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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. One of my
buddies flies for ABC seven. His name is Chris Christie.
He's been up in the air since this these fires started.
He's done an unbelievable job. I think he was the
first one to alert everybody about the Sunset fire in
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Hollywood while it's going about that.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Chris, Welcome to KAFI. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
How you doing? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Buddy? What a week? How many hours of day did
you spend in the air?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
This might be a record.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I gotta tell you. I'm on my tenth day straight
and we've been doing a good six seven hours a day,
so it's been uh, it's been a marathon.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Were you the first person on first helicopter and first
notification to everybody on the on the Sunset fire?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, yeah, we sure were. We were.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
We were flying over the Pacific Palisades and surveying the
damage there. You know, the smoke was just starting to
clear for us, and.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We looked off into distance.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
My Pilo, Johnny and I were looking towards the east
and we spotted that little speck down the Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Wow, flew out towards it.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And I got to tell you it, within a few
minutes that thing, that thing blew up, really exploded fast.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It was crazy, and they did a hell of a
job keeping it. You know, north of Fountain, north of Sunset,
all those streets down there that could have been that
could have wiped out Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was, it was.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It was a potential nightmare. It really was.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Had that broken out a few hours earlier, or ten
or two, or even a day earlier, my goodness, I mean,
I used it's not out of a question. I mean,
Hollywood could look like the Palisades, and it was. It
was just one of the one of the most frightening things.
But I mean they were so aggressive with it. They
dispatched everybody there right away. And between the effort, and
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you know, the winds were you know, the winds were
blowing and it made no mistake about it. Maybe not
as bad as the night before, but they were blowing, right.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Could you what is the thresholder when are you not
allowed to take off? What is the wind speed that
affects you right.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Around forty five miles per hours where it just becomes
too unsafe? To take off, especially that vertical takeoff in
a helicopter. It's just a little bit too windy forty
five to fifty miles per hour max.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, so you probably were grounded then occasionally during during
the fires.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
That was the thing. It was heartbreaking.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You know, we were watching our ground crews out there
in the field in the Pacific house aides all night
on Tuesday, and you know, it was a real helpless
feeling for us because we just couldn't take off. We
were checking the winds and it was just getting windier
and windier throughout the night.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
What is the rule of thumb?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And how do you not you know, I guess infringe
on the fire fight itself with the helicopters and the planes.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
How far away do you have to stay?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So when these things break out In this case, we were,
you know, in the suns in the case of sunset,
we were the first ones there, so we were able
to really give viewers an up close view from a
pretty low altitude until the fire fighting apparatus arrived. Once
those helicopter and tankers show up and any given fire
immediate flight restriction, we give them plenty of space. We
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go up to like anywhere between five and sometimes ten
thousand feet over the mountains, and then we just kind of.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Have that bird's eye view.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And I got to tell you, Tim, it's been the
last ten days it's been like watching an air show
from above.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh I bet, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I also imagine at ten thousand feet it's colder than
hell up there too.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It has been the last couple of nights. It's yeah,
up that high, I mean, especially over the mountains. Sometimes
we'll even bring a tank of oxygen just because the
air gets so thin up there.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And how how long can you stay up with that
without refueling? What's the what's the what's the limit for you?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We're typically up there for about two two and a
half hours. We tend to save a little bit of
fuel when we're up that high, so we can kind
of stretch it a little bit when we're up around
ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And then when you do refuel.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Look, I'm like a you know, like a six year
old when it comes to these helicopters. But you are
there different locations. Can you go to Lax, Can you
go to Torrents? Can you go to Van Eye's Long Beach?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
We yeah, we have I mean We're lucky to be
in LA.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
We have all these airports at are Disposal on LAX's
avelop We typically go to Hawthorne. Hawthorne's a regular long beach,
John Wayne Van Eyes obviously Burbank.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Those are our main ones up in the Allow Valley.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We'll do Foxfield And is there a credit card? Do
you put in the machine and you do it yourself.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
We got we got the loyalty account at all of
our local airports.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
They treat us right. Yeah, it's pretty quick, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And and so when the fire helicopters come in, they
don't need you to tell them. They don't need you
to them to tell you, uh to stay out, you
know immediately.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, right right away, the pilots are talking to each other.
