March 25, 2025 • 31 mins
GUEST Dr. Ray Casciari, Pulmonologist with St. Joseph in Orange on the fire fighter's health issues after exposure to fire and smoke. // GUEST Dr. Ray Casciari, Pulmonologist, on vaccines and what is needed. What is the future around Covid. Disease X // Attacks on Mail carriers in L.A. has a huge impact on YOU. What is it? // Fire in large commercial bldg. Food loans ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Door Dash 'Eat now, pay later'? DoorDash-Klarna deal fuels concerns around loans for takeout
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. But one of
our favorite guests of all time is a man who
needs no introduction, but I'm gonna give one anyway. One
of the world's greatest doctors, the world's greatest pulmonologist out
of Saint Jose in Orange County, Doctor Ray Kasherry.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Doctor Ray, How you.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Bob, Jim, I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
How you man? It's always great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I feel like we're going back to COVID, where you
were the one of the bright shining lights during COVID.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Well, yeah, I appreciate that, but boy, I don't want
to go back to COVID. That was a terrible time.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I saw a guy leave the building today. He had
a mask, he had a shield on, he had a
mask on, and he was wearing gloves. And I'm like, wow,
this guy's five years behind everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Oh jeez. Some people are locked in, you know. And
it's such a beautiful day. I know, I got the
sun is shining, there's the nice breeze. Got go out
and enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Right, And he hasn't read any one of these seven
hundred thousand articles about masks not really working that well.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I know, I know there's a lot of people who
haven't read those because unfortunately they never really made the
popular media.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But you know, what can you do.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
There are some people who need to protect themselves. But boy,
it's a small number.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's right, all right, doctor Ray, we got some bad
news here with firefighters blood levels of lead and mercury.
I know this has affected your family as well. They
are showing signs of lead and mercury and that can't
be good.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, this is really a fascinating article, and boy, there's
so much to talk about here. But basically, a doctor,
Carl Medrew out of Harvard took twenty firefighters and it's
a small group and it hasn't been published in medical
literature yet, so it hasn't been peer reviewed. But what
he did is he took twenty northern California firefighters who
(02:05):
came down here to fight the Eton and the Palisades fire,
and he sampled their blood and then he compared that
blood to other firefighters from northern California who fought wildland fires.
So he didn't even compare it to normal people. He
compared it to other firefighters, and what he found was
(02:28):
that the firefighters who came down here had five times
the level of lead and three times level mercury.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, that's not good because both of those heavy metals
have a lot of neurotoxicity. They can lead to early dementia,
they can lead to Alzheimer's, and just a whole lot
of problems.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So I imagine also there's kidney damage and nervous system
damage as well.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
There's all kinds of problems with having metal exposure, and
there's a lot of consequences from this. But the scary
part is these guys are only down here for a
few days. Wow. I mean I think they're down here
for like four or five days. So that that brates
a whole series of concerns. So let's talk about this
(03:17):
a little bit because for the average person there's something
to be learned here. Number one thing to be learned
is that there are three parts of your body to
interact with the environment, your skin, your gut, and your lungs.
Of those three systems, your lungs are the most sensitive,
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and the reason for that is your lungs have to
have a very thin layer of tissue to allow gas,
you know, one one cell layer thick to allow gas
to cross into your so oxygen n carbon dioxide out.
This is a really finely tuned system. It can be
(04:01):
easily damaged. And the surface area of your lungs. If
we could take your alveoli, these little sacks inside your
lungs and spread them out like you know on a
flat surface, you're talking the area of a tennis court. Okay,
there's a lot of area inside your lungs and that's
a lot of area for exposure. So when smoke enters
(04:23):
your lungs, it can be rapidly absorbed into your into
your blood. Now this all makes sense, right, because if
you smoke a cigarette, you get a nicotine high in
seven seconds. Yeah, you remember that.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's why people do that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That's right, That's why I miss it every day, I know.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I mean the only way, the only faster way is
is a direct iv because it goes that fast. Yeah.
So the thing is that when you are inhaling smoke,
you're getting almost a direct ivy exposure to whatever you're inhaling.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now, but this isn't a pro cigarettes comment though, right now?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
About what this is? This is just telling folks, because
I listen to folks all the time talk to me
about how they're going to stay and fight the fire. No,
they're not going to evacuate their you know. And and god,
you know, I have a daughter who's a firefighter, and
we'll talk talk more about her later. And these firefighters
are amazingly brave. Sure, and uh, you know, millions of
(05:37):
years of evolutionary knowledge has gone into the human brain
and talk to human brain that when you see a fire,
you go the other way. Firefighters don't do that, right,
They go into the fire and they take tremendous risks.
And what happens as a result of that is that
(05:58):
that's smoke. It's in their line ungs, and all these
toxins get into their blood. Now we've learned a couple
of things. As bad as wildland fires are, house fires
are worse. And electric car fires are even worse than
house fires.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And that's and that is a lot of people in
the Palisades, a lot of people bought into the electric
cars and stayed behind to try to you know, put
their fire out and breathe all of those toxins in.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
That's exactly right, man, and you know, you can't put
an electric car fire out with a hose. It's impossible.
