Today’s show was packed with big wins, big concerns, and big energy across Los Angeles. Cadillac Pasadena proved to be a major success as we looked ahead to holiday traffic patterns with Angel, breaking down what drivers should expect as the season ramps up.
Investigative reporter Michael Monks joined the conversation with urgent updates on the LAPD, warning that the department could be forced to halt hiring without millions in additional funding. He also shared the heartbreaking story of a family that lost both their home and business in devastating fires, with a full deep-dive interview airing on his KFI show this Saturday night.
In a surprising turn, the Los Angeles City Council moved forward with a million-dollar proposal to boost LAPD recruiting, narrowly advancing the measure in a contentious vote.
And to cap it all off, Dodger Stadium is officially buzzing — the Dodgers introduced Edwin “Sugar” Díaz, setting the stage for an electric season as Timmy Trumpet and “Sweet Sugar” promise to light up Chavez Ravine.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's Friday,
the Friday, last Friday for a lot of people. A
lot of people will be going home today today after
work and this will be your last day until after Christmas.
(00:20):
It's true, it's not mine, but there are a lot
of people who are taking three weeks off, three whole
weeks off. What does they handle? I don't know. Does
he take three weeks off? He is, oh, boboo, No,
I'm taking you know, a little time, but three weeks
that's a lot. It's almost a month.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You know Tim Kats, who is the producer for the
Petros Money Show. He when he takes vacation, he's asked
to still book the guests, do the rundown, and so
when he's in Hawaii with his wife and his kids,
he's working. Nope. Yeah, that's what he does. Nope and unbelievable.
It's because he says, yes, well, the computer is also crashed,
so it'll give me some time to read some emails.
(01:04):
We've got emails, yes, yes, yes, yes yes. The one
big email from this week is I gotta ask Belly
if I can read it on the air. Belly was
working from home today. Is it saucy? It's not saucy,
But I think I can read it on the air.
I think I can read it on the air. But
it has well, I don't know. Let me ask. Let
(01:26):
me ask, Belly. Oh before I get in trouble here, Okay,
I can I read the email from And then I
got to push she says yes. Oh, she said yes. No,
I'm just encouraging you to read it. Okay, all right,
But it was a very nice email sent by by
(01:48):
like a very like a well known person, and so
I just want to see if I can and it's
and it's and it's really complimentary. So I think I
can read it on the air. No, I don't think so,
it's her response. Okay, all right, but I can read
everything around it and it and it all has to
do with the remote that we did on what was
(02:11):
it Tuesday? It was Tuesday, m But man, I'm every
single person at this station very complimentary about that remote
that we did at Cadillac Pasadena. And they loved it.
Everybody in this building loved it. Everybody at the Cadillac
dealership loved it. Jay Leno had a great time. Everybody
(02:34):
that showed up had a really great time. Oscar was
out there from what is his title here? Oscar's title Okay,
system program director. He loved it. He was out there.
I'm also Brian Long was out there. He loved it.
He thought it was great. I can't tell you how
many compliments we got from Paul Corvino. Yeah, Corveno, man, man,
(03:00):
he thought it was fantastic. So bonus is all around. Ah, yes, yes,
I hope so. But everybody, everybody enjoyed it. Everybody thought
it was fantastic. Uh. It got up to the upper
management uh in New York, and they thought it was
an They thought it was like the best remote we've
ever done. So wow, it was. It was great and
(03:22):
hopefully we'll do uh you know, many many more of
them in the future. Yeah, it was. It was really
a cool deal. Bellio knocked it out. And look, these
these thanks are usually towards the end of the show,
but I think that's you know, that's uh like throwaways
I want to do at the top of the show.
But Bellio was there and she put together I mean,
(03:43):
Bellio could leave here and go produce the the biggest
television shows in Hollywood, and people would think that she
was doing that her whole life. That's how organized she is.
She has that skill to be organized like nobody else.
And you're either encouraging her to leave her. Look if
she left and worked for Warner Brothers or CBS or NBC,
(04:06):
oh man, they would love to have her. She puts,
I still can't believe she's here. I mean, she's like
a world class you know, organizational skills are off the chart,
but a world class producer and was you know, got
to the dealership early and made sure everything was cool.
It was a big deal and man, it was just
(04:28):
the perfect night. So we got to thank Sharon Bellio
for that. And then Angel Martinez popped out there too.
Angel Martinez took the night off, took a vacation day
to come out and hang with us. Is that true?
Angel Short of Okay, yeah, I know, Waite, but you
didn't do traffic out there, No I didn't. So did
(04:49):
you take the day off or you just had somebody
fill in for you?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, somebody filled in for me, and they did that
so that I could just come out and support your show.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It was fantastic. I asked Bellio, I said, hey, how
about Angel Martinez showing up? And she said she saved
the day. She did all a lot of the social media,
she arranged the gas and we had great guests out
there as well. We had terrific guests out there, and
everybody was thrilled with it. So hopefully we do another one.
(05:21):
Who knows, all right, Angel Martinez? This is Friday, before
the last weekend. For a lot of people, this will
be their last day of work until after the new year.
You know, richiees and people with private jets and you know,
people have made a lot more money than we have.
What is the traffic, Like I thought I noticed in
the last week or so, it's really light everywhere. What's
going on?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, you know, And since now that we're talking about
the traffic, I think it was a little worse yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But I think you're right busy. It's very busy today.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I mean, don't get me wrong, but we are seeing
some very slow traffic on that one oh one. Like
usually a backs up out of Calabasas is far west
as Lost Hills, but it's been pushing back into Agora
Hills the past couple of days, like right now, you're
slowing from about Liberty Canyon and all the way you
(06:12):
know to the one seventy one thirty four. But if
you're staying eastbound, like a lot of people are right
all the way to that two ten freeway, it's pretty
patchy and slow all the way to the fifteen. But
another tough spot I would say is the four oh five.
It's been really tough all day, like usual patterns for
the four h five out of Culver City, right around
(06:34):
the ninety as you continue towards the five in Silmar,
you know, but earlier today it was backing up all
the way out of Inglewood, which is a little worse
for that time of day than usual. But things seem
to be, you know, kind of back to their normal
flow for four o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Working. Sorry, Angel, your mic was down that whole time.
Can you do it again?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, I'm just kidding. Oh my gosh, you got me.
If she could have swore like this FCC was a said,
you know, no holes barred, she would have blasted away
with a couple of as what the f Yeah, all
this week I was.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Gonna bring up by the way all this week on
my way home that one thirty four going out to
like Angel said, the fifteen from Burbank here horrible really all.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This week every night? Is that right? Yes, Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, not just the eastbound side, but also the westbound side.
