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March 7, 2025 33 mins
ackie and Shadow feed their eaglets'/ Gene Hackman died of cardiovascular disease, while wife died of hantavirus.// SoCal’s weather forecast: snow, black ice, sunshine and more rain! / Tim shares a story about Sam Rubin and his struggle with using snow chains. // Guest: Michael Monks on the latest with insurance companies asking victims to itemize their losses from the wildfires and earthquakes.// Tim and Crozier’s favorite show on Netflix’s Seven days! 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It is
The Conway Show. All right, dig tng with everybody. This
is a beautiful, beautiful day out. One of the reasons
why we all live in southern California. If you're driving
out right now buzzing around, you know what I'm talking about.

(00:22):
It's spectacular outside. Oh yeah, it is a nice breeze.
I bet you could. You probably saw snow in the
mountains on your way in.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh my god, dude, I had to.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
This week has been national read a book or a
book reading a week. So I do my annual thing
for Janet School where I go and read a book
with a bunch of different voices to a bunch of classes.
And on my way there today took that look up
into Mount Baldy.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
The entire mountain.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Wow, all the.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Way down to the bottom was just white and beautiful.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Oh that's great, man, that's great.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I keep an eye on those eagles when it's windy
and snowy up there.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Looking at it right now, to that which one of
them is that's sitting there.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
He's not looking very happy with those feathers flapping.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
My biggest nightmare is that they fall out of that nest.
You know, they get blown out of that nest.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I love she said yesterday when you had Sandy Spears,
was it, Yeah, Sandy Spears was that nest six foot wise?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
And I saw if you watch I was watching earlier,
and I think it was Shadow, the male of the
two eagles up at Big Bear. If you go to
Big Bear Eagles on any you.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Know, four com slash Big Bear.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Okay, I think don go through us? Then what the hell?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Then you'll you'll notice if you're watching it early this morning,
like I was, Shadow comes up and he drops a
big ass dead crow in the nest. Really, yeah, he
fought a crow, kicked its ass, and now the whole
family's eating this crow.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh that's the remnants I'm seeing right on the other side.
Whoever sitting there.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Now there's two fish there and a crow. It's like
a buffet up there for these kids.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, thanks for taking that out of the cameras of
you there.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
But it's it's great though, it's it's really uh, it's
cool to watch, cool to watch.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Gene Hackman's in the news again. Jene Hackman bad vibes.
I guess he was. I guess she was dead for
a while before he died. She may have been dead
for a week inside that house. Before Gene Hackman died.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
He must have really been in bad shape with Oh yeah,
horrible and just I mean he couldn't make a call.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, he had well, I think he was just completely
out of it, right. They had massive heart attacks. I
think he had like eighteen heart attacks. He had a pacemaker.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
He was a mess.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
And guys at the end, when they're a mess, they're
angry as hell. And you know, if you have a
grandfather or a dad who made it to his eighties
or nineties, man, they get pissed.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
We heard stories about the two of them, how they
pretty much kept to themselves, but you'd see him around
town there where they lived, and they were pretty affable
to people. But I'd also heard stories over the years
of people that kind kind of came across him and
said he seemed to kind of grumpy in those later years.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Oh yeah, he had to have been right. Well, you know,
she but she was active. Even on her last day.
She went to the groomers or the pet hospital, went
to the pet store, went to CVS, went to the
grocery store, and then buzzed home and evidently she died,
and then he was He was living with her dead
body for a week before he died.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh what a mess at the end, man, it's not
good at the end.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's like Petros Papadagus from the Petros and Money Show.
He said, you never hear of a good career ending
in football. Football careers always end miserably, unless you're John Elware,
John Lway. Yeahere, you win a super Bowl, you go out.
You Yeah, there's a few, but very few.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Very very winning one.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Michael Straham Oh yeah, okay, right, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
But a lot of these guys they don't know when
to quit, you know, and they don't want to. Their
whole life has been, you know, every Sunday sitting in
front of eighty thousand people.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Oh my god, I just saw the most awesome thing
on the webcam. So the one is sitting there on
top of the Little League let's and then why on
the distance you see whichever the other one is come
flying towards it. Then you kind of streaks back and
forth and then came right up by a boom landed
right on the nest.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
It was the coolest site.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I was talking to somebody off the air because we
had booked that Sandy Spears, someone named Sandy Spears, and
I was talking to somebody off the phone and I said, Hey,
where is that tree?

