Hour 1 | Jay leno Car Knowledge @ConwayShow @MarkTLive @JayLenosGarage

Alex Stone – 'General Hospital' actor Johnny Wactor shot dead confronting catalytic converter thieves// GUEST: Jay Leno – Jay schools Tim with some car knowledge // he has a car garage near here // Mark got a new previously owned Nissan Leaf // Tims car is sentimental // Electric cars will not change much other than air quality 

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.Conway Show. Mark Thompson is here.
Tim. Everybody a huge argument withMark off the ever where I could do
it on the air. No,we're not bring it. I don't mind,

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you don't mind some m efforts thrownin there. Let's do it.
Let's do an hour afterwards on apodcast where we can use the real words.
I love that. Let's do it, dude. Anyway, thank you
for filling in on Thursday and Friday. How was the anniversary? Tim?
Anniversary was great and the graduation wasgreat and everything worked out well, oh
that's so Yeah, a house fullof people, you know, a lot

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of commotion. It was great,a lot of joy. I enjoyed it,
a lot of enjoy Yes, allright, Alex Stone is with us.
Alex we have you know, everytime this comes up, you know,
people are are shocked. But it'shappening more often now where people are
getting killed trying to protect their catalogicconverter or something in their car, and
it's happened again. Yeah. Well, this is a problem everywhere. And

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we got data today from the InsuranceInstitute. The shows that California is the
epicenter of this, of the thecatalytic converters that are being stolen off of
cars, but it's really everywhere.It's you know, the smog control device
that we hear so much about bottomof your car. Unless you've got an
electric car, you got one onthere, and in a couple of seconds,
thieves can can cut the thing offand sell it for the precious metals

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that are in there, and thenthey can make a lot of money.
And what does it go for,you know, well, when they put
them together that the police are tellingus, typically they put a bunch of
them together and then sell them,making me thousands of dollars in one night's
work that they get out of them, and otherwise it can be seventy eighty
bucks. What we understand some ofthose but and and we'll find out I'll

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tell you a second. But somecars have two of them, so they
get targeted more. But they'll godown a suburban street two or three o'clock
in the morning and just one afteranother cut them off. And then this
weekend was the that we've all heardabout. Now. Johnny known for being
on general hospital, seven hundred episodesof it at NCIS and other shows.

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Comes out of another job that hehad, like so many actors, and
trying to make money in his downtownWestpico and Hope comes out at two thirty
in the morning after bartending, walkinga female co worker to her car and
thinks that his car is getting towed. He's parked on the street and says,
hey, you know these three guysaround the car, they've got it
jacked up. What's going on?And one stands up, according to police,

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all dressed in black, a maskon and has a gun in his
hand, and point blank shoots andkills whactor right there and shoots him in
we believe the chest, and thenhe died. And we've talked to his
family and they say he protected thatcoworker he was with. His mom told
us this John immediately stepped in frontof the coworker and either put his hands

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up or backed up with both andthe person shot him right then, point
blank. And we've been working thisthrough the weekend, the LAPD telling us
that that they're beginning to look throughsurveillance video now to try to piece the
whole thing together. That these guysthey took off in a dark colored sedan.
It doesn't sound like there's a licenseplate on it, but they were
all dressed in black, they hadmasks on, So they've got a lot
of work to do to try totrack down whoever those three guys were.

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But his brother telling us me oneof the worst parts is just not being
able to have a conversation with himagain, one of my best friends.
But guys, this is everywhere.The insurance industry telling us say, in
twenty twenty two, they're over sixtyfour thousand catalytic converter thefts catalytic converter thefts
in the US. Fifty four percentare in California, and they went down

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a little bit last year. Thenway behind California is Texas, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, and Washington State. Sotoday I hooked up with Jim McDonnell,
the former La County sheriff now directorof the Safe Communities Institute at USC,
and said, Tom, why somany? And he said it's it's a
lax loss in California. Elsewhere thatthat it is a misdemeanor. You're going

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to get a ticket at most,probably it's going to be very minor for
taking these things, and they canmake so much money off of them that
doing the crime outweighs the potential penalty. And he put it this way,
there's certainly an incentive there, andif the consequences that they can look forward
to don't outweigh the risks that they'regoing to take, certainly they're going to

