September 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Nine months after the January wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Malibu, FEMA may destroy homes that survived the fire damage but do have smoke damage, due to new flood standards known as FEMA flood levels. A nine-year-old kid named Jameson went to a Phillies baseball game and caught a foul ball, then he gave the ball he caught to an 80-year-old woman, because she’s “way older.” Three people have been charged with stealing more than $40,000 in FEMA disaster relief funds meant for displaced residents who were impacted by LA’s January wildfires.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. If I
am six forty, it is The Conway Show. Twenty four
hours from right now, the Dodgers start their climb back
to trying to win back to back World Series. It
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starts tomorrow at six pm, twenty four hours from right
now at Dodger Stadium. Get there early. There's gonna be
a lot of traffic. You may want to leave your
house at two, maybe two thirty, and you'll get there
by four thirty, four, four thirty, and it's you can
watch batting practice. There's nothing like Dodger Stadium during the playoffs.
(00:46):
There's a special energy at Dodger Stadium that is just
not there during the regular season unless it's i don't know,
a huge event like Kershaw pitching his last game or
somebody retiring. By just a normal game during the season
can't match the energy that's going to be there tomorrow
(01:06):
at Dodgers Stadium. So get there, get their early first
pitches at six and go Dodgers. You know, heavy Dodgers,
man heavy Dodgers, so that'll be a cool deal. Dodgers
in the Playoffs. It's fall in southern California. It's a
(01:27):
great time of year. I remember when I was a kid.
I went to Portola Junior High in Tarzana, and they
used to roll a TV set, you know, because back
in the playoffs in back in the nineteen seventies were
all played during the day. I don't remember a single
game being played at night. They were all day games,
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or at least I remember them all as day games
for the Playoffs. The World Series is at night, but
most of the Playoffs were during the day, and they
used to roll a color TV into the quad, into
the you know, lunch area, and me and you know,
six other guys that weren't getting any you know, not
(02:08):
interested in talking to girls yet we're watching the Dodgers
and that's where I met some of my friends I
still have today. I remember a guy named Robbie Fox,
you know, I met him in seventh grade and we
sat there and we watched these stupid games, you know,
together in the lunch area while my other friends, who
were you know, talking to girls at the time, and
(02:30):
there was just five geeky guys staring at ted TV
as me. Jeff Lowie Scott Bloom, Mike Tennessee, Todd Crouch,
all the guys. I grew up with just staring at
these TV sets. And that's what your life is, you know,
that's why you want to be around. You know, who's
gonna win the next World Series, the next Stanley Cup,
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the next NBA Championship, or the next Super Bowl. That's
why you live, you know, figure out who's gonna win
these stupid games. But that's tomorrow at six o'clock at
Dodger Stadium, Big big deal. All right, there's Malibu FEMA rules.
You know, there's a lot going on with people rebuilding.
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Homeowners say they could be forced into demolition after the
Palisades fire. Another thing for people in that area to
worry about. You know, it's not even be a year
since those fires happened. They happened in January and we're
going to be in October, so we're nine months. It
seems like a generation ago. They're only nine months ago
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these fires. And so we let's figure out what's going
on here with FEMA.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Homes left scarred from the Palisades fire now facing a
new threat of destruction.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Fire departments spared the home, but it looks like FEMA's
going to take it down.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well known real estate investor Grant Cardones beachside house in
Malibu survived the Palisades fire, but FEMA rules may force
him to tear it down anyways.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Is say, what the hell perfect structure? They want me
to take all that down? This had nothing that, none
of this was fire damage.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
This letter, sent from an architect to Cardoons team details
the problem, saying because repairs exceed FEMAS fifty percent damaged threshold,
the existing house needs to be brought into compliance with
FEMA's latest published Base four elevation, meaning the entire home
needs to be raised by it about a foot because
of new flood standards.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Oh, you gotta be kidding me. They're going to make
these people tear down their homes because it's because it's
not high enough by one foot. Oh, this is going
to drive people crazy. This is going to drive people crazy.
You're going to see it. You're going to see people
acting outrageous with unbelievable anger over this. If they're going
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to make people tear down their homes just to raise
it a foot is going to drive people crazy. Look,
these people who live in the Palisades Malibu Alta Dina area.
They're already on their last nerve. They can't take anymore.
They can't take much at all. And you're gonna make
this guy terr his house down, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Meaning the entire home needs to be raised by about
a foot because of new flood standards.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I will be required of flood standards in Pacific Palisades.
I don't remember them ever having a flood in that area.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I will be required to take my property down to
the ground to raise the house to what they call
as a new FEMA flood level. And I've never been
threatened by water, never had a flood.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I'm telling you he's right, I've never I've been living
in La my entire life. I don't remember ever one
single flood in the Palisades area.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Never, And I've never been threatened by water, never had
a flood.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Cordon says the required demolition would increase his repair costs
from about two million dollars to fifty million. Wait wait, wait,
what would increase his pair of costs from about two
million dollars?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All right, two million dollars repair to fifty million. Fifty
million seems like a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
This is beyond insanity by the way, because you cannot
make sense of this kind of thinking.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Cardone says he's not necessarily worried about his situation, but
all the other homeowners that live along the water with
smoke damage.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It's really unfortunate for people in that situation. Someone that
doesn't have the means to make more money.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Patrick Miller's home in Malibu also has smoke damage. Somewhere
he's lived his entire life.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
This may be the situation that we are going to
lose that community.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You have to be super rich now in California to
survive this.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's right, middle class rich, they're done for being impacted
like you're poor people now, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Adam Carolla has got a great series on in documenting
the aftermath of the fires. So if you go to
Adamcola dot com and then look at his videos, he
has about six seven, maybe eight videos out where he
took talks about he grabs somebody from the Army Corps
of Engineers and interviews them on what they what they're doing,
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what the plan is. And I don't know if anybody
else out there that has it documented like Corolla. He's
and it's done in Corolla style. Where you know, he
makes light of the situation. It's very funny but yet
a very serious topic. And I don't think anyone else
out there could do what he's doing. So go look
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at his videos, especially if you live out in the
Palisades area Malibu area. He does. His videos are a
terrific document not a document mentory, but just like video
blogs of what's going on out there. And they really
are great. They're great, So get out there. And it's
it's amazing though, that they're going to make this guy
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take this house down and raise it by a foot.
I mean, isn't there a way to raise a house
without taking it down? I mean, I'm sure they have.
You know, that's probably a sharp question, but I'm sure
there's massive hydraulic pumps or hydraulic lift they can lift
that high.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
When I was doing construction when I first came out here,
and I worked a lot predominantly in South Pasadena, we
raised houses off of their foundations. Oh is that right
to re establish the foundations underneath? And yeah, we used
hydraulic lifts and we lifted it. We would lift it
up one side of the house. Yeah, we could. I
would bet The issue is mostly because you're doing it
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on sand as opposed to on regular ground ground. I'm
tending to think that would be the only reason that
you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What year was that? That was eighty nine, Okay, so
in eighty nine they had the technology to do it.
