December 23, 2024 • 30 mins
Ethics Report Accuses Gaetz of Paying for Sex, Including With 17-Year-Old/ First human case of H5 bird flu detected in LA County/ Francis Ford Coppola shares harrowing story of being a polio survivor. Jeff Bezos Denies Reports That He and Lauren Sánchez Are Set to Wed This Christmas/Bashar al-Assad's wife files for divorce, seeks to move to UK. Powerball winning numbers for December 23 drawing: Jackpot rises to $103 million. Pushback on Elf on the shelf. Metro announces free rides on Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve/ Georgia man plays saxophone on delayed flight/ TSA stops passenger with dozens of firecrackers and knives in her carry-on.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Moe Kelly is here in the building.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Just saw him and he'll be joining at seven o'clock
Matt Gates. Of course, the report came out Mark Thompson
here for Tim Conway Junior. By the way, big report
detailing all of his stuff, the farmer Florida congressman paying
tens of thousands of dollars to women for drugs and sex.
(00:32):
It was it's a pretty detailed I mean, he paid
ninety thousand dollars for sex and drugs, whereas he getting
his XCS and drug That seems like you're overpaying.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't know. But he denied wrongdoing. Resigned from the
House last month.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Of course, he was selected by President elect Trump to
be Attorney General and then withdrew from consideration because of
the uphill confirmation battle that he was likely going to
be facing. But there was an allegation of underage women
who were involved in these parties that he attended, and
so I don't think we've heard the end of this. Certainly,
(01:11):
this report is reputationally damaging, but by the same COCD.
It's not a legally binding report, it's a congressional report,
so there'd have to be some kind of follow up
in the way of legal action. But they deposed many
of these women. They have fourteen thousand texts and emails
(01:31):
from Gates. They had those VENMO receipts, which are wildly embarrassing.
So it's all there, and Gates, I think is going
to become an anchor or is what he was planning
to do, and I'm guessing he'll probably still do it
on that one American news is it an the first
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human case of H five bird flu detected in La County.
The victim, an adult who is ex that a work
site to livestock infected with H five bird flu, has
been treated with anti virals is recovering at home. The
overall risk of H five bird flu to the public
(02:11):
is still low. They say there's no evidence of person
to person spread of the virus close contexts of the
infected person. Other workers exposed at the work site are
being monitored for Simpson symptoms and have been offered personal
protective equipment and testing anti viral prophylaxis. The department is
(02:33):
of is the CDC you would be involved in the
county Department of Public Health.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, kind of department of public health.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And the Apartment of Public Health is saying no additional
cases have been identified. They're working closely with the CDC
on an investigation, and of course they've got to track this.
I mean, this is the scary part, right, jumps to
the human population. When you have human to human infection,
then you've got a real issue. You people rarely get
bird flu, says the La County Health Officer, but those
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who interact with infected livestock or wildlife have a greater
risk of infection. So there are precautions that many are
taking who are involved with exposure.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
To livestock.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
People should avoid unprotected contact with sick or dead animals,
including cows, poultry, and wild birds, avoid consuming raw or
undercooked animal products like raw milk, and protect pets in
backyard poultry from exposure to wild animals.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
They say.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
They are also stressing the importance of getting the seasonal
flu vaccine, which can help prevent severe seasonal flu illness
and lower the risk of getting both seasonal and bird
flu infections at the same time. If exposed symptoms by
the way of h five bird flu in humans include
eye redness or discharge, fever, cough, difficulty, breathing, sore throat,
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muscle or body aches, diarrhea and vomiting. Wow, and Merry Christmas,
everybody really good times.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Speaking of.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
The flu shot, I saw this and I thought it
was interesting. I just thought to mention it to you.
Francis Ford Coppola is reflecting on the horror of polio
and slams vaccine skeptics when it comes to polio and beyond.
The Oscar winning Bay Area filmmaker and polio survivor is
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sounding the alarm over the growing wave of vaccine skepticism
in the United States, particularly regarding polio. In a new interview,
Francis Ford Coppola recounted his harrowing experience with the disease
at age nine, warning that the push could undo decades
of progress in preventing catastrophic healthy that he's talking about
(04:56):
the push against vacs right. It could undo decades of
progress in preventing catastrophic health outcomes.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Here's the quote.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
People don't understand that polio is a fever that just
hits you for one night. You were only sick for
one night. The eighty five year old director said, the
terrible effects of polio, like being unable to breathe so
you have to be in an iron lung or not
being able to walk, or to be totally paralyzed, is
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the result of the damage of that one night of
the infection. Contracting polio left him partially paralyzed for part
of his childhood. He said, I remember that night I
was feverish and they took me to a hospital ward
I was He said, it was so crammed with kids
in that hospital ward that there were gurneys piled up
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three and four high in the hallways because there were
so many more kids than there were beds in the hospital.
I remember the kids in the iron lungs who you
could see their faces on mirrors, and they were all
crying for their parents. They didn't understand and why they
were suddenly in these steel cabinets. I was looking around,
and then when I tried to get out of bed,
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I fell on the floor and I realized I couldn't walk.
