January 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Guest: Petros Papadakis joins Tim to discuss the bike pursuit and about on the Dream Center LA & iHeartMedia: Providing Hope and Relief During LA Fires. // Interview with Petros Papadakis continues with Tim. // Guest: Dean Sharp Joins Tim Conway to talk about fast approaching fire hardening frenzies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
A lot going on here in La A lot's happening,
and people are still sort of walking around in a daze,
not knowing what to do, not knowing who to call,
where to stay. You know, when somebody offers their home
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and you stay there, how long do you stay? I
don't know, I don't know. And you know what, there's
an there's an untold story here, CROs. I think a
lot of people aren't talking about. But I bet in
Pacific Palisades in Altadena there are a lot maybe Malibu
as well, there are a lot of homes where mom
and dad were taking care of their parents, their parents,
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you know, the grandparents were staying with them because maybe
they're going through dementia or some kind of you know,
mind and bodies breaks down in between eighty and ninety
and they were staying at their home. And now nobody
has a home, and what do you do You know,
with these people with grandma and grandfather was staying with you.
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They may not know where they are or what's going on.
You can't really explain it to them they don't understand.
They're panicking. God Almighty, I have no idea. There's got
to be a million stories and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
A lot of people, you know, they you know, a
lot of people they want to be sort of the
I don't want to say negative, but they look at
a lot of the aspects, especially Pacific Palisades, a bunch
of rich people, YadA YadA, but especially Alta Dina.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That is not the case. No, not at all. But
I really look, I'm not a huge optimist. I often
see the glasses, you know, broken or half empty. But
I really think, I really truly believe this. I think
there's enough money coming in, and I think there's enough
people who are willing to do the work. I think Palisades, Malibu, Altadena,
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the Eat and Fire Area, parts of Arcadia, parts of Pasadena.
I think it would come back more beautiful than they
were before. I really do. I think they're gonna be
exceptional areas to live in in five to ten, five, seven,
ten years from now, I really do. I think They're
gonna come back in a huge, huge way. There's a
lot of people with still a lot of passion to
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live here in Los Angeles. And let me tell you
why my phone, Oh, it's in my pocket. We're literally looking.
That's where I am in life, and let me tell
you why. Okay, we'll get we'll get to Pedros in
the second yere but in in Saint Paul, in Minneapolis,
Saint Paul. Right now, the weather, okay, the weather for
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this weekend, the high is is minus four and the
low is minus eleven. This weekend in Saint Paul. The
high is minus four on Sunday and the low is
minus eleven. On Monday, the high is minus six and
the low is minus eleven. It's gonna be minus degrees
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of the whole weekend, minus four and minus six or
the highs the highs, all right? Petros is whether he
was at the Dream Center all day long raising tons
of food and money and clothing for the people who've
been burned out and these well us Petros I heard
the show. It sounded great.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh thank you, Jim Ding God dang.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Dong with you, buddy. Did you get a chance to
see the high speed chase or the cops so they
have the motorcycle.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, we tried to monitor that on our phones. We
had it on NBC and then they went into tracking mode.
And then we had it on Channel five and I
guess they went into tracking mode too.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yes, and then I.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Just saw, like I'm on Third Street and Alvarado and
I just saw about fifty cop cars go by in
a line with their lights on. I don't know if
that's related, but I'd like to see those dirt bikes
round it up. I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Hey tell us about the Dream Center for people haven't
been there. Can you give us a description of what's
going on there?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, the Dream Centers at Echo Park. It used to
be a big, giant hospital built in the twenties by
a bunch of Franciscan nuns. They sold it to a
guy named Pastor Matthew Barnett in the nineties and he
just bought it on a wing and a prayer, and
he's created a gigantic organization of charity. There's eighty Dream
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Centers around the country right now. But I think after
COVID people really got an idea in the city or
during COVID, but they could go to the Dream Center
and get fed and get help. And I mean from
everything to gang members, prostitutes, domestic violence, drug addicts. I
mean they have a long term solution or to try
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to help people. And this is just an amazing undertaking.
They've been at it for eight days. They go from
nine am to seven pm and there's a line eight
blocks long of people donating and then there's a line
of eight blocks long of people receiving donations. And it's
an amazing thing. So I want the community come together.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I heard that that people are waiting in line to
donate up to two hours.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Two and a half hours, six blocks. And the people
of Silver Lake and Echo Park have come together in
Unison and saying they don't mind the traffic and however
long it takes to get these people what they need.
And Pastor Matthew went over to a school, a charter
school in Altadena today, Barry from Barry's Tickets to gave
twenty five thousand dollars to buy a bunch of chromebooks
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from Best Buy because all their computers burned. The whole
school burned down. So a lot of good things going
on in the community. The government might be slow, but
community is quick.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That's great. I will tell you my only experience with
the Dream Center, this is before was the Dream Center.
It was a hospital back then, and they did rehab.
My brother was in there, you know, drying out, and
I went to visit him. I was only maybe seventeen
or eighteen. And I get to the lobby. They asked
me about fifty questions and then a nurse says, okay,
fall to me. And I thought I was going to
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go see my brother. And she shuts the door and
she hands me a robe and she goes, here, take
your clothes off and put this on. I'm like, wait what?
And they were trying to they thought I was checking in.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You tried to admit yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They tried to admit me over checking up my checking
out my brother. I got the hell out of there.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, they probably saw that, you know, you were in
some kind of need. That'd be right.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
They were right.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I had a relative in the in the very famous
Betty Ford Center, and I know where it is now
because I mean, it doesn't I drove by it maybe
a thousand times in my life out in the desert.
I didn't know it was there because it doesn't really
have a sign. And I visited a relative and the
maybe even smuggled in some magazine pornography. When I visited
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a relative, and it was weird. You know it's one
hundred and tent out there in the desert, standing outside
and shivering with with two sweatshirts on and no no coke,
no coffee. I all just Chris Crystal Light.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You know, my uncle is the only guy in the
history of the of the Betty Ford Center who knew
the catch of the day, true true story. It is
there quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
A nice hall of it today.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
He didn't understand though, that when he checked in for
drinking that you could also you couldn't do coke and gamble.
He thought those were side bets. You could continue.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
You know, whatever we're doing remotes, you know, whether we're
Matt and I are at a BJ's or you know
wherever where are some brewery somewhere. You know, there's always
you know the promotions, people that slip away to smoke
a doobie, you know, but that's their ill advised at
the Dream Center. You don't want to.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So the Dream Center is open. Give me the hours again.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Nine to seven. If you need something, If you want
to donate, you can go to Hampi. Some of the
la sports dot com keyword donate and it goes to
the Dream Center. You can bring gift cards. They need water,
they need baby supplies, wipes, diapers, pet food, things of that.
