August 7, 2025 • 30 mins
The Canyon Fire has exploded past 1,000 acres with evacuation orders now in place as triple-digit heat fuels the flames. Meanwhile, Malibu is under a boil-water mandate, and repair crews are scrambling to fix broken valves causing a major water outage. On a lighter but controversial note, the NFL is cracking down on smelling salts—and not all players are taking it well.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's CAMF I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. The weather,
obviously it's hotter than hell outside the water outage and
then the canyon fire, so let's cover all three of them.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, let's get moving here.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
The weather triple digits for a lot of southern California.
And I'm not going to say it's unseasonably hot like
some people do, because it's perfectly seasonable.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's August.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
That's what happens every August here in southern California. By
Dallas Rains, the premiere weather guy. Now that Mark Thompson
has retired as the Dancing weather Guy, it's now Dallas Rains.
He is the king of all weather when it comes
to Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, it's really hot.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And he nailed it right out of the Chuot.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well it's really hot.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, I tell you that guy's the best.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, it's really hot.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Our temperature now running at about one hundred and one degree,
so look at that humidity at nine percent. Wind is
not a big problem coming out of the south in
about five to ten miles per hour. But look at this,
we're going to extend that heat advisory down to the
OC and the IE until Friday at eight pm. And
out in Palm Springs it's one hundred and eighteen degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It will be one hundred and eighteen in Palm Springs.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And out in Palm Springs it's one hundred and eighteen degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's one hundred and eighteen in the shade. In the
shade one one eight if you're standing out in the sun,
one thirty five, one forty.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It will be cooling off a little bit tomorrow. Today's
the hottest day, but it's still really smoking out there.
One O two at Riverside, Santa Klorina is at one
hundred and two. Look at Van Eyes in the valley
one O three three. But it is definitely cooler along
the coastline as we're getting.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
That sea breeze.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We're going to check the weather find out if the
heat wave will go into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It just all right, all right, Dallas rains, ABC channel seven,
check it out, all right, don't Felli is coming in,
which always means bad news.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
What's going on now?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Came in right beside you too, Yeah, let me have
your computer, a bullet A china shop here. Wow, come
all right, yeah, man, she really produces. Really when the
management comes down here, she really buzzes around. Sorry two
big shot, you get a hot dog. And Angel Martinez
is here today, by the way, everybody, Angel Martinez.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, all right, that's it, huh, Angel, Yeah, that was
That's the only one that could get it up for
Angel coming in out. She's gonna stop coming in unless
you guys treat her better.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I know.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, she brought chicken sausage too, a chicken.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Dogs, Yeah, buns, that's true.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
All right. The fire.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's get an update on the fire of the canyon
fire out there in near like Lake cast Steak, Lake
Pirrou area.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah, that's the priority to just kind of keep this
fire at bay. There is structure protection in place by.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
My eye, yeah, the Chris Christie with.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
It certainly appears as though this fire will start laying
down once the sun goes down before it ever reaches
Hasley Canyon, but still too early to say that for sure.
They're taking it very seriously and wasting no time with
those evacuation orders. It's going to have to climb downhill
also to get into that neighborhood and it's not likely
to do that, as this is a terrain driven fire.
(03:29):
This fire is not being driven by the wind. If
there was that on shore flow that you're talking about, Mark,
if that was really heavy, then we'd be looking at
maybe a little bit of a different picture. The winds
are actually blowing a little more towards the north, and
so that is actually helping those residents at Hasley Canyon.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Yeah, I'm all right, and all that spoke. Of course,
not helping the air quality either, Thank you, Chris Christy.
We'll check back with you in just a little bit.
Right now, we want to take a closer look at
the evacuations underway.
Speaker 9 (03:55):
We have a map for you and you can see
the fire is affecting communities in both Los Angeles and
ven Counties. In the area in red is under evacuation order.
That means the communities of Oak Canyon.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
All right, you're listen carefully, all right, these are mandatory
evacuation areas for the Canyon fire. So turn up the
volume a little and you know, tell the kids, easy,
easy in the back, Mom and Dad got to hear this.
Speaker 9 (04:18):
Oak Canyon and Valverdi. They have to get out right now.
The area in Yellow is under an evacuation warning that
includes most of Castake all the way to the five Freeway.
That means you should be prepared to evacuate if called
upon to do so. Here's another live look at the
fire from Air seven. That's one of the some seven
tankers that have been brought in to deal with this fire.
(04:40):
About to make what we presume as a fire retardant drop.
Seems like the helicopters are dropping the water and the
tankers are dropping fire retardant large swaths of area that
have already burned as you can see. But the fire
at the front end of the fire, as you can see,
still very much out of control. Again, there are evacuation
orders and warnings in effect. We're keeping a close eye
on this and we will bring you updates throughout this
(05:02):
edition of Eyewitness News.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Of course, the fire danger is very high right now.
Not only is it extremely dry out there, but some
areas have topped one hundred one.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Hundred degrees unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
All right, So we have the water outage in the
North Valley, we got the fire, the Canyon fire burning
and then heat is wiping out a lot of people.
And then there's another story here Malibu, Malibu. A boil
water demand, not a request. They demand you do this
for safety reasons out in Malibu. The hell's going on
(05:35):
in Malibu.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
Customers west of Coral Candan Road and Solstice Canyon Road,
excluding customers at Trencus Canyon and Ladigo Canyon. And this
was caused by an issue during a Coltrans bridge replacement
project at Solstice Canyon Creek. Customers are advised to boil
their tap water or use bottled water for drinking and
cooking as a safety precaution, including water used for your
(05:56):
pets or livestock. Water distribution is available at the La
County Waterworks District number twenty nine on Civic Centa Way.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh what a mess Southern California.
Speaker 11 (06:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
We thought we had the worst of it, and we
all experienced the fires in January, and we thought, okay,
after that disaster, please give us just a calm year.
And it's everything but calm. The water's out. Got to
boil your water in some part in the parts of
the valley. Also in Malibuum, we've got the Canyon fire rolling.
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It's hotter than hell. It's a mess. It's a mess.
