February 7, 2025 • 33 mins
Paul Haddad writes about all kinds of fun obscure SoCal and LA stuff and is a great guest in general.
Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles // George Santa Anita Chili-Cook-Off // Ryan Umina, CEO of SETC Pros // Mammoth get 20 more inches of snow /Superbowl 59 Chiefs v Eagles
Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles // George Santa Anita Chili-Cook-Off // Ryan Umina, CEO of SETC Pros // Mammoth get 20 more inches of snow /Superbowl 59 Chiefs v Eagles
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The pursuit has ended.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The guy's still in his car at one hundred and
fifty third in Inglewood Avenue, So he lives to fight
another night, right, enjoying his cigarettes and running away from
the cops. That's how he spent his evening. A little
different than mine, a little different than yours. But guy
went for it in life, you know, got to give
him them.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let's talk to Paul Haddad here. He's an author.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He's having a pre Super Bowl book signing of one
of his many, many books that he has written, and
he's with us.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Paul, how you, Bob, I'm great, Tim, Thanks for having.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Me, man.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That freeway Topia book you wrote on how freeways shape
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Can we talk about that book first?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
And it's actually pertinent to the speed you know, the
high pursuit right now.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, but I also heard and Paul, you're a special
of this. You know, I did like eight minutes of
research on this, you know, twenty years ago. But they
were in the nineteen fifties, the city of Los Angeles,
the County of LA had had a plan, you know,
a long term plan to build the freeways in Los Angeles.
San Diego had a similar plan, and then forty fifty
(01:19):
years later, San Diego was able to develop about ninety
six percent of their freeways. We're in LA we were
less than fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Why how how did we drop the ball like that was?
Was it constant protests from people?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Everything shifted in the seventies, and a lot of it
was just kind of the political climate because you know,
it's the rise of environmentalism. There's a lot of inflation.
You and I remember the oil embargo, and so it
just didn't become tenable. It became too expensive to build freeways.
So the Century Freeway, the one oh five that was
on the books for like thirty or forty years, and
it got so cost prohibitive that they you know, finally
(01:58):
built it, you know, for step billion dollars and opened
it in ninety three. So that was LA's last freeway.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You know what's amazing though, is you know, I was
born and raised here in the San Fernando Valley, and
I'm even I'm not, you know, super old, but I'm
even old enough to remember, you know, where we didn't
have the one eighteen freeway or the two ten that
went out past the fifty seven eastbound. I mean, it's
amazing that I've been around for two major freeways that
have opened here.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know what's cool is I remember watching Chips, you know,
A Spauns and John Yea, and I loved them. They
were shooting on the freeways and doing these you know,
high speed chases. And they were shooting on the one
eighteen and the two ten because they were unfinished.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And the studio, the production company actually rented those freeways
just to shoot Chips on them while they were building it.
You know, I pay Caltrans.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I knew that show was in trouble when the second
episode of Chips, they had an A story in a
B story. The B story on the second episode of
Chips was somebody was stealing the plants on the shoulders.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
That sounds like that sounds like a sub subplot. I mean,
that's not even worthy.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Of a subplot.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But I don't know how you know, Look, two million
people live in the San Fernando Valley, if it was
its own city, would be the seventh largest city in America,
about the size of Houston. And yet we have one
freeway that intersects the valley, the four or five.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You would have to go all the way to the
west to the twenty three or all the way to
the east the one seven of the five freeway, and
there's nothing in between.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Well, they were going to build the Whitnoll Freeway, that's
you know, currently you have Whittnell Highway going through North
Hollywood and Burbank. That was supposed to be a freeway,
and then it was going to link up and go
west along Roscoe Boulevards. So you would have had a
freeway in between the one on one and the one eighteen,
and it would have been the Whitnell Freeway going through
there across Roscoe, because the mid Valley really kind of
(03:49):
needs a freeway, I'm with you on that. And then
it would have bent down and gone to Malibu, but
it would cut through with those beautiful canyons like Topanga
or Malibu canyons. So you know, in some ways it's
good they didn't build the Whitney Freeway.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, I got a different perspective now that we've had
these fires. I say, we build a freeway from Sunset
all the way to Ventura, right on the top of
those mountains, and it'd be a natural fire break.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
But fires jump freeways, though you know these are their
best now, their mega fires. Even a freeway is not
enough to protect against the wildfire.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Do if I design it, We're gonna be a good.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Shape, twenty lane freeway. It's gonna be wide, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, made of water ice water.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Are you going to go out for the big celebration
when they finally finished the Mountain Lion bridge?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I would like to. I mean, if someone's gonna invite me,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Know where we are in life, where you know house
they're burning down and we got a bridge for mountain lions.
They are eventually going to come over and kill your
dogs and cats because that's what they eat.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, they've got to eat too, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You got to pay your nine hundred dollars dog for dinner.
All right, So let's talk about inventing Paradise. The power
brokers who created the dream of Los Angeles. When when
you went to how deep do you go do you
go into the Eaton family when you talk about the
families that are instrumental in building LA.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Oh yeah, yeah. In fact, freeway Topia kind of led
me to this book. It's my latest book because I
kind of went back before freeways, like who are the
guys who really kind of made Los Angeles what it
is so we could even have freeways and expand to like,
you know, four hundred and sixty eight square miles from
twenty eight square miles, And so I kind of focus
on mostly five or six titans. Cred Eaton is not
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one of them, but Mohollon is and Eden of course
worked with Mahon to bring water down here from the
Owens Valley. So that's a big part of the book.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
A little bit ironic that Eaton did it in a
very deceptive way in buying property in the central Valley
and then moving the water rights down to LA and
then one hundred years later we have a major fire
named after that family.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That is weird.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
It is, yeah, you know, he's kind of the villain
behind the Owens Valley, you know, stealing the water. It's
not mahone, but people, like uninformed people feel that Mahon
was the guy, And yeah, he certainly did his part
to be duplicitous, but it wasn't his idea to even
do the aqueduct. He was just the engineer behind it. It
was Fred Eaton's idea, so let's vilify him, right.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And look, it's a great idea because you know, they
discovered that the water source in up in northern California
is incredibly higher altitude than Los Angeles. So all they
have to do is just build up, you know, you know,
build the barriers and that water will gravity will bring
it down to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It was actually very a brilliant thing to come up with.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It was, and that was Mahon's doing. You know, he
was a self made man, a self taught engineer. And
but what I love, like some of the other characters
in my book, like Harry Chandler, Harrison great otis you know,
they ran the La Times then, and they used the Times.
