March 20, 2025 • 31 mins
MGM Resorts sets the record straight on those claims Bruno Mars owes $50M in gambling debt /Benadryl liquid elixir sold on Amazon.com recalled due to risk of child poisoning/ Homelessness population in LA County down for second year in a row/ Don’t steal from Jimmy Kimmel! // Celebrate National Puppy Day with our Puppy Palooza pet adoption event/ Grousbeck family reportedly agrees to sell Boston Celtics for $6.1B // Guest: Jim Taylor, President San Juan Capistrano Fiesta Association, his 8th year ...He chats about the 65th Annual ‘San Juan Capistrano Swallows Day Parade’. // Billion Budget Gap for Los Angeles and major layoffs expected
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, from
what I've seen here online, Bruno Mars allegedly does not
have a gambling debt. It says here that he owed
fifty to ninety million dollars in gambling debts. But the
MGM is denying it, and so are all these publications.
(00:23):
There's only one publication out there that I found that says,
oh no, that's absolutely true Bruno Mars. It came from
I don't know Hot ninety seven dot com. I don't
know what that is. I imagine it's a radio station.
But everybody else is denying that. Bruno Mars owes money
for gambling. I guess he's a big poker player. And
(00:45):
I don't know how you get it ninety million dollars
down in poker. I think you have to go slots, craps, blackjack, roulette.
I think that's how you get there. But all these
other publications they're saying it's not true. MGM Resort says
it's not true. US Weekly says there's no billboard says
(01:05):
there's Bruno Mars jokes about his gambling debt rumors. So,
according to Billboard magazine, while MGM refuted reports of fifty
million dollar gambling debt compiled by Bruno Mars last year,
the superstar still has some fun with the casino rumors.
Bruno hit the jackpot to break a Spotify listener record
(01:28):
earlier this week. When he took to the Instagram's to
Instagram story on Tuesday to celebrate the defeat of even
even joked about taking a chunk of his alleged debt
to the MGM. He said, I'll be out of debt
no time. The fifteen time Grammy winner captioned the post,
(01:50):
and he's becoming the first artist who eclipse one hundred
and fifty million monthly Spotify listeners in the platform's history. Well,
his tour made three hundred million dollars, so he even
if he was fifty million dollars in debt, he certainly
had the money to pay it off. But I wonder
(02:10):
why that rumor is out there, and and it's out there,
you know, anytime a thousand publications or denying a rumor,
I always think, Okay, there might be something there, There
must be something there, But I guess there's not yes,
they you know the guy's uh, you know, he likes
to play poker, but he's not in debt according to
(02:31):
all these publications as a debt free.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
All right, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
There's a recall here, and I know it's an allergy
season and a lot of people take Benadrill. Oh, Benadrill
beautiful drug. But I know there's a lot of places
too if you go to a CVS or Walgreens or
write aid. I think it's one of those drugs where
you can only buy seven of them a week, and
(02:57):
you have to go buy back the next week and
buy seven and show your license. And I remember when
my daughter wife was taking benadrill. I went to pick
it up for and they only gave me six or seven,
and then had to go back the next week to
get her seven more.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
But I guess people are taking benadrill and getting high,
so everybody else has to pay for it. If you
got allergies, you got to pay for it and going
back over and over and over just to get seven
or ten pills. But there's a recall recall with Benadrill.
Let's find out what's going on with this bena drill.
Tick dog with this bena drill. But benadrill does work.
(03:37):
I've taken in the past. It works beautifully. If you
have any kind of allergy, man, that cannot really help
you out.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
A drug manufacturer is recalling about twenty three hundred bottles
of a look of Benadrill elixir due to a risk
of child poisoning.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh no, this is important. Listen to this. Don't half
ass this. This is important. It can help you affect
your kids.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
A drug manufacturer Sure is recalling about twenty three hundred
bottles of a lick of Benadrill elixir due to a
risk of child poisoning. The recall involves one hundred millimeter
or a milli liter bottles sold on Amazon dot Com
between July twenty twenty three and October twenty twenty four.
