December 22, 2025 • 32 mins
Mark Thompson opens the show with holiday traditions before pivoting hard into a looming end-of-year weather threat that could hit Southern California with biblical-level rainfall. Forecasts warn of up to two inches in a single day, raising serious flooding and evacuation concerns, especially in recent burn scar areas. Mark plays audio on what to expect from a wet Christmas and how residents should prepare as warnings escalate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I am sixty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tim is, of course, I mean, because you can imagine
a talent of his stature, doesn't it work Christmas week
He's on his way to some exotic port of call.
I don't ask where he's going. I mean, I don't
want to be prying. I also don't want to be subpoena.
At a future date, I can say here on and
I have no, I mean no knowledge of where the
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defendant was going. Tim, I believe goes to a regular
location for Christmas, And isn't Christmas and the holiday season
it's full of tradition. It's kind of full of I understand,
it's full of ritual. You know, you could say the
tree or the lighting of the minora for for chinooka,
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as Smokey Robinson would say, it is.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
These these are rituals.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
These are traditions, right, religious traditions, or they're just family.
But on top of that, you've got the traditions that
are associated with going to mom's house or going to
see the folks are getting or you're playing host to everyone. Anyway,
my point is simply that I think Tim has a
rhythm like that to his life, and so it's great
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to be able to fill in as Tim is away.
We've got the full Conway crew here in the form
of Michael Monks in the news area.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Is that what we call it?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I was going to say the captain's chair, but I
kind of decided to Pola.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I'm happy to be your first mate today, sir, Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Thank you, thank you, And.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Should anything happen to me, of course, the first mate
has to take control of the vessel, so I hope
you don't just throw that term around.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I mean, it's a there's a real responsibility that comes
with it.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Should that unfortunate event come to fruition, I am prepared, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I believe that that's true. Steff foushe is here as
per usual. He's really in a way, I'm here the
senior member of the crew because everybody else is sort.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Of filling in.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But Magic Matt is Uh is here, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
He's the producer.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
No magic compared to belly ol though.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Okay, well maybe Bellio is pretty high bar, but you
have your own moves, which I think are are quite distinguished. Anyways,
great to have everybody here, and I've got a lot
to get to.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
That's great to be here.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm sorry, I don't know is there another voice. I'm
hearing something in on my headphones. Could you check those
two foosh, I don't hear me hearing some weird kind
of chel I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know, Angel's not right in front of me.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And because I am someone of sort of limited cerebral capacity,
I forgot, you know, unless something's right in front of me,
I forgot to mention her so.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Very much of it. And let me just say that
you're working tomorrow as well, Angel, I am.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I'm and through the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's great, because tomorrow there will be an end of
the year mess that looks to be. I mean, if
forecasters are right a sort of biblical proportion, they are
forecasting a huge, powerful holiday storm and rain totals. And
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I'm sure you're aware of this because you're kind of
looking ahead in traffic. You don't just sort of, you know,
you look at different atmospheric events in different situations. Holidays
or early travel on the road, maybe a late travel
on the road, three day weekend travel on the road.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You look at all these things. I know, angel and.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Four to eight inches of rain across parts of southern California.
And now this is over the period Tuesday through Friday,
so it begins tomorrow. But I saw that La may
get two inches of rain in a day. Wow, this
is going to be a huge, huge mess.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I mean, the roads are probably the way that many
will experience it, but there is a heightened risk of
flooding and mud slabs of course, across these burn areas.
And I think we'll be looking at evacuations, We'll be
looking at all of these different situations on the road.
They're associated with hydroplaning and and by the way, you
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saw and I will get to what happened in San
Francisco when it comes to craziness on the roads. They
had a blackout there over the weekend and they have
so many of those Weymo vehicles that essentially, not only
did the whole city shut down, they had one hundred
and thirty thousand people without power, but the Weymo vehicles
were unable to communicate I guess at the home office
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because it had its power off, and they ended up
with these Weymou vehicles all over town and there were
clotting streets and intersection were no I showed up. You
can find pictures that all over the place. I was
showing them on my my YouTube show this morning. But
it will be a rain Christmas across Shoving California.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
We're expecting rain for essentially the entire week of Christmas,
but the heaviest period will be Tuesday and Wednesday, prompting
this flash flood watch. Now, take a look behind me.
Here we are in Malibu and this is right off
of PCH to Panga Canyon. Now, as you can see,
it is open right now, but my guess is they're
getting ready to close this as we get closer to
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the storm. Now, as far as the flood watch, it
applies not only to this area but to all the
burn Scar areas and the foothill communities. Now, this route
down to PCH again, as I said, is still open,
and we're checking to see exactly when they plan to
close it because it certainly might be a possibility. Now
experts say they are almost certain we will experience mudslines
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severe flooding, either from heavy rain or the clock storm
drains after an intense period of rain. At its peak
this storm could bring could be the hottest chriss excuse me,
the wettest Christmas on record. It's expected to bring about
an inch of rain per hour. This may be the
perfect holiday to spend at home, considering not only will
the streets be flooded, but also the freeways assigned from.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
The rain, Sue.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That's where Angel comes in with that freeway mention. That's
what got me off on this show.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Not only will the streets be flooded, but also the
freeways assigned from the rain.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's also going she didn't get a mention Angel in
that instance, work daring.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Not only will the streets be flooded, but also the
freeways assigned from the rain. It's also going to be
very windy. Gus could reach about fifty miles per hour,
threatening to topple power lines and trees. Now back out
here alive. If we just take a look at the
scenery out here this morning, you can see exactly where
we are and how affected this area is from the
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recent fires, last year's fires rather, and how vulnerable this
community still is as they are working to build back.
So be very mindful if you live in the Malibu area.
Of course, having sandbags out will be a big deal.
You can go out to the library to get those.
