May 15, 2024 • 27 mins
Tim is impressed with the new TV set up in the studio. Tim Feels mixed about not ever being invited to give a commencement speech. Panic attacks are taken seriously, studies can be made to help people move forward. // Breaking News UC Irvine protest coverage. Students and law enforcement are on the scene. Protesters appear peaceful now, but they are being asked to disperse.// Breaking News UC Irvine protest coverage. Barricades have formed between protesters and authorities; authorities are starting to push forward.// Breaking News UC Irvine protest coverage. Unlawful assembly has been declared. Multiple law enforcement organizations are at the scene.
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It's k IF. I am sixforty and you're listening to the Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.Wow, man, oh man, if
I sounds like there's a pep inmy step. Today. We have one,
two, three, four, fivenew television sets in the studio so
I can watch channel two, Channelfour, Channel five, Channel seven,
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Channel nine, Channel eleven and eitherCNN or Fox News. This great.
Yeah, they're ready to roll.I'm watching all of them. Man oh
man, it's like being in anewsroom. You know, it's terrific.
I love it. But I camein and I and I said to John,
I said, ah, I guessthe you know, because only two
of them are on. I said, ah, they're taking a long time
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to start those other five TVs.And he says, no, they all
work. They just give me aheadache. There's too much in here.
And I said, now, thisis great. This is terrific. I
can watch every single station, sowhenever there's a high speed pursuit, we
have it covered on two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven,
and thirty. We got it coveredeverywhere. This is great, man,
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this is terrific. Whoever did thatdeserves an atta boy who put that
up in it? Is it Matt? I think I saw Matt in there
at some point. Man, ohman, that is terrific. That is
great. All right. We're comingup on graduation week, and again this
is the twenty fifth year in arow where I've been in radio. I
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know, it seems like a longtime. And I have never ever been
asked to give the keynote or thegraduation address at any school, elementary,
junior, high, high school,city college, public college, private college,
university, nothing, nothing, notone. And I don't know what
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to think about that. I guessit's sort of I don't know, mixed
emotions. Mixed emotions. I wouldsay that I've not been asked, so
I don't know if I would doit, though, because I certainly don't
have any advice for the kids.I really don't. I mean, I
think I would have like two piecesof advice and then that would be it.
I wouldn't sit there and bore them, especially if it was hot out.
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I wouldn't go there, you know, and do a ten minute or
twenty minute speech. You know,those kids just want to get the hell
out of them. The parents wantto get you know, back to you
know, their job. And theirlife. They want to go to dinner
with the kids, which will beexpensive this year, and then they want
to just get on with their life. You wouldn't do like the chief kicker
did over the weekend and basically toldall the kids that it was a waste
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for them to spend all their moneyfor the college. Imagine the collective's grown
and screened to the parents in theaudience. What Yeah, And I think
the parents are like, oh God, I wish I heard the speech four
years ago. Could have saved methree hundred thousand dollars. No, I
think college is great for kids.I don't know if it's great. I
don't know how much you learned whenyou're in college. It's not great for
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all kids that way, right,But I don't know how much you learn
in college. I think what youwhat you learn is how to get along
with with other people. Yeah,it's I think a lot of it is
figuring out what are the options availableto you, what's out there? And
it is a networking thing as well. Any any kid that goes to school,
if you're not taking advantage of thenetworking opportunities that that college provide you,
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then there's no point in going that'sexactly right. Especially you know Ivy
League schools or you know usc U, c l A. They have a
tremendous amount of connections and almost anyfield you want to go into, yep.
And so you got to cross right, you got to you got to
use that the one one great pieceof advice that that I've heard over the
years, and uh, it's sortof stuck with me. Well, two
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things. One, I think JerrySeinfelt covered it with you know, never
ever lose your sense of humor.This society is going to try to drag
it out of you and knock getout of you, and and and never
lose you know, it's going toget you through a lot of crap.
A lot this life is going todeal you a lot of bad hands,
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and to be able to laugh abouta lot of it is a great,
great gift. Secondly, the secondthing I think I learned I saw this
at a commencement speech years and yearsand years ago, that if you're close
with your grandparents. I was veryclose with my grandparents. When you make
decisions in life or just act ona daily basis, imagine your grandmother and
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grandfather watching over you. And andthen what kind of decision would you make
And that stuck with me for along, long, long period of time.
But graduation is great, it's it'svery you know, it's sad for
a lot of people. They're goingto be, you know, moving on
into either getting a job right awayor going to college. There are some
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people that are going to you know, have be empty nesters and you're going
to have a house that was youknow, once filled with lots of energy
and lots of talking and screaming andcrying and laughing and noise and pets,
you know, dogs and cats,and now you might be you know alone.
It might be very quiet inside thehouse and that might be tough to
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get used to. And that's youknow, Krozer went through that, and
Krozier, you know, you hadto. You had to go through that
on your own. It's not likeyou had a you know, a dog,
a wife and you know, youknow, neighbors and friends coming over.
When you dropped sid off to collegeand Texas you came back, you
were living alone and you just hadto deal with that on your own.
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I didn't know that. Yeah,and my my my ex, her mother,
she had already moved out of state. She went to Nevada about six
months prior to that, so shewasn't even out here in the Southland.
And and I moved in with mynow wife Jen right after, right after
dropping Sid off it in Texas andher daughter. She was dropping her daughter
off in New York. But herdaughter didn't even make it two days.
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Oh is that right? She hada panic attack and came back with her.
Wow, So my kind of galyeah, shed yeah, exactly,
It's kind of It's one of thosethings at the time you realize I don't
think I'm ready for three thousand milesaway quite yet. And so she didn't
have that because her daughter actually cameback with her. So yeah, even
though I moved in with gen,I was it was mine was gone.
