1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: It's camp I am six forty and you're listening to 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 2: We have our very first guest here, Jamie Simonov. You 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 2: may not know the name, but you certainly either own 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 2: his product or have heard of his product. He started 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 2: ring ring cameras and he's sitting right here, Jamie, how 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 2: you Bob? 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 3: I'm doing great? Man, oh man, what an invention? Look 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 3: at you? A billion dollars? Huh? One point right? The bucket? Wait? 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 3: One point five billion? Zero point five billion? Is that 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 3: was that on the check? Yeah? It was basically. 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the biggest check you've ever gotten. 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 3: Yes, so far? 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 2: All right, Okay, let's go back your life. You start, 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: You're born in New Jersey, yep. And when did you 16 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 2: move out here? 17 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 3: I moved out here almost twenty years ago. Okay, So 18 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 3: you were you know, in your teens or you know, 19 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 3: their twenties or so. 20 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 4: I'm almost fifties. Yes, you look good for almost thank you. 21 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 4: I guess that's what a billion dollars can do. Yeah, 22 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 4: urse aging This is a great line. 23 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 2: Yesterday, the some of the women on the show were 24 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 2: talking about what they've had done filler and lips and 25 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 2: ears and you know, nose job and all that stuff. 26 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 2: And somebody turned to Belly and said what if you 27 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 2: had done and she said nothing. And then a woman said, oh, 28 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: you're so vain. 29 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 3: Like you think. 30 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 2: Oh, this is really knocking it out. You don't have 31 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: to do anything right with that face. Then you're right, bellio, 32 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 2: you're right, all right, ring camera, it's everywhere. The first year, 33 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:35,559 Speaker 2: how made you sell? 34 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 4: The first year we did like three million dollars worth? 35 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 4: Three million dollars worth, okay, and what about that the 36 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 4: first year, I said, the first year that we had sales, 37 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 4: So you know, it was a couple of years of 38 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 4: building it. First year having sales about three million bucks. 39 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 4: Second year thirty wow. Third year, go for to your four? 40 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 4: All right, for your four four. 41 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 3: Eighty wow, you're five billion? Oh my god. So so 42 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 3: who got no? 43 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,639 Speaker 2: So what came for? I guess Shark Tank came first. 44 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: Were you big when you went on Shark Tank? 45 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 3: No? 46 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 4: No, I was literally in my garage in the Palisades, Okay, 47 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 4: in my garage tinkering and tinkered up this thing, and 48 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 4: we had like a it was called door bot at 49 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 4: the time. It was like this this terrible looking device 50 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 4: that I built in my garage with a bunch of 51 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 4: sort of friends and got it on Shark Tank and 52 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 4: they said no. 53 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 3: They said no, I. 54 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 4: Mean I got one of those crazy deals from mister 55 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 4: not Wonderful, right, and but I had to you couldn't 56 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 4: do it. 57 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 3: It didn't it didn't even work, and so yeah, they 58 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 3: said no. It's often referred to as their biggest mistake. 59 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 4: Is it is actually like like the data shows it 60 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 4: is their biggest mistake. It's by far the biggest company 61 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 4: ever to appear on Shark Tank. 62 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 3: So that's fantastic. 63 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 2: So when you were on Shark Tank, what was the 64 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 2: offer that mister not so wonderful offered you? 65 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 3: It was something with like ten percent royalties. 66 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 4: And the problem, you know, the problem is you hear 67 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 4: the growth three million, thirty million, one seventy the cash, 68 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 4: Like when you're growing that fat, you need cash desperately 69 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 4: because you're ordering for a physical product. You have to 70 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 4: order it before you sell it, and so to have 71 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 4: to pay off the top any sort of royalty on 72 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 4: something like a product while you're growing is impossible. 73 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: That's what breaks a lot of businesses. It kind of money. 74 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 3: It really is the cash flow. 75 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 4: I mean we were actually so you know, it sounds 76 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 4: it sounds glorious, but we were really going out of 77 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 4: business the entire time as we were growing because just 78 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 4: the cash flow we were just the growth was actually 79 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: killing the business. Right And where do you where are 80 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 4: you headquartered now? So we were headquartered in Santa Monica. Well, 81 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 4: we were started in Pacific Palisades in my garage, then 82 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 4: Santa Monica and now we're in Hawthorne. 83 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: Okay, and you're still involved with the company, still still 84 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: running it and partnered with Amazon. 85 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, we sold it to Amazon in twenty eighteen. And 86 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 3: you get a piece of every camera that's sold, Yeah, 87 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 3: almost all of it. Yeah. 88 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 4: No, No, I'm just a guy who works. 89 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: I know that you have is it called friendly faces? 90 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 2: There's a mode where familiar face familiar faces. 91 00:03:59,640 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. 92 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 2: And so if I have a ring camera and I 93 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 2: have that kind of technology, if I bought the newer one, 94 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: I've mind about five or six years old, it won't 95 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 2: go on when it recognizes my face coming into the house. 96 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, So you can like mute your alerts, okay, and 97 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 4: then so you got to but you can also say 98 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 4: it that if you have your kid that when they 99 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 4: come in. 100 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 3: Maybe you want to get the alert from your kid. 101 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 3: Maybe you don't, you know, so your wife, So you 102 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 3: can kind of like where we're getting. 103 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 4: To with especially with AI, is being able to really 104 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 4: customize the Ring to be an intelligent assistant for you. 105 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 4: You know, when we started, it was just like motion 106 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 4: alerts and ding dongs that you get. Right now, we're 107 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 4: trying to give you the alerts that you need. So 108 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 4: we're doing anomaly detection so that we're really only giving 109 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 4: you the alerts when something is like that worth seeing. Oh, 110 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 4: I see, Okay, that's great because otherwise it goes off. 111 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 3: All the time, all day long, all the time. For 112 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 3: married guys, is there a girlfriend mode? No comment? 