April 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Alex Stone, Broncos’ HOF QB John Elway's former agent & business partner Jeff Sperbeck has died after fall from cart driven by Elway in La Quinta.Elway was reportedly the driver of a golf cart on Saturday night at an exclusive private neighborhood in La Quinta, California. He was allegedly driving to or from the Stagecoach music festival when his longtime agent/business partner Jeff Sperbeck fell from the golf cart and hit his head. // Crime segment – Potential names ‘Crime Time’ Robbery at Bakery // Michael Monks, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell has expressed concerns that potential LA budget cuts could significantly impact the LAPD, potentially leading to a reduction in public safety capacity and causing operational issues. Mayor Bass's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2025-26 projects the LAPD to end the year with 8,639 officers, not 8,733 // John Elway releases statement about death of his friend & business partner Jeff Sperbeck. WHIP
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
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six forty. It is the Conway Show, all right, ding dong.
We continue here on Wednesday, hump Day. Beautiful, beautiful weather outside.
This is why we all live here.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is why we put up with all the crap
that La throws at you, whether it's the strike downtown,
whether it's the home invasions, the homelessness, the fires, the floods,
the filth, the dangerous buses and the metro.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is that enough? Is that enough? Never? Is that enough?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That's why we live here is because of the weather.
If it wasn't for great weather, why would any of
us live here? Why would we live here? If it's
snowed four or five months a year, nobody would live here.
It would just be a ghost town. But we live
here because of that sun and that weather. It's beautiful outside.
So trying to slide out there if you're stuck in
an office somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Alex Stone from ABC News as with us, Alex, how
you bob doing well?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Ding dong?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
How are you ing dong with you?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We got a sad story to begin with ton, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It got worse today because Jeff Spurbeck, good friend of
John Elway.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Great guy, says everyone says, one of the greatest guys
ever met.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, good good sports agent, good business partner. They went
in the he and John Elway into the wine industry together,
and restaurants, the lay restaurants in Colorado, and so.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
They were buddy buddy.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But he he died today from injuries that he got
on Saturday evening and Lakinta when John Elway, it appears,
by all accounts, was driving a golf cart in the
super exclusive Madison Club near the Stagecoach Festival, and that
they were riding along in that something caused Spurbeck to
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fall out and fall off of that that golf cart
and TMS says he hit his head. The Riverside County
Sheriff's office, which is i'd been all that forthcoming with
information on fatal accident where normally they would be tells
us that they're investigating, but they won't say anything more
and except that they got called on Monday afternoon. This
happened on Saturday night. Medics responded, fire responded, but it
(02:15):
didn't become an investigation. Law enforcement wise until Monday when
they got involved, but so not a lot of people
saw it. There was a small group there. Ali Simon
was among them. She saw the immediate aftermath and she's
telling us this.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It was so sad and our hearts just go out
to the families. But we were heading out of the
community and we pulled up and it had to have
happened probably one minute before us.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Pulling up, and she says to him it was clear
right away that Spurbak was badly hurt, that he had
gone down, that he was in bad shaw.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
He was unfortunately lying on the ground, and there are
people surrounding him just trying to make sure he was okay,
and people were on the phone just trying to get
help there as soon as they could. It was so scary,
I mean it like it was nothing like we've ever seen.
You just don't think so Skinner going to ever witness
anything like that. But his wife was like hysterical, and.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
She says that John Elway was standing there desperately calling
nine when One for help to get medics there. But
he was reportedly spurback on life support at the only
trauma center in Palm Springs for a couple of days
since Saturday and then today he died and the corner
putting his time of death around one o'clock this morning.
But there's no indication any wrongdoing by Elway. It appears
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that this was a bad accident. We've reached out to
Elways reps and Spurbeck's companies, but they aren't responding to
to offer anymore to offer their statements on his passing.
But yeah, even if and we don't know what was
involved here, but let's just say being that stagecoach was
going on and they were going to and front parties,
that if alcohol were involved then it wouldn't be regular
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vehicle laws because they were in a golf cart. They
were on a golf course at the club, and you know,
it's like the sell out of the booze carts at
the golf courses, so that the laws are very different
when it comes to drinking with a golf cart.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But again, we don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
This could have been where he just accelerated and Spurbeck
was on the back and we've all been there where
all of a sudden you don't expect that you're the
driver is gonna accelerate and you you lurch and and
maybe fell off, maybe he was standing on it, or
he had a medical emergency. We just don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think it's time for not not just people ride
around in cards, but also golfers to wear helmets, you.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Know everywhere they go, well on the.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Golf course, Yeah, because you can get hit by a
golf ball in the head and that could kill you instantly.
You can have one of these rollover accidents. I don't
know if you've ever played golf in your life, but
anyone who's ever played golf and and has taken a cart,
you've had an accident.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Either you've run into a tree, you've run into a
sand dune or a sand pit what do they call
a sand trap sandtrap, or you run into a you know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You ain't it too much to one side where you're like,
I don't know about this hill we're on.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, I was, And especially if you play early in
the morning, you know, five thirty six am, when the
grass is still wet and there's and it's dewey and
it slides around. Everybody's had these accidents, everybody. Yeah, and
I think it's just an accident.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But I will say the internet is sort of buzzing,
because it's very hard to find a picture of Jeff
Spurback and John Elway together where they're not holding wine glasses.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
You know, yeah, they did have the wine company and
they got in together. We did talk to a couple
of people who knew them, who are big names in
wine in northern California, and they say, you know that
they were great to work with and then they got
into it. But you're right, I mean, that's that's going
to be a question of when there is an accident
involving a golf cart and it's fatal, of sure, how
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far did it go and was alcohol involved? And at
this point Riverside County that the Sheriff's office is saying
they don't know anything yet, that it's still too early,
But it would seem that there either was not a
suspicion of that in the early moments of this because
law enforcement wasn't called, or the decision was made not
to call law enforcement. We don't know, and it's not
(06:08):
like they're going to be able to breathalyze anybody two
days later. So sure, that may never be proven.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But you know, if you go to John Elways Twitter,
I was on his Twitter, and he tweets like, you know,
like four years ago, three or four years ago, guys,
you know, like me with social media. But it's going
to be very difficult for him to be the face
of that wine company still, yeah, after something like this happened.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, especially depending on which way the investigation goes. But
I was talking to an old boss mine out in
Colorado today and she said, you know, even he and yes,
his name is still on restaurants out there and on
car dealerships, but he's he's really pulled back from the
public compared to even a few years ago when he
was just everywhere on all the commercials in Denver, and yeah,
(06:51):
he was a superstar. He's still well respected in Denver,
but he's not quite the the public figure that he
used to be. So he's been living a more quiet life.
We know he lives in the Lacente area and that
the Madison Club is a lot of very big names,
very exclusive community there and club there, but spending lot
a lot of his time around Palm Springs.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Hey, do you have an assignment director or assignment editor?
