September 20, 2024 • 30 mins
California Digital ID – iPhone users across the state can now add their California driver's license to their digital wallets.// Drinking beer may make people more attractive to mosquitoes. // Guest: KFI’s Michael Monks on cameras being put on the Metro to help with the influx of crime.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's CAMF I am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm usually a slow adopter of certain technology. I love technology,
but I'm kind of slow on the uptick, if only
because I want to make sure that it's safe. It's secure,
it sound, and it also makes sense. I can use
it a number of places. I was really slow adopting
the idea of uber. I was really slow using an
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actual digital boarding pass to get on a plane. I've
always had a hard copy backup because I was worried
about my phone not working or not being able to scan,
which did happen at least early on. And then the
technology got better, and now I will never print out
a boarding pass again if I can avoid it along
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those sab lines. A few weeks ago I added my
California driver's license, a digital version I added to my
Google wallet.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I had that a few weeks ago. You said, yes,
didn't just get available a few weeks ago for you?
Or you just did it that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, it's been it's been available for a while, but Apple,
as the news was announced today, Apple was late to
the game. I guess I could do it on Google
because it took me about maybe five ten minutes. I
had to go through the DMV website to do it,
which I think is different from iPhone. You could do
it straight from your phone and it will direct you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I wonder if that's tied to the Apple wallets whole,
you know, things with them, with them being sued about
allowing other credit cards and banks and stuff to be
to allow you to put other credit cards onto your wallet,
which they hadn't done. They'd made it so tight knit
that you couldn't get anything on there. And I'm wondering
if it was sort of intermixed with that and not
being able to put your license on your way.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Maybe because Apple has always had a tighter ecosystem Google,
I have other documents and credit cards which are in
the Google Wallet that I can use be at a
deeper card like for e, say, I if I forget
my wallet at home, I can even forget my phone
at home. I can use my watch at Google and
at Google Pay. It's like, oh my gosh, I forgot
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everything and I can go and still pay for stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And Apple, of course they've been losing like all of
the lawsuits in Europe over this exact thing with that
their Apple wallet.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They have, and and they've they've had to just figure
out how to you know, remain current in that regard. Yeah,
and my phone is talking to me right now? Is
that what it is? Yeah? Because it thought I was
talking to it. You know, I wasn't trying to Wait,
you don't have an Apple phone, do you? No?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I never just randomly starts talking, does it? Because
like it's a great piece of technology.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh, here we go. What I could do? I could say, Hey,
s I r I and messed up everybody's day. Everybody's day.
Mine doesn't work. I have never really had that issue before. Really. Yeah,
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
If it's just to have you voice activated, you know,
set up your your voice what it is. Maybe it's
a setting in there that I turned. Yeah, I have
to do that on my you know, you get a
new phone wherever, you have to train it to recognize
your voice and then I can say, like, you know, okay, Google,
hey Siri, setting alarm for eight pm tomorrow. Yes, they
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won't talk to me now. It's just you know, it's
just it's like it's like a it's like a circus animal.
Now you know when it's when it's time to show
out and perform. They don't want to perform, but anyhow,
Apple has now added the capability where you can use
your iPhone and add your California driver's license to your
Apple Wallet, and it can only be used in certain locations.
(03:35):
You can't like show it to a law enforcement officer
when you get pulled over for speeding and say it's
on my phone, or you might do it. No, it's
not going to help you. You have to have the
physical driver's license or you'll be taking to jail or
at least cited for not having proper identification.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Californians with iPhones can now store their driver's license right
in their digital wallet. Governor Gavin Newsom announced today the
option is now available for iPhones and Apple watches. To
add your ID, click the plus symbol at the top
of the screen in your Apple Wallet and follow the
prompts to verify your ID card. The feature is part
of the dmb's broader Mobile Driver's License Pilot program that
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launched last year. Digital IDs can be shown at select
businesses and TSA checkpoints, but carrying a physical card is
still required.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, it can be very handy. If and when it's
accepted in all the places. Now on my version of it,
I can use it. I can use it to generate
a QR code, and then I can give it to
send that to like a bartender if I had to
verify my age, if I actually looked under twenty one
or something, or if they wanted to verify my ID. Man, Look,
(04:45):
those days are long gone. Yeah, but it was nice
because when I went to Disneyland Resort a couple of
weeks ago, and maybe the bartender was hitting on me
or something, I would look, that's what I want to
tell myself, fella or lady. It was lady. And my
wife was like sitting like a ways away and she
asked me. It was one of the bars in downtown
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Dizzy Disney, and she asked, hey, I got to see
your ID, you know. And I was like, oh, okay,
well I'm closer than ninety than I am twenty, but okay,
why not? Then I should have said, wait, oh, you
you look a lot younger than your A suggests. I said, yeah,
you know why.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Because you shave your head for the most part, yeah,
for the most part. Yeah, yeah, because my grade's been
coming in. It's been a few years since I got that. Yeah,
and I'm not shaving my head. That is not a
pretty safe for anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Look, the little things mean so much as you get older.
My wife was looking as she was not hitting on you.
It's like, look, that's that is what I'm going to
tell myself. I need that ego boost every now and then. Woman,
I got my own mind to think of right, you're
gonna argue with me about whether or woman was hitting
on me. We're not going to have that argument. It's
gonna be what I think it is. And I think
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that she wanted some of me. That's what I'm That's
what I'm going to think. Going to sleep tonight, all right,
slice of this cake. She was not happy with me,
But you know, you know, Michael so is that's you know,
that's what we need the ladies to keep our egos
in check. We do. And I try to explain that
to my wife. Men are ego driven and it's not
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about whether you are trying to get with someone. It
don't mean anything to you, baby, but it means everything
to me because I would like to feel like if
I had to, I could still do the way I
can put it. It's got to be there. You know
it's going to go downhill, and none of us want
We'll never know. But at least I can tell myself
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that I could.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Have working out doing all those things, that it's not
just for her. But she don't need to know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You can't explain that to women. You can't explain that
to whys. It's like, why are you working out all
of a sudden, nothing for reason, just for me.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I want to stick around a little longer for you.
I like to look at myself when I'm naked in
the mirror. All right, there was the wait, wait, wait
a minute, I'm I'm the only one. I don't I'm
the only one who likes to look at myself. Seem
to laugh at that too, he almost played.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He said, I Am not going to get near that
with a rim shot. No sir, no thank you. I
think it's time to go to break when we come back.