113 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: No man, guys can't cheat anymore. There's cameras everywhere. 114 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm not. I guess I can't really 115 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 4: say I'm sorry about that about people. You can't be 116 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 4: sorry for people not doing But I do get you know, 117 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 4: people say, oh, my kids, they couldn't have any parties, right, 118 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 4: you know, because of the ring, you know, and the 119 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 4: little little teenagers with them, And I'm like, I'm sorry, 120 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, you know I. 121 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 3: Did that wasn't my intention. I wasn't. I was trying 122 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 3: to stop criminals. 123 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 1: Not you. 124 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 2: I didn't even think about that. When your parents go 125 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 2: out of town, you can't have a pair, is no. 126 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 4: We call it always home like that's our tagline has 127 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 4: always been always home. And that's what that's is what 128 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 4: always home is, like your parents are always home with 129 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 4: ring like, but they're there, they're in Palm Beach. 130 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. Your parents are literally always home. 131 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 2: But you know what, it's such a great time saver. Like, 132 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: for instance, if we get a knock at the door 133 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 2: at six o'clock in the morning or at seven, you know, 134 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 2: seven o'clock in the morning, we don't we would have 135 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 2: to go down and look through the drapes to see 136 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 2: who it was. Now you just turn your phone on 137 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 2: and you see who it is. 138 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're gonna talk to them, tell them, you 139 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 4: know what, like, Yeah, it's it's been an incredible I 140 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 4: mean it's it's it's so incredible. 141 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:58,679 Speaker 3: Because that's that's why we started. I started. 142 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 4: I was in my garage. I couldn't hear the door. 143 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 4: What a cool thing and what that's become is just 144 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 4: like unbelievable. I heard Adam Carolla talk about this. He 145 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 4: said once that everybody had a camera, he thought crime 146 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 4: would go down, but it didn't. 147 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 3: We just saw more of it. 148 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 4: Well, I would say it actually has We've done We've 149 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 4: had a pretty good impact. But Adam Carolla is very funny, 150 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 4: So I'll take the j I'll take the joke. I 151 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 4: will take the joke, all right. 152 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: And you've written a book called Ding Dong Yes, which 153 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 2: is crazy because I wrote a book. 154 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 4: Called Ring Yeah, and you know we swapped yeah, right, 155 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 4: Dahn we swapped. 156 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 3: What is that book? Does that book take you through 157 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 3: the whole story of the camera, And. 158 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 4: It's the story of like from founding it in the 159 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 4: garage to selling it, so it just kind of goes 160 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 4: into that. And it was a crazy, like I said, 161 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 4: you know, the even the cash flow of. 162 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 3: How it grew. And people don't. 163 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 4: Realize how just how hard it is, especially a hardware 164 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 4: product to build. 165 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 3: They're just they're crazy, crazy businesses. 166 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 2: And and what's new coming up? Is there anything in 167 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 2: R and D that you can tell us about? 168 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 3: Uh? 169 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 4: Most of the new stuff is around this idea of 170 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 4: intelligent assistant, like trying to make it so that every 171 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 4: time your ring alert goes off, it's for something that 172 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 4: that you want to see. So it's not about us 173 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 4: telling you what you should see. Every house is different, 174 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 4: every family is different. If you want to see your 175 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 4: kids coming home from school, we should tell you that. 176 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 4: If you want to, you know, know in the gardeners there, 177 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 4: I will tell you that. If you don't want to 178 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 4: know when they're there, will tell you know. So, so 179 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 4: really trying to take the AI and superpower it so 180 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 4: that you are like that we're doing the work for 181 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 4: you and you're only interacting with ring when you need to. 182 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 2: And I know that you have the front door, the 183 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 2: product with the with the button you can you know, 184 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: ring the bell. But you also have cameras you can 185 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 2: put around the house. We have one in our back 186 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: that's not a ring, it's a ring camera, but it's 187 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: you know, it's got two lights and it just takes 188 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 2: a picture of everything, and it's it's immensely valuable because 189 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: when we're gone, I can see three hundred and sixty 190 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 2: degrees around the house. 191 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of you know the new cars have 192 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 4: that where you kind of see it around the car. Yeah, 193 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 4: it's kind of like that for the house. Now I 194 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 4: can see the guy robbing me yeah, you know, and 195 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 4: then we no idea who he was. Yeah, and then 196 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 4: we have a bunch of stuff that ties in the 197 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 4: neighborhood too. So we have a thing called search party. 198 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 4: When a dog goes missing in a neighborhood, you post 199 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 4: the dog to the neighbors app, which people do right now, 200 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 4: and then we look for that dog on the camera 201 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 4: and we're like, hey, like, Jamie, this dog that's missing 202 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 4: looks like this dog in front of your house. 203 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 3: You want to contact your neighbor. 204 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 4: And we are literally every day reuniting at least one 205 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 4: family with their dog through this thing. So we're doing 206 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 4: like a lot of cool stuff like that. That's really exciting. 207 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great because you know, you're almost fifty. I'm 208 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 2: a little older than you, and we've talked about this 209 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: on the show before. But in our lifetime, like when 210 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 2: we had a dog, and I'm sure you had a 211 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 2: dog growing up, We had a dog growing up in 212 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 2: the valley, and if that dog was ever in the house, 213 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 2: my mom would yell. 214 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 4: Who let out, and let that dog out, and the 215 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 4: dog would stay outside. He was out all day, all 216 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 4: night in the rain. He had a dog house, but 217 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 4: that's where he was and now if you had your 218 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 4: dog outside in the rain, the cops would come by 219 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 4: to arrest you. I mean, our dog is definitely more 220 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 4: of a human child than I think our own child. 