Hour- 3 (9.9.2025)Â
Crime Ring Below L.A. â A whistleblower claims thieves are using secret L.A. County tunnels to stash stolen cars. Meanwhile, burglars strike Dinahâs Chicken and other Glendale strip mall shops.Â
Wedding Crashers Caught â Two suspects were arrested after allegedly crashing a California wedding and stealing $60,000 from the newlyweds.Â
Locked-Up Shopping Frustrations â Retailers are losing customers because of locked-up merchandise. Bellio jokes her makeup never gets locked upâso why is everything else?Â
Sports & Struggles â Eagles star Jalen Carter fined over $57K for spitting on Cowboys QB Dak Prescott. Plus, diners across the country are being forced to shut down.Â
Crime Ring Below L.A. â A whistleblower claims thieves are using secret L.A. County tunnels to stash stolen cars. Meanwhile, burglars strike Dinahâs Chicken and other Glendale strip mall shops.Â
Wedding Crashers Caught â Two suspects were arrested after allegedly crashing a California wedding and stealing $60,000 from the newlyweds.Â
Locked-Up Shopping Frustrations â Retailers are losing customers because of locked-up merchandise. Bellio jokes her makeup never gets locked upâso why is everything else?Â
Sports & Struggles â Eagles star Jalen Carter fined over $57K for spitting on Cowboys QB Dak Prescott. Plus, diners across the country are being forced to shut down.Â
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM sixty.
It is the Conway Show. Mark Thompson is here. There's
a lot of news stories today with cars. We had
the car the D four VD or David the singer.
(00:23):
His car was towed to an impound lot. And there's
a body found in that car. And then there was
another body found in another car. Two bodies, two separate cars,
same city, same day.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That's unusual.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And then there's an underground crime ring going on with
stolen cars and they keep them in a tunnel located
I think near the La River. Let's find out more
about this. This is an odd story.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Sounds like something almost out of a movie. Thieves using
tunnels to hide stolen cars and then take them apart.
One man says, it's happening all the time, out of
sight and off the grid. A fox of an exclusive
into the Wittier Narrows, a place one man claims stolen
cars disappear. How frequently are stolen cars ending up right here?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I would say, on average at least once a week.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
He works along the damon isn't it doing seem to
be a lot. Once a week, you'd think like four
or five cars a day.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He works along the dam and isn't showing his face
out of fear of retaliation. But along the Rio Hondo
is this tunnel, he says, is used like a garage
by thieves trying to hide their loot.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
They come into the channel and they hide because they
know that whether the car has lowjack or not, or
some sort of GPS tracker on it, once it's underneath
three feet of concrete or soil, the signal is lost.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Just two weeks ago, sky Fox was above this wild
police chase in Pico Rivera where a man in a
stolen truck used the exact same tunnel to get away.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
For me seeing it, it was just another business day
for them, you were not surprised.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I was not surprised at all.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Jay Leno told us that these stolen Mercedes poorsh these
big expensive cars that are worth eighty ninety thousand dollars.
You would think that the guy would get five, six
ten thousand dollars when he stole the car, but Jay said,
on the average, a guy gets seventy five.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Dollars if he steals the car.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What, yeah, seventy five bucks and then you know that's
why he's got to steal three or four a day to.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
You know, keep keep rolling. Boy, that seems like a
bad business. I don't know, it does in.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Horrible We didn't followed the whistleblower to another spot about
a mile and a half away.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Well, people who want to get lost get lost, and
things they bring here get lost.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He claims.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
These are photos of stolen cars brought here from the
tunnel and stripped for parts.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
They are their own band of brothers, their own group
in which they work with each other too.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
They barter in trade and stolen good.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
A spokesperson from the La County Sheriff's Department tells Fox
eleven the area has been a spot used by the
Home US for years, adding arrest form waiting to narcotics
and other crimes have been made, and stolen vehicles have
also been recovered.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It seems like Los Angeles or southern California is just
one big crime. There's crime everywhere every night. You know,
this beautiful restaurant in Glendale called Dina's. It's one of
the oldest chicken fried chicken places. So I'm sure you
haven't been there, but it's great, great chicken, and the
(03:27):
woman it owns it. It's a generational restaurant. I think
they've been open for one hundred and thirty years or
something like that. And they were robbed, but they're smart
and they don't leave, you know, money in the cash register.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I thought this would be smart.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
At the end of the day, when you close up
your business, put the cash register on a chair and
put it right near the front door and open it
up so people looking in can see there's no money
in the cash register. And people don't leave money around anymore. Yeah,
And yet they break in and they don't steal anything,
but the damages the know, the replacement of the door
and all the damage they do in the store looking
(04:03):
for money.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, and you end up having to pay it because
the deductib was so high you don't want to claim it.
And really, we've gone to a cashless society in large measurement,
and people pay with a credit card most of the time.
So even if you're looking for a smash and grab,
there's not much to grab.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, but that Dinah's great, great chicken. It's in Glendale,
South Glendale, right near Los Filas. If you get an
opportunity to go over there and buy a couple of
wings of breasts, I don't know, thigh whatever you want,
but that's a great place. And I think we owe
it to her to slide in there and get some
chicken and get her back to even Steven Nina's Chicken.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
This was one of the victims fifty eight years that
has been here. Just spoke with the owner, did the
Dana from Pearson, and she talked about how this is institution.
Right now, they don't have a door, as you can see,
they use a banner as kind of a makeshift door.
There's an open sign, there are customers inside. And this
was one of the victims. The other two victims right
(04:59):
over here El Pabo Bakery and l Ruby Cafe and
between all these three businesses, they've been here around a
century in Glendale, So these places are institutions. And thankfully
the thieves that they did not get away with a lot.
According to police said this is what it looked like
on this report.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Is keeping one eye on that vicious dog. Well, he's
doing his report. He just can't wait to roll the tape.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
All right.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
This is around three o'clock this morning. The thieves break in,
as you can see, break the glass at the door
and then start rummaging around all three places, going to
the cash register and.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
There's nothing to steal. There's no cash in the place.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Numerous police officers.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
The front door broken into my office was torn up.
They sort of ran through the place in four or
five minutes. We don't keep any money, and the registers
of course and leave them open.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So one rest.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Registered store is thrown on the ground.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
With change all over the place.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They didn't get anything. They just made a.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Mess and it's more costs for our business.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Miss Pearson tells me this is this isn't the first
break in that thieves have broken into her place multiple
times in their fifty eight years.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
She's got to deal with this, right. I'll tell you
where this place is. I think it's called Dina's. I
don't think it's a Dinas. I think it's Dinah's Chicken.
