May 15, 2025 • 33 mins
LAFD Ret. Fire Captain Steve Kreeger on Fire burning in Long Beach #BreakingNews #News #LBC // Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer on Finding Your Design Style. What style distinguishes L.A.? It’s Storybook. #Storybook #Craftsman, Cape Cod, #Tudor, #Victorian #Architect #Architecture #Designs #HomeDesign // 70 million people in path of huge storm back east rain, tornadoes. Dean Sharp,
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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 The Conway Show.
We have a fire burning in Long Beach. The Long
Beach Fire Department is doing great work trying to extinguish
this fire. But we turned to our specialist guy I
used to work for the La County Fire Department, Retired
(00:22):
Captain Steve Kreeger.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Steve Creeker, Welcome back to the poll. Is that what
they say when you get back to the station.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, So ding dong with you, Tim, Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Dig dong with you. What's going on out there? Be
able to be able to take a look at what's
burning and how bad is this.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I saw just a glimpse of it on TV and
then they switched to other news. But it looks like
it's a bunch of it looks like black plastic like
PVC pipes. They're in the field there with maybe some
brush around it. So in most plastics like that have
petroleum products in them, So it's you know, it's like
(00:58):
a burning a solid form of oil, right, So it's
burning pretty good, and you know, and it takes quite
a bit of water to put something out like that.
I don't know what their availability of water is in
that area.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Is that a one alarm fire? Two alarm, three, four, five,
ten alarm?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It looks like it's a like a one alarm fire,
maybe almost second alarm, But from what I'm seeing, the
Long Beach Fire Department has five engines and a battalion
chief on that, so they're gonna get surround on it,
but it's probably getting water into that area is probably
difficult because it doesn't look like there's any fires, fire
hydrants in that immediate area.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What's the difference between a one alarm two alarm when
it comes to equipment.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, first alarm, like on a residential fire, you will
usually get like three or four engine companies and a
ladder truck, a battalion chief, and a paramedic unit. When
you go to a second alarm, you pretty much double
that amount. Now when you get the commercial fire, you
may get like four or five engines and two ladder trucks.
(02:02):
Same with like on a on a high rise or
a you know, low rise like three or four stories,
you'll get a couple of ladder trucks on it. But
you each alarm, you pretty much double what you've got
h on the first alarm.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And what's the high end of the alarm, five alarm.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That will go sometimes up to a five alarm, and
then beyond that it's just some cities will call it
greater alarm. Others, uh, they just stop at that major incident,
they just call it keep calling in more resources. And
it's a logistical and nightmare kind of because as you
pull all those resources the closest engines, now you have
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a bunch of empty fire stations. Move ups. Well that's
take engines from further away and move them and you know,
divide and conquer and fill in those empty stations.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And hey, Steve Krigers has retired fire captain of La County.
Do you think people are going to get a little
be a little freaked down for the next six months,
maybe year, year and a half because of what all
the damage with the fires in early January.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh yeah, I think people are very well, which is
not such a bad thing because maybe people will clear
their brush a little sooner, because this is the time
of the year right now in May when when you
start clearing your brush and making sure that you have
the proper clearance. But now people are going to do
like what Dean Sharp's talked about, the home hardening, putting
in the amber, proof vents, and maybe even if they're
(03:25):
going to replace windows, do them with the tempered glass
windows that can take higher heat if they're in a brush.
So maybe this is a wake up call for people.
There's already been a bunch of brush fires in the
last few days. Have been several on the Chino Hills
area and up in the Santa Clarita Acting area. There's
been some fires. Luckily they've kept them fairly small, but
(03:46):
it's already starting.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So Steve, let me ask you a question. Does this
fire in Long Beach is it? Is it suitable or
for an air drop? And what makes a fire, you know,
ready for or made for air drops?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, it's probably not something for an air drop. There's
not like a lot of brush around it. And when
you drop water from the air, it's very small, fine
particles of water, Whereas when you're out there with the
hose line, you're putting much heavy amounts of water on
the fire. And that's maybe what It takes a lot
of water, especially the most engines. Now, Jerry, what's called
(04:25):
class A foam, which is basically like dish washing detergent,
but you can get in there and soak in and
stick to things so much better. It reduces the surface
tension of the water.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You remember in the old days, they used to in
old movies they used to have four or five grown
men firefighters manning one hose because of all the pressure.
Was that done just for the movies? Or does it
take sometimes two or three guys to hold a hose
like that?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
On a big two and a half inch hose line,
it would take two or three guys. Now, what's the
promise I've done? Now they've gone to nozzles that will
operate at the lower pressure, so they're much easier to handle.
Just to be pounds of pressure at the nozzle, yeah,
a lot of them found about seventy five pounds of
pressure at the nozzle. But you're still able to get
the you know, the big hoses get two hundred and
(05:11):
fifty gallons per minute out of those bigger hoses.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Have you ever been on a fire where the hose
got away and was doing one of those worldly birds
and knocking people around.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I've never seen that on fire, but I've seen that
happen on the drill grounds and in recruit training. They
actually do that on purpose to teach you how to
take care of a hose line. That's like that where
you crawl down the hose until you get to the
end of it.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Wow, that could kill somebody.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh yeah, definitely. You know you have that much pressure
and that the nozzle, you could knock you on the ground.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Wow, buddy, I appreciate you coming on. It looks like
they got a pretty good handle on this thing.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah. Long Beach is well equipped. They're a top notch
fire department and do a really good job. And they're
I'm sure that because there's nothing else right next to it,
no homes, next to it are buildings, they can maintain
that without any other damage. But like I've always maintained,
especially when you don't any power lines anything else, there's
three main causes of fire men, women and children.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's right, okay, but I appreciate you coming on. Thanks man, Right,
take it all right, Steve Kraeger, La County retired fired captain.
And looks like they've got that fire whipped or at
least very close.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
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Speaker 3 (07:37):
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Speaker 2 (08:11):
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Speaker 1 (08:37):
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Speaker 5 (08:53):
Dean, how you, Bob, I'm good, I'm good. It was
a very very light thursdays. Oh good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Look, I know we're going to talk about designs and
home designs. I'm going to try to list off the
designs that I know, and obviously you know many more.
But the homes that I know, I know, craftsmen, I
know what that looks like. Modern ranch is another popular
one in the valley, and then Cape cod is another one, sure, Tutor,
(09:25):
And I wrote down Victorian, but I couldn't think of
any others.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Well, you know those are the biggies, the big They're
the biggies around here in southern California. Do you know
the do you know the design style as far as
the architectural style that is actually other than California craftsmen, right,
other than Bungalow style, which was designed here in California.
