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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.All right, everybody, it's four three
ninety five degrees in Los Angeles onthis Friday afternoon. I'm Phil Schuman from
Fox eleven News, sitting in forTim Conway Junior, who has the afternoon
off on this day after July fourth. Let me tell you how happy I

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am to be here. I ama huge talk radio guy. I wake
up in the morning with Bill Handle, the wake up call with Amy.
I'm a news junkie like most ofthe folks here, hopefully some of you
as well, and I'm really beenlooking forward to these three hours. We
have lots to talk about, startingof course, with President Biden. We'll
talk about the heat. We'll talkabout traffic, we'll talk about metro and

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mass transit, and of course wehave to talk about crime, which is
an everyday occurrence as we battle throughour day to day existence just to like
stay safe in southern California. Again, my name's Phil Schuman. I've been
with Fox the News for like thepast how many years. Fifteen years or
so. Before that, it wasKNBC TV, and then several years with

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Extra. You ever watch Extra Theydid news before they switched to All show
Biz and did some incredible stories withthem, and you know, covering stories,
talking to real people traveling throughout southernCalifornia. It's the greatest part of
the job as a news reporter.It's a little tougher these days because of
the climate out there, which wecan get into. Do you have any

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questions about the news business. Youwant to chime in on what we're talking
about, You can click the microphonethe talkback feature in the iHeartRadio apps and
your message. We'll play some ofthose. But of course, the big
news today is President Biden his firstinterview, sit down interview since the debate
debacle last week, and they choseGeorge Stephanopoulos from ABC News to do that

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interview. It happened a short whileago while the President was campaigning in Wisconsin,
one of the battleground states. It'sgonna airing and it's entirely unedited by
the way, eight pm tonight onABC, and I was able with the
great team here behind the scenes atKFI get a clip that aired earlier on
the ABC Evening News. This ispart of the exclusive interview with President Biden

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for ABC News anchored George Stephanopolis.Let's start with the debate. You and
your team said have said you hada bad night, but your friend Nancy
Pelosi actually framed the question, andI think is on the minds of millions
of Americans. Was this a badepisode with a sign of a more serious
condition? That's a bad episode.No, in a case very serious condition.

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I was exhausted. I didn't listento my hands thinks in terms of
pre parents and the bad nights.You know, you say you were exhausted,
and I know you've said that beforeas well. But you came and
you did have a tough mind.But you came home from Europe about eleven
or twelve days before the debate,spent six days in camp David, Why

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wasn't that enough rest time, enoughrecovery time? Because I was sick.
I was feeling terrible. Matter offact, the docs with me, I
asked, and they did a COVIDtest. Pose were trying to figure out
what's wrong. She did a testto see whether or not I had some
infection and ill lirus. I didn't. I just had a really bad cold.
And did you ever watch the debateafterwards. I don't think I did.

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No. That was a part ofthe exclusive interview with President Biden with
ABC anchor George Defanopolis. Again tookplace this afternoon during a campaign stop in
Wisconsin, and it's going to airtonight on ABC and is entirely unedited.
And it's interesting that I'm watching herein the studios the CNN broadcast and the
Fox News broadcast, and the bannersare already CNN pro Trump, Fox News

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pro Biden's Fox News of course antiBiden. The Fox News banners cannot remember
if you watch debate new excuses forbad performance. So the bottom line from
the interview with Stephanopolis, and againwe've only seen a short bit of it,
is that it was a bad episode, not the sign of a serious
condition. That the president is absolutelystaying in the race. Now, I

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did have a question, like,what do you if you were watching this
and presumably will tonight, what doyou need to hear to convince you that
President Biden is still a viable candidateand should stay in the race. Again,
Go to the iHeartRadio app, clickthe microphone the talk back feature and
send me a message. What wouldyou like to hear, and I tell

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you I've covered every kind of storyin southern California since the eighties. I
mean from earthquakes to fires, tofloods, to oj Simpson to Rodney King,
to George Floyd to the homeless topolitics. I have never done a
sit down interview with the President ofthe United States, which I would love
to do. So apparently the storyis that the White House approached George Stephanopolis

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and said, would you consider doingan interview with President Biden? Are you
interested in doing a sit down interviewwith President Biden? Like hello, like
what newsperson would say. Nah,I don't think so. You know,
I had plans the day after theday after July fourth, Maybe you know
somebody over, maybe Lester Holt coulddo it instead of course he's gonna do