The only way you can put an electric car fire
out is to completely submerge the car in water. You
have to have a gigantic tank, lift the car up
and put the car completely underwater. That's how you put
it out.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Wow, they don't tell you that when they're when you're
in you're in the showroom buying one.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, my daughter, who who is
a firefighter, gets regularly screened for all these talkings, as do,
by the way, pilots and lots of other folks. I mean,
this isn't this isn't just firefighters. But anyway, they were
screening her and she came up positive for arsenic, as
(07:18):
did other members of the San Diego Fire Department.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And they have no idea what fire they were exposed to,
but they had to detox from that and it took
a while to get rid of that arsenic. So this
is a scary stuff. And I guess the important thing
for your audience to understand is that when you see smoke,
(07:44):
when you're in danger, go the other way.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Absolutely, yeah, go.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
The other way. You are in no position to fight
that fire.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
That's right. Doctor Raker.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sherry's with us from Saint Jose in Orange and we
didn't touch on this, but I imagine there's a big
deal as well in the reproductive system. If you're going
to have children and you have lead poisoning, that could
lead to you know, learning difficulties, development, developmental delay, loss
of appetite, weight loss. I mean, it goes on and
(08:16):
on and on about lead poisoning when you're trying to
have children, and if that lead gets into the fetus's system,
that's almost always really bad news, that is.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
True, and it's very bad for young children. It's very
bad for young children. So you know, all of this
goes to say that you know your lungs are incredibly
absorptive and you need to protect them. And remember the
rule of thumb that I've given on your many times,
(08:47):
and I hope people remember it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
If your eyes are burning, your lungs are burning too,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I always remember that. I always remember that. I have
a friend who's with the LA Fire Department. He retired recently,
but he had two or three incidents while he was
fighting fires over his thirty year career where he was
stuck in a house and he had to fight to
get out to save his life, and there's some kind
(09:13):
of it's not there's some kind of symptom, and there's
something happens to the human brain when you're caught in
a life or death situation like that. Like these firefighters
are that everything in their brain kicks in to fight
or flight, and they're trying to fight. They're trying to fight,
they're trying to get out of that situation. And they've
(09:36):
discovered that if you're in a life threatening situation and
use your entire brain and your entire body to try
to get out of there, it really has a tremendous
damage on your long term memory. There are a lot
of things that he doesn't remember from our childhood that
I had to remind him about.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Huh, I didn't know that. Actually it's wild.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
But it's like, you know, there are so many any
different reasons why you shouldn't stay back and fight these fires,
and a lot of them is you might you know,
you might save your house, but you also may have
cost you yourself your life.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah yeah, or or like you said, your memory, or
right now, you might wind up with heavy metal intoxication
and and is it a good trade? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Can you stay with us?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Oh yeah, okay, all right, Doctor Ray's grew with this,
Doctor Ray can cherry.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We'll come back and talk a little bit about the flu.
We had a horrible flu season and also a little
bit about COVID. Where are we with COVID and what
Doctor Ray sees on the horizon because there's always something
creeping up? Is it measles? I don't know, but Doctor
Ray's the best.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on Demayo from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Doctor Ray Kascherry is with us out a Saint Joe's
in Orange County. Uh, Doctor Ray, when last we spoke
to you, it was in the middle of flu season.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
How did we do? I know it was a radical one.
Is it still? Do you still recommend to get the
shot this late in March?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
No? I think I think at this point's going to
take you three weeks to get the immunity. And I
think we're far enough along now that it probably doesn't
pay you to get it. If you're planning on going
to a trip, going on a trip to a area
that's heavily flu ridden, you might still consider getting it.
(11:31):
But other than that, I don't think i'd get it
at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I remember you told me a stat that if somebody
has the flu or a cold on a plane, the
chances are about thirty percent you're going to get it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I always remember that. That's radical.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, yeah, and that's true. You know, well, you know
what the chances are you're going to get measles?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
No, is that right?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
If you're not vaccinated and somebody on the plane has measles,
you're going to get it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Oh if you're no, no, no, if you're unvaccinated, right,
and there's measles on the plane, well ninety nine point
not medicine, but it's like ninety nine percent plus all right,
So we got.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
To get back with the vaxes and the measles. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I saw in Texas there was a young kid that died.
I can't imagine what the parents feel like.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's horrible.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah, they had a serious outbreak down there. There was
a population down there that was eighteen percent unvaccinated. WOA,
and I think they had one hundred and fifty four
cases or something like that. But they got control of it.
By you know, isolation and vaccinating that population. So they
(12:43):
got control of it. They stopped us spread.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Doctor what I know that there's we had Jim McDonald
on who is the LAPD chief, and there was you know,
there's still challenges in trying to get people to become
police officers nowaday not just in Lost Angels, but throughout
the country. What is the vibe in the medical world?
Are there are are you still are you still seeing
(13:06):
enough people wanting to be doctors? Or are we are
we in like an emergency mode where there are not
enough people. We're gonna have a lack of doctors in
the future.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
We're definitely down. Applications are down. Physician extender applications are
doing okay, nurse tactitioners and pas. But the grind to
become a doctor is really tough and the cost and
(13:39):
a lot of people just they just can't make that sacrifice.
I mean, it's it's just a lot of time, a
lot of education. And when you come out, you know,
before you even start, you're four hundred thousand dollars in debt. Wow,
you know, it's tough. It's a it's a tough road.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And when you first started, you know, when you've first
started practicing, you probably spent I don't know, two or
three percent of your time in billing, and now I imagine
that's considerably more, probably thirty.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well, you know, we have billiing people who bill, but
when I started practicing, thirty percent of my billings were
basically gratis. In other words, I knew that I wasn't
going to collect anything, and I to tell you the truth,
I don't. I don't actually know what that figure is now.
(14:35):
It is less than that because medical has come into play,
So you get paid something, but you don't get paid
enough to really cover you know, your cost. So it's
it's a it's a tough road right now. For now,
there are certain professions that do very well. Orthopedics and
(14:59):
dermatology and those kinds of professions do very well. But
general a general doctor, or an internal medicine doctor or
a pediatrician very very difficult professions.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I heard that if you know somebody's not going to
pay you, that you and the people in your office
refer to that as oh, they're going to conway us.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Is that true? Especially rude by the way, No, No.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
We don't do that, but I do remember you telling
a story once about your dad getting somebody to go
look at a car and gave the keys to the
car and they left and they didn't bring the car back.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh no, that's a true story.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
My dad went to a party in Hollywood, you know,
gave the guys the key, the valet parker the keys,
and never saw his car again. And so he went
into the party he said, hey, one of your valet
parkers stole my car. And the guy says, we're not
offering valet parking.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's a true story.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It was just a guy showed up in a Hollywood
party with a red vest on and was taking cars.
