November 26, 2024 • 32 mins
There’s an egg shortage and prices are up, but not just with eggs.... practically everything! Doug struggles ordering food at McDonald's / 25% of people are still carrying weight from last year’s holidays. Guest: Alex Stone on BUSY TRAVEL DAY WHAT’S UP WITH AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS AT A MAJOR HUB? Suspect shot after firing at LAPD with gun in each hand at end of chase/ Doug is a dinosaur, because he still enjoys reading newspapers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
App four h six on a Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Doug McIntyre in for Tim Conway Junior right here on
KFI AM six forty Live everywhere and on the iHeartRadio app.
Hope you're slugging through what passes for rain around these
here parts. Hitting out of town. Good luck getting there,
good luck getting back. And if you're in town, you
win the lottery, as far as I'm concerned. If you
don't have to travel Thanksgiving, you win, You win the
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big prize.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So we got tons of stuff to talk about. I
want to start with.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know, egg prices are up and people are crazed
about this. Now, this is a staple of people's diets
that I get, and egg prices according to the American
egg Board. And how do you get on the American
egg Board, I wonder, But if you're on the American
egg Board, you report to America that the average price
in the US for a dozen eggs is three dollars
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and thirty seven cents in October, which is not nearly
as high as it was in January when it was
for eighty two, but it's up sixty three percent from
October of twenty three, when an average for a price
for a dozen eggs was two dollars and seven cents.
Now that's that adds up. You're you know, you're running
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an omelet business. You're spending a lot of money. I
get it, but that's just one of a zillion things
that cost so much money now that people I don't
know how anybody's doing anything. I mentioned to John before
he split that I saw this piece in the in
the New York Times a couple days ago that the
average price for a hotel room in New York City
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in the month of September was four hundred and seventeen
dollars a night, four hundred and seventeen k.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And by the way, the.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You could you go out to Queens by LaGuardia Airport
for three hundred and fifty one dollars a night. I
got to tell you, I pray to God and I
don't have to go to an airport hotel at LaGuardia
for three hundred and fifty one dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Now, to bring this up, because.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It occurs to me that there's you know, traveling we
always see these Christmas movies. Y're all on the Hallmark
channel of some family that goes to New York and
have a magical experience in front of the Macy's window
and they see the light shows in the Santa clause
and it's all fantastic and big, gigantic Hollywood snowflakes come
down and it's this incredible experience. And as a kid,
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because I grew up there, we could go in, take
the Long Island Rairod, the Old Silver Snail in and
you can see the Christmas lights, go to the Christmas
Tree for next to nothing. But if you live out
here and you want that experience, you're hoping a plane,
and then you got to stay somewhere. And unless you're
going to stay in Pennsylvania and rent a car or
take Amtrak into the city, you're going to pay through
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the nose for a hotel room. And this is an
experience that is really pricing people. Forget about poor people
having this experience because frankly, it's always been difficult for
poor people to hop planes. And you just have these
fantastic adventures. You take the family to something. It's pricey,
but all kinds of things have been priced completely out
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of most middle class American families. Reality, look at the
price of a of a Laker game, and not just
not just know the NBA has an amazingly fluid price
structure for their tickets because Laker tickets not just in
Los Angeles, but every time they go on the road,
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because it's a huge brand. Now I'm sure the same
is true for the Celtics and some of the other
you know, the big name teams with big stars. The
aftermarket tickets send things into the thousands of dollars. And
for all of you millions of Dodger fans out there
who went through the exciting ride to the Playoffs, into
the World Series, into the Championship, you look at those
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World Series tickets, oh Man, college is cheaper. You'd actually
rather to send your kid to college than buy a
field level seat at Dodger Stadium during the World Series.
And all of these things were once part of growing
up that you could take your kid to see a
Broadway show if you lived in New York, you could
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introduce them to that experience for ten bucks on a matinee.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It wouldn't might have.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
The best seats, but they'd be in the building. And
they'd be sitting, you know, maybe a balcony above all
the HOYPOLOI But forget about it now. It's a couple
hundred bucks, and to take a family of four any
place is thousands of dollars. I had a gig where
I was going down a long beach and the guy
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was driving me down there. He told me that he
had picked up a family in Malibu, family of four,
and he drove them. This was in a town car
like some you know, car service, expensive car service.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They drove him. They he drove the.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Family down to Disneyland and waited for them to call.
He was on the clock the whole time, waited for
them to call when they were done, which was like
six hours later, and then driving back to Malibu. I mean,
on top of the Disneyland tickets thousands and thousands and
thousands of dollars. This is not a middle class experience.
And forget about people who are actually considered to be poor.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And yet and I hope I'm not one of those people.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It says, you know, back in my day, but it
seems to me that I remember somewhere at home, I
still have a ticket stub from opening day of nineteen
sixty nine at Shay Stadium. You know, I don't know
why it's still floating around in the drawer, but the
tickets were like five dollars. It was five dollars to
get into the ballpark. Now, they were terrible seats. It
was Shay Stadium, Old Chase Stadium by the airport, and
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you'd have to duck when the planes went over because
the wheels had practically, you know, part your hair. But
you were in the ballpark, and that was true at
de Chevez Ravine, that was a true. At Dodger Stadium,
you could sit in the bleachers. Maybe you dive sunstroke,
but you were in the ballpark and you're watching Major
League Baseball. There were four, five, six, seven dollars, and
you know, you could give your kids a couple of
hot dogs, and it was a it was something that a.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Family could do together.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Man, Now you got to you gotta save for that
experience and forget about those of you who had swifties
in the house, because what with a swifty You're you're laughing, Isabelle,
what with a what did you pay for your swift tickets?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Now, I personally am not a swiftie, but I have
a lot of friends who are swifties who saw her
in concert upwards of five times. And I don't know
how they did that, and they're all my age, So, well, were.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
They paying like twelve hundred dollars a ticket.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Around that range probably like around the seven hundred mark,
between seven hundred and twelve hundred.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Unbelievable and they went five times?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, Well, this was going on with Hamilton when Hamilton
became the thing and people were paying thousands of dollars
to get in to see the show. Uh and and again,
these experiences now have become elite experiences. It's not just
the the athletes have become We mentioned yesterday that they're
putting statues up to people. Now it's not enough to
have your number retired or to be in the Hall
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of Fame. Now you've got to have a statue. Well,
now we've amped up. It's like everything has been supersized.
