May 19, 2025 • 31 mins
Palm Springs fire official unknowingly saved colleague's embryos in deadly blast. The suspect’s manifesto. Social media had ALL the details on this suspect before the news had it. #InternetNews #Breaking #IVFClinic #Bombing #PalmSprings // More details on Guy Barkus, who blew up IVF Clinic in Palm Springs - Terrorism Bad for Tourism
#Terrorism #Toruism #PalmSprings // Extent of damage to IVF clinic in Palm Springs. // Father of suspect says “he was a good kid”
#Terrorism #Toruism #PalmSprings // Extent of damage to IVF clinic in Palm Springs. // Father of suspect says “he was a good kid”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM
six forty. It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We had, I said, a cool weekend outside, and we
thought everything was gonna be okay. Everything was cool, and
then there's nut blew up palm springs, and now we've
got to find out more about this cat guy who
drove into a fertility clinic blew it up because he
didn't consent to being born.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Right, none of us do.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
None of us do.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
None of us sign on a dotted line saying, hey,
can I be born? Nobody does. It doesn't matter how
you conceived, whether it's by accident, on purpose in vitro.
I don't know, however, A billion different ways there are,
and yet we made it. You know, you you beat
the lottery to be here. It's four hundred quadrillion to
(00:56):
one for you to be born, four hundred quadrillion to one.
If you have to think of all the people that
had to hook up for you to be born, thousands
of great great great great grandparents, and so on and
so on and so on goes back hundreds of thousands
of years or fifty sixty thousand years for you to
(01:16):
be here, and it's pretty remarkable. And then some people, man,
they sort of go off the deep end, like this
chap in Palm Springs. He just didn't want to be here.
But I also Krozer. Are we referring to this as
a terrorist attack on Kfin?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Not necessarily as a title, but it is being attributed
as a terrorist attack by officials.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, you've been in the news longer than I have.
Is this really terrorism? I mean, he just killed himself.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Well well yeah, but I mean suicide bombers are terrorists.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Right, yeah, Well, but I don't remember any terrorists who
just killed himself. I think he might be like the
worst terrorist ever.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean, like the nine to eleven terrorists.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, but they didn't kill them, they didn't kill
just themselves. Well yeah, correct, they get wiped out three
thousand people.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Was anybody in the fertility clinic at the time.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No, No, I think it was empty, just the embryos.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You know, I mean, what's the point.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Of terrorism to create fear over something for either ideological
or political purposes?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, but I think that terrorism is you know, you
have to think that you're next. You know, I think,
I don't know, you have to be terrorized that they're
coming after you next, you know, like the airplanes that
flew into World Trade Center, or guys you know, take
a car and go down Bourbon Street in New Orleans,
or that you know, that Christmas parade in Wisconsin. You know,
you're out doing normal activity and a guy comes by
(02:39):
and shoots up the place and kills a lot of
his innocent people. One of the reasons why they're locals
in Palm Springs don't want it to be referred to
as a terrorist attack is because now insurance isn't going
to pay a dime. Insurance doesn't pay anything, you know,
so they skate. You had another, you know incident where
they're gonna have to replace windows and structures like that.
That building that the you know, fertility business was in.
(03:02):
They're not going to re Insurance isn't going to rebuild that.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's a wash.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And that's because it's a terrorist attack. And you know
what's remarkable is the embryos are all fine. I think
they're over protected. If they can withstand that that blast,
you know, maybe if you protect them a.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Little less, we could pay a little less on the
h and.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The deposit side, you know, of protecting those. But the
embryos are good, the eggs are good, the sperm is good.
Everything made it, everything made except the building and a
couple of people got injured by flying glass. But I'd
like to know how this kid created that size of
a bomb. What kind of knowledge he had to create
(03:46):
a bomb like that?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Google?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, right, I guess I got to google it. But
I don't like googling, Hey, how do you make a bomb?
And I think it comes to haunt back to haunt
you later on in their life. So about two hours
after this happened, you know, it's all over the news.
When doing live reports Channel two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, CNN, Fox, MSNBC,
everybody's live. And my wife's in the kitchen and I say,
(04:09):
have you seen what's going on here on TV?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And she said yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go into
the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
She's baking something, and I said, what are you listening to?
She said, oh, I'm listening to the manifesto, the half
hour manifesto this kid left who bombed the fertility clinic
in Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I said, what I said?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The FBI hasn't even said as a man or a woman.
The local cops don't know what's going on, and you're
doing what Yeah, she goes, Yeah, I'm listening to the
Manifesto and I got out online and so I'm listening
to It's a half hour long. I'm like, man, it's
news changing, news is changing. Because Channel two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, you know, they're all asking
(04:51):
these questions of the FBI, Hey do we know anything.
The FBI was like, oh, we're still looking into it.
We're still looking into it. And meanwhile, the people on
Twitter are ten hours ahead that they're all listening to
the Manifesto. They'd know where the kid's from, they know
his background, they know all this stuff about him.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
So the media is.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Going to have to stop that kind of stuff or
else they're going to go out of business. They've got
to stop with the I have to be one hundred
and ten percent right all the time before I mention
any details, because the Internet's going to fly by you
like it did on Sunday it flew or Saturday, it
flew by everybody. Everybody on Twitter knew who this kid was.
(05:31):
Everybody on Facebook, on Instagram. Everybody knew who this kid was.
They all listened to Manifesto. They all knew everything about
this kid before the FBI ever mentioned it was a.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Man or a woman. The internet was all over it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And you know what if that continues two four, five, seven,
nine eleven, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, You're going to go out
of business. If somebody can get the news faster and
for free, we're going to do that. That's why Amazon
(06:07):
is so popular. We can get products usually faster from
Amazon that we can through typical mail order, and they're
usually cheaper. And that's why everybody orders on Amazon. And
look what it's done to shops. Look at it's done
to stores. Have you you even't seen the stores boarded up?
You know they it's a direct reaction to Amazon, it
is it? One hundred percent is And then all the
(06:29):
other stores had to offer the same thing, you know,
free delivery, free returns, all this stuff. Walmart has eighty
parking spaces on the side of it where people pull
up and you get your Walmart stuff put in your
car and you take off.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I didn't I never understood that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I like looking at the products, I like looking at
the nuts you know that are in there. And I
include myself in that, not being a you know, an
egotistical a hole.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
There's time for that. This is not it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm one of the nuts in Walmart as well. If
I hear somebody, you know, yell at Walmart? How they
do that? You know, they make videos? It cross your
tool to remember this or no this, But Steph, who's
you're young man?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Here?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Been into Walmart or home?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Deep on somebody goes ay right and and they videotape
and they have to figure out where that is. I
participate in that. I participate, yeah, oh yeah. When I
hear a guy go yeah, I go, I get involved.
I add to it. So you try to be a
part of the video exactly. I want technically the peanut gallery.
(07:31):
I want to be a nut like everybody else. I
get screaming and and and Jen usually leaves. My wife
gets in the car. Yeah, She's like, I'm not doing
this again with you. So now I gotta get involved,
gotta get on the video. You know, if there's a
video going around, I like to be in that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Sucker.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Do you do it?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Sometimes? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
To get it a walk away she.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Excuse me of that or I get clapping in a walmart.
