April 23, 2025 • 34 mins
Alex Stone on Car thieves have moved on from using hangers to open locks in doors. Now they’ve gone high tech and police in San Jose, CA. say thieves are buying things like locksmith wireless system apps that link to your car. The apps are meant for locksmiths to get in and to program new keys. // Shaq needs to go number 2 on live television... plus, they brought a porta potty into Studio J for Shaq! // Michael Monks, Police arrested vandal accused of cutting down downtown LA trees with chainsaw. // Australian twins talk in sync when interviewed about carjacking
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's CAMFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio appf I AM
six forty. It's a Conway Show, all right, It's a Wednesday,
well hump Day for you here. And I love this
next topic with that Alex Stone is going to bring
up here from ABC News. I am one hundred percent
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convinced that people are now robbing homes and cars, not
with a crowbar anymore, or with a wired hangar to
open up your door, but with the wired remotes, you know,
the transmitters. Because I was standing in my garage about
six months ago and a van rolled by, the garage
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door half open and then closed again, and a white
van drove by. You can't tell me that that guy
in the van didn't have a clicker or was driving around,
you know, the city with the remote trying to figure
out which garage door is open and which ones don't.
I guarantee you this is a big story, and Alex
Stone is with us. Alex, how you bub.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Garage door opener? We got to do it again.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Wait, hold on, seck, we missed you there. We we
got the we didn't get the first thing you said,
I was.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Just saying, that's creepy. What with your garage door. Do
you have a newer garage door opener where you've got
to hold down the button and match them up and
do all the other stuff you gotta do.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, buddy, Look I got one that runs on gas.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know, every time you what opened up the door.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So loud, the whole neighborhood here is that opened up?
You know, ba bye bye bye bye bye byeh.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Because you think in the old days, you remember if
you opened up a clicker for the garage door, just
a couple little toggle switches, and if you had the
same toggle switch as a guy next door, then it
would open up their garage door too.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know when when my when those first came out,
they're like, you know, four different tones to open up
a car. And my brother bought a Toyota Celica and
I had a Toyota Corolla, and I pressed mind opened
my car and his car opened. I mean literally both
of our cars were on the same remote.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, I mean, it shouldn't happen that way anymore, but
it can't what they've got going on. And this is
it's really police up in San Jose that they are
saying everybody needs to know about this. That no longer
is stealing a car getting you know, a hangar route
or a slim gym right getting down in there next
to the window, and that doesn't work anymore if you've
got a newer version of a car. But what they're
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doing they don't have to hot wire it anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And get in that way.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But where most of us now have the keyless entry cars,
all it takes is an app or other equipment that
locksmiths would use that we need them to be able
to do that. If you lost your key fob and
your car was locked, how would they get into it
and get you a new key. Well, they use this
equipment to match up to the car and reprogram it.
But the problem is the bad guys are getting that too,
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And in San Jose police say they're seeing now around
fifteen cars every day being stolen this way where the
thieves come up and essentially an app on a phone,
they unlock the car, they get in, and they drive away.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
These are the cops up in San Jose.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Some of these devices are legitimate devices that that you
can purchase online for a legitimate purpose, and the people
who are purchasing them, are going around and using that
technology to bypass ignition systems to it'll start your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Now, this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
If you buy let's say medical equipment or police gear,
you'd have to show that you have a legal need
to have that stuff. But there are no limits on
anybody wanting to buy locksmith apps or other equipment. For
a locksmith would use to do this remotely and wirelessly.
And they're just buying this stuff online and downloading it
where you can go up to a car and reprogram it.
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This guy is a locksmith up in San Jose. He says,
the sales of this stuff in California needs to be limited.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
And everything is accessible other industries, like the beauty industry,
you can buy anything from the supplier without a license.
Locksmith nothing. You can buy everything you want.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So he showed us how he does it, where he
uses this keyless entry device on his phone and he
connects to a car and he reprograms the key right there.
He says Tim that he is getting calls all the
time now from people who have had their cars reprogrammed
by thieves and then police retrieve them and they get
them back and then he has to come in and
reprogram them back or car tefts.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I'm dealing like three times a week with a stolen car.
Usually they're shocked that somebody just came over and took
the car without any issues.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Now here's the thing, he says.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Older cars are actually harder to steal now because older
cars have mechanical locks and keys, and it means that
the bad guy actually has to know how to use
a slim gym and add to hot wire the car.
And these thieves don't know how to do it anymore.
They know how to go on their phone and program.
Once they know the coding that is needed for a
certain model of car, a certain.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Brand, then they're good to go.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So police, and I've seen it in southern California as well,
but up in San Jose, this is the ad that
they're now running.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Are you a Hyundai owner, Well you're in luck.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Hundai have give us one hundred of these steering wheel walks,
provides the wonderful community members the Santa Clara.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
County and Hundai is really the car that they're seeing
stolen this way the most would police say.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Everybody now needs to think about going back. Yeah, but
if you got key.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Listen, get the old club that steering wheel locking device,
because that will stop these guys from being.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I don't know if that works, because what they do
is they take you know, like garden clippers, and they
just put a they clip the wheel and pull that
thing up right off.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, I mean maybe it slows them down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
But you know, I was at a Costco the other
day and there's a van in the parking lot saying
we make keys, and I was gonna have an extra key, maide,
and I thought, I don't know. Then they got my code.
They know that I shop at Costco and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
They got to find you that one car and that's
back in the rock.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
They're going to you know, I'll be the one guy
that's uh, you know, been found. But but but you
can't live your whole life, you know, paranoid. But you
know what I have you ever seen this thing called
TV be Gone? You ever seen this thing?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't think it looks exactly like a like a
fob for your car, But when you press the button
in less than a second, it goes through two thousand
types of television sets and shuts them off. And so
we would take them to and I'm gonna change the
name of the track because I don't want to get
in trouble. But we used to go to Hollywood Park,
which isn't there anymore, right, And we used to you know,
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when these guys were betting off track. They were betting
like you know Belmont or Louisiana or Chicago or New York.
And there's three or four TVs on, and there's three
or four races, and there's thirty guys, you know, in
front of forty TVs. Come out with this three, come
out with this three, and we'd hit that button and
all the TVs would go off.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Boom, they all go out, and then.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We'd all and then we'd have to swear at the
guy too, like hey, what's going on out here?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And then we'd all run to the next bank of
TVs to watch the race, and then bang, we'd hit
them again. Oh and I'll tell you I never laughed
that hard in my life.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That is great.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
And then when remote controls used to not just for
the TV, but you know, let's say you had at
and t you verse fifteen years ago, and I remember
our neighbor would change their channel and our channel would change.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And you know you're going I still second.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Ceiling fans are another one. Our next door neighbor turns
on a ceiling fan on and off.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Wow, I'm guessing those are very secure security wise, because
the bad guys aren't trying to turn on your ceiling fans.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I used to live next to a guy and I
used to live in a duplex and the guy his
name is Sean. He lived next door to us, and
he paid the cable and we just got cable for
free because we are part of the duplex. And so
I'd constantly say to him, I, Hey, Sean, are you
getting that that fight this week? And he goes like, oh, no,
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don't know. And I said, he says, you getting I'm like, no,
I can't afford it. But if you get it, maybe
I'll pop by and he goes okay, and then he'd
buy it, and then I'd stay at home and watch
it because I could watch I'm watching his game.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's on his time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But you know what, Alex, I think. Look, you and
I are are not the dumbest guys in the world.