I imagine it's actually grown and safer and back were tended
to think.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
So that's why I was kind of like, really, there's
no way to do that, because, like I said, we
used to raise repair foundations all the time when.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They moved you know, these century homes that they have
in Ohio that were built before Abraham Lincoln was president,
that you can't tear them down, but you can move them. Yeah,
that's what they do. They come in with hydraulic lifts.
They lift it, They put wheels under it, a flat
bet under and they move it.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah that's the other thing. If you can move it,
you should be able to lift it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But maybe it's too big, or maybe it was built
piecemeal where you can't lift the entire thing. I don't know.
But have them take a whole house down to lift
it afoot is so typical of California, you know, I mean,
you just don't hear about that. Anywhere else. It is wild,
all these poor people. Man, if you live in the Palisades,
I don't blame you for just pulling your hair out
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and just yelling all day long. It has got to
be the most frustrating part of your life so far,
no matter how old you are, how young you are,
dealing with putting your house back together has got to
be driving you crazy. All right, We're live on KFI.
Dodger start tomorrow, almost twenty four hours from right now.
(09:53):
We're going to have Dodger Baseball at Dodgers Stadium. Crouz,
you should get out there. You've been to the stadium
this year to see a game.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I had not.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Oh, we got to get out there. We'll get your tickets,
we'll set you up.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
We should. We should have that stuff readily available for
us who push it so much on the air.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
That's right, we should. I was. I've been over the
last five years, I've been given one Dodger ticket. One. Yeah,
it was one just for me. It was it. It
wasn't the suite. It was nice, but it was just
me just sitting there.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I haven't been to a game in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I went to the Dodger party when they won the
World Series last year and the Dodger Suite with Amy
King and a couple other people from from here at
the at KFI and that was a cool deal. Wow,
wait mine, waitit, wait minute. You haven't been to Dodger
Stadium in how many years? Probably about twenty years? Twenty years.
I mean for a game? Well, what else, Billy Joel concert? Oh,
(10:44):
I see a concert right now, buddy, We got it,
we got it. There's two things you need. You need
Dodger Stadium in your life, and you need a physical
There's two things we got to get for you.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
And a new tree I need, yeah, and I need
a new body. I was doing paving this weekend and
I am crawling today.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You know, I did some tree trimming over the weekend,
and I have probably twenty mosquito bites on make that
or drive me crazy?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Absolutely, Chris spring willow Man, this stuff works, miracles.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I gotta I gotta get it. I gotta get the
stuff I used didn't work. They just you know, they laughed.
You could hear the mosquitoes laughing. They bit me. Oh
it's horrible, all right. Relyve on KFI AM six forty
KFI AM six forty. It's Conway Show. This is a
great story about this kid who got a foul ball.
And maybe with all the horrible stories in the news,
(11:36):
you've missed this one. But this kid, I can't tell
howldy is. I think he's you know, nine or ten,
and he went to a baseball game and got a
foul ball. And there's a great story on he's nine
years old, his name is Jamison. On what he did
with that ball. This is a awesome story. Let's hit it.
(11:58):
This is great. I love this kid.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
As you can tell from the Mad scrambles, just about
everyone in a Major League baseball game wants a foul ball,
and nine year old Jamison Pennings is no exception.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Oh I'm just be super happy.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
In fact, Jamison so wanted a ball. Earlier this month,
his parents bought tickets to a Philadelphia Phillies game along
the third baseline, down near where the ball girl sometimes
tosses foul balls into the crowd. And sure enough, fifth inning,
that's exactly what happened. Parents, James and Eve Pennings.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
He sat and he cherished it.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
At one point, Dad, is that where the bat hit? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, that's where the bat hit.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
And you thought he would cherish that forever, forever, But
forever only lasted a few innings. I'm still as founded.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I'm very proud of him.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Unbeknownst to his parents, earlier in the game, Jamison overheard
a woman talking to that same ball girl. The woman
was hoping to get a foul ball for her mother,
Donna Moury, who was at the game celebrating her eightieth birthday. Unfortunately,
getting anyone on the field to toss you a ball
is a charm offensive that heavily favors. The young Jamison
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knew the odds of an eighty year old getting a
ball were slim to none.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
So he walked over to her treasure in hand. I
was so shocked. I just didn't know what to say.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
It was unbelievable to me, it really was, And I said,
why are you giving it to me?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
I thought, she is way older and she can't come
to many more games, and I can go t more
and get many more roles.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
How great is this kid? How great was he raised
by these parents on his own? He gave up the
baseball for this eighty year old woman. It's it's an
unbelievable story. He should keep this video and run for
public office one day, and when they go to debate
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the issues, he just plays that video and says that's
just who I am, and he wins by a landslide.
Listen to this kid's voice again. This kid gave up.
You know, when you get a foul ball at a game,
that's a once in a lifetime deal. It may never
happen again because everybody goes for him, and it's the
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you know, it's it really is. The strong guy usually
wins that one. And for you to get a foul
ball at a stadium, Look, I've been going to Dodger
games my whole life. I've never gotten a foul ball.
I don't think I've gotten close. And this kid had one,
and he gave it up to this woman who is
just turned eighty. And listen to the reason why he
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did it. She is way.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Older and she can't come to him any more games.
And I can go so more and get many more roles.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
How'd you like to have a son like that? About
that kid?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
So so Donna accepted the gift.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
It symbolizes goodness in this world.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
And Jamison is so glad she did because he says
he's actually happier without it.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Easy, easy, easy, baby. Part of me says, this doesn't
make sense. So you had a ball, he gave it away.
Now you're left with nothing.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
True, But I will leave feeling really good about myself.
So does it really matter that I left without a ball?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah? The rest of the story is while he was
given the eight year old the ball, he lifted her
wallet out of her purse. And so they didn't tell
you that part of the story. Yeah, went home with
their wallet.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
How's that for a game winning sacrifice.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
I have a gift for you. Let me go.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, that's great. That's one of the greatest kids ever.
You know, you always hear about crazy kids or you know,
kids getting in trouble stealing cars or misbehaving at school,
or being selfish or I don't know, getting a nose
ring when they're you know, fourteen years old. And this kid,
on his own, gave that ball up to this eighty
(16:22):
year old woman. That is a fantastic story. That is
a fantastic kid. And Mom and dad, you deserve an
atta boy and an at a girl. You raised a
hell of a kid. And he did that on his own.
He wasn't asked to do it. He just noticed that
the woman was celebrating her eightieth birthday, and he's right,
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she doesn't have a million more games to go to.
She may never get a ball, and it made him
feel better to give her the ball. Oh it's a
very moving story, very good story. And I had to say,
only in America, Only in America, you know. Jay Leno
had a great joke. There was a woman, there was
a girl, I think her name was Baby Jessica, and
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she had fallen down a well in Texas and she
was forty feet below the surface and took her three
you know, took the rescuers like three days to get
this little girl out of this well. And they finally
pulled up her body and she was alive and she
was well, and she was gonna make it. And the
reporter for one of the cable news stations said, only
(17:30):
in America, would you see that? Only in America? And
Jay Leno's comment was, oh, yeah, I what like and
other countries. There's gonna cap the well leave her in there.
