July 16, 2026 • 31 mins
The Tim Conway Jr Show Hour 1 (7.15)
The Pointe Fire has burned nearly 50 acres up near Santa Clarita, but we’re not too worried — that area is firefighter country, with many of them living right there and battling hard to protect their own neighborhoods. Timmy warns listeners: If you love your current neighbors, never move — you have no idea how bad it can get with petty, gossiping people next door. In auction news, a massive T-Rex skeleton nicknamed “Gus” (about the size of a school bus) just sold at Sotheby’s for over $50 million. And fun fact: If you were born before the 1840s, you had no idea dinosaurs ever existed! Whip-around time — guess the opening music… that’s right, it’s “Growing Pains”! Former child star Ashley Johnson, who played little Chrissy Seaver, shared the wild story of surviving an attempted kidnapping while working on the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's I Am sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Camfine, Am it
is the Conway Show, all right, ding dong. We've got
a significant part of the KFI audience lives out outside
(00:24):
of the city of la and a lot of people
live in you know, I'm Santa Clarita, Ventura, Orange County,
Animal Valley, Apple Valley, Riverside, San Bernardino, and so whenever
there's a fire in those areas, we like to keep
you posted because that's where a lot of listeners are.
And there's a fire out there called the Point fire
(00:47):
Point Roda. Maybe know what that show that references Point Roda.
Younger kids would probably know Roda. No, it's from a
television show called Jesse, and my daughter watched it and
Carolyn Hennessy's character was kind of like this crazy actress
on the show, and she would say when she made
(01:08):
a good point, she goes point Roda.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So let's just say Nickelodeon show Disney was it Disney Channel?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I didn't know that. Then they should have gotten
it where you Ben Richie?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, like a Miley Cyrus like Hannah Montana kind of guy, Oh,
this is kind of out of my Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I watched a lot of those because my daughter was
watching it in the car, and so I would just
sort of listen to all of them. But there was
only one show that I thought was funny enough where
adults could watch it and kids, and it was a
show called Good Luck Charlie. You remember that show, good
Luck Charlie. That was a good show that was funny enough.
(01:46):
They threw enough jokes in there for adults, and then
the kids enjoyed that as well.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was the beauty of Warner Brothers back in the day,
the Looney Tunes. It was like it was good for
the kids, but there were enough subtleties and things in
it references for adults.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Ago, that's really good. That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's when you've got a good kid show.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's exactly right. You've crystallized my thoughts. All right. So
we got this point fire out there, point Fire, and
it's right near that Walmart, the Walmart that I go
to on Golden Valley, and that's where I was on
July fourth, because you can stand up on that cliff
on that bluff there where Walmart is, and I give
(02:24):
it evidently it's not just my secret because there's about
eight hundred cars doing this and you can look over
the valley and you can see all the fireworks in
Santa Clarita. It's pretty cool, it's pretty awesome. And so
this fire broke out and it is thirty five thirty
two percent contained. We'll get some information on this. I'll
tell you another landmark where this is. There was that
(02:46):
goat Krt place. What's the name of that place? There
was a goat cart miniature golf joint out there. They
change it to like MB two Entertainment, but used to
be called something else. But anyway, that's where where this
fire is. The fire is just west of there. If
you're up at that Walmart, or perhaps if you have money,
you're at the club up there. What do they call that?
(03:10):
What's the Walmart equivalent to Costco Sam's Club? Right, yes, yeah,
So if you got money and you're a Sam's Club,
that's where the fire is. So if there's a lot
of smoke in that area, it's the point Roda fire.
Let's find out what's going on with this fire. Because
if you live in Santa Clarita, you have very little
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to worry about. When it comes to fires for a
couple of reasons. One is the fire department out there
makes absolutely sure that you have a defensible space around
your home and they will find you and they will
do it themselves and send you the bill. They're not
going to put up with, you know, lunatics and rat
(03:50):
packs out there who just let their yard go. So
that's number one. Number two is Santa Clarita is filled
with firemen and fire women, fire people, fireman, I'm gonna
call them firemen, sorry, but they're firemen and man stand
is short for human, So it's both firemen, female firefighters,
male firefighters. B So uh, here's here's where you got
(04:13):
an advantage. In Santa Clarita and in Simi Valley. A
lot of firemen live out there. And when you're fighting
a fire and you know the neighborhood and you know
the neighbors, you fight extra hard. It's just basic nature. Look,
I'm not saying when these guys go to Palisades or
Altadena and they don't live in the area, they're not
fighting like crazy to put that fire out. They are,
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but they don't know the streets in Pacific Palisades. They
don't know the streets in Altadena, they know them. In
Santa Clarita, they know the quickest route to that fire.
They know how to get engines up there, they know
how to the helicopters, are familiar with the terrain, and
those firemen know people who live there. So when you're
putting out a buddy's house, you know, oh, there's the Johnson's,
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there's the Breastands, there's the Dalton House. You know there,
there's the Steve Burkery house, a friend of mine who
became a fire captain with LA Fire Department. They know
the neighbors' homes and they fight extra hard to keep
their neighbors homes safe from fire. So if you live
in Santa Clarida and you ever smell smoke, don't panic.
Don't panic. These guys got you. It would have to
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be a tremendous disaster for Santa Clarida to burn like
once in every five hundred year fire because those guys
out there, that's where they live, and you're going to
defend your home space a lot more than you would,
you know, just unknown areas. And again I'm not saying
that these guys don't work their ass off in when
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they go out and fight a fire, and they're not
familiar with the area. It's just when you're fighting a
home fire, like when you fight a fire in your home,
that's all you're doing. You're knocking yourself out and you
know the ins and outs. So I'm just saying these
guys are well aware of that entire area. They live there,
and so you have nothing to worry about in South Clarina.
(06:03):
You're in good shape.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
All right, Let's get a live look at the fire
right now. Air seven has been overhead since flames were
spotted in the Canyon Country neighborhood just before two o'clock
this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, that's just west of Walmart.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Authorities are calling this the Point fire. It has burned
more than fifty acres in the last couple of hours.
We've seen cruise make tremendous progress.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I told you, I told you you got nothing to
worry about.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Make tremendous progress despite the difficult conditions and extreme heat.
But evacuation warnings are still in effect, and our.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Liz Nigi spoke to some of those people are forced
to evacuate at a moment's noticing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Joins us now live on the ground at Senta Clarita
with more. Liz, what could you tell us? All right,
I'll tell you that it's off Solidad Canyon and Golden Valley.