All right, that's a compliment. That's a compliment. You probably aren't, Okay,
there's two guys in this world, two types of people
in this world. Yeah, h non learners and slow learners.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I think I'm a slow learner, but I have a
feeling that you and I are probably smarter than eighty
percent of these guys out there committing these crimes. So
why don't we just do that? Why do we have
to come into ABC or KFI every day and buster?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
You could just be out there taking every hundy that's
We could just be.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Out there stealing people's crap. You know, Look, if it's
going to be done anyway, no one cares. Why not
get into the game.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, speaking TVs, you remember the scrambled channels. We'd sit
there as a kid and go, I think I see
a butchie there that I think that is.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Or when the Internet first started and you'd wait for
forty minutes for one picture to download.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Buffer and.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Line by line by line by line like, ah, there's
no boobs in this one. Ah, I gotta do it again,
old school man, that's old school. So what are they
going to do about this? Is there any kind of
security for this? Or we're just all done?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I mean at this point, no, And then that's why
the san Jose police are saying, you know, try the club.
They say they're are ignition kill switches that you can
put in. They're saying, try car alarms again. I mean,
but to car alarms do anything anymore? One goes off
that they don't really people. Yeah, and the technology is
there for locksmiths to use, and so unless the country
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or the state begins to limit. But even if you
limit sales, bad guys are still gonna have ways to
get a hold of it.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But it's easy right now. They go on Amazon or
to go anywhere else and just order it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Look, they buy machine guns in this country. You don't
think they can get a fob to holp me up
your car.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, but it is super easy right now to download
the app and get the little piece of equipment that
you need and walk up and say, well, this is
this brand, here's the code that the brand uses, and
just reprogram the car.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There you go, buddy, this is your best segment ever.
I love this idea and there you go. All right,
we'll talk to you soon, all right, Alex Stone with
ABC News.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, maybe that's awesome that the next door neighbors controlling
your fan. Yeah, that's so great, dude, yep, I'll go on.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
It'll just start turning like, what the hell?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I did this? We fixed it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But my old neighbor next door, he would occasionally come
by and goes, here, you printed this out, kind of like,
oh sorry, but yeah, I did print. And he would
print on his computer and careful with that stuff. Yeah,
and he was a cop too, so he didn't mind.
So like here, I'll just you know, and he goes,
by the way, if I ever print anything on your
you know, printer, to give it to me before you
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show it to my wife.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
On your printer.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It wasn't me, but he would literally come over.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And goes, hey, you printed this document, you know, congratulations
on your new deal over a KFI. I go, why'd
you read it? God, I'm a cop. I read everything.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
All right. Yesterday we talked about Shaquille O'Neal having to
go number two while he was on television. I've never
seen that before in my life, where the guy is
broadcasting a show on TNT is doing the NBA playoffs
and he literally stands up, walks right in front of
the between the camera and the other three guys hosting
that show, and he's off to the races because he
(11:12):
has to take a dump. And I've never seen that
before in my life watching television, watching sports as much
sports as I watch, and I do like to watch,
you know, football, basketball, baseball, hockey. Those are my sports,
more hockey and football, but I love baseball as well.
I think I've watched every Dodger game this year. Not
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a big NBA fan, but I've watched thousands of hours
a year in sports, thousands of hours over the last
five six decades, hundreds of thousands of hours of watching
live events. Never seen this before in my life. Never
saw a guy stand up and because he's got to
take a dump and he leaves the set. Never seen
(11:54):
it before, And you would think, and I've never seen
it before online like on YouTube or anything. I've never
seen a guy having to leave the set because he
can't hold it in anymore. But happened to Shaquille O'Neal.
We'll play a little part of it, and then there's
an update. There's an update on the Shaquille O'Neal leaving
(12:15):
the set over at TNT to go number two.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Other thing about Kawhi is you know what, you know what?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Let me let me dump this. I don't know if
we can say that word on the air.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So I I.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Did it yesterday. I beleeped it out yesterday. I think
I gotta do it again.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Crap.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, because the way he says it, Yeah, it's all context. Yeah,
I don't think I'd rather err on the side of
not getting fired. Now, who's being all cautious? Look at
you getting called out Tea? Okay, all right, okay, all right,
I get that. I can you know that's turned about.
It's fair play, double doug. I get that. I get that.
(12:59):
But this is closer than the stuff that you've done.
Oh okay, yes, it is a little closer. Okay, Well
what wait, belly, you dumped something that I oh, I
remember what it was. We just said where Steve Gregory
is now? And and you guys threw a fit. You
guys went crazy. See that would require that? Why because context? No,
(13:25):
I'm talking about legally being thrown off the air, not
being reprimanded by management. Third grade here all right, here's
Shaquille O'Neal. Haven't we leave the set to take a dumb.
Speaker 11 (13:40):
Other thing about Kawhi is you know what your big Okay,
go ahead, keep talking, Jeff, Yeah, we on TV. That's
that olive you've been drinking. Take some matches after forty holding?
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What's it first?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Kill us?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Look, these guys even said, that's the first.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
What's the first?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's the first. These guys have more experience than anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But what's the first?
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Something that wasn't something planned?
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Was it? No?
Speaker 11 (14:20):
Listen, he was in the back talking about he's a
drink alcohol and clear he's been drinking.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I didn't well the cleaning guns clean.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I did not like his gait is he allowed that
was not a terrible warm right there.
Speaker 12 (14:35):
He's been drinking, he says.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
He read somewhere, if you drink a shot of olive ball.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I saw them doing that the other day in the mankorbook.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
They've been doing it. They've been doing it. They're gonna
do it.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You have to do it for two weeks to miss
a lot of airtime.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Okay, all right, So that was yesterday. Here's an update
on the Shaquille O'Neil story. They brought in a porta
potty outhouse and they put it right next to his chair.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
Chucks coming out for uh inside the NBA it's casual stroll,
does not notice Steve.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Porta potty over there, right next to his chair.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
And then just before we decided, hey, let's keep it
a secret until the start of the.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Show, I did not even know that. Hi, I'm blind, man,
I didn't. I missed the whole portapot. You're right, Travis Anders,
I missed a party. Well, it's a party sometimes rarely
(15:43):
does it's a party sometimes doing and.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Uh, okay, and then Shaquille gets up and goes into
the porta party while they're on the air.
Speaker 12 (15:51):
Sure brought here?
Speaker 11 (15:54):
Oh so you actually gonna use it?
Speaker 13 (15:56):
That?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
My goodness, I hope not.
Speaker 13 (16:05):
No, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Backfired on him he did use it, Oh, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Anyway, last night, By the way, folks, I.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Bet TNT is happy to bring the TBS crew over
for the NBA playoffs or was there were the ESPN?
Where did this crew come from?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Was a TBS?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think I think it was TNT. Well, now they're
on tn T. I think that's what they're going to ESPN. Yeah,
they're going to ESPN. Okay, I see, okay, all right
for the playoffs, yeah, okay.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
And that's and that's one thing that I saw some
commentary say. I think it was barstool. They said, yeah,
if ESPN is smart, they'll keep stuff like that going.