Like it's all it's slowing down out of Arcadia all
the way into Pasadena right now.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's Weirdah that is well, look this is you know,
these are the next couple of weeks. You're gonna get
a lot of people who are doing you know, a
lot of shopping at nights. You're gonna get later traffic
in the night, you know, people going to malls and
stuff like that. But I still can't believe. I went
to a mall on Sunday and I was, you know,
doing some Christmas shopping. I found a few things, and
(07:56):
then I get I get this announcement at six o'clock.
Our store closes in ten minutes, so could you kindly
bring up your purchases and we'll take care of you
have to register. And I thought, this is six o'clock
on a Sunday in a mall, two weeks, three weeks
before Christmas, you're closing at six o'clock. Holy smokes, but
(08:17):
I see that all the time. You know, places closing
at eight o'clock or seven o'clock. Everything should be on
lows and home depot hours. Those are my favorite hours
in the world. It's six am until ten pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, and then they close early on Sunday
(08:40):
at eight. Those are fantastic hours. Every business should be
on those hours. Wire businesses on different hours. Why aren't
all businesses open from you know, eight am, seven am,
six am, whatever you open in the morning. Every business
in LA, in California, in the United States should be
forced to stay open atll ten o'clock for guys like me.
(09:00):
Guys like me, I'm a night guy. I want to
get around at night. I don't shop during the day.
I don't go out during the day. I hang around
the house. Everything should be open till ten o'clock. I'm
constantly running around trying to figure out what effing stores
are closing, and I'm called That's what I use my
phone for the most in the world. I press it
like this. This is exactly what I do about ten
times a day. Here's what I do with the Siri,
(09:23):
let me shut this off. Here's what I do. Here's
what I do. I turn on the phone. Hi, what
time does Low's in Burbank close tonight? And I get oh, here,
I'll get this one. I got directions. What time does
home Depot close tonight in Burbank? And then they'll come
on and they'll say ten pm. That's fantastic, ten pm.
(09:46):
All right, we're gonna come back. We had a computer glitch.
It's working now, so we'll come back. We'll start the
program and knock it out for you this Friday before
the big holiday starts. It's gonna be next week, the
week after, and then the weekend when we got then
we got Christmas. What's the day today? Is this the
on the what's the day today? The twelfth? Okay, so
we have twelve days before Christmas Eve? Do you understand
(10:09):
that twelve days before Christmas Eve? Christmas Eve is around
the corner. It is a week from next Wednesday. It's
a week from next Wednesday. Christmas Eve is one week
from next Wednesday. Christmas is one week two weeks from yesterday.
Is Christmas two weeks from yesterday. You don't even have
(10:31):
two weeks left to get out there. So let's get
on out there. We'll keep you here all seven o'clock.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We are joined by Michael J. Monks, So good to
be with you. Is that the middle initial? It's A,
but it's oh Michael, all right, Michael A Monks. What
does the A stand for? Take a guest, It's Adam
Catholic name Antonio close English version of that. Oh, okay,
Anthony Anthony. Wow, look at you, BA Michael Anthony, Michael
(11:01):
Michael Anthony is a great name, not a bad name.
That's a great mob name. Yeah, do you want to
make me?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
What would your what would your mob nickname be? Uh?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Probably the snitch Mickey Monks, Monks, the snitch Monks.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
That's the basis name for Van Haley. Is it the snitch?
The snitch? Snitches get stitches though they do?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, so you can't do that. No, all right, But buddy,
you have a very popular show before we get into
why you're here on Saturday from seven to nine pm.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
It wildly popular Saturday night program here on KFI, and
you've been doing it really since the fires since a
couple months prior, but we got right, okay around that time. Yeah,
so we break down the news. It's a digest of
the week's news and then what's coming up in the
next week.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
We have a lot of guests.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
It's great shown and uh this coming Saturday, got a
really you know, a sad interview with a woman whose
family lost their house in the Altadena fire. No, okay,
but not only that, they lost their business in the
Sunset fire. Oh my god, we forget that there were
other fires. It wasn't just Palisades and Eaten there. There
(12:10):
were some other smaller of course, but they did call
some damage.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The Sunset fire was the one that started in the
Hollywood exactly right. And it was Chris Christi that saw
it first, and he flew like from Long Beach headed
over there, and we told everybody, go south, go south,
get off of Franklin, get off a gow Er. I
know that neighborhood. I had an old girlfriend lived in
that neighborhood. This family lived in Altadena. They said that
they didn't get any warnings about the fire that was coming.
They were looking out the window and said the entire
(12:36):
Eaton Canyon was lit up. Like, we've got to go.
So they ended up getting in their cars and a
customer of theirs that they had developed a friendship with, said,
come stay with us in Studio City. The next thing
you know, they're all fleeing studio site because of the fire. Yeah,
and the liquor store they owned their suffered some damage.
Not only that, but obviously a decline in business because
(12:57):
of everyone left town for a while, and so the
rebuilding their lives on two fronts. Are they coming on
the show? I talked to them today. Oh, a recorded interview,
but we'll have that for you on Saturday. Okay, we
don't have time to do this. Can you stay another segment?
Speaker 6 (13:10):
I guess have no choice, and you have no because
you dithered in the first segment.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But I want to say I'm very proud of the
Chief of Police of LAPD, Jim McDonald. When he first
became a cop under under our new our mayor, he
was there was a lot of like politically correct stuff
that he was saying, and I told people around here,
I said, give him three four months, he's going to
(13:35):
go back to being a real cop. And he's back.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Well, he is back, but he's not following procedures in
order to get the officers that he's wanted. So they
shoehorned this proposal in to get more officers in a
roundabout way.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Good.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
He didn't get exactly what he wanted today, but he
did get some of it. We'll talk about that, Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Excellent, all right. Michael Monks is with us. Michael Anthony Monks.
We're live on KFI AM six forty. It's Timothy Dalton
Conway More with Michael Lallin Krausier.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
You're listening to tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Michael Monks joins us aies on every Saturday from seven
to nine pm. And LAPD is again the topic of
City Hall.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
It was a long meeting, got a little heated at times,
and we learned a lot about Robert's rules of order
and procedures at the way things going adopt it at
city Hall. We talked about this yesterday on this program.
The mayor Mayor bask came out late Wednesday with a
letter that said, look, City Council, I really need you
to find four point four million dollars or the LAPD
(14:38):
is going to run out of money for hiring new officers.