Wow, that's wild man, wedweird feeling man. Yeah, I look,
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I understand panic attacks. My wifehad one. We were going to
uh, New York. We're flyingout of a long beach on JEF Blue
whatever it was, and and shehad a pan attack attack on the way
to the airport, and and youknow, you know, you couldn't breathe,
you know, she was passing out, and I thought she was having
a heart attack. She goes,no, it's a panic attack, and
I didn't know what. I don'tknow what to do, you know,
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with panic attacks. It's it's funnyhow in the last twenty years it's become
a viable thing as compared to whatit used to be. Right. It
used to be you had a panicattack, it will, I'll get over
yourself, you know type of thing. Now it's like it's so sort of
prevalent and serious. People kind oflook at it and go, Okay,
what's going on? What can wedo? Well, let's figure it out.
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Well, I think that's with alot of things. You know,
when I was going to school,you know, elementary school, junior high,
there wasn't a D D eighty HDall that stuff. It was just
you know, the kid was slow. Nobody heard of autism at that point,
right, yeah, the kid wasjust no, he's a weird uh
chap, Yeah, yeah, kindof off centered this guy. All right,
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But now it's it's a thing,And I'm glad that it's a thing
because now people can you know,study it and understand it and maybe help
these kids. Yeah, you know, but back when I was going to
school, there was just some youknow, oh that Kid's Odd Night,
Strange Kid. Yeah, you're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty. All right, let's uh, let's get into Irvine
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here. What's going on in Irvine? We have some fresh audio here,
but let me play you a littleaudio from about a half hour ago or
so. Ding dong with this audioand Irvine. The protests are happening in
Earth at everybody, and thank youfor joining us on the web. This
is Gil leave us up in skyfive along with my fat Jim Pollard.
We're over the campus of UC Irvinewhere a pro Palestinian protest is underway.
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As anoint I got to go backhere. I like the fact that the
guy introduced the pilot. You know, these pilots never get any kind of
mention. They fly all day.They risk their lives for these adope reporters,
and you know they're doing maneuvers thatare impossible to do. They're up
there all day and flying around forfive four or five six hours without hitting
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the restroom out getting a snack.And I like the fact that he gave
the pilot a shout out. Ohgood afternoon, everybody, and thank you
for joining us on the web.This is Gil lave Us up in Sky
five along with my pilot Jim Pollard. We are over the campus of UC
Irvine where a pro Palestinian protest isunderway. As I come out to a
whitechot, you see the police thatare on scene here. The encampment that's
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here on the campus next to thePhysical Science Lecture Hall has been going on.
It looks like for some time now, and just a short time ago.
The police have notified the people inthis encampment that this is they're considering
this an unlawful assembly. Yeah,this is not going to be a three
week deal. Sorry, kids andIrvine, this is not going to be
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a three weeks partying and likely hadalready issued a dispersal order. As we
see the police, different agencies herefrom Orange County that are joining in on
this situation. Here we do seethe Orange County Sheriffs here, Newport Beach
Police, among other law enforcement.You're going to see everybody. You'll see
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Newport Coast to Mesa, you know, Orange County Sheriff, Irvine cops.
You'll see a lot of authority there. Law enforcement from other cities moving in
here. You can see a teamof more sheriffs moving into the scene here.
Again, this is near the PhysicalScience Lecture Hall. As we've seen
in other encampments on other campuses.It appears that the propol sitting group has
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set up a boundary here, borderor a wall if you want to call
it that, with plywood and otheritems there that are lining the encampment.
You can see the signs that arehere around that encampment and the large group
of people that are moving through thecampus here. You can see here at
the further northern end of that encampmentthe wall that's been set up here,
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and it looks like it's built upinto the Physical Science Lecture Hall here.
Now, there's a propala sitting groupcalled UCI Divests on social media. They're
calling for the university to divest fromcompanies and organizations that support is real.
And while police gather there in theparking lot, I can tell you that
there's a two police helicopters that arecircling. Yeah, I'm just Orange County
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has a hell of a lot ofresources and they're going to use a lot
of them, a lot of them. It's get an update here, a
brand new update just happening here.I think it was on Channel four.
We want to take you back outto the UCI campus right now there is
a large amount of protesters and supportersof those protesters at the encampment on campus
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and a huge law enforcement response.Eleana Marino overhead for us with what's going
on now, Ran I'm still reallyimpressed by the law enforcement response to this,
Carolyn, because as I moved theshot over, I'm going to show
you that parking lot that's closest tothe Physical Sciences squad where all of this
is taking place, and nearly everyspot in the parking lot is taken up
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by a police squad car. It'seither going to be you see police,
Irvine police. The CHP is hereas well as the Orange County Sheriff's Department,
and I just see additional officers arrivingnow. Now for the students involved,
they have been to it that thisis an unlawful of suddenly, which
means that if they don't clear out, they could be arrested. But at
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this point I haven't seen anyone leave. In fact, I'm still seeing additional
students arriving. Most of them arejust standing around and listening to speakers.
So it does seem very peaceful atthis point, but of course they have
been asked to clear out, andwe are seeing that there are students that
are up on this particular building,I think it's a physical sciences building,
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and you'll notice that they have asigned there that says alex O'Day Hall.
So they have brought out that signand Alex O'Day was actually a Palestinian Palestinian
activist who died in a bombing innineteen eighty five. So these are clearly
pro Palestinian protesters who are not onlyhave demands regarding the war in Gaza,
but they're also trying to have demandsfrom the uc Urvine administration. Wow,
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a lot of demands, demand afterdemand. They're asking for anyone who was
suspended for their involvement in the GazaSolidarity encampment to be pardoned and so that
way they could participate in all thegraduation activities. Again, at this point,
as far as we can tell,no one has been arrested, but
all the students that are here torun the risk of being arrested if they
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do not clear out. You know, a lot of people think that I'm
anti protests. I am not.I am pro protests as long as I
can get in on and get involvedor not in on it. You know,
I think if they if there waslook this protest. You know,
when when President Biden was asked ifhis foreign policy has changed because of these
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protests, his quick answer was,no, that's not true that Joe Biden.