I think they're good on clothes, but other than that, yeah,
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they need it all.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I like that. Also a lot of these donation centers,
you know, they need the bigger diapers for these bigger babies.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Five and six they said, yeah, for the big babies,
big baby Jesus, big ass babies. That's the saust.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So Hey Petro.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So what's going on with that? Safe? Are they still
monitoring it?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The chase is over. They've lost the motorcycles. They went
in under a bridge, they never came out, and everyone's
gone home for dinner.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think, how do you lose twenty five motorcycles?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I know, I think they're just too burnt out on
following these guys. They got other crap going on. You know,
a lot of looting going on. You know, they say
that there's you know, ninety seven people have been arrested
for looting. I always multiply that number by ten and
I think you get a good idea of how much
looting is actually going on.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, Yeah, there's no doubt about it. There's been a
lot of I mean I remember the La riots and
we all had to go sleep at my restaurant, my
dad's restaurant. Wow, sleeping bags, And somebody threw a manhole
cover through our window, but they didn't get any of
our black lava.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Did it get any of that lemon drop soup?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's not what it's called. It's called plemon soup.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
We're just gonna go. Were just gonna do the same round, robin.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's right, he look different, audience. Did you guys make
the hummus there or did you order it from some
hummus factory?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
We didn't serve hummus because hummus isn't Greek, and you
know you're being a you know you're being.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It's it's it's Middle Eastern. Yeah. Yeah. We serve two
different bread dips. One is called satziki spelled with a T.
It's the white yogurt sauce that you'll find on your yido. Yes,
And the other one, often confused with hammas because it's
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made with bread crumbs, is made with red caviar, bread crumbs,
olive oil, and lemon. That's called tamu salata.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Did you make it there at the restaurant and you
buy it at seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
We made it. There's no tam factory and you have
to make it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You didn't buy it at the seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
No, we didn't go down the street to the Circle K.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'm sorry I missed that restaurant. I heard a lot
of great stories about hold on. Let me put you
on hold real quick. Petros is with us where he's
on his fighting his way back to sam Pedro where
he lives, and we have him on the program here
we're live. He went did an awesome job with Matt
money Smith today at the Dream Center.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Petros is with us from the Petros and Money Show.
Petros Papadakis. That guys the best. Hey Petros, Uh before
we maybe get into uh football, because we got football
games coming up. You're a football guy?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh yeah, did you know us so much?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Did you know Bob Youker he passed away to him.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
No, No, I didn't know him. I was just a
fan like everybody else. David Basse knew him and then
interviewed him. Uh, well, yeah, because he travels with the
Dodgers and Yuker I mean deep into his age. Was
the play by play guy for the Milwaukee Brewers, not
just mister Belvedere and TV commercials and a great baseball here,
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but he really was a great play by play guy.
He was.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He was the play by play guy all the way
up until Milwaukee, uh lost to the Mets this year.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah. I mean, so he's been working, you know for
I mean, not traveling and all that, kind of like
fid but but he's been working. And he really was
a great lesson for people today. Yeah, I just broke
the law. What are you gonna do? Uh? Sorry, I'm
driving home.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Are you saying that to a cop?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
No? Some punk as punk you knew it wasn't a
cop because the horn was like hey, but you know, no,
I was just saying, it's a great I have a point,
all right. It's a great lesson for people today. Tim,
you know, not to take yourself too seriously. Bob Buker
was a great, great humorist and didn't take himself too seriously.
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These guys would call play by play today act like
they're signing the Magna carta YEA.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Plus, he was a big you know, he was a
game show Hostney hosts a newlywed game.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Uh, I don't know who that?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Bob Banks Banks? Yeah, never mind?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, then you know we had Bob Barker on the
show a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Bob Barker wasn't Bob Barker the voice of the Milwaukee Brewers?
Do I get these guys all mixed up?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I don't know. Let's go to Ohio State, Irish. What
do you see? What do you know? I need to
get this game right to get even for the year.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Well, a lot of people obviously, Ohio State's probably the
most talented team in college football this year. That doesn't
mean they're the best, but they are the most talented
and they have a really good play caller in Chip Kelly.
That being said, they're kind of like front runners a
little bit. They got run over by a really mediocre
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Michigan team and since then they've used that negativity but
and had success in the playoffs. But Notre Dame is
very interesting. Notre Dame is like a Cinderella story this year,
which is hard for people to accept because Notre Dame
football is such a juggernaut and it really is the
most recognized brand in college football. They have their own
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TV deal with NBC. But because they're not in the SEC,
and because ESPN doesn't like promote or push them because
they don't make any money off them, Notre Dame's kind
of flowing under the radar this year. They're a tough team.
They run the ball, they play great defense, and they
might be able to do what Michigan did to Ohio State,
which is just punch them in the gut over and
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over again like Rocky One and break them up inside.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What about the Rams? Are they going to beat the Philly?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Is it in Philadelphia?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Well yet no, I don't know. Yeah, I think they can.
I happen to think the Philadelphia quarterback is kind of
limited in some ways hurts, but he's very good. They've
proven that he's an NFL quarterback and a very worthy one.
But I think that the Rams love. The thing I
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like about the Rams, and you know, I'm not a
Rams fan since John Robinson was fired many years ago,
but the one thing I think about the Rams and
that I really like, and I find their quarterbacks insufferable
because of his wife's podcast, Kelly Stafford. But the thing
I really like about the Rams is they have this
no name defense. It's the cheapest defense in the NFL.
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A bunch of players that people don't recognize. Quinton Lake
is one of them, a guy from UCLA who played
a modern day and their guys just they've banded together
and become one of the best defenses in the NFL.
And it's really kind of a blue collar, hard hat
type of deal. And I hope that they're able to
confound that Philadelphia offense and if they can, Jearn mcvale
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called it enough place to win the game. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, you know, the Rams, they were spoke when Aaron
Donald left. Nobody everyone expected that defense to fall apart, correct,
and it got better.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Right, That's what I like about it. That being said,
you know, I don't want to say anything good about
the Rams because it still bunds me that when they
won the Super Bowl. You literally watched the tape like
six hundred times.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Lea Warren out, Honey. I'm a big Petros and Money fan.
I was listening to the show live from the Dream Center.
You guys knocked it out, and I love the fact
that iHeartMedia has a great relationship with the Dream Center.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, really started through Clinton Carlson and a guy named
Justin Turner, the great Dodger baseball player. Massat's relationship with
Turner led to a relationship with Dave Leeese and the
Dream Center and look at right now is a big
partnership national partnership with iHeartMedia. Yeah, it's pretty impressive. I
mean there's a lot of charities out there. This one
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seems to be pretty legit. You see what they do
on a ground level, and it's impressive.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Hey, how real quickly before we go, how's your knife collection?
How many knives are you up to?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Knives out? I've not gotten a new knife in a while,
but I'm always in the market if somebody wants to buy,
I'd like a knife that is sheese. You know, it's
like like like one that I un shees. I don't
think that one on my hip that has a sheath
O you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right right right? Yeah, sleeve or whatever. But how many knives?
How many knives do you own?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't know, maybe twelve?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh that's not bad. I thought you're like one hundred.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, I mean if you count my kitchen knives and
stuff like that, that's.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Not We're not counting your kitchen knives.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Buddy, Well, you don't think I could do some damage.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I don't know. With the butter knives.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Pulls a knife on you, it means he knows how
to use it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Hey, I will say this though, a sharp knife in
the in the kitchen is worth its weight in gold.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah. You see that tommercial with that guy from Christmas?
