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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We've talked
about the human element to this to these fires. For
last week, we've mixed in a little bit about animals, dogs, cats, birds,
I don't know what you got out there, horses, pigs, lizards.
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And we have a guest here who's from pet Co Love.
It's a nonprofit organization. They've been around for twenty five
years and they've invested more than four hundred million dollars
in adoption and other life saving events. And Chelsea Staley
is with us. Chelsea, Welcome to CAFI.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
How are you hi?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm Will, How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm you know. We go to Petco all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We get our dog room there, We've got our we'd
love going in there with our doggie and she loves
buzz around there and sniffing everything. And I got to say,
before we get into the charity aspect of it, every
single person I've ever run into at Petco seems like
they have the job there because they love animals principally,
and then secondarily, maybe they're good at customer care or
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maybe they're good at grooming or bookkeeping, whatever, but it
seems like their principal love and interest is animals and
that's got to be not only is it great, but
I bet it's part of the application when you apply
to Petco it is.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, I'm not sure if it's part of the application,
but thank you for saying that. You know, people can
work in any retail environment, and retail is challenging, right,
but you know when somebody applies to work as somewhere
like Petco that they definitely love animals. So it's really
a neat partnership that Pechco Love has with Petco, and
we're able to really impact a lot of animals because
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of our partnership.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And so you do free vaccines. I'm sure you're overwhelmed
over the last week with people calling with desperation stories
on how to locate pets and stuff like that. It
must be very heartbreaking to see all these stories about
pets and the news.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's heartbreaking, but you know, you can you can be
heartbroken or you can let those sad stories fuel you
to do something to help your community. And that's exactly
what we're doing here in LA.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's great, all right, tell us you are you what
you are, what you are doing in La and and
how people can get involved.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Sure. So, I am actually on site at LA Animal
Services at the East Valley campus. LA Animal Services is
your city shelter. There are six campuses across the city.
We also have partners at La County which has multiple
campuses across the county as well, and we're supporting Pasavana Humane.
So what we're the number one thing we're asking people
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to do is to either foster or adopt pets that
were previously in the shelter before the fires to make
room for the pets that have been displaced for the
fires to come in and make sure not only that
we have physically room, but we have room on our
veterinarian schedule, et cetera, to meet the needs of the
pets that we know are going to be coming in.
So all adoptions at the city and county shelters are
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fee waves that means they are free through the end
of the months to try to create enough room for
those pets that we know are victims of the fire.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And are you seeing are you seeing a lot of
new pets coming in.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That we are seeing a lot of new pets coming
in the search and rescue teams for animals are just
getting to the city this week, and so we anticipate
a large influx of fire victims in the coming days.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And I thought this was great. I thought this statistic
was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But nearly seventy five thousand pets have been reunited with
their families thanks to pet COO Love Laws, which is
terrific they have.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
We are coming up on our one hundred thousands, and
we are just so excited. Actually, you know, today there
was a cat with that sustained fire, sustained burns in
the fire, and it was reunited via pet Co Love
Loss at Pasadena Humane today. This is kind of a
first disaster of this type that we, you know, wanted
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to see how the the machine learning and technology would
work with the image recognition, and so it was really
awesome that we were able to find a burned cat's
family today via pet C Love Lost.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's fantastic. What is the best for people who who
do have their homes? But I know the pets are
very sensitive to the smoke and they understand the panic
and in the you know, in the house. What is
a good thing to do to help, you know, calm
the pets down.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, I think what I do at my own house,
I always keep all the blinds closed and all of
the curtains closed because that can help cut down on
some of the noise. Turn the TV up, I turn
on brown noise on whatever, your you know, computer alects,
the Google whatever you want to have to try to
drown out some of that noise outside. Also, if you
you know, just feed them at whatever time or right
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before whatever time you anticipate the noise to be that
they might have a good nap after that. Those are
some of the some of the tricks and tricks of
the trade that I use. They're also calming treats that
you can purchase. Of course, Petco sells this.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, good question. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
When I first started buying dog food, it was you know,
you know, forty years ago, it was just the parina
you know, bag dog and then a lot like maybe
my ten fifteen years ago you saw one small, tiny
refrigerator and that was filled with you know, fresher dog food.
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Now when you go to Petco, there are nine, ten,
eleven big, huge commercial size refrigerators filled with dog food.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Absolutely, absolutely the dog food industry is evolving rapidly, and
you know, we love our pets. We want to help
our pets live as long as possible, and so feeding
them quality food, just like we would do for ourselves
is one of the ways that we are intending to
do that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You know, you're young, much younger than me, so this
will come as a shock to you. You may not
have lived through this. But when I was a kid,
and you know, we lived in the valley San Fernando Valley,
first in Tarzana, then in Sina on the in the flatlands,
everybody who we knew that had a dog. Those dogs
were always outside. They're outside of day during the day,
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they're out at side at night. We had a doghouse
for it, and when the dog was in the house,
my mom would yell, why is the dog in the house.
And yet twenty years later, these these dogs have become
family members where they're always in the house.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
They are always in the house. They're saying and Animal
Welfare that dogs pets in general, right, dogs have gone
from the barnyard as working dogs to the backyard and
now they're in our bedrooms.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
In literally in one generation, in.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
One generation, absolutely that we have were truly regarded them
as family. And so that's why being able to reunite
lost pets with their families and situations like this is
so so critical. But because it is truly like losing
a family member, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It's worse than losing a family member is sometimes because
cause you know, I never get emotional like that when
we you know, when when I have a you know,
either a relative or a you know, a friend had
passed away. But man, when I when we have a
dog that is no longer with this, I can't take that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh, I'm telling you, right, And so some people love
their pets more than they love their own family, right,
and we won't. Just as long as you're caring for
your pet and then helping the shelter pets in this area,
we're We're You're okay by us.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We had a dog that died about four months ago,
and I had to tell Sharon Belly or our producer.
I'd say, listen, our dog died. I need you to
tell everybody here at work not to ask me about
it during the day.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'll have to go home. And that's a true story.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Absolutely, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I still can't even drive by the place where we
put him down.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I drive.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I previously drive around it, like two or three miles
around it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm crazy, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, you're not crazy. You're just like every other pet
lover out there. I think that pets have a way
of touching us in a way that other humans can't.
You know, there's just there's a trust there, there's a
vulnerability there, and they just innately know how we're feeling
and what our needs are so well.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Plus, you know, if you have like your you know
your mom, you love your mom and dad, your brothers
and sisters, your uncles, your aunts, and especially your kids.