It's basically just propaganda to push their projects through to
grow to the city. And what I love is I
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came across some articles where the Owens River they were
claiming in the Times in order to get the aqueduct built,
They're trying to tell the public that the Owens River
used to connect to the La River, and that there
was an earthquake a thousand years prior and it kind
of like made up a natural barrier between the rivers.
So really that water is ours, Yes, the Owens River.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It was God ordained.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So you know, no scientists rever quoted, you know, no
no geologists. If they did quote anyone, it was always
like in the passive voice or experts say, I mean,
it was just like a classic case of bogus journalism.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Paul, it worked?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is it had Dad or hadad.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Ha?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Dad? Had Dad?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, Paul, Dad's with us. He's gonna be have a
book something. We'll talk about it in a second. But first, Paul,
let me let me ask you a question. Let's say
the Paul, the Dad family is broke. You know, you
spent everything in Vegas or you know, the racetrack whatever,
and you're broke. And then I said to you, well,
do you have any assets? And you say, yeah, you
have two million dollars in your savings account, but you
(08:11):
don't want to touch that. And I'll be like, oh, well,
why wouldn't you go into your savings account to help
your family, and you're like, well, I don't like to
do that. Okay, let's take that in the broader picture.
We have a savings account, a water savings account in
Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe can fill up every inch of
California with eight inches of water. So when we need water,
(08:32):
let's drain Tahoe and get back to partying in this state.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
You'd have to fight with San Francisco or other towns
for that water.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Strong all right, Paul, you know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
We're gonna be signing a books tomorrow. It's an important deal.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I will be actually Sunday, Super Sunday. So yeah, I'm
encouraging people to pregame at the Barnes and Noble in
Santa Monica at one o'clock. Okay, yeah, time, okay, one
to three, Yeah, one to three, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
All right, And where is the Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It's back on the Third Street promenade where they used
to be. And then yeah, and then they went, you know,
they sold it, I think like five six years ago,
and then they just reopened last August at a smaller location,
but also right there in the promenade near Wiltshire Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm so happy that because that was a big part
of the promenade for a while, and when they left
it sort of became CD. I hope they reinvent that area.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
It's one of the few oacs and yes, it's still
kind of CD. So you just make your way to
the Barnes and Noble. You'll be fine. Okay, all right,
to get some laser tagging.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I appreciate you coming on. Anytime you have a book signing,
we'd love to help you out. I know any friend
of Clay row is a friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh well, thanks, Tim, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Thanks about it. I appreciate it coming on, all right,
take care. Paul Hadad go check out his book signing
at one pm one to three pm on Super Bowl Sunday,
right before the game. Might slide into the Barnes and
Noble there in Santa Monica on the Third Street Promenade.
It's got three great books, Inventing Paradise, the Powerbrokers who
created the dream of La freeway Topia, How Freeways shaped
(10:07):
Los Angeles, and ten thousand Steps a Day in La
fifty seven Walking Adventures. That guy's great, and look anytime
somebody's writing, you know, books about how great LA is
or the history of La. I think we sort of
have to celebrate that. So go to the Barnes and Noble,
pick up a book, he'll sign it for you, and
then go enjoy the game. We're live here. The chase
(10:29):
is over and nobody was arrested. Kind of a wild
day here southern California.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The Big super Bowl is coming up, Big game on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Everyone's going to enjoy that. The Big Game.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Lots going on here in Southern California over the weekend.
You get that book signing out of Barnes and Nobles
for that, Paul Haddad, Yeah, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And then we also have.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
The Lake with Lakers playing Lebron the oldest player ever
to score forty plus points. So that's another record he's
got and I see, oh, okay, let's look to it.
George here, George or Tusar or Tizar or Tusar.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'm probably mispronouncing that. George. You're on KFI. How are you, Bob?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You there, George, how do you pronounce your last day.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's or Tusa or Tusa.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
All right, buddy, Look, I love Santa Anita. I was
born and raised in the infield of sant Anita, if
you know that. And I love it. I love especially
the day after it rains. Everything so clean out there
and so crisp. It reminds me of when I went
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there with my dad and my uncles, my grandfather when
I was a kid. And there's just such a great
vibe of having, you know, the the clouds in the mountains.
Sometimes it's snow oh capped, it's cold. Everybody's got a
jacket on. The horses are running, and it reminds me
of being back in the the late sixties, early seventies
out there.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
No, it's a it's a dream. The view is spectacular.
We're celebrating our ninetieth year maybe years.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
What special?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
All right, So let's talk about this weekend. We've got
a big chili cook off and I and I and
I will tell you though that my chili dollar. Whenever
I'm gonna go buy chili, I can't wait to get
to sant Anita and buy the track chili.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I still think it's amongst the world's best.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
I love the track chili, and but Saturday tomorrow we
have the seventh annual Chili Cookoff. We're getting all kinds
of great, spicy, mouth watering chili and the best part
in my eyes, is that one hundred percent of the
chili sales is going to Foothill Unity Center, which you know,
they've been on the forefront of the whole fires and
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eating fires and giving out so much stuff. So we're
doing our best to help them. You know, we stopped
racing for a week during the fires, and boy, the
parking lot was just full of stuff to give away to.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
All the people.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Our hearts went out to everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
But yeah, so the.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Chili Cookoff is going to be fantastic. It's great racing tomorrow.
It's just it's just an excellent day to.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Come to the track. And then Sundays the big game.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yes, we got we got an early post at eleven
and good TVs we put up and some free free
contests that have football themes to them.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We're going three.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Thousand, one thousand in Bingo.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Hey, George, how did for people that don't know this?
And I'm in that group? How did the parking lot
turn into a donation center? How did they start? Was
that just organically? Did the the owners of Santa Anita
invite those people in?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
How did that start?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Yeah, we got a great crew here, including Pete Sebol
and some of the people here, and they just you know,
we volunteered and said, look, you know, we're not gonna
race this weekend. We opened it up and the donations
came out of like much more than we had anticipated.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It was.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
The outpouring of the community was unbelievable. I never seen
so many diapers, so much water in my life.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
And a lot of people took advantage of it. We
were so happy to be a part of it. And
you know, it's devastating. I've never see anything like this,
if you amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Never and I and I thought to myself, you know,
while the donation center at Santa Anita was like seven
football fields of clothes and and and you know, water
and wipes and diapers and all that stuff. And I
thought to myself, man, this is great publicity for sant Anita.