221 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 4: So yeah, I can't even look as you're saying it. 222 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 4: I'm like, a dog goes outside, that's crazy. 223 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 2: They become family members, I mean in one or two generations. 224 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 3: And you know, until we launched this product. 225 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 4: Up until we launched this the only way to find 226 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 4: your dog if it was missing is the drive around 227 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 4: and yell out your car window. I mean, that was 228 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 4: still the best technology we had, was yelling out your window. 229 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 4: And now we have a way of using all the 230 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 4: Ring cameras in the neighborhood, tying them together and helping 231 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 4: to find your dog. 232 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 3: That's great. Can you stay both okay? All right? Jamie 233 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 3: Siven office with us. 234 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 2: He created Ring Camera, sold it for over a billion dollars. 235 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 2: And we'll come back and talk to him about his 236 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 2: house in the Palisades because he saved his own home. 237 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 3: That's a great story. 238 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 5: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI 239 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 240 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 2: Ding Dong is the name of the book written by 241 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 2: Tim Conway junior Jamie seven office with us. He created 242 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 2: ring camera and I don't know how you did this, 243 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 2: but you saved your home. I'm sure there's a story 244 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: there in Pacific Palisades. 245 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 4: So I was lucky that our home was on the 246 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 4: north side of the fire, so it was a little 247 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 4: bit later sort of. It came that morning after, so 248 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 4: it like wasn't in the like fire store, right, everything 249 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 4: was blown south towards the Oh show was blown south 250 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 4: and so we kind of but we were I mean, 251 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 4: it burned into the back of it. It basically started 252 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 4: burning into the back of our house, and so we 253 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 4: went back in and kind of put it out. Some 254 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 4: neighbors came and helped as well during the whole thing, 255 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 4: and we kind of all banded together and we kind 256 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 4: of saved our little neighborhood area. 257 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 2: Wow, but you were in a mandatory evacuation zone. Oh yeah, 258 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 2: so if you left, you couldn't get back in. Well, 259 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 2: actually you just had to ask the police are you 260 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 2: going to arrest me? And their answer was no, and 261 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 2: then you just keep walking. You take like respectfully'm going 262 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 2: to keep walking. 263 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 4: They were actually, I mean, it was a very tough 264 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 4: position for the police because, yeah, and the problem is 265 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 4: in the fire, you can't You're not just staying at 266 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 4: your house to protect it. You have to like protect yours. 267 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 4: You know, it's herd immunity. Like house next door to 268 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 4: you starts on fire. It's not like you can just say like, 269 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 4: oh glad, it's not mine, right like yours is the 270 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 4: next So we were out sort of doing doing this 271 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 4: and yeah, I mean like the police would say, like, 272 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 4: you know, this is a mandatory evacuation zone, we are 273 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,839 Speaker 4: supposed to arrest you. And I'd say, well, if you're 274 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 4: if you're going to arrest me, because otherwise I need 275 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 4: to get back to putting out this fire. 276 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 3: Wow. And they were they were great. 277 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 4: I mean, like there's a lot of a lot of 278 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 4: heroes that were there, the police and fire and everyone 279 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 4: doing it. 280 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 3: So it was everyone's working together. 281 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 2: And so when you're putting your house out, how did 282 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 2: you get water from pools? 283 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 4: We we still had water in our in our line, 284 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 4: so like so like we had likes hoses, but we 285 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 4: actually you know, it's funny, you use your feet shovels 286 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 4: like the if you can get to it fast, it's 287 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 4: just embers and it's like starting. The problem is once 288 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 4: it obviously gets bigger and bigger, then it becomes you know, 289 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 4: once it's a burning house, like you're not putting it out. 290 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 2: Right, But but when you're doing that. That wasn't a. 291 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 3: Twelve hour day or twelve hour fight. That was three days. Yeah, 292 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 3: we were. 293 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 4: I didn't sleep for it was I mean adrenaline, but 294 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 4: I didn't. It took me almost a month to recover from. 295 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 4: Not I've never had that, just I mean because the 296 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 4: adrenaline was so massive. I literally didn't sleep for days, 297 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 4: because you just stay up up. I slept on the 298 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 4: sort of name slept. I stayed on the roof of 299 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 4: our house to watch is that right? Yeah, because you'd 300 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 4: see all of a sudden some smoke coming from an area, 301 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 4: and so you go over there and you put it 302 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 4: out at you know, it's like three am, and then 303 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 4: go back to the house and sit on the roof. 304 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 3: Did you hear anybody walk by going, Hey, who's the 305 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 3: guy on the house? Oh? 306 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 2: He created ring cameras? Where the billion dollars? The hell 307 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 2: is he doing up there? 308 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 4: You know, it's it's it's amazing that during something like that, 309 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 4: everyone's equal. 310 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's truly the people that came. 311 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 4: There was people's housekeepers that were there helping to you know, 312 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 4: people that had way more means than I do. And 313 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 4: it's a great equalizer. Everyone's the same and something like that. 314 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of great technology that came 315 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,679 Speaker 2: out of the fire and your yours included in trying 316 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 2: to reunite pets with their with their owners. 317 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 4: So we've done that. And then we also we launched 318 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 4: a thing called Firewatch. Firewatch is yours, Yeah, firewatches us. 319 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 3: We did that. We want solely on that. 320 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 4: So we so watch Duty, which is so you're the 321 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 4: watch watch Duty watched it is the app. So fire Watch. 