July 11, 2025 • 30 mins
Fred Roggin, host of AM 570’s Dodgers coverage, steps in for Tim Conway Jr and brings a sharp eye to the day’s headlines. Fred kicks things off with a wild story out of Palm Springs, where a hospitalized senior had her car mysteriously towed, sparking outrage from her family. Then, California Assemblyman Carl DeMaio joins to talk about voter apathy, accountability, and the broken voting process in the state. Fred also tackles the reality of local animal shelters and why they might be failing the very animals they aim to protect. Finally, Fox 11’s Elex Michaelson stops by to tease this week’s episode of The Issue Is, including a behind-the-scenes look at MLB on Fox.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I just found me off.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Today Bread Rogan sitting in. Thanks to Tim for allowing
this to happen. I know the team here because I
do a show on AM five seventy every day noon
to three, Rogan and Rodney.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Since I left Channel four, I've continued to do our
radio show here. I went out to Palm Springs and
created a new model is I like to call it
for the presentation of local information. Basically, it's a new
model for local news if we're to be really honest
with each other, and I think we can be honest.
The relevance of local television news has diminished greatly. Really,
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the only thing you watch for is live coverage. Let's
be honest, because it's like a reality show. You don't
know what's going to happen. Live works in local TV.
But now we have cell phones and we get our
news in the palm of our hand. We can live
in the palm of our hand because we get everything
we need. So I went out there and invented a
new model for local news and it's more the cable
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news model. It's more of contributors talking about topics of
the day with some fun stuff that we throw in.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So that's what we'll be doing today.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's unusual for me to be on KFI, yet I
am doing news every day, so I do have some
sort of an aptitude for this. I want to say
good afternoon to Steph on the on the board.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Step what's going on?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Man?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hello there?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm good, I'm good. We've worked together in the past, Yes,
we have. All right, I'll try not to screw it
up today. Okay, I'll look forward to it. All right, Mark,
rounder's doing our news and I think you have something
to say here at the top, do you not?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I'm not sure, but it's our first time together, so
please be gentle with me.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Okay, well please, you know, don't ask for what we
can't do. But you did say before I went on
the air that Tim Conway at one point scolded you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Is that accurate?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Not scolded? He wouldn't dare. I'm not from here. And
so there was a story about you some time ago
and I mispronounced your name. I pronounced it phonetically apparently,
and of course Tim got great joy. I forgot about this.
So it's my understanding that he played the clip again
and again and again. It is very true, so I
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think I've learned it by now, since he's played the
clip about two hundred times.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Where are you from? I came here from Seattle.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I started out in newspapers. My longest stretch was at
the Seattle Times. But I've done tons of radio, had
my own show at Cairo and Seattle. Okay, great, well,
good to have you here. Stuff a pleasure. Matthew's producing.
I'd let him say hello, but he won't speak.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And I do want to say this about Matthew because
I do radio every day and I've done it for
like thirty years on the sports side while I was
doing TV. I have never met anyone as organized as Matthew.
Our rundown when we do our show KLAC every day
noon to three, we put a white piece of paper
with squares on it and we write down Dodgers Lakers.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's it. This guy's written a novel.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I mean, this is the most accurate rundown and well
prepared I have ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He is very organized. Yes, yes, indeed he is.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Okay, I want to start with something today that in
one way or another, has affected all of us. I'm
going to give you two stories. Listen to the stories
and tell me what you would do. Here's story number one.
There is a woman. She is seventy years old. She
goes to a place out in Palm Springs. It's called
the Juice, so you would only assume that the juice
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sells juice. Now, this woman is a very good customer.
Her name is Linda Paulding. She goes there all the time.
The owner of the Juice admits, yes, she's a good customer.
We know her and we like her.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Great.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
She goes in one day and she becomes ill. Now
not from what happened at the Jewe, but she gets
ill so much so she has to leave by the
way she drove her car there. Great, she goes home,
she becomes more ill. She calls a friend. The friend
rushes over and takes her to the hospital. This was
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over a month ago and she is still in the
hospital now. The owner of the Jews admits that Linda
Paulding was a very good customer, and she left her
car at the Jews.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So the guy that owns the Jews.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Who apparently knows she's a very good customer, calls a
towing company to come and tow her car. She's a
seventy year old woman. She gets sick at the business.
They know she became ill, so the guy has her
car towed. They take it to a towyard. It's eight
hundred dollars to get it out of the towyard. Now,
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this is a woman on a fixed income. Her nephew
becomes involved. Her nephew calls us. We call the towyard
to start and say, this woman doesn't have eight hundred dollars.
As a matter of fact, why did you tow her car? Well,
because the owner of the juice told us to. And
by the way, the guy that owns a towing company
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at that point says, hey, I got a business to run,
too bad. It's her problem. So we call the owner
of the juice. He won't take our call. He refuses
to talk to us because he says we sensationalize everything,
so he's not going to talk to us, and he
doesn't really care that he is the reason this woman
has her car in the toe lot.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
In the meantime, she's still in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
She can't get out, and every day it's costing more
and more and more, and at this point they don't
know if she will get out. The guy that owns
the towyard says, you know, there are older people that
live here. This happens all the time. Sometimes they die
and we just sell their car. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Now, now you're thinking what is going on here? So
her church.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Gets involved, because now it's twenty five hundred dollars to
get the car out of the lot. Twenty five hundred dollars, yeah,
twenty five hundred. So the church gets involved, They pay
the money, they get the car, but they only pay
fourteen hundred dollars of it, so now she still owes
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twelve hundred dollars, but at least they released the car.