If you're like me, you probably get eaten up by
mosquitoes this time of year. And the mosquitos in California
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seem to be far more aggressive than anywhere else in
the country. They're just really, really aggressive, and they won't
take no for an answer. No means no. They don't
listen to that. They just keep biting. And there might
be a reason, and we'll tell you why. It has
everything to do with what you may drink. So if
you drink this one drink, you might make yourself more
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attractive to mosquito. We'll tell you about it. Next is
The Conway Show Mo Kelly in for Tim k IF
I am six forty. I still got it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I get bitten by mosquitos all the damn time. I
don't know why. It is sweet me. Maybe that's it.
Maybe that's it. There's something special. I can't say that.
I can't say that. Yes, you're rightful to tell you
know that's not the case. It's so weird because the
people that we love and the people are supposed to
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support us the most are the ones who always make
sure that we never get a big head.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah that's good and it sucks. Yeah, it's like, can
you be my biggest fans?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Just why not that, you know, just be a cheerleader
in a little cheerleading outfit. And it always just.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Seems like it's at the perfect moment too, just when
you're starting to feel a little bit comfortable and full
of yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
There they come into Yeah. It's like, hey, I've been
losing weight. Doesn't look like I've been losing weight now.
It looks about the same to me. It's moving around.
I would say loss, yeah, yeah, I mean your butts
bigger forgetting. I don't know, I haven't seen you on
a scale. Get on a scale. Never mind, never mind marriage,
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you gotta love it, love me some me, Well that's
one of us. That's right. If you're not gonna be
your own biggest cheerleader, then who thank you? Anyhow, back
to mosquitoes. They tear me up for some reason. I think,
is there something that I'm doing? Is there something that
I'm eating? Is there something that I'm drinking which makes
me more appealing or attractive to the mosquitoes. Well, there's
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a drink which does make mosquitoes more attracted to you.
And there's a National geographic experiment which reported that forty
three men were recruited in West Africa and were sent
into one of two outdoor tents that were sealed. One
tent was unoccupied, but in the second, volunteers either drink
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a liter of water or a leader of beer. We
do know that mosquitos track down their prey via smell,
so to ensure these mosquitos got a whiff of the volunteers,
a fan started to pump air from each of the
tents down various tubes into a full cup of mosquitoes.
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The smell of a beer drinker fifteen minutes after downing
a leader increased the proportion of mosquitos inclined to fly
into the tubes by sixty five percent. The takeaway, obviously,
is if you're drinking beer, you are more attracted to mosquitos.
The drink that makes mosquitos infinitely more attracted to you
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is only listed here as beer. I'm tending to believe
it's alcohol because I don't drink beer. The only time
I drink beer is if I'm at a Dodger game.
That's the only time I drink beer. Yeah, because I
like to have beer, peanuts and some Dodia dogs. But
I'll get eaten up by mosquitos whenever they're around. It's
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so bad where I try not to go down South
in the summer for that reason, or anywhere it's hot
and humid. Stop at Michael, stop it stop.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
See it's a different kind of mosquito too, because here
we've talked about, you know, the last few years, the
proliferation of these ankle bier mosquitos specifically, and those are
the ones that hang around during the day, not like
in the in the morning or in the evening like
regular mosquitoes would normally do. But they hang around in
the day and they stay. They float south of basically
your knees, unlike regular mosquito, so you can't see them.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You can't. And you'll walk through, let's say, a grassy patch,
and all of a sudden, for me, I start scratching vigorously.
I'm one thing I left out. I'm actually allergic to
mosquito bites. And if I get too many, yeah, if
I get too many, I will start swelling up like
a balloon. Wow. And I have to usually take some
sort of benadrill to calm down the reaction because I
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will swell up like golf balls on my face. If
I get one on my face, I don't have to
scratch it or anything. It's almost like someone punched me.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Regardless of the type of mosquito. I mean, as far
as you've been able to tell.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
As far as I can tell, it does not matter
if I'm bitten by mosquito in Washington, DC, or LA
or Long Beach. It does not matter.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And that's the other problem with these, with these ankle
biter mosquitos, is that you don't I mean, with regular mosquitos,
usually you kind of get a feel for when they're
on you at some point. With these ankle biters, it's
like they've full in done their damage before you even
realize it. Like you say, all of a sudden, you're
just scratching the hell out of it.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's like I want to scratch to the bone. Yes,
But one thing I have found, Benadrill has a cream now,
an anti itch cream four bites, and it's wonderful, wonderful.
I found it in the past month or so, and
I tried it a few times. It's great. So that's
the only way that I can usually counteract it. But
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I don't drink beer. But I've heard that alcohol still
in general, produces the same effect. So if you want
to avoid as many mosquito bites as possible, especially if
you're in the outdoors, try not to drink any alcohol
because the sweetness of alcohol from what I understand draws
them in. This study is more confirmation of that. Now,
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if they don't bite you, that means you're probably just
you know, nasty smelling or something like that. Nasty, nasty, nasty. Now,
but I don't drink beer. And the only time I
ever really drank beer was a couple of times in
high school because I went to a high school where
people drank beer. They didn't drink hard liquor. So you
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go to a rage and cager party. Shout out South
High School class of eighty seven. Now, But that's about it.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, as I've gotten older, lesson, I'm less and less
inclined to beer. I mean, I was never really a
big beer drinker anyways, but it's it's just too heavy
for me.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's like it doesn't take much before it. Now I'm good.
If I do have a beer, it's usually just one
or two and I'm good.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's almost like a special occasion thing where it fills
you up. Man, It just it fills you up. And
I have never really loved the taste. There's certain beers
I like the taste. I like them a modello, I
like a China can absolutely, I like it, but it's
not like I wake up it's like, you know what,
I think I want to have a beer today. I
don't have like a taste for it. I never have
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a desire for it, except for when I'm going to
watch the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah and yeah, you do have those occasions, Like I'm
the same way with like SODA's the same thing. It's like,
I'm not a big drinker of sodas or beer, but sometimes, man,
when you get that really cold one and you it
just hits right.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I don't drink sodas either, and part of the reason
was growing up I wasn't allowed to drink sodas. It
wasn't in the house. But if I go back East,
if I go to like the Detroit, I have the
taste for certain type of soda. They have this soda
called Fago Oh yeah, and they call it red pop,
one of the flavors. So if I'm in a certain
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location the nostalgia of having certain drinks, then I'll have
a soda. But I don't like, you know, we have
sodas in our kitchen and the vinie machines. I've never
ever wanted to buy one, never will buy one. Are
you familiar with the ICP Fago concerts. That's what I
was thinking about.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I had a feeling Steph had that look on his face. No, No,
insane clown posse. You just got to look it up.
