January 7, 2026 • 33 mins
We continue to hear directly from the community, as residents impacted by the fires share powerful stories about loss, recovery, and the long road forward after the flames.
The show then pivots to major national and local headlines, including how the U.S. was able to penetrate Venezuelan airspace undetected, and breaking legal news as Nick Reiner’s defense attorney, Alan Jackson, steps down from the case.
Hope and action take center stage with an inspiring conversation about a grassroots effort born out of the Palisades fire. Windward School junior Mason Cohen, along with childhood friends Jake Yoon and Dylan Fullmer of Harvard-Westlake, launched a fundraising campaign that has already raised more than $300,000. Every dollar is going directly to help small local businesses reopen, starting with the first five businesses being surprised with rent-subsidy checks at a special event. Their mission is simple and powerful: Rebuild. Restore. Revive. Learn more at BuildBackPali.org.
We wrap things up with a look at the Rams vs. Panthers matchup, as the Rams head into the game as double-digit favorites on the road.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
IT'SFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Seven o'clock, we are
less than an hour away from the Big Special hosted
by Michael Monks, presented by kfi's newsroom. In fifty four minutes,
that special will begin, or thereabouts, maybe fifty seven fifty
(00:23):
eight minutes, but you'll hear it right after seven o'clock.
It's like a few more phone calls. I know, there's
a lot of people out there that are still suffering
the fallout of the fires and the damage that was
done to your neighborhood, your family, your friends, your kids' school,
(00:44):
your business. There's a lot of still really raw anger
out there and sadness, And so the least we could
do is let you have an avenue to express your
thoughts about what happened to all of us, especially people
(01:05):
in the Palisades, the Eating Fire area, Malibu, Altadena. They
bore the brunt of all of this. Yvonne in Los Angeles.
You're on KFI. Yvonne, you're there.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, Yello, Lelan can it?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Can you hear me? I can now?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yes, Oh hey, it's actually oh.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Devin, Okay, that's why you didn't respond to Yvonne.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I bet right.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, so thanks for your opportunity. I've been a longtime listener.
Oh family, ever since I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh that's good news. I love that. Excellent. How old
are you now.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
On twenty four?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Twenty four?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay, so when I started, you were not born yet.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I was not born yet.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What do you remember listening to Kala Sex? You remember
the what the hell did Jesse Jackson say?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I do?
Speaker 6 (02:05):
I do?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Indeed, yes, toy with bringing.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That back, you definitely should. Okay, all right, So you're
a resident. You live near La X.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yes, that's right, So I live. I live right near LAX.
I'm in Westchester.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And you have clients that what do you? What business
are you in?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
So I have.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We have a family run in a window washing business.
It's called Squeaky Clean, and we've been servicing the Palisades
area since the nineties. So we've had, you know, we've
had we've had our presence up there. We know a
ton of people who've been affected by the fires. I
would say roughly thirty to forty of our clients have
(02:50):
have lost everything. And it's you know, I'll give you
an example, like one of my clients, he he had
to evacuate his house and he wasn't allowed back in
until it was cleared out, and they left him basically
roasting for months and months, and he had no choice
but to rent a house for with a year long lease.
(03:11):
And just after he got the leaf, they told him, oh, hey,
you can suddenly come back to your house. So now
he's got he's stuck with two properties, and he's dealing
with the financial the financial uh negatives from that, you know.
And you know, I just want to say, it's I
think it's really disgusting and enraging how the city has
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handled this response to the fires.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I think Karen Bass, Karen Bass deciding to run again
for mayor, to me, is such a slap in the
face to all of the people who have been affected
by these fires. And you know, I guess my question
really is, you know, is if Karen Bass's house was
burned down in the fires, you know, would she get
priority or would her house been built first? Or was
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she get a permit to build again?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well, I mean, but that's what you guys, you know,
you're a resident of you know of the city are
Do you live in.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The city of La Okay, Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, And then you have to you know, you have
to decide, you know, is she competent to run the
city of La And a lot of people have said no.
And you're gonna decide, you know, the primaries. I think
there's a vote in June, and then the general election
is in November, and that's where you're gonna have to decide.
Let me ask you something about squeaky clean.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We had we had.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Called a company about a year ago to have all
of our windows washed. And I thought the bid, I
thought the job was going to come in and around
three maybe four hundred dollars, And the guy said to me,
fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
WHOA, No, that's insane, sounds like a lot.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
No, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You should definitely not be paying anywhere even close to that.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's what I thought. That's what I told him, What
is it?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What does it cost to get an average size house
twelve hundred square feed maybe fifteen to twenty windows.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
What should something like that cost for that?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Just like you said, probably in the range of three
to four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
And that would that would include everything.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
All right, and here's an opportunity to give out your website.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Is it Squeaky clean?
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, so our website is a Squeaky Clean window washing
dot co. And if any of your listeners are interested,
please feel free to reach out. You know, we'll offer
free estimates and if you've been affected by the fires,
we're more than willing to accommodate you, give you discounts
and help out in any way that we can.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Sweet of you, Squeaky Clean window Washing dot Co. Yes,
that's it, okay, but I appreciate you calling. Sorry you
called you, Eyvon. I I can only just all right,
all right, thank you, Devin. I appreciate it. Squeaky Clean
window walk Oh Debbie in New Hall, you're on KFI?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Are you?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Camp? How are you?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I'm doing excellent?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
How are you so you are you attended Pally High?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I did and I graduated.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh wow, come all right recently?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Well no, seventy five actually okay, yeah, so yeah, my
family we lived there in the seventies and part of
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
What a beautiful place to grow up. Huh.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Well I didn't grow up all together there. We were
in the city in LA but then you know part
of my growing up. Yes, it was in the Palisades,
and I loved it there. It was so quaint and charming.
Just a beautiful small village, you know. People just have
gorgeous place every way.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
And my first apartment too, moving out of the house,
was also in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
And I went to Pally High. Just yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So I mean, I actually, Tim, I have not been
back because.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I'm too I'm not a I'm not afraid, you know.
I just I don't know if I can handle. No,
I can, but I just I'm two. I just don't
want to go back yet because but I pray for
all the people you know that were affected and their homes,
and God should bless them with everything they need and want.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Exactly right, all right, W appreciate the phone called Mike
and Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You're on K five.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Killer Conway.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Hey, Mike, how are you?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (07:35):
What up? Gang?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Come on, buddy?