I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often, you know, because
you know, you see a guy in a red vest
with a white shirt on, you give him the keys.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
He doesn't have to hot wire.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You just give him the keys and say, hey, there
you go, and you know he's in Canada before the
party's over. Uh, Doctor Ray, I can't thank you enough
for coming on. And I know I probably say this
too often, but man, I hear it still all the time.
I heard it down this weekend in San Juan Capistrano
that somebody mentioned your name and said if you ever,
(16:47):
when you when you speak to doctor Ray again, please
tell him thank you, because it's a it's an elderly
lady who lived alone. She was scared to death. She
would not go anywhere. She wouldn't go to the restaurants,
she wouldn't go to the grocery store. She had everything delivered.
And listening to you talk about if you're not you know, overweight,
and you don't have any preconsistent existing conditions, you're going
(17:08):
to be okay. And your voice got her out of
her house. And she still thinks about you every day.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh, that's great, true story, and it's so good. That's great, Tim,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
And I and I you know what, and if I
run into you know, three or four of those people
a year, they say that for every one person that
comes up to you and says that, there might be
one hundred or a thousand people that think the same thing.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So I can't. I could never thank you enough.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Well, that's great. I you know, I appreciate it. And uh,
those are tough times, but hey, we got through them.
And uh, you know we're COVID's in the river mirror. Good,
we don't have to worry about that. Oh, you want
to know what's in the future.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yes, what's in the future.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I wanted to tell you. You know, you can actually
look up. It's called disease X and uh, disease X
simply means the unknown disease. And there's a massive amount
written about disease X. And there are basically there are
people all over the world, you know, and numerous countries
(18:09):
all over the world trying to prepare for the next unknown.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh. Wow, Okay, we don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
COVID was an unknown unknown, meaning it was a completely
novel virus. We knew nothing about it. The entire world
was thrown into a frenzy about this disease. Wow. Now,
I will tell you that you and I gave really
good advice on that. You know, we we almost every
(18:37):
single time we checked the box, we checked the right box.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You're right, I mean the way affect the kids, Yeah,
the long term effect.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
We'll have to have you on sometime just to talk
and to recap about, you know, what happened with COVID,
because I think there was there's still a lot of
people out there who don't understand, you know, the the
entire disease and how it happened and where it is
and everything.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
We should do a whole hour on COVID.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Oh we could do it, Yeah, we could do it,
but really it was fascinating.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
But anyway, I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Tip tell everybody's rearview mirror, no problem, all.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Right, thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
All right, Doctor Ray, Sherry, everybody, Saint Joe's in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
We'll have to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We'll have to do an entire hour on retrospect on
what COVID, how it affected everybody. Because this doctor Ray
was right on every single issue he brought up. He
was he was right, he was six months ahead of everybody.
All Right, we're live. When we come back, we'll tell you.
Now we know why people are robbing postman and post
win the letter carriers. We have just discovered why they're
(19:39):
not stealing mail. They're not stealing the guy's wallet or
the watch. We'll tell you what they're after now we
know Belliot did some research.
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Speaker 3 (20:36):
All right, the.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Postal workers postal workers, they're being attacked, but they're not
after the guy's money. They're not after the mail. They're
not after his wallet or his watch. They all want
one thing from the postal worker. Let's find out what
they're looking for. Why are they attacking these guys in gowns.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
It's all incredibly traumatic for the postal carrier.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
But this all also has a huge.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Impact on you, the USPS customers. So let's bring in
the data. Let's dig through it and break this all
down for you. And let's start right over here. We
can see in data that we've obtained through federal records
requests that all across California since twenty twenty three, there
have been more than five hundred attacks on mail carriers. Again,
more than five hundred attacks. And the cities where we
(21:22):
are seeing the most of these attacks is right here
in Los Angeles, so there's been at least fifty five
of them reported. But when you combine the numbers from
the Bay Area, we can see there's been about one
hundred postal carriers attack there. Also eleven have been reported
in San Bernardino.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Okay, So what are they taking?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
So why attack a postal carrier?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What's in it for the attacker? That's right, What are
they grabbing?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Well, often the attacker wants what's known as an arrow key.
Those are those universal keys that open those big cluster
mailboxes that you see in apartment buildings and industrial complexes.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's what they're after, the universal key to open up
in condo building or apartment buildings.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
They can open up every mail box.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
And look at the data we have on this, we
can see here in California, more and more of these
arrow keys are reported missing and stolen. In twenty twenty three,
three hundred and ninety two of those keys were missing
and stolen. That's shot up to four hundred and forty
seven last year. Yeah, and just look at this surge
that we're seeing here in La Now.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Bellio is bellio on. There is she on the mic bellio.
She's here, she's here all right?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Where you live in Irvine, do you have to go
get your mail at one of these multi boxes? Yes,
and so this could really impact you.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, not happy about it. You should be really pissed. No,
I am, let's crack down on this.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That's right, that's correct. What time does your mail get
there every day?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I don't know. You don't know. I really don't. You
really don't. I really don't. Wow, man, you a kept woman?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Huh, A little bit, just totally casual about everything in life.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I am no, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I mean I know what time my mail gets there?
