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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio APPSFI.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
AM six forty. It is The Conway Show. What a
weekend in Los Angeles? Man, oh man, We're the center
of the world, the center attention of the world, the
center square of the Hollywood Squares was us all weekend.
And I thought we did okay, you know, until late
Saturday when somebody started throwing crap at the cops. And
then the cops have been doing this for seven days,
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eight days, and they had had it. They've had it.
They've been yelled at for twelve hours a day, sitting
in the sun in those black uniforms or wool uniforms
of the sheriff and deputies, where for twelve hours a day,
it's hot, they're tired, they're pizzed, and people called Nazis
and baby killers and horrible names all day long. And
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it's tough. It's tough to be a cop out there,
tough to be a cop out there. All right, Alex
Stone is with us. Alex, I heard you were in
town over the weekend. What do you say, What do
you know, Bob?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, I mean I think you're right that they have
been dealing with this. They have today night after night.
It's hot out there. You can imagine how exhausted they are,
that they're tired of it. And I mean we saw
it firsthand that they were done on Saturday night once
it was go time was it was time to clear out.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
The area right then.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
These newer guys are making forty five fifty grand a
year for doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, they're not making a lot as they're standing out there.
And luckily last night was calm, and now they're going
to change the curfew to begin at ten pm instead
of eight pm. And no arrests were made last night.
But Saturday night was very different and we were in
it as it was going down. And now the LAPD
over this last week and a half has made over
five hundred arrests. And Saturday it was it flared up
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a lot more like the Sunday before, not to the
same amount of violence, but really the crowds that were
ready to battle the police as the night went on.
And let me just bring you there this what sounded
like is the LAPD moved in and fired off the
less lethal munitions and the gas and the crowd they
started moving through at that point.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I mean we.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Were watching as for hours police were shooting gas in
and the Sheriff's bar was doing a lot of the
gas as well, and the crowd would come back.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
They would come back for more.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Really like you know, the gas would clear and there
was a crowd again and throwing the gas canisters back
of the police. This was and I've gotten a lot
of hey for this online for saying it on the air,
But this was a different crowded night. The crowd changes
during the day and at night. It is people dressed
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like they're going to battle, in knee pads and gas
masks and helmets. They're not the same protesters as.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Earlier in the day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And earlier in the day during the No Kings March,
we saw older folks and families and they did their
thing and they were celebrating with live music and going
through the street and making their voices heard. But as
a day goes on, We've seen it every day outside
the Federal Building that I've been out there for the
last week, that you see people come in that are
typically younger. They've got masks covering their faces, they've got
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gas masks on backpacks, gloves, dressed all in black, and
it changes and here's the LPD mounted unit coming in.
I mean, listen to the hoofs of the horses. Is
that they've decided they're going to move that crowd and
it doesn't matter who you are at that point, you're
gonna get moved by those horses moving in pretty quick.
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And they came into the batons. And the one thing
though that has really helped out Tim is that curfew
over the last five days or so six days since
they put it into effect, that when that curfew has
gone into place at eight and then beginning to night
ten pm, that's really allowed the LAPD to go in
and clean house and get people out of there. And
Jim McDonald, the LPD chief, is saying it's really worth.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
The curfew has played a key role in helping to
restore order, particularly by urbing the criminal activity that was
largely occurring during the evening hours.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I remember the Marines in the National Guard were here.
They don't have any law enforcement authorities, so they stand
in front of the Federal building. They take a lot
of the yelling, the stuff being thrown at them, but
it's the LAPD and the LA sheriff who have to
do the work of in the metro unit of the LAPD,
the SWAT team coming in and battling back the crowds,
and night after night doing it, and they were able
to do it. I mean we we saw the success
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that they had on Saturday night. They lobbed a lot
of gas, a lot of the les lethal the munitions
rounds that they were firing off. But by about eight
o'clock they had really cleared the area around City Hall,
around LAPD headquarters, and then it was kind of cleaning
up the area after that of little things that they
would come around. But once they took the more heavy
handed approach to they finally got the crowds.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Out of there.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Alex Stone as well as by the way, we have
the helicopter pilot coming on. He just arrived. The guy
who said his marriage was over. He's coming on in
about ten minutes. He's going to be I'm his biggest fan.