The owner of the Jews, who started the whole thing
with a good customer, goes to the hospital and brings
one rose.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He must have thought he was on the Bachelor.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
He was going to give her one rose to say
he was sorry, except she was in a coma, a
medically induced coma, so he couldn't talk to her and
give her the rose, and it wasn't authorized to give
her the rose in the first place, all right. The
owner now says that hundred that's her problem.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Palm Springs police are trying to trying to start a
go Fundme page for this woman to be able to
get her car if she ever gets out of the hospital.
The owner of the Jew says, by us telling this story,
we're destroying his business and ruining his reputation. Where at
the beginning of all of it, all he had to
do was say, my bad, Oh my god, that's Linda
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Paulding's car. We'll get it back. When you hear that story, Steph,
what do you think.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Ah, man, I that's a tough one. But I mean,
at the same time, it's like, I don't know, it's
hard to pick a lane, you know, because how can it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Be hard to pick a lane? The guy had her
car towd. He should have never done it. He says,
he knows her. She has no money. And then he
sits there and says, I'm not going to do anything tough.
If I'm owning that business and I find that out
that's true, what's the first thing I do.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Let's get your car back.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, that that should have happened, right, he gets goodwill
in stead Mark when you hear this, what.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you think it does to his business?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Well, you know, I wouldn't expect the proprietor of a
business with OJ's nickname to be the customer's always right type. Okay,
my first reaction would be okay, time to torch the juice,
But we wouldn't want to suggest that on the public's airwaves.
He sounds like a great humanitarian, particularly when you add
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the detail about the single rows.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, that was classy. And the thing I just can't
understand he blames us.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's like we never should have told the story in
the first one.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
We have a great tradition in this country of blaming
the people who report the information and not the perpetrators
of the act.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, well you know what.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And I was going to lead me to and we
got a break in this segment, but comments on social media.
I always now go to the comments before I even
look at the business, because the comments tell the story.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And I got to tell you for him, it ain't good.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
All right, Fred Rogan sitting in for Tim Conway today
and you know, you know what you know and you
know what you don't know. And I had occasion to
watch and then talk with State Assemblyman Carl Demiel Assemblement.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
Are you there, I'm here, Thanks for doing having me on.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Oh, thanks for doing this today.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Here's how I became acquainted with the assemblyman. There was
a situation where the state was considering an audit of
a school district and it was out in the Coachella
Valley and by all accounts, there's a lot of stuff
that's dirty that's going on just being a So anyway,
they have this meeting with the State Committee and then
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they're going to vote on whether or not they should
conduct the state audit, which, by the way, they should
have conducted this audit. But it taught me about California
government and California politics Assemblymen, and I could not believe
the way things operate in Sacramento. So bottom line is
it didn't pass, and the school district avoided the audit.
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But Assemblymen, they avoided the audit not because people voted
against it, because people didn't even vote.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And I found that shocking.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
That is how the corrupt, broken system works in Sacramento.
Or doesn't work, as the case may be. And I've
actually gotten people asking me why are you voting those
so often? And I said, because it's my job to
vote yes or no. If I don't like a bill,
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I shouldn't be the coward and just simply not vote
on it. I should say I don't like the bill,
I oppose it, it should not pass, and I'm going
to vote no. The reason why these politicians don't vote
on bills is that they don't want to anger one
side or the other, and they don't want to recorded vote.
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And so politicians want to kill a bill, but they
know that the public really likes the bill, and so
what they do is they just don't vote. And that way,
when the public says why did you you know, why
did this bill not pass, they basically say I didn't
vote against it. Well, you also didn't vote for it.
And it requires an absolute majority, not just of those present,
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but of the body. It requires an absolute majority of
the body, whether it's a committee or the full set,
full Assembly, or state Senate for a bill to pass.
This is the trick that they use to avoid accountability.
I'm sick of it. I think voters are sick of it.
And that's why I'm calling them out. And this is
rocking the vote. You're not allowed to call out and
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expose the secrets up there. But I think people need
to know this essentially.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
But how often does this happen?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Every day?
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Every meeting, every committee meeting, every floor vote, every single vote,
whether it's in a committee or on the floor on
controversial legislation, unless it's like naming a post office, if
it's controversial, you have a big chunk of elected officials
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too cowardly to actually say yes or no on a bill.
And you know what, they need to be called out
for it. They need to put their name yes or
no on a bill and then be held accountable by
the voters. And if the voters are okay with a
no vote, great, If they're okay with a yes vote, fine,
But there needs to be clarity, There needs to be
accountability and transparency.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Does any bill pop into your mind right off the
top of your head that kind of was affected by this.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Road, Yeah, so I'll give you one of my bills.
I had a bill that said homeowners associations in the
state of California, which ostensibly are private associations, but they're
really not. Because they have a board elected by property owners,
they can assess taxes called HOA dos, They can limit
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your private property rights through a variety of mechanisms. And
again I don't want to get too personal about it,
but some of these homeowner association boards are dominated with oh,
how shall I say, nosy neighbors, and they really infringe
upon people's rights. So here's what I said was, look,
if they're operating like a government agency, then why don't
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we hold them accountable for public meeting requirements? That they
should have an agenda, that it should be publicized, that
they shouldn't be doing secret meetings, that they should be
keeping accurate minutes, and that that all should be available
to members of the association. Very common sense, right, you know,
no nobody opposes it. But because a lot of these
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members don't like a lot of the Democrats don't like me,
the rabble rousing Republican, they said, we're going to kill
all of Demayo's bills, including the ones that we agree with,
the ones that we like. So my HLA bill died
in committee and not a single person voted against it.
I had four yes votes, but I needed a fifth
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vote for it. To advance onto the Assembly flour and
that's how the Democrats decided, well, we can't vote against
a good idea, so we're just going to not vote.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It's gutless, it really is. It's shameful, it is.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
And you saw that with the audit, the audit on
the Coachella Valley Unified School District, which by the way,
is a dumpster fire corrupt mess if I've ever seen one.
