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May 14, 2025 34 mins
Alex Stone, Cincinnati Reds Pete "Charlie Hustle" Rose would have been a slam-dunk Hall of Famer if he never bet on baseball and been banned.  The all-time MLB leader with 4,256 hits, Rose won three batting titles and was the 1973 NL MVP.  "Shoeless" Joe Jackson had an all-time career batting average of .356 career -- the fourth highest in MLB history.  But he was banned for life, along with seven of his teammates from the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" for throwing the World Series.   That all changed yesterday when Commissioner Rob Manfred removed Jackson, Pete Rose, and other deceased players from the MLB's permanently ineligible list. #AlexStone #PeteRose #HOF #ShoelessJoe #MLB // Michael Monks, L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for hotels, despite warnings from tourism industry #tourism #minimumwage // Seal Beach Police dept ZERO tolerance #DontStealInSeal #crime #theft #arrest #retailtheft // Man charged with murder after 79-year-old was dragged to death during carjacking in Norco. #carjacking / Reputed gang member arrested in connection with fatal shooting spree in Lancaster / More with Dr. Krupp, how long it takes rays to arrive on earth. Griffith Observatory 90th Anniversary 
The illusion of seeing the sunset. #DrKrupp #space #astronomy 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
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six forty. It is the Conway Show. All right, ding
and dog with you. All right, We're gonna start with
the Alex Stone from ABC News. That guy's always great.

(00:25):
Alex Stone, Welcome to KFI. How you Bob doing well?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Did you see the President when he went over to
Saudi Arabia? He had those four F sixteen Saudi Arabian
F sixteen's escortman to the airport.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
No, I didn't see that.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Secret Service went crazy because they got within a
couple hundred feet of Air Force one and one of
the Secret Services guy looked down and goes, those are
fully armed. Those are fully loaded. You don't arm in
F sixteen or a F eighteen until unless you're willing
and going to drop.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
That or else.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, oh man, they're shaking in their boots.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
They could they have done that with the new Air
Force one.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't know. I don't know, but but you know
all that all one guy had to do is sneeze
a plowing to Air Force one and it's over.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oops, yeah, and you never know what the temperament of
some of those guys are. You know, maybe his family
got bombed somewhere in the past and he took it
out on the United States, and you know, hates George Bush,
but he doesn't realize George Bush doesn't president anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
And then bang, So I'm sure they saw it as
an honor. But still I'm surprised anybody's allowed to get
that closed Air Force One.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
I am too. Then they shouldn't. I mean they, you know,
the United States should be escorting Air Force one wherever
it goes. Not they not an international, not Saudi Arabian
f six.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
You don't know their backgrounds.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
And yes, absolutely, God al mighty, what I mean, we're
playing fast and loose with everything in this country. Everything. Hey,
so what's going on the Cincinnati Reds. Charlie Hustle, Pete
Rose might be going to the Hall of.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Fame a well maybe, And then the Reds are celebrating
it tonight. The game's getting an underway right now against
the White Sox and they are giving out replica number
fourteen Rose jerseys to fans who are attending. The Rose
family is delivering the game ball they're the honorary captain,
so the Reds are They're all in on this. But
I think the big question here after Rob Manfred, the

(02:10):
MLB Commissioner, said yesterday that a person no longer with
us can now represent a threat to the integrity of
the game. In the statement when he was announcing that
Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson that they're going to
be reinstated, that is a ban from baseball to punish
somebody and tell the world don't pay attention to what
they did while they were in the game because they

(02:30):
didn't do it cleanly, or is it while they're alive,
to make sure they can't threaten the integrity of the game.
And MLB is saying under Rob Manfred that this is
about protecting the future of the game while somebody's a lot.
Now you could argue, well, Pete Rose wasn't betting on
baseball and part of baseball for a very long time,
So white is dying even matter if you're just going
to say it's while they are protecting the integrity of