Between like two and three every day the guy rolls
by and drops off the mail.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It's in the morning sometimes it is.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
So you go get it as soon as you can
so nobody steals, yes, or do you let it sit
for counting?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
No, I'm a daily mail getter. How far from your
front door? Thirty feet? Oh, that's not bad. No, it's
not bad. Can you see it from your apartment, from
your condo? No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Thirty two of those keys were reported missing in twenty
twenty three. That has surged up to one hundred and
two last year. So how does this all circle back
to you, the USPS customer.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Well, often when.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Those arrow keys are stolen, they end up on the
dark web where male.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Thieves by them.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
And once a male thief has one of those keys,
it makes stealing your mail so incredibly easy. And through
federal records, we can see this in La County alone.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Last year, here we go, in La County alone, here's
the number. It's going to bother you.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
More than seven thousand and five hundred complaints of missing
and stolen mail were sent into the US Postal Police. Again,
these are just reports from people who actually took the
time to file a complaint with postal.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Police, and you know, most people don't. Most people do
not file a complaint.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
And the zip code that we found with the absolute
most complaints of missing and stolen mail.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Okay, what's the biggest, most aggressive, gruesome I'm guessing Beverly
Hills or West Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Is nine zero seven zero six, which is in Bellflower?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
We have so much Bellflower. Wow, I never guessed which
is in Bellflower.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
We have so much more data that we are digging through.
You can find it on ABC sven dot com Live
in the studio Kevin nosback, ABC seven.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Eye witnessed you.
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second alarm fire that's been going on all day here
or at least the last couple hours in East Los Angeles.
(26:03):
Maybe saw the smoke from one of your favorite freeways.
What's going on and what's burning out there in East LA.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And this building is located on Atlantic Boulevard near Telegraph
here in East Los Angeles, just north of the Citadel. Now,
this is a fire that broke out about thirty minutes
ago in a large commercial building, possibly some sort of
community center. This is the La County Fire Department that
is on SCEAM battling this fire in what's called a
defensive mode. That means that it is simply too dangerous
(26:32):
for the firefighters to be in the building.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Or on the roof.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
In fact, the roof has already collapsed, so they are
in a defensive posture here with those heavy streams and
those ladders surrounding the building. At this point, the cause
of the fire is under investigation, and it's also unknown
if anyone was in the building when the fire broke out,
but they continue to battle this one. I saw flames
just a second ago. Not seeing too much in the
(26:55):
way of flames now, but still a lot of heavy
smoke that can be seen for miles here from Los
Angeles now reporting from new shop report. I'm elam Reno.
Don't cool anywhere.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah, that's known as the boost Limo fire there in
East Los Angeles. All right, you know that we're broke
as a society when you have to take out a
loan to eat dinner.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
How about this alone to eat dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I went last night to Canes, one of my favorite places.
I got a three piece meal. I got a child's
meal for my daughter and a child's meal for my wife.
Thank god they didn't card either one of them, because
neither one of them are children.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
But they don't eat.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
They eat like birds, you know, they don't eat much.
So two kids meals and one adult meal thirty six dollars,
thirty six dollars. I almost passed out. How the hell
do people afford that. Well, maybe they don't. And now
(28:03):
you can get a loan to go eat at a
restaurant or get door Dash. Yeah, you can eat now
and pay.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Later when it starts.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
If you open up the door dash app like I
did last night to order some delivery, you're going to
see an option to pay with klarnapp, and you're going
to have a couple different options. You can either pay
that in full, you can choose a time in the
future that's more convenient for you. Maybe your paycheck comes
in a little bit later.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
It's a meal and we're putting it off, you know,
Wimpy Gladly pay for Gladly have a let me pay
you to Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's a that's a great commercial for them. They should
use that for door Dash.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Or you can do four interest free installments. If the
purchase is thirty five dollars or more. Now, you're still
going to have to pay that at some point down
the line.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Right, we picked up on that.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
But if you do pay on time, it's going to
be the same total price, whether you pay in full
or you do multiple different payments. You're not in a
law exactly though. If you do miss a payment you
encurrelate fel We.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Said, what does it say about people's ability to pay
for the essentials?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
When did takeout become the essential?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Like, yeah, who's taken on a loan for you know,
for fast food?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
People's heads are exploding? Who have kitchens and stoves and
all the rest? Here I don't quite get it. But
what does it say about the same of the economy?
Are the things we can infer?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Well?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yes, sign it broke, totally broke.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Well, this is a sign of the times. I mean
you used to see buy now, pay later used for
these bigger ticket items, high end things like furniture and electronics.
The fact that people are using this now for groceries,
for gas, for everyday items. And it's not just Clarna
and door Dash, it's Walmart, Best Buy. There are other
buy now, pay later companies like a firm and after Pay.
(29:43):
I think where it gets tough, though, is you get
into this mindset of oh, I have more room in
my budget when you.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Really don't exactly And the question, of course is American
the level of debt in the United States among consumer
of ordinarily high.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
This off the charge we have time for this. Yesterday
was the twentieth Thing anniversary twenty years ago. Yesterday was
the very first episode of the Office, and now we
have the three best moments, the top three moments in
Office history The Office.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
This week the NBC sitcom celebrating its twentieth anniversary. So
in honor of the dunder Mifflin Gang, Rolling Stone has
named the list of the greatest Office moments of all time.
There's so many great moments. I can't imagine having to
make that list. We got the top three right now,
starting with this legendary Michael Scott Alter ego the same prison.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Was the was the Dementos thing. We're flying all over
the place.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
They were scary and.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Then they come down and they suck the soul out
of your body.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
And at he.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Wise words from prison Mike the number two on the
list after.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
All that will they won't tell?