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Hey, first and foremost, thank you for what you're doing.
Everybody at KFI, you guys rock.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's very nice here. So are you in the Pasady
in the area? Were you affected by the fire?
Speaker 8 (07:52):
I'm blocks away from eating canyon. Wow, I mean blocks away,
it was. It was we thought we were going to
lose it all, no joke. When they were reporting that night,
there was a newscaster literally standing on my block. So
we that night when we evacuated, we thought it was
all gone.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
And a lot of my neighbors that's the case, you know,
just a bunch of empty dirt lots for sale, signs.
They can't rebuild, They're just they're forced out. Bro.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's heartbreaking. Yeah, it really is. I used to. I
drove by.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I drove through Eating the Eating fire area a couple times.
You know, left Santa Nita didn't take the two ten,
took the surface streets. And every time you turn a
corner you think, okay, I just saw the worst of it,
and then you see something worse. I just saw the
worst of it. I just saw the worst of it.
And it never gets better. It just gets worse as
you get deeper into that area.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Really, no, it really does. It really does. Beautiful homes
that have been standing for one hundred years and all
that's left is the chimney stack.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And the saddest thing about driving through there is seeing
all the swing sets and the uncle gems that are
on the lawn that you know these kids were playing
on the day before.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean it's and listen,
we get it right, we all live here. We understand
Santa Anas and everything like that. But I mean what
happened that night. I was out there, my niece and
I we thought we could do something by spraying the
house with some water hoses, and as soon as the
water left the hose and hit the house, it evaporated. Yeah,
the winds were insane. There was really these guys, these
(09:28):
women and men who were fighting the fire. They they
really did the best they could. But you know it, uh,
you know, simultaneously after we get evacuated, you know, our
mom gets a diagnosis with dementia. You know, we're living
in and out of hotels. Then they're putting us up
in airbnbs. You know, it took our insurance company a
whole year to replace the attic insulation and clean the
(09:51):
house and painting.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Are you back in?
Speaker 8 (09:53):
I know, we we just moved back in right before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, I appreciate phone call Mike in Pasadena. Thank
you for calling. We're going to take a small break
here and then we're about forty five minutes away from
the special. It begins here at seven o'clock. It's a
two hour special hosted by Michael Monks. You're gonna want
to hear every bit of it.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
KFI AM six forty. It's Conway Show. We are forty
minutes away from the big special here on KFI, hosted
by Michael Monks, and it's the entire KFI News team
revisiting the events of last January and you're gonna want
to hear it tonight at seven p m. One year later,
bringing stories from people affected by the fires, the challenges
(10:45):
they continue to face, and the path forward. In other news,
a report came out today on how the United States
was able to go into Venezuela and ab Maduro without
being detected by radar. Venezuela has the most sophisticated radar
(11:09):
system in the world, and how did the United States
go in and take out every single one of their
radars without with ease? And I didn't know how they
did it, but this just came out and I found
this interesting, and I think you will too on how
this happened?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
How did the United States pull this off?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
The US completely blind Venezuela's air defenses in just minutes.
Venezuela had one of the most advanced air defense systems
in all of South America, Russian S three hundred missiles,
Chinese radars tech designed to detect and shoot down anything
that enters without their permission.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But here's what they didn't know.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Before a single US jet even entered Venezuelan airspace, the
attack had already begun. Electronic warfare planes from the USS
gerald r F started jamming every radar signal in the country.
Venezuelan operators panicked and cranked their radar power to maximum,
trying to see through the interference. But that was exactly
what the US wanted. By boosting their signals, they turned
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their own radars into giant, glowing targets anti radiation missiles
locked on instantly, taking out the entire network in minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
How did the.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Unbelievable that sounds like AI, Yeah it does, but man,
what a piece of work. I mean to jam all
the radars, So they crank it up to eleven and
then that became, you know, obvious that where the radar
installments were, and they took them all out within minutes. Man,
if I was if I was running Venezuela and my
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radar was taken out in five minutes, I'd be so
efing pissed that I spent all that money on the
radar and the sophisticated system and bang I had taken
out in moments.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Believable. All right, let's let's talk.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
There's some other news going on in in and around
Los Angeles. Nick reiner Is attorney has stepped down. Alan Jackson.
Let's find out what's going on with Nick Reiner, who
has been accused of killing his parents.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Right, I guess it was New Year's What was it?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No is Christmas fourteenth? December fourteenth? Yeah, wow, it's been
that long ago. Let's find out what happened with Alan Jackson,
his Nick Reiner's attorney.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Good morning, As you know, my name is Alan Jackson.
This morning I had to withdrawal as Nick Reiner's counsel.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
Circumstances beyond our control, but more importantly, circumstances beyond Nick's
control have dictated that Sadly, it's made it impossible for
us to continue our representation.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Of Nick.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I wonder why this is. I wonder if he saw
the writing on the wall that there's no way he could.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Have won here, or is it strategic?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Maybe that might might be, uh, you know, might be
You're you're the you know, the brains behind all of
our legal matters.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So if you're on the see.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Apparently he's got a public defender. So yeah, so I'm
not sure how that would benefit him, talk about that job. Yeah, no, kidding,
public defender.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I think he'll be getting a different lawyer soon.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Really, yeah, I think the public defender is a temporary
all right, Well, let's find out some more here.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
Legally, and I'm ethically prohibited from explaining all the reasons why.
I know that's a question on everybody's mind. We expect
the public defender.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
To step in. They've already been appointed and.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
Very capably protect Nick Reder's interests as you move through
forward through the system.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
But be clear, be very very clear about this.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
My team and I remain deeply.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Deeply committed.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Doesn't sound like it, and to his best.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Interests, still doesn't sound like it.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
In fact, we know, we're not just convinced.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
We know that the legal process will reveal the true
facts of the circumstances surround him.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
This case, next.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Case, Yeah, I think we know most of them are
you know, one, he doesn't have any access to money.
If they it was all basically his parents' money. I
don't think he was he had a job or anything really,
so he either would have to hire a new attorney
or some attorney would be looking for some pub like
kind of what Sharon's saying is like, maybe he'll maybe
somebody will do it, gratis.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Maybe, But it is odd that Alan Jackson is stepping
down and yet saying his team is fully committed to
the defense of this guy.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
You know, a lot's been printed of Lake in the
last three weeks.
