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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. And one
of our coolest reporters is out today. So Monks is
with us? How you ding do? Hey, Monks, you're working
on something pretty cool. The LAPD is looking for a
(00:21):
ton of dough. He's posing for a photo that Belly
is taking. It's like a high school photo shooting. Here. Ah,
he done, Bello, it's a video. Oh, it is a video. Okay,
I'm waiting for my cueue all right, Monks. So LAPD
wants a ton of money. Well, they always want a
ton of money. They never think they have enough officers,
(00:43):
and they may be right about it. Right, the goal
is to have ten thousand. The current status is closer
to eight thousand, but by the end of this fiscal year,
which is the end of June, they should be over
eighty five hundred. They're gonna bring five hundred cops on no,
they're well, they're going to hire more than four hundred
this fiscal year. Really, keep in mind, we talked just
(01:04):
last month in December that the LAPD was very furtively
adding officers to the roster without authorization. Right, there was
no money allocated for this, and so they moved forward
with hiring officers anyway. They said, whoops, got one hundred
and seventy extra people added to the payroll without your permission.
What you're going to do about it? And so the
city council was like, well, we don't know what we're
(01:25):
going to do about it, but the city administrator is
going to figure this out and he has to go
and find the money.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It comes back to the budget committee this week and says, hey,
I found the money. Where do you find it?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
In different accounts?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Different accounts?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It did not.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
See did they have an extra hundred million legth around
one hundred million we could keep. Here's the problem, Conway,
the city is so messed up financially that Yeah, they
scrounged the couch and managed to find a couple more nickels.
They found two point six million dollars to fund them
through this fiscal year. Okay, can I ask you a
question again? Yeah, you worked in what big city, Cincinnati? Yeah,
(02:02):
and you did the same thing in Cincinnati that you're doing.
I did government reporting and you looked into it. You
did a deep dive. Yeah. I remember when you came here.
You did a deep dive on the LA City government
before you even start here, which I really respect. Yeah,
it did a lot of research. Yes, Okay, so you've
done a lot of research. You've lived in Cincinnati, You've
worked in Cincinnati, lived in La you worked in La
is La more corrupt than Cincinnati. Well, i'll keep Cincinnati's
(02:26):
has its shaff council members taken out of that building
in handcuffs too, in very recent years. So it happens
here about every decade. But it hasn't been the long
running tradition that it has been in Los Angeles, that's
for sure. But no, Cincinnati had four council members put
in prison just a few years ago. Okay, So it happens.
It happens everywhere, you know, you get close to this
type of money. But let me ask you a question.
For every council member that's put in handcuffs and dragged
(02:49):
out of the building, how many other council members have
done something wrong? Like thirty? Well I can't speculate to that,
but you know there are ethical violations maybe that should
have been closed. Perhaps, Okay, because they say when you
get a DUI and I'm not talking about you, just
a guy in general, When you get a dui, it's
probably your two hundred and fiftieth time you've been drinking
(03:11):
and driving. You just now got caught. Possibly, So I'm
saying for every council member they got caught, there's probably
thirty actions that could have been. Yeah, you're suggesting that
we've all maybe driven a little buzzed on occasion and
made our way home without getting caught one hundred percent,
probably more. But back when the back in the old
days can't that'll cast you twenty five thousand dollars, and
(03:32):
there's gonna be more cops in LA to catch you
and try to get that car insurance after dui ding dune. Yeah,
twenty grand easily, easily, Okay, So let's get back to that,
all right. So they found two point six million dollars
to say, go ahead, we're gonna fud We're gonna have
these folks hired. Councilman Hugo Sodo Martinez raised a lot
of questions about this because keep in mind, the council
was really offended last year that this budget was not
(03:53):
a deer too. They worked really hard on this budget. Originally,
they told the police, yes, this is how many you
can hire. We know you want more than that, but
the city staff have to work with the department to
find the money, but they move forward with the hires
before that money was found. Now it's been found retroactively.
Here's part of what council and Soda Martinez said today.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
We hear our complaints all the time about our broken
sidewalks and you know, the things that we're not doing right,
and and look, a budget is a is a document
of our priorities. And it just feels like every single
time LAPD gets what they want every single time, and
the conversations that are not happening in the public is
about how that affects other things that the city does.
(04:33):
And you know, right now we're can't even figure out
where we're going to find the money for. You know,
this money that we're going that we're going to be
committing an ongoing cost. And my fear is that if
it does come from LAPD, where we're going to be
moving is sworn officers to do civilian work, which is
very much a possibility. And you know, when we when
we adopted the budget, we were told staff would work
(04:55):
to identify funding for additional sworn positions. In fact, we
had this debate in December and the money was in there,
but then all of a sudden, the money shows up. Right,
the money shows up, just like proof. There it is,
and it raises for me big questions and how much
money is actually out there?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So those are those questions, like how much money is
out there? How much did they find for the cop?
Two point six million this time? But here's the thing
that's to hire these guys. Now they're on the docket,
you know. Now they're on the dolly them. You got
to pay them next fiscal year two and their health
benefits all of that stuff. And cops aren't cheap. I mean,
this is a very expensive situation. There's a lot of overtime.
(05:32):
There were a lot more questions raised by Hugo Soda Martinez,
who ultimately voted against this along with three others and
only passed nine to four. People were upset about the
way this went down. I think most of the council
support more police being added, right, they did not like
the way this went down. And you heard him there
say somehow money shows up when it's the LAPD, but
(05:53):
not when our constituents are calling about the potholes, about
the street life, or about that sort of thing. Okay,
so let's cut to the Olympics. They want a boatload
of money for the Olympics. I mean the city's going
to be on the hook for any cost overruns if
the Olympics don't turn a profit, or if they don't
break even. I mean they're on the hook for the
first couple hundred million in the States takes up after that. Yeah,
(06:17):
so they really need this to work out. Do you
expect it to work out? Yes? I expect them to win,
to make money because we didn't. You know, unlike other
cities like Montreal, a lot of people don't know this.
They're still paying off their debt when the Olympics. I
think in nineteen eighty when the Olympics were in Montreal,
somewhere back in the that was Moscow. No, okay, then
it was somewhere in the eighties after I look that up.
(06:39):
But they had to build stadiums. We don't have to
build anything. All our stadiums are already existing, and so
that money is going to be saved. Well, this is
supposed to be the no build Olympics. They say, that's right,
because we've hosted the Olympic Games twice already in the back.
Memorial Coliseum will be the first venue to ever host
Olympic events three times. It was in nineteen thirty two,
nineteen nine, eighty four. Yeah, you nailed it. Okay, Yeah,
(07:00):
my mom was born and the year I lost my
virginity nice wish thirty one? Nice? Yeah? How old was
she she was? How do we skipped over that? Seventy eight?
