November 25, 2025 • 31 mins
Mark Thompson delivers a crash course in classic television as he teaches producer Richie Quintero who Johnny Carson. Guest Michael Monks joins the show to break down the latest LA County budget cuts and what they mean for local services. Plus, a Campbell’s Soup exec faces backlash after reportedly calling the brand “food for poor people,” and the memorial continues to grow for the brave Burbank K9 officer tragically killed in the line of duty.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
App Conway Away.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, you're stuck with me, Mark Thompson, all by myself
and I've got my crew led by Michael Krozer.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yo. Yeah, great to have Krozy in.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's kind of a you know, this is what happens
around Thanksgiving, Christmas. You get this sort of holiday thing.
You feel lucky if you get, you know, one of
the one of the regulars, one of the starters in.
But sometimes, you know, just like in any kind of sport,
or even when the understudy takes the stage, you go
wait a minute, waiting in the wings. As it turns out, we.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Got two foreigners on the show today with us.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
By the way, who are the two foreigners? Oliver right there?
R on the board. But I got the accent.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm here every day, Lucy, he'll do in traffic for us.
Oh what does Lucy sound like?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Lucy?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Are you there?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
You'll yeah, you'll hear me. But you know what, I
don't consider myself. I've been here forever.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I've been here. Well, then why the accent would be
the question?
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Because I was born there.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, okay, so you know, birth, growing up, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I told you though that you know. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I used to go to an Italian restaurant and it
was a very popular Italian restaurant. The owner was from Italy,
no surprise maybe, but he'd been in the country forty years.
And I asked him, I said, why if you've been
in the country forty years do you still speak with
such a thick Italian accent? And he said, let me
(01:41):
tell you something. To Tom. He always called me Tom,
even though he knew my name was Mark Thompson. Let
me tell you some of Tom. I lose my accent.
I lose in my business. So I think on some level,
you people with accents know that we melt for you.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
We melt for you, true, but it's the shame in
It's the same in the UK. You know, when you
have an American persson.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
No it's not, Oh, you never lose the accent. But
you guys don't melt for the American accent.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
No way.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You guys look down on it. No you don't. Please,
I'm sure there are a few that do. But in general,
we we will absolutely u just truly uh fall over
ourselves for anybody with any kind of accent, not just British.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But I don't think it works the other way.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Around in any part of the world. American accent people
on the planet.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yes, we're in Japanese love American.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, maybe you got to go to Japan to find
an example. Then come on, no, no, no, I I haven't
been to Japan. I want to go to Japan, but yeah,
never been, so yeah, exactly. All right, So now that
we've got this whole accent thing squared away, we'll get
to l a budget cuts and where you might see them.
(02:59):
Michael Monk will join us a little bit later in
this half hour. Also, John, why am I hearing an echo?
Is there a reason for that? What's going on? You
got it, don't you?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Tra We got it?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Okay, not that I don't like hearing myself back, but
I don't not in that accident. Yeah, we have a
special guest coming up atink the top of the six
o'clock cour about Johnny Carson. It's in relation to Johnny Carson.
I'll just tell you now, do you know who Johnny
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Carson is? We had this say yesterday, Richie. You know
Johnny Carson, Crickets really, that's incredible, man. So yesterday, for
those who missed it, we had it's Dick Van Dyke's
one hundredth birthday coming up, and they're having this big
festival for Dick van Dyke in Malibu where he lives,
and it's coming up a December seventh, and it's like
(03:51):
an all day thing and there's a film, a documentary
about Dick van Dyke and all this thing. And when
Richie was telling me about it, he said, and we
got this guy about Ivan ivan Dyke or Ivan van Dyke,
I said, Dick van Dyke.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah. And Richie had no idea who Dick van Dyke
is or was was in entertainment history or is today.
So I now turned to Johnny Carson when we're talking
about Johnny Carson today that you literally don't know who
Johnny Carson is or was you You. I don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
No, I swear there's like a park with his name
on it, like across the street.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
He used to tape his show right across the street
from where we're sitting right now.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
No, seriously, please please inform.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, at a time long ago before the Internet, before
there were all the channels that are now available to
you if you have cable or YouTube TV or whatever,
if you're watching live TV, all the streaming services. There
were but a handful of networks. Three networks really, CBS, NBC,
and ABC, and then there were a couple of independent
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channels that would sometimes show up in a bigger market
like Los Angeles, but if you were out in a
smaller market, a smaller community, it was really literally only
the three. It was NBC, ABC and CBS. So you
had everybody who was watching TV funneled into those three places.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean, you had the choice.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
You can watch TV, but it has to be live
as it happens, and you're going to watch one of
three channels, or you can go read a book, or
play chess or par cheesy or go out in the yard.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But that was it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And so when late night TV rolled around, the going
out in the yard thing is pretty well done. The
book will just put you to sleep, and most people
aren't playing part cheesy anymore. They're watching late night television.
And it became a dominant way in which the culture
was affected. And so you had on NBC one of
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the three choices. You had this guy Johnny Carson. He
did the Tonight Show for years, for decades, and he
became a cultural institution, I mean a media institution and
a cultural institution. And prior to his presence, I think
on Tonight Show, there was a Steve Allen and there
was this guy Jack Partc. So there were various guys
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who took on this role, but he he took on
the role in the most enduring way, right, So he
had really just celebrities and people promoting stuff through that
Tonight Show world, and it was a you know, it
was the thing. And then of course after Carson, Jay
Leno took over, you know, and he carried that I mean,
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you know, he made it a number one show. I think,
I don't know if it was number one at the time,
but Jay did really well with it too. And then
what happened, and now what's happened is a number of
different options are now available to the late night viewer participant,
everything from gaming to streaming to Netflix to you know,
(07:00):
time shifted viewing. You can watch you know, something on
Bravo that you wanted to see, but you you know,
Real Housewives past episodes, and so the audience has been
attenuated across you know, so many different platforms. But you
have to remember at the time we're talking about classic
television sixties, seventies, even eighties, the options were far fewer,
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and this guy, Johnny Carson became appointment viewing and he
influenced the culture and people would talk about it the
next day. Did you see what happened on Johnny Carson
last night? Did you see what he said about this?