That's why you got to keep it on KFI for
all the latest details and updates on all these major stories.
All right, we're gonna continue following all the major stories here,
the heat, the water outage, and the fire.
Speaker 12 (06:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The water's off and the fire is raging, and that's
what we're dealing with here in southern California. It is
the one of the worst days of the year to
have a big fire, so why not have one, but
the hell and probably the worst week to have the
water outage, so why not enjoy that as well.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And in the heat.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
If everyone's experiencing now, they're asking to boil your water,
so you have to heat up your house to boil
your water so.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You can use it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's a nightmare, but that's what's going on here in
southern California. We throw a lot at you here in California.
I've just come in from out of town or out
of state, and you're like, oh, la is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's great. Nothing really goes down now.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's tough to live here, it is, it's expensive, it's hot,
there's a lot of angry idiots out there, and the
water's out, so there you go. Hope you enjoy that.
And it's been out for a while. It's not just
Granada Hills area. In parts of Malibu you got to
boil your water as well, and that probably really irritates
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the wealthy people that live out there because they don't
want to do that. I know, they'll probably get somebody
else to do it for them. They're just not into it.
You know, when you buy a thirty million dollar house
on the ocean, you don't want to live like it's
seventeen to twenty five.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And that's what's going on. So we're gonna keep an
eye on all of those.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
All three of the major stories, the water outage, the
canyon fire which is over a thousand acres, and the
heat that's wiping out a lot of people. All three
of those major stories covered extensively here on KFI. But
we also some other stories going on, so we'll get
to some other stuff. We have Billy Ray coming on
at five thirty five and he's going to talk about
Oh he comes up next segment, he'll talk about AI
(08:34):
in show business and how it could wipe show business out,
wipe it out, NFL rule change and the NFL is
coming up, you know, pregames, preseason still going on. You
got the Chargers here locally, and it'll be on the
station with Matt money Smith not that so you'll enjoy
(08:55):
the Chargers right here on kfive. Dan Shennifire I forgot yeah,
jennif Fairn she got two. You know, if you're not
a maybe you're not a Chargers fan. At least you'll
know two of the people involved in the broadcast. Matt
mney Smith doing play by play and then also Shannon Ferrin,
who's with Gary and Alex Michaelson. That's the new show,
(09:17):
Gary Shannon and Alex Michaelson. He's left Fox. He's gonna
be joining the Gary and Shannon Show. I guess two weeks,
three weeks, set your calendar. That's right, Gassy g a
s E, Gary, Shannon and Alex.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So that'll be great, all right. A rule change in
the National Football League. It's going on with the.
Speaker 13 (09:39):
Rules the NFL running interference on smelling salts. The league
has ordered teams to stop supplying players with those pungent
packets of ammonia for an extra jolt of energy or
to get in the zone. The new rule is rubbing
some NFL stars the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
They do that in hockey all the time too, right
before the you know, the the puck drops in the
first period, and you'll see those guys on the bench
when they've got one in each hand and they're just
shoving them in their noses, trying to get up for
the game.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Flying around for an hour.
Speaker 13 (10:08):
San Francisco forty nine are George Kittle furious telling the
NFL network he used them before every offensive drive.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Our team at a memo today that's smelling salts and
ammonia packets were made illegal in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Wow, And I've been distraught all day.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You know, I don't think they're illegal. I think just
the team can't provide it. Yeah, you can bring your own,
Yeah byo SS.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
But that's that's typical for George Kittle, Wh's kind of
an idiot, Okay, because he's a Niner.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's right. Figure out a middle ground here, guys. Somebody
helped me out, Somebody come up with good ideas.
Speaker 13 (10:38):
Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield less than thrilled.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I think it was a quick trigger to Bantam. I'm
gonna be severely affected to be honest with.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
You, Smelling salts coming out?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Don't these guys know that you can still bring your own?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Isn't that you know? I knew that?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And I live in Burbank, I'm nowhere near an NFL team,
and I casually listened to sports casually, and I knew
that rule you can bring your own.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
God, I think it was a quick trigger to ban them.
I'm gonna be severely affected, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Why is that because you don't know where to buy them?
You can buy them and bring them in your bag
and enjoy them.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Still smelling salts coming well, you know, do enjoy them?
Don't you get up? Have you ever tried it?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah? What are they call them? Poppers?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Is that the same thing smelling salts? I don't think
that's the same thing. It's basically ammonia. Yeah, but poppers
on ammonia are they I don't know, nitrous or something?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Robin, what do you know about poppers? And and and
I Smelling salts?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You into that? Absolutely not? I wish I could tell
you different. I guess what.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Nope, By the way, you should get into them. You
need you know, you're you're you need a little more energy.
You know you got a bellio his energy belly. Are
you need these smelling salts?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (11:49):
Yeah, I know they're the best.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
What about you, Angel?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You pop those before you take the dog out and
feed the squirrels.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The dog with these salts.
Speaker 13 (11:57):
Smelling salts come in a variety of different forms Inhaler's
packets and are medically mostly used to treat fainting victims.
But once the fumes are inhaled, it clears out nasal
passages and send to proceed jolt of adrenaline through the body,
which is why many athletes find them useful. But the
NFL is working to curb concussions, which are down seventeen
(12:18):
percent from the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
What does these smelling salts have to do with concussions?
They give you a sense of that you're invincible. Maybe
you'll make a tackle with your head they normally wouldn't make.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I don't know. That's an interesting connection. The clarity that
it gives you.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Oh I say, It instantly opens up your nasal passages
and gets you a big rush of oxygen.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh I see, So you want to play harder and
hit harder, and you know.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, right, a little bit of a rush there.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
And poppers, by the way, are not smelling salts, So
two different things poppers are. They say there are chemical
inhalance called alkal nitrate. A lot of times people will
think that it's amal nitrate, which but that's not what
popples are.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
People think that's what they are. They're alkal nitrates, is
what popples. Ah, what's the difference between the two.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Amal Nitrates is like a subset of what alcohol nitrate
is more of a broader based chemical, and amal nitrates
is sort of a subset of that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It sounds like I'd like to try them. I've not
tried at the smelling salts.