It's what they do during their contents. It's like their thing.
They'll just open up bottles and spray the crowd with
Fago like you, and you'll see whole containers going through
the people like injured. Yeah, it's a whole big thing.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So when you said that nasty, that's sticky stuff all
over you. Yeah, well it's insane clown posseic there was true. Yeah.
When we come back, we'll get an update on Metro
and possibly the addition of cameras to help quell some
of the violence. I don't know, maybe they'll just get
all the crimes on camera. Now, we'll talk about it
with Michael Monks. In just a second.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
You're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And on my show would later with Monk Kelly from
seven to ten PM. I often talk about the ills
of Metro, the issues, the problems, the violence, the unsanitary conditions,
the reticence of Metro to actually engage in dialogue with me,
But one person who they will speak to is kfi's
(16:19):
own Michael Monks, who joins me right now. Michael, how
are you doing this evening.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
I'm doing well, although I have to say I'm a
little upset with you and Krozer and the slander you
engaged in about pineapple on pizza earlier in the program.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Bite your tongue. I will deal with you in a moment, sir,
But I was being serious about how Metro has reached
out to you, has spoken to you about cafi's coverage
of the issues of Metro? Have they reached out to
you recently?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
You know, they know I'm a journalist, and they know
I'm a commuter who uses public transit with relative frequency,
so a frequency. So I think they, you know, understand
that I might have a better understanding than regular journalist
and USO. I'm not dumping on them all the time.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
You know.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
For me, you know, I'm an editorial guy. I'm not
somebody's who's speaking my personal views. But what you say
is not inaccurate. You know, it is a challenge system
with some difficult conditions and some varieties of unpleasantness when
one goes about traveling upon it. So I think it's
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worth a dialogue. You danced around that like you were
on Dancing with the Stars. That was well done, very
very agile, but thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
But out of that I wanted to have a conversation
with Metro about what they were trying to do to
improve the situation, change the conversation and what are they
recommending right now or hoping to do well.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
They might get some more cash because they are tired
of people parking the bike lanes, and so is the city,
I'm sorry, the bus lanes, and so is the city
of La So they've collaborated on installing cameras on the
fronts of certain buses so that they can bust the
folks who are doing this. You know, if you're riding
on some of the freeways around here, you see some
signs that say, hey, you know, if you were on
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a bus right now, you'd save about twenty minutes. And
that's what public transportation is trying to tell folks that
it should, or at least that's what folks are telling
public transportation, that it should be incentivized, make it easy
and convenient, and make it worth my while. So if
you're taking a bus around downtown hoping to save on parking,
hoping to save on your commute time, that can be
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disrupted if somebody has parked in the designated bus lanes.
So they're looking to find these folks. They're going to
get you on camera. Then they're going to check to
see if you were in fact breaking the lawn. They're
going to mail you a fat ticket.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Do we know? I remember this story originally being reported,
but now we're at that point where it's actually going
to be implemented. Do we know, at least first offense,
how much these tickets would be?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
We do, indeed, And this is this has past the
City Council's Transportation Committee, so now it's waiting that last
step before the City Council, and then they'll have a
couple of months of what they're calling a warning period.
So the first thing you'll get in the mail or
maybe on your dash is hey, don't do this again,
because if you do it again, they're going to have
a fine of about three hundred and eighty three dollars
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or a first time offense, and then if you're late,
it goes up. I'm sorry, it's two hundred and eighty
three dollars. It's after that if you're late, it's three
hundred and eighty dollars. If you do it again, if
they find you a second time, it's about four hundred
dollars that they're going to be ticketing you for doing this.
The LA Department of Transportation thinks that they'll be able
to get about five million dollars a year off of
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this because they ran a pilot program. They tested it
for just one month a few years ago, actually on
just a few routes, and they think they can ticket,
based on that estimation, over one hundred thousand offenders every year.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I know why Metro would like to do this. My
question is me as a driver, Let's say I ran
a foul and I was ticketed. Is this considered like
a parking violation and they could uphold my registration the
next year, or is it considered like a moving violation.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
And I could be hauled in the court or a
failure to appear. I will find out the specifics of that.
All I know at this point is what the fines
are supposed to be. This is a parking violation as
far as I know, because it's enforced right now by
the parking officers. And those aren't always lapd you know.
The l DOOT has its own branch of folks who
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are out there enforcing parking regulations in the city. They're
not police, they're not sworn officers, but they do enforce
the traffic laws, and so that's the entity that's enforcing this.
And right now they say, look, we're out there with
a few guys here and there, but some folks will
see our officers and they're so hell bent on parking
in a bus lane that they'll drive around the block.
The officers walk away, and then they snag that spot,
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and now you won't be able to get away with that,
because if a bus is coming up, they're gonna get
you on camera. It's not all over the city. It's
just a few specific lines that they're hitting. It'll start
first on the two to one two on Librea, and
then the seven to zero on Wilshire, and then a
couple months after that they're gonna get on the Silver Line,
and then another one in the downtown area, the seventy
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on Oliven Grand.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
For those who don't know, I used to ride Metro
every single day. You presently ride it almost every single day,
so our experiences may be somewhat different. Can I get you,
Michael Monkster, stay for another segment because I would like
to get your assessment of what it's like riding Metro
on a consistent basis. Can you do that for me?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
If you pour me a nice cold glass of Fago?
I'm here all night.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
What do you know about fago? I'm not gonna get
you pizza with damn pineapple on it. That's for damn sure,
that's fair, all right, it's Colways show Mo Kelly in
for Conway. Yeah, Michael, that pizza is not gonna have.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Bubble was right in the middle of a conversation with
kfi's own Michael Monks about Metro. Last segment, we talked
about the cameras which are in process of being installed
on the Metro buses, which will ticket drivers who may
be illegally parked in bus lanes through the use of AI.
You won't even know it until you receive the ticket
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in the mail. It's not like they're going to stop.