That's where that fire is. It's a west of Golden
Valley and south of Solidad. That's where that fire is.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
David, we sure did. We spoke to a gentleman who
had left his home and actually come back after dropping
off his mother and his dogs on the other side
of Santa Clarita to get them to safety. I've been
told by two people who live in the middle of
this neighborhood that this is an entire community of veterans
who live here. And to give you an idea of
just how close we are to the fire, it's about
fifty yards just to that wall right there, and then
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you can see the fire burning at the top of
the hill.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
That gentleman told me.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Sometime after one o'clock this afternoon, deputy from the La
County Sheriff's apartment banged on his door, said it's time
for you to go now. He looked out of his
door and he said that's when he saw this entire
hillside a completely different color. And he said, in fact,
just before that his living room changed color, and that's
when he had an indication that something was going wrong.
(07:38):
He says that they have seen fires in the area before,
but never anything like this, never something this close.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
He came back here, Yeah, this is very close to
a lot of homes and a lot of businesses, and
this is in the center well maybe not the center,
but very close to the center of Santa Clarita.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
To get some items that he might not be able
to replace if the winds were to shift and these
neighborhoods were to begin to burn, And he also wanted
to hose down his backyard just for safety. Now you
can feel the heat just standing out here. You can
smell that fire burning. And in the last few minutes,
the wind has shifted and it is actually blowing.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh, I just heard this, nap. I just remember the
name of its Mountasia. I know a lot of people
out there in Santa Clara pel yelling at the radio.
Hey u a hall, It's Mountasia Mountasias where they have
miniature golf, the got cards, the arcade, and my daughter
and her buddies used to like to go out there,
and a very familiar with that Mountasa area.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Toward this neighborhood right here. But beside, besides that one
gentleman who came back here to get some items from
his home, we have not seen anybody else out here
except for a few firefighters.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You'll be fine. These guys got it out there, man,
These guys got.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
It, which indicates that people are in fact following those
evacuation warnings. He said, this is not something he wanted
to mess around with. We spoke that gentleman just a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Here's what he told us.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
All right, real quick with this guy. Then we got
to take a break.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I mean, it's not the first time it's happened, but
it's definitely the worst. I saw the whole living room
turned a different color in a neighbor call and said,
you know, how close is the fire? And I walked
out and that that whole thing was just an inferno.
So I grabbed my dogs. My mother was staying over, and.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We grabbed the dogs. That I never heard a mention
of mom being grabbed. I grabbed the dogs, and mom
was staying with.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Us, so I grabbed my dogs. My mother was staying
over and we grabbed her.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, so this guy's going to pay for this when
he hear it when Mom hears this on KFI or
the news tonight that the dogs got top billing over, Mom,
there is going to be a cold shoulder and perhaps
held to pay as well. Mentioned the dogs before you
mentioned me. Yeah, at least I came back to grab you,
(09:52):
so sit down.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
So I grabbed my dogs. My mother was staying over
and we grabbed her as quick as we could and
got out there. You go, and then I just walk
back to grab her medicine and medicine for my dogs.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Are you worried?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean no, I'm no.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
It's worried as I was when the flames were right there.
But you know, you can still see it going up there, and.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Now that's an insult to worry about fires out there,
and these guys got it feels.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Like the wind's starting to come back towards that. So
I'm going to go up.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I can hose down my fence and you're fine.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
What else we can do?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, you'll definitely want to keep a close eye on you, mom,
the dogs, the medication, everything's going to be HANSI TATSI.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I got an email from a guy who says he
was born and raised in Santa Clarita Valencia area and
that I'm wrong that that Point fire is on the
southern edge and there is not in the middle of
Santa Clarita or Valencia. It's on the southern edge. And
there's no homes south of that fire. Okay, either that
guy is talking about a different valley or he's an idiot,
(11:00):
because there's probably twenty five housing areas project areas that
are south of that Point fire. That Point fire is
on Solidad Canyon and Golden what do they call that
Golden Valley? And so just south of there there are
a lot of homes. There's the Glen area that I
know out there. Buddy Mine lives out there. The Delmonte area,
(11:21):
part Constitution Market. Del Prado's in that south of that fire,
so is Colgrove. There's some Masters is out there. I
think that South Oxford is south. There's about twenty five
development developed areas that are south of that fire. And
if you take a look at the map of Santa
Clarita or Valencia, Richie is it? I have to ask
(11:45):
this every time. Is Santa Clarita in Valencia or is
Valencia in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Valencia is in Santa Clarita Valley.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Okay, okay, all right, So this fire, if you took
a look at Santa Clarita Valley, this fire is almost
dead center. Like I said, this point fire almost exactly
dead center. So f off, you know, yeah, you know
I'm not gonna put off with that kind of crap.
We don't, you know. And then he says, you know,
he goes it doesn't sound like you ever go out there.
(12:13):
I go out there all the time. My wife and
I looked at a house and put money down on
a house on a Copper Hill, which is a beautiful
area out there. I wish i'd lived outre. I wish
i'd moved out there. My wife talked me out of
it because she wanted to be close to my dad
and my stepmother when we had our daughter, which I
think was a good idea ultimately. But man, I would
(12:36):
be the king of Copper Hill. I'd own that area.
I would be out there and I'd know all the neighbors.
We'd all have jet skis and you know, four wheel carts,
and you know kids out there playing on bikes. Everybody
would know everybody. I blew it. I should have been
I should have been more firm, said I'm moving to
(12:57):
Santa Clarita or Valencia. I love that great area. If
you get live out in that area, don't ever move.
The rule of thumb in California, and it's almost any area,
any neighborhood in California. If you love your neighbors or
you like your neighbors, never move. You can't imagine how
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horrible it is to live next to neighbors who hate
you or you hate them, and you're constantly fighting, constantly,
you know, crap going back and forth, rumor mill going on,
who's parked in front of my house? Towing of cars?
You know, all that crap. So if you love your neighbors,
(13:39):
stay where you are and enjoy them anyway. So that
fire is as we said. I think they said it
was thirty two percent contained, which is pretty good considering
it just started, you know, at two thirty this afternoon.
