April 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Alex Stone, NASA’s oldest active-duty astronaut is, for the first time, discussing his return to Earth after more than 200 days in space. He says weightlessness made him feel decades younger. Don Pettit recently wrapped up a 7-month-long mission to the space station and returned on a Russian made spacecraft. And he says he’s not interested in retiring. // Pet Influencers, several pet influencers are currently trending, particularly on Instagram and TikTok, with dogs and cats leading the pack // Michael Monks, Thousands of county workers march in downtown LA amid strike; arrests were made after traffic was blocked // Palisades Controlled fire testing set for Pacific Palisades area tonight thru Thursday / Mother’s Day spending increases $34.1 Billion dollars this year
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I AM six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app
AM six forty. It is the Conway Show. All right,
ding dong, we're here. It's Tuesday. Mark Thompson's not with
us today. I don't know if he's ever coming back.
I worry about that, gentleman. What's the story today with
(00:24):
with Mark Thompson? Why isn't he a bround today? Do
we know Billy?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And is hem? I A Oh, he's with his mom.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He knows his mom.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay, all right, right, all right, let's start with Alex
Stone here, Alex Stone from ABC News.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
How you bubb But his hand is doing okay today.
Everything's good there.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, he had some surgery and he's just I don't know.
I don't know why. I don't know if he's I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's it's been like four or five weeks. He hasn't
been around, and I don't know if he's gonna do
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I was talking to your brother and at iHeart in Columbus, Ohio,
today and they wanted me to tell you a dong ding,
not not ding dong, but dong ding too.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
You.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, I know there's a guy in Columbus that does that. Yeah,
because dog ding everybody. I'm like, oh, all right, well
I'll let him know, Alex Stone, you and I have
an interest in comment. I think space, right, sure, yeah,
I enjoy the vastness of it. You know, I heard
the other day that the closest galaxy to ours we're
(01:25):
the Milky Way, and I think it's Androra.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You know, it's one of those.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You're so smart. This is all sounding very smart. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So these two galaxies, our nearest galaxy and Milky Way
are approaching each other at five hundred million miles an hour,
and yet it's going to take a billion years for
this for us to collide with that other galaxy, or
maybe two billion years.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That's how big span is a big distance to go.
And the whole thing about infinity and it never ends,
it just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
He really doesn't have these new telescopes that are up there.
They're seeing far beyond billions of light years, further than
we've ever known existed.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Are wild, But.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Is Katy Perry an Anskerona.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now did you see the the the the video going
around with her where she plays the you know, the
crazy girl on Sarah Live. You know when they do
that that that song where they don't I'm Alice, I'm
Becky and then the last one any and they.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Do it with Katy Perry and I'll send it to you.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
It's great or a pot post on social Yeah, you're
here to talk about Bill Belichick's girlfriend Jordan.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
We're not answering that question. Sorry, we don't talk about that.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I saw everybody online go who thought that the Jordan
was this pole? If you look when she's talking a
lot of times, the shot is just this pole in
the corner, right, And they're like, we didn't know he
was dating a poll over there?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You know what for people just tuning in. Bill Belichick
used to coach the New England Patriots. Then he got
fired sort of and then he's on his own now.
But do you think it's weird that Robert krat is
never mentioned in the book or in the forward of
the book or in the notes of the book.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Like he was asked about that in the interview. I
just said, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And he said I it's weird.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It is weird, but as weird as that relationship of
his of you know, between that and have you seen
the video maybe a week two weeks ago where they
were on what looked like a practice field and she
called him over and started telling him how to do
it right.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's odd, but I is on.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
If you go back and look at the if you
have a time today, go to YouTube and look at
the trailer. It's a minute and a half for what
was the movie with Glenn Close Fatal Attraction?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Fatal Attraction. Tell me this isn't coming.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
She's twenty four, he's what seventy seventy three?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, their fifty year forty eight year difference forty nine
in one month, so they're forty nine years different. So
when she was born, he was forty eight. Wow, when
she turned ten, he was fifty eight. Seems seems hot.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It seems a lot like his pr guy And in
all these interviews that she's doing right. Sorry, we don't
talk about that. I'm sorry he doesn't do that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm not going to mention this on the AIRCA I
don't want to get in trouble. But are you did
you hear the rumors about who she really is.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
No, but make sure you don't say it on the air, Okay, okay,
because they don't. They didn't meet on a plane. Oh
I've read some of that. Yeah, all right. And then
nice clothing that they wore for the interview as well,
both he and her.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I know he looks like a mess. He's on CBS.
He's wearing shirts that have holes in it. Yeah, all right,
let's talk about we got time for you. I think
we got time here. NASA's active duty astronaut is here, hun.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Don Pettitt, oldest active duty astronaut, seventy years old. Well,
kind of like Belichicks came home two hundred twenty days
in space, came home a few days ago. But he
wasn't feeling so hot when he came home, so we're
only hearing from him now. He came in a Russian capsule,
landed in Kazakhstan, as they often do now, on one
(04:55):
of Russia's capsules to get him back. And he's talking
about this, but seventy years old. He said, the weightlessness
in space is amazing and they've got to study this more.
That it felt so good up there of no aches
in his bones and his muscles with weightlessness.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
He's saying this, it makes me feel like I'm thirty
years old again. And you know, you sleep in your bed,
you wake up in the morning and your shoulder eye
it's like, you know, on this neck is stiffer and
all that kind of stuff. Heels up because you're sleepy.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You're just floating.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Wow at your body, all these little aches and paids
at everything to heel up.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
They can sell a sleep number bed as much as
they want, but you can't get that right total.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know what gives you that kind of sleep ambient
as well.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
That's true, and then you have no aggs and pains. Yeah,
he touched down on his seventieth birthday. He has spent
five hundred and ninety days in space now over four
NASS emissions, and he's third on the list of the
most astronauts for time spent in space. But he just
loves being up there. Was he the guy that got
caught up there? Is that a different No? No, he didn't
he planned on this. Yeah, no, he was going to
(05:59):
be up there, but yeah, he said, look, he just
finally had to come home. The one thing he doesn't
get up there is to watch much of any TV,
so he doesn't know what happened on White Lotus. He
doesn't know, you know, Piper and the weird ancestual stuff
on that show.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
But he said, give him time.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Don't worry about catching up with with TV programs and
things like that after I come back and wait.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
They know the technology to stream, I mean I think
they do in some ways, but they they can't afford it,
not into it. Yeah, he doesn't want to pay the
twelve ninety five day because he's not a gold member
of the Marriott Club. But he says he's taste busy
by doing research up there, tinkers with things. He spent
three hours fixing a twelve dollars raiser because he had
the time to do it.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
But he got also limited supplies up there.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He took in those two hundred and twenty days he was
up there, six hundred and seventy thousand photos. Wow, can
you imagine what that photo sharing session that's going to
be like for family? When he says, sit down, let
me show you. But he said, it's just it's so
cool of.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
That when I'm looking out the window of just enjoying you,
it's like, oh wow, a meat here. Oh wow, look
at that man, there's a flash there.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
And oh, look at that a volcano going off? It
is like, okay, where's my camera? I got to record that?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
And then the one last thing.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
There was a lot of talk online for people who
watch all these landings and everything with how terribly he
looked when he landed in Kazakhstan, because he did not
look great.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
He looked like.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
He was really sick and frail and wasn't ate. And
he said, yeah, because he didn't feel well. That astronauts
get motion sickness as well. And he had to puke
when he landed.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And you know, he's weightless for two hundred and twenty days.
And I know you know this, but some of the
listeners not might not, but you and I are space idiots.
When you come down with the Russians, you hit the
Earth going about nine hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's cut a jolt there.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And all of a sudden those geez imagine that. But yeah, yeah,
he said. The good thing is in Russia they don't
like they do here, put the camera right on you. You know,
there's always a camera guy right there as they're pulling
them out of the capsule.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
There they cut away so he could throw up.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
And he said, you know, I didn't look too good
because they didn't feel too good. I was right in
the middle of him being the contents of my stomach
onto the steps that causes stand and that's my new
way of explaining what I was doing.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
So he's like, yeah, I didn't look go ahead, I
was puoking. But he says he feels good now. He's
not interested in retiring at seventy. He's going to keep
working in Nassay. He doesn't know if he'll go back
up to space again. But he played on the ground
helping other astronauts and doing research. But he says he
just loves it.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
What a life man. It's cool. Are you going to
Wango Tangos that you Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I still got to book those tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, all right, we'll see if you can hook you up.