And by the way, there's a lot of competition in
the state of California for that title amongst the local governments.
I said, look, you know, we should do an audit.
It's common sense. You know, anyone who's screened a government
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agency says, don't audit me. It's unfair. It's it's it's illegal,
it's it's racist, it's uh, you know, you know, unacceptable.
Well that's even gonna want me to audit them even more.
But the Democrats got their arms twisted by his powerful
state senator, Senator Alex Padia, sorry Steve Padia, who basically said,
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don't do this. These are my friends on this board.
I'm doing a favor for them. They're all Democrats, so
please help them out and do do me a favor
by not auditing them, and so he killed the bill
just by getting people not to vote for it. And
it's appalling and it needs to stop. We need to
eliminate the ability for a member to not vote on
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a bill. They need they need to vote yes or
no if they are physically present.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Some woman, Carl Demile, thank you for jumping on today.
Really appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I want to talk about something now, and it will
be upsetting to some And here's the thing. There's really
no answer to this because I've done a lot of
work on this, and if you're an animal lover you understand,
and if you're not a huge animal lover, perhaps you'll
appreciate the dilemma. And that is the way animal shelters operate.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
We had one on Riverside County and that shelter euthanized coma,
killed more animals than anybody in the country for a
period of time.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That shelter was.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Run incorrectly and really they've had problems like that in
Los Angeles as well. So if you are an animal lover,
you don't want to see that. I think if you're
a human being, you don't want to even acknowledge that.
So the question becomes why and how do you fix it?
And here's what I'm here to tell you. There's really
no way to correct this.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
If you spay and new to your pets, that helps,
That really does, because what you'll do is lessen the
population that may be abandoned.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So that's the first thing.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And every human being has a responsibility if you have
a pet, to do that, and I believe most people do.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But here's the other side of the coin.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Given that the animal shelter in any city budget is
not the number one priority.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I mean, they are constructing a budget to an awful
lot of stuff and the animal shelter is not at
the top of the list, trust me, And anybody that
complains about the way animal shelters are run is like
an animal wacko, like a crazy And I'm telling you
that's how city officials and county officials look at this.
It's kind of like this is not the priority, but
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it is if you love animals.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So how do you fix it?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
What do you do? It's very difficult. There is one
system that is being used, and I can tell you,
despite the fact you'll be told it's the correct system,
it isn't. And that is called managed intake.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
What does that mean.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Well, we don't have enough space as it is, so
we have to euthanize animals to create more space. But
the way we can fix that is to stop taking
animals in managed intake. So if you found a pet,
a dog, a cat, and you said, I'm going to
take this animal to the shelter because perhaps the animal
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will be adopted and have a wonderful life, what the
shelter tells you don't bring it here. Don't do that
because we have a better plan. Leave it where it is.
These animals they get lost, stray away from home, and
if you take them out of the area they'll be lost.
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So leave them where they're at and give it time.
Give it time, and perhaps they'll find their way back.
So that's what you're telling you. The truth is, that's
called managed intake. We need to improve our numbers. We
need to show the public that no, we are not
euthanizing as many animals for space. So leave them on
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the street to fend for themselves. Now, somebody actually put
this program into operation in a number of cities around
the country, and by the way, it doesn't work. They
didn't Elpaso, Texas. Do you want to know what happened?
They just didn't bring them in, managed didn't take What
happened with the dogs is they became rabbit and started
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chasing people. They became rabbid because they couldn't take them
into the shelter. We have a thing at Riverside County
right now. Don't bring a cat in under no circumstances.
If you want to take the cat home, that's good.
If you find a dog and you want to take
the dog home, that's great. But since we don't have
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enough space, don't bring it here. There's a real problem
with the way animal shelters operate, and animal lovers know this.
Animal lovers are frustrated, they are saddened, and every day
they complain about this. But I'm here to tell you
after looking at it for a period of time now
over a year, multiple times a week, I don't know
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what the solution to this problem is.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I know everybody has a responsibility if you have an
animal to make sure they're spade or neutered. That I get,
But when the animal shelter tells you you can't bring
an animal in here, isn't that like the hospital telling you, Oh,
you've had a heart attack, but you can't come in.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Isn't that their job? Isn't that what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Isn't that the place you're supposed to take animals that
you find, but they're not allowing it. It's called a
managed intake. On the surface, you think, Okay, I'm looking
at the numbers of the animal shelter and it looks
like there aren't as many animals being euthanized. The reality
is they don't have to do it if you don't
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bring any in, because then they have enough space. This
is something that absolutely must be addressed, and it must
be addressed at the city level. It must be addressed
at the county level, because they are the ones that
fund the animal shelters. The best animal shelter maybe in
the country, believe it or not, is located in Palm Springs.
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They have something they call no kill, So even if
you bring an animal to them who is hurt or
wounded or has a problem, they're going to do everything
in their power to make sure that animal is okay,
and try to get that animal adopted. Shelters need to
work with rescue groups, they need to work with nonprofits,
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and they need to have a better system of moving animals. Now,
it's funny when you talk about this topic. If you
are an animal lover, you know exactly what I'm saying.
If you don't have pets or animals, you're saying, I'm
sorry that's happening. But look, I have more important things
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to worry about. And that is also how your city
and county government looks at it. Yeah, I mean, I
don't want to deal with this. There's more important things
to worry about. Got to tell you, this is a
pretty important thing, and somehow, some way, somebody in the
LA Animal Shelter had this problem. Somehow, some way, somebody
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has got to figure out a solution because it is heartbreaking.
The shelters are understaffed, and oftentimes, at least in the
situations i've observed, there's nepotism. So you know, somebody works there,
their brother works there, their nephew works there, and there.
