June 5, 2025 • 36 mins
NEWS WHIP: A new study by Bankrate shows just how much your location affects insurance premiums after a speeding ticket. Costco adds sweet & savory Chicken & waffles. Jimmy Buffett's Widow Sues to Remove Trustee of $275M Estate // ‘Unfortunately, Altadena is for sale’: Developers are buying up burned lots // 5 months after Eaton Fire, rebuilding permits are still being issued sluggishly in Altadena. 15-year-old boy at Campbell Hall dies after being pinned by SUV in school parking lot, police say // Nintendo Switch 2 hype leads to shortages, special store opening hours. Donkey Kong Nintendo Hotline
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Junior family has an offering. We spin the wheel to
see who will be first today, and it comes up
on Sharon be.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Seeing flashing blue and red lights in your rear view
mirror is stressful enough, but on where you live. The
real hit comes later on your insurance bill.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh my god?
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Am I right?
Speaker 8 (01:08):
So?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
A new study by bank Rate shows just how much
your location affects insurance premiums after a speeding ticket. Get this,
It's not always the states with the highest premiums that
see the biggest rate hikes. For example, New York has
the highest average full coverage premium over forty one hundred dollars,
but only bumps rates seven percent after a ticket. Meanwhile,
(01:29):
North Carolina drivers pay about two thousand a year, but
one speeding ticket can spike that by nearly fifty percent.
North Carolina uses a state controlled penalty system called the
Safe Driver Incentive Plan. Going just ten miles per hour
over the speed limit that's a forty percent hike. Getting
caught racing that's a three hundred and forty percent increase.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Other states with.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Steep steep rake hes rate hikes are California, Wyoming, and Massachusetts.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
On the lower end, you have Hawaii, Vermont, and New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh yeah, so I'm starting to think of maybe my
high insurance ray. I'm had a ticket in forever, but
I just did get that ticket. Remember driving back from
the desert and that tennis tournament. I told you guys
about it and that might be it, And the guy said, well,
it looks like you're eligible for traffic school.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't think. I'm not going to traffic school.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm just going to pay the Yeah, Now, can I
go back and open it up again and pay track
and take traffic school after I've already paid.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
I don't know, and I don't think, so I think to.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Get some people researching that, please, I'll get on anyway,
thank you for that. That's wild. So where are we?
New York is number one? New York is the most expensive.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
They have like high average full coverage premiums, but they
only but their rates that they you know, increase after
a ticket are not high.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I see.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
So it's California, Wyoming, and Massachusetts are on the higher
Rake Heights and Hawaii Vermont, New Jersey lower it. So
maybe go to Hawaii Vermont.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, that might be most radical suggestion I've heard, but
thank you, and we're just brainstormming. There no bad ideas
h stuff. How about you? What can you offer us
in the news with let's do it? Costco? We all love.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Costco just added a sweetened savory breakfast dish to their stores,
perhaps one of the most popular examples of this flavor
profile deployed.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But I love it. You can just tell he's ad
living it. He's not reading it.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
At all, and he's so sweet and savory in his
reading with deft.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
And laser precision. Is none other than the mouthwatering mashup
of chicken and waffles.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh there you go again.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
It's We're not sure where it came from, but sources
say Dicky Wells of Harlem's Wells Supper Club. But one
thing we're sure of is that it's a match made
in heaven and it's at Costco. Now you're it's going
to be at Costco in their food court, or you're saying,
I'm unclear on this. It's going to be. Uh No,
it's going to be. They're gonna be uh, it's going
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to be in their stores. Oh, they'll sell it. Chicken
and waffles will be sold as a package, as a pack.
Oh wow in their stores. Huh that's wild.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah. How about you, Angel Martinez, Well, if.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
You're getting that body in beach shape ready.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
For summer, sweet and savory.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Hey, I was improving that. You should see what it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Really liked it. I liked it. I liked it.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
You might want to skip the ice bath. There's a
new study for a Manscrit university that shows cold.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Wait wait wait wait wait university.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Manscrit man Moscret Moscretscret.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
University of Crozier. That was your safety school, wasn't it. Yeah,
go ahead, that's my backup, Moscrit. I think you mentioned
that to me once.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
Moskret shows that the cold plunges right after lifting weights
can actually reduce muscle growth. Now, researchers found that the
icy water around thirty degrees fahrenheit significantly cuts blood flow
and protein absorption and muscles, both crucial for recovery and growth.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
So by taking the cold plunges, you're saying you're actually
hurting your ability to build muscle.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
Yeah, you're you're, yeah, absolutely reducing the protein absorption. Okay, yeah, everything.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It's mustric and it's in the Netherlands. Yeah, the one. Yeah,
remember you talked about going there and studying overseas for
a while. That's why it sounded familiar.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
Yeah, I love the old Moskret muscrit Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Must But one thing you won't find there is the
cold plunge. Apparently they're down on the cold plunge, thank you.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
So in this in the study, they took twelve men,
they exercised one leg, then plunged that one leg into
cold water, and then the cold treated leg showed a
lower protein uptake for hours afterwards.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
No, that is interesting. I guess you will find the
cold plunge at Mastrich. They're doing experiments there on it. So,
so bottom line, cold plunge useful. I guess in some ways, people,
you know, I see just one leg though, but yeah,
just one leg at a time.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
I mean, it's good for toughening your mind, but it
could be cooling down your game.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh I love it. I love it. I love it.
Well done. That's Angel Martinez Now two Special correspondent Michael Krozer.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Ah, and here's a number story which you always love
about people's money. A legal fight is going on over
Jimmy Buffett's two hundred and seventy five million dollar estate
as his wife tries to get full control of the trust.
Jane Buffett says the co trustee of the trust, Rick Mozenter,
is acting against her best interest in mismanaging the trust,
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which pays her about two million dollars a year. His
law firm is paid about one point seven million dollars
a year to oversee the trust. She says, when Jimmy
Buffett died in twenty twenty three from cancer, she has
to Mozenter how much money she could get, but she
says she was stonewalled by him for over a year.
He says he did not include any future money from
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the company, including the Margarita chain of restaurants, merch and
themed hotels, in his analysis of future income and he
eventually told her to consider adjustments to her lifestyle or
sell her own assets to make up the difference.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
In fact, she's responding basically to him because he filed
a position petition over the weekend to remove her as
co trustee and representative of the estate.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Wow. Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So the trust basically is saying see you later, missus Margheritaville.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Now, this is our thing that we're running, and she's
trying to do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Man, that's wild. That's a big story in a parrot
is it parroheads or what are they going for the parrotheads? Yeah,
for the parrotheads. It's a big story. And finally, I
must tell you the news is in whether it's smoking
or edibles, marijuana bad for your heart. They say it's
a new study from U see San Francisco researchers chronic
(08:10):
cannabis use.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
What is exactly a chronic use? Daily would be chronic
or every other day?