They're worried that ESPN being ESPN, would have cut off
cut out of that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, one hundred percent. But you know, but ESPN is
really cautious, you know, That's what I mean.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Yeah, you're worried that they're too cautious and that stuff
wouldn't have aired.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, it definitely wouldn't have. It's Disney. That's why it's like, ah, yeah,
there was some commentator today that was going to go
after Bill Belichick and and rip him a new a hole,
and he was shut down the producers. You could hear
him going no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no, we're not We're not doing that here.
So t NT lets it fly. And look, I'm much
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more interested in what's going on on that set than
what's going on on the parquet floor.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Reason that show has been as successful as it has,
and that's that would be it right there, the little
magic factor exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I don't I would rather watch those guys than watch
the Celtics and Lakers play.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
It's the sausage being made right there on TV.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Let me finish it up here.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So he literally goes into the outhouse last night.
Speaker 13 (17:44):
But folks, okay, ESPN is not going to let that fly.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
There is no way that Disney's gonna sign off on that.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
No way.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
So you gotta enjoy it now. Got to enjoy it
on TNT because when it goes to ESPN, you're gonna get,
you know, Celtics one thirty eight, the Lakers one twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Bang.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's a wrap. So enjoy it while you can. That's
going away. We're live on Camfi will come back and
talk with Michael Monks. We got Monks. Police arrested vandal
accused of cutting down those trees in LA with a chainsaw. Yeah,
it's a big story in downtown. Trees are going away.
Some guys usually a chainsaw at night to take trees
down in LA. That's where we are welcome to Los Angeles.
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That should be the emblem, the new emblem for LA.
A tree cutdown. First thing you see when you come
out of LAX, out of an international flight. Guy cutting
a homeless guy cutting a tree down. Welcome to Los Angeles.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You got Monks. Michael Monks is with us, and I
guess we've salved the crime of the century. Downtown Los Angeles.
Guy's cutting trees down. There's a suspect, he's arrested, and
he's cutting trees down in downtown LA where we need trees.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
He's not just doing it in downtown LA. To him,
he's done it in downtown. He's done it in MacArthur
Park and Gloucell Park over the span of several days.
So think about when this story first came out and Saturday,
I live downtown. I'm a member of a DTLA Facebook
group and they were all over this very early. That's
where I first saw reports of this. So it's in
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the news by the weekend. But even after this crime
is plastered all over the airwaves in Los Angeles, he
hits again on Tuesday in Glaucell Park, just a couple
days ago, using a chainsaw wow on a bicycle, just
drive by chainsawing trees all across the town. What do
we know about this a rocket sign. Well, we know
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his name is Samuel Groft, he's forty five. He's believed
to be a homeless spo. Is he really You're homeless
for sure? Homeless is what they're saying on DraftKings. You
can bet on who commits the crimes. I had Hasidic
jew Canter. Yeah, you're not gonna hit with that, Ben No,
it was three fifty to one if it would have
come through.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All I have to do is hit one of those,
and I'm goal. You could have paid to play the trees.
I went with the long shot Pacidic Jewish Canter. And
so it's a homeless guy. Yeah, you're gonna get some
emails about that. He was even It's always even money there.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
This report comes out after the report that about a
third of the fires that are set across the city
are caused by homeless camps and that sort of thing.
We've seen the burglary up in the valley from the
homeless guys who have been terrorizing some homes there, and
it just shows that the cost of homelessness in our
city is controller than just the services that are needed
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and the treatment that is needed. There are far reaching
issues and these are you know, sometimes there's a thirty
forty year old beautiful trees. You can't replace those overnight,
that's right. And in downtown the trees tend to be
a little bit newer because there is you know, this
is in Bunker Hill, for example, and that's got a
lot of newer buildings, so the trees are not as age.
(21:07):
They're easier to chop down if you're wielding a chainsaw.
So from his perspective, it's a good thing, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
So the first night he cut down five, and then
the next night he went after I think another dozen.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
He started on Thursday around midnight that far. Oh yeah,
on the five hundred block of North Broadway near says
Oar Chavez downtown. Then he went on Friday afternoon, Oh god,
like the middle of the afternoon on Friday, he hits
up the fifteen hundred block of West eighth Street in
West Lake in broad daylight, daylight. And he goes back
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to the middle of the night. On Saturday, he's back
downtown in Bunker Hill and right outside the two Cow
skyscraper there he hits more trees. He's not finished though.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
By the way. By this point he's on the news.
We know this is happening. He's not only on the news,
he's the lead story. Oh four and Channel four and
Channel seven at eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
People are not happy about the situation.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
They're doing live, remode live. We're all over this thing.
You know, this is a this is a news media
kind of story.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
But then he made his way up on this bike
to Glasell Park on Tuesday afternoon around at two o'clock
with the chainsaw and got more trees there. And that
was around the time YELLYPD issued a community alert. They
had some pictures of him, like do you know who
this is? Let's find him. They found him late last
night and they had a press conference and say he's
in jail. We're holding him one hundred thousand dollars bail.
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And now the city councilman Isabelle Herado. You may know
her from the campaign before she was elected in November.
She got a lot of attention for some comments she
made at cal State La f the police. Okay, the trees,
but this time she's looking to toughen some criminal penalties.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Oh really, yes, exactly where's my mom would say? What
a three sixty. She always got that wrong. That is
a lot of people do that.
Speaker 12 (22:52):
She is going to hold a press conference tomorrow, but
I talked to her office today and she sent out
an emotion that she plans to introduce for consideration that
would increase penal needs for damage to trees. And like
you said, some of these trees were young. You know,
these penalties, these financial penalties will be based on issues
like that, how much damage did you do, how old
are the trees, how much of the tree canopy has
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been damaged by this act of violence. And she'll present
that and I'll go through committee and then the city
council will consider it.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Michael Monks is with us from KFI News. Good organization
over there. Are that KFI News.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
I like that.
Speaker 12 (23:23):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
But you know, the one hundred thousand dollars bail. You
know more about this than I do. You're you're downtown, LA,
usually reserved for rape and really aggressive guys, not tree cutters.
Speaker 12 (23:35):
I mean, if you're running around in spite of the
fact that your face is all over the airwaves and
people are all are looking for you on social media,
and you've got a chainsaw me and you're a brazen guy.
You're a danger to.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Society, right, Although I do need some trees removed, if
I could bail this guy out, you know, that's the thing.
Speaker 12 (23:53):
A lot of these guys who are struggling with homelessness
and addiction, they got skills they did only they could
be directed to use them more perductively.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
That's right. You know, if you've noticed the way he
cuts trees down, he doesn't cut the entire tree down.
He goes three quarters in and then he pushes it over.
He wants the tree to feel it, right. He saves
his chainsaw, you know, because if you go all the
way through it, that chainsaw could get stuck there at
the end and slap back in your face.
Speaker 12 (24:19):
So, well, it's not a Looney Tunes cartoon. This is
real life we're dealing with, Tim. I mean, he knows
how to cut a tree. These aren't acmebrand trees, all right, So.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
What's gonna happen to this guy? Are we gonna he's
gonna see the day of light? Or we're gonna put
him to death? Well, I mean they to cut him
with a chainsaw.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
The district Attorney has brought the death penalty back to
la and I know there are some environmentalists who might
switch their leftist beliefs to support the death penalty for this,
but I mean it's a felony. It's a felony bandalike chair.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
And there's some conservatives who are are are gonna say, hey, look,
I think this guy, you know, should you know, you
got to cut him a little bit of break. So
you're gonna see conservatives and liberals on the opposite angle
of this story. It's gonna be odd, it's gonna be weird.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
You mean, like the people who tend to be against environmentalists,
they're like, it's just a few trees, let the guy go.