President Biden's foreign policy has shifted becauseof these protests. Holding weapons back
from Israel, that was a directresult of these protests. So you know,
you kids out there, you know, I may not sound pro protests
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all the time, but it's working. It's working. You're having some influence
on the President of the United States. So you know, at least you
can fall back on that and say, hey, we had a you know,
we made a little change in life. But if there was another protest,
you know, not the one foryou know, Gaza and Palestine and
Israel, if there's another protest outthere that was against all these high prices
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for everything, count me in.I'll be sitting there putting my tent up
with my you know, my uh, you know, drinking bottle, my
my my bottle of water, mymy scarf, you know, lower prices
on everything. I would be sittingthere holding up a sign. Kroz and
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I are pretty good, you know, with tools and and and plywood,
we can make some of the wallsand the and the you know, the
gates around the protests. I thinkwe would really help you out. So
if there is a protest this summer, the prices of everything in southern California
way too high, the rench toodamn high, count me in. I'll
be right there with you kids.I'll be standing right there, arm in
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arm. And I don't care ifthey suspend me from u C I or
u C l A or USC.That doesn't matter to me because I don't
go there, but and I'm notgraduating, but I will be there.
I'll be there with you kids.If you ever put a protest together with
price they're two damn high, you'llkeep can count on me. All right,
We're gonna come back and watch thisUC Irvine see what happens here with
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the protests. A lot more news. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from KFI AM six forty.Is Angel Martinez with the Angel You with
us, right, Bevan, Ohyou know it right? People that I
got emails thing they don't like whenI refer to you as Babe man,
vibebe bab. I So Michael Brianis high over this guy at Irvine.
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Yeah, yeah, he Actually theycannot get in because of the cloud coverage.
The helicopters can fly much lower.But I think he can probably hear
us and he can chime in rightnow if you guys want to. Hey,
So, so Mike, are youwith us? Yes? I am.
So what are the clouds look likeover Irvin? Well, it's weird
because it was about the only spotthat's really fairly bad. Here's the thing
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we got through there. I swungthrough a couple of times and we started
wiping out a little bit. Butit's sporadic. We're gonna go try it
again, okay. Man. Theother thing is the choppers. You know,
they get the lower priority get onthe as far as allude right,
And then we got to be abovethem and we were wiping out a little
bit. I got a couple ofcircles in there, and I was really
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impressed. The police presence there isunbelievable. As you heard on one of
the other reports, you played,sure there is a couple of huge parking
lots and there must be one hundredand fifty units there, you know,
black and white units. So andmultiply that by what at least two or
three and not to mention other parkinglots that have a lot of police presence
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as well. So, Mike,what's your altitude right now? How high
are you that? We are?Exactly about seventeen hundred feet? Wow,
we're just heading south on the sixoh five crossing the one oh five.
Okay, all right, so let'sbe back there in about ten fifteen,
ten minutes probably. Look, I'msort of a you know, an airplane
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and you know helicopter goofball. Howhow high do you get before the air
starts to get thin? Can youget that high? Yeah? We experienced
that gosh years ago. Remember wehad the whole mountain side was on fire,
and every day I'd go up forthree hours. And once you get
around ten eleven thousand, and thisplane really doesn't go past that, you
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know, it almost just not reallystalls, but it's just not going to
climb any higher than that. Right. But yeah, you once you get
up there, you know, Ican imagine driving up the Big Bearer,
you know, you could feel ita little bit there. Sure, Well,
big Bear. I mean that,you know, the peak in Big
Bear is like seventy eight hundred orsomething like that. Right, So if
we get over Baldy at eleven ortwelve, which is the highest I've ever
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been over there. But I tellyou, after a few minutes, definitely
a half hour, man, youcan feel the difference. Do you feel
in the summer? Do you feelthe updraft from the desert? Oh?
Well, you get that, andyou get the also the inversion layer,
oh, from the mountaintown. Well, and it's so strange because in that
like a summer morning, it couldbe six Oh I see, what do
you talk about? The fog andevery Yeah, you can be sixty five
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on the ground, but you getup in ninety. Oh wow. Do
you have air conditioning and heating upthere? Oh? We got heating,
but they ain't nowhere conditions? Ohno, no, oh no, it's
about the old, really miserable thingabout this job is, you know,
flying in the hot summer days.Yeah, I bet all right, buddy,
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I really appreciate you flying over thereand giving us a bird's eye view.
All right, buddy, we're gonnago giving another shot to see V
there. Thanks? All right,there he goes Mike O'Brien, Everybody flying
high over the Irvine protests. Let'sget some audio here. What's going on
in Irvine University, California. Yousee Irvine University of California, Irvin.
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I have demands from the U seeUrvine administration. They're asking quest right back
in just a little here, Holdon one second. This is uh Eleanna
Moreno, who's just on TV.I just are on TV right now where
there is a large amount of protestersand supporters of those protesters at the encampment
on campus and a huge law enforcementresponse. Eleana Marino over head force with
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what's going on now? Eliana,I'm still really impressed by the law enforcement
response to this, Carolyn, becauseas I moved the shot over, I'm
going to show you that parking lotthat's closest to the physical Sciences squad where
all of this is taking place,and nearly every spot in the parking lot
is taken up by a police squadcar. It's either going to be you
see police, Irvine police. Yeah, it's a lot. I'm telling you
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they have it locked down. Andyou know we've said this sort of before
on the air that it's really toughto protest in Orange County because Orange County
has a lot of resources and thepeople live in Orange County are really pro
police. Like what happened to UCLAand the cops got blamed for going into
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Ucla. That doesn't happen in OrangeCounty. You're not going to hear a
lot of the homeowners getting down onthe cops like you do here in Los
Angeles. Why we come back.We have a k COL report. I
think it's a Michelle Gieley. Isthat her name, Michelle Gieley gil and
she was high over a reporter forKKEL and the protest going on, so
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we'll come back. The big storya Irvine, big story going on right
here in Irvine. It's live rightnow in Channel seven if you've got a
TV. Looks like the cops areabout to shut this down. They have
a skirmish line all assembled there andthey're not not letting anybody pass that line.