He bought his wife bought him that hatchet. He's so excited.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
That's remember that commercial starts with I don't know why
my wife bought me this, and then he turns out
to be the best thing that's ever happened in his life.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, he's like, God, I love her. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Have you seen the commercial online where the woman talks
about smelling your sack? If you rub your hands down
between your legs, you smell your Is it a Schnitzel sack?
Have you seen that one?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You know what that?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, it's kind of interesting, Bunny. I appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I don't know what she says that. It grosses me
out every time I watch it. Go Petros and Money,
thanks for coming on. I'm glad you guys did the
remote today at the at the Dream Center.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well, ding Dong didn't you go out there.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't know. I don't know. We're not We're not
scheduled to go out there. I don't know why we're not.
Everyone else has been out there. Brooker and Striker been
out there. You guys have been out there. We gotta
get out there. Gotta get out there, big boy, big boy,
big boy.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I heard from Kriss FM. Got lost in the bowels
by the boiler room.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Hey, we had Valentine do news the other night on
this station. That was kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, you know, I thought I was special when they
asked me to do it a couple of times, and
now everybody's doing it, and I just feel like, you're
not funny. I thought I was special.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah you're not, but you're special to me. That's gotta
be something. Alright, you're the best, dude. Thanks for coming on, buddy.
All right, tig talk Petros Petros with the Petros and
Money Show. You know, Richie came in about an hour
ago and said, hey, do you want to have Peters on?
And I'm like, what is something? Petros or something? Now,
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what'd you call him? What'd you call him?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Richie?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I said Petros? No, you didn't, you said Petros or
Petros Heroes. Maybe I was trying to say his last name. Okay,
all right, all right, we come back. We're gonna have
Dean Sharp on. That guy's great. He's gonna tell you
what you do with your house, how to rebuild, how
to fire proof it. A lot of information over the
past weekend. We'll try to contense it all in the
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next two segments. This guy's great, he'll have a lot
of information for you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It is The Conway Show with over twelve thirteen, fourteen
thousand homes that it burned to the ground. We like
to give you as much information as possible. Dean Sharp
is with us. The house whispered Dean, how you, Bob?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
How you?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I'm okay. I got a questions for you. Do we
have enough home builders and people that know what they're
doing to rebuild all these homes in LA We'll find them. Really,
will they be imported? You think no?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Not the contractors. Some of the labor might be, but
not the builders. There they're around, they're around. Do you
think people will have to I mean, you know will builders.
Obviously they're gonna you know, they're going to be people
in front of the line, people that get to the
builders quickly. And then you know, some builders may not
be able to start on a project for another two years. Yeah,
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some for some people. If you want a particular builder
and you're like, this is the person, this is who's
got to build my house, you.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Might have to get in line. Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
So the same is true with your favorite designers, by
the way, right, that's right, Okay, that's right.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I get that. I get that. I was I got
an email or text from a buddy of mine said,
you did an outstanding job over the weekend talking about
how to fireproof your home. I've seen three different ways.
I've seen the pump that goes in the pool and
hoses your house down. I've seen sprinklers on the house,
and then the coding that you talked about, about, you know,
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coding your house to fireproof it. Are all three of
those acceptable or any one of them better than the others?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
That's what we're going to be talking about on Sunday, Okay,
because honestly, honestly, him, some of these extreme measures that
people are getting into now I'm a little concerned. I'm
concerned because it's a fire hardening frenzy that's starting to
happen as we're coming out of these fires, and unfortunately,
there's just there's kind of a lot of bs. And
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I'm not saying that anybody else is out there directly
taking advantage of people. I'm just saying there's a lot
of quote unquote creative ideas that people are coming up
with that actually aren't based in the reality of fighting
a fire.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And so I.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Intentionally thought we would focus this weekend, especially Sunday show,
on separating the fact from fiction when it comes to
fire hardening your home. Fire hardening your home is not
that difficult, right. You do not have to buy your
own private fire hydrant, you don't have to get your
own fire fighting gear. You don't have to bury a
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ten thousand gallon personal reservue war or have a giant
pump that pulls your pool water out and sprays it
all over your house. You do not have to do
those things. Then those things, actually, when you start looking
at the details, gets a little questionable. Really well, I
mean think of it this way. Okay, Let's say that
you decide to go all out, and you're gonna get
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yourself a ten thousand gallon reservoir of water on your property. Okay,
you're not going to rely on the city water system
because who knows it might go down. You're gonna have
your own pump, your own generator, all right, and then
you're gonna have a ample sprayers spraying out over your house. Okay, Well,
the question is when are you going to activate that thing?
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Because ten thousand gallons of water if you've got maybe
fifty gallons per minute of water coming out of sprayers,
and that's what you want, ample water, You've got two
hundred minutes of water, right, two hundred minutes. Now, You're
either going to make a choice now, one you figure
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out how to activate it remotely, or two you're gonna
stay way too long at your house. Okay, wait way
too long for the fire to come too close before
you turn it on. In other words, you're gonna ignore
evacuation orders and leave at the last minute, which is
not wise at all, right, risking your life exactly, or
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you're gonna leave when you're told to leave, you're gonna
turn on the unit, and if the fire does not
show up in the first two and a half hours,
your ten thousand dollars investment went to was useless. Use
the water's gone, it's all out, and now the fire
shows up. So that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
You gotta think I'm with you things through.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
And now you know also again Dean Sharvis with the
house whisper, you know, ten thousand gallons of water is
eighty thousand pounds. You better have been reinforced the ground
around that, or that could also split and break open
and flood your house. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I mean, it's just it's a whole thing. And I
don't want to in any way, shape or form give
our listeners the false narrative that this is the kind
of extreme measures you need to go to if your
house is not going to be, you know, taken over
by the next wildfire event. The fact of the matter
is that the most important thing everybody can do is
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get fireproof ember proof events for their attic and the
crawl space on their house. And I mean this, I
cannot emphasize this enough. Let me let's can I just
give you the statistics so we can all marinate on it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well, So we take a break and then come back
and do it absolutely. Okay, all right, Dean Sharvis with us.
We'll keep them all through the break here, and he'll
come back and tell us how we can put in
these new fireproof vents in our house. I have got
to do that because my wife is flipped out about it,
and rightfully so I think I'm flipped out about it too.
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I know Krozier flips out pretty easy. And we've got
to We've got to make sure that we do protect
our homes because we could all be next, all of us.
We're live on KFI Am six forty. We'll continue with
Dean Sharp. Also before we get the Crozier here. News
just came in. President Joe Biden will not enforce a
ban on the social media app TikTok that is set
(26:21):
to take effect the day before he leaves office on Monday.