They are being handed out. So just do everything you
can to be prepared.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
All right, Malibu and Altadena, same story. The burnscarred area
is always on a kind of alert during these periods
that we have become accustomed to, but nonetheless can really
be appropriate given the fact that there's a thread here
that's super intense. I mean, on the low end, the
forecast is for LA to get between two and like
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two little over two inches of rain two point three
inches of rain, and this is again these are computer projections,
but five point one inches is the expectation on the
high end, and if you're in the mountains, you could
get up to ten inches of rain.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's that whole lifting of the air mass. So as
the air mass cools, it has to you know, cool
to get over the mountains. The air mass is pushed
over the mountains, is lifted, right, and that's called orographic precipitation.
I think auras for air and graphics for it's in
the Latin, you know, or anyway, the idea is that
as it's lifted over, cold air can't contain as much
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moisture as warm air, and so you end up with
more rain in the mountain so la in the flats
a little over two inches of rain, and again at
the highest elevations there could be ten inches of rain.
Really a scary situation. So you know, you can blow
off these warnings, you can blow off these general alerts,
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but the reality is it's going to be raining. It
would seem anyway, potentially, if these computer models are correct
on sort of a biblical level, eerily appropriate for the
Christmas week, but it will be a mess. So I
would say, in addition to everything else, which is, if
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you're in many of these areas that are sensitive, you
should be aware of evacuation warnings and this kind of thing.
But I'd also say, since it's such a travel intensive week,
that you watch for road closures, because I think with
that kind of rain in a short time you could
end up with a lot of that too. So that's
kind of the you know, the x's and o's of
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what you should worry about. I do want to share
with you what happened in San Francisco. First of all,
they had a huge blackout. One hundred and thirty thousand
people lost power and then the fun really began.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That story.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Next, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I just got some disturbing news and I wanted to
share it with you because it involves somebody who's a
friend of the show. And you know, and we all
remember the frequent trips to the show that the creator
of the Call of Duty video game series, Simpella made.
(09:53):
He was great, with a tremendous sense of humor. He
came in and we did a bit sort of where
I was pitching him a video game and I was
using the very narrative off of a different video game,
and I wanted to see how long it would take
him to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And he figured it out right away, of course.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And he was just a frequent visitor, and Tim and
myself had so much fun with him. Vince Ampella, again,
as I say, created the Call of Duty video game.
And the news is just coming in that Vince was
killed in a crash on Angela's Crest Highway north of
La Of course you all listening no where. Angelas Crest
(10:36):
Highway is in the mountains, and he was driving a
Ferrari and the Ferrari had just exited the tunnel. It's
a winding two lane road, and the Ferrari slammed into
a concrete barrier, caught fire, and Vince was killed. He
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is a larger than life figure in the video game industry.
Respawn Entertainment was his company, owned by EA. I think
he sold it to EA. I think we met him
he had just sold it, or was I remember there.
I'm trying to remember exactly where we met him in
(11:22):
the evolution of his company, but he was already big.
But I mean he only got bigger. You know, Titan Fall,
Titan Fall two, Apex Legends, Star Wars, Jedi Fallen Order.
He led an EA studio team based in Playa Vista.
The Battlefield video game franchise was his I mean, his
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studios have created several of the world's best selling games.
I guess this happened yesterday afternoon. Now I'm just finding
out about it, though, and I'm flattened by this. He
was a wonderful guy. I mean, again, I only knew
him in the studio, but I mean, you have to
be kind of a roll with it person to hang
(12:06):
with with Conway and myself, and he totally rolled with it.
But he is again the former CEO of the video
game developers in the studio behind Call of Duty. And
this is a single car collision. It happened to twelve
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forty five in the afternoon. Again, there's no influence of
weather or other factors. It wouldn't seem I've just seen
a video of it. He's driving this red Ferrari, So
I guess people are you know, videoing it along the
way because it's sort of a catchy thing to see.
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And he didn't survive the scene. There was a passenger
in the car as well, but there are no details
about the passenger's identity. Apparently, at least in this story.
The Ferrari to ninety six gts, this red car you
can see in the video, slams into the barrier after
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leaving the tunnel. That's a That car is hundreds of
thousands of dollars, right, And they say here in the
story can go uh, I mean, obviously can go incredibly
fast as a Ferrari capable of eight hundred and nineteen
plus horsepower, And it looked in the video like he
was pushing it hard. Fifty five years old again co
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founded Respawn Entertainment fifteen years ago and then it was acquired.
Respawn was by EA, and they say he knew how
to create stories, create experiences, hit at the heart of
the human experience, terror, dread, heroism, all reflected in his
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video games. And it's noted here he was a very
humble person. Many who work with him, worked around him,
say he was well aware of the impact that he
made on people. He never took it for granted, said
one of his colleagues. In a statement. EA Sports called
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Zampella's impact on the world of video games profound and
far reaching. This is an unimaginable and unimaginable loss, EA
said in a statement, and our hearts are with Vince's family,
his loved ones, and all those touched by his work.
Vince's influence on the video game industry was profound and
far reaching. A friend, colleague, leader, and visionary creator, his
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work helped shape modern interactive entertainment and inspired millions of
players and developers around the world. His legacy will continue
to shape how games are made and how players connect
for generations to come. Respawn Entertainment was his company and
a fifty five year old who has contributed so much
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and is culturally so significant, right, I mean Call of
Duty and the many video game franchises he's been part of.
They are a lasting professional legacy. But Vince Sampella obviously
had a lot more to give. And it's really I'm
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flattened by this news. I didn't know about it. I
guess it happened yesterday, but I'm literally just seeing it.
