August 28, 2024 • 31 mins
6 arrested in crime tourism bust; group allegedly ran LA-based car rental company for thieves // L.A. mayor meets with Langer’s Deli owner who may close over safety concerns // Months before L.A. doctor was killed at his clinic; three men beat him with baseball bats
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show. Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim.
Get the full crew here. Actually Steffusche is running a
little behind. We get Eric from. Isn't that right?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, STEP's actually sitting right here. I'm just starting the show.
He'll be, he'll be.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
He's an icy Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't want to know what's the problem, Sharon, already
there are issues. I think that's the wrong you're hitting
the wrong button that, Sharon, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
The Fush is in traffic for the Dodger fans lining
up for the Otani bobblehead.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh, of course they started lining up at eleven am.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Man, that's crazy. That is great that this is the
second bobblehead though for Otani. Right, I think there? Am
I wrong about that?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'll turn it over to you experts. But of course
now all the experts have left their chairs and so
but Steffush is in the building and we are delighted
that he is here. Yeah, you see, you show up
fifteen seconds late and we make a big deal about
how late you are. That's how unforgiving we are in
this show. Anyway. It is KFI AM six forty live
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everywhere in the iHeartRadio app much to do today. I
mentioned a huge bust. I'll get to it in a second.
I'm talking about the crime tourism bus. Six people arrested,
the language deli owner meeting with the mayor. There is
a mosquito born virus that has taken the life of
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a young person, somebody in their forties. Yeah, and Santa
Monica could be cracking down on the homelessness that has
brought people sleeping in public spaces. I mean, the homelessness
problem exists across southern California and across America in different
major cities. But the sleeping and public thing is a
(01:55):
real issue and it's affecting Frankly, it's affecting a lot
of different things during the overnight hours.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
So we will get to that a little bit later.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Now to this crime tourism thing, it's utter lunacy. The
crime tourism is associated with those who come here. They
come here on tourist visas and they are right into
criminal activity. And they're not one offs. It's part of
an organized effort to begin crime sprees that have affected
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very high end areas as you're aware, Westwood, bel Air,
Beverly Hills. They're armed, they're masked. Six now arrested in
a Chilean gang.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
This is the business behind me. It is now shut down.
It appears to be a car rental company, but they
were not interested in renting cars to you or I,
but criminals from South America. Six defendants under arrest in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
For I gotta say it me. They're not interested in
renting cars to you or me.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Not you or ODD. Appears to be a car.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Rental company, but they were not interested in renting cars
to uri, but criminals from South America. Six defendants under
arrest in Los Angeles for coordinating a nationwide crime tourism
operation involving in la rental car business with locations in
Van Eyes and in Panoramic City.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
But the dealerships only rented.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Cars to criminals flying in from South America, mainly Chile,
coming here to commit home and business burglaries, thefts, and
other crimes.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Crime tourists would go to this car rental business. There
they'd be provided with a vehicle. They would also be
directed since many of them were not familiar with the
country commit acts of crime and theft. These thefts occurred
in at least eighty cities throughout our country.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
But if that is absolute lunacy, absolute lunacy, I mean
this on some level you'd have to say is a
sphisticated crime ring.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They come here from elsewhere, they know the dance. They
go to this quote rental car company that's just there
to provide them temporary vehicles, and then these crime sprees
take place across eighty cities.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
The defendants received about five point five million dollars from
these staffs, but the losses to individuals and businesses are
well north of thirty five million dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
The US Attorney's Office and identified one hundred and twenty
cases nationwide. According to the forty six count indictment, fifty
seven year old Juan Carlos Tola Doran, who lives in
Canyon Country and owns a number of horses, was the ringleader.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Tola has been running, in essence, the Hurts rental car
business for thieves, furnishing them with cars that entered venture
A County, and when they entered Ventura County, they did
so for one purpose to hit homes and steal from businesses.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Why Chile authorities say it's the only Latin American country
that is part of the visa waiver program, which makes
it easier to get a visa. Los Angeles Mayor Karen
Bass says, stricter vetting is needed.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, that may change that very well, may change.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
What has been happening in LA has been a variety
of issues. One is related to crime tourism. The other
one are local people who are involved, who are praying
on these neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I just hope that maybe there's.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
A little bit of comfort that the residents in these
areas that have been hit will feel today knowing that
the criminal enterprise was brought down.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, I mean there is some truth to that. I mean,
that is the entire enterprise and it is brought down.
But it seems as though the door might be left
open on this visa policy with Chile, and we may
have to take a closer look at that now.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Although the investigation lasted six years, the US attorney says,
but the bulk of the operation, including those home burglaries,
took place the past two years, many year in southern
California and van Ey's Josh haskellly you see seven eye
winness snoop.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I mean it is as I say, and that these
are some high end areas that are hit and stolen
credit cards are part of this. And then once the
credit cards are stolen, as part of the same criminal conspiracy,
the criminals were told to go immediately to stores like Target,
Best Buy Home Depot to max out the stolen cars.
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The cards were used to purchase electronics, gift cards, designer purchases,
other high end luxury goods. And then of course the
cards are racking up all of these charges. The stolen
cards get cut off, but by then they've already purchased
all of this merchandise, so there is a plan they
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turn all of this around super quickly. Then apparently they
arranged for delivery of the stolen goods or to mail
the products to other accomplices all over the country, or
two conspirators at a FedEx store in Sherman Oaks. I mean,
to the cops great credit and the credit of investigators.
