December 4, 2024 • 34 mins
Holiday $pending is UP / Retailer Return policies / Last year $730 billion dollars in returns // Tim is Mr. Costco has some concerns // Tim on Fox 11 with Elex & Marla // Latest on United Healthcare CEO shot
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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 app. The buying
season is here, The Christmas season is upon us. People
are going to buy a lot of gifts. Ten billion
dollars spent on Black Friday, fifteen percent increase in online shopping.
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That's huge, That's absolutely huge. And it continues a lot
of people putting a lot of stuff on credit cards
at thirty percent, and some people still paying off last
year's credit cards and buying stuff this year. So I
don't know how that ends, but probably not good. But
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the return, the day of the return. Remember we used
to buy things and return them, you know, before it
got very easy. Before Amazon made it very easy for
everybody else When you return something, it was always hit
miss whether they're going to take it back, and you
always felt uncomfortable returning it. And now it's the easiest
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thing in the world. Nobody asked any questions. They sometimes
they open it up and take a look inside the box.
Mostly they don't. They take it back. They give your
money back, and that's all. All of it can be
traced back to Amazon. Amazon made it easy to take
things back and if that's the only positive that ever
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comes out of it, God bless Amazon. Now you can
return anything almost anywhere, and it's simple. You have the
receipt or you don't. A lot of times you go
to Walmart or Target, you know, Low's or Home Depot
and you don't have the receipt. As long as you
have the credit card that you paid for that product,
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then that's your receipt and you can return it. But
they're very lenient. You can return plants. I don't like
to do this, I've never done it, but if you
buy flowers or trees, shrubbery from Home Deep or Lows,
I think you get a year and if that plant
dies within a year, I believe you can return it.
And I've seen some people return plants, and there's always
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kind of a a.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yuck factor to that.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
They're usually dried up and dead and they weren't cared
for and that's why they died. And then you're taking
back to Home Deep or Lows because you can, but
you killed that plant. But let's find out the retailers
retail returns. But the new reality new reality when it
comes to returning stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
If your record breaking holiday shopping season comes the season
of making returns.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
My biggest issue with the Ritz yet is their darn
return policy and the new reality that this year it
may cost you.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Amazon e return policy is banana.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You might get charged a restocking fee, you might get
a partial refund, or you might get zero refund and
estimated forty percent of retailers now charge return shipping fees
ranging from five to ten dollars per shipment from brands
like Zara, h and m Abercrombie and Fitch, J Crew, Macy's,
and Sacks Fifth Avenue. Amazon charges a one dollar shipping
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fee if you return at a UPS store when options
like Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh or Coals are closer to
your delivery address.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Retailers are charging more return fees because it's very expensive
for retailers not only to send the product to customers,
but also pay the fees when it comes to returning
that product.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The fees are part of a broader crackdown from retailers
who can spend an average of thirty dollars to process
a single returned item.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
That's way too much, the National Retail Federation telling us
with more than seven hundred and forty three billion dollars
in merchandise returned in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Wait, how much?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
With more than seven hundred and forty three billion dollars
in merchandise returned in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How about that? What a country you're living?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Where we we we we returned seven hundred and thirty
billion dollars for the crab.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Merchants and brands are prioritizing efforts to minimize losses from returns,
particularly those that are fraudulent. Okay, So the simple way
to avoid these fees is to do your return in
the store. Also, of course, critical to read the return
window policy. For some brands, you're only going to have
fourteen days, or you'll just get a store credit, not
a full refund.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh that's fine. I think everybody's fine with the store.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Credit and check when the clock starts ticking. So, for example,
at Zara, you have thirty days from the shipment date,
not the day that the package actually arrives at your house.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, okay, I will tell you this though.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
If you're a big fan, like my wife loves the
hobby Lobby, She's always at Hobby Lobby. Right, it's a
store filled with crafts a lot of seasonal stuff. But
here's a little something you may not have known about
hobby lobby that when people buy Christmas decorations, lights, or
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and you know statues, those little you know houses in
the communities you build with little.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Tiny homes, you light them up, they look great.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That eighty five percent of what's purchased to decorate your
home for the holidays goes back after Christmas. So people
buy stuff from a hobby lobby, they decorate their home,
looks beautiful. Everyone comes by, Oh, you must have some money.
It looks so great, what a great decoration, what a
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great year. And then after Christmas, it all goes back,
all goes back.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
To hobby lobby. So people are lying to you.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They're fooling you into thinking they've got some money, they
bought great holiday gifts, they decorated the house so nicely.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It all goes back.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And it's got to be frustrating for the people who
work at hobby lobby because they know it's going to
happen every single year. They know that eighty five percent
of that stuff is coming back to the store.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
They take off the week after Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah that's right, and it all comes back, it all
goes back up on the shelves, or you know, gets
thrown away or gets put into storage for next year.
And then the same dance happens again next year. People
buy it, they decorate their homes, they undecorate their homes,
and they bring it back and and it goes.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
On every year.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So hobby lobby either has to change their return policy
and say, you know, if you buy Christmas decorations for
your home, that's a wrap, so to speak, and that's yours,
or they're gonna lose a.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Lot of money.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And I don't know how hobby lobby does it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's got to be tremendous volume.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And because everything comes back, you can buy Halloween decorations
for your home, and then once Halloween comes and goes,
all that stuff goes back to the store. But I
guess there are a lot of stores like that.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But the the year of the the Arab and the
day of the return, having shame attached to it is gone,
is gone. I used to always be ashamed of returning things,
like I bought it. I should be like a man
and keep it and not return it. And I don't
I usually don't buy. I usually don't return any food item.
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If I buy something and it and it's stale or
bad or turned on me, I just throw it away.
I don't return it unless it's over fifteen dollars. That's
where my factual number. That's my number.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
I expect that.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, if I buy steak or something and it's twenty
bucks and I get it home and I can smell
that it's turned, I take it back.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Or bring it here.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Belly always accuses me of something, And why is that?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It might be something to it?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You always accuse me to bring two types of items
to the store to the workplace. One of them is
stuff that I bought at Costco that my wife and
I no longer like, yeah, you took a bite, and
it's like like we bought, you know, sixty granola bars.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We tried and we didn't like them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Start bring them in here and you guys eat them
like an animal. So that's one thing. And the other
one is anything that's expired in the house comes into
the office.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
You go through your cupboards and all the expiration dates
and you're like, take that to the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Station, but you guys enjoy it. They do eat it.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
They do it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't because if you didn't like it, I probably don't.