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it, and your remember and Iand some of you are too young to
remember this. But Stephanoppolis, ofcourse, was a key aid to President
Clinton, which is thirty years ago, already was his communications director for a
time. Interviewed President Biden as anABC News anchor, I believe in twenty

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twenty. So you know, theypicked him for a reason. They didn't
pick Sean Hannity from Fox News Channel. Right, they didn't pick Chris Cuomo,
they didn't pick you know, pickyour favorite. You know, they
didn't pick sixty minutes. They wentto George Stefanopolis for the belief, rightly
or wrongly, that he was goingto be friendly. So the stakes are
high for President Biden, of course. I mean, is he going to

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convince people that he's fit enough tostay in the race, Can he endure?
Does he have the mental agility,does he have the physical stamina?
Can he answer questions without a teleprompter? Those are the questions that you know,
people are going to be wanting answersto. And then for Stephanopoulos from
from you know, the point ofview of like a TV host, he's
got to be tough without being abully. If he asks softball questions,

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then he's going to be criticized forsucking up to the president in order to
keep getting these interviews. So it'sit's just a lot at stake here.
Of course, much more s takefor President Biden than for George Stefanopolis.
I mean, the only people thatare concerned about his career probably are George
Stefanopolis. But we have a greatguest coming out in the next segment.
By the way, she's a PhDprofessor of politics from USC and she's someone

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that I've spent a lot of timetalking with in my job at Fox eleven
when these issues come up. MindyRomero is her name. She's going to
be joining us live and we're goingto be talking with her about you know,
what's at stake here? Should thepresident have done this sit down interview?
What do you say to people whoand this is a very real issue,

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what do you say to people whosay, you know, I'm not
going to vote for Trump and I'mdisappointed in President Biden, and you know
what, I may not vote atall. I mean, that's a very
real sort of backlash from the factthat a lot of folks are disappointed with
the two candidates that we have atthis point. Is Kennedy a viable choice?

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If people vote for Kennedy, doesthat hurt President Biden or does that
hurt former President Trump? I mean, these are all key issues, and
again, so much at stake.I mean, California is going to go
for President Biden regardless, but obviouslywho is in the White House affects every
one of us. Whether it's theprice of gas, the price of food,
whether we get into World War III, immigration, abortion. I don't

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have to go through the entire listfor you. If you're listening to us,
you obviously are paying attention. Sothat's going to be when we come
back. Mindy Ramiro from USC you'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI Am six forty. I'm PhilSchuman from Fox Olven News, sitting in
for Tim Conway Junior and very happyto be here, very proud to be

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sitting in the seats that such bignames sit in every day here on KFI
AM six forty. Quick Recap.President Biden has done his first sit down
one on one interview since the debatedebacle, in an attempt to revive candidacy
that a lot of people think ison life support. You heard from the

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President in a clip from that exclusivewith ABC's George Stephanopolis in the first segment.
Basically, he had a really badcold. It's not a serious condition.
It was nobody's fault but his own. And he's staying in the race.
So of course you're in Los Angeles. He's hugely popular in California.

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It's huge hugely popular. There's noquestion that he's going to lose the state.
But things obviously have changed. Andto talk about that, let's bring
in Mindy Romero. She's a professorat USC, a PhD in sociology.
I've spoken with her frequently for storiesand Fox Livan News about all things political,
voting rights, electoral college, behaviorof voters, the civic engagement of

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voters. Can I call you MindyProfessor Romero? Of course, thanks for
coming on with us. So letme just get right into it. Do
you agree with the narrative that thedebate was a disaster for President Biden or
do you have a different view?Well, I think those are dramatic words
and words typically issued by people thatare panicking. I would say it was

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definitely not a good night his performancein and of itself. It's hard to
argue right that he was, youknow, not certainly not up to his
normal game, at least historically whenwe talked about disaster. Obviously, people
are connecting that then to what itmeans for his re election, right or

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potential reelection, and there are Ithink there will be consequences. I think
much of the initial panic, right, there was a lot of panic.
There was concern, and there alsowas actual panic. I'm happy to talk.
You know, we can get intoall of that as much as you
want. Well, when I watchedthe debate, we did a we did
a live post debate show on Foxliven News, and I watched it live
with a with a group of nonpartisanguests at a downtown LA bar, and