Speaker 4 (04:24):
You know? And then say, well, we don't tell anybody
where the tree is. I said, well, from what I gather,
I'm just looking at it.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
When the sun comes up, the sun is in their face,
so that that nest has to be on the west
side of that lake, and it has to be right
near the dam.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
You gotta be facing south right.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, if that that camera's facing almost due east, because
when the sun comes up, that sun comes right into
that camera.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, I've been looking at the I'm looking at the
shadows now from the trees around it, and I'm yeah,
trying to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
And I said, I bet that that tree is somewhere
near the Big Bear damn.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
And he's like, oh, I can't tell you. And I
think he knows. I nailed it. I nailed it all right.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Gene Hackman has passed away. I mean, that's not news,
but how it happened. The whole timeline. It's a crazy
ending to an unbelievable career.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
Unbelievable safe to say that this is no one anyone expected.
The medical examiner on Sheriff just laid out the stunning
details of their deaths. They believe Gene Hackman, his wife,
and their dog all died separately, days apart. We also
learned Gene Hackman was living with severe Alzheimer's and was
most likely alive inside the home for a week with
his wife's dead body.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Oh my god, how about that.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Their bodies were discovered back in February twenty six. Police
just revealed they believe his wife, Betsy, died on February
eleventh from a rare virus found in rodents. She had
just returned home from picking.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
All right, for people who think that they were filthy
because they died, she died of the neuro virus.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
That's not true.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
In that part of New Mexico, they're wild and the
mice are out in the open, So when you go hiking,
you could run into a mouse that has neurovirus. And
the survival rate or the death rate for neurovirus, I
didn't know this thirty eight to fifty percent when you
get it. So the difference is it rust or the
haunt of virus?

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe it is, or maybe it
is the hunt of virus. Yeah, maybe the hunt of virus. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
But when you get it, thirty eight to fifty percent
chance of death, that means half the about half the
people die when they get it, And when you're in
your sixties, you can't take that.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
She had just returned home from picking up their dog
from the vat, who was suffering from a different condition.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
They sat, everybody's sick in this house. You got the wife,
the husband, the dog. Nobody's well. Nobody's well in that house.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Now you may remember there were pills found on the
counter near her body. The medical examiner says those were
her thyroid pills and they were taken as prescribed and
did not have anything to do with her death. Investigators
believe her husband, Jean, who was suffering from Alzheimer's, died
more than a week later of heart disease on February eighteenth.
They know this because they got the data from his pacemaker.
They found no signs of carbon monoxide or anything else

(07:02):
of their bodies that would have contributed to their desks.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, that was a no brainer.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Even I sitting in burbank said, nah, it's not carbon monoxide.
You have a four million dollar house filled with carbon
dioxide or carbon dioxide whatever it is. That kind of
gas does not fill a four million dollar house. You
have to pump that in for weeks.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
Mister Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer's disease. I'm not
aware of what his normal daily functioning capability was. He
was in a very poor state of health. I had
significant heart disease.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, when you're that age, when you're ninety five, all
day long, you're just trying to make it to bed.
You know, you wake up and you're like, okay, how
can I get back here without looking like a total loser.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Plotting out your day as soon as you wake up.
But you got Alzheimer's, so you forget the entire plotting, right.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
But you wake up, you get out of bed, and
you're like, how many more hours? So I could back
in this sack. I got to just stay in this sack.
I'm with them, man, I'm with them. I love when
you get older. All you got it, all you do
is try to survive.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, it's easy to see why you can have that
mentality of why am I getting up?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm just gonna end back up here in a.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Few hours, right, and what are you gonna do? Yeah,
you just get in that cycle, that loop.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, you gotta eat, go to the bathroom, take some medication,
and right back to bed.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
You can do all that in bed.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
It sucks.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
That's why I think it's better to go from a
massive heart attack at like seventy two than ninety five.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
You know, sitting there not knowing who you are.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Oh what a horrible life.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
But there's a lot of people out there who are
wondering what's going on with the weather right because we
have rain for the last couple of days. It's supposed
to be spectacular this weekend. If you're looking outside right now,
I'm looking out the hills of the valley and it's
gonna be green this weekend. So if you want to travel,
if you want to see California at its best, either

