Michael Monks shared the heartwarming story of adopting a feral cat from Skid Row. Meanwhile, the L.A. City Council moved forward with a proposal aimed at fixing the city’s deteriorating infrastructure.
Temperatures are expected to warm up. In Van Nuys, officers shot a man after he allegedly killed his father. A memorial was held for Burbank Police K9 Officer Spike, who was tragically killed in the line of duty.
The show highlighted how “Foosh heroes” are some of the most humble people around. Kenyati witnessed yet another dramatic car accident involving a vehicle on fire, while Conway joked about shoppers who leave rejected items everywhere—except for the time he stumbled upon a roasted chicken sitting near the tires.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We have Michael Monks who is in studio. Nice to
see it, man, Glad to be here in Burbank real quickly.
Cat check. How's the new cat?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh, she's great, she's been uh with. This is the
first female pet I've ever had. I've only had a
male cat. She's the second cat. We named her dose Coat.
Apparently girls go in heat. Oh yes, yes. And you know,
we found her on the streets of skid Row, so
she's not had a lot of medical attention until we
got our hands on her. And so she's intact as
(00:38):
they say. And when they, let's say, want it, they're noisy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
She pete on my couch. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
She was almost back on the streets of skid Row
last week a while, but it has passed. And let
me tell you something about Los Angeles. Okay, you're okay,
here we go. You want to do the right thing,
you say, cat right, Okay. It needs to have its
you know, situation resolve. I need to have those. I
don't know the ovaries. I don't know what they do
(01:08):
to these cats. But take it in and get its spade.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You can't get an appointment. Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There are shelters all over the I've done the right thing.
I've saved a cat from the street from being breeded
by a tom cat and spreading more kittens across the streets.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You did the great thing. I did the right thing.
I'm the good guy and that's florry right. So I
I not to la though not at all. They make
it as hard as possible.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So you have places that you can go for a
lower cost spade. Because my vet estimated it at thirteen
hundred dollars. What is that this cat can have all
the babies we can fit inside. That's happening. Wow, thirteen
hundred dollars. Between nine hundred and thirteen hundred dollars. Oh,
I thought it was like a forty five dollars operation. No,
it's not the seventies. Oh my gosh, that's horrible. But
(01:53):
there are city and government adjacent organizations that help the
animal shelters and they provide lower cost Okay, so they'll
do it for like a buck forty.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You can't get an appointment. You can't get in anywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I have a request for an appointment for January, and
the city offers thirty dollars vouchers. It's like it doesn't
matter about your incomery and that it's just like I have,
I'm gonna save thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm gonna apply for this.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I couldn't get the voucher because the website does not
allow for you to put your apartment number.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh no, so it does not read is a valid address?
Oh that's awesome. That's so great, Bud. It's all a mess.
Can you talk that dose? Maybe push your a little
towards lesbianism. I wish. I don't know how to encourage it. Yeah,
I don't either, and you know I should be a
video on that somehow. I don't want to google that.
Yeah that's right. Yeah, yeah, you don't want to be
(02:42):
that guy. Yeah, it's already. Get another apartment after that.
It's tough.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, you don't want that in there. But she's a
good kiddy because now she's calm again. But the cycle
apparently comes back every month. I think, yeah, yeah, and
they'll be ping on the couch, screaming at the top
of her lungs.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I saw a friend of mine who's day lives and
Nsino went to visit his dad and he saw two
raccoons humping and the male was being very rough to
the female, and he tried to break that up because
he thought, oh, that that male is raping that other raccoon.
And I had to tell him in the wild, it's
all rape. There's never a movie in a show before
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the act, it's it's violent and always my boycat who
has grown to tolerate her and even want to play
with her a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He's neutered, so he doesn't have anything to offer her
in that regard, but he's curious. I have a video
and I don't know if I should show it to
you since the workplace, okay, because when she was losing
her mind and throwing it back as the kids saying,
she put her legs on his shoulders. So that's great.
And I'm gonna tell you something. I found this little
trollope and skid row. She only has her incisors for
(03:51):
some reason. She doesn't have those little tagy and she
mews like this. She sounds like a crackher. She was
acting like a crack great story. We were having second thoughts, okay, dull.
Last week but now we're back to harmony.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I dose can go, cannot go back to the streets
though you know she was fairal now you've broken her
and now she has to stay with you.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, she has walked around the like it's a long life.
She walks around this loft like she has lived in
the fashion district her whole life.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Buddy, that is so great, But it's a microcosm of
what's wrong with La too. Now they're trying to get
the infrastructure back. What that indicates to me is there's
a problem with the infrastry. Oh, Timmy in La. Yeah,
what part of La?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Every part get In fact, councilman uns Sees Hernandez described
it like this, here we go.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It doesn't matter if you represent the valley, the west
side or the east side. When our constituents call our offices,
they aren't asking for the moon. They're asking for the basics.
They want to know why a tree hasn't been trimmed
in fifteen years, why has the street light been dark
for six months, Why is the legal dumping on their
corner still there, or why the crosswalk to their child's
school has faded away for too long? As a city,
(05:05):
our answer has been. We're doing the best that we
can with what we have. But the reality is that
we have normalized a system based on scarcity. We have
normalized a patchwork approach to public service. We fight fires,
we fill individual potholes, and we respond to the loudest complaints,
but we rarely get ahead of the curve. We are
managing decline rather than managing our infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Wow, so we're talking about preventive maintenance, and we've got
to get better about that, she's saying.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So here's what they've done.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They've voted today to ask the departments, various departments to
put their heads together and really be honest about what
they need to make it better. What do you need
for staffing, what do you need for funding, what do
you need for equipment? But here's the thing, tim you.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Don't have to tell anybody. I was born and raised here.
But go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Do you think in the city the size of Los
Angeles that the price tag to fix all of our
infrastructure needs is going to come in in a way
that you could stomach, not even close, especially when you
consider the years of neglect that has transpired here. How
many street lights are out, how many potholes, exist. How
many neighborhoods are seeing trees and bushes that are overgrown,
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weeds popping out of the sidewalk, the trash, not to
mention the fact that some sidewalks are just completely inaccessible,
like we're dos used to roam around skid row because
of all of the homeless tents in the trash that's
associated with that. And this particular council member who has
beaten this drum for a long time to her credit,
but also take some positions at alienate moderate and conservative
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voters as it relates law enforcement. She was one of
the votes in favor of this convention center expansion. Wish
is going to cost them at least one hundred million
dollars a year. Oh yeah, it's a billion dollar project,
two billion, But because of the way they're financing it
over the next thirty years, it is going to cost
each fiscal year they will have to figure out how
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to pay two hundred million dollars that they did not
have to pay the year before when they were already
threatening the layoff sixteen hundred employees.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And they are not going to make that up with
convention fees. There's no way they're gonna reach two hunred million.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That is just for the cost of the convention center
debt financing. We're not talking about yet. We're not talking
about the street repairs yet. By the way, the fire
department is coming in saying we should probably get some
more resources after what happened in January. We already know.