(02:52):
the game. But he is going to be allowed to
The Baseball Writers will will vote at some point on
Pete Rose, likely will vote on him getting into the
Hall of Fame. It is not a done deal, but
Reds fans are celebrating. Here's what they're saying about.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
He built the Eds, this is his ballpark, and.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
His attorney for a long time, who fought for this moment, says,
this is what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
This is significant, historic for many reasons for the you know,
all those who are off the ineligible list. But the
ultimate goal as well for Pete to complete the tasks
are I'd like to get him into the Hall of Fame,
or at least I have that vote so the voters
can determine his eligibility and his worthiness.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
I mean, it wasn't a seventeen time All Star, hitting champion,
two World Series championships.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
But his attorney saying, this is going to be his argument.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
We are a nation of second chances, third chances for many,
and for what he did on the field, he's worthy.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
And some argue Tim that this is going to open
up the floodgates and anybody band is going to know
that they can get back into the whole.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
But yeah, but they're going to be dead. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I don't think anyone's going to say, well, I'll do
wrong because I'll be dead. But they they can come back,
they can get into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I heard the Shula's Joe and Pete Rose are going
to go into the Hall of Fame as Lyle and Eric.
Is that true?

Speaker 4 (04:10):
See that question I post you about what is a
band is kind of what you could argue about justice
as well. After the men Indo's brother, That's right. Is
justice about public safety and protecting the public or is
it about punishing the person and teaching a lesson?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Same thing with a band in baseball.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, I don't. I look, obviously, Pete Rose, you know,
made some mistakes, but one of the greatest all around
baseball players in the history of the game. But then
you ask yourself, Okay, you know he didn't kill anybody.
You know, it's not like oh, Jay Simpson and taking
away his heisman and taking away all his trophies and everything.
He didn't rape anybody, you know, So it's not like

(04:49):
a Bill Cosby thing where they take away his Emmys
and his Oscars or you know, whatever awards he had.
It's just a guy who, you know, put a couple
of bucks on the outcome of a game, and they
never proved that he played that he bet on any
of the games he was involved in.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Now.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
He did eventually come around and admit that he did
gamble on baseball as part of his kind of you know,
admitted and hopefully then they would reinstate them.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
This is what he told our Charlie Gibson.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Did you bet on baseball? Yes? I did, and that
was my mistake not coming quean a lot earlier.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
So he finally admitted that, not on the games that
he was actually playing in. But but but did admit it,
so right, yeah, I mean we'll see and then it
kind of like Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire and others
are the asterisks about that.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Did you ever meet pet Pete Rose.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, my dad had dinner with him one night and
Pete Rose is a really intense guy and my dad
didn't know that. And he took a baseball and he
was banging it off the wall. My dad was sitting
up against like a brick wall, and Pete Rose just
kept throwing the ball against the wall and catching it
bang bang bang bang, and it was just it was
like a nutty time with Pete Rose. But he said,

(06:01):
you know, he said, Pete Rose was one of the
most pleasant guys. He had a lot of great funny
stories and and he just got caught up in you know,
putting a couple of bucks on a game. I don't
see the big deal.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's how most people saw
him as kind of just a chill guy who, you know,
eventually came around and said, fine.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'll admit it, and uh yeah, but man, that haunted
him forever. He was, you know, the greatest, the greatest
pure hitter maybe in the history of of the world
in baseball, and every time he was interviewed, he goes, hey, Pete,
did you want you gamble? Remember what's his name? Who
did the the sports show in town?

Speaker 6 (06:37):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Heally? What's his name?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Oh, I don't know. I think before my time, I think.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
What's his name?

Speaker 7 (06:44):
Cruch?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Was it Jim Jim Heally? Yeah, Jim Heally, Jim Heally. Yeah.
That song they did play all the time, Gamblin Rose.
I mean you played over and over and over. And
that's the only thing you know about Pete Rose, if
you're not baseball fan, is the guy gambled a lot
and on and on sports and got thrown out of

(07:05):
the game.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, you're right, would beyond sports. Everybody knew who he
was and it was because of that. Yeah, and he
wasn't even allowed in ballparks.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
I mean, up until recently, you wouln't even me allowed
to step inside of a baseball field. That's unbluble. So
the earliest he can get in is probably what five
years from now.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, it's gonna be a while.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
And then the baseball writers who vote them in are
a more conservative bunch of folks, who I mean by
those who were inside that world, say that it's probably
not going to be right away. They're gonna have to
kind of come around to the idea of bringing him
into the Hall of Fame. But maybe it'll end up
being sooner. But it's probably not going to be right away.
There is a bit of a waiting period here as well,

(07:43):
but it could be the next couple of years maybe,
or go on a lot longer if they keep.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Saying, no, here's a text I just got, is there
in an a hale hall of Fame? And if so,
are Lyle and Eric And there's gonna be a lot
of that, a lot of that, And get your reaction
because you weren't on the air until today.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, I was in the courtroom. Yes, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
But a crazy scene. Huh.