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They were able to lay out the various chains of
criminal activity. Just brutal though, and again we're talking about
millions of dollars here. Crime tourism in southern California. Congratulations
to the cops for busting this up. I just think
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hopefully we go after the source and may have to
re examine those visa policies with Chile when we come back.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
The LA Mayor has heard the cries of.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
A business owner and has now met with that business owner.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
We'll tell you about that next.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Next door to the doors manager, the guy who managed
the doors. It's kind of a cool thing. I'm always
trying to get him to tell me a doors story,
tell me a story about Jim Morrison. Tell me something
you know, tell me, come on, Daddy, tell me some stories.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
About rock and roll. He won't talk. He does, you
know he does. Let's have him on. Let's make him talk.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He's moved to Italy, believe it or not. I think
he still has the house.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
That's a very rock and roll thing to do to
have the house and also moved to Italy have another
place there.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Very yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So I don't know that he's available as the point
for the show, but I'll check it out. We are
KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 4 (08:39):
The mayor.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Has met with the owner of Langers Deli in downtown LA.
You know, we've talked about this, the controversy around MacArthur Park. Essentially,
what the plan is is to cut off Wilshire which
goes through the park, and by cutting off Wilshure you
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expand MacArthur Park. And those who are for that say
that will give people in this urban area access to
a green space, and that urban communities really don't have
that and lack of access to parks and green spaces.
This is a real issue in an urban community in
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which a lot of people are growing up. They're young
kids in that area too. Now others would say, well,
that's great, but MacArthur Park ain't that place because MacArthur
Park is dangerous.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
MacArthur Park is not clean.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
MacArthur Park is beset by all kinds of issues involving
drug abuse and a homelessness. The pond water is this fetid,
ugly water. It's just a bad place. And so it's
not this dreamy park that you're looking to expand. And
if you expand it you're just going to expand all
those bad things that I just mentioned. Now against that backdrop,
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Norm Langer is meeting with the mayor because he's been
meeting with media. You've seen him and heard him on
this radio station. You've seen him on television saying, hey, look,
I don't want the park expanded because of all those
bad things expanding with it, and that affects my business.
He wants to see the city make changes in public
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safety and address the homelessness issue around MacArthur Park. So
he's someone saying, hey, before you expand MacArthur Park, clean
up MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sitting down yesterday with Norm Langer,
the owner of Langer's Delhi and MacArthur Park. This after
Langer said he was considering closing down the Classic La
restaurant after seventy seven years in business. The Delhi is
considering closing down do partly through the increasing danger caused
by transience who lived in the thirty five acre MacArthur Park.
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Mayor Bass says the need they need strategy, an approach
to the area. Langer says he wants to see improvements
that there's increased police patrols and improve lighting within the week,
or he's going to close the shop for good.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well, I listen.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I don't mean to call him out on his bluff,
but I don't think he's called closing. I mean, it's
a cornerstone type business. I didn't realize that it had
been around for seventy seven years. I mean, it's even
more of a cornerstone business than I thought it was.
But I know you're still filling langers at lunchtime. I mean,
there are plenty of people there. And I said this
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the other day to Sharon Belly, I said, you got
to be careful if your normal langer with the you know,
it's so dangerous down here thing, because after a while
people start believing that and then they don't come around
down there, so you know, it can have a chilling
effect on your business. But I think he's also saying
something that's true. We know MacArthur Park is that place
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that has a lot of issues, but it's not as
though every time you go to MacArthur Park you know
you're going to get jumped or you're going to run
into some kind of criminal activity. I go down there
all the time to get fake driver's licenses for example.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
No, no, I I do.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Go down there and there's you know, there's every manner
of business that's unrelated to criminal activity. But it's also
true that those businesses coexist in that area with expanding
problems associated with drug abuse, homelessness, and those with mental
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health breaks. So look, I don't think it's a big ask,
Norm Langer is saying, and other businessmen and business people
like Norm Langer are saying, great, I got an idea,
clean up MacArthur Park, give me more law enforcement, give
me a presence in this area so that people feel safe,
and then you can do these things associated with expanding
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MacArthur Park. But right now, just the expansion of MacArthur Park,
that may be something that is popular with some of
your constituents, but with the business people that underwrite this
area with tax dollars, no, it doesn't work. Supporting local
businesses like Langers is a top priority, said Mayor Bass,
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not just through direct aid and resources, but also through
addressing homelessness and crime.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Urgent action on all fronts.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Will continue, is what was said seventy seven years Wow,
I had no idea, and I knew they were a
major LA institution. Congratulations keeping any business open for seventy
seven years. Think about the changes in that area over
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that time.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well, in any case, there is much to do. I mean,
MacArthur Park does need a clean up, regardless what we're
doing with Wilshire Boulevard. You've got to make that a priority,
keeping that clean. That's what we want, clean parks and
outdoor spaces in LA. When we come back, there is
a new express lane that is opening along the stretch
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of the ten Freeway ahead of Labor Day weekend. We'll
tell you about that and some ugliness to share with
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Summer that's coming up a little bit later in the show,
I mentioned they are new express lanes open for Labor
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Day weekend on the ten Freeway.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
A newly released advisory from this.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
No, no, no, not that the freeway the new express
lanes good.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
News for travelers ahead of the holiday weekend. The first
express freeway lanes on the ten Freeway in San Bernardino
County will open at ten pm tonight. After four years
of construction, new express lanes on the ten Freeway in
San Bernardino County will open to the public.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
Has been, in my opinion, unbelievably patient during this construction
effort while we try to build a very complex engineering
effort while maintaining traffic.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
The lanes run ten miles with two express lanes in
each direction of the iten between the fifteen Freeway and
the Los Angeles San Bernardino County line.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Of course, so that'll be These will be toll lange then.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
According to the San Bernardino Transportation Authority, this is just
the first phase. Two additional phases on the ten Freeway
or plan, and that will bring thirty three miles of
told express lanes through one of the most congested corridors
in the county.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
It's a big deal because iten carries nearly three hundred
thousand vehicle trips daily through that going off and during
peak times can be very challenging to get through and unpredictable.
