July 9, 2025 • 33 mins
Mark Thompson has a wide-ranging final hour. He opens with the story of an LA honor student wrongfully deported under President Trump’s immigration crackdown, and questions growing Republican calls for expanded federal control—particularly over D.C. Then, Stef Foosh drops in to talk rideshare realities before Mark shares his epic tale of evacuating with his cats and permanently "upgrading" his car's interior with the scent of cat pee—until a corpse-grade odor eliminator saved the day. Mark also reacts to a wild CalMatters scoop: State Farm issued a $900K check to a fire survivor that bounced. Plus, what’s going on with Newsom’s presidential play in South Carolina? And Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion is going dark… for now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Glad you could be with us as we bake in
southern California for the When is he gonna cool off?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Crocier? It's gonna cool off a little bit each day
after this.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Tomorrow's would be the peak of the heat. It'll get
a little bit hotter. I get a degree or two,
but then about five degrees on Friday, and then a
little cooler over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah, it's just starting to feel like the heat of
the summer. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well, Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. And I
just must tell you that once in a while stories
hit me, and this is one of them. It's just
sort of within the overall issue of you know, ice
raids and detentions and this kind of thing, we begin
to lose our heads. I think on some of this stuff,
and certainly, I mean there can be different opinions, but
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I read this account with a sense of emotion almost,
you know, because the best of many of these communities
are are being plucked out and sent off. This is
a teen in la She was a rising senior on
the honor roll and she checked in. It was a
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routine immigration check in, and five days later her mom
and she swiftly deported to Guatemala. She doesn't even remember Guatemala.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Again.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Seventeen years old, she had plans. She wrapped up eleventh
grade and a high note made the honor roll, represented
her La High School in the city finals for track.
So at track season over, she went to cross country running,
showed up to campus for practice after the school year ended,
and everything changed when she and her mother, Esteleramos, both
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undocumented a period of what they thought was a standard
check in visit with immigration officials on June thirtieth. Again
they were lawfully checking in. Ice took us to a room,
she said, and they ended up telling my mom, your
case is over, so we have to take you guys
with us. This happened over the objections of the attorney.
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Federal agents led them away. The next day. She and
her mom shipped to Texas, and by the fourth of
July they were on a plane to Guatemala. That's a
country where neither of them have lived for over a decade,
and for her it's the American dream shattered. So again
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this is one story, and there might be I know,
there are many many others, but there might be those
who hear that story and go, yeah, well, you know,
I mean, sadly, they're going to be stories like that.
But we have to in some way take care of
our communities and make sure that people are here legally.
And you know, President Trump campaigned on the promise of
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these mass deportations, but I would just say that, you know,
again he emphasized the undocumented immigrants being criminals and threats
to society, and you know, parts of violent crimes and
there certainly are aspects of that community that that but
you know, again, on a percentage basis, we're looking at
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like probably one percent of the community. So you end
up with these sorts of stories, and they're heartbreaking to me.
I mean, this this girl has really had her life
completely upended and it's seventeen years old. She's everything you
want in a team. She's on the honor roll, she's
on the track team, she's performing so well. She's a
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great example of what you can do. I just find
it particularly rough. So she's in Guatemala, and you know,
civil liberties and advocacy groups are you know, trying to
help overall, but there's really not much that can be done.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
As you are aware, could.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Donald Trump and the current administration take control of Washington,
d C And even New York City Now Washington d
C is controlled by the Feds.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I grew up in Washington, d C. And if you're
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're not crazy about the fact that so many people
live there, and yet you have no voting representative in
the Senate, and you have no real representation in a
voting way in the House. You have, if you will,
taxation without representation. So already the people in d C
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have got a beef with the federal government because the
Feds control the city and you feel as though, you know,
you don't really have a hand in it the way
you might. But the notion that the federal government have
authority to take over the city. Wow, And it's not
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just Washington, d C. This conversation with President Trump was
this conversation about New York City and if this socialist
mayor actually comes to power, would Donald Trump be okay
taking over New York City?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
If a communist gets elected to run New York it
can never be the same. But we have tremendous power
at the White House to run places when we have to.
We could run d C. I mean, we're we're looking
at DC. We don't want crime in d C. We
want the city to run well. Susie Willis is working
very closely with the mayor, and they're doing all right.
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I mean in the sense that we would we would
run it so good, it would be run so proper,
we'd get that best person to run it. We run,
the crime would be down to a minimal, would be
much less. And you know, we're thinking about doing it.
To be honest with you, we want to We want
a capital that's run flawlessly, and it wouldn't be hard
for us to do it.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And we've had a.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Good relationship with a man who're testing it to see
if it works.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
You, I wonder if you could really do it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The argument for reasserting federal control, people like Ted Cruz
say it should happen. They argue that DC local government
has failed on crime, homelessness, education, public safety, sharing crime
rates is what they point to, public drug use. You know,
it's all that stuff in the big cities, disarray in
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schools and infrastructure. And let me just tell you something.
They're not wrong. People in d C will complain about
the same thing. I'm not convinced that a takeover from
the Feds in some sort of way in which you
completely undercut the mayor city council, if that's the way
to go. But it's interesting to hear that's what they're
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talking about. Here's Ted Cruz.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Why don't Republicans assert their constitution?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
That's Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
He's talking about, why don't Republicans assert their constitutional authority
over the city. Don't they control the Congress. Yes, I'd
be all for it. Who's against it?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Susan Collins is really vocally against it. So on questions
of home rule. So, for example, let's take an issue.
You and I care a lot about the COVID lockdowns.
I had a couple of years ago. In the middle
of them, d C was proposing the DC School District
was proposing throwing out of school any child that was
not vaccinated. And at the time, if I remember correctly,
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it was something like forty percent of the African American
students in DC were not vaccinated. So they were talking
about Lidley throwing out forty percent of the kids of
public school and so I had a vote on the
Senate floor to say, look, they can't throw kids out
of school for this, and we ended up having a
big argument, and part of the argument was home rule
where there was and Susan was the most vocal Republican.
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It's like, no, no, no, we have to let DC run.
And I'm like, why constitution gives us the power.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
To do it?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
And it ended up by the way every single Democrat,
all of.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Them, let me just metropolity when they say home rule.
