August 19, 2025 • 33 mins
Description: Alex Stone, Ketamine Queen The so-called “Ketamine Queen” of Los Angeles — once a prime target of federal prosecutors — has pleaded guilty to charges tied to providing the fatal dose that killed Friends star Matthew Perry in 2023.
Michael Monks, Housing Battle; The L.A. City Council is set to vote on whether to oppose a hotly debated state housing bill that would force cities to allow high-density housing near major transit stops—unless amended to exempt cities with compliant plans. $17K United Airlines Scam; A man called United Airlines customer service… and somehow ended up talking to a scammer who drained him of $17,000. Southern California is bracing for a dangerous heat wave and fire risk, as reports surface of a brutal attack on a woman at a Pasadena concert.
Michael Monks, Housing Battle; The L.A. City Council is set to vote on whether to oppose a hotly debated state housing bill that would force cities to allow high-density housing near major transit stops—unless amended to exempt cities with compliant plans. $17K United Airlines Scam; A man called United Airlines customer service… and somehow ended up talking to a scammer who drained him of $17,000. Southern California is bracing for a dangerous heat wave and fire risk, as reports surface of a brutal attack on a woman at a Pasadena concert.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Well, slide right in the things on all sorts of
cool people cruising through the hall here at iHeart You know,
that's one of the things I love about this place.
So we'll meet some of them a little bit later
in the show, But right now, I've got a very
big name online one.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We're just going to start picking random people from the hallways.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, that's the point. You can pick random people. Everybody's
got a story to tell. It's everybody's a minor celebrity
at minimum, maybe a major celebrity here at iHeart Mine.
Does Ryan Seacrest come in anymore? They do it out
of his house, Ight I ever come in here?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah? I don't think of it. He has a studio.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Literally studio, but he didn't like it because he didn't
like going up the elevators with the normal people.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
He said, I'm going to build a studio somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's a jillion dollars studio upstairs. Please tell me he
uses it. Somebody uses it. It's under locklin key. You
can't go in it.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
They changed, they changed it to one point to make
it like at a general area.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I see, yeah, because I haven't been up there in
a while. But man, it was nice.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
He bolted out of that when he started his TV
show right right, Yeah, he that you know, went on forever.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Sure, Oh you're talking about the Kathy Lee and no,
oh the on air with Ryan.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Seacrest whatever it was called, like right after his show
that was on Hollywood and oh.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah it was on air with Ryan Seacrest. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
sure of course. Yeah, that's interesting. Closer's had a lot
of good Ryan Seacrest knowledge. I didn't have leve me
some Seacrest.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah. I love that Ryan.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We used to text each other all the time, be
in touch, we used to hang and then he got
to be a big star, you know, and everybody wants
to be around him and near him, and so I
get it.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You got to shake a few loose.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'm happy to be shaken, speaking of everyone wanted to
be around someone. Alex Stone from ABC News, I'm.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Just gonna say, I bet you you're in a building
where people could tell you about that studio and whether
he uses it or not, and you know, I don't
know you work for the same company.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
They probably could tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, that's why it was us with Krozier's frankness. To
be honest, I thought he showed a lot of candor there.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Who else is in the hallway? I want to know
the hot guys? Oh you never know, that's the point. Yeah, yeah,
we're on a you know, just to run this out.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
We're on a floor, the fourth floor, which is news
sports information, so you're likely to get people who are
in that world. So you might see athletes coming through
for the sports station. You might see luminaries of some kind.
Last week, ice Cube was roaming around. He he was
doing some stuff at the FM. They pulled him down here.
He was on Gary and Shannon just running.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But on the fifth floor, which is kind of where
they pulled ice Cube from.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
The fifth floor has got all.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The music people and they kiss FM's up there, My
FM's up there, all's up there. So that's where I
think there's a little more shimmer. Wouldn't you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Crosch?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Sure your shimmer is my go ahead?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
All right?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Do you guys still have that massage table thing down
the hallway kind of over by.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Gary and Tanna?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I think, job, I wondered about that. Wow, that's so,
that seems inappropriate, but I agree.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well you didn't try it then it was in the hallway.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I missed that day. Wow.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, they put a little blockade to keep people from
looking right at it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So oh my god, Wow, Alex Stone, I guess is
that she's called the ketamine queen, y linked to the
Matthew Perry overdose. She's pleading out her situation right, yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
And she was set to go on trial in about
a week and a half or so, and we kept
waiting because everybody else in this had played guilty, thinking
she going to be the one that isn't going to
do it, and now she's doing it. Jasmine saying, ha,
you know, known by the lapd and on the streets
is a ketamine queen. And she's the final of the
(03:45):
five defendants now who played a role we don't have
to say allegedly because they're pleading guilty now and admitting
to it in Matthew Perry's death a couple of years ago.
So all of the four others had already said that
they were going to do it, the last one before
her being the other big target of this doctor, Salvador Placentia,
the one who was supplying the drugs before she was.
(04:10):
But the thinking was at some point she would come around.
The laped has so much evidence against her and selling
drugs not only to Matthew Perry, but to a guy
who died after taking her drugs in twenty nineteen. So
in her play agreement, she's admitting to her role in
both of the deaths. And remember they're all accused of
using Matthew Perry as a big piggy bank to sell
them drugs and then US attorney no longer.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
But Martinez Strada was saying.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
These defendants took advantage of mister Perry's addiction issues to
enrich themselves.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
And the allegation being just take you back a little bit.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
The two doctors were charging Perry two thousand dollars of
vile for ketmine that costs them only twelve dollars a vial,
and both of the doctors who are now pleading guilty
that at the time had texted each other saying how
much is this more.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Unwilling to spend?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
That he was willing to spend anything to get his
fix of the ketamine and make himself feel better. But
eventually two thousand dollars a vial was too much for Perry,
and so he and his assistant they set out to
try to find somebody else who would sell it for cheaper.
They found a guy named Eric Fleming who could get
the drugs from Jasvine, saying, ha, all of these people
(05:19):
are charged in this and Strata said at the time,
not only did Sangh sell the fatal dose, but she
also tried to hide her tracks and destroy evidence, which
made it worse.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Sona begins sending text messages to Fleming, a co defendant,
and telling him to delete all messages and mark.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
She allegedly gave Perry a sample of it to prove
that she wasn't giving them what they called the horsey kind,
because ketamine is also a veterinary medicine that you don't
want the animal kind, you want the real human kind.
And then when he liked that, she gave him fifty
vials of ketamine for cash. He was just so addicted
he was willing to spend anything, telling our Diane Sawyer
at the time.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Your disease is just outside just doing one arm push
ups this.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Way is waiting for you, waiting to get you along.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Her attorney, who is by the way, Mark Garret Goes,
who is also going to be busy on Thursday and
Friday for the Menendez brothers parole hearing, says that she
is coming clean, taking responsibility for actions, and you know,
really a lot of this may come down to the
other defendants. Everybody else is pleading guilty. We asked her
legal analyst, Brian Buckmeyer, why do this? He says, Look,
(06:24):
when everybody else has agreed they're going to testify against
you as part of their plea deals because they have
not yet been sentenced. They've been delaying those so they
have an incentive to testify against her. That she didn't
have a real way out of this.