The police department says it doesn't have enough people. This
is a city that needs so much and there's no
more coins in the cushion.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Okay, here, Michael Monks is with us. He's on every
Saturday from seven to nine pm. I used to live
in Tarzana, and when we moved to Tarzana, I noticed
our sidewalk was buckling and kids were skateboarding over it
and falling, and I didn't want that to happen. So
I called the city and they said there's a fifty
year wait to fix the sidewalk. Fifty years. I said, okay,
(07:48):
that's strike one. The second one, I called up and
I said, you're charging me for two green, two black,
and two blue cans. Only have one of each. She said, well,
we have you registered for two of each. I said, well,
I don't have two of each. Moved in I had
one of each and she said, well, we'll send somebody out.
They never came. Always charged me for two to two two.
That was strike number two. The third strike was and
(08:11):
again I don't like to blame, you know, any one department,
but it was the street had trees growing in the
middle of it. You know, it wasn't it was there
weren't just potholes, but trees were growing in the middle.
Not planted trees, wild trees. And I said, hey, can
you come out and I, you know, help us out,
just cut these trees down. It never happened. I had
(08:33):
to call Dennis Zone personally. I had him in here,
he's a council member at the time, and I said, Dennis, look,
I'm at my wits end. I gotta I'm gonna leave
LA unless I can get any action done here. Two
days later, they're out there repaving. That's what the old
school city council used to do.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, that's kind of what a council woman Hernanaz is saying,
is like the people who will complain the loudest or
Seebele with connections, that's rofluence. You can get some work done, right,
But if you have a long time just a guy
living in the valley, or or just a guy living
in San Pedro. You can't get that kind of attention.
This seems like a worthy goal because of course all
(09:12):
the things that she says is true. Sure, but can
they make it happen? No, they're not any faith. But
and you've now left the city of la You have since.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Left, and so is Krozier. And so how responsive is
your new city? Oh, the new city is a dream.
I mean, with the exception of the homeless problem that
is tough to deal with, but I guess that's all
over the place. I now, we now if we ever
have to call the cops, they're always there within if
it's emergency, they're always there within two minutes, always, and
(09:43):
it's usually three or four cars that show up. And
it's not just because I'm on the radio. It's every
neighbor of mine says the same thing. You know, when
the cops show up, they come in, and they come
in quickly, and they solve the situation. But they get
their asap. They have enough a staff, they have they
have great SERVI look the school that my daughter went to,
Burrows High School in the valley in Burbank. We moved
(10:05):
to that that house so she could go to that
school and it's rated a nine out of ten. And
that school was free and it was terrific. And a
lot of these schools in the you know, the San
Fernando Valley in Los Angeles are rated three or four
out of ten, and that's not fair to those kids.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Someday, I'm going to sober up and I'm gonna get
out of downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Okay, I'm kind of hot, Burbank. I'm hot on Ventura. Oh,
Venture is beautiful? Is that it? Yeah, that's great. It's
a bad commute though from here.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But once you have your candy store, Yeah, that's what
I want. I'm gonna have a little ice cream shop.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You'll be at the beach, a little house above it,
and I'll drive down here and do radio with you.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Dream ah dream, that's the your dream. Thank you for
coming in and thank you. You're the only guy keeping
LA honest and keeping the you know, your foot on
their neck.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Appreciated Supervisor Barker will be my guest this Saturday night,
and we got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And again you're new to LA. It's not just happened
in the last five or ten years. I know people
have been dragged out of city Hall for a while.
We are aware of that man. Since the twenties, that's
the twenties. They've been dragging guys and gals out of
that city Hall in handcuff. I don't regret moving here,
not even a little. All right, rely on cav on. Thanks, monks, Monks.
Every Saturday night, seven to nine.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
It is The Conway Show. We have a warming trend
coming to southern California, and I'm gonna tell you when
it's gonna hit. I'm gonna tell you how warm it's
going to because a lot of people are weather nuts
like I am. So Sunday is when the warm weather
comes into southern California. It'll be seventy five degrees in
the Valley, seventy eight on Monday, eighty degrees on Tuesday,
(11:42):
a week from yesterday, eighty degrees in the San Fernando Valley, Anaheim.
For all you nuts out there who love Disneyland like myself,
eighty degrees next Tuesday at Disneyland. How about that in December,
you're at Disneyland and it's eighty degrees Huntington Beach. You're high.
(12:03):
Next Tuesday, seventy four, it'll be in the late sixties
until Monday, then seventy three, seventy four, seventy sixty eight,
sixty seven is gonna be absolutely beautiful. A little cold
at night, forty seven degrees in Huntington Beach. Sweater weather perhaps,
you know. I don't know. In case, unless you're fat
than you know, you don't have to wear a sweater.
Do fat people get colder or hotter?
Speaker 8 (12:26):
I think generally they retain heat more.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
They do so they don't biology they don't need the
more layers, not as much I would. I understand, you
know who. I read an article because I should have
brought it in. It's like a professional would have done.
But I read an article that these high end stores
for big people, for big men and big women's there
(12:50):
big and tall shops are hurting. Not really, not just
so much the tall but the wide ones. They're hurting
because of ozempic. Because people have that money to shop
for high end clothes also have money to get the shot.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
You know, any advancement in science, technology, health, anything. As
we go through history, there will be losers from the
one end.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, you're exactly right. Yeah, it's it's always you know,
what is the the there's a law like a rule
of I'll have to look dot. But for every year,
you're right, for every invention, there are some you know,
some past inventions or some past traditions that we will
no longer do.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
It's making something obsolete.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah. And then in this case, it's the the very
expensive clothes for big women is going away a really
bad time to open up a tons of fun store
and it's really not a good time to do. All right, welcome,
but it's uh. And also, and I said this in jest,
but I did some research, and I think I'm onto something.
(13:56):
If we have when we have the major earthquake, the
big one in l I I think a little bit
of the blame can go to Ozempig for the trillions
of pounds that we lost here in California. It made
the state lighter, and if it's lighter than the Pacific
rim and the Pacific plates, or make it easier for
(14:16):
them to tuck themselves under the California plate, the eye.