Did you see so and so on Carson? And if
somebody did well on Johnny Carson, comedians did well on
Johnny Carson, it could launch their career. Drew Carey as
an example, people did well on Tonight's show and they
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were launched. Jerry Seinfeld, Drew Carrey, even Leno himself was
I think Leno was probably already a very popular club comic.
But when he I mean top of the game type
club comic, but when he was on the Night Show
and Letterman, he I think was vaulted to another level.
And then he started filling in for Carson, and you see,
(08:06):
you see the power again culturally of this guy Johnny Carson.
Jenny Carson had a remember he had a clothing line,
the Carson Clothing Line. I mean those older boys and
girls who were hearing this, you know what I'm talking about.
He he was the guy. What's wild is to go
back on YouTube and look at some of these old
Carson things and they're smoking and they're drinking. It was
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really like a cocktail party over desk.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Anyway, he was essentially the standard for late night from
what nineteen seventy or whatever until he retired in the
early nineties.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I think that's a great way to put it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Was the standard. He was the one that you looked
at when you even thought of late night TV period.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
And had some of the best comedic timing of anybody
on TV ever.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, and we used to talk about how many babies
were conceived during the Tonight show because everybody had it
on at night.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I got it on it night.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Thank you, thank you, Yeah, thank you for making it
clear to us what you were saying.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
All right, spell it out.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
LA Budget Cuts next and well we talked to Carl.
We've about Carson with this guy who's dedicated his life
to or some aspects of his life to Johnny Carson.
Michael Monk's next on LA Budget Cuts. Mark Thompson here
for Tim Conway Jr.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. Thanks for joining us.
We're going to get right into a serious problem in
LA County and that's money. Yeah, the budget is blown
out and there have to be some very difficult cuts ahead.
Michael Monks joins us from KFI News. So give me
the bad news.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Well, the bad news is that troubles are melting in
Los Angeles County when it comes to their money. There's
not enough coming in, there's too much going out, and
they are probably going to have to make some difficult
choices they already had to do to get this current
fiscal year, which starts in July, in order to have
a balanced budget. They had to make some serious choices.
It's going to be worse next time around. And there's
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a multitude of reasons for that.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Not the least of wish is a four billion dollar
sex abuse settlement.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, this is exactly what I wanted to get into,
and I'm glad you brought it up, because the reason
we find ourselves here is because largely of stuff like this,
and it how we ended up with that big number.
Is fascinating, isn't it, Because it's quite controversial.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
It's the largest sex abuse settlement in the history of
this country. And this is a country that had numerous
Catholic dioceses facing bankruptcy because of how much money they
had to pay out for their own sex abuse scandals.
This one in La County is enormous. And by the way,
according to La County DA Nathan Hoffman, could have significant
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amounts of fraud. People making claims that we're not accurate,
but were not vetted before this settlement was announced.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
It was only after the fact.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
That's how loose the county government is with your money.
And by the way, I should point out to you also,
today's devastating news about the county's finances was presented by
an acting county CEO. Because the permanent county CEO is
sitting at home after being paid two million dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Now, because why that she was paid two million dollars.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
The county CEO, FISHA.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Davenport, was offended defamed by Measure g's ballot language last year.
That was the ballot measure that La County voters approved
to make the county ceo an elected position rather than
an appointed one. But she thought that that defamed her,
so she was going to sue the county. They settled
with her for two million dollars. That's more money flying
(11:45):
out the door. I mean, this is grotesque. It's grotesqueness
on top of other grossness. And so you end up
with what are uh, it's a record settlement concocted cases
in large measure, as you say, uncontested than this two
million dollar payout, which is just like a rounding error
compared to all the rest of this, and we end
up where where we are today with an insane deficit,
(12:08):
insane deficit that is going to affect people that use
county services. Here is what acting county CEO Joe Nikita
said today to the supervisors.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
And the math here is pretty straightforward. Our fixed costs
are going up. These are costs we have to pay
and they're not optional. And a major driver of those
costs is the two percent cost of living increase for
our employees next year. We have to pay that, and
we continue to experience slower property tax road. We do
not believe our increase in revenue will cover our increase
(12:38):
in fixed costs. This means that as we head into
the new budget year, the curtailments in place will help
us balance and pay for the COLA, but budget pressures
will constrain our flexibility to fund new or existing priorities.
And this is important because some programs key to the
Board's vision are operating already in a structural deficit or
(13:00):
have substantial unmet needs. Now, in ordinary years, we look
to revenue growth, revenue growth to trim structural deficits and
grow investments in existing priority programs. We don't think that
would be possible next budget year.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
So two things there at the end.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
One, they just don't expect revenue growth to be significant
enough to stave off any disaster that they're facing. In Two,
he's saying to the Board of Supervisors, a lot of
your pet projects, a lot of the priorities that you
have you have created together as a board, they're already
in financial trouble. And those include the diversion programs that
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take people who might have mental health problems, keeps them
out of jail and puts them into different services. That
is all ready in need of over one hundred and
eighty six million dollars over four years to fund one
thousand more beds. The program they created to help defend
tenants who are facing eviction. They need another one hundred
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and sixty eight million dollars for that over the next
five years because it was created with one time funding
that did not have any other source of funding down
the road.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
The cow fresh.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
The contributions from the county are going to have to
be more because the federal government is not going to
be giving as much.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
That's to eat exactly.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
It used to be a fifty percent participation from the
federal government. That's going to twenty five percent now. Now
the state in the county will have to make up
that difference. The cost of the county is more than
forty two million dollars. That's a huge But what does
it mean for you and me? It means a lot
because the departments that could be cut by this and that.
Acting CEO Joe Nakida referenced multiple departments, including probation, some
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of the larger departments in the county.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
It could also mean cutting the.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Hours that bathrooms are available at the beaches, cutting the
amount of cleaning efforts that there are at the county beaches,
reducing the amount of time that swimming pools are open
and available to the public, reducing services at animal control.