Speaker 14 (13:12):
This was a step that we felt that we needed
to take as a league to make sure that our
clubs are not providing something that we know A doesn't
provide any sports benefit or advantage, and B does have
some potential downsize, and C has also been discouraged from
the FDA.
Speaker 13 (13:29):
The league citing an FDA warning from twenty twenty four
saying they're not safe and can mask the symptoms of
a concussion.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Writing things, Oh, I see, that's what it is. They
can mask the symptoms of concussion. That's where the problem.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Lies, saying they're not safe and can mask the symptoms
of a concussion. Writing the FDA noted potential negative effects
from ammonia inhaling use. They also have the potential to
mask certain neurologic signs and symptoms, including some potential signs
of concussion.
Speaker 15 (13:56):
Many of these players want their smelling salts and they
want to get back out there, but potentially masking signs
or symptoms of a concussion and ignoring a potentially significant
brain injury could really be devastating in the long term.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, no, we're spelling salts for you, gang, right, you
got to leave them for to radio guys. All right,
we're covering all the three major stories here, the heat,
the fire, the canyon fire over thousand acres west of
Santa Clarita, and then the water outage in the Northern Valley.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It's a mess.
Speaker 12 (14:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Billy Ray, who is a very famous movie writer, director, actor, olympian.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
He's done it all.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I've known since third grade and he wrote Captain Phillips,
this is this is my Ship. I think that was
a line. Oh, I know I'm the captain now, Billy?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I'm the captain now? Right?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
That is correct?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Dude, I can't believe you wrote that. Did you write
that line?
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Jim? It is so good to be speaking to you,
how much you.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Buddy? Let me before discuss today, all right, before we begin.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
We've known each other since third grade and I can
and and the last thing we talk about whenever we
have dinner or lunch is our careers are are our business.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We never talked about it.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Yeah, and there's a reason. Now, let's talk about where
where our society is going as a result of AI.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Okay, society is going to implode because of AI. I
did some research over the weekend. There isn't a single
job that I can think of that is that that
can't be replaced by AI.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
No, that's not true, really, that is not true. Yes,
name on. Someone's still going to have to pick lettuce.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Uh No, that's AI. It's gonna be aids research.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
No, people will still have to There's a lot of
manual and physical labor that AI cannot replicate. What I
would not want to be right now is someone who
makes a living as a computer coder.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Right because you're done.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
That is something AI was literally born to do. Use
that term. But those kinds of jobs, lots of really
really good middle class jobs, are going to be lost
to AI, but because it is being introduced into the
ecosystem without any guardrails whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Right, But the complicated issue, you know, with that big
beautiful bill, and I know you've got a different term
for it, but Donald Trump put in that, you know,
over the next ten years, there campaign legislation, you know,
regulating AI, and then that went and the Senate took
that out. They're voted ninety nine to one to say no,
that that's that's not what we're going to do here.
And so there's going to be regulation in states, their
(17:00):
own regulation. But Billy, even if we, you know, do
regulate it here in the United States, what to prevent
people from going to Russia or China or Europe or
Africa where they don't have regulation.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Absolutely, and AI is able to move like a virus
through the Internet, it doesn't really matter what American guardrails
look like if no one else has guardrails, right, And
it certainly doesn't matter if California puts up guardrails and regulations,
if Arkansas does not, right, So it is a problem
(17:36):
that is going to be shared by all and it
has to be solved by all. So, as you know,
progress is a funny thing. It only moves in one direction.
And I'm not going to tell you we have to
just shut AI down and pretend that the damn thing
was never invented. That would be just done. But we
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do have to figure out how it is going to
impact to us and what we can do about that,
because you could wind up with a jobless economy, sure,
and that's not a healthy thing.
Speaker 12 (18:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, I was texting you and Robbie Fox and Mike Tennessee,
Jeff Lowry a couple of other guys, and you said,
there are potentially, if not now, in the near future,
there are going to be TV shows and film films,
you know, theatrical releases that will be released and produced
completely with AI.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So the term for that is in silico, which literally
means on the chips you will have you know, you'll have.
I won't participate in it, but you will have a
showrunner who is essentially the writer, and that showrunner will
have a staff of AI instead of a staff of
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five other writers, and those and AI will generate all
of those scripts, and then someone like me will come
in and rewrite them, which means five writers who would
have been paid a middle class living they won't get
paid anymore. And of course that means they won't be
able to contribute to health and pension into the into
(19:15):
the funds of the w GA, which will be the
end of the w g A. But then once the
script is ready, then it will be. It will all
take place inside the computer. It will be the set
won't be a real set. The set will be designed
inside the computer. It will be shot inside the computer.
It'll be lit inside the computer. It'll there will be
(19:36):
a human being director who's sort of guiding all of this.
But but all of IOTZI will be out of a
job because you don't need people to do to build sets,
or to or to move lights, or to take care
of the greens, or to do anything. All those will
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be rendered immaterial by.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
This process, right, and that will destroy the economy here
in southern California and throughout the United States completely.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
What people don't understand, and I understand why they don't
understand it. The only part of show business that is
forward facing, of course, is the stars, right, like when
you when when people are doing the red carpet for
the Oscars, you're not seeing the gaffers, you're not seeing
the set decorators. You're seeing the stars, right. And so
(20:30):
people think that's the extent of our business. But the
fact is this is a completely industrial town. It is
a town that had a thriving little class because of
the industries like showbiz and you know, the production of airplanes,
particularly for the military. You know, when you and I
(20:52):
were growing up, La produced more beer than any other
city in America, including Milwaukee and Saint Look. Weirdly a
blue collar town, just like California, you know, has way
more manufacturing jobs than any other state, and way more
agricultural jobs in any other state. It's very much a
(21:13):
blue collar state, even though the most public facing part
of it is of course super glamorous. Sure well, all
of that stuff behind the glamorous part is an advantage,
and with it goes to the economy. And remember we're
talking about an economy that is the fifth largest economy
in the.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
World, right all right now, one of them.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I understand look that that you've done some researches and
you're shocked by it. Do you have the support of
other people in show business or are they just looking
to make a quick buck on this thing.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
You know, it's a great question, and it is a
fair question. And if I was able to sit down
with the five or six CEOs of our industry, I
would certainly have lots of hard questions for them about this.