I'm gonna be off for the next couple of days.
(07:20):
I'm glad. You're gonna have to find somebody else's sit
in here and take that stuff. So your birthday's Friday,
and birthday's Friday, you take a birthday off, you know what.
I'm heading out to the desert for a couple of
for a long weekend, is that right? Vegas, Palm Springs. Okay,
that's nice out there, Yeah, Indio or Palm Springs Springs proper. Wow. Yeah,
like little shopping, a little eating. I was there last weekend.
(07:42):
It's beautiful, that's great. Yeah, it's not too hot this
time of year. This is the best time a year
to go. November through January is the best time to
hit Palm Springs, right, I don't think I would ever.
You know, our our our boss Brian Long worked out
there in the in the medium. I didn't know Palm Springs.
Have you ever been to Palm Springs three times? Oh, okay,
it's the It's one of the best kept secrets in America.
It's one of the nicest cities in the world. It's great.
(08:04):
I can't imagine being there in July though. Oh yeah,
you know, I just don't know how people do it,
because obviously people do because they live there. Yeah. But
when you see the forecast for Palm Springs and it's
just one hundred and twent one sixteen all week and
the low you know at night is ninety eight. Yeah,
you know it's the dry heat. It's the worst. Yeah,
it doesn't mean anything, but right now, I mean when
(08:24):
you drive down the main drag there in Palm Springs
in the winter, you know, in January February, there's not
a better place in the world. It's clean, A couple
a couple of panhandlers last time I was there, which
was last January. You know. Otherwise it's it's great town,
great shops, great food, a lot of great hotels. Love
the architecture, love all that mid century stuff they got
(08:45):
going on right there. Yeah, it's a really really beautiful city.
Good for you. But I have recorded my Saturday show
in advance for our fine listeners, a fresh brand news show,
so it'll be on at eight o'clock. You really are
committed to this job. I like that, you know, just
take off. I've added some stories to the file so
you'll hear me in the newscast on Thursday and Friday
because I can't leave the place hanging. You're the best, buddy.
Thank you for coming in and ding dong, ding dong,
(09:07):
ding dong with you.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We might have too much cloud cover, but I think
you'll be able to still see it from certain parts
of southern California. But at six forty four pm, one
hour and twenty minutes, twenty some minutes from right now,
you're going to see a SpaceX rocket blast off out
of Vandenburg. And if you are close to it, or
(09:39):
if you're in the valley and we get a little
tiny break in the clouds, it is one hour, twenty
four minutes and twenty eight seconds from right now. Vandenberg
huge SpaceX rocket Falcon nine SpaceX rocket blasting off out
of Vandenburg. And if so, we'll keep your mind you
(10:00):
but look west actually a little bit, yeah west west,
little west northwest, and you'll be able to see it.
If you live out near it, you'll definitely be able
to see it. If you're in I don't know, if
you're in Ventura and Santa Barbar don't know if that's cloudy
up there? What's going on up there by Vandenberg today
(10:21):
in one hour, twenty three minutes and fifty seconds in counting,
so six forty four today. Go check it out, all right.
The Beckham's are in the news. David Beckham one of
the world's greatest soccer players. I think somebody did soccer, sure, yeah,
(10:41):
football football, And he's got some kids that are angry
that the way they were raised by David Beckham and
his Victoria Beckham, isn't it Victoria? Yeah? Is the wife
spice girl?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh yeah, right, spice girl? What spice was she? Hush posh?
I cared least about the one they don't like to
talk about. But Brooklyn Beckham is the son. Odd name
for a for a son. I like Brooklyn as and
London as girls' names, but it's not a guy's name. Yeah,
(11:18):
I thought I was confused that when I first heard
about the story too. Yeah that's a dude. Yeah that's so.
But let's find out why these kids are upset with
the spice girl and the soccer dude.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
David Beckham is speaking amid a growing family feud. His
son Brooklyn Beckham, has been the talk of the internet
after Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You know when when she just says David Beckham, she
assumes everybody knows he's a world class soccer player, and
they shouldn't. I remember the last time he played, Yeah,
I mean he's he played with Pele. I think that's
the only other soccer player, right know, I know two
soccer plays, Hale and Beckham. Igo Maradona's the only one
(11:58):
I remember. I've never heard that name.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Is speaking amid a growing family feud. His son, Brooklyn Beckham,
has been the talk of the internet after Brooklyn blasted
his parents on social media.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Why would you do that? Why would you do that?
And I think they're minor infractions. I don't think he's
talking about any sexual abuse or physical abuse. I think
it's just minor flags on the field.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
He accused David and Victoria Beckham of undermining his marriage
to Nikola Pels.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Okay, all right, I mean I think every you know,
father and mother in law has problems with the marriage
and the wedding and the venue and the dress and
the cost. It seems really petty.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
They make mistakes.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Children are allowed to make mistakes.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
David Beckham acknowledged on Tuesday that his kids have aired online,
just hours after his oldest son, Brooklyn, posted a lengthy
statement on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay, I'm glad he's sticking up for himself and his wife.
You shouldn't out your parents like this. There's something wrong
with you.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Accusing his mother Vitia and his father of valuing public
promotion over the family.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I try. Now, these kids are both siblings of Victoria
and David. Right, there's no stepmother involved in stepfather. Don't
believe that. Okay, then that it's odd to blast your
you know, your birth parents like this. I get it
if you hate stepdad or stepmom and you take a
shot at them, I understand that, but not this way.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Man.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I try to teach my kids, but you know, you
have to sometimes let them make those mistakes as well.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
After years of speculation about a family feud, the twenty
six year old broke his silence on Monday, saying I
do not want to reconcile with my family, claiming that
his parents have controlled him for years.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Okay, but all parents control kids. That's what we do
as parents. We try to control you know, kids, you
don't make mistakes or embarrass us, and so I don't
know where the penalty is here.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Beckham also wrote that the family can persistently disrespected his wife,
actor Nicola Peltz.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, there's a lot of disrespect going on in every family.
You've got to get over that.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
The Beckham family has been in the spotlight for decades.
David Beckham is one of the most well known soccer
players in recent history.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Wasn't David Beckham? Didn't David Beckham go through a corn
Rows thing like the only white guy? I think he did.
It was one of those It looked really good with
his shirt off too, and the corn Rows. I don't
know when I see a white guy. I think he did.
I think he. I think he He was pretty prominent
(14:38):
when he had the corn Rows go in too, and
it was a tight corn row, you know. I mean,
the guy whoever did it knew what they were doing.