We've never met, but yeah, I love his work. A
couple of things that I noticed over the weekend. I've
noticed that, you know, I learned this pretty early on
in life, but some people haven't gotten it yet. And
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I get that there's non learners and slow learners in life.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
But I'd like to tell.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
People that if you stand in front of a van
or a car and prevent it from going forward, you
might get run over.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And there were those as well where people, yeah I
got run over. Some cars are going to stop and
others are going to hit the gas and go right over.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yet did you see the guy that had one of
his testicles blown apart?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I did not see that. Yeah, go by a police munition.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yes, I think so. But look, you can look at
this one in two ways. One way is, you know,
you feel bad for the guys out there and he
comes home with you know, one nut. But the second
way you could look at it, which would be like, oh,
missus Stone, I'd love that more kids, But.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Look what happened to me. But I'm not going to
be able to again look at what the cops did.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I mean, I essentially had a doctor do that at
one point. But that's another way of doing it.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Sure, wait, you went the more expensive route.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
You didn't. Yeah, it costs me a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, But okay, here's the question, and not you,
But I'd like to ask somebody in the reporter world
in the Journalism World in Los Angeles. If somebody would
please ask, please please ask our mayor or your mayor,
Karen Bass, you were in Congress from twenty eleven to
twenty twenty two when Barack Obama deported four million people.
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How come you never said anything when you were in Congress.
I just I don't know what her answer is going
to be. But I'd like for somebody to ask her that.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
But they don't.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
You're putting it out there right now. She should answer you.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Somebody in her office or somebody who knows her has
got to be listening right now.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
She won't, she won't. I think this is also a
real distraction. You remember, right before this happened, Alex, that
she was supposed to testify where these two and a
half to three billion dollars had gone. She lawyered up
with eleven of the most highest paid lawyers in LA
And all of a sudden, that story's gone.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
So I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Also, Barack Obama came out today and he said, he goes, hey,
we got to get this together, and I and uh,
you know, dhaka and let these kids in like that
guy deported more people than anybody yeah, an the numbers,
you're right, Yeah, to four million people and nobody said anything, Well,
he's throwing people out of this country. Oh it's amazing.
I think they all hate Trump. And look I get it,
you know there it's like, uh, you know the worst
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the people who hate cigarettes smoke the most or ex smokers,
and so that you know, the people who are you know,
who hate Trump. A lot of them were on the
Trump train and then they fell off, and they're the
most you're the most verbal ones. MSNBC is filled with them,
you know. And and I don't know where this ends,
but this is gonna be a hot summer, Alex, A
hot summer.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It's gonna be. I mean, we're only beginning it right now.
Every summer it gets busy when it's warm out and
people go out at nighttime and and we're big. We're
starting from the very beginning here. But yeah, I mean
we'll see last night was much quieter. Hopefully things get
a little more into kind of status quo and then
we get back to not going crazy with the the
curfew gonna be later on to night. But yeah, it's
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that metro unit. I can tell you over at LAPD.
