November 12, 2025 • 31 mins
A major storm is heading for Southern California, raising concerns about flooding, burn-scar mudflows, and possible evacuations.
Michael Monks joins to break down a busy news day: the L.A. City Council is weighing significant rent-change proposals, and the Dodgers Gondola project just hit another roadblock. Plus—UCLA may be leaving the Rose Bowl, and Monks adopted a Skid Row cat named “Dos.”
We also cover storm preparedness across SoCal, and remind listeners we’ll be LIVE on remote Friday, 11/21 at Smart & Final in Yorba Linda.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Time down, have some fun.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
The rain's coming in and unless you live in a
burn scar area, you are going to enjoy the rain.
If you live in a burnscar area, well it's going
to be a long weekend for you, a long, long weekend.
There are already warnings going out about evacuations, voluntary evacuations.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I got one on my phone today.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I saw something come across the television set earlier. We
are in for a lot of rain over the next
five days. Thursday, it's already started early in the valley.
There's some drizzling today, a little drizzling action in the valley.
But Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, we might have
(00:54):
six straight days of rain, six days of rain. It's
important that people know this because if again, if you
live in an area that was burned out last January
and that's almost a year.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Ago, if you can believe that that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Then you've got to be very aware of what's going on.
A lot of this rain is expected to come in
the very in the wee hours of the night when you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Might be sleeping.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So it's going to be there's going to be some
sleepless nights for a lot of people in the Altadena area, Arcadia, Pasadena,
Pacific Colisades, Malibu, the people that got really hit with
those two radical fires in January. You have got to
be aware, your family's got to be aware, your friends.
So we are going to give you as much information
(01:44):
as we can when this rain's going to come in
and how much what I'm seeing.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And that's the key to what you just said there
is that it doesn't look like for the most part,
it's going to be a ton at any given time.
Oh good, But as you say, the fact that I'm
looking at the end ws now National Weather Service, and
they got chance to showers all the way through at
least Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And some days they're looking at more than almost two inches.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, and in the foothills in exactly the places that
you're talking about the fire.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Area, Yeah, exactly. And in the foothills they're looking at
two to four inches in some of the foothills. So
here's what according to my cell phone, which is pretty
pretty accurate.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Doesn't lie to you, No, not really.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Not really, Croms.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's all starts tonight around midnight, and then it'll continue
all day tomorrow. Two inches in the valley flats, which
means the five freeway is going to close, because the
five Freeway always closes when there's more.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Than eight drops in the valley.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So Thursday, all day, from midnight tonight until midnight Tomorrow night,
nothing but rain. And then Friday, I'm sorry, let's go
through this again. Thursday, it's not gonna heavy rain, is
not going to start till late late Thursday day is
going to be the heavy rain somewhere after around six pm. Again,
(03:04):
this is according to my trustee cell phone.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And they had moved that down because initially they were saying,
like yesterday that it was going to come in late
tonight or really tomorrow morning. So they moved it forward
about twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, and then it's going to be all day Friday,
from midnight to midnight, all day Friday, all day Saturday,
and all the way until one o'clock on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So you have Friday Saturday.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
All day rain, all night rain, and then Sunday until
about about one o'clock or so two o'clock and then
a little bit a dusting on Monday between eight am
and noon, and then on Tuesday in the wee hours
of the morning from about two o'clock till five o'clock.
All right, let's find out what's going on with Danny Romero.
(03:48):
What's going on with that rain.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
You can see things in the rain that's in play,
But look at this what you're seeing. Here's a lot
of moisture showing up that's on the ground right now,
or I should say not hitting the ground zones virga.
And that's going to be the rain that you're gonna
feel much later when it does hit the ground, and
quite a bit still coming our way. So we're gonna
be tracking all that for you. On the temperatures, we're
gonna stay fairly mi out here. And they see the
cloud cover widespread, so seventies in Lancaster, Palmdale, Victorville. There
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cooler on the coast right now, sixty six and San
Clementi sixty nine for Long Beach, sixty four in Santa Monica,
sixty five for Dandobe. So here's not going to set
up for us. The next couple of days or so,
we'll see some rain moving in late tomorrow. The cloud's
building more and more today and into Thursday, and then
by Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now I've seen.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
The really heavier rain and we're talking about some pretty
good amounts.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
One to two inches on Friday. One to two inches
on Friday is a big deal.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
And that's kind of just the beginning, because there's still
more to come.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We head into now Saturday. Now we got more intense.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Rain building up besides the heavy stuff on Friday, more
so on Saturday, more rain added on. So flooding could
then be a concern for us over southern California.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And then in Malibu and Pacific Palisades especially and Altadena
looking at pot pssible mud slides Friday and Saturday when
the heavy rain comes in.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
As we're at fire Station seventy in Malibu, this is
one of several areas that people can come and fill
up sandbags to try and protect their property. There's actually
a bit of a problem here this morning. They had
a pound of about one thousand sandbags like this out overnight.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Someone that technology really hasn't improved over the last thousand years.
She's literally putting sand in a bag and tying it
off and taking it home maybe ten thousand years. All
these other technologies haven't improved.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You know. The TV set isn't what it used to be.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You know, it's not a seven hundred pound tube that
you have to drag, you know, through the house to
and it takes three minutes to warm up before you
can watch it. That's improved a lot. Computers obviously improved
a lot. But the sandbag other than that new one.
That home depot sells quick Dam. That's like the newest technology,
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but they're a little expensive. They do work really well.
We have three or four met home last couple of years.
During the rain, they do work. The quick dam it's
called quick dam. It weighs about a pound and a half.
They stretch out to about ten feet long, and then
they absorb water and then they actually become their own
sand bags as more moisture and more water, you know,
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soaks into them. And it's really a great way to
protect your house. I don't know if there's any left
at Low's at home Depot, but if you can get
in there, it's called quick Dam. They're about thirty thirty
five bucks and it'll be the best thirty to thirty
five bucks you've ever spent, if it can save you, you know,
from having to change your carpet out or your hardwood
floors because your home is soaking.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wet took all of them.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
So anyone showing up here this morning had no way
to get all this sand into a bag to get
it back to their property. They had to drive to
another location, get another pollet of bags and bring it
out here.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And you know, and these men and women who are
in their eighties, they can't fill up a forty pounds
sand bag and take it home. I hope there's some
people out there helping the older folks out with doing this.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
They are once again on site also the Malibu Library.