So Vince Sampella is dead at fifty five, in that
single car accident that happened in the noon hour yesterday
on that scenic road in the San Gabriel Mountains. Wow,
(15:53):
couldn't figure out why he veered off. I looked at
the video a few times. I just can't figure out
what prompt to this, but it is. It's a tragedy
for sure. So didn't mean to bring everybody down. But
he's a friend of the show, and I know if
Tim were here, he'd want to mention it as well,
because Vince was a real terrific element in the show
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and he was coming in. He came in pretty frequently
for the time, and I'm smiling because he was just
so wonderful to roll with all the punches. And it
is really the saddest news when it comes to Vince
when we come back, we go to San Francisco. The
mess that is waymo during a power outage is the
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mess they lived Saturday night in San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I don't know if you saw over the weekend. It
was Saturday night in San Francisco. Always a wild ride
and San Francisco on a Saturday night, but even wilder
given the fact that one hundred and thirty THOUSD and
PG and E customers had no electricity, no power turns out.
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There might have been a fire, may have been a
some sort of failure down the line led to all
of these homes and businesses without power, So that in
itself creates its own kind of chaos. We are familiar
with that chaos in southern California. It's around planned power outages,
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it's around unplanned power outages. We may even experience them
tomorrow as a result of rain. But what happened in
San Francisco because of the proliferation of those Weymo cars,
they're just everywhere, the driverless vehicles. Has anybody taking a
Weymo ride? Angel have you been in a Weymo vehicle.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I have not, h.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I've been in many of them.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Actually, Wow, amongst you've been, I'm guessing yes, you've been.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You'd be surprised. I've been very afraid of them.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
But my mother and my ninety year old grandmother, my aunt,
were in town just a couple of weeks ago, and
my mother swears by the Weimo they finally got me
in and it was hilarious. My ninety year old grandmother
did not know a driver was not going to be
getting in the car. She kept waiting for him to
come back out of the store or whatever, and when
that thing took off, the number of F bombs that
flew out of that woman's mouth was hysterical.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I remember Jimmy Kimmel Dion a bit like that where
he put his aunt Chippy in the vehicle and you know,
supposedly the guy was going to get in, then he didn't,
and then the vehicle takes off, and of course they're
directing it the entire time.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Very very funny.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But she had the F bombs going, which is totally
which what made me think of it. Yeah, and Stefush,
I'm guessing you have not been in a Weimo vehicle.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Either, So no, but I want to try one. Yeah, yeah,
it's Matt. Have you been one?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I have not either, all right, so we have where Really,
if you take me out, we're just one for four.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
On the it's somewhat exotic. I guess still, But I
was in the Bay Area a lot, and in the
Bay Area they're very common on San Francisco streets, so
for me it was pretty easy and sort of running
the mill to be in a Waymo vehicle. But initially
I had the same view that a lot of people
do it, like this is really cool, this is really scary,
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and you quickly get past that and it becomes routine.
So the reason I mentioned San Francisco and Weymo and
the fact there are a lot of them, is because
when something goes wrong with that system, you're going to
notice it on a city wide level in a far
more exaggerated way than you might, let's say, in Los Angeles.
Now in La last night, even on the West side,
I was driving home from the West side to east
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and I passed a bunch of Waymo vehicles on the
west side. So they are around, But in San Francisco.
They're everywhere, and so with the large blackout across San Francisco,
cars were stranded in the streets. The self driving cars
blocked roads intersection intersection after intersection. Much of the city
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was dark because of the power outage.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
And when these.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Cars get stuck in an intersection, four other Waymo cars,
you know, show up behind it, flashing hazard lights, blocking
the road and you can't get past. I've seen that
specific situation I'm talking about on a social media post.
There were many others. People were shooting videos from their apartments, etc.
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So cars with human drivers were trying to navigate between
vehicles around vehicles, and way Mo suspended all service on Saturday,
so once the power was up the next day they
were back on. But the statement was this. While the
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Weimo driver is designed to treat non functional signals as
far away stops, this year scale of the outage led
to instances where vehicles remained stationary longer than usual to
confirm the state of the affected intersections. This contributed to
traffic friction during the height of the congestion. In other words,
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because the Weimo vehicle wasn't sure what was going on,
the vehicles in their words remained stationary longer than usual.
They didn't go they were just frozen. So the company
is saying, hey, we're going to work to try to
integrate this as they've put the lessons learned here. But
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it is one of the results of what can happen
that has made people even a little more anxious about
Weimo again. They think there was a fire at a
PG and E substation, but that was a huge joutach
Saturday afternoon that started, and you'd think there might be
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some way to pull the weimo vehicles off the streets,
but that's not what happened. They just kind of stopped
in place. By the way, forty seven hundred customers still
had no power as of Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So Weaimo is.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
In New York City conducting test rides with a limited
number of cars there in La County they started last year,
and that really is one of the biggest markets so far,
and this autonomous ride business is quite competitive. You know,
Weimo ain't the only game in town. Tesla and Amazon
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are testing out their own services that rival Weimo and
use slightly different technology. Also Cruise, which is a startup
owned by General Motors.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
They were in the game.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You remember they had their permits pulled that huge accident. Yeah,
one of their cars dragged a pedestrian for twenty feet
while she was pinned underneath the car. That was in
October of last year. So they had their permit pull
to cruise and they recalled a thousand of cruisers' vehicles.
So then they're in this kind of federal review process.
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But the one hundred and twenty miles service area of
Weaimo in southern California may include you. So watch for
Waimo and also watch for these other companies. There's going
to be a lot of competition in the driverless car world,
and I think you know driverless trucks are next. There's
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an economic impact of all of this, there's a cultural
impact to all of this. So this is it to
be continued, But this is definitely an inflection moment, as
they say in the evolution of Weaimo, as a power
outage essentially brought the city of San Francisco from the
standpoint of Weimo to a complete hal Now my question
is if you were in a Weymo vehicle, could you
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get out? And I haven't read anything on that, Like
I haven't seen anything about someone being trapped inside. So
I don't really know what the story is. I would
assume that if people were trapped, we would really know
about that, Like that is something that would take flight
on social media. I haven't seen it at all, But
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in any case, the Waimo story is to be continued.