Speaker 8 (08:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
It was crazy how quickly it went yesterday, because I
mean it was supposed to be two days, and it
looked like it was going to go two days. I
think when we went to lunch yesterday they had only
gotten through three witnesses and Geary go said it was
going to be seven family members and two experts. He
cut it short, we understand, so he could get back
to the Ditty trial where his daughter is the defense

(08:28):
attorney on that. But he wanted to get back there. Wait,
whose daughter is there? Goes, Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah,
he's been admonished by the judge for unofficially being part
of the the Ditty defense team. So he goes, he
goes back there. He's been shaddling back. So were you
in the courtroom when the judge made the decision. Yes, yeah, yeah,

(08:48):
I ended up being in the listening room in that
moment so I could come and go to do live shots.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
But it was a reaction amongst the press and everybody
in the room.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Well, one is, it was just shocking that we just
kept waiting and kept waiting and kept getting later and later,
and the judge said, we're going to do this tonight.
Essentially said that indicated that it was going to be that,
and we could see which way he was going, because
the judge kept asking, if I did fifty to life,
you know, what would this mean?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
What would that mean?

Speaker 4 (09:15):
The Menendez brothers did not get what they wanted, and
yet they are celebrating this, Their family is celebrating this.
But they wanted manslaughters. They would have gotten out immediately
going to the parole board. They may never get freedom
with the parole board, or it could be many years
down the road. This is not unless the governor gives
them clemency. It's not going to be an immediate thing whatsoever.
But the governor is not going to do that. He's

(09:36):
running for president. It does seem like he's moderating in
his views quite a bit, isn't he now with homeless
and everything else.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes, I think he. Look if those kids get out
and they murder again and it's on his watch, his
political career is over.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Well, and so it may be only the parole board
who could do it, and they may eventually do it.
Even Hawkman today said look, if they will, He continues
to say that they haven't come clean on the self
defense defense all that that if they will, then even
he would support them getting parole. And yesterday, in their
statements they made, they took a lot of time to say,
I admit to what I did. I killed my parents.

(10:10):
I put the shotgun up to their heads.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
I did this time too.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
It was quite graphic in the way they were describing
it when they gave their statements before they got their
their new sentence.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
And so who was the guy who pulled the trigger?
Would both of them shot or just file?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
No.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
They both said that they that they took part in it,
and that they they fully admitted all of that. And
that was in reaction to Hawkman saying that they haven't
fully admitted everything they've lied. They admitted that they lied
and that they got people to lie on their behalf
during the trials years ago. But fifty to life isn't
by no means getting out, but it is a step
toward maybe one day getting out. If the parole board

(10:45):
goes down that way, pro board takes a very long time,
no matter what. And if the parole board comes back
and says no, which quite often with inmates. They do
the first one to two times they try, then they've
got to wait three years to even try again.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Wow, so it could be a long time. But no,
it was a shock to everybody that the judge said,
let's just keep going tonight. So late in fact, that
I went to get my car out of the parking
garage and the parking garage was locked and closed. I
had had to uber home and uber back to court
this morning. And the lady looked at me and said,
did you leave your car here overnight? And I said, yeah,
because the sciences are going to impound him. In tone,
I thought my car was not there this morning, but it.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Was that's great looking a guy like you doing all
the right things. You get your car locked up, and
these two murders are going to be let free treat.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
My car did get paroled today, so I got it back.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
That's great. But I appreciate you coming on man, you
got it there it goes Alex Stone with ABC News.
He was in the courtroom in the listening room, I
guess which is right off the side or I don't know,
it's the cheap seats, but he was there when the
decision was made. There weren't that many people that were
in that courtroom or in the listing room, and he
was one of them. That's wild. We have a great connection.