It's probably crap. So I don't even bother.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
And then I see the people eating it, I'm like,
they just don't don't.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Right, that's great? You know what? What bothers me? And
I've not been able to.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Tell anybody because I don't know who to tell and
I don't feel like it's my position to tell. But
there's something that they do at Costco that I see
every time I go there. I think it's dangerous and
I think it can kill people. And I don't tell anybody,
and I should if.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
You think it could kill someone.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's why I can't speak up. All right, I'll tell
you what it is when we come back.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's something that they do at the Costco in Burbank
that irritates the hell out of me, and I think
it can cost people at least a night in the
hospital or two, or potentially worse.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We'll go back up and tell you what that is.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Let me preface this with I am probably on this
show the biggest Costco fam by far. Nobody comes close. Crozier,
don't even look at me by a unit close. I
go there all the time. I go twice a week.
Sometimes I go just to get the ice cream. Sometimes
I go just to look around see what the new
products are. Is it like walking distance for you?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
About a mile?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Maybe a mile and a half, all right? And I
love it. I love everything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I feel like I'm somebody special going in because I
have a membership card.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
It's like a you mean like everybody else?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What it's you mean other people?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Well, there are different levels of membership, So what.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Do you have?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
What do we have?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Was that Jennifer shoes popped in?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yeah, the business one or whatever, the one where you
get some you spend it up and you get money
back at the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh that's you know what that executive? Oh oh the
black card. Yes, you guess what, buddy, Now I'm in.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Are you getting? You getting your your money back at
the end of like every year?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But you know what sucks is that always comes on
the day you got to pay for your new membership.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yes, it always comes to the day you're gonna pay.
But you can't use it for that, can you?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
In fact?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I think you can only use it at it's a
credit essentially for Costco.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Oh I see, okay, right, yeah, but but I like
getting that check.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Oh yeah, it is nice.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, it really is cool. I mean, I know it
paid for it, but I like getting it. But I'm
a big it pays for itself. How ill far are
you from your nearest Costco?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Two miles? Three miles?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Oh you're in yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Oh yeah, I was gonna ask you, because you know,
you go two or three times a week easily. The
thing that keeps us from going probably more one money
to the crowds. You got to figure out what time's
the best time, like right as soon as they open
or later on when it's emptied out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And it just but you know what, I don't even
I don't even hate the crowds. I like having a
lot of people, a lot of commotion in there. But
I will say that a lot of people don't understand
that when you go into Costco, there's an unwritten rule
that there's a loop. You know, you go back towards
the meat, then you turn left, you come back towards
the register, and some people are still swimming against the stream,
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you know, they're coming towards you, and you're like, no, no, no, no, sweetheart,
you got to turn that cart around, or you got
to dive through clothes to get to the other side.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Once at a blue moon, just because I like to
change it up a little bit, and I feel like
sometimes if I'm coming from the other direction, I might
see something I hadn't seen before.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay, I get that.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Wise, I'm like you, man, I go to the less,
we get in and circle loop around.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
But you know how when when you're driving around and
you see Triple A and they're doing their drivers training
and they always say driver training on board, there should
be a new Costco customer sticker that you have to
wear when you're walking around.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
They should make them have the carts that have pulled
the light on the top. That's right, yeah, the flag.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But I see.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I go there mostly for my frozen foods. I love
frozen food that seems to be really freshlymberg like pre
made hamburgers that just everything was a fantastic uncrust, the
bulls a goos. I get the croissants, the mixed vegetables.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Do you get the croissants that are that are that
haven't even been cooked yet.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Uh yes, yeah, I get everything. The unbaked ones come back.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I love aggos, the tater tots, I get the
Tyson Chicken, the Jumbo corn dogs, I get everything. The
chicken patties, the dinosaur chicken patties, the dinosaurs, I don't care, man,
they're cheap.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I enjoy those.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
You know what I got that they do annually. It's
probably not there now because it's after Thanksgivings. That giant
tub of a gyp Yeah thing, we got that and
use it on Thanksgiving? Man, you dip that everything. Yeah,
that's awesome. Plus I like the Marie Calendars chicken pot pies.
You have to buy eighteen of them, but I enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Okay, So here's the problem. And again I'm prefacing this
with I'm the biggest Costco fan in the world. But
I see a problem at Costco, and I see it
every time I go, every single time I go, whether
it's one in Burbank, whether it's the one in Valencia
where it is I see. I go down to the
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frozen fish aisle where there's you know, the Atlantic salmon,
the shrimps, I you know, the the what it is
that tempora shrimp, and then you've got the Alaskan salmon. Yes,
all kinds of you know, Mahi mahi, all that, all
that stuff. I every single time I go, I see
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pallets of the fish in the aisle of the refrigerators
and the freezers sitting out in the middle, and I
and I always pick it up, and I always like
feel it. It's sort of still frozen. But I don't
know if it's gonna be unfrozen. And I don't know
if you can unfreeze shrimp and then freeze it again.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I don't know what the rule is.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
But I see frozen fish in the middle of the
aisle every time I go, and it flips me out.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
You don't really eat fish too much anyways, No, But
that's why I have a bias against it. For me,
you're looking for a reason not to like the fish.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I am.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I am exactly. I'm actually looking for a reason to
buy it. And that's not the reason they keep taking
it away. But I but have frozen food. I don't
know if it can unfreeze or thaw. I guess tim that's.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
The term, right. Generally, not the best thing for food
that's been frozen to tow and then refreeze.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, is that that's the general rule. Yeah, it's why
do you think there's an issue?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I don't necessarily think that there's an issue with like
contaminants or anything like that, but it's just the quality. Yeah,
it's more the quality of it than anything. And also
I think that costco. I don't know how often the
guys in your costco or run around moving stuff around,
but it's pretty constant, mind, so I just assume that
they're getting to it pretty quick. I you say it's
kind of unfrozen a little bit when you touch it,
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or no, you know it's still frozen. Okay, it's still frozen.
But I have flipped me out.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But you know, I'll drive to Valencia to go to
a different costco just to see what the new products are,
the different product.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Yes, absolutely, we'll go to the one at San Dimez.
We'll go yeah, further back that way, we'll go to
the one like what you talk about at at near Irwindale.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Like yeah, exactly five to two ten. Yeah, that one's
good trigger to get to you because you gotta get
off the freeway, but a mile before that or mile
after to get to it or else. There's train tracks everywhere.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
You'll box you in past the exit and then see
the Costco.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Right, yeah, you got to pass the Costco then get off,
then come back to it, or else you get locked
off by all these train tracks around there. But I
I love Costco and I think, and I think, I
do feel special that I'm a member. Even though I
pay for the membership, they've allowed me to become a member.
I don't remember any initiations. I don't remember any of
you remember any of that stuff. Oh, here's another question
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I have for you. And I see this at Costco
all the time. One of the gift ideas is to
give somebody a membership to Costco.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Right, here's the question. Is that in perpetuity? Is that forever?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Because that just an annual?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Okay, so, so the next year is on you, right,
it's a it's a So you buy a guy a
car and then I don't, I don't know, you make it,
you make a car payment, and then the next to
fifty year on you.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I don't know, I don't know, your car tisted out
and you buy me a car Christmas and sharing.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But I think if you buy somebody membership, then I
think the next year is on them.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
On on the person who received it. Yes place, Oh yeah,
who's gonna go. I'm gonna pay for this this year,
and I'm gonna do it again.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Maybe if you love the person, you buy it for
them every year. If it's a child, or if it's
a family member, husband or wife.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, only I mean if you love us. I mean yeah, right,
what do you what? Bellio? You don't even go to
Costco And even talking.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
About I couldn't find it.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Because it closed closed seven years ago. You can't find it.
