April 21, 2025 • 34 mins
4:05- - Raymond Arroyo podcast called “Arroyo Grande” for iHeart Media in addition to working for Fox News w Laura Ingram and ETWN on the Pope Francis died at 88 after a stroke, Vatican says
Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America
4:20pm – Michael Monks on Archbishop José H. Gomez honored Pope Francis in Mass today at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. Mayor Bass' proposed budget includes 1,600 layoffs amid deficits
4:35— Steady & Slow out of the desert with Coachella traffic. Police shoot and kill man who allegedly shot at LAPD helicopter in Reseda. Downtown LA trees mysteriously cut down with chainsaw over weekend
4:50 pm – LA tour company burglarized for its ebikes twice in less than a month
Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America
4:20pm – Michael Monks on Archbishop José H. Gomez honored Pope Francis in Mass today at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. Mayor Bass' proposed budget includes 1,600 layoffs amid deficits
4:35— Steady & Slow out of the desert with Coachella traffic. Police shoot and kill man who allegedly shot at LAPD helicopter in Reseda. Downtown LA trees mysteriously cut down with chainsaw over weekend
4:50 pm – LA tour company burglarized for its ebikes twice in less than a month
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio Apps.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Sixty. It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We have had bad news today that the Pope has
passed away. Catholic pope has passed away. Its big, huge
news here and all over the world. Pope Francis died
at age eighty eight because of a stroke. There are millions,
if not billions, close to a billion people who are
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either saddened or bedridden with depression. It's a big deal
for Catholics. I was born and raised Catholic. Our first
guest is born and raised Catholic as well. I think
Raymond Royo, how are you, Bob?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You are correct?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, Raymond Royal with Fox News on Laura Ingram all
the time.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You're gonna be on tonight with Laura Ingram.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I am, in fact, I'm literally in the green room.
You caught me just I've just been spackled and powdered. Okay,
if you'd see me, you'd be very happy.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hey, any way to get like a Carol Burnett grandmother,
shout out where you tug on your ear and I
know it's to.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Me I'll do that tonight. Ye watch the end of
the show. I'll give you just for your dad and Carol,
I will okay, I made a get awful line if
I'm so glad at.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, if you do, we'll play it on this station
forever and promote and promote your Ariana Grande podcastro.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Grande not Ariana Royal Gande podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Let me help you, okay, buddy. I On a serious note,
I was bummed. My daughter told me very early this
morning the Pope had died and I thought, there's no way.
He was just alive and he was doing Eastern Mass
It was it was just a it was a big
weekend for him.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well you know, here's the beauty of Pope Francis. At
the very end, the doctors warned him and they said, look,
you can go home, but you have to convalesce for
two months. You can't see anybody. You start contact with
no one. And I turned to a friend of mine
and I said, this is going to last exactly a week,
And sure enough, within four days he was rolling into
Saint Peter's and greeting little kids and you know, meeting
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with the King of England and then finally met with J. D.
Vance the other day. You know, that was his last
formal meeting with the head of state. So and then
you know, then next thing, you know, within hours of
his papal blessing on Easter Sunday, he was you know,
he had that terrible stroke took his life. But you know,
and it's a mixed legacy to him. I mean, there
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was a beautiful part of Pope Francis which was going
out to peripheries, going out to individuals and groups that
perhaps felt abandoned by the Church in the past. But
in the doing he was willing to war on tradition
and open up settled bits of practice and doctrine and
kind of open them up to discussion again. It created
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a lot of confusion in the church and that is
going to drive I think the selection of the next pope.
I think you're the confusion right now, is right.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think you're right, Raymond Arroyos with us tonight on
Fox on Laura Ingram Show.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I respect the Pope. I like the Pope.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Every pope we've ever had, I thought was giving his
life for the better good of everybody. My mom would
have gotten on Alatalia and gotten in his face over
some of his you know, less than conservative leanings.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, look, here's an interesting thing I discovered over the weekend.
Thirty to seventy percent increases jim in baptisms over this
Easter break. Wow, dioceses. That's an increase from third between
thirty and seventy percent in some dioceses, and those are
mostly young people coming to the church. I interview some
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of these people this weekend in New York. Guys, why
are you guys coming to the church? E's the young guys.
They're at NYU and they said, we're looking for truth
and we're and we're looking for something that's been tested
in time. And I thought, this is what's attracting the
young generation to the church. It's the orthodoxy, it's the formalities,
it's the doctrine and the discipline. They're looking for the
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historical truth. They want the real deal, and they're finding
it for whatever reason in the Catholic Church. At the
same time, the pope is sort of running in the
other way and wanting to embrace the world. So now
you have an opportunity to kind of, if you will,
course correct and have the pope aligned with the most
vibrant and young part of his church, the growing part
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of his church, and the Africans, by the way, which
is another growing sector in the church, feel the same way.
They're hardly squishy people. They're not worried about climate change
or you know, the the eye policy.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Sure, well, you know, I think you're one hundred percent right.
I mean I ran into a guy from night Jeria
in the teeth of COVID and I said, hey, how
are you guys handling COVID in non Nigeria And he said,
nobody talks about it, nobody wore a mask, nobody got
an injection, and every business and every school stayed open
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and without any problem.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So this is a tough crew.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, no, no, well, and look, and there are also
people who've been tested, they're under you know, they have
their own tensions in Africa and certain parts of Africa
where you have you know, Islamic and Christian communities, animis
communities slamming together, and it's not always pretty. So what
you believe and what you're willing to die for takes
on great importance when they're burning your churches or your villagers.
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So the Africans don't play around right exactly, And so
you have any hope was very Western in his appetite.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What do you think where do you think the next
pope is going to come from? I know there's a
couple of front runners, one of them from from Italy
who's a big favorite.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, do you know, Tim, This is a speculative sport.
I'm not going to get into this early. I'm going
to tell you why. The better thing is who's picking
the pope. You have one hundred and thirty eight guys
going in, most of whom don't know each other. Unlike
John Paul the Second in Benedict's reigns, where regularly the
cardinals would meet in Rome that had meetings with the Pope,
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Francis didn't do that. His big synded meetings were laid people, atheists,
and a handful of cardinals that he liked. It wasn't
the entire college of cardinals. So the truth is these
guys don't know each other. And the second part of
this is, unlike those other former two popes, Francis didn't
vet his cardinal candidates the way the other popes did.
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He kind of chose them on the fly. It was
almost an improvised selection process. If he met somebody he
was impressed with, he'd make them a cardinal the next
go around, and they were as stunned as everybody else was.
Some of them have dioceses that are intertestinal, smaller than
most parishes. But the reality is these are wild card candidates.
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They come, they are very I think the variety is wide.
They don't cohere or follow Francis's line necessarily, and they've
never met each other. All of that tells me we're
going to have an unpredictable conclave and probably an unpredictable pope.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You know, I just looked this up, but Cardinal Anthony
DeFranco out of Italy is the front runner on draft Kings.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Why Anthony defrent That's a that's the hoddest pick. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I'm sorry you're running draft kings.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, they're not going to be voting in the conclave.
That's probably one hundred and thirty eight voters. They're probably
not on Draft king That's right. I wouldn't follow that map.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I know, you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Ron, you got to go on the big Fox news program.
