June 19, 2025 • 29 mins
Conway & Bellio talk about working with Legendary Chick Hearn and the great Dick Clark.// Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer on collapse of a roof in Dominican Republic on main support on roof systems. Pressure on elements // Dean Sharp, Getting Control of Sound Soundproofing - insulating one space from the sound energy of another // Beverly Grove residents express concerns over abandoned apartment buildings overtaken by squatters
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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. Getting back
to Bellio, she used to work for the Los Angeles Lakers.
When you met John, your current husband.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And only husband.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, you're young.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
To get around, he's a keeper.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What'd you say? She doesn't get around?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
So?
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I thought you said she gets around. No, she doesn't
get around.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So you when you met John, John probably thought you
were loaded because you were working.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
For the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
He did when they had the contest on KLAC. When
a date with me and he found out I was
a Lakers producer, he thought I was rolling in the
dough for some weird reason.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
He thought he won the mother load with that raffle.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It wasn't a raffle. I wasn't raffled off. It was
to win a date.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Win a date. Where'd you take you on that date?
Speaker 6 (00:57):
We went to We had more Wow and Chuck Street
offered a helicopter ride that I took my nephew.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
On with John or just no, just you and your nephew?
Is that what he called you up for? Hey, I
know you have this big dating thing going on. KA
you want to go through Nephew and a helicopter.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
No.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
He part of the deal for the winner was that
they'd get a limo ride, you know, dinner at Morton's
and a helicopter ride that Chuck Street provided.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So that was the package.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But whose idea was it to raffle? You off?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It was? Uh? First of all, it wasn't a raffle.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
It was Steve Hartman the Loose Cannons, and Joe Grande
gets some credit in there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And and then how many guys applied?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Uh, we had like over a one hundred submissions?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Wow? Is that right?
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
My god. So there's ninety guys that are just kicking.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Themselves or maybe they were happy, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Doing a lap. No.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
You know, part of why I didn't choose some people
is because they're like, you know, they were all about
the Lakers there.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
They like, I hope I could get a Laker job
with this.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh, I see right. They want to use you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
They wanted to use me, which is fine.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Did you know that it was love at first sight?
Was it love at first sight? You and Johnny?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Uh? No?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
No, No, I was nervous around him for some reason
because I'm like who enters the contest.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
With the date. Who would do that?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, I'm not sure he's thinking who you know? Because
Petros he goes.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
You don't really think I'll never forget this, Petro says
to me, because you don't really think you're going to
meet your husband this way?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Always the optimist?
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So you all right? So you meet John. You're still
working with the Lakers. Yeah, and you work with Chick Hearns.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And Chick Hearn's energy in his eighties waning like everybody.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
He was eighty five years old and he was still
doing play by play for the Lakers, and yeah, he
had you know, he was.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He was getting tired.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
And one evening, I, because I was working two jobs,
I was drinking a Red Bull and Chick asked me
what is that? And I said it's a red Bull
and I explained it's an energy drink.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And you use their slogan.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
It has week it'll give you wing. I don't think
I did at the moment. And then I noticed the
next game he was drinking a red Bull. Wait a minute,
you got Chick addicted to red Bull?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Where did I say addicted? I said, he did?
Speaker 8 (03:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
He thought he'd give.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It a try pound in red Bull.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No, he wasn't pounding.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I only saw him once with a red Bull after
we talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The energy drink.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Was his game better? Did he call it a better
game out the red of all?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I felt like he always called a great game.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
So I didn't notice that he honestly, because he was
battling chronic fatigue and I didn't notice a change, but
he was feeling it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah. And then how many was he doing buying it?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
By the case, No, I know, stop putting all that
into this. No, I saw him with one one red Bull. Yeah,
well eighty that's all you need. That'll get your flying
right and yeah, and then so you gave him the
red Bull. I just told him what I was drinking,
and he, on his own tried to tried to red Bull.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Did his surgeon recommend that he not be on red
Bull at eighty with the pig valve?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, first of all, correction, it was a cow valve.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
He had the choice of a pig valve or a
cow valve, and he chose the cow valve.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
He will kosher.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It was soon after that that they realized that he
had aortic stenosis.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Which is.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The valve.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And so yeah, isn't that the first thing they do
when you when you get a cow or pig valve,
they say, please, whatever you do, don't.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Go with red bull.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, first of all, he didn't have the cow cow valve.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Oh he did.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
He found that out after Oh so the red bull
got him the cal valve. Cal calvalve, say that five times.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, so that's I think it was after the maybe
trying the red bull wasn't helping, and so they found
out that it.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Was maybe you saved his life then.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So see, I like this version of the story rather
than you telling.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
People you know you know I I used to work
for I'll tell you quick a similar story. I used
to work for Dick Clark for about three or four years.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And we don't we go to lunch. I go to
lunch with the rest of the We're writers on a
show called Camp Midnight.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Anybody Anybody, No, nope, uh and uh.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It was hosted by Dick Wilson. Anybody Yeah, late night
talk show on USA Network, hosted by Dick Wilson, written
by Tim Conway Junior. Anybody Okay, And we'd go to
lunch every day and he would come up to us
and he'd say, Hey, don't tell Carrie his wife, but
(06:03):
when you go out, I'll buy lunch if you give
me a couple of tacos or burgers, whatever you eat.
I said, oh, okay, And then Carrie would say, don't
give him any fast food. He's got high cholesterol. I
went things to happened to him. Don't give him fast food.