Speaker 10 (15:58):
A lot has been printed printed about Nick, printed about
his family, printed about the circumstances, speculation.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That's right, that's right, because it's a huge story. That's
why there's a lot of print.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Is in print.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Print.
Speaker 10 (16:14):
On December fifteenth, in the early morning hours, I was
in New York at the.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Time, and I got a call.
Speaker 10 (16:21):
Me and my team we dropped everything and for the
last three weeks we've devoted literally every waking hour to
protecting Nick and his interests. We've investigated this matter, top
to bottom, back to front.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, it sounds like somebody's not getting paid.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
Well, we've learned, and you could take this to the bank.
Is that Pursue it to the laws of this state.
Pursue it to the law in California. Nick Reiner is
not guilty of murder.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Print that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
To print that by sounds angry this guy. What's going
on with this dude?
Speaker 10 (17:03):
We wish him the very very best moving forward. And
that's all I have today.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, something going on there, something suspicious happening there. All right,
we're a half hour away from the special tonight. One
year later, residents in both burn areas are working to
rebuild and get their lives, their homes back together and
navigating the issues and challenges is going to be tough.
LA Wildfires Special tonight seven to nine pm.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You're going to want to hear this.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Six forty Big Special.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
It's going to come on at seven o'clock right here
on KFI a look back, a two hour special hosted
by Michael Monks. Then he'll be on live from nine
to ten pm. So it's a big night here at
at KFI. There's a a lot of great stories that
are coming out of the fire. There's some really sad stories,
(18:05):
there's some anger out there, but there are these little
pockets of great stories and this is one of them.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
There's these three kids that got together.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And informed and uh started raising money to build back
Palisades Pacific Palisades. And their names are Mason Cohen is
one of the kids, and two of his friends, Jake
Yun and Dylan Fulmer, and Mason Cohen is with us.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Mason, how are you, sir?
Speaker 12 (18:40):
Great?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm doing excellent thing. So a little bit about your background.
You're a high school student.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
At PALI.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I supposed say not Windwards School, but I live in
the Palasades, Okay, I grew up.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
In right And how did your school fare during the fire?
Did you lose anything?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Now, our school was in the Culver City area, so
we didn't. However, I went to elementary school with my
two friends called Village School, and that actually burned down unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh okay, So but I'm sure you knew. People are
probably still no people that go to Palisades High and
that was a disaster. The school nearly completely burned down,
and they did take all the kids and put them
into a sears for a year.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I have many friends there, so
they were devastating and I signed to them about it.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, so you've started a raising money at build build
Backpali dot com and you've raised a hell of a
lot of money, over three hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, so it's build Backtali dot org and yeah, yeah,
let we raise over three hundred thousand dollars. We started
right when the fires started. Me and my friends decided
we didn't just want to stay around and we went
to do something back because we knew so many places
as we grew up, grew up going to like the
Garne Cafe and Bead Street, and we grew up getting
(20:05):
karate and we went to school there. We just felt
like we knew all these people that did everything for us,
and we felt like we owed it to them to
help their businesses build back and help them in that process.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well, buddy, I don't know you very well.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean this is the first time we ever talked,
but I can guarantee you that your parents raised you
very well. Thank you and your mom and Dad should
be very proud of you and your two pals. So
the three hundred thousand dollars that you've raised, you're presenting
some of it to some of the businesses that have
been affected.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yes, so we're announcing the first five businesses we're going
to be helping out. So we're going to play on
subsidizing all five of those businesses rent for the next
year as they start or if they're not back yet,
helping their promising their rent once they get back in business.
And so we'll be announcing those first five small businesses
(21:00):
pop shops this Friday at our event.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You know, maybe I'll talk to you about this off
the air. But if you ever want to double that
three hundred thousand dollars, I can take you out to
Santa Anita and we can make that six hundred.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, sir, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Or there'll be a lot of questions on how that happened.
That is great. So how old a gentleman are you?
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I'm seventeen years old, just in in seventeen and I'm
a junior in high school.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh junior, okay, And what are your plans? What would
you like to do. You've got a tremendous get you know,
a talent for networking and raising money and doing the
right thing. What are your dreams and plans in life?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
In life right now, I'm focused on I've been playing
a lot of based offs. I'm focused on taking that
as far as I could go. And then in life,
I was going to try and be like my dad.
He's a businessman and he does he starts companies. I
want to do something like that when I'm ordering.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh that's great, man, that is fantastic. I can't imagine
how thrilled the businesses are going to be. I know
there's a lot of people hurting, and for you to
pay their rent for a year has got to save
all five of those businesses.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well hundred percent. Yeah, a lot of them are actually
so we talked to one of them and they're actually
open right now and they're losing money right now just
to keep the business open for the community. So it
would be a massive help for them. They're very appreciative.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
What is that business? We'll give an extra plug here.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I can't give it out right now. I'll be announcing
the businesses on that day.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Okay, all right, and and please let us know when
you announce them or you know, we'll take the audio whatever,
and we'll all also give them another plug.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
All right, great, that sounds good.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
How do people donate if they want to donate to
your fund?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, so they can go straight to build docpoly dot
orgon a big bunt, says donate, and I'll take them
right to the donate process and they can just fall
the stats.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And so this Friday is the day you're gonna announce it.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yes, we're gonna announce the businesses we're doing to this Friday.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The thanks all live. Okay, Well, please come back with
us after you announce it. We'd love to help out
as little as we can.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, and just for thank you, and just for more context. Event,
it's gonna be about five hundred people and it's sold
out and it's gonna be we're hoping for it to
be a great event. It's gonna as a one year
anniversary of the fires.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh that's terrific. What time on Friday and where.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's six pm to ten pm in the palastade. It's
out of property in the palastages. But it's sold out already, so.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Excellent it's going to be pretty big, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well, thank you for helping out. Congratulations to your friends
Jake and Dylan. Keep up the great work. And you
can always come back here at any time you need
any publicity or you know, you want to announce any thing.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You always got a friend here.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Thank you, sir. What a kid that guy is.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I went out and raised three hundred thousand dollars Mason
Cohen build back Pali pa l I dot.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Org who says this the future is screwed with this
generation coming in.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It is the best generation. What we want to see
more of. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I just got a note from Steph Foosh, how can
I get my hands on some of that money?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Stephooh?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What's wrong with you? God Almighty? Ready? Go all right?