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there wasn't that in the audience.There was some cringing and some laughter and
some nervous giggles. There wasn't thatsense of panic that if you watch social
media or watch all the pundits onthe networks afterwards saying that all the Democratic
Democrat Democratic operatives are you know,trying to come up with Plan B already.
So it was I guess it dependson your perspective. But what does
the president have to do now?I mean, do you do you agree

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that this interview with George Stephanopolis andwe've only seen a minute of it,
is important. I mean, howdoes he get people back back on the
bandwagon so to speak? Yeah,I do think it's very important. And
you know, you mentioned perspective.I think we're talking about you know what
people, what voters themselves may bethinking right, and then we always know

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that beyond people who are actually viewingdebate, you know, the spin around
the debate, so the discussion,the media conversation right right that follows can
be much more powerful. That's whythere are you know, uh, spin
rooms right and there there is thisattempt always to kind of talk up or
talk down right what happened at actualdebate. We'll we discussed what the performance

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was of you know, moost candidates. And I do think that what Biden's
thinking right now is you know,donors right, political leadership, people within
that people within the party that herespects, that he works with, maybe
within within the White House itself certainlyas well, that are concerned about the
future. We know that an individualdebate, particularly this early out right and

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historically this is incredibly early, probablywon't mean a whole lot when it comes
to November. There's always going toknow, there's always a bump after debate.
Things usually kind of come even out. I think the difference here,
though, is that people who arethinking much more about this probably than the
typical American voter. If we cansay there's a typical American voter, they're

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worried about you know what this meanslong term, over the net number of
months until the election, Right,is this indicative of something that's happening with
his with his own cognitive ability?Right, there's something that is one question?
Yes, So again, what isso he's tried to increase his profile.

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He made a speech after the SupremeCourt decision, he's been out on
the campaign trail. He did thisinterview with Stephanopolis. Uh So, if
you're a voter and you were turnedoff by what you saw at the debate,
what does he have to do toget you to get you back into
his his camp? That's that's myquestion. I mean for him to sit
there and say I had a badnight, I mean I had a cold.

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I don't know if that's enough.Well, and if you had a
cold, he should have said itright off the bat. We should have
postponed it or postponed it exactly becauseyou know, all of us TV reporters
and newspeople, you know, notnecessarily the kindest group, they're smelling that
blood in the water, right mindy, and they're like going after it like
like he's wounded well and the waterwas already comed up, so to speak.

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Right, And this is nothing new. We knew that, and he
knew, and his and his folks, you know, his camp knew,
if you will, that people weregoing to look at him in terms of
how well he performed, you know, based on what we might have connected
his age, right, And hewas fighting all of that narrative that has
been churning and building for a longtime around his talking of ability. So

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you know, he American will manyAmericans to watch the debate will forget right.
So this is about Americans to watchthe debate, But this is also
about all those other folks that Ijust mentioned a moment ago, right,
that are thinking more about this thanthe typical voter. And he needs to
show that he is strong, thathe does have vigor, that this was

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a one time thing, right,that he isn't on a downward trajectory in
terms of his health or ability,that he's in command, and that he's
you know, all the things thatwe think about the counter you know,
you know, of course there's ageismand all of this as well, right,
which is sometimes can be very unfair, but you know, we still

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saw many things that were deeply concerningto Americans and to the Democratic leadership.
So he needs to show that essentially, you know, he's all the things
that we saw really were just aone time thing, and that when it
comes to the election and beyond theelection, that he's in command, that
he is strong, he can dothe job. He certainly has rebound.

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Yeah, he certainly has rebounded sincethe debate. There's no question about that.
But I mean, no one wouldaccuse him, and he admits himself.
Remember he had the meeting with thegovernors where he said, and I
don't think this is what he wantedthis headline to be. And well,
maybe I shouldn't schedulen thing after eightpm. You know, I need more
sleep. I mean, he's admittedthat he's he's an old man, but
you know, he's basically appealing toour loyalty to stick with him. Uh,

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And it's just a real question tome as to whether people will do
that. We're talking with us,Mindy Romero, Mindy, if you'd stay
with us, because we have somuch more to discuss, including an interesting
concept about what I guess we're calling, uh, the American flag appropriation.
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior ondemand from KFI AM six forty. I'm