I totally understand that, but you know, when you're you know,
eventually your kids move out, your mom and dad don't
live with you. But you see that dog, you know,
eighteen hours a day, and you become very close to
that dog or that cat and it and you'll do
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anything for them.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Absolutely. So you can you imagine how the people in
la are feeling that don't maybe know if their pet
has made it or don't know where their pet is
right now. And so in addition to doing in addition
to moving animals out of the city and county shelters
for foster care, and adoption. We are also focusing on
trying to reunite pets that were displaced in the fire
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with their families via pet co Love Lost.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, so give me the website where people can go
and and we'll just keep hammering it.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Out for him.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, it's petcoloveloss dot org and it integrates with the
city and county shelters and also Pasadena Humane. So if
you have lost a pet or found a pet, you
can go to petcoloveloss dot org and report that pet
as either found or lost, and it will automatically search
the records within the city system, within the county system,
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within Pasadena Humane. And it also integrates with next door
and with neighbors, so it really is the one central
telephone poll.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If you will, beautiful, you are doing such beautiful work.
I'd love to have you on every day. Can you
come on tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I would love to Okay, tell me.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
In all right, Chelsea, I really appreciate it. It's been
a great call.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
We'll we'll keep giving out the website and you know,
as this disaster progresses, we'd love to have you back,
you know, if you want to pop in studio, you know,
in the future, we'd love to have you on. I
think you're doing unbelievable work with these pets, and I
think pet Co deserves a huge, huge congress thanks from
the entire you know, southern California area for what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Thank you so much, Thank you, and we will talk soon.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
All right, Chelsea Staley.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Petco Love Lost dot Org, Thank you, pet COO, Love
Lost dot Org. Register your pet if you lost them,
him or her, whatever you got cat, dog, horse, donkey, pig.
I don't know what you got going on, dragon, lizard.
I don't know what are the They're not a dragon.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What do they?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They bearded dress? The iguanas? Yeah, yeah, you got an iguana.
You got birds? I don't know what you got going on?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Rats? May?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I may got a couple of rats. We have a
couple of rats. They're not pets, they're just you know,
eating that pets.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Petco Love Lost, dot Org, pet COO, Love Lost dot
O r G.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's a great organization. Thanks my brother Jake who put
that together.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Guid loves dogs more than anybody, beautiful man.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, my brother Jake.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We continue here in Los Angeles. We've been hit hard
and a lot of people have been tuning to KFI
for information, and we are going to continue to give
you that information as long as you need it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
We aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
There are two FEMA centers set up, one in West
hot in West La one zero eight five zero West
Pico Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
They're open from nine am to eight pm.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You get another hour and a forty minutes to get
in there, hour in, thirty eight minutes and thirty eight
minutes after down, and then you have that's eight nine
am to eight pm.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
One zero eight five zero West Pico Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
The other one, the other FEMA center is in Pasadena
three zero three five East Foothill Boulevard three zero three
five East Foothill Boulevard nine am in until eight pm.
So buzz on over there and get yourself some help
you deserve it. Don't be one of those people that's
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too proud to get on unemployment or any kind of
you know, monetary help from the city or the state.
Get yourself some help you deserve it. Don't be too
proud here, all right. The moratorium of evictions, that's a
big story going around. You know, can they throw you
out of your place now? If you're not paying your rent?
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You know, even if you don't and if you don't
live there, you know, if you've been kicked out your
place maybe hasn't been burned to the ground, but you
live in an apartment or a condo, you're renting a
condo and you can't live there for the next two
or three months? Are they going to charge you rent?
And if you don't pay that rent, can they kick
you out?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There's a lot of questions, a lot of questions that
come up in these natural or yeah, in this case,
a natural disaster, because we've never gone through.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
This before as a community.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So let's find out about a little more about the
moratorium on evictions.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Members have introduced a.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Motion to protect residents from the threat of eviction and
rent hikes during the wildfire emergant see. The legislation calls
for a moratorium on evictions for tenants affected by the
fires and a one year pause on rent hikes through
January twenty twenty six. The council members also cited a
twenty nineteen MIT study they found eviction rates can nearly
double after natural disasters. The emotion will be heard in
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the Housing Committee before the City Council votes in the
coming weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I think that's Glenn Walker on KTLA. He does the
one o'clock news over there, and I think he does
I don't know two or three or he's got He's
more involved than just the one o'clock program over there.
But I always remember it's the one o'clocker with Glenn Walker.
That's the only way I remember his name. Otherwise I
forget his name all the time. Sorry, Glenn, just not you.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Arsonists arrested these chaps.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
We'd like to update the all of you on two
notable arrests that were made on January fourteenth, just outside
the fire zone at approximately seventeen or five point fifteen pm,
officers responded to a radio call near the intersection of
Glen Oaks and Van Nuys Boulevard, where a citizen had
detained a possible arson suspect. Upon arrival, officers took the
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suspect in a custody, and the citizen had already extinguished
a nearby fire in a tree.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
How about this guy on glen Oaks and Ventura Deep
into this disaster lighting trees on fire, unbelievable fire.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
In a tree.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
During the investigation, the suspect admitted to starting the fire
because he liked the smell of burning leaves. Why During
the investigation, the suspect admitted to starting the fire because
he liked the smell of burning leaves.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
How about living next to that rocket scientist, I like
the smell of burn Well, look, look, I like the
smell of burning leaves. Soo, I'm not burning the city
down for it, and I'm not burning leaves in my backyard.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I just come around it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Occasionally when I'm driving way way out in the country
and a guy's got a burn pile going, I'll roll
down the window and get my taste there.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I don't have a burn pile at my house because
I'm not allowed to. And it's dangerous.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
When you went back to like Ohio, like shrland falls
and all that stuff, you did you were you ever
in areas where people just open burned, like, oh.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
One hundred percent. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Up in Oregon they still do it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I love it when I drive by. I love
the when the smoke is blowing towards the road and
I can roll my window down smell up.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Growing up in Maryland, at least southern Maryland, it was
like that. And yeah, I love that smell. But yeah,
it's under controlled circumstances. People know what they're.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Doing, right, And you know there you're a city folk.
When you see one of those and you call the
fire department, you know, hey, there's guy burning stuff up here. Yeah,
he's been doing that for forty eight years. Leave alone, please,
got a mighty well, got another crap going on.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
The suspect was subsequently booked for Arson later that evening.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know what, the crows.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You did this as a kid too, with the magnifying
glass burning leaves?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh my god. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And the smell of it, the smell of it was great,
yeah right and bugs, yes yeah. And the smell of
that of the lees burning was awesome. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Maybe I'll get back into it, but uh, you know,
in the magnifying glasses, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
The suspect was subsequently booked for arson. There you go
later that evening, at about nine point thirty in the
area of Santa Monica and Vermont.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
All right, Santa Monica and Vermont where the red line
is around there.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
In the area of Santa Monica and Vermont, Fire Department
personnel responded to reports of a suspect setting multiple piles
of rubbish and trash on fire.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What's going on with these guys? What's going on?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Fire department quickly extinguished the fires and officers took the
suspect in a custody. Suspect admitted to setting multiple fires
that day and stated that she enjoyed causing chaos and destruction.