The other one designed just you know, miles away from
(09:50):
you and I all around us here in the nineteen twenties.
That is distinctly La. Do you know what it is?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Tutor?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
No, far close. You're kind of close with the tutor.
Oh I'm close.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, let's see, I'm cape cod. I know that's another
popular one, but that couldn't have been designed here.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And I'm not going to tork to you. Okay, it's storybook. Okay, Oh,
that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Storybook. Storybook. If you've ever been to LA and you've
ever been around some of the older areas of LA,
the you know the area around Burbank, uh Studio City,
and down into Hollywood and West Hollywood, those regions where
the studios originally lived, right you had you had a
workman working on the studios who were thinking themselves, you
(10:35):
know what, we're building these amazing sets all day long.
Why don't we just take this same idea and build
some homes for ourselves that look the same way. Charlie
Chaplin did it with the United Artists at the very
very beginning of United Arts. He built entire neighborhoods off
of Sawtel and Santa Monica that are storybook houses for
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the studio workers and storybook meaning they've got exceptional steep
roofs and like you know, they look like cottages, like
like out of fairy tales. Right, they've got all these
little story book elements. That is a uniquely one early
Hollywood architectural style.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Ok right, here are two things.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
One they they often seem smaller than traditional houses or
am I right or wrong on that?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, they totally are.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, there's a lot of them on Hollywood Way that
are between you know, like Verdugo and Alameda.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
There's about ten in a row there. They're all they're
all very small.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But the other thing I was going to say, when
you when you go to sell that, isn't that a
much tougher putt?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You can be, you know, because it's a very unique
I mean, it's a it's a really unique ch.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's a niche, it's a meat.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
They're not all that bright inside too. That's the other thing.
The other thing about Victorian homes and Tutor style homes.
Victorian homes especially, you look at them the outside and
you're like, oh my gosh. And when we say Victorian,
most people are thinking of Queen Anne Victorian. They're about
they are about nine different styles of Torian. But everybody
thinks about the gingerbread Queen Anne Victorian that's got all
the fancy moldings on the house. They look great from
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the street, but you get inside and you realize, wow,
these rooms are kind of small and boxy, and there
aren't many windows, and this is a dark house. And
so it's one of the things that makes it tough
selling an authentic Victorian or a storybook home. Yeah, they're niche.
They're very niche.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
If I were to guess the biggest, the most popular
request you get, and I see them all the time,
and they're absolutely stunning.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
They're beautiful. They have wrap around porches.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I think that if I were to guess the most
popular style of people who want to build a home
or renovate their home would be craftsmen.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Is that true here in California? Craftsmen? I mean, it's
definitely up there. It's definitely up there.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
The thing is, craftsmen is such a strong style. Not
a lot of people are comfortable with all of the
elements of craftsmen, but they do like the way it
feels and they do it. A lot of people don't
understand why they like craftsman so much, and uh, do I.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Have time to tell you?
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
All right?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
All right, So it's it's kind of counterintuitive. We were
just talking about Victorian homes, right right, Well.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You know it must be you know, but it must
be a very popular design because the Grand Disney Hotel
is all craftsmen. I mean, they built an entire hotel
in craftsmen. Oh, it's it's fundamental to southern California. It's fundamental.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
The the craftsman style bungalow, which, by the way, a
true craftsman home, by the way, not an arts and
crafts bungalow, but a craftsman home is literally an authentic
craftsman home came in a kit that you ordered out
of Sears Roebuck catalog. You remember, yeah, right, yeah, all right,
it's a craftsman home that was that was actually copyrighted
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by Sears and Roebuck. And that is why, by the way,
you see every major craftsman classic home. A neighborhood is
centered in southern Cali, California, around old railway stations Pasadena,
down in the Circle and Orange everywhere there was a
railway stop. This is where craftsmen homes and neighborhoods grew out.
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Because you ordered a kit wow, and it came in
on a flat car and you had your contractor pick
it up at the train station, bring it to your lot,
and build a home.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That's beautiful, man, that is such a great way to go.
But you know, that's when, like when my parents bought
a lot out in Westlake, they were going to build
a house when they had like six kids, and then
my dad realized it's a two hour drive every day
to work, and he said screw it. But when in
the sixties and seventies, when you bought a piece of
property you were going to build a house, the whole
family got involved. It was fun. It was great to
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go to see the progress and everything. Now building a home,
it seems it comes with a lot of headaches.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Well, I think part of that is also because you know,
we've lost in the last two or three generations, we've
lost the translation of just even working with tools. I
mean it used to think you're right, yeah, where everybody
could get into it.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It was kind of our version.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I remember when I was a kid, you know, that
was still happening, and it was sort of our version
of like the Amish barn raising, like the whole neighborhood
get together. Everybody brings their toolbox and you just assume
everybody's got some decent skill. Well, yeah, good chance find it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, it falls apart at the end.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
But I the one thing that I hear a lot,
and I especially hear it from women, and I guess
I'm a woman because I'm involved.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'd like it too.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
But I love the idea, and we don't have one,
and I always wanted one. I love the idea of
a wrap around porch. I think it's you know how
much time I spent with my grandparents who had one,
and all the you know, socialization that went on on
a wrap around porch is just spectacular.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, and you know what, They're fantastic. I can tell you,
you know, I can you know what. We probably have
to go to break, so I don't want to end
up talking over it. But if you want, when we
come back, I can explain to you why we don't
have wrap around porches anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Oh good, okay, okay, all right, why we had them
in the first place. Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I I'm very interested because we want one to do it,
and then we just didn't have the space and the
time and didn't want to soak a bunch of you know,
thirty or forty grand into something that you use, you know,
three times.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It's like a pool.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Everybody loves to have a pool, and then they realize
they use it twice a year. And it's got to
be a cultural element that everybody shares as a culture
or it's not doing you any good.
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Speaker 1 (16:31):
Before we get back to Dean Sharp, we got to
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They may not be going all right. Dean Sharp is
with us Dean last week. Laughter, we're talking about the
wrap around porch. You're not a big fan.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh I love them?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh you do?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, Okay, I love them. I love I wish it
was still I wish it was still the tradition. Okay.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
So Number one a real wrap around porch the full house, right.
That came from the South when there was no air
conditioning in a humid state. And the idea is that
you put shade on all those first story windows so
you can keep them open, and then the cool air
comes in through the first story windows, the hot air
rises through the second floor out those windows, and you
cool the house. That's the original concept of the wrap
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around porch. The one you're talking about specifically, though, that
had to do with craftsmen homes. Every great craftsman home
has a front porch right fight in the street, your
beautiful covered front porch. And those you just don't find
them anymore. You don't find them after World War Two.