So if there are shelters that are already struggling, they'll
struggle more. If you've got problems with animals in your area,
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you will have less response time. These types of cuts
will have a direct and immediate impact on your lives.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
This is brutal, just brutal.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
It's only going to get worse.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, that's the point. I mean, part of the brutalities
that I don't see an end to it.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
I think those.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It's the same thing I see with the City of
La as an observer, as a reporter who looks at
LA City Hall and LA County. We mention those key
program areas that these particular supervisors like and that are
having financial challenges. It's a matter of priorities, and when
you listen as intently as I do to these things,
I think it is appropriate at some point to question
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those priorities and say we have to get our house
in order. Because you would do that as an individual.
I would do that as an individual, even if it's
something I care about. Let's say I've got a four
h one k here at the company and I've been
putting five percent of my salary side, and the next
year I'm like, oh, I'm doing pretty well. I'm going
to put ten percent aside. But then the year after
that things get a little shaky. I, as a responsible adult,
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might say, I got to cut that back to just
a five percent contribution. These folks would probably go up
to fifteen percent, except that would be saving money or
investing money and not spending it on a pet project.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I mean, this is clearly mismanagement. And I don't know.
You know, you have a window on this and you
sit through these hearings, but this just seems as though,
you know, it's these guys can't find their butt with
both hands. I mean, I don't understand it.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
It's shocking. It's shocking to watch some of these meetings.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, even the settlement on these cases that are told
into the billions of dollars. As we've said, there were
so many that were clearly.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Fraud I mean, they are at least alleged to be.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
And the County DA came out just last week and
said that he believes there's a significant amount of fraud
in those cases, and the fact that they were vetted
well enough before a four billion dollar settlement was reached.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Should outrage everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, and there has to be a way to claw
back some of that money. I mean, but I don't
know if that money is still around anymore. But it's
it's outrageous. What's it's bad news on top of bad
news when it comes to La City in La County.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
They need more money. They're gonna come calling you with
fees and taxes.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
That's right. I mean, that's the only way you have
to raise money. It's you know, cuts can only get
you so far, so you're exactly right. Michael Monk's from
KFI News. Thank you, my pleasure. All right, KFI AM
six forty, It is the Conway Show. Mark Thompson sitting
in for Tim.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What up, party people, It's KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Thompson here for Tim
Conway Juniors. We slide into the holidays. Tim's taking some
time for Thanksgiving. We got Krozier and Sam's here, Ali's
here and Richie's here. So we are still keeping the
ship of state afloat and there is huge Oh do
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you want me to do this now? The postathon thing, Richie,
let's do it. Okay, I just heard a postathon thing.
That's why I was going to kind of bump it,
but why not tell you about it now? It is
coming up. It'll be a week from today, that's it. Yeah,
Giving Tuesday, December two, the fifteenth annual Pastathon is a
week from today. Chef Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club. It's an
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amazing story because they started so small, just with an idea.
It was his mother's idea originally, and now they provide
more than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids
all over Southern California in need. And it's your generosity
that's lifted it up and made it happen and continues
to make it happen. So we're doing a live broadcast
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called what do we call it? Katerina's Club? What is
it called? It's the Postathon? Okay Ah, I'm trying to
add liver around the copy and I kind of get
into trouble.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Yeah, that's always the worst man.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, off page.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Our live brocast is Giving Tuesday on December second, five
a to eight piece. Amy King will do her show
from there, and you know, all the shows to the
KFI schedule, and then we'll finish up at the Anaheim
White House eight So you'll be there, Yes, I will
be there, eight eighty seven South Anaheim Boulevard. I look
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forward to that two and a half hour drive there
and back. You can donate anytime. It is a great cause.
I mean you hear that all the time, great cause,
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Speaker 2 (19:53):
We'll get that money to Chef Bruno and to Katerina's Club.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
So you like a Friday when we kicked it off
and you're Belinda at Smart and Final, We're going to
go an.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Extra hour with us. We're going to go to eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Oh that's right, it does say five eight to eight ps.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Let we get a bonus hour for anybody that shows
up for the Conway Thompson show.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
We Oh, thank you. I didn't even notice that in
the first past so thank you very much. The fifteenth
annual KFI Pasta Pastathon is here and one of the
things that they said is, hey, please do this promo
because we're going to send a recording of the promo
to some of them, you know, and please don't send
that one. Okay, that's all I say. I'll do another
one shot. Yeah, I'll do on next hour. Send that
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one next hour, okay, but don't send that fired. Campbell's
Soup employee is suing the company. Now you've got to
know a few things about this. It's pretty wild because
there was a an expletive filled rant that was recorded
by this employee and that is at the center of
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this Campbell Soup scandal. Here's what you can now. Again,
I had problems yesterday, but this should be good.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I think. No, it's not all right. I swear you
got it up in there or not.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Campbell's this morning, Campbell Soup is denying claims about its
products allegedly made by an executive and a recorded conversation.
The person in the recording is also heard belittling Campbell's
customers during an explited field rants.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
So healthy, bio engineered me.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I don't want to eat.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
All right, let me let me stop it here, because
I think I don't know how well you can make
this out. But basically, in this conversation he's saying, and again,
this conversation was recorded by the employee, and by the way,
just before you say anything, it's not the same. In California,
it is legal to record this conversation without the person
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who is being recorded knowing about it.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
In Michigan, and that's where.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
This took place, but the employee is saying that the
company makes highly processed food for poor people. We have
s for fing poor people who buys our s I
don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy now,
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and I know that I know what the F is
in it. And then again the response was that it's
bioengineered meat. And this is the executive, Martin Ballely, responding,
and I don't want to eat a piece of chicken
that came from a three D printer. So they're both
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kind of dumping on what Campbell's soup is made of.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And from what I understand, it's not like it's not
three D printed. I mean bioengineered is basically they're basically
saying that the machines are pulling off the meat from
the chickens, and that's what they're calling io engineered.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I see.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
So it's not like they're making meat, right, but the
point still stands.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, and they go on to make all these disparaging
comments about you know, various ethnicities. Play a little bit
more that we'll see it too what has actually said,
but you get it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It's a little hard to make it out the shoe.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
Mesi chicken that came from a three D print.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
The recording is allegedly from a conversation that's now part
of a lawsuit filed by Robert Garza, a cybersecurity analyst
for Campbell's, who claims he was fired after reporting the
alleged remarks, which he says also included racist comments about
company employees. Garza claims Campbell executive Martin Balley made those
comments after the two met to discuss Garza's salary. In
a statement, Garza's attorney saying, this situation has been very
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hard on Robert. He thought Campbell's would be thankful that
he reported Martin's behavior, but instead he was abruptly fired.