So maybe the next time a horse gets a hangnail,
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the press will give him a break and mile.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That doesn't happen around.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Here, all right, So you're running an eight, an eight,
race nine, race ten, race card tomorrow Tomorrow, we got.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Big races and uh uh you know, then nine races
on Sunday because we want to finish before you know,
obviously before.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The big game start.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Uh. That's that's gonna be very very cool. And then
where where.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Is the chili? Is that going to be on the
infield or is that be in the grand stands?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
No?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
No, on the on the track side, apron, We're gonna
have it right there. So uh you'll be a sample
and you'll be able to vote on which one you
think is the best. So they're really competing, they're really
going to be trying hard. And uh so it's it's
gonna be fantastic. And and I got a best bet
for you and race number eight, number number seven, Seismic
Beauty and race number eight, so you can pay for
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some of that chili bet on Seismic Beauty and racing.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I'm betting. I'm betting it tonight. Hey, So what time?
What time the gates open tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
George?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Uh, the gates open at ten tomorrow and at nine
on Sunday and come on out and uh you will
have a great time and bring the kids.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It's the greatest place for you to take care, spend
the day and quite possibly walk away with thousands of
dollars for Yeah, George, you guys do a kick ass
great job out there.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I love it. Keep up the great work. And you
always got a friend here.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
We love you, we love you, we love you.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
And more details just go to sant Anita dot com.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Santa Anita dot com. George, thank you. All right, there
you go Santa Anita this weekend. George or Tusa is
a great guy out there. So let's by the way,
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Anita dot com is the website. Ten races on Saturday,
nine races on Sunday at Chili Cookoff tomorrow tomorrow at
Santa Anita. That's where I'll be. I'll be there Saturday
and Sunday, so come on out. We can get mustard
on our clothes together, because no matter if you have
mustard or not. When you go to the racetrack, you
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always go home with mustard on you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's the rule.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
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And real quickly, Ryan, what percentage as you you know,
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what percentage actually qualify?
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Yeah.
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I noticed that.
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It's been awesome.
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And this isn't a tax break. This is a check
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Speaker 3 (22:10):
That's absolutely right now.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
If someone owes back taxes, the back tax debt is
cleaned up first. So for a lot of people, that's
better than getting money. Yeah, so it's a tax refund.
So the other great thing it's not taxable and then
on yeah, yeah, because the IRS pays you as though
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Speaker 1 (22:46):
Okay, So just in broad strokes before we give out
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Speaker 5 (23:00):
Correct in Schedule C income right, so it's not the
Schedule C or Schedule SE income.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And then when somebody does fill out the the four
or five questions there on the website, then you then
they fill out their name and all that stuff, and
you'll notify them pretty quick if they qualify.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Yeah, we have the option because of the partnerships we have,
someone can actually get officially done with the entire process
in about fifteen minutes. So they just come answer the
questions and then you know, about half of people have
an IDE dot me log in already and they just
log into their ID dot me. We pull all the
data from the IRS, crunch all the numbers. We created
(23:41):
a proprietary software to streamline processes for people because so
many people are eligible.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, I have an ID dot me because you know,
I've worked for, you know, over the years, so many
different companies, and I got residuals for you know, stupid
things that I did in Hollywood, and so I want
to see what the IRS knows about me, not so
I can screw them out of any money. So I
just don't have to refile and refile. I want to
make sure that I that I include.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Everything absolutely absolutely, and for folks that don't, they're able
to sign up for it pretty easily. And then yeah,
we just pull all that data right from the IRS
and we can have you know, the official numbers of
someone in about fifteen minutes, we can get all the
forms prepared, and then if somebody is eligible for the
uh you know, the express refund option, we send that
(24:31):
to our office actually in California. We do another set
of quality control on that review everything, and then we
send it off to the IRS and they get paid
in just a matter of days.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I originally saw you guys on ABC, and I know
that's on your website as well that the maximum check
that people can get I believe is thirty two two.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Twenty Yes, thirty two twenty Okay, all.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Right, how do people how do people get this refund?
Where's the website that they can check out right now?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Absolutely go to s E T C pros dot com.
So like set cpros dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
All right, set the letters C and then p R
O S dot com. Yes, sir, And what's the deadline?
How quickly do people have to do this?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
For most people, it's April fifteenth, so this year especially
if they want. Yes, yes, April fifteenth of this year.
Some folks who filed extensions.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Will be able to do it a little bit later,
but you know.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Just consider the deadline to be safe. April fifteenth of
this year.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Okay, s E T cpros dot com.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, sir, buddy, I.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Appreciate coming on and I hope a lot of people
get a lot of.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Checks me too.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Thanks so much for having us all right, really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Thanks Ryan, Ryan Umina with this company that goes out
there and researches all these programs to make sure you
get the money back. So if you file taxes in
twenty twenty one, please go to website. You got to
go before April fifteenth, and maybe you can get a
check for thirty two thousand, two hundred and twenty dollars.
S E T C Pros p R o S dot com.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Stephush asked me something interesting off during the break. He
said in nineteen twenty twenty one, he was driving Uber
and Lyft. Does he qualify for that for that check?
And I think you do? I think you do sounds
like it. Yeah, So if you're if you were listening
to the last segment, you could possibly qualify. And I
(26:43):
saw this guy on on ABC. That's how I discovered this,
this young man. But he said, if if you go
to the website and if your schedule C, which I
think means you you know, he did some ten ninety
nine work, or you know, taxes weren't taken out, and
a typical you know W two or W four, W
(27:03):
eight or you know, WD forty, whatever that is. But
we're in lyft, I think qualify. So you could you
could potentially get a check for thirty two thousand, two
hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
That's government money. They put that out there for you,
you people.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
So if people are going to take that, the money's
out there anyway, might as well go for it and
try to get some money for you and your family.
Take that thirty two grand and put in a college
fund for your kids, or go to Vegas, or go
to Marongo, or go to Hawaii. About that, So, go
to the website and see if you qualify for this money.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And I hope you do.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
S E T C like the word set set letter
C isn't Charlie pros p r o S dot com,
set C pro doctor Colm thirty two thousand, two hundred
and twenty dollars could be yours. So that's a good deal.