In fact, they're very rare. And why why is that? Well,
life was very different, more so than we know before
(18:00):
World War Two in the nineteen twenties. By nineteen twenty two,
guess how many homes American homes had indoor plumbing? Wait
what year, nineteen twenty two?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I would say percent Wise, I would say sixty percent
two two percent.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Wowcent of American homes in the twenties, the early twenties. Okay, Now,
by the end of the nineteen thirties when the war
rolled around, that had changed radically. So we were going
through this plumbing explosion. But a craftsman home craftsmen neighborhoods
were not designed with the thought that there was a
lot of indoor plumbing going on.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Also, what did we not have. We didn't have washing machines,
we didn't have gas dryers.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Also, by the time World War II rolled around, forty
percent of the fresh protos that was being consumed in
the United States was being grown in backyard victory gardens.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
So add all of that up and what you'll see
is the prior to World War Two, the backyard was
really a utility space. You got a vegetable garden back there,
you got clothes lines where you know, everybody's underwear is drawing.
You got an outhouse back there, you got a storage
shed back there. The backyard was not that beautiful oasis
(19:18):
of retreat that we think of these days. So where
was the most beautiful place to spend your time before
the sun went down after dinner? The front porch front,
All the neighbors were on their front porch. All the
kids are playing out in the lawn and in the street,
and it was community and it was cultural, and that's
why we were all looking at each other sitting on
(19:40):
our front porches. But after the war, we had appliances,
we had clothes dryers, we had indoor plumbing, and so
the backyard became a place where we could get away
from it all. And as a result, we stopped building
front porches.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
That's wild. You know, I went back.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I used to go to my grandparents' house in Sugar
and Falls, Ohio, which is just east of Cleveland, and
I didn't I didn't realize this until I did some
research recently, but my grandparents' house, that house was built before.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The Civil War. Isn't that amazing in the Midwest or
that way?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I mean, it was built before Abraham Lincoln was President
of the United States. Yeah, and it's still.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
In great shape.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You know, they built homes back then to last, you know, centuries, they.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Could if you take care of them. Absolutely every single
like dilapidated, abandoned house that you see being sold on
you know, real estate sites across the nation and you
look at it and you're like, oh my gosh, that
place is haunted for sure, right, but it's still standing, right,
And it's like two hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I imagine, you know, when you took your trip to
Europe recently, I don't know if you've ever been there before,
but I couldn't get over how old some of those
beautiful homes were, you know, built you know, four or five,
six hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Yeah, and all of them still standing. That's just that's
just typical across Heurep. We've been to Europe several times
and that's that's that's sort of And by the way,
that also is the reason why the Europeans are leading
the world in modern decor, because you know what, they've
grown up in cities that are five, six, seven hundred
years old. It's all around them. They don't want to
(21:22):
change the outsides. But if you go into a typical
like real estate listing for a flat in Rome or
in London or someplace like that, you will find on
the outside, yeah it's a three hundred and fifty year
old building, and you go inside and everything is just
sleek and modern because they're like, listen, in here, we've
had enough, We've had enough of the old stone and
the cobble. We want a different life in here.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Real quickly. We only got about a minute here.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But I heard that there is a an actual color
of paint called ceiling blue, where you paint the ceiling
of your porch.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You know what, I don't know. You stomp me on.
How you go look that? And it has something to
do with bugs.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
The bugs think that it's just a hole there, so
they don't build any nests or.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Webs or anything like that. Oh my gosh. All right,
I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Hey, next Thursday when we get together here, I'm gonna
drop this one in your ear.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh good.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I want to talk about super wood, oh dice, okay
for wood, all right, a wood product now twenty times
stronger than structural steel.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Really really, and it's a real wood. It's real wood.
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You know, I know they've made My wife is from
the Northwest where they do a lot of logging, and
they used to have to plant trees. They used to
plant you know, pine trees and redwood, and literally it
would they would have to plant it and then come
back fifty five or sixty years later and cut them
down to build homes and whatever you're gonna build them.
(22:51):
But they've done so much great work with manipulating the
actual the wood and you know, and and cross reverencing
it and cross pollenization and all that stuff. That now
that that process, instead of sixty years, is down to
almost twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
It's about twenty twenty two years on average now to
go from sapling to the mill. And these are all happening.
We're not really clear cutting old growth forests anymore. These
are all happening on agricultural farms. Yeah, you know, like
every Christmas tree in the world that gets cut down
gets cut.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Down off of a farm, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, yeah, all right, buddy, super what I'm my intrigued,
So I can't wait till next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Sounds good? All right, thanks man. All right, there he
goes Dean Sharp the.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
House whisper every Saturday morning six to eight am right
here on KFI, and then also on Sunday nine am
until noon.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
People like a good Mediterranean that's kind of that's the house. Yeah,
that's kind of my sort of style, like what kind
of like yeah style.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I always love the craftsman, but I never had I
don't know, I guess the money are desired, you know,
all my money's at the track.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Crafts.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
One's an easy one because it's kind of like make
it the way you want, and they all have the variance.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Of the different styles. But yeah, I also like Spanish
style with the you know, the tile roof.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Grew up around a lot of ranch, so you know,
like you said it, with the wrap around porches, especially
in Maryland and southern Maryland.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, a lot of wrap around.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The ranch was very popular out here, the single story ranch,
you know, very spread out.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It was a cool style.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
When we come back, I'll tell you about the Angel
City Football Club. They are hosting a really cool deal
on Saturday. Come back and tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
KFI AM six forty is Conway Show. Angel City FC
host Racing Louisville. Yeah, the FC football Club Racing Louisville,
probably named after the racetrack there on Saturday this or
Saturday May twenty fourth, at BMO Stadium, a a n
hp I Heritage Night.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I get your tickets now at Angelcity dot com and
listen to every game in HD on the iHeartRadio app.