The product was sold in a round, dark plastic bottle
with a pink and white label on the front with
(04:20):
a word Benadrill in blue text. The packing of the
products is not child resistant, posing a risk of poisoning
if the contents are swallowed by young kids.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh boy, all right, well, the benadrill. You gotta be
careful out there if you're buying Benadrill online.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Don't know who's doing that, but.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
If you're doing that for your kids, be careful, be careful,
all right. The homeless population in Los Angeles County down
for a second straight year.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
That's good, ordered by Federal Judge David o'carter of the
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority or LASSA, criticize the lack
of data and financial systems used to keep track of
homeless programs, leading to wasteful spending, so responded Wednesday exclusively
to eyewitness News. The organization released preliminary data from the
twenty twenty five point in time homeless count, conducted not
(05:09):
even one month ago. The loss of data, which covers
all of LA County except Glendale, Long Beach and Pasadena,
shows for the second year in a row, homelessness is down.
The raw data of the twenty anybody believe then, shows
for the second year in a row, homelessness is down.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You'd like to believe it, but I don't see any
evidence of that. As I drive around.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
The raw data of the twenty twenty three count found
over thirty six thousand homeless in LA County.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Wow, thirty six thousand people. And this is not even
people living in their car or you know living you know,
nineteen people living in an apartment. These are people just
living on the street. Thirty six thousand.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Found over thirty six thousand homeless in La County. Wow,
but a drop was seen last year with over thirty
two thousand, and this year that number is down to
twenty nine thousand.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Raw data that we're seeing is very encouraging and is
showing a five to ten percent reduction and unsheltered homelessness
that comes from this kind of alignment, the call of
a state of emergency and to focus on sheltered homelessness,
and that is encouraging and that is the reason why
we want to see city and county continue to work together.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know, I was listening to Adam Krolla. He had
a great point that homelessness is. You know, if it
was an issue of there just aren't enough homes, then
the fourteen thousand people that were burned out of their
homes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, the eat and fire,
the Palisades fired Malibu, then homelessness would skyrocketed.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
But it didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Almost one hundred percent of the people who were burned
out of their homes had a place to go. Whether
it was a hotel with FEMA, whether it's a friends,
whether they pay and renting a home. These are people
who found a place to live. So I think it's
it's more than meets the eye, you know, I think.
(07:11):
Uh And and he had Carol had a great comment.
He said that he was staying with with Jimmy Kimmel
when he was, you know, burned out of Malibu where
he couldn't get back to his condo and Malibu, and
he said, the reason why he was invited to stay
at Jimmy Kimmel's is because last time he stayed at
Jimmy Kimmel's, he didn't steal the silverware, money, his wallet,
(07:32):
and all of his prescription drugs. So that's why he
was allowed to That's why he was asked back.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But if you use the bar steal anything.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Look, if I think when you invite somebody in who
you know is broke and they steal, that's happening in
our house. It's happened in our house. My without saying
who it was, you almost did Okay, all right. I
had a family member who went through some problems and
(08:01):
stole my mom's.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Silverware and sold it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
This is this is twenty five, this is thirty years
ago or so. But my mom discovered her good silverware
that she got as a wedding gift when she married
my dad was stolen and sold at a I don't
know what do they call those pawn shop? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
And they were able to get back but they had
(08:27):
to buy it back. You know, when you go when
you you have a computer stolen or TV or camera,
a phone or whatever, and it sold at a pawn shop,
you know you have to buy it back from the
pawn shop.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You don't just get it back for free. If you
want it back, Yeah, you want it back, you get
it back. You got to pay. I think you paid
what they paid for it. I don't think there's a
surcharge on it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's not. I don't think so. I don't think so.