But he's a homeless guy. There's a lot of conflicted
feelings going on, right. I mean, we see it in
the city councilman's office. She's she's gonna like, it's get
tough on this crime. After seeing f the police back
in the fire.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Man, Downtown, La. Man, where you where you live must
just be a twenty four hour news channel. Just looking
out the window.
Speaker 12 (25:27):
I look out my window now and just this week
I got seven new neighbors living in tents and they've
attached their tents to the fence outside my parking lot.
So I filed a report with the city. You know
you've got that my three one one. You can report
homeless camps if they're blocking sidewalks, and they are and
I'm just out of curiosity. How long does something like
this take to get a response? So I did that
a couple of days ago. I'll keep you posted. Nothing yet,
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nothing yet, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You know when we used to live in Tarzana, real quick,
we had one of those sidewalks that got there was
roots in it and got up uprooted. It was a
big v in it, and people were falling over it.
And so I called the city and I said, hey,
can you come out and fix this? Or old women
walking on a street they're falling on my sidewalk. I
don't want the city to get sued or meet you
get sued. And they said, yeah, right now, there's a
wait list to have your sidewalks for repair. And I
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said how long is that weight list? And she said,
without without there, without any irony, without you laughing, without
any shame, fifty years. I said, okay, put my name down,
all right, monks, you're the best. Always a pleasure thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
All right, they caught the guy cutting trees in downtown
Los Angeles, so you can sleep tonight. There'll be no
more chainsawing of the trees.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
BELLYO.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Did you put the audio in of those those twins?
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I oh they are. It's under twin powers activating.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I see it, all right. Can you tell us what
that story is because I'm gonna I'm gonna goof on
it and blow it. You're better than I am.
Speaker 14 (27:00):
Twin sisters in Australia. They were victims of a carjacking.
So they were being interviewed and they talk in sync,
in sync. They didn't know what the other one was
going to say, and they say the same thing.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Yeah, I'll post a video to X so people can
see it.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
But you have the audio. All right, here's the audio
of these twins being interviewed after an accident and they
literally say the same thing. This is not rehearsed. This
is incredible how close twins are nowadays or always.
Speaker 15 (27:31):
Been now buts and we heard these big bang, We said,
all another car accident, so we drop everything and we
went running out to the front.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Are these Siamese twins are regular twins?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
No, I don't think they're connected. They're not connected physically.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I think you mean, yeah, connected conjoined Siamese.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Is that you're going to say identical or yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Well, you can't use Samese anymore. That's not an unaccepted
term Siamese twins. Everyone knows what I'm man. You can't
use that term. Wait, because the cat people get crazy
over it. Who got who got crazy? Cat people? Okay,
all right, well that's where we are having to ideal
with the Siamese contingency.
Speaker 15 (28:21):
Now birds and we heard these big bang, we said,
all along, another car accident, So we drop everything and
we went running out to the front. We seen mom
running in from the house up there, and then the
other cars were pulling out and checking them to see
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if the person was okay. And one guy he was
up there with our mom and he went up there
and he was coming back down the waters and he
goes run, he's got a gun.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
How about driving across country with these two idiots?
Speaker 9 (29:00):
Cynical side comes out on this one.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, clear was the lead.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, I'm going to stay on high alert here until
I find out more about these twins, and and.
Speaker 15 (29:16):
Poor Mama's stuck up there by the pain our grand mom.
She goes, are you all right?
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Because he had place?
Speaker 15 (29:25):
And he goes, I'll shoot you.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
She goes, hey, I'm needed to hell.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You know, there's a Saturday Life sketch where two actors
do that and they try to mimic each other. That's
what it sounds. That's what Angel is saying. Okay, all right,
that's great.
Speaker 15 (29:38):
And Mom just strategy needed to make him look the
other way. And he looked the other way, and Mama
into the bush behind the fence sense And then I
go to I'll find you and I'll shoot you.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Wow, this got carjack the wrong dudes, I'll find you
and I'll shoot you, like please, yeah, please end it now.
It'll be great if the if the carjacker also had
a twin and told his side, that would be great.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yes, How did she distract him initially? Did she just
say that look the other way?
Speaker 15 (30:13):
Well, well he must have been going I don't know,
but he looked the other way. And then that's why
she did want the next skate. And then I'm so
glad that young guy he said, run.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
He's got the gun.
Speaker 15 (30:26):
And then we say, hes people run on into our
facility and our house yard, our house yard as well,
know a hiding in there too, So we running around
closing and locking all doors. Yeah, just in case, because
we didn't know. And then I can't he pulled up.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
How old are these kids?
Speaker 8 (30:45):
You know?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
I think they look like they may be in their forties.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Oh I thought they were like in their twenties, their forties.
Oh bo what what.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
Seems to be the problem with that? I don't know
what happens?
Speaker 13 (31:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It sounds they are they single.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
I don't know their like, you know, resume.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Just in case because we didn't know.
Speaker 15 (31:10):
And then a car he pulled up, like the car
what was over the road there? He went and approached
that car and pulled the young girl out he was driving,
and her mommy was in the car too.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
She goes, yes, take me car.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
How many people do you think did they come in
here as well?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (31:29):
Yeah? People? No, not the game. No, we just was
speaking to him out to fund them a game more
big harg Yeah. And and the guy who said, man,
he's got a car, he said, thank.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
You, thank you?
Speaker 16 (31:43):
Wow?
Speaker 15 (31:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all I was thinking about when when
we were running. I hope he doesn't ly higher.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
So blessless, how close to him do you think you were?
Speaker 15 (31:57):
Well, see he was out there and we were past. Yeah,
you don't think of all of that at the time. No,
you're just run for your life.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
I mean when when he was on the run and
you had all the people in here, what were people?
Were people talking?
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Were you.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Silent?
Speaker 15 (32:18):
Everyone was silent, and even one well.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
They said silent exact same time.
Speaker 15 (32:24):
Film was silent, and even one young couple went behind
our friends caravan and he Yeah, and we've seen the
league and we've seen the leg coming over. That's not him.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Does does Australia have that show Australian's got talent? They
do that in Australia maybe, But.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
It was not the person someone trying it to someone
that climbed over the fence.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Wow, that's wild Bellios. So the videos up on Instagram.
Speaker 14 (32:53):
I'll put it on Instagram as well at Conways show,
but it's also on X at Conway's show.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And one of the best. Once I saw someone someone said, uh,
Kate McKinnon and Christian Wig need to do this skit
on SNL. Yeah, that's great, man. I can't believe how
close that is. That is unreal. All Right, that was
a good first hour. I guess I don't know whatever. Alright,
we're yeah, I do know they're the same. We had Monks, Yeah,
(33:19):
we had Monks. We had Alex Stone. Alex was great,
Monks was great. Monks is always a cool dude. So okay,
I'll give it a nine.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Nine.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Nine point nine always well, nine point three is always
better than nine point two, you know, especially when you
have guys like Alex Stone and Michael Monks, and you know, oh,
I hear is a big clique.