322 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 4: We just launched this thing. So now in the Palisades, 323 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 4: we had over ten thousand cameras. Ten thousand ring cameras 324 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 4: are in the Palisades, so we knew where the fire 325 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 4: was on the cameras. Watch Duty didn't. So now we 326 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 4: have it where when a fire like that happens, we 327 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 4: alert every ring customer say do you want to help 328 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 4: us join in to watch Duty. We then take that 329 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 4: we look through it with AI, we look for fire, smoke, embers, 330 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff, wow, and we feed it 331 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 4: directly into Watch Duty. 332 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 3: Which is that app. 333 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 4: Okay, And so now watch Duty is going to have 334 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 4: and the next catastrophic event that happens, they're going to 335 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 4: have the ability to have all these cameras, all this 336 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 4: data pumped in and have a much more real time map, 337 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 4: which hopefully allows the resources to be deployed more efficiently, 338 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 4: because you know, everyone sort of is saying like there 339 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 4: wasn't enough Fireman, there wasn't enough. 340 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 3: But maybe if we had better information, maybe there was enough. 341 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 4: Like maybe if we could just like if we could 342 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 4: accurately push the resources where they actually had where they had. 343 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,719 Speaker 2: To go, sure maybe there was a I think that's 344 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 2: a great idea because the one thing that that Watch 345 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,439 Speaker 2: Duty and those fire apps are missing were real time footage, 346 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 2: real cameras. 347 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 4: Real time footage, and like their information comes from literally 348 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 4: listening to radio calls, like there's volunteers. I mean, it's 349 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 4: amazing what they do. I mean, these people are like heroes. 350 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 4: They're listening to radio calls like on this street, there's 351 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 4: a fire, okay, and then they put it on the map. 352 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 4: Now this is going to be like digitally coming into 353 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 4: the map automatically, and. 354 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 3: You'll be able to see it. That's fantastic. 355 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: And one of the reasons why, if you remember a 356 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 2: year ago, why we didn't have footage for the first 357 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: couple of days, is because Joe Biden was in town 358 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 2: President Biden, and there was a the Secret Service wouldn't 359 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: let any of the helicopters fly over those fires. You know, 360 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 2: they have a thirty mile radius where you can't fly 361 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 2: around the president. And the Secret Service doesn't care what's 362 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 2: going on outside of the president. That's their priority and 363 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 2: their only priority. And so we didn't get to see 364 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 2: a lot of that footage. But if we had, you know, 365 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 2: the next big fire, you know, with watch duty and 366 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 2: with Firewatch, we'll have all that video. 367 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 3: Hope. 368 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 4: I hope we do, and I hope it helps to 369 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 4: again to deploy if we can deploy resources more efficiently 370 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 4: with everyone, with every because there's lots of different things. 371 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 4: You know, there's cow fire, there's sure, there's private firemen, 372 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 4: there's neighbors, there's the fire department, there's police, like, there's 373 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 4: so many different groups that are trying to do this. 374 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 4: If we can with watch duty, if everyone can coalesce 375 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 4: on one map, one piece of information, and we can 376 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 4: feed it in in real time, I think we have 377 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 4: a better chance of stopping and you know, hopefully just 378 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 4: not having you know, each every house that burned was 379 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 4: a family that's now out, and to that, you know, 380 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 4: thousands and thousands of families that are still you know, displaced. 381 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 4: Were you able to stay in your house even with 382 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 4: smoke damage? So we really go back. We got back 383 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 4: a month after the fire was over. Okay, you know 384 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 4: it's still pretty. You know, it's like a little nerve wracking. 385 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 4: People talk about the how hazardous and whatever, but I 386 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 4: feel like it's have you had. 387 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 3: Your house tested for chemicals? 388 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 4: And we did, and it seems it seems like it's okay. 389 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 4: But you know, you'll hear about someone. 390 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 3: I love the New Jersey and you're like, it's probably fun. 391 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 4: I mean, it's one of those like you know you 392 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 4: have especially I'm with you, Yeah, but I have a 393 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 4: kid he's seventeen. It's like, you know, are you doing 394 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 4: the right thing the wrong thing? I mean, I feel 395 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 4: like I also feel like people worked in coal mines 396 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 4: and so much that's right can't be as bad as 397 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 4: that that's right. 398 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 2: I mean, people used to swim in the Hudson with 399 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 2: bodies flowing by. 400 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, on a daily basis. 401 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 2: George Carlin used to talk about that he used to 402 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 2: swim in the Hudson and they would be bodies floating 403 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: by chemicals on the you know machine on top of 404 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 2: the water, and you'd see human feces go by. And 405 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 2: he says he's never had a cold or a you know, 406 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 2: flu in his life. You know, that's where he's built up. 407 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 2: Hopefully it's not as bad as that. Can you stay 408 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 2: with us? Yeah, okay, all right. Jamie Simon office with us. 409 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 2: He created Ring Camera. He's got a book out called 410 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 2: ding Dong, so you can go buy that and we'll 411 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 2: talk to him more about the products, the products may 412 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 2: be coming out, and also a little more on the 413 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 2: Shark Tank. I got some ideas about that and companies 414 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 2: that were started in garages. 415 00:16:58,760 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 3: His is one of them. 416 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 2: And can you be shocked how many of these companies 417 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 2: that we all know we're started in the garage. 418 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 5: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI 419 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 420 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 2: Jamie simonoffice with us. He created Ring He's also got 421 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 2: a book out called ding Dong, which is a great title. 422 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 2: And I sold a company for one point one billion 423 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 2: dollars one point one five one point one five, Okay, 424 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 2: I gotta add those counting. 425 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. 426 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 2: But you started your company in the garage. But there 427 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 2: are a lot of companies that we know, household names 428 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 2: that have started in the garage. 