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Phil Schuman from Fox eleven News,sitting in for Tim Conway Junior. Happy
to be here at KFI big talkradio guy, always have been, even
growing up as a kid in Bostonlistening to Boston Talk Radio, which is
huge sports talk radio. I meanit's kind of you know, was before
podcast, before social media. Right, It's a way to have some hopefully

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intelligent exchange of ideas, exercise forthe mind. I like to call it.
If you want to chime in onwhat we're talking about, which right
now is President Biden and his desperateattempt I say desperate in quotes to regain
momentum and his presidency is presidential race. Click on the iHeartRadio app the talkback
feature and send me a message.And what do you want to hear from

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President Biden? If you were interviewinghim, what would you ask him?
Where? I joined a live onthe phone with by Mindy Romero, who
is a USC professor. She hasa PhD in sociology as an expert on
all things politics and voter related.So, Mindy, before I ask you
a couple of questions, I wantto have a little bit of fun.
I'm going to put you on thespot. Right, would you pass the

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US citizenship test. And this cameout on one of the wire services today.
President Biden is in Wisconsin, wheremore than fifty thousand immigrants are currently
eligible for US citizenship. So youhave to take tests, and part of
the test is a series of tenquestions selected by an immigration officer during the
interviews. So you have to answersix of the ten to correctly to pass.

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All right, ninety six percent?Actually do that. I mean,
these aren't like incredibly difficult questions.Right, I'll give you a solvable Who
is the current Chief Justice of theUnited States? Roberts John Roberts ding Ding
ding Ding? All right, thisone's a little bit trickier. You get
a price. Yeah, Afterwards,we'll talk how many amendments does the US

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Constitution have? How many did youthink it has? Well? I cheated,
I looked. I thought it hadsomething in the twenties. This actually,
do you know the answer? Ido? Okay, go ahead,
what I want you to tell me? Twenty seven? Yes, twenty seven.
What's the most hortant one? That'svery yeah, I'm just kidding.

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I wouldn't I wouldn't know. Imean, I'll go with the first amendment
being a news reporter. What doyou think? Yeah, well I said
the bill right, certainly, yeah, and freedom of the press. I
will say that, you know,I give some version of this is been
ship test. So your students,Yeah, and they're really nervous, right,
I think, give you many canbe when you put on on the

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spot. But there's a lot ofwrong answers. Well it's not Jeppard.
I mean, all right, here'shere's a random one which I don't necessarily
think think why would this have tobe on there? What name one of
the two longest rivers in the UnitedStates? Oh, Mississippi. Yes,
very good, all right, youpass you And so back to our main

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discussion. You know President Biden,obviously, we we've heard for a week
now about how challenged he was duringthe debate that he calls to drop out.
No, he's staying in today.The first one on one with the
George Stephanopolis from ABC. It airstonight, supposedly unedited, about fifteen or
twenty minutes long. We played aclip of it at the top of the
hour at four o'clock, called ita bad night, had a cold.

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Let me flip the script a littlebit for you. If you were called
on, say by the leaders ofthe Democratic Party and say, mindy,
we need you to go to theWhite House and make the case for President
Biden to step down and go toPlan B. How would you do that?
Oh, you are having fun,aren't you. Well, of course
I'm a nonpartisan, academic researcher,so I would never find myself in that

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position. But what what I thinkwould make sense? You know, I
think first just starting with who heis. So he's you know, he's
always he's already said he's in it. That doesn't mean that that's going to
stick. We know that he's ayou know, by many, many accounts,
he's the deeply patriotic, patriotic man, is the right fit. The
people believes he's the person who canbest win writer, the person who can

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beat Trump. So you're already startingfrom that position, right in that psychology,
so appealing to his patriotism exactly,so appealing to his patriotism, making
the case if you really believe it, that he can't be Trump. And
indeed, I would imagine many thatmaybe going down this path, are going
to talk about how you know,Biden could potentially Biden's staying in it could

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potentially give the election to Trump.I'm not saying that is the case,
right, but that's a conser sothat there's there already conversations around that,
or at least people that are onthe fence that are waiting to see the
interviews that are waiting to see theWisconsin rally coming up, other events,
wanting to see what I can helpingsdevelop this the president. You know,
the patriotism concept is an interesting onebecause obviously yesterday was July fourth, and

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now we're talking about that in theCelebration of America. And I got this
email from this serve from this designfirm called Redicorps, which says seventy nine
percent of respondents hang an American flagin or outside their homes most of the
year, which I found a littlebit hard to believe. That seems like

