October 22, 2024 • 32 mins
Alex Stone reports on Former Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and two others have been arrested as part of a criminal sex trafficking investigation by the FBI. The men are accused of operating an international sex trafficking and prostitution business that recruited young men for parties around the world // Tim recalls the days of hanging out at the call and shares that he worked at Miller’s Outpost // Dodgers are the biggest story of the week but we also have a concert, basketball game, and a football game this Friday in LA // Tim tells Vin Scully's LA origins // New Bid Sends 50/50 Ball Auction Soaring to Astronomical Price
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
O gosh, please be sicking everyone. I'm overwhelmed. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Dodgers World Series is the big story in Los Angeles.
We will cover that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I've only got six pairs of tickets left. Now We're
all over man.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Everyone's banging on me for tickets because we have the
Dodger station next door. Sure, and I said, look, I'm
not going. Why would I have a ticket for you?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know, well, because you're not going would be the answer.
Maybe maybe, But I ain't got pretty You're pretty wired up, guys,
so I can understand why people might want to approach you.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So my favorite place to watch the game is Denny's.
Now Denny's going out of business with one hundred and
fifty stores, I've nowhere to.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Go, nowhere to go. I wonder if Alex Stone has time.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Alex Stones got tickets. He's hooked up. Yeah, he is
hooked too, Alex.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Stones with us, Hey bee, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
There's a lot of hooking out. Oh, here's that right on.
That's that's a way to get that. That's for that's
where off the air.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, so what's going on with you? Are you going
to the games? You're not going to the game?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I am credentialed to go to the game. What's the problem.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
But two hundred dollars for the credential?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well, we did a story this morning that the chiefest
tickets right now are twelve hundred bucks of the nose
play and the most expensive forty five thousand dollars a
seat down to the third baseline. Well, it's the game
one for only game one. I don't even think about
game seven if they get that far.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
To some people, that's nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, you know forty five grand is especially.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
In LA population, that would be no big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
For a second, is that showbiz money that's mostly buying
that big forty to forty five thousand dollars ticket?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
But I also wonder, I think this is you put
it on you know, stub Hub and game time and
see if somebody will buy it, because they weren't that
greatest seats. They were like you know, club level on
the third baseline.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I like when they say forty five thousand dollars a seat,
but it comes with free food.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Right or fees included. Well, thank you for putting the
fees in there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's very nice.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How much food can you eat?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But you need is parking stage. That's true.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You know that Jamie McCourt still loans the parking parking lots.
That's a wild crazy seventy bucks a pop. That was
just for the playoffs, but for the World Series is probably
a hundred bucks just for parking. And the guy.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Dogs and beers doesn't need to worry about any of
the other stuff. A lot of money, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So you are here to talk about your favorite store,
Abercrombie and Fitch.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Back in the nineties, it was remember when it was
the place?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, or at least have male models outside, like in
shorts and they were dancing as you walked in the store.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Did they really?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
In Mauna Rosa, they did not have that. When I
was growing up.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
When you went into Abercrombie and Fitch, the salespeople looked
like they could be modeling.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I mean you remember how the the ads there was
all the uproar. The people thought it was like soft
core porn. Yeah, and apparently there was a kind of
hardcore porn going on behind the.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Scenes because they rested this guy on Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So, Michael Jefferies, he was the CEO of Abercrombie and
Fitch ninety two to twenty fourteen, so on the heyday
of it, And the allegation that was laid out today
is that during much of that time he was luring
young men with the promise that they would become maybe
an Abercrombie model, and that he would force them to
take drugs and perform sexual acts, and that they would
(03:18):
use something l I know as well the classic casting
couch scenario as a tryouts where they he would have
he and his partner would have young men come in
take part in sex and then they would decide if
they were going to take them on the road. The
sex parties globally, so he and his partner Michael Smith,
they're both named in the indictment a third man as well,
(03:41):
and there are fifteen alleged victims. They believe they are
a lot more. This is the US Turney Eastern District
of New York say today.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Jeffries was the CEO of one of the most recognizable
clothing retailers in the world, he was using his power,
his wealth, and his influence to traffic men for his
own sexual pleasure and that of his romantic partner, Matthew Smith.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
And so they're accused of running an international sex trafficking
not a ring but a business. The recruited young men
for parties around the world. They would have the tryouts.
If they were accepted, then they would travel around the
world for these sex parties. And they had employees, contractors,
security teams allegedly to run this business where these parties
(04:28):
were held around the world and the rich and famous
were able to get into them, and the US Attorney Center.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
The defendants pressured the men to consume alcohol, biagra, and
muscle relaxes known as poppers during the sex events, and
they required the presence of staff during the sexual activity
and ensured that the men did not leave the sex
events until Jeffries and Smith decided that the sessions.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Were over dumb.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Bi agra and muscle relaxers go against.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Each other, I think so, and poppers is the exact
opposite of muscle relaxed or it's a weird combination.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Let's do something, but why is this happening? Thirty years later, well,
because they were able to put it all together that
there have been just like Sean Combs, just like Jeffrey Epstein,
there have been rumors about this for a very long time,
that there have been media reports, there have been civil lawsuits,
but they entel.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Statue limitations on this. Now you can go back forever.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, on these charges of sex trafficking and prostitution. They
can do it at least in this timeframe. But what
they believe, and they say that they think there are
maybe even more recent victims out there, but that there
are more, is that all of these young men allegedly
believed that they were trying out for modeling gigs and
that it was going to lead to modeling and if
they didn't follow the orders of the then CEO, which
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is totally understandable, that you would think that your career
is going to be over, and it probably would have
been if he said, you know what, you're not gonna
take part in what I'm gonna do. Allegedly then that
their modeling career was going.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
To be over.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So yeah, they you know, this is not the same district,
it's not Manhattan. It is the district out on Long Island,
but same area, as Epstein and Combs that those districts
have been really investigating these types of cases going after them.
Jeffreys today went into to court in Florida where he
was arrested ten million dollars bond posted it, walked out.
(06:20):
He has to remain at home in Palm Beach untill
he's told he's got to be on Long Island. But
if you're Combs's team, Sean Combs, you go wait a second,
same almost same charges, but Shawn Comes is being held
as a flight risk and not allowed to get out
of jail. This guy walked in today ten million dollar
bail and walked right out.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know, I use I worked for a summer. I
didn't run into any of this. I worked for a
summer at Miller's outpost.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Totally different kind of going on.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, yeah, you're not a whiff of anything like this. Nothing, man, Wow,
absolutely nothing. All right.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So what's the next step there? Is this going to
be filed in New York?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, so they filed at New York. They made the
arrest today in Wisconsin and in Florida. They are all
gonna have to go to New York. They will be
arraigned there. They do believe that there are more who
are going to come forward.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Here.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
They said this, I say to all victims, we're here,
we will listen, we will investigate and bring charges where appropriate.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
So they're calling on more folks to come forward, and
then we'll see do they come to some kind of
a plea agreement, do they flip on anybody else, or
do they claim that they are innocent. I mean, Jefferies
is like eighty years old now, so is he gonna
fight it or is that old?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Or just come to a deal some point.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, all right, buddy, I appreciate you coming on. Go Dodgers.
