June 4, 2025 • 34 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's caf I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thompson here for Conway. It is the five oh five
News Whip. We'll get news and a story a delicious
morsel from everyone on the show. But first I wanted
to share shocking news out of Studio City at Campbell Hall.
What looks to be a fatality in the parking lot there.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That this is a finals week here at Campbell Hall,
so students tell me that students come in kind of
in the morning, some of the afternoon, and some kind
of intermittent around the day. I want to show you
the campus itself, because while the gate is locked here,
the actual incident itself happening a little bit far beyond
where we're standing, deep into the campus here in Studio City.
Let's go right to that Air seven video from a
(00:46):
little while ago to give you a better sense of
exactly where this happened. There's a back parking lot here
on campus that we're told by students is used by
students by staff. Parents come here for pickup as well.
It's kind of by the football field at the back
of the school and around three ten this afternoon, or
told by the fire department that a juvenile was hit
by a car. You could actually see they have put
up a tent between two SUVs in that parking lot.
(01:08):
While we don't know the condition of that young person
who has hurt, students here on campus tell me it
was a teenager who was hit by those cars. Obviously,
this is very early on in the investigation. They're trying
to figure out exactly what happened here. Students tell me
this is finals week, meaning this is the last week
of school. Graduation is just last week. As we come
back out here live to Campbell Hall. This is a
(01:29):
private school of about eleven hundred students and graduation is
next week. A staff and a student body that is
already dealing with a tragedy as a ninth grader who
attended the school died last month. Obviously, this is an
ongoing investigation. We'll stay on top of it to figure
out exactly what happened here this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, I have to say that we surmised, kind of
figured out that there was a fatality. Likely I think
what happened in that situation and Krozier, I will turn
to you of this because I think you're the newsman
on the beat. No, no one was taken out. Fire
department didn't take any out out any victims, and so
I think that was a key clue in all of this.
(02:08):
At least news media was probably using that as a
clue for the fact that there might have been a
fatality involved in this.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Right right, right, Yeah, they had, and the tape that
they had set up was pretty far away, which usually
as an indicator as well.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No, so that's a situation in Campbelloll, tragic news. What
do they say, a week before the school year is
over and the beautiful young person loses their life, likely
in this parking lot accent. So sad to start with that,
but that is the first story in our five to
ZHO five newswip. Now I turned to another news professional
(02:45):
who you've just heard from, Michael Krozer.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, a cure for IBS could be an abracadabra fung guy.
No studies being done to determine if psilocybin or magic
mushrooms can unlock the problems of bowel syndrome. A researcher
at Tufts University is targeting people whose IBS has not
responded to conventional medicine, which some studies say could be
sixty percent of people that have IBS that conventional medicine
(03:12):
does not work on. And there's growing scientific evidence that
says childhood experiences can affect adult health. So many IBS
patients either become hyper aware of their normal gut issues,
so it seems to intensify that turns minor discomfort into
severe pain, or completely disconnects them from the bodily signals.
It's kind of way it works with IBS patients. Traditional
(03:33):
treatments are focusing on the symptoms rather than the root causes,
but the use of psilocybmin appears to reset that internal
mental communication system.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh that's fascinating actually, that there could be that psychological
mental component to what is such a debilitating physical illness.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, and they're, like I said, they're only focusing on
the people that the traditional medicine is not working on,
So they say, you know, they're looking more and more
at the mental connections to it. Psilocybin but, by the way,
is still federally illegal outside.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Of doing the research on it. Gosh, it's just crazy.
It seems to be helping a lot of people through
a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, the micro dosing man, keep reading more about it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I don't know you've done that psilocybins.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, you've tried I involuntarily. I had a bunch of
college mates put it in a literal salad of mine
when I was in college, and it didn't really do
too much to me. I was like, I didn't get it.
They told me afterwards.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That's a pretty brutal thing, though, when you happened upon cookies,
brownies or whatever, bake good or other, you know where
you're ingesting, and you don't realize no one's warned you
ahead of time.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
That's pretty brilliant.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
They didn't tell me before during and they only told
me like a day later, And I was like, why
do I feel so out of it right now?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I inhaled about four or five even Christmas cookies. I
remember one Christmas and the and I started to it
wasn't my place, obviously, I was just stopping along the
Christmas route I for.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It was this woman's house.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
She had people over and there were these delicious sugar cookies.
And then I went down to like it was a
California Chicken or some one of these places, and it
was with those tiled walls, and all of a sudden,
the walls started having like a wavy thing going on
with them, and I started laughing and like I couldn't
stop laughing. I'm online waiting for the order, and I'm
(05:20):
listening to the guy's order he's ordering. He said, yeah,
I'm thinking between can't decide between a leg or a thigh,
And all of a sudden, I thought that was like
the funniest thing I'd ever heard, and so I called
her and I said, hey, did you put something in
these cookies because I'm losing my mind over here, and
she said, no, no, there's nothing in it. I said, listen,
if there's nothing in those cookies, and I really need
to go to the hospital because I think my mind
(05:42):
is coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And then she admitted, yeah, there's something in the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Jen, and I accidentally bought some ghee that was CBD
g oh, and it had just the slightest trace of
THG in a little bit.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I guess, get to activate the CBD. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I went to go cook like a week or
two ago with then and grab the geese. She goes,
don't grab that gee. Didn't realize we had cooked with
it the last time. She was like, I thought, I
felt like a little bit odd, and she said, look
at it. Oh yeah, there's a little symbol right there.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh yeah, they put a little thc and to get
the CBD activate. But sometimes it's more than a little stuffoush,
what do you have for the Hey?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Okay, So, as we all know, it is Pride month,
So Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown is deciding to throw a
post party after one of the events. It's the tallest
building in the United States west of Chicago, and they're
keeping the celebration alive. After the West Hollywood Pride Parade,
it's hosting its own party for love, Identity, and Acceptance
(06:40):
far above the city skyline. It will be on June eighth,
and tickets for the event are available on event right
for twelve dollars and fifty one cents, including the two
fifty one processing fee. They can also be purchased at
the venue. If the event isn't a max capacity yet, I.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Mean, listen, it's going to be Sunday, that's the eighth,
and if it's only twelve dollars, it will be at
max capacity in a very short order. I agree, Yeah,
I mean they didn't exactly price it to get rid
of the riff raft, you know what I mean, that's
going to be crazy. So that's going to be in
the at the top of the Intercontinent open Yeah, the
open air bar. So it's like and it's the tallest
(07:21):
building here. I guess I didn't even know that until
they read this art.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah. No, that was the other interesting fact.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Ye feels like there might be a news story coming
out of that story on Sunday, I think so. Yeah,
pack that many revelers into a twelve dollars ahead event
at the top of the Intercontinental I don't know, Angel Martinez,
what do you have for us today?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
So there's a California startup that's called spin Launch and
they're using a radical new way to launch satellites. So
instead of using the traditional rockets, spin Launch hurls satellites
into space using a giant vacuum sealed centrifuge and it's
like a space slingshot. Their pancakes shaped micro satellites spin
(08:07):
up to five thousand miles an hour before being flung skyward.
