October 16, 2025 • 31 mins
Florida couple tracked by thieves using an Apple Airtag and robbed in their driveway—two suspects arrested after the Airtag was traced back to their phones. Two L.A. men face charges for misusing public funds meant to fight homelessness. Amy King checks in live from the Dodgers game. Rock legend Ace Frehley, founding member of KISS, has died at 74.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I AM sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The Dodger game is underway.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We'll give you scores throughout the afternoon if you're not
listening to it on your own. It's one to one
in the bottom of the third inning. The Dodgers had
scored in the first inning and chased the opening pitcher
with one out. It was only he only got one
out in the first inning and he's lucky. It's not
four to one Dodgers, So wonder one tied up at
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Chef's Ravine Dodgers Stadium, beautiful fall afternoon. The shadows are
are are making it very difficult for the hitters. So
if you bet this game, you probably went with the under.
That was the bet, all right.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Alex Stone as well as that from ABC News.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How you bubb Go Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yes, that's right, Go Dodgers. Hey, so a couple of
robbed after they were attacked. What's going on here with
all the Apple air tag took a play a huge
part in this?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Huh Yeah, I really did.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
So.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
This is something that for a while law enforcement even
here in LA that they've been dealing with with domestic
violence and with stalkers. These apple air tags where somebody
puts in your car and your purse and you don't
know it, and they know everywhere you've been and the
spouse knows where their their spouse is. But this is different.
Police in Florida and Odessa, Florida say that they now
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have a case to indicate that criminals, you know, the
these Chilean gangs that have come up and done the
tourist burglaries that they've been big into around southern California,
using cameras that are hidden outside of homes to watch
pattern of life of when people go and when they
have the home that they can break into and all
of that. This is kind of like that, but one
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step beyond it that they've got criminals who are using
air tags attract random victims and know their pattern of
life and when they're going to be home and when
they can attack them and when they can do all that. So,
there was a couple who pulled into their driveway at night.
They were attacked by two armed men who pull They
dragged them out of their car, dragged them into their garage,
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began demanding with guns of you know, give me what
you got, We want your money. All of this, the
robbers didn't know the couple. They were able to remotely
sound their house alarm, either on their keychain or on
an app or something. Whereas they were being dragged into
the garage, they set off the alarm. Now the guys
took off running, they weren't able to get back the
air tag that they ran away, and police found that
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this air tag in their car and saw how they
had been tracking them, and cops said.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
That was so key about this investigation. So some criminals
are very sophisticated. So these two criminals used an air
tag to monitor and surveil these.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Victims's Joseph Maher the chief Deputy of Hillsboro County Sheriff.
So they had been watching the victims. They knew when
they were going to be home, they knew what they
did on a daily basis based on the air tags,
kind of like the cameras that had been used. And
the robbers got away. But it was the air tag
that led police to the robbers because it was linked
to their phone so that they could track this couple.
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And so they just looked at the phone it was
registered to and who owned the phone and let them
right here.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
The detectives identified the air tag on the vehicle, on
the victim's vehicle, and we use that to help us
identify who the suspects was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So those guys were stopped in a traffic stop.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The Jetsons, you know, it's like a Jetsons episode.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Follow the airteg. So they're facing along list of charges.
They're in castody. Now. Now, the thing here is if
you've got an iPhone, if there is an air tag
that is not registered to you, that is moving with
you and tracking you, your iPhone should give you a
pop up message on the bottom, kind of like when
you connect some AirPods. It looks different. It's not a
text message or a regular notification comes up from the bottom.
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It's a big one shows a picture of it. You
should get a warning that you're being tracked by an
air tag that's not registered to your phone. For whatever reason,
whether they had an Android device or they ignored the message,
like you're driving, you don't know what it is. They
did not get that, they.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Didn't get a notification that an air tag was near them.
But you know, for our community of what I really
want you to be aware of is there are sophisticated
criminals out here, and they do use these type of devices.
If you do receive some sort of notification that you
have no idea about, be cognizant of that and notify
us and Tim.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
They say they don't know why the robbers targeted this couple.
They are restaurant owners, so they thought maybe that's why
they had a bunch of cash and stuff. But they're
saying there's a warning they have the robbers and burglars,
or they're getting high tech, they're getting sophisticated. They're watching
what you do. They want to know your pattern of life.
And in this case, they're using Apple AirTags.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, you can't in the old days, when you know,
when I was born and my parents and my friend's parents,
they could cheat on their spouse a billion different ways.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You can't do that at all. You got air tags,
you got cameras, you got credit cards.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh, and you know where your spouse is. Right, you're
all on the same family account, right.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I mean, look, there's we probably have I don't know,
I think four cameras in our house. When my wife's
out of town, she sees every that's going on. Yeah,
you know, yeah, I can't do any in my underwear,
out in the garage, all of that.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Hey, by the way, I would go out in my
garage and underwey, we're going.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Speaking of high tech, did you get the quake alert
at ten am? No, christ I got one. I was
up all night because I was just I don't know.
I never have caffeine during the week because it keeps
me awake. And I said, I'll screw it. I'll have
a coke with dinner. I'm up till three point thirty
four o'clock. I finally fall asleep, like at five. And
this thing went off at ten am, and you know,
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it's like, get out of bed, get.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Under the table, you know, do this.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And I'm like, oh whatever, And then I look at
it and go, it's just a test. So I spent
the next half hour taking all of my earthquake apps
and getting rid of them off my phone.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Oh, because that's going to give.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Me the heart attack. The earthquake has never made me crazy.
These these apps make me crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
No, It's it's a good point because there have been
some that have been real earthquakes, that's right, but we
haven't filled them in this area, and especially for my
Oh yeah, freaks them out. And then it doesn't shake.
You're waiting, yeah, because you're waiting to die seconds and
you're sitting here, going it's coming, it's coming, it's great.
And then nothing happens and you're like your heart's beating fast.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I almost think the aps are worse than it just begins,
much worse. You didn't know what's coming, much worse. I mean,
you know, you don't want to know when you're gonna
have a heart attack, you know, you know, you see
you just do when you're gone, rightever, that things coming
and you're like, is it here yet?
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think I feel something? No, I don't feel anything.
Oh that's it. But preferred to be a.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Test, and especially kids too, it does, you're right, does
flip kids out?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah? Really? Does you know?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Because I got the whole life in front of them.
You know, when you're sixty, you're like, oh, who cares.
That's the way I go. That's the way I go. Buddy,
thanks for coming on with us. I really appreciate it.
Man ding dong with you?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
All right?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
There, he goes Alex Stone with ABC News. Always a
hot show, Belly when we start with Alex Stone, great booking.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I like that, dude.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
All right, Dodger's still tied up one one in the
top of the fourth at Dodger's Stadium, and I was
listening to Dodger talk earlier. It's nice to hear Charlie
Steiner on he came back. I don't know how old
Charlie Steiner is, but he sounded great. He sounded really
like he was. You know, I'd been doing this. It's still,
you know, calling games, Charlie Steiner. Hey about Bello. How
(07:12):
old is Charlie Steiner? You're a sports fan? Used to
work for Lakers. How about you met Charlie Steiner?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Did you? Oh? I don't think I have.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You don't bet Charlie Steiner.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You look. I think I've talked to him.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Maybe we've had him on his guest.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Oh is that right? Let's find out how old before
we go to a break. Here, how old is Charlie Steiner.