This is something that goes back to the So Washington
d C. Has its mayor and city council, but Congress
can override any law or budget that's passed locally. The
Home Rule Act allows DC to self govern unless Congress objects.
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So you see that. Wrapped up in all of this
is a real question of congressional overreach or appropriate reach.
And in addition to this being kind of a snappy
SoundBite or controversial topic, it has applicability in the states
and even in California because already what's happening is what
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a question about federal overreach when it comes to bypassing
the governor for the National Guard bringing in the Marines,
I mean these are things that we're living right now.
So the discussions around federal power and around Trump and
around in this case is not Trump. It's not exclusively Trump.
It's a cruise and other members of the Senate who
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feel as though, Hey, maybe it's time to get involved
in the running of Washington, d C. And the President
can deploy federal forces or declare a state of emergency
in DC. He could do that number that he's comfortable with,
and he could do it far more easily than he
can with the state because there's no governor. You can
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go right in. Trump deployed federal agents during those twenty
twenty protests. There was no local consent on that he
didn't check off with the mayor. So you can see
that this might really be two things possible, maybe even likely.
And I think the other thing is relevant because all
the states on some level may want or seek pushback
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against the federal government. So Mark Thompson's sitting in for Tim.
What's the next Matt? Matt's producing instead of Sharon, and
normally he guides me toward the next thing.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Did you go out for a shot coming in with
a good let's find out. We'll all find out together.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
How about some money money? Oh, we don't do money here.
Oh oh sir, you don't have.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Any money on you that we could do just to
kind of, you know, shave the moment.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
If I did, I would, but I don't. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You did well with the July fifth and July fourth
surge pricing.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
That was nice. Yeah, yeah, you did make some money.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Do you feel like there's a bounce in your step
post fourth or July with all that surge pricing money
in your pocket?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
When I first yeah, when I first initially get home,
I just want to like pour myself into bed. I'm
so tired. But to the next day, you know, I
see what I made and I'm like, oh, okay, that
was worth it. Yeah it feels good. Yeah, exactly. It's
nice to have the fruits of your labor, especially when
it's like I said, when it's you got a nice
crowd and you don't have a lot of rambunctious people
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in the car, it's nice and you keep your car clean.
That's always a benefit. A bonus. Yeah, do you uh
are you? Are you naturally that way or is that
an effort for use to fush? I mean, are you
naturally someone who cleans the car or do you do?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, No, I always I always clean. I keep my
car uh impeccable, impecab. Yeah, I always keep it clean
because and then I always get told how clean the
car is, and I make sure it smells good. I
just meant like, if someone decides that they had a
little bit too much and they can't hold it in, yeah,
like that kind of night, that's always a bummer.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Uh, that smell is very hard to get out of
the car, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I think I've said it before, but I've been very
lucky that the times that it happened, it was the
end of the shift. So I just basically got a
bonus because I would clean it myself when I would
get home, and I would just pocket the cleaning fee,
So not too bad.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Do you keep airsick bags like in the car?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I did.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I actually got the idea from another Uber driver that
I have ziplock bags in the back. So if someone
really can't make it, I'm like, there you go, and
that's your party favorite take it home.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
That's what they told me, And I was like, that's
not a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know, when we evacuated for the fires, the cats
were all put We put all the cats in these crates,
you know, in the cat carriers. Yeah, and we put
those carriers in the car. And the cats, of course
have never been in the car. And the four things
are going nuts. There's you know, it's blowing like crazy
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to wind. You can hear helicopters over. The whole scene
is crazy. We're panicked. And one of the catspeeded out
of fear, of course, and that pee ran into the
seat in the back seat. Okay, yeah, Now that back
seat is part whatever vinyl or whatever that is on top,
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but it's cushion. It's like a styroffoam not what is it?
It's like like a.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Suede No, but underneath it's the cushion is made of
like a sponge eat. So it's a spongy material.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, and it took in that cat urine and that
smell you will never get rid of, all right, that
is So I took it back to the dealer and
I pulled the seat out of the car, the bottoms
of the back seat, this whole bottom part of the
bench seat I pulled out and it's there in the
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sun and you can see the stain right And he
said to me, you may have to replace the seat.
It's a little hard to get that smell out. But
then he said, I do have one suggestion. And this
suggestion worked. And here's what it was. There is some
stuff and you can get it on probably Amazon and
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across the web. It is to get rid of the
smell of a corpse. And yeah, that's what I said,
what and I still have in fact, i'll bring in
because I didn't use all of it. I only use
like half a bottle. I'll bring it in tomorrow. And
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it is remarkably effective. Now, it took some time. You
had to really I had to work on it, you know,
and keep it going every day. But it got rid
of that smell. And that was an incredible savings because
I was thinking I might have to replace the whole
bench seat in the back seat. And it was also
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just insanely inventive. If that guy and I and I
in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, how does
this guy know about this corpus? My thought was, you
know how many corpse smells have you had to get
rid of sir anyway. Wait, so did he have it
on hand or he just no, no, no, he recommended,
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he said, he said, I don't know. He said you can.
You can get it on the internet. He said that,
you know, he said it works, it works, he said,
he said it might work. But uh it was. Yeah.
So that's my pro tip to you in case you
need it. In fact, I'll bring in what's left.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I might have to add it to my inventory. It
was not expensive, is my memory. It was not like
you know this stuff that is, you know, incredibly nectar
of the gods brought here, you know, from Nepal or something. No,
this is uh, it was like this powder he sprinkled it.
I was really low rent.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
It's like that green sawdust that the janitors used in
elementary school back in the day that they swept with.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think it was green. I think Krozier is right.
I think the color of that powder was green. So
that stuff was.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
All about smells and liquids that it sopped up.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, I never even thought of that. Well that's a
great memory.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Those big push brooms, yeah yeah, and that stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Anyways, stiffush, I will bring you the corpse smell remover
tomorrow please. It's on my list of things I will do.
What's the story with that neighborhood where the fireworks exploded?