Giving people an option when it matters most is a
pretty cool offering that we get to provide, and I
hope it that people realize the benefits sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Russell, what's it like? Terrible? I mean, you know that's
the answer I have. Terrible. I mean, normally I try
to take the two ten. If I can, I end up.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
I think it's gonna help. It's gonna help a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, the lanes will be watching.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
There's no way it can help. I mean, I got
it's a crawl through that area. So here and again,
these are toll lanes, but they should ease traffic immensely.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
The lanes will be watched over by San Bernardino County
Transportation Authority. Express lane operators with lane occupancy enforced by
California Highway Patrol and drivers can either use a fast
track pass or just use the lanes and then pay
the tolls online at sbexpress lanes dot com.
Speaker 13 (18:30):
Live in Ontario, Sophie Flake, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's pretty wild. So that's something for Labor Day weekend.
Things should be going a little bit more smoothly if
you're taking the ten freeway.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The thing I was going to get to also is
about parental stress. The Surgeon General is now saying that
many parents who worry about every manner of thing for
their kids, for them, for their family, for the future,
they're worrying too much, too stressed to function effectively.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
A newly released advisory from the Surgeon General shows many
parents are at their wits end.
Speaker 13 (19:14):
We're kind of figuring this out as we go along.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
New data shows forty eight percent of parents say on
most days their stress is completely overwhelming, compared to twenty
six percent among other adults without kids.
Speaker 13 (19:28):
That's an extraordinary number. So many parents feel that they're
carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders, and
they're doing that by themselves.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
The advisory sites common parental demands like busy schedules, managing
bad behavior, not getting enough sleep, but also points to
stressors like financial strain, worries about children's health and safety,
technology and social media and time demands.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Well, when you're listen them like that, I mean, it
does sound like a lot. My other half came to
me yesterday and said, I'm really worried because I'm reading
more about the fact that if you don't get sleep,
you end up more likely to suffer any number of
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things that could bring on an early passing. You know
that you're likely to kick the bucket early, and I'm
really worried. She said that you don't sleep enough, and
she was kind of like choking up as she said it,
and I didn't really know how to handle it, so
I kind of was some glib response like, you know, well,
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you know what you know.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Is keeping it from sleeping. It's a conversation like this one.
But thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I appreciate the fact that you're worried, But now I'm
worried that I wasn't worried before this conversation.
Speaker 14 (20:48):
There's so much pressure on parents to spend all of
this quality time with your kids, like sit on the
ground and play pretend with your four year old, you know,
and when you think about law, it's like, there's no
way My mom was able to do that.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
The report saying all of these combined are contributing to
the nationwide epidemic of loneliness and isolation.
Speaker 13 (21:10):
Parents are struggling with loneliness at higher levels than other adults,
and this is particularly true for single parents.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Doctors say, there are strategies that can help.
Speaker 15 (21:20):
This is your emotional response to the increased pressure. So
we're going to decrease the pressure by number one, outsourcing
tasks and not feeling guilty about it.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Could you get a little farther away from the microphone
because I can still make out like three or four
words that you're saying.
Speaker 15 (21:34):
So we're going to decrease the pressure by number one,
outsourcing tasks and not feeling guilty about it.
Speaker 13 (21:41):
We are going to make sure we.
Speaker 15 (21:42):
Make time for our mental health, our physical health, and
our spiritual health.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I love outsourcing tasks.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's my favorite thing to do in life is outsourcing tasks.
Sometimes likes somebody else to do something, Yeah, exactly, that's
what that's called outsourcing.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, And when you say it like that, like you
mean getting somebody else to do something, it sounds a
little less sophisticated than when you say outsourcing tasks. But
you know, rather than getting down on the floor and
playing with your four year old, you can outsource that.
Have somebody else do that while you're there in whatever,
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in the kitchen, you know, in the bedroom, whatever, in
any case.
Speaker 15 (22:27):
The and then we're not going to feel guilty about
it because all of those things are making as a
better chance.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
The Surgeon General calling for a culture shift, policies and
programs to better enable parents to thrive.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Alan, I do think that the current parent has taken
on more than the average parent can possibly effectively do.
And I think it's fair to say if you're a
single parent. First of all, there can be a lot
of reasons that you're a single parent that make you
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feel as though you should be even more involved with
your child.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
You feel like more compelled, and that's unfair.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Also, oftentimes you're a single parent because you want to
be a single parent, But sometimes you just end up
as a single parent. More to the point, I think
we do because of all the research, because of all
the books written, we end up hovering helicoptering, trying to
split the difference between helicoptering and being hands off. We
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may overthink think it and overstress and now the Surgeon
General is saying.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
It's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And parenting can be harmful for your mental health, is
what the Surgeon General's Office is saying. And fathers and
mothers face dangerous levels of stress. So what has happened
at that newdest Ranch? I will tell you next.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway jun you're onto from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
By the way, I will update the nudist Ranch story
at the top of the hour. I'm bumping the Ranch
story to talk about something that's going on near Dodger Stadium.
