October 1, 2025 âą 36 mins
Flights arenât being cancelled during the government shutdown, but travelers will feel the impact as TSA agents and air traffic controllers continue working without pay. Bellioâs dog Maize sparked a pricey vet visit after a scary reverse-sneezing episode, leading to some household money talk. Downtown Los Angeles broke ground on the Convention Center expansion, promising jobs and tourism, though Councilmember Curren Price collapsed during the ceremony. And finally, the debate over high-speed rail brings up the question â when was the last time you went to San Francisco?Â
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Dodger game coming up today at six o'clock. They won
last night ten to five, but it was a little
panicky in the eighth and ninth innings. You know, it
looks like the bullpen was gonna come out and blow
that game, which would have been a huge letdown for
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Thank god they.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Won ten to five last night. Hopefully I'm not spoiling
it for you. Maybe you recorded it and you're gonna
watch it today. Sorry, And tonight's the second game. If
they beat the Red TONIGHTE the Dodgers beat the Red tonight,
they will win the wild Card and go on to
the National League Divisional Series. So there you go. Alex
Stone is with us. Alex, I know the government has
(00:46):
been shut down. How has that affected your life, sir?
Not at all, not at all. Back to you. Well, look,
if it doesn't affect it doesn't affect anybody I know.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I mean, if you work for the federal government themselves
down well, and they just got paid today. I believe
it's when they got their direct deposits from the pay
period ending yesterday, So in two weeks, if their paycheck
doesn't go in, well then that's going to be a problem.
But as of right now, it's uh, yeah, it doesn't
seem like that. There's at least in the LA area.
(01:17):
If we lived in Washington, totally different ballgame. But but here,
sure federal workers are impacted, but who's impacted?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Like Social Security is still going to be delivered, We're
still going to get the mail. Banks are open. I
don't think anything's really closed parts.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean there are some officers here and there.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
But the thing that if this goes on long enough,
then what we've seen historically is the airports would begin
to see some impacts. Not today and probably not the
next couple of days. But the problem being if the
TSA officers who don't get paid a whole lot that
they probably don't.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
They also don't do a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I mean they don't.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Most of them probably have a lot of savings and
they're they're going paycheck to paycheck and if they I'm
around to October sixteenth, is the next pay period for
federal workers, and they don't get paid, we expect that
then it's going to be a lot of sick calls
and people bailing out and saying, you know what, I'm
going to a different job. Sam at the FAA with
(02:14):
air traffic Control that we've seen that before. The TSA
is saying today fifty eight thousand of its sixty one
thousand workers are considered to be essential. They're being told,
you have a job. You're not getting paid, but you
have a job. You must report into work. It is
not optional. But as it drags on, that's going to
be a problem if people can't pay their bills. And
(02:35):
this Johnny Jones said that he's a TSA officer. He says,
you can only do this for so long. They can
do it for a couple of weeks, but then they
know that the people are going to be, you know,
I'm out of here, and they're not going to be
showing up for work.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
The childcare does not take IOUs, Gasoline does not take IOUs.
Your house payments do not take IOUs. And sometimes it
becomes very difficult to maintain focused on the mission whenever
you're trying to figure out how you're going to get
to it from work and.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Tim That's the thing. In twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
That shutdown that one on for thirty five days, the
longest in history, and TSA officers it only took them
about a week two weeks to begin calling out sick
and others they went, you know, this is still going
I got to go find another job, and they bailed
out after it became clear it wasn't going to be
fixed right away. That led to long lines at security
checkpoints that turned into a mess. Then air traffic controllers
began calling out sick at the big air traffic control centers.
(03:26):
That then created ground stops, and at about thirty thirty
five days into it, they ended up grounding flights in
New York and Florida, and that personally impacted President Trump
at the time, and he then orchestrated to make sure
that it got over pretty quickly and got Republicans to
get on board with a deal at that point because
(03:46):
that was impacting obviously the East Coast, and the shutdown
ended very quickly. So air traffic controllers got the credit
for ending that one and putting pressure on the government
and on the White House to get that one over with.
But this we'll see, I mean, you know, Democrats seem
to be showing some cracks today, but the earliest they
could come to a deal now would be Friday, when
(04:07):
they all come back together. This woman was flying today
and she said she didn't like any of it. If
the TSA and FAA workers aren't happy, that it's not
going to lead to good things here in the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
You can only ask people to do so much genuinely,
even if a service is very important. People are only
going to do things out of the goodness of their
heart for so long. And I am, you know, genuinely
worried about what's going to happen in the future when
air traffic controllers decide like no, I can't do this anymore,
when you know, even the TSA agents decide like, hey,
I need to be paid. So yeah, I am pretty
(04:37):
worried about like flying in and out for now.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And this guy is flying today too. He has a
message for lawmakers. He says, get this over with, move on.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
At the lowest level.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
We know what to do.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We know our job.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We do our job every day.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Please do your job.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
So you go to LAX, you go to Burbank or
Ontario or John Wayne. Today everything's going to be normal
but as this drags on we go another week or two,
you could start to see longer lines than other problems.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
But because now it's.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
All right, you know they when they said the guy
said on your audio there childcare doesn't take IOUs, gas
station doesn't take IOUs. I got a pen and a
piece of paper. Can you rattle me off some companies
or people that take IOUs?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Here's an iou you just you give me your seriousness.
If KFI came to you and said, you know what,
we're not going to pay you for the next month
and a half, would you keep doing your show.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
As long as I could get the money later on?
You know, when they went back into.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Business, will bye by law? I will get paid back
to them.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
But it's living day to day as somebody who's making
what a TSA officer is right, But it was.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Bucks an hour, twenty bucks an hour.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh no, they're living paycheck to pat. I think a
lot of people are.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But I remember the nineteen ninety five shutdown, But that
seems to affect that a lot of people remember.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Everything was closed.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They put ropes around monuments in Washington to scare the
hell out everybody. All the parks were closed, and that
was a big deal. But now I think we're so
used to the shutdowns that nobody really cares. You know,
there was a I don't remember what cable station I
was watching. They were asking people in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Hey,
what do you think about the shutdown? And the ten
people they interviewed, not one person even knew it was
(06:06):
going on.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, this one doesn't seem to I feel like in
even more recent ones, and it's been this big clock
ticking down, everybody's will they won't day and to make
a deal at the last minute, and this one was
kind of like, well, you know, it's midnight, now everything's
shut down.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I just looked it up.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
The average TSA officer pay twenty two dollars and fifty
six cents per hour.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You know, I was at one point I was living
in Oregon and I was flying down here to work
on KFI when I was doing a weekend show, and
I was staying at the Lax Hilton right out there
near the airport. Sure, and I saw this big, huge
graduation going on down in the courtyard, and so I
went down. I was getting a coffee and a donut
or something in the lobby and I walked over to
see the graduation and there's probably about three hundred family
(06:45):
members there and there were maybe like thirty or forty
graduates and they were going to get there at diploma
and graduate and them parents were taking pictures and everything.
And I said to the guy, I said, Hey, is
this a UCLA? Is this USC is a local high
school or college? And he said, no, No, these are people
who are graduating TSA school.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And I'm like, whoa we wait. So that guy up
there was fifty five, his parents are here watching him
graduate TSA school.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I mean they got an academy. They're coming out of that.
By the way, that Lax children is massive. You ever
get lost shit place?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, and every tower looks the same, so you have no.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Idea around me wide around. Oh yeah, that very outs
the same way. Yeah, exactly. But and you know what's fun.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
What's fun about the Lax hotels is you can sleep
in till about four forty five in the morning when
they start taking those jets off.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
They say they have soundproof windows.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's right, No, no, not in a close But he
appreciate you phoning in ten eight ten ten, We're gone, Okay,
all right, I get CB talk all right, daddy or
something like that. Thanks man, alright, Alex Stone, everybody with
ABC News.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Reactions, all right, whatever you just said there. I don't
even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Ten a ten ten they used to truckers used to
say ten ten, ten, we go. I don't even know
what that means. So I don't know what ten eight
is and ten ten I don't know. I don't have
to look that up. But ten to four I know
that one. You know what, oh ten, what's your ten?