But the guy owned the company, his name was on
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the outside of the door, and he paid us to
buy him food. So I went with that, and we
would give him a couple of tacos from Taco Bell
or Del Taco or Jack in the Box or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And about four years later, three years later, he.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Had a massive stroke, and I always felt like I
somehow contributed to that, And to this day, I think
about that every day, that I may have hurt one
of my heroes of all time.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I loved well.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Now you know how I feel about Dick.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Clark treated me like I was his own son. He
was the greatest man I've.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Ever met myne You know I waited on him is
that right after he had his stroke, and he was
the sweetest man.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
He was the most generous man in the world, not
with salary, but in time and helping people. He invited
us all out to his Malibu house for a big party,
and he was he was just a I always always
felt like I was related to him. He always felt
like I felt like that was my second dad, my
(07:38):
second father.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
What a great way to make people feel she was
the best man.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, even after he had the stroke. He was coming
out of this building. I was working at KFI. He
had the stroke and he came out. He could his eye,
he could barely see, could barely walk. He was in
a wheelchair. He you know, his head was down. And
I walked up to him to introduce myself to him
and say, hey, you know I've worked for you, you know,
fifteen years ago or eight years ago, whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And he looked at me and he goes hey. He
goes Conway, He goes, hey, how you doing. How's your dad?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He you know, I didn't see him in ten years
and he still goes, hey, Conway, how's your dad?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
The greatest man in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And I always feel bad that I contributed to his
health in a negative way.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I feel terrible. All right, welcome back, Dean Sharp will
be with us.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And maybe well we'll ask him mine what's going on
with him?
Speaker 9 (08:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Dean Sharp is the house whisper.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He's on every single Saturday morning from six to eight
am and then on Sunday from nine am until noon,
and he is with us. We took a week off.
We had a lot of breaking news last week. But Dean,
thanks for understanding coming back.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
That's good. It's good. We've had a very very busy weeks. Yes,
we just great. Hey, I want to ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
There was a horrible story coming out of the Dominican Republic.
I'm sure you saw it. The Jets said, disco obvious
signs that there was. You know, they did some improvements
to the building, and I guess they took down some
main support beams and didn't replace them. That roof collapsed
and killed two hundred and thirty six people, But they
(09:17):
said they saw signs even as late as that morning
of structural damage.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
First of all, who the hell does that? You know?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
To begin with, that would never happen in the United
States and people would never get get away with that.
But is it possible to remove a main you know,
support and not and it doesn't collapse immediately.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Yeah, it happened, Really happens. I wish I could tell
you otherwise. It happens all the time, It really does,
you know, especially like you've got you've got a roof
system and there's a lot of pressure on the elements
of pushing into each other. So you could take out
a main support, you could take out a main under
buying beam or even a post and nothing happens right
(10:04):
away because of the pressure of all the pieces up
on top of it. Everything is held in place. But
then you turn around, put a bunch of weight up there,
everybody goes dancing and the next thing you know, is
coming down.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So that is solely the work of the engineer. Then
to put that together safely, that is entirely the work
of engineer. That's what structural engineers are all for. In
my line of work as a custom home designer, I
try and think from an engineering perspective so that when
we hand it over to the engineer they don't have
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to change it all around and it changes the look.
But at the end of the day, I design the
look of the place, the roofs, the ceilings, the floors
and so on. Hand that over to a structural engineer
and he's got to make it all work in the
real world.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Are there any fights between the designer and the engineer?
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Not with me, but yes, yes, a lot. You know what,
My second my second design job you know, of my
career was solely to sit down at a table as
a construction director. As a design director, sorry, and I
would sit down at a table to literally, uh to
(11:17):
to reconcile engineering plans and architecturals. I got the architect
over here and he has a vision, and the engineers like, man,
you can't do that the real universe.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But they said they saw obvious signs of structural damage.
What would some of those obvious signs.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Be, Oh, probably, you know, like stress cracks in the ceiling,
drywall lines or things like that. You know, I mean,
you you're like, oh, hey, there's a big crack over
here in the drywall, we should patch that up one.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Of these days, or like pieces of ceiling falling down?
Would that be another one?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, real clear indicator at that point. That's horrible, that's hard.
I mean, I mean, we're make light of it just
because what else can you do? But yeah, it's it's
a you don't mess with that kind of stuff. I
run an into it on a small scale all the
time because we'll we'll come into a place sometimes when
the owner of the house will say, yeah, you know,
(12:14):
I just decided this wall, dude, we just need to
open this up. And I you know, the wall is gone,
and I'm sitting there thinking, do you have anybody look
at that? You get just that with an end? You know,
I just took that wall out. I said, you know,
there's a really good chance that's a bearing wall if
you had any issues there. He's like, well, you know,
this piece of drywall just keeps cracking no matter how
(12:35):
much we patch it. I'm like, you know, my friend,
we should talk. We need to talk.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
When we bought the house that we currently live in
in Burbank, I went into the garage and it was
a double garage, and in between the two car ports
they had one metal post and the post wasn't cut
long enough to go all the way to the cement,
so in the last two inch.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
There were just bolts.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
There were four bolts between the cement and the metal pole,
and all four of those bolts were bending, and so
the city came out and I said, hey, is this proper,
and the guy looking at he goes, get the f
out of here, and he grabbed us and threw us
out and red tagged it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, he said, God Almighty goes. I don't know who
did this, but you guys are lucky to be alive.
Those bolts were bending and they were about to break,
and if they did break, the whole garage.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Would have collapsed on you. Yep. Yeah, And so he
made them.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He made the owners dig up and put in a
huge bearing wall and a big concrete footing, and to
replace that it must have been like thirty thousand dollars
worth of repair.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
You know, it's a mixed bag because I'm always wrestling
with the building department in one way or another, trying
to get them to do something that's out of the ordinary,
because that's what I do literally for a living, for
custom homeowners, uh, and trying to get them to see
beyond it, never making anything unsafe. But there's always a
wrestle and then plan check takes forever these days, and
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there's a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of unnecessary bureaucracy.
But I tell you this, at the end of the day,
we cannot have the civilization that we have without open
and enforcement. It's critical. It's what keeps us all alive
every day.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's frustrating as hell, but the guys in Burbank are
second to none.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
They came out and they know exactly what they're doing.
Those guys are the best. All right, well we'll come back.
Let's talk about soundproofing everybody. You know, sirens, people honking,
fireworks going off this time of year. All this sound
comes into our house. But you've got some great ideas
how to soundproof and air seal the house that I
think a lot of people interested in, you know, sound absorbtion, absorption, absorption.
