August 20, 2025 • 32 mins
Former Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley is taking the city and Mayor Karen Bass to court, filing a legal claim accusing them of defamation and retaliation. Meanwhile, it’s National Radio Day, and Mark & Crozier shared how they first broke into the business. The hour also featured Foosh giving an update after his harrowing rescue story, plus a quick hit on the OC Fire Authority jumping on a brush fire in Laguna Niguel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I am six forty and you're listening
to The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Five six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good afternoon,
Mark Thompson, here for Tim Conway Junior. This is the
Tim Conway Junior Show. All of the usual suspects are
here to make the show happen, and so we proceed.
I will mention those who follow the show closely know
are pal and engineers to Foosh. He's called Foosh. They
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call him Foosh. I love that the Rick Chambers report
on Foush's accident. That's right, Christine. They call him Foosh,
with that Rick Chambers kind of like, you know, a
very stylized way of speaking with authority. Anyway, Foosh will
join us at four to thirty from his hospital bed.
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So that's what I'm getting to, Robin doing the heavy
lifting in his place today.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Michael Monks joins us from KOFI News. This I felt
somewhat inevitable, but nonetheless, when the ex fire chief sues
the city of la and claims that the mayor defamed her,
isn't that basically it was a defamation, And I don't
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know what the specifics are, that's why you're here, but
it seemed to me inevitable once the back and forth started.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
No question about it. I think we all saw this
coming earlier. And then the year right after fire Chief
Kristin Crowley was ousted from a position by la Mayor Bass.
And what were we just talking about a couple days ago,
mark the city controller's exasperation over the rising cost of
legal settlements that the city has had to make. When
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you look at a five hundred percent increase over twenty years,
half a billion dollars in the fast past two fiscal
years alone. This could end up being another one on
that pile. Right now, it's just a legal claim. That's
all that the former fire chief has filed is that
I'm filing this. I'm saying that the mayor defamed me
and has hurt me economically, and so with seeking some
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sort of or is it at least claiming damages of
more than twenty five thousand dollars. That's all we know
right now.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So we'll get to the specifics on that in a second.
But just for those who missed it, I like that
you reference the fact that the city is really suffocating
under these legal claims and payouts, and it's laped, it's
related to trip and fall on the sidewalk, it's all
that stuff of the city. But it's become so enormous that,
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as you reported a couple of days ago, and just
again just to read people in, it's really become an
impediment to being able to do things around the city
because we're so busy cutting checks for legal judgement.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Look, you live in La.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I live in La I'm trying to find the sidewalk
to trip on so I can get my payout and
move to Santa Barbara because they cut these checks so easily.
So look again, this is just a legal claim that
the fire chief has looked. Let's go back to January. Yeah, exactly,
Hallisades catches on fire. Oka massive way, we've lost this
wonderful neighborhood. Remember the political tension that was surrounding forget
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the emergency for a moment, Mayor Bass was taking it
on the chin all over the nation because she happened
to be in Africa at the request of President Biden
to represent the nation at something happening in Africa. People
didn't like that she was gone, especially gone out of
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the country when the Palisades caught on fire, so she
was facing a ton of criticism. Initially, all of her
comments were glowing in regards to the fire department.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
We're on it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The fire department's doing a heck of a job. We're
doing the best that they can. They were on it.
And then things started to shift, possibly because of all
of those political headwinds and narrative headwinds that she was facing.
She needed a new villain for the people, and in
true Hollywood fashion, made a casting call and chose the
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fire chief, Kristin Crowley, and said, look, this is somebody
who sent one thousand firefighters home when they should have
been here fighting the fires. She did not cooperate with
my demand that there'd be an after action review. And
plus Kristin Crowley went on television and said, well, Mayor
Bass cut our budget pretty significantly before these fires took place.
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Wish did hurt our ability to respond to it. So
they had some pretty bad blood. Earlier in the year.
When the mayor got around of firing the fire chief,
she didn't mention the budget cuts or the dispute they
were having over that. She very tactfully kept it to
two issues, the allegation that the fire chief sent a
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thousand firefighters home instead of to the Palisades, and also
that the fire chief refused to cooperate with the after
action review. So there may have been some legal advice
in that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Sure, And that's a really important thing to keep in
mind that a lot of these statements, and even when
you discharge someone officially, you know, fire them, the statement
is crafted with the help of a city attorney or
some kind of a legal mind.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
The statement that's been crafted on behalf of the former
fire chief is over four hundred pages long, and it
includes a lot of documentation related to timelines in twenty
twenty four and the crafting of a budget. And she's
going line by line about how many times she spoke
to the city council, the budget committee, the full council.
We need this money, we need this money, we need
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this money. Is the argument that the former fire chief
is saying, like, look, we tried to get money out
of the city. The city did not give us as
much money as we had requested. Therefore, we were not
as prepared as we could have been for the fire.
And then she really goes after the mayor saying that
a lot of the things that you might have heard
John Cobalts say on his show, the mayor should not
have been in Africa, the mayor knew exactly what the
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fire conditions were in the Palisades and was not forthcoming
about that in the aftermath of the fire, and frankly,
the mayor abandoned this place. And that the mayor has
now chosen to scapegoat Kristin Crowley because of her own
failures related to the fire response.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So when you say it's a statement and it's four
hundred pages, it's a legal offering, though, I mean you're
claiming defamation. There's an allegation here that will be followed
by court case or a settlement.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
This is really interesting because the claim is a form.
There's a two page form, but then there's a legal
document that's been attached to it, going into much more detail.
But this looks like any other claim that you would
pick up at the city clerk's office. If you are
a citizen who tripped and fell on the sidewalk, this
would be the first thing that you do. And again,
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this is not a lawsuit. This is a claim and
this could be a precursor to a lawsuit. But this
has all of the basic questions you would expect of
somebody who maybe whose car got hit by a city
sanitation truck. You'd go down and you'd fill out this
very form, except the stakes are very high.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Here.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
We're talking about the former fire chief filing a claim
against the mayor, and the question is how did damage
or injury occur? And Kristin Crowley's attorney rights in this claim. Here,
Karen Bass and City of La retaliated against former LAFD
fire Chief Kristin Crowley because of Crowley's speech and concerted
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activities protected under the Labor Code and the state and
US constitutions. Crowley engaged in protected speech to pull the
curtain covering LAFD budgetary and other issues that left Angelino's
exposed to danger. To punish Crowley for her protected speech,
and to tarnish crowley Stellar reputation, Bass made repeated malicious
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and patently false public statements about Crowley and remove Crowley
from her position as fire.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Chief based on these false statements.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, the last part of that is where you've got
real defamatory claims, meaning everything before that is sort of
like this is why this happened. It was retaliatory, it
was this was that. But the very end, I think
the last sentence there speaks to you know, you have
damaged my client reputationally and in other ways, and that
damage will be something that we will I mean, it's
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implied we'll be we'll be we'll be seeking something for.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The damage you did.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
And this is something that would have to be i
think adjudicated first in some sort of city hall process.