(11:53):
And we also had Corolla on yesterday, and Bellio told
us about the Corolla connection. If it wasn't for those
kids may not be getting out. I don't want totally
blame them, but and also the gascon he had his
hand in it. And then of course uh Mark Erragis.
So those three people very instrumental in letting these two
nuts out of the can. I don't know it's going

(12:17):
to be in June where we figure out whether they're
coming out or not. And then they're gonna make a
b line here at a KFI and they're gonna kill me,
and they're gonna kill John Colebelt because John Coleblt was
doing the fry the men Endi every day and Steckl
and I beat him up pretty good. And even Leslie Abramson,
their defense attorney, said you can't get a fair trial
in this town with that, with idiots like Conway and Steckler.

(12:39):
She mentioned our names. So you don't think these three,
these two kids were brewing for the last thirty years,
thirty five years trying to figure out how to kill me.
They're coming, They're coming to kill me, and guess what, Fellas.
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready. I can
defend myself in this In this studio or at home.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
You're listening to Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Monk's just weathers. You got monks? How you bother?

Speaker 8 (13:07):
I am doing well, not as well as some of
our friends in the hotel and airport industry who are
said to get a big raise.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
They won't be trying to win that thousand dollars. They
don't need it. What's going on with the with tourism
and the hotels and the whole run.

Speaker 8 (13:20):
Well, look, there's a lot going on, But specifically, what
happened today at Los Angeles City Hall is that the
city Council was given the first of two votes that
would approve a pretty significant pay raise for a lot
of people who work in the hotel industry in the
city and in concession and other business jobs at Lax Airport.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Right, and can we afford that?

Speaker 8 (13:42):
Well, the question isn't whether you or I can afford it,
it's whether the hotels can afford it, and whether the
business operators, the concessionaires as they're known at the airport,
can't afford it.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
And if you ask those guys, the answer is no.

Speaker 8 (13:55):
In fact, we heard today from a guy from the
Hollywood Chamber of Common who predicts this is going to
be really bad news. Foosh, if you could play clip one,
is this like the look ahead situation from moments ago?

Speaker 9 (14:11):
You concerned the damage that this will pose will not
just impact the hotels in Hollywood and their employees will
be at risk of layoff, but so too the businesses
surround them, surrounding them who rely on folks to patronize
their restaurants, at their retailers.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
And on the other hand, look at increased are we
talking about?

Speaker 8 (14:31):
Oh, it's significant percentage wise about off the top of
my head, thirty thirty percent right, because they're going starting
in July, after this thing gets its second vote, which
looks like it's obvious it was a twelve to three
vote today, I can't imagine that many votes being peeled
off to stop this thing from being approved officially next Friday.

(14:52):
You're seeing them minimum wage incrementally increase starting in July,
it will be twenty two fifty.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Where's it now?

Speaker 8 (15:00):
It's just below that, okay, but by twenty twenty eight
it will be thirty dollars an hour.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
And is it just a specific area just around the airport.

Speaker 8 (15:08):
It's the entire city for hotels that have sixty rooms
or more. Oh, it's so almost every hotel really, Yeah,
a lot of hotels. But if you're a smaller hotel
and say you've got a yeah, I got a small
hotel has twenty four rooms in it.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
You know, we do what we can. But I got
three of those. Oh so they're gonna nail you for that. Yeah,
no way. So even if you have you know, you
don't have sixty rooms, but in total you have sixty rooms,
you're gonna get hit.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
That's outrageous.

Speaker 8 (15:35):
And there were only a few council members who spoke
passionately against it, saying, look, the situation's bad right now.
This guy from the Hollywood Chamber said something very interesting
as well, Who's like, look look at your own budget,
La City Hall.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
If you guys are screwed.

Speaker 8 (15:48):
You can see the riding on the wall of the
economic conditions right now, and you are forcing a lot
of hotel owners and small businesses at the airport to
make some tough decisions ahead. On the other hand, the
workers are very happy. Here is what one of their
union representatives had to say at City Hall today, Like.

Speaker 10 (16:04):
Chicking little, the industry always claims the sky is falling
whenever it is asked to do right by its workers.
They say, paying workers more and ensuring they have health
insurance will be the final blow. Please spare us, the
fear bound grey. You know what's not falling, CEO pay and.