Di that's great.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So once Mason Cohen makes that announcement on Friday, maybe
we'll have that for you on Monday and tell you
what businesses they are helping out.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But to pay somebody's rent for an entire year, that's
a big deal. That's a big deal.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
We're getting very close. We're nineteen minutes away from the
top of the hour and that special is going to happen,
but do you like it? It's coming on seven to
nine pm, hosted by Michael Monks, and it's the Newsroom
and Michael Monks with a one year anniversary special seven
to nine pm. Then he'll be on live nine to
ten pm. Right here on KFI.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
We're about ten minutes away from the special here at
seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You want to listen to that.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
And tomorrow we'll be talking about the Rams and the
Chargers with the Duke of Sports trying to figure out
who's going to win those games. Right now, the Rams,
your Los Angeles Rams, are ten and a half point
favorites on the road playing the Panthers, Carolina Panthers. Wow,
(25:48):
that is a huge spread. That might be the biggest
road favorite in the Super Bowl era. I've never heard
of that before, a team on the road being a
ten and a half point favorite. Ah, that sounds suspicious,
(26:09):
but the public money is on the Rams. Eighty six
percent of everybody who bet on that game so far
is betting on the Rams. Eighty six percent. Now, that
doesn't take into the that doesn't mean that eighty six
percent have taken the Rams. And given the points, there's
(26:30):
a lot of people betting the money line, which means
you get lower odds. But the Rams just have to
win the game. So that's what's happening. So that RAM
game will be on Saturday against Carolina. It will start
at one thirty pm local time, and it's going to
be on Fox Fox eleven. Thank you, thank you, thank
(26:53):
you to Fox for putting it on free TV. The
second game on Saturday, the second NFC Wild Card game
is green Bay at Chicago, which should be a great game,
and that's gonna be on Prime Video, so if you
don't have Prime Video, you better get it before Saturday
(27:15):
at five pm. Green Bay at Chicago. And then on Sunday,
we have three games on Sunday. The first one is
Buffalo at Jacksonville. Buffalo is going down to Florida. That's
gonna be a ten am game on CBS, So thank
you CBS for that free game. Sunday morning. Sunday is
gonna be a great day for football fans. San Francisco
(27:38):
at Philadelphia will be the second game that'll start at
one thirty pm.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
On Sunday. That's on Fox eleven.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And then the third game is your Los Angeles Chargers
at New England and that'll be a five pm game.
You'll hear it right here on KFI and you can
watch it on NBC and Peacock. So that'll be a
great Sunday. And then there's a Monday night game on
(28:08):
ESPN and ABC and that'll be Houston at Pittsburgh. That
game will start around five point fifteen on Monday. So
the Rams are a ten and a half point favorite
to win the game and the Chargers are a three
and a half point underdog against New England.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
John Harbaugh was fired from Baltimore. He was the coach
of Baltimore for the last eighteen years. It's a long time.
Take eighteen years off your current age, and that's when
he started. If you're sixty, he started when when you
were forty two. That's a long time to be with
(28:51):
a team. And we speculated that John Harbaugh is such
a great coach that he probably got a ton of
calls after he was fired, and we were correct.
Speaker 12 (29:03):
So John Harbaugh has been at the helm of the
Baltimore Ravens for eighteen years overing a Super Bowl victory
in twenty twelve, but this morning he is out of
a job. In a winner take all game to decide
the AFC North Sunday night, the Ravens lost to the
Pittsburgh Steelers on a last second field goal missed, failing
to make the playoffs for the first time since twenty
twenty one. Ravens owner Steve Bashatti telling reporters it was
(29:27):
an incredibly difficult decision, citing the eighteen years he worked
alongside Harbaugh, calling him a terrific coach and a man
of integrity, Harbaugh saying the decision comes with disappointment, of course,
but also with gratitude and appreciation such a class act.
While Harbaugh enjoyed regular season success, guys only three losing
seasons during his tenure, it was in fact a different
(29:48):
story in the postseason. In fact, since the Ravens Super
Bowl win thirteen years ago, the team has only gotten
back to the conference finals one time. But Harbaugh should
probably hold off in filing for unemployment benefits, his agents,
telling ESPN. Then, in the first forty five minutes after
Harbaugh was fired, he received calls from not one, not two,
(30:09):
but seventeams expressing interest.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Seven teams called him forty five minutes after he was fired.
So he's going to land another huge job, probably making
five to ten million dollars a year. And I'm sure
there'll be an announcement sometime soon that he is going
to be the head coach of a new team in
(30:32):
the NFL. Who knows where he's going, but and may
he may even take a year off. You know, working
for a team for eighteen years is a lot of stress,
a hell of a lot of stress. And he's got
enough money, he's got enough fame, he's probably got a
beautiful family. Take a year off and then get back
in the game. That's what he'll probably do, although who knows.
(30:55):
Maybe he's a workaholic like his brother, and he just needs,
you know, needs the action.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
He needs.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It's the schedule, he needs that drive to get him
back to the super Bowl. And that's possible that he
does that as well, gets right back into it, and
we make an announcement over the next couple of days
that he's going to another football.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Team in the NFL. That could happen as well.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
All Right, the big special comes up right here on
KFI it's a year later. It starts at seven o'clock.
It's a look back at the fire. The residents in
both burned areas are working to rebuild their homes and
their lives and navigating issues and other challenges. The bureaucracy
(31:41):
is huge and very challenging, and the KFI News team
is revisiting the events of last January and the work
is not done.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
It's not done.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
And you're going to hear a lot of audio that
you heard last year live and you may remember where
you were when you heard some of this audio, So
you're going to want to listen between seven and nine pm,
and then at nine Michael Monks is coming on live
and we'll talk about the special, may even take some
(32:13):
phone calls whatever, but he's going to be on live
from nine to ten pm. So your whole evening is
carved out for you. Seven to nine is the special.
Nine to ten Live with Michael Monks. LA Wildfires one
year later bring stories from people affected by the fires,
the challenges they continue to face, and the path forward.