So that's coming in from NBC News And so again,
President Joe Biden will not enforce the ban on the
social media app TikTok. Good news for kids and good
news for China. He says he's gonna leave it up
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to Trump. Yeah, everybody celebrates.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI am,
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
What a crazy week. We continue with Dean Sharp. Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper. He's on every Saturday morning from six
to eight am and then Sunday from nine am until noon,
and originally he was on nine am till eleven am.
And the only way you expand your weekend show, the
only there's only two ways to expand your weekend show
here at kfive. And I know because I didn't expand mine.
(27:14):
You are good with advertisers. You bring in advertising or
two ratings go through the roof, or a combination of both.
And evidently Dean had the secret to that, because I
did not. All right, so Dean, let's get talking about Holmes.
You were gonna lay some pretty good information on us
on how to fireproof your home with the vents.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Yeah, exactly. So I'm concerned as we're turning the corner
here with the fires, which is great, it's great, but
I'm concerned that the frenzy of fire hardening that's gonna
kind of wash over southern California is going to be
very you know, non discerning and based in ignorance. And
so I want everybody to hear me right now, Everybody
to hear me. All of these what I call gimmicks
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and very expensive heroic measures and weird ideas, they are
all focused on defeating They're all focused on defeating flames, right, Okay,
And you're thinking, I love that you call the weird ideas. Well,
there there's all sorts of weird. I've seen so many
weird ideas just pop up on social media this week.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
But they're all focused on defeating flames. And I know
you're sitting there thinking, well, yeah, Dean, it's a fire, right, hey, flames.
You know, listen to me, because what I'm about to
say is true always. It is true of the Palisades fire,
and it is true of the Eton fire. It was
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true of the Wolsey fire six years ago. It is
simply true. Ninety percent of the homes that burn in
a wildfire event ignite long before the fire line arrives
at the property.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Ninety percent.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
So the question is what is the threat for a
home a suburban and an urban area. What is the threat?
The threat is not flames, eventually, sure, the threat is embers.
Embers flying through the air, whipped up by the perfect
storm of all the crazy winds that we had. But
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I want you to imagine, and you know what, if
you talk to fire officials, they will tell you they'll
be very honest with you. What if most of the
homes in the Palisades had spent just a few hundred
dollars and had emberproof vents on their homes. What if
most of the frontline homes in the Eton fire had
emberproof vents just a few hundred dollars worth of work. Okay,
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imagine two scenarios. One only ten percent of the homes
being burnt that were burnt, or even in a perfect windstorm,
imagine that fire moving ninety percent slower across those neighborhoods
than it did. Because this is simply the fact, and
this is what every fire instructor, every firefighter will tell you.
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Prevent embers from entering your home, and the way to
do it is to start with emberproof, addic vents, and
if you are on a race foundation house crawl space,
ventce the vents around your home, you emberproof them.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, well that sounds like a great solution. But I
got a couple of questions for you. First of all,
why do we have I looked around my house the
other day there are thirty e fing vents.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Why do I have thirty events? You have thirty vents?
Because the current building code, and has been this way
for a long time, has a ventilation standard based on,
by the way, the East Coast conditions. So no, I
don't think it actually applies as well to California, but nevertheless,
it's the universal building Code. It has a standard for
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vent in your attic. It's based on a ratio of
the square footage space in your attic. For every one
hundred and fifty square feet of attic space, you are
supposed to have one square foot of ventilation for that
attic space.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And what and what happens if you don't have any
vents in the and the attic gets hot? Isn't that
just an insulation problem? You spend more on air conditioning.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
You're going to spend on more on air conditioning, You're
going to spend more on heating. You have a you know,
a material problem up in the attic. Because when we
talk about your attic getting hot, I mean even vented
during the summer, the attic could be one hundred and
thirty one hundred and forty five degrees. Imagine if it
is not vented. Okay, So yeah, it's a problem all
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the way around. An attic that's built like that has
to be vented, and as a result, it provides entrance
for the very worst kind of fire that firefighters can't
get to, and that is when embers get into your
attic and they start to burn.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Right, So you're talking not only the roof fence, but
the crawl space vents as well.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Crawl space vents, any event on the roof, at the
top of the roof, and under the eaves, all of
them need to be transitioned. So my advice, honestly to
anybody who lives in southern California, if you live within
two to three miles of an open space, which is
virtually everybody in southern California, then it would be whove
you if you are serious about hardening your home against fires,
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that you transition at some point to ember free events. Now,
the cool thing is there are companies like here, I'm
gonna give a shout out to brand Guard Vents. Brand
Guard Vents makes not only new construction vents, but they
also make materials that will retro fit behind your existing
vents so you don't have to be tearing up your
house in order to get this done. And they've got
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recommended installers who can do it too. The fact of
the matter is, it's not that difficult to get this
stuff done to your house, and it just might, in fact,
very likely change of your property. Just this one thing. Now,
it's not the only thing to do, but there is nothing,
nothing more important than this. And I'll tell you this.
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I can't get specifics about names and such, but of
the clients that Brand Guard had, the Vent clients in
the Palisades, okay, to my knowledge, they only lost one house.
Oh my god, those houses still standing. And the house
that they lost was because a house next door I think,
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if I'm not mistaken, a chimney fell over after it
burnt to the ground, fell over and broke the roof
open on this house.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
There's nothing you can do about that. But the fact
of the.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Matter is Vanguard, just this one vent company, has a
ton of saves in the Palisades. So we need to
really communicate this to people. It really makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
And I like the fact that you pointed out that
the fire, if everyone had those vents, the fire would
slow by ninety percent when you put those vents in
your home. You're putting them in for your home and
to prevent your neighbor from dealing with nightmares as well.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I mean, let's face it, if a fire is sweeping
across a neighborhood driven by winds, and all it has
to feed on are a few trees and some grass
and some shrubs, but it can't get inside the houses,
that is a very short lived, very what we might
call a meager event.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Right, let me ask you a question. My wife thought
I was a moron on this, well, on occasion, but
on this particular thing that I told her when those
fires were acting up, I told her, I said, I'm
going to go to the roof and I'm going to
put white gorilla tape over all of the vents. Would
that have helped? Yes, it would.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
I mean if all else fails, if all else fails
and you have not done this, okay, if you haven't
upgraded your vents, and you know that a fire is coming,
and I don't want you to be unsafe, but any
event that you can reasonably reach, just cover it with something.
Cover it with a piece of dry walk with lisa wood,
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cover it with duct tape. I don't care what you
can take it down two weeks later. It doesn't matter
cover those events because again people are thinking, well those
aren't fireproofmn too. No, it's just an ember, Okay, when
it's flying through the air, it's just a member. But
when it gets into your house, it becomes ninety percent
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of the household damage that these fires create.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Buddy, I appreciate you coming on. We'll talk to you
next week and I'll be listening to this Saturday and Sunday.
I always love having you on. Thanks Bro, Thanks Bun.
