June 3, 2025 • 33 mins
Conway without a voice! Mark lost his voice during the filming of the game show ‘Hole in the Wall’. Crozier big scene in ‘That Thing you do” Tom Hanks gave him the “eye” // Lightning warning Newport beaches close. Storms popping up overnight! Baldwin Park shooting: Suspect charged after killing two, including an officer // Guest: Lee Trotman, The Utility Reform Network on So Cal Edison rising rates // New Study Shows Major Health Perks of Drinking Coffee
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF. I am sixty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, it is the Conway Show. Conway is off today
because of medical news. The news is that he's lost
his voice. Sort of a critical aspect and component of
work in radio. Also the classic tone of Conway, the
way he comes in with big energy, it's all that vocalization.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He is without voice.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So again, off and I will sit in on a
really cool show, Mark Thompson, here will those.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Things could be funny, by the way, you could be
here the rest.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Of the week. Oh yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Even from what I was hearing, Tim sort of feels okay,
but he just doesn't have a voice. Yeah, yeah, I
have a gotta have a chilling memory of losing my voice.
I'll just relate to you quickly. Everybody's got a thing
where they had some big event. I probably, and you
lose your voice. You don't know how much psychological. I
got very sick and I lost my voice completely. Wait
(01:12):
a minute, I don't think I was sick. I think
I blew my voice out. Here's what happened. I was
And you know when I say this thing it's really
hard to like end up hosting a big network show
where something a lot of things have to come together.
When we really get one, it's like, Wow, I can't
believe this is really an opportunity. And I was hosting
a game show called Hole in the Wall, and it
was really one of those big visual games, very exciting.
(01:34):
It was the number one format at the time in
the world, and it came to this country and it
was sort of americanized.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Everything was bigger.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Everything, the prize money was bigger, you know, the contestants
were sort of louder, and it just had a raucous
quality and it looked like a really fun show and
it was going to be on after American Idol, So
you had this sense like, oh my god, they're going
to deliver this huge audience. What opportunity. So we get
to the set and this is the other thing, and
(02:04):
this is the key thing. There were six hundred people
in the audience. It was at the time the biggest
studio audience in the history of game shows. And so
the problem with that is that audience was yelling. They're
all cheering, you know, it's like, welcome to Haul in
the Wall, and everybody's whole audience is they're spring loaded
(02:25):
to cheer, and so as host, I'm screaming in a sense,
I'm really pushing my voice to be heard over them. Now,
in truth, probably I didn't need to scream that much
or push my voice that much because the mic is
right there. But I couldn't hear myself over the audience.
So I'm pushing, pushing, pushing, and after two days of it,
(02:46):
I'd blown my voice out completely. I couldn't utter a sound.
So I panic, right, because this is a shooting schedule,
you've got to keep it. There was a two and
a half day pause in shooting while they got certain
things together because they were in rehearsals.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Where I blew it out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So I go to the ear nose and throat guy
and he gives me a steroid, a huge steroid shot,
and he's got like when I go into the aeronois
and throat guy, he's got like Celine Dion albums on
the wall, Don Henley al. I mean he's clearly like
helped all of these people, legendary people, Bruno Mars, They're
all on the wall, like this is where they go,
(03:28):
these performers to get their voices back if they're in
like a similar situation to the one I had. So
I had great hopes and didn't do it, couldn't get
the voice back. And he said, wow, if you couldn't
get your voice back after I give you that steroid shot,
and I gave you a tremendous shot of that, I
would just absolutely not say anything. I mean, don't use
(03:51):
your voice at all for the entire period of your layoff.
I think it was two and a half or three days.
So I didn't. I was so scared of losing this gig,
you know. And the doctor finally circle it back around
to me after two and a half or three days,
whatever it was, and he messaged me and he said,
how's the voice, And he had so drilled into me,
(04:14):
don't say a thing because you could jeopardize your entire
voice that I literally hadn't spoken that entire time. I
remember messaging him back on I don't know how it
is because the we shoot tomorrow and I'm not road
testing my voice until the moment. And then the voice
did recover and we went on with the show and
then we were canceled after thirteen episodes. But the point
(04:35):
is that I did manage to rally, but I know
what that is. Like, I mean, I certainly could not
have done the show during the time that the voice
was completely shot, you know. So I'm sympathetic to Tim
because he probably feels good. And that's what i'd heard,
that he feels okay, but that he can't speak. So sorry,
(04:57):
it's not Tim, just me today. Well, we've got a
lot coming up. I mentioned Kevin Pollack, actor, comedian. He's
in the new season of Tulsa King, which is that
series led by Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I've worked with him once.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Are you right we work with Pollock?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't know it. What was the project?
That thing you do? That Tom Hanks movie?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, you were in that.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, well I was in the crowd. That's terrific, man,
I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
What a great movie.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, I had a little I got yelled at by
Tom Hanks. I got glared up by Tom Hanks over
the stage. He was doing a shot and they had
to redo the take a couple of times. And he
played the Big Boss DJ that introduced the band. Yeah,
and we did a bunch of takes and at one
point between takes, one of the AD's comes up and
talks to me. Couldn't even tell you what it was about,
(05:49):
but they were talking to me. And while that ad
was talking to me, somebody else told all the other
people in the crowd that the next take was going
to be a silent one. And prior to that, I
love this story. Prior to that, they had told us all,
you know, we're not going to tell you who but
a couple. We need a couple of people to kind
of just like start booing when they start screwing up
and not doing very well. And I was always the
(06:10):
first person that did it because for whatever reason, nobody did.
So when we start to roll again and they start,
you know, and the uh poll it comes out, does
the intro, and the band starts screwing up, symbol falls
over and I scream out, pay yeo, and Hanks is
like five ten feet from me, and he just goes
CAD and he looks right at me and he goes,
(06:32):
I mean he's silent, And I said, I didn't know
the great the dude was chalk. I'll go over here.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh my god, that's great.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You got to tell Kevin that story when he comes on.
He's gonna be on in an hour.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I remember, I'm sure I might. He actually might.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I uh, she ran into him a couple of times
because he used to come in for Phil's show.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh no, kidding, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Phil, he's in.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
He's in that field documentary.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
By the way, how is he to remember that?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, he has a couple of you know, little spots
in there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
He has a car hard game regularly. And speaking of
that thing you do, Tom Everett Scott plays in the
game occasionally.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Wow, from that thing you do.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, so that's how you know the six degrees of
separation works out there?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Anyway, he'll be in the next hour. I want to
follow up on the Baldwin shooting. The suspect has been
charged after killing two people. That horrible incident that was
really so benign, never should have been what it was.
But I'll follow up on what's happening with the La
County DA Nathan Hockman announcing charges or poised to announce charges,
(07:35):
and we'll get to that next as we continue a.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Lot to do today on The Conway Show.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's the Conways Show on KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tim is out, he is voiceless.