(14:53):
I've also sound masking all that stuff. So Dean Charvis Wethers,
we'll come back and talk about how you can make
your home quieter, quieter. Another way to do it is
American vision windows. That's also another way to do it.
But we come back, we'll talk about making your life quieter.
It's going to improve your health.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Dean Sharvis Wethers.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He's on every Saturday morning six to eight am and
then Sunday from nine am until noon. And quiet is
what a lot of people would like in a big
city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and you can
achieve it with soundproofing. Is that become more popular, Dean
over the last five, ten, fifteen years with homeowners.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh, totally.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
It's become a really significant focus. And one of the
reasons is people are starting to realize noise is not
just like a preferential thing, but it's actually something that
affects our health. Whether you like it or not, it
has an effect on us. I think I sent this out,
this note over to you. This surprised me. The American
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Public Health Association in twenty twenty one changed their definition
of noise from unwanted sound, because that's how it was
kind of was right. Noise is like, well, if you
think it's noise, it's noise. If I think it's beautiful music,
it's beautiful music, and so everything's fine. But they change
that definition to unwanted and or harmful sounds because whether
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you think of yourself as like, hey, I'm a city kid,
I love the sound of the city streets. The fact
of the matter is that kind of urban noise pollution
is stressful on your body, period and that's the kind
of thing now that people want to get some distance from.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And especially this time of year with everyone with the fireworks,
it's wild, oh for sure, you know, and the pets
are going crazy, and you know that's a whole thing
around here. Hey, let me ask you a question here.
You know, we everybody, or not everybody. A lot of
people are familiar with noise canceling headphones and they're terrific.
You know, you put them on and you can't hear
the you know, the engines on the plane, or you know,
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the static in an air conditioner or whatever. Is it
possible to have that same kind of technology in a
house where the house cancels all the noise from outside,
you know what.
Speaker 10 (17:13):
I've been asked that question before, and the most acoustic
engineers will tell you that, you know, theoretically it's possible,
but it's.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Really really difficult.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
It's really it only works well with the headphones because
it's direct input into both your ears and they can
isolate everything out.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know, there's a quiet room. I'm sure you've seen
this I think it's in Los Angeles. It's called the
quietest room in the world. And you go in there
and nobody has been able to stay in there for
more than an hour. People they hear their heartbeat, they
hear their bones crunching together. It freaks them out and
everybody bails after five or ten minutes.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
Yeah, you know, people are so not used to quiet,
not at all. But here's the thing, and I got
to say this. You know when people try and say, hey,
I just want to sound proof of this out, I
want nothing going on. You know what, that's not really
the goal. It's not really the gold in fact, you
know how you know that phrase silence is golden. I
like to say, if that's true, then bird's song is
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platinum because because here's the truth, silence is not the
least stressful sound state that a person can be in.
Oh really, no, you think about it. Two million years
of evolution, we spent most of that time outdoors, right,
and we are used to like waking up in the morning,
and if the birds are chirping, if they're singing their
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songs and doing their thing, that is an intrinsic understanding
in our systems that everything is okay, because if there
are predators, if there's fire, if there's danger about guess
what silence? The birds are quiet, right, So silence, pure silence,
not the least stressful environment. Actually quiet, not silent. Quiet
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and natural sounds, running, water birds, These are the most
destressing environments for our ears. My Dean Sharvis with this
house whisper.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
My wife's grandmother bought a condo or a townhouse i
should say, up in Oregon, and she wanted soundproof between
her townhouse and the one next to her. And they
did it, and they came in and they left what
I thought was a mistake, but they left air nothing
between the two, like there was a five inch or
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six inch area where there was nothing. There was no foam,
there was no rubber, there was no soundproof or anything.
And then I learned later that that is soundproofing. Yeah,
that's one of the steps of doing that. We use
air gaps as a way. I didn't know that because
every time that you know, sound is energy, right, so
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every time it has to move through a different kind
of medium, every time it has to move through a
different material, it changes its structure, it changes its shape,
and it's reduced. So when you send it through some
insulation and like a piece of drywall, and then there's
an air gap, it changes again, and then it has
to go through another piece of drywall and another piece
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of insulation. And that's how did the studio that you
and I are sitting in right now right has a
double wall construction with an air gap in between the walls.
That's part of what makes it as quiet as it is.
And and it must be expensive to do that, I
mean it's it's really only for high end people then, well.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Not necessarily, I mean it's expensive to do your entire house,
every single room that way. Sure, And and there are,
by the way, there are ways of doing it without
using a double wall, where you can actually use what
we call a staggered wall idea, which is you've got
a two by let's say you're going to do a
two by four wall. You use a two by six
plate top and bottom, and you stagger the studs.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
On all sides.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Why, like every you know, every other one, you create
that same air gap without taking up all the space
or using up all the lumber. So the point is
there are ways of doing that. That's what we're going
to talk about on a Sunday big show. There are
so many different ways. Soundproofing is a layered thing. You
got to pick your your weapons carefully, based on your
budget and based on what you're going to try to achieve.
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But it can be done. And again, for most of
us in our homes, we're not looking for total silence.
What we're looking to do is to cut the noise down.
And when you can't cut the noise, we try and
mask it, which means mixing it in with other sounds
that you know, render it neutral, like traffic and the
sound of running water. Moving water share about ninety percent
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of the same sound frequencies.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know, I tried to soundproof when I was working
at home during COVID, and I tried to soundproof a
little office in you know, tiny little office in our
in our house, and I couldn't do it. I couldn't
do it. I couldn't do it. And then we got
American Vision windows and that wiped it out. I know
they're an advertiser here, I'm not plugging away. I'm telling
you the windows that they put in did the trick.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
Yeah, well, well, duel glaze windows. You know, you talk
about sound moving through one surface traveling through an empty
gas void and then having to get through another duel
glaze windows radically reduced sound transmission inside a house, and
those same companies have sound reduction windows which actually use
a couple other tricks inside them along the way too.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And all of this on Saturday six to eight am.
Sunday nine am to noon. Yeah, Sunday show Saturday. We're
taking calls, but all of the sound control Sunday show.