I think they need a break. I think they're about
done with I mean, based on the the uh, the shortness,
and their attitudes. I think on Saturday night as they
were coming through that they're done battling these crowds.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Hopefully they get a break again tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I was out at Santa Anita over the weekend and
I saw a lot of guys who didn't care whether
Ice was going to be there or not. They had
to get their bets in. Yeah, they had to get
him in. I respect that crowd. I respect that crowd.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Buddy.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
I appreciate you coming on Alex Stone.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
With ABC News and we'll talk to a little lay
this week.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
You got its man, Okay, Alex Stone.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
When we come back, we have the guy who was
flying around in a helicopter, guy named Stu Mundel. He's
flying around mining his own business and either caught out
a hot mic or purposely did this.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
And I think it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Where he was talking about his marriage breaking up and
the personal problems he's been through. And I know Stu
Mundell and he is with us. He's gonna come on
as soon as we come back from these commercials. So
spread the news. Tell your friends, tell your family. The
guy that came on, the guy that literally talked about
his marriage. You know, blowing Up is coming on with
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us next. So we'll play the audio and we'll ask
him what happened? How did that go on?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Over the air.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
We're gonna do something a little lighter here.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I know it's heavy news and everyone's talking about, you know,
the immigration, all that stuff. But over the weekend I
saw a very good friend of mine flying around, a
guy named Stumandell with Fox Love News. Nice to see you, man,
Let's pop there you go the blue one.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Yeah, here we go, buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I I can't tell you how many different websites your
audio is on around the world. There's a site that
I go to every day to see what the Chinese
are doing. It's an international Chinese website. He was on
the front page front Oho you. But look when you
fly around for Fox, I go to the website and
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you're like, oh, okay, things are calm here in downtown
or in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Let's go to Seal Beach.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm like, seal Beach is like an hour and a
half and you're there in ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yeah, that's the beauty of the hell.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But you point things out along the way, you know, different,
you know obstacles, different, you know, historical sites and all
that stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
It's fantastic, you know. It's one of those things. It's like,
I know what I do is not what everybody gets
to see, right, So when I have that opportunity of
like like open mic night, like happened on Saturday, it
was you know, I want to take advantage of it,
you know. And if people are watching for the breaking
news and we're going between stuff, right, let's make it fun.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And Fox is smart to keep you live a lot
of those times they'll shut the mic off, they'll shut
the camera off until they get them they turn it
back on. I'm like, no, No, the beauty is getting
down there and seeing the city. Yeah, I mean we
don't get to see that at all, you know, because
of the flight restrictions around LAX and Dodger Stadium. We
never get and ninety nine percent of people will never
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be in a helicopter over LA. But it's beautiful. It's
a beautiful city from a twelve hundred feet.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yeah, it's beautiful and it's huge. I think people don't
understand how big it is. And you're talking about flight restrictions.
We could do a whole show on that. There's come out.
There's a bunch of new ones coming out.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Yeah, they're not going to let us go do transitions
down the one ten anymore?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Safety?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Safety?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
She have Dodger Stadium, lax Long Beach Airport, Disney Disney
Lady is.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
The biggest that that's rough?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Rough?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
And is it around the entire part?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
It's three miles from the entire way and thirty five
hundred feet wa its what happened?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
If you break that? Dude? Do they call you?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Not me?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
But they'll call the pilot. It will, And it's it's
a big deal.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's a big and you know, the worst thing a
pilot can hear, either helicopter or an airplane pilot is Yeah,
is that you got a pen? We're giving you a
phone number. Yeah, and you got to call that number.
And a lot of times that you know, your life
since is at risk when you do stuff like that,
and you know things have changed. You know, when I
started in the nineties, it was still. It was you
see it in hindsight, it was tapering. It started that
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slow down, but it was a wild West when I started.
And I've had pilots, you know, ex officers, not Timlin,
but but somebody that he knows. And we were in
the we followed a pursuit into the TFR, the Disney TFR,
and he would just like, literally, you know, I can
hear that there in that helicopter. I could hear their
radios and that She's like, hey, you're in the TFR.
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And he's like, I am. And it's because he was.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
He was stalling so I could get my shot, you know.
And it's like things like that. It's like, I don't
that's love. That's love. That's somebody who wants to be
there with me. You know, they have that same passion.
Let's get this, let's do this now, right.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
But what what you do is so.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Like you know, they call it deep footprints in radio,
where you remember where you were when a certain thing happened.
I remember listening to John and can talk to Sam
Ruben and having an argument with them. And I was
on the four or five North passing what was then
the holiday in on sunset boulevard, and I remember exactly
where I was in the car when you hear certain
things on radio.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Well, cut to Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'm coming home with my daughter from Topanga Plause and
went out to dinner with my sister, and I'm driving
back and all of a sudden, I realized, Okay, we're
at piers. We're at Winetka and Victory. This is where
that wild Wild West that mad Max chase went on
with the r V and the dogs flew out of
it and happened right there. I was where I was
at the intersection, and I said it to my daughter
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and my and my sister. They could care lest they
thought it was like, you know, the his the kite.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But I remember where I was, and you were on
the air, and I got that.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Information from you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh man, you know, And that was the the chase
that ended up on Tampa and Ventura right near the
KFC where the dog flew out, dog got all bloodied.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Yeah, it was horrible, but the chases are are.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
You know, there's nothing that brings you know, live sports
and chases are the only two things left you have
to watch live. Because if there was a chase that
happened last night. You can't watch it the next morning
and have the same immediacy and the same you know,
sort of urgency to watch it.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Right, you gotta watch it live.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
You gotta watch it live because you don't know what's
going to happen, and you got the tense moment. Even
the people in helicopter, you know, we're on that edge
of our seat.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Sure, so I think I'm sorry. It's sports live, chases
and fires. Those are three things that get people. Okay,
now let's talk about how you ruined your life over
the weekend.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Let me play the audio.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
All right, this is Stu Mandel over the weekend on
what I thought was a hot mic, but I think
now that I listen to it, it may not have been.