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a very high number. But what'swhat's occurred to me lately. And I
our family didn't display a flag atour house. I don't display a flag
at my house. Just never gotin the habit of it. I mean,
I, you know, would decoratefor July fourth, for example.
But it seems like, and tellme if you agree with this, that
the American flag has somehow been appropriatedas a symbol of the Republicans, of

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President Trump, of trumpers. It'slike, if you wait, if you're
displaying an American flag that somehow hascome to mean that you support Trump,
how did that happen? Yeah,and I will, I will agree with
that. Maybe it's too large toa large sense for the most part.
Let's let's get back for a moment, right, The American flag has always

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been political, even at the birthof our nation, right, it symbolized
literally right, the new nation,but it symbolized revolution, right, and
freedom and so many other things justto folks and not so many things to
other folks. And you know,we went to the Civil War, we
went to the Civil Rights era.And something I also give my students at

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times when I when I've teached,it's like kind of basic one on one
I'll ask them to talk about andmaybe we can even do this with your
listeners, right, ask them tothink about what the American flag means to
them. And you ask fifty ofyour listeners, and I bet you're going
to get fifty maybe even very differentsets of meanings. Right, So I
just you know, just to bereal, you know, Like, and

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then we see in different context.We see it, you know, burning
an image of it burning that needsone thing you see it next to I
don't know, a Marvel character anda movie poster, right, and that's
you know, so we start withthat. But certainly I think you can
make the case it's a pretty strongcase that while both parties have always used
the flag, literally the flag pinthat we see that almost no candidate can
go without my Republican Democrat or otherwise. The Republican Party, I think has

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used it quite aggressively and in differentsorts of ways. Wherefore, if you
are a Democrat, I think,or somebody that can particularly if you feel
that you are on the left,right and more progressive. I think it
is, you know, somewhat commonthat people kind of hesitate sometimes on the
left of flying the American flag becausethey feel it means something that is not

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them. Right, does quite fair? You know? I thought about this
myself, of course, right asa political sociologist, but just as an
individual. What does it mean tofly your flag on July fourth of all
holidays? Has the flag been It'salways been co opted politically, But is

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it now a place where you can'tjust even on patriotic holidays, rightly or
wrongly, correctly or otherwise. Thisis all about perception and meaning right and
intension kind of sometimes even goes outthe door. But I yeah, this
is a really good holiday to betalking about this residential race and the stakes

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whether President Biden should stay in.What's President Trump going to do next?
Mindy, We're gonna have to leaveit at that. I really appreciate your
time, and I reserve the rightto uh to call on you again as
we head towards what's going to bea wild a few months before November.
Mindy Romero, USC, PhD.In sociology political, we call you a

(24:22):
sociological politic political expert. How aboutthat political sociologolitical sciology. I get called
all sorts of things, and Icome to all of them unfortunately. Well,
we appreciate your expertise and thanks forwhat you do to try to educate
our next generation of young minds.You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de

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Maya from KFI AM six forty.I'm Phil Schuman from Fox eleven News,
sitting in for Tim Conway Junior.Very happy to be here at KFI.
As I mentioned to you, I'ma big talk radio guy. If you
take a look my nightstand the housein the valley, I have an AMFM
clock radio with an earphone jack,with one of those you know, single

(25:08):
wire earpieces that sticks in your earso you know, you don't wake up
your wife when you're listening to theradio. And let me tell you,
it's not easy to find an AMFMclock radio with an earphone jack. In
twenty twenty four. You go toAmazon, you might have like one choice.
So this is a great way tolearn things, to exchange ideas,

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to keep your mind agile as weget a little bit older, at least
some of us. And you know, this is not social media. You
know, this isn't criticism, thisisn't instant feedback, this isn't everybody with
an opinion. It can be,but again, we're trying to, you
know, maybe, you know,raise the level of discourse a tiny bit,

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and we did that in the pasthour talking about what's at stake the
presidential election. How does President Bidenregain the momentum in his campaign after that
disastrous debate which he blamed on abad cold. Take that for what it's
worth. More details tonight at eightPM on ABC with George Stefanopolis. So
it's like ninety degrees right now outside, and you know, being a newsperson,

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the weather is obviously huge, andI feel sort of conflicted about reporting
on the weather because these temperatures,and we're talking about they're saying maybe one
hundred and thirty degrees in Death Valleybreaking a world record over the next few

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days. I mean, it's aone hundred and twenty in Palm Springs.
So I feel conflicted because the heatcan definitely kill, and it's you know,
a real legitimate danger, and ofcourse along with that the risk of
fire increases. But then on theflip side, it's like, Okay,
it's July, We're in Los Angeles, it's hot. I get it.