It's seeing a void system. But they normally right off
the bat, they'll set ground rules, you know, can you
get or sometimes their traffic control will step in and
set an altitude and we'll just we'll give them play
of space because they're operating relatively low, but we don't
take any chances. We hang a really high, give them
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plenty of room. And with these marathon fires like the
Palastaates fire and the Eating fire a lot of times,
not only is there a high restriction, but there's a
pretty far the pretty wide ring around the fire as well.
So sometimes we can actually get a little bit lower,
but stay on the outside of the perimeter and get
a different angle, especially with these smoky fires. The other thing,
with the Eating fire, it was another helpless situation because
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I know a lot of people were calling us and
asking us why we were covering the Palistates fire. And
it took a few days before we could get eyes
on the Eating fire. And that's because the smoke was
collecting and settling in the San Gabriel Valley. And the
problem there is that it was really tough to see. Obviously,
we can't see through the smoke. Sometimes we could look
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under the smoke and then get a side angle, but
with that Eating fire, there was just so much smoke
for days. We really didn't get a great look until
a couple days ago. And I got to tell you,
yesterday was the first day that I got really up
close to Alta Dina. And you could check out my
ex and my social I mean, we posted those videos.
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It's just unbelievable. You know, we were able to see
palisades within a couple of days, and you know, Palisades
is what maybe.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
About five miles wide.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Of damage, not including Malibu and pH but Alta Dina
from an area standpoint, was just so much.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
The devastation goes close to ten miles.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I imagine the first time you see this devastation that
you and your pilot are up in the helicopter and
you're both probably just speechless.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Speechless. I mean, this is one for the record books.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I mean, I've flown over the aftermath of plenty of
hurricanes and nothing comes close to this For me personally,
this is just nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But ash for miles.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Each and every house. And then you just attach the
stories and you just think about the trauma, the mental trauma,
and you just multiply at times thousands, I mean ten
thousand buildings, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I mean, like Jay Leno said the other night, you can.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Drive all day and not see ten thousand buildings. Yeah,
and to think of you know, it's just so much
loss at once. So it's just a just a real
it's devastating week for us.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Chris Christy's with US flies for ABC seven, and they've
been doing an unbelievable job day and night. And when
you're done with your six seven, eight hour shift. Does
somebody jump in the helicopter and take off, you know,
right after fuel or do they rest a helicopter for
a while.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, this is the big one for us. We've got
round the clock coverage. ABC's got two helicopters at the
ready all day, all day, every day. For the past
ten days. It's been NonStop, and we're not going to
stop until these winds calmed down.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Did obviously you saw the story of the drone hitting
one of these fixed wing you know, tankers and they
had to ground them for I think it was forty
eight hours. Have you seen any drones yourself up there.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We haven't seen the drones, especially from the altitude that
we're flying at. We hear reports of them. You know,
we've had our own little episodes with drones in the past.
You know, they've become you know, part of the problem
is these drone videos, especially over stuff like this, where
you know, the video goes viral and there's you know,
a lucrative motive for these drone owners to post this
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video owner and make money off of it.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It's become a.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Real problem for these firefighting apparatus, and I was really
surprised they were able to get that super scooper up
so quickly.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But you got to hand it to them. They really
patched it up.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, they already painted it and it's back up in
the air.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
They say that that plane was flying two and a
half hours after it got hit.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It didn't even know it was hit, which is incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You know, Chris, when you're flying up there and you
must have a natural instinct to want to call the
fire department and say, hey, there's a guy on C Street.