But as folks here in Malibu discovered back in February,
even if you have sandbags lined up, sometimes a wall
of mud coming down a hill, it's not gonna stop
what's coming down. Like we saw several months ago here
in Malibu. There are two twenty twenty five dates etched
into everyone's mind. One, of course, is January seventh, when
(07:23):
the Palisades fire ripped through town. The other is February thirteenth,
when a storm caused massive mud slides down the hillsides
above nearly wiped us out. Duke's Malibu was completely overtaken
by mud, and here we are eleven months later and
they're still not open.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
If you told me it would take you this long,
I told you we were crazy. We were initially thinking
partial by July and fully by maybe Labor Day, And
now you know, I'll be getting into twenty twenty six,
maybe by the year anniversary.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
With another major storm coming this week, Caltrans put up
k rail to try and prevent the same thing from
happening again.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
We jetted all of our drains. We'll do some stuff
on the roof. It's like you said, like you're saying
right there too, you minimize interior leaks.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You know, you may remember this also at Dukes there
was a fireman, I think it was a fire captain
driving one of those white SUVs, and the mud came
down and knocked him into the Pacific Ocean, him, his car,
his gear, right into the ocean. He ended up in
the Pacific. He made it, He survived. But man, is
that water powerful when it comes off these hills.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
But it's really, like I said, just keeping the water out.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
And it's hard.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We don't want a lot of mud back on this
property no.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Right across pch Lynn Biehler saw mud inundate her Malibu
Bungalows flower shop back in February. It took her weeks
to clear it all out.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's called one wheelbarrow at the time.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Today she went to get sand from nearby Station seventy
and lined her property with sandbags.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
We're all working really hard to bring this part of
Malibu back, So it is a struggle.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's a struggle.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, Malibu has been hit really hard with fires and
then floods now we got this weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's tough out there.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Remnants of the fire remain in this part of Malibu.
You can see trees having burn scars. In fact, this
hillside you can see has given way recently. That again
is the concern here. La County issuing an evacuation warning
for recent burn scars, including the Palisades burnscar that specific
Palisades and Malibu. The hope is that the hillsides hold
Everything that could have come down came down back in
(09:21):
February in our spring storms. But with the amount of
rain that is coming this week, there was a lot
of concern, a lot of anxiety that we might have
a repeat of what we saw back here in February.
We'll see if people utilize these sandbags, the k rails
and just have a go bag ready in the event
you're forced to evacuate. For now, we're live in Malibu,
Jury Rand ABC seven. I would discside all right.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
We're going to keep you updated all day today, Tomorrow
and Friday with this rain. So this is one of
those times where you got to keep it on KFI. Now,
normally you could enjoy music and on your ride home.
Not today, Not today. It's KFI today, KFI tomorrow, KFI
Friday and throughout the weekend. We'll have people here all
weekend monitoring the rain, the possible mud slides all weekend
(10:03):
from now until this storm leaves. You must keep it
right here on six forty AM, which is kfive.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Welcome to the program. Michael Monks, Hi, you bub my
pleasure to be here on this rather dreary Wednesday. We're
keeping an eye on this now. I know where you
come from. Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Rain is not news, no, unless it we're threatening the
Ohio River to crest.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Right, I went to I was I've been to Cincinnati
and Cleveland and Columbus, and remember being in Cincinnati at
a baseball game and they said, there's a tornado watch
that turned into a tornado warning. They stopped the game
for about eight seconds blue by and then they continue
(10:53):
the game.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, we're a different breed there. We're tough, very tough. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean we had what a half an inch here
a couple of weeks ago. Everybody was in meltdown. But
I don't criticize different parts of the country when they
have weather that's not as extreme as what we've experienced,
because you just have different topography. Sure, you have different
types of expectations and different regularity when it comes to
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this type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And on the other hand, if you guys ever get
a three point four earthquake, that's the talk that month long.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We did. I think the last time was like twelve
years ago. A nice little shaker, you felt it, right,
no damage, nothing serious, but something like what would be
a regular old Tuesday here in southern California was definitely
the talk of the town for like four days.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
All right, let's talk Rent. What are they doing downtown
with Rent?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well up? There's something called rent stabilized units. In the
city of Los Angeles. There's more than six hundred and
fifty thousand of these things. That means that the rent
can only be raised a certain amount of money. I
don't live in one of those units, so my landlord
can email me when the lease is up and say,
your rent's going up a thousand bucks. I don't have
that protection. A lot of renters do have a protection.
(12:01):
Right now. That cap is eight percent. Oh, that's a lot.
So the rent can't go up more than eight percent.
And there are folks who would agree with you that
eight percent is a lot, except for the fact that
the people own the properties are saying, look, rents have
not gone up that much in recent years. They're staying
in they're aligned with the market. And we're also getting
(12:24):
hurt on cost. The cost of owning buildings has gone up.
Insurance is expensive, utilities are expensive. The city's jacked up
cost related to trash collection and sanitation and other things
like that. So we can't have any types of restrictions
that are this extreme. The proposal tim was to cap
(12:46):
the rent increases at three percent. That sounds better, as
low as zero percent, as long as it kept up
with no more than sixty percent of the rate of inflation.
So it's kind of a weird math thing. And that's
how it was presented at City Hall today. You had
a lot of people go out to speak, tenants coming
out to speak, and property owners and pure property managers
(13:07):
coming out to speak. It looked like Congress. You had
one side on one side of the City Hall and
the other on the other side. You'd have applause at once,
like the State of the Union. Right.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But the problem with that, mister Monks, is that when
you do have these, when you establish these these ceilings
for rent, a lot of these landlords will hit the
ceiling because they don't know ten years down the line
if they go zero zero, zero zero, and then they're
here with a big bill, they'll go, oh, we can
only get eight percent. So they will do eight percent
every year. And let's say you pay three thousand dollars
(13:37):
a month in downtown ally, which is not unusual, right,
And so the very first year it goes to thirty
two forty, then two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine ten. In ten years, the three thousand dollars rent
is sixty five hundred dollars a month in ten years.
In ten years, yeah, and that's too much.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
They just did this thing in Burbank where they set
this feeling at four percent. They did overnight. They didn't
really ask many people, and they said four percent. You
can't do more than four percent. Well, a lot of
the people own these buildings immediately put in the four percent,
and they'll do that every single year. So the rent's
going to go up more with these with these you know,
with these caps.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The other potential fallout is folks who own apartments that
are rent stabilized may sell their units and may have
them sold to folks who don't participate in this type
of program, so you might have fewer of those properties
that are available. There were folks who were talking about
getting out of this business because of the restriction. There
was also a point made by Councilman Monica Rodriguez, who
(14:38):
did ultimately vote in support of this cap, which was altered.
I should note it was marked at four percent right
with ninety percent of the rate of inflation, so it
was a little bit better than what the property owners wanted,
a little bit worse than what the tenants wanted. So
there was a compromise made on the floor. But she said,
(14:58):
this city makes it very expensive to live here. So
when we talk about the cost of living, we need
to be talking about the trash hikes and the taxes
and those sorts of things that we have established here.