No evacuations, I don't think. Hold on, look at the
(14:01):
Watch Duty here. Watch Duty is the best. I recommend
everybody gets it. Free app gives you all the information
on where to go when a fire breaks out and
you're not going to have time to you know, open
up your phone and download the app when you're ready
set go. A good thing about this app.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Also, they're actually expanding the fire you know messaging. It's
also going to start working for floods. You know, Nina's
running around the corner. So it's also going to inform
us about upcoming floods and areas.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You know what else it does is it informs everybody
about electrical outages as well. So there's a little lightning
a yellow square or yellow circle of the lightning rod
in it, and it'll tell you where the electricity is
out like, for instance, right now in Santa Clarita in
the Peico area, there's a couple of fifty six homes
(14:52):
are affected by a power outage right now. So so
cal Edison is on it. It happened twenty three minutes
ago and they have no estimate about restoration. But it's
it's right in that Rosco Pico train area. Is that
what that's called out there? Roscoe Pico Train? Without that
that area is Richie, do you know that reference? Rosco
(15:14):
Pico Train? No crozer, you got to know it. Roscoe
Pico Train from dukes of Hazard.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
No, oh coal Trane.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
No is it Rosco Peak Coletraine? Oh, Roscoe Peak Coletrane,
And I screwed that up my shoe, Peak Coal Traine.
Oh man, what a show that was.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I can't can't air it anymore, though. They would have
to go through and take off all of the flags
out of that show, including the one on the call.
That's right, the Confederate flag on top of that show
is not General twenty twenty six material. I used to
like any we gotta take a break, but I used
(15:52):
to like where they had to freeze frame in the
air while those two guys were in the air and
then tell the audience what was going to happen. You know.
So they hit a bump and they go, whoa is
Roscoe going to catch them? Or they're gonna catch there,
you know, or they're gonna get the little market before
Roscoe catches them.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Every time that thing hits the ramp, the car freezes
mid flight, right, and you see where I guess you're
wondering how these boards got into this little pickle.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And I always thought that it's because the people, dumb
people like me watching weren't smart enough to track the
car and the dialogue at the same time.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Hold up, hold up there, just pull some boom and Roscoe.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's classic.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Man.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway tunire on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I enjoyed that program. Dukes have hazard and not really
heavy lifting. Just sit there and watch. He's uh, two
idiots to get in and out of trouble every single
week every week. All right, we have there's a read
here for do we have the Dodgers here? Hold on,
I thought we did. Okay, all right, let's talk about
(17:01):
this t Rex skeleton. This is unbelievable. This looks like
a full t rex skeleton and recently sold for fifty
million dollars. So he just found this thing and turned
around and sold it for fifty million dollars. You imagine
having one of these things if he had a house
big enough, putting that sucker right in the living room
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or the foyer or you know, the entrance to your home. Man, man,
this is authentic, you know, honest to god t rex
skeleton and this is up you know from millions and millions,
maybe hundreds of millions of years ago.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Torontosaurus Rex, the King of the dinosaurs, sixty million years ago. Wow,
today fetching a king's ransom at auction, the fossilized skeleton
nicknamed Gus, setting a new record sold at auction for
just over fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Fifty million dollars. Wow, wow, wow. You know, I don't
know what the year is. I'd have to look this
up again, but it's pretty resent. I would. I think
the eighteen hundreds. If you were born before the eighteen hundreds,
you never knew the dinosaurs roam the world. You just
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didn't know it. There wasn't enough, you know, technology to
go back and carbon date any kind of bones that
were found. So if you were born, I think it's
before eighteen forty or eighteen fifty. If you're born before then,
dinosaurs were never taught in school. You never read about
them because they didn't know that they were around. And
(18:35):
now we're selling them. Yeah, we got a big auction.
Fifty million dollars for this Torontosaurus Rex.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Fifty million dollars. Sotherbeest says the ancient Apex predator thirty
eight feet long in twelve and a half feet hot.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
How about that thirty eight foot long monster coming after you?
This thing could rip apart any modern house, just shred it,
just walk right through it and not think anything of it.
How about that walking around you know, thank god, these
you know t rexes are extinct. Can you imagine that
every night, all of a sudden you hear rumbling like,
(19:09):
oh Christ, it's just then going to come through again.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Oh no, about the size of a yellow school bus.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Gus is one of the biggest and most complete t
res ever found.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Wow, so the beast putting out this video to hype
the auction.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
By the way, we've we've got to do something about
the imbalance when it comes to money in this country.
You know, there's some guys where one hundred and fifty
two hundred billion dollars and buying t rexes for fifty million,
And I can look out this window here and probably
see two homeless guys on the street. It's gonna come
(19:46):
to a head. I'm warning you, both Republicans and Democrats.
Unless you can solve that problem, there's gonna be a huge,
huge class war in this country. And you're gonna get
Democrats and Republicans both on the same side the and
then you're gonna get wiped out. And it's coming, is
it's coming for sure unless you do something about.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
It, saying Gus is sixty one percent complete by bone
COUMP and nearly.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Wow, that is amazing. Sixty one percent of this dinosaur
is intact.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
That's incredible, saying Gus is sixty one percent complete by
bone camp wow in nearly eighty percent complete by total mass,
ranking up there with famous t rex is like the
Chicago Field Museums sue. It was found by commercial paleontologist
Thomas hide Camp and his team, commissioned in twenty twenty
one to find fossils on a South Dakota ranch. They
(20:37):
spotted one bone a needle in a sixty five hundred
acre haystack.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Heike Camp, making the case for private funding for such excavations.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
We're in some pretty remote, dense areas that are hard
to get to you, that are expensive to get to,
that are logistically dangerous.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
No one else is looking.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
At those places.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
NBC News was unable to reach in for comments. Digging
us up and rebuilding the skeleton took years. Now it's payday.
The colossal price tag is unearthen concerns about its scientific
value and who will have access to it?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, who bought it?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
You?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Know, somebody, a billionaire had to buy it. You know,
if you're one hundred millionaire, I canna spend fifty million
on it on bones, So it has to be some billionaire.
Maybe somebody we know bought it. Maybe it'll be in
the middle of you know, the entrance to Amazon or
you know, Microsoft or Apple.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
A recent study found that the majority of discovered t
rex fossils are privately owned, making it harder for museums
to acquire specimens as prices rise.
Speaker 11 (21:39):
If we want to understand how smart t rex was,
what it ate, how it moved, what its world was like,
its environment was.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Like, Yeah, just go there, it's in This is in
the movies. Just go see the movies.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
This fossil really is a Crown Jewels.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Dinosaur fossils a hot commodity for the super rich. Another
t rex stand so for more than thirty million dollars
in twenty twenty, and Estegosaurus apex sold for almost forty
five million and twenty twenty four. In both cases, the
buyers loan the fossils to museums.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Okay, so instead of looking for gold, you got to
get up to South Dakota and look for these t Rexes.