Copola spent ten days in the polioward. Doctors told his
family that while he would survive, he would like to
be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
His father, Carmine Coppola, the composer known for The Godfather's Scores,
rejected that it didn't sound logical to him. Copola said,
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Carmine sought alternative treatments and discovered the work of an
Australian nurse who pioneered a new approach involving gentle exercise
for polio patients. But the horror is what I saw,
a hospital filled with screaming kids, Copola said. And that
was finally all over because of the wonderful sock vaccine
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that happened just two or three years later. So you know,
when we talk about these vaccines and we hear these stories,
I think it's instructive to hear the stories like like
that one from Francis Ford Coppola, because he was there
at the time of one of the greatest scourges on humanity.
(07:16):
These pandemics and these epidemics. They are really remarkably something
that science has handled so well, even as we fear
and likely we'll confront another one. But I thought that
was instructive and interesting. As I say, word from Francis
Ford Coppola.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I have a podcast on YouTube, but it's also across
all the major podcast networks, including iHeartRadio. It's called The
Mark Thompson Show. It's kind of politics and news and stuff.
It's always great to hang out with Tim. I miss Tim.
He'll be back next week. I'm usually here on Tuesday
nights with Tim, but always happy to hang out out
whenever they need me. Here at KFI kind of my
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home court. Really do love it here. There was a
rumor that this holiday season would be punctuated by a
big wedding, the Jeff Bezos wedding, the four hundred million
dollar wedding. It was rumored to be the wedding to
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exceed all weddings. Lauren Sanchez, his longtime girlfriend, We're finally
going to do it. We're finally going to tie the knot. Well,
the word is, it's not going to happen. No, the
rumors are all misplaced because they insist no wedding for
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the holidays.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Well, it looks like Jeff Bezos will be remaining an
unmarried man.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's right, ladies.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, The Amazon founder clears up rumors that he's.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Planning to wed fiance Lauren.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Sanchez this week in a holiday them sarahmon Jeff takes
to X December twenty second, writing, this whole thing is
completely false. None of this is happening.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The old adage, This has gotta be AI, right right.
It is just the same style, you know Bezos takes
to X. I mean, the inflection is all flat.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Like I'm trying to understand that, Like, this is obviously
coming from the entertainment. So somewhere we're at NBC Universal.
I'm hoping it's AI, because if it's someone that sounds.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Like that, I don't know. I think it might be
a girl. Oh is it really? I don't know. I
don't know. Bella you should do do you do any
voiceover or you know? I really want to get into it.
Oh my god, you should you sound great?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Oh thanks, I'm gonna print something now and then I
want you to read it instead of her.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah exactly, I really think that, Yeah, Bella should be
reading this stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
This whole thing is completely false. None of this is happening.
The old adage. Don't believe everything you read is even
more true today than it ever has been. Now, lies
can get all the way around the world. Before the
truth can get its pants on. So be careful out there, folks,
and don't be gullible a sixty year old.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's what Bezos said. Okay, Yeah, ends.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
His message by taking aim at media outlets that spread
the false narrative, saying, will be interesting to see if
all the outlets that covered and re reported on this
issue a correction when it comes and goes and doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Okay, you know what, I can't even listen to her anymore.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I want Bella to do that from now on. I
don't want to use anything with that woman's voice anymore. Yeah, exactly.
It's just it's embarrassing. But the bottom line is Bezos
and Sanchez not getting married for the holiday season. They
are still betrothed. You know, it's still a plan at
some point, at least that's what they're indicating, but they
are not going to do it this week. I should
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mention Lauren Sanchez used to do a show with me.
It's called That's So Hollywood. Hold for applause and yes,
thank you, folks, thank you. Was yeah, quite it was
quite wonderful. We were on the air for a couple
of years. But the fact is that we worked closely together,
we were colleagues. And I love Lauren Sanchez. In fact,
I just you know, I think she is gifted in
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so many different ways. And I attended her first, the
wedding that preceded this next wedding that's going to happen,
the wedding to her ex Patrick Whitezel, and I thought
that wedding was unbelievable. I mean, I can't imagine that
you'll outdo that wedding. That wedding had Ben Affleck was there.
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Hugh Jackman sang at the wedding. One of the songs
Hugh Jackman sang was written for them, and it was
just it was gorgeous. I mean, it was a gorgeous
setting in Santa Barbara. I can't imagine a lovelier wedding.
But Jeff Bezos and Lauren when they actually do it,
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I'm sure it will be even more impressive affair. And
from weddings to divorce, yes, sad to say, but maybe
something that you could have anticipated. Siria's deposed president Basher
A l A sad his wife has filed for divorce. Yes,
(12:25):
it's hard to keep those marriages together sometimes when you
are deposed from power. You know, you lose track of
the relationship in all the fleeing from your country so
that you won't be thrown in prison. Now she is
British and they fled to Russia. She wants to go
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back to London because she ain't down for hanging out
in Russia with the deposed leader of Syria. So she
has dual British Syrian passports and you know, citizenship. She
moved to Syria in two thousand, married Asad. She was
twenty five years old at that time. And even though
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his asylum was accepted, there are apparently severe restrictions on it.
He's not permitted to leave Moscow to engage in any
political activities. They've frozen his assets, his money, and he's
got gold and two billion dollars that's right, two billion
dollars in assets and eighteen apartments he has in Moscow. Well,
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all of that is kind of frozen, and so she
again is just not good with it. She wants out,
and so Basher Aliside's wife has filed for divorce. It's
the story that nobody else tells you. They tell you
the story of the fall of the regime. But his
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wife wants no more of it. By the way, did
you see how he fled Syria. The report was just released.