Keywords Angel City FC. We have a major storm that's
affecting seventy million people and you probably know somebody that
is in harm's way. This is a radical storm headed
(25:20):
towards the Midwest and the East Coast tonight.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Millions in the Midwest on alert for powerful storms.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
East of Minneapolis.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
This massive twister spotted tearing up farmland near New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Tornado sirens sounding in Minneapolis this afternoon. Our affiliate KSTP
warning viewers of the danger. This is the core metro
now under a tornado. Warning the most populous county that
we have in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So you can hear it in his voice. He's not
bsing the people listening. They break into programming during the
day and they tell you to hunker down.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's coming.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Warning the most populous county that we have soda storm
chasers from the station out on the roads tracking the storms.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
If there's going to be a tornado in this area
beyond the far left kind of by where that building is.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
Sixty million on alert. The same system spawning this land
spout tornado near North Platte, Nebraska overnight and it's all
headed east. Parts of the East Coast is still reeling
from floods that had cars floating and flooded schools and
claim the life of a twelve year old boy. There
are tornado watches across the region, including right here in
(26:30):
the Chicago area. Through the evening. Chicago officials taking no
chances delaying the start of tonight's Beyonce concert until it's safe.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Beyonce delayed concert. Oh boy, oh wowly All right, more
on this weather here.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
We've had multiple tornado reports west and east of Minneapolis,
reports of debris on the ground, and that tornado watch
we'll go untill ten o'clock for parts of Minnesota and
into Wisconsin. It's also severe thunderstorm watch parts of Missouri
into Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Now these storms move east over night. They'll be near
This is.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
From Arkansas all the way up to Maine on the
East coast in the Midwest, from Saint Louis all the
way up to Canada. This is a major, major, huge
ass storm.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
Now these storms move east overnight. They'll be near Milwaukee
and Chicago by about eight o'clock, and storms may wake
you up in parts of Louisville down to Nashville by morning.
Another area over central Pennsylvania they'll be moving into the
New York City area tomorrow. The severe threat from Texas
to southern New Jersey, but the highest severe risk all
level four out of five from Saint Louis to Evansville
to Louisville. Strong destructive tornadoes, maybe even some baseball sized hailot,
(27:38):
dangerous afternoon and evening.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Some of these storms move into the Northeast over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Bellio, you're from Denver, You're familiar with these storms. You
can feel them coming. The temperature drops sometimes twenty or
thirty degrees and a half hour, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Quickly, Yeah, that's absolutely happened that it's turned that quickly.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It's onun I actually tech. Somebody used to work here.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Here's living in Chicago now and I said, you know, tornadoes,
and she was like, it's ninety one degrees out And
then like literally five minutes later, she's like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
The wind started picking up off her balcony. Oh you know.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I was in a Chicago hotel years and years ago
and they and I was watching TV and they said
there's a storm coming. I'm like, I don't see anything,
and then bang it hit and I could see the
entire storm coming across Chicago, and it was radical. I
was driving cross country with my brother Jake, and we
stopped to get gas and we saw a storm. We
were in I don't know, parts of Oklahoma or debrask
(28:32):
I don't remember where we were, and we saw a
storm west of us, and the guy who runs the
gas station said, which way you fellas going? I said,
we're going east. He said we better get in the
car and really move because this storm is coming. I said,
I'll be going seventy miles an hour. I'll blow that
storm away. And the guy looks at the other guy
who works there. He goes, I don't think these guys
(28:52):
are from around here.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, And that storm caught us. That storm caught.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
What did you do.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I just kept haul in ass got up to eighty
eighty five miles an hour, trying to get the hell
out of it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
But it's it's radical.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Speaking of Denver, Denver has had a problem with air
traffic control. What yes, a ninety I think it's a
ninety second blackout with hundreds or thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
In the air around Denver, Colorado. Tonight, ABC News.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
Is learning about a new and alarming outage and an
air traffic control center near Denver that left controllers unable
to communicate with some planes for nearly ninety seconds. The
FAA says two radio transmitters went down just before two
pm Monday at a facility that handles planes flying above
eighteen thousand feet in and around Colorado.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Wow, how dangerous you know. They said, hey, can you
can you land? And they go unable unable.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Air traffic controllers quickly moving pilots to a backup radio
channel one zero five.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
Seven clios supposed to push over to Denver.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
What we have here, it really is radio failure that
we've seen many times before, and we're going to see
it again until we changed things around.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
But it was a very orderly procedure in terms of
backing it up.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, but we know what's gonna happen is once they
have a blackout there with the FAA and their computers,
everybody who's working that shift while the blackout happened, they
get forty five days off to deal with the stress
of that. So we're gonna have even less air traffic
controllers because of what happened today in Denver. Moe Kelly
joins us, and you got swingers on at nine thirty.
(30:29):
But I got that story rolling.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Well, well not really, because politics anything goes now, nothing
really matters. So if you're a Swinger, why not run
for the House of Representatives, run for state Assembly, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You know, you and I were probably raised by really
conservative religious people because both of us understood that shooting
our parents in the head was a no no.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, it was frowned upon. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But yet these two idiots are going to get to prison.
It looks that way. And I couldn't get out of
the car last night with you talking about it. You
made such a great case for you don't care how
they've they've acted in prison, they blew their parents away.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Yeah, you don't get a second chance of society sometimes, right,
there are certain things that you can do where you
forfeit your right to live amongst the free right.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
And and we're not you know, ball busters. If a
guy got caught buying a joint ten years ago, you
don't want him in prison for the rest of his life.
But somebody goes and blows their mom and dad away,
goes down and reloads and comes in and shoots their
mom's face off and.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Then lies about it.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
As far as their alibi and goes on a shopping
spree and whatever else they were doing.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's exactly right. And those guys get all the attention.
It look upside down.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
They may be.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Better people today. I don't care. That's right. It does
not matter.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That's right. I like that opinion. I don't care. What's
on the big show to night.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Well, we have to talk about California's proposal to ban
coyote killing. Coyotes in my neighborhood out of a child,
so I feel very strongly about yes.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Please kill the coyotes. That's right.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
They're not serving any purpose other than killing people's animals
and possibly attacking children.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
There was a woman walking down our street. She was
pushing a stroller and I yelled right to go, Hey,
there's a coyote behind you. And she's like, ah, you're
always busting everybody's balls. And she turned around and there's
this big ass coyote about eight feet behind her.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
In the daytime.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Yeah, it was four o'clock in the afternoon. They're not
afraid of people because people have been feeding them. And
I have two small dogs, and on our security cameras
you see the coyotes running around the house.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Every night and they could jump those six foot fence easily. Yeah, easily, Buddie.
I'll be listening tonight. I was at the lowest parking
lot last night for your opening. I couldn't get out
of the car. Oh, thank you, Bro.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
It's great, buddy all.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I rely on KFI Mo Kelly next right here on
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Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app The Conway Show.
We have a fire burning in Long Beach. The Long
Beach Fire Department is doing great work trying to extinguish
this fire. But we turned to our specialist guy I
used to work for the La County Fire Department, Retired
(00:22):
Captain Steve Kreeger.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Steve Creeker, Welcome back to the poll. Is that what
they say when you get back to the station.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, So ding dong with you, Tim, Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Dig dong with you. What's going on out there? Be
able to be able to take a look at what's
burning and how bad is this.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I saw just a glimpse of it on TV and
then they switched to other news. But it looks like
it's a bunch of it looks like black plastic like
PVC pipes. They're in the field there with maybe some
brush around it. So in most plastics like that have
petroleum products in them, So it's you know, it's like
(00:58):
a burning a solid form of oil, right, So it's
burning pretty good, and you know, and it takes quite
a bit of water to put something out like that.