That is also on our hands.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But eight percent is astronomical. I mean, you know, eight percent,
you're quickly going to double your rent in you know,
seven or eight.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But the example you gave him was of a market
rate rent, right, And so I pay a market rate
and I'll just tell you I pay twenty three hundred
dollars a month. That's pretty good pride off, not a
bad price. It's a decent apartment, good thousand square feet
loft in downtown LA. It's skid row near right right,
So that's you know, there's a bit of a trade off.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
When you rented it, did it say skid skid row adjacent?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
No, that would be a bad real estate agent and
put that in there. It said it said fashion district.
All right, you stay about it, say yeah, we're going to.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Talk about because they voted on something else today, okay,
vote on something else. And you were a hero over
the last time we talk about that. Yes, yes, and
I'll I'll tell you why. This man sitting in front
of me saved a life and he doesn't really wanted
to talk about but I'm gonna try to drag it
out of on Now. This is all right, it's Conway
Mom selling it. We're live on KFI.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You're gonna be on with a lot of rain this weekend.
You got a rain talk. We'll keep an eye on
that if it's still coming down on Saturday, and if
there's any trouble anywhere, we'll have the latest all day
long on KFI.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
All right, I don't think I oversaw this. I know
you accused me of doing that, but I think that
the audience needs to know that.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You saved a life. I saved an animal. Okay, that's
a life. It's a life. She's somebody, she is.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, And there was a cat on skid row and
you and your spouse saved that cat and adopted it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We'd seen this cat for a few nights, hanging down
the parking lot and skid row, as we noted my
apartments skid row near Okay, so I'm far from skid
row a block. In fact, my part, my parking lot
is now surrounded by tents. Skid Row is absorbing the
fashion district. Has skid Row gotten closer to you since
you've been down there? Okay, yeah, maybe let me find absolutely. Yeah,
I mean all my neighbors live in tents, Okay, basically, yeah,
(17:04):
And so there and there are animals on skid Rush.
Sure people have dogs and they live in the tent.
But I saw a couple of cats hanging outside, and
it's kind of heartbreaking. So like, let's go see if
we can drop a little bit of food, you know,
And we did on Sunday, left a little bit of
food for this gray cat who was very small and
this orange cat who looked to be a little more grown,
(17:26):
and put the food out. They didn't want to come
near us, so we walked away and they went and
they ate it. When I left here on Monday and
got home, I saw the gray cat again walking around
looking for something to eat. Right, So I go in
the little tea and at the bottom of our apartment
and I buy a little can a big can actually,
of wet food, and I take it over to this
(17:46):
cat and This cat eats every I mean licking the
crevices of this can. This cat is starving, maybe maybe
the first can of food he's ever had. Completely. We
have a cat, my little free Holdies. It lives upstairs
with us and loves to watch the cats from the window.
But I called the spouse and we were thinking about
getting a new cat. Anyway. In fact, that day we
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had gotten text messages from a friend of a friend
who's like, I've got some kittens, come take a look,
and we were going to perfect time. I saw this
cat starving, and after she ate, she came over and
just started rubbing on us and purring and falling on
the ground. It's like, go get the kennel. We go,
get the kennel. We bring it down, she gets right
in it. She had enough. Yeah, and she has this
(18:31):
meal like a cat that you would expect to have
on skid row where life is rough. It's smokers. Yeah,
I mean she's had, she's been around the block. Okay,
so she's filthy also, So we take her up and
we immediately try to wash her. Here's the problem. We
already have a cat, and we live in a loft
apartment and they tell you if you're getting a second cat,
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this has to be sort of uh need intervals, intervals.
These cats they'll get along fine after a while, deally, ok.
But at first you've got to have maybe the new
cat in just one room. We only have one room.
So I'm at Walmart in Southgate at nine thirty at
night trying to find something that I can keep this
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cat in. And I find a dog pen that's meant
for a yard, and I bring it up and I
put her in. We could a blanket over top of
it to make her feel secure. She was in there.
She ended up being comfortable all night long. It was
wow wow, And the cat. Milo's looking at this cat like, oh,
kissing at it a little bit, but not too much. Zoo.
(19:33):
Completely complete madhouse. I had to call in sick to
work yesterday. Yes what I was honest, I was like, love,
I saved a cat. I've got to get it to
the vet today. And that's what we did. Found out
it's a girl. Oh good, Okay, what was the other cat?
Is the other cat of girl? A boy? Boy? Okay?
Now this cat we have named dos oh like as
(19:55):
in number two, number two? Okay, do well. We thought
it was a boy. I thought it was a good uh.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
And what was what was that number two?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes, it's exactly a little a little turd. Uh, yes, absolutely,
So we thought it was a boy. I thought it
was a boy and so does sound like a cute
name for a boy cat? And now she's stuck with
this moniker. But she's healthy, no fleas, none of that.
But she is apparently missing her front teeth, not the incisors,
but the little tiny feet that they have. But she's
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young enough where they'll still grow. Yeah, but I also
learned she's she's she may have been had by a
male cat. Oh no, streets at are very young age,
because they have little marks on the back of her
neck where the male cat kind of holds on. Oh
my god. Like this poor tramp has been all over
skid run and you saved her, brought her in. That's great.
A skid row hooker cat.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
And maybe that maybe that that kitten's transitioning. Did you
think about that?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I hope not. I can't deal with that right now.
It's enough drama just bringing two cats, and I don't
need any like social pressure. And so when you left today,
you left them both in trouble, and I know the
listeners are going to call in, and rightfully so, because
this cat did not like being in the kennel. The
cat likes being under the bed. When would let her
out to kind of snip around, she'd go right under
the bed and stay there. Milo had kind of kept
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his distance while monitoring her occasional hissing. We both went
to work today and we left dos under the bed
and Milo is out, So in about thirty minutes, i'll
know if they're still alive. They'll be alive.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
They may have had one fight, but they'll go to
their separate corners. And Buddy, it really breaks my heart
when I see dogs and cats outside and strays and
on their own, because you can see it in their
eyes that they don't want to be there. And you
saved the life, Buddy, You save that cat's life. And
(21:42):
I hope that cat brings you as much joy as
you brought that cat.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I hope so too. She does like us. She's just
a little scared and a little confused. That's all to
be understood, So we're giving her time. It took time
for Milo, right Milo loves us now loves us so
much he runs all over our bodies all night long. Fantastic, buddy,
I think.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I look, it's I wish that I could do that more,
you know, go out there and get We have one
dog right now, and she's sixteen years old. She you know,
she's on every time we go home or every time
we wake up. We can't believe she's still alive.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So we're waiting and waiting and waiting. It's not time
for us to introduce a new animal yet because that
that cat's on.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Its last Our dog is on its last leg.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But as soon as that dog does pass, we'll go
through the morning process with that, and then we're gonna buy.
