July 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Mark Thompson kicks off the show with KFI’s own Michael Monks on breaking news about the ICE Raids ongoing in Ventura County and a standoff and subsequent skirmishes that have been going on. // Mark breaks down the LA Times piece on the LA Homeless crisis, which they say is a century in the making. // KFI’s own Heather Brooker joins the show to play a game with the Conway Show crew and to assist in an awesome Coachella Valley Coffee giveaway. It’s Binge or BS time! // Binge or BS Continued
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's camp I am six and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Camp by six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Mark Thompson and for Tim Conway Junior, everybody at ease.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We have quite the show plan. I'm going to jump
right into it.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Big tear gas deployment over this protest at the immigration
rate in Inventura County, and things looked as though they
could get pretty dicey. I stefush, will you fire up
the wayback machine?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thank you much.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
As rate is continuing here at the Glasshouse marijuana farm
in Cavalrio, right along Laguna Road. You can see a
skirmish line set by the National Guard as they stand
off with these protesters who have showed up to vehemently
protest what's going on here and just in the last time.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
They're protesting that they're grabbing my marijuana. Is that what's happening?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Monks?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is Michael Monks is here from KOPI News and
you you point out that this was a marijuana farm facility.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
This is what we are hearing from the media sources
in Ventura County. I'm talking about the Ventura Sun. I'm
talking about Coastalview dot com find publications. They identified the
owners of this farm near Camerio. When emphasized. This is apparently,
according to a Camerio City councilman, unincorporated Ventura County. So
(01:30):
it's near Cario, but not not exactly inside the city
of may for.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The reason that it's perhaps incorporated.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Perhaps, But this is apparently property that is owned by
Glasshouse Farms and they are producers and distributors of cannabis.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You don't need to tell me.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, Customs and Border Patrol helicopter has entered the seat here.
They are landing in the middle of the farm as
we speak. It does appear that they were not planning
to be here as long as they have been. And
so this helicopter that you're looking at here, guys, apparently
just made a run over to Van Nuys Airport for
some cases of water, which is what they're bringing into
(02:09):
the scene here. So there are a whole team of
ICE agents at the farm. There are other agents down
there as well as well as the National Guard police
standing guard and protecting Laguna Road.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
What a scene.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
It was a scene what you heard Chris Christy describing
there as it played out on television, looked like a
military operation. There were military vehicles on the ground, there
were federal agents in what looked like military uniforms more
so than just federal immigration official uniforms. Helicopter showing up. Now,
(02:42):
there appeared to have been some detainments of folks. There
was a bus that left, reportedly with some folks on
board who probably did not want to be on that bus.
We also saw some images of people that had been
lined up against the wall that may have been detained
by immigration agents there. Another interesting point here is that
this is the Glasshouse Farms operation near Cameria. Earlier in
(03:07):
the morning, a similar operation unfolded at the same company's
operation in CARPENTERIEA. Oh, so they got hit twice. We
don't know the nature of this yet, but if you
were to look at who showed up and what's been
going on, and knowing the goals of the Trump administration,
some of the stated goals include going after companies that
(03:29):
are employing illegal aliens. But this is also in the
agriculture industry, and this is that area of the immigration
issue that President Trump himself has started to waffle on
a bit, to say I'm not so sure we should
be going after these farm workers.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, the truth is that he seemed to be working
at out. I was saying this to John before in
the moment, as he said, well, I don't want to
you know, I've always been friend to the farmers, and
I don't want to make the farmer's life difficult. And
understand these people are important. He was almost working out
the Bressero program that used to be so much a
part of California agriculture in that moment.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
You know, the argument has long been who's going to
pick this stuff? Who's going to pick the berries, who's
going to pick the fruit, who's going to pick the vegetables?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Americans? Are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Now?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
We might volunteer to pick some cannabis, if that's what's
going on out here, and cultivate that a little paper.
That's a I consider it. You think we might get
more volunteers. I don't know how much that past the
hot day. I'm not sure I'd want to do it
on a hot day. But if they give you a discount.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But they did bust or detain numbers of people here,
this like distinguishing it from the other big show of
forest in MacArthur Park, for example, or they swept through
with horseback, they swept in with a chopper. They had
all this stuff that seemed to be more about the
theater of scaring people or reminding people that you can
(04:48):
still self deport. This was the agenda, was to detain people.
In this case, it's different than the MacArthur Park.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
As far as we know about MacArthur Park, we still
don't know exactly what they were doing. In MacArthur Park.
They didn't do anything except show up and then leave,
so there was no enforcement action.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Here.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
There was apparently enforcement action.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
You heard Chris Christie's clip there where he says they
probably didn't expect to be here this long. They ended
up there longer and are still there currently because a
pretty good sized crowd of people showed up to protest.
I mean here in the agricultural portion of Interurre County.
These folks showed up about one hundred deep. They got
gassed a few times, dispersed them. It did disperse them,
but they immediately reconvened. I thought it was interesting to
(05:29):
watch that, having seen not just clips but also up
close and personal, the way that they dispersed crowds in
the urban environment in downtown LA. In law enforcement tactics,
you can corral folks, media, protesters, all of us can
be corralled in the streets of downtown Los Angeles because
there are blocks and train tracks and things that you
(05:49):
just cannot cross.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Not in the farm.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I mean, these folks could easily run away, catch their breath,
and then come back.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
There's no real way to in circle all about.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So this could go on much longer than anything that
we've seen in the urban environment.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's fascinating, And you know what's going to happen. I
think they end up doing late night raids. They're going
to try to go for where these people are sleeping,
where they're housed. I suspect that's the next chapter of
this sort of thing. But no official word from ICE
as to what was going on or this is I mean,
they're pretty it's Mum's the word.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Not yet.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
And what I've noticed is we don't get a lot
of real time information from the federal government. You get
stuff from them after the fact, and a lot of
times it's in the form of correcting what's out there.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
What they say is a correction.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Certainly, the media might report something, or activists may say something,
may paint a sympathetic picture of somebody who was taken away,
and then the federal government will come out with their
explanation of why that person was targeted, listing a litany
of accusation and charges.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Injuries or that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
We've seen some people suffer from the gas. We saw
some cutting. Whether they were hit with anything, or whether
they fell down while they were running, all that's unclear.
It's just an interesting scene because I don't know how
they fully disperse this thing. If the road Laguna Road
out there, our Logan Road I think it's called, it's
been shut down for many hours. I don't know how
(07:20):
heavily traffic that is in that part of the county.
But folksing pretty comfortable standing there, and the protesters have
put out the call that we need water, we need masks.