And that's going to cut costs and emissions in the process. Now,
just to give you a perspective on how's it going
to cut it. If you're launching a Falcon nine rocket
to get some satellites up to space. That uses seven
thousand gallons of fuel per second during the launch, just
(08:31):
during the launch, and the payload costs six thousand dollars
a kilogram using a SpaceX Falcon nine, and the Spin
Launch payload cost runs between twelve hundred and fifty and
twenty five hundred dollars per kilogram.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Wow for launching.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Now, I got everything up until the So when you're
launching a Falcon and that could you repeat all these
statistics again?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Please?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
You kidding?
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Okay, I'm kiddy, Okay, good, So it Blizzard statistics.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Well, people want to know.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
It's just like, oh, what was the comparison?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Actually right, okay, two thousand gallons of fuel a second.
That's mind blowing. I can't even imagine that. There's Spin Launch.
They're backed by a lot of money one hundred and
fifty million, including funding from a defense company called Kongsburg,
and they and Spin Launch plans to launch hundreds of
satellites into low orb low Earth orbit as early as
(09:35):
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'm just trying to figure out that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
So again to the technology, it's it goes up there
and it spins and with the payload that has then
spun off of the central vehicle.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
So, well, there's a base. It's it's a base on Earth.
Inside of this base, it spins the payload around. It's
a centrifuge, yes, and then when it reaches a certain
speed mm hmm, it will launch the payload. The payload
launches it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
It launches it from Tarra farmer from Earth.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
That's right, that's right. And once it's launched, after it
hits you know, it gets out of the atmosphere, then
the payload kind of like removes itself from it's from
the uh from the.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Rocket, right it must be some kind of yeah, right,
and then.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Has a rocket of its own, So you're missing the
whole launch process.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
It gets you around that Falcon rocket launch. I get it,
I get it. Would you like to be part of
that program? If they offered you something, I would love it,
one of the kind of like hidden figures thing we'd
love to launch you.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Oh, I would love to be launched. You know, their
founders kind of cute. So if they want me to
do something for that anytime.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, we'll see if we can get you maybe a
job interview over there? Right, what's it called final spin
or spin off?
Speaker 7 (11:02):
What is it called spin launch?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Spin launch? Good love it. We still have bellio to
get to. We'll do it when we come back. We're
in the middle of the whip.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I had to give up my very lucrative YouTube channel
to be here today. You know, it's very Yeah, it's
hard to get away.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
What do you do on YouTube?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I do it.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I do a show called The Mark Thompson Show. Yeah,
we don't spend we don't spend a lot of time
on the title.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It came over from the radio because I had a
radio show in San Francisco called the Mark Thompson Show,
and so we just brought everybody over from the radio.
So we didn't want to confuse people by changing the name.
So that's why it's called the Mark Thompson Show. I
like it, but it's on it's on YouTube. It's a
lot of politics and stuff. But if you happen to subscribe,
please do. We got one hundred and twenty thousand subscribers,
(11:58):
who seems like a lot, But yeah, it's not nothing,
and I'm glad we have it. But boy, it's a
long road ahead. You know, there's a it's very hard
to make a living doing YouTube channel stuff. You need
to really get it out there, so all of you
and I get a lot of questions from audience members,
from people who just want to get things going. But
(12:20):
if you find a niche of some kind, I think
there is a future there. Like all podcasts, remember them
when they were just a jillion podcast like ten years ago,
and now they're a gazillion podcasts. I mean, it's crazy
everybody's got a podcast and maybe that's good. Like I
don't view that as a negative, but I'm just saying
it's much harder given a gazillion option.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
What's the percentage of those that actually make money?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That's a great question. That is a google able thing.
I'm sure there is a number on that. In fact,
that's a great whip like to guess, Yeah, what is
the percentage of podcasts that actually make money? Percentage I'm
putting it in percentage of podcasts? Is that?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Wait? Whip, isn't it a whip whip around.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, the percentage of podcasts that make a profit.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Uh, oh, you're doing another different whip.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yes, this isn't the newswork.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I thought we were still doing the news work. I
was confused.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Are you going to whip around within the NewsWhip?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
This is a this is a double this is a
very it's a very meta thing that's going on right now.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Whip around.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, you're right, But Krowzier is right.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
We were in the middle of a NewsWhip that started
five oh five, and now we're doing a whip around
within the NewsWhip. So it is a bit confusing. The
uh the answer I do have? Do you want to
continue with this?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Quickly?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
We'll guess at what percentage of all the gazillion podcasts
that are out there actually turn a profit. I will
start with you stuff fush, What is the percentage of
all those podcasts that make a property?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I'd say ten percent? Ten percent? What do you think,
Angel Martinez?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I'm gonna go with a good old fashioned six percent.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Six percent?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
How about you, Sharon twenty three percent?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, look at all those people making money with their
podcasts in Sharon's world, and how about you Croas. I'll
say two percent. Two percent winner is Croas. One percent
is the.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Actually I want?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Yeah really yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm telling you it's tough out there. It's hard out there. Yeah.
So anyway, so coming.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Over that fun when everybody always says, you know, well
you you actually have one, but I'm gonna you should
do a podcast. That's like a thing.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh my god, right, people say you should do a podcast.
So a guy who's my neighbor and the nicest guy.
I saw him at a party, this is about six
weeks ago, and he said, Hey, I just want to
let you know I was listening to you on KFI.
You are terrific. You really you should you know what
you should do? You should do a podcast. And then
he said they're really hot right now. I thought, wow,
(15:07):
I'm really not getting through on the fact that I
have a podcast. Then I explained it to them and
it was very kind of awkward and funny. All right,
let's get back to the news whip and Sharon Belli,
O you owe us a news story?
Speaker 10 (15:18):
Yes, So, Mountain High Resort is trading skis for spokes
this summer, opening a brand new Downhill Mountain bike park
on June fourteenth. It's located at the West Resort in Rightwood.
The park ticket The park kicks off with three trails,
one easy, one challenging, and one for daredevils. This is
just the beginning. They have eight trails planned. This is
phase one. It's covering about eight miles. There's also a
(15:39):
skills park where riders can warm up on wooden features
like jumps and drops and bank terms. The park will
open Saturdays and Sundays from nine to four through October twelfth.
Tickets start at forty two dollars for adults and twenty
nine dollars for kids. Season passes include discounts and free
access to the disc golf course. Mountain High is throwing
a grand opening Bashed June fourteenth with live music, vendors
(16:02):
and giveaways.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That should be pretty cool. That's a great idea, it
really is. It really is a great idea. So they
already have the frisbee golf that's what disc golf is, right,
Oh I didn't Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Isn't that that makes sense?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And the idea somehow that you would take you know,
these it's such a beautiful place and in the summertime,
you you know, it's great for cycling and with all
those steep hills and all the rest, you can turn
it into you know, something of a biking park.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Do you mountain bike at all?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I do not. I do not.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
I do you work out?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I'm doing less and less share doing less. And I
was felled by injuries to love playing tennis. It was
my favorite thing to do, play tennis, and slowly the injuries.
