1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: It's camp. 2 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 2: I am sixty and you're listening to the Conway Show 3 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeartRadio. 4 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 3: App Joe for You tonight, all the way till seven pm. 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 3: I had this morning off, so I had some more 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 3: time to sit and come up with things to talk 7 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 3: about today. So well, I hope we get to all 8 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 3: of it. We probably won't, but that's all right on 9 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 3: the Big Show tonight. What is coming up in twenty 10 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 3: twenty six. As far as trends go, we're talking food, 11 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 3: we're talking houses. It's time to throw away all the 12 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 3: pasta that you have. There's all new trends. Pasta's out. 13 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: Look at that. 14 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 3: Sorry to the Italians. Unfortunately it's over. Also, we're gonna 15 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 3: play We're playing. It's absolutely not true. We're playing a 16 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 3: game called Solo the Solo where I'm gonna play an 17 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 3: isolated recording of a guitar solo and you get to 18 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 3: call in and guess the song, the artist and the guitarist, 19 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 3: mostly so it stops sounding like a guitar center in here. Plus, 20 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 3: speaking of annoying, we have a list of twenty twenty 21 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 3: five's most annoying songs, according to to somebody was Crozer's favorite, 22 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 3: Taylor Swift on the list. Did she make it? 23 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: Is that a good thing? If you're on the list? 24 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 3: Probably not, But that's all coming up. Of course, you 25 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 3: can always get in touch with us on the iHeartRadio app. 26 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 3: Look for the little microphone. Leave a message there. It's 27 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 3: a talkback. We'll get it on the show. Last night 28 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 3: we were able to get the talkbacks onto the show 29 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 3: until six fifty, and I promise you I'm going to 30 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 3: do my best to make that not happen. I want 31 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 3: you to know, first of all, I have no authority here, 32 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 3: and secondly, I don't really know how I would do that, 33 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 3: but I will try. Joining us now once again, the 34 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 3: man of the hour, Michael Monks, I'm sorry, I'm gonna 35 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 3: miss all the fun stuff. You've got music pasta games closure. 36 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 3: You come in here and we like to keep it low, 37 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 3: a little serious, bring it down. I mean, it's hard 38 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 3: news like MOB. But no, we do have some fun 39 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 3: stuff talk about. But before we get into that, you're 40 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 3: wearing a fantastic sweater. I wish that the listeners were 41 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 3: able to see because it really goes with the with 42 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 3: the glasses and the hair and the whole thing. It's 43 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 3: like it's like, mister winter Wonderland over here. 44 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that. 45 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,119 Speaker 4: I am a sweater officionado and I love LA weather. 46 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: People don't people who are not from here. I'm not 47 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: from here. You're not from here. 48 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 4: People who are not from here, I don't think understand 49 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 4: that La does get cold. You think, oh, sunny California, Yeah, 50 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 4: Elie has winter. 51 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. 52 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: Lets us guys not from here tell more people about 53 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 3: what it's like. 54 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: I don't need to tell people. 55 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 4: I'm talking about people who are not I'm talking about 56 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 4: our people back home. 57 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: They just assume that it's you know, no, yeah, they 58 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: were blessed. Don't get me wrong, it is blessed. 59 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 3: You know what blows my mind is that they're still 60 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 3: in the same tired old stereotypes about us. Like I'll 61 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 3: go home to Indiana and they're like, oh, how's all 62 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 3: the green juice and yoga? And I was like, what 63 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 3: did you just watch Entourage season one? No, people are 64 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 3: just as fat as they are and in yeah, we are. 65 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: Way past that. So we're eating bone marrow for breakfast. Yeah. 66 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 2: No. 67 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 4: There's a couple of things that I learned about Los 68 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 4: Angeles that I guess you know, you don't expect because 69 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 4: you are based on media portrayals. So they get back 70 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 4: home Diana, Kentucky, the beautiful Ohio Valley one. Not everybody 71 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 4: is beautiful as beautiful in their own way, but you 72 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like, not everyone is oh yeah, yeah, everybody. 73 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 4: We're all just kind of it's okay to be average here, 74 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 4: They're okay. 75 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: I agree with you. 76 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 3: It's the spectrum is just wider because you have some 77 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 3: of the most beautiful people you've ever seen, but you've 78 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 3: had you also have some of the craziest looking people 79 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 3: you've ever seen in your life too. Yeah, so so 80 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 3: you get all all kinds that the the standard deviation. 81 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 1: In Indiana is not much. No, that's right. 82 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 4: So here you could the distance between US and Indianapolis 83 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 4: six and a Carmel nine. 84 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: Oh, a Carmel are not that far apart. 85 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 3: Now, what's what's confusing here is that the suburb just 86 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 3: north of Indiana where I grew up is called Carmel. 87 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 4: But you're talking I said Carmel. I'm not from India. 88 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 4: You're saying, I guess I would have mispronounced it wrong. 89 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: Is it Carmel? 90 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 3: It's caramel, that's annoying. Isn't that annoying? Well, because if 91 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 3: you're beautiful, I've been there multiple times. 92 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: Okay, it's fine. You know it's very suburb Yeah, it's good. 93 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 3: You know, you can buy a really nice house for 94 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 3: like sixteen dollars, can you. It's maybe a little more 95 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: with inflation, but yeah, it's about I mean you can 96 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 3: get like a really nice and their homes are big, 97 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 3: like an average house is like three thousand square feet. Yeah, 98 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 3: that's on the smaller serry suburban, very new for like 99 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 3: five hundred grand. 