I know you're Rodgers fan, but you know, maybe next
year there you go. Hey, how many how long did
the Rocky's brown thirty years?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Nineteen ninety six?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Okay, ninety six, all right, so four twenty eight years?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
We went to a World Series. I covered it in
two thousand and nine, I believe. I remember it was
who play the Red Sox? They got swept by the
Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
All right, well next year, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
We're dead men walking on that. I want to get
to the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I went to the Rockies back back when they were
in Denver a Triple A team that long ago. It
was yeah, yeah, yeah, and said, never been to a
minor league game.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So she went to a Rockies game this year, but
they were now playing up exactly, but.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I remember it was. It was in Denver and there
were like one home run, then the guy gets up
and another home run, then the next Yeah, very much,
you know. I turned to the person next k I
didn't know them. I said, well, this is remarkable, how
many home runs? They said, You've never been to a
minor league game before, have you? Yeah? All the good pictures, Yeah,
that's true too, saying the pictures leave the leave town
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in a hurry if they if they're any good, Alex, love.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You, thank you for coming on. All right, there he
goes Alex Stone with ABC News that Mike Jefferies is
in trouble with that Abercromian fish. He's already eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That's an old photo then that we're seeing that must
be Yeah, and that's a really old photo.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, it's got to be a thirty year old photo.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, or he looks great at eighty maybe I don't
know at much to me, like he's around sixty.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I have a feeling this is the beginning the tip
of the iceberg. I think a lot of companies back
in the nineties early two thousands did this crap.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But there was what was the other Polage American Apparel
had that same issue with their top guy. I remember
he Yeah, it was really and it was the same
sort of thing around sex.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I don't know, man, quite a wild time.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
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Speaker 1 (09:27):
When you grew up, you know, we're talking about ab
Ofcrombie and Fich. It was kind of a news store.
On my later years of hanging out at the mall,
it wasn't there when I was a young kid. Were
you a mall rat growing up?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We'd not a rat, but we definitely would go to
the malls. But we're always looking for you know two.
I mean, I don't know we did. I was very
awkward around girls, but there was we just wanted to
look at girls, even from a distance, you know what
I mean. It was It was not there was nothing.
We had no game, you know what I mean? Yeah,
I had the opposite. I was.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I was, you know, knocking him out in high school,
junior high, elementary school.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You know, no, I have to just on that my
wanting companionship was so inversely proportionate to the degree to which
I had compand you know, so the want was there,
but you never I never had any follow through.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, so our
malls were the Gallery on which is one of the
newer malls that was a giant at the time. It
doesn't really exist much anymore. It's not the same as
it used to be. And then Topanga Plaza was another mall,
and then Sherman Oak's Fashion Square was an outdoor mall
when I was growing up outdoors and which is an
(10:36):
odd idea because in July when it's one hundred and twelve,
you don't feel like walking outdoors all day. Try and
close up.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
They have one in Century City that's outdoors, right.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, right exactly, But you're right, but that's on the
other side of the hill.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
No exactly, it's a little cooler.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And then Laurel Canyon, that's where I used to skate
and play hockey, and there's a big may company there.
I guess now Mazie's whatever it is, but I there
was the main company in Laurel Canyon it was on.
You know, it's oh right there, Laurel and Laurel and Victory.
Oh wow, yeah. And it's now it's a big North
Hollywood West or you know, big mall out there now.
(11:11):
But that that ice rink came down in the ninety
four quake just crumbled. But I remember going to the
mall and and we would just go to just walk
around all day and we'd run into people we knew
at the Panga Plaza or the galleria. And you remember
the Galleria. You know, there was a song I think
it was like I think it was Frank Zappa or
(11:33):
Moon Zappa or one of the Zappa's. I remember the
Valley Girls song, Moon Unit, Moon Unit.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah. That was a good time to grow up, right.
I grew up around girls to talk like that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Wow. You know.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I went to Junior High Portola Junior High, and I
would say forty percent of the girls I went to
school had talked exactly like that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know they'd wave at each other bye bye by
just putting their pinky up and down because it was odd.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Odd. There was such a sub culture there.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It was great though.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I think every mall was the same. There was an
Orange Julius, there was a shoe store. There was a
an arcade where you go and play games. That's where
I spend a lot of my time. That's kind of
Stutley right. There was a movie theater you know that
you tried to sneak into.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
There was.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It was just a really cool place to go and
and around the holidays they decorate it really nice for Christmas.
It was It was a big part of growing up.
And I'm not sure if kids are experiencing that nowadays.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't think, you know, with the social media and
buying on Amazon. I don't think going to the mall
on weekends just to hang out and run into friends
exist any.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No, not in the same way. And I was going
to ask you in ten years, what do you think
the malls will be made up of.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I don't think there will be any. I think, you know, Look,
every every time we come on the air, Bellio gives
me another story of stores closing down. And it's not
three stores closing down, it's hundreds and thousands, and we're
going in the wrong direction. Yes, today Bellio gave me
the story one hundred and fifty Denny's restaurants closing down yesterday,
(13:06):
it was CVS closing twelve hundred. Day before that, it
was or a week before that, it was Walgreens and
write Aid and all these stores that are closing because
people are stealing crap and you can get it for
cheaper and quicker at Amazon exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And in the case of the malls, it's the ladder, right,
it's the fact that you can basically brick and mortars
being put out of business.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They are because it's really expensive. I mean, you know,
I can't imagine what Target is paying for rent up
at the Empire Center. I bet it's one hundred and
fifty to two hundred thousand dollars a month. Sure, and
you can put that into a warehouse that you own,
you don't have to pay rent anymore. And you can
get product to people without them coming into your store
and stealing crap.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, and I have. I mean, and you talk about
the security, that's additional personnel on top of the ess
now you already have, and you can really trim those costs.
So there are for all those reasons. It's it is
sad though, because as you say, there is more going
out of the mall than just rights. Yeah, it was
a social thing.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It was the best mall commercial ever heard my life
was East Hills Mall commercial. This is like, I don't know,
fifteen twenty years ago or something. This is a great
They made this for nine dollars and it got you know,
two hundred million views.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Chool set, he backpacks, backpacks, Come get your backpack.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Boots, sand paints and boots, sand pants.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
Lushes, get yourself an outfit, denim food, sand paints and boots,
sand paints.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Hack Colucious, so get yourself too.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Who's saying that?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Ha?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Have you ever heard that stuff? Wo? You ever heard
of that commercial?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That ad?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I've never heard that before my life crows you ever
heard of?
Speaker 9 (14:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh? The kids all playing my daughter and her friend
they know that commercial by heart, a banger they sing
it all the time. Yeah. But that commercial was literally
made for eighty dollars and it got you know, thirty
million or whatever billion views. Unbelievable. The ball it's over.
I'll miss it, but.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh we have our memories. Tim, We got to move on.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Six forty Dodgers are the big story of the week.