But if this does go to the court, this isn't
something that the mayor would want. The mayor was facing
those political headwinds during the fire. She's gotten a little
bit of political momentum going because she's been able to
you know, whether you agree with her position on this
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or not, she's been able to assert herself more forcefully
in the wake of the greation enforcement. That's much better
for her narratively, because she's showing some fight. She's saying,
I'm on top of this. We're fighting for Angelino's who
are here legally or not. But to get anything back
in the headlines related to the fires. In her position
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at the time, especially this combative fight that she had
with the former fire chief, that's not what she wants
right now.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Oh, I had this very thought when I saw the headline.
I thought, oh my god, if you're Mayor Bass, the
last thing you want is any mention of the fires
or the fire chief, or controversy, or you know, to
relive where she was when the fires broke out.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You just want none of that.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And so far, the only only comment out of the
mayor's office is an attorney for the mayor saying, we've
got no comment on the ongoing personnel thing. The mayor
is focused on the current heat wave and potential fire danger.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, well there you go. This is a true to
be continued. Thank you, Michael my sleasure. Mark, Yeah, really fascinating.
We will watch it. A triple threat extreme heat, fire risk,
and thunderstorms. That's what southern California faces right now. That
and more as we continue.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Mark Thompson here at his National Radio Day, which I
didn't even realize, but then I went into social media
and everybody I know in radio is pop something up
for a National Radio Day. Like there was a shot
of John Cobelt. He might have been I don't know,
eighteen or something. He was like this young DJ doesn't
look anything like John Colby. You wouldn't have picked it
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out as any similarity.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
He does look like his sons though, Yes, right.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yes, And it's just fun to see all that stuff
I didn't have.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
They're now. There are a few pictures.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I'm going to try to find one maybe, But what
was your first job in radio?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Crazier Coast?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
I did music research for Coast FM. I was the
one that called you and uh five six, seven o'clock
at night when you were having dinner and said, he.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Play the hooks? Hey, what kind of radio do you like?
What kind of music?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Let me play some hooks for you.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I'll totally give will be a writing between one of
the five. That is the way they used to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That is absolutely so they'll play you the hooks for
all these songs.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We had to go through.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
You have to go through a checklist and eliminate them
as you get to You don't tell them who you're
from or who you're with, and you ask them questions
and if they and if their answers adhere to them,
basically being a Coast listener without saying that then you
go on to the next level of listening to the music.
I say, like, what kind of music do you like?
Do you like this or soft? You know, soft hits
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and things like that. And once they got to that point,
it was like, Oh, here's some Whitney Houston there somebody
you know, Anita Baker.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And then from the research job you went to.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
I became their coasts only board op at the time
in the late eighties, and so I ran like I
was at the station, run on the remotes, and I
did like the weekends when we ran public affairs stuff.
And then eventually I moved over to KFI WOW, where
I became a board up.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh you know, it's funny. The board up thing is
kind of like a way in too a lot. Yeah right,
I mean, and it's a great way.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
And you know, once you get trained up and stuff,
because you really understand because the ultimate responsibility of what
goes on on the air, you're the final leg of it,
and sure you know, it all falls down to you.
So you have to keep an awareness of everything that's
going on, and you need to know what the station
sounds like and adhere to that.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yeah, Mark, what was your first radio job?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I was a fill during the summers from college. I
was a fill in DJ at two different rock and
roll stations in Washington, DC. And I was if I
can say this, and I say this because a general
manager up in San Francisco later told me he said,
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it was weird because you're this young guy said, but
when the mic cracked, you sounded like a real pro.
It was like unreal, he said that I and I
it lingered with me because I always felt like I
didn't There are no recordings from back then, so I
can't even go back, so you know, your sense of
it is that you're just you know. It took a
while to get it, but I so wanted it. I
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so rehearsed it. I so did it in college. I
was on college radio. I was always at the radio station,
always working hours and hours and hours. I would do
the studying on the side that by the time I
cracked a mic in Washington, d C. I was kind
of ready, you know. And so when that guy paid
me that compliment, it was like it meant a lot
to me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
So in my do you have this voice at that time?
I did it?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Involved No, it was younger, it was, it was higher,
but I mean it was. It was a good radio voice,
but it was like this, I mean, I sounded older.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's much more than a loan.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Give us an us an example of young March.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It was a It was a rock station though, so
it's all the So my first full time job though,
which is really what you know. So that was Summers
was a KB Radio, a w KBW fifty thousand clear
channel radio station. And I was the night guy seven
to midnight. And you know who the afternoon guy was
somebody that all of you are going to know. And
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his name is Fritz Coleman. Oh yeah, Fritz Coleman was
the afternoon guy and I was the night guy. And
I had like a very kind of it was you know,
it was nice, high energy. It's like KB radio album
Rush on the Way, give us that kind of like
that charging hard, charging sort of a tempo. And Fritz
was very funny, just terrific. I loved Fritz. Fritz seemed
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to me, I felt, this is from the way I
saw it. I felt like a kid doing radio, and
I saw Fritz as an adult. He was like the
first friend of mine. I thought, well, that's a grown
up doing radio. You know, I'm just a you know,
getting it together. Everything about Fritz seemed like an adult
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to me. And I just remember in Buffalo, New York,
we were we were fast friends, and we remained fast
friends today.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Yeah that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, so that we both become weatherman too. I know
that was kind of weird too. Yeah, that is sort
of weird.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Did you want to do music radio or did you
want to do talk or did you have aspirations for
TV when you first started that job.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I had aspirations for TV. I did here's what happened.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Wanted to share your.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I couldn't waste them on radio. I had to get
my lips out there.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, the here's the thing on music radio. I'm just
going to be honest. This is my All I wanted
to do was be on music radio. I love music radio.
I love the talk ups, I like the tightness, I
liked the jingles, I liked everything about music radio. After
six months, I was bored, super bored. I couldn't believe it.