You can't find anywhere. You can't find a Costco anywhere.
They're just not enough. There's none of an Orange County.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I couldn't find one. They haven't Orange. They should, No
wonder what Orange County.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
No wonder why there's so many rotisserie chickens.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I will say Costco on two levels is very smart.
If they end up buying selling strawberries, that'll uh, you know,
make your insides want to be on your outside. Then
they'll call you because they have everybody who bought those
area and they'll either text you or call you or
email you and say hey, if you're on the can
it's because of us.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, the first time you get one of those notifications,
everybody's going to be going, hang on. I didn't. I
completely didn't realize that they track every single thing.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I bought everything, everything. So that's something cool that Costco does.
Another cool thing they do is they keep track of
every single zip code that comes into their store. And
if they find enough zip codes from enough load from
one location.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Oh people who's home address or whatever?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, no, no, no, from from a from a certain city.
Like let's say there's a lot of people going to
the Burbank Costco that are from h Let's say, uh,
I'm not Upland let's say North Van Eyes or you know,
Shadow Hills or whatever, one of those you know, a
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town fifteen miles from there. If they see enough people
wanted to go to Costco from that town, they'll open
a Costco there. They'll they'll that's that's how they open
costcos where they know enough people from that zip code
like their products, and then they'll open one in their neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
So like our because I mean I guess it, yeah,
I guess it uses the members like address, Yeah, like
we have determined you know where they're coming from.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Yeah, it's not like their home Costco where they normally
go to it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Right And as soon as they they determine there's enough
profit in opening up a new location in a city,
they'll open it where a lot of people are driving
from that city to a to a nearby Costco. So
they got it going on Costco. I just wished and
pray that people would get with the program that there's
an unwritten circle, unwritten rule, and you've got to follow
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the crew. You go in, you go back, you go left,
and you come forward. You don't swim against the stream
in Costco.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
You know, those are the same people in the fast
lane going slow.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
That's right, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
A Hey, it was nice Bellio set this up with
Alex Michaelson to put us on Fox News last night.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
At Ellie, that was cool. On how you pulled that off?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Elex offered, oh that's how I pulled that off? Good nothing,
I returned to text message, Okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
They are so.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Supportive of KFI and Katerina's Club, so big thank you
to Fox eleven and Elex and Marla and Sam Dubin
the cameraman.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, Sam was great. He say listens KFI all the time. Yeah,
he's a great guy. And he stayed and he had dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
If you missed it, here's a little bit of it
last night where I was on Fox eleven News.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
Well, KFI Pastathon has been going on since five this
morning in the station's yearly charity fundraiser.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
Tim Conway Junior is with us live. We're right in
the middle of his show. He's my friend. We all
love him.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Wow, how about that?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
We all love him?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, we all love him. Okay, that's enough.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
We all love him.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Stephush, we all love him.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Dab we all love him. We all love him. Tim
Conway Junior, ding dong with.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You, dig dog ding dong with you.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You're a very sweet man. Thank you for having us on.
You know this is I'm disguised as a charity event,
but it's actually a Hunter Biden pardon party.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
It's a true story.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I don't know what they're laughing about.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Laugh at me.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Place in Orange County that's celebrating it, So come on down.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, so what is Pastathon? That's when I was.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Going to say, I have no idea back to you
Posthon is Bruno's charity here at the White House in Anaheim,
eight eight to seven South Ani'm Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Wow, it sounds like this guy knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
And they raise money every single year, well over a
million dollars this year, and he feeds twenty five thousand
kids it's every week.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Wow. Where'd he get a lot of food?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Who otherwise would be going out without a meal. He's
been doing this as our fourteenth annual Postanthon And you
can go to postanthon dot com or to Smart and
Final or Wendy's and donate, but really appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
I love that. By the way, coincidentally is at the
White House Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
So I was listening earlier.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, all right, big fan, big fan, big fan.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
So I was listening earlier on my way in, and
I think I heard that already a couple hours ago.
You would raise more than six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's right, that's right, you heard correct. What are we
at now? That's exactly right?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, we are at six hundred and ninety one thousand
dollars and with again with smartan Final and Wendy's when
that money comes in will be well over a million dollars.
And this Bruno feeding twenty five thousand kids. He's he's
fed well over two million kids over the last fourteen years.
And this guy never quits. I think I got that wrong.
(22:59):
I think it it's ten million. I think I screwed
up on that number. I think he's fed fed ten
million kids.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
Talk to us about the energy there today. I know
you guys are playing some there's different things that people
can win.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, thank god they're having this on a Tuesday when
Santa Anita's closed, so I.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Can actually show up be at this event. That is
a true story.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
But this is from all walks of life.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
A lot of people here.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
From Orange County, a lot of people have driven down
from Los Angeles, and they're all in this giving mood
on Giving Tuesday, and again we do it every single year. Alex,
You've been a part of it for a long long
time and we can never thank you. People who donated
enough to see these kids, you know, come in, get
a hot meal and walk out with smiles on their faces.
(23:46):
It really is one of those beautiful things I've ever
been associated with.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
Well, Tim, you support us quite a bit here at
Fox eleven. You know, we know that you love a
good pursuit, so.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I love it. I created it.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
You're always suen into Fox eleven.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
We appreciate that, right, I love five eleven. Fox eleven.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Obviously you have a huge crowd behind you tonight. We
know that they're kf I listeners. Do we have any
Fox eleven viewers there?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Perhaps watch this?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Anybody watch Fox News crickets?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, that's it. They love Fox Dude, I love it.
It's amazing. Jesse Waters so sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, Jesse wat doesn't know what's working with Jesse Water.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Jesse Waters so sorry.
Speaker 11 (24:36):
The crossover between the Hunter Biden fans and the Fox
News fans the only place.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You'll find that, right, A lot of Hunter Biden fans
down there, Tim Sup for everybody.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Elex, you know that you on Friday.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Like we al, buddy, you're the best.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
How the people don'tate quickly before we let you go?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Oh Pastathon dot com, thank you very much for because
Alix would have just.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Blown by it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yes, at Constanton dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Constanton dot com dot com.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
They're taking donations through Sunday. They'll be out there to
ten o'clock tonight. So if you want to go, check
out Tim or Moe Kelly or the rest of the
team tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And I'm so grateful.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
That every Friday night at four thirty five pm in
the afternoon, I'm on with Tim.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's right, Elex Michaelson. That guy is the best.
