Hour 3 | High Speed Pursuit @ConwayShow

High speed pursuit if robbery suspect in LA county // Mark went to the Los Angeles Philharmonic - Maestro of the Movies with John Williams // JJ Redick reportedly hires Lindsey Harding as Lakers' first-ever female assistant coach  // Mark Hosts Robbie Knievel’s Mirage Volcano Jump //High-speed pursuit of a robbery suspect in LA county comes to an end, an infant was involved // MLB could begin testing ball-strike challenge system in majors as soon as spring training.

Episode Transcript

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It's KFI AM six forty and you'relistening to The Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Love Everywhere inthe iHeartRadio app. Just speaking to Sharon
as we watch this high speed chasegoing down. It's the Tim Conway Junior
Show, Mark Thompson setting in andwe're there's a high speed chase. That's

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ooh, this is where life getsreally interesting. It's in Inglewood now,
and he's a robbery suspect, andthe cops have backed off considerably. I
think that was largely because of justthe obvious danger involved. But he is
still motoring hard and now going upLos Ienega into the Ladera Heights area,

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and as I say, the copsseem to have backed off, you've got
choppers overhead. I presume one ofthem is LAPD, but the rest of
them are likely news station, youknow, because all the stations are on
it. So now he's kind ofinto the open and not being pursued by
cops. And I think, asI say that, maybe a policy decision

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that it's just too dangerous. Butdriving on the opposite side of the road
to get around traffic, and obviouslythis being rush hour, it is congested
everywhere. We're watching it for you. The cops are there, they're way
back though, they're giving him alot of room. And as I say,

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this is a robbery suspect. Sothe stolen car part of things,
if that indeed is a stolen vehicle, is not really the focus as that
happens. What Sharon, all right, I'll relate this quickly. I was
just telling Sharon in the that's wherewe're watching this chase. I was just

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saying he went to the Hollywood Bowlthe other night to see the John Williams
Show. Now that John Williams showis not just John Williams music. And
you know, John Williams, hewrote all the stuff for you know,
Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones theme andthe Star Wars theme and I mean everything

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right, Empire of the Sun,Schindler's List. He wrote the Sunday Night
football theme, you know that bumpbomb bum bum bum bump, bump bump
bump. He wrote that he wrotethe Olympics theme bomb bomb bump. That's
John Williams. So this guy justis remarkable. And the night was a

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curated night of music. It wasn'tall John Williams there's a big chunk at
the end, which is Star Wars, and everybody's got their lightsabers out.
It was pretty It's kind of atradition and they do it in various venues,
but this is the Hollywood Bowl.But I mentioned it because there was
a fact that was quite extraordinary.And here's what the fact was. He

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wasn't there, John Williams, butthe night was curated by Williams. So
were listening to Henry Mansini music andsome of the big music scores and music
cues that John Williams particularly liked.And the guy who was conducting it is

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the son He himself is a composerand does a lot of movie and television
scores, but his father is anextremely famous composer of scores, and his

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father for all of the stuff Ijust mentioned that John Williams has done.
I mean, when you start thinkingabout Star Wars and Indiana Jones and the
various themes, you just know instantlywhat they are. Bomb but I'm bomb
bomb, But I mean, youknow, just it's incredible how much a
part of the culture et, thetheme from et, the theme from Close

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Encounters, these are just parts ofthe cultural landscape. So this guy who
was conducting it all, he himselfa composer, his father composed something.
In addition to all the other stuffthat he did, he did oneque that

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is as famous as anything in allof that John Williams stuff, Star Wars
theme, Darth Vader's theme, everything. This guy did one music cue that
you will know. And to me, it's the great brag. The father
of the conductor at the Bowl onSunday, who is conducting all that John

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Williams music, all these iconic songs. He composed the twentieth century Fox fanfare.
Yes, that was composed by thisguy, Alfred Newman. One of

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the great brags to me, Sowhat have you done? Have you done
anything? I'd know if you composedanything? I know? Well, yeah,
uh the fanfare that's at the beginningof yeah, every Fox film.
Just remarkable, really remarkable. Anddon't need to tell you it's the Newman

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family, so you get you know, they're all kinds of brilliant composers and
composers of scores. Randy Newman,Lionel Newman, Emil Newman, Joey Newman,
all of them, you know,prolific in their own way. In
the case it was terrific that hewas being remembered and referenced along the way

