September 6, 2024 • 31 mins
High temps / Spirit Airlines Burbank Airport / Excessive Heat the silent Disaster / Heat Trees, 20 degrees difference under trees // Judge orders more housing for veterans on VA West L.A. campus // Geologists concerned about CA land movement
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
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. A lot of
crime in southern California. I don't know if it's gonna
increase during the heat. I think even the criminals will
take the night off. Maybe who knows. But I'm not
a specialist. I don't know anything about crime. I just
know there's a lot of it, so we have to
(00:22):
talk to specials. We have talked to guys and gals
who are out there dealing with this crap all the time.
So we're gonna have a lieutenant from LAPD, retired Detective
Dan Perez, is with us.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Detective are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I did very well.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Thanks for coming on. Man. Hotter than hell? Does that
mean an increase or a decrease in crime?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, I think this hot is a decrease.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, good.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Even the guys don't want to, you know, break into
smoke shops when it's this hot.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
No, sir, Hey, how do we protect our homes?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I know you're not a big advocate of having cameras
because then you just have a picture of people robbing
your crap. How can we protect our homes? And really
have it mean anything?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, I heard you last week when someone else you're
talking to you about the cameras. And when I was
in the department for La City, I worked as a
robbery detective, burglary detective. I handled also to homicide and
home invasions, and always told me that the I mean
(01:30):
cameras are always great. But the thing is we would
we would be provided with the individual that or individuals
that came inside your home. They beat you with a weapon,
he assaulted your family members, sometimes even even killing them,
and we were provided with a picture and then from
(01:52):
the picture where we tried to identify the individual and
and take them in the custody and send them away.
But there's there's h system now that I like, and
what it is is it's his cameras, but it's at
the exterior of your home. So what they do is
they plays like an invisible fence around your home and
(02:16):
they monitor live monitoring while you're sleeping. But it's not
necessarily staring just at your cameras. What do they do
is they wait for something to cross the invisible fence
and it sends them a notification to the monitor and
he knows to jump on those cameras and see what's
taking place. And what he could do is he could
talk to the individual saying, hey, you in the blue
(02:38):
pants and a white T shirt. You know, the police
are on the way. You need to leave, or sometimes,
depending on the position of their vehicle, they can even
say hey you again in the blue pants and white
T shirt driving the blue and white four door Chevy
license plate one two three ABC, the police are on
their way. And I always thought something like that was
(03:01):
better because it's it catches them before they come into
your home, sure, versus they're in your home. Now, what
do you do?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Right?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
That is it?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's a great idea. I always also detective I heard
from a career criminal. I think he was on the
Howard Stern Show one day in and out of prison
for thirty years, and he had he said, there's a
there's a sort of an informal rule when breaking into
somebody's house. If there's an American flag flying on the outside,
there's a gun on the inside. Is that is that
(03:34):
rule of thumb pretty accurate?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I think it's fifty to fifty, but it's probably one
hundred percent if it's a Trump flag.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, right, If it's a Trump flag. You guarantee there's
ninety guns on the inside.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Correct, that's great.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
But the oars systems like that also out there. And
I do have a few more tists.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Sure, that'd be great. Anything you have to offer would
be great.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And because we also go out to talk to law
offices or the nurses at USCMC and try to just
give tips on how.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
To prevent someone from getting into your place, especially single females.
So one thing I would suggest was, and I hope
no bad guys are listening, but what I would suggest
was get two big dog bowls and dishes. And what
you do is you put then you're right, Bruno on
(04:33):
one and Brutus on the other, and you put them
at your front door.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And then another thing you'd do is you would go
to the good Will and find the biggest size work
boots you could find, like someone wearing fourteen or sixteen
types foot boots, and you put those boots right next
to the two dog dishes. So if someone is staking
out your apartment or your house, and most bad guys
(05:01):
do you know, before they go break in, they're they're
gonna look for a dog. Sure to see, you know,
because they were also they're looking for us the easiest
way to gain access to your house. So a lots
of times they'll see and then uh, they were to
see two big dog dishes, and then they see, wow,
that's a big guys out of the house too, because
he looked at his work boots.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Then they may just go to another house.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And and what about what about these uh you know,
there's a couple of companies that have these screen doors
that are really heavy duty. We have on our house
and and they seem to to do the job or
at least, you know, deter people from coming in. Do
you like the bars on the window and the heavy
screen doors.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, yes, I I like those. I've seen those two.
And actually I was considering also getting those places and
ours our home also. And you know, like you mentioned
something else an easy effect. We were just about three
weeks ago my father was father in law's house. Someone
tried to get into his home and my sister in
(06:05):
law was up watching TV I about eleven thirty pm,
and she thought she heard some cats going through the
trash cans. So then she thought that's trying to get
at one of the sliding glass windows in the kitchen.
So she went over there and she went she was
going to hit the window with her hand to scare
(06:27):
out the cat. And as she went to hit the window,
she actually touched someone's hand. He was trying to come
through and he had had slide open the kitchen window.
So she actually touched his hand and she screamed at him,
and then he took off running. But another thing that
I never really paid attention to his housing for is
(06:49):
you can go to Walmart or Target. They got those
little censers that you could put on your windows. My
father went out and went, I believe, went the home
for ten dollars. You got two little sensors. Okay, and
you can put him on the windows or the doors
and and well, and then you can sit the alarm. Uh.
(07:10):
So like if so, what I instructed co I would
do is I put him on his two doors and
like four of his windows. And I said, at night,
you just go around and put put the alarms on.
Oh that's great, and then when you wake up in
the morning, then you just shut the alarm off. My tones,
it's a little inconvenience, but yet you know, in the
middle of night. If you hear the siren or the
screeching of these little sensors, you know someone's trying to
(07:34):
get in through a window or open your door.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's a great idea, buddy. I really appreciate you coming on.
Let's have you on again. But those are great tips.
And uh and you know I thank you for how
many years were you.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
In the LAPD Almost twenty one? Twenty one?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh, that's great. Good for you, buddy. I a hell
of a job with lap Really appreciate you coming on.
Let's have you back on sometime soon.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Absolutely, thank you for the best.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Sorry, there he goes, man, that guy's great.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
What a great tis Those are great tips from Detective
Dan Perez, retired LAPD.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And that's that's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, go get the big dog bowls, big work boots,
put to the front of the house. Get your screen doors.
Have you do any screen doors? And the censors for
the windows you can.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Think about that. That's a great idea as well.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on Demyana from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It continues to be hotter than hell. It's going to
be hot all weekend long.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
See real quick. We just got a notification from USC.