The injuries were bad. I had ice all over my
body when I come off the tennis court. But I
was It was so hard to get into the tennis
club that I become a member. You had to get
(16:54):
like recommendations and you had to they look at your
donations to charity and I mean's you know?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
And it was so difficult. It was like running for
Congress or something.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That I was loath to give up the membership and
I had it for five years after I left because
I kept thinking I'm going to get back to tennis
and I never did. So the answer to your question
is I'm really just no, I'm I'm I'm I'm embarrassed
on how little I move.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It's really not.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
But you're in good shape pretty much ish ish.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Now I need to I need to move around. You know.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's the thing that you learn through all of these
different articles you read about longevity, about disease, about the
body wants to move. It's built to move, and so
all of you who are like me, who are kind
of sedentary.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Tim's a little like me that way.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
He walks a lot, though I.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Think he does because he's he's skinny as a rail.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
He's naturally thin.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
Yeah, he's a naturally thin, but I mean he walks,
you know, Target Walmart lows every night.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But they say that's all you have to do. You
don't have to be some cross fit person. You a
moderate amount of exercise and walking. They think you know again,
Article after articles suggests that basic walking will extend your
life and keep you out of trouble with illness. So
we can all walk alth all got a bad left foot?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Jeez, you're right, they're just racking up, are they all right?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I can't walk with the rest of you can?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Is the pot catch up with us?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'll keep you posted, all right, thank you. That's your
moment of health news. When we come back, a huge
new deal is signed by a company you either love
or a company you might hate.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I'll give you details next.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Just talking about you know, moving our bodies and things
hurting and all that stuff, and even Tim referencing like
how long it's taken him to recover? You know, you
always look at you know what I have recovered ten
years ago. It I recovered faster like you know to it.
And I think that no is the answer. I think
you know, you're not Tim, You're not old. You know,
(19:14):
you're not at that point where it takes a long
long time to recover from stuff. But it will be
the case that we Well that was the thing he
said that to me. Anyway, go ahead, Angel, Yeah, well I've.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Got a question for you. Whatever happened to your personal trainer?
Is he still around? Does he still come over and
and work you out.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And you raid the liquor cabinet that one or the different. Yeah,
there was I had. I've had a couple of personal trainers,
several and they've all been really interesting in their own way.
I got a personal trainer that was like a ripped
dude who knew yoga and he knew all this stuff,
(19:57):
and he would run the hills with me. I mean
it was I was really in great shape with him,
and show business kind of had chewed him up and
spit him out and so, and he was kind of
down on the politics of the times is a while ago,
and he was just so I'm running with him, and
he three days a week would meet with me, and
(20:18):
we'd you know, spend all this time together. And he
was kind of a bummer, you know what I mean.
I was in great shape, but I was, you know,
kind of getting bummed out by the rap all the time,
you know, And I just felt bad for him. So
eventually he went into teaching, I think, and he left
the world of training, and I got another trainer. And
(20:39):
this guy showed up and he looked like he should
be managing an Italian restaurant. He didn't have that ripped look.
It looked kind of like a He was like a
front of house matre d kind of guy, you know
what I mean, sort of a little bit portly and
a little bit he was just the opposite in terms
of attitude. He was ebulliant and upbeat and like just
(21:00):
very like a very happy guy, you know. But he
didn't ever lift a you know, a weight or anything.
He would always go over there and get the forties
and lie down there on the bench and give me
fifteen of those. And he didn't spot me. He didn't
do any of that stuff that trainers normally do. So
after a few months and he would come in the
(21:22):
middle of the day, like around noon, he would start
having a cocktail or two, and I mean with my liquor,
and by the way, that's fine, but he would just
go right into the cabinet. He didn't even add, hey,
do you mind if I, you know, have a little
bit of your scotch? And I would write for it. Yeah,
what I'd say. I even said to him, I said, hey,
(21:43):
the answer is always going to be yes, but you should,
just as a matter of courtesy, say, hey, do you
mind if I have a little, you know, hit of
whiskey or have a little bit of your whatever fill
in the blank rum whiskey to get what? I don't
care because I you know, we're not doing brain surgery here,
but you should just as a matter of graciousness ask.
(22:03):
And when I told him that, he laughed, and then
he continued to the cabinet and got the liquor. Honest
to god, I'll never forget that. That was the funniest thing.
So that guy but again such a happy guy. You know,
he kind of passed his expiration date. And now I'm
onto another a trainer. But I've been I've had an
(22:26):
injury and i had a surgery in my hand, so
I've been out of it for a little while.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
So I got to get back to it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But you're right in asking the question because I think
when you if you could afford even a trainer, and
now I think trainers are more affordable because you know
these are slightly tougher economic times. I'd suggest that you
know that does get you to do something, because if
you know that, you know you've got to go meet
that person at the gym or whatever it might be. Yeah,
(22:52):
So in answer your question, Angel, I'm coming off a
lengthy hiatus and I am going to get getting back
back into shape. And it's a good thing because I
have now. And this is something else. After you turn forty,
you get all of this stuff like specialists. You know,
a cardiologist, a urologist, these are all things. All those
(23:17):
ologists you don't know before you're forty, but once you
pass forty, and once you get away past forty, you
get into a cardiology thing. And I just got the
bill from the cardiologist today and I was amazed at
how expensive it is.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Incredibly expensive. And here's what the expensive part is.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I had to wear a heart monitor for it's a
two week heart monitor.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I had to wear it a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
The heart monitor and that process of wearing it they're
looking for a FIB was five thousand dollars. So insurance
pays for a bunch of that. But still I ended
up with a bill of fifteen hundred dollars. And I'm going, well,
if the big expense is paid, what am I paying for?
(24:08):
And I look through the codes and you're paying for
meeting with the cardiologist. It's five hundred dollars a meeting.
I guess I had three of them. That's fifteen hundred dollars.
It just yeah, it just seems like a lot of loot.
I'll just get sick. And I wonder why he was
so happy. I thought as we were talking, Gosh, this
(24:30):
guy's great. I gonna hang out with this guy. I
remember thinking, I think this cardiologist is like the coolest dude.
We're talking about where people are living that la, what's
you know? No wonder he's making five hundred bucks an hour. Anyway,
I'm I'm still literally going through sticker shock. I got
that bill right before I came in. But so as
(24:51):
you get older, that's the stuff you're swimming upstream against.
So now I'm in the gym, hoping to avoid another
visit with the cardiologist. There was a major jewelry store burglary,
another one, and this happened in Encino, And I'm kind
(25:15):
of divided on this. I don't approve of lawlessness of
any kind. I don't approve of breaking into a business.