All Right, Mo Kelly is not up next, Mark, what's
going on with Kelly? We got Chris Meryltonnight, Chris Marylton. Okay, right,
he's coming up with all of Mo's team right here
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A lot going on here in La A lot's happening,
and people are still sort of walking around in a daze,
not knowing what to do, not knowing who to call,
where to stay. You know, when somebody offers their home
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and you stay there, how long do you stay? I
don't know, I don't know. And you know what, there's
an there's an untold story here, CROs. I think a
lot of people aren't talking about. But I bet in
Pacific Palisades in Altadena there are a lot maybe Malibu
as well, there are a lot of homes where mom
and dad were taking care of their parents, their parents,
(00:47):
you know, the grandparents were staying with them because maybe
they're going through dementia or some kind of you know,
mind and bodies breaks down in between eighty and ninety
and they were staying at their home. And now nobody
has a home, and what do you do You know,
with these people with grandma and grandfather was staying with you.
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They may not know where they are or what's going on.
You can't really explain it to them they don't understand.
They're panicking. God Almighty, I have no idea. There's got
to be a million stories and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
A lot of people, you know, they you know, a
lot of people they want to be sort of the
I don't want to say negative, but they look at
a lot of the aspects, especially Pacific Palisades, a bunch
of rich people, YadA YadA, but especially Alta Dina.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That is not the case. No, not at all. But
I really look, I'm not a huge optimist. I often
see the glasses, you know, broken or half empty. But
I really think, I really truly believe this. I think
there's enough money coming in, and I think there's enough
people who are willing to do the work. I think Palisades, Malibu, Altadena,
(01:52):
the Eat and Fire Area, parts of Arcadia, parts of Pasadena.
I think it would come back more beautiful than they
were before. I really do. I think they're gonna be
exceptional areas to live in in five to ten, five, seven,
ten years from now, I really do. I think They're
gonna come back in a huge, huge way. There's a
lot of people with still a lot of passion to
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live here in Los Angeles. And let me tell you
why my phone, Oh, it's in my pocket. We're literally looking.
That's where I am in life, and let me tell
you why. Okay, we'll get we'll get to Pedros in
the second yere but in in Saint Paul, in Minneapolis,
Saint Paul. Right now, the weather, okay, the weather for
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this weekend, the high is is minus four and the
low is minus eleven. This weekend in Saint Paul. The
high is minus four on Sunday and the low is
minus eleven. On Monday, the high is minus six and
the low is minus eleven. It's gonna be minus degrees
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of the whole weekend, minus four and minus six or
the highs the highs, all right? Petros is whether he
was at the Dream Center all day long raising tons
of food and money and clothing for the people who've
been burned out and these well us Petros I heard
the show. It sounded great.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh thank you, Jim Ding God dang.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Dong with you, buddy. Did you get a chance to
see the high speed chase or the cops so they
have the motorcycle.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, we tried to monitor that on our phones. We
had it on NBC and then they went into tracking mode.
And then we had it on Channel five and I
guess they went into tracking mode too.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yes, and then I.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Just saw, like I'm on Third Street and Alvarado and
I just saw about fifty cop cars go by in
a line with their lights on. I don't know if
that's related, but I'd like to see those dirt bikes
round it up. I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Hey tell us about the Dream Center for people haven't
been there. Can you give us a description of what's
going on there?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, the Dream Centers at Echo Park. It used to
be a big, giant hospital built in the twenties by
a bunch of Franciscan nuns. They sold it to a
guy named Pastor Matthew Barnett in the nineties and he
just bought it on a wing and a prayer, and
he's created a gigantic organization of charity. There's eighty Dream
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Centers around the country right now. But I think after
COVID people really got an idea in the city or
during COVID, but they could go to the Dream Center
and get fed and get help. And I mean from
everything to gang members, prostitutes, domestic violence, drug addicts. I
mean they have a long term solution or to try
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to help people. And this is just an amazing undertaking.
They've been at it for eight days. They go from
nine am to seven pm and there's a line eight
blocks long of people donating and then there's a line
of eight blocks long of people receiving donations. And it's
an amazing thing. So I want the community come together.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I heard that that people are waiting in line to
donate up to two hours.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Two and a half hours, six blocks. And the people
of Silver Lake and Echo Park have come together in
Unison and saying they don't mind the traffic and however
long it takes to get these people what they need.
And Pastor Matthew went over to a school, a charter
school in Altadena today, Barry from Barry's Tickets to gave
twenty five thousand dollars to buy a bunch of chromebooks
(05:29):
from Best Buy because all their computers burned. The whole
school burned down. So a lot of good things going
on in the community. The government might be slow, but
community is quick.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That's great. I will tell you my only experience with
the Dream Center, this is before was the Dream Center.
It was a hospital back then, and they did rehab.
My brother was in there, you know, drying out, and
I went to visit him. I was only maybe seventeen
or eighteen. And I get to the lobby. They asked
me about fifty questions and then a nurse says, okay,
fall to me. And I thought I was going to
(06:01):
go see my brother. And she shuts the door and
she hands me a robe and she goes, here, take
your clothes off and put this on. I'm like, wait what?
And they were trying to they thought I was checking in.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You tried to admit yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They tried to admit me over checking up my checking
out my brother. I got the hell out of there.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, they probably saw that, you know, you were in
some kind of need. That'd be right.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
They were right.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I had a relative in the in the very famous
Betty Ford Center, and I know where it is now
because I mean, it doesn't I drove by it maybe
a thousand times in my life out in the desert.
I didn't know it was there because it doesn't really
have a sign. And I visited a relative and the
maybe even smuggled in some magazine pornography. When I visited
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a relative, and it was weird. You know it's one
hundred and tent out there in the desert, standing outside
and shivering with with two sweatshirts on and no no coke,
no coffee. I all just Chris Crystal Light.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You know, my uncle is the only guy in the
history of the of the Betty Ford Center who knew
the catch of the day, true true story. It is
there quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
A nice hall of it today.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
He didn't understand though, that when he checked in for
drinking that you could also you couldn't do coke and gamble.
He thought those were side bets. You could continue.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
You know, whatever we're doing remotes, you know, whether we're
Matt and I are at a BJ's or you know
wherever where are some brewery somewhere. You know, there's always
you know the promotions, people that slip away to smoke
a doobie, you know, but that's their ill advised at
the Dream Center. You don't want to.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So the Dream Center is open. Give me the hours again.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Nine to seven. If you need something, If you want
to donate, you can go to Hampi. Some of the
la sports dot com keyword donate and it goes to
the Dream Center. You can bring gift cards. They need water,
they need baby supplies, wipes, diapers, pet food, things of that.