All right, Okay, thanks Bob, appreciate it later.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Alex Stone with ABC News. That guy's cool, and up
until last week, I had no idea what he looked like.
He's been coming on us, coming on with us for
four years, and up until last week, I said, let's
see what Alex Stone looks like nothing like I thought.
I thought he'd be like a short, fat guy with
curly hair and glasses. And the guy's a stud you know,
(08:56):
probably you know, knocking it out over there KBC or ABC, ABC. Well,
I guess KBC. That's the network, right, isn't that the
TV station as well? Yeah, it's so silent.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Then I'm doing great, keep going.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
At least I didn't say the you know, the I
didn't talk about the other station that we're not supposed
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You get the memo. Don't mention KNX. You didn't get
that memo, memon, I'll show you mine. Somebody else's listening
to another station right now. That's right. Well, you know
Bellio spent the first hour listening to Coast there. You know,
mellow she ne's a decompressed after her fifty miles.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
All right, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's really popular nowadays, it's exploding on the internet. You well,
thank you, Belly. You're always very such a sweet woman.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I'm okay, but you're not going home.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Early. Fine, that's not how it works anymore. Bell.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You used to give me a complim like, ah, you're
so nice, why don't you go them early? And then
gone gone.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But what's really taken off.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
On the internet is pet influencers, people with pet shows
or pet podcasts. They're taken off like Gangbusters. Maybe we
should do a pet podcast.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Big the Tortoise has more than three million followers across Instagram, TikTok,
and YouTube.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I've got Big with me today.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
While he's the star, Five cats, along with the Dutch
shepherd and a euromastix lizard, make up the menagerie for
the account through the leaves, earning enough money to keep
Chasity Hobbs and her husband employed full time since twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Last year we made around four hundred thousand Way.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Off your pets, Off the turtles and the pets.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Yes what last year we made around four hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Wow, Wow, no wonder she's laughing.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
It really really surprised me.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Why did you decide to share with folks how much
you're earning as a pet blones are h good question.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Well, when I was a vet assistant, I had one
cat at the time, and I could barely afford his
vet bills when he got sick.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You got stung with a big vet bill, didn't you,
belly on? Yes? Forty five bucks?
Speaker 11 (11:23):
Well, and really it was six thousand. Could you have
had to pay for all the blood work before?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh my god, six six thousand dollars? Yeah? Don't you
see dogs? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But don't you think you're gonna gone to a local
shelter and bought six thousand dollars for the dogs. There
had to be a couple of healthy ones in the bunch.
Speaker 12 (11:40):
Not moosing mazy.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's not how it works.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh right, all right, So what's John's reaction when you say, hey,
we got to spend six grand.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
On the dogs?
Speaker 11 (11:50):
Well, that's why you haven't seen any packages show up
to the house from Amazon.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Okay. I kind of cut back a little bit.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
So when I got into this and realize just the
potential that there is to earn, and now I can
rescue more animals.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Oh that's cool. She's putting it back into more animals.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I like that.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Pobs, who started her career as a vet assistant than
a travel blogger, says, it's not about the money.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
My whole mission is just to help educate people on
proper care for you know, exotic pets, normal regular cats
and dogs.
Speaker 13 (12:22):
And special needs pets too.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, you know, I really like going to that pet co.
You know, they treat pets right over there, and everybody
in there's a pet person that people work there, people
chop there, people that you know are hanging out. They're
all pet people, and so they're all sort of mellow.
You know, if you have pets in your life, I
think you're mellower than if you don't.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I don't know. Maybe this was me.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Maybe it's a wrong observation, but I think it's right.
I think it's right.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Or three blind cats who lost their sight to disease
as kittens sat in a shelter for three years before
she adopted them.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Wow, three she adopted three blind cats.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Women are three.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Blind cats who lost their sight to disease as kittens
sat in a shelter for three years before she adopted them.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
At that woman deserves an adegirl, She deserves a trip
to the White House, not these football or hockey or
baseball teams.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
She should go.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
People should adopt more special needs pets. They're really no
different than any other cat.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
Globally, there were about three point five million active pet
fluencer accounts as of January of twenty twenty five, according
to Sprout Social. But unlike fashion or beauty content, posting
about your pets requires patience.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
How many hours do you put into this.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
Each day or each week?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Oh, there's a great question.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
All right, she makes four hundred thousand dollars a year,
but how many hours a day is she working with
these pets?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
How many hours do you put into this each day
or each week.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
Typically I'll spend about two or three hours in the
morning doing all the pet chores. I make all their
food homemade. I usually work between like four and five
hours a day and then back to pet chores at
the end of the day.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Pet content has always been popular online. According to Sulafa Zadani,
who studies global internet culture.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Even from the nineties, the earliest.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Memes imagine telling your parents that you graduate from college
global internet culture. Yeah, I got a degree in.
Speaker 13 (14:13):
Global internet culture.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I got a great degree in global internet culture. Dad.
Oh that's great. That's great. Let me put your mom
on global internet culture.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Even from the nineties, the earliest memes had like hamsters
and cats, we had that can I has cheeseburger and
low cats memes we had cats in the twenty and
tens and grumpy cat god dress his soul.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
She apploads creators who try to be true it sounds like,
grumpy Cat's gone.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
That's too bad, tens and grumpy cat.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Grumpy cat no longer with us.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Grumpy cat god dress his Soul's gone.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
She apploads creators who try to be transparent with their
audiences about how and why they make their content.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
The transparency, I think is very informative and frankly humbling
sometimes is because while we're seeing these huge numbers that
might be shocking to some of us, once we see
the amount of work that goes into it, I think
it begins to also make sense.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, I think you're right. So Kroker, do you have
you had a dog?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Did you get another one or cats or anything?
Speaker 14 (15:16):
I got two cats that my one dog passed away
about a year and a half ago, two years ago.
Now something like that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Is that the dog that Jen ran over? Yes?
Speaker 14 (15:25):
Yeah, it gotten to the point where he would just
lay down and not move for any real reason then
unless he absolutely needed to like food. And she pulled
into the garage and didn't see him laying there, and bang,
I get that just I mean, not the tire. He
was under the car directly because I saw a tail
sticking out from under the car.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I always remember that story. Dude, that's great.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I know Bellio's got cat dogs two dogs, two dogs,
Mazy and Muffin Mooso.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
And I tried getting you know, them to go viral
with their cute photos and everything.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, how'd that go?
Speaker 12 (16:05):
Not well?
Speaker 11 (16:06):
I only have like five hundred followers, but didn't really.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Pick up, didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Aren't those dogs trained to ring a bell to go outside.
Speaker 11 (16:13):
Whenever they have to go outside, they ring the bell
at the door and.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Then they go out and they make they make their
a mess.
Speaker 12 (16:19):
They do their thing good.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't know how you did that, but that's cool.
And I know Angel you've got dogs cats.
Speaker 12 (16:25):
Until it's not with us, it's Randy Fuller.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh okay, well, Randy, are you with us? Do you
have dogs or cats?
Speaker 15 (16:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Pets?
Speaker 11 (16:32):
My wife is so extremely allergic and has asthma produced
by the allergies, so we.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Stay away from it kills us. Though it kills us,
we'd love to have a dog.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I love the dogs. Cephush, you should get a dog.
You think about you think about getting a.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Dog or cat.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You know, I've been wanting to get a dog. You
should get a dog. You're only gone from the house,
like fourteen hours a day.
Speaker 16 (16:54):
I was gonna say, but I think a cat makes
more sense because I've gone so long.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, you should get a cat. Yeah, you should adopt
the cat. I think it'd be great. I think that'd
be good. Yeah, all right, we're gonna get Stephoo should cat. Anybody,
if you're gonna be gone fourteen hours a day, you
should get two they and keep each other coming. I
don't know about how many hours a day are you gone.
You leave away at your house at what time?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Noon? One? Round two?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay, two, and you're back home by midnight. Yeah, okay,
now you're gone ten hours a day. Two cats. We're
gonna get your two cats, okay, and maybe four, you know,
because there's lots of the show. We're gonna get your
four cats. All right, we're gonna get to steph fuosh
half a dozen cats.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
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Speaker 2 (17:41):
You got monks Michael Monks's but it's how you bought.