They're lining up for hours at this spot in LA
and it's not the only spot they're lining up. But
why are they lining up? I will tell you about
that next.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Big, big rain, two to five inches of rain in
La in the flats over the period from Tuesday to Friday.
It's like the the worst window of rainfall in terms
of logistics for the holidays. It starts tomorrow and it
rains through Christmas Eve and it rains through Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, does your injury get worse?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Like do you still have pain from your injury that
gets worse as the humidity rises and the rainfalls of steffus.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I wonder about you, do you know? I thought about
you though, like, like do your joints feel worse?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You thought about it because I'm getting old and you
feel like or you feel because of my many years
in the in the octagon as an MMA defender. The latter, yes,
as of I mean Stefush realizes that as a peak
athlete who gave so much and always left it on
the field, I do.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I have a bad neck. As you know.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I haven't slept a full night in many, many years.
And the gummies don't help. The gummies are pretty terrific.
Would they leave me hung over? I'll tell you the
other thing about gummies. Thank you for mentioning it, because
I made a mental note. Sure, the thing about gummies
the first I try not to do them all the time.
I don't want to be like just a total zombie,
although being a total zombie sounds pretty good these days.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
But I.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Cannot understand how you guys, I'm talking with you listening
out there, you people who are true like connoisseurs of.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
The weed.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I don't know how you lay off the munchies. I mean,
the munchies are destroying me. I mean, I will eat
everything in sight it is. I'm incapable of hitting the
stop button when I start to get that munchie thing.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Do you have that problem?
Speaker 8 (26:45):
It is one of the hardest things because when I
used gummies to fall asleep, I was so happy. And
then I would go to the cupboards and find anything
that we had, Yeah, and I would make sure that
I clean it all out because it was just Yeah,
you're right. You can't put a pause on it.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Now. You're right about also about doing something. You're so smart.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You need to take the cookies and you need to
throw them in the trash before you do the gummies
if you really want to be you know what I mean.
I understand that people go eh, like Courtney always goes, Look,
you only live once you work hard.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Why are you so tough on yourself?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Go ahead if you want well, because I just ate
two entire sleeves of chocolate chip cookies and I think
that that's just not a good way to be. But
the other thing I've heard, by the way, if you're
just joining us, this is Marijuana Talk. Welcome. This is
a new show on KFI. I'll be your host.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The deal with with gummies, I'm told, and with pot
generally from pot users, is that you get used to it.
Is that, Yeah, Mark, the reason you're getting munchies is
because you're not really a pothead yet. Once you get
into podthead land. Then you won't be munching anymore. I
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don't know if I believe that. I don't believe that.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Yeah, because I got to a point where I was
taking like fifty to sixty milligrams just to fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Wow, and I would still get the munchies. Yeah. Yeah,
Well you're right.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
I started to monitor myself so I would make sure
that I would have water and other stuff to eat,
to make sure I wouldn't just clean out the cupboard.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Sure, And that's kind of see the first point. What
you're doing prepping for what you know is the inevitable.
That's the equivalent of throwing the cookies away. You're lining
up the kitchen such that Okay, I'll be eating, but
I'm not going to be eating.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Just a bunch of unhealthy stuff exactly. Yeah, it's crazy.
I used to really eat so hell.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I think that's one of the biggest casualties of the
last year for me, is that I've kind of just
fallen into you know, pastry hell when it comes to
and I I mean, I've always loved pastries, I've always
loved chocolate chip cookies. But man, I just really I
think I have I don't know what's happened. I've lost
all sense of proportion, you know. But and you know,
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one of the things that just and then I'll move
off of this. But one of the things about when
I first went vegan, I was like super militant about
being vegan all the time. And the thing that's good
about that is that there are not a lot of
desserts that are vegan, right, They've got butter in them,
and you're not supposed to eat butter. And by the way,
I think one of the great improvements to my health
(29:35):
came when I got away from butter and dairy. So,
you know, butter cheese, that sort of I loved it,
don't get me wrong. I mean I missed it. But
what's happened now is they have plenty of substitutes for that,
So it doesn't matter whether it's vegan or they've.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Got coconut butter.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
They've got all kinds of other ways in which they
can basically substitute the things that used to be there.
So now there are tons of vegan pastries. I mean,
you can I can just sit around and you know,
watch football, and I eat a whole cheesecake.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
That's Vegan.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
It's so all I'm trying to say is that to
get back to what gets us any governor, you have
any a sense of restraint, you lose it because you
know you're no longer in commit And I'll throw one
last thing in. If you have a cocktail and you're
(30:29):
buzzed from forget it, I mean you'll go to the
neighbor's house to get more food. I mean it is insane.
I have truly no restraint on any temptation when I've
had a cocktail and I've got the edibles going. So anyway,
that's the uh you know this is you're talking to
a guy I didn't get high for I don't know
(30:49):
what it was thirty five years. So I'm not like
some you. The guy who always was a pothead all
my life. Now just the opposite. And here I am.
I'm getting drawn into the dark side, and I love
it so and again Courtney always says, look, you're so
hard on yourself.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It's fine. Enjoy your life.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
She's a real, you know, yolo person, and you can
yolo yourself right up to you know, five six hundred pounds, right,
be one of those on one of those carts that
I wheel up to a blackjack table in Las Vegas. Yeah,
then I start smoking, yeah, then having the gym beam
between hands.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Before you know it, you go. What happened to Mark Thompson?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Saw him at Caesar's Palace a few years ago and
he was in one of those carts choking down a button.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
He looked like it was high or something.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Anyway, Happy holidays everybody, Now you know what to get me?
Mark Thompson Here for Conway. We're KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 1 (31:56):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tim is, of course, I mean, because you can imagine
a talent of his stature, doesn't it work Christmas week
He's on his way to some exotic port of call.