I think they're good on clothes, but other than that, yeah,
(08:15):
they need it all.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I like that. Also a lot of these donation centers,
you know, they need the bigger diapers for these bigger babies.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Five and six they said, yeah, for the big babies,
big baby Jesus, big ass babies. That's the saust.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So Hey Petro.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So what's going on with that? Safe? Are they still
monitoring it?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The chase is over. They've lost the motorcycles. They went
in under a bridge, they never came out, and everyone's
gone home for dinner.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think, how do you lose twenty five motorcycles?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I know, I think they're just too burnt out on
following these guys. They got other crap going on. You know,
a lot of looting going on. You know, they say
that there's you know, ninety seven people have been arrested
for looting. I always multiply that number by ten and
I think you get a good idea of how much
looting is actually going on.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, Yeah, there's no doubt about it. There's been a
lot of I mean I remember the La riots and
we all had to go sleep at my restaurant, my
dad's restaurant. Wow, sleeping bags, And somebody threw a manhole
cover through our window, but they didn't get any of
our black lava.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Did it get any of that lemon drop soup?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's not what it's called. It's called plemon soup.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
We're just gonna go. Were just gonna do the same round, robin.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's right, he look different, audience. Did you guys make
the hummus there or did you order it from some
hummus factory?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
We didn't serve hummus because hummus isn't Greek, and you
know you're being a you know you're being.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It's it's it's Middle Eastern. Yeah. Yeah. We serve two
different bread dips. One is called satziki spelled with a T.
It's the white yogurt sauce that you'll find on your yido. Yes,
And the other one, often confused with hammas because it's
(10:29):
made with bread crumbs, is made with red caviar, bread crumbs,
olive oil, and lemon. That's called tamu salata.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Did you make it there at the restaurant and you
buy it at seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
We made it. There's no tam factory and you have
to make it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You didn't buy it at the seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
No, we didn't go down the street to the Circle K.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'm sorry I missed that restaurant. I heard a lot
of great stories about hold on. Let me put you
on hold real quick. Petros is with us where he's
on his fighting his way back to sam Pedro where
he lives, and we have him on the program here
we're live. He went did an awesome job with Matt
money Smith today at the Dream Center.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Petros is with us from the Petros and Money Show.
Petros Papadakis. That guys the best. Hey Petros, Uh before
we maybe get into uh football, because we got football
games coming up. You're a football guy?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh yeah, did you know us so much?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Did you know Bob Youker he passed away to him.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
No, No, I didn't know him. I was just a
fan like everybody else. David Basse knew him and then
interviewed him. Uh, well, yeah, because he travels with the
Dodgers and Yuker I mean deep into his age. Was
the play by play guy for the Milwaukee Brewers, not
just mister Belvedere and TV commercials and a great baseball here,
(12:00):
but he really was a great play by play guy.
He was.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He was the play by play guy all the way
up until Milwaukee, uh lost to the Mets this year.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah. I mean, so he's been working, you know for
I mean, not traveling and all that, kind of like
fid but but he's been working. And he really was
a great lesson for people today. Yeah, I just broke
the law. What are you gonna do? Uh? Sorry, I'm
driving home.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Are you saying that to a cop?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
No? Some punk as punk you knew it wasn't a
cop because the horn was like hey, but you know, no,
I was just saying, it's a great I have a point,
all right. It's a great lesson for people today. Tim,
you know, not to take yourself too seriously. Bob Buker
was a great, great humorist and didn't take himself too seriously.
(12:52):
These guys would call play by play today act like
they're signing the Magna carta YEA.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Plus, he was a big you know, he was a
game show Hostney hosts a newlywed game.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Uh, I don't know who that?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Bob Banks Banks? Yeah, never mind?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, then you know we had Bob Barker on the
show a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Bob Barker wasn't Bob Barker the voice of the Milwaukee Brewers?
Do I get these guys all mixed up?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I don't know. Let's go to Ohio State, Irish. What
do you see? What do you know? I need to
get this game right to get even for the year.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Well, a lot of people obviously, Ohio State's probably the
most talented team in college football this year. That doesn't
mean they're the best, but they are the most talented
and they have a really good play caller in Chip Kelly.
That being said, they're kind of like front runners a
little bit. They got run over by a really mediocre
(13:51):
Michigan team and since then they've used that negativity but
and had success in the playoffs. But Notre Dame is
very interesting. Notre Dame is like a Cinderella story this year,
which is hard for people to accept because Notre Dame
football is such a juggernaut and it really is the
most recognized brand in college football. They have their own
(14:13):
TV deal with NBC. But because they're not in the SEC,
and because ESPN doesn't like promote or push them because
they don't make any money off them, Notre Dame's kind
of flowing under the radar this year. They're a tough team.
They run the ball, they play great defense, and they
might be able to do what Michigan did to Ohio State,
which is just punch them in the gut over and
(14:35):
over again like Rocky One and break them up inside.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What about the Rams? Are they going to beat the Philly?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Is it in Philadelphia?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Well yet no, I don't know. Yeah, I think they can.
I happen to think the Philadelphia quarterback is kind of
limited in some ways hurts, but he's very good. They've
proven that he's an NFL quarterback and a very worthy one.
But I think that the Rams love. The thing I
(15:09):
like about the Rams, and you know, I'm not a
Rams fan since John Robinson was fired many years ago,
but the one thing I think about the Rams and
that I really like, and I find their quarterbacks insufferable
because of his wife's podcast, Kelly Stafford. But the thing
I really like about the Rams is they have this
no name defense. It's the cheapest defense in the NFL.
(15:33):
A bunch of players that people don't recognize. Quinton Lake
is one of them, a guy from UCLA who played
a modern day and their guys just they've banded together
and become one of the best defenses in the NFL.
And it's really kind of a blue collar, hard hat
type of deal. And I hope that they're able to
confound that Philadelphia offense and if they can, Jearn mcvale
(15:55):
called it enough place to win the game. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, you know, the Rams, they were spoke when Aaron
Donald left. Nobody everyone expected that defense to fall apart, correct,
and it got better.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Right, That's what I like about it. That being said,
you know, I don't want to say anything good about
the Rams because it still bunds me that when they
won the Super Bowl. You literally watched the tape like
six hundred times.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Lea Warren out, Honey. I'm a big Petros and Money fan.
I was listening to the show live from the Dream Center.
You guys knocked it out, and I love the fact
that iHeartMedia has a great relationship with the Dream Center.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, really started through Clinton Carlson and a guy named
Justin Turner, the great Dodger baseball player. Massat's relationship with
Turner led to a relationship with Dave Leeese and the
Dream Center and look at right now is a big
partnership national partnership with iHeartMedia. Yeah, it's pretty impressive. I
mean there's a lot of charities out there. This one
(16:59):
seems to be pretty legit. You see what they do
on a ground level, and it's impressive.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Hey, how real quickly before we go, how's your knife collection?
How many knives are you up to?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Knives out? I've not gotten a new knife in a while,
but I'm always in the market if somebody wants to buy,
I'd like a knife that is sheese. You know, it's
like like like one that I un shees. I don't
think that one on my hip that has a sheath
O you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Right right right? Yeah, sleeve or whatever. But how many knives?
How many knives do you own?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't know, maybe twelve?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh that's not bad. I thought you're like one hundred.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, I mean if you count my kitchen knives and
stuff like that, that's.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Not We're not counting your kitchen knives.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Buddy, Well, you don't think I could do some damage.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I don't know. With the butter knives.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Pulls a knife on you, it means he knows how
to use it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Hey, I will say this though, a sharp knife in
the in the kitchen is worth its weight in gold.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah. You see that tommercial with that guy from Christmas?