And so we're going to have if we do have
a big one, I think we can point towards ozempic
as one of the causes. Let's look into that. I
think we should look into that. I think it's a
strong possibility we have more crime in the San Fernando Valley.
Another one of these where the kids are trying to
(14:38):
kill the parents. What's going on with these kids.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
Officials have not yet released the identities of the father
and son, but we are learning a little bit more
about the family from neighbors.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Here, a domestic dispute turned deadly. And oh, this is horrible.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I've been here thirty one years and we have never
had anything like this happen here.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, I always hear that, you know, I've been here
forty years, never had anything like Well, you got it now,
you got it now?
Speaker 9 (15:02):
Pretty heavy, neighbor Alexandria Garcia, telling us she knew the
father and son who lived close by in this home.
According to the LPD, both men got into a fight
this morning.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hmmm, that's usually an older son. It's usually not a
fourteen year old. It's usually a thirty five year old.
Let's find out how old the sun is. But he's
usually in his thirties. He's you know, years and years
of very little motivation in life. Dad wants him to
go out and maybe get a job. And then the
(15:32):
you know, then the guns come out, the knives come
out in this case, and then it's game on inside
the house and.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
At the sun the suspect began stabbing his dad.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Ah, here we go. Yeah, the son got a kitchen
knife and he's off to make dad's life, as George
Carlin calls him, life's most interesting guys.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Officers quickly responded to the home.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
When the officers arrived, they heard a struggle or a
fight inside, forced entry into the residence. That's when they
observe the suspect assaulting the victim, and an officer involved
shooting a curd Following that.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Investigators also saying they handled prior family disputes at the home.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah, usually priors before the stabbing begins. Usually out there,
you know, three four times a year, that maybe three
four times a month. And then the assets, the fan
or the defecation hits the oscillation, I think is what
we are legally allowed to.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Say, but didn't provide details.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Garcia said she was aware of the fights there and
that the son struggled with mental illness.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And there have been disturbances here, Yes, that else about
that same thing.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
It's just been arguments, but you really don't know where
it's coming from or who it is.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, that's always unnerving and uneasy when you hear loud
arguments in your neighborhood. You know, with a family with
a mother and father, brother and sister, two brothers, two sisters,
son and a dad. The son and the dad gets
aggressive real quick. I've noticed when the son, the thirty
year old son is arguing with the fifty or sixty
(17:05):
year old dad, that game gets real busy and real messy,
real quick.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I think it was Kenyati Belly, Oh do I have it?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Paula Kenyatti. Two of the heroes that save Steph Fusch's
life were there last night and one of them drove
home and saw a car fire.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
So Kenyatti hub Kenyatti, Yeah, Kenyattie Hubbard.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
He sends me, you know, he left the White House
and he's driving home and he sends me a video
on the freeway there is a accident and the car
is on fire, and he's like, what are the chances
that I leave, you know, seeing Foush right, how crazy
is that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm beginning to suspect him.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
We need to know every time he's on the road
and where.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, maybe he's a firebug, you know, just and it
can become a hero instantly after he sets you know,
the cars of.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
B and he was on the opposite side, on the
other side the freeway, so you know he couldn't stop
and help this one. Man.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I don't know, but I tell you last night and
talking to both those guys, Paul and Kanyatti, those are
two solid human beings.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Yeah, they are really good men.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
They're kind, they're willing to get involved, they're nice, they're private,
they don't want they don't want any attention. We had
to drag him down there, But man are they They
are just two very sweet, intelligent guys. And that Kenyati
has got a great sense of humor. That guy should
do with stand up comedy.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
So you're saying, there's no chance that either of those two,
if they ever had the opportunity again, would go Nope, did.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
My part did that one? No way he jumped They'd
both jump it again. They would I pulled over at
an accident. And again, I don't want to make this
about me, but I'll tell you why it's had. It's
stupid close close.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
The fire department gave me a sticker. I did an
awards thing for them, and they gave me a sticker
that says LA Fire Department on it. And I put
on the bumper of my car, you know, proud supporter
of L A f T. And I was driving on
the I remember exactly where I was. I was on
the one O one north bound right near Calabasas, and
I saw an accident happen. So I pulled over and
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and I get out of my car and a woman
starts running to me. She goes, oh, thank god, the
fireman's here. Thank god the firemans. I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Look at me.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, she goes this this you know, my my husband
is hurt, you know, can you help him? I? Oh,
that's not me. That's a sticker I got. Uh.
Speaker 12 (19:43):
I was.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I was a buzzed at an awards show and they
gave me a sticker. I'm not your guy.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Stop to see and take a look.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I got a high tail and sorry, I hope you're okay.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Maybe you should stop wearing the bomb squad jacket and
they're gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, take all these stickers off.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Go back to your home depot uniforms. You can stop
there too.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I do.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
People, I got stopped outside in the outdoor area where
they have plants and you know, fencings, barbecues, bricks, outdoor concrete,
stuff like that fertilized the inventory. So I do I
know exactly where it. So a woman stops me and
she says, hey, where are the power drills? And I'm like,
(20:30):
I don't work here, but I know exactly where they are.
Follow me.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Took her over there and you put stuff back there too?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, I do? Yeah. Well, the worst place in the world.
And I don't know what it is. There's two plays
that come to mind. Costco and Walmart have some of
the worst, most inconsiderate shoppers around. They'll take something out
of the freezer department and then three aisles later they
don't want it, and instead of returning it to the freezer,
(20:59):
they put it were the tires are that drives me crazy?
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Lazy bones?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yes? Yeah, yeah, literally lazy bones. I'll be lazy bones
put it back and so I collect that stuff in
my cart and I put it back, and I'm working there.
I'm working at Walmart.
Speaker 11 (21:15):
I will find the roasted chickens with the sweatpants, and
you return the.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Chicken into its I don't return hot or cold food,
only bagged food or shelf stable food. But if I
find a chicken at Costco that's near tires, I don't.
I don't take it back to chicken. No, no, because
I don't know how long that thing's been sitting there.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Oh so you're complaining about the people that leave them there,
but that's the one thing that you won't take back.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I will take it to the register, but I won't
take it to and return it.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Oh so you put in your cart and take it
with you to say, hey, somebody left us air.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'm gonna say yes for the air, all right? Yea,
that yeah, off the air. I'll tell you exactly what.
Totally ignore it. But but you know, I wonder if
if I'm the only per that thinks this. But there
was the freezer department at Costco is way in the back.
(22:07):
So if you get hoggan'das if you buy one hundred
and forty eight Hagen Doss chocolate ice cream bars, you
got to put them in your cart. You got to
get to the front of the store, which is at
least five minutes with fighting traffic because you've got people
swimming upstream against you where they know the loop, they
know the rules of the loop, and they're fighting the loop.