100 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like Carmel by the Sea. 101 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 3: No, Carmel by the Sea, which is gorgeous, but you 102 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 3: got expensive, right, And I think you have to write 103 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 3: a letter to Clint Eastwood to actually be able to 104 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 3: move into Carmel by the Sea. 105 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: I will do that. He's like the co op guy. 106 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, I'm sorry we deviated. I'm just saying I'm 107 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 4: wearing this sweater because it does get cold in Los Angeles. 108 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love that. I knew that. 109 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 4: I knew that they have the best weather here, but 110 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 4: that best weather includes December January. 111 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: It's a beautiful kind of cold. 112 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 3: Today was very cold. I woke up and it was 113 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 3: very la. My car said it was thirty seven, when 114 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 3: in reality, like everything else in La, it was really more. 115 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: Like in the mid forties. Yeah. 116 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was almost mild downtown this morning. Yeah, but 117 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 4: there's a certain kind of haze and stank on downtown. 118 00:04:59,279 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: I like that. 119 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 3: Does it have anything to do with the administration dealing 120 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 3: with the fallout of maybe a scandal or two related 121 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 3: to the Palisades fire? 122 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 4: Well that, and there are literal fires burning in the gutters, 123 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 4: and I saw a very large one just this morning 124 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 4: on my drive in. 125 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: I'm sorry the gutters. Well, you know, there are. 126 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 4: Unfortunately a large number of homeless people in the city 127 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 4: of Los Angeles, a lot of them concentrated in my neighborhood. 128 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 4: And that is how they keep warm. They set things 129 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 4: on fire and sit around it and no one stops them. No, well, 130 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 4: we got a lot going on here. Yeah, well, you know, 131 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 4: I mean it's just briefly, okay to touch on this 132 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 4: news because we got we got a more interesting news 133 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 4: story to get to next, and I want to get 134 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 4: to this before you have to get to the news. 135 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to keep you on time. That's okay. Crows 136 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: you cool with that. 137 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 4: Sure, he's always ready. We were coming on to talk 138 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 4: a bit about fires. Yeah, and you are coming up 139 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 4: in the one year anniversary of the fires. KFI has 140 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 4: got a news special that will come out on Wednesday, 141 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 4: January seventh, seven o'clock at night. Our entire news team 142 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 4: is working on this thing and looking at where we 143 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 4: are now a year later. But I'll tell you where 144 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 4: we are a year later in the Palisades and an 145 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 4: Alta Dina as it relates to the vacant lots where 146 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 4: homes used to be. One of outside investors, maybe inside 147 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 4: investors are buying these lots of report out by Redfin 148 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,799 Speaker 4: just today. This is a real estate company that also 149 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 4: publishes editorial content. They did an analysis of this and 150 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 4: they found that almost forty percent of the empty lots 151 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 4: that are selling in those areas hit by the wildfires 152 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 4: back in January of last this year, they've been bought 153 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 4: by investors. Okay, companies withllcs incorporated those types of things. 154 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 4: This is Palisades and an altadam, both of them. So 155 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 4: remember the whole thing was Altadena is not for sale, right, Well, 156 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 4: it is a hung people are buying it. And this 157 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,679 Speaker 4: is concerning to neighbors because they don't know what that means. 158 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 4: Does it change the fabric of their neighborhood. On the 159 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 4: other hand, nobody really knows what it means. Is this 160 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 4: because this report doesn't get into what the plans are? 161 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 4: Does this mean it's an investor who wants to put 162 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 4: a single family home on a single family lot and 163 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 4: sell it because that's the business that they're in. Somebody 164 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 4: who wants to sit on this lot, leave it empty 165 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 4: for a while until market conditions are even more female right, Maybe. 166 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: A mix of mixture of all of them. 167 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 3: What's interesting, though, is that even if you're talking about 168 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 3: areas outside the Palisades, homes right now are not selling 169 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 3: like they were during the pandemic. And I know this 170 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 3: is anecdotal, but when I went to buy a house, 171 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 3: there were six or seven offers on the house. 172 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: Five of those were developers, really. 173 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 3: Yes, And the only reason I bought that house and 174 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 3: I was able to buy the house is because you yeah, right. 175 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 3: The lady who was selling it didn't want to sell 176 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 3: it to a developer because they knew that she knew 177 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 3: that they were going to tear it down. So I 178 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 3: was able to kind of weasel in and I got 179 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: it for less than what the developers were actually offering. 180 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 3: So I wonder, even across the board, if it's if 181 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: it's just truly this this area the people looking at opportunity, 182 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: And I got to think, if you're out there looking 183 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 3: for a house, and these aren't cheap places, by the way, 184 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 3: even Altadena Palisades, these are places that are not in 185 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 3: it expensive. I can't imagine if you're somebody right now 186 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 3: who's looking for a house, your number one spot is 187 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: a place where you're gonna buy where you have to build, 188 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 3: first of all. Secondly, if you build, you're gonna be 189 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 3: around nothing for the next five years. 