Let's see how old is Charlie Steiner here?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Seventy six?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Seventy six? God, he sounded like he was forty six.
Sounded great, Charlie Steiner.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yep. Was born on July seventeen, nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
He you know, when he used to be on ESPN
and all that stuff. He was great then he the
second he got the Dodgers gig, it just gave him
a new life. Yeah. He just always seems so happy
to have this gig.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I remember all those oh guys, Jerry Doggett, you know,
Vince Gulley, Charlie Steiner, those guys are great man, big
part of my childhood.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
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Speaker 4 (08:13):
Of winners, monks is here are you?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Bub?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I'm great? How are you today? All right?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Before we get into how fed up La City and
County is? Where'd you end up last day? Wednesday? As
you're standing dinner night?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah? And did you end up at Rio Soul?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I ended up staying downtown.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
We got a food hall a few blocks from my place,
you know, one of those like food courts that they
tuck into these old buildings. Went in there and grabbed
a honey chicken sandwich and some sweet potato fries.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
All right, that's cool, It was it good. I love
that place. Yeah, what is the name? Of the I
gotta look it up. I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
All we're talking, what's the big food haul down and
shout out, I don't know marketplace?
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Oh, Grand Central mar Grandson. Yeah, I love Grand Central Market.
A lot of great places to eat in Grand Central Market,
but it's often very crowded because it's a tourist destination.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
So you've got to pick the right times, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So I will be celebrating or I just celebrated my
sixty second year in LA and they always say, don't
talk about your uninterrupted, Yes, uninterrupted. I've never been to
Grand Central Market what not once. I don't even know
where it is. Third and Broadway. I have no idea
that's where it was.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
It's Caddy corner to the Opoyo Loco I was working
out before I got hard, right, Okay, alright. It's called
the Corporation Food Hall. It's on Spring Street and it's
got you know, this chicken place. I gotta find the
name of it. You know, some Asian, some some Mexican,
some hot dogs. You know, you can go in there
and get a smoothie. So it's just a nice place
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when you're in a bit of a jam. And locals
are tourists, just locals, just local bums like me hanging
out there. It's good stuff because it's tucked away in
kind of one of the CD parts of the downtown
area where I live.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
And what's the exterior homeless level scale of one to
do the primarily across the street where they hang out
across from the CVS. Okay, oh yeah, they love CV
the loves and that CVS has a particular odor to it,
going that's where I get my flu shot.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You know, I've.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Talked about this before on the air, but I don't
think with you.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I find it almost thoroughly disgusting that there's carpet in
a CVS, you know, because carpet holds on to germs,
and the people walking up and down the the you know,
the flu and cold aisle, are all sick, and yet
that carpet has got to be dirty.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It's not only dirty, but it does retain that scent.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Yeah, like you said, you know, it's just just this morning,
before I came into work, I scheduled my flu shot
and I was just thinking, I feel like I get
the flu from going in there.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You could, Yeah, I avoid the flu and cold aisle
because that's where the sickest people in La go, the
cold and flu aisle at A.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
And the worst part about it, if you're sick, and
you're already sick and you don't have the medicine at
home and you got to go crawling out to get something,
you gotta wait in that aisle because you're pushing that
stupid button that and everyone knows you're infected because it
goes out over the intercom. This dip plod is, you know,
stricken with COVID and needs your help to unlock this.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
All right, let's get into It's called burger.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Shop by the way shop, okay, and it's known for
its burgers, but I really like the chicken sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Okay, all right, that's cool. And was it pricey?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, it's about thirty bucks for the sandwich and the fries.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Everything is so expensive.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
All right, Let's get into these characters, Life's most interesting guys,
as George Carling calls them, ripping off the city.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
This is everyone's fear around here about the amount of
money we spend on homeless services and homeless housing and
anti homeless stuff a lot prevent it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It's billions. Yeah, and billions are missing.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
It's not necessarily that they're missing, Conway, it's it's unfortunately
that they're unaccounted for.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Push in a way is worse.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
It's like one thing if somebody stole the money, like
we're going to be talking about today, as the allegation suggests.
The other is you have these pencil pushers in these
large organizations that are overseen by the local government who
can't tell you where the money is.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
All right, Well, they know that it went out, so
it's not missing.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
They know where the check was written, but they can't
tell if if the right amount went out or if
the services were provided.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
That's what we've known.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
But there have been suggestions that somebody's been pocketing money,
and today we know that there are now formal allegations
that that is the case.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
All right against two guys or two people two guys.
How much money is are they accused of. It's a
couple of different cases. These guys do not work together.
These are separate cases.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
One guy who lives in Beverly Hills worked as the
chief financial officer for a development company called Shangri Law
Industries Wow, and as the CFO, he put together a
lot of the bank documents so that they could get
state or local money to help support their efforts to
build homeless housings. And for one project and thousand Oaks
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where Shangri Law was developing some homeless housing, they got
almost a twenty six million dollar grant.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
But it turns out, according to federal prosecutors, this guy
Cody Holmes pocketed more than two million of that himself.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Why why did he need two million dollars? Well, one,
he lives in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Two apparently he likes luxury brands because he was out
shopping and racked up two million dollars worth of charges
on his American Express cards. Wishes what he allegedly used
this money to pay for?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Did the the condos or apartments and thousand Oaks ever
get built?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
That is a project that is ongoing. This is a
company that had already done other projects, so they had
been on the books. They had a relationship with these
public agencies because they had a track record. They had
done this stuff before, which makes it a little bit
easier to get through the process.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Is that a wrap on them?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Now?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Have they lost those contracts? That company itself has already
gone after the CFO blaming him for stealing. But they
are part of an active instigation. That they are part
of this investigation, they may be looked at in another
way as well.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
This other guy's name is Steven Taylor. He lives in Brentwood.
I'm just about a guy from Beverly Hills. Were talking
about a guy from brent Well. These aren't guys I'm
running into at the Corporation Food Hall on Spring Street
across from the dirty cvs right.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
These are guys with Maserati's and Rolex's and.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Stephen Taylor fancied himself a real estate developer, but apparently
the way that he was getting access to capital from
banks was by inflating his own worth and creating his
own false bank documents, according to federal prosecutors, so that
he could get approved for stuff that he really could
not afford. But on one particular property he was he lied,
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according to federal prosecutors, to get enough money to buy
this property for eleven million dollars. And then a publicly
funded agency known as Wingart, which is building towers on
skid row as we speak, they came to him and said,
we'd like to buy this property. He sold it to
them by fraudulently, again, according to federal prosecutors, inflating the
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sale price and the value of the property. So a
property he bought for eleven million dollars he turned around
and very quickly sold for twenty seven million dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Wow, your wow, that's wild. And where are these two chaps?