Ten twenty at your location?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, all right, yeah, that's all I remember.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I don't know if they still I wonder if people
still have CBS or the cell phones sort of taken takeover.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't know, but man, I always thought that would
be really cool to be a trucker or a bus
driver and just drive across country.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
On a CB all night. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, all right, we're live on KFI. Dodgers one last night,
ten to five. They play again tonight in an hour
and forty five minutes at the stadium, So get in
your car and get on out there and watch the Dodgers.
If they win tonight, they clinch and there'll be a
big champagne or beer party. I don't know if they
do that after the I think they do after the
(08:52):
Wild Car.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I don't know if how big it is though, but
maybe who knows.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Anyway, Dodgers Tonight, Heavy Dodgers. My man heavy Dodgers on
the air today.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You know what that is?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'll tell you what it is real quick and hopefully
not get any trouble here. But the guy that used
to run five seventy AM, his name was Don Martin,
and whenever there was a Dodger postseason game, he used
to walk up down the halls and tell these guys
heavy Dodgers. Today, my man, heavy Dodgers. Play the hits.
Heavy Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Man.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Bellio had a scare with her dog yesterday and so
she didn't come in and around here. If you've got
problems with your animals, you don't even have to, you know,
ask for the day off.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You just take it off. And I think that's where
it should be.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
Thank you so much for very understanding.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, look, I mean, what am I supposed to say? Hey,
f the dog. Let's get in here, you know, maybe next.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Time, maybe next time, but thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
But it's scary when your dog's not well, you know,
and I'm scary. Do you want to talk about it?
What happened to him?
Speaker 10 (10:12):
Fine?
Speaker 11 (10:12):
I took him on a walk Monday, and you know,
dog sniff and Mays started doing that reverse sneeze.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh I've seen that before.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
Yeah, and he doesn't normally do that.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
And at first I thought it was just like, you know,
just one or two, and then he couldn't stop. And
then he'd have these episodes that lasted like fifteen twenty
minutes and it's like he was trying to catch his breath,
and I, you know, figured he'd sniffed something up his
nostril and I but he was like choking. And this
was in the evening, and so I gave him some
half a pillo of a bend a drill and it
(10:43):
seemed to calm him down a little bit. But then
the episodes happened all through the night. So we took
him to the vet first thing in the morning and
they did a nasal flush and she said his.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
Nostril was just trauma. It was just all cut up.
Speaker 11 (10:56):
So they think it might have been a grass on
which they have like little razor. If you saw the
picture of me, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
But yeah, and he's so little, and the tool they
have doesn't go all the way back, so she wasn't sure.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
It would you know, flash it out. But he seems okay.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Now what'd you do with the other half of benadryl?
Did you throw it away or did you keep it?
Speaker 10 (11:18):
I took it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
He took it. Yeah, good girl, what did that run?
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Eight hundred dogs?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Eight?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
It was worth it. It was worth it, you know
whenever we have a dog.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We had a dog that got it, and we had
dogs have their teeth clean, and I don't know, there
was some other you know, dental procedures.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Sixteen hundred dollars hours.
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Was five thousand, by the way, really yeah for two dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You know that brings up I don't know about you
and John, but man, that brings up money between me
and my wife.
Speaker 11 (11:46):
And we start don't even know did he call you
or something? Because oh, yeah, hundred the eight hundred dollars
and he had no problem you know, paying the eight hundred.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
But somehow it brings up money it brought. Yeah, like
and by the way, where are the seats for this?
And how come you have sat down? And we didn't know?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
And I put this in.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
And I'm like the dog, it's about the dog. I'm like,
I looked at Mason.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm like thanks, And then you're like, how did we
get here?
Speaker 11 (12:14):
Yeah, anytime money is spent, it somehow leads back to you.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
Me and my spending.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
And then the worst thing is a package arrives as
we're having.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
A recession, and I'm like and I wanted to sneak
out the other door and like hide it.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
And I'm like, no, this is really what this conversations about.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Like so great, you guys are arguing about money and
the doorbell rings.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
No I heard the package drop because I was standing
close to the door, and I'm.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
Like, oh, why did that have to show up?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Now talking stops and just look at each other.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
And just like, well, luckily he didn't hear it, you know.
So I was like, I want to take the dog
out for a while.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
A friend of mine used to be on radiover KBC,
very smart, very funny guy, Doug mcint bought a cat.
It's about twenty five years ago, and he had the
cat for about four days and it had a huge
internal problem. It was, you know, just meowing and wouldn't
stand up, and so he took it to the vet
(13:17):
and it was he got something caught in his lower intestine.
And so it's gonna be twelve hundred dollars. He's had
the cat for two days and it's gonna be twelve
hundred dollars. And he thought, man, oh man, do I
do the operation or do I take the twelve hundred
and go buy forty dogs for forty cats? And there's
got to be a healthy one in that bunch. And
(13:38):
he kept it. He kept spent the money. Yeah, and
the cat's name it was Who's Cooter, which means cat
in Iceland, in icelanding.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That's kind of a cool name, Who's Cooter? Yeah, Yeah,
it's a cool cat call that cat.
Speaker 11 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't know what happened to in that cat, but
it was a cool dude. All right. Heavy Dodgers, everybody,
don't get sick of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They're going to be heavy on the air. A lot
of Dodger fans in southern California, lots of them, and
Bellio always tells us to play the hits. Play the
hot zips is another thing she says for hot zip codes,
hot takes. I super served the audience. She's got like
nine hundred of these stupid radio sayings that she bangs me.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Over the head with every day.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Play the Hits, play the takes, play the hot takes
service the audience, give them what they want and.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Heavy Dodgers wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No, you're not wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It just seems like a lot a lot of them.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
Oh, outstanding game last night, and we got it done,
and of course we're going to get it done tonight.
Fans are starting to make their way into the Stadit
Stadium as we speak.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
This Leo Stalworth. This guy's great.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
This is one of the last of the great reporters
in Los Angeles. When he's gone, I don't know who's
left of the old school great reporters.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't know, man. I hope this guy sticks around forever.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
And they are ready to sweep away with the Reds
and get going down the road to the World Series
at some point, and we're gonna get there anyway. We've
got a special treat for you in this story, folks.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Here's more.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
During last night's romping of the Cincinnati Reds, Dodger Greats
shohey Atani and thiasco of Hernandez hitting two home runs
apiece at the Old Ballpark fanatical?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
What was that name?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
And theasco of Hernandez hitting two home runs apiece at
the Old Ballpark?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Fanatical.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Dodger fans buzzing with excitement watching their team take game
one of the best three wild Card series. No one
more excited than Scully, a nine year old Boston terrier
named in honor of the late great sports broadcaster Vin Scully.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That's kind of cool. Name your dog after Vin Scully.
That's a compliment.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
Was the voice of the Dodgers for sixty seven years.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Wow, my daughter, she called him Vince Scully.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
She loves the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
And it's time for Dodger baseball.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
It's time for Dodger baseball.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Miss missing the miss that it's time for Dodger Face
tall Man.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
How many memories does Zap bring back for Dodger fans.
That is the absolute best, man, Let's we roll that again.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I'm missing that. It's time for Dodger Face tall It's classic.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Little later in Scully's career, not the you know nineteen
year old redhead who was coming out of Brooklyn. By
all in all the same, it's about eighty nine percent there.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It's time for Dodger face tal.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Have Vin Scully?
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Man all missed that game time phrase? Vin Scully uttered
with that amazing voice just before Dodger games. Scully might
not be able to talk to talk like the late
great Vin Scully, but man can he shag balls like
a true Dodger. Scully all decked out of this Dodger
digs true blue at time, already snagged from the sports
store the locker room of Downey.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
We get a lot of a lot of people coming
in just when the daughters play normally, but once they're
in the playoffs, it's it's a big spike.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's a great name for a sports store, the locker room.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I remember there was a sports chain in LA called
Chicks Sporting Goods. Chicks Sporting Goods, and then they were purchased.
There was like twelve stores. There's one down in Hawthorne.