Could you could be worth a fifty billion dollars. Just
look around, you know, kick the dog, kick the dust,
and you know, move some logs, some old logs, and
some rocks. I bet you find one.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Paleontologist doctor Steve Bussadi says he hopes whoever bought gusts
will do the same.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
Donated to a museum. Get it out there naked, so
it's not only you that can enjoy this, but millions
of people. That's how you can make a real impact.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
The dinosaurs couldn't escape the destructive force of an asteroid
in the prehistoric world. Now their legacy trying to survive
between market forces of capitalism and advancing science. Marquise Francis, NBC.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
News, somebody's got extra dough fifty million dollars. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
All right, this is a whip around just for the
home audience, because I don't think there's enough people on
this show that will know it. I don't I wouldn't
have known it, but maybe there are enough people at
home or listening in the car. Right now. I'm going
to play you a nineteen eighties TV theme song and
see if you can get it all right, nineteen eighty
(23:23):
five two, I don't know, ninety three. I think it
was on six or seven years nineteen okay, nineteen eighty
five to nineteen ninety two, So eighty six, seven eight eight,
seven years, seven years, one hundred and sixty six episodes,
so it was on every week for seven years on
(23:44):
your TV set. If you're conscious in the eighties to
early nineties, Let's see if you can nail this one
all right. It is the home version of the Whip Around.
Don't listen to on your come.
Speaker 12 (24:07):
The Fish, We Got the Folds suck extreme opine, We
(24:34):
get taken those away.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Show the Time We Got.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Shaven.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Okay, then they say the name of the of the
TV show there. But you would have to have an
appetite for really watered down, less than hysterical, not not
very creative, not very edgy, and very few laughs per episode.
I think that sums it up. Krozier, do you know it?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, okay, what is it? Nikki's growing pain? That's right,
Growing pains that show? Oh no, okay, well you must
have been young. Yeah, you had to be either the
only two ways to enjoy that program. You had to
be young or dumb. And then oh, okay, well then
(25:28):
you have to call that a TV ding dong. But
Growing Pains uh not not cutting edge. You know, it's
family kids, kids do stupid things. Dad's an idiot, mom
controls the house. You know. It's an eighty sitcom. But
there's a story coming out of here that Ashley Johnson
shares that she was nearly kidnapped on the set of
(25:50):
Growing Pains. What's going on? She must have been very
young on that show. Wasn't she the youngest daughter? Yes,
so she must have been two or three when that
when that show started. Let's see how old is Ashley Johnson.
She was born nineteen eighty three and that show started
in eighty five. Okay, she was two. She was two
years old when that show started. And she is telling
(26:13):
a story about how she was almost kidnapped on the
set of Growing Pains.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
Some guy hops out on the line and grabs me
up and starts booking it.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Growing Pains actress Ashley Johnson says she was nearly kidnapped
while on the show. The celeb who is now forty
two recalls a scary incident that occurred early in her
time on the sitcom, which starred Kirk Cameron and Alan Thick,
among others.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I wonder if that affected her life, you know, when
that kind of trauma. Maybe she was too young and
you know, she doesn't remember it, but people just tell
her about it. But that's horrible if that affected her life,
that somebody allowed a fan to get that close to her.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
When a member of the live studio audience snatched her
away from her mother and ran off with her.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
What's going on with this audience. You're stealing the characters
from Growing Pains.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Ashley recounts the story on her podcast Weird Kids, which
she co hosts with fellow actor Tallis and Jeffy, saying
a written threat had been made ahead of the frightening moment.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Wow, that could have been a huge disaster for that
show and for the entire network. I don't know what
network that was on. Sounds like an ABC, NBC, I
w NBC. All right back to Ashley Johnson.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
Somebody had written in and said that I am coming
to set and I am going to bring a gun
and I am going to murder some of the cast.
Speaker 8 (27:36):
Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That was an odd letter, and I'll bet that that person.
I wonder what radio station that guy worked in. You
have to thank you Selfie. Probably was a radio radio chap.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
So I'm walking with my mom and then I just
remember some guy hops out of the line and grabs
me up and starts booking it. Wow, there was security
that somehow got on him after some time.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
He had a gun.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Johnson played the fourth.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Okay, so if that happened at NBC, I believe they
shot that here in La. They probably shot that right
here on this lot next to us. That was the NBC.
That was the old NBC lot. That crime could have
happened across the street where I can look at the
building that that happened in. Odd strange.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Johnson played the fourth sever child, Chrissy Sever from nineteen
ninety until the show's conclusion in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, so she was late to the show. She didn't
start in eighty five when that show started. She came
in later on, So she started in nineteen ninety. She
was born in what was she born in again, ninety three,
so she was seven when she started that show.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
At the time, the studios weren't outfitted with the level
of security measures they are today.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Of course, Wait nite, did they just replace one of
their daughters on Growing Pains? She just all of a
sudden appeared at age seven? Did she replace the other daughter?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
She she was a Layton life child. Yeah, I know,
but she but the late life child doesn't. Isn't seven
when they're introduced? Unless she was adopted, you know, she
had had to bend a baby. I don't remember that.
I'd like to find that out. I'd like to find
out if they just replaced the character like in be
when this child was played by three different actresses. No way,
(29:26):
is that right? So they did just replace her?
Speaker 12 (29:30):
They?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I guess they.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Well, it's all right, it's with a caveat The sever's
youngest child was originally an infant played by twins okay,
and then Lauren Stanley took over the role briefly in
season five before Ashley Johnson permanently took over the role.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, So Ashley Johnson took over that role at seven. Yeah,
so she had to win a lookalike contest of swords
to replace that other check season six and seven she
was there. Oh my god, So I bet they couldn't
sign the other actress. You know, she got a little
high on herself.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And also I think that was the age of the
character where took over. She became the talking toddler. So
maybe the other one could.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, or maybe the other one just was, you know,
the tired of you know, sitting around and you know,
listening to story after story after story of you know,
Alan Thick. I love the guy, but you know he's
probably phoning it in on that show. And so I
imagine just being on a set, you're like, oh Christ.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
At the time, the studios weren't outfitted with the level
of security measures they are today.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
According to Ashley, I guess not people are grabbing the characters.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
She adds of the man they got him.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
This was the thing.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
He was high on something. It wasn't meth, but it
was something like he was so strong. Johnson has continued
to work in Hollywood, mostly as a voice actor. She's
best known for her voice work in the video game
series The Last of Us and won a BAFTA Games
Award for her performance as Ellie, who's played by Bella
Ramsay in a live action series.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
All Right Well turns out happy, ending everything She's working
and everybody's fine. We're live on KFI.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Go good.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
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is the Conway Show, all right, ding dong. We've got
a significant part of the KFI audience lives out outside
(00:24):
of the city of la and a lot of people
live in you know, I'm Santa Clarita, Ventura, Orange County,
Animal Valley, Apple Valley, Riverside, San Bernardino, and so whenever
there's a fire in those areas, we like to keep
you posted because that's where a lot of listeners are.