So things are about to get maybenasty and Irvine, and they're moving
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towards the protesters who have this campusand have the walls made out of looks
like plywood and some sticks. Sosomebody didn't go to the engineering school at
Irvine long enough. Looks like juststicks and plywood. Cops are going to
get through that pretty quickly. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty. Let's rightback to Irvine and find out what's going
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on with these protests. How they'rehappening at the university down there. Cal
State, No, it's not calState, University of Irvine, California University.
You see Irvine, University of Californiaat Irvine. Big dog with that
school and now the protests and thecops. That's the big story right now
in Orange County. There's one majorstory going on right now and it's right
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on that campus of Irvine. KeikoNews reporter Michelle Geely is there live and
Chelle, how is it looking atIt seems like the deputies are moving in
now are they moving? Yes?This is the first movement, Amy that
we have seen. Oh no,flash bang? Yes, this is the
first movement. Is that a flashbang? Yes? All right, the
cops did that? Yes, allright, all right, but you're right
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there? Huh yes, okay,all right, what's with the attitude?
Yes, you like working with kekom. Yes, you haven't heard of Conway
shoe. Yes, ah, mygal By kind of gal right. Yes,
this is the first movement amy thatwe have seen since law enforcement arrived.
Here. You can see dozens ofofficers from multitude of agencies. I
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see gang units from Garden Grove,Fountain Valley Police, the Orange Police Department,
Orange County Sheriff, Fullerton PD.Wow, sounds like an overload.
They are starting to move closer tothe encampment. And when they're gang unit,
yeah, I don't know what thethe gang. I don't think a
lot of gangs are going to yousee Irvine. I don't know. Maybe
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they're an Orange County Sheriff, FullertonPD. They are. Maybe that's how
wealthy Orange County is where even thegang members have their degrees. You know,
they're even going to college. Theyare starting to move closer to the
encampment. And what they're doing isthey're telling people, students as well as
protesters to get out of the way. And a few minutes ago there was
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kind of a scramble and a lotof the people who we believe our students
just here on campus attending class ortaking a look at this kind of ran
out of the away. You know, what's got to be tough, crows.
I'm sure when your daughter Sydney wentto school, when she went to
Texas, you guys went to seethe campus. Yes, So I imagine
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that today some parents from out oftown, maybe they're from Montana, I
don't know, Iowa, and they'rehere today to visit that campus because their
kids are going there in September.And they walk on to campus and they
see nine thousand cops in rich Oh. And Sidney told me the other day
she's that's where she is looking togo at some point, so Irvine,
Wow, okay, all right,back to the story. And oh you
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did, Yeah, I did fora couple of years. Yeah, a
long time ago. But what'd youstudy there? Engineering? Nice? That's
great. How yeah, and I'mshoemaking right. That came later. That
was like, you know, okay, streets. Yeah, I went back
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to Cobblers for my masters. That'sgreat. And that seems to be the
tack right now that police are takingthey're going through the bushes in some cases
to inch their way closer to theencampment which has taken over this physical sciences
area. I should tell you thatthere were a couple of the protesters on
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the second floor of the Physical SciencesLecture Hall, and they announced that there
was no one in the building,that it's been locked, and they said,
we wanted to negotiate in good faithwith the chancellor, but our students,
meaning protesters, have been suspended.So they seemed to intimate that they
had taken over the Physical Sciences Hall. Across the way is Crow Hall.
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I tried to get in there.I saw several students inside. The doors
were locked, but there was campussecurity there telling me that no one was
going to be allowed inside. Butthere were students inside of that building.
I could see them there. Sowhat we don't know is what law enforcement
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plans to do here. The protestershave now put up some barricades, some
plastic barricades, and they're standing behindit. You can see Tim Kimble.
They're getting shots of that area andthey're just slowly making their way holding tons.
We see that they have less thanlethal obviously apparatus on their persons,
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on their bodies, but nothing hasbeen used. There has been no violence.
There are a lot of protesters onmegaphones and kind of shouting, but
that's the extent of it right now, All right, We're keeping an eye
on what's going on in Orange County. Fox eleven is live there right now.
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An unlawful assembly has been declared atUCI, and if you look at
it, there's a lot of umbrellas, not because there's rain, I think
that is, you know, deflectingany kind kind of stuff that's either thrown
it at these protesters. A lotof gas masks, not by the cops
but by the protesters. And it'sa standoff right now. There's a line
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of probably about one hundred cops andthe reporters are all behind the cops,
and then the protesters are in frontof the police, and the protesters are
yelling at the cops, at theand at the press, and so we're
going to keep following this to seehow this shakes down. But it looks
like there are you know, youcan't get that many cops out there,
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you know, just to stand thereall day. It's too expensive, and
there's other parts of you know,Orange County that need to be patrolled.
So they're going to probably do somethingin the next couple of minutes, maybe
hour, two hours, and sowe're going to carry it live here on
KFI. The big story coming outof UC Irvine is hundreds of cops there,
hundreds of protesters, and something isgoing to go down. And we
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saw at UCLA, we sawt itusc and now it's spreading to Irvine and
we're going to cover it live righthere on KFI AM six forty Conway Show,
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It's k IF. I am sixforty and you're listening to the Conway Show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.Wow, man, oh man, if
I sounds like there's a pep inmy step. Today. We have one,
two, three, four, fivenew television sets in the studio so
I can watch channel two, Channelfour, Channel five, Channel seven,
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Channel nine, Channel eleven and eitherCNN or Fox News. This great.
