April 14, 2025 • 32 mins
Guest: Alex Stone - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook Southern California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was centered in San Diego County but was felt as far north as Los Angeles. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been briefed, and the state is coordinating with local authorities, according to the governor’s office. // Julian residents and tourists felt the 5.2 quake and all the aftershocks + Earthquake Shake Alert notification. // Guest: Stephen Cloobeck- Man of many hats ... Job Creator, Activist, Investor, Entrepreneur, California Gubernatorial Candidate 2026
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio appf I
Am six forty. It is The Conway Show. What a
big morning, the earthquake we've had. Those chicks that went
to space. It was unbelievable. I said that to my wife.
(00:21):
I said, hey, I got up burly, I couldn't sleep,
and she woke up. She goes, what are you doing?
You know some on my iPad. I go, I'm watching
those chicks go to space. She goes, is that the
way they labeled it. I'm like, no, I don't think so.
But you know what I meant. You know what I meant,
those chicks that went to space.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Do I need to explain anymore?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It was an all women crew. I thought that was great.
Finally an all women crew. I'd been pushing for that forever,
you know, when I started in radio, I'm like, God,
I wish there was an all women crew that could
go to space. One day and I live long enough
to see it.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Ladies lift off?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Thank you man. What a day? What a day for
those lightys flighty all right, A big earthquake in San Diego.
It was originally a six point two, was downgrade to
a six point zero, and now it's at a five
point one or five point two is still pretty big
for the Julian area. I'm familiar with that area. I
(01:16):
was born right outside of Julian. My wife and I
have a summer place down there. That's right. I never
heard you say that beautiful, beautiful town.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Whenever something happens in a new place, you were born there,
you visited there?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh no, no, is that true? Yeah? Born and raised.
My dad's from Julian. My mom's from Julian.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's from Sugar and Falls.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
My dad, he says he is to be more blue collared,
but he's from Julian. Downtown Julian, and it's a beautiful yeah,
right downtown. It's a beautiful little home village. It really
is great. It's like at eighteen forty nine, sort of
Californian gold mining Towndwood. Yeah, it's great, it really is great.
It's something it looks like it could be on the coast,
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like Carmel or Santa Cruise, but it's inland. And my
wife and I got a summer place down there, and
I talked to our people keep help us out there.
They said, nothing's no damage. So that's all right. Let's
talk to Alex Stone. Did you feel it, buddy? Did
you feel it?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
No? I didn't feel it. We got the shake alert.
Did you get the shake did?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I got the shake alert? And I'm more fearful of
the shake alerts that I am the earthquakes.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
See, that's the thing. So we got the warning. I
was here in the bureau, the ABC News bureau, and
we got the alert, and our bureau chief was yelling
everybody duck and cover, and you know, you're going, okay, oh,
all right. There's a video that they were playing on
Channel seven to day if you see from an earthquake
here that we've got the newsroom where I look like
a bummed out kid. That's like really and she's ordering
me down and I kind of crawl under the desk.
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And then and then we waited and we waited, and
there was nothing at least here in Glendale. And I think,
in some ways, yeah, if it's the big one, it's
going to make a difference and save lives, and surgeons
can stop operating, and trains and slow down and all that.
But with these, you know, the few that we've had.
Where I've been with my kids, I think they get
more freaked out with the alert going off and everybody
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racing around, and then you sit there and everything is
clinched and you're going, is it here yet? Do I
feel it? Right? I feel a little bit. Nope, I
don't feel anything.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And then when you let it go? When do you
let that? When do you let that panic go? Is
it one minute? Is it three minutes? Is it ten minutes?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I don't know, that's the problem. Yeah, when do you
know that? The app will tell you like it's coming
in fifteen seconds, twenty seconds, but you're like, well, maybe
they were little. It's just delayed. It's not here yet,
Like you don't want to come out because you think
then all the heck is going to break loose as
you come out.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I wish there were different variations of that alert, Like
one is, you know, duck and cover, duck and cover,
duck and cover, But the other one should be eh, eh,
you're it's pick them pick them on this one. Pick them.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I need one that says, like, you know, open a
bottle of wine, it's gonna get a little cramzy, because right,
how about this one?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The alert might flip you out, but you might feel nothing.
Be that alert them.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah there's an earthquake coming, but you're not gonna feel it.
Yeah this one though, I mean people did feel it
in San Diego. Immediately called lieutenant down there with San
Diego PD and he was in that moment saying, oh, yeah, no,
everything shook. We don't know the damage. Now we know
that there wasn't any real damage. There were some rocks
that came down on some Murrow roads around Julian, and
then some liquor, and only the liquor store owner told
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us only the top shelf liquor, of course, was what
actually fell in the liquor store in Julian, and they
lost about six hundred bucks in liquor. At a cafe,
some cups went over. That was about it. The coolest
thing though, was probably the elephants in the San Diego
Wildlife Zoo that they did what they call an alert
circle where and there is video out there of this.
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When everything began to shake, the elephants got into a
circle together, all facing outward, which is a instinctive thing
that they do to protect themselves, and they made a
complete circle looking everywhere for any danger coming in and
they just as it started to shape, they all came
together and made this circle.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So they're as dumb as we are.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, but at the same time pretty cool to see these,
you know, multi ton of animals all coming together and
making that circle.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, I'm looking at on video right now. It is
kind of wild. But let me ask you something. Where
are the elephants are? Where are the elephants on the
Minnesota Lakers series? I need a little help with that.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, if they go in instead of out, then you
know what that means. And in this case, they went out. Okay,
there you go, all.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Right by Alex Stones with us. Two things. One, this
scares me because there was an earthquake if you remember
like six seve months ago off the coast of Oregon.
That's the north, extreme north part of the San Andreas Fault.
And then this is the extreme south part of the
San Andreas Fault. That makes me incredibly nervous.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, and this was part of the San Andrea system.
Well it's something, but part of that system. This one,
luckily was about eight miles down. That made a big
difference had it been closer to the surface or would
have been a lot more shaking, a lot more potential damage.
This one was so that the Earth was able to
absorb a lot of that energy. And you know, if
you hear from doctor Lucy Jones and from the others,
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they say, none of these are connected. Yes, there could be.