But it's on it's right off Los Felis and San
Fernando Road. It's on San Fernando Road, just a little
bit north of west Los Felis. There's a Costco right
in that area that I went to last night. Thank
you very much. And if you if you're on Los
(06:38):
Fela's going east, you go north on San Fernando and
it's right there on the right hand side.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
D I n ah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Dina's Chicken some of the best chicken you'll ever ever
eat in your life. They have over fourteen hundred reviews,
four point five stars, and the menu is great. It's
a family owned chicken joint that you'll enjoy. So get
out there and get some chicken. Get some chicken in you. Well,
you won't eat chicken though, right, no, no, but help
(07:08):
him out. You'll eat potato.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I eat the sides. Sure, in the corn. Throw me
some corn and potatoes. I'm happy. All right, let's get Dina's.
All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
When we got back, these suspects have been arrested in
a crime that we all witnessed. It was the wedding crasher,
and we got an update on that.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
That's wild they actually caught I mean, when the video
came out, I thought, well, he's pretty clear in the video.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, I think they could find him, and I guess
they did. But you know, with.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Weddings nowadays, you don't know the other side of the
family that well, so he could have been a guest, yeah, right,
right right, and he mixes him and then he stole up.
I think it was a sixty dollars out of money.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, well, a lot of these, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I think this was an Armenian wedding, and I've been
to an Armenia wedding. Guy named Mesnach took money and
I got married. And a lot of people throw money
to so they can start their line.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Yeah, they put it in a big usually have some
little envelopes or something and put it in the different receptacles.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah. Yeah, walked out with the whole thing, walked out
with all the cat godkik, are you Armenian?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Are you? What's your heritage? I'm a Hispanic? Oh you are?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I was going to use you as an example just
for the story. Can you say Armenian just for now?
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, So at your wedding, did people throw a lot
of money at you?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, it's been great. It was great. And the food
was great. Yeah yeah, and all you that Armenian food.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Armenian cousins and uncles showed up, all of them. Yeah,
who's your favorite?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't know. That's good. Question.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, that one Uncle Misack, Uncle me sock or Mosekian.
Don't you like Uncle Mosekian? Yeah, you play a horror.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
Yeah you really sounds like I don't know my own family.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah you don't, you don't. Yeah, yeah, we'll go to
Belly next with the Armenian.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I thought it was I thought it was a decent audition.
I wouldn't feel bad about it.
Speaker 10 (09:06):
They should just pick the money to the bride like
they do it Italian weddings.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh yeah, that's gonna or use fake money and then
write them and check later.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
We had a money dance at my wedding, did you really? Yeah?
How much did you collect? A lot? Really?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
There?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I was very fortunate, we were very ford. Tell me
I'll go to your wedding. No, no, not invited. I
guess show up. Oh she was invited, she didn't show
you know who was there? Brian Holt.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That's got to be a story Belly who usually goes
to weddings Bell, Although she did say about six months
ago she's out of the gift giving game.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Maybe she means weddings too.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
She got a gift.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I got a great gift. Give me a great gift
what you get your an espresso machine?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Wowzer? Wait one of those freebies from George Clooning.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
No, darn, I you're right. I shouldn't done that.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Darn.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We're live, It's Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
If I am six Morning's Conway showmark Thompson's here. We
all saw the footage from the wedding in Glendale where
there was a wedding crasher did allegedly sold all the money,
took off and the cops quickly found him. There was
great photos, great video, and he was caught with breaking tools,
(10:37):
guns and checks made out to the young couple that
was getting married. And I know that the young couple
had a great sense of humor about it and they
were very positive. You know that they'll move on, they'll
get by this. But for a lot of women, it's
the biggest, most important, best day of their life and
(11:00):
it got ruined by this guy. You know, they didn't
know that they were going to be caught. You know,
they thought that they were You know that all these
people are so generous to share and spend all this
money on these two people. They they thought their wedding
day was ruined forever, you know, over what.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
It's pretty disgusting. I mean, it really is because horrible
because of all the emotion involved in the day, and you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Know, especially how long it takes, you know, to plan
a wedding. It takes a year of almost daily planning
to get everything together and a million things could go wrong.
And when something like this who you wouldn't even imagine
could happen, it bums everybody.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Out and you have to do that thing, which is
a couple You go, well, I mean, this is definitely awful,
but we had a beautiful wedding.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Everybody had a great time. We you know, we set
our vows and.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
We had a gorgeous night, and you know, you just
have to All of that still is true, but as
you say, I mean, all that planning and then this
is you know, some outsider comes in and rips them
off like this.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's just pretty brutal.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But how can you even think of your wedding night
without thinking about this? You know, it's always going to
be a part of their wedding night, and it's it's
it's terrible, terrible. And yet these the guys that did it, man,
are they were? They easy to catch? Glendale lapd It
wasn't much.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Of a caper.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I mean, the guy was completely visible in any number
of surveillance video shots.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
How did you think he was going to get away
with it?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, I mean I think I knew the guy, you know,
just from the video.
Speaker 11 (12:39):
Police say, the men in this video seen snatching a
gift collection box from a wedding in Glendale then speeding
away have been arrested.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's awesome. I mean he's so happy.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Okay, good, that's awesome.
Speaker 11 (12:50):
Sergeant Jose Barajas with the Glendale Police Department says, Armine
Shirahini on the left was the man who stole the
gift box, and Andronic Avitisan on the right was the
getaway driver.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
You don't mess with Glendelle cops. They got a lot
of cops there. They've got a lot of great equipment,
and they have a ton of resources to track you down,
and they will.
Speaker 11 (13:13):
Raha says these surveillance videos from.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
The it's one of the dumbest cities committed a crime
in Glendale. Glendale and Burbank. They got a lot of resources,
a lot of manpower, not a lot of heavy crimes,
so they can dedicate a lot of hours to tracking
you down, and they do they do.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
Raha says these surveillance videos from the wedding venue were
pivotal in helping detectives track down the men responsible, and
they found more than the gifts at the suspects residence.
Speaker 12 (13:37):
When we did arrest these mails, they were found with
several guns, lots of narcotics. Not good guys for what
it seems, so we're happy to take them off the street.
Speaker 11 (13:47):
Ten thousand dollars in cash over twenty checks made out
to the bride and groom.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That's going to be tough when they go to court
to explain why they have twenty checks made out to
that couple in their house. That's gonna be really tough
for the defense attorney to wiggle out of that one.
