January 28, 2025 • 31 mins
Jillian Escoto – Host 104.3 MyFM FireAid Benefit Concert is a momentous event dedicated to rebuilding lives and communities ravaged by wildfires and will broadcast on ALL 5 of our FM music stations this Thursday, January 30th, beginning at 7pm. // Locals oppose use of San Gabriel Valley Park as dumping ground for debris from Eaton Fire // Chris Berry gives Tim a fir coverage award and announces Barrett Media # 1 Afternoon drive award // Whole Foods unionizing / Look for the Union Label Song- remember?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeart Radio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show. Mark Thompson's here.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Come on, everybody, please, I'm humbled and overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We have a huge concert going on Thursday to try
to raise money for all the victims of these horrible
fires over the last three weeks. And there's gonna be
a concert called Fire Aid. It's gonna benefit people who
have been I've either burned out of their home or relocated,
or injured in some way, perhaps killed. It's a horrible,
horrible thing, but iHeart always comes together and raises mind.
(00:40):
It's gonna be Thursday, day after tomorrow, beginning at six pm,
I believe, will be the pregame show and then live
at seven pm on all the stations, all the music
stations on the fifth floor, Kiss Coast, MYFM, ALT ninety
eight point seven and all of them. They're all going
to carry it. The beat, Yeah, yeah, the Beat. And
(01:05):
Julian Ascato's with us from one of four point three,
my FM's with Valentine.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
She was going to be here is Jillian how you I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Good If you're going to choose a radio station to
listen to for this, might I suggest my FM?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Okay, my favorite? All right, that comes in better than
all the other ones?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Right, yeah, nice Crystal Clear.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I also like every November when you guys flip to
Christmas music, that's always great.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's not domb To.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Oh that's not us.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, well that's the Coast.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh it's not with Ryan Seacrest. So how's I'm working
with big Boy? Big Boy said, that's not do whatever whatever.
All right, Jillian, this is a huge concert. Are you
going to it?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I'm not going good, but I'm going to be going
to be listening and also going to be watching because
there's so many people are going to be a part
of this. All of my favorite artists stepping up, coming together.
Billie Eilish, she's going to be performing, She's over at
the ind to It Dome, Cracy Abrams, Olivia Rodrigo. It's
so wonderful that these artists who maybe were born and
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raised here in southern California or you know, La means
so much to them, they were stepping up and saying
we want to be a part of this. So it's
going to be a really, really good show. The lineup
is incredible over at Kim Got Atlantis, Morissette, John Mayer,
Pink and Originally Gwen Stefani was a part of the lineup,
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but then the rest of the guys from No Doubt
want to be a part of it. Just never going
to have another No Doubt reunion, So she's going to
be with them.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, The lineups just incredible and it's all for such
a good cause.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I also heard Stevie Wonder is going to be there.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yes, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Jelly Roll as well the
Red Hot Chili Peppers, who when you think of them,
you think la I know that they formed here in
Los Angeles. So it's just name after name after name
of these huge, huge artists coming together.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The Crows are going to be there as well.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yes, a green Day and Anderson Pack. It's just you
think of it, you think of a name. They're going
to be there.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Now. I'm looking forward to John Fogerty. I love that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, he's there.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
He's right after he's listed under A Green Day, John Fogerty,
Joni Mitchell.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
He's there, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I love Jillian who's kind of hipped to you like,
I got to make sure that everything he says it
is accurate.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Didn' John Fogerty do run for the roses. It's run
for the roses as fast.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
As you can.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think I was John Folk who did that. Pogel
Berg fogel Burg.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh well, then I don't know anybody, all right, So
let me ask you a question, Jillian. You know more
about this than than I do. This is going to
be on radio. Which one of the two venues are
they going to choose? Are they to go back and forth?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I believe they're going to be going back and forth,
and that's going to be starting at seven pm, just
kind of going back and forth between the two venues.
You're going to hear so many different performances, so many
different songs. I'm kind of hoping for maybe some of
the artists coming together for some duets as well. I'm
sure there's going to be some surprises. But you can
get all of the information for tickets and how to
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donate at fireaidla dot org. But it's just going to
be a huge night for music and then also raising
a lot of money. And Connie and Steve Baumer are
going to match all donations made during the live broadcast,
so hopefully we can raise a ton of money and
help the communities recover from the devastation of these horrible,
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horrible fires.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
This is going to be great, and logistically, I don't
know how they put it together so quickly. I mean,
that is a logistical nightmare to be able to put
two arenas together. All those artists broadcasted into theaters around
the country and also broadcasted on all these radio stations.
I don't know how they did it.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I don't know how they did it either, but I
know Siciny from on Are with Ryan Seacrest and then
Valentine from our show. They're going to be kind of
doing the play by play during the broadcast. So there's
all kinds of jobs for everybody to be all hands
on deck to make sure this is an amazing broadcast.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
All right, let me ask you your preference at the
end to it Dome, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Rod Stewart
at Kia Form, Alanis Morrison, Green Day, Stevie Nicks.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I'm picking my favorites here, yep, okay, Lady Gaga for
sure into it Dome, right, I love her I've never
seen Stevie Nicks. I'm a huge fleet with Max fan.
I would love to see Stevie Nicks. Those would be
my two top picks.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Are there gonna? Can you get a venue hopper and
go back and forth.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Like at Disneyland Park copper, just go back and forth,
just run. I can see everybody. But that's the great
thing about being able to listen or being able to watch.
You're gonna be able to see all these big performances
and save your feet from the running.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It really is cool. Well, you appreciate you coming.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I know you've got to get to bed early and
deal with Valentine, who is very nice to come on
our station and do fire broadcast or fire news for
a while.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That was cool for him to do that.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
He has not stopped talking about it. He is bragging
to anybody who will listen. And so I'm happy that
I could be an today. I've never been on KFI.
This is an honor, is that right?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, you did a great job. I give you an
a plus four stops.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And when I started dating my current like de facto wife,
this is.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Like ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Hey, you know your mic'sn I.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Go to Universal studio when we got that thing that
iHeartMedia thing at Universal where you can go any on anything.
It's a really fun night, and she was happy to
be there. And when Valentine comes up the escalator, she
just melts down for Valentine. She used to work with Valentine,
you know, the at iHeart but then she I mean,
it was crazy. I never and to this day, I
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have never seen her or heard her as enthusiastic about
anything or anyone that tell Valentine that Courtney still loves him.
I think she's number He's number one in her heart.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Oh, I'll tell you's such a great guy. So she was.
She was right to have that reaction.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm a bit jealous, but yes, Jillian, I appreciate coming
on and.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Go uh my FM.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Figure and John will be there.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, she's been checking it this whole time. By the way,
is that your slogan? Is that your slogan? Over there?