It doesn't think yeah, talks got them mighty. Can't take
this guy anywhere anyway.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
So she walks by somebody else and going, who's that
pun hole?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I didn't know that guy.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Or she'll say something like this, yeah, it's the guy
something else.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Anyway, look at that guy something else. Man. All right,
when we come back, we'll find out more.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
About this this crazy guy in Palm Springs. He blew
up one of these clinics where people go to have families,
and it sucks. It sucks. You know, we got another
reason why people are not going to visit LA. You know,
we're way down in tourism, and terrorism is not good
for tourism, which is my slogan for the day. By
(08:42):
the way, terrorism not good for tourism. And we've got
another reason for people not to visit Palm Springs or LA.
The fires, the floods, the crime, the terrorist attacks. People
are not thrilled with coming out, and I understand, so
we have to all get this crap quick.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
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Speaker 1 (09:12):
All right, this kid blew himself up in Palm Springs
an unbelievable size bomb for a very small car, which
leads me to believe this kid knows a lot about
bomb making. Usually you have to have a bomb the
size of a U haul truck to have that kind
of explosion, But somehow this kid pulled it off. Man,
(09:34):
which is scary because if this idiot could do it,
a lot of other idiots out there could also do it.
Let's find out more about this crazy guy. Crazy because that's.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What you know.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Look, I know we're not supposed to use that term anymore,
but I don't know how else to describe the guy.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
The FBI just releasing today that DNA evidence collected from
the scene of that vehicle explosion that happened on Saturday
was able to be matched to that of Guy Barcas,
the primary suspect in this attack. This all happening as
business is here on Palm Canyon began the process of
cleaning up as investigators continue to probe the suspect's motive.
(10:16):
A doorbell camera captured the moment a car bomb rattled
the Palm Springs community early Saturday morning. The FBI has
identified the car bomber as twenty five year old Guy Barkas,
who was also killed in the blast that injured four others.
Authority say he intentionally targeted the American Reproductive Center and
is now in the process of creating a timeline of
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events for.
Speaker 11 (10:37):
We need the public's help for identifying where he traversed
within the city before the explosion.
Speaker 12 (10:43):
One all, the blast sending a wave of.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
District going to the internet. It's all right there if
you want to look at it. It's been there for
three days.
Speaker 10 (10:51):
The explosion one off, the blast sending a wave of
destruction across the neighborhood. I just arrived from vacation last
night and I came in and as you can see
the damage, the windows of blen Flora's vacation home shattered,
along with several of her neighbors.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
Well, there's a lot of glass inside and outside in
the bitspread as well on the floor.
Speaker 13 (11:11):
We were here last night, so we're doing multiple boardups.
So we did about fifteen board ups.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
As cleanup and repairs begin, federal investigators are meticulously sorting debris.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Separated by the way.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I bet this guy who's talking about the boarded up windows,
I don't know what hit. The name of his business is,
but I guarantee he's not the spokesperson for it.
Speaker 13 (11:32):
We were here last night, so we're doing multiple boardups.
So we did about fifteen board ups.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
As need more energy, You need more energy. You know
a lot of people. You're going to be on TV,
on the news maybe once in your life once.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You gotta get it up for it. You gotta put
on a show. You got to go.
Speaker 14 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Man, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We came out here, these windows were all blown.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
To hell, and luckily I was able to get the
home deepot picked up some three quarter inchply came out here.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I knew.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I remember two.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Guys he used to go to college with were right
in the neighbor and we boreded the hell out of
Look at these planes. Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm when you're on the news.
Got to crank it up, not three D house of
you know, boring comments.
Speaker 13 (12:17):
We were here last night, so we're doing multiple board ups,
so we did about fifteen board ups.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You gotta get it up.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
As cleanup and repairs begin, federal investigators are meticulously sorting debris,
separating rubble from evidence. The FBI's Evidence Response Team collected
what appeared to be scrap metal in the street, possibly
from the suspects twenty ten portfusion, which was turned into
a deadly explosive device.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
Subject had nihilistic ideations and this was a targeted attack
against the IDF facility. Make no mistake, we are treating this,
as I said yesterday, as an intentional act of terrorism.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But as investigators label this, well, there goes all your
insurance palm springs. Because as soon as the FBI levels
it announces that it's terrorism and uses that term, all
the insurance companies are like, sorry, it's in your contract, can't.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Help you out.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Might as well be an act of God.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
That's right, that's right, or a flood or something. Yeah,
you're act. Yeah, they shouldn't use that term.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
But as investigators label this an act of terrorism.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
This is our Liberaci room as well.
Speaker 12 (13:26):
It's coming at a cost. What is this an act
of terrorism?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
This is our Liveraci room as well?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
What is that?
Speaker 15 (13:33):
What Liberaci room? It's a hotel. They have a Liberaci room.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh, there's like a guy who owns a home and
he is calling his living room the liver Liberaci room
is going forward life.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
This is our Liberaci room as well.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
It's coming at a cost for local businesses.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
This is our liverachi room as well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, if you're going to use the term of the
guy's name, let's pronounce it correctly.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
He called it Liveraci.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Or maybe that's the way you have to do to
take this thing go off lawsuits, change it slightly, or
maybe it's a hotel and they're known for their liver
worst or something.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't know. Yeah, it's the real meal this is.
He called it Liverachi.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
This is our Liverarachi room as well.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
It's coming at a cost for local businesses like David Rios's,
his newly renovated Velvet Rope hotel just one street from
the blast, says the explosion coused him more than one
hundred thousand dollars in damages.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
The devasity news is that this morning our insurance called
us back now and saying because it's categorized as a
terrorist do they will not cover anything?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh, that's the worst for that is frozen rope, velvet rope,
velvet rope.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Now.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
Part of the probe that we're learning from law enforcement
will include looking at other individuals who may have known
about this plot and if there is knowledge of that plot.
They said others could be arrested. We're gonna hear from
Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Meals in our next segment
at four o'clock live from Palm Springs.
Speaker 12 (15:01):
Loose who what is ABC seven?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I've got more news on this cat. We're going to
try to figure out as much as we can about
this dude. We'll come back and tell you the extent
of the damage. And the father of this guy speaks out. Yeah,
so Guy Barcus' dad is speaking out. He's probably embarrassed
and we raised that kid. But we'll listen.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Tim.
Speaker 9 (15:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Let's find out some more about what happened in Palm
Springs over the weekend. It was a major story. Blew up,
a building, could have killed a lot of people, ended
up just killing himself. This kid, I think he's what
twenty five years old or so? Is that how old
they were reporting he's twenty five nine? No, no, I
think you're right, twenty five twenty five Now he's twenty five, Okay, God,
(15:54):
it seems like a huge leap towards nuttiness by such
a young age. Guy Barcas and didn't work out. Here's
some more extents, more damage damage report the neighborhood. This
is a huge bomb that went off huge.