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the other night at the at theHollywood Bowl. Hollywood ball is fun.
I got to say. It costsa couple of dollars, though, I
mean, you know, you kindof just have to meet the American Express
SWAT team after, you know,the week finishes. But it was pretty
terrific. Lakers have hired Lindsey Harding, the team's first female assistant coach,

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the assistant coach to JJ Reddick.She'll be the first female full time assistant
coach in franchise history. It wasjust reported none of these hirings that are
reported on ESPN have been officially announcedby the team. But she was the

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head coach of the Stockton Kings andshe led Stockton to a G League best
twenty four to ten record during theregular season, first woman to win G
League Coach of the Year, andnow she'll be coming from Stockton to Los
Angeles. She's also been the headcoach of the Mexico women's national team and

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coach the South Sudan women's national team, so not her first coaching gig at
all, and she'll be alongside JJreddick with the Lakers when we come back.
A name change that will make youwonder what was going through his mind.

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We'll get to that next. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI Am six forty. It'sthe moment you've been waiting for it.
We are ready to test run chartthrough robby Kodievil. It's ready. Touch
up. Oh my god. Thecrowd has gathered at this trip and this

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is the Mirage jump, but onthis trip, this is him jumping the
Mirage at midnight. That's the volcanogoing off. He's yeah, probably Kerniebel
has made it successfully. Now,thank you for that smattering of applause.
Everybody celebrates like a daredeuble likes toyeah, yeah, sending it's curtain call

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at the top of the ramp.All right, thank you. It's like
being that. It really is curve. He made the approach, yeah,
perfectly, in a perfect land hedid. It was a perfect landing and
he made it. Wow, itreally was. I'm getting exhilarated all over
again. Thankfully. Everybody in hereis like, Mark, so cool.
He got to do that. Itwas a cool thing. It was.

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I don't mean to be too cynicalabout it. It was a cool thing.
Do you mean crazy stories ever happened? Like? Well, that jump
didn't have a lot of craziness withit because it was maybe more of a
controlled environment. But there were twothat were really great. I thought,
of all the Canievl jumps they did, I'm thinking that we did one where

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he jumps over a moving train.Also that was pretty good. But the
two I'm thinking of, one isin Vegas and the one is outside of
Vegas. The one that was inVegas was the Building the Building jump.
There's this daredevil Robbie Knievel. Thisis again the son of Evil canevl Okay,
and he's jumping from one rooftop toanother in Las Vegas, and that

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was really cool. I thought alsobecause of the visual that the hang on
this wow in Culver City at theend of a street and the guy's getting
out and he's got a very smallbaby in his car. It looks like,
yeah, the guy when when copsbasically pulled their guns on him were

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screaming at him, the guy rolleddown his window and he was clearly eating,
just constantly putting his head in hishands, and just opened his door.
And pulled the baby out in hislap. That is the most troubling
aspect of all of this, tosee something like that. So obviously that's
what the suspect was trying to communicateto them. I have a baby.

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Obviously, there's a way to dealwith this situation. Taking off the trainket
in a situation like this, todeal with the potential whatever else. He's
in the car with the baby.The other person has the baby. Safe
conclusion, Gil, can you seeanything from your vantage point that would indicate

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how many people might be in thiscar? Well, certainly the rear passenger
opened that door. It looked likeit might have been a female. Hard
to tell. It looked like thedriver handed the baby back to that person
is now talking to that person.The baby appears to be with that person,
either in the back or possibly someonein the front passenger seat. I

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haven't seen any movement there. Thedriver pretty upset about it. But all
they're going to want him to doright now is to get out. He's
already taken his jacket off there.They're gonna want to see his waistband.
He's They're going to want him tomove away from the car and possibly lay
down on the ground. Then they'llcall each person out. So the girls
getting in the back. She's gettingout first driver's side door with the baby,

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and the location is shed terrists rightat the end of said terrists there
and then that drive you know,I mean, so he got out with
her and he's touching them both ofhis baby, and the girl and the
baby are walking away for for along time, for some time now,
and so probably to risk the lifeof a child, to risk the lives

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of the young baby is just themost trouble. Yeah, and and and
this went on and on and on. So obviously you've got what appears to
be the mother, all these policeand only one guy's helping her at the