But let's play the audio and see what what Stu
had to say on Saturday night flying around the city
of Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
The answer is, yes, I don't care. I don't care
about me.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
I am.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I am married. I am I am legally married. I
am legally married. That's about the only way you can
really say it. I am legally married. But I am
not looking at now at all. I I've just had
a bunch of debacles with my personal life. Yes, it's true.
I know it's hard to believe somebody that doesn't even
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know what he's talking about in a relationship. And you know,
but yeah, I got nothing right now, got nothing, got nothing,
not really looking Uh you know, I'm trying to trying
to find myself and be happy. I'm being serious about that.
I want to behold I want to be beholden to
no one at this moment.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Do I get lonely? Of course, of course, But I
got cats. So I think all that informations on the internet.
Look at all those red cars down there.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I love how year that is.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You know, the audio in the video over the last
five or ten years has really improved.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Definitely, definitely, And all the toys we have over there
at Fox Brand New almost brand.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Now did you know you were on the air.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Of course I knew I was talking. So what what
other people don't know is when we're doing those lives
like that we I have, I can read the comments, okay,
and you know, and so it's Internet in the helicopter,
so it's sketchy, and they'll they'll fly by, and I'm
sure it's busy on top of it, but things will
fly by and somebody kept asking me if I'm married,
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And I don't know if it was just repeating the
same thing or if somebody was really just asking over
and over. But finally I'm just like, all right, let
me address it. You know, why not?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Can everyone else see the comments as well? Oh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
It's like it's like like an old chat room back
in the day. You know, everybody's writing and there's some
bickering going on.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's like I've always thought, if you flew that helicopter
round on Friday night and Saturday night in the summer
when it's hotter than hell, it's a twenty sh in
Los Angeles at least twenty, maybe thirty or forty.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Everybody loves that stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah, and especially if there's some and like you said,
you love the the stuff that you love is stuff
that's commonplace for me, you know what I mean. It's
because this is what I do, right, And that was
the thing. Also, it's like I hear my voice and
I'm thinking, you know, this is like hour three of
flying on a Saturday morning, which isn't really my shift.
And I was getting I was getting tired, I was
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getting a little tired. Oh I bet you know. It
was like and you know I'm talking for two hours?
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Yeah you know, so so.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But yeah, then you have to watch what you say
because then all of a sudden you become it becomes
too political if yes, you know, yes, you got to
just report the facts. All right, can we can you
stay with us? Oh yeah, okay, all right? Stewandel's with us.
I want to talk to you about what a challenge
it is to fly around these protests some call them riots,
and watch out for the buildings, watch out for all
the helicopters, watch out for maybe somebody shooting crap at
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you as well, and and just the challenge of that
being up there with all that, not being able to
go to the bathroom, How.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Do you stay hydrated? How do you eat?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I mean, it's there's a lot of you know, the
technicalities is what I want to know.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
The life that's right?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Steuvendell's with us from Fox elevenies on every single morning,
which sucks. I wish you were back in the evening
because you're a you're you know, once a stringer, always
a stringer. You're a night guy. Yep, that always a
night guys. That's right, that's exactly right. Our real live
on KFI Am sixty's with us from Fox eleven and
flies in the helicopter and reports for them, and we'll
we'll come back and talk about the challenge of covering
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all of these protests over the weekend.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Steub Mandela's with from Fox eleven News flies for them
in the morning.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Do you always have the same pilot the same No, No.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I don't. I've got three pilots. I don't. This is
the truth. I got three pilots, three personalities. Oh and
I get along with all of them.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That's the truth.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
That's not that's not being pc. I'm being serious. But
they are very different and they all have their pluses
and they have their minuses, right, but I kind of
missed that camaraderie of one like your partner.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Sure, yeah, yeah, partner. You know who takes the most
chances of the pilots.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
That would be the Australia. Australia, definitely the Australia.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
He gets in the close.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Yeah, yeah, he gets in there. He's we get there quick.