They start the World Series on Friday. Friday's the World Series.
Are you going at all?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I will? The tickets are pretty steep, tim as we
have reviewed thirteen hundred to get you just into the park.
But I also will note if you're not going, there
are a bunch of sporting events going on on Friday
to make downtown really complicated getting from here to there. Right,
Oh my god, you got the Lakers, You've got I've
(15:58):
got on my phone, and I've got all the warnings
on my phone too. You're not going to believe the
crap that's going on this weekend in Los Angeles. First
of all, you've got the Dodgers in the World Series.
You know, the Lakers and the Suns. These are all
Friday night events. The Lakers are playing the Suns, and
the Lakers are going to play Lebron James and Bronnie James. Yeah,
(16:22):
this is a big event. It'll be the.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
First time a father's son duo has ever played an
NBA game, I think, I think. And then USC is
not playing you know Oregon, you know Community College, They're
playing Rutgers, right, big fan base of Rutgers here in
La that's going to be at the Coliseum on Friday.
(16:45):
On Friday, and then there's a concert at the end
of it Dome on Friday, and then East LA Classic
the football game is going to be at Sofi Stadium.
All of those events are going on Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I mean all of them. You should leave.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Really, you're you're gonna get You're gonna be screwed in traffic. Yeah,
it's gonna be a mess.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
And by the way, to clarify the Lakers with the
Bronny and lebron their first game for the regular season
is tonight. Oh tonight, but they are playing Sunday on
Friday against.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, all right, so they're playing who are they playing tonight?
You know, Minnesota Timberwolves. Oh okay, all right, let me
see what what is the uh, let's see s h
let me find out what concert's going on here?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And into it?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
All right, into it. Let's find out what's going on
on Friday. I know there's a concert there. Oh it's
the Beatles. Wow, it's gonna be pretty busy, I guess. Yeah,
all right, we'll find out what concert is on on Friday.
But it's unbelievable all these events going on on Friday.
(17:50):
So I don't know what time you have to leave
for the concert. I mean for the for the baseball game.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The Key of Forum they got a concert as well.
That's Elo is playing.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh my god, you kidding. I love Yellow. They're one
of my top two or three groups ever. I love
Yellow Electric Light Orchestra. Right think gong is, said Jeff Lynn.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And then who's playing it into it?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You know?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
David Gilmour from Pink Florid.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Wow, that's a big deal too, that one.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, man, you can see him both, you know, go
back and forth. They're walking distance, yes, they're well, yeah,
you can walk if you like walking. Yeah, and if
you buy you know, you gotta go squirrel through the
Sofi area. But so Far is going to be packed too,
so there's gonna be a concertate into it. So all
twenty five thousand of those spaces are called for where
you gonna park for so Far because usually you know,
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usually usually a Kia form as an auxiliary.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Parker spill over. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And so all three of all three of those venues
are going to be full on Friday night, Dodgers full
and Lakers that.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Is, it's just gonna be brutal. I mean just getting
down there.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
How are you gonna get around?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I mean if you're going to take if you take
public transportation, well you could get killed. That's a downer.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But usually when they're packed like this on a game,
now you're a chance that's right, killed, go down.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. Kill on the way home maybe,
but not on the way down. This is the with
the into a dome just opening up. I'm wondering if
this is the first time when all three of those
venues are got something going on on the same n.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I bet it is. And during the World Series yeah,
and during a Rutgers USC game. Ye, great idea, great idea.
Where is in charge of planning?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
The Dodgers Freddy Freeman, Max Max Month see talking about
the World Series.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Is still coming down off the high of Sunday Nights
Game six winning the NLCS. We are ready for a
World Series and this will be a little different. The Dodgers,
of course won the World Series in twenty twenty, but
there were no home games here in Los Angeles because
it was the middle of the pandemic. So finally we're
back in Los Angeles for Game one of the World
Series on Friday. Dave Roberts is speaking now made some news.
(19:55):
Jack Flaherty will start game one for the Dodgers. Yoshinobu,
you have a motive, will start game two for the Dodgers.
And these players still trying to ride that momentum.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
We had a lot of good things and good momentum
leading into the playoffs, and I think we just kind
of carried.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It over and a lot of guys are swinging that well.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
A lot of things have just kind of come together
for us to get to this point. And yeah, you know,
the Dodgers used to have like there's seventh, eighth to
ninth hitter were horrible. So as long as you got
through the top six, you could breeze through seven, eight
to nine. Now any of those Dodgers can hit a
home run at any time.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, it's a it's a fearsome lineup.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You can't just you can't relax on any any at
bad could be the end, it could be a home run,
you know, Grand Slam whatever. It's unbelievable be able to
have these Look, Shoe o'tani got made the fifty to
fifty club. Nobody's ever done that and Mark he this
is a rehab year for him coming off Tommy John
(20:53):
a rehab year and he goes fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, rehab. He's extorted. Extort this guy be able to
have these specials on.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
We've been having to go coast to coast already, something
that they haven't done.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
They've stayed pretty local.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
In their playoff series, and so you know, if there
is one thing I would say experience.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Well, I guess they stayed local unless you consider Kansas
City not local, which I don't think. It is about
fifteen hundred miles from Kansas City, New York. It's got
to be gotta be one thousand. I bet it's fifteen hundred.
I bet it's I bet it's thirteen hundred miles.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, well, it's really quite specific.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I'm going to say thirteen one hundred miles very close.
What is it a little bit less? Twelve hundred? Oh
it is, got eleven ninety two very good too, Damn
I usually get those pretty good.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I got it. I gotta be better. It came within
eight miles.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I gotta be better now. I came with a hundred
hundred eight miles.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I'd forgotten what he really catch, and I got got
it close. I came.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I was as close as I am to Morongo with
that thing. It's not bad.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
How far did you say Morongo was.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Ninety from my house, it's nine the seven and a
half miles.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I think, I think something like that.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
You know, if there is one thing I would say
experience would come into play at is that you're talking
about different sleep schedules, different you know, the time change,
wrong flights, different weather. You know that that is something
that we do have an experience with.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
The Yankees, of course, beat the Cleveland Guardians in their
al CS series. But the Dodgers coming off that big game,
six win four.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
All right, we come back Shoe Aotani his ball that
he hit the fiftieth home run. Remember he was in
the fifty to fifty club, fifty stolen bases, fifty home runs.