But also it got me thinking about the fact that
Michael is a regular writer of Metro. I used to
be a regular writer of Metro. So Michael, let me
ask you, what is your assessment of the Metro experience
day to day.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Well, you know, we've talked about this a little bit before. Statistically,
the problems that we encounter and that KFI reports on
other media outlet's report on. Statistically, that's not going to
happen to you. Unfortunately, events have happened, though, and it
raises people's concerns about taking it. So from a public
relations standpoint, it's detrimental for Metro, and I'm sure they
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know that. For writers, it reminds you that, in spite
of the fact that you're not being attacked, you got
to keep your eyes and ears open. You know there
I mentioned unpleasantness, and that's what you can't really quantify
when reporting about incidents that have taken place. You can't
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really find statistics on how bad the trains smelled, or
how deeply uncomfortable you were by the behavior of someone
who didn't hurt you, who didn't hit you, but who
was having a mental health episode right before you, and
how that impacts whether you would want to take that
train ride again. The thing that really stands out to
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me is, you know, look, I live downtown. I see
it right outside my apartment building. How challenged some individuals
are with their mental health. And it's scary and it's uncomfortable.
But this is La I mean, this is a global city.
People come from all over to see what we have
to offer here. And often if I'm taking the V
line up to Burbank to visit you all in the studio,
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I see a tourists who appear, you know, based on
their language, that they've come from abroad, and I think
they probably had no idea what this experience was going
to be like with somebody either misbehaving or just creating
an all around uncomfortable experience in one of the cars.
Is they make their way to Universal Studios and then
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what story do they have to tell when they go
back home.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But you're not from La yourself, are you.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
I am from Covington, Kentucky, right so metropolis on the
Ohio River.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But you also did have an outside in view of
mass transit here in the city that I wouldn't have
because I'm looking at it through a native Angelino's eyes exactly.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
And And the thing is is you know, Covington, Kentucky
is part of the Cincinnati metro area, and Cincinnati has
a street car, and for urban enthusiasts people who like
public transportation, that was a big deal when it came,
but you know, it basically is a loop that goes
around some of the downtown attractions. For me, the metro
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line was one of the main draws that convinced me
I could live in LA. I didn't bring a car.
I sold my car before I fled Kentucky and moved
because I knew I could take these trains to wherever
I needed to be, wherever I ended up working. And
sure enough, by the time Chris Little called me to
offer me a job at KFI was really excited to
know that. Until you know, iHeart gave me a lovely
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vehicle that I could take, I take away.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I got to jump in there. You actually thought that
LA's metro system was sufficient to accommodate you wherever you
would end up working.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Absolutely, because I had been visiting LA with dreams of
moving here for a decade before I finally was courageous
enough to do it. And I always stayed downtown and
always took the train because like I can go to
Santa Monica. I could go to Long Beach, I can
go to Pasadena. I can go you know, and sometimes
you have to get on a couple trains. Sometimes you
have to get on a train and a bus. Sometimes
you have to get on a little train and then
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get on big train. But with the right planning and
you know, resourcefulness, you can make it work.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And so La is a.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Transit city, and there are not a lot of cities
in this country making the investments that La is making
in its transit system. I mean there are lines sprouting
out everywhere. It really is, on paper on the map,
a pretty good system for a city that is celebrated
around the world or at least known around the world
for traffic car traffic. So it's pretty great in that respect.
(26:43):
It just needs to clean up its act to make
what looks good on paper translate to real life.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
How long is your commute?
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Usually if I'm taking from downtown to Burbank and I
get lucky, Let's say I walk over to Pershing Square,
which again that's where you get an environment where like
come on, you know, just outside of the station. It's
just why is this allowed? You know, like, why isn't
there anybody who can make this cleaner so that I
don't feel like I need to look behind my shoulder.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Let's be specific. You're talking about homeless defecation, urination. What
are we dealing with?
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Check check check checkay, you know, I mean the drug
use that's going on, and it just stuff that will
make you uncomfortable outside the station. So if I walk
to Pershing Square, that takes about ten minutes. If I'm
there and the train is coming, it can be anywhere
from one to twelve minutes to wait for the train
with the frequency of the B line. And then the
train ride itself is exactly twenty three minutes from the
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Pershing Square station to the Studio City Universal City station
and then I hop on the Burbank pink bus route
and that takes about eight minutes to drop me off
there on Olive Avenue.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Wait a minute, the Burbank Pink bus will pick you
up from the Universal City stoff. Because I had to
take the one fifty eight bus. Don't take some of
the metro buses.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
I usually schedule my commute to take the pink bus
because its frequency is a little more predictable because they
will be there in the high traffic hours the morning rush,
in the afternoon rush, they've got every fifteen minutes. So
whenever the train comes down here, I know I'm going
to catch a bus, and it's not as scary as
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Oh no, the two two two is leaving in right
twelve minutes. I'm still fifteen minutes out. I know I'm
going to get a Burbank bus, even if I missed
the more recent one, And that drops you right in front,
on a right in front, right across from the Whole
Foods across from our office.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, how late does that run? If you were to
leave here, like you had a long day, you're at
the office and you want to get back downtown, Like
I'm usually not getting off work until ten o'clock, So
it's not an option for me, But how late would
it be an option for you?
Speaker 7 (28:47):
The Burbank bus, I believe, stops at about nine o'clock.
That's what I thought from running there. But there's still
the Metro buses that go down a similar pass, not
the exact same paths, but the Burbank bus will let
use your Metro card to transfer on there.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, all I can do is say I'm glad that
you're safe. I'm glad that you haven't fallen victim to
anything on Metro, and please give Metro my love. I'm
still waiting for them to come on my show with
me and talk about all things Metro.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
They really should, because it would be important for the
for an organization that has as much money allocated to
it to come on to a platform that may not
be overly inviting and have some hard questions for them.
But you know, it's a it's a it's an important
agency and they're doing a lot of important work that
will have an impact on this region for decades to come.
So I hope they do heed your call.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
My friend. Yeah, I'm a teddy beard. There's nothing to
worry about. I'll be nice.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
I'll bee you're pretty mean to pineapple on pizza. I'm
not letting that go.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That's different. Okay, that's justifying what's wrong to hmm. I'll
tell you you, Kentucky folk. Aha, here's the problem by Michael,
see you later. I tell you it is Conways show.