(08:56):
this week or next weekend, get the kids, put them
in the car and drive up the coast or drive
into the Antelope Valley and you're going to see a
lot of green. In a couple of weeks, a couple
of months, it'll all be brown, it'll all be ugly,
it'll all be a desert. But in the next couple
of weeks, you're going to see some spectacular flowers. You'll
see a lot of greenery, a lot of green trees,
and you're not never gonna see California more beautiful than

(09:19):
it is this weekend and next weekend and maybe the
falling weekend. But after that, it's going to start to
brown up, brown up everybody. That's it's going to go down,
all right. The weather, we are looking for another rain
storm coming in next week, though unfortunately.

Speaker 8 (09:33):
Mountain Resort getting an early start to the weekend and
they have a lot of fresh snow to the latest
winter storm. Meteorologists breon a ruffalo because.

Speaker 9 (09:42):
We did see some black ice out there for some
of our mountain path views. But for the most part,
it's just going to be beautiful. This should really just make
you want to get up to the mountains immediately. I mean,
how gorgeous is this. This is the Angelos National Forest.
A lot of fresh snow out there as we overlook
from our Palmdale.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Care great, but you got to avoid the black ice man.
That is dangerous. That is everybody's nightmare when you're driving
and all of a sudden you hit a patch of
black ice.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Ah, it's and.

Speaker 9 (10:08):
It's really just going to be beautiful to head up
now because mostly we're not seeing much. There still could
be a couple of spotty showers for the mountains this afternoon,
but yeah, Saturday, Sunday awesome to get up there and
go skiing if you can and take advantage of the
late season snow. We have mostly clear skies Bourbank right now.
But it's cool outside, so you're still gonna want to
keep the sweaters with you throughout the day to day.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
It got down to forty one degrees last night at
my house forty one nearly the thirties. But this weekend
at Santa Anita, when you watching the races and you
see the snow cap mountains, nothing like that in the world.
This everywhere you go Tomorrow and Sunday, maybe you're gonna
go to the sport Fishing show down in Orange County
at the Orange County Fairgrounds, and as you leave there,

(10:51):
you're gonna see the mountains from Orange County and it's
gonna be clear enough where you can see the snow,
or if you're downtown LA, you can see downtown then
the snow covered mountains in the background. This is going
to be a one of the best weekends ever just
to drive around southern California.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
It's gonna beautiful. So get out. Don't sit in the
house this weekend. Time to get out.

Speaker 9 (11:11):
It's just gonna be slightly warmer than yesterday. Glad to
Maga Topplers seven thousand, not showing a whole lot left
right now, but we could see some spotty showers, especially
in some of these areas as we get into a
little later today. They should not cause too many impacts though.
I'll show you on the model in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, but the big storm is coming in next week
and it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of rain,
a ton of rain for next week. You're gonna have
a you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, maybe even Thursday, rain rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.
So you got to be aware of that, got to
be aware of the rain, especially you know if you
live in these burn Score areas. We're gonna have a

(11:47):
couple of years of that where people are are gonna be,
you know, flipped out about the rain and about the
mud slides. It's gonna be a you know, a lot
of a lot of action over the next couple of years.
Every time there's rain, you're gonna if you live in
the burn Score area, you're gonna panic, You're gonna worry.
You're gonna think it's gonna wipe you out. And it could,

(12:08):
I guess, but it's just another nightmare you gotta worry about.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
All right.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Snow, let's talk about the snow. It's creating hazardous conditions.
You gotta be aware of it if you're going up
to these mountains.

Speaker 8 (12:17):
Some drivers were still caught off guard in this Over
the last twenty four hours, at least seven cars got stuck.
They caused some people to abandon their vehicles on the
eighteen near crestline. Chains are required on all the mountain
routes heading up to the mountains.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Remember there's more coming next week.