I think they sort of work with the cops that way.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But otherwise the pawn shop would lose a ton of money,
you know. And so the way the pawnshop works with
the cops is they'll help people get their property back,
but they're.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Not going to lose money doing it.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I was wondering, when you pawn something, do you have
a choice of whether or not you or an option
of whether or not you intend to get it back
or I think back with the ticket, or whether or
not you're just here give me the money.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
No, I think you always have that option. And then
you know when you when that date expires. So there's
a date.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yeah, and then you got like a certain amount of time,
and then and then it's free for all.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You want to hear something horrible. A friend of mine
who lives in Burbank was writing a book and he
was eight hundred pages, nearly finished the book. It was
going to be done in the next you know, three
or four weeks. Guy broke in stole his computer, and
he didn't have the book backed up.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He did not have it backed up on his computer.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, you know, at some point you got to kind
of go, yeah, buddy, I was thinking the same thing.
But I did not say that to him. I did
not say that long pause before you go God, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, I did not.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I did not say to him you are an idiot,
because he was already in really despair.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
At no point in those eight hundred pages. After each page,
you didn't think save.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I one time when I record a commercial here at KFI,
I immediately save it and that only takes takes me
ten minutes, you know, twenty minutes to do this. Guy
wrote eight hundred pages and never backed it up.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But guess what.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
They found that computer at a pawn shop and he
brought it back and then it was able to recoup
the Yeah, very lucky, very lucky guy. But how about
having to recreate eight hundred pages of a book, all
the research, all the writing.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What was that detail?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
All of them?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah? What happened in chapter one?
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Again?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't remember it. That's great.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Back it up, back all that crap up. Somebody could
come in tonight and steal your stuff. Back up, Back
it up, everybody.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
All Right's Thursday. It seems like Friday. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yesterday seemed like Friday. Today seems like Friday. I don't
know what's going on. Maybe it's March madness. You know,
all these college.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Games going on.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
What a great time to be in college, you know,
for March madness. Get out there and enjoy those teams,
fly around and watch your college play, or may just
have a party at home. Oh great time to be
in college kids, great, great time.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Back here in Los Angeles, we got a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
We have puppy Paloos. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
To celebrate National Puppy Day with Puppy polusea.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And don't forget Our bi annual Puppy Palooza event is
this Friday. We'll be featuring puppies from SPCA LA and
thanks to our sponsor, Howards Appliances, all pet adoption.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
The whole thing is a commercial pet removing vacuum.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The Boston Celtics have sold. I didn't see this coming.
The Boston Celtics have sold. And there's a new owner
for the Boston Celtics, and it's sold for more than
more than any other sports team in the history of
the world.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
Celtics breaking news as well. The Boston Celtics. So let's
start with them. They have reportedly been sold. It is
a done, perfect time to sell them.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
They're coming off a national championship in the NBA, and
you're gonna get somebody who has a lot of money,
just loves this Boston Celtics, probably born and raised there
and just wants that team deal.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This news just coming in.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Thanks so much for joining us ality Mendezapperstone.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Yeah, we got news of that sale just a short
time ago. Here six point one billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Whoa six point one billion?
Speaker 10 (13:11):
Oh here six point one billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Remember when the Clippers sold for two billion, everybody thought, wow, man,
that's way too much for a team, way too much
for a team. And now it's a bargain to.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
A private equity firm out of California. Now that firm
is owned by a man who actually is from Georgetown,
mass So there are some connections here.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
There are sale.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
But this has been ongoing for quite some time now.
They were announcing this sale right after the championship, and
now the team has been sold.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
And a lot of people were in the mix in
terms of who was going to get it. We were
gonna try and It's interesting to see the local connection.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because yeah, Jeff Bezos was one of them. He put
a bid in and I guess he underbid everybody and
they said no, no, not going to Amazon.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
William chise On, this founder of the private equity firm,
went to Dartmouth and as you mentioned, is from mass
So let's get to Chris Forsburg right now.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Who has some.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Insight for us?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Chris?