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very least, detained, taken intocustody, Child and protective services will be
involved, potentially extended family. Obviously, they sort those things out, and
the drivers basically backed up to wherethe police are. And this is else
might be in this car. Youhave the driver, and the initial understanding

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we had was that the passenger inthis car, a passenger was involved in
some sort of armed robbery, whichis why Hawthorne ped initially began pursuing that
passenger. We don't know if thepassenger ultimately is the female there who has
a child. This is all yetto be sorted out. We're seeing this

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in real time as you are.But just most troubling to see a young
child put at such grave risk forsuch an extended period at Yeah, you
certainly didn't expect to see the drivergetting out of the car with a baby
in his arms. It was extraordinarysight. The baby is probably crying and
he's trying to comfort her as she'snot with her mother. Now, the

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mother, who was a passenger inthe car, of course, is going
to be questioned and taken in andthere you see her being put into the
back of the patrol car handcuffed.And you see now the father, the
driver of that car that was inpursuit there being checked and also handcuffed,
and he will be put into anotherpatrol car. And we still have now

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the passenger in the front seat,passenger of the car who is the robbery
suspect from Hawthorne that we believe thatis still there in the front of the
car and considered at this point shouldbe considered at least armed. But they're
making their way in to try andclear the car. But I wonder I

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thought we had another passenger in here, which is possibly maybe there was someone
in that passenger's seat. Since thedeputies made that approach, they're pretty confident
that that was it just the femalepassenger, the mail driver, and the
baby. So it looks like possibly, I mean, we'd be assuming this,
but possibly the suspect was the malewho jumped into the driver's seat and

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continued to pursue or that's what thepursuits took off. So's it's hard to
say who was driving at the timewhen that person got into the vehicle,
But at this point, it lookslike it's all clear. The vehicles are
all clear. They open the trunk. Yeah, they now are trying to
console the baby, and the baby'snow been passed to a female officer and

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trying to kind of hill the babyout. But as noted, I mean,
it's an infant. It it can'teven be six months old, that
child, Yeah, not even Butthe officers are doing what looks like a
really good job in handling this babyand trying to comfort it and just provide
care for it. At this point, I mean, they're being just so
gentle, That's what I'm noticing watchingit live. Happen here even as they

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pass them off, you know,they're just trying to calm the baby down.
The poor thing, Yeah, poorthing. Indeed. Well, the
pursuit then ends the driver in custodyand the driver having surrendered after I guess
it was about a forty five minutechase that was underway, maybe even a
little longer than that. Go foryeah, got for indeed. Thompson here

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for Conway where KFI AM six fortywe're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior ondemand from KFI AM six forty. Mark
Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior isoff this week, will be back on
Monday. You can meet baseball legendSteve Garvey, Sachs and Jaeger this Saturday.

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It happens at Galpinford and Mission Hillsstarting at noon. Food prizes,
amazing deals. It's Galpins ten thousand. Get all the details at A five
seventy LA sports dot com. Speakingof baseball, you saw that the ROBOUMPS
challenge system is going to get adebut in spring training of next year.

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That could lead to regular season use. I've been begging for robo umps.
If you are a baseball fan,you have to admit it has been It's
embarrassing how many balls and strikes aremissed at home plate. It's and if
you just wanted to see a gamethat's fairly called and not influenced by some

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of this ridiculous umpire play, theway to do it is with robo umps.
So they've been experimenting with the automatedball and strike system in the minor
leagues. That's been going on sincetwenty nineteen. But they're still working on
the shape of the strike zone.So Baseball's Commissioner Rob Manfred said that it's

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not likely that they bring it tothe big league without a spring training test.
So if it's in, you know, this year, it leaves them
next year as the year to dospring training tests so they can get the
issues resolved that they want. Hesays, that would make twenty twenty six

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the viable possibility for use of therobooms. Again, this is from the
Commissioner's Office of Baseball. We've madematerial progress, he says. I think
the technology is good to a onehundredth of an inch. The technology in
terms of the path of the ballis perfect. I mean this in dude,

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one hundreds of an inch is perfect, okay. I mean the guys
you have in there right now callingballs and strikes, they are missing a
lot. Some of them are legendfor missing it. I mean, you
know some of these baseball umpires,they have massive reputations as being horrible.
But Triple A ballparks have used thisROBOUMP system this year for the second straight