Speaker 16 (16:10):
The FBI has said this could be the biggest bombing
in Southern California history, surpassing the Aliso Viejo bombing several
years ago. And we're getting a good idea of just
how much damage it did. Right now, we're outside of
this liquor store.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
This liquor store is.
Speaker 16 (16:25):
On the other side of the parking lot where it
appears this bomb went off. This bomb that was inside
of a car on Saturday went off. You can see
the damage to the liquor store. You can look beyond
it a little bit. There's a medical center across the street.
But it's not just buildings like this that are directly
almost in the path maybe.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Of where that car bomb was.
Speaker 16 (16:43):
If you go over here, there is an LGBTQ center
down the street here that is about if we're according
to Google Maps, that is about six hundred feet from
where that car was found in the park parking lot
that had the bomb in it. That's about six hundred feet,
or put another way, about two football fields from where
the bomb went off. They've been fixing windows that were
blown out there all day. Then you come over here.
(17:04):
There's a Denny's across the street. The Denny's is about
three hundred and sixty feet from where the bomb went off.
Behind that a hotel, which we're going to show you
some video of a little bit later, about five hundred feet.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Man, I don't think Denny's can take any more heat.
You know, Denny's is not doing well since the pandemic,
and they can't afford this kind of action.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
From where the bomb went off.
Speaker 16 (17:25):
Behind that a hotel, which we're going to show you
some video of a little bit later, about five hundred feet,
all of them with blown out windows.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
And people who live.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Five hundred feet is a long way, you know, it's
a practice. It's almost two football fields away where these
windows are being blown out.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Two to three blocks from here.
Speaker 16 (17:41):
Also say they felt the blast.
Speaker 17 (17:43):
I was in my apartment, just sitting on my coffee
in the bed when we just I just heard a
boom and my TV shook.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, my kind of gal.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Ten thirty in the morning, still in bed, drink a
little coffee, no pressure to get early.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
I like that.
Speaker 17 (18:00):
I like that My coffee I was holding, shook my dog,
ran on top of my bed, my cats and my.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Now we're getting too many animals flew up, paths.
Speaker 15 (18:09):
Flew up underneath everything. But my fan was shaking.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You live in Palm Springs anymore than a fan. Maybe
it's their first summer in Palm Springs.
Speaker 16 (18:21):
Now here is some video of the scene in that
parking lot of that fertility clinic where the bomb was
set off. Now does it hear it was targeted. We'll
talk more about the suspect in a moment. But as
I said, the destruction was massive. The car it was
said to be. Parts of the car were said to
have flown two hundred feet or more into the air.
Some parts of the car actually landed at a nearby hotel.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I was talking about a moment ago. Let's show you
some video.
Speaker 16 (18:46):
This is the velvet Rope, a small boutique.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Kind of a cool name for a hotel, right, the
velvet Rope. You sort of feel like you're special staying there.
You know, you're behind the velvet rope that's always associated
with celebrities and important people. You feel kind of important there, right,
The Velvet Rope Boutique Hotel.
Speaker 16 (19:04):
It is about five hundred feet from the scene. According
to the owner of the hotel, he had guests there
on Saturday. This happened around eleven am when parts of
the car started falling, falling down into the pool.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Here's more from the owner of that hotel.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Everyone started running out. We didn't know what was going on.
Windows started breaking, doors started to.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Just slamming open.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Some of them were even shut.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
The impact was so great that the doors that were
locked actually exploded, and then there was particles flying and
thank god, no one got hurt. People are out in
the pool or the day beds and literally particles like
the seatbelts from the car and the impact it fell
on other grounds, but not on the individuals.
Speaker 16 (19:45):
Now, this is a picture of twenty five year old
Guy Barkas of twenty nine Palms. The FBI has identified
him as the likely suspect in this case.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And also, yeah, he did it. It's locked off.
Speaker 16 (19:56):
He did it, so far as we know, the only
person who died in this bombing. Thankfully, the eggs and
some of the embryos inside that fertility clinic were actually
saved by first responders when they got here, they realized
the seriousness of the situation that this was a fertility clinic.
They didn't quite know this fertility clinic was targeted at
(20:17):
the time. The FBI has said it appears this guy
Barcas had some extreme views, had some issues with people
who bring babies in through the world.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Through but it's not just the RTINITY fertility clinics. I
listened to his side at manifesto and he's just advocating
that anyone should be able to kill themselves for any reason,
whenever they want. That was sort of his vibe, and
he didn't want anyone else to be reproduced. Kind of
an odd bird, all right. You know, if you sit
next to him on a plane or trained, you probably
(20:47):
try to change seats.
Speaker 16 (20:48):
Through fertility treatments. Warren Listener is going to have more
on that part of it a little bit later. But thankfully,
some of these first responders realized what was going on,
rushed into that fertility clinic, and all the embryos, eggs,
and other materials from the fertility clinic were saved. Here's
one of the firefighters that was involved in saving all
those materials.
Speaker 14 (21:07):
There was talk about the embryos and the fertility clinic.
We didn't know anything, but we didn't know what we
could do or not do.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I wasn't Yeah, I'm with them.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You know, firemen are not really hip on you know,
what's going on in those clinics, and neither am I.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I don't know what goes on.
Speaker 14 (21:24):
Comfortable sending any of my fire guys.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
These guys are sports guys, you know, they follow the Rams, Dodgers, Lakers,
maybe play around the golf, take their boat to the
river ginar V. But these aren't, you know, technical and
you know, reproductive guys.
Speaker 14 (21:38):
I'm with them, Comfortable sending any of my fire guys in.
So myself and the bomb squad technician went in. Initially
we thought we'd just grabbed things and bring them out.
It was obviously too big, too much of it, so
the next step was just to restore power.
Speaker 16 (21:53):
Now there's still a wide crime scene around this area
where that bombing took place. They're still looking for pieces
of the car, possible pieces of the bomb. They're telling
people in the area if you find anything that looks
like it's a remnant from the bomb, like that owner
of that hotel did contact them so they can come
collect the evidence. And as far as how much damage
was done, city officials were still going around today trying
(22:14):
to assess that, but they couldn't get into some of
the areas because some of the areas are still blocked
off because of the investigation.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, I know the building, the clinic is total. That's
that's a wash. That's never gonna happen again. It's gonna
have to rebuild that. But the liquor store did okay,
Denny's did okay, the velvet rope. Everybody should be okay
in about a week or so.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Now.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Reporting here in Palm Springs, I'm Chip Yos.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Chip Yos did a great job reporting.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Live KTLA five, said Chip Or would you call him
a belly of mister Chips? Mister Chips, he did a
great job reporting on him. All Right, we come back.
The father of Guy Barkers speaks out. Let's find out
some more about this kid and see how far the
apple fell from the tree.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Maybe this guy's a nut too.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It is The Conway Show. All right, dig talk, Let's
get into this kid. This kid's dad is now speaking.
Guy Barkis is his name and the father of Guy Barkis.
Let's find out this is the kid that bombed up
that bomb that fertility clinic in Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So let's find out what the dad is all about,
how the dad raised this beauty.