Go my FM.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I'm probably not, so we'll start that tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Thank you for coming on. Appreciates all right, take care,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Jillian Ascatto over there with Valentine in the morning. Quite
the morning show that've got going five to ten am.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Man that seems early.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Doesn't that really get They've got great energy thoughday morning radio.
For a short time I filled in a lot morning
radio Washington, DC.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
And then Yeah, Crozi, did you do morning radio at
all anywhere? Well, not like on the air per se,
but I've definitely worked on morning morning radio.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I have a friend of mine, guy named Jack Silver.
He was the program director over at KXLS, and he
said he worked for Rick Dy's for seven years in
the morning. And he said he was tired twenty four
hours a day for seven years early in the.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Morning, isn't it. I don't know how people do it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And she really tested the body in ways it shouldn't
be testing.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Michellekee talks about it all the time about how she
produced handle for going on thirty years and she never
ever got used to getting up early.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, we had Woody on wood He came on with
us while during the fire coverage and he came in.
He came in at like one thirty and he goes
on at three for the East Coast or two something unbelievable.
And I don't know how they do it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I really don't.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I mean, track is great, you know, one one thirty
there's no traffic. Yeah, but I don't know how they
do it. I guess the money makes up first.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I think that takes the sting out of That's right,
all right, ding dong with you?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All right, So listen to the concert on Thursday. Go
to the website fireaid la dot org, fireaid dot l
A or no fireadla dot org. And maybe you can
get tickets, or maybe you can listen online. Maybe you
can listen on the stations. Maybe go to a theater.
I don't know a lot of ways do I listen
to this.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Mark Thompson is sitting here. That's a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And we have some a problem going on in a ZUSA.
In a ZUSA, they want to take all the waste
from I guess the eaton fire, you know, from Pasadena, Altadena,
parts of Arcadia, and they want to take it all
to AZUSA to wrap it up and then take move
it out to a landfill. And the people are in
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the zoos are like, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.
All that toxin, all those toxins are coming into our neighborhood.
What's going on. What's going on? So there's a big
controversy going on.
Speaker 10 (10:10):
But were the mayors of Dward and as you said tonight,
and both of them wanted to make it very clear
that their hearts go out to everyone who lost a
home and they eaten fire, and they do want to
help those communities, but they say they have residents in
their own communities to be concerned about, and they do
not want to create a toxic dumping ground here.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Now.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
One of the main concerns also is how are they
going to transport these materials. The mayors are hearing that
the EPA doesn't want to do that on the two
ten freeway, which would be the most direct route.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Why don't they want to do it on the two ten?
They could do it at night.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Shut the freeway down, you know, one am to five am, sure,
every night, and just move that crap on the freeway.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
That's safe.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It'st way to do it. Sure, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Run it through you know, side streets, get caught up
in cul de sacs.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's not the way to go. Got to do the
two ten that they have the rose Bull floats with the.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Floats, yeah right, yeah, that's the way to go. You know,
the people that do the float should show them how
to do that.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
The mirrors are hearing that the EPA doesn't want to
do that on the two ten freeway, which would be
the most direct.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Route and the safest route as well, the most.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
Direct route to get here. So they're thinking they might
take them right down Huntington Drive here, which would pass
through several different residential communities. You can see town homes
right across the street from us here. This is the
Lorio Staging area just north of the two ten. And
as you said, we're now learning the County Park, which
is on federally owned land, will be used to temporarily
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store hazardous household materials from the Eton fire burn scar
in Alta Dina.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You know, look, everybody wants to do their part, but
I do understand them, you know, not wanting to complicate
it by bringing all this material into areas where.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
There are schools.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I get that, So you can understand both sides of it.
But something has to be done with this stuff has
to be moved. It's got to be moved. You know,
maybe at the bay they can helicopter through it out
of there or something I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I don't know. We weren't a part of the discussion.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
Azusa Mayor Robert Gonzalez says the EPA never notified surrounding
cities about this plant, even though the EPA admits they
signed the contract to use this site last Tuesday. It
runs alongside the San Gabriel River watershed and it's popular
bike trail.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It's extremely concerning to know their neighbors, you know, to
the south of us, and you know what is going
to happen in this area.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, what's going to happen to the bikers. The biker
is going to be inconvenienced over this, the bikers that
we're worried about with contaminants.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
We're taking a crisis and we're compounding or making a
new crisis.
Speaker 10 (12:39):
Now. The cities of a Zusa, Baldwin Park, Irwin Dale,
and Dwerty are banding together to try to shut it
down and propose prices.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's hard to do.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's hard to shut it down because these poor people,
they who have been burned out of their houses, they
need people to help them right now, not fight them,
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And all we kept hearing about was, Hey, everything's going
to get we're gonna build this back, and we're going
to do it quickly, and we're going to wave a
lot of the normal restrictions. And now you even have
trouble clearing the area and moving a lot of this
stuff out to even begin the rebuild.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Have you been to any of these burn sites or
any of these towns.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I haven't. I haven't, have you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, I went on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I was at Santa Nita and I got blown out
of there and I said, okay, I'm not going to
take the two ten back. I'm going to go up
in the hills and zigzag my way back to the
to the San Fernando Valley and see some of this,
because they say once you see it, you'll never look
at life again up there or speak of it in
the same way. So I'm driving up there and I
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couldn't find anything. I couldn't find any of the burned
out places. I saw, you know, some of the guys
from National Guard. I saw cops up there, I saw
firefighters up there, saw fire trucks, and I couldn't find anything.
And then I make this turn and there it is,
and man, it hits you like a ton of bricks.
When you see that for the first time, it just
takes your breath away. How many people have their lives
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completely destroyed? Sure you know, and these are this is
happening in our backyard.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Sure you know.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
This isn't overseas or another planet. This is right here,
and it is devastating. I encourage everyone to try to
get out there. Not getting the way, but try to
see it firsthand. I think you'll have a lot more
sympathy and sympathy for the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I mean, that's so very well said.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's interesting because I must say, you know, our neighborhood
burned in the Getty fire in twenty nineteen, many many
homes completely devastated, my next door neighbors all the way
down to the foundation. And what happened in the following
weeks was that there were tons of people who were
just touring the hills you were. I mean, it was
kind of obnoxious, you know what I mean. And I
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think that now, to be fair, it was, you know,
one way in, one way out, so you kind of
get all the traffic up there, and nobody's a resident.