Laura Ingram, I'll be watching tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Tim. I'm so glad we had this time.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, just to have a laugh. Oh, sing a song, buddy,
you're the best. I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
All right, there, he goes.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Raymond Arroyo on Fox News with Laura Ingram tonight, he's
gonna mention, I don't know the Carobern that show.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Do a little tug out his ear to say hi
to us. That'll be great. Do a little Tarzan yell.
Maybe right. That's the amazing of that took off.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And I was telling Bellio a couple of weeks ago,
it's amazing how that took off, and you know how
sort of simple it was, but it really took off.
And and she goes, oh, you've been like ding dong.
I'm like a all right, all right, all right, all right,
God Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I know that Bellio is a Catholic, an Angels Catholic?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Crows are you Catholic? I know.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Was?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I think Stephus is Catholic? I think Sam, are you Catholic?
Filling in for Steph? No, sir, you know how to
get to heaven though, right, I'm still looking.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm still looking for anyone to give me like the
where to turn left on Albuquerque.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
We'll talk during the break, I'll tell you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
We're live on KF I am sixty KIM six forty.
It's Conway Show. Sorry, Angel, I didn't realize the mic
was on when you were doing traffic. Is Angel there?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I said. Don't I use the
F word?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah you did, And then you said ding dong, and
then you said, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
We have this talk, we had this time together.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, I'm just like I'm I'm a like an idiot,
you know, savant without the savant part, you know, just
a sort of an idiot walking around.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
All right, Thank you, Angel, Martine is ding dong. We
got monks. Hey, how you both? I'm well, good afternoon.
Are you Catholic? Yeah? It was you don't raise that way.
Baptized in the in the faith you go to my
first communion?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah, baptized, baptized, no conffirmation, no confirmation. I was in
public school by the time that rolled around.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You gotta get back in there, expansed. I know the
soul is at risk, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, let's talk about Mayor Karen Bass a little
bit about the pope though.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
First, did you go to the mass today?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We had a mass today, downtown at the Cathedral of
Our Lady of the Angels, and it was, you know,
the regular Easter Monday Mass turned into something obviously completely
different because of the death of Pope Francis. So Archbishop
Jose Gomez talked a lot about somebody that he knew,
you know, and talked to regularly. And it was a
very solemn Mass with a lot of solemn music. That's
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typical of Catholic Mass. Not a very uplifting type of
ceremony anyway.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But I remember Eastern Mass was always long, very long, yeah,
sometimes two hours.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Now this is Easter Monday, not as prestigious as Easter Sunday,
but it takes a different tone when the pope is dead.
So a lot of people, it turned out for it,
a lot of people taking communions today and sharing their
feelings about it, including the archbishop himself. He says the
Pope had fond feelings for Los Angeles and called him
directly when we had the murder of that. Bishop David
(10:58):
O'Connell baw three called the archbishop to express his condolences
and also sent a letter of prayer in January when
the county was on fire.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
You know, the Catholic churches that I'm familiar with, you know,
Saint mals Or Lady Gray, Saint Cyril's, our Lady of Malibu,
you know, ones that we would go to. They they
they I think they subscribed to the Trader Joe's style
parking where there's never any parking. And so that's why
I like downtown. The Lady of the Angels is that
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what it's called the Cathedral of they have they have
beautiful underground parking. Yeah, but but I've gotten stuck in
this as a resident. You know, if they're not managing
the traffic. Oh yeah, the big holidays, well, you know
it backs up all over Temple Street. Oh I bet yeah, Yeah,
that's a busy area, that's right. Yeah, all right, So
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Mayor Bath is back in town. She's back from her
trip to Africa.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, she's been back. She's been back for several months. Yes, absolutely,
but but she might want to go back. Yes, it's
getting bad at city Hall because today was the State
of the City. Now, usually the State of the City
address that she gives the past two times. Anyway, this
is her third time doing it. The first two times
was on Thursday night, and you know there's sort of
an atmosphere of festivity. Sure, when you're talking about the
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state of this city and it's all kumbaya and she
gives shout outs to everybody and they have dinner afterwards.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Right, this was an email.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
This was scheduled opposite the mass downtown, so they were
mourning up the street and morning down the street on
Temple Street. It was a funeral for the city's budget.
So she did not talk about the budget too much
during the State of the City. She was going to
release this budget after the State of the City. But
she did talk to city workers directly during her buddon
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and said, look, love you, but we're struggling and some
of you're going to have to go.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
How many about sixteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Sixteen hundred city employees of a city that is pretty
light when it comes to services anyway, are going to disappear.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
That's what it looks like. Now she's hoping that she
can crawl up to Sacramento this week. She says she's
going up there in the hopes of being able to
avoid these layoffs by getting a bailout from the state. Now,
what is the appetite and Sacramento for such a thing?
We don't know yet, because the state is hurting financially too, right,
everybody is, And a lot of the city's financial problems
(13:22):
are its own making the big cost of the legal
settlements and that are caused either by city workers or
city infrastructure. That's their fault, right, A judge has said
as much, that's your fault, that's right. The other thing
is the declining revenues from real estate, from tourism, from business.
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If you don't create the right conditions, you're not getting
that type of money.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So I know that she has a great relationship with Trump.
Why doesn't she go to Washington get some money?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, I'm sure she sent him a text this morning
and said, hey, big guy, got some problems, help us out.
You know, the Feds could write a check to La
City in a heartbeat for a billion dollars. Nobody would
complain and all of this will go away. Well, if
she has an end, she might ask Adam Schiff to
cozy up to the presidency. If that works out, I
don't think it will. We need to be clear though,
(14:13):
because the wildfires also hurt the budget obviously, Oh yeah, significantly,
A big time costs coming there. They're hoping to get
reimbursed for that one by the federal government. It also
hurt production the end of the city. But there were
also a lot of conversations about what did she do
to the budget of the fire department. Before all this started,
it was in dispute whether she had decreased the budget.
She says, no, she didn't, and the former fire chief said, yeah,
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you did. Today without a doubt, she has recommended increasing
the fire department's budget by over twelve percent, including two
hundred and seventy seven new positions for the fire department.
But there's layoffs not coming to police, not coming to fire.
We've talked to this before, like, there's no way you're
cutting police. There's no way you're cutting fire. It's going
to cut the people that if you live in La
that you probably deal with the most. You don't want
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to have to deal with the police, Glad they're there.
You don't want to have to deal with the fire department.
You're glad they're there. But you hope that if there's
a animal running loose, somebody from Animal Services can come help.
You're hoping that if your trash needs to be picked up,
somebody from the trash department can do that, or the
street is going to be sweeped, or if the lights
go out on the street, somebody is there to fix it,
and those are the guys that are going to get
hurt the most. We don't have all of the numbers
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specifically to the departments, but for example, about eighty positions
in the Animal Services Department would be cut and that
department would see its budget dropped by four point eight
million dollars. This is already a department that has been
stretched so thin, difficult to bring employees in. Packed to
the gills. STA animals smell and it don't smell too good. Yeah,
(15:41):
it's horrible.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Do you think the animals, the dogs are bothered by
the smell of animal shelters? They all smell the same.