Speaker 8 (12:35):
Caltran says, though, be prepared, because that's a critical piece.

Speaker 10 (12:39):
I think it just always comes down to that preparedness, right.
I feel like a lot of people in southern California
don't always rise to the occasion when it comes to
you know, driving in.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Weather and things of that nature.

Speaker 10 (12:51):
What they do is that they won't go to you know,
put their chains on in the designated chain, you know,
installation areas where it's usually below the slow snow line.
And then what they do is they'll wait until you know,
they basically get in trouble and then they're trying to
get kind of get out of the situation.

Speaker 8 (13:04):
Now, if you don't know how to put.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
On change, yeah, you don't put it. Don't put him
on yourself if you're not how to put him on.
Sam Rubin, we were up in the mountains. We were
doing a show up and and Sam Ruben was nice
enough to come up and he was driving a brand
new Audie. He was the entertainment reporter for a KTLA.
Very good friend of mine and just dearly missed that guy.
Every day, every time I turn around Channel five, I
think about Sam Ruben. He had the best laugh, the

(13:27):
best stories. He was a really great dude man, Sam Rubin.
But he came up to Big Bear and he needed change,
so he bought chains for one hundred bucks for his car,
and then he didn't want to pay the guy thirty dollars.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
To put him on.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
He wanted to put on himself, and I said, Sam,
I wouldn't do that if you put chains on the car.
He said no, but it seems easy. Yeah, I don't
think you're not a chains guy. You know, you're just
not that kind of guy. Who can I don't.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Think you're not a change guy. Now I can. Croche
is a change guy. Steph USh is on.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't know, maybe a change guy. I don't know.
It depends if he wants to. Sometimes he's underscrew it.
Belly is not a chains gal. Angel is a chains gal.
I think Angel could throw hers on.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
But I think it's true all the time.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
I think it's true. But I can I can tell
who are changed people or not. I can tell. I
can look at him if I know him. I know
him and I and I know Sam.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Ruben was not.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
It was not.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
So he put him on himself and he drove away,
and they wrapped around his axle and then they started
tearing apart his quarter panel on his car. But he's
never driven with change before, so he thought that noise
was just normal. And you could hear him from blocks away,
you know. By yeah, bah bae bae bah yeah ba
bye bae, bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

(14:40):
bye bright right right right, and it cousted forty two
hundred dollars in damage to his car. The chains wrapped
around his his axle and then destroyed the quarter panel
on that car. Gone, I mean it ate it up
into eighty ninety pieces completely.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Gone.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Had put the car into the shop for about three
weeks forty two one hundred dollars for the day, forty
two hundred dollars. So that's one of my favorite Sam stories.
Because he was waving to us as he drove off.
I'm like, Sam, Sam, and I'm waving to him to stop.
He's like, he's like, oh, nice, thanks for waving.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Nice to see you guys.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
I bang bang bang pieces are everywhere. It's flying off
this car. Ah, that's a bid.

Speaker 7 (15:21):
All right.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
We're live on KFI AM six forty. It is Friday
coming up. We've got Alex Michaelson. We also have Michael Monks.
We've got a big full show for you right here
on KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
All right, uh, Michael Monks is with us. How you
bub nice to see you, man, I'm always good to
see you.

Speaker 11 (15:44):
On this beautiful Friday in Burbe It's unbelievable, snowcap mountains,
the sunshine on the street, the cool breeze.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (15:51):
But see you're you're from Kentucky, so you get one
hundred of these days a year, these beautiful windy days,
few clouds in the sky.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
We get like forty Have you been into Kentucky? I
love Kentucky.

Speaker 11 (16:02):
It's nice. Right, it's cheaper to live there, but it's
cheaper for a reason. And I think we really get
about eight beautiful days a year, and the rest of
it is just either it's too hot and sticky or
too cold and nasty.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
I've had some of the best times in Louisville or
louill And since it Columbus, Uh, you know, Dayton, I
love that that whole area.

Speaker 11 (16:21):
Yeah, the Ohio Valley is nice too. As Salt of
the Earth people they are, they absolutely are. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, we're here to talk about money, money, money, money,
money and uh and and insurance and the.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Whole run exactly.