Speaker 15 (23:28):
We're learning more about twenty five year old twenty nine
palms man Guy Barkiss.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Okay, see that's why you guys thought he was twenty nine.
He lived in twenty nine Palms but he's twenty five.
I think I had that right. You guys had it wrong.
So the apology box is out there somewhere.
Speaker 15 (23:45):
I'll be looking for those about twenty five year old
twenty nine palms man Guy Barkiss, who the FBI says
they believe is the suspect and the deceased in the
Palm Springs weekend bombing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
He is he is, We can lock that off. He's
your guy.
Speaker 15 (24:00):
Outside of a fertility clinic.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
No, I lot to see it again.
Speaker 15 (24:03):
The suspects father from it.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Wait, is this the dad?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I w't to see it again.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I won't see him again.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
No, I w'at to see it again.
Speaker 15 (24:10):
The suspects father from his Yucca Valley home telling kat
l like he had been completely estranged from his son
for more than a decade, describing his child as a
good kid, but also revealing once during his youth he
burnt down their family home.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Okay, all right, Uh, this kind of a stretch to
call him a good kid, and then in the same
sentence like, oh yeah, and he also burned down our.
Speaker 15 (24:34):
Family home, describing his child as a good kid, but
also revealing once during his youth he burnt down their
family home.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
On purpose. Sir, I don't know what happened. As he
burned the hells down, he started changing a little bit,
and then he assessinated with fire.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
For that, he used to make little streinct bombs, a
little smoke bombs, little rockets.
Speaker 18 (24:55):
His fascination the fire and explosions and things like that.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, it's fitting, arcs. I used to have a fascination
with fire. Maybe somebody keep an eye on.
Speaker 15 (25:02):
Me, this former FBI official thing authorities will be trying
to determine how the suspects life are progressed to him
allegedly committing an intentional act of terrorism with what a
top federal prosecutor described as an anti pro life message. Wait,
what anti pro life message.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
An anti pro life message, anti pro.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
Life message, anti pro life message.
Speaker 18 (25:32):
First time there's ever been an act of violence by
someone claiming this as a background or a philosophy.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
So that was new.
Speaker 18 (25:38):
This is really going to be I think, a new
data point for the FBI to start creating profiles and
doing some deep research on this, because you know, if
you have one, there's potentially others.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I think this could be a one off too. I mean,
I've been alive for a long time. I've never heard
of this crew that thinks that, you know, that everyone
should that nobody should be born. I think these are outliers.
I think this is a very very minute group.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I think.
Speaker 15 (26:07):
I hope, I hope the FBI confirms in the investigation
they are tracking a possible manifesto from the suspect.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh my god, we've already we've been hearing that manifesto
for three days, and the and the TV news is
just hooking up with it. Man, They've got to get
with it. They have got to get with it. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
all these online social media platforms. They're two days, three
days ahead of all these news stations.
Speaker 15 (26:34):
Gation, they are tracking a possible manifesto from the suspect possible.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Everybody's heard it. The guy admitted it on the and
the manifest though.
Speaker 15 (26:42):
LA Times reports a website that appeared connected to the
bombing said a fertility clinic would be targeted.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yes, he'd said it, he did it.
Speaker 15 (26:50):
This guy don it, the author, citing fringe pro mortalist views.
Oh my god, this guy pro mortalist views.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
All right, he's fringe port What is these be targeted?
Speaker 15 (27:02):
The author, citing fringe pro mortalist views.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Pro mortalists, okay, I've never heard of that crew before.
Pro mortalists. That means you should be able to kill
yourself whenever you want, or you should also be able
to prevent somebody from being born.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
It's a very small group.
Speaker 15 (27:17):
Fringe pro mortalist views that it's better for human beings
to die as soon as possible to prevent suffering.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
These followers are against people being born.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
These followers are hypocrites because they were all born and
they don't want anyone else to be born.
Speaker 8 (27:39):
Are against people being born.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yes, it's hard to raise a family when you're against
people being born.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Very difficult without your consent.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
And then if you don't have a family, you know,
a husband or friends. You can't associate with anybody if
you're in this group, this poor post mortalist group, because
you don't think anyone should be alive. And how can
you be friends with somebody because you're looking at somebody
who you think, oh, that guy shouldn't be alive. So
you can't have any friends, you can't have any family members,
(28:13):
and then you isolate yourself, and then you become dangerous, dangerous.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
That's what's going on here without their.
Speaker 19 (28:21):
Consent, saying that people shouldn't be born without their consent.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
That's right. Yeah, it's a little nutting.
Speaker 19 (28:28):
So I shouldn't unless I consented to be here, I
should never have been born.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
That's right, that's right. Well in your case, I agree
with them. Okay, thanks, okay.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Without their consent, it's a rather.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
An early shot at angel by the way, it's smuthering it. Yeah,
that's not even five. That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Without their consent, it's a rather obscure movement, but it's
been in existence for some time.
Speaker 15 (28:54):
Authorities descending on the suspects twenty nine Palms Home. They're
now trying to determine how he acquired explode that resulted
in such a massive blast.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, this is a huge, huge, This guy knew what
he was doing. This kid.
Speaker 11 (29:06):
This is probably the largest bombing scene that we've had
in southern California.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
And the Only Times reports on that one about that brag, Right,
this nut from Seattle can come down here and be
the king of all bombs down here.
Speaker 11 (29:16):
This is probably the largest bombing scene that we've had
in southern California.
Speaker 15 (29:20):
And the Ali Times reports on that website possibly connected
to the suspect, The author referenced the recent death of
a female friend, with details matching an April homicide of
a Washington woman allegedly shot by her partner. He claims,
at her request that website can no longer be accessed
by the way.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I know, they always take that stuff down. You got
to get early, got to get in early. You got
to get on Twitter and Facebook and social media whenever
anything happens, because they take all that stuff down and
then they go over it and over it and over it.
But you can look at it and you can hear
it if you get in early enough. And if you don't,
well you don't. Angel Martinez, we have a one minute
here until we go to a break. Did you get
(29:55):
any action with your slippers?
Speaker 19 (29:57):
Yesterday got so much action at the Balboa Island Art Block.
It was wonderful and Timmy so many of of the
Conway Show friends came out to say hello.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Oh yeah, anybody spend any money?
Speaker 19 (30:13):
Yeah, they threw down, they spent some cash, and there
was I've got a little list here. I'm going to
blow through it because there were so many people that
stopped by.
Speaker 15 (30:21):
Susan and John.
Speaker 19 (30:23):
Laurie from Ruby, Sharon, Kelly Mark and Cheryl Harriet, Helene Max.
Max says he has a history with you, Timmy, Kaylee
and super cool couple Mona and Lee and Steve Meyer
and Renee.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Steve helped me.
Speaker 12 (30:42):
Oh yeah, he helped me.
Speaker 19 (30:43):
Out so much because I actually set up in the
wrong spot and then after I set up I had
to move everything and Steve jumped right in and helped
me describe. Yeah, he's kind of tall, maybe about our
age now. He's got like brown hair, lighter, brown eye,
different Steve Myers, totally cool guy. They're all super nice
(31:06):
and just a lot of fun. Thanks so much for
everyone's support, and it was a great day.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
That's really cool. I'm glad you did well.