Speaker 11 (14:04):
Do we have you?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
What's going on? Chris? We got you there, Bob there,
you are aesome Okay, so what were your thoughts?
Speaker 12 (14:09):
First thoughts when you saw this come down?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah? What'd you think?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
So what's interesting?
Speaker 11 (14:12):
There's been a lot of you hear perspective bidders. I
think all of us were running to Google, especially today.
I would love to see the Bill Chisholme search data
going up. I think one of the things you find
out pretty quickly is that he is a Celtics fan.
He has Massachusetts roots, New England roots with going to
Dartmouth College, and when you hear things like that, he
has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Celtis. I think that's
(14:33):
an exciting starting point.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Can you imagine having that kind of money Crozier where
you just buy a team. You know, you grow up
watching the Dodgers or the Rams Cowboys in your case,
and you have enough money where you just buy the
stadium and buy the team.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That's got to be a cool feeling man, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah, money doesn't solve all your problems.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
However, I imagine your life gets really busy though, you know,
because they're going to look at you. If the Boston
Celtics don't make the playoffs and make a nice long run,
they're gonna be like, oh, the new owner is cheap.
You know, you're gonna be hearing a lot of crap,
especially in Boston. Oh yeah, right, you know if you
don't win every year in Boston, man, do you hear it?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And you know, with the bad sort of press that
the hedge funds get now for buying the big companies
and basically just filtering them out and selling off part
by part, right, I'm sure a lot of people are
worried about that right now, because it is a hedge
fund that's buying them.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, and when you spend six billion for a team,
it's hard to make that kind of money back, you know,
I mean, and then to get good players and sign
him to long term deals. Right, you know, it's just
nothing but money going out, and it will be interesting
to see if the Boston Celtics remain a hot team
after being sold six over six billion dollars.
Speaker 11 (15:45):
The hard point here is that we have to figure
out if he's willing to invest in this team, and
that's something he can't answer.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Oh, well, he's gonna answer in Boston. They're gonna make
him until he's in.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Front of a microphone.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
So we might have to be a little bit wait
and see exactly what his plan is for the future.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Of this team.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Now, when you come in and you buy a team
like the Celtics got, you gotta lose more money and
get great players and put together a great team. You
will get run out of town.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Especially some a team like the Celtics. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Actually probably exactly like the team like the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Like, I can't imagine another.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Team just the premier teams link Yeah, you know, going
to other sports. Yeah, Yankees dangers all that.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I mean, we we occasionally here, I mean we you know,
settle for rebuilding. They don't in Boston. They don't do
the rebuilding the Celtics. It's like Oh, we're not going
to go through three years of rebuilding. You get those
players out there.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Tonight to night.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, the day after tomorrow is the big San Juan
Kappastrano Parade. I think it's their sixty fifth annual parade.
It's my second annually. I'm a little behind the times.
When was this it was last year? Not even when
is this coming?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Dafter remurm Saturday and it's gonna be eleven am on Saturday.
Krozer is threatening to come down with the Lovely One.
I'm still waiting on Angel Bellio, Richie, Steph, Uje, the
whole grang. Everybody's invited on the show. And if you come,
that'll be great. You can push the cart that I'm
(17:21):
sitting in for the parade and all right, But we
do have the parade is always awesome. And we have
Jim Taylor with us. He's the president of the San
Juan Compistrano Fiesta Association.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I think it's his eighth year. Jim, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Kim Conway Jr. Thank you so much for having me
along with you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Buddy, Hey, do you still have You still have the
biggest belt buckle I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
I actually have a new one for you, Is that right?