Speaker 8 (16:25):
Stock prices, So they are going to have to be
paying more for insurance as well. And a lot of
these small businesses say we cannot afford that. In fact,
one large hotel operator who's planning to expand one of
the hotels down the street outside universals says, the Hilton,
ok right, the Universal Hilton.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Right, We're not going to do it. Oh, really, is
that right?

Speaker 8 (16:44):
Some of these big hotels have deals with the Olympics already, okay,
and they might try to back out of that because
they're not going to be able to fulfill their promises
because they're worried about paying their own bills.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Now okay, So here here's what we're going to run into.
First of all, a thirty percent increase is a lot,
but there were also down in tourism to begin with.
A lot of Canadians aren't coming down anymore, a lot
of Europeans aren't coming out because they think La was
destroyed in the fires, which it wasn't. And so we're

(17:16):
going to have fewer people and we're going to be
paying more thirty dollars an hour.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
I don't know how this city is going to survive this.
That's what other people were saying today. In fact, we
heard from La Tourism, the tourism and Convention Center Bureau people.
They were there and they didn't take a position on this.
They were just sharing facts. And it's not just international
travelers not coming to La the way that they were,
maybe because of a change in the White House and

(17:43):
some of the rhetoric that's gone on there, or just
general economic conditions. Americans aren't coming to La they were.
They gave specific markets. Fewer people coming from New York,
fewer people from Miami, fewer people from Washington, d C.
They are not coming here the way they were coming
last year. And that is because of perhaps a perception
of Los Angeles right now, coupled with people's own economic

(18:05):
uncertainty that they're dealing with. So when all of that
adds together to a bad economic climate for these specific
businesses airport stuff and hotels, now their bills are going
up anyway because the city is mandating that they pay
their employees. When we're talking about maids, we're talking and
these are respectable jobs, right, these are jobs that are

(18:26):
important for these folks.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Right, that's not a lot of money. But at thirty
dollars an hour, I know, we got to take a
break here, But at thirty dollars an hour, eight hour
day is too forty, and that you work at ten
hour day, so there's another time and a half for
those two hours. That's ninety. Let me see, thirty and
thirty plus thirty is ninety. So that's three hundred and
thirty dollars a day. If you work six days a week,

(18:49):
fifty two weeks a year, you're making one hundred and
three thousand dollars a year. Not at thirty dollars an hour. Sure,
I think you work if you work ten hours a day,
ten hours day days a week, there you go and
you you know, you just grind.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
You're branking one hundred and three thousand dollars a year. Yeah,
it seems like but you know what, but but real quickly,
La is a billion dollars shy, probably much more or
in Irvine, in the little small town of Irvine, they're
putting a billion dollars into their local park. It's different.
It's different living in Orange County than it is in La. Monks,

(19:23):
thank you plus seven to nine on Saturday Urday Night.
We'll talk more about this on Saturday Night. You got munks.

Speaker 7 (19:29):
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Speaker 1 (19:35):
The Conway Show. It's Wednesday and crime everywhere, prime all
over the place. But in my old stomping ground, Seal Beach,
they're not going to tolerate that anymore. In Seal Beach,
their their new slogan is don't steal in Seal and
then they leave off the beach. Don't steal in Seal.

(19:57):
They're gonna arrest you. They're not gonna ticket you. They're
gonna to throw you in jail for stealing. So Seal Beach,
near the Ocean, a little bit the south of Long
Beach north of Huntington Beach, right there on the coast.
Beautiful town. He used to live there for about two
or three years. We're rented an apartment and then we

(20:18):
moved into a two bedroom sort of townhouse for a while,
and I enjoyed it. I loved it, and I wish
I would have stayed, but we didn't. We left and
we came to the San Fernando Valley.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Regrets.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, I've had a few. But Seal Beach is
not tolerating any more of this crime. They're done with shoplifters. Beware,
if you get caught stealing in Seal Beach, you will
go to jail.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's all part of the new zero tolerance crackdown on
retail theft.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
KTLA five s orange Cannabireau chief Chip yo shooting us
live now in Seal Beach with more.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
I guess they caught one.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Right as chip Yos was coming on. The cops were
responding code three to somewhere and they blasted those sirens
right when he started his live remote, his live report.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
I couldn't even hear what you say.