Speaker 11 (14:03):
Yeah, plus guns, drugs, and in all black outfits similar
to the one the suspect war while stealing the gift.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Boss.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Sounds like they got a lot of stuff to swim
upstream against.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, it looks like a lot of years in prison
over this.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Butraja says they don't know of any connections between the
wedding party and the suspects, and they still don't know
of a motive for the crime.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, I think the motive is pretty clear. They don't.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, I might be able to help them with the motive.
I think they wanted the money. Yeah, me too. I
was gonna go with money. Also, we should be detectives
in Glendale. Hey, what is Conway and Thompson thing.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
What part of the motive was so hidden for the detectives.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I wonder, Yeah, they didn't. They didn't hate the bride
or the groom or had a grudge with the dad.
You know, they just wanted the money.
Speaker 11 (14:48):
But he says, the men arrested have no prior criminal history.
Speaker 12 (14:52):
We don't know of any connection. We don't know if
this couple is specifically targeted.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, they've got one now they certainly have a criminal history.
Speaker 11 (15:01):
Now have no prior criminal history.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Well that was yesterday. Now they got one. Various And
once you're.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
In the system, it sucks because you're in the system
for a long time. You know, everything you do it pops.
Speaker 12 (15:12):
Up banquet halls through Glendelle weddings every single weekend. So
they could have just looked at the venue itself and
picked that one. It they just happened to be the
couple that was picked.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
This newly engaged couple who we met outside of the
scene of the crime says they're thinking about picking this
venue for their wedding too. After hearing about the heist
on the news this week and finding out about the arrests,
they're hopeful that this could be the venue they choose
for their wedding, and they already have a game plan
to keep their gifts safe.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
We just thought we would have to secure it better
when it comes time for our wedding, you know, empty
the box out every hour, make sure an uncle Lauren
keeps an eye on it, you know, just so that
way you know you're secure, you know, Yeah, or else
it could have happen to anyone.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Or just use fake money and then write them a
check later. No, there's that. You can have fake money
that looks pretty authentic. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
I get served that on Instagram all the time, the
hundreds that look real.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, they look they look you know, and and when
you're drunk and you're thirty yards away, it does it
looks exactly what like real cash.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I mean, But keeping these people away from your wedding
shouldn't be that hard.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I mean, this doesn't happen that often, does it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, But I don't know, you know, in the future,
will they be bracelets if everybody puts on you know,
to recognize you're part of the wedding party.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I don't know. It seems like we don't have to.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You shouldn't have to do this, shouldn't have to like,
you know, sniff around and look at everybody suspiciously if
you don't wreck.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Sure and there should there's there's just an understanding we're
all here to support this couple.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
You don't have to, you know, guard the box with
the money because no one's gonna think about stealing it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But apparently you do need to put you know, uncle
Arman on it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You gotta, Yeah, somebody's got to be on the case.
And it's horrible we have to think like that nowadays,
just horrible.
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
We live on KFI Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (17:13):
AM six mort It's Conway show. Mark Thompson is here.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's always cool. That's always a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
There are a lot of people that are complaining when
you go out shopping and Mark, I don't know if
you fall into this category that you're not interested in
buying merchandise if it's behind glass because you gotta wait
for the guy with the key to open up.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
The Oh sure, have more, much more trouble.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, but Bellio, you said you had a good experience
that somebody showed up quickly with the key or you
going to.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
Stay my Albertson's. They are super quick on.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
What's behind the glass at Alberson's.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Oh my gosh, a lot like the makeup, all the makeup,
Oh okay, liquor. Yeah, but uh, they were really quick
and they showed up and they're annoyed with it too,
you know.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Oh of course I don't want to do it.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
But then at my CVS there's some makeup that's locked up,
but the makeup I use is not locked up.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's insulting. Yeah, that's kind of a slapping a face,
thank you. Yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
I don't know, just because it's cheap. I don't know,
I stolen.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I don't know. Maybe the stuff that's locked up works better.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Huh, I go with guess one. It was cheap.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Who decides that? Does the brand pay extra to have
their items locked up? Or is it? These are the
items that are being stolen, they're locked up. How do
they decide what's locked up and what's not.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I think there's a guy there's like a shaman. Yeah,
there's an office of locked up.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, and he comes in and he he has he
blesses the place.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
It's kind of like a divining rod thing.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
He decides like, oh wait, wait, wait wait, you'll lock
these up.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You won't lock these up. He's got that thing. It smokes,
and he he's that room.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Or a Yeah, it's probably the crap that's stolen most often.
So maybe it's a compliment belly that you're using stuff
that doesn't get stolen.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
But why aren't they stealing my stuff?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't know, but it's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Baby formula, shampoo, toothpaste, even basic toiletries are locked and
the guy, the guy shows up, the guy with the
key shows up, moody.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It used to just be.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
The condoms, and then they would be actually happy about
that because they would embarrass They would actually talk over
the things he help wanted in the condoms section shows up,
or you had to ask the guy, you know for
the extra small ones, you know, did you no, it's
the guys have to ask for you know, give me
(19:47):
the thimble size, the little finger ones, Yeah, the fingercuts.
Oh are you going out tonight? Wife is sewing small?
My wife is so. But it's a crime prevention. That's
why they do it. And the National Federation or Retail
Federation I called the the NRF declined to provide specifics
(20:11):
of KTLA and the KFI on how many stores have
locked up merchandise and the impact. But a lot of
people are now going online and ordering on Amazon and
Walmart online and then going to pick it up, so
you don't have to sit there and wait, sure, you know,
for twenty minutes with a guy the key.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I was at Walmart probably I don't know, eight months ago,
and I'm a big fan of Walmart. But I clicked
the button. I was getting something in automotive. I think
it was a wax or something, and a guy comes
by and I go, oh, the great, you got the
key for this?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
He goes, no, I don't have the key.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And I said, yeah, but you work here, and he goes, yeah,
I know, I work here. I said, you know who
else doesn't have the key? Me and I don't work here.
That's got to be insulting, right, And I said to
my you got to be insulted by that. He goes, yeah,
a little bit that he works there and they don't
trust him.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
With the key. Connaway stirring the pot at Walmart. Well,
he works there and they don't trust him with the key.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Sure, there's certain key people and the other people who
don't have keys.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I was at Pavilions. Bellio remembers this. It was almost
a year ago October first. There'll be one year where
they presented me with the liquor key, with my own
liquor key. Wow, you know, I bought enough vodka and beer.