They're sending out to everybody in the area that the
LAPD is looking for a man with a possible weapon
in the area there. They say it's in Ellendale Place
and Orchard Avenue and they're telling people stay indoors if
you're in the area.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Otherwise avoid the area.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
And if you see anything suspicious, called nine to one one.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
And where is that USC USC.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
USC Trojans alert was sent out again in the area
of Ellendale Place and Orchard Avenue there in the campus.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
All right, we will keep an ear on that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They are on high a line whenever there is a
shooting for copycat criminals and so USC is on top
of that. We will keep you updated on that as well.
Really tough to be alive in this country nowadays. Got almighty,
got to watch out for everybody and everything. Oh a
lot of pressure, a lot of pressure to do the
(09:20):
right thing in this country right now. To pay your bills,
raise your kids properly, go to work, pay your taxes,
save for retirement possibly, you know, take a day off
once in a while, pay all your bills.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And then you go outside and it's hotter than hell.
A lot of temperature is still at this hour, over
one hundred degrees at Water one four Bakersfield one oh one,
Banning one ten, one hundred and twelve in Burbank, California.
That's one of the hot spots in the country. Calabasas
won twelve. Let's see what who else is at one
(09:57):
hundred here I Chino one oh nine, Claremont, where Krozier
lays his head every night, one o eight one one
oh well, you're off by seven degrees, yeh. Coachella one
oh nine. Out of Coachella, Cottonwood, where the hell that
(10:17):
is one O three, Crestline one twelve, and it goes
on and on. Almonte one eleven in Sino won twelve.
Fontana won twelve, one sixteen in Death Valley, Death Valley,
one hundred and sixteen degrees man today. Yeah, it's the
(10:39):
same as Burbank. You're right, the exact same temperature as Burbank.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Here's what you know.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It's hot at this on the south shore of Lake Tahoe,
eighty two degrees.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It never gets that hot up there ever.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Silmar one thirteen in Silmar right now, one hundred and
thirteen degrees. Tracy one O four. I don't send any
local places here. That's about anyway there, it's one hundred.
Everywhere you look in southern California, you're looking at close
to one hundred degrees. So we got three more days
(11:12):
of this and then hopefully it's over. Hopefully, but you
never know, you never know. But all right, let's talk
about something else here. Spirit Airlines is coming to Burbank
to for another route, another easy way to get to
the Bay Area from Burbank, California.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Spirit Airlines is adding more daily cheap flights from Burbank
to San Jose, and to celebrate the new route, Spirit
is offering thirty nine dollars one way tickets that are
on sale today Wow. The travel is valid from September
twenty fifth until November nineteenth. Also, Spirit travelers are being
urged to check out the Spirits Enhanced guest service options
(11:56):
that include the flexibility of no change.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Or can fees.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
There you go, but you'll have to pay for everything else.
You know, you bring a person, you bring your wallet.
I think there's a key charge if you bring your
car keys on board. I think they nail you for
that as well. All right, heat, this extreme heat that
we're all going through, and we're all going through it together.
You know, this is nobody's avoiding this. They're calling it
California's extreme heat. They're calling it a silent disaster here
(12:23):
in southern California. The problem is.
Speaker 11 (12:25):
That it takes almost two weeks of slowly acclimating to
a hot temperature like this for a body of some
of an athlete to be able to tolerate it.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
So our issue is that we don't have fourteen days.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
We suddenly got this overnight and it's even hot at night.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, it's definitely the hottest lize.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It seemed like to me in many years in La.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
All right, what can you do about it?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
There's stuff called heat trees, using trees to reduce the heat.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It's too late, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Day's like today's shade can be a real game changer.
But the experts say if I just step out of
the shade and into the sunlight different when it's in
temperature could be as much as twenty degrees. And that
is why the push is on to get more trees planted.
Take a walk these days and you'll probably notice you're
a bit warmer and sweaty.
Speaker 13 (13:11):
That's right, entering into unprecedented extremes, you know, longer heat waves,
hotter heat waves, more frequent heat waves.
Speaker 12 (13:20):
Edith Dea Guzman is a researcher for the UCLA Cooperative
Extension and one of the organizers of this.
Speaker 14 (13:26):
The twenty twenty two Scoping Plant was the first time that.
Speaker 15 (13:30):
Lands or nature based solutions were included.
Speaker 12 (13:34):
A statewide symposium in Arcadia called Urban Forestry for Changing Times,
bringing experts in community members together to find the best
ways to bring more of these into neighborhoods and cities
as a whole.
Speaker 13 (13:46):
Trees are not just decorative, but actually essential for keeping
us cool.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Research shows that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Also, if you have fiight as trees. We have a
couple of beIN in our yard. You'll notice that the
tops of them made burn at a one hundred and
fifteen one hundred and sixteen degrees. Don't cut them down.
I don't throw them away. They haven't died. They'll come
back in the spring, you know. Just trim them back,
trim all the dead leaves off the tree, and most
(14:13):
likely they will come back in spring of next year
and they'll be beautiful again. But don't dismiss them like
you've killed them or they've died. They are just the exterior.
It doesn't look good. They look like they're burned to death,
but they're not. They will come back. If they're thick
and healthy and you water them properly, they will come back.
Speaker 16 (14:32):
Tee.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
We just got an update on this issue with USC.
The laped is apparently arrested. A suspect was in the
area the Ellendale Place on Orchard Avenue near USC. There
go at PD's going to stay in the area to
just do its investigation. No longer necessary to avoid that
area in USC.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Excellent, all right, the good guys have won, at least
for now.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
So that's great news. That is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's exactly what people want to hear who are listening
to KFI, because I imagine there are a lot of
parents whose kids go to USC and they hear something
like that and they start freaking out and they start
thinking about the worst, what is going on with USC,
And a lot of people pay a lot of money
to put their kids at USC, and they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Want are very lindsay here, lindsay go to USC. I
didn't know that. Yeah, what do you study at USC.
Hold on, let me here.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Obviously not Radio Public Relations and Advertising master's program.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Oh you're getting your masters?
Speaker 10 (15:32):
Yes, I am, why.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Smart kid? And is that in two year program?
Speaker 15 (15:38):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And what did you start just recently two weeks ago? Okay?
Are you living on campus or off campus?
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Off campus?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
USC?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm not familiar with that school. Do they have a
football team?
Speaker 16 (15:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Huge football team?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Oh they do. Oh just go look at that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Is this your first time? Did you go to USC
before for undergraduate?
Speaker 11 (15:56):
No?