I'm o Kelly in for Kyle. We're gonna talk a
little bit about college football when we come back. Michigan
(30:03):
USC the first game officially in the big ten for
USC and what it may mean for the program and
also you know national championship aspirations if they can pull
it off. KFI AM six forty We're live everywhere the
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Speaker 1 (30:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm usually a slow adopter of certain technology. I love technology,
but I'm kind of slow on the uptick, if only
because I want to make sure that it's safe. It's secure,
it sound, and it also makes sense. I can use
it a number of places. I was really slow adopting
the idea of uber. I was really slow using an
(00:31):
actual digital boarding pass to get on a plane. I've
always had a hard copy backup because I was worried
about my phone not working or not being able to scan,
which did happen at least early on. And then the
technology got better, and now I will never print out
a boarding pass again if I can avoid it along
(00:52):
those sab lines. A few weeks ago I added my
California driver's license, a digital version I added to my
Google wallet.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I had that a few weeks ago. You said, yes,
didn't just get available a few weeks ago for you?
Or you just did it that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, it's been it's been available for a while, but Apple,
as the news was announced today, Apple was late to
the game. I guess I could do it on Google
because it took me about maybe five ten minutes. I
had to go through the DMV website to do it,
which I think is different from iPhone. You could do
it straight from your phone and it will direct you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I wonder if that's tied to the Apple wallets whole,
you know, things with them, with them being sued about
allowing other credit cards and banks and stuff to be
to allow you to put other credit cards onto your wallet,
which they hadn't done. They'd made it so tight knit
that you couldn't get anything on there. And I'm wondering
if it was sort of intermixed with that and not
being able to put your license on your way.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Maybe because Apple has always had a tighter ecosystem Google,
I have other documents and credit cards which are in
the Google Wallet that I can use be at a
deeper card like for e, say, I if I forget
my wallet at home, I can even forget my phone
at home. I can use my watch at Google and
at Google Pay. It's like, oh my gosh, I forgot
(02:09):
everything and I can go and still pay for stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And Apple, of course they've been losing like all of
the lawsuits in Europe over this exact thing with that
their Apple wallet.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They have, and and they've they've had to just figure
out how to you know, remain current in that regard. Yeah,
and my phone is talking to me right now? Is
that what it is? Yeah? Because it thought I was
talking to it. You know, I wasn't trying to Wait,
you don't have an Apple phone, do you? No?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I never just randomly starts talking, does it? Because
like it's a great piece of technology.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh, here we go. What I could do? I could say, Hey,
s I r I and messed up everybody's day. Everybody's day.
Mine doesn't work. I have never really had that issue before. Really. Yeah,
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
If it's just to have you voice activated, you know,
set up your your voice what it is. Maybe it's
a setting in there that I turned. Yeah, I have
to do that on my you know, you get a
new phone wherever, you have to train it to recognize
your voice and then I can say, like, you know, okay, Google,
hey Siri, setting alarm for eight pm tomorrow. Yes, they
(03:13):
won't talk to me now. It's just you know, it's
just it's like it's like a it's like a circus animal.
Now you know when it's when it's time to show
out and perform. They don't want to perform, but anyhow,
Apple has now added the capability where you can use
your iPhone and add your California driver's license to your
Apple Wallet, and it can only be used in certain locations.
(03:35):
You can't like show it to a law enforcement officer
when you get pulled over for speeding and say it's
on my phone, or you might do it. No, it's
not going to help you. You have to have the
physical driver's license or you'll be taking to jail or
at least cited for not having proper identification.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Californians with iPhones can now store their driver's license right
in their digital wallet. Governor Gavin Newsom announced today the
option is now available for iPhones and Apple watches. To
add your ID, click the plus symbol at the top
of the screen in your Apple Wallet and follow the
prompts to verify your ID card. The feature is part
of the dmb's broader Mobile Driver's License Pilot program that
(04:13):
launched last year. Digital IDs can be shown at select
businesses and TSA checkpoints, but carrying a physical card is
still required.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, it can be very handy. If and when it's
accepted in all the places. Now on my version of it,
I can use it. I can use it to generate
a QR code, and then I can give it to
send that to like a bartender if I had to
verify my age, if I actually looked under twenty one
or something, or if they wanted to verify my ID. Man, Look,
(04:45):
those days are long gone. Yeah, but it was nice
because when I went to Disneyland Resort a couple of
weeks ago, and maybe the bartender was hitting on me
or something, I would look, that's what I want to
tell myself, fella or lady. It was lady. And my
wife was like sitting like a ways away and she
asked me. It was one of the bars in downtown
(05:07):
Dizzy Disney, and she asked, hey, I got to see
your ID, you know. And I was like, oh, okay,
well I'm closer than ninety than I am twenty, but okay,
why not? Then I should have said, wait, oh, you
you look a lot younger than your A suggests. I said, yeah,
you know why.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Because you shave your head for the most part, yeah,
for the most part. Yeah, yeah, because my grade's been
coming in. It's been a few years since I got that. Yeah,
and I'm not shaving my head. That is not a
pretty safe for anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Look, the little things mean so much as you get older.
My wife was looking as she was not hitting on you.
It's like, look, that's that is what I'm going to
tell myself. I need that ego boost every now and then. Woman,
I got my own mind to think of right, you're
gonna argue with me about whether or woman was hitting
on me. We're not going to have that argument. It's
gonna be what I think it is. And I think
(05:58):
that she wanted some of me. That's what I'm That's
what I'm going to think. Going to sleep tonight, all right,
slice of this cake. She was not happy with me,
But you know, you know, Michael so is that's you know,
that's what we need the ladies to keep our egos
in check. We do. And I try to explain that
to my wife. Men are ego driven and it's not
(06:19):
about whether you are trying to get with someone. It
don't mean anything to you, baby, but it means everything
to me because I would like to feel like if
I had to, I could still do the way I
can put it. It's got to be there. You know
it's going to go downhill, and none of us want
We'll never know. But at least I can tell myself
(06:42):
that I could.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Have working out doing all those things, that it's not
just for her. But she don't need to know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You can't explain that to women. You can't explain that
to whys. It's like, why are you working out all
of a sudden, nothing for reason, just for me.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I want to stick around a little longer for you.
I like to look at myself when I'm naked in
the mirror. All right, there was the wait, wait, wait
a minute, I'm I'm the only one. I don't I'm
the only one who likes to look at myself. Seem
to laugh at that too, he almost played.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He said, I Am not going to get near that
with a rim shot. No sir, no thank you. I
think it's time to go to break when we come back.