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Do I need to turn on DoI need to turn on the news,
whether it's radio or TV or youremember newspapers. Do I need to listen
to the news to have the weatherperson say to me, hydrate don't forget
to hydrate, which you know,in the old days used to be called,
you know, drinking water. DoI need to be told to,

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you know, try to stay inside. Do I need to be told to,
you know, check on my neighbors, elderly I guess maybe. I
mean people want to want to hearit. It's like the same concept of
if I'm sitting at home and I'mnot going anywhere, why do I need
the traffic news that's on, youknow, constantly on radio and TV.
So anyway, it's it's ninety two, I believe in the Burbank area right

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now, and the LA is boththe city and the county. If you
don't already know this, they openup cooling centers, which is great.
I mean this is in addition toplaces you already know about, say your
local library or public buildings or reccenters. If you go online the LA

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City website and LA County website,it'll have details of this. Ironically,
the people that need the cooling centersprobably the least likely people maybe that know
how to go online and navigate tolacity dot org slash cooling center and find
this emergency information. You can alsouse three one one or two one one
the county numbers. But you know, I've done so many stories on the

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weather over the years, and againI'm not trying to minimize the threat because
you know, it's deadly and peoplehave died and probably will die over the
next few days. But it's like, you know, we're on the morning
call with the with the news managers, you know, pitching stories, and
it's like, okay, Phil,you got to do the heat story today.
I'm like, oh, okay,great, Well, there's a water

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park in you know, La Puentethat's open that you can go to.
And then we've all seen this overand over again, and it's like it's
it's great to tell people stories andhow they're beating the heat. But again,
we're smart people. We're in southernCalifornia, it's July. We know
that it's going to get hot.How hot is it? You know,
we can we can go on andon and talk about this, but it

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is kind of fun to go tosome of these hot weather locations and see
see what's out there. But again, we're talking one hundred and thirty degrees
in Death Valley. I mean,why would anybody go there? Remember that
terrible story last year about the guythat I think was on a hike and
he like died and he was likea seasoned hiker. So there definitely are

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you know, extreme temperatures and thewinds forecast, and it's going to be
a scorcher, going to be anabsolute scorcher according to the meteorologists a National
Weather Center and Oxnard. So obviouslytake sensible precautions. But again, you
know, we get it, weget it. I mean no, when
you go out and you report andyou do these stories, as you know,

(29:55):
we anchors here and when I've reportedbefore, you got to come up
with all the superlatives and all thesynonyms. The scorcher is always a popular
one. Did you always have onesthat you like? Nope, I'm not
saying that word. Or were theones that you went to default words?
You know, I don't have necessarilydefault words, but I kind of had
default like locations. Like I mentionedthe water parks or pools. There's also

(30:17):
the you know, the road constructioncrews. I remember one year I was
out in a park in the valleyand there was some poor man who was
with the sanitation department who had youknow, long pants and long sleeves and
gloves and masks on, you know, cleaning out dumpsters. I'm thinking that's
that's a great job. When it'sone hundred and fifteen, you see that.
As a reporter, you go,oh, gold, great, Yeah,

(30:38):
that's fantastic. And then you know, you how's it feel to be
out here in the heat. It'slike it's like, you know, it's
like the reporters in the locker roomafterwards after the big Bay with the brilliant
question to the athletes, you know, you just won the NBA Championship,
how does it feel? Or atthe airport on the day before and after
Thanksgiving? Yeah, well, orJuly fourth, that's gonna be our next

(31:00):
segment. We're talking about travel,the busiest travel day of the year until
the next holiday, which is thebusiest travel day of the year. So
hey, look, it's what wedo, right, I mean, people
love to hear about whether they loveto hear about traffic, and especially if
you know you're you're inside and youdon't have to be out in it,
right indeed, all right, speakingof which, let's get the latest news

(31:22):
with Michael Krozer in the KFI twentyfour hour news Room Conway Show, on
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