November 25, 2025 • 30 mins
Mark Thompson fills in for Conway, starting with a tease of a new Dick Van Dyke documentary, followed by breaking news on the tragic death of a Burbank K-9 after a shootout off the 5 Freeway that left the suspect dead. Mark also dives into a bizarre but relatable moment as a woman is rushed to urgent care over a paper cut, the glamorous listing of Liberace’s iconic Sherman Oaks estate, and a fascinating look at an off-the-grid coastal L.A. enclave where residents are redefining survival. A blend of Hollywood sparkle, real-life tension, and unexpected human stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It is The Conway Show, Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim,
who is, as you know, the holidays roll around and
Tim is taking some as they say, much needed time off.
I don't know that Conway isn't a much needed time
off situation.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Frankly.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I mean, I'm just saying seems to kind of float
in here and float out. I think he does a
great job. I call him like the jazz pianist of
radio because he just.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
He finds the pocket.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, you can give him anything, or he can just
find anything and riff his way to mastery. So he's like,
you know, a jazz piano riffer. But the idea that
he would need a much needed arrest, that's all I'm saying.
I don't think it's I would test how needed it is,
(01:01):
all right, That's all I'm trying to say. Well, I
think we started awkwardly, all right, It's not really when
you first.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Piped in, it was a little bit of a quick
ramp up in your voice there. I have to say.
It wasn't like a let's everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We have all kinds of stuff today.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
In fact, there are there's at least one story related
to the holidays and related to health that truly blows
me away, and I'll share that with you upcoming as
well as a major premiere of a film about Dick
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Van Dyke. And it's a sign of the times that I,
of course grew up with Dick Van Dyke. Many of
you grew up with Dick Van Dyke, but I think
those of us who grew up with Dick Van Dyke somehow,
this guy's a show business legend. I mean, he's transcended
(02:04):
and he won two three, four, five projects to be
this kind of entertainment icon, right, And yet what I
lose track of is that there are people who don't
know who Dick Van Dyke is, which is astounding to me.
And one of those people is working on this show
right now. That's right, Richie, who's producing this show? He said,
(02:29):
And I've got this the director of that Ivan Dyke thing. Oh,
come on, Ivan thing he's.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Producing right now. Unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
You know what's funny and what I love about working
in news and everything, I'm learning something new every day.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
What a great spin on it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, I learned who the Dodger guy was.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
What's his name?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Krosier?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
That guy, yeah, about three years ago and yeah legend.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, I have to say that Dick Van Dyke and
Vin Scully in their respective professions might be comparable. I mean,
I think when they start naming streets after you in
Los Angeles, you know you're you're a big deal, and
there are you know, streets named after Vin Scully at
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least one. Vin Scully was a broadcast you know, Hall
of Famer. I mean he may be, you know, on
the Mount Rushmore of broadcasters when it comes to sports broadcasters.
And similarly, Dick Van Dyke would be on the Mount
Rushmore of entertainers. So I'm going to just a couple
of quick follow ups. I don't mean to make this
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about you not knowing something.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I really know.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It's more out of curiosity. Are you familiar with Mary Poppins?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Okay, the original Mary Poppins, though you probably never saw them,
right or did you?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I did the original with the Julie Andrews.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yes, I'm not the one that came out like two
years ago, definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So do you remember that there was somebody else in
Mary Poppins, besides Julie Andrews vaguely, I mean the guy
who was the Chimney sweep. He's kind of a big
deal in the movie, kind of has a prominent role.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, but you know what, I have homework tonight.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I'm going to rewatch it, and I'm going to look
back at him and be like, oh, yeah, I know
what Mark t was talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Right, I'll take things that will never happen for five
hundred please. Yeah, I'm gonna go right home and to
watch that. Mark watch that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Dick van Dyke very big, you know Mary Poppins, JG
Bang bang, all of the you know, the Dick Van
Dyke show legends. So he's turning one hundred, and there's
a movie and documentary about Dick van Dyke, and there'll
be an official celebration of going down. We'll tell you
all about it. That will kick off the five o'clock
(05:00):
hour here on KFI. It is true. The pastathon is
coming up. That is next week, next Tuesday. It is
a chance to rub shoulders.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now. Conway will be back for that, won't he.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, yes, it would definitely be back for that.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Look, we had a kickoff on it on Friday at
the Yorbal Index.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I heard it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It sounded crowded.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
It was one of the most energetic remotes that I've
been a part of. Wow, it was crazy, especially when
we hit right at four o'clock.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Man, it was a coffony of sound.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, it was really something. I heard a bunch of
it. It sounded really exciting.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
So great people, big kickoff for the night. I think
we took in a little over at least eleven grand
just to start the Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, it's one of these things, the postaton of course,
that has you know, germinated through the years and become
a real thing again, substantial momentum.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It was just an idea.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It was just an initial effort with Chef Bruno and
with Michelle Cube and Caterina's Club. Now twenty five thousand
meals a week to kids in need in southern California.
So Giving Tuesday is next Tuesday, a week from tomorrow,
and the entire broadcast schedule will be there at the
Anaheim White House on South Anaheim Boulevard and you can
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donate anytime. KFIAM six forty dot com slash Pastathan one
hundred percent of your donation goes to Katerina's club and
you know smart finals involved, and there are all kinds
of other ways to donate Wendy's Restaurants in Southern California,
But in any case, we'll be there a week from tomorrow.