Speaker 10 (15:56):
I went to Chapman.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Okay, Chapman's beautiful school and very expensive as well. Yes, yeah,
and so this is going to be another expense for
mom or.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Dad or you me?
Speaker 16 (16:07):
You?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, did they give you a break at all?
Speaker 10 (16:11):
A little bit?
Speaker 15 (16:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (16:11):
They gave me a loan, but like it's still really expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Like, can we ask how much? You'd rather not say?
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Honestly, I like I don't remember because I like blacked
it out.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh really? Oh wow, that's not good either. But you
have any idea what it was close to? I mean
what ballpark?
Speaker 10 (16:30):
I think for this year they gave me like twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Thousand Okay, yeah, right, just take the money to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Double it strove to college.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, for real, you can learn more from Bellio about
PR than you could at USC.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Okay, she's a specialist.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
She's great at social media, she's a great person when
it comes to PR. Stick with Bellio. Give her the
twenty grand. She'll teach everything she does.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Okay, I will do that.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Thanks, all right, Yeah you got it. I get half that, Belly,
I get half. I got half that. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
About ten minutes ago, Krozer informed us that there was
some kind of threat on the USC campus.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
That's over.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
They've arrested somebody and go back to enjoy yourself. You
got work, man, Yeah, they're on them. They got their guy,
all right. VA Housing, Kroz, I know you're all over
this story. The VA Housing. From what I understand, they're
building housing on the VA property. There By they were
sued because any housing that's built there should be for veterans,
(17:38):
not for you UCLA student.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yeah, they've been leasing it out for years. We got
our own Michael. Michael Monks has been on that story today.
But they've they have been leasing out the property. The
VA has to UCLA, and I think it was Brentwood
School and a couple other places as well.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
And in all that time.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
These schools have built structures and crete structures on these things.
So this federal judge today told him that you that's illegal.
Those leases are illegal because you're putting your your leasing
them out. You're basically selling them, right, So the veterans
are not getting the benefit of what the VA is
supposed to provide.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
So those leases are illegal.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
And he's making them build enough structures for I think
it's twenty five hundred veterans. That's oh good, Yeah, that's great.
He did it on a pretty quick timeline too. He
ordered that at least I think it was like six
or eight hundred be built almost immediately, and the rest
of them built wouldin say, sixteen eighteen months.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
The question is is that there's all these structures that
are on these properties or this property, and what's going
to happen to them. I don't know if they're going
to repurpose them or if they're going to make them
tear it all down. God, but it's gonna be interesting
to see. They're gonna have another quarter parents at some
point soon to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
All right, here's some more information on it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
This could be a big, big deal for veterans and
even a bigger deal for UCLA and Brentwood School that
have been built building on this property over there, this
veterans property in Westwood.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
Judge in this case is clearly frustrated about the lack
of accountability on homelessness, especially veteran homelessness. Now this ruling
could erase that problem.
Speaker 16 (19:14):
There isn't another place on the planet other than the
United States where a group of people who are essentially
powerless can take on their government and obtain a result
of this magnitude.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, this is huge, huge win for the veterans.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
A historic one hundred and twenty four page decision from
federal Judge David o'carter that could change the West Los
Angeles VA forever and according to the veterans who sued
the VA, and one could actually end veteran homelessness in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 17 (19:44):
Today marks the first step towards along road and getting
that land back to its intended purpose.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
As a soldier's home for disabled veterans.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
The lawsuit alleged the VA had entered into illegal land
use agreements with businesses and institutions that surround the VA's campus,
including the elite private school, the Brentwood School, which leases
twenty two acres for their sports facility, and UCLA, which
leases ten acres for their.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Baseball facility, Jackie Robinson Stadium.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
In the federal trial, the VA argued that they had
run out of space on their campus to house veterans,
but Judge Carter said the problem was one of the
VA zone making.
Speaker 17 (20:18):
Judge Carter's ruling restores the three hundred and eighty eight
acres of land in West Los Angeles to its intended
purpose when deeded to the government in eighteen eighty eight,
to serve as a soldier's home, a soldier's community.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
They should be reserved for veterans and the soldiers.
Speaker 17 (20:36):
For all disabled veterans, not as a playground for UCLA
baseball players and Brentput High School students.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
Judge Carter's ruling also orders the VA to build seven
hundred and fifty units of temporary housing within twelve to
eighteen months and form a plan within six months to
add another eighteen hundred units of permanent housing. In a statement,
Brentwood School said, it contends that our lease complies with
federal lias according to the twenty sixteen West La Leasing Act.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I'm sure there's going to be an appeal here because
Brentwood School has a lot of great lawyers whose kids
go to Brentwood, and UCLA has a lot of great
lawyers as well.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
They're going to try to fight this.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
And they're all saying that they've been using the acuse saying, well,
we've been providing sort of education and we allow to
veterans and allow them to use some of the facilities.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Oh yeah, right, yeah, God almighty.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
While we are still examining the full implications of the ruling,
it would be a significant loss for many veterans if
the extensive services we provide were eliminated. And the VA
said that they are reviewing the decision and doing everything
in their power to end veteran homelessness. A court appointed
monitor will make sure that the VA complies with this ruling.
(21:48):
And it is unclear at this point what will happen
to the millions of dollars of existing operational facilities that
are currently on that least land.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, what are they going to do and make them
take it down? Take all those facilities down or just
convert them into housing for veterans. I don't know, but man,
that's a huge, huge ruling, all right, California land movement.
Geologists say the California is at risk of dangerous land movement.
(22:17):
And you know, so we have a lot of things
to worry about here in southern California. Heat taxes, money taxes,
you know, gas prices, prices for food, price for lodging,
price for transportation. Everything is very expensive here in southern California.
And now we might have something else to worry about.
We'll come back. I'll tell you about it. But it's
(22:39):
the geologist say that California is at risk of dangerous
land movement.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
We'll tell you where when we come back.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
We got a lot to worry about here in southern California.
The heat, it's expensive, it's dangerous, a lot of crime,
a lot of people getting whacked down the streets. And
now geologists say that California is at risk of dangerous
land movement.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Geological experts remind us that the ground beneath us is
moving all the time, everywhere. Take, for example, the property here.
This is the old city hall in San Clementi. The
city put it up for sale three years ago and
it's still for sale.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Do you have a spectacular backdrop where you really get
to see what San.
Speaker 16 (23:26):
Clement is all about? You?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, but it's sliding.
Speaker 14 (23:29):
The view from the former city hall building in San
Clemente is spectacular, But look a little deeper and you'll
understand why the city says no one is buying it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You've got a significant amount of earth movement.