The person who owns that ball is putting it up
for auction, and we come back. They tell you what
that that ball is going for. You're not gonna believe it.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Burbank to Morongo ninety eight point seven mins. Wow, okay, yeah,
from from my house ninety a half miles soon. I
don't know why I know that, but I just know
you'll know. Saturday Santa Anita is eighteen point three.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I know that. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, last last
point three. That's tough on at home.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of toughness. That's
not the only tough ride home. Part of the ride home,
you know, it's like, God, what did I do?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
What did I do?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
All Right? The best ride home though, I was. I
used to take the RTD of the track. It was
three different RTDs. The bus. I'd pick it up and
take it to the track, and I was coming home
on the RTD. We're on the on the one thirty
four freeway and a guy stands up on the bus
and he goes, oh, f and he used to the
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whole F word. He goes, I drove today.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That is a tough ride.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
That guy lost all his bets and then lost the
fact that he drove his car that day. That isn't
that great. So you got to take the bus back
to Sandy to get the car home. That's great. But
him just standing up and yelling, ah.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
If I drove up.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Classic you're listening to Tim on Way Jun You're on
De Maya from KFI AM six forty Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Big story here. We're not going to overkill with the Dodgers,
but we're going to tell you every day they are
playing at Dodger Stadium Friday, first pitch, five away, Mark
Thompson's here.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Do you think it's going to be sweet? Didn't you
say that?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You know when I was I was born in nineteen
sixty three, do the math and the Dodgers swept the
Yankees the year I was born. I was born a
little late for it. That series went on from October
I think second to the sixth, and you were born
just after that then, Yeah, because it was you know,
(24:42):
it was quicker back then. He done all the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Oh right, of course there was a different structure.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, it just had nationally championship game and then the
so who America.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
That Dodger team? Who was pitching? And like who was
the big slug?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Sandy Cofax? Oh, sure was on that team. I think
Drysdale was on that team. I don't know if Roy Campanella,
I don't know if it's on the team or not.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
A legendary team, huh.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But in the fourth game of that World Series, Uh,
the the announcer for the TV broadcast was Mel Allen,
remember the the very famous Yeah, and he got laryngitis
and pretty bad in the fourth game, and in the
fifth or sixth inning he couldn't go on anymore. And
a young kid stepped in for him and made his
(25:27):
world debut calling that Yankees Dodger World Series. That was
Vince Skeully.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
No kidding, how about that. Oh that's a great story.
I'd never heard it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, Vince Kelly stepped in and saved the day.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, Dodger Stadium ball four.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That guy is the best.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He was, which is why I told you I first
got to town, I would just sit there on the
Fox lot. I'd go out to the parking lot. I
was working, you know, there at Fox eleven, and I
go out to the parking lot and just sit in
the car and listen to Vince Culler. I was so
delighted that I could hear him the inning after and
calling a game was so exciting.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And the better games were when the Dodgers were either
winning or losing by ten runs.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And he could just kind of go tell stories. Yeah, absolutely,
all right.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Shoe the MVP of the National League for sure, no,
he's even close. The ball that he hit for his
fiftieth home run is up for auction, and right now
it's about I think two to almost three million dollars.
They think it might go for a lot, a lot
more than you know, the.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
LA tourism officials call it the Otani effect. Show hey,
it's just a magnet to Japanese baseball, right so much
so to the point that Japan is expected to be
LA's fifth largest loss these tourism market this year.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
That's wild, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So he's a big deal in Japan, he's a big
deal in the United States, and show hey, Otani's fifty
to fifty ball. According to Major League Baseball and TMZ Sports,
the historic fiftieth home run ball might break a record
and it could go for ten million dollars ten million dollars,
(27:06):
according to the auction site. The auction house is actually
overseeing the sale the bid. The BID's usually come in
the final hours. Right now, it's over two million dollars,
but they think it could go as much as ten
million dollars. To have that ball would be you know,
what a what a gift that would be. And I
can't imagine in the future, it's gonna be worthless.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You keep that in your house. Where are you keeping that?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You gotta keep it under under glass or plexiglass and
have alarms on it and all kinds of crap.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, maybe you do. You loan it out to some
sports museum or something.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Maybe maybe it's on tour. You can make money off it.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, but this show Atani is something special. Man, I
think he's gonna I oh, yeah, No, I think he is.
I really do. I know you don't think so what
I think he is.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
With the Dodgers taking another swing at a world championship
the World Series Los Angeles to officials are updating an
old Tom Cruise line from.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
To show.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Hey, the Money Dodgers starts show. Hey, Otani bringing a
lot of attention and tourism dollars from his homeland Japan.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
We've seen about two hundred thirty thousand visitors thus far
from Japan.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Bill cars is with the Los Angeles tourism and convention board.
He says, Otani and teammate Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hey, those are
icons in baseball loving Japan and responsible for a big
part of the influx of Japanese tourists flocking to LA
this year.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The Dodgers also, I imagine, make a lot of money
off of advertising in Japan, you know, but you constantly
see Japanese advertising at the stadium. Yeah, yeah, and Tim
Kates does it. There's a zen c is Zenchi sushi
that they promote, and there's a tea that they promote
as well, and that's got to be you know, tens
(28:59):
of millions of dollars right there.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, I think it was Kate mentioned to me that
you know, typically when somebody's in the batter's box, you
see a couple of those electronic billboards go up, maybe
one or two. But when Otani's there, as you've said,
you have five right out of the shoot, and then
they are rotating quickly. They're a bunch of different I mean.
So the sponsorships attached to his presence are immense. It's great,
(29:21):
a lot of money, a lot of business, a lot
of commerce well worth what you know, all the money
paid for gotta be. It's gotta be.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
We know there is the Atani effect, and you know,
we know that eighty to ninety percent of travelers that
are going to LA from Japan are going to see
a Dodger game.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Dodger Blue found in store windows and baseball camps and
little Tokyo as well. Isn't a slightly bigger format here.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It's amazing that the Angels couldn't pull that off. You know,
the Angels had him for five years or five six years,
and they didn't pull that off.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They sell them like this.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It's odd. It really is weird. He was great with them,
but yeah, I don't think he was great with them.
They just didn't have the lineup around him, I don't think, right.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, they also did and half the marketing that the
Dodgers have. You know, Dodgers constantly get out there and
you know, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
they're out there marketing all the time. And they're the
biggest fan base and probably in sports. They constantly get
four I think four million people a year come through
the other gates. It's a it's a machine that Dodger organization.
(30:19):
And they've got to win the World Series. Everyone's wand
to keep the machine roller, sure, they need to.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
A massive o Tani mural on the side of the
Miako hotel.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
Tickets are expensive, hotels expensive, everything is expensive, but yet
people still want to come and see him.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
One of those people is Yoh Suzuki. He flew all
the way from the other side of the planet to
see his baseball hero play in Sunday Nights clincher, and
he got his money's worth.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Take him here from Guy's got some money right, flies
all the way from Japan just for Game six.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I can see the stadium lights from my bedroom and
I didn't go. Literally, I can see the glow of
the stadium lights from my bedroom and I did not
go to that game. That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
I cam here from Japan to see him hit then
hit hit two kids.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So I was very surprising because he did a great job.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Now, the Tourism Board says the Dodgers had to increase
the number of their Japanese speaking tours of the stadium
this year. They now offer eight of those a week.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Wow. Wow, wow, you know, really screwed up? Is the
the translator for show aotani. That guy had a magic
carpet ride. All you do is just the not gamble
show hay his money away.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yeah, all you do? He had the world?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, exactly, probably making tons of money traveling with the team.