I remember that big store. There's another one I believe
in in Long Beach area, Chicks Sporting Goods and then
(17:34):
they and then I think they were bought by Dicks
Sporting Goods. I think. I think Chicks was purchased by
Dick's Sporting Goods.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Dick's bought Chicks, I think so. Yeah, Belly, are you
a Sporting Goods fan?
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (17:48):
For sure?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Which do you prefer?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Do you like?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Prefer?
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Dis like?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You don't like Chicks?
Speaker 10 (17:53):
I liked Chicks, but I just I knew Dick's better.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You did.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Okay, It's it's like Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, most.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You've been awesome this far. You We bring our heart
and soul to every game, and I know that you
guys do too, So good luck and please bring us
a win.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
It is so fun to be a Dodger, and obviously
it's tremendously incredibly fun to be a Dodger fan. That's right,
especially this time of year. Let's go Dodger.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Let's go Dodgers, because what time is it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What time is it?
Speaker 9 (18:26):
It's time for Dodger faceball, Dodger baseball.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Six o'clock start. Get to the stadium. You got an
hour and a half, an hour and thirty two minutes
to get in your seat. Get yourself a hot dog,
chips or popcorn. I don't know what else. You get
their peanuts and a couple of beers and enjoy that game.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Heavy Dodgers today Man Heavy Dodgers, and we have Michael
Monks joining us from the KFI newsroom. How you, Bob,
I am doing splendidly on this baseball day.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Love baseball in October? I yeah, baseball in October. You're
from the Kentucky area. Was Cincinnati your team?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, greater Cincinnati area, northern Kentucky. Cincinnati fandom extends through
central Ohio, but all the way down past Louisville in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So you remember the great the big red Machine from
the seventies.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I wasn't born then, but you know Pete Rose was
a big deal when I was a child.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Right, and Pete Rose I still think should be in
the Hall of Fame and all you know, look he
whether he bet on games or not, I think it's
who cares time.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Do you remember Marge Shot?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, they talked about her on Saturday Night. She's sort
of a forgotten figure in Major League baseball. And we
were thrown out of baseball. There were out of baseball
little racist.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Nazi member of Billia had her house on at life.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Didn't like Jewish people, didn't like black people. Other than that,
relatively charming, Okay, yeah, a lot of other than that, though,
I mean other than that. The Reds have not won
a World Series since she owned the team. He was
back in nineteen ninety. Wow, I was talking about the
only Reds hat. I was going to wear a Reds
hat to troll some people around here just for fun.
(20:20):
And the only one I have is an old Reds
cap autographed by Mark shott oh exce, and I don't
think I should be flaunting it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
She was an odd bird. I mean, she was a
real spark plug. I mean, she didn't take ask from anybody.
Why this is what I talked about on Saturday Night
last weekend. Why hasn't there been an HBO biopicture There
should be absolute that is a role of a lifetime. Yeah,
but I think the hatred of Jews and pro Nazi
probably you know, urbable person, great for a character, really
(20:51):
decent frigot. But her problem is not only did she
have Nazi memorabilia, she when people went to her house
for dinner, it was on display.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It wasn't in a back room. Yeah, this was like, oh,
we inherited this through the black market. It's something we
keep but you don't want to know. This is like
here's our fine China and here's something Hitler war, right exactly. Yeah,
and people were a little turned off by that. Yeah,
it didn't sit well since Anna, he's a very Jewish town.
You know, that's where reform Judaism was born. I didn't
know that. Yeah, it's a big, big Jewish city, really
very important in American Jewish history. I did not know this,
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all right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So I saw the groundbreaking at the convention Center today
and I learned something today.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I think I heard it from you as well.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Two point seven billion dollars for the convention Center is
going to be six billion.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, you know, when you finance something, you often pay
more than what the asking price was, and the city
is not paying cash for this massive project, so they're
financing it, and they're financing it over the course of
thirty years. So what we're hearing is this very strange
optimism from city leaders, particularly Mayor Bass and the members
of city Council who voted to go forward with this
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because they know the city's financial condition. They know that
they're strapped, sure, and they just went through this very
difficult budget process where they thought they were going to
be laying off sixteen hundred workers. They were able to
save all those jobs, but only by rearranging the proverbial
decks on the Titanic, because some people who used to
work in one department are now working in another department.
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By the time it gets around to the next fiscal year,
when they start crafting the next budget next spring, they're
still going to be in financial trouble. And these city workers,
I don't know how they're safe because the revenue situation
is not improving in Los Angeles, and now with the
financing of this massive project, they've added a significant amount
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of debtmediately. We're talking anywhere between like eighty million two
hundred million a year wow for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And will the convention center bring that kind of revenue
in to pay for itself.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
The economic forecast suggest that it will offset at least
some of that that There will be people coming in
to visit, they'll spend money, You'll collect some taxes that way.
It will create jobs. You'll get some taxes that way,
it will create development, you'll get some taxes that way,
hotel taxes, those sorts of things. But it's not going
to be open immediately. We've got the next few years
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to deal with. They won't even finish the first phase
until before the Olympics start in twenty twenty eight, and
then they'll start another phase and they'll have to cancel
some previously scheduled conventions. They're up against a couple of
situations because this is going to be a construction site,
and if they don't get this thing finished before those
Olympic events that are slated there, like table tennis, run
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and some of the karate stuff, they have to move those.
Forget about the conventions. You've got the whole world watching
the Olympics and then they have to move this. But
the point of maybe sacrificing some revenue now is because
they think they will be more competitive for bigger conventions
down the road. The argument has been we're losing out
to Talsa Force because our convention center sucks. No what
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he says that the area around downtown LA and the
coast of center is really the challenge. But I see
Michael Monks is with it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Michael Monks every Saturday, seven to nine PM right here
on KFI. I saw some renderings of this new convention Center.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It looks beautiful. It's gonna be nice, and hopefully it is,
because that's a pretty pretty price tag. But I brought
some sound from Mayor Bass in the day's okay, but
before we get to the sound I heard. But I
want to play the sound.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Okay, but before we get to the sound before, please
you stand at he's leaving there, he goes. I heard
that Current those gold shovels that they were using for
the you know, the first dig down there at the
convention Center. I heard somebody took one and knocked Current
Price out with one.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Is that true? You have some of the facts correct.
Others seem to have come out of left field, which
is appropriate on a baseball day like this. So Councilman
Current Price is at this event. His district runs up
against downtown LA, out of South LA. He fell down,
Oh he did. He didn't just fall, I mean he
had a meta situation. Oh I didn't have to be
tended to. Mayor Bass, who was a former nurse, also
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helped him out a bit, and he was placed in
a wheelchair, taken over to an ambulance, and taken from
the scene. So his office came out later and said
that he was dehydrated. They always say that. So he's
got the weight of being a city councilman in a
challenge city like Los Angeles. But he is also under
indictment on some charges of public corruption and he's supposed
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to appear in court again in early November on those charges.
So a lot going on in his life.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
How about passing out in downtown LA and the next
thing you see is Mayor Bass's face an inch away
from yours.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Honestly, if you need mouth to mouth, if it's Karen Bass,
it's better than nobody. That's right. All right?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Can you stay with us or do you got to
take off? No, let's stay. Let's talk about those red Legs.
I let's talk about the Reds, the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
We have sound.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
There's gonna be sound. There's gonna be sound. And then
we have to talk about your Wednesday. You always go
out on Wednesday to dinner and you're going to read
turn to the Rio Soul. The real test is that
Rio Soul. It is okay.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Monks is great.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
He's on every Saturday seven and nine pm live every Saturday,
seven to nine pm, and he owns that time slot.
He's number one talk show in Los Angeles on Saturday
from seven to nine pm.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Michael Monks is with us without naming the supermarket because
I don't want to get in trouble. We did a
whole run yesterday on dogs are everywhere. They're in restaurants,
you go to, you know, anywhere you go to, you
go to the airport, you go to a you know, bookstore.