Speaker 12 (17:53):
I do?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
I got a twenty twenty five commember of the belt
buckle for you. I'll give it to you on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh that's great. I'll have it on eBay on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Nice ice. This one has no fake no fake gemstones
this time around.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Okay, real classy guy? Am I right?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
You know we're on a budget, Jim.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I loved it last year. It rained throughout the parade,
but I thought that sort of added to it. It's
going to be beautiful this year.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Yeah, I figured nature otis one. It was brutal. I'm
just glad. You know when I texted you and said, hey,
do you want to do over right? And you're like,
I'm I'm there. So we're honored you're going to come
and join us, and South County and South Orange County
is thrilled you're coming. We've got of calls already. Yeah,
and went on way junior sighting.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
When you asked me to do it, it was at night.
I was buzzed. I said yep. And then the next day,
I'm like a christ All right, well, I guess I'll
still do what the hell?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Well, Belliol told me what time to call, so it
all worked out.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I know she does that all the time. And I'm threatening.
You know, Krozier is threatening to come down too with
his wife. I hope there's room for everybody.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
There is, you know, a room for We need pooper scoopers,
so if somebody could follow your wagon.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I love the parade. It's all horse drawn. There's no mecanda,
there's no gas powered vehicles in it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Is that true?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
That's right. It's a completely non motorized parade, with the
exception of an eighty eight wheelchair or two. We always
make an exception. But yeah, everything's horse drawng We've got
nineteen wagon poles. We've got like nine marching bands, over
four thousand participants in the parade. Colorful ballet, folklorico dancers
got their lidsale this year, right, and that's the highlight there.
(19:31):
We've got the Budweiser Clysdales. I just saw them yesterday
when they're doing some practice runs, and those horses are amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, that's a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
What is the park there that they cordon off and
there's got a lot of booth there where people sell
their wares and food.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Yeah, so we have the Mercado Street Fair. It runs
from nine until six and over one hundred vendors, twenty
six food vendors, everything from hats and western aware. We
have a massive kid zone. This is a very family
of friendly event. Parking is always a challenge, you know,
because they get fifty thousand plus people down there. I
would suggest they take metro Link. MetroLink's doing a ten
(20:04):
dollars ticket kids right free. It drops right in the
heart of San Juan Capistrano and you can park somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Ooh, I might do that. I might do that, might
catch a train down there. I had a terrific time
last time I was there with a state senator.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
I believe, Yes, Lori Davies. Assembly want Mary Davies.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Is she going to be there again this year?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
She will be in the parade this year. But you
remember last year, I mean, it wasn't just a rain
that was cause of an issue. Your wagon showed up late,
so you shared a wagon with her and that was awesome.
But this year I've got a special wagon dis for
you and your family, and you're gonna be great. We
got to git the very front of the parade so
you'll be able to get out it if you want.
But if not, we'd love for you guys to stick around.
I've got a golf cart sitting there with your name
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on it to will ferry you back to where all
the festivities are.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Wow, all right, well I love it. I thought the
parade route was great. It wasn't too long, it wasn't
too short, it was just perfect. You guys really know
how to put on a parade.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
We appreciate that you have sixty five years, we finally
learned something.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And what's the new newer hotel down there? That's also spectacular?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
That is the inn at the Mission. They are parade
sponsored this year. Are presenting sponsors are Saint Margaret's Fiscopal School,
and Farmers and Merchant Bank, and and in the mission.
That's a beautiful hotel right across the street from the Mission,
san Ua Capistrano.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Just a couple of years, Yeah, it's spectatic.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
A couple of years. I do have to tell you,
I got a video mission San Juan today. The swallows
have returned. Oh they are back. You were going to
be in the parade.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, have they ever passed on a year? Have you
ever missed the swallows? Like they're not coming this sum No?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
No, they they get the memo, they get the calendar set.
I don't know how they show up. They always show
up honor about March nineteenth, and sure not, they're here.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I love Also the bars that line the parade route.
They're always packed and everybody and everybody's behaving down there,
which I enjoyed.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Yes, well it's taken a while to get them in
the line, but yes they're the San Juan is amazing town.
You got to swallows in there? And what do we
know all of California?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
What do we know about the Grand Marshal this year?