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Yeah, it's that swoo worthy scene that ended season two,
the Casino Night episode.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Well, here's more from John. That's great the Office. The
Casino Night was awesome. That was it.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
Yes, the way, that's all of our fat numbers through
it today, guys, it's probably best.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Serious.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
That is the famous Chili episode. Port's Kevin Malone. There
and well you can get that full recipe. Brian Bomgardner,
who plays the role, put out a cookbook.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I can't believe that twenty years. It's already been twenty
years since the first episode of the Office. Unbelievable, How
time flies? All right, Moe Kelly's whole crew up right
next do here KFI AM six forty Conway Show on
demand on.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
The iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. But one of
our favorite guests of all time is a man who
needs no introduction, but I'm gonna give one anyway. One
of the world's greatest doctors, the world's greatest pulmonologist out
of Saint Jose in Orange County, Doctor Ray Kasherry.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Doctor Ray, How you.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Bob, Jim, I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
How you man? It's always great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I feel like we're going back to COVID, where you
were the one of the bright shining lights during COVID.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Well, yeah, I appreciate that, but boy, I don't want
to go back to COVID. That was a terrible time.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I saw a guy leave the building today. He had
a mask, he had a shield on, he had a
mask on, and he was wearing gloves. And I'm like, wow,
this guy's five years behind everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Oh jeez. Some people are locked in, you know. And
it's such a beautiful day. I know, I got the
sun is shining, there's the nice breeze. Got go out
and enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Right, And he hasn't read any one of these seven
hundred thousand articles about masks not really working that well.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I know, I know there's a lot of people who
haven't read those because unfortunately they never really made the
popular media.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But you know, what can you do.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
There are some people who need to protect themselves. But boy,
it's a small number.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's right, all right, doctor Ray, we got some bad
news here with firefighters blood levels of lead and mercury.
I know this has affected your family as well. They
are showing signs of lead and mercury and that can't
be good.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, this is really a fascinating article, and boy, there's
so much to talk about here. But basically, a doctor,
Carl Medrew out of Harvard took twenty firefighters and it's
a small group and it hasn't been published in medical
literature yet, so it hasn't been peer reviewed. But what
he did is he took twenty northern California firefighters who
(02:05):
came down here to fight the Eton and the Palisades fire,
and he sampled their blood and then he compared that
blood to other firefighters from northern California who fought wildland fires.
So he didn't even compare it to normal people. He
compared it to other firefighters, and what he found was
(02:28):
that the firefighters who came down here had five times
the level of lead and three times level mercury.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, that's not good because both of those heavy metals
have a lot of neurotoxicity. They can lead to early dementia,
they can lead to Alzheimer's, and just a whole lot
of problems.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So I imagine also there's kidney damage and nervous system
damage as well.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
There's all kinds of problems with having metal exposure, and
there's a lot of consequences from this. But the scary
part is these guys are only down here for a
few days. Wow. I mean I think they're down here
for like four or five days. So that that brates
a whole series of concerns. So let's talk about this
(03:17):
a little bit because for the average person there's something
to be learned here. Number one thing to be learned
is that there are three parts of your body to
interact with the environment, your skin, your gut, and your lungs.
Of those three systems, your lungs are the most sensitive,
(03:39):
and the reason for that is your lungs have to
have a very thin layer of tissue to allow gas,
you know, one one cell layer thick to allow gas
to cross into your so oxygen n carbon dioxide out.
This is a really finely tuned system. It can be
(04:01):
easily damaged. And the surface area of your lungs. If
we could take your alveoli, these little sacks inside your
lungs and spread them out like you know on a
flat surface, you're talking the area of a tennis court. Okay,
there's a lot of area inside your lungs and that's
a lot of area for exposure. So when smoke enters
(04:23):
your lungs, it can be rapidly absorbed into your into
your blood. Now this all makes sense, right, because if
you smoke a cigarette, you get a nicotine high in
seven seconds. Yeah, you remember that.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's why people do that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That's right, That's why I miss it every day, I know.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I mean the only way, the only faster way is
is a direct iv because it goes that fast. Yeah.
So the thing is that when you are inhaling smoke,
you're getting almost a direct ivy exposure to whatever you're inhaling.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now, but this isn't a pro cigarettes comment though, right now?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
About what this is? This is just telling folks, because
I listen to folks all the time talk to me
about how they're going to stay and fight the fire. No,
they're not going to evacuate their you know. And and god,
you know, I have a daughter who's a firefighter, and
we'll talk talk more about her later. And these firefighters
are amazingly brave. Sure, and uh, you know, millions of
(05:37):
years of evolutionary knowledge has gone into the human brain
and talk to human brain that when you see a fire,
you go the other way. Firefighters don't do that, right,
They go into the fire and they take tremendous risks.
And what happens as a result of that is that
(05:58):
that's smoke. It's in their line ungs, and all these
toxins get into their blood. Now we've learned a couple
of things. As bad as wildland fires are, house fires
are worse. And electric car fires are even worse than
house fires.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And that's and that is a lot of people in
the Palisades, a lot of people bought into the electric
cars and stayed behind to try to you know, put
their fire out and breathe all of those toxins in.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
That's exactly right, man, and you know, you can't put
an electric car fire out with a hose. It's impossible.