There is there is news across southern California that is
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bizarre and frankly a bit disturbing. There is a police
canine shot and killed by a suspect. This is one
of those awful situations. It starts as a traffic stop
in Burbank and then leads to a shootout with officers
and before you know it, you've got deaths. Yeah, suspect
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jumped over the freeway embankment wall onto a nearby residential area.
The canine caught up with him, and the suspect fired
multiple rounds, striking the canine. Then he fled on foot.
So I don't need to tell you that that canine
officer is the oftentimes label is applied to canine work.
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Canine rushed to an emergency veterinarian for treatment did not survive.
Spike is the dog's name, described as an intelligent and
devoted partner. Recently had celebrated a birthday The suspect hid
in the neighborhood for hours after allegedly shooting the dog.
Big response from additional canine units, also crisis negotiators. SWAT
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was brought in around midnight. Police say the suspect began
shooting ad officers and hit patrol vehicles that were parked nearby.
So that's why I say it starts as a traffic
stop and before you know it, you've got all of
this going down. Officers return fire hit and killed the suspect,
who hasn't been identified. A handgun required rather recovered at
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the scene. And it's a sad loss of life. This
community in Burbank racked by this kind of incident and
then this dog which had you know, or who had
done such work with the law enforcement officers, Spike loses
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his life. There is a procession held for him. The
word from Burbank Police Lieutenant Derrek Green is, I'll give
you the quote, this is no different than losing a
police officer. These are police officers. It's a dog, but
it's part of our law enforcement family. These police canines
are essentially a partner to their handlers. He served our
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community just like any of the men and women are
serving our community alongside him. We know that the people
that are associated with him and affiliated with him are
really suffering.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Today, there'll be a public memorial for Spike.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
They're still working out timing for now, people that are
stopping by, and there is a memorial that is growing
as people pay their respects for this fallen canine officer.
Ugly incident ended ugly for all concerned. But that of
course really a loss that will linger when we come
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back to me. One of the most outrageous, bizarre and
a bit disturbing stories of the Christmas season and it
has to do with gift wrapping. Yeah, this will blow
you away. We'll have the story next. Mark Thompson here
(10:07):
sitting in for Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I thought you were a back timing that Ollie just so.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It seemed like it was pretty close actually, like that
old old school back time the bot. Yeah, very strong
if I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
APT Mark Thompson for Tim Conway JUNR with Krozier and
the crew. I have to tell you that that song
is from I think I assume that's the Jimmy Cliff version, right,
(10:44):
And Jimmy Cliff passed away, right that eighty one year
old Jimmy Cliff was amazing, big reggae guy. Brought reggae
many a tribute the worldwide popularity of reggae to Jimmy
Cliff one years old. But uh, the was it Cool Runnings?
(11:05):
Was that the name of the album where they that song?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Was that? The song that came back during Cool Runnings
sounds right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And that and that was about the Jamaican Bob sled
team and that re uh emergence of Cliff after that
was really owing to that movie. And uh, he just
was a giant of the reggae genre. Amazing guy. And
you know, the harder they come, you can get it.
(11:34):
Uh if you really want many rivers to cross. And
these are all songs from him. Wonderful World, Beautiful People.
Isn't that a Jimmy Cliff song? I love that song?
So this is a kid who was the product of
a family that split. His parents separated when he was
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just a baby, and the most important relationships were with
his father and grandmother.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He said.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The father was a very, very strict disciplinarian grandmother played
an important role in his life. He said, I was
always singing, but I was told I was singing the
songs of the devil. My grandmother, though, always said leave
the boy alone. He's going to come to something one day.
And his childhood was filled with music, included church music.
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They lived apparently near the Monkey Rock Tavern, which pumped
out music all day and night, he said, and he
called that venue his heaven anyway. Just an amazing guy,
Jimmy Cliff. He in nineteen sixty five he signed with
Island Records and that blew him up, and that's when
Wonderful World Beautiful People hit. In nineteen sixty nine he
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did wild World hit, a cover of that Cat Stephens
song wild World. Even as I'm saying this, I'm thinking
to myself, we just have been through this. Richie doesn't
know any of this stuff that I'm talking about. This
guy was really major, really major, and it's a rich
life well lived. Jimmy Cliff, again, having brought reggae to
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a global audience, dies at eighty one today.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Grammy Award winner.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So this is a story that is bizarro, And yet
I don't know. Maybe there's something to it, the idea
that you could get a paper cut, and I mean
it's gift wrapping season, so in a way you're entering
this really dangerous period. But there is a phenomenon associated
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with a paper cut that then turns into a desperate, emergency,
urgent situation. Don't take my word for it, take the
word of this newsperson who's going to fill us in.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Hard to believe this woman's right and swollen hand is
from a paper cut.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
And it looked like Sunday's ham.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You know, it was really icky looking.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
Could you believe that that big of an infection happened
from simply a paper cut?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It had to have like happened so fast.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I've never had anything like that happened before ever.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Melinda Howard says she was breaking down cardboard boxes for
recycling after moving into a new house in Mississippi when
she nicked her hand. We had mountains the cardboard boxes
in our living room, and I was really tired of
looking at him.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
One of them just cut me just right.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Didn't think much of it, not at all.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's a common enough occurrence to get it cut.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
The sixty three year old Ultra marathoner wrapped her hands
with a bandage. A week later, my head started hurting
and I showed my husband.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
He's like, oh, holy cow, that's bad.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
So he about stuffed me into the car and away
we went to urgent care.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
It's a warning to be extra careful about paper cuts
this holiday season one wrapping and unwrapping gifts. But what
makes Melinda's infection so severe is that for years she
had been taking the steroid preadmozone, a commonly prescribed medication
to reduce inflammation. But one side effect it thins the skin.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
My skin, well, thins the skin, and I think it
also can you step it for a second or no?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Once we started, we can't stand it. The pread zone.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I think side effect also is it reduces your immune efficiency.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I mean, I think you become more susceptible to infection.