Mark Thompson's sitting in And it is raining in parts
of southern California.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
You heard crow Are reference it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And the fact is that there are these thunderstorms that
are popping up in places, and they are supposed to
linger through the night. Maybe one will linger a Maverick
shower in the morning, but then it clears up and
we're basically into fair weather for the rest of the week.
But between now and tomorrow morning, you may run into
some thunderstorms, and you know all the things that thunderstorms contain.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You know, my wife sent me a video of her
driving home from work around Claremont and yeah, pretty like
hard rained.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, it almost feels biblical when it gets like this, you.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Know, especially when it's like nice and sunny like right.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Before Sure, Yeah, the drops get bigger, that there's hail
as possible, the wind starts blowing.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I mean, it's really it's really wild.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I was a weather forecaster on the front range of
the Rockies in Denver, Colorado, and so you've got all
of this air that's lifted over the mountains of the
Colorado Rockies, and man, you can just get some huge thunderstorms.
And the other way that it happens is out on
the plane. So really, like the eastern part of Colorado
is like Kansas. It's just flat and you get all
of this development because the heat just takes whatever humidity
(09:08):
there is and just turns it, like in an instant
into huge thunderstorms and tornadoes for that matter, a lot
of severe weather. And it's just the weather's changing so
radically in the spring and summer months.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Do you ever get a degree in that, No, it
never did. Died and got the gig.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, well I applied and then they put me through
a program with like a meteorology training program, so I
couldn't have so. In fact, I remember they took me
out in a I think it was a Noah plane.
It was one of those National Atmospheric Administration planes flying
into lines squall lines of thunderstorms, severe weather and tornadoes.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Okay, and we just got by the way.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
We just got an advisory all beaches in Newport Beach
have been closed because of lightning in the area.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, there is lightning and
thunder this thunderstorm stuff is re you don't mess with it.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, everybody in the area is being asked to clear
the water and sand, and they go look for somewhere indoors.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I mean, you see how they clear an entire stadium
a sporting event because of this stuff, you know, So
it's it's nothing to mess with. But I remember they
wanted to fly and they did fly on a special plane.
It's like, you know, one of these kind of armored
planes that they fly into the squall line. And so
we flew from Colorado, the National Center for Atmospheric Research
en CAR is what they call it, and all these
(10:28):
n cars, scientific researchers, meteorologists and all the rest. We
all get on this plane and we're going to fly
into Kansas to I think it was our flying one
of those maybe it's Nebraska whatever, one of these had
to be kens whatever. We're flying along the planes looking
for a squall line so we'll find tornadic activity to
actually fly the plane into so that they can you know,
(10:52):
they have all these charts and things that they and
you know me, you're.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Like, oh, we're looking for one, great, let's do that mine.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
My I was praying fervently that we never found anything,
and so we didn't find anything. They found we By
the time we caught up with the squall line, there
was no activity.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And I thought, my god, this is the greatest.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It was so funny because all the scientists are going,
oh man, what a day wasted. We didn't find any
kind of tornadoes or any severe weather for you, And
I thought, man, that's just a great day as far
as I'm gonna yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, that's like a ride along with the cops where
I don't want to see guys, I don't want to
see any action. I just enjoyed talking to you or
ride in the police car.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
That's fine with me.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I did one of those in the Hollywood ones. It
was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, me as well.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And I was really, you know, they're going, well, maybe
we should look for some more action. No, nope, I'm
really happy just cruising along with you guys.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Our guy spot a spotted a dude picking up a
lady of the evening, even though it was the middle
of the day. Yeah, and just held back a little bit,
let them, let them go down some side streets and
kind of stayed back a little bit. The whole time,
and then once waited a good couple of minutes, then
he just shot right up on him and made him
get out of the car. No, he was pulling his
(12:04):
pants up.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But his Beny was like, oh oh man, that's a
rough one.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Did you get out with the cops?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I stayed in the back, said I had plenty of
good view. I was like, nope, I don't want anybody
seeing me.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, here's a police story that's got only the status ending,
which is the reality around this Baldwin Park shooting. And
finally it looks like charge is going to be filed
against this guy who killed two.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
La County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman calling these Baldwin Park
police officers who responded that night heroes and also filing
five charges against that suspects. Now we know that suspect
is twenty two year old Eduardo Roberto Medina Beruman, and
he's now facing two counts of first to remurder with
special circumstances, two counts of attempted murder, and one count
of possession of an assault weapon. Elle County Sheriff Robert
(12:58):
Luna also joining Hawkman today saying investigators recovered an ar
fifteen style weapon at.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
The scene and again.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Two people are dead after a shootout in Baldwin Park
Saturday night, forty three year old Darius Wong and thirty
five year old Baldwin Park Police officer Samuel Riveros. He
was with the department for nine years. A second Baldwin
Park Police officer, Anthony Pimenttal, was also injured by shards
of glass during that shooting, but he was here today
at the press conference. He didn't want to speak, but
(13:25):
appears to be recovering from his injuries. Baldwin Park Police
Chief Robert Lopez getting emotional at the podium, using this
moment to remember Riveros.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Sam was a dedicated officer who represent our department with dignity,
dian in honor in the face of danger, Sam selflessleep
put the safety of others before his own and gave
his life doing so. He was a part of our
family and it's hard to express what a tremendous loss
this is for our department in Baldwin Park.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
We will never forget Sam.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Yeah, just a devastating situation and according to Hawkman, if
that's us is convicted, he could face the death penalty
or life in prison.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Live in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So if you were, you know, we're someone who wasn't
aware of this. This whole thing started over a parking spot.
I mean it started in the most mundane way, right,
and it escalated into this forty three year old Darius
Wong being killed, father of a two just before the
(14:29):
responding police officer was also gunned down, Officer Samuel Riveres.
So it's a it's an awful, awful thing that again
just flared up, escalated quickly, and now two people are dead.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
But the shooter will be charged, as you just heard.
So that's the latest.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
When we come back, being in California means paying more
for utilities and electricity than any other state in America.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Why.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
There are a few reasons. One of the big ones
is the wildfire threat. But the way that we the
rate payers, are forced to carry the weight of the
wildfire Threat Fund is just wrong. We get a chance
to talk to a utility expert and he heads up
a consumer group that has been around for decades, turn
(15:26):
the Utility Reform Network. Lee Trotman joins us.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Next, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Mark Thompson's sitting in without Conway today, So Conway's voice
hopefully back soon, and he'll be back soon. One of
the things that it is raining, by the way, I
got the reference to fush very strong, very strong, nice.
It is pouring in some areas, and you know it's
on and off and again.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
If you're just.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Joining us and you missed it, it'll probably be rating
like this, off and on through the night, and the
diminishing chance toward morning maybe there's this residual shower, but
after that the rest of the week looks dry. The
Utility Reform Network it's called turn nonprofit consumer group advocacy group,
and they have been around for decades and are trying
(16:15):
to intensify public scrutiny of southern California Edison and a
lot of the corporate practices associated with the rate hikes.