Are they in prison? Non guys in jail.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Taylor is out on three point six million dollars bond,
but they face a long time in prison. Cody Holmes
the guy with shangri la. He faces up to twenty
years in prison. But Stephen Taylor faces more charges, seven
counts of bank fraud. Each of those carry up to
ten years in prison, account of aggravated identity theft, and
account of money laundering. He could be in prison for
decades and decades. Unbelievable. Yeah, exactly. And I'll tell you
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this Bill is Saley, the US attorney who announced these
charges today. Back in April, he announced the creation of
a criminal task force specifically to investigate good homeless funding
in southern California and the Central District that he represents.
This is the first announcement to come out of that.
But those investigators are ongoing. Another thing we heard again
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that was pretty quick then, yeah, not bad. An investigator
from the IRS spoke and he said that the homeless,
basically the homeless industrial complex that we have here, it
doesn't have the safeguards in place. It is ripe and
vulnerable to be taken advantage of by guys like this.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Right, but don't you. I mean, look, I've been here
for a long long time. There is sixty two years. Yeah,
there's nothing in that story that surprises me.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
I don't think I was thinking today John cobalts Off,
he would have really liked to have Oh yeah, he
wouldn't say this.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
This is something he would have had a good time with.
But it's not surprising. Unfortunately, it's not.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
This is a lot of suspicion confirmed that some of
this money and this, unfortunately to say, is just some
of the money. We're talking about twenty plus million dollars here,
around twenty million dollars and that is just some of
the money that is poured into homeless efforts.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's amazing. I mean, you know you're going to cover
it more thoroughly on Saturday. I believe couldn't get into that.
And also with this La County ceo. I know you've
you've heard about this. There was one, there was just
it was round robin or now they're gonna vote for
one or well you know that we voted last November
to elect a county CEO, basically a county mayor.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Measure g was passed overwhelmingly by voters.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Right and that and that, And the claim is that
it hurt the reputation of the sitting of the county CEO.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
She said, a reputation was damaged. So she has already
settled with the county for two million dollars. Great, all right,
well and probably out on medical leave until the first
of the year.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Well done.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I know the tricks, man, I know them. You know,
you get a pocket full of money, you go on
medical leave, and you enjoy yourself.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
That's why people work for the city in the county.
What are they are doing?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
They don't they don't work for you think they're concerned
about the people in the city or in the county. No,
they just laid line their pockets. That's why you get
those jobs. And how dare you you know you bust
their balls?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Monks.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I shouldn't be making these calls.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, you're new.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
You gotta getting with the system. Next time I call
it will be to ask if they're hiring. Yes, you
got to get account Look, if I do it all
over again, I get a nice county job with a
pension and work and try to steal as much money
as I can.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You'd be great in the sanitation department. I think I would. Yeah,
I'd be decent down there.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I get along with all the guys, and then every
day I'd be trying to manipulate, you know, paperwork and
accounting and try to make as much money as I can. Absolutely, yeah,
and then sit, you know, then cool yourself, you know,
cool your heels.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
In prison for a good Johnny punch class.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right, So Saturday seven to nine pm right here
on KFI totch me all right, thanks boy.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
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Speaker 4 (18:38):
Forty. Dodgers are playing right now.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It's in the bottom of the fifth inning at Dodgers Stadium,
tied one to one. If LA wins this one, then
they're up three games to none against the Milwaukee Brewers.
So we'll see, we'll see. But Amy King, who does
wake up call between five and six A m is
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out there at Dodger Stadium and she's on with us Amy, how.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You yellow.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yellow yellow?
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Cam?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Hey Amy, how you doing? How's your view so good? Yeah?
What you eat?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
And gotta how the hot dogs dogs good? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Two? There she is, Hey, Amy King?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
How are you there?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah? Ding dog with you?
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Sorry about that. I was trying to be played and
I had my phone on music doing great except that
show Hay just struck out in the bottom of the fifth.
We're heading into the sixth one. But I gotta tell you.
We started the game and it was so exciting because
shoe Hay was first up, lead off. It's a triple.
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Everybody goes wild. Lukey best comes up. It's a double,
which is bring show Hay home. And then we get
another hit and we're like, this is gonna get a blowout.
Then they s pica.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Sucks.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Hey, how good are your seats?
Speaker 10 (20:07):
They're pretty They're pretty good. They're pretty good. We're we're
behind the dugout.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
About Oh that's wild, that's a great seeds. What'd you
pay for those suckers?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
A lot? And what's it?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Must be a perfect day out there weatherwise, Oh my gosh, it.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
Is so absolutely perfect, Like it's not too well, it's
not too full. There's some people that's shooting the pavilion
that are still in the sun. But it's just beautifuse
of seventy five degrees may sky.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's ballfield.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
I mean, how does to give better than that? Man,
Like you said, you're leaving the series to games, So.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, it is and it looks full. Is the stadium packed?
Speaker 10 (20:51):
The stadium is?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's a lot.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
It's weird because there's a lot of empty speech. Yeah,
which is stocking to me.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I mean, well it's the those early starts.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You know, people are working and people are you know, broke,
and you know it's hard to get to a three
o'clock game.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Well, yeah, in the Broke Park. I didn't take it's
something expensive. It's not like you're in the regular season.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You can.
Speaker 10 (21:12):
I'll get tickets for fifty that's.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Right, that's right. Are do you see any Milwaukee Brewers
fans in the stands?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Milwaukee Brewers and let's see I look in then so none.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
None. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I've never met a Brewers fan. That's kind of a weird.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Look, Wisconsin's a beautiful state with great people, but I
don't know. You know, I've never met a Milwaukee Brewers
fan in my life.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
I don't think there are any.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I think I've met one hundred and fifty Cubs fans
in my life, and I've never met one Milwaukee Brewers fan.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Are you Are you going out again tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Do you have tickets for tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I do not.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
I do know.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
This is my this is my game for the Championship Series,
and so we're gonna, you know, make the best of it.
We got Will pol Schreiber wasn't around the stadium and
a plane.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Oh that's right, Yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, we'll
have to check in with him, all.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Right, Amy, thanks for phoning in.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It looks like, you know, a great day at the stadium,
and we appreciate you taking time for us.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
It's a beautiful day to be a Dodger fans.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Dig dong with you, all right, and thank you Amy
king out there at Dodger Stadium. That's a nice thing
about working at you know, from five to six am.
It sort of opens up your whole day. You know,
when you work at four you missed a lot of things,
miss a lot of things in life. I used to
work seven to nine, actually seven to ten and then
(22:42):
six to ten, and I had a built in excuse
for missing everything.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I got a call.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I was I was working for twenty four twenty three years,
and that was my time slot. Even over klis X,
it was seven to ten or six to ten. And
I got a call twenty three years into doing seven
to ten or six to ten, and it got it
off my dad and my dad said, hey, T, that's
what he's calling me. Hey T, you were having a
(23:11):
Danny you want to come over tonight. I said, wow,
what time? And he said seven thirty And I said, well,
for the twenty fourth straight year, I'll be working Thursday night.