It looks like they're ready to stay as long as
they can.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
There is one weed farm that has slowed down today
based on everything you're saying.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Yeah, the price of cannabis goes up, you might have
a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Killing my buzz in every way. Thank you, Michael, my
pleasure man. I appreciate it. When we come back. It's
LA's homeless crisis, the story of how it became the
epicenter of America's homeless crisis. LA Times did a pretty
good job of sort of tracking how we evolved to
this place when it comes to homelessness. And more than that,
(08:02):
on this hot day, there's a story within that homeless
story that I want to at least mention, So we'll
get to that next. It's not all heavy, I should
tell you, don't. We have a game today, Matt. There's
a game that's being played. I think up to the
bottom of the hour, we're going to get into the
Binge or Bs game is what they it says here
on my bible for the show, and that's a chance
(08:26):
to win something as well as participate. There's even a
chance to win something without participating today, and I think
that's the thing we all really want, right We don't
want to participate, We just want to win.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So that's ahead as well.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Ciwett I was trying to figure out in this moment
whether there was time to do this next thing and
also tease ahead our game at the Bottom of the
Hour because we have a prize to give away and
it's kind of exciting for me not here all the time,
to give away something, you know. And what we have
is two Coachella Valley Coffee swag bags to give away today.
(09:11):
Each bag has some cool swag, some classic Coachella Valley
coffee products, it's my favorite coffee on Earth, and a
three month free coffee subscription. You'll get one two pound
bag and one twelve ounce bag each month. So the
way we're going to do it, you can check them out.
This is really cool of them to donate this for
(09:34):
two listeners. There'll be two of these bags with all
this stuff. Anyway, Coachello Valley Coffee dot Com is where
they reside on the web and thanks to the Roastmaster
General Cliff. Now, what I'm curious about is you want
a caller to perhaps join us if you're saying you
(09:55):
feel they can be woven into this game that you
have hatched for the Bottom of the Hour, Matt, I mean,
I hope you understand that your reputation kind of rests
on this game. That you don't seem to understand what
the game is. You haven't told me what the game is,
and nobody else knows what the game is, so there's
a lot of pressure on you.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yes, it's a Heather Brooker original, but she's great, so
I'm sure it will be great.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh okay, so a well done to kind of foist
some of the responsibility off onto Heather.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Sure, she's great, and I'm sure it'll be great. It
was her idea, it's her original. It's an original, Heather. Yeah.
So if someone wants to participate, you're saying that if
we put them on the air, we'll give them this
swag bag.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Is that the deal met? Yes? It is.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay, So it's eight hundred five to two oh one
five three four. Eight hundred five to two oh one
five three four. If you feel as though you have
some entertainment shops or some pop culture connection, this might
be the game for you. Eight hundred five to two
oh one five three four will play the game. After
(10:58):
Krozer's news bottom of the hour, Now, with precious little time,
I wanted to mention that we have this weird bad
distinction in LA and the weird bad distinction is that
we're the epicenter of America's homeless crisis. Now, one of
the reasons you could figure out quite easily why we're
(11:20):
legitimately the epicenter of America's homeless crisis is that the
weather's so good. I mean, if you have to be
without a home, this is the place to be without
a home. But what the La Times did was a
real deep dive into one hundred years of the homelessness
crisis and how it's morphed in all that time. And
(11:41):
obviously I can't walk you through all one hundred years
or even you know, a bulk of this, because the
city itself has changed so much. But through the years
there have been crackdowns on encampments, crackdowns on homelessness. There's
been a change in the city. And one of the
big changes was in the seventies, but everything just got
(12:03):
to be really expensive and rent went up and the
price of properties went up across the board. But prior
to that, there had been through the late eighteen hundreds,
there had been a problem with vagrancy, a problem with
a underclass that took up skid row. So these areas
(12:27):
of la that have become associated with homelessness.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Have been around forever.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What I was curious about in going through a lot
of the information, was well, you know, how many of
these people are falling into the category of mentally ill,
and how many of these people are falling into the
category of drug abusers or drug addicted, and how many
of these people are just falling into the category of
you know, economically unstable and left a side by society.
(12:56):
And I think that I always say that, you know,
all of us, no matter how secure we are, are
probably just one or two emergencies away from living in
our car. I mean, it can happen quickly, you know.
But that said, the drug addiction and the depravity I'll
use that word of the downtown skid row scene is
(13:16):
sickening to me. And you can't go down there, you
can't drive by there, and you can't go by the
homeless encampments in Los Angeles and be anything but repulsed
by it. I mean, you have every manner of what
looks to be outward mental illness and drug addiction being
played out in those encampments. And then I see something
that really bothers me on a day like today, and
(13:39):
that is in the heat, I see all of these
dogs that are put in cages there. You can go
down a skid row and you can see it. They've
got these sweet animals caged and they've got their tongues
hanging out. They're clearly thirsty. But the dog owners are
you know, whacked up on drugs not there, who knows what,
(14:02):
and the cops can't do anything. We've got this very
weird relationship with the homeless community. No one wants to
really intercede, so we'll return to this. But I think
the consistency, the makeup, you know, the texture of the
homeless community is important to know. But I also feel
(14:23):
as though we've got to on some level take the
kid gloves off. And the more you get into the data,
the more you realize, yeah, this was something that was
birthed on some level by Reagan policies.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
And you can go back into shut down for many hours.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I don't know how heavily traffic that is in that
part of the county, but folcusing pretty comfortable standing there,
and the protesters have put out the call that we
need water, we need masks. It looks like they're ready
to stay as long as they can.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There is one weed farm that has slowed down today
based on everything you're saying.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Yeah, the price of cannabis goes up, you might have
a problem.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Killing my buzz in every way. Thank you, Michael, mam
my pleasure. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
When we come back, it's LA's Homeless Crisis, the story
of how it became the epicenter of America's homeless crisis.
La Times did a pretty good job of sort of
tracking how we evolve to this place when it comes
to homelessness. And more than that, on this hot day,
there's a story within that homeless story that I want
(15:29):
to at least mention, So we'll get to that next.
It's not all heavy, I should tell you, don't. We
have a game today, Matt. There's a game that's being played.
I think to the bottom of the hour we're going
to get into the Binge or Bs game is what
they it says here on my Bible for the show,
and that's a chance to win something as well as participate.
(15:53):
There's even a chance to win something without participating today,
and I think that's the thing we all really want,
right We don't want to participate, we just want to win.
So that's ahead as well.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Cewett.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I was trying to figure out in this moment whether
there was time to do this next thing and also
tease ahead our game at the bottom of the hour,
because we have a prize to give away and it's
kind of exciting for me not here all the time
to give away something, you know. And what we have
is two Coachella Valley Coffee swag bags to give away today.
(16:33):
Each bag has some cool swag, some classic Coachella Valley
coffee products, it's my favorite coffee on Earth, and a
three month free coffee subscription. You'll get one two pound
bag and one twelve ounce bag each month. So the
way we're going to do it, you can check them out.