I you know, check me on that, but I'm pretty
sure that that's right anyway. So she's a long time
user of breadnisone forr Andy. I think it's one of
those powerful andi in planmatories. There is anyway back to
the story, Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
My skin is like somebody in their eighties.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
It tears easily and gets cut easily.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
This is what Melinda's hand looks like today. It's healing
up nicely.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
It looks great.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, it looks great, feels like it could be a
drop that so it has a happy ending. People have
been asking me how my hand is doing. I think
it's doing better, she said. She posted this on social media.
This is where everybody shares all of their medical problems
on her x account. The swelling is pretty much gone.
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It is red, The scabs are gone. The redness is
much better than it was. It's kind of muted. My
rings spin on my fingers again. This makes me very happy.
She does seem like one of those happy people. I
have to say, so maybe you know that happiness comes
from within and helps the curative power of attitude. Anyway,
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that is our big segment on paper cuts everyone, and
I want you all to both stay in wonderment also
take it as a cautionary tale. And I'm glad it
took every engineer in the iHeart building to put the
GD thing on the radio. Excellent, all right, when we
come back, there's where what is that? What is that?
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That is that is that is that the only thing
that's the only thing this computer can play. Rich Y
can't ring those engineers back? All right, I am sixty.
It is the Conway Show, Thompson sitting in for now.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior here with the Krozier
and the crew. Richie is producing today. Is Angel doing
traffic today or she's uh no, Mike Morris, Mike Morris
on traffic. I just got a note that you need
a little background on this, but uh Courtney, just me
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a note that this is an exclamation point. Liberaci's house
is for sale. It's in the valley now, Liberaci. Richie
wouldn't know liber Rocci. Liberaci was this Richard Richie, do
you know who Liberacci was?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I just hurt him in the hallway.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I went down the hallway. I can take a message
for him.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
God, it's unbelievable. It's really like you. I remeb remember
when producers just to actually be in you know, and yeah,
he's in the hallway.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
He said no.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Anyway, Liberaci was this over the top pianist who was
made famous because he kind of brought playing the piano
into the mainstream because he was so over the top
with you know, this candelabra. He'd put on the piano
and he dressed in these wild outfits and he'd drive
on stage and some golden crusted rolls.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Royce, I wish my brother George was here.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah he was that he tacked like that kind of
you can call me Lee. Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It was a Ryan Murphy thing, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Michael Douglas the Candelabra, And yeah, it was on LBO.
Really good. It was super It was super good. And
I had a viewing party for that. I wish. I
don't think I knew you then, and I had a
lot of people. There was a real big party because
I'm a huge Liberachi fan, okay, so uh and I
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went and they used to they used to be a
Liberaci museum in Las Vegas. And I took my girlfriend
at the time in one of her friends. We went
to the Liberaci Museum and like they were. The way
it was broken up was they were into the one part,
which was all his outfits. He had like multiply these
incredible outfits, all of them jeweled and crusted and you know,
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I mean just you know, insane, over the top outfits.
And the other part of the museum was the cars.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He had.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
All of these cars, it would think Leno's garage, but
if everything had been this over the top, you know,
roles with you know, Emerald lining, the hub gaps, and
I mean it was just the most bizarro and yet
fascinating dynamic to this guy. And then I think the
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central part before you get into those two was kind
of like an overview of Liberacci's life and how he
was brought up and all this kind of thing. So
the one thing I always liked about Liberacci was that
he seemed into like donating a lot of money to
music and to help young musicians, and that's what the
museum was dedicated to, was that funding. So anyway, his house,
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I think he had two homes at minimum, one in
the valley and the other in Palm Springs. His place
in Palm Springs is maybe it's a visitors center now
or maybe somebody lives there.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But the place in the valley is in Sherman Oaks
and it's for sale now. And Courtney just sent me
this saying, Liberaci's houses for sale, four bedrooms, four baths,
almost four thousand square feet and a swimming pool, shaped
as a Russier, a violin it shaped as a piano
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with the piano keys there as well. But apart from that,
I'm looking at the pictures.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
It doesn't look ostentatious.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It doesn't look liberaci ish exactly. There's nothing at all
Liberaci about the place.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And the man could flat out play too, yeah, like
he really could play.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, but he and he really just sold it. I mean,
if you I mean, it's really what. No, he wasn't straight?
Who says I don't? I first of all, you have
no way of knowing that, and secondly, I'd like to
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be sure of that before you go further. But it
doesn't matter to me, But I guess a confirmation please, Yeah,
it doesn't. I don't care, but I'm just saying it.