It's hard enough to make a small business work. And
yet because there was no violence, and then we read
about all of these violent break ins, et cetera, I
(25:36):
feel and because it's a caper they broke in using
a blowtorch, I kind of feel like there's a Thomas
Crown affair part of this. So I might be giving
them a little too much credit, like there's an Ocean's
thirteen aspect to this, But it's a real thing.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
The blow torch burglars. They are calling them.
Speaker 11 (25:57):
Book to the family, the owners of the family a
little bit ago. They are completely devastated by this enormous
loss I was just inside of it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And see that's the problem that there are real people involved.
These aren't just jewels. They're real people and a real
business on the other side of this show.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Bide the jewelry store, the business behind me. You can
still smell the smoke from where thieves use a blowtorch
to break into not just one safe, but two saves.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
It all happened early Monday morning.
Speaker 11 (26:26):
Take a look at this surveillance video that actually shows
how the thieves got in. You can hear them speaking
in Spanish. Now after cutting a hole into the jewelry
mark from the vacant business next door, you can see
at least four thieves crawling on the floor towards Afghan Lapize.
That's one of five jewelry businesses in the mart that
was targeted. Now, the thieves crawled straight to the back
(26:49):
where the alarm system was pulled off the wall, and
then took about an hour an hour and a half
to blow towards the saves.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Now, you see, that's the part that I also don't understand.
How can you be in this business for an hour
to an hour and a half and no alarms go off.
Speaker 11 (27:02):
Off the wall, and then took about an hour an
hour and a half to blow towards the safe.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So when we come back, I want you to hear
from the family because it's it's really sad. I mean,
this is a family that had everything in this business,
you know, and they lose it. But again, I don't
understand how these guys are there for so long working
on that safe. An hour and hour and a half
and no alarms go off. So we will pick that
(27:27):
up as we return.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
We're talking about the blowtorch burglars. They've hit a jewelry
store in Encino, and it's interesting because the method by
which they got into the jewelry store is similar to
the method used in a jewelry heist in Glendale. And
in Glendale last month, the suspects in that jewelry ripoff
(27:58):
dropped through a roof before using a blue blow torch
to open the safe. I was mentioning before the break
just the amount of time they take when they're inside
in this place in Encino, they were there for an
hour to an hour and a half and still apparently
mean while there's a lot of surveillance video and even audio.
You can hear the talking. There was no alarm triggered.
(28:20):
So these guys are you know, I'm not saying that again.
They're you know, Ocean's eleven, but they kind of know
what they're doing.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Took about an hour an hour and a half to
blow towards.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
The saves, getting away with close to a million dollars
worth of goods.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
It's forty two years of building this business and saving everything.
Everything he had was here in these two saves. Everything
was gone overnight.
Speaker 13 (28:46):
Right now he has nothing left and now imagine how
devastated is it is to him and to the rest
of the family.
Speaker 11 (28:56):
Now, if you remember a jewelry store over in Glendale
was also rob there, you go very very similar mo
that was last week where thieves took a blow torch
to break into the roof as well.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
As the safe. I do have a.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
Call into LAPD to see if they're investigating any possible
connection between the two burglaries, but for now reporting live
in Encino.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Angela Cockett at KTLA.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Five years there was a famous Vegas crime crew that
did the exact same thing.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
They.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I want to say, I know this is like the
Jesse James thing. So maybe it's not that exact wording,
but I want to say they were called like the
Hole in the Wall Gang.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
It was yeah, here it is the Hole in the
Wall gang. That's right.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Notorious burglary crew operating in Las Vegas from seventy nine
to eighty one, known for drilling holes in walls and
roofs to gain entry into buildings without tripping alarms. Led
by Chicago Outfit associate Frank Colotta. The the gang was
a key part of the Chicago Outfits operation in Las Vegas,
(30:04):
overseen by Tony Spilatro. Those mobsters, by the way, Tony
Spilatro and Frank Colotta, they were featured dramatically in the
movie Casino. And in the movie Casino, this burglary crew again,
this Vegas burglary crew. Same deal as these guys who
just broke in an encino, the Hole in the Wall Gang.
(30:27):
They drilled huge holes in a roof is what I recall,
and got into the building. They go in through the
roof of an maybe of the actual establishment or the
place next door, and then they go through the wall.
So this is virtually the same deal. And that guy
(30:47):
Frank Colotta went on to get immunity, I think from prosecution.
I say I think because I know he was involved,
like deeply involved with the mob. He was the technical
consultant on casino, this guy Frank Colatta. And the only
reason I know that is because I had him on
my old podcast and I met him in Las Vegas
(31:10):
and then went on the mob tour that he used
to give, and they take you on this mob tour
Klota does. He's got a driver, and he's got one
of those things that looks like, you know, he's landing
a plane, like one of those things that Madonna wears
with the microphone that goes around to the mouth. And
then he points out all of these places where they
used to skim, the different casinos where they were in
(31:32):
on the inside, and then he pointed out this one
building where they went in through the roof and without
tripping any alarms, they made an incredibly big heist and
they were known as the Whole of Them All Gang.
They were out of Chicago but working in Las Vegas,
and he was this very nice guy, and this guy
Frank Colotta. I remember asking him. It was kind of
(31:55):
awkward because I'm thinking, this guy is so mob. And
he thought kind of like this. He duck like Deadley,
talk like he was in the mob. And I said, Frank,
this is I think I might have said this is awkward.
But you never killed anybody, though, right, And he said,
oh yeah, I killed guys. And I was kind of
(32:16):
taking I said, whoa what? He said, oh yeah? And
then he tells a story. But he told me a story.
I'm not going to relate it here. This story about
like a hit that he was involved in. It's astounding
to me that somebody like that, who was directly involved
in murder for the mob, could in any way get
any deal that would allow him to just graduate to
(32:39):
being the technical advisor on the movie Casino and leading
a mob tour in Las Vegas. I mean, this guy
is I mean, with all respect, Frank, may you rest
in peace.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
You are a cold blooded murderer.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I don't understand how we could somehow varnish over that
so that before you know it, you know, paying three
hundred dollars for a tour that you're giving in Las Vegas. Anyway,
he led the Hole in the wallgang, and this Hole
in the wallgang did exactly what they were doing and
have done in this most recent break in in Encino
(33:18):
and as they say, just last month in Glendale. So
this is a ring of jewel thieves and they're still
on the run and they destroy an entire business. I mean,
that's a million dollars worth of jewels that that family
is invested in. That's all their inventory and it's all gone.
So it's really a sad situation that they find themselves in.
(33:41):
But that's the latest on that burglary that just went
down again in that plate for an hour and an hour
and a half, you.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Don't trigger any alarms. Crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thompson here for Conway. It is the five oh five
News Whip. We'll get news and a story a delicious
morsel from everyone on the show. But first I wanted
to share shocking news out of Studio City at Campbell Hall.