In Dodger Stadium and around Dodger Stadium. It's the second
show Hey Otani Bobblehead that is being offered to the
public and literally the line to get these bobbleheads down
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the block. The Duke of Sports, Eric Skarr has stepped
in to fill us in on this phenomenon.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I'm looking at it right now. It's extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
They have a serpentine line going that, as I say,
it extends through the parking lot of Dodger Stadium and
out onto the street.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah, I mean people started lining up at eleven am
this morning. This is the second giveaway of the season
for a show hey, bibblehead. So the first one was
even like Dodger Stadium didn't know what to expect that
first one. So I think they're kind of a bit
more prepared now. But fans like end up even earlier
this time than they did the first time, So it's
people want that bobblehead. This one features his dog in it,
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so people obviously everyone loves a dog, so his dog's
name is Decoy.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
So well, it's a cool bobblehead. I'm sure, and people
get them.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Do you think there's I'm going to ask you this question,
and probably no way people really know, but maybe you
have a thought. Do they get them to hang on
to them because you know, we were there when the
Otani phenomenon happened, or do they get them because they
want to turn them around on eBay or whatever it
may be.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I want to say it's honestly fifty to fifty. Yeah,
they're definitely the resellers out there, and I think that's
a lot of the people who lined up early to
ensure that they get one, because it's only the first
forty thousand fans that get one. Dodge Stadium only produces
forty thousand of them. I know a lot of people
out there saying why don't they produce fifty three thousand
because that's the stadium capacity. But the whole point is,
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and I I was reading an article about it. I
believe it was in the La Times. I can't remember
who the writer was, but they said that the reason
they don't produce the entire stadium's worth of bobbleheads is
because they want people to show up early to the
games to spend money on concessions. They want that exclusivity,
and if they were to produce fifty three thousand of them,
people would just show up late because they know they're
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going to get the bbblehead anyway.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
And people showing up late to a game place, well.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
They already show up in the second or third ending
anyway because of traffic.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
That's considered on time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, they've been doing it in baseball and other sports
as well, but particularly baseball forty years.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Oh yes, the way you get people to come to
the park early.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And a lot of a lot of other teams they
produce a lot less fifteen maybe, right, So the Dodgers
really treat their fans by giving them forty thousand. Yeah,
but I mean it's it's a hot ticket and like
you were saying, the Reselle value is astronomical.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I mean, is it really like what numbers seen?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Well, the first the first bobblehead that came out earlier
in the season, Some are going anywhere between two to
five hundred dollars on eBay. Wow, I mean, I mean,
I've seen some pretty insane bobblehead collections from Dodger fans
online and stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I mean, I have a smaller collection.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I'm one of those people where I wouldn't go resell
this bobblehead. This would be for my personal collection because
I collect bobbleheads myself.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
So well, this is really and this is like a
real cherished type bobblehead.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I mean, it's a right.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I mean, this is a as you say, second issuing
of this.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And this one specifically for the second release with his
dog decoy Dodger Stadium produced. I don't know the number,
and I don't think they ever released the number. But
there's a select few bobbleheads that are gold. Oh wow,
that's so cool. You find out at the stadium once
the usher hands you your bobblehead, once you cross through
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the gates of Dodger Stadium if you get a regular bibbleheader,
if you get that gold one. So I think that's
also what contributed to people lining up so early today,
causing all the traffic that made steffushlate, all the madness
in the city. I mean, people have been talking about
this game four weeks.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Sure, this is super cool, though, And you get a
box and you can't see whether the Otani bobblehead.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
No, I mean you'll see it once once you get
once you get to the box, and once you get
the box.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, tell me about you, guys.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I looked up a gold bobble head sales on dbay
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Oh yeah, see, so people already have it up on eBay.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, it's crazy, and what is it? But and the
Otani if you wanted to But this one isn't up yet.
But the first one is between two and five hundred.
You can get me into a bobblehead for five hundred.
I know someone, my pal Ray, who is out in
Santa Clarita.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
He has He's just like you.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
He has a bobblehead collection that's pretty extensive.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Dodgers bobblehead collection.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I'd say I probably have about twelve to fifteen bobbleheads total.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Probably ten of those are all Dodgers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I got a few others. I got like a Kobe
and Shack bobblehead. I got a couple other miscellaneous bobbleheads. Yeah,
and he's older, so he's been collecting them longer. Yeah,
you know, but I think there's another level now, you know,
and especially nowadays. I think with the people having these
types of collections and the resale market, the ticket prices,
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like on secondary markets have skyrocketed for these types of games.
So it's like tomorrow's game against the Baltimore Orioles, tickets
are like forty bucks. Maybe like the cheapest ticket tonight,
the cheapest ticket was like one hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Wow, So it's like extraordinary. You know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Before Otani was here, but the deal had been made
and he was coming to LA I remember talking to
a couple of guys in the sports stations about how
rich a deal it was. I mean, it's an incredibly
expensive deal, right, and they all said they'll make that
money back so quickly because when he's at bat, there
are three different billboards up that are oh yeah, when
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everybody else is at bad.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
It's one billboard.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I mean, I think the Dodgers have had an influx.
I mean They've had a long standing relationship with Japanese
players and bringing them over and having them be a
part of their team. So they've had relationships with Japanese companies,
but the influx of more Japanese companies that have started
to advertise with the Dodgers now that show is a
part of the team, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the other pitcher,
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It's it's crazy. I mean, I think half the advertisements
are in Japanese at Dodger Stadium right now.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That's a great point too. And he's by we only
have another a minute. But he hasn't in any way underperformed.
You talk about a guy who has absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Lived up to the hype, and think about the fact
that he's recovering from Tommy John surgery and he hasn't
even pitched yet for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
He's going to be pitching next year for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
After being the first or the fastest player in MLB
history to have forty home runs and forty steals in
a season. Wild Man wild No, he's not from this planet.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's crazy the Duke, Thank you, Eric, always loved talking
to you.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, all right, right on. Good luck.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
If you're out there in traffic, otani Mania has made
it a little tougher to get around areas near Dodgers Stadium.
Next hour, The Orange County World of China, a city
that has gone up with its own version of our
(31:24):
Orange County, just an hour's drive from Beijing. I'll tell
you about it. In the next hour. It's The Conway Show.
Thompson sitting in for Tim on KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KMF I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show. Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim.