(28:11):
Go check it out, Go check it out. Hope you
get the money. Hope you get it, and I hope
you enjoy it. Enjoy the hell out of it. Right,
Donald Trump's going to the super Bowl. There's gonna be
a lot of security there because yours, truly, your girlfriend's
going to be there. Taylor's Swift. Taylor Swift's going to
the super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
And security preparations are underway in New Orleans ahead of
President Trump's attendance at the super Bowl. Trump will become
the first sitting president to appear at the Big Game?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
ABC, does that seem odd that Donald Trump is the
first president? It's twenty twenty five and no president's ever
been to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Trump will become the first sitting president to appear at
the Big Game. ABC's Justice and Homeland Security reporter Luke
Barr is in New Orleans with more on that.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Here we go, Luke, I.
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Can't even imagine how do you secure a president in
a venue like this?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, It's very difficult to do well, Diane.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
The Super Bowl was already going to be secure, perhaps
the most secure super Bowl in US history. But now,
of course the President United States is coming, and that
brings a whole nother layer of security with it. I'm
told by the Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland
Security Investigations, which is sort of leading the federal coordinated effort,
that they're securing this game by land, air and sea
(29:23):
of talking, extra tactical teams, extra of canines that are
bomb sniffing dogs. This is called the Seer one event, Diane,
which means it gets the highest level of a federal
coordination from the federal government to make sure that this
game is secure.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
There you go, all right, Game's gonna be secure.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Why do companies spend so much money on Super Bowl ads? Why?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And is that money worth it?
Speaker 10 (29:47):
The Super Bowl America's biggest sporting event, and so much more.
Some of us watch for the football, others wait for
halftime and in between the two, so many tuning in
for the commercials. Classic ads can live on in American
culture for decades. But if you want to shot at
that kind of glory this year, it's going to cost
(30:09):
some serious dough, a source telling CNBC broadcaster Fox sold
some ads for a record eight million dollars each, which
did not scare advertisers away.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
If you're still bent on blowing this fat stack of cash,
there's a couple of ways you could do it. Eight
million dollars for a thirty second spot.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
So why are companies showing out big time if traditional
TV is hemorrhaging viewers to streaming in our phones.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
So the super Bowl is really unique in that people
want to watch the advertising, they're looking forward to it.
The other thing, in terms of viewership, the super Bowl
keeps trending up.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
More than one hundred and twenty three million people watched
last year's Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And now with Taylor Swift back with the Kelsey's and
the Kelsey mom and it's going to take off. The
President's going to be there, so you get all the
you know, the the the Red team is going to
be there.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Ah, it's gonna be a big, big day.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Neilsen says that helped set the record for the largest
audience for a single network telecast in history.
Speaker 11 (31:13):
When you realize the US only has three hundred and
thirty million people, you're going to reach about one out
of every three people in the country.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, it's worth it. Then for eight million dollars, that's
worth it.
Speaker 11 (31:23):
There's no other way to do this.
Speaker 10 (31:25):
One market research company says the average Super Bowl ad
is twenty times more effective than a regular TV ad
at driving brand perceptions and featuring a celebrity while costing
even more. Can also play off.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
We're doing a Dunkin Donuts commercial.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
Right expected this year Ben and Casey Affleck teaming up
with Jeremy Strong, the latest talker from Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Please tell me the Manning Brothers aren't going to be
a nine out of ten of these spots.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
The Manning Brothers, they're everywhere, big, a.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
Cast of NBC universals, fast and furious, reuniting for a huggin'd.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
I can't believe they let us back in this place, and.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan ADDI to the excitement, recreating
the iconic scene from when Harry met Sally Sidney Sweet
even making a cameo.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Ah.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
This time, they're having Hellman's mayonnaise, other brands introducing new faces.
DURUSL says it's running it's first ever national Super Bowl
ad introducing an ambassador to take on a perennial icon,
the Energizer Bunny.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, that's interesting. I never know.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I would thought that duras Cell would have run a
spot every year. This is their first spot.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
They keep going and going.
Speaker 11 (32:39):
When everybody has seen the same ad all of a sudden,
that's something people can talk about, and they can in case,
it can turn your ad into a discussion topic, and
it can even emerge as part of the whole culture
and society.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
There you go, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
My prediction is Philadelphia is going to win in a
blowout by nineteen points. So load up on Kansas City,
Load up on Kansas City. I am never right ever,
So is that your bet?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
So you know, put your house or your car on
the on the Eagles, No on the Kansas City Chiefs.
Because I think Philadelphia is gonna win by nineteen, which
means Kansas City will win by twenty or more. So
I never get it right ever, ever, ever get it right?
I Philadelphia by nineteen Watch this Kansas City blow out.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
With your pringles. Yes that's right? Yeah, what is that?
What is the slogan?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Pop?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You can't stop your poppy kids, your poppy kidstop me
all right.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
The pursuit has ended.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The guy's still in his car at one hundred and
fifty third in Inglewood Avenue, So he lives to fight
another night, right, enjoying his cigarettes and running away from
the cops. That's how he spent his evening. A little
different than mine, a little different than yours. But guy
went for it in life, you know, got to give
him them.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let's talk to Paul Haddad here. He's an author.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He's having a pre Super Bowl book signing of one
of his many, many books that he has written, and
he's with us.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Paul, how you, Bob, I'm great, Tim, Thanks for having.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Me, man.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That freeway Topia book you wrote on how freeways shape
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Can we talk about that book first?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
And it's actually pertinent to the speed you know, the
high pursuit right now.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, but I also heard and Paul, you're a special
of this. You know, I did like eight minutes of
research on this, you know, twenty years ago. But they
were in the nineteen fifties, the city of Los Angeles,
the County of LA had had a plan, you know,
a long term plan to build the freeways in Los Angeles.
San Diego had a similar plan, and then forty fifty
(01:19):
years later, San Diego was able to develop about ninety
six percent of their freeways. We're in LA we were
less than fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Why how how did we drop the ball like that was?
Was it constant protests from people?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Everything shifted in the seventies, and a lot of it
was just kind of the political climate because you know,
it's the rise of environmentalism. There's a lot of inflation.
You and I remember the oil embargo, and so it
just didn't become tenable. It became too expensive to build freeways.