I don't think they are viewing it with the alarm
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that I think would be appropriate. I know that it
was addressed, you know, in detail during the wa and
sad negotiations, and some protections were built in, but not enough.
It's moving much faster than is comfortable. It's it's really
a danger. And I have a sense that the CEOs
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who make decisions in Hollywood cannot see past the next
quarterly earnings, right, and that is that is just sort
of part of the It's just part of the job.
And so I think what they're seeing is what they
call in Silicon Valley optimization, which is you just reduce
costs in whatever way you possibly can, and that always
(22:59):
means pain, fewer people, less money.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, and every and every radio station is going through it.
Every TV station is going through that right now.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Every newspaper. Why was why was the media so supportive
of the Writer's Guild during the strike of twenty three
and so supportive of SAG during the strike of twenty
three because every person who ever worked at a newspaper
or a radio station said, oh my god, this is
happening everywhere. The coverage was like uniformly one side in
(23:32):
favor of the guilds that were striking, because the reporters
all know it. They all know it. This is a
total disaster, and it's everybody knows it. But here's the thing.
If I'm universal and I decide that I'm going to
unilaterally stop using this technology, i am giving up a
(23:53):
huge competitive edge through Warner Brothers, Paramount, et cetera. And
until they stop thinking that way, they're gonna keep chasing
each other right off a cliff, right.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And you you've got to you've got to go into
these you know, six CEOs and walk into a meeting
with all of them, and you've got to say, I'm
the captain now, Sorry, dude, a buddy, Please come back
with us when we have more time and there's not
a million disasters going Please come in like next week
of the following week, and we can talk about this.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
A little, a little longer.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I would love that.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You're the best man. I appreciate it all right, Billy Ray,
the writer of a bunch of movies. And Captain Phillips.
That's a great movie. You haven't seen it, go go
check it out. Captain Phillips, I'm the captain now, this
is my ship. I should start doing that from the
radio station with Belly O and everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I'm the captain now. She would love that, she would.
Speaker 12 (24:54):
Yeah, yeah, my ass kicked. You're listening to Tim Conway too.
You're from KFI. A six forty fire update.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
The Canyon fire burning up west northwest of Santa Clarta.
You have the water outage in Granada hills porta ranch area.
Beautiful out there, by the way. Last time I was
out there, they just had the Walmart, best Buy and
Chopsticks and I don't know they like ninety Starbucks. But
(25:25):
I went there out there last night and they rebuilt
or they built an entire shopping center on the opposite
side of the Walmart, on the other side of the street.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And it looks like it's beautiful out there. I think
it's called the Vineyard.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I don't know, that might be wrong, but those people
want to live out there that part of the valley.
They got it going on, but nobody has any water.
All right, the fire update. Let's get the update on
this fire here because this is you know, it could
potentially be a disaster.
Speaker 15 (25:55):
Now.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
On the ground, there are eleven tankers and seven water
dropping helicopters assigned to this firefight. As I come out
to the east, you'll see some of the with the
fire and the smoke. I can tell you there's a
evacuation orders and warnings in those areas for Hasley Canyon
and for Valverdi as well as the Piru area. I
(26:21):
can tell you that though the Piru community is not
threatened at this point. But again, a lot of activity
on the ground and in the air. All those tankers
doing their job, dropping some of the fire retardant on
the western flank of the firemen to try to spin around.
We're right over the heart of the fire right now.
But you can see some of those fire retarding lines
that have been dropped on the fire. The fire has
(26:42):
moved beyond this sense, but the fire crews in the
water dropping helicopters drawing water from Lake Piru and going
right to the fire very close by and hitting those hotspots.
There was a home that was threatened in this area.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Here.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
As I zoom in, you'll see that the fire burned
right up to it. This was around three burned right
up to that barn and then the home down below.
Fortunately there were some ed Terre County firefighters there that
were doing structure protection and saved those properties. So at
this point that I could tell you that the structure
there is saved and others, though the fire is approaching
(27:18):
it at this point. But again, as I spin the
camera around, you see the distance the fire has traveled.
It looks like the fire may have started near a
shooting range off of a Holzer canyon. It looked like
that was the source or where the point of origin
of the fire. I'm showing you that right now.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
And I thought they close those firing ranges down when
it's one hundred degrees just for this purpose so spark
doesn't explode and everybody's home burns down.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
Or where the point of origin of the fire. I'm
showing you that right now. As I zoom into that area,
it looked like that's where the fire started and then
just raced up the canyon here.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But again.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
Fire moving to the northeast and that smoke drifting off
over the Castaic area. That's the latest overhead up in skyfire.
I'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That is the latest update on the fire. We don't
have any more updates on the water outage. It looks
like it's still out. It might be out for another day,
a couple of days. They're trying to fix it. They're
working there as fast as they can.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Right now, you get to rely on the free water
they're given out, or buzz into Vond's Ralphs whatever wherever
you get your water costco and load up.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You're gonna need it because you can't use.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The tap, can't use the shower, the toilets, the pool,
the grass, nothing, the dogs, horses. Everybody is dry. Everybody's dry. Sorry,
that was my phone. It dings when I lose a
race at del Mar.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
That can't be the case. It's the case I have.
Can we be hearing it ding all the time.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I don't really bet a lot while I'm working. I
still do, but not a lot. A friend of mine
gave me a tip and he said, and I've known
him for thirty years at San Nita and he's never
given me a tip thirty years.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And he texts me.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He called me yes two days ago he said I
got a hot tip and I said, what is it?
He gave me a horse in the fifth race. I said,
oh great, he goes load up on it. He never
tells me you know what to bet or anything. His
name is Yip and he said, he said, I got
a horse for you Thursday in the fifth race. So
(29:34):
I loaded up. I should have asked him, you mean
bet on it to place fourth or fifth? Because it
came in fourth? Should I bet on at the place fourth?
Is that what the I missed part of the text.