Speaker 14 (23:40):
The hillside now covers some of the parking spaces. An
example of instability in the ground, the city says, was
found during a geological survey of the properties sale in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
The high cost of potentially stabilizing that hillside to make
it safe almost wipes out, really any benefit you might
get from selling the.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Property, right and thing is guaranteed that that's gonna work.
You know, you can put ten million dollars to try
to stabilize that hillside that could still move on you.
Speaker 14 (24:07):
Geological science experts say the severe land movement here and
in highly tectonic places like Rancho Palace Verdi's are threats
that have been brewing for hundreds even thousands of years.
Speaker 12 (24:18):
Everything's moving in sort of imperceptible amounts.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Gravity is always at work.
Speaker 14 (24:22):
Jonathan Gott runs the Landslide's hazards program for the USGS,
which is not involved in the Rancho Palace Verty situation,
but is watching it closely.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's really a tragic situation.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I mean, these are resonances in fuels, lives that are
disrupted by a geologic process.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, it's really bad. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
All right, there's another phenomenon out there that's taking off.
I see it all the time when I got to restaurants,
and I do it occasionally myself, eating alone.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Eating alone.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know, back in the old days, when you didn't
have your cell phone, you sort of look like a
loser eating alone. But now with your cell phone, you
can keep busy and people don't judge you. You're like, oh,
that guy's just with a cell phone doing work or whatever,
and he's eating alone, and it's going to cost you
half as much is if you were eating with your
wife or husband or significant dollar.
Speaker 18 (25:12):
Well, there's a growing trend of people going to restaurants
and eating by themselves.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Ah, the best way to go eating alone.
Speaker 18 (25:20):
According to a restaurant reservation site, Open Table, solo dining
reservations in the US are up twenty nine percent over
the last two years. The CEO of Open Table thinks
remote work is one reason for the increase, with diners
looking for a respite from their home office. Population trends
also explain the increase. In twenty nineteen, the Pew Research
(25:40):
Center found thirty eight percent of US adults ages twenty
five to fifty four, we're living without a partner.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
In other cases, so okay, what percentage are living without
a partner?
Speaker 18 (25:50):
Thirty eight percent of US adults ages twenty five to
fifty four, we're living without a partner.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Thirty eight percent. That's high.
Speaker 18 (25:58):
In other cases, solo don just want to treat themselves
or experience a new restaurant.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Over the years, I've seen it become more and more popular,
sort of as the stigma of dining loan has faded.
Speaker 15 (26:10):
And when you're by yourself, I think you can notice
so much more right about the ambiance, about the service
that you're getting, about the food you can order whatever
you want.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You know, what they should have they should have tables
called the Loser's table where it's just a table for one.
It looks like a desk in junior high and it's
just table for one.
Speaker 15 (26:30):
Which is a mom Often is not the case when
I dine with my family.
Speaker 18 (26:34):
Restaurants were also embracing the shift. When a solo diner
orders a cocktail at some restaurants, pull the bartender. We'll
come over and show you the different components. Shake the
cocktail and pour it for you.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Table you go, table for one. Mo Kelly joins us
is Friday? Yes, I heard, I was listening earlier this week,
and I don't know whether it's a repeat or you
just threw a curve ball at me.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
But did you do the movies on Wednesday? Or no?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
No, no, no no. I did a review of Gary, the
Gary Coleman Story.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Which is on Peacock. Oh that must have.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Been it, yeah, but no, no, no, we're doing the
movies tonight. It's Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's very popular, Buddy, that's a very popular segment.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And we're gonna be giving away later with Mokelly key
chains tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oh that's cool, excellent. What's on the big show? What
else going down? Well, we have to talk about the
LA homicide rate.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Good news. Bad news. Good news is it's down. Oh good,
that's great. Bad news is people are still getting murdered.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Oh yeah, right you and I also love I was
listening to you the other day when I think it
was ron Or talking about working the referees with Metro.
You know, they will talk to everybody, but you yeah, Metro.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Look, look if they have an issue with me, they
know where to find me. But you know, talking to
my friends, talking to my co workers, that's not really
going to get them the type of response that they're
looking for, right.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And I also enjoyed the review of Tuala and his
first cruise. He seemed to really enjoy that. He genuinely did.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He genuinely did, And I'm looking forward to see what
his next choice of cruises is going to be.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
And you know, they can't build these ships fast enough.
Disney owns three or four major cruise ships and they've
ordered three more.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
People don't know that the cruise tourism industry has exploded
since the end of the pandemic and people are choosing
that as a way to have a vacation as opposed
to other traditional vacations.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And you're a veteran of cruise you're a cruiser veteran,
so you probably get these invitations. But I heard and
you can tell me whether it's true or not. You
have the year to the ground when it comes to cruising.
But these new ships that come out and the maiden voyage,
let's say it's in November of this year, it's impossible
for a newbie to get on that ship. They always
offer to veterans. Oh, absolutely, that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I'm being bombarded for I think it's going to be
like Oasis of the Sea's Royal Caribbean which is coming
to la and some of twenty twenty five, and they're
and they're allowing the people who are previous cruisers or
spent money with them. You know, there's certain level members
have first shot at it.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Is it worth getting the all you can drink pay
for by or is it worth just buying drapes.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It depends on how much you think you're going to drink.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
If you just allow a drink a lot of definitely
get the drink package, because if you buy them one
at a time, you may spend thirteen fourteen dollars a drink,
as opposed to let's say a six hundred dollars package,
which may admortise to, you know, twenty dollars a day, right, Oh,
I see you.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Know well, I mean, look, if if you're a real,
you know, professional alcoholic, you can buy noon You're even.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Here's the truth. And I'm not a professional alcoholic. I'm
more like dabble on the weekends. When you get on
the ship, you realize that if you drink like you
did on the land on land you you.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Would be out.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, so the drinks are not as strong regardous because like,
wait a minute, why is it I'm on drink ten
and still talking without a slur.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
There's something different. I can't put my finger on it.
That might be it. Yeah, yeah, that might be it.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But I got to get on a cruise every I
don't know anybody that's been on a cruise that didn't
say they have the best time of their life.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Look, I don't know what to say. It's something that
I love to do, and I don't make any apologies
for it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, and I'd love you know, back in the old days,
they would say, okay, everyone get on the ship at
four o'clock and there's a line of twelve hundred people.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Now they stagger them. They give you a time.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
There's a time in which you're supposed to show up
at the dock. You can get on the ship, and
there's a time that you're supposed to get off the ship.