Speaker 11 (16:33):
So we know the devastation that has been suffered by
our neighbors in the Palisades and Alta Dina. Imagine running
out of your house as it's bursting into flames, and
then all these weeks later, trying to file your insurance
claim and you're asked to itemize Oh, no, everything that
was in the house. I mean everything. We're talking about

(16:55):
how many spoons? How many spoons do you own?

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Conway? You know, how many rugs including this one?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Hey so, I but it's one of the reasons, you know,
back ten years ago, fifteen years ago, there's a big campaign.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
A big pitch to videotape your home.

Speaker 11 (17:14):
That is exactly what Doug Heller from the Consumer Federation
of America said to me today when I called him.
The New York Times had written about it this morning.
He was quoted in and I called him up and said, hey,
I want to talk about this too. And that's exactly
what his closing advice was, If you live anywhere, get
a video of everything that you own. It will help
you in a time of crisis like this, because some

(17:35):
of these insurance companies don't want to pay out unless
you can tell them exactly everything. Now, their argument is,
we don't want to give you more money than we
have to.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
I mean sure.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
That's one of the reasons why people don't do it
is because, you know, if they lose their phone or
if that if that video gets out there, it is
a blueprint for someone to come in and take all
your crap.

Speaker 11 (17:55):
There are a lot of a lot of challenges involved
here because yes, you're absolutely right, and you don't post
videos of yourself on Facebook on vacation. You don't want
to give any indication of what's going on in that
house or what's not going on in that house. Right, Yeah, Now,
some smaller insurers here in California have agreed to a
state request. They could not mandate this, but they have
agreed to a state request to cover most about seventy

(18:16):
five percent of the claims without getting these itemizations. That's
just come in, tell us what you got. But it's
the out of state ones, Doug Heller says, the big
one state farm and the likes who are not so
keen on that idea. They do not want to give
you one cent more.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
But what if you say you had, you know, two
pieces of art each worth five hundred thousand dollars, a
million dollars worth of art.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Do you have to prove that somehow?

Speaker 11 (18:38):
I asked him about priceless artifacts, that if you had
something really expensive in there, more than just a lovely
dynette set, but a piece of valuable art or jewelry.
He says that probably when you got your insurance policy,
you would have had to have explained that. I had
to have let them know that that was there. So
there is documentation of those types of items. But still,

(18:59):
when you add up a bedroom house and all the
furniture that might be in there, the house itself is
valuable and all the contents are valuable, and then you
have to remember what it all was, and imagine how
heartbreaking it is anyway as you're sleeping at night and
remembering one more thing, Oh no, you'll never see again.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Right and and and once you do, you know, itemize everything.
And then they call up and they said, hey, do
you have a proof of this, this, and this?

Speaker 4 (19:22):
You're like, no, I don't.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's in that, you know, it's it's a bit burned
to the ground, burned to the clickt but you know
the headache when people lost their home and it was devastated.
They dealt with the shock and the anger and the
depression and the sadness. That was just the beginning of
their nightmare. I mean, this nightmare continues for them. Every
time it rains. They think that, you know, MUD's gonna
wipe them out. Every time you know there's a new date,

(19:45):
there's a new deadline for FEMA or insurance or or
you know, an emergency assistant. They feel like they didn't
maybe do enough to get in on that money or
their insurance. It's it's every single day is a nightmare.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
For these people.

Speaker 11 (19:56):
It's not just that it's you have the loss, the
significant loss that you probably have not even had time
to fully process insurance, but you're dealing with having to
rebuild in a place that will still be threatened by
these natural disaster thought the first time that area is
caught on fire. Now, you know, obviously not as devastating
as this one was, and there's gonna be a massive

(20:18):
earthquake at some point. You know, you and Deborah Mark
keep talking about the big one coming, and I'm not
ready for this.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
We had that four like last fall, at four point
last fall. It scared the heck out of it.

Speaker 11 (20:28):
I know, and I know I heard from everybody that
told me what as I am for thinking of the
four was scary.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
No, that's not true.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
You described that one in Burbank last point. It was
like a truck hitting three point nine in Burbank. But
I was literally three blocks from the epicenter. So really, yeah,
out of.