It was an investigative report over the weekend, and I'll
share only just one detail with you, but it's kind
of wild how everybody on his staff in Syria thought
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he was just going to deliver a series of remarks
to the nation, even as the rebels were charging the city,
and they actually added all these soldiers around the palace,
and it was completely expected by everyone on his staff
that he was going to deliver these They had the
television cameras set up, and he's going to deliver these remarks,
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and that they were going to tough it out against
the rebels. Meantime, Asad was fleeing already, he was fleeing
on a plane and was on the plane while the
staff was collecting all they were writing his remarks. They
were running his speech or statement that he was going
to make that evening to the Syrians. And it wasn't
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until he was like an hour and then two hours
late for that appointed time that they realized something was
going on. And then the word got out that he
had fled the country, and then of course they completely
fled he has a brother. I didn't know any of
the stuff that I was reading this piece. He has
a brother who was handling a lot of stuff. He fled,
(15:25):
I believe, to Iraq, while Basad Assad Bashar al Assad
fled to Moscow and again now his wife will be
fleeing to London. That's the update on the fleeing and
on the fallen despots.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It's the part of the show that we like to
update you on all of those deposed leaders when we
come back Mega millions News and ELF on the shelf
questions become controversial.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway jun on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
We're in the middle of a dry spell that apparently
could be one for the record books, record shattering start
to the year with torrential rain, flooding, mud slides. You know,
you remember that that was last winter, but you know,
technically still during this calendar year. Well, the last time
at rain more than a trace in la was on
May fifth. The city got thirteen hundreds of an inch
(16:25):
of rain on May fifth, that was barely enough to
soak the ground. And then five straight months with not
even a drop. November saw fourteen hundreds of an inch
of rain with a series of light sprinkles, and Todd Hall,
who is the senior mediorologist at the National Weather Service Office, said,
(16:49):
if we do not receive any measurable rainfall through December
thirty first, the Downtown La censor will finish tied for
first place for the driest conclusion of the year. It
also increased fire risk in southern California, Santa and a
winds that fueled several wildfires in recent months. Mountain Fire
(17:09):
and Ventura County destroyed about two hundred homes, and the
Franklin Fire in Malibu, which destroyed I think like twenty structures.
And drought conditions have also begun to begun to return,
and this is a you know, the agricultural map that's
looked at Southern California is shown on that map as
abnormally dry. Again, a twenty percent chance of rain in
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La on Christmas Eve, that's tomorrow, and then potentially a
storm headed for California around New Year's Day or the
first week of January. The Mega Million's jackpot is nine
hundred and seventy million. The drawing is tomorrow night, nine
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hundred and seventy Mili. If there's a winner in the
next drawing, it would mark only the second time a
Mega Million's jackpot has been a hit on Christmas Eve.
The Christmas Miracle. I hope it hits you hard. The
first time it happened was Christmas Eve of twenty oh two,
(18:17):
when somebody won sixty nine million dollars never claimed the jackpot, though,
this one nine hundred and seventy million.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Again.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You can purchase your tickets until seven forty five on
Christmas Eve. Now, Richie moved in here again with an
urgent word.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
The last time he came in, he had that word
about the fact that Tommy Lee only showers once a week.
This time he moved in with word about elf on
a shelf. They are the elves on shelves, a Christmas tradition,
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but apparently there's some controversy around elf on a shelf. First,
some of the kids have found them creepy and not cute.
Isn't that what you were saying, Richie? Yeah, and you're
saying that these elves on shelves a holiday fixture for
many households since five that's when the book came out,
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The Elf on the Shelf book. It was sort of
this thing that was put on shelves and you tell kids, hey,
the Santa elf on the shelf is keeping an eye
on you. Isn't that basically how it works? Kind of
you know, you know, watch your step because you can
see elf boy over there is keeping an eye on you.
Isn't that what they were kind of originally designed to do.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Yeah, like just you better be on your best behavior,
view on your gifts to be delivered by Santa.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
You know they're watching you type thing.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, And a lot of parents find joy in doing
this thing with their kids, but others are saying it
creates an anxiety and their kids and they don't like it,
and the kids apparently don't like it, So some parents
are pushing.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Back on it.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
The ELF's absence though, if you ban them from your house,
it takes away a little of the Christmas magic, Richie,
That's what I'm hearing. That's what I'm reading that you know,
the elves are only for bad seeds and most normal
kids you don't have to worry about that. So this
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elf on a shelf thing, I mean, it was really
something that was integrated into the Christmas traditions on some
level might be endangered. This is what Richie's telling me,
that this might be a turnaround year for Elf on
the shelf. So the social media push that's saying don't
let the elf on the shelf into your house. It's
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a remarkable thing. In any case, the Elf on the shelf.