These rate hikes are constantly approved and that process we'll
get a window on here in a conversation coming up.
But as we look at issues in financial distress essentially
(16:38):
in Southern California and California generally, I mean, one of
the huge expenses that keeps spiraling upward is utilities and power.
So Lee Traupman is from turn High Lee. Thanks for
joining us on KFI.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Hi, Mark, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I'm well, and I wanted to bring up the fact
right away so people know this that this isn't just
a conversation. It's a conversation against the backdrop of legislation
that's actually in Sacramento now that the stuff that may
actually affect utility rates in the future is being discussed
right now. Correct, Yes, And so what goes into these
(17:17):
rate hikes. There are a lot of the rate hikes
that are tied to wildfire remediation and ways in which
they essentially farm out the cost of wildfire damage to
the right payer.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I mean, there are a lot of things that go
into it, and it's basically your four major utilities, including
Southern California Edison. They have to file something called a
general rate case and all the general rate cases. For instance,
Edison filed their general rate case May of twenty twenty three, right,
and it's for their years twenty twenty seven to twenty thirty.
(17:53):
So what it basically, it's a financial plan package. It
basically states we need these rate hikes to on these things,
including wildfire mitigation. For instance, if you want to underground
the lines, and so you harden the grid. So there
are a lot of things that go into this GRC.
It's it's a daunting task, and it goes to the CPUC,
(18:16):
the Californian Public Utilities Commission, because they have oversight over
these utilities, the for profit utilities, and Turn is really
the intervener. So the California Public Utilities Commission will say, okay,
here's Southern California Edison's general rate general rate case, which
is a series of scheduled rate hikes over that period
(18:36):
of time that I mentioned, twenty twenty seven to twenty thirty.
So Turn, what do you think is this reasonable? For instance,
if Edison says, hey, we need a twenty for twenty
twenty seven, we need an eighteen percent rate hike, is
that reasonable? So we'll investigate, we'll analyze, and then we
submit our proposal, and then it goes back to the
Californian Public Utilities Commission, and then and something known as
(19:01):
a proposed decision, which is basically the compromise. Right, So
if Edison's asking for this, we say that this is
more reasonable, CPUC says, all right, let's compromise. This is
what we think it should be, the rate hike should be,
and then the public has the opportunity to comment on
the proposed decision the PD and so the proposed decision
(19:21):
so far we think is going to come out this
summer for that three year period twenty twenty seven to
twenty thirty. So it's really important for the public to
get involved because this is critical. It's going to involve
rate hikes. And usually when you get your Edison bill,
there's a series of bill inserts, and almost every month
(19:43):
when I get my bill, there are the notice of
applications which are basically Edison's requesting a rate hike, a
rate increase, and they'll explain which component. For instance, the
last one I got for last month was basically the
return on equity. So Edison to finance projects, you know,
they have investors and they promise these investors the current
(20:04):
cost of capital, which is what it's called, is ten
point three three percent, So these investors if they invest,
if they invest in Edison, they will get a ten
point three three percent return on equity. Well, Edison's actually
proposing an eleven point seventy five percent return on equity,
so really the shareholders are happy, but the rate payers
(20:25):
fund all of this.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Well, last year they made over a billion and a
half dollars in profit, Edison did, and they farmed out.
I was saying, you know, before I was welcoming you
on a lot of the Look, they had a role
in the Eating fire. Right, Edison's role in the Eating
fire is I think indisputable, and a lot of that
(20:47):
which is associated with that corporate responsibility is then farmed
out to the right payers. I mean, you know, everything
they have to do to both mitigate risk and to
pay whatever damage is that is stuff that we're paying,
isn't that? I mean that those are costs that we're
we're bearing.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You're bearing the costs. And so for the Eaten fire,
for INSTANCECE usually like a two to two and a
half year investigation. So we're not going to really comment
on that part, but I will say this, in twenty seventeen,
Edison asked because Editson was involved in these wildfires in
twenty seven just recently, they ask for I believe it
(21:24):
was a ten percent rate increase to cover the twenty
seventeen wildfires. And so we're talking it took eight years
and they're asking for a rat increase really to cover
those costs. And so, yes, you're completely correct. Every wildfire,
if you're found liable, and so for every GRC, they
(21:44):
will ask, okay, we need you know, we need two
billion dollars to bury the lines. We need more money
to harden the infrastructure, harden the grid, try to prevent wildfires,
because right now, your only tool for preventing a wildfire
is called a public safety power shut off, which is basically,
oh it's high wind you know, you have high winds
(22:06):
in this region, will cut the power to all the
customers and hopefully nothing will spark.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Right.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Seems kind of archad to me, But there are other
ways to But for instance, there is a fast technology
where if you harden the grid and a spark seems
to be imminent, you know this software will basically shut
down that section of the grid. And you know, there
are ways to do it, but it's very extensive, so
(22:34):
you have to really pick your spot.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, you're talking about sort of the tactical shutdown of
parts of the grid too. It's almost an artificial intelligence
gaming out which parts of the grid need to be
shut down.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Right, right, It's kind of like a circuit breaker, So
you know how you have a circuit breaker where if
you text that the circuit will overload it and it
shuts down that circuit. That's exactly what it is. But
to use software and you also have to use hardware,
so there are many ways is to approach the wildfire
mitigation because don't forget, all this wildfire mitigation is coming
from the rate pairs, right the rate pairs are paying
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for it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, that's exactly my point. That's that's why it's excruciatingly expensive.
Here and the last thing I only get another minute.
But the last thing I want to ask you is
about the political part, because there is supposed to be,
as you say, uh over oversight CPUOC CPUC is supposed
to be, you know, and I think gavinism pointed everybody
on the CPC, den't he. I mean, that's the utility
(23:30):
commission that's supposed to review these right hikes, review these
proposals and these right hikes requests, and they essentially approve
all of them, don't they. Is there any political blowback
as a result of that?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
So far, I have not seen the political blowback that
you would expect, right because as rates increase and customers
are getting squeezed by the utilities that are reporting, you know,
near record profits or even record profits. You would think
that the rate payers would actually unite and start putting pressure,
but I don't think they understand the structure right. Gavin
(24:03):
Newsom is the governor. He appointed all the commissioners of
the CPUC. So when a person gets their bill and
there's another rate hike, they naturally blame the company, and
they should, but they also have to look beyond that.
It's like, who's approving these rate hikes? Well, the California
Public Utilities Commission is approving the rate hikes. So yes,
it does seem like the utilities are asking for a
(24:25):
rate hikes and they're getting them because there is no
current system. In the current system, there's no cap on
rate increases.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That's one of the things I know you guys are
working for at turn turn dot org is where you
can read more the Utility Reform Network.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
TURN.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Good for you for being a consumer advocation group that
might get some stuff done. As you say, there's pending
legislation and there needs to be pushback from the PUC,
and there just isn't.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
So I love that you joined us today. Thank you.