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Grand Marshall is Kathy Home and she runs the Equestrian Center,
and she she runs an organization called Outramas, which is
these rescue horses to help people with PTSD depression. Things
like that. She's a duke, big stalwart in the equestrian commune.
I do but you know, an awesome do gooder.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I've never been described to do good. But that's great.
I hope that.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So it starts at eleven, What time do you want
me down.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
There, Well you want to get Yeah, you know what,
if you show up at twelve, we'll make arrangements. But yeah,
well we'll stop the break. Wait, Tim just showed up
and we'll search you somewhere, and you know what, everybody
will love you anyway. Yeah, if you want to get
down there, you know, nine ers. The main streets close
at ten, so it's always a challenge. So if you
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can get in there before ten o'clock, okay, we'll be
good to go.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I also like the you know, the warm up to
the parade. Everybody's in it. Everybody's excited, the kids are excited.
It's a really cool deal man.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Well, we tried. Every announcer is a diva, and we
have twenty two announcers. Okay, so they all put on
a pre show to try and get the attendees who
are walking past their booth to stay for the rest
of the parade. So we do have pre show entertainment.
We've got lined answers coming out. We've got some special
singers coming out. I go out in the street with
a camera and a cordless microphone and do stupid trivia
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and give away even stupider prizes.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Jim Jim Jim Taylor's with us for the president of
San Juan Kavastonal Fiesta Association. I know you can't do
this without big sponsors. So let's plug away. Who's given
the big checks this year.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Farmer's a Merchant Bank, Saint Margaret's Episcopal School, and in
at the Mission. Those are our three number one sponsors.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
All right, let's do it again, Farmers, Merchant.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Farmer's a Merchant Bank, Saint Margaret's Episcopal School, and in
at the Mission. There are three title sponsors and funded parade.
The City of San Juan, I suppose you could say
is the biggest sponsor because they pay. They pay a chunk, right,
But but you know, as far as the private communities,
the businesses, the donations, the fundraisers, it's pretty much a
community funded parade.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
And what do you created?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
It comes up to support it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
What do you do with cops down there? You have
your own police force or Orange County Sheriff.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Orange County Sheriff. They're phenomenal, you know, they have a
great presence. It's it's you'll see, it's a very secure place.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I love it, and so tell us what goes on?
Is there a Friday event or is it just Saturday
and Sunday.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Well, Friday, we do this thing called Huscow Day where
we travel around town and with a portable jail and
we arrest people who are not dressed in Western clothing.
That's always fine. And then at four o'clock in Los
Rios Park, I do I do our tenth annual frog
jumping contest where I have a Mark Twain impersonator and
I teach children how to gamble. That's always fine. Yeah,
they bet on the frogs.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh that's great, man, that really is cool.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
I met Don Barnes.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I think I met him in the past, but he
was at an event that I was em seeing in
Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
For their award show.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Is he going to be down there, Don Barnes, the
sheriff of the Orange County Sheriff Department.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Yeah, he may, he may. Maybe we have quite a
big police presidence. He's not in the parade as an entry, right,
but I'm pretty sure he's going to be down there,
you know. You know it's amazing. In twenty twenty two,
we had to cancel the horses for the state wide
horse quarantine because of the virus oh yeah. And Don
Barnes led up the parade with the Orange County Sheriff
color Guard. He rode in the swat vehicle and they
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called me and he goes, hey, you want the helicopter.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I'm like, wow, And that guy knows on that show.
That guy's great.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
All right, I'll see you there, Jim. I appreciate you
thinking on me, man. That's really a cool deal. And
I'll see you there the day after tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I'm looking forward to seeing you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Thank you so much, Tim, all right, thanks Jimmy. Jim Taylor.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He's the president of San Juan Capistranto Fiesta Association. His
eighth year, my second year. Crozier's threatening to come down.