Speaker 11 (21:12):
Now we are here in Sale Beach. That's obviously something else.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
I think it was Charles Nelson Riley laughing in the background.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
I guess they caught wood.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
So Glenn Walkers that, I guess they caught one. And
then is that Charles Nelson Riley in the background.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I guess they caught wood.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, Charles Nelson Riley, I.

Speaker 12 (21:32):
Couldn't even hear what you say.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
We are here in Sale Beach.

Speaker 11 (21:35):
That's obviously something else going on. Maybe we'll have to
go follow them see where they're going. But yeah, Seal
Beach Police here. They are not the only department to
use their social media to reach out to their residence,
but they're also trying to reach out to thieves who
may be thinking about visiting here. In the big picture,
a woman arrested for stealing flowers and merchandise from a

(21:55):
target wouldn't get much notice, even on Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Kind Of something sad about that, right, a woman in
her forties or late for forties, early fifties on Mother's
Day with stealing flowers and Mother's Day gifts, What does
that tell you? Well, that tells you there's really nobody
laying any any gifts on her in her real life,
so and she either can't afford them or doesn't want

(22:22):
to pay for them, so she's stealing her own Mother's
Day gift. That is southern California.

Speaker 11 (22:28):
In the big picture, a woman arrested for stealing flowers
and merchandise from a target wouldn't get much notice even
on Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
She did it on Mother's Day. Well, maybe she had
a different interpretation of what Mother's Day was. Mother's Day.
Mothers get treated right, mothers get the free merchandise.

Speaker 11 (22:46):
But the Seal Beach Police Department put it, come to
see in Seal Beach, you will go to jail. Don't
steal in Seal has become a theme. That's their theme
down there, and don't steal in Seal has become a
theme on the department social media pages.

Speaker 10 (23:04):
New laws.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
These are two young ladies in a cop car. They
didn't know they're being videotaped, and one of them said,
just for it's a felony. She said to her friend,
it's a felony. We just stole stuff and now it's
a felony, and her friend's like, yeah, there's some new laws.
New laws and new laws bad vibes.

Speaker 11 (23:27):
In this post in December, the apartment highlighted Prop thirty six,
the new voter approved law that allows more repeat theft
defenses to be prosecuted as felonies. Since the new law
took effect, Seal Beach says it has made twenty six
felony theft arrests that previously would have only resulted in

(23:47):
people being sighted and released.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, the rule up until now was you get a
ticket and you have to return the merchandise, but you
don't get arrested. Now they're going to arrest you. But
will that have any Has that deterred any body from stealing?

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Probably?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Not.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Has choplifting gone down? Okay, there's a good question that's
perfect timing. Has shoplifting gone down because of this? I
would say no.

Speaker 11 (24:14):
Has choplifting gone down since Prop thirty six here in
Seal Beach?

Speaker 5 (24:17):
You know, unfortunately we really haven't seen shoplifting go down yet.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
But there you go. Nothing deters the shoplifter. Nothing.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
But we have seen is our rest go up. So
our hope is that as more people come to Seal
Beach and actually do get arrested, the message will get
out that the Seal Beach is not the place to
come and commit crimes.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
Now.

Speaker 11 (24:38):
Back in March, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer wrote
an op ed for the Orange County Register in which
he said to that point his office had filed more
than two hundred and fifty felony theft cases under Prop.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Thirty six, and.

Speaker 11 (24:51):
Of those, he says, dozens of people have already pled
guilty to felonies that previously would have only been misdemeanors.
From now reporting here in Seal Beach, chip Yos to
Kate's e LA five.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
All right, that's the new slogan in Seal Beach, and this.
Don't steal in Seal Beach. They're going to arrest you.
So you got to come up to LA to do
your stealing. They'll just give you a ticket and you
can be on your way, but not Seal Beach. Not
Seal Beach, they'll arrest you. Stay out of Seal Beach.
Do not commit crimes in Seal Beach. They step too quick.

(25:22):
The cops there.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
It is The Conway Show. We continue here. We've got
a lot of crime going on in southern California. Nobody
seems to be able to control it, so we have
to warn you about it because you never know who's
going to be next. There's a guy in Westwood owns
a home, had private security, armed security around his house,
and guess what, they still broke in. So if a

(25:53):
guy who owns a house has armed security and that
doesn't deter criminals from coming in, what chance do we have?
Don't you think about that all the time, Like somebody's
coming into my house tonight, somebody's coming to my business tonight.
Someone's going to knock me off. Once in custody. But this,
this where it happened in Westwood is a very expensive area.