Speaker 11 (25:25):
So if you ever listened at that time, check out
kfi uh ding dong. Buddy, keep up the great work.
You're a giant study.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Great relationship Channel eleven, Channel six forty eleven, Fox eleven fans,
dig do with your people, dig.
Speaker 12 (25:46):
Do all with your people?
Speaker 11 (25:47):
All right, good well, thank you, good luck Tim, great
to see it.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Thanks Holiday, that's great. That's a great relationship. That's how
it should happen. We washed their back, they washed ours.
We have Alex on every Friday. He gives us a
style or wax. I guess I scratch scratch, Oh wait
maybe it's what yeah, what you would you say?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Steph wish No, buddy, you didn't go on the air,
did it? He said? We washed there, but they wash
our butt. That's what you're always Stephs.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Please you first, you have a great really great uh
tradition with your dad and the car show to ruin
it like that is uncontable.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
All right, well we learned.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Welcome back Mokel is coming up at seven bells seven o'clock.
We'll recap some of the story's been following for you
here on KFI. But also we'd like to thank everybody
for the nine hundred and forty five thousand dollars that
we raised yesterday for Katerina's Club. Also nearly seventy nine
thousand pounds of pasta and sauce. So thank you, thank you,
(26:55):
thank you, and we'll do it again next year. And
we could not do this without the great audience in
the world.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
There is a huge problem going on in southern California
all over the country with shoplifting. Shoplifting. Now you may
have seen it yourself. I see it all the time
in Burbank Empire Center. I see it almost every time
I go. Somebody's lifting something, something is walking out of
the store with something they didn't pay for.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I see it all the time. I didn't think.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
It was as bad as it is, though. Let's take
a little tiny town near Lax. It's Westchester, the city
of west Chester. Okay, west Chester, a little tiny, sleepy
town located right next to Lax, the airport out there,
and let's find out how bad shoplifting has gotten.
Speaker 13 (27:53):
The city of Westchester, near Lax has a population of
just over forty eight thousand people, and before the pandemic
it had reported just six shoplifting incidents in twenty eighteen.
Five years later, in twenty twenty three, that number jumped
to three hundred and forty seven, a more than five
thousand percent increase.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You hear that five thousand percent increase.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
A more than five thousand percent increase.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
People's shoplifting from six to three hundred and forty seven.
And those are just ones that where people are caught,
They actually caught the people doing it.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
According to data compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice,
researchers compared levels of reported shoplifting in both Chicago and
Los Angeles.
Speaker 12 (28:40):
After the pandemic. We found two things. We found that
places that used to have a lot of shoplifting before
COVID had a lot of shoplifting again. But for both cities,
we found places that didn't used to have a shoplifting
or were kind of average normal levels of shoplifting, and
then after COVID through the roof, these places had a
lot of shoplifting.
Speaker 13 (28:58):
Just take a look at these two maps. This shows
the concentration of shoplifting reports to law enforcement in twenty eighteen,
with hot spots in the west San Fernando Valley and
the downtown area. But if we look at twenty twenty three,
the map lights up with concentrated areas of reported shoplifting
spreading to neighborhoods like Panorama City and Van Eyes, Westwood,
(29:21):
Century City, and West LA.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I don't know how these companies, how these businesses stay afloat,
I really don't.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
Westchester, mid Wiltshire and Hancock Park and South Central LA
including Exposition Park, Adams Normandy and Vermont Square, which saw
its reported shoplifting incidents jump from seventy three in twenty
eighteen to four hundred and ninety eight last year.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Wow Wow, wow wow.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
You almost feel like an idiot if you're not shoplifting,
like you're paying for that product but a full.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
In twenty twenty three, rates were eighty seven percent higher
in LA than they were in twenty nineteen, which is
a pretty significant increase, and we know that typically in
November and December there's a lot of reporter shoplifting, which
makes sense, right, holiday season stores malls are really active.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Sure, yeah, the holiday spirit might as well take something
home for free.
Speaker 12 (30:10):
So we do expect that trend to keep going.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
The one thing the study didn't look at why shoplifting
rates are on the rise.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, that's interesting. Why are they on the rise?
Speaker 13 (30:20):
Why shoplifting rates are on the rise? Is it inflation
or increased reporting or a change in the way these
crimes are prosecuted. What do you think driving this increase
in this area?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Great answer, I don't know. Great guy to have on
your report.
Speaker 14 (30:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Well, let's get somebody else in here. Can we get
Dave over here? Because this guy's not giving us anything.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
M Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I don't know. Why we have to hear that twice.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You have no idea.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
I see a lot of Like I said, there's a
lot of homelessness.
Speaker 13 (31:04):
Around shoppers in Westchester. One of the new hotspots for shoplifting.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 13 (31:10):
Did have their own theories.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
You feel like there's no recourse and people are just
getting away with so many unfair things.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
So it's scary.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
I don't wear jewelry out and nothing showy because it's
not the same.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
La.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
That's right, She's exactly right. All right. Here's something interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
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(31:52):
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Speaker 2 (31:58):
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Speaker 1 (32:00):
Vitamin that you can get anywhere, almost anywhere, can double
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Speaker 4 (32:06):
Depending on when it's caught. Some patients can live through
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Speaker 2 (32:15):
Ooh, that's not good.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
But a new.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Treatment could increase the time those patients have. Commonly found
in things like orange juice, vitamin C has a variety
of health benefits, such as boosting your immune system to
healing wounds. But University of Iowa researchers found another thing.
It helps with chemotherapy, particularly for those with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Speaker 14 (32:38):
When you give very high doses, the vitamin C converts
and makes hydrogen peroxide, and the hydrogen peroxide the tumor
cells can't handle it and kills the tumor cells.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Ah okay, but how does it work?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I don't know, great doctor, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
In a study conducted over several months, UI researchers compared
the standard form of treatment with that treatment plus a
high dose of intravenous vitamin C for patients with late
stage pancreatic cancer.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh okay, all right, then how'd that go?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Oh no.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Normally that prognosis is grim, only about eight months. But
by combining regular treatments with vitamin C.
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When they got iv vitamin C, they increased their survival
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Do you hear that you can double your survival? Double it,
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So spread the word if anybody your family is suffering
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Speaker 4 (33:49):
The results were so promising, Cullen and his team made
the decision to stop the trial early and from other research,
he says this may also help patients with certain forms
of brain and lung cancer too.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
So if you have cancer, it's unfortunate, it sucks, and
especially if it's stage four. But if you want to
double your life, double your chances, it's vitamin C. Tons
of vitamin C. So spread the word and let's a
little live longer, all right. Moe Kelly is coming up
next right here on KFI AM six forty Conway Show,
(34:23):
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hear us live on KFI AM six forty four to
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the iHeart Radio app.
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. The buying
season is here, The Christmas season is upon us. People
are going to buy a lot of gifts. Ten billion
dollars spent on Black Friday, fifteen percent increase in online shopping.