429 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 3: Amazon, Google, I mean, you just go through the list. 430 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 4: It's amazing how the garage has been this incubator of 431 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 4: just like these great companies and great ideas. 432 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 2: You know Facebook, Well Facebook was in a dorm, but 433 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 2: similarly similar, I say, the same idea of this like 434 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 2: unstructured place to do it where I think you can 435 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 2: just innovate and think. 436 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 3: Without you, without your wife. Rown Well, you know, for 437 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 3: Mark Zuckerberg, that wasn't his problem, that's true. 438 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 2: But the other guys, their wives were inside while they 439 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 2: were ure tinkering. Yeah yeah, but that that is a 440 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 2: great deal. Are guys constantly like old friends and family 441 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 2: members banging on you for money? 442 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 3: Uh? You know I had that for a little bit. 443 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 4: There was there was a time when people definitely I 444 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 4: got like a little bit of a request for money. 445 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 4: It's kind of I think now it's papered off. That's 446 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 4: when you say no enough times tapers off. 447 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 2: My body, who's made a lot of money. He's got 448 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 2: a policy and and uh, he said, when his friends 449 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 2: are family or coworkers ask for money. 450 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 3: He's got one. He's got two policies. 451 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 2: One you have to know his kids' names, and you 452 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 2: get if you get past that, he's got his son 453 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 2: and a daughter. If you get past that, he's not 454 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 2: going to lend you money. He's going to give it 455 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 2: to you, but you can't ask him for anymore. So 456 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 2: if you want ten thousand dollars, you got to know 457 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 2: his kids' names. He'll give you the ten grand, but 458 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 2: you can't ask for any more money. You got to 459 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 2: ask for a lot. Done on the first shot. 460 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, right, yeah, you got a lot of big What 461 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 3: do you do entertainment wise? Do you gamble all that money? 462 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 3: Are you vegas? He's just vegas to get rid of horse. No, 463 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:57,199 Speaker 3: you know. 464 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 4: I like to run, okay, skiing a little, you know, 465 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 4: mountain biking. I do a little bit kitesurfing. So I 466 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 4: kind of active, like you know, too active, active active. 467 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 3: Things, way too active. 468 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 2: All right, So let's talk a little more about this fire. 469 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,959 Speaker 2: You're up in Palisades but closer to Brentwood than the ocean, 470 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 2: and so Day one was horrible. Day two was horrible. 471 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 2: But for a lot of people don't know this. And 472 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 2: the reason I know this is because I took a 473 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 2: flight on Friday night and I could see this. But 474 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 2: Day three was when the fire came back and was 475 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 2: really threatening your home. 476 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 4: It came back Mandeville, which is like kind of like 477 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 4: basically like you, It like kind of went around and 478 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 4: then it was coming back sort of for us, and. 479 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 3: You had to be exhausted by then. You know I 480 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 3: should have been. I was. 481 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 4: I was probably like not thinking straight because I just 482 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 4: adrenaline going through. 483 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 3: You didn't feel exhausted. You felt more just like ready. 484 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 3: You know. 485 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 4: We were just like gearing up and ready for this 486 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 4: like next wave to come in. And you you were 487 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 4: acquired fire trucks or water trucks. 488 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 3: So we got some water trucks. 489 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 4: They came in from Arizona, These like like big water 490 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 4: tanker trucks that also have pumps on them to like 491 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 4: you can hook hoses up to them and spray water. 492 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 4: So we had some neighbors chipped in and we got 493 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 4: those in and we had pool pumps then, and I 494 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 4: mean we were like gearing up literally for you know, 495 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 4: at that time, it was neighbors were back and we 496 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 4: were we were not going to allow what hadn't burned 497 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 4: to burn like we were. We were done with this thing. 498 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 2: I'm surprised that the millionaires and billionaires in that area 499 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 2: and around the United States, if you have a huge 500 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 2: pool and you don't have a water pump, I don't 501 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 2: know where you're spending that money. I mean, they're you know, 502 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 2: there were two, three, four, maybe five grand for a 503 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 2: great pump. 504 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 3: They could save your house. 505 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 4: So it is funny that humans were so reactive and 506 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 4: not proactive, like no matter how much money you have. Yeah, 507 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 4: so like of course when a fire is coming, you're like, 508 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 4: I wish I had spent the money to have I 509 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 4: mean that Pooluby's like hundreds of dollars, right, and if 510 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 4: you had one, I mean, and that was the pool 511 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 4: pumps saved. The people that had those saved a lot 512 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 4: of areas. Like I know of a friend that had one, 513 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 4: and he kept walking around with it, basically dragging it 514 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 4: around to different houses, right, putting it in. 515 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 3: And saving these houses with it. 516 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 4: And that's why some of these areas, like when you 517 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 4: jove to go over the fire areas, there's some places 518 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 4: where all of a sudden, it's like, why didn't this 519 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 4: whole area burn? And it's because one crazy person was 520 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,719 Speaker 4: like going around and spraying, and you know it was dangerous. 521 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 4: I mean, twelve people did die, so it's not it's 522 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 4: not like it was, you know, But I think I also, 523 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 4: I don't know. I believe we're adults, and I believe that, 524 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 4: you know, if if you want to go back and 525 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 4: you want to risk your life to save your house, 526 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 4: like you should be able to do. 527 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 2: It one hundred percent. And you know, because a lot 528 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 2: of people that's their only investment in their life. 529 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 3: You know, they don't own the Lakers or a mall 530 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 3: or an airplane. And it's also I. 531 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 4: Mean, it is your house, is I I think it's 532 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 4: worth protecting. 533 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 3: I think people. I think people, you know. 534 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 4: For me, like I felt like, yeah, I wanted to 535 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 4: it's not just something you just replace. Like I was 536 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 4: not okay with it happening, and I was gonna. I 537 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 4: was willing to try to. No. I thought I had 538 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,479 Speaker 4: some I thought I was smart enough to know how 539 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 4: to get out if something was really going wrong. 