190 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 4: But construction, that's the fear of just holding on to 191 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 4: the property, and then that leaves a vacant lot next 192 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 4: to somebody else who may be actively building hoping to 193 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 4: have a neighborhood that does not come to fruition yet. 194 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 4: So there are a lot of concerns, a lot of 195 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 4: variables here. But it also speaks to the residents who 196 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 4: are selling those properties totally they're done. 197 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 3: I would be too, yeah, I mean, you can completely understand. 198 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 3: I would just say, like, oh my god, there's first 199 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 3: of all, this happened. It's been a year. Look how 200 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 3: nothing has happened as far as rebuilding. Look how we've 201 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 3: had very little oversight. There's been very little accountability. I 202 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 3: don't think it's ridiculous to say if I was somebody 203 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 3: who lived in that neighborhood, I'd feel like, well, what 204 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 3: are they gonna do now to make this not happen again. 205 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: I'll tell you it's been a year. 206 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 4: As you noted, that's enough time for families to look 207 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 4: around and think, you know what, we've settled in Santa Monica, 208 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 4: and we like it. 209 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: We're just going to stay in. 210 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 4: Fact, one of the Redfin realtors who's quoted in this 211 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 4: report from Redfin says that he has seen bidding wars 212 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 4: on eleven million dollar properties in Santa Monica that he 213 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 4: believes can be credited to or attributed to the fact 214 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 4: that people had to leave the palace. 215 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 3: At And you can't discount as the last thing, I know, 216 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 3: we got to give it over to crows here. 217 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: But you can't discount the fact that if. 218 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 3: You're in an area like that, even if you rebuild 219 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 3: and you get the money to do that, and you 220 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 3: move back in, and everybody moves back in. Your insurance 221 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 3: is going to be higher than anybody else's who's in 222 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 3: a non fire area, for instance, the Valley. If you're 223 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 3: south of Ventura, you got to get the fair plan, 224 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 3: that's the plan of last resort. That's going to cost 225 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 3: you maybe ten to fifteen thousand dollars a year. If 226 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 3: you buy right now, it's only going to go up. 227 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 3: You could be getting a normal old house in the 228 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 3: middle of the flats in Sherman Oaks Van Nuys area 229 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 3: for maybe the same price of the home. Your yearly 230 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 3: insurance could be two thousand dollars a year. So it's 231 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 3: a very it's hard. It's a hard sell I think 232 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 3: for people who've been through this to say this makes 233 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 3: sense to continue to do and to stay. 234 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: And I don't blame them. I'd be done too. Well. 235 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 4: Here's the thing about Southern California. Nothing works. The government 236 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 4: doesn't work. We're going to talk next about the fact 237 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 4: that not Ela has not paid a single road killer 238 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 4: this year. We're doing great. We're gonna talk about that. 239 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 4: But the thing about Southern California is, how about this winter? 240 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 4: How about this winter? 241 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 5: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI 242 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 243 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 3: In studio with Michael Monks, who is telling us about 244 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,079 Speaker 3: how Los Angeles is about what five or six minutes 245 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 3: away from becoming just one big old pothole. 246 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 4: Well, event it's not my words, it's the words of 247 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,359 Speaker 4: Michael Schneider of Streets for All and writer or Inhdar, 248 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 4: who wrote an op ed that was published in the 249 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 4: La Times. I spoke to both of these guys today 250 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 4: after reading this thing. I had to speak to them 251 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 4: their street advocates. They want cleaner, safer streets for everyone, drivers, 252 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 4: bike riders, pedestrians who use the sidewalks, But the streets 253 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 4: in Los Angeles are a disaster. I don't think anybody 254 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 4: within range of my voice right now needs me to 255 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 4: tell you about the city proper and it's issues with potholes. 256 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 4: You may have just run over one yourself as you're 257 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 4: listening to KFIN. 258 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: I tell you how serious a pothole can be. 259 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 3: Is that you know we all joke about, Oh, you know, 260 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 3: you pot hole, you pop your tire or whatever, you know, 261 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 3: bent your rim and you need to tire. I was 262 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,839 Speaker 3: coming down the one on one for you way, as 263 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 3: I do every day going into Los Angeles going over 264 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 3: the hill like Tom Petty down into Los Angeles with 265 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,479 Speaker 3: dirty hands and worn out and knees. 266 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: To these lyrics. These are lyrics to KTLA. 267 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 3: And I'm driving down the Lancasham near where Lancasham and 268 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 3: the one O one are, and I'm going to normal speed, 269 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 3: which is like ninety miles an hour right now. 270 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: I'm going like probably like six sixty ish. 271 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 3: I'm driving with the flow of traffic, and I hit 272 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 3: a pothole and it pops my tire and I'm going sixty. 273 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 3: I'm going highway speed on the far left lane. I 274 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 3: hear something real freaky start happening, and I'm like, I 275 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,680 Speaker 3: feel a car doing something strange, tap on the brake 276 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 3: lightly and I spun out and I did three little 277 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 3: loop de loops three sixty, ended up across the freeway 278 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 3: with the back of the car facing the opposite direction. 279 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 3: I was looking into traffic. Took out a Caltrans sign 280 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 3: and thankfully there was that wall there. And I because 281 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 3: because the pothole blew a tire on the car, And 282 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 3: if not for my unbelievable driving skills, my my, my 283 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 3: Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, Andretti Heritage of living in Indianapolis. 