It's kind of I don't know what makes you say
that anyway. Guess the asking price for Liberachi's home in
Sherman Oaks, four bedrooms, four bath, thirty nine seven is
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the square footage?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Kroze four two m good guess, but a million high?
They want three five, they want three to two. You're
almost your you know, just a million off. It may
end up going for four to two, but it's on.
It's on the market everyone, all you Liberachi fans. You
can get yourself a piece of of Lee in Sherman
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Oaks when we come back. One of the largest off
the grid communities is right here in suburban LA. I'll
tell you about it next. It's the Conway Show Thompson
sitting in.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
You're listening to tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
A Mark Thompson for tim Conway Junior the Holidays. It's
a big I don't know what that is that? Do
you guys hear that? Or is that?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Am I having a stroke right now?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
That's on? It's on my side? Is it all right?
I don't know how to shot on sit. I didn't
set this thing up. So first of all, I'd like
to throw myself on the mercy of the court Richie.
Is Richie still in the building or has he gone
home to watch Mary Poppins.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I just got back from watching Mary Poppins.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Okay, can you come in and stop this thing from
making that sound? Okay? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
One of the largest off the grid communities, by the way,
it is k IF. I am six forty. If I
didn't say it. We're life everywhere in the iHeart Radio.
More about the Apostathon in the next hour, and more
on Dick van Dyke and his one hundredth birthday in
just a few minutes with the director of the new
documentary about Dick van Dyke. But the community I'm talking
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about that is right here in La that is living
off the grid, has sort of been forced to live
off the grid. It's the Rancho Polos Verdi's Portuguese Bend neighborhood.
But this is one of the largest off the grid
communities in all of America. And it's that way because
public utilities stop providing any service because of the landslide movement.
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You know, this is all because of these problems that
have resulted from the land moving. It's all, as you know,
because of the soaking rains and they've had to essentially
drain these hillsides on a continuing basis in order to
prevent the land from shifting and moving any further. But
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because of that, because of that land movement, utilities are
saying we can't service the area anymore. And so you've got,
as one person put it to the president of the
Portuguese ben Community, association. He said, we've got one hundred
plus homes here acting like we're out in the middle
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of the Mohave Desert. We're doing what we can to
stay in our homes. These people have, you know, great
investments that community. You know, that's a really special community
in la But what they're doing now in this sort
of off the grid way is they are powering their
homes through solar and increased rainfall has led to more
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ground water and they've had to build this. Essentially, it's
a complex of these drainage systems there to keep the
land from moving. This is a slow moving landslide of
one sort or another. That's so many of these homes
are having to deal with. So after wet seasons, this
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community trying to hang on is power itself through solar
and then these dewatering wells that are running all the
time to extend drain the hillside of water. They are
run off of pro pane power generators, but it's expensive
and the city is running out of money, so they
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break down.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's hard to run them all the time.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's expensive and restoring electricity apparently is one of their
big challenges for this area since last September when Edison
cut the electricity. The district has spent about two hundred
and thirty five thousand dollars on generators for this area
again off the grid. This Rancho Palace Verities Portuguese Bend
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area fuel maintenance two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars
since last September. I mean, in the past it's been
out thirty six thousand for grid power to electricity, but
Edison is saying we can't safely restore power because of
the land movement. The infrastructure damage can cause all of
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our systems to fail. There could be a fire danger,
other public safety hazards, so they're sort of at a standoff.
So this is a back and forth in this community
that certainly will see some kind of resolution. But right
now there are certain very active sections of this landslide,
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mostly in the Portugee Portuguese Bend community. There's movement of
about two inches a week according to the city's latest data,
and that's well above what it should be. I mean, historically,
the problem likely won't get any better. And the city
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of Rancho Palace Verity is also operating these off the
grid dewatering wells and they have been able to run
them constantly, but it's been a strain on their budget.
In the last fiscal year, the city spent one point
seven million dollars on generators in fuel just to keep
those pumping. And that's on top of the one hundred
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and fifty thousand dollars for generators that power the sewer system.
I mean, you know, you realize what goes into a community.
It's a lot of different stuff, all of which has
to operate. So they're trying to navigate all of this
and hopefully get power back on and restored to this
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area because right now they really are living in an
off the grid way and Southern California Edison is giving
them thresholds that they have to meet and hit in
order to get power restored, and Southern California Gas has
not even indicated what would take to establish any kind
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of restoration of gas service. So again, parts of the
area around the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palace Verites
are getting restoration of some of these services, and I'm
sure that gives the residents there a little bit of hope.
But this is an extraordinary situation, it really is, and
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it's happening right here in southern California. You know what
this is like, It's a little like what's going on
in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. They don't have a lot
of that infrastructure re establish either. You know, Puerto Rico
had issues with the hurricane and they're still trying to
get dependable electricity eight years after that hurricane wiped out
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a bunch of their grid. So again, this is a
well healed community, or a fairly well healed community, but
now it is strained beyond what the community can likely
tolerate for any length of time. And as they say,
it's happening right in our backyard in the Rancho Palace Verdes,
Portuguese Bend neighborhood. When we come back, Richie's favorite entertainer
(30:10):
is featured in a new documentary, Dick van dijk O
rich Richie settled Down, Settle down.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Excited, Yes, settle down.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's his one hundredth birthday and there's a new documentary
out all about it. As we continue, the director joins
us next Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
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 iHeart Radio app.