The deadly fireworks explosion in Pacoima? Crazy? There are some
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new revelations. We'll share them with you next.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It is.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Scary to see that an LA fire survivor is told
that State Farms check issued to that fire survivor nine
hundred thousand dollars is on a hold because of insufficient funds.
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Kind of wild, I mean State Farm. After the Eaton
fire burned down Amelia McDonald's house, she of course had
to relocate. She was displaced, her father, daughter moved the
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goats that were with her.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
They've all been displaced.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And the check from State Farm was for eight hundred
and seventy six thousand, three hundred and fifty four dollars.
So Amelia McDonald calls the checkhol department of her bank,
Chase Bank, asked why the funds in the check that
she deposited on June thirtieth are still not showing up
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in her account. She is told it's because State Farm,
which again I'll remind you is the state's largest property insurer,
had insufficient funds to cover that amount. In fact, Chase
told her that their account State Farm had a negative balance.
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She called again today, got someone who told her the
check will probably clear on July tenth, and when she
asked for more information about the delay, and you know
what's going on, she hasked to speak to a manager.
The manager said, Hey, we're just not sure that the
money's going to be there, and we have to make
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sure that the check's going to clear. She is someone
who's been a client of State Farm for more than
twenty years. She said, it's just an extraordinary fact. State
Farm's the largest property insurer in California, as I said,
and they say they've paid more than four point two
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billion dollars out and almost thirteen thousand claims from the
La County fires. And even Amelia McDonald, who you know,
again is the one waiting for.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
This check to clear.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
She's saying, I hope they're not in trouble, because if
they're in trouble, we're all in trouble. State Farm wouldn't
respond to inquiries around this particular interaction with their bank
or the allegation about insufficient funds. And you'll remember that
State Farm was saying the claims from the LA fires
are worsening their financial condition and they have threatened to
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pull out of California. They've canceled or refused to renew
a lot of people, tens of thousands of policies. Right,
State Farm got approval that was in May to raise
its rates on an emergency interim basis. I mean, it's
a weird thing that these insurance companies pretty much get
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greenlit on whatever they want in terms of raising rates.
But all of that's done against the backdrop of, you know,
we're thinking about pulling out of the state completely, and
that creates its own issues for the state of California. So,
you know, the company saying State Farm was during that
entire approval process that back and forth with they requested
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they say that the credit rating has been downgraded. And again,
the financial pressures as a result of all of these
claims have put significant stress on this insurer. They're facing lawsuits,
complaints about handling of smoke damage claims, allegations that they're
under insuring policyholders, and so you know, you find these
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things out in the wake of a huge disaster like this,
and that's what's happening with State Farm. A spokesperson for
the insurance to and said that the department is investigating
this issue with this claim around State Farm.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
This is about the check.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Wouldn't comment about the check clearing delay specifically. An insurance
compliance officer with the department responded by saying that they've
contacted State Farm and they've given the company five.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Days to respond.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So again there's another side of this, right, she's waiting
on that money because she's trying to do stuff with
that money. And she's also got a property loss claim
with the State Farm and she did get a check
for three hundred and thirty five thousand dollars for loss
on the contents of her property. I mean, the numbers
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are huge because the devastation is huge and we went
through it too. As you know, my house burned in
twenty eighteen, and you do this thing, it's a sweat.
How much will the insurance company? Am I going to
have to sell my house? And literally I did sell
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the house. It was a fire sale. Literally the house
said been damaged by the fire. So you have to
hope that the insurance company steps up significantly enough to
make up the gap between what the house would have
been worth on the open market and what it is
after all of the damages that have been done by
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the fire. Pretty wild, but I mean the nature of
all of this devastation is going to be played out
in all of these ways. And I hate to say it,
but fire season is always just around the corner. Gavin
Newsom is campaigning in South Carolina. He wants to be president.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Greeted with the clause and yes selfie. Some received a
warm welcome at this restaurant in Florence, South Carolina, just
about an hour and a half northwest of Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know what's interesting to me is to be on
the advanced team for someone like because he can't just
walk in anywhere. You got to make sure that he's
going to be you know, it's all sweetness and light
when he walks in. So when he says he walked
into applause and people so glad to see him in
South Carolina, they have to curate his stops.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
Reading with the clause and yes selfies. Governor Gavin Newsom
received a warm welcome at this restaurant. In Florence, South Carolina,
just about an hour and a half northwest of Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
I think it's extraordinary that you're all here.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
It's just one of at least six stops he plans
to make in the Palmetto state on Tuesday, with even
more scheduled for Wednesday.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
I'm proud to be able to raise a few dollars
for your party.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
He's there part of the South Carolina Democratic Parties multi
County on the Road series featuring visits to more rural
parts of the state.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I think it's really important for Democrats that we spend
time in parts of our safe parts of our country
that frankly, we haven't spent enough time in.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
And so that's what I'm here.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Myrtle Beach sister station WBtW was with news and for
this part of the tour where he did not shy
away from blasting President Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
What a surprise that is.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
He's running for president and he's busting on the current president.
That's pretty much on brand.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
President Donald Trump, who.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Wanted to put American reverse, wanted to bring us back
to a pre nineteen sixties.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
World on voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, on women's rights.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Is this presidency will end with you and the House
of Representatives in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
This is the opportunity and this is why I.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Know you're all here as well.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
This presidency will end next November.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Well, this is where he is South Carolina and increasingly
you know that could kick the door open to the nomination.
It's got a ways to go, diner by diner, stop
by stop, statement by statement, and by fight this as
he is still governor, I'll remind you of California with
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all of the issues attendant to that. Chris Merrill's falling
in for mo tonight. Yeah, it will grab a hold
of him when we come back.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We've gone through almost the whole show, Matt, producer, Matt,
and we haven't done the story that I teased for today.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
You know that we do these teases. Now you've heard
them over and over and over.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Handle does one and Garyan Shannon does one, used her
one from Chris Merrill. Right, So we did one, and
we're almost we're gonna finish the show without doing the story.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I know, flacking over here, so here it is the
story that was teased for today. From August eleventh to
the twenty second, the doors to one of Southern California's
most iconic attractions going to be closed to the public.
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How could this happen? Well, as it turns out, it
is something designed each year to be done.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Disneyland's Haunted Mansion closes for a portion of the summer
as it undergoes a transformation in preparation for the Halloween season.