There's a guy on Elm Street. There's a guy on
you know, on on Main Street that needs your help.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I mean, you know, if it's happened.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You know, where we spot things that they're not aware of,
you know, obviously, you know that's where we try and
normally we try to not become the story.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
That's not our job.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
But when we see you know, life in peril, we
always uh yeah, fortunately we can just you know, just
a radio click away and we can get somebody over there.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
How many different cars have you seen Jay Leno in
over the years.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I've actually, you know, I've actually never seen Jay's cars
up close.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Okay, but I've heard the stories.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And and the job you guys did on the Sunset
fire to keep traffic you know, the traffic reports you did,
the fire report you did. Man, I don't know how
it gets any better than that. I think you got
You guys deserve a ton of credit for keeping Hollywood
safe during that Sunset fire.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Well, it was it was gratifying to be up there
because I mean we were at the right place at
the right time, in a position to deliver those pictures
and get the word out. And you know, I think
it worked because people got out pretty quick. I mean
we saw right away as we were alive on the air,
you could see the cars filling up, the streets filling up,
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and everybody did the right thing.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It's really it's it's I mean, there's nothing scarier for
these people. And I mean I have my own friends
that live in that area. Some live a moholland some
lived down below. I had a couple of friends came
over to my plight, my place to evacuate. I feel
like everybody knows somebody. But yeah, that was just one
of those situations where we were able to, you know,
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have a real effect in real time, not only with
the people who live in the neighborhood. But obviously I
think we played a critical role for the fire department
who I was able to have eyes from our perspective.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
One hundred percent. This might not be the day for it,
but maybe you'd come back one day. I'd love for
you to tell the UFO story when you spotted a
UFO that was tracking you.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Oh, I'll tell you all about that later, Okay, buddy.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I really appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Tell everybody over
there at ABC seven. They did a hell of a
job keeping everybody informed, and we'd love to have you
on again.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Well do Dane dog jam all right, thank you? Dig
gong with them all right.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Chris Christy ABC seven flying the helicopter for ABC seven,
that guy did an unbelievable job reporting, you know, eight
nine ten hours a day, ten straight days and two helicopters.
They kicked ass over there at ABC letting everybody know
where that fire was, where it was going, what's traffic
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like it was.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It's just great.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
All these local TV stations deserve a lot of credit
for giving that giving you that information immediately at a
lot of expense too. They never went to commercial in
the first seven days of that fire. I didn't see
one local station go to commercial. That means they made
no money and their priority was you and the people
on the ground. And they deserve a tremendous amount of
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credit for that, especially in the day whe everybody's looking
at the bottom line, everybody's looking at how much money
we made, when we're going to make any money, how
are we going to make, how we're going to pay
for this? They said, screw it, We're going to help
this community out, and they did it. They did an
unbelievable jump every one of those stations.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
All right, Jay Leno, who's a very good friend of
the program.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Here.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He comes on all the time. We're trying to make
him a regular on the show. He's been refusing that
for quite a while, but we're working it out and
he's with us.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Jay.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
How are you sir, good good?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
How are you welcome back?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Thank you man? I appreciate that. Jay.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
You were out there with Anderson Cooper. Where was that taped?
I couldn't figure out where you were.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Well, Sunday, we're at the Rose Bowl Monday and Tuesday,
and we're at the Palisades down at the beach there.
You know, it's unbelievable. It's like the best army when
you pull in there. You know, I was at Bagramarf
Air Force Base in Afghanistan and it reminded me of
that because the hospital tent is here, all the guys
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sleeping in tents on the sidewalk and on the beach
right here. You know, food is over here, restrooms over here.
I mean, it's set up in a military way. It's
really unbelievable. It really is the great I think it's
the greatest fire department in the world because they have
so many different types of things they have to deal with,
skyscrapers and deserts, and I mean, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And we said on the air, there's only one man
in the world that can drive to a you know,
to to a fire or drive to a you know,
a donation center in his own nineteen forty one fire
engine and not look like a complete a hole.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And that man is you.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Well, actually I do, look on hel but that's beside
the point.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You drove up in your own fire engine.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I asked the guys, would it be a distraction. They said, no,
the guys would like to see it because that is.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We bought.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Uh well, we bought a ton of money worth of
food and a grill and oh there's nothing wrong with
box lunches. But you know, you want to give these
men and women with some hot meal. And these are
real men, These are tim comer.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Kind of.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The guys. These are the guys angel I got your car.
I will key your car engine.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I don't doubt that.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, buddy, go ahead, I'm gonna say, and these guys
can meet.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
It's like we we had thousands of chickens and we're
out of chicken. I mean, come out. Yeah, you know,
it's great. And you know the really nice thing about it,
you're talking to the police, and you're talking to the
armed forces, and you're talking to criminals they had, you know,
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they bring guys out from the correction center to help
put them because we need every hand we can get sure.