The only way you can put an electric car fire
out is to completely submerge the car in water. You
have to have a gigantic tank, lift the car up
and put the car completely underwater. That's how you put
it out.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Wow, they don't tell you that when they're when you're
in you're in the showroom buying one.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, my daughter, who who is
a firefighter, gets regularly screened for all these talkings, as do,
by the way, pilots and lots of other folks. I mean,
this isn't this isn't just firefighters. But anyway, they were
screening her and she came up positive for arsenic, as
(07:18):
did other members of the San Diego Fire Department.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And they have no idea what fire they were exposed to,
but they had to detox from that and it took
a while to get rid of that arsenic. So this
is a scary stuff. And I guess the important thing
for your audience to understand is that when you see smoke,
(07:44):
when you're in danger, go the other way.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Absolutely, yeah, go.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
The other way. You are in no position to fight
that fire.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
That's right. Doctor Raker.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sherry's with us from Saint Jose in Orange and we
didn't touch on this, but I imagine there's a big
deal as well in the reproductive system. If you're going
to have children and you have lead poisoning, that could
lead to you know, learning difficulties, development, developmental delay, loss
of appetite, weight loss. I mean, it goes on and
(08:16):
on and on about lead poisoning when you're trying to
have children, and if that lead gets into the fetus's system,
that's almost always really bad news, that is.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
True, and it's very bad for young children. It's very
bad for young children. So you know, all of this
goes to say that you know your lungs are incredibly
absorptive and you need to protect them. And remember the
rule of thumb that I've given on your many times,
(08:47):
and I hope people remember it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
If your eyes are burning, your lungs are burning too,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I always remember that. I always remember that. I have
a friend who's with the LA Fire Department. He retired recently,
but he had two or three incidents while he was
fighting fires over his thirty year career where he was
stuck in a house and he had to fight to
get out to save his life, and there's some kind
(09:13):
of it's not there's some kind of symptom, and there's
something happens to the human brain when you're caught in
a life or death situation like that. Like these firefighters
are that everything in their brain kicks in to fight
or flight, and they're trying to fight. They're trying to fight,
they're trying to get out of that situation. And they've
(09:36):
discovered that if you're in a life threatening situation and
use your entire brain and your entire body to try
to get out of there, it really has a tremendous
damage on your long term memory. There are a lot
of things that he doesn't remember from our childhood that
I had to remind him about.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Huh, I didn't know that. Actually it's wild.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
But it's like, you know, there are so many any
different reasons why you shouldn't stay back and fight these fires,
and a lot of them is you might you know,
you might save your house, but you also may have
cost you yourself your life.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah yeah, or or like you said, your memory, or
right now, you might wind up with heavy metal intoxication
and and is it a good trade? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Can you stay with us?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Oh yeah, okay, all right, Doctor Ray's grew with this,
Doctor Ray can cherry.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We'll come back and talk a little bit about the flu.
We had a horrible flu season and also a little
bit about COVID. Where are we with COVID and what
Doctor Ray sees on the horizon because there's always something
creeping up? Is it measles? I don't know, but Doctor
Ray's the best.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on Demayo from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Doctor Ray Kascherry is with us out a Saint Joe's
in Orange County. Uh, Doctor Ray, when last we spoke
to you, it was in the middle of flu season.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
How did we do? I know it was a radical one.
Is it still? Do you still recommend to get the
shot this late in March?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
No? I think I think at this point's going to
take you three weeks to get the immunity. And I
think we're far enough along now that it probably doesn't
pay you to get it. If you're planning on going
to a trip, going on a trip to a area
that's heavily flu ridden, you might still consider getting it.
(11:31):
But other than that, I don't think i'd get it
at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I remember you told me a stat that if somebody
has the flu or a cold on a plane, the
chances are about thirty percent you're going to get it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I always remember that. That's radical.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, yeah, and that's true. You know, well, you know
what the chances are you're going to get measles?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
No, is that right?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
If you're not vaccinated and somebody on the plane has measles,
you're going to get it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Oh if you're no, no, no, if you're unvaccinated, right,
and there's measles on the plane, well ninety nine point
not medicine, but it's like ninety nine percent plus all right,
So we got.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
To get back with the vaxes and the measles. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I saw in Texas there was a young kid that died.
I can't imagine what the parents feel like.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's horrible.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah, they had a serious outbreak down there. There was
a population down there that was eighteen percent unvaccinated. WOA,
and I think they had one hundred and fifty four
cases or something like that. But they got control of it.
By you know, isolation and vaccinating that population. So they
(12:43):
got control of it. They stopped us spread.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Doctor what I know that there's we had Jim McDonald
on who is the LAPD chief, and there was you know,
there's still challenges in trying to get people to become
police officers nowaday not just in Lost Angels, but throughout
the country. What is the vibe in the medical world?
Are there are are you still are you still seeing
(13:06):
enough people wanting to be doctors? Or are we are
we in like an emergency mode where there are not
enough people. We're gonna have a lack of doctors in
the future.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
We're definitely down. Applications are down. Physician extender applications are
doing okay, nurse tactitioners and pas. But the grind to
become a doctor is really tough and the cost and
(13:39):
a lot of people just they just can't make that sacrifice.
I mean, it's it's just a lot of time, a
lot of education. And when you come out, you know,
before you even start, you're four hundred thousand dollars in debt. Wow,
you know, it's tough. It's a it's a tough road.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And when you first started, you know, when you've first
started practicing, you probably spent I don't know, two or
three percent of your time in billing, and now I imagine
that's considerably more, probably thirty.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well, you know, we have billiing people who bill, but
when I started practicing, thirty percent of my billings were
basically gratis. In other words, I knew that I wasn't
going to collect anything, and I to tell you the truth,
I don't. I don't actually know what that figure is now.
(14:35):
It is less than that because medical has come into play,
So you get paid something, but you don't get paid
enough to really cover you know, your cost. So it's
it's a it's a tough road right now. For now,
there are certain professions that do very well. Orthopedics and
(14:59):
dermatology and those kinds of professions do very well. But
general a general doctor, or an internal medicine doctor or
a pediatrician very very difficult professions.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I heard that if you know somebody's not going to
pay you, that you and the people in your office
refer to that as oh, they're going to conway us.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Is that true? Especially rude by the way, No, No.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
We don't do that, but I do remember you telling
a story once about your dad getting somebody to go
look at a car and gave the keys to the
car and they left and they didn't bring the car back.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh no, that's a true story.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
My dad went to a party in Hollywood, you know,
gave the guys the key, the valet parker the keys,
and never saw his car again. And so he went
into the party he said, hey, one of your valet
parkers stole my car. And the guy says, we're not
offering valet parking.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's a true story.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It was just a guy showed up in a Hollywood
party with a red vest on and was taking cars.