But man, I don't know, horrible, I don't know what's
going on with when white guys do that.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
He married Victoria, a fashion designer and former Spice Girl,
in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It's the most amazing thing.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
First child.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
The pair discussed their careers and starting a family in
a recent Netflix stock You series.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
At the moment he came out, I owe a sudden
until how we're going to protect him? What I'm going
to do to protect him? Okay, it seems like a
good dad, so far right.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
CBS News has reached out to Victoria and David Beckham
for comet, but have not heard back.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh what a shock.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
I mean, we really don't know what the truth is,
and often it's somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Okay, But there doesn't seem to be any major infraction.
There's no murder, there's no rape allegations, there's no ripping
off of money, there's no real I mean, there's just
you know, people offending people with you know, attitude, And
I don't understand why that had to be so public.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
People magazines had a source told them earlier this month
that the parents had reached out to Brooklyn and Nicola
to try to get together and see if they could
move forward. But we really don't know. And this is
also Victoria's first son.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You know, it's hard, I.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Think, for a family to live there life out in
public and we don't know the dynamics at play. We
don't know what's gone on.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
This guy cracking walnuts probably in public, and yeah, I
look at it. He's got a nutcracker in.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Front of him in public, And we don't know the
dynamics at play. We don't know what's gone on behind
closed doors. All we know.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, but but you know what, even if you like,
let's say all right, let's say everything that they did,
you know is true, it's there's still not enough there
to come out and and go public with that. I
just don't understand what these kids were thinking. And plus
these kids probably got a lot of dough from mom
and dad. These are very wealthy people.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
In public, and we don't know the dynamics at play.
We don't know what's gone on the.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
End closed nuts, walnuts down.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Behind closed doors. All we know is that there's this
fracture in this family and it's sad whenever you see it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Not now. I'm on the kids side. These parents are
addicted to walnuts and it's driving me crazy too. They
can't stop with them behind closed doors.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
All we know is that there's this fracture in this family,
and it's sad whenever you see.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It, no matter how rich or four or anything.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
You know what I mean, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, I don't know what the problem is there. I
don't know. I don't know. Kids are just crazy.
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about doggies. Everybody loves dogs and cats, but mostly dogs
(18:19):
and dogs are getting smarter. A new study finds that
dogs are smarter than we originally thought. And we thought
they're pretty smart. So I don't know, maybe they're gonna start,
you know, with credit cards and driving. I don't know
what their next move is.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Girl Jamie Tan says her one year old rescue dog
Mollie is one smart puppy. Molly is exceptionally intelligent.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
She picks up on everything and she doesn't forget.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I think we all say that about our dogs, and
then they you know, then they s on the carpet.
You're like, oh, maybe they're not that smart.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And sometimes it seems like Mollie knows what her owner is.
She's very emotionally intelligent. She picks up on your mood.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yes, exactly, researchers, Well, let's pause for a second. Here,
I don't know what kind of mood swings this, right,
it may be very easy to notice. I. You know,
a piece of two by four could probably pick up
the mood swings that are swinging through this house.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
She picks up on your mood, Yes, exactly. Research.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, and how does she pick up Well, I come
home from work every day and I rage for about
an hour, and then I laugh with friends, and then
I cry for an hour, and then I go back
to rage. Oh and she picks up on that. Yeah,
she's kind of cute that way.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Researchers at Duke University tested the intelligence of puppies and
what maybe one of the most adorable studies ever conducted.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
In this test, we are measuring inhibitory control.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
The puppies had to find treats using only nonverbal clues puppy.
What science has found, according to researcher Hannah Solomon's, is
that even at just four months old, puppies can understand us.
In fact, they're watching us closely. There's even evidence dogs
(20:14):
evolved to better socialize with humans.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, they aren't.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Really tuned into our communication, and they're prepared to look
to us for information.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And they're trying to communicate with us too.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You know, they're not doing a good job because all
I hear dogs do is bark. You know, they've we've
they've been around for millions of years and they haven't.
You know, a dog that's like from a million years
ago and a dog today are pretty close, pretty close.
You know, a year, a million years ago. Human beings
are a lot different from today's human beings. But dogs
(20:50):
are slower to evolve. You know, they're still on all fours.
They don't drive, they don't own homes. We got to
prepare their meals for them. They ask on our floors,
they bite, they you know, they do a lot of
things that they that they're showing that they're not evolving
fast enough.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
We tested how they look to humans and make eye
contact to maybe make a connection or ask for help.
For a lot of dog owners, this is no surprise.
Do you feel like Pedro understands you?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I think he does.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You know? He certainly does you know? And are you
a high learning courage?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And if you're wondering what you can do to encourage
your dog's intelligence, the message is simple.
Speaker 11 (21:31):
You're enough for your dog, giving them a nice, loving
home is going to help them develop really well.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Okay, we have a dog named Abby and I came
home last night and she barked at me like I
was an intruder. I have been in that dog's life
every day for thirteen years, every day, and so when
I came in last night she barked at me. I thought, oh,
this dog's not that bright I've been I've seen her
(21:58):
one hundred and fifty thousand times in my life, and
she thought I was an intruder. Took that personally to me,
and that your dog is looking He's just old and
has cataracts. Yeah, but that's not true because whenever I
say treat, she comes running and sits right next to me.
So all the with the you know she's blind, she's deaf,
(22:19):
which my wife thinks she is. Whenever I've got any
kind of handbone, all those go away. She knows exactly
who the who the guy is. If I come on
with French fries, she knows she can smell it before
I walk in and sits right next to me to
get those fries right next to me. So I don't
know if she's blind deaf. I think she's just smart
(22:40):
and that.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Your dog is looking to you for information.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I will say the smartest thing that my dog does.
I'm not going to go with a million stories because
I hate when people start laying you know, you know,
smart dog stories on me. But we had a warm
place on the couch that was right near a heater
vent and Ernie, our dog, hogged that space up always
because he was the bigger dog. He always sat in
(23:03):
that warm spot on the couch because there was right
near a event and when the heater was on, it
was beautiful, it was very warm, and so Abby wanted
to get that spot. So she would go to the
front door and she would bark at the front door
like somebody was here. He would race to the front door.
She would run past him and take that spot. It
happened twenty five times a day, twenty five times a day,
(23:26):
and he never picked up on it. He always got
screwed by her, you know, always running to the door
to see it was. She ran past him and got
in that spot, and he never picked up on the
fact that she was doing that. That leads me to
believe that maybe some dogs are smart. Ernie was not.