(32:37):
January seventh, one year ago. Today, we all remember where
we were. We all suffered through it together. A lot
of people suffered a lot more than most of us,
and those people are still fighting every single day to
try to put their lives back to where they were,
(32:58):
you know, back to normal, back to taking the kids
to school in the morning, back to getting your Starbucks,
maybe having friends over to watch a ballgame. All the
things we took for granted that were taken away from
these people with no fault of their own, and they're
looking to get their lives going again. So tonight special
(33:21):
starting immediately right after this commercial break, you'll hear the
special from seven to nine pm. And again you're going
to hear a lot of the audio you heard last year,
and you remember where you were when you heard this audio.
All right, Special coming up next, and then Monks nine
to ten pm Live We're Lives Conway Show on KFI
AM six forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
(33:46):
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'SFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Seven o'clock, we are
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by Michael Monks, presented by kfi's newsroom. In fifty four minutes,
that special will begin, or thereabouts, maybe fifty seven fifty
(00:23):
eight minutes, but you'll hear it right after seven o'clock.
It's like a few more phone calls. I know, there's
a lot of people out there that are still suffering
the fallout of the fires and the damage that was
done to your neighborhood, your family, your friends, your kids' school,
(00:44):
your business. There's a lot of still really raw anger
out there and sadness, And so the least we could
do is let you have an avenue to express your
thoughts about what happened to all of us, especially people
(01:05):
in the Palisades, the Eating Fire area, Malibu, Altadena. They
bore the brunt of all of this. Yvonne in Los Angeles.
You're on KFI. Yvonne, you're there.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, Yello, Lelan can it?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Can you hear me? I can now?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yes, Oh hey, it's actually oh.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Devin, Okay, that's why you didn't respond to Yvonne.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I bet right.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, so thanks for your opportunity. I've been a longtime listener.
Oh family, ever since I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh that's good news. I love that. Excellent. How old
are you now.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
On twenty four?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Twenty four?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay, so when I started, you were not born yet.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I was not born yet.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What do you remember listening to Kala Sex? You remember
the what the hell did Jesse Jackson say?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I do?
Speaker 6 (02:05):
I do?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Indeed, yes, toy with bringing.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That back, you definitely should. Okay, all right, So you're
a resident. You live near La X.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yes, that's right, So I live. I live right near LAX.
I'm in Westchester.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And you have clients that what do you? What business
are you in?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
So I have.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We have a family run in a window washing business.
It's called Squeaky Clean, and we've been servicing the Palisades
area since the nineties. So we've had, you know, we've
had we've had our presence up there. We know a
ton of people who've been affected by the fires. I
would say roughly thirty to forty of our clients have
(02:50):
have lost everything. And it's you know, I'll give you
an example, like one of my clients, he he had
to evacuate his house and he wasn't allowed back in
until it was cleared out, and they left him basically
roasting for months and months, and he had no choice
but to rent a house for with a year long lease.
(03:11):
And just after he got the leaf, they told him, oh, hey,
you can suddenly come back to your house. So now
he's got he's stuck with two properties, and he's dealing
with the financial the financial uh negatives from that, you know.
And you know, I just want to say, it's I
think it's really disgusting and enraging how the city has
(03:33):
handled this response to the fires.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I think Karen Bass, Karen Bass deciding to run again
for mayor, to me, is such a slap in the
face to all of the people who have been affected
by these fires. And you know, I guess my question
really is, you know, is if Karen Bass's house was
burned down in the fires, you know, would she get
priority or would her house been built first? Or was
(03:57):
she get a permit to build again?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well, I mean, but that's what you guys, you know,
you're a resident of you know of the city are
Do you live in.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The city of La Okay, Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, And then you have to you know, you have
to decide, you know, is she competent to run the
city of La And a lot of people have said no.
And you're gonna decide, you know, the primaries. I think
there's a vote in June, and then the general election
is in November, and that's where you're gonna have to decide.
Let me ask you something about squeaky clean.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We had we had.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Called a company about a year ago to have all
of our windows washed. And I thought the bid, I
thought the job was going to come in and around
three maybe four hundred dollars, And the guy said to me,
fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
WHOA, No, that's insane, sounds like a lot.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
No, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You should definitely not be paying anywhere even close to that.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's what I thought. That's what I told him, What
is it?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What does it cost to get an average size house
twelve hundred square feed maybe fifteen to twenty windows.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
What should something like that cost for that?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Just like you said, probably in the range of three
to four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
And that would that would include everything.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
All right, and here's an opportunity to give out your website.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Is it Squeaky clean?
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, so our website is a Squeaky Clean window washing
dot co. And if any of your listeners are interested,
please feel free to reach out. You know, we'll offer
free estimates and if you've been affected by the fires,
we're more than willing to accommodate you, give you discounts
and help out in any way that we can.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Sweet of you, Squeaky Clean window Washing dot Co. Yes,
that's it, okay, but I appreciate you calling. Sorry you
called you, Eyvon. I I can only just all right,
all right, thank you, Devin. I appreciate it. Squeaky Clean
window walk Oh Debbie in New Hall, you're on KFI?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Are you?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Camp? How are you?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I'm doing excellent?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
How are you so you are you attended Pally High?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I did and I graduated.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh wow, come all right recently?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Well no, seventy five actually okay, yeah, so yeah, my
family we lived there in the seventies and part of
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
What a beautiful place to grow up. Huh.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Well I didn't grow up all together there. We were
in the city in LA but then you know part
of my growing up. Yes, it was in the Palisades,
and I loved it there. It was so quaint and charming.
Just a beautiful small village, you know. People just have
gorgeous place every way.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
And my first apartment too, moving out of the house,
was also in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
And I went to Pally High. Just yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So I mean, I actually, Tim, I have not been
back because.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I'm too I'm not a I'm not afraid, you know.
I just I don't know if I can handle. No,
I can, but I just I'm two. I just don't
want to go back yet because but I pray for
all the people you know that were affected and their homes,
and God should bless them with everything they need and want.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Exactly right, all right, W appreciate the phone called Mike
and Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You're on K five.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Killer Conway.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Hey, Mike, how are you?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (07:35):
What up? Gang?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Come on, buddy?
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Hey, first and foremost, thank you for what you're doing.
Everybody at KFI, you guys rock.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's very nice here. So are you in the Pasady
in the area? Were you affected by the fire?
Speaker 8 (07:52):
I'm blocks away from eating canyon. Wow, I mean blocks away,
it was. It was we thought we were going to
lose it all, no joke. When they were reporting that night,
there was a newscaster literally standing on my block. So
we that night when we evacuated, we thought it was
all gone.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
And a lot of my neighbors that's the case, you know,
just a bunch of empty dirt lots for sale, signs.