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season. The system right now callsstrikes based on where the ball crosses the
midpoint of the plate. So thetop of the strike zone was increased because
of a batter height this year andthe bottom remained where it is. We

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have technical issues surrounding the definition ofthe strike zone that still need to be
worked out, says the commissioner,But it does appear as though in spring
training of next year they will debutthis system and the challenge system would I

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think, allow there to be anumpire there, human umpire, and then
you can challenge with going to thestrike zone, the computerized robo strike zone.
I don't know exactly how it worked, but it's a start, and

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then I would say, well,the sooner you get rid of the umps.
I'm talking with the guys are calledballs and strikes. I mean,
I'm sorry, I'm not looking toreplace them, but they're just they're so
bad and you completely eliminate any issueand controversy. And so the system of

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robo umps then becomes close to perfect. If you watch the tennis it's coming
up at the US Open. Atthe US Open, you'll notice they don't
have any of what lines people,there's nobody calling ball is out, ball
is in. They have the entiresystem that's set up so that the court

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is triangulated in that way so thatit's completely you'll still hear the human voice
out, but that's a voice thatjust linked to the computer. The computer
sends a signal that the ball isout, and then that voice is heard
over the PA. It's one hundredpercent reliable and Major League Baseball has to

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get to that program too. Theinterpretive art of the strike zone is yeah,
it ain't working. So and thenthis with technology, This just happened
in Santa Monica. There was adrone that is run by the Santa Monica
Police Department and it was on itsway back. This is over the fourth

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of July weekend, and as thedrone pilot's route was back to the station,
he decided to stop and survey theactivity on the Santa Monica Peer.
On his way to that area,he flew over Lot one North and noticed

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a man wandering through the lot.This is all while he's flying his drone
plane, right, This is SantaMonica PD drone pilot. So he's looking
at this guy who's kind of wanderingthrough the parking lot and then watched him
approach two unoccupied park cars. Theguy then takes a screwdriver out of his

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pocket, punches open the lock onthe driver's side door. Then he spends
about two minutes in each vehicle,digging around for valuables before getting out and
breaking into another car. So,while the guy was in one of the
other vehicles, the drone pilot calledfor office to respond. Officers do respond,

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and they find the guy in possessionof multiple stolen items, and he's
arrested for vehicle burglary and other crimesof theft. And that's how technology works
for you. It's a Tim ConwayJunior Show, Mark Thompson sitting in on
KFI AM six forty live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Tim

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Conway Junior on demand from KFI AMsix forty. Mark Thompson sitting in for
Tim this week KFI AM six fortyLive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We've
had a lot going on today,started with the news that the President has
COVID nineteen. We went through thewhole potential conspiracy theory with you and we

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brought in the best minds on that. We went to the convention talk to
Alex Michaelson. If you missed thatcon conversation, you can catch it all
on the podcast which is on iHeartRadio. Of course, we've had the full
support of Krozier Elmer's training on theboard today. Steff Fusch, who's watching

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over the training, Lindsey Sharon Aswe watched a high speed chase through downtown
and then when the chase ended thedriver who was a robbery suspect. The
whole thing was really a pursuit overthis robbery. He emerges from the vehicle
holding a child, a newborn.It was sort of an extraordinary site,

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and we have discussed technology. Nowit's touched us robo umps, drones.
We've got all the breaking news inand all of that and more We even
discussed the Emmy nominations with Jason Nathanson. The one thing I'm noticing is that
the co COVID flirt variant is producinga summer surge in southern California. So,

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even as Joe Biden confronts the veryreal possibility that he could have COVID
here for I don't know how longit lasts, he's on the PACKSLAVID and
he may be using it, orit may convince him to step away from
the presidential race. The infections andinfection rates in southern California are really on
the rise. COVID is something thatisn't really on everybody's radar anymore, and

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they say doctors do that. Therelaxed attitude toward COVID may be one of
the reasons that this latest variant calledflirt is spreading the way it is.
The flirt variant is twenty percent morecontagious than the original virus, or as
I like to call it, COVIDclassic, but it's less likely to cause

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serious disease, say those involved ininfectious disease study. That may be another
reason why people are kind of lettingtheir guard down. I mean, it
doesn't appear to hit as hard.A lot of people are walking around who
are asymptomatic. You hug each other, you kiss each other, you're sharing

