Hour 2 | Protestors On the 101 @ConwayShow

Protesters on NB 101 / Pajamins Day at work / Junk on keychains / Francis Key Bridge opens // Protesters moved off 101NB / Fast Food to cut prices / Valedictorian miscalculated / Long Sh*t // General Hospital actor Johnny Wactor killed over catalytic converter // Pete Buttigieg on the $8 Billion dollars to build charging stations 3 years ago WHIP: how many have they built? Lifeguard Shortages across the nation 

Episode Transcript

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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.We have a traffic jam in downtown Los
Angeles. There's protesters on the oneto one freeway north right near the Hall
of Justice. Now it looks likethey're leaving the freeway, which is good.

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They've set up cones there and people. I think they're leaving because people
just started driving past them and almosthit them. And I think people have
they've had it, you know,they don't they They spent more money than
they should have this weekend. Thekids are in back, you know,
asking for the nine hundred time,when are we're going to be home?

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You know, it's it's been along weekend. Everybody out there spent money
they didn't have, and now youjust want to get the hell home.
And then to be stopped here onthe freeway is not doing none yourself a
favor with this movement. So buzzoff the freeways. I showed up today

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and Krozer was in pajamas, andso I thought, well, it's okay,
but did it come from a hospital, and and then stuff, should
you work pajamas? I mean,my version of pajamas. Yeah, yeah,
I guess it's just shorts is always, but basketball shorts. And then
I just wore sandals, so thereyou go. I stepped it up.

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And then the news room always andthey're wearing pajamas too. Who's down there,
Aaron? And who else? Bethany? Now? Yeah, who's down
there? Bethany? Or Emily's downthere? Now? Bethany? Always?
Forget her name? Really, that'snot nice. Color bebes bebs? Yeah,
that's easy brown. Okay, butlet me ask you a question,

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kros or belly O. When didyou know pajama Day? When did it
become let's all wear men's pajamas?Yeah? I mean what happened in nineties?
Sorry, I left. I didn'tthink that would be appropriate for myself.
Too much leg showing. Okay,all right, I get you have
an excuse, but they don't.You know, Pajama Day used to be

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where, you know, guys wouldthrow on, you know, the plaid
pajamas with a T shirt. Butman, women would knock it out.
And now everybody looks like Krozier.A lot of flannel. Yeah, everybody's
got flannel and and flannel shirts,plaid flannels on I did ask Aaron about
that as far as like the pajamabottoms, and she said, well,

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she gets the men's pajama bottoms becauseyou apparently can't get women's pajama bottoms with
pockets. That's not true, ohshe lying? Is that what you think
of pajama bottoms with pockets? Theladies? Really? Why wouldn't they give?
Oh? Okay, well exciting wherewhy can't? I mean, women

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need pockets, I think more thanmen, that is right. You know
they carry a lot more stuff intheir purse and guys carrying their wallet.
I don't know. My wife alwaysaccuses me of being what was the guy?
It wasn't? Who is it?What was the nineteen fifties show Leave
it to Beaver? You know wherehe took everything in, Like nine hundred
things in his pockets. You know, he's got his ball and his jacks,

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his wallet, his keys is youknow, rabbit's foot. But when
I go to bed at night,she calls me a beaver because man,
I got nine hundred things in mypocket. It takes me four hours to
unload my pocket. Just gonna leanover to the night's in and just empty
out your pocket and just let itold drop out. We used to work

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with a woman over at kxls Akls X and she had I don't know
whether it was it was a traumashe couldn't get over, or whether it's
just she started this and she couldn'tbreak it. It was like an OCD
thing. But if you gave herany kind a keychain, she would have
to add it to her keychain.You know. So if you give to

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a rabbit's foot or hey, youknow, my parents went to Hawaii and
all I got was this stupid keychain, she would have to add that keychain
to her keychain for her car keys. So Steckler found out about this,
and he had a nineteen fifties typewriterthat he wasn't using anymore. He's gonna
throw it out, and he puta chain on it and gave it to