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go after this kind of thing.And he said, look, in California,
we gotta this is so now,granted, most aren't going to turn
into murder, but this is sucha prolific crime that everybody is dealing with
and then your car doesn't run rightor at all after it's done. We
got to figure this out, andso we need to take a fresh look,
take a step back from where we'vebeen. Don't point fingers, but

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take a look at what do weneed to do to deter crime, to
put things in place that are fair, that hold people accountable, and then
focus on the issues that are importantto all of us. Because there are
new laws on the books here andin many states now where if you're gonna
receive one of these, you gottasee proof that it came from the person
car and all that. He said, Look, this is we're talking about
a black market. The people receivingthis stuff, they're going to melt it

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down if you etch in a serialnumber or you know, you're telling them
they got to check IDs before youaccept it. The person they're selling it
to is on the black market andup to no good too. That it's
just a criminal to criminals selling thisstuff, and none of that's really doing
any good. I wonder if youcan have a like if you had let's

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say you had a camper shell onyour car and you didn't want it stolen,
you'd take it off at night.I wonder if there's a way to
have these things where you can takethem off the car and then put them
back on the car. I mean, if you can figure it out,
you're going to make a lot ofmoney. There is like a because there
was a startup where the guy hada sort of lowjack type system for catalytic

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converters. Is that right? ButI don't know if it's you know,
again it I think it was fourhundred bucks or something like that, and
it's sort of pricey, you know. I don't know if definitely had his
stolen and it costs them thirty fivehundred bucks, that's the thing, And
insurance companies will fight it. Nowin some cars it can be thousands,
like eight nine thousand dollars to getit fixed. We I had a coworker

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she said, their car, theyfought it for months with the insurance agency
and finally insurance said, you knowwhat, scrap the car not worth it,
and then the car was gone atthat point. And people buy these
cages that they're now putting around AndMcDonald was saying, even those that the
bad guys look at those and justcut that right off and then get whatever
they want if it's from a vehiclethat they really want it from. By
the way, I asked him,okay, are there certain vehicles that are

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more susceptible than others this and hesaid, oh, oh yeah, there
are Honda's Toyotas, particularly the preousmodel car hybrids have two catalytic converters,
and they they tend to leave intactthe metals at a higher quality state,
and so they're more desirable. Soon some of those you get a two
for one deal if they hit those. So he was saying that they go

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after those. Yeah, but theproblem but alex if whactor would have been
carrying a gun with him and heshot those guys. He would have gone
to jail for that, probably fromurder in that moment, especially if they
didn't have a gun. And itsounds like in this case that he may
not have even had time to ifhe did have one, which he didn't

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would have time to draw because hedidn't know what was going on. And
one guy gets up and looks athim and shoots him. I mean,
there was apparently no interaction between thesetwo other than hey, what's going on?
Are you towing my car? Andthe one guy looks up and bang,
it was over. Yeah, itis odd. I mean, I
don't know why it's so prevalent nowand it wasn't, you know, twenty
years ago. You know all thosecatalogtic convers were still around twenty years ago.

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Yeah, I mean, I thinkit's a word has gotten out.
It really went up during the pandemic. The numbers show at that point that
that really became the thing to do, and that in the criminal world,
the system is set up to fencethese things and to get rid of them.
And some may go down to Mexico. Some are taking care of here
and melt it down and the metalscome out of them. But this is

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in one of those cases where itturned deadly. And I mean it really
can be a lesson that somebody's doingthis in your in your driveway or you're
you hear something out front and yougo out that confronting these guys they're criminals
that maybe they're just going to runaway or maybe they're going to shoot you.
And the people doing this, thepeople taking the catalog of converters,
are not even taking into consideration theclimate change and how it's when you turn

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on that car in the morning,what it's going to do to the sky.
I couldn't have heard that angle beforeTim. That's truly why they're not
environmentally. Yeah, that's really whyI have a kind of the show for
that stuff to the anti anti environmentalYeah, buddy, appreciate you coming on.
You got it n summer with thefamily bub You got it all right
there, he goes Alex Stone.That guy's great man, he's terrific.