And and you know your your best friend is a
right now a married show hey Otani. So when they
go on the road, you go, oh he's married, but
the translator.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah no, you're right, single guy. It's it would have
been the best of everything. Oh my god, he blew it,
just blew it, man.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Heeo will blow itself sometimes I get that though a
little self destructive. I gotta taste of that myself. All right,
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
O gosh, please be sicking everyone. I'm overwhelmed. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Dodgers World Series is the big story in Los Angeles.
We will cover that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I've only got six pairs of tickets left. Now We're
all over man.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Everyone's banging on me for tickets because we have the
Dodger station next door. Sure, and I said, look, I'm
not going. Why would I have a ticket for you?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know, well, because you're not going would be the answer.
Maybe maybe, But I ain't got pretty You're pretty wired up, guys,
so I can understand why people might want to approach you.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So my favorite place to watch the game is Denny's.
Now Denny's going out of business with one hundred and
fifty stores, I've nowhere to.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Go, nowhere to go. I wonder if Alex Stone has time.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Alex Stones got tickets. He's hooked up. Yeah, he is
hooked too, Alex.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Stones with us, Hey bee, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
There's a lot of hooking out. Oh, here's that right on.
That's that's a way to get that. That's for that's
where off the air.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, so what's going on with you? Are you going
to the games? You're not going to the game?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I am credentialed to go to the game. What's the problem.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
But two hundred dollars for the credential?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well, we did a story this morning that the chiefest
tickets right now are twelve hundred bucks of the nose
play and the most expensive forty five thousand dollars a
seat down to the third baseline. Well, it's the game
one for only game one. I don't even think about
game seven if they get that far.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
To some people, that's nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, you know forty five grand is especially.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
In LA population, that would be no big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
For a second, is that showbiz money that's mostly buying
that big forty to forty five thousand dollars ticket?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
But I also wonder, I think this is you put
it on you know, stub Hub and game time and
see if somebody will buy it, because they weren't that
greatest seats. They were like you know, club level on
the third baseline.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I like when they say forty five thousand dollars a seat,
but it comes with free food.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Right or fees included. Well, thank you for putting the
fees in there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's very nice.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How much food can you eat?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But you need is parking stage. That's true.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You know that Jamie McCourt still loans the parking parking lots.
That's a wild crazy seventy bucks a pop. That was
just for the playoffs, but for the World Series is probably
a hundred bucks just for parking. And the guy.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Dogs and beers doesn't need to worry about any of
the other stuff. A lot of money, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So you are here to talk about your favorite store,
Abercrombie and Fitch.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Back in the nineties, it was remember when it was
the place?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, or at least have male models outside, like in
shorts and they were dancing as you walked in the store.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Did they really?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
In Mauna Rosa, they did not have that. When I
was growing up.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
When you went into Abercrombie and Fitch, the salespeople looked
like they could be modeling.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I mean you remember how the the ads there was
all the uproar. The people thought it was like soft
core porn. Yeah, and apparently there was a kind of
hardcore porn going on behind the.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Scenes because they rested this guy on Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So, Michael Jefferies, he was the CEO of Abercrombie and
Fitch ninety two to twenty fourteen, so on the heyday
of it, And the allegation that was laid out today
is that during much of that time he was luring
young men with the promise that they would become maybe
an Abercrombie model, and that he would force them to
take drugs and perform sexual acts, and that they would
(03:18):
use something l I know as well the classic casting
couch scenario as a tryouts where they he would have
he and his partner would have young men come in
take part in sex and then they would decide if
they were going to take them on the road. The
sex parties globally, so he and his partner Michael Smith,
they're both named in the indictment a third man as well,
(03:41):
and there are fifteen alleged victims. They believe they are
a lot more. This is the US Turney Eastern District
of New York say today.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Jeffries was the CEO of one of the most recognizable
clothing retailers in the world, he was using his power,
his wealth, and his influence to traffic men for his
own sexual pleasure and that of his romantic partner, Matthew Smith.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
And so they're accused of running an international sex trafficking
not a ring but a business. The recruited young men
for parties around the world. They would have the tryouts.
If they were accepted, then they would travel around the
world for these sex parties. And they had employees, contractors,
security teams allegedly to run this business where these parties
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were held around the world and the rich and famous
were able to get into them, and the US Attorney Center.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
The defendants pressured the men to consume alcohol, biagra, and
muscle relaxes known as poppers during the sex events, and
they required the presence of staff during the sexual activity
and ensured that the men did not leave the sex
events until Jeffries and Smith decided that the sessions.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Were over dumb.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Bi agra and muscle relaxers go against.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Each other, I think so, and poppers is the exact
opposite of muscle relaxed or it's a weird combination.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Let's do something, but why is this happening? Thirty years later, well,
because they were able to put it all together that
there have been just like Sean Combs, just like Jeffrey Epstein,
there have been rumors about this for a very long time,
that there have been media reports, there have been civil lawsuits,
but they entel.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Statue limitations on this. Now you can go back forever.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, on these charges of sex trafficking and prostitution. They
can do it at least in this timeframe. But what
they believe, and they say that they think there are
maybe even more recent victims out there, but that there
are more, is that all of these young men allegedly
believed that they were trying out for modeling gigs and
that it was going to lead to modeling and if
they didn't follow the orders of the then CEO, which
(05:45):
is totally understandable, that you would think that your career
is going to be over, and it probably would have
been if he said, you know what, you're not gonna
take part in what I'm gonna do. Allegedly then that
their modeling career was going.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
To be over.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So yeah, they you know, this is not the same district,
it's not Manhattan. It is the district out on Long Island,
but same area, as Epstein and Combs that those districts
have been really investigating these types of cases going after them.
Jeffreys today went into to court in Florida where he
was arrested ten million dollars bond posted it, walked out.
(06:20):
He has to remain at home in Palm Beach untill
he's told he's got to be on Long Island. But
if you're Combs's team, Sean Combs, you go wait a second,
same almost same charges, but Shawn Comes is being held
as a flight risk and not allowed to get out
of jail. This guy walked in today ten million dollar
bail and walked right out.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know, I use I worked for a summer. I
didn't run into any of this. I worked for a
summer at Miller's outpost.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Totally different kind of going on.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, yeah, you're not a whiff of anything like this. Nothing, man, Wow,
absolutely nothing. All right.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So what's the next step there? Is this going to
be filed in New York?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, so they filed at New York. They made the
arrest today in Wisconsin and in Florida. They are all
gonna have to go to New York. They will be
arraigned there. They do believe that there are more who
are going to come forward.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Here.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
They said this, I say to all victims, we're here,
we will listen, we will investigate and bring charges where appropriate.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
So they're calling on more folks to come forward, and
then we'll see do they come to some kind of
a plea agreement, do they flip on anybody else, or
do they claim that they are innocent. I mean, Jefferies
is like eighty years old now, so is he gonna
fight it or is that old?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Or just come to a deal some point.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, all right, buddy, I appreciate you coming on. Go Dodgers.