You have a news director there? Yeah, is anybody on
the on the Jordan Hudson story? On how she got
eight million dollars in a couple of weeks to buy
four or five different homes.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Who is she?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
She's Belichick's oh Belichick.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The we don't answer that question.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Well, that's right. I didn't know her last name.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, it's a good question. Yeah it No, I saw
that there were some statements. I wasn't following it today,
but I saw some statements came out in that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah she you know, shortly after they started dating, she
had eight million dollars to buy four or five homes in.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Amazing it's twenty four right, I'm sure it's all self made. Well,
you have no question about it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's all it's all purchased from a full time student salary.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And we know how long those are.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, pays a lot these days, especially if you go
through the portal.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'll call your news director look at somebody on that.
But it's a very sad story. I'm sure John Elway
is devastated.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Absolutely, and it seems like because we haven't seen any
statements and nobody's been putting anything out, I'm sure they're
going through a.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Lot right now. Yeah, that's horrible, but I appreciate you
coming on. You got a texture.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Thanks man. Alex Stone with ABC News. That's devastating Broncos quarterback.
I think he won two. Did he win two.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
To Liper Bowl? Yes, his career with the two, and that's.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Like one of the very few careers that ended on
a high note in football.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
He had what two or three losses in the Super
Bowl prior to that, but he finished up up on top.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And then he was also the general manager of the
winning Super Bowl team as well with with Peyton Manning. Yeah,
with Peyton Manning. So that guy lived up until last
weekend a very charmed life, and now that's going to
haunt him the rest of his life. It's going to
be on social.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Media everywhere you go, and a lot of people that
might be the second or third thing they think about
John Elway, you know, after the Super Bowls and his
great career and his deal car dealerships and all that stuff,
it might be you know that this he was driving
the golf cart when one of his best friends passed away.
(09:16):
I can't imagine being having to go through that kind
of guilt, you know, I mean, just take whoever your
best friend is and you're driving a golf cart and
that person dies I don't know how you go to work.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I don't know how you get up in the morning.
I don't know how you do anything.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't know how you talk to the wife, you know,
and you sit down with her and you have to
work out something to help her out if she needed
to any help.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's that's got to be one of the worst things ever,
to be responsible for your best friend's death. That has
got to be a small group, man, a really small group.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's too bad. That's a horrible story.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, we're gonna do a crime segment here. We've
been toying with three different ideas. There's three ideas that
have risen to the top. Okay, so the first one
is Ding Dong Your Stuff is Gone. That's the title.
First title. The second one is crime, Crime Crime.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's up bump bump bump bum, and we'll use that song.
That'll be cool. And then what's the other one, bellyo
Crime crime Time.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, like Neon Dion Sanders was Prime Time, this is
crime time. So we've got some We've got a break
in in a bakery.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
How much money is in the bakery business?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Everything is a dollar two dollars max. A lot of
people pay with credit cards. And yet there's a break
in in a bakery.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
We are talking about a very young group of suspects
here that the Long Beach Police Department are currently looking for.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
How old ten nine.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
This bakery has been in business for thirty seven years
down in Long Beach, and she says remarkably, this is
the first time that this has happened to her, and
she's very discouraged to see that the people that broke
in are pretty young. This is actually a video from
down the street or next doorder.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, this bakery has avoided being broken into for five years,
you know, during COVID and during the fires and during
all the confusion over the last couple of months. For
some reason, I think every business has been broken into
or ripped off, every single business, but this one avoided
it until now.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
The bakery where they tried to get into. First, you
see one of them throwing a rock, the other throwing
a pipe wrench there as well, unsuccessfully breaking the windows.
Then they come to her business. That's when they were
able to shout on the front windows. Here's the thing, though,
all the damage they did, they got away.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
With nothing, nothing zero, not even a donatet nothing. They
got away with nothing, not even a donut holes nothing.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
There's no cash for them to take. All they took
were some of the pastries that were left in the
display case. And you see all of them kind of
file in here.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Those are Dale's anything it's left in there overnight.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
That's a day all. It's not very good. It's not
a great bake, you know, it's a Dale.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
And I want you to really get a look at
just how young some of these people are. They're all
wearing masks in the video here, and you see how young.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean, are they three four? I don't know a.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Couple of them after they were only able to get
some pastries and other donuts, perhaps they go.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well, they were pretty young. I will give you that.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I mean, you can tell by the you know, the
clues that they stole bakery goods, you know, donuts and
Long John's brownies.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Is that a young man's game? I think.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I think young people like bake goods more than older people.
I think, like when you get, when you go, when
when you would go to the bakery with your mom
when you were a child, you get very excited.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, now i'll.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Take this, I'll take that. I'll take one of those
in one of these. But man, when you were a kid,
you went nuts in that bakery.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Nuts, pastries and other donuts. Perhaps they go right back
out the window they just broke. You'll see as one
of them here comes back in. Look how small and
young that person looks. They go back in, they grab
the wrench that they use to break the window, and
they take off. Tonight I had the business I had
a chance to talk to the business owner, the founder
of Sweet Chills Bakery about.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh, this is Sweet Jills.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I didn't know that Sweet Jills is beautiful baker Its
right there in hunting in a not sunset beach, Seal Beach.
It's right there at Seal Beach. I used to go
to Sweet Jills all the time. Sweet Jills is one
of the greatest bakeries in the world. Everything is big,
big donuts, big cupcakes, big cookies. Sweet Jills right there
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on main Street in Seal Beach. Oh now, I'm personally
offended by this. I can't believe there's never a time
when there's not nine hundred people walking up and down
the street on Main Street in Seal Beach. I cannot
believe this bakery got robbed. If this is the same,
Sweet Jills. Now, if this is one in Long Beach,
I've never been to that one. But the one I'm
(13:54):
talking about is the one on Main Street in Seal Beach.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't think that one was robbed. I don't know
how you can rob thom.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
What she would say to these kids, I want them
to suffer consequences most definitely, I want them to suffer.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
I want their parents to suffer.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Doesn't sound so sweet. Jill sounds hot? Jill sound yeah,
Jill's mad, Jill's mad baker, the mad Baker's hot.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Whatever way that should be justice. It is a crime.
I don't care their age. If that's the image they
want to present themselves at such a young age, I
fear for their future. Something has to stop.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's right, I'm with this, Sweet Jill.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Jill says right there that that didn't stop them from opening.
They said they were sweeping the glass before five thirty.
This happened at four oh eight in the morning, before
five point thirty came around and they were able to serve
some of their customers because they've been in business for
so long in Long Beach. Many of their customers were
very distraught about all of this. Jill told me that
even some local school staff are going to try to
look at the video to see if they recognize any
of these very young suspects in that video. Meanwhile, the
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Long Beach Police Department has taken her burglary report and
they are actively try to find these kids. But you
look at that video and they do look.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Very Yeah, they do look young lads and glasses. This
is off Second Street, I believe.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, Sweet Jills is on Second Street near Livingston. And
there's another one in Seal Beach. Or maybe they moved.
Maybe they moved from Seal Beach.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Two.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Let's see if there's still one in Seal Beach. I'm
focusing in now on Seal Beach and let's see. Yes,
Sweet Jills Bakery is still there in Seal Beach. So
they have two, if it's the same Sweet Jills. They
have two, one in Long Beach on Second Street and
then another one on Main Street right there about a
block and a half from the ocean. So it's great.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's right near Taco Surf, a Mexican place I used
to go to all the time. Clan Sees is there, Belly.