And I didn't hear one political discussion. Nobody's blaming this
guy and this person. It's all just about how do
we stop this fire. And you know, it's really what
America used to be. You know, when we had a problem,
we all pitched in and dealt with it. We didn't
sit and argue about it to burn and every radio stay.
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I'm not taking sides. I'm just now here. Everybody's screaming
that this guy's that guy. Put the fire out and
then deal with that later.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Did you get the guys that were convicts they were
fighting the fighter? Did you keep one eye on them
when they went to look at your fire engine?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
No?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
They're okay, you know, I mean their kids, they look
so young, you know. Yeah, but it was he ran.
I don't see a lot of It's not like the
cartoons and the name Lefty and they have a raccoon mask.
You know, it's not like that.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I hear you're doing two shows for the firefighters. That's
a cool, dear, Baltimint flappers.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
No, we've known a lot of shows. If you're a
firefighter or a police officer or a first respondent, you get.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
In for free.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Wow about that?
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Just say you know we did that in Detroit in
two thousand and nine when Detroit went bankrupt. I went
on some local media in Detroit and I said, listen,
everybody's bankrupt. You know, things are on strike. Things we're
going to do a show. Kevin Ubank's on to play
some jazz. I'll tell some jokes. We'll give you a
pepsi and a bag of the ritos. It's free. All
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you have to do is telling me how to work.
You know, when everybody was on struggle, we just do
the honor system. We had eight security guards and twenty
thousand people, and they said, oh, this is going to
be a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
They were the nicest that they came in. They sat
down and had the show and they left not one incident,
no pushing, no shoving. And you know what, when people
realize you're not trying to take advantage of them or
get something for nothing, they really really new behavior themselves,
you know. I mean, it was so nice to talk
to these policemen, these firemen and well has the perimeter
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and you know these guys who got maps. It looks
like you're watching the uh you know, what's the name
the actor, Georgia c Scottish Patton. You know, they got
the table laid out and they got a map there
and they're showing where this is and that is, and
it's not I didn't hear anybody blame anybody. Anybody that's
the fire.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Fantastic.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
It was just so refreshing to just see all of America,
at least for that day, all the thousand people that
were there at least come together for one purpose and
to put out this fire. And guys who were leaving
one another.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Guy.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Now, I'll stay on another shift, you got. I mean,
whatever we pay these guys, it's not enough.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, I think you're right, all right, So Friday, this
Friday eight pm at Flappers, Saturday seven thirty pm at Flappers,
and they just need to show a bad dr id
and they get them for free.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
If they're in a law enforcement or firefighting.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
For your enforcement, firefighter, first responder, you know, it's look
good for you doing the shows for free. So it's
just just to say thank you, you know, if you
want to take your wife out. You know, these guys
have not been home. Yeah, you know, they've been there
since Sunday, sleeping on the ground. Because I would say
what time do you go home? Then like flapping, go home,
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We're not going home. We're here till there for the duration.
So you know, God bless them. It's it's it's it
was really inspiring. You know, if you ever doubted humanity.
You know, everybody sacks and this. No, all you have
to do is go there and see how much they
care for these people. You know. You know my friend
Jimmy Woods, you know, the actor Jimmy Woods. Yeah, James
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at his house was covered with flames, and you know,
they came, there's everybody out, and yeah, but what about
the ninety four year old guy next door who's got
some kind of dementia. Somebody, Oh, yeah, he's not there.
He says, no, I think he's there. You know, Well,
send somebody over. They go over and go through the house.
He's not there. And when he goes no, no, I
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got to go in. He was in the close. You know,
he's got dimension, So he's in the closet or something,
and he's hiding in a corner and they found him
and then the house just went up the flame a
few minutes later. You know, that's fantastic, you know, And
and Jimmy did a great thing, you know, he saved
the guy's life.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I saw he was very emotional talking about that.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah, I mean, I love talking. He's the right political guy.