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We have pictures of shelters that are disturbing and disgusting,
just disgusting. Their argument will be we don't have enough people,
so we don't want us to do we don't have
enough people. There are too many animals, so we can
only do what we can do. That's not the answer.
Animal lovers, animal fanatics get it. And all I would
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ask of you is this. If you are not that
into it, understand there's a problem. Understand something needs to
be done. Understand this is unfair. And in the list
of everything you deal with on a daily basis and
everything you worry about, yeah, this is not top of mind,
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but try to keep it somewhere in your mind because
it is incredibly unfair to the animals. It's awful, and
hopefully someone will come up with a solution instead of
managed intake. Leaving animals on the street to fend for
themselves is not the answer.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoon You're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay, Now let's bring on Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven.
And I think, if I'm not incorrect, when I was
a Channel four you were an intern.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
There is that not true? Alex?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I was an intern and I've always looked up to
you greatly, and it's great to be on.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
With you, not going to tell you something before we
talk about what you want to talk about, because I
think of what I want, what I want to talk
to you.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
About is more important. Uh. Okay, I think you do
local news right. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I went out to Palm Springs and created this new
model for news that I pitched at Channel four three times,
and one time it got really close and they pulled
the plug at the end because they kind of got
freaked out by what it was. You do the closest
thing to that, and I think it is desperately needed
in local markets. And I you know, are your former
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boss and my buddy Steve Carlston was there.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Uh and your news director used to work at Channel four. Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I'm glad they give you that platform. I'm glad they
give you the ability to do that show. I think
it really makes a difference. And I wanted to say
that before we got started.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Well, that means the world coming from you, because you
are one of the great broadcasters in LA history. And
I'm not just saying that just blow smoke. A huge,
huge fan of you, and honestly, watching you guys on
Channel four is one of the reasons I got into this.
I mean you, Paul Colleen Fritz, I mean that was
my go to that got me interested in news in
the first place, and so I have so much admiration
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for you.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, we kind of muffed it. We should have hired you.
We kind of goofed.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I tried, I know you did, I know.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You know what, Why doesn't anybody listen to me? I
had a vote and nobody listened to me. All Right,
so let's go. You're doing a behind the same thing
for the All Star Game.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Well sort of, yeah, and kind of the history of
Fox Sports Baseball. So there's the thirtieth anniversary of Baseball
on Fox. So we headed out to Dodgers Stadium when
the Dodgers and Yankees were playing and did a hole
behind the scenes special with their pregame guys, Kevin Burkhard,
Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Big Poppy, David Ortiz, who went
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in the booth with Joe Davis and John Smolt and
the dugout with Ken Rosenthal and sort of looked at
the history of the last thirty years, some of the
best moments and the coolest innovation and the chemistry with
those guys. You know, it's really hard to do those shows. Well,
so many people have tried them, but I think they'd
really finally found their groove with this foursome and it
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was really fun to hang out with them.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, and did you learn anything? You eat luck and
you know, you know, Mike, this.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Is really exciting everybody. We went behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Okay, you do this for a living, you know what
it's like behind the scenes, But did you learn anything?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I was amazed at the sort of the the chemistry
of them and to see it in person, and to
see also the way that the current players look at
Jeter and a Rod and Poppy as like their heroes,
and to see how that's changed the way that they're
able to broadcast and they get kind of material out
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of people that somebody like you and I would never
be able to get. And sort of watching the way
that whole thing comes together, I think was really cool
and that they really do it right. You know, they've
been innovative. They did this Field of Dreams game, they
did this thing at rickwood Field. I mean, they tried
to sort of rethink the way that baseball is done.
Some good, some not so good, but it's interesting to
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be around people that have that kind of creativity.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Got to be honest with you, I think Fox Sports
does the best job by far. They do the best
job in the NFL. I know my friends at NBC
do'll hate me saying that, And I know they do
the best job in baseball by far.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
They're just all over it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And that being said, because you were at Dodger Stadium, Well,
what do you think of the Dodgers this year?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I mean, yeah, obviously they're slumping right now, but I
think it's one of the great lineups in history. I
think they're going to find their mojo again, and I
think they still got to be the favorites to win
the World Series, especially when everybody gets healthy and that
lineup gets cranking. It doesn't really matter that much what's
happening now. All that matters is October, and I still
feel real optimistic.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
What about you, Oh, I like the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
You know, I do this every day for three hours
on KLAC, and I always say, don't panic. Baseball's a novel.
It's not a short story. It runs forever. All you
need is to make the tournament, be in the playoffs,
catch a break, have some momentum, be healthy, and just go.
And that's how I look at it. I mean the
regular season. I always say this, it's great, we look
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at it, we talk about it doesn't matter at the
end of the day. As long as they're there when
it counts, then the real tournament begins. And given what
they did last year against the Padres at the end
of the regular season, and it got them into the
World Series or the playoffs, and then we beat the
Padres in the playoffs and I said after that, Alex,
I said, they've won it. It doesn't matter who they
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meet in the American League. And that was the case
all right. Before I let you go, I want to
ask you a question right now. I need you to
answer honestly for me. Don't I won't try to be modest.
Don't play games here, it's just being let's be real.