Of course not. But that's a great kid. That's an
awesome kid, that Jamison kid. That that guy deserves a
I don't know, something special in life special kid. All right,
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we're live on KFI. Don't forget tomorrow's six pm. Dodger
Baseball starts tomorrow at six pm at Dodgers Stadium. Hasn't
been there in twenty years. Chances of going you're pretty slim. Yeah,
but be here. That's right, you'll be here, but I'd
rather be here. Although you're you're done at six four.
You could get to the game by seven thirty. Yeah,
(18:11):
all right. If anybody has an extra ticket, call us
up and take Crozer. Gotta go see you. Maybe would
take your your avocado tree with you. I rely on KFI.
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM,
six forty, KFI AM and six forty It is the
(18:34):
Conway Show. Well, pep on our step knowing it's Dodgers
season playoff season tomorrow at Dodger Stadium at six o'clock.
We'll have all the details for you tomorrow, starting at
four right here on KFI. May we'll get even a
guest or two. What the hell man? People love the Dodgers,
they'd love those Dodgers Heavy Dodgers, ma'am. It's Halloween time
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going to give them away before October third, which is
this week. Somebody's going to win it might as well
be you. On Friday. Was it Friday? I think Friday.
We did this where we were a couple one hundred
followers or likes or or whatever they do on Instagram.
(20:01):
I think followers. We were a couple hundred short. Actually
last week we're fifteen. Yeah followers. We were one thousand,
five hundred and twenty one shy of seventy thousand, and
we did sort of like this mini telethon on Friday
where we begged you to sign up on Instagram and
it worked. We went from sixty eight eight oh four
(20:23):
sixty eight thousand and eight oh four on Thursday of
last week and people over the weekend you went to Instagram.
You we asked you to follow us, and you did
in huge numbers, and one thousand, five hundred and twenty
one people said, will help you out? We got your
back and we went over seventy thousand. We're at seventy thousand,
(20:45):
three hundred and twenty five, which makes us a site
or a page that has more followers than the KFI page.
How embarrassing is that we have more than KFI? Our
show has more than the station as well as Facebook.
(21:07):
We have more than the station, and it's great for us,
but wildly embarrassing crozier for KFI. Well, it is you
can't you can't spend it any other way. It's embarrassing.
So KFI has got to say, has got to gotta
do something about that. Come on, yeah, yeah, KFI, come on,
(21:28):
we gotta help them out. We got to help those
guys out over at KFI. Here are three people that
probably don't want to be in the news. Don't want
to be mentioned, but I'm going to anywhem. There are
three people who have been charged with stealing more than
forty thousand dollars in federal disaster relief by falsely claiming
they were victims of the Eaton and Palisades wildfires earlier
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this year. This according to the Los Angeles County District
Attorney's Office. Here's the announcement, according to a news release
issued Monday. That's today Jerry Lee Clay Junior, Matthew Garnett O'Brien,
and Marika Marie Gilmore. Congratulations. You all allegedly submitted fraudulent
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applications to the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA, using fake
California addresses, including units that didn't exist, to obtain funds
meant for displaced residents. Clay, who's forty two, of Los Angeles,
allegedly used a non existent apartment in Pacific Palisades to
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collect fourteeny, nine hundred and nineteen dollars. I'd nice of
him to do that in FEMA aid, which was deposited
into his personal account. He also allegedly impersonated fake landlords
to support his claim. Clay was arrested on September fourteenth,
and was arraigned two days later. He's pleaded not guilty
(22:58):
and was released on fifth twty thousand dollars bail or bond,
and if convicted, he faces four years and four months
in prison. So bad move Clay. Now let's move to
Miss j O'Brien. O'Brien, forty four, of Los Angeles, is
accused of fraudulently claiming residents in Altadena and receiving twelve
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three hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty two cents in
January and February. He surrendered to law enforcement on September
twenty fifth, which was just last week, and was released
on his own recognissance, and his arrangement is set for
November twenty fifth. He faces three years in prison if convicted.
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Now let's move on to Miss Gilmore. She's thirty seven
from Louisiana allegedly filed a false FEMA claim using another
fake Pacific Palisades address to receive fourteen thy one hundred
and fifty three dollars and sixty seven cents. That was
in February. She was extraditem to Los Angeles on September
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twenty third. Somebody had to go get her because remember
she's from Louisiana, so somebody had to fly to Louisiana,
put handcuffs on her and put her ass on a
plane and bring her out here to be formally arrested
and arraigned. She received fourteen, one hundred and fifty three dollars.
She was extradited on September twenty third and remains in
(24:25):
custody on fifty thousand dollars bailed. She hasn't have that
kind of dough to get out. Her arraiment was scheduled
for Friday. She faces three years if convicted. All three
of these cases, which remain under investigation, are being prosecuted
by the District Attorney's Office the Cyber Crime Division. Here's
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a quote. When you choose to steal FEMA funds wildfire funds,
you're stealing from the thousands of fire victims who desperately
need financial assistance rebuilding their homes and their lives. Close quote,
District Attorney Nathan Hawkman said in a release quote, if
you pretend to be a wildfire victim, we will find you, okay.
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So these three people have all been arrested, two of
them have bailed out, and again. Their names Jerry Lee
Clay Junior maybe went to school at this chap, Matthew
Garnett O'Brien, and Marika Marie Gilmore. And I'm going to
keep these three names here and occasionally we'll toss them
(25:30):
into the broadcast. We'll revisit them. That's right, Yeah, give
them a little look. They wanted publicity, we'll give it
to them. They but to steal cash from fire victims.
I don't know how you limbo under that with just
wildly disgusting behavior. You know, we know some people who
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work here at KFI. One person is in sales and
the other person works on Mo Kelly's show. That one
lives in Pacific Palisades, the other one lived in Altadena
or lives in Altadena. And we saw firsthand the anguish
and the sadness and the despair that goes along with
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losing your home, and so it touched us firsthand. Here,
I guess would be secondhand, but you know, you know
what I mean, And we saw what that does to people.
And for these three people, Oh you want the names again,
you got it. Jerry Lee Clay Junior, Matthew Garnett O'Brien,
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and Marika Marie Gilmore, m A R I C KA
Marika Marie Gilmore. All three are looking at three to
four years in prison for stealing THEMA money. Here's a
tip for you outside of this case. Don't ever steal
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or keep money away from from the federal government. If
you owe money in taxes or you try to steal
from FEMA, they always find you. And when they do,
they come down on you like a ton of bricks.
It will be the only thing you think about. The
United States Government does not like to be ripped off,
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and they will come after you with everything. They have everything,
and they will turn your life upside down. It acts
as a deterrent and in this case, it's really disgusting behavior.
So glad they found the three of it. There's more
people out there right now listening to the show thinking
their next and guess what you might be if you
ripped off FEMA. They'll find you, all right. We're live
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on KFI AM six forty KFI AM six forty. It
is the Conway Show. The New York Mets were eliminated
yesterday from the playoffs, but the Dodgers they fight on
and they're going to play tomorrow starting a Dodger Stadium
at six pm. There was a carnival ride that malfunctioned.
You may have seen that if you're on social medium.