If you're like me, you probably get eaten up by
mosquitoes this time of year. And the mosquitos in California
(07:38):
seem to be far more aggressive than anywhere else in
the country. They're just really, really aggressive, and they won't
take no for an answer. No means no. They don't
listen to that. They just keep biting. And there might
be a reason, and we'll tell you why. It has
everything to do with what you may drink. So if
you drink this one drink, you might make yourself more
(07:58):
attractive to mosquito. We'll tell you about it. Next is
The Conway Show Mo Kelly in for Tim k IF
I am six forty. I still got it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I get bitten by mosquitos all the damn time. I
don't know why. It is sweet me. Maybe that's it.
Maybe that's it. There's something special. I can't say that.
I can't say that. Yes, you're rightful to tell you
know that's not the case. It's so weird because the
people that we love and the people are supposed to
(08:34):
support us the most are the ones who always make
sure that we never get a big head.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah that's good and it sucks. Yeah, it's like, can
you be my biggest fans?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Just why not that, you know, just be a cheerleader
in a little cheerleading outfit. And it always just.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Seems like it's at the perfect moment too, just when
you're starting to feel a little bit comfortable and full
of yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
There they come into Yeah. It's like, hey, I've been
losing weight. Doesn't look like I've been losing weight now.
It looks about the same to me. It's moving around.
I would say loss, yeah, yeah, I mean your butts
bigger forgetting. I don't know, I haven't seen you on
a scale. Get on a scale. Never mind, never mind marriage,
(09:16):
you gotta love it, love me some me, Well that's
one of us. That's right. If you're not gonna be
your own biggest cheerleader, then who thank you? Anyhow, back
to mosquitoes. They tear me up for some reason. I think,
is there something that I'm doing? Is there something that
I'm eating? Is there something that I'm drinking which makes
me more appealing or attractive to the mosquitoes. Well, there's
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a drink which does make mosquitoes more attracted to you.
And there's a National geographic experiment which reported that forty
three men were recruited in West Africa and were sent
into one of two outdoor tents that were sealed. One
tent was unoccupied, but in the second, volunteers either drink
(10:02):
a liter of water or a leader of beer. We
do know that mosquitos track down their prey via smell,
so to ensure these mosquitos got a whiff of the volunteers,
a fan started to pump air from each of the
tents down various tubes into a full cup of mosquitoes.
(10:22):
The smell of a beer drinker fifteen minutes after downing
a leader increased the proportion of mosquitos inclined to fly
into the tubes by sixty five percent. The takeaway, obviously,
is if you're drinking beer, you are more attracted to mosquitos.
The drink that makes mosquitos infinitely more attracted to you
(10:44):
is only listed here as beer. I'm tending to believe
it's alcohol because I don't drink beer. The only time
I drink beer is if I'm at a Dodger game.
That's the only time I drink beer. Yeah, because I
like to have beer, peanuts and some Dodia dogs. But
I'll get eaten up by mosquitos whenever they're around. It's
(11:05):
so bad where I try not to go down South
in the summer for that reason, or anywhere it's hot
and humid. Stop at Michael, stop it stop.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
See it's a different kind of mosquito too, because here
we've talked about, you know, the last few years, the
proliferation of these ankle bier mosquitos specifically, and those are
the ones that hang around during the day, not like
in the in the morning or in the evening like
regular mosquitoes would normally do. But they hang around in
the day and they stay. They float south of basically
your knees, unlike regular mosquito, so you can't see them.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You can't. And you'll walk through, let's say, a grassy patch,
and all of a sudden, for me, I start scratching vigorously.
I'm one thing I left out. I'm actually allergic to
mosquito bites. And if I get too many, yeah, if
I get too many, I will start swelling up like
a balloon. Wow. And I have to usually take some
sort of benadrill to calm down the reaction because I
(12:03):
will swell up like golf balls on my face. If
I get one on my face, I don't have to
scratch it or anything. It's almost like someone punched me.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Regardless of the type of mosquito. I mean, as far
as you've been able to tell.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
As far as I can tell, it does not matter
if I'm bitten by mosquito in Washington, DC, or LA
or Long Beach. It does not matter.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And that's the other problem with these, with these ankle
biter mosquitos, is that you don't I mean, with regular mosquitos,
usually you kind of get a feel for when they're
on you at some point. With these ankle biters, it's
like they've full in done their damage before you even
realize it. Like you say, all of a sudden, you're
just scratching the hell out of it.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's like I want to scratch to the bone. Yes,
But one thing I have found, Benadrill has a cream now,
an anti itch cream four bites, and it's wonderful, wonderful.
I found it in the past month or so, and
I tried it a few times. It's great. So that's
the only way that I can usually counteract it. But
(13:02):
I don't drink beer. But I've heard that alcohol still
in general, produces the same effect. So if you want
to avoid as many mosquito bites as possible, especially if
you're in the outdoors, try not to drink any alcohol
because the sweetness of alcohol from what I understand draws
them in. This study is more confirmation of that. Now,
(13:23):
if they don't bite you, that means you're probably just
you know, nasty smelling or something like that. Nasty, nasty, nasty. Now,
but I don't drink beer. And the only time I
ever really drank beer was a couple of times in
high school because I went to a high school where
people drank beer. They didn't drink hard liquor. So you
(13:44):
go to a rage and cager party. Shout out South
High School class of eighty seven. Now, But that's about it.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, as I've gotten older, lesson, I'm less and less
inclined to beer. I mean, I was never really a
big beer drinker anyways, but it's it's just too heavy
for me.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's like it doesn't take much before it. Now I'm good.
If I do have a beer, it's usually just one
or two and I'm good.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's almost like a special occasion thing where it fills
you up. Man, It just it fills you up. And
I have never really loved the taste. There's certain beers
I like the taste. I like them a modello, I
like a China can absolutely, I like it, but it's
not like I wake up it's like, you know what,
I think I want to have a beer today. I
don't have like a taste for it. I never have
(14:24):
a desire for it, except for when I'm going to
watch the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah and yeah, you do have those occasions, Like I'm
the same way with like SODA's the same thing. It's like,
I'm not a big drinker of sodas or beer, but sometimes, man,
when you get that really cold one and you it
just hits right.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I don't drink sodas either, and part of the reason
was growing up I wasn't allowed to drink sodas. It
wasn't in the house. But if I go back East,
if I go to like the Detroit, I have the
taste for certain type of soda. They have this soda
called Fago Oh yeah, and they call it red pop,
one of the flavors. So if I'm in a certain
(14:58):
location the nostalgia of having certain drinks, then I'll have
a soda. But I don't like, you know, we have
sodas in our kitchen and the vinie machines. I've never
ever wanted to buy one, never will buy one. Are
you familiar with the ICP Fago concerts. That's what I
was thinking about.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I had a feeling Steph had that look on his face. No, No,
insane clown posse. You just got to look it up.