You're a real news guy, Okay, why don't you go
and get a big time job, like on a cable
network or something.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Seriously, I'm just wondering nobody's offered one.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
You've got the wrong agent, buddy. I don't know who
your agent is, but he's the wrong guy. Let's scoop
you up in thirty seconds because you're a style.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Thank you. I should apparently I should hire you. It
should be it should be my redsume tape. Yeah, I mean,
who knows. Look, I'm grateful to be where I'm at
and they give me a lot of great opportunities and
who knows what the future holds. But I appreciate you
saying that honestly, really means the world from you, because
I know you don't put out to compliments that you
don't need.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
No, I hate people. Everybody knows that. So if I
say something nice, take it to heart. It's real.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Hey, listen, continued success. I really appreciate you coming on today.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Thank you so much. Fred All really appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Take care Back to Mark Runner. K if I a
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Speaker 1 (30:04):
Newsroom Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 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 KMF I Am six forty and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
I just found me off.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Today Bread Rogan sitting in. Thanks to Tim for allowing
this to happen. I know the team here because I
do a show on AM five seventy every day noon
to three, Rogan and Rodney.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Since I left Channel four, I've continued to do our
radio show here. I went out to Palm Springs and
created a new model is I like to call it
for the presentation of local information. Basically, it's a new
model for local news if we're to be really honest
with each other, and I think we can be honest.
The relevance of local television news has diminished greatly. Really,
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the only thing you watch for is live coverage. Let's
be honest, because it's like a reality show. You don't
know what's going to happen. Live works in local TV.
But now we have cell phones and we get our
news in the palm of our hand. We can live
in the palm of our hand because we get everything
we need. So I went out there and invented a
new model for local news and it's more the cable
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news model. It's more of contributors talking about topics of
the day with some fun stuff that we throw in.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So that's what we'll be doing today.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's unusual for me to be on KFI, yet I
am doing news every day, so I do have some
sort of an aptitude for this. I want to say
good afternoon to Steph on the on the board.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Step what's going on?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Man?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hello there?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm good, I'm good. We've worked together in the past, Yes,
we have. All right, I'll try not to screw it
up today. Okay, I'll look forward to it. All right, Mark,
rounder's doing our news and I think you have something
to say here at the top, do you not?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I'm not sure, but it's our first time together, so
please be gentle with me.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Okay, well please, you know, don't ask for what we
can't do. But you did say before I went on
the air that Tim Conway at one point scolded you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Is that accurate?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Not scolded? He wouldn't dare. I'm not from here. And
so there was a story about you some time ago
and I mispronounced your name. I pronounced it phonetically apparently,
and of course Tim got great joy. I forgot about this.
So it's my understanding that he played the clip again
and again and again. It is very true, so I
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think I've learned it by now, since he's played the
clip about two hundred times.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Where are you from? I came here from Seattle.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I started out in newspapers. My longest stretch was at
the Seattle Times. But I've done tons of radio, had
my own show at Cairo and Seattle. Okay, great, well,
good to have you here. Stuff a pleasure. Matthew's producing.
I'd let him say hello, but he won't speak.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And I do want to say this about Matthew because
I do radio every day and I've done it for
like thirty years on the sports side while I was
doing TV. I have never met anyone as organized as Matthew.
Our rundown when we do our show KLAC every day
noon to three, we put a white piece of paper
with squares on it and we write down Dodgers Lakers.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's it. This guy's written a novel.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I mean, this is the most accurate rundown and well
prepared I have ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He is very organized. Yes, yes, indeed he is.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Okay, I want to start with something today that in
one way or another, has affected all of us. I'm
going to give you two stories. Listen to the stories
and tell me what you would do. Here's story number one.
There is a woman. She is seventy years old. She
goes to a place out in Palm Springs. It's called
the Juice, so you would only assume that the juice
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sells juice. Now, this woman is a very good customer.
Her name is Linda Paulding. She goes there all the time.
The owner of the Juice admits, yes, she's a good customer.
We know her and we like her.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Great.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
She goes in one day and she becomes ill. Now
not from what happened at the Jewe, but she gets
ill so much so she has to leave by the
way she drove her car there. Great, she goes home,
she becomes more ill. She calls a friend. The friend
rushes over and takes her to the hospital. This was
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over a month ago and she is still in the
hospital now. The owner of the Jews admits that Linda
Paulding was a very good customer, and she left her
car at the Jews.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So the guy that owns the Jews.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Who apparently knows she's a very good customer, calls a
towing company to come and tow her car. She's a
seventy year old woman. She gets sick at the business.
They know she became ill, so the guy has her
car towed. They take it to a towyard. It's eight
hundred dollars to get it out of the towyard. Now,
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this is a woman on a fixed income. Her nephew
becomes involved. Her nephew calls us. We call the towyard
to start and say, this woman doesn't have eight hundred dollars.
As a matter of fact, why did you tow her car? Well,
because the owner of the juice told us to. And
by the way, the guy that owns a towing company
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at that point says, hey, I got a business to run,
too bad. It's her problem. So we call the owner
of the juice. He won't take our call. He refuses
to talk to us because he says we sensationalize everything,
so he's not going to talk to us, and he
doesn't really care that he is the reason this woman
has her car in the toe lot.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
In the meantime, she's still in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
She can't get out, and every day it's costing more
and more and more, and at this point they don't
know if she will get out. The guy that owns
the towyard says, you know, there are older people that
live here. This happens all the time. Sometimes they die
and we just sell their car. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Now, now you're thinking what is going on here? So
her church.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Gets involved, because now it's twenty five hundred dollars to
get the car out of the lot. Twenty five hundred dollars, yeah,
twenty five hundred. So the church gets involved, They pay
the money, they get the car, but they only pay
fourteen hundred dollars of it, so now she still owes
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twelve hundred dollars, but at least they released the car.
The owner of the Jews, who started the whole thing
with a good customer, goes to the hospital and brings
one rose.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He must have thought he was on the Bachelor.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
He was going to give her one rose to say
he was sorry, except she was in a coma, a
medically induced coma, so he couldn't talk to her and
give her the rose, and it wasn't authorized to give
her the rose in the first place, all right. The
owner now says that hundred that's her problem.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Palm Springs police are trying to trying to start a
go Fundme page for this woman to be able to
get her car if she ever gets out of the hospital.