He goes, ah, yeah, Christ, I forgot what are.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Your hours again? Over there?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
But I look, I understand, you know, it's it's hard
to keep when you have six kids. You can't keep
track on every one of them and how long they
work and where they work.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
About that when people have multiple kids, at what point
how many does it take for them to start forgetting
some of them?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You know, I was and I've told this story in
the air before I was home from school. I don't
know why I was home from school, but my brother
Jamie forgot his lunch, and my mom said to my dad, Hey,
on your way to work, where you drop Jamie's lunch
off the school for him? And my dad said, yeah,
I'll take jamie lunch. So my dad was leaving the
(24:02):
house and I say, Dad, where you going? He said,
I'm taking Jamie's lunch to him. I said, what school
are you going to? And he said in Sino Elementary.
I said, well, Jamie doesn't go to school there. He
goes Ah Portola, Strike two. He's in Birmingham, He's got it.
He goes christ he goes Jamie's in high school. You're
gonna say, Alabama. He's in high school already. Yeah, he's
(24:26):
in high school.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I gotta congratulate him.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I said, Dad, you went to a junior high graduation,
you know, I mean literally three months ago.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Ah, what do you He got six kids? Can't keep
track of all of them. All Right, we're live on
k IF.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I am six forty as freely has passed away from
Kiss and that's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I know Krozer is a big fan, so we'll come
back and pick his brain.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Big.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Have you ever did you ever meet him?
Speaker 6 (24:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
No, no, Okay, all right, because you run in those circles.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
But yeah, Ace Freeley one of the original founders, wasn't
he one of the originals, original lead guitarist.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, and he got tossed in and out of that
band for drugs, Yeah, substance issues.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
He was in and out of the band.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
But yeah, yeah, he was there for about six years
originally and then in and out after that.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, he was drinking or taking too many drugs for Kiss.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
The band Kiss, they didn't take drugs, I know, but
Gene and Paul were notoriously very clean. They were about sex,
not drugs. You would think that they'd look the other
way because h Freeley was very good at what he did. Well, yeah,
once it started, well, we'll get into it.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Okay, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
There's a story that's still developing. It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Kiss has been one of the big bands here in
southern California and internationally for quite some time. And we
had the sad news that Ah Freely has passed away.
So let me give some background and then we'll have Krozer.
Krozer jump in because Krozer was a big fan. His
dad was very close to being the key bordis for
(26:04):
Fleetwood Mac and he knows more about music than people
on music stations. But here's the story at some background.
First on Ace Freely with Kiss, and he was seventy
four years old.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Breaking now some sad news from the world of rock music.
Original lead guitarist and founding member of Kiss, Ace Freely
has died following injuries he suffered during a fall last month.
Boy In a statement to Variety, the family says, in part,
we are completely devastated and heartbroken in his last moments.
We were fortunate enough to have been able to surround
(26:38):
him with loving carrying peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions
as he left this earth. Freeley joined co founders Paul
Stanley and Jean Simmons in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Two to form the rock band.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
He left for a solo career in nineteen eighty two,
then reunited with the original band in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Kiss is best known for.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Their larger than live performance and says with their faces
in theatrical makeup. Freely was seventy four years old.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You know Krozier that you know that that was a
sudden death and unexpected because none of these stations have
the death package prepared. Not you know, none of the
news stations have the video of his life.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Which is interesting because Freely has in the last few
years not been in good health. And I think notoriously,
for almost like a couple of decades, he's kind of
been not great. I mean, substance abuse issues and otherwise.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Now, did you ever see them in person?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do you ever go to Never?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Did?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I got?
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I got the day of close when I was going
to go see them on the Dynasty tour in nineteen
seventy nine. I believe I was at a gig with
my dad playing and I ended up stepping on a
nail where the gig was up boy, and my dad
ended up taking me to the to the emergency room
to get a tennis shot. I had the eight dollars
in my pocket to buy the ticket to go to
(27:54):
the Capital Size Kiss play and I and that was
my one chance and didn't. And that was the last
tour that they played, all four of them together.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Oh man, your dad must have been bummed. Yeah, he
wasn't as impacted by it as I was. He wasn't he.
It's not like Kiss was his big Did you have
big Kiss posters in your room?
Speaker 7 (28:10):
And I have framed Kiss stuff I have? Yeah, I
was a huge Kiss guy, especially in the seventies. Yeah,
I love gone all that stuff. You know it To
kind of bookend it to seventh seventh, nineteen seventy two, notoriously,
Paul Stanley from A Kiss put out an ad in
New York asking where the wording was lead guitarist wanted
with Flash and ability album out shortly, no time wasters please,
(28:32):
and Ace Freely answered the ad. For years, it had
always been one of those rock rumors that the ad said,
we needed a guitar, We need a guitarist with flash
and balls. The ad didn't actually say that, but people
thought that for years that that's what it said. And
so that was him answering the ad. And just this year,
to kind of bookend it, Guitar World named Ace Freely
(28:55):
the fourteenth greatest metal guitarist of all time.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Wow? Man, that's year. What a what an honor? You know,
that's huge black guys out they're playing all the metal bands.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
And so so he left in eighty two and then
came back. He actually left a little bit before that.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Some of those albums over the period of time they
they had there in seventy eight, they were putting out
an album every single year from like seventy three on right.
And in seventy eight they had Love Gun that was
a huge album of theirs, and then right after that
they put out their famous individual album solo albums, and
Aces did the best he really. He did a redo
(29:33):
of a New York groove, which a lot of people know.
It's been used in commercials and stuff. It's easy to
remember if you've heard it. And then when they got
back together, they did the Dynasty album, which had that
sort of disco edge. I was made for Loving You,
And in that album, Ace like George Harrison and the Beatles.
He actually sang three songs on that album because they
felt more comfortable not just Paul and Jeans sing and stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Wow. I never knew that he had a solo career.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
He did.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Yeah, so like seventy nine and they got back together
and any album after that. There's always this sort of
nebulous thing was that they said he was still in
the band in some of those albums, but he didn't
actually play on any of the tracks because he was
in such bad straits.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
He officially left in eighty two though. So you said
Gene Simmons was a big anti drug guy.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Yeah, Both of Paul and Jane, the two main guys,
the Lennon McCartney of Kiss, they notoriously were never into
the drug thing. And Peter Chris he was into drugs
and alcohol and he was kind of quitting on the
band at one point right around the same time Ace
was having his alcohol issues and drug issues.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Oh wow.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Yeah, so those two were having the same issues right
around the same time when they left the band or
were forced out of the band.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, if you're just tuning in, Ace Freely, a really
very talented dude with Kiss, the lead guitar player, has
passed away at the age of seventy four.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Very sad news. We're live on KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
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Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
The Dodger game is underway.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
We'll give you scores throughout the afternoon if you're not
listening to it on your own. It's one to one
in the bottom of the third inning. The Dodgers had
scored in the first inning and chased the opening pitcher
with one out. It was only he only got one
out in the first inning and he's lucky. It's not
four to one Dodgers, So wonder one tied up at
(00:32):
Chef's Ravine Dodgers Stadium, beautiful fall afternoon. The shadows are
are are making it very difficult for the hitters. So
if you bet this game, you probably went with the under.