Speaker 9 (06:36):
Poor people prior to her abo he pled guilty and
have not been sentenced. And a part of those fleas
they agree to cooperate in the prosecution against her. She
would have had four co defendants testifying against her. Now
it made for a very difficult.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Trial, so she could get in the end as part
of this plea deal, sixty five years in prison. She's
in her early forties, essentially life in prison. She'll have
a change of plea hearing in the coming weeks the
sentencing hearing. After that, all of these defendants have hearings,
sentencing hearings from September seventeenth until into December. There's so
many of them. Over the next few months, they're all
(07:09):
going to learn their faith. But she and doctor Salvador Placentia,
they're the big targets who will get the most time.
The others they'll get time, but not as much as them.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
But they were.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Looking at like one hundred, one hundred and twenty five
years in prison. Sixty five years. It's essentially life. But
maybe she'll get a chance to get out at some point.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Geez, I mean that's still she's, you know, looking down
the barrel of a real serious bit of prison.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Yeah, in federal prison too.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah. And they it was the assistant who was the
go between her really you know.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
And then yeah, and Eric Fleming, her buddy. He was
kind of the hey, I can hook you up and
be the the middle person here to do the drug dealings.
So they weren't doing it directly, and there were if
you remember, Iowa Masa was injecting him with just a
ton of this stuff that he wanted. The big push
at the end when he was in his spa in
(08:00):
his backyard, and it was that final one that he
was getting so much of it his body couldn't take
it any longer and he went under the water and
wasn't breathing.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, and died in the hot tub. So sad. Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, so that in a sense closes the book on
this in terms of all those involved in the death
of message guys.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Yeah, I mean, it really will when they get their sentences.
But yeah, this is the last defendant to claim that
she was innocent and that she didn't do it. Now
she fully admits in this plea deal that she was
responsible for not only his death but the victim in
twenty nineteen as well, and that she was dealing a
lot of drugs the LPD. I mean, they found a
(08:40):
ton of stuff in her apartment, and she was a
big supplier on the streets. And if you ever looked
at back before it was all down her social media.
She was in the high end party scene of celebrities
and around celebrities and in the clubs and whatnot. It
was clearly making a lot of money. But also it
was his image that she was putting off of being
(09:03):
the celebrity drug dealer. I'm surprised that she did. They
didn't look in her sooner, you know. But but yeah,
and her client list. Oh and maybe they didn't or
maybe they will or there's no reason to but find
out who those clients were.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, I mean she's super high profile. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I mean they're you know, magazine spreads about you know,
the kind of glossy life that she led as a
result of this. Just a real tragedy though, and as
you say, kind of it's over at least in terms
of the plea agreements. Wow, Alex Stone, thanks for the update.
Appreciate that you got it.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Thanks Mark.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
We'll talk soon, Alex Stone from ABC News. When we'd
come back, Michael Monks joins us and we talk about, well,
we talk about the housing bill and the city council
opposing this latest effort, and we'll get into some of
the specific with Monks as we continue.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That was not a song Ketamine Queen. No, that was
It's Caribbean Queen. It's not Ketamine Queen. I'm hearing people
in the hallways. It wasn't that a song. No, that
was not a song. The Ketamine Queen of Los Angeles
pleading guilty. And that's the end of the Matthew Perry case.
That story from Alex Stone a moment ago. Now Michael
(10:28):
Monks with a controversial housing bill. The deal is just
to kind of set the backdrop, because I'm the fine
professional that I am, Michael Monks. There's a housing there's
pressure to have more housing close to transit mass transit.
That's sort of like a overall general desire on the
(10:50):
part of legislators and the part of communities. The problem
is you can get a little too aggressive about that.
And this new bill that's being introduced is getting up
position here in LA from the city Council because it
has they want to essentially move a lot of this
residential housing. I'm not trying to take away what you're
about to say, but I just want to check the table.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
All right, I yield table setting, I yield, Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
All right, But what they're may they may be too aggressive,
I think is the thinking. And you're taking over transit
authority land to build all of this housing. So that's
more or lessons I understand it is that kind of
true Yeah, it's exactly true.
Speaker 11 (11:29):
And this is a bill that has gotten a lot
of attention even here in our airwaves. You've probably heard
various segments on the Cobelt Show. For example, He's had
some folks on with some concerns about the Palisades redevelopment
post wildfire and what this piece of legislation could mean
for it. Some advocates that support Senate Bill seventy nine
say this wouldn't impact the Palisades at all. What they're
(11:49):
talking about with Senate Bill seventy nine is to make
it easier to build residential housing, in some cases up
to seven stories. We're talking pretty good sized buildings next
to train stations and high trafficed bus stops, think express
buses and those sorts of things. With the idea being one,
(12:10):
California needs more housing, and two you can move to
the suburbs without a vehicle if you live next to
a mass transit stop because it connects you to the
rest of the city. What I found today at LA
City Hall was nobody disputes those facts that one La
needs more housing and two they all seem to support
(12:31):
public transportation in general, so connecting those two makes sense.
What they are concerned about the people who voted to
oppose this bill formally is that Sacramento would take control
of zoning basically, whereas zoning is typically done at the
very local level, especially in LA where there are various
(12:52):
districts that pay attention to how various lots and developments
are supposed to luck.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So this is a jurisdictional issue. It's not a philosophical issue.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
I think that's how it was framed. And this was
not an overwhelming vote. This was an eight to five vote.
Two members were absent, so there were thirteen members of
council present during this argument. Eight voted to approve this
resolution to make the City of Los Angeles on record
in opposition to this bill. Five members voted against that.
They didn't necessarily necessarily say we support Senate Bill seventy
(13:21):
nine the way it is, but we want to keep
an open mind about these things. The members who voted, again,
it's kind of hard to talk about. We're talking about
in a resolution and opposition to a piece of legislation,
and the people in opposition to the resolution and opposition.
It's hard to detangle all of that or untangle all
of that. But the members who basically are at least
(13:42):
open to Senate Bill seventy nine, say, look, you just
don't want density in your neighborhoods. You just don't want
apartment buildings and your neighborhoods. It's basically a classic fight
of this new civil war that we've got going on
in zoning and development, the nimbis versus the ymbis.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Sure and that I love that you mentioned Pallisades because
as they rebuild Pallisades, there is a lot of this
being played out in those details.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
And there are no trains that go to Pacific Palisades,
so it's not entirely irrelevant. Because a councilman, Monica Rodriguez,
who spoke against Senate Bill seventy nine and voted for
this resolution to be formally against it, made a really
good point. She said, she represents the northeast San Fernando Valley.
There's not a lot of train access out that way yet,
(14:29):
but there is supposed to be in the future. They
are in the planning stages for extending a light rail
out through the San Fernando Valley. She says this bill
would allow for developments in her district even before the
tracks are laid, and so with the track record that
(14:51):
California and even local Metro has, it's possible that you
could see some pretty large scale developments that neighbors don't
necessarily want and never get the transit to match it.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That is the most California thing for if they were
to build the housing with the idea that it's going
to be there close to the commute route, and the
commute route never goes.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It's absolutely right.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
You know.