They can't rebuild, They're just they're forced out. Bro.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's heartbreaking. Yeah, it really is. I used to. I
drove by.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I drove through Eating the Eating fire area a couple times.
You know, left Santa Nita didn't take the two ten,
took the surface streets. And every time you turn a
corner you think, okay, I just saw the worst of it,
and then you see something worse. I just saw the
worst of it. I just saw the worst of it.
And it never gets better. It just gets worse as
you get deeper into that area.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Really, no, it really does. It really does. Beautiful homes
that have been standing for one hundred years and all
that's left is the chimney stack.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And the saddest thing about driving through there is seeing
all the swing sets and the uncle gems that are
on the lawn that you know these kids were playing
on the day before.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean it's and listen,
we get it right, we all live here. We understand
Santa Anas and everything like that. But I mean what
happened that night. I was out there, my niece and
I we thought we could do something by spraying the
house with some water hoses, and as soon as the
water left the hose and hit the house, it evaporated. Yeah,
the winds were insane. There was really these guys, these
(09:28):
women and men who were fighting the fire. They they
really did the best they could. But you know it, uh,
you know, simultaneously after we get evacuated, you know, our
mom gets a diagnosis with dementia. You know, we're living
in and out of hotels. Then they're putting us up
in airbnbs. You know, it took our insurance company a
whole year to replace the attic insulation and clean the
(09:51):
house and painting.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Are you back in?
Speaker 8 (09:53):
I know, we we just moved back in right before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, I appreciate phone call Mike in Pasadena. Thank
you for calling. We're going to take a small break
here and then we're about forty five minutes away from
the special. It begins here at seven o'clock. It's a
two hour special hosted by Michael Monks. You're gonna want
to hear every bit of it.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
KFI AM six forty. It's Conway Show. We are forty
minutes away from the big special here on KFI, hosted
by Michael Monks, and it's the entire KFI News team
revisiting the events of last January and you're gonna want
to hear it tonight at seven p m. One year later,
bringing stories from people affected by the fires, the challenges
(10:45):
they continue to face, and the path forward. In other news,
a report came out today on how the United States
was able to go into Venezuela and ab Maduro without
being detected by radar. Venezuela has the most sophisticated radar
(11:09):
system in the world, and how did the United States
go in and take out every single one of their
radars without with ease? And I didn't know how they
did it, but this just came out and I found
this interesting, and I think you will too on how
this happened?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
How did the United States pull this off?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
The US completely blind Venezuela's air defenses in just minutes.
Venezuela had one of the most advanced air defense systems
in all of South America, Russian S three hundred missiles,
Chinese radars tech designed to detect and shoot down anything
that enters without their permission.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But here's what they didn't know.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Before a single US jet even entered Venezuelan airspace, the
attack had already begun. Electronic warfare planes from the USS
gerald r F started jamming every radar signal in the country.
Venezuelan operators panicked and cranked their radar power to maximum,
trying to see through the interference. But that was exactly
what the US wanted. By boosting their signals, they turned
(12:13):
their own radars into giant, glowing targets anti radiation missiles
locked on instantly, taking out the entire network in minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
How did the.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Unbelievable that sounds like AI, Yeah it does, but man,
what a piece of work. I mean to jam all
the radars, So they crank it up to eleven and
then that became, you know, obvious that where the radar
installments were, and they took them all out within minutes. Man,
if I was if I was running Venezuela and my
(12:46):
radar was taken out in five minutes, I'd be so
efing pissed that I spent all that money on the
radar and the sophisticated system and bang I had taken
out in moments.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Believable. All right, let's let's talk.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
There's some other news going on in in and around
Los Angeles. Nick reiner Is attorney has stepped down. Alan Jackson.
Let's find out what's going on with Nick Reiner, who
has been accused of killing his parents.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Right, I guess it was New Year's What was it?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No is Christmas fourteenth? December fourteenth? Yeah, wow, it's been
that long ago. Let's find out what happened with Alan Jackson,
his Nick Reiner's attorney.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Good morning, As you know, my name is Alan Jackson.
This morning I had to withdrawal as Nick Reiner's counsel.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
Circumstances beyond our control, but more importantly, circumstances beyond Nick's
control have dictated that Sadly, it's made it impossible for
us to continue our representation.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Of Nick.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I wonder why this is. I wonder if he saw
the writing on the wall that there's no way he could.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Have won here, or is it strategic?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Maybe that might might be, uh, you know, might be
You're you're the you know, the brains behind all of
our legal matters.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So if you're on the see.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Apparently he's got a public defender. So yeah, so I'm
not sure how that would benefit him, talk about that job. Yeah, no, kidding,
public defender.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I think he'll be getting a different lawyer soon.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Really, yeah, I think the public defender is a temporary
all right, Well, let's find out some more here.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
Legally, and I'm ethically prohibited from explaining all the reasons why.
I know that's a question on everybody's mind. We expect
the public defender.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
To step in. They've already been appointed and.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
Very capably protect Nick Reder's interests as you move through
forward through the system.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
But be clear, be very very clear about this.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
My team and I remain deeply.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Deeply committed.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Doesn't sound like it, and to his best.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Interests, still doesn't sound like it.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
In fact, we know, we're not just convinced.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
We know that the legal process will reveal the true
facts of the circumstances surround him.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
This case, next.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Case, Yeah, I think we know most of them are
you know, one, he doesn't have any access to money.
If they it was all basically his parents' money. I
don't think he was he had a job or anything really,
so he either would have to hire a new attorney
or some attorney would be looking for some pub like
kind of what Sharon's saying is like, maybe he'll maybe
somebody will do it, gratis.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Maybe, But it is odd that Alan Jackson is stepping
down and yet saying his team is fully committed to
the defense of this guy.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
You know, a lot's been printed of Lake in the
last three weeks.
Speaker 10 (15:58):
A lot has been printed printed about Nick, printed about
his family, printed about the circumstances, speculation.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That's right, that's right, because it's a huge story. That's
why there's a lot of print.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Is in print.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Print.
Speaker 10 (16:14):
On December fifteenth, in the early morning hours, I was
in New York at the.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Time, and I got a call.