This is really cool of them to donate this for
(16:56):
two listeners. There'll be two of these bags with all
this stuff anyway. Coachello Valley Coffee dot Com is where
they reside on the web and thanks to the Roastmaster
General Cliff. Now, what I'm curious about is you want
a caller to perhaps join us if you're saying you
(17:16):
feel they can be woven into this game that you
have hatched for the bottom of the hour. Matt I mean,
I hope you understand that your reputation kind of rests
on this game. That you don't seem to understand what
the game is. You haven't told me what the game is,
and nobody else knows what the game is, so there's
a lot of pressure on you.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Yes, it's a Heatherbrooker original, but she's great, so I'm
sure it will be great.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh okay, so a well done to kind of foist
some of the responsibility off onto Heather.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
She's great, and I'm sure it'll be great. It was
her idea, it's her original. It's an original, Heather.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So if someone wants to participate, you're saying that if
we put them on the air, we'll give them this
swag bag.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Is that the deal, Matt?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Okay, So it's eight hundred and five to oh one
three four, eight hundred five to two oh one five
three four.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
If you feel as though you have.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Some entertainment shops or some pop culture connection, this might
be the game for you. Eight hundred five to two
oh one five three four will play the game after
Krozer's news Bottom of the Hour, Now with Precious little time,
I wanted to mention that we have this weird bad
(18:30):
distinction in la and the weird bad distinction is that
we're the epicenter of America's homeless crisis. Now, one of
the reasons you could figure out quite easily why we're
legitimately the epicenter of America's homeless crisis is that the
weather's so good. I mean, if you have to be
without a home, this is the place to be without
(18:50):
a home. But what the La Times did was a
real deep dive into one hundred years of the homelessness
crisis and how it's morphed in all that time. And
obviously I can't walk you through all one hundred years
or even you know, a bulk of this, because the
city itself has changed so much. But through the years
(19:14):
there have been crackdowns on encampments, crackdowns on homelessness. There's
been a change in the city. And one of the
big changes was in the seventies, but everything just got
to be really expensive and rent went up and a
price of properties went up across the board. But prior
(19:34):
to that, there had been through the late eighteen hundreds,
there had been a problem with vagrancy a problem with
an underclass that took up skid row. So these areas
of la that have become associated with homelessness have been
around forever. What I was curious about and going through
(19:55):
a lot of the information, was well, you know, how
many of these people are falling into the category of
mentally ill and how many of these people are falling
into the category of drug abusers or drug addicted, and
how many of these people are just falling into the
category of you know, economically unstable and left a side
(20:16):
by society. And I think that I always say that,
you know, all of us, no matter how secure we are,
are probably just one or two emergencies away from living
in our car. I mean, it can happen quickly, you know.
But that said, the drug addiction and the depravity, I'll
use that word of the downtown skid row scene is
(20:38):
sickening to me. And you can't go down there, you
can't drive by there, and you can't go by the
homeless encampments in Los Angeles and be anything but repulsed
by it. I mean, you have every manner of what
looks to be outward mental illness and drug addiction being
played out in those encampments. And then I see something
that really bothers me on a d like today, and
(21:01):
that is in the heat, I see all of these
dogs that are put in cages there. You can go
down a skid row and you can see it. They've
got these sweet animals caged and you can they've got
their tongues hanging out. They're clearly thirsty. But the dog
owners are you know, whacked out on drugs, not there,
(21:23):
who knows what, and the cops can't do anything. We've
got this very weird relationship with the homeless community. No
one wants to really intercede, so we'll return to this.
But I think the consistency, the makeup, you know, the
texture of the homeless community is important to know. But
(21:44):
I also feel as though we've got to on some
level take the kid gloves off. And the more you
get into the data, the more you realize, yeah, this
was something that was birthed on some level by Reagan Paula.
And you can go back into the policies around the
California legislature and the closing of psychiatric institutions that might
(22:09):
have helped a lot of these people. But I mean,
this is a legacy problem that way, But we have
to deal with what we're dealing with now, and so,
as I say, this is a to be continued. But
it's fascinating to know that so much of this community
is made up of so many different facets, and yet
the problem is just it's manifest, it's everywhere, and we
(22:31):
just can't seem to get ahead of it. All right,
when we come back, it is Heather Rooker and she
has a game. It's a pop culture entertainment game, and
we will be giving away. Do you have a caller?
Are you going to get a caller?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I don't know. If we get a caller, we'll give away.
So we're working on technical we're working on a caller.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Technical difficulties to get a call in here. This is
a great blow torch southern California. We take get a
telephone call.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Yeah, all right, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Very happy to be here and also very happy to
bring on someone who brings the happy Heather Brooker.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Heather is that's so nice.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It's true you always bring you know, it's the entertainment world.
It's filled with goodness and niceness. Get us away from
the ugness and weirdness.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Yes, it is truly the epitome of escapism.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So you have a game for us today, and I do.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
So we're going to do this a couple different ways
if you want. I know, Matt said that they were
having some challenges with the phone.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
The phone system is just a little funky, so we
can't do the phone everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I didn't quite understand it, but anyway, we're going to
do the talkback system, right, Heather, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Everybody on the Conway Show or listening to KFI should
know about the talkback button. It is the microphone in
the iHeartRadio app. That's where they go and you can
talk and leave messages for the host, for the news crew,
everybody at KFI. So what we want you to do
is get your phone ready on the iHeartRadio app and
I'm going to give you a trivia question. And the
trivia question is going to be about Superman. And what
(24:18):
we're going to do is the first two people to
answer on the talkbacks with the correct answer is going
to win the two gift bags that we have from
that amazing coffee company, which sounds really cool. I'm a
little jealous.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yes, go ahead, while we're ready.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
Yeah, while we're waiting for people to answer. On the
top backs, you and I are going to play the game.
I'm going to put you on the spot for a
beinger BS and I would love for the Conway crew
team to pitch in step Fushin Krozer and.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That as well.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
The binge r BS is what the is, what the
game is called. And again the iHeartRadio app upper right
hand portion. That microphone there in the upper right hand
part of your screen. If you have a phone, you
press that and you'll be able to answer these questions
via talkback.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Now, please go ahead, Heather.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Sorry, So the trivia question that we're going to ask
for the prizes, this is the first two people that
answer correctly will win these prizes that you have. Okay,
so the question is I don't know if we have
a drum roll, but I'm going to do it anyway,
all right, Okay? In Superman Too, what is the name
of the device that Superman uses to remove his powers
(25:29):
in order to live as a mortal with Lois Lane
as the chamber, the power extractor, the crystal chamber, or
the Kryptonian refractor.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
What was the first one? Again?
Speaker 9 (25:43):
The phantom chamber? So what is the device that Superman
uses to remove his powers in order to live as
a mortal with loesst Lane. If you think you know
the answer, hit that talkback button. We're going to take
the first two correct answers the chamber, Yeah, Phantom chamber,
the power extractor, the crystal chamber, or the Kryptonian refractor,
(26:06):
and we will give you the correct answer at some point.
I'm sure, but it's not right now. All right, all right, Mark,
are you ready to play Binge or BS?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I am? Now?
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Was?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I just is that the kind of question I can
expect from Binge or BS?
Speaker 9 (26:20):
Binger BS is going to be. I'm going to give
you the name of a movie and or a TV
show and you have to tell me if this is
something you can binge like it's real or if it's BS.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Love it. Let's go.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
I'm all right, here we go. Ready tell me if
you think this is Binge or BS. Okay, Tammy and
the t Rex from nineteen.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Ninety four, Tammy and the t Rex I think is real.