If I will tell you this lest you fear that
it's going away. It was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
So I always feel as though if it's there, good
luck getting rid of it. I mean, that's kind of
part of Americana, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I say so. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
More than twenty one million elves have been sold since
five since the tradition started, and there is more and
more elfing at homes all around America, even as social
media has begun this pushback against the elf. Regardless of
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whether your kids are naughty or nice, I hope they.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Have a great holiday with you and.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
That you don't need to put them under the constant
surveillance of one of Santa's elves. But if you do,
that's what Santa's Elves are there for, to surveil your family.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
There it is. We'll talk to mo Kelly maybe next Also,
Metro announcing free rides on Christmas Eve and word out
of lax all of that still to come.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, screw that holiday cheer stuff. Get over here, dadd
he's not happy. Oh my god, I am six more
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I love my KFI
kids at the holidays. So much fun to be with
everybody today. Got to hang out with Eileen Gonzalez newsperson Bella,
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who should have a career as a voiceover artist, like
learn that you should one day. I mean, listen to
this stuff with these with the woman who was doing
the where's that Jeff Bezos here it is? This is
the this is the woman who's reading the Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Story on end.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
These comments from Jeff come a day after reports came
out that he and Lauren would be tying the not
in in a extravagant six hundred million dollar wedding series.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Wave that copy better than that, lady. Sure, I don't
mean to be too tough on her, but I mean,
you know you're we're sitting on a million dollar talent
in the.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Other room, Bella. I kind of love her though. Do
you you like her sort of flat tone with the
wedding tomorrow? I like her inflection at the end of everyone.
That's true. She's got a very valid girl. Reports.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
The couple had rented out a fancy sushi restaurant along
with several mansions in the popular ski town for their guests.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
For their guests sushi restaurant, Yeah, they mentioned in the
Path ever.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Fancy sushi restaurant along with several mansions in the popular
ski town for their guests, as well as plans to
have their ceremony take place at actor Kevin Costner's one
hundred and sixty acre ranch nearby.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Nearby.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's a little bit of brit that's the way the
Brits often will read it, you know, the reception to
take place at the one hundred and eighty acre ranch
of Kevin Costner nearby.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
That wasn't the end of the run.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
There was a train wreck today four people were killed.
They have then the the last word. It's always extended anyway.
I am well, I'm glad you like her so much.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
But former entertainment reporter and billionaire businessman first began dating
in twenty eighteen, while they were both still married.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Okay, anyway, that's the word.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
By the way, if you're just joining us on that story,
it's all rumor and apparently isn't happening at least this week.
Although there were a lot of details there. I mean,
they'd rented a sushi restaurant, they had multiple residences for
people who were attending Kevin Cosner's ranch, et cetera. It
seemed as though they had things pretty well fleshed out
in terms of details. But now Bezos is saying, no,
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it's not happening, and don't know where you guys heard that.
La County Metro announcing it will offer free service on
all bus and rail lines, as well as its Metro
Micro and Metro bike share programs this Christmas Eve and
New Year's Eve, so that's tomorrow. The faregates at all
Metro rail stations will be unlatched, and fair boxes and
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validators will not deduct fares from tap cards and fair media.
This is your Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve plan
meantime at lax holiday spirit with a midair saxophone solo
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from a passenger.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Here it is.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The man played the saxophone mid flight to spread holiday cheer.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, that.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Recording made by a flight attendant and he continued down
the aisle toward the back of the plane while playing
this Christmas music and the flight attendant recorded that so
very nice holiday cheer there. Meantime, before you even get
on the plane, a woman flying from LA to Philly
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wound up on the TSA list that will likely keep
her from flying from LA to Philly again. On her
carry on stuff. They're in the carry on bag, they
found the following eighty two fireworks, three knives, two replica firearms,
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and a canister of pepper spray. None of those things
are allowed in carry on luggage.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
TSA people, you know, if you work at the airport
in TSA, you've seen some pretty funky stuff through there.
I look at your Instagram and that Instagram is filled
with all kinds of you know, brass knuckles and stuff
that you know, and worse. But they said the Federal
Security director at LAX said, this sheer number of prohibited
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items discovered in a single carry on bag is extremely concerning.
Let this incident serve as a reminder to all travelers
to double check the contents of your bag prior to
coming to the airport. Look, when you have eighty two fireworks,
three knives, two replica firearms, and a canister at pepper
spray in your carry on bag, it's not a question
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of double checking.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I mean that's the stuff you wanted to bring on
and it's not a question of the double check. Majority
of the guns were found loaded. According to TSA, loaded
guns and explosives are never allowed on an airplane. Replica
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firearms and knives, on the other hand, are permitted in
checked bags, but not in a carry on bag, and
some airlines do not allow any kind of pepper spray,
so travelers should contact your airline if you're really committed
to putting your pepper spray in your carry on bag.
I will mention again, I saw that movie carry On
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on Netflix last night and I really liked it. So
it's got kind of a die hard Christmas movie vibe
with action at a major airport. And after you see it,
maybe you'll do what we did, which is sort of
do a deep dive on how they shot it and
where they shot it, because it's sort of like, man,
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they take an entire airport and they shoot this thing,
you possibly do that. So we kind of went in
a deep dive looking for that. So anyway, that's my
recommendation to you for this holiday season. In addition to
watching all the Christmas specials and listening to all the
Christmas magic here on KFI, and of course I include
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my podcast, The Mark Thompson Show, which you can check
out on YouTube or across all audio platforms including iHeartRadio.