I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often, you know, because
you know, you see a guy in a red vest
with a white shirt on, you give him the keys.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
He doesn't have to hot wire.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You just give him the keys and say, hey, there
you go, and you know he's in Canada before the
party's over. Uh, Doctor Ray, I can't thank you enough
for coming on. And I know I probably say this
too often, but man, I hear it still all the time.
I heard it down this weekend in San Juan Capistrano
that somebody mentioned your name and said if you ever,
(16:47):
when you when you speak to doctor Ray again, please
tell him thank you, because it's a it's an elderly
lady who lived alone. She was scared to death. She
would not go anywhere. She wouldn't go to the restaurants,
she wouldn't go to the grocery store. She had everything delivered.
And listening to you talk about if you're not you know, overweight,
and you don't have any preconsistent existing conditions, you're going
(17:08):
to be okay. And your voice got her out of
her house. And she still thinks about you every day.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh, that's great, true story, and it's so good. That's great, Tim,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
And I and I you know what, and if I
run into you know, three or four of those people
a year, they say that for every one person that
comes up to you and says that, there might be
one hundred or a thousand people that think the same thing.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So I can't. I could never thank you enough.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Well, that's great. I you know, I appreciate it. And uh,
those are tough times, but hey, we got through them.
And uh, you know we're COVID's in the river mirror. Good,
we don't have to worry about that. Oh, you want
to know what's in the future.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yes, what's in the future.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I wanted to tell you. You know, you can actually
look up. It's called disease X and uh, disease X
simply means the unknown disease. And there's a massive amount
written about disease X. And there are basically there are
people all over the world, you know, and numerous countries
(18:09):
all over the world trying to prepare for the next unknown.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh. Wow, Okay, we don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
COVID was an unknown unknown, meaning it was a completely
novel virus. We knew nothing about it. The entire world
was thrown into a frenzy about this disease. Wow. Now,
I will tell you that you and I gave really
good advice on that. You know, we we almost every
(18:37):
single time we checked the box, we checked the right box.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You're right, I mean the way affect the kids, Yeah,
the long term effect.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
We'll have to have you on sometime just to talk
and to recap about, you know, what happened with COVID,
because I think there was there's still a lot of
people out there who don't understand, you know, the the
entire disease and how it happened and where it is
and everything.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
We should do a whole hour on COVID.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Oh we could do it, Yeah, we could do it,
but really it was fascinating.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
But anyway, I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Tip tell everybody's rearview mirror, no problem, all.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Right, thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
All right, Doctor Ray, Sherry, everybody, Saint Joe's in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
We'll have to do that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We'll have to do an entire hour on retrospect on
what COVID, how it affected everybody. Because this doctor Ray
was right on every single issue he brought up. He
was he was right, he was six months ahead of everybody.
All Right, we're live. When we come back, we'll tell you.
Now we know why people are robbing postman and post
win the letter carriers. We have just discovered why they're
(19:39):
not stealing mail. They're not stealing the guy's wallet or
the watch. We'll tell you what they're after now we
know Belliot did some research.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
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Speaker 3 (20:36):
All right, the.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Postal workers postal workers, they're being attacked, but they're not
after the guy's money. They're not after the mail. They're
not after his wallet or his watch. They all want
one thing from the postal worker. Let's find out what
they're looking for. Why are they attacking these guys in gowns.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
It's all incredibly traumatic for the postal carrier.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
But this all also has a huge.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Impact on you, the USPS customers. So let's bring in
the data. Let's dig through it and break this all
down for you. And let's start right over here. We
can see in data that we've obtained through federal records
requests that all across California since twenty twenty three, there
have been more than five hundred attacks on mail carriers. Again,
more than five hundred attacks. And the cities where we
(21:22):
are seeing the most of these attacks is right here
in Los Angeles, so there's been at least fifty five
of them reported. But when you combine the numbers from
the Bay Area, we can see there's been about one
hundred postal carriers attack there. Also eleven have been reported
in San Bernardino.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Okay, So what are they taking?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
So why attack a postal carrier?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What's in it for the attacker? That's right, What are
they grabbing?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Well, often the attacker wants what's known as an arrow key.
Those are those universal keys that open those big cluster
mailboxes that you see in apartment buildings and industrial complexes.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's what they're after, the universal key to open up
in condo building or apartment buildings.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
They can open up every mail box.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
And look at the data we have on this, we
can see here in California, more and more of these
arrow keys are reported missing and stolen. In twenty twenty three,
three hundred and ninety two of those keys were missing
and stolen. That's shot up to four hundred and forty
seven last year. Yeah, and just look at this surge
that we're seeing here in La Now.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Bellio is bellio on. There is she on the mic bellio.
She's here, she's here all right?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Where you live in Irvine, do you have to go
get your mail at one of these multi boxes? Yes,
and so this could really impact you.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, not happy about it. You should be really pissed. No,
I am, let's crack down on this.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That's right, that's correct. What time does your mail get
there every day?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I don't know. You don't know. I really don't. You
really don't. I really don't. Wow, man, you a kept woman?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Huh, A little bit, just totally casual about everything in life.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I am no, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I mean I know what time my mail gets there?
Between like two and three every day the guy rolls
by and drops off the mail.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It's in the morning sometimes it is.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
So you go get it as soon as you can
so nobody steals, yes, or do you let it sit
for counting?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
No, I'm a daily mail getter. How far from your
front door? Thirty feet? Oh, that's not bad. No, it's
not bad. Can you see it from your apartment, from
your condo? No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Thirty two of those keys were reported missing in twenty
twenty three. That has surged up to one hundred and
two last year. So how does this all circle back
to you, the USPS customer.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Well, often when.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Those arrow keys are stolen, they end up on the
dark web where male.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Thieves by them.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
And once a male thief has one of those keys,
it makes stealing your mail so incredibly easy. And through
federal records, we can see this in La County alone.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Last year, here we go, in La County alone, here's
the number. It's going to bother you.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
More than seven thousand and five hundred complaints of missing
and stolen mail were sent into the US Postal Police. Again,
these are just reports from people who actually took the
time to file a complaint with postal.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Police, and you know, most people don't. Most people do
not file a complaint.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
And the zip code that we found with the absolute
most complaints of missing and stolen mail.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Okay, what's the biggest, most aggressive, gruesome I'm guessing Beverly
Hills or West Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Is nine zero seven zero six, which is in Bellflower?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
We have so much Bellflower. Wow, I never guessed which
is in Bellflower.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
We have so much more data that we are digging through.