There's like a five to ten percent chance that this
was a four shock to something bigger that's coming in
the next couple of days, but it's done likely. There
was a four shock around three point one three point
two earlier today that at the time nobody really even noticed,
nobody cared. It was just a small earthquake. There was
a four shock to the five point two, but now
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it was a five point two, a four shot to
something bigger. They don't think so, but there's a small
chance that they was.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know what scares the hell out of me is
that Lucy Jones we had around a couple months ago
during one of our you know, Sunday quakes. We really
get on Sunday, and she said, when the big one hits,
you'll you won't hear one person in California say this, Hey,
is this the big one? Not one, not one person
it's going to say that. You'll know it. She said,
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it's gonna last for one hundred seconds.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh can you imagine shaking.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Where you can't walk for one hundred seconds?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, and everything's falling down around you, right, and things
are collapsing. And the other thing that shocks me is
doctor Jones. However she does it. She now holds a
zoom within like two minutes in any earthquake, and she
looks good. She's right there and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Right, and she looks good. And it's not like she
just woke up from a bender. You know, she looks good.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
She always looks great. It's like she's camera ready with
an earthquake twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Hey, how long have we been working together on a
personal note? Five years?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I mean yeah, something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Today is the first time I saw a picture of you.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Oh really, yeah, it's not crazy. What what photo was it?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It was some video that Bellio sent me. Oh yeah,
but I honestly got up until now. I don't know.
I just envisioned you like as a shorter sort of
you know, guy who's overweight with curly hair. But you're not, buddy,
You're a stud.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh well, thank you. There. What video did you find?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeahlly, what video was that report today, I'll send it
to you.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh okay, but buddy, you must have had a run
during high school and college.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Jeez, I wish that's all very flattering.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But thank you on got almighty. Man, you're knocking it out.
I always looked like I had fetal alcohol syndrome, you know,
I got. It's a hard sell even if you you know,
even if you can tell a story or two. Buddy, Thanks,
I appreciate you coming on. Thanks man. I'll look up.
I'll look for more pictures for you. Okay. Alex Stone,
(08:46):
you know it's I don't mean to be offensive, but
I guess that is offensive. Where We've been working on
it for five years and I never bothered to look
what he look him up. I've never typed his name
in to say, hey, what does that guy look like?
Alex Stone? He's a handsome money, but I mean, he
looks like an actor.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
If anybody wants to see what Tim is referring to,
it's on all of our social media at Conway Show,
either Instagram or Twitter.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Looks I'm not hitting on the guy. I'm saying he
looks like it.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Seemed like you were.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He looks like an actor. Very handsome man, right, But
I mean, why do he waste his time doing this crap?
He could have been making millions. You know, maybe he
is with Tom Cruise or one of those. An actor
is an actor, yeahs an actor. Yeah. I think he
missed his calling. I don't think it's too late. I
think he could have made some serious cash. All right,
(09:36):
We've got a lot going on today. Alex Stone is
coming on with us. That'll be great. And then next Stone, Yeah,
I don't know what he looks like. Then Stephen Coulbeck
Kluebeck is gonna be on with us. I love that dude.
George Norri we used to check in with him every night.
He's coming on. And Matt money Smith we got the
news whip. We got so we got almost too much show,
(09:57):
almost too much.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
All right, the earthquake. It was pretty big in Julian,
which is just outside of San Diego and has felt
everywhere in San Diego. Man, they got hit hard in Julian, California.
Let's find out what's going on in Julian, Julian, California,
beautiful town.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
We're about three miles southeast of the town of Julian
where that epicenter was placed. Now we can tell you
there are no reports of any damage. We've been up
and down the main street here reporting live in Julian.
We at least you what is ABC seven I with
this snooze?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
There you go? Okay? The shake alert woke a lot
of people up. If you worked the night shift and
you panicked when you got up at ten am or
ten oh eight, you panicked.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Well for those of us who lived in southern California
for most of our lives, earthquakes are always somewhere in
the backs of our minds, always seeming to happen when
we least expected. That sees unlike other natural disasters, there's
no war until now. Because of those alerts, many of
us got on our cell phones and today our camera
was rolling when it happened.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
At ten oh eight this morning, we were in Yukaipa
at Crafton Hills Community College interviewing a student about her
upcoming graduation.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Slow news day.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
When we got the alert on my cell phone earthquake
drop cover hold on shaking expected. I have to admit,
at first I didn't really know what to do. I
was actually more interested in the alert itself. I'd never
received one before.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Was it real? So I read it.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
The notification indicating a five point eight magnitude quake in
San Diego Country estates. We didn't feel any shaking at first.
That's when I decided to crawl under a desk. The
student and her father doing the same shortly after. That's
when I did feel a little bit of a shake.
For me, it was more than thirty seconds after that
notification came in.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Oh, that's kind of cool to get thirty seconds right,
thirty second warning there's an earthquake coming.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
A professor next door shortly afterward, describing her experience, I.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Was standing in my office and I got the notification
a couple of seconds before.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I felt it.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
What'd you feel?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It was a pretty good shakey.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Many of the students at crafton Hills did feel the shaking.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I was actually supposed to be in class. I was
asleep in my car, but it woke me up and
I got the alert on my phone. I just thought
it was like a big truck or something.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
The earthquake was later down.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What if mom and dad know that the kids sleeping
in the car for the expensive college they're paying for.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Hills did feel the shaking.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I was actually supposed to be in class. I was
asleep in my car. What I was actually supposed to
be in class? I was asleep in my car.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Uh, sweetie, our daughter's on TV. Yeah, she's asleep in
her car. What are we paying for that college? Sixty two?
What thousand a year? I was a heay, come in here,
come in here. Our daughter's on TV.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I was actually supposed to be in class. I was
asleep in my car.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh okay.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
But it woke me up and I got the alert
on my phone. I just thought it was like a
big truck or something.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
The earthquake was later downgraded to a five point two,
but people all throughout the area felt it. Many of
them first alerted because of a cell phone notification.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Rough a traffic light and it went off, and then
all of a sudden, he felt the car started.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
To move a little bit. Here are the alerts.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I didn't feel anything, but there are other people in
the building that said they felt a little shape.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It was actually in the jury room. I'm actually during
jury do today and I was sitting there and I
got to learn on the phone before it started shaking,
So it was a very new experience.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Never had anything like that happen before. Yeah, it is
great equipment and great technology that you can get be alerted,
you know, thirty forty seconds maybe of a minute before
it hits.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Now, some people we talked with did not receive the notification.
You do need to enable it on your phone. On
an iPhone, for example, you go into settings and then
notifications and make sure that little bar next to emergency
alerts is switched on.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know, I thought I'd switched all mine off, but
I guess mine's still on.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Live in Riverside, rob Act Milvin, ABC seven Eye witness.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Snoop, I know Angel felt it. I got a text
from Angel. She was with the birds and the bees
and the dogs and the trees and stuff. But Crowzy,
did did you feel it?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
I did?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I got the notice and then about five, maybe close
to ten seconds later, I felt that little shake. Yeah,
it wasn't too bad, but it was there, lasted a
good three four or five seconds.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Any damage to your house, no, no, damn you made it.
What about you, Steff Foods? Did you feel it?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I was out Where were you sleeping?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Sleeping? I think he went out of the house. No,
I wasn't room. Oh you you slept through it.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
Yeah, I didn't feel anything. So I actually heard your
guys' text messages before before I felt the earthquake. That's great.