Oh maybe I missed the last part of the text. Hey, Tim,
bet on it to come in fourth. I know it
(29:57):
doesn't pay anything, but you'll be a how accurate I am? Anyway,
Always nice to see you. Great Conway Show on demand
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It's CAMF I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. The weather,
obviously it's hotter than hell outside the water outage and
then the canyon fire, so let's cover all three of them.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, let's get moving here.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
The weather triple digits for a lot of southern California.
And I'm not going to say it's unseasonably hot like
some people do, because it's perfectly seasonable.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's August.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
That's what happens every August here in southern California. By
Dallas Rains, the premiere weather guy. Now that Mark Thompson
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to Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, it's really hot.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And he nailed it right out of the Chuot.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well it's really hot.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, I tell you that guy's the best.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, it's really hot.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Our temperature now running at about one hundred and one degree,
so look at that humidity at nine percent. Wind is
not a big problem coming out of the south in
about five to ten miles per hour. But look at this,
we're going to extend that heat advisory down to the
OC and the IE until Friday at eight pm. And
out in Palm Springs it's one hundred and eighteen degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It will be one hundred and eighteen in Palm Springs.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
And out in Palm Springs it's one hundred and eighteen degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's one hundred and eighteen in the shade. In the
shade one one eight if you're standing out in the sun,
one thirty five, one forty.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It will be cooling off a little bit tomorrow. Today's
the hottest day, but it's still really smoking out there.
One O two at Riverside, Santa Klorina is at one
hundred and two. Look at Van Eyes in the valley
one O three three. But it is definitely cooler along
the coastline as we're getting.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
That sea breeze.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We're going to check the weather find out if the
heat wave will go into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It just all right, all right, Dallas rains, ABC channel seven,
check it out, all right, don't Felli is coming in,
which always means bad news.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
What's going on now?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Came in right beside you too, Yeah, let me have
your computer, a bullet A china shop here. Wow, come
all right, yeah, man, she really produces. Really when the
management comes down here, she really buzzes around. Sorry two
big shot, you get a hot dog. And Angel Martinez
is here today, by the way, everybody, Angel Martinez.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, all right, that's it, huh, Angel, Yeah, that was
That's the only one that could get it up for
Angel coming in out. She's gonna stop coming in unless
you guys treat her better.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I know.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, she brought chicken sausage too, a chicken.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Dogs, Yeah, buns, that's true.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
All right. The fire.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's get an update on the fire of the canyon
fire out there in near like Lake cast Steak, Lake
Pirrou area.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah, that's the priority to just kind of keep this
fire at bay. There is structure protection in place by.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
My eye, yeah, the Chris Christie with.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
It certainly appears as though this fire will start laying
down once the sun goes down before it ever reaches
Hasley Canyon, but still too early to say that for sure.
They're taking it very seriously and wasting no time with
those evacuation orders. It's going to have to climb downhill
also to get into that neighborhood and it's not likely
to do that, as this is a terrain driven fire.
(03:29):
This fire is not being driven by the wind. If
there was that on shore flow that you're talking about, Mark,
if that was really heavy, then we'd be looking at
maybe a little bit of a different picture. The winds
are actually blowing a little more towards the north, and
so that is actually helping those residents at Hasley Canyon.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Yeah, I'm all right, and all that spoke. Of course,
not helping the air quality either, Thank you, Chris Christy.
We'll check back with you in just a little bit.
Right now, we want to take a closer look at
the evacuations underway.
Speaker 9 (03:55):
We have a map for you and you can see
the fire is affecting communities in both Los Angeles and
ven Counties. In the area in red is under evacuation order.
That means the communities of Oak Canyon.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
All right, you're listen carefully, all right, these are mandatory
evacuation areas for the Canyon fire. So turn up the
volume a little and you know, tell the kids, easy,
easy in the back, Mom and Dad got to hear this.
Speaker 9 (04:18):
Oak Canyon and Valverdi. They have to get out right now.
The area in Yellow is under an evacuation warning that
includes most of Castake all the way to the five Freeway.
That means you should be prepared to evacuate if called
upon to do so. Here's another live look at the
fire from Air seven. That's one of the some seven
tankers that have been brought in to deal with this fire.
(04:40):
About to make what we presume as a fire retardant drop.
Seems like the helicopters are dropping the water and the
tankers are dropping fire retardant large swaths of area that
have already burned as you can see. But the fire
at the front end of the fire, as you can see,
still very much out of control. Again, there are evacuation
orders and warnings in effect. We're keeping a close eye
on this and we will bring you updates throughout this
(05:02):
edition of Eyewitness News.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Of course, the fire danger is very high right now.
Not only is it extremely dry out there, but some
areas have topped one hundred one.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Hundred degrees unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
All right, So we have the water outage in the
North Valley, we got the fire, the Canyon fire burning
and then heat is wiping out a lot of people.
And then there's another story here Malibu, Malibu. A boil
water demand, not a request. They demand you do this
for safety reasons out in Malibu. The hell's going on
(05:35):
in Malibu.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
Customers west of Coral Candan Road and Solstice Canyon Road,
excluding customers at Trencus Canyon and Ladigo Canyon. And this
was caused by an issue during a Coltrans bridge replacement
project at Solstice Canyon Creek. Customers are advised to boil
their tap water or use bottled water for drinking and
cooking as a safety precaution, including water used for your
(05:56):
pets or livestock. Water distribution is available at the La
County Waterworks District number twenty nine on Civic Centa Way.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh what a mess Southern California.
Speaker 11 (06:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
We thought we had the worst of it, and we
all experienced the fires in January, and we thought, okay,
after that disaster, please give us just a calm year.
And it's everything but calm. The water's out. Got to
boil your water in some part in the parts of
the valley. Also in Malibuum, we've got the Canyon fire rolling.
(06:26):
It's hotter than hell. It's a mess. It's a mess.
That's why you got to keep it on KFI for
all the latest details and updates on all these major stories.
All right, we're gonna continue following all the major stories here,
the heat, the water outage, and the fire.