Speaker 11 (08:18):
I would say, add minimum daily daily minimum probably more
than us. Yeah, I was gonna say, you know, wake
and bake and you know shout at night.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Well, they found that people who regularly use marijuana in
either form edibles or smoking it had reduced blood vessel
function that was comparable to tobacco smokers. Vascular function, of
course in those who used cannabis by either means reduced
by half compared to those who did not use it
at all, and of course decrease vascular function is associated
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with greater risk of heart attack, hypertension, cardiovascular conditions of
all sorts. They did the study, this is the only hope, potheads,
the only hope. Fifty five people were involved in the
study from October of twenty twenty one to August of
twenty twenty four, so you know, it's a three year study.
But I mean, it's not a ton of people. That's
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what I mean when I say it's your only hope.
They did say that they were outwardly healthy and either
regularly smoke marijuana or consumed edibles containing THCHC regularly, so
they didn't use any form of nicotine. And they're saying
that the effects on the cardiovascular system the same edibles
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or smoking this stuff. That is your whip. When we
come back, developments in Alta Dina in the wake of
the devastating Eaton fire, some changes.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They may not all be good though.
Speaker 12 (09:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Alta Dina and the Eton fire victims, so many heartbreaking
stories in that entire region. And now it's about building back,
although it's not clear that a lot of building is
going to go on. It's not clear who's returning. There's
a lot in the way of questions around everything with
(10:20):
the eat and fire and Altadenam it comes to selling
the real estate market and how the future of Altadena
generally is being viewed.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And I say this in particular reference.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
To developers who are buying up a lot of the
available lots and homes that have been burning, that have
been lost essentially to the burning. Alta Dina not for
sale is the sign that you will find if you
cruise through that area now, and that slogan is really
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a sign of the resistance toward outside money coming in,
developers coming in who have no stake, you know, no
emotional steak in the area. But the summer real estate
market is getting heated up, and Alta Dina is for sale,
and in fact a lot of these lots are being
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sold at a pretty good clip. There are one hundred
and forty five burned lots that have sold so far,
and one hundred are listed right now. Dozens more are
in escrow, and there's no way to know who every
buyer is, but it does appear that, I mean, they're
limited liability, you know, corporations, they're trusts, and so there
are a lot of ways you can hide the identity
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of a buyer. But local sources are saying that developers
are buying most of these lots. In the Palisades, sixty
lots have sold since the fire, and one hundred and
eighty are sitting on the market, and some of those
are sitting on the market for months. The two hundred
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and fifty lots sold and listed so far in Altadena
only a small fraction of six thousand homes lost in
the eat and fire. But again, we're getting into the
real estate season. The market is probably going to really
begin to pick up in an even bigger way. Each
month has seen an increase in sales and listings apparently,
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and local real estate agents say that the only thing
keeping more from selling right now is just the process
of fire victims navigating insurance claims and you know, essentially
making the decision as to whether or not they're going
to stay or whether they're going to rebuild. You know,
rebuilding is a long process, and so that can be
pretty daunting to people who are trying to decide on
what the future will be. And people are saying, hey,
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if I could rebuild it quickly, you know I would,
but I'm not sure where we're going to be in
a year or two years. I'm not sure what the
community is going to look like. One person says, I
always love Altadena, but I don't have the resources for
rebuild a rebuild that could take a half a decade.
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So who does have the resources? Of course developers. So
with all of these lots hitting the market at once,
demand has been steady. Lots are selling fast to the
first four months of the year. The median property in
Altadino spent nineteen days on the market. That compares to
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thirty five days over that same stretch last year, so
you can see there is demand. Many of these lots
have sold for as little as three hundred and thirty
thousand dollars, some for as much as one point eight
million dollars. Most go for somewhere between half a million
dollars and seven hundred thousand dollars. The first lot to
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hit the market, listed for four forty nine, sold for
one hundred thousand dollars over the asking price.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It was an all cash deal.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Everybody in Altadena thought they were going to rebuild, said
an Altadena resident. But a lot of the time, it
just doesn't make sense to rebuild. We want to keep
things local, But unfortunately Alta Dina is for sale, said
one real estate agent. And you know, Altadena really is
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a community with deep roots, and that's one of the
heartbreaking aspects to that loss of the sales so far,
around half of the burned properties have sold to buyers
that have only purchased one but half have sold to
buyers purchasing multiple lots. And when they've sold to people
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with multiple or buyers only say people because I think
they're you know, consortiums and developers. When they've sold to
buyers purchasing multiple lots, you know those are developers. So
again it's about half and half based on inventory sold
so far, Black Lion Properties, Iron Rings, Alta Dina, Ocean
(15:04):
Development Inc.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
NP Alta Dina.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
These are all companies that have come in development companies
to scoop up these lots and to start building, and
a lot of the locals and again community with deep roots,
are saying, in one way or another, they're expressing an
anxiety about what the community is going to be like
(15:27):
after they rebuild. Once these developers come in, Will the
community have the same charm, Will it have the same
sense of history? I mean, maybe not literally the history,
but there were you know, craftsman homes and Colonial revival
homes and English tutor homes. I mean, Altadena was a
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special place, and so all of that history and all
that specialness can be lost as the realities of developers
buying these places up and building them back, as those realities,
you know, become clear. And I have to say this
to be fair to developers. I mean, they're building back
the community quickly. Isn't that what you want? I mean,
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so on some level, I'm sure developers would say, hey,
you know, we're seeing an opportunity for us to make
these purchases from buyers who cannot afford or don't want
to go through the process of building back. We're buying
these lots and we're going to build this community back
and it won't be exactly as it was, but it
might be something good. But you know, folks worry about gentrification,
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but you know, pushing out a lot of the people
who've historically been there, the community that was there. Can
they be back once this germination process of what's going
to happen, how once the growing process, once the evolution
of what's happening there actually you know, comes together. So
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in other words, could you build the same homes back
that burned? Sure you could in some instances, But developers
have their own plans I think potentially to try to
look optimistically at it that this community could build back quickly,
but they will need developers to do it, and that
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is a pact with the devil, some might say, but
I think vilifying those developers, always looking at them as
opportunists that may not be fair to what they have planned.
Certainly they're business people, so that there's opportunity there, and sadly,
you know, opportunity out of tragedy is a hard thing
to get your arms around. I mean, the tragedy of
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laws is still lingering. So that's just a state of
the state right now as to what's going on in Altadena,
and it is emotionally a confusing situation and as I say,
is a practical matter. It's a confusing situation for those
who are still facing the insurance process and the process
of trying to recover and even decide what they're going
to do for the future. When we come back, we'll
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follow up on a breaking news story of yesterday that
was full of all sorts of conflicting information, but we'll
settle it out for you.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Today you're listening to Tim conwaytoon You're on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
We're just talking about the rebuilding effort in Altadena and
the developers and those who've lived there for so many years,
and some of the impediments to getting it done, and
some of the ways in which it's just going to
be a different place when they get it all built back.
And I was just seeing this that as they continue
to clean up debris in Altadena, five months after they
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eat and fire, homeowners are still struggling to get rebuilding permits.