The owner of the Jew says, by us telling this story,
we're destroying his business and ruining his reputation. Where at
the beginning of all of it, all he had to
do was say, my bad, Oh my god, that's Linda
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Paulding's car. We'll get it back. When you hear that story, Steph,
what do you think.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Ah, man, I that's a tough one. But I mean,
at the same time, it's like, I don't know, it's
hard to pick a lane, you know, because how can it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Be hard to pick a lane? The guy had her
car towd. He should have never done it. He says,
he knows her. She has no money. And then he
sits there and says, I'm not going to do anything tough.
If I'm owning that business and I find that out
that's true, what's the first thing I do.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Let's get your car back.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, that that should have happened, right, he gets goodwill
in stead Mark when you hear this, what.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you think it does to his business?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Well, you know, I wouldn't expect the proprietor of a
business with OJ's nickname to be the customer's always right type. Okay,
my first reaction would be okay, time to torch the juice,
But we wouldn't want to suggest that on the public's airwaves.
He sounds like a great humanitarian, particularly when you add
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the detail about the single rows.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, that was classy. And the thing I just can't
understand he blames us.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's like we never should have told the story in
the first one.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
We have a great tradition in this country of blaming
the people who report the information and not the perpetrators
of the act.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, well you know what.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And I was going to lead me to and we
got a break in this segment, but comments on social media.
I always now go to the comments before I even
look at the business, because the comments tell the story.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And I got to tell you for him, it ain't good.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
All right, Fred Rogan sitting in for Tim Conway today
and you know, you know what you know and you
know what you don't know. And I had occasion to
watch and then talk with State Assemblyman Carl Demiel Assemblement.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
Are you there, I'm here, Thanks for doing having me on.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Oh, thanks for doing this today.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Here's how I became acquainted with the assemblyman. There was
a situation where the state was considering an audit of
a school district and it was out in the Coachella
Valley and by all accounts, there's a lot of stuff
that's dirty that's going on just being a So anyway,
they have this meeting with the State Committee and then
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they're going to vote on whether or not they should
conduct the state audit, which, by the way, they should
have conducted this audit. But it taught me about California
government and California politics Assemblymen, and I could not believe
the way things operate in Sacramento. So bottom line is
it didn't pass, and the school district avoided the audit.
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But Assemblymen, they avoided the audit not because people voted
against it, because people didn't even vote.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And I found that shocking.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
That is how the corrupt, broken system works in Sacramento.
Or doesn't work, as the case may be. And I've
actually gotten people asking me why are you voting those
so often? And I said, because it's my job to
vote yes or no. If I don't like a bill,
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I shouldn't be the coward and just simply not vote
on it. I should say I don't like the bill,
I oppose it, it should not pass, and I'm going
to vote no. The reason why these politicians don't vote
on bills is that they don't want to anger one
side or the other, and they don't want to recorded vote.
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And so politicians want to kill a bill, but they
know that the public really likes the bill, and so
what they do is they just don't vote. And that way,
when the public says why did you you know, why
did this bill not pass, they basically say I didn't
vote against it. Well, you also didn't vote for it.
And it requires an absolute majority, not just of those present,
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but of the body. It requires an absolute majority of
the body, whether it's a committee or the full set,
full Assembly, or state Senate for a bill to pass.
This is the trick that they use to avoid accountability.
I'm sick of it. I think voters are sick of it.
And that's why I'm calling them out. And this is
rocking the vote. You're not allowed to call out and
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expose the secrets up there. But I think people need
to know this essentially.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
But how often does this happen?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Every day?
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Every meeting, every committee meeting, every floor vote, every single vote,
whether it's in a committee or on the floor on
controversial legislation, unless it's like naming a post office, if
it's controversial, you have a big chunk of elected officials
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too cowardly to actually say yes or no on a bill.
And you know what, they need to be called out
for it. They need to put their name yes or
no on a bill and then be held accountable by
the voters. And if the voters are okay with a
no vote, great, If they're okay with a yes vote, fine,
But there needs to be clarity, There needs to be
accountability and transparency.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Does any bill pop into your mind right off the
top of your head that kind of was affected by this.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Road, Yeah, so I'll give you one of my bills.
I had a bill that said homeowners associations in the
state of California, which ostensibly are private associations, but they're
really not. Because they have a board elected by property owners,
they can assess taxes called HOA dos, They can limit
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your private property rights through a variety of mechanisms. And
again I don't want to get too personal about it,
but some of these homeowner association boards are dominated with oh,
how shall I say, nosy neighbors, and they really infringe
upon people's rights. So here's what I said was, look,
if they're operating like a government agency, then why don't
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we hold them accountable for public meeting requirements? That they
should have an agenda, that it should be publicized, that
they shouldn't be doing secret meetings, that they should be
keeping accurate minutes, and that that all should be available
to members of the association. Very common sense, right, you know,
no nobody opposes it. But because a lot of these
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members don't like a lot of the Democrats don't like me,
the rabble rousing Republican, they said, we're going to kill
all of Demayo's bills, including the ones that we agree with,
the ones that we like. So my HLA bill died
in committee and not a single person voted against it.
I had four yes votes, but I needed a fifth
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vote for it. To advance onto the Assembly flour and
that's how the Democrats decided, well, we can't vote against
a good idea, so we're just going to not vote.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It's gutless, it really is. It's shameful, it is.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
And you saw that with the audit, the audit on
the Coachella Valley Unified School District, which by the way,
is a dumpster fire corrupt mess if I've ever seen one.
And by the way, there's a lot of competition in
the state of California for that title amongst the local governments.
I said, look, you know, we should do an audit.
It's common sense. You know, anyone who's screened a government
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agency says, don't audit me. It's unfair. It's it's it's illegal,
it's it's racist, it's uh, you know, you know, unacceptable.