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It is The Conway Show, Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim,
who is, as you know, the holidays roll around and
Tim is taking some as they say, much needed time off.
I don't know that Conway isn't a much needed time
off situation.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Frankly.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I mean, I'm just saying seems to kind of float
in here and float out. I think he does a
great job. I call him like the jazz pianist of
radio because he just.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
He finds the pocket.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, you can give him anything, or he can just
find anything and riff his way to mastery. So he's like,
you know, a jazz piano riffer. But the idea that
he would need a much needed arrest, that's all I'm saying.
I don't think it's I would test how needed it is,
(01:01):
all right, That's all I'm trying to say. Well, I
think we started awkwardly, all right, It's not really when
you first.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Piped in, it was a little bit of a quick
ramp up in your voice there. I have to say.
It wasn't like a let's everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We have all kinds of stuff today.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
In fact, there are there's at least one story related
to the holidays and related to health that truly blows
me away, and I'll share that with you upcoming as
well as a major premiere of a film about Dick
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Van Dyke. And it's a sign of the times that I,
of course grew up with Dick Van Dyke. Many of
you grew up with Dick Van Dyke, but I think
those of us who grew up with Dick Van Dyke somehow,
this guy's a show business legend. I mean, he's transcended
(02:04):
and he won two three, four, five projects to be
this kind of entertainment icon, right, And yet what I
lose track of is that there are people who don't
know who Dick Van Dyke is, which is astounding to me.
And one of those people is working on this show
right now. That's right, Richie, who's producing this show? He said,
(02:29):
And I've got this the director of that Ivan Dyke thing. Oh,
come on, Ivan thing he's.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Producing right now. Unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
You know what's funny and what I love about working
in news and everything, I'm learning something new every day.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
What a great spin on it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, I learned who the Dodger guy was.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
What's his name?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Krosier?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
That guy, yeah, about three years ago and yeah legend.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, I have to say that Dick Van Dyke and
Vin Scully in their respective professions might be comparable. I mean,
I think when they start naming streets after you in
Los Angeles, you know you're you're a big deal, and
there are you know, streets named after Vin Scully at
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least one. Vin Scully was a broadcast you know, Hall
of Famer. I mean he may be, you know, on
the Mount Rushmore of broadcasters when it comes to sports broadcasters.
And similarly, Dick Van Dyke would be on the Mount
Rushmore of entertainers. So I'm going to just a couple
of quick follow ups. I don't mean to make this
(03:47):
about you not knowing something.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I really know.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It's more out of curiosity. Are you familiar with Mary Poppins?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Okay, the original Mary Poppins, though you probably never saw them,
right or did you?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I did the original with the Julie Andrews.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yes, I'm not the one that came out like two
years ago, definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So do you remember that there was somebody else in
Mary Poppins, besides Julie Andrews vaguely, I mean the guy
who was the Chimney sweep. He's kind of a big
deal in the movie, kind of has a prominent role.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, but you know what, I have homework tonight.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I'm going to rewatch it, and I'm going to look
back at him and be like, oh, yeah, I know
what Mark t was talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Right, I'll take things that will never happen for five
hundred please. Yeah, I'm gonna go right home and to
watch that. Mark watch that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Dick van Dyke very big, you know Mary Poppins, JG
Bang bang, all of the you know, the Dick Van
Dyke show legends. So he's turning one hundred, and there's
a movie and documentary about Dick van Dyke, and there'll
be an official celebration of going down. We'll tell you
all about it. That will kick off the five o'clock
(05:00):
hour here on KFI. It is true. The pastathon is
coming up. That is next week, next Tuesday. It is
a chance to rub shoulders.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now. Conway will be back for that, won't he.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, yes, it would definitely be back for that.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Look, we had a kickoff on it on Friday at
the Yorbal Index.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I heard it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It sounded crowded.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
It was one of the most energetic remotes that I've
been a part of. Wow, it was crazy, especially when
we hit right at four o'clock.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Man, it was a coffony of sound.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, it was really something. I heard a bunch of
it. It sounded really exciting.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
So great people, big kickoff for the night. I think
we took in a little over at least eleven grand
just to start the Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, it's one of these things, the postaton of course,
that has you know, germinated through the years and become
a real thing again, substantial momentum.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It was just an idea.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It was just an initial effort with Chef Bruno and
with Michelle Cube and Caterina's Club. Now twenty five thousand
meals a week to kids in need in southern California.
So Giving Tuesday is next Tuesday, a week from tomorrow,
and the entire broadcast schedule will be there at the
Anaheim White House on South Anaheim Boulevard and you can
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donate anytime. KFIAM six forty dot com slash Pastathan one
hundred percent of your donation goes to Katerina's club and
you know smart finals involved, and there are all kinds
of other ways to donate Wendy's Restaurants in Southern California,
But in any case, we'll be there a week from tomorrow.
There is there is news across southern California that is
(06:41):
bizarre and frankly a bit disturbing. There is a police
canine shot and killed by a suspect. This is one
of those awful situations. It starts as a traffic stop
in Burbank and then leads to a shootout with officers
and before you know it, you've got deaths. Yeah, suspect
(07:07):
jumped over the freeway embankment wall onto a nearby residential area.