Where it is these things that were once cultural touchstones
that people of families would have and they'd be shared
experiences have really become elite experiences. And part of it
is because the big money people, you know, all the
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floor level seats are gobbled up by corporations, and these
are places where you take clients.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It's been an extent.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It used to be, you know, you'd have a country
club and you'd take people out there and figure out
how to screw over the public on a golf course.
But now you can do it at a Laker game.
You can do it on a field level seat at
Dodger Stadium or wherever. Now, by the way, in defensive baseball,
baseball is still the cheapest of the major sports because
they got more seats to fill as all. Vince Scully
used to say, the most expensive seat to build in
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the stadium is the cheapest seat. It's the one way
up top the Eucher seats. You have to put a
crane and steel to get it up there. But people
don't want to pay a lot of money to sit
up there. But still, if you want to be part
of the action, you can. You can find a way
to get into a ballgame in the middle of the season.
But when the playoffs roll around, the World Series roll around,
that's not for you, that's not for me. It's really
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really pricey. And all of these big concerts, all of them.
Every time somebody's got one of these, you know, finale tours.
You know that man of the people, Bruce Springsteen, the
man with the acoustic guitar strap to his back, sings
about factories, never been in one. And by the way,
he admits that you know his shows again, two thousand
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dollars to see to go see Bruce. And you know,
I don't know where the next generation of concert goers
are going, but well you said it, I guess the
swifties are still getting in there right somehow. All Right,
ladies and gentlemen, We've got tons of stuff to talk
about today, including as we come up on National Gluttony Day,
(09:02):
which is Thursday. And I'm not bringing up any of
this stuff to make anybody feel bad about. If you
want two slices of punkin pie, knock yourself out, what
do I care?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Right, But here's the thing that's kind of odd.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Twenty five percent of Americans say that they still have
the weight that they gained from last Thanksgiving going into
this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Three quarters of us are now officially overweight.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Alex Stone is going to join us talking about the
air traffic controllers shortage, and anybody want to play bridge
this weekend. We'll talk about all that and more.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Doug Mcente inf Tim Conway Junior and we're here till
seven o'clock this evening. It'll be back tomorrow as well,
so hopefully you'll hang with us. Alex Stone coming up.
If you hadn't out of town. There's one city in
particular if you fly to you may be in trouble
because of air traffic control issues. We'll discuss that with
mister Stoney just a bit. So I want to talk
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about how fat we've gotten. But I first have to
acknowledge that I tried to go to McDonald's earlier today,
and now it gets more embarrassing because I did use
the phrase tried to go to McDonald's. And you would
think that as an American of my age, going to
McDonald's would be pretty easy. I've been doing it for
over fifty years. Well guess what happened. I go to
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McDonald's and I don't know how to work the kiosk.
You know, they got these touch pad things, and they
got a big sign that says start your order on
the at the Kiosk. So I'm pushing buttons, and I
got to be honest with you. I'm not allowed to
push any of the buttons here. It's in my contract
at KFI because they know if I start pushing buttons,
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we'll be off the air. There'll be nothing but the
sound of silence. So I'm trying to order a quarter
pounder with cheese, which is what I get, and a
bottle of milk. I can't figure out how to do it,
and I have to admit now because they got a
help button. You got to push the help button, which
is like the help button they have at those self
checkout counters at Ralph's, which is the light of shame
(11:11):
when that thing.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Goes off, because you've you've screwed up.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You don't know how to you know, you don't know
how to get your malamars into your self checkout bag.
So I gotta now. I just start yelling at the guy.
I just lost it. I start yelling at the guy
who's working behind the counter.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I don't know how to order McDonald's. All of a sudden,
I don't know how to order McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So I leave that place and I stop at three
more places, hoping to grab something so I don't have
to buy a sandwich out of that wheel of death
in the breakroom. And I failed at all three places.
I parked the car ran in. All the lights are
on a little paper sign in the window due to
unforeseen circumstances where unable to open today. Well, don't light
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up the whole store then all right, it looks from
the street before I park anyway. So food, we're food people,
and we're coming up on the biggest food day of
the year, which is Thanksgiving, and people pack it all.
Why because there's all kinds of great stuff and you
kind of have permission to really pack it in. And
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we like it. It's part of what makes life enjoyable.
The problem is what we don't like is all of
the parties that follow it. And the next thing, you know,
by the time you get to New Year's Eve, you
got to join a gym. And this new survey says
that one in four Americans still carry the excess ten
pounds that they gained last Thanksgiving heading into this one. Well,
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you can't obviously keep averaging that or else every ten
Thanksgivings you're one hundred pounds eavery year, or maybe you can,
because this new study says that three quarters of adults
are overweight or obese, and it's a huge spike since
nineteen ninety. In nineteen ninety, it was bad enough half
of us were obese or overweight. And again, this is
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all used in the BMI index, that body mass index,
which even the proponents of it acknowledge it's not a
perfect metric, but you have to have It's like the SATs.
You have to have some kind of standard base of
measurement otherwise you're just guessing. You know what, you know
what I use. I just use my pants size. That's
my BMI index. I just say, gee, I used to
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fit in these and now I don't. And I know
it's not because they shrunk. So anyway, since nineteen nineteen ninety,
half of Americans were overweight or obese, and now it's
three quarters and a huge spike in younger people. Who
I mean, none of this is news to you, right,
You've heard this a thousand times. But why are we
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doing this? Why has it? It can't all be because
of the Internet. It can't all be because people are
you know, online all day long instead of you know,
if they want to, it just can't be that. And
here's where Robert F. Kennedy Junior may actually be able
to provide a genuine public service, because he's got, in
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my opinion, he's got some nutty things like taking floorite
out of the drinking when he's got some crazy things.
Forget about the vaxes and all that, however you feel
about that. But he has for years talked about how
the American the commercial corporate food processing industry has gotten
people addicted to food that packs on the pounds. And
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if he uses the bully pulpit to really I mean,
I don't know if he has to use regulations. But
we did that with smoking, and there's far fewer smokers
in America today than then once, where we did it
through a whole variety of things, besides pricing people out
of cigarettes and making it really inconvenient to smoke by
cordoning them off into little, tiny, stigmatized smoking sections, but
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also people started to get the message by the millions,
and there's far fewer people smoking today than there were
fifty years ago. But there's far more fat people and
obese people, morbidly obese people than there were fifty years ago.