I don't know if you know this because you don't
really get down to that area. But Seal Beach has
four Irish bars on one block. Really, yeah, they have
Remember of all the Hennesses which we went to all
(16:06):
the time, Hennessy's Grill. Then they have Clan Seas O'Malley's,
that's great. And then I can't remember the last one,
but there's four.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
There were four Irish.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Bars on one block in Seal Beach and I can't
remember the last one, O'Malley's, Henness's, Clan Seas and I
can't remember the last one, lose my mind. But if
it's still there, yeah, Clan C's is still there. So
the a missing one Clan cs and so.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yes Irish Seas, Irish yes, yes, Laney's is that one?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
No, the irishir Yes, the Irish shir. So there's four blocks,
four Irish bars on a single block there like a
block and a half. I think it's a one full block.
And they're great, They're fantastic. When I used to live
in Seal Beach, I go every night to one of
those bars, and it was a cool deals cool hang.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, they're probably all packed too. Yeah, they were all packed.
All of them were five D at the bar, all
of them all.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
When we come back, I think we're talking to monks.
We got monks. You got monks.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, and LAPD is not happy about the potential cuts
in staffing. So we'll talk to monks and see what
he's got going on. You got monks. You got Conway.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You got monks. He's here. How you bub when on Saturday?
Is good afternoon. Nice to see you, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You and I after we talk about LAPD, have one
thing in common. This is a big Saturday coming up.
It is indeed Kentucky Derby, big big race. How far
did you live from Churchill down when I was a child.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I lived in Louisville from the time I was born
until I was twelve years old. I grew up right
around the corner. Wow, my school Holy name was a
stone's throw.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Isn't that a big parking lot for the for the
derby and a lot of people part Oh you could
make a killing selling your yard. Oh yeah, I mean
you have a tiny yard. You can get one car
in there. You're taking that twenty five fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh yeah, easily. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And and you know there's so many private jets that
come into Louisville. They come on the back and they
land on the backstretchers an airfield on the backstretch there
and they land and then they have to take off
because there's not enough room for all those private jets.
So they go to Indianapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and that's
where they have to sit for three days and then
come back and pick up their owner.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
It's a mess. I mean, it's an absolute mess. Louisville
is a pretty good size city. It's not a mega
city like la is it's a good size city. But
that is one day where everybody and their mother is
in town and oh it's just not big enough. It's great,
It really is great.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And I love the inclement weather, you know when it's
like pouring, you know out here, if there is even
a threat of like if they see a rain cloud,
they'll shut sant Anita down for you know.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They don't do the sloppy track.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, very rarely. Oh, I love a sloppy track. Stoppy's
the best.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You know. They put on those you know, those cleats
on these horses. They make them earn it.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
They get rolling, yeah, yeah, and they and the jocks,
you know, have the six pair of goggle and they
keep flipping them down as they get all muddy.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
If people get so upset about the horses and the
way they're you know what this horse gets to do
for the rest of his life after this.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Rice, right, if he's if he's good and intact still,
even if he's kind of middle of the pack, right,
this guy's getting laid for the rest of his life
for big dollars twice a day, twice a day.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I mean, when you run through the racing form, even
at a tiny track somewhere in the middle of America,
and you're looking and they always tell you who the
parents are of these horses, and you'll see horses you know,
you're like, man, you know, I mean some of these
horses are producing scrubs, of course, but like, that's how
many sons and daughters they've got out there.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
But you know what's remarkable is how quickly you see it.
A winner of the Kentucky Derby, then a parent of
a of a of a contendent like years.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
They don't wait at all.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
They get rolling. No, they don't wait to get into
a career or anything. It's just like straight into banging.
I don't know how deep you go into horse racing.
But every horse Verus's birthday is January first, is it? Yeah,
so if a horse is born on January second, it
doesn't turn a year old until January first of next year.
But if it's born on December thirtieth, it turns a
year old two days later.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh that sounds like a scam. Yeah, well they didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They didn't want to go with artificial dissemination because that
could really produce a lot of yeah, a lot of
you know, shaky deals. And so you'll see everybody produces
horses and tries to get them born between January first
and like March first. That's like the sweet spot because
then they're not a year old until next year. Wouldn't
it be fun to own one of these precious horses?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
God, it would be great. Yeah, I'd love that. That's
a dream. Yeah, it would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
All right, LAPD doesn't look like they can afford a hort.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
In fact, the whole city of la should be placing
some long shot bets to see if they could get
a big payout on Saturday, because they're broken and you're
gonna be hauling me in for the next two weeks
as various department heads come to City Council and make
their case. As the mayor has proposed these massive cuts,
big time layoffs. Now, it was of note that among
the layoffs, the mayor is not laying off police officers,
(21:04):
but the police department itself is the hardest hit with layoffs.
We're talking more than four hundred civilion roles. And when
you think, okay, what does that mean, receptionist, Does that
mean somebody's holding the door open for somebody?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Not exactly.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Here's what Chief Jim McDonald had to say at City
Council budget committee today.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
The Mayor's proposed budget includes a staggering reduction of four
hundred and three civilian positions, representing fifteen point two percent
of our civilian workforce. These are not faceless numbers. They're
men and women who've devoted their lives to public service,
often behind the scenes, with specialized skills, ensuring that our
officers have the tools, data, and operational support they need
(21:40):
to keep our city safe. Their work is essential and
their loss is not just a human one, but one
that will be felt by every neighborhood in our city.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
What do you got?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Does these sound like nineteen fifty two in New York
comp going after like little Italy?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I know I want to hate on in the chief
And I said this in the newsroom day. It was like,
this guy's lived in LA for forty five years and
he still sounds like an extra from Goodwill hunting. What's
the deal? It doesn't go away, But what does it
mean for neighborhoods to feel Every neighborhood, he says, will
feel this. Well, here's what he means. He's talking about
the guys who do the DNA ballistics analysis, and a
(22:15):
lot of that might involve serious crimes. Rape, And he
says that the forensic guy, some of the non officers
that you will see on shows like CSI, right, shouldn't
they have to pull officers off the street to fill
those Well, they're gonna have a hard time doing that too.
And I'll get to that because what he is saying,
when you get rid of those guys, you're delaying justice.
It will take longer to process sure criminal evidence. He says,
(22:37):
vehicle mechanics are on the chopping block here and so
the fleet could potentially be damaged. He says they might
have to shut down facilities jails in order to meet
these demands. But to your point about pulling in the
sworn officers, the department has also got a budget recommendation
of thirty six million dollars less in overtime costs. So
(23:00):
we want you to spend much less and overtime. And
he says, look, overtime might sound like a luxury, but
it is and it is a necessity. And if we
take that much overtime away, we will not be able
to have these specialized deployments at Venice Beach, at MacArthur Park,
which he says, we're making progress cleaning up the RV
Task Force, the homeless RVs, you know, the guys that
(23:21):
go out and check on that stuff. Sure, those are
the areas that will see less activity if they're not
able to use overtime to pay those officers.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You know, I understand people like John Colbelt, who you know,
who constantly goes after the city and rightfully so I
understand why he and Deborah live in the city. They've
been living there for thirty or forty years. But if
you're a young couple and you've got a baby or
two children, I would think twice about moving in the
city of La.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I mean, it's not going in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Yeah, I mean, it's certainly a question one would have
to ask. Yes, and as goes La, though, so goes
the region. Yes, you know, I mean you probably have
names here in Burbank that are here because of something
that happened in Los Angeles. That's what might be a job,
it might be Hollywood, it might be something like that.