That was the bet, all right.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Alex Stone as well as that from ABC News.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How you bubb Go Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yes, that's right, Go Dodgers. Hey, so a couple of
robbed after they were attacked. What's going on here with
all the Apple air tag took a play a huge
part in this?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Huh Yeah, I really did.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
So.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
This is something that for a while law enforcement even
here in LA that they've been dealing with with domestic
violence and with stalkers. These apple air tags where somebody
puts in your car and your purse and you don't
know it, and they know everywhere you've been and the
spouse knows where their their spouse is. But this is different.
Police in Florida and Odessa, Florida say that they now
(01:23):
have a case to indicate that criminals, you know, the
these Chilean gangs that have come up and done the
tourist burglaries that they've been big into around southern California,
using cameras that are hidden outside of homes to watch
pattern of life of when people go and when they
have the home that they can break into and all
of that. This is kind of like that, but one
(01:44):
step beyond it that they've got criminals who are using
air tags attract random victims and know their pattern of
life and when they're going to be home and when
they can attack them and when they can do all that. So,
there was a couple who pulled into their driveway at night.
They were attacked by two armed men who pull They
dragged them out of their car, dragged them into their garage,
(02:04):
began demanding with guns of you know, give me what
you got, We want your money. All of this, the
robbers didn't know the couple. They were able to remotely
sound their house alarm, either on their keychain or on
an app or something. Whereas they were being dragged into
the garage, they set off the alarm. Now the guys
took off running, they weren't able to get back the
air tag that they ran away, and police found that
(02:28):
this air tag in their car and saw how they
had been tracking them, and cops said.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
That was so key about this investigation. So some criminals
are very sophisticated. So these two criminals used an air
tag to monitor and surveil these.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Victims's Joseph Maher the chief Deputy of Hillsboro County Sheriff.
So they had been watching the victims. They knew when
they were going to be home, they knew what they
did on a daily basis based on the air tags,
kind of like the cameras that had been used. And
the robbers got away. But it was the air tag
that led police to the robbers because it was linked
to their phone so that they could track this couple.
(03:03):
And so they just looked at the phone it was
registered to and who owned the phone and let them
right here.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
The detectives identified the air tag on the vehicle, on
the victim's vehicle, and we use that to help us
identify who the suspects was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So those guys were stopped in a traffic stop.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The Jetsons, you know, it's like a Jetsons episode.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Follow the airteg. So they're facing along list of charges.
They're in castody. Now. Now, the thing here is if
you've got an iPhone, if there is an air tag
that is not registered to you, that is moving with
you and tracking you, your iPhone should give you a
pop up message on the bottom, kind of like when
you connect some AirPods. It looks different. It's not a
text message or a regular notification comes up from the bottom.
(03:44):
It's a big one shows a picture of it. You
should get a warning that you're being tracked by an
air tag that's not registered to your phone. For whatever reason,
whether they had an Android device or they ignored the message,
like you're driving, you don't know what it is. They
did not get that, they.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Didn't get a notification that an air tag was near them.
But you know, for our community of what I really
want you to be aware of is there are sophisticated
criminals out here, and they do use these type of devices.
If you do receive some sort of notification that you
have no idea about, be cognizant of that and notify
us and Tim.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
They say they don't know why the robbers targeted this couple.
They are restaurant owners, so they thought maybe that's why
they had a bunch of cash and stuff. But they're
saying there's a warning they have the robbers and burglars,
or they're getting high tech, they're getting sophisticated. They're watching
what you do. They want to know your pattern of life.
And in this case, they're using Apple AirTags.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, you can't in the old days, when you know,
when I was born and my parents and my friend's parents,
they could cheat on their spouse a billion different ways.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You can't do that at all. You got air tags,
you got cameras, you got credit cards.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh, and you know where your spouse is. Right, you're
all on the same family account, right.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I mean, look, there's we probably have I don't know,
I think four cameras in our house. When my wife's
out of town, she sees every that's going on. Yeah,
you know, yeah, I can't do any in my underwear,
out in the garage, all of that.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Hey, by the way, I would go out in my
garage and underwey, we're going.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Speaking of high tech, did you get the quake alert
at ten am? No, christ I got one. I was
up all night because I was just I don't know.
I never have caffeine during the week because it keeps
me awake. And I said, I'll screw it. I'll have
a coke with dinner. I'm up till three point thirty
four o'clock. I finally fall asleep, like at five. And
this thing went off at ten am, and you know,
(05:32):
it's like, get out of bed, get.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Under the table, you know, do this.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And I'm like, oh whatever, And then I look at
it and go, it's just a test. So I spent
the next half hour taking all of my earthquake apps
and getting rid of them off my phone.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Oh, because that's going to give.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Me the heart attack. The earthquake has never made me crazy.
These these apps make me crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
No, It's it's a good point because there have been
some that have been real earthquakes, that's right, but we
haven't filled them in this area, and especially for my
Oh yeah, freaks them out. And then it doesn't shake.
You're waiting, yeah, because you're waiting to die seconds and
you're sitting here, going it's coming, it's coming, it's great.
And then nothing happens and you're like your heart's beating fast.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I almost think the aps are worse than it just begins,
much worse. You didn't know what's coming, much worse. I mean,
you know, you don't want to know when you're gonna
have a heart attack, you know, you know, you see
you just do when you're gone, rightever, that things coming
and you're like, is it here yet?
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think I feel something? No, I don't feel anything.
Oh that's it. But preferred to be a.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Test, and especially kids too, it does, you're right, does
flip kids out?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah? Really? Does you know?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Because I got the whole life in front of them.
You know, when you're sixty, you're like, oh, who cares.
That's the way I go. That's the way I go. Buddy,
thanks for coming on with us. I really appreciate it.
Man ding dong with you?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
All right?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
There, he goes Alex Stone with ABC News. Always a
hot show, Belly when we start with Alex Stone, great booking.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I like that, dude.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
All right, Dodger's still tied up one one in the
top of the fourth at Dodger's Stadium, and I was
listening to Dodger talk earlier. It's nice to hear Charlie
Steiner on he came back. I don't know how old
Charlie Steiner is, but he sounded great. He sounded really
like he was. You know, I'd been doing this. It's still,
you know, calling games, Charlie Steiner. Hey about Bello. How
(07:12):
old is Charlie Steiner? You're a sports fan? Used to
work for Lakers. How about you met Charlie Steiner?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Did you? Oh? I don't think I have.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You don't bet Charlie Steiner.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You look. I think I've talked to him.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Maybe we've had him on his guest.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Oh is that right? Let's find out how old before
we go to a break. Here, how old is Charlie Steiner.