She and stated that she enjoyed causing chaos and destruction.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Man is an outlier. This is male.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is specifically one gender who's been burning crap for
thousands of years.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Men.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I've never heard of a woman arsonist ever. In all
the TV shows, you know, all the crime shows you
watch about arsonists, I've never seen one woman.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But now we got one. Now we got one. She
was also booked for arson. Yeah, so long, babe.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
As we continue to manage this historic, catastrophic event, we
want to express our gratitude to everyone who has provided
tips and remained vigilant in keeping the city safe. Your
cooperation is crucial during this time, and you can hear
from those two examples I mentioned there are people out
there who this is what they do. If you know
of those people, please give us a call before something
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really bad happens.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, that's Jim McDonald. He's the chief of the Los
Angeles Police.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Department who this is what they do. This is what
they do. That's that Boston accent. I love that. This
is what they do, This is what they do.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
All right, we got to take a break here. We
have a Brad Meltzer was coming on with us. He's
an author. He wrote thea JFK Conspiracy, The Secret Plot
to kill Kennedy and Why it failed. And a lot
of people are still interested in this, the JFK assassination.
But he has a different angle on here, the JFK Conspiracy,
the secret plot to kill Kennedy and why it failed.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So we'll talk to him about that.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Well, Brad Meltcher's been coming on with us for quite
some time. I think, I don't know, five or six years.
And he's got a book out, The JFK Conspiracy, The
Secret Plot to kill Kennedy and Why it failed.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Welcome back to KFI. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I'm good, my brother. How you been?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I've been good. We've been very busy. I imagine you've
heard this year. We've been in the last week or so,
we've been just demolished by these these fighters.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That's why I was asking. I mean, it's you know,
I'm someone from Flora, and hurricanes happen. You feel like
only those closest you understand what you're going through. And
now we get to be on the other side. And
I know you know, to me, I always say how
are you, because you know the pictures are leading me speechless?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We are getting by.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I love the little distraction here though, instead of you know,
one story after another after another about you know, people
losing stuff. I love that you've written this book. Tell
us a little more about it. The Secret to Kill Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
What year? When did this take place?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, this is three years before Lee Harvey Oswald. And
just to paint a picture, and this is a true story,
is that it's a Sunday morning and it's right after
Kennedy's elected in nineteen sixty and he's on his way
to church and what he doesn't know is that there's
a former postal worker named who basically Richard Pavlick, who
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wants to kill him. And he's packed his car with
seven six of dynamite and he goes see he follows
JFK actually to Palm Beach, Florida. He thinks that Jfk'
security is weak affair, and he's right about that, And
so as JFK leaves his house, all this assassin has
to do is hit the little trigger mechanism he's built
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and boom will go the dynamite And what saves JFK's
life that day. I don't want to ruin it. It
has to do with Jackie. But it's the craziest JFK
story you've never heard of your life. Although I think
I just ruined chapter one of the JFA co curracy
for you.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, that's good, we can start a chapter two.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I mean, but the question is, right, is like, why
do we not know this story?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
And the reason you don't know it is because when
it happened, it was gonna be on the front page
of every paper the day after it happened. And then
here's what also happened. Two airplanes in New York City
crashed into each other. Everyone dies on Everyone dies on
board except for one kid. This one little boy is
the sole survivor, and America becomes obsessed with this kid,
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and that takes over the front pages of newspaper, and
the JFK story, instead of being on the front page,
gets buried and becomes a footnote to history until Josh
mentioned on my co writer are like, we should probably
tell the story. It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Again, Brad Meltzer's with us the jf conra JFK conspiracy.
What do you think is holding back all the information?
And why haven't we seen the reports from the CIA
and the FBI on the actual assassination.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, you know, we obviously also had the book with
the real assassinations, which we show you through Jackie's eyes,
and we should talk about her. She's amazing that, you know.
I'm a board member of the National Archives and everyone
keeps saying all the documents can come out. I've spoken
to the one person who has read all the release documents.
There's at least one person. I think at this point
only one. And I wish that there were some smoking
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gun or something we're going to see. But the honest
truth is is we lost that when Jack Ruby pulled
the trigger on Lee Harvey olliswhile that took away the
one eyewitness who could answer the questions like why is
Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia during the Cold War? What
is going on there? And I trust me, I want
to read those as much as you do, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Brad, I I'll often quote Jackie O. Nassais or jack
Jackie Kennedy. She said something that has stuck with me
for my entire life, she said, and I believe she
said this at JFK's funeral. She said, at the end
of your life, it's not how many cars you own,
how many homes you own, how many apartment buildings, or
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if you own a professional football team. The only way
people judge you at the end of your life is
how you raised your kids.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
That's a freaking great But you know it's funny, like you,
I'm upsets like Jackie just is a master to me.
She's you know, incredibly smart. We've reduced her to a caricature,
you know, we say things like she's smarter, she has grace,
or she it's like she's so much more complex than that.
In fact, when we did this book, we were like
we're not going to pull our punches. We show you
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and document JFK's affairs that he used to have. When
when Jackie gives birth, she hemorrhages and jfkre is nowhere
to be found. He's on a plane on his way
to Florida. And you know what happened to me if
my wife was what my wife would do to me.
I was on a plane in Florida, she's given birth.
But I'll tell you that in all seriousness, I kept
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saying to myself as we were working on the book,
why do we call it camelot?
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Like?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Where does camelot cut this place? It's a mess, This
marriage is a mess. I'm like, why do we call
it camelot? And I finally discovered this and I didn't
know this is that camelot started being first used after
JFK died. It's after the assassination. Jackie grants one interview
about the assassination to Life magazine, has the reporter come
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to her house. He's there until after midnight, and she
tells him this exclusive story. She says to him that
when JFK was alive and his back was hurt in
the White House and he was in pain. She used
to put on a record to ease his pain and
calm him down. And his favorite song in this record
was about a place called Camelot.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
And we forget that Jackie was a reporter, right, so
she was a member of the press. She was hounded
by the press, but brother, make no mistake, she was
a master of the press. She's the one who inserted
that word Camelot into the lexicon. She wanted to make
sure she was writing JFK's legacy before anyone else. And Jackie,
to me, is amazing for putting it there on what
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she was trying to hold together in the midst of
all that.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
That is great. I hope everyone goes out and buys it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The JFK conspiracy, the secret plot to kill Kennedy and
why it failed. We really appreciate coming on.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Brad.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You're always welcome here. Next time you're in LA we'd
love to have you stop by the studio.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Thank you, and then stay safe there thinking of y'all.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
All right, Dive Brad Meltzer, great author, he's on with
us all the time. Great family guide too, just a
really down to earth guy. The JFK conspiracy, the secret
plot to kill Kennedy and why it failed at your
favorite bookstore or Amazon. Right now, I think people still,
you know, buy books at bookstores. I think I don't know.