(28:07):
It was everywhere. It's one of those rides that you know,
I don't know what it's called, we'll find out here,
but it goes upside down. You get in one of
those little cages and there's you know, like twenty of them,
and it goes round in a belt and goes upside down.
One of those cages fell off, and thank god, it
fell into another cage and it stopped it. It could
have fallen to the ground and that surely would have
(28:30):
resulted in severe injuries or would have paralyzed or killed
the two people in it. But these carnival rides, I
think one of the attractions of going on these crazy
carnival rides is because you don't know if you're going
to make it. You know, you know it's been put
together by you know, guys that are up all night,
perhaps smoking weed, certainly drinking, and you hope that they
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put it together right. But going on it, that's part
of the thrill. I think you don't know if you're
gonna make it. It's called the zipper zipper. Yeah, oh yeah, okay,
all right, the zipper. Yeah, thig gong with the zipper.
Bad vibes though for the people.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
Iron alarming video shows the moments a ride malfunctioned at
a school carnival Friday in the Pico Union neighborhood, some
of the carriages falling and slamming into each other on
a ride known as the Zipper. This was during Bishop
Canaty Our Lady of Loretto High School's Family Fun Day.
Witnesses say some of the riders were trapped for more
than an hour. No injuries have been reported.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It was like, yeah, it was very.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It didn't feel real like at all.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
It was very.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
It looked fine to me and then just out of nowhere,
just boom, it hit the other one and it went
straight to the ground.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So it was very.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
One of our friends brothers were yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
The la Archdiocese issued a statement tonight saying it's grateful
no one was injured.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, nobody, nobody got hurt. Man, did they died your bullet.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
On that one, and thankful for the help of first responders.
It says the safety and well being of all of
its parishes, schools, and ministries remain its top priority. The
ride was being operated by a third.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Part, third party. All right, there's a lot of people
talking about downtown LA and how to spruce it up
and how to get more people to go downtown LA
and make it look like Chicago or New York like
when you walk around New York City. I've been there,
I don't know, maybe a half dozen times in my life.
I've never felt unsafe walking around New York. Same with Chicago.
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Walking downtown Chicago, never felt in danger or unsafe. Even
in Cleveland, Ohio walking around totnight, never felt like, you know,
I could get robbed or mugged. But man, people still
have a fear of downtown Los Angeles. And they got
to get They've got And I was listening to Monks
of Michael Monks over the weekend on his show on
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Saturday seven to nine pm. They've got to get rid
of the graffiti on that huge building, that condo building
that's near Crypto Center. It's an iceore, and they've got
to do it. They got to get rid of it.
And they've got to do something about the homeless problem
in downtown. They have beautiful million, two million, three million
dollar condos down there that are sensational, got great views.
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You can see the ocean. From there, you can see
all of LA and it's beautiful until you go to
the street, and then the streets are a mess.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
The expansion of the convention Center is much more than
just another project. It is an investment in our city,
an investment in our economy, and it's a major step
forward in the effort to revitalize downtown LA.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Mayor Karen Bass announced is a two point six billion
dollar convention Center expansion, saying the project will bring jobs.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But where are they getting the money from? You know,
they're going to the people of the city of LA
are gonna be on the hook for this thing. Two
point seven billion dollars. They were just going to fire
six hundred or sixteen hundred people because they didn't have
any money, and now they found two point seven billion dollars.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
Growth and a cleaner downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
And while we'll we'll do everything to fast track this
project in a fiscally responsible way, we will also continue
to focus on the overall revitalization of downtown LA, including
safety and cleanliness, which is at the center.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yep, that's exactly right. Those are the two things that
keep people away from downtown danger and dirt.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
And cleanliness, which is at the center.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
But while the mayor is making big.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Promises, critics say the city has neglected downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
For years, years, how about centuries.
Speaker 10 (32:33):
Leaving some of its most visible landmarks decayed and ignored.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
It is de moralizing to see the state of the city.
I mean, you look at our beautiful skyline of downtown
LA and what do you see an eye sword, You
see three graffiti towers. And it is embarrassing because we become,
in a sense, the laughing stock of other cities and
even some other cities in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yep, she's right, percent right.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
How is that allowed to occur here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
And even Michael Monks, who lives downtown, he's a big
fan of living down there. He even admits that they've
got to do something about that graffiti tower. It can't
and it's been two years. It just sits there and
nobody does anything about it. Nobody.
Speaker 10 (33:17):
LAPD Commander Lillian Caranza says she's sped up with how
local officials.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Have led downtown La slip.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
She points to the sixth Street bridge covered in graffiti
and left dark for more than a year. The Third
Street tunnel tells the same story, and even the towers
across from the Convention Center are tagged from top to bottom.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
There are a myriad of reasons as to why we
have gotten to where we're at now, one of them
being zero veil, the progressive policies that we have seen,
and some of elected leaders they do not like working
on the police department.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
Caranza says the current policies have created a revolving door.
Officers arrest taggers and others, but they're quickly released back
onto the streets, making it harder to keep downtown clean
and safe. She says city officials need to work with
the LAPD to really make a difference.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
This be a premier city that can host not only
the World Cup, but the Olympics in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, they've got to clean that's they got to clean
up downtown. It's filthy, filthy as hell.
Speaker 8 (34:23):
We need to work in partnership and collaborate and we
need their support just like they need our support in
order to serve.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
And you know, Los Angeles could have had a mayor
that knows how to do it. I mean he built
the Grove, He built the Americana, the shops out of
Pacific Palisades. All three of those shopping areas are beautiful, spectacular,
and we decided or not we I don't live in
the City of La but you, if you live in
(34:51):
the City of La you decided to go with Mayor
Baths instead of a guy who knows how to clean
the city up.
Speaker 10 (34:59):
Councilwoman Sabe Huado issued a statement that says, in part,
public safety begins with the equitable delivery of city services
that strengthen neighborhoods and improve the quality of life. That's
why our office has already taken swift action to add
the six Street bridge, to weekly graffiti a Bateman routes,
and expand cleanup services across Council District fourteen.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yep, you could add Rick Caruso as the mayor. That
would have would have gone a long way. He would
have not tolerated all of this filth like he does
at his three shopping centers. He doesn't tolerate it. He
doesn't tolerate crime or graffiti or crazy homelessness. And you
decide to go with Mayor bas instead, so you get
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what you pay for.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
The statement goes on to say that relighting the bridge
should be taken care of in the fall.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, well, I guess well, I'm going to stay on
high alert for that. The bridge. It's a spectacular bridge.
I think it was four hundred and eighty or five
hundred million dollars and now it's just dark because people
are stealing the copper wire. They got to get together.
We've got three major events coming in. We've got the
World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Olympics, and we're
not ready for any of it. Got to straighten out
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downtown La. I'm sure John Colevelt will be on it
as well, but we got to keep on these guys.
They got to straighten this city out. All right. We're
live on KFI AM six forty tomorrow. The Dodger game
starts at six pm. We are less than twenty four
twenty three hours right now from the start of that game,
and we'll have all the details for you tomorrow. Moke
(36:33):
Kelly's whole Crew next right here on KFI AM six
forty Conway show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty four to seven pm Monday, through Friday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. If I
am six forty, it is The Conway Show. Twenty four
hours from right now, the Dodgers start their climb back
to trying to win back to back World Series. It
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starts tomorrow at six pm, twenty four hours from right
now at Dodger Stadium. Get there early. There's gonna be
a lot of traffic. You may want to leave your
house at two, maybe two thirty, and you'll get there
by four thirty, four, four thirty, and it's you can
watch batting practice. There's nothing like Dodger Stadium during the playoffs.