I will be there right on man, Thank you, sir,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Thanks Tim.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
All right, there you goes Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Check it out. Sunday's big show all about soundproofing. It
affects your health. So be here nine am until noon
on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
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Squatters everybody in Beverly Grove area, and they don't like it.
They spend a lot of money for their home, their condo,
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their townhouse, their apartment. And when you spend a lot
of money. You don't like squatters living right next to you. Otherwise,
why would you spend all that money if you're gonna
have people squatting right next to you, then only spend
fourteen hundred bucks a month on an apartment. So a
lot of squatters Beverly Grove area.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
I say, this is a really quiet and peaceful neighborhood
until you get to this corner here and those apartments
right across the street. Now you can see there's this
big fence. But neighbors say that does absolutely nothing. And
now they tell me every time they walk outside they're
worried for their safety.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Oh no, here we go.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's horrible and it's very scary.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Up to twenty squatters, neighbors in this Beverly Grove neighborhood say,
are calling these three vacant apartment buildings home.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
The buildings are not secure and there's not there's not
a solid fence.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
Lauren Green says she's had to change her whole routine
walking your dog Dolly near the buildings at the corner
of First and Flora's because of it.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
When I take the dog out in the evening, I've
had I've seen so oh.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You know, she's got to be in her late seventies,
early eighties. She's got those bracelets that you can hear. Remember,
I don't know if your grandmother wore those. My grandmother
had like thirty bracelets, and you can hear her coming
from nine miles away.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
You can hear it with this.
Speaker 11 (24:29):
Woman first, and Flora's because of it.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
When I take the dog out in the evening, I've had.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh, there you go, sound like sound like she's at
a blackjack table with gambling.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Chips in the evening I've had I've seen some horrible,
horrible people doing horrible things and have come after me.
And I don't really have a big dog to protect me.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I have a little dog.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah, well you got a dog named Dolly? Who's Dolly ever?
Protected and all body?
Speaker 11 (24:57):
There's a laundry list of issues from drug use to
fights anytime day or night.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You gotta have a dog named like Satan or killer
or you know, wipe her router. You can't have a
dog named Dolly and protect you. It's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
It's become a real serious public safety issue. I mean,
they knock on windows when they're two, I'm assuming drugged
up to figure out how to get back in.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
They lit this on fire.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
At least seven fires neighbors say have broken out since
squatters took over a.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Couple of months ago.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
One man who lives near the troubled buildings and didn't
want to show his face on camera, but says it's
out of control.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
This person is not normal.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
And you know who's to say what she's gonna set
on fire next, whether it's my building.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Or yeah, the fires are dangerous.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Man, Man, you know somebody else's building.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
This is ma.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Then you never sleep at night because you always think, oh,
you smell fire, or you might you see flashing, or
you hear a commotion. And if it's especially if it's
cold outside or somebody right around dinner, that's when they
get those Coleman stoves out. And sometimes sometimes they forget
to put them out or turn them off. Sometimes the
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city says.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
The issue is with the property owner. The spokesperson for
Councilwoman Katie or A Sklovsky, told us in a statement,
the owner must take full responsibility for addressing safety and
nuisance issues on site.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That's exactly right, all right. There are a lot of
deals going on in Vegas right now. Because well, everybody
is kind of broke, so you can get a sweet
deal in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Sweet deal.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
I find it way more expensive five years ago before
COVID of us here.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
People visiting Las Vegas have noticed the prices.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Inflation and really hit bad.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
So I'm not sure what's going on.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
So the days of the dollar ninety nine breakfast seven
ninety nine stakes.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
That's over. That's all gone. Yeah, but you don't.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Also another mistake that Vegas made charging for parking back
in the old days, every casino free parking as long
as you wanted. Now twenty thirty dollars a day.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
In this economy, folks like Randy Lukey from Wisconsin are
still trying to get the best deals where they can.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
So I see a lot of minimums at the tables
are twenty five dollars, twenty dollars. So I'm gonna probably
do most of my gambling downtown.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Good for you, Good for you. I'm very excited to
hear that about this man.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
So I'm gonna probably do most of my gambling downtown.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Most of it, Yeah, most of it. Inflation hit us all.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
In his economic uncertainties, linger More, people are thinking twice
before taking those vacations in recent months. Visitation has taken
a dip in Las Vegas. So far this year, it
is down about six point five percent according to the LBCVA.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That's big.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Despite that decline, convention attendance is up nearly two percent.
Gaming revenue on the strip is slightly down, but downtown,
where it tends to be cheaper, it is slightly up.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, that's where that guy was gambling. Remember he said
he's gonna do most of his gambling downtown.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Now some resorts are announcing deals. The Plaza recently announced
in all inclusive package with food and drinks included, starting
at one hundred and twenty five bucks a person.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Wait, wait, where is this?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
The Plaza recently announced in all inclusive package with food
and drinks included starting at one hundred and twenty five
bucks a person.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
That's a sweet deal.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Food and drink included for one hundred and twenty five bucks.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Got a slide out.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
There, and Resorts World announcing free parking all summer long.
Other resorts have deals that can be found online.
Speaker 12 (28:14):
Well, you know, all of our resort partners have locals programs.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Till thirteen caught up with Las Vegas Convention and Visitors
Authority CEO Steve Hill, who says they have announced the
Locals Unlocked campaign that will help locals find out about
the deals and help the resorts spread the word.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I don't know how that helps me. It helps the
locals people live in Vegas.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
What we're doing is just aggregating that so that that
message can get out a little better, market it out
into the city a little more so that people know
that they have that opportunity.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
On the Locals Unlocked web page, you will find different
offerings for locals, including staycations. People say they miss when
Vegas was affordable like years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's interesting, though, a guy does a stay cation, which
term I hate, but he lives in Vegas. You know,
Vegas is the only town where you have to tell
people why you move there. Like if you moved to
Boston or Cleveland, you wouldn't have to say I'm moving
there for the schools or the job or whatever. But
when you say you moved to Vegas, you have to say, Oh,
it's the weather, Oh it's the schools, Oh it's a job.