And with that said, let me wish you a happy
holiday and encourage you to stay tuned the great Mo
Kelly and crew. Next Mark Thompson saying, have a safe,
(29:41):
happy and healthy Christmas and holiday and happy.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Healthy New Year.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Moe Kelly is here in the building.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Just saw him and he'll be joining at seven o'clock
Matt Gates. Of course, the report came out Mark Thompson
here for Tim Conway Junior. By the way, big report
detailing all of his stuff, the farmer Florida congressman paying
tens of thousands of dollars to women for drugs and sex.
(00:32):
It was it's a pretty detailed I mean, he paid
ninety thousand dollars for sex and drugs, whereas he getting
his XCS and drug That seems like you're overpaying.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't know. But he denied wrongdoing. Resigned from the
House last month.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Of course, he was selected by President elect Trump to
be Attorney General and then withdrew from consideration because of
the uphill confirmation battle that he was likely going to
be facing. But there was an allegation of underage women
who were involved in these parties that he attended, and
so I don't think we've heard the end of this. Certainly,
(01:11):
this report is reputationally damaging, but by the same COCD.
It's not a legally binding report, it's a congressional report,
so there'd have to be some kind of follow up
in the way of legal action. But they deposed many
of these women. They have fourteen thousand texts and emails
(01:31):
from Gates. They had those VENMO receipts, which are wildly embarrassing.
So it's all there, and Gates, I think is going
to become an anchor or is what he was planning
to do, and I'm guessing he'll probably still do it
on that one American news is it an the first
(01:51):
human case of H five bird flu detected in La County.
The victim, an adult who is ex that a work
site to livestock infected with H five bird flu, has
been treated with anti virals is recovering at home. The
overall risk of H five bird flu to the public
(02:11):
is still low. They say there's no evidence of person
to person spread of the virus close contexts of the
infected person. Other workers exposed at the work site are
being monitored for Simpson symptoms and have been offered personal
protective equipment and testing anti viral prophylaxis. The department is
(02:33):
of is the CDC you would be involved in the
county Department of Public Health.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, kind of department of public health.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And the Apartment of Public Health is saying no additional
cases have been identified. They're working closely with the CDC
on an investigation, and of course they've got to track this.
I mean, this is the scary part, right, jumps to
the human population. When you have human to human infection,
then you've got a real issue. You people rarely get
bird flu, says the La County Health Officer, but those
(03:06):
who interact with infected livestock or wildlife have a greater
risk of infection. So there are precautions that many are
taking who are involved with exposure.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
To livestock.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
People should avoid unprotected contact with sick or dead animals,
including cows, poultry, and wild birds, avoid consuming raw or
undercooked animal products like raw milk, and protect pets in
backyard poultry from exposure to wild animals.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
They say.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
They are also stressing the importance of getting the seasonal
flu vaccine, which can help prevent severe seasonal flu illness
and lower the risk of getting both seasonal and bird
flu infections at the same time. If exposed symptoms by
the way of h five bird flu in humans include
eye redness or discharge, fever, cough, difficulty, breathing, sore throat,
(04:01):
muscle or body aches, diarrhea and vomiting. Wow, and Merry Christmas,
everybody really good times.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Speaking of.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
The flu shot, I saw this and I thought it
was interesting. I just thought to mention it to you.
Francis Ford Coppola is reflecting on the horror of polio
and slams vaccine skeptics when it comes to polio and beyond.
The Oscar winning Bay Area filmmaker and polio survivor is
(04:36):
sounding the alarm over the growing wave of vaccine skepticism
in the United States, particularly regarding polio. In a new interview,
Francis Ford Coppola recounted his harrowing experience with the disease
at age nine, warning that the push could undo decades
of progress in preventing catastrophic healthy that he's talking about
(04:56):
the push against vacs right. It could undo decades of
progress in preventing catastrophic health outcomes.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Here's the quote.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
People don't understand that polio is a fever that just
hits you for one night. You were only sick for
one night. The eighty five year old director said, the
terrible effects of polio, like being unable to breathe so
you have to be in an iron lung or not
being able to walk, or to be totally paralyzed, is
(05:25):
the result of the damage of that one night of
the infection. Contracting polio left him partially paralyzed for part
of his childhood. He said, I remember that night I
was feverish and they took me to a hospital ward
I was He said, it was so crammed with kids
in that hospital ward that there were gurneys piled up
(05:46):
three and four high in the hallways because there were
so many more kids than there were beds in the hospital.
I remember the kids in the iron lungs who you
could see their faces on mirrors, and they were all
crying for their parents. They didn't understand and why they
were suddenly in these steel cabinets. I was looking around,
and then when I tried to get out of bed,
(06:06):
I fell on the floor and I realized I couldn't walk.
Copola spent ten days in the polioward. Doctors told his
family that while he would survive, he would like to
be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
His father, Carmine Coppola, the composer known for The Godfather's Scores,
rejected that it didn't sound logical to him. Copola said,
(06:31):
Carmine sought alternative treatments and discovered the work of an
Australian nurse who pioneered a new approach involving gentle exercise
for polio patients. But the horror is what I saw,
a hospital filled with screaming kids, Copola said. And that
was finally all over because of the wonderful sock vaccine
(06:54):
that happened just two or three years later. So you know,
when we talk about these vaccines and we hear these stories,
I think it's instructive to hear the stories like like
that one from Francis Ford Coppola, because he was there
at the time of one of the greatest scourges on humanity.