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There's a special energy at Dodger Stadium that is just
not there during the regular season unless it's i don't know,
a huge event like Kershaw pitching his last game or
somebody retiring. By just a normal game during the season
can't match the energy that's going to be there tomorrow
(01:06):
at Dodgers Stadium. So get there, get their early first
pitches at six and go Dodgers. You know, heavy Dodgers,
man heavy Dodgers, so that'll be a cool deal. Dodgers
in the Playoffs. It's fall in southern California. It's a
(01:27):
great time of year. I remember when I was a kid.
I went to Portola Junior High in Tarzana, and they
used to roll a TV set, you know, because back
in the playoffs in back in the nineteen seventies were
all played during the day. I don't remember a single
game being played at night. They were all day games,
(01:48):
or at least I remember them all as day games
for the Playoffs. The World Series is at night, but
most of the Playoffs were during the day, and they
used to roll a color TV into the quad, into
the you know, lunch area, and me and you know,
six other guys that weren't getting any you know, not
(02:08):
interested in talking to girls yet we're watching the Dodgers
and that's where I met some of my friends I
still have today. I remember a guy named Robbie Fox,
you know, I met him in seventh grade and we
sat there and we watched these stupid games, you know,
together in the lunch area while my other friends, who
were you know, talking to girls at the time, and
(02:30):
there was just five geeky guys staring at ted TV
as me. Jeff Lowie Scott Bloom, Mike Tennessee, Todd Crouch,
all the guys. I grew up with just staring at
these TV sets. And that's what your life is, you know,
that's why you want to be around. You know, who's
gonna win the next World Series, the next Stanley Cup,
(02:51):
the next NBA Championship, or the next Super Bowl. That's
why you live, you know, figure out who's gonna win
these stupid games. But that's tomorrow at six o'clock at
Dodger Stadium, Big big deal. All right, there's Malibu FEMA rules.
You know, there's a lot going on with people rebuilding.
(03:14):
Homeowners say they could be forced into demolition after the
Palisades fire. Another thing for people in that area to
worry about. You know, it's not even be a year
since those fires happened. They happened in January and we're
going to be in October, so we're nine months. It
seems like a generation ago. They're only nine months ago
(03:35):
these fires. And so we let's figure out what's going
on here with FEMA.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Homes left scarred from the Palisades fire now facing a
new threat of destruction.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Fire departments spared the home, but it looks like FEMA's
going to take it down.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well known real estate investor Grant Cardones beachside house in
Malibu survived the Palisades fire, but FEMA rules may force
him to tear it down anyways.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Is say, what the hell perfect structure? They want me
to take all that down? This had nothing that, none
of this was fire damage.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
This letter, sent from an architect to Cardoons team details
the problem, saying because repairs exceed FEMAS fifty percent damaged threshold,
the existing house needs to be brought into compliance with
FEMA's latest published Base four elevation, meaning the entire home
needs to be raised by it about a foot because
of new flood standards.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Oh, you gotta be kidding me. They're going to make
these people tear down their homes because it's because it's
not high enough by one foot. Oh, this is going
to drive people crazy. This is going to drive people crazy.
You're going to see it. You're going to see people
acting outrageous with unbelievable anger over this. If they're going
(04:50):
to make people tear down their homes just to raise
it a foot is going to drive people crazy. Look,
these people who live in the Palisades Malibu Alta Dina area.
They're already on their last nerve. They can't take anymore.
They can't take much at all. And you're gonna make
this guy terr his house down, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Meaning the entire home needs to be raised by about
a foot because of new flood standards.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I will be required of flood standards in Pacific Palisades.
I don't remember them ever having a flood in that area.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I will be required to take my property down to
the ground to raise the house to what they call
as a new FEMA flood level. And I've never been
threatened by water, never had a flood.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I'm telling you he's right, I've never I've been living
in La my entire life. I don't remember ever one
single flood in the Palisades area.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Never, And I've never been threatened by water, never had
a flood.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Cordon says the required demolition would increase his repair costs
from about two million dollars to fifty million. Wait wait, wait,
what would increase his pair of costs from about two
million dollars?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All right, two million dollars repair to fifty million. Fifty
million seems like a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
This is beyond insanity by the way, because you cannot
make sense of this kind of thinking.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Cardone says he's not necessarily worried about his situation, but
all the other homeowners that live along the water with
smoke damage.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It's really unfortunate for people in that situation. Someone that
doesn't have the means to make more money.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Patrick Miller's home in Malibu also has smoke damage. Somewhere
he's lived his entire life.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
This may be the situation that we are going to
lose that community.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You have to be super rich now in California to
survive this.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's right, middle class rich, they're done for being impacted
like you're poor people now, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Adam Carolla has got a great series on in documenting
the aftermath of the fires. So if you go to
Adamcola dot com and then look at his videos, he
has about six seven, maybe eight videos out where he
took talks about he grabs somebody from the Army Corps
of Engineers and interviews them on what they what they're doing,
(07:07):
what the plan is. And I don't know if anybody
else out there that has it documented like Corolla. He's
and it's done in Corolla style. Where you know, he
makes light of the situation. It's very funny but yet
a very serious topic. And I don't think anyone else
out there could do what he's doing. So go look
(07:28):
at his videos, especially if you live out in the
Palisades area Malibu area. He does. His videos are a
terrific document not a document mentory, but just like video
blogs of what's going on out there. And they really
are great. They're great, So get out there. And it's
it's amazing though, that they're going to make this guy
(07:50):
take this house down and raise it by a foot.
I mean, isn't there a way to raise a house
without taking it down? I mean, I'm sure they have.
You know, that's probably a sharp question, but I'm sure
there's massive hydraulic pumps or hydraulic lift they can lift
that high.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
When I was doing construction when I first came out here,
and I worked a lot predominantly in South Pasadena, we
raised houses off of their foundations. Oh is that right
to re establish the foundations underneath? And yeah, we used
hydraulic lifts and we lifted it. We would lift it
up one side of the house. Yeah, we could. I
would bet The issue is mostly because you're doing it
(08:28):
on sand as opposed to on regular ground ground. I'm
tending to think that would be the only reason that
you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What year was that? That was eighty nine, Okay, so
in eighty nine they had the technology to do it.
I imagine it's actually grown and safer and back were tended
to think.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
So that's why I was kind of like, really, there's
no way to do that, because, like I said, we
used to raise repair foundations all the time when.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They moved you know, these century homes that they have
in Ohio that were built before Abraham Lincoln was president,
that you can't tear them down, but you can move them. Yeah,
that's what they do. They come in with hydraulic lifts.
They lift it, They put wheels under it, a flat
bet under and they move it.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah that's the other thing. If you can move it,
you should be able to lift it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But maybe it's too big, or maybe it was built
piecemeal where you can't lift the entire thing. I don't know.