It is Binge.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
That is correct?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
There you go, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
We don't have anything correct flourish music or a bell
or something to the foosh.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Ding ding ding.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Thank you. That will work, all right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
There is right space Space Dogs three Bark Side of
the Moon from twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh that's tough Binge based on Nobody Bark Side.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Of the Moon.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Crozer, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
What do you guys think bark side of the Moon.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
Yeah, it's uh base Dogs three bark Side.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I would say BS, what do you think? Croze? Yeah,
I'll go with Steph.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm going to say, yeah, I think it's I think
it's BS.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
Also, you're all right that is totally.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, all right, where's our time? Thank you very much?
Speaker 9 (27:48):
There you go, all right, here we go, Uh Chainsaw
Ballet from two thousand and six, Chainsaw Ballet? Is it
Binge or BS?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I'm gonna say BS, what do you think? Stafush? That
sounds like a real indie like gory horror movie. So
I'll say true you say binge? What do you think?
What do you think? Kroje? I actually know?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh, Crozes is refusing himself. What is the answer. We're
split on this one between me and.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
STUFFU it is BS.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I was right, where's my bell? You were right? Thank you.
I'm undefeated so far in this thing.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
You're killing it. You're killing it. All right, Here we go.
The movie Tiptoes from two thousand and three, Is it
Binge or bs?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Tiptoes?
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Tiptoes from two thousand and three? Is it Binge or bs?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
What do you think? Kroze, I'll say it's binge? What
do you think? To food Dame Binge? Tiptoes?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm gonna go, oh gosh, it really it sounds like
it sounds lame, but all right, go I'll go Binge.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
Binge, go and binge across the board.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, we're all being right.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
Everybody is correct. Total binge. That is a real movie.
All right, Here we go, Well we could go to
all day. Here we go. The title is Lama Geddon
Lama Geddon from twenty fifteen. Is it Binge or BS?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I think I think it's binge. I think it sounds
like one of those what do you think stafoods say
it again? Lamageddon like La mcgeddon.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Right, like Lamas like Lama Lamageddon. I'm gonna go be No,
I thought it was an l a thing, so I'm
gonna go.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, that's no, I'll.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Say BS two. What do you think croche binge? Oh?
What's the answer? You ready?
Speaker 9 (30:00):
It is Binge?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It is a movie.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
Krozer got it. An alien Lama crashes onto Earth and
goes on a murderous rampage.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Okay, I gotta watch that one right.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Put that Netflix queue.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Is a winner. Well this is great. I love this game.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
I'm so glad. I have like a thousand more. I
have so much fun.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
What are we doing, producer, Matt? Are we do?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You have the people who are We're going to load
them in the uh the right answer to the question.
We do that after we come back. I'm talking about
the people who came on remember.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
That through the Oh my gosh, there are so many.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Look like Shelby and George who I am going to
be calling shortly assuming that their answer is correct. When
Heather gives us that info, well.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
We'll get Can we do that when we come back
or should we do it now?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (30:55):
We can do. We come back and we can play
their answers if you want.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
That's what I really want to do. I want to
hear them so cool. So we'll do that when we
come back. Great, Heather Brooker with the with the party,
and we'll continue and round out those correct talkbackers as
we continue.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on Demya from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Glad you could join us for what is a little
bit of a palette cleanser to some of that which
ails us some of the you know, the nasty news.
We catch up with Heather Brooker, who is always covering
interesting stuff. We talked about Comic Con yesterday, but today
she brought us a game Binge or bs, and we
(31:40):
preceded the game with a question about Superman because the
big movie does it open this weekend?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Brooker? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
He does.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
Yes, Yeah, it's already open right now as a matter
of fact.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, so your question do you want to review it again?
And I'll play the winning answers.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
So here was the trivia question and we got a
lot of really great answers that it was very fun
to look through those all right. In Superman Too, what
is the name of the device that Superman uses to
remove his powers in order to live as a mortal
With Lois Lane, This was a pivotal moment in Superman
two and The options were the Phantom Chamber, the Power Extractor,
(32:22):
the Crystal Chamber, or the Kryptonian Refractor.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
You can get the Kryptonia Refractor in Beverly Hills, but
it's like two hundred and forty dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
All right, Are you.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
Sure there's a doctor there that'll do that for you?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, definitely. I think there are a few of them.
But here are the answers. And this is George.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
This is George from Long Beach. Answer is the Crystal Chamber. No, no, no,
only baby Booze? Do you go Superman? All right? George
is right.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Right, yeah, yeah, George, George.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It wasn't just George. How about Sean.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Uses the chamber? Sean from Rancho Peal's further.
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Speaker 3 (33:42):
Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
I have to tell you. My husband's listening to and
he texted me and he said, was it the Superpower
Removal Machine. I was like, come on, man, I have
to come on, man.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I had the same the Power Extractor.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I thought that was a bad bluff, but I'll tell
you the truth. I thought Crystal Chamber was a good guess,
Like if you had to guess something, I thought crystal.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Anyway, it turns out it was a crystal chamber.
Speaker 9 (34:13):
That sounds like something very eighties, right, Like this movie
came out from nineteen eighty and that does sound like
something that they would come up with in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
When you when you look at the original Superman, the
one with Christopher Reeve, the flying was different than the
TV series. You know, the TV series back from the
fifties or sixties. You know, Superman jumps out of everything.
He jumps into the air to fly, he jumps in
from the air to finish flying and landing.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
They don't do the jump.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
It's sort of almost a dance ballletic move in the
original Superman with Christopher Reeves, you know what.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
I mean, Yes, yeah, and then it sort of evolved,
like I think he was still kind of trying to
find the character in that first Superman movie, but by
the second one, I think he really he really got it.
Which one is the one that everybody regards as like
the the best Superman because it two or three? I
don't think, I know everybody remembers the first one, but
(35:07):
I think that people thought that the second or third one.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Was better proch universally.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Two I see was that the almost I thought it
was Gene Hackman in that one as Lex Luthor. Of course, yes, okay,
of course, of course, come on, yes.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
Yes, that's when they introduced General Zod and all those Yes,
that was such a good one.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And Lex Luthor is the is the enemy in this
one coming up or that's out now right?
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Yes, yeah, So Lex Luthor is back, played by Nicholas Holt,
and he does a phenomenal job, really immerses himself.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
In the character is Lex Luthor or Lex Luthor?
Speaker 9 (35:48):
I say Lex Luthor, but I think if you're wanting
to be fancy and extra evil, you say Lex Luthor.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It would be a funny beat.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
People mispronounced it during the movie and he has to
always go it's Lex luthoror.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Not like Luthor.
Speaker 9 (36:02):
Okay, get it right.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, at least maybe for the parody. Well, I'm really
excited always to talk to you. You put a smile
on my face. I love the binge your BS game.
I thought we did well, but you know the three
of them.
Speaker 9 (36:16):
I've killed it. Yeah, you guys all did a really
great job. I'm super impressed. Well, we can play anytime,
and I also have some other games. I love trivia.
I'm such a trivia nerd, and I can tell by
the amount of people that buzzn't really quick on that
talkback button that other people enjoy it too. So I'm
always down for a fun time.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I love it. We'll fire it up another time.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Heather Brooker, thank you have fun at comic Con and
we'll be love.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
It sounds good. Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah, so cool.