We're gonna either adopt or get some another animal. Come
on down to my neighborhood. You can find one at
no cost. Because, man, I can't tell you how much
joy those animals have brought me in.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I've never been a pet person. I didn't grow up
with pets, and so this first cat was a completely
new experience for me. It took a while for me
to get adjusted to this. But you're right, and there
are times when you come home and you think I'm
responsible for this thing being alive every day. That's right,
that's right, And it loves me, yes, and I kind
of love it. They're the best. They're the best. All right.
We have something else we're gonna that's all right. You know,
(23:02):
the gondola project. I'll tell you this. The city council
doesn't have authority over it. But what they did today
is they voted to oppose it formally. La Metro will
ultimately consider the environmental impact report.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay, so this is only but twenty five years they've
been working on this. We don't build anything in this city.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
If you go to Vietnam, you go to South Korea,
you go to anywhere over there in the Asian area
of China, Japan, they build, They constantly build and improve
their's infrastructure and the lives of the people live there.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
We never do that here. We don't do it well.
I mean what we got the D Line extension delayed,
the people mover delayed. Do you want to talk about
the high speed rail project? Maybe one hundred and thirty
billion dollars? We got nothing nothing. Yeah, absolute monks. You're
a hero, and you're on seven to nine pm on Saturday.
I'll be here with all the all the rain, all right,
and give us updates on dose I will the full
(23:53):
story about Dulciberado.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
We'll see. I'll let you know how she did today.
All right on Saturday. All right, we're live on KFI.
It's thank you monks.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
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Speaker 3 (24:10):
Rain is the big story, Rain, Rain, Rain, so you
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We're going to Orange County. That's right, Me and Crozier
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So it's gonna be Friday, a week from this Friday,
November twenty first, four to eight pm. We're going an
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and we'll have some special guests. We don't know who
they are yet, but people show. It's a twenty one
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right off the ninety one freeway. I bet you know
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Smart and Final. You know where it is. And we'll
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taking donations in store for the KFI posaton. We'll be
(25:13):
there until eight pm. There's giveaways, food, samples, and special
gift bags for the first only for the first two
hundred and fifty people that show up, So you probably
don't have to get there at four to get a
gift bag.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You probably don't even have to get there by seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
We'll have plenty. We have two hundred and fifty of them. Bell, Yeah,
what's in that gift bag?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Do we know yet? Is she not there? What? What's
in the gift bag?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Do we know?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
For the orbitlanda giveaway? I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I thought that was your deal and you were going
to put that together.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I didn't and I don't even know. You want me
to find out?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, Nah, I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, I know you're not busy. I'm a busy all
I got plenty of time. Let me go find that out,
all right, thank you? All right?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
The big debate going on every single year Christmas trees,
real or fake?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Kroser, fake or real? What do you do Christmas trees?
What do you typically?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I've mostly done really?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm with you the smell of it, Yeah,
the feel of it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You can't replace that.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, And then.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Going to get it is also a tradition in our house. Yes,
we go as a family. We look, you know. I
always say, oh, this one's you know, a big chunk
is taken on the trunk. It's going to die. Let's
look for something mouse. Oh no, no, I'm telling you,
this one's gonna die.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Put it out of the car, put it on the car,
We'll take it home. It'll die in three days.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Then I'll take it back to Low's and I'll have
to get my money back and get another one I've got.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I've gotten into the habit of like going to like
Low's or something like that and just finding the crappiest
tree possible. And I've had them give it to me
before just because yeah, go ahead and just take that.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And but Jen and I have dabbled in the idea
of in the bullet and buying a really really nice
artificial one, like the aldic ones, which are just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, the altic ones are. If I could afford an
altic one, I'd buy one in a hard paton.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah. Yeah, we've you got to spend a grand to
get a good fake tree.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
That's in there in lies the rub. Yeah, we put.
I got a smaller, cheaper artificial one a couple of
years ago, right after we got our cat. But within
an hour the cat bit through the wire and the
whole lights were out. All the lights were out. So
these aldic ones, I know that won't happen because the
light is individual.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
But that's a true story. We went to Low's and
my wife and daughter loved this tree. It was like
the perfect Christmas tree. And I said, but there's a
chunk taken out of the base of it, out of
the trunk.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And I said, that's going to affect.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
The water, the water it absorbs, because water a tree
drinks from the outside. You know, the inside doesn't mean anything.
It's the outside, right below the bark. That's where all
the water gets absorbed in the tree. And when that
bark is missing, the tree is going to die. And
I said, this tree is going to die, because yeah,
we really like it. I said, yeah, but it's going
to die. Ye, put it on, put it on the car,
we'll take it home. Take it home, Put the lights on,
(28:04):
put the ornaments on. Three days later, after tons of
water and putting in the new tree and all this stuff.
Dead dead lights come off, bulbs come off, ornaments come off,
the stars come off, the flood, the icicles, everything comes off.
I take it back to Low's. I go, hey, this
thing died. And she said, well, how long if you
(28:25):
had it? And I said, sweetie, look, I'm I'm not
in the game of returning anything, especially live trees. I'll
just buy another one. She goes, no, we'll give you
another one. And they gave me another one. It was
very nice to them.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Well, first of all, the argument of how long ago
did you buy? It's like you sold it just before Christmas?
Are you telling me you're selling any trees? They were nice,
inspire at Christmas.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
They were very nice about it. They give me a
brand new, beautiful tree. Left me long time for them.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I always go for I have a sentimental thing about
the real ones. I go for the Charlie Brown tree.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And then once one winter we went to Oregon, right
at Christmas, we got a tree. And I go into
Low's big loads fan and I see a tree that's
nine feet or eight feet and has a price tag
on it, and somebody was goofing with everybody because the
price tag said one dollar. And so I said to
(29:17):
the guy, I go, hey, this somebody put this goofy
tag on it. How much is this tree? And he goes,
that's a dollar? And I said, how is that a dollar?
He goes, well, it's December twenty second. If I don't
move these trees, I got to pay someone to take
them out of here.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
So one dollar. We bought a Christmas tree for one dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
That's the way to do it. If you can hold out, yeah,
one buck, But then you leave that tree up long
after Christmas to get your money's worth.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I try to get I'd try to put the warm water,
the sugar, the aspirin, you know, the fluids. I really
I got this thing on life support. You like a horticulturist,
that's right, or at least the first part of that.
But I love the smell when you come downstairs or
you come home from outside of that of the pine,
and that you know that new beautiful scent ox Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yes, that that that smellman, you can replicate, and.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It just it looks better for some reason, you know that.
I don't know what it is. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I think what it is. I just like going out
and searching. I hate buying at the first place we stop.
I like to go like five or six places, have
a coffee. Look around. It's raining or it's snowing up
in Oregon. It's just a beautiful thing to do, great
thing to do.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
You want to hug a real Christmas tree?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That's right, that's exactly right. All right.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Time down, have some fun.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
The rain's coming in and unless you live in a
burn scar area, you are going to enjoy the rain.