Campbell's responding saying if the comments were in fact made,
they are unacceptable. They do not reflect our values and
the culture of our company, and going on to say
the comments heard on the recording about our food are
not only inaccurate, they are patently a cert.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Nothing melts away the cold like a delicious humfowl of
Campbell's soup.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Campbell's saying the chicken meat used in our soups comes
from long trusted USDA approved us suppliers and meets our
high quality standards, and the company noting Bally worked in
it and had nothing to do with food production. Bally
is on leave pending a company investigation. In the meantime,
the Attorney General in Florida, a state that bans lab
grown meat, says his office is now investigating Campbell's products.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, and we.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Reached out to Martin Bally but did not couldn't get Martin.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Can we surprise that is sorry? So it's a good
thank you. The deal is going to end up this way.
Bally's going to get fired for his comments. The employee,
the it guy who recorded it, he's going to get
a check and kind of told to go away. Is
going to sign some document that says this is over
and done with and Campbell's is going to go on.
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I mean, it's a great brand. They've done very well
through the years and they'll continue to do well. So
all the disparaging comments that were made, I think just
get lost in the wash. But wow, it's a bad
moment for that company, especially once it's picked up by
various local news outlets GMA, it kind of gets out
there and it becomes, you know, a People magazine thing,
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which is where it is also being talked about. So
but Campbell's Soup isn't going anywhere. It's it's one of
those brands that is Americana. So when we come back
story from right here in Burbank, Mark Thompson here for
Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. Tim returns on Monday, well,
the morning of the police dog that was shot and
killed by that armed man after that chase through Burbank.
The memorial continues to grow. The shooting took place following
a traffic stop. We kind of detailed it for you.
(26:07):
The other day. Happened about twenty to seven the other night.
It was Saturday, northbound on ramp of the five Freeway
near Vista Street right in Burbank, and a passenger in
the car ran away from the cops, eventually hid in
some bushes. The officers saw the man was armed and Spike,
(26:29):
who is this lapd dog that is an officer that's
they referred to the dogs that way was sent in
to help. Spike was shot at least once when he
approached the arm man who's taken to an emergency veterinarian
(26:50):
but was pronounced dead. And the difference they say, between
losing a police officer losing a cane officer, there is none.
It's a dog, but it's part of our law enforcement family,
according to officers there at the scene and Burbank Police
(27:11):
Lieutenant Dereck Green. The suspect himself was later killed in
a shootout with officers. So the whole thing just got
ugly beyond the ugliness of killing this canine. So the
memorial continues to grow. Spike was four years old, two
year veteran of the Burbank Police Department, and Burbank cops
(27:32):
are saying there'll be a public memorial for Spike.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
They have not mentioned time, but they are.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Wanting to get the word out because apparently there's been
so much public interest. There's audio on this Okay, can
you play it and it? Will it play here? Or
let's see how if this audio works. The one second.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Richie stand by for excitement.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
This is the same can't get, can't get? Why can't
we do it?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Then again? Effort? Every day?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Do they do this to me all the time?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I can't get and I get an honest that effort
is that on the phone.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It doesn't play. It's all right, go ahead, let's hear
a little bit. Hey, this is a.
Speaker 11 (28:16):
Police department that's in mourning behind me. The memorial continues
to grow for Spike, who was killed in the line
of duty.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
It's hard.
Speaker 11 (28:27):
Donovan Yepril was one of many people who came by
to visit the growing memorial for Spike. The first Burbank
police doctor die in the line of duty.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
He was a success and you know, he did his job,
and he did his job well.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
For that, you know, it's uh lives for eternity.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
Thomas Martin is visiting from Florida when he heard what
happened he came by to pay his respects.
Speaker 12 (28:53):
I think it's appropriate. You know, he's he's out there
doing his job. He's trying to protect us, the same
as a human police officer or a firefighter. They were scared.
Lives on a daily base. They go to work in
the morning and they don't know for sure if they're
coming home or not.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
Spike was shot and killed Saturday evening around seven. Burbank
Police conducted a traffic stop. When the passenger and the
car officers pulled over, they had a run for it,
Burbank Police telling us that passenger hid in some bushes.
Burbank PD determined the man was armed. That's when Spike
was sent in to help take the suspect into custody.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
When the Canaine approach and engage the suspect, that suspect
fired at least one round towards the dog, striking the dog.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
Spike was rushed to a veterinarian hospital where he was
pronounced dead. The suspect then shot at officers, who returned fire,
killing the suspect. Spike was a two year veteran of
the department. He was four years old.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I actually expected to see a lot of people to
come out in a lot of flowers and remembrances. So
I'm glad to see it too.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
I think it says that at the end of they
were all we can all come together and be united
and honor Spike in his memory.
Speaker 11 (30:07):
And the department telling us the r planning for a
public memorial for Spike.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
No, there it is.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That was the news report, essentially echoing what I was
telling you before, that there will be a public memorial
and that there's enough public interest that we'll talk about
it here on KFI and make sure that you know
about it when we come back. In the five o'clock hour.
Waimo making news in Santa Monica. They've turned weay Moo loose,
(30:35):
and yet there is a new order that has been
issued regarding Weaimo. We'll get to it, as they say
in the five o'clock hour, and Krozier and I both
bonding over now something related to our family pets, and
maybe it'll be something that you can relate to this
(30:58):
holiday season. We'll get into that next hour. It's a
Tim Conway Junior Show, Mark Thompson sitting in.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Conway show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI Am six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's camp I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
App Conway Away.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, you're stuck with me, Mark Thompson, all by myself
and I've got my crew led by Michael Krozer.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yo. Yeah, great to have Krozy in.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's kind of a you know, this is what happens
around Thanksgiving, Christmas. You get this sort of holiday thing.