Speaker 10 (36:44):
I actually have the because my dad took me to
see the original Superman when it came out in the theater.
I actually, back in the day when they used to
sell them, I have the uh uh movie program.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Oh wow, that's a super collectible. Yeah, and you still
have it. I love that.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
Back in the days when the U step programs for
things like movies and concerts.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Sure like.
Speaker 10 (37:08):
I have a program also from Ozzy Osbourne on his
Diary of a Madman tour. Oh that's just which was
the Which was the tour where his guitarist Randy Roads
died And I saw him in concert and bought the program.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Well, you ought to post some of this to social media,
especially this weekend, you know, the Superman thing for starters. Yeah,
news out of Mayor bass Land when we come back.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
We'll get to that as we continue.
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
We have quite the show plan. I'm going to jump
right into it.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Big tear gas deployment over this protest at the immigration
rate in Inventura County, and things looked as though they
could get pretty dicey. I stefush, will you fire up
the wayback machine?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thank you much.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
As rate is continuing here at the Glasshouse marijuana farm
in Cavalrio, right along Laguna Road. You can see a
skirmish line set by the National Guard as they stand
off with these protesters who have showed up to vehemently
protest what's going on here and just in the last time.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
They're protesting that they're grabbing my marijuana. Is that what's happening?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Monks?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is Michael Monks is here from KOPI News and
you you point out that this was a marijuana farm facility.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
This is what we are hearing from the media sources
in Ventura County. I'm talking about the Ventura Sun. I'm
talking about Coastalview dot com find publications. They identified the
owners of this farm near Camerio. When emphasized. This is apparently,
according to a Camerio City councilman, unincorporated Ventura County. So
(01:30):
it's near Cario, but not not exactly inside the city
of may for.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The reason that it's perhaps incorporated.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Perhaps, But this is apparently property that is owned by
Glasshouse Farms and they are producers and distributors of cannabis.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You don't need to tell me.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, Customs and Border Patrol helicopter has entered the seat here.
They are landing in the middle of the farm as
we speak. It does appear that they were not planning
to be here as long as they have been. And
so this helicopter that you're looking at here, guys, apparently
just made a run over to Van Nuys Airport for
some cases of water, which is what they're bringing into
(02:09):
the scene here. So there are a whole team of
ICE agents at the farm. There are other agents down
there as well as well as the National Guard police
standing guard and protecting Laguna Road.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
What a scene.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
It was a scene what you heard Chris Christy describing
there as it played out on television, looked like a
military operation. There were military vehicles on the ground, there
were federal agents in what looked like military uniforms more
so than just federal immigration official uniforms. Helicopter showing up. Now,
(02:42):
there appeared to have been some detainments of folks. There
was a bus that left, reportedly with some folks on
board who probably did not want to be on that bus.
We also saw some images of people that had been
lined up against the wall that may have been detained
by immigration agents there. Another interesting point here is that
this is the Glasshouse Farms operation near Cameria. Earlier in
(03:07):
the morning, a similar operation unfolded at the same company's
operation in CARPENTERIEA. Oh, so they got hit twice. We
don't know the nature of this yet, but if you
were to look at who showed up and what's been
going on, and knowing the goals of the Trump administration,
some of the stated goals include going after companies that
(03:29):
are employing illegal aliens. But this is also in the
agriculture industry, and this is that area of the immigration
issue that President Trump himself has started to waffle on
a bit, to say I'm not so sure we should
be going after these farm workers.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, the truth is that he seemed to be working
at out. I was saying this to John before in
the moment, as he said, well, I don't want to
you know, I've always been friend to the farmers, and
I don't want to make the farmer's life difficult. And
understand these people are important. He was almost working out
the Bressero program that used to be so much a
part of California agriculture in that moment.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
You know, the argument has long been who's going to
pick this stuff? Who's going to pick the berries, who's
going to pick the fruit, who's going to pick the vegetables?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Americans? Are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Now?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
We might volunteer to pick some cannabis, if that's what's
going on out here, and cultivate that a little paper.
That's a I consider it. You think we might get
more volunteers. I don't know how much that past the
hot day. I'm not sure I'd want to do it
on a hot day. But if they give you a discount.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But they did bust or detain numbers of people here,
this like distinguishing it from the other big show of
forest in MacArthur Park, for example, or they swept through
with horseback, they swept in with a chopper. They had
all this stuff that seemed to be more about the
theater of scaring people or reminding people that you can
(04:48):
still self deport. This was the agenda, was to detain people.
In this case, it's different than the MacArthur Park.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
As far as we know about MacArthur Park, we still
don't know exactly what they were doing. In MacArthur Park.
They didn't do anything except show up and then leave,
so there was no enforcement action.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Here.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
There was apparently enforcement action.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
You heard Chris Christie's clip there where he says they
probably didn't expect to be here this long. They ended
up there longer and are still there currently because a
pretty good sized crowd of people showed up to protest.
I mean here in the agricultural portion of Interurre County.
These folks showed up about one hundred deep. They got
gassed a few times, dispersed them. It did disperse them,
but they immediately reconvened. I thought it was interesting to
(05:29):
watch that, having seen not just clips but also up
close and personal, the way that they dispersed crowds in
the urban environment in downtown LA. In law enforcement tactics,
you can corral folks, media, protesters, all of us can
be corralled in the streets of downtown Los Angeles because
there are blocks and train tracks and things that you
(05:49):
just cannot cross.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Not in the farm.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I mean, these folks could easily run away, catch their breath,
and then come back.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
There's no real way to in circle all about.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So this could go on much longer than anything that
we've seen in the urban environment.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's fascinating, And you know what's going to happen. I
think they end up doing late night raids. They're going
to try to go for where these people are sleeping,
where they're housed. I suspect that's the next chapter of
this sort of thing. But no official word from ICE
as to what was going on or this is I mean,
they're pretty it's Mum's the word.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Not yet.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
And what I've noticed is we don't get a lot
of real time information from the federal government. You get
stuff from them after the fact, and a lot of
times it's in the form of correcting what's out there.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
What they say is a correction.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Certainly, the media might report something, or activists may say something,
may paint a sympathetic picture of somebody who was taken away,
and then the federal government will come out with their
explanation of why that person was targeted, listing a litany
of accusation and charges.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Injuries or that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
We've seen some people suffer from the gas. We saw
some cutting. Whether they were hit with anything, or whether
they fell down while they were running, all that's unclear.
It's just an interesting scene because I don't know how
they fully disperse this thing. If the road Laguna Road
out there, our Logan Road I think it's called, it's
been shut down for many hours. I don't know how
(07:20):
heavily traffic that is in that part of the county.
But folksing pretty comfortable standing there, and the protesters have
put out the call that we need water, we need masks.