So if you're going to Disneyland, do not expect to
get into the Haunted Mansion after August eleventh and through
the twenty second. It is the seventieth anniversary celebration of
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one of its most famous rides, the Haunted Mansion, and
it's closing for two weeks and guests won't be allowed in.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You can still see the kind of ghoulish figures outside,
but the actual Haunted Mansion ride is going to be closed.
They recently launched a brand new merchandise collection on the
official Disney Online store that has apparel, accessories, toys, home
decorps inspired by the Haunted Mansion.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Make the goulish characters a part of your.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Family Disneyland has not released an official statement regarding the
reason for the closure, although they say that it is
a refurbishment for the Halloween season. The ride is expected
to reopen on August twenty second. It'll debut its popular
seasonal transformation based on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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So they really are going to bring it back in
kind of a reconstituted way, plenty of experience, they say.
During these anniversary festivities. The all New World of Color
Happiness Nighttime Spectacular pays tribute to Walt Disney's original opening
day dedication to all who come to this place, to
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all who come to this happy place, he said, welcome.
And August twenty second also officially marks the start of
Halloween Time at Disneyland Resort. Anyway, it is the big
closure that is being talked about, so that begins August eleventh.
In minutes, you'll get to spend some time with Chris Merrill.
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Chris Merrill one of the rugged members of the radio team.
He does a lot of different shifts and different I'm
very impressed with Chris Merrill because he has to kind
of change up the rhythm based on whatever show he's doing.
You know, can't just do the same thing for each show.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
He has to.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
When he's doing Moe's show, as he's about to do
he kind of changes the energy. I think he was
to do Conway's show, same thing. Got to mix it up, exactly.
You got to mix it up. You gotta speaking of ghules. Yeah, hey,
will you say that again?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I love that. When you I mean, it felt like
I just I got my wallet out.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
Actually when you said make the goulish figures part of
your family.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well it didn't feel it. Feel though.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
They launched this brand new merchandise collection and it's all
related to the Haunted mansion, and so.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
They want to go to Mark Thompson dot com. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Merch featuring apparel, accessories, toys, and a home day cor
That's what really got me thinking of it. Home day
Corps inspired by the attractions ghoulish characters.
Speaker 11 (29:34):
That's why I go to Mark Thompson. I'm waiting for
those Mark Thompson throw pillows that I can get to.
They I think they were collectors them. I don't think
that they're even offered anymore. Get Markmirch dot com if
you want to see the latest collection. We have a
running suit that you might be interested in pajamas. Pajamas,
you might have be interested. This is all my show
on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
They have a kind of a merch site and it's
I would go at the overpriced merch because they they
set the prices.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I don't. We actually chose the lowest prices. You know.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
They they give you options and we chose the lowest
one and we don't make any money on it. But
they just released a bunch of new things, like the
pajamas and the socks. Mark Thompson chose socks. So very
excited about that. Okay, and maybe that collection, Yeah, maybe
you could.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Maybe this Christmas, I'll get you a stocking stuff or
from mohunted mansion collection.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Heay, no I want the stocks. Oh you want that? Okay?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Well that I will get you that I show, right, Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 11 (30:29):
Hey, I was listening to your story about about your house.
I didn't realize that you that you sold the house
that burned. Yeah, so that's fascinating. Do you know who
bought that? Because you didn't, you didn't fix it back
up again?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Right, So the law requires you to fix the house
back up before you sell it. In some instances, at
least in this instance, they made us fix a lot
of the roof and fix a lot of other stuff
with the with the house that had been burned in
the fire. And then after that we could sell it.
So it wasn't like we had to upgrade the whole lace.
(31:00):
And we'd already done a lot of upgrades, you know,
to the house, to the floors, to the cabinetry, et cetera.
But so they make you do that. And then I
sold it to a guy who was an Internet dude.
I think he was like he had sold his business.
He had that place that he was going to have
in Brentwood and also a place I think in Puerto Rico.
You know, he was a he was a baller, you
know what I mean. Yeah, And uh, that was you know,
(31:23):
that was the story on that. Yeah, but it was.
It was it's heartbreaking and it's it's awful. Yeah, And
I'm sorry I had to go through that. That's thanks Pally.
It was no no fun for sure, But I mean
it really is a window on insurance on fire sadly
on PTSD that we're that we deal with every fire season,
even just as the winds begin to pick up at all.
(31:43):
So it's a it's a pretty brutal thing to go through.
You have, I mean, you get anxious, Do you get nightmares?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I mean we just we just can't sleep. I mean
when it starts to we both become very emotional. And
my other half is a super emotional person. That's the
wondrous part of her. You know that she is so emotional,
but it also comes out in this utterly frightening way
when we feel you know, the threat is rising, and
there's also a randomness, as you know to fire in California,
(32:11):
and that randomness can keep you on the edge and
keep you so anxious all the time that you just
can't sleep. I mean, we don't sleep during these periods
of intense wind and fire danger pretty rough.
Speaker 11 (32:24):
Which you probably have some empathy then for the people
in Texas because they're going to be experiencing Oh, I mean, yes,
I can't imagine somebody who lost their child at that camp, right,
I mean, every time there's a thunderstorm that comes through,
they're going to go through exactly what you're discussed.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Oh, it's a life destroy mi. I mean, you know
when you lose a child, that's a life destroyer. I'm
sorry it is. Yeah, oh it is.
Speaker 11 (32:43):
And you know, the stats on things like marriages surviving
through the loss of a child are incredibly dismal too.
So I mean, not only are you processing the loss
of a child, but then it just tears spouses apart,
It tears those bonds apart. I just can't even imagine
or fathom the pain that they're all experiencing right now.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, it's a out, It's it's devastating. You're absolutely just
devastating story. So yeah, yeah, well I love taking I
love taking this walk down devastation lane with you. This
is really nice, right, but to always do enjoy talking
to you. So all the best, my friend. Okay, Chris
is next for mo. Thanks everybody, we'll be back tomorrow.