He bought his wife bought him that hatchet. He's so excited.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
That's remember that commercial starts with I don't know why
my wife bought me this, and then he turns out
to be the best thing that's ever happened in his life.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, he's like, God, I love her. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Have you seen the commercial online where the woman talks
about smelling your sack? If you rub your hands down
between your legs, you smell your Is it a Schnitzel sack?
Have you seen that one?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You know what that?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, it's kind of interesting, Bunny. I appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I don't know what she says that. It grosses me
out every time I watch it. Go Petros and Money,
thanks for coming on. I'm glad you guys did the
remote today at the at the Dream Center.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Well, ding Dong didn't you go out there.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't know. I don't know. We're not We're not
scheduled to go out there. I don't know why we're not.
Everyone else has been out there. Brooker and Striker been
out there. You guys have been out there. We gotta
get out there. Gotta get out there, big boy, big boy,
big boy.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I heard from Kriss FM. Got lost in the bowels
by the boiler room.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Hey, we had Valentine do news the other night on
this station. That was kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, you know, I thought I was special when they
asked me to do it a couple of times, and
now everybody's doing it, and I just feel like, you're
not funny. I thought I was special.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah you're not, but you're special to me. That's gotta
be something. Alright, you're the best, dude. Thanks for coming on, buddy.
All right, tig talk Petros Petros with the Petros and
Money Show. You know, Richie came in about an hour
ago and said, hey, do you want to have Peters on?
And I'm like, what is something? Petros or something? Now,
(19:45):
what'd you call him? What'd you call him?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Richie?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I said Petros? No, you didn't, you said Petros or
Petros Heroes. Maybe I was trying to say his last name. Okay,
all right, all right, we come back. We're gonna have
Dean Sharp on. That guy's great. He's gonna tell you
what you do with your house, how to rebuild, how
to fire proof it. A lot of information over the
past weekend. We'll try to contense it all in the
(20:08):
next two segments. This guy's great, he'll have a lot
of information for you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It is The Conway Show with over twelve thirteen, fourteen
thousand homes that it burned to the ground. We like
to give you as much information as possible. Dean Sharp
is with us. The house whispered Dean, how you, Bob?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
How you?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I'm okay. I got a questions for you. Do we
have enough home builders and people that know what they're
doing to rebuild all these homes in LA We'll find them. Really,
will they be imported? You think no?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Not the contractors. Some of the labor might be, but
not the builders. There they're around, they're around. Do you
think people will have to I mean, you know will builders.
Obviously they're gonna you know, they're going to be people
in front of the line, people that get to the
builders quickly. And then you know, some builders may not
be able to start on a project for another two years. Yeah,
(21:10):
some for some people. If you want a particular builder
and you're like, this is the person, this is who's
got to build my house, you.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Might have to get in line. Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
So the same is true with your favorite designers, by
the way, right, that's right, Okay, that's right.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I get that. I get that. I was I got
an email or text from a buddy of mine said,
you did an outstanding job over the weekend talking about
how to fireproof your home. I've seen three different ways.
I've seen the pump that goes in the pool and
hoses your house down. I've seen sprinklers on the house,
and then the coding that you talked about, about, you know,
(21:46):
coding your house to fireproof it. Are all three of
those acceptable or any one of them better than the others?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
That's what we're going to be talking about on Sunday, Okay,
because honestly, honestly, him, some of these extreme measures that
people are getting into now I'm a little concerned. I'm
concerned because it's a fire hardening frenzy that's starting to
happen as we're coming out of these fires, and unfortunately,
there's just there's kind of a lot of bs. And
(22:17):
I'm not saying that anybody else is out there directly
taking advantage of people. I'm just saying there's a lot
of quote unquote creative ideas that people are coming up
with that actually aren't based in the reality of fighting
a fire.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And so I.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Intentionally thought we would focus this weekend, especially Sunday show,
on separating the fact from fiction when it comes to
fire hardening your home. Fire hardening your home is not
that difficult, right. You do not have to buy your
own private fire hydrant, you don't have to get your
own fire fighting gear. You don't have to bury a
(22:57):
ten thousand gallon personal reservue war or have a giant
pump that pulls your pool water out and sprays it
all over your house. You do not have to do
those things. Then those things, actually, when you start looking
at the details, gets a little questionable. Really well, I
mean think of it this way. Okay, Let's say that
you decide to go all out, and you're gonna get
(23:19):
yourself a ten thousand gallon reservoir of water on your property. Okay,
you're not going to rely on the city water system
because who knows it might go down. You're gonna have
your own pump, your own generator, all right, and then
you're gonna have a ample sprayers spraying out over your house. Okay, Well,
the question is when are you going to activate that thing?
(23:41):
Because ten thousand gallons of water if you've got maybe
fifty gallons per minute of water coming out of sprayers,
and that's what you want, ample water, You've got two
hundred minutes of water, right, two hundred minutes. Now, You're
either going to make a choice now, one you figure
(24:02):
out how to activate it remotely, or two you're gonna
stay way too long at your house. Okay, wait way
too long for the fire to come too close before
you turn it on. In other words, you're gonna ignore
evacuation orders and leave at the last minute, which is
not wise at all, right, risking your life exactly, or
(24:24):
you're gonna leave when you're told to leave, you're gonna
turn on the unit, and if the fire does not
show up in the first two and a half hours,
your ten thousand dollars investment went to was useless. Use
the water's gone, it's all out, and now the fire
shows up. So that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
You gotta think I'm with you things through.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
And now you know also again Dean Sharvis with the
house whisper, you know, ten thousand gallons of water is
eighty thousand pounds. You better have been reinforced the ground
around that, or that could also split and break open
and flood your house. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I mean, it's just it's a whole thing. And I
don't want to in any way, shape or form give
our listeners the false narrative that this is the kind
of extreme measures you need to go to if your
house is not going to be, you know, taken over
by the next wildfire event. The fact of the matter
is that the most important thing everybody can do is
(25:23):
get fireproof ember proof events for their attic and the
crawl space on their house. And I mean this, I
cannot emphasize this enough. Let me let's can I just
give you the statistics so we can all marinate on it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well, So we take a break and then come back
and do it absolutely. Okay, all right, Dean Sharvis with us.
We'll keep them all through the break here, and he'll
come back and tell us how we can put in
these new fireproof vents in our house. I have got
to do that because my wife is flipped out about it,
and rightfully so I think I'm flipped out about it too.
(25:58):
I know Krozier flips out pretty easy. And we've got
to We've got to make sure that we do protect
our homes because we could all be next, all of us.
We're live on KFI Am six forty. We'll continue with
Dean Sharp. Also before we get the Crozier here. News
just came in. President Joe Biden will not enforce a
ban on the social media app TikTok that is set
(26:21):
to take effect the day before he leaves office on Monday.
So that's coming in from NBC News And so again,
President Joe Biden will not enforce the ban on the
social media app TikTok. Good news for kids and good
news for China. He says he's gonna leave it up
(26:42):
to Trump. Yeah, everybody celebrates.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI am,
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
What a crazy week. We continue with Dean Sharp. Dean Sharp,
the house Whisper. He's on every Saturday morning from six
to eight am and then Sunday from nine am until noon,
and originally he was on nine am till eleven am.