284 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 3: That's true, I would have died, and I just can't 285 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 3: expect everyone else could be as good of a driver 286 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 3: as I am. So my heart goes out to people 287 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 3: in the seriousness of this. It's a very serious thing. 288 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 3: It is, and it can take out anybody's tire. 289 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 4: And the problem is, I think about the type of 290 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 4: mayor you want, the type of city council member that 291 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 4: you want. The very basic stereotype of a good politician 292 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 4: is literally related to potholes. Right, he can fill the pothole, 293 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 4: So it's going to get the potholes filled. That's basic 294 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 4: retail politics and city elections. Clean off, the parks filled, 295 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 4: the pothole potholes are gone, but no one's acting on this. 296 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 4: The City of La says so on its own website 297 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 4: as a dashboard that lets you know where streets are 298 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 4: being paved, how many streets have been paved since the 299 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 4: new fiscal year started on July one, not a single inch. 300 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: Has been repaved. 301 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 4: In fact, so this editorial calls out the fact that 302 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 4: the City of La instead of repaving it has shifted 303 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 4: most of its street maintenance budget to doing what it 304 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:34,319 Speaker 4: calls quote large asphalt repair. This is patching portions of 305 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 4: the street only where it is the most worn down. 306 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 4: I spoke to one of the authors of this editorial today, 307 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 4: Michael Schneider of Streets for All. Here is what he 308 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 4: said about LA street conditions. 309 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 6: So what used to be an annual maintenance activity. The 310 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 6: city has about seven thousand miles of streets, and where 311 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,599 Speaker 6: we were doing four five hundred miles a year, and 312 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 6: resurfacing has slowed to just a small trickle. So we're 313 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 6: not even at our current rate. We're not even maintaining 314 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 6: our current broken street. They're actually getting worse every year. 315 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 6: The Payment Condition Index, which is the way the city 316 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 6: measures how it's doing zero to one hundred, it's scheduled 317 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 6: to drop. 318 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: To fifty six next year. 319 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 6: If we were in school, that would be an f 320 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 6: and that's a four percent drop in one year. So 321 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 6: if you do the math, if we're dropping four percent 322 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 6: every year in the quality of our streets, it's not 323 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 6: going to take very long before, like we said in 324 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 6: the article of the city is one big. 325 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: Pothole, One big pothole. 326 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 4: He says that LA could very swiftly become by citing 327 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 4: what is known as the pavement condition index. This is 328 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 4: something the municipalities use to gauge the quality of their rods. 329 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,479 Speaker 4: He says, LA has scored a fifty six by comparison 330 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 4: Santa Monica score eighty two. Wow, West Hollywood seventy seven, 331 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 4: Culver City seventy four. So once again, the smaller cities, 332 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 4: which by the way, small cities in Los Angeles County 333 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 4: are the biggest cities. You know, back all, you know, 334 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 4: these are huge cities in their own right. They get 335 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 4: it done. Their politicians come out and say, I will 336 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 4: fill that pothole in LA. As this headline, this headline 337 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 4: of this editorial in the La Times is LA has 338 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 4: surrendered to the potholes. 339 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: Unreal. 340 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 4: Now keep in mind it costs money to fix potholes. 341 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 4: They don't have any money. One of the reasons LA 342 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 4: doesn't have any money is because of the exorbitant civil 343 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 4: litigation that's been brought against it. These lawsuits settlements, many 344 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 4: of which are cited as trip and fall cases, which 345 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 4: could include all of this infrastructure, a pothole damaging somebody, 346 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 4: adjuring somebody. In fact, that the other co author of 347 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 4: this or in hadar I, spoke to him, he had 348 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 4: written a story about a Streets for All advocate who 349 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 4: was riding his bike in the Arts District just a 350 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, on his way to a Streets 351 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 4: for All holiday party, a Safe Street advocate going to 352 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 4: a Safe Street organization holiday party. His electric scooter crashed 353 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 4: into a pothole and he broke bones. And that is 354 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 4: going to be a lawsuit against the city. So the 355 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 4: city is going to have to spend more money and 356 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 4: still not have enough money to fix the root. 357 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: Cause of the lawsuits. It is so. 358 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 3: Infuriating, But I guess the good news is we can 359 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 3: take the fabulous public transit if we want to stay 360 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 3: off well. 361 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 4: Exactly, I'm a transit fan. I love the Metro. I 362 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 4: love taking it. I wish it were more inviting to 363 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 4: more people. 364 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you also wear a full tax suit when 365 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 3: you get on. When you go down down the steps, you. 366 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 4: Know, they don't let you anymore. Now, oh right, they 367 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 4: don't let you know. You can't take I just take 368 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 4: a knife. It's triggering, though, and you know you're not 369 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 4: supposed to take weapons on there anymore. And I'm nervous 370 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 4: about whether I should take my knife, which I took solely. 371 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 4: I wasn't gonna be an aggressive This. 372 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 3: Is not a bit you are actually are you being serious? 373 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 3: I got scared once on the A line from Long Beach. 374 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 3: One of the one of our local yokels, got on 375 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 3: and started. 376 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 4: Screaming in my direction of all the passengers, was really 377 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 4: eyeing in on me for whatever reason. 378 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: And I thought, this guy's gonna come. And he was 379 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: tough looking, probably the sweater. 