Well that's even gonna want me to audit them even more.
But the Democrats got their arms twisted by his powerful
state senator, Senator Alex Padia, sorry Steve Padia, who basically said,
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don't do this. These are my friends on this board.
I'm doing a favor for them. They're all Democrats, so
please help them out and do do me a favor
by not auditing them, and so he killed the bill
just by getting people not to vote for it. And
it's appalling and it needs to stop. We need to
eliminate the ability for a member to not vote on
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a bill. They need they need to vote yes or
no if they are physically present.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Some woman, Carl Demile, thank you for jumping on today.
Really appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I want to talk about something now, and it will
be upsetting to some And here's the thing. There's really
no answer to this because I've done a lot of
work on this, and if you're an animal lover you understand,
and if you're not a huge animal lover, perhaps you'll
appreciate the dilemma. And that is the way animal shelters operate.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
We had one on Riverside County and that shelter euthanized coma,
killed more animals than anybody in the country for a
period of time.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That shelter was.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Run incorrectly and really they've had problems like that in
Los Angeles as well. So if you are an animal lover,
you don't want to see that. I think if you're
a human being, you don't want to even acknowledge that.
So the question becomes why and how do you fix it?
And here's what I'm here to tell you. There's really
no way to correct this.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
If you spay and new to your pets, that helps,
That really does, because what you'll do is lessen the
population that may be abandoned.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So that's the first thing.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And every human being has a responsibility if you have
a pet, to do that, and I believe most people do.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But here's the other side of the coin.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Given that the animal shelter in any city budget is
not the number one priority.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I mean, they are constructing a budget to an awful
lot of stuff and the animal shelter is not at
the top of the list, trust me, And anybody that
complains about the way animal shelters are run is like
an animal wacko, like a crazy And I'm telling you
that's how city officials and county officials look at this.
It's kind of like this is not the priority, but
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it is if you love animals.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So how do you fix it?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
What do you do? It's very difficult. There is one
system that is being used, and I can tell you,
despite the fact you'll be told it's the correct system,
it isn't. And that is called managed intake.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
What does that mean.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Well, we don't have enough space as it is, so
we have to euthanize animals to create more space. But
the way we can fix that is to stop taking
animals in managed intake. So if you found a pet,
a dog, a cat, and you said, I'm going to
take this animal to the shelter because perhaps the animal
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will be adopted and have a wonderful life, what the
shelter tells you don't bring it here. Don't do that
because we have a better plan. Leave it where it is.
These animals they get lost, stray away from home, and
if you take them out of the area they'll be lost.
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So leave them where they're at and give it time.
Give it time, and perhaps they'll find their way back.
So that's what you're telling you. The truth is, that's
called managed intake. We need to improve our numbers. We
need to show the public that no, we are not
euthanizing as many animals for space. So leave them on
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the street to fend for themselves. Now, somebody actually put
this program into operation in a number of cities around
the country, and by the way, it doesn't work. They
didn't Elpaso, Texas. Do you want to know what happened?
They just didn't bring them in, managed didn't take What
happened with the dogs is they became rabbit and started
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chasing people. They became rabbid because they couldn't take them
into the shelter. We have a thing at Riverside County
right now. Don't bring a cat in under no circumstances.
If you want to take the cat home, that's good.
If you find a dog and you want to take
the dog home, that's great. But since we don't have
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enough space, don't bring it here. There's a real problem
with the way animal shelters operate, and animal lovers know this.
Animal lovers are frustrated, they are saddened, and every day
they complain about this. But I'm here to tell you
after looking at it for a period of time now
over a year, multiple times a week, I don't know
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what the solution to this problem is.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I know everybody has a responsibility if you have an
animal to make sure they're spade or neutered. That I get,
But when the animal shelter tells you you can't bring
an animal in here, isn't that like the hospital telling you, Oh,
you've had a heart attack, but you can't come in.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Isn't that their job? Isn't that what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Isn't that the place you're supposed to take animals that
you find, but they're not allowing it. It's called a
managed intake. On the surface, you think, Okay, I'm looking
at the numbers of the animal shelter and it looks
like there aren't as many animals being euthanized. The reality
is they don't have to do it if you don't
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bring any in, because then they have enough space. This
is something that absolutely must be addressed, and it must
be addressed at the city level. It must be addressed
at the county level, because they are the ones that
fund the animal shelters. The best animal shelter maybe in
the country, believe it or not, is located in Palm Springs.
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They have something they call no kill, So even if
you bring an animal to them who is hurt or
wounded or has a problem, they're going to do everything
in their power to make sure that animal is okay,
and try to get that animal adopted. Shelters need to
work with rescue groups, they need to work with nonprofits,
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and they need to have a better system of moving animals. Now,
it's funny when you talk about this topic. If you
are an animal lover, you know exactly what I'm saying.
If you don't have pets or animals, you're saying, I'm
sorry that's happening. But look, I have more important things
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to worry about. And that is also how your city
and county government looks at it. Yeah, I mean, I
don't want to deal with this. There's more important things
to worry about. Got to tell you, this is a
pretty important thing, and somehow, some way, somebody in the
LA Animal Shelter had this problem. Somehow, some way, somebody
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has got to figure out a solution because it is heartbreaking.
The shelters are understaffed, and oftentimes, at least in the
situations i've observed, there's nepotism. So you know, somebody works there,
their brother works there, their nephew works there, and there.
(22:47):
We have pictures of shelters that are disturbing and disgusting,
just disgusting. Their argument will be we don't have enough people,
so we don't want us to do we don't have
enough people. There are too many animals, so we can
only do what we can do. That's not the answer.