Speaker 10 (16:21):
Me and my team we dropped everything and for the
last three weeks we've devoted literally every waking hour to
protecting Nick and his interests. We've investigated this matter, top
to bottom, back to front.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, it sounds like somebody's not getting paid.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
Well, we've learned, and you could take this to the bank.
Is that Pursue it to the laws of this state.
Pursue it to the law in California. Nick Reiner is
not guilty of murder.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Print that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
To print that by sounds angry this guy. What's going
on with this dude?
Speaker 10 (17:03):
We wish him the very very best moving forward. And
that's all I have today.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, something going on there, something suspicious happening there. All right,
we're a half hour away from the special tonight. One
year later, residents in both burn areas are working to
rebuild and get their lives, their homes back together and
navigating the issues and challenges is going to be tough.
LA Wildfires Special tonight seven to nine pm.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You're going to want to hear this.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Six forty Big Special.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
It's going to come on at seven o'clock right here
on KFI a look back, a two hour special hosted
by Michael Monks. Then he'll be on live from nine
to ten pm. So it's a big night here at
at KFI. There's a a lot of great stories that
are coming out of the fire. There's some really sad stories,
(18:05):
there's some anger out there, but there are these little
pockets of great stories and this is one of them.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
There's these three kids that got together.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And informed and uh started raising money to build back
Palisades Pacific Palisades. And their names are Mason Cohen is
one of the kids, and two of his friends, Jake
Yun and Dylan Fulmer, and Mason Cohen is with us.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Mason, how are you, sir?
Speaker 12 (18:40):
Great?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm doing excellent thing. So a little bit about your background.
You're a high school student.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
At PALI.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I supposed say not Windwards School, but I live in
the Palasades, Okay, I grew up.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
In right And how did your school fare during the fire?
Did you lose anything?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Now, our school was in the Culver City area, so
we didn't. However, I went to elementary school with my
two friends called Village School, and that actually burned down unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh okay, So but I'm sure you knew. People are
probably still no people that go to Palisades High and
that was a disaster. The school nearly completely burned down,
and they did take all the kids and put them
into a sears for a year.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I have many friends there, so
they were devastating and I signed to them about it.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, so you've started a raising money at build build
Backpali dot com and you've raised a hell of a
lot of money, over three hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, so it's build Backtali dot org and yeah, yeah,
let we raise over three hundred thousand dollars. We started
right when the fires started. Me and my friends decided
we didn't just want to stay around and we went
to do something back because we knew so many places
as we grew up, grew up going to like the
Garne Cafe and Bead Street, and we grew up getting
(20:05):
karate and we went to school there. We just felt
like we knew all these people that did everything for us,
and we felt like we owed it to them to
help their businesses build back and help them in that process.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well, buddy, I don't know you very well.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean this is the first time we ever talked,
but I can guarantee you that your parents raised you
very well. Thank you and your mom and Dad should
be very proud of you and your two pals. So
the three hundred thousand dollars that you've raised, you're presenting
some of it to some of the businesses that have
been affected.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yes, so we're announcing the first five businesses we're going
to be helping out. So we're going to play on
subsidizing all five of those businesses rent for the next
year as they start or if they're not back yet,
helping their promising their rent once they get back in business.
And so we'll be announcing those first five small businesses
(21:00):
pop shops this Friday at our event.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You know, maybe I'll talk to you about this off
the air. But if you ever want to double that
three hundred thousand dollars, I can take you out to
Santa Anita and we can make that six hundred.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, sir, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Or there'll be a lot of questions on how that happened.
That is great. So how old a gentleman are you?
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I'm seventeen years old, just in in seventeen and I'm
a junior in high school.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh junior, okay, And what are your plans? What would
you like to do. You've got a tremendous get you know,
a talent for networking and raising money and doing the
right thing. What are your dreams and plans in life?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
In life right now, I'm focused on I've been playing
a lot of based offs. I'm focused on taking that
as far as I could go. And then in life,
I was going to try and be like my dad.
He's a businessman and he does he starts companies. I
want to do something like that when I'm ordering.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh that's great, man, that is fantastic. I can't imagine
how thrilled the businesses are going to be. I know
there's a lot of people hurting, and for you to
pay their rent for a year has got to save
all five of those businesses.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well hundred percent. Yeah, a lot of them are actually
so we talked to one of them and they're actually
open right now and they're losing money right now just
to keep the business open for the community. So it
would be a massive help for them. They're very appreciative.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
What is that business? We'll give an extra plug here.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I can't give it out right now. I'll be announcing
the businesses on that day.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Okay, all right, and and please let us know when
you announce them or you know, we'll take the audio whatever,
and we'll all also give them another plug.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
All right, great, that sounds good.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
How do people donate if they want to donate to
your fund?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, so they can go straight to build docpoly dot
orgon a big bunt, says donate, and I'll take them
right to the donate process and they can just fall
the stats.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And so this Friday is the day you're gonna announce it.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yes, we're gonna announce the businesses we're doing to this Friday.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The thanks all live. Okay, Well, please come back with
us after you announce it. We'd love to help out
as little as we can.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, and just for thank you, and just for more context. Event,
it's gonna be about five hundred people and it's sold
out and it's gonna be we're hoping for it to
be a great event. It's gonna as a one year
anniversary of the fires.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh that's terrific. What time on Friday and where.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's six pm to ten pm in the palastade. It's
out of property in the palastages. But it's sold out already, so.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Excellent it's going to be pretty big, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well, thank you for helping out. Congratulations to your friends
Jake and Dylan. Keep up the great work. And you
can always come back here at any time you need
any publicity or you know, you want to announce any thing.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You always got a friend here.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Thank you, sir. What a kid that guy is.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I went out and raised three hundred thousand dollars Mason
Cohen build back Pali pa l I dot.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Org who says this the future is screwed with this
generation coming in.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It is the best generation. What we want to see
more of. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I just got a note from Steph Foosh, how can
I get my hands on some of that money?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Stephooh?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What's wrong with you? God Almighty? Ready? Go all right?
