a nice area and they're
very expensive homes on that street.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Tabby says firefighters were on scene quickly and put out
the flames. She's hoping whoever started this fire is caught soon.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
It's absolutely horrifying to know that not only do we
have to be scared of the natural disasters of wildfires,
we have to be afraid of degenerates who are gonna
go and set it. And honestly, I consider it a
threat because, honestly like a murder attempt, because they set fire.
And in these conditions today it's super dry, super windy.
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Easily could have gone onto the brush here, easily could
have set the house on fire.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I love the sort of irony of a young lady,
I don't know, she's probably her twenties, playing that video game,
totally oblivious to what's going on outside in the real world,
and she calls the arsonists a degenerate. It's so great.
I mean, it's just it's it's it. You can't you
can't write that.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
She's playing a video game to escape reality because reality sucks.
And then she realized, ooh, she's too far into it
because she's playing a video game and has to be
called by her neighbor to say, hey, your building's on fire.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
So we're we're all.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
All in our own world in southern California, being outside
in La sucks. So you got to you know, burrow
inside your house, play video games, watch Netflix, you know, barbecue,
stay home, not go anywhere. And then just when you think, okay,
you really made it, now the arsonist come and get you. Well,
Welcome to Los Angeles, a lot of fun, Welcome to
the Olympics. The we got the Olympics, we got the
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