You feel lucky if you get, you know, one of
the one of the regulars, one of the starters in.
But sometimes, you know, just like in any kind of sport,
or even when the understudy takes the stage, you go
wait a minute, waiting in the wings. As it turns out, we.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Got two foreigners on the show today with us.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
By the way, who are the two foreigners? Oliver right there?
R on the board. But I got the accent.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm here every day, Lucy, he'll do in traffic for us.
Oh what does Lucy sound like?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Lucy?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Are you there?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
You'll yeah, you'll hear me. But you know what, I
don't consider myself. I've been here forever.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I've been here. Well, then why the accent would be
the question?
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Because I was born there.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, okay, so you know, birth, growing up, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I told you though that you know. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I used to go to an Italian restaurant and it
was a very popular Italian restaurant. The owner was from Italy,
no surprise maybe, but he'd been in the country forty years.
And I asked him, I said, why if you've been
in the country forty years do you still speak with
such a thick Italian accent? And he said, let me
(01:41):
tell you something. To Tom. He always called me Tom,
even though he knew my name was Mark Thompson. Let
me tell you some of Tom. I lose my accent.
I lose in my business. So I think on some level,
you people with accents know that we melt for you.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
We melt for you, true, but it's the shame in
It's the same in the UK. You know, when you
have an American persson.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
No it's not, Oh, you never lose the accent. But
you guys don't melt for the American accent.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
No way.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You guys look down on it. No you don't. Please,
I'm sure there are a few that do. But in general,
we we will absolutely u just truly uh fall over
ourselves for anybody with any kind of accent, not just British.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But I don't think it works the other way.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Around in any part of the world. American accent people
on the planet.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yes, we're in Japanese love American.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, maybe you got to go to Japan to find
an example. Then come on, no, no, no, I I haven't
been to Japan. I want to go to Japan, but yeah,
never been, so yeah, exactly. All right, So now that
we've got this whole accent thing squared away, we'll get
to l a budget cuts and where you might see them.
(02:59):
Michael Monk will join us a little bit later in
this half hour. Also, John, why am I hearing an echo?
Is there a reason for that? What's going on? You
got it, don't you?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Tra We got it?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Okay, not that I don't like hearing myself back, but
I don't not in that accident. Yeah, we have a
special guest coming up atink the top of the six
o'clock cour about Johnny Carson. It's in relation to Johnny Carson.
I'll just tell you now, do you know who Johnny
(03:30):
Carson is? We had this say yesterday, Richie. You know
Johnny Carson, Crickets really, that's incredible, man. So yesterday, for
those who missed it, we had it's Dick Van Dyke's
one hundredth birthday coming up, and they're having this big
festival for Dick van Dyke in Malibu where he lives,
and it's coming up a December seventh, and it's like
(03:51):
an all day thing and there's a film, a documentary
about Dick van Dyke and all this thing. And when
Richie was telling me about it, he said, and we
got this guy about Ivan ivan Dyke or Ivan van Dyke,
I said, Dick van Dyke.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah. And Richie had no idea who Dick van Dyke
is or was was in entertainment history or is today.
So I now turned to Johnny Carson when we're talking
about Johnny Carson today that you literally don't know who
Johnny Carson is or was you You. I don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
No, I swear there's like a park with his name
on it, like across the street.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
He used to tape his show right across the street
from where we're sitting right now.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
No, seriously, please please inform.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, at a time long ago before the Internet, before
there were all the channels that are now available to
you if you have cable or YouTube TV or whatever,
if you're watching live TV, all the streaming services. There
were but a handful of networks. Three networks really, CBS, NBC,
and ABC, and then there were a couple of independent
(05:02):
channels that would sometimes show up in a bigger market
like Los Angeles, but if you were out in a
smaller market, a smaller community, it was really literally only
the three. It was NBC, ABC and CBS. So you
had everybody who was watching TV funneled into those three places.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean, you had the choice.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
You can watch TV, but it has to be live
as it happens, and you're going to watch one of
three channels, or you can go read a book, or
play chess or par cheesy or go out in the yard.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But that was it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And so when late night TV rolled around, the going
out in the yard thing is pretty well done. The
book will just put you to sleep, and most people
aren't playing part cheesy anymore. They're watching late night television.
And it became a dominant way in which the culture
was affected. And so you had on NBC one of
(05:56):
the three choices. You had this guy Johnny Carson. He
did the Tonight Show for years, for decades, and he
became a cultural institution, I mean a media institution and
a cultural institution. And prior to his presence, I think
on Tonight Show, there was a Steve Allen and there
was this guy Jack Partc. So there were various guys
(06:17):
who took on this role, but he he took on
the role in the most enduring way, right, So he
had really just celebrities and people promoting stuff through that
Tonight Show world, and it was a you know, it
was the thing. And then of course after Carson, Jay
Leno took over, you know, and he carried that I mean,
(06:38):
you know, he made it a number one show. I think,
I don't know if it was number one at the time,
but Jay did really well with it too. And then
what happened, and now what's happened is a number of
different options are now available to the late night viewer participant,
everything from gaming to streaming to Netflix to you know,
(07:00):
time shifted viewing. You can watch you know, something on
Bravo that you wanted to see, but you you know,
Real Housewives past episodes, and so the audience has been
attenuated across you know, so many different platforms. But you
have to remember at the time we're talking about classic
television sixties, seventies, even eighties, the options were far fewer,
(07:22):
and this guy, Johnny Carson became appointment viewing and he
influenced the culture and people would talk about it the
next day. Did you see what happened on Johnny Carson
last night? Did you see what he said about this?
Did you see so and so on Carson? And if
somebody did well on Johnny Carson, comedians did well on
Johnny Carson, it could launch their career. Drew Carey as
an example, people did well on Tonight's show and they
(07:45):
were launched. Jerry Seinfeld, Drew Carrey, even Leno himself was
I think Leno was probably already a very popular club comic.