But they live in Burbank, they live in Glendale, they
live in Pasadeny, right because of Los Angeles. And it's
(24:12):
a death spiral and we're in it. And you think
it's not gonna pull down Burbank. You've got another thing coming,
miss Well, I don't think it's gonna pack those bags.
I think it's the opposite.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I think there's a lot of people that are gonna
be moving to small communities like Glendale, Culver City, San Fernando, Burbank,
where where you know, they don't have these kind of
you know.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Budget difficulties. But who knows.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
It might be wrong, But I I don't know how
LA gets out of this. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
They have to learn how to do more with lesson Frankly,
if I'm in a.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Lot of this money is stolen too, you know it's
not just miss misappropriated and misuse and stolen money.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I have not confirmed that, So I'm not saying that
that's that's Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well that's John Coleblt.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
That Colebelt loves to say that while I'm sitting here
freezing in my seat, like, Okay, that's co Belt.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let the attorneys see that's not me, dude.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
But but the department, the police department, they've got fifteen
hundred fewer officers and they want but they still get
all of the money budgeted as if they had as
many officers as they wanted. At some point, you're gonna
have to ask this police department, what's your real strategy.
You've got to pivot. It's not working. Your recruitment strategy
is not working. All the excuses, it doesn't matter. How
are you gonna fill those ranks? And if you cannot,
(25:20):
we've got to stop budgeting for this claw back that money. Oh,
it's horrible, buddy. I appreciate you coming in and asking
all over the city.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Always a pleasure. All right, you got Monks Saturday seven
to nine pm.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, I'm betting on journalism, so hopefully I'm coming in
a winner on Saturday night for Michael Monk's report.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Maybe Saturday night you'll have a pocket full of money. Yeah,
people can meet you in the parking lot. I'm doing
the exact box journalism and American promise.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
What is that gonna pay eight dollars?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, it's gonna pay a lot in pride, all right,
Michael Monks the chalk better.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's the day of a show on Saturday night.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
You're listening to Tim conwayjun You're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It is the con Show.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
John Elway has released a statement regarding the death of
his agent and one of his best friends. The statement
from John Elway. If you're just tuning in, you missed
the story. On Saturday, John Elway was with his buddy
Jeff Spurback, and both of their wives, and I think
some of the kids were there as well, and they.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Were on a golf cart.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Jeff Spurback fell out of the back of the golf cart,
hit his head and he was put on life support.
And this morning, at one o'clock they pulled the plug
and he passed away. So John Elway said, I'm absolutely
devastated by the heartbreak by I'm sorry, I am absolutely
devastated and heartbroken by the passing of my close friend,
business partner, and agent, Jeff Spurbeck. There are no words
(26:47):
that truly express the profound sadness I feel with the
sudden loss of somebody who has meant so much to me.
My heart and deepest sympathies go out to his wife, Corey,
his children, Carly, Sam and Jackson, and everyone who knew
him and loved him. Jeff will be deeply missed for
the loyalty, wisdom, friendship and love he brought into my
(27:10):
life and the lives of so many others. And it's
a very, very sad story. John always a really good guy.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Belly. Did you ever meet John Elway? I know you
you worked in sports. Yeah, I've met him Denver. Yeah,
I've met him a few times. I mean it was
just short.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I never met him, but he played football for Granada Hills.
I went to Birmingham and I think he was a
senior when I was a freshman, and I remember he
came to Birmingham. He came to our high school. And
a friend of mine, a guy named Jerry Gettlson, was
a writer for the Birmingham newspaper, and he says, you
got to come to Friday night's game and watch this kid,
(27:47):
John Elway play.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh okay, So I went to the game.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I watched John Elway play football, and I think he
passed for seven hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
These two huge, tall receivers that would just take off
and run down the field and he'd throw the ball
fifty yards in the air. He was considered the best
quarterback in America while he was in high school, the
best quarterback in America, better than any college or any
pro quarterback. While he was a senior in high.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
School, he was also drafted to the MLB. Oh was
that right? I didn't know that?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow? What a what a? I mean?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Just a physically huge guy too. Man, he just dominated
in high school.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
What do you think his still quick whip around? I'm
Steph Foo's heare. What do you think John Elway made
his entire career, not as a manager, but as a
player in the national just an NFL player. I added
up his salary, his annual salaries.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
What do you think he made throughout his career just
as a player, Steph Fush, let's start with you, Bob
oh No, that's not a good sign. Eight million, all right,
I Angel, seventy five million. Seventy five million, alright? Pellio? Okay, Krozier,
(29:21):
it's from an older era. I'm gonna say forty million,
forty million. Is anyone else with us today? Is that it?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Krozier nailed it. Forty five million dollars?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Wow, got it? I was being generous.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Isn't that Wild's gonna be like twenty Do you know
that Steph Curry makes more than that in one season?
Steph Curry makes fifty five million dollars a year, So
he makes more in eighty one percent of a season
than John Elway made in his entire career. He only
has to play sixty six games and he makes that
kind of money. Shoe Aotani makes seventy million year, so
(30:01):
he only had to have For every one hundred games
that Shoeo Tani plays, he makes forty five million dollars
forty five million dollars for every one hundred games.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He gets a lot of money. How much you get
for one hundred shows? I'd have to work that out.
I had a couple of zeros in there. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Say I worked it out. I think I'm making like
thirty eight dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Nice, yeah, nice.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
A lot better than I thought at some point, A
lot better than I thought growing up in hockey. The
number one I guess the highest paid athlete. Not you
guessed him? It is, okay, Austin Matthews with the maple leaves.
He makes thirteen million dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
So did you to sit here that about a hockey player?
I know, thirteen million?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Man?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I thought, how much was Gretzky making like at his
peak here when he came.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
To la Oh. I would say, remember that was a
big number, a famous number at the time. I think
it was a couple million. Yeah, I don't think I
remember like five million. I don't think it was five.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I gotta looked that up, but I think it's less
than five. I think I think he's the first guy
that broke the million. You know, so, but that's that
is crazy that John Elway made forty five million dollars
in his entire career.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Let's look that up. Let's see what Gretzky got, g r. E. T.
Let's see what he.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Got Wayne Gretzki. Yeah, he made three million dollars a year.
Gretzky's salary peaked during the ninety one ninety two season
with Los Angeles Kings. Three million dollars a year. Steph
Curry makes that in a long week.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That is wild. Sorry Jay Lennon, but it is wild.