Oh really, Yeah, they try to stagger so it's not
literally four thousand people trying to get on at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, that's cool, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Buddy, I'll be listening Moe Kelly's Whole Crew right now
on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Now, you can always hear us live
k f I AM six forty four to seven pm
Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio 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. A lot of
crime in southern California. I don't know if it's gonna
increase during the heat. I think even the criminals will
take the night off. Maybe who knows. But I'm not
a specialist. I don't know anything about crime. I just
know there's a lot of it, so we have to
(00:22):
talk to specials. We have talked to guys and gals
who are out there dealing with this crap all the time.
So we're gonna have a lieutenant from LAPD, retired Detective
Dan Perez, is with us.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Detective are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I did very well.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Thanks for coming on. Man. Hotter than hell? Does that
mean an increase or a decrease in crime?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, I think this hot is a decrease.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, good.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Even the guys don't want to, you know, break into
smoke shops when it's this hot.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
No, sir, Hey, how do we protect our homes?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I know you're not a big advocate of having cameras
because then you just have a picture of people robbing
your crap. How can we protect our homes? And really
have it mean anything?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Well, I heard you last week when someone else you're
talking to you about the cameras. And when I was
in the department for La City, I worked as a
robbery detective, burglary detective. I handled also to homicide and
home invasions, and always told me that the I mean
(01:30):
cameras are always great. But the thing is we would
we would be provided with the individual that or individuals
that came inside your home. They beat you with a weapon,
he assaulted your family members, sometimes even even killing them,
and we were provided with a picture and then from
(01:52):
the picture where we tried to identify the individual and
and take them in the custody and send them away.
But there's there's h system now that I like, and
what it is is it's his cameras, but it's at
the exterior of your home. So what they do is
they plays like an invisible fence around your home and
(02:16):
they monitor live monitoring while you're sleeping. But it's not
necessarily staring just at your cameras. What do they do
is they wait for something to cross the invisible fence
and it sends them a notification to the monitor and
he knows to jump on those cameras and see what's
taking place. And what he could do is he could
talk to the individual saying, hey, you in the blue
(02:38):
pants and a white T shirt. You know, the police
are on the way. You need to leave, or sometimes,
depending on the position of their vehicle, they can even
say hey you again in the blue pants and white
T shirt driving the blue and white four door Chevy
license plate one two three ABC, the police are on
their way. And I always thought something like that was
(03:01):
better because it's it catches them before they come into
your home, sure, versus they're in your home. Now, what
do you do?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Right?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
That is it?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's a great idea. I always also detective I heard
from a career criminal. I think he was on the
Howard Stern Show one day in and out of prison
for thirty years, and he had he said, there's a
there's a sort of an informal rule when breaking into
somebody's house. If there's an American flag flying on the outside,
there's a gun on the inside. Is that is that
(03:34):
rule of thumb pretty accurate?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I think it's fifty to fifty, but it's probably one
hundred percent if it's a Trump flag.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, right, If it's a Trump flag. You guarantee there's
ninety guns on the inside.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Correct, that's great.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
But the oars systems like that also out there. And
I do have a few more tists.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Sure, that'd be great. Anything you have to offer would
be great.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And because we also go out to talk to law
offices or the nurses at USCMC and try to just
give tips on how.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
To prevent someone from getting into your place, especially single females.
So one thing I would suggest was, and I hope
no bad guys are listening, but what I would suggest
was get two big dog bowls and dishes. And what
you do is you put then you're right, Bruno on
(04:33):
one and Brutus on the other, and you put them
at your front door.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And then another thing you'd do is you would go
to the good Will and find the biggest size work
boots you could find, like someone wearing fourteen or sixteen
types foot boots, and you put those boots right next
to the two dog dishes. So if someone is staking
out your apartment or your house, and most bad guys
(05:01):
do you know, before they go break in, they're they're
gonna look for a dog. Sure to see, you know,
because they were also they're looking for us the easiest
way to gain access to your house. So a lots
of times they'll see and then uh, they were to
see two big dog dishes, and then they see, wow,
that's a big guys out of the house too, because
he looked at his work boots.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Then they may just go to another house.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And and what about what about these uh you know,
there's a couple of companies that have these screen doors
that are really heavy duty. We have on our house
and and they seem to to do the job or
at least, you know, deter people from coming in. Do
you like the bars on the window and the heavy
screen doors.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, yes, I I like those. I've seen those two.
And actually I was considering also getting those places and
ours our home also. And you know, like you mentioned
something else an easy effect. We were just about three
weeks ago my father was father in law's house. Someone
tried to get into his home and my sister in
(06:05):
law was up watching TV I about eleven thirty pm,
and she thought she heard some cats going through the
trash cans. So then she thought that's trying to get
at one of the sliding glass windows in the kitchen.
So she went over there and she went she was
going to hit the window with her hand to scare
(06:27):
out the cat. And as she went to hit the window,
she actually touched someone's hand. He was trying to come
through and he had had slide open the kitchen window.
So she actually touched his hand and she screamed at him,
and then he took off running. But another thing that
I never really paid attention to his housing for is
(06:49):
you can go to Walmart or Target. They got those
little censers that you could put on your windows. My
father went out and went, I believe, went the home
for ten dollars. You got two little sensors. Okay, and
you can put him on the windows or the doors
and and well, and then you can sit the alarm. Uh.
(07:10):
So like if so, what I instructed co I would
do is I put him on his two doors and
like four of his windows. And I said, at night,
you just go around and put put the alarms on.
Oh that's great, and then when you wake up in
the morning, then you just shut the alarm off. My tones,
it's a little inconvenience, but yet you know, in the
middle of night. If you hear the siren or the
screeching of these little sensors, you know someone's trying to
(07:34):
get in through a window or open your door.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's a great idea, buddy. I really appreciate you coming on.
Let's have you on again. But those are great tips.
And uh and you know I thank you for how
many years were you.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
In the LAPD Almost twenty one? Twenty one?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh, that's great. Good for you, buddy. I a hell
of a job with lap Really appreciate you coming on.
Let's have you back on sometime soon.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Absolutely, thank you for the best.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Sorry, there he goes, man, that guy's great.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
What a great tis Those are great tips from Detective
Dan Perez, retired LAPD.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And that's that's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, go get the big dog bowls, big work boots,
put to the front of the house. Get your screen doors.
Have you do any screen doors? And the censors for
the windows you can.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Think about that. That's a great idea as well.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on Demyana from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It continues to be hotter than hell. It's going to
be hot all weekend long.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
See real quick. We just got a notification from USC.