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Guy knows if you him on yourshow on the podcast YouTube show, No,
but I bet he'll come on.You know, I should get him
on this. Thank you. It'sa great idea. Had him on the
old KGO show and had him onof course here on KFI want to fill
him for you. Very smart dude, very smart. I appreciate it.
And a good dad too, thatguy Alex Stone. Everybody, it's Conray

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and Thompson. We're live on aTuesday, feels like a Monday. Come
on, I love it, Bud. We're here and so are you stuck
with us till Moe Kelly comes in. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from KFI AM six forty orlive everywhere in the iHeart Radio app and
the star of the show, TimConway Jurney to the monkey I was talking

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to. I want to see ifwe had jay Leno. Somebody said we
had jay Leno on the phone.That's cool, and let's see if he's
on with us. Jay Leno?How you, Bob Oh, I'm always
amazing your automotive acumen. It's unbelievableto me, buddy. Why not?
Why not take the catal and thecommoter off at night? That's right,
bring it in the house, that'sright. Right. I what I do

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is I remove the engine. Iunderstand, I have it next to me
while I'm watching TV, and thenI put it back in in the morning.
It's so convenient, buddy, Iwas gonna call you to see if
you want to get in on theidea, because when I watch TV,
it looks like you say no tonothing exactly exactly. Yama va, you
got your own game show, You'vegot you're stealing jobs for all these actors.

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No, we lost the game showin the strike. Go ahead.
I'm a union guy, so whenI have my game show, I said,
you know the time shows union.I like, let let's make the
show union. It will cost acouple more bucks, but at least we'll
be union will supporting. And ofcourse when most game shows are not union,

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it's when the strike happens. Ilost my show and everybody else's shows
data. Oh wait, so yourswas union? Yeah? Yeah, mine
was union. I made a unionbecause I'm a union guy. But here's
the pot. Somebody you'll find yourmate. Man. Remember remember that.
Remember the guy said that stealing acatalytic converter is a misdemeanor. Correct,

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But if you can't for with oneon your own car, like sometimes people
take it off, it's a tenthousand nullifying Wow. Wow, that's wild.
Who's part of the clean air ratYeah? Oh that's crazy. You
know what, Jay, I don'thave the money to leave, La,
you do, why are you stickingaround? Well, I'll tell you what.

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I will take some of my moneyand give it to you. So
you leave, buddy, I'll callyou after the show. We'll meet at
the tally Ran the Cali Rat.Yeah, yeah, by the way,
Ja, I don't know a lotof the places. I don't know if
you know this, but by thetally Rand is where all of your guys
from the Today from the Tonight Showused to eat every night. It's also

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where Buster Keaton's crew hangs out.It has been there a while, it
is true. Yeah, oh oh, it's like that's why it's so quiet.
They're all silent movie actors. Hey, what are you giving away?
Are you giving one of your owncars at Yamaban. No, I don't
give one anymore. You give megiving away a tour of your of your

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garage. And actually it's gonna likesomething I would love. Well, they
asked you listen to that. Nowyou're a gambling man, Tim love it?
Thank you? Okay? I gaveyou know. I pick interesting cars.
I take a brand new Rolls Royce, a twenty two year old security
guard from China, been here eightmonths. He wins the Rolls Rice.

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Oh, come Hawai gratulations. Igive him the keys right there? That
them vine? He said, whatare you going to do now he's out.
I'll never pull that slot machine.He pulled a slot machine and won
a million dollars. That's a greatstory. That's wild, man. He
won a Rolls Rice and a milliondollars. That's absolutely it's unbelievable. Who

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is that guy? Wow? Thatis right? Mark? Here's I love
about about Tim? Now to mewinning a Rolls Royce and and and winning
a Vanlas that's wild, right?No, Tim never said, well you
know what's wild? Tim? Newvision windows? American vision windows, American?

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You know this? That's I boughtthe new vision window mine in the
summer. Keep the heat in thewindow. You will. You bought the
cheaper window, rookie mistake. Ishould have got Hey what you should have
gotten the American Vision? What caryou driving where? It sounds like my
grandfather's turn signal. I'm driving theDemon five horsepower? Huh, Dodge?