Ernie was not very bright.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
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and not paying attention. So listen to this. This is
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Speaker 8 (24:15):
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Speaker 3 (24:24):
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Speaker 1 (24:27):
I think it's even worse, could be worse. Just drive
around hungover.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
I found out firsthand at a course designed to demonstrate
the hazards of driving long after you stop drinking, when
many drivers don't realize they could still be impaired. Would
you say hungover driving can be as dangerous as driving drunk?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Yeah, you can have some similar issues to you drunk driving.
Speaker 11 (24:48):
Mike's beck is with Driving Skills for Life, a program
by Ford Motor Company that runs free safety clinics for
new drivers. Research shows hangovers can seriously affect you even
after the alcohol has left your system. Hangovers can disturb
your sleep and cognitive functioning and even disrupt your brain's neurochemistry.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, hangovers is the worst. It's like really nothing you
can do about it. You know, you did it yourself.
So you're angry at yourself and you just feel like
crap all day long, and you say to yourself, Okay, God,
please help me here, I'll never drink again. He helps you,
and then you drink again the next day.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
So your decision making process is generally not going to
be as good. You have an increase in reaction times,
you're more apt to make mistakes.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
To simulate the feeling of a hangover while driving, forward
created this special suit.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
This is heavy.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, that's kind of cool. A hangover suit. I'd like
to try that. Wait, yeah, we should do that. Yeah,
the hangover suit.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
One complete with a weighted vest and bracelets to throw
out your balance, goggles to make you more light sensitive,
and headgear to simulate a headache.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
How about they should have just saved some money and
just have people drink for six hours and then they're
really hungover. They could have saved a ton of dough.
They don't need a special suit. Just give everybody whiskey
for you know, eight hours. Have him sleep for an
hour and then put them in the car.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
These headphones are going to have a kind of a
pulsating sound in them.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
Oh boy, Mike, I haven't even had this suit on
for five minutes and already my head feels constricted. I
feel so sluggish and way down. This light is bothering me.
I mean, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Driving like this, and yet people do.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
To show the impact.
Speaker 11 (26:30):
I went to a test track with DM Domzon, an
instructor at Skip Barber Driving Academy.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
A great name for a guy who's driving instructors. Was
just going to say, that's a cool name, great name.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
I went to a test track with Dm Domzon.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Name Dan Donza and all that saved by the bell
with Dan Donza.
Speaker 11 (26:49):
Dm Domson an instructor at Skip Barber Driving Academy, which.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Runs so Skip Barber. That's a great driving school. That's
a terrific one. Many they got a great reputation.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Driver training clinics.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
They set up two courses for us, a twisty road
with sharp turns and one with a sudden lane change.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
This course is designed to simulate emergency scenarios that you're
going to encounter on that I like to do that
I like.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
To do it. Let's see how this lady did.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
Artest suv wired with multiple cameras to capture every angle
of my performance.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
First, I drooke the courses.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Unimpaired, and Donza says, I've passed with flying colors the core.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Good for you. What a brag. Coordination, You're able to
change lanes sober? Great? Where'd you put the plaque on
your wall? Coordination is there? I feel pretty.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
Safe, but watch what happens when I put on Ford
suit to mimic being hungover at the wheel.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Whoa whoa whoa in the emergency lane change.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That's not what you want to hear from your driver
when she's driving you home. Whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Man,
everyone grabs for their seatbelt the first time, I whoa
whoa real quick. I had that experience. But the opposite
when people think I'm going to hit something, and that
almost messes me up because they'll be like no, no, no, no,
(28:11):
I'm like, that's right. It's a normal right turn, dude,
Like they think I would have run into a bush
or something. So funny, that's correct, whoa.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
Whoa in the emergency lane change? Even at thirty miles
an hour.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
I vie'er off the road. Could that have been a
potentially life or death situation?
Speaker 11 (28:28):
That is definitely a life for death situation, more death
than life.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
If there was a guardrail on the side of the road,
you would have struck that. You could have overturned this.
I could have been dead.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Bellier just gave me a note. I don't want to
do that again, she said. Jackie and Shadow are building
their nest again. I don't want to go through that
again with the eagles. Come on, nah, no, with the
eggs and the hatching and are they cold? Are they eating?
Did Dad kill one of them? Again? Very invested in that?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think one that's a one off. You know, I
think you're wrong. You you think people are going to
be are gonna be as interested again this year? Good Shadow?
And what is it? Jackie and jack Shadow? I don't
want to do that, you know, I think one eagles
pregnancy lasts me a lifetime. You know, you're no fun?
No I think I am, I think I am. I
(29:24):
don't think you I just don't. I don't want to.
You know, then where does it stop? You know? I'm
on my twenty eighth pregnancy. Why does it stop.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
We're just we're invested, we're tracking.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Them, But how many do you do it again? Next year? Yeah,
the year after, and then the kids come back and
you see the kids having babies.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
You you just watched the Dodgers World Series Game seven
again last night, right, that's like you're watching it. Correct,
So this is a new version of Jackie and Shadow.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But then you're you know, it's live cause it makes
be nervous when the kids are born and they get
blown off that.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Nest or Dad, Well, I know that's just tragic and
it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Remember last year, Dad stepped on one and killed it.
We don't know that for sure. That's allegedly. You do
not know that for sure, Bellio. I think we all
know what happened. We Dad wiped out one of those
You say that that's what happened. I mean, he didn't
do it on purpose, but he's got those long what
are the feet called on eagles, the talents TALENs. Yeah,
(30:28):
they put it one right through the kid's heart.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Just stop.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So I'm not gonna do it. If you want to
do it, great, but we're not gonna spend a tough
lot of time with Jackie. Maybe you could step away. Yeah,
we'll talk about it, okay, all right, Yeah that's cool. Well,
maybe for five minutes every night you can come in
and talk about Jackie and with you too. Yes, yeah,
a lot, a lot of the audience will be stepping away.
Dare you all right? We have an forty five forty
(30:54):
six forty seven minutes from now, there'll be a launch
at Vandenberg Space Force base' is that what they call it?
Space Force Base, And they'll be launching a SpaceX rocket
in forty five minutes, and you'll want to be able.
You want to if you want to see it, you
look west and you probably could see it. I don't
(31:15):
know about the cloud cover. I don't know if it's
going to obscure your vision or not. I don't know
where you live, but we're going to try to see
it here in Burbank at six forty four. You've got
to get somewhere where we can pull over and look west.