There's dogs everywhere, everywhere. Dogs And you say in your
supermarket you've seen dogs in the supermarket?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Dogs in the supermarket? Yeah? Absolutely, And at least one
occasion one of the dogs has taken a dump and
then one of the workers has to come on and said,
very snarkily, who thinks a lot for whoever brought your
dog in is a clean up? And I on eight
you're not supposed to have your dogs, but there are
always dogs that down town. You can't say it, yeah supermarket, Yeah,
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you know, downtown's a mess anyway. So I guess the
dogs can often be cleaner than some of the other
riff raft that wander in there. But you know we're
supposed to be getting an Arawan down there, can you?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Oh? Really?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I mean the dogs in Arawon. I mean there's more
dogs than people in Arawan. But I agree with you.
I love dogs. I know you love dogs, but let's
keep the dogs out.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Of the super I'm comfortable telling you I don't love dogs,
and I know that's an unpopular opinion. I don't hate them,
but I don't need to petitation. I don't need it
to lick me. I don't need to come near me.
I'm a cat guy. Okay, all right, I get that
you have a cat. I do. What's the name my
little freej holes? Okay, all right, that's really cool. All right,
let's talk about the audio you're gonna play. Okay, So
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we're at the Convention Center groundbreaking today in downtown Los Angeles.
The reason I want to play this this is otherwise
run of the mill audio from the mayor who's at
a groundbreaking but I'm gonna break it down for you
when she's finished. Here's what mare Bass said today.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Take bold actions to assure that we can deliver in
a way that is of course fiscally responsible, that includes
implementing cost saving measures and streamlining processes, which will be
key to ensure that the convention center has an on
time completion. So while today is an important step in
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our city's future, we take this step knowing that there
is more important work to do.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
But I know that.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
Angelino's are more than ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
More than many ready to meet the moment?
Speaker 12 (28:31):
Thank you everyone, And I would be so excited to
come back here in a few years when the world
comes all.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Of the conventions that I know will be coming to
our city. Okay, so a couple of things there jazzing
up the crowd a bit like, Hey, this thing is coming.
Did you notice I know Angelino's are ready to meet
the moment. That's something that you say after a fire, sure,
after flood washing out of neighborhood, something fat like we
can do this together. Imagine standing at the ground breaking
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of a development so large that it's expected to cost
about two point six billion dollars. In saying we can
do this together. We can do that. It just expresses
to me the level of uncertainty that supporters of this project,
even within city Hall have.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
In your bads, guests, because you cover the LA city
more than anybody on TV or radio, and I think
you're the only guy that really covers it, just a
few of us. How close is the city of Los
Angeles to total collapse.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It was already on the verge of disaster when they
were creating the fiscal year budget that we are currently
living under. Fiscal years start July first run through June thirtieth.
When they were making this year's budget back in the spring,
it was scary, and that was after the previous scary
year where they had to scale back mini services that
are important people, animal services, street lighting, street cleaning, those
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sorts of things. Next year, with this added expense and
no real prospects for additional revenue to be coming in,
I don't see how it can it's better.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
This is why it has to be mismanagement. We have
the wealthiest people in the United States who live here.
We have the entertainment industry that's centered here, located here.
We have the computer world that's up in northern California,
a lot of it down here as well. We have
the most beautiful coastline. We have the most expensive houses
that are paying astronomical amounts in property taxes, and.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yet we're broke. Think about how much stuff costs. Not
when you are walking past a dog at Raufs who's
taken a dump Inisle eight. Think about how much the
city spends on stuff. Take, for example, Maribas's signature homeless program.
When you hear that it might cost upwards of one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars to house somebody for a year,
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that's significant, and that project alone is not moving as
quickly as even she had anticipated. So when you have
the same characters talking about how we're going to be
fiscally responsible, we're going to get stuff done on time,
I think you can respect people's eye rol sure and cynicism.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, you know they've spent it's going to be one
hundred and thirty to one hundred and fifty billion dollars
for that high speed rail. If you took the high
speed rail and you never you know, you never started it,
you never took all that money, all one hundred and
thirty to one hundred and fifty billion dollars, and you
just gave it out to homeless people. You could give
every homeless person seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And think about that project in particular. I mean, I
like rail, I like writing, I do the public transportation.
It's not scary or filthy. I love the idea of
a high speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
It'd be great. Sure, because this project has been so
poorly managed. Think about what that's done to the psyche
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for folks the next time they're asked to consider, oh,
I know such a poet. It's over. So it's not
just the financial damage that they've done immediately. It's going
to raise questions anytime such a project is talked about. Really,
not even just rail, but projects like this, because if
we have to do so much permitting, we have talking
about so many questions and public hearings and all of that.
It's so California made its own rail project more difficult
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to build because of their own policies.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
And the people who live in northern California don't like
Southern California no right, and they don't like us, and
vice versa. I love San Francisco. I think it's one
of the most beautiful Cities've ever been to my life.
I've not been there since nineteen eighty seven. Okay, some
things have changed. Yeah, yeah, a little bit. Yeah, But
I'm just saying, why have a high speed rail over
two cities that hate each other?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Is that anecdotal or is that accurate? I think it's
pretty accurate that I think it is. I think that
that you would you would like Krozier. When's the last
time you've been to San Francisco? This is not a
scientific poll, by the way, ten years ago, ten years
What about you, Tony? When's the last time you went
to San Francisco? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Never, never, You've never been there. How old are you me?
Fifty forty nine?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Hi, belly, when's the last time you went to San Francisco?
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Like maybe four years ago?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Four years ago? Wow? What about you? Monks? I still
lived back in the southern Midwest, but made a visit
in twenty fourteen. There you go.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Nobody goes, you know, And the only way Northern Californians
come down here to visit is when they're forty nine
ers playing.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
They swamp so far and they not get out. I mean,
there's actual statistics out very recently. I think the La
Times at a big piece on tourism in Los Angeles
and how way down poorly we're doing right now. And
a lot of that has to do with our own
decision making. We have decided that the city can look
like this. San Francisco seems to be turning a corner.
They that's awoken a bit up there about what is
(33:38):
acceptable on the streets. Los Angeles has not had that
epiphany yet. I can tell you. I watch every government meeting,
I watch every government press conference. I'm there, I'm talking
to these folks. The epiphany has not happened in any
meaningful way to where they will say collectively that this
is not acceptable. Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And also, if you just watch the news, and if
you're watching cable news, you assume that the city of
LA has burned to the ground.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, you know, there are certain ideologies on some cable
outlets that love to beat on any state that's run
by Democrats, and the same is true to maybe a
lesser extent, on other networks. Let's make fun of our
political opponents by based on the outcomes, whether it be
education or economic. So the problem when you see Fox News,
for example, really lay it on thick on Los Angeles
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and California in general. LA and California in general don't
really do a whole lot to counter that image. But
they need to. Those videos are not artificial intelligence. You
can come down to my neighborhood today and send a
text message to Jesse Waters this afternoon and he will
have plenty for his show tonight. Buddy, what's the dinner tonight? Cafe?
(34:49):
I'm going to try that place I told you about
last week because I usually i'd been doing Panda okay,
you know on Wednesday nights, but I'm locked in for
the rest of the year. Little exercise, a little more
creative exploits, okay, and so, uh, you know, trying to
mix things up. And I found this little Brazilian barbecue
place on Sunset in Hollywood, across from the Target and
the home depot there, right off the one O one.
It's called Rio Soul Brazilian Barbecue. It's not endorsement, Okay,
(35:13):
I get it. And you're not looking for a free meal?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Is it a franchise or do I think they're on
our own because they don't know what they're doing? Okay.
The first time I went in there, the menu is
very confusing. Uh, they were surprised a customer walked in.
But the food was not expensive and it was good,
two of us eight for thirty bucks, and the food
was plentiful and delicious. So I'm gonna go back with
some notes. Okay, it's cafe. It's Rio Rio as in
(35:38):
our Rio Dejian years. Okay, Rio Soul, and we'll give
me a boost there. Hey, look, if you say it's good,
it's good, you get delicious.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You can go see Monks there night. I'll bet I'll
be picking up around seven thirty early seven to nine
pm Saturday Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Don't miss it. Michael Monk's reports every week. Excellent. Nice
to see above and go Dodgers, right or dong with
those red legs. Come on with the reds, all right?