Like when you get to the mountaintop. I mean, you
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know kb where I was a huge radio station, WKBW.
I mean it's like really a massive kind of cornerstone
station and I was bored after six months. So television
is where I went, and I got all the training,
and I got all the meteorological training and everything when
I went over to their television station.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And then.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
To me, talk radio seemed like much more fun, much
more interesting, much more dynamic, you know, I could see.
But I still have a place in my heart for
music radio.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I do.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I just think for you know, for great jocks, great personalities.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I really missed that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I loved the but that's because it probably is something
I grew.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Up with, so it kind of lands with me that way.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Do you remember FM radio guys, you'll remember who are
Angelino's you know AM radio, The rock radio I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
The pop radio is like that high energy.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
KLS whatever the call iters are.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
But then you had that remember the FM stations are
you know, they were like, you know, if you imagine
k big, We've got another three songs for you coming up.
It was a very the album rock sound, do you
know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
AO album oriented rock.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thank you, And so that co existed with the you know,
the Kiss FM. It's it's you know, kind of Rick
D's in the morning and Kiss FM. It was that
kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Steely Dan did a song about it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's exactly right. So anyway in something you know, Southern
California had legendary stations, right. Kf I was a music station.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah standards, same.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah standards, and then they had they were they they
were a rock station for a short time. Because I'd
hear recordings back on the East Coast. I was so
into radio that I'd get these recordings of KFI and
l A.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
But it is a small family, man. It is like
growing up in DC, like you, there was. I heard
one jock that was on the air. Her name was
Liz Kylie. And then my first job here when I
worked the Coast, she was the assistant program director out
here at Coast, so she basically became my boss. And
I remember growing up listening to her in DC.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
The guy who became our I think he replaced me
in San Francisco doing the weather.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
His name was Steve Raleigh. Is Steve Raleigh.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
His dad, Bob Raleigh, was the morning guy in Washington,
DC at WPGC.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I used to listen to him all the time. It
was just so weird.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It's the same kind of thing you're talking about, Like
when the lives overlap and you just felt connected through
radio because radio connects you with personalities.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It is a club.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, but what a great legacy in Los Angeles. Just great,
you know, Charlie Toona and Robert W. Morgan and all
those just in Rick D's my god, just so so cool.
And you know, now the new generation things have changed,
but it's really cool. National Radio Day. I didn't even
know that it existed, and it's kind of cool and
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it just makes me nostalgic sort of. So anyway, happy
National Radio Day, all you radio people and radio listeners.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I was in Washington and there had to be one
of these guys in most markets. Big Ron O'Brien was
his name. And then I went to different places. I
mean there's a different big Ron O'Brien. There's a big
Ron O'Brien in like Portland. There's a big Round O'Brian
in San Francisco or whatever.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Great.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, so there anyway, this big Roun O'Brien who still
listening to it's a night guy. And I'm driving around
Washington listening to him and dead Air comes on, and
I thought, I got to listen to this to see
how long this dead air lasts. I mean, this is
a big station, and it went on for two minutes.
Nobody says anything. It's just dead air for two much
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a big rock station. And then I thought, I just,
you know, I'm committed, like a minute in to I
have to hear what the guy says when he comes
back on. So he comes back on with the music.
It was a Donna summer record. I remember that he
came back on and he just screamed hello. I thought, boy,
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there's going to be a meeting in the program director's
office the next day.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
So I have no idea. I didn't didn't follow up.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Don't know him, so, you know, didn't know him to
follow up anyway, knew him only from the radio.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Many of you also only know our pal Foush from
the radio.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
But I feel like today, with social media being what
it is, there's sort of a three dimensional quality with
the people who are on this show and on radio generally.
But I feel like we know Foosh just the way
Tim always talks to Foush. We know his life, We
know his life as a as an uber driver, as
a lyft driver, as a you know, a board op.
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He's not not a sports dude, and Tim's always busting
him on that. So when the tragedy hit that involved
that horrible car reckon, he was saved by those great
Samaritans who we had into the studio. We've all followed
it with a kind of interest that, as I say,
has a real quality of love. I think that we
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fell from the community, saw that in the gofund me
and all the rest. So this is a long way
of saying we all feel I think bonded to Foosh,
even those of you who don't know him personally, And
so we're living beat to beat on his medical condition
and he's so cool to join us from the hospital bed.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
How about it for Foosh? What's up there?
Speaker 10 (21:42):
What's coming to you?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Live from my hospital bed? I love the energy. I
love it. Yeah, are you kind?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Are you kind of a celebrity there in the hospital
based on your sort of new higher profile. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
There's been one or two nurses who when I tell
them what I do, because they don't know me from
anyone else, so they'll just ask me, hey, what do
you do? And I tell them and then I say
radio and like, Okay, what radio? And then I say
a heart radio, like oh I love my heart radio.
And then I say the station. They're like, oh, I
listen to.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
That every day.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
I love Handle and Gary Shannon and Conway. And you
know that's kind of cool. And you know then sometimes
they'll aast me like behind the scenes stuff and they
get all giddy about it. So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
It's like you're throwing under the bus.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
He's not a bus thrower, I don't think. I don't think.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
So.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Yeah, he's pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And he really is.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Uh so, uh let's do the quick check in on
the medical. All right, is it tomorrow? You have a surgery?
Speaker 10 (22:43):
Tomorrow? I have a surgery at well I don't know
the time yet, but it's going to be tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
That's number five.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
And they basically said that, you know, they're going to
try to be done with say, they're really eager to
put in the rods and pins and so they're gonna
you to try to do that. And then after that
it's a skin grab, which will be surgery number six.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Wow, gosh, you're I mean that is this is not easy? Man?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Let me let me just ask you that you know,
let's just live out loud here. This is the kind
of question I would ask you if we were just talking.
So if you don't want to, you don't, you can't
answer you. But but I just think that the pain
associated with this is pretty substantial. Has the pain subsided
or is it still the same as it was?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And is it really bad?
Speaker 10 (23:29):
So I've been lucky the paint is. The paint has
been pretty good. I would say it's been a zero
for the last few days. It gets kind of sore,
like when I walk around the hospital just to get
a little bit of exercise because I have to hold
it up and this cast is like, no joke, like
six pounds, so it's like doing curls while I'm walking.
So that kind of sucks. And then, oh, you know,
the fun stuff of getting my blood drawn every single day.