Maybe you can check it out. Oh, it's be great
to see if you're up in Santa Barbara or even
north of Santa Barbara and there's no clouds You'll have
(31:35):
a great shot at this great great shot. So six
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. And one
of our coolest reporters is out today. So Monks is
with us? How you ding do? Hey, Monks, you're working
on something pretty cool. The LAPD is looking for a
(00:21):
ton of dough. He's posing for a photo that Belly
is taking. It's like a high school photo shooting. Here. Ah,
he done, Bello, it's a video. Oh, it is a video. Okay,
I'm waiting for my cueue all right, Monks. So LAPD
wants a ton of money. Well, they always want a
ton of money. They never think they have enough officers,
(00:43):
and they may be right about it. Right, the goal
is to have ten thousand. The current status is closer
to eight thousand, but by the end of this fiscal year,
which is the end of June, they should be over
eighty five hundred. They're gonna bring five hundred cops on no,
they're well, they're going to hire more than four hundred
this fiscal year. Really, keep in mind, we talked just
(01:04):
last month in December that the LAPD was very furtively
adding officers to the roster without authorization. Right, there was
no money allocated for this, and so they moved forward
with hiring officers anyway. They said, whoops, got one hundred
and seventy extra people added to the payroll without your permission.
What you're going to do about it? And so the
city council was like, well, we don't know what we're
(01:25):
going to do about it, but the city administrator is
going to figure this out and he has to go
and find the money.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It comes back to the budget committee this week and says, hey,
I found the money. Where do you find it?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
In different accounts?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Different accounts?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It did not.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
See did they have an extra hundred million legth around
one hundred million we could keep. Here's the problem, Conway,
the city is so messed up financially that Yeah, they
scrounged the couch and managed to find a couple more nickels.
They found two point six million dollars to fund them
through this fiscal year. Okay, can I ask you a
question again? Yeah, you worked in what big city, Cincinnati? Yeah,
(02:02):
and you did the same thing in Cincinnati that you're doing.
I did government reporting and you looked into it. You
did a deep dive. Yeah. I remember when you came here.
You did a deep dive on the LA City government
before you even start here, which I really respect. Yeah,
it did a lot of research. Yes, Okay, so you've
done a lot of research. You've lived in Cincinnati, You've
worked in Cincinnati, lived in La you worked in La
is La more corrupt than Cincinnati. Well, i'll keep Cincinnati's
(02:26):
has its shaff council members taken out of that building
in handcuffs too, in very recent years. So it happens
here about every decade. But it hasn't been the long
running tradition that it has been in Los Angeles, that's
for sure. But no, Cincinnati had four council members put
in prison just a few years ago. Okay, So it happens.
It happens everywhere, you know, you get close to this
type of money. But let me ask you a question.
For every council member that's put in handcuffs and dragged
(02:49):
out of the building, how many other council members have
done something wrong? Like thirty? Well I can't speculate to that,
but you know there are ethical violations maybe that should
have been closed. Perhaps, Okay, because they say when you
get a DUI and I'm not talking about you, just
a guy in general, When you get a dui, it's
probably your two hundred and fiftieth time you've been drinking
(03:11):
and driving. You just now got caught. Possibly, So I'm
saying for every council member they got caught, there's probably
thirty actions that could have been. Yeah, you're suggesting that
we've all maybe driven a little buzzed on occasion and
made our way home without getting caught one hundred percent,
probably more. But back when the back in the old
days can't that'll cast you twenty five thousand dollars, and
(03:32):
there's gonna be more cops in LA to catch you
and try to get that car insurance after dui ding dune. Yeah,
twenty grand easily, easily, Okay, So let's get back to that,
all right. So they found two point six million dollars
to say, go ahead, we're gonna fud We're gonna have
these folks hired. Councilman Hugo Sodo Martinez raised a lot
of questions about this because keep in mind, the council
was really offended last year that this budget was not
(03:53):
a deer too. They worked really hard on this budget. Originally,
they told the police, yes, this is how many you
can hire. We know you want more than that, but
the city staff have to work with the department to
find the money, but they move forward with the hires
before that money was found. Now it's been found retroactively.
Here's part of what council and Soda Martinez said today.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
We hear our complaints all the time about our broken
sidewalks and you know, the things that we're not doing right,
and and look, a budget is a is a document
of our priorities. And it just feels like every single
time LAPD gets what they want every single time, and
the conversations that are not happening in the public is
about how that affects other things that the city does.
(04:33):
And you know, right now we're can't even figure out
where we're going to find the money for. You know,
this money that we're going that we're going to be
committing an ongoing cost. And my fear is that if
it does come from LAPD, where we're going to be
moving is sworn officers to do civilian work, which is
very much a possibility. And you know, when we when
we adopted the budget, we were told staff would work
(04:55):
to identify funding for additional sworn positions. In fact, we
had this debate in December and the money was in there,
but then all of a sudden, the money shows up. Right,
the money shows up, just like proof. There it is,
and it raises for me big questions and how much
money is actually out there?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So those are those questions, like how much money is
out there? How much did they find for the cop?
Two point six million this time? But here's the thing
that's to hire these guys. Now they're on the docket,
you know. Now they're on the dolly them. You got
to pay them next fiscal year two and their health
benefits all of that stuff. And cops aren't cheap. I mean,
this is a very expensive situation. There's a lot of overtime.
(05:32):
There were a lot more questions raised by Hugo Soda Martinez,
who ultimately voted against this along with three others and
only passed nine to four. People were upset about the
way this went down. I think most of the council
support more police being added, right, they did not like
the way this went down. And you heard him there
say somehow money shows up when it's the LAPD, but
(05:53):
not when our constituents are calling about the potholes, about
the street life, or about that sort of thing. Okay,
so let's cut to the Olympics. They want a boatload
of money for the Olympics. I mean the city's going
to be on the hook for any cost overruns if
the Olympics don't turn a profit, or if they don't
break even. I mean they're on the hook for the
first couple hundred million in the States takes up after that. Yeah,
(06:17):
so they really need this to work out. Do you
expect it to work out? Yes? I expect them to win,
to make money because we didn't. You know, unlike other
cities like Montreal, a lot of people don't know this.
They're still paying off their debt when the Olympics. I
think in nineteen eighty when the Olympics were in Montreal,
somewhere back in the that was Moscow. No, okay, then
it was somewhere in the eighties after I look that up.
(06:39):
But they had to build stadiums. We don't have to
build anything. All our stadiums are already existing, and so
that money is going to be saved. Well, this is
supposed to be the no build Olympics. They say, that's right,
because we've hosted the Olympic Games twice already in the back.
Memorial Coliseum will be the first venue to ever host
Olympic events three times. It was in nineteen thirty two,
nineteen nine, eighty four. Yeah, you nailed it. Okay, Yeah,
(07:00):
my mom was born and the year I lost my
virginity nice wish thirty one? Nice? Yeah? How old was
she she was? How do we skipped over that? Seventy eight?