380 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 4: I thought, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, if this guy comes, 381 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 4: I'm gonna put up a fight. Like I'm probably gonna 382 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 4: lose this fight, but he's gonna bleed. But after that, 383 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 4: I decided I would be armed. I'm not going to 384 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 4: get a gun, but I felt like a knife was appropriate. 385 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 4: That's wild, and I started carrying enough like a switchblade, 386 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 4: or like switchblade with a wolf on the handle. 387 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 1: I called it no beato. Wow, you really did get 388 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: on board with the angel. 389 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 4: The next day I got a knife. I was ready 390 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 4: to use it if necessary. I've never felt threatened like 391 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 4: that again since, thank goodness. But yeah, I mean, to 392 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 4: your point, it's the city is ungovernable. 393 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 3: It's tough because I love it here so much. Yeah, 394 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 3: it's just a mess. It's a mess, and they are fixable. 395 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,479 Speaker 3: There are solutions, and they don't ever approach it. It's 396 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 3: like a car with a bad repaint job. You know, 397 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 3: you just can't look too closely. You just got to 398 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 3: get in it and drive. Otherwise, like you're gonna have, 399 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 3: You're gonna freak out if you sit there and you 400 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 3: study it all and think. 401 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 4: It's it's frustrating. It's aggravating. We're in the business where 402 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 4: you pay too much attention to this sort of thing. 403 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 4: But hey, how about this one? 404 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 3: How about this winter? Michael Muggs. Everybody in the sweater 405 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 3: and the cool glasses. Thank you for being here. As always. 406 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from k 407 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 5: A six forty June. 408 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 3: You're a ding dong with all of you out there, 409 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 3: it still doesn't feel right. I still I don't. I 410 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 3: don't know that I can do it. 411 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: Crozy. 412 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 3: You always put some stank on it, which I appreciate. 413 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 3: Say that again, a little ding dong with a stank 414 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 3: on it, though. 415 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you gotta put something on it. Put something 416 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 7: on it, say it like you meaning. 417 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: Ding do Hey, by the way, are you here tomorrow? 418 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: I am? What are you gonna be? Are you are 419 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 1: you see. This is the thing. 420 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 3: There's something wonderful about one hundred percent chance of rain 421 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 3: on New Year's Eve because it kind of gives everybody 422 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,880 Speaker 3: a pass. I am so sick of the pressure of 423 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,640 Speaker 3: doing something extravagant on New Year's Eve, and maybe as 424 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 3: you get older, it's less of a thing. 425 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: It is absolutely less of a thing. I'll tell her. 426 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 3: Even now, in my late thirties, I feel like there's 427 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 3: this sense of you better do something, you better do 428 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 3: something big. 429 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 7: I think you're kind of at the peak of it, 430 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 7: that feeling, because when you're younger, it's like, oh, you're 431 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 7: just now coming into adulthood, so you're kind of like, oh, 432 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 7: I got time and I'm gonna do this this year. 433 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 7: But like you said, is you're kind of in that 434 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 7: that window that you're in right now. I think you're 435 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 7: at the peak of the obligation. 436 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: Man. I hear you. 437 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 3: I hear you, And I'm lucky that, like my partner, 438 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 3: my girlfriend doesn't really care. I think that, you know, 439 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 3: she's she got a nice dress, and I think that's important. 440 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 3: She doesn't want to waste a nice dress. I respect 441 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 3: that she don't want to waste a nice dress. 442 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: That's on New Year's Eve. 443 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 7: I would argue, that's the one night when you're not 444 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:30,719 Speaker 7: wasting a night at night. 445 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 3: But I'm saying it would be if you know, if 446 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 3: I if I picked her up and I took her 447 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 3: to Taco Bell in the drive through. Man, I don't 448 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 3: know if that'd be a good night or a bad 449 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 3: night for many reasons, but I just think that, you know, 450 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 3: if you're gonna go out of the out of the 451 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 3: the I mean, and she rents her clothes, right that 452 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 3: all these people rent their clothes now nowadays. 453 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, And actually. 454 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 3: I kind of like it because it's smart because you 455 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 3: you can use this service to rent an outfit and 456 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 3: then you don't have to buy new clothes. And like 457 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 3: I'd like if they did this for men. I would 458 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 3: do this because I'm on TV and every single day 459 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 3: I always feel like, oh, I'm gonna wear that stupid 460 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 3: old tie again. Not that anyone has ever cared other 461 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 3: than me. 462 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 7: You don't get emails or calls about to your ties 463 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 7: or your no outfits in general. 464 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 3: I get a lot of messages about my hair. Somebody 465 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,719 Speaker 3: said yesterday this is a true comment. Was is this 466 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 3: a real newsperson? Why does his hair look like that 467 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 3: is the person who cuts his hair blind serious news perpose, 468 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 3: and it's like also, all of those answers are no, like, 469 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 3: what are you new here, buddy? 470 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: Like I don't, I don't make any bones about it. 471 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 3: I'm not out here trying to be Walter Cronkite in 472 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 3: any stretch of the imagination. You know, this is just 473 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 3: like I'm just as surprised to be on TV as 474 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 3: you are to see me on this. Truly, this is 475 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 3: a bizarre thing that happened, and I'm appreciative that it happened, 476 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 3: and I love doing it every day. But I did 477 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 3: not think that it ever actually would would materialize. But 478 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 3: we had another message from someone named Howard Cohen, who 479 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 3: who is a long time I think multiple times a 480 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 3: day he will write good old long letters to Ktlaw. 