Let's see how old is Charlie Steiner here?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Seventy six?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Seventy six? God, he sounded like he was forty six.
Sounded great, Charlie Steiner.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yep. Was born on July seventeen, nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
He you know, when he used to be on ESPN
and all that stuff. He was great then he the
second he got the Dodgers gig, it just gave him
a new life. Yeah. He just always seems so happy
to have this gig.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I remember all those oh guys, Jerry Doggett, you know,
Vince Gulley, Charlie Steiner, those guys are great man, big
part of my childhood.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty Speaking.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Of winners, monks is here are you?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Bub?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I'm great? How are you today? All right?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Before we get into how fed up La City and
County is? Where'd you end up last day? Wednesday? As
you're standing dinner night?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah? And did you end up at Rio Soul?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I ended up staying downtown.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
We got a food hall a few blocks from my place,
you know, one of those like food courts that they
tuck into these old buildings. Went in there and grabbed
a honey chicken sandwich and some sweet potato fries.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
All right, that's cool, It was it good. I love
that place. Yeah, what is the name? Of the I
gotta look it up. I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
All we're talking, what's the big food haul down and
shout out, I don't know marketplace?
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Oh, Grand Central mar Grandson. Yeah, I love Grand Central Market.
A lot of great places to eat in Grand Central Market,
but it's often very crowded because it's a tourist destination.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
So you've got to pick the right times, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So I will be celebrating or I just celebrated my
sixty second year in LA and they always say, don't
talk about your uninterrupted, Yes, uninterrupted. I've never been to
Grand Central Market what not once. I don't even know
where it is. Third and Broadway. I have no idea
that's where it was.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
It's Caddy corner to the Opoyo Loco I was working
out before I got hard, right, Okay, alright. It's called
the Corporation Food Hall. It's on Spring Street and it's
got you know, this chicken place. I gotta find the
name of it. You know, some Asian, some some Mexican,
some hot dogs. You know, you can go in there
and get a smoothie. So it's just a nice place
(09:39):
when you're in a bit of a jam. And locals
are tourists, just locals, just local bums like me hanging
out there. It's good stuff because it's tucked away in
kind of one of the CD parts of the downtown
area where I live.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
And what's the exterior homeless level scale of one to
do the primarily across the street where they hang out
across from the CVS. Okay, oh yeah, they love CV
the loves and that CVS has a particular odor to it,
going that's where I get my flu shot.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You know, I've.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Talked about this before on the air, but I don't
think with you.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I find it almost thoroughly disgusting that there's carpet in
a CVS, you know, because carpet holds on to germs,
and the people walking up and down the the you know,
the flu and cold aisle, are all sick, and yet
that carpet has got to be dirty.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It's not only dirty, but it does retain that scent.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Yeah, like you said, you know, it's just just this morning,
before I came into work, I scheduled my flu shot
and I was just thinking, I feel like I get
the flu from going in there.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You could, Yeah, I avoid the flu and cold aisle
because that's where the sickest people in La go, the
cold and flu aisle at A.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
And the worst part about it, if you're sick, and
you're already sick and you don't have the medicine at
home and you got to go crawling out to get something,
you gotta wait in that aisle because you're pushing that
stupid button that and everyone knows you're infected because it
goes out over the intercom. This dip plod is, you know,
stricken with COVID and needs your help to unlock this.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
All right, let's get into It's called burger.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Shop by the way shop, okay, and it's known for
its burgers, but I really like the chicken sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Okay, all right, that's cool. And was it pricey?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, it's about thirty bucks for the sandwich and the fries.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Everything is so expensive.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
All right, Let's get into these characters, Life's most interesting guys,
as George Carling calls them, ripping off the city.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
This is everyone's fear around here about the amount of
money we spend on homeless services and homeless housing and
anti homeless stuff a lot prevent it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It's billions. Yeah, and billions are missing.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
It's not necessarily that they're missing, Conway, it's it's unfortunately
that they're unaccounted for.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Push in a way is worse.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
It's like one thing if somebody stole the money, like
we're going to be talking about today, as the allegation suggests.
The other is you have these pencil pushers in these
large organizations that are overseen by the local government who
can't tell you where the money is.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
All right, Well, they know that it went out, so
it's not missing.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
They know where the check was written, but they can't
tell if if the right amount went out or if
the services were provided.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
That's what we've known.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
But there have been suggestions that somebody's been pocketing money,
and today we know that there are now formal allegations
that that is the case.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
All right against two guys or two people two guys.
How much money is are they accused of. It's a
couple of different cases. These guys do not work together.
These are separate cases.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
One guy who lives in Beverly Hills worked as the
chief financial officer for a development company called Shangri Law
Industries Wow, and as the CFO, he put together a
lot of the bank documents so that they could get
state or local money to help support their efforts to
build homeless housings. And for one project and thousand Oaks
(12:56):
where Shangri Law was developing some homeless housing, they got
almost a twenty six million dollar grant.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
But it turns out, according to federal prosecutors, this guy
Cody Holmes pocketed more than two million of that himself.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Why why did he need two million dollars? Well, one,
he lives in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Two apparently he likes luxury brands because he was out
shopping and racked up two million dollars worth of charges
on his American Express cards. Wishes what he allegedly used
this money to pay for?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Did the the condos or apartments and thousand Oaks ever
get built?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
That is a project that is ongoing. This is a
company that had already done other projects, so they had
been on the books. They had a relationship with these
public agencies because they had a track record. They had
done this stuff before, which makes it a little bit
easier to get through the process.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Is that a wrap on them?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Now?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Have they lost those contracts? That company itself has already
gone after the CFO blaming him for stealing. But they
are part of an active instigation. That they are part
of this investigation, they may be looked at in another
way as well.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
This other guy's name is Steven Taylor. He lives in Brentwood.
I'm just about a guy from Beverly Hills. Were talking
about a guy from brent Well. These aren't guys I'm
running into at the Corporation Food Hall on Spring Street
across from the dirty cvs right.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
These are guys with Maserati's and Rolex's and.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Stephen Taylor fancied himself a real estate developer, but apparently
the way that he was getting access to capital from
banks was by inflating his own worth and creating his
own false bank documents, according to federal prosecutors, so that
he could get approved for stuff that he really could
not afford. But on one particular property he was he lied,
(14:38):
according to federal prosecutors, to get enough money to buy
this property for eleven million dollars. And then a publicly
funded agency known as Wingart, which is building towers on
skid row as we speak, they came to him and said,
we'd like to buy this property. He sold it to
them by fraudulently, again, according to federal prosecutors, inflating the
(15:00):
sale price and the value of the property. So a
property he bought for eleven million dollars he turned around
and very quickly sold for twenty seven million dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Wow, your wow, that's wild. And where are these two chaps?