Speaker 11 (15:14):
One of the things that people ask me is a
guy who decided to live in downtown Los Angeles, is
why would you do that? It was because of this
in a lot of ways, like I'm not coming here
to California with a car, and that's a crazy thing
to do. But if I'm downtown, I can live in
a densely populated neighborhood with a lot of offerings and
mass transit that can blast out to just about every
other corner. There are suburbs that could benefit from an
(15:36):
expansion of Metro and public transportation options, but you have
to have the housing to match. But the people who
are against this particular piece of legislation make the point
that residents don't necessarily want to see developments that are
out of scale with the rest of the neighborhood and
they want to have a say in what goes there.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I mean, it's a reasonable point.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
I find the arguments on this legislation to be really fascinating.
I think there are interesting takes from both sides on this.
There's no question that more public transportation is needed, and
better and cleaner and safer public transportation. But more than that,
more housing appears to be needed all over the country,
but especially here in Los Angeles and in California to
make the prices go down.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
On a ten scale. Since you ride mass transit all
the time, where would you put mass transit ten being
it's incredible?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I love it. I wish I could live on mass transit.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
Oh in Los Angeles specifically, I would tell you this,
it is on paper, a really fine system. It's not
as old as New York's, right. New York has been
doing this for a long time, and that's why you
do not need a car in New York City. You
can get just about every single corner. You can depend
on that, and you can rely on that people of
all different economic levels will ride mass transit in New York.
(16:49):
LA is new to it. The first train tracks were
laid in like eighty nine or ninety it opened up.
It's barely thirty five years old at this point, so
it's still new and it's still expanding, so it cannot
take you as many places as one would like to
go in Los Angeles. And two, it just strikes me
that they are not serious enough about the anti social
(17:10):
behavior that takes place, nuts the criminality, but the stuff
that makes people uncomfortable. They don't clean it enough, and
they don't keep certain types of behavior off the train.
So when I cannot always advocate for people to take
it because I understand where they're coming from.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, but it's good.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
I can get where I needed to go. I can
get the Burbank. I can get to the front door
of this station by taking the B Line train from
downtown and then a Burbank bus, and it's a guaranteed
thirty five to forty minute trip every day.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
That's pretty great. It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, And if you can just dodge some of the
socially unacceptable behavior.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
Exactly, it certainly beats sitting on the on the one
ten or the one thirty four of the five.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah. Well, this is fascinating this bill. As you say,
it's a jurisdiction. We haven't heard the last today. Yeah,
so more to come, Michael Monks, thank you my pleasure.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoun You're on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Crazy story. And I feel like this is one of
those things that could happen to any of us, which
always makes it a little more interesting to me. And
it's a significant amount of money involved.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
The guy was.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Essentially charged seventeen thousand bucks on his credit card. Turns
out that he calls United Airlines and.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Well, don't take my word for it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's a complex tale that, as I say, it could
happen to any of us, apparently, And I didn't even
know that. This entire thing, which is a scam, is
so difficult to figure out as a scam when it's
happening actally.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
And I can't blame them. I don't think they believe me.
I didn't. Yeah, yeah, it was like okay, buddy, sure.
Speaker 13 (18:47):
When Dan Smoker emailed Steve on your side, he thought
he was waiting for a refund from United for a
failed attempt at rebooking a flight.
Speaker 14 (18:54):
It was going to be eighteen days going all over
Europe during a Mediterranean cruise.
Speaker 13 (18:58):
Their flight from da to London got canceled, so Dan
spent an entire morning on the phone with United trying
to rebook.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
First, he attempted to get.
Speaker 13 (19:07):
United to book his family on a partner airline.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
If you pay for the ticket, we'll just refund you.
Speaker 13 (19:12):
And says the representative named David, put him on hold
for a while, came back and said he couldn't book
the other flight, but Dan's card was already charged for
more than seventeen grand. He promised a refund and got
the family on another flight.
Speaker 14 (19:25):
I got an email from the person say it is
filling out exactly what I was getting refunded for.
Speaker 13 (19:30):
Months passed and that refund never came. Dan was getting
no answers, so he contacted us.
Speaker 14 (19:36):
It's actually you that brought up the possibility of it
being a scam.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
He's right because when I read that refund email, I
spotted red flags almost immediately, like the email didn't come
from a United email address, the format is weird, some
numbers with zero's in front of him.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
This was the kind of thing that I feel a
target seniors and those who aren't as tech savvy and
b even though a target seniors had happened.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Absolutely any of us.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I've been sucked in by these emails and these text
communications also. Anyway, Apparently, when you'll actually scrutinize the email,
you can see that it's not all legit.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
The email didn't come from a United email address, the.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Format is weird.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
Some numbers with zeros in front of them, dollars always
listed in USD dates with the day in front of
the month. I figured Dan had been taken advantage of thought,
maybe he'd google the number for United, a common way
that thieves trick people, But he didn't.
Speaker 14 (20:37):
I was on with United's official customer support number.
Speaker 13 (20:41):
Dan's call log shows he only called United's actual customer
service line one eight hundred United one.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This is where the story gets really intriguing to me,
because how can he legitimately contact United Airlines and end
up in the hands of scammers.
Speaker 13 (20:59):
He only called United's actual customer service line one eight
hundred United one even lists the three hour phone conversation,
the one where Dan says David took that seventeen grand.
Speaker 14 (21:12):
The more I looked into it, the more clear it
became that it was a scam via United system.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Somehow, how that happened, I have no idea.
Speaker 13 (21:21):
Steve on your side contacted United who told us they
have record of Dan's calls that morning.
Speaker 14 (21:26):
The one they do have, which is the same as
the one that I talked to David for three over
three hours, three hours and eighteen minutes, they show as
a thirteen minute call and they say that at that
point I had dropped off and they don't have any
further recording.
Speaker 13 (21:40):
But Dan's call log shows that call continued for hours.
Speaker 14 (21:45):
I got put on hold by that person and it
was a female, and then the next person that can't
come back was David.
Speaker 13 (21:51):
United did tell us the number David laughed in that
refund email called into their call center two the same morning,
which makes sense.
Speaker 14 (22:01):
David is ultimately the one that got us on the
flight via Newark that got us to London.
Speaker 13 (22:07):
Dance credit card statement shows a bunch of all right,
so David is legit in all of this is the point,
but I don't understand at what point he jumps the
tracks to the scammers. Dance credit card statement shows a
bunch of charges marked is United for seat upgrades on
the flight. They eventually got on, but it also shows
that seventeen thousand dollars charge to a generic company called
(22:29):
airline Fair.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
I did dispute the charge.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Wow, they really, they really go right after it, right
on the nose airline Fair. Okay, man, that's a airline Fair.
Speaker 14 (22:40):
I did dispute the charge with my credit card. You know,
it's not even about United paying the seventeen thousand dollars.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
Dan just wants to know how he called United and
got David.
Speaker 15 (22:50):
A United spokesperson told us that they've been He's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
It's not even about the seventeen k man.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
It's not the seventeen thousand dollars.
Speaker 13 (22:57):
Wow, Dan just wants to know how he called United
and got David.
Speaker 15 (23:01):
A United spokesperson told us that they've been in contact
with Dan and they're now reviewing the matter thoroughly, though
they wouldn't tell us more about how that call ended
up getting to David in the first place.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Sorry, that's the whole game. How did a call, a
legitimate call to the United Airlines end up jumping the tracks?