They're all just kind of on a ashes tour, you know,
And so I think I kind of carried that with me,
and I was because I was going to go to
Malibu and the Palisades and see that as well as
the eat and fire, which I think I should do,
you know, just to kind of as a responsible person
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talking about it, you know, But I didn't want to
be a Luki Lou.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I guess is the point I mean?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But I think your point is an important one in
what we do, which is talk about this stuff and
talk about different rescuers and different rebuild efforts, et cetera.
I think I kind of have a responsibility maybe to
go see it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
One thing that really caught my eye is I was
driving around. I finally found the burned out area and
I'm driving. I'm driving there's chimney after chimney, those the
only things standing. And then in the front yard of
one of those homes was a burned down swing set.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh that's just brutal.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So those kids the day before had it made beautiful
two story home. It looks like very well kept, a
lot of shrubs, gated driveway, and then the swing set,
which was made out of metal, and it was sort
of standing still, but it was really completely you know, damaged.
And then but to believe that to understand that the
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day before those fires, those kids were just out there
having the time of their life.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Sure. Sure, now it's over, and that image, that image
will stay with you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And I didn't want to take any photos. I didn't
want to do that. You know, were you taking pictures
and putting it up of people's homes? I think that's
that's for people own those homes, not for anybody else
to do that.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
But it was. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
If you have an opportunity and you're not in the way,
I would encourage everybody to try to sneak in there
for two three minutes, take a look at it. You'll
never ever think of it the same way. Once you
see it, it'll it'll just blow you away, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
All right, when we come back, we have more show
for you. How about that.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, Chris is with us. He is the program
director here at.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I guess what is that?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
What are you kind of into the program director? Director?
Speaker 11 (16:57):
Oh no, Tim, I wanted to I was thinking the
fact that this is awards season. The whole run Golden Globes.
You know, this is the time of year when they
give out awards, and I wanted to give you some
news this afternoon. Barrett Media, which is one of these
trade publications in broadcasting, has for the second year in
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a row, named you the number one talk show host
in America, in America, in the United States, two years
in a row. Now, And I mean, I know that
you know, you've had a lot of accolades in your career.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I know that you know have you had a lot.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
Of he has He won an Emmy for Carobernet and
actually I think Harvey won that one. Michael's Navy. I
think you may have picked up something for that. But
I actually want to give you this, and this is
one that's really special to me because it's it's an
award that I'm giving you not only the Barrett Media
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Best America, but an olden Microphone Award for your work
on the fires, which we've had over the past several weeks.
I appreciate that night, day or night you've been there,
and we really appreciate the work that you've done. And
from now on you can talk right into that golden
mic Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I'm going to be listening.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I love Barrett Media.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
They do a terrific job and there's a lot of competition.
There's only two awards that I ever won that I
think I really actually three. I'll give you three, three
awards I've ever won in my life that I thought
were special. One of them I was in second grade
and I was going to Burmar Elementary School and it
was in Tarzana and there was a big, huge convention
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or a big party at the end, and it was
kindergarten through high school. There was a private school before
my dad realized he had six kids and he can't
send all them to private school.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Then we all went to public school the.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Year later, year later, so out of all the kids
in the school, there's probably about three hundred kids in
the school. I won the Sportsmanship of the Year award
in second grade and and I thought that was unbelievable.
And then I realized why I won Because I was
playing t.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Ball for Burmar.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We'd play at Balboa Park, and I knew that once
the game was over, my dad always took us to
Loves to get ribs, and so I couldn't wait for
the game to be over to go get love's ribs,
and so I was celebrating high five and all the
other kids.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Hey, great game, great game. I'm going to get ribs.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I could care less about the score or you know,
best sportsmanship. That was the first one. The second one
I got from Greg Ashlock here at K five and
it was the employee of the Year, the person that
you'd like to you know, that you would recognize as
your your favorite employee of the year. And here's the
downside of this, and the horrible thing. I didn't know
that award was being given out, and I blew off
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that party to win.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yes, they gave me to a second guy. And then
this one.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I love Barrett Media, I really I read them all
the time. I think they're they're doing better stuff than
anybody else nationally.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And to get it two years in a row, I
think it's.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Two years in a row.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Make it a three peat next year.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
Yes, And if anybody wants to, uh take a look
at Tim and how he stacked up against the competition
number one in America.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
For a Barrett Media dot Com I would I actually
would like to read about that. I would like to
read about I didn't get a chance to vote. Eric
who votes for that, by the way, peers, your peers.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So Eric Hastler from half of the regular guys, he
got second for the second year in a row.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And he's he's really picked.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
He's very good.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He's angry as hell, but that that really is cool.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm I'm a big fan and big reader of Barrett
and to get the number one on a on a
local show that's not syndicated, I think it is a
big deal.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
And congratulations to our friend Jason Barrett who's become the
voice of broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's great, that's great. I love those guys over there.
All right, Chris, thanks for coming by. You're not going
to be with us, bonge log.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
You'll be seeing here you were you, Bob, I'll be
listening to you on that microphone.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Okay, he just came in for the big crisis on
the Chris shows up and the whole place goes sideways.
Have one of the biggest historic crises in the history
of this region. Fort Chris is here twenty four hours
a day. I mean, really, it was baptism by fire,
my friend.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
But I was right with Tim Conway, and I got
to tell you that was a real privilege for me.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh well you, I thank you. Conway was brilliant coming
and that I don't know how if that's ever happened before.
Where you come in and you know you're immediately attacked
by the initial fires, the one you know, the Franklin fire,
which is a Malibu when you and I came in
at one point thirty trying to figure out how to
turn the station on at night, and that was two
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months ago, and then right after Christmas. For all these
fires to happen is and to and to broadcast it
and keep it consistent.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's it was a big deal, you know.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
I think it also reinforces the power of radio timaum, yes,
because you know, if you don't have cell phone service,
if you don't have Internet, chances are you've got at
the radio. I mean they're ubiquitous. Everybody knows how to
use one, right, and when you're putting together your earthquake
kit or your go kit, make sure you've got a
radio in there.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's right, that's right, extra batteries and make it a
sea crane radio. They make the best. They have an
internet radio so you don't get any interference anymore. It
all comes in on Wi Fi, so that's my go
to radio. Appreciate it. Chris Berry, thank you very much.
Nice to see you. Mark Thompson, nice.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
To see you.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Congratulations sir.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So I'll be alone here now, but yeah, well I
think you don't. You certainly don't need anybody more. But
then your trophy and your microphone that's carried you to
victory two years in a row.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
This is very nice. And and Bellioport listen.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
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would have had four of these.
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Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (23:04):
You know, out of all the all the all the
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We've got some of those references.
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Ken and Bob, you get in, Bob, beat them all?