It's still taking a long time to get the rebuilding
permitting done. There are still a handful of damage structures
lots that has to be sifted through, right, twisted metal, dust, soot.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It's a mess.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Homeowners who opted out of the US Army Corps clearing
program or businesses that do not qualify for that program.
We're supposed to have filed debris removal permits by June first,
and apparently everything is behind schedule. We're going to try
to continue to work with them through the month of
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June to get those permits in place, said the Deputy Director,
Luis Ramirez from La County Department of Public Works. But
it's slow. They're going to for many who have you
tried to pull permits. They're looking for the end of
the month to be the goal. The Army Corps declared
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last week that ninety percent of the properties in Altadena
that opted for using the Army Corps engineers anyway are
well on their way and they're well ahead of schedule.
And by the way, ninety percent, only ten percent of
the residents who were affected by fire, that is to say,
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needed cleanup. Only ten percent decided to do it on
their own or didn't qualify for the qualify for the
Army Corps help anyway. This is a problem because there
is so much in the way of application, there's so
much in the way of permitting, and I guess they're behind.
The La County website, noting that four building permits were
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approved in the Eton fire burned neighborhood and only fourteen
properties were reported to have received the permitting a month later.
That's only ten more right, six hundred applications are still
classified under the received category, but they haven't been acting on.
I mean, that's a lot of people waiting for the permit.
All we heard about was how we're going to fast
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track all of this. As of today, twenty one building
permits were issued with a forty two day average turnaround time.
The goal is thirty days, so it's taken about six
weeks to get that green light for permitting. It's a
long process, but you know, an important process, and if
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we want that great historic community to be built back,
we've got to pedal pretty hard to green light all
that permitting. You know, yesterday at this time in Campbell
Hall in Studio City, there was a serious, i mean
literally deadly situation going on. We thought there have been
(21:35):
a fatality. Then they said there wasn't a fatality, and
there there was. It seemed like someone maybe a student
of the school, was in critical condition, and the information
was really sparse and there was a lot of speculation
around it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, now there is some clarity.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
Some families they were too distraught end to attend that
grief counseling session that was held earlier today inside the
gymney's of the school here inside Campbell Hall.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
This is from ten to noon.
Speaker 13 (22:04):
A lot of parents did attend this, but there were
others who did not. And this was, of course after
yesterday's tragedy involving that teen who was hit here when
families arrived to pick up their students yesterday. One parent
with a daughter here Campbell Hall contacted Katiley. Now, she
did not attend the grief counseling session, but she said
she's still so distraught after yesterday's tragedy, the death of
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that fifteen year old student. But police are calling a
freak accident that happened when families arrived here at the
end of the day to pick up the students here.
This was in the back parking lot of the school.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And that is the news of today that in the
clarity of the situation, we know now that one student
lost their life in this bizarre crash in the parking
lot at Campbell's School.
Speaker 13 (22:53):
Well, that ninth grader was walking toward his dad's car
in between vehicles that were lined up, and that's when
officials say driver of a Rivian may have accidentally hit
the teen by stepping on the accelerator instead of the
break of the suv. Many people who witnessed this accident
were just stunned by what they were seeing.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
It was very, very crowded at the time.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
We're told that parent I spoke with earlier this afternoon.
She wants to remain anonymous, but she said parents send
their kids to school, that schools are supposed to be
safe environments, but added that usually there's so much congestion
at the end of the day inside that packed parking lot.
You have cars coming in, you have cars trying to exit,
and then you have all of these students trying to
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find their parents. A chaotic scene, she says, each day.
And she said that there was something that really concerned
her yesterday. She's said, the person who usually handles all
of the traffic flow and that back parking lot was
not there. That person in charge of directing traffic, and
so she's not surprised by what happened, but again, still
so distraught over the loss of this teen. Here's more
(23:57):
from officials on exactly what happened, and.
Speaker 14 (23:59):
Unfortunate the vehicle that the student walked in between.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Move forward.
Speaker 14 (24:08):
We have it determined why at this moment, and as
student was in between two vehicles transferred to children's hospital
that pronounced to see that scene at the hospital.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I mean, that's just beyond tragic. In ninth grader, this
is a prestige at private school. They're wrapping up for
the year where they were like another week of school there,
and there is a kind of frenzy. For anybody who's
ever picked up kids at school, you know this, there's
sort of like a running around. But to be fair,
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there's usually an order to the frenzy, and I guess
in this case, and maybe this is a critical thing
that the person who's usually assigned to the lot to
try to maintain an order was not there.
Speaker 13 (24:55):
And Campbell Hall representatives emailed parents saying that their hearts
and thoughts with the victim's family and that their entire
school community will be there for all of them in
the challenging days and weeks ahead of it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It's going to be incredibly challenged. Our classes and finals canceled.
The campus will be open for grieving parents, students, and
teachers to gather from ten to noon, as you heard,
and this will be something that I think will be
very hard for this community to digest and they're going
to have to figure out another way to do this.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
This is sadly the way a lot of changes.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Begin to occur and how a different system may have
to be put in place to avoid this kind of thing.
But that is the word yesterday. At this time, we
just weren't sure what was going on, and now our
worst fears for what happened have been realized.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Beat all the time always does.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, but apparently he's resting and hopefully he'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Hoping to have Tim back tomorrow. I am coming off
of my YouTube show which is also an iHeartRadio and
on the iHeartRadio app and across Spotify and Apple podcast
and all the rest, called The Mark Thompson Show. A
lot of politics and news and stuff like that. Great
to spend time at KOFI. I love it here. It's
like the home court and this show is just magic
(26:23):
with everybody who's involved in the show.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And it uh speaking of me. It's so cute. Thank you. Well,
it's true.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So cute warms my heart to be around the Kofi family.
So I don't think everybody, but I think some of
the Kofi Conway family does have a thing for Nintendo.
And then Nintendo Switch to release huge once again, demand,
(26:54):
perhaps outpacing supply.
Speaker 15 (26:59):
Overnight video game fans lining up for hours for the
release of the highly anticipated Nintendo Switched too, some lining
up for days, even months.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Ay all, it's your boy, chicken Dog. It's day sixteenth,
Wayne for an Nintendo Switch.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Doo wow, that is a guy with too much time
on his hands, lots of time.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Some people lining up for even months.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Ay'all it's your boy chicken Dog. It's day.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It's your boy chicken Dog. Is that his name?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Chicken Dog?
Speaker 8 (27:32):
Ay all, it's your boy chicken dog. Chicks day sixteenth
Wayne for a Nintendo Switch. Never felt more unemployed in
my life.
Speaker 12 (27:40):
But you know, it's good timing, I guess.
Speaker 15 (27:43):
The hype for the new video game console was Donkey
Kong size. Pre Orders sold out in minutes back in April.
Those who couldn't snag when then were happy to wait
in line to get their hands on the new tech.
The switch Soue packs a sharper screen, better graphics, and
a new feature allowing gamers to chat with friends with
the push of a button and launching with the switch.