They want to hire four hundred plus officers, and.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They had also shut down their academy they would have
to run.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
The chief came out late yesterday afternoon and said there
will be no new hires at the first of the year.
He's back if you don't give me this money, which
was news to members of the council because when they
got wind that the police department was trying to hire
four hundred and ten officers, they were looking at the
accounts and everything. So we told you you could hire
two point fifty. Ah, you went well over that without permission.
(15:08):
The mayor and the council President, Marquise Harris Dawson had
said in a compromise back in June, we're going to
work together to find funding for these extra positions, but
right now, let's just move forward to fifty. Well, never
nobody ever got together to talk about finding this additional money.
So now it's a complete urgent situation that the city
Council finds itself in. City Councilman Katie Arslawsku, chairs the
Budget Committee, was beside herself.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Here's part of what she said today.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
What concerns me is the framing that unless we decide
everything today, responsible hiring becomes impossible, or that it's somehow
the fault of this council for not acting, and that
is fair, that's right. What this false urgency seeks to
do is force this body into a rush budget decision
without analysis or consensus. We cannot keep doing this. This
(15:51):
is no way to run a city. We're here having
this conversation today because the required work didn't happen sooner
and we're stuck holding the bag.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And oh, that's great. Jimmy's back. Jimmy's back.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Jim McDonald was sitting there saying things that may be correct.
We won't have any money, we need more officers, there
will be no police academies that are recruitment classes starting.
That all may be true. And what really pissed him
off is he made it public too. Probably well, he
went public pretty fast here at the end, because again,
(16:24):
there are procedures for spending money in la I know,
it seems like money flies out the window, and it does,
but there are supposed to be checks and balances. And
throughout this budget process, the police department is saying we
need this many officers, We need this many officers to be.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Saying, our hands are time.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
The other thing is, you remember when they were making
this budget was a billion dollar deficit, sixteen hundred jobs
on the line, including hundreds at the LAPD, not sworn officers,
but a bunch of back office people or are crime
scene photographers and those types of investigators who may not
be police officers but are instrumental in the solving of crimes.
(16:56):
Those jobs were saved, but Councilman Arslovsky said today there's
still a couple hundred people in that police department whose
jobs are still set to expire. And if we hire
these officers without any budget plan to pay for it,
She compared it to hiring more pilots with while firing
(17:19):
the air traffic controllers and then putting the pilots in
the air traffic control tower and having to pay a
higher rate for that, because that's what will happen. The
police officers will be taken off the streets and put
on these desk jobs.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I see. Okay, so what the final vote did They
take A final.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Vote they did, and it was nine to six to
do this. We're going to give you LAPDA one million dollars.
That way you can do the next couple of classes.
This will fund you through January, not the department funding,
but this initiative through January. So that's the January class,
and I think the February class is included here. But
you got to come back in January with the City
administrator with a full plan, because you cannot just millions
(18:01):
of dollars out of the budget without a plan. You
cannot treat it this way. And the reason it was
nine to six not because those six people did not
want to fund the million dollars. They wanted to fund
the full thing.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh right.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
This was the robust argument that was taking place at
the City Council today.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Was some saying we knew.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
That the police Department was going to get something, but
it was whether they were going to get all of
it or just a little bit and be held accountable
next month about the way they're proposing to spend this money.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
When you say you can't rip that money away without
a plan, when during twenty twenty they ripped four one
hundred and forty million away from LAPD without a plan,
you can take money.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's what was being proposed today, not to take money
out of that account.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
But whatever they did in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I wasn't your covering that, but there would have been
an account that says, this is how much money is
in this account, this is where that money is going
to go. There is a procedure, there's a conversation, there's
a vote. The LAPD moved on these hires without going
through the proper budget process and going well over the
budgeted amount.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I love that that that is Jim McDonald being the
cop that he always has been and worried about the
safety of the people who live in la.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Again, all of this may be factual what he's saying
that we need more officers, and I think if you
live in the valley where a lot of these hugglers
have been taking place, you know what the apartment is
like when you call and you needed a lay. He says,
without these additional hires, they will eventually and very soon
drop to eighty three hundred sworn officers, their lowest in decades.
They need ten thousand. All of that may be true.
(19:30):
The problem was the city's financial dire straits, and they
were only approved to hire two hundred and fifty and
to come and hire four hundred and ten. That's one
hundred and seventy positions that were not accounted for, one
hundred and sixty positions that were not accounted for.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'd have to look this number up, but I think
I'm right about this number. That LAPD would go down
to eighty three hundred without the new hires. Yet in
New York City they have thirty seven thousand cops.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I think the way that Jim McDonald framed it at
yesterday news conference was that geographically LA is the largest
city and because of that factor, we are actually uh
far more understaff the New York City and that oh yeah,
now New York has two and a half times the
population of LA City proper, you know, but he's saying
(20:18):
with the geography that we have, we are even worse off.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Well, that's what I'm saying. I mean, they have to
go from you know, LAPD has to cover from Chatsworth
down to San Pedro. You know that's got to be
forty miles thirty five miles to drive that Angel Martinez,
you with us, how far is it from North Chatsworth
to San Pedro? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
North Chatsworth to San Pedro. I'm on it right now,
all right.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And please come back and and I have a follow up, angel,
what's the follow up?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
The follow up, Angel is how much in lawsuit settlements
has the LAPD cost the City of Los Angeles in
the past couple of years?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
All Right, I'm going to say in how many how
many years? This is the past the past couple of years.
I'm gonna a twelve, twenty, whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Why if you can't it because it's tens and tens
and tens of millions of dollars. Look, this is a
me criticized. This is again is stating facts. So the
financial situation the city finds itself in a lot of
it has to do with legal settlements. We went through
all of this during the budget crisis, and the bulk
of those legal settlements come from LAPD.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Okay, absolutely, Okay. That being said, I know that I
defend cops quite often on this on this station, I
will say that the City of Los Angeles should fight
some of the lawsuits. All they do is they turn
around and write big checks.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
I will have another conversation on the Saturday show in
addition to what we teased in the previous segment about
the woman's family who suffered in both the eating fire
and the sunset fire within twenty four hours of each other.
I'm talking to the leader of an organization that just
put out a report that called LA the judicial hellhole
(21:56):
except of America, the number one judicial hellhole. That's the
official That's great because of how exorbitant these these settlements are,
not just in the government but also the private sector.