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Can you get your hellcat on Demon? Sure? That's the Remember I had
my healthcat. Demon is like oneof for people mystic. Can you turn
your turn signal on again? Jecky, Hey Tim, that's wild? Wow

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Jay Leno, thank you buddy.Who can't love ja jay Leno? He
didn't tell you the whole story.What's that? The guy won the Rolls
Royce. Yeah, at Yamava right, and big celebration. Then he went
over, he pulled the slot machine, won a million dollars. And then
he came back and he was,you know, signing papers for his giveaway

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and he got signed your so securitynumber, the whole thing. And they
said, what did I win?He say, he got Rolls Royce.
He got a million dollars in thatslot machine, and he got a tour
of Jay Leno's garage. And helooked up. He goes, do I
have to take the tour? Ohthat's horrible, Dad. He didn't say
that. Isn't that terrible? I'mtelling you straight up. When Jay's doing

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the commercials and he goes, youknow, Theniel, you'll come to the
garage and I'll show you running.You know, I thought, wow,
that really would be cool to dothat. I know where the garage is.
Well, I wanted I want todo it. Yeah, I want
to do it. But but butyou know what I'm saying, that's that
a really cool thing. But you'resetting in the three of the three.
You're saying the roles, the million, and the tour of Jay's garage.

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He didn't quite spark to Jay's garage. Well, look, I've been trying
to sell tours of my garage forever. Nobody comes back. Oh wow,
I gave away that part of youknow, we're doing the charity event for
Catarina's Club. You know, everyshow is supposed to put together a package
to sell to the audience. AndI said, a tour of my garage.
I got nothing, no action,nothing. Well, actually, your

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garage probably has some stuff in itthat might have some interesting stories, not
like Jay Leno's garage. I meanthat's a that's a like a theme park.
Yeah, well you should go.I will. I have to have
to work it out. I'm gonnaneed somebody to help, belly O.
Can you hook up Mark Thompson witha tour of Jay Leno's garage If they
could do that, I sure can. Would you go on it? Bellow?

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I'll go? Is that right too? And now it's a party Crozier,
would you go I'm good. I'mgonna do I do some audio with
him, you know what I mean, or record some stuff. I'm good
to record some kind of a there'sa loyal guy there, grocer. I
can get a one on one visit. Oh, I see, yeah,

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I'm with you. I'm with you, all right, I I I'm that's
really cool though, you know,I like I can't. He's right though.
If you dry and you screw aroundyour own cadilla converter, you get
fine. It is screwed up,totally screwed. But some guy steals it,
shoots you. You know, sofar, there's no penalty for that.
I have to bet. I betthere is some way to have it

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removable though. A friend of minein high school he had his muffler basically
attached to the catalytro He had itbasically completely removables because he liked the sound
of it. He'd pull over whenwe'd be going out at night, reach
under and just pull a couple ofclips and put throw it in his trunk.
Okay, So, but so I'monto something maybe maybe, but I
love the fact that you're your idiotbuddy, like my stupid buddy. He's

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the louder the car, the better, and you couldn't talk to anybody.
I was in the backseat. Hey, what the Dodgers do? I couldn't
hear anything. Unbelievable. You're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty. Sorry,screwed up by Steffusha's headphones. I threw

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him a snack and he broke hisheadphones. Did you break him? No?
I got him alright, buddy.Sorry, man, we're good.
What is that snack? Though?I didn't want that? Is that's a
Rice Krispy Tree? Oh it's aPixar Rice Krispy Tree. Yeah, that's
cool, excellent, it's all yoursman, Thank you? You got it?
Bub all right? I think doall with that guy? What a

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I a wild show already? Huhj you're all over the place, Tim,
I don't know. Alex Stone.There's like a kind of a chaotic
fun quality to the show today.Yeah, it's odd. What did you
get? You got a new car? We got a new car? And
would you again, it's not anew car. It's a previously owned vehicle

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and it is a Nissan Leaf.Did you get it at a poker game?
Got it. The idea was tospend anti to spend just a few
thousand, get a regular you know, the first car that we were looking
at, and we actually went downto Orange County. We're in Los Angeles,
so it's you know, slugging itout on the freeway there to go

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down and see the car that wefell in love with one hundred and seven
thousand miles on it. Wow,And it is a beautiful silver Nissan Leaf.
But it wasn't the car that weended up getting. Wow, because
while we were there, nine ofmiles on it, Darling Courtney fell in
love with the blue Nissan Leaf fora couple thousand more than we had expected

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to spend. And it is apretty cool value. I think it's a
nice car. It's electric, it'selectric, and we got it and so
now it's a kind of I droveit here to work today and it's kind
of like it's its own sort ofsexy. Yeah, kind of a downscale
sexy. That's right. I'm tryingto Gay's back on the phone, not