That's great, dude, that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Angel. I know you felt that you were with your
dog and the birds went nuts or something.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
So I was out walking my dog. I've turned all
my alerts off, so I didn't even I heard all
these other people's phones going off, and I'm just thinking, oh,
another amber alert or something. Right, But then I looked
at my phone and I saw my gosh an earthquake alert.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And I'm looking around and I.
Speaker 10 (15:17):
Noticed that like all of the geese and ducks and
all of the wildlife just got really quiet.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Hey, where are the birds on the Lakers Minnesota series?
I need a little help with that anything? They said?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Minnesota, Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Angel? Do you feel? I mean, I'm sorry, belly, you
guys mixed up? Belly. Woud you feel? Then? I?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Did?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Did? I did? It? Really rattled Irvine Hut. I was
doing the dishes, wow, go.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
And heard a big thud and then the house shook,
And then I went and checked my phone and I
did have the alert.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So like the earth beneath our feet moves every six months,
that's how often you do the dishes. Is that true
or not true?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
That would be true.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
True. Yeah, did you feel it?
Speaker 10 (16:11):
Did you say?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You said?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I got the alert and I immediately, you know, panic
because I'm an idiot, and I went into uh, my,
see what my daughter was doing. And I said, hey,
well there might be She said, what's the alert alert?
I said, it might be an earthquake coming. She's like, okay,
all right, well I'll be here. I don't know what
you're doing, but I'll just be here, okay, all right,
(16:33):
and just uh and went about our day because nothing happened.
I didn't feel anything. I got ripped off. I got
the panic of the alert and no shaking. It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
It's like being accused of cheating on your wife and
not cheating, you know what I mean. Yeah, Like, there's
four different ways you can go with cheating on your wife,
and me write them down for you kids. Oh, okay,
can mean no cheating and no accusations. Then could be
cheating no accusations. By the way, that's the gold card
(17:05):
preferred that's the gold card.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Then there's no cheating accusations. That's the worst. And then
there's cheating and accusations. So when you get again, the
worst one is no cheating and accusations where you didn't
get to cheat and you're getting accused of it. That's
(17:29):
the that's the the worst one. That's your you know,
Montgomery Ward credit card, the the plumb American Express is
cheating and not getting caught, the black card. Yeah, and
then there's the no cheating, no accusations. That's what most
guys go through life. And then the worst is not
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cheating and getting accused. And then there's no cheating or
no cheating and not being accused. And so again that's
the that's the gold center, all right. So that's where
we are. When we come back. We have a guy
who might be the next governor of the state of California.
His name is Stephen Klubec, and he is going to
be with us. We'll ask him if he felt it
(18:11):
thing wrong with that quake.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Everybody felt the earthquake, or at least you got the
you know, the warning that was coming. All right, the
next governor of the state of California might be sitting
right in front of me. I hope he is. Stephen Klubec.
Nice to see you, buddy. How you How are you today?
I'm doing excellent. Do you feel a quake? What'd you
want from?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
On?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
A friend? A call with some big shot at Turning.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I was on the phone with Robert Shapiro today. Wow,
And I'm like, I'm like, Bob having an earthquake right
now because he's got the shake alert.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Sure. For people who know Robert Shapiro, I famously involved
with the ojks.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He created the dream Team of lawyers, right, funny story
about that. So when he comes to my house, yes,
the other day, and the person who created him at
the gate, he didn't have his ID because you know,
he just showed up and Robert Shpiroz she calls me, goes, yeah,
that's Bob, he said. He comes to my house all
the time, right, And this young man who was at
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the front of my house, he goes, I didn't know
who he was. And I'm like, what if you don't
know who he is? And I said, I said, have
you heard of oj Right? And he goes, well, I said,
O J. Simpson, Oh wow, you know who OJ was?
I said, how old are you? He goes twenty seven.
I'm like, oh yeah, right, I said no, I said,
(19:34):
I said, Bob, you're gonna not gonna believe this. I said,
you're a dinosaur.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah. You know there are guys playing in the NHL
right now that weren't alive for nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Scary.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Isn't that wild?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's wild?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah? I mean there. You know, if you're if you're
thirty year, if you're twenty eight years old, you don't
remember nine to eleven, you know, because you were three
when it happened. You don't remember when you were two
or three years old.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Now, I remember, I remember nine to eleven vividly. Uh
was watching TV as most of us were. We saw
this this terrible incident and my uh my little boy
at the time, I think it was like two or three,
and he goes, Daddy, are we at war?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I was like, pretty perceptive, good genetics. Yeah, it's cute,
But it was one of those moments, you know, like
when I don't if you remember when Jarn JFK was shot.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, I was two weeks old. So I remember that
a little older. All right, Steven, we got to fix
the state of California. I know you come from a
background of fixing companies. You fixed ten broken companies, correct
and put them back into the black.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Nobody could fix this one company to begin with. For
twenty years.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
What company was that?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
It was called Santerra Signature Resorts before Santera, and it
went bankrupt once was going bankrupt again. Everyone bet against me.
You're gonna buy this company here out of your mind.
You're gonna go You're gonna go un during six months,
after six months, they said, you're going broken, You're going down.
But we fixed every problem. We dissected it, We talked
(21:07):
to the team. We fixed that. We had team issues, culture,
and we had a lot of customer issues. We have
to slick to California.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Okay, let's get your background. For people don't know your background.
You you're a businessman. You're running for governor of the
state of California. You fixed a lot of companies. But
you also know that the insiders who run California, they
broke this state and they cannot fix it.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I don't believe. So I've studied, I've studied, I've studied.
We need simple solutions in a better life. We need
a better way, and those that caused these problems are
not going to be the ones to fix it.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
We've given them a chance.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Brought many chances. They failed, Right. I mean, look, just
even locally here. I know that you know this because
you keep your eye on the news, But even small
things like the city of Los Angeles raised the trash
fees from thirty two dollars to fifty six dollars, and
people can't afford that. People can't afford another twenty here,
another thirty there, twenty percent there, you know, twelve or
(22:07):
ten and a half or ten and three quarters percent
sales tax, fourteen percent income tax. They're taxing this state
to death.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Too many band aids on band aids.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's right, So we need to fix that.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So yeah, we're going to have to delicately, with compassion
and warmth, face the hard truths and fix each of
these issues. Affordability an issue, liveability an issue, right, workability
an issue. I mean, So I am going to come
to the table not like every other candidate because I'm
(22:42):
not a politician. I'm here to fix these issues because
we're all customers. Okay, we're all customers California, and we've
got to face these hard truths and fix these issues
and see results. I mean, it's we We've got to
do this together.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's right. Okay, we got to take a break. We'll
come back. We'll talk homelessness, we'll talk about taxes, we'll
talk about you know, how to clean up the state
of California, all this CP all this stuff, because this
state has got to turn around. And also you've written
a book Facing hard Truths. We'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Stephen Klubeck is with us. He is running for governor
of the state of California. Big business guy, and he
sees the problems. He knows that this state is has
a whole host of problems. Let's start going through them,
because let's just say broken, It's totally broken. You know,
I was born and raised here. I spent the better
part of six decades here, and I've never seen so
(23:40):
many people so desperate and so broke. And so, you know,
when I was growing up and you were growing up,
if somebody said they were moving out of California. You
thought they were crazy, right, You're like, wow, these were
all the opportunities you're moving out of the state of California.