We get there low, we get there fast. You know,
he's uh, he's you know. He shows up to a
scene and he tells everybody else look out him coming in,
opposed to where's everybody?
Speaker 7 (19:31):
I gotta find out who? How fast can you go?
Top speed?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
We people ask me that a lot. So the ground
speed of the helicopter generally, if we're going between stories,
about one thirty five across the ground.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Okay, you know, but.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
If we are in the Santa Anas, we play these
games like you're coming down off the hill. You got
the wind behind you. Those numbers can go way up.
But it's one of those if you're a piloted it
gets It's not complicated, but you know, the wind speed
is what the aircraft is rated at, so you could
do off the crown across the ground. We've been doing
one to eighty. I think we even did like one
ninety one time.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
But the air speed is a lot less because it's
like fifty miles an hour slower because you're you know where.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I think we lost a lot of time. And again
I'm not blaming him, but maybe I am. When Joe Biden,
President Biden was in town on January fifth, sixth, seventh,
and eighth. We lost the ability to take these helicopters
over these fires and show you what really is happening. Yes,
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that and I think we and I don't think the
urgency got out there because guys like you couldn't fly.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
You know, that's that's part of it. But they're also
you know, fair is fair. The winds were insane.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It raised here.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I've never seen that before.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
They were insane. And then the fire guys, you know,
it filters through. It's a small community. We you know,
those guys are like they are, they're they're tough, and
you know, we're never we're not going to say no.
But after that, I heard like a lot of them
were saying, I can't. I hope somebody else chickens out
so we can all just land because it was that bad.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Can you fly in that in the no?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
No, no, not in that kind of crazy wins And
you know that's the thing too with the fires. Just
an opinion, just an opinion. I don't think anybody could
have stopped. Yeah, you know, even even if even if
the you know, I'm doing the air quotes, even if
the even if the hydrants were all working. I mean,
come on, right, that was Those were hurricane force winds
ripping through neighborhoods.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
It was horrible, It was.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It was bad over the weekend. You were up on Saturday.
Do you work Sunday as well?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
No?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I didn't know Saturday.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
So Saturday when all the big protests was happening. They
say forty thousand people in downtown. I think that number
is probably right. You know, give your take up there, Yeah,
give your take, you know, twenty thousand. But it's got
to be challenging for the pilot to watch out for
other helicopters, watch out for buildings. There's a lot of
high rises down there, and then also watched, you know,
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got to get the perfect angle to get the news
and then watch out for maybe some idiot shooting something
up at you. We have which happened over Receid in
Victory at some point.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yeah, you know I have been shot at. I know
that for a fact. I saw it. But you know
it hit you, No I did. I didn't. But you know,
the pilots they all talk to each other, they all
know each other in some degree, and you know, we
are safe. We are very safe up there. And then
when we're over downtown, we're not in the buildings or
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above the buildings.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
How low can you get?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Oh, we you know that that that's a tough question.
It's like we could get really low, but we always stay.
We always stay about fifteen hundred feet twelve to fifteen
hundred feet above the ground, okay, because they have two
different measurements. They have a GL and MSL. MSL is
basically C level. So but we stay about twelve hundred
feet above the ground. And and where do the cops fly?