Do go out with these Dodgers. All right. We're live
on KFI AM six forty Thanks Bunch.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
The iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Dodger game coming up today at six o'clock. They won
last night ten to five, but it was a little
panicky in the eighth and ninth innings. You know, it
looks like the bullpen was gonna come out and blow
that game, which would have been a huge letdown for
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Thank god they.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Won ten to five last night. Hopefully I'm not spoiling
it for you. Maybe you recorded it and you're gonna
watch it today. Sorry, And tonight's the second game. If
they beat the Red TONIGHTE the Dodgers beat the Red tonight,
they will win the wild Card and go on to
the National League Divisional Series. So there you go. Alex
Stone is with us. Alex, I know the government has
(00:46):
been shut down. How has that affected your life, sir?
Not at all, not at all. Back to you. Well, look,
if it doesn't affect it doesn't affect anybody I know.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I mean, if you work for the federal government themselves
down well, and they just got paid today. I believe
it's when they got their direct deposits from the pay
period ending yesterday, So in two weeks, if their paycheck
doesn't go in, well then that's going to be a problem.
But as of right now, it's uh, yeah, it doesn't
seem like that. There's at least in the LA area.
(01:17):
If we lived in Washington, totally different ballgame. But but here,
sure federal workers are impacted, but who's impacted?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Like Social Security is still going to be delivered, We're
still going to get the mail. Banks are open. I
don't think anything's really closed parts.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean there are some officers here and there.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
But the thing that if this goes on long enough,
then what we've seen historically is the airports would begin
to see some impacts. Not today and probably not the
next couple of days. But the problem being if the
TSA officers who don't get paid a whole lot that
they probably don't.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
They also don't do a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I mean they don't.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Most of them probably have a lot of savings and
they're they're going paycheck to paycheck and if they I'm
around to October sixteenth, is the next pay period for
federal workers, and they don't get paid, we expect that
then it's going to be a lot of sick calls
and people bailing out and saying, you know what, I'm
going to a different job. Sam at the FAA with
(02:14):
air traffic Control that we've seen that before. The TSA
is saying today fifty eight thousand of its sixty one
thousand workers are considered to be essential. They're being told,
you have a job. You're not getting paid, but you
have a job. You must report into work. It is
not optional. But as it drags on, that's going to
be a problem if people can't pay their bills. And
(02:35):
this Johnny Jones said that he's a TSA officer. He says,
you can only do this for so long. They can
do it for a couple of weeks, but then they
know that the people are going to be, you know,
I'm out of here, and they're not going to be
showing up for work.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
The childcare does not take IOUs, Gasoline does not take IOUs.
Your house payments do not take IOUs. And sometimes it
becomes very difficult to maintain focused on the mission whenever
you're trying to figure out how you're going to get
to it from work and.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Tim That's the thing. In twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
That shutdown that one on for thirty five days, the
longest in history, and TSA officers it only took them
about a week two weeks to begin calling out sick
and others they went, you know, this is still going
I got to go find another job, and they bailed
out after it became clear it wasn't going to be
fixed right away. That led to long lines at security
checkpoints that turned into a mess. Then air traffic controllers
began calling out sick at the big air traffic control centers.
(03:26):
That then created ground stops, and at about thirty thirty
five days into it, they ended up grounding flights in
New York and Florida, and that personally impacted President Trump
at the time, and he then orchestrated to make sure
that it got over pretty quickly and got Republicans to
get on board with a deal at that point because
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that was impacting obviously the East Coast, and the shutdown
ended very quickly. So air traffic controllers got the credit
for ending that one and putting pressure on the government
and on the White House to get that one over with.
But this we'll see, I mean, you know, Democrats seem
to be showing some cracks today, but the earliest they
could come to a deal now would be Friday, when
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they all come back together. This woman was flying today
and she said she didn't like any of it. If
the TSA and FAA workers aren't happy, that it's not
going to lead to good things here in the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
You can only ask people to do so much genuinely,
even if a service is very important. People are only
going to do things out of the goodness of their
heart for so long. And I am, you know, genuinely
worried about what's going to happen in the future when
air traffic controllers decide like no, I can't do this anymore,
when you know, even the TSA agents decide like, hey,
I need to be paid. So yeah, I am pretty
(04:37):
worried about like flying in and out for now.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And this guy is flying today too. He has a
message for lawmakers. He says, get this over with, move on.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
At the lowest level.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
We know what to do.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We know our job.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We do our job every day.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Please do your job.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
So you go to LAX, you go to Burbank or
Ontario or John Wayne. Today everything's going to be normal
but as this drags on we go another week or two,
you could start to see longer lines than other problems.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
But because now it's.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
All right, you know they when they said the guy
said on your audio there childcare doesn't take IOUs, gas
station doesn't take IOUs. I got a pen and a
piece of paper. Can you rattle me off some companies
or people that take IOUs?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Here's an iou you just you give me your seriousness.
If KFI came to you and said, you know what,
we're not going to pay you for the next month
and a half, would you keep doing your show.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
As long as I could get the money later on?
You know, when they went back into.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Business, will bye by law? I will get paid back
to them.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
But it's living day to day as somebody who's making
what a TSA officer is right, But it was.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Bucks an hour, twenty bucks an hour.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh no, they're living paycheck to pat. I think a
lot of people are.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But I remember the nineteen ninety five shutdown, But that
seems to affect that a lot of people remember.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Everything was closed.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They put ropes around monuments in Washington to scare the
hell out everybody. All the parks were closed, and that
was a big deal. But now I think we're so
used to the shutdowns that nobody really cares. You know,
there was a I don't remember what cable station I
was watching. They were asking people in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Hey,
what do you think about the shutdown? And the ten
people they interviewed, not one person even knew it was
(06:06):
going on.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, this one doesn't seem to I feel like in
even more recent ones, and it's been this big clock
ticking down, everybody's will they won't day and to make
a deal at the last minute, and this one was
kind of like, well, you know, it's midnight, now everything's
shut down.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I just looked it up.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
The average TSA officer pay twenty two dollars and fifty
six cents per hour.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You know, I was at one point I was living
in Oregon and I was flying down here to work
on KFI when I was doing a weekend show, and
I was staying at the Lax Hilton right out there
near the airport. Sure, and I saw this big, huge
graduation going on down in the courtyard, and so I
went down. I was getting a coffee and a donut
or something in the lobby and I walked over to
see the graduation and there's probably about three hundred family
(06:45):
members there and there were maybe like thirty or forty
graduates and they were going to get there at diploma
and graduate and them parents were taking pictures and everything.
And I said to the guy, I said, Hey, is
this a UCLA? Is this USC is a local high
school or college? And he said, no, No, these are people
who are graduating TSA school.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And I'm like, whoa we wait. So that guy up
there was fifty five, his parents are here watching him
graduate TSA school.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I mean they got an academy. They're coming out of that.
By the way, that Lax children is massive. You ever
get lost shit place?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, and every tower looks the same, so you have no.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Idea around me wide around. Oh yeah, that very outs
the same way. Yeah, exactly. But and you know what's fun.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
What's fun about the Lax hotels is you can sleep
in till about four forty five in the morning when
they start taking those jets off.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
They say they have soundproof windows.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's right, No, no, not in a close But he
appreciate you phoning in ten eight ten ten, We're gone, Okay,
all right, I get CB talk all right, daddy or
something like that. Thanks man, alright, Alex Stone, everybody with
ABC News.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Reactions, all right, whatever you just said there. I don't
even know what that is.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Ten a ten ten they used to truckers used to
say ten ten, ten, we go. I don't even know
what that means. So I don't know what ten eight
is and ten ten I don't know. I don't have
to look that up. But ten to four I know
that one. You know what, oh ten, what's your ten?
Ten twenty at your location?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, all right, yeah, that's all I remember.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I don't know if they still I wonder if people
still have CBS or the cell phones sort of taken takeover.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't know, but man, I always thought that would
be really cool to be a trucker or a bus
driver and just drive across country.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
On a CB all night. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, all right, we're live on KFI. Dodgers one last night,
ten to five. They play again tonight in an hour
and forty five minutes at the stadium, So get in
your car and get on out there and watch the Dodgers.