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her, and she put it onher keychain. Yeah, she's driving around
with his thirty pound typewriter on herkeychain. That's true story. Isn't that
horrible When people have a lot ofstuff on their keychain, it's bad for
the ignition. Oh yeah, itcan shut it off. Yeah, it
pulls down because of the weight.I've had that before. I've had a
big keychain. Somebuddy gave me thisbig thing on it and it shut the

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car off on the freeway. Itwas horrible. I didn't know what it
happened. I thought, just youknow, shut off, and I realized,
oh, it's the keychain. Itgot caught in the wheel when I
turned, and that was a wrapfor That was the end. All right.
So we're still blocked on this onthe one oh one. It's it's
opening up though, right Angel.We're getting some relief here. Oh yes,

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I said, I'm hearing that.They Oh yeah, stilling a lot
better now their way of the freeway. Yes we do. Will you love
the nightety I got. We aregetting some relief though. Yeah, I

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just heard. I got a textfrom Will and I think my producer or
that one of the producers said thatpeople were running off of the freeway.
Now it's still all messed up,but we'll it's going to cover that for
us in this report coming up.Oh great, I can't wait. Well,
let's get to it. I mean, well, we've got a couple
minutes, but we'll that's great,all right. Wait, in the meantime,

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we have a bridge, the keybridge, the Francis Key. Francis
got Key Bridge. That's it.And have you ever been on that bridge
by the way, Oh yeah,yeah in Baltimore, yep, across into
the city. Looked like a prettycool bridge. Well was up, but
I went down. Boys, youhad to dump that. You can't say
that term Unradis didn't want to takea chance. Okay, all right,

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okay, so careful? Can yousay boobs up? I think so?
Okay. For the first time sinceBaltimore's Key Bridge collapsed, cutting off the
port from the rest of the river, cruise ships can now come and go
freely. Royal Caribbean's Vision of theSea set sail this weekend for a five
night voyage to Bermuda. Wow,the container ship that crashed into the Key

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Bridge back in marth I somebody goofedhere. Royal Caribbean's vision of the Sea
set sail this weekend for a fivenight voyage to Bermuda. The first cruise
ship is going to slide into theBermuted triangle after that bridge went down.
You gotta be kidding me. Voyageto Bermuda. Oh my god. Well,
you're on your own, gang,You're on your own. You've heard

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the stories you've heard, the planes, the ships, the submarines. I'll
go down in the Bermuda Triangle andyou're going to test your luck there.
The first cruise ship that leaves afterthat bridge went down is going to the
Bermuted Triangle. Eat it long.The container ship that crashed into the key
bridge back in March remained stuck underthe wreckage until last week, when it

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was finally refloated and towed away.The port is expected to fully reopen by
the end of the week. Wow, all right, quick work of it.
Only four months, I guess,so four months? Yeah something like
that. Yeah, open that suckerup billions to replace that bridge. That
might be another four years. Sohuge disaster, but that grows you're from

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that area. Big thoroughfare, Imean, that's a big deal. It
is. I want to say.It opened up in was it seventy nine
or something like that, and itmade a huge difference as far as the
traffic in and out of Baltimore becauseit was it was a pretty big It
was on the southern end of Baltimore, and so all the people coming up
from DC a little bit further downin Maryland, that's where they that's where
they came across most times, andit's gone. So you've been on that

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bridge. That's wild, Yes,sir, Now it's disappeared. Man,
that is unbelievable. You're listening toTim Conway Junior on demand from KFI Am
six forty. The traffic's loosening updowntown. There was a protest there a
little while ago where they shut thefreeway down, and it looks like it's
over or at least being pushed offof the freeway. Angel, is there

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an update on that or a freewayopen up north and south? Oh?
It's great to me, It's sogreat. I love it. I'm in
my ninety nine. Wow, okay, all right, thank you, Angel
Martinez. Everybody all right. Alot of people complaining about food prices,

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and I see it everywhere I go. It's expensive. I went to a
place on Saturday or Sunday with mydaughter and I got a hamburger with lettuce
and ketchup small fries. She gota a chicken sandwich I think, and