And then you got to wait twenty minutes sometimes fifteen
(22:29):
minutes in line, and they got to get out of
the parking lot, which might be another twenty minutes. So
those frozen ice cream bars are forty five minutes from
your freezer. How are they going to survive.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
I'm always fascinated by the different layouts in the costcos
because some of the one, like the one that's closest
to me, It's like the freezer section is is much
closer to if you do the loop to the end
of the loop.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, you're right. They should all be conformed. They should
all look alike. Like the Rowse's is one of my
favorite markets, and I forget if I'm on the Rouse
on Buena Vista or the welse route son Alameda. It's
backwards and so I'm like, oh, where am I? Yeah,
where's the water in this one? Okay? Where the where's
the where's the vod where's the vodka in this one?
Where's the beer in this one? Where's the whiskey in
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this one? Where the shot glass too much? To your section?
Too much?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Okay? How many times are you in a costco? You
have to remind yourself which costco you're in because you
have what you've hit or what you need to.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Right, and and you know, different costcos have different products,
and so when you go to a new costco, it
feels like you're at a new Disneyland, you know, with
new rides. I love it, I absolutely love it. All Right,
we're going to come back and and talk about this
beautiful dog. I want to give them an entire segment.
This beautiful dog named Spike was shot and killed with
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the Burbank Police Department. It is very sad, and today
was at a very emotional send off for that dog.
I went by and saw all of the the flowers
and the treats, the play the toys, the letters. It's
heartbreaking what went on in Burbank with this dog and
with any dog in law enforcement. But I had a
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connection here because I live in Burbank, and so I
feel the vibe of Burbank and it's hurting over this dog,
especially the kids.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It is The Conway Show. On November twenty second, two
weeks ago, officers conducted a traffic stop near the I
five Freeway, the on ramp there Buena Vista and the
five Freeway, and a passenger fled on foot into a
nearby residential area, and there was a coordinator search involving helicopters,
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canine units, and the canine that showed up from Burbank.
I think he's one of two canine officers. His name
is Spike, located the arms suspect hiding in thick brush,
and the suspect opened fire, fatally wounding Spike, the dog,
killing him even though the canine was wearing a specialized
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bulletproof vest, which they I think they all do. Spike
was rushed to the emergency room and did not survive
his injuries. And the dog doesn't know what happened. You know,
the dog doesn't know why he can't walk or run
or eat, or where the pain is coming from. They
just they're puzzled as to why they can't move. You know,
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they're paralyzed. But when they when in this case, when
Spike got shot and he didn't deserve this. You know,
he's a he's an officer like all the other officers
on Burbank Police Department. He's an equally as important as
all of these officers. And he was shot and killed.
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And I went over to see the memorial and it's
really emotion it's really really sad. There's a lot of
dog beds there, there's treats and toys. There's a beautiful
chalk drawing there. I don't remember the woman's name, but
I saw her drawing there and she was there for hours,
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probably five or six hours one day. Left all our
equipment came by back the next day and finished it.
There's beautiful flower arrangements there for Spike, and there's a
lot of notes from kids, and it's really emotional to
see it, really is. That was today in Burbank. They
closed down all the streets in front of the Police Department,
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which is I think in the same building as the
fire department, which is across from City Services. And Michael
Hastings spoke. He's I have a connection with Michael Hastings.
He's in charge of the police I think at Police
Protective League. I'm probably screwing that up. But he raises
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money to help police officers and their families in Burbank.
And my connection with Michael Hastings is that his dad
was one of the stars of Michal's Navy, and so
I've known him my whole life. And I just recently
found out that his mom was my godmother my whole life.
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I didn't know that. I didn't know I had a
godmother until about five years ago. And Michael Hastings does
a beautiful job raising money and awareness, never takes his salary,
never complains, and is always helping out law enforcement in Burbank.
I think if there's any one guy who's a champion
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of law enforcement in Burbank, it's Michael Hastings, beautiful man.
So let me play this for you. It's very sad
to see a dog like this, you know, who obviously
absolutely saved a human's life, and they honored this dog, Spike,
and rightfully. So this is a beautiful, beautiful animal and
a great officer.
Speaker 13 (28:02):
Spikes a hero because he gave the ultimate sacrifice to
protect his partner and other officers that night. But the
department says behind Spike's canine badge was just a good
boy who wanted to make his people, especially his partner, proud.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Spike, You're.
Speaker 14 (28:19):
Great boy.
Speaker 13 (28:20):
An emotional tribute to a courageous canine cop.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
You gave this community absolutely everything you had, and your
legacy will remain with us always.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
The City of Burbank honoring Spike, known for his bravery, loyalty,
and love. Skyfive overhead the procession from the Burbank Animal Shelter.
The dog's flag draped body brought into the police department
for the last time. A crowd, including officers and their
dogs from all over southern California stood watch, remembering Spike's
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actions and impact. The department grateful for the support from
those grieving this loss.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And it just shows how tight knit this this comedian
city of Burbanking is.
Speaker 13 (29:01):
On November twenty second, Spike was shot and killed by
a suspect running from a traffic stop. The four year
old Belgian Malin was spent just under two years with
the department. The canine was a dependable partner, catching bad
guys and going into dangerous situations ahead of others.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
He's a good point, a bond built on countless hours
of training. Only other handlers can understand all of.
Speaker 12 (29:23):
Our partners, our Canaan partners with us more than with
our own families. So it's very hard when one of
us loses one of our partners. It's hard. We send
these dogs into places that we wouldn't want to go
as a human, and it's just what we live with
every day, knowing we may not bring them home.
Speaker 13 (29:39):
Spike wasn't just a police canine. He was a beloved
member of the family. Burbank's police chiefs spoke on behalf
of Spike's partner, Officer Corey Sallas.
Speaker 14 (29:48):
His passing has left an unimaginable void in our hearts
that can never truly be filled. When you think of Spike,
please remember him.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
As the that he is.
Speaker 14 (30:01):
Rest easy or Dear Spikey, you will always be loved
and forever missed, And.
Speaker 13 (30:07):
The department says spike service serves as a testament to
the dedication, discipline in heart that define a true police
canine in Burbank.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Sarah Welch KTLA five News, I.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Hope they have a statue eventually for that dog. That
would be great, But his handler, the guy that handles Spike,
could not show up, I imagine because he was just
too emotional, still emotional over this and probably will be
for a long time, and those handlers might need help
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getting over something like that. I mean it is. You know,
when you lose your dog, it's a big deal. When
you see your dog get shot and killed in front
of you, that's even a bigger deal. That's a bigger
and major, major laws for Burbank. But I hope they
do get a maybe a life size bust or a
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bronze bust of that dog at the police department. He
absolutely deserves it. God bless that dog. It's Conway Show,
The Cafie.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
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can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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It's camp I am sixty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
We have Michael Monks who is in studio. Nice to
see it, man, Glad to be here in Burbank real quickly.