I'm gonna be off for the next couple of days.
(07:20):
I'm glad. You're gonna have to find somebody else's sit
in here and take that stuff. So your birthday's Friday,
and birthday's Friday, you take a birthday off, you know what.
I'm heading out to the desert for a couple of
for a long weekend, is that right? Vegas, Palm Springs. Okay,
that's nice out there, Yeah, Indio or Palm Springs Springs proper. Wow. Yeah,
like little shopping, a little eating. I was there last weekend.
(07:42):
It's beautiful, that's great. Yeah, it's not too hot this
time of year. This is the best time a year
to go. November through January is the best time to
hit Palm Springs, right, I don't think I would ever.
You know, our our our boss Brian Long worked out
there in the in the medium. I didn't know Palm Springs.
Have you ever been to Palm Springs three times? Oh, okay,
it's the It's one of the best kept secrets in America.
It's one of the nicest cities in the world. It's great.
(08:04):
I can't imagine being there in July though. Oh yeah,
you know, I just don't know how people do it,
because obviously people do because they live there. Yeah. But
when you see the forecast for Palm Springs and it's
just one hundred and twent one sixteen all week and
the low you know at night is ninety eight. Yeah,
you know it's the dry heat. It's the worst. Yeah,
it doesn't mean anything, but right now, I mean when
(08:24):
you drive down the main drag there in Palm Springs
in the winter, you know, in January February, there's not
a better place in the world. It's clean, A couple
a couple of panhandlers last time I was there, which
was last January. You know. Otherwise it's it's great town,
great shops, great food, a lot of great hotels. Love
the architecture, love all that mid century stuff they got
(08:45):
going on right there. Yeah, it's a really really beautiful city.
Good for you. But I have recorded my Saturday show
in advance for our fine listeners, a fresh brand news show,
so it'll be on at eight o'clock. You really are
committed to this job. I like that, you know, just
take off. I've added some stories to the file so
you'll hear me in the newscast on Thursday and Friday
because I can't leave the place hanging. You're the best, buddy.
Thank you for coming in and ding dong, ding dong,
(09:07):
ding dong with you.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We might have too much cloud cover, but I think
you'll be able to still see it from certain parts
of southern California. But at six forty four pm, one
hour and twenty minutes, twenty some minutes from right now,
you're going to see a SpaceX rocket blast off out
of Vandenburg. And if you are close to it, or
(09:39):
if you're in the valley and we get a little
tiny break in the clouds, it is one hour, twenty
four minutes and twenty eight seconds from right now. Vandenberg
huge SpaceX rocket Falcon nine SpaceX rocket blasting off out
of Vandenburg. And if so, we'll keep your mind you
(10:00):
but look west actually a little bit, yeah west west,
little west northwest, and you'll be able to see it.
If you live out near it, you'll definitely be able
to see it. If you're in I don't know, if
you're in Ventura and Santa Barbar don't know if that's cloudy
up there? What's going on up there by Vandenberg today
(10:21):
in one hour, twenty three minutes and fifty seconds in counting,
so six forty four today. Go check it out, all right.
The Beckham's are in the news. David Beckham one of
the world's greatest soccer players. I think somebody did soccer, sure, yeah,
(10:41):
football football, And he's got some kids that are angry
that the way they were raised by David Beckham and
his Victoria Beckham, isn't it Victoria? Yeah? Is the wife
spice girl?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh yeah, right, spice girl? What spice was she? Hush posh?
I cared least about the one they don't like to
talk about. But Brooklyn Beckham is the son. Odd name
for a for a son. I like Brooklyn as and
London as girls' names, but it's not a guy's name. Yeah,
(11:18):
I thought I was confused that when I first heard
about the story too. Yeah that's a dude. Yeah that's so.
But let's find out why these kids are upset with
the spice girl and the soccer dude.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
David Beckham is speaking amid a growing family feud. His
son Brooklyn Beckham, has been the talk of the internet
after Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You know when when she just says David Beckham, she
assumes everybody knows he's a world class soccer player, and
they shouldn't. I remember the last time he played, Yeah,
I mean he's he played with Pele. I think that's
the only other soccer player, right know, I know two
soccer plays, Hale and Beckham. Igo Maradona's the only one
(11:58):
I remember. I've never heard that name.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Is speaking amid a growing family feud. His son, Brooklyn Beckham,
has been the talk of the internet after Brooklyn blasted
his parents on social media.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Why would you do that? Why would you do that?
And I think they're minor infractions. I don't think he's
talking about any sexual abuse or physical abuse. I think
it's just minor flags on the field.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
He accused David and Victoria Beckham of undermining his marriage
to Nikola Pels.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Okay, all right, I mean I think every you know,
father and mother in law has problems with the marriage
and the wedding and the venue and the dress and
the cost. It seems really petty.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
They make mistakes.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Children are allowed to make mistakes.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
David Beckham acknowledged on Tuesday that his kids have aired online,
just hours after his oldest son, Brooklyn, posted a lengthy
statement on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay, I'm glad he's sticking up for himself and his wife.
You shouldn't out your parents like this. There's something wrong
with you.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Accusing his mother Vitia and his father of valuing public
promotion over the family.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I try. Now, these kids are both siblings of Victoria
and David. Right, there's no stepmother involved in stepfather. Don't
believe that. Okay, then that it's odd to blast your
you know, your birth parents like this. I get it
if you hate stepdad or stepmom and you take a
shot at them, I understand that, but not this way.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Man.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I try to teach my kids, but you know, you
have to sometimes let them make those mistakes as well.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
After years of speculation about a family feud, the twenty
six year old broke his silence on Monday, saying I
do not want to reconcile with my family, claiming that
his parents have controlled him for years.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Okay, but all parents control kids. That's what we do
as parents. We try to control you know, kids, you
don't make mistakes or embarrass us, and so I don't
know where the penalty is here.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Beckham also wrote that the family can persistently disrespected his wife,
actor Nicola Peltz.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, there's a lot of disrespect going on in every family.
You've got to get over that.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
The Beckham family has been in the spotlight for decades.
David Beckham is one of the most well known soccer
players in recent history.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Wasn't David Beckham? Didn't David Beckham go through a corn
Rows thing like the only white guy? I think he did.
It was one of those It looked really good with
his shirt off too, and the corn Rows. I don't
know when I see a white guy. I think he did.
I think he. I think he He was pretty prominent
(14:38):
when he had the corn Rows go in too, and
it was a tight corn row, you know. I mean,
the guy whoever did it knew what they were doing.