You have to say something because when you move to Vegas,
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people think you are going to spend every dime at
the tables and guess what a lot of the time
they're right, all right, Moe Kelly's coming up next right
here on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Getting back
to Bellio, she used to work for the Los Angeles Lakers.
When you met John, your current husband.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And only husband.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, you're young.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
To get around, he's a keeper.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What'd you say? She doesn't get around?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
So?
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I thought you said she gets around. No, she doesn't
get around.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So you when you met John, John probably thought you
were loaded because you were working.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
For the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
He did when they had the contest on KLAC. When
a date with me and he found out I was
a Lakers producer, he thought I was rolling in the
dough for some weird reason.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
He thought he won the mother load with that raffle.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It wasn't a raffle. I wasn't raffled off. It was
to win a date.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Win a date. Where'd you take you on that date?
Speaker 6 (00:57):
We went to We had more Wow and Chuck Street
offered a helicopter ride that I took my nephew.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
On with John or just no, just you and your nephew?
Is that what he called you up for? Hey, I
know you have this big dating thing going on. KA
you want to go through Nephew and a helicopter.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
No.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
He part of the deal for the winner was that
they'd get a limo ride, you know, dinner at Morton's
and a helicopter ride that Chuck Street provided.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So that was the package.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But whose idea was it to raffle? You off?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It was? Uh? First of all, it wasn't a raffle.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
It was Steve Hartman the Loose Cannons, and Joe Grande
gets some credit in there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And and then how many guys applied?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Uh, we had like over a one hundred submissions?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Wow? Is that right?
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
My god. So there's ninety guys that are just kicking.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Themselves or maybe they were happy, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Doing a lap. No.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
You know, part of why I didn't choose some people
is because they're like, you know, they were all about
the Lakers there.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
They like, I hope I could get a Laker job
with this.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh, I see right. They want to use you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
They wanted to use me, which is fine.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Did you know that it was love at first sight?
Was it love at first sight? You and Johnny?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Uh? No?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
No, No, I was nervous around him for some reason
because I'm like who enters the contest.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
With the date. Who would do that?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, I'm not sure he's thinking who you know? Because
Petros he goes.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
You don't really think I'll never forget this, Petro says
to me, because you don't really think you're going to
meet your husband this way?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Always the optimist?
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So you all right? So you meet John. You're still
working with the Lakers. Yeah, and you work with Chick Hearns.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And Chick Hearn's energy in his eighties waning like everybody.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
He was eighty five years old and he was still
doing play by play for the Lakers, and yeah, he
had you know, he was.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He was getting tired.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
And one evening, I, because I was working two jobs,
I was drinking a Red Bull and Chick asked me
what is that? And I said it's a red Bull
and I explained it's an energy drink.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And you use their slogan.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
It has week it'll give you wing. I don't think
I did at the moment. And then I noticed the
next game he was drinking a red Bull. Wait a minute,
you got Chick addicted to red Bull?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Where did I say addicted? I said, he did?
Speaker 8 (03:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
He thought he'd give.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It a try pound in red Bull.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No, he wasn't pounding.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I only saw him once with a red Bull after
we talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The energy drink.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Was his game better? Did he call it a better
game out the red of all?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I felt like he always called a great game.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
So I didn't notice that he honestly, because he was
battling chronic fatigue and I didn't notice a change, but
he was feeling it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah. And then how many was he doing buying it?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
By the case, No, I know, stop putting all that
into this. No, I saw him with one one red Bull. Yeah,
well eighty that's all you need. That'll get your flying
right and yeah, and then so you gave him the
red Bull. I just told him what I was drinking,
and he, on his own tried to tried to red Bull.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Did his surgeon recommend that he not be on red
Bull at eighty with the pig valve?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, first of all, correction, it was a cow valve.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
He had the choice of a pig valve or a
cow valve, and he chose the cow valve.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
He will kosher.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It was soon after that that they realized that he
had aortic stenosis.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Which is.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The valve.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And so yeah, isn't that the first thing they do
when you when you get a cow or pig valve,
they say, please, whatever you do, don't.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Go with red bull.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, first of all, he didn't have the cow cow valve.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Oh he did.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
He found that out after Oh so the red bull
got him the cal valve. Cal calvalve, say that five times.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, so that's I think it was after the maybe
trying the red bull wasn't helping, and so they found
out that it.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Was maybe you saved his life then.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So see, I like this version of the story rather
than you telling.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
People you know you know I I used to work
for I'll tell you quick a similar story. I used
to work for Dick Clark for about three or four years.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And we don't we go to lunch. I go to
lunch with the rest of the We're writers on a
show called Camp Midnight.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Anybody Anybody, No, nope, uh and uh.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It was hosted by Dick Wilson. Anybody Yeah, late night
talk show on USA Network, hosted by Dick Wilson, written
by Tim Conway Junior. Anybody Okay, And we'd go to
lunch every day and he would come up to us
and he'd say, Hey, don't tell Carrie his wife, but
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when you go out, I'll buy lunch if you give
me a couple of tacos or burgers, whatever you eat.
I said, oh, okay, And then Carrie would say, don't
give him any fast food. He's got high cholesterol. I
went things to happened to him. Don't give him fast food.
But the guy owned the company, his name was on
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the outside of the door, and he paid us to
buy him food. So I went with that, and we
would give him a couple of tacos from Taco Bell
or Del Taco or Jack in the Box or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And about four years later, three years later, he.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Had a massive stroke, and I always felt like I
somehow contributed to that, And to this day, I think
about that every day, that I may have hurt one
of my heroes of all time.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I loved well.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Now you know how I feel about Dick.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Clark treated me like I was his own son. He
was the greatest man I've.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Ever met myne You know I waited on him is
that right after he had his stroke, and he was
the sweetest man.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
He was the most generous man in the world, not
with salary, but in time and helping people. He invited
us all out to his Malibu house for a big party,
and he was he was just a I always always
felt like I was related to him. He always felt
like I felt like that was my second dad, my
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second father.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
What a great way to make people feel she was
the best man.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, even after he had the stroke. He was coming
out of this building. I was working at KFI. He
had the stroke and he came out. He could his eye,
he could barely see, could barely walk. He was in
a wheelchair. He you know, his head was down. And
I walked up to him to introduce myself to him
and say, hey, you know I've worked for you, you know,
fifteen years ago or eight years ago, whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And he looked at me and he goes hey. He
goes Conway, He goes, hey, how you doing. How's your dad?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He you know, I didn't see him in ten years
and he still goes, hey, Conway, how's your dad?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
The greatest man in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And I always feel bad that I contributed to his
health in a negative way.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I feel terrible. All right, welcome back, Dean Sharp will
be with us.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And maybe well we'll ask him mine what's going on
with him?