Cat check. How's the new cat?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh, she's great, she's been uh with. This is the
first female pet I've ever had. I've only had a
male cat. She's the second cat. We named her dose Coat.
Apparently girls go in heat. Oh yes, yes. And you know,
we found her on the streets of skid Row, so
she's not had a lot of medical attention until we
got our hands on her. And so she's intact as
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they say. And when they, let's say, want it, they're noisy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
She pete on my couch. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
She was almost back on the streets of skid Row
last week a while, but it has passed. And let
me tell you something about Los Angeles. Okay, you're okay,
here we go. You want to do the right thing,
you say, cat right, Okay. It needs to have its
you know, situation resolve. I need to have those. I
don't know the ovaries. I don't know what they do
(01:08):
to these cats. But take it in and get its spade.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You can't get an appointment. Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
There are shelters all over the I've done the right thing.
I've saved a cat from the street from being breeded
by a tom cat and spreading more kittens across the streets.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You did the great thing. I did the right thing.
I'm the good guy and that's florry right. So I
I not to la though not at all. They make
it as hard as possible.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So you have places that you can go for a
lower cost spade. Because my vet estimated it at thirteen
hundred dollars. What is that this cat can have all
the babies we can fit inside. That's happening. Wow, thirteen
hundred dollars. Between nine hundred and thirteen hundred dollars. Oh,
I thought it was like a forty five dollars operation. No,
it's not the seventies. Oh my gosh, that's horrible. But
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there are city and government adjacent organizations that help the
animal shelters and they provide lower cost Okay, so they'll
do it for like a buck forty.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You can't get an appointment. You can't get in anywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I have a request for an appointment for January, and
the city offers thirty dollars vouchers. It's like it doesn't
matter about your incomery and that it's just like I have,
I'm gonna save thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm gonna apply for this.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I couldn't get the voucher because the website does not
allow for you to put your apartment number.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh no, so it does not read is a valid address?
Oh that's awesome. That's so great, Bud. It's all a mess.
Can you talk that dose? Maybe push your a little
towards lesbianism. I wish. I don't know how to encourage it. Yeah,
I don't either, and you know I should be a
video on that somehow. I don't want to google that.
Yeah that's right. Yeah, yeah, you don't want to be
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that guy. Yeah, it's already. Get another apartment after that.
It's tough.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, you don't want that in there. But she's a
good kiddy because now she's calm again. But the cycle
apparently comes back every month. I think, yeah, yeah, and
they'll be ping on the couch, screaming at the top
of her lungs.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I saw a friend of mine who's day lives and
Nsino went to visit his dad and he saw two
raccoons humping and the male was being very rough to
the female, and he tried to break that up because
he thought, oh, that that male is raping that other raccoon.
And I had to tell him in the wild, it's
all rape. There's never a movie in a show before
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the act, it's it's violent and always my boycat who
has grown to tolerate her and even want to play
with her a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He's neutered, so he doesn't have anything to offer her
in that regard, but he's curious. I have a video
and I don't know if I should show it to
you since the workplace, okay, because when she was losing
her mind and throwing it back as the kids saying,
she put her legs on his shoulders. So that's great.
And I'm gonna tell you something. I found this little
trollope and skid row. She only has her incisors for
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some reason. She doesn't have those little tagy and she
mews like this. She sounds like a crackher. She was
acting like a crack great story. We were having second thoughts, okay, dull.
Last week but now we're back to harmony.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I dose can go, cannot go back to the streets
though you know she was fairal now you've broken her
and now she has to stay with you.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, she has walked around the like it's a long life.
She walks around this loft like she has lived in
the fashion district her whole life.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Buddy, that is so great, But it's a microcosm of
what's wrong with La too. Now they're trying to get
the infrastructure back. What that indicates to me is there's
a problem with the infrastry. Oh, Timmy in La. Yeah,
what part of La?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Every part get In fact, councilman uns Sees Hernandez described
it like this, here we go.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It doesn't matter if you represent the valley, the west
side or the east side. When our constituents call our offices,
they aren't asking for the moon. They're asking for the basics.
They want to know why a tree hasn't been trimmed
in fifteen years, why has the street light been dark
for six months, Why is the legal dumping on their
corner still there, or why the crosswalk to their child's
school has faded away for too long? As a city,
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our answer has been. We're doing the best that we
can with what we have. But the reality is that
we have normalized a system based on scarcity. We have
normalized a patchwork approach to public service. We fight fires,
we fill individual potholes, and we respond to the loudest complaints,
but we rarely get ahead of the curve. We are
managing decline rather than managing our infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Wow, so we're talking about preventive maintenance, and we've got
to get better about that, she's saying.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So here's what they've done.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They've voted today to ask the departments, various departments to
put their heads together and really be honest about what
they need to make it better. What do you need
for staffing, what do you need for funding, what do
you need for equipment? But here's the thing, tim you.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Don't have to tell anybody. I was born and raised here.
But go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Do you think in the city the size of Los
Angeles that the price tag to fix all of our
infrastructure needs is going to come in in a way
that you could stomach, not even close, especially when you
consider the years of neglect that has transpired here. How
many street lights are out, how many potholes, exist. How
many neighborhoods are seeing trees and bushes that are overgrown,
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weeds popping out of the sidewalk, the trash, not to
mention the fact that some sidewalks are just completely inaccessible,
like we're dos used to roam around skid row because
of all of the homeless tents in the trash that's
associated with that. And this particular council member who has
beaten this drum for a long time to her credit,
but also take some positions at alienate moderate and conservative
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voters as it relates law enforcement. She was one of
the votes in favor of this convention center expansion. Wish
is going to cost them at least one hundred million
dollars a year. Oh yeah, it's a billion dollar project,
two billion, But because of the way they're financing it
over the next thirty years, it is going to cost
each fiscal year they will have to figure out how
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to pay two hundred million dollars that they did not
have to pay the year before when they were already
threatening the layoff sixteen hundred employees.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And they are not going to make that up with
convention fees. There's no way they're gonna reach two hunred million.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That is just for the cost of the convention center
debt financing. We're not talking about yet. We're not talking
about the street repairs yet. By the way, the fire
department is coming in saying we should probably get some
more resources after what happened in January. We already know.