I can use that here.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Gretzky's total career earnings, including salary and endorsements, was ninety
six million, forty six million dollars. So Wayne Gretzky made
exactly as much as John Elway in salary. And Wayne
Gretzky changed the game of hockey. I guess John Alway
(32:15):
had a pretty big impact as well. But man, what
it's amazing what they pay these guys nowadays. Fifty five
million for Steph Curry, seventy million for Otani, one hundred games.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
He made what John Elway made in his entire career.
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We continue here on Wednesday, hump Day. Beautiful, beautiful weather outside.
This is why we all live here.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is why we put up with all the crap
that La throws at you, whether it's the strike downtown,
whether it's the home invasions, the homelessness, the fires, the floods,
the filth, the dangerous buses and the metro.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is that enough? Is that enough? Never? Is that enough?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That's why we live here is because of the weather.
If it wasn't for great weather, why would any of
us live here? Why would we live here? If it's
snowed four or five months a year, nobody would live here.
It would just be a ghost town. But we live
here because of that sun and that weather. It's beautiful outside.
So trying to slide out there if you're stuck in
an office somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Alex Stone from ABC News as with us, Alex, how
you bob doing well?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Ding dong?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
How are you ing dong with you?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We got a sad story to begin with ton, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It got worse today because Jeff Spurbeck, good friend of
John Elway.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Great guy, says everyone says, one of the greatest guys
ever met.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, good good sports agent, good business partner. They went
in the he and John Elway into the wine industry together,
and restaurants, the lay restaurants in Colorado, and so.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
They were buddy buddy.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But he he died today from injuries that he got
on Saturday evening and Lakinta when John Elway, it appears,
by all accounts, was driving a golf cart in the
super exclusive Madison Club near the Stagecoach Festival, and that
they were riding along in that something caused Spurbeck to
(01:53):
fall out and fall off of that that golf cart
and TMS says he hit his head. The Riverside County
Sheriff's office, which is i'd been all that forthcoming with
information on fatal accident where normally they would be tells
us that they're investigating, but they won't say anything more
and except that they got called on Monday afternoon. This
happened on Saturday night. Medics responded, fire responded, but it
(02:15):
didn't become an investigation. Law enforcement wise until Monday when
they got involved, but so not a lot of people
saw it. There was a small group there. Ali Simon
was among them. She saw the immediate aftermath and she's
telling us this.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It was so sad and our hearts just go out
to the families. But we were heading out of the
community and we pulled up and it had to have
happened probably one minute before us.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Pulling up, and she says to him it was clear
right away that Spurbak was badly hurt, that he had
gone down, that he was in bad shaw.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
He was unfortunately lying on the ground, and there are
people surrounding him just trying to make sure he was okay,
and people were on the phone just trying to get
help there as soon as they could. It was so scary,
I mean it like it was nothing like we've ever seen.
You just don't think so Skinner going to ever witness
anything like that. But his wife was like hysterical, and.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
She says that John Elway was standing there desperately calling
nine when One for help to get medics there. But
he was reportedly spurback on life support at the only
trauma center in Palm Springs for a couple of days
since Saturday and then today he died and the corner
putting his time of death around one o'clock this morning.
But there's no indication any wrongdoing by Elway. It appears
(03:33):
that this was a bad accident. We've reached out to
Elways reps and Spurbeck's companies, but they aren't responding to
to offer anymore to offer their statements on his passing.
But yeah, even if and we don't know what was
involved here, but let's just say being that stagecoach was
going on and they were going to and front parties,
that if alcohol were involved then it wouldn't be regular
(03:53):
vehicle laws because they were in a golf cart. They
were on a golf course at the club, and you know,
it's like the sell out of the booze carts at
the golf courses, so that the laws are very different
when it comes to drinking with a golf cart.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But again, we don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
This could have been where he just accelerated and Spurbeck
was on the back and we've all been there where
all of a sudden you don't expect that you're the
driver is gonna accelerate and you you lurch and and
maybe fell off, maybe he was standing on it, or
he had a medical emergency. We just don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think it's time for not not just people ride
around in cards, but also golfers to wear helmets, you.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Know everywhere they go, well on the.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Golf course, Yeah, because you can get hit by a
golf ball in the head and that could kill you instantly.
You can have one of these rollover accidents. I don't
know if you've ever played golf in your life, but
anyone who's ever played golf and and has taken a cart,
you've had an accident.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Either you've run into a tree, you've run into a
sand dune or a sand pit what do they call
a sand trap sandtrap, or you run into a you know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You ain't it too much to one side where you're like,
I don't know about this hill we're on.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, I was, And especially if you play early in
the morning, you know, five thirty six am, when the
grass is still wet and there's and it's dewey and
it slides around. Everybody's had these accidents, everybody. Yeah, and
I think it's just an accident.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But I will say the internet is sort of buzzing,
because it's very hard to find a picture of Jeff
Spurback and John Elway together where they're not holding wine glasses.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
You know, yeah, they did have the wine company and
they got in together. We did talk to a couple
of people who knew them, who are big names in
wine in northern California, and they say, you know that
they were great to work with and then they got
into it. But you're right, I mean, that's that's going
to be a question of when there is an accident
involving a golf cart and it's fatal, of sure, how
(05:47):
far did it go and was alcohol involved? And at
this point Riverside County that the Sheriff's office is saying
they don't know anything yet, that it's still too early,
But it would seem that there either was not a
suspicion of that in the early moments of this because
law enforcement wasn't called, or the decision was made not
to call law enforcement. We don't know, and it's not
(06:08):
like they're going to be able to breathalyze anybody two
days later. So sure, that may never be proven.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But you know, if you go to John Elways Twitter,
I was on his Twitter, and he tweets like, you know,
like four years ago, three or four years ago, guys,
you know, like me with social media. But it's going
to be very difficult for him to be the face
of that wine company still, yeah, after something like this happened.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, especially depending on which way the investigation goes. But
I was talking to an old boss mine out in
Colorado today and she said, you know, even he and yes,
his name is still on restaurants out there and on
car dealerships, but he's he's really pulled back from the
public compared to even a few years ago when he
was just everywhere on all the commercials in Denver, and yeah,
(06:51):
he was a superstar. He's still well respected in Denver,
but he's not quite the the public figure that he
used to be. So he's been living a more quiet life.
We know he lives in the Lacente area and that
the Madison Club is a lot of very big names,
very exclusive community there and club there, but spending lot
a lot of his time around Palm Springs.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Hey, do you have an assignment director or assignment editor?
You have a news director there? Yeah, is anybody on
the on the Jordan Hudson story? On how she got
eight million dollars in a couple of weeks to buy
four or five different homes.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Who is she?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
She's Belichick's oh Belichick.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The we don't answer that question.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Well, that's right. I didn't know her last name.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, it's a good question. Yeah it No, I saw
that there were some statements. I wasn't following it today,
but I saw some statements came out in that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah she you know, shortly after they started dating, she
had eight million dollars to buy four or five homes in.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Amazing it's twenty four right, I'm sure it's all self made. Well,
you have no question about it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's all it's all purchased from a full time student salary.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And we know how long those are.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, pays a lot these days, especially if you go
through the portal.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'll call your news director look at somebody on that.