If they win tonight, they clinch and there'll be a
big champagne or beer party. I don't know if they
do that after the I think they do after the
(08:52):
Wild Car.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I don't know if how big it is though, but
maybe who knows.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Anyway, Dodgers Tonight, Heavy Dodgers. My man heavy Dodgers on
the air today.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You know what that is?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'll tell you what it is real quick and hopefully
not get any trouble here. But the guy that used
to run five seventy AM, his name was Don Martin,
and whenever there was a Dodger postseason game, he used
to walk up down the halls and tell these guys
heavy Dodgers. Today, my man, heavy Dodgers. Play the hits.
Heavy Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Man.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Bellio had a scare with her dog yesterday and so
she didn't come in and around here. If you've got
problems with your animals, you don't even have to, you know,
ask for the day off.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You just take it off. And I think that's where
it should be.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
Thank you so much for very understanding.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, look, I mean, what am I supposed to say? Hey,
f the dog. Let's get in here, you know, maybe next.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Time, maybe next time, but thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
But it's scary when your dog's not well, you know,
and I'm scary. Do you want to talk about it?
What happened to him?
Speaker 10 (10:12):
Fine?
Speaker 11 (10:12):
I took him on a walk Monday, and you know,
dog sniff and Mays started doing that reverse sneeze.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh I've seen that before.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
Yeah, and he doesn't normally do that.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
And at first I thought it was just like, you know,
just one or two, and then he couldn't stop. And
then he'd have these episodes that lasted like fifteen twenty
minutes and it's like he was trying to catch his breath,
and I, you know, figured he'd sniffed something up his
nostril and I but he was like choking. And this
was in the evening, and so I gave him some
half a pillo of a bend a drill and it
(10:43):
seemed to calm him down a little bit. But then
the episodes happened all through the night. So we took
him to the vet first thing in the morning and
they did a nasal flush and she said his.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
Nostril was just trauma. It was just all cut up.
Speaker 11 (10:56):
So they think it might have been a grass on
which they have like little razor. If you saw the
picture of me, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
But yeah, and he's so little, and the tool they
have doesn't go all the way back, so she wasn't sure.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
It would you know, flash it out. But he seems okay.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Now what'd you do with the other half of benadryl?
Did you throw it away or did you keep it?
Speaker 10 (11:18):
I took it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
He took it. Yeah, good girl, what did that run?
Speaker 10 (11:22):
Eight hundred dogs?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Eight?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
It was worth it. It was worth it, you know
whenever we have a dog.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We had a dog that got it, and we had
dogs have their teeth clean, and I don't know, there
was some other you know, dental procedures.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Sixteen hundred dollars hours.
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Was five thousand, by the way, really yeah for two dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You know that brings up I don't know about you
and John, but man, that brings up money between me
and my wife.
Speaker 11 (11:46):
And we start don't even know did he call you
or something? Because oh, yeah, hundred the eight hundred dollars
and he had no problem you know, paying the eight hundred.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
But somehow it brings up money it brought. Yeah, like
and by the way, where are the seats for this?
And how come you have sat down? And we didn't know?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
And I put this in.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
And I'm like the dog, it's about the dog. I'm like,
I looked at Mason.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm like thanks, And then you're like, how did we
get here?
Speaker 11 (12:14):
Yeah, anytime money is spent, it somehow leads back to you.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
Me and my spending.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
And then the worst thing is a package arrives as
we're having.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
A recession, and I'm like and I wanted to sneak
out the other door and like hide it.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
And I'm like, no, this is really what this conversations about.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Like so great, you guys are arguing about money and
the doorbell rings.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
No I heard the package drop because I was standing
close to the door, and I'm.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
Like, oh, why did that have to show up?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Now talking stops and just look at each other.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
And just like, well, luckily he didn't hear it, you know.
So I was like, I want to take the dog
out for a while.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
A friend of mine used to be on radiover KBC,
very smart, very funny guy, Doug mcint bought a cat.
It's about twenty five years ago, and he had the
cat for about four days and it had a huge
internal problem. It was, you know, just meowing and wouldn't
stand up, and so he took it to the vet
(13:17):
and it was he got something caught in his lower intestine.
And so it's gonna be twelve hundred dollars. He's had
the cat for two days and it's gonna be twelve
hundred dollars. And he thought, man, oh man, do I
do the operation or do I take the twelve hundred
and go buy forty dogs for forty cats? And there's
got to be a healthy one in that bunch. And
(13:38):
he kept it. He kept spent the money. Yeah, and
the cat's name it was Who's Cooter, which means cat
in Iceland, in icelanding.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That's kind of a cool name, Who's Cooter? Yeah, Yeah,
it's a cool cat call that cat.
Speaker 11 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't know what happened to in that cat, but
it was a cool dude. All right. Heavy Dodgers, everybody,
don't get sick of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They're going to be heavy on the air. A lot
of Dodger fans in southern California, lots of them, and
Bellio always tells us to play the hits. Play the
hot zips is another thing she says for hot zip codes,
hot takes. I super served the audience. She's got like
nine hundred of these stupid radio sayings that she bangs me.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Over the head with every day.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Play the Hits, play the takes, play the hot takes
service the audience, give them what they want and.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Heavy Dodgers wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No, you're not wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It just seems like a lot a lot of them.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
Oh, outstanding game last night, and we got it done,
and of course we're going to get it done tonight.
Fans are starting to make their way into the Stadit
Stadium as we speak.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
This Leo Stalworth. This guy's great.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
This is one of the last of the great reporters
in Los Angeles. When he's gone, I don't know who's
left of the old school great reporters.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't know, man. I hope this guy sticks around forever.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
And they are ready to sweep away with the Reds
and get going down the road to the World Series
at some point, and we're gonna get there anyway. We've
got a special treat for you in this story, folks.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Here's more.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
During last night's romping of the Cincinnati Reds, Dodger Greats
shohey Atani and thiasco of Hernandez hitting two home runs
apiece at the Old Ballpark fanatical?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
What was that name?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
And theasco of Hernandez hitting two home runs apiece at
the Old Ballpark?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Fanatical.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Dodger fans buzzing with excitement watching their team take game
one of the best three wild Card series. No one
more excited than Scully, a nine year old Boston terrier
named in honor of the late great sports broadcaster Vin Scully.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That's kind of cool. Name your dog after Vin Scully.
That's a compliment.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
Was the voice of the Dodgers for sixty seven years.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Wow, my daughter, she called him Vince Scully.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
She loves the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
And it's time for Dodger baseball.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
It's time for Dodger baseball.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Miss missing the miss that it's time for Dodger Face
tall Man.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
How many memories does Zap bring back for Dodger fans.
That is the absolute best, man, Let's we roll that again.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I'm missing that. It's time for Dodger Face tall It's classic.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Little later in Scully's career, not the you know nineteen
year old redhead who was coming out of Brooklyn. By
all in all the same, it's about eighty nine percent there.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It's time for Dodger face tal.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Have Vin Scully?
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Man all missed that game time phrase? Vin Scully uttered
with that amazing voice just before Dodger games. Scully might
not be able to talk to talk like the late
great Vin Scully, but man can he shag balls like
a true Dodger. Scully all decked out of this Dodger
digs true blue at time, already snagged from the sports
store the locker room of Downey.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
We get a lot of a lot of people coming
in just when the daughters play normally, but once they're
in the playoffs, it's it's a big spike.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's a great name for a sports store, the locker room.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I remember there was a sports chain in LA called
Chicks Sporting Goods. Chicks Sporting Goods, and then they were purchased.
There was like twelve stores. There's one down in Hawthorne.
I remember that big store. There's another one I believe
in in Long Beach area, Chicks Sporting Goods and then
(17:34):
they and then I think they were bought by Dicks
Sporting Goods. I think. I think Chicks was purchased by
Dick's Sporting Goods.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Dick's bought Chicks, I think so. Yeah, Belly, are you
a Sporting Goods fan?