So the Century Freeway, the one oh five that was
on the books for like thirty or forty years, and
it got so cost prohibitive that they you know, finally
(01:58):
built it, you know, for step billion dollars and opened
it in ninety three. So that was LA's last freeway.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You know what's amazing though, is you know, I was
born and raised here in the San Fernando Valley, and
I'm even I'm not, you know, super old, but I'm
even old enough to remember, you know, where we didn't
have the one eighteen freeway or the two ten that
went out past the fifty seven eastbound. I mean, it's
amazing that I've been around for two major freeways that
have opened here.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know what's cool is I remember watching Chips, you know,
A Spauns and John Yea, and I loved them. They
were shooting on the freeways and doing these you know,
high speed chases. And they were shooting on the one
eighteen and the two ten because they were unfinished.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And the studio, the production company actually rented those freeways
just to shoot Chips on them while they were building it.
You know, I pay Caltrans.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I knew that show was in trouble when the second
episode of Chips, they had an A story in a
B story. The B story on the second episode of
Chips was somebody was stealing the plants on the shoulders.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
That sounds like that sounds like a sub subplot. I mean,
that's not even worthy.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Of a subplot.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But I don't know how you know, Look, two million
people live in the San Fernando Valley, if it was
its own city, would be the seventh largest city in America,
about the size of Houston. And yet we have one
freeway that intersects the valley, the four or five.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You would have to go all the way to the
west to the twenty three or all the way to
the east the one seven of the five freeway, and
there's nothing in between.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Well, they were going to build the Whitnoll Freeway, that's
you know, currently you have Whittnell Highway going through North
Hollywood and Burbank. That was supposed to be a freeway,
and then it was going to link up and go
west along Roscoe Boulevards. So you would have had a
freeway in between the one on one and the one eighteen,
and it would have been the Whitnell Freeway going through
there across Roscoe, because the mid Valley really kind of
(03:49):
needs a freeway, I'm with you on that. And then
it would have bent down and gone to Malibu, but
it would cut through with those beautiful canyons like Topanga
or Malibu canyons. So you know, in some ways it's
good they didn't build the Whitney Freeway.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, I got a different perspective now that we've had
these fires. I say, we build a freeway from Sunset
all the way to Ventura, right on the top of
those mountains, and it'd be a natural fire break.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
But fires jump freeways, though you know these are their
best now, their mega fires. Even a freeway is not
enough to protect against the wildfire.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Do if I design it, We're gonna be a good.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Shape, twenty lane freeway. It's gonna be wide, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, made of water ice water.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Are you going to go out for the big celebration
when they finally finished the Mountain Lion bridge?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I would like to. I mean, if someone's gonna invite me,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Know where we are in life, where you know house
they're burning down and we got a bridge for mountain lions.
They are eventually going to come over and kill your
dogs and cats because that's what they eat.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, they've got to eat too, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You got to pay your nine hundred dollars dog for dinner.
All right, So let's talk about inventing Paradise. The power
brokers who created the dream of Los Angeles. When when
you went to how deep do you go do you
go into the Eaton family when you talk about the
families that are instrumental in building LA.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Oh yeah, yeah. In fact, freeway Topia kind of led
me to this book. It's my latest book because I
kind of went back before freeways, like who are the
guys who really kind of made Los Angeles what it
is so we could even have freeways and expand to like,
you know, four hundred and sixty eight square miles from
twenty eight square miles, And so I kind of focus
on mostly five or six titans. Cred Eaton is not
(05:37):
one of them, but Mohollon is and Eden of course
worked with Mahon to bring water down here from the
Owens Valley. So that's a big part of the book.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
A little bit ironic that Eaton did it in a
very deceptive way in buying property in the central Valley
and then moving the water rights down to LA and
then one hundred years later we have a major fire
named after that family.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That is weird.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
It is, yeah, you know, he's kind of the villain
behind the Owens Valley, you know, stealing the water. It's
not mahone, but people, like uninformed people feel that Mahon
was the guy, And yeah, he certainly did his part
to be duplicitous, but it wasn't his idea to even
do the aqueduct. He was just the engineer behind it. It
was Fred Eaton's idea, so let's vilify him, right.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And look, it's a great idea because you know, they
discovered that the water source in up in northern California
is incredibly higher altitude than Los Angeles. So all they
have to do is just build up, you know, you know,
build the barriers and that water will gravity will bring
it down to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It was actually very a brilliant thing to come up with.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It was, and that was Mahon's doing. You know, he
was a self made man, a self taught engineer. And
but what I love, like some of the other characters
in my book, like Harry Chandler, Harrison great otis you know,
they ran the La Times then, and they used the Times.
It's basically just propaganda to push their projects through to
grow to the city. And what I love is I
(07:08):
came across some articles where the Owens River they were
claiming in the Times in order to get the aqueduct built,
They're trying to tell the public that the Owens River
used to connect to the La River, and that there
was an earthquake a thousand years prior and it kind
of like made up a natural barrier between the rivers.
So really that water is ours, Yes, the Owens River.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It was God ordained.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So you know, no scientists rever quoted, you know, no
no geologists. If they did quote anyone, it was always
like in the passive voice or experts say, I mean,
it was just like a classic case of bogus journalism.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Paul, it worked?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is it had Dad or hadad.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Ha?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Dad? Had Dad?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, Paul, Dad's with us. He's gonna be have a
book something. We'll talk about it in a second. But first, Paul,
let me let me ask you a question. Let's say
the Paul, the Dad family is broke. You know, you
spent everything in Vegas or you know, the racetrack whatever,
and you're broke. And then I said to you, well,
do you have any assets? And you say, yeah, you
have two million dollars in your savings account, but you
(08:11):
don't want to touch that. And I'll be like, oh, well,
why wouldn't you go into your savings account to help
your family, and you're like, well, I don't like to
do that. Okay, let's take that in the broader picture.
We have a savings account, a water savings account in
Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe can fill up every inch of
California with eight inches of water. So when we need water,
(08:32):
let's drain Tahoe and get back to partying in this state.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
You'd have to fight with San Francisco or other towns
for that water.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Strong all right, Paul, you know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
We're gonna be signing a books tomorrow. It's an important deal.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I will be actually Sunday, Super Sunday. So yeah, I'm
encouraging people to pregame at the Barnes and Noble in
Santa Monica at one o'clock. Okay, yeah, time, okay, one
to three, Yeah, one to three, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
All right, And where is the Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It's back on the Third Street promenade where they used
to be. And then yeah, and then they went, you know,
they sold it, I think like five six years ago,
and then they just reopened last August at a smaller location,
but also right there in the promenade near Wiltshire Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm so happy that because that was a big part
of the promenade for a while, and when they left
it sort of became CD. I hope they reinvent that area.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
It's one of the few oacs and yes, it's still
kind of CD. So you just make your way to
the Barnes and Noble. You'll be fine. Okay, all right,
to get some laser tagging.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I appreciate you coming on. Anytime you have a book signing,
we'd love to help you out. I know any friend
of Clay row is a friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh well, thanks, Tim, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Thanks about it. I appreciate it coming on, all right,
take care. Paul Hadad go check out his book signing
at one pm one to three pm on Super Bowl Sunday,
right before the game. Might slide into the Barnes and
Noble there in Santa Monica on the Third Street Promenade.