Now almost every single friend I have, they don't. They're
(24:01):
not a lot of them are actually you know, calling
you haul, But every one of them talks about moving
out of California, every single one of them.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I just heard yesterday from a gentleman grew up here aspirational,
built his business and he's he's ruled out, he's regulated out.
He's gonna move to Texas and save five million bucks
a year, right, and he's taking all of his employees
(24:28):
with him. Yeah, it's it's going to eventually happen. Elon Musk,
had you know that he could have been in northern California,
or at least Central California, central East California building batteries
and cars and all that stuff he took off. There's
a lot of companies that take off because we didn't
listen to our customers.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But after one big company takes off like that, shouldn't
we start shouldn't we have started to listen to them?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Quit electing career politicians?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That I guess, So, I guess so, look I'm not
electing him. I have we have, we've done it to
I haven't voted.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Got to take responsibility because if if they got elected,
we didn't fight hard enough on the other side.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, I get that. I haven't voted for a single
governor that won in the last thirty years. I didn't
vote for Arnold Schwartzeneger. I thought I didn't. I just
know that I knew he was an actor, and I
know he wanted to be liked, and once he got
in there, he was not going to make the changes
that need to be made. And he didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well, let me earn your trust. Okay, good, let me
mirr in your trust. Let me show your results. Let
me give you a solutions. Let's do it solutions. Yes,
let's do it all R. Let's start with homelessness. Homelessness.
We have failed in the execution of homelessness. We have
failed in the accountability of our money being spent. You
(25:46):
don't do an audit. You got to do an audit.
You don't know your numbers, and we don't enforce our
laws right that. We got to start doing that. So
let's use best practices. There are there are great nonprofits
out there like the La Dream Center. La Dream Centers great.
So I've been of about five years. So if you
(26:07):
look at where I've given my philanthropic time and money,
I can tell you good, bad, ugly, and the ugly
ones I asked for my money back. Oh good, you show.
I hold them accountable excellent, and very few people do.
I hold myself accountable. The Dream Center is a great charity.
Is that the top charity that you're involved with? One
of the top charities I do? Education, homelessness.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It seems like the Dream Center every dollar that comes
in there, I've heard that like ninety five percent of
that money goes to helping people.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The Dream Center's outstanding Inner City Games, which is after
school all starts, okay, start in boil Heights. Fantastic. The
Brinch Shapiro Foundation for Drug and Alcohol Awareness. They don't
have any general and administrative costs.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I mean, so, if we had a review board in
the state looking at every one of these philanthropies, let's
take the best of the best and partner with them.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Great idea, Great idea, what do you do about education
in this state? Because it's not working. Whatever they're doing
is not working.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And aren't our children, the most valuable assets we have. Okay,
so what do we do? What do we do? What's
been the problem. Let's analyze the problem and face the
hard truth. Okay, why don't we Why don't we come
up with a program uh that rewards good behavior on
both sides, both from the teacher the student's perspective, and
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get the parents back involved.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Right. See, I don't blame You know a lot of
people go around and they blame the teachers. These teachers
have their hands tied. If a guy, if a kid
screws around in class, you can't suspend them, you can't
expel them. The teacher just has to deal with this
idiot and that and that interrupts the entire client. Use
that word out the air, I don't know where you're
(27:58):
thought you could. I thought of a country. You thought
this was.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
On the air?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I thought I was, Yeah, No, we can't okay, use
that term on the air. But we but we caught it.
We caught it. Okay, you didn't tell me what that
delay was. Okay, yeah, now we got it. We're in
forty second delay.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Stephen Klubag is with us facing hard truths? Is this
a new book it's.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
A brand new book. It's my second book, uh, the
first book I wrote. It's called Checking In about hospitality.
We're all in the business hospitality because I believe in
the customer. We're all customers. This book is about facing
hard truths with regard to understanding how we got to
where we are politically and rising above it to create
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the next cycle of non the TROLLI and create collaborative
talk and not playing the blame game because it doesn't
make difference, right, how we are just going to acknowledge
really issues, you know, and put your helmet on.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Tough out there now again. Stephen Quebec's with us. Who
you're running against is is? Is Hair's going to run?
I don't know Hair's going to run.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
She hasn't decided. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And you're running. You're a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm a conservative Democrat.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Conservative Democrat.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Do you know what that means.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I's just like a throwback term. Yeah, it's like a
Kennedy sort of vibe.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
The Kennedy Clinton Democrat. Kennedy Clinton right, Yeah, old school.
Even Ronald Reagan could be considered that.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Borders crime still matters to conservative Democrats.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Balance sheet in balance sheet income statement, right, yeah, exactly,
trying to be efficient and h following the laws. We
don't steal. It's zero, not nine hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You know, you got to be careful though with you know,
with Democrats, if you say one wrong thing, man, they
go crazy. Like for instance, Governor Newsom, who has been
the golden child for Democrats forever, last months, said he
doesn't believe that women should be playing in or men
should be playing in women's sports, and they crucified.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Him for that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
He's got history of voting record. I'm not a politician.
I tell hard truths, right, you know, men should not
change genders and play women's sports. It's x X or
x Y. Give me a break. I took biology and genetics, man, right.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
And but there's a lot of people that are that
are going to you know, I get down on people
with that position.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
You know what, I'm not going to please everybody. Look,
I'm here to deliver results and tell you right the truth.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That's right, that's right that And look, I think a
lot a lot of people find that refreshing. You know,
somebody that has an opinions, they look, when we were
growing up, that never happened there. You know, guys, there
were born men never playing women's sports. But now it happens.
You know, it's not frequent, but it happens. And you know,
and and and it's it's an issue that is a
(31:07):
minor issue, but it's an issue that if it affects
your daughter, it's a major issue.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I've got sons and daughters, right.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
And are your sons better athletes than your daughters?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Equal?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Equal? Okay? All right, well maybe they could.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
No, no, they're not gonna they're not playing the same sport. No,
and you know you no, no, no, okame on, this
is just silly. And by the way, so all of
these career politicians are scripted, right, and you know they
stay with their party line. They're afraid of offending somebody.
I mean, I can have an opinion.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's right. Okay, you're going to start a podcast as well.