If you live in a burnscar area, well it's going
to be a long weekend for you, a long, long weekend.
There are already warnings going out about evacuations, voluntary evacuations.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I got one on my phone today.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I saw something come across the television set earlier. We
are in for a lot of rain over the next
five days. Thursday, it's already started early in the valley.
There's some drizzling today, a little drizzling action in the valley.
But Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, we might have
(00:54):
six straight days of rain, six days of rain. It's
important that people know this because if again, if you
live in an area that was burned out last January
and that's almost a year.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Ago, if you can believe that that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Then you've got to be very aware of what's going on.
A lot of this rain is expected to come in
the very in the wee hours of the night when you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Might be sleeping.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So it's going to be there's going to be some
sleepless nights for a lot of people in the Altadena area, Arcadia, Pasadena,
Pacific Colisades, Malibu, the people that got really hit with
those two radical fires in January. You have got to
be aware, your family's got to be aware, your friends.
So we are going to give you as much information
(01:44):
as we can when this rain's going to come in
and how much what I'm seeing.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And that's the key to what you just said there
is that it doesn't look like for the most part,
it's going to be a ton at any given time.
Oh good, But as you say, the fact that I'm
looking at the end ws now National Weather Service, and
they got chance to showers all the way through at
least Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And some days they're looking at more than almost two inches.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, and in the foothills in exactly the places that
you're talking about the fire.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Area, Yeah, exactly. And in the foothills they're looking at
two to four inches in some of the foothills. So
here's what according to my cell phone, which is pretty
pretty accurate.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Doesn't lie to you, No, not really.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Not really, Croms.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's all starts tonight around midnight, and then it'll continue
all day tomorrow. Two inches in the valley flats, which
means the five freeway is going to close, because the
five Freeway always closes when there's more.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Than eight drops in the valley.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So Thursday, all day, from midnight tonight until midnight Tomorrow night,
nothing but rain. And then Friday, I'm sorry, let's go
through this again. Thursday, it's not gonna heavy rain, is
not going to start till late late Thursday day is
going to be the heavy rain somewhere after around six pm. Again,
(03:04):
this is according to my trustee cell phone.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And they had moved that down because initially they were saying,
like yesterday that it was going to come in late
tonight or really tomorrow morning. So they moved it forward
about twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, and then it's going to be all day Friday,
from midnight to midnight, all day Friday, all day Saturday,
and all the way until one o'clock on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So you have Friday Saturday.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
All day rain, all night rain, and then Sunday until
about about one o'clock or so two o'clock and then
a little bit a dusting on Monday between eight am
and noon, and then on Tuesday in the wee hours
of the morning from about two o'clock till five o'clock.
All right, let's find out what's going on with Danny Romero.
(03:48):
What's going on with that rain.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
You can see things in the rain that's in play,
But look at this what you're seeing. Here's a lot
of moisture showing up that's on the ground right now,
or I should say not hitting the ground zones virga.
And that's going to be the rain that you're gonna
feel much later when it does hit the ground, and
quite a bit still coming our way. So we're gonna
be tracking all that for you. On the temperatures, we're
gonna stay fairly mi out here. And they see the
cloud cover widespread, so seventies in Lancaster, Palmdale, Victorville. There
(04:13):
cooler on the coast right now, sixty six and San
Clementi sixty nine for Long Beach, sixty four in Santa Monica,
sixty five for Dandobe. So here's not going to set
up for us. The next couple of days or so,
we'll see some rain moving in late tomorrow. The cloud's
building more and more today and into Thursday, and then
by Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now I've seen.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
The really heavier rain and we're talking about some pretty
good amounts.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
One to two inches on Friday. One to two inches
on Friday is a big deal.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
And that's kind of just the beginning, because there's still
more to come.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We head into now Saturday. Now we got more intense.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Rain building up besides the heavy stuff on Friday, more
so on Saturday, more rain added on. So flooding could
then be a concern for us over southern California.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And then in Malibu and Pacific Palisades especially and Altadena
looking at pot pssible mud slides Friday and Saturday when
the heavy rain comes in.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
As we're at fire Station seventy in Malibu, this is
one of several areas that people can come and fill
up sandbags to try and protect their property. There's actually
a bit of a problem here this morning. They had
a pound of about one thousand sandbags like this out overnight.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Someone that technology really hasn't improved over the last thousand years.
She's literally putting sand in a bag and tying it
off and taking it home maybe ten thousand years. All
these other technologies haven't improved.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You know. The TV set isn't what it used to be.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You know, it's not a seven hundred pound tube that
you have to drag, you know, through the house to
and it takes three minutes to warm up before you
can watch it. That's improved a lot. Computers obviously improved
a lot. But the sandbag other than that new one.
That home depot sells quick Dam. That's like the newest technology,
(05:55):
but they're a little expensive. They do work really well.
We have three or four met home last couple of years.
During the rain, they do work. The quick dam it's
called quick dam. It weighs about a pound and a half.
They stretch out to about ten feet long, and then
they absorb water and then they actually become their own
sand bags as more moisture and more water, you know,
(06:18):
soaks into them. And it's really a great way to
protect your house. I don't know if there's any left
at Low's at home Depot, but if you can get
in there, it's called quick Dam. They're about thirty thirty
five bucks and it'll be the best thirty to thirty
five bucks you've ever spent, if it can save you, you know,
from having to change your carpet out or your hardwood
floors because your home is soaking.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wet took all of them.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
So anyone showing up here this morning had no way
to get all this sand into a bag to get
it back to their property. They had to drive to
another location, get another pollet of bags and bring it
out here.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And you know, and these men and women who are
in their eighties, they can't fill up a forty pounds
sand bag and take it home. I hope there's some
people out there helping the older folks out with doing this.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
They are once again on site also the Malibu Library.