Get the full crew here. Actually Steffusche is running a
little behind. We get Eric from. Isn't that right?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, STEP's actually sitting right here. I'm just starting the show.
He'll be, he'll be.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
He's an icy Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't want to know what's the problem, Sharon, already
there are issues. I think that's the wrong you're hitting
the wrong button that, Sharon, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
The Fush is in traffic for the Dodger fans lining
up for the Otani bobblehead.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh, of course they started lining up at eleven am.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Man, that's crazy. That is great that this is the
second bobblehead though for Otani. Right, I think there? Am
I wrong about that?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'll turn it over to you experts. But of course
now all the experts have left their chairs and so
but Steffush is in the building and we are delighted
that he is here. Yeah, you see, you show up
fifteen seconds late and we make a big deal about
how late you are. That's how unforgiving we are in
this show. Anyway. It is KFI AM six forty live
(01:11):
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app much to do today. I
mentioned a huge bust. I'll get to it in a second.
I'm talking about the crime tourism bus. Six people arrested,
the language deli owner meeting with the mayor. There is
a mosquito born virus that has taken the life of
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a young person, somebody in their forties. Yeah, and Santa
Monica could be cracking down on the homelessness that has
brought people sleeping in public spaces. I mean, the homelessness
problem exists across southern California and across America in different
major cities. But the sleeping and public thing is a
(01:55):
real issue and it's affecting Frankly, it's affecting a lot
of different things during the overnight hours.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
So we will get to that a little bit later.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Now to this crime tourism thing, it's utter lunacy. The
crime tourism is associated with those who come here. They
come here on tourist visas and they are right into
criminal activity. And they're not one offs. It's part of
an organized effort to begin crime sprees that have affected
(02:28):
very high end areas as you're aware, Westwood, bel Air,
Beverly Hills. They're armed, they're masked. Six now arrested in
a Chilean gang.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
This is the business behind me. It is now shut down.
It appears to be a car rental company, but they
were not interested in renting cars to you or I,
but criminals from South America. Six defendants under arrest in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
For I gotta say it me. They're not interested in
renting cars to you or me.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Not you or ODD. Appears to be a car.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Rental company, but they were not interested in renting cars
to uri, but criminals from South America. Six defendants under
arrest in Los Angeles for coordinating a nationwide crime tourism
operation involving in la rental car business with locations in
Van Eyes and in Panoramic City.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
But the dealerships only rented.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Cars to criminals flying in from South America, mainly Chile,
coming here to commit home and business burglaries, thefts, and
other crimes.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Crime tourists would go to this car rental business. There
they'd be provided with a vehicle. They would also be
directed since many of them were not familiar with the
country commit acts of crime and theft. These thefts occurred
in at least eighty cities throughout our country.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
But if that is absolute lunacy, absolute lunacy, I mean
this on some level you'd have to say is a
sphisticated crime ring.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They come here from elsewhere, they know the dance. They
go to this quote rental car company that's just there
to provide them temporary vehicles, and then these crime sprees
take place across eighty cities.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
The defendants received about five point five million dollars from
these staffs, but the losses to individuals and businesses are
well north of thirty five million dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
The US Attorney's Office and identified one hundred and twenty
cases nationwide. According to the forty six count indictment, fifty
seven year old Juan Carlos Tola Doran, who lives in
Canyon Country and owns a number of horses, was the ringleader.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Tola has been running, in essence, the Hurts rental car
business for thieves, furnishing them with cars that entered venture
A County, and when they entered Ventura County, they did
so for one purpose to hit homes and steal from businesses.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Why Chile authorities say it's the only Latin American country
that is part of the visa waiver program, which makes
it easier to get a visa. Los Angeles Mayor Karen
Bass says, stricter vetting is needed.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, that may change that very well, may change.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
What has been happening in LA has been a variety
of issues. One is related to crime tourism. The other
one are local people who are involved, who are praying
on these neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I just hope that maybe there's.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
A little bit of comfort that the residents in these
areas that have been hit will feel today knowing that
the criminal enterprise was brought down.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, I mean there is some truth to that. I mean,
that is the entire enterprise and it is brought down.
But it seems as though the door might be left
open on this visa policy with Chile, and we may
have to take a closer look at that now.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Although the investigation lasted six years, the US attorney says,
but the bulk of the operation, including those home burglaries,
took place the past two years, many year in southern
California and van Ey's Josh haskellly you see seven eye
winness snoop.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I mean it is as I say, and that these
are some high end areas that are hit and stolen
credit cards are part of this. And then once the
credit cards are stolen, as part of the same criminal conspiracy,
the criminals were told to go immediately to stores like Target,
Best Buy Home Depot to max out the stolen cars.
(06:25):
The cards were used to purchase electronics, gift cards, designer purchases,
other high end luxury goods. And then of course the
cards are racking up all of these charges. The stolen
cards get cut off, but by then they've already purchased
all of this merchandise, so there is a plan they
(06:46):
turn all of this around super quickly. Then apparently they
arranged for delivery of the stolen goods or to mail
the products to other accomplices all over the country, or
two conspirators at a FedEx store in Sherman Oaks. I mean,
to the cops great credit and the credit of investigators.
(07:09):
They were able to lay out the various chains of
criminal activity. Just brutal though, and again we're talking about
millions of dollars here. Crime tourism in southern California. Congratulations
to the cops for busting this up. I just think
(07:32):
hopefully we go after the source and may have to
re examine those visa policies with Chile when we come back.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
The LA Mayor has heard the cries of.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
A business owner and has now met with that business owner.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
We'll tell you about that next.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Next door to the doors manager, the guy who managed
the doors. It's kind of a cool thing. I'm always
trying to get him to tell me a doors story,
tell me a story about Jim Morrison. Tell me something
you know, tell me, come on, Daddy, tell me some stories.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
About rock and roll. He won't talk. He does, you
know he does. Let's have him on. Let's make him talk.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He's moved to Italy, believe it or not. I think
he still has the house.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
That's a very rock and roll thing to do to
have the house and also moved to Italy have another
place there.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Very yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So I don't know that he's available as the point
for the show, but I'll check it out. We are
KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
The mayor.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Has met with the owner of Langers Deli in downtown LA.