It looks like they're ready to stay as long as
they can.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
There is one weed farm that has slowed down today
based on everything you're saying.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Yeah, the price of cannabis goes up, you might have
a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Killing my buzz in every way. Thank you, Michael, my
pleasure man. I appreciate it. When we come back. It's
LA's homeless crisis, the story of how it became the
epicenter of America's homeless crisis. LA Times did a pretty
good job of sort of tracking how we evolved to
this place when it comes to homelessness. And more than that,
(08:02):
on this hot day, there's a story within that homeless
story that I want to at least mention, So we'll
get to that next. It's not all heavy, I should
tell you, don't. We have a game today, Matt. There's
a game that's being played. I think up to the
bottom of the hour, we're going to get into the
Binge or Bs game is what they it says here
on my bible for the show, and that's a chance
(08:26):
to win something as well as participate. There's even a
chance to win something without participating today, and I think
that's the thing we all really want, right We don't
want to participate, We just want to win.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So that's ahead as well.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
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Ciwett I was trying to figure out in this moment
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also tease ahead our game at the Bottom of the
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This is really cool of them to donate this for
(09:34):
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a caller to perhaps join us if you're saying you
(09:55):
feel they can be woven into this game that you
have hatched for the Bottom of the Hour, Matt, I mean,
I hope you understand that your reputation kind of rests
on this game. That you don't seem to understand what
the game is. You haven't told me what the game is,
and nobody else knows what the game is, so there's
a lot of pressure on you.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yes, it's a Heather Brooker original, but she's great, so
I'm sure it will be great.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh okay, so a well done to kind of foist
some of the responsibility off onto Heather.
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No, not at all, not at all.
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Sure, she's great, and I'm sure it'll be great. It
was her idea, it's her original. It's an original, Heather. Yeah.
So if someone wants to participate, you're saying that if
we put them on the air, we'll give them this
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Is that the deal met? Yes? It is.
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Krozer's news bottom of the hour, Now, with precious little time,
I wanted to mention that we have this weird bad
distinction in LA and the weird bad distinction is that
we're the epicenter of America's homeless crisis. Now, one of
the reasons you could figure out quite easily why we're
(11:20):
legitimately the epicenter of America's homeless crisis is that the
weather's so good. I mean, if you have to be
without a home, this is the place to be without
a home. But what the La Times did was a
real deep dive into one hundred years of the homelessness
crisis and how it's morphed in all that time. And
(11:41):
obviously I can't walk you through all one hundred years
or even you know, a bulk of this, because the
city itself has changed so much. But through the years
there have been crackdowns on encampments, crackdowns on homelessness. There's
been a change in the city. And one of the
big changes was in the seventies, but everything just got
(12:03):
to be really expensive and rent went up and the
price of properties went up across the board. But prior
to that, there had been through the late eighteen hundreds,
there had been a problem with vagrancy, a problem with
a underclass that took up skid row. So these areas
(12:27):
of la that have become associated with homelessness.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Have been around forever.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What I was curious about in going through a lot
of the information, was well, you know, how many of
these people are falling into the category of mentally ill,
and how many of these people are falling into the
category of drug abusers or drug addicted, and how many
of these people are just falling into the category of
you know, economically unstable and left a side by society.
(12:56):
And I think that I always say that, you know,
all of us, no matter how secure we are, are
probably just one or two emergencies away from living in
our car. I mean, it can happen quickly, you know.
But that said, the drug addiction and the depravity I'll
use that word of the downtown skid row scene is
(13:16):
sickening to me. And you can't go down there, you
can't drive by there, and you can't go by the
homeless encampments in Los Angeles and be anything but repulsed
by it. I mean, you have every manner of what
looks to be outward mental illness and drug addiction being
played out in those encampments. And then I see something
that really bothers me on a day like today, and
(13:39):
that is in the heat, I see all of these
dogs that are put in cages there. You can go
down a skid row and you can see it. They've
got these sweet animals caged and they've got their tongues
hanging out. They're clearly thirsty. But the dog owners are
you know, whacked up on drugs not there, who knows what,
(14:02):
and the cops can't do anything. We've got this very
weird relationship with the homeless community. No one wants to
really intercede, so we'll return to this. But I think
the consistency, the makeup, you know, the texture of the
homeless community is important to know. But I also feel
(14:23):
as though we've got to on some level take the
kid gloves off. And the more you get into the data,
the more you realize, yeah, this was something that was
birthed on some level by Reagan policies.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
And you can go back into shut down for many hours.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I don't know how heavily traffic that is in that
part of the county, but folcusing pretty comfortable standing there,
and the protesters have put out the call that we
need water, we need masks. It looks like they're ready
to stay as long as they can.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There is one weed farm that has slowed down today
based on everything you're saying.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Yeah, the price of cannabis goes up, you might have
a problem.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Killing my buzz in every way. Thank you, Michael, mam
my pleasure. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
When we come back, it's LA's Homeless Crisis, the story
of how it became the epicenter of America's homeless crisis.
La Times did a pretty good job of sort of
tracking how we evolve to this place when it comes
to homelessness. And more than that, on this hot day,
there's a story within that homeless story that I want
(15:29):
to at least mention, So we'll get to that next.
It's not all heavy, I should tell you, don't. We
have a game today, Matt. There's a game that's being played.
I think to the bottom of the hour we're going
to get into the Binge or Bs game is what
they it says here on my Bible for the show,
and that's a chance to win something as well as participate.
(15:53):
There's even a chance to win something without participating today,
and I think that's the thing we all really want,
right We don't want to participate, we just want to win.
So that's ahead as well.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Cewett.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I was trying to figure out in this moment whether
there was time to do this next thing and also
tease ahead our game at the bottom of the hour,
because we have a prize to give away and it's
kind of exciting for me not here all the time
to give away something, you know. And what we have
is two Coachella Valley Coffee swag bags to give away today.
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Each bag has some cool swag, some classic Coachella Valley
coffee products, it's my favorite coffee on Earth, and a
three month free coffee subscription. You'll get one two pound
bag and one twelve ounce bag each month. So the
way we're going to do it, you can check them out.
This is really cool of them to donate this for
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two listeners. There'll be two of these bags with all
this stuff anyway. Coachello Valley Coffee dot Com is where
they reside on the web and thanks to the Roastmaster
General Cliff. Now, what I'm curious about is you want
a caller to perhaps join us if you're saying you
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feel they can be woven into this game that you
have hatched for the bottom of the hour. Matt I mean,
I hope you understand that your reputation kind of rests
on this game. That you don't seem to understand what
the game is. You haven't told me what the game is,
and nobody else knows what the game is, so there's
a lot of pressure on you.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Yes, it's a Heatherbrooker original, but she's great, so I'm
sure it will be great.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh okay, so a well done to kind of foist
some of the responsibility off onto Heather.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
She's great, and I'm sure it'll be great. It was
her idea, it's her original. It's an original, Heather.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
So if someone wants to participate, you're saying that if
we put them on the air, we'll give them this
swag bag.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Is that the deal, Matt?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Okay, So it's eight hundred and five to oh one
three four, eight hundred five to two oh one five
three four.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
If you feel as though you have.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Some entertainment shops or some pop culture connection, this might
be the game for you. Eight hundred five to two
oh one five three four will play the game after
Krozer's news Bottom of the Hour, Now with Precious little time,
I wanted to mention that we have this weird bad
(18:30):
distinction in la and the weird bad distinction is that
we're the epicenter of America's homeless crisis. Now, one of
the reasons you could figure out quite easily why we're
legitimately the epicenter of America's homeless crisis is that the
weather's so good. I mean, if you have to be
without a home, this is the place to be without
(18:50):
a home. But what the La Times did was a
real deep dive into one hundred years of the homelessness
crisis and how it's morphed in all that time. And
obviously I can't walk you through all one hundred years
or even you know, a bulk of this, because the
city itself has changed so much. But through the years
(19:14):
there have been crackdowns on encampments, crackdowns on homelessness. There's
been a change in the city. And one of the
big changes was in the seventies, but everything just got
to be really expensive and rent went up and a
price of properties went up across the board. But prior
(19:34):
to that, there had been through the late eighteen hundreds,
there had been a problem with vagrancy a problem with
an underclass that took up skid row. So these areas
of la that have become associated with homelessness have been
around forever. What I was curious about and going through
(19:55):
a lot of the information, was well, you know, how
many of these people are falling into the category of
mentally ill and how many of these people are falling
into the category of drug abusers or drug addicted, and
how many of these people are just falling into the
category of you know, economically unstable and left a side
(20:16):
by society. And I think that I always say that,
you know, all of us, no matter how secure we are,
are probably just one or two emergencies away from living
in our car. I mean, it can happen quickly, you know.