The police department says it doesn't have enough people. This
is a city that needs so much and there's no
more coins in the cushion.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Okay, here, Michael Monks is with us. He's on every
Saturday from seven to nine pm. I used to live
in Tarzana, and when we moved to Tarzana, I noticed
our sidewalk was buckling and kids were skateboarding over it
and falling, and I didn't want that to happen. So
I called the city and they said there's a fifty
year wait to fix the sidewalk. Fifty years. I said, okay,
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that's strike one. The second one, I called up and
I said, you're charging me for two green, two black,
and two blue cans. Only have one of each. She said, well,
we have you registered for two of each. I said, well,
I don't have two of each. Moved in I had
one of each and she said, well, we'll send somebody out.
They never came. Always charged me for two to two two.
That was strike number two. The third strike was and
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again I don't like to blame, you know, any one department,
but it was the street had trees growing in the
middle of it. You know, it wasn't it was there
weren't just potholes, but trees were growing in the middle.
Not planted trees, wild trees. And I said, hey, can
you come out and I, you know, help us out,
just cut these trees down. It never happened. I had
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to call Dennis Zone personally. I had him in here,
he's a council member at the time, and I said, Dennis, look,
I'm at my wits end. I gotta I'm gonna leave
LA unless I can get any action done here. Two
days later, they're out there repaving. That's what the old
school city council used to do.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, that's kind of what a council woman Hernanaz is saying,
is like the people who will complain the loudest or
Seebele with connections, that's rofluence. You can get some work done, right,
But if you have a long time just a guy
living in the valley, or or just a guy living
in San Pedro. You can't get that kind of attention.
This seems like a worthy goal because of course all
(09:12):
the things that she says is true. Sure, but can
they make it happen? No, they're not any faith. But
and you've now left the city of la You have since.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Left, and so is Krozier. And so how responsive is
your new city? Oh, the new city is a dream.
I mean, with the exception of the homeless problem that
is tough to deal with, but I guess that's all
over the place. I now, we now if we ever
have to call the cops, they're always there within if
it's emergency, they're always there within two minutes, always, and
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it's usually three or four cars that show up. And
it's not just because I'm on the radio. It's every
neighbor of mine says the same thing. You know, when
the cops show up, they come in, and they come
in quickly, and they solve the situation. But they get
their asap. They have enough a staff, they have they
have great SERVI look the school that my daughter went to,
Burrows High School in the valley in Burbank. We moved
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to that that house so she could go to that
school and it's rated a nine out of ten. And
that school was free and it was terrific. And a
lot of these schools in the you know, the San
Fernando Valley in Los Angeles are rated three or four
out of ten, and that's not fair to those kids.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Someday, I'm going to sober up and I'm gonna get
out of downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Okay, I'm kind of hot, Burbank. I'm hot on Ventura. Oh,
Venture is beautiful? Is that it? Yeah, that's great. It's
a bad commute though from here.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But once you have your candy store, Yeah, that's what
I want. I'm gonna have a little ice cream shop.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You'll be at the beach, a little house above it,
and I'll drive down here and do radio with you.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Dream ah dream, that's the your dream. Thank you for
coming in and thank you. You're the only guy keeping
LA honest and keeping the you know, your foot on
their neck.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Appreciated Supervisor Barker will be my guest this Saturday night,
and we got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And again you're new to LA. It's not just happened
in the last five or ten years. I know people
have been dragged out of city Hall for a while.
We are aware of that man. Since the twenties, that's
the twenties. They've been dragging guys and gals out of
that city Hall in handcuff. I don't regret moving here,
not even a little. All right, rely on cav on. Thanks, monks, Monks.
Every Saturday night, seven to nine.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
It is The Conway Show. We have a warming trend
coming to southern California, and I'm gonna tell you when
it's gonna hit. I'm gonna tell you how warm it's
going to because a lot of people are weather nuts
like I am. So Sunday is when the warm weather
comes into southern California. It'll be seventy five degrees in
the Valley, seventy eight on Monday, eighty degrees on Tuesday,
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a week from yesterday, eighty degrees in the San Fernando Valley, Anaheim.
For all you nuts out there who love Disneyland like myself,
eighty degrees next Tuesday at Disneyland. How about that in December,
you're at Disneyland and it's eighty degrees Huntington Beach. You're high.
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Next Tuesday, seventy four, it'll be in the late sixties
until Monday, then seventy three, seventy four, seventy sixty eight,
sixty seven is gonna be absolutely beautiful. A little cold
at night, forty seven degrees in Huntington Beach. Sweater weather perhaps,
you know. I don't know. In case, unless you're fat
than you know, you don't have to wear a sweater.
Do fat people get colder or hotter?
Speaker 8 (12:26):
I think generally they retain heat more.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
They do so they don't biology they don't need the
more layers, not as much I would. I understand, you
know who. I read an article because I should have
brought it in. It's like a professional would have done.
But I read an article that these high end stores
for big people, for big men and big women's there
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big and tall shops are hurting. Not really, not just
so much the tall but the wide ones. They're hurting
because of ozempic. Because people have that money to shop
for high end clothes also have money to get the shot.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
You know, any advancement in science, technology, health, anything. As
we go through history, there will be losers from the
one end.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, you're exactly right. Yeah, it's it's always you know,
what is the the there's a law like a rule
of I'll have to look dot. But for every year,
you're right, for every invention, there are some you know,
some past inventions or some past traditions that we will
no longer do.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
It's making something obsolete.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah. And then in this case, it's the the very
expensive clothes for big women is going away a really
bad time to open up a tons of fun store
and it's really not a good time to do. All right, welcome,
but it's uh. And also, and I said this in jest,
but I did some research, and I think I'm onto something.
(13:56):
If we have when we have the major earthquake, the
big one in l I I think a little bit
of the blame can go to Ozempig for the trillions
of pounds that we lost here in California. It made
the state lighter, and if it's lighter than the Pacific
rim and the Pacific plates, or make it easier for
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them to tuck themselves under the California plate, the eye.
And so we're going to have if we do have
a big one, I think we can point towards ozempic
as one of the causes. Let's look into that. I
think we should look into that. I think it's a
strong possibility we have more crime in the San Fernando Valley.
Another one of these where the kids are trying to
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kill the parents. What's going on with these kids.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
Officials have not yet released the identities of the father
and son, but we are learning a little bit more
about the family from neighbors.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Here, a domestic dispute turned deadly. And oh, this is horrible.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I've been here thirty one years and we have never
had anything like this happen here.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, I always hear that, you know, I've been here
forty years, never had anything like Well, you got it now,
you got it now?