But if you don't go to Amazon and purchase it there.
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All right, welcome back with some we'll wrap up here.
We got a little more information for you. We are
live here. As a matter of fact, we're going to
talk about the Dream Center.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
We come back.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
We've been involved with this charity for quite some time
during these fires, and the people who work here at
iHeart have done an unbelievable job the Dream Center.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
There's been a there's a lot of great podcasts out
there when it comes to this fire. And the one
that I've been listening to and I just wish you
had more episodes is the Adam Carolla Podcast. Got to
listen to that, Guys on fire, Guys going crazy and
spot on about a lot of things going on in
Los Angeles. It is the Adam Carolla Podcast. Here you go,
(26:00):
all right, we another sort of crazy story. Remember the
guy Edwin, remember his last name? He won the powerball.
He won two point or two billion, four hundred million
or two billion, four hundred thousand, two billion, a little
over two billion after a tax. As he made off
of a billion dollars, he bought a house in Malibu
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or Pacific Palisades, somewhere on the coast, and he lost
his home.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He lost his home that he had just purchased.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
On the thousands of people in southern California who have
lost homes in the wildfires.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Is the winner of that two billion dollar powerballt jackpot
from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
The La Times is reporting that Edwin Castro, the man
from Altadena who bought the winning ticket at a gas
station in town, lost one of three properties he bought
with his winnings. The home he lost was a three
point eight five million dollar property in Malibu. It was
burned to the ground by the Palisades fire. His other
two homes and nearly four million dollar home in Altadena
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and a twenty five million dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
We're in evacuation zones for the Eton and Sunset fires, respectively.
Both of those properties, though, were spared.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Hironic that he bought that ticket, that winning ticket right
there in Altadena at that gas station.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I think it's a mobile gas station there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
We have a partner in our charity and trying to
raise awareness, food, money, clothing for fire victims. And it's
the Dream Center. And Dave Weese has done an unbelievable
job that people here who've been working closely Booker and
striker with ALT ninety eight point seven, they were out
(27:41):
and they did a live remote stephus. I know you're
a big fan of the Woody Show, And did you
know the Woody when I was on overnights?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He came on both nights. Did he really?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, that's awesome. Well, I'll tell you a story. I
don't know how funny it is, but it was interesting
to me. Yea, because this shif starts when you were there,
when you were on.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Right, So Woody hosts a Woody Show on ALT ninety
eight point seven every morning, very popular show. And he
fell asleep. He goes to bed early because he wakes
up so early, so he fell asleep listening to KFI,
you know, between four and seven. He probably fell asleep
around six o'clock and he woke up at one point
thirty or one o'clock in the morning, the radio goes
(28:23):
on and I'm still on and he comes in. He goes, got, almighty,
you've been on for thirteen hours. He didn't know that
I that I took for you know, seven o'clock when
Moe was on seven to midnight.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I was home. And that's pretty funny. That's good because
I was did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, right, still like one thing. Hell, how much do
you have to say about this fire? What's going on
with you? The latest on the fire? I know the
we're all still very interested in the details of it
as well. Let's start with the Altadena fire in Pasadena area,
approximately fourteen and seventeen acres burned, forty five percent contained.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
That's a great number.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Seven thousand structures destroyed, seventeen fatalities, and it is been
a just a complete nightmare for everybody that lives out
in that area. Even if you weren't affected directly by
the fire, you have friends and family in that area
that have just lost everything.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's just horrible.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
The Palisades fire, it's extending all the way towards Encino.
They blocked it there at Malhall and they did an
excellent job. Thank god, the winds didn't shift and that
fire went into the valley, could have wiped out the valley.
Nineteen percent contained at least nine fatalities, five thousand, three
hundred structures destroyed, So between the two of them, a
(29:44):
little over twelve thousand homes. Now, if we're doing a
normal show where this fire didn't happen, and we and
Chris Christy for Channel seven is flying over, I don't know.
Let's say Alta Dina and there were three homes on fire,
it would be the lead story on two, four, five, seven, nine,
(30:06):
and eleven, maybe even make Fox News and CNN. That's
if two or three homes were burning at the same time.
This is twelve thousand, three hundred structures destroyed, twelve thousand,
three hundred. The Auto fire that's the Santa Clair River
(30:27):
up in Ventura, sixty one acres fifty percent contain zero structures, damage,
zero fatalities, zero injuries so far. So they made great
progress and great work of that fire up there. The
Hearst Fire North San Fernando Valley Silmar approximately seven hundred
ninety nine acres ninety seven percent contained. They've lifted the
(30:51):
evacuation orders so you can go back into that area
and try to put your life back together. Fire crews
are monitoring the hotspots to ensure that there's no further spread.
Mo Kelly will come up next and we'll hand it
over to him, and then tonight it'll be Mo Kelly
(31:11):
mark his most day until midnight, is that the call tonight.
Nobody's told me anything to okay, all right, well you're
the same with me. But and then I think at
three o'clock tonight or somewhere after midnight, Matt money Smith
is going to be hosting with Michael Monks, so that'll
be interesting to listen to. He does mostly sports over
(31:34):
at KLAC, but a very smart guy, very funny man,
and he'll be on KFI I think from three to
five am, so Central clock wake up from three to
five am and listen to Matt money Smith, Matt money
Smith and Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
We've got another distraction.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
We've got football games coming up this weekend which will
be great the NFL. And then on Monday, it's a
big day. There's Donald Trump inauguration followed by the championship
football game Men's NCAA and that will be I think
that starts at five o'clock, so that'll be something that
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everybody watches. Notre Dame hope, but Notre Dame wins. It'll
be I have a lot of friends who are big
Notre Dame fans. I don't know if any of them
are going, but it should be fun to watch anyway.
So this weekend there'll be some nice distractions. There'll be
some games to watch, and that is a nice distraction.
I was driving home from Portland to back to Burbank
(32:38):
over the weekend and I drove seven hundred and fifty
miles on Sunday and I listened to three football games
thanks to Westwood One. I was listening on their website
and it came in perfectly clear, morning game, afternoon game,
and evening game. And when you're driving seven hundred and
fifty miles in one day, man, is it great to
listen to three football games. It really makes everything fly by.
(33:00):
That it was ten hours of nothing but football games.
Actually eleven hours. Eleven hours of nothing but football games.
And that's how you do. You sit there and you
listen to a football all day long in the car.
It does make it fly by, all right. Moe Kelly
is coming up next, and then tonight Matt money Smith
at three am with Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
That'll be a cool. Set your alarm and wake up
and listen to that.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's Conway Show Live right here on KFI AM six
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you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We've talked
about the human element to this to these fires. For
last week, we've mixed in a little bit about animals, dogs, cats, birds,
I don't know what you got out there, horses, pigs, lizards.