And there's a fire out there called the Point fire
(00:47):
Point Roda. Maybe know what that show that references Point Roda.
Younger kids would probably know Roda. No, it's from a
television show called Jesse, and my daughter watched it and
Carolyn Hennessy's character was kind of like this crazy actress
on the show, and she would say when she made
(01:08):
a good point, she goes point Roda.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So let's just say Nickelodeon show Disney was it Disney Channel?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, I didn't know that. Then they should have gotten
it where you Ben Richie?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, like a Miley Cyrus like Hannah Montana kind of guy, Oh,
this is kind of out of my Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I watched a lot of those because my daughter was
watching it in the car, and so I would just
sort of listen to all of them. But there was
only one show that I thought was funny enough where
adults could watch it and kids, and it was a
show called Good Luck Charlie. You remember that show, good
Luck Charlie. That was a good show that was funny enough.
(01:46):
They threw enough jokes in there for adults, and then
the kids enjoyed that as well.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was the beauty of Warner Brothers back in the day,
the Looney Tunes. It was like it was good for
the kids, but there were enough subtleties and things in
it references for adults.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Ago, that's really good. That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's when you've got a good kid show.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's exactly right. You've crystallized my thoughts. All right. So
we got this point fire out there, point Fire, and
it's right near that Walmart, the Walmart that I go
to on Golden Valley, and that's where I was on
July fourth, because you can stand up on that cliff
on that bluff there where Walmart is, and I give
(02:24):
it evidently it's not just my secret because there's about
eight hundred cars doing this and you can look over
the valley and you can see all the fireworks in
Santa Clarita. It's pretty cool, it's pretty awesome. And so
this fire broke out and it is thirty five thirty
two percent contained. We'll get some information on this. I'll
tell you another landmark where this is. There was that
(02:46):
goat Krt place. What's the name of that place? There
was a goat cart miniature golf joint out there. They
change it to like MB two Entertainment, but used to
be called something else. But anyway, that's where where this
fire is. The fire is just west of there. If
you're up at that Walmart, or perhaps if you have money,
you're at the club up there. What do they call that?
(03:10):
What's the Walmart equivalent to Costco Sam's Club? Right, yes, yeah,
So if you got money and you're a Sam's Club,
that's where the fire is. So if there's a lot
of smoke in that area, it's the point Roda fire.
Let's find out what's going on with this fire. Because
if you live in Santa Clarita, you have very little
(03:30):
to worry about. When it comes to fires for a
couple of reasons. One is the fire department out there
makes absolutely sure that you have a defensible space around
your home and they will find you and they will
do it themselves and send you the bill. They're not
going to put up with, you know, lunatics and rat
(03:50):
packs out there who just let their yard go. So
that's number one. Number two is Santa Clarita is filled
with firemen and fire women, fire people, fireman, I'm gonna
call them firemen, sorry, but they're firemen and man stand
is short for human, So it's both firemen, female firefighters,
male firefighters. B So uh, here's here's where you got
(04:13):
an advantage. In Santa Clarita and in Simi Valley. A
lot of firemen live out there. And when you're fighting
a fire and you know the neighborhood and you know
the neighbors, you fight extra hard. It's just basic nature. Look,
I'm not saying when these guys go to Palisades or
Altadena and they don't live in the area, they're not
fighting like crazy to put that fire out. They are,
(04:36):
but they don't know the streets in Pacific Palisades. They
don't know the streets in Altadena, they know them. In
Santa Clarita, they know the quickest route to that fire.
They know how to get engines up there, they know
how to the helicopters, are familiar with the terrain, and
those firemen know people who live there. So when you're
putting out a buddy's house, you know, oh, there's the Johnson's,
(04:57):
there's the Breastands, there's the Dalton House. You know there,
there's the Steve Burkery house, a friend of mine who
became a fire captain with LA Fire Department. They know
the neighbors' homes and they fight extra hard to keep
their neighbors homes safe from fire. So if you live
in Santa Clarida and you ever smell smoke, don't panic.
Don't panic. These guys got you. It would have to
(05:19):
be a tremendous disaster for Santa Clarida to burn like
once in every five hundred year fire because those guys
out there, that's where they live, and you're going to
defend your home space a lot more than you would,
you know, just unknown areas. And again I'm not saying
that these guys don't work their ass off in when
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they go out and fight a fire, and they're not
familiar with the area. It's just when you're fighting a
home fire, like when you fight a fire in your home,
that's all you're doing. You're knocking yourself out and you
know the ins and outs. So I'm just saying these
guys are well aware of that entire area. They live there,
and so you have nothing to worry about in South Clarina.
(06:03):
You're in good shape.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
All right, Let's get a live look at the fire
right now. Air seven has been overhead since flames were
spotted in the Canyon Country neighborhood just before two o'clock
this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, that's just west of Walmart.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Authorities are calling this the Point fire. It has burned
more than fifty acres in the last couple of hours.
We've seen cruise make tremendous progress.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I told you, I told you you got nothing to
worry about.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Make tremendous progress despite the difficult conditions and extreme heat.
But evacuation warnings are still in effect, and our.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Liz Nigi spoke to some of those people are forced
to evacuate at a moment's noticing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Joins us now live on the ground at Senta Clarita
with more. Liz, what could you tell us? All right,
I'll tell you that it's off Solidad Canyon and Golden Valley.