You see those pictures, these wide shots on beaches in
the nineteen seventies, and you rarely spot an overweight person,
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and now it's hard to spot the thin people. So
we've done things, and we've done things to ourselves or
things have been done to us through the commercialization of
factory foods and ultra process foods.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And Robert F.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Kennedy Junior and I got to give him props on
this if he does it in a common sense way,
if he uses the bully pulpit that President Trump is
going to give him from that cabinet post to really
raise the conversation on this, because it's something we got
to start to take seriously, because there's real life consequences,
you know, as a national security issue. You know, the
Army is having a terrible time finding people who can
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fit in fighter planes and inside a submarine. I mean,
it's a real challenge for the military. We've all seen
stripes with John Candy doing basic training. Well, guess what,
we got a whole army full of John Candies.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Now you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And now let me remind you if you're going to
do a little Black Black Friday shopping. I have my
book up there on Amazon dot com and find bookstores
everywhere called Frank's Shadow, and I would greatly appreciate you
giving it a little read or sending it to somebody
in your life who does read.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now, if you're heading out.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Of town for Thanksgiving or any time over the weekend.
My wife is actually flying to Newark on Friday. What
a lucky girl she is. And not only is she
lucky to be flying to Newark on any occasion, but
particularly this weekend because the air traffic controllers in Newark
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are feeling triggered. Let's talk about it with ABC News
correspondent Alex Though And Alex, how are you?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Hey, Doug, I'm going to buy your book right now,
only sixteen bucks.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Let's do look at that.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's a bar and mister Bezos will personally deliver it
to you out.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It'll be here on Friday if I order it right now.
So why not?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Why not? So?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah, the issue with Newark and good luck to your
wife on this one. Yeah, that is a big United hub.
That is United has made Newark their New York hub.
They don't fly to JFK any longer. They do limited
flying to LaGuardia, but they really focus in on Newark,
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and a few weeks ago to reduce the workload of
New York area or traffic controllers, they have been so
overworked in the New York area with so many planes
in the sky that they moved what's called the traycon
but the arrivals and departures at higher altitudes the controllers
for Newark to Philadelphia. So the controllers have not been
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thrilled about this that they have had to commute down
to Philadelphia about a two hour drive, or they've had
to move or decide that they're they're not going to
do it any longer, and whatever that if they choose
that they're going to commute or whatever. But then a
few weeks ago, so that first of all, they have
not been thrilled, they've not been happy. They've made that known.
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But then their computers inside the ATC Center in Philadelphia
went down a couple of weeks ago for forty seven seconds,
and the controllers are claiming they were traumatized by that,
and they are activating part of their contract that if
they claim they've had a traumatic experience, they can be
off work for a while until they see a doctor
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and they are cleared to go back. Now seems like
sort of a round of a sick out because they
were angry about the move. Maybe some of them were
really traumatized by the computer outage. That would be scary
being that you have lives in your hands. But they
are claiming trauma from the computer outage, and what that
means is every day the FAA has had to significantly
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slow down traffic into Newark because they don't have enough
controllers who can work because they're all out on trauma.
And the head of the FAA saying this is going
to go on for a while, telling us we will.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Use traffic flow management initiatives to deal with any staffing
shortages on that particular day in this airspace, and we
expect to have some of those shortages.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
They think they're gonna have more of them. They're still
working to staff up air traffic control, the staffing in
Philadelphia itself. They've got folks in the pipeline, but it
takes can take four years to fully hire and train
an air traffic controller, to go from hiring them through
their academy. They have an academy. They think of a
police academy, but their traffic controller academy. But for the
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time being, they've had to move the Philadelphia controllers down
to Newark to or from Newark to Philadelphia to handle
that airspace. United told us a little while ago that
they're looking at about twenty eight thousand customers every day
in the month of November who have been on canceled flights,
delayed flights, impacted flights of some kind because of this
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control issue, and they're saying, FAA, get it together, that
you said this was going to fix it by moving
them to Philadelphia, and it's made it worse. So they're
really feeling the impact of it. But if you can
fly through a different United hub, go to Chicago, go
to Denver if you need to. If you're going to
New York, try to go onto LaGuardia or into JFK.
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But the issue right now is really Newerk focused.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Right talking with Alex Stone, ABC News, Alex, the fascinating
thing is that the air Traffic Controller contract has this
provision for trauma that if an employee feels of an
ATC controller feels that they've been traumatized on the job,
that they're not allowed to go back to work until
they see a doctor. And obviously you don't want a
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bunch of disturbed people controlling the air grid. But what
kind of definition. It seems like it's a pretty fuzzy
definition that if you got reassigned to Philadelphia and that
creates trauma, or the computers went down for forty seven
seconds and that means you can't work. Now we've got
a real loosey goosey definition of trauma. I'm sure there's
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a lot of people listening to us right now saying
they' it'll work at my place for ten minutes and
see what trauma is like?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yeah. Well, and I think that the reason behind it
would have been that if you had a close call,
if you had a plane, god forbid, go down, if
you yeah, what you would think of would be trauma
for an air traffic controller. That the thinking wasn't that
the connectivity on their computers go down for less than
a minute. Now, again, you know, there was probably panic
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in those forty seven seconds. If they were we don't
know what the exact computers were, but if they were
their radar computers, if they were active for actual control
and they couldn't see where the planes were that that
that could be traumatic, but they are. The fair number
of them are claiming trauma apparently over this and saying
that that now they can't come back. And so it's
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created this I mean for the entire month from November
one through today. Yeah, and it says three hundred and
forty three thousand passengers have been impacted by this.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's been going on all month.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Can you see a day by the way, it just
occurred to me that the need to move physically move
ATC personnel from Newark to Philadelphia, that the ground control
people have to have eyes literally on the taxiways and
on the runways in order to maintain a safety. But
the air traffic control people got their eyes glued to screens,
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which you would think could be sent digitally to screens
anywhere in the world.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
I mean, that's essentially what's going on here. They're not
in Newark any longer. They're Philadelphia in LA. They're in
Palmdale and handling arrivals and departures into Lax. Again, not
right when you touch down and not on the ground
at LAX. They're in the tower. But when you're a
little bit higher, your pilots are talking to Palmdale, and yeah,
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you think of what Denverse Center is, and Denverse Center
is talking to much of the West or you know,
Albuquerque Center, So you're right. I mean there are dots
on a screen at that point. And that's why as
they have been desperate to hire air traffic controllers and
had these shortages, they're now targeting video game players that
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they can go to younger people who love to play
video games and say, hey, how would you like to
make one hundred and fifteen grand a year, come into
the academy. You can be an air traffic controller. Problem is,
is one hundred and fifteen grand enough to say you're
going to be working overnights and holidays and people's lives
are going to be in your hands. You make a
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mistake that the people could die that they haven't been.