As I say to a scammer? How does a scammer
get into a call between a service agent at United
Airlines and a customer to the United Airlines. That's the
entire question.
Speaker 15 (23:32):
Though they wouldn't tell us more about how that call
ended up getting to David in the first place. And
Dan told us today the representative he's been working with
said that they won't be able to share any details
of any security investigations with him.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I wonder if that's.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
A viability issue, because it could be a broader problem
than just this guy.
Speaker 15 (23:54):
I'm Steve Stager, Steve on your side, nine News.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, Steve on your side, Steve, Steve very much on
the side of Dan in this case, seventeen thousand dollars.
Now he reported it as fraud, and I would think
that the credit card company will recognize it as career fraud.
But nonetheless, it is a wild story. I mean, all
(24:18):
of us have stories about being on with the airlines,
and you know, they you might be there for an
hour and a half talking to an agent, because if
you've gotten to a point where you can't resolve it
online and you actually need to contact an agent, you
need to hash it out with them. But the idea
somehow that you know, they put you on hold and
then somebody else comes on the line and they turned
(24:39):
out to be a scammer.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I mean, that's.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Frankly one of the more sophisticated scams I've heard of
all the way down to Airline Fair, which was the
way the company lists the seventeen thousand dollars charge. Wild
The beat Down at the Rose Bowl will give you
the latest on that.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
It's the show Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim.
Speaker 10 (25:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
It's going to be hot as hades around here, man,
it is going to be I'm just seeing in the
valley they're looking at temperatures. I don't know why I
say they. I'm talking about me, temperatures at around one
oh three, one oh five, one oh six. I told
(25:28):
you the power company came to us just two days
ago and informed us because the timing is always so impeccable,
that they have to shut the power off for the
day on Saturday. I'm just looking at the five day
outlook and the five day outlook, which is on one
of the enormous monitors here at the KFI Nerve Center
(25:51):
of Information. It says one oh four, So I don't
know what that equil to to a home that has
had no power air conditioning since seven am. But I'm
guessing it might. So now we're making plans to try
to you know, but you have I have my ancient cat.
(26:14):
He's eighteen. I can't move it. The last surviving cat
of the of that graduating class. So that's our problem.
I don't know what your situation will be, but we're
all going to be in this situation where there's going
to be excruciating heat. It's the biggest heat wave of
the year, is what they're saying. So be aware. It's
already begun.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I mean know we're in the nineties now, but it
continues up now.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yesterday Krazier was saying, I thought it was yesterday. I
was saying that maybe it was Thursday there would it
would peak, But it looks like it's gonna I guess
you're right, And now I'm seeing Thursday it peaks and
then it kind of plateaus. So it kind of depends
who you're watching or where you're going to be, like.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You, sir, oh the weather guy, not me.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I know.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
They did extend it a little bit more. They said
it was only going to be when I looked yesterday,
it had said like Thursday was going to be the peak.
Another five degrees tomorrow, another five degrees on Thursday, and
then maybe a degree or so down on Friday. But
it looks like they're, like you say, they're stretching out
that heat a little bit into Saturday, and it's going
to be even slower to cool down getting into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, exactly, there's no real break. I don't see on
into the weekend.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
So but by the time Sunday they say comes around,
they're expecting to be five to ten degrees cooler.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yeah, that's so good. Allow sea breeze punches through.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
So it looks like Friday might be the peak now
with a real slow cool down after that.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
The mountains could get some rain actually in the afternoon
hours because they get that, you know, enough moisture and
all that. That heat heats up that moisture. But that's
in the mountains.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
This situation at the rose Bolt is insane. The videos
up on our Instagram at KFI and this it's a
guy positively pummeling a woman at this concert at the
rose Ball.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
Disturbing video. It's going viral on social media here. It
shows a violent attack that happened Saturday night at the
sold out Rufous to Soul concert at the Rose Bowl.
A woman punched in the face, knocked unconscious to others,
viciously punched by that outrage man.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
And by the way, I mean he he punches and
then he's just putting this beat down on this poor woman.
In other words, there's no there's no off switch on
this guy. He is clearly just a rage philled dude.
It was an extraordinary thing to witness. As I say,
it's on our Instagram k IF I am six forty.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
It's crazy to see when you look at comments online,
you know, people saying, oh and nobody does anything. No
guys step in there, no pulls off. I had an
incident last week in my neighborhood where a guy like
started beating on his kid, and I was right there,
and you're assessing the moment and whether or not how much,
if at.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
All, you get involved.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
And and you know, we had Rick Chambers in here
for the whole fush thing from a KTLA and always
talks about like he remembers when when Rich Chambers started.
That was when the incident took place in prim Nevatta
with a little girl that was killed by the teenage
boys around ninety seven, and they created laws because there
were two guys involved with that, two teenagers, and the
(29:13):
friend who apparently wasn't involved with that murder at the time,
saw kind of the beginning of what was happening and
he left and he was never charged with anything. And
consequently they created these laws that said you are required
by law to involve yourself in some way, whether it's
you know, call authorities or something like that, if you
see someone in imminent danger because of that. So it's
(29:36):
like you say, when you see an incident like this
as the Rose Bowl and a woman's getting attacked, you
got like you assess the situation. How much can I
am I going to get the beat down? Yeah, there
is a level of you know, your involvement and how
much of a danger that is to you.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I love that you mentioned this because the situation was
thick with people. I mean there were people everywhere. In fact,
that was one of the issues that they overbooked this venue. Yeah,
and as a result, you have people on top of
each other. Everybody's maybe potentially irritated, everybody's inebriated.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Potentially people have been saying that they had two different
security companies involved with this place, and they were not
communicating between each other, so it was just bedlam, and
people were in the aisles where normally they wouldn't be,
and nobody could move in around.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I mean again, this guy repeatedly throwing punches at this
woman who's already been knocked out, truly alarming.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
All of the captured on video. Eyewitnesses say it all
started when someone accidentally spilled a drink on him, and
despite their profuse apologies, the man got angry and then violent.
Pasadena police say someone did file a report, and thanks
to the video, they already have multiple leads on the
identity of this man.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I mean, the video is so clear.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
This isn't one of those situations in which, oh my gosh,
I can't quite make out what his face looks like.
You can clearly see what this guy looks like, So
I would think that they're so violent.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
The band Rupetos posting a message about the violence, and
I'd say, quote, this type of behavior is completely unacceptable anywhere,
and the fact this happened at one of our shows
was devastating to learn about. Local law enforcement is actively
investigating the situation. Anyone with information should please contact Pasadena Police.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Again, if you want to see a picture of this guy,
you can see it on our Instagram at KFI AM
six forty. But you know, again to Krozer's point, I mean,
what's been stated, but two security details there that it's
to say, two outside security vendors handling this venue. This
kind of thing shouldn't happen, and it does affect the group.