(07:16):
These pandemics and these epidemics. They are really remarkably something
that science has handled so well, even as we fear
and likely we'll confront another one. But I thought that
was instructive and interesting. As I say, word from Francis
Ford Coppola.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I have a podcast on YouTube, but it's also across
all the major podcast networks, including iHeartRadio. It's called The
Mark Thompson Show. It's kind of politics and news and stuff.
It's always great to hang out with Tim. I miss Tim.
He'll be back next week. I'm usually here on Tuesday
nights with Tim, but always happy to hang out out
whenever they need me. Here at KFI kind of my
(08:03):
home court. Really do love it here. There was a
rumor that this holiday season would be punctuated by a
big wedding, the Jeff Bezos wedding, the four hundred million
dollar wedding. It was rumored to be the wedding to
(08:23):
exceed all weddings. Lauren Sanchez, his longtime girlfriend, We're finally
going to do it. We're finally going to tie the knot. Well,
the word is, it's not going to happen. No, the
rumors are all misplaced because they insist no wedding for
(08:45):
the holidays.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Well, it looks like Jeff Bezos will be remaining an
unmarried man.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's right, ladies.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, The Amazon founder clears up rumors that he's.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Planning to wed fiance Lauren.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Sanchez this week in a holiday them sarahmon Jeff takes
to X December twenty second, writing, this whole thing is
completely false. None of this is happening.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The old adage, This has gotta be AI, right right.
It is just the same style, you know Bezos takes
to X. I mean, the inflection is all flat.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Like I'm trying to understand that, Like, this is obviously
coming from the entertainment. So somewhere we're at NBC Universal.
I'm hoping it's AI, because if it's someone that sounds.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Like that, I don't know. I think it might be
a girl. Oh is it really? I don't know. I
don't know. Bella you should do do you do any
voiceover or you know? I really want to get into it.
Oh my god, you should you sound great?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Oh thanks, I'm gonna print something now and then I
want you to read it instead of her.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah exactly, I really think that, Yeah, Bella should be
reading this stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
This whole thing is completely false. None of this is happening.
The old adage. Don't believe everything you read is even
more true today than it ever has been. Now, lies
can get all the way around the world. Before the
truth can get its pants on. So be careful out there, folks,
and don't be gullible a sixty year old.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's what Bezos said. Okay, Yeah, ends.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
His message by taking aim at media outlets that spread
the false narrative, saying, will be interesting to see if
all the outlets that covered and re reported on this
issue a correction when it comes and goes and doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Okay, you know what, I can't even listen to her anymore.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I want Bella to do that from now on. I
don't want to use anything with that woman's voice anymore. Yeah, exactly.
It's just it's embarrassing. But the bottom line is Bezos
and Sanchez not getting married for the holiday season. They
are still betrothed. You know, it's still a plan at
some point, at least that's what they're indicating, but they
are not going to do it this week. I should
(10:53):
mention Lauren Sanchez used to do a show with me.
It's called That's So Hollywood. Hold for applause and yes,
thank you, folks, thank you. Was yeah, quite it was
quite wonderful. We were on the air for a couple
of years. But the fact is that we worked closely together,
we were colleagues. And I love Lauren Sanchez. In fact,
I just you know, I think she is gifted in
(11:17):
so many different ways. And I attended her first, the
wedding that preceded this next wedding that's going to happen,
the wedding to her ex Patrick Whitezel, and I thought
that wedding was unbelievable. I mean, I can't imagine that
you'll outdo that wedding. That wedding had Ben Affleck was there.
(11:39):
Hugh Jackman sang at the wedding. One of the songs
Hugh Jackman sang was written for them, and it was
just it was gorgeous. I mean, it was a gorgeous
setting in Santa Barbara. I can't imagine a lovelier wedding.
But Jeff Bezos and Lauren when they actually do it,
(12:00):
I'm sure it will be even more impressive affair. And
from weddings to divorce, yes, sad to say, but maybe
something that you could have anticipated. Siria's deposed president Basher
A l A sad his wife has filed for divorce. Yes,
(12:25):
it's hard to keep those marriages together sometimes when you
are deposed from power. You know, you lose track of
the relationship in all the fleeing from your country so
that you won't be thrown in prison. Now she is
British and they fled to Russia. She wants to go
(12:50):
back to London because she ain't down for hanging out
in Russia with the deposed leader of Syria. So she
has dual British Syrian passports and you know, citizenship. She
moved to Syria in two thousand, married Asad. She was
twenty five years old at that time. And even though
(13:12):
his asylum was accepted, there are apparently severe restrictions on it.
He's not permitted to leave Moscow to engage in any
political activities. They've frozen his assets, his money, and he's
got gold and two billion dollars that's right, two billion
dollars in assets and eighteen apartments he has in Moscow. Well,
(13:36):
all of that is kind of frozen, and so she
again is just not good with it. She wants out,
and so Basher Aliside's wife has filed for divorce. It's
the story that nobody else tells you. They tell you
the story of the fall of the regime. But his
(13:57):
wife wants no more of it. By the way, did
you see how he fled Syria. The report was just released.