But that said, the drug addiction and the depravity, I'll
use that word of the downtown skid row scene is
(20:38):
sickening to me. And you can't go down there, you
can't drive by there, and you can't go by the
homeless encampments in Los Angeles and be anything but repulsed
by it. I mean, you have every manner of what
looks to be outward mental illness and drug addiction being
played out in those encampments. And then I see something
that really bothers me on a d like today, and
(21:01):
that is in the heat, I see all of these
dogs that are put in cages there. You can go
down a skid row and you can see it. They've
got these sweet animals caged and you can they've got
their tongues hanging out. They're clearly thirsty. But the dog
owners are you know, whacked out on drugs, not there,
(21:23):
who knows what, and the cops can't do anything. We've
got this very weird relationship with the homeless community. No
one wants to really intercede, so we'll return to this.
But I think the consistency, the makeup, you know, the
texture of the homeless community is important to know. But
(21:44):
I also feel as though we've got to on some
level take the kid gloves off. And the more you
get into the data, the more you realize, yeah, this
was something that was birthed on some level by Reagan Paula.
And you can go back into the policies around the
California legislature and the closing of psychiatric institutions that might
(22:09):
have helped a lot of these people. But I mean,
this is a legacy problem that way, But we have
to deal with what we're dealing with now, and so,
as I say, this is a to be continued. But
it's fascinating to know that so much of this community
is made up of so many different facets, and yet
the problem is just it's manifest, it's everywhere, and we
(22:31):
just can't seem to get ahead of it. All right,
when we come back, it is Heather Rooker and she
has a game. It's a pop culture entertainment game, and
we will be giving away. Do you have a caller?
Are you going to get a caller?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I don't know. If we get a caller, we'll give away.
So we're working on technical we're working on a caller.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Technical difficulties to get a call in here. This is
a great blow torch southern California. We take get a
telephone call.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Yeah, all right, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Very happy to be here and also very happy to
bring on someone who brings the happy Heather Brooker.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Heather is that's so nice.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It's true you always bring you know, it's the entertainment world.
It's filled with goodness and niceness. Get us away from
the ugness and weirdness.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Yes, it is truly the epitome of escapism.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So you have a game for us today, and I do.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
So we're going to do this a couple different ways
if you want. I know, Matt said that they were
having some challenges with the phone.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
The phone system is just a little funky, so we
can't do the phone everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I didn't quite understand it, but anyway, we're going to
do the talkback system, right, Heather, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Everybody on the Conway Show or listening to KFI should
know about the talkback button. It is the microphone in
the iHeartRadio app. That's where they go and you can
talk and leave messages for the host, for the news crew,
everybody at KFI. So what we want you to do
is get your phone ready on the iHeartRadio app and
I'm going to give you a trivia question. And the
trivia question is going to be about Superman. And what
(24:18):
we're going to do is the first two people to
answer on the talkbacks with the correct answer is going
to win the two gift bags that we have from
that amazing coffee company, which sounds really cool. I'm a
little jealous.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yes, go ahead, while we're ready.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
Yeah, while we're waiting for people to answer. On the
top backs, you and I are going to play the game.
I'm going to put you on the spot for a
beinger BS and I would love for the Conway crew
team to pitch in step Fushin Krozer and.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That as well.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
The binge r BS is what the is, what the
game is called. And again the iHeartRadio app upper right
hand portion. That microphone there in the upper right hand
part of your screen. If you have a phone, you
press that and you'll be able to answer these questions
via talkback.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Now, please go ahead, Heather.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Sorry, So the trivia question that we're going to ask
for the prizes, this is the first two people that
answer correctly will win these prizes that you have. Okay,
so the question is I don't know if we have
a drum roll, but I'm going to do it anyway,
all right, Okay? In Superman Too, what is the name
of the device that Superman uses to remove his powers
(25:29):
in order to live as a mortal with Lois Lane
as the chamber, the power extractor, the crystal chamber, or
the Kryptonian refractor.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
What was the first one? Again?
Speaker 9 (25:43):
The phantom chamber? So what is the device that Superman
uses to remove his powers in order to live as
a mortal with loesst Lane. If you think you know
the answer, hit that talkback button. We're going to take
the first two correct answers the chamber, Yeah, Phantom chamber,
the power extractor, the crystal chamber, or the Kryptonian refractor,
(26:06):
and we will give you the correct answer at some point.
I'm sure, but it's not right now. All right, all right, Mark,
are you ready to play Binge or BS?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I am? Now?
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Was?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I just is that the kind of question I can
expect from Binge or BS?
Speaker 9 (26:20):
Binger BS is going to be. I'm going to give
you the name of a movie and or a TV
show and you have to tell me if this is
something you can binge like it's real or if it's BS.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Love it. Let's go.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
I'm all right, here we go. Ready tell me if
you think this is Binge or BS. Okay, Tammy and
the t Rex from nineteen.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Ninety four, Tammy and the t Rex I think is real.
It is Binge.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
That is correct?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
There you go, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
We don't have anything correct flourish music or a bell
or something to the foosh.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Ding ding ding.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Thank you. That will work, all right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
There is right space Space Dogs three Bark Side of
the Moon from twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh that's tough Binge based on Nobody Bark Side.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Of the Moon.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Crozer, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
What do you guys think bark side of the Moon.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
Yeah, it's uh base Dogs three bark Side.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I would say BS, what do you think? Croze? Yeah,
I'll go with Steph.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm going to say, yeah, I think it's I think
it's BS.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
Also, you're all right that is totally.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, all right, where's our time? Thank you very much?
Speaker 9 (27:48):
There you go, all right, here we go, Uh Chainsaw
Ballet from two thousand and six, Chainsaw Ballet? Is it
Binge or BS?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I'm gonna say BS, what do you think? Stafush? That
sounds like a real indie like gory horror movie. So
I'll say true you say binge? What do you think?