I am well, good afternoon to you.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Very busy afternoon in downtown LA. I saw that some
people were arrested with the strike. The county workers are
going on strike. What's the word.
Speaker 17 (17:55):
It was a chaotic day ye downtown, So that we
talked a bit about this yesterday ahead of this starting
and is now underway. It's in the middle of the
forty eight hour strike that the Service Employees International Union
Local Chapter, which represents fifty five thousand workers, they had
a rally outside the County building on Temple Street. It
was a big, huge rally, lots of people down there.
(18:17):
So it was already disruptive because they were in the
streets and blocking a lot of traffic and only takes
one street downtown to go down and it's just chaos.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Right, And they also blocked the on ramp or off ramp. Yeah,
you got a little saucy TODAYTL don't like that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
They don't like it, and so they did have a
permit for this thing.
Speaker 17 (18:33):
LAPED had tweeted out earlier this morning, Hey be aware downtown,
a lot of people coming. It is a permitted protest
that's coming. But By the time they went on their
march around downtown. They got to about fifth and Figuaroa Street.
About a dozen of them decided to sit in the
middle of the rook Oh for gods, shake and completely
stop traffic. And that's when the LAPD declared an unlawful assembly,
(18:54):
put about twelve of them in handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Mark. Now, nobody went to jail, but it looks like
they were and released.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
OK.
Speaker 17 (19:02):
This, of course, is a union that says the county
management is not negotiating with them in good faith for
a new contract. They're about a month overdue, working without
a contract altogether. They'd like a little more money. The
county's only offered, according to the union, a zero percent
cost of living rays wish.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
That doesn't add up a much. Yeah, that doesn't add
up to all.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Well, I do understand the union's position because according to
the guy that runs the union down there, he said,
the County of La annually spends about seven point three
billion dollars on non union labor.
Speaker 17 (19:35):
That's what they're claiming, is that there are contracts that
are being written for work that are supposed to be
done by the union. That's right, and that is frowned upon.
Unions don't like when union labor is given to scabs.
If you will, to use the parlance of the unions,
you're not supposed to be doing that. Now the county
disputes it. The county says we are negotiating in good faith.
(19:57):
We have offered annual bonus of about five thousand dollars.
We've offered a modest increase in pay. The union disputes that,
but the financial situation of the county is not good.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
We touched a bit on this yesterday and it got
worse today.
Speaker 17 (20:11):
We've been talking about that four billion dollar sex abuse
settlement because of what was going on at the juvenile
halls and in the foster care system throughout the county.
The Board of Supervisors approved that today, So that's now
official that the county is on the hook to pay
four billion dollars for more than six thousand, eight hundred
sex abuse claims in the county. And they say that's
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going to hurt our budget, not just this year but
until twenty fifty one.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, it's a huge amount of money.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
As a matter of fact, it's such a large chunk
of money that the lawyers representing those kids that were
abused said hey, we got to go easy on the
county because we could bkm.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's exactly it. I mean, it's too much.
Speaker 17 (20:52):
And so they have government financial fiduciary mechanisms that they're
going to tap into in order to pay this, but
they will be paying it out over the next what
twenty plus years, right, So if you're still on the
air in twenty fifty one, we'll talk about it when
they finally write the last check.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I hope to be.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
But they also it looks like the Feds are going
to reduce any money they give to local municipalities there
if they're harboring people who are here illegally. So these
cities and counties.
Speaker 17 (21:23):
President Trump has not taken kindly to areas that have
declared themselves sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. A federal court has
put the kibosh on that for now, but Trump is
not one to be happy with some of these judges anyway,
and is willing to ignore some of their rulings.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So that's an issue. And that's hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's a lot of money.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
And don't forget the palisades burned down Altadna burned down
the county. The county is estimated that's two billion dollars
of their money that they're going to be on the
hook for in order to fix that now that they're
hoping to get some of that back from the Feds
as well, but that remains to be seen. So a
pretty ugly picture on town of late today with these workers.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's getting wild here in La County.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Speaking of the fire though, they're going to set a
fire on purpose in the Palisades area to sort of
recreate what happened back on January seventh, and Bellio said,
we should inform people that it's just a fire that's controlled,
burned And I said, who are you going to inform?
Everybody's been burned out? You know, everybody's gone. Who you're
gonna inform?
Speaker 17 (22:25):
It's true, but it might be a bit triggering for
folks who are taking back there to see smoke coming
from that direction. They're not even letting folks like us
the media come near that to cover it.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh, is that right?
Speaker 17 (22:35):
Yeah, they just to stay away from it. We're just
testing some stuff here. Nothing to see.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
It seems odd though, like if there was a murder
in that area. You wouldn't shoot a guy to see
how that went down, you know, not if you were
a good detective.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
But they're going to start a fire, and I don't know,
it's bellio. We got to get there. What's the time
on that fire? Do we know? You know what time
they're gonna be.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
We're giving out a specific time because ATF is in
charge of this, so there's not a specific time.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
All right, but it's gonna happen right in the area
where the fires started on January seventh.
Speaker 17 (23:06):
Yes, okay, yeah, important to note that is the federal
government that that's doing this one right here. Locally, they're
more worried about their own budget. They got their own problems.
I mean, Temple Street is a poor place to be
right now, between La City Hall and the La County
Administration building.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
And not only did they lose two billion dollars during
the fire, but the reduction in property tax is also
going to think.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
They're losing that.
Speaker 17 (23:31):
We have seen a drop in tourism that's not going
to pick up anytime soon. We've seen a consistent drop
based allegedly on President Trump's feelings toward places like Canada.
Canadians used to come to southern California a lot. They're
not doing that so much. Property tax, business tax, tourism tax,
all that money is just dropping. And then when you
think about the layoffs that are happening at the city level,
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you're looking at a loss of potential improvements that would
make the place a little more attractive to business, sure,
to home owners, to tourists. And so how long is
this going to drag out?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well, they say that tourism is not going to pick
up until after the Olympics, where we show people that
LA didn't totally burn down.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, some would say LA burned down years ago. That's
that's true. All right, monks, thanks for coming in. Always
a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I know that you know that when you come in
and and bring the news with you, if it's during
a Trump speech, you like to be in there with
your maga hat on.
Speaker 17 (24:31):
So I appreciate you coming in. Yeah, thank you. I've
got a little hat hair from it today. Thanks for
thanks for overlooking that.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
All right.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The Palisades a control burn and it's going to happen
to night. So if you live in that area. Don't
flip out. There's a lot of guys around that can
put it out. Guys and gals. Sorry, they can put
that out pretty quickly if it gets out of control.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Hope, I hope you know.
Speaker 18 (25:02):
Seeing smoke and fire in the hills above the Palisades,
especially if you don't know that this was all planned,
especially as this community is dealing with the trauma from
January seventh, it could be really scary. So we're helping
spread the word. So it all starts tonight, and that's
when the ATF is doing what they're calling controlled fire testing.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
All right, it's called a controlled what control.
Speaker 13 (25:24):
Calling controlled fire testing?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Controlled fire testing. Let's see if the control is a
big part of.
Speaker 18 (25:31):
That controlled fire testing along the Tumescal Ridge Trail. That
trail is highlighted in yellow on this LA County Trails map.
Flames will span from School Rock north to Green Peak.
The LA Fire Department says it will be there before, during,
and after the testing to protect the environment and make
sure everyone is safe.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
So the public should avoid this area during that time. Certainly,
we appreciate your understanding and cooperation, but we just wanted
to inform the public that if you see flame on
the hillside in that area, there's no cost for concern,
there's no need to contact nine to one one.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You're going to get called the nine one one. I
guarantee you that.
Speaker 18 (26:10):
The testing today is happening in the same area where
I covered this overnight fire on New Year's morning.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It was Yeah, it was a New Year's morning that
there was a fire there. And they think that that
fire sort of reignited during the winds on January seventh,
and that's what control that's what caused all these thousands
of homes to burn to the ground.
Speaker 18 (26:30):
Was behind homes along the trail in the Palisades Highlands
and wasn't even ten acres in size.
Speaker 13 (26:35):
No homes were destroyed.