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trying to prove anything. I don'tneed to. I don't need to drive
of a hell Cat or the Iwant to go on a leave so you
got a is it a Toyot orNissan Leave? It's a Nissan Leaf,
Okay. And the idea is I'mlearning all kinds of things about the world

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of you know, it's a veryit's a it's a knock around car,
like commuter car. Right, SoI come here, I go home,
I go to Walgreens, I gohome. Did it come with that rain
rainbow? Rainbow Lama is something wegot on one of our vacations, So
that was the thing. Or you'rebesieged by the lady she's selling rainbow lamas.

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You don't want to You want tojust give her some business. So
if you're not going to remember herevery single time you drive that car,
Now that's true. It does lookweird, it's not it does. What
did you pay for your rainbow Lamakeychain? I want to say it was
a couple of bucks where in Mexico, Mexico, how much more than the
car? Okay, the car waswildly discounted, but it wasn't. I

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mean, I really wanted to getout of there for less than five thousand,
and I didn't. Is that yousaid, that's the girl that was
offering everybody keychains and when you approach. She said, oh here, how
about this rainbow one. That's notwhat happened, Tim, But I see
what you did there. This isa beautiful rainbow, Lama keychain. I
think we got it in one ofthe stops in Mexico. Yeah, you

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and you and Courtney Courtney Courtney.Yeah, I thought you was Phil.
Okay, I get it. Iget another because reference to the rainbow.
No, no, no, becausePhil you you went to Staples Center,
sure with Phil Schumann. Sure,and Phil and you and Phil Schuman.
The guy John Beer. Yeah,yeah, I get those two guys and
the guy who was working on wegot on line for beer, and the

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guy who was working the beer counter, Tim's right right said to me,
hey, watch all the time,like he said, I knew you guys
were a couple too. I knewit. I said, we're not a
couple, man, but thank youyou and John Beer. He said,
oh, he said, whatever,whatever you want to say what I can
tell And he wasn't. It wasn'ta bit. He literally thought we were
a gay couple. And how manyemployee rules and regulations you think that broke

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at? I don't think that they'reYeah, I hear your point, like,
you don't bring that up to acustomer. You don't talk to celebrities.
I think I don't know about that. Okay. Oh, I think
as an employee, you're told notto, you know, bang on celebrities.
Okay, I think so, aren'tyou? Yeah? Probably okay?
And number two not to talk abouttheir personal relationship. And three don't assume

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that if there's two guys ordering beer, they're having sex, right, Although
I must tell you I found thewhole thing of music didn't bother me in
the least. But see, that'swhat's so great about about guys, Like
if if if that was, ifthat was another mix, that may have
not just blown over like that,you know what I mean? Okay,
Like I've had guys whistle at me, I don't report them. I've had

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guys grab my ass, I don'treport them. Find it flattering. I'd
love to see some of that guyswhistling and grabbing your ass? Does that
happen close by? Do I haveto don't have to drive some distance that
it hasn't happened in some while youlament the days gone by when you used
to be whishing when I was infourth grade. Wow, Wow, man,

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like you know, Valley is acrazy place to grow up. Wow,
man, anyway, I probably dependedit on before, right, Oh
too many times accounts. Yeah,and you're reporting anything or anybody ever grab
your ass? Yeah? Yeah,would you do nothing? Yeah, that's
the way we roll. Sure.Yeah, I don't know if it's we
as guys or we as radio idiotsor whatever I do or not. Yea,

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just that's the way people roll.You've got a thick skin. That's
what you're saying. If you hada guy grab your ass, I don't
think he's No. Really, thatis that insulted. No, because I've
had I have had guys come onto me before, but never grab my
ass. No really, Yeah,I had a manager in Hollywood grabbed my
ass. And there's a great breakfastplace you kids spend the night together.