You we always have arguments, we don't always agree, but
I love the guys and you know, I love debating
the people. I don't have to agree with everybody to
be friends them. Look at you.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
That's right. Yeah we hate each other.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
But yeah, yeah, Jay.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
We're going to keep promoting those Friday Flappers eight pm Saturday,
seven thirty pm in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Really appreciate it. You coming on. We're going to promote
the hell out of this until till Friday.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Good to have your back.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Thanks you sure all. I appreciate it, all right. I
don't know why he keep saying that, good to have
you back. I came in before everybody else. We came
in on December third. Oh, maybe because I was gone
for two weeks during Christmas. Maybe that's what he meant.
You haven't talked to him since then. Maybe he was
Maybe he thought he last time he heard me it
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was on Kala Sex and now I'm on Kuck.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well I got to have him.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I mean, look, I don't say congratulations on getting the
tonight show.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You know that works out for you.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That guy's great, Jay Leno man, That guy's beautiful man.
That guy one of the very few actors, comedians, Hollywood
types that never was called never you know was notified
or anything.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He showed up at my dad's funeral.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'll never forget that man that is announced standing human
being Jay Leno Friday at Flappers eight pm in Burbank. Saturday,
seven thirty pm Jay Leno, It's gonna be a hell
of a show. And if you get you get in
for free. If you're a copper, a firefighter and what
is that? We got an email from a firefighter? Do
I have to stay for the whole show?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You got to stay for the whole show. How rude
got almighty?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You know, last week we had talked about, I think
even before the fires, we had talked about internet radios,
not transit to radios, but a radio where you can
plug in to your wall, like, for instance, I have
a clock radio. I know, like ninety I have a
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clock radio next to my bed and I can't hear
KFI on it or any AM stations because it's inside.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So they the station. I wake up a little.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Why are the attached to you're running a Yeah, but
you know, taping a wire to a wall, you might
as well just go into hospice, you know, yeah, you
might as well just get in your final tub and
I call it a life.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So I didn't want to do that, and so I
consequently I can't. I don't listen to KFI on my
on my radio next to my bigs. It doesn't come
in inside, and it's always bothered me. But I now
I wake up to coast, you know, with with music
on coasts. So then I heard about this thing called
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the Internet radio, and Seacrane makes a beautiful one. They've
sent me a couple year. I'm gonna take them home
and and and they sent me enough where I can
also give them to people if if you know, somebody
needs one of these.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Radios, we'll forget out how to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But this is you can hear music on this and
AM stations and FM station. It connects over to twenty
five thousand Internet stations worldwide and so there's no static
or aid. It connects to KFI. I can turn KFI
on this radio next to my bed because it doesn't
come through over the air. It comes through Wi Fi.
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And as long as you have Wi Fi, this radio
work beautifully, no static, no fading. It plays audio from
or you can play audio from your smartphone if you want,
on the same speaker and has literally twenty five thousand
Internet stations worldwide. This is a game changer for radios.
They had to do this or else they would have
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gone out of business. And they did it. So I'm
gonna take one home and I and play with it.
But I think this is gonna be my my favorite,
my favorite thing. When I leave the house and i's
got to grab three things, I'm grabbing this thing. Man,
this is unbelievable. The Internet radio. It's called the Sea
Crane Wi Fi three Internet radio. So I'm gonna go home,
see what works, and then report back. But I tell
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you that's the new way. That's they had to do it.
You can't make a living, you know, just selling transistor radios.
This is the future radio right there. And they did
it over at secret. All right, let's we got gouging
to get into gouging. Not not at hotels, not at restaurants,
you know, not at buying food, but maybe at these airbnbs,
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maybe at these houses, their apartments you read.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Let's find out what's going on in Altadena.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
People who have been displaced by the La wildfires are
facing illegal price gouging while just trying to put a
roof over their heads. Altadena resident More and Skidmore and
his family quickly moved into an airbnb in Pasadena after
losing their home to the Eaten fire.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
My kids are great kids, and they've grown up in
that house and that was their place. And they've lost
their place.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Yeah, they've lost their thevens that they that made for themselves.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Well, trying to find more permanent housing, they noticed the
price of the airbnb they're currently staying and went up
significantly for next week three point two percent.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wow, how about that? Forty up? Forty three percent.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
That's called price gouging.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
And during the state a state of emergency like there
is currently in effect Infantry County and Los Angeles County.