That's where that fire is. It's a west of Golden
Valley and south of Solidad. That's where that fire is.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
David, we sure did. We spoke to a gentleman who
had left his home and actually come back after dropping
off his mother and his dogs on the other side
of Santa Clarita to get them to safety. I've been
told by two people who live in the middle of
this neighborhood that this is an entire community of veterans
who live here. And to give you an idea of
just how close we are to the fire, it's about
fifty yards just to that wall right there, and then
(07:15):
you can see the fire burning at the top of
the hill.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
That gentleman told me.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Sometime after one o'clock this afternoon, deputy from the La
County Sheriff's apartment banged on his door, said it's time
for you to go now. He looked out of his
door and he said that's when he saw this entire
hillside a completely different color. And he said, in fact,
just before that his living room changed color, and that's
when he had an indication that something was going wrong.
(07:38):
He says that they have seen fires in the area before,
but never anything like this, never something this close.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
He came back here, Yeah, this is very close to
a lot of homes and a lot of businesses, and
this is in the center well maybe not the center,
but very close to the center of Santa Clarita.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
To get some items that he might not be able
to replace if the winds were to shift and these
neighborhoods were to begin to burn, And he also wanted
to hose down his backyard just for safety. Now you
can feel the heat just standing out here. You can
smell that fire burning. And in the last few minutes,
the wind has shifted and it is actually blowing.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh, I just heard this, nap. I just remember the
name of its Mountasia. I know a lot of people
out there in Santa Clara pel yelling at the radio.
Hey u a hall, It's Mountasia Mountasias where they have
miniature golf, the got cards, the arcade, and my daughter
and her buddies used to like to go out there,
and a very familiar with that Mountasa area.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Toward this neighborhood right here. But beside, besides that one
gentleman who came back here to get some items from
his home, we have not seen anybody else out here
except for a few firefighters.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You'll be fine. These guys got it out there, man,
These guys got.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
It, which indicates that people are in fact following those
evacuation warnings. He said, this is not something he wanted
to mess around with. We spoke that gentleman just a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Here's what he told us.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
All right, real quick with this guy. Then we got
to take a break.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I mean, it's not the first time it's happened, but
it's definitely the worst. I saw the whole living room
turned a different color in a neighbor call and said,
you know, how close is the fire? And I walked
out and that that whole thing was just an inferno.
So I grabbed my dogs. My mother was staying over, and.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We grabbed the dogs. That I never heard a mention
of mom being grabbed. I grabbed the dogs, and mom
was staying with.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Us, so I grabbed my dogs. My mother was staying
over and we grabbed her.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, so this guy's going to pay for this when
he hear it when Mom hears this on KFI or
the news tonight that the dogs got top billing over, Mom,
there is going to be a cold shoulder and perhaps
held to pay as well. Mentioned the dogs before you
mentioned me. Yeah, at least I came back to grab you,
(09:52):
so sit down.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
So I grabbed my dogs. My mother was staying over
and we grabbed her as quick as we could and
got out there. You go, and then I just walk
back to grab her medicine and medicine for my dogs.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Are you worried?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I mean no, I'm no.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
It's worried as I was when the flames were right there.
But you know, you can still see it going up there, and.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Now that's an insult to worry about fires out there,
and these guys got it feels.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Like the wind's starting to come back towards that. So
I'm going to go up.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I can hose down my fence and you're fine.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
What else we can do?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, you'll definitely want to keep a close eye on you, mom,
the dogs, the medication, everything's going to be HANSI TATSI.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I got an email from a guy who says he
was born and raised in Santa Clarita Valencia area and
that I'm wrong that that Point fire is on the
southern edge and there is not in the middle of
Santa Clarita or Valencia. It's on the southern edge. And
there's no homes south of that fire. Okay, either that
guy is talking about a different valley or he's an idiot,
(11:00):
because there's probably twenty five housing areas project areas that
are south of that Point fire. That Point fire is
on Solidad Canyon and Golden what do they call that
Golden Valley? And so just south of there there are
a lot of homes. There's the Glen area that I
know out there. Buddy Mine lives out there. The Delmonte area,
(11:21):
part Constitution Market. Del Prado's in that south of that fire,
so is Colgrove. There's some Masters is out there. I
think that South Oxford is south. There's about twenty five
development developed areas that are south of that fire. And
if you take a look at the map of Santa
Clarita or Valencia, Richie is it? I have to ask
(11:45):
this every time. Is Santa Clarita in Valencia or is
Valencia in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Valencia is in Santa Clarita Valley.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Okay, okay, all right, So this fire, if you took
a look at Santa Clarita Valley, this fire is almost
dead center. Like I said, this point fire almost exactly
dead center. So f off, you know, yeah, you know
I'm not gonna put off with that kind of crap.
We don't, you know. And then he says, you know,
he goes it doesn't sound like you ever go out there.
(12:13):
I go out there all the time. My wife and
I looked at a house and put money down on
a house on a Copper Hill, which is a beautiful
area out there. I wish i'd lived outre. I wish
i'd moved out there. My wife talked me out of
it because she wanted to be close to my dad
and my stepmother when we had our daughter, which I
think was a good idea ultimately. But man, I would
(12:36):
be the king of Copper Hill. I'd own that area.
I would be out there and I'd know all the neighbors.
We'd all have jet skis and you know, four wheel carts,
and you know kids out there playing on bikes. Everybody
would know everybody. I blew it. I should have been
I should have been more firm, said I'm moving to
(12:57):
Santa Clarita or Valencia. I love that great area. If
you get live out in that area, don't ever move.
The rule of thumb in California, and it's almost any area,
any neighborhood in California. If you love your neighbors or
you like your neighbors, never move. You can't imagine how
(13:19):
horrible it is to live next to neighbors who hate
you or you hate them, and you're constantly fighting, constantly,
you know, crap going back and forth, rumor mill going on,
who's parked in front of my house? Towing of cars?
You know, all that crap. So if you love your neighbors,
(13:39):
stay where you are and enjoy them anyway. So that
fire is as we said. I think they said it
was thirty two percent contained, which is pretty good considering
it just started, you know, at two thirty this afternoon.
No evacuations, I don't think. Hold on, look at the
(14:01):
Watch Duty here. Watch Duty is the best. I recommend
everybody gets it. Free app gives you all the information
on where to go when a fire breaks out and
you're not going to have time to you know, open
up your phone and download the app when you're ready
set go. A good thing about this app.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Also, they're actually expanding the fire you know messaging. It's
also going to start working for floods. You know, Nina's
running around the corner. So it's also going to inform
us about upcoming floods and areas.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You know what else it does is it informs everybody
about electrical outages as well. So there's a little lightning
a yellow square or yellow circle of the lightning rod
in it, and it'll tell you where the electricity is
out like, for instance, right now in Santa Clarita in
the Peico area, there's a couple of fifty six homes
(14:52):
are affected by a power outage right now. So so
cal Edison is on it. It happened twenty three minutes
ago and they have no estimate about restoration. But it's
it's right in that Rosco Pico train area. Is that
what that's called out there? Roscoe Pico Train? Without that
that area is Richie, do you know that reference? Rosco
(15:14):
Pico Train? No crozer, you got to know it. Roscoe
Pico Train from dukes of Hazard.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
No, oh coal Trane.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
No is it Rosco Peak Coletraine? Oh, Roscoe Peak Coletrane,
And I screwed that up my shoe, Peak Coal Traine.