And when you buy enough and you go over the limit,
there you go over the top. They have a big ceremony,
balloons and they present the ceremony.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So it's not low key. It's wow, that's a storage
not there.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
But I don't understand how there are some things I
think Bellio's right at home depot. There are drill bits
for cement and you know, and high high level construction
drill bits. They're one hundred and fifty dollars a drill bit.
They're large. You go through concrete or you know, brick
walls or whatever. It is, but right next to it
(22:04):
are drill bits that are nine dollars, and the nine
dollar ones are locked up, but one hundred and thirty
eight dollars one is just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh, that's just like her makeup thing. I know, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't understand it. But do you think we'll ever
go back to the point where nothing's locked up?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, I don't. You don't think so.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I was just talking to Bellio. It feels as though
everything's just like more violent society. Everything just feels a
little more.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
But Bellio, we did a story on this, and Mark
you I remember this that you you could have an
app downloaded to your phone and then you have the key.
So you go into the cabinet to get deodor and whatever, Yes,
and you put your app in. It opens up the
cabinet and they know if anything's stolen, it's on you.
Speaker 12 (22:44):
You.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, that's interesting, that's what they should do. That might be. Yeah,
that's the answer. Technology has the answer.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
They also have, which I think you've seen, Tim. They
have within stores, like stores that have all the items
that are usually locked up.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh, that's right up in the open they wanted to route.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Yeah, I've seen it at a safe Way in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
There's a store within the store. Yes, and they have
it at Walmart too. You know, the high end makeup
at Walmart is in it in the corner and you
got to go to that register and they put you
in a corral and you got to pay for it
before you leave.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Their own register, their own clark.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And it's odd, you know, because what's the what's the
end game there is It's gonna be another store in
that store, you know, it's gonna be you know, five
different stores you got to go to in a store.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
But they're like areas. They're not like stores, aren't they. Yeah,
with the cash register and doors. Yeah, you're right. I
mean I guess it's like, yeah, it's a store and
a store. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Man, La used to be so great and now it's
it's a big city. You know, big cities have these issues.
Tim It's it just it's doesn't have to be like no,
I'm not saying it's good, but I'm just trying to say,
you know, when I go back to New York or
the East Coast, they've got the same issues in big cities.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, all right, well then f New York too, in Boston,
in Chicago, all of them. Oh, maybe the idea is
to move to a smaller town where everything's.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Not locked up. I mean, there you go, there is that.
Let's do that. Elliam going to Fresno. You wait, Fresno.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yes, Fresno in Spanish means locked cabinet. I do know
if you know, Oh you got a Fresno the parking
lot is locked. You can't get the parking lot. Everything's
locked in Fresno. Yeah, it's Spanish for locked. That's true,
true story. All right, we're live on kfi's comedy Thompson
KFI Am sixty. It is the Conways Show. Mark Thompson
(24:40):
is here. You saw the very first game of the year.
It was the Dallas Cowboys versus the Philadelphia Eagles. Did
you watch out last Thursday? Oh yeah, did you see
the Jalen Carter spit on Dak Prescott before the first play?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I did see it, But after the kickoff.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
He just got fined fifty seven thousand dollars for that
spit man, fifty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
They're sending a message. Yeah, you know, they don't like that.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
There's a lot of jawn back and forth, and I guess,
you know, some of it's celebrated and some of it is,
you know, punished.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah. I don't think it's a good look for the
NFL when you see grown men hawking loogies.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, I agree, it's not good, all.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Right, Diners. I'm a diner. You're a diner, right, Yeah,
you got a lot of din Yeah. Yeah, Well we're
a dying breed. It's going away.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (25:35):
Diners maybe an iconic part of American culture, but across
the country, more of these roadside mainstays are being forced
to close their doors.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
So diners are definitely facing a few challenges right now.
The first being food costs.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And because there aren't enough diners like you and I.
That's how diners disappear. There aren't enough people dining. Yeah,
that would make sense staying home.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
The second is labor costs. Obviously those have sky marketed
and parts and maintenance business insiders.
Speaker 13 (26:03):
Abby Narishkin traveled to New Jersey, the so called diner
capital of the world.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I didn't know that. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, now you know what everybody listening right now, You'll
remember you were listening to KFI when you heard that
New Jersey is the diner capital of the world.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I would have thought New York. It feels like there
are a lot of diners in New York City. Yes,
I think you're right. Anyway, let's change it, okay.
Speaker 13 (26:27):
To explore how old fashioned diners are adapting to new challenges,
she found Tops Diner, one of America's largest, with the
wopping three hundred and twenty five items on the menu.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Ooh, Tops, is that Tops with a Z you think?
Or Tops with an or two ps?
Speaker 13 (26:43):
Maybe were'ving twenty four hundred pounds of fries and cracking
more than twenty one thousand eggs per week.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (26:50):
To keep up with all that demand, Tops has expanded
the restaurant and has redefined the classic diner.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
We got a DJ is spinning over here. I'm bumping.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
It's huge, it's loud. There's a bar slinging out liquor.
Speaker 13 (27:04):
In New Jersey alone, and estimated one hundred and fifty
diners have closed in the last decade.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Man, that's a lot to lose a you know, one
of your favorite diners.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's a big deal deal, man, Top Yer, New Jersey
is topsh by the way it is.
Speaker 13 (27:18):
But here at the nearly one hundred year old Summit Diner.
They're surviving by keeping things simple.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
It's much smaller. It has forty seats inside, and it
really doesn't have that expansive of a menu.
Speaker 13 (27:31):
And the owner told Narishkin he plans to keep it
that way.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
You know, I made a mistake when I worked for
Kala Sex. One of the one of the advertisers came
in and said, hey, I'd like to introduced you to
a guy named Ted.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And I'm like, oh, Ted, how you doing? Nice to
see you.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And then and then the ad executive says, hey, do
you ever go to Tops with a Z? It's a restaurant.
I don't know if it's still open anymore. It's a
it was used to being Woodland Hills. He goes, you
ever go to Tops with a Z? And I go, yeah,
Tops with a Z gives gave me the blanks with
an S. And he goes, oh, Ted owns that place, Like.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, hard to walk that back? Yeah, why don't you
tell me that first? It's wrong with you people? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
The Big Bear Eagles are back in the news, and okay,
they're okay for now, but we'll talk about more tomorrow.
We're running out of time here. But they they're they're
putting together, you know, building more homes up there. And
they think that the Eagles might have to move, Oh
my god, might have to It may displace the eagles,
and so they might not build the five thousand homes
(28:42):
for five thousand families because these two eagles don't like it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Well, you know what, Tim, I'm with the Eagles, are you, yes?