What looks to be a fatality in the parking lot there.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That this is a finals week here at Campbell Hall,
so students tell me that students come in kind of
in the morning, some of the afternoon, and some kind
of intermittent around the day. I want to show you
the campus itself, because while the gate is locked here,
the actual incident itself happening a little bit far beyond
where we're standing, deep into the campus here in Studio City.
Let's go right to that Air seven video from a
(00:46):
little while ago to give you a better sense of
exactly where this happened. There's a back parking lot here
on campus that we're told by students is used by
students by staff. Parents come here for pickup as well.
It's kind of by the football field at the back
of the school and around three ten this afternoon, or
told by the fire department that a juvenile was hit
by a car. You could actually see they have put
up a tent between two SUVs in that parking lot.
(01:08):
While we don't know the condition of that young person
who has hurt, students here on campus tell me it
was a teenager who was hit by those cars. Obviously,
this is very early on in the investigation. They're trying
to figure out exactly what happened here. Students tell me
this is finals week, meaning this is the last week
of school. Graduation is just last week. As we come
back out here live to Campbell Hall. This is a
(01:29):
private school of about eleven hundred students and graduation is
next week. A staff and a student body that is
already dealing with a tragedy as a ninth grader who
attended the school died last month. Obviously, this is an
ongoing investigation. We'll stay on top of it to figure
out exactly what happened here this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, I have to say that we surmised, kind of
figured out that there was a fatality. Likely I think
what happened in that situation and Krozier, I will turn
to you of this because I think you're the newsman
on the beat. No, no one was taken out. Fire
department didn't take any out out any victims, and so
I think that was a key clue in all of this.
(02:08):
At least news media was probably using that as a
clue for the fact that there might have been a
fatality involved in this.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Right right, right, Yeah, they had, and the tape that
they had set up was pretty far away, which usually
as an indicator as well.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No, so that's a situation in Campbelloll, tragic news. What
do they say, a week before the school year is
over and the beautiful young person loses their life, likely
in this parking lot accent. So sad to start with that,
but that is the first story in our five to
ZHO five newswip. Now I turned to another news professional
(02:45):
who you've just heard from, Michael Krozer.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, a cure for IBS could be an abracadabra fung guy.
No studies being done to determine if psilocybin or magic
mushrooms can unlock the problems of bowel syndrome. A researcher
at Tufts University is targeting people whose IBS has not
responded to conventional medicine, which some studies say could be
sixty percent of people that have IBS that conventional medicine
(03:12):
does not work on. And there's growing scientific evidence that
says childhood experiences can affect adult health. So many IBS
patients either become hyper aware of their normal gut issues,
so it seems to intensify that turns minor discomfort into
severe pain, or completely disconnects them from the bodily signals.
It's kind of way it works with IBS patients. Traditional
(03:33):
treatments are focusing on the symptoms rather than the root causes,
but the use of psilocybmin appears to reset that internal
mental communication system.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh that's fascinating actually, that there could be that psychological
mental component to what is such a debilitating physical illness.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, and they're, like I said, they're only focusing on
the people that the traditional medicine is not working on,
So they say, you know, they're looking more and more
at the mental connections to it. Psilocybin but, by the way,
is still federally illegal outside.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Of doing the research on it. Gosh, it's just crazy.
It seems to be helping a lot of people through
a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, the micro dosing man, keep reading more about it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I don't know you've done that psilocybins.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, you've tried I involuntarily. I had a bunch of
college mates put it in a literal salad of mine
when I was in college, and it didn't really do
too much to me. I was like, I didn't get it.
They told me afterwards.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That's a pretty brutal thing, though, when you happened upon cookies,
brownies or whatever, bake good or other, you know where
you're ingesting, and you don't realize no one's warned you
ahead of time.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
That's pretty brilliant.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
They didn't tell me before during and they only told
me like a day later, And I was like, why
do I feel so out of it right now?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I inhaled about four or five even Christmas cookies. I
remember one Christmas and the and I started to it
wasn't my place, obviously, I was just stopping along the
Christmas route I for.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It was this woman's house.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
She had people over and there were these delicious sugar cookies.
And then I went down to like it was a
California Chicken or some one of these places, and it
was with those tiled walls, and all of a sudden,
the walls started having like a wavy thing going on
with them, and I started laughing and like I couldn't
stop laughing. I'm online waiting for the order, and I'm
(05:20):
listening to the guy's order he's ordering. He said, yeah,
I'm thinking between can't decide between a leg or a thigh,
And all of a sudden, I thought that was like
the funniest thing I'd ever heard, and so I called
her and I said, hey, did you put something in
these cookies because I'm losing my mind over here, and
she said, no, no, there's nothing in it. I said, listen,
if there's nothing in those cookies, and I really need
to go to the hospital because I think my mind
(05:42):
is coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And then she admitted, yeah, there's something in the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Jen, and I accidentally bought some ghee that was CBD
g oh, and it had just the slightest trace of
THG in a little bit.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I guess, get to activate the CBD. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I went to go cook like a week or
two ago with then and grab the geese. She goes,
don't grab that gee. Didn't realize we had cooked with
it the last time. She was like, I thought, I
felt like a little bit odd, and she said, look
at it. Oh yeah, there's a little symbol right there.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh yeah, they put a little thc and to get
the CBD activate. But sometimes it's more than a little stuffoush,
what do you have for the Hey?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Okay, So, as we all know, it is Pride month,
So Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown is deciding to throw a
post party after one of the events. It's the tallest
building in the United States west of Chicago, and they're
keeping the celebration alive. After the West Hollywood Pride Parade,
it's hosting its own party for love, Identity, and Acceptance
(06:40):
far above the city skyline. It will be on June eighth,
and tickets for the event are available on event right
for twelve dollars and fifty one cents, including the two
fifty one processing fee. They can also be purchased at
the venue. If the event isn't a max capacity yet, I.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Mean, listen, it's going to be Sunday, that's the eighth,
and if it's only twelve dollars, it will be at
max capacity in a very short order. I agree, Yeah,
I mean they didn't exactly price it to get rid
of the riff raft, you know what I mean, that's
going to be crazy. So that's going to be in
the at the top of the Intercontinent open Yeah, the
open air bar. So it's like and it's the tallest
(07:21):
building here. I guess I didn't even know that until
they read this art.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah. No, that was the other interesting fact.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Ye feels like there might be a news story coming
out of that story on Sunday, I think so. Yeah,
pack that many revelers into a twelve dollars ahead event
at the top of the Intercontinental I don't know, Angel Martinez,
what do you have for us today?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
So there's a California startup that's called spin Launch and
they're using a radical new way to launch satellites. So
instead of using the traditional rockets, spin Launch hurls satellites
into space using a giant vacuum sealed centrifuge and it's
like a space slingshot. Their pancakes shaped micro satellites spin
(08:07):
up to five thousand miles an hour before being flung skyward.