It was an investigative report over the weekend, and I'll
share only just one detail with you, but it's kind
of wild how everybody on his staff in Syria thought
(14:22):
he was just going to deliver a series of remarks
to the nation, even as the rebels were charging the city,
and they actually added all these soldiers around the palace,
and it was completely expected by everyone on his staff
that he was going to deliver these They had the
television cameras set up, and he's going to deliver these remarks,
(14:43):
and that they were going to tough it out against
the rebels. Meantime, Asad was fleeing already, he was fleeing
on a plane and was on the plane while the
staff was collecting all they were writing his remarks. They
were running his speech or statement that he was going
to make that evening to the Syrians. And it wasn't
(15:04):
until he was like an hour and then two hours
late for that appointed time that they realized something was
going on. And then the word got out that he
had fled the country, and then of course they completely
fled he has a brother. I didn't know any of
the stuff that I was reading this piece. He has
a brother who was handling a lot of stuff. He fled,
(15:25):
I believe, to Iraq, while Basad Assad Bashar al Assad
fled to Moscow and again now his wife will be
fleeing to London. That's the update on the fleeing and
on the fallen despots.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It's the part of the show that we like to
update you on all of those deposed leaders when we
come back Mega millions News and ELF on the shelf
questions become controversial.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway jun on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
We're in the middle of a dry spell that apparently
could be one for the record books, record shattering start
to the year with torrential rain, flooding, mud slides. You know,
you remember that that was last winter, but you know,
technically still during this calendar year. Well, the last time
at rain more than a trace in la was on
May fifth. The city got thirteen hundreds of an inch
(16:25):
of rain on May fifth, that was barely enough to
soak the ground. And then five straight months with not
even a drop. November saw fourteen hundreds of an inch
of rain with a series of light sprinkles, and Todd Hall,
who is the senior mediorologist at the National Weather Service Office, said,
(16:49):
if we do not receive any measurable rainfall through December
thirty first, the Downtown La censor will finish tied for
first place for the driest conclusion of the year. It
also increased fire risk in southern California, Santa and a
winds that fueled several wildfires in recent months. Mountain Fire
(17:09):
and Ventura County destroyed about two hundred homes, and the
Franklin Fire in Malibu, which destroyed I think like twenty structures.
And drought conditions have also begun to begun to return,
and this is a you know, the agricultural map that's
looked at Southern California is shown on that map as
abnormally dry. Again, a twenty percent chance of rain in
(17:34):
La on Christmas Eve, that's tomorrow, and then potentially a
storm headed for California around New Year's Day or the
first week of January. The Mega Million's jackpot is nine
hundred and seventy million. The drawing is tomorrow night, nine
(17:56):
hundred and seventy Mili. If there's a winner in the
next drawing, it would mark only the second time a
Mega Million's jackpot has been a hit on Christmas Eve.
The Christmas Miracle. I hope it hits you hard. The
first time it happened was Christmas Eve of twenty oh two,
(18:17):
when somebody won sixty nine million dollars never claimed the jackpot, though,
this one nine hundred and seventy million.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Again.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You can purchase your tickets until seven forty five on
Christmas Eve. Now, Richie moved in here again with an
urgent word.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
The last time he came in, he had that word
about the fact that Tommy Lee only showers once a week.
This time he moved in with word about elf on
a shelf. They are the elves on shelves, a Christmas tradition,
(19:00):
but apparently there's some controversy around elf on a shelf. First,
some of the kids have found them creepy and not cute.
Isn't that what you were saying, Richie? Yeah, and you're
saying that these elves on shelves a holiday fixture for
many households since five that's when the book came out,
(19:23):
The Elf on the Shelf book. It was sort of
this thing that was put on shelves and you tell kids, hey,
the Santa elf on the shelf is keeping an eye
on you. Isn't that basically how it works? Kind of
you know, you know, watch your step because you can
see elf boy over there is keeping an eye on you.
Isn't that what they were kind of originally designed to do.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Yeah, like just you better be on your best behavior,
view on your gifts to be delivered by Santa.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
You know they're watching you type thing.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, And a lot of parents find joy in doing
this thing with their kids, but others are saying it
creates an anxiety and their kids and they don't like it,
and the kids apparently don't like it, So some parents
are pushing.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Back on it.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
The ELF's absence though, if you ban them from your house,
it takes away a little of the Christmas magic, Richie,
That's what I'm hearing. That's what I'm reading that you know,
the elves are only for bad seeds and most normal
kids you don't have to worry about that. So this
(20:33):
elf on a shelf thing, I mean, it was really
something that was integrated into the Christmas traditions on some
level might be endangered. This is what Richie's telling me,
that this might be a turnaround year for Elf on
the shelf. So the social media push that's saying don't
let the elf on the shelf into your house. It's
(20:55):
a remarkable thing. In any case, the Elf on the shelf.