They've been reaching numbers that they have really pushed to do,
but it is hard to get people to come in
for what air traffic controllers least starting what they get paid,
and convince them to do it. But they haven't really
been going after the video game crowd. Well that's whose
opportunity to say, come in and do it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Now, as you know, that's who's flying our drones, arry
drones and you know World War Two.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
John F. Kennedy famously was a p T boat captain.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
When they started the p T boat the patrol boat
a torpedo boat program. Uh, they looked for ivy leaguers
because they had yacht experience, and you know, these were
it was sort of like the first draft of Finding Gamers.
They look for people who were used to running powerboats
at a high speed and said, well, it's all those
rich kids who went to Harvard and Yale and Princeton.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
That makes sense. And in this case, you go, look,
you like sitting in front of a screen, you know,
moving dots around and trying to come up with strategy
of they're the ones to call up.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I could do it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I could definitely see in the not too distant future
where they let people work from home doing this.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I mean you could, you can.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
I mean that's a little scary, but you're right.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It is definitely When the cat walks across the computer
screen and all of a sudden, I.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Got where are you right now?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
You got a couple off behind them.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, well maybe I'll be on Amtrak that day. Alex,
have a great Thanksgiving. Thanks for being well. Us appreciated
as always. Thank Ze Thanksgiving, Okay, Alex Stone in the
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You're listening to Tim conwaytunire on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Next hour Zeppo. Oh yes, you're getting Zeppo. We we're
very excited to have Robert Bieder in studio. He's got
a brand new book out about the reluctant Marx brother
and we've actually got a proposal for a cure for
the four h five. So we've got all that coming
up in the next hour. But a driver of a
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Maserati was wielding and firing two handguns, was shot multiple
times by LAPD. Motorist was in a domestic violence He
was apparently a domestic violent suspect. Confrontation took place following
a police pursuit that ended near the four thousand block
of West Jefferson Boulevard and West Adams. A female delivery
driver and a bystander also injured during the incident. Video
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was captured by Kate TLA News helicopter. Gunman could be
seen exiting the white Maserati, walking towards officers and then
opening fire with two handguns. Gun battle ensued. The man
was a suspect in a domestic violence incident and assault
with a deadly weapon at Gaffting in nineteenth Street in
San Pedro at twelve fifteen, and the chase ended around
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one o'clock when the driver stopped in the parking lot
at the rear of an apartment building a West Adams.
So we'll get more details on that for you. Undoubtedly,
anytime you've got to shootout with a Maserati driver, that's
a very la story, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I like printed newspapers, and.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I know that that makes me a dinosaur, but I've
made my peace with being a dinosaur a long time.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I like the PLoP of the paper and the driveway.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I go out there and then I don't need to
check the weather because I've been outside in my pajamas
and if it's raining, I come back wet and I
know it's raining. But I get the paper out of
the driveway, and one of the papers I get is
your Los Angeles Daily News. You know, we have that
whole other papers, not just the Times. It's a daily News,
which has a much better sports section, I'd like to
point out. So I get the paper and I thumb
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through it every day, and every day I thumb past
the bridge column and I just thought I'd throw it at
to do people still play bridge? Four handed bridge? There's
a whole column. It's been a newspaper for one hundred years,
a bridge column. Somebody who analyzes bridge games. Now, by
the way, I've never played bridge in my life. I
don't understand it at all. I don't understand the language lingo.
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But it's very complicated apparently, and they have people who
write this is Bobby Wolf's the Aces on Bridge column,
and this is what it says. Cover up the east
west hands and decide how you would tackle the play
as south in four spades. After West leads the club king,
followed by the club ace, then the third club, which
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you rough are uff have no idea what that means.
But I kind of suspect that we're still running this
column just because we've always run this column. Are people
picking up the paper to read the bridge column and
still are there bridge clubs or people still Because in
the nineteen twenties people stopped everything. It was like pickleball
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with a deck of cards. Everybody was playing bridge. In
the nineteen twenties they were playing croquet. Also, all the
New York literati. They had croquet core setups on the
rooftops of buildings. They'd plant grass on the roof of
the buildings and they'd go play croquet the Algonquin roundtable people.
And if they weren't doing that, they were playing bridge.
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So newspapers started putting bridge columns. And I don't know anybody,
anybody in my entire life that has ever played bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I just don't know. But here it is.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
And you know, the pickleball of the nineteen twenties still
lives with us. All right, we got that, and we
also have this story is so peculiar. In Indonesia. If
you thought your school lunch was horrible, consider this. And
if you thought, by the way that oat milk made
no sense. We had the almond milk, we had milk milk,
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and then there's goat milk, and then there's oat milk,
and there's almond milk. There's all these milks. I don't
know what they're about. But in Indonesia they have fish milk.
Now they don't actually milk the fish. What they do
is it's called ponyfish. They have a lot of them,
but they don't have a lot of cows, so they
deep bone and ground grind up the pony fish into
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a fine, white, protein filled powder, and then they add
some water to it and they give it to the
kids as part of this school lunch in lieu of milk.
And I gotta say, peanut, butter and jelly with a
big glass of fish milk just doesn't seem like it's
gonna go down too smooth. They do mercifully add sugary flavor,
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either strawberry or chocolate, and of course the guy who
makes this stuff says, oh, it tastes just like normal milk.
It's amazing how the people who make this off non
reality crap substitute stuff always, oh no, it's just fed.
It tastes just like it tastes just like it. Yeah,
well that's because you've got a warehouse filled with it.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we got another hour coming up.
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And as all of us in southern California know, even
if you don't drive on it, you know that the
four to zero five is the world's largest parking lot
except for all the other parking lots we got like
the people who, for some reason, even though they drive
it every single stinking day. Don't remember that you have
to move to the right on the one on one
to not go on the one thirty four, or you
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have to move to the left from the one on
one to get on the one thirty four, creating a
perpetual traffic jam at that intersection of freeways. I don't
know why people can't get that through their heads, but
they never do. But the four oh five, there's a
couple of proposals on the table that could actually fix
the problem, the perpetual quagmire that is the supul of
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the pass, and we will discuss that in the next hour,
as well as have a conversation with with Richard Bater,
the author of Zeppa Robert Bater excuse me, Robert Bater.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
The book is called Zeppo the Reluctant Marx Brother.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah, he's the guy that stopped after like four movies
and there's a whole book about him, and it's totally fascinating.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I read it one day and I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:11):
Doug McIntyre in for Tim Conway Junior right here on
KFI AM six forty Live everywhere and on the iHeartRadio app.