They all smell of hot urine on tin roofs.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
It's horrible.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
As a resident of downtown LA, I think that would
be an improvement for me. Okay, So I don't have
any sympathy.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
All right. While you were talking, I did a quick
math here.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
If it's a twelve percent incre in LA Fire Department,
that's ninety two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And don't forget the city council is weighing options to
come to voters next year for even more money for
the fire deparce. Oh, because they want to build more firehouses,
they want more fire trucks. They can't add personnel with
that though. Are they going to ask for a sales tax?
And kre're going to ask for a bond?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
All right, just for the city of La. Just for
the city of Oh, good, okay, I'm off here. You
are you live outside the city. All right, good luck,
that's all you can say. All right, Monks, you got
Monks Saturday seven and nine pm.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
You got it, all right? Thanks man, you're the best. There,
he goes Michael Monks with some fairly bad news. The
city of La is going to fire sixteen hundred people.
Sixteen hundred people are going to be laid off because
of mismanagement or whatever something going on down there.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It's horrible. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I don't know where this ends. I don't know where
this all ends. But it's just not the city I
grew up in. I grew up in a beautiful city
called Los Angeles. I don't know what happened. We're live
on KFI.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
So KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
At six forty, it's Conway Show, Angel Martinez.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Are you with us? Angel? Your angels with us?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
What's going on with the traffic coming back from Coachella?
Anything interesting?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Well, it's it's just pretty slow right now, steady and
slow out of North Palm Springs. It looks like it
might be starting to thin out, but those delays still
start up right around Indian Canyon Drive and take you
westbound all the way into Kalamesa. Looks a lot better
once you pass Marongo, but it's still pretty busy all
the way into Kalamesa.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
All right, so you can slide into Marongo and kill
a few hours and then get back.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
On the road.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Go do that, enjoy yourself. Let's see what they got.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I love, go ahead, I love I love the travel
station there at Marongo.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Oh yeah, great, the brand new one. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Let's see what they got going here. They got the
anniversary beer Stein you can get that. The big League
gift giveaway they've got They're giving away fifty dollars in
April twenty seventh, and the twentieth anniversary tea party hot
seats if that's related to the tea party, or I
(18:21):
went up to two thousand dollars cash playing your favorite
games with your rewards card ten am to six pm.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh I'm the twenty six. Okay, all right, thank you,
Angel Martinez.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There she goes, all right. I was watching the news
last night. I'm a big local news guy. I watched two, four, five, seven,
eleven nine.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Everybody. I don't know why because I'm constantly throwing crap
at the TV, but I watch it.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I look at it, and I'm watching last night, and
at least three networks, the three local stations. Their lead
story was the the.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
The Scientist.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I think it was a rocket science who was in
Recida on receiving in Victory. He was framing his degree
from I think Yale or Harvard and then decided to
shoot a gun at LAPD helicopter and well that didn't
end well for him. They shot him and they killed him,
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and that was a wrap on that chap's life. So
there's a lesson for you. I guess right, if you
live in LA and you have a gun, don't point
it at the helicopter with the copsident that doesn't end well.
I thought we all got that message when we were younger.
I thought we were all on the same page. But
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as George Carlin calls them, life's most interesting guys, they're
out there, and we've got a lot of them in LA.
We've got most of life's most interesting guys in LA.
Thing right home, robberies, robbing, a store that does tours
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of La.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Interesting guys. Interesting. So that was the lead story on
the three channels that I watch on Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
The second story was that somebody was cutting trees down
in downtown Los Angeles. That was the That's the that
tells you that this city is perfect except for the
guy in Mesiita. Nothing else is really going on that
we can take time out to do live shots, not
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a package pre produced live in downtown La over. I
don't know, five six seven trees getting cut down. You
can replace trees, they have them at Moon Nursery. About
the size of the trees that were cut down. A
couple thousand bucks and got a new tree. You'll be fine.
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But I don't know who's doing this, and and nobody
heard it. The guy's a chainsaw in downtown.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Sated me in the morning, and nobody way right.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And he didn't cut down you know, one bush. He
cut down like forty year old trees, some biggins and
they're gone. This guy cut down huge trees in downtown
Los Angeles with a chainsaw. They think around one thirty am. Oh,
let's find out we have any more information on this
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chap here.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Some piece of you know what decided that they're going
to go around last night.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Has everyone filled in this filled in the blank here?
Some piece of you know what, some piece of you
know what? Bellio, what do you think that the word
missing is?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Let me splay it again for you. Okay, all right,
this guy's describing the guy who cut the trees.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Down some piece of you know what?
Speaker 8 (21:57):
What?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Does you know what?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Taka?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, that's right. Yeah, you should have just said that
some piece of cockat.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Some Pisa decided that they're going to go around last
night chopping down trees all over downtown law.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
At least five trees in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Okay, that's not all over La. Five trees. Look, I
have a tree, not I love trees. I have I
don't know twenty of them around the house. I've developed
a green thumb to keep them going. I love trees
more than anybody, I think, maybe not crows.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Crows. Also a tree lover got me a pomegranate this weekend.
Wow is that right, sir? When does it develop or
start to produce it next year than the first year? Really?
All right, let's go pomegranate the smoothies. See a little
one on there on the on one of the branches already.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Oh, that's that's a that's a tie on. They call
it little glue. Yeah, they tie they tie one on
when you buy it.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
You want to buy this, See this one right there,
don't mind that glue.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I always fascinated by that. It's like, wow, it's a
lemon tree. It's like three weeks old. But there's three
grown lemons on it. And one of them says, one
of him, says, Vaughn's on it.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Sticker on. Yeah, the sticker on one of them.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
Butcher butcherd over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Butcher. These trees were butchered.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Butchered, butchered butcher over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Boo boocherd butchered over.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
The weekend, leaving residents confused.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
What are you doing to your city. I mean, anybody
that does this, this is an act of destruction.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Media Mussavi has lived downtown since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
He's good for him, right, Glad we know his background.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Media Mussavi has lived downtown since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Where was he before?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Was he in Chatsworth? I'd like to know more about
this this jen.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
He's also behind the popular Instagram account DTLA insider.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Okay, I know that I know this guy. Then I
look at that DTLA insider. I like this guy. I
take it back, I like this dude. This guy's great.
A lot of great information with this guy.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
DTLA insider.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
BELLYO, do you follow that guy DTLA insider. He's great?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Maybe?
Speaker 9 (23:56):
Yeah, he's terrific DTLA Insider. At first, he thought these
chopped trees were part of a city cleanup.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Oh well, maybe they aren't.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Started getting pictures from many different people in the influencer
space downtown space saying did you see what they did
last night? And I realized this was a little more
malicious than you know, just the tree, the city chopping
trees down.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
So they were spotted at Grand Avenue and Wells, Fargo Center,
Olympic and FIGAROA Broadway and Caesar Chuck.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Well, Olympic and Figaro is a very busy intersection.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
Olympic in FIGAROA.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That's where the you know, the King's I mean, Crypto's
one block from there, and that's where that all those
shops are. What do they call it Live, La La Live. Yeah,
that's right there. That's right where there was a car
wash on one corner La Live. On another corner. There's
a million people around there, and guys got a chainsaw
at one thirty knocking trees right down across from La Live.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Olympic and FIGAROA Broadway in Caesar Chavez.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Oh, I'm sorry. Olympic and Figaro is even closer. That
is the corner of Crypto. They've closed Olympic. I think, ah,
maybe I got it wrong, but it's right there at
La Live.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
You get my point.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Olympic in FIGAROA, Broadway and Caesar Chavez and right here
at Grand Avenue in fifth Street. According to city council
member Isabelle Herno, this was an illegal act. LAPD Central
Division says this tree massacre started at around one thirty
Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
They never used that term when people get wiped out right,
this tree massacres a massacre, you know, guy, home invasion
kills a person, they don't call it a massacre.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They call it a robbery massacre, starting a massacre. They
massacred those trees.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
LAPD Central Division says this tree massacre started at around
one thirty Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
God, we should save massacre for people that you know,
like thirty people get wiped out.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Detectives are looking for camera footage.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
The scope and scale that they did this too. It's
just a little bit shocking. I mean, we're in a
high density urban area something, that's right. Some cameras, somebody
had to see something, something had to catch something.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Yeah, it was literally right outside of La Live.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Some cameras, somebody have to see something, something had to
catch something. But we've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, well, gotta get more trees, man, and keep your
ears open downtown for chainsaws at one thirty in the morning.