Lee Trotman and congratulations on Turn. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
All right, my friend Turn dot org is again the website.
Kevin Pollack Top of the Hour. We'll talk to him
from the set of Tulsa King Next. Major perks of
drinking this and major perks of stopping the drinking of
something else.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'll fill you in. Next.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A sixty.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Kevin Pollack Top of the Hour from the set of
Tulsa Kings of the stallone series. I guess he's I
was associated Kevin with Like Comedy and he's from Marvel's
Missus Masel most recently.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
But he's got some range.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You know, he did a few Good Men and he
did He's a real actor, so you know, talk to
him from the set of that series. I mentioned that
drinking a cup of this every day supposedly helps women
age better.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Oh, I hope it's what I drink. What is it?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's a thirty year long study.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And the results were presented at the annual meeting of
the American Society for Nutrition in Orlando. I know you
wanted to go to that. Sharon and I'm sorry that. Yeah,
they just couldn't really approve your time offer though.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Researchers define healthy aging as living to age seventy or older,
being free from eleven major chronic diseases along the way,
maintaining physical function, and having good mental health. So what
is this cup that you should drink every day? According
to this study, it is coffee?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yes, yeah, Amid.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Apparently coffee may not be this sort of demon that
we think.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It might be.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Any study checking with than forty seven thousand women over
three decades. It's a big study suggested.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I've checked in with about forty thousand women over several decades.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
Study checking with forty second over three decades. It's a
big study suggest coffee may.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
What Sorry you will Chamberlain, No, I didn't mean i'd
checked in.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I don't have the I don't have the prowess or
whatever you would call that the history of will.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
But thank you for even thinking for an instant that
I'm mind be checking with it.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Forty seven thousand women over three decades, it's a big
study suggest coffee may help lead to a longer, healthier life.
I would say happier life too. Found that women who
drink one to three cups a day. In middle age,
we're more likely to experience quote healthy aging. This long
term benefits including breaching seventy years or old without eleven
(27:36):
major comic diseases, and having but physical, cognitive, and mental health.
So let's turn to NBC medical contributor doctor Natalie A's
aren't not.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
But this is a huge study, big deal. For years now,
we've been hearing good news about moderate coffee consumption. But this,
this study really nails at home. And I think, what's interesting.
You know you mentioned they followed forty seven thousand women.
Only about thirty seven hundred of them achieved that.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
By the way, I have followed forty seven thousand women
also and say, followed.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Forty seven thousand women.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I'm not proud of it, And I didn't like, I'm
not a stalker or anything.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
It just sounds like you mentioned.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
What I meant, just followed them like casually, like oh,
she's an asle eight. Maybe there's something inn ishl eight
that I would like.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
The followed forty seven thousand women.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I don't mean that the coffee.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
To remember that, I can't even get my head around
forty seven thousand is a rough number.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That's exactly the number of women that I followed in
the grocery store.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Followed forty seven thousand women.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
This is a stuff on me.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
About thirty seven hundred of them achieved that healthy aging goal,
but they were the ones who were found to be
the ones that consumed between the ages of forty five
and sixty those one to three cups of coffee a day.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, I don't mean to pour cold coffee on this,
but you have to have to allow and I'm sure
they did this on some level, but there's so many
other factors. I mean, how do they isolate this one thing.
I mean, to really do a study of this kind,
you need a big number, which they got forty seven thousand,
but you also need to control for all the other
(29:04):
life factors. You know, it's not like all those forty
seven thousand people are doing all the same things. And
then the one thing they've done is they've tweaked up
coffee intake on some and they've tweaked down coffee intake
on others. Now, that said, these are medical professionals. I'm
sure that are beginning as they crunch that data to
allow for some of these things, But it just again
(29:26):
one of these studies where I'd like to see a
little bit more.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
Know, people ask, well, why coffee, right, is it the
caffeine or is it the coffee. Coffee has over one
hundred different what we call bioactive compounds, the majority or antioxidants.
So there's definitely there's definitely chemical compounds in coffee that
are probably the major explanation for this potential benefit.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
If anything, did the study reveal about the effects of.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Other caffe in us well, and so that's the thing, right,
So it really highlighted the benefit of coffee. Consumption of
tea didn't have this benefit, Consumption of decaffeinated coffee didn't
have this benefit. And one thing that probably is not
a surprise to most people soda that was a no
no that was associated with a twenty to twenty to
twenty six percent lower likelihood of achieving healthy aging.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, that's the big other drink that we should mention
to you, because if you drink diet coke, they say
get off it if you want to improve heart health
and gut balance, zero calories, no added sugars, but they
(30:32):
say diet coke is not considered a healthy beverage. Studies
have linked diet soda in general to increase metabolic and
cardiovascular risks, and research shows that drinking two or more
artificially sweetened beverages a day may increase the risk of
heart disease and stroke. Another study showing that just one
(30:53):
diet soda increases the risk of a FIB the irregular
heartbeat thing. So even as they give you the green
light on coffee, they give you the red light on
diet coke. Again, a lot of people who have ditched
diet coke talk about how he never realized how addictive
(31:14):
it can be. Again, ask per tame the artificial sweetener,
and diet coke has been labeled as possibly carcinogenic. So
there are a lot of things in diet coke that
they'd like you to avoid, and they're healthier alternatives.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
They say, that's why it's so good.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
I used to drink diet coke like I had a
problem with it as well, but I started getting headaches
from it, and then to switch over to like Pellegrino.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Oh interesting, I got to power through, that's all they suggest.
That's right. At first the headaches come in.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You got to just get through those then you get
into some really good space.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Dude, Mark, did you ever drink soda?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I don't. I don't, I don't, I really I don't
drink I don't. I mean I think I drink rum
and coke years ago or whatever, but now I like,
just straight run. Yeah exactly, I just give me the
rum straight.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I'm with you, man.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And they said they're healthy alternatives like kombucha. Then that's probiotics.
They're beneficial for gut health.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
So those are the only sodas I really do. I've
never done. I've never been a soda person myself.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah I get oh yeah, I get the appeal. I mean, sugary,
sweet tasting, and I don't get that.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
In many things that don't burn your throat.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
What I always thought.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, don't necessarily quit the coffee, kids, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Coffee a cup every day?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Many cups of coffee do you drink?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I love coffee. I could drink it all day.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
But my cardiologist tells me that I should reduce intake
two one. And then when I kind of pushed back
and he says, all right, maybe two cups, but.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
You up to a lot.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
What's a lot?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Got a coffe maker at all to make it like, yeah, I've.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Got a ninja coffee maker. Yeah, expresso machine. Yeah, that'll
do it. And you also get into the ritual of
making it like it out the knock box that's the
thing or you you know, you hit the espresso out
of the thing and you put it in and all
the water.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Anyway, Look, do what makes you happy would be my guess.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I do rebel myself and that's uh yeah, it's it
changes your coffee making.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, you really look forward to making it so, all right.