Oh man, what a show that was.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I can't can't air it anymore, though. They would have
to go through and take off all of the flags
out of that show, including the one on the call.
That's right, the Confederate flag on top of that show
is not General twenty twenty six material. I used to
like any we gotta take a break, but I used
(15:52):
to like where they had to freeze frame in the
air while those two guys were in the air and
then tell the audience what was going to happen. You know.
So they hit a bump and they go, whoa is
Roscoe going to catch them? Or they're gonna catch there,
you know, or they're gonna get the little market before
Roscoe catches them.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Every time that thing hits the ramp, the car freezes
mid flight, right, and you see where I guess you're
wondering how these boards got into this little pickle.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And I always thought that it's because the people, dumb
people like me watching weren't smart enough to track the
car and the dialogue at the same time.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Hold up, hold up there, just pull some boom and Roscoe.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's classic.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Man.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway tunire on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I enjoyed that program. Dukes have hazard and not really
heavy lifting. Just sit there and watch. He's uh, two
idiots to get in and out of trouble every single
week every week. All right, we have there's a read
here for do we have the Dodgers here? Hold on,
I thought we did. Okay, all right, let's talk about
(17:01):
this t Rex skeleton. This is unbelievable. This looks like
a full t rex skeleton and recently sold for fifty
million dollars. So he just found this thing and turned
around and sold it for fifty million dollars. You imagine
having one of these things if he had a house
big enough, putting that sucker right in the living room
(17:22):
or the foyer or you know, the entrance to your home. Man, man,
this is authentic, you know, honest to god t rex
skeleton and this is up you know from millions and millions,
maybe hundreds of millions of years ago.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Torontosaurus Rex, the King of the dinosaurs, sixty million years ago. Wow,
today fetching a king's ransom at auction, the fossilized skeleton
nicknamed Gus, setting a new record sold at auction for
just over fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Fifty million dollars. Wow, wow, wow. You know, I don't
know what the year is. I'd have to look this
up again, but it's pretty resent. I would. I think
the eighteen hundreds. If you were born before the eighteen hundreds,
you never knew the dinosaurs roam the world. You just
(18:13):
didn't know it. There wasn't enough, you know, technology to
go back and carbon date any kind of bones that
were found. So if you were born, I think it's
before eighteen forty or eighteen fifty. If you're born before then,
dinosaurs were never taught in school. You never read about
them because they didn't know that they were around. And
(18:35):
now we're selling them. Yeah, we got a big auction.
Fifty million dollars for this Torontosaurus Rex.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Fifty million dollars. Sotherbeest says the ancient Apex predator thirty
eight feet long in twelve and a half feet hot.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
How about that thirty eight foot long monster coming after you?
This thing could rip apart any modern house, just shred it,
just walk right through it and not think anything of it.
How about that walking around you know, thank god, these
you know t rexes are extinct. Can you imagine that
every night, all of a sudden you hear rumbling like,
(19:09):
oh Christ, it's just then going to come through again.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Oh no, about the size of a yellow school bus.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Gus is one of the biggest and most complete t
res ever found.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Wow, so the beast putting out this video to hype
the auction.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
By the way, we've we've got to do something about
the imbalance when it comes to money in this country.
You know, there's some guys where one hundred and fifty
two hundred billion dollars and buying t rexes for fifty million,
And I can look out this window here and probably
see two homeless guys on the street. It's gonna come
(19:46):
to a head. I'm warning you, both Republicans and Democrats.
Unless you can solve that problem, there's gonna be a huge,
huge class war in this country. And you're gonna get
Democrats and Republicans both on the same side the and
then you're gonna get wiped out. And it's coming, is
it's coming for sure unless you do something about.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
It, saying Gus is sixty one percent complete by bone
COUMP and nearly.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Wow, that is amazing. Sixty one percent of this dinosaur
is intact.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
That's incredible, saying Gus is sixty one percent complete by
bone camp wow in nearly eighty percent complete by total mass,
ranking up there with famous t rex is like the
Chicago Field Museums sue. It was found by commercial paleontologist
Thomas hide Camp and his team, commissioned in twenty twenty
one to find fossils on a South Dakota ranch. They
(20:37):
spotted one bone a needle in a sixty five hundred
acre haystack.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Heike Camp, making the case for private funding for such excavations.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
We're in some pretty remote, dense areas that are hard
to get to you, that are expensive to get to,
that are logistically dangerous.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
No one else is looking.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
At those places.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
NBC News was unable to reach in for comments. Digging
us up and rebuilding the skeleton took years. Now it's payday.
The colossal price tag is unearthen concerns about its scientific
value and who will have access to it?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, who bought it?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
You?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Know, somebody, a billionaire had to buy it. You know,
if you're one hundred millionaire, I canna spend fifty million
on it on bones, So it has to be some billionaire.
Maybe somebody we know bought it. Maybe it'll be in
the middle of you know, the entrance to Amazon or
you know, Microsoft or Apple.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
A recent study found that the majority of discovered t
rex fossils are privately owned, making it harder for museums
to acquire specimens as prices rise.
Speaker 11 (21:39):
If we want to understand how smart t rex was,
what it ate, how it moved, what its world was like,
its environment was.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Like, Yeah, just go there, it's in This is in
the movies. Just go see the movies.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
This fossil really is a Crown Jewels.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
Dinosaur fossils a hot commodity for the super rich. Another
t rex stand so for more than thirty million dollars
in twenty twenty, and Estegosaurus apex sold for almost forty
five million and twenty twenty four. In both cases, the
buyers loan the fossils to museums.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Okay, so instead of looking for gold, you got to
get up to South Dakota and look for these t Rexes.