I don't ask where he's going. I mean, I don't
want to be prying. I also don't want to be subpoena.
At a future date, I can say here on and
I have no, I mean no knowledge of where the
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defendant was going. Tim, I believe goes to a regular
location for Christmas, And isn't Christmas and the holiday season
it's full of tradition. It's kind of full of I understand,
it's full of ritual. You know, you could say the
tree or the lighting of the minora for for chinooka,
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as Smokey Robinson would say, it is.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
These these are rituals.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
These are traditions, right, religious traditions, or they're just family.
But on top of that, you've got the traditions that
are associated with going to mom's house or going to
see the folks are getting or you're playing host to everyone. Anyway,
my point is simply that I think Tim has a
rhythm like that to his life, and so it's great
(01:17):
to be able to fill in as Tim is away.
We've got the full Conway crew here in the form
of Michael Monks in the news area.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Is that what we call it?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I was going to say the captain's chair, but I
kind of decided to Pola.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I'm happy to be your first mate today, sir, Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Thank you, thank you, And.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Should anything happen to me, of course, the first mate
has to take control of the vessel, so I hope
you don't just throw that term around.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I mean, it's a there's a real responsibility that comes
with it.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Should that unfortunate event come to fruition, I am prepared, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I believe that that's true. Steff foushe is here as
per usual. He's really in a way, I'm here the
senior member of the crew because everybody else is sort.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Of filling in.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But Magic Matt is Uh is here, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
He's the producer.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
No magic compared to belly ol though.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Okay, well maybe Bellio is pretty high bar, but you
have your own moves, which I think are are quite distinguished. Anyways,
great to have everybody here, and I've got a lot
to get to.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
That's great to be here.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm sorry, I don't know is there another voice. I'm
hearing something in on my headphones. Could you check those
two foosh, I don't hear me hearing some weird kind
of chel I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know, Angel's not right in front of me.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And because I am someone of sort of limited cerebral capacity,
I forgot, you know, unless something's right in front of me,
I forgot to mention her so.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Very much of it. And let me just say that
you're working tomorrow as well, Angel, I am.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I'm and through the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's great, because tomorrow there will be an end of
the year mess that looks to be. I mean, if
forecasters are right a sort of biblical proportion, they are
forecasting a huge, powerful holiday storm and rain totals. And
(03:23):
I'm sure you're aware of this because you're kind of
looking ahead in traffic. You don't just sort of, you know,
you look at different atmospheric events in different situations. Holidays
or early travel on the road, maybe a late travel
on the road, three day weekend travel on the road.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You look at all these things. I know, angel and.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Four to eight inches of rain across parts of southern California.
And now this is over the period Tuesday through Friday,
so it begins tomorrow. But I saw that La may
get two inches of rain in a day. Wow, this
is going to be a huge, huge mess.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I mean, the roads are probably the way that many
will experience it, but there is a heightened risk of
flooding and mud slabs of course, across these burn areas.
And I think we'll be looking at evacuations, We'll be
looking at all of these different situations on the road.
They're associated with hydroplaning and and by the way, you
(04:24):
saw and I will get to what happened in San
Francisco when it comes to craziness on the roads. They
had a blackout there over the weekend and they have
so many of those Weymo vehicles that essentially, not only
did the whole city shut down, they had one hundred
and thirty thousand people without power, but the Weymo vehicles
were unable to communicate I guess at the home office
(04:45):
because it had its power off, and they ended up
with these Weymou vehicles all over town and there were
clotting streets and intersection were no I showed up. You
can find pictures that all over the place. I was
showing them on my my YouTube show this morning. But
it will be a rain Christmas across Shoving California.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
We're expecting rain for essentially the entire week of Christmas,
but the heaviest period will be Tuesday and Wednesday, prompting
this flash flood watch. Now, take a look behind me.
Here we are in Malibu and this is right off
of PCH to Panga Canyon. Now, as you can see,
it is open right now, but my guess is they're
getting ready to close this as we get closer to
(05:23):
the storm. Now, as far as the flood watch, it
applies not only to this area but to all the
burn Scar areas and the foothill communities. Now, this route
down to PCH again, as I said, is still open,
and we're checking to see exactly when they plan to
close it because it certainly might be a possibility. Now
experts say they are almost certain we will experience mudslines
(05:44):
severe flooding, either from heavy rain or the clock storm
drains after an intense period of rain. At its peak
this storm could bring could be the hottest chriss excuse me,
the wettest Christmas on record. It's expected to bring about
an inch of rain per hour. This may be the
perfect holiday to spend at home, considering not only will
the streets be flooded, but also the freeways assigned from.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
The rain, Sue.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That's where Angel comes in with that freeway mention. That's
what got me off on this show.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Not only will the streets be flooded, but also the
freeways assigned from the rain.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's also going she didn't get a mention Angel in
that instance, work daring.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Not only will the streets be flooded, but also the
freeways assigned from the rain. It's also going to be
very windy. Gus could reach about fifty miles per hour,
threatening to topple power lines and trees. Now back out
here alive. If we just take a look at the
scenery out here this morning, you can see exactly where
we are and how affected this area is from the
(06:40):
recent fires, last year's fires rather, and how vulnerable this
community still is as they are working to build back.
So be very mindful if you live in the Malibu area.
Of course, having sandbags out will be a big deal.
You can go out to the library to get those.
They are being handed out. So just do everything you
can to be prepared.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
All right, Malibu and Altadena, same story. The burnscarred area
is always on a kind of alert during these periods
that we have become accustomed to, but nonetheless can really
be appropriate given the fact that there's a thread here
that's super intense. I mean, on the low end, the
forecast is for LA to get between two and like
(07:20):
two little over two inches of rain two point three
inches of rain, and this is again these are computer projections,
but five point one inches is the expectation on the
high end, and if you're in the mountains, you could
get up to ten inches of rain.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's that whole lifting of the air mass. So as
the air mass cools, it has to you know, cool
to get over the mountains. The air mass is pushed
over the mountains, is lifted, right, and that's called orographic precipitation.