Are they in prison? Non guys in jail.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Taylor is out on three point six million dollars bond,
but they face a long time in prison. Cody Holmes
the guy with shangri la. He faces up to twenty
years in prison. But Stephen Taylor faces more charges, seven
counts of bank fraud. Each of those carry up to
ten years in prison, account of aggravated identity theft, and
account of money laundering. He could be in prison for
decades and decades. Unbelievable. Yeah, exactly. And I'll tell you
(15:38):
this Bill is Saley, the US attorney who announced these
charges today. Back in April, he announced the creation of
a criminal task force specifically to investigate good homeless funding
in southern California and the Central District that he represents.
This is the first announcement to come out of that.
But those investigators are ongoing. Another thing we heard again
(15:58):
that was pretty quick then, yeah, not bad. An investigator
from the IRS spoke and he said that the homeless,
basically the homeless industrial complex that we have here, it
doesn't have the safeguards in place. It is ripe and
vulnerable to be taken advantage of by guys like this.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Right, but don't you. I mean, look, I've been here
for a long long time. There is sixty two years. Yeah,
there's nothing in that story that surprises me.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
I don't think I was thinking today John cobalts Off,
he would have really liked to have Oh yeah, he
wouldn't say this.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
This is something he would have had a good time with.
But it's not surprising. Unfortunately, it's not.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
This is a lot of suspicion confirmed that some of
this money and this, unfortunately to say, is just some
of the money. We're talking about twenty plus million dollars here,
around twenty million dollars and that is just some of
the money that is poured into homeless efforts.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's amazing. I mean, you know you're going to cover
it more thoroughly on Saturday. I believe couldn't get into that.
And also with this La County ceo. I know you've
you've heard about this. There was one, there was just
it was round robin or now they're gonna vote for
one or well you know that we voted last November
to elect a county CEO, basically a county mayor.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Measure g was passed overwhelmingly by voters.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Right and that and that, And the claim is that
it hurt the reputation of the sitting of the county CEO.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
She said, a reputation was damaged. So she has already
settled with the county for two million dollars. Great, all right,
well and probably out on medical leave until the first
of the year.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Well done.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I know the tricks, man, I know them. You know,
you get a pocket full of money, you go on
medical leave, and you enjoy yourself.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
That's why people work for the city in the county.
What are they are doing?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
They don't they don't work for you think they're concerned
about the people in the city or in the county. No,
they just laid line their pockets. That's why you get
those jobs. And how dare you you know you bust
their balls?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Monks.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I shouldn't be making these calls.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, you're new.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
You gotta getting with the system. Next time I call
it will be to ask if they're hiring. Yes, you
got to get account Look, if I do it all
over again, I get a nice county job with a
pension and work and try to steal as much money
as I can.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You'd be great in the sanitation department. I think I would. Yeah,
I'd be decent down there.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I get along with all the guys, and then every
day I'd be trying to manipulate, you know, paperwork and
accounting and try to make as much money as I can. Absolutely, yeah,
and then sit, you know, then cool yourself, you know,
cool your heels.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
In prison for a good Johnny punch class.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right, So Saturday seven to nine pm right here
on KFI totch me all right, thanks boy.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Forty. Dodgers are playing right now.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It's in the bottom of the fifth inning at Dodgers Stadium,
tied one to one. If LA wins this one, then
they're up three games to none against the Milwaukee Brewers.
So we'll see, we'll see. But Amy King, who does
wake up call between five and six A m is
(19:03):
out there at Dodger Stadium and she's on with us Amy, how.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You yellow.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yellow yellow?
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Hi?
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Cam?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Hey Amy, how you doing? How's your view so good? Yeah?
What you eat?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
And gotta how the hot dogs dogs good? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Two? There she is, Hey, Amy King?
Speaker 10 (19:25):
How are you there?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah? Ding dog with you?
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Sorry about that. I was trying to be played and
I had my phone on music doing great except that
show Hay just struck out in the bottom of the fifth.
We're heading into the sixth one. But I gotta tell you.
We started the game and it was so exciting because
shoe Hay was first up, lead off. It's a triple.
(19:49):
Everybody goes wild. Lukey best comes up. It's a double,
which is bring show Hay home. And then we get
another hit and we're like, this is gonna get a blowout.
Then they s pica.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Sucks.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Hey, how good are your seats?
Speaker 10 (20:07):
They're pretty They're pretty good. They're pretty good. We're we're
behind the dugout.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
About Oh that's wild, that's a great seeds. What'd you
pay for those suckers?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
A lot? And what's it?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Must be a perfect day out there weatherwise, Oh my gosh, it.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
Is so absolutely perfect, Like it's not too well, it's
not too full. There's some people that's shooting the pavilion
that are still in the sun. But it's just beautifuse
of seventy five degrees may sky.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's ballfield.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
I mean, how does to give better than that? Man,
Like you said, you're leaving the series to games, So.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, it is and it looks full. Is the stadium packed?
Speaker 10 (20:51):
The stadium is?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's a lot.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
It's weird because there's a lot of empty speech. Yeah,
which is stocking to me.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I mean, well it's the those early starts.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You know, people are working and people are you know, broke,
and you know it's hard to get to a three
o'clock game.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Well, yeah, in the Broke Park. I didn't take it's
something expensive. It's not like you're in the regular season.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You can.
Speaker 10 (21:12):
I'll get tickets for fifty that's.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Right, that's right. Are do you see any Milwaukee Brewers
fans in the stands?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Milwaukee Brewers and let's see I look in then so none.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
None. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I've never met a Brewers fan. That's kind of a weird.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Look, Wisconsin's a beautiful state with great people, but I
don't know. You know, I've never met a Milwaukee Brewers
fan in my life.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
I don't think there are any.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I think I've met one hundred and fifty Cubs fans
in my life, and I've never met one Milwaukee Brewers fan.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Are you Are you going out again tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Do you have tickets for tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I do not.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
I do know.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
This is my this is my game for the Championship Series,
and so we're gonna, you know, make the best of it.
We got Will pol Schreiber wasn't around the stadium and
a plane.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Oh that's right, Yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, we'll
have to check in with him, all.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Right, Amy, thanks for phoning in.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It looks like, you know, a great day at the stadium,
and we appreciate you taking time for us.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
It's a beautiful day to be a Dodger fans.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Dig dong with you, all right, and thank you Amy
king out there at Dodger Stadium. That's a nice thing
about working at you know, from five to six am.
It sort of opens up your whole day. You know,
when you work at four you missed a lot of things,
miss a lot of things in life. I used to
work seven to nine, actually seven to ten and then
(22:42):
six to ten, and I had a built in excuse
for missing everything.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I got a call.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I was I was working for twenty four twenty three years,
and that was my time slot. Even over klis X,
it was seven to ten or six to ten. And
I got a call twenty three years into doing seven
to ten or six to ten, and it got it
off my dad and my dad said, hey, T, that's
what he's calling me. Hey T, you were having a
(23:11):
Danny you want to come over tonight. I said, wow,
what time? And he said seven thirty And I said, well,
for the twenty fourth straight year, I'll be working Thursday night.