540 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 3: But I mean, I maybe you weren't. Maybe I wasn't. 541 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, but but I understand that, you know, the memories 542 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 2: you have in your house, you can't recreate those. You 543 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 2: can recreate the walls, the bathroom, the kitchen and all 544 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 2: that stuff, but you can never recreate you know, where 545 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 2: your grandmother sat on her last Thanksgiving or grandfather or 546 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 2: dad or whatever. What is your what? What is your 547 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 2: background with your parents? Are they entrepreneurs? Have they created something? 548 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 2: My dad was like a guy. 549 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 4: Who worked with an entrepreneur, so he was kind of 550 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 4: like the entrepreneur assistant. And it was always a very 551 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 4: he was funny. He was a conservatives. He'd be like, James, 552 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 4: you know, this is what you have to James and so, 553 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 4: and my brother would be like, yes, James, you know. 554 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 4: So I kind of remember in that family was a 555 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 4: little bit more like conservative. I was always going and 556 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 4: trying to do crazy, crazy stuff. 557 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 2: Right, So he wanted you nine to five, get a 558 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 2: job at a bank, you to retire. 559 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like it was like kind of like 560 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 4: work at the bank nine to five, but maybe like 561 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 4: be a little crazy, like maybe tell them you could 562 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 4: do something you know exceptionally, you know, but like but 563 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 4: still be at the bank. 564 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 2: All right, we've got to take a break one more 565 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: segment and then we'll let you out of here. Jamie 566 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 2: Simonoff is with us. The book is called Ding Dong. 567 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 2: How's it selling? How's the book going? 568 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 4: It's going, It's going great. It's been fun. Have you 569 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 4: gone around? Are you signing it anywhere? I've gone around 570 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 4: to do some signing stuff. It's it's been really fun. 571 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 4: It's been fun seeing people's reactions that people are saying, like, 572 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 4: how like they've read it and it motivates them because 573 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 4: there like, you know, real hope of what they can build. 574 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,199 Speaker 3: And so I love that. 575 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 2: I do like the fact that you were properly raised 576 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 2: because you came in here when Rings started in its 577 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 2: first year and you were broke and you're trying to 578 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 2: make the you know, the company happen. And I can't 579 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 2: see the difference between then and now. You know, you're 580 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 2: the same guy. 581 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 3: That's me as me. 582 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 2: But that's that's good parenting. You know your parents raised 583 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 2: you properly. 584 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, they did a good job. Yeah, that is great. 585 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 3: What does your brother do. 586 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 4: He's a stock trader, Okay, so he's he's probably made 587 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 4: as much as you he's doing. Okay, that's great, all right, 588 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 4: Jamie Simonoff's with us. He started ring camera. He's got 589 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 4: a book Ding Dong as well. We'll come back and 590 00:23:58,880 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 4: finish up with him. 591 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 5: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI 592 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 593 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 2: This is about the people lived in your area going 594 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 2: around and saving home after home. 595 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. 596 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of neighbors that came back, I mean, 597 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 4: did help to save the you know, these areas and 598 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 4: some of the houses, and I mean obviously a lot happened, 599 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 4: but I think we also were able to make it 600 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 4: maybe not as bad as you know, maybe we did 601 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 4: save some houses. 602 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 3: Well I'm sure you did, because you know, that fire 603 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:30,199 Speaker 3: was all around you. 604 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 4: It was it literally went all the way around our neighborhood, 605 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 4: and neighbors at each point, like different neighbors stop different 606 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 4: parts of the fire. We helped, We helped in like 607 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 4: one little area, but everyone sort of. 608 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 3: Divided and conquered and herd immunity. 609 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 2: I've been saying for the last twenty years to you know, 610 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 2: no success at all, that that they should not allow 611 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 2: palm trees anymore in those hills, and yet they keep 612 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 2: growing them and they blow up. 613 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,919 Speaker 4: When you see a palm tree burn, you definitely do 614 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 4: not think they should be anywhere in a place that 615 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 4: can catch on fire. They are like literally roaming candle. 616 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 4: I can't I never had any I had no idea 617 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 4: what they could do. They are the scariest things you've 618 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 4: ever seen. They just say, spit fire out of the 619 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 4: top of them. 620 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,360 Speaker 2: And as you said, they're also it's it's sticky, so 621 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,719 Speaker 2: when the embers fly around, they stick to homes. 622 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 4: It's like an oily like ember. It's it's, it's it 623 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 4: is the scariest. I mean, I think the and I 624 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 4: think the palm trees. Yeah, I think they really did, 625 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 4: like cause. 626 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 3: A lot of damage. Yeah, but but saving your house. 627 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 2: I agree with you that you know the mandatory I 628 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 2: understand the mandatory evacuation from LAPD because you know they 629 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 2: don't want to have to go in there and. 630 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 4: Risk their lives to save lives all day long. But 631 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 4: I would I would not leave my house. I think 632 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 4: there should be some sort of way of saying like 633 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm don't rescue me, Like you know, I 634 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 4: would have signed something, done something to say like like 635 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 4: I I appreciate the fact I don't want someone risking 636 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 4: their life to come back for me, But I'm making 637 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 4: this decision that I want to do this, and I 638 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 4: think we should be able to do that. 639 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 3: And I also there's not enough people. 