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So I'm just basically a pin cushion.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, I mean the hospital is no fun for sure,
but yeah. But the idea is that the arm is
sort of reconstructed in the way that you say, with
the rods and pins and then even the skin rafting.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Okay, yeah, so essentially it's it's essentially it's the elbows
last because what they told me is because they froze
my hand or they cast my hand in a way
that I can't move my fingers because your movement from
your fingers comes from your elbow, and apparently my elbow
is super unstable. So when they're doing surgery, they said,
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it just keeps dislocating and relocating. So that's going to
be the very last step because it's the most difficult
part to work on.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Gosh, this is wild. So how long will this whole
thing go on? I mean, obviously there's going to be
a physical therapy and everything, but the hospital stay is
estimated to go for how long.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
I'm guessing right now, since I'm looking at two more,
I'm going to guess in at least another week and
a half, maybe a little bit longer. And yeah, so
I didn't expect that at all. I mean, I was
the one thinking I was going to have a surgery
on Saturday after the accident and be back back to
work on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
When you see what that accident was all about, I mean,
it's pretty much a miracle that you'd even be talking
that way.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
I know, it's crazy. I have people coming visit me
and they like, I don't know what I was going
to walk into because all I saw was the car
engulfed in flames. So like, I don't know if you
were like half melted and all this, and then they
see me and I'm able to talk. But yeah, basically,
my left arm got the worst end.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Of the deal.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
It took every bit of pain, scratches, open wounds, surgery,
it's it's everything. So it's been a lot, but I'm,
you know, getting through it. I just take it day
by day, unfortunately, but everyone's just like, Wow, you have
a really positive mindset and that's going to go a
long way now.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You are just I think I don't want to call
you sunny disposition, but I just think that you kind
of bob back up to a lot of the challenges
that you face. Sharon, did you have a question about
his folks.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
I just you know, they're just his mother was an
er nurse for fifteen years and his dad a respiratory therapist,
and you know, we had them in studio and just
a lot of radio people, a lot of media people,
and I was just wondering how they felt about coming
to see where you work and meet all the craziness
that comes with that.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Oh, there. My mom was beyond nervous and she was like,
you have surgery the next day, so I don't want
to miss I'm like, no, you need to go because
I mean, you're gonna be able to meet the people
that saved my life and hang out there. And as
much as I would have loved to have actually been there,
you know, I was like, you need to see where
I am. And so, you know, they're just they were
just really you know, floored by everything, and and yeah
(26:39):
they were they were really impressed with it, and they
liked being on the radio. But they were just nervous
as all hell.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
They seemed nervous, but they were so great. They were so.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Wonderful and yeah, they seemed like natural. Like I listened.
I listened to it. I watched the I watched the
news interview, I watched the Conway Show clips, and they
sounded great. They sounded like, you know, like they've been
doing it all their life. So I really liked that
they were there, and it's nice to see them there.
And while I wasn't there, it was nice that they
could see, you know, just get a glimpse of what
I do.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, Crosiers off tomorrow. If your dad wants to come
in and read some news copy. I could maybe use him.
I don't know, kind of it's a it's a kind
of stunt casting thing. I understand it's not forever, but uh, anyway, look,
I get it. We love you, and I love talking
to you and just hearing you so upbeat. It makes
me feel so much better about your situation. And a
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lot of love in the community for you, and you've
seen it in all the ways that you know that matter.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
So I'm still every day humbled and grateful for all
of every one of the listeners, every one of you guys,
you know, my family, my friends, old coworkers I haven't
seen in years. I'm just I'm just just flower gassed
by it. But and I think that's helping. I'll admit,
you know, I think that's helping my mental the mental
side of it, for sure.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Of course, I'm sure that's true.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
All right, all the best, lots of love, my friend,
great to talk, I love you the food shimmer one, yes, sir,
all right, get well soon and soon back to work.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
You're listening to Tim Conwayton. Youre on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Just in the nature of breaking news this time of year,
Orange County firefighters going to Lagoon and a Gella neighborhood.
There there was a rush fire that started on the
hillside near Ridgeway Avenue in Alcott Place. Got started around
an hour and a half ago and they have I
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think they're pretty well handled it. There were some evacuations
discussed along that.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
I can tell you that Orange County Fire Authority jumped
on this fire very quickly as it was approaching some
of the homes here in the area. But as I
zoom in, you can see the shadow of one of
the helicopters passing over, and you can see all the
fire crews in the backyards doing structure protection. But you
can see the fire worked its way right up in
the backyard of this home here. It looks like no
homes were damaged at this point. No word on injuries,
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and it looks like fire crews are in the mop
up stage right now. You see one of the helicopters
here coming in that may have just made a drop
on the fire itself. But again, a lot of assets
out here. They move quickly to get this fire knocked down,
and certainly it's a big relief for the people that
live in this area. That's the latest overhead EP.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, the threat continues the course over the weekend. This
is the most significant heat wave of the year coming up,
so there be near record temperatures across almost all of
southern California. That'll be tomorrow, that'll be Friday, it'll be Saturday. Also,
triple digits almost everywhere beyond the beaches. And of course
I mentioned on the heels of that fire, because these
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general conditions could cause rapid fire growth and there's an
extreme fire danger. I'd say the only good element is
that the winds will not be prohibitively high, like this
is not a huge Santa Anna event. But nonetheless, the
extreme heat creates a dryness, and you have that compounding
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what is already a high fire danger. This is really,
you know, pretty intense. There could be some localized flooding too,
particularly in the mountains and deserts. So even as that
gets underway, you kind of have no place to run
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that isn't in some way going to be affected by
this weather event. There are widespread extreme heat warnings mountains, foothills,
red flag warnings. I mentioned that too, because red flag
warnings I don't need to tell you involves special parking restrictions,
So keep that in mind because that is a warning
that continues through the next few days.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Ninety five to one hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Everywhere beyond the beaches, overnight lows will be above seventy
in many areas, So make a plan to stay safe,
have access to air conditioning, reschedule outdoor activities. I can't
believe they're really going to cut the power at my
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house for the Saturday. It's crazy, but that's the plan,
so I guess we have to plan around that. In
any case. This is if you're at the beaches, a
heat wave that you probably won't even register, But everywhere
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else away from the beaches, this will be brutal. I mean,
this is, as I say, probably the most significant heat
wave of the year thus far. So we'll keep you
posted on KOFI on all breaking news around it, but
definitely make plans and as I say, it kicks into
high gear tomorrow and continues into the first part of
the weekend through Saturday.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Five six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good afternoon,
Mark Thompson, here for Tim Conway Junior. This is the
Tim Conway Junior Show. All of the usual suspects are
here to make the show happen, and so we proceed.