(00:22):
That's huge, That's absolutely huge. And it continues a lot
of people putting a lot of stuff on credit cards
at thirty percent, and some people still paying off last
year's credit cards and buying stuff this year. So I
don't know how that ends, but probably not good. But
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the return, the day of the return. Remember we used
to buy things and return them, you know, before it
got very easy. Before Amazon made it very easy for
everybody else When you return something, it was always hit
miss whether they're going to take it back, and you
always felt uncomfortable returning it. And now it's the easiest
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thing in the world. Nobody asked any questions. They sometimes
they open it up and take a look inside the box.
Mostly they don't. They take it back. They give your
money back, and that's all. All of it can be
traced back to Amazon. Amazon made it easy to take
things back and if that's the only positive that ever
(01:29):
comes out of it, God bless Amazon. Now you can
return anything almost anywhere, and it's simple. You have the
receipt or you don't. A lot of times you go
to Walmart or Target, you know, Low's or Home Depot
and you don't have the receipt. As long as you
have the credit card that you paid for that product,
(01:50):
then that's your receipt and you can return it. But
they're very lenient. You can return plants. I don't like
to do this, I've never done it, but if you
buy flowers or trees, shrubbery from Home Deep or Lows,
I think you get a year and if that plant
dies within a year, I believe you can return it.
And I've seen some people return plants, and there's always
(02:13):
kind of a a.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yuck factor to that.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
They're usually dried up and dead and they weren't cared
for and that's why they died. And then you're taking
back to Home Deep or Lows because you can, but
you killed that plant. But let's find out the retailers
retail returns. But the new reality new reality when it
comes to returning stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
If your record breaking holiday shopping season comes the season
of making returns.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
My biggest issue with the Ritz yet is their darn
return policy and the new reality that this year it
may cost you.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Amazon e return policy is banana.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You might get charged a restocking fee, you might get
a partial refund, or you might get zero refund and
estimated forty percent of retailers now charge return shipping fees
ranging from five to ten dollars per shipment from brands
like Zara, h and m Abercrombie and Fitch, J Crew, Macy's,
and Sacks Fifth Avenue. Amazon charges a one dollar shipping
(03:14):
fee if you return at a UPS store when options
like Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh or Coals are closer to
your delivery address.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Retailers are charging more return fees because it's very expensive
for retailers not only to send the product to customers,
but also pay the fees when it comes to returning
that product.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The fees are part of a broader crackdown from retailers
who can spend an average of thirty dollars to process
a single returned item.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
That's way too much, the National Retail Federation telling us
with more than seven hundred and forty three billion dollars
in merchandise returned in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Wait, how much?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
With more than seven hundred and forty three billion dollars
in merchandise returned in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How about that? What a country you're living?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Where we we we we returned seven hundred and thirty
billion dollars for the crab.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Merchants and brands are prioritizing efforts to minimize losses from returns,
particularly those that are fraudulent. Okay, So the simple way
to avoid these fees is to do your return in
the store. Also, of course, critical to read the return
window policy. For some brands, you're only going to have
fourteen days, or you'll just get a store credit, not
a full refund.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh that's fine. I think everybody's fine with the store.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Credit and check when the clock starts ticking. So, for example,
at Zara, you have thirty days from the shipment date,
not the day that the package actually arrives at your house.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, okay, I will tell you this though.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
If you're a big fan, like my wife loves the
hobby Lobby, She's always at Hobby Lobby. Right, it's a
store filled with crafts a lot of seasonal stuff. But
here's a little something you may not have known about
hobby lobby that when people buy Christmas decorations, lights, or
(05:00):
and you know statues, those little you know houses in
the communities you build with little.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Tiny homes, you light them up, they look great.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That eighty five percent of what's purchased to decorate your
home for the holidays goes back after Christmas. So people
buy stuff from a hobby lobby, they decorate their home,
looks beautiful. Everyone comes by, Oh, you must have some money.
It looks so great, what a great decoration, what a
(05:31):
great year. And then after Christmas, it all goes back,
all goes back.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
To hobby lobby. So people are lying to you.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They're fooling you into thinking they've got some money, they
bought great holiday gifts, they decorated the house so nicely.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It all goes back.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And it's got to be frustrating for the people who
work at hobby lobby because they know it's going to
happen every single year. They know that eighty five percent
of that stuff is coming back to the store.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
They take off the week after Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah that's right, and it all comes back, it all
goes back up on the shelves, or you know, gets
thrown away or gets put into storage for next year.
And then the same dance happens again next year. People
buy it, they decorate their homes, they undecorate their homes,
and they bring it back and and it goes.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
On every year.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So hobby lobby either has to change their return policy
and say, you know, if you buy Christmas decorations for
your home, that's a wrap, so to speak, and that's yours,
or they're gonna lose a.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Lot of money.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And I don't know how hobby lobby does it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's got to be tremendous volume.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And because everything comes back, you can buy Halloween decorations
for your home, and then once Halloween comes and goes,
all that stuff goes back to the store. But I
guess there are a lot of stores like that.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But the the year of the the Arab and the
day of the return, having shame attached to it is gone,
is gone. I used to always be ashamed of returning things,
like I bought it. I should be like a man
and keep it and not return it. And I don't
I usually don't buy. I usually don't return any food item.
(07:15):
If I buy something and it and it's stale or
bad or turned on me, I just throw it away.
I don't return it unless it's over fifteen dollars. That's
where my factual number. That's my number.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
I expect that.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, if I buy steak or something and it's twenty
bucks and I get it home and I can smell
that it's turned, I take it back.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Or bring it here.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Belly always accuses me of something, And why is that?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It might be something to it?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You always accuse me to bring two types of items
to the store to the workplace. One of them is
stuff that I bought at Costco that my wife and
I no longer like, yeah, you took a bite, and
it's like like we bought, you know, sixty granola bars.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We tried and we didn't like them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Start bring them in here and you guys eat them
like an animal. So that's one thing. And the other
one is anything that's expired in the house comes into
the office.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
You go through your cupboards and all the expiration dates
and you're like, take that to the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Station, but you guys enjoy it. They do eat it.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
They do it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't because if you didn't like it, I probably don't.
It's probably crap. So I don't even bother.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
And then I see the people eating it, I'm like,
they just don't don't.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Right, that's great? You know what? What bothers me? And
I've not been able to.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Tell anybody because I don't know who to tell and
I don't feel like it's my position to tell. But
there's something that they do at Costco that I see
every time I go there. I think it's dangerous and
I think it can kill people. And I don't tell anybody,
and I should if.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
You think it could kill someone.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's why I can't speak up. All right, I'll tell
you what it is when we come back.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's something that they do at the Costco in Burbank
that irritates the hell out of me, and I think
it can cost people at least a night in the
hospital or two, or potentially worse.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We'll go back up and tell you what that is.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Let me preface this with I am probably on this
show the biggest Costco fam by far. Nobody comes close. Crozier,
don't even look at me by a unit close. I
go there all the time. I go twice a week.