Speaker 11 (20:43):
Me, I felt like my building downtown got hit by
a truck when that one happened before last fall.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
You know, Adam Krola had a great line. He was
living up in the Hollywood Hills at the time, and
his insurance company said you have to have your house
retrofitted for earthquake. And he said, uh, why is that?
And he said, well, in case we have an earthquake, earthquake,
it's going to fall down. He said, this house was
built in nineteen nineteen thirteen, it's withheld, It stood up

(21:09):
and was in imperfect condition, and it went through seven
major quakes. It's fine. But yet they make you do
stip at crap like that. So let's all right, So
the insurance is a nightmare, But let's also you ask
some information on what's going on downtown LA with the money.
There's a lot of crooks downtown.

Speaker 11 (21:28):
Well those are your words, of course, not mine, but
I'll tell you this. The city is not in good
financial shape and these fires are directly related to that.
But before the Palisades burned and wish is the fire
that happened in La City proper. That's the one LA
officials are mostly concerned about. They were already broke, they
were already running out of money, running a deficit. One
of the biggest culprits is how many lawsuits they've had

(21:51):
to settle.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Because they don't fight any of them. They just pay
them out.

Speaker 11 (21:54):
And there have been questions raised about what are we
doing in court? Exactly right, because we're losing all of
these Kate were settling these and these sometimes you know,
they always have to read the settlement amount out publicly
at the city council meeting when they're approves. I'm always
sitting there doing the math and running out their shuge Yeah,
some of them are like one fifty two. That's no
small change, right, But that's like I tripped and fell
on the sidewalk that they didn't repair. Now I'm injured.

(22:16):
But you also have employment discrimination, wrongful termination, police misconduct.
Oh yeah, now you're talking millions of dollars.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
And then the homeless, the head of the Homeless Union Downtown.
They they can't find billions of dollars.

Speaker 11 (22:33):
I don't think anybody was surprised when when the audit
details were released. This is from a court case. You know,
there are a group of downtown business people who sued
the city years ago, like you got to do something
about the homeless people around downtown, and so that's the
LA Alliance. You'll often hear the LA Alliance suit against
the city and that as part of that ongoing case.

(22:53):
It's now five years old. The judge said, I'm ordering
an audit. An independent firm comes into audit the city
and the law Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority about how
and where they're spending millions.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, sure of dollars. When was that audit is shoot
or announced? Was yesterday?

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yesterday?

Speaker 11 (23:10):
I'm done this one exactly.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (23:12):
We already knew LASA was having some trouble with the audits,
and that's why you now have the county saying, well,
we're going to just create our own homeless department and
the city saying we might just create our own homeless department.
To keep in mind, LASSA is governed by both the
city and the County and now both of them are
trying to wipe that stink off of them, right, But
those weasels will find their way into that new pot
of money if it's run by the county or this
This audit is more troubling, I think Conway because it

(23:36):
asked for information from Lass and it also asked for
information from the city, and in both instances it said,
we could not really do a thorough audit because we
could not get all of the information we needed because
they could not provide it. They did not know what
the scope of the projects they were paying for. They
did not know the results of the projects that they
were paying for. And here's the kicker. Your tax in

(23:58):
La County, your sales tax is going up quarter percent
on April first, because their homes voters decided last year
to support homeless programs. So the same organizations that have
had a hard time keeping track of where that money
is going is about to get a whole lot more.
Every time you buy hundreds of millions a pack of
smokes around the corner.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
That's great, all right, Well, yeah, you can't do anything.
You know, you gotta you know, the Titanic's going down.
It's not you know, you don't have to stop playing
the fiddle. You know you can still enjoy yourself.

Speaker 11 (24:29):
Yeah, as long as you're tipping. I mean, there's some
fiddle players downtown. Then right, just toss a bill in
the tent. Yeah, you went back to Kentucky. I'm sorry, y'all.
I'm sorry, y'all.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's awesome, buddy, Thank you for Have you been to
sant Anita since you've been out here?