I am?
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Okay, all right, there are other places that those people
can live.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
If you want to hear more of that, you can
go to YouTube at Mark Thompson Show and get someone
gonna dose of that every day.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
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Speaker 1 (29:04):
It's the Mark Thompson Show. What are you up in
subscribers and viewers now?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
But I think one hundred and thirty four thousand. That's great. Yeah,
that's cool. You've been very helpful. Remember when you were
at zero.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Yeah, it's been it's been a long haul. It's cool deal. Yeah,
thanks man.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
All right, it's the Mark Thompson Show on YouTube. I
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM sixty.
It is the Conway Show. Mark Thompson is here. There's
a lot of news stories today with cars. We had
the car the D four VD or David the singer.
(00:23):
His car was towed to an impound lot. And there's
a body found in that car. And then there was
another body found in another car. Two bodies, two separate cars,
same city, same day.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That's unusual.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And then there's an underground crime ring going on with
stolen cars and they keep them in a tunnel located
I think near the La River. Let's find out more
about this. This is an odd story.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Sounds like something almost out of a movie. Thieves using
tunnels to hide stolen cars and then take them apart.
One man says, it's happening all the time, out of
sight and off the grid. A fox of an exclusive
into the Wittier Narrows, a place one man claims stolen
cars disappear. How frequently are stolen cars ending up right here?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I would say, on average at least once a week.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
He works along the damon isn't it doing seem to
be a lot. Once a week, you'd think like four
or five cars a day.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He works along the dam and isn't showing his face
out of fear of retaliation. But along the Rio Hondo
is this tunnel, he says, is used like a garage
by thieves trying to hide their loot.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
They come into the channel and they hide because they
know that whether the car has lowjack or not, or
some sort of GPS tracker on it, once it's underneath
three feet of concrete or soil, the signal is lost.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Just two weeks ago, sky Fox was above this wild
police chase in Pico Rivera where a man in a
stolen truck used the exact same tunnel to get away.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
For me seeing it, it was just another business day
for them, you were not surprised.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I was not surprised at all.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Jay Leno told us that these stolen Mercedes poorsh these
big expensive cars that are worth eighty ninety thousand dollars.
You would think that the guy would get five, six
ten thousand dollars when he stole the car, but Jay said,
on the average, a guy gets seventy five.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Dollars if he steals the car.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What, yeah, seventy five bucks and then you know that's
why he's got to steal three or four a day to.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
You know, keep keep rolling. Boy, that seems like a
bad business. I don't know, it does in.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Horrible We didn't followed the whistleblower to another spot about
a mile and a half away.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Well, people who want to get lost get lost, and
things they bring here get lost.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He claims.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
These are photos of stolen cars brought here from the
tunnel and stripped for parts.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
They are their own band of brothers, their own group
in which they work with each other too.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
They barter in trade and stolen good.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
A spokesperson from the La County Sheriff's Department tells Fox
eleven the area has been a spot used by the
Home US for years, adding arrest form waiting to narcotics
and other crimes have been made, and stolen vehicles have
also been recovered.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It seems like Los Angeles or southern California is just
one big crime. There's crime everywhere every night. You know,
this beautiful restaurant in Glendale called Dina's. It's one of
the oldest chicken fried chicken places. So I'm sure you
haven't been there, but it's great, great chicken, and the
(03:27):
woman it owns it. It's a generational restaurant. I think
they've been open for one hundred and thirty years or
something like that. And they were robbed, but they're smart
and they don't leave, you know, money in the cash register.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I thought this would be smart.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
At the end of the day, when you close up
your business, put the cash register on a chair and
put it right near the front door and open it
up so people looking in can see there's no money
in the cash register. And people don't leave money around anymore. Yeah,
And yet they break in and they don't steal anything,
but the damages the know, the replacement of the door
and all the damage they do in the store looking
(04:03):
for money.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, and you end up having to pay it because
the deductib was so high you don't want to claim it.
And really, we've gone to a cashless society in large measurement,
and people pay with a credit card most of the time.
So even if you're looking for a smash and grab,
there's not much to grab.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, but that Dinah's great, great chicken. It's in Glendale,
South Glendale, right near Los Filas. If you get an
opportunity to go over there and buy a couple of
wings of breasts, I don't know, thigh whatever you want,
but that's a great place. And I think we owe
it to her to slide in there and get some
chicken and get her back to even Steven Nina's Chicken.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
This was one of the victims fifty eight years that
has been here. Just spoke with the owner, did the
Dana from Pearson, and she talked about how this is institution.
Right now, they don't have a door, as you can see,
they use a banner as kind of a makeshift door.
There's an open sign, there are customers inside. And this
was one of the victims. The other two victims right
(04:59):
over here El Pabo Bakery and l Ruby Cafe and
between all these three businesses, they've been here around a
century in Glendale, So these places are institutions. And thankfully
the thieves that they did not get away with a lot.
According to police said this is what it looked like
on this report.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Is keeping one eye on that vicious dog. Well, he's
doing his report. He just can't wait to roll the tape.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
All right.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
This is around three o'clock this morning. The thieves break in,
as you can see, break the glass at the door
and then start rummaging around all three places, going to
the cash register and.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
There's nothing to steal. There's no cash in the place.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Numerous police officers.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
The front door broken into my office was torn up.
They sort of ran through the place in four or
five minutes. We don't keep any money, and the registers
of course and leave them open.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So one rest.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Registered store is thrown on the ground.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
With change all over the place.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They didn't get anything. They just made a.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Mess and it's more costs for our business.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Miss Pearson tells me this is this isn't the first
break in that thieves have broken into her place multiple
times in their fifty eight years.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
She's got to deal with this, right. I'll tell you
where this place is. I think it's called Dina's. I
don't think it's a Dinas. I think it's Dinah's Chicken.
But it's on it's right off Los Felis and San
Fernando Road. It's on San Fernando Road, just a little
bit north of west Los Felis. There's a Costco right
in that area that I went to last night. Thank
you very much. And if you if you're on Los
(06:38):
Fela's going east, you go north on San Fernando and
it's right there on the right hand side.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
D I n ah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Dina's Chicken some of the best chicken you'll ever ever
eat in your life. They have over fourteen hundred reviews,
four point five stars, and the menu is great. It's
a family owned chicken joint that you'll enjoy. So get
out there and get some chicken. Get some chicken in you. Well,
you won't eat chicken though, right, no, no, but help
(07:08):
him out. You'll eat potato.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I eat the sides. Sure, in the corn. Throw me
some corn and potatoes. I'm happy. All right, let's get Dina's.