They're sending out to everybody in the area that the
LAPD is looking for a man with a possible weapon
in the area there. They say it's in Ellendale Place
and Orchard Avenue and they're telling people stay indoors if
you're in the area.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Otherwise avoid the area.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
And if you see anything suspicious, called nine to one one.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
And where is that USC USC.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
USC Trojans alert was sent out again in the area
of Ellendale Place and Orchard Avenue there in the campus.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
All right, we will keep an ear on that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They are on high a line whenever there is a
shooting for copycat criminals and so USC is on top
of that. We will keep you updated on that as well.
Really tough to be alive in this country nowadays. Got almighty,
got to watch out for everybody and everything. Oh a
lot of pressure, a lot of pressure to do the
(09:20):
right thing in this country right now. To pay your bills,
raise your kids properly, go to work, pay your taxes,
save for retirement possibly, you know, take a day off
once in a while, pay all your bills.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And then you go outside and it's hotter than hell.
A lot of temperature is still at this hour, over
one hundred degrees at Water one four Bakersfield one oh one,
Banning one ten, one hundred and twelve in Burbank, California.
That's one of the hot spots in the country. Calabasas
won twelve. Let's see what who else is at one
(09:57):
hundred here I Chino one oh nine, Claremont, where Krozier
lays his head every night, one o eight one one
oh well, you're off by seven degrees, yeh. Coachella one
oh nine. Out of Coachella, Cottonwood, where the hell that
(10:17):
is one O three, Crestline one twelve, and it goes
on and on. Almonte one eleven in Sino won twelve.
Fontana won twelve, one sixteen in Death Valley, Death Valley,
one hundred and sixteen degrees man today. Yeah, it's the
(10:39):
same as Burbank. You're right, the exact same temperature as Burbank.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Here's what you know.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It's hot at this on the south shore of Lake Tahoe,
eighty two degrees.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It never gets that hot up there ever.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Silmar one thirteen in Silmar right now, one hundred and
thirteen degrees. Tracy one O four. I don't send any
local places here. That's about anyway there, it's one hundred.
Everywhere you look in southern California, you're looking at close
to one hundred degrees. So we got three more days
(11:12):
of this and then hopefully it's over. Hopefully, but you
never know, you never know. But all right, let's talk
about something else here. Spirit Airlines is coming to Burbank
to for another route, another easy way to get to
the Bay Area from Burbank, California.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Spirit Airlines is adding more daily cheap flights from Burbank
to San Jose, and to celebrate the new route, Spirit
is offering thirty nine dollars one way tickets that are
on sale today Wow. The travel is valid from September
twenty fifth until November nineteenth. Also, Spirit travelers are being
urged to check out the Spirits Enhanced guest service options
(11:56):
that include the flexibility of no change.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Or can fees.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
There you go, but you'll have to pay for everything else.
You know, you bring a person, you bring your wallet.
I think there's a key charge if you bring your
car keys on board. I think they nail you for
that as well. All right, heat, this extreme heat that
we're all going through, and we're all going through it together.
You know, this is nobody's avoiding this. They're calling it
California's extreme heat. They're calling it a silent disaster here
(12:23):
in southern California. The problem is.
Speaker 11 (12:25):
That it takes almost two weeks of slowly acclimating to
a hot temperature like this for a body of some
of an athlete to be able to tolerate it.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
So our issue is that we don't have fourteen days.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
We suddenly got this overnight and it's even hot at night.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, it's definitely the hottest lize.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It seemed like to me in many years in La.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
All right, what can you do about it?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
There's stuff called heat trees, using trees to reduce the heat.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
It's too late, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
Day's like today's shade can be a real game changer.
But the experts say if I just step out of
the shade and into the sunlight different when it's in
temperature could be as much as twenty degrees. And that
is why the push is on to get more trees planted.
Take a walk these days and you'll probably notice you're
a bit warmer and sweaty.
Speaker 13 (13:11):
That's right, entering into unprecedented extremes, you know, longer heat waves,
hotter heat waves, more frequent heat waves.
Speaker 12 (13:20):
Edith Dea Guzman is a researcher for the UCLA Cooperative
Extension and one of the organizers of this.
Speaker 14 (13:26):
The twenty twenty two Scoping Plant was the first time that.
Speaker 15 (13:30):
Lands or nature based solutions were included.
Speaker 12 (13:34):
A statewide symposium in Arcadia called Urban Forestry for Changing Times,
bringing experts in community members together to find the best
ways to bring more of these into neighborhoods and cities
as a whole.
Speaker 13 (13:46):
Trees are not just decorative, but actually essential for keeping
us cool.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Research shows that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Also, if you have fiight as trees. We have a
couple of beIN in our yard. You'll notice that the
tops of them made burn at a one hundred and
fifteen one hundred and sixteen degrees. Don't cut them down.
I don't throw them away. They haven't died. They'll come
back in the spring, you know. Just trim them back,
trim all the dead leaves off the tree, and most
(14:13):
likely they will come back in spring of next year
and they'll be beautiful again. But don't dismiss them like
you've killed them or they've died. They are just the exterior.
It doesn't look good. They look like they're burned to death,
but they're not. They will come back. If they're thick
and healthy and you water them properly, they will come back.
Speaker 16 (14:32):
Tee.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
We just got an update on this issue with USC.
The laped is apparently arrested. A suspect was in the
area the Ellendale Place on Orchard Avenue near USC. There
go at PD's going to stay in the area to
just do its investigation. No longer necessary to avoid that
area in USC.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Excellent, all right, the good guys have won, at least
for now.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
So that's great news. That is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's exactly what people want to hear who are listening
to KFI, because I imagine there are a lot of
parents whose kids go to USC and they hear something
like that and they start freaking out and they start
thinking about the worst, what is going on with USC,
And a lot of people pay a lot of money
to put their kids at USC, and they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Want are very lindsay here, lindsay go to USC. I
didn't know that. Yeah, what do you study at USC.
Hold on, let me here.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Obviously not Radio Public Relations and Advertising master's program.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Oh you're getting your masters?
Speaker 10 (15:32):
Yes, I am, why.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Smart kid? And is that in two year program?
Speaker 15 (15:38):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And what did you start just recently two weeks ago? Okay?
Are you living on campus or off campus?
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Off campus?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
USC?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm not familiar with that school. Do they have a
football team?
Speaker 16 (15:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Huge football team?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Oh they do. Oh just go look at that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Is this your first time? Did you go to USC
before for undergraduate?
Speaker 11 (15:56):
No?
Speaker 10 (15:56):
I went to Chapman.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Okay, Chapman's beautiful school and very expensive as well. Yes, yeah,
and so this is going to be another expense for
mom or.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Dad or you me?
Speaker 16 (16:07):
You?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, did they give you a break at all?