The juries here are just throwing money out to everybody
in this very religious society.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Here, my wife ran into a pothole. This must have
been I don't know, twenty years ago, and she just
wrote a note saying, I hit a pothole and it
cost one hundred and fifty eight dollars on my car.
Can you take care of it? And like three weeks
later she got a check. Nobody ever called to investigate
or anything. And I think she was lying. Oh you
think she did something else?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, I think she hit a tree. Was she thrown
back a couple of No, I don't think so. She
doesn't drink and drive, but I think she would be
better a better driver if she did.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Hey, you wanted to know Childsworth's Is that pedro?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Fifty three mile? Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Is that right? It's a huge city.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
It's not just difficult to police in the few years
that I've been covering, that's this stuff. It's difficult to govern,
difficult for a lot of stuff. It's just took a crazy,
crazy place. I know you were on street lights for
a while.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I drove from the Odyssey, which is where the five
of the four or five meet, and I haven't been
in that part of the valley for ten years or so,
so I want to take side streets home just to
see that part of the valley grew up around there,
and I didn't see a street light that was one,
not a single one. It's so depressing. It all, this
is all, this is what we're talking about today.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
The city has no money, They cannot do basic services,
and they had to make some very tough decisions. But
keep in mind they kept all of those positions. Those
sixteen hundred jobs are on the chopping block that they
were still paying for. And this budget hasn't gotten any better.
So when we come to next spring and they start
talking about the budget again, you think there might be
layoffs proposed answers. Of course, Secondarily, and more importantly, they
(23:49):
approved the expansion or the convention that convention center, and
that is going to be tens and tens of millions,
possibly two hundred million dollars a year that had no
way to Hey, hey, they have to find it in
this exact budget. Wow, these four million dollars that was
asked for by the LAPD, that's just a fund the recruiting.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Then these folks draw the salaries.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It will at least be twenty four million dollars a
year for what they're asking for.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow, Monks, I don't know what the endgame is here,
but I'm glad you keep an eye on them. Michael Monks,
Michael Anthony Monks, Saturday, seven to nine pm. Always a
pleasure to see. Above.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Forty and next December December twenty third or twenty second.
I think it's twenty third of twenty twenty six, will
be the thirtieth year in radio, thirty years, and yet
I forgot to turn the mic on. So there you go.
(24:51):
Sometimes they have a brain fart in life. The Dodgers
are introducing the next superhero in Dodger Blue. His name
is Edwin Diaz and he is going to be playing
for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he's going to be
the premiere closer. He's gonna come in in the sixth, seventh, eighth,
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ninth inning and throw bebies that these Padres and Giants
and you know whoever A's Mets, whoever it is, cannot hit,
and we'll close out a lot of games. When Edwin
Diaz comes in the game. The next song you're gonna
hear is I love LA A lot of the time.
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He'll come in, bang bang bang bang bang, rolling down
Pierre Highway, big nasty ran out of my side. That's
you're gonna hear next. This guy at the end of
the game. At the end of the game, after he pitches,
he'll raise his arms up. Dodgers win. Dodgers win because
of this guy, Edwin Diaz. Let's meet this guy. Dodgers
introduced him today.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman calls it the perfect fit.
The acquisition of Edwin Dia is announced by the club
today and he met the media for the first time.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
This is like an all star team. The Dodgers are
an all star team, and I love it. And people say, oh,
it's not great for baseball. I could care less. I
could care less. I'm I'm not a baseball fan. I'm
a Dodger fan. I don't watch baseball. I don't watch
you know, Atlanta play Cleveland? Who cares? Not a baseball fan,
(26:30):
I'm a Dodger fan. So I say, all the power
to him. Let's make the Dodgers an All Star team
every year and win twenty or thirty World Series in
a row. That would be great.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Daz In selecting to come here to Los Angeles had
some first hand intel from his brother Alexis, who was
a member of the club for a part of last season.
DS says he's here because he wants to win. Yeah,
and the Dodgers, despite going with a closer by committee
over the course of the last few seasons, are not
shot about the fact that the team's closer will be
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the man they call Sugar.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
To name someone the closer, you have to be one
of the best. You have to be elite and dominant
at what you do. Sugar is that and I think
just so many boxes were checked in our mind. But again,
just a very high bar to say this person is
our closer, and Sugar checks all those boxes.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I love that they call him by his nickname sugar.
You know what a sweet nickname. Sorry, but that's a
beautiful nickname for a guy that's going to be mowing
down these Padres. Man, if you're a Padre or you're
a Padres fan, you've got to just be, you know,
suicidal with what's going on in La. Even if you're
an Angels fan, you know, you had Otani for four
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or five years, I think five years, then got nothing
for him. He left Anaheim, Angels went to the Dodgers,
and Anaheim got nothing for the greatest athlete in the world,
the greatest maybe the greatest baseball player in the world.
And the Dodgers picked him up for nothing. They had
to give the Angels nothing, not a player, not a bat,
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not a ball, not a hot dog or even a
colonel of popcorn. Nothing.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
He's a big reponsality because what is in your hand
the last three out of the game, and I think
they are the toughest three hours in the game. Personal,
I take it nice and easy my pitches. You know,
at the end of the day, if I get my
job done, they think would be in a good position.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Oh what a great accent. I can warm him up
to that accent, very very easily, very quickly. Personal.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
I take it nice and easy. My pitches. You know,
at the end of the day, if I get my
job done, they think would been able position.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, here we go, gentlemen, Edwin.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It's the most electric walkout in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Edwin, we got him out to Narco. Hey, we got him, everybody,
we got him. He's on the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
By Timmy up and rest assured Dodger fans. Das says
that he's bringing the walk up music here to Dodger Stadium.
I can't wait to ring it here for all of
the fans. Now. You may have seen him wearing uniform
number three. That's because the number thirty nine that he's
normally accustomed to being seen and is retired here by
the Dodgers for the late Roy Campanella so ds scene.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Oh, they should unretire it for him, you know, dig
up Roy, take it off his body and throw it
on Diaz. Man, what have seen that would be? I
think that old jersey off Roy.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
You've been calling this for years, by the way, yeah
with DZ.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, Oh yeah, buddy, look this guy. That's the greatest
walkout ever. Yeah, you know, coming out there, it's so perfect.
It's so perfect, Fu, I mean, you've been talking about
this for a couple of years. Yeah, it's gonna be
so loud and echoing through Dodger Stadium when they pound
that that music out, and they'll be you'll be great
as to turn all the lights off and put a
spotlight on him when he comes out and play that
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and play that song, so all the lights go out.