All right, All right, let's get into Whole Foods. They
want to unionize these people over at Whole Foods. What's
going on with Whole Foods?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
It'll be the grocery chains first ever union after workers
at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia successfully voted to form
one staffers opting to join the United Food and Commercial
Workers Union, in large part because they say they want
better pay, improve schedules, and fair workloads. It's the first
successful unionizing effort at a Whole Foods since Amazon bought
it for over thirteen billion dollars back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Do you remember when Amazon bought Whole Foods?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
I do, since Amazon bought it for over thirteen billion
dollars back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Do you remember what happened that day?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So Jeff Bezos buys Whole Foods and makes it part
of Amazon. The reaction on the stock market was so
favorable that his stock went up fourteen billion dollars that day.
His personal wealth went up fourteen billion dollars that day.
So he got Whole Foods for free plus a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, that's wild. I didn't know that. That's that's incredible.
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
That's that's big business, you know, I mean, you and
I we'd have to go over and purchase a slice
of pizza over there. He buys the entire company and
they give him a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
So typically what happens is the acquiring company their stock
goes down, like because of the expended acquisition, and the
company that has purchased is the one that has the
stock go up. So in that case that you've just mentioned,
it's I think it's somewhat extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It was unbelievable. He got Whole Foods for free, plus
they gave him a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Since Amazon bought it for over thirteen billion dollars back
in twenty seventeen, and the company has faced a growing
number of unionization efforts and talks ever since. Jeff Bezos
own Giant has tried to fend off attempts at labor organizing,
but not just Whole Food stores, but by delivery drivers
and warehouse workers with.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I like Whole Foods. Are you a Whole Foods guy?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
My favorite thing about Whole Foods, and I think we've
said it before on the radio here is if you
are nostalgic for the beginning of COVID and you want
to go back and see what it's like where you're
six feet apart, masks and gloves and shields and people
yelling at you if you sneeze, people not wanting you
(25:57):
to touch their credit card contact.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
They're still rolling that at Whole Foods.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Seriously, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, I still got a they're still in the first
week of the pandemic over them.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, the one I went there that they must have
had a looser hour.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Oh maybe maybe. Which which one's your Whole Foods?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No one right across the street. Oh, I like that one. Yeah,
you know, I know the lady runs that joint. Oh
is that right? Oh that's a good connect. I'll tell
you what I like. And I was just there two
days ago. I like Ralph's. Ralphs has got a whole
organic Soraus is great. They've got a whole.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Vegan sectionist like they've they've caught.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Up, you know, Ralph's Fresh Fair. Yes, I like all
these supermarkets. I like Pavilions, I like Ralphs, I like Gelson's.
I like the like going out side, seeing how many
products they get.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I agree. I enjoyed the shopping experience. The food I like.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I like those prices. You know, it's really good at Gelson's.
The Thaie noodle salad is unbelievable. I'll drive to the
one on Laurel and Riverside just to get a small
cup of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Wow, yeah, small container.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
It is good to go to a store that has
I'm talking about a supermarket that has a little something
for you to chew on while you're riding up and
down the aisles.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I was at that crazing.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I was at Dak Gelson's during the pandemic and a
guy came in and loaded up his cart with probably
six or seven hundred dollars worth of food and booze
and everything, and then he just strolled right out in
the parking lot. And the manager followed him out and
grabbed the cart and said, that's not how we operate here,
and he says, Oh, I'm just going to my car
to get my wallet. I'm going to come back and
pay for everything, because that's not how we operate here.
(27:36):
And the guy did get his wallet, and he came
back and he paid for everything, and.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
That that is not how I thought that story would end.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, but he would have gotten away with seven
hundred dollars worth of groceries.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
It wasn't for that sharp eyed you know, I see
you have to manage to road test to caper.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, but you know that guy would have stolen all
that stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Sure, sure, that's not cool.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's not cool.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
We end up paying more because those guys walk with stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
That's right, That's right, some employees even going on strike.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Last year, Amazon workers at a warehouse in Canada did
successfully unionize, only to learn their facility, along with all
Amazon warehouses in Quebec, would be shut down permanently. And
after a year's long battle, workers at an Amazon fulfillment
center in North Carolina are finally set for a union
vote next month. Similar union progress was made by workers
in New York'sistaaten Island location, but they say Amazon has
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since refused to come to the bargaining table.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, Amazon is not going to let that Whole Foods
unionize without a fight.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's not what they're going to do. They're going to
fight them tooth and nail on this. And you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I think you got a feel for Look, if everybody
in the company wants to unionize, I think you gotta
let them unionize.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Sure, well, I mean the thing that you can look
toward with Amazon anyway, is what they're doing at their
centers of fulfillment centers, at their fact you know what
I mean. You can look to see what they do
with unions there, and they're discouraging it to be polite.
So it's not a surprise them that they would discourage
it to be polite at Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Also, it wasn't there a song remember that look for
the union label?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, remember that song?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, And I've never you know, when I was growing up,
I never really knew what that meant, you know, because
that was nine. But that was a pro union song
that you know that people that wanted to unionize would
would sing this song. Let's see if I got it here,
Let's see, this is no.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Import we made this blast.
Speaker 10 (29:26):
We belonged to the international Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
And we have so on our union label right in
here label think of us.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Here we go somewhere, the big union song.
Speaker 11 (29:39):
Here in America.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Union label.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
You are.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
There, you go.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
What's ironic about that is the is after didn't pay
those people union.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Scale for re is ironic.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That's horrible. All right, We got to take a break.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Don't forget the big concert coming up Thursday, the day
after tomorrow. It's gonna be huge. It's to raise money
for all the fire victims. It's called fire Aid. You
go to Fireaid La dot org. It's gonna be on
Kiss FM Alt ninety eight point seven, my FM Real
ninety three coast.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Is it gonna be on on KFI? Are we running that?
We're not running it right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It's just gonna be you man, all right, Well that's
cool because all the concerts will be on the music
stations and we'll have free rein here with the other folks.
But Billy Elish will be there, Atlantis, Morris, sent Hie
Green Day, Joni Mitchell, No Doubt, Pink, Stevie, Nick Stevie,
(31:09):
Wonder Rod Stewart, Sting, Lady Gaga, Wow, that's unbelievable. Olivia
Rodrigo pretty hot with the kids. And earth Wind and Fire.
Remember that pizza place called earth Wind and Flower in
West Ellen.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
I do.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Kind of a cool deal, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
They're not going to be there though, they're not going
to be there there now, they're not going to.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Be there at all.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
They're going to be at the pizza place.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We're live on caf I am six forty Conway Show
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show. Mark Thompson's here.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Come on, everybody, please, I'm humbled and overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We have a huge concert going on Thursday to try
to raise money for all the victims of these horrible
fires over the last three weeks. And there's gonna be
a concert called Fire Aid. It's gonna benefit people who
have been I've either burned out of their home or relocated,
or injured in some way, perhaps killed. It's a horrible,
horrible thing, but iHeart always comes together and raises mind.