Speaker 10 (16:11):
A little bit?
Speaker 15 (16:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (16:11):
They gave me a loan, but like it's still really expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Like, can we ask how much? You'd rather not say?
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Honestly, I like I don't remember because I like blacked
it out.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh really? Oh wow, that's not good either. But you
have any idea what it was close to? I mean
what ballpark?
Speaker 10 (16:30):
I think for this year they gave me like twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Thousand Okay, yeah, right, just take the money to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Double it strove to college.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, for real, you can learn more from Bellio about
PR than you could at USC.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Okay, she's a specialist.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
She's great at social media, she's a great person when
it comes to PR. Stick with Bellio. Give her the
twenty grand. She'll teach everything she does.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Okay, I will do that.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Thanks, all right, Yeah you got it. I get half that, Belly,
I get half. I got half that. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
About ten minutes ago, Krozer informed us that there was
some kind of threat on the USC campus.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
That's over.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
They've arrested somebody and go back to enjoy yourself. You
got work, man, Yeah, they're on them. They got their guy,
all right. VA Housing, Kroz, I know you're all over
this story. The VA Housing. From what I understand, they're
building housing on the VA property. There By they were
sued because any housing that's built there should be for veterans,
(17:38):
not for you UCLA student.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yeah, they've been leasing it out for years. We got
our own Michael. Michael Monks has been on that story today.
But they've they have been leasing out the property. The
VA has to UCLA, and I think it was Brentwood
School and a couple other places as well.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
And in all that time.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
These schools have built structures and crete structures on these things.
So this federal judge today told him that you that's illegal.
Those leases are illegal because you're putting your your leasing
them out. You're basically selling them, right, So the veterans
are not getting the benefit of what the VA is
supposed to provide.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
So those leases are illegal.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
And he's making them build enough structures for I think
it's twenty five hundred veterans. That's oh good, Yeah, that's great.
He did it on a pretty quick timeline too. He
ordered that at least I think it was like six
or eight hundred be built almost immediately, and the rest
of them built wouldin say, sixteen eighteen months.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
The question is is that there's all these structures that
are on these properties or this property, and what's going
to happen to them. I don't know if they're going
to repurpose them or if they're going to make them
tear it all down. God, but it's gonna be interesting
to see. They're gonna have another quarter parents at some
point soon to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
All right, here's some more information on it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
This could be a big, big deal for veterans and
even a bigger deal for UCLA and Brentwood School that
have been built building on this property over there, this
veterans property in Westwood.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
Judge in this case is clearly frustrated about the lack
of accountability on homelessness, especially veteran homelessness. Now this ruling
could erase that problem.
Speaker 16 (19:14):
There isn't another place on the planet other than the
United States where a group of people who are essentially
powerless can take on their government and obtain a result
of this magnitude.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, this is huge, huge win for the veterans.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
A historic one hundred and twenty four page decision from
federal Judge David o'carter that could change the West Los
Angeles VA forever and according to the veterans who sued
the VA, and one could actually end veteran homelessness in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 17 (19:44):
Today marks the first step towards along road and getting
that land back to its intended purpose.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
As a soldier's home for disabled veterans.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
The lawsuit alleged the VA had entered into illegal land
use agreements with businesses and institutions that surround the VA's campus,
including the elite private school, the Brentwood School, which leases
twenty two acres for their sports facility, and UCLA, which
leases ten acres for their.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Baseball facility, Jackie Robinson Stadium.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
In the federal trial, the VA argued that they had
run out of space on their campus to house veterans,
but Judge Carter said the problem was one of the
VA zone making.
Speaker 17 (20:18):
Judge Carter's ruling restores the three hundred and eighty eight
acres of land in West Los Angeles to its intended
purpose when deeded to the government in eighteen eighty eight,
to serve as a soldier's home, a soldier's community.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
They should be reserved for veterans and the soldiers.
Speaker 17 (20:36):
For all disabled veterans, not as a playground for UCLA
baseball players and Brentput High School students.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
Judge Carter's ruling also orders the VA to build seven
hundred and fifty units of temporary housing within twelve to
eighteen months and form a plan within six months to
add another eighteen hundred units of permanent housing. In a statement,
Brentwood School said, it contends that our lease complies with
federal lias according to the twenty sixteen West La Leasing Act.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I'm sure there's going to be an appeal here because
Brentwood School has a lot of great lawyers whose kids
go to Brentwood, and UCLA has a lot of great
lawyers as well.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
They're going to try to fight this.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
And they're all saying that they've been using the acuse saying, well,
we've been providing sort of education and we allow to
veterans and allow them to use some of the facilities.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Oh yeah, right, yeah, God almighty.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
While we are still examining the full implications of the ruling,
it would be a significant loss for many veterans if
the extensive services we provide were eliminated. And the VA
said that they are reviewing the decision and doing everything
in their power to end veteran homelessness. A court appointed
monitor will make sure that the VA complies with this ruling.
(21:48):
And it is unclear at this point what will happen
to the millions of dollars of existing operational facilities that
are currently on that least land.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, what are they going to do and make them
take it down? Take all those facilities down or just
convert them into housing for veterans. I don't know, but man,
that's a huge, huge ruling, all right, California land movement.
Geologists say the California is at risk of dangerous land movement.
(22:17):
And you know, so we have a lot of things
to worry about here in southern California. Heat taxes, money taxes,
you know, gas prices, prices for food, price for lodging,
price for transportation. Everything is very expensive here in southern California.
And now we might have something else to worry about.
We'll come back. I'll tell you about it. But it's
(22:39):
the geologist say that California is at risk of dangerous
land movement.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
We'll tell you where when we come back.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
We got a lot to worry about here in southern California.
The heat, it's expensive, it's dangerous, a lot of crime,
a lot of people getting whacked down the streets. And
now geologists say that California is at risk of dangerous
land movement.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Geological experts remind us that the ground beneath us is
moving all the time, everywhere. Take, for example, the property here.
This is the old city hall in San Clementi. The
city put it up for sale three years ago and
it's still for sale.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Do you have a spectacular backdrop where you really get
to see what San.
Speaker 16 (23:26):
Clement is all about? You?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, but it's sliding.
Speaker 14 (23:29):
The view from the former city hall building in San
Clemente is spectacular, But look a little deeper and you'll
understand why the city says no one is buying it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You've got a significant amount of earth movement.
Speaker 14 (23:40):
The hillside now covers some of the parking spaces. An
example of instability in the ground, the city says, was
found during a geological survey of the properties sale in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
The high cost of potentially stabilizing that hillside to make
it safe almost wipes out, really any benefit you might
get from selling the.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Property, right and thing is guaranteed that that's gonna work.