But have them take a whole house down to lift
it afoot is so typical of California, you know, I mean,
you just don't hear about that. Anywhere else. It is wild,
all these poor people. Man, if you live in the Palisades,
I don't blame you for just pulling your hair out
(09:33):
and just yelling all day long. It has got to
be the most frustrating part of your life so far,
no matter how old you are, how young you are,
dealing with putting your house back together has got to
be driving you crazy. All right, We're live on KFI.
Dodger start tomorrow, almost twenty four hours from right now.
(09:53):
We're going to have Dodger Baseball at Dodgers Stadium. Crouz,
you should get out there. You've been to the stadium
this year to see a game.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I had not.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Oh, we got to get out there. We'll get your tickets,
we'll set you up.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
We should. We should have that stuff readily available for
us who push it so much on the air.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
That's right, we should. I was. I've been over the
last five years, I've been given one Dodger ticket. One. Yeah,
it was one just for me. It was it. It
wasn't the suite. It was nice, but it was just
me just sitting there.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I haven't been to a game in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I went to the Dodger party when they won the
World Series last year and the Dodger Suite with Amy
King and a couple other people from from here at
the at KFI and that was a cool deal. Wow,
wait mine, waitit, wait minute. You haven't been to Dodger
Stadium in how many years? Probably about twenty years? Twenty years.
I mean for a game? Well, what else, Billy Joel concert? Oh,
(10:44):
I see a concert right now, buddy, We got it,
we got it. There's two things you need. You need
Dodger Stadium in your life, and you need a physical
There's two things we got to get for you.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
And a new tree I need, yeah, and I need
a new body. I was doing paving this weekend and
I am crawling today.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You know, I did some tree trimming over the weekend,
and I have probably twenty mosquito bites on make that
or drive me crazy?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Absolutely, Chris spring willow Man, this stuff works, miracles.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I gotta I gotta get it. I gotta get the
stuff I used didn't work. They just you know, they laughed.
You could hear the mosquitoes laughing. They bit me. Oh
it's horrible, all right. Relyve on KFI AM six forty
KFI AM six forty. It's Conway Show. This is a
great story about this kid who got a foul ball.
And maybe with all the horrible stories in the news,
(11:36):
you've missed this one. But this kid, I can't tell
howldy is. I think he's you know, nine or ten,
and he went to a baseball game and got a
foul ball. And there's a great story on he's nine
years old, his name is Jamison. On what he did
with that ball. This is a awesome story. Let's hit it.
(11:58):
This is great. I love this kid.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
As you can tell from the Mad scrambles, just about
everyone in a Major League baseball game wants a foul ball,
and nine year old Jamison Pennings is no exception.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Oh I'm just be super happy.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
In fact, Jamison so wanted a ball. Earlier this month,
his parents bought tickets to a Philadelphia Phillies game along
the third baseline, down near where the ball girl sometimes
tosses foul balls into the crowd. And sure enough, fifth inning,
that's exactly what happened. Parents, James and Eve Pennings.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
He sat and he cherished it.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
At one point, Dad, is that where the bat hit? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, that's where the bat hit.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
And you thought he would cherish that forever, forever, But
forever only lasted a few innings. I'm still as founded.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I'm very proud of him.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Unbeknownst to his parents, earlier in the game, Jamison overheard
a woman talking to that same ball girl. The woman
was hoping to get a foul ball for her mother,
Donna Moury, who was at the game celebrating her eightieth birthday. Unfortunately,
getting anyone on the field to toss you a ball
is a charm offensive that heavily favors. The young Jamison
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knew the odds of an eighty year old getting a
ball were slim to none.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
So he walked over to her treasure in hand. I
was so shocked. I just didn't know what to say.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
It was unbelievable to me, it really was, And I said,
why are you giving it to me?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
I thought, she is way older and she can't come
to many more games, and I can go t more
and get many more roles.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
How great is this kid? How great was he raised
by these parents on his own? He gave up the
baseball for this eighty year old woman. It's it's an
unbelievable story. He should keep this video and run for
public office one day, and when they go to debate
(14:10):
the issues, he just plays that video and says that's
just who I am, and he wins by a landslide.
Listen to this kid's voice again. This kid gave up.
You know, when you get a foul ball at a game,
that's a once in a lifetime deal. It may never
happen again because everybody goes for him, and it's the
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you know, it's it really is. The strong guy usually
wins that one. And for you to get a foul
ball at a stadium, Look, I've been going to Dodger
games my whole life. I've never gotten a foul ball.
I don't think I've gotten close. And this kid had one,
and he gave it up to this woman who is
just turned eighty. And listen to the reason why he
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did it. She is way.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Older and she can't come to him any more games.
And I can go so more and get many more roles.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
How'd you like to have a son like that? About
that kid?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
So so Donna accepted the gift.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
It symbolizes goodness in this world.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
And Jamison is so glad she did because he says
he's actually happier without it.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Easy, easy, easy, baby. Part of me says, this doesn't
make sense. So you had a ball, he gave it away.
Now you're left with nothing.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
True, But I will leave feeling really good about myself.
So does it really matter that I left without a ball?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah? The rest of the story is while he was
given the eight year old the ball, he lifted her
wallet out of her purse. And so they didn't tell
you that part of the story. Yeah, went home with
their wallet.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
How's that for a game winning sacrifice.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
I have a gift for you. Let me go.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, that's great. That's one of the greatest kids ever.
You know, you always hear about crazy kids or you know,
kids getting in trouble stealing cars or misbehaving at school,
or being selfish or I don't know, getting a nose
ring when they're you know, fourteen years old. And this kid,
on his own, gave that ball up to this eighty
(16:22):
year old woman. That is a fantastic story. That is
a fantastic kid. And Mom and dad, you deserve an
atta boy and an at a girl. You raised a
hell of a kid. And he did that on his own.
He wasn't asked to do it. He just noticed that
the woman was celebrating her eightieth birthday, and he's right,
(16:44):
she doesn't have a million more games to go to.
She may never get a ball, and it made him
feel better to give her the ball. Oh it's a
very moving story, very good story. And I had to say,
only in America, Only in America, you know. Jay Leno
had a great joke. There was a woman, there was
a girl, I think her name was Baby Jessica, and
(17:07):
she had fallen down a well in Texas and she
was forty feet below the surface and took her three
you know, took the rescuers like three days to get
this little girl out of this well. And they finally
pulled up her body and she was alive and she
was well, and she was gonna make it. And the
reporter for one of the cable news stations said, only
(17:30):
in America, would you see that? Only in America? And
Jay Leno's comment was, oh, yeah, I what like and
other countries. There's gonna cap the well leave her in there.
Of course not. But that's a great kid. That's an
awesome kid, that Jamison kid. That that guy deserves a
I don't know, something special in life special kid. All right,
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we're live on KFI. Don't forget tomorrow's six pm. Dodger
Baseball starts tomorrow at six pm at Dodgers Stadium. Hasn't
been there in twenty years. Chances of going you're pretty slim. Yeah,
but be here. That's right, you'll be here, but I'd
rather be here. Although you're you're done at six four.