And that's going to cut costs and emissions in the process. Now,
just to give you a perspective on how's it going
to cut it. If you're launching a Falcon nine rocket
to get some satellites up to space. That uses seven
thousand gallons of fuel per second during the launch, just
(08:31):
during the launch, and the payload costs six thousand dollars
a kilogram using a SpaceX Falcon nine, and the Spin
Launch payload cost runs between twelve hundred and fifty and
twenty five hundred dollars per kilogram.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Wow for launching.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Now, I got everything up until the So when you're
launching a Falcon and that could you repeat all these
statistics again?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Please?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
You kidding?
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Okay, I'm kiddy, Okay, good, So it Blizzard statistics.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Well, people want to know.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
It's just like, oh, what was the comparison?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Actually right, okay, two thousand gallons of fuel a second.
That's mind blowing. I can't even imagine that. There's Spin Launch.
They're backed by a lot of money one hundred and
fifty million, including funding from a defense company called Kongsburg,
and they and Spin Launch plans to launch hundreds of
satellites into low orb low Earth orbit as early as
(09:35):
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'm just trying to figure out that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
So again to the technology, it's it goes up there
and it spins and with the payload that has then
spun off of the central vehicle.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
So, well, there's a base. It's it's a base on Earth.
Inside of this base, it spins the payload around. It's
a centrifuge, yes, and then when it reaches a certain
speed mm hmm, it will launch the payload. The payload
launches it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
It launches it from Tarra farmer from Earth.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
That's right, that's right. And once it's launched, after it
hits you know, it gets out of the atmosphere, then
the payload kind of like removes itself from it's from
the uh from the.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Rocket, right it must be some kind of yeah, right,
and then.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Has a rocket of its own, So you're missing the
whole launch process.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
It gets you around that Falcon rocket launch. I get it,
I get it. Would you like to be part of
that program? If they offered you something, I would love it,
one of the kind of like hidden figures thing we'd
love to launch you.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Oh, I would love to be launched. You know, their
founders kind of cute. So if they want me to
do something for that anytime.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, we'll see if we can get you maybe a
job interview over there? Right, what's it called final spin
or spin off?
Speaker 7 (11:02):
What is it called spin launch?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Spin launch? Good love it. We still have bellio to
get to. We'll do it when we come back. We're
in the middle of the whip.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I had to give up my very lucrative YouTube channel
to be here today. You know, it's very Yeah, it's
hard to get away.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
What do you do on YouTube?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I do it.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I do a show called The Mark Thompson Show. Yeah,
we don't spend we don't spend a lot of time
on the title.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It came over from the radio because I had a
radio show in San Francisco called the Mark Thompson Show,
and so we just brought everybody over from the radio.
So we didn't want to confuse people by changing the name.
So that's why it's called the Mark Thompson Show. I
like it, but it's on it's on YouTube. It's a
lot of politics and stuff. But if you happen to subscribe,
please do. We got one hundred and twenty thousand subscribers,
(11:58):
who seems like a lot, But yeah, it's not nothing,
and I'm glad we have it. But boy, it's a
long road ahead. You know, there's a it's very hard
to make a living doing YouTube channel stuff. You need
to really get it out there, so all of you
and I get a lot of questions from audience members,
from people who just want to get things going. But
(12:20):
if you find a niche of some kind, I think
there is a future there. Like all podcasts, remember them
when they were just a jillion podcast like ten years ago,
and now they're a gazillion podcasts. I mean, it's crazy
everybody's got a podcast and maybe that's good. Like I
don't view that as a negative, but I'm just saying
it's much harder given a gazillion option.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
What's the percentage of those that actually make money?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That's a great question. That is a google able thing.
I'm sure there is a number on that. In fact,
that's a great whip like to guess, Yeah, what is
the percentage of podcasts that actually make money? Percentage I'm
putting it in percentage of podcasts? Is that?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Wait? Whip, isn't it a whip whip around.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, the percentage of podcasts that make a profit.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Uh, oh, you're doing another different whip.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yes, this isn't the newswork.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I thought we were still doing the news work. I
was confused.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Are you going to whip around within the NewsWhip?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
This is a this is a double this is a
very it's a very meta thing that's going on right now.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Whip around.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, you're right, But Krowzier is right.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
We were in the middle of a NewsWhip that started
five oh five, and now we're doing a whip around
within the NewsWhip. So it is a bit confusing. The
uh the answer I do have? Do you want to
continue with this?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Quickly?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
We'll guess at what percentage of all the gazillion podcasts
that are out there actually turn a profit. I will
start with you stuff fush, What is the percentage of
all those podcasts that make a property?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I'd say ten percent? Ten percent? What do you think,
Angel Martinez?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I'm gonna go with a good old fashioned six percent.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Six percent?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
How about you, Sharon twenty three percent?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, look at all those people making money with their
podcasts in Sharon's world, and how about you Croas. I'll
say two percent. Two percent winner is Croas. One percent
is the.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Actually I want?
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Yeah really yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm telling you it's tough out there. It's hard out there. Yeah.
So anyway, so coming.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Over that fun when everybody always says, you know, well
you you actually have one, but I'm gonna you should
do a podcast. That's like a thing.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh my god, right, people say you should do a podcast.
So a guy who's my neighbor and the nicest guy.
I saw him at a party, this is about six
weeks ago, and he said, Hey, I just want to
let you know I was listening to you on KFI.
You are terrific. You really you should you know what
you should do? You should do a podcast. And then
he said they're really hot right now. I thought, wow,
(15:07):
I'm really not getting through on the fact that I
have a podcast. Then I explained it to them and
it was very kind of awkward and funny. All right,
let's get back to the news whip and Sharon Belli,
O you owe us a news story?
Speaker 10 (15:18):
Yes, So, Mountain High Resort is trading skis for spokes
this summer, opening a brand new Downhill Mountain bike park
on June fourteenth. It's located at the West Resort in Rightwood.
The park ticket The park kicks off with three trails,
one easy, one challenging, and one for daredevils. This is
just the beginning. They have eight trails planned. This is
phase one. It's covering about eight miles. There's also a
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skills park where riders can warm up on wooden features
like jumps and drops and bank terms. The park will
open Saturdays and Sundays from nine to four through October twelfth.
Tickets start at forty two dollars for adults and twenty
nine dollars for kids. Season passes include discounts and free
access to the disc golf course. Mountain High is throwing
a grand opening Bashed June fourteenth with live music, vendors
(16:02):
and giveaways.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That should be pretty cool. That's a great idea, it
really is. It really is a great idea. So they
already have the frisbee golf that's what disc golf is, right,
Oh I didn't Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Isn't that that makes sense?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And the idea somehow that you would take you know,
these it's such a beautiful place and in the summertime,
you you know, it's great for cycling and with all
those steep hills and all the rest, you can turn
it into you know, something of a biking park.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Do you mountain bike at all?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I do not. I do not.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
I do you work out?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I'm doing less and less share doing less. And I
was felled by injuries to love playing tennis. It was
my favorite thing to do, play tennis, and slowly the injuries.