(00:23):
And we have a guest here who's from pet Co Love.
It's a nonprofit organization. They've been around for twenty five
years and they've invested more than four hundred million dollars
in adoption and other life saving events. And Chelsea Staley
is with us. Chelsea, Welcome to CAFI.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
How are you hi?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm Will, How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm you know. We go to Petco all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We get our dog room there, We've got our we'd
love going in there with our doggie and she loves
buzz around there and sniffing everything. And I got to say,
before we get into the charity aspect of it, every
single person I've ever run into at Petco seems like
they have the job there because they love animals principally,
and then secondarily, maybe they're good at customer care or
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maybe they're good at grooming or bookkeeping, whatever, but it
seems like their principal love and interest is animals and
that's got to be not only is it great, but
I bet it's part of the application when you apply
to Petco it is.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, I'm not sure if it's part of the application,
but thank you for saying that. You know, people can
work in any retail environment, and retail is challenging, right,
but you know when somebody applies to work as somewhere
like Petco that they definitely love animals. So it's really
a neat partnership that Pechco Love has with Petco, and
we're able to really impact a lot of animals because
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of our partnership.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And so you do free vaccines. I'm sure you're overwhelmed
over the last week with people calling with desperation stories
on how to locate pets and stuff like that. It
must be very heartbreaking to see all these stories about
pets and the news.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's heartbreaking, but you know, you can you can be
heartbroken or you can let those sad stories fuel you
to do something to help your community. And that's exactly
what we're doing here in LA.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's great, all right, tell us you are you what
you are, what you are doing in La and and
how people can get involved.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Sure. So, I am actually on site at LA Animal
Services at the East Valley campus. LA Animal Services is
your city shelter. There are six campuses across the city.
We also have partners at La County which has multiple
campuses across the county as well, and we're supporting Pasavana Humane.
So what we're the number one thing we're asking people
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to do is to either foster or adopt pets that
were previously in the shelter before the fires to make
room for the pets that have been displaced for the
fires to come in and make sure not only that
we have physically room, but we have room on our
veterinarian schedule, et cetera, to meet the needs of the
pets that we know are going to be coming in.
So all adoptions at the city and county shelters are
(03:01):
fee waves that means they are free through the end
of the months to try to create enough room for
those pets that we know are victims of the fire.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And are you seeing are you seeing a lot of
new pets coming in.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That we are seeing a lot of new pets coming
in the search and rescue teams for animals are just
getting to the city this week, and so we anticipate
a large influx of fire victims in the coming days.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And I thought this was great. I thought this statistic
was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But nearly seventy five thousand pets have been reunited with
their families thanks to pet COO Love Laws, which is
terrific they have.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
We are coming up on our one hundred thousands, and
we are just so excited. Actually, you know, today there
was a cat with that sustained fire, sustained burns in
the fire, and it was reunited via pet Co Love
Loss at Pasadena Humane today. This is kind of a
first disaster of this type that we, you know, wanted
(04:01):
to see how the the machine learning and technology would
work with the image recognition, and so it was really
awesome that we were able to find a burned cat's
family today via pet C Love Lost.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's fantastic. What is the best for people who who
do have their homes? But I know the pets are
very sensitive to the smoke and they understand the panic
and in the you know, in the house. What is
a good thing to do to help, you know, calm
the pets down.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, I think what I do at my own house,
I always keep all the blinds closed and all of
the curtains closed because that can help cut down on
some of the noise. Turn the TV up, I turn
on brown noise on whatever, your you know, computer alects,
the Google whatever you want to have to try to
drown out some of that noise outside. Also, if you
you know, just feed them at whatever time or right
(04:54):
before whatever time you anticipate the noise to be that
they might have a good nap after that. Those are
some of the some of the tricks and tricks of
the trade that I use. They're also calming treats that
you can purchase. Of course, Petco sells this.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, good question. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
When I first started buying dog food, it was you know,
you know, forty years ago, it was just the parina
you know, bag dog and then a lot like maybe
my ten fifteen years ago you saw one small, tiny
refrigerator and that was filled with you know, fresher dog food.
(05:31):
Now when you go to Petco, there are nine, ten,
eleven big, huge commercial size refrigerators filled with dog food.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Absolutely, absolutely the dog food industry is evolving rapidly, and
you know, we love our pets. We want to help
our pets live as long as possible, and so feeding
them quality food, just like we would do for ourselves
is one of the ways that we are intending to
do that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You know, you're young, much younger than me, so this
will come as a shock to you. You may not
have lived through this. But when I was a kid,
and you know, we lived in the valley San Fernando Valley,
first in Tarzana, then in Sina on the in the flatlands,
everybody who we knew that had a dog. Those dogs
were always outside. They're outside of day during the day,
(06:14):
they're out at side at night. We had a doghouse
for it, and when the dog was in the house,
my mom would yell, why is the dog in the house.
And yet twenty years later, these these dogs have become
family members where they're always in the house.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
They are always in the house. They're saying and Animal
Welfare that dogs pets in general, right, dogs have gone
from the barnyard as working dogs to the backyard and
now they're in our bedrooms.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
In literally in one generation, in.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
One generation, absolutely that we have were truly regarded them
as family. And so that's why being able to reunite
lost pets with their families and situations like this is
so so critical. But because it is truly like losing
a family member, I think.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It's worse than losing a family member is sometimes because
cause you know, I never get emotional like that when
we you know, when when I have a you know,
either a relative or a you know, a friend had
passed away. But man, when I when we have a
dog that is no longer with this, I can't take that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh, I'm telling you, right, And so some people love
their pets more than they love their own family, right,
and we won't. Just as long as you're caring for
your pet and then helping the shelter pets in this area,
we're We're You're okay by us.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We had a dog that died about four months ago,
and I had to tell Sharon Belly or our producer.
I'd say, listen, our dog died. I need you to
tell everybody here at work not to ask me about
it during the day.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'll have to go home. And that's a true story.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Absolutely, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I still can't even drive by the place where we
put him down.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I drive.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I previously drive around it, like two or three miles
around it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm crazy, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, you're not crazy. You're just like every other pet
lover out there. I think that pets have a way
of touching us in a way that other humans can't.
You know, there's just there's a trust there, there's a
vulnerability there, and they just innately know how we're feeling
and what our needs are so well.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Plus, you know, if you have like your you know
your mom, you love your mom and dad, your brothers
and sisters, your uncles, your aunts, and especially your kids.