The canine caught up with him, and the suspect fired
multiple rounds, striking the canine. Then he fled on foot.
So I don't need to tell you that that canine
officer is the oftentimes label is applied to canine work.
(07:37):
Canine rushed to an emergency veterinarian for treatment did not survive.
Spike is the dog's name, described as an intelligent and
devoted partner. Recently had celebrated a birthday The suspect hid
in the neighborhood for hours after allegedly shooting the dog.
Big response from additional canine units, also crisis negotiators. SWAT
(07:59):
was brought in around midnight. Police say the suspect began
shooting ad officers and hit patrol vehicles that were parked nearby.
So that's why I say it starts as a traffic
stop and before you know it, you've got all of
this going down. Officers return fire hit and killed the suspect,
who hasn't been identified. A handgun required rather recovered at
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the scene. And it's a sad loss of life. This
community in Burbank racked by this kind of incident and
then this dog which had you know, or who had
done such work with the law enforcement officers, Spike loses
(08:45):
his life. There is a procession held for him. The
word from Burbank Police Lieutenant Derrek Green is, I'll give
you the quote, this is no different than losing a
police officer. These are police officers. It's a dog, but
it's part of our law enforcement family. These police canines
are essentially a partner to their handlers. He served our
(09:08):
community just like any of the men and women are
serving our community alongside him. We know that the people
that are associated with him and affiliated with him are
really suffering.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Today, there'll be a public memorial for Spike.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
They're still working out timing for now, people that are
stopping by, and there is a memorial that is growing
as people pay their respects for this fallen canine officer.
Ugly incident ended ugly for all concerned. But that of
course really a loss that will linger when we come
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back to me. One of the most outrageous, bizarre and
a bit disturbing stories of the Christmas season and it
has to do with gift wrapping. Yeah, this will blow
you away. We'll have the story next. Mark Thompson here
(10:07):
sitting in for Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I thought you were a back timing that Ollie just so.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It seemed like it was pretty close actually, like that
old old school back time the bot. Yeah, very strong
if I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
APT Mark Thompson for Tim Conway JUNR with Krozier and
the crew. I have to tell you that that song
is from I think I assume that's the Jimmy Cliff version, right,
(10:44):
And Jimmy Cliff passed away, right that eighty one year
old Jimmy Cliff was amazing, big reggae guy. Brought reggae
many a tribute the worldwide popularity of reggae to Jimmy
Cliff one years old. But uh, the was it Cool Runnings?
(11:05):
Was that the name of the album where they that song?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Was that? The song that came back during Cool Runnings
sounds right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And that and that was about the Jamaican Bob sled
team and that re uh emergence of Cliff after that
was really owing to that movie. And uh, he just
was a giant of the reggae genre. Amazing guy. And
you know, the harder they come, you can get it.
(11:34):
Uh if you really want many rivers to cross. And
these are all songs from him. Wonderful World, Beautiful People.
Isn't that a Jimmy Cliff song? I love that song?
So this is a kid who was the product of
a family that split. His parents separated when he was
(11:57):
just a baby, and the most important relationships were with
his father and grandmother.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He said.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The father was a very, very strict disciplinarian grandmother played
an important role in his life. He said, I was
always singing, but I was told I was singing the
songs of the devil. My grandmother, though, always said leave
the boy alone. He's going to come to something one day.
And his childhood was filled with music, included church music.
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They lived apparently near the Monkey Rock Tavern, which pumped
out music all day and night, he said, and he
called that venue his heaven anyway. Just an amazing guy,
Jimmy Cliff. He in nineteen sixty five he signed with
Island Records and that blew him up, and that's when
Wonderful World Beautiful People hit. In nineteen sixty nine he
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did wild World hit, a cover of that Cat Stephens
song wild World. Even as I'm saying this, I'm thinking
to myself, we just have been through this. Richie doesn't
know any of this stuff that I'm talking about. This
guy was really major, really major, and it's a rich
life well lived. Jimmy Cliff, again, having brought reggae to
(13:18):
a global audience, dies at eighty one today.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Grammy Award winner.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So this is a story that is bizarro, And yet
I don't know. Maybe there's something to it, the idea
that you could get a paper cut, and I mean
it's gift wrapping season, so in a way you're entering
this really dangerous period. But there is a phenomenon associated
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with a paper cut that then turns into a desperate, emergency,
urgent situation. Don't take my word for it, take the
word of this newsperson who's going to fill us in.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Hard to believe this woman's right and swollen hand is
from a paper cut.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
And it looked like Sunday's ham.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
You know, it was really icky looking.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
Could you believe that that big of an infection happened
from simply a paper cut?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It had to have like happened so fast.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I've never had anything like that happened before ever.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Melinda Howard says she was breaking down cardboard boxes for
recycling after moving into a new house in Mississippi when
she nicked her hand. We had mountains the cardboard boxes
in our living room, and I was really tired of
looking at him.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
One of them just cut me just right.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
Didn't think much of it, not at all.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's a common enough occurrence to get it cut.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
The sixty three year old Ultra marathoner wrapped her hands
with a bandage. A week later, my head started hurting
and I showed my husband.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
He's like, oh, holy cow, that's bad.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
So he about stuffed me into the car and away
we went to urgent care.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
It's a warning to be extra careful about paper cuts
this holiday season one wrapping and unwrapping gifts. But what
makes Melinda's infection so severe is that for years she
had been taking the steroid preadmozone, a commonly prescribed medication
to reduce inflammation. But one side effect it thins the skin.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
My skin, well, thins the skin, and I think it
also can you step it for a second or no?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Once we started, we can't stand it. The pread zone.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I think side effect also is it reduces your immune efficiency.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I mean, I think you become more susceptible to infection.