I am with iHeartRadio. All right, when does that start?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I'm gonna start in May. Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I appreciate you coming on Facing Hard Truth. It's available anywhere, right, It's.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Available at on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, Facing Hard Truth, Steven Klubeck, I appreciate you coming
in and hopefully we'll see you again, and I hope
you can turn this date around. Thank you, dig Doong,
grateful all right, you're the best. Sorry. Con My Show
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It's kf I Am six forty and you're listening to
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Am six forty. It is The Conway Show. What a
big morning, the earthquake we've had. Those chicks that went
to space. It was unbelievable. I said that to my wife.
(00:21):
I said, hey, I got up burly, I couldn't sleep,
and she woke up. She goes, what are you doing?
You know some on my iPad. I go, I'm watching
those chicks go to space. She goes, is that the
way they labeled it. I'm like, no, I don't think so.
But you know what I meant. You know what I meant,
those chicks that went to space.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Do I need to explain anymore?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It was an all women crew. I thought that was great.
Finally an all women crew. I'd been pushing for that forever,
you know, when I started in radio, I'm like, God,
I wish there was an all women crew that could
go to space. One day and I live long enough
to see it.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Ladies lift off?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Thank you man. What a day? What a day for
those lightys flighty all right, A big earthquake in San Diego.
It was originally a six point two, was downgrade to
a six point zero, and now it's at a five
point one or five point two is still pretty big
for the Julian area. I'm familiar with that area. I
(01:16):
was born right outside of Julian. My wife and I
have a summer place down there. That's right. I never
heard you say that beautiful, beautiful town.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Whenever something happens in a new place, you were born there,
you visited there?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh no, no, is that true? Yeah? Born and raised.
My dad's from Julian. My mom's from Julian.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's from Sugar and Falls.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
My dad, he says he is to be more blue collared,
but he's from Julian. Downtown Julian, and it's a beautiful yeah,
right downtown. It's a beautiful little home village. It really
is great. It's like at eighteen forty nine, sort of
Californian gold mining Towndwood. Yeah, it's great, it really is great.
It's something it looks like it could be on the coast,
(01:58):
like Carmel or Santa Cruise, but it's inland. And my
wife and I got a summer place down there, and
I talked to our people keep help us out there.
They said, nothing's no damage. So that's all right. Let's
talk to Alex Stone. Did you feel it, buddy? Did
you feel it?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
No? I didn't feel it. We got the shake alert.
Did you get the shake did?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I got the shake alert? And I'm more fearful of
the shake alerts that I am the earthquakes.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
See, that's the thing. So we got the warning. I
was here in the bureau, the ABC News bureau, and
we got the alert, and our bureau chief was yelling
everybody duck and cover, and you know, you're going, okay, oh,
all right. There's a video that they were playing on
Channel seven to day if you see from an earthquake
here that we've got the newsroom where I look like
a bummed out kid. That's like really and she's ordering
me down and I kind of crawl under the desk.
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And then and then we waited and we waited, and
there was nothing at least here in Glendale. And I think,
in some ways, yeah, if it's the big one, it's
going to make a difference and save lives, and surgeons
can stop operating, and trains and slow down and all that.
But with these, you know, the few that we've had.
Where I've been with my kids, I think they get
more freaked out with the alert going off and everybody
(03:07):
racing around, and then you sit there and everything is
clinched and you're going, is it here yet? Do I
feel it? Right? I feel a little bit. Nope, I
don't feel anything.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And then when you let it go? When do you
let that? When do you let that panic go? Is
it one minute? Is it three minutes? Is it ten minutes?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I don't know, that's the problem. Yeah, when do you
know that? The app will tell you like it's coming
in fifteen seconds, twenty seconds, but you're like, well, maybe
they were little. It's just delayed. It's not here yet,
Like you don't want to come out because you think
then all the heck is going to break loose as
you come out.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I wish there were different variations of that alert, Like
one is, you know, duck and cover, duck and cover,
duck and cover, But the other one should be eh, eh,
you're it's pick them pick them on this one. Pick them.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I need one that says, like, you know, open a
bottle of wine, it's gonna get a little cramzy, because right,
how about this one?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The alert might flip you out, but you might feel nothing.
Be that alert them.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah there's an earthquake coming, but you're not gonna feel it.
Yeah this one though, I mean people did feel it
in San Diego. Immediately called lieutenant down there with San
Diego PD and he was in that moment saying, oh, yeah, no,
everything shook. We don't know the damage. Now we know
that there wasn't any real damage. There were some rocks
that came down on some Murrow roads around Julian, and
then some liquor, and only the liquor store owner told
(04:23):
us only the top shelf liquor, of course, was what
actually fell in the liquor store in Julian, and they
lost about six hundred bucks in liquor. At a cafe,
some cups went over. That was about it. The coolest
thing though, was probably the elephants in the San Diego
Wildlife Zoo that they did what they call an alert
circle where and there is video out there of this.
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When everything began to shake, the elephants got into a
circle together, all facing outward, which is a instinctive thing
that they do to protect themselves, and they made a
complete circle looking everywhere for any danger coming in and
they just as it started to shape, they all came
together and made this circle.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So they're as dumb as we are.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, but at the same time pretty cool to see these,
you know, multi ton of animals all coming together and
making that circle.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, I'm looking at on video right now. It is
kind of wild. But let me ask you something. Where
are the elephants are? Where are the elephants on the
Minnesota Lakers series? I need a little help with that.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, if they go in instead of out, then you
know what that means. And in this case, they went out. Okay,
there you go, all.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Right by Alex Stones with us. Two things. One, this
scares me because there was an earthquake if you remember
like six seve months ago off the coast of Oregon.
That's the north, extreme north part of the San Andreas Fault.
And then this is the extreme south part of the
San Andreas Fault. That makes me incredibly nervous.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, and this was part of the San Andrea system.
Well it's something, but part of that system. This one,
luckily was about eight miles down. That made a big
difference had it been closer to the surface or would
have been a lot more shaking, a lot more potential damage.
This one was so that the Earth was able to
absorb a lot of that energy. And you know, if
you hear from doctor Lucy Jones and from the others,
(06:19):
they say, none of these are connected. Yes, there could be.
There's like a five to ten percent chance that this
was a four shock to something bigger that's coming in
the next couple of days, but it's done likely. There
was a four shock around three point one three point
two earlier today that at the time nobody really even noticed,
nobody cared. It was just a small earthquake. There was
a four shock to the five point two, but now
(06:41):
it was a five point two, a four shot to
something bigger. They don't think so, but there's a small
chance that they was.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know what scares the hell out of me is
that Lucy Jones we had around a couple months ago
during one of our you know, Sunday quakes. We really
get on Sunday, and she said, when the big one hits,
you'll you won't hear one person in California say this, Hey,
is this the big one? Not one, not one person
it's going to say that. You'll know it. She said,
(07:07):
it's gonna last for one hundred seconds.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh can you imagine shaking.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Where you can't walk for one hundred seconds?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, and everything's falling down around you, right, and things
are collapsing. And the other thing that shocks me is
doctor Jones. However she does it. She now holds a
zoom within like two minutes in any earthquake, and she
looks good. She's right there and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Right, and she looks good. And it's not like she
just woke up from a bender. You know, she looks good.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
She always looks great. It's like she's camera ready with
an earthquake twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Hey, how long have we been working together on a
personal note? Five years?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I mean yeah, something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Today is the first time I saw a picture of you.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Oh really, yeah, it's not crazy. What what photo was it?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It was some video that Bellio sent me. Oh yeah,
but I honestly got up until now. I don't know.