It is illegal, you cannot do it.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's unlawful.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
It is a crime punishable by up to a year
in jail and ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I like how you said it four times here?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It is illegal, it's illegal, you cannot do it, can't
do it, all right, Double up, it's unlawful. There's another one.
Trips it is a crime. Four times, just in case,
uh morons are listening. Four times tell you they told
you the exact same thing.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
It is illegal. Oh, you cannot do it. Two, it's unlawful.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
It is a crime or punishable by up to a
year in jail, five thousand dollars fines, six times he
told you.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Under California law, during an emergency, businesses are only allowed
to increase prices by up to ten percent. Airbnb dot
org is partnering with two one one LA to provide
free housing for up to seven days for those that
have been displaced.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
That's correct.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Luckily, there's laws.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
We've reported anything that we've seen in scams as well.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Accommodation scams.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
We've seen lots of those, but thousands of people need homes,
and real estate agents are seeing the demand.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
We are seeing people applicants fitting up the price, offering
to prepay et cetera, so oftentimes prepaying an entire year
lease wow in order to be competitive.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Price gouging protections will stay in place for at least
thirty days, and you can report scams or price gouging
at OAG dot CA a dot gov slash report.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
All right, price gouging. The worst of us is coming out.
It's coming out. Nasty behavior, taking advantage of people with
when they're at their lowest moment in their life and
you doubling or tripling the price.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
No good. I don't know what the difference between you
and looters are. I think you're in the same boat.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on from KFI Amix.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
All right, at six o'clock tonight, we have Chelsea Staley
coming on with us. She's the pet Co director of
Life Saving over there where the Pets Go, Pet Go
with the Pets Go and Social Comeban talk about saving
these pets and what you can do with pets. A
lot of pets out there, they've been displaced, a lot
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of them. We got a nice shout out here from
shout out to a huge fan, Mark and Jack and Laurie.
Where they at, Oh, at Mark's bicycle shop. I know
that by bicycle shop Ranchakuckabaga. Yeah, right off, if that's
the same one I'm thinking of right off a baseline. Yeah,
I like that place, Mark's Bicycle I like the simplicity
(27:49):
of that.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You know, guy named Mark. You go in there? Hey
is Mark here?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You can fix this bike? Yeah, got my pants caught
in the chain. Again, Christ put a rubber band on it. People,
Is that still a problem with bikes getting your your
pants caught in the chain or if they if they solved.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That, you had to tuck them into your socks. That's right.
And then you forgot You walked around like that for
three hours. That's your pants. You got that thing cutting
the chain? Everything stopped. Yeah, well yeah, it was over.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And then you and and there you were fortunate enough
you could put your other foot down.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
If you follow the right side, you're done. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
And as soon as things started going bad, you knew
exactly what the problem was.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
The curse words came out before you even hit the ground.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That that marks bicycles out near you. It's off the
two ten. And where is that the two ten?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And uh?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Haven? Is that right? Heaven or Haven Haven? Yes, sir,
that's where it is.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Go out and go to Mark's bicycle and I don't know,
steal some crap, I guess, don't wait to give them.
We had to get him a shout out. Krazier's stealing
crap from marx bys to go. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, I know, it's still it's embarrassing h Mark's bicycle, Mark,
Jack Lourie thing going with you, guys, thanks for listening
to the program. All Right, here's a let's still a
quick whip around. We haven't done one of those in
a week or so. All right, quick whip around? Today
marks the blank anniversary since Miracle on the Hudson? Blank anniversary?
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How many years have gone by since the Miracle on
the Hudson happened?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Stephus you always give us the best answers. We'll go
with you. How many years since the Miracle on the Hudson?
Do you remember that? H Is it the one that
what Tom Hanks played the guy?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's actually Tom Hanks piloting. All right,
how many years ago? Uh, I'd say ten years ago?
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Ten?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
All right, Krozier, I know what it is. Oh you know?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, all right, I'll put you down as a question. Mark, Matt,
you know Angel? How many years since the Miracle on
the Hudson? Twenty years?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Twenty? Okay, all right, I think that's everybody on the program.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I would have never guessed this. It's sixty two years ago.