He goes, ah, yeah, Christ, I forgot what are.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Your hours again? Over there?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
But I look, I understand, you know, it's it's hard
to keep when you have six kids. You can't keep
track on every one of them and how long they
work and where they work.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
About that when people have multiple kids, at what point
how many does it take for them to start forgetting
some of them?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You know, I was and I've told this story in
the air before I was home from school. I don't
know why I was home from school, but my brother
Jamie forgot his lunch, and my mom said to my dad, Hey,
on your way to work, where you drop Jamie's lunch
off the school for him? And my dad said, yeah,
I'll take jamie lunch. So my dad was leaving the
(24:02):
house and I say, Dad, where you going? He said,
I'm taking Jamie's lunch to him. I said, what school
are you going to? And he said in Sino Elementary.
I said, well, Jamie doesn't go to school there. He
goes Ah Portola, Strike two. He's in Birmingham, He's got it.
He goes christ he goes Jamie's in high school. You're
gonna say, Alabama. He's in high school already. Yeah, he's
(24:26):
in high school.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I gotta congratulate him.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I said, Dad, you went to a junior high graduation,
you know, I mean literally three months ago.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Ah, what do you He got six kids? Can't keep
track of all of them. All Right, we're live on
k IF.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I am six forty as freely has passed away from
Kiss and that's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I know Krozer is a big fan, so we'll come
back and pick his brain.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Big.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Have you ever did you ever meet him?
Speaker 6 (24:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
No, no, Okay, all right, because you run in those circles.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
But yeah, Ace Freeley one of the original founders, wasn't
he one of the originals, original lead guitarist.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, and he got tossed in and out of that
band for drugs, Yeah, substance issues.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
He was in and out of the band.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
But yeah, yeah, he was there for about six years
originally and then in and out after that.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, he was drinking or taking too many drugs for Kiss.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
The band Kiss, they didn't take drugs, I know, but
Gene and Paul were notoriously very clean. They were about sex,
not drugs. You would think that they'd look the other
way because h Freeley was very good at what he did. Well, yeah,
once it started, well, we'll get into it.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Okay, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
There's a story that's still developing. It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Kiss has been one of the big bands here in
southern California and internationally for quite some time. And we
had the sad news that Ah Freely has passed away.
So let me give some background and then we'll have Krozer.
Krozer jump in because Krozer was a big fan. His
dad was very close to being the key bordis for
(26:04):
Fleetwood Mac and he knows more about music than people
on music stations. But here's the story at some background.
First on Ace Freely with Kiss, and he was seventy
four years old.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Breaking now some sad news from the world of rock music.
Original lead guitarist and founding member of Kiss, Ace Freely
has died following injuries he suffered during a fall last month.
Boy In a statement to Variety, the family says, in part,
we are completely devastated and heartbroken in his last moments.
We were fortunate enough to have been able to surround
(26:38):
him with loving carrying peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions
as he left this earth. Freeley joined co founders Paul
Stanley and Jean Simmons in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Two to form the rock band.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
He left for a solo career in nineteen eighty two,
then reunited with the original band in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Kiss is best known for.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Their larger than live performance and says with their faces
in theatrical makeup. Freely was seventy four years old.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You know Krozier that you know that that was a
sudden death and unexpected because none of these stations have
the death package prepared. Not you know, none of the
news stations have the video of his life.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Which is interesting because Freely has in the last few
years not been in good health. And I think notoriously,
for almost like a couple of decades, he's kind of
been not great. I mean, substance abuse issues and otherwise.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Now, did you ever see them in person?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do you ever go to Never?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Did?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I got?
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I got the day of close when I was going
to go see them on the Dynasty tour in nineteen
seventy nine. I believe I was at a gig with
my dad playing and I ended up stepping on a
nail where the gig was up boy, and my dad
ended up taking me to the to the emergency room
to get a tennis shot. I had the eight dollars
in my pocket to buy the ticket to go to
(27:54):
the Capital Size Kiss play and I and that was
my one chance and didn't. And that was the last
tour that they played, all four of them together.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Oh man, your dad must have been bummed. Yeah, he
wasn't as impacted by it as I was. He wasn't he.
It's not like Kiss was his big Did you have
big Kiss posters in your room?
Speaker 7 (28:10):
And I have framed Kiss stuff I have? Yeah, I
was a huge Kiss guy, especially in the seventies. Yeah,
I love gone all that stuff. You know it To
kind of bookend it to seventh seventh, nineteen seventy two, notoriously,
Paul Stanley from A Kiss put out an ad in
New York asking where the wording was lead guitarist wanted
with Flash and ability album out shortly, no time wasters please,
(28:32):
and Ace Freely answered the ad. For years, it had
always been one of those rock rumors that the ad said,
we needed a guitar, We need a guitarist with flash
and balls. The ad didn't actually say that, but people
thought that for years that that's what it said. And
so that was him answering the ad. And just this year,
to kind of bookend it, Guitar World named Ace Freely
(28:55):
the fourteenth greatest metal guitarist of all time.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Wow? Man, that's year. What a what an honor? You know,
that's huge black guys out they're playing all the metal bands.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
And so so he left in eighty two and then
came back. He actually left a little bit before that.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Some of those albums over the period of time they
they had there in seventy eight, they were putting out
an album every single year from like seventy three on right.
And in seventy eight they had Love Gun that was
a huge album of theirs, and then right after that
they put out their famous individual album solo albums, and
Aces did the best he really. He did a redo
(29:33):
of a New York groove, which a lot of people know.
It's been used in commercials and stuff. It's easy to
remember if you've heard it. And then when they got
back together, they did the Dynasty album, which had that
sort of disco edge. I was made for Loving You,
And in that album, Ace like George Harrison and the Beatles.
He actually sang three songs on that album because they
felt more comfortable not just Paul and Jeans sing and stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Wow. I never knew that he had a solo career.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
He did.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Yeah, so like seventy nine and they got back together
and any album after that. There's always this sort of
nebulous thing was that they said he was still in
the band in some of those albums, but he didn't
actually play on any of the tracks because he was
in such bad straits.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
He officially left in eighty two though. So you said
Gene Simmons was a big anti drug guy.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Yeah, Both of Paul and Jane, the two main guys,
the Lennon McCartney of Kiss, they notoriously were never into
the drug thing. And Peter Chris he was into drugs
and alcohol and he was kind of quitting on the
band at one point right around the same time Ace
was having his alcohol issues and drug issues.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Oh wow.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Yeah, so those two were having the same issues right
around the same time when they left the band or
were forced out of the band.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, if you're just tuning in, Ace Freely, a really
very talented dude with Kiss, the lead guitar player, has
passed away at the age of seventy four.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Very sad news. We're live on KFI AM six.
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