But man, I don't know, horrible, I don't know what's
going on with when white guys do that.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
He married Victoria, a fashion designer and former Spice Girl,
in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It's the most amazing thing.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
First child.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
The pair discussed their careers and starting a family in
a recent Netflix stock You series.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
At the moment he came out, I owe a sudden
until how we're going to protect him? What I'm going
to do to protect him? Okay, it seems like a
good dad, so far right.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
CBS News has reached out to Victoria and David Beckham
for comet, but have not heard back.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh what a shock.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
I mean, we really don't know what the truth is,
and often it's somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Okay, But there doesn't seem to be any major infraction.
There's no murder, there's no rape allegations, there's no ripping
off of money, there's no real I mean, there's just
you know, people offending people with you know, attitude, And
I don't understand why that had to be so public.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
People magazines had a source told them earlier this month
that the parents had reached out to Brooklyn and Nicola
to try to get together and see if they could
move forward. But we really don't know. And this is
also Victoria's first son.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You know, it's hard, I.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Think, for a family to live there life out in
public and we don't know the dynamics at play. We
don't know what's gone on.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
This guy cracking walnuts probably in public, and yeah, I
look at it. He's got a nutcracker in.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Front of him in public, And we don't know the
dynamics at play. We don't know what's gone on behind
closed doors. All we know.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, but but you know what, even if you like,
let's say all right, let's say everything that they did,
you know is true, it's there's still not enough there
to come out and and go public with that. I
just don't understand what these kids were thinking. And plus
these kids probably got a lot of dough from mom
and dad. These are very wealthy people.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
In public, and we don't know the dynamics at play.
We don't know what's gone on the.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
End closed nuts, walnuts down.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Behind closed doors. All we know is that there's this
fracture in this family and it's sad whenever you see it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Not now. I'm on the kids side. These parents are
addicted to walnuts and it's driving me crazy too. They
can't stop with them behind closed doors.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
All we know is that there's this fracture in this family,
and it's sad whenever you see.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It, no matter how rich or four or anything.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
You know what I mean, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, I don't know what the problem is there. I
don't know. I don't know. Kids are just crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
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about doggies. Everybody loves dogs and cats, but mostly dogs
(18:19):
and dogs are getting smarter. A new study finds that
dogs are smarter than we originally thought. And we thought
they're pretty smart. So I don't know, maybe they're gonna start,
you know, with credit cards and driving. I don't know
what their next move is.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Girl Jamie Tan says her one year old rescue dog
Mollie is one smart puppy. Molly is exceptionally intelligent.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
She picks up on everything and she doesn't forget.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I think we all say that about our dogs, and
then they you know, then they s on the carpet.
You're like, oh, maybe they're not that smart.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And sometimes it seems like Mollie knows what her owner is.
She's very emotionally intelligent. She picks up on your mood.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yes, exactly, researchers, Well, let's pause for a second. Here,
I don't know what kind of mood swings this, right,
it may be very easy to notice. I. You know,
a piece of two by four could probably pick up
the mood swings that are swinging through this house.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
She picks up on your mood, Yes, exactly. Research.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, and how does she pick up Well, I come
home from work every day and I rage for about
an hour, and then I laugh with friends, and then
I cry for an hour, and then I go back
to rage. Oh and she picks up on that. Yeah,
she's kind of cute that way.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Researchers at Duke University tested the intelligence of puppies and
what maybe one of the most adorable studies ever conducted.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
In this test, we are measuring inhibitory control.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
The puppies had to find treats using only nonverbal clues puppy.
What science has found, according to researcher Hannah Solomon's, is
that even at just four months old, puppies can understand us.
In fact, they're watching us closely. There's even evidence dogs
(20:14):
evolved to better socialize with humans.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, they aren't.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Really tuned into our communication, and they're prepared to look
to us for information.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And they're trying to communicate with us too.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You know, they're not doing a good job because all
I hear dogs do is bark. You know, they've we've
they've been around for millions of years and they haven't.
You know, a dog that's like from a million years
ago and a dog today are pretty close, pretty close.
You know, a year, a million years ago. Human beings
are a lot different from today's human beings. But dogs
(20:50):
are slower to evolve. You know, they're still on all fours.
They don't drive, they don't own homes. We got to
prepare their meals for them. They ask on our floors,
they bite, they you know, they do a lot of
things that they that they're showing that they're not evolving
fast enough.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
We tested how they look to humans and make eye
contact to maybe make a connection or ask for help.
For a lot of dog owners, this is no surprise.
Do you feel like Pedro understands you?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I think he does.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You know? He certainly does you know? And are you
a high learning courage?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And if you're wondering what you can do to encourage
your dog's intelligence, the message is simple.
Speaker 11 (21:31):
You're enough for your dog, giving them a nice, loving
home is going to help them develop really well.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Okay, we have a dog named Abby and I came
home last night and she barked at me like I
was an intruder. I have been in that dog's life
every day for thirteen years, every day, and so when
I came in last night she barked at me. I thought, oh,
this dog's not that bright I've been I've seen her
(21:58):
one hundred and fifty thousand times in my life, and
she thought I was an intruder. Took that personally to me,
and that your dog is looking He's just old and
has cataracts. Yeah, but that's not true because whenever I
say treat, she comes running and sits right next to me.
So all the with the you know she's blind, she's deaf,
(22:19):
which my wife thinks she is. Whenever I've got any
kind of handbone, all those go away. She knows exactly
who the who the guy is. If I come on
with French fries, she knows she can smell it before
I walk in and sits right next to me to
get those fries right next to me. So I don't
know if she's blind deaf. I think she's just smart
(22:40):
and that.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Your dog is looking to you for information.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I will say the smartest thing that my dog does.
I'm not going to go with a million stories because
I hate when people start laying you know, you know,
smart dog stories on me. But we had a warm
place on the couch that was right near a heater
vent and Ernie, our dog, hogged that space up always
because he was the bigger dog. He always sat in
(23:03):
that warm spot on the couch because there was right
near a event and when the heater was on, it
was beautiful, it was very warm, and so Abby wanted
to get that spot. So she would go to the
front door and she would bark at the front door
like somebody was here. He would race to the front door.
She would run past him and take that spot. It
happened twenty five times a day, twenty five times a day,
(23:26):
and he never picked up on it. He always got
screwed by her, you know, always running to the door
to see it was. She ran past him and got
in that spot, and he never picked up on the
fact that she was doing that. That leads me to
believe that maybe some dogs are smart. Ernie was not.