I will mention those who follow the show closely know
are pal and engineers to Foosh. He's called Foosh. They
(00:40):
call him Foosh. I love that the Rick Chambers report
on Foush's accident. That's right, Christine. They call him Foosh,
with that Rick Chambers kind of like, you know, a
very stylized way of speaking with authority. Anyway, Foosh will
join us at four to thirty from his hospital bed.
(01:03):
So that's what I'm getting to, Robin doing the heavy
lifting in his place today.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Michael Monks joins us from KOFI News. This I felt
somewhat inevitable, but nonetheless, when the ex fire chief sues
the city of la and claims that the mayor defamed her,
isn't that basically it was a defamation, And I don't
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know what the specifics are, that's why you're here, but
it seemed to me inevitable once the back and forth started.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
No question about it. I think we all saw this
coming earlier. And then the year right after fire Chief
Kristin Crowley was ousted from a position by la Mayor Bass.
And what were we just talking about a couple days ago,
mark the city controller's exasperation over the rising cost of
legal settlements that the city has had to make. When
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you look at a five hundred percent increase over twenty years,
half a billion dollars in the fast past two fiscal
years alone. This could end up being another one on
that pile. Right now, it's just a legal claim. That's
all that the former fire chief has filed is that
I'm filing this. I'm saying that the mayor defamed me
and has hurt me economically, and so with seeking some
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sort of or is it at least claiming damages of
more than twenty five thousand dollars. That's all we know
right now.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So we'll get to the specifics on that in a second.
But just for those who missed it, I like that
you reference the fact that the city is really suffocating
under these legal claims and payouts, and it's laped, it's
related to trip and fall on the sidewalk, it's all
that stuff of the city. But it's become so enormous that,
(02:47):
as you reported a couple of days ago, and just
again just to read people in, it's really become an
impediment to being able to do things around the city
because we're so busy cutting checks for legal judgement.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Look, you live in La.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I live in La I'm trying to find the sidewalk
to trip on so I can get my payout and
move to Santa Barbara because they cut these checks so easily.
So look again, this is just a legal claim that
the fire chief has looked. Let's go back to January. Yeah, exactly,
Hallisades catches on fire. Oka massive way, we've lost this
wonderful neighborhood. Remember the political tension that was surrounding forget
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the emergency for a moment, Mayor Bass was taking it
on the chin all over the nation because she happened
to be in Africa at the request of President Biden
to represent the nation at something happening in Africa. People
didn't like that she was gone, especially gone out of
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the country when the Palisades caught on fire, so she
was facing a ton of criticism. Initially, all of her
comments were glowing in regards to the fire department.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
We're on it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The fire department's doing a heck of a job. We're
doing the best that they can. They were on it.
And then things started to shift, possibly because of all
of those political headwinds and narrative headwinds that she was facing.
She needed a new villain for the people, and in
true Hollywood fashion, made a casting call and chose the
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fire chief, Kristin Crowley, and said, look, this is somebody
who sent one thousand firefighters home when they should have
been here fighting the fires. She did not cooperate with
my demand that there'd be an after action review. And
plus Kristin Crowley went on television and said, well, Mayor
Bass cut our budget pretty significantly before these fires took place.
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Wish did hurt our ability to respond to it. So
they had some pretty bad blood. Earlier in the year.
When the mayor got around of firing the fire chief,
she didn't mention the budget cuts or the dispute they
were having over that. She very tactfully kept it to
two issues, the allegation that the fire chief sent a
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thousand firefighters home instead of to the Palisades, and also
that the fire chief refused to cooperate with the after
action review. So there may have been some legal advice
in that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Sure, And that's a really important thing to keep in
mind that a lot of these statements, and even when
you discharge someone officially, you know, fire them, the statement
is crafted with the help of a city attorney or
some kind of a legal mind.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
The statement that's been crafted on behalf of the former
fire chief is over four hundred pages long, and it
includes a lot of documentation related to timelines in twenty
twenty four and the crafting of a budget. And she's
going line by line about how many times she spoke
to the city council, the budget committee, the full council.
We need this money, we need this money, we need
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this money. Is the argument that the former fire chief
is saying, like, look, we tried to get money out
of the city. The city did not give us as
much money as we had requested. Therefore, we were not
as prepared as we could have been for the fire.
And then she really goes after the mayor saying that
a lot of the things that you might have heard
John Cobalts say on his show, the mayor should not
have been in Africa, the mayor knew exactly what the
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fire conditions were in the Palisades and was not forthcoming
about that in the aftermath of the fire, and frankly,
the mayor abandoned this place. And that the mayor has
now chosen to scapegoat Kristin Crowley because of her own
failures related to the fire response.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So when you say it's a statement and it's four
hundred pages, it's a legal offering, though, I mean you're
claiming defamation. There's an allegation here that will be followed
by court case or a settlement.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
This is really interesting because the claim is a form.
There's a two page form, but then there's a legal
document that's been attached to it, going into much more detail.
But this looks like any other claim that you would
pick up at the city clerk's office. If you are
a citizen who tripped and fell on the sidewalk, this
would be the first thing that you do. And again,
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this is not a lawsuit. This is a claim and
this could be a precursor to a lawsuit. But this
has all of the basic questions you would expect of
somebody who maybe whose car got hit by a city
sanitation truck. You'd go down and you'd fill out this
very form, except the stakes are very high.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Here.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
We're talking about the former fire chief filing a claim
against the mayor, and the question is how did damage
or injury occur? And Kristin Crowley's attorney rights in this claim. Here,
Karen Bass and City of La retaliated against former LAFD
fire Chief Kristin Crowley because of Crowley's speech and concerted
(07:40):
activities protected under the Labor Code and the state and
US constitutions. Crowley engaged in protected speech to pull the
curtain covering LAFD budgetary and other issues that left Angelino's
exposed to danger. To punish Crowley for her protected speech,
and to tarnish crowley Stellar reputation, Bass made repeated malicious
(08:01):
and patently false public statements about Crowley and remove Crowley
from her position as fire.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Chief based on these false statements.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, the last part of that is where you've got
real defamatory claims, meaning everything before that is sort of
like this is why this happened. It was retaliatory, it
was this was that. But the very end, I think
the last sentence there speaks to you know, you have
damaged my client reputationally and in other ways, and that
damage will be something that we will I mean, it's
(08:31):
implied we'll be we'll be we'll be seeking something for.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The damage you did.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
And this is something that would have to be i
think adjudicated first in some sort of city hall process.