All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
When we got back, these suspects have been arrested in
a crime that we all witnessed. It was the wedding crasher,
and we got an update on that.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
That's wild they actually caught I mean, when the video
came out, I thought, well, he's pretty clear in the video.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, I think they could find him, and I guess
they did. But you know, with.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Weddings nowadays, you don't know the other side of the
family that well, so he could have been a guest, yeah, right,
right right, and he mixes him and then he stole up.
I think it was a sixty dollars out of money.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, well, a lot of these, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I think this was an Armenian wedding, and I've been
to an Armenia wedding. Guy named Mesnach took money and
I got married. And a lot of people throw money
to so they can start their line.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Yeah, they put it in a big usually have some
little envelopes or something and put it in the different receptacles.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah. Yeah, walked out with the whole thing, walked out
with all the cat godkik, are you Armenian?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Are you? What's your heritage? I'm a Hispanic? Oh you are?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I was going to use you as an example just
for the story. Can you say Armenian just for now?
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, So at your wedding, did people throw a lot
of money at you?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, it's been great. It was great. And the food
was great. Yeah yeah, and all you that Armenian food.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Armenian cousins and uncles showed up, all of them. Yeah,
who's your favorite?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't know. That's good. Question.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, that one Uncle Misack, Uncle me sock or Mosekian.
Don't you like Uncle Mosekian? Yeah, you play a horror.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
Yeah you really sounds like I don't know my own family.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah you don't, you don't. Yeah, yeah, we'll go to
Belly next with the Armenian.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I thought it was I thought it was a decent audition.
I wouldn't feel bad about it.
Speaker 10 (09:06):
They should just pick the money to the bride like
they do it Italian weddings.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh yeah, that's gonna or use fake money and then
write them and check later.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
We had a money dance at my wedding, did you really? Yeah?
How much did you collect? A lot? Really?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
There?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I was very fortunate, we were very ford. Tell me
I'll go to your wedding. No, no, not invited. I
guess show up. Oh she was invited, she didn't show
you know who was there? Brian Holt.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That's got to be a story Belly who usually goes
to weddings Bell, Although she did say about six months
ago she's out of the gift giving game.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Maybe she means weddings too.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
She got a gift.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I got a great gift. Give me a great gift
what you get your an espresso machine?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Wowzer? Wait one of those freebies from George Clooning.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
No, darn, I you're right. I shouldn't done that.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Darn.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We're live, It's Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
If I am six Morning's Conway showmark Thompson's here. We
all saw the footage from the wedding in Glendale where
there was a wedding crasher did allegedly sold all the money,
took off and the cops quickly found him. There was
great photos, great video, and he was caught with breaking tools,
(10:37):
guns and checks made out to the young couple that
was getting married. And I know that the young couple
had a great sense of humor about it and they
were very positive. You know that they'll move on, they'll
get by this. But for a lot of women, it's
the biggest, most important, best day of their life and
(11:00):
it got ruined by this guy. You know, they didn't
know that they were going to be caught. You know,
they thought that they were You know that all these
people are so generous to share and spend all this
money on these two people. They they thought their wedding
day was ruined forever, you know, over what.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
It's pretty disgusting. I mean, it really is because horrible
because of all the emotion involved in the day, and you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Know, especially how long it takes, you know, to plan
a wedding. It takes a year of almost daily planning
to get everything together and a million things could go wrong.
And when something like this who you wouldn't even imagine
could happen, it bums everybody.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Out and you have to do that thing, which is
a couple You go, well, I mean, this is definitely awful,
but we had a beautiful wedding.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Everybody had a great time. We you know, we set
our vows and.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
We had a gorgeous night, and you know, you just
have to All of that still is true, but as
you say, I mean, all that planning and then this
is you know, some outsider comes in and rips them
off like this.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's just pretty brutal.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But how can you even think of your wedding night
without thinking about this? You know, it's always going to
be a part of their wedding night, and it's it's
it's terrible, terrible. And yet these the guys that did it, man,
are they were? They easy to catch? Glendale lapd It
wasn't much.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Of a caper.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I mean, the guy was completely visible in any number
of surveillance video shots.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
How did you think he was going to get away
with it?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, I mean I think I knew the guy, you know,
just from the video.
Speaker 11 (12:39):
Police say, the men in this video seen snatching a
gift collection box from a wedding in Glendale then speeding
away have been arrested.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's awesome. I mean he's so happy.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Okay, good, that's awesome.
Speaker 11 (12:50):
Sergeant Jose Barajas with the Glendale Police Department says, Armine
Shirahini on the left was the man who stole the
gift box, and Andronic Avitisan on the right was the
getaway driver.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
You don't mess with Glendelle cops. They got a lot
of cops there. They've got a lot of great equipment,
and they have a ton of resources to track you down,
and they will.
Speaker 11 (13:13):
Raha says these surveillance videos from.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
The it's one of the dumbest cities committed a crime
in Glendale. Glendale and Burbank. They got a lot of resources,
a lot of manpower, not a lot of heavy crimes,
so they can dedicate a lot of hours to tracking
you down, and they do they do.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
Raha says these surveillance videos from the wedding venue were
pivotal in helping detectives track down the men responsible, and
they found more than the gifts at the suspects residence.
Speaker 12 (13:37):
When we did arrest these mails, they were found with
several guns, lots of narcotics. Not good guys for what
it seems, so we're happy to take them off the street.
Speaker 11 (13:47):
Ten thousand dollars in cash over twenty checks made out
to the bride and groom.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That's going to be tough when they go to court
to explain why they have twenty checks made out to
that couple in their house. That's gonna be really tough
for the defense attorney to wiggle out of that one.
Speaker 11 (14:03):
Yeah, plus guns, drugs, and in all black outfits similar
to the one the suspect war while stealing the gift.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Boss.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Sounds like they got a lot of stuff to swim
upstream against.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, it looks like a lot of years in prison
over this.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Butraja says they don't know of any connections between the
wedding party and the suspects, and they still don't know
of a motive for the crime.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, I think the motive is pretty clear. They don't.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, I might be able to help them with the motive.
I think they wanted the money. Yeah, me too. I
was gonna go with money. Also, we should be detectives
in Glendale. Hey, what is Conway and Thompson thing.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
What part of the motive was so hidden for the detectives.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I wonder, Yeah, they didn't. They didn't hate the bride
or the groom or had a grudge with the dad.
You know, they just wanted the money.
Speaker 11 (14:48):
But he says, the men arrested have no prior criminal history.