(28:05):
Mario Kart World the Classic series now allows it twenty
four players to race each other all at once.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
That's the key, I think right that they've now put
together the community of gamers and you're able to do
a lot everything that I see with people wearing headsets,
smack talking each other or whatever. Now you can do
that all in portable form. Was that not the case before?
I mean, I feel like in this crew.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
We have an expert here, Tony Tony Sorrentino has.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Oh Tony, what was the story there? You couldn't before
a mobile on a mobile app, you couldn't speak.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Nintendo has always been behind on that stuff, so they
never implemented like chat and all those things like voice
talking and stuff like that. Well, I like you had
to do it with your cell phone to the side.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I see.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
So this is the first thing they've even integrated it
into the console finally, But it has a camera too
on it.
Speaker 10 (28:57):
Now with the I can get a camera and stuff now.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But what were other gaming companies and other. So they
were already in the Xbox and PC have been doing
this for years.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Nailed it.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, an Xbox is beginning of like that, you know,
the chat of like you know, trash talking and all
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well, that's what I'm sort of used to seeing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
But they're going to do this on a mobile device
or it's the.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Console, the consoles, the Nintendo's The switch is almost really
a portable device in the first place.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
It's like an iPad all yes, I see it.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, in video the Nvidia Shield if you want to
go really where were it all came from?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
But yeah, wow, Tony knows though He's had the granular
evolution of a Nintendo.
Speaker 15 (29:34):
Sush of a button and launching with the switch. Mario
Kart World the Classic series now allows it twenty four
players to race each other all at once.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Hey, Tony, is Donkey Kong still a thing? Nintendo's were they?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There's a new Donkey Kong is coming I think in
July or or two months. I think is the new
Donkey Kong game. It's going to be like a three
D world Donkey Kong. Oh cool, Yeah, it looks pretty good.
I played already.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I remind me to tell you the Donkey Kong story
here after we finished this. It's not bad. I got
a special hotline to call when I got hung up
on it because at the time I'd mentioned Donkey Kong
on Good Day La. So I'll get to that in
just a second.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
No, it's really fun being out here talking.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
To these people. It didn't end well, it's.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Really fun being out here talking to these people. Schools out.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I've got no test to do.
Speaker 15 (30:19):
The console retails for four hundred and forty nine dollars
and ninety nine cents wow, and some new games, including
Mario Kart, will cost a whopping eighty dollars, but those
prices aren't likely to keep gamers away. Nintendo is expecting
to sell fifteen million switch toos over the next year.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Here's a tip.
Speaker 15 (30:36):
Some stores like Costco and game Stop have set aside
limited stock for in person purchases, and if you're lucky,
you might be able to snag one. Sites like eBay
have the switch to being sold for almost eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Wow. Good luck.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
If you've got one, congratulations. I guess there's a lot
of demand. It's expensive, though, Man, I was on Good
Day La and I mentioned that I was way into
Donkey Kong, which is true. At the time, I was
crazy into Donkey Kong. And the Nintendo is Nintendo, right,
(31:10):
That Donkey Kong's Nintendo, and they what was it? Yes, yeah,
they sent me that and a Mario Brothers and like
a bunch of stuff they sent to the house. And
I just got way into Donkey Kong. For example, I
went on a ski vacation and I never left the
and I love skiing, Okay, I left, never left the room.
(31:35):
I was so into Donkey Kong. It was crazy. I mean,
it was just an obsession. And I might have been playing,
you know, thirteen hours a day, and I kept, you know,
getting better and better and better. And they have all
these levels, but this one level I was frustrated with.
(31:55):
And they had sent me an old school letter with
the package that had all of the games and the console,
and that old school letter was there in the box.
And the letter said if you ever get to if
you ever need help with Donkey Kong or Mario Brothers
(32:15):
or anything else, call this number, yeah, and we'd be
happy to help you. And they gave me like a
guy's name like Jose will pick up and you'll be
able to sew what year was this, Oh man, it
might have been the ninety It was the ninety Yeah.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
It nice because that's when they had that helpful yeah,
the Nintendo helpline.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah yah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
So I get frustrated. I can't get past this one level.
I get to that one level with all these extra lives,
you know, I'm really crushing it in the levels to
that point. So I call the number and the guy says, oh, yeah, well,
what you do is when you see the killer bees,
you jump off the bees onto whatever thing that it is.
(32:55):
You press the A and you pull the trigger whatever
it was. I said, okay, great, So I get to
that level again, I press the A, I pull the trigger,
and still I die in Nintendo. I die over and
over and over again, all these extra lives. I can't
get past this level. So I call the number again,
(33:15):
the special hotline number they've given me, and I talked
to Jose again and I say, hey, listen, and it
was the same guy, and I said, you know, I'm
doing what you're telling me, which is the pressing the
A and pulling the trigger and Nintendo, and I'm still dying.
I'm still just I can't get past this. And he said,
(33:36):
I don't know what to tell you, Like, that's what
you're supposed to do. You're supposed to press the A
and pull the trigger and you're going to be able
to leap to that next level. I said, man, this
is really frustrating. I don't know what to do. I mean,
I'm doing this over days and I can't get through
it because just to get to this level takes a
long time, and I want to get there with all
those extra lives and then the game's over for me.
And then I said, but I have to think that
(33:58):
this is close to the end, like I'm getting close
to the top level because I've been at it for
so long. And again he said, dude, you're just about
halfway through. I said, what, ye halfway through? That sounds
about right.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I'm crushing with all these lights. You can't This is insane.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
And then I asked him, I said, honestly, are there
like fifth graders that are just blasting pat He said yeah, yeah, man,
they're like eleven year olds who are just scorching.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
You passed you in this game.
Speaker 10 (34:32):
Wait, so did you plug it into like a TV
when you were skiing?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I plugged into the TV. Wow, that's so funny. I
brought I mean cables, I brought all the stuff. It
was crazy. My girlfriend just couldn't She said, I can't
believe this. You're not going out at all.
Speaker 10 (34:44):
So she just laughed and skied. And then you were
in the room playing down you.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
I had a girlfriend, huh.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
But let me tell you what I did. I went
to the t I went to the living room, I
got the Nintendo system. I pulled it out of the TV,
I wrapped up the cables, I put it in the closet,
and I never touched it again. Because I was so
bummed that you're frustrated.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I was. I just was.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I felt almost depressed, like I put all that time in.
I'm only halfway through. And then there's some eleven year
old kid in Rosita who was rocking it, you know, like.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
A gambler that yeah, like it ever gambled it just right.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I just realized that I can't beat the game exactly.
It became so clear to me.
Speaker 11 (35:28):
So Sortantina will tell you how here at KFI, in
the middle of the night when we all used to
work here, he used to bring game consoles in and
I had one and we would.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Plug him a dream, calay him all night. Were so
caliber all night while we were, you know, doing stuff
on the air.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I love it. I just love it. That's what alll
shift should be. That's really great. Oh too too good. Well,
good luck with it, Tony. I'll get one soon enough. Yeah,
that's right on, all right. That's uh. The Nintendo switch
to coming to a household near you soon. Thompson for
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It is the world Away.