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small fries. Oh, and shegot a small milkshake. So those five
items thirty six dollars. Whoa thirtysix dollars and not at a fancy restaurant
either it was just a you knowit's a you know, like a fast
food place, thirty six dollars.I couldn't believe it. But now they're
cutting prices for people who are broke. You're gonna save some money here,

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so say summer, Burger King willlet you have have it for less,
announcing it's new five dollars value meal. So you may be asking what is
new on the menu. It willinclude one of three sandwiches. No,
it's fries and a drink. Thiscomes shortly after McDonald's announced their plans for
its own five dollars limited time deal. I mean, this is absolutely expected

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from Burger King. It's kind ofaggressive because they're going to start it earlier
and they're going to keep it longer. Good, And it's not just fast
food franchises scrambling to address the painthat years of inflation have inflicted on customers
pocketbooks. Earlier this week, Targetannounced it's slashing prices on about five thousand
food, beverage and other essential items, while Walmart introduced a new premium grocery

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brand with most items under five No, I gotta stay some money. Meant,
everything is so expensive out there,all right, we have a vala
dictorian? Is that right? Valedictorian? Did I misspell it? No?
But I up for my entire lifeup until two days ago, I thought

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it was valid Victorian with a Vlike victory number one. You knocked it
out, thing dong And my mydaughter said it's not valid victorian's valid ictorian
And I'm like, yeah, okay, Well I didn't know the name of
any valid Victorian or valid dictorian valedictorian. I didn't never knew any of these

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people until they got up and spokeat our graduation. Never heard of that
guy, didn't run in the samecircles, Nope, never even saw him.
Went to school room for twelve years, Like who's that? Like,
Tim, You've been going to schoolhim since third grade? Like, oh,
right, guy seems pretty smart.But the valedictorian they had pulled it

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for because they I guess they wentover her grades and they screwed up and
they pulled that honor from this younglady. In my homework, Maya Belize
will graduate high school next month,which should be one of the most exciting
times of her life on just becauseit's not unless the end of the year,
and I kind of saw this goinga different way. Maya told me,

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for four years she has dreamed ofgraduating first in her class as valedictorians.
Wow, that's kind of a cooldream. It had been like the
one goal that I had set myselffor at the beginning of, you know,
my freshman year, was I cando this. Up until now she
believes she had. Maya was officiallyannounced as Blue Ridge High's valedictorian in March,

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right, all right, so sheknocked it out. But last week,
said her principal called and said there'dbeen a miscalculation. Oh no,
Maya was actually third in her class. To hear those words, not even
thirty days before graduation was gut wrenching. Oh. They should have They should
not have done this to this younglady. They should have had, you

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know, three valedictorians and let thisand said it. They all tied,
this is horrible to do this,young lady. Maya already wrote her valedictorian
speech. Oh my god, shewrote the speech already, and then they
pulled it away from her. It'soutrageous. And she'd already enrolled in ut
under the impression her first year wouldbe free due to a scholarship awarded at

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state universities to valedictoria. Oh mygod, not only did she not be
you know, not only was shehumiliated because she wrote the speech and now
is not going to give it,but she was going to go to college
for free for the first year becauseof she was the valedictorian. She was
the smartest kid in the class,and now they took that from her as

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well. I now don't have thatstability. It's just something that I wouldn't
want any kid to deal with orany parent. Maya's father told me administrators
told him the issue was around Maya'stransfer credits. Classes from her law school
were not weighed in accordance with thedistrict's transfer policy. Oh that's horaces.
What they did to this young ladyis is criminal. I would understand if

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it was a policy that it's beenin fact a year or two that they
weren't familiar with, but Jorge saidthat policy has been in place for seven
years. The district would not sharespecifics with WFAA, but did confirm miscalculations
were made and corrections are now ensuringcompliance with district policies. Maya, disheartened
and embarrassed, yeah, I wouldbe two. They should. They gotta,

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they gotta make this up to thisyoung lady. This is horrible.
Maya disheartened and embarrassed. No longerplans to attend graduation. You know,
she should have taken it like me. When they told me I wasn't gonna
be valid ictorian, I was like, Okay, that's cool, that's a
great attitude. That's right. Right. Yeah, they told me, hey,

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Tim, you're not gonna be valid. They told me, oh,
okay, like, do you haveany more any more? Reaction like no,
no outrage, but you were hurtthat you weren't valid victorian? Yeah,
I said, who is the validictorian for our class? And he
goes a guy named Sunil Zombie.I'm like, I never heard of that
kid. And he goes, Tim, he lived a block from you.