Could you could be worth a fifty billion dollars. Just
look around, you know, kick the dog, kick the dust,
and you know, move some logs, some old logs, and
some rocks. I bet you find one.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Paleontologist doctor Steve Bussadi says he hopes whoever bought gusts
will do the same.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
Donated to a museum. Get it out there naked, so
it's not only you that can enjoy this, but millions
of people. That's how you can make a real impact.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
The dinosaurs couldn't escape the destructive force of an asteroid
in the prehistoric world. Now their legacy trying to survive
between market forces of capitalism and advancing science. Marquise Francis, NBC.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
News, somebody's got extra dough fifty million dollars. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
All right, this is a whip around just for the
home audience, because I don't think there's enough people on
this show that will know it. I don't I wouldn't
have known it, but maybe there are enough people at
home or listening in the car. Right now. I'm going
to play you a nineteen eighties TV theme song and
see if you can get it all right, nineteen eighty
(23:23):
five two, I don't know, ninety three. I think it
was on six or seven years nineteen okay, nineteen eighty
five to nineteen ninety two, So eighty six, seven eight eight,
seven years, seven years, one hundred and sixty six episodes,
so it was on every week for seven years on
(23:44):
your TV set. If you're conscious in the eighties to
early nineties, Let's see if you can nail this one
all right. It is the home version of the Whip Around.
Don't listen to on your come.
Speaker 12 (24:07):
The Fish, We Got the Folds suck extreme opine, We
(24:34):
get taken those away.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Show the Time We Got.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Shaven.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Okay, then they say the name of the of the
TV show there. But you would have to have an
appetite for really watered down, less than hysterical, not not
very creative, not very edgy, and very few laughs per episode.
I think that sums it up. Krozier, do you know it?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, okay, what is it? Nikki's growing pain? That's right,
Growing pains that show? Oh no, okay, well you must
have been young. Yeah, you had to be either the
only two ways to enjoy that program. You had to
be young or dumb. And then oh, okay, well then
(25:28):
you have to call that a TV ding dong. But
Growing Pains uh not not cutting edge. You know, it's
family kids, kids do stupid things. Dad's an idiot, mom
controls the house. You know. It's an eighty sitcom. But
there's a story coming out of here that Ashley Johnson
shares that she was nearly kidnapped on the set of
(25:50):
Growing Pains. What's going on? She must have been very
young on that show. Wasn't she the youngest daughter? Yes,
so she must have been two or three when that
when that show started. Let's see how old is Ashley Johnson.
She was born nineteen eighty three and that show started
in eighty five. Okay, she was two. She was two
years old when that show started. And she is telling
(26:13):
a story about how she was almost kidnapped on the
set of Growing Pains.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
Some guy hops out on the line and grabs me
up and starts booking it.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Growing Pains actress Ashley Johnson says she was nearly kidnapped
while on the show. The celeb who is now forty
two recalls a scary incident that occurred early in her
time on the sitcom, which starred Kirk Cameron and Alan Thick,
among others.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I wonder if that affected her life, you know, when
that kind of trauma. Maybe she was too young and
you know, she doesn't remember it, but people just tell
her about it. But that's horrible if that affected her life,
that somebody allowed a fan to get that close to her.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
When a member of the live studio audience snatched her
away from her mother and ran off with her.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
What's going on with this audience. You're stealing the characters
from Growing Pains.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Ashley recounts the story on her podcast Weird Kids, which
she co hosts with fellow actor Tallis and Jeffy, saying
a written threat had been made ahead of the frightening moment.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Wow, that could have been a huge disaster for that
show and for the entire network. I don't know what
network that was on. Sounds like an ABC, NBC, I
w NBC. All right back to Ashley Johnson.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
Somebody had written in and said that I am coming
to set and I am going to bring a gun
and I am going to murder some of the cast.
Speaker 8 (27:36):
Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That was an odd letter, and I'll bet that that person.
I wonder what radio station that guy worked in. You
have to thank you Selfie. Probably was a radio radio chap.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
So I'm walking with my mom and then I just
remember some guy hops out of the line and grabs
me up and starts booking it. Wow, there was security
that somehow got on him after some time.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
He had a gun.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Johnson played the fourth.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Okay, so if that happened at NBC, I believe they
shot that here in La. They probably shot that right
here on this lot next to us. That was the NBC.
That was the old NBC lot. That crime could have
happened across the street where I can look at the
building that that happened in. Odd strange.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Johnson played the fourth sever child, Chrissy Sever from nineteen
ninety until the show's conclusion in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, so she was late to the show. She didn't
start in eighty five when that show started. She came
in later on, So she started in nineteen ninety. She
was born in what was she born in again, ninety three,
so she was seven when she started that show.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
At the time, the studios weren't outfitted with the level
of security measures they are today.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Of course, Wait nite, did they just replace one of
their daughters on Growing Pains? She just all of a
sudden appeared at age seven? Did she replace the other daughter?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
She she was a Layton life child. Yeah, I know,
but she but the late life child doesn't. Isn't seven
when they're introduced? Unless she was adopted, you know, she
had had to bend a baby. I don't remember that.
I'd like to find that out. I'd like to find
out if they just replaced the character like in be
when this child was played by three different actresses. No way,
(29:26):
is that right? So they did just replace her?
Speaker 12 (29:30):
They?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I guess they.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Well, it's all right, it's with a caveat The sever's
youngest child was originally an infant played by twins okay,
and then Lauren Stanley took over the role briefly in
season five before Ashley Johnson permanently took over the role.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, So Ashley Johnson took over that role at seven. Yeah,
so she had to win a lookalike contest of swords
to replace that other check season six and seven she
was there. Oh my god, So I bet they couldn't
sign the other actress. You know, she got a little
high on herself.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And also I think that was the age of the
character where took over. She became the talking toddler. So
maybe the other one could.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, or maybe the other one just was, you know,
the tired of you know, sitting around and you know,
listening to story after story after story of you know,
Alan Thick. I love the guy, but you know he's
probably phoning it in on that show. And so I
imagine just being on a set, you're like, oh Christ.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
At the time, the studios weren't outfitted with the level
of security measures they are today.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
According to Ashley, I guess not people are grabbing the characters.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
She adds of the man they got him.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
This was the thing.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
He was high on something. It wasn't meth, but it
was something like he was so strong. Johnson has continued
to work in Hollywood, mostly as a voice actor. She's
best known for her voice work in the video game
series The Last of Us and won a BAFTA Games
Award for her performance as Ellie, who's played by Bella
Ramsay in a live action series.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
All Right Well turns out happy, ending everything She's working
and everybody's fine. We're live on KFI.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Go good.
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