The injuries were bad. I had ice all over my
body when I come off the tennis court. But I
was It was so hard to get into the tennis
club that I become a member. You had to get
(16:54):
like recommendations and you had to they look at your
donations to charity and I mean's you know?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
And it was so difficult. It was like running for
Congress or something.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That I was loath to give up the membership and
I had it for five years after I left because
I kept thinking I'm going to get back to tennis
and I never did. So the answer to your question
is I'm really just no, I'm I'm I'm I'm embarrassed
on how little I move.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It's really not.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
But you're in good shape pretty much ish ish.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Now I need to I need to move around. You know.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's the thing that you learn through all of these
different articles you read about longevity, about disease, about the
body wants to move. It's built to move, and so
all of you who are like me, who are kind
of sedentary.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Tim's a little like me that way.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
He walks a lot, though I.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Think he does because he's he's skinny as a rail.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
He's naturally thin.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
Yeah, he's a naturally thin, but I mean he walks,
you know, Target Walmart lows every night.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
But they say that's all you have to do. You
don't have to be some cross fit person. You a
moderate amount of exercise and walking. They think you know again,
Article after articles suggests that basic walking will extend your
life and keep you out of trouble with illness. So
we can all walk alth all got a bad left foot?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Jeez, you're right, they're just racking up, are they all right?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I can't walk with the rest of you can?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Is the pot catch up with us?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'll keep you posted, all right, thank you. That's your
moment of health news. When we come back, a huge
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Speaker 4 (18:43):
I'll give you details next.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Just talking about you know, moving our bodies and things
hurting and all that stuff, and even Tim referencing like
how long it's taken him to recover? You know, you
always look at you know what I have recovered ten
years ago. It I recovered faster like you know to it.
And I think that no is the answer. I think
you know, you're not Tim, You're not old. You know,
(19:14):
you're not at that point where it takes a long
long time to recover from stuff. But it will be
the case that we Well that was the thing he
said that to me. Anyway, go ahead, Angel, Yeah, well I've.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Got a question for you. Whatever happened to your personal trainer?
Is he still around? Does he still come over and
and work you out.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And you raid the liquor cabinet that one or the different. Yeah,
there was I had. I've had a couple of personal trainers,
several and they've all been really interesting in their own way.
I got a personal trainer that was like a ripped
dude who knew yoga and he knew all this stuff,
(19:57):
and he would run the hills with me. I mean
it was I was really in great shape with him,
and show business kind of had chewed him up and
spit him out and so, and he was kind of
down on the politics of the times is a while ago,
and he was just so I'm running with him, and
he three days a week would meet with me, and
(20:18):
we'd you know, spend all this time together. And he
was kind of a bummer, you know what I mean.
I was in great shape, but I was, you know,
kind of getting bummed out by the rap all the time,
you know, And I just felt bad for him. So
eventually he went into teaching, I think, and he left
the world of training, and I got another trainer. And
(20:39):
this guy showed up and he looked like he should
be managing an Italian restaurant. He didn't have that ripped look.
It looked kind of like a He was like a
front of house matre d kind of guy, you know
what I mean, sort of a little bit portly and
a little bit he was just the opposite in terms
of attitude. He was ebulliant and upbeat and like just
(21:00):
very like a very happy guy, you know. But he
didn't ever lift a you know, a weight or anything.
He would always go over there and get the forties
and lie down there on the bench and give me
fifteen of those. And he didn't spot me. He didn't
do any of that stuff that trainers normally do. So
after a few months and he would come in the
(21:22):
middle of the day, like around noon, he would start
having a cocktail or two, and I mean with my liquor,
and by the way, that's fine, but he would just
go right into the cabinet. He didn't even add, hey,
do you mind if I, you know, have a little
bit of your scotch? And I would write for it. Yeah,
what I'd say. I even said to him, I said, hey,
(21:43):
the answer is always going to be yes, but you should,
just as a matter of courtesy, say, hey, do you
mind if I have a little, you know, hit of
whiskey or have a little bit of your whatever fill
in the blank rum whiskey to get what? I don't
care because I you know, we're not doing brain surgery here,
but you should just as a matter of graciousness ask.
(22:03):
And when I told him that, he laughed, and then
he continued to the cabinet and got the liquor. Honest
to god, I'll never forget that. That was the funniest thing.
So that guy but again such a happy guy. You know,
he kind of passed his expiration date. And now I'm
onto another a trainer. But I've been I've had an
(22:26):
injury and i had a surgery in my hand, so
I've been out of it for a little while.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
So I got to get back to it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But you're right in asking the question because I think
when you if you could afford even a trainer, and
now I think trainers are more affordable because you know
these are slightly tougher economic times. I'd suggest that you
know that does get you to do something, because if
you know that, you know you've got to go meet
that person at the gym or whatever it might be. Yeah,
(22:52):
So in answer your question, Angel, I'm coming off a
lengthy hiatus and I am going to get getting back
back into shape. And it's a good thing because I
have now. And this is something else. After you turn forty,
you get all of this stuff like specialists. You know,
a cardiologist, a urologist, these are all things. All those
(23:17):
ologists you don't know before you're forty, but once you
pass forty, and once you get away past forty, you
get into a cardiology thing. And I just got the
bill from the cardiologist today and I was amazed at
how expensive it is.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Incredibly expensive. And here's what the expensive part is.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I had to wear a heart monitor for it's a
two week heart monitor.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I had to wear it a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
The heart monitor and that process of wearing it they're
looking for a FIB was five thousand dollars. So insurance
pays for a bunch of that. But still I ended
up with a bill of fifteen hundred dollars. And I'm going, well,
if the big expense is paid, what am I paying for?
(24:08):
And I look through the codes and you're paying for
meeting with the cardiologist. It's five hundred dollars a meeting.
I guess I had three of them. That's fifteen hundred dollars.
It just yeah, it just seems like a lot of loot.
I'll just get sick. And I wonder why he was
so happy. I thought as we were talking, Gosh, this
(24:30):
guy's great. I gonna hang out with this guy. I
remember thinking, I think this cardiologist is like the coolest dude.
We're talking about where people are living that la, what's
you know? No wonder he's making five hundred bucks an hour. Anyway,
I'm I'm still literally going through sticker shock. I got
that bill right before I came in. But so as
(24:51):
you get older, that's the stuff you're swimming upstream against.
So now I'm in the gym, hoping to avoid another
visit with the cardiologist. There was a major jewelry store burglary,
another one, and this happened in Encino, And I'm kind
(25:15):
of divided on this. I don't approve of lawlessness of
any kind. I don't approve of breaking into a business.