Pollock Next, Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim on KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KMF. I am sixty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, it is the Conway Show. Conway is off today
because of medical news. The news is that he's lost
his voice. Sort of a critical aspect and component of
work in radio. Also the classic tone of Conway, the
way he comes in with big energy, it's all that vocalization.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He is without voice.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So again, off and I will sit in on a
really cool show, Mark Thompson, here will those.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Things could be funny, by the way, you could be
here the rest.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Of the week. Oh yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Even from what I was hearing, Tim sort of feels okay,
but he just doesn't have a voice. Yeah, yeah, I
have a gotta have a chilling memory of losing my voice.
I'll just relate to you quickly. Everybody's got a thing
where they had some big event. I probably, and you
lose your voice. You don't know how much psychological. I
got very sick and I lost my voice completely. Wait
(01:12):
a minute, I don't think I was sick. I think
I blew my voice out. Here's what happened. I was
And you know when I say this thing it's really
hard to like end up hosting a big network show
where something a lot of things have to come together.
When we really get one, it's like, Wow, I can't
believe this is really an opportunity. And I was hosting
a game show called Hole in the Wall, and it
was really one of those big visual games, very exciting.
(01:34):
It was the number one format at the time in
the world, and it came to this country and it
was sort of americanized.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Everything was bigger.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Everything, the prize money was bigger, you know, the contestants
were sort of louder, and it just had a raucous
quality and it looked like a really fun show and
it was going to be on after American Idol, So
you had this sense like, oh my god, they're going
to deliver this huge audience. What opportunity. So we get
to the set and this is the other thing, and
(02:04):
this is the key thing. There were six hundred people
in the audience. It was at the time the biggest
studio audience in the history of game shows. And so
the problem with that is that audience was yelling. They're
all cheering, you know, it's like, welcome to Haul in
the Wall, and everybody's whole audience is they're spring loaded
(02:25):
to cheer, and so as host, I'm screaming in a sense,
I'm really pushing my voice to be heard over them. Now,
in truth, probably I didn't need to scream that much
or push my voice that much because the mic is
right there. But I couldn't hear myself over the audience.
So I'm pushing, pushing, pushing, and after two days of it,
(02:46):
I'd blown my voice out completely. I couldn't utter a sound.
So I panic, right, because this is a shooting schedule,
you've got to keep it. There was a two and
a half day pause in shooting while they got certain
things together because they were in rehearsals.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Where I blew it out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So I go to the ear nose and throat guy
and he gives me a steroid, a huge steroid shot,
and he's got like when I go into the aeronois
and throat guy, he's got like Celine Dion albums on
the wall, Don Henley al. I mean he's clearly like
helped all of these people, legendary people, Bruno Mars, They're
all on the wall, like this is where they go,
(03:28):
these performers to get their voices back if they're in
like a similar situation to the one I had. So
I had great hopes and didn't do it, couldn't get
the voice back. And he said, wow, if you couldn't
get your voice back after I give you that steroid shot,
and I gave you a tremendous shot of that, I
would just absolutely not say anything. I mean, don't use
(03:51):
your voice at all for the entire period of your layoff.
I think it was two and a half or three days.
So I didn't. I was so scared of losing this gig,
you know. And the doctor finally circle it back around
to me after two and a half or three days,
whatever it was, and he messaged me and he said,
how's the voice, And he had so drilled into me,
(04:14):
don't say a thing because you could jeopardize your entire
voice that I literally hadn't spoken that entire time. I
remember messaging him back on I don't know how it
is because the we shoot tomorrow and I'm not road
testing my voice until the moment. And then the voice
did recover and we went on with the show and
then we were canceled after thirteen episodes. But the point
(04:35):
is that I did manage to rally, but I know
what that is. Like, I mean, I certainly could not
have done the show during the time that the voice
was completely shot, you know. So I'm sympathetic to Tim
because he probably feels good. And that's what i'd heard,
that he feels okay, but that he can't speak. So sorry,
(04:57):
it's not Tim, just me today. Well, we've got a
lot coming up. I mentioned Kevin Pollack, actor, comedian. He's
in the new season of Tulsa King, which is that
series led by Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I've worked with him once.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Are you right we work with Pollock?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't know it. What was the project?
That thing you do? That Tom Hanks movie?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, you were in that.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, well I was in the crowd. That's terrific, man,
I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
What a great movie.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, I had a little I got yelled at by
Tom Hanks. I got glared up by Tom Hanks over
the stage. He was doing a shot and they had
to redo the take a couple of times. And he
played the Big Boss DJ that introduced the band. Yeah,
and we did a bunch of takes and at one
point between takes, one of the AD's comes up and
talks to me. Couldn't even tell you what it was about,
(05:49):
but they were talking to me. And while that ad
was talking to me, somebody else told all the other
people in the crowd that the next take was going
to be a silent one. And prior to that, I
love this story. Prior to that, they had told us all,
you know, we're not going to tell you who but
a couple. We need a couple of people to kind
of just like start booing when they start screwing up
and not doing very well. And I was always the
(06:10):
first person that did it because for whatever reason, nobody did.
So when we start to roll again and they start,
you know, and the uh poll it comes out, does
the intro, and the band starts screwing up, symbol falls
over and I scream out, pay yeo, and Hanks is
like five ten feet from me, and he just goes
CAD and he looks right at me and he goes,
(06:32):
I mean he's silent, And I said, I didn't know
the great the dude was chalk. I'll go over here.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh my god, that's great.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You got to tell Kevin that story when he comes on.
He's gonna be on in an hour.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I remember, I'm sure I might. He actually might.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I uh, she ran into him a couple of times
because he used to come in for Phil's show.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh no, kidding, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Phil, he's in.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
He's in that field documentary.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
By the way, how is he to remember that?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, he has a couple of you know, little spots
in there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
He has a car hard game regularly. And speaking of
that thing you do, Tom Everett Scott plays in the
game occasionally.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Wow, from that thing you do.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, so that's how you know the six degrees of
separation works out there?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Anyway, he'll be in the next hour. I want to
follow up on the Baldwin shooting. The suspect has been
charged after killing two people. That horrible incident that was
really so benign, never should have been what it was.
But I'll follow up on what's happening with the La
County DA Nathan Hockman announcing charges or poised to announce charges,
(07:35):
and we'll get to that next as we continue a.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Lot to do today on The Conway Show.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's the Conways Show on KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tim is out, he is voiceless.