I totally understand that, but you know, when you're you know,
eventually your kids move out, your mom and dad don't
live with you. But you see that dog, you know,
eighteen hours a day, and you become very close to
that dog or that cat and it and you'll do
(08:30):
anything for them.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Absolutely. So you can you imagine how the people in
la are feeling that don't maybe know if their pet
has made it or don't know where their pet is
right now. And so in addition to doing in addition
to moving animals out of the city and county shelters
for foster care, and adoption. We are also focusing on
trying to reunite pets that were displaced in the fire
(08:54):
with their families via pet co Love Lost.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, so give me the website where people can go
and and we'll just keep hammering it.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Out for him.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, it's petcoloveloss dot org and it integrates with the
city and county shelters and also Pasadena Humane. So if
you have lost a pet or found a pet, you
can go to petcoloveloss dot org and report that pet
as either found or lost, and it will automatically search
the records within the city system, within the county system,
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within Pasadena Humane. And it also integrates with next door
and with neighbors, so it really is the one central
telephone poll.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If you will, beautiful, you are doing such beautiful work.
I'd love to have you on every day. Can you
come on tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I would love to Okay, tell me.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
In all right, Chelsea, I really appreciate it. It's been
a great call.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
We'll we'll keep giving out the website and you know,
as this disaster progresses, we'd love to have you back,
you know, if you want to pop in studio, you know,
in the future, we'd love to have you on. I
think you're doing unbelievable work with these pets, and I
think pet Co deserves a huge, huge congress thanks from
the entire you know, southern California area for what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Thank you so much, Thank you, and we will talk soon.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
All right, Chelsea Staley.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Petco Love Lost dot Org, Thank you, pet COO, Love
Lost dot Org. Register your pet if you lost them,
him or her, whatever you got cat, dog, horse, donkey, pig.
I don't know what you got going on, dragon, lizard.
I don't know what are the They're not a dragon.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What do they?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
They bearded dress? The iguanas? Yeah, yeah, you got an iguana.
You got birds? I don't know what you got going on?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Rats? May?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I may got a couple of rats. We have a
couple of rats. They're not pets, they're just you know,
eating that pets.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Petco Love Lost, dot Org, pet COO, Love Lost dot
O r G.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's a great organization. Thanks my brother Jake who put
that together.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Guid loves dogs more than anybody, beautiful man.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, my brother Jake.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We continue here in Los Angeles. We've been hit hard
and a lot of people have been tuning to KFI
for information, and we are going to continue to give
you that information as long as you need it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
We aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
There are two FEMA centers set up, one in West
hot in West La one zero eight five zero West
Pico Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
They're open from nine am to eight pm.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You get another hour and a forty minutes to get
in there, hour in, thirty eight minutes and thirty eight
minutes after down, and then you have that's eight nine
am to eight pm.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
One zero eight five zero West Pico Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
The other one, the other FEMA center is in Pasadena
three zero three five East Foothill Boulevard three zero three
five East Foothill Boulevard nine am in until eight pm.
So buzz on over there and get yourself some help
you deserve it. Don't be one of those people that's
(12:09):
too proud to get on unemployment or any kind of
you know, monetary help from the city or the state.
Get yourself some help you deserve it. Don't be too
proud here, all right. The moratorium of evictions, that's a
big story going around. You know, can they throw you
out of your place now? If you're not paying your rent?
(12:32):
You know, even if you don't and if you don't
live there, you know, if you've been kicked out your
place maybe hasn't been burned to the ground, but you
live in an apartment or a condo, you're renting a
condo and you can't live there for the next two
or three months? Are they going to charge you rent?
And if you don't pay that rent, can they kick
you out?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There's a lot of questions, a lot of questions that
come up in these natural or yeah, in this case,
a natural disaster, because we've never gone through.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
This before as a community.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So let's find out about a little more about the
moratorium on evictions.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Members have introduced a.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Motion to protect residents from the threat of eviction and
rent hikes during the wildfire emergant see. The legislation calls
for a moratorium on evictions for tenants affected by the
fires and a one year pause on rent hikes through
January twenty twenty six. The council members also cited a
twenty nineteen MIT study they found eviction rates can nearly
double after natural disasters. The emotion will be heard in
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the Housing Committee before the City Council votes in the
coming weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I think that's Glenn Walker on KTLA. He does the
one o'clock news over there, and I think he does
I don't know two or three or he's got He's
more involved than just the one o'clock program over there.
But I always remember it's the one o'clocker with Glenn Walker.
That's the only way I remember his name. Otherwise I
forget his name all the time. Sorry, Glenn, just not you.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Arsonists arrested these chaps.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
We'd like to update the all of you on two
notable arrests that were made on January fourteenth, just outside
the fire zone at approximately seventeen or five point fifteen pm,
officers responded to a radio call near the intersection of
Glen Oaks and Van Nuys Boulevard, where a citizen had
detained a possible arson suspect. Upon arrival, officers took the
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suspect in a custody, and the citizen had already extinguished
a nearby fire in a tree.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
How about this guy on glen Oaks and Ventura Deep
into this disaster lighting trees on fire, unbelievable fire.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
In a tree.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
During the investigation, the suspect admitted to starting the fire
because he liked the smell of burning leaves. Why During
the investigation, the suspect admitted to starting the fire because
he liked the smell of burning leaves.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
How about living next to that rocket scientist, I like
the smell of burn Well, look, look, I like the
smell of burning leaves. Soo, I'm not burning the city
down for it, and I'm not burning leaves in my backyard.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I just come around it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Occasionally when I'm driving way way out in the country
and a guy's got a burn pile going, I'll roll
down the window and get my taste there.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I don't have a burn pile at my house because
I'm not allowed to. And it's dangerous.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
When you went back to like Ohio, like shrland falls
and all that stuff, you did you were you ever
in areas where people just open burned, like, oh.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
One hundred percent. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Up in Oregon they still do it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I love it when I drive by. I love
the when the smoke is blowing towards the road and
I can roll my window down smell up.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Growing up in Maryland, at least southern Maryland, it was
like that. And yeah, I love that smell. But yeah,
it's under controlled circumstances. People know what they're.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Doing, right, And you know there you're a city folk.
When you see one of those and you call the
fire department, you know, hey, there's guy burning stuff up here. Yeah,
he's been doing that for forty eight years. Leave alone, please,
got a mighty well, got another crap going on.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
The suspect was subsequently booked for Arson later that evening.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know what, the crows.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You did this as a kid too, with the magnifying
glass burning leaves?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh my god. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And the smell of it, the smell of it was great,
yeah right and bugs, yes yeah. And the smell of
that of the lees burning was awesome. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Maybe I'll get back into it, but uh, you know,
in the magnifying glasses, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
The suspect was subsequently booked for arson. There you go
later that evening, at about nine point thirty in the
area of Santa Monica and Vermont.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
All right, Santa Monica and Vermont where the red line
is around there.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
In the area of Santa Monica and Vermont, Fire Department
personnel responded to reports of a suspect setting multiple piles
of rubbish and trash on fire.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What's going on with these guys? What's going on?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Fire department quickly extinguished the fires and officers took the
suspect in a custody. Suspect admitted to setting multiple fires
that day and stated that she enjoyed causing chaos and destruction.