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
All right, Each and every member of the Tim Conway
Junior family has an offering. We spin the wheel to
see who will be first today, and it comes up
on Sharon be.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Seeing flashing blue and red lights in your rear view
mirror is stressful enough, but on where you live. The
real hit comes later on your insurance bill.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh my god?
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Am I right?
Speaker 8 (01:08):
So?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
A new study by bank Rate shows just how much
your location affects insurance premiums after a speeding ticket. Get this,
It's not always the states with the highest premiums that
see the biggest rate hikes. For example, New York has
the highest average full coverage premium over forty one hundred dollars,
but only bumps rates seven percent after a ticket. Meanwhile,
(01:29):
North Carolina drivers pay about two thousand a year, but
one speeding ticket can spike that by nearly fifty percent.
North Carolina uses a state controlled penalty system called the
Safe Driver Incentive Plan. Going just ten miles per hour
over the speed limit that's a forty percent hike. Getting
caught racing that's a three hundred and forty percent increase.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Other states with.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Steep steep rake hes rate hikes are California, Wyoming, and Massachusetts.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
On the lower end, you have Hawaii, Vermont, and New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh yeah, so I'm starting to think of maybe my
high insurance ray. I'm had a ticket in forever, but
I just did get that ticket. Remember driving back from
the desert and that tennis tournament. I told you guys
about it and that might be it, And the guy said, well,
it looks like you're eligible for traffic school.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't think. I'm not going to traffic school.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm just going to pay the Yeah, Now, can I
go back and open it up again and pay track
and take traffic school after I've already paid.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
I don't know, and I don't think, so I think to.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Get some people researching that, please, I'll get on anyway,
thank you for that. That's wild. So where are we?
New York is number one? New York is the most expensive.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
They have like high average full coverage premiums, but they
only but their rates that they you know, increase after
a ticket are not high.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I see.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
So it's California, Wyoming, and Massachusetts are on the higher
Rake Heights and Hawaii Vermont, New Jersey lower it. So
maybe go to Hawaii Vermont.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, that might be most radical suggestion I've heard, but
thank you, and we're just brainstormming. There no bad ideas
h stuff. How about you? What can you offer us
in the news with let's do it? Costco? We all love.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Costco just added a sweetened savory breakfast dish to their stores,
perhaps one of the most popular examples of this flavor
profile deployed.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But I love it. You can just tell he's ad
living it. He's not reading it.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
At all, and he's so sweet and savory in his
reading with deft.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
And laser precision. Is none other than the mouthwatering mashup
of chicken and waffles.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh there you go again.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
It's We're not sure where it came from, but sources
say Dicky Wells of Harlem's Wells Supper Club. But one
thing we're sure of is that it's a match made
in heaven and it's at Costco. Now you're it's going
to be at Costco in their food court, or you're saying,
I'm unclear on this. It's going to be. Uh No,
it's going to be. They're gonna be uh, it's going
(04:03):
to be in their stores. Oh, they'll sell it. Chicken
and waffles will be sold as a package, as a pack.
Oh wow in their stores. Huh that's wild.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah. How about you, Angel Martinez, Well, if.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
You're getting that body in beach shape ready.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
For summer, sweet and savory.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Hey, I was improving that. You should see what it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Really liked it. I liked it. I liked it.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
You might want to skip the ice bath. There's a
new study for a Manscrit university that shows cold.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Wait wait wait wait wait university.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Manscrit man Moscret Moscretscret.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
University of Crozier. That was your safety school, wasn't it. Yeah,
go ahead, that's my backup, Moscrit. I think you mentioned
that to me once.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
Moskret shows that the cold plunges right after lifting weights
can actually reduce muscle growth. Now, researchers found that the
icy water around thirty degrees fahrenheit significantly cuts blood flow
and protein absorption and muscles, both crucial for recovery and growth.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
So by taking the cold plunges, you're saying you're actually
hurting your ability to build muscle.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
Yeah, you're you're, yeah, absolutely reducing the protein absorption. Okay, yeah, everything.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It's mustric and it's in the Netherlands. Yeah, the one. Yeah,
remember you talked about going there and studying overseas for
a while. That's why it sounded familiar.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
Yeah, I love the old Moskret muscrit Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Must But one thing you won't find there is the
cold plunge. Apparently they're down on the cold plunge, thank you.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
So in this in the study, they took twelve men,
they exercised one leg, then plunged that one leg into
cold water, and then the cold treated leg showed a
lower protein uptake for hours afterwards.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
No, that is interesting. I guess you will find the
cold plunge at Mastrich. They're doing experiments there on it. So,
so bottom line, cold plunge useful. I guess in some ways, people,
you know, I see just one leg though, but yeah,
just one leg at a time.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
I mean, it's good for toughening your mind, but it
could be cooling down your game.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh I love it. I love it. I love it.
Well done. That's Angel Martinez Now two Special correspondent Michael Krozer.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Ah, and here's a number story which you always love
about people's money. A legal fight is going on over
Jimmy Buffett's two hundred and seventy five million dollar estate
as his wife tries to get full control of the trust.
Jane Buffett says the co trustee of the trust, Rick Mozenter,
is acting against her best interest in mismanaging the trust,
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which pays her about two million dollars a year. His
law firm is paid about one point seven million dollars
a year to oversee the trust. She says, when Jimmy
Buffett died in twenty twenty three from cancer, she has
to Mozenter how much money she could get, but she
says she was stonewalled by him for over a year.
He says he did not include any future money from
(07:10):
the company, including the Margarita chain of restaurants, merch and
themed hotels, in his analysis of future income and he
eventually told her to consider adjustments to her lifestyle or
sell her own assets to make up the difference.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
In fact, she's responding basically to him because he filed
a position petition over the weekend to remove her as
co trustee and representative of the estate.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Wow. Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So the trust basically is saying see you later, missus Margheritaville.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Now, this is our thing that we're running, and she's
trying to do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Man, that's wild. That's a big story in a parrot
is it parroheads or what are they going for the parrotheads? Yeah,
for the parrotheads. It's a big story. And finally, I
must tell you the news is in whether it's smoking
or edibles, marijuana bad for your heart. They say it's
a new study from U see San Francisco researchers chronic
(08:10):
cannabis use.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
What is exactly a chronic use? Daily would be chronic
or every other day?
Speaker 11 (08:18):
I would say, add minimum daily daily minimum probably more
than us. Yeah, I was gonna say, you know, wake
and bake and you know shout at night.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Well, they found that people who regularly use marijuana in
either form edibles or smoking it had reduced blood vessel
function that was comparable to tobacco smokers. Vascular function, of
course in those who used cannabis by either means reduced
by half compared to those who did not use it
at all, and of course decrease vascular function is associated
(08:49):
with greater risk of heart attack, hypertension, cardiovascular conditions of
all sorts. They did the study, this is the only hope, potheads,
the only hope. Fifty five people were involved in the
study from October of twenty twenty one to August of
twenty twenty four, so you know, it's a three year study.