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You've lived on the same street fortwelve years, never never heard that name
before he's valedictorian. That means heprobably never left the house. Yeah,
okay, that would be the wayyou didn't know it. That's right,
that's right. No longer plans toattend graduation. This affects my future.
Oh, she's not going to attendgraduation. No, longer plans to attend
graduation. This affects my future,sure it does, and I do not

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wish that upon anyone else in BlueRidge. I'm Sydney personal. Oh that's
horrible. What say was this wasin in Texas? Where's Blue Ridge High?
Or where that is Blue Ridge High? To do my homework? Maya
believee will graduate high school next month. I don't know where Blue Ridge High
is, but that's that's just terrible. Somebody's got to step up and pay
for that kid, for her,at least her first year, because that's

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that's the deal. If you're valedictorian, you get your first year paid.
And North Texas, North Texas,okay, North Texas. And and man,
somebody's got to step up this pooryoung lady. Oh yeah, we
should get her on the show andshe could be our valedictorian. That's right,

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that's right. She could be thesmartest person on the show. Certainly
couldn't take the valet victorian title fromyou, that's right. Valid victorian at
the racetrack, Yeah, thing's wrongwith those horses? Man, Oh man,
I got work today. If Iif I just went to the racetrack
today, all my horses came in. There was a fifty cent pick four
that paid fifty one thousand dollars fifty. Now I probably wouldn't have had it,

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but I had, I would havehad pieces of it, you know,
because I play long shots all day. All long shots came in.
But I'm here to talk about that'sright, long shots, that's right.
Yeah. My dad had a licenseby. My dad liked long shots too,
and he had a personalized plate thatsaid he wanted to get long shot,
but he was taken, so hehad to put the number one and

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then long shot. So it wasone lng SHT. A lot of looks,
is it? Dad? I said, what is your license plate?
Goes one long shot? I go, really all right? Spring for that?
Oh huh yeah, well it wastoo many. Six seven was the
maximum letters. So god, hegot a lot of looks, a lot

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of looks. Hey, license plate'sgreat? Oh thanks? Uh one long
shot? I thought it was somethingelse. Hey, aren't youell the carabine
jo? How out of here?You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI Am sixty. It lookslike the one oh one downtown is clearing

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up. We had a protest downthere earlier on the one oh one northbound
one on one northbound. Speaking ofdowntown Los Angeles, I think a lot
of people have heard about this storyabout General Hospital. As a young actor
on General Hospital, he worked ata bar in downtown LA and he was
escorting one of the waitresses to hercar, so because downtown is a hell

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hole, and he noticed his car. There's a couple of guys jacking his
car up, and he thought hewas going to be towed, so he
approached him and said, hey,what's going on. Well that's the lead
up to the story. Let's findout what happened. From coworkers here at
Level eight to those who knew Johnnyin Hollywood, they all used the same

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word, saying he was a goodguy, so kind and caring. Everyone
who knew him stunned by his senselessmurder. When we were together, Sasha,
I wasn't thinking about anything other thandiss you would be. Actor Johnny
Whacter was best known for his roleas Brando Corbyn on General Hospital. His
TV wife, actress Sophia Mattson,posting on social media, my heart is

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so utterly broken. Johnny was theabsolute best, so genuine, so caring,
incredibly hard working and humble. Thethirty seven year old was shot early
Saturday morning in downtown LA when hecame upon three suspects, whom police say,
we're trying to his car's catalytic converter. There's about forty dollars worth of
precious metal in these things, youknow, once you sell it and melt