You can find it on ABC sven dot com Live
in the studio Kevin nosback, ABC seven.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Eye witnessed you.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Okay, there's been a two alarm fire going off for
a little while. When come back, we'll talk about that.
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was burning, and the update.
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Forty all this Thursday.
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got a lot of cool stuff coming in. All right,
breaking news. There's been alarm, a two alarm fire, a
second alarm fire that's been going on all day here
or at least the last couple hours in East Los Angeles.
(26:03):
Maybe saw the smoke from one of your favorite freeways.
What's going on and what's burning out there in East LA.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And this building is located on Atlantic Boulevard near Telegraph
here in East Los Angeles, just north of the Citadel. Now,
this is a fire that broke out about thirty minutes
ago in a large commercial building, possibly some sort of
community center. This is the La County Fire Department that
is on SCEAM battling this fire in what's called a
defensive mode. That means that it is simply too dangerous
(26:32):
for the firefighters to be in the building.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Or on the roof.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
In fact, the roof has already collapsed, so they are
in a defensive posture here with those heavy streams and
those ladders surrounding the building. At this point, the cause
of the fire is under investigation, and it's also unknown
if anyone was in the building when the fire broke out,
but they continue to battle this one. I saw flames
just a second ago. Not seeing too much in the
(26:55):
way of flames now, but still a lot of heavy
smoke that can be seen for miles here from Los
Angeles now reporting from new shop report. I'm elam Reno.
Don't cool anywhere.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah, that's known as the boost Limo fire there in
East Los Angeles. All right, you know that we're broke
as a society when you have to take out a
loan to eat dinner.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
How about this alone to eat dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I went last night to Canes, one of my favorite places.
I got a three piece meal. I got a child's
meal for my daughter and a child's meal for my wife.
Thank god they didn't card either one of them, because
neither one of them are children.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
But they don't eat.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
They eat like birds, you know, they don't eat much.
So two kids meals and one adult meal thirty six dollars,
thirty six dollars. I almost passed out. How the hell
do people afford that. Well, maybe they don't. And now
(28:03):
you can get a loan to go eat at a
restaurant or get door Dash. Yeah, you can eat now
and pay.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Later when it starts.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
If you open up the door dash app like I
did last night to order some delivery, you're going to
see an option to pay with klarnapp, and you're going
to have a couple different options. You can either pay
that in full, you can choose a time in the
future that's more convenient for you. Maybe your paycheck comes
in a little bit later.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
It's a meal and we're putting it off, you know,
Wimpy Gladly pay for Gladly have a let me pay
you to Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's a that's a great commercial for them. They should
use that for door Dash.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Or you can do four interest free installments. If the
purchase is thirty five dollars or more. Now, you're still
going to have to pay that at some point down
the line.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Right, we picked up on that.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
But if you do pay on time, it's going to
be the same total price, whether you pay in full
or you do multiple different payments. You're not in a
law exactly though. If you do miss a payment you
encurrelate fel We.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Said, what does it say about people's ability to pay
for the essentials?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
When did takeout become the essential?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Like, yeah, who's taken on a loan for you know,
for fast food?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
People's heads are exploding? Who have kitchens and stoves and
all the rest? Here I don't quite get it. But
what does it say about the same of the economy?
Are the things we can infer?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Well?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yes, sign it broke, totally broke.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Well, this is a sign of the times. I mean
you used to see buy now, pay later used for
these bigger ticket items, high end things like furniture and electronics.
The fact that people are using this now for groceries,
for gas, for everyday items. And it's not just Clarna
and door Dash, it's Walmart, Best Buy. There are other
buy now, pay later companies like a firm and after Pay.
(29:43):
I think where it gets tough, though, is you get
into this mindset of oh, I have more room in
my budget when you.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Really don't exactly And the question, of course is American
the level of debt in the United States among consumer
of ordinarily high.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
This off the charge we have time for this. Yesterday
was the twentieth Thing anniversary twenty years ago. Yesterday was
the very first episode of the Office, and now we
have the three best moments, the top three moments in
Office history The Office.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
This week the NBC sitcom celebrating its twentieth anniversary. So
in honor of the dunder Mifflin Gang, Rolling Stone has
named the list of the greatest Office moments of all time.
There's so many great moments. I can't imagine having to
make that list. We got the top three right now,
starting with this legendary Michael Scott Alter ego the same prison.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Was the was the Dementos thing. We're flying all over
the place.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
They were scary and.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Then they come down and they suck the soul out
of your body.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
And at he.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Wise words from prison Mike the number two on the
list after.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
All that will they won't tell?
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Yeah, it's that swoo worthy scene that ended season two,
the Casino Night episode.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Well, here's more from John. That's great the Office. The
Casino Night was awesome. That was it.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
Yes, the way, that's all of our fat numbers through
it today, guys, it's probably best.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Serious.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
That is the famous Chili episode. Port's Kevin Malone. There
and well you can get that full recipe. Brian Bomgardner,
who plays the role, put out a cookbook.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I can't believe that twenty years. It's already been twenty
years since the first episode of the Office. Unbelievable, How
time flies? All right, Moe Kelly's whole crew up right
next do here KFI AM six forty Conway Show on
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Speaker 3 (31:34):
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