I just envisioned you like as a shorter sort of
you know, guy who's overweight with curly hair. But you're not, buddy,
You're a stud.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh well, thank you. There. What video did you find?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeahlly, what video was that report today, I'll send it
to you.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh okay, but buddy, you must have had a run
during high school and college.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Jeez, I wish that's all very flattering.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But thank you on got almighty. Man, you're knocking it out.
I always looked like I had fetal alcohol syndrome, you know,
I got. It's a hard sell even if you you know,
even if you can tell a story or two. Buddy, Thanks,
I appreciate you coming on. Thanks man. I'll look up.
I'll look for more pictures for you. Okay. Alex Stone,
(08:46):
you know it's I don't mean to be offensive, but
I guess that is offensive. Where We've been working on
it for five years and I never bothered to look
what he look him up. I've never typed his name
in to say, hey, what does that guy look like?
Alex Stone? He's a handsome money, but I mean, he
looks like an actor.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
If anybody wants to see what Tim is referring to,
it's on all of our social media at Conway Show,
either Instagram or Twitter.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Looks I'm not hitting on the guy. I'm saying he
looks like it.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Seemed like you were.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He looks like an actor. Very handsome man, right, But
I mean, why do he waste his time doing this crap?
He could have been making millions. You know, maybe he
is with Tom Cruise or one of those. An actor
is an actor, yeahs an actor. Yeah. I think he
missed his calling. I don't think it's too late. I
think he could have made some serious cash. All right,
(09:36):
We've got a lot going on today. Alex Stone is
coming on with us. That'll be great. And then next Stone, Yeah,
I don't know what he looks like. Then Stephen Coulbeck
Kluebeck is gonna be on with us. I love that dude.
George Norri we used to check in with him every night.
He's coming on. And Matt money Smith we got the
news whip. We got so we got almost too much show,
(09:57):
almost too much.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
All right, the earthquake. It was pretty big in Julian,
which is just outside of San Diego and has felt
everywhere in San Diego. Man, they got hit hard in Julian, California.
Let's find out what's going on in Julian, Julian, California,
beautiful town.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
We're about three miles southeast of the town of Julian
where that epicenter was placed. Now we can tell you
there are no reports of any damage. We've been up
and down the main street here reporting live in Julian.
We at least you what is ABC seven I with
this snooze?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
There you go? Okay? The shake alert woke a lot
of people up. If you worked the night shift and
you panicked when you got up at ten am or
ten oh eight, you panicked.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Well for those of us who lived in southern California
for most of our lives, earthquakes are always somewhere in
the backs of our minds, always seeming to happen when
we least expected. That sees unlike other natural disasters, there's
no war until now. Because of those alerts, many of
us got on our cell phones and today our camera
was rolling when it happened.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
At ten oh eight this morning, we were in Yukaipa
at Crafton Hills Community College interviewing a student about her
upcoming graduation.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Slow news day.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
When we got the alert on my cell phone earthquake
drop cover hold on shaking expected. I have to admit,
at first I didn't really know what to do. I
was actually more interested in the alert itself. I'd never
received one before.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Was it real? So I read it.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
The notification indicating a five point eight magnitude quake in
San Diego Country estates. We didn't feel any shaking at first.
That's when I decided to crawl under a desk. The
student and her father doing the same shortly after. That's
when I did feel a little bit of a shake.
For me, it was more than thirty seconds after that
notification came in.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Oh, that's kind of cool to get thirty seconds right,
thirty second warning there's an earthquake coming.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
A professor next door shortly afterward, describing her experience, I.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Was standing in my office and I got the notification
a couple of seconds before.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I felt it.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
What'd you feel?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It was a pretty good shakey.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Many of the students at crafton Hills did feel the shaking.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I was actually supposed to be in class. I was
asleep in my car, but it woke me up and
I got the alert on my phone. I just thought
it was like a big truck or something.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
The earthquake was later down.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What if mom and dad know that the kids sleeping
in the car for the expensive college they're paying for.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Hills did feel the shaking.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I was actually supposed to be in class. I was
asleep in my car. What I was actually supposed to
be in class? I was asleep in my car.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Uh, sweetie, our daughter's on TV. Yeah, she's asleep in
her car. What are we paying for that college? Sixty two?
What thousand a year? I was a heay, come in here,
come in here. Our daughter's on TV.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I was actually supposed to be in class. I was
asleep in my car.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh okay.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
But it woke me up and I got the alert
on my phone. I just thought it was like a
big truck or something.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
The earthquake was later downgraded to a five point two,
but people all throughout the area felt it. Many of
them first alerted because of a cell phone notification.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Rough a traffic light and it went off, and then
all of a sudden, he felt the car started.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
To move a little bit. Here are the alerts.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I didn't feel anything, but there are other people in
the building that said they felt a little shape.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It was actually in the jury room. I'm actually during
jury do today and I was sitting there and I
got to learn on the phone before it started shaking,
So it was a very new experience.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Never had anything like that happen before. Yeah, it is
great equipment and great technology that you can get be alerted,
you know, thirty forty seconds maybe of a minute before
it hits.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Now, some people we talked with did not receive the notification.
You do need to enable it on your phone. On
an iPhone, for example, you go into settings and then
notifications and make sure that little bar next to emergency
alerts is switched on.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know, I thought I'd switched all mine off, but
I guess mine's still on.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Live in Riverside, rob Act Milvin, ABC seven Eye witness.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Snoop, I know Angel felt it. I got a text
from Angel. She was with the birds and the bees
and the dogs and the trees and stuff. But Crowzy,
did did you feel it?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
I did?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I got the notice and then about five, maybe close
to ten seconds later, I felt that little shake. Yeah,
it wasn't too bad, but it was there, lasted a
good three four or five seconds.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Any damage to your house, no, no, damn you made it.
What about you, Steff Foods? Did you feel it?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I was out Where were you sleeping?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Sleeping? I think he went out of the house. No,
I wasn't room. Oh you you slept through it.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
Yeah, I didn't feel anything. So I actually heard your
guys' text messages before before I felt the earthquake. That's great.
That's great, dude, that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Angel. I know you felt that you were with your
dog and the birds went nuts or something.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
So I was out walking my dog. I've turned all
my alerts off, so I didn't even I heard all
these other people's phones going off, and I'm just thinking, oh,
another amber alert or something. Right, But then I looked
at my phone and I saw my gosh an earthquake alert.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And I'm looking around and I.