Speaker 16 (33:57):
People are now leaving the station and tuning in to music,
probably COS one on three point five, maybe Kiss FM.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Is Rick d still are.
Speaker 16 (34:16):
Her live on KFI.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
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next topic with that Alex Stone is going to bring
up here from ABC News. I am one hundred percent
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convinced that people are now robbing homes and cars, not
with a crowbar anymore, or with a wired hangar to
open up your door, but with the wired remotes, you know,
the transmitters. Because I was standing in my garage about
six months ago and a van rolled by, the garage
(00:46):
door half open and then closed again, and a white
van drove by. You can't tell me that that guy
in the van didn't have a clicker or was driving around,
you know, the city with the remote trying to figure
out which garage door is open and which ones don't.
I guarantee you this is a big story, and Alex
Stone is with us. Alex, how you bub.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Garage door opener? We got to do it again.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Wait, hold on, seck, we missed you there. We we
got the we didn't get the first thing you said,
I was.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Just saying, that's creepy. What with your garage door. Do
you have a newer garage door opener where you've got
to hold down the button and match them up and
do all the other stuff you gotta do.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, buddy, Look I got one that runs on gas.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You know, every time you what opened up the door.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So loud, the whole neighborhood here is that opened up?
You know, ba bye bye bye bye bye byeh.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Because you think in the old days, you remember if
you opened up a clicker for the garage door, just
a couple little toggle switches, and if you had the
same toggle switch as a guy next door, then it
would open up their garage door too.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know when when my when those first came out,
they're like, you know, four different tones to open up
a car. And my brother bought a Toyota Celica and
I had a Toyota Corolla, and I pressed mind opened
my car and his car opened. I mean literally both
of our cars were on the same remote.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, I mean, it shouldn't happen that way anymore, but
it can't what they've got going on. And this is
it's really police up in San Jose that they are
saying everybody needs to know about this. That no longer
is stealing a car getting you know, a hangar route
or a slim gym right getting down in there next
to the window, and that doesn't work anymore if you've
got a newer version of a car. But what they're
(02:24):
doing they don't have to hot wire it anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And get in that way.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But where most of us now have the keyless entry cars,
all it takes is an app or other equipment that
locksmiths would use that we need them to be able
to do that. If you lost your key fob and
your car was locked, how would they get into it
and get you a new key. Well, they use this
equipment to match up to the car and reprogram it.
But the problem is the bad guys are getting that too,
(02:48):
And in San Jose police say they're seeing now around
fifteen cars every day being stolen this way where the
thieves come up and essentially an app on a phone,
they unlock the car, they get in, and they drive away.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
These are the cops up in San Jose.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Some of these devices are legitimate devices that that you
can purchase online for a legitimate purpose, and the people
who are purchasing them, are going around and using that
technology to bypass ignition systems to it'll start your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Now, this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
If you buy let's say medical equipment or police gear,
you'd have to show that you have a legal need
to have that stuff. But there are no limits on
anybody wanting to buy locksmith apps or other equipment. For
a locksmith would use to do this remotely and wirelessly.
And they're just buying this stuff online and downloading it
where you can go up to a car and reprogram it.
(03:40):
This guy is a locksmith up in San Jose. He says,
the sales of this stuff in California needs to be limited.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
And everything is accessible other industries, like the beauty industry,
you can buy anything from the supplier without a license.
Locksmith nothing. You can buy everything you want.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So he showed us how he does it, where he
uses this keyless entry device on his phone and he
connects to a car and he reprograms the key right there.
He says Tim that he is getting calls all the
time now from people who have had their cars reprogrammed
by thieves and then police retrieve them and they get
them back and then he has to come in and
reprogram them back or car tefts.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I'm dealing like three times a week with a stolen car.
Usually they're shocked that somebody just came over and took
the car without any issues.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Now here's the thing, he says.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Older cars are actually harder to steal now because older
cars have mechanical locks and keys, and it means that
the bad guy actually has to know how to use
a slim gym and add to hot wire the car.
And these thieves don't know how to do it anymore.
They know how to go on their phone and program.
Once they know the coding that is needed for a
certain model of car, a certain.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Brand, then they're good to go.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So police, and I've seen it in southern California as well,
but up in San Jose, this is the ad that
they're now running.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Are you a Hyundai owner, Well you're in luck.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Hundai have give us one hundred of these steering wheel walks,
provides the wonderful community members the Santa Clara.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
County and Hundai is really the car that they're seeing
stolen this way the most would police say.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Everybody now needs to think about going back. Yeah, but
if you got key.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Listen, get the old club that steering wheel locking device,
because that will stop these guys from being.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I don't know if that works, because what they do
is they take you know, like garden clippers, and they
just put a they clip the wheel and pull that
thing up right off.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, I mean maybe it slows them down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
But you know, I was at a Costco the other
day and there's a van in the parking lot saying
we make keys, and I was gonna have an extra key, maide,
and I thought, I don't know. Then they got my code.
They know that I shop at Costco and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
They got to find you that one car and that's
back in the rock.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
They're going to you know, I'll be the one guy
that's uh, you know, been found. But but but you
can't live your whole life, you know, paranoid. But you
know what I have you ever seen this thing called
TV be Gone? You ever seen this thing?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't think it looks exactly like a like a
fob for your car, But when you press the button
in less than a second, it goes through two thousand
types of television sets and shuts them off. And so
we would take them to and I'm gonna change the
name of the track because I don't want to get
in trouble. But we used to go to Hollywood Park,
which isn't there anymore, right, And we used to you know,
(06:19):
when these guys were betting off track. They were betting
like you know Belmont or Louisiana or Chicago or New York.
And there's three or four TVs on, and there's three
or four races, and there's thirty guys, you know, in
front of forty TVs. Come out with this three, come
out with this three, and we'd hit that button and
all the TVs would go off.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Boom, they all go out, and then.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We'd all and then we'd have to swear at the
guy too, like hey, what's going on out here?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And then we'd all run to the next bank of
TVs to watch the race, and then bang, we'd hit
them again. Oh and I'll tell you I never laughed
that hard in my life.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That is great.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
And then when remote controls used to not just for
the TV, but you know, let's say you had at
and t you verse fifteen years ago, and I remember
our neighbor would change their channel and our channel would change.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And you know you're going I still second.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Ceiling fans are another one. Our next door neighbor turns
on a ceiling fan on and off.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Wow, I'm guessing those are very secure security wise, because
the bad guys aren't trying to turn on your ceiling fans.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I used to live next to a guy and I
used to live in a duplex and the guy his
name is Sean. He lived next door to us, and
he paid the cable and we just got cable for
free because we are part of the duplex. And so
I'd constantly say to him, I, Hey, Sean, are you
getting that that fight this week? And he goes like, oh, no,
(07:39):
don't know. And I said, he says, you getting I'm like, no,
I can't afford it. But if you get it, maybe
I'll pop by and he goes okay, and then he'd
buy it, and then I'd stay at home and watch
it because I could watch I'm watching his game.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's on his time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But you know what, Alex, I think. Look, you and
I are are not the dumbest guys in the world.