It's got three great books, Inventing Paradise, the Powerbrokers who
created the dream of La freeway Topia, How Freeways shaped
(10:07):
Los Angeles, and ten thousand Steps a Day in La
fifty seven Walking Adventures. That guy's great, and look anytime
somebody's writing, you know, books about how great LA is
or the history of La. I think we sort of
have to celebrate that. So go to the Barnes and Noble,
pick up a book, he'll sign it for you, and
then go enjoy the game. We're live here. The chase
(10:29):
is over and nobody was arrested. Kind of a wild
day here southern California.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The Big super Bowl is coming up, Big game on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Everyone's going to enjoy that. The Big Game.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Lots going on here in Southern California over the weekend.
You get that book signing out of Barnes and Nobles
for that, Paul Haddad, Yeah, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And then we also have.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
The Lake with Lakers playing Lebron the oldest player ever
to score forty plus points. So that's another record he's
got and I see, oh, okay, let's look to it.
George here, George or Tusar or Tizar or Tusar.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'm probably mispronouncing that. George. You're on KFI. How are you, Bob?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You there, George, how do you pronounce your last day.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's or Tusa or Tusa.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
All right, buddy, Look, I love Santa Anita. I was
born and raised in the infield of sant Anita, if
you know that. And I love it. I love especially
the day after it rains. Everything so clean out there
and so crisp. It reminds me of when I went
(11:50):
there with my dad and my uncles, my grandfather when
I was a kid. And there's just such a great
vibe of having, you know, the the clouds in the mountains.
Sometimes it's snow oh capped, it's cold. Everybody's got a
jacket on. The horses are running, and it reminds me
of being back in the the late sixties, early seventies
out there.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
No, it's a it's a dream. The view is spectacular.
We're celebrating our ninetieth year maybe years.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
What special?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
All right, So let's talk about this weekend. We've got
a big chili cook off and I and I and
I will tell you though that my chili dollar. Whenever
I'm gonna go buy chili, I can't wait to get
to sant Anita and buy the track chili.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I still think it's amongst the world's best.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
I love the track chili, and but Saturday tomorrow we
have the seventh annual Chili Cookoff. We're getting all kinds
of great, spicy, mouth watering chili and the best part
in my eyes, is that one hundred percent of the
chili sales is going to Foothill Unity Center, which you know,
they've been on the forefront of the whole fires and
(12:59):
eating fires and giving out so much stuff. So we're
doing our best to help them. You know, we stopped
racing for a week during the fires, and boy, the
parking lot was just full of stuff to give away to.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
All the people.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Our hearts went out to everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
But yeah, so the.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Chili Cookoff is going to be fantastic. It's great racing tomorrow.
It's just it's just an excellent day to.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Come to the track. And then Sundays the big game.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yes, we got we got an early post at eleven
and good TVs we put up and some free free
contests that have football themes to them.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We're going three.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Thousand, one thousand in Bingo.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Hey, George, how did for people that don't know this?
And I'm in that group? How did the parking lot
turn into a donation center? How did they start? Was
that just organically? Did the the owners of Santa Anita
invite those people in?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
How did that start?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Yeah, we got a great crew here, including Pete Sebol
and some of the people here, and they just you know,
we volunteered and said, look, you know, we're not gonna
race this weekend. We opened it up and the donations
came out of like much more than we had anticipated.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It was.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
The outpouring of the community was unbelievable. I never seen
so many diapers, so much water in my life.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
And a lot of people took advantage of it. We
were so happy to be a part of it. And
you know, it's devastating. I've never see anything like this,
if you amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Never and I and I thought to myself, you know,
while the donation center at Santa Anita was like seven
football fields of clothes and and and you know, water
and wipes and diapers and all that stuff. And I
thought to myself, man, this is great publicity for sant Anita.
So maybe the next time a horse gets a hangnail,
(14:47):
the press will give him a break and mile.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That doesn't happen around.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Here, all right, So you're running an eight, an eight,
race nine, race ten, race card tomorrow Tomorrow, we got.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Big races and uh uh you know, then nine races
on Sunday because we want to finish before you know,
obviously before.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The big game start.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Uh. That's that's gonna be very very cool. And then
where where.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Is the chili? Is that going to be on the
infield or is that be in the grand stands?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
No?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
No, on the on the track side, apron, We're gonna
have it right there. So uh you'll be a sample
and you'll be able to vote on which one you
think is the best. So they're really competing, they're really
going to be trying hard. And uh so it's it's
gonna be fantastic. And and I got a best bet
for you and race number eight, number number seven, Seismic
Beauty and race number eight, so you can pay for
(15:38):
some of that chili bet on Seismic Beauty and racing.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I'm betting. I'm betting it tonight. Hey, So what time?