But if this does go to the court, this isn't
something that the mayor would want. The mayor was facing
those political headwinds during the fire. She's gotten a little
bit of political momentum going because she's been able to
you know, whether you agree with her position on this
(08:55):
or not, she's been able to assert herself more forcefully
in the wake of the greation enforcement. That's much better
for her narratively, because she's showing some fight. She's saying,
I'm on top of this. We're fighting for Angelino's who
are here legally or not. But to get anything back
in the headlines related to the fires. In her position
(09:16):
at the time, especially this combative fight that she had
with the former fire chief, that's not what she wants
right now.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Oh, I had this very thought when I saw the headline.
I thought, oh my god, if you're Mayor Bass, the
last thing you want is any mention of the fires
or the fire chief, or controversy, or you know, to
relive where she was when the fires broke out.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You just want none of that.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And so far, the only only comment out of the
mayor's office is an attorney for the mayor saying, we've
got no comment on the ongoing personnel thing. The mayor
is focused on the current heat wave and potential fire danger.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, well there you go. This is a true to
be continued. Thank you, Michael my sleasure. Mark, Yeah, really fascinating.
We will watch it. A triple threat extreme heat, fire risk,
and thunderstorms. That's what southern California faces right now. That
and more as we continue.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Mark Thompson here at his National Radio Day, which I
didn't even realize, but then I went into social media
and everybody I know in radio is pop something up
for a National Radio Day. Like there was a shot
of John Cobelt. He might have been I don't know,
eighteen or something. He was like this young DJ doesn't
look anything like John Colby. You wouldn't have picked it
(10:41):
out as any similarity.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
He does look like his sons though, Yes, right.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yes, And it's just fun to see all that stuff
I didn't have.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
They're now. There are a few pictures.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I'm going to try to find one maybe, But what
was your first job in radio?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Crazier Coast?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
I did music research for Coast FM. I was the
one that called you and uh five six, seven o'clock
at night when you were having dinner and said, he.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Play the hooks? Hey, what kind of radio do you like?
What kind of music?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Let me play some hooks for you.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I'll totally give will be a writing between one of
the five. That is the way they used to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That is absolutely so they'll play you the hooks for
all these songs.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We had to go through.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
You have to go through a checklist and eliminate them
as you get to You don't tell them who you're
from or who you're with, and you ask them questions
and if they and if their answers adhere to them,
basically being a Coast listener without saying that then you
go on to the next level of listening to the music.
I say, like, what kind of music do you like?
Do you like this or soft? You know, soft hits
(11:49):
and things like that. And once they got to that point,
it was like, Oh, here's some Whitney Houston there somebody
you know, Anita Baker.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And then from the research job you went to.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
I became their coasts only board op at the time
in the late eighties, and so I ran like I
was at the station, run on the remotes, and I
did like the weekends when we ran public affairs stuff.
And then eventually I moved over to KFI WOW, where
I became a board up.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh you know, it's funny. The board up thing is
kind of like a way in too a lot. Yeah right,
I mean, and it's a great way.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
And you know, once you get trained up and stuff,
because you really understand because the ultimate responsibility of what
goes on on the air, you're the final leg of it,
and sure you know, it all falls down to you.
So you have to keep an awareness of everything that's
going on, and you need to know what the station
sounds like and adhere to that.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Yeah, Mark, what was your first radio job?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I was a fill during the summers from college. I
was a fill in DJ at two different rock and
roll stations in Washington, DC. And I was if I
can say this, and I say this because a general
manager up in San Francisco later told me he said,
(13:08):
it was weird because you're this young guy said, but
when the mic cracked, you sounded like a real pro.
It was like unreal, he said that I and I
it lingered with me because I always felt like I
didn't There are no recordings from back then, so I
can't even go back, so you know, your sense of
it is that you're just you know. It took a
while to get it, but I so wanted it. I
(13:30):
so rehearsed it. I so did it in college. I
was on college radio. I was always at the radio station,
always working hours and hours and hours. I would do
the studying on the side that by the time I
cracked a mic in Washington, d C. I was kind
of ready, you know. And so when that guy paid
me that compliment, it was like it meant a lot
to me.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
So in my do you have this voice at that time?
I did it?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Involved No, it was younger, it was, it was higher,
but I mean it was. It was a good radio voice,
but it was like this, I mean, I sounded older.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's much more than a loan.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Give us an us an example of young March.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It was a It was a rock station though, so
it's all the So my first full time job though,
which is really what you know. So that was Summers
was a KB Radio, a w KBW fifty thousand clear
channel radio station. And I was the night guy seven
to midnight. And you know who the afternoon guy was
somebody that all of you are going to know. And
(14:23):
his name is Fritz Coleman. Oh yeah, Fritz Coleman was
the afternoon guy and I was the night guy. And
I had like a very kind of it was you know,
it was nice, high energy. It's like KB radio album
Rush on the Way, give us that kind of like
that charging hard, charging sort of a tempo. And Fritz
was very funny, just terrific. I loved Fritz. Fritz seemed
(14:48):
to me, I felt, this is from the way I
saw it. I felt like a kid doing radio, and
I saw Fritz as an adult. He was like the
first friend of mine. I thought, well, that's a grown
up doing radio. You know, I'm just a you know,
getting it together. Everything about Fritz seemed like an adult
(15:09):
to me. And I just remember in Buffalo, New York,
we were we were fast friends, and we remained fast
friends today.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Yeah that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, so that we both become weatherman too. I know
that was kind of weird too. Yeah, that is sort
of weird.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Did you want to do music radio or did you
want to do talk or did you have aspirations for
TV when you first started that job.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I had aspirations for TV. I did here's what happened.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Wanted to share your.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I couldn't waste them on radio. I had to get
my lips out there.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, the here's the thing on music radio. I'm just
going to be honest. This is my All I wanted
to do was be on music radio. I love music radio.
I love the talk ups, I like the tightness, I
liked the jingles, I liked everything about music radio. After
six months, I was bored, super bored. I couldn't believe it.
Like when you get to the mountaintop. I mean, you
(16:06):
know kb where I was a huge radio station, WKBW.