All right, that's a compliment. That's a compliment. You probably aren't, Okay,
there's two guys in this world, two types of people
in this world. Yeah, h non learners and slow learners.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I think I'm a slow learner, but I have a
feeling that you and I are probably smarter than eighty
percent of these guys out there committing these crimes. So
why don't we just do that? Why do we have
to come into ABC or KFI every day and buster?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
You could just be out there taking every hundy that's
We could just be.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Out there stealing people's crap. You know, Look, if it's
going to be done anyway, no one cares. Why not
get into the game.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, speaking TVs, you remember the scrambled channels. We'd sit
there as a kid and go, I think I see
a butchie there that I think that is.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Or when the Internet first started and you'd wait for
forty minutes for one picture to download.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Buffer and.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Line by line by line by line like, ah, there's
no boobs in this one. Ah, I gotta do it again,
old school man, that's old school. So what are they
going to do about this? Is there any kind of
security for this? Or we're just all done?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I mean at this point, no, And then that's why
the san Jose police are saying, you know, try the club.
They say they're are ignition kill switches that you can
put in. They're saying, try car alarms again. I mean,
but to car alarms do anything anymore? One goes off
that they don't really people. Yeah, and the technology is
there for locksmiths to use, and so unless the country
(09:18):
or the state begins to limit. But even if you
limit sales, bad guys are still gonna have ways to
get a hold of it.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But it's easy right now. They go on Amazon or
to go anywhere else and just order it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Look, they buy machine guns in this country. You don't
think they can get a fob to holp me up
your car.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, but it is super easy right now to download
the app and get the little piece of equipment that
you need and walk up and say, well, this is
this brand, here's the code that the brand uses, and
just reprogram the car.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There you go, buddy, this is your best segment ever.
I love this idea and there you go. All right,
we'll talk to you soon, all right, Alex Stone with
ABC News.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, maybe that's awesome that the next door neighbors controlling
your fan. Yeah, that's so great, dude, yep, I'll go on.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
It'll just start turning like, what the hell?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I did this? We fixed it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But my old neighbor next door, he would occasionally come
by and goes, here, you printed this out, kind of like,
oh sorry, but yeah, I did print. And he would
print on his computer and careful with that stuff. Yeah,
and he was a cop too, so he didn't mind.
So like here, I'll just you know, and he goes,
by the way, if I ever print anything on your
you know, printer, to give it to me before you
(10:25):
show it to my wife.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
On your printer.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It wasn't me, but he would literally come over.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And goes, hey, you printed this document, you know, congratulations
on your new deal over a KFI. I go, why'd
you read it? God, I'm a cop. I read everything.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
All right. Yesterday we talked about Shaquille O'Neal having to
go number two while he was on television. I've never
seen that before in my life, where the guy is
broadcasting a show on TNT is doing the NBA playoffs
and he literally stands up, walks right in front of
the between the camera and the other three guys hosting
that show, and he's off to the races because he
(11:12):
has to take a dump. And I've never seen that
before in my life watching television, watching sports as much
sports as I watch, and I do like to watch,
you know, football, basketball, baseball, hockey. Those are my sports,
more hockey and football, but I love baseball as well.
I think I've watched every Dodger game this year. Not
(11:33):
a big NBA fan, but I've watched thousands of hours
a year in sports, thousands of hours over the last
five six decades, hundreds of thousands of hours of watching
live events. Never seen this before in my life. Never
saw a guy stand up and because he's got to
take a dump and he leaves the set. Never seen
(11:54):
it before, And you would think, and I've never seen
it before online like on YouTube or anything. I've never
seen a guy having to leave the set because he
can't hold it in anymore. But happened to Shaquille O'Neal.
We'll play a little part of it, and then there's
an update. There's an update on the Shaquille O'Neal leaving
(12:15):
the set over at TNT to go number two.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Other thing about Kawhi is you know what, you know what?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Let me let me dump this. I don't know if
we can say that word on the air.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
So I I.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Did it yesterday. I beleeped it out yesterday. I think
I gotta do it again.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Crap.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, because the way he says it, Yeah, it's all context. Yeah,
I don't think I'd rather err on the side of
not getting fired. Now, who's being all cautious? Look at
you getting called out Tea? Okay, all right, okay, all right,
I get that. I can you know that's turned about.
It's fair play, double doug. I get that. I get that.
(12:59):
But this is closer than the stuff that you've done.
Oh okay, yes, it is a little closer. Okay, Well
what wait, belly, you dumped something that I oh, I
remember what it was. We just said where Steve Gregory
is now? And and you guys threw a fit. You
guys went crazy. See that would require that? Why because context? No,
(13:25):
I'm talking about legally being thrown off the air, not
being reprimanded by management. Third grade here all right, here's
Shaquille O'Neal. Haven't we leave the set to take a dumb.
Speaker 11 (13:40):
Other thing about Kawhi is you know what your big Okay,
go ahead, keep talking, Jeff, Yeah, we on TV. That's
that olive you've been drinking. Take some matches after forty holding?
(14:02):
What's it first?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Kill us?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Look, these guys even said, that's the first.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
What's the first?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's the first. These guys have more experience than anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But what's the first?
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Something that wasn't something planned?
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Was it? No?
Speaker 11 (14:20):
Listen, he was in the back talking about he's a
drink alcohol and clear he's been drinking.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I didn't well the cleaning guns clean.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I did not like his gait is he allowed that
was not a terrible warm right there.
Speaker 12 (14:35):
He's been drinking, he says.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
He read somewhere, if you drink a shot of olive ball.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I saw them doing that the other day in the mankorbook.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
They've been doing it. They've been doing it. They're gonna
do it.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You have to do it for two weeks to miss
a lot of airtime.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Okay, all right, So that was yesterday. Here's an update
on the Shaquille O'Neil story. They brought in a porta
potty outhouse and they put it right next to his chair.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
Chucks coming out for uh inside the NBA it's casual stroll,
does not notice Steve.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Porta potty over there, right next to his chair.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
And then just before we decided, hey, let's keep it
a secret until the start of the.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Show, I did not even know that. Hi, I'm blind, man,
I didn't. I missed the whole portapot. You're right, Travis Anders,
I missed a party. Well, it's a party sometimes rarely
(15:43):
does it's a party sometimes doing and.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Uh, okay, and then Shaquille gets up and goes into
the porta party while they're on the air.
Speaker 12 (15:51):
Sure brought here?
Speaker 11 (15:54):
Oh so you actually gonna use it?
Speaker 13 (15:56):
That?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
My goodness, I hope not.
Speaker 13 (16:05):
No, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Backfired on him he did use it, Oh, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Anyway, last night, By the way, folks, I.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Bet TNT is happy to bring the TBS crew over
for the NBA playoffs or was there were the ESPN?
Where did this crew come from?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Was a TBS?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think I think it was TNT. Well, now they're
on tn T. I think that's what they're going to ESPN. Yeah,
they're going to ESPN. Okay, I see, okay, all right
for the playoffs, yeah, okay.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
And that's and that's one thing that I saw some
commentary say. I think it was barstool. They said, yeah,
if ESPN is smart, they'll keep stuff like that going.
They're worried that ESPN being ESPN, would have cut off
cut out of that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, one hundred percent. But you know, but ESPN is
really cautious, you know, That's what I mean.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Yeah, you're worried that they're too cautious and that stuff
wouldn't have aired.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, it definitely wouldn't have. It's Disney. That's why it's like, ah, yeah,
there was some commentator today that was going to go
after Bill Belichick and and rip him a new a hole,
and he was shut down the producers. You could hear
him going no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no, we're not We're not doing that here.