Mark Thompson's sitting in And it is raining in parts
of southern California.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
You heard crow Are reference it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And the fact is that there are these thunderstorms that
are popping up in places, and they are supposed to
linger through the night. Maybe one will linger a Maverick
shower in the morning, but then it clears up and
we're basically into fair weather for the rest of the week.
But between now and tomorrow morning, you may run into
some thunderstorms, and you know all the things that thunderstorms contain.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You know, my wife sent me a video of her
driving home from work around Claremont and yeah, pretty like
hard rained.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, it almost feels biblical when it gets like this, you.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Know, especially when it's like nice and sunny like right.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Before Sure, Yeah, the drops get bigger, that there's hail
as possible, the wind starts blowing.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I mean, it's really it's really wild.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I was a weather forecaster on the front range of
the Rockies in Denver, Colorado, and so you've got all
of this air that's lifted over the mountains of the
Colorado Rockies, and man, you can just get some huge thunderstorms.
And the other way that it happens is out on
the plane. So really, like the eastern part of Colorado
is like Kansas. It's just flat and you get all
of this development because the heat just takes whatever humidity
(09:08):
there is and just turns it, like in an instant
into huge thunderstorms and tornadoes for that matter, a lot
of severe weather. And it's just the weather's changing so
radically in the spring and summer months.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Do you ever get a degree in that, No, it
never did. Died and got the gig.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, well I applied and then they put me through
a program with like a meteorology training program, so I
couldn't have so. In fact, I remember they took me
out in a I think it was a Noah plane.
It was one of those National Atmospheric Administration planes flying
into lines squall lines of thunderstorms, severe weather and tornadoes.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Okay, and we just got by the way.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
We just got an advisory all beaches in Newport Beach
have been closed because of lightning in the area.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, there is lightning and
thunder this thunderstorm stuff is re you don't mess with it.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, everybody in the area is being asked to clear
the water and sand, and they go look for somewhere indoors.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I mean, you see how they clear an entire stadium
a sporting event because of this stuff, you know, So
it's it's nothing to mess with. But I remember they
wanted to fly and they did fly on a special plane.
It's like, you know, one of these kind of armored
planes that they fly into the squall line. And so
we flew from Colorado, the National Center for Atmospheric Research
en CAR is what they call it, and all these
(10:28):
n cars, scientific researchers, meteorologists and all the rest. We
all get on this plane and we're going to fly
into Kansas to I think it was our flying one
of those maybe it's Nebraska whatever, one of these had
to be kens whatever. We're flying along the planes looking
for a squall line so we'll find tornadic activity to
actually fly the plane into so that they can you know,
(10:52):
they have all these charts and things that they and
you know me, you're.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Like, oh, we're looking for one, great, let's do that mine.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
My I was praying fervently that we never found anything,
and so we didn't find anything. They found we By
the time we caught up with the squall line, there
was no activity.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And I thought, my god, this is the greatest.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It was so funny because all the scientists are going,
oh man, what a day wasted. We didn't find any
kind of tornadoes or any severe weather for you, And
I thought, man, that's just a great day as far
as I'm gonna yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, that's like a ride along with the cops where
I don't want to see guys, I don't want to
see any action. I just enjoyed talking to you or
ride in the police car.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
That's fine with me.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I did one of those in the Hollywood ones. It
was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, me as well.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And I was really, you know, they're going, well, maybe
we should look for some more action. No, nope, I'm
really happy just cruising along with you guys.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Our guy spot a spotted a dude picking up a
lady of the evening, even though it was the middle
of the day. Yeah, and just held back a little bit,
let them, let them go down some side streets and
kind of stayed back a little bit. The whole time,
and then once waited a good couple of minutes, then
he just shot right up on him and made him
get out of the car. No, he was pulling his
(12:04):
pants up.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But his Beny was like, oh oh man, that's a
rough one.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Did you get out with the cops?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I stayed in the back, said I had plenty of
good view. I was like, nope, I don't want anybody
seeing me.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, here's a police story that's got only the status ending,
which is the reality around this Baldwin Park shooting. And
finally it looks like charge is going to be filed
against this guy who killed two.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
La County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman calling these Baldwin Park
police officers who responded that night heroes and also filing
five charges against that suspects. Now we know that suspect
is twenty two year old Eduardo Roberto Medina Beruman, and
he's now facing two counts of first to remurder with
special circumstances, two counts of attempted murder, and one count
of possession of an assault weapon. Elle County Sheriff Robert
(12:58):
Luna also joining Hawkman today saying investigators recovered an ar
fifteen style weapon at.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
The scene and again.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Two people are dead after a shootout in Baldwin Park
Saturday night, forty three year old Darius Wong and thirty
five year old Baldwin Park Police officer Samuel Riveros. He
was with the department for nine years. A second Baldwin
Park Police officer, Anthony Pimenttal, was also injured by shards
of glass during that shooting, but he was here today
at the press conference. He didn't want to speak, but
(13:25):
appears to be recovering from his injuries. Baldwin Park Police
Chief Robert Lopez getting emotional at the podium, using this
moment to remember Riveros.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Sam was a dedicated officer who represent our department with dignity,
dian in honor in the face of danger, Sam selflessleep
put the safety of others before his own and gave
his life doing so. He was a part of our
family and it's hard to express what a tremendous loss
this is for our department in Baldwin Park.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
We will never forget Sam.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Yeah, just a devastating situation and according to Hawkman, if
that's us is convicted, he could face the death penalty
or life in prison.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Live in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So if you were, you know, we're someone who wasn't
aware of this. This whole thing started over a parking spot.
I mean it started in the most mundane way, right,
and it escalated into this forty three year old Darius
Wong being killed, father of a two just before the
(14:29):
responding police officer was also gunned down, Officer Samuel Riveres.
So it's a it's an awful, awful thing that again
just flared up, escalated quickly, and now two people are dead.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
But the shooter will be charged, as you just heard.
So that's the latest.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
When we come back, being in California means paying more
for utilities and electricity than any other state in America.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Why.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
There are a few reasons. One of the big ones
is the wildfire threat. But the way that we the
rate payers, are forced to carry the weight of the
wildfire Threat Fund is just wrong. We get a chance
to talk to a utility expert and he heads up
a consumer group that has been around for decades, turn
(15:26):
the Utility Reform Network. Lee Trotman joins us.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Next, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Mark Thompson's sitting in without Conway today, So Conway's voice
hopefully back soon, and he'll be back soon. One of
the things that it is raining, by the way, I
got the reference to fush very strong, very strong, nice.
It is pouring in some areas, and you know it's
on and off and again.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
If you're just.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Joining us and you missed it, it'll probably be rating
like this, off and on through the night, and the
diminishing chance toward morning maybe there's this residual shower, but
after that the rest of the week looks dry. The
Utility Reform Network it's called turn nonprofit consumer group advocacy group,
and they have been around for decades and are trying
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to intensify public scrutiny of southern California Edison and a
lot of the corporate practices associated with the rate hikes.