Speaker 12 (06:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The water's off and the fire is raging, and that's
what we're dealing with here in southern California. It is
the one of the worst days of the year to
have a big fire, so why not have one, but
the hell and probably the worst week to have the
water outage, so why not enjoy that as well.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
And in the heat.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
If everyone's experiencing now, they're asking to boil your water,
so you have to heat up your house to boil
your water so.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You can use it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's a nightmare, but that's what's going on here in
southern California. We throw a lot at you here in California.
I've just come in from out of town or out
of state, and you're like, oh, la is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's great. Nothing really goes down now.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's tough to live here, it is, it's expensive, it's hot,
there's a lot of angry idiots out there, and the
water's out, so there you go. Hope you enjoy that.
And it's been out for a while. It's not just
Granada Hills area. In parts of Malibu you got to
boil your water as well, and that probably really irritates
(07:53):
the wealthy people that live out there because they don't
want to do that. I know, they'll probably get somebody
else to do it for them. They're just not into it.
You know, when you buy a thirty million dollar house
on the ocean, you don't want to live like it's
seventeen to twenty five.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And that's what's going on. So we're gonna keep an
eye on all of those.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
All three of the major stories, the water outage, the
canyon fire which is over a thousand acres, and the
heat that's wiping out a lot of people. All three
of those major stories covered extensively here on KFI. But
we also some other stories going on, so we'll get
to some other stuff. We have Billy Ray coming on
at five thirty five and he's going to talk about
Oh he comes up next segment, he'll talk about AI
(08:34):
in show business and how it could wipe show business out,
wipe it out, NFL rule change and the NFL is
coming up, you know, pregames, preseason still going on. You
got the Chargers here locally, and it'll be on the
station with Matt money Smith not that so you'll enjoy
(08:55):
the Chargers right here on kfive. Dan Shennifire I forgot yeah,
jennif Fairn she got two. You know, if you're not
a maybe you're not a Chargers fan. At least you'll
know two of the people involved in the broadcast. Matt
mney Smith doing play by play and then also Shannon Ferrin,
who's with Gary and Alex Michaelson. That's the new show,
(09:17):
Gary Shannon and Alex Michaelson. He's left Fox. He's gonna
be joining the Gary and Shannon Show. I guess two weeks,
three weeks, set your calendar. That's right, Gassy g a
s E, Gary, Shannon and Alex.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So that'll be great, all right. A rule change in
the National Football League. It's going on with the.
Speaker 13 (09:39):
Rules the NFL running interference on smelling salts. The league
has ordered teams to stop supplying players with those pungent
packets of ammonia for an extra jolt of energy or
to get in the zone. The new rule is rubbing
some NFL stars the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
They do that in hockey all the time too, right
before the you know, the the puck drops in the
first period, and you'll see those guys on the bench
when they've got one in each hand and they're just
shoving them in their noses, trying to get up for
the game.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Flying around for an hour.
Speaker 13 (10:08):
San Francisco forty nine are George Kittle furious telling the
NFL network he used them before every offensive drive.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Our team at a memo today that's smelling salts and
ammonia packets were made illegal in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Wow, And I've been distraught all day.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You know, I don't think they're illegal. I think just
the team can't provide it. Yeah, you can bring your own,
Yeah byo SS.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
But that's that's typical for George Kittle, Wh's kind of
an idiot, Okay, because he's a Niner.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's right. Figure out a middle ground here, guys. Somebody
helped me out, Somebody come up with good ideas.
Speaker 13 (10:38):
Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield less than thrilled.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I think it was a quick trigger to Bantam. I'm
gonna be severely affected to be honest with.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
You, Smelling salts coming out?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Don't these guys know that you can still bring your own?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Isn't that you know? I knew that?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And I live in Burbank, I'm nowhere near an NFL team,
and I casually listened to sports casually, and I knew
that rule you can bring your own.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
God, I think it was a quick trigger to ban them.
I'm gonna be severely affected, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Why is that because you don't know where to buy them?
You can buy them and bring them in your bag
and enjoy them.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Still smelling salts coming well, you know, do enjoy them?
Don't you get up? Have you ever tried it?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah? What are they call them? Poppers?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Is that the same thing smelling salts? I don't think
that's the same thing. It's basically ammonia. Yeah, but poppers
on ammonia are they I don't know, nitrous or something?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Robin, what do you know about poppers? And and and
I Smelling salts?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You into that? Absolutely not? I wish I could tell
you different. I guess what.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Nope, By the way, you should get into them. You
need you know, you're you're you need a little more energy.
You know you got a bellio his energy belly. Are
you need these smelling salts?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (11:49):
Yeah, I know they're the best.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
What about you, Angel?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You pop those before you take the dog out and
feed the squirrels.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The dog with these salts.
Speaker 13 (11:57):
Smelling salts come in a variety of different forms Inhaler's
packets and are medically mostly used to treat fainting victims.
But once the fumes are inhaled, it clears out nasal
passages and send to proceed jolt of adrenaline through the body,
which is why many athletes find them useful. But the
NFL is working to curb concussions, which are down seventeen
(12:18):
percent from the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
What does these smelling salts have to do with concussions?
They give you a sense of that you're invincible. Maybe
you'll make a tackle with your head they normally wouldn't make.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I don't know. That's an interesting connection. The clarity that
it gives you.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Oh I say, It instantly opens up your nasal passages
and gets you a big rush of oxygen.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh I see, So you want to play harder and
hit harder, and you know.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, right, a little bit of a rush there.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
And poppers, by the way, are not smelling salts, So
two different things poppers are. They say there are chemical
inhalance called alkal nitrate. A lot of times people will
think that it's amal nitrate, which but that's not what
popples are.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
People think that's what they are. They're alkal nitrates, is
what popples. Ah, what's the difference between the two.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Amal Nitrates is like a subset of what alcohol nitrate
is more of a broader based chemical, and amal nitrates
is sort of a subset of that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It sounds like I'd like to try them. I've not
tried at the smelling salts.
Speaker 14 (13:12):
This was a step that we felt that we needed
to take as a league to make sure that our
clubs are not providing something that we know A doesn't
provide any sports benefit or advantage, and B does have
some potential downsize, and C has also been discouraged from
the FDA.