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It's gonna be Thursday, day after tomorrow, beginning at six pm,
I believe, will be the pregame show and then live
at seven pm on all the stations, all the music
stations on the fifth floor, Kiss Coast, MYFM, ALT ninety
eight point seven and all of them. They're all going
to carry it. The beat, Yeah, yeah, the Beat. And
(01:05):
Julian Ascato's with us from one of four point three,
my FM's with Valentine.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
She was going to be here is Jillian how you I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Good If you're going to choose a radio station to
listen to for this, might I suggest my FM?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Okay, my favorite? All right, that comes in better than
all the other ones?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Right, yeah, nice Crystal Clear.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I also like every November when you guys flip to
Christmas music, that's always great.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's not domb To.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Oh that's not us.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, well that's the Coast.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh it's not with Ryan Seacrest. So how's I'm working
with big Boy? Big Boy said, that's not do whatever whatever.
All right, Jillian, this is a huge concert. Are you
going to it?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
I'm not going good, but I'm going to be going
to be listening and also going to be watching because
there's so many people are going to be a part
of this. All of my favorite artists stepping up, coming together.
Billie Eilish, she's going to be performing, She's over at
the ind to It Dome, Cracy Abrams, Olivia Rodrigo. It's
so wonderful that these artists who maybe were born and
(02:16):
raised here in southern California or you know, La means
so much to them, they were stepping up and saying
we want to be a part of this. So it's
going to be a really, really good show. The lineup
is incredible over at Kim Got Atlantis, Morissette, John Mayer,
Pink and Originally Gwen Stefani was a part of the lineup,
(02:37):
but then the rest of the guys from No Doubt
want to be a part of it. Just never going
to have another No Doubt reunion, So she's going to
be with them.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, The lineups just incredible and it's all for such
a good cause.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I also heard Stevie Wonder is going to be there.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yes, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Jelly Roll as well the
Red Hot Chili Peppers, who when you think of them,
you think la I know that they formed here in
Los Angeles. So it's just name after name after name
of these huge, huge artists coming together.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The Crows are going to be there as well.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yes, a green Day and Anderson Pack. It's just you
think of it, you think of a name. They're going
to be there.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Now. I'm looking forward to John Fogerty. I love that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, he's there.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
He's right after he's listed under A Green Day, John Fogerty,
Joni Mitchell.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
He's there, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I love Jillian who's kind of hipped to you like,
I got to make sure that everything he says it
is accurate.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Didn' John Fogerty do run for the roses. It's run
for the roses as fast.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
As you can.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think I was John Folk who did that. Pogel
Berg fogel Burg.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh well, then I don't know anybody, all right, So
let me ask you a question, Jillian. You know more
about this than than I do. This is going to
be on radio. Which one of the two venues are
they going to choose? Are they to go back and forth?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I believe they're going to be going back and forth,
and that's going to be starting at seven pm, just
kind of going back and forth between the two venues.
You're going to hear so many different performances, so many
different songs. I'm kind of hoping for maybe some of
the artists coming together for some duets as well. I'm
sure there's going to be some surprises. But you can
get all of the information for tickets and how to
(04:24):
donate at fireaidla dot org. But it's just going to
be a huge night for music and then also raising
a lot of money. And Connie and Steve Baumer are
going to match all donations made during the live broadcast,
so hopefully we can raise a ton of money and
help the communities recover from the devastation of these horrible,
(04:45):
horrible fires.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
This is going to be great, and logistically, I don't
know how they put it together so quickly. I mean,
that is a logistical nightmare to be able to put
two arenas together. All those artists broadcasted into theaters around
the country and also broadcasted on all these radio stations.
I don't know how they did it.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I don't know how they did it either, but I
know Siciny from on Are with Ryan Seacrest and then
Valentine from our show. They're going to be kind of
doing the play by play during the broadcast. So there's
all kinds of jobs for everybody to be all hands
on deck to make sure this is an amazing broadcast.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
All right, let me ask you your preference at the
end to it Dome, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Rod Stewart
at Kia Form, Alanis Morrison, Green Day, Stevie Nicks.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I'm picking my favorites here, yep, okay, Lady Gaga for
sure into it Dome, right, I love her I've never
seen Stevie Nicks. I'm a huge fleet with Max fan.
I would love to see Stevie Nicks. Those would be
my two top picks.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Are there gonna? Can you get a venue hopper and
go back and forth.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Like at Disneyland Park copper, just go back and forth,
just run. I can see everybody. But that's the great
thing about being able to listen or being able to watch.
You're gonna be able to see all these big performances
and save your feet from the running.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It really is cool. Well, you appreciate you coming.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I know you've got to get to bed early and
deal with Valentine, who is very nice to come on
our station and do fire broadcast or fire news for
a while.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That was cool for him to do that.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
He has not stopped talking about it. He is bragging
to anybody who will listen. And so I'm happy that
I could be an today. I've never been on KFI.
This is an honor, is that right?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, you did a great job. I give you an
a plus four stops.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And when I started dating my current like de facto wife,
this is.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Like ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Hey, you know your mic'sn I.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Go to Universal studio when we got that thing that
iHeartMedia thing at Universal where you can go any on anything.
It's a really fun night, and she was happy to
be there. And when Valentine comes up the escalator, she
just melts down for Valentine. She used to work with Valentine,
you know, the at iHeart but then she I mean,
it was crazy. I never and to this day, I
(07:04):
have never seen her or heard her as enthusiastic about
anything or anyone that tell Valentine that Courtney still loves him.
I think she's number He's number one in her heart.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Oh, I'll tell you's such a great guy. So she was.
She was right to have that reaction.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I'm a bit jealous, but yes, Jillian, I appreciate coming
on and.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Go uh my FM.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Figure and John will be there.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, she's been checking it this whole time. By the way,
is that your slogan? Is that your slogan? Over there?
Go my FM.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I'm probably not, so we'll start that tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Thank you for coming on. Appreciates all right, take care,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Jillian Ascatto over there with Valentine in the morning. Quite
the morning show that've got going five to ten am.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Man that seems early.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Doesn't that really get They've got great energy thoughday morning radio.
For a short time I filled in a lot morning
radio Washington, DC.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
And then Yeah, Crozi, did you do morning radio at
all anywhere? Well, not like on the air per se,
but I've definitely worked on morning morning radio.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I have a friend of mine, guy named Jack Silver.