Speaker 18 (26:37):
That blaze was possibly started by fireworks, and then six
days later the deadly Palisades fire began.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Isn't that crazy how this all could have been prevented?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Does that make you if you're a homeowner in that area,
doesn't that make you furious that everything you're out, your house,
your memories, you know, the kid's school, your neighbors, your were,
your businesses, your stores, you go to all of it.
Gelson's the whole run everything could have been saved if
it wasn't for idiots lighting fireworks and then people not
(27:11):
properly putting that out, if indeed that was the cause,
and it sounds like that's what they're focusing on.
Speaker 18 (27:17):
And about a week after that, we watched ATF and
federal investigators in the same neighborhood in the Highlands focusing
on that same area of Tamescal Ridge Trail near Skull Rock,
trying to figure out if that New Year's fire could
be connected to the Palisades fire.
Speaker 13 (27:31):
Today, they along with.
Speaker 18 (27:33):
The LA Fire Department, will be back in this same
area for that controlled fire testing.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Okay, it's going to go on tonight, So if you
see fire and smoke in that area, it is a
controlled burn.
Speaker 18 (27:43):
Although ATF hasn't responded to our questions about why this
is happening, we do know they are still working to
determine the cause and origin of the Palisades fire. Pally Strong,
an advocacy group run by Palisades residents, is trying to
spread this message.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, here's the message.
Speaker 19 (27:59):
The biggest concern is that if any of the community
members are knowing about this through the social media, through
electronic media, please be sure to alert the rest of
the community that may not have that access and let
them know if they see smoke in the hills, let
them know, stay pally strong, it's okay, it's contained.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So they're trying to get the word out there. If
you know, somebody lives up there and they're not big
on social media, maybe they're not a huge KFI you
know regular, which I doubt, but some people aren't. Let
them know, you know, email them, send them a message,
maybe a law of a phone call it, and you know,
especially if it's grandma or grandpa. A lot of times
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they get the news a little bit later sometimes sometimes,
you know, not on social media. Before social media, you know,
we'd wait until you know, you get the news here
on KFI, of course, but the TV news always came
out at four pm. You wouldn't have any news during
the day until like four pm, five pm, and then
you get your news, but out twenty four today, Especially
(29:00):
if you're on social media, it's immediate, immediate. But a
lot of people, older people are not on social media.
They don't have Twitter or x or you know, Instagram
or Facebook or any of that stuff.
Speaker 18 (29:14):
For your perspective, the testing will happen on these hills
behind these homes that you see in the highlands. This
is really the closest we can get with cell service.
We do want to let you know that this controlled
fire testing will last through Thursday. Reporting in what will
last through Thursday?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
The controlled fire is going to go on for two days?
Speaker 13 (29:37):
Will last through Thursday?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Or are they just going to start individual fires, put
them out and start another one?
Speaker 18 (29:43):
Not almighty Reporting in Pacific Palisades, Brittany Helpe, NBC.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Four News Before you go, Brittany, Brittany, So you.
Speaker 11 (29:50):
Mentioned that it's got to last since Thursday.
Speaker 13 (29:52):
Do we know at what time the controlled fire testing
will start?
Speaker 16 (29:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
What's going on up there?
Speaker 18 (29:56):
We're not sure yet, Annabel. The ATF is just saying
this evening. A lot of times when they do these tests,
when officials like how Far have done controlled burns in
the past, they have to look at the elements and
make sure that the conditions are perfect and they're doing
it in the right spot. So usually guaranteeing a time
does it happen. All they're saying so far.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
Is this evening.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I don't know what they're going to gain out of it.
Obviously they're smart and they know what they're doing. So
maybe there's something there's knowledge to gain. But I think
if you start a fire up there now, you'll be like, hey,
nothing's burning, you know, can't really start the fire, Yeah,
because everything burned down on January seventh, so there's nothing
left to burn. But it's going to be tonight, I
(30:36):
don't know what time, but be aware of it tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Purpose.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They're starting fires on purpose, on purpose tonight, so be
aware of that and get the word out there so
people don't flip out. But they're going to get a
lot of calls to nine one one, a ton of
them because people just the information is getting out there
too late. If they had told us like a week ago,
maybe we could have done it for a week and
the word could get out there. But the news is
(31:02):
coming in lit a bit too late.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Mother's Day is next Sunday, A week from Sunday.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I believe. Isn't Mother's Day May eleventh this year?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I believe that's correct. And man's spending is going through
the roof on these mothers.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Wow, Well, Mother's Day's next Sunday, and Americans are opening
up their wallets when it comes to get here we go.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yes.
Speaker 20 (31:24):
According to the National Retail Federation, consumer spending is expected
to reach thirty four point one billion dollars this year.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Wow, is that right?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We're spending thirty four billion dollars on mom.
Speaker 20 (31:37):
Thirty four point one billion dollars this year. That's up
from last year and just shy of twenty twenty three's
record setting spending of thirty five point seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Thirty the most popular gifts.
Speaker 20 (31:50):
Remain flowers, greeting cards, and special dinners and brunches.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, at least we're all original with the gift for mom.
What are the big ones?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Now?
Speaker 20 (32:00):
The most popular gifts remained flowers, greeting cards, and special
dinners and brunches.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
All right, how original is that? Right?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Flowers?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Flowers? That was macaroni necklace? Is not in there?
Speaker 20 (32:13):
Greeting cards and greeting cards, special dinners and brunches and
a brunch.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
When I when I used to work at FedEx, they
actually had me and another team that was just for
mothers days?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 16 (32:28):
Send offs? And it was Sherry at the time. It
was Sherry's Berry's. That was like the big one. Oh yeah,
that's a big one. And flowers, and it was three
of us that had to deal with just those things.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Let me see, there's three hundred and thirty five million
people in this country, all right, so they said thirty
five billion dollars, So an average if everybody in the
country and wait, wait, let's multiply that by two, because
all right, so for all the men in this country,
it's an average of two hundred dollars per man in
this country.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
But not every man.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Has a mom who's still alive, or and so and
and if you know, I don't know. It's a lot, though,
two hundred and eight dollars for every man that lives
in this country is going to spend on Mother's Day. Now,
obviously there's some guys out there that are going to
spend more. You know, guys that get called cheating. They're
going to throw a necklace. They're going to be in
(33:28):
Tiffany's right around this time of year to try to
real mom back in to the relationship with some big
nugget around her neck, around her finger.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Didn't belly o you worked for the Lakers? Is that correct?
Didn't Kobe do that?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Didn't Kobe buy missus Brian a big rock yep were
you there at the time.
Speaker 12 (33:55):
I was covering the Lakers, Like, yeah, when that happened.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You were working with the Lakers when the whole Colorado
Kobe Bryant thing happened.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, really, y man? What was the tension like around
the Laker friends?
Speaker 12 (34:08):
Very very tense?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Really?
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Were you there for that big press conference?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
No?
Speaker 12 (34:14):
I did not attend.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You didn't. Wait, that was really you blew that off?
Speaker 12 (34:20):
Yeah, it wasn't my job to cover that.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Okay, all right, get angry.
Speaker 12 (34:25):
You know, we reporters that covered Okay, but you.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Would think that that's like everybody would want to go
look at that.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
You know. I remember where I was when I when
I came on TV.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
That was.
Speaker 12 (34:37):
What direction were you facing?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Let me see, I was probably facing south. I was working,
I believe when I saw that. I was working on
a production company on Woodman and Riverside, and I was
watching that press conference and it was a big and
it was on every channel, every channel.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, that was a big, big ass deal.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
But that there was some There was also rumor that
there was a big piece of jewelry that was purchased. Yes,
not on Mother's Day, but right around that time, sometime
after Yeah, did you ever see that?
Speaker 12 (35:09):
Yeah, she wore it to Laker games.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Oh really yeah, looked nice, beautiful.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
I could see it from across.
Speaker 12 (35:18):
It was gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I bet did you see that some idiots downtown painted
over a Kobe Bryant mural.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
Yeah, that's disgusting, that's horrible. But luckily Luca dauntset Is
how you pronounce is putting up five thousand dollars to
have it repaired.