If I will tell you this lest you fear that
it's going away. It was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
So I always feel as though if it's there, good
luck getting rid of it. I mean, that's kind of
part of Americana, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I say so. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
More than twenty one million elves have been sold since
five since the tradition started, and there is more and
more elfing at homes all around America, even as social
media has begun this pushback against the elf. Regardless of
(21:37):
whether your kids are naughty or nice, I hope they.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Have a great holiday with you and.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
That you don't need to put them under the constant
surveillance of one of Santa's elves. But if you do,
that's what Santa's Elves are there for, to surveil your family.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
There it is. We'll talk to mo Kelly maybe next Also,
Metro announcing free rides on Christmas Eve and word out
of lax all of that still to come.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, screw that holiday cheer stuff. Get over here, dadd
he's not happy. Oh my god, I am six more
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I love my KFI
kids at the holidays. So much fun to be with
everybody today. Got to hang out with Eileen Gonzalez newsperson Bella,
(22:38):
who should have a career as a voiceover artist, like
learn that you should one day. I mean, listen to
this stuff with these with the woman who was doing
the where's that Jeff Bezos here it is? This is
the this is the woman who's reading the Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Story on end.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
These comments from Jeff come a day after reports came
out that he and Lauren would be tying the not
in in a extravagant six hundred million dollar wedding series.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Wave that copy better than that, lady. Sure, I don't
mean to be too tough on her, but I mean,
you know you're we're sitting on a million dollar talent
in the.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Other room, Bella. I kind of love her though. Do
you you like her sort of flat tone with the
wedding tomorrow? I like her inflection at the end of everyone.
That's true. She's got a very valid girl. Reports.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
The couple had rented out a fancy sushi restaurant along
with several mansions in the popular ski town for their guests.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
For their guests sushi restaurant, Yeah, they mentioned in the
Path ever.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Fancy sushi restaurant along with several mansions in the popular
ski town for their guests, as well as plans to
have their ceremony take place at actor Kevin Costner's one
hundred and sixty acre ranch nearby.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Nearby.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's a little bit of brit that's the way the
Brits often will read it, you know, the reception to
take place at the one hundred and eighty acre ranch
of Kevin Costner nearby.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
That wasn't the end of the run.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
There was a train wreck today four people were killed.
They have then the the last word. It's always extended anyway.
I am well, I'm glad you like her so much.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
But former entertainment reporter and billionaire businessman first began dating
in twenty eighteen, while they were both still married.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Okay, anyway, that's the word.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
By the way, if you're just joining us on that story,
it's all rumor and apparently isn't happening at least this week.
Although there were a lot of details there. I mean,
they'd rented a sushi restaurant, they had multiple residences for
people who were attending Kevin Cosner's ranch, et cetera. It
seemed as though they had things pretty well fleshed out
in terms of details. But now Bezos is saying, no,
(24:57):
it's not happening, and don't know where you guys heard that.
La County Metro announcing it will offer free service on
all bus and rail lines, as well as its Metro
Micro and Metro bike share programs this Christmas Eve and
New Year's Eve, so that's tomorrow. The faregates at all
Metro rail stations will be unlatched, and fair boxes and
(25:18):
validators will not deduct fares from tap cards and fair media.
This is your Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve plan
meantime at lax holiday spirit with a midair saxophone solo
(25:40):
from a passenger.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Here it is.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The man played the saxophone mid flight to spread holiday cheer.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, that.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Recording made by a flight attendant and he continued down
the aisle toward the back of the plane while playing
this Christmas music and the flight attendant recorded that so
very nice holiday cheer there. Meantime, before you even get
on the plane, a woman flying from LA to Philly
(26:34):
wound up on the TSA list that will likely keep
her from flying from LA to Philly again. On her
carry on stuff. They're in the carry on bag, they
found the following eighty two fireworks, three knives, two replica firearms,
(26:56):
and a canister of pepper spray. None of those things
are allowed in carry on luggage.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
TSA people, you know, if you work at the airport
in TSA, you've seen some pretty funky stuff through there.
I look at your Instagram and that Instagram is filled
with all kinds of you know, brass knuckles and stuff
that you know, and worse. But they said the Federal
Security director at LAX said, this sheer number of prohibited
(27:29):
items discovered in a single carry on bag is extremely concerning.
Let this incident serve as a reminder to all travelers
to double check the contents of your bag prior to
coming to the airport. Look, when you have eighty two fireworks,
three knives, two replica firearms, and a canister at pepper
spray in your carry on bag, it's not a question
(27:50):
of double checking.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I mean that's the stuff you wanted to bring on
and it's not a question of the double check. Majority
of the guns were found loaded. According to TSA, loaded
guns and explosives are never allowed on an airplane. Replica
(28:12):
firearms and knives, on the other hand, are permitted in
checked bags, but not in a carry on bag, and
some airlines do not allow any kind of pepper spray,
so travelers should contact your airline if you're really committed
to putting your pepper spray in your carry on bag.
I will mention again, I saw that movie carry On
(28:33):
on Netflix last night and I really liked it. So
it's got kind of a die hard Christmas movie vibe
with action at a major airport. And after you see it,
maybe you'll do what we did, which is sort of
do a deep dive on how they shot it and
where they shot it, because it's sort of like, man,
(28:56):
they take an entire airport and they shoot this thing,
you possibly do that. So we kind of went in
a deep dive looking for that. So anyway, that's my
recommendation to you for this holiday season. In addition to
watching all the Christmas specials and listening to all the
Christmas magic here on KFI, and of course I include
(29:18):
my podcast, The Mark Thompson Show, which you can check
out on YouTube or across all audio platforms including iHeartRadio.
And with that said, let me wish you a happy
holiday and encourage you to stay tuned the great Mo
Kelly and crew. Next Mark Thompson saying, have a safe,
(29:41):
happy and healthy Christmas and holiday and happy.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Healthy New Year.
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