I you know, check me on that, but I'm pretty
sure that that's right anyway. So she's a long time
user of breadnisone forr Andy. I think it's one of
those powerful andi in planmatories. There is anyway back to
the story, Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
My skin is like somebody in their eighties.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
It tears easily and gets cut easily.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
This is what Melinda's hand looks like today. It's healing
up nicely.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
It looks great.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, it looks great, feels like it could be a
drop that so it has a happy ending. People have
been asking me how my hand is doing. I think
it's doing better, she said. She posted this on social media.
This is where everybody shares all of their medical problems
on her x account. The swelling is pretty much gone.
(16:29):
It is red, The scabs are gone. The redness is
much better than it was. It's kind of muted. My
rings spin on my fingers again. This makes me very happy.
She does seem like one of those happy people. I
have to say, so maybe you know that happiness comes
from within and helps the curative power of attitude. Anyway,
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that is our big segment on paper cuts everyone, and
I want you all to both stay in wonderment also
take it as a cautionary tale. And I'm glad it
took every engineer in the iHeart building to put the
GD thing on the radio. Excellent, all right, when we
come back, there's where what is that? What is that?
(17:16):
That is that is that is that the only thing
that's the only thing this computer can play. Rich Y
can't ring those engineers back? All right, I am sixty.
It is the Conway Show, Thompson sitting in for now.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior here with the Krozier
and the crew. Richie is producing today. Is Angel doing
traffic today or she's uh no, Mike Morris, Mike Morris
on traffic. I just got a note that you need
a little background on this, but uh Courtney, just me
(18:00):
a note that this is an exclamation point. Liberaci's house
is for sale. It's in the valley now, Liberaci. Richie
wouldn't know liber Rocci. Liberaci was this Richard Richie, do
you know who Liberacci was?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I just hurt him in the hallway.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I went down the hallway. I can take a message
for him.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
God, it's unbelievable. It's really like you. I remeb remember
when producers just to actually be in you know, and yeah,
he's in the hallway.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
He said no.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Anyway, Liberaci was this over the top pianist who was
made famous because he kind of brought playing the piano
into the mainstream because he was so over the top
with you know, this candelabra. He'd put on the piano
and he dressed in these wild outfits and he'd drive
on stage and some golden crusted rolls.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Royce, I wish my brother George was here.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah he was that he tacked like that kind of
you can call me Lee. Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It was a Ryan Murphy thing, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Michael Douglas the Candelabra, And yeah, it was on LBO.
Really good. It was super It was super good. And
I had a viewing party for that. I wish. I
don't think I knew you then, and I had a
lot of people. There was a real big party because
I'm a huge Liberachi fan, okay, so uh and I
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went and they used to they used to be a
Liberaci museum in Las Vegas. And I took my girlfriend
at the time in one of her friends. We went
to the Liberaci Museum and like they were. The way
it was broken up was they were into the one part,
which was all his outfits. He had like multiply these
incredible outfits, all of them jeweled and crusted and you know,
(19:42):
I mean just you know, insane, over the top outfits.
And the other part of the museum was the cars.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He had.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
All of these cars, it would think Leno's garage, but
if everything had been this over the top, you know,
roles with you know, Emerald lining, the hub gaps, and
I mean it was just the most bizarro and yet
fascinating dynamic to this guy. And then I think the
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central part before you get into those two was kind
of like an overview of Liberacci's life and how he
was brought up and all this kind of thing. So
the one thing I always liked about Liberacci was that
he seemed into like donating a lot of money to
music and to help young musicians, and that's what the
museum was dedicated to, was that funding. So anyway, his house,
(20:31):
I think he had two homes at minimum, one in
the valley and the other in Palm Springs. His place
in Palm Springs is maybe it's a visitors center now
or maybe somebody lives there.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But the place in the valley is in Sherman Oaks
and it's for sale now. And Courtney just sent me
this saying, Liberaci's houses for sale, four bedrooms, four baths,
almost four thousand square feet and a swimming pool, shaped
as a Russier, a violin it shaped as a piano
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with the piano keys there as well. But apart from that,
I'm looking at the pictures.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
It doesn't look ostentatious.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It doesn't look liberaci ish exactly. There's nothing at all
Liberaci about the place.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And the man could flat out play too, yeah, like
he really could play.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, but he and he really just sold it. I mean,
if you I mean, it's really what. No, he wasn't straight?
Who says I don't? I first of all, you have
no way of knowing that, and secondly, I'd like to
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be sure of that before you go further. But it
doesn't matter to me, But I guess a confirmation please, Yeah,
it doesn't. I don't care, but I'm just saying it.
It's kind of I don't know what makes you say
that anyway. Guess the asking price for Liberachi's home in
Sherman Oaks, four bedrooms, four bath, thirty nine seven is
(22:10):
the square footage?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Kroze four two m good guess, but a million high?