Speaker 12 (35:34):
Oh that's cool, that's great.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
But man, so the people that did that don't know
who Kobe Bryant is and his daughter. They painted over
a mural like that. Ah, man, I don't know what's
going on with this city.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I could have a talk with this city. I wish
my mom was around. She could have come in here
and straighten the city out in about ten minutes. She
could really handle it. She could have really really done
a number on this city. And man, people would be
they would they would have turned around there that crazy
behavior in a second. All right, we're live on KFI
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AM six forty. It is the Conway Show. All right,
ding dong, we're here. It's Tuesday. Mark Thompson's not with
us today. I don't know if he's ever coming back.
I worry about that, gentleman. What's the story today with
(00:24):
with Mark Thompson? Why isn't he a bround today? Do
we know Billy?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And is hem? I A Oh, he's with his mom.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He knows his mom.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay, all right, right, all right, let's start with Alex
Stone here, Alex Stone from ABC News.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
How you bubb But his hand is doing okay today.
Everything's good there.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, he had some surgery and he's just I don't know.
I don't know why. I don't know if he's I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's it's been like four or five weeks. He hasn't
been around, and I don't know if he's gonna do
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I was talking to your brother and at iHeart in Columbus, Ohio,
today and they wanted me to tell you a dong ding,
not not ding dong, but dong ding too.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
You.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, I know there's a guy in Columbus that does that. Yeah,
because dog ding everybody. I'm like, oh, all right, well
I'll let him know, Alex Stone, you and I have
an interest in comment. I think space, right, sure, yeah,
I enjoy the vastness of it. You know, I heard
the other day that the closest galaxy to ours we're
(01:25):
the Milky Way, and I think it's Androra.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You know, it's one of those.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You're so smart. This is all sounding very smart. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So these two galaxies, our nearest galaxy and Milky Way
are approaching each other at five hundred million miles an hour,
and yet it's going to take a billion years for
this for us to collide with that other galaxy, or
maybe two billion years.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That's how big span is a big distance to go.
And the whole thing about infinity and it never ends,
it just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
He really doesn't have these new telescopes that are up there.
They're seeing far beyond billions of light years, further than
we've ever known existed.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Are wild, But.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Is Katy Perry an Anskerona.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now did you see the the the the video going
around with her where she plays the you know, the
crazy girl on Sarah Live. You know when they do
that that that song where they don't I'm Alice, I'm
Becky and then the last one any and they.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Do it with Katy Perry and I'll send it to you.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
It's great or a pot post on social Yeah, you're
here to talk about Bill Belichick's girlfriend Jordan.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
We're not answering that question. Sorry, we don't talk about that.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I saw everybody online go who thought that the Jordan
was this pole? If you look when she's talking a
lot of times, the shot is just this pole in
the corner, right, And they're like, we didn't know he
was dating a poll over there?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You know what for people just tuning in. Bill Belichick
used to coach the New England Patriots. Then he got
fired sort of and then he's on his own now.
But do you think it's weird that Robert krat is
never mentioned in the book or in the forward of
the book or in the notes of the book.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Like he was asked about that in the interview. I
just said, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And he said I it's weird.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It is weird, but as weird as that relationship of
his of you know, between that and have you seen
the video maybe a week two weeks ago where they
were on what looked like a practice field and she
called him over and started telling him how to do
it right.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's odd, but I is on.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
If you go back and look at the if you
have a time today, go to YouTube and look at
the trailer. It's a minute and a half for what
was the movie with Glenn Close Fatal Attraction?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Fatal Attraction. Tell me this isn't coming.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
She's twenty four, he's what seventy seventy three?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, their fifty year forty eight year difference forty nine
in one month, so they're forty nine years different. So
when she was born, he was forty eight. Wow, when
she turned ten, he was fifty eight. Seems seems hot.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It seems a lot like his pr guy And in
all these interviews that she's doing right. Sorry, we don't
talk about that. I'm sorry he doesn't do that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm not going to mention this on the AIRCA I
don't want to get in trouble. But are you did
you hear the rumors about who she really is.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
No, but make sure you don't say it on the air, Okay, okay,
because they don't. They didn't meet on a plane. Oh
I've read some of that. Yeah, all right. And then
nice clothing that they wore for the interview as well,
both he and her.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I know he looks like a mess. He's on CBS.
He's wearing shirts that have holes in it. Yeah, all right,
let's talk about we got time for you. I think
we got time here. NASA's active duty astronaut is here, hun.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Don Pettitt, oldest active duty astronaut, seventy years old. Well,
kind of like Belichicks came home two hundred twenty days
in space, came home a few days ago. But he
wasn't feeling so hot when he came home, so we're
only hearing from him now. He came in a Russian capsule,
landed in Kazakhstan, as they often do now, on one
(04:55):
of Russia's capsules to get him back. And he's talking
about this, but seventy years old. He said, the weightlessness
in space is amazing and they've got to study this more.
That it felt so good up there of no aches
in his bones and his muscles with weightlessness.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
He's saying this, it makes me feel like I'm thirty
years old again. And you know, you sleep in your bed,
you wake up in the morning and your shoulder eye
it's like, you know, on this neck is stiffer and
all that kind of stuff. Heels up because you're sleepy.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You're just floating.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Wow at your body, all these little aches and paids
at everything to heel up.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
They can sell a sleep number bed as much as
they want, but you can't get that right total.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know what gives you that kind of sleep ambient
as well.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
That's true, and then you have no aggs and pains. Yeah,
he touched down on his seventieth birthday. He has spent
five hundred and ninety days in space now over four
NASS emissions, and he's third on the list of the
most astronauts for time spent in space. But he just
loves being up there. Was he the guy that got
caught up there? Is that a different No? No, he didn't
he planned on this. Yeah, no, he was going to
(05:59):
be up there, but yeah, he said, look, he just
finally had to come home. The one thing he doesn't
get up there is to watch much of any TV,
so he doesn't know what happened on White Lotus. He
doesn't know, you know, Piper and the weird ancestual stuff
on that show.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
But he said, give him time.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Don't worry about catching up with with TV programs and
things like that after I come back and wait.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
They know the technology to stream, I mean I think
they do in some ways, but they they can't afford it,
not into it. Yeah, he doesn't want to pay the
twelve ninety five day because he's not a gold member
of the Marriott Club. But he says he's taste busy
by doing research up there, tinkers with things. He spent
three hours fixing a twelve dollars raiser because he had
the time to do it.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
But he got also limited supplies up there.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He took in those two hundred and twenty days he was
up there, six hundred and seventy thousand photos. Wow, can
you imagine what that photo sharing session that's going to
be like for family? When he says, sit down, let
me show you. But he said, it's just it's so
cool of.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
That when I'm looking out the window of just enjoying you,
it's like, oh wow, a meat here. Oh wow, look
at that man, there's a flash there.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
And oh, look at that a volcano going off? It
is like, okay, where's my camera? I got to record that?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
And then the one last thing.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
There was a lot of talk online for people who
watch all these landings and everything with how terribly he
looked when he landed in Kazakhstan, because he did not
look great.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
He looked like.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
He was really sick and frail and wasn't ate. And
he said, yeah, because he didn't feel well. That astronauts
get motion sickness as well. And he had to puke
when he landed.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And you know, he's weightless for two hundred and twenty days.
And I know you know this, but some of the
listeners not might not, but you and I are space idiots.
When you come down with the Russians, you hit the
Earth going about nine hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's cut a jolt there.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And all of a sudden those geez imagine that. But yeah, yeah,
he said. The good thing is in Russia they don't
like they do here, put the camera right on you. You know,
there's always a camera guy right there as they're pulling
them out of the capsule.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
There they cut away so he could throw up.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
And he said, you know, I didn't look too good
because they didn't feel too good. I was right in
the middle of him being the contents of my stomach
onto the steps that causes stand and that's my new
way of explaining what I was doing.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
So he's like, yeah, I didn't look go ahead, I
was puoking. But he says he feels good now. He's
not interested in retiring at seventy. He's going to keep
working in Nassay. He doesn't know if he'll go back
up to space again. But he played on the ground
helping other astronauts and doing research. But he says he
just loves it.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
What a life man. It's cool. Are you going to
Wango Tangos that you Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I still got to book those tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, all right, we'll see if you can hook you up.
All right, Okay, thanks Bob, appreciate it later.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Alex Stone with ABC News. That guy's cool, and up
until last week, I had no idea what he looked like.