481 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got those, and it's a long letter, and 482 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: I'll read just part of it. 483 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 3: Mon Pa back east won't be looking at their televisions 484 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 3: and seeing sunny skies and seventy five degree attempts during 485 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 3: the Rose Parade and game and decide to move here. 486 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: Exclamation point. 487 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 3: We have enough all caps underlined bold people here already, 488 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 3: Thanks to all the transplants from the Midwest, South, mid 489 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 3: Atlantic and Northeast. Finally, God is listening, And I think 490 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 3: that this goes back to you know, everybody said that 491 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 3: the Rose Parade was one of the big reasons that 492 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 3: people would move out to Los Angeles. 493 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 1: The exposure is. 494 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 3: Because you would see in your sad, dark, dreary Midwestern home, 495 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 3: which I did one year, million, a million years ago, 496 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 3: watching and seeing the Rose Parade on New Year's Day, 497 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 3: seeing everybody all out there in their T shirts and 498 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 3: their shorts, their hot pants on Colorado Boulevard. You ever 499 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 3: see Michael Olman, You never see the full shot. You 500 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 3: know why, because he's wearing hot pants underneath that that 501 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 3: that blazer. 502 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: Never getting rid of that image. 503 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 3: No, and boy oh boyd does that guy got some 504 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 3: nice legs. You know he's a breakdancer. This is not 505 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 3: is not a joke. He can break dance. This is 506 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 3: not a joke. I mean, he does wear hot pants, 507 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 3: at least as far as I know. I no judgment 508 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 3: on my part, but not at least that I can verify. 509 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 3: But he is a breakdancer. 510 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 7: I heard one of your one of your anchors yesterday 511 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 7: or day before whatever, talking about how the old Christmas 512 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 7: parties that Katla used to have, Like every company news 513 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 7: can talk about the old days of the fantastic, Like 514 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 7: even here I are Cleare Channel, we had the fantastic 515 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 7: just ragers and how Michael Olman did did an entire 516 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 7: rap song. 517 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: He did Rappers Delight? Was it Rappers to Light? 518 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 3: He did Rappers Delight? And he could do he could 519 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 3: also truly could and I'm just assuming still can break dance. 520 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 3: And you got to realize that guy's like six five wow. 521 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 3: So that's a lot of wind moving around there. 522 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: You know. 523 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 3: I mean that is a that is a big tree 524 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 3: fall hard scenario that is it's just, you know, the 525 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 3: physics of it is really impressive. 526 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 7: So when he does the thing where he spins and 527 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 7: his legs are up in the air spinning. 528 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 3: Night anything, oh yeah, well you know, and if you're 529 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 3: sweating a little bit, you get closer so that you 530 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 3: can dry some of the little drop some of thechine. No. 531 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 3: And he's incredible. And that restaurant that they used to 532 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 3: do those parties at was Miss Straw. It was a 533 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 3: very it's still there. It's a real nice French restaurant 534 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 3: in Sherman Oaks, and back in the early nineteen nineties. 535 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 3: I don't know how long they've done the party there, 536 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 3: but back in the early nineteen nineties when it opened 537 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 3: a steak, freetz, a filet and some French fries, was 538 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 3: guess how. 539 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: Much thirty bucks? Fourteen dollars? 540 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 3: Oh, come on now, it's like fifty dollars easily if 541 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 3: you're lucky. 542 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 1: What a world. 543 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 3: Anyway, I'll continue here, he says, Please take pity on 544 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 3: the parade goers because there's no umbrellas allowed. They will 545 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 3: be reserving their spots starting today at noon on Colorado Boulevard. 546 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: Are they allowed out there today? They are? They reserve 547 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: this today? 548 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, tomorrow, Okay, all right, that's right, because they'll 549 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 3: be there overnight into the I got confusion. 550 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: I'm confusing myself. They're there for the New year bringing, right, so. 551 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 3: They can go the thirty first the evening as starting 552 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 3: at noon tomorrow. You gotta be And I love this 553 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 3: city and I love stuff. I love going to things. 554 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 3: I'm always the person who's like, let's go do the activity, 555 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 3: let's go out and have fun, let's party. But but 556 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 3: ain't no way in no world am I going out 557 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 3: to Pasadena a day in advance and lining up in 558 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 3: a rainy Colorado boulevard without an umbrella overnight to watch 559 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 3: the floats go by. 560 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: And I love the floats, do you, Yeah, they're pretty cool. 561 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: I got to cover it. 562 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 3: I did the thing afterwards where they all park on 563 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 3: on I guess it's still Colorado Boulevard, but it's further 564 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 3: east in Pasadena where they're all parked up on and 565 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 3: you can go look at them get up. 566 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 7: Yeah. 567 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 3: I don't know what the street is called, because Lake Avenue. 