Yeah, they're ready to roll.I'm watching all of them. Man oh
man, it's like being in anewsroom. You know, it's terrific.
I love it. But I camein and I and I said to John,
I said, ah, I guessthe you know, because only two
of them are on. I said, ah, they're taking a long time
(00:43):
to start those other five TVs.And he says, no, they all
work. They just give me aheadache. There's too much in here.
And I said, now, thisis great. This is terrific. I
can watch every single station, sowhenever there's a high speed pursuit, we
have it covered on two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven,
and thirty. We got it coveredeverywhere. This is great, man,
(01:04):
this is terrific. Whoever did thatdeserves an atta boy who put that
up in it? Is it Matt? I think I saw Matt in there
at some point. Man, ohman, that is terrific. That is
great. All right. We're comingup on graduation week, and again this
is the twenty fifth year in arow where I've been in radio. I
(01:27):
know, it seems like a longtime. And I have never ever been
asked to give the keynote or thegraduation address at any school, elementary,
junior, high, high school,city college, public college, private college,
university, nothing, nothing, notone. And I don't know what
(01:51):
to think about that. I guessit's sort of I don't know, mixed
emotions. Mixed emotions. I wouldsay that I've not been asked, so
I don't know if I would doit, though, because I certainly don't
have any advice for the kids.I really don't. I mean, I
think I would have like two piecesof advice and then that would be it.
I wouldn't sit there and bore them, especially if it was hot out.
(02:14):
I wouldn't go there, you know, and do a ten minute or
twenty minute speech. You know,those kids just want to get the hell
out of them. The parents wantto get you know, back to you
know, their job. And theirlife. They want to go to dinner
with the kids, which will beexpensive this year, and then they want
to just get on with their life. You wouldn't do like the chief kicker
did over the weekend and basically toldall the kids that it was a waste
(02:34):
for them to spend all their moneyfor the college. Imagine the collective's grown
and screened to the parents in theaudience. What Yeah, And I think
the parents are like, oh God, I wish I heard the speech four
years ago. Could have saved methree hundred thousand dollars. No, I
think college is great for kids.I don't know if it's great. I
don't know how much you learned whenyou're in college. It's not great for
(02:58):
all kids that way, right,But I don't know how much you learn
in college. I think what youwhat you learn is how to get along
with with other people. Yeah,it's I think a lot of it is
figuring out what are the options availableto you, what's out there? And
it is a networking thing as well. Any any kid that goes to school,
if you're not taking advantage of thenetworking opportunities that that college provide you,
(03:19):
then there's no point in going that'sexactly right. Especially you know Ivy
League schools or you know usc U, c l A. They have a
tremendous amount of connections and almost anyfield you want to go into, yep.
And so you got to cross right, you got to you got to
use that the one one great pieceof advice that that I've heard over the
years, and uh, it's sortof stuck with me. Well, two
(03:39):
things. One, I think JerrySeinfelt covered it with you know, never
ever lose your sense of humor.This society is going to try to drag
it out of you and knock getout of you, and and and never
lose you know, it's going toget you through a lot of crap.
A lot this life is going todeal you a lot of bad hands,
(04:00):
and to be able to laugh abouta lot of it is a great,
great gift. Secondly, the secondthing I think I learned I saw this
at a commencement speech years and yearsand years ago, that if you're close
with your grandparents. I was veryclose with my grandparents. When you make
decisions in life or just act ona daily basis, imagine your grandmother and
(04:21):
grandfather watching over you. And andthen what kind of decision would you make
And that stuck with me for along, long, long period of time.
But graduation is great, it's it'svery you know, it's sad for
a lot of people. They're goingto be, you know, moving on
into either getting a job right awayor going to college. There are some
(04:43):
people that are going to you know, have be empty nesters and you're going
to have a house that was youknow, once filled with lots of energy
and lots of talking and screaming andcrying and laughing and noise and pets,
you know, dogs and cats,and now you might be you know alone.
It might be very quiet inside thehouse and that might be tough to
(05:03):
get used to. And that's youknow, Krozer went through that, and
Krozier, you know, you hadto. You had to go through that
on your own. It's not likeyou had a you know, a dog,
a wife and you know, youknow, neighbors and friends coming over.
When you dropped sid off to collegeand Texas you came back, you
were living alone and you just hadto deal with that on your own.
(05:24):
I didn't know that. Yeah,and my my my ex, her mother,
she had already moved out of state. She went to Nevada about six
months prior to that, so shewasn't even out here in the Southland.
And and I moved in with mynow wife Jen right after, right after
dropping Sid off it in Texas andher daughter. She was dropping her daughter
off in New York. But herdaughter didn't even make it two days.
(05:46):
Oh is that right? She hada panic attack and came back with her.
Wow, So my kind of galyeah, shed yeah, exactly,
It's kind of It's one of thosethings at the time you realize I don't
think I'm ready for three thousand milesaway quite yet. And so she didn't
have that because her daughter actually cameback with her. So yeah, even
though I moved in with gen,I was it was mine was gone.
Wow, that's wild man, wedweird feeling man. Yeah, I look,
(06:11):
I understand panic attacks. My wifehad one. We were going to
uh, New York. We're flyingout of a long beach on JEF Blue
whatever it was, and and shehad a pan attack attack on the way
to the airport, and and youknow, you know, you couldn't breathe,
you know, she was passing out, and I thought she was having
a heart attack. She goes,no, it's a panic attack, and
I didn't know what. I don'tknow what to do, you know,
(06:32):
with panic attacks. It's it's funnyhow in the last twenty years it's become
a viable thing as compared to whatit used to be. Right. It
used to be you had a panicattack, it will, I'll get over
yourself, you know type of thing. Now it's like it's so sort of
prevalent and serious. People kind oflook at it and go, Okay,
what's going on? What can wedo? Well, let's figure it out.