But it's a very sad story. I'm sure John Elway
is devastated.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Absolutely, and it seems like because we haven't seen any
statements and nobody's been putting anything out, I'm sure they're
going through a.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Lot right now. Yeah, that's horrible, but I appreciate you
coming on. You got a texture.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Thanks man. Alex Stone with ABC News. That's devastating Broncos quarterback.
I think he won two. Did he win two.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
To Liper Bowl? Yes, his career with the two, and that's.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Like one of the very few careers that ended on
a high note in football.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
He had what two or three losses in the Super
Bowl prior to that, but he finished up up on top.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And then he was also the general manager of the
winning Super Bowl team as well with with Peyton Manning. Yeah,
with Peyton Manning. So that guy lived up until last
weekend a very charmed life, and now that's going to
haunt him the rest of his life. It's going to
be on social.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Media everywhere you go, and a lot of people that
might be the second or third thing they think about
John Elway, you know, after the Super Bowls and his
great career and his deal car dealerships and all that stuff,
it might be you know that this he was driving
the golf cart when one of his best friends passed away.
(09:16):
I can't imagine being having to go through that kind
of guilt, you know, I mean, just take whoever your
best friend is and you're driving a golf cart and
that person dies I don't know how you go to work.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I don't know how you get up in the morning.
I don't know how you do anything.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I don't know how you talk to the wife, you know,
and you sit down with her and you have to
work out something to help her out if she needed
to any help.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's that's got to be one of the worst things ever,
to be responsible for your best friend's death. That has
got to be a small group, man, a really small group.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's too bad. That's a horrible story.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, we're gonna do a crime segment here. We've
been toying with three different ideas. There's three ideas that
have risen to the top. Okay, so the first one
is Ding Dong Your Stuff is Gone. That's the title.
First title. The second one is crime, Crime Crime.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's up bump bump bump bum, and we'll use that song.
That'll be cool. And then what's the other one, bellyo
Crime crime Time.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, like Neon Dion Sanders was Prime Time, this is
crime time. So we've got some We've got a break
in in a bakery.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
How much money is in the bakery business?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Everything is a dollar two dollars max. A lot of
people pay with credit cards. And yet there's a break
in in a bakery.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
We are talking about a very young group of suspects
here that the Long Beach Police Department are currently looking for.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
How old ten nine.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
This bakery has been in business for thirty seven years
down in Long Beach, and she says remarkably, this is
the first time that this has happened to her, and
she's very discouraged to see that the people that broke
in are pretty young. This is actually a video from
down the street or next doorder.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, this bakery has avoided being broken into for five years,
you know, during COVID and during the fires and during
all the confusion over the last couple of months. For
some reason, I think every business has been broken into
or ripped off, every single business, but this one avoided
it until now.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
The bakery where they tried to get into. First, you
see one of them throwing a rock, the other throwing
a pipe wrench there as well, unsuccessfully breaking the windows.
Then they come to her business. That's when they were
able to shout on the front windows. Here's the thing, though,
all the damage they did, they got away.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
With nothing, nothing zero, not even a donatet nothing. They
got away with nothing, not even a donut holes nothing.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
There's no cash for them to take. All they took
were some of the pastries that were left in the
display case. And you see all of them kind of
file in here.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Those are Dale's anything it's left in there overnight.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
That's a day all. It's not very good. It's not
a great bake, you know, it's a Dale.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
And I want you to really get a look at
just how young some of these people are. They're all
wearing masks in the video here, and you see how young.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean, are they three four? I don't know a.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Couple of them after they were only able to get
some pastries and other donuts, perhaps they go.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well, they were pretty young. I will give you that.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I mean, you can tell by the you know, the
clues that they stole bakery goods, you know, donuts and
Long John's brownies.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Is that a young man's game? I think.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I think young people like bake goods more than older people.
I think, like when you get, when you go, when
when you would go to the bakery with your mom
when you were a child, you get very excited.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, now i'll.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Take this, I'll take that. I'll take one of those
in one of these. But man, when you were a kid,
you went nuts in that bakery.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Nuts, pastries and other donuts. Perhaps they go right back
out the window they just broke. You'll see as one
of them here comes back in. Look how small and
young that person looks. They go back in, they grab
the wrench that they use to break the window, and
they take off. Tonight I had the business I had
a chance to talk to the business owner, the founder
of Sweet Chills Bakery about.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh, this is Sweet Jills.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I didn't know that Sweet Jills is beautiful baker Its
right there in hunting in a not sunset beach, Seal Beach.
It's right there at Seal Beach. I used to go
to Sweet Jills all the time. Sweet Jills is one
of the greatest bakeries in the world. Everything is big,
big donuts, big cupcakes, big cookies. Sweet Jills right there
(13:33):
on main Street in Seal Beach. Oh now, I'm personally
offended by this. I can't believe there's never a time
when there's not nine hundred people walking up and down
the street on Main Street in Seal Beach. I cannot
believe this bakery got robbed. If this is the same,
Sweet Jills. Now, if this is one in Long Beach,
I've never been to that one. But the one I'm
(13:54):
talking about is the one on Main Street in Seal Beach.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't think that one was robbed. I don't know
how you can rob thom.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
What she would say to these kids, I want them
to suffer consequences most definitely, I want them to suffer.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
I want their parents to suffer.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Doesn't sound so sweet. Jill sounds hot? Jill sound yeah,
Jill's mad, Jill's mad baker, the mad Baker's hot.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Whatever way that should be justice. It is a crime.
I don't care their age. If that's the image they
want to present themselves at such a young age, I
fear for their future. Something has to stop.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's right, I'm with this, Sweet Jill.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Jill says right there that that didn't stop them from opening.
They said they were sweeping the glass before five thirty.
This happened at four oh eight in the morning, before
five point thirty came around and they were able to serve
some of their customers because they've been in business for
so long in Long Beach. Many of their customers were
very distraught about all of this. Jill told me that
even some local school staff are going to try to
look at the video to see if they recognize any
of these very young suspects in that video. Meanwhile, the
(14:56):
Long Beach Police Department has taken her burglary report and
they are actively try to find these kids. But you
look at that video and they do look.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Very Yeah, they do look young lads and glasses. This
is off Second Street, I believe.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, Sweet Jills is on Second Street near Livingston. And
there's another one in Seal Beach. Or maybe they moved.
Maybe they moved from Seal Beach.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Two.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Let's see if there's still one in Seal Beach. I'm
focusing in now on Seal Beach and let's see. Yes,
Sweet Jills Bakery is still there in Seal Beach. So
they have two, if it's the same Sweet Jills. They
have two, one in Long Beach on Second Street and
then another one on Main Street right there about a
block and a half from the ocean. So it's great.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's right near Taco Surf, a Mexican place I used
to go to all the time. Clan Sees is there, Belly.