I mean it's like really a massive kind of cornerstone
station and I was bored after six months. So television
is where I went, and I got all the training,
and I got all the meteorological training and everything when
I went over to their television station.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And then.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
To me, talk radio seemed like much more fun, much
more interesting, much more dynamic, you know, I could see.
But I still have a place in my heart for
music radio.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I do.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I just think for you know, for great jocks, great personalities.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I really missed that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I loved the but that's because it probably is something
I grew.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Up with, so it kind of lands with me that way.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Do you remember FM radio guys, you'll remember who are
Angelino's you know AM radio, The rock radio I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
The pop radio is like that high energy.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
KLS whatever the call iters are.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
But then you had that remember the FM stations are
you know, they were like, you know, if you imagine
k big, We've got another three songs for you coming up.
It was a very the album rock sound, do you
know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
AO album oriented rock.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thank you, And so that co existed with the you know,
the Kiss FM. It's it's you know, kind of Rick
D's in the morning and Kiss FM. It was that
kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Steely Dan did a song about it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's exactly right. So anyway in something you know, Southern
California had legendary stations, right. Kf I was a music station.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah standards, same.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah standards, and then they had they were they they
were a rock station for a short time. Because I'd
hear recordings back on the East Coast. I was so
into radio that I'd get these recordings of KFI and
l A.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
But it is a small family, man. It is like
growing up in DC, like you, there was. I heard
one jock that was on the air. Her name was
Liz Kylie. And then my first job here when I
worked the Coast, she was the assistant program director out
here at Coast, so she basically became my boss. And
I remember growing up listening to her in DC.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
The guy who became our I think he replaced me
in San Francisco doing the weather.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
His name was Steve Raleigh. Is Steve Raleigh.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
His dad, Bob Raleigh, was the morning guy in Washington,
DC at WPGC.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I used to listen to him all the time. It
was just so weird.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It's the same kind of thing you're talking about, Like
when the lives overlap and you just felt connected through
radio because radio connects you with personalities.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It is a club.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, but what a great legacy in Los Angeles. Just great,
you know, Charlie Toona and Robert W. Morgan and all
those just in Rick D's my god, just so so cool.
And you know, now the new generation things have changed,
but it's really cool. National Radio Day. I didn't even
know that it existed, and it's kind of cool and
(19:06):
it just makes me nostalgic sort of. So anyway, happy
National Radio Day, all you radio people and radio listeners.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I was in Washington and there had to be one
of these guys in most markets. Big Ron O'Brien was
his name. And then I went to different places. I
mean there's a different big Ron O'Brien. There's a big
Ron O'Brien in like Portland. There's a big Round O'Brian
in San Francisco or whatever.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Great.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, so there anyway, this big Roun O'Brien who still
listening to it's a night guy. And I'm driving around
Washington listening to him and dead Air comes on, and
I thought, I got to listen to this to see
how long this dead air lasts. I mean, this is
a big station, and it went on for two minutes.
Nobody says anything. It's just dead air for two much
(19:56):
a big rock station. And then I thought, I just,
you know, I'm committed, like a minute in to I
have to hear what the guy says when he comes
back on. So he comes back on with the music.
It was a Donna summer record. I remember that he
came back on and he just screamed hello. I thought, boy,
(20:20):
there's going to be a meeting in the program director's
office the next day.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
So I have no idea. I didn't didn't follow up.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Don't know him, so, you know, didn't know him to
follow up anyway, knew him only from the radio.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Many of you also only know our pal Foush from
the radio.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
But I feel like today, with social media being what
it is, there's sort of a three dimensional quality with
the people who are on this show and on radio generally.
But I feel like we know Foosh just the way
Tim always talks to Foush. We know his life, We
know his life as a as an uber driver, as
a lyft driver, as a you know, a board op.
(21:00):
He's not not a sports dude, and Tim's always busting
him on that. So when the tragedy hit that involved
that horrible car reckon, he was saved by those great
Samaritans who we had into the studio. We've all followed
it with a kind of interest that, as I say,
has a real quality of love. I think that we
(21:21):
fell from the community, saw that in the gofund me
and all the rest. So this is a long way
of saying we all feel I think bonded to Foosh,
even those of you who don't know him personally, And
so we're living beat to beat on his medical condition
and he's so cool to join us from the hospital bed.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
How about it for Foosh? What's up there?
Speaker 10 (21:42):
What's coming to you?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Live from my hospital bed? I love the energy. I
love it. Yeah, are you kind?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Are you kind of a celebrity there in the hospital
based on your sort of new higher profile. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
There's been one or two nurses who when I tell
them what I do, because they don't know me from
anyone else, so they'll just ask me, hey, what do
you do? And I tell them and then I say
radio and like, Okay, what radio? And then I say
a heart radio, like oh I love my heart radio.
And then I say the station. They're like, oh, I
listen to.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
That every day.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
I love Handle and Gary Shannon and Conway. And you
know that's kind of cool. And you know then sometimes
they'll aast me like behind the scenes stuff and they
get all giddy about it. So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
It's like you're throwing under the bus.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
He's not a bus thrower, I don't think. I don't think.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
So.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Yeah, he's pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And he really is.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Uh so, uh let's do the quick check in on
the medical. All right, is it tomorrow? You have a surgery?
Speaker 10 (22:43):
Tomorrow? I have a surgery at well I don't know
the time yet, but it's going to be tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
That's number five.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
And they basically said that, you know, they're going to
try to be done with say, they're really eager to
put in the rods and pins and so they're gonna
you to try to do that. And then after that
it's a skin grab, which will be surgery number six.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Wow, gosh, you're I mean that is this is not easy? Man?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Let me let me just ask you that you know,
let's just live out loud here. This is the kind
of question I would ask you if we were just talking.
So if you don't want to, you don't, you can't
answer you. But but I just think that the pain
associated with this is pretty substantial. Has the pain subsided
or is it still the same as it was?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And is it really bad?
Speaker 10 (23:29):
So I've been lucky the paint is. The paint has
been pretty good. I would say it's been a zero
for the last few days. It gets kind of sore,
like when I walk around the hospital just to get
a little bit of exercise because I have to hold
it up and this cast is like, no joke, like
six pounds, so it's like doing curls while I'm walking.
So that kind of sucks. And then, oh, you know,
the fun stuff of getting my blood drawn every single day.