(26:17):
There are zero homes in that area that are under
three million dollars. They go from three to twelve million
dollars in this area, every single home. And yet even
with armed security, guys are breaking in. That's unbelievable.

Speaker 13 (26:33):
Where we're at a home burglary in Westwood. Police say
just after five am they received a burglary call from
a home on Lindbrook Drive. The homeowners say four people
broke into the house while they were home, and at
some point a private security guard opened fire on the suspects.
One suspect was taken into custody, but police say they
are looking for the other three. There are no reports
of injuries.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
So even if you have armed security around you, you
still could get robbed. Home invasions they're everywhere. Now, I
will tell you, I will grant you this. There are
not enough criminals out there to get all of us,
but they're gonna get some of us. And this guy

(27:14):
went to bed last night thinking there's no way that
people are coming into his house. He has an armed
security guard, he probably has the best cameras, the best alarm,
the best equipment to keep people out. And yet here
they are. They showed up, all right. The man was charged.
The man was charged with the murder of the seventy
nine year old guy who is just cleaning out the

(27:35):
back of his car at a gas station slash car
wash and he gets dragged a quarter mile. He's seventy
nine years old, he's had a nice life and he's
just looking to enjoy himself for the last ten fifteen years.
And they got him. They got him, well, they got

(27:55):
the guy that did this.

Speaker 14 (27:56):
New details on a brutal carjacking in Norco. Charges were
filed this morning against the suspect. Twenty nine year old
Ryan Hewittt is facing a litany of felony charges, including
murder and carjacking with special circumstances of crimes against the
elderly loved ones, say. The victim, James Norman, was getting
ready to meet his family for dinner on Monday and
made a stop at the Arco station on Hidden Valley Parkway.

(28:18):
Authority say. The seventy nine year old Army veteran was
vacuuming the back of his car when Hewitt jumped in
the driver's seat. He took off, with Norman still hanging
out the door, grateful.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
For the people. I hope to meet them that surrounded him.
I'm struggling with this is the daughter, This is the daughter.
They live in Norco. Dad was just cleaning out the
back of his car and now he's dead. Now they
got to deal with this. They have to deal with
the first Birthday, the first Thanksgiving, the first Christmas, or

(28:50):
that dad around, and it's the family will never be
the same, The family dynamic will never be the same
because of the way this dad went out. And so
if they live in Norco, that Hidden Valley Parkway I
think is what it's called. That's the main thoroughfare. They
got to probably use that you know every day, if not,

(29:10):
you know, once or twice a week, and they have
to pass the gas station where their dad was killed,
and they have to look at that all the time
and remember that that day. It's a nightmare for this family.
This is the daughter trying to hold it together. Grateful
for the people.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
I hope to meet them that surrounded him.

Speaker 14 (29:27):
I'm struggling with the vision that I have of how
he went down.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
I imagine he.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Was so scared.

Speaker 14 (29:34):
Investigators they were able to find the car at a
Riverside apartment complex thanks to an air tag his daughter
used to keep track of them. A GoFundMe has been
set up to help the family cover expenses.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
It's a nightmare. It's unbelievable, unbelievable. All right, we got
another crime story here. A gang member arrested in connection
with a fatal shooting Spring.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
Three alleged gang members are facing federal murder and racketeer
charges over shooting Spree and Lancaster. Twenty two year old
Jerry Wimbley Junior and twenty year old Jerry Wimbley the
Third are charged, along with thirty seven year olds Vianni Richardson.
The charge is stemmed from shootings on June twenty fifth
that left two people dead and nearly killed a third.