You know, we've talked about this, the controversy around MacArthur Park. Essentially,
what the plan is is to cut off Wilshire which
goes through the park, and by cutting off Wilshure you
(09:04):
expand MacArthur Park. And those who are for that say
that will give people in this urban area access to
a green space, and that urban communities really don't have
that and lack of access to parks and green spaces.
This is a real issue in an urban community in
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which a lot of people are growing up. They're young
kids in that area too. Now others would say, well,
that's great, but MacArthur Park ain't that place because MacArthur
Park is dangerous.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
MacArthur Park is not clean.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
MacArthur Park is beset by all kinds of issues involving
drug abuse and a homelessness. The pond water is this fetid,
ugly water. It's just a bad place. And so it's
not this dreamy park that you're looking to expand. And
if you expand it you're just going to expand all
those bad things that I just mentioned. Now against that backdrop,
(10:02):
Norm Langer is meeting with the mayor because he's been
meeting with media. You've seen him and heard him on
this radio station. You've seen him on television saying, hey, look,
I don't want the park expanded because of all those
bad things expanding with it, and that affects my business.
He wants to see the city make changes in public
(10:24):
safety and address the homelessness issue around MacArthur Park. So
he's someone saying, hey, before you expand MacArthur Park, clean
up MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sitting down yesterday with Norm Langer,
the owner of Langer's Delhi and MacArthur Park. This after
Langer said he was considering closing down the Classic La
restaurant after seventy seven years in business. The Delhi is
considering closing down do partly through the increasing danger caused
by transience who lived in the thirty five acre MacArthur Park.
(10:57):
Mayor Bass says the need they need strategy, an approach
to the area. Langer says he wants to see improvements
that there's increased police patrols and improve lighting within the week,
or he's going to close the shop for good.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well, I listen.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I don't mean to call him out on his bluff,
but I don't think he's called closing. I mean, it's
a cornerstone type business. I didn't realize that it had
been around for seventy seven years. I mean, it's even
more of a cornerstone business than I thought it was.
But I know you're still filling langers at lunchtime. I mean,
there are plenty of people there. And I said this
(11:33):
the other day to Sharon Belly, I said, you got
to be careful if your normal langer with the you know,
it's so dangerous down here thing, because after a while
people start believing that and then they don't come around
down there, so you know, it can have a chilling
effect on your business. But I think he's also saying
something that's true. We know MacArthur Park is that place
(11:55):
that has a lot of issues, but it's not as
though every time you go to MacArthur Park you know
you're going to get jumped or you're going to run
into some kind of criminal activity. I go down there
all the time to get fake driver's licenses for example.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
No, no, I I do.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Go down there and there's you know, there's every manner
of business that's unrelated to criminal activity. But it's also
true that those businesses coexist in that area with expanding
problems associated with drug abuse, homelessness, and those with mental
(12:34):
health breaks. So look, I don't think it's a big ask,
Norm Langer is saying, and other businessmen and business people
like Norm Langer are saying, great, I got an idea,
clean up MacArthur Park, give me more law enforcement, give
me a presence in this area so that people feel safe,
and then you can do these things associated with expanding
(12:58):
MacArthur Park. But right now, just the expansion of MacArthur Park,
that may be something that is popular with some of
your constituents, but with the business people that underwrite this
area with tax dollars, no, it doesn't work. Supporting local
businesses like Langers is a top priority, said Mayor Bass,
(13:20):
not just through direct aid and resources, but also through
addressing homelessness and crime.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Urgent action on all fronts.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Will continue, is what was said seventy seven years Wow,
I had no idea, and I knew they were a
major LA institution. Congratulations keeping any business open for seventy
seven years. Think about the changes in that area over
(13:49):
that time.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well, in any case, there is much to do. I mean,
MacArthur Park does need a clean up, regardless what we're
doing with Wilshire Boulevard. You've got to make that a priority,
keeping that clean. That's what we want, clean parks and
outdoor spaces in LA. When we come back, there is
a new express lane that is opening along the stretch
(14:15):
of the ten Freeway ahead of Labor Day weekend. We'll
tell you about that and some ugliness to share with
you as well, But I will balance the ugliness with
a huge giveaway. This is I'm not overstating this. This
is a major cool giveaway. I'll tell you how major
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it to me to do, that's how major and cool
it is.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
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Summer that's coming up a little bit later in the show,
I mentioned they are new express lanes open for Labor
(16:33):
Day weekend on the ten Freeway.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
A newly released advisory from this.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
No, no, no, not that the freeway the new express
lanes good.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
News for travelers ahead of the holiday weekend. The first
express freeway lanes on the ten Freeway in San Bernardino
County will open at ten pm tonight. After four years
of construction, new express lanes on the ten Freeway in
San Bernardino County will open to the public.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
Has been, in my opinion, unbelievably patient during this construction
effort while we try to build a very complex engineering
effort while maintaining traffic.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
The lanes run ten miles with two express lanes in
each direction of the iten between the fifteen Freeway and
the Los Angeles San Bernardino County line.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Of course, so that'll be These will be toll lange then.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
According to the San Bernardino Transportation Authority, this is just
the first phase. Two additional phases on the ten Freeway
or plan, and that will bring thirty three miles of
told express lanes through one of the most congested corridors
in the county.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
It's a big deal because iten carries nearly three hundred
thousand vehicle trips daily through that going off and during
peak times can be very challenging to get through and unpredictable.