I know you're Rodgers fan, but you know, maybe next
year there you go. Hey, how many how long did
the Rocky's brown thirty years?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Nineteen ninety six?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Okay, ninety six, all right, so four twenty eight years?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
We went to a World Series. I covered it in
two thousand and nine, I believe. I remember it was
who play the Red Sox? They got swept by the
Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
All right, well next year, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
We're dead men walking on that. I want to get
to the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I went to the Rockies back back when they were
in Denver a Triple A team that long ago. It
was yeah, yeah, yeah, and said, never been to a
minor league game.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So she went to a Rockies game this year, but
they were now playing up exactly, but.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I remember it was. It was in Denver and there
were like one home run, then the guy gets up
and another home run, then the next Yeah, very much,
you know. I turned to the person next k I
didn't know them. I said, well, this is remarkable, how
many home runs? They said, You've never been to a
minor league game before, have you? Yeah? All the good pictures, Yeah,
that's true too, saying the pictures leave the leave town
(08:39):
in a hurry if they if they're any good, Alex, love.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You, thank you for coming on. All right, there he
goes Alex Stone with ABC News that Mike Jefferies is
in trouble with that Abercromian fish. He's already eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That's an old photo then that we're seeing that must
be Yeah, and that's a really old photo.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, it's got to be a thirty year old photo.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, or he looks great at eighty maybe I don't
know at much to me, like he's around sixty.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I have a feeling this is the beginning the tip
of the iceberg. I think a lot of companies back
in the nineties early two thousands did this crap.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But there was what was the other Polage American Apparel
had that same issue with their top guy. I remember
he Yeah, it was really and it was the same
sort of thing around sex.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I don't know, man, quite a wild time.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
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Speaker 1 (09:27):
When you grew up, you know, we're talking about ab
Ofcrombie and Fich. It was kind of a news store.
On my later years of hanging out at the mall,
it wasn't there when I was a young kid. Were
you a mall rat growing up?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We'd not a rat, but we definitely would go to
the malls. But we're always looking for you know two.
I mean, I don't know we did. I was very
awkward around girls, but there was we just wanted to
look at girls, even from a distance, you know what
I mean. It was It was not there was nothing.
We had no game, you know what I mean? Yeah,
I had the opposite. I was.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I was, you know, knocking him out in high school,
junior high, elementary school.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You know, no, I have to just on that my
wanting companionship was so inversely proportionate to the degree to which
I had compand you know, so the want was there,
but you never I never had any follow through.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, so our
malls were the Gallery on which is one of the
newer malls that was a giant at the time. It
doesn't really exist much anymore. It's not the same as
it used to be. And then Topanga Plaza was another mall,
and then Sherman Oak's Fashion Square was an outdoor mall
when I was growing up outdoors and which is an
(10:36):
odd idea because in July when it's one hundred and twelve,
you don't feel like walking outdoors all day. Try and
close up.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
They have one in Century City that's outdoors, right.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, right exactly, But you're right, but that's on the
other side of the hill.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
No exactly, it's a little cooler.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And then Laurel Canyon, that's where I used to skate
and play hockey, and there's a big may company there.
I guess now Mazie's whatever it is, but I there
was the main company in Laurel Canyon it was on.
You know, it's oh right there, Laurel and Laurel and Victory.
Oh wow, yeah. And it's now it's a big North
Hollywood West or you know, big mall out there now.
(11:11):
But that that ice rink came down in the ninety
four quake just crumbled. But I remember going to the
mall and and we would just go to just walk
around all day and we'd run into people we knew
at the Panga Plaza or the galleria. And you remember
the Galleria. You know, there was a song I think
it was like I think it was Frank Zappa or
(11:33):
Moon Zappa or one of the Zappa's. I remember the
Valley Girls song, Moon Unit, Moon Unit.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah. That was a good time to grow up, right.
I grew up around girls to talk like that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Wow. You know.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I went to Junior High Portola Junior High, and I
would say forty percent of the girls I went to
school had talked exactly like that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know they'd wave at each other bye bye by
just putting their pinky up and down because it was odd.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Odd. There was such a sub culture there.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It was great though.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I think every mall was the same. There was an
Orange Julius, there was a shoe store. There was a
an arcade where you go and play games. That's where
I spend a lot of my time. That's kind of
Stutley right. There was a movie theater you know that
you tried to sneak into.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
There was.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It was just a really cool place to go and
and around the holidays they decorate it really nice for Christmas.
It was It was a big part of growing up.
And I'm not sure if kids are experiencing that nowadays.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't think, you know, with the social media and
buying on Amazon. I don't think going to the mall
on weekends just to hang out and run into friends
exist any.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No, not in the same way. And I was going
to ask you in ten years, what do you think
the malls will be made up of.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I don't think there will be any. I think, you know, Look,
every every time we come on the air, Bellio gives
me another story of stores closing down. And it's not
three stores closing down, it's hundreds and thousands, and we're
going in the wrong direction. Yes, today Bellio gave me
the story one hundred and fifty Denny's restaurants closing down yesterday,
(13:06):
it was CVS closing twelve hundred. Day before that, it
was or a week before that, it was Walgreens and
write Aid and all these stores that are closing because
people are stealing crap and you can get it for
cheaper and quicker at Amazon exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And in the case of the malls, it's the ladder, right,
it's the fact that you can basically brick and mortars
being put out of business.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They are because it's really expensive. I mean, you know,
I can't imagine what Target is paying for rent up
at the Empire Center. I bet it's one hundred and
fifty to two hundred thousand dollars a month. Sure, and
you can put that into a warehouse that you own,
you don't have to pay rent anymore. And you can
get product to people without them coming into your store
and stealing crap.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, and I have. I mean, and you talk about
the security, that's additional personnel on top of the ess
now you already have, and you can really trim those costs.
So there are for all those reasons. It's it is
sad though, because as you say, there is more going
out of the mall than just rights. Yeah, it was
a social thing.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It was the best mall commercial ever heard my life
was East Hills Mall commercial. This is like, I don't know,
fifteen twenty years ago or something. This is a great
They made this for nine dollars and it got you know,
two hundred million views.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Chool set, he backpacks, backpacks, Come get your backpack.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Boots, sand paints and boots, sand pants.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
Lushes, get yourself an outfit, denim food, sand paints and boots,
sand paints.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Hack Colucious, so get yourself too.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Who's saying that?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Ha?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Have you ever heard that stuff? Wo? You ever heard
of that commercial?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That ad?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I've never heard that before my life crows you ever
heard of?
Speaker 9 (14:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh? The kids all playing my daughter and her friend
they know that commercial by heart, a banger they sing
it all the time. Yeah. But that commercial was literally
made for eighty dollars and it got you know, thirty
million or whatever billion views. Unbelievable. The ball it's over.
I'll miss it, but.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh we have our memories. Tim, We got to move on.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Six forty Dodgers are the big story of the week.
They start the World Series on Friday. Friday's the World Series.
Are you going at all?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I will? The tickets are pretty steep, tim as we
have reviewed thirteen hundred to get you just into the park.