These rate hikes are constantly approved and that process we'll
get a window on here in a conversation coming up.
But as we look at issues in financial distress essentially
(16:38):
in Southern California and California generally, I mean, one of
the huge expenses that keeps spiraling upward is utilities and power.
So Lee Traupman is from turn High Lee. Thanks for
joining us on KFI.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Hi, Mark, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I'm well, and I wanted to bring up the fact
right away so people know this that this isn't just
a conversation. It's a conversation against the backdrop of legislation
that's actually in Sacramento now that the stuff that may
actually affect utility rates in the future is being discussed
right now. Correct, Yes, And so what goes into these
(17:17):
rate hikes. There are a lot of the rate hikes
that are tied to wildfire remediation and ways in which
they essentially farm out the cost of wildfire damage to
the right payer.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I mean, there are a lot of things that go
into it, and it's basically your four major utilities, including
Southern California Edison. They have to file something called a
general rate case and all the general rate cases. For instance,
Edison filed their general rate case May of twenty twenty three, right,
and it's for their years twenty twenty seven to twenty thirty.
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So what it basically, it's a financial plan package. It
basically states we need these rate hikes to on these things,
including wildfire mitigation. For instance, if you want to underground
the lines, and so you harden the grid. So there
are a lot of things that go into this GRC.
It's it's a daunting task, and it goes to the CPUC,
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the Californian Public Utilities Commission, because they have oversight over
these utilities, the for profit utilities, and Turn is really
the intervener. So the California Public Utilities Commission will say, okay,
here's Southern California Edison's general rate general rate case, which
is a series of scheduled rate hikes over that period
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of time that I mentioned, twenty twenty seven to twenty thirty.
So Turn, what do you think is this reasonable? For instance,
if Edison says, hey, we need a twenty for twenty
twenty seven, we need an eighteen percent rate hike, is
that reasonable? So we'll investigate, we'll analyze, and then we
submit our proposal, and then it goes back to the
Californian Public Utilities Commission, and then and something known as
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a proposed decision, which is basically the compromise. Right, So
if Edison's asking for this, we say that this is
more reasonable, CPUC says, all right, let's compromise. This is
what we think it should be, the rate hike should be,
and then the public has the opportunity to comment on
the proposed decision the PD and so the proposed decision
(19:21):
so far we think is going to come out this
summer for that three year period twenty twenty seven to
twenty thirty. So it's really important for the public to
get involved because this is critical. It's going to involve
rate hikes. And usually when you get your Edison bill,
there's a series of bill inserts, and almost every month
(19:43):
when I get my bill, there are the notice of
applications which are basically Edison's requesting a rate hike, a
rate increase, and they'll explain which component. For instance, the
last one I got for last month was basically the
return on equity. So Edison to finance projects, you know,
they have investors and they promise these investors the current
(20:04):
cost of capital, which is what it's called, is ten
point three three percent, So these investors if they invest,
if they invest in Edison, they will get a ten
point three three percent return on equity. Well, Edison's actually
proposing an eleven point seventy five percent return on equity,
so really the shareholders are happy, but the rate payers
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fund all of this.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Well, last year they made over a billion and a
half dollars in profit, Edison did, and they farmed out.
I was saying, you know, before I was welcoming you
on a lot of the Look, they had a role
in the Eating fire. Right, Edison's role in the Eating
fire is I think indisputable, and a lot of that
(20:47):
which is associated with that corporate responsibility is then farmed
out to the right payers. I mean, you know, everything
they have to do to both mitigate risk and to
pay whatever damage is that is stuff that we're paying,
isn't that? I mean that those are costs that we're
we're bearing.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You're bearing the costs. And so for the Eaten fire,
for INSTANCECE usually like a two to two and a
half year investigation. So we're not going to really comment
on that part, but I will say this, in twenty seventeen,
Edison asked because Editson was involved in these wildfires in
twenty seven just recently, they ask for I believe it
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was a ten percent rate increase to cover the twenty
seventeen wildfires. And so we're talking it took eight years
and they're asking for a rat increase really to cover
those costs. And so, yes, you're completely correct. Every wildfire,
if you're found liable, and so for every GRC, they
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will ask, okay, we need you know, we need two
billion dollars to bury the lines. We need more money
to harden the infrastructure, harden the grid, try to prevent wildfires,
because right now, your only tool for preventing a wildfire
is called a public safety power shut off, which is basically,
oh it's high wind you know, you have high winds
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in this region, will cut the power to all the
customers and hopefully nothing will spark.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Right.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Seems kind of archad to me, But there are other
ways to But for instance, there is a fast technology
where if you harden the grid and a spark seems
to be imminent, you know this software will basically shut
down that section of the grid. And you know, there
are ways to do it, but it's very extensive, so
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you have to really pick your spot.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, you're talking about sort of the tactical shutdown of
parts of the grid too. It's almost an artificial intelligence
gaming out which parts of the grid need to be
shut down.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Right, right, It's kind of like a circuit breaker, So
you know how you have a circuit breaker where if
you text that the circuit will overload it and it
shuts down that circuit. That's exactly what it is. But
to use software and you also have to use hardware,
so there are many ways is to approach the wildfire
mitigation because don't forget, all this wildfire mitigation is coming
from the rate pairs, right the rate pairs are paying
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for it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, that's exactly my point. That's that's why it's excruciatingly expensive.
Here and the last thing I only get another minute.
But the last thing I want to ask you is
about the political part, because there is supposed to be,
as you say, uh over oversight CPUOC CPUC is supposed
to be, you know, and I think gavinism pointed everybody
on the CPC, den't he. I mean, that's the utility
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commission that's supposed to review these right hikes, review these
proposals and these right hikes requests, and they essentially approve
all of them, don't they. Is there any political blowback
as a result of that?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
So far, I have not seen the political blowback that
you would expect, right because as rates increase and customers
are getting squeezed by the utilities that are reporting, you know,
near record profits or even record profits. You would think
that the rate payers would actually unite and start putting pressure,
but I don't think they understand the structure right. Gavin
(24:03):
Newsom is the governor. He appointed all the commissioners of
the CPUC. So when a person gets their bill and
there's another rate hike, they naturally blame the company, and
they should, but they also have to look beyond that.
It's like, who's approving these rate hikes? Well, the California
Public Utilities Commission is approving the rate hikes. So yes,
it does seem like the utilities are asking for a
(24:25):
rate hikes and they're getting them because there is no
current system. In the current system, there's no cap on
rate increases.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
That's one of the things I know you guys are
working for at turn turn dot org is where you
can read more the Utility Reform Network.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
TURN.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Good for you for being a consumer advocation group that
might get some stuff done. As you say, there's pending
legislation and there needs to be pushback from the PUC,
and there just isn't.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
So I love that you joined us today. Thank you.
Lee Trotman and congratulations on Turn. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
All right, my friend Turn dot org is again the website.