Giving people an option when it matters most is a
pretty cool offering that we get to provide, and I
hope it that people realize the benefits sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Russell, what's it like? Terrible? I mean, you know that's
the answer I have. Terrible. I mean, normally I try
to take the two ten. If I can, I end up.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
I think it's gonna help. It's gonna help a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, the lanes will be watching.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
There's no way it can help. I mean, I got
it's a crawl through that area. So here and again,
these are toll lanes, but they should ease traffic immensely.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
The lanes will be watched over by San Bernardino County
Transportation Authority. Express lane operators with lane occupancy enforced by
California Highway Patrol and drivers can either use a fast
track pass or just use the lanes and then pay
the tolls online at sbexpress lanes dot com.
Speaker 13 (18:30):
Live in Ontario, Sophie Flake, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's pretty wild. So that's something for Labor Day weekend.
Things should be going a little bit more smoothly if
you're taking the ten freeway.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The thing I was going to get to also is
about parental stress. The Surgeon General is now saying that
many parents who worry about every manner of thing for
their kids, for them, for their family, for the future,
they're worrying too much, too stressed to function effectively.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
A newly released advisory from the Surgeon General shows many
parents are at their wits end.
Speaker 13 (19:14):
We're kind of figuring this out as we go along.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
New data shows forty eight percent of parents say on
most days their stress is completely overwhelming, compared to twenty
six percent among other adults without kids.
Speaker 13 (19:28):
That's an extraordinary number. So many parents feel that they're
carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders, and
they're doing that by themselves.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
The advisory sites common parental demands like busy schedules, managing
bad behavior, not getting enough sleep, but also points to
stressors like financial strain, worries about children's health and safety,
technology and social media and time demands.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Well, when you're listen them like that, I mean, it
does sound like a lot. My other half came to
me yesterday and said, I'm really worried because I'm reading
more about the fact that if you don't get sleep,
you end up more likely to suffer any number of
(20:12):
things that could bring on an early passing. You know
that you're likely to kick the bucket early, and I'm
really worried. She said that you don't sleep enough, and
she was kind of like choking up as she said it,
and I didn't really know how to handle it, so
I kind of was some glib response like, you know, well,
(20:35):
you know what you know.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Is keeping it from sleeping. It's a conversation like this one.
But thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I appreciate the fact that you're worried, But now I'm
worried that I wasn't worried before this conversation.
Speaker 14 (20:48):
There's so much pressure on parents to spend all of
this quality time with your kids, like sit on the
ground and play pretend with your four year old, you know,
and when you think about law, it's like, there's no
way My mom was able to do that.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
The report saying all of these combined are contributing to
the nationwide epidemic of loneliness and isolation.
Speaker 13 (21:10):
Parents are struggling with loneliness at higher levels than other adults,
and this is particularly true for single parents.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Doctors say, there are strategies that can help.
Speaker 15 (21:20):
This is your emotional response to the increased pressure. So
we're going to decrease the pressure by number one, outsourcing
tasks and not feeling guilty about it.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Could you get a little farther away from the microphone
because I can still make out like three or four
words that you're saying.
Speaker 15 (21:34):
So we're going to decrease the pressure by number one,
outsourcing tasks and not feeling guilty about it.
Speaker 13 (21:41):
We are going to make sure we.
Speaker 15 (21:42):
Make time for our mental health, our physical health, and
our spiritual health.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I love outsourcing tasks.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's my favorite thing to do in life is outsourcing tasks.
Sometimes likes somebody else to do something, Yeah, exactly, that's
what that's called outsourcing.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, And when you say it like that, like you
mean getting somebody else to do something, it sounds a
little less sophisticated than when you say outsourcing tasks. But
you know, rather than getting down on the floor and
playing with your four year old, you can outsource that.
Have somebody else do that while you're there in whatever,
(22:20):
in the kitchen, you know, in the bedroom, whatever, in
any case.
Speaker 15 (22:27):
The and then we're not going to feel guilty about
it because all of those things are making as a
better chance.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
The Surgeon General calling for a culture shift, policies and
programs to better enable parents to thrive.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Alan, I do think that the current parent has taken
on more than the average parent can possibly effectively do.
And I think it's fair to say if you're a
single parent. First of all, there can be a lot
of reasons that you're a single parent that make you
(23:00):
feel as though you should be even more involved with
your child.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
You feel like more compelled, and that's unfair.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Also, oftentimes you're a single parent because you want to
be a single parent, But sometimes you just end up
as a single parent. More to the point, I think
we do because of all the research, because of all
the books written, we end up hovering helicoptering, trying to
split the difference between helicoptering and being hands off. We
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may overthink think it and overstress and now the Surgeon
General is saying.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
It's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And parenting can be harmful for your mental health, is
what the Surgeon General's Office is saying. And fathers and
mothers face dangerous levels of stress. So what has happened
at that newdest Ranch? I will tell you next.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway jun you're onto from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
By the way, I will update the nudist Ranch story
at the top of the hour. I'm bumping the Ranch
story to talk about something that's going on near Dodger Stadium.