Hope you're slugging through what passes for rain around these
here parts. Hitting out of town. Good luck getting there,
good luck getting back. And if you're in town, you
win the lottery, as far as I'm concerned. If you
don't have to travel Thanksgiving, you win, You win the
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big prize.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So we got tons of stuff to talk about. I
want to start with.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know, egg prices are up and people are crazed
about this. Now, this is a staple of people's diets
that I get, and egg prices according to the American
egg Board. And how do you get on the American
egg Board, I wonder, But if you're on the American
egg Board, you report to America that the average price
in the US for a dozen eggs is three dollars
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and thirty seven cents in October, which is not nearly
as high as it was in January when it was
for eighty two, but it's up sixty three percent from
October of twenty three, when an average for a price
for a dozen eggs was two dollars and seven cents.
Now that's that adds up. You're you know, you're running
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an omelet business. You're spending a lot of money. I
get it, but that's just one of a zillion things
that cost so much money now that people I don't
know how anybody's doing anything. I mentioned to John before
he split that I saw this piece in the in
the New York Times a couple days ago that the
average price for a hotel room in New York City
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in the month of September was four hundred and seventeen
dollars a night, four hundred and seventeen k.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And by the way, the.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You could you go out to Queens by LaGuardia Airport
for three hundred and fifty one dollars a night. I
got to tell you, I pray to God and I
don't have to go to an airport hotel at LaGuardia
for three hundred and fifty one dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Now, to bring this up, because.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It occurs to me that there's you know, traveling we
always see these Christmas movies. Y're all on the Hallmark
channel of some family that goes to New York and
have a magical experience in front of the Macy's window
and they see the light shows in the Santa clause
and it's all fantastic and big, gigantic Hollywood snowflakes come
down and it's this incredible experience. And as a kid,
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because I grew up there, we could go in, take
the Long Island Rairod, the Old Silver Snail in and
you can see the Christmas lights, go to the Christmas
Tree for next to nothing. But if you live out
here and you want that experience, you're hoping a plane,
and then you got to stay somewhere. And unless you're
going to stay in Pennsylvania and rent a car or
take Amtrak into the city, you're going to pay through
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the nose for a hotel room. And this is an
experience that is really pricing people. Forget about poor people
having this experience because frankly, it's always been difficult for
poor people to hop planes. And you just have these
fantastic adventures. You take the family to something. It's pricey,
but all kinds of things have been priced completely out
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of most middle class American families. Reality, look at the
price of a of a Laker game, and not just
not just know the NBA has an amazingly fluid price
structure for their tickets because Laker tickets not just in
Los Angeles, but every time they go on the road,
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because it's a huge brand. Now I'm sure the same
is true for the Celtics and some of the other
you know, the big name teams with big stars. The
aftermarket tickets send things into the thousands of dollars. And
for all of you millions of Dodger fans out there
who went through the exciting ride to the Playoffs, into
the World Series, into the Championship, you look at those
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World Series tickets, oh Man, college is cheaper. You'd actually
rather to send your kid to college than buy a
field level seat at Dodger Stadium during the World Series.
And all of these things were once part of growing
up that you could take your kid to see a
Broadway show if you lived in New York, you could
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introduce them to that experience for ten bucks on a matinee.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It wouldn't might have.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
The best seats, but they'd be in the building. And
they'd be sitting, you know, maybe a balcony above all
the HOYPOLOI But forget about it now. It's a couple
hundred bucks, and to take a family of four any
place is thousands of dollars. I had a gig where
I was going down a long beach and the guy
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was driving me down there. He told me that he
had picked up a family in Malibu, family of four,
and he drove them. This was in a town car
like some you know, car service, expensive car service.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They drove him. They he drove the.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Family down to Disneyland and waited for them to call.
He was on the clock the whole time, waited for
them to call when they were done, which was like
six hours later, and then driving back to Malibu. I mean,
on top of the Disneyland tickets thousands and thousands and
thousands of dollars. This is not a middle class experience.
And forget about people who are actually considered to be poor.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And yet and I hope I'm not one of those people.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It says, you know, back in my day, but it
seems to me that I remember somewhere at home, I
still have a ticket stub from opening day of nineteen
sixty nine at Shay Stadium. You know, I don't know
why it's still floating around in the drawer, but the
tickets were like five dollars. It was five dollars to
get into the ballpark. Now, they were terrible seats. It
was Shay Stadium, Old Chase Stadium by the airport, and
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you'd have to duck when the planes went over because
the wheels had practically, you know, part your hair. But
you were in the ballpark, and that was true at
de Chevez Ravine, that was a true. At Dodger Stadium,
you could sit in the bleachers. Maybe you dive sunstroke,
but you were in the ballpark and you're watching Major
League Baseball. There were four, five, six, seven dollars, and
you know, you could give your kids a couple of
hot dogs, and it was a it was something that a.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Family could do together.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Man, Now you got to you gotta save for that
experience and forget about those of you who had swifties
in the house, because what with a swifty You're you're laughing, Isabelle,
what with a what did you pay for your swift tickets?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Now, I personally am not a swiftie, but I have
a lot of friends who are swifties who saw her
in concert upwards of five times. And I don't know
how they did that, and they're all my age, So, well, were.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
They paying like twelve hundred dollars a ticket.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Around that range probably like around the seven hundred mark,
between seven hundred and twelve hundred.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Unbelievable and they went five times?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, Well, this was going on with Hamilton when Hamilton
became the thing and people were paying thousands of dollars
to get in to see the show. Uh and and again,
these experiences now have become elite experiences. It's not just
the the athletes have become We mentioned yesterday that they're
putting statues up to people. Now it's not enough to
have your number retired or to be in the Hall
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of Fame. Now you've got to have a statue. Well,
now we've amped up. It's like everything has been supersized.
Where it is these things that were once cultural touchstones
that people of families would have and they'd be shared
experiences have really become elite experiences. And part of it
is because the big money people, you know, all the
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floor level seats are gobbled up by corporations, and these
are places where you take clients.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It's been an extent.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It used to be, you know, you'd have a country
club and you'd take people out there and figure out
how to screw over the public on a golf course.
But now you can do it at a Laker game.