(33:27):
Last crack at the Conway Show for me this week,
but looking forward to it. And thanks to everybody on
the show for all the support. We're KFI AM six
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
Glad you could be with us as we bake in
southern California for the When is he gonna cool off?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Crocier? It's gonna cool off a little bit each day
after this.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Tomorrow's would be the peak of the heat. It'll get
a little bit hotter. I get a degree or two,
but then about five degrees on Friday, and then a
little cooler over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah, it's just starting to feel like the heat of
the summer. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well, Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. And I
just must tell you that once in a while stories
hit me, and this is one of them. It's just
sort of within the overall issue of you know, ice
raids and detentions and this kind of thing, we begin
to lose our heads. I think on some of this stuff,
and certainly, I mean there can be different opinions, but
(00:49):
I read this account with a sense of emotion almost,
you know, because the best of many of these communities
are are being plucked out and sent off. This is
a teen in la She was a rising senior on
the honor roll and she checked in. It was a
(01:13):
routine immigration check in, and five days later her mom
and she swiftly deported to Guatemala. She doesn't even remember Guatemala.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Again.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Seventeen years old, she had plans. She wrapped up eleventh
grade and a high note made the honor roll, represented
her La High School in the city finals for track.
So at track season over, she went to cross country running,
showed up to campus for practice after the school year ended,
and everything changed when she and her mother, Esteleramos, both
(01:52):
undocumented a period of what they thought was a standard
check in visit with immigration officials on June thirtieth. Again
they were lawfully checking in. Ice took us to a room,
she said, and they ended up telling my mom, your
case is over, so we have to take you guys
with us. This happened over the objections of the attorney.
(02:15):
Federal agents led them away. The next day. She and
her mom shipped to Texas, and by the fourth of
July they were on a plane to Guatemala. That's a
country where neither of them have lived for over a decade,
and for her it's the American dream shattered. So again
(02:36):
this is one story, and there might be I know,
there are many many others, but there might be those
who hear that story and go, yeah, well, you know,
I mean, sadly, they're going to be stories like that.
But we have to in some way take care of
our communities and make sure that people are here legally.
And you know, President Trump campaigned on the promise of
(02:57):
these mass deportations, but I would just say that, you know,
again he emphasized the undocumented immigrants being criminals and threats
to society, and you know, parts of violent crimes and
there certainly are aspects of that community that that but
you know, again, on a percentage basis, we're looking at
(03:17):
like probably one percent of the community. So you end
up with these sorts of stories, and they're heartbreaking to me.
I mean, this this girl has really had her life
completely upended and it's seventeen years old. She's everything you
want in a team. She's on the honor roll, she's
on the track team, she's performing so well. She's a
(03:38):
great example of what you can do. I just find
it particularly rough. So she's in Guatemala, and you know,
civil liberties and advocacy groups are you know, trying to
help overall, but there's really not much that can be done.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
As you are aware, could.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Donald Trump and the current administration take control of Washington,
d C And even New York City Now Washington d
C is controlled by the Feds.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I grew up in Washington, d C. And if you're
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're not crazy about the fact that so many people
live there, and yet you have no voting representative in
the Senate, and you have no real representation in a
voting way in the House. You have, if you will,
taxation without representation. So already the people in d C
(04:37):
have got a beef with the federal government because the
Feds control the city and you feel as though, you know,
you don't really have a hand in it the way
you might. But the notion that the federal government have
authority to take over the city. Wow, And it's not
(04:57):
just Washington, d C. This conversation with President Trump was
this conversation about New York City and if this socialist
mayor actually comes to power, would Donald Trump be okay
taking over New York City?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
If a communist gets elected to run New York it
can never be the same. But we have tremendous power
at the White House to run places when we have to.
We could run d C. I mean, we're we're looking
at DC. We don't want crime in d C. We
want the city to run well. Susie Willis is working
very closely with the mayor, and they're doing all right.
(05:36):
I mean in the sense that we would we would
run it so good, it would be run so proper,
we'd get that best person to run it. We run,
the crime would be down to a minimal, would be
much less. And you know, we're thinking about doing it.
To be honest with you, we want to We want
a capital that's run flawlessly, and it wouldn't be hard
for us to do it.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And we've had a.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Good relationship with a man who're testing it to see
if it works.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
You, I wonder if you could really do it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The argument for reasserting federal control, people like Ted Cruz
say it should happen. They argue that DC local government
has failed on crime, homelessness, education, public safety, sharing crime
rates is what they point to, public drug use. You know,
it's all that stuff in the big cities, disarray in
(06:27):
schools and infrastructure. And let me just tell you something.
They're not wrong. People in d C will complain about
the same thing. I'm not convinced that a takeover from
the Feds in some sort of way in which you
completely undercut the mayor city council, if that's the way
to go. But it's interesting to hear that's what they're
(06:48):
talking about. Here's Ted Cruz.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Why don't Republicans assert their constitution?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
That's Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
He's talking about, why don't Republicans assert their constitutional authority
over the city. Don't they control the Congress. Yes, I'd
be all for it. Who's against it?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Susan Collins is really vocally against it. So on questions
of home rule. So, for example, let's take an issue.
You and I care a lot about the COVID lockdowns.
I had a couple of years ago. In the middle
of them, d C was proposing the DC School District
was proposing throwing out of school any child that was
not vaccinated. And at the time, if I remember correctly,
(07:25):
it was something like forty percent of the African American
students in DC were not vaccinated. So they were talking
about Lidley throwing out forty percent of the kids of
public school and so I had a vote on the
Senate floor to say, look, they can't throw kids out
of school for this, and we ended up having a
big argument, and part of the argument was home rule
where there was and Susan was the most vocal Republican.
(07:46):
It's like, no, no, no, we have to let DC run.
And I'm like, why constitution gives us the power.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
To do it?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
And it ended up by the way every single Democrat,
all of.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Them, let me just metropolity when they say home rule.
This is something that goes back to the So Washington
d C. Has its mayor and city council, but Congress
can override any law or budget that's passed locally. The
Home Rule Act allows DC to self govern unless Congress objects.
(08:17):
So you see that. Wrapped up in all of this
is a real question of congressional overreach or appropriate reach.