But I also will note if you're not going, there
are a bunch of sporting events going on on Friday
to make downtown really complicated getting from here to there. Right,
Oh my god, you got the Lakers, You've got I've
(15:58):
got on my phone, and I've got all the warnings
on my phone too. You're not going to believe the
crap that's going on this weekend in Los Angeles. First
of all, you've got the Dodgers in the World Series.
You know, the Lakers and the Suns. These are all
Friday night events. The Lakers are playing the Suns, and
the Lakers are going to play Lebron James and Bronnie James. Yeah,
(16:22):
this is a big event. It'll be the.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
First time a father's son duo has ever played an
NBA game, I think, I think. And then USC is
not playing you know Oregon, you know Community College, They're
playing Rutgers, right, big fan base of Rutgers here in
La that's going to be at the Coliseum on Friday.
(16:45):
On Friday, and then there's a concert at the end
of it Dome on Friday, and then East LA Classic
the football game is going to be at Sofi Stadium.
All of those events are going on Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I mean all of them. You should leave.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Really, you're you're gonna get You're gonna be screwed in traffic. Yeah,
it's gonna be a mess.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
And by the way, to clarify the Lakers with the
Bronny and lebron their first game for the regular season
is tonight. Oh tonight, but they are playing Sunday on
Friday against.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, all right, so they're playing who are they playing tonight?
You know, Minnesota Timberwolves. Oh okay, all right, let me
see what what is the uh, let's see s h
let me find out what concert's going on here?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And into it?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
All right, into it. Let's find out what's going on
on Friday. I know there's a concert there. Oh it's
the Beatles. Wow, it's gonna be pretty busy, I guess. Yeah,
all right, we'll find out what concert is on on Friday.
But it's unbelievable all these events going on on Friday.
(17:50):
So I don't know what time you have to leave
for the concert. I mean for the for the baseball game.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The Key of Forum they got a concert as well.
That's Elo is playing.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh my god, you kidding. I love Yellow. They're one
of my top two or three groups ever. I love
Yellow Electric Light Orchestra. Right think gong is, said Jeff Lynn.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And then who's playing it into it?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You know?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
David Gilmour from Pink Florid.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Wow, that's a big deal too, that one.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, man, you can see him both, you know, go
back and forth. They're walking distance, yes, they're well, yeah,
you can walk if you like walking. Yeah, and if
you buy you know, you gotta go squirrel through the
Sofi area. But so Far is going to be packed too,
so there's gonna be a concertate into it. So all
twenty five thousand of those spaces are called for where
you gonna park for so Far because usually you know,
(18:39):
usually usually a Kia form as an auxiliary.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Parker spill over. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And so all three of all three of those venues
are going to be full on Friday night, Dodgers full
and Lakers that.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Is, it's just gonna be brutal. I mean just getting
down there.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
How are you gonna get around?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I mean if you're going to take if you take
public transportation, well you could get killed. That's a downer.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But usually when they're packed like this on a game,
now you're a chance that's right, killed, go down.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. Kill on the way home maybe,
but not on the way down. This is the with
the into a dome just opening up. I'm wondering if
this is the first time when all three of those
venues are got something going on on the same n.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I bet it is. And during the World Series yeah,
and during a Rutgers USC game. Ye, great idea, great idea.
Where is in charge of planning?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
The Dodgers Freddy Freeman, Max Max Month see talking about
the World Series.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Is still coming down off the high of Sunday Nights
Game six winning the NLCS. We are ready for a
World Series and this will be a little different. The Dodgers,
of course won the World Series in twenty twenty, but
there were no home games here in Los Angeles because
it was the middle of the pandemic. So finally we're
back in Los Angeles for Game one of the World
Series on Friday. Dave Roberts is speaking now made some news.
(19:55):
Jack Flaherty will start game one for the Dodgers. Yoshinobu,
you have a motive, will start game two for the Dodgers.
And these players still trying to ride that momentum.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
We had a lot of good things and good momentum
leading into the playoffs, and I think we just kind
of carried.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It over and a lot of guys are swinging that well.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
A lot of things have just kind of come together
for us to get to this point. And yeah, you know,
the Dodgers used to have like there's seventh, eighth to
ninth hitter were horrible. So as long as you got
through the top six, you could breeze through seven, eight
to nine. Now any of those Dodgers can hit a
home run at any time.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, it's a it's a fearsome lineup.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You can't just you can't relax on any any at
bad could be the end, it could be a home run,
you know, Grand Slam whatever. It's unbelievable be able to
have these Look, Shoe o'tani got made the fifty to
fifty club. Nobody's ever done that and Mark he this
is a rehab year for him coming off Tommy John
(20:53):
a rehab year and he goes fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, rehab. He's extorted. Extort this guy be able to
have these specials on.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
We've been having to go coast to coast already, something
that they haven't done.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
They've stayed pretty local.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
In their playoff series, and so you know, if there
is one thing I would say experience.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Well, I guess they stayed local unless you consider Kansas
City not local, which I don't think. It is about
fifteen hundred miles from Kansas City, New York. It's got
to be gotta be one thousand. I bet it's fifteen hundred.
I bet it's I bet it's thirteen hundred miles.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, well, it's really quite specific.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I'm going to say thirteen one hundred miles very close.
What is it a little bit less? Twelve hundred? Oh
it is, got eleven ninety two very good too, Damn
I usually get those pretty good.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I got it. I gotta be better. It came within
eight miles.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I gotta be better now. I came with a hundred
hundred eight miles.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I'd forgotten what he really catch, and I got got
it close. I came.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I was as close as I am to Morongo with
that thing. It's not bad.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
How far did you say Morongo was.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Ninety from my house, it's nine the seven and a
half miles.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I think, I think something like that.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
You know, if there is one thing I would say
experience would come into play at is that you're talking
about different sleep schedules, different you know, the time change,
wrong flights, different weather. You know that that is something
that we do have an experience with.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
The Yankees, of course, beat the Cleveland Guardians in their
al CS series. But the Dodgers coming off that big game,
six win four.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
All right, we come back Shoe Aotani his ball that
he hit the fiftieth home run. Remember he was in
the fifty to fifty club, fifty stolen bases, fifty home runs.