(06:53):
Well, I think that's with alot of things. You know,
when I was going to school,you know, elementary school, junior high,
there wasn't a D D eighty HDall that stuff. It was just
you know, the kid was slow. Nobody heard of autism at that point,
right, yeah, the kid wasjust no, he's a weird uh
chap, Yeah, yeah, kindof off centered this guy. All right,
(07:14):
But now it's it's a thing,And I'm glad that it's a thing
because now people can you know,study it and understand it and maybe help
these kids. Yeah, you know, but back when I was going to
school, there was just some youknow, oh that Kid's Odd Night,
Strange Kid. Yeah, you're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I AM six forty. All right, let's uh, let's get into Irvine
(07:35):
here. What's going on in Irvine? We have some fresh audio here,
but let me play you a littleaudio from about a half hour ago or
so. Ding dong with this audioand Irvine. The protests are happening in
Earth at everybody, and thank youfor joining us on the web. This
is Gil leave us up in skyfive along with my fat Jim Pollard.
We're over the campus of UC Irvinewhere a pro Palestinian protest is underway.
(07:59):
As anoint I got to go backhere. I like the fact that the
guy introduced the pilot. You know, these pilots never get any kind of
mention. They fly all day.They risk their lives for these adope reporters,
and you know they're doing maneuvers thatare impossible to do. They're up
there all day and flying around forfive four or five six hours without hitting
(08:20):
the restroom out getting a snack.And I like the fact that he gave
the pilot a shout out. Ohgood afternoon, everybody, and thank you
for joining us on the web.This is Gil lave Us up in Sky
five along with my pilot Jim Pollard. We are over the campus of UC
Irvine where a pro Palestinian protest isunderway. As I come out to a
whitechot, you see the police thatare on scene here. The encampment that's
(08:41):
here on the campus next to thePhysical Science Lecture Hall has been going on.
It looks like for some time now, and just a short time ago.
The police have notified the people inthis encampment that this is they're considering
this an unlawful assembly. Yeah,this is not going to be a three
week deal. Sorry, kids andIrvine, this is not going to be
(09:03):
a three weeks partying and likely hadalready issued a dispersal order. As we
see the police, different agencies herefrom Orange County that are joining in on
this situation. Here we do seethe Orange County Sheriffs here, Newport Beach
Police, among other law enforcement.You're going to see everybody. You'll see
(09:24):
Newport Coast to Mesa, you know, Orange County Sheriff, Irvine cops.
You'll see a lot of authority there. Law enforcement from other cities moving in
here. You can see a teamof more sheriffs moving into the scene here.
Again, this is near the PhysicalScience Lecture Hall. As we've seen
in other encampments on other campuses.It appears that the propol sitting group has
(09:50):
set up a boundary here, borderor a wall if you want to call
it that, with plywood and otheritems there that are lining the encampment.
You can see the signs that arehere around that encampment and the large group
of people that are moving through thecampus here. You can see here at
the further northern end of that encampmentthe wall that's been set up here,
(10:11):
and it looks like it's built upinto the Physical Science Lecture Hall here.
Now, there's a propala sitting groupcalled UCI Divests on social media. They're
calling for the university to divest fromcompanies and organizations that support is real.
And while police gather there in theparking lot, I can tell you that
there's a two police helicopters that arecircling. Yeah, I'm just Orange County
(10:35):
has a hell of a lot ofresources and they're going to use a lot
of them, a lot of them. It's get an update here, a
brand new update just happening here.I think it was on Channel four.
We want to take you back outto the UCI campus right now there is
a large amount of protesters and supportersof those protesters at the encampment on campus
(10:56):
and a huge law enforcement response.Eleana Marino overhead for us with what's going
on now, Ran I'm still reallyimpressed by the law enforcement response to this,
Carolyn, because as I moved theshot over, I'm going to show
you that parking lot that's closest tothe Physical Sciences squad where all of this
is taking place, and nearly everyspot in the parking lot is taken up
(11:18):
by a police squad car. It'seither going to be you see police,
Irvine police. The CHP is hereas well as the Orange County Sheriff's Department,
and I just see additional officers arrivingnow. Now for the students involved,
they have been to it that thisis an unlawful of suddenly, which
means that if they don't clear out, they could be arrested. But at
(11:39):
this point I haven't seen anyone leave. In fact, I'm still seeing additional
students arriving. Most of them arejust standing around and listening to speakers.
So it does seem very peaceful atthis point, but of course they have
been asked to clear out, andwe are seeing that there are students that
are up on this particular building,I think it's a physical sciences building,
(12:00):
and you'll notice that they have asigned there that says alex O'Day Hall.
So they have brought out that signand Alex O'Day was actually a Palestinian Palestinian
activist who died in a bombing innineteen eighty five. So these are clearly
pro Palestinian protesters who are not onlyhave demands regarding the war in Gaza,
but they're also trying to have demandsfrom the uc Urvine administration. Wow,
(12:26):
a lot of demands, demand afterdemand. They're asking for anyone who was
suspended for their involvement in the GazaSolidarity encampment to be pardoned and so that
way they could participate in all thegraduation activities. Again, at this point,
as far as we can tell,no one has been arrested, but
all the students that are here torun the risk of being arrested if they
(12:48):
do not clear out. You know, a lot of people think that I'm
anti protests. I am not.I am pro protests as long as I
can get in on and get involvedor not in on it. You know,
I think if they if there waslook this protest. You know,
when when President Biden was asked ifhis foreign policy has changed because of these
(13:09):
protests, his quick answer was,no, that's not true that Joe Biden.