Animal lovers, animal fanatics get it. And all I would
(23:10):
ask of you is this. If you are not that
into it, understand there's a problem. Understand something needs to
be done. Understand this is unfair. And in the list
of everything you deal with on a daily basis and
everything you worry about, yeah, this is not top of mind,
(23:30):
but try to keep it somewhere in your mind because
it is incredibly unfair to the animals. It's awful, and
hopefully someone will come up with a solution instead of
managed intake. Leaving animals on the street to fend for
themselves is not the answer.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoon You're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Okay, Now let's bring on Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven.
And I think, if I'm not incorrect, when I was
a Channel four you were an intern.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
There is that not true? Alex?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I was an intern and I've always looked up to
you greatly, and it's great to be on.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
With you, not going to tell you something before we
talk about what you want to talk about, because I
think of what I want, what I want to talk
to you.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
About is more important. Uh. Okay, I think you do
local news right. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I went out to Palm Springs and created this new
model for news that I pitched at Channel four three times,
and one time it got really close and they pulled
the plug at the end because they kind of got
freaked out by what it was. You do the closest
thing to that, and I think it is desperately needed
in local markets. And I you know, are your former
(24:48):
boss and my buddy Steve Carlston was there.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Uh and your news director used to work at Channel four. Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I'm glad they give you that platform. I'm glad they
give you the ability to do that show. I think
it really makes a difference. And I wanted to say
that before we got started.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Well, that means the world coming from you, because you
are one of the great broadcasters in LA history. And
I'm not just saying that just blow smoke. A huge,
huge fan of you, and honestly, watching you guys on
Channel four is one of the reasons I got into this.
I mean you, Paul Colleen Fritz, I mean that was
my go to that got me interested in news in
the first place, and so I have so much admiration
(25:25):
for you.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, we kind of muffed it. We should have hired you.
We kind of goofed.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I tried, I know you did, I know.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You know what, Why doesn't anybody listen to me? I
had a vote and nobody listened to me. All Right,
so let's go. You're doing a behind the same thing
for the All Star Game.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Well sort of, yeah, and kind of the history of
Fox Sports Baseball. So there's the thirtieth anniversary of Baseball
on Fox. So we headed out to Dodgers Stadium when
the Dodgers and Yankees were playing and did a hole
behind the scenes special with their pregame guys, Kevin Burkhard,
Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Big Poppy, David Ortiz, who went
(26:03):
in the booth with Joe Davis and John Smolt and
the dugout with Ken Rosenthal and sort of looked at
the history of the last thirty years, some of the
best moments and the coolest innovation and the chemistry with
those guys. You know, it's really hard to do those shows. Well,
so many people have tried them, but I think they'd
really finally found their groove with this foursome and it
(26:25):
was really fun to hang out with them.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, and did you learn anything? You eat luck and
you know, you know, Mike, this.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Is really exciting everybody. We went behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Okay, you do this for a living, you know what
it's like behind the scenes, But did you learn anything?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I was amazed at the sort of the the chemistry
of them and to see it in person, and to
see also the way that the current players look at
Jeter and a Rod and Poppy as like their heroes,
and to see how that's changed the way that they're
able to broadcast and they get kind of material out
(27:01):
of people that somebody like you and I would never
be able to get. And sort of watching the way
that whole thing comes together, I think was really cool
and that they really do it right. You know, they've
been innovative. They did this Field of Dreams game, they
did this thing at rickwood Field. I mean, they tried
to sort of rethink the way that baseball is done.
Some good, some not so good, but it's interesting to
(27:21):
be around people that have that kind of creativity.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Got to be honest with you, I think Fox Sports
does the best job by far. They do the best
job in the NFL. I know my friends at NBC
do'll hate me saying that, And I know they do
the best job in baseball by far.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
They're just all over it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And that being said, because you were at Dodger Stadium, Well,
what do you think of the Dodgers this year?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I mean, yeah, obviously they're slumping right now, but I
think it's one of the great lineups in history. I
think they're going to find their mojo again, and I
think they still got to be the favorites to win
the World Series, especially when everybody gets healthy and that
lineup gets cranking. It doesn't really matter that much what's
happening now. All that matters is October, and I still
feel real optimistic.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
What about you, Oh, I like the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
You know, I do this every day for three hours
on KLAC, and I always say, don't panic. Baseball's a novel.
It's not a short story. It runs forever. All you
need is to make the tournament, be in the playoffs,
catch a break, have some momentum, be healthy, and just go.
And that's how I look at it. I mean the
regular season. I always say this, it's great, we look
(28:28):
at it, we talk about it doesn't matter at the
end of the day. As long as they're there when
it counts, then the real tournament begins. And given what
they did last year against the Padres at the end
of the regular season, and it got them into the
World Series or the playoffs, and then we beat the
Padres in the playoffs and I said after that, Alex,
I said, they've won it. It doesn't matter who they
(28:49):
meet in the American League. And that was the case
all right. Before I let you go, I want to
ask you a question right now. I need you to
answer honestly for me. Don't I won't try to be modest.
Don't play games here, it's just being let's be real.
You're a real news guy, Okay, why don't you go
and get a big time job, like on a cable
network or something.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Seriously, I'm just wondering nobody's offered one.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
You've got the wrong agent, buddy. I don't know who
your agent is, but he's the wrong guy. Let's scoop
you up in thirty seconds because you're a style.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Thank you. I should apparently I should hire you. It
should be it should be my redsume tape. Yeah, I mean,
who knows. Look, I'm grateful to be where I'm at
and they give me a lot of great opportunities and
who knows what the future holds. But I appreciate you
saying that honestly, really means the world from you, because
I know you don't put out to compliments that you
don't need.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
No, I hate people. Everybody knows that. So if I
say something nice, take it to heart. It's real.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Hey, listen, continued success. I really appreciate you coming on today.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Thank you so much. Fred All really appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Take care Back to Mark Runner. K if I a
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