That's good idea as well. All right, well that's where
we are. We're live on cafon KFI Am six. It
is the Conways show that Alex Michelson did a great job,
belly O.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
He really did.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. A lot of people
around here said he was the best filling guy they've
ever heard.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
How about that? About that action, that's quite the compliment. Huge.
A lot of people have filled in. But that's cool.
I mean, like for the first time out, he was
he was the best. Yeah, he seemed very comfortable.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well he's an old pro. You know, he's been doing
it for a long time. Are we have a tour
company that got robbed. Sure, he's thrilled. He's uh, you know,
he's got some bikes, electric bikes, electric scooters and just
trying to make a couple of bucks and now he's
out three electric bikes.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
They're probably worth about.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Twenty five hundred dollars each second time he's been robbed.
Rob there, it goes, break through the window and they're
off to the races.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
In this surveillance video from inside the Another Side of
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Tour store on Wait, what's the name of the place In.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
This surveillance video from inside the Another Side of Los
Angeles tree, I.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Still don't get it. That's take two. Wait a minute,
what's the name of.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
The place inside the Another Side of Los Angeles?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
See another the oh inside the Another side of La Yes,
it's another side of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
That's a tongue twister, Beellio, you know, even for accomplished
news people.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Another side of LA.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Another side of Los Angeles tour store.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Do you think that that's the other side of LA?
Break through the window and all your crap is removed?
Is that another It's side of LA? Unfortunately, I think
it is the main side of LA. The other side
is tourism. The real side is a guy coming in
and removing all of your equipment for you. But I
just have to move the bikes around anymore.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Another side of Los Angeles tour store on southless Cienaga.
You can see what appears to be a break being
thrown into the store, smashing a window. Moments later, you
can then see at least two people go inside and
take off with several e bikes.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
There they go.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Those bikes are gone. Now they're at his bikes. They
were another side of LA, and now they're gone and
they're his. And that's the way we operate in this town.
It was yours and now it's his.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
It is with several e bikes. According to the LAPD,
this break had happened before seven in the morning on Friday,
NBC four spoke with the store owner earlier today.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You know, I was I'm mystified by this six am,
seven am break in.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Is that an all nighter that ends with the break in?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Or are these chaps up early McDonald's coffee, McMuffin, maybe
hash Brown's, maybe the meal and then they go robbing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I don't know. I don't know. I don't if they're
up all night or if that's an early call, I
don't know. He says, this is not in that game.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Yeah, he says, this is not the first time his
shop has been burglarized.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
How about that? Not the first time, not the first
time with.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
This guy, The owner tells NBC four there were two
other break ins, one back on March twenty first, when
a rock was thrown through a window, and then in
another incident back in twenty twenty three. He says, thieves
are Pride open the front door and stole five bikes.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
And those are expensive bikes.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
They're twenty five hundred bucks each, and he, you know,
he lends them out, rents them out to people they
see la and then they bring them back. In this case,
they didn't want to rent the bikes. They just wanted
the bikes permanent.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
This is just like a gut punch at a time
when we are, like being kicked when you're down. Because
it basically we lost.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
A lot of business.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
A lot of people did not come here over spring
break because they felt like the fires had damaged, you know,
the entire city.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
I'm hard.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
That's true, that's true. This is a smart man.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
A lot of people made other reservations and went to
see other parts of the country because they thought the
whole city burned down, and it wasn't the whole city.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
I'm heartbroken by it because it's a city that I love.
It's where I make my living, and it's where I
show off to people from all over the world. I'm
so proud of LA and we're better than this.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I wonder if he's still proud of La. You think
it like if he was one hundred percent proud of La.
Where is he today? Is he at eighty seventy nine?
Has he below fifty?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I don't know. He's not one hundred anymore.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
A store employee tells me between this breaking and the
other one last month, they lost several thousand dollars worth
of merchandise and being told at least five bikes were
taken between this incident and the one back in March.
The owner says they are now looking into getting a
security gate. The LAPD is investigating in Kartha Kimila Rambaldi.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
NBC four News, Oh wait, is that that's wit.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
Man Karthak Kamila Rambaldi MBC.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Oh I thought that was kim Baldonado. That's a different person.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
Kimmela Rambaldi NBC four News.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Can't pick up that name, Camilad Camilla Rambaldi.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Is their name?
Speaker 10 (31:29):
Kimla RAMBALDIBC four News.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
That's cool, you know, Crowzier, I bet you do this.
I bet Bellio angel Sam. I don't know, maybe you
do it as well. But when you go to Constco,
you always look at those electric bikes, you know, you
sit there and you look at the scooters and electric
bikes like, ah, man, I like that one of those.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
They're twenty five hundred bucks though, and you're like, ah,
how fast they go? How long are they charged? How
many you know miles?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
How can they get before they have to be recharged?
Then you you know, you go and buy I don't know,
band aids or something, you know, but uh, I think.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
We all look at him five yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Was a man of Scalco said that. He said, you know,
one box should last you a lifetime. He was at
a pool at Caesar's Palace and a guy showed up
at the pool with five band aids on, and he
had a great line.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He said, isn't isn't anything over one band aid.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
A trip to the emergency room. Why do you have
five band aids? That's such a great line. Anything over
one is a trip to the emergency room. And you know,
and we've all seen this in public pools, whether it's
at a hotel or just a you know, a public pool.
(32:44):
And in your city, the floating band aid, you know,
the floater it's around and you always kind of, you know,
splash it away from you.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
But you don't pick it out.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You just push it away from you into somebody as
some other kids, you know, like, hey, band aid away
from me. You flick it, you know, you make a
wave to get it away from you, and eventually it
makes its way up and it sticks to the side.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
That's always a good sign. All right.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
We live in Los Angeles and there's been a home burglary.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
What do they call it?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Home invasion in Sherman Oaks, one over the hill over
the weekend. This guy was robbed the tour company, another
side of LA And that's the way we roll now,
you know. I mean this eventually won't be news anymore.
You know, we won't cover these anymore because there'll be
ten to night and right now there's three or four
(33:40):
a weekend, maybe five, and we're getting there. We're getting
to ten to night and then we'll probably stop covering
most of them because no one's doing anything about them.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
So it's just a part of life.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's like homelessness.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
When it first started, everyone's all over it, and now
it's just sort of like, Okay, it's just part of
who we are. We're gonna have a lot of homeless
around and eventually you'll just be part of who we
are that you know, you open up a store and
you try to pay your taxes, and you know, employ
people and make a living for yourself, hopefully retire early,
and then people just rob you every once in a while.