Speaker 11 (24:43):
No, I plan to go soon. I mean I'm ready
because it's it's almost Derby season.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
People don't know about it about Mons. The's have a huge,
huge horse racing fan. I like to bet two bucks
here and there. You know, like I'm not a big
bad guy, but you but a lot of people in
Kentucky are. Look, that's the World Series of horse Racing.
It's the biggest day of our lives. All eyes on Kentucky.
One time a year, I watched last night. Krozer taught
and turned me onto the show. Saving seven days to

(25:06):
the days out seven days out. You heard about that, No,
it's seven days out. They take major events around the
world and the seven days before it the lead up
to the big event, and one of them was the
twenty five eighteen, Kentucky Derby went justified one yeah, and
then went on to win the Preakness and the Belmont,
and the whole lead up to that is great. I

(25:26):
mean the tension and the you know, the backstabbing, the
families that are involved.

Speaker 11 (25:31):
It's really is great. There's nothing like it. And to
think that when you finally get to the actual event
it's two minutes long.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
I know, it's crazy. It's over a crash. Monks, thanks
for coming in my pleasure, giant stud. We'll catch you
next week. Have nice wee get him bye, Michael Monks.

Speaker 7 (25:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Krozer turned me onto a show yesterday called seven Days Out.
It's on Netflix, yes, sir, and I bet my my
my wife went to bed around midnight or wasn't that tired.
So I said, I'm gonna check it out. And I
like to when my wife and daughter are sleeping, I
like to shut all lights off. It looks like I
have a movie projector's screen, even though even though it's

(26:13):
only like twenty six inches. I sit close to it
and it looks like I'm in a movie theater. It
look like an ahole. I got a chair that I
put in front of the TV, and I feel like
I'm in a theater.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
I gotta send you a photo of it. It's priceless. Man.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
I have a little tiny table I put next to me,
put the popcorn on, and I really.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
Do feel like I'm in a theater.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
That's awesome because.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
I'm like, you know, I'm three feet from the TV
set and I'm looking around like it's a theater, like,
oh man, look at it, look at a big streets.
And he turns me on the show called Seven Days
Out and it's the seven days leading up to big events,
and it's it's great.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
It's a great show.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, it's unfortunate that, you know, I just discovered it,
but it looked like it was It's only one season.
It looks like it was all the things that happened
in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Right, So I watched the Kentucky Derby twenty eighteen justify
when the Kentucky Derby sorry spoiler alert, and then go
on to win the Triple Crown for Bob Baffort and
Michael Smith.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Mike Smith was the jockey who you just had all money.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Was it earlier this week?

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Last week Jim so cool because I'm watching this after
he was in here and I was like, oh man,
he was just in here yet to see him being
interviewed and talking about crossing that line and what it
feels like.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, so cool.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, he said, when you win the Kentucky Derby, there's
nothing in the world like it, nothing in the world
like it, and nobody can describe it. You talk to
any jockey who won the Kentucky Derby and they can't
put it into words.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
They struggle to tell you how great it is.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's like everything goes quiet, yeah, and you're kind of
aware of everything and things slow down, and all of
a sudden, everything hits and then it just the volume
hits in your head and it all just kind of
hitch all at once.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
And every jockey describes it exactly the same way. It's
like they when they win, they think about their parents,
their kids, their grandmother, how they first started, and then
the noise hits and it's loud as hell and you
just and he said, on the way back to the hotel,
he wanted to stop thirteen or fourteen guys on the
way back and.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Go guess what I just did. Yeah, guess what I
just did. I won the Kentucky dir Right, you didn't?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
So cool?

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Really well done. I'm I like, I'm not like you
with the horse racing and stuff like that. But when
shows are done like that and you really get into
it and you see the personalities and the different jockeys,
and you're kind of going, I bet nobody likes that, dude.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, no, you're right, And I think everybody likes well,
I know, the Disormo family. Everybody likes that family. And
there and that one trainer who's beautiful, loyal daughter is
out there helping him out.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
And you know, the winningest trainer in Kentucky at Churchill Downs,
but he's never won the Kentucky Derby. Yeah, I need
two entries that horses. Yeah, and but what it's a
great family, you know. Operation he ended up marrying one
of the you know, non married or not right, it's
just a relationship, but had kids with one of the