President Biden's foreign policy has shifted becauseof these protests. Holding weapons back
from Israel, that was a directresult of these protests. So you know,
you kids out there, you know, I may not sound pro protests
(13:31):
all the time, but it's working. It's working. You're having some influence
on the President of the United States. So you know, at least you
can fall back on that and say, hey, we had a you know,
we made a little change in life. But if there was another protest,
you know, not the one foryou know, Gaza and Palestine and
Israel, if there's another protest outthere that was against all these high prices
(13:54):
for everything, count me in.I'll be sitting there putting my tent up
with my you know, my uh, you know, drinking bottle, my
my my bottle of water, mymy scarf, you know, lower prices
on everything. I would be sittingthere holding up a sign. Kroz and
(14:15):
I are pretty good, you know, with tools and and and plywood,
we can make some of the wallsand the and the you know, the
gates around the protests. I thinkwe would really help you out. So
if there is a protest this summer, the prices of everything in southern California
way too high, the rench toodamn high, count me in. I'll
be right there with you kids.I'll be standing right there, arm in
(14:35):
arm. And I don't care ifthey suspend me from u C I or
u C l A or USC.That doesn't matter to me because I don't
go there, but and I'm notgraduating, but I will be there.
I'll be there with you kids.If you ever put a protest together with
price they're two damn high, you'llkeep can count on me. All right,
We're gonna come back and watch thisUC Irvine see what happens here with
(14:56):
the protests. A lot more news. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from KFI AM six forty.Is Angel Martinez with the Angel You with
us, right, Bevan, Ohyou know it right? People that I
got emails thing they don't like whenI refer to you as Babe man,
vibebe bab. I So Michael Brianis high over this guy at Irvine.
(15:22):
Yeah, yeah, he Actually theycannot get in because of the cloud coverage.
The helicopters can fly much lower.But I think he can probably hear
us and he can chime in rightnow if you guys want to. Hey,
So, so Mike, are youwith us? Yes? I am.
So what are the clouds look likeover Irvin? Well, it's weird
because it was about the only spotthat's really fairly bad. Here's the thing
(15:46):
we got through there. I swungthrough a couple of times and we started
wiping out a little bit. Butit's sporadic. We're gonna go try it
again, okay. Man. Theother thing is the choppers. You know,
they get the lower priority get onthe as far as allude right,
And then we got to be abovethem and we were wiping out a little
bit. I got a couple ofcircles in there, and I was really
(16:07):
impressed. The police presence there isunbelievable. As you heard on one of
the other reports, you played,sure there is a couple of huge parking
lots and there must be one hundredand fifty units there, you know,
black and white units. So andmultiply that by what at least two or
three and not to mention other parkinglots that have a lot of police presence
(16:30):
as well. So, Mike,what's your altitude right now? How high
are you that? We are?Exactly about seventeen hundred feet? Wow,
we're just heading south on the sixoh five crossing the one oh five.
Okay, all right, so let'sbe back there in about ten fifteen,
ten minutes probably. Look, I'msort of a you know, an airplane
(16:51):
and you know helicopter goofball. Howhow high do you get before the air
starts to get thin? Can youget that high? Yeah? We experienced
that gosh years ago. Remember wehad the whole mountain side was on fire,
and every day I'd go up forthree hours. And once you get
around ten eleven thousand, and thisplane really doesn't go past that, you
(17:15):
know, it almost just not reallystalls, but it's just not going to
climb any higher than that. Right. But yeah, you once you get
up there, you know, Ican imagine driving up the Big Bearer,
you know, you could feel ita little bit there. Sure, Well,
big Bear. I mean that,you know, the peak in Big
Bear is like seventy eight hundred orsomething like that. Right, So if
we get over Baldy at eleven ortwelve, which is the highest I've ever
(17:37):
been over there. But I tellyou, after a few minutes, definitely
a half hour, man, youcan feel the difference. Do you feel
in the summer? Do you feelthe updraft from the desert? Oh?
Well, you get that, andyou get the also the inversion layer,
oh, from the mountaintown. Well, and it's so strange because in that
like a summer morning, it couldbe six Oh I see, what do
you talk about? The fog andevery Yeah, you can be sixty five
(17:57):
on the ground, but you getup in ninety. Oh wow. Do
you have air conditioning and heating upthere? Oh? We got heating,
but they ain't nowhere conditions? Ohno, no, oh no, it's
about the old, really miserable thingabout this job is, you know,
flying in the hot summer days.Yeah, I bet all right, buddy,
(18:18):
I really appreciate you flying over thereand giving us a bird's eye view.
All right, buddy, we're gonnago giving another shot to see V
there. Thanks? All right,there he goes Mike O'Brien, Everybody flying
high over the Irvine protests. Let'sget some audio here. What's going on
in Irvine University, California. Yousee Irvine University of California, Irvin.
(18:38):
I have demands from the U seeUrvine administration. They're asking quest right back
in just a little here, Holdon one second. This is uh Eleanna
Moreno, who's just on TV.I just are on TV right now where
there is a large amount of protestersand supporters of those protesters at the encampment
on campus and a huge law enforcementresponse. Eleana Marino over head force with
(19:03):
what's going on now? Eliana,I'm still really impressed by the law enforcement
response to this, Carolyn, becauseas I moved the shot over, I'm
going to show you that parking lotthat's closest to the physical Sciences squad where
all of this is taking place,and nearly every spot in the parking lot
is taken up by a police squadcar. It's either going to be you
see police, Irvine police. Yeah, it's a lot. I'm telling you
(19:27):
they have it locked down. Andyou know we've said this sort of before
on the air that it's really toughto protest in Orange County because Orange County
has a lot of resources and thepeople live in Orange County are really pro
police. Like what happened to UCLAand the cops got blamed for going into
(19:48):
Ucla. That doesn't happen in OrangeCounty. You're not going to hear a
lot of the homeowners getting down onthe cops like you do here in Los
Angeles. Why we come back.We have a k COL report. I
think it's a Michelle Gieley. Isthat her name, Michelle Gieley gil and
she was high over a reporter forKKEL and the protest going on, so
(20:10):
we'll come back. The big storya Irvine, big story going on right
here in Irvine. It's live rightnow in Channel seven if you've got a
TV. Looks like the cops areabout to shut this down. They have
a skirmish line all assembled there andthey're not not letting anybody pass that line.