But as folks here in Malibu discovered back in February,
even if you have sandbags lined up, sometimes a wall
of mud coming down a hill, it's not gonna stop
what's coming down. Like we saw several months ago here
in Malibu. There are two twenty twenty five dates etched
into everyone's mind. One, of course, is January seventh, when
(07:23):
the Palisades fire ripped through town. The other is February thirteenth,
when a storm caused massive mud slides down the hillsides
above nearly wiped us out. Duke's Malibu was completely overtaken
by mud, and here we are eleven months later and
they're still not open.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
If you told me it would take you this long,
I told you we were crazy. We were initially thinking
partial by July and fully by maybe Labor Day, And
now you know, I'll be getting into twenty twenty six,
maybe by the year anniversary.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
With another major storm coming this week, Caltrans put up
k rail to try and prevent the same thing from
happening again.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
We jetted all of our drains. We'll do some stuff
on the roof. It's like you said, like you're saying
right there too, you minimize interior leaks.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You know, you may remember this also at Dukes there
was a fireman, I think it was a fire captain
driving one of those white SUVs, and the mud came
down and knocked him into the Pacific Ocean, him, his car,
his gear, right into the ocean. He ended up in
the Pacific. He made it, He survived. But man, is
that water powerful when it comes off these hills.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
But it's really, like I said, just keeping the water out.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
And it's hard.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We don't want a lot of mud back on this
property no.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Right across pch Lynn Biehler saw mud inundate her Malibu
Bungalows flower shop back in February. It took her weeks
to clear it all out.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's called one wheelbarrow at the time.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Today she went to get sand from nearby Station seventy
and lined her property with sandbags.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
We're all working really hard to bring this part of
Malibu back, So it is a struggle.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's a struggle.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, Malibu has been hit really hard with fires and
then floods now we got this weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's tough out there.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Remnants of the fire remain in this part of Malibu.
You can see trees having burn scars. In fact, this
hillside you can see has given way recently. That again
is the concern here. La County issuing an evacuation warning
for recent burn scars, including the Palisades burnscar that specific
Palisades and Malibu. The hope is that the hillsides hold
Everything that could have come down came down back in
(09:21):
February in our spring storms. But with the amount of
rain that is coming this week, there was a lot
of concern, a lot of anxiety that we might have
a repeat of what we saw back here in February.
We'll see if people utilize these sandbags, the k rails
and just have a go bag ready in the event
you're forced to evacuate. For now, we're live in Malibu,
Jury Rand ABC seven. I would discside all right.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
We're going to keep you updated all day today, Tomorrow
and Friday with this rain. So this is one of
those times where you got to keep it on KFI. Now,
normally you could enjoy music and on your ride home.
Not today, Not today. It's KFI today, KFI tomorrow, KFI
Friday and throughout the weekend. We'll have people here all
weekend monitoring the rain, the possible mud slides all weekend
(10:03):
from now until this storm leaves. You must keep it
right here on six forty AM, which is kfive.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Welcome to the program. Michael Monks, Hi, you bub my
pleasure to be here on this rather dreary Wednesday. We're
keeping an eye on this now. I know where you
come from. Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Rain is not news, no, unless it we're threatening the
Ohio River to crest.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Right, I went to I was I've been to Cincinnati
and Cleveland and Columbus, and remember being in Cincinnati at
a baseball game and they said, there's a tornado watch
that turned into a tornado warning. They stopped the game
for about eight seconds blue by and then they continue
(10:53):
the game.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, we're a different breed there. We're tough, very tough. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean we had what a half an inch here
a couple of weeks ago. Everybody was in meltdown. But
I don't criticize different parts of the country when they
have weather that's not as extreme as what we've experienced,
because you just have different topography. Sure, you have different
types of expectations and different regularity when it comes to
(11:15):
this type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And on the other hand, if you guys ever get
a three point four earthquake, that's the talk that month long.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We did. I think the last time was like twelve
years ago. A nice little shaker, you felt it, right,
no damage, nothing serious, but something like what would be
a regular old Tuesday here in southern California was definitely
the talk of the town for like four days.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
All right, let's talk Rent. What are they doing downtown
with Rent?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well up? There's something called rent stabilized units. In the
city of Los Angeles. There's more than six hundred and
fifty thousand of these things. That means that the rent
can only be raised a certain amount of money. I
don't live in one of those units, so my landlord
can email me when the lease is up and say,
your rent's going up a thousand bucks. I don't have
that protection. A lot of renters do have a protection.
(12:01):
Right now. That cap is eight percent. Oh, that's a lot.
So the rent can't go up more than eight percent.
And there are folks who would agree with you that
eight percent is a lot, except for the fact that
the people own the properties are saying, look, rents have
not gone up that much in recent years. They're staying
in they're aligned with the market. And we're also getting
(12:24):
hurt on cost. The cost of owning buildings has gone up.
Insurance is expensive, utilities are expensive. The city's jacked up
cost related to trash collection and sanitation and other things
like that. So we can't have any types of restrictions
that are this extreme. The proposal tim was to cap
(12:46):
the rent increases at three percent. That sounds better, as
low as zero percent, as long as it kept up
with no more than sixty percent of the rate of inflation.
So it's kind of a weird math thing. And that's
how it was presented at City Hall today. You had
a lot of people go out to speak, tenants coming
out to speak, and property owners and pure property managers
(13:07):
coming out to speak. It looked like Congress. You had
one side on one side of the City Hall and
the other on the other side. You'd have applause at once,
like the State of the Union. Right.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But the problem with that, mister Monks, is that when
you do have these, when you establish these these ceilings
for rent, a lot of these landlords will hit the
ceiling because they don't know ten years down the line
if they go zero zero, zero zero, and then they're
here with a big bill, they'll go, oh, we can
only get eight percent. So they will do eight percent
every year. And let's say you pay three thousand dollars
(13:37):
a month in downtown ally, which is not unusual, right,
And so the very first year it goes to thirty
two forty, then two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine ten. In ten years, the three thousand dollars rent
is sixty five hundred dollars a month in ten years.
In ten years, yeah, and that's too much.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
They just did this thing in Burbank where they set
this feeling at four percent. They did overnight. They didn't
really ask many people, and they said four percent. You
can't do more than four percent. Well, a lot of
the people own these buildings immediately put in the four percent,
and they'll do that every single year. So the rent's
going to go up more with these with these you know,
with these caps.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The other potential fallout is folks who own apartments that
are rent stabilized may sell their units and may have
them sold to folks who don't participate in this type
of program, so you might have fewer of those properties
that are available. There were folks who were talking about
getting out of this business because of the restriction. There
was also a point made by Councilman Monica Rodriguez, who
(14:38):
did ultimately vote in support of this cap, which was altered.
I should note it was marked at four percent right
with ninety percent of the rate of inflation, so it
was a little bit better than what the property owners wanted,
a little bit worse than what the tenants wanted. So
there was a compromise made on the floor. But she said,
(14:58):
this city makes it very expensive to live here. So
when we talk about the cost of living, we need
to be talking about the trash hikes and the taxes
and those sorts of things that we have established here.
That is also on our hands.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But eight percent is astronomical. I mean, you know, eight percent,
you're quickly going to double your rent in you know,
seven or eight.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But the example you gave him was of a market
rate rent, right, And so I pay a market rate
and I'll just tell you I pay twenty three hundred
dollars a month. That's pretty good pride off, not a
bad price. It's a decent apartment, good thousand square feet
loft in downtown LA. It's skid row near right right,
So that's you know, there's a bit of a trade off.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
When you rented it, did it say skid skid row adjacent?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
No, that would be a bad real estate agent and
put that in there. It said it said fashion district.