(34:14):
And that's where we are. We live in Los Angeles
and we see it every night, every single night. So
welcome to Los Angeles, all right. We're live on KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
We have had bad news today that the Pope has
passed away. Catholic pope has passed away. Its big, huge
news here and all over the world. Pope Francis died
at age eighty eight because of a stroke. There are millions,
if not billions, close to a billion people who are
(00:35):
either saddened or bedridden with depression. It's a big deal
for Catholics. I was born and raised Catholic. Our first
guest is born and raised Catholic as well. I think
Raymond Royo, how are you, Bob?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You are correct?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, Raymond Royal with Fox News on Laura Ingram all
the time.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You're gonna be on tonight with Laura Ingram.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I am, in fact, I'm literally in the green room.
You caught me just I've just been spackled and powdered. Okay,
if you'd see me, you'd be very happy.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hey, any way to get like a Carol Burnett grandmother,
shout out where you tug on your ear and I
know it's to.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Me I'll do that tonight. Ye watch the end of
the show. I'll give you just for your dad and Carol,
I will okay, I made a get awful line if
I'm so glad at.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, if you do, we'll play it on this station
forever and promote and promote your Ariana Grande podcastro.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Grande not Ariana Royal Gande podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Let me help you, okay, buddy. I On a serious note,
I was bummed. My daughter told me very early this
morning the Pope had died and I thought, there's no way.
He was just alive and he was doing Eastern Mass
It was it was just a it was a big
weekend for him.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well you know, here's the beauty of Pope Francis. At
the very end, the doctors warned him and they said, look,
you can go home, but you have to convalesce for
two months. You can't see anybody. You start contact with
no one. And I turned to a friend of mine
and I said, this is going to last exactly a week,
And sure enough, within four days he was rolling into
Saint Peter's and greeting little kids and you know, meeting
(02:20):
with the King of England and then finally met with J. D.
Vance the other day. You know, that was his last
formal meeting with the head of state. So and then
you know, then next thing, you know, within hours of
his papal blessing on Easter Sunday, he was you know,
he had that terrible stroke took his life. But you know,
and it's a mixed legacy to him. I mean, there
(02:41):
was a beautiful part of Pope Francis which was going
out to peripheries, going out to individuals and groups that
perhaps felt abandoned by the Church in the past. But
in the doing he was willing to war on tradition
and open up settled bits of practice and doctrine and
kind of open them up to discussion again. It created
(03:04):
a lot of confusion in the church and that is
going to drive I think the selection of the next pope.
I think you're the confusion right now, is right.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think you're right, Raymond Arroyos with us tonight on
Fox on Laura Ingram Show.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I respect the Pope. I like the Pope.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Every pope we've ever had, I thought was giving his
life for the better good of everybody. My mom would
have gotten on Alatalia and gotten in his face over
some of his you know, less than conservative leanings.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, look, here's an interesting thing I discovered over the weekend.
Thirty to seventy percent increases jim in baptisms over this
Easter break. Wow, dioceses. That's an increase from third between
thirty and seventy percent in some dioceses, and those are
mostly young people coming to the church. I interview some
(04:00):
of these people this weekend in New York. Guys, why
are you guys coming to the church? E's the young guys.
They're at NYU and they said, we're looking for truth
and we're and we're looking for something that's been tested
in time. And I thought, this is what's attracting the
young generation to the church. It's the orthodoxy, it's the formalities,
it's the doctrine and the discipline. They're looking for the
(04:22):
historical truth. They want the real deal, and they're finding
it for whatever reason in the Catholic Church. At the
same time, the pope is sort of running in the
other way and wanting to embrace the world. So now
you have an opportunity to kind of, if you will,
course correct and have the pope aligned with the most
vibrant and young part of his church, the growing part
(04:42):
of his church, and the Africans, by the way, which
is another growing sector in the church, feel the same way.
They're hardly squishy people. They're not worried about climate change
or you know, the the eye policy.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Sure, well, you know, I think you're one hundred percent right.
I mean I ran into a guy from night Jeria
in the teeth of COVID and I said, hey, how
are you guys handling COVID in non Nigeria And he said,
nobody talks about it, nobody wore a mask, nobody got
an injection, and every business and every school stayed open
(05:15):
and without any problem.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So this is a tough crew.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, no, no, well, and look, and there are also
people who've been tested, they're under you know, they have
their own tensions in Africa and certain parts of Africa
where you have you know, Islamic and Christian communities, animis
communities slamming together, and it's not always pretty. So what
you believe and what you're willing to die for takes
on great importance when they're burning your churches or your villagers.
(05:40):
So the Africans don't play around right exactly, And so
you have any hope was very Western in his appetite.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What do you think where do you think the next
pope is going to come from? I know there's a
couple of front runners, one of them from from Italy
who's a big favorite.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, do you know, Tim, This is a speculative sport.
I'm not going to get into this early. I'm going
to tell you why. The better thing is who's picking
the pope. You have one hundred and thirty eight guys
going in, most of whom don't know each other. Unlike
John Paul the Second in Benedict's reigns, where regularly the
cardinals would meet in Rome that had meetings with the Pope,
(06:14):
Francis didn't do that. His big synded meetings were laid people, atheists,
and a handful of cardinals that he liked. It wasn't
the entire college of cardinals. So the truth is these
guys don't know each other. And the second part of
this is, unlike those other former two popes, Francis didn't
vet his cardinal candidates the way the other popes did.
(06:36):
He kind of chose them on the fly. It was
almost an improvised selection process. If he met somebody he
was impressed with, he'd make them a cardinal the next
go around, and they were as stunned as everybody else was.
Some of them have dioceses that are intertestinal, smaller than
most parishes. But the reality is these are wild card candidates.
(06:57):
They come, they are very I think the variety is wide.
They don't cohere or follow Francis's line necessarily, and they've
never met each other. All of that tells me we're
going to have an unpredictable conclave and probably an unpredictable pope.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You know, I just looked this up, but Cardinal Anthony
DeFranco out of Italy is the front runner on draft Kings.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Why Anthony defrent That's a that's the hoddest pick. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I'm sorry you're running draft kings.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, they're not going to be voting in the conclave.
That's probably one hundred and thirty eight voters. They're probably
not on Draft king That's right. I wouldn't follow that map.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I know, you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Ron, you got to go on the big Fox news program.
Laura Ingram, I'll be watching tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Tim. I'm so glad we had this time.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, just to have a laugh. Oh, sing a song, buddy,
you're the best. I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
All right, there, he goes.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Raymond Arroyo on Fox News with Laura Ingram tonight, he's
gonna mention, I don't know the Carobern that show.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Do a little tug out his ear to say hi
to us. That'll be great. Do a little Tarzan yell.
Maybe right. That's the amazing of that took off.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And I was telling Bellio a couple of weeks ago,
it's amazing how that took off, and you know how
sort of simple it was, but it really took off.
And and she goes, oh, you've been like ding dong.