I don't know what their availability of water is in
that area.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Is that a one alarm fire? Two alarm, three, four, five,
ten alarm?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It looks like it's a like a one alarm fire,
maybe almost second alarm, But from what I'm seeing, the
Long Beach Fire Department has five engines and a battalion
chief on that, so they're gonna get surround on it,
but it's probably getting water into that area is probably
difficult because it doesn't look like there's any fires, fire
hydrants in that immediate area.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What's the difference between a one alarm two alarm when
it comes to equipment.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, first alarm, like on a residential fire, you will
usually get like three or four engine companies and a
ladder truck, a battalion chief, and a paramedic unit. When
you go to a second alarm, you pretty much double
that amount. Now when you get the commercial fire, you
may get like four or five engines and two ladder trucks.
(02:02):
Same with like on a on a high rise or
a you know, low rise like three or four stories,
you'll get a couple of ladder trucks on it. But
you each alarm, you pretty much double what you've got
h on the first alarm.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And what's the high end of the alarm, five alarm.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That will go sometimes up to a five alarm, and
then beyond that it's just some cities will call it
greater alarm. Others, uh, they just stop at that major incident,
they just call it keep calling in more resources. And
it's a logistical and nightmare kind of because as you
pull all those resources the closest engines, now you have
(02:38):
a bunch of empty fire stations. Move ups. Well that's
take engines from further away and move them and you know,
divide and conquer and fill in those empty stations.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And hey, Steve Krigers has retired fire captain of La County.
Do you think people are going to get a little
be a little freaked down for the next six months,
maybe year, year and a half because of what all
the damage with the fires in early January.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh yeah, I think people are very well, which is
not such a bad thing because maybe people will clear
their brush a little sooner, because this is the time
of the year right now in May when when you
start clearing your brush and making sure that you have
the proper clearance. But now people are going to do
like what Dean Sharp's talked about, the home hardening, putting
in the amber, proof vents, and maybe even if they're
(03:25):
going to replace windows, do them with the tempered glass
windows that can take higher heat if they're in a brush.
So maybe this is a wake up call for people.
There's already been a bunch of brush fires in the
last few days. Have been several on the Chino Hills
area and up in the Santa Clarita Acting area. There's
been some fires. Luckily they've kept them fairly small, but
(03:46):
it's already starting.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So Steve, let me ask you a question. Does this
fire in Long Beach is it? Is it suitable or
for an air drop? And what makes a fire, you know,
ready for or made for air drops?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, it's probably not something for an air drop. There's
not like a lot of brush around it. And when
you drop water from the air, it's very small, fine
particles of water, Whereas when you're out there with the
hose line, you're putting much heavy amounts of water on
the fire. And that's maybe what It takes a lot
of water, especially the most engines. Now, Jerry, what's called
(04:25):
class A foam, which is basically like dish washing detergent,
but you can get in there and soak in and
stick to things so much better. It reduces the surface
tension of the water.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You remember in the old days, they used to in
old movies they used to have four or five grown
men firefighters manning one hose because of all the pressure.
Was that done just for the movies? Or does it
take sometimes two or three guys to hold a hose
like that?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
On a big two and a half inch hose line,
it would take two or three guys. Now, what's the
promise I've done? Now they've gone to nozzles that will
operate at the lower pressure, so they're much easier to handle.
Just to be pounds of pressure at the nozzle, yeah,
a lot of them found about seventy five pounds of
pressure at the nozzle. But you're still able to get
the you know, the big hoses get two hundred and
(05:11):
fifty gallons per minute out of those bigger hoses.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Have you ever been on a fire where the hose
got away and was doing one of those worldly birds
and knocking people around.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I've never seen that on fire, but I've seen that
happen on the drill grounds and in recruit training. They
actually do that on purpose to teach you how to
take care of a hose line. That's like that where
you crawl down the hose until you get to the
end of it.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Wow, that could kill somebody.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh yeah, definitely. You know you have that much pressure
and that the nozzle, you could knock you on the ground.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Wow, buddy, I appreciate you coming on. It looks like
they got a pretty good handle on this thing.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah. Long Beach is well equipped. They're a top notch
fire department and do a really good job. And they're
I'm sure that because there's nothing else right next to it,
no homes, next to it are buildings, they can maintain
that without any other damage. But like I've always maintained,
especially when you don't any power lines anything else, there's
three main causes of fire men, women and children.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's right, okay, but I appreciate you coming on. Thanks man, Right,
take it all right, Steve Kraeger, La County retired fired captain.
And looks like they've got that fire whipped or at
least very close.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
All right. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Athletics, the A's I call them at Dodger Stadium first
pitches at seven PM, which is almost forty nine minutes
from right now. Listen all the Dodger games on AM
five to seventy LA Sports live from the GALLUPI Motors
Broadcast Booth, and stream all Dodger games on HD on
the iHeartRadio app. Keywords AM five seventy LA Sports. All right,
(06:51):
when we come back, Dean Sharp is going to be
with us. But first, before we go to Dean Sharp,
let me tell you that what we're up to with
the with the trip, because we're all going to be
taking a trip, me and you, Me and you. We're
going on a vacation next year, and we have six
hundred and forty seven people who inquired about that trip,
(07:13):
six hundred and forty eight. Because Joe Trauma just kicked
in an email. You can email me and I will
tell you where that trip's going to be. We're gonna
announce it here on May thirtieth. It's gonna be great.
I all have all the details for you have May thirtieth,
but if you email me, I might tell you on
May twenty ninth. You might get it the night before
everybody else. And you want to you'll want to feel
(07:35):
special because you are.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Just email me, put in trip on the subject line,
and then I'll send you the details even before we
announce it on the air. The email is very simple.
Conway Trip at gmail dot com. Conway Conway Trip Trip
at gmail dot com. Joe Trauma just emailed so to
(07:58):
Julie and Jim you you guys are on the list.
Roup to six hundred and forty eight people. That's a lot.
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
We'll all go.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Maybe everybody on this list. We're all going huge trip,
huge ass trip. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
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Dean Sharp will be joining us. Dean Sharp the house Whisper,
and he's great. We're gonna find finding the design style
for your home.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
It is The Conway Show every single Thursday. When he's around,
he's available and he's not working his ass off on Holmes.
The house Whisper Dean Sharp, who's heard every Saturday on
this station from six to eight am and every Sunday
nine am to noon, and he is with us.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Dean, how you, Bob, I'm good, I'm good. It was
a very very light thursdays. Oh good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Look, I know we're going to talk about designs and
home designs. I'm going to try to list off the
designs that I know, and obviously you know many more.