(31:42):
It affects more than just this incident and more than
just this venue.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
As much as you see stuff online and how available
these videos and things are, still when you see something
like this, it just gives you that visceral kind of
gut churning feeling like oh I there type feeling.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah yeah, but there.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You saw all these people around, and as you say,
your assessment has to be done in an instant, you know,
And yet you would think reflexibly.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's like hey hey, hey, god, hey hey hey.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
At least you would do that, you would grab him
or or say something or you know, try to get
somebody's attention.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I mean, this is brutal.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Anyway, that situation continues and they still haven't positively idid
that guy, which again to me strikes me is maybe
they're just not saying that they positively I did him,
because his face is very clearly displayed in the video.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
There is newly released video showing a Southwest pilot admitting
to drinking three beers before the failed sobriety test. I
don't know why I'm chuckling. It's of concern. There was
a Kimmel Corolla bit from years ago that involves something similar,
and I will share that with you.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
It was.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
It was both alarming and amusing at the same time.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Girls on trampolines.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I know it was that show, but a different.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior KFI AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on kfi AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Well, slide right in the things on all sorts of
cool people cruising through the hall here at iHeart You know,
that's one of the things I love about this place.
So we'll meet some of them a little bit later
in the show, But right now, I've got a very
big name online one.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We're just going to start picking random people from the hallways.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, that's the point. You can pick random people. Everybody's
got a story to tell. It's everybody's a minor celebrity
at minimum, maybe a major celebrity here at iHeart Mine.
Does Ryan Seacrest come in anymore? They do it out
of his house, Ight I ever come in here?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah? I don't think of it. He has a studio.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Literally studio, but he didn't like it because he didn't
like going up the elevators with the normal people.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
He said, I'm going to build a studio somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's a jillion dollars studio upstairs. Please tell me he
uses it. Somebody uses it. It's under locklin key. You
can't go in it.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
They changed, they changed it to one point to make
it like at a general area.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I see, yeah, because I haven't been up there in
a while. But man, it was nice.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
He bolted out of that when he started his TV
show right right, Yeah, he that you know, went on forever.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Sure, Oh you're talking about the Kathy Lee and no,
oh the on air with Ryan.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Seacrest whatever it was called, like right after his show
that was on Hollywood and oh.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah it was on air with Ryan Seacrest. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
sure of course. Yeah, that's interesting. Closer's had a lot
of good Ryan Seacrest knowledge. I didn't have leve me
some Seacrest.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah. I love that Ryan.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We used to text each other all the time, be
in touch, we used to hang and then he got
to be a big star, you know, and everybody wants
to be around him and near him, and so I
get it.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You got to shake a few loose.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'm happy to be shaken, speaking of everyone wanted to
be around someone. Alex Stone from ABC News, I'm.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Just gonna say, I bet you you're in a building
where people could tell you about that studio and whether
he uses it or not, and you know, I don't
know you work for the same company.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
They probably could tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, that's why it was us with Krozier's frankness. To
be honest, I thought he showed a lot of candor there.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Who else is in the hallway? I want to know
the hot guys? Oh you never know, that's the point. Yeah, yeah,
we're on a you know, just to run this out.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
We're on a floor, the fourth floor, which is news
sports information, so you're likely to get people who are
in that world. So you might see athletes coming through
for the sports station. You might see luminaries of some kind.
Last week, ice Cube was roaming around. He he was
doing some stuff at the FM. They pulled him down here.
He was on Gary and Shannon just running.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But on the fifth floor, which is kind of where
they pulled ice Cube from.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
The fifth floor has got all.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The music people and they kiss FM's up there, My
FM's up there, all's up there. So that's where I
think there's a little more shimmer. Wouldn't you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Crosch?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Sure your shimmer is my go ahead?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
All right?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Do you guys still have that massage table thing down
the hallway kind of over by.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Gary and Tanna?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I think, job, I wondered about that. Wow, that's so,
that seems inappropriate, but I agree.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well you didn't try it then it was in the hallway.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I missed that day. Wow.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, they put a little blockade to keep people from
looking right at it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So oh my god, Wow, Alex Stone, I guess is
that she's called the ketamine queen, y linked to the
Matthew Perry overdose. She's pleading out her situation right, yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
And she was set to go on trial in about
a week and a half or so, and we kept
waiting because everybody else in this had played guilty, thinking
she going to be the one that isn't going to
do it, and now she's doing it. Jasmine saying, ha,
you know, known by the lapd and on the streets
is a ketamine queen. And she's the final of the
(03:45):
five defendants now who played a role we don't have
to say allegedly because they're pleading guilty now and admitting
to it in Matthew Perry's death a couple of years ago.
So all of the four others had already said that
they were going to do it, the last one before
her being the other big target of this doctor, Salvador Placentia,
the one who was supplying the drugs before she was.
(04:10):
But the thinking was at some point she would come around.
The laped has so much evidence against her and selling
drugs not only to Matthew Perry, but to a guy
who died after taking her drugs in twenty nineteen. So
in her play agreement, she's admitting to her role in
both of the deaths. And remember they're all accused of
using Matthew Perry as a big piggy bank to sell
them drugs and then US attorney no longer.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
But Martinez Strada was saying.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
These defendants took advantage of mister Perry's addiction issues to
enrich themselves.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
And the allegation being just take you back a little bit.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
The two doctors were charging Perry two thousand dollars of
vile for ketmine that costs them only twelve dollars a vial,
and both of the doctors who are now pleading guilty
that at the time had texted each other saying how
much is this more.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Unwilling to spend?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
That he was willing to spend anything to get his
fix of the ketamine and make himself feel better. But
eventually two thousand dollars a vial was too much for Perry,
and so he and his assistant they set out to
try to find somebody else who would sell it for cheaper.
They found a guy named Eric Fleming who could get
the drugs from Jasvine, saying, ha, all of these people
(05:19):
are charged in this and Strata said at the time,
not only did Sangh sell the fatal dose, but she
also tried to hide her tracks and destroy evidence, which
made it worse.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Sona begins sending text messages to Fleming, a co defendant,
and telling him to delete all messages and mark.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
She allegedly gave Perry a sample of it to prove
that she wasn't giving them what they called the horsey kind,
because ketamine is also a veterinary medicine that you don't
want the animal kind, you want the real human kind.
And then when he liked that, she gave him fifty
vials of ketamine for cash. He was just so addicted
he was willing to spend anything, telling our Diane Sawyer
at the time.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Your disease is just outside just doing one arm push
ups this.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Way is waiting for you, waiting to get you along.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Her attorney, who is by the way, Mark Garret Goes,
who is also going to be busy on Thursday and
Friday for the Menendez brothers parole hearing, says that she
is coming clean, taking responsibility for actions, and you know,
really a lot of this may come down to the
other defendants. Everybody else is pleading guilty. We asked her
legal analyst, Brian Buckmeyer, why do this? He says, Look,
(06:24):
when everybody else has agreed they're going to testify against
you as part of their plea deals because they have
not yet been sentenced. They've been delaying those so they
have an incentive to testify against her. That she didn't
have a real way out of this.
Speaker 9 (06:36):
Poor people prior to her abo he pled guilty and
have not been sentenced. And a part of those fleas
they agree to cooperate in the prosecution against her. She
would have had four co defendants testifying against her. Now
it made for a very difficult.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Trial, so she could get in the end as part
of this plea deal, sixty five years in prison. She's
in her early forties, essentially life in prison. She'll have
a change of plea hearing in the coming weeks the
sentencing hearing. After that, all of these defendants have hearings,
sentencing hearings from September seventeenth until into December. There's so
many of them. Over the next few months, they're all
(07:09):
going to learn their faith. But she and doctor Salvador Placentia,
they're the big targets who will get the most time.