He's been coming on us, coming on with us for
four years, and up until last week, I said, let's
see what Alex Stone looks like nothing like I thought.
I thought he'd be like a short, fat guy with
curly hair and glasses. And the guy's a stud you know,
(08:56):
probably you know, knocking it out over there KBC or ABC, ABC. Well,
I guess KBC. That's the network, right, isn't that the
TV station as well? Yeah, it's so silent.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Then I'm doing great, keep going.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
At least I didn't say the you know, the I
didn't talk about the other station that we're not supposed
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You get the memo. Don't mention KNX. You didn't get
that memo, memon, I'll show you mine. Somebody else's listening
to another station right now. That's right. Well, you know
Bellio spent the first hour listening to Coast there. You know,
mellow she ne's a decompressed after her fifty miles.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
All right, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from kf I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's really popular nowadays, it's exploding on the internet. You well,
thank you, Belly. You're always very such a sweet woman.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I'm okay, but you're not going home.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Early. Fine, that's not how it works anymore. Bell.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You used to give me a complim like, ah, you're
so nice, why don't you go them early? And then
gone gone.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But what's really taken off.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
On the internet is pet influencers, people with pet shows
or pet podcasts. They're taken off like Gangbusters. Maybe we
should do a pet podcast.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Big the Tortoise has more than three million followers across Instagram, TikTok,
and YouTube.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I've got Big with me today.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
While he's the star, Five cats, along with the Dutch
shepherd and a euromastix lizard, make up the menagerie for
the account through the leaves, earning enough money to keep
Chasity Hobbs and her husband employed full time since twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Last year we made around four hundred thousand Way.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Off your pets, Off the turtles and the pets.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Yes what last year we made around four hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Wow, Wow, no wonder she's laughing.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
It really really surprised me.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Why did you decide to share with folks how much
you're earning as a pet blones are h good question.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Well, when I was a vet assistant, I had one
cat at the time, and I could barely afford his
vet bills when he got sick.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You got stung with a big vet bill, didn't you,
belly on? Yes? Forty five bucks?
Speaker 11 (11:23):
Well, and really it was six thousand. Could you have
had to pay for all the blood work before?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh my god, six six thousand dollars? Yeah? Don't you
see dogs? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But don't you think you're gonna gone to a local
shelter and bought six thousand dollars for the dogs. There
had to be a couple of healthy ones in the bunch.
Speaker 12 (11:40):
Not moosing mazy.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's not how it works.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh right, all right, So what's John's reaction when you say, hey,
we got to spend six grand.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
On the dogs?
Speaker 11 (11:50):
Well, that's why you haven't seen any packages show up
to the house from Amazon.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Okay. I kind of cut back a little bit.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
So when I got into this and realize just the
potential that there is to earn, and now I can
rescue more animals.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Oh that's cool. She's putting it back into more animals.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I like that.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Pobs, who started her career as a vet assistant than
a travel blogger, says, it's not about the money.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
My whole mission is just to help educate people on
proper care for you know, exotic pets, normal regular cats
and dogs.
Speaker 13 (12:22):
And special needs pets too.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, you know, I really like going to that pet co.
You know, they treat pets right over there, and everybody
in there's a pet person that people work there, people
chop there, people that you know are hanging out. They're
all pet people, and so they're all sort of mellow.
You know, if you have pets in your life, I
think you're mellower than if you don't.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I don't know. Maybe this was me.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Maybe it's a wrong observation, but I think it's right.
I think it's right.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Or three blind cats who lost their sight to disease
as kittens sat in a shelter for three years before
she adopted them.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Wow, three she adopted three blind cats.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Women are three.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Blind cats who lost their sight to disease as kittens
sat in a shelter for three years before she adopted them.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
At that woman deserves an adegirl, She deserves a trip
to the White House, not these football or hockey or
baseball teams.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
She should go.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
People should adopt more special needs pets. They're really no
different than any other cat.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
Globally, there were about three point five million active pet
fluencer accounts as of January of twenty twenty five, according
to Sprout Social. But unlike fashion or beauty content, posting
about your pets requires patience.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
How many hours do you put into this.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
Each day or each week?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Oh, there's a great question.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
All right, she makes four hundred thousand dollars a year,
but how many hours a day is she working with
these pets?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
How many hours do you put into this each day
or each week.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
Typically I'll spend about two or three hours in the
morning doing all the pet chores. I make all their
food homemade. I usually work between like four and five
hours a day and then back to pet chores at
the end of the day.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Pet content has always been popular online. According to Sulafa Zadani,
who studies global internet culture.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Even from the nineties, the earliest.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Memes imagine telling your parents that you graduate from college
global internet culture. Yeah, I got a degree in.
Speaker 13 (14:13):
Global internet culture.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I got a great degree in global internet culture. Dad.
Oh that's great. That's great. Let me put your mom
on global internet culture.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Even from the nineties, the earliest memes had like hamsters
and cats, we had that can I has cheeseburger and
low cats memes we had cats in the twenty and
tens and grumpy cat god dress his soul.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
She apploads creators who try to be true it sounds like,
grumpy Cat's gone.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
That's too bad, tens and grumpy cat.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Grumpy cat no longer with us.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Grumpy cat god dress his Soul's gone.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
She apploads creators who try to be transparent with their
audiences about how and why they make their content.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
The transparency, I think is very informative and frankly humbling
sometimes is because while we're seeing these huge numbers that
might be shocking to some of us, once we see
the amount of work that goes into it, I think
it begins to also make sense.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, I think you're right. So Kroker, do you have
you had a dog?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Did you get another one or cats or anything?
Speaker 14 (15:16):
I got two cats that my one dog passed away
about a year and a half ago, two years ago.
Now something like that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Is that the dog that Jen ran over? Yes?
Speaker 14 (15:25):
Yeah, it gotten to the point where he would just
lay down and not move for any real reason then
unless he absolutely needed to like food. And she pulled
into the garage and didn't see him laying there, and bang,
I get that just I mean, not the tire. He
was under the car directly because I saw a tail
sticking out from under the car.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I always remember that story. Dude, that's great.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I know Bellio's got cat dogs two dogs, two dogs,
Mazy and Muffin Mooso.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
And I tried getting you know, them to go viral
with their cute photos and everything.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, how'd that go?
Speaker 12 (16:05):
Not well?
Speaker 11 (16:06):
I only have like five hundred followers, but didn't really.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Pick up, didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Aren't those dogs trained to ring a bell to go outside.
Speaker 11 (16:13):
Whenever they have to go outside, they ring the bell
at the door and.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Then they go out and they make they make their
a mess.
Speaker 12 (16:19):
They do their thing good.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't know how you did that, but that's cool.
And I know Angel you've got dogs cats.
Speaker 12 (16:25):
Until it's not with us, it's Randy Fuller.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh okay, well, Randy, are you with us? Do you
have dogs or cats?
Speaker 15 (16:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Pets?
Speaker 11 (16:32):
My wife is so extremely allergic and has asthma produced
by the allergies, so we.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Stay away from it kills us. Though it kills us,
we'd love to have a dog.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I love the dogs. Cephush, you should get a dog.
You think about you think about getting a.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Dog or cat.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You know, I've been wanting to get a dog. You
should get a dog. You're only gone from the house,
like fourteen hours a day.
Speaker 16 (16:54):
I was gonna say, but I think a cat makes
more sense because I've gone so long.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, you should get a cat. Yeah, you should adopt
the cat. I think it'd be great. I think that'd
be good. Yeah, all right, we're gonna get Stephoo should cat. Anybody,
if you're gonna be gone fourteen hours a day, you
should get two they and keep each other coming. I
don't know about how many hours a day are you gone.
You leave away at your house at what time?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Noon? One? Round two?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay, two, and you're back home by midnight. Yeah, okay,
now you're gone ten hours a day. Two cats. We're
gonna get your two cats, okay, and maybe four, you know,
because there's lots of the show. We're gonna get your
four cats. All right, we're gonna get to steph fuosh
half a dozen cats.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
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Speaker 2 (17:41):
You got monks Michael Monks's but it's how you bought.
I am well, good afternoon to you.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Very busy afternoon in downtown LA. I saw that some
people were arrested with the strike. The county workers are
going on strike. What's the word.