You can do it on a field level seat at
Dodger Stadium or wherever. Now, by the way, in defensive baseball,
baseball is still the cheapest of the major sports because
they got more seats to fill as all. Vince Scully
used to say, the most expensive seat to build in
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the stadium is the cheapest seat. It's the one way
up top the Eucher seats. You have to put a
crane and steel to get it up there. But people
don't want to pay a lot of money to sit
up there. But still, if you want to be part
of the action, you can. You can find a way
to get into a ballgame in the middle of the season.
But when the playoffs roll around, the World Series roll around,
that's not for you, that's not for me. It's really
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really pricey. And all of these big concerts, all of them.
Every time somebody's got one of these, you know, finale tours.
You know that man of the people, Bruce Springsteen, the
man with the acoustic guitar strap to his back, sings
about factories, never been in one. And by the way,
he admits that you know his shows again, two thousand
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dollars to see to go see Bruce. And you know,
I don't know where the next generation of concert goers
are going, but well you said it, I guess the
swifties are still getting in there right somehow. All Right,
ladies and gentlemen, We've got tons of stuff to talk
about today, including as we come up on National Gluttony Day,
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which is Thursday. And I'm not bringing up any of
this stuff to make anybody feel bad about. If you
want two slices of punkin pie, knock yourself out, what
do I care?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Right, But here's the thing that's kind of odd.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Twenty five percent of Americans say that they still have
the weight that they gained from last Thanksgiving going into
this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Three quarters of us are now officially overweight.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Alex Stone is going to join us talking about the
air traffic controllers shortage, and anybody want to play bridge
this weekend. We'll talk about all that and more.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Doug Mcente inf Tim Conway Junior and we're here till
seven o'clock this evening. It'll be back tomorrow as well,
so hopefully you'll hang with us. Alex Stone coming up.
If you hadn't out of town. There's one city in
particular if you fly to you may be in trouble
because of air traffic control issues. We'll discuss that with
mister Stoney just a bit. So I want to talk
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about how fat we've gotten. But I first have to
acknowledge that I tried to go to McDonald's earlier today,
and now it gets more embarrassing because I did use
the phrase tried to go to McDonald's. And you would
think that as an American of my age, going to
McDonald's would be pretty easy. I've been doing it for
over fifty years. Well guess what happened. I go to
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McDonald's and I don't know how to work the kiosk.
You know, they got these touch pad things, and they
got a big sign that says start your order on
the at the Kiosk. So I'm pushing buttons, and I
got to be honest with you. I'm not allowed to
push any of the buttons here. It's in my contract
at KFI because they know if I start pushing buttons,
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we'll be off the air. There'll be nothing but the
sound of silence. So I'm trying to order a quarter
pounder with cheese, which is what I get, and a
bottle of milk. I can't figure out how to do it,
and I have to admit now because they got a
help button. You got to push the help button, which
is like the help button they have at those self
checkout counters at Ralph's, which is the light of shame
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when that thing.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Goes off, because you've you've screwed up.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You don't know how to you know, you don't know
how to get your malamars into your self checkout bag.
So I gotta now. I just start yelling at the guy.
I just lost it. I start yelling at the guy
who's working behind the counter.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I don't know how to order McDonald's. All of a sudden,
I don't know how to order McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So I leave that place and I stop at three
more places, hoping to grab something so I don't have
to buy a sandwich out of that wheel of death
in the breakroom. And I failed at all three places.
I parked the car ran in. All the lights are
on a little paper sign in the window due to
unforeseen circumstances where unable to open today. Well, don't light
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up the whole store then all right, it looks from
the street before I park anyway. So food, we're food people,
and we're coming up on the biggest food day of
the year, which is Thanksgiving, and people pack it all.
Why because there's all kinds of great stuff and you
kind of have permission to really pack it in. And
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we like it. It's part of what makes life enjoyable.
The problem is what we don't like is all of
the parties that follow it. And the next thing, you know,
by the time you get to New Year's Eve, you
got to join a gym. And this new survey says
that one in four Americans still carry the excess ten
pounds that they gained last Thanksgiving heading into this one. Well,
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you can't obviously keep averaging that or else every ten
Thanksgivings you're one hundred pounds eavery year, or maybe you can,
because this new study says that three quarters of adults
are overweight or obese, and it's a huge spike since
nineteen ninety. In nineteen ninety, it was bad enough half
of us were obese or overweight. And again, this is
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all used in the BMI index, that body mass index,
which even the proponents of it acknowledge it's not a
perfect metric, but you have to have It's like the SATs.
You have to have some kind of standard base of
measurement otherwise you're just guessing. You know what, you know
what I use. I just use my pants size. That's
my BMI index. I just say, gee, I used to
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fit in these and now I don't. And I know
it's not because they shrunk. So anyway, since nineteen nineteen ninety,
half of Americans were overweight or obese, and now it's
three quarters and a huge spike in younger people. Who
I mean, none of this is news to you, right,
You've heard this a thousand times. But why are we
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doing this? Why has it? It can't all be because
of the Internet. It can't all be because people are
you know, online all day long instead of you know,
if they want to, it just can't be that. And
here's where Robert F. Kennedy Junior may actually be able
to provide a genuine public service, because he's got, in
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my opinion, he's got some nutty things like taking floorite
out of the drinking when he's got some crazy things.
Forget about the vaxes and all that, however you feel
about that. But he has for years talked about how
the American the commercial corporate food processing industry has gotten
people addicted to food that packs on the pounds. And
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if he uses the bully pulpit to really I mean,
I don't know if he has to use regulations. But
we did that with smoking, and there's far fewer smokers
in America today than then once, where we did it
through a whole variety of things, besides pricing people out
of cigarettes and making it really inconvenient to smoke by
cordoning them off into little, tiny, stigmatized smoking sections, but
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also people started to get the message by the millions,
and there's far fewer people smoking today than there were
fifty years ago. But there's far more fat people and
obese people, morbidly obese people than there were fifty years ago.
You see those pictures, these wide shots on beaches in
the nineteen seventies, and you rarely spot an overweight person,
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and now it's hard to spot the thin people. So
we've done things, and we've done things to ourselves or
things have been done to us through the commercialization of
factory foods and ultra process foods.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And Robert F.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Kennedy Junior and I got to give him props on
this if he does it in a common sense way,
if he uses the bully pulpit that President Trump is
going to give him from that cabinet post to really
raise the conversation on this, because it's something we got
to start to take seriously, because there's real life consequences,
you know, as a national security issue. You know, the
Army is having a terrible time finding people who can
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fit in fighter planes and inside a submarine. I mean,
it's a real challenge for the military. We've all seen
stripes with John Candy doing basic training. Well, guess what,
we got a whole army full of John Candies.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Now you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And now let me remind you if you're going to
do a little Black Black Friday shopping. I have my
book up there on Amazon dot com and find bookstores
everywhere called Frank's Shadow, and I would greatly appreciate you
giving it a little read or sending it to somebody
in your life who does read.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now, if you're heading out.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Of town for Thanksgiving or any time over the weekend.