Speaker 9 (08:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Dean Sharp is the house whisper.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He's on every single Saturday morning from six to eight
am and then on Sunday from nine am until noon,
and he is with us. We took a week off.
We had a lot of breaking news last week. But Dean,
thanks for understanding coming back.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
That's good. It's good. We've had a very very busy weeks. Yes,
we just great. Hey, I want to ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
There was a horrible story coming out of the Dominican Republic.
I'm sure you saw it. The Jets said, disco obvious
signs that there was. You know, they did some improvements
to the building, and I guess they took down some
main support beams and didn't replace them. That roof collapsed
and killed two hundred and thirty six people, But they
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said they saw signs even as late as that morning
of structural damage.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
First of all, who the hell does that? You know?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
To begin with, that would never happen in the United
States and people would never get get away with that.
But is it possible to remove a main you know,
support and not and it doesn't collapse immediately.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Yeah, it happened, Really happens. I wish I could tell
you otherwise. It happens all the time, It really does,
you know, especially like you've got you've got a roof
system and there's a lot of pressure on the elements
of pushing into each other. So you could take out
a main support, you could take out a main under
buying beam or even a post and nothing happens right
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away because of the pressure of all the pieces up
on top of it. Everything is held in place. But
then you turn around, put a bunch of weight up there,
everybody goes dancing and the next thing you know, is
coming down.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So that is solely the work of the engineer. Then
to put that together safely, that is entirely the work
of engineer. That's what structural engineers are all for. In
my line of work as a custom home designer, I
try and think from an engineering perspective so that when
we hand it over to the engineer they don't have
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to change it all around and it changes the look.
But at the end of the day, I design the
look of the place, the roofs, the ceilings, the floors
and so on. Hand that over to a structural engineer
and he's got to make it all work in the
real world.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Are there any fights between the designer and the engineer?
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Not with me, but yes, yes, a lot. You know what,
My second my second design job you know, of my
career was solely to sit down at a table as
a construction director. As a design director, sorry, and I
would sit down at a table to literally, uh to
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to reconcile engineering plans and architecturals. I got the architect
over here and he has a vision, and the engineers like, man,
you can't do that the real universe.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But they said they saw obvious signs of structural damage.
What would some of those obvious signs.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Be, Oh, probably, you know, like stress cracks in the ceiling,
drywall lines or things like that. You know, I mean,
you you're like, oh, hey, there's a big crack over
here in the drywall, we should patch that up one.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Of these days, or like pieces of ceiling falling down?
Would that be another one?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, real clear indicator at that point. That's horrible, that's hard.
I mean, I mean, we're make light of it just
because what else can you do? But yeah, it's it's
a you don't mess with that kind of stuff. I
run an into it on a small scale all the
time because we'll we'll come into a place sometimes when
the owner of the house will say, yeah, you know,
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I just decided this wall, dude, we just need to
open this up. And I you know, the wall is gone,
and I'm sitting there thinking, do you have anybody look
at that? You get just that with an end? You know,
I just took that wall out. I said, you know,
there's a really good chance that's a bearing wall if
you had any issues there. He's like, well, you know,
this piece of drywall just keeps cracking no matter how
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much we patch it. I'm like, you know, my friend,
we should talk. We need to talk.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
When we bought the house that we currently live in
in Burbank, I went into the garage and it was
a double garage, and in between the two car ports
they had one metal post and the post wasn't cut
long enough to go all the way to the cement,
so in the last two inch.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
There were just bolts.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
There were four bolts between the cement and the metal pole,
and all four of those bolts were bending, and so
the city came out and I said, hey, is this proper,
and the guy looking at he goes, get the f
out of here, and he grabbed us and threw us
out and red tagged it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, he said, God Almighty goes. I don't know who
did this, but you guys are lucky to be alive.
Those bolts were bending and they were about to break,
and if they did break, the whole garage.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Would have collapsed on you. Yep. Yeah, And so he
made them.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He made the owners dig up and put in a
huge bearing wall and a big concrete footing, and to
replace that it must have been like thirty thousand dollars
worth of repair.
Speaker 10 (13:47):
You know, it's a mixed bag because I'm always wrestling
with the building department in one way or another, trying
to get them to do something that's out of the ordinary,
because that's what I do literally for a living, for
custom homeowners, uh, and trying to get them to see
beyond it, never making anything unsafe. But there's always a
wrestle and then plan check takes forever these days, and
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there's a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of unnecessary bureaucracy.
But I tell you this, at the end of the day,
we cannot have the civilization that we have without open
and enforcement. It's critical. It's what keeps us all alive
every day.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's frustrating as hell, but the guys in Burbank are
second to none.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
They came out and they know exactly what they're doing.
Those guys are the best. All right, well we'll come back.
Let's talk about soundproofing everybody. You know, sirens, people honking,
fireworks going off this time of year. All this sound
comes into our house. But you've got some great ideas
how to soundproof and air seal the house that I
think a lot of people interested in, you know, sound absorbtion, absorption, absorption.
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I've also sound masking all that stuff. So Dean Charvis Wethers,
we'll come back and talk about how you can make
your home quieter, quieter. Another way to do it is
American vision windows. That's also another way to do it.
But we come back, we'll talk about making your life quieter.