No one, no, seems like I was just a baby.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
He was like, no, it's no, wasn't it was no?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Sixteen years ago, sixteen years ago, two day, sixteen years ago,
got almighty.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I would have said three, wow, or four sixteen. That's crazy.
My daughter was two or three when that happened.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's outrageous. I don't believe that. I think this is wrong.
I think it's a mistake. ABC Eyewitness News has extensive
breaking news the coverage of the on air and online
and witnessing and reporting over this miracle. One of the
most surreal days of my career. And they they had
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a big that was a big deal. Everybody survived and
it was like one hundred and fifty four people or so.
Everybody survived. It was a radical plane crash and nobody died.
And I don't think anybody got hurt. And you're only
born with a certain amount of luck in your life.
Theirs is over. Don't take them to the track, don't
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take them to a casino. They got nothing left in
the tank. They are done. But sixteen years ago, I
mean angels, sixteen years ago, I mean what you were like,
what forty five?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I was gonna say thirty five, maybe forty five. Yeah,
there is a.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Drink named after Captain Sully after he landed in the Hudson.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah, it was two shots of gray goose and a
splash of water.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh, that's great, that's funny. That is great.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
By the way, speaking of drinking, I heard today that
the healthiest if you're going to drink hard liquor, and
I don't recommend it on the air.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Off the air, it's a different story. But on the air,
I don't recommend you.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
But the healthiest drink, the healthiest liquor to drink for
your body is gin.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
How about that? How about that throwback?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Because it's made with berries, Yeah, with jimmer berries that
have like these antioxidants in them, and there's no sugar
in it, and it's the healthiest drink for you. You know
what the unhealthiest drink is beer? Oh yeah, beer is
by far the unhealthiest drink. And it's my favorite. You know,
I'm drinking nine hundred beers every night, wipe myself out.
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I gotta stop. I got I gotta get in, I
gotta get my gin working. But how old do you
feel walking into a place going give me a quart
of gin? What are you in a nineteen forties movie?
I go to Costco, man, I get them all the time.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Who is sort of gin for straw? Also? If they
selling quarts anymore?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, no I Costco you got one point seventy five leaders?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Absolutely yeah through it? Oh I go I Tito's all
the way bombay sapphires? Wait? What is that is that gin?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You drink gin? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I didn't know that. Yeah, now I respect you more? No,
thank you? Is that sapphire really blue? Or is it
just the bottles? Who is the big gen drinker? Was
it Jackie Gleason?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Or who is the There was a big famous actor
who loved gin. Who's the guy who's the comedian goes
I hate working with kids and dogs?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I can't remember his name, but there is.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
W. C.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Fields. Maybe w C. Fields was the big gin drinker.
It was either W. C.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Fields or Jackie Gleason that had a whole basement filled
with gin. It was because he never knew that, you know,
if the government was going to come in and stop
the sales.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Again, looked at famous gin drinkers.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
They've got Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelle Obama,
Frank Sinatra, Michelle Obama and madam.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Wow, I got to get into this. Is it the
same price as vod because it cheaper more expensive? It
could be a more expensive depending on what you get. Yeah,
I'm going to cost gonight. Give me the name of it.
Bombay Sapphire, Bombay.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Regular, Bombay gin I hate, but Bombay Sapphire is all
the difference.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Costco's got thrown two. Costco has their own gy. Yes, yeah,
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
I'm getting that tonight. I gotta stop with the vodka.
The beards wiping me out, wipe me out out, all right,
but all right, real quickly, don't forget. We have two
FEMA centers open, two of them, one at the UCLA
Research Park one zero eight five zero West Pico Boulevard
one zero eight five zero West Peakle Boulevard. The other
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one in Pasadena three zero three five East Foothill Boulevard.
They're opening from nine am until eight pm three zero
three five East Foothill Boulevard nine am to eight pm.
They're opening for another two hours and two minutes. Two
hours and so you can go tonight and get yourself
some relief, welcome back and talk to the good people
from pet Petco about the pets pets are hurting right now,
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and we'll come back and give you information you could use.
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