What time the gates open tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
George?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Uh, the gates open at ten tomorrow and at nine
on Sunday and come on out and uh you will
have a great time and bring the kids.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It's the greatest place for you to take care, spend
the day and quite possibly walk away with thousands of
dollars for Yeah, George, you guys do a kick ass
great job out there.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I love it. Keep up the great work. And you
always got a friend here.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
We love you, we love you, we love you.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
And more details just go to sant Anita dot com.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Santa Anita dot com. George, thank you. All right, there
you go Santa Anita this weekend. George or Tusa is
a great guy out there. So let's by the way,
this feature is being brought to you by Advanced There
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(16:41):
Anita dot com is the website. Ten races on Saturday,
nine races on Sunday at Chili Cookoff tomorrow tomorrow at
Santa Anita. That's where I'll be. I'll be there Saturday
and Sunday, so come on out. We can get mustard
on our clothes together, because no matter if you have
mustard or not. When you go to the racetrack, you
(17:04):
always go home with mustard on you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's the rule.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Every Friday, we do a segment called how can We
make You some More money? Yep, and it is Friday
and a little left of six thirty, so we're right
on time. We have a guest here, a guy named
Ryan Whomina is with us.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Ryan, how you I'm doing fantastic?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
How are you? Tim?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I am doing fantastic. I appreciate you asking. I went
Darren McMillan sent me this thing, and he texted to
me and he says, hey, go online and see if
you qualify for one of these refunds from the IRS,
you know, the self employed tax credit, I should say,
And I went on and I filled out literally on
your website. It took me maybe two minutes to answer
(17:55):
four or five questions and they said I possibly qualify
for already two thousand dollars. I would have never known
about it unless it was for you guys. So this
is something that maybe a lot of people can tune into.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Huh oh, yeah, it's it's absolutely incredible. I mean, we
build this company. Understanding, Tim, there's forty to eighty million
Americans that are eligible for ear marked you know, tens
of billions of dollars, and if we didn't create something
to get it to them before time runs.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Out, no one was going to know about it. So
we have. Yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Have helped America recover over one hundred million dollars to date.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Man oh Man, So let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You know, you go in and you tell them you
know a little bit about you know, your circumstances, how
much you make, and if you're self employed and all
that stuff. Who who genuine generally qualifies for this rebate?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
So it's really a wide number of people. So they
say self employed, right, and self employed includes not only
you know, small business owners sole for but then every
ten to ninety nine contractor so its schedules c income.
So for for most everyone, if it's not W two
wages you know during those years back in twenty and
(19:14):
twenty twenty one, if they were impacted at all by COVID,
they're eligible. Like I said, it's forty to eighty million
Americans and ninety nine percent have no clue about it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And where is this money coming from.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Was this part of the money that was set aside
to help people during COVID?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Yeah, exactly. So the FFCRA when it was first enacted,
created this tax credit. And so the self employee tax
credit is an industry term. It's the qualified Sick Leave
Credit and Stanley Leave credit. Right, so you have actually
two credits in place. One is for you know, any
kind of interruptions having COVID, having to quarantine, being diagnosed,
(19:55):
something shut down, right, not to shut on the business.
So for example, like every we went in the beauty
industry with any kind of salon, they were impacted because
they were closed down for a long time.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
And you know when.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
They were you know, in your neck of the woods
producing anything, right, and all of that was shut down, right,
that would qualify everyone in the industry who's getting paid
you know, ten ninety nine versus a W two, which
is so many people. And then when the family leave credit,
that's for folks you know, when schools were shut down,
(20:29):
babysitters were shut down, all of those things were shut down,
and you had it's a maximum refund of thirty two
two hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And real quickly, Ryan, what percentage as you you know,
you've been doing this for a little while, what percentage
of the people who go to the website and fill out,
you know, the three or four questions of the questionnaire,
what percentage actually qualify?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
So over time, and this is well over one hundred
thousand applicants, about fifty three percent of our applicants. Yeah,
about fifty three percent of our applicants. And some of
the great things that we do, we're able to just
pull the data we need directly from the IRS. So
we have a partnership with IDU dot me, just like
when you log in your IRS account, right, we're able
(21:14):
to pull the data for the taxtures that we need.
And something else awesome that we're about that we're able
to do for everyone getting refunds over three thousand dollars
or more, we can get them their funds to them
through a banking partnership in about five to seven days.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I noticed that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I noticed that some of your competitors it takes they
say two to you know, sixty to ninety days, but
you guys can at least get a portion of it
out in five to seven days.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Yeah, exactly. So we're you know, we're super excited about that.
And you know, IRS wade times can vary. If someone
just sends it in right, it can take you know,
sixteen twenty weeks or more so to be able to
get people, you know, a good unker this in a
really short amount of time.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And this isn't a tax break. This is a check
and that goes right to the person. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That's absolutely right now.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
If someone owes back taxes, the back tax debt is
cleaned up first. So for a lot of people, that's
better than getting money. Yeah, so it's a tax refund.
So the other great thing it's not taxable and then
on yeah, yeah, because the IRS pays you as though
you overpaid your taxes in twenty twenty one. And when
(22:31):
they do that, they pay interest on top of it
as though they owed you money since twenty twenty one.
So what we're seeing about right now, typically whatever we quote,
there's about sixteen percent interest paid on pop of that number.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Okay, So just in broad strokes before we give out
the website, if you qualify, if you potentially qualify, if
if you filed your taxes in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Correct in Schedule C income right, so it's not the
Schedule C or Schedule SE income.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And then when somebody does fill out the the four
or five questions there on the website, then you then
they fill out their name and all that stuff, and
you'll notify them pretty quick if they qualify.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Yeah, we have the option because of the partnerships we have,
someone can actually get officially done with the entire process
in about fifteen minutes. So they just come answer the
questions and then you know, about half of people have
an IDE dot me log in already and they just
log into their ID dot me. We pull all the
data from the IRS, crunch all the numbers. We created
(23:41):
a proprietary software to streamline processes for people because so
many people are eligible.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, I have an ID dot me because you know,
I've worked for, you know, over the years, so many
different companies, and I got residuals for you know, stupid
things that I did in Hollywood, and so I want
to see what the IRS knows about me, not so
I can screw them out of any money. So I
just don't have to refile and refile. I want to
make sure that I that I include.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Everything absolutely absolutely, and for folks that don't, they're able
to sign up for it pretty easily. And then yeah,
we just pull all that data right from the IRS
and we can have you know, the official numbers of
someone in about fifteen minutes, we can get all the
forms prepared, and then if somebody is eligible for the
uh you know, the express refund option, we send that
(24:31):
to our office actually in California. We do another set
of quality control on that review everything, and then we
send it off to the IRS and they get paid
in just a matter of days.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I originally saw you guys on ABC, and I know
that's on your website as well that the maximum check
that people can get I believe is thirty two two.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Twenty Yes, thirty two twenty Okay, all.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Right, how do people how do people get this refund?
Where's the website that they can check out right now?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Absolutely go to s E T C pros dot com.
So like set cpros dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
All right, set the letters C and then p R
O S dot com. Yes, sir, And what's the deadline?
How quickly do people have to do this?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
For most people, it's April fifteenth, so this year especially
if they want. Yes, yes, April fifteenth of this year.
Some folks who filed extensions.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Will be able to do it a little bit later,
but you know.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Just consider the deadline to be safe. April fifteenth of
this year.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Okay, s E T cpros dot com.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, sir, buddy, I.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Appreciate coming on and I hope a lot of people
get a lot of.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Checks me too.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Thanks so much for having us all right, really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Thanks Ryan, Ryan Umina with this company that goes out
there and researches all these programs to make sure you
get the money back. So if you file taxes in
twenty twenty one, please go to website. You got to
go before April fifteenth, and maybe you can get a
check for thirty two thousand, two hundred and twenty dollars.