568 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 3: I don't know wherever it. 569 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: Is, Yeah, something like that. 570 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,719 Speaker 3: That seems right. I don't know if it's that, but 571 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 3: wherever they end up up there. I did a live 572 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 3: shot there and I did a little package, went over, 573 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 3: checked it out a package. I did a package that's 574 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 3: TV talk, you know, I just would put in a package, Can. 575 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 1: I tell you? I was so dumb. 576 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 3: I like showed up there and they I did the 577 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 3: I did the report and I filed it like, I 578 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 3: sent it in to give it to the photographer. He 579 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 3: edited it and they sent it in and then they 580 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 3: closed the event and so I said, okay, well I 581 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 3: guess I'm done now, and I left and I didn't 582 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 3: know I was supposed to stay after it was closed 583 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 3: and do a live shot. My boss called me the 584 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 3: next thy, like what is wrong with you? And I 585 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 3: was like, well, it's closed, Like we don't care. You 586 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 3: go out and stand out in front of it even 587 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 3: if it's empty. I was like, you want to stand 588 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,360 Speaker 3: on an empty Colorado boulevard and look at where what 589 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 3: or the action was? And I kid you not, this 590 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,120 Speaker 3: is not my boss anymore. He was like, Andy, don't 591 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 3: you ever watch the news? 592 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: This is what we did. I was like, that's fair. 593 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 7: What I was reporting. It was things like that that 594 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 7: that it just had me dislike going out in the 595 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 7: field so silly was July fourth, go to the go 596 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 7: to the beaches and ask people why they're there? Day 597 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 7: before thanksgivving, yah, airports, all of that stuff. That was 598 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 7: those things that I just I could. It was hard 599 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 7: for me to do. It's ut real's imposing on people's 600 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 7: life so much. 601 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 3: Totally, and it's a rinse and repeat eventually because you 602 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 3: think like, all right, how many times can I do 603 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 3: this story over and over again. The worst is the 604 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 3: heat when three or four days before there's a heat 605 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 3: event where you have to go out and stand in 606 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 3: front of a stand in front of a bank with 607 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 3: a little sign on it, you know that has the temperature, 608 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 3: and it's like, well, this is gonna it says seventy, 609 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 3: says seventy three right now, But let me tell you 610 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 3: in four or five days, that's gonna say ninety eight. 611 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 3: Don't miss it. Back to the year Conway Junior. Here, 612 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,880 Speaker 3: we'll be with you all the way to seven o'clock. 613 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 5: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf 614 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 5: I am six forty. 615 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 3: Pretty soon we're gonna open up the phone lines. My 616 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 3: favorite thing to do in the world is to listen 617 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 3: to the listeners. I always like to talk to people 618 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 3: out there in the world and I'll say crows, krozer. 619 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: It's the only uh, it's it's much. 620 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 3: It's much different in this way because people are calling 621 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 3: us as opposed to us going out, you know, a 622 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 3: couple of days before a heat event, saying well how 623 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 3: are you gonna stay cool? 624 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: Dramatically different because. 625 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 3: They're inviting us. You know, they're there, they want to 626 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 3: talk to us. 627 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 7: I was in uh it was it South LA for 628 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 7: a shooting once and a reporter and there was nothing 629 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 7: going on in the neighborhood and all these reporters around 630 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 7: just milling about, waiting for the for the public Information 631 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 7: officer to come out and give all the details. And 632 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 7: I talked to my news director here at the time 633 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 7: and he had said, go knock on some doors, ask 634 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 7: people what they saw. 635 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,120 Speaker 1: And I'm like, ah, oh, yeah. 636 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 7: First of all, how would I possibly trust what somebody's 637 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 7: gonna say based on that? I mean if I go 638 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 7: up to somebody with a microphone and say, hey, did 639 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 7: you see that thing? And they're gonna go, oh, a microphone, Sure, 640 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:14,679 Speaker 7: I saw it, yeah. 641 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 3: Right, I was in bed asleep. Yeah, but I did 642 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 3: see it, right. 643 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: That's the thing. 644 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 3: It's tough, and I don't mean to bring it down. 645 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 3: I may have told you this before, but after a 646 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 3: couple of years into first working in news, I was 647 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 3: working for David begno Over at Larry King's production company, 648 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 3: and I was doing a lot of producing for this 649 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 3: show called Newsbreaker, which was a daily, up to the minute, 650 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 3: whatever breaking news that was happening around the country. We 651 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 3: would do a report about and put it out on Twitter. 652 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 3: Like this is like twenty twelve. This is the early 653 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 3: days of online video and the biggest stories happened that year. 654 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 3: They were Hurricane Sandy and the Sandy Hook School shooting 655 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 3: December of twenty twelve, and the day it happened, they 656 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 3: put us on a plane from La flew out out 657 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 3: to Danbury, Connecticut, where we stayed, which is just a 658 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 3: couple streets over a couple of towns over from Newtown. 