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That's what you're saying. That's thejoke. That's what that jokes, like
having Dick Clark next to him.The joke is the joke is that he
spent overnight. Johnny Carson explaining thejoke. So you're saying, all right,
so he brought up breakfast because ifyou guys didn't get it, the

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guy grabbed his ants, and thenhe stayed over and he was talking about
a breakfast place. I guess wherethe two of them had breakfast. All
right, we'll be back more alpoed. You're listening to Tim conwaytunire on
demand from KFI AM six forty.I got a text from Jay Leno,

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and Jay Leno said, Hey,I want to go on the tour of
your garage. So Jay's coming overon Saturday to take a tour of my
garage. I gotta spruce it upa little. Yeah. I also got
to find maybe a car to tostick in it, you know, cause
I got a I'm driving a twothousand and seven Lincoln Navigator. My car

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is seventeen years old. And guesswhat went out on it the last the
last two things that went out onmy car. One I'm gonna meat over
the summer the air conditioning that's out. And then the other one was I
was driving around and all of asudden, I just hear the bang right
and look down and there's a pieceof plastic about eighteen inches long and about

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six inches wide, and it's atmy feet and I don't know where it
came from, but that was justthere was just a big plastic piece.
I'll bring it up. I'll bringit. I'll go down and get it,
and during the next segment, thenext break, and I'll bring it
up and i'll show to you.I don't know where this piece came from.
It didn't come over from overhead.You're saying that did. Did the
carpet wear through or something, andthen cursing A piece it fell onto my

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feet while I was driving, aroundmy feet when I was driving, And
I don't know whether they're part ofthe seat, whether it's part of the
dashboard. And why do you retainthe car? Yes, okay, I'll
tell you why. Two reasons.One, it's a gas guzzler. Like
crazy, I get eight miles tothe gallon, but if I'm on the
freeway, I'm getting nine and ahalf ten. The second reason one is

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I like to waste gas. Twois it's the car that I brought my
daughter up in. And every timeI look in the back seat, I
see her in a car seat whenshe's a year old. And I can't
give that car to somebody else.Sure, and it drives my wife crazy.
My daughter said she's done with thatcar. If it's up to you

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know, her she would say,get rid of it tomorrow. You know,
there's no sentimental value there. Ican't give it up. I can't
give that thing up because you know, when I bought it up in Woodland
Hills, Lincoln whatever that, youknow, I'm Ventura Boulevard. That was
a it was like a fifty fivethousand dollars car. I couldn't afford it.
We're making payments on it, paymentsfor you know. I was just

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able to make the payments. Itwas the most expensive thing I've ever bought
my life, by far. Butit was state of the art. It
had navigation before anybody had navigation.It had you know, the video and
the back for the kids. Nobodyhad that, you know, back in
two thousand and seven, nobody hadthat. And it was it was the
state of the art. And itdrove like a you know, like I

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don't like a like a private jet. It was just so powerful and so
big and great, and it wasthe air conditioning was really cold. I
like that, and I just Icannot get rid of it. A friend
of mine who a guy named doctorGreg who is a psychologist. He's also
on a big ad guy and Bellioknows what I'm talking about. He said,
I should take a piece of thecar and frame it and put on

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my wall and remember the car thatway and then get rid of the car.
That's a good, good idea.Yeah, but I'm still unable to
do that. I have duct tapeon my car. Yeah, both both
rear lights are being held by ducttape. I have this issue with things
that I want to hold onto thathave strong sentimental value. My problem is

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that I assigned great I think Imentioned this to you before, a great
sentimental value to a lot more thingsthan just that. I mean, you're
it's defensible, you're feeling toward yourdaughter. I knew you would understand.
Yeah, I mean, but butbut your your doctor pal has a thought.
I mean I hadn't thought of that. Like, you just take a
piece of the car, frame it, or immorialize it in some way,
and you turn into a coffee table, whatever you do, and then you

(27:55):
know, you let the car gobecause they have a lot of really cool
cars just like it now that aremore efficient in every way. Here's my
problem. I let it go.I get a new car, I'm happy
with it, and then every timeI see a two thousand and seven white
Lincoln Navigator. I'm looking at itlike, I wonder if that's my car.
What if that guy's driving around hisfamily with the car I drove around
my family. I can't believe yousee a lot of them though anymore you

(28:18):
don't. But you also notice thatyou don't see. You don't notice a
car until you buy one, andthen you notice everyone else has it.
Isn't that weird? Like I by, we bought my wife a car.
She got a twenty twenty one FordBronco, and I didn't see him anywhere.