I don't know if you know this because you don't
really get down to that area. But Seal Beach has
four Irish bars on one block. Really, yeah, they have
Remember of all the Hennesses which we went to all
(16:06):
the time, Hennessy's Grill. Then they have Clan Seas O'Malley's,
that's great. And then I can't remember the last one,
but there's four.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
There were four Irish.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Bars on one block in Seal Beach and I can't
remember the last one, O'Malley's, Henness's, Clan Seas and I
can't remember the last one, lose my mind. But if
it's still there, yeah, Clan C's is still there. So
the a missing one Clan cs and so.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yes Irish Seas, Irish yes, yes, Laney's is that one?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
No, the irishir Yes, the Irish shir. So there's four blocks,
four Irish bars on a single block there like a
block and a half. I think it's a one full block.
And they're great, They're fantastic. When I used to live
in Seal Beach, I go every night to one of
those bars, and it was a cool deals cool hang.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, they're probably all packed too. Yeah, they were all packed.
All of them were five D at the bar, all
of them all.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
When we come back, I think we're talking to monks.
We got monks. You got monks.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, and LAPD is not happy about the potential cuts
in staffing. So we'll talk to monks and see what
he's got going on. You got monks. You got Conway.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You got monks. He's here. How you bub when on Saturday?
Is good afternoon. Nice to see you, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You and I after we talk about LAPD, have one
thing in common. This is a big Saturday coming up.
It is indeed Kentucky Derby, big big race. How far
did you live from Churchill down when I was a child.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I lived in Louisville from the time I was born
until I was twelve years old. I grew up right
around the corner. Wow, my school Holy name was a
stone's throw.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Isn't that a big parking lot for the for the
derby and a lot of people part Oh you could
make a killing selling your yard. Oh yeah, I mean
you have a tiny yard. You can get one car
in there. You're taking that twenty five fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh yeah, easily. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And and you know there's so many private jets that
come into Louisville. They come on the back and they
land on the backstretchers an airfield on the backstretch there
and they land and then they have to take off
because there's not enough room for all those private jets.
So they go to Indianapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and that's
where they have to sit for three days and then
come back and pick up their owner.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
It's a mess. I mean, it's an absolute mess. Louisville
is a pretty good size city. It's not a mega
city like la is it's a good size city. But
that is one day where everybody and their mother is
in town and oh it's just not big enough. It's great,
It really is great.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And I love the inclement weather, you know when it's
like pouring, you know out here, if there is even
a threat of like if they see a rain cloud,
they'll shut sant Anita down for you know.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They don't do the sloppy track.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, very rarely. Oh, I love a sloppy track. Stoppy's
the best.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You know. They put on those you know, those cleats
on these horses. They make them earn it.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
They get rolling, yeah, yeah, and they and the jocks,
you know, have the six pair of goggle and they
keep flipping them down as they get all muddy.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
If people get so upset about the horses and the
way they're you know what this horse gets to do
for the rest of his life after this.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Rice, right, if he's if he's good and intact still,
even if he's kind of middle of the pack, right,
this guy's getting laid for the rest of his life
for big dollars twice a day, twice a day.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
I mean, when you run through the racing form, even
at a tiny track somewhere in the middle of America,
and you're looking and they always tell you who the
parents are of these horses, and you'll see horses you know,
you're like, man, you know, I mean some of these
horses are producing scrubs, of course, but like, that's how
many sons and daughters they've got out there.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
But you know what's remarkable is how quickly you see it.
A winner of the Kentucky Derby, then a parent of
a of a of a contendent like years.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
They don't wait at all.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
They get rolling. No, they don't wait to get into
a career or anything. It's just like straight into banging.
I don't know how deep you go into horse racing.
But every horse Verus's birthday is January first, is it? Yeah,
so if a horse is born on January second, it
doesn't turn a year old until January first of next year.
But if it's born on December thirtieth, it turns a
year old two days later.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh that sounds like a scam. Yeah, well they didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They didn't want to go with artificial dissemination because that
could really produce a lot of yeah, a lot of
you know, shaky deals. And so you'll see everybody produces
horses and tries to get them born between January first
and like March first. That's like the sweet spot because
then they're not a year old until next year. Wouldn't
it be fun to own one of these precious horses?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
God, it would be great. Yeah, I'd love that. That's
a dream. Yeah, it would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
All right, LAPD doesn't look like they can afford a hort.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
In fact, the whole city of la should be placing
some long shot bets to see if they could get
a big payout on Saturday, because they're broken and you're
gonna be hauling me in for the next two weeks
as various department heads come to City Council and make
their case. As the mayor has proposed these massive cuts,
big time layoffs. Now, it was of note that among
the layoffs, the mayor is not laying off police officers,
(21:04):
but the police department itself is the hardest hit with layoffs.
We're talking more than four hundred civilion roles. And when
you think, okay, what does that mean, receptionist, Does that
mean somebody's holding the door open for somebody?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Not exactly.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Here's what Chief Jim McDonald had to say at City
Council budget committee today.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
The Mayor's proposed budget includes a staggering reduction of four
hundred and three civilian positions, representing fifteen point two percent
of our civilian workforce. These are not faceless numbers. They're
men and women who've devoted their lives to public service,
often behind the scenes, with specialized skills, ensuring that our
officers have the tools, data, and operational support they need
(21:40):
to keep our city safe. Their work is essential and
their loss is not just a human one, but one
that will be felt by every neighborhood in our city.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
What do you got?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Does these sound like nineteen fifty two in New York
comp going after like little Italy?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I know I want to hate on in the chief
And I said this in the newsroom day. It was like,
this guy's lived in LA for forty five years and
he still sounds like an extra from Goodwill hunting. What's
the deal? It doesn't go away, But what does it
mean for neighborhoods to feel Every neighborhood, he says, will
feel this. Well, here's what he means. He's talking about
the guys who do the DNA ballistics analysis, and a
(22:15):
lot of that might involve serious crimes. Rape, And he
says that the forensic guy, some of the non officers
that you will see on shows like CSI, right, shouldn't
they have to pull officers off the street to fill
those Well, they're gonna have a hard time doing that too.
And I'll get to that because what he is saying,
when you get rid of those guys, you're delaying justice.
It will take longer to process sure criminal evidence. He says,
(22:37):
vehicle mechanics are on the chopping block here and so
the fleet could potentially be damaged. He says they might
have to shut down facilities jails in order to meet
these demands. But to your point about pulling in the
sworn officers, the department has also got a budget recommendation
of thirty six million dollars less in overtime costs. So
(23:00):
we want you to spend much less and overtime. And
he says, look, overtime might sound like a luxury, but
it is and it is a necessity. And if we
take that much overtime away, we will not be able
to have these specialized deployments at Venice Beach, at MacArthur Park,
which he says, we're making progress cleaning up the RV
Task Force, the homeless RVs, you know, the guys that
(23:21):
go out and check on that stuff. Sure, those are
the areas that will see less activity if they're not
able to use overtime to pay those officers.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You know, I understand people like John Colbelt, who you know,
who constantly goes after the city and rightfully so I
understand why he and Deborah live in the city. They've
been living there for thirty or forty years. But if
you're a young couple and you've got a baby or
two children, I would think twice about moving in the
city of La.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I mean, it's not going in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Yeah, I mean, it's certainly a question one would have
to ask. Yes, and as goes La, though, so goes
the region. Yes, you know, I mean you probably have
names here in Burbank that are here because of something
that happened in Los Angeles. That's what might be a job,
it might be Hollywood, it might be something like that.