The person who owns that ball is putting it up
for auction, and we come back. They tell you what
that that ball is going for. You're not gonna believe it.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Burbank to Morongo ninety eight point seven mins. Wow, okay, yeah,
from from my house ninety a half miles soon. I
don't know why I know that, but I just know
you'll know. Saturday Santa Anita is eighteen point three.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I know that. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, last last
point three. That's tough on at home.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of toughness. That's
not the only tough ride home. Part of the ride home,
you know, it's like, God, what did I do?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
What did I do?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
All Right? The best ride home though, I was. I
used to take the RTD of the track. It was
three different RTDs. The bus. I'd pick it up and
take it to the track, and I was coming home
on the RTD. We're on the on the one thirty
four freeway and a guy stands up on the bus
and he goes, oh, f and he used to the
(23:31):
whole F word. He goes, I drove today.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That is a tough ride.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
That guy lost all his bets and then lost the
fact that he drove his car that day. That isn't
that great. So you got to take the bus back
to Sandy to get the car home. That's great. But
him just standing up and yelling, ah.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
If I drove up.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Classic you're listening to Tim on Way Jun You're on
De Maya from KFI AM six forty Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Big story here. We're not going to overkill with the Dodgers,
but we're going to tell you every day they are
playing at Dodger Stadium Friday, first pitch, five away, Mark
Thompson's here.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Do you think it's going to be sweet? Didn't you
say that?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You know when I was I was born in nineteen
sixty three, do the math and the Dodgers swept the
Yankees the year I was born. I was born a
little late for it. That series went on from October
I think second to the sixth, and you were born
just after that then, Yeah, because it was you know,
(24:42):
it was quicker back then. He done all the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Oh right, of course there was a different structure.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, it just had nationally championship game and then the
so who America.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
That Dodger team? Who was pitching? And like who was
the big slug?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Sandy Cofax? Oh, sure was on that team. I think
Drysdale was on that team. I don't know if Roy Campanella,
I don't know if it's on the team or not.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
A legendary team, huh.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But in the fourth game of that World Series, Uh,
the the announcer for the TV broadcast was Mel Allen,
remember the the very famous Yeah, and he got laryngitis
and pretty bad in the fourth game, and in the
fifth or sixth inning he couldn't go on anymore. And
a young kid stepped in for him and made his
(25:27):
world debut calling that Yankees Dodger World Series. That was
Vince Skeully.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
No kidding, how about that. Oh that's a great story.
I'd never heard it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, Vince Kelly stepped in and saved the day.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, Dodger Stadium ball four.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That guy is the best.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He was, which is why I told you I first
got to town, I would just sit there on the
Fox lot. I'd go out to the parking lot. I
was working, you know, there at Fox eleven, and I
go out to the parking lot and just sit in
the car and listen to Vince Culler. I was so
delighted that I could hear him the inning after and
calling a game was so exciting.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And the better games were when the Dodgers were either
winning or losing by ten runs.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And he could just kind of go tell stories. Yeah, absolutely,
all right.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Shoe the MVP of the National League for sure, no,
he's even close. The ball that he hit for his
fiftieth home run is up for auction, and right now
it's about I think two to almost three million dollars.
They think it might go for a lot, a lot
more than you know, the.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
LA tourism officials call it the Otani effect. Show hey,
it's just a magnet to Japanese baseball, right so much
so to the point that Japan is expected to be
LA's fifth largest loss these tourism market this year.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
That's wild, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So he's a big deal in Japan, he's a big
deal in the United States, and show hey, Otani's fifty
to fifty ball. According to Major League Baseball and TMZ Sports,
the historic fiftieth home run ball might break a record
and it could go for ten million dollars ten million dollars,
(27:06):
according to the auction site. The auction house is actually
overseeing the sale the bid. The BID's usually come in
the final hours. Right now, it's over two million dollars,
but they think it could go as much as ten
million dollars. To have that ball would be you know,
what a what a gift that would be. And I
can't imagine in the future, it's gonna be worthless.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You keep that in your house. Where are you keeping that?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You gotta keep it under under glass or plexiglass and
have alarms on it and all kinds of crap.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, maybe you do. You loan it out to some
sports museum or something.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Maybe maybe it's on tour. You can make money off it.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, but this show Atani is something special. Man, I
think he's gonna I oh, yeah, No, I think he is.
I really do. I know you don't think so what
I think he is.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
With the Dodgers taking another swing at a world championship
the World Series Los Angeles to officials are updating an
old Tom Cruise line from.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
To show.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Hey, the Money Dodgers starts show. Hey, Otani bringing a
lot of attention and tourism dollars from his homeland Japan.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
We've seen about two hundred thirty thousand visitors thus far
from Japan.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Bill cars is with the Los Angeles tourism and convention board.
He says, Otani and teammate Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hey, those are
icons in baseball loving Japan and responsible for a big
part of the influx of Japanese tourists flocking to LA
this year.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The Dodgers also, I imagine, make a lot of money
off of advertising in Japan, you know, but you constantly
see Japanese advertising at the stadium. Yeah, yeah, and Tim
Kates does it. There's a zen c is Zenchi sushi
that they promote, and there's a tea that they promote
as well, and that's got to be you know, tens
(28:59):
of millions of dollars right there.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, I think it was Kate mentioned to me that
you know, typically when somebody's in the batter's box, you
see a couple of those electronic billboards go up, maybe
one or two. But when Otani's there, as you've said,
you have five right out of the shoot, and then
they are rotating quickly. They're a bunch of different I mean.
So the sponsorships attached to his presence are immense. It's great,
(29:21):
a lot of money, a lot of business, a lot
of commerce well worth what you know, all the money
paid for gotta be. It's gotta be.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
We know there is the Atani effect, and you know,
we know that eighty to ninety percent of travelers that
are going to LA from Japan are going to see
a Dodger game.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Dodger Blue found in store windows and baseball camps and
little Tokyo as well. Isn't a slightly bigger format here.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It's amazing that the Angels couldn't pull that off. You know,
the Angels had him for five years or five six years,
and they didn't pull that off.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They sell them like this.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It's odd. It really is weird. He was great with them,
but yeah, I don't think he was great with them.
They just didn't have the lineup around him, I don't think, right.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, they also did and half the marketing that the
Dodgers have. You know, Dodgers constantly get out there and
you know, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
they're out there marketing all the time. And they're the
biggest fan base and probably in sports. They constantly get
four I think four million people a year come through
the other gates. It's a it's a machine that Dodger organization.
(30:19):
And they've got to win the World Series. Everyone's wand
to keep the machine roller, sure, they need to.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
A massive o Tani mural on the side of the
Miako hotel.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
Tickets are expensive, hotels expensive, everything is expensive, but yet
people still want to come and see him.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
One of those people is Yoh Suzuki. He flew all
the way from the other side of the planet to
see his baseball hero play in Sunday Nights clincher, and
he got his money's worth.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Take him here from Guy's got some money right, flies
all the way from Japan just for Game six.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I can see the stadium lights from my bedroom and
I didn't go. Literally, I can see the glow of
the stadium lights from my bedroom and I did not
go to that game. That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
I cam here from Japan to see him hit then
hit hit two kids.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So I was very surprising because he did a great job.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Now, the Tourism Board says the Dodgers had to increase
the number of their Japanese speaking tours of the stadium
this year. They now offer eight of those a week.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Wow. Wow, wow, you know, really screwed up? Is the
the translator for show aotani. That guy had a magic
carpet ride. All you do is just the not gamble
show hay his money away.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yeah, all you do? He had the world?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, exactly, probably making tons of money traveling with the team.
And and you know your your best friend is a
right now a married show hey Otani. So when they
go on the road, you go, oh he's married, but
the translator.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah no, you're right, single guy. It's it would have
been the best of everything. Oh my god, he blew it,
just blew it, man.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Heeo will blow itself sometimes I get that though a
little self destructive. I gotta taste of that myself. All right,
We're Live's Conway Thompson on KFI AM six forty Conway
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