She and stated that she enjoyed causing chaos and destruction.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Man is an outlier. This is male.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is specifically one gender who's been burning crap for
thousands of years.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Men.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I've never heard of a woman arsonist ever. In all
the TV shows, you know, all the crime shows you
watch about arsonists, I've never seen one woman.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But now we got one. Now we got one. She
was also booked for arson. Yeah, so long, babe.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
As we continue to manage this historic, catastrophic event, we
want to express our gratitude to everyone who has provided
tips and remained vigilant in keeping the city safe. Your
cooperation is crucial during this time, and you can hear
from those two examples I mentioned there are people out
there who this is what they do. If you know
of those people, please give us a call before something
(17:48):
really bad happens.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, that's Jim McDonald. He's the chief of the Los
Angeles Police.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Department who this is what they do. This is what
they do. That's that Boston accent. I love that. This
is what they do, This is what they do.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
All right, we got to take a break here. We
have a Brad Meltzer was coming on with us. He's
an author. He wrote thea JFK Conspiracy, The Secret Plot
to kill Kennedy and Why it failed. And a lot
of people are still interested in this, the JFK assassination.
But he has a different angle on here, the JFK Conspiracy,
the secret plot to kill Kennedy and why it failed.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So we'll talk to him about that.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Well, Brad Meltcher's been coming on with us for quite
some time. I think, I don't know, five or six years.
And he's got a book out, The JFK Conspiracy, The
Secret Plot to kill Kennedy and Why it failed.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Welcome back to KFI. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I'm good, my brother. How you been?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I've been good. We've been very busy. I imagine you've
heard this year. We've been in the last week or so,
we've been just demolished by these these fighters.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That's why I was asking. I mean, it's you know,
I'm someone from Flora, and hurricanes happen. You feel like
only those closest you understand what you're going through. And
now we get to be on the other side. And
I know you know, to me, I always say how
are you, because you know the pictures are leading me speechless?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We are getting by.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I love the little distraction here though, instead of you know,
one story after another after another about you know, people
losing stuff. I love that you've written this book. Tell
us a little more about it. The Secret to Kill Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
What year? When did this take place?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, this is three years before Lee Harvey Oswald. And
just to paint a picture, and this is a true story,
is that it's a Sunday morning and it's right after
Kennedy's elected in nineteen sixty and he's on his way
to church and what he doesn't know is that there's
a former postal worker named who basically Richard Pavlick, who
(19:50):
wants to kill him. And he's packed his car with
seven six of dynamite and he goes see he follows
JFK actually to Palm Beach, Florida. He thinks that Jfk'
security is weak affair, and he's right about that, And
so as JFK leaves his house, all this assassin has
to do is hit the little trigger mechanism he's built
(20:12):
and boom will go the dynamite And what saves JFK's
life that day. I don't want to ruin it. It
has to do with Jackie. But it's the craziest JFK
story you've never heard of your life. Although I think
I just ruined chapter one of the JFA co curracy
for you.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, that's good, we can start a chapter two.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I mean, but the question is, right, is like, why
do we not know this story?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
And the reason you don't know it is because when
it happened, it was gonna be on the front page
of every paper the day after it happened. And then
here's what also happened. Two airplanes in New York City
crashed into each other. Everyone dies on Everyone dies on
board except for one kid. This one little boy is
the sole survivor, and America becomes obsessed with this kid,
(20:57):
and that takes over the front pages of newspaper, and
the JFK story, instead of being on the front page,
gets buried and becomes a footnote to history until Josh
mentioned on my co writer are like, we should probably
tell the story. It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Again, Brad Meltzer's with us the jf conra JFK conspiracy.
What do you think is holding back all the information?
And why haven't we seen the reports from the CIA
and the FBI on the actual assassination.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, you know, we obviously also had the book with
the real assassinations, which we show you through Jackie's eyes,
and we should talk about her. She's amazing that, you know.
I'm a board member of the National Archives and everyone
keeps saying all the documents can come out. I've spoken
to the one person who has read all the release documents.
There's at least one person. I think at this point
only one. And I wish that there were some smoking
(21:47):
gun or something we're going to see. But the honest
truth is is we lost that when Jack Ruby pulled
the trigger on Lee Harvey olliswhile that took away the
one eyewitness who could answer the questions like why is
Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia during the Cold War? What
is going on there? And I trust me, I want
to read those as much as you do, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Brad, I I'll often quote Jackie O. Nassais or jack
Jackie Kennedy. She said something that has stuck with me
for my entire life, she said, and I believe she
said this at JFK's funeral. She said, at the end
of your life, it's not how many cars you own,
how many homes you own, how many apartment buildings, or
(22:30):
if you own a professional football team. The only way
people judge you at the end of your life is
how you raised your kids.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
That's a freaking great But you know it's funny, like you,
I'm upsets like Jackie just is a master to me.
She's you know, incredibly smart. We've reduced her to a caricature,
you know, we say things like she's smarter, she has grace,
or she it's like she's so much more complex than that.
In fact, when we did this book, we were like
we're not going to pull our punches. We show you
(22:59):
and document JFK's affairs that he used to have. When
when Jackie gives birth, she hemorrhages and jfkre is nowhere
to be found. He's on a plane on his way
to Florida. And you know what happened to me if
my wife was what my wife would do to me.
I was on a plane in Florida, she's given birth.
But I'll tell you that in all seriousness, I kept
(23:19):
saying to myself as we were working on the book,
why do we call it camelot?
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Like?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Where does camelot cut this place? It's a mess, This
marriage is a mess. I'm like, why do we call
it camelot? And I finally discovered this and I didn't
know this is that camelot started being first used after
JFK died. It's after the assassination. Jackie grants one interview
about the assassination to Life magazine, has the reporter come
(23:46):
to her house. He's there until after midnight, and she
tells him this exclusive story. She says to him that
when JFK was alive and his back was hurt in
the White House and he was in pain. She used
to put on a record to ease his pain and
calm him down. And his favorite song in this record
was about a place called Camelot.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
And we forget that Jackie was a reporter, right, so
she was a member of the press. She was hounded
by the press, but brother, make no mistake, she was
a master of the press. She's the one who inserted
that word Camelot into the lexicon. She wanted to make
sure she was writing JFK's legacy before anyone else. And Jackie,
to me, is amazing for putting it there on what
(24:27):
she was trying to hold together in the midst of
all that.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
That is great. I hope everyone goes out and buys it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The JFK conspiracy, the secret plot to kill Kennedy and
why it failed. We really appreciate coming on.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Brad.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You're always welcome here. Next time you're in LA we'd
love to have you stop by the studio.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Thank you, and then stay safe there thinking of y'all.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
All right, Dive Brad Meltzer, great author, he's on with
us all the time. Great family guide too, just a
really down to earth guy. The JFK conspiracy, the secret
plot to kill Kennedy and why it failed at your
favorite bookstore or Amazon. Right now, I think people still,
you know, buy books at bookstores. I think I don't know.