(30:17):
Authority say the three are members of the PDL Bloodsking
in Pasadena and Analope Valley. Wimbley was the third. Wimbley,
the third was arrested yesterday. The other two were already
in custody.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
It's unbelievable. It's not just here in LA. It's in Lancaster,
it's in Orange County, it's everywhere in southern California. And
so you got to be aware of it. You know,
we don't like to keep banging on you every night
and every day, but there's a lot of crime out there,
a lot of it, and you see a lot of
it in the news, you know, when we're not when
they're not covering Lyle and Eric or p Diddy. Those

(30:51):
are the two big stories going on right now. But
it's you know, I imagine they only cover maybe you know,
two or three of the actual crime that's going on
in La, in southern California. They just don't have enough
time to do them all. They just don't. All right,
Santa Monica is going to try to, I guess, revamp

(31:12):
the place. Nobody's going to Santa Monica Third Street Promenade
anymore because it's dangerous. There's a lot of homelessness, there's
a lot of crime, and the stores have all moved out.
It looks like twenty or thirty forty percent of the
stores have been boarded up. And it's not the same
as when I was younger. We just go to Westwood
when I was in high school, and we'd, you know,

(31:33):
get in a van with the buddies and go to
Westwood every Friday night or Saturday night. And then somebody
got killed in Westwood and everybody stopped going to Westwood
and everybody started going to Third Street Promenade. And then
Third Street Promenade was great. Everybody was down there, everyone's
having a great time. The streets are always filled. And
then it got dangerous. It got dangerous, very few places

(31:54):
to park, a lot of homelessness, a lot of urine,
a lot of feces around, and people said, screw it,
I'm not going to go. But they're going to try
to fix it by opening up the place to more alcohol. Outside.

Speaker 12 (32:06):
For a more than six hour long meeting that city
leaders here in Santa Monica voted unanimously to approve this
new ordinance that would allow people to walk around the
Third Street promenade between a woolshre and a broadway with
alcoholic beverages in hand.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
There you go. What could go wrong with bringing alcohol
onto the streets?

Speaker 7 (32:23):
Now?

Speaker 12 (32:23):
The city is aiming to begin this new program in
early June.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay, it's not the reason why nobody goes to Third
Street Promenade. It's not because you can't drink on the streets.
It's because the surrounding area is filled with dangerous people.
That's why nobody's.

Speaker 12 (32:38):
Going with the Pride on the Promenade event on June
twenty first, the three block zone would be known as
the Outdoor Entertainment Zone, with the goal of increasing foot
traffic and boosting business for local shops. The new ordinance
will allow people to purchase alcoholic beverages from businesses on
the promenade from eight am to two am.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Weight you can get a drink at eight.

Speaker 12 (32:59):
Am on the from eight am to two am.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Wow, man, that's the Who's that? Who's the guy walking
around with a beer at eight am?

Speaker 12 (33:07):
Then carry the drinks and approved to go cups that
are not glass or metal.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Okay, here come all the rules.

Speaker 12 (33:13):
The community, however, has mixed feelings about the decision.

Speaker 15 (33:16):
I want to express my strong support yet again for
the intention behind the entertainment zone, revitalizing our downtown core.
I think we all need to stay focused on what
we're trying to do here. We're trying to revitalize the
downtown core. We're trying to support our small businesses, and
we're trying to bring fun and joy and vibrancy back
to the promenade.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
There aren't enough security or enough staff members to protect
our buildings.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
My building is boarded up. Oh, this is the guy
who owns like four or five businesses in the and
the Third Street promenade area part of it.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
Because storefronts are smashed, that are empty.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
It's unsafe. Participating hear that it's unsafe. The guy who
has a store, I think three or four stores down there.
His opinion of Third Street prom is not, Hey, we
need more alcohol. It's it's unsafe. It's unsafe, it's not
safe to go to. It's unsafe.

Speaker 12 (34:10):
Participating businesses will also be required to check IDs and
provide customers with an official city provided riskband that they
must wear while consuming the drink outdoors. There will also
be clear signs establishing the boundaries of this new entertainment
zone as they come back out here alive. The city
plans to monitor this new program closely, and they say
after six months they'll provide a thorough review and less

(34:32):
know those results.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
All right, there you go, okay, it's it has nothing
to do with drinks. It's just not safe. It's unsafe.
It's unsafe, that's the bottom line. Third Street promen off.
You had kids going there, you know, sixteen, seventeen, eight,
your eighteen year old kids, they want to go to
the Third Street Promenade. You'd be like, oh, no, is
there anything else you can do? Please don't go there.
I don't want to get you. I don't want to
see you killed.

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