The others they'll get time, but not as much as them.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
But they were.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Looking at like one hundred, one hundred and twenty five
years in prison. Sixty five years. It's essentially life. But
maybe she'll get a chance to get out at some point.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Geez, I mean that's still she's, you know, looking down
the barrel of a real serious bit of prison.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Yeah, in federal prison too.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah. And they it was the assistant who was the
go between her really you know.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
And then yeah, and Eric Fleming, her buddy. He was
kind of the hey, I can hook you up and
be the the middle person here to do the drug dealings.
So they weren't doing it directly, and there were if
you remember, Iowa Masa was injecting him with just a
ton of this stuff that he wanted. The big push
at the end when he was in his spa in
(08:00):
his backyard, and it was that final one that he
was getting so much of it his body couldn't take
it any longer and he went under the water and
wasn't breathing.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, and died in the hot tub. So sad. Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, so that in a sense closes the book on
this in terms of all those involved in the death
of message guys.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Yeah, I mean, it really will when they get their sentences.
But yeah, this is the last defendant to claim that
she was innocent and that she didn't do it. Now
she fully admits in this plea deal that she was
responsible for not only his death but the victim in
twenty nineteen as well, and that she was dealing a
lot of drugs the LPD. I mean, they found a
(08:40):
ton of stuff in her apartment, and she was a
big supplier on the streets. And if you ever looked
at back before it was all down her social media.
She was in the high end party scene of celebrities
and around celebrities and in the clubs and whatnot. It
was clearly making a lot of money. But also it
was his image that she was putting off of being
(09:03):
the celebrity drug dealer. I'm surprised that she did. They
didn't look in her sooner, you know. But but yeah,
and her client list. Oh and maybe they didn't or
maybe they will or there's no reason to but find
out who those clients were.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, I mean she's super high profile. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I mean they're you know, magazine spreads about you know,
the kind of glossy life that she led as a
result of this. Just a real tragedy though, and as
you say, kind of it's over at least in terms
of the plea agreements. Wow, Alex Stone, thanks for the update.
Appreciate that you got it.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Thanks Mark.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
We'll talk soon, Alex Stone from ABC News. When we'd
come back, Michael Monks joins us and we talk about, well,
we talk about the housing bill and the city council
opposing this latest effort, and we'll get into some of
the specific with Monks as we continue.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
That was not a song Ketamine Queen. No, that was
It's Caribbean Queen. It's not Ketamine Queen. I'm hearing people
in the hallways. It wasn't that a song. No, that
was not a song. The Ketamine Queen of Los Angeles
pleading guilty. And that's the end of the Matthew Perry case.
That story from Alex Stone a moment ago. Now Michael
(10:28):
Monks with a controversial housing bill. The deal is just
to kind of set the backdrop, because I'm the fine
professional that I am, Michael Monks. There's a housing there's
pressure to have more housing close to transit mass transit.
That's sort of like a overall general desire on the
(10:50):
part of legislators and the part of communities. The problem
is you can get a little too aggressive about that.
And this new bill that's being introduced is getting up
position here in LA from the city Council because it
has they want to essentially move a lot of this
residential housing. I'm not trying to take away what you're
about to say, but I just want to check the table.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
All right, I yield table setting, I yield, Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
All right, But what they're may they may be too aggressive,
I think is the thinking. And you're taking over transit
authority land to build all of this housing. So that's
more or lessons I understand it is that kind of
true Yeah, it's exactly true.
Speaker 11 (11:29):
And this is a bill that has gotten a lot
of attention even here in our airwaves. You've probably heard
various segments on the Cobelt Show. For example, He's had
some folks on with some concerns about the Palisades redevelopment
post wildfire and what this piece of legislation could mean
for it. Some advocates that support Senate Bill seventy nine
say this wouldn't impact the Palisades at all. What they're
(11:49):
talking about with Senate Bill seventy nine is to make
it easier to build residential housing, in some cases up
to seven stories. We're talking pretty good sized buildings next
to train stations and high trafficed bus stops, think express
buses and those sorts of things. With the idea being one,
(12:10):
California needs more housing, and two you can move to
the suburbs without a vehicle if you live next to
a mass transit stop because it connects you to the
rest of the city. What I found today at LA
City Hall was nobody disputes those facts that one La
needs more housing and two they all seem to support
(12:31):
public transportation in general, so connecting those two makes sense.
What they are concerned about the people who voted to
oppose this bill formally is that Sacramento would take control
of zoning basically, whereas zoning is typically done at the
very local level, especially in LA where there are various
(12:52):
districts that pay attention to how various lots and developments
are supposed to luck.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So this is a jurisdictional issue. It's not a philosophical issue.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
I think that's how it was framed. And this was
not an overwhelming vote. This was an eight to five vote.
Two members were absent, so there were thirteen members of
council present during this argument. Eight voted to approve this
resolution to make the City of Los Angeles on record
in opposition to this bill. Five members voted against that.
They didn't necessarily necessarily say we support Senate Bill seventy
(13:21):
nine the way it is, but we want to keep
an open mind about these things. The members who voted, again,
it's kind of hard to talk about. We're talking about
in a resolution and opposition to a piece of legislation,
and the people in opposition to the resolution and opposition.
It's hard to detangle all of that or untangle all
of that. But the members who basically are at least
(13:42):
open to Senate Bill seventy nine, say, look, you just
don't want density in your neighborhoods. You just don't want
apartment buildings and your neighborhoods. It's basically a classic fight
of this new civil war that we've got going on
in zoning and development, the nimbis versus the ymbis.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Sure and that I love that you mentioned Pallisades because
as they rebuild Pallisades, there is a lot of this
being played out in those details.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
And there are no trains that go to Pacific Palisades,
so it's not entirely irrelevant. Because a councilman, Monica Rodriguez,
who spoke against Senate Bill seventy nine and voted for
this resolution to be formally against it, made a really
good point. She said, she represents the northeast San Fernando Valley.
There's not a lot of train access out that way yet,
(14:29):
but there is supposed to be in the future. They
are in the planning stages for extending a light rail
out through the San Fernando Valley. She says this bill
would allow for developments in her district even before the
tracks are laid, and so with the track record that
(14:51):
California and even local Metro has, it's possible that you
could see some pretty large scale developments that neighbors don't
necessarily want and never get the transit to match it.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That is the most California thing for if they were
to build the housing with the idea that it's going
to be there close to the commute route, and the
commute route never goes.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It's absolutely right.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
You know.
Speaker 11 (15:14):
One of the things that people ask me is a
guy who decided to live in downtown Los Angeles, is
why would you do that? It was because of this
in a lot of ways, like I'm not coming here
to California with a car, and that's a crazy thing
to do. But if I'm downtown, I can live in
a densely populated neighborhood with a lot of offerings and
mass transit that can blast out to just about every
other corner. There are suburbs that could benefit from an
(15:36):
expansion of Metro and public transportation options, but you have
to have the housing to match. But the people who
are against this particular piece of legislation make the point
that residents don't necessarily want to see developments that are
out of scale with the rest of the neighborhood and
they want to have a say in what goes there.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I mean, it's a reasonable point.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
I find the arguments on this legislation to be really fascinating.
I think there are interesting takes from both sides on this.