You know, you can put ten million dollars to try
to stabilize that hillside that could still move on you.
Speaker 14 (24:07):
Geological science experts say the severe land movement here and
in highly tectonic places like Rancho Palace Verdi's are threats
that have been brewing for hundreds even thousands of years.
Speaker 12 (24:18):
Everything's moving in sort of imperceptible amounts.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Gravity is always at work.
Speaker 14 (24:22):
Jonathan Gott runs the Landslide's hazards program for the USGS,
which is not involved in the Rancho Palace Verty situation,
but is watching it closely.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's really a tragic situation.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I mean, these are resonances in fuels, lives that are
disrupted by a geologic process.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, it's really bad. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
All right, there's another phenomenon out there that's taking off.
I see it all the time when I got to restaurants,
and I do it occasionally myself, eating alone.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Eating alone.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know, back in the old days, when you didn't
have your cell phone, you sort of look like a
loser eating alone. But now with your cell phone, you
can keep busy and people don't judge you. You're like, oh,
that guy's just with a cell phone doing work or whatever,
and he's eating alone, and it's going to cost you
half as much is if you were eating with your
wife or husband or significant dollar.
Speaker 18 (25:12):
Well, there's a growing trend of people going to restaurants
and eating by themselves.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Ah, the best way to go eating alone.
Speaker 18 (25:20):
According to a restaurant reservation site, Open Table, solo dining
reservations in the US are up twenty nine percent over
the last two years. The CEO of Open Table thinks
remote work is one reason for the increase, with diners
looking for a respite from their home office. Population trends
also explain the increase. In twenty nineteen, the Pew Research
(25:40):
Center found thirty eight percent of US adults ages twenty
five to fifty four, we're living without a partner.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
In other cases, so okay, what percentage are living without
a partner?
Speaker 18 (25:50):
Thirty eight percent of US adults ages twenty five to
fifty four, we're living without a partner.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Thirty eight percent. That's high.
Speaker 18 (25:58):
In other cases, solo don just want to treat themselves
or experience a new restaurant.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Over the years, I've seen it become more and more popular,
sort of as the stigma of dining loan has faded.
Speaker 15 (26:10):
And when you're by yourself, I think you can notice
so much more right about the ambiance, about the service
that you're getting, about the food you can order whatever
you want.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You know, what they should have they should have tables
called the Loser's table where it's just a table for one.
It looks like a desk in junior high and it's
just table for one.
Speaker 15 (26:30):
Which is a mom Often is not the case when
I dine with my family.
Speaker 18 (26:34):
Restaurants were also embracing the shift. When a solo diner
orders a cocktail at some restaurants, pull the bartender. We'll
come over and show you the different components. Shake the
cocktail and pour it for you.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Table you go, table for one. Mo Kelly joins us
is Friday? Yes, I heard, I was listening earlier this week,
and I don't know whether it's a repeat or you
just threw a curve ball at me.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
But did you do the movies on Wednesday? Or no?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
No, no, no no. I did a review of Gary, the
Gary Coleman Story.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Which is on Peacock. Oh that must have.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Been it, yeah, but no, no, no, we're doing the
movies tonight. It's Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's very popular, Buddy, that's a very popular segment.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And we're gonna be giving away later with Mokelly key
chains tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oh that's cool, excellent. What's on the big show? What
else going down? Well, we have to talk about the
LA homicide rate.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Good news. Bad news. Good news is it's down. Oh good,
that's great. Bad news is people are still getting murdered.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Oh yeah, right you and I also love I was
listening to you the other day when I think it
was ron Or talking about working the referees with Metro.
You know, they will talk to everybody, but you yeah, Metro.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Look, look if they have an issue with me, they
know where to find me. But you know, talking to
my friends, talking to my co workers, that's not really
going to get them the type of response that they're
looking for, right.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And I also enjoyed the review of Tuala and his
first cruise. He seemed to really enjoy that. He genuinely did.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He genuinely did, And I'm looking forward to see what
his next choice of cruises is going to be.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
And you know, they can't build these ships fast enough.
Disney owns three or four major cruise ships and they've
ordered three more.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
People don't know that the cruise tourism industry has exploded
since the end of the pandemic and people are choosing
that as a way to have a vacation as opposed
to other traditional vacations.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And you're a veteran of cruise you're a cruiser veteran,
so you probably get these invitations. But I heard and
you can tell me whether it's true or not. You
have the year to the ground when it comes to cruising.
But these new ships that come out and the maiden voyage,
let's say it's in November of this year, it's impossible
for a newbie to get on that ship. They always
offer to veterans. Oh, absolutely, that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I'm being bombarded for I think it's going to be
like Oasis of the Sea's Royal Caribbean which is coming
to la and some of twenty twenty five, and they're
and they're allowing the people who are previous cruisers or
spent money with them. You know, there's certain level members
have first shot at it.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Is it worth getting the all you can drink pay
for by or is it worth just buying drapes.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It depends on how much you think you're going to drink.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
If you just allow a drink a lot of definitely
get the drink package, because if you buy them one
at a time, you may spend thirteen fourteen dollars a drink,
as opposed to let's say a six hundred dollars package,
which may admortise to, you know, twenty dollars a day, right, Oh,
I see you.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Know well, I mean, look, if if you're a real,
you know, professional alcoholic, you can buy noon You're even.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Here's the truth. And I'm not a professional alcoholic. I'm
more like dabble on the weekends. When you get on
the ship, you realize that if you drink like you
did on the land on land you you.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Would be out.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, so the drinks are not as strong regardous because like,
wait a minute, why is it I'm on drink ten
and still talking without a slur.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
There's something different. I can't put my finger on it.
That might be it. Yeah, yeah, that might be it.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But I got to get on a cruise every I
don't know anybody that's been on a cruise that didn't
say they have the best time of their life.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Look, I don't know what to say. It's something that
I love to do, and I don't make any apologies
for it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, and I'd love you know, back in the old days,
they would say, okay, everyone get on the ship at
four o'clock and there's a line of twelve hundred people.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Now they stagger them. They give you a time.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
There's a time in which you're supposed to show up
at the dock. You can get on the ship, and
there's a time that you're supposed to get off the ship.
Oh really, Yeah, they try to stagger so it's not
literally four thousand people trying to get on at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, that's cool, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Buddy, I'll be listening Moe Kelly's Whole Crew right now
on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Now, you can always hear us live
k f I AM six forty four to seven pm
Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Tim Conway Jr. on Demand News
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.