Kevin Pollack Top of the Hour. We'll talk to him
from the set of Tulsa King Next. Major perks of
drinking this and major perks of stopping the drinking of
something else.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'll fill you in. Next.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A sixty.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Kevin Pollack Top of the Hour from the set of
Tulsa Kings of the stallone series. I guess he's I
was associated Kevin with Like Comedy and he's from Marvel's
Missus Masel most recently.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
But he's got some range.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You know, he did a few Good Men and he
did He's a real actor, so you know, talk to
him from the set of that series. I mentioned that
drinking a cup of this every day supposedly helps women
age better.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Oh, I hope it's what I drink. What is it?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's a thirty year long study.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And the results were presented at the annual meeting of
the American Society for Nutrition in Orlando. I know you
wanted to go to that. Sharon and I'm sorry that. Yeah,
they just couldn't really approve your time offer though.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Researchers define healthy aging as living to age seventy or older,
being free from eleven major chronic diseases along the way,
maintaining physical function, and having good mental health. So what
is this cup that you should drink every day? According
to this study, it is coffee?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yes, yeah, Amid.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Apparently coffee may not be this sort of demon that
we think.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It might be.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Any study checking with than forty seven thousand women over
three decades. It's a big study suggested.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I've checked in with about forty thousand women over several decades.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
Study checking with forty second over three decades. It's a
big study suggest coffee may.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
What Sorry you will Chamberlain, No, I didn't mean i'd
checked in.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I don't have the I don't have the prowess or
whatever you would call that the history of will.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
But thank you for even thinking for an instant that
I'm mind be checking with it.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Forty seven thousand women over three decades, it's a big
study suggest coffee may help lead to a longer, healthier life.
I would say happier life too. Found that women who
drink one to three cups a day. In middle age,
we're more likely to experience quote healthy aging. This long
term benefits including breaching seventy years or old without eleven
(27:36):
major comic diseases, and having but physical, cognitive, and mental health.
So let's turn to NBC medical contributor doctor Natalie A's
aren't not.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
But this is a huge study, big deal. For years now,
we've been hearing good news about moderate coffee consumption. But this,
this study really nails at home. And I think, what's interesting.
You know you mentioned they followed forty seven thousand women.
Only about thirty seven hundred of them achieved that.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
By the way, I have followed forty seven thousand women
also and say, followed.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Forty seven thousand women.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I'm not proud of it, And I didn't like, I'm
not a stalker or anything.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
It just sounds like you mentioned.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
What I meant, just followed them like casually, like oh,
she's an asle eight. Maybe there's something inn ishl eight
that I would like.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
The followed forty seven thousand women.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I don't mean that the coffee.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
To remember that, I can't even get my head around
forty seven thousand is a rough number.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That's exactly the number of women that I followed in
the grocery store.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Followed forty seven thousand women.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
This is a stuff on me.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
About thirty seven hundred of them achieved that healthy aging goal,
but they were the ones who were found to be
the ones that consumed between the ages of forty five
and sixty those one to three cups of coffee a day.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, I don't mean to pour cold coffee on this,
but you have to have to allow and I'm sure
they did this on some level, but there's so many
other factors. I mean, how do they isolate this one thing.
I mean, to really do a study of this kind,
you need a big number, which they got forty seven thousand,
but you also need to control for all the other
(29:04):
life factors. You know, it's not like all those forty
seven thousand people are doing all the same things. And
then the one thing they've done is they've tweaked up
coffee intake on some and they've tweaked down coffee intake
on others. Now, that said, these are medical professionals. I'm
sure that are beginning as they crunch that data to
allow for some of these things, But it just again
(29:26):
one of these studies where I'd like to see a
little bit more.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
Know, people ask, well, why coffee, right, is it the
caffeine or is it the coffee. Coffee has over one
hundred different what we call bioactive compounds, the majority or antioxidants.
So there's definitely there's definitely chemical compounds in coffee that
are probably the major explanation for this potential benefit.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
If anything, did the study reveal about the effects of.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
Other caffe in us well, and so that's the thing, right,
So it really highlighted the benefit of coffee. Consumption of
tea didn't have this benefit, Consumption of decaffeinated coffee didn't
have this benefit. And one thing that probably is not
a surprise to most people soda that was a no
no that was associated with a twenty to twenty to
twenty six percent lower likelihood of achieving healthy aging.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, that's the big other drink that we should mention
to you, because if you drink diet coke, they say
get off it if you want to improve heart health
and gut balance, zero calories, no added sugars, but they
(30:32):
say diet coke is not considered a healthy beverage. Studies
have linked diet soda in general to increase metabolic and
cardiovascular risks, and research shows that drinking two or more
artificially sweetened beverages a day may increase the risk of
heart disease and stroke. Another study showing that just one
(30:53):
diet soda increases the risk of a FIB the irregular
heartbeat thing. So even as they give you the green
light on coffee, they give you the red light on
diet coke. Again, a lot of people who have ditched
diet coke talk about how he never realized how addictive
(31:14):
it can be. Again, ask per tame the artificial sweetener,
and diet coke has been labeled as possibly carcinogenic. So
there are a lot of things in diet coke that
they'd like you to avoid, and they're healthier alternatives.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
They say, that's why it's so good.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
I used to drink diet coke like I had a
problem with it as well, but I started getting headaches
from it, and then to switch over to like Pellegrino.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Oh interesting, I got to power through, that's all they suggest.
That's right. At first the headaches come in.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You got to just get through those then you get
into some really good space.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Dude, Mark, did you ever drink soda?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I don't. I don't, I don't, I really I don't
drink I don't. I mean I think I drink rum
and coke years ago or whatever, but now I like,
just straight run. Yeah exactly, I just give me the
rum straight.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I'm with you, man.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And they said they're healthy alternatives like kombucha. Then that's probiotics.
They're beneficial for gut health.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
So those are the only sodas I really do. I've
never done. I've never been a soda person myself.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah I get oh yeah, I get the appeal. I mean, sugary,
sweet tasting, and I don't get that.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
In many things that don't burn your throat.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
What I always thought.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, don't necessarily quit the coffee, kids, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Coffee a cup every day?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Many cups of coffee do you drink?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I love coffee. I could drink it all day.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
But my cardiologist tells me that I should reduce intake
two one. And then when I kind of pushed back
and he says, all right, maybe two cups, but.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
You up to a lot.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
What's a lot?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Got a coffe maker at all to make it like, yeah, I've.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Got a ninja coffee maker. Yeah, expresso machine. Yeah, that'll
do it. And you also get into the ritual of
making it like it out the knock box that's the
thing or you you know, you hit the espresso out
of the thing and you put it in and all
the water.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Anyway, Look, do what makes you happy would be my guess.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I do rebel myself and that's uh yeah, it's it
changes your coffee making.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, you really look forward to making it so, all right.
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