You got Timmy trumpet there and ladies and gentlemen, Edwin dear, yes, sir,
what is it? This is from the Padres. The Padres
they're not playing this year. They said they quit, sir,
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They're not going to play this year? Is that right?
They already long. Yeah, it's on there, it's on look,
it's on their stationary, it's on their letterhead. So Padres
are not going to play baseball this year. They said
it's not worth it. It's like America in the World Cup.
We're already lost. That's right, all right. We're live on
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(30:43):
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It's camp I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's Friday,
the Friday, last Friday for a lot of people. A
lot of people will be going home today today after
work and this will be your last day until after Christmas.
(00:20):
It's true, it's not mine, but there are a lot
of people who are taking three weeks off, three whole
weeks off. What does they handle? I don't know. Does
he take three weeks off? He is, oh, boboo, No,
I'm taking you know, a little time, but three weeks
that's a lot. It's almost a month.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You know Tim Kats, who is the producer for the
Petros Money Show. He when he takes vacation, he's asked
to still book the guests, do the rundown, and so
when he's in Hawaii with his wife and his kids,
he's working. Nope. Yeah, that's what he does. Nope and unbelievable.
It's because he says, yes, well, the computer is also crashed,
so it'll give me some time to read some emails.
(01:04):
We've got emails, yes, yes, yes, yes yes. The one
big email from this week is I gotta ask Belly
if I can read it on the air. Belly was
working from home today. Is it saucy? It's not saucy,
But I think I can read it on the air.
I think I can read it on the air. But
it has well, I don't know. Let me ask. Let
(01:26):
me ask, Belly. Oh before I get in trouble here, Okay,
I can I read the email from And then I
got to push she says yes. Oh, she said yes. No,
I'm just encouraging you to read it. Okay, all right,
But it was a very nice email sent by by
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like a very like a well known person, and so
I just want to see if I can and it's
and it's and it's really complimentary. So I think I
can read it on the air. No, I don't think so,
it's her response. Okay, all right, but I can read
everything around it and it and it all has to
do with the remote that we did on what was
(02:11):
it Tuesday? It was Tuesday, m But man, I'm every
single person at this station very complimentary about that remote
that we did at Cadillac Pasadena. And they loved it.
Everybody in this building loved it. Everybody at the Cadillac
dealership loved it. Jay Leno had a great time. Everybody
(02:34):
that showed up had a really great time. Oscar was
out there from what is his title here? Oscar's title Okay,
system program director. He loved it. He was out there.
I'm also Brian Long was out there. He loved it.
He thought it was great. I can't tell you how
many compliments we got from Paul Corvino. Yeah, Corveno, man, man,
(03:00):
he thought it was fantastic. So bonus is all around. Ah, yes, yes,
I hope so. But everybody, everybody enjoyed it. Everybody thought
it was fantastic. Uh. It got up to the upper
management uh in New York, and they thought it was
an They thought it was like the best remote we've
ever done. So wow, it was. It was great and
(03:22):
hopefully we'll do uh you know, many many more of
them in the future. Yeah, it was. It was really
a cool deal. Bellio knocked it out. And look, these
these thanks are usually towards the end of the show,
but I think that's you know, that's uh like throwaways
I want to do at the top of the show.
But Bellio was there and she put together I mean,
(03:43):
Bellio could leave here and go produce the the biggest
television shows in Hollywood, and people would think that she
was doing that her whole life. That's how organized she is.
She has that skill to be organized like nobody else.
And you're either encouraging her to leave her. Look if
she left and worked for Warner Brothers or CBS or NBC,
(04:06):
oh man, they would love to have her. She puts,
I still can't believe she's here. I mean, she's like
a world class you know, organizational skills are off the chart,
but a world class producer and was you know, got
to the dealership early and made sure everything was cool.
It was a big deal and man, it was just
(04:28):
the perfect night. So we got to thank Sharon Bellio
for that. And then Angel Martinez popped out there too.
Angel Martinez took the night off, took a vacation day
to come out and hang with us. Is that true?
Angel Short of Okay, yeah, I know, Waite, but you
didn't do traffic out there, No I didn't. So did
(04:49):
you take the day off or you just had somebody
fill in for you?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, somebody filled in for me, and they did that
so that I could just come out and support your show.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It was fantastic. I asked Bellio, I said, hey, how
about Angel Martinez showing up? And she said she saved
the day. She did all a lot of the social media,
she arranged the gas and we had great guests out
there as well. We had terrific guests out there, and
everybody was thrilled with it. So hopefully we do another one.
(05:21):
Who knows, all right, Angel Martinez? This is Friday, before
the last weekend. For a lot of people, this will
be their last day of work until after the new year.
You know, richiees and people with private jets and you know,
people have made a lot more money than we have.
What is the traffic, Like I thought I noticed in
the last week or so, it's really light everywhere. What's
going on?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, you know, And since now that we're talking about
the traffic, I think it was a little worse yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But I think you're right busy. It's very busy today.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I mean, don't get me wrong, but we are seeing
some very slow traffic on that one oh one. Like
usually a backs up out of Calabasas is far west
as Lost Hills, but it's been pushing back into Agora
Hills the past couple of days, like right now, you're
slowing from about Liberty Canyon and all the way you
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know to the one seventy one thirty four. But if
you're staying eastbound, like a lot of people are right
all the way to that two ten freeway, it's pretty
patchy and slow all the way to the fifteen. But
another tough spot I would say is the four oh five.
It's been really tough all day, like usual patterns for
the four h five out of Culver City, right around
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the ninety as you continue towards the five in Silmar,
you know, but earlier today it was backing up all
the way out of Inglewood, which is a little worse
for that time of day than usual. But things seem
to be, you know, kind of back to their normal
flow for four o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Working. Sorry, Angel, your mic was down that whole time.
Can you do it again?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, I'm just kidding. Oh my gosh, you got me.
If she could have swore like this FCC was a said,
you know, no holes barred, she would have blasted away
with a couple of as what the f Yeah, all
this week I was.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Gonna bring up by the way all this week on
my way home that one thirty four going out to
like Angel said, the fifteen from Burbank here horrible really all.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This week every night? Is that right? Yes, Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, not just the eastbound side, but also the westbound side.
Like it's all it's slowing down out of Arcadia all
the way into Pasadena right now.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's Weirdah that is well, look this is you know,
these are the next couple of weeks. You're gonna get
a lot of people who are doing you know, a
lot of shopping at nights. You're gonna get later traffic
in the night, you know, people going to malls and
stuff like that. But I still can't believe. I went
to a mall on Sunday and I was, you know,
doing some Christmas shopping. I found a few things, and
(07:56):
then I get I get this announcement at six o'clock.