Ernie was not very bright.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty A hungover driving.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
This is some interesting drive after sleeping off a night
of drinking. But health experts are warning that, saying that
this could be almost as bad as drinking and driving
and not paying attention. So listen to this. This is
a kind of a something you need to know.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
We've heard about the dangers of driving drunk. Whoa whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa. But what about hours later when you're still hungover?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Big crash on the left hand side.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I think it's even worse, could be worse. Just drive
around hungover.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
I found out firsthand at a course designed to demonstrate
the hazards of driving long after you stop drinking, when
many drivers don't realize they could still be impaired. Would
you say hungover driving can be as dangerous as driving drunk?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Yeah, you can have some similar issues to you drunk driving.
Speaker 11 (24:48):
Mike's beck is with Driving Skills for Life, a program
by Ford Motor Company that runs free safety clinics for
new drivers. Research shows hangovers can seriously affect you even
after the alcohol has left your system. Hangovers can disturb
your sleep and cognitive functioning and even disrupt your brain's neurochemistry.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, hangovers is the worst. It's like really nothing you
can do about it. You know, you did it yourself.
So you're angry at yourself and you just feel like
crap all day long, and you say to yourself, Okay, God,
please help me here, I'll never drink again. He helps you,
and then you drink again the next day.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
So your decision making process is generally not going to
be as good. You have an increase in reaction times,
you're more apt to make mistakes.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
To simulate the feeling of a hangover while driving, forward
created this special suit.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
This is heavy.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, that's kind of cool. A hangover suit. I'd like
to try that. Wait, yeah, we should do that. Yeah,
the hangover suit.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
One complete with a weighted vest and bracelets to throw
out your balance, goggles to make you more light sensitive,
and headgear to simulate a headache.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
How about they should have just saved some money and
just have people drink for six hours and then they're
really hungover. They could have saved a ton of dough.
They don't need a special suit. Just give everybody whiskey
for you know, eight hours. Have him sleep for an
hour and then put them in the car.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
These headphones are going to have a kind of a
pulsating sound in them.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
Oh boy, Mike, I haven't even had this suit on
for five minutes and already my head feels constricted. I
feel so sluggish and way down. This light is bothering me.
I mean, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Driving like this, and yet people do.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
To show the impact.
Speaker 11 (26:30):
I went to a test track with DM Domzon, an
instructor at Skip Barber Driving Academy.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
A great name for a guy who's driving instructors. Was
just going to say, that's a cool name, great name.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
I went to a test track with Dm Domzon.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Name Dan Donza and all that saved by the bell
with Dan Donza.
Speaker 11 (26:49):
Dm Domson an instructor at Skip Barber Driving Academy, which.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Runs so Skip Barber. That's a great driving school. That's
a terrific one. Many they got a great reputation.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Driver training clinics.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
They set up two courses for us, a twisty road
with sharp turns and one with a sudden lane change.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
This course is designed to simulate emergency scenarios that you're
going to encounter on that I like to do that
I like.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
To do it. Let's see how this lady did.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
Artest suv wired with multiple cameras to capture every angle
of my performance.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
First, I drooke the courses.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Unimpaired, and Donza says, I've passed with flying colors the core.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Good for you. What a brag. Coordination, You're able to
change lanes sober? Great? Where'd you put the plaque on
your wall? Coordination is there? I feel pretty.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
Safe, but watch what happens when I put on Ford
suit to mimic being hungover at the wheel.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Whoa whoa whoa in the emergency lane change.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That's not what you want to hear from your driver
when she's driving you home. Whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Man,
everyone grabs for their seatbelt the first time, I whoa
whoa real quick. I had that experience. But the opposite
when people think I'm going to hit something, and that
almost messes me up because they'll be like no, no, no, no,
(28:11):
I'm like, that's right. It's a normal right turn, dude,
Like they think I would have run into a bush
or something. So funny, that's correct, whoa.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
Whoa in the emergency lane change? Even at thirty miles
an hour.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
I vie'er off the road. Could that have been a
potentially life or death situation?
Speaker 11 (28:28):
That is definitely a life for death situation, more death
than life.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
If there was a guardrail on the side of the road,
you would have struck that. You could have overturned this.
I could have been dead.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Bellier just gave me a note. I don't want to
do that again, she said. Jackie and Shadow are building
their nest again. I don't want to go through that
again with the eagles. Come on, nah, no, with the
eggs and the hatching and are they cold? Are they eating?
Did Dad kill one of them? Again? Very invested in that?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think one that's a one off. You know, I
think you're wrong. You you think people are going to
be are gonna be as interested again this year? Good Shadow?
And what is it? Jackie and jack Shadow? I don't
want to do that, you know, I think one eagles
pregnancy lasts me a lifetime. You know, you're no fun?
No I think I am, I think I am. I
(29:24):
don't think you I just don't. I don't want to.
You know, then where does it stop? You know? I'm
on my twenty eighth pregnancy. Why does it stop.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
We're just we're invested, we're tracking.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Them, But how many do you do it again? Next year? Yeah,
the year after, and then the kids come back and
you see the kids having babies.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
You you just watched the Dodgers World Series Game seven
again last night, right, that's like you're watching it. Correct,
So this is a new version of Jackie and Shadow.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But then you're you know, it's live cause it makes
be nervous when the kids are born and they get
blown off that.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
Nest or Dad, Well, I know that's just tragic and
it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Remember last year, Dad stepped on one and killed it.
We don't know that for sure. That's allegedly. You do
not know that for sure, Bellio. I think we all
know what happened. We Dad wiped out one of those
You say that that's what happened. I mean, he didn't
do it on purpose, but he's got those long what
are the feet called on eagles, the talents TALENs. Yeah,
(30:28):
they put it one right through the kid's heart.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Just stop.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So I'm not gonna do it. If you want to
do it, great, but we're not gonna spend a tough
lot of time with Jackie. Maybe you could step away. Yeah,
we'll talk about it, okay, all right, Yeah that's cool. Well,
maybe for five minutes every night you can come in
and talk about Jackie and with you too. Yes, yeah,
a lot, a lot of the audience will be stepping away.
Dare you all right? We have an forty five forty
(30:54):
six forty seven minutes from now, there'll be a launch
at Vandenberg Space Force base' is that what they call it?
Space Force Base, And they'll be launching a SpaceX rocket
in forty five minutes, and you'll want to be able.
You want to if you want to see it, you
look west and you probably could see it. I don't
(31:15):
know about the cloud cover. I don't know if it's
going to obscure your vision or not. I don't know
where you live, but we're going to try to see
it here in Burbank at six forty four. You've got
to get somewhere where we can pull over and look west.
Maybe you can check it out. Oh, it's be great
to see if you're up in Santa Barbara or even
north of Santa Barbara and there's no clouds You'll have
(31:35):
a great shot at this great great shot. So six
forty four forty five minutes from right now, blast off
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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(31:56):
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