There's no question that more public transportation is needed, and
better and cleaner and safer public transportation. But more than that,
more housing appears to be needed all over the country,
but especially here in Los Angeles and in California to
make the prices go down.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
On a ten scale. Since you ride mass transit all
the time, where would you put mass transit ten being
it's incredible?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I love it. I wish I could live on mass transit.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
Oh in Los Angeles specifically, I would tell you this,
it is on paper, a really fine system. It's not
as old as New York's, right. New York has been
doing this for a long time, and that's why you
do not need a car in New York City. You
can get just about every single corner. You can depend
on that, and you can rely on that people of
all different economic levels will ride mass transit in New York.
(16:49):
LA is new to it. The first train tracks were
laid in like eighty nine or ninety it opened up.
It's barely thirty five years old at this point, so
it's still new and it's still expanding, so it cannot
take you as many places as one would like to
go in Los Angeles. And two, it just strikes me
that they are not serious enough about the anti social
(17:10):
behavior that takes place, nuts the criminality, but the stuff
that makes people uncomfortable. They don't clean it enough, and
they don't keep certain types of behavior off the train.
So when I cannot always advocate for people to take
it because I understand where they're coming from.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, but it's good.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
I can get where I needed to go. I can
get the Burbank. I can get to the front door
of this station by taking the B Line train from
downtown and then a Burbank bus, and it's a guaranteed
thirty five to forty minute trip every day.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
That's pretty great. It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, And if you can just dodge some of the
socially unacceptable behavior.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
Exactly, it certainly beats sitting on the on the one
ten or the one thirty four of the five.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah. Well, this is fascinating this bill. As you say,
it's a jurisdiction. We haven't heard the last today. Yeah,
so more to come, Michael Monks, thank you my pleasure.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoun You're on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Crazy story. And I feel like this is one of
those things that could happen to any of us, which
always makes it a little more interesting to me. And
it's a significant amount of money involved.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
The guy was.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Essentially charged seventeen thousand bucks on his credit card. Turns
out that he calls United Airlines and.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Well, don't take my word for it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's a complex tale that, as I say, it could
happen to any of us, apparently, And I didn't even
know that. This entire thing, which is a scam, is
so difficult to figure out as a scam when it's
happening actally.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
And I can't blame them. I don't think they believe me.
I didn't. Yeah, yeah, it was like okay, buddy, sure.
Speaker 13 (18:47):
When Dan Smoker emailed Steve on your side, he thought
he was waiting for a refund from United for a
failed attempt at rebooking a flight.
Speaker 14 (18:54):
It was going to be eighteen days going all over
Europe during a Mediterranean cruise.
Speaker 13 (18:58):
Their flight from da to London got canceled, so Dan
spent an entire morning on the phone with United trying
to rebook.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
First, he attempted to get.
Speaker 13 (19:07):
United to book his family on a partner airline.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
If you pay for the ticket, we'll just refund you.
Speaker 13 (19:12):
And says the representative named David, put him on hold
for a while, came back and said he couldn't book
the other flight, but Dan's card was already charged for
more than seventeen grand. He promised a refund and got
the family on another flight.
Speaker 14 (19:25):
I got an email from the person say it is
filling out exactly what I was getting refunded for.
Speaker 13 (19:30):
Months passed and that refund never came. Dan was getting
no answers, so he contacted us.
Speaker 14 (19:36):
It's actually you that brought up the possibility of it
being a scam.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
He's right because when I read that refund email, I
spotted red flags almost immediately, like the email didn't come
from a United email address, the format is weird, some
numbers with zero's in front of him.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
This was the kind of thing that I feel a
target seniors and those who aren't as tech savvy and
b even though a target seniors had happened.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Absolutely any of us.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I've been sucked in by these emails and these text
communications also. Anyway, Apparently, when you'll actually scrutinize the email,
you can see that it's not all legit.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
The email didn't come from a United email address, the.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Format is weird.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
Some numbers with zeros in front of them, dollars always
listed in USD dates with the day in front of
the month. I figured Dan had been taken advantage of thought,
maybe he'd google the number for United, a common way
that thieves trick people, But he didn't.
Speaker 14 (20:37):
I was on with United's official customer support number.
Speaker 13 (20:41):
Dan's call log shows he only called United's actual customer
service line one eight hundred United one.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This is where the story gets really intriguing to me,
because how can he legitimately contact United Airlines and end
up in the hands of scammers.
Speaker 13 (20:59):
He only called United's actual customer service line one eight
hundred United one even lists the three hour phone conversation,
the one where Dan says David took that seventeen grand.
Speaker 14 (21:12):
The more I looked into it, the more clear it
became that it was a scam via United system.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Somehow, how that happened, I have no idea.
Speaker 13 (21:21):
Steve on your side contacted United who told us they
have record of Dan's calls that morning.
Speaker 14 (21:26):
The one they do have, which is the same as
the one that I talked to David for three over
three hours, three hours and eighteen minutes, they show as
a thirteen minute call and they say that at that
point I had dropped off and they don't have any
further recording.
Speaker 13 (21:40):
But Dan's call log shows that call continued for hours.
Speaker 14 (21:45):
I got put on hold by that person and it
was a female, and then the next person that can't
come back was David.
Speaker 13 (21:51):
United did tell us the number David laughed in that
refund email called into their call center two the same morning,
which makes sense.
Speaker 14 (22:01):
David is ultimately the one that got us on the
flight via Newark that got us to London.
Speaker 13 (22:07):
Dance credit card statement shows a bunch of all right,
so David is legit in all of this is the point,
but I don't understand at what point he jumps the
tracks to the scammers. Dance credit card statement shows a
bunch of charges marked is United for seat upgrades on
the flight. They eventually got on, but it also shows
that seventeen thousand dollars charge to a generic company called
(22:29):
airline Fair.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
I did dispute the charge.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Wow, they really, they really go right after it, right
on the nose airline Fair. Okay, man, that's a airline Fair.
Speaker 14 (22:40):
I did dispute the charge with my credit card. You know,
it's not even about United paying the seventeen thousand dollars.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
Dan just wants to know how he called United and
got David.
Speaker 15 (22:50):
A United spokesperson told us that they've been He's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
It's not even about the seventeen k man.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
It's not the seventeen thousand dollars.
Speaker 13 (22:57):
Wow, Dan just wants to know how he called United
and got David.
Speaker 15 (23:01):
A United spokesperson told us that they've been in contact
with Dan and they're now reviewing the matter thoroughly, though
they wouldn't tell us more about how that call ended
up getting to David in the first place.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Sorry, that's the whole game. How did a call, a
legitimate call to the United Airlines end up jumping the tracks?
As I say to a scammer? How does a scammer
get into a call between a service agent at United
Airlines and a customer to the United Airlines. That's the
entire question.
Speaker 15 (23:32):
Though they wouldn't tell us more about how that call
ended up getting to David in the first place. And
Dan told us today the representative he's been working with
said that they won't be able to share any details
of any security investigations with him.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I wonder if that's.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
A viability issue, because it could be a broader problem
than just this guy.
Speaker 15 (23:54):
I'm Steve Stager, Steve on your side, nine News.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, Steve on your side, Steve, Steve very much on
the side of Dan in this case, seventeen thousand dollars.
Now he reported it as fraud, and I would think
that the credit card company will recognize it as career fraud.