Sometimes I go just to get the ice cream. Sometimes
I go just to look around see what the new
products are. Is it like walking distance for you?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
About a mile?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Maybe a mile and a half, all right? And I
love it. I love everything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I feel like I'm somebody special going in because I
have a membership card.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
It's like a you mean like everybody else?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What it's you mean other people?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Well, there are different levels of membership, So what.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Do you have?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
What do we have?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Was that Jennifer shoes popped in?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yeah, the business one or whatever, the one where you
get some you spend it up and you get money
back at the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh that's you know what that executive? Oh oh the
black card. Yes, you guess what, buddy, Now I'm in.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Are you getting? You getting your your money back at
the end of like every year?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But you know what sucks is that always comes on
the day you got to pay for your new membership.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yes, it always comes to the day you're gonna pay.
But you can't use it for that, can you?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
In fact?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I think you can only use it at it's a
credit essentially for Costco.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Oh I see, okay, right, yeah, but but I like
getting that check.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Oh yeah, it is nice.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, it really is cool. I mean, I know it
paid for it, but I like getting it. But I'm
a big it pays for itself. How ill far are
you from your nearest Costco?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Two miles? Three miles?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Oh you're in yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Oh yeah, I was gonna ask you, because you know,
you go two or three times a week easily. The
thing that keeps us from going probably more one money
to the crowds. You got to figure out what time's
the best time, like right as soon as they open
or later on when it's emptied out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And it just but you know what, I don't even
I don't even hate the crowds. I like having a
lot of people, a lot of commotion in there. But
I will say that a lot of people don't understand
that when you go into Costco, there's an unwritten rule
that there's a loop. You know, you go back towards
the meat, then you turn left, you come back towards
the register, and some people are still swimming against the stream,
(11:44):
you know, they're coming towards you, and you're like, no, no, no, no, sweetheart,
you got to turn that cart around, or you got
to dive through clothes to get to the other side.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Once at a blue moon, just because I like to
change it up a little bit, and I feel like
sometimes if I'm coming from the other direction, I might
see something I hadn't seen before.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay, I get that.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Wise, I'm like you, man, I go to the less,
we get in and circle loop around.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
But you know how when when you're driving around and
you see Triple A and they're doing their drivers training
and they always say driver training on board, there should
be a new Costco customer sticker that you have to
wear when you're walking around.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
They should make them have the carts that have pulled
the light on the top. That's right, yeah, the flag.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But I see.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I go there mostly for my frozen foods. I love
frozen food that seems to be really freshlymberg like pre
made hamburgers that just everything was a fantastic uncrust, the
bulls a goos. I get the croissants, the mixed vegetables.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Do you get the croissants that are that are that
haven't even been cooked yet.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Uh yes, yeah, I get everything. The unbaked ones come back.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I love aggos, the tater tots, I get the
Tyson Chicken, the Jumbo corn dogs, I get everything. The
chicken patties, the dinosaur chicken patties, the dinosaurs, I don't care, man,
they're cheap.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I enjoy those.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
You know what I got that they do annually. It's
probably not there now because it's after Thanksgivings. That giant
tub of a gyp Yeah thing, we got that and
use it on Thanksgiving? Man, you dip that everything. Yeah,
that's awesome. Plus I like the Marie Calendars chicken pot pies.
You have to buy eighteen of them, but I enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Okay, So here's the problem. And again I'm prefacing this
with I'm the biggest Costco fan in the world. But
I see a problem at Costco, and I see it
every time I go, every single time I go, whether
it's one in Burbank, whether it's the one in Valencia
where it is I see. I go down to the
(13:44):
frozen fish aisle where there's you know, the Atlantic salmon,
the shrimps, I you know, the the what it is
that tempora shrimp, and then you've got the Alaskan salmon. Yes,
all kinds of you know, Mahi mahi, all that, all
that stuff. I every single time I go, I see
(14:07):
pallets of the fish in the aisle of the refrigerators
and the freezers sitting out in the middle, and I
and I always pick it up, and I always like
feel it. It's sort of still frozen. But I don't
know if it's gonna be unfrozen. And I don't know
if you can unfreeze shrimp and then freeze it again.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I don't know what the rule is.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
But I see frozen fish in the middle of the
aisle every time I go, and it flips me out.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
You don't really eat fish too much anyways, No, But
that's why I have a bias against it. For me,
you're looking for a reason not to like the fish.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I am.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I am exactly. I'm actually looking for a reason to
buy it. And that's not the reason they keep taking
it away. But I but have frozen food. I don't
know if it can unfreeze or thaw. I guess tim that's.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
The term, right. Generally, not the best thing for food
that's been frozen to tow and then refreeze.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, is that that's the general rule. Yeah, it's why
do you think there's an issue?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I don't necessarily think that there's an issue with like
contaminants or anything like that, but it's just the quality. Yeah,
it's more the quality of it than anything. And also
I think that costco. I don't know how often the
guys in your costco or run around moving stuff around,
but it's pretty constant, mind, so I just assume that
they're getting to it pretty quick. I you say it's
kind of unfrozen a little bit when you touch it,
(15:24):
or no, you know it's still frozen. Okay, it's still frozen.
But I have flipped me out.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But you know, I'll drive to Valencia to go to
a different costco just to see what the new products are,
the different product.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Yes, absolutely, we'll go to the one at San Dimez.
We'll go yeah, further back that way, we'll go to
the one like what you talk about at at near Irwindale.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Like yeah, exactly five to two ten. Yeah, that one's
good trigger to get to you because you gotta get
off the freeway, but a mile before that or mile
after to get to it or else. There's train tracks everywhere.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
You'll box you in past the exit and then see
the Costco.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Right, yeah, you got to pass the Costco then get off,
then come back to it, or else you get locked
off by all these train tracks around there. But I
I love Costco and I think, and I think, I
do feel special that I'm a member. Even though I
pay for the membership, they've allowed me to become a member.
I don't remember any initiations. I don't remember any of
you remember any of that stuff. Oh, here's another question
(16:16):
I have for you. And I see this at Costco
all the time. One of the gift ideas is to
give somebody a membership to Costco.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Right, here's the question. Is that in perpetuity? Is that forever?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Because that just an annual?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Okay, so, so the next year is on you, right,
it's a it's a So you buy a guy a
car and then I don't, I don't know, you make it,
you make a car payment, and then the next to
fifty year on you.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I don't know, I don't know, your car tisted out
and you buy me a car Christmas and sharing.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But I think if you buy somebody membership, then I
think the next year is on them.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
On on the person who received it. Yes place, Oh yeah,
who's gonna go. I'm gonna pay for this this year,
and I'm gonna do it again.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Maybe if you love the person, you buy it for
them every year. If it's a child, or if it's
a family member, husband or wife.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, only I mean if you love us. I mean yeah, right,
what do you what? Bellio? You don't even go to
Costco And even talking.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
About I couldn't find it.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Because it closed closed seven years ago. You can't find it.