All right, you stay about it, say yeah, we're going to.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Talk about because they voted on something else today, okay,
vote on something else. And you were a hero over
the last time we talk about that. Yes, yes, and
I'll I'll tell you why. This man sitting in front
of me saved a life and he doesn't really wanted
to talk about but I'm gonna try to drag it
out of on Now. This is all right, it's Conway
Mom selling it. We're live on KFI.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You're gonna be on with a lot of rain this weekend.
You got a rain talk. We'll keep an eye on
that if it's still coming down on Saturday, and if
there's any trouble anywhere, we'll have the latest all day
long on KFI.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
All right, I don't think I oversaw this. I know
you accused me of doing that, but I think that
the audience needs to know that.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You saved a life. I saved an animal. Okay, that's
a life. It's a life. She's somebody, she is.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, And there was a cat on skid row and
you and your spouse saved that cat and adopted it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We'd seen this cat for a few nights, hanging down
the parking lot and skid row, as we noted my
apartments skid row near Okay, so I'm far from skid
row a block. In fact, my part, my parking lot
is now surrounded by tents. Skid Row is absorbing the
fashion district. Has skid Row gotten closer to you since
you've been down there? Okay, yeah, maybe let me find absolutely. Yeah,
I mean all my neighbors live in tents, Okay, basically, yeah,
(17:04):
And so there and there are animals on skid Rush.
Sure people have dogs and they live in the tent.
But I saw a couple of cats hanging outside, and
it's kind of heartbreaking. So like, let's go see if
we can drop a little bit of food, you know,
And we did on Sunday, left a little bit of
food for this gray cat who was very small and
this orange cat who looked to be a little more grown,
(17:26):
and put the food out. They didn't want to come
near us, so we walked away and they went and
they ate it. When I left here on Monday and
got home, I saw the gray cat again walking around
looking for something to eat. Right, So I go in
the little tea and at the bottom of our apartment
and I buy a little can a big can actually,
of wet food, and I take it over to this
(17:46):
cat and This cat eats every I mean licking the
crevices of this can. This cat is starving, maybe maybe
the first can of food he's ever had. Completely. We
have a cat, my little free Holdies. It lives upstairs
with us and loves to watch the cats from the window.
But I called the spouse and we were thinking about
getting a new cat. Anyway. In fact, that day we
(18:08):
had gotten text messages from a friend of a friend
who's like, I've got some kittens, come take a look,
and we were going to perfect time. I saw this
cat starving, and after she ate, she came over and
just started rubbing on us and purring and falling on
the ground. It's like, go get the kennel. We go,
get the kennel. We bring it down, she gets right
in it. She had enough. Yeah, and she has this
(18:31):
meal like a cat that you would expect to have
on skid row where life is rough. It's smokers. Yeah,
I mean she's had, she's been around the block. Okay,
so she's filthy also, So we take her up and
we immediately try to wash her. Here's the problem. We
already have a cat, and we live in a loft
apartment and they tell you if you're getting a second cat,
(18:52):
this has to be sort of uh need intervals, intervals.
These cats they'll get along fine after a while, deally, ok.
But at first you've got to have maybe the new
cat in just one room. We only have one room.
So I'm at Walmart in Southgate at nine thirty at
night trying to find something that I can keep this
(19:12):
cat in. And I find a dog pen that's meant
for a yard, and I bring it up and I
put her in. We could a blanket over top of
it to make her feel secure. She was in there.
She ended up being comfortable all night long. It was
wow wow, And the cat. Milo's looking at this cat like, oh,
kissing at it a little bit, but not too much. Zoo.
(19:33):
Completely complete madhouse. I had to call in sick to
work yesterday. Yes what I was honest, I was like, love,
I saved a cat. I've got to get it to
the vet today. And that's what we did. Found out
it's a girl. Oh good, Okay, what was the other cat?
Is the other cat of girl? A boy? Boy? Okay?
Now this cat we have named dos oh like as
(19:55):
in number two, number two? Okay, do well. We thought
it was a boy. I thought it was a good uh.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
And what was what was that number two?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes, it's exactly a little a little turd. Uh, yes, absolutely,
So we thought it was a boy. I thought it
was a boy and so does sound like a cute
name for a boy cat? And now she's stuck with
this moniker. But she's healthy, no fleas, none of that.
But she is apparently missing her front teeth, not the incisors,
but the little tiny feet that they have. But she's
(20:24):
young enough where they'll still grow. Yeah, but I also
learned she's she's she may have been had by a
male cat. Oh no, streets at are very young age,
because they have little marks on the back of her
neck where the male cat kind of holds on. Oh
my god. Like this poor tramp has been all over
skid run and you saved her, brought her in. That's great.
A skid row hooker cat.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
And maybe that maybe that that kitten's transitioning. Did you
think about that?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I hope not. I can't deal with that right now.
It's enough drama just bringing two cats, and I don't
need any like social pressure. And so when you left today,
you left them both in trouble, and I know the
listeners are going to call in, and rightfully so, because
this cat did not like being in the kennel. The
cat likes being under the bed. When would let her
out to kind of snip around, she'd go right under
the bed and stay there. Milo had kind of kept
(21:09):
his distance while monitoring her occasional hissing. We both went
to work today and we left dos under the bed
and Milo is out, So in about thirty minutes, i'll
know if they're still alive. They'll be alive.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
They may have had one fight, but they'll go to
their separate corners. And Buddy, it really breaks my heart
when I see dogs and cats outside and strays and
on their own, because you can see it in their
eyes that they don't want to be there. And you
saved the life, Buddy, You save that cat's life. And
(21:42):
I hope that cat brings you as much joy as
you brought that cat.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I hope so too. She does like us. She's just
a little scared and a little confused. That's all to
be understood, So we're giving her time. It took time
for Milo, right Milo loves us now loves us so
much he runs all over our bodies all night long. Fantastic, buddy,
I think.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I look, it's I wish that I could do that more,
you know, go out there and get We have one
dog right now, and she's sixteen years old. She you know,
she's on every time we go home or every time
we wake up. We can't believe she's still alive.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So we're waiting and waiting and waiting. It's not time
for us to introduce a new animal yet because that
that cat's on.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Its last Our dog is on its last leg.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But as soon as that dog does pass, we'll go
through the morning process with that, and then we're gonna buy.
We're gonna either adopt or get some another animal. Come
on down to my neighborhood. You can find one at
no cost. Because, man, I can't tell you how much
joy those animals have brought me in.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I've never been a pet person. I didn't grow up
with pets, and so this first cat was a completely
new experience for me. It took a while for me
to get adjusted to this. But you're right, and there
are times when you come home and you think I'm
responsible for this thing being alive every day. That's right,
that's right, And it loves me, yes, and I kind
of love it. They're the best. They're the best. All right.