Di that's great.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So once Mason Cohen makes that announcement on Friday, maybe
we'll have that for you on Monday and tell you
what businesses they are helping out.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But to pay somebody's rent for an entire year, that's
a big deal. That's a big deal.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
We're getting very close. We're nineteen minutes away from the
top of the hour and that special is going to happen,
but do you like it? It's coming on seven to
nine pm, hosted by Michael Monks, and it's the Newsroom
and Michael Monks with a one year anniversary special seven
to nine pm. Then he'll be on live nine to
ten pm. Right here on KFI.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
We're about ten minutes away from the special here at
seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You want to listen to that.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
And tomorrow we'll be talking about the Rams and the
Chargers with the Duke of Sports trying to figure out
who's going to win those games. Right now, the Rams,
your Los Angeles Rams, are ten and a half point
favorites on the road playing the Panthers, Carolina Panthers. Wow,
(25:48):
that is a huge spread. That might be the biggest
road favorite in the Super Bowl era. I've never heard
of that before, a team on the road being a
ten and a half point favorite. Ah, that sounds suspicious,
(26:09):
but the public money is on the Rams. Eighty six
percent of everybody who bet on that game so far
is betting on the Rams. Eighty six percent. Now, that
doesn't take into the that doesn't mean that eighty six
percent have taken the Rams. And given the points, there's
(26:30):
a lot of people betting the money line, which means
you get lower odds. But the Rams just have to
win the game. So that's what's happening. So that RAM
game will be on Saturday against Carolina. It will start
at one thirty pm local time, and it's going to
be on Fox Fox eleven. Thank you, thank you, thank
(26:53):
you to Fox for putting it on free TV. The
second game on Saturday, the second NFC Wild Card game
is green Bay at Chicago, which should be a great game,
and that's gonna be on Prime Video, so if you
don't have Prime Video, you better get it before Saturday
(27:15):
at five pm. Green Bay at Chicago. And then on Sunday,
we have three games on Sunday. The first one is
Buffalo at Jacksonville. Buffalo is going down to Florida. That's
gonna be a ten am game on CBS, So thank
you CBS for that free game. Sunday morning. Sunday is
gonna be a great day for football fans. San Francisco
(27:38):
at Philadelphia will be the second game that'll start at
one thirty pm.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
On Sunday. That's on Fox eleven.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And then the third game is your Los Angeles Chargers
at New England and that'll be a five pm game.
You'll hear it right here on KFI and you can
watch it on NBC and Peacock. So that'll be a
great Sunday. And then there's a Monday night game on
(28:08):
ESPN and ABC and that'll be Houston at Pittsburgh. That
game will start around five point fifteen on Monday. So
the Rams are a ten and a half point favorite
to win the game and the Chargers are a three
and a half point underdog against New England.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
John Harbaugh was fired from Baltimore. He was the coach
of Baltimore for the last eighteen years. It's a long time.
Take eighteen years off your current age, and that's when
he started. If you're sixty, he started when when you
were forty two. That's a long time to be with
(28:51):
a team. And we speculated that John Harbaugh is such
a great coach that he probably got a ton of
calls after he was fired, and we were correct.
Speaker 12 (29:03):
So John Harbaugh has been at the helm of the
Baltimore Ravens for eighteen years overing a Super Bowl victory
in twenty twelve, but this morning he is out of
a job. In a winner take all game to decide
the AFC North Sunday night, the Ravens lost to the
Pittsburgh Steelers on a last second field goal missed, failing
to make the playoffs for the first time since twenty
twenty one. Ravens owner Steve Bashatti telling reporters it was
(29:27):
an incredibly difficult decision, citing the eighteen years he worked
alongside Harbaugh, calling him a terrific coach and a man
of integrity, Harbaugh saying the decision comes with disappointment, of course,
but also with gratitude and appreciation such a class act.
While Harbaugh enjoyed regular season success, guys only three losing
seasons during his tenure, it was in fact a different
(29:48):
story in the postseason. In fact, since the Ravens Super
Bowl win thirteen years ago, the team has only gotten
back to the conference finals one time. But Harbaugh should
probably hold off in filing for unemployment benefits, his agents,
telling ESPN. Then, in the first forty five minutes after
Harbaugh was fired, he received calls from not one, not two,
(30:09):
but seventeams expressing interest.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Seven teams called him forty five minutes after he was fired.
So he's going to land another huge job, probably making
five to ten million dollars a year. And I'm sure
there'll be an announcement sometime soon that he is going
to be the head coach of a new team in
(30:32):
the NFL. Who knows where he's going, but and may
he may even take a year off. You know, working
for a team for eighteen years is a lot of stress,
a hell of a lot of stress. And he's got
enough money, he's got enough fame, he's probably got a
beautiful family. Take a year off and then get back
in the game. That's what he'll probably do, although who knows.
(30:55):
Maybe he's a workaholic like his brother, and he just needs,
you know, needs the action.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
He needs.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It's the schedule, he needs that drive to get him
back to the super Bowl. And that's possible that he
does that as well, gets right back into it, and
we make an announcement over the next couple of days
that he's going to another football.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Team in the NFL. That could happen as well.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
All Right, the big special comes up right here on
KFI it's a year later. It starts at seven o'clock.
It's a look back at the fire. The residents in
both burned areas are working to rebuild their homes and
their lives and navigating issues and other challenges. The bureaucracy
(31:41):
is huge and very challenging, and the KFI News team
is revisiting the events of last January and the work
is not done.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
It's not done.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
And you're going to hear a lot of audio that
you heard last year live and you may remember where
you were when you heard some of this audio, So
you're going to want to listen between seven and nine pm,
and then at nine Michael Monks is coming on live
and we'll talk about the special, may even take some
(32:13):
phone calls whatever, but he's going to be on live
from nine to ten pm. So your whole evening is
carved out for you. Seven to nine is the special.
Nine to ten Live with Michael Monks. LA Wildfires one
year later bring stories from people affected by the fires,
the challenges they continue to face, and the path forward.
(32:37):
January seventh, one year ago. Today, we all remember where
we were. We all suffered through it together. A lot
of people suffered a lot more than most of us,
and those people are still fighting every single day to
try to put their lives back to where they were,
(32:58):
you know, back to normal, back to taking the kids
to school in the morning, back to getting your Starbucks,
maybe having friends over to watch a ballgame. All the
things we took for granted that were taken away from
these people with no fault of their own, and they're
looking to get their lives going again. So tonight special
(33:21):
starting immediately right after this commercial break, you'll hear the
special from seven to nine pm. And again you're going
to hear a lot of the audio you heard last year,
and you remember where you were when you heard this audio.
All right, Special coming up next, and then Monks nine
to ten pm Live We're Lives Conway Show on KFI
AM six forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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