Speaker 12 (14:52):
We don't know of any connection. We don't know if
this couple is specifically targeted.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, they've got one now they certainly have a criminal history.
Speaker 11 (15:01):
Now have no prior criminal history.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Well that was yesterday. Now they got one. Various And
once you're.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
In the system, it sucks because you're in the system
for a long time. You know, everything you do it pops.
Speaker 12 (15:12):
Up banquet halls through Glendelle weddings every single weekend. So
they could have just looked at the venue itself and
picked that one. It they just happened to be the
couple that was picked.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
This newly engaged couple who we met outside of the
scene of the crime says they're thinking about picking this
venue for their wedding too. After hearing about the heist
on the news this week and finding out about the arrests,
they're hopeful that this could be the venue they choose
for their wedding, and they already have a game plan
to keep their gifts safe.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
We just thought we would have to secure it better
when it comes time for our wedding, you know, empty
the box out every hour, make sure an uncle Lauren
keeps an eye on it, you know, just so that
way you know you're secure, you know, Yeah, or else
it could have happen to anyone.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Or just use fake money and then write them a
check later. No, there's that. You can have fake money
that looks pretty authentic. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
I get served that on Instagram all the time, the
hundreds that look real.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, they look they look you know, and and when
you're drunk and you're thirty yards away, it does it
looks exactly what like real cash.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I mean, But keeping these people away from your wedding
shouldn't be that hard.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I mean, this doesn't happen that often, does it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, But I don't know, you know, in the future,
will they be bracelets if everybody puts on you know,
to recognize you're part of the wedding party.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I don't know. It seems like we don't have to.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You shouldn't have to do this, shouldn't have to like,
you know, sniff around and look at everybody suspiciously if
you don't wreck.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Sure and there should there's there's just an understanding we're
all here to support this couple.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
You don't have to, you know, guard the box with
the money because no one's gonna think about stealing it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But apparently you do need to put you know, uncle
Arman on it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You gotta, Yeah, somebody's got to be on the case.
And it's horrible we have to think like that nowadays,
just horrible.
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
We live on KFI Conway and Thompson.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty, KAFI.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
AM six mort It's Conway show. Mark Thompson is here.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's always cool. That's always a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
There are a lot of people that are complaining when
you go out shopping and Mark, I don't know if
you fall into this category that you're not interested in
buying merchandise if it's behind glass because you gotta wait
for the guy with the key to open up.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
The Oh sure, have more, much more trouble.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, but Bellio, you said you had a good experience
that somebody showed up quickly with the key or you
going to.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
Stay my Albertson's. They are super quick on.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
What's behind the glass at Alberson's.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Oh my gosh, a lot like the makeup, all the makeup,
Oh okay, liquor. Yeah, but uh, they were really quick
and they showed up and they're annoyed with it too,
you know.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Oh of course I don't want to do it.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
But then at my CVS there's some makeup that's locked up,
but the makeup I use is not locked up.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's insulting. Yeah, that's kind of a slapping a face,
thank you. Yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
I don't know, just because it's cheap. I don't know,
I stolen.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I don't know. Maybe the stuff that's locked up works better.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Huh, I go with guess one. It was cheap.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Who decides that? Does the brand pay extra to have
their items locked up? Or is it? These are the
items that are being stolen, they're locked up. How do
they decide what's locked up and what's not.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I think there's a guy there's like a shaman. Yeah,
there's an office of locked up.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, and he comes in and he he has he
blesses the place.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
It's kind of like a divining rod thing.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
He decides like, oh wait, wait, wait wait, you'll lock
these up.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You won't lock these up. He's got that thing. It smokes,
and he he's that room.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Or a Yeah, it's probably the crap that's stolen most often.
So maybe it's a compliment belly that you're using stuff
that doesn't get stolen.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
But why aren't they stealing my stuff?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't know, but it's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Baby formula, shampoo, toothpaste, even basic toiletries are locked and
the guy, the guy shows up, the guy with the
key shows up, moody.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It used to just be.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
The condoms, and then they would be actually happy about
that because they would embarrass They would actually talk over
the things he help wanted in the condoms section shows up,
or you had to ask the guy, you know for
the extra small ones, you know, did you no, it's
the guys have to ask for you know, give me
(19:47):
the thimble size, the little finger ones, Yeah, the fingercuts.
Oh are you going out tonight? Wife is sewing small?
My wife is so. But it's a crime prevention. That's
why they do it. And the National Federation or Retail
Federation I called the the NRF declined to provide specifics
(20:11):
of KTLA and the KFI on how many stores have
locked up merchandise and the impact. But a lot of
people are now going online and ordering on Amazon and
Walmart online and then going to pick it up, so
you don't have to sit there and wait, sure, you know,
for twenty minutes with a guy the key.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I was at Walmart probably I don't know, eight months ago,
and I'm a big fan of Walmart. But I clicked
the button. I was getting something in automotive. I think
it was a wax or something, and a guy comes
by and I go, oh, the great, you got the
key for this?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
He goes, no, I don't have the key.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And I said, yeah, but you work here, and he goes, yeah,
I know, I work here. I said, you know who
else doesn't have the key? Me and I don't work here.
That's got to be insulting, right, And I said to
my you got to be insulted by that. He goes, yeah,
a little bit that he works there and they don't
trust him.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
With the key. Connaway stirring the pot at Walmart. Well,
he works there and they don't trust him with the key.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Sure, there's certain key people and the other people who
don't have keys.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I was at Pavilions. Bellio remembers this. It was almost
a year ago October first. There'll be one year where
they presented me with the liquor key, with my own
liquor key. Wow, you know, I bought enough vodka and beer.
And when you buy enough and you go over the limit,
there you go over the top. They have a big ceremony,
balloons and they present the ceremony.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So it's not low key. It's wow, that's a storage
not there.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
But I don't understand how there are some things I
think Bellio's right at home depot. There are drill bits
for cement and you know, and high high level construction
drill bits. They're one hundred and fifty dollars a drill bit.
They're large. You go through concrete or you know, brick
walls or whatever. It is, but right next to it
(22:04):
are drill bits that are nine dollars, and the nine
dollar ones are locked up, but one hundred and thirty
eight dollars one is just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh, that's just like her makeup thing. I know, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't understand it. But do you think we'll ever
go back to the point where nothing's locked up?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, I don't. You don't think so.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I was just talking to Bellio. It feels as though
everything's just like more violent society. Everything just feels a
little more.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
But Bellio, we did a story on this, and Mark
you I remember this that you you could have an
app downloaded to your phone and then you have the key.