(29:01):
morning riders, and it's just it's very well done. So
I'm done watching the Kentucky Derby one. And if I'm
sitting so close to my TV that I can't see
the clock behind it, there's a clock behind it, and
I can't see it unless I put my fingers up
over the TV and then look at the clock. And
so I watched the Corsini one where the spaceship lasted

(29:21):
thirty years, went to Saturn.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
I watched The Dog Show one and I watched like
four of them. Yeah, and I look over the clock.
It's four am.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeh.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
I'm like, what am I doing. I'm gonna be so
burnt tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Man, when you stepped a four am, it doesn't matter
how much or how little you've had to drink, You're
gonna be burnt the next day.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
And you're like totally worth it. But man, that time
flows by. When you got something that you're watching that's
that well done.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
It's great though. I mean I couldn't stop watching it.
I wanted to watch another one. Yeah, you know, I
was like pumped up after watching these.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
One of them is like the hate Couture fashion show
from Chanel that they do every year in Paris. They
put that together and it's like that's never ever something
I would think i'd watch, but it was incredibly fascinating.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
I would never watch. I never pay attention at all
to the Dog Show any of that crap.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
But I watched the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yep, yep. You know they do what esports one.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
You know that the games where these teams go out
there and compete against each other internationally fantastically done.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
That's the you would tell me that's the kid that
came to LA for like a semi final and his
parents were stabbed.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yes, in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
He was part of one team, and he's this sort
of underground figure. All everybody knows him, that's in that
sort of world. And his name is double Lift. That's
sort of his like nickname. And he was basically kicked
out by his parents of his home when he said
he wanted to do this when he graduated, and he
ended up living in some journalists home who put him
up for a while. And he got so good. He's

(30:48):
the guy that everybody kind of looks at and roots for.
And he won the semifinal and when the other team
members were going up to get a picture taken, he
was backstage and you see it as part of this show.
He's on the phone, cell phone, and he finds out
he gets a call to his parents, I think in Westminster.
Both of them were stabbed by his brother. Oh my gosh, yeah,
and one of them died. I don't remember which one

(31:09):
of them died, but he went away for like a
day or two. They had the finals in seven days
in Miami, and he ended up going back to Miami
and competing.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, that's it's a great show.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Seven days out on Netflix, seven days out, and you're right,
it looks like they just did one season, but they
could have continued that for sure. I wonder what happened.
Then maybe you can push it and get him back
on it. Maybe he's a budget problems also right before COVID,
so oh maybe yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, maybe it was.
But that's that's a great idea too. Seven days before
a big event happened, seven days out on on Netflix.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Go check it out and I think you'll enjoy that.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Alex Michaelson's going on with us at five five, so
we'll find out what's going on with him. He's got
some inform inside information on Gavin Newsom's interview with Charlie
Kirk and how that happened and what happened, and Kirk
says Newsom's ex wife, I think it's Kim Gilfoyle as
his ex wife connected two of them up and so

(32:06):
Gavin Newsom, the governor of state of California, does a
podcast with Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's very conservative, Gavin Newsom's
very liberal, and they agree on some areas and people
went nuts. People went crazy calling a Newsom a scumbag,
Darry's a liar. He should be thrown out of the

(32:28):
party over over one or two comments He's not an ally. Yeah,
it's it's incredible, man. There's no wiggle room. There is
no wiggle room. You know, you have to be one
hundred percent on that side of trans athletes or you're
you're a monster.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
I think those purity tests are one of the biggest
problems for either side of the article aisle you're on,
is people holding people up to these purity tests where
you have to be absolutely all of this right.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
And on the other side it's abortion, you know, I mean,
it's so it's it's really it's tough in America right now.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
It is tough. Everybody is either in one corner or
the other.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
People are too busy looking at the differences rather than
the commonalities.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
And there's nobody in the middle anymore, you know, everyone
you talk to is on one side of.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
The other, and almost everybody can find some commonalities.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, right, exactly, like I think you and I did
it at some point, like two weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Oh I don't no, I don't think it was us.
That wasn't me. All Right.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
We got Alex Michaelson, You got michael Sson coming up
next on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand
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