But they live in Burbank, they live in Glendale, they
live in Pasadeny, right because of Los Angeles. And it's
(24:12):
a death spiral and we're in it. And you think
it's not gonna pull down Burbank. You've got another thing coming,
miss Well, I don't think it's gonna pack those bags.
I think it's the opposite.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I think there's a lot of people that are gonna
be moving to small communities like Glendale, Culver City, San Fernando, Burbank,
where where you know, they don't have these kind of
you know.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Budget difficulties. But who knows.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
It might be wrong, But I I don't know how
LA gets out of this. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
They have to learn how to do more with lesson Frankly,
if I'm in a.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Lot of this money is stolen too, you know it's
not just miss misappropriated and misuse and stolen money.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I have not confirmed that, So I'm not saying that
that's that's Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well that's John Coleblt.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
That Colebelt loves to say that while I'm sitting here
freezing in my seat, like, Okay, that's co Belt.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let the attorneys see that's not me, dude.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
But but the department, the police department, they've got fifteen
hundred fewer officers and they want but they still get
all of the money budgeted as if they had as
many officers as they wanted. At some point, you're gonna
have to ask this police department, what's your real strategy.
You've got to pivot. It's not working. Your recruitment strategy
is not working. All the excuses, it doesn't matter. How
are you gonna fill those ranks? And if you cannot,
(25:20):
we've got to stop budgeting for this claw back that money. Oh,
it's horrible, buddy. I appreciate you coming in and asking
all over the city.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Always a pleasure. All right, you got Monks Saturday seven
to nine pm.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, I'm betting on journalism, so hopefully I'm coming in
a winner on Saturday night for Michael Monk's report.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Maybe Saturday night you'll have a pocket full of money. Yeah,
people can meet you in the parking lot. I'm doing
the exact box journalism and American promise.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
What is that gonna pay eight dollars?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, it's gonna pay a lot in pride, all right,
Michael Monks the chalk better.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's the day of a show on Saturday night.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
You're listening to Tim conwayjun You're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It is the con Show.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
John Elway has released a statement regarding the death of
his agent and one of his best friends. The statement
from John Elway. If you're just tuning in, you missed
the story. On Saturday, John Elway was with his buddy
Jeff Spurback, and both of their wives, and I think
some of the kids were there as well, and they.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Were on a golf cart.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Jeff Spurback fell out of the back of the golf cart,
hit his head and he was put on life support.
And this morning, at one o'clock they pulled the plug
and he passed away. So John Elway said, I'm absolutely
devastated by the heartbreak by I'm sorry, I am absolutely
devastated and heartbroken by the passing of my close friend,
business partner, and agent, Jeff Spurbeck. There are no words
(26:47):
that truly express the profound sadness I feel with the
sudden loss of somebody who has meant so much to me.
My heart and deepest sympathies go out to his wife, Corey,
his children, Carly, Sam and Jackson, and everyone who knew
him and loved him. Jeff will be deeply missed for
the loyalty, wisdom, friendship and love he brought into my
(27:10):
life and the lives of so many others. And it's
a very, very sad story. John always a really good guy.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Belly. Did you ever meet John Elway? I know you
you worked in sports. Yeah, I've met him Denver. Yeah,
I've met him a few times. I mean it was
just short.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I never met him, but he played football for Granada Hills.
I went to Birmingham and I think he was a
senior when I was a freshman, and I remember he
came to Birmingham. He came to our high school. And
a friend of mine, a guy named Jerry Gettlson, was
a writer for the Birmingham newspaper, and he says, you
got to come to Friday night's game and watch this kid,
(27:47):
John Elway play.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh okay, So I went to the game.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I watched John Elway play football, and I think he
passed for seven hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
These two huge, tall receivers that would just take off
and run down the field and he'd throw the ball
fifty yards in the air. He was considered the best
quarterback in America while he was in high school, the
best quarterback in America, better than any college or any
pro quarterback. While he was a senior in high.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
School, he was also drafted to the MLB. Oh was
that right? I didn't know that?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow? What a what a? I mean?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Just a physically huge guy too. Man, he just dominated
in high school.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
What do you think his still quick whip around? I'm
Steph Foo's heare. What do you think John Elway made
his entire career, not as a manager, but as a
player in the national just an NFL player. I added
up his salary, his annual salaries.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
What do you think he made throughout his career just
as a player, Steph Fush, let's start with you, Bob
oh No, that's not a good sign. Eight million, all right,
I Angel, seventy five million. Seventy five million, alright? Pellio? Okay, Krozier,
(29:21):
it's from an older era. I'm gonna say forty million,
forty million. Is anyone else with us today? Is that it?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Krozier nailed it. Forty five million dollars?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Wow, got it? I was being generous.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Isn't that Wild's gonna be like twenty Do you know
that Steph Curry makes more than that in one season?
Steph Curry makes fifty five million dollars a year, So
he makes more in eighty one percent of a season
than John Elway made in his entire career. He only
has to play sixty six games and he makes that
kind of money. Shoe Aotani makes seventy million year, so
(30:01):
he only had to have For every one hundred games
that Shoeo Tani plays, he makes forty five million dollars
forty five million dollars for every one hundred games.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He gets a lot of money. How much you get
for one hundred shows? I'd have to work that out.
I had a couple of zeros in there. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Say I worked it out. I think I'm making like
thirty eight dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Nice, yeah, nice.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
A lot better than I thought at some point, A
lot better than I thought growing up in hockey. The
number one I guess the highest paid athlete. Not you
guessed him? It is, okay, Austin Matthews with the maple leaves.
He makes thirteen million dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
So did you to sit here that about a hockey player?
I know, thirteen million?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Man?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I thought, how much was Gretzky making like at his
peak here when he came.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
To la Oh. I would say, remember that was a
big number, a famous number at the time. I think
it was a couple million. Yeah, I don't think I
remember like five million. I don't think it was five.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I gotta looked that up, but I think it's less
than five. I think I think he's the first guy
that broke the million. You know, so, but that's that
is crazy that John Elway made forty five million dollars
in his entire career.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Let's look that up. Let's see what Gretzky got, g r. E. T.
Let's see what he.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Got Wayne Gretzki. Yeah, he made three million dollars a year.
Gretzky's salary peaked during the ninety one ninety two season
with Los Angeles Kings. Three million dollars a year. Steph
Curry makes that in a long week.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That is wild. Sorry Jay Lennon, but it is wild.
I can use that here.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Gretzky's total career earnings, including salary and endorsements, was ninety
six million, forty six million dollars. So Wayne Gretzky made
exactly as much as John Elway in salary. And Wayne
Gretzky changed the game of hockey. I guess John Alway
(32:15):
had a pretty big impact as well. But man, what
it's amazing what they pay these guys nowadays. Fifty five
million for Steph Curry, seventy million for Otani, one hundred games.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
He made what John Elway made in his entire career.
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