But the homes that I know, I know, craftsmen, I
know what that looks like. Modern ranch is another popular
one in the valley, and then Cape cod is another one, sure, Tutor,
(09:25):
And I wrote down Victorian, but I couldn't think of
any others.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Well, you know those are the biggies, the big They're
the biggies around here in southern California. Do you know
the do you know the design style as far as
the architectural style that is actually other than California craftsmen, right,
other than Bungalow style, which was designed here in California.
The other one designed just you know, miles away from
(09:50):
you and I all around us here in the nineteen twenties.
That is distinctly La. Do you know what it is?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Tutor?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
No, far close. You're kind of close with the tutor.
Oh I'm close.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, let's see, I'm cape cod. I know that's another
popular one, but that couldn't have been designed here.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And I'm not going to tork to you. Okay, it's storybook. Okay, Oh,
that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Storybook. Storybook. If you've ever been to LA and you've
ever been around some of the older areas of LA,
the you know the area around Burbank, uh Studio City,
and down into Hollywood and West Hollywood, those regions where
the studios originally lived, right you had you had a
workman working on the studios who were thinking themselves, you
(10:35):
know what, we're building these amazing sets all day long.
Why don't we just take this same idea and build
some homes for ourselves that look the same way. Charlie
Chaplin did it with the United Artists at the very
very beginning of United Arts. He built entire neighborhoods off
of Sawtel and Santa Monica that are storybook houses for
(10:56):
the studio workers and storybook meaning they've got exceptional steep
roofs and like you know, they look like cottages, like
like out of fairy tales. Right, they've got all these
little story book elements. That is a uniquely one early
Hollywood architectural style.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Ok right, here are two things.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
One they they often seem smaller than traditional houses or
am I right or wrong on that?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, they totally are.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, there's a lot of them on Hollywood Way that
are between you know, like Verdugo and Alameda.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
There's about ten in a row there. They're all they're
all very small.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But the other thing I was going to say, when
you when you go to sell that, isn't that a
much tougher putt?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You can be, you know, because it's a very unique
I mean, it's a it's a really unique ch.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's a niche, it's a meat.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
They're not all that bright inside too. That's the other thing.
The other thing about Victorian homes and Tutor style homes.
Victorian homes especially, you look at them the outside and
you're like, oh my gosh. And when we say Victorian,
most people are thinking of Queen Anne Victorian. They're about
they are about nine different styles of Torian. But everybody
thinks about the gingerbread Queen Anne Victorian that's got all
the fancy moldings on the house. They look great from
(12:06):
the street, but you get inside and you realize, wow,
these rooms are kind of small and boxy, and there
aren't many windows, and this is a dark house. And
so it's one of the things that makes it tough
selling an authentic Victorian or a storybook home. Yeah, they're niche.
They're very niche.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
If I were to guess the biggest, the most popular
request you get, and I see them all the time,
and they're absolutely stunning.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
They're beautiful. They have wrap around porches.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I think that if I were to guess the most
popular style of people who want to build a home
or renovate their home would be craftsmen.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Is that true here in California? Craftsmen? I mean, it's
definitely up there. It's definitely up there.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
The thing is, craftsmen is such a strong style. Not
a lot of people are comfortable with all of the
elements of craftsmen, but they do like the way it
feels and they do it. A lot of people don't
understand why they like craftsman so much, and uh, do I.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Have time to tell you?
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
All right?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
All right, So it's it's kind of counterintuitive. We were
just talking about Victorian homes, right right, Well.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You know it must be you know, but it must
be a very popular design because the Grand Disney Hotel
is all craftsmen. I mean, they built an entire hotel
in craftsmen. Oh, it's it's fundamental to southern California. It's fundamental.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
The the craftsman style bungalow, which, by the way, a
true craftsman home, by the way, not an arts and
crafts bungalow, but a craftsman home is literally an authentic
craftsman home came in a kit that you ordered out
of Sears Roebuck catalog. You remember, yeah, right, yeah, all right,
it's a craftsman home that was that was actually copyrighted
(13:49):
by Sears and Roebuck. And that is why, by the way,
you see every major craftsman classic home. A neighborhood is
centered in southern Cali, California, around old railway stations Pasadena,
down in the Circle and Orange everywhere there was a
railway stop. This is where craftsmen homes and neighborhoods grew out.
(14:11):
Because you ordered a kit wow, and it came in
on a flat car and you had your contractor pick
it up at the train station, bring it to your lot,
and build a home.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That's beautiful, man, that is such a great way to go.
But you know, that's when, like when my parents bought
a lot out in Westlake, they were going to build
a house when they had like six kids, and then
my dad realized it's a two hour drive every day
to work, and he said screw it. But when in
the sixties and seventies, when you bought a piece of
property you were going to build a house, the whole
family got involved. It was fun. It was great to
(14:41):
go to see the progress and everything. Now building a home,
it seems it comes with a lot of headaches.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Well, I think part of that is also because you know,
we've lost in the last two or three generations, we've
lost the translation of just even working with tools. I
mean it used to think you're right, yeah, where everybody
could get into it.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It was kind of our version.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I remember when I was a kid, you know, that
was still happening, and it was sort of our version
of like the Amish barn raising, like the whole neighborhood
get together. Everybody brings their toolbox and you just assume
everybody's got some decent skill. Well, yeah, good chance find it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, it falls apart at the end.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
But I the one thing that I hear a lot,
and I especially hear it from women, and I guess
I'm a woman because I'm involved.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'd like it too.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
But I love the idea, and we don't have one,
and I always wanted one. I love the idea of
a wrap around porch. I think it's you know how
much time I spent with my grandparents who had one,
and all the you know, socialization that went on on
a wrap around porch is just spectacular.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, and you know what, They're fantastic. I can tell you,
you know, I can you know what. We probably have
to go to break, so I don't want to end
up talking over it. But if you want, when we
come back, I can explain to you why we don't
have wrap around porches anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Oh good, okay, okay, all right, why we had them
in the first place. Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I I'm very interested because we want one to do it,
and then we just didn't have the space and the
time and didn't want to soak a bunch of you know,
thirty or forty grand into something that you use, you know,
three times.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It's like a pool.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Everybody loves to have a pool, and then they realize
they use it twice a year. And it's got to
be a cultural element that everybody shares as a culture
or it's not doing you any good.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
This is The Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Before we get back to Dean Sharp, we got to
tell you there are seventy million people in this country
right now who are in the past of a radical
storm in the Midwest, the northeast, and the east coast,
all the way from Minnesota to the East coast. Seventy
million people. Radical radical storm, thunder lightning, possible tornadoes, heavy winds,
(16:54):
heavy water, heavy flood. So if you're going back east,
check with your airline to see if there's still going.