It's going to improve your health.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Dean Sharvis Wethers.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He's on every Saturday morning six to eight am and
then Sunday from nine am until noon. And quiet is
what a lot of people would like in a big
city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and you can
achieve it with soundproofing. Is that become more popular, Dean
over the last five, ten, fifteen years with homeowners.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh, totally.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
It's become a really significant focus. And one of the
reasons is people are starting to realize noise is not
just like a preferential thing, but it's actually something that
affects our health. Whether you like it or not, it
has an effect on us. I think I sent this out,
this note over to you. This surprised me. The American
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Public Health Association in twenty twenty one changed their definition
of noise from unwanted sound, because that's how it was
kind of was right. Noise is like, well, if you
think it's noise, it's noise. If I think it's beautiful music,
it's beautiful music, and so everything's fine. But they change
that definition to unwanted and or harmful sounds because whether
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you think of yourself as like, hey, I'm a city kid,
I love the sound of the city streets. The fact
of the matter is that kind of urban noise pollution
is stressful on your body, period and that's the kind
of thing now that people want to get some distance from.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And especially this time of year with everyone with the fireworks,
it's wild, oh for sure, you know, and the pets
are going crazy, and you know that's a whole thing
around here. Hey, let me ask you a question here.
You know, we everybody, or not everybody. A lot of
people are familiar with noise canceling headphones and they're terrific.
You know, you put them on and you can't hear
the you know, the engines on the plane, or you know,
(17:02):
the static in an air conditioner or whatever. Is it
possible to have that same kind of technology in a
house where the house cancels all the noise from outside,
you know what.
Speaker 10 (17:13):
I've been asked that question before, and the most acoustic
engineers will tell you that, you know, theoretically it's possible,
but it's.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Really really difficult.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
It's really it only works well with the headphones because
it's direct input into both your ears and they can
isolate everything out.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know, there's a quiet room. I'm sure you've seen
this I think it's in Los Angeles. It's called the
quietest room in the world. And you go in there
and nobody has been able to stay in there for
more than an hour. People they hear their heartbeat, they
hear their bones crunching together. It freaks them out and
everybody bails after five or ten minutes.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
Yeah, you know, people are so not used to quiet,
not at all. But here's the thing, and I got
to say this. You know when people try and say, hey,
I just want to sound proof of this out, I
want nothing going on. You know what, that's not really
the goal. It's not really the gold in fact, you
know how you know that phrase silence is golden. I
like to say, if that's true, then bird's song is
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platinum because because here's the truth, silence is not the
least stressful sound state that a person can be in.
Oh really, no, you think about it. Two million years
of evolution, we spent most of that time outdoors, right,
and we are used to like waking up in the morning,
and if the birds are chirping, if they're singing their
(18:33):
songs and doing their thing, that is an intrinsic understanding
in our systems that everything is okay, because if there
are predators, if there's fire, if there's danger about guess
what silence? The birds are quiet, right, So silence, pure silence,
not the least stressful environment. Actually quiet, not silent. Quiet
(18:56):
and natural sounds, running, water birds, These are the most
destressing environments for our ears. My Dean Sharvis with this
house whisper.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
My wife's grandmother bought a condo or a townhouse i
should say, up in Oregon, and she wanted soundproof between
her townhouse and the one next to her. And they
did it, and they came in and they left what
I thought was a mistake, but they left air nothing
between the two, like there was a five inch or
(19:29):
six inch area where there was nothing. There was no foam,
there was no rubber, there was no soundproof or anything.
And then I learned later that that is soundproofing. Yeah,
that's one of the steps of doing that. We use
air gaps as a way. I didn't know that because
every time that you know, sound is energy, right, so
(19:50):
every time it has to move through a different kind
of medium, every time it has to move through a
different material, it changes its structure, it changes its shape,
and it's reduced. So when you send it through some
insulation and like a piece of drywall, and then there's
an air gap, it changes again, and then it has
to go through another piece of drywall and another piece
(20:10):
of insulation. And that's how did the studio that you
and I are sitting in right now right has a
double wall construction with an air gap in between the walls.
That's part of what makes it as quiet as it is.
And and it must be expensive to do that, I
mean it's it's really only for high end people then, well.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Not necessarily, I mean it's expensive to do your entire house,
every single room that way. Sure, And and there are,
by the way, there are ways of doing it without
using a double wall, where you can actually use what
we call a staggered wall idea, which is you've got
a two by let's say you're going to do a
two by four wall. You use a two by six
plate top and bottom, and you stagger the studs.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
On all sides.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Why, like every you know, every other one, you create
that same air gap without taking up all the space
or using up all the lumber. So the point is
there are ways of doing that. That's what we're going
to talk about on a Sunday big show. There are
so many different ways. Soundproofing is a layered thing. You
got to pick your your weapons carefully, based on your
budget and based on what you're going to try to achieve.
(21:14):
But it can be done. And again, for most of
us in our homes, we're not looking for total silence.
What we're looking to do is to cut the noise down.
And when you can't cut the noise, we try and
mask it, which means mixing it in with other sounds
that you know, render it neutral, like traffic and the
sound of running water. Moving water share about ninety percent
(21:37):
of the same sound frequencies.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know, I tried to soundproof when I was working
at home during COVID, and I tried to soundproof a
little office in you know, tiny little office in our
in our house, and I couldn't do it. I couldn't
do it. I couldn't do it. And then we got
American Vision windows and that wiped it out. I know
they're an advertiser here, I'm not plugging away. I'm telling
you the windows that they put in did the trick.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
Yeah, well, well, duel glaze windows. You know, you talk
about sound moving through one surface traveling through an empty
gas void and then having to get through another duel
glaze windows radically reduced sound transmission inside a house, and
those same companies have sound reduction windows which actually use
a couple other tricks inside them along the way too.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And all of this on Saturday six to eight am.
Sunday nine am to noon. Yeah, Sunday show Saturday. We're
taking calls, but all of the sound control Sunday show.
I will be there right on man, Thank you, sir,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Thanks Tim.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
All right, there you goes Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Check it out. Sunday's big show all about soundproofing. It
affects your health. So be here nine am until noon
on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (22:53):
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Squatters everybody in Beverly Grove area, and they don't like it.