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Are they there? They're about five hundred six hundred. They're
usually about halfway underneath.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Us, all right, and she got to watch out for
them too.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And we like again, they
all they all talk to each other, and you know,
they know their voices, so they know the same thing
like with me and the pilot. They know the other
pilots and they know their pluses and their minuses, and so.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You know, I love the fact that you can literally
leave Beverly Hills and I think it was less than
ten minutes and you're in Seal Beach ten to fifteen
minutes whatever it is, but you're in Seal Beach and
we get to see you know, the entire flight down
there and then where you're going next, and you get
mes price. I spent hours watching that, you know, I
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just literally would sit there and put it on pause
or watch it and hours of you flying around. Is
it comfortable in there? Do you have air conditioning when
it's hot?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
The helicopters we have right now? Okay, my heart is
with a star, right, but you know, my body the
rest of it is with the bell. I mean, come on,
this thing is like I feel like I'm riding in
the back of a suburban. And these new helicopters. Yeah,
these are well not you know, new, but they're a
different type, and they're bigger and they're longer. I've got
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leg room. It's like, it literally is like riding in
a suburban.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Who controls the camera? I do?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
That's all me?
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Yeah, And man, is that lends unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
It's fun. It's a lot of fun. Is it is
a lot of fun? And you know it's a job.
It's not like your phone. I can tell you. It's
a little bit more old school. You got to be
a camera person to run it.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
How do you stuphen Dell's with from Fox eleven of
the reporter in the helicopter in the morning. How do
you get around if there was a chase that started
north of Lax and the guy went south on the
four or five, how do you get around Lax?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
You have to go over it.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
And that's another one. I was just saying, they're changing
things up. We used to be able to go under.
It was like something called shoreline. So you go out
to the shore and you could just scoot along the
shore five hundred or below in a less than five
one hundred and fifteen below, but anyway, you could just
shoot along the shore stay underneath the aircraft. They're getting
rid of that.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Can't do that.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
You got to go up to twenty five hundred feet
and if there's clouds, can't You're done? Your dad do it,
And then you've got to go all the way around.
Now they're closing that one too. So if that scenario happens, Oh,
we are screwed. It's going to be so tough, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I NBC used to have I don't think they still
have them. They used to have two helicopters. Yeah, those
guys and they could keep one south of Lax and
then one north of Lax Alpha Beta, yeah right, yeah, exactly,
the ALPHABETA that I loved, Alpha Beta, old school in
the valley. You're a valley guy, Oh yeah, and I
am too. I grew up in you know, I know
where you grew up, out near the you know, the Budwiser,
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and we used to go there all the time. The
Tommys was there. It was just a great hang in
that part of the valley. All the car dealerships on
the other side of the freeway.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, Gallpin, they right all over.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I remember, you know, going with my mom when in
the mid seventies to go look at a Volkswagen van.
We're going to buy a Volkswagen van to that Galpin
as a kid, you know, so the Galpin has always
been part of our family.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
We always that was always the first place we went.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Man, you guys are California. That's going down there and
going to the galluping guys.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
That's right all right.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Now when when these guys are flying, first of all,
how many hours are you up there? Well you can
fly and those like on Saturday, how many hours we do?
It's a bag of gas. Let's let's do some aviation
lingo it's a bag of gas. So it's about two hours.
It's about two hours. It's like it's it's like fuel mile.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
How many gallons you burn in two hours?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Oh god, I don't even know. Okay, I don't even
keep up anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I used to know.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
And you can land almost there's a bunch of places
you can land.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Yeah, for fuel for you, but it has to have
jet a So it's not all the airports, but most
of the airports.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
You can you guys running jet you're running jet fuel out.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, those are.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So there's a jet engine in the back of that
thing flying at one hundred and thirty. Yeah, yeah, Oh
that's fantastic. If there was a chase in San Diego,
are you allowed to get close to the border?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
We we've done it, We've been there. There's some you
know that those are again there's all these hoops you
got to jump through. For for me, it's the microwave signal.
We got to make sure that when we get cross
into San Diego. I said, you know, it's licensing. That
one's usually pretty easy airspace. The pilots can maniput, can
you know they can do that? But long rifle that
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you know what I love. I love our first I
love our Army, I love the Marines. But long Rifle
has I'm trying to use a PC word to explain it,
but has stopped us so many times because they won't
let us go through the airspace.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Buddy, I appreciate. Come on, where can people see on
social media?