So things are about to get maybenasty and Irvine, and they're moving
(20:33):
towards the protesters who have this campusand have the walls made out of looks
like plywood and some sticks. Sosomebody didn't go to the engineering school at
Irvine long enough. Looks like juststicks and plywood. Cops are going to
get through that pretty quickly. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty. Let's rightback to Irvine and find out what's going
(20:57):
on with these protests. How they'rehappening at the university down there. Cal
State, No, it's not calState, University of Irvine, California University.
You see Irvine, University of Californiaat Irvine. Big dog with that
school and now the protests and thecops. That's the big story right now
in Orange County. There's one majorstory going on right now and it's right
(21:19):
on that campus of Irvine. KeikoNews reporter Michelle Geely is there live and
Chelle, how is it looking atIt seems like the deputies are moving in
now are they moving? Yes?This is the first movement, Amy that
we have seen. Oh no,flash bang? Yes, this is the
first movement. Is that a flashbang? Yes? All right, the
cops did that? Yes, allright, all right, but you're right
(21:41):
there? Huh yes, okay,all right, what's with the attitude?
Yes, you like working with kekom. Yes, you haven't heard of Conway
shoe. Yes, ah, mygal By kind of gal right. Yes,
this is the first movement amy thatwe have seen since law enforcement arrived.
Here. You can see dozens ofofficers from multitude of agencies. I
(22:03):
see gang units from Garden Grove,Fountain Valley Police, the Orange Police Department,
Orange County Sheriff, Fullerton PD.Wow, sounds like an overload.
They are starting to move closer tothe encampment. And when they're gang unit,
yeah, I don't know what thethe gang. I don't think a
lot of gangs are going to yousee Irvine. I don't know. Maybe
(22:26):
they're an Orange County Sheriff, FullertonPD. They are. Maybe that's how
wealthy Orange County is where even thegang members have their degrees. You know,
they're even going to college. Theyare starting to move closer to the
encampment. And what they're doing isthey're telling people, students as well as
protesters to get out of the way. And a few minutes ago there was
(22:48):
kind of a scramble and a lotof the people who we believe our students
just here on campus attending class ortaking a look at this kind of ran
out of the away. You know, what's got to be tough, crows.
I'm sure when your daughter Sydney wentto school, when she went to
Texas, you guys went to seethe campus. Yes, So I imagine
(23:10):
that today some parents from out oftown, maybe they're from Montana, I
don't know, Iowa, and they'rehere today to visit that campus because their
kids are going there in September.And they walk on to campus and they
see nine thousand cops in rich Oh. And Sidney told me the other day
she's that's where she is looking togo at some point, so Irvine,
Wow, okay, all right,back to the story. And oh you
(23:33):
did, Yeah, I did fora couple of years. Yeah, a
long time ago. But what'd youstudy there? Engineering? Nice? That's
great. How yeah, and I'mshoemaking right. That came later. That
was like, you know, okay, streets. Yeah, I went back
(23:55):
to Cobblers for my masters. That'sgreat. And that seems to be the
tack right now that police are takingthey're going through the bushes in some cases
to inch their way closer to theencampment which has taken over this physical sciences
area. I should tell you thatthere were a couple of the protesters on
(24:19):
the second floor of the Physical SciencesLecture Hall, and they announced that there
was no one in the building,that it's been locked, and they said,
we wanted to negotiate in good faithwith the chancellor, but our students,
meaning protesters, have been suspended.So they seemed to intimate that they
had taken over the Physical Sciences Hall. Across the way is Crow Hall.
(24:42):
I tried to get in there.I saw several students inside. The doors
were locked, but there was campussecurity there telling me that no one was
going to be allowed inside. Butthere were students inside of that building.
I could see them there. Sowhat we don't know is what law enforcement
(25:02):
plans to do here. The protestershave now put up some barricades, some
plastic barricades, and they're standing behindit. You can see Tim Kimble.
They're getting shots of that area andthey're just slowly making their way holding tons.
We see that they have less thanlethal obviously apparatus on their persons,
(25:27):
on their bodies, but nothing hasbeen used. There has been no violence.
There are a lot of protesters onmegaphones and kind of shouting, but
that's the extent of it right now, All right, We're keeping an eye
on what's going on in Orange County. Fox eleven is live there right now.
(25:48):
An unlawful assembly has been declared atUCI, and if you look at
it, there's a lot of umbrellas, not because there's rain, I think
that is, you know, deflectingany kind kind of stuff that's either thrown
it at these protesters. A lotof gas masks, not by the cops
but by the protesters. And it'sa standoff right now. There's a line
(26:11):
of probably about one hundred cops andthe reporters are all behind the cops,
and then the protesters are in frontof the police, and the protesters are
yelling at the cops, at theand at the press, and so we're
going to keep following this to seehow this shakes down. But it looks
like there are you know, youcan't get that many cops out there,
(26:32):
you know, just to stand thereall day. It's too expensive, and
there's other parts of you know,Orange County that need to be patrolled.
So they're going to probably do somethingin the next couple of minutes, maybe
hour, two hours, and sowe're going to carry it live here on
KFI. The big story coming outof UC Irvine is hundreds of cops there,
hundreds of protesters, and something isgoing to go down. And we
(26:57):
saw at UCLA, we sawt itusc and now it's spreading to Irvine and
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