Speaker 17 (17:55):
It was a chaotic day ye downtown, So that we
talked a bit about this yesterday ahead of this starting
and is now underway. It's in the middle of the
forty eight hour strike that the Service Employees International Union
Local Chapter, which represents fifty five thousand workers, they had
a rally outside the County building on Temple Street. It
was a big, huge rally, lots of people down there.
(18:17):
So it was already disruptive because they were in the
streets and blocking a lot of traffic and only takes
one street downtown to go down and it's just chaos.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Right, And they also blocked the on ramp or off ramp. Yeah,
you got a little saucy TODAYTL don't like that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
They don't like it, and so they did have a
permit for this thing.
Speaker 17 (18:33):
LAPED had tweeted out earlier this morning, Hey be aware downtown,
a lot of people coming. It is a permitted protest
that's coming. But By the time they went on their
march around downtown. They got to about fifth and Figuaroa Street.
About a dozen of them decided to sit in the
middle of the rook Oh for gods, shake and completely
stop traffic. And that's when the LAPD declared an unlawful assembly,
(18:54):
put about twelve of them in handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Mark. Now, nobody went to jail, but it looks like
they were and released.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
OK.
Speaker 17 (19:02):
This, of course, is a union that says the county
management is not negotiating with them in good faith for
a new contract. They're about a month overdue, working without
a contract altogether. They'd like a little more money. The
county's only offered, according to the union, a zero percent
cost of living rays wish.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
That doesn't add up a much. Yeah, that doesn't add
up to all.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Well, I do understand the union's position because according to
the guy that runs the union down there, he said,
the County of La annually spends about seven point three
billion dollars on non union labor.
Speaker 17 (19:35):
That's what they're claiming, is that there are contracts that
are being written for work that are supposed to be
done by the union. That's right, and that is frowned upon.
Unions don't like when union labor is given to scabs.
If you will, to use the parlance of the unions,
you're not supposed to be doing that. Now the county
disputes it. The county says we are negotiating in good faith.
(19:57):
We have offered annual bonus of about five thousand dollars.
We've offered a modest increase in pay. The union disputes that,
but the financial situation of the county is not good.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
We touched a bit on this yesterday and it got
worse today.
Speaker 17 (20:11):
We've been talking about that four billion dollar sex abuse
settlement because of what was going on at the juvenile
halls and in the foster care system throughout the county.
The Board of Supervisors approved that today, So that's now
official that the county is on the hook to pay
four billion dollars for more than six thousand, eight hundred
sex abuse claims in the county. And they say that's
(20:32):
going to hurt our budget, not just this year but
until twenty fifty one.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
No, it's a huge amount of money.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
As a matter of fact, it's such a large chunk
of money that the lawyers representing those kids that were
abused said hey, we got to go easy on the
county because we could bkm.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's exactly it. I mean, it's too much.
Speaker 17 (20:52):
And so they have government financial fiduciary mechanisms that they're
going to tap into in order to pay this, but
they will be paying it out over the next what
twenty plus years, right, So if you're still on the
air in twenty fifty one, we'll talk about it when
they finally write the last check.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I hope to be.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
But they also it looks like the Feds are going
to reduce any money they give to local municipalities there
if they're harboring people who are here illegally. So these
cities and counties.
Speaker 17 (21:23):
President Trump has not taken kindly to areas that have
declared themselves sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. A federal court has
put the kibosh on that for now, but Trump is
not one to be happy with some of these judges anyway,
and is willing to ignore some of their rulings.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So that's an issue. And that's hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's a lot of money.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
And don't forget the palisades burned down Altadna burned down
the county. The county is estimated that's two billion dollars
of their money that they're going to be on the
hook for in order to fix that now that they're
hoping to get some of that back from the Feds
as well, but that remains to be seen. So a
pretty ugly picture on town of late today with these workers.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's getting wild here in La County.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Speaking of the fire though, they're going to set a
fire on purpose in the Palisades area to sort of
recreate what happened back on January seventh, and Bellio said,
we should inform people that it's just a fire that's controlled,
burned And I said, who are you going to inform?
Everybody's been burned out? You know, everybody's gone. Who you're
gonna inform?
Speaker 17 (22:25):
It's true, but it might be a bit triggering for
folks who are taking back there to see smoke coming
from that direction. They're not even letting folks like us
the media come near that to cover it.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh, is that right?
Speaker 17 (22:35):
Yeah, they just to stay away from it. We're just
testing some stuff here. Nothing to see.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
It seems odd though, like if there was a murder
in that area. You wouldn't shoot a guy to see
how that went down, you know, not if you were
a good detective.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
But they're going to start a fire, and I don't know,
it's bellio. We got to get there. What's the time
on that fire? Do we know? You know what time
they're gonna be.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
We're giving out a specific time because ATF is in
charge of this, so there's not a specific time.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
All right, but it's gonna happen right in the area
where the fires started on January seventh.
Speaker 17 (23:06):
Yes, okay, yeah, important to note that is the federal
government that that's doing this one right here. Locally, they're
more worried about their own budget. They got their own problems.
I mean, Temple Street is a poor place to be
right now, between La City Hall and the La County
Administration building.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
And not only did they lose two billion dollars during
the fire, but the reduction in property tax is also
going to think.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
They're losing that.
Speaker 17 (23:31):
We have seen a drop in tourism that's not going
to pick up anytime soon. We've seen a consistent drop
based allegedly on President Trump's feelings toward places like Canada.
Canadians used to come to southern California a lot. They're
not doing that so much. Property tax, business tax, tourism tax,
all that money is just dropping. And then when you
think about the layoffs that are happening at the city level,
(23:55):
you're looking at a loss of potential improvements that would
make the place a little more attractive to business, sure,
to home owners, to tourists. And so how long is
this going to drag out?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well, they say that tourism is not going to pick
up until after the Olympics, where we show people that
LA didn't totally burn down.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, some would say LA burned down years ago. That's
that's true. All right, monks, thanks for coming in. Always
a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I know that you know that when you come in
and and bring the news with you, if it's during
a Trump speech, you like to be in there with
your maga hat on.
Speaker 17 (24:31):
So I appreciate you coming in. Yeah, thank you. I've
got a little hat hair from it today. Thanks for
thanks for overlooking that.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
All right.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The Palisades a control burn and it's going to happen
to night. So if you live in that area. Don't
flip out. There's a lot of guys around that can
put it out. Guys and gals. Sorry, they can put
that out pretty quickly if it gets out of control.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Hope, I hope you know.
Speaker 18 (25:02):
Seeing smoke and fire in the hills above the Palisades,
especially if you don't know that this was all planned,
especially as this community is dealing with the trauma from
January seventh, it could be really scary. So we're helping
spread the word. So it all starts tonight, and that's
when the ATF is doing what they're calling controlled fire testing.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
All right, it's called a controlled what control.
Speaker 13 (25:24):
Calling controlled fire testing?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Controlled fire testing. Let's see if the control is a
big part of.
Speaker 18 (25:31):
That controlled fire testing along the Tumescal Ridge Trail. That
trail is highlighted in yellow on this LA County Trails map.
Flames will span from School Rock north to Green Peak.
The LA Fire Department says it will be there before, during,
and after the testing to protect the environment and make
sure everyone is safe.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
So the public should avoid this area during that time. Certainly,
we appreciate your understanding and cooperation, but we just wanted
to inform the public that if you see flame on
the hillside in that area, there's no cost for concern,
there's no need to contact nine to one one.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You're going to get called the nine one one. I
guarantee you that.
Speaker 18 (26:10):
The testing today is happening in the same area where
I covered this overnight fire on New Year's morning.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It was Yeah, it was a New Year's morning that
there was a fire there. And they think that that
fire sort of reignited during the winds on January seventh,
and that's what control that's what caused all these thousands
of homes to burn to the ground.
Speaker 18 (26:30):
Was behind homes along the trail in the Palisades Highlands
and wasn't even ten acres in size.
Speaker 13 (26:35):
No homes were destroyed.
Speaker 18 (26:37):
That blaze was possibly started by fireworks, and then six
days later the deadly Palisades fire began.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Isn't that crazy how this all could have been prevented?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Does that make you if you're a homeowner in that area,
doesn't that make you furious that everything you're out, your house,
your memories, you know, the kid's school, your neighbors, your were,
your businesses, your stores, you go to all of it.