Speaker 19 (31:13):
Oh and shout out to JD's big game tackle on
Balboa Island.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Hey, there you go. Hope you got a fifty for them?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Thank you, Angel Martinez. Thing wrong with you here? She
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We had, I said, a cool weekend outside, and we
thought everything was gonna be okay. Everything was cool, and
then there's nut blew up palm springs, and now we've
got to find out more about this cat guy who
drove into a fertility clinic blew it up because he
didn't consent to being born.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Right, none of us do.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
None of us do.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
None of us sign on a dotted line saying, hey,
can I be born? Nobody does. It doesn't matter how
you conceived, whether it's by accident, on purpose in vitro.
I don't know, however, A billion different ways there are,
and yet we made it. You know, you you beat
the lottery to be here. It's four hundred quadrillion to
(00:56):
one for you to be born, four hundred quadrillion to one.
If you have to think of all the people that
had to hook up for you to be born, thousands
of great great great great grandparents, and so on and
so on and so on goes back hundreds of thousands
of years or fifty sixty thousand years for you to
(01:16):
be here, and it's pretty remarkable. And then some people, man,
they sort of go off the deep end, like this
chap in Palm Springs. He just didn't want to be here.
But I also Krozer. Are we referring to this as
a terrorist attack on Kfin?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Not necessarily as a title, but it is being attributed
as a terrorist attack by officials.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, you've been in the news longer than I have.
Is this really terrorism? I mean, he just killed himself.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Well well yeah, but I mean suicide bombers are terrorists.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Right, yeah, Well, but I don't remember any terrorists who
just killed himself. I think he might be like the
worst terrorist ever.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean, like the nine to eleven terrorists.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, but they didn't kill them, they didn't kill
just themselves. Well yeah, correct, they get wiped out three
thousand people.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Was anybody in the fertility clinic at the time.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No, No, I think it was empty, just the embryos.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You know, I mean, what's the point.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Of terrorism to create fear over something for either ideological
or political purposes?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, but I think that terrorism is you know, you
have to think that you're next. You know, I think,
I don't know, you have to be terrorized that they're
coming after you next, you know, like the airplanes that
flew into World Trade Center, or guys you know, take
a car and go down Bourbon Street in New Orleans,
or that you know, that Christmas parade in Wisconsin. You know,
you're out doing normal activity and a guy comes by
(02:39):
and shoots up the place and kills a lot of
his innocent people. One of the reasons why they're locals
in Palm Springs don't want it to be referred to
as a terrorist attack is because now insurance isn't going
to pay a dime. Insurance doesn't pay anything, you know,
so they skate. You had another, you know incident where
they're gonna have to replace windows and structures like that.
That building that the you know, fertility business was in.
(03:02):
They're not going to re Insurance isn't going to rebuild that.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's a wash.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And that's because it's a terrorist attack. And you know
what's remarkable is the embryos are all fine. I think
they're over protected. If they can withstand that that blast,
you know, maybe if you protect them a.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Little less, we could pay a little less on the
h and.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The deposit side, you know, of protecting those. But the
embryos are good, the eggs are good, the sperm is good.
Everything made it, everything made except the building and a
couple of people got injured by flying glass. But I'd
like to know how this kid created that size of
a bomb. What kind of knowledge he had to create
(03:46):
a bomb like that?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Google?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, right, I guess I got to google it. But
I don't like googling, Hey, how do you make a bomb?
And I think it comes to haunt back to haunt
you later on in their life. So about two hours
after this happened, you know, it's all over the news.
When doing live reports Channel two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, CNN, Fox, MSNBC,
everybody's live. And my wife's in the kitchen and I say,
(04:09):
have you seen what's going on here on TV?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And she said yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go into
the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
She's baking something, and I said, what are you listening to?
She said, oh, I'm listening to the manifesto, the half
hour manifesto this kid left who bombed the fertility clinic
in Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I said, what I said?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The FBI hasn't even said as a man or a woman.
The local cops don't know what's going on, and you're
doing what Yeah, she goes, Yeah, I'm listening to the
Manifesto and I got out online and so I'm listening
to It's a half hour long. I'm like, man, it's
news changing, news is changing. Because Channel two, four, five, seven,
nine eleven, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, you know, they're all asking
(04:51):
these questions of the FBI, Hey do we know anything.
The FBI was like, oh, we're still looking into it.
We're still looking into it. And meanwhile, the people on
Twitter are ten hours ahead that they're all listening to
the Manifesto. They'd know where the kid's from, they know
his background, they know all this stuff about him.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
So the media is.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Going to have to stop that kind of stuff or
else they're going to go out of business. They've got
to stop with the I have to be one hundred
and ten percent right all the time before I mention
any details, because the Internet's going to fly by you
like it did on Sunday it flew or Saturday, it
flew by everybody. Everybody on Twitter knew who this kid was.
(05:31):
Everybody on Facebook, on Instagram. Everybody knew who this kid was.
They all listened to Manifesto. They all knew everything about
this kid before the FBI ever mentioned it was a.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Man or a woman. The internet was all over it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And you know what if that continues two four, five, seven,
nine eleven, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, You're going to go out
of business. If somebody can get the news faster and
for free, we're going to do that. That's why Amazon
(06:07):
is so popular. We can get products usually faster from
Amazon that we can through typical mail order, and they're
usually cheaper. And that's why everybody orders on Amazon. And
look what it's done to shops. Look at it's done
to stores. Have you you even't seen the stores boarded up?
You know they it's a direct reaction to Amazon, it
is it? One hundred percent is And then all the
(06:29):
other stores had to offer the same thing, you know,
free delivery, free returns, all this stuff. Walmart has eighty
parking spaces on the side of it where people pull
up and you get your Walmart stuff put in your
car and you take off.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I didn't I never understood that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I like looking at the products, I like looking at
the nuts you know that are in there. And I
include myself in that, not being a you know, an
egotistical a hole.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
There's time for that. This is not it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm one of the nuts in Walmart as well. If
I hear somebody, you know, yell at Walmart? How they
do that? You know, they make videos? It cross your
tool to remember this or no this, But Steph, who's
you're young man?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Here?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Been into Walmart or home?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Deep on somebody goes ay right and and they videotape
and they have to figure out where that is. I
participate in that. I participate, yeah, oh yeah. When I
hear a guy go yeah, I go, I get involved.
I add to it. So you try to be a
part of the video exactly. I want technically the peanut gallery.
(07:31):
I want to be a nut like everybody else. I
get screaming and and and Jen usually leaves. My wife
gets in the car. Yeah, She's like, I'm not doing
this again with you. So now I gotta get involved,
gotta get on the video. You know, if there's a
video going around, I like to be in that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Sucker.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Do you do it?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Sometimes? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
To get it a walk away she.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Excuse me of that or I get clapping in a walmart.