They want three five, they want three to two. You're
almost your you know, just a million off. It may
end up going for four to two, but it's on.
It's on the market everyone, all you Liberachi fans. You
can get yourself a piece of of Lee in Sherman
(22:37):
Oaks when we come back. One of the largest off
the grid communities is right here in suburban LA. I'll
tell you about it next. It's the Conway Show Thompson
sitting in.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
You're listening to tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
A Mark Thompson for tim Conway Junior the Holidays. It's
a big I don't know what that is that? Do
you guys hear that? Or is that?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Am I having a stroke right now?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
That's on? It's on my side? Is it all right?
I don't know how to shot on sit. I didn't
set this thing up. So first of all, I'd like
to throw myself on the mercy of the court Richie.
Is Richie still in the building or has he gone
home to watch Mary Poppins.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I just got back from watching Mary Poppins.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Okay, can you come in and stop this thing from
making that sound? Okay? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
One of the largest off the grid communities, by the way,
it is k IF. I am six forty. If I
didn't say it. We're life everywhere in the iHeart Radio.
More about the Apostathon in the next hour, and more
on Dick van Dyke and his one hundredth birthday in
just a few minutes with the director of the new
documentary about Dick van Dyke. But the community I'm talking
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about that is right here in La that is living
off the grid, has sort of been forced to live
off the grid. It's the Rancho Polos Verdi's Portuguese Bend neighborhood.
But this is one of the largest off the grid
communities in all of America. And it's that way because
public utilities stop providing any service because of the landslide movement.
(24:27):
You know, this is all because of these problems that
have resulted from the land moving. It's all, as you know,
because of the soaking rains and they've had to essentially
drain these hillsides on a continuing basis in order to
prevent the land from shifting and moving any further. But
(24:50):
because of that, because of that land movement, utilities are
saying we can't service the area anymore. And so you've got,
as one person put it to the president of the
Portuguese ben Community, association. He said, we've got one hundred
plus homes here acting like we're out in the middle
(25:10):
of the Mohave Desert. We're doing what we can to
stay in our homes. These people have, you know, great
investments that community. You know, that's a really special community
in la But what they're doing now in this sort
of off the grid way is they are powering their
homes through solar and increased rainfall has led to more
(25:36):
ground water and they've had to build this. Essentially, it's
a complex of these drainage systems there to keep the
land from moving. This is a slow moving landslide of
one sort or another. That's so many of these homes
are having to deal with. So after wet seasons, this
(25:57):
community trying to hang on is power itself through solar
and then these dewatering wells that are running all the
time to extend drain the hillside of water. They are
run off of pro pane power generators, but it's expensive
and the city is running out of money, so they
(26:21):
break down.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's hard to run them all the time.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's expensive and restoring electricity apparently is one of their
big challenges for this area since last September when Edison
cut the electricity. The district has spent about two hundred
and thirty five thousand dollars on generators for this area
again off the grid. This Rancho Palace Verities Portuguese Bend
(26:47):
area fuel maintenance two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars
since last September. I mean, in the past it's been
out thirty six thousand for grid power to electricity, but
Edison is saying we can't safely restore power because of
the land movement. The infrastructure damage can cause all of
(27:13):
our systems to fail. There could be a fire danger,
other public safety hazards, so they're sort of at a standoff.
So this is a back and forth in this community
that certainly will see some kind of resolution. But right
now there are certain very active sections of this landslide,
(27:36):
mostly in the Portugee Portuguese Bend community. There's movement of
about two inches a week according to the city's latest data,
and that's well above what it should be. I mean, historically,
the problem likely won't get any better. And the city
(27:58):
of Rancho Palace Verity is also operating these off the
grid dewatering wells and they have been able to run
them constantly, but it's been a strain on their budget.
In the last fiscal year, the city spent one point
seven million dollars on generators in fuel just to keep
those pumping. And that's on top of the one hundred
(28:19):
and fifty thousand dollars for generators that power the sewer system.
I mean, you know, you realize what goes into a community.
It's a lot of different stuff, all of which has
to operate. So they're trying to navigate all of this
and hopefully get power back on and restored to this
(28:39):
area because right now they really are living in an
off the grid way and Southern California Edison is giving
them thresholds that they have to meet and hit in
order to get power restored, and Southern California Gas has
not even indicated what would take to establish any kind
(29:01):
of restoration of gas service. So again, parts of the
area around the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palace Verites
are getting restoration of some of these services, and I'm
sure that gives the residents there a little bit of hope.
But this is an extraordinary situation, it really is, and
(29:23):
it's happening right here in southern California. You know what
this is like, It's a little like what's going on
in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. They don't have a lot
of that infrastructure re establish either. You know, Puerto Rico
had issues with the hurricane and they're still trying to
get dependable electricity eight years after that hurricane wiped out
(29:45):
a bunch of their grid. So again, this is a
well healed community, or a fairly well healed community, but
now it is strained beyond what the community can likely
tolerate for any length of time. And as they say,
it's happening right in our backyard in the Rancho Palace Verdes,
Portuguese Bend neighborhood. When we come back, Richie's favorite entertainer
(30:10):
is featured in a new documentary, Dick van dijk O
rich Richie settled Down, Settle down.
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Excited, Yes, settle down.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's his one hundredth birthday and there's a new documentary
out all about it. As we continue, the director joins
us next Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
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