Speaker 13 (13:29):
The league citing an FDA warning from twenty twenty four
saying they're not safe and can mask the symptoms of
a concussion.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Writing things, Oh, I see, that's what it is. They
can mask the symptoms of concussion. That's where the problem.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Lies, saying they're not safe and can mask the symptoms
of a concussion. Writing the FDA noted potential negative effects
from ammonia inhaling use. They also have the potential to
mask certain neurologic signs and symptoms, including some potential signs
of concussion.
Speaker 15 (13:56):
Many of these players want their smelling salts and they
want to get back out there, but potentially masking signs
or symptoms of a concussion and ignoring a potentially significant
brain injury could really be devastating in the long term.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, no, we're spelling salts for you, gang, right, you
got to leave them for to radio guys. All right,
we're covering all the three major stories here, the heat,
the fire, the canyon fire over thousand acres west of
Santa Clarita, and then the water outage in the Northern Valley.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It's a mess.
Speaker 12 (14:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Billy Ray, who is a very famous movie writer, director, actor, olympian.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
He's done it all.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I've known since third grade and he wrote Captain Phillips,
this is this is my Ship. I think that was
a line. Oh, I know I'm the captain now, Billy?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I'm the captain now? Right?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
That is correct?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Dude, I can't believe you wrote that. Did you write
that line?
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Jim? It is so good to be speaking to you,
how much you.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Buddy? Let me before discuss today, all right, before we begin.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
We've known each other since third grade and I can
and and the last thing we talk about whenever we
have dinner or lunch is our careers are are our business.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We never talked about it.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Yeah, and there's a reason. Now, let's talk about where
where our society is going as a result of AI.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Okay, society is going to implode because of AI. I
did some research over the weekend. There isn't a single
job that I can think of that is that that
can't be replaced by AI.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
No, that's not true, really, that is not true. Yes,
name on. Someone's still going to have to pick lettuce.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Uh No, that's AI. It's gonna be aids research.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
No, people will still have to There's a lot of
manual and physical labor that AI cannot replicate. What I
would not want to be right now is someone who
makes a living as a computer coder.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Right because you're done.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
That is something AI was literally born to do. Use
that term. But those kinds of jobs, lots of really
really good middle class jobs, are going to be lost
to AI, but because it is being introduced into the
ecosystem without any guardrails whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Right, But the complicated issue, you know, with that big
beautiful bill, and I know you've got a different term
for it, but Donald Trump put in that, you know,
over the next ten years, there campaign legislation, you know,
regulating AI, and then that went and the Senate took
that out. They're voted ninety nine to one to say no,
that that's that's not what we're going to do here.
And so there's going to be regulation in states, their
(17:00):
own regulation. But Billy, even if we, you know, do
regulate it here in the United States, what to prevent
people from going to Russia or China or Europe or
Africa where they don't have regulation.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Absolutely, and AI is able to move like a virus
through the Internet, it doesn't really matter what American guardrails
look like if no one else has guardrails, right, And
it certainly doesn't matter if California puts up guardrails and regulations,
if Arkansas does not, right, So it is a problem
(17:36):
that is going to be shared by all and it
has to be solved by all. So, as you know,
progress is a funny thing. It only moves in one direction.
And I'm not going to tell you we have to
just shut AI down and pretend that the damn thing
was never invented. That would be just done. But we
(17:56):
do have to figure out how it is going to
impact to us and what we can do about that,
because you could wind up with a jobless economy, sure,
and that's not a healthy thing.
Speaker 12 (18:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, I was texting you and Robbie Fox and Mike Tennessee,
Jeff Lowry a couple of other guys, and you said,
there are potentially, if not now, in the near future,
there are going to be TV shows and film films,
you know, theatrical releases that will be released and produced
completely with AI.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So the term for that is in silico, which literally
means on the chips you will have you know, you'll have.
I won't participate in it, but you will have a
showrunner who is essentially the writer, and that showrunner will
have a staff of AI instead of a staff of
(18:52):
five other writers, and those and AI will generate all
of those scripts, and then someone like me will come
in and rewrite them, which means five writers who would
have been paid a middle class living they won't get
paid anymore. And of course that means they won't be
able to contribute to health and pension into the into
(19:15):
the funds of the w GA, which will be the
end of the w g A. But then once the
script is ready, then it will be. It will all
take place inside the computer. It will be the set
won't be a real set. The set will be designed
inside the computer. It will be shot inside the computer.
It'll be lit inside the computer. It'll there will be
(19:36):
a human being director who's sort of guiding all of this.
But but all of IOTZI will be out of a
job because you don't need people to do to build sets,
or to or to move lights, or to take care
of the greens, or to do anything. All those will
(20:00):
be rendered immaterial by.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
This process, right, and that will destroy the economy here
in southern California and throughout the United States completely.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
What people don't understand, and I understand why they don't
understand it. The only part of show business that is
forward facing, of course, is the stars, right, like when
you when when people are doing the red carpet for
the Oscars, you're not seeing the gaffers, you're not seeing
the set decorators. You're seeing the stars, right. And so
(20:30):
people think that's the extent of our business. But the
fact is this is a completely industrial town. It is
a town that had a thriving little class because of
the industries like showbiz and you know, the production of airplanes,
particularly for the military. You know, when you and I
(20:52):
were growing up, La produced more beer than any other
city in America, including Milwaukee and Saint Look. Weirdly a
blue collar town, just like California, you know, has way
more manufacturing jobs than any other state, and way more
agricultural jobs in any other state. It's very much a
(21:13):
blue collar state, even though the most public facing part
of it is of course super glamorous. Sure well, all
of that stuff behind the glamorous part is an advantage,
and with it goes to the economy. And remember we're
talking about an economy that is the fifth largest economy
in the.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
World, right all right now, one of them.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I understand look that that you've done some researches and
you're shocked by it. Do you have the support of
other people in show business or are they just looking
to make a quick buck on this thing.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
You know, it's a great question, and it is a
fair question. And if I was able to sit down
with the five or six CEOs of our industry, I
would certainly have lots of hard questions for them about this.