But nonetheless, it is a wild story. I mean, all
(24:18):
of us have stories about being on with the airlines,
and you know, they you might be there for an
hour and a half talking to an agent, because if
you've gotten to a point where you can't resolve it
online and you actually need to contact an agent, you
need to hash it out with them. But the idea
somehow that you know, they put you on hold and
then somebody else comes on the line and they turned
(24:39):
out to be a scammer.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I mean, that's.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Frankly one of the more sophisticated scams I've heard of
all the way down to Airline Fair, which was the
way the company lists the seventeen thousand dollars charge. Wild
The beat Down at the Rose Bowl will give you
the latest on that.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
It's the show Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim.
Speaker 10 (25:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
It's going to be hot as hades around here, man,
it is going to be I'm just seeing in the
valley they're looking at temperatures. I don't know why I
say they. I'm talking about me, temperatures at around one
oh three, one oh five, one oh six. I told
(25:28):
you the power company came to us just two days
ago and informed us because the timing is always so impeccable,
that they have to shut the power off for the
day on Saturday. I'm just looking at the five day
outlook and the five day outlook, which is on one
of the enormous monitors here at the KFI Nerve Center
(25:51):
of Information. It says one oh four, So I don't
know what that equil to to a home that has
had no power air conditioning since seven am. But I'm
guessing it might. So now we're making plans to try
to you know, but you have I have my ancient cat.
(26:14):
He's eighteen. I can't move it. The last surviving cat
of the of that graduating class. So that's our problem.
I don't know what your situation will be, but we're
all going to be in this situation where there's going
to be excruciating heat. It's the biggest heat wave of
the year, is what they're saying. So be aware. It's
already begun.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I mean know we're in the nineties now, but it
continues up now.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yesterday Krazier was saying, I thought it was yesterday. I
was saying that maybe it was Thursday there would it
would peak, But it looks like it's gonna I guess
you're right, And now I'm seeing Thursday it peaks and
then it kind of plateaus. So it kind of depends
who you're watching or where you're going to be, like.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You, sir, oh the weather guy, not me.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I know.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
They did extend it a little bit more. They said
it was only going to be when I looked yesterday,
it had said like Thursday was going to be the peak.
Another five degrees tomorrow, another five degrees on Thursday, and
then maybe a degree or so down on Friday. But
it looks like they're, like you say, they're stretching out
that heat a little bit into Saturday, and it's going
to be even slower to cool down getting into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, exactly, there's no real break. I don't see on
into the weekend.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
So but by the time Sunday they say comes around,
they're expecting to be five to ten degrees cooler.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yeah, that's so good. Allow sea breeze punches through.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
So it looks like Friday might be the peak now
with a real slow cool down after that.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
The mountains could get some rain actually in the afternoon
hours because they get that, you know, enough moisture and
all that. That heat heats up that moisture. But that's
in the mountains.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
This situation at the rose Bolt is insane. The videos
up on our Instagram at KFI and this it's a
guy positively pummeling a woman at this concert at the
rose Ball.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
Disturbing video. It's going viral on social media here. It
shows a violent attack that happened Saturday night at the
sold out Rufous to Soul concert at the Rose Bowl.
A woman punched in the face, knocked unconscious to others,
viciously punched by that outrage man.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
And by the way, I mean he he punches and
then he's just putting this beat down on this poor woman.
In other words, there's no there's no off switch on
this guy. He is clearly just a rage philled dude.
It was an extraordinary thing to witness. As I say,
it's on our Instagram k IF I am six forty.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
It's crazy to see when you look at comments online,
you know, people saying, oh and nobody does anything. No
guys step in there, no pulls off. I had an
incident last week in my neighborhood where a guy like
started beating on his kid, and I was right there,
and you're assessing the moment and whether or not how much,
if at.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
All, you get involved.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
And and you know, we had Rick Chambers in here
for the whole fush thing from a KTLA and always
talks about like he remembers when when Rich Chambers started.
That was when the incident took place in prim Nevatta
with a little girl that was killed by the teenage
boys around ninety seven, and they created laws because there
were two guys involved with that, two teenagers, and the
(29:13):
friend who apparently wasn't involved with that murder at the time,
saw kind of the beginning of what was happening and
he left and he was never charged with anything. And
consequently they created these laws that said you are required
by law to involve yourself in some way, whether it's
you know, call authorities or something like that, if you
see someone in imminent danger because of that. So it's
(29:36):
like you say, when you see an incident like this
as the Rose Bowl and a woman's getting attacked, you
got like you assess the situation. How much can I
am I going to get the beat down? Yeah, there
is a level of you know, your involvement and how
much of a danger that is to you.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I love that you mentioned this because the situation was
thick with people. I mean there were people everywhere. In fact,
that was one of the issues that they overbooked this venue. Yeah,
and as a result, you have people on top of
each other. Everybody's maybe potentially irritated, everybody's inebriated.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Potentially people have been saying that they had two different
security companies involved with this place, and they were not
communicating between each other, so it was just bedlam, and
people were in the aisles where normally they wouldn't be,
and nobody could move in around.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I mean again, this guy repeatedly throwing punches at this
woman who's already been knocked out, truly alarming.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
All of the captured on video. Eyewitnesses say it all
started when someone accidentally spilled a drink on him, and
despite their profuse apologies, the man got angry and then violent.
Pasadena police say someone did file a report, and thanks
to the video, they already have multiple leads on the
identity of this man.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I mean, the video is so clear.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
This isn't one of those situations in which, oh my gosh,
I can't quite make out what his face looks like.
You can clearly see what this guy looks like, So
I would think that they're so violent.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
The band Rupetos posting a message about the violence, and
I'd say, quote, this type of behavior is completely unacceptable anywhere,
and the fact this happened at one of our shows
was devastating to learn about. Local law enforcement is actively
investigating the situation. Anyone with information should please contact Pasadena Police.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Again, if you want to see a picture of this guy,
you can see it on our Instagram at KFI AM
six forty. But you know, again to Krozer's point, I mean,
what's been stated, but two security details there that it's
to say, two outside security vendors handling this venue. This
kind of thing shouldn't happen, and it does affect the group.
(31:42):
It affects more than just this incident and more than
just this venue.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
As much as you see stuff online and how available
these videos and things are, still when you see something
like this, it just gives you that visceral kind of
gut churning feeling like oh I there type feeling.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah yeah, but there.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You saw all these people around, and as you say,
your assessment has to be done in an instant, you know,
And yet you would think reflexibly.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's like hey hey, hey, god, hey hey hey.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
At least you would do that, you would grab him
or or say something or you know, try to get
somebody's attention.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I mean, this is brutal.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Anyway, that situation continues and they still haven't positively idid
that guy, which again to me strikes me is maybe
they're just not saying that they positively I did him,
because his face is very clearly displayed in the video.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
There is newly released video showing a Southwest pilot admitting
to drinking three beers before the failed sobriety test. I
don't know why I'm chuckling. It's of concern. There was
a Kimmel Corolla bit from years ago that involves something similar,
and I will share that with you.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
It was.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
It was both alarming and amusing at the same time.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Girls on trampolines.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I know it was that show, but a different.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior KFI AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on kfi AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Tim Conway Jr. on Demand News
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!