It doesn't think yeah, talks got them mighty. Can't take
this guy anywhere anyway.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
So she walks by somebody else and going, who's that
pun hole?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I didn't know that guy.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Or she'll say something like this, yeah, it's the guy
something else.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Anyway, look at that guy something else. Man. All right,
when we come back, we'll find out more.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
About this this crazy guy in Palm Springs. He blew
up one of these clinics where people go to have families,
and it sucks. It sucks. You know, we got another
reason why people are not going to visit LA. You know,
we're way down in tourism, and terrorism is not good
for tourism, which is my slogan for the day. By
(08:42):
the way, terrorism not good for tourism. And we've got
another reason for people not to visit Palm Springs or LA.
The fires, the floods, the crime, the terrorist attacks. People
are not thrilled with coming out, and I understand, so
we have to all get this crap quick.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
All right, this kid blew himself up in Palm Springs
an unbelievable size bomb for a very small car, which
leads me to believe this kid knows a lot about
bomb making. Usually you have to have a bomb the
size of a U haul truck to have that kind
of explosion, But somehow this kid pulled it off. Man,
(09:34):
which is scary because if this idiot could do it,
a lot of other idiots out there could also do it.
Let's find out more about this crazy guy. Crazy because that's.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What you know.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Look, I know we're not supposed to use that term anymore,
but I don't know how else to describe the guy.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
The FBI just releasing today that DNA evidence collected from
the scene of that vehicle explosion that happened on Saturday
was able to be matched to that of Guy Barcas,
the primary suspect in this attack. This all happening as
business is here on Palm Canyon began the process of
cleaning up as investigators continue to probe the suspect's motive.
(10:16):
A doorbell camera captured the moment a car bomb rattled
the Palm Springs community early Saturday morning. The FBI has
identified the car bomber as twenty five year old Guy Barkas,
who was also killed in the blast that injured four others.
Authority say he intentionally targeted the American Reproductive Center and
is now in the process of creating a timeline of
(10:36):
events for.
Speaker 11 (10:37):
We need the public's help for identifying where he traversed
within the city before the explosion.
Speaker 12 (10:43):
One all, the blast sending a wave of.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
District going to the internet. It's all right there if
you want to look at it. It's been there for
three days.
Speaker 10 (10:51):
The explosion one off, the blast sending a wave of
destruction across the neighborhood. I just arrived from vacation last
night and I came in and as you can see
the damage, the windows of blen Flora's vacation home shattered,
along with several of her neighbors.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
Well, there's a lot of glass inside and outside in
the bitspread as well on the floor.
Speaker 13 (11:11):
We were here last night, so we're doing multiple boardups.
So we did about fifteen board ups.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
As cleanup and repairs begin, federal investigators are meticulously sorting debris.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Separated by the way.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I bet this guy who's talking about the boarded up windows,
I don't know what hit. The name of his business is,
but I guarantee he's not the spokesperson for it.
Speaker 13 (11:32):
We were here last night, so we're doing multiple boardups.
So we did about fifteen board ups.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
As need more energy, You need more energy. You know
a lot of people. You're going to be on TV,
on the news maybe once in your life once.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You gotta get it up for it. You gotta put
on a show. You got to go.
Speaker 14 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Man, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We came out here, these windows were all blown.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
To hell, and luckily I was able to get the
home deepot picked up some three quarter inchply came out here.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I knew.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I remember two.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Guys he used to go to college with were right
in the neighbor and we boreded the hell out of
Look at these planes. Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm when you're on the news.
Got to crank it up, not three D house of
you know, boring comments.
Speaker 13 (12:17):
We were here last night, so we're doing multiple board ups,
so we did about fifteen board ups.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You gotta get it up.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
As cleanup and repairs begin, federal investigators are meticulously sorting debris,
separating rubble from evidence. The FBI's Evidence Response Team collected
what appeared to be scrap metal in the street, possibly
from the suspects twenty ten portfusion, which was turned into
a deadly explosive device.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
Subject had nihilistic ideations and this was a targeted attack
against the IDF facility. Make no mistake, we are treating this,
as I said yesterday, as an intentional act of terrorism.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But as investigators label this, well, there goes all your
insurance palm springs. Because as soon as the FBI levels
it announces that it's terrorism and uses that term, all
the insurance companies are like, sorry, it's in your contract, can't.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Help you out.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Might as well be an act of God.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
That's right, that's right, or a flood or something. Yeah,
you're act. Yeah, they shouldn't use that term.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
But as investigators label this an act of terrorism.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
This is our Liberaci room as well.
Speaker 12 (13:26):
It's coming at a cost. What is this an act
of terrorism?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
This is our Liveraci room as well?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
What is that?
Speaker 15 (13:33):
What Liberaci room? It's a hotel. They have a Liberaci room.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh, there's like a guy who owns a home and
he is calling his living room the liver Liberaci room
is going forward life.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
This is our Liberaci room as well.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
It's coming at a cost for local businesses.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
This is our liverachi room as well.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, if you're going to use the term of the
guy's name, let's pronounce it correctly.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
He called it Liveraci.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Or maybe that's the way you have to do to
take this thing go off lawsuits, change it slightly, or
maybe it's a hotel and they're known for their liver
worst or something.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't know. Yeah, it's the real meal this is.
He called it Liverachi.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
This is our Liverarachi room as well.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
It's coming at a cost for local businesses like David Rios's,
his newly renovated Velvet Rope hotel just one street from
the blast, says the explosion coused him more than one
hundred thousand dollars in damages.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
The devasity news is that this morning our insurance called
us back now and saying because it's categorized as a
terrorist do they will not cover anything?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh, that's the worst for that is frozen rope, velvet rope,
velvet rope.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Now.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
Part of the probe that we're learning from law enforcement
will include looking at other individuals who may have known
about this plot and if there is knowledge of that plot.
They said others could be arrested. We're gonna hear from
Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Meals in our next segment
at four o'clock live from Palm Springs.
Speaker 12 (15:01):
Loose who what is ABC seven?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I've got more news on this cat. We're going to
try to figure out as much as we can about
this dude. We'll come back and tell you the extent
of the damage. And the father of this guy speaks out. Yeah,
so Guy Barcus' dad is speaking out. He's probably embarrassed
and we raised that kid. But we'll listen.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Tim.
Speaker 9 (15:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Let's find out some more about what happened in Palm
Springs over the weekend. It was a major story. Blew up,
a building, could have killed a lot of people, ended
up just killing himself. This kid, I think he's what
twenty five years old or so? Is that how old
they were reporting he's twenty five nine? No, no, I
think you're right, twenty five twenty five Now he's twenty five, Okay, God,
(15:54):
it seems like a huge leap towards nuttiness by such
a young age. Guy Barcas and didn't work out. Here's
some more extents, more damage damage report the neighborhood. This
is a huge bomb that went off huge.
Speaker 16 (16:10):
The FBI has said this could be the biggest bombing
in Southern California history, surpassing the Aliso Viejo bombing several
years ago. And we're getting a good idea of just
how much damage it did. Right now, we're outside of
this liquor store.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
This liquor store is.
Speaker 16 (16:25):
On the other side of the parking lot where it
appears this bomb went off. This bomb that was inside
of a car on Saturday went off. You can see
the damage to the liquor store. You can look beyond
it a little bit. There's a medical center across the street.