He was the program director over at KXLS, and he
said he worked for Rick Dy's for seven years in
the morning. And he said he was tired twenty four
hours a day for seven years early in the.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Morning, isn't it. I don't know how people do it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And she really tested the body in ways it shouldn't
be testing.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Michellekee talks about it all the time about how she
produced handle for going on thirty years and she never
ever got used to getting up early.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, we had Woody on wood He came on with
us while during the fire coverage and he came in.
He came in at like one thirty and he goes
on at three for the East Coast or two something unbelievable.
And I don't know how they do it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I really don't.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I mean, track is great, you know, one one thirty
there's no traffic. Yeah, but I don't know how they
do it. I guess the money makes up first.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I think that takes the sting out of That's right,
all right, ding dong with you?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All right, So listen to the concert on Thursday. Go
to the website fireaid la dot org, fireaid dot l
A or no fireadla dot org. And maybe you can
get tickets, or maybe you can listen online. Maybe you
can listen on the stations. Maybe go to a theater.
I don't know a lot of ways do I listen
to this.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
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Speaker 2 (09:35):
Mark Thompson is sitting here. That's a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And we have some a problem going on in a ZUSA.
In a ZUSA, they want to take all the waste
from I guess the eaton fire, you know, from Pasadena, Altadena,
parts of Arcadia, and they want to take it all
to AZUSA to wrap it up and then take move
it out to a landfill. And the people are in
(10:00):
the zoos are like, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.
All that toxin, all those toxins are coming into our neighborhood.
What's going on. What's going on? So there's a big
controversy going on.
Speaker 10 (10:10):
But were the mayors of Dward and as you said tonight,
and both of them wanted to make it very clear
that their hearts go out to everyone who lost a
home and they eaten fire, and they do want to
help those communities, but they say they have residents in
their own communities to be concerned about, and they do
not want to create a toxic dumping ground here.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Now.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
One of the main concerns also is how are they
going to transport these materials. The mayors are hearing that
the EPA doesn't want to do that on the two
ten freeway, which would be the most direct route.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Why don't they want to do it on the two ten?
They could do it at night.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Shut the freeway down, you know, one am to five am, sure,
every night, and just move that crap on the freeway.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
That's safe.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It'st way to do it. Sure, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Run it through you know, side streets, get caught up
in cul de sacs.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's not the way to go. Got to do the
two ten that they have the rose Bull floats with the.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Floats, yeah right, yeah, that's the way to go. You know,
the people that do the float should show them how
to do that.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
The mirrors are hearing that the EPA doesn't want to
do that on the two ten freeway, which would be
the most direct.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Route and the safest route as well, the most.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
Direct route to get here. So they're thinking they might
take them right down Huntington Drive here, which would pass
through several different residential communities. You can see town homes
right across the street from us here. This is the
Lorio Staging area just north of the two ten. And
as you said, we're now learning the County Park, which
is on federally owned land, will be used to temporarily
(11:35):
store hazardous household materials from the Eton fire burn scar
in Alta Dina.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You know, look, everybody wants to do their part, but
I do understand them, you know, not wanting to complicate
it by bringing all this material into areas where.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
There are schools.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I get that, So you can understand both sides of it.
But something has to be done with this stuff has
to be moved. It's got to be moved. You know,
maybe at the bay they can helicopter through it out
of there or something I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I don't know. We weren't a part of the discussion.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
Azusa Mayor Robert Gonzalez says the EPA never notified surrounding
cities about this plant, even though the EPA admits they
signed the contract to use this site last Tuesday. It
runs alongside the San Gabriel River watershed and it's popular
bike trail.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It's extremely concerning to know their neighbors, you know, to
the south of us, and you know what is going
to happen in this area.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, what's going to happen to the bikers. The biker
is going to be inconvenienced over this, the bikers that
we're worried about with contaminants.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
We're taking a crisis and we're compounding or making a
new crisis.
Speaker 10 (12:39):
Now. The cities of a Zusa, Baldwin Park, Irwin Dale,
and Dwerty are banding together to try to shut it
down and propose prices.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's hard to do.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's hard to shut it down because these poor people,
they who have been burned out of their houses, they
need people to help them right now, not fight them,
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And all we kept hearing about was, Hey, everything's going
to get we're gonna build this back, and we're going
to do it quickly, and we're going to wave a
lot of the normal restrictions. And now you even have
trouble clearing the area and moving a lot of this
stuff out to even begin the rebuild.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Have you been to any of these burn sites or
any of these towns.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I haven't. I haven't, have you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, I went on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I was at Santa Nita and I got blown out
of there and I said, okay, I'm not going to
take the two ten back. I'm going to go up
in the hills and zigzag my way back to the
to the San Fernando Valley and see some of this,
because they say once you see it, you'll never look
at life again up there or speak of it in
the same way. So I'm driving up there and I
(13:37):
couldn't find anything. I couldn't find any of the burned
out places. I saw, you know, some of the guys
from National Guard. I saw cops up there, I saw
firefighters up there, saw fire trucks, and I couldn't find anything.
And then I make this turn and there it is,
and man, it hits you like a ton of bricks.
When you see that for the first time, it just
takes your breath away. How many people have their lives
(14:01):
completely destroyed? Sure you know, and these are this is
happening in our backyard.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Sure you know.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
This isn't overseas or another planet. This is right here,
and it is devastating. I encourage everyone to try to
get out there. Not getting the way, but try to
see it firsthand. I think you'll have a lot more
sympathy and sympathy for the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I mean, that's so very well said.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's interesting because I must say, you know, our neighborhood
burned in the Getty fire in twenty nineteen, many many
homes completely devastated, my next door neighbors all the way
down to the foundation. And what happened in the following
weeks was that there were tons of people who were
just touring the hills you were. I mean, it was
kind of obnoxious, you know what I mean. And I
(14:42):
think that now, to be fair, it was, you know,
one way in, one way out, so you kind of
get all the traffic up there, and nobody's a resident.
They're all just kind of on a ashes tour, you know,
And so I think I kind of carried that with me,
and I was because I was going to go to
Malibu and the Palisades and see that as well as
the eat and fire, which I think I should do,
you know, just to kind of as a responsible person
(15:03):
talking about it, you know, But I didn't want to
be a Luki Lou.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I guess is the point I mean?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But I think your point is an important one in
what we do, which is talk about this stuff and
talk about different rescuers and different rebuild efforts, et cetera.
I think I kind of have a responsibility maybe to
go see it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
One thing that really caught my eye is I was
driving around. I finally found the burned out area and
I'm driving. I'm driving there's chimney after chimney, those the
only things standing. And then in the front yard of
one of those homes was a burned down swing set.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh that's just brutal.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So those kids the day before had it made beautiful
two story home. It looks like very well kept, a
lot of shrubs, gated driveway, and then the swing set,
which was made out of metal, and it was sort
of standing still, but it was really completely you know, damaged.