Speaker 9 (15:02):
Pretty heavy, neighbor Alexandria Garcia, telling us she knew the
father and son who lived close by in this home.
According to the LPD, both men got into a fight
this morning.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hmmm, that's usually an older son. It's usually not a
fourteen year old. It's usually a thirty five year old.
Let's find out how old the sun is. But he's
usually in his thirties. He's you know, years and years
of very little motivation in life. Dad wants him to
go out and maybe get a job. And then the
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you know, then the guns come out, the knives come
out in this case, and then it's game on inside
the house and.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
At the sun the suspect began stabbing his dad.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Ah, here we go. Yeah, the son got a kitchen
knife and he's off to make dad's life, as George
Carlin calls him, life's most interesting guys.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Officers quickly responded to the home.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
When the officers arrived, they heard a struggle or a
fight inside, forced entry into the residence. That's when they
observe the suspect assaulting the victim, and an officer involved
shooting a curd Following that.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Investigators also saying they handled prior family disputes at the home.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah, usually priors before the stabbing begins. Usually out there,
you know, three four times a year, that maybe three
four times a month. And then the assets, the fan
or the defecation hits the oscillation, I think is what
we are legally allowed to.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Say, but didn't provide details.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Garcia said she was aware of the fights there and
that the son struggled with mental illness.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And there have been disturbances here, Yes, that else about
that same thing.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
It's just been arguments, but you really don't know where
it's coming from or who it is.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, that's always unnerving and uneasy when you hear loud
arguments in your neighborhood. You know, with a family with
a mother and father, brother and sister, two brothers, two sisters,
son and a dad. The son and the dad gets
aggressive real quick. I've noticed when the son, the thirty
year old son is arguing with the fifty or sixty
(17:05):
year old dad, that game gets real busy and real messy,
real quick.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I think it was Kenyati Belly, Oh do I have it?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Paula Kenyatti. Two of the heroes that save Steph Fusch's
life were there last night and one of them drove
home and saw a car fire.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
So Kenyatti hub Kenyatti, Yeah, Kenyattie Hubbard.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
He sends me, you know, he left the White House
and he's driving home and he sends me a video
on the freeway there is a accident and the car
is on fire, and he's like, what are the chances
that I leave, you know, seeing Foush right, how crazy
is that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm beginning to suspect him.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
We need to know every time he's on the road
and where.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, maybe he's a firebug, you know, just and it
can become a hero instantly after he sets you know,
the cars of.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
B and he was on the opposite side, on the
other side the freeway, so you know he couldn't stop
and help this one. Man.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I don't know, but I tell you last night and
talking to both those guys, Paul and Kanyatti, those are
two solid human beings.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Yeah, they are really good men.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
They're kind, they're willing to get involved, they're nice, they're private,
they don't want they don't want any attention. We had
to drag him down there, But man are they They
are just two very sweet, intelligent guys. And that Kenyati
has got a great sense of humor. That guy should
do with stand up comedy.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
So you're saying, there's no chance that either of those two,
if they ever had the opportunity again, would go Nope, did.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
My part did that one? No way he jumped They'd
both jump it again. They would I pulled over at
an accident. And again, I don't want to make this
about me, but I'll tell you why it's had. It's
stupid close close.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
The fire department gave me a sticker. I did an
awards thing for them, and they gave me a sticker
that says LA Fire Department on it. And I put
on the bumper of my car, you know, proud supporter
of L A f T. And I was driving on
the I remember exactly where I was. I was on
the one O one north bound right near Calabasas, and
I saw an accident happen. So I pulled over and
(19:23):
and I get out of my car and a woman
starts running to me. She goes, oh, thank god, the
fireman's here. Thank god the firemans. I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Look at me.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, she goes this this you know, my my husband
is hurt, you know, can you help him? I? Oh,
that's not me. That's a sticker I got. Uh.
Speaker 12 (19:43):
I was.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I was a buzzed at an awards show and they
gave me a sticker. I'm not your guy.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Stop to see and take a look.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I got a high tail and sorry, I hope you're okay.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Maybe you should stop wearing the bomb squad jacket and
they're gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, take all these stickers off.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Go back to your home depot uniforms. You can stop
there too.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I do.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
People, I got stopped outside in the outdoor area where
they have plants and you know, fencings, barbecues, bricks, outdoor concrete,
stuff like that fertilized the inventory. So I do I
know exactly where it. So a woman stops me and
she says, hey, where are the power drills? And I'm like,
(20:30):
I don't work here, but I know exactly where they are.
Follow me.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Took her over there and you put stuff back there too?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, I do? Yeah. Well, the worst place in the world.
And I don't know what it is. There's two plays
that come to mind. Costco and Walmart have some of
the worst, most inconsiderate shoppers around. They'll take something out
of the freezer department and then three aisles later they
don't want it, and instead of returning it to the freezer,
(20:59):
they put it were the tires are that drives me crazy?
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Lazy bones?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yes? Yeah, yeah, literally lazy bones. I'll be lazy bones
put it back and so I collect that stuff in
my cart and I put it back, and I'm working there.
I'm working at Walmart.
Speaker 11 (21:15):
I will find the roasted chickens with the sweatpants, and
you return the.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Chicken into its I don't return hot or cold food,
only bagged food or shelf stable food. But if I
find a chicken at Costco that's near tires, I don't.
I don't take it back to chicken. No, no, because
I don't know how long that thing's been sitting there.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Oh so you're complaining about the people that leave them there,
but that's the one thing that you won't take back.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I will take it to the register, but I won't
take it to and return it.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Oh so you put in your cart and take it
with you to say, hey, somebody left us air.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'm gonna say yes for the air, all right? Yea,
that yeah, off the air. I'll tell you exactly what.
Totally ignore it. But but you know, I wonder if
if I'm the only per that thinks this. But there
was the freezer department at Costco is way in the back.
(22:07):
So if you get hoggan'das if you buy one hundred
and forty eight Hagen Doss chocolate ice cream bars, you
got to put them in your cart. You got to
get to the front of the store, which is at
least five minutes with fighting traffic because you've got people
swimming upstream against you where they know the loop, they
know the rules of the loop, and they're fighting the loop.