It's hard enough to make a small business work. And
yet because there was no violence, and then we read
about all of these violent break ins, et cetera, I
(25:36):
feel and because it's a caper they broke in using
a blowtorch, I kind of feel like there's a Thomas
Crown affair part of this. So I might be giving
them a little too much credit, like there's an Ocean's
thirteen aspect to this, But it's a real thing.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
The blow torch burglars. They are calling them.
Speaker 11 (25:57):
Book to the family, the owners of the family a
little bit ago. They are completely devastated by this enormous
loss I was just inside of it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And see that's the problem that there are real people involved.
These aren't just jewels. They're real people and a real
business on the other side of this show.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Bide the jewelry store, the business behind me. You can
still smell the smoke from where thieves use a blowtorch
to break into not just one safe, but two saves.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
It all happened early Monday morning.
Speaker 11 (26:26):
Take a look at this surveillance video that actually shows
how the thieves got in. You can hear them speaking
in Spanish. Now after cutting a hole into the jewelry
mark from the vacant business next door, you can see
at least four thieves crawling on the floor towards Afghan Lapize.
That's one of five jewelry businesses in the mart that
was targeted. Now, the thieves crawled straight to the back
(26:49):
where the alarm system was pulled off the wall, and
then took about an hour an hour and a half
to blow towards the saves.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Now, you see, that's the part that I also don't understand.
How can you be in this business for an hour
to an hour and a half and no alarms go off.
Speaker 11 (27:02):
Off the wall, and then took about an hour an
hour and a half to blow towards the safe.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So when we come back, I want you to hear
from the family because it's it's really sad. I mean,
this is a family that had everything in this business,
you know, and they lose it. But again, I don't
understand how these guys are there for so long working
on that safe. An hour and hour and a half
and no alarms go off. So we will pick that
(27:27):
up as we return.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
We're talking about the blowtorch burglars. They've hit a jewelry
store in Encino, and it's interesting because the method by
which they got into the jewelry store is similar to
the method used in a jewelry heist in Glendale. And
in Glendale last month, the suspects in that jewelry ripoff
(27:58):
dropped through a roof before using a blue blow torch
to open the safe. I was mentioning before the break
just the amount of time they take when they're inside
in this place in Encino, they were there for an
hour to an hour and a half and still apparently
mean while there's a lot of surveillance video and even audio.
You can hear the talking. There was no alarm triggered.
(28:20):
So these guys are you know, I'm not saying that again.
They're you know, Ocean's eleven, but they kind of know
what they're doing.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Took about an hour an hour and a half to
blow towards.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
The saves, getting away with close to a million dollars
worth of goods.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
It's forty two years of building this business and saving everything.
Everything he had was here in these two saves. Everything
was gone overnight.
Speaker 13 (28:46):
Right now he has nothing left and now imagine how
devastated is it is to him and to the rest
of the family.
Speaker 11 (28:56):
Now, if you remember a jewelry store over in Glendale
was also rob there, you go very very similar mo
that was last week where thieves took a blow torch
to break into the roof as well.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
As the safe. I do have a.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
Call into LAPD to see if they're investigating any possible
connection between the two burglaries, but for now reporting live
in Encino.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Angela Cockett at KTLA.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Five years there was a famous Vegas crime crew that
did the exact same thing.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
They.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I want to say, I know this is like the
Jesse James thing. So maybe it's not that exact wording,
but I want to say they were called like the
Hole in the Wall Gang.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
It was yeah, here it is the Hole in the
Wall gang. That's right.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Notorious burglary crew operating in Las Vegas from seventy nine
to eighty one, known for drilling holes in walls and
roofs to gain entry into buildings without tripping alarms. Led
by Chicago Outfit associate Frank Colotta. The the gang was
a key part of the Chicago Outfits operation in Las Vegas,
(30:04):
overseen by Tony Spilatro. Those mobsters, by the way, Tony
Spilatro and Frank Colotta, they were featured dramatically in the
movie Casino. And in the movie Casino, this burglary crew again,
this Vegas burglary crew. Same deal as these guys who
just broke in an encino, the Hole in the Wall Gang.
(30:27):
They drilled huge holes in a roof is what I recall,
and got into the building. They go in through the
roof of an maybe of the actual establishment or the
place next door, and then they go through the wall.
So this is virtually the same deal. And that guy
(30:47):
Frank Colotta went on to get immunity, I think from prosecution.
I say I think because I know he was involved,
like deeply involved with the mob. He was the technical
consultant on casino, this guy Frank Colatta. And the only
reason I know that is because I had him on
my old podcast and I met him in Las Vegas
(31:10):
and then went on the mob tour that he used
to give, and they take you on this mob tour
Klota does. He's got a driver, and he's got one
of those things that looks like, you know, he's landing
a plane, like one of those things that Madonna wears
with the microphone that goes around to the mouth. And
then he points out all of these places where they
used to skim, the different casinos where they were in
(31:32):
on the inside, and then he pointed out this one
building where they went in through the roof and without
tripping any alarms, they made an incredibly big heist and
they were known as the Whole of Them All Gang.
They were out of Chicago but working in Las Vegas,
and he was this very nice guy, and this guy
Frank Colotta. I remember asking him. It was kind of
(31:55):
awkward because I'm thinking, this guy is so mob. And
he thought kind of like this. He duck like Deadley,
talk like he was in the mob. And I said, Frank,
this is I think I might have said this is awkward.
But you never killed anybody, though, right, And he said,
oh yeah, I killed guys. And I was kind of
(32:16):
taking I said, whoa what? He said, oh yeah? And
then he tells a story. But he told me a story.
I'm not going to relate it here. This story about
like a hit that he was involved in. It's astounding
to me that somebody like that, who was directly involved
in murder for the mob, could in any way get
any deal that would allow him to just graduate to
(32:39):
being the technical advisor on the movie Casino and leading
a mob tour in Las Vegas. I mean, this guy
is I mean, with all respect, Frank, may you rest
in peace.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
You are a cold blooded murderer.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I don't understand how we could somehow varnish over that
so that before you know it, you know, paying three
hundred dollars for a tour that you're giving in Las Vegas. Anyway,
he led the Hole in the wallgang, and this Hole
in the wallgang did exactly what they were doing and
have done in this most recent break in in Encino
(33:18):
and as they say, just last month in Glendale. So
this is a ring of jewel thieves and they're still
on the run and they destroy an entire business. I mean,
that's a million dollars worth of jewels that that family
is invested in. That's all their inventory and it's all gone.
So it's really a sad situation that they find themselves in.
(33:41):
But that's the latest on that burglary that just went
down again in that plate for an hour and an hour
and a half, you.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Don't trigger any alarms. Crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Hey, by the way, I want to quickly mention it's
the Disneyland Resort seventy aeth celebration and we want to
celebrate with you all the sites, laughter and fun.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Everyone's excited about it.
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KFI AM six forty a family four pack of one
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Keep listening to KFI for your chance to celebrate and
(34:24):
join us for the seventieth celebration. The offer subtect two
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