So t NT lets it fly. And look, I'm much
(17:21):
more interested in what's going on on that set than
what's going on on the parquet floor.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Reason that show has been as successful as it has,
and that's that would be it right there, the little
magic factor exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I don't I would rather watch those guys than watch
the Celtics and Lakers play.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
It's the sausage being made right there on TV.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Let me finish it up here.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So he literally goes into the outhouse last night.
Speaker 13 (17:44):
But folks, okay, ESPN is not going to let that fly.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
There is no way that Disney's gonna sign off on that.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
No way.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
So you gotta enjoy it now. Got to enjoy it
on TNT because when it goes to ESPN, you're gonna get,
you know, Celtics one thirty eight, the Lakers one twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Bang.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's a wrap. So enjoy it while you can. That's
going away. We're live on Camfi will come back and
talk with Michael Monks. We got Monks. Police arrested vandal
accused of cutting down those trees in LA with a chainsaw. Yeah,
it's a big story in downtown. Trees are going away.
Some guys usually a chainsaw at night to take trees
down in LA. That's where we are welcome to Los Angeles.
(18:39):
That should be the emblem, the new emblem for LA.
A tree cutdown. First thing you see when you come
out of LAX, out of an international flight. Guy cutting
a homeless guy cutting a tree down. Welcome to Los Angeles.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You got Monks. Michael Monks is with us, and I
guess we've salved the crime of the century. Downtown Los Angeles.
Guy's cutting trees down. There's a suspect, he's arrested, and
he's cutting trees down in downtown LA where we need trees.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
He's not just doing it in downtown LA. To him,
he's done it in downtown. He's done it in MacArthur
Park and Gloucell Park over the span of several days.
So think about when this story first came out and Saturday,
I live downtown. I'm a member of a DTLA Facebook
group and they were all over this very early. That's
where I first saw reports of this. So it's in
(19:33):
the news by the weekend. But even after this crime
is plastered all over the airwaves in Los Angeles, he
hits again on Tuesday in Glaucell Park, just a couple
days ago, using a chainsaw wow on a bicycle, just
drive by chainsawing trees all across the town. What do
we know about this a rocket sign. Well, we know
(19:55):
his name is Samuel Groft, he's forty five. He's believed
to be a homeless spo. Is he really You're homeless
for sure? Homeless is what they're saying on DraftKings. You
can bet on who commits the crimes. I had Hasidic
jew Canter. Yeah, you're not gonna hit with that, Ben No,
it was three fifty to one if it would have
come through.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All I have to do is hit one of those,
and I'm goal. You could have paid to play the trees.
I went with the long shot Pacidic Jewish Canter. And
so it's a homeless guy. Yeah, you're gonna get some
emails about that. He was even It's always even money there.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
This report comes out after the report that about a
third of the fires that are set across the city
are caused by homeless camps and that sort of thing.
We've seen the burglary up in the valley from the
homeless guys who have been terrorizing some homes there, and
it just shows that the cost of homelessness in our
city is controller than just the services that are needed
(20:47):
and the treatment that is needed. There are far reaching
issues and these are you know, sometimes there's a thirty
forty year old beautiful trees. You can't replace those overnight,
that's right. And in downtown the trees tend to be
a little bit newer because there is you know, this
is in Bunker Hill, for example, and that's got a
lot of newer buildings, so the trees are not as age.
(21:07):
They're easier to chop down if you're wielding a chainsaw.
So from his perspective, it's a good thing, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
So the first night he cut down five, and then
the next night he went after I think another dozen.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
He started on Thursday around midnight that far. Oh yeah,
on the five hundred block of North Broadway near says
Oar Chavez downtown. Then he went on Friday afternoon, Oh god,
like the middle of the afternoon on Friday, he hits
up the fifteen hundred block of West eighth Street in
West Lake in broad daylight, daylight. And he goes back
(21:40):
to the middle of the night. On Saturday, he's back
downtown in Bunker Hill and right outside the two Cow
skyscraper there he hits more trees. He's not finished though.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
By the way. By this point he's on the news.
We know this is happening. He's not only on the news,
he's the lead story. Oh four and Channel four and
Channel seven at eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
People are not happy about the situation.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
They're doing live, remode live. We're all over this thing.
You know, this is a this is a news media
kind of story.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
But then he made his way up on this bike
to Glasell Park on Tuesday afternoon around at two o'clock
with the chainsaw and got more trees there. And that
was around the time YELLYPD issued a community alert. They
had some pictures of him, like do you know who
this is? Let's find him. They found him late last
night and they had a press conference and say he's
in jail. We're holding him one hundred thousand dollars bail.
(22:26):
And now the city councilman Isabelle Herado. You may know
her from the campaign before she was elected in November.
She got a lot of attention for some comments she
made at cal State La f the police. Okay, the trees,
but this time she's looking to toughen some criminal penalties.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Oh really, yes, exactly where's my mom would say? What
a three sixty. She always got that wrong. That is
a lot of people do that.
Speaker 12 (22:52):
She is going to hold a press conference tomorrow, but
I talked to her office today and she sent out
an emotion that she plans to introduce for consideration that
would increase penal needs for damage to trees. And like
you said, some of these trees were young. You know,
these penalties, these financial penalties will be based on issues
like that, how much damage did you do, how old
are the trees, how much of the tree canopy has
(23:13):
been damaged by this act of violence. And she'll present
that and I'll go through committee and then the city
council will consider it.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Michael Monks is with us from KFI News. Good organization
over there. Are that KFI News.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
I like that.
Speaker 12 (23:23):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
But you know, the one hundred thousand dollars bail. You
know more about this than I do. You're you're downtown, LA,
usually reserved for rape and really aggressive guys, not tree cutters.
Speaker 12 (23:35):
I mean, if you're running around in spite of the
fact that your face is all over the airwaves and
people are all are looking for you on social media,
and you've got a chainsaw me and you're a brazen guy.
You're a danger to.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Society, right, Although I do need some trees removed, if
I could bail this guy out, you know, that's the thing.
Speaker 12 (23:53):
A lot of these guys who are struggling with homelessness
and addiction, they got skills they did only they could
be directed to use them more perductively.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
That's right. You know, if you've noticed the way he
cuts trees down, he doesn't cut the entire tree down.
He goes three quarters in and then he pushes it over.
He wants the tree to feel it, right. He saves
his chainsaw, you know, because if you go all the
way through it, that chainsaw could get stuck there at
the end and slap back in your face.
Speaker 12 (24:19):
So, well, it's not a Looney Tunes cartoon. This is
real life we're dealing with, Tim. I mean, he knows
how to cut a tree. These aren't acmebrand trees, all right, So.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
What's gonna happen to this guy? Are we gonna he's
gonna see the day of light? Or we're gonna put
him to death? Well, I mean they to cut him
with a chainsaw.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
The district Attorney has brought the death penalty back to
la and I know there are some environmentalists who might
switch their leftist beliefs to support the death penalty for this,
but I mean it's a felony. It's a felony bandalike chair.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
And there's some conservatives who are are are gonna say, hey, look,
I think this guy, you know, should you know, you
got to cut him a little bit of break. So
you're gonna see conservatives and liberals on the opposite angle
of this story. It's gonna be odd, it's gonna be weird.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
You mean, like the people who tend to be against environmentalists,
they're like, it's just a few trees, let the guy go.