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (17:48):
For sure?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Which do you prefer?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Do you like?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Prefer?
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Dis like?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You don't like Chicks?
Speaker 10 (17:53):
I liked Chicks, but I just I knew Dick's better.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You did.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Okay, It's it's like Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, most.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You've been awesome this far. You We bring our heart
and soul to every game, and I know that you
guys do too, So good luck and please bring us
a win.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
It is so fun to be a Dodger, and obviously
it's tremendously incredibly fun to be a Dodger fan. That's right,
especially this time of year. Let's go Dodger.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Let's go Dodgers, because what time is it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What time is it?
Speaker 9 (18:26):
It's time for Dodger faceball, Dodger baseball.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Six o'clock start. Get to the stadium. You got an
hour and a half, an hour and thirty two minutes
to get in your seat. Get yourself a hot dog,
chips or popcorn. I don't know what else. You get
their peanuts and a couple of beers and enjoy that game.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Heavy Dodgers today Man Heavy Dodgers, and we have Michael
Monks joining us from the KFI newsroom. How you, Bob,
I am doing splendidly on this baseball day.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Love baseball in October? I yeah, baseball in October. You're
from the Kentucky area. Was Cincinnati your team?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, greater Cincinnati area, northern Kentucky. Cincinnati fandom extends through
central Ohio, but all the way down past Louisville in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So you remember the great the big red Machine from
the seventies.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I wasn't born then, but you know Pete Rose was
a big deal when I was a child.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Right, and Pete Rose I still think should be in
the Hall of Fame and all you know, look he
whether he bet on games or not, I think it's
who cares time.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Do you remember Marge Shot?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, they talked about her on Saturday Night. She's sort
of a forgotten figure in Major League baseball. And we
were thrown out of baseball. There were out of baseball
little racist.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Nazi member of Billia had her house on at life.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Didn't like Jewish people, didn't like black people. Other than that,
relatively charming, Okay, yeah, a lot of other than that, though,
I mean other than that. The Reds have not won
a World Series since she owned the team. He was
back in nineteen ninety. Wow, I was talking about the
only Reds hat. I was going to wear a Reds
hat to troll some people around here just for fun.
(20:20):
And the only one I have is an old Reds
cap autographed by Mark shott oh exce, and I don't
think I should be flaunting it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
She was an odd bird. I mean, she was a
real spark plug. I mean, she didn't take ask from anybody.
Why this is what I talked about on Saturday Night
last weekend. Why hasn't there been an HBO biopicture There
should be absolute that is a role of a lifetime. Yeah,
but I think the hatred of Jews and pro Nazi
probably you know, urbable person, great for a character, really
(20:51):
decent frigot. But her problem is not only did she
have Nazi memorabilia, she when people went to her house
for dinner, it was on display.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It wasn't in a back room. Yeah, this was like, oh,
we inherited this through the black market. It's something we
keep but you don't want to know. This is like
here's our fine China and here's something Hitler war, right exactly. Yeah,
and people were a little turned off by that. Yeah,
it didn't sit well since Anna, he's a very Jewish town.
You know, that's where reform Judaism was born. I didn't
know that. Yeah, it's a big, big Jewish city, really
very important in American Jewish history. I did not know this,
(21:27):
all right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So I saw the groundbreaking at the convention Center today
and I learned something today.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I think I heard it from you as well.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Two point seven billion dollars for the convention Center is
going to be six billion.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, you know, when you finance something, you often pay
more than what the asking price was, and the city
is not paying cash for this massive project, so they're
financing it, and they're financing it over the course of
thirty years. So what we're hearing is this very strange
optimism from city leaders, particularly Mayor Bass and the members
of city Council who voted to go forward with this
(22:01):
because they know the city's financial condition. They know that
they're strapped, sure, and they just went through this very
difficult budget process where they thought they were going to
be laying off sixteen hundred workers. They were able to
save all those jobs, but only by rearranging the proverbial
decks on the Titanic, because some people who used to
work in one department are now working in another department.
(22:23):
By the time it gets around to the next fiscal year,
when they start crafting the next budget next spring, they're
still going to be in financial trouble. And these city workers,
I don't know how they're safe because the revenue situation
is not improving in Los Angeles, and now with the
financing of this massive project, they've added a significant amount
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of debtmediately. We're talking anywhere between like eighty million two
hundred million a year wow for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And will the convention center bring that kind of revenue
in to pay for itself.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
The economic forecast suggest that it will offset at least
some of that that There will be people coming in
to visit, they'll spend money, You'll collect some taxes that way.
It will create jobs. You'll get some taxes that way,
it will create development, you'll get some taxes that way,
hotel taxes, those sorts of things. But it's not going
to be open immediately. We've got the next few years
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to deal with. They won't even finish the first phase
until before the Olympics start in twenty twenty eight, and
then they'll start another phase and they'll have to cancel
some previously scheduled conventions. They're up against a couple of
situations because this is going to be a construction site,
and if they don't get this thing finished before those
Olympic events that are slated there, like table tennis, run
(23:40):
and some of the karate stuff, they have to move those.
Forget about the conventions. You've got the whole world watching
the Olympics and then they have to move this. But
the point of maybe sacrificing some revenue now is because
they think they will be more competitive for bigger conventions
down the road. The argument has been we're losing out
to Talsa Force because our convention center sucks. No what
(24:02):
he says that the area around downtown LA and the
coast of center is really the challenge. But I see
Michael Monks is with it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Michael Monks every Saturday, seven to nine PM right here
on KFI. I saw some renderings of this new convention Center.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It looks beautiful. It's gonna be nice, and hopefully it is,
because that's a pretty pretty price tag. But I brought
some sound from Mayor Bass in the day's okay, but
before we get to the sound I heard. But I
want to play the sound.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Okay, but before we get to the sound before, please
you stand at he's leaving there, he goes. I heard
that Current those gold shovels that they were using for
the you know, the first dig down there at the
convention Center. I heard somebody took one and knocked Current
Price out with one.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Is that true? You have some of the facts correct.
Others seem to have come out of left field, which
is appropriate on a baseball day like this. So Councilman
Current Price is at this event. His district runs up
against downtown LA, out of South LA. He fell down,
Oh he did. He didn't just fall, I mean he
had a meta situation. Oh I didn't have to be
tended to. Mayor Bass, who was a former nurse, also
(25:04):
helped him out a bit, and he was placed in
a wheelchair, taken over to an ambulance, and taken from
the scene. So his office came out later and said
that he was dehydrated. They always say that. So he's
got the weight of being a city councilman in a
challenge city like Los Angeles. But he is also under
indictment on some charges of public corruption and he's supposed
(25:25):
to appear in court again in early November on those charges.
So a lot going on in his life.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
How about passing out in downtown LA and the next
thing you see is Mayor Bass's face an inch away
from yours.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Honestly, if you need mouth to mouth, if it's Karen Bass,
it's better than nobody. That's right. All right?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Can you stay with us or do you got to
take off? No, let's stay. Let's talk about those red Legs.
I let's talk about the Reds, the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
We have sound.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
There's gonna be sound. There's gonna be sound. And then
we have to talk about your Wednesday. You always go
out on Wednesday to dinner and you're going to read
turn to the Rio Soul. The real test is that
Rio Soul. It is okay.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Monks is great.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
He's on every Saturday seven and nine pm live every Saturday,
seven to nine pm, and he owns that time slot.
He's number one talk show in Los Angeles on Saturday
from seven to nine pm.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Michael Monks is with us without naming the supermarket because
I don't want to get in trouble. We did a
whole run yesterday on dogs are everywhere. They're in restaurants,
you go to, you know, anywhere you go to, you
go to the airport, you go to a you know, bookstore.
There's dogs everywhere, everywhere. Dogs And you say in your
supermarket you've seen dogs in the supermarket?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Dogs in the supermarket? Yeah? Absolutely, And at least one
occasion one of the dogs has taken a dump and
then one of the workers has to come on and said,
very snarkily, who thinks a lot for whoever brought your
dog in is a clean up? And I on eight
you're not supposed to have your dogs, but there are
always dogs that down town. You can't say it, yeah supermarket, Yeah,
(27:03):
you know, downtown's a mess anyway. So I guess the
dogs can often be cleaner than some of the other
riff raft that wander in there. But you know we're
supposed to be getting an Arawan down there, can you?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Oh? Really?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I mean the dogs in Arawon. I mean there's more
dogs than people in Arawan. But I agree with you.