But I mean, it's not a ton of people. That's
(09:10):
what I mean when I say it's your only hope.
They did say that they were outwardly healthy and either
regularly smoke marijuana or consumed edibles containing THCHC regularly, so
they didn't use any form of nicotine. And they're saying
that the effects on the cardiovascular system the same edibles
(09:31):
or smoking this stuff. That is your whip. When we
come back, developments in Alta Dina in the wake of
the devastating Eaton fire, some changes.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They may not all be good though.
Speaker 12 (09:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Alta Dina and the Eton fire victims, so many heartbreaking
stories in that entire region. And now it's about building back,
although it's not clear that a lot of building is
going to go on. It's not clear who's returning. There's
a lot in the way of questions around everything with
(10:20):
the eat and fire and Altadenam it comes to selling
the real estate market and how the future of Altadena
generally is being viewed.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And I say this in particular reference.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
To developers who are buying up a lot of the
available lots and homes that have been burning, that have
been lost essentially to the burning. Alta Dina not for
sale is the sign that you will find if you
cruise through that area now, and that slogan is really
(10:56):
a sign of the resistance toward outside money coming in,
developers coming in who have no stake, you know, no
emotional steak in the area. But the summer real estate
market is getting heated up, and Alta Dina is for sale,
and in fact a lot of these lots are being
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sold at a pretty good clip. There are one hundred
and forty five burned lots that have sold so far,
and one hundred are listed right now. Dozens more are
in escrow, and there's no way to know who every
buyer is, but it does appear that, I mean, they're
limited liability, you know, corporations, they're trusts, and so there
are a lot of ways you can hide the identity
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of a buyer. But local sources are saying that developers
are buying most of these lots. In the Palisades, sixty
lots have sold since the fire, and one hundred and
eighty are sitting on the market, and some of those
are sitting on the market for months. The two hundred
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and fifty lots sold and listed so far in Altadena
only a small fraction of six thousand homes lost in
the eat and fire. But again, we're getting into the
real estate season. The market is probably going to really
begin to pick up in an even bigger way. Each
month has seen an increase in sales and listings apparently,
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and local real estate agents say that the only thing
keeping more from selling right now is just the process
of fire victims navigating insurance claims and you know, essentially
making the decision as to whether or not they're going
to stay or whether they're going to rebuild. You know,
rebuilding is a long process, and so that can be
pretty daunting to people who are trying to decide on
what the future will be. And people are saying, hey,
(12:44):
if I could rebuild it quickly, you know I would,
but I'm not sure where we're going to be in
a year or two years. I'm not sure what the
community is going to look like. One person says, I
always love Altadena, but I don't have the resources for
rebuild a rebuild that could take a half a decade.
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So who does have the resources? Of course developers. So
with all of these lots hitting the market at once,
demand has been steady. Lots are selling fast to the
first four months of the year. The median property in
Altadino spent nineteen days on the market. That compares to
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thirty five days over that same stretch last year, so
you can see there is demand. Many of these lots
have sold for as little as three hundred and thirty
thousand dollars, some for as much as one point eight
million dollars. Most go for somewhere between half a million
dollars and seven hundred thousand dollars. The first lot to
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hit the market, listed for four forty nine, sold for
one hundred thousand dollars over the asking price.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It was an all cash deal.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Everybody in Altadena thought they were going to rebuild, said
an Altadena resident. But a lot of the time, it
just doesn't make sense to rebuild. We want to keep
things local, But unfortunately Alta Dina is for sale, said
one real estate agent. And you know, Altadena really is
(14:21):
a community with deep roots, and that's one of the
heartbreaking aspects to that loss of the sales so far,
around half of the burned properties have sold to buyers
that have only purchased one but half have sold to
buyers purchasing multiple lots. And when they've sold to people
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with multiple or buyers only say people because I think
they're you know, consortiums and developers. When they've sold to
buyers purchasing multiple lots, you know those are developers. So
again it's about half and half based on inventory sold
so far, Black Lion Properties, Iron Rings, Alta Dina, Ocean
(15:04):
Development Inc.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
NP Alta Dina.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
These are all companies that have come in development companies
to scoop up these lots and to start building, and
a lot of the locals and again community with deep roots,
are saying, in one way or another, they're expressing an
anxiety about what the community is going to be like
(15:27):
after they rebuild. Once these developers come in, Will the
community have the same charm, Will it have the same
sense of history? I mean, maybe not literally the history,
but there were you know, craftsman homes and Colonial revival
homes and English tutor homes. I mean, Altadena was a
(15:48):
special place, and so all of that history and all
that specialness can be lost as the realities of developers
buying these places up and building them back, as those realities,
you know, become clear. And I have to say this
to be fair to developers. I mean, they're building back
the community quickly. Isn't that what you want? I mean,
(16:11):
so on some level, I'm sure developers would say, hey,
you know, we're seeing an opportunity for us to make
these purchases from buyers who cannot afford or don't want
to go through the process of building back. We're buying
these lots and we're going to build this community back
and it won't be exactly as it was, but it
might be something good. But you know, folks worry about gentrification,
(16:38):
but you know, pushing out a lot of the people
who've historically been there, the community that was there. Can
they be back once this germination process of what's going
to happen, how once the growing process, once the evolution
of what's happening there actually you know, comes together. So
(16:58):
in other words, could you build the same homes back
that burned? Sure you could in some instances, But developers
have their own plans I think potentially to try to
look optimistically at it that this community could build back quickly,
but they will need developers to do it, and that
(17:19):
is a pact with the devil, some might say, but
I think vilifying those developers, always looking at them as
opportunists that may not be fair to what they have planned.
Certainly they're business people, so that there's opportunity there, and sadly,
you know, opportunity out of tragedy is a hard thing
to get your arms around. I mean, the tragedy of
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laws is still lingering. So that's just a state of
the state right now as to what's going on in Altadena,
and it is emotionally a confusing situation and as I say,
is a practical matter. It's a confusing situation for those
who are still facing the insurance process and the process
of trying to recover and even decide what they're going
to do for the future. When we come back, we'll
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follow up on a breaking news story of yesterday that
was full of all sorts of conflicting information, but we'll
settle it out for you.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Today you're listening to Tim conwaytoon You're on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
We're just talking about the rebuilding effort in Altadena and
the developers and those who've lived there for so many years,
and some of the impediments to getting it done, and
some of the ways in which it's just going to
be a different place when they get it all built back.
And I was just seeing this that as they continue
to clean up debris in Altadena, five months after they
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eat and fire, homeowners are still struggling to get rebuilding permits.
It's still taking a long time to get the rebuilding
permitting done. There are still a handful of damage structures
lots that has to be sifted through, right, twisted metal, dust, soot.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It's a mess.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Homeowners who opted out of the US Army Corps clearing
program or businesses that do not qualify for that program.