They may not be going all right. Dean Sharp is
with us Dean last week. Laughter, we're talking about the
wrap around porch. You're not a big fan.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh I love them?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh you do?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, Okay, I love them. I love I wish it
was still I wish it was still the tradition. Okay.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
So Number one a real wrap around porch the full house, right.
That came from the South when there was no air
conditioning in a humid state. And the idea is that
you put shade on all those first story windows so
you can keep them open, and then the cool air
comes in through the first story windows, the hot air
rises through the second floor out those windows, and you
cool the house. That's the original concept of the wrap
(17:37):
around porch. The one you're talking about specifically, though, that
had to do with craftsmen homes. Every great craftsman home
has a front porch right fight in the street, your
beautiful covered front porch. And those you just don't find
them anymore. You don't find them after World War Two.
In fact, they're very rare. And why why is that? Well,
life was very different, more so than we know before
(18:00):
World War Two in the nineteen twenties. By nineteen twenty two,
guess how many homes American homes had indoor plumbing? Wait
what year, nineteen twenty two?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I would say percent Wise, I would say sixty percent
two two percent.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Wowcent of American homes in the twenties, the early twenties. Okay, Now,
by the end of the nineteen thirties when the war
rolled around, that had changed radically. So we were going
through this plumbing explosion. But a craftsman home craftsmen neighborhoods
were not designed with the thought that there was a
lot of indoor plumbing going on.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Also, what did we not have. We didn't have washing machines,
we didn't have gas dryers.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Also, by the time World War II rolled around, forty
percent of the fresh protos that was being consumed in
the United States was being grown in backyard victory gardens.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
So add all of that up and what you'll see
is the prior to World War Two, the backyard was
really a utility space. You got a vegetable garden back there,
you got clothes lines where you know, everybody's underwear is drawing.
You got an outhouse back there, you got a storage
shed back there. The backyard was not that beautiful oasis
(19:18):
of retreat that we think of these days. So where
was the most beautiful place to spend your time before
the sun went down after dinner? The front porch front,
All the neighbors were on their front porch. All the
kids are playing out in the lawn and in the street,
and it was community and it was cultural, and that's
why we were all looking at each other sitting on
(19:40):
our front porches. But after the war, we had appliances,
we had clothes dryers, we had indoor plumbing, and so
the backyard became a place where we could get away
from it all. And as a result, we stopped building
front porches.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
That's wild. You know, I went back.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I used to go to my grandparents' house in Sugar
and Falls, Ohio, which is just east of Cleveland, and
I didn't I didn't realize this until I did some
research recently, but my grandparents' house, that house was built before.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The Civil War. Isn't that amazing in the Midwest or
that way?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I mean, it was built before Abraham Lincoln was President
of the United States. Yeah, and it's still.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
In great shape.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You know, they built homes back then to last, you know, centuries, they.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Could if you take care of them. Absolutely every single
like dilapidated, abandoned house that you see being sold on
you know, real estate sites across the nation and you
look at it and you're like, oh my gosh, that
place is haunted for sure, right, but it's still standing, right,
And it's like two hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I imagine, you know, when you took your trip to
Europe recently, I don't know if you've ever been there before,
but I couldn't get over how old some of those
beautiful homes were, you know, built you know, four or five,
six hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Yeah, and all of them still standing. That's just that's
just typical across Heurep. We've been to Europe several times
and that's that's that's sort of And by the way,
that also is the reason why the Europeans are leading
the world in modern decor, because you know what, they've
grown up in cities that are five, six, seven hundred
years old. It's all around them. They don't want to
(21:22):
change the outsides. But if you go into a typical
like real estate listing for a flat in Rome or
in London or someplace like that, you will find on
the outside, yeah it's a three hundred and fifty year
old building, and you go inside and everything is just
sleek and modern because they're like, listen, in here, we've
had enough, We've had enough of the old stone and
the cobble. We want a different life in here.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Real quickly. We only got about a minute here.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But I heard that there is a an actual color
of paint called ceiling blue, where you paint the ceiling
of your porch.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You know what, I don't know. You stomp me on.
How you go look that? And it has something to
do with bugs.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
The bugs think that it's just a hole there, so
they don't build any nests or.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Webs or anything like that. Oh my gosh. All right,
I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Hey, next Thursday when we get together here, I'm gonna
drop this one in your ear.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh good.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I want to talk about super wood, oh dice, okay
for wood, all right, a wood product now twenty times
stronger than structural steel.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Really really, and it's a real wood. It's real wood.
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You know, I know they've made My wife is from
the Northwest where they do a lot of logging, and
they used to have to plant trees. They used to
plant you know, pine trees and redwood, and literally it
would they would have to plant it and then come
back fifty five or sixty years later and cut them
down to build homes and whatever you're gonna build them.
(22:51):
But they've done so much great work with manipulating the
actual the wood and you know, and and cross reverencing
it and cross pollenization and all that stuff. That now
that that process, instead of sixty years, is down to
almost twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
It's about twenty twenty two years on average now to
go from sapling to the mill. And these are all happening.