Our store closes in ten minutes, so could you kindly
bring up your purchases and we'll take care of you
have to register. And I thought, this is six o'clock
on a Sunday in a mall, two weeks, three weeks
before Christmas, you're closing at six o'clock. Holy smokes, but
(08:17):
I see that all the time. You know, places closing
at eight o'clock or seven o'clock. Everything should be on
lows and home depot hours. Those are my favorite hours
in the world. It's six am until ten pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, and then they close early on Sunday
(08:40):
at eight. Those are fantastic hours. Every business should be
on those hours. Wire businesses on different hours. Why aren't
all businesses open from you know, eight am, seven am,
six am, whatever you open in the morning. Every business
in LA, in California, in the United States should be
forced to stay open atll ten o'clock for guys like me.
(09:00):
Guys like me, I'm a night guy. I want to
get around at night. I don't shop during the day.
I don't go out during the day. I hang around
the house. Everything should be open till ten o'clock. I'm
constantly running around trying to figure out what effing stores
are closing, and I'm called That's what I use my
phone for the most in the world. I press it
like this. This is exactly what I do about ten
times a day. Here's what I do with the Siri,
(09:23):
let me shut this off. Here's what I do. Here's
what I do. I turn on the phone. Hi, what
time does Low's in Burbank close tonight? And I get oh, here,
I'll get this one. I got directions. What time does
home Depot close tonight in Burbank? And then they'll come
on and they'll say ten pm. That's fantastic, ten pm.
(09:46):
All right, we're gonna come back. We had a computer glitch.
It's working now, so we'll come back. We'll start the
program and knock it out for you this Friday before
the big holiday starts. It's gonna be next week, the
week after, and then the weekend when we got then
we got Christmas. What's the day today? Is this the
on the what's the day today? The twelfth? Okay, so
we have twelve days before Christmas Eve? Do you understand
(10:09):
that twelve days before Christmas Eve? Christmas Eve is around
the corner. It is a week from next Wednesday. It's
a week from next Wednesday. Christmas Eve is one week
from next Wednesday. Christmas is one week two weeks from yesterday.
Is Christmas two weeks from yesterday. You don't even have
(10:31):
two weeks left to get out there. So let's get
on out there. We'll keep you here all seven o'clock.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We are joined by Michael J. Monks, So good to
be with you. Is that the middle initial? It's A,
but it's oh Michael, all right, Michael A Monks. What
does the A stand for? Take a guest, It's Adam
Catholic name Antonio close English version of that. Oh, okay,
Anthony Anthony. Wow, look at you, BA Michael Anthony, Michael
(11:01):
Michael Anthony is a great name, not a bad name.
That's a great mob name. Yeah, do you want to
make me?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
What would your what would your mob nickname be? Uh?
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Probably the snitch Mickey Monks, Monks, the snitch Monks.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
That's the basis name for Van Haley. Is it the snitch?
The snitch? Snitches get stitches though they do?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, so you can't do that. No, all right, But buddy,
you have a very popular show before we get into
why you're here on Saturday from seven to nine pm.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
It wildly popular Saturday night program here on KFI, and
you've been doing it really since the fires since a
couple months prior, but we got right, okay around that time. Yeah,
so we break down the news. It's a digest of
the week's news and then what's coming up in the
next week.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
We have a lot of guests.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
It's great shown and uh this coming Saturday, got a
really you know, a sad interview with a woman whose
family lost their house in the Altadena fire. No, okay,
but not only that, they lost their business in the
Sunset fire. Oh my god, we forget that there were
other fires. It wasn't just Palisades and Eaten there. There
(12:10):
were some other smaller of course, but they did call
some damage.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The Sunset fire was the one that started in the
Hollywood exactly right. And it was Chris Christi that saw
it first, and he flew like from Long Beach headed
over there, and we told everybody, go south, go south,
get off of Franklin, get off a gow Er. I
know that neighborhood. I had an old girlfriend lived in
that neighborhood. This family lived in Altadena. They said that
they didn't get any warnings about the fire that was coming.
They were looking out the window and said the entire
(12:36):
Eaton Canyon was lit up. Like, we've got to go.
So they ended up getting in their cars and a
customer of theirs that they had developed a friendship with, said,
come stay with us in Studio City. The next thing
you know, they're all fleeing studio site because of the fire. Yeah,
and the liquor store they owned their suffered some damage.
Not only that, but obviously a decline in business because
(12:57):
of everyone left town for a while, and so the
rebuilding their lives on two fronts. Are they coming on
the show? I talked to them today. Oh, a recorded interview,
but we'll have that for you on Saturday. Okay, we
don't have time to do this. Can you stay another segment?
Speaker 6 (13:10):
I guess have no choice, and you have no because
you dithered in the first segment.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But I want to say I'm very proud of the
Chief of Police of LAPD, Jim McDonald. When he first
became a cop under under our new our mayor, he
was there was a lot of like politically correct stuff
that he was saying, and I told people around here,
I said, give him three four months, he's going to
(13:35):
go back to being a real cop. And he's back.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Well, he is back, but he's not following procedures in
order to get the officers that he's wanted. So they
shoehorned this proposal in to get more officers in a
roundabout way.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Good.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
He didn't get exactly what he wanted today, but he
did get some of it. We'll talk about that, Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Excellent, all right. Michael Monks is with us. Michael Anthony Monks.
We're live on KFI AM six forty. It's Timothy Dalton
Conway More with Michael Lallin Krausier.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
You're listening to tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Michael Monks joins us aies on every Saturday from seven
to nine pm. And LAPD is again the topic of
City Hall.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
It was a long meeting, got a little heated at times,
and we learned a lot about Robert's rules of order
and procedures at the way things going adopt it at
city Hall. We talked about this yesterday on this program.
The mayor Mayor bask came out late Wednesday with a
letter that said, look, City Council, I really need you
to find four point four million dollars or the LAPD
(14:38):
is going to run out of money for hiring new officers.
They want to hire four hundred plus officers, and.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They had also shut down their academy they would have
to run.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
The chief came out late yesterday afternoon and said there
will be no new hires at the first of the year.
He's back if you don't give me this money, which
was news to members of the council because when they
got wind that the police department was trying to hire
four hundred and ten officers, they were looking at the
accounts and everything. So we told you you could hire
two point fifty. Ah, you went well over that without permission.