I'm like a all right, all right, all right, all right,
God Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I know that Bellio is a Catholic, an Angels Catholic?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Crows are you Catholic? I know.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Was?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I think Stephus is Catholic? I think Sam, are you Catholic?
Filling in for Steph? No, sir, you know how to
get to heaven though, right, I'm still looking.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm still looking for anyone to give me like the
where to turn left on Albuquerque.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
We'll talk during the break, I'll tell you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
We're live on KF I am sixty KIM six forty.
It's Conway Show. Sorry, Angel, I didn't realize the mic
was on when you were doing traffic. Is Angel there?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I said. Don't I use the
F word?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah you did, And then you said ding dong, and
then you said, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
We have this talk, we had this time together.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, I'm just like I'm I'm a like an idiot,
you know, savant without the savant part, you know, just
a sort of an idiot walking around.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
All right, Thank you, Angel, Martine is ding dong. We
got monks. Hey, how you both? I'm well, good afternoon.
Are you Catholic? Yeah? It was you don't raise that way.
Baptized in the in the faith you go to my
first communion?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah, baptized, baptized, no conffirmation, no confirmation. I was in
public school by the time that rolled around.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You gotta get back in there, expansed. I know the
soul is at risk, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, let's talk about Mayor Karen Bass a little
bit about the pope though.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
First, did you go to the mass today?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We had a mass today, downtown at the Cathedral of
Our Lady of the Angels, and it was, you know,
the regular Easter Monday Mass turned into something obviously completely
different because of the death of Pope Francis. So Archbishop
Jose Gomez talked a lot about somebody that he knew,
you know, and talked to regularly. And it was a
very solemn Mass with a lot of solemn music. That's
(10:28):
typical of Catholic Mass. Not a very uplifting type of
ceremony anyway.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
But I remember Eastern Mass was always long, very long, yeah,
sometimes two hours.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Now this is Easter Monday, not as prestigious as Easter Sunday,
but it takes a different tone when the pope is dead.
So a lot of people, it turned out for it,
a lot of people taking communions today and sharing their
feelings about it, including the archbishop himself. He says the
Pope had fond feelings for Los Angeles and called him
directly when we had the murder of that. Bishop David
(10:58):
O'Connell baw three called the archbishop to express his condolences
and also sent a letter of prayer in January when
the county was on fire.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
You know, the Catholic churches that I'm familiar with, you know,
Saint mals Or Lady Gray, Saint Cyril's, our Lady of Malibu,
you know, ones that we would go to. They they
they I think they subscribed to the Trader Joe's style
parking where there's never any parking. And so that's why
I like downtown. The Lady of the Angels is that
(11:28):
what it's called the Cathedral of they have they have
beautiful underground parking. Yeah, but but I've gotten stuck in
this as a resident. You know, if they're not managing
the traffic. Oh yeah, the big holidays, well, you know
it backs up all over Temple Street. Oh I bet yeah, Yeah,
that's a busy area, that's right. Yeah, all right, So
(11:48):
Mayor Bath is back in town. She's back from her
trip to Africa.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, she's been back. She's been back for several months. Yes, absolutely,
but but she might want to go back. Yes, it's
getting bad at city Hall because today was the State
of the City. Now, usually the State of the City
address that she gives the past two times. Anyway, this
is her third time doing it. The first two times
was on Thursday night, and you know there's sort of
an atmosphere of festivity. Sure, when you're talking about the
(12:15):
state of this city and it's all kumbaya and she
gives shout outs to everybody and they have dinner afterwards.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Right, this was an email.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
This was scheduled opposite the mass downtown, so they were
mourning up the street and morning down the street on
Temple Street. It was a funeral for the city's budget.
So she did not talk about the budget too much
during the State of the City. She was going to
release this budget after the State of the City. But
she did talk to city workers directly during her buddon
(12:44):
and said, look, love you, but we're struggling and some
of you're going to have to go.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
How many about sixteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Sixteen hundred city employees of a city that is pretty
light when it comes to services anyway, are going to disappear.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
That's what it looks like. Now she's hoping that she
can crawl up to Sacramento this week. She says she's
going up there in the hopes of being able to
avoid these layoffs by getting a bailout from the state. Now,
what is the appetite and Sacramento for such a thing?
We don't know yet, because the state is hurting financially too, right,
everybody is, And a lot of the city's financial problems
(13:22):
are its own making the big cost of the legal
settlements and that are caused either by city workers or
city infrastructure. That's their fault, right, A judge has said
as much, that's your fault, that's right. The other thing
is the declining revenues from real estate, from tourism, from business.
(13:42):
If you don't create the right conditions, you're not getting
that type of money.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So I know that she has a great relationship with Trump.
Why doesn't she go to Washington get some money?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, I'm sure she sent him a text this morning
and said, hey, big guy, got some problems, help us out.
You know, the Feds could write a check to La
City in a heartbeat for a billion dollars. Nobody would
complain and all of this will go away. Well, if
she has an end, she might ask Adam Schiff to
cozy up to the presidency. If that works out, I
don't think it will. We need to be clear though,
(14:13):
because the wildfires also hurt the budget obviously, Oh yeah, significantly,
A big time costs coming there. They're hoping to get
reimbursed for that one by the federal government. It also
hurt production the end of the city. But there were
also a lot of conversations about what did she do
to the budget of the fire department. Before all this started,
it was in dispute whether she had decreased the budget.
She says, no, she didn't, and the former fire chief said, yeah,
(14:37):
you did. Today without a doubt, she has recommended increasing
the fire department's budget by over twelve percent, including two
hundred and seventy seven new positions for the fire department.
But there's layoffs not coming to police, not coming to fire.
We've talked to this before, like, there's no way you're
cutting police. There's no way you're cutting fire. It's going
to cut the people that if you live in La
that you probably deal with the most. You don't want
(14:58):
to have to deal with the police, Glad they're there.
You don't want to have to deal with the fire department.
You're glad they're there. But you hope that if there's
a animal running loose, somebody from Animal Services can come help.
You're hoping that if your trash needs to be picked up,
somebody from the trash department can do that, or the
street is going to be sweeped, or if the lights
go out on the street, somebody is there to fix it,
and those are the guys that are going to get
hurt the most. We don't have all of the numbers
(15:20):
specifically to the departments, but for example, about eighty positions
in the Animal Services Department would be cut and that
department would see its budget dropped by four point eight
million dollars. This is already a department that has been
stretched so thin, difficult to bring employees in. Packed to
the gills. STA animals smell and it don't smell too good. Yeah,
(15:41):
it's horrible.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Do you think the animals, the dogs are bothered by
the smell of animal shelters? They all smell the same.
They all smell of hot urine on tin roofs.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
It's horrible.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
As a resident of downtown LA, I think that would
be an improvement for me. Okay, So I don't have
any sympathy.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
All right. While you were talking, I did a quick
math here.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
If it's a twelve percent incre in LA Fire Department,
that's ninety two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And don't forget the city council is weighing options to
come to voters next year for even more money for
the fire deparce. Oh, because they want to build more firehouses,
they want more fire trucks. They can't add personnel with
that though. Are they going to ask for a sales tax?