But he's a homeless guy. There's a lot of conflicted
feelings going on, right. I mean, we see it in
the city councilman's office. She's she's gonna like, it's get
tough on this crime. After seeing f the police back
in the fire.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Man, Downtown, La. Man, where you where you live must
just be a twenty four hour news channel. Just looking
out the window.
Speaker 12 (25:27):
I look out my window now and just this week
I got seven new neighbors living in tents and they've
attached their tents to the fence outside my parking lot.
So I filed a report with the city. You know
you've got that my three one one. You can report
homeless camps if they're blocking sidewalks, and they are and
I'm just out of curiosity. How long does something like
this take to get a response? So I did that
a couple of days ago. I'll keep you posted. Nothing yet,
(25:49):
nothing yet, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You know when we used to live in Tarzana, real quick,
we had one of those sidewalks that got there was
roots in it and got up uprooted. It was a
big v in it, and people were falling over it.
And so I called the city and I said, hey,
can you come out and fix this? Or old women
walking on a street they're falling on my sidewalk. I
don't want the city to get sued or meet you
get sued. And they said, yeah, right now, there's a
wait list to have your sidewalks for repair. And I
(26:13):
said how long is that weight list? And she said,
without without there, without any irony, without you laughing, without
any shame, fifty years. I said, okay, put my name down,
all right, monks, you're the best. Always a pleasure thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
All right, they caught the guy cutting trees in downtown
Los Angeles, so you can sleep tonight. There'll be no
more chainsawing of the trees.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
BELLYO.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Did you put the audio in of those those twins?
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I oh they are. It's under twin powers activating.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I see it, all right. Can you tell us what
that story is because I'm gonna I'm gonna goof on
it and blow it. You're better than I am.
Speaker 14 (27:00):
Twin sisters in Australia. They were victims of a carjacking.
So they were being interviewed and they talk in sync,
in sync. They didn't know what the other one was
going to say, and they say the same thing.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Yeah, I'll post a video to X so people can
see it.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
But you have the audio. All right, here's the audio
of these twins being interviewed after an accident and they
literally say the same thing. This is not rehearsed. This
is incredible how close twins are nowadays or always.
Speaker 15 (27:31):
Been now buts and we heard these big bang, We said,
all another car accident, so we drop everything and we
went running out to the front.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Are these Siamese twins are regular twins?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
No, I don't think they're connected. They're not connected physically.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I think you mean, yeah, connected conjoined Siamese.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Is that you're going to say identical or yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Well, you can't use Samese anymore. That's not an unaccepted
term Siamese twins. Everyone knows what I'm man. You can't
use that term. Wait, because the cat people get crazy
over it. Who got who got crazy? Cat people? Okay,
all right, well that's where we are having to ideal
with the Siamese contingency.
Speaker 15 (28:21):
Now birds and we heard these big bang, we said,
all along, another car accident, So we drop everything and
we went running out to the front. We seen mom
running in from the house up there, and then the
other cars were pulling out and checking them to see
(28:41):
if the person was okay. And one guy he was
up there with our mom and he went up there
and he was coming back down the waters and he
goes run, he's got a gun.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
How about driving across country with these two idiots?
Speaker 9 (29:00):
Cynical side comes out on this one.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, clear was the lead.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, I'm going to stay on high alert here until
I find out more about these twins, and and.
Speaker 15 (29:16):
Poor Mama's stuck up there by the pain our grand mom.
She goes, are you all right?
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Because he had place?
Speaker 15 (29:25):
And he goes, I'll shoot you.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
She goes, hey, I'm needed to hell.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You know, there's a Saturday Life sketch where two actors
do that and they try to mimic each other. That's
what it sounds. That's what Angel is saying. Okay, all right,
that's great.
Speaker 15 (29:38):
And Mom just strategy needed to make him look the
other way. And he looked the other way, and Mama
into the bush behind the fence sense And then I
go to I'll find you and I'll shoot you.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Wow, this got carjack the wrong dudes, I'll find you
and I'll shoot you, like please, yeah, please end it now.
It'll be great if the if the carjacker also had
a twin and told his side, that would be great.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yes, How did she distract him initially? Did she just
say that look the other way?
Speaker 15 (30:13):
Well, well he must have been going I don't know,
but he looked the other way. And then that's why
she did want the next skate. And then I'm so
glad that young guy he said, run.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
He's got the gun.
Speaker 15 (30:26):
And then we say, hes people run on into our
facility and our house yard, our house yard as well,
know a hiding in there too, So we running around
closing and locking all doors. Yeah, just in case, because
we didn't know. And then I can't he pulled up.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
How old are these kids?
Speaker 8 (30:45):
You know?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
I think they look like they may be in their forties.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Oh I thought they were like in their twenties, their forties.
Oh bo what what.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
Seems to be the problem with that? I don't know
what happens?
Speaker 13 (31:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
It sounds they are they single.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
I don't know their like, you know, resume.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Just in case because we didn't know.
Speaker 15 (31:10):
And then a car he pulled up, like the car
what was over the road there? He went and approached
that car and pulled the young girl out he was driving,
and her mommy was in the car too.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
She goes, yes, take me car.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
How many people do you think did they come in
here as well?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (31:29):
Yeah? People? No, not the game. No, we just was
speaking to him out to fund them a game more
big harg Yeah. And and the guy who said, man,
he's got a car, he said, thank.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
You, thank you?
Speaker 16 (31:43):
Wow?
Speaker 15 (31:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all I was thinking about when when
we were running. I hope he doesn't ly higher.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
So blessless, how close to him do you think you were?
Speaker 15 (31:57):
Well, see he was out there and we were past. Yeah,
you don't think of all of that at the time. No,
you're just run for your life.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
I mean when when he was on the run and
you had all the people in here, what were people?
Were people talking?
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Were you.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Silent?
Speaker 15 (32:18):
Everyone was silent, and even one well.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
They said silent exact same time.
Speaker 15 (32:24):
Film was silent, and even one young couple went behind
our friends caravan and he Yeah, and we've seen the
league and we've seen the leg coming over. That's not him.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Does does Australia have that show Australian's got talent? They
do that in Australia maybe, But.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
It was not the person someone trying it to someone
that climbed over the fence.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Wow, that's wild Bellios. So the videos up on Instagram.
Speaker 14 (32:53):
I'll put it on Instagram as well at Conways show,
but it's also on X at Conway's show.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And one of the best. Once I saw someone someone said, uh,
Kate McKinnon and Christian Wig need to do this skit
on SNL. Yeah, that's great, man. I can't believe how
close that is. That is unreal. All Right, that was
a good first hour. I guess I don't know whatever. Alright,
we're yeah, I do know they're the same. We had Monks, Yeah,
(33:19):
we had Monks. We had Alex Stone. Alex was great,
Monks was great. Monks is always a cool dude. So okay,
I'll give it a nine.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Nine.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Nine point nine always well, nine point three is always
better than nine point two, you know, especially when you
have guys like Alex Stone and Michael Monks, and you know, oh,
I hear is a big clique.
Speaker 16 (33:57):
People are now leaving the station and tuning in to music,
probably COS one on three point five, maybe Kiss FM.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Is Rick d still are.
Speaker 16 (34:16):
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