And in addition to this being kind of a snappy
SoundBite or controversial topic, it has applicability in the states
and even in California because already what's happening is what
(08:39):
a question about federal overreach when it comes to bypassing
the governor for the National Guard bringing in the Marines,
I mean these are things that we're living right now.
So the discussions around federal power and around Trump and
around in this case is not Trump. It's not exclusively Trump.
It's a cruise and other members of the Senate who
(09:02):
feel as though, Hey, maybe it's time to get involved
in the running of Washington, d C. And the President
can deploy federal forces or declare a state of emergency
in DC. He could do that number that he's comfortable with,
and he could do it far more easily than he
can with the state because there's no governor. You can
(09:24):
go right in. Trump deployed federal agents during those twenty
twenty protests. There was no local consent on that he
didn't check off with the mayor. So you can see
that this might really be two things possible, maybe even likely.
And I think the other thing is relevant because all
the states on some level may want or seek pushback
(09:48):
against the federal government. So Mark Thompson's sitting in for Tim.
What's the next Matt? Matt's producing instead of Sharon, and
normally he guides me toward the next thing.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Did you go out for a shot coming in with
a good let's find out. We'll all find out together.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
How about some money money? Oh, we don't do money here.
Oh oh sir, you don't have.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Any money on you that we could do just to
kind of, you know, shave the moment.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
If I did, I would, but I don't. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You did well with the July fifth and July fourth
surge pricing.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
That was nice. Yeah, yeah, you did make some money.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Do you feel like there's a bounce in your step
post fourth or July with all that surge pricing money
in your pocket?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
When I first yeah, when I first initially get home,
I just want to like pour myself into bed. I'm
so tired. But to the next day, you know, I
see what I made and I'm like, oh, okay, that
was worth it. Yeah it feels good. Yeah, exactly. It's
nice to have the fruits of your labor, especially when
it's like I said, when it's you got a nice
crowd and you don't have a lot of rambunctious people
(11:10):
in the car, it's nice and you keep your car clean.
That's always a benefit. A bonus. Yeah, do you uh
are you? Are you naturally that way or is that
an effort for use to fush? I mean, are you
naturally someone who cleans the car or do you do?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, No, I always I always clean. I keep my
car uh impeccable, impecab. Yeah, I always keep it clean
because and then I always get told how clean the
car is, and I make sure it smells good. I
just meant like, if someone decides that they had a
little bit too much and they can't hold it in, yeah,
like that kind of night, that's always a bummer.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Uh, that smell is very hard to get out of
the car, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I think I've said it before, but I've been very
lucky that the times that it happened, it was the
end of the shift. So I just basically got a
bonus because I would clean it myself when I would
get home, and I would just pocket the cleaning fee,
So not too bad.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Do you keep airsick bags like in the car?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I did.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I actually got the idea from another Uber driver that
I have ziplock bags in the back. So if someone
really can't make it, I'm like, there you go, and
that's your party favorite take it home.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
That's what they told me, And I was like, that's
not a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know, when we evacuated for the fires, the cats
were all put We put all the cats in these crates,
you know, in the cat carriers. Yeah, and we put
those carriers in the car. And the cats, of course
have never been in the car. And the four things
are going nuts. There's you know, it's blowing like crazy
(12:50):
to wind. You can hear helicopters over. The whole scene
is crazy. We're panicked. And one of the catspeeded out
of fear, of course, and that pee ran into the
seat in the back seat. Okay, yeah, Now that back
seat is part whatever vinyl or whatever that is on top,
(13:14):
but it's cushion. It's like a styroffoam not what is it?
It's like like a.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Suede No, but underneath it's the cushion is made of
like a sponge eat. So it's a spongy material.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, and it took in that cat urine and that
smell you will never get rid of, all right, that
is So I took it back to the dealer and
I pulled the seat out of the car, the bottoms
of the back seat, this whole bottom part of the
bench seat I pulled out and it's there in the
(13:48):
sun and you can see the stain right And he
said to me, you may have to replace the seat.
It's a little hard to get that smell out. But
then he said, I do have one suggestion. And this
suggestion worked. And here's what it was. There is some
stuff and you can get it on probably Amazon and
(14:11):
across the web. It is to get rid of the
smell of a corpse. And yeah, that's what I said,
what and I still have in fact, i'll bring in
because I didn't use all of it. I only use
like half a bottle. I'll bring it in tomorrow. And
(14:32):
it is remarkably effective. Now, it took some time. You
had to really I had to work on it, you know,
and keep it going every day. But it got rid
of that smell. And that was an incredible savings because
I was thinking I might have to replace the whole
bench seat in the back seat. And it was also
(14:54):
just insanely inventive. If that guy and I and I
in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, how does
this guy know about this corpus? My thought was, you
know how many corpse smells have you had to get
rid of sir anyway. Wait, so did he have it
on hand or he just no, no, no, he recommended,
(15:15):
he said, he said, I don't know. He said you can.
You can get it on the internet. He said that,
you know, he said it works, it works, he said,
he said it might work. But uh it was. Yeah.
So that's my pro tip to you in case you
need it. In fact, I'll bring in what's left.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I might have to add it to my inventory. It
was not expensive, is my memory. It was not like
you know this stuff that is, you know, incredibly nectar
of the gods brought here, you know, from Nepal or something. No,
this is uh, it was like this powder he sprinkled it.
I was really low rent.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
It's like that green sawdust that the janitors used in
elementary school back in the day that they swept with.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think it was green. I think Krozier is right.
I think the color of that powder was green. So
that stuff was.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
All about smells and liquids that it sopped up.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, I never even thought of that. Well that's a
great memory.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Those big push brooms, yeah yeah, and that stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Anyways, stiffush, I will bring you the corpse smell remover
tomorrow please. It's on my list of things I will do.
What's the story with that neighborhood where the fireworks exploded?
The deadly fireworks explosion in Pacoima? Crazy? There are some
(16:38):
new revelations. We'll share them with you next.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It is.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Scary to see that an LA fire survivor is told
that State Farms check issued to that fire survivor nine
hundred thousand dollars is on a hold because of insufficient funds.