But it's not just buildings like this that are directly
almost in the path maybe.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Of where that car bomb was.
Speaker 16 (16:43):
If you go over here, there is an LGBTQ center
down the street here that is about if we're according
to Google Maps, that is about six hundred feet from
where that car was found in the park parking lot
that had the bomb in it. That's about six hundred feet,
or put another way, about two football fields from where
the bomb went off. They've been fixing windows that were
blown out there all day. Then you come over here.
(17:04):
There's a Denny's across the street. The Denny's is about
three hundred and sixty feet from where the bomb went off.
Behind that a hotel, which we're going to show you
some video of a little bit later, about five hundred feet.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Man, I don't think Denny's can take any more heat.
You know, Denny's is not doing well since the pandemic,
and they can't afford this kind of action.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
From where the bomb went off.
Speaker 16 (17:25):
Behind that a hotel, which we're going to show you
some video of a little bit later, about five hundred feet,
all of them with blown out windows.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
And people who live.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Five hundred feet is a long way, you know, it's
a practice. It's almost two football fields away where these
windows are being blown out.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Two to three blocks from here.
Speaker 16 (17:41):
Also say they felt the blast.
Speaker 17 (17:43):
I was in my apartment, just sitting on my coffee
in the bed when we just I just heard a
boom and my TV shook.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, my kind of gal.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Ten thirty in the morning, still in bed, drink a
little coffee, no pressure to get early.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
I like that.
Speaker 17 (18:00):
I like that My coffee I was holding, shook my dog,
ran on top of my bed, my cats and my.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Now we're getting too many animals flew up, paths.
Speaker 15 (18:09):
Flew up underneath everything. But my fan was shaking.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You live in Palm Springs anymore than a fan. Maybe
it's their first summer in Palm Springs.
Speaker 16 (18:21):
Now here is some video of the scene in that
parking lot of that fertility clinic where the bomb was
set off. Now does it hear it was targeted. We'll
talk more about the suspect in a moment. But as
I said, the destruction was massive. The car it was
said to be. Parts of the car were said to
have flown two hundred feet or more into the air.
Some parts of the car actually landed at a nearby hotel.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I was talking about a moment ago. Let's show you
some video.
Speaker 16 (18:46):
This is the velvet Rope, a small boutique.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Kind of a cool name for a hotel, right, the
velvet Rope. You sort of feel like you're special staying there.
You know, you're behind the velvet rope that's always associated
with celebrities and important people. You feel kind of important there, right,
The Velvet Rope Boutique Hotel.
Speaker 16 (19:04):
It is about five hundred feet from the scene. According
to the owner of the hotel, he had guests there
on Saturday. This happened around eleven am when parts of
the car started falling, falling down into the pool.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Here's more from the owner of that hotel.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Everyone started running out. We didn't know what was going on.
Windows started breaking, doors started to.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Just slamming open.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Some of them were even shut.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
The impact was so great that the doors that were
locked actually exploded, and then there was particles flying and
thank god, no one got hurt. People are out in
the pool or the day beds and literally particles like
the seatbelts from the car and the impact it fell
on other grounds, but not on the individuals.
Speaker 16 (19:45):
Now, this is a picture of twenty five year old
Guy Barkas of twenty nine Palms. The FBI has identified
him as the likely suspect in this case.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And also, yeah, he did it. It's locked off.
Speaker 16 (19:56):
He did it, so far as we know, the only
person who died in this bombing. Thankfully, the eggs and
some of the embryos inside that fertility clinic were actually
saved by first responders when they got here, they realized
the seriousness of the situation that this was a fertility clinic.
They didn't quite know this fertility clinic was targeted at
(20:17):
the time. The FBI has said it appears this guy
Barcas had some extreme views, had some issues with people
who bring babies in through the world.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Through but it's not just the RTINITY fertility clinics. I
listened to his side at manifesto and he's just advocating
that anyone should be able to kill themselves for any reason,
whenever they want. That was sort of his vibe, and
he didn't want anyone else to be reproduced. Kind of
an odd bird, all right. You know, if you sit
next to him on a plane or trained, you probably
(20:47):
try to change seats.
Speaker 16 (20:48):
Through fertility treatments. Warren Listener is going to have more
on that part of it a little bit later. But thankfully,
some of these first responders realized what was going on,
rushed into that fertility clinic, and all the embryos, eggs,
and other materials from the fertility clinic were saved. Here's
one of the firefighters that was involved in saving all
those materials.
Speaker 14 (21:07):
There was talk about the embryos and the fertility clinic.
We didn't know anything, but we didn't know what we
could do or not do.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I wasn't Yeah, I'm with them.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You know, firemen are not really hip on you know,
what's going on in those clinics, and neither am I.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I don't know what goes on.
Speaker 14 (21:24):
Comfortable sending any of my fire guys.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
These guys are sports guys, you know, they follow the Rams, Dodgers, Lakers,
maybe play around the golf, take their boat to the
river ginar V. But these aren't, you know, technical and
you know, reproductive guys.
Speaker 14 (21:38):
I'm with them, Comfortable sending any of my fire guys in.
So myself and the bomb squad technician went in. Initially
we thought we'd just grabbed things and bring them out.
It was obviously too big, too much of it, so
the next step was just to restore power.
Speaker 16 (21:53):
Now there's still a wide crime scene around this area
where that bombing took place. They're still looking for pieces
of the car, possible pieces of the bomb. They're telling
people in the area if you find anything that looks
like it's a remnant from the bomb, like that owner
of that hotel did contact them so they can come
collect the evidence. And as far as how much damage
was done, city officials were still going around today trying
(22:14):
to assess that, but they couldn't get into some of
the areas because some of the areas are still blocked
off because of the investigation.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, I know the building, the clinic is total. That's
that's a wash. That's never gonna happen again. It's gonna
have to rebuild that. But the liquor store did okay,
Denny's did okay, the velvet rope. Everybody should be okay
in about a week or so.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Now.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Reporting here in Palm Springs, I'm Chip Yos.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Chip Yos did a great job reporting.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Live KTLA five, said Chip Or would you call him
a belly of mister Chips? Mister Chips, he did a
great job reporting on him. All Right, we come back.
The father of Guy Barkers speaks out. Let's find out
some more about this kid and see how far the
apple fell from the tree.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Maybe this guy's a nut too.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It is The Conway Show. All right, dig talk, Let's
get into this kid. This kid's dad is now speaking.
Guy Barkis is his name and the father of Guy Barkis.
Let's find out this is the kid that bombed up
that bomb that fertility clinic in Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So let's find out what the dad is all about,
how the dad raised this beauty.
Speaker 15 (23:28):
We're learning more about twenty five year old twenty nine
palms man Guy Barkiss.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Okay, see that's why you guys thought he was twenty nine.
He lived in twenty nine Palms but he's twenty five.
I think I had that right. You guys had it wrong.
So the apology box is out there somewhere.