They spend a lot of money for their home, their condo,
(23:14):
their townhouse, their apartment. And when you spend a lot
of money. You don't like squatters living right next to you. Otherwise,
why would you spend all that money if you're gonna
have people squatting right next to you, then only spend
fourteen hundred bucks a month on an apartment. So a
lot of squatters Beverly Grove area.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
I say, this is a really quiet and peaceful neighborhood
until you get to this corner here and those apartments
right across the street. Now you can see there's this
big fence. But neighbors say that does absolutely nothing. And
now they tell me every time they walk outside they're
worried for their safety.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Oh no, here we go.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's horrible and it's very scary.
Speaker 11 (23:51):
Up to twenty squatters, neighbors in this Beverly Grove neighborhood say,
are calling these three vacant apartment buildings home.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
The buildings are not secure and there's not there's not
a solid fence.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
Lauren Green says she's had to change her whole routine
walking your dog Dolly near the buildings at the corner
of First and Flora's because of it.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
When I take the dog out in the evening, I've
had I've seen so oh.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You know, she's got to be in her late seventies,
early eighties. She's got those bracelets that you can hear. Remember,
I don't know if your grandmother wore those. My grandmother
had like thirty bracelets, and you can hear her coming
from nine miles away.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
You can hear it with this.
Speaker 11 (24:29):
Woman first, and Flora's because of it.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
When I take the dog out in the evening, I've had.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh, there you go, sound like sound like she's at
a blackjack table with gambling.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Chips in the evening I've had I've seen some horrible,
horrible people doing horrible things and have come after me.
And I don't really have a big dog to protect me.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I have a little dog.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah, well you got a dog named Dolly? Who's Dolly ever?
Protected and all body?
Speaker 11 (24:57):
There's a laundry list of issues from drug use to
fights anytime day or night.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You gotta have a dog named like Satan or killer
or you know, wipe her router. You can't have a
dog named Dolly and protect you. It's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
It's become a real serious public safety issue. I mean,
they knock on windows when they're two, I'm assuming drugged
up to figure out how to get back in.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
They lit this on fire.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
At least seven fires neighbors say have broken out since
squatters took over a.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Couple of months ago.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
One man who lives near the troubled buildings and didn't
want to show his face on camera, but says it's
out of control.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
This person is not normal.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
And you know who's to say what she's gonna set
on fire next, whether it's my building.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Or yeah, the fires are dangerous.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Man, Man, you know somebody else's building.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
This is ma.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Then you never sleep at night because you always think, oh,
you smell fire, or you might you see flashing, or
you hear a commotion. And if it's especially if it's
cold outside or somebody right around dinner, that's when they
get those Coleman stoves out. And sometimes sometimes they forget
to put them out or turn them off. Sometimes the
(26:09):
city says.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
The issue is with the property owner. The spokesperson for
Councilwoman Katie or A Sklovsky, told us in a statement,
the owner must take full responsibility for addressing safety and
nuisance issues on site.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That's exactly right, all right. There are a lot of
deals going on in Vegas right now. Because well, everybody
is kind of broke, so you can get a sweet
deal in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Sweet deal.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
I find it way more expensive five years ago before
COVID of us here.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
People visiting Las Vegas have noticed the prices.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Inflation and really hit bad.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
So I'm not sure what's going on.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
So the days of the dollar ninety nine breakfast seven
ninety nine stakes.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
That's over. That's all gone. Yeah, but you don't.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Also another mistake that Vegas made charging for parking back
in the old days, every casino free parking as long
as you wanted. Now twenty thirty dollars a day.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
In this economy, folks like Randy Lukey from Wisconsin are
still trying to get the best deals where they can.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
So I see a lot of minimums at the tables
are twenty five dollars, twenty dollars. So I'm gonna probably
do most of my gambling downtown.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Good for you, Good for you. I'm very excited to
hear that about this man.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
So I'm gonna probably do most of my gambling downtown.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Most of it, Yeah, most of it. Inflation hit us all.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
In his economic uncertainties, linger More, people are thinking twice
before taking those vacations in recent months. Visitation has taken
a dip in Las Vegas. So far this year, it
is down about six point five percent according to the LBCVA.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That's big.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Despite that decline, convention attendance is up nearly two percent.
Gaming revenue on the strip is slightly down, but downtown,
where it tends to be cheaper, it is slightly up.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, that's where that guy was gambling. Remember he said
he's gonna do most of his gambling downtown.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Now some resorts are announcing deals. The Plaza recently announced
in all inclusive package with food and drinks included, starting
at one hundred and twenty five bucks a person.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Wait, wait, where is this?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
The Plaza recently announced in all inclusive package with food
and drinks included starting at one hundred and twenty five
bucks a person.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
That's a sweet deal.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Food and drink included for one hundred and twenty five bucks.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Got a slide out.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
There, and Resorts World announcing free parking all summer long.
Other resorts have deals that can be found online.
Speaker 12 (28:14):
Well, you know, all of our resort partners have locals programs.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Till thirteen caught up with Las Vegas Convention and Visitors
Authority CEO Steve Hill, who says they have announced the
Locals Unlocked campaign that will help locals find out about
the deals and help the resorts spread the word.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I don't know how that helps me. It helps the
locals people live in Vegas.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
What we're doing is just aggregating that so that that
message can get out a little better, market it out
into the city a little more so that people know
that they have that opportunity.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
On the Locals Unlocked web page, you will find different
offerings for locals, including staycations. People say they miss when
Vegas was affordable like years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's interesting, though, a guy does a stay cation, which
term I hate, but he lives in Vegas. You know,
Vegas is the only town where you have to tell
people why you move there. Like if you moved to
Boston or Cleveland, you wouldn't have to say I'm moving
there for the schools or the job or whatever. But
when you say you moved to Vegas, you have to say, Oh,
it's the weather, Oh it's the schools, Oh it's a job.
You have to say something because when you move to Vegas,
(29:15):
people think you are going to spend every dime at
the tables and guess what a lot of the time
they're right, all right, Moe Kelly's coming up next right
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