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I thought she was the first oneto have him. They're cool.
Look. On the way home,I saw nine of them. Yeah,
they're cool looking. I'm noticing moreof them because it's sort of a cool
look. But everybody, as soonas you buy a car, you see
it everywhere. That's true, evenwith the certainly with the Tesla's, I
mean, my god, it's like, oh my god, yestless city or
something. You know what I'm gonnahave. I'm gonna give you this.
You know, I'm not a bigelectric guy, a big environmental guy,

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you know. I think it's youknow, I think it's a little overblown
because I'm not getting enough positive feedbackfor the dedication that we've done here.
And I'll tell you why after youknow, you can't just keep beating up
somebody all the time. You haveto give them praise for what levels they've
achieved. And I don't think we'regetting it from the environmental group. What

(29:26):
levels have you achieved that you feel? Ok? Not me, but the
city. I think the city ofLos Angeles. I think, like you
and a lot of people we bought. We as a city in a county,
bought a lot of electric cars,more than anywhere else in the country.
And the average temperature of Los AngelesCounty in the month of May was

(29:47):
below average except for one day itwas above average by one degree. On
May fifteenth, it was seventy fivedegrees downtown and the average is seventy four.
Every other day in May was belowaverage every day except one every day.
And I attribute that to all thepeople who are saving gas and driving

(30:07):
electric cars. We're bringing the temperaturedown the environment, and I need to
be recognized for that as a goalthat we've achieved. Well, I don't
like to burst your bubble, butbuddy, you then don't You've misattributed the
cooling in May two or whatever monthyou're referring to. It's not because of
the electric car. That's exactly whyI don't like your group. I'm trying
to tell you we've achieved something andyou're going toss all over it, assigned

(30:30):
it to a fact that doesn't exist. But you know that for sure.
Yes, okay, so it's onehundred percent locked off. No matter how
many electric cars we have, itwon't change the atmosphere. It won't change
the temperature in Los Angeles, Thenwhy do it. It'll change the air
quality for sure, and that's notgoing to change the temperature. No change.
That will change a lot of thingslike you know, like lung cancer.

(30:52):
You know. Okay, all right, but it's not going to change
the temperature. No, it willnot change the temperature. If everyone in
the world got electric cars would changewell, of course, because it is
I mean, climate is a it'sa global phenomenal. So it doesn't matter
if we get electric cars or not. With temperature, with temperature, with
the temperature of Los Angeles, right, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Oh that's sad, No, it'sit's but it's all a puzzle.

(31:17):
I mean it's all. It's allconnected, that's the point. But I
think I'm connected to the rest ofthe state. I think it has something
to do with the temperature. Okay, well, I'm just telling you it
doesn't. I'm and I'm telling becausebut air quality. It does all everything
to do with air quality. Imean, you know that from you breathing
in that you know it smells likecarbon monoxide and you know how you know
it smells like Okay, well,okay, all right, maybe it's not

(31:38):
the temperature. Maybe we have lesspollution. Yeah, okay, that's fair.
Then give us that. But butthe environmental group never gives us any
achievement metals where they're always complaining thatthat we're using too much fossil fuel,
using too much natural gas, we'reusing too much of this, too much.
That give us, you know,every once in a while, give
us a an a plus and letus you know, you need an out

(32:00):
of boy, I need one.Yeah, everyone said, while you need
everybody, society needs one. Sure, you can't keep asking all over everybody
all the time. Well, Idon't thin they're asking anybody. I think
they're trying to say, hey,we've got a big mountain to climb.
We've climbed something, right, butwe have more to climb. But as
you reach base camp, before youclimb to the top of Mount Everest,
everyone sort of celebrates that as anachievement. I see, Okay, well,

(32:22):
maybe we need to celebrate where thatwe've got more electric cars in this
county than anywhere else in the UnitedState. Yeah, but I mean it
maybe early to call it base campyet, that's all I'm saying. Okay,
that's pre base camp, okay,which is also another level. Okay,
you know, we just need morepositive feedback from the environmental grip.
Well, I'll tell all the environmentalpeople who I know, because right now

(32:43):
it's just you know, what oceanyou can't swim in? How much gas
you're wasting. Well, we're inwe're kind of in trouble, sort of
an urgent. It's an urgent thing. But I take your point. You
want to feel, hey, youwant to be in. It spurs you
on to grind. That's right,that's right, I get it. Tell
us we did good, and thenwe'll reach another level. All right,
there you go. All right,I'll see it base Okay, all right,
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