In Dodger Stadium and around Dodger Stadium. It's the second
show Hey Otani Bobblehead that is being offered to the
public and literally the line to get these bobbleheads down
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the block. The Duke of Sports, Eric Skarr has stepped
in to fill us in on this phenomenon.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I'm looking at it right now. It's extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
They have a serpentine line going that, as I say,
it extends through the parking lot of Dodger Stadium and
out onto the street.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah, I mean people started lining up at eleven am
this morning. This is the second giveaway of the season
for a show hey, bibblehead. So the first one was
even like Dodger Stadium didn't know what to expect that
first one. So I think they're kind of a bit
more prepared now. But fans like end up even earlier
this time than they did the first time, So it's
people want that bobblehead. This one features his dog in it,
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so people obviously everyone loves a dog, so his dog's
name is Decoy.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
So well, it's a cool bobblehead. I'm sure, and people
get them.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Do you think there's I'm going to ask you this question,
and probably no way people really know, but maybe you
have a thought. Do they get them to hang on
to them because you know, we were there when the
Otani phenomenon happened, or do they get them because they
want to turn them around on eBay or whatever it
may be.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I want to say it's honestly fifty to fifty. Yeah,
they're definitely the resellers out there, and I think that's
a lot of the people who lined up early to
ensure that they get one, because it's only the first
forty thousand fans that get one. Dodge Stadium only produces
forty thousand of them. I know a lot of people
out there saying why don't they produce fifty three thousand
because that's the stadium capacity. But the whole point is,
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and I I was reading an article about it. I
believe it was in the La Times. I can't remember
who the writer was, but they said that the reason
they don't produce the entire stadium's worth of bobbleheads is
because they want people to show up early to the
games to spend money on concessions. They want that exclusivity,
and if they were to produce fifty three thousand of them,
people would just show up late because they know they're
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going to get the bbblehead anyway.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
And people showing up late to a game place, well.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
They already show up in the second or third ending
anyway because of traffic.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
That's considered on time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, they've been doing it in baseball and other sports
as well, but particularly baseball forty years.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Oh yes, the way you get people to come to
the park early.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And a lot of a lot of other teams they
produce a lot less fifteen maybe, right, So the Dodgers
really treat their fans by giving them forty thousand. Yeah,
but I mean it's it's a hot ticket and like
you were saying, the Reselle value is astronomical.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I mean, is it really like what numbers seen?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Well, the first the first bobblehead that came out earlier
in the season, Some are going anywhere between two to
five hundred dollars on eBay. Wow, I mean, I mean,
I've seen some pretty insane bobblehead collections from Dodger fans
online and stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
I mean, I have a smaller collection.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I'm one of those people where I wouldn't go resell
this bobblehead. This would be for my personal collection because
I collect bobbleheads myself.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
So well, this is really and this is like a
real cherished type bobblehead.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I mean, it's a right.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I mean, this is a as you say, second issuing
of this.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And this one specifically for the second release with his
dog decoy Dodger Stadium produced. I don't know the number,
and I don't think they ever released the number. But
there's a select few bobbleheads that are gold. Oh wow,
that's so cool. You find out at the stadium once
the usher hands you your bobblehead, once you cross through
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the gates of Dodger Stadium if you get a regular bibbleheader,
if you get that gold one. So I think that's
also what contributed to people lining up so early today,
causing all the traffic that made steffushlate, all the madness
in the city. I mean, people have been talking about
this game four weeks.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Sure, this is super cool, though, And you get a
box and you can't see whether the Otani bobblehead.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
No, I mean you'll see it once once you get
once you get to the box, and once you get
the box.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, tell me about you, guys.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I looked up a gold bobble head sales on dbay
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Oh yeah, see, so people already have it up on eBay.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, it's crazy, and what is it? But and the
Otani if you wanted to But this one isn't up yet.
But the first one is between two and five hundred.
You can get me into a bobblehead for five hundred.
I know someone, my pal Ray, who is out in
Santa Clarita.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
He has He's just like you.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
He has a bobblehead collection that's pretty extensive.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Dodgers bobblehead collection.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I'd say I probably have about twelve to fifteen bobbleheads total.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Probably ten of those are all Dodgers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I got a few others. I got like a Kobe
and Shack bobblehead. I got a couple other miscellaneous bobbleheads. Yeah,
and he's older, so he's been collecting them longer. Yeah,
you know, but I think there's another level now, you know,
and especially nowadays. I think with the people having these
types of collections and the resale market, the ticket prices,
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like on secondary markets have skyrocketed for these types of games.
So it's like tomorrow's game against the Baltimore Orioles, tickets
are like forty bucks. Maybe like the cheapest ticket tonight,
the cheapest ticket was like one hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Wow, So it's like extraordinary. You know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Before Otani was here, but the deal had been made
and he was coming to LA I remember talking to
a couple of guys in the sports stations about how
rich a deal it was. I mean, it's an incredibly
expensive deal, right, and they all said they'll make that
money back so quickly because when he's at bat, there
are three different billboards up that are oh yeah, when
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everybody else is at bad.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
It's one billboard.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I mean, I think the Dodgers have had an influx.
I mean They've had a long standing relationship with Japanese
players and bringing them over and having them be a
part of their team. So they've had relationships with Japanese companies,
but the influx of more Japanese companies that have started
to advertise with the Dodgers now that show is a
part of the team, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the other pitcher,
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It's it's crazy. I mean, I think half the advertisements
are in Japanese at Dodger Stadium right now.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That's a great point too. And he's by we only
have another a minute. But he hasn't in any way underperformed.
You talk about a guy who has absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Lived up to the hype, and think about the fact
that he's recovering from Tommy John surgery and he hasn't
even pitched yet for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
He's going to be pitching next year for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
After being the first or the fastest player in MLB
history to have forty home runs and forty steals in
a season. Wild Man wild No, he's not from this planet.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's crazy the Duke, Thank you, Eric, always loved talking
to you.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, all right, right on. Good luck.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
If you're out there in traffic, otani Mania has made
it a little tougher to get around areas near Dodgers Stadium.
Next hour, The Orange County World of China, a city
that has gone up with its own version of our
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Orange County, just an hour's drive from Beijing. I'll tell
you about it. In the next hour. It's The Conway Show.
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