640 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 4: It's not like it's not the government's fault that they 641 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 4: don't have enough people to stop a fire like this. 642 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 4: No one could have enough people to stop a fire 643 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 4: like this, right, And I think allowing citizens to go 644 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 4: in and fight it's just like any foreign entity coming 645 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 4: in and fighting. Like if some people came in and 646 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 4: tried to take over the Palisades, I would have fought 647 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 4: that too. 648 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 3: And why is fire any different. I'm not going to 649 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 3: allow it to do this. 650 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 2: My sister lives in Malibu in an apartment building that 651 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 2: was built in nineteen fifties and it's all wood. The roof, 652 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 2: the walls, everything is wood. And so she left and 653 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 2: she was gone for three days. She goes back to 654 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 2: it and it's all there because four guys stayed back 655 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 2: to defend it. 656 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 3: And that's the only reason it's there. That's it. 657 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 4: And so I think I really do think it's something 658 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 4: we should be looking at it how to support that 659 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 4: and also having people understand that it is the risk. 660 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 4: I mean, that's the risk you're taking. 661 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 2: But right, And one of the risks is you might 662 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 2: go down with the ship one hundred percent and you 663 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: wanted to, and you didn't mind taking that on because 664 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,719 Speaker 2: you wanted to, you know. And there's also, man, when 665 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 2: when you're sitting there with four other guys and you're 666 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 2: fighting these spot fires, there is an adrenaline rush you 667 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 2: probably never experienced before. 668 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 4: I never understood why someone would come back from like 669 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 4: Iraq or a war and then re sign up to 670 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 4: go back to go back. I'm like, why would you 671 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 4: do that? You just you finally made it out like 672 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 4: you're okay. And there is something about being and fighting 673 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 4: against something something like this, like this foreign entity that 674 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 4: wants to sort of kill you, which is this fire, 675 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 4: and there's something there's something about it that is like 676 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 4: it's it's very primal and being with people doing it 677 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 4: and being with a group that's doing it. 678 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's the one year anniversary. So one year 679 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 2: ago today, you guys were still up fighting that fire, 680 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 2: probably for another couple of days. 681 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 4: I was, Yeah, I would have been there for another 682 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 4: day or two doing it, like probably right now, it 683 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 4: would have been on my roof starting to look at like, 684 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 4: you know, where was stuff. 685 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 3: Where was spot fires? You know, kind of trying to plan. 686 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 2: And from the video I just saw on CBS they 687 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 2: interviewed you and your neighbors, there were spot fires everywhere. 688 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 3: They were everywhere. In fact, it's you become numb to it. 689 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 4: I mean, imagine driving by right now and seeing a 690 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 4: fire and being like, no, I think that one's okay. 691 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 4: I mean, there's so many that you'd be like, no, 692 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 4: that one's okay, but this one we're gonna put out. 693 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 5: You know. 694 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 4: It's like you to be deciding like which ones to 695 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 4: work on and which ones to that probably were just 696 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 4: going to burn themselves out right. 697 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 3: I mean you kind of became a firefighter, you know, 698 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 3: pretty quickly. Did you do you have a pool? Oh, 699 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 3: we have a pool. Did you have a pump? You 700 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 3: know I didn't have a pump. 701 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 5: Pump? 702 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 3: Now I have a pump. 703 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,120 Speaker 2: I mean, and I say, my old partner said, there's 704 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 2: two types of people in this world, non learners, and 705 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm a slow lerner. Yeah, better than being 706 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 2: a non learner, you know. I mean, how many people 707 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 2: in Palisades they're going to rebuild their house. 708 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 3: They're gonna have a pool, and they're not gonna have 709 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 3: a pump. 710 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 4: Actually, you know, I think a lot of people are rebuilding, 711 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 4: not even just a pump, but they're putting Actually they're 712 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 4: now putting outdoor sprinklers in four fires and so and 713 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 4: anytime you do that, that helps everyone because that means 714 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 4: that if your house isn't burning, then the firemen can 715 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 4: work on something else that's happening. So I do think 716 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 4: I think the Palasads will build back and build very 717 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 4: resilient to fire in the future. 718 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 3: Right like we have. 719 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 2: You know, Rick Caruso had his own private fire department, 720 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 2: and everyone was saying, you know, how dare he? You know, 721 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 2: the homes burning around, But he wanted to protect his 722 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 2: own home, his own businesses. But he had a great reason. 723 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 2: He said, if I could, you know, have my own 724 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 2: fire department, which loosens up other firefighters to go help 725 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 2: you guys, I think it's a win win. 726 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 3: It absolutely did. 727 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 4: It also didn't create more embers, right, And you know, 728 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 4: Rick Rick planned ahead. He's a private business person. He 729 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 4: saw that the winds were coming and they planned ahead. 730 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 4: And I think it's great. I wish I wish more 731 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 4: of us. I wish I had done a better job 732 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 4: planning ahead and done more. I mean I I you know, 733 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,479 Speaker 4: I wish everyone had because the more people that did that, 734 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 4: the better outcome we would have had. 735 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 3: Well, I've on the side. 736 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 2: I have a side business now and I've started my 737 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 2: own fire department, and so I'm taking checks for one 738 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 2: hundred grand to protect your house. 739 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 3: We'll talk about that afterwards. Perfect, We really appreciate, we 740 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 3: appreciate people like that. I'll grab some of that ring 741 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 3: money out of you. 742 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 2: But you know what's a real tragedy or travesty is 743 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 2: is the loss of Gelson's in the Palisades. I can't 744 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 2: tell you how many times I went to a party 745 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 2: in that area and always stopped at Gelson's to get something. 746 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, Gelson's was such a great market. The people that 747 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 4: worked there all you know, they're all the same people. 748 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 3: They were there for like thirty years. 749 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 2: But that's where you bought your son's birthday cake, and 750 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 2: you know, you went for the cookies and all that stuff. 