You could get to the game by seven thirty. Yeah,
(18:11):
all right. If anybody has an extra ticket, call us
up and take Crozer. Gotta go see you. Maybe would
take your your avocado tree with you. I rely on KFI.
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM,
six forty, KFI AM and six forty It is the
(18:34):
Conway Show. Well, pep on our step knowing it's Dodgers
season playoff season tomorrow at Dodger Stadium at six o'clock.
We'll have all the details for you tomorrow, starting at
four right here on KFI. May we'll get even a
guest or two. What the hell man? People love the Dodgers,
they'd love those Dodgers Heavy Dodgers, ma'am. It's Halloween time
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at the Disneyland Resion and KFI AM six forty wants
to give you a chance to experience the frightful fun
plus the added excitement of the Disneyland Resort seventieth celebration,
a Happiest Halloween has brought spooky thrills and chills to
both Disneyland. To both Disney California Adventure Park and Disneyland
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Park now through October thirty first, so offering subject restrictions
and change without notice. Keep listening for your chance to
win a four pack of one day, one park tickets
to Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park from KFI
AM six forty. I will give you a hint. We're
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going to give them away before October third, which is
this week. Somebody's going to win it might as well
be you. On Friday. Was it Friday? I think Friday.
We did this where we were a couple one hundred
followers or likes or or whatever they do on Instagram.
(20:01):
I think followers. We were a couple hundred short. Actually
last week we're fifteen. Yeah followers. We were one thousand,
five hundred and twenty one shy of seventy thousand, and
we did sort of like this mini telethon on Friday
where we begged you to sign up on Instagram and
it worked. We went from sixty eight eight oh four
(20:23):
sixty eight thousand and eight oh four on Thursday of
last week and people over the weekend you went to Instagram.
You we asked you to follow us, and you did
in huge numbers, and one thousand, five hundred and twenty
one people said, will help you out? We got your
back and we went over seventy thousand. We're at seventy thousand,
(20:45):
three hundred and twenty five, which makes us a site
or a page that has more followers than the KFI page.
How embarrassing is that we have more than KFI? Our
show has more than the station as well as Facebook.
(21:07):
We have more than the station, and it's great for us,
but wildly embarrassing crozier for KFI. Well, it is you
can't you can't spend it any other way. It's embarrassing.
So KFI has got to say, has got to gotta
do something about that. Come on, yeah, yeah, KFI, come on,
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we gotta help them out. We got to help those
guys out over at KFI. Here are three people that
probably don't want to be in the news. Don't want
to be mentioned, but I'm going to anywhem. There are
three people who have been charged with stealing more than
forty thousand dollars in federal disaster relief by falsely claiming
they were victims of the Eaton and Palisades wildfires earlier
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this year. This according to the Los Angeles County District
Attorney's Office. Here's the announcement, according to a news release
issued Monday. That's today Jerry Lee Clay Junior, Matthew Garnett O'Brien,
and Marika Marie Gilmore. Congratulations. You all allegedly submitted fraudulent
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applications to the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA, using fake
California addresses, including units that didn't exist, to obtain funds
meant for displaced residents. Clay, who's forty two, of Los Angeles,
allegedly used a non existent apartment in Pacific Palisades to
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collect fourteeny, nine hundred and nineteen dollars. I'd nice of
him to do that in FEMA aid, which was deposited
into his personal account. He also allegedly impersonated fake landlords
to support his claim. Clay was arrested on September fourteenth,
and was arraigned two days later. He's pleaded not guilty
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and was released on fifth twty thousand dollars bail or bond,
and if convicted, he faces four years and four months
in prison. So bad move Clay. Now let's move to
Miss j O'Brien. O'Brien, forty four, of Los Angeles, is
accused of fraudulently claiming residents in Altadena and receiving twelve
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three hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty two cents in
January and February. He surrendered to law enforcement on September
twenty fifth, which was just last week, and was released
on his own recognissance, and his arrangement is set for
November twenty fifth. He faces three years in prison if convicted.
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Now let's move on to Miss Gilmore. She's thirty seven
from Louisiana allegedly filed a false FEMA claim using another
fake Pacific Palisades address to receive fourteen thy one hundred
and fifty three dollars and sixty seven cents. That was
in February. She was extraditem to Los Angeles on September
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twenty third. Somebody had to go get her because remember
she's from Louisiana, so somebody had to fly to Louisiana,
put handcuffs on her and put her ass on a
plane and bring her out here to be formally arrested
and arraigned. She received fourteen, one hundred and fifty three dollars.
She was extradited on September twenty third and remains in
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custody on fifty thousand dollars bailed. She hasn't have that
kind of dough to get out. Her arraiment was scheduled
for Friday. She faces three years if convicted. All three
of these cases, which remain under investigation, are being prosecuted
by the District Attorney's Office the Cyber Crime Division. Here's
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a quote. When you choose to steal FEMA funds wildfire funds,
you're stealing from the thousands of fire victims who desperately
need financial assistance rebuilding their homes and their lives. Close quote,
District Attorney Nathan Hawkman said in a release quote, if
you pretend to be a wildfire victim, we will find you, okay.
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So these three people have all been arrested, two of
them have bailed out, and again. Their names Jerry Lee
Clay Junior maybe went to school at this chap, Matthew
Garnett O'Brien, and Marika Marie Gilmore. And I'm going to
keep these three names here and occasionally we'll toss them
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into the broadcast. We'll revisit them. That's right, Yeah, give
them a little look. They wanted publicity, we'll give it
to them. They but to steal cash from fire victims.
I don't know how you limbo under that with just
wildly disgusting behavior. You know, we know some people who
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work here at KFI. One person is in sales and
the other person works on Mo Kelly's show. That one
lives in Pacific Palisades, the other one lived in Altadena
or lives in Altadena. And we saw firsthand the anguish
and the sadness and the despair that goes along with
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losing your home, and so it touched us firsthand. Here,
I guess would be secondhand, but you know, you know
what I mean, And we saw what that does to people.
And for these three people, Oh you want the names again,
you got it. Jerry Lee Clay Junior, Matthew Garnett O'Brien,
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and Marika Marie Gilmore, m A R I C KA
Marika Marie Gilmore. All three are looking at three to
four years in prison for stealing THEMA money. Here's a
tip for you outside of this case. Don't ever steal
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or keep money away from from the federal government. If
you owe money in taxes or you try to steal
from FEMA, they always find you. And when they do,
they come down on you like a ton of bricks.
It will be the only thing you think about. The
United States Government does not like to be ripped off,
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and they will come after you with everything. They have everything,
and they will turn your life upside down. It acts
as a deterrent and in this case, it's really disgusting behavior.
So glad they found the three of it. There's more
people out there right now listening to the show thinking
their next and guess what you might be if you
ripped off FEMA. They'll find you, all right. We're live
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on KFI AM six forty KFI AM six forty. It
is the Conway Show. The New York Mets were eliminated
yesterday from the playoffs, but the Dodgers they fight on
and they're going to play tomorrow starting a Dodger Stadium
at six pm. There was a carnival ride that malfunctioned.
You may have seen that if you're on social medium.