And kre're going to ask for a bond?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
All right, just for the city of La. Just for
the city of Oh, good, okay, I'm off here. You
are you live outside the city. All right, good luck,
that's all you can say. All right, Monks, you got
Monks Saturday seven and nine pm.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
You got it, all right? Thanks man, you're the best. There,
he goes Michael Monks with some fairly bad news. The
city of La is going to fire sixteen hundred people.
Sixteen hundred people are going to be laid off because
of mismanagement or whatever something going on down there.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It's horrible. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I don't know where this ends. I don't know where
this all ends. But it's just not the city I
grew up in. I grew up in a beautiful city
called Los Angeles. I don't know what happened. We're live
on KFI.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
So KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
At six forty, it's Conway Show, Angel Martinez.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Are you with us? Angel? Your angels with us?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
What's going on with the traffic coming back from Coachella?
Anything interesting?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Well, it's it's just pretty slow right now, steady and
slow out of North Palm Springs. It looks like it
might be starting to thin out, but those delays still
start up right around Indian Canyon Drive and take you
westbound all the way into Kalamesa. Looks a lot better
once you pass Marongo, but it's still pretty busy all
the way into Kalamesa.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
All right, so you can slide into Marongo and kill
a few hours and then get back.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
On the road.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Go do that, enjoy yourself. Let's see what they got.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I love, go ahead, I love I love the travel
station there at Marongo.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Oh yeah, great, the brand new one. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Let's see what they got going here. They got the
anniversary beer Stein you can get that. The big League
gift giveaway they've got They're giving away fifty dollars in
April twenty seventh, and the twentieth anniversary tea party hot
seats if that's related to the tea party, or I
(18:21):
went up to two thousand dollars cash playing your favorite
games with your rewards card ten am to six pm.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh I'm the twenty six. Okay, all right, thank you,
Angel Martinez.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There she goes, all right. I was watching the news
last night. I'm a big local news guy. I watched two, four, five, seven,
eleven nine.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Everybody. I don't know why because I'm constantly throwing crap
at the TV, but I watch it.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I look at it, and I'm watching last night, and
at least three networks, the three local stations. Their lead
story was the the.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
The Scientist.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I think it was a rocket science who was in
Recida on receiving in Victory. He was framing his degree
from I think Yale or Harvard and then decided to
shoot a gun at LAPD helicopter and well that didn't
end well for him. They shot him and they killed him,
(19:21):
and that was a wrap on that chap's life. So
there's a lesson for you. I guess right, if you
live in LA and you have a gun, don't point
it at the helicopter with the copsident that doesn't end well.
I thought we all got that message when we were younger.
I thought we were all on the same page. But
(19:45):
as George Carlin calls them, life's most interesting guys, they're
out there, and we've got a lot of them in LA.
We've got most of life's most interesting guys in LA.
Thing right home, robberies, robbing, a store that does tours
(20:05):
of La.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Interesting guys. Interesting. So that was the lead story on
the three channels that I watch on Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
The second story was that somebody was cutting trees down
in downtown Los Angeles. That was the That's the that
tells you that this city is perfect except for the
guy in Mesiita. Nothing else is really going on that
we can take time out to do live shots, not
(20:37):
a package pre produced live in downtown La over. I
don't know, five six seven trees getting cut down. You
can replace trees, they have them at Moon Nursery. About
the size of the trees that were cut down. A
couple thousand bucks and got a new tree. You'll be fine.
(20:57):
But I don't know who's doing this, and and nobody
heard it. The guy's a chainsaw in downtown.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Sated me in the morning, and nobody way right.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And he didn't cut down you know, one bush. He
cut down like forty year old trees, some biggins and
they're gone. This guy cut down huge trees in downtown
Los Angeles with a chainsaw. They think around one thirty am. Oh,
let's find out we have any more information on this
(21:31):
chap here.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Some piece of you know what decided that they're going
to go around last night.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Has everyone filled in this filled in the blank here?
Some piece of you know what, some piece of you
know what? Bellio, what do you think that the word
missing is?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Let me splay it again for you. Okay, all right,
this guy's describing the guy who cut the trees.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Down some piece of you know what?
Speaker 8 (21:57):
What?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Does you know what?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Taka?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, that's right. Yeah, you should have just said that
some piece of cockat.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Some Pisa decided that they're going to go around last
night chopping down trees all over downtown law.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
At least five trees in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Okay, that's not all over La. Five trees. Look, I
have a tree, not I love trees. I have I
don't know twenty of them around the house. I've developed
a green thumb to keep them going. I love trees
more than anybody, I think, maybe not crows.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Crows. Also a tree lover got me a pomegranate this weekend.
Wow is that right, sir? When does it develop or
start to produce it next year than the first year? Really?
All right, let's go pomegranate the smoothies. See a little
one on there on the on one of the branches already.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Oh, that's that's a that's a tie on. They call
it little glue. Yeah, they tie they tie one on
when you buy it.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
You want to buy this, See this one right there,
don't mind that glue.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I always fascinated by that. It's like, wow, it's a
lemon tree. It's like three weeks old. But there's three
grown lemons on it. And one of them says, one
of him, says, Vaughn's on it.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Sticker on. Yeah, the sticker on one of them.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
Butcher butcherd over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Butcher. These trees were butchered.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Butchered, butchered butcher over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Boo boocherd butchered over.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
The weekend, leaving residents confused.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
What are you doing to your city. I mean, anybody
that does this, this is an act of destruction.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Media Mussavi has lived downtown since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
He's good for him, right, Glad we know his background.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Media Mussavi has lived downtown since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Where was he before?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Was he in Chatsworth? I'd like to know more about
this this jen.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
He's also behind the popular Instagram account DTLA insider.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Okay, I know that I know this guy. Then I
look at that DTLA insider. I like this guy. I
take it back, I like this dude. This guy's great.
A lot of great information with this guy.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
DTLA insider.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
BELLYO, do you follow that guy DTLA insider. He's great?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Maybe?
Speaker 9 (23:56):
Yeah, he's terrific DTLA Insider. At first, he thought these
chopped trees were part of a city cleanup.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Oh well, maybe they aren't.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Started getting pictures from many different people in the influencer
space downtown space saying did you see what they did
last night? And I realized this was a little more
malicious than you know, just the tree, the city chopping
trees down.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
So they were spotted at Grand Avenue and Wells, Fargo Center,
Olympic and FIGAROA Broadway and Caesar Chuck.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Well, Olympic and Figaro is a very busy intersection.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
Olympic in FIGAROA.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That's where the you know, the King's I mean, Crypto's
one block from there, and that's where that all those
shops are. What do they call it Live, La La Live. Yeah,
that's right there. That's right where there was a car
wash on one corner La Live. On another corner. There's
a million people around there, and guys got a chainsaw
at one thirty knocking trees right down across from La Live.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Olympic and FIGAROA Broadway in Caesar Chavez.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Oh, I'm sorry. Olympic and Figaro is even closer. That
is the corner of Crypto. They've closed Olympic. I think, ah,
maybe I got it wrong, but it's right there at
La Live.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
You get my point.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Olympic in FIGAROA, Broadway and Caesar Chavez and right here
at Grand Avenue in fifth Street. According to city council
member Isabelle Herno, this was an illegal act. LAPD Central
Division says this tree massacre started at around one thirty
Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
They never used that term when people get wiped out right,
this tree massacres a massacre, you know, guy, home invasion
kills a person, they don't call it a massacre.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They call it a robbery massacre, starting a massacre. They
massacred those trees.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
LAPD Central Division says this tree massacre started at around
one thirty Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
God, we should save massacre for people that you know,
like thirty people get wiped out.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Detectives are looking for camera footage.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
The scope and scale that they did this too. It's
just a little bit shocking. I mean, we're in a
high density urban area something, that's right. Some cameras, somebody
had to see something, something had to catch something.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Yeah, it was literally right outside of La Live.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Some cameras, somebody have to see something, something had to
catch something. But we've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, well, gotta get more trees, man, and keep your
ears open downtown for chainsaws at one thirty in the morning.