And then but to believe that to understand that the
(16:01):
day before those fires, those kids were just out there
having the time of their life.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Sure. Sure, now it's over, and that image, that image
will stay with you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And I didn't want to take any photos. I didn't
want to do that. You know, were you taking pictures
and putting it up of people's homes? I think that's
that's for people own those homes, not for anybody else
to do that.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
But it was. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
If you have an opportunity and you're not in the way,
I would encourage everybody to try to sneak in there
for two three minutes, take a look at it. You'll
never ever think of it the same way. Once you
see it, it'll it'll just blow you away, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
All right, when we come back, we have more show
for you. How about that.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, Chris is with us. He is the program
director here at.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I guess what is that?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
What are you kind of into the program director? Director?
Speaker 11 (16:57):
Oh no, Tim, I wanted to I was thinking the
fact that this is awards season. The whole run Golden Globes.
You know, this is the time of year when they
give out awards, and I wanted to give you some
news this afternoon. Barrett Media, which is one of these
trade publications in broadcasting, has for the second year in
(17:19):
a row, named you the number one talk show host
in America, in America, in the United States, two years
in a row. Now, And I mean, I know that
you know, you've had a lot of accolades in your career.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I know that you know have you had a lot.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
Of he has He won an Emmy for Carobernet and
actually I think Harvey won that one. Michael's Navy. I
think you may have picked up something for that. But
I actually want to give you this, and this is
one that's really special to me because it's it's an
award that I'm giving you not only the Barrett Media
(17:58):
Best America, but an olden Microphone Award for your work
on the fires, which we've had over the past several weeks.
I appreciate that night, day or night you've been there,
and we really appreciate the work that you've done. And
from now on you can talk right into that golden
mic Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I'm going to be listening.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I love Barrett Media.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
They do a terrific job and there's a lot of competition.
There's only two awards that I ever won that I
think I really actually three. I'll give you three, three
awards I've ever won in my life that I thought
were special. One of them I was in second grade
and I was going to Burmar Elementary School and it
was in Tarzana and there was a big, huge convention
(18:43):
or a big party at the end, and it was
kindergarten through high school. There was a private school before
my dad realized he had six kids and he can't
send all them to private school.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Then we all went to public school the.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Year later, year later, so out of all the kids
in the school, there's probably about three hundred kids in
the school. I won the Sportsmanship of the Year award
in second grade and and I thought that was unbelievable.
And then I realized why I won Because I was
playing t.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Ball for Burmar.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We'd play at Balboa Park, and I knew that once
the game was over, my dad always took us to
Loves to get ribs, and so I couldn't wait for
the game to be over to go get love's ribs,
and so I was celebrating high five and all the
other kids.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Hey, great game, great game. I'm going to get ribs.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I could care less about the score or you know,
best sportsmanship. That was the first one. The second one
I got from Greg Ashlock here at K five and
it was the employee of the Year, the person that
you'd like to you know, that you would recognize as
your your favorite employee of the year. And here's the
downside of this, and the horrible thing. I didn't know
that award was being given out, and I blew off
(19:48):
that party to win.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yes, they gave me to a second guy. And then
this one.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I love Barrett Media, I really I read them all
the time. I think they're they're doing better stuff than
anybody else nationally.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And to get it two years in a row, I
think it's.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Two years in a row.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Make it a three peat next year.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
Yes, And if anybody wants to, uh take a look
at Tim and how he stacked up against the competition
number one in America.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
For a Barrett Media dot Com I would I actually
would like to read about that. I would like to
read about I didn't get a chance to vote. Eric
who votes for that, by the way, peers, your peers.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So Eric Hastler from half of the regular guys, he
got second for the second year in a row.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And he's he's really picked.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
He's very good.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He's angry as hell, but that that really is cool.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm I'm a big fan and big reader of Barrett
and to get the number one on a on a
local show that's not syndicated, I think it is a
big deal.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
And congratulations to our friend Jason Barrett who's become the
voice of broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's great, that's great. I love those guys over there.
All right, Chris, thanks for coming by. You're not going
to be with us, bonge log.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
You'll be seeing here you were you, Bob, I'll be
listening to you on that microphone.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Okay, he just came in for the big crisis on
the Chris shows up and the whole place goes sideways.
Have one of the biggest historic crises in the history
of this region. Fort Chris is here twenty four hours
a day. I mean, really, it was baptism by fire,
my friend.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
But I was right with Tim Conway, and I got
to tell you that was a real privilege for me.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh well you, I thank you. Conway was brilliant coming
and that I don't know how if that's ever happened before.
Where you come in and you know you're immediately attacked
by the initial fires, the one you know, the Franklin fire,
which is a Malibu when you and I came in
at one point thirty trying to figure out how to
turn the station on at night, and that was two
(21:42):
months ago, and then right after Christmas. For all these
fires to happen is and to and to broadcast it
and keep it consistent.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's it was a big deal, you know.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
I think it also reinforces the power of radio timaum, yes,
because you know, if you don't have cell phone service,
if you don't have Internet, chances are you've got at
the radio. I mean they're ubiquitous. Everybody knows how to
use one, right, and when you're putting together your earthquake
kit or your go kit, make sure you've got a
radio in there.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's right, that's right, extra batteries and make it a
sea crane radio. They make the best. They have an
internet radio so you don't get any interference anymore. It
all comes in on Wi Fi, so that's my go
to radio. Appreciate it. Chris Berry, thank you very much.
Nice to see you. Mark Thompson, nice.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
To see you.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Congratulations sir.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So I'll be alone here now, but yeah, well I
think you don't. You certainly don't need anybody more. But
then your trophy and your microphone that's carried you to
victory two years in a row.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
This is very nice. And and Bellioport listen.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
If it wasn't Forbellio and Krozier, steffuj and Angel I
would have had four of these.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
You're listening to Tim Conwaytunire on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Mark Thompson is here living in your after glows. Sir,
You're in the glory that has been bestowed upon you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, Corna Barrett Media. We got lucky. We got the numero.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You know, out of all the all the all the
radio shows in America, we got number one.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
And I'm very humbled by that. That's really impressive. I
mean you beat out like Rush Limbaugh, doctor Laura. Yeah,
I mean these are these are Michael Jackson Dominant Dominant
Shields and Yarnell Doctor.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
David Viscott that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, you know, Chief DARYLD. Gates.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
There you go, really going back, you Angelina's who've been
here for a while.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
We've got some of those references.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Ken and Bob, you get in, Bob, beat them all?