Speaker 10 (15:17):
Noticed that like all of the geese and ducks and
all of the wildlife just got really quiet.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Hey, where are the birds on the Lakers Minnesota series?
I need a little help with that anything? They said?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Minnesota, Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Angel? Do you feel? I mean, I'm sorry, belly, you
guys mixed up? Belly. Woud you feel? Then? I?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Did?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Did? I did? It? Really rattled Irvine Hut. I was
doing the dishes, wow, go.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
And heard a big thud and then the house shook,
And then I went and checked my phone and I
did have the alert.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So like the earth beneath our feet moves every six months,
that's how often you do the dishes. Is that true
or not true?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
That would be true.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
True. Yeah, did you feel it?
Speaker 10 (16:11):
Did you say?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You said?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I got the alert and I immediately, you know, panic
because I'm an idiot, and I went into uh, my,
see what my daughter was doing. And I said, hey,
well there might be She said, what's the alert alert?
I said, it might be an earthquake coming. She's like, okay,
all right, well I'll be here. I don't know what
you're doing, but I'll just be here, okay, all right,
(16:33):
and just uh and went about our day because nothing happened.
I didn't feel anything. I got ripped off. I got
the panic of the alert and no shaking. It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
It's like being accused of cheating on your wife and
not cheating, you know what I mean. Yeah, Like, there's
four different ways you can go with cheating on your wife,
and me write them down for you kids. Oh, okay,
can mean no cheating and no accusations. Then could be
cheating no accusations. By the way, that's the gold card
(17:05):
preferred that's the gold card.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Then there's no cheating accusations. That's the worst. And then
there's cheating and accusations. So when you get again, the
worst one is no cheating and accusations where you didn't
get to cheat and you're getting accused of it. That's
(17:29):
the that's the the worst one. That's your you know,
Montgomery Ward credit card, the the plumb American Express is
cheating and not getting caught, the black card. Yeah, and
then there's the no cheating, no accusations. That's what most
guys go through life. And then the worst is not
(17:50):
cheating and getting accused. And then there's no cheating or
no cheating and not being accused. And so again that's
the that's the gold center, all right. So that's where
we are. When we come back. We have a guy
who might be the next governor of the state of California.
His name is Stephen Klubec, and he is going to
be with us. We'll ask him if he felt it
(18:11):
thing wrong with that quake.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Everybody felt the earthquake, or at least you got the
you know, the warning that was coming. All right, the
next governor of the state of California might be sitting
right in front of me. I hope he is. Stephen Klubec.
Nice to see you, buddy. How you How are you today?
I'm doing excellent. Do you feel a quake? What'd you
want from?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
On?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
A friend? A call with some big shot at Turning.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I was on the phone with Robert Shapiro today. Wow,
And I'm like, I'm like, Bob having an earthquake right
now because he's got the shake alert.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Sure. For people who know Robert Shapiro, I famously involved
with the ojks.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He created the dream Team of lawyers, right, funny story
about that. So when he comes to my house, yes,
the other day, and the person who created him at
the gate, he didn't have his ID because you know,
he just showed up and Robert Shpiroz she calls me, goes, yeah,
that's Bob, he said. He comes to my house all
the time, right, And this young man who was at
(19:12):
the front of my house, he goes, I didn't know
who he was. And I'm like, what if you don't
know who he is? And I said, I said, have
you heard of oj Right? And he goes, well, I said,
O J. Simpson, Oh wow, you know who OJ was?
I said, how old are you? He goes twenty seven.
I'm like, oh yeah, right, I said no, I said,
(19:34):
I said, Bob, you're gonna not gonna believe this. I said,
you're a dinosaur.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah. You know there are guys playing in the NHL
right now that weren't alive for nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Scary.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Isn't that wild?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That's wild?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah? I mean there. You know, if you're if you're
thirty year, if you're twenty eight years old, you don't
remember nine to eleven, you know, because you were three
when it happened. You don't remember when you were two
or three years old.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Now, I remember, I remember nine to eleven vividly. Uh
was watching TV as most of us were. We saw
this this terrible incident and my uh my little boy
at the time, I think it was like two or three,
and he goes, Daddy, are we at war?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I was like, pretty perceptive, good genetics. Yeah, it's cute,
But it was one of those moments, you know, like
when I don't if you remember when Jarn JFK was shot.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, I was two weeks old. So I remember that
a little older. All right, Steven, we got to fix
the state of California. I know you come from a
background of fixing companies. You fixed ten broken companies, correct
and put them back into the black.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Nobody could fix this one company to begin with. For
twenty years.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
What company was that?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
It was called Santerra Signature Resorts before Santera, and it
went bankrupt once was going bankrupt again. Everyone bet against me.
You're gonna buy this company here out of your mind.
You're gonna go You're gonna go un during six months,
after six months, they said, you're going broken, You're going down.
But we fixed every problem. We dissected it, We talked
(21:07):
to the team. We fixed that. We had team issues, culture,
and we had a lot of customer issues. We have
to slick to California.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Okay, let's get your background. For people don't know your background.
You you're a businessman. You're running for governor of the
state of California. You fixed a lot of companies. But
you also know that the insiders who run California, they
broke this state and they cannot fix it.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I don't believe. So I've studied, I've studied, I've studied.
We need simple solutions in a better life. We need
a better way, and those that caused these problems are
not going to be the ones to fix it.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
We've given them a chance.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Brought many chances. They failed, Right. I mean, look, just
even locally here. I know that you know this because
you keep your eye on the news, But even small
things like the city of Los Angeles raised the trash
fees from thirty two dollars to fifty six dollars, and
people can't afford that. People can't afford another twenty here,
another thirty there, twenty percent there, you know, twelve or
(22:07):
ten and a half or ten and three quarters percent
sales tax, fourteen percent income tax. They're taxing this state
to death.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Too many band aids on band aids.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's right, So we need to fix that.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So yeah, we're going to have to delicately, with compassion
and warmth, face the hard truths and fix each of
these issues. Affordability an issue, liveability an issue, right, workability
an issue. I mean, So I am going to come
to the table not like every other candidate because I'm
(22:42):
not a politician. I'm here to fix these issues because
we're all customers. Okay, we're all customers California, and we've
got to face these hard truths and fix these issues
and see results. I mean, it's we We've got to
do this together.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's right. Okay, we got to take a break. We'll
come back. We'll talk homelessness, we'll talk about taxes, we'll
talk about you know, how to clean up the state
of California, all this CP all this stuff, because this
state has got to turn around. And also you've written
a book Facing hard Truths. We'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Stephen Klubeck is with us. He is running for governor
of the state of California. Big business guy, and he
sees the problems. He knows that this state is has
a whole host of problems. Let's start going through them,
because let's just say broken, It's totally broken. You know,
I was born and raised here. I spent the better
part of six decades here, and I've never seen so
(23:40):
many people so desperate and so broke. And so, you know,
when I was growing up and you were growing up,
if somebody said they were moving out of California. You
thought they were crazy, right, You're like, wow, these were
all the opportunities you're moving out of the state of California.