I think auras for air and graphics for it's in
the Latin, you know, or anyway, the idea is that
as it's lifted over, cold air can't contain as much
(07:57):
moisture as warm air, and so you end up with
more rain in the mountain so la in the flats
a little over two inches of rain, and again at
the highest elevations there could be ten inches of rain.
Really a scary situation. So you know, you can blow
off these warnings, you can blow off these general alerts,
(08:18):
but the reality is it's going to be raining. It
would seem anyway, potentially, if these computer models are correct
on sort of a biblical level, eerily appropriate for the
Christmas week, but it will be a mess. So I
would say, in addition to everything else, which is, if
(08:38):
you're in many of these areas that are sensitive, you
should be aware of evacuation warnings and this kind of thing.
But I'd also say, since it's such a travel intensive week,
that you watch for road closures, because I think with
that kind of rain in a short time you could
end up with a lot of that too. So that's
kind of the you know, the x's and o's of
(09:01):
what you should worry about. I do want to share
with you what happened in San Francisco. First of all,
they had a huge blackout. One hundred and thirty thousand
people lost power and then the fun really began.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That story.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Next, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I just got some disturbing news and I wanted to
share it with you because it involves somebody who's a
friend of the show. And you know, and we all
remember the frequent trips to the show that the creator
of the Call of Duty video game series, Simpella made.
(09:53):
He was great, with a tremendous sense of humor. He
came in and we did a bit sort of where
I was pitching him a video game and I was
using the very narrative off of a different video game,
and I wanted to see how long it would take
him to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And he figured it out right away, of course.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And he was just a frequent visitor, and Tim and
myself had so much fun with him. Vince Ampella, again,
as I say, created the Call of Duty video game.
And the news is just coming in that Vince was
killed in a crash on Angela's Crest Highway north of
La Of course you all listening no where. Angelas Crest
(10:36):
Highway is in the mountains, and he was driving a
Ferrari and the Ferrari had just exited the tunnel. It's
a winding two lane road, and the Ferrari slammed into
a concrete barrier, caught fire, and Vince was killed. He
(11:01):
is a larger than life figure in the video game industry.
Respawn Entertainment was his company, owned by EA. I think
he sold it to EA. I think we met him
he had just sold it, or was I remember there.
I'm trying to remember exactly where we met him in
(11:22):
the evolution of his company, but he was already big.
But I mean he only got bigger. You know, Titan Fall,
Titan Fall two, Apex Legends, Star Wars, Jedi Fallen Order.
He led an EA studio team based in Playa Vista.
The Battlefield video game franchise was his I mean, his
(11:46):
studios have created several of the world's best selling games.
I guess this happened yesterday afternoon. Now I'm just finding
out about it, though, and I'm flattened by this. He
was a wonderful guy. I mean, again, I only knew
him in the studio, but I mean, you have to
be kind of a roll with it person to hang
(12:06):
with with Conway and myself, and he totally rolled with it.
But he is again the former CEO of the video
game developers in the studio behind Call of Duty. And
this is a single car collision. It happened to twelve
(12:28):
forty five in the afternoon. Again, there's no influence of
weather or other factors. It wouldn't seem I've just seen
a video of it. He's driving this red Ferrari, So
I guess people are you know, videoing it along the
way because it's sort of a catchy thing to see.
(12:48):
And he didn't survive the scene. There was a passenger
in the car as well, but there are no details
about the passenger's identity. Apparently, at least in this story.
The Ferrari to ninety six gts, this red car you
can see in the video, slams into the barrier after
(13:10):
leaving the tunnel. That's a That car is hundreds of
thousands of dollars, right, And they say here in the
story can go uh, I mean, obviously can go incredibly
fast as a Ferrari capable of eight hundred and nineteen
plus horsepower, And it looked in the video like he
was pushing it hard. Fifty five years old again co
(13:35):
founded Respawn Entertainment fifteen years ago and then it was acquired.
Respawn was by EA, and they say he knew how
to create stories, create experiences, hit at the heart of
the human experience, terror, dread, heroism, all reflected in his
(14:01):
video games. And it's noted here he was a very
humble person. Many who work with him, worked around him,
say he was well aware of the impact that he
made on people. He never took it for granted, said
one of his colleagues. In a statement. EA Sports called
(14:22):
Zampella's impact on the world of video games profound and
far reaching. This is an unimaginable and unimaginable loss, EA
said in a statement, and our hearts are with Vince's family,
his loved ones, and all those touched by his work.
Vince's influence on the video game industry was profound and
far reaching. A friend, colleague, leader, and visionary creator, his
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work helped shape modern interactive entertainment and inspired millions of
players and developers around the world. His legacy will continue
to shape how games are made and how players connect
for generations to come. Respawn Entertainment was his company and
a fifty five year old who has contributed so much
(15:09):
and is culturally so significant, right, I mean Call of
Duty and the many video game franchises he's been part of.
They are a lasting professional legacy. But Vince Sampella obviously
had a lot more to give. And it's really I'm
(15:29):
flattened by this news. I didn't know about it. I
guess it happened yesterday, but I'm literally just seeing it.