(17:11):
Kind of wild, I mean State Farm. After the Eaton
fire burned down Amelia McDonald's house, she of course had
to relocate. She was displaced, her father, daughter moved the
(17:33):
goats that were with her.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
They've all been displaced.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And the check from State Farm was for eight hundred
and seventy six thousand, three hundred and fifty four dollars.
So Amelia McDonald calls the checkhol department of her bank,
Chase Bank, asked why the funds in the check that
she deposited on June thirtieth are still not showing up
(18:01):
in her account. She is told it's because State Farm,
which again I'll remind you is the state's largest property insurer,
had insufficient funds to cover that amount. In fact, Chase
told her that their account State Farm had a negative balance.
(18:25):
She called again today, got someone who told her the
check will probably clear on July tenth, and when she
asked for more information about the delay, and you know
what's going on, she hasked to speak to a manager.
The manager said, Hey, we're just not sure that the
money's going to be there, and we have to make
(18:48):
sure that the check's going to clear. She is someone
who's been a client of State Farm for more than
twenty years. She said, it's just an extraordinary fact. State
Farm's the largest property insurer in California, as I said,
and they say they've paid more than four point two
(19:08):
billion dollars out and almost thirteen thousand claims from the
La County fires. And even Amelia McDonald, who you know,
again is the one waiting for.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
This check to clear.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
She's saying, I hope they're not in trouble, because if
they're in trouble, we're all in trouble. State Farm wouldn't
respond to inquiries around this particular interaction with their bank
or the allegation about insufficient funds. And you'll remember that
State Farm was saying the claims from the LA fires
are worsening their financial condition and they have threatened to
(19:43):
pull out of California. They've canceled or refused to renew
a lot of people, tens of thousands of policies. Right,
State Farm got approval that was in May to raise
its rates on an emergency interim basis. I mean, it's
a weird thing that these insurance companies pretty much get
(20:03):
greenlit on whatever they want in terms of raising rates.
But all of that's done against the backdrop of, you know,
we're thinking about pulling out of the state completely, and
that creates its own issues for the state of California. So,
you know, the company saying State Farm was during that
entire approval process that back and forth with they requested
(20:25):
they say that the credit rating has been downgraded. And again,
the financial pressures as a result of all of these
claims have put significant stress on this insurer. They're facing lawsuits,
complaints about handling of smoke damage claims, allegations that they're
under insuring policyholders, and so you know, you find these
(20:49):
things out in the wake of a huge disaster like this,
and that's what's happening with State Farm. A spokesperson for
the insurance to and said that the department is investigating
this issue with this claim around State Farm.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
This is about the check.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Wouldn't comment about the check clearing delay specifically. An insurance
compliance officer with the department responded by saying that they've
contacted State Farm and they've given the company five.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Days to respond.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So again there's another side of this, right, she's waiting
on that money because she's trying to do stuff with
that money. And she's also got a property loss claim
with the State Farm and she did get a check
for three hundred and thirty five thousand dollars for loss
on the contents of her property. I mean, the numbers
(21:44):
are huge because the devastation is huge and we went
through it too. As you know, my house burned in
twenty eighteen, and you do this thing, it's a sweat.
How much will the insurance company? Am I going to
have to sell my house? And literally I did sell
(22:04):
the house. It was a fire sale. Literally the house
said been damaged by the fire. So you have to
hope that the insurance company steps up significantly enough to
make up the gap between what the house would have
been worth on the open market and what it is
after all of the damages that have been done by
(22:25):
the fire. Pretty wild, but I mean the nature of
all of this devastation is going to be played out
in all of these ways. And I hate to say it,
but fire season is always just around the corner. Gavin
Newsom is campaigning in South Carolina. He wants to be president.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Greeted with the clause and yes selfie. Some received a
warm welcome at this restaurant in Florence, South Carolina, just
about an hour and a half northwest of Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know what's interesting to me is to be on
the advanced team for someone like because he can't just
walk in anywhere. You got to make sure that he's
going to be you know, it's all sweetness and light
when he walks in. So when he says he walked
into applause and people so glad to see him in
South Carolina, they have to curate his stops.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
Reading with the clause and yes selfies. Governor Gavin Newsom
received a warm welcome at this restaurant. In Florence, South Carolina,
just about an hour and a half northwest of Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
I think it's extraordinary that you're all here.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
It's just one of at least six stops he plans
to make in the Palmetto state on Tuesday, with even
more scheduled for Wednesday.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
I'm proud to be able to raise a few dollars
for your party.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
He's there part of the South Carolina Democratic Parties multi
County on the Road series featuring visits to more rural
parts of the state.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I think it's really important for Democrats that we spend
time in parts of our safe parts of our country
that frankly, we haven't spent enough time in.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
And so that's what I'm here.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Myrtle Beach sister station WBtW was with news and for
this part of the tour where he did not shy
away from blasting President Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
What a surprise that is.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
He's running for president and he's busting on the current president.
That's pretty much on brand.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
President Donald Trump, who.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Wanted to put American reverse, wanted to bring us back
to a pre nineteen sixties.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
World on voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, on women's rights.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Is this presidency will end with you and the House
of Representatives in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
This is the opportunity and this is why I.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Know you're all here as well.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
This presidency will end next November.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Well, this is where he is South Carolina and increasingly
you know that could kick the door open to the nomination.
It's got a ways to go, diner by diner, stop
by stop, statement by statement, and by fight this as
he is still governor, I'll remind you of California with
(25:07):
all of the issues attendant to that. Chris Merrill's falling
in for mo tonight. Yeah, it will grab a hold
of him when we come back.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We've gone through almost the whole show, Matt, producer, Matt,
and we haven't done the story that I teased for today.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
You know that we do these teases. Now you've heard
them over and over and over.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Handle does one and Garyan Shannon does one, used her
one from Chris Merrill. Right, So we did one, and
we're almost we're gonna finish the show without doing the story.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I know, flacking over here, so here it is the
story that was teased for today. From August eleventh to
the twenty second, the doors to one of Southern California's
most iconic attractions going to be closed to the public.
(26:14):
How could this happen? Well, as it turns out, it
is something designed each year to be done.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Disneyland's Haunted Mansion closes for a portion of the summer
as it undergoes a transformation in preparation for the Halloween season.