659 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 3: And we spent the next week just going around trying 660 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 3: to tell the stories of what had happened there, which 661 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 3: was obviously horrific, and the point of us being there, 662 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 3: you know, we weren't with a real news organization like 663 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 3: CNN or Fox News or MSNBC or ABC News or 664 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 3: NBC News. And it's funny to say that as a 665 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 3: real news organization, but you know what I mean, we weren't. 666 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 3: We didn't have a group of a support system there, 667 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 3: so we were just really on our own. And I 668 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 3: was carrying around this backpack that had the live stream 669 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 3: box in it. I probably will get some kind of 670 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 3: cancer because of holding this giant box forever, holding the 671 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 3: camera exactly. The batteries were dying because it was like 672 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 3: twenty degrees the whole time, and so it was just 673 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 3: it was a bummer but the worst part, for sure 674 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 3: was that we had invaded their town, their small little town. 675 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 3: The circus of the media had come to town. They were 676 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 3: in the worst moment of their lives, and we're going 677 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 3: door to door, just truly knocking on doors of random people, 678 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 3: asking them if they knew anybody who who had a 679 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 3: kid who was at Sandy Hook, or did even worse, 680 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 3: they have a kid. 681 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: And it just was like, what are we doing here? 682 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: This is horrible. The news is. 683 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 7: Over and you know, there are some people, there are 684 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 7: some reporters, journalists that can do that with a certain 685 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 7: degree of a plumb and sensitivity and make it worthwhile 686 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 7: and not you know, grave digging. 687 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 3: It felt weird, And then I thought, you know, this 688 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 3: probably isn't for me, just because I don't know if 689 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 3: I can. I don't know if I have the emotional 690 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 3: capability to be this close to this all the time. 691 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: Yes, and to you know. 692 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 3: Because it's one thing to watch it on TV or 693 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 3: read it off of a teleprompter, but when you're there 694 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 3: and you're looking at the emotion and you're thinking about 695 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 3: these people whose lives, once the circus goes away still 696 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 3: go on, and they still have that hole in their 697 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 3: lives from there, their loss. 698 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: It's so you know, you just. 699 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 7: And it plays in your head the whole time you're there, 700 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 7: and it's like, I don't walk away in thirty seconds, 701 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 7: and you're still gonna be in this. 702 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 703 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 3: And I can, by the way, not be here. And 704 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 3: if I'm here, it's making it worse. Yeah, And I 705 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 3: don't need to be doing that. I don't need to 706 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,959 Speaker 3: be putting these people through something more difficult. So then 707 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,239 Speaker 3: I started working in comedy and now I ended up 708 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 3: here somehow, So I don't know. I'm very appreciative and 709 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 3: very happy to be here. But yeah, I just you know, 710 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: you just you feel you feel for those people and 711 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 3: and uh uh, you know, I guess that's a long 712 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 3: way of saying, please give us a call at some point. 713 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: So we don't guess come to you don't You don't 714 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: want us to be showing up. 715 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 3: We don't want a whole strip of satellite trucks up 716 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 3: and down your block. 717 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: That's not good. You don't like We don't like that. 718 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 3: So h that's coming up. For the next hour, We're 719 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 3: gonna play this game called Solo. The Solo I will 720 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 3: play an isolated guitar solo, and you have to call 721 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 3: in to see if you can guess the song, the artist, 722 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 3: and for bonus points, the guitarist, the guitar. Sometimes it's easy, 723 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 3: you know, if it's a van Halen song, you know 724 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 3: who's playing the solo? 725 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: Are you playing van Halen? We may, I don't know. 726 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. 727 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 2: You know. 728 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: I got a list of things here. It looks like 729 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: some good stuff. 730 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 3: And definitely if you if you listened to the radio 731 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 3: in the seventies the eighties, you will know these songs. 732 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: I hope. 733 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 3: And there's no there's nothing to win, which also means 734 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 3: that there's nothing to lose. So I think that in 735 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 3: a lot of ways, that's that's all that we can 736 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 3: ask for here on KFI. A pleasant waste of time, 737 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 3: A pleasant waste of time that is actually, you know what, 738 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 3: update my bio on the website, Andy Reesemeyer KTLA's very own. 739 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,719 Speaker 3: We give him a couple hours a week quote A 740 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 3: pleasant waste of time? 741 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: Why not? All right? 742 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 3: Before? Oh, that's good. At least we were a pleasant 743 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 3: waste of time by the way, we were going to 744 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 3: get to this next story. But I know that we're 745 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 3: over time here. So maybe we'll take a quick break. 746 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 3: When we come back for the next hour, We've got 747 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 3: a lot more to get to, including some of the 748 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 3: wackiest New Year's eve drops in the United States. Obviously 749 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 3: they've got the ball drop in New York City. That's 750 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 3: a big one. 751 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: You know. 752 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 3: It's baby Making Day over there, according to the according 753 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 3: to the mayor. 754 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: Do you know that. 755 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 3: I when I was leaving last night, I heard whatever 756 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 3: programming came on right after us, which I'm not sure 757 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 3: where it originates from, but it's real good people talking funny. 758 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 3: Their first story was Eric Adams talking about baby making days. 759 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: Baby Making Day. There you go. I think we were 760 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: onto something. How was he not still the mayor? 761 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 3: You know, I only have about thirty seconds, so I 762 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 3: just don't have time to get into that. This is 763 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty Andy Reismeyer in for Conway here 764 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 3: on the Conway Show. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 765 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 2: Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you 766 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 2: can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty 767 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 2: four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on 768 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeartRadio app.