That's a cool deal. We'll just drink the time.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I like that idea. The metrolink. Yeah, right, So I
was trying to figure out, man, I don't want to
deal with that traffic, but I like that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know what, if you say you with the parade,
they usually, you know, open up the streets and let
you fly around there.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Although that's not true. I got yelled at I was parking.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I got I was parking a place where I didn't
know that I shouldn't be parking there and a lady.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I go, why the hell parking?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I'm like, oh, I don't want to deal with this,
just tell me where to park.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Right, You're already kind of in a strange place and
you get a tune from somebody like I'm just going home.
Turn around.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It really is great, though. It really is an awesome awesome.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
It sounds so cool. I love the aspect of the
non electric.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I hope you can make it down man, it's great.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Yeah, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
All right, ding dong. The City of Los Angeles is
in some financial trouble. They're about a billion dollars behind
a billion dollars. We talked yesterday with Michael Unks about
the dilemma that the City of Los Angeles is facing.
So let's get a little background and then a really
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dumb thing that the City of La did.
Speaker 13 (27:09):
Even reporting on the budget concerns at Elis City Hall
for over a year. And now we can see a
real shift in Mayor Karen Vass's approach to solving it.
She has gone from wanting to fill hundreds of vacancies
to now calling on a comprehensive plan to save between
five hundred to nine hundred million dollars, and she's asking
these cuts to be made for the upcoming fiscal year.
Describing the need for sweeping reform of the city's budget.
(27:32):
Mayor bass is blaming it depart a downward economic trend
along with increased costs related to the Palisades fire. How
to fix it, bass is proposing changes to the number
of city departments, along with proposals to create payroll savings.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Here we go the death spiral in Los Angeles. Takeaway services,
which makes it, you know, crappier to live in LA.
And then more people move out because it's not so great, right,
and then you get less tax revenue. Then you've got
to fire more people. Then the services go down. Then
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people don't like it, they move out, the taxes go down.
It's a death spiral. It happened to San Francisco. That's
exactly what happened to San Francisco, and now LA might
be next.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
Although specifics are not yet laid out, today's announcement opens
the door for major layoffs to occur.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Major layoffs thousands of people that take care of the
roads through the trees pick up the trash, make sure
the street lights are on, all the things that make
living in the city nice. A lot of those jobs
are going to go away because they wasted money.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
I spoke this afternoon to the city's chief administrative officer,
who will be recommending ways to help close the gap.
He explained one issue the city has faced is liability claims.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
The city is being sued at a much greater rate,
with much higher levels some judgment and settlements to the
tune this year of about three hundred and twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Three hundred and twenty million dollars in lawsuits the city
of Airline.
Speaker 14 (29:08):
So that combined with what we project to be a
three hundred and fifteen million dollar loss of revenue.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, all right, then they did something pretty dumb parking
tickets in LA. They're expected to lose money on parking tickets.
Who loses money on giving out parking tickets? Well, the
city of LA.
Speaker 15 (29:31):
Anyone who's received one of these brilliant seventy three dollars
citations for street cleaning knows that the pain of parking
in the City of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Is no joke.
Speaker 15 (29:42):
That said, the city is actually losing more money on
parking enforcement than it is from taking in all those citations.
They're expensive and annoying, but a painful fact of city life.
Nobody likes parking citations right, but now there may be
a reason to dislike them even more.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
The City of Los Angeles is spending tens of millions
of more money each year on parking enforcement than it's
actually pulling in.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
To hear that they're spending more on law enforcement and
giving out tickets than money coming in.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
From the parking tickets handed out.
Speaker 15 (30:15):
John Regardi is the managing editor of Crosstown LA, a
nonprofit newsroom focusing on data driven journalism. He's referring to
this new article by Nathan Elias, who points out that
over the last outpaced revenue.
Speaker 12 (30:28):
We've actually been looking at data going all the way
back to twenty sixteen, so we've seen a shift in time,
and it has worsened over the past few years. And
then we got to a situation where in the last
fiscal year there was about a sixty five million dollars
shortfall