(15:08):
The mayor and the council President, Marquise Harris Dawson had
said in a compromise back in June, we're going to
work together to find funding for these extra positions, but
right now, let's just move forward to fifty. Well, never
nobody ever got together to talk about finding this additional money.
So now it's a complete urgent situation that the city
Council finds itself in. City Councilman Katie Arslawsku, chairs the
Budget Committee, was beside herself.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Here's part of what she said today.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
What concerns me is the framing that unless we decide
everything today, responsible hiring becomes impossible, or that it's somehow
the fault of this council for not acting, and that
is fair, that's right. What this false urgency seeks to
do is force this body into a rush budget decision
without analysis or consensus. We cannot keep doing this. This
(15:51):
is no way to run a city. We're here having
this conversation today because the required work didn't happen sooner
and we're stuck holding the bag.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And oh, that's great. Jimmy's back. Jimmy's back.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Jim McDonald was sitting there saying things that may be correct.
We won't have any money, we need more officers, there
will be no police academies that are recruitment classes starting.
That all may be true. And what really pissed him
off is he made it public too. Probably well, he
went public pretty fast here at the end, because again,
(16:24):
there are procedures for spending money in la I know,
it seems like money flies out the window, and it does,
but there are supposed to be checks and balances. And
throughout this budget process, the police department is saying we
need this many officers, We need this many officers to be.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Saying, our hands are time.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
The other thing is, you remember when they were making
this budget was a billion dollar deficit, sixteen hundred jobs
on the line, including hundreds at the LAPD, not sworn officers,
but a bunch of back office people or are crime
scene photographers and those types of investigators who may not
be police officers but are instrumental in the solving of crimes.
(16:56):
Those jobs were saved, but Councilman Arslovsky said today there's
still a couple hundred people in that police department whose
jobs are still set to expire. And if we hire
these officers without any budget plan to pay for it,
She compared it to hiring more pilots with while firing
(17:19):
the air traffic controllers and then putting the pilots in
the air traffic control tower and having to pay a
higher rate for that, because that's what will happen. The
police officers will be taken off the streets and put
on these desk jobs.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I see. Okay, so what the final vote did They
take A final.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Vote they did, and it was nine to six to
do this. We're going to give you LAPDA one million dollars.
That way you can do the next couple of classes.
This will fund you through January, not the department funding,
but this initiative through January. So that's the January class,
and I think the February class is included here. But
you got to come back in January with the City
administrator with a full plan, because you cannot just millions
(18:01):
of dollars out of the budget without a plan. You
cannot treat it this way. And the reason it was
nine to six not because those six people did not
want to fund the million dollars. They wanted to fund
the full thing.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh right.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
This was the robust argument that was taking place at
the City Council today.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Was some saying we knew.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
That the police Department was going to get something, but
it was whether they were going to get all of
it or just a little bit and be held accountable
next month about the way they're proposing to spend this money.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
When you say you can't rip that money away without
a plan, when during twenty twenty they ripped four one
hundred and forty million away from LAPD without a plan,
you can take money.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's what was being proposed today, not to take money
out of that account.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
But whatever they did in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
I wasn't your covering that, but there would have been
an account that says, this is how much money is
in this account, this is where that money is going
to go. There is a procedure, there's a conversation, there's
a vote. The LAPD moved on these hires without going
through the proper budget process and going well over the
budgeted amount.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I love that that that is Jim McDonald being the
cop that he always has been and worried about the
safety of the people who live in la.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Again, all of this may be factual what he's saying
that we need more officers, and I think if you
live in the valley where a lot of these hugglers
have been taking place, you know what the apartment is
like when you call and you needed a lay. He says,
without these additional hires, they will eventually and very soon
drop to eighty three hundred sworn officers, their lowest in decades.
They need ten thousand. All of that may be true.
(19:30):
The problem was the city's financial dire straits, and they
were only approved to hire two hundred and fifty and
to come and hire four hundred and ten. That's one
hundred and seventy positions that were not accounted for, one
hundred and sixty positions that were not accounted for.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'd have to look this number up, but I think
I'm right about this number. That LAPD would go down
to eighty three hundred without the new hires. Yet in
New York City they have thirty seven thousand cops.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I think the way that Jim McDonald framed it at
yesterday news conference was that geographically LA is the largest
city and because of that factor, we are actually uh
far more understaff the New York City and that oh yeah,
now New York has two and a half times the
population of LA City proper, you know, but he's saying
(20:18):
with the geography that we have, we are even worse off.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Well, that's what I'm saying. I mean, they have to
go from you know, LAPD has to cover from Chatsworth
down to San Pedro. You know that's got to be
forty miles thirty five miles to drive that Angel Martinez,
you with us, how far is it from North Chatsworth
to San Pedro? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
North Chatsworth to San Pedro. I'm on it right now,
all right.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And please come back and and I have a follow up, angel,
what's the follow up?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
The follow up, Angel is how much in lawsuit settlements
has the LAPD cost the City of Los Angeles in
the past couple of years?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
All Right, I'm going to say in how many how
many years? This is the past the past couple of years.
I'm gonna a twelve, twenty, whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Why if you can't it because it's tens and tens
and tens of millions of dollars. Look, this is a
me criticized. This is again is stating facts. So the
financial situation the city finds itself in a lot of
it has to do with legal settlements. We went through
all of this during the budget crisis, and the bulk
of those legal settlements come from LAPD.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Okay, absolutely, Okay. That being said, I know that I
defend cops quite often on this on this station, I
will say that the City of Los Angeles should fight
some of the lawsuits. All they do is they turn
around and write big checks.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
I will have another conversation on the Saturday show in
addition to what we teased in the previous segment about
the woman's family who suffered in both the eating fire
and the sunset fire within twenty four hours of each other.
I'm talking to the leader of an organization that just
put out a report that called LA the judicial hellhole
(21:56):
except of America, the number one judicial hellhole. That's the
official That's great because of how exorbitant these these settlements are,
not just in the government but also the private sector.
The juries here are just throwing money out to everybody
in this very religious society.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Here, my wife ran into a pothole. This must have
been I don't know, twenty years ago, and she just
wrote a note saying, I hit a pothole and it
cost one hundred and fifty eight dollars on my car.