But when he I mean top of the game type
club comic, but when he was on the Night Show
and Letterman, he I think was vaulted to another level.
And then he started filling in for Carson, and you see,
(08:06):
you see the power again culturally of this guy Johnny Carson.
Jenny Carson had a remember he had a clothing line,
the Carson Clothing Line. I mean those older boys and
girls who were hearing this, you know what I'm talking about.
He he was the guy. What's wild is to go
back on YouTube and look at some of these old
Carson things and they're smoking and they're drinking. It was
(08:27):
really like a cocktail party over desk.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Anyway, he was essentially the standard for late night from
what nineteen seventy or whatever until he retired in the
early nineties.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I think that's a great way to put it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Was the standard. He was the one that you looked
at when you even thought of late night TV period.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
And had some of the best comedic timing of anybody
on TV ever.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, and we used to talk about how many babies
were conceived during the Tonight show because everybody had it
on at night.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I got it on it night.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Thank you, thank you, Yeah, thank you for making it
clear to us what you were saying.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
All right, spell it out.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
LA Budget Cuts next and well we talked to Carl.
We've about Carson with this guy who's dedicated his life
to or some aspects of his life to Johnny Carson.
Michael Monk's next on LA Budget Cuts. Mark Thompson here
for Tim Conway Jr.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. Thanks for joining us.
We're going to get right into a serious problem in
LA County and that's money. Yeah, the budget is blown
out and there have to be some very difficult cuts ahead.
Michael Monks joins us from KFI News. So give me
the bad news.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Well, the bad news is that troubles are melting in
Los Angeles County when it comes to their money. There's
not enough coming in, there's too much going out, and
they are probably going to have to make some difficult
choices they already had to do to get this current
fiscal year, which starts in July, in order to have
a balanced budget. They had to make some serious choices.
It's going to be worse next time around. And there's
(10:11):
a multitude of reasons for that.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Not the least of wish is a four billion dollar
sex abuse settlement.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, this is exactly what I wanted to get into,
and I'm glad you brought it up, because the reason
we find ourselves here is because largely of stuff like this,
and it how we ended up with that big number.
Is fascinating, isn't it, Because it's quite controversial.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
It's the largest sex abuse settlement in the history of
this country. And this is a country that had numerous
Catholic dioceses facing bankruptcy because of how much money they
had to pay out for their own sex abuse scandals.
This one in La County is enormous. And by the way,
according to La County DA Nathan Hoffman, could have significant
(10:54):
amounts of fraud. People making claims that we're not accurate,
but were not vetted before this settlement was announced.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
It was only after the fact.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
That's how loose the county government is with your money.
And by the way, I should point out to you also,
today's devastating news about the county's finances was presented by
an acting county CEO. Because the permanent county CEO is
sitting at home after being paid two million dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Now, because why that she was paid two million dollars.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
The county CEO, FISHA.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Davenport, was offended defamed by Measure g's ballot language last year.
That was the ballot measure that La County voters approved
to make the county ceo an elected position rather than
an appointed one. But she thought that that defamed her,
so she was going to sue the county. They settled
with her for two million dollars. That's more money flying
(11:45):
out the door. I mean, this is grotesque. It's grotesqueness
on top of other grossness. And so you end up
with what are uh, it's a record settlement concocted cases
in large measure, as you say, uncontested than this two
million dollar payout, which is just like a rounding error
compared to all the rest of this, and we end
up where where we are today with an insane deficit,
(12:08):
insane deficit that is going to affect people that use
county services. Here is what acting county CEO Joe Nikita
said today to the supervisors.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
And the math here is pretty straightforward. Our fixed costs
are going up. These are costs we have to pay
and they're not optional. And a major driver of those
costs is the two percent cost of living increase for
our employees next year. We have to pay that, and
we continue to experience slower property tax road. We do
not believe our increase in revenue will cover our increase
(12:38):
in fixed costs. This means that as we head into
the new budget year, the curtailments in place will help
us balance and pay for the COLA, but budget pressures
will constrain our flexibility to fund new or existing priorities.
And this is important because some programs key to the
Board's vision are operating already in a structural deficit or
(13:00):
have substantial unmet needs. Now, in ordinary years, we look
to revenue growth, revenue growth to trim structural deficits and
grow investments in existing priority programs. We don't think that
would be possible next budget year.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
So two things there at the end.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
One, they just don't expect revenue growth to be significant
enough to stave off any disaster that they're facing. In Two,
he's saying to the Board of Supervisors, a lot of
your pet projects, a lot of the priorities that you
have you have created together as a board, they're already
in financial trouble. And those include the diversion programs that
(13:39):
take people who might have mental health problems, keeps them
out of jail and puts them into different services. That
is all ready in need of over one hundred and
eighty six million dollars over four years to fund one
thousand more beds. The program they created to help defend
tenants who are facing eviction. They need another one hundred
(14:00):
and sixty eight million dollars for that over the next
five years because it was created with one time funding
that did not have any other source of funding down
the road.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
The cow fresh.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
The contributions from the county are going to have to
be more because the federal government is not going to
be giving as much.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
That's to eat exactly.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
It used to be a fifty percent participation from the
federal government. That's going to twenty five percent now. Now
the state in the county will have to make up
that difference. The cost of the county is more than
forty two million dollars. That's a huge But what does
it mean for you and me? It means a lot
because the departments that could be cut by this and that.
Acting CEO Joe Nakida referenced multiple departments, including probation, some
(14:42):
of the larger departments in the county.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
It could also mean cutting the.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Hours that bathrooms are available at the beaches, cutting the
amount of cleaning efforts that there are at the county beaches,
reducing the amount of time that swimming pools are open
and available to the public, reducing services at animal control.