My wife is actually flying to Newark on Friday. What
a lucky girl she is. And not only is she
lucky to be flying to Newark on any occasion, but
particularly this weekend because the air traffic controllers in Newark
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are feeling triggered. Let's talk about it with ABC News
correspondent Alex Though And Alex, how are you?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Hey, Doug, I'm going to buy your book right now,
only sixteen bucks.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Let's do look at that.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's a bar and mister Bezos will personally deliver it
to you out.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It'll be here on Friday if I order it right now.
So why not?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Why not? So?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah, the issue with Newark and good luck to your
wife on this one. Yeah, that is a big United hub.
That is United has made Newark their New York hub.
They don't fly to JFK any longer. They do limited
flying to LaGuardia, but they really focus in on Newark,
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and a few weeks ago to reduce the workload of
New York area or traffic controllers, they have been so
overworked in the New York area with so many planes
in the sky that they moved what's called the traycon
but the arrivals and departures at higher altitudes the controllers
for Newark to Philadelphia. So the controllers have not been
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thrilled about this that they have had to commute down
to Philadelphia about a two hour drive, or they've had
to move or decide that they're they're not going to
do it any longer, and whatever that if they choose
that they're going to commute or whatever. But then a
few weeks ago, so that first of all, they have
not been thrilled, they've not been happy. They've made that known.
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But then their computers inside the ATC Center in Philadelphia
went down a couple of weeks ago for forty seven seconds,
and the controllers are claiming they were traumatized by that,
and they are activating part of their contract that if
they claim they've had a traumatic experience, they can be
off work for a while until they see a doctor
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and they are cleared to go back. Now seems like
sort of a round of a sick out because they
were angry about the move. Maybe some of them were
really traumatized by the computer outage. That would be scary
being that you have lives in your hands. But they
are claiming trauma from the computer outage, and what that
means is every day the FAA has had to significantly
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slow down traffic into Newark because they don't have enough
controllers who can work because they're all out on trauma.
And the head of the FAA saying this is going
to go on for a while, telling us we will.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Use traffic flow management initiatives to deal with any staffing
shortages on that particular day in this airspace, and we
expect to have some of those shortages.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
They think they're gonna have more of them. They're still
working to staff up air traffic control, the staffing in
Philadelphia itself. They've got folks in the pipeline, but it
takes can take four years to fully hire and train
an air traffic controller, to go from hiring them through
their academy. They have an academy. They think of a
police academy, but their traffic controller academy. But for the
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time being, they've had to move the Philadelphia controllers down
to Newark to or from Newark to Philadelphia to handle
that airspace. United told us a little while ago that
they're looking at about twenty eight thousand customers every day
in the month of November who have been on canceled flights,
delayed flights, impacted flights of some kind because of this
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control issue, and they're saying, FAA, get it together, that
you said this was going to fix it by moving
them to Philadelphia, and it's made it worse. So they're
really feeling the impact of it. But if you can
fly through a different United hub, go to Chicago, go
to Denver if you need to. If you're going to
New York, try to go onto LaGuardia or into JFK.
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But the issue right now is really Newerk focused.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Right talking with Alex Stone, ABC News, Alex, the fascinating
thing is that the air Traffic Controller contract has this
provision for trauma that if an employee feels of an
ATC controller feels that they've been traumatized on the job,
that they're not allowed to go back to work until
they see a doctor. And obviously you don't want a
(20:44):
bunch of disturbed people controlling the air grid. But what
kind of definition. It seems like it's a pretty fuzzy
definition that if you got reassigned to Philadelphia and that
creates trauma, or the computers went down for forty seven
seconds and that means you can't work. Now we've got
a real loosey goosey definition of trauma. I'm sure there's
(21:05):
a lot of people listening to us right now saying
they' it'll work at my place for ten minutes and
see what trauma is like?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yeah. Well, and I think that the reason behind it
would have been that if you had a close call,
if you had a plane, god forbid, go down, if
you yeah, what you would think of would be trauma
for an air traffic controller. That the thinking wasn't that
the connectivity on their computers go down for less than
a minute. Now, again, you know, there was probably panic
(21:32):
in those forty seven seconds. If they were we don't
know what the exact computers were, but if they were
their radar computers, if they were active for actual control
and they couldn't see where the planes were that that
that could be traumatic, but they are. The fair number
of them are claiming trauma apparently over this and saying
that that now they can't come back. And so it's
(21:55):
created this I mean for the entire month from November
one through today. Yeah, and it says three hundred and
forty three thousand passengers have been impacted by this.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's been going on all month.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Can you see a day by the way, it just
occurred to me that the need to move physically move
ATC personnel from Newark to Philadelphia, that the ground control
people have to have eyes literally on the taxiways and
on the runways in order to maintain a safety. But
the air traffic control people got their eyes glued to screens,
(22:29):
which you would think could be sent digitally to screens
anywhere in the world.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
I mean, that's essentially what's going on here. They're not
in Newark any longer. They're Philadelphia in LA. They're in
Palmdale and handling arrivals and departures into Lax. Again, not
right when you touch down and not on the ground
at LAX. They're in the tower. But when you're a
little bit higher, your pilots are talking to Palmdale, and yeah,
(22:56):
you think of what Denverse Center is, and Denverse Center
is talking to much of the West or you know,
Albuquerque Center, So you're right. I mean there are dots
on a screen at that point. And that's why as
they have been desperate to hire air traffic controllers and
had these shortages, they're now targeting video game players that
(23:16):
they can go to younger people who love to play
video games and say, hey, how would you like to
make one hundred and fifteen grand a year, come into
the academy. You can be an air traffic controller. Problem is,
is one hundred and fifteen grand enough to say you're
going to be working overnights and holidays and people's lives
are going to be in your hands. You make a
(23:37):
mistake that the people could die that they haven't been.