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Social media? Steu Mandell? My name it's Mondel m U
N d E L just one L. I'm the chief
one and it's Instagram is where I'm at.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Excellent. But I really appreciate coming by. Please stop buying
more often.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Yes, I will. You know what I will.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
And you know what.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Good day, La, watch a watch it and the eleven
o'clock you gotta watch that one.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Excellent. Appreciate it. Thanks buddy. All right, Stewing Dell with
Fox eleven News. Good day La.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoun. You're on De Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What a weekend that we had with these protests. I
wonder if anyone on our show steps did you attend
any of the protests, the no King protests? Working your
ass so I came in noon to two, so I
had to work. I also, I would have been down
there with my baby trump balloon crossher.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Did you go to any of these protests?
Speaker 7 (28:19):
On Saturday?
Speaker 10 (28:20):
My wife and I attended any Barraco ham tasting menu
thing at Outdoor Elegance in Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (28:28):
It's fantastic. Shout out to Outdoor Elegance. What a perfect
name for an outdoor strip bar. Outdoor Elegance. Gones Angel,
were you at any of the protests? Did you make
it down to any of these things?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
After I was done swimming, it was over a damn it.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
What about, belly O, do you make it out to
any of these things? You rest on weekends?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I love resting.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
I do.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
I do? I do. I love it with my dogs.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
All right, all right, belly oh please, all right, but
let's do let's get a review here on what happened
over the weekend. Maybe you missed something, but we covered
most of it pretty good here over the weekend. I
came in noon to two and then Neil Savader and
Neil Savadra had a very good point, and a couple
of buddies of mine commented on them. You know, people
(29:18):
are saying that, you know, we celebrate the fact that
we don't have a king in the United States, and
Neil Savandra had a great line, he goes, I do
that every July fourth, and I thought that was interesting, right,
that's interesting.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
I do it every July fourth, no King.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
I thought.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
What was interesting though?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Up in Ottawa, Toronto, parts of Vancouver, and I think
one small one in Edmonton, they had their own no
King protests.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
And I'm not sure what they were talking.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
About, which king, because the monarchy is still alive and
roaring in Canada they do have a king. King Charles
is their king. So are they talked about King Charles
talking about Trump? They're talking about Burger King. I don't
know King Taco. But there was a lot of people
on the streets of downtown LA. They asked to make
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anywhere between thirty five and forty thousand people. That's a
lot of people to get to do anything from Los
Angeles to Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
To Chicago.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
And in the nation's capital.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
Organizers say more than five million Americans poured into the
streets under the banner of no Kings with the goal
of sending President Donald Trump a message about the direction
of his administration.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
I didn't expect to be fighting fascism in my fifties.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
The protests were.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
In is that you croj It sounds like youpect.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
To be fighting fascism in my fifties.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
The protests were in part a respond.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
I mean the voice, not the actual comment.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
I didn't expect to be fighting fascism in my fifties.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
The protests were in part a response to the administration's
decision to host aok Grand mill Terry parade in Washington
in honor of the Army's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Oh I looked at that. I watched that for a
couple hours. That was great, man.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
A lot of those guys and gals in the Army,
they've never seen Washington, DC. And for them to be
able to go up and march in front of the
Commander Chief, Oh Man, that was a big deal for
a lot of the guys and gals in the Army.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Big big deal, which.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
Just happened to coincide with President Trump's birthday. Trump telling
the crowd the day was about America's fighting force.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Every other country celebrates their victories, It's about time America
did too.
Speaker 10 (31:37):
The parade crowds were moderate, amid intermittent rain and intense
security all around the route, with those there calling the
event a success.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
It's a pittriotic it's amazing.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
But that celebration was juxtaposed by a mass mobilization in
other parts of the country.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
We just still like that our democracy is in danger.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
Protesters in thousands of demonstrations nationwide, accusing President Trump of
attempting to amass too much power.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You know, this is what these protests should have been
all week you know, peaceful, thousands of people in the street,
and then it's ruined by a couple of idiots, guys
that started throwing crap, burning stuff, running, jumping, looting, spray painting,
and just you only need you only need one guy,
one guy to throw one brick at a cop and
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then it's off to the races. And that's what happened
over the weekend. All right, very very good. We've got
to take a break here, Welcome back. We have a
lot more going on, a ton more going on. We
have what's going on in Minnesota. We'll cover that, the
horrible political violence over the weekend, and then Israel and
Iran they are still going at it. And it's it's
(32:47):
a crazy world we live in. But We're gonna cover
all of it right here on KFI AM six forty Conway.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
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