Gelson's the whole run everything could have been saved if
it wasn't for idiots lighting fireworks and then people not
(27:11):
properly putting that out, if indeed that was the cause,
and it sounds like that's what they're focusing on.
Speaker 18 (27:17):
And about a week after that, we watched ATF and
federal investigators in the same neighborhood in the Highlands focusing
on that same area of Tamescal Ridge Trail near Skull Rock,
trying to figure out if that New Year's fire could
be connected to the Palisades fire.
Speaker 13 (27:31):
Today, they along with.
Speaker 18 (27:33):
The LA Fire Department, will be back in this same
area for that controlled fire testing.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Okay, it's going to go on tonight, So if you
see fire and smoke in that area, it is a
controlled burn.
Speaker 18 (27:43):
Although ATF hasn't responded to our questions about why this
is happening, we do know they are still working to
determine the cause and origin of the Palisades fire. Pally Strong,
an advocacy group run by Palisades residents, is trying to
spread this message.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, here's the message.
Speaker 19 (27:59):
The biggest concern is that if any of the community
members are knowing about this through the social media, through
electronic media, please be sure to alert the rest of
the community that may not have that access and let
them know if they see smoke in the hills, let
them know, stay pally strong, it's okay, it's contained.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So they're trying to get the word out there. If
you know, somebody lives up there and they're not big
on social media, maybe they're not a huge KFI you
know regular, which I doubt, but some people aren't. Let
them know, you know, email them, send them a message,
maybe a law of a phone call it, and you know,
especially if it's grandma or grandpa. A lot of times
(28:39):
they get the news a little bit later sometimes sometimes,
you know, not on social media. Before social media, you know,
we'd wait until you know, you get the news here
on KFI, of course, but the TV news always came
out at four pm. You wouldn't have any news during
the day until like four pm, five pm, and then
you get your news, but out twenty four today, Especially
(29:00):
if you're on social media, it's immediate, immediate. But a
lot of people, older people are not on social media.
They don't have Twitter or x or you know, Instagram
or Facebook or any of that stuff.
Speaker 18 (29:14):
For your perspective, the testing will happen on these hills
behind these homes that you see in the highlands. This
is really the closest we can get with cell service.
We do want to let you know that this controlled
fire testing will last through Thursday. Reporting in what will
last through Thursday?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
The controlled fire is going to go on for two days?
Speaker 13 (29:37):
Will last through Thursday?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Or are they just going to start individual fires, put
them out and start another one?
Speaker 18 (29:43):
Not almighty Reporting in Pacific Palisades, Brittany Helpe, NBC.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Four News Before you go, Brittany, Brittany, So you.
Speaker 11 (29:50):
Mentioned that it's got to last since Thursday.
Speaker 13 (29:52):
Do we know at what time the controlled fire testing
will start?
Speaker 16 (29:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
What's going on up there?
Speaker 18 (29:56):
We're not sure yet, Annabel. The ATF is just saying
this evening. A lot of times when they do these tests,
when officials like how Far have done controlled burns in
the past, they have to look at the elements and
make sure that the conditions are perfect and they're doing
it in the right spot. So usually guaranteeing a time
does it happen. All they're saying so far.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
Is this evening.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I don't know what they're going to gain out of it.
Obviously they're smart and they know what they're doing. So
maybe there's something there's knowledge to gain. But I think
if you start a fire up there now, you'll be like, hey,
nothing's burning, you know, can't really start the fire, Yeah,
because everything burned down on January seventh, so there's nothing
left to burn. But it's going to be tonight, I
(30:36):
don't know what time, but be aware of it tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Purpose.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They're starting fires on purpose, on purpose tonight, so be
aware of that and get the word out there so
people don't flip out. But they're going to get a
lot of calls to nine one one, a ton of
them because people just the information is getting out there
too late. If they had told us like a week ago,
maybe we could have done it for a week and
the word could get out there. But the news is
(31:02):
coming in lit a bit too late.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Mother's Day is next Sunday, A week from Sunday.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I believe. Isn't Mother's Day May eleventh this year?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I believe that's correct. And man's spending is going through
the roof on these mothers.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Wow, Well, Mother's Day's next Sunday, and Americans are opening
up their wallets when it comes to get here we go.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yes.
Speaker 20 (31:24):
According to the National Retail Federation, consumer spending is expected
to reach thirty four point one billion dollars this year.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Wow, is that right?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We're spending thirty four billion dollars on mom.
Speaker 20 (31:37):
Thirty four point one billion dollars this year. That's up
from last year and just shy of twenty twenty three's
record setting spending of thirty five point seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Thirty the most popular gifts.
Speaker 20 (31:50):
Remain flowers, greeting cards, and special dinners and brunches.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, at least we're all original with the gift for mom.
What are the big ones?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Now?
Speaker 20 (32:00):
The most popular gifts remained flowers, greeting cards, and special
dinners and brunches.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
All right, how original is that? Right?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Flowers?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Flowers? That was macaroni necklace? Is not in there?
Speaker 20 (32:13):
Greeting cards and greeting cards, special dinners and brunches and
a brunch.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
When I when I used to work at FedEx, they
actually had me and another team that was just for
mothers days?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Is that right?
Speaker 16 (32:28):
Send offs? And it was Sherry at the time. It
was Sherry's Berry's. That was like the big one. Oh yeah,
that's a big one. And flowers, and it was three
of us that had to deal with just those things.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Let me see, there's three hundred and thirty five million
people in this country, all right, so they said thirty
five billion dollars, So an average if everybody in the
country and wait, wait, let's multiply that by two, because
all right, so for all the men in this country,
it's an average of two hundred dollars per man in
this country.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
But not every man.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Has a mom who's still alive, or and so and
and if you know, I don't know. It's a lot, though,
two hundred and eight dollars for every man that lives
in this country is going to spend on Mother's Day. Now,
obviously there's some guys out there that are going to
spend more. You know, guys that get called cheating. They're
going to throw a necklace. They're going to be in
(33:28):
Tiffany's right around this time of year to try to
real mom back in to the relationship with some big
nugget around her neck, around her finger.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Didn't belly o you worked for the Lakers? Is that correct?
Didn't Kobe do that?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Didn't Kobe buy missus Brian a big rock yep were
you there at the time.
Speaker 12 (33:55):
I was covering the Lakers, Like, yeah, when that happened.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You were working with the Lakers when the whole Colorado
Kobe Bryant thing happened.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, really, y man? What was the tension like around
the Laker friends?
Speaker 12 (34:08):
Very very tense?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Really?
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Were you there for that big press conference?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
No?
Speaker 12 (34:14):
I did not attend.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You didn't. Wait, that was really you blew that off?
Speaker 12 (34:20):
Yeah, it wasn't my job to cover that.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Okay, all right, get angry.
Speaker 12 (34:25):
You know, we reporters that covered Okay, but you.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Would think that that's like everybody would want to go
look at that.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
You know. I remember where I was when I when
I came on TV.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
That was.
Speaker 12 (34:37):
What direction were you facing?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Let me see, I was probably facing south. I was working,
I believe when I saw that. I was working on
a production company on Woodman and Riverside, and I was
watching that press conference and it was a big and
it was on every channel, every channel.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, that was a big, big ass deal.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
But that there was some There was also rumor that
there was a big piece of jewelry that was purchased. Yes,
not on Mother's Day, but right around that time, sometime
after Yeah, did you ever see that?
Speaker 12 (35:09):
Yeah, she wore it to Laker games.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Oh really yeah, looked nice, beautiful.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
I could see it from across.
Speaker 12 (35:18):
It was gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I bet did you see that some idiots downtown painted
over a Kobe Bryant mural.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
Yeah, that's disgusting, that's horrible. But luckily Luca dauntset Is
how you pronounce is putting up five thousand dollars to
have it repaired.
Speaker 12 (35:34):
Oh that's cool, that's great.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
But man, so the people that did that don't know
who Kobe Bryant is and his daughter. They painted over
a mural like that. Ah, man, I don't know what's
going on with this city.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I could have a talk with this city. I wish
my mom was around. She could have come in here
and straighten the city out in about ten minutes. She
could really handle it. She could have really really done
a number on this city. And man, people would be
they would they would have turned around there that crazy
behavior in a second. All right, we're live on KFI
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