I don't think they are viewing it with the alarm
(22:09):
that I think would be appropriate. I know that it
was addressed, you know, in detail during the wa and
sad negotiations, and some protections were built in, but not enough.
It's moving much faster than is comfortable. It's it's really
a danger. And I have a sense that the CEOs
(22:35):
who make decisions in Hollywood cannot see past the next
quarterly earnings, right, and that is that is just sort
of part of the It's just part of the job.
And so I think what they're seeing is what they
call in Silicon Valley optimization, which is you just reduce
costs in whatever way you possibly can, and that always
(22:59):
means pain, fewer people, less money.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, and every and every radio station is going through it.
Every TV station is going through that right now.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Every newspaper. Why was why was the media so supportive
of the Writer's Guild during the strike of twenty three
and so supportive of SAG during the strike of twenty
three because every person who ever worked at a newspaper
or a radio station said, oh my god, this is
happening everywhere. The coverage was like uniformly one side in
(23:32):
favor of the guilds that were striking, because the reporters
all know it. They all know it. This is a
total disaster, and it's everybody knows it. But here's the thing.
If I'm universal and I decide that I'm going to
unilaterally stop using this technology, i am giving up a
(23:53):
huge competitive edge through Warner Brothers, Paramount, et cetera. And
until they stop thinking that way, they're gonna keep chasing
each other right off a cliff, right.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And you you've got to you've got to go into
these you know, six CEOs and walk into a meeting
with all of them, and you've got to say, I'm
the captain now, Sorry, dude, a buddy, Please come back
with us when we have more time and there's not
a million disasters going Please come in like next week
of the following week, and we can talk about this.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
A little, a little longer.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I would love that.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You're the best man. I appreciate it all right, Billy Ray,
the writer of a bunch of movies. And Captain Phillips.
That's a great movie. You haven't seen it, go go
check it out. Captain Phillips, I'm the captain now, this
is my ship. I should start doing that from the
radio station with Belly O and everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I'm the captain now. She would love that, she would.
Speaker 12 (24:54):
Yeah, yeah, my ass kicked. You're listening to Tim Conway too.
You're from KFI. A six forty fire update.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
The Canyon fire burning up west northwest of Santa Clarta.
You have the water outage in Granada hills porta ranch area.
Beautiful out there, by the way. Last time I was
out there, they just had the Walmart, best Buy and
Chopsticks and I don't know they like ninety Starbucks. But
(25:25):
I went there out there last night and they rebuilt
or they built an entire shopping center on the opposite
side of the Walmart, on the other side of the street.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And it looks like it's beautiful out there. I think
it's called the Vineyard.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I don't know, that might be wrong, but those people
want to live out there that part of the valley.
They got it going on, but nobody has any water.
All right, the fire update. Let's get the update on
this fire here because this is you know, it could
potentially be a disaster.
Speaker 15 (25:55):
Now.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
On the ground, there are eleven tankers and seven water
dropping helicopters assigned to this firefight. As I come out
to the east, you'll see some of the with the
fire and the smoke. I can tell you there's a
evacuation orders and warnings in those areas for Hasley Canyon
and for Valverdi as well as the Piru area. I
(26:21):
can tell you that though the Piru community is not
threatened at this point. But again, a lot of activity
on the ground and in the air. All those tankers
doing their job, dropping some of the fire retardant on
the western flank of the firemen to try to spin around.
We're right over the heart of the fire right now.
But you can see some of those fire retarding lines
that have been dropped on the fire. The fire has
(26:42):
moved beyond this sense, but the fire crews in the
water dropping helicopters drawing water from Lake Piru and going
right to the fire very close by and hitting those hotspots.
There was a home that was threatened in this area.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Here.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
As I zoom in, you'll see that the fire burned
right up to it. This was around three burned right
up to that barn and then the home down below.
Fortunately there were some ed Terre County firefighters there that
were doing structure protection and saved those properties. So at
this point that I could tell you that the structure
there is saved and others, though the fire is approaching
(27:18):
it at this point. But again, as I spin the
camera around, you see the distance the fire has traveled.
It looks like the fire may have started near a
shooting range off of a Holzer canyon. It looked like
that was the source or where the point of origin
of the fire. I'm showing you that right now.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
And I thought they close those firing ranges down when
it's one hundred degrees just for this purpose so spark
doesn't explode and everybody's home burns down.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
Or where the point of origin of the fire. I'm
showing you that right now. As I zoom into that area,
it looked like that's where the fire started and then
just raced up the canyon here.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But again.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
Fire moving to the northeast and that smoke drifting off
over the Castaic area. That's the latest overhead up in skyfire.
I'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That is the latest update on the fire. We don't
have any more updates on the water outage. It looks
like it's still out. It might be out for another day,
a couple of days. They're trying to fix it. They're
working there as fast as they can.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Right now, you get to rely on the free water
they're given out, or buzz into Vond's Ralphs whatever wherever
you get your water costco and load up.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You're gonna need it because you can't use.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The tap, can't use the shower, the toilets, the pool,
the grass, nothing, the dogs, horses. Everybody is dry. Everybody's dry. Sorry,
that was my phone. It dings when I lose a
race at del Mar.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
That can't be the case. It's the case I have.
Can we be hearing it ding all the time.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I don't really bet a lot while I'm working. I
still do, but not a lot. A friend of mine
gave me a tip and he said, and I've known
him for thirty years at San Nita and he's never
given me a tip thirty years.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And he texts me.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He called me yes two days ago he said I
got a hot tip and I said, what is it?
He gave me a horse in the fifth race. I said,
oh great, he goes load up on it. He never
tells me you know what to bet or anything. His
name is Yip and he said, he said, I got
a horse for you Thursday in the fifth race. So
(29:34):
I loaded up. I should have asked him, you mean
bet on it to place fourth or fifth? Because it
came in fourth? Should I bet on at the place fourth?
Is that what the I missed part of the text.
Oh maybe I missed the last part of the text. Hey, Tim,
bet on it to come in fourth. I know it
(29:57):
doesn't pay anything, but you'll be a how accurate I am? Anyway,
Always nice to see you. Great Conway Show on demand
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