You can't find anywhere. You can't find a Costco anywhere.
They're just not enough. There's none of an Orange County.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I couldn't find one. They haven't Orange. They should, No
wonder what Orange County.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
No wonder why there's so many rotisserie chickens.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I will say Costco on two levels is very smart.
If they end up buying selling strawberries, that'll uh, you know,
make your insides want to be on your outside. Then
they'll call you because they have everybody who bought those
area and they'll either text you or call you or
email you and say hey, if you're on the can
it's because of us.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, the first time you get one of those notifications,
everybody's going to be going, hang on. I didn't. I
completely didn't realize that they track every single thing.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I bought everything, everything. So that's something cool that Costco does.
Another cool thing they do is they keep track of
every single zip code that comes into their store. And
if they find enough zip codes from enough load from
one location.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Oh people who's home address or whatever?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, no, no, no, from from a from a certain city.
Like let's say there's a lot of people going to
the Burbank Costco that are from h Let's say, uh,
I'm not Upland let's say North Van Eyes or you know,
Shadow Hills or whatever, one of those you know, a
(18:51):
town fifteen miles from there. If they see enough people
wanted to go to Costco from that town, they'll open
a Costco there. They'll they'll that's that's how they open
costcos where they know enough people from that zip code
like their products, and then they'll open one in their neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
So like our because I mean I guess it, yeah,
I guess it uses the members like address, Yeah, like
we have determined you know where they're coming from.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Yeah, it's not like their home Costco where they normally
go to it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Right And as soon as they they determine there's enough
profit in opening up a new location in a city,
they'll open it where a lot of people are driving
from that city to a to a nearby Costco. So
they got it going on Costco. I just wished and
pray that people would get with the program that there's
an unwritten circle, unwritten rule, and you've got to follow
(19:43):
the crew. You go in, you go back, you go left,
and you come forward. You don't swim against the stream
in Costco.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
You know, those are the same people in the fast
lane going slow.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
That's right, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
A Hey, it was nice Bellio set this up with
Alex Michaelson to put us on Fox News last night.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
At Ellie, that was cool. On how you pulled that off?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Elex offered, oh that's how I pulled that off? Good nothing,
I returned to text message, Okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
They are so.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Supportive of KFI and Katerina's Club, so big thank you
to Fox eleven and Elex and Marla and Sam Dubin
the cameraman.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, Sam was great. He say listens KFI all the time. Yeah,
he's a great guy. And he stayed and he had dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
If you missed it, here's a little bit of it
last night where I was on Fox eleven News.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
Well, KFI Pastathon has been going on since five this
morning in the station's yearly charity fundraiser.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
Tim Conway Junior is with us live. We're right in
the middle of his show. He's my friend. We all
love him.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Wow, how about that?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
We all love him?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, we all love him. Okay, that's enough.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
We all love him.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Stephush, we all love him.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Dab we all love him. We all love him. Tim
Conway Junior, ding dong with.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You, dig dog ding dong with you.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You're a very sweet man. Thank you for having us on.
You know this is I'm disguised as a charity event,
but it's actually a Hunter Biden pardon party.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
It's a true story.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I don't know what they're laughing about.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Laugh at me.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Place in Orange County that's celebrating it, So come on down.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, so what is Pastathon? That's when I was.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Going to say, I have no idea back to you
Posthon is Bruno's charity here at the White House in Anaheim,
eight eight to seven South Ani'm Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Wow, it sounds like this guy knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
And they raise money every single year, well over a
million dollars this year, and he feeds twenty five thousand
kids it's every week.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Wow. Where'd he get a lot of food?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Who otherwise would be going out without a meal. He's
been doing this as our fourteenth annual Postanthon And you
can go to postanthon dot com or to Smart and
Final or Wendy's and donate, but really appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
I love that. By the way, coincidentally is at the
White House Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
So I was listening earlier.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, all right, big fan, big fan, big fan.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
So I was listening earlier on my way in, and
I think I heard that already a couple hours ago.
You would raise more than six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's right, that's right, you heard correct. What are we
at now? That's exactly right?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, we are at six hundred and ninety one thousand
dollars and with again with smartan Final and Wendy's when
that money comes in will be well over a million dollars.
And this Bruno feeding twenty five thousand kids. He's he's
fed well over two million kids over the last fourteen years.
And this guy never quits. I think I got that wrong.
(22:59):
I think it it's ten million. I think I screwed
up on that number. I think he's fed fed ten
million kids.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
Talk to us about the energy there today. I know
you guys are playing some there's different things that people
can win.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, thank god they're having this on a Tuesday when
Santa Anita's closed, so I.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Can actually show up be at this event. That is
a true story.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
But this is from all walks of life.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
A lot of people here.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
From Orange County, a lot of people have driven down
from Los Angeles, and they're all in this giving mood
on Giving Tuesday, and again we do it every single year. Alex,
You've been a part of it for a long long
time and we can never thank you. People who donated
enough to see these kids, you know, come in, get
a hot meal and walk out with smiles on their faces.
(23:46):
It really is one of those beautiful things I've ever
been associated with.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
Well, Tim, you support us quite a bit here at
Fox eleven. You know, we know that you love a
good pursuit, so.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I love it. I created it.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
You're always suen into Fox eleven.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
We appreciate that, right, I love five eleven. Fox eleven.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Obviously you have a huge crowd behind you tonight. We
know that they're kf I listeners. Do we have any
Fox eleven viewers there?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Perhaps watch this?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Anybody watch Fox News crickets?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, that's it. They love Fox Dude, I love it.
It's amazing. Jesse Waters so sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, Jesse wat doesn't know what's working with Jesse Water.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Jesse Waters so sorry.
Speaker 11 (24:36):
The crossover between the Hunter Biden fans and the Fox
News fans the only place.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You'll find that, right, A lot of Hunter Biden fans
down there, Tim Sup for everybody.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Elex, you know that you on Friday.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Like we al, buddy, you're the best.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
How the people don'tate quickly before we let you go?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Oh Pastathon dot com, thank you very much for because
Alix would have just.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Blown by it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yes, at Constanton dot com.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Constanton dot com dot com.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
They're taking donations through Sunday. They'll be out there to
ten o'clock tonight. So if you want to go, check
out Tim or Moe Kelly or the rest of the
team tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
And I'm so grateful.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
That every Friday night at four thirty five pm in
the afternoon, I'm on with Tim.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's right, Elex Michaelson. That guy is the best.
Speaker 11 (25:25):
So if you ever listened at that time, check out
kfi uh ding dong. Buddy, keep up the great work.
You're a giant study.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Great relationship Channel eleven, Channel six forty eleven, Fox eleven fans,
dig do with your people, dig.
Speaker 12 (25:46):
Do all with your people?