751 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's gone to think that was the Palisades. 752 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 4: You know, all those stores in the Palisades, all those 753 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 4: places were like these sort of family businesses and the 754 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 4: people had worked there for a long time. And it 755 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 4: was really like it was a it really it still 756 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 4: is a special place, but it really was a special place. 757 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:42,719 Speaker 3: All right. 758 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 2: So you created a ring camera. What else are you 759 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 2: working on or is that a wrap? 760 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 4: You know? I have some passion project things that I 761 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 4: work on, but really Ring is it's really it's what 762 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 4: I'm working on. It's also where I can have the 763 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 4: most impact, you know, finding finding dogs, helping in fires. 764 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 4: You know, we're doing a lot of stuff with you know, 765 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 4: police departments and working with them on crime and safety. 766 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 4: So there's lots there's so many areas that we can 767 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 4: work on through Ring to make an impact that it 768 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,959 Speaker 4: really keeps me busy. And then watch fire watch what 769 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 4: ours is called fire watch, which works with watch Duty, 770 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 4: and you know, in the next sort of catastrophic disaster event, 771 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 4: watch Duty we'll send to our system an alert. We'll 772 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 4: send that alert out to all of our customers. They 773 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 4: can then join in and help us together with watch 774 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 4: Duty to hopefully bring more information to everybody faster to 775 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 4: have a better outcome in the next one. 776 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 2: I'm one of those idiots where we want We used 777 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 2: watch duty every single second while we were on the air, 778 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 2: and when I went home that's all. I looked at 779 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 2: Watch Duty from out the entire fire watch you. We 780 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 2: watched you, and then I get a text from them, Hey, 781 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 2: can you send us two dollars and ninety nine cents 782 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 2: to help us out? 783 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know. So, yeah. 784 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 4: The founder of this guy, John Mills, is amazing, eccentric guy. 785 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 4: It's a non for profit that he did to help people. 786 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 4: It's like it's an unbelievable I'd like to say company, 787 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 4: but it's like this unbelievable thing that someone brought to 788 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 4: the world. 789 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 3: It's great, just to better the world. 790 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great. And a lot of people that I 791 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 4: know used that. Well, So by you, you didn't decide 792 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 4: to give the two ninety we gave. 793 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 3: We gave it. We gave them a million dollars, Is 794 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 3: that right? Right? 795 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 4: So I'm pro with you. So we gave them a million. 796 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 4: So it's collectively we gave them, but we did. We 797 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 4: gave them a million dollars. We felt like it was 798 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 4: just such an incredible and this is from Amazon and ring. 799 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 4: We just felt like to support such an incredible thing 800 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 4: that helps people in so many areas. 801 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 2: When you sold to Amazon, did Jeff Bezos call you personally. 802 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 3: Uh. He sent me an email that day. Yeah, it 803 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 3: was a very memorable one. 804 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 4: It's a very good but I mean, and I've spent 805 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 4: a lot of time with Jeff, you know, since then, 806 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 4: and so Jeff's great, you know, but it's a very 807 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 4: He sent me a very funny one line email. I 808 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 4: will not tell you exactly what it said, but it 809 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 4: was it was. It was awesome. 810 00:32:58,480 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 3: Okay, that's great. 811 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 2: You know when he bought Whole Foods, he bought it 812 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 2: for I think I think it's six or seven billion dollars. 813 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 2: But his stock went up so much that day that 814 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 2: he got Whole Foods for free. Yeah, the rich get 815 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 2: richer sometimes, that's great. 816 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 3: What is so real? Quickly? 817 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 2: Could you give us any stock tips or business tips 818 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 2: to make some money for people there? 819 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 4: That's always a good idea to do on the radio. 820 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 4: I appre, I appre, I appreciate that. You know. What 821 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 4: I'll tell you is read read the book, work hard. 822 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 4: I think that's what you know. 823 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 3: Grit. I mean, it's like we're the American dream is 824 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 3: still out there, you know. 825 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 4: I think it's it's uh, let's let's just go out 826 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 4: there and let's build some cool stuff and everyone needs 827 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 4: to get in there and do stuff. 828 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 2: But I appreciate you coming on. Come on again with us. 829 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 2: We love having you on. Jamie simming off by the 830 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 2: book ding Dong is the name of the book. And 831 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 2: I wrote a book called Ring Camera, so I'll be 832 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 2: out signing that. And you can also get Ring Camera 833 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 2: in almost any store. But you can also it's available 834 00:33:59,600 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 2: on Amazon. 835 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 3: It's available everywhere, and. 836 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 2: So it's available not only in stores but Amazon and stores. 837 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, Amazon and stores. And what does it go for now? 838 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 3: For the for the it's. 839 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 4: Really like from you know, forty nine dollars up to 840 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 4: five hundred. It's kind of we have we have models 841 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 4: in sort of every different area, like every different need, 842 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:17,800 Speaker 4: every different you know. 843 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 2: And I will say this not because you're sitting there, 844 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 2: but it does help. It was the easiest thing in 845 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 2: the world to set up, the easiest set of constructions 846 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:26,320 Speaker 2: were perfect. 847 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 4: And I do think the Ring Camera when you it's 848 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 4: it's the experience that we give you with the neighbors 849 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:33,359 Speaker 4: and everything else. 850 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 3: It really is. 851 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 4: It's something that really transforms your your ability to live 852 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 4: in a neighborhood. 853 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in, nice to say congratulations on saving 854 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 2: your Home and The Success. 855 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: Conway Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Now, 856 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,240 Speaker 1: you can always hear us live on kf I am 857 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and 858 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeart Radio app.