So if you're going to Disneyland, do not expect to
get into the Haunted Mansion after August eleventh and through
the twenty second. It is the seventieth anniversary celebration of
(26:49):
one of its most famous rides, the Haunted Mansion, and
it's closing for two weeks and guests won't be allowed in.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You can still see the kind of ghoulish figures outside,
but the actual Haunted Mansion ride is going to be closed.
They recently launched a brand new merchandise collection on the
official Disney Online store that has apparel, accessories, toys, home
decorps inspired by the Haunted Mansion.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Make the goulish characters a part of your.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Family Disneyland has not released an official statement regarding the
reason for the closure, although they say that it is
a refurbishment for the Halloween season. The ride is expected
to reopen on August twenty second. It'll debut its popular
seasonal transformation based on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
(27:44):
So they really are going to bring it back in
kind of a reconstituted way, plenty of experience, they say.
During these anniversary festivities. The all New World of Color
Happiness Nighttime Spectacular pays tribute to Walt Disney's original opening
day dedication to all who come to this place, to
(28:05):
all who come to this happy place, he said, welcome.
And August twenty second also officially marks the start of
Halloween Time at Disneyland Resort. Anyway, it is the big
closure that is being talked about, so that begins August eleventh.
In minutes, you'll get to spend some time with Chris Merrill.
(28:31):
Chris Merrill one of the rugged members of the radio team.
He does a lot of different shifts and different I'm
very impressed with Chris Merrill because he has to kind
of change up the rhythm based on whatever show he's doing.
You know, can't just do the same thing for each show.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
He has to.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
When he's doing Moe's show, as he's about to do
he kind of changes the energy. I think he was
to do Conway's show, same thing. Got to mix it up, exactly.
You got to mix it up. You gotta speaking of ghules. Yeah, hey,
will you say that again?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I love that. When you I mean, it felt like
I just I got my wallet out.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
Actually when you said make the goulish figures part of
your family.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well it didn't feel it. Feel though.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
They launched this brand new merchandise collection and it's all
related to the Haunted mansion, and so.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
They want to go to Mark Thompson dot com. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Merch featuring apparel, accessories, toys, and a home day cor
That's what really got me thinking of it. Home day
Corps inspired by the attractions ghoulish characters.
Speaker 11 (29:34):
That's why I go to Mark Thompson. I'm waiting for
those Mark Thompson throw pillows that I can get to.
They I think they were collectors them. I don't think
that they're even offered anymore. Get Markmirch dot com if
you want to see the latest collection. We have a
running suit that you might be interested in pajamas. Pajamas,
you might have be interested. This is all my show
on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
They have a kind of a merch site and it's
I would go at the overpriced merch because they they
set the prices.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I don't. We actually chose the lowest prices. You know.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
They they give you options and we chose the lowest
one and we don't make any money on it. But
they just released a bunch of new things, like the
pajamas and the socks. Mark Thompson chose socks. So very
excited about that. Okay, and maybe that collection, Yeah, maybe
you could.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Maybe this Christmas, I'll get you a stocking stuff or
from mohunted mansion collection.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Heay, no I want the stocks. Oh you want that? Okay?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Well that I will get you that I show, right, Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 11 (30:29):
Hey, I was listening to your story about about your house.
I didn't realize that you that you sold the house
that burned. Yeah, so that's fascinating. Do you know who
bought that? Because you didn't, you didn't fix it back
up again?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Right, So the law requires you to fix the house
back up before you sell it. In some instances, at
least in this instance, they made us fix a lot
of the roof and fix a lot of other stuff
with the with the house that had been burned in
the fire. And then after that we could sell it.
So it wasn't like we had to upgrade the whole lace.
(31:00):
And we'd already done a lot of upgrades, you know,
to the house, to the floors, to the cabinetry, et cetera.
But so they make you do that. And then I
sold it to a guy who was an Internet dude.
I think he was like he had sold his business.
He had that place that he was going to have
in Brentwood and also a place I think in Puerto Rico.
You know, he was a he was a baller, you
know what I mean. Yeah, And uh, that was you know,
(31:23):
that was the story on that. Yeah, but it was.
It was it's heartbreaking and it's it's awful. Yeah, And
I'm sorry I had to go through that. That's thanks Pally.
It was no no fun for sure, But I mean
it really is a window on insurance on fire sadly
on PTSD that we're that we deal with every fire season,
even just as the winds begin to pick up at all.
(31:43):
So it's a it's a pretty brutal thing to go through.
You have, I mean, you get anxious, Do you get nightmares?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I mean we just we just can't sleep. I mean
when it starts to we both become very emotional. And
my other half is a super emotional person. That's the
wondrous part of her. You know that she is so emotional,
but it also comes out in this utterly frightening way
when we feel you know, the threat is rising, and
there's also a randomness, as you know to fire in California,
(32:11):
and that randomness can keep you on the edge and
keep you so anxious all the time that you just
can't sleep. I mean, we don't sleep during these periods
of intense wind and fire danger pretty rough.
Speaker 11 (32:24):
Which you probably have some empathy then for the people
in Texas because they're going to be experiencing Oh, I mean, yes,
I can't imagine somebody who lost their child at that camp, right,
I mean, every time there's a thunderstorm that comes through,
they're going to go through exactly what you're discussed.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Oh, it's a life destroy mi. I mean, you know
when you lose a child, that's a life destroyer. I'm
sorry it is. Yeah, oh it is.
Speaker 11 (32:43):
And you know, the stats on things like marriages surviving
through the loss of a child are incredibly dismal too.
So I mean, not only are you processing the loss
of a child, but then it just tears spouses apart,
It tears those bonds apart. I just can't even imagine
or fathom the pain that they're all experiencing right now.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, it's a out, It's it's devastating. You're absolutely just
devastating story. So yeah, yeah, well I love taking I
love taking this walk down devastation lane with you. This
is really nice, right, but to always do enjoy talking
to you. So all the best, my friend. Okay, Chris
is next for mo. Thanks everybody, we'll be back tomorrow.
(33:27):
Last crack at the Conway Show for me this week,
but looking forward to it. And thanks to everybody on
the show for all the support. We're KFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
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