Speaker 11 (25:47):
All right, good well, thank you, good luck Tim, great
to see it.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Thanks Holiday, that's great. That's a great relationship. That's how
it should happen. We washed their back, they washed ours.
We have Alex on every Friday. He gives us a
style or wax. I guess I scratch scratch, Oh wait
maybe it's what yeah, what you would you say?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Steph wish No, buddy, you didn't go on the air,
did it? He said? We washed there, but they wash
our butt. That's what you're always Stephs.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Please you first, you have a great really great uh
tradition with your dad and the car show to ruin
it like that is uncontable.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
All right, well we learned.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Welcome back Mokel is coming up at seven bells seven o'clock.
We'll recap some of the story's been following for you
here on KFI. But also we'd like to thank everybody
for the nine hundred and forty five thousand dollars that
we raised yesterday for Katerina's Club. Also nearly seventy nine
thousand pounds of pasta and sauce. So thank you, thank you,
(26:55):
thank you, and we'll do it again next year. And
we could not do this without the great audience in
the world.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
There is a huge problem going on in southern California
all over the country with shoplifting. Shoplifting. Now you may
have seen it yourself. I see it all the time
in Burbank Empire Center. I see it almost every time
I go. Somebody's lifting something, something is walking out of
the store with something they didn't pay for.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I see it all the time. I didn't think.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
It was as bad as it is, though. Let's take
a little tiny town near Lax. It's Westchester, the city
of west Chester. Okay, west Chester, a little tiny, sleepy
town located right next to Lax, the airport out there,
and let's find out how bad shoplifting has gotten.
Speaker 13 (27:53):
The city of Westchester, near Lax has a population of
just over forty eight thousand people, and before the pandemic
it had reported just six shoplifting incidents in twenty eighteen.
Five years later, in twenty twenty three, that number jumped
to three hundred and forty seven, a more than five
thousand percent increase.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You hear that five thousand percent increase.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
A more than five thousand percent increase.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
People's shoplifting from six to three hundred and forty seven.
And those are just ones that where people are caught,
They actually caught the people doing it.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
According to data compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice,
researchers compared levels of reported shoplifting in both Chicago and
Los Angeles.
Speaker 12 (28:40):
After the pandemic. We found two things. We found that
places that used to have a lot of shoplifting before
COVID had a lot of shoplifting again. But for both cities,
we found places that didn't used to have a shoplifting
or were kind of average normal levels of shoplifting, and
then after COVID through the roof, these places had a
lot of shoplifting.
Speaker 13 (28:58):
Just take a look at these two maps. This shows
the concentration of shoplifting reports to law enforcement in twenty eighteen,
with hot spots in the west San Fernando Valley and
the downtown area. But if we look at twenty twenty three,
the map lights up with concentrated areas of reported shoplifting
spreading to neighborhoods like Panorama City and Van Eyes, Westwood,
(29:21):
Century City, and West LA.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I don't know how these companies, how these businesses stay afloat,
I really don't.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
Westchester, mid Wiltshire and Hancock Park and South Central LA
including Exposition Park, Adams Normandy and Vermont Square, which saw
its reported shoplifting incidents jump from seventy three in twenty
eighteen to four hundred and ninety eight last year.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Wow Wow, wow wow.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
You almost feel like an idiot if you're not shoplifting,
like you're paying for that product but a full.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
In twenty twenty three, rates were eighty seven percent higher
in LA than they were in twenty nineteen, which is
a pretty significant increase, and we know that typically in
November and December there's a lot of reporter shoplifting, which
makes sense, right, holiday season stores malls are really active.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Sure, yeah, the holiday spirit might as well take something
home for free.
Speaker 12 (30:10):
So we do expect that trend to keep going.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
The one thing the study didn't look at why shoplifting
rates are on the rise.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, that's interesting. Why are they on the rise?
Speaker 13 (30:20):
Why shoplifting rates are on the rise? Is it inflation
or increased reporting or a change in the way these
crimes are prosecuted. What do you think driving this increase
in this area?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Great answer, I don't know. Great guy to have on
your report.
Speaker 14 (30:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Well, let's get somebody else in here. Can we get
Dave over here? Because this guy's not giving us anything.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
M Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I don't know. Why we have to hear that twice.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You have no idea.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
I see a lot of Like I said, there's a
lot of homelessness.
Speaker 13 (31:04):
Around shoppers in Westchester. One of the new hotspots for shoplifting.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 13 (31:10):
Did have their own theories.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
You feel like there's no recourse and people are just
getting away with so many unfair things.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
So it's scary.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
I don't wear jewelry out and nothing showy because it's
not the same.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
La.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
That's right, She's exactly right. All right. Here's something interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
If you are somebody in your family has pancreatic cancer,
pank creatic cancer, you can now double your life expectancy
with a simple vitamin vitamin C. That's true, vitamin C.
Fox News is reporting on the Fox and Friends Weekend edition.
(31:52):
High dose of vitamin C could be a new breakthrough
in treating cancer.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Cancer.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Vitamin that you can get anywhere, almost anywhere, can double
your life expectancy, well.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Depending on when it's caught. Some patients can live through
pancreatic cancer, but for those where the cancer has spread
beyond the pancreas, the survival rate is less than three percent.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Ooh, that's not good.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
But a new.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Treatment could increase the time those patients have. Commonly found
in things like orange juice, vitamin C has a variety
of health benefits, such as boosting your immune system to
healing wounds. But University of Iowa researchers found another thing.
It helps with chemotherapy, particularly for those with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Speaker 14 (32:38):
When you give very high doses, the vitamin C converts
and makes hydrogen peroxide, and the hydrogen peroxide the tumor
cells can't handle it and kills the tumor cells.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Ah okay, but how does it work?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I don't know, great doctor, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
In a study conducted over several months, UI researchers compared
the standard form of treatment with that treatment plus a
high dose of intravenous vitamin C for patients with late
stage pancreatic cancer.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh okay, all right, then how'd that go?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Oh no.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Normally that prognosis is grim, only about eight months. But
by combining regular treatments with vitamin C.
Speaker 14 (33:22):
When they got iv vitamin C, they increased their survival
to sixteen months, So they doubled the overall survival.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Do you hear that you can double your survival? Double it,
double your time on earth with a lot of vitamin C.
So spread the word if anybody your family is suffering
from this tons of vitamin C.
Speaker 14 (33:44):
Not only did we double overall survival, we nearly double
progression free survivals.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
The results were so promising, Cullen and his team made
the decision to stop the trial early and from other research,
he says this may also help patients with certain forms
of brain and lung cancer too.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
So if you have cancer, it's unfortunate, it sucks, and
especially if it's stage four. But if you want to
double your life, double your chances, it's vitamin C. Tons
of vitamin C. So spread the word and let's a
little live longer, all right. Moe Kelly is coming up
next right here on KFI AM six forty Conway Show,
(34:23):
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!