Now almost every single friend I have, they don't. They're
(24:01):
not a lot of them are actually you know, calling
you haul, But every one of them talks about moving
out of California, every single one of them.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I just heard yesterday from a gentleman grew up here aspirational,
built his business and he's he's ruled out, he's regulated out.
He's gonna move to Texas and save five million bucks
a year, right, and he's taking all of his employees
(24:28):
with him. Yeah, it's it's going to eventually happen. Elon Musk,
had you know that he could have been in northern California,
or at least Central California, central East California building batteries
and cars and all that stuff he took off. There's
a lot of companies that take off because we didn't
listen to our customers.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But after one big company takes off like that, shouldn't
we start shouldn't we have started to listen to them?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Quit electing career politicians?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That I guess, So, I guess so, look I'm not
electing him. I have we have, we've done it to
I haven't voted.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Got to take responsibility because if if they got elected,
we didn't fight hard enough on the other side.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, I get that. I haven't voted for a single
governor that won in the last thirty years. I didn't
vote for Arnold Schwartzeneger. I thought I didn't. I just
know that I knew he was an actor, and I
know he wanted to be liked, and once he got
in there, he was not going to make the changes
that need to be made. And he didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well, let me earn your trust. Okay, good, let me
mirr in your trust. Let me show your results. Let
me give you a solutions. Let's do it solutions. Yes,
let's do it all R. Let's start with homelessness. Homelessness.
We have failed in the execution of homelessness. We have
failed in the accountability of our money being spent. You
(25:46):
don't do an audit. You got to do an audit.
You don't know your numbers, and we don't enforce our
laws right that. We got to start doing that. So
let's use best practices. There are there are great nonprofits
out there like the La Dream Center. La Dream Centers great.
So I've been of about five years. So if you
(26:07):
look at where I've given my philanthropic time and money,
I can tell you good, bad, ugly, and the ugly
ones I asked for my money back. Oh good, you show.
I hold them accountable excellent, and very few people do.
I hold myself accountable. The Dream Center is a great charity.
Is that the top charity that you're involved with? One
of the top charities I do? Education, homelessness.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It seems like the Dream Center every dollar that comes
in there, I've heard that like ninety five percent of
that money goes to helping people.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The Dream Center's outstanding Inner City Games, which is after
school all starts, okay, start in boil Heights. Fantastic. The
Brinch Shapiro Foundation for Drug and Alcohol Awareness. They don't
have any general and administrative costs.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I mean, so, if we had a review board in
the state looking at every one of these philanthropies, let's
take the best of the best and partner with them.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Great idea, Great idea, what do you do about education
in this state? Because it's not working. Whatever they're doing
is not working.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And aren't our children, the most valuable assets we have. Okay,
so what do we do? What do we do? What's
been the problem. Let's analyze the problem and face the
hard truth. Okay, why don't we Why don't we come
up with a program uh that rewards good behavior on
both sides, both from the teacher the student's perspective, and
(27:36):
get the parents back involved.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Right. See, I don't blame You know a lot of
people go around and they blame the teachers. These teachers
have their hands tied. If a guy, if a kid
screws around in class, you can't suspend them, you can't
expel them. The teacher just has to deal with this
idiot and that and that interrupts the entire client. Use
that word out the air, I don't know where you're
(27:58):
thought you could. I thought of a country. You thought
this was.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
On the air?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I thought I was, Yeah, No, we can't okay, use
that term on the air. But we but we caught it.
We caught it. Okay, you didn't tell me what that
delay was. Okay, yeah, now we got it. We're in
forty second delay.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Stephen Klubag is with us facing hard truths? Is this
a new book it's.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
A brand new book. It's my second book, uh, the
first book I wrote. It's called Checking In about hospitality.
We're all in the business hospitality because I believe in
the customer. We're all customers. This book is about facing
hard truths with regard to understanding how we got to
where we are politically and rising above it to create
(28:46):
the next cycle of non the TROLLI and create collaborative
talk and not playing the blame game because it doesn't
make difference, right, how we are just going to acknowledge
really issues, you know, and put your helmet on.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Tough out there now again. Stephen Quebec's with us. Who
you're running against is is? Is Hair's going to run?
I don't know Hair's going to run.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
She hasn't decided. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And you're running. You're a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm a conservative Democrat.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Conservative Democrat.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Do you know what that means.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I's just like a throwback term. Yeah, it's like a
Kennedy sort of vibe.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
The Kennedy Clinton Democrat. Kennedy Clinton right, Yeah, old school.
Even Ronald Reagan could be considered that.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Borders crime still matters to conservative Democrats.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Balance sheet in balance sheet income statement, right, yeah, exactly,
trying to be efficient and h following the laws. We
don't steal. It's zero, not nine hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You know, you got to be careful though with you know,
with Democrats, if you say one wrong thing, man, they
go crazy. Like for instance, Governor Newsom, who has been
the golden child for Democrats forever, last months, said he
doesn't believe that women should be playing in or men
should be playing in women's sports, and they crucified.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Him for that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
He's got history of voting record. I'm not a politician.
I tell hard truths, right, you know, men should not
change genders and play women's sports. It's x X or
x Y. Give me a break. I took biology and genetics, man, right.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
And but there's a lot of people that are that
are going to you know, I get down on people
with that position.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
You know what, I'm not going to please everybody. Look,
I'm here to deliver results and tell you right the truth.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That's right, that's right that And look, I think a
lot a lot of people find that refreshing. You know,
somebody that has an opinions, they look, when we were
growing up, that never happened there. You know, guys, there
were born men never playing women's sports. But now it happens.
You know, it's not frequent, but it happens. And you know,
and and and it's it's an issue that is a
(31:07):
minor issue, but it's an issue that if it affects
your daughter, it's a major issue.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I've got sons and daughters, right.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
And are your sons better athletes than your daughters?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Equal?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Equal? Okay? All right, well maybe they could.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
No, no, they're not gonna they're not playing the same sport. No,
and you know you no, no, no, okame on, this
is just silly. And by the way, so all of
these career politicians are scripted, right, and you know they
stay with their party line. They're afraid of offending somebody.
I mean, I can have an opinion.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's right. Okay, you're going to start a podcast as well.
I am with iHeartRadio. All right, when does that start?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I'm gonna start in May. Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I appreciate you coming on Facing Hard Truth. It's available anywhere, right, It's.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Available at on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, Facing Hard Truth, Steven Klubeck, I appreciate you coming
in and hopefully we'll see you again, and I hope
you can turn this date around. Thank you, dig Doong,
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