They've been reaching numbers that they have really pushed to do,
but it is hard to get people to come in
for what air traffic controllers least starting what they get paid,
and convince them to do it. But they haven't really
been going after the video game crowd. Well that's whose
opportunity to say, come in and do it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Now, as you know, that's who's flying our drones, arry
drones and you know World War Two.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
John F. Kennedy famously was a p T boat captain.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
When they started the p T boat the patrol boat
a torpedo boat program. Uh, they looked for ivy leaguers
because they had yacht experience, and you know, these were
it was sort of like the first draft of Finding Gamers.
They look for people who were used to running powerboats
at a high speed and said, well, it's all those
rich kids who went to Harvard and Yale and Princeton.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
That makes sense. And in this case, you go, look,
you like sitting in front of a screen, you know,
moving dots around and trying to come up with strategy
of they're the ones to call up.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I could do it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I could definitely see in the not too distant future
where they let people work from home doing this.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I mean you could, you can.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
I mean that's a little scary, but you're right.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It is definitely When the cat walks across the computer
screen and all of a sudden, I.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Got where are you right now?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
You got a couple off behind them.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, well maybe I'll be on Amtrak that day. Alex,
have a great Thanksgiving. Thanks for being well. Us appreciated
as always. Thank Ze Thanksgiving, Okay, Alex Stone in the
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Speaker 3 (26:12):
Next hour Zeppo. Oh yes, you're getting Zeppo. We we're
very excited to have Robert Bieder in studio. He's got
a brand new book out about the reluctant Marx brother
and we've actually got a proposal for a cure for
the four h five. So we've got all that coming
up in the next hour. But a driver of a
(26:33):
Maserati was wielding and firing two handguns, was shot multiple
times by LAPD. Motorist was in a domestic violence He
was apparently a domestic violent suspect. Confrontation took place following
a police pursuit that ended near the four thousand block
of West Jefferson Boulevard and West Adams. A female delivery
driver and a bystander also injured during the incident. Video
(26:54):
was captured by Kate TLA News helicopter. Gunman could be
seen exiting the white Maserati, walking towards officers and then
opening fire with two handguns. Gun battle ensued. The man
was a suspect in a domestic violence incident and assault
with a deadly weapon at Gaffting in nineteenth Street in
San Pedro at twelve fifteen, and the chase ended around
(27:14):
one o'clock when the driver stopped in the parking lot
at the rear of an apartment building a West Adams.
So we'll get more details on that for you. Undoubtedly,
anytime you've got to shootout with a Maserati driver, that's
a very la story, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I like printed newspapers, and.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I know that that makes me a dinosaur, but I've
made my peace with being a dinosaur a long time.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I like the PLoP of the paper and the driveway.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I go out there and then I don't need to
check the weather because I've been outside in my pajamas
and if it's raining, I come back wet and I
know it's raining. But I get the paper out of
the driveway, and one of the papers I get is
your Los Angeles Daily News. You know, we have that
whole other papers, not just the Times. It's a daily News,
which has a much better sports section, I'd like to
point out. So I get the paper and I thumb
(28:02):
through it every day, and every day I thumb past
the bridge column and I just thought I'd throw it at
to do people still play bridge? Four handed bridge? There's
a whole column. It's been a newspaper for one hundred years,
a bridge column. Somebody who analyzes bridge games. Now, by
the way, I've never played bridge in my life. I
don't understand it at all. I don't understand the language lingo.
(28:26):
But it's very complicated apparently, and they have people who
write this is Bobby Wolf's the Aces on Bridge column,
and this is what it says. Cover up the east
west hands and decide how you would tackle the play
as south in four spades. After West leads the club king,
followed by the club ace, then the third club, which
(28:47):
you rough are uff have no idea what that means.
But I kind of suspect that we're still running this
column just because we've always run this column. Are people
picking up the paper to read the bridge column and
still are there bridge clubs or people still Because in
the nineteen twenties people stopped everything. It was like pickleball
(29:09):
with a deck of cards. Everybody was playing bridge. In
the nineteen twenties they were playing croquet. Also, all the
New York literati. They had croquet core setups on the
rooftops of buildings. They'd plant grass on the roof of
the buildings and they'd go play croquet the Algonquin roundtable people.
And if they weren't doing that, they were playing bridge.
(29:31):
So newspapers started putting bridge columns. And I don't know anybody,
anybody in my entire life that has ever played bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I just don't know. But here it is.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
And you know, the pickleball of the nineteen twenties still
lives with us. All right, we got that, and we
also have this story is so peculiar. In Indonesia. If
you thought your school lunch was horrible, consider this. And
if you thought, by the way that oat milk made
no sense. We had the almond milk, we had milk milk,
(30:02):
and then there's goat milk, and then there's oat milk,
and there's almond milk. There's all these milks. I don't
know what they're about. But in Indonesia they have fish milk.
Now they don't actually milk the fish. What they do
is it's called ponyfish. They have a lot of them,
but they don't have a lot of cows, so they
deep bone and ground grind up the pony fish into
(30:25):
a fine, white, protein filled powder, and then they add
some water to it and they give it to the
kids as part of this school lunch in lieu of milk.
And I gotta say, peanut, butter and jelly with a
big glass of fish milk just doesn't seem like it's
gonna go down too smooth. They do mercifully add sugary flavor,
(30:47):
either strawberry or chocolate, and of course the guy who
makes this stuff says, oh, it tastes just like normal milk.
It's amazing how the people who make this off non
reality crap substitute stuff always, oh no, it's just fed.
It tastes just like it tastes just like it. Yeah,
well that's because you've got a warehouse filled with it.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we got another hour coming up.
(31:11):
And as all of us in southern California know, even
if you don't drive on it, you know that the
four to zero five is the world's largest parking lot
except for all the other parking lots we got like
the people who, for some reason, even though they drive
it every single stinking day. Don't remember that you have
to move to the right on the one on one
to not go on the one thirty four, or you
(31:32):
have to move to the left from the one on
one to get on the one thirty four, creating a
perpetual traffic jam at that intersection of freeways. I don't
know why people can't get that through their heads, but
they never do. But the four oh five, there's a
couple of proposals on the table that could actually fix
the problem, the perpetual quagmire that is the supul of
(31:56):
the pass, and we will discuss that in the next hour,
as well as have a conversation with with Richard Bater,
the author of Zeppa Robert Bater excuse me, Robert Bater.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
The book is called Zeppo the Reluctant Marx Brother.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah, he's the guy that stopped after like four movies
and there's a whole book about him, and it's totally fascinating.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I read it one day and I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
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