But if you don't go to Amazon and purchase it there.
(25:10):
All right, welcome back with some we'll wrap up here.
We got a little more information for you. We are
live here. As a matter of fact, we're going to
talk about the Dream Center.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
We come back.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
We've been involved with this charity for quite some time
during these fires, and the people who work here at
iHeart have done an unbelievable job the Dream Center.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
There's been a there's a lot of great podcasts out
there when it comes to this fire. And the one
that I've been listening to and I just wish you
had more episodes is the Adam Carolla Podcast. Got to
listen to that, Guys on fire, Guys going crazy and
spot on about a lot of things going on in
Los Angeles. It is the Adam Carolla Podcast. Here you go,
(26:00):
all right, we another sort of crazy story. Remember the
guy Edwin, remember his last name? He won the powerball.
He won two point or two billion, four hundred million
or two billion, four hundred thousand, two billion, a little
over two billion after a tax. As he made off
of a billion dollars, he bought a house in Malibu
(26:22):
or Pacific Palisades, somewhere on the coast, and he lost
his home.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He lost his home that he had just purchased.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
On the thousands of people in southern California who have
lost homes in the wildfires.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Is the winner of that two billion dollar powerballt jackpot
from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
The La Times is reporting that Edwin Castro, the man
from Altadena who bought the winning ticket at a gas
station in town, lost one of three properties he bought
with his winnings. The home he lost was a three
point eight five million dollar property in Malibu. It was
burned to the ground by the Palisades fire. His other
two homes and nearly four million dollar home in Altadena
(26:58):
and a twenty five million dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
We're in evacuation zones for the Eton and Sunset fires, respectively.
Both of those properties, though, were spared.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Hironic that he bought that ticket, that winning ticket right
there in Altadena at that gas station.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I think it's a mobile gas station there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
We have a partner in our charity and trying to
raise awareness, food, money, clothing for fire victims. And it's
the Dream Center. And Dave Weese has done an unbelievable
job that people here who've been working closely Booker and
striker with ALT ninety eight point seven, they were out
(27:41):
and they did a live remote stephus. I know you're
a big fan of the Woody Show, And did you
know the Woody when I was on overnights?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He came on both nights. Did he really?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, that's awesome. Well, I'll tell you a story. I
don't know how funny it is, but it was interesting
to me. Yea, because this shif starts when you were there,
when you were on.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Right, So Woody hosts a Woody Show on ALT ninety
eight point seven every morning, very popular show. And he
fell asleep. He goes to bed early because he wakes
up so early, so he fell asleep listening to KFI,
you know, between four and seven. He probably fell asleep
around six o'clock and he woke up at one point
thirty or one o'clock in the morning, the radio goes
(28:23):
on and I'm still on and he comes in. He goes, got, almighty,
you've been on for thirteen hours. He didn't know that
I that I took for you know, seven o'clock when
Moe was on seven to midnight.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I was home. And that's pretty funny. That's good because
I was did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, right, still like one thing. Hell, how much do
you have to say about this fire? What's going on
with you? The latest on the fire? I know the
we're all still very interested in the details of it
as well. Let's start with the Altadena fire in Pasadena area,
approximately fourteen and seventeen acres burned, forty five percent contained.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
That's a great number.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Seven thousand structures destroyed, seventeen fatalities, and it is been
a just a complete nightmare for everybody that lives out
in that area. Even if you weren't affected directly by
the fire, you have friends and family in that area
that have just lost everything.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It's just horrible.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
The Palisades fire, it's extending all the way towards Encino.
They blocked it there at Malhall and they did an
excellent job. Thank god, the winds didn't shift and that
fire went into the valley, could have wiped out the valley.
Nineteen percent contained at least nine fatalities, five thousand, three
hundred structures destroyed, So between the two of them, a
(29:44):
little over twelve thousand homes. Now, if we're doing a
normal show where this fire didn't happen, and we and
Chris Christy for Channel seven is flying over, I don't know.
Let's say Alta Dina and there were three homes on fire,
it would be the lead story on two, four, five, seven, nine,
(30:06):
and eleven, maybe even make Fox News and CNN. That's
if two or three homes were burning at the same time.
This is twelve thousand, three hundred structures destroyed, twelve thousand,
three hundred. The Auto fire that's the Santa Clair River
(30:27):
up in Ventura, sixty one acres fifty percent contain zero structures, damage,
zero fatalities, zero injuries so far. So they made great
progress and great work of that fire up there. The
Hearst Fire North San Fernando Valley Silmar approximately seven hundred
ninety nine acres ninety seven percent contained. They've lifted the
(30:51):
evacuation orders so you can go back into that area
and try to put your life back together. Fire crews
are monitoring the hotspots to ensure that there's no further spread.
Mo Kelly will come up next and we'll hand it
over to him, and then tonight it'll be Mo Kelly
(31:11):
mark his most day until midnight, is that the call tonight.
Nobody's told me anything to okay, all right, well you're
the same with me. But and then I think at
three o'clock tonight or somewhere after midnight, Matt money Smith
is going to be hosting with Michael Monks, so that'll
be interesting to listen to. He does mostly sports over
(31:34):
at KLAC, but a very smart guy, very funny man,
and he'll be on KFI I think from three to
five am, so Central clock wake up from three to
five am and listen to Matt money Smith, Matt money
Smith and Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
We've got another distraction.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
We've got football games coming up this weekend which will
be great the NFL. And then on Monday, it's a
big day. There's Donald Trump inauguration followed by the championship
football game Men's NCAA and that will be I think
that starts at five o'clock, so that'll be something that
(32:16):
everybody watches. Notre Dame hope, but Notre Dame wins. It'll
be I have a lot of friends who are big
Notre Dame fans. I don't know if any of them
are going, but it should be fun to watch anyway.
So this weekend there'll be some nice distractions. There'll be
some games to watch, and that is a nice distraction.
I was driving home from Portland to back to Burbank
(32:38):
over the weekend and I drove seven hundred and fifty
miles on Sunday and I listened to three football games
thanks to Westwood One. I was listening on their website
and it came in perfectly clear, morning game, afternoon game,
and evening game. And when you're driving seven hundred and
fifty miles in one day, man, is it great to
listen to three football games. It really makes everything fly by.
(33:00):
That it was ten hours of nothing but football games.
Actually eleven hours. Eleven hours of nothing but football games.
And that's how you do. You sit there and you
listen to a football all day long in the car.
It does make it fly by, all right. Moe Kelly
is coming up next, and then tonight Matt money Smith
at three am with Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
That'll be a cool. Set your alarm and wake up
and listen to that.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
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