So if there are shelters that are already struggling, they'll
struggle more. If you've got problems with animals in your area,
(15:09):
you will have less response time. These types of cuts
will have a direct and immediate impact on your lives.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
This is brutal, just brutal.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
It's only going to get worse.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, that's the point. I mean, part of the brutalities
that I don't see an end to it.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
I think those.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It's the same thing I see with the City of
La as an observer, as a reporter who looks at
LA City Hall and LA County. We mention those key
program areas that these particular supervisors like and that are
having financial challenges. It's a matter of priorities, and when
you listen as intently as I do to these things,
I think it is appropriate at some point to question
(15:47):
those priorities and say we have to get our house
in order. Because you would do that as an individual.
I would do that as an individual, even if it's
something I care about. Let's say I've got a four
h one k here at the company and I've been
putting five percent of my salary side, and the next
year I'm like, oh, I'm doing pretty well. I'm going
to put ten percent aside. But then the year after
that things get a little shaky. I, as a responsible adult,
(16:08):
might say, I got to cut that back to just
a five percent contribution. These folks would probably go up
to fifteen percent, except that would be saving money or
investing money and not spending it on a pet project.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I mean, this is clearly mismanagement. And I don't know.
You know, you have a window on this and you
sit through these hearings, but this just seems as though,
you know, it's these guys can't find their butt with
both hands. I mean, I don't understand it.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
It's shocking. It's shocking to watch some of these meetings.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, even the settlement on these cases that are told
into the billions of dollars. As we've said, there were
so many that were clearly.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Fraud I mean, they are at least alleged to be.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
And the County DA came out just last week and
said that he believes there's a significant amount of fraud
in those cases, and the fact that they were vetted
well enough before a four billion dollar settlement was reached.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Should outrage everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, and there has to be a way to claw
back some of that money. I mean, but I don't
know if that money is still around anymore. But it's
it's outrageous. What's it's bad news on top of bad
news when it comes to La City in La County.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
They need more money. They're gonna come calling you with
fees and taxes.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
That's right. I mean, that's the only way you have
to raise money. It's you know, cuts can only get
you so far, so you're exactly right. Michael Monk's from
KFI News. Thank you, my pleasure. All right, KFI AM
six forty, It is the Conway Show. Mark Thompson sitting
in for Tim.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What up, party people, It's KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Thompson here for Tim
Conway Juniors. We slide into the holidays. Tim's taking some
time for Thanksgiving. We got Krozier and Sam's here, Ali's
here and Richie's here. So we are still keeping the
ship of state afloat and there is huge Oh do
(18:06):
you want me to do this now? The postathon thing, Richie,
let's do it. Okay, I just heard a postathon thing.
That's why I was going to kind of bump it,
but why not tell you about it now? It is
coming up. It'll be a week from today, that's it. Yeah,
Giving Tuesday, December two, the fifteenth annual Pastathon is a
week from today. Chef Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club. It's an
(18:29):
amazing story because they started so small, just with an idea.
It was his mother's idea originally, and now they provide
more than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids
all over Southern California in need. And it's your generosity
that's lifted it up and made it happen and continues
to make it happen. So we're doing a live broadcast
(18:51):
called what do we call it? Katerina's Club? What is
it called? It's the Postathon? Okay Ah, I'm trying to
add liver around the copy and I kind of get
into trouble.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Yeah, that's always the worst man.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, off page.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Our live brocast is Giving Tuesday on December second, five
a to eight piece. Amy King will do her show
from there, and you know, all the shows to the
KFI schedule, and then we'll finish up at the Anaheim
White House eight So you'll be there, Yes, I will
be there, eight eighty seven South Anaheim Boulevard. I look
(19:27):
forward to that two and a half hour drive there
and back. You can donate anytime. It is a great cause.
I mean you hear that all the time, great cause,
but you know by now KFI listeners know how incredible
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(19:49):
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Speaker 2 (19:53):
We'll get that money to Chef Bruno and to Katerina's Club.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
So you like a Friday when we kicked it off
and you're Belinda at Smart and Final, We're going to
go an.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Extra hour with us. We're going to go to eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Oh that's right, it does say five eight to eight ps.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Let we get a bonus hour for anybody that shows
up for the Conway Thompson show.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
We Oh, thank you. I didn't even notice that in
the first past so thank you very much. The fifteenth
annual KFI Pasta Pastathon is here and one of the
things that they said is, hey, please do this promo
because we're going to send a recording of the promo
to some of them, you know, and please don't send
that one. Okay, that's all I say. I'll do another
one shot. Yeah, I'll do on next hour. Send that
(20:33):
one next hour, okay, but don't send that fired. Campbell's
Soup employee is suing the company. Now you've got to
know a few things about this. It's pretty wild because
there was a an expletive filled rant that was recorded
by this employee and that is at the center of
(20:54):
this Campbell Soup scandal. Here's what you can now. Again,
I had problems yesterday, but this should be good.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I think. No, it's not all right. I swear you
got it up in there or not.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Campbell's this morning, Campbell Soup is denying claims about its
products allegedly made by an executive and a recorded conversation.
The person in the recording is also heard belittling Campbell's
customers during an explited field rants.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
So healthy, bio engineered me.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
I don't want to eat.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
All right, let me let me stop it here, because
I think I don't know how well you can make
this out. But basically, in this conversation he's saying, and again,
this conversation was recorded by the employee, and by the way,
just before you say anything, it's not the same. In California,
it is legal to record this conversation without the person
(21:55):
who is being recorded knowing about it.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
In Michigan, and that's where.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
This took place, but the employee is saying that the
company makes highly processed food for poor people. We have
s for fing poor people who buys our s I
don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy now,
(22:21):
and I know that I know what the F is
in it. And then again the response was that it's
bioengineered meat. And this is the executive, Martin Ballely, responding,
and I don't want to eat a piece of chicken
that came from a three D printer. So they're both
(22:42):
kind of dumping on what Campbell's soup is made of.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And from what I understand, it's not like it's not
three D printed. I mean bioengineered is basically they're basically
saying that the machines are pulling off the meat from
the chickens, and that's what they're calling io engineered.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I see.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
So it's not like they're making meat, right, but the
point still stands.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, and they go on to make all these disparaging
comments about you know, various ethnicities. Play a little bit
more that we'll see it too what has actually said,
but you get it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It's a little hard to make it out the shoe.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
Mesi chicken that came from a three D print.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
The recording is allegedly from a conversation that's now part
of a lawsuit filed by Robert Garza, a cybersecurity analyst
for Campbell's, who claims he was fired after reporting the
alleged remarks, which he says also included racist comments about
company employees. Garza claims Campbell executive Martin Balley made those
comments after the two met to discuss Garza's salary. In
a statement, Garza's attorney saying, this situation has been very
(23:41):
hard on Robert. He thought Campbell's would be thankful that
he reported Martin's behavior, but instead he was abruptly fired.