(23:51):
So I'm just basically a pin cushion.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, I mean the hospital is no fun for sure,
but yeah. But the idea is that the arm is
sort of reconstructed in the way that you say, with
the rods and pins and then even the skin rafting.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Okay, yeah, so essentially it's it's essentially it's the elbows
last because what they told me is because they froze
my hand or they cast my hand in a way
that I can't move my fingers because your movement from
your fingers comes from your elbow, and apparently my elbow
is super unstable. So when they're doing surgery, they said,
(24:27):
it just keeps dislocating and relocating. So that's going to
be the very last step because it's the most difficult
part to work on.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Gosh, this is wild. So how long will this whole
thing go on? I mean, obviously there's going to be
a physical therapy and everything, but the hospital stay is
estimated to go for how long.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
I'm guessing right now, since I'm looking at two more,
I'm going to guess in at least another week and
a half, maybe a little bit longer. And yeah, so
I didn't expect that at all. I mean, I was
the one thinking I was going to have a surgery
on Saturday after the accident and be back back to
work on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
When you see what that accident was all about, I mean,
it's pretty much a miracle that you'd even be talking
that way.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
I know, it's crazy. I have people coming visit me
and they like, I don't know what I was going
to walk into because all I saw was the car
engulfed in flames. So like, I don't know if you
were like half melted and all this, and then they
see me and I'm able to talk. But yeah, basically,
my left arm got the worst end.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Of the deal.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
It took every bit of pain, scratches, open wounds, surgery,
it's it's everything. So it's been a lot, but I'm,
you know, getting through it. I just take it day
by day, unfortunately, but everyone's just like, Wow, you have
a really positive mindset and that's going to go a
long way now.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You are just I think I don't want to call
you sunny disposition, but I just think that you kind
of bob back up to a lot of the challenges
that you face. Sharon, did you have a question about
his folks.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
I just you know, they're just his mother was an
er nurse for fifteen years and his dad a respiratory therapist,
and you know, we had them in studio and just
a lot of radio people, a lot of media people,
and I was just wondering how they felt about coming
to see where you work and meet all the craziness
that comes with that.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Oh, there. My mom was beyond nervous and she was like,
you have surgery the next day, so I don't want
to miss I'm like, no, you need to go because
I mean, you're gonna be able to meet the people
that saved my life and hang out there. And as
much as I would have loved to have actually been there,
you know, I was like, you need to see where
I am. And so, you know, they're just they were
just really you know, floored by everything, and and yeah
(26:39):
they were they were really impressed with it, and they
liked being on the radio. But they were just nervous
as all hell.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
They seemed nervous, but they were so great. They were so.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Wonderful and yeah, they seemed like natural. Like I listened.
I listened to it. I watched the I watched the
news interview, I watched the Conway Show clips, and they
sounded great. They sounded like, you know, like they've been
doing it all their life. So I really liked that
they were there, and it's nice to see them there.
And while I wasn't there, it was nice that they
could see, you know, just get a glimpse of what
I do.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, Crosiers off tomorrow. If your dad wants to come
in and read some news copy. I could maybe use him.
I don't know, kind of it's a it's a kind
of stunt casting thing. I understand it's not forever, but uh, anyway, look,
I get it. We love you, and I love talking
to you and just hearing you so upbeat. It makes
me feel so much better about your situation. And a
(27:31):
lot of love in the community for you, and you've
seen it in all the ways that you know that matter.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
So I'm still every day humbled and grateful for all
of every one of the listeners, every one of you guys,
you know, my family, my friends, old coworkers I haven't
seen in years. I'm just I'm just just flower gassed
by it. But and I think that's helping. I'll admit,
you know, I think that's helping my mental the mental
side of it, for sure.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Of course, I'm sure that's true.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
All right, all the best, lots of love, my friend,
great to talk, I love you the food shimmer one, yes, sir,
all right, get well soon and soon back to work.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
You're listening to Tim Conwayton. Youre on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Just in the nature of breaking news this time of year,
Orange County firefighters going to Lagoon and a Gella neighborhood.
There there was a rush fire that started on the
hillside near Ridgeway Avenue in Alcott Place. Got started around
an hour and a half ago and they have I
(28:34):
think they're pretty well handled it. There were some evacuations
discussed along that.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
I can tell you that Orange County Fire Authority jumped
on this fire very quickly as it was approaching some
of the homes here in the area. But as I
zoom in, you can see the shadow of one of
the helicopters passing over, and you can see all the
fire crews in the backyards doing structure protection. But you
can see the fire worked its way right up in
the backyard of this home here. It looks like no
homes were damaged at this point. No word on injuries,
(28:59):
and it looks like fire crews are in the mop
up stage right now. You see one of the helicopters
here coming in that may have just made a drop
on the fire itself. But again, a lot of assets
out here. They move quickly to get this fire knocked down,
and certainly it's a big relief for the people that
live in this area. That's the latest overhead EP.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, the threat continues the course over the weekend. This
is the most significant heat wave of the year coming up,
so there be near record temperatures across almost all of
southern California. That'll be tomorrow, that'll be Friday, it'll be Saturday. Also,
triple digits almost everywhere beyond the beaches. And of course
I mentioned on the heels of that fire, because these
(29:39):
general conditions could cause rapid fire growth and there's an
extreme fire danger. I'd say the only good element is
that the winds will not be prohibitively high, like this
is not a huge Santa Anna event. But nonetheless, the
extreme heat creates a dryness, and you have that compounding
(30:01):
what is already a high fire danger. This is really,
you know, pretty intense. There could be some localized flooding too,
particularly in the mountains and deserts. So even as that
gets underway, you kind of have no place to run
(30:21):
that isn't in some way going to be affected by
this weather event. There are widespread extreme heat warnings mountains, foothills,
red flag warnings. I mentioned that too, because red flag
warnings I don't need to tell you involves special parking restrictions,
So keep that in mind because that is a warning
that continues through the next few days.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Ninety five to one hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Everywhere beyond the beaches, overnight lows will be above seventy
in many areas, So make a plan to stay safe,
have access to air conditioning, reschedule outdoor activities. I can't
believe they're really going to cut the power at my
(31:06):
house for the Saturday. It's crazy, but that's the plan,
so I guess we have to plan around that. In
any case. This is if you're at the beaches, a
heat wave that you probably won't even register, But everywhere
(31:26):
else away from the beaches, this will be brutal. I mean,
this is, as I say, probably the most significant heat
wave of the year thus far. So we'll keep you
posted on KOFI on all breaking news around it, but
definitely make plans and as I say, it kicks into
high gear tomorrow and continues into the first part of
the weekend through Saturday.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
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