So Vince Sampella is dead at fifty five, in that
single car accident that happened in the noon hour yesterday
on that scenic road in the San Gabriel Mountains. Wow,
(15:53):
couldn't figure out why he veered off. I looked at
the video a few times. I just can't figure out
what prompt to this, but it is. It's a tragedy
for sure. So didn't mean to bring everybody down. But
he's a friend of the show, and I know if
Tim were here, he'd want to mention it as well,
because Vince was a real terrific element in the show
(16:14):
and he was coming in. He came in pretty frequently
for the time, and I'm smiling because he was just
so wonderful to roll with all the punches. And it
is really the saddest news when it comes to Vince
when we come back, we go to San Francisco. The
mess that is waymo during a power outage is the
(16:35):
mess they lived Saturday night in San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I don't know if you saw over the weekend. It
was Saturday night in San Francisco. Always a wild ride
and San Francisco on a Saturday night, but even wilder
given the fact that one hundred and thirty THOUSD and
PG and E customers had no electricity, no power turns out.
(17:07):
There might have been a fire, may have been a
some sort of failure down the line led to all
of these homes and businesses without power, So that in
itself creates its own kind of chaos. We are familiar
with that chaos in southern California. It's around planned power outages,
(17:29):
it's around unplanned power outages. We may even experience them
tomorrow as a result of rain. But what happened in
San Francisco because of the proliferation of those Weymo cars,
they're just everywhere, the driverless vehicles. Has anybody taking a
Weymo ride? Angel have you been in a Weymo vehicle.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I have not, h.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I've been in many of them.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Actually, Wow, amongst you've been, I'm guessing yes, you've been.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You'd be surprised. I've been very afraid of them.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
But my mother and my ninety year old grandmother, my aunt,
were in town just a couple of weeks ago, and
my mother swears by the Weimo they finally got me
in and it was hilarious. My ninety year old grandmother
did not know a driver was not going to be
getting in the car. She kept waiting for him to
come back out of the store or whatever, and when
that thing took off, the number of F bombs that
flew out of that woman's mouth was hysterical.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I remember Jimmy Kimmel Dion a bit like that where
he put his aunt Chippy in the vehicle and you know,
supposedly the guy was going to get in, then he didn't,
and then the vehicle takes off, and of course they're
directing it the entire time.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Very very funny.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But she had the F bombs going, which is totally
which what made me think of it. Yeah, and Stefush,
I'm guessing you have not been in a Weimo vehicle.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Either, So no, but I want to try one. Yeah, yeah,
it's Matt. Have you been one?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I have not either, all right, so we have where Really,
if you take me out, we're just one for four.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
On the it's somewhat exotic. I guess still, But I
was in the Bay Area a lot, and in the
Bay Area they're very common on San Francisco streets, so
for me it was pretty easy and sort of running
the mill to be in a Waymo vehicle. But initially
I had the same view that a lot of people
do it, like this is really cool, this is really scary,
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and you quickly get past that and it becomes routine.
So the reason I mentioned San Francisco and Weymo and
the fact there are a lot of them, is because
when something goes wrong with that system, you're going to
notice it on a city wide level in a far
more exaggerated way than you might, let's say, in Los Angeles.
Now in La last night, even on the West side,
I was driving home from the West side to east
(19:46):
and I passed a bunch of Waymo vehicles on the
west side. So they are around, But in San Francisco.
They're everywhere, and so with the large blackout across San Francisco,
cars were stranded in the streets. The self driving cars
blocked roads intersection intersection after intersection. Much of the city
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was dark because of the power outage.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
And when these.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Cars get stuck in an intersection, four other Waymo cars,
you know, show up behind it, flashing hazard lights, blocking
the road and you can't get past. I've seen that
specific situation I'm talking about on a social media post.
There were many others. People were shooting videos from their apartments, etc.
(20:36):
So cars with human drivers were trying to navigate between
vehicles around vehicles, and way Mo suspended all service on Saturday,
so once the power was up the next day they
were back on. But the statement was this. While the
(21:00):
Weimo driver is designed to treat non functional signals as
far away stops, this year scale of the outage led
to instances where vehicles remained stationary longer than usual to
confirm the state of the affected intersections. This contributed to
traffic friction during the height of the congestion. In other words,
(21:21):
because the Weimo vehicle wasn't sure what was going on,
the vehicles in their words remained stationary longer than usual.
They didn't go they were just frozen. So the company
is saying, hey, we're going to work to try to
integrate this as they've put the lessons learned here. But
(21:42):
it is one of the results of what can happen
that has made people even a little more anxious about
Weimo again. They think there was a fire at a
PG and E substation, but that was a huge joutach
Saturday afternoon that started, and you'd think there might be
(22:05):
some way to pull the weimo vehicles off the streets,
but that's not what happened. They just kind of stopped
in place. By the way, forty seven hundred customers still
had no power as of Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So Weaimo is.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
In New York City conducting test rides with a limited
number of cars there in La County they started last year,
and that really is one of the biggest markets so far,
and this autonomous ride business is quite competitive. You know,
Weimo ain't the only game in town. Tesla and Amazon
(22:44):
are testing out their own services that rival Weimo and
use slightly different technology. Also Cruise, which is a startup
owned by General Motors.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
They were in the game.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You remember they had their permits pulled that huge accident. Yeah,
one of their cars dragged a pedestrian for twenty feet
while she was pinned underneath the car. That was in
October of last year. So they had their permit pull
to cruise and they recalled a thousand of cruisers' vehicles.
So then they're in this kind of federal review process.
(23:20):
But the one hundred and twenty miles service area of
Weaimo in southern California may include you. So watch for
Waimo and also watch for these other companies. There's going
to be a lot of competition in the driverless car world,
and I think you know driverless trucks are next. There's
(23:41):
an economic impact of all of this, there's a cultural
impact to all of this. So this is it to
be continued, But this is definitely an inflection moment, as
they say in the evolution of Weaimo, as a power
outage essentially brought the city of San Francisco from the
standpoint of Weimo to a complete hal Now my question
is if you were in a Weymo vehicle, could you
(24:01):
get out? And I haven't read anything on that, Like
I haven't seen anything about someone being trapped inside. So
I don't really know what the story is. I would
assume that if people were trapped, we would really know
about that, Like that is something that would take flight
on social media. I haven't seen it at all, But
(24:23):
in any case, the Waimo story is to be continued.