All right, All right, let's get into Whole Foods. They
want to unionize these people over at Whole Foods. What's
going on with Whole Foods?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
It'll be the grocery chains first ever union after workers
at a Whole Foods in Philadelphia successfully voted to form
one staffers opting to join the United Food and Commercial
Workers Union, in large part because they say they want
better pay, improve schedules, and fair workloads. It's the first
successful unionizing effort at a Whole Foods since Amazon bought
it for over thirteen billion dollars back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Do you remember when Amazon bought Whole Foods?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
I do, since Amazon bought it for over thirteen billion
dollars back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Do you remember what happened that day?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So Jeff Bezos buys Whole Foods and makes it part
of Amazon. The reaction on the stock market was so
favorable that his stock went up fourteen billion dollars that day.
His personal wealth went up fourteen billion dollars that day.
So he got Whole Foods for free plus a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, that's wild. I didn't know that. That's that's incredible.
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
That's that's big business, you know, I mean, you and
I we'd have to go over and purchase a slice
of pizza over there. He buys the entire company and
they give him a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
So typically what happens is the acquiring company their stock
goes down, like because of the expended acquisition, and the
company that has purchased is the one that has the
stock go up. So in that case that you've just mentioned,
it's I think it's somewhat extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It was unbelievable. He got Whole Foods for free, plus
they gave him a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Since Amazon bought it for over thirteen billion dollars back
in twenty seventeen, and the company has faced a growing
number of unionization efforts and talks ever since. Jeff Bezos
own Giant has tried to fend off attempts at labor organizing,
but not just Whole Food stores, but by delivery drivers
and warehouse workers with.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I like Whole Foods. Are you a Whole Foods guy?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
My favorite thing about Whole Foods, and I think we've
said it before on the radio here is if you
are nostalgic for the beginning of COVID and you want
to go back and see what it's like where you're
six feet apart, masks and gloves and shields and people
yelling at you if you sneeze, people not wanting you
(25:57):
to touch their credit card contact.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
They're still rolling that at Whole Foods.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Seriously, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, I still got a they're still in the first
week of the pandemic over them.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, the one I went there that they must have
had a looser hour.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Oh maybe maybe. Which which one's your Whole Foods?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No one right across the street. Oh, I like that one. Yeah,
you know, I know the lady runs that joint. Oh
is that right? Oh that's a good connect. I'll tell
you what I like. And I was just there two
days ago. I like Ralph's. Ralphs has got a whole
organic Soraus is great. They've got a whole.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Vegan sectionist like they've they've caught.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Up, you know, Ralph's Fresh Fair. Yes, I like all
these supermarkets. I like Pavilions, I like Ralphs, I like Gelson's.
I like the like going out side, seeing how many
products they get.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I agree. I enjoyed the shopping experience. The food I like.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I like those prices. You know, it's really good at Gelson's.
The Thaie noodle salad is unbelievable. I'll drive to the
one on Laurel and Riverside just to get a small
cup of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Wow, yeah, small container.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
It is good to go to a store that has
I'm talking about a supermarket that has a little something
for you to chew on while you're riding up and
down the aisles.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I was at that crazing.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I was at Dak Gelson's during the pandemic and a
guy came in and loaded up his cart with probably
six or seven hundred dollars worth of food and booze
and everything, and then he just strolled right out in
the parking lot. And the manager followed him out and
grabbed the cart and said, that's not how we operate here,
and he says, Oh, I'm just going to my car
to get my wallet. I'm going to come back and
pay for everything, because that's not how we operate here.
(27:36):
And the guy did get his wallet, and he came
back and he paid for everything, and.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
That that is not how I thought that story would end.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, but he would have gotten away with seven
hundred dollars worth of groceries.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
It wasn't for that sharp eyed you know, I see
you have to manage to road test to caper.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, but you know that guy would have stolen all
that stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Sure, sure, that's not cool.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's not cool.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
We end up paying more because those guys walk with stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
That's right, That's right, some employees even going on strike.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Last year, Amazon workers at a warehouse in Canada did
successfully unionize, only to learn their facility, along with all
Amazon warehouses in Quebec, would be shut down permanently. And
after a year's long battle, workers at an Amazon fulfillment
center in North Carolina are finally set for a union
vote next month. Similar union progress was made by workers
in New York'sistaaten Island location, but they say Amazon has
(28:23):
since refused to come to the bargaining table.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, Amazon is not going to let that Whole Foods
unionize without a fight.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's not what they're going to do. They're going to
fight them tooth and nail on this. And you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I think you got a feel for Look, if everybody
in the company wants to unionize, I think you gotta
let them unionize.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Sure, well, I mean the thing that you can look
toward with Amazon anyway, is what they're doing at their
centers of fulfillment centers, at their fact you know what
I mean. You can look to see what they do
with unions there, and they're discouraging it to be polite.
So it's not a surprise them that they would discourage
it to be polite at Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Also, it wasn't there a song remember that look for
the union label?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, remember that song?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, And I've never you know, when I was growing up,
I never really knew what that meant, you know, because
that was nine. But that was a pro union song
that you know that people that wanted to unionize would
would sing this song. Let's see if I got it here,
Let's see, this is no.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Import we made this blast.
Speaker 10 (29:26):
We belonged to the international Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
And we have so on our union label right in
here label think of us.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Here we go somewhere, the big union song.
Speaker 11 (29:39):
Here in America.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Union label.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
You are.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
There, you go.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
What's ironic about that is the is after didn't pay
those people union.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Scale for re is ironic.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That's horrible. All right, We got to take a break.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Don't forget the big concert coming up Thursday, the day
after tomorrow. It's gonna be huge. It's to raise money
for all the fire victims. It's called fire Aid. You
go to Fireaid La dot org. It's gonna be on
Kiss FM Alt ninety eight point seven, my FM Real
ninety three coast.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Is it gonna be on on KFI? Are we running that?
We're not running it right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It's just gonna be you man, all right, Well that's
cool because all the concerts will be on the music
stations and we'll have free rein here with the other folks.
But Billy Elish will be there, Atlantis, Morris, sent Hie
Green Day, Joni Mitchell, No Doubt, Pink, Stevie, Nick Stevie,
(31:09):
Wonder Rod Stewart, Sting, Lady Gaga, Wow, that's unbelievable. Olivia
Rodrigo pretty hot with the kids. And earth Wind and Fire.
Remember that pizza place called earth Wind and Flower in
West Ellen.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
I do.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Kind of a cool deal, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
They're not going to be there though, they're not going
to be there there now, they're not going to.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Be there at all.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
They're going to be at the pizza place.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
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