That's good idea as well. All right, well that's where
we are. We're live on cafon KFI Am six. It
is the Conways show that Alex Michelson did a great job,
belly O.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
He really did.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. A lot of people
around here said he was the best filling guy they've
ever heard.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
How about that? About that action, that's quite the compliment. Huge.
A lot of people have filled in. But that's cool.
I mean, like for the first time out, he was
he was the best. Yeah, he seemed very comfortable.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well he's an old pro. You know, he's been doing
it for a long time. Are we have a tour
company that got robbed. Sure, he's thrilled. He's uh, you know,
he's got some bikes, electric bikes, electric scooters and just
trying to make a couple of bucks and now he's
out three electric bikes.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
They're probably worth about.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Twenty five hundred dollars each second time he's been robbed.
Rob there, it goes, break through the window and they're
off to the races.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
In this surveillance video from inside the Another Side of
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Tour store on Wait, what's the name of the place In.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
This surveillance video from inside the Another Side of Los
Angeles tree, I.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Still don't get it. That's take two. Wait a minute,
what's the name of.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
The place inside the Another Side of Los Angeles?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
See another the oh inside the Another side of La Yes,
it's another side of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
That's a tongue twister, Beellio, you know, even for accomplished
news people.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Another side of LA.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Another side of Los Angeles tour store.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Do you think that that's the other side of LA?
Break through the window and all your crap is removed?
Is that another It's side of LA? Unfortunately, I think
it is the main side of LA. The other side
is tourism. The real side is a guy coming in
and removing all of your equipment for you. But I
just have to move the bikes around anymore.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Another side of Los Angeles tour store on southless Cienaga.
You can see what appears to be a break being
thrown into the store, smashing a window. Moments later, you
can then see at least two people go inside and
take off with several e bikes.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
There they go.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Those bikes are gone. Now they're at his bikes. They
were another side of LA, and now they're gone and
they're his. And that's the way we operate in this town.
It was yours and now it's his.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
It is with several e bikes. According to the LAPD,
this break had happened before seven in the morning on Friday,
NBC four spoke with the store owner earlier today.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
You know, I was I'm mystified by this six am,
seven am break in.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Is that an all nighter that ends with the break in?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Or are these chaps up early McDonald's coffee, McMuffin, maybe
hash Brown's, maybe the meal and then they go robbing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I don't know. I don't know. I don't if they're
up all night or if that's an early call, I
don't know. He says, this is not in that game.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Yeah, he says, this is not the first time his
shop has been burglarized.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
How about that? Not the first time, not the first
time with.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
This guy, The owner tells NBC four there were two
other break ins, one back on March twenty first, when
a rock was thrown through a window, and then in
another incident back in twenty twenty three. He says, thieves
are Pride open the front door and stole five bikes.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
And those are expensive bikes.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
They're twenty five hundred bucks each, and he, you know,
he lends them out, rents them out to people they
see la and then they bring them back. In this case,
they didn't want to rent the bikes. They just wanted
the bikes permanent.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
This is just like a gut punch at a time
when we are, like being kicked when you're down. Because
it basically we lost.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
A lot of business.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
A lot of people did not come here over spring
break because they felt like the fires had damaged, you know,
the entire city.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
I'm hard.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
That's true, that's true. This is a smart man.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
A lot of people made other reservations and went to
see other parts of the country because they thought the
whole city burned down, and it wasn't the whole city.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
I'm heartbroken by it because it's a city that I love.
It's where I make my living, and it's where I
show off to people from all over the world. I'm
so proud of LA and we're better than this.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I wonder if he's still proud of La. You think
it like if he was one hundred percent proud of La.
Where is he today? Is he at eighty seventy nine?
Has he below fifty?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I don't know. He's not one hundred anymore.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
A store employee tells me between this breaking and the
other one last month, they lost several thousand dollars worth
of merchandise and being told at least five bikes were
taken between this incident and the one back in March.
The owner says they are now looking into getting a
security gate. The LAPD is investigating in Kartha Kimila Rambaldi.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
NBC four News, Oh wait, is that that's wit.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
Man Karthak Kamila Rambaldi MBC.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Oh I thought that was kim Baldonado. That's a different person.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
Kimmela Rambaldi NBC four News.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Can't pick up that name, Camilad Camilla Rambaldi.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Is their name?
Speaker 10 (31:29):
Kimla RAMBALDIBC four News.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
That's cool, you know, Crowzier, I bet you do this.
I bet Bellio angel Sam. I don't know, maybe you
do it as well. But when you go to Constco,
you always look at those electric bikes, you know, you
sit there and you look at the scooters and electric
bikes like, ah, man, I like that one of those.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
They're twenty five hundred bucks though, and you're like, ah,
how fast they go? How long are they charged? How
many you know miles?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
How can they get before they have to be recharged?
Then you you know, you go and buy I don't know,
band aids or something, you know, but uh, I think.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
We all look at him five yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Was a man of Scalco said that. He said, you know,
one box should last you a lifetime. He was at
a pool at Caesar's Palace and a guy showed up
at the pool with five band aids on, and he
had a great line.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He said, isn't isn't anything over one band aid.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
A trip to the emergency room. Why do you have
five band aids? That's such a great line. Anything over
one is a trip to the emergency room. And you know,
and we've all seen this in public pools, whether it's
at a hotel or just a you know, a public pool.
(32:44):
And in your city, the floating band aid, you know,
the floater it's around and you always kind of, you know,
splash it away from you.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
But you don't pick it out.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You just push it away from you into somebody as
some other kids, you know, like, hey, band aid away
from me. You flick it, you know, you make a
wave to get it away from you, and eventually it
makes its way up and it sticks to the side.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
That's always a good sign. All right.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
We live in Los Angeles and there's been a home burglary.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
What do they call it?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Home invasion in Sherman Oaks, one over the hill over
the weekend. This guy was robbed the tour company, another
side of LA And that's the way we roll now,
you know. I mean this eventually won't be news anymore.
You know, we won't cover these anymore because there'll be
ten to night and right now there's three or four
(33:40):
a weekend, maybe five, and we're getting there. We're getting
to ten to night and then we'll probably stop covering
most of them because no one's doing anything about them.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
So it's just a part of life.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's like homelessness.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
When it first started, everyone's all over it, and now
it's just sort of like, Okay, it's just part of
who we are. We're gonna have a lot of homeless
around and eventually you'll just be part of who we
are that you know, you open up a store and
you try to pay your taxes, and you know, employ
people and make a living for yourself, hopefully retire early,
and then people just rob you every once in a while.
(34:14):
And that's where we are. We live in Los Angeles
and we see it every night, every single night. So
welcome to Los Angeles, all right. We're live on KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
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