They're lining up for hours at this spot in LA
and it's not the only spot they're lining up. But
why are they lining up? I will tell you about
that next.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Big, big rain, two to five inches of rain in
La in the flats over the period from Tuesday to Friday.
It's like the the worst window of rainfall in terms
of logistics for the holidays. It starts tomorrow and it
rains through Christmas Eve and it rains through Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, does your injury get worse?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Like do you still have pain from your injury that
gets worse as the humidity rises and the rainfalls of steffus.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I wonder about you, do you know? I thought about
you though, like, like do your joints feel worse?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You thought about it because I'm getting old and you
feel like or you feel because of my many years
in the in the octagon as an MMA defender. The latter, yes,
as of I mean Stefush realizes that as a peak
athlete who gave so much and always left it on
the field, I do.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I have a bad neck. As you know.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I haven't slept a full night in many, many years.
And the gummies don't help. The gummies are pretty terrific.
Would they leave me hung over? I'll tell you the
other thing about gummies. Thank you for mentioning it, because
I made a mental note. Sure, the thing about gummies
the first I try not to do them all the time.
I don't want to be like just a total zombie,
although being a total zombie sounds pretty good these days.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
But I.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Cannot understand how you guys, I'm talking with you listening
out there, you people who are true like connoisseurs of.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
The weed.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I don't know how you lay off the munchies. I mean,
the munchies are destroying me. I mean, I will eat
everything in sight it is. I'm incapable of hitting the
stop button when I start to get that munchie thing.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Do you have that problem?
Speaker 8 (26:45):
It is one of the hardest things because when I
used gummies to fall asleep, I was so happy. And
then I would go to the cupboards and find anything
that we had, Yeah, and I would make sure that
I clean it all out because it was just Yeah,
you're right. You can't put a pause on it.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Now. You're right about also about doing something. You're so smart.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You need to take the cookies and you need to
throw them in the trash before you do the gummies
if you really want to be you know what I mean.
I understand that people go eh, like Courtney always goes, Look,
you only live once you work hard.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Why are you so tough on yourself?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Go ahead if you want well, because I just ate
two entire sleeves of chocolate chip cookies and I think
that that's just not a good way to be. But
the other thing I've heard, by the way, if you're
just joining us, this is Marijuana Talk. Welcome. This is
a new show on KFI. I'll be your host.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The deal with with gummies, I'm told, and with pot
generally from pot users, is that you get used to it.
Is that, Yeah, Mark, the reason you're getting munchies is
because you're not really a pothead yet. Once you get
into podthead land. Then you won't be munching anymore. I
(28:05):
don't know if I believe that. I don't believe that.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Yeah, because I got to a point where I was
taking like fifty to sixty milligrams just to fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Wow, and I would still get the munchies. Yeah. Yeah,
Well you're right.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
I started to monitor myself so I would make sure
that I would have water and other stuff to eat,
to make sure I wouldn't just clean out the cupboard.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Sure, And that's kind of see the first point. What
you're doing prepping for what you know is the inevitable.
That's the equivalent of throwing the cookies away. You're lining
up the kitchen such that Okay, I'll be eating, but
I'm not going to be eating.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Just a bunch of unhealthy stuff exactly. Yeah, it's crazy.
I used to really eat so hell.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I think that's one of the biggest casualties of the
last year for me, is that I've kind of just
fallen into you know, pastry hell when it comes to
and I I mean, I've always loved pastries, I've always
loved chocolate chip cookies. But man, I just really I
think I have I don't know what's happened. I've lost
all sense of proportion, you know. But and you know,
(29:14):
one of the things that just and then I'll move
off of this. But one of the things about when
I first went vegan, I was like super militant about
being vegan all the time. And the thing that's good
about that is that there are not a lot of
desserts that are vegan, right, They've got butter in them,
and you're not supposed to eat butter. And by the way,
I think one of the great improvements to my health
(29:35):
came when I got away from butter and dairy. So,
you know, butter cheese, that sort of I loved it,
don't get me wrong. I mean I missed it. But
what's happened now is they have plenty of substitutes for that,
So it doesn't matter whether it's vegan or they've.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Got coconut butter.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
They've got all kinds of other ways in which they
can basically substitute the things that used to be there.
So now there are tons of vegan pastries. I mean,
you can I can just sit around and you know,
watch football, and I eat a whole cheesecake.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
That's Vegan.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
It's so all I'm trying to say is that to
get back to what gets us any governor, you have
any a sense of restraint, you lose it because you
know you're no longer in commit And I'll throw one
last thing in. If you have a cocktail and you're
(30:29):
buzzed from forget it, I mean you'll go to the
neighbor's house to get more food. I mean it is insane.
I have truly no restraint on any temptation when I've
had a cocktail and I've got the edibles going. So anyway,
that's the uh you know this is you're talking to
a guy I didn't get high for I don't know
(30:49):
what it was thirty five years. So I'm not like
some you. The guy who always was a pothead all
my life. Now just the opposite. And here I am.
I'm getting drawn into the dark side, and I love
it so and again Courtney always says, look, you're so
hard on yourself.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It's fine. Enjoy your life.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
She's a real, you know, yolo person, and you can
yolo yourself right up to you know, five six hundred pounds, right,
be one of those on one of those carts that
I wheel up to a blackjack table in Las Vegas. Yeah,
then I start smoking, yeah, then having the gym beam
between hands.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Before you know it, you go. What happened to Mark Thompson?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Saw him at Caesar's Palace a few years ago and
he was in one of those carts choking down a button.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
He looked like it was high or something.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Anyway, Happy holidays everybody, Now you know what to get me?
Mark Thompson Here for Conway. We're KFI AM six forty
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