Campbell's responding saying if the comments were in fact made,
they are unacceptable. They do not reflect our values and
the culture of our company, and going on to say
the comments heard on the recording about our food are
not only inaccurate, they are patently a cert.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Nothing melts away the cold like a delicious humfowl of
Campbell's soup.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Campbell's saying the chicken meat used in our soups comes
from long trusted USDA approved us suppliers and meets our
high quality standards, and the company noting Bally worked in
it and had nothing to do with food production. Bally
is on leave pending a company investigation. In the meantime,
the Attorney General in Florida, a state that bans lab
grown meat, says his office is now investigating Campbell's products.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, and we.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Reached out to Martin Bally but did not couldn't get Martin.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Can we surprise that is sorry? So it's a good
thank you. The deal is going to end up this way.
Bally's going to get fired for his comments. The employee,
the it guy who recorded it, he's going to get
a check and kind of told to go away. Is
going to sign some document that says this is over
and done with and Campbell's is going to go on.
(24:52):
I mean, it's a great brand. They've done very well
through the years and they'll continue to do well. So
all the disparaging comments that were made, I think just
get lost in the wash. But wow, it's a bad
moment for that company, especially once it's picked up by
various local news outlets GMA, it kind of gets out
there and it becomes, you know, a People magazine thing,
(25:15):
which is where it is also being talked about. So
but Campbell's Soup isn't going anywhere. It's it's one of
those brands that is Americana. So when we come back
story from right here in Burbank, Mark Thompson here for
Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. Tim returns on Monday, well,
the morning of the police dog that was shot and
killed by that armed man after that chase through Burbank.
The memorial continues to grow. The shooting took place following
a traffic stop. We kind of detailed it for you.
(26:07):
The other day. Happened about twenty to seven the other night.
It was Saturday, northbound on ramp of the five Freeway
near Vista Street right in Burbank, and a passenger in
the car ran away from the cops, eventually hid in
some bushes. The officers saw the man was armed and Spike,
(26:29):
who is this lapd dog that is an officer that's
they referred to the dogs that way was sent in
to help. Spike was shot at least once when he
approached the arm man who's taken to an emergency veterinarian
(26:50):
but was pronounced dead. And the difference they say, between
losing a police officer losing a cane officer, there is none.
It's a dog, but it's part of our law enforcement family,
according to officers there at the scene and Burbank Police
(27:11):
Lieutenant Dereck Green. The suspect himself was later killed in
a shootout with officers. So the whole thing just got
ugly beyond the ugliness of killing this canine. So the
memorial continues to grow. Spike was four years old, two
year veteran of the Burbank Police Department, and Burbank cops
(27:32):
are saying there'll be a public memorial for Spike.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
They have not mentioned time, but they are.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Wanting to get the word out because apparently there's been
so much public interest. There's audio on this Okay, can
you play it and it? Will it play here? Or
let's see how if this audio works. The one second.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Richie stand by for excitement.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
This is the same can't get, can't get? Why can't
we do it?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Then again? Effort? Every day?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Do they do this to me all the time?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I can't get and I get an honest that effort
is that on the phone.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It doesn't play. It's all right, go ahead, let's hear
a little bit. Hey, this is a.
Speaker 11 (28:16):
Police department that's in mourning behind me. The memorial continues
to grow for Spike, who was killed in the line
of duty.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
It's hard.
Speaker 11 (28:27):
Donovan Yepril was one of many people who came by
to visit the growing memorial for Spike. The first Burbank
police doctor die in the line of duty.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
He was a success and you know, he did his job,
and he did his job well.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
For that, you know, it's uh lives for eternity.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
Thomas Martin is visiting from Florida when he heard what
happened he came by to pay his respects.
Speaker 12 (28:53):
I think it's appropriate. You know, he's he's out there
doing his job. He's trying to protect us, the same
as a human police officer or a firefighter. They were scared.
Lives on a daily base. They go to work in
the morning and they don't know for sure if they're
coming home or not.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
Spike was shot and killed Saturday evening around seven. Burbank
Police conducted a traffic stop. When the passenger and the
car officers pulled over, they had a run for it,
Burbank Police telling us that passenger hid in some bushes.
Burbank PD determined the man was armed. That's when Spike
was sent in to help take the suspect into custody.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
When the Canaine approach and engage the suspect, that suspect
fired at least one round towards the dog, striking the dog.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
Spike was rushed to a veterinarian hospital where he was
pronounced dead. The suspect then shot at officers, who returned fire,
killing the suspect. Spike was a two year veteran of
the department. He was four years old.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I actually expected to see a lot of people to
come out in a lot of flowers and remembrances. So
I'm glad to see it too.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
I think it says that at the end of they
were all we can all come together and be united
and honor Spike in his memory.
Speaker 11 (30:07):
And the department telling us the r planning for a
public memorial for Spike.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
No, there it is.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That was the news report, essentially echoing what I was
telling you before, that there will be a public memorial
and that there's enough public interest that we'll talk about
it here on KFI and make sure that you know
about it when we come back. In the five o'clock hour.
Waimo making news in Santa Monica. They've turned weay Moo loose,
(30:35):
and yet there is a new order that has been
issued regarding Weaimo. We'll get to it, as they say
in the five o'clock hour, and Krozier and I both
bonding over now something related to our family pets, and
maybe it'll be something that you can relate to this
(30:58):
holiday season. We'll get into that next hour. It's a
Tim Conway Junior Show, Mark Thompson sitting in.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
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