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food. This is how the viruscan spread. According to the CDC,
California's wastewater has reached a very highlevel for COVID for the first time since
last winter. I mean, that'sreally the way they test it now,
because not a lot of people arecoming in anymore or even testing themselves and
reporting in anywhere, so they haveto look to the wastewater as the only

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way to really see if they're spikes. La County health officials said that other
indicators like the number of cases andhospitalizations have doubled in the last month,
but they're just not as reliable.But you know, doubling in the last
month is something, right, ifyou're traveling, you may want to be

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protected now. According to one doctorwho's involved in infectious disease, it's still
a very bad time, she says, for the immuno compromised and for the
ones who are suffering in the throesof infection, it's very bad as well.
I I got sick, was itbut ten days ago? And I

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had like six COVID tests, fourof them at home and two of them
in the doctor's offices. And theones that they do in the doctor's offices
are still kind of that old schoolthing where they jam that cotton swab up
into your brain. But I wasnegative for you know, for everything.
It was some kind of they thinkit was a bacterial infection of some kind.

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But anyway, point is it's outthere. It's out there in sufficient
numbers that it should be of someconcerns. So if you're immuno compromised,
or if you have other concerns,are just generally if you're concerned about it,
you should be aware that the COVIDnumbers are very much on the rise
in the southern California area. Sothis Denver Broncos thing with Terrell Davis and

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Terrell Davis a he's a Hall ofFame running back. He brought Denver our
like first super That's right, wasn'tit? Was it? I want to
say it was Terrell Davis in thebackfield, and it was Elway was still
quarterback. Yeah yeah, but reallyit was Terrell that season that brought that
to us. So basically what happened, He's on a flight and he wanted

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to get some ice, I think, and he reaches out and touches the
to hear him say it anyway,and I guess it's backed up by witnesses.
He touches the elbow of the armof the flight attendant. This is
a guy, and the reaction waspretty intense. You know, here's a
little something on it and you canplay. Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis

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is accusing United Airlines of a quotedisgusting play of injustice, saying that he
was handcuffed and removed from a Unitedflight in front of his family over the
weekend. His attorney says that legalaction could be taken. Davis says during
the flight from Denver to Orange County, California, he lightly tapped a flight
attendant to ask for a couple ofyes for his son. He says,
the flight attendant shouted, don't hitme. When the plane landed, he

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says, six FBI and other lawenforcement agents came on board and handcuffed him
without explanation. If that is evenclose to true, and I think it
is, because I think there havebeen sort of corroborative statements from other people
who were there who saw it.Witnesses, and there's video, of course,

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and the United Airlines has issued aprofound apology. All those things lead
me to believe that that story wentdown something very close to what we've just
heard, and that Terrell Davis wassaying, if that's true, it's outrageous
and there should be a some kindof penalty paid. And I'm told that

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United not only apologized, but thatthat flight attendant has now been taken off
of active duty or whatever the termis, no longer flying. But that
is outrageous, absolutely outrageous. Youcuff the guy and come on, man,
there is a quality of the WildWest when you're flying, you know,

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I mean, if the flight attendantsare in a bad mood or you
know you. Tim tells that storyabout the mask. Remember he's trying to
talk to his daughter and he's talkingacross the aisle and he pulls down the
mask for a second because she couldn'tunderstand him, and the flight attendant closes
on him like a secret service agent, you know, quickly closing in and

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says, sir, I'm not goingto tell you again. Put the mask
on. He's thinking, tell meagain. This is the first time I've
had any interaction with you at all. But you see how all of a
sudden now you're in a red zoneand you're kind of at the mercy of
those flight attendants. And then,to be fair to the flight attendants,
that job got awful. They've gota sort of police now a cabin and

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so the civility that used to generallybe something that was part of air travel,
that's gone too. So you've goteverybody in a bad mood. Everybody
is hair trigger temper. Anyway,Terrell Davis deserves something for that. I
don't know what it is. Idon't know if it's credit on the airline
or whatever, but that's outrageous whathappened, if it's anything close to that

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narrative. So all right, MoeKelly is next, and the mo Kelly
dancers are in the hallway, soI will move along. My show is
a two hour YouTube show. Youcan check it out any time. A
lot of politics and news. Ifthat's your jam, you can check us
out. It's on YouTube called theMark Thompson Show. I'll be here.

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to all the Conway kids for makinglife so much easier than it would be
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