And then you got to wait twenty minutes sometimes fifteen
(22:29):
minutes in line, and they got to get out of
the parking lot, which might be another twenty minutes. So
those frozen ice cream bars are forty five minutes from
your freezer. How are they going to survive.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
I'm always fascinated by the different layouts in the costcos
because some of the one, like the one that's closest
to me, It's like the freezer section is is much
closer to if you do the loop to the end
of the loop.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, you're right. They should all be conformed. They should
all look alike. Like the Rowse's is one of my
favorite markets, and I forget if I'm on the Rouse
on Buena Vista or the welse route son Alameda. It's
backwards and so I'm like, oh, where am I? Yeah,
where's the water in this one? Okay? Where the where's
the where's the vod where's the vodka in this one?
Where's the beer in this one? Where's the whiskey in
(23:12):
this one? Where the shot glass too much? To your section?
Too much?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Okay? How many times are you in a costco? You
have to remind yourself which costco you're in because you
have what you've hit or what you need to.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Right, and and you know, different costcos have different products,
and so when you go to a new costco, it
feels like you're at a new Disneyland, you know, with
new rides. I love it, I absolutely love it. All Right,
we're going to come back and and talk about this
beautiful dog. I want to give them an entire segment.
This beautiful dog named Spike was shot and killed with
(23:43):
the Burbank Police Department. It is very sad, and today
was at a very emotional send off for that dog.
I went by and saw all of the the flowers
and the treats, the play the toys, the letters. It's
heartbreaking what went on in Burbank with this dog and
with any dog in law enforcement. But I had a
(24:06):
connection here because I live in Burbank, and so I
feel the vibe of Burbank and it's hurting over this dog,
especially the kids.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It is The Conway Show. On November twenty second, two
weeks ago, officers conducted a traffic stop near the I
five Freeway, the on ramp there Buena Vista and the
five Freeway, and a passenger fled on foot into a
nearby residential area, and there was a coordinator search involving helicopters,
(24:44):
canine units, and the canine that showed up from Burbank.
I think he's one of two canine officers. His name
is Spike, located the arms suspect hiding in thick brush,
and the suspect opened fire, fatally wounding Spike, the dog,
killing him even though the canine was wearing a specialized
(25:08):
bulletproof vest, which they I think they all do. Spike
was rushed to the emergency room and did not survive
his injuries. And the dog doesn't know what happened. You know,
the dog doesn't know why he can't walk or run
or eat, or where the pain is coming from. They
just they're puzzled as to why they can't move. You know,
(25:32):
they're paralyzed. But when they when in this case, when
Spike got shot and he didn't deserve this. You know,
he's a he's an officer like all the other officers
on Burbank Police Department. He's an equally as important as
all of these officers. And he was shot and killed.
(25:54):
And I went over to see the memorial and it's
really emotion it's really really sad. There's a lot of
dog beds there, there's treats and toys. There's a beautiful
chalk drawing there. I don't remember the woman's name, but
I saw her drawing there and she was there for hours,
(26:15):
probably five or six hours one day. Left all our
equipment came by back the next day and finished it.
There's beautiful flower arrangements there for Spike, and there's a
lot of notes from kids, and it's really emotional to
see it, really is. That was today in Burbank. They
closed down all the streets in front of the Police Department,
(26:38):
which is I think in the same building as the
fire department, which is across from City Services. And Michael
Hastings spoke. He's I have a connection with Michael Hastings.
He's in charge of the police I think at Police
Protective League. I'm probably screwing that up. But he raises
(27:00):
money to help police officers and their families in Burbank.
And my connection with Michael Hastings is that his dad
was one of the stars of Michal's Navy, and so
I've known him my whole life. And I just recently
found out that his mom was my godmother my whole life.
(27:21):
I didn't know that. I didn't know I had a
godmother until about five years ago. And Michael Hastings does
a beautiful job raising money and awareness, never takes his salary,
never complains, and is always helping out law enforcement in Burbank.
I think if there's any one guy who's a champion
(27:41):
of law enforcement in Burbank, it's Michael Hastings, beautiful man.
So let me play this for you. It's very sad
to see a dog like this, you know, who obviously
absolutely saved a human's life, and they honored this dog, Spike,
and rightfully. So this is a beautiful, beautiful animal and
a great officer.
Speaker 13 (28:02):
Spikes a hero because he gave the ultimate sacrifice to
protect his partner and other officers that night. But the
department says behind Spike's canine badge was just a good
boy who wanted to make his people, especially his partner, proud.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Spike, You're.
Speaker 14 (28:19):
Great boy.
Speaker 13 (28:20):
An emotional tribute to a courageous canine cop.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
You gave this community absolutely everything you had, and your
legacy will remain with us always.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
The City of Burbank honoring Spike, known for his bravery, loyalty,
and love. Skyfive overhead the procession from the Burbank Animal Shelter.
The dog's flag draped body brought into the police department
for the last time. A crowd, including officers and their
dogs from all over southern California stood watch, remembering Spike's
(28:52):
actions and impact. The department grateful for the support from
those grieving this loss.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And it just shows how tight knit this this comedian
city of Burbanking is.
Speaker 13 (29:01):
On November twenty second, Spike was shot and killed by
a suspect running from a traffic stop. The four year
old Belgian Malin was spent just under two years with
the department. The canine was a dependable partner, catching bad
guys and going into dangerous situations ahead of others.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
He's a good point, a bond built on countless hours
of training. Only other handlers can understand all of.
Speaker 12 (29:23):
Our partners, our Canaan partners with us more than with
our own families. So it's very hard when one of
us loses one of our partners. It's hard. We send
these dogs into places that we wouldn't want to go
as a human, and it's just what we live with
every day, knowing we may not bring them home.
Speaker 13 (29:39):
Spike wasn't just a police canine. He was a beloved
member of the family. Burbank's police chiefs spoke on behalf
of Spike's partner, Officer Corey Sallas.
Speaker 14 (29:48):
His passing has left an unimaginable void in our hearts
that can never truly be filled. When you think of Spike,
please remember him.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
As the that he is.
Speaker 14 (30:01):
Rest easy or Dear Spikey, you will always be loved
and forever missed, And.
Speaker 13 (30:07):
The department says spike service serves as a testament to
the dedication, discipline in heart that define a true police
canine in Burbank.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
Sarah Welch KTLA five News, I.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Hope they have a statue eventually for that dog. That
would be great, But his handler, the guy that handles Spike,
could not show up, I imagine because he was just
too emotional, still emotional over this and probably will be
for a long time, and those handlers might need help
(30:41):
getting over something like that. I mean it is. You know,
when you lose your dog, it's a big deal. When
you see your dog get shot and killed in front
of you, that's even a bigger deal. That's a bigger
and major, major laws for Burbank. But I hope they
do get a maybe a life size bust or a
(31:02):
bronze bust of that dog at the police department. He
absolutely deserves it. God bless that dog. It's Conway Show,
The Cafie.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
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.
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