We're supposed to have filed debris removal permits by June first,
and apparently everything is behind schedule. We're going to try
to continue to work with them through the month of
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June to get those permits in place, said the Deputy Director,
Luis Ramirez from La County Department of Public Works. But
it's slow. They're going to for many who have you
tried to pull permits. They're looking for the end of
the month to be the goal. The Army Corps declared
(19:46):
last week that ninety percent of the properties in Altadena
that opted for using the Army Corps engineers anyway are
well on their way and they're well ahead of schedule.
And by the way, ninety percent, only ten percent of
the residents who were affected by fire, that is to say,
(20:08):
needed cleanup. Only ten percent decided to do it on
their own or didn't qualify for the qualify for the
Army Corps help anyway. This is a problem because there
is so much in the way of application, there's so
much in the way of permitting, and I guess they're behind.
The La County website, noting that four building permits were
(20:32):
approved in the Eton fire burned neighborhood and only fourteen
properties were reported to have received the permitting a month later.
That's only ten more right, six hundred applications are still
classified under the received category, but they haven't been acting on.
I mean, that's a lot of people waiting for the permit.
All we heard about was how we're going to fast
(20:53):
track all of this. As of today, twenty one building
permits were issued with a forty two day average turnaround time.
The goal is thirty days, so it's taken about six
weeks to get that green light for permitting. It's a
long process, but you know, an important process, and if
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we want that great historic community to be built back,
we've got to pedal pretty hard to green light all
that permitting. You know, yesterday at this time in Campbell
Hall in Studio City, there was a serious, i mean
literally deadly situation going on. We thought there have been
(21:35):
a fatality. Then they said there wasn't a fatality, and
there there was. It seemed like someone maybe a student
of the school, was in critical condition, and the information
was really sparse and there was a lot of speculation
around it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, now there is some clarity.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
Some families they were too distraught end to attend that
grief counseling session that was held earlier today inside the
gymney's of the school here inside Campbell Hall.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
This is from ten to noon.
Speaker 13 (22:04):
A lot of parents did attend this, but there were
others who did not. And this was, of course after
yesterday's tragedy involving that teen who was hit here when
families arrived to pick up their students yesterday. One parent
with a daughter here Campbell Hall contacted Katiley. Now, she
did not attend the grief counseling session, but she said
she's still so distraught after yesterday's tragedy, the death of
(22:27):
that fifteen year old student. But police are calling a
freak accident that happened when families arrived here at the
end of the day to pick up the students here.
This was in the back parking lot of the school.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
And that is the news of today that in the
clarity of the situation, we know now that one student
lost their life in this bizarre crash in the parking
lot at Campbell's School.
Speaker 13 (22:53):
Well, that ninth grader was walking toward his dad's car
in between vehicles that were lined up, and that's when
officials say driver of a Rivian may have accidentally hit
the teen by stepping on the accelerator instead of the
break of the suv. Many people who witnessed this accident
were just stunned by what they were seeing.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
It was very, very crowded at the time.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
We're told that parent I spoke with earlier this afternoon.
She wants to remain anonymous, but she said parents send
their kids to school, that schools are supposed to be
safe environments, but added that usually there's so much congestion
at the end of the day inside that packed parking lot.
You have cars coming in, you have cars trying to exit,
and then you have all of these students trying to
(23:35):
find their parents. A chaotic scene, she says, each day.
And she said that there was something that really concerned
her yesterday. She's said, the person who usually handles all
of the traffic flow and that back parking lot was
not there. That person in charge of directing traffic, and
so she's not surprised by what happened, but again, still
so distraught over the loss of this teen. Here's more
(23:57):
from officials on exactly what happened, and.
Speaker 14 (23:59):
Unfortunate the vehicle that the student walked in between.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Move forward.
Speaker 14 (24:08):
We have it determined why at this moment, and as
student was in between two vehicles transferred to children's hospital
that pronounced to see that scene at the hospital.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I mean, that's just beyond tragic. In ninth grader, this
is a prestige at private school. They're wrapping up for
the year where they were like another week of school there,
and there is a kind of frenzy. For anybody who's
ever picked up kids at school, you know this, there's
sort of like a running around. But to be fair,
(24:42):
there's usually an order to the frenzy, and I guess
in this case, and maybe this is a critical thing
that the person who's usually assigned to the lot to
try to maintain an order was not there.
Speaker 13 (24:55):
And Campbell Hall representatives emailed parents saying that their hearts
and thoughts with the victim's family and that their entire
school community will be there for all of them in
the challenging days and weeks ahead of it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
It's going to be incredibly challenged. Our classes and finals canceled.
The campus will be open for grieving parents, students, and
teachers to gather from ten to noon, as you heard,
and this will be something that I think will be
very hard for this community to digest and they're going
to have to figure out another way to do this.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
This is sadly the way a lot of changes.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Begin to occur and how a different system may have
to be put in place to avoid this kind of thing.
But that is the word yesterday. At this time, we
just weren't sure what was going on, and now our
worst fears for what happened have been realized.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Beat all the time always does.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, but apparently he's resting and hopefully he'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Hoping to have Tim back tomorrow. I am coming off
of my YouTube show which is also an iHeartRadio and
on the iHeartRadio app and across Spotify and Apple podcast
and all the rest, called The Mark Thompson Show. A
lot of politics and news and stuff like that. Great
to spend time at KOFI. I love it here. It's
like the home court and this show is just magic
(26:23):
with everybody who's involved in the show.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And it uh speaking of me. It's so cute. Thank you. Well,
it's true.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So cute warms my heart to be around the Kofi family.
So I don't think everybody, but I think some of
the Kofi Conway family does have a thing for Nintendo.
And then Nintendo Switch to release huge once again, demand,
(26:54):
perhaps outpacing supply.
Speaker 15 (26:59):
Overnight video game fans lining up for hours for the
release of the highly anticipated Nintendo Switched too, some lining
up for days, even months.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Ay all, it's your boy, chicken Dog. It's day sixteenth,
Wayne for an Nintendo Switch.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Doo wow, that is a guy with too much time
on his hands, lots of time.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Some people lining up for even months.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Ay'all it's your boy chicken Dog. It's day.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It's your boy chicken Dog. Is that his name?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Chicken Dog?
Speaker 8 (27:32):
Ay all, it's your boy chicken dog. Chicks day sixteenth
Wayne for a Nintendo Switch. Never felt more unemployed in
my life.
Speaker 12 (27:40):
But you know, it's good timing, I guess.
Speaker 15 (27:43):
The hype for the new video game console was Donkey
Kong size. Pre Orders sold out in minutes back in April.
Those who couldn't snag when then were happy to wait
in line to get their hands on the new tech.
The switch Soue packs a sharper screen, better graphics, and
a new feature allowing gamers to chat with friends with
the push of a button and launching with the switch.
(28:05):
Mario Kart World the Classic series now allows it twenty
four players to race each other all at once.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
That's the key, I think right that they've now put
together the community of gamers and you're able to do
a lot everything that I see with people wearing headsets,
smack talking each other or whatever. Now you can do
that all in portable form. Was that not the case before?