Speaker 15 (23:45):
I'll be looking for those about twenty five year old
twenty nine palms man Guy Barkiss, who the FBI says
they believe is the suspect and the deceased in the
Palm Springs weekend bombing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
He is he is, We can lock that off. He's
your guy.
Speaker 15 (24:00):
Outside of a fertility clinic.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
No, I lot to see it again.
Speaker 15 (24:03):
The suspects father from it.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Wait, is this the dad?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I w't to see it again.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I won't see him again.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
No, I w'at to see it again.
Speaker 15 (24:10):
The suspects father from his Yucca Valley home telling kat
l like he had been completely estranged from his son
for more than a decade, describing his child as a
good kid, but also revealing once during his youth he
burnt down their family home.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Okay, all right, Uh, this kind of a stretch to
call him a good kid, and then in the same
sentence like, oh yeah, and he also burned down our.
Speaker 15 (24:34):
Family home, describing his child as a good kid, but
also revealing once during his youth he burnt down their
family home.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
On purpose. Sir, I don't know what happened. As he
burned the hells down, he started changing a little bit,
and then he assessinated with fire.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
For that, he used to make little streinct bombs, a
little smoke bombs, little rockets.
Speaker 18 (24:55):
His fascination the fire and explosions and things like that.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, it's fitting, arcs. I used to have a fascination
with fire. Maybe somebody keep an eye on.
Speaker 15 (25:02):
Me, this former FBI official thing authorities will be trying
to determine how the suspects life are progressed to him
allegedly committing an intentional act of terrorism with what a
top federal prosecutor described as an anti pro life message. Wait,
what anti pro life message.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
An anti pro life message, anti pro.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
Life message, anti pro life message.
Speaker 18 (25:32):
First time there's ever been an act of violence by
someone claiming this as a background or a philosophy.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
So that was new.
Speaker 18 (25:38):
This is really going to be I think, a new
data point for the FBI to start creating profiles and
doing some deep research on this, because you know, if
you have one, there's potentially others.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I think this could be a one off too. I mean,
I've been alive for a long time. I've never heard
of this crew that thinks that, you know, that everyone
should that nobody should be born. I think these are outliers.
I think this is a very very minute group.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I think.
Speaker 15 (26:07):
I hope, I hope the FBI confirms in the investigation
they are tracking a possible manifesto from the suspect.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh my god, we've already we've been hearing that manifesto
for three days, and the and the TV news is
just hooking up with it. Man, They've got to get
with it. They have got to get with it. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
all these online social media platforms. They're two days, three
days ahead of all these news stations.
Speaker 15 (26:34):
Gation, they are tracking a possible manifesto from the suspect possible.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Everybody's heard it. The guy admitted it on the and
the manifest though.
Speaker 15 (26:42):
LA Times reports a website that appeared connected to the
bombing said a fertility clinic would be targeted.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yes, he'd said it, he did it.
Speaker 15 (26:50):
This guy don it, the author, citing fringe pro mortalist views.
Oh my god, this guy pro mortalist views.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
All right, he's fringe port What is these be targeted?
Speaker 15 (27:02):
The author, citing fringe pro mortalist views.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Pro mortalists, okay, I've never heard of that crew before.
Pro mortalists. That means you should be able to kill
yourself whenever you want, or you should also be able
to prevent somebody from being born.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
It's a very small group.
Speaker 15 (27:17):
Fringe pro mortalist views that it's better for human beings
to die as soon as possible to prevent suffering.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
These followers are against people being born.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
These followers are hypocrites because they were all born and
they don't want anyone else to be born.
Speaker 8 (27:39):
Are against people being born.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yes, it's hard to raise a family when you're against
people being born.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Very difficult without your consent.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
And then if you don't have a family, you know,
a husband or friends. You can't associate with anybody if
you're in this group, this poor post mortalist group, because
you don't think anyone should be alive. And how can
you be friends with somebody because you're looking at somebody
who you think, oh, that guy shouldn't be alive. So
you can't have any friends, you can't have any family members,
(28:13):
and then you isolate yourself, and then you become dangerous, dangerous.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
That's what's going on here without their.
Speaker 19 (28:21):
Consent, saying that people shouldn't be born without their consent.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
That's right. Yeah, it's a little nutting.
Speaker 19 (28:28):
So I shouldn't unless I consented to be here, I
should never have been born.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
That's right, that's right. Well in your case, I agree
with them. Okay, thanks, okay.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Without their consent, it's a rather.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
An early shot at angel by the way, it's smuthering it. Yeah,
that's not even five. That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Without their consent, it's a rather obscure movement, but it's
been in existence for some time.
Speaker 15 (28:54):
Authorities descending on the suspects twenty nine Palms Home. They're
now trying to determine how he acquired explode that resulted
in such a massive blast.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, this is a huge, huge, This guy knew what
he was doing. This kid.
Speaker 11 (29:06):
This is probably the largest bombing scene that we've had
in southern California.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
And the Only Times reports on that one about that brag, Right,
this nut from Seattle can come down here and be
the king of all bombs down here.
Speaker 11 (29:16):
This is probably the largest bombing scene that we've had
in southern California.
Speaker 15 (29:20):
And the Ali Times reports on that website possibly connected
to the suspect, The author referenced the recent death of
a female friend, with details matching an April homicide of
a Washington woman allegedly shot by her partner. He claims,
at her request that website can no longer be accessed
by the way.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I know, they always take that stuff down. You got
to get early, got to get in early. You got
to get on Twitter and Facebook and social media whenever
anything happens, because they take all that stuff down and
then they go over it and over it and over it.
But you can look at it and you can hear
it if you get in early enough. And if you don't,
well you don't. Angel Martinez, we have a one minute
here until we go to a break. Did you get
(29:55):
any action with your slippers?
Speaker 19 (29:57):
Yesterday got so much action at the Balboa Island Art Block.
It was wonderful and Timmy so many of of the
Conway Show friends came out to say hello.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Oh yeah, anybody spend any money?
Speaker 19 (30:13):
Yeah, they threw down, they spent some cash, and there
was I've got a little list here. I'm going to
blow through it because there were so many people that
stopped by.
Speaker 15 (30:21):
Susan and John.
Speaker 19 (30:23):
Laurie from Ruby, Sharon, Kelly Mark and Cheryl Harriet, Helene Max.
Max says he has a history with you, Timmy, Kaylee
and super cool couple Mona and Lee and Steve Meyer
and Renee.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Steve helped me.
Speaker 12 (30:42):
Oh yeah, he helped me.
Speaker 19 (30:43):
Out so much because I actually set up in the
wrong spot and then after I set up I had
to move everything and Steve jumped right in and helped
me describe. Yeah, he's kind of tall, maybe about our
age now. He's got like brown hair, lighter, brown eye,
different Steve Myers, totally cool guy. They're all super nice
(31:06):
and just a lot of fun. Thanks so much for
everyone's support, and it was a great day.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
That's really cool. I'm glad you did well.
Speaker 19 (31:13):
Oh and shout out to JD's big game tackle on
Balboa Island.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Hey, there you go. Hope you got a fifty for them?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Thank you, Angel Martinez. Thing wrong with you here? She
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