And the only way you expand your weekend show, the
only there's only two ways to expand your weekend show
here at kfive. And I know because I didn't expand mine.
(27:14):
You are good with advertisers. You bring in advertising or
two ratings go through the roof, or a combination of both.
And evidently Dean had the secret to that, because I
did not. All right, so Dean, let's get talking about Holmes.
You were gonna lay some pretty good information on us
on how to fireproof your home with the vents.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Yeah, exactly. So I'm concerned as we're turning the corner
here with the fires, which is great, it's great, but
I'm concerned that the frenzy of fire hardening that's gonna
kind of wash over southern California is going to be
very you know, non discerning and based in ignorance. And
so I want everybody to hear me right now, Everybody
to hear me. All of these what I call gimmicks
(27:59):
and very expensive heroic measures and weird ideas, they are
all focused on defeating They're all focused on defeating flames, right, Okay,
And you're thinking, I love that you call the weird ideas. Well,
there there's all sorts of weird. I've seen so many
weird ideas just pop up on social media this week.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
But they're all focused on defeating flames. And I know
you're sitting there thinking, well, yeah, Dean, it's a fire, right, hey, flames.
You know, listen to me, because what I'm about to
say is true always. It is true of the Palisades fire,
and it is true of the Eton fire. It was
(28:39):
true of the Wolsey fire six years ago. It is
simply true. Ninety percent of the homes that burn in
a wildfire event ignite long before the fire line arrives
at the property.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Ninety percent.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
So the question is what is the threat for a
home a suburban and an urban area. What is the threat?
The threat is not flames, eventually, sure, the threat is embers.
Embers flying through the air, whipped up by the perfect
storm of all the crazy winds that we had. But
(29:21):
I want you to imagine, and you know what, if
you talk to fire officials, they will tell you they'll
be very honest with you. What if most of the
homes in the Palisades had spent just a few hundred
dollars and had emberproof vents on their homes. What if
most of the frontline homes in the Eton fire had
emberproof vents just a few hundred dollars worth of work. Okay,
(29:44):
imagine two scenarios. One only ten percent of the homes
being burnt that were burnt, or even in a perfect windstorm,
imagine that fire moving ninety percent slower across those neighborhoods
than it did. Because this is simply the fact, and
this is what every fire instructor, every firefighter will tell you.
(30:09):
Prevent embers from entering your home, and the way to
do it is to start with emberproof, addic vents, and
if you are on a race foundation house crawl space,
ventce the vents around your home, you emberproof them.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, well that sounds like a great solution. But I
got a couple of questions for you. First of all,
why do we have I looked around my house the
other day there are thirty e fing vents.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Why do I have thirty events? You have thirty vents?
Because the current building code, and has been this way
for a long time, has a ventilation standard based on,
by the way, the East Coast conditions. So no, I
don't think it actually applies as well to California, but nevertheless,
it's the universal building Code. It has a standard for
(30:59):
vent in your attic. It's based on a ratio of
the square footage space in your attic. For every one
hundred and fifty square feet of attic space, you are
supposed to have one square foot of ventilation for that
attic space.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And what and what happens if you don't have any
vents in the and the attic gets hot? Isn't that
just an insulation problem? You spend more on air conditioning.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
You're going to spend on more on air conditioning, You're
going to spend more on heating. You have a you know,
a material problem up in the attic. Because when we
talk about your attic getting hot, I mean even vented
during the summer, the attic could be one hundred and
thirty one hundred and forty five degrees. Imagine if it
is not vented. Okay, So yeah, it's a problem all
(31:42):
the way around. An attic that's built like that has
to be vented, and as a result, it provides entrance
for the very worst kind of fire that firefighters can't
get to, and that is when embers get into your
attic and they start to burn.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Right, So you're talking not only the roof fence, but
the crawl space vents as well.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Crawl space vents, any event on the roof, at the
top of the roof, and under the eaves, all of
them need to be transitioned. So my advice, honestly to
anybody who lives in southern California, if you live within
two to three miles of an open space, which is
virtually everybody in southern California, then it would be whove
you if you are serious about hardening your home against fires,
(32:26):
that you transition at some point to ember free events. Now,
the cool thing is there are companies like here, I'm
gonna give a shout out to brand Guard Vents. Brand
Guard Vents makes not only new construction vents, but they
also make materials that will retro fit behind your existing
vents so you don't have to be tearing up your
house in order to get this done. And they've got
(32:47):
recommended installers who can do it too. The fact of
the matter is, it's not that difficult to get this
stuff done to your house, and it just might, in fact,
very likely change of your property. Just this one thing. Now,
it's not the only thing to do, but there is nothing,
nothing more important than this. And I'll tell you this.
(33:09):
I can't get specifics about names and such, but of
the clients that Brand Guard had, the Vent clients in
the Palisades, okay, to my knowledge, they only lost one house.
Oh my god, those houses still standing. And the house
that they lost was because a house next door I think,
(33:29):
if I'm not mistaken, a chimney fell over after it
burnt to the ground, fell over and broke the roof
open on this house.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
There's nothing you can do about that. But the fact
of the.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Matter is Vanguard, just this one vent company, has a
ton of saves in the Palisades. So we need to
really communicate this to people. It really makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
And I like the fact that you pointed out that
the fire, if everyone had those vents, the fire would
slow by ninety percent when you put those vents in
your home. You're putting them in for your home and
to prevent your neighbor from dealing with nightmares as well.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I mean, let's face it, if a fire is sweeping
across a neighborhood driven by winds, and all it has
to feed on are a few trees and some grass
and some shrubs, but it can't get inside the houses,
that is a very short lived, very what we might
call a meager event.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Right, let me ask you a question. My wife thought
I was a moron on this, well, on occasion, but
on this particular thing that I told her when those
fires were acting up, I told her, I said, I'm
going to go to the roof and I'm going to
put white gorilla tape over all of the vents. Would
that have helped? Yes, it would.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
I mean if all else fails, if all else fails
and you have not done this, okay, if you haven't
upgraded your vents, and you know that a fire is coming,
and I don't want you to be unsafe, but any
event that you can reasonably reach, just cover it with something.
Cover it with a piece of dry walk with lisa wood,
(35:01):
cover it with duct tape. I don't care what you
can take it down two weeks later. It doesn't matter
cover those events because again people are thinking, well those
aren't fireproofmn too. No, it's just an ember, Okay, when
it's flying through the air, it's just a member. But
when it gets into your house, it becomes ninety percent
(35:22):
of the household damage that these fires create.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Buddy, I appreciate you coming on. We'll talk to you
next week and I'll be listening to this Saturday and Sunday.
I always love having you on. Thanks Bro, Thanks Bun.
All Right, Mo Kelly is not up next, Mark, what's
going on with Kelly? We got Chris Meryltonnight, Chris Marylton. Okay, right,
he's coming up with all of Mo's team right here
on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on
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