So you go into the cabinet to get deodor and whatever, Yes,
and you put your app in. It opens up the
cabinet and they know if anything's stolen, it's on you.
Speaker 12 (22:44):
You.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, that's interesting, that's what they should do. That might be. Yeah,
that's the answer. Technology has the answer.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
They also have, which I think you've seen, Tim. They
have within stores, like stores that have all the items
that are usually locked up.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh, that's right up in the open they wanted to route.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Yeah, I've seen it at a safe Way in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
There's a store within the store. Yes, and they have
it at Walmart too. You know, the high end makeup
at Walmart is in it in the corner and you
got to go to that register and they put you
in a corral and you got to pay for it
before you leave.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Their own register, their own clark.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And it's odd, you know, because what's the what's the
end game there is It's gonna be another store in
that store, you know, it's gonna be you know, five
different stores you got to go to in a store.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
But they're like areas. They're not like stores, aren't they. Yeah,
with the cash register and doors. Yeah, you're right. I
mean I guess it's like, yeah, it's a store and
a store. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Man, La used to be so great and now it's
it's a big city. You know, big cities have these issues.
Tim It's it just it's doesn't have to be like no,
I'm not saying it's good, but I'm just trying to say,
you know, when I go back to New York or
the East Coast, they've got the same issues in big cities.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, all right, well then f New York too, in Boston,
in Chicago, all of them. Oh, maybe the idea is
to move to a smaller town where everything's.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Not locked up. I mean, there you go, there is that.
Let's do that. Elliam going to Fresno. You wait, Fresno.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yes, Fresno in Spanish means locked cabinet. I do know
if you know, Oh you got a Fresno the parking
lot is locked. You can't get the parking lot. Everything's
locked in Fresno. Yeah, it's Spanish for locked. That's true,
true story. All right, we're live on kfi's comedy Thompson
KFI Am sixty. It is the Conways Show. Mark Thompson
(24:40):
is here. You saw the very first game of the year.
It was the Dallas Cowboys versus the Philadelphia Eagles. Did
you watch out last Thursday? Oh yeah, did you see
the Jalen Carter spit on Dak Prescott before the first play?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I did see it, But after the kickoff.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
He just got fined fifty seven thousand dollars for that
spit man, fifty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
They're sending a message. Yeah, you know, they don't like that.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
There's a lot of jawn back and forth, and I guess,
you know, some of it's celebrated and some of it is,
you know, punished.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah. I don't think it's a good look for the
NFL when you see grown men hawking loogies.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, I agree, it's not good, all.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Right, Diners. I'm a diner. You're a diner, right, Yeah,
you got a lot of din Yeah. Yeah, Well we're
a dying breed. It's going away.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (25:35):
Diners maybe an iconic part of American culture, but across
the country, more of these roadside mainstays are being forced
to close their doors.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
So diners are definitely facing a few challenges right now.
The first being food costs.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And because there aren't enough diners like you and I.
That's how diners disappear. There aren't enough people dining. Yeah,
that would make sense staying home.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
The second is labor costs. Obviously those have sky marketed
and parts and maintenance business insiders.
Speaker 13 (26:03):
Abby Narishkin traveled to New Jersey, the so called diner
capital of the world.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I didn't know that. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, now you know what everybody listening right now, You'll
remember you were listening to KFI when you heard that
New Jersey is the diner capital of the world.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I would have thought New York. It feels like there
are a lot of diners in New York City. Yes,
I think you're right. Anyway, let's change it, okay.
Speaker 13 (26:27):
To explore how old fashioned diners are adapting to new challenges,
she found Tops Diner, one of America's largest, with the
wopping three hundred and twenty five items on the menu.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Ooh, Tops, is that Tops with a Z you think?
Or Tops with an or two ps?
Speaker 13 (26:43):
Maybe were'ving twenty four hundred pounds of fries and cracking
more than twenty one thousand eggs per week.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (26:50):
To keep up with all that demand, Tops has expanded
the restaurant and has redefined the classic diner.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
We got a DJ is spinning over here. I'm bumping.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
It's huge, it's loud. There's a bar slinging out liquor.
Speaker 13 (27:04):
In New Jersey alone, and estimated one hundred and fifty
diners have closed in the last decade.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Man, that's a lot to lose a you know, one
of your favorite diners.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's a big deal deal, man, Top Yer, New Jersey
is topsh by the way it is.
Speaker 13 (27:18):
But here at the nearly one hundred year old Summit Diner.
They're surviving by keeping things simple.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
It's much smaller. It has forty seats inside, and it
really doesn't have that expansive of a menu.
Speaker 13 (27:31):
And the owner told Narishkin he plans to keep it
that way.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
You know, I made a mistake when I worked for
Kala Sex. One of the one of the advertisers came
in and said, hey, I'd like to introduced you to
a guy named Ted.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And I'm like, oh, Ted, how you doing? Nice to
see you.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And then and then the ad executive says, hey, do
you ever go to Tops with a Z? It's a restaurant.
I don't know if it's still open anymore. It's a
it was used to being Woodland Hills. He goes, you
ever go to Tops with a Z? And I go, yeah,
Tops with a Z gives gave me the blanks with
an S. And he goes, oh, Ted owns that place, Like.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, hard to walk that back? Yeah, why don't you
tell me that first? It's wrong with you people? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
The Big Bear Eagles are back in the news, and okay,
they're okay for now, but we'll talk about more tomorrow.
We're running out of time here. But they they're they're
putting together, you know, building more homes up there. And
they think that the Eagles might have to move, Oh
my god, might have to It may displace the eagles,
and so they might not build the five thousand homes
(28:42):
for five thousand families because these two eagles don't like it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Well, you know what, Tim, I'm with the Eagles, are you, yes?
I am?
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Okay, all right, there are other places that those people
can live.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
If you want to hear more of that, you can
go to YouTube at Mark Thompson Show and get someone
gonna dose of that every day.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, law, in order to live. Trust me.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
It's the Mark Thompson Show. What are you up in
subscribers and viewers now?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
But I think one hundred and thirty four thousand. That's great. Yeah,
that's cool. You've been very helpful. Remember when you were
at zero.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Yeah, it's been it's been a long haul. It's cool deal. Yeah,
thanks man.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
All right, it's the Mark Thompson Show on YouTube. I
think you'll enjoy it. And then three free. Yeah, it's
all free, all free. Yeah, and then we'll be on tomorrow, right,
after the John Colebelt Show, caught up next Moe Kelly
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