I love dogs. I know you love dogs, but let's
keep the dogs out.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Of the super I'm comfortable telling you I don't love dogs,
and I know that's an unpopular opinion. I don't hate them,
but I don't need to petitation. I don't need it
to lick me. I don't need to come near me.
I'm a cat guy. Okay, all right, I get that
you have a cat. I do. What's the name my
little freej holes? Okay, all right, that's really cool. All right,
let's talk about the audio you're gonna play. Okay, So
(27:44):
we're at the Convention Center groundbreaking today in downtown Los Angeles.
The reason I want to play this this is otherwise
run of the mill audio from the mayor who's at
a groundbreaking but I'm gonna break it down for you
when she's finished. Here's what mare Bass said today.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Take bold actions to assure that we can deliver in
a way that is of course fiscally responsible, that includes
implementing cost saving measures and streamlining processes, which will be
key to ensure that the convention center has an on
time completion. So while today is an important step in
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our city's future, we take this step knowing that there
is more important work to do.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
But I know that.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
Angelino's are more than ready to meet the moment.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
More than many ready to meet the moment?
Speaker 12 (28:31):
Thank you everyone, And I would be so excited to
come back here in a few years when the world
comes all.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Of the conventions that I know will be coming to
our city. Okay, so a couple of things there jazzing
up the crowd a bit like, Hey, this thing is coming.
Did you notice I know Angelino's are ready to meet
the moment. That's something that you say after a fire, sure,
after flood washing out of neighborhood, something fat like we
can do this together. Imagine standing at the ground breaking
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of a development so large that it's expected to cost
about two point six billion dollars. In saying we can
do this together. We can do that. It just expresses
to me the level of uncertainty that supporters of this project,
even within city Hall have.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
In your bads, guests, because you cover the LA city
more than anybody on TV or radio, and I think
you're the only guy that really covers it, just a
few of us. How close is the city of Los
Angeles to total collapse.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It was already on the verge of disaster when they
were creating the fiscal year budget that we are currently
living under. Fiscal years start July first run through June thirtieth.
When they were making this year's budget back in the spring,
it was scary, and that was after the previous scary
year where they had to scale back mini services that
are important people, animal services, street lighting, street cleaning, those
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sorts of things. Next year, with this added expense and
no real prospects for additional revenue to be coming in,
I don't see how it can it's better.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
This is why it has to be mismanagement. We have
the wealthiest people in the United States who live here.
We have the entertainment industry that's centered here, located here.
We have the computer world that's up in northern California,
a lot of it down here as well. We have
the most beautiful coastline. We have the most expensive houses
that are paying astronomical amounts in property taxes, and.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yet we're broke. Think about how much stuff costs. Not
when you are walking past a dog at Raufs who's
taken a dump Inisle eight. Think about how much the
city spends on stuff. Take, for example, Maribas's signature homeless program.
When you hear that it might cost upwards of one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars to house somebody for a year,
(30:44):
that's significant, and that project alone is not moving as
quickly as even she had anticipated. So when you have
the same characters talking about how we're going to be
fiscally responsible, we're going to get stuff done on time,
I think you can respect people's eye rol sure and cynicism.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, you know they've spent it's going to be one
hundred and thirty to one hundred and fifty billion dollars
for that high speed rail. If you took the high
speed rail and you never you know, you never started it,
you never took all that money, all one hundred and
thirty to one hundred and fifty billion dollars, and you
just gave it out to homeless people. You could give
every homeless person seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And think about that project in particular. I mean, I
like rail, I like writing, I do the public transportation.
It's not scary or filthy. I love the idea of
a high speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
It'd be great. Sure, because this project has been so
poorly managed. Think about what that's done to the psyche
(31:43):
for folks the next time they're asked to consider, oh,
I know such a poet. It's over. So it's not
just the financial damage that they've done immediately. It's going
to raise questions anytime such a project is talked about. Really,
not even just rail, but projects like this, because if
we have to do so much permitting, we have talking
about so many questions and public hearings and all of that.
It's so California made its own rail project more difficult
(32:07):
to build because of their own policies.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
And the people who live in northern California don't like
Southern California no right, and they don't like us, and
vice versa. I love San Francisco. I think it's one
of the most beautiful Cities've ever been to my life.
I've not been there since nineteen eighty seven. Okay, some
things have changed. Yeah, yeah, a little bit. Yeah, But
I'm just saying, why have a high speed rail over
two cities that hate each other?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Is that anecdotal or is that accurate? I think it's
pretty accurate that I think it is. I think that
that you would you would like Krozier. When's the last
time you've been to San Francisco? This is not a
scientific poll, by the way, ten years ago, ten years
What about you, Tony? When's the last time you went
to San Francisco? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Never, never, You've never been there. How old are you me?
Fifty forty nine?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Hi, belly, when's the last time you went to San Francisco?
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Like maybe four years ago?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Four years ago? Wow? What about you? Monks? I still
lived back in the southern Midwest, but made a visit
in twenty fourteen. There you go.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Nobody goes, you know, And the only way Northern Californians
come down here to visit is when they're forty nine
ers playing.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
They swamp so far and they not get out. I mean,
there's actual statistics out very recently. I think the La
Times at a big piece on tourism in Los Angeles
and how way down poorly we're doing right now. And
a lot of that has to do with our own
decision making. We have decided that the city can look
like this. San Francisco seems to be turning a corner.
They that's awoken a bit up there about what is
(33:38):
acceptable on the streets. Los Angeles has not had that
epiphany yet. I can tell you. I watch every government meeting,
I watch every government press conference. I'm there, I'm talking
to these folks. The epiphany has not happened in any
meaningful way to where they will say collectively that this
is not acceptable. Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And also, if you just watch the news, and if
you're watching cable news, you assume that the city of
LA has burned to the ground.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, you know, there are certain ideologies on some cable
outlets that love to beat on any state that's run
by Democrats, and the same is true to maybe a
lesser extent, on other networks. Let's make fun of our
political opponents by based on the outcomes, whether it be
education or economic. So the problem when you see Fox News,
for example, really lay it on thick on Los Angeles
(34:27):
and California in general. LA and California in general don't
really do a whole lot to counter that image. But
they need to. Those videos are not artificial intelligence. You
can come down to my neighborhood today and send a
text message to Jesse Waters this afternoon and he will
have plenty for his show tonight. Buddy, what's the dinner tonight? Cafe?
(34:49):
I'm going to try that place I told you about
last week because I usually i'd been doing Panda okay,
you know on Wednesday nights, but I'm locked in for
the rest of the year. Little exercise, a little more
creative exploits, okay, and so, uh, you know, trying to
mix things up. And I found this little Brazilian barbecue
place on Sunset in Hollywood, across from the Target and
the home depot there, right off the one O one.
It's called Rio Soul Brazilian Barbecue. It's not endorsement, Okay,
(35:13):
I get it. And you're not looking for a free meal?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Is it a franchise or do I think they're on
our own because they don't know what they're doing? Okay.
The first time I went in there, the menu is
very confusing. Uh, they were surprised a customer walked in.
But the food was not expensive and it was good,
two of us eight for thirty bucks, and the food
was plentiful and delicious. So I'm gonna go back with
some notes. Okay, it's cafe. It's Rio Rio as in
(35:38):
our Rio Dejian years. Okay, Rio Soul, and we'll give
me a boost there. Hey, look, if you say it's good,
it's good, you get delicious.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You can go see Monks there night. I'll bet I'll
be picking up around seven thirty early seven to nine
pm Saturday Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Don't miss it. Michael Monk's reports every week. Excellent. Nice
to see above and go Dodgers, right or dong with
those red legs. Come on with the reds, all right?
Do go out with these Dodgers. All right. We're live
on KFI AM six forty Thanks Bunch.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
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