I mean, I feel like in this crew.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
We have an expert here, Tony Tony Sorrentino has.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Oh Tony, what was the story there? You couldn't before
a mobile on a mobile app, you couldn't speak.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Nintendo has always been behind on that stuff, so they
never implemented like chat and all those things like voice
talking and stuff like that. Well, I like you had
to do it with your cell phone to the side.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I see.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
So this is the first thing they've even integrated it
into the console finally, But it has a camera too
on it.
Speaker 10 (28:57):
Now with the I can get a camera and stuff now.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
But what were other gaming companies and other. So they
were already in the Xbox and PC have been doing
this for years.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Nailed it.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, an Xbox is beginning of like that, you know,
the chat of like you know, trash talking and all
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well, that's what I'm sort of used to seeing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
But they're going to do this on a mobile device
or it's the.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Console, the consoles, the Nintendo's The switch is almost really
a portable device in the first place.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
It's like an iPad all yes, I see it.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, in video the Nvidia Shield if you want to
go really where were it all came from?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
But yeah, wow, Tony knows though He's had the granular
evolution of a Nintendo.
Speaker 15 (29:34):
Sush of a button and launching with the switch. Mario
Kart World the Classic series now allows it twenty four
players to race each other all at once.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Hey, Tony, is Donkey Kong still a thing? Nintendo's were they?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There's a new Donkey Kong is coming I think in
July or or two months. I think is the new
Donkey Kong game. It's going to be like a three
D world Donkey Kong. Oh cool, Yeah, it looks pretty good.
I played already.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I remind me to tell you the Donkey Kong story
here after we finished this. It's not bad. I got
a special hotline to call when I got hung up
on it because at the time I'd mentioned Donkey Kong
on Good Day La. So I'll get to that in
just a second.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
No, it's really fun being out here talking.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
To these people. It didn't end well, it's.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Really fun being out here talking to these people. Schools out.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I've got no test to do.
Speaker 15 (30:19):
The console retails for four hundred and forty nine dollars
and ninety nine cents wow, and some new games, including
Mario Kart, will cost a whopping eighty dollars, but those
prices aren't likely to keep gamers away. Nintendo is expecting
to sell fifteen million switch toos over the next year.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Here's a tip.
Speaker 15 (30:36):
Some stores like Costco and game Stop have set aside
limited stock for in person purchases, and if you're lucky,
you might be able to snag one. Sites like eBay
have the switch to being sold for almost eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Wow. Good luck.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
If you've got one, congratulations. I guess there's a lot
of demand. It's expensive, though, Man, I was on Good
Day La and I mentioned that I was way into
Donkey Kong, which is true. At the time, I was
crazy into Donkey Kong. And the Nintendo is Nintendo, right,
(31:10):
That Donkey Kong's Nintendo, and they what was it? Yes, yeah,
they sent me that and a Mario Brothers and like
a bunch of stuff they sent to the house. And
I just got way into Donkey Kong. For example, I
went on a ski vacation and I never left the
and I love skiing, Okay, I left, never left the room.
(31:35):
I was so into Donkey Kong. It was crazy. I mean,
it was just an obsession. And I might have been playing,
you know, thirteen hours a day, and I kept, you know,
getting better and better and better. And they have all
these levels, but this one level I was frustrated with.
(31:55):
And they had sent me an old school letter with
the package that had all of the games and the console,
and that old school letter was there in the box.
And the letter said if you ever get to if
you ever need help with Donkey Kong or Mario Brothers
(32:15):
or anything else, call this number, yeah, and we'd be
happy to help you. And they gave me like a
guy's name like Jose will pick up and you'll be
able to sew what year was this, Oh man, it
might have been the ninety It was the ninety Yeah.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
It nice because that's when they had that helpful yeah,
the Nintendo helpline.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah yah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
So I get frustrated. I can't get past this one level.
I get to that one level with all these extra lives,
you know, I'm really crushing it in the levels to
that point. So I call the number and the guy says, oh, yeah, well,
what you do is when you see the killer bees,
you jump off the bees onto whatever thing that it is.
(32:55):
You press the A and you pull the trigger whatever
it was. I said, okay, great, So I get to
that level again, I press the A, I pull the trigger,
and still I die in Nintendo. I die over and
over and over again, all these extra lives. I can't
get past this level. So I call the number again,
(33:15):
the special hotline number they've given me, and I talked
to Jose again and I say, hey, listen, and it
was the same guy, and I said, you know, I'm
doing what you're telling me, which is the pressing the
A and pulling the trigger and Nintendo, and I'm still dying.
I'm still just I can't get past this. And he said,
(33:36):
I don't know what to tell you, Like, that's what
you're supposed to do. You're supposed to press the A
and pull the trigger and you're going to be able
to leap to that next level. I said, man, this
is really frustrating. I don't know what to do. I mean,
I'm doing this over days and I can't get through
it because just to get to this level takes a
long time, and I want to get there with all
those extra lives and then the game's over for me.
And then I said, but I have to think that
(33:58):
this is close to the end, like I'm getting close
to the top level because I've been at it for
so long. And again he said, dude, you're just about
halfway through. I said, what, ye halfway through? That sounds
about right.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I'm crushing with all these lights. You can't This is insane.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
And then I asked him, I said, honestly, are there
like fifth graders that are just blasting pat He said yeah, yeah, man,
they're like eleven year olds who are just scorching.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
You passed you in this game.
Speaker 10 (34:32):
Wait, so did you plug it into like a TV
when you were skiing?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I plugged into the TV. Wow, that's so funny. I
brought I mean cables, I brought all the stuff. It
was crazy. My girlfriend just couldn't She said, I can't
believe this. You're not going out at all.
Speaker 10 (34:44):
So she just laughed and skied. And then you were
in the room playing down you.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
I had a girlfriend, huh.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
But let me tell you what I did. I went
to the t I went to the living room, I
got the Nintendo system. I pulled it out of the TV,
I wrapped up the cables, I put it in the closet,
and I never touched it again. Because I was so
bummed that you're frustrated.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I was. I just was.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I felt almost depressed, like I put all that time in.
I'm only halfway through. And then there's some eleven year
old kid in Rosita who was rocking it, you know, like.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
A gambler that yeah, like it ever gambled it just right.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I just realized that I can't beat the game exactly.
It became so clear to me.
Speaker 11 (35:28):
So Sortantina will tell you how here at KFI, in
the middle of the night when we all used to
work here, he used to bring game consoles in and
I had one and we would.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Plug him a dream, calay him all night. Were so
caliber all night while we were, you know, doing stuff
on the air.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I love it. I just love it. That's what alll
shift should be. That's really great. Oh too too good. Well,
good luck with it, Tony. I'll get one soon enough. Yeah,
that's right on, all right. That's uh. The Nintendo switch
to coming to a household near you soon. Thompson for
Conway on KFI AM six forty We're live everywhere on
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Speaker 1 (36:08):
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