Can you take care of it? And like three weeks
later she got a check. Nobody ever called to investigate
or anything. And I think she was lying. Oh you
think she did something else?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, I think she hit a tree. Was she thrown
back a couple of No, I don't think so. She
doesn't drink and drive, but I think she would be
better a better driver if she did.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Hey, you wanted to know Childsworth's Is that pedro?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Fifty three mile? Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Is that right? It's a huge city.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
It's not just difficult to police in the few years
that I've been covering, that's this stuff. It's difficult to govern,
difficult for a lot of stuff. It's just took a crazy,
crazy place. I know you were on street lights for
a while.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I drove from the Odyssey, which is where the five
of the four or five meet, and I haven't been
in that part of the valley for ten years or so,
so I want to take side streets home just to
see that part of the valley grew up around there,
and I didn't see a street light that was one,
not a single one. It's so depressing. It all, this
is all, this is what we're talking about today.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
The city has no money, They cannot do basic services,
and they had to make some very tough decisions. But
keep in mind they kept all of those positions. Those
sixteen hundred jobs are on the chopping block that they
were still paying for. And this budget hasn't gotten any better.
So when we come to next spring and they start
talking about the budget again, you think there might be
layoffs proposed answers. Of course, Secondarily, and more importantly, they
(23:49):
approved the expansion or the convention that convention center, and
that is going to be tens and tens of millions,
possibly two hundred million dollars a year that had no
way to Hey, hey, they have to find it in
this exact budget. Wow, these four million dollars that was
asked for by the LAPD, that's just a fund the recruiting.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Then these folks draw the salaries.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It will at least be twenty four million dollars a
year for what they're asking for.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow, Monks, I don't know what the endgame is here,
but I'm glad you keep an eye on them. Michael Monks,
Michael Anthony Monks, Saturday, seven to nine pm. Always a
pleasure to see. Above.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Forty and next December December twenty third or twenty second.
I think it's twenty third of twenty twenty six, will
be the thirtieth year in radio, thirty years, and yet
I forgot to turn the mic on. So there you go.
(24:51):
Sometimes they have a brain fart in life. The Dodgers
are introducing the next superhero in Dodger Blue. His name
is Edwin Diaz and he is going to be playing
for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he's going to be
the premiere closer. He's gonna come in in the sixth, seventh, eighth,
(25:16):
ninth inning and throw bebies that these Padres and Giants
and you know whoever A's Mets, whoever it is, cannot hit,
and we'll close out a lot of games. When Edwin
Diaz comes in the game. The next song you're gonna
hear is I love LA A lot of the time.
(25:38):
He'll come in, bang bang bang bang bang, rolling down
Pierre Highway, big nasty ran out of my side. That's
you're gonna hear next. This guy at the end of
the game. At the end of the game, after he pitches,
he'll raise his arms up. Dodgers win. Dodgers win because
of this guy, Edwin Diaz. Let's meet this guy. Dodgers
introduced him today.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman calls it the perfect fit.
The acquisition of Edwin Dia is announced by the club
today and he met the media for the first time.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
This is like an all star team. The Dodgers are
an all star team, and I love it. And people say, oh,
it's not great for baseball. I could care less. I
could care less. I'm I'm not a baseball fan. I'm
a Dodger fan. I don't watch baseball. I don't watch
you know, Atlanta play Cleveland? Who cares? Not a baseball fan,
(26:30):
I'm a Dodger fan. So I say, all the power
to him. Let's make the Dodgers an All Star team
every year and win twenty or thirty World Series in
a row. That would be great.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Daz In selecting to come here to Los Angeles had
some first hand intel from his brother Alexis, who was
a member of the club for a part of last season.
DS says he's here because he wants to win. Yeah,
and the Dodgers, despite going with a closer by committee
over the course of the last few seasons, are not
shot about the fact that the team's closer will be
(27:02):
the man they call Sugar.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
To name someone the closer, you have to be one
of the best. You have to be elite and dominant
at what you do. Sugar is that and I think
just so many boxes were checked in our mind. But again,
just a very high bar to say this person is
our closer, and Sugar checks all those boxes.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I love that they call him by his nickname sugar.
You know what a sweet nickname. Sorry, but that's a
beautiful nickname for a guy that's going to be mowing
down these Padres. Man, if you're a Padre or you're
a Padres fan, you've got to just be, you know,
suicidal with what's going on in La. Even if you're
an Angels fan, you know, you had Otani for four
(27:45):
or five years, I think five years, then got nothing
for him. He left Anaheim, Angels went to the Dodgers,
and Anaheim got nothing for the greatest athlete in the world,
the greatest maybe the greatest baseball player in the world.
And the Dodgers picked him up for nothing. They had
to give the Angels nothing, not a player, not a bat,
(28:08):
not a ball, not a hot dog or even a
colonel of popcorn. Nothing.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
He's a big reponsality because what is in your hand
the last three out of the game, and I think
they are the toughest three hours in the game. Personal,
I take it nice and easy my pitches. You know,
at the end of the day, if I get my
job done, they think would be in a good position.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Oh what a great accent. I can warm him up
to that accent, very very easily, very quickly. Personal.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
I take it nice and easy. My pitches. You know,
at the end of the day, if I get my
job done, they think would been able position.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, here we go, gentlemen, Edwin.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It's the most electric walkout in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Edwin, we got him out to Narco. Hey, we got him, everybody,
we got him. He's on the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
By Timmy up and rest assured Dodger fans. Das says
that he's bringing the walk up music here to Dodger Stadium.
I can't wait to ring it here for all of
the fans. Now. You may have seen him wearing uniform
number three. That's because the number thirty nine that he's
normally accustomed to being seen and is retired here by
the Dodgers for the late Roy Campanella so ds scene.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Oh, they should unretire it for him, you know, dig
up Roy, take it off his body and throw it
on Diaz. Man, what have seen that would be? I
think that old jersey off Roy.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
You've been calling this for years, by the way, yeah
with DZ.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, Oh yeah, buddy, look this guy. That's the greatest
walkout ever. Yeah, you know, coming out there, it's so perfect.
It's so perfect, Fu, I mean, you've been talking about
this for a couple of years. Yeah, it's gonna be
so loud and echoing through Dodger Stadium when they pound
that that music out, and they'll be you'll be great
as to turn all the lights off and put a
spotlight on him when he comes out and play that
(29:58):
and play that song, so all the lights go out.
You got Timmy trumpet there and ladies and gentlemen, Edwin dear, yes, sir,
what is it? This is from the Padres. The Padres
they're not playing this year. They said they quit, sir,
(30:20):
They're not going to play this year? Is that right?
They already long. Yeah, it's on there, it's on look,
it's on their stationary, it's on their letterhead. So Padres
are not going to play baseball this year. They said
it's not worth it. It's like America in the World Cup.
We're already lost. That's right, all right. We're live on
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