We're not really clear cutting old growth forests anymore. These
are all happening on agricultural farms. Yeah, you know, like
every Christmas tree in the world that gets cut down
gets cut.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Down off of a farm, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, yeah, all right, buddy, super what I'm my intrigued,
So I can't wait till next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Sounds good? All right, thanks man. All right, there he
goes Dean Sharp the.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
House whisper every Saturday morning six to eight am right
here on KFI, and then also on Sunday nine am
until noon.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
People like a good Mediterranean that's kind of that's the house. Yeah,
that's kind of my sort of style, like what kind
of like yeah style.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I always love the craftsman, but I never had I
don't know, I guess the money are desired, you know,
all my money's at the track.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Crafts.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
One's an easy one because it's kind of like make
it the way you want, and they all have the variance.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Of the different styles. But yeah, I also like Spanish
style with the you know, the tile roof.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Grew up around a lot of ranch, so you know,
like you said it, with the wrap around porches, especially
in Maryland and southern Maryland.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, a lot of wrap around.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The ranch was very popular out here, the single story ranch,
you know, very spread out.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It was a cool style.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
When we come back, I'll tell you about the Angel
City Football Club. They are hosting a really cool deal
on Saturday. Come back and tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
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Keywords Angel City FC. We have a major storm that's
affecting seventy million people and you probably know somebody that
is in harm's way. This is a radical storm headed
(25:20):
towards the Midwest and the East Coast tonight.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Millions in the Midwest on alert for powerful storms.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
East of Minneapolis.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
This massive twister spotted tearing up farmland near New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Tornado sirens sounding in Minneapolis this afternoon. Our affiliate KSTP
warning viewers of the danger. This is the core metro
now under a tornado. Warning the most populous county that
we have in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So you can hear it in his voice. He's not
bsing the people listening. They break into programming during the
day and they tell you to hunker down.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's coming.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Warning the most populous county that we have soda storm
chasers from the station out on the roads tracking the storms.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
If there's going to be a tornado in this area
beyond the far left kind of by where that building is.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
Sixty million on alert. The same system spawning this land
spout tornado near North Platte, Nebraska overnight and it's all
headed east. Parts of the East Coast is still reeling
from floods that had cars floating and flooded schools and
claim the life of a twelve year old boy. There
are tornado watches across the region, including right here in
(26:30):
the Chicago area. Through the evening. Chicago officials taking no
chances delaying the start of tonight's Beyonce concert until it's safe.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Beyonce delayed concert. Oh boy, oh wowly All right, more
on this weather here.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
We've had multiple tornado reports west and east of Minneapolis,
reports of debris on the ground, and that tornado watch
we'll go untill ten o'clock for parts of Minnesota and
into Wisconsin. It's also severe thunderstorm watch parts of Missouri
into Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Now these storms move east over night. They'll be near
This is.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
From Arkansas all the way up to Maine on the
East coast in the Midwest, from Saint Louis all the
way up to Canada. This is a major, major, huge
ass storm.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
Now these storms move east overnight. They'll be near Milwaukee
and Chicago by about eight o'clock, and storms may wake
you up in parts of Louisville down to Nashville by morning.
Another area over central Pennsylvania they'll be moving into the
New York City area tomorrow. The severe threat from Texas
to southern New Jersey, but the highest severe risk all
level four out of five from Saint Louis to Evansville
to Louisville. Strong destructive tornadoes, maybe even some baseball sized hailot,
(27:38):
dangerous afternoon and evening.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Some of these storms move into the Northeast over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Bellio, you're from Denver, You're familiar with these storms. You
can feel them coming. The temperature drops sometimes twenty or
thirty degrees and a half hour, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Quickly, Yeah, that's absolutely happened that it's turned that quickly.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
It's onun I actually tech. Somebody used to work here.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Here's living in Chicago now and I said, you know, tornadoes,
and she was like, it's ninety one degrees out And
then like literally five minutes later, she's like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
The wind started picking up off her balcony. Oh you know.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I was in a Chicago hotel years and years ago
and they and I was watching TV and they said
there's a storm coming. I'm like, I don't see anything,
and then bang it hit and I could see the
entire storm coming across Chicago, and it was radical. I
was driving cross country with my brother Jake, and we
stopped to get gas and we saw a storm. We
were in I don't know, parts of Oklahoma or debrask
(28:32):
I don't remember where we were, and we saw a
storm west of us, and the guy who runs the
gas station said, which way you fellas going? I said,
we're going east. He said we better get in the
car and really move because this storm is coming. I said,
I'll be going seventy miles an hour. I'll blow that
storm away. And the guy looks at the other guy
who works there. He goes, I don't think these guys
(28:52):
are from around here.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, And that storm caught us. That storm caught.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
What did you do.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I just kept haul in ass got up to eighty
eighty five miles an hour, trying to get the hell
out of it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
But it's it's radical.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Speaking of Denver, Denver has had a problem with air
traffic control. What yes, a ninety I think it's a
ninety second blackout with hundreds or thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
In the air around Denver, Colorado. Tonight, ABC News.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
Is learning about a new and alarming outage and an
air traffic control center near Denver that left controllers unable
to communicate with some planes for nearly ninety seconds. The
FAA says two radio transmitters went down just before two
pm Monday at a facility that handles planes flying above
eighteen thousand feet in and around Colorado.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Wow, how dangerous you know. They said, hey, can you
can you land? And they go unable unable.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Air traffic controllers quickly moving pilots to a backup radio
channel one zero five.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
Seven clios supposed to push over to Denver.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
What we have here, it really is radio failure that
we've seen many times before, and we're going to see
it again until we changed things around.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
But it was a very orderly procedure in terms of
backing it up.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, but we know what's gonna happen is once they
have a blackout there with the FAA and their computers,
everybody who's working that shift while the blackout happened, they
get forty five days off to deal with the stress
of that. So we're gonna have even less air traffic
controllers because of what happened today in Denver. Moe Kelly
joins us, and you got swingers on at nine thirty.
(30:29):
But I got that story rolling.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Well, well not really, because politics anything goes now, nothing
really matters. So if you're a Swinger, why not run
for the House of Representatives, run for state Assembly, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You know, you and I were probably raised by really
conservative religious people because both of us understood that shooting
our parents in the head was a no no.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, it was frowned upon. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But yet these two idiots are going to get to prison.
It looks that way. And I couldn't get out of
the car last night with you talking about it. You
made such a great case for you don't care how
they've they've acted in prison, they blew their parents away.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Yeah, you don't get a second chance of society sometimes, right,
there are certain things that you can do where you
forfeit your right to live amongst the free right.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
And and we're not you know, ball busters. If a
guy got caught buying a joint ten years ago, you
don't want him in prison for the rest of his life.
But somebody goes and blows their mom and dad away,
goes down and reloads and comes in and shoots their
mom's face off and.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Then lies about it.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
As far as their alibi and goes on a shopping
spree and whatever else they were doing.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's exactly right. And those guys get all the attention.
It look upside down.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
They may be.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Better people today. I don't care. That's right. It does
not matter.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That's right. I like that opinion. I don't care. What's
on the big show to night.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Well, we have to talk about California's proposal to ban
coyote killing. Coyotes in my neighborhood out of a child,
so I feel very strongly about yes.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Please kill the coyotes. That's right.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
They're not serving any purpose other than killing people's animals
and possibly attacking children.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
There was a woman walking down our street. She was
pushing a stroller and I yelled right to go, Hey,
there's a coyote behind you. And she's like, ah, you're
always busting everybody's balls. And she turned around and there's
this big ass coyote about eight feet behind her.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
In the daytime.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Yeah, it was four o'clock in the afternoon. They're not
afraid of people because people have been feeding them. And
I have two small dogs, and on our security cameras
you see the coyotes running around the house.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Every night and they could jump those six foot fence easily. Yeah, easily, Buddie.
I'll be listening tonight. I was at the lowest parking
lot last night for your opening. I couldn't get out
of the car. Oh, thank you, Bro.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
It's great, buddy all.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
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