(28:07):
It was everywhere. It's one of those rides that you know,
I don't know what it's called, we'll find out here,
but it goes upside down. You get in one of
those little cages and there's you know, like twenty of them,
and it goes round in a belt and goes upside down.
One of those cages fell off, and thank god, it
fell into another cage and it stopped it. It could
have fallen to the ground and that surely would have
(28:30):
resulted in severe injuries or would have paralyzed or killed
the two people in it. But these carnival rides, I
think one of the attractions of going on these crazy
carnival rides is because you don't know if you're going
to make it. You know, you know it's been put
together by you know, guys that are up all night,
perhaps smoking weed, certainly drinking, and you hope that they
(28:54):
put it together right. But going on it, that's part
of the thrill. I think you don't know if you're
gonna make it. It's called the zipper zipper. Yeah, oh yeah, okay,
all right, the zipper. Yeah, thig gong with the zipper.
Bad vibes though for the people.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
Iron alarming video shows the moments a ride malfunctioned at
a school carnival Friday in the Pico Union neighborhood, some
of the carriages falling and slamming into each other on
a ride known as the Zipper. This was during Bishop
Canaty Our Lady of Loretto High School's Family Fun Day.
Witnesses say some of the riders were trapped for more
than an hour. No injuries have been reported.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It was like, yeah, it was very.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It didn't feel real like at all.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
It was very.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
It looked fine to me and then just out of nowhere,
just boom, it hit the other one and it went
straight to the ground.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So it was very.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
One of our friends brothers were yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
The la Archdiocese issued a statement tonight saying it's grateful
no one was injured.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, nobody, nobody got hurt. Man, did they died your bullet.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
On that one, and thankful for the help of first responders.
It says the safety and well being of all of
its parishes, schools, and ministries remain its top priority. The
ride was being operated by a third.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Part, third party. All right, there's a lot of people
talking about downtown LA and how to spruce it up
and how to get more people to go downtown LA
and make it look like Chicago or New York like
when you walk around New York City. I've been there,
I don't know, maybe a half dozen times in my life.
I've never felt unsafe walking around New York. Same with Chicago.
(30:22):
Walking downtown Chicago, never felt in danger or unsafe. Even
in Cleveland, Ohio walking around totnight, never felt like, you know,
I could get robbed or mugged. But man, people still
have a fear of downtown Los Angeles. And they got
to get They've got And I was listening to Monks
of Michael Monks over the weekend on his show on
(30:43):
Saturday seven to nine pm. They've got to get rid
of the graffiti on that huge building, that condo building
that's near Crypto Center. It's an iceore, and they've got
to do it. They got to get rid of it.
And they've got to do something about the homeless problem
in downtown. They have beautiful million, two million, three million
dollar condos down there that are sensational, got great views.
(31:06):
You can see the ocean. From there, you can see
all of LA and it's beautiful until you go to
the street, and then the streets are a mess.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
The expansion of the convention Center is much more than
just another project. It is an investment in our city,
an investment in our economy, and it's a major step
forward in the effort to revitalize downtown LA.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Mayor Karen Bass announced is a two point six billion
dollar convention Center expansion, saying the project will bring jobs.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But where are they getting the money from? You know,
they're going to the people of the city of LA
are gonna be on the hook for this thing. Two
point seven billion dollars. They were just going to fire
six hundred or sixteen hundred people because they didn't have
any money, and now they found two point seven billion dollars.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
Growth and a cleaner downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
And while we'll we'll do everything to fast track this
project in a fiscally responsible way, we will also continue
to focus on the overall revitalization of downtown LA, including
safety and cleanliness, which is at the center.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yep, that's exactly right. Those are the two things that
keep people away from downtown danger and dirt.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
And cleanliness, which is at the center.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
But while the mayor is making big.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Promises, critics say the city has neglected downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
For years, years, how about centuries.
Speaker 10 (32:33):
Leaving some of its most visible landmarks decayed and ignored.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
It is de moralizing to see the state of the city.
I mean, you look at our beautiful skyline of downtown
LA and what do you see an eye sword, You
see three graffiti towers. And it is embarrassing because we become,
in a sense, the laughing stock of other cities and
even some other cities in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yep, she's right, percent right.
Speaker 8 (32:58):
How is that allowed to occur here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
And even Michael Monks, who lives downtown, he's a big
fan of living down there. He even admits that they've
got to do something about that graffiti tower. It can't
and it's been two years. It just sits there and
nobody does anything about it. Nobody.
Speaker 10 (33:17):
LAPD Commander Lillian Caranza says she's sped up with how
local officials.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Have led downtown La slip.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
She points to the sixth Street bridge covered in graffiti
and left dark for more than a year. The Third
Street tunnel tells the same story, and even the towers
across from the Convention Center are tagged from top to bottom.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
There are a myriad of reasons as to why we
have gotten to where we're at now, one of them
being zero veil, the progressive policies that we have seen,
and some of elected leaders they do not like working
on the police department.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
Caranza says the current policies have created a revolving door.
Officers arrest taggers and others, but they're quickly released back
onto the streets, making it harder to keep downtown clean
and safe. She says city officials need to work with
the LAPD to really make a difference.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
This be a premier city that can host not only
the World Cup, but the Olympics in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, they've got to clean that's they got to clean
up downtown. It's filthy, filthy as hell.
Speaker 8 (34:23):
We need to work in partnership and collaborate and we
need their support just like they need our support in
order to serve.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
And you know, Los Angeles could have had a mayor
that knows how to do it. I mean he built
the Grove, He built the Americana, the shops out of
Pacific Palisades. All three of those shopping areas are beautiful, spectacular,
and we decided or not we I don't live in
the City of La but you, if you live in
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the City of La you decided to go with Mayor
Baths instead of a guy who knows how to clean
the city up.
Speaker 10 (34:59):
Councilwoman Sabe Huado issued a statement that says, in part,
public safety begins with the equitable delivery of city services
that strengthen neighborhoods and improve the quality of life. That's
why our office has already taken swift action to add
the six Street bridge, to weekly graffiti a Bateman routes,
and expand cleanup services across Council District fourteen.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yep, you could add Rick Caruso as the mayor. That
would have would have gone a long way. He would
have not tolerated all of this filth like he does
at his three shopping centers. He doesn't tolerate it. He
doesn't tolerate crime or graffiti or crazy homelessness. And you
decide to go with Mayor bas instead, so you get
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what you pay for.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
The statement goes on to say that relighting the bridge
should be taken care of in the fall.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, well, I guess well, I'm going to stay on
high alert for that. The bridge. It's a spectacular bridge.
I think it was four hundred and eighty or five
hundred million dollars and now it's just dark because people
are stealing the copper wire. They got to get together.
We've got three major events coming in. We've got the
World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Olympics, and we're
not ready for any of it. Got to straighten out
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downtown La. I'm sure John Colevelt will be on it
as well, but we got to keep on these guys.
They got to straighten this city out. All right. We're
live on KFI AM six forty tomorrow. The Dodger game
starts at six pm. We are less than twenty four
twenty three hours right now from the start of that game,
and we'll have all the details for you tomorrow. Moke
(36:33):
Kelly's whole Crew next right here on KFI AM six
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