It's what they do during their contents. It's like their thing.
They'll just open up bottles and spray the crowd with
Fago like you, and you'll see whole containers going through
the people like injured. Yeah, it's a whole big thing.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So when you said that nasty, that's sticky stuff all
over you. Yeah, well it's insane clown posseic there was true. Yeah.
When we come back, we'll get an update on Metro
and possibly the addition of cameras to help quell some
of the violence. I don't know, maybe they'll just get
all the crimes on camera. Now, we'll talk about it
with Michael Monks. In just a second.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
You're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And on my show would later with Monk Kelly from
seven to ten PM. I often talk about the ills
of Metro, the issues, the problems, the violence, the unsanitary conditions,
the reticence of Metro to actually engage in dialogue with me,
But one person who they will speak to is kfi's
(16:19):
own Michael Monks, who joins me right now. Michael, how
are you doing this evening.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
I'm doing well, although I have to say I'm a
little upset with you and Krozer and the slander you
engaged in about pineapple on pizza earlier in the program.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Bite your tongue. I will deal with you in a moment, sir,
But I was being serious about how Metro has reached
out to you, has spoken to you about cafi's coverage
of the issues of Metro? Have they reached out to
you recently?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
You know, they know I'm a journalist, and they know
I'm a commuter who uses public transit with relative frequency,
so a frequency. So I think they, you know, understand
that I might have a better understanding than regular journalist
and USO. I'm not dumping on them all the time.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
You know.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
For me, you know, I'm an editorial guy. I'm not
somebody's who's speaking my personal views. But what you say
is not inaccurate. You know, it is a challenge system
with some difficult conditions and some varieties of unpleasantness when
one goes about traveling upon it. So I think it's
(17:34):
worth a dialogue. You danced around that like you were
on Dancing with the Stars. That was well done, very
very agile, but thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
But out of that I wanted to have a conversation
with Metro about what they were trying to do to
improve the situation, change the conversation and what are they
recommending right now or hoping to do well.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
They might get some more cash because they are tired
of people parking the bike lanes, and so is the city,
I'm sorry, the bus lanes, and so is the city
of La So they've collaborated on installing cameras on the
fronts of certain buses so that they can bust the
folks who are doing this. You know, if you're riding
on some of the freeways around here, you see some
signs that say, hey, you know, if you were on
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a bus right now, you'd save about twenty minutes. And
that's what public transportation is trying to tell folks that
it should, or at least that's what folks are telling
public transportation, that it should be incentivized, make it easy
and convenient, and make it worth my while. So if
you're taking a bus around downtown hoping to save on parking,
hoping to save on your commute time, that can be
(18:38):
disrupted if somebody has parked in the designated bus lanes.
So they're looking to find these folks. They're going to
get you on camera. Then they're going to check to
see if you were in fact breaking the lawn. They're
going to mail you a fat ticket.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Do we know? I remember this story originally being reported,
but now we're at that point where it's actually going
to be implemented. Do we know, at least first offense,
how much these tickets would be?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
We do, indeed, And this is this has past the
City Council's Transportation Committee, so now it's waiting that last
step before the City Council, and then they'll have a
couple of months of what they're calling a warning period.
So the first thing you'll get in the mail or
maybe on your dash is hey, don't do this again,
because if you do it again, they're going to have
a fine of about three hundred and eighty three dollars
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or a first time offense, and then if you're late,
it goes up. I'm sorry, it's two hundred and eighty
three dollars. It's after that if you're late, it's three
hundred and eighty dollars. If you do it again, if
they find you a second time, it's about four hundred
dollars that they're going to be ticketing you for doing this.
The LA Department of Transportation thinks that they'll be able
to get about five million dollars a year off of
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this because they ran a pilot program. They tested it
for just one month a few years ago, actually on
just a few routes, and they think they can ticket,
based on that estimation, over one hundred thousand offenders every year.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I know why Metro would like to do this. My
question is me as a driver, Let's say I ran
a foul and I was ticketed. Is this considered like
a parking violation and they could uphold my registration the
next year, or is it considered like a moving violation.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
And I could be hauled in the court or a
failure to appear. I will find out the specifics of that.
All I know at this point is what the fines
are supposed to be. This is a parking violation as
far as I know, because it's enforced right now by
the parking officers. And those aren't always lapd you know.
The l DOOT has its own branch of folks who
(20:37):
are out there enforcing parking regulations in the city. They're
not police, they're not sworn officers, but they do enforce
the traffic laws, and so that's the entity that's enforcing this.
And right now they say, look, we're out there with
a few guys here and there, but some folks will
see our officers and they're so hell bent on parking
in a bus lane that they'll drive around the block.
The officers walk away, and then they snag that spot,
(20:59):
and now you won't be able to get away with that,
because if a bus is coming up, they're gonna get
you on camera. It's not all over the city. It's
just a few specific lines that they're hitting. It'll start
first on the two to one two on Librea, and
then the seven to zero on Wilshire, and then a
couple months after that they're gonna get on the Silver Line,
and then another one in the downtown area, the seventy
(21:20):
on Oliven Grand.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
For those who don't know, I used to ride Metro
every single day. You presently ride it almost every single day,
so our experiences may be somewhat different. Can I get you,
Michael Monkster, stay for another segment because I would like
to get your assessment of what it's like riding Metro
on a consistent basis. Can you do that for me?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
If you pour me a nice cold glass of Fago?
I'm here all night.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
What do you know about fago? I'm not gonna get
you pizza with damn pineapple on it. That's for damn sure,
that's fair, all right, it's Colways show Mo Kelly in
for Conway. Yeah, Michael, that pizza is not gonna have.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Bubble was right in the middle of a conversation with
kfi's own Michael Monks about Metro. Last segment, we talked
about the cameras which are in process of being installed
on the Metro buses, which will ticket drivers who may
be illegally parked in bus lanes through the use of AI.
You won't even know it until you receive the ticket
(22:28):
in the mail. It's not like they're going to stop.