S E T C Pros p R o S dot com.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Stephush asked me something interesting off during the break. He
said in nineteen twenty twenty one, he was driving Uber
and Lyft. Does he qualify for that for that check?
And I think you do? I think you do sounds
like it. Yeah, So if you're if you were listening
to the last segment, you could possibly qualify. And I
(26:43):
saw this guy on on ABC. That's how I discovered this,
this young man. But he said, if if you go
to the website and if your schedule C, which I
think means you you know, he did some ten ninety
nine work, or you know, taxes weren't taken out, and
a typical you know W two or W four, W
(27:03):
eight or you know, WD forty, whatever that is. But
we're in lyft, I think qualify. So you could you
could potentially get a check for thirty two thousand, two
hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
That's government money. They put that out there for you,
you people.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
So if people are going to take that, the money's
out there anyway, might as well go for it and
try to get some money for you and your family.
Take that thirty two grand and put in a college
fund for your kids, or go to Vegas, or go
to Marongo, or go to Hawaii. About that, So, go
to the website and see if you qualify for this money.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And I hope you do.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
S E T C like the word set set letter
C isn't Charlie pros p r o S dot com,
set C pro doctor Colm thirty two thousand, two hundred
and twenty dollars could be yours. So that's a good deal.
(28:11):
Go check it out, Go check it out. Hope you
get the money. Hope you get it, and I hope
you enjoy it. Enjoy the hell out of it. Right,
Donald Trump's going to the super Bowl. There's gonna be
a lot of security there because yours, truly, your girlfriend's
going to be there. Taylor's Swift. Taylor Swift's going to
the super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
And security preparations are underway in New Orleans ahead of
President Trump's attendance at the super Bowl. Trump will become
the first sitting president to appear at the Big Game?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
ABC, does that seem odd that Donald Trump is the
first president? It's twenty twenty five and no president's ever
been to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Trump will become the first sitting president to appear at
the Big Game. ABC's Justice and Homeland Security reporter Luke
Barr is in New Orleans with more on that.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Here we go, Luke, I.
Speaker 8 (28:52):
Can't even imagine how do you secure a president in
a venue like this?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, It's very difficult to do well, Diane.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
The Super Bowl was already going to be secure, perhaps
the most secure super Bowl in US history. But now,
of course the President United States is coming, and that
brings a whole nother layer of security with it. I'm
told by the Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland
Security Investigations, which is sort of leading the federal coordinated effort,
that they're securing this game by land, air and sea
(29:23):
of talking, extra tactical teams, extra of canines that are
bomb sniffing dogs. This is called the Seer one event, Diane,
which means it gets the highest level of a federal
coordination from the federal government to make sure that this
game is secure.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
There you go, all right, Game's gonna be secure.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Why do companies spend so much money on Super Bowl ads? Why?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And is that money worth it?
Speaker 10 (29:47):
The Super Bowl America's biggest sporting event, and so much more.
Some of us watch for the football, others wait for
halftime and in between the two, so many tuning in
for the commercials. Classic ads can live on in American
culture for decades. But if you want to shot at
that kind of glory this year, it's going to cost
(30:09):
some serious dough, a source telling CNBC broadcaster Fox sold
some ads for a record eight million dollars each, which
did not scare advertisers away.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
If you're still bent on blowing this fat stack of cash,
there's a couple of ways you could do it. Eight
million dollars for a thirty second spot.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
So why are companies showing out big time if traditional
TV is hemorrhaging viewers to streaming in our phones.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
So the super Bowl is really unique in that people
want to watch the advertising, they're looking forward to it.
The other thing, in terms of viewership, the super Bowl
keeps trending up.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
More than one hundred and twenty three million people watched
last year's Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And now with Taylor Swift back with the Kelsey's and
the Kelsey mom and it's going to take off. The
President's going to be there, so you get all the
you know, the the the Red team is going to
be there.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Ah, it's gonna be a big, big day.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
Neilsen says that helped set the record for the largest
audience for a single network telecast in history.
Speaker 11 (31:13):
When you realize the US only has three hundred and
thirty million people, you're going to reach about one out
of every three people in the country.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Okay, it's worth it. Then for eight million dollars, that's
worth it.
Speaker 11 (31:23):
There's no other way to do this.
Speaker 10 (31:25):
One market research company says the average Super Bowl ad
is twenty times more effective than a regular TV ad
at driving brand perceptions and featuring a celebrity while costing
even more. Can also play off.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
We're doing a Dunkin Donuts commercial.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
Right expected this year Ben and Casey Affleck teaming up
with Jeremy Strong, the latest talker from Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Please tell me the Manning Brothers aren't going to be
a nine out of ten of these spots.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
The Manning Brothers, they're everywhere, big, a.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
Cast of NBC universals, fast and furious, reuniting for a huggin'd.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
I can't believe they let us back in this place, and.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan ADDI to the excitement, recreating
the iconic scene from when Harry met Sally Sidney Sweet
even making a cameo.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Ah.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
This time, they're having Hellman's mayonnaise, other brands introducing new faces.
DURUSL says it's running it's first ever national Super Bowl
ad introducing an ambassador to take on a perennial icon,
the Energizer Bunny.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, that's interesting. I never know.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I would thought that duras Cell would have run a
spot every year. This is their first spot.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
They keep going and going.
Speaker 11 (32:39):
When everybody has seen the same ad all of a sudden,
that's something people can talk about, and they can in case,
it can turn your ad into a discussion topic, and
it can even emerge as part of the whole culture
and society.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
There you go, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
My prediction is Philadelphia is going to win in a
blowout by nineteen points. So load up on Kansas City,
Load up on Kansas City. I am never right ever,
So is that your bet?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
So you know, put your house or your car on
the on the Eagles, No on the Kansas City Chiefs.
Because I think Philadelphia is gonna win by nineteen, which
means Kansas City will win by twenty or more. So
I never get it right ever, ever, ever get it right?
I Philadelphia by nineteen Watch this Kansas City blow out.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
With your pringles. Yes that's right? Yeah, what is that?
What is the slogan?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Pop?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You can't stop your poppy kids, your poppy kidstop me
all right.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
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