We have something else we're gonna that's all right. You know,
(23:02):
the gondola project. I'll tell you this. The city council
doesn't have authority over it. But what they did today
is they voted to oppose it formally. La Metro will
ultimately consider the environmental impact report.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay, so this is only but twenty five years they've
been working on this. We don't build anything in this city.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
If you go to Vietnam, you go to South Korea,
you go to anywhere over there in the Asian area
of China, Japan, they build, They constantly build and improve
their's infrastructure and the lives of the people live there.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
We never do that here. We don't do it well.
I mean what we got the D Line extension delayed,
the people mover delayed. Do you want to talk about
the high speed rail project? Maybe one hundred and thirty
billion dollars? We got nothing nothing. Yeah, absolute monks. You're
a hero, and you're on seven to nine pm on Saturday.
I'll be here with all the all the rain, all right,
and give us updates on dose I will the full
(23:53):
story about Dulciberado.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
We'll see. I'll let you know how she did today.
All right on Saturday. All right, we're live on KFI.
It's thank you monks.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Rain is the big story, Rain, Rain, Rain, so you
must keep it here on KFI AM six forty. Have
we got something cool for everybody and for us as well.
We're going to Orange County. That's right, Me and Crozier
and Angel and Belli Oh, we're all going to the
(24:31):
Pastathon Smart and Final for the kickoff in your Belinda.
So it's gonna be Friday, a week from this Friday,
November twenty first, four to eight pm. We're going an
extra hour so people can slide by live, broadcast live,
and we'll have some special guests. We don't know who
they are yet, but people show. It's a twenty one
(24:53):
five hundred two one five zero zero or Belinda Boulevard
right off the ninety one freeway. I bet you know
where that is if you live in Orberlinda. That's your
Smart and Final. You know where it is. And we'll
be broadcasting Live to kick off the smart and final
taking donations in store for the KFI posaton. We'll be
(25:13):
there until eight pm. There's giveaways, food, samples, and special
gift bags for the first only for the first two
hundred and fifty people that show up, So you probably
don't have to get there at four to get a
gift bag.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You probably don't even have to get there by seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
We'll have plenty. We have two hundred and fifty of them. Bell, Yeah,
what's in that gift bag?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Do we know yet? Is she not there? What? What's
in the gift bag?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Do we know?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
For the orbitlanda giveaway? I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I thought that was your deal and you were going
to put that together.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I didn't and I don't even know. You want me
to find out?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
No, Nah, I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, I know you're not busy. I'm a busy all
I got plenty of time. Let me go find that out,
all right, thank you? All right?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
The big debate going on every single year Christmas trees,
real or fake?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Kroser, fake or real? What do you do Christmas trees?
What do you typically?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I've mostly done really?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm with you the smell of it, Yeah,
the feel of it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You can't replace that.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, And then.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Going to get it is also a tradition in our house. Yes,
we go as a family. We look, you know. I
always say, oh, this one's you know, a big chunk
is taken on the trunk. It's going to die. Let's
look for something mouse. Oh no, no, I'm telling you,
this one's gonna die.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Put it out of the car, put it on the car,
We'll take it home. It'll die in three days.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Then I'll take it back to Low's and I'll have
to get my money back and get another one I've got.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I've gotten into the habit of like going to like
Low's or something like that and just finding the crappiest
tree possible. And I've had them give it to me
before just because yeah, go ahead and just take that.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And but Jen and I have dabbled in the idea
of in the bullet and buying a really really nice
artificial one, like the aldic ones, which are just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, the altic ones are. If I could afford an
altic one, I'd buy one in a hard paton.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah. Yeah, we've you got to spend a grand to
get a good fake tree.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
That's in there in lies the rub. Yeah, we put.
I got a smaller, cheaper artificial one a couple of
years ago, right after we got our cat. But within
an hour the cat bit through the wire and the
whole lights were out. All the lights were out. So
these aldic ones, I know that won't happen because the
light is individual.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
But that's a true story. We went to Low's and
my wife and daughter loved this tree. It was like
the perfect Christmas tree. And I said, but there's a
chunk taken out of the base of it, out of
the trunk.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And I said, that's going to affect.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
The water, the water it absorbs, because water a tree
drinks from the outside. You know, the inside doesn't mean anything.
It's the outside, right below the bark. That's where all
the water gets absorbed in the tree. And when that
bark is missing, the tree is going to die. And
I said, this tree is going to die, because yeah,
we really like it. I said, yeah, but it's going
to die. Ye, put it on, put it on the car,
we'll take it home. Take it home, Put the lights on,
(28:04):
put the ornaments on. Three days later, after tons of
water and putting in the new tree and all this stuff.
Dead dead lights come off, bulbs come off, ornaments come off,
the stars come off, the flood, the icicles, everything comes off.
I take it back to Low's. I go, hey, this
thing died. And she said, well, how long if you
(28:25):
had it? And I said, sweetie, look, I'm I'm not
in the game of returning anything, especially live trees. I'll
just buy another one. She goes, no, we'll give you
another one. And they gave me another one. It was
very nice to them.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Well, first of all, the argument of how long ago
did you buy? It's like you sold it just before Christmas?
Are you telling me you're selling any trees? They were nice,
inspire at Christmas.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
They were very nice about it. They give me a
brand new, beautiful tree. Left me long time for them.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I always go for I have a sentimental thing about
the real ones. I go for the Charlie Brown tree.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And then once one winter we went to Oregon, right
at Christmas, we got a tree. And I go into
Low's big loads fan and I see a tree that's
nine feet or eight feet and has a price tag
on it, and somebody was goofing with everybody because the
price tag said one dollar. And so I said to
(29:17):
the guy, I go, hey, this somebody put this goofy
tag on it. How much is this tree? And he goes,
that's a dollar? And I said, how is that a dollar?
He goes, well, it's December twenty second. If I don't
move these trees, I got to pay someone to take
them out of here.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
So one dollar. We bought a Christmas tree for one dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
That's the way to do it. If you can hold out, yeah,
one buck, But then you leave that tree up long
after Christmas to get your money's worth.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I try to get I'd try to put the warm water,
the sugar, the aspirin, you know, the fluids. I really
I got this thing on life support. You like a horticulturist,
that's right, or at least the first part of that.
But I love the smell when you come downstairs or
you come home from outside of that of the pine,
and that you know that new beautiful scent ox Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yes, that that that smellman, you can replicate, and.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It just it looks better for some reason, you know that.
I don't know what it is. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I think what it is. I just like going out
and searching. I hate buying at the first place we stop.
I like to go like five or six places, have
a coffee. Look around. It's raining or it's snowing up
in Oregon. It's just a beautiful thing to do, great
thing to do.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
You want to hug a real Christmas tree?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That's right, that's exactly right. All right.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
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