But also it got me thinking about the fact that
Michael is a regular writer of Metro. I used to
be a regular writer of Metro. So Michael, let me
ask you, what is your assessment of the Metro experience
day to day.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Well, you know, we've talked about this a little bit before. Statistically,
the problems that we encounter and that KFI reports on
other media outlet's report on. Statistically, that's not going to
happen to you. Unfortunately, events have happened, though, and it
raises people's concerns about taking it. So from a public
relations standpoint, it's detrimental for Metro, and I'm sure they
(23:09):
know that. For writers, it reminds you that, in spite
of the fact that you're not being attacked, you got
to keep your eyes and ears open. You know there
I mentioned unpleasantness, and that's what you can't really quantify
when reporting about incidents that have taken place. You can't
(23:29):
really find statistics on how bad the trains smelled, or
how deeply uncomfortable you were by the behavior of someone
who didn't hurt you, who didn't hit you, but who
was having a mental health episode right before you, and
how that impacts whether you would want to take that
train ride again. The thing that really stands out to
(23:52):
me is, you know, look, I live downtown. I see
it right outside my apartment building. How challenged some individuals
are with their mental health. And it's scary and it's uncomfortable.
But this is La I mean, this is a global city.
People come from all over to see what we have
to offer here. And often if I'm taking the V
line up to Burbank to visit you all in the studio,
(24:14):
I see a tourists who appear, you know, based on
their language, that they've come from abroad, and I think
they probably had no idea what this experience was going
to be like with somebody either misbehaving or just creating
an all around uncomfortable experience in one of the cars.
Is they make their way to Universal Studios and then
(24:36):
what story do they have to tell when they go
back home.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But you're not from La yourself, are you.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
I am from Covington, Kentucky, right so metropolis on the
Ohio River.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But you also did have an outside in view of
mass transit here in the city that I wouldn't have
because I'm looking at it through a native Angelino's eyes exactly.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
And And the thing is is you know, Covington, Kentucky
is part of the Cincinnati metro area, and Cincinnati has
a street car, and for urban enthusiasts people who like
public transportation, that was a big deal when it came,
but you know, it basically is a loop that goes
around some of the downtown attractions. For me, the metro
(25:19):
line was one of the main draws that convinced me
I could live in LA. I didn't bring a car.
I sold my car before I fled Kentucky and moved
because I knew I could take these trains to wherever
I needed to be, wherever I ended up working. And
sure enough, by the time Chris Little called me to
offer me a job at KFI was really excited to
know that. Until you know, iHeart gave me a lovely
(25:41):
vehicle that I could take, I take away.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I got to jump in there. You actually thought that
LA's metro system was sufficient to accommodate you wherever you
would end up working.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Absolutely, because I had been visiting LA with dreams of
moving here for a decade before I finally was courageous
enough to do it. And I always stayed downtown and
always took the train because like I can go to
Santa Monica. I could go to Long Beach, I can
go to Pasadena. I can go you know, and sometimes
you have to get on a couple trains. Sometimes you
have to get on a train and a bus. Sometimes
you have to get on a little train and then
(26:14):
get on big train. But with the right planning and
you know, resourcefulness, you can make it work.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And so La is a.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Transit city, and there are not a lot of cities
in this country making the investments that La is making
in its transit system. I mean there are lines sprouting
out everywhere. It really is, on paper on the map,
a pretty good system for a city that is celebrated
around the world or at least known around the world
for traffic car traffic. So it's pretty great in that respect.
(26:43):
It just needs to clean up its act to make
what looks good on paper translate to real life.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
How long is your commute?
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Usually if I'm taking from downtown to Burbank and I
get lucky, Let's say I walk over to Pershing Square,
which again that's where you get an environment where like
come on, you know, just outside of the station. It's
just why is this allowed? You know, like, why isn't
there anybody who can make this cleaner so that I
don't feel like I need to look behind my shoulder.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Let's be specific. You're talking about homeless defecation, urination. What
are we dealing with?
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Check check check checkay, you know, I mean the drug
use that's going on, and it just stuff that will
make you uncomfortable outside the station. So if I walk
to Pershing Square, that takes about ten minutes. If I'm
there and the train is coming, it can be anywhere
from one to twelve minutes to wait for the train
with the frequency of the B line. And then the
train ride itself is exactly twenty three minutes from the
(27:39):
Pershing Square station to the Studio City Universal City station
and then I hop on the Burbank pink bus route
and that takes about eight minutes to drop me off
there on Olive Avenue.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Wait a minute, the Burbank Pink bus will pick you
up from the Universal City stoff. Because I had to
take the one fifty eight bus. Don't take some of
the metro buses.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
I usually schedule my commute to take the pink bus
because its frequency is a little more predictable because they
will be there in the high traffic hours the morning rush,
in the afternoon rush, they've got every fifteen minutes. So
whenever the train comes down here, I know I'm going
to catch a bus, and it's not as scary as
(28:20):
Oh no, the two two two is leaving in right
twelve minutes. I'm still fifteen minutes out. I know I'm
going to get a Burbank bus, even if I missed
the more recent one, And that drops you right in front,
on a right in front, right across from the Whole
Foods across from our office.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, how late does that run? If you were to
leave here, like you had a long day, you're at
the office and you want to get back downtown, Like
I'm usually not getting off work until ten o'clock, So
it's not an option for me, But how late would
it be an option for you?
Speaker 7 (28:47):
The Burbank bus, I believe, stops at about nine o'clock.
That's what I thought from running there. But there's still
the Metro buses that go down a similar pass, not
the exact same paths, but the Burbank bus will let
use your Metro card to transfer on there.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, all I can do is say I'm glad that
you're safe. I'm glad that you haven't fallen victim to
anything on Metro, and please give Metro my love. I'm
still waiting for them to come on my show with
me and talk about all things Metro.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
They really should, because it would be important for the
for an organization that has as much money allocated to
it to come on to a platform that may not
be overly inviting and have some hard questions for them.
But you know, it's a it's a it's an important
agency and they're doing a lot of important work that
will have an impact on this region for decades to come.
So I hope they do heed your call.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
My friend. Yeah, I'm a teddy beard. There's nothing to
worry about. I'll be nice.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
I'll bee you're pretty mean to pineapple on pizza. I'm
not letting that go.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That's different. Okay, that's justifying what's wrong to hmm. I'll
tell you you, Kentucky folk. Aha, here's the problem by Michael,
see you later. I tell you it is Conways show.
I'm o Kelly in for Kyle. We're gonna talk a
little bit about college football when we come back. Michigan
(30:03):
USC the first game officially in the big ten for
USC and what it may mean for the program and
also you know national championship aspirations if they can pull
it off. KFI AM six forty We're live everywhere the
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