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melt it down and sell it,maybe a couple hundred bucks. And what
are they doing carrying a gun withthem to steal these things? Man?
Is it getting wild out there?Paramedics tried desperately to save his life,
but it was too late. Ithappened at Hope and Pico. Wactor's mother
says her son didn't try to stopthe thieves, but one of them shot

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him anyway. General Hospital releasing astatement saying the entire General Hospital family is
heartbroken to hear of Johnny Wactor's untimelypassing. He was truly one of a
kind and a pleasure to work witheach and every day. Ah, this
poor kid. I wonder if theytook him, you know, because it
was downtown LA, you know,they they probably took him to La County

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Hospital, which is the hospital inGeneral Hospital. You know, that's the
the exterior that they use in GeneralHospital, which is kind of odd,
kind of odd. This poor kidman working as you know, two jobs,
being a bartender or a host whateverhe's doing at the bar waiter,

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and then also working, you know, his acting career like a lot of
actors do in southern California, andwalking a young lady to her car so
she felt safe, and he getsshot and killed. Our thoughts and prayers
go out to his loved ones duringthis difficult time. Hey good to see
his finelle right. Whactor appeared innearly two hundred episodes of the popular soap.

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His other acting credits include NCIS andCriminal Minds. The thirty seven year
old worked at Level eight in downtownLa as a bartender at the popular rooftop
bar. Wactor's mother says he waswalking with a coworker to his car when
he was shot and killed. Allwho knew the thirty seven year old describe
him as extremely generous and caring.His fellow General Hospital actors taking to social

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media to express their heartbreak, JohnLindstrom saying in part, Johnny was one
of those rare young men in thebusiness who are kind, unassuming, humble
and always thought about other people.Kirsten Storm's writing, I just cannot believe
that his life was stolen from him. So many devastated by that senseless murder.
Whacktor's manager also saying that Johnny pursuedhis dreams and achieved them, all

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while remaining a good human being,caring for all others. The search continuing
for those three suspects connected to hismurder. It's getting wild out there,
it really is. I don't knowif you saw this story in Wittiard over
the weekend, but there was ayoung couple with a young child and they're
in the front yard and three guyscome up. One guy had a reflective

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vest on and they said they werefrom the gas company. They did to
check inside or check the meter onthe side of the house, and the
couple was very suspicious for some reasonand didn't allow them in the house.
So they went in the house.The three suspects left and then they came
running back and one of them hada gun and they were going to rob
They're gonna, you know, robthe place or you know what does that

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break in home? Invasion robbery?And they got lucky, and this is
a you know, a beautiful,nice little town, Whittier is exceptional,
but you gotta be careful out there. That happened to my wife about three
weeks ago, where a guy cameby and he said he was from the
Burbank uh Water and Power, andmy wife didn't open She opened up the

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door, but she didn't have openedup the screen and he and she said,
well, let me see your ID, and he goes, well,
it's in the car. And shegoes, oh wait, go let me
see your ID. You're not comingto the house unless you have an ID
or a badge that says you're fromBurbank Water and Power. And he split
and never came back. And thatcould have been it, you know,

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could have been a guy, youknow, coming into a I don't know
what he's going to see you,you know, I don't know if you
realize I should, I should onthe outside say radio guy lives here.
That'll the term you think, ohyeah yeah, Or just put all my
Hollywood Park in Santa Nita tickets onthe front door. Nothing worth taking.

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This guy's burned himself out pretty badlywith gambling, and so there's nothing left
in the house, nothing going on. Move along, Yeah, there's all
I have is a life insurance policy, and you can't get that until I
move on. And the life insurancepolicy is just so my wife doesn't have
to say yes to the first guyshe meets at a bar and she could

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be a little picky. And that'swhat life insurance is all about. So
when you move on, your wifeor husband you leave behind doesn't have to
jump into another guy's house right awayand give her some breathing room. That's
what it's all about. All right. We're live on KFI A six forty
more now with and we are bythe way, we are live. This
is not a recorded show. It'sa live show, and we're gonna be