What do you think? Kroje? I actually know?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh, Crozes is refusing himself. What is the answer. We're
split on this one between me and.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
STUFFU it is BS.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I was right, where's my bell? You were right? Thank you.
I'm undefeated so far in this thing.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
You're killing it. You're killing it. All right, Here we go.
The movie Tiptoes from two thousand and three, Is it
Binge or bs?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Tiptoes?
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Tiptoes from two thousand and three? Is it Binge or bs?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
What do you think? Kroze, I'll say it's binge? What
do you think? To food Dame Binge? Tiptoes?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm gonna go, oh gosh, it really it sounds like
it sounds lame, but all right, go I'll go Binge.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
Binge, go and binge across the board.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, we're all being right.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
Everybody is correct. Total binge. That is a real movie.
All right, Here we go, Well we could go to
all day. Here we go. The title is Lama Geddon
Lama Geddon from twenty fifteen. Is it Binge or BS?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I think I think it's binge. I think it sounds
like one of those what do you think stafoods say
it again? Lamageddon like La mcgeddon.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Right, like Lamas like Lama Lamageddon. I'm gonna go be No,
I thought it was an l a thing, so I'm
gonna go.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, that's no, I'll.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Say BS two. What do you think croche binge? Oh?
What's the answer? You ready?
Speaker 9 (30:00):
It is Binge?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
It is a movie.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
Krozer got it. An alien Lama crashes onto Earth and
goes on a murderous rampage.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Okay, I gotta watch that one right.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Put that Netflix queue.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Is a winner. Well this is great. I love this game.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
I'm so glad. I have like a thousand more. I
have so much fun.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
What are we doing, producer, Matt? Are we do?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You have the people who are We're going to load
them in the uh the right answer to the question.
We do that after we come back. I'm talking about
the people who came on remember.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
That through the Oh my gosh, there are so many.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Look like Shelby and George who I am going to
be calling shortly assuming that their answer is correct. When
Heather gives us that info, well.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
We'll get Can we do that when we come back
or should we do it now?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (30:55):
We can do. We come back and we can play
their answers if you want.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
That's what I really want to do. I want to
hear them so cool. So we'll do that when we
come back. Great, Heather Brooker with the with the party,
and we'll continue and round out those correct talkbackers as
we continue.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on Demya from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Glad you could join us for what is a little
bit of a palette cleanser to some of that which
ails us some of the you know, the nasty news.
We catch up with Heather Brooker, who is always covering
interesting stuff. We talked about Comic Con yesterday, but today
she brought us a game Binge or bs, and we
(31:40):
preceded the game with a question about Superman because the
big movie does it open this weekend?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Brooker? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
He does.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
Yes, Yeah, it's already open right now as a matter
of fact.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, so your question do you want to review it again?
And I'll play the winning answers.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
So here was the trivia question and we got a
lot of really great answers that it was very fun
to look through those all right. In Superman Too, what
is the name of the device that Superman uses to
remove his powers in order to live as a mortal
With Lois Lane, This was a pivotal moment in Superman
two and The options were the Phantom Chamber, the Power Extractor,
(32:22):
the Crystal Chamber, or the Kryptonian Refractor.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
You can get the Kryptonia Refractor in Beverly Hills, but
it's like two hundred and forty dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
All right, Are you.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
Sure there's a doctor there that'll do that for you?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, definitely. I think there are a few of them.
But here are the answers. And this is George.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
This is George from Long Beach. Answer is the Crystal Chamber. No, no, no,
only baby Booze? Do you go Superman? All right? George
is right.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Right, yeah, yeah, George, George.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
It wasn't just George. How about Sean.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Uses the chamber? Sean from Rancho Peal's further.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
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(33:19):
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Speaker 3 (33:42):
Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
I have to tell you. My husband's listening to and
he texted me and he said, was it the Superpower
Removal Machine. I was like, come on, man, I have
to come on, man.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I had the same the Power Extractor.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I thought that was a bad bluff, but I'll tell
you the truth. I thought Crystal Chamber was a good guess,
Like if you had to guess something, I thought crystal.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Anyway, it turns out it was a crystal chamber.
Speaker 9 (34:13):
That sounds like something very eighties, right, Like this movie
came out from nineteen eighty and that does sound like
something that they would come up with in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
When you when you look at the original Superman, the
one with Christopher Reeve, the flying was different than the
TV series. You know, the TV series back from the
fifties or sixties. You know, Superman jumps out of everything.
He jumps into the air to fly, he jumps in
from the air to finish flying and landing.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
They don't do the jump.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
It's sort of almost a dance ballletic move in the
original Superman with Christopher Reeves, you know what.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
I mean, Yes, yeah, and then it sort of evolved,
like I think he was still kind of trying to
find the character in that first Superman movie, but by
the second one, I think he really he really got it.
Which one is the one that everybody regards as like
the the best Superman because it two or three? I
don't think, I know everybody remembers the first one, but
(35:07):
I think that people thought that the second or third one.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Was better proch universally.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Two I see was that the almost I thought it
was Gene Hackman in that one as Lex Luthor. Of course, yes, okay,
of course, of course, come on, yes.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
Yes, that's when they introduced General Zod and all those Yes,
that was such a good one.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And Lex Luthor is the is the enemy in this
one coming up or that's out now right?
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Yes, yeah, So Lex Luthor is back, played by Nicholas Holt,
and he does a phenomenal job, really immerses himself.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
In the character is Lex Luthor or Lex Luthor?
Speaker 9 (35:48):
I say Lex Luthor, but I think if you're wanting
to be fancy and extra evil, you say Lex Luthor.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It would be a funny beat.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
People mispronounced it during the movie and he has to
always go it's Lex luthoror.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Not like Luthor.
Speaker 9 (36:02):
Okay, get it right.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, at least maybe for the parody. Well, I'm really
excited always to talk to you. You put a smile
on my face. I love the binge your BS game.
I thought we did well, but you know the three
of them.
Speaker 9 (36:16):
I've killed it. Yeah, you guys all did a really
great job. I'm super impressed. Well, we can play anytime,
and I also have some other games. I love trivia.
I'm such a trivia nerd, and I can tell by
the amount of people that buzzn't really quick on that
talkback button that other people enjoy it too. So I'm
always down for a fun time.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I love it. We'll fire it up another time.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Heather Brooker, thank you have fun at comic Con and
we'll be love.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
It sounds good. Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah, so cool.
Speaker 10 (36:44):
I actually have the because my dad took me to
see the original Superman when it came out in the theater.
I actually, back in the day when they used to
sell them, I have the uh uh movie program.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Oh wow, that's a super collectible. Yeah, and you still
have it. I love that.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
Back in the days when the U step programs for
things like movies and concerts.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Sure like.
Speaker 10 (37:08):
I have a program also from Ozzy Osbourne on his
Diary of a Madman tour. Oh that's just which was
the Which was the tour where his guitarist Randy Roads
died And I saw him in concert and bought the program.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Well, you ought to post some of this to social media,
especially this weekend, you know, the Superman thing for starters. Yeah,
news out of Mayor bass Land when we come back.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
We'll get to that as we continue.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.