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live. Mo Kelly's live and alsoGeorge Nori is gonna be live. You
have live shows now from now untilyou know the the sun comes up tomorrow
morning. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
We are working today. Yes,yes, yes, yes, Pete

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boota judge was in the news andthey're talking about I don't remember this,
but the US government put together putaside eight billion dollars eight billion with a
b eight billion dollars back in twentytwenty or twenty twenty one to build charging
stations for electric cars. Okay,so that's twenty twenty one, twenty two,

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twenty three, twenty four. We'realmost done or halfway through twenty twenty
four. So that's three and ahalf years, three and a half years
and eight billion dollars. How manydo you think they've completed? Well,
let's do a whip around. Wewant to do whip around? All right,
we can do that, right,we can tackle that. We get
a piece of paper out here,and you guys can play long at home

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if you like. Seven to eightbillion dollars were raised or tax dollars were
set aside for charging stations, chargingstations, and how many have they completed
since twenty twenty one? Stephoosh,let's start with you, buddy, uh

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ten thousand, ten thousand? Allright, good guess, let's go with
belly. Oh jeezus. So threeyears, three and a half years,
and they had they had eight billiondollars like twenty five, twenty five thousand,
Right, Krozier, Let's go nextwith you, and then we'll go

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on to angel. They had eightbillion dollars. How many charging stations do
you think they created, well,I don't know two hundred thousand. No,
No, it's not it's not twohundred thousand, Okay, Angel Martinez,
Angel Martins, I'm going to saytwo to what to charging stations to

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charging stations. Let's find out here, let's find out who's closest here we
go. Let me ask you abouta portion of this that I think does
fall under your portfolio, and that'sthe charging stations you mentioned. The Federal
Highway Administration says only seven or eightcharging stations have been produced with a seven
and a half billion investment that taxpayersmade back in twenty twenty one. Seven

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or eight or seven or eight chargingstations have been produced with a seven and
a half billion investment that taxpayers madeback in twenty twenty one or eight could
have been eight. But you knowwhat, I'm going to go out on
a limb and I'm going to sayit's nine. That still seems high.
Seems like a big price, bigprice. Why isn't that happening more quickly?

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That's a great question, and that'sa question coming out of CBS too.
They want to know why isn't thathappening more quickly? All Right,
let's ask find out where they sevenand a half or eight billion dollars went
and why they only have seven chargingstations for seven billion dollars. So the
present's goal is to have half amillion chargers up by the end of this
decade. So the present's goal isto have half a million chargers up by

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the end of this decade. Okay, well, in the first three and
a half years, you managed toput eight together. So you got to
really get cooking because you need fourhundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred
and ninety two more to get tofive hundred thousand. They got it down.

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I guess that now they're really cooking. Now they're moving. Here we
go. So the president's goal isto have half a million chargers up by
the end of this decade. Now, in order to do a charger,
it's more than just plunking a smalldevice into the grounds, engaging them in
the first handful again, by twentythirty, five hundred thousand chargers, she's
just laughing at him. A smalldevice into the grounds, engaging them in

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the free seven or eight though,wait, seven billion dollars, and now
way do we have engaging them inthe first handful again by twenty thirty,
five hundred thousand chargers. Okay,all right, but I will say this,
Crows, you remember this because you'relike he got a good memory.
But you remember when the pig taillights came out. Remember they looked like

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a pigtail. It was the firstled light and then they started covering them,
but you could still see the pigtailsinside. I never forgot about that.
Yeah, you can see the bigtail inside. But when those first
came out. Remember when you brokeone, you had to like call hazmac.
There's mercury in it, all kindsof wrap on. You swore you
saw smoke and dust coming out ofthat exactly, And nobody wanted them because
they were also like thirty dollars.E yes. But now you know,

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twenty five years short years later orwhatever it was, now you you'd never
see incandescent bulbs anywhere. Yeah,it's almost impossible to find the man if
you do have them, they takea lot of energy and they cause a
lot of heat in your house aswell. Yeah, so look we're gonna
get there. It's just going tobe a matter of time, seven or
eight at a time, seven oreight, seven billion dollars to create seven

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charging stations. Okay, all right, I don't like the numbers, but
I don't know. Maybe maybe we'reon to you know, bigger and better
things. Who knows. All right, lifeguard, If you are a lifeguard,
there's a lifeguard shortage, you mightbe in for a great summer.
Gig get those shorts on you.Rising concerns over lifeguard shortages across the nation.
With the shortage, I'm definitely gonnacome to where I know that we

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feel safe and definitely protected. Withsome states including New York and Michigan and
already shutting down some beaches over thelack of lifeguards, a job once glamorized
on TV screens from taking your beachthe run to the water has slowed down
in recent years. I will saythis about lifeguards. They do give you

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a sense of security when you're whenyou're swimming. I'll give them that.
Man, when you're swimming at thebeach, you know there's a lifeguard in
that station, especially if you havekids. Man, you feel much better
by letting those kids go in thewater. That is a real cool sense
of security. I like the lifeguards. They're really they kick ass. According
to the American Lifeguard Association about athird of public swimming pools across the country

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were affected by the shortage last year, prompting. On the other hand,
the pool lifeguards are I think guardthe also rans when it comes to lifeguard.
I think the higher archy is thebeach lifeguard. And then you know
the guys that are on their phoneand really not paying attention to the guys

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at the pop. Say a poollife garden, is that right summer?
Did you have the zinc on yournose? Did you really have to be
attentive? Though? As a poollifeguard, you got pay attention because you've
got a lot of kids. That'sthe other thing. It's like, that's
the one thing you don't take intoaccount with pools is that parents definitely have
a little bit more lax attitude cardswatching their kids in a pool. Undred
percent. But I noticed the lifeguardsat wolf Lodge, you know where they

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have the wave pool and those riverall the indoor stuff. Man, those
lifeguards are great. They checked thatpool every eight seconds. They're walking up
and down looking at that pool everyfive seconds. That's cool. It's unbelievable.
I mean they literally about thirty orforty times a day, they take
a dummy, you know, madeout of plastic or rubber. It looks

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like a baby, and they'll andsomebody will throw it in a pool to
see if the lifeguards are paying attention. And they know that they got to
get that that, you know,that fake baby to that pool or else
they can get fired. So they'reconstantly looking for that fake baby. Maybe
they're paying too much attention to thefake baby. I'll watching like kids.
I don't know, I don't know. But they do a great job there.

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The wolf Wolf Lodge lifeguards man,they are on it. They are
on it, prompting closures and reducedhours. Though the number of recreational protective
service workers may be on the rise, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
is still largely under pre pandemic levels, with about twenty thousand less workers
on duty. What we're seeing hasbeen a trend that started somewhere around coded

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Why Wrenth of the American Lifeguard Associationsays local communities should boost incentives and awareness.
What we're lacking here is lifeguards acareer path forward well. Lifeguards in
Asbury Park, New Jersey, withfull staffing on Memorial Day, say wages
must be more competitive. Yeah,you gotta more wages, more wages.
What we're lacking here is wages.What we're lacking here is lifeguards working here.

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For what they do. They shouldbe paid more than some of the
other jobs that usually high school kidsor early college aged kids get. What'd
you get, Crows when you werea lifeguard? Was it five bucks an
hour? I want to say itwas like eight to ten? Wow?
In there? Would you retire onthat? Yeah? Man, yeah,
that's uh, that's wild man,My guess could get there. And did

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you save anybody? No, neversaved anybody. Now, it's just a
lot of blowing the whistle and hey, get out, don't run? Yeah,
yes, yeah, stop branktally stoprunning, man, you have you
got to tell some kids like ahundred times. Yeah. I didn't need
the you know, the cone bullhornthough, I just you know, loud
as hell, stop running? Ohgod kiss Yeah, guys, Wow,

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there's a car in the parking lot, says Crows. Gal in the relationship
that chap up there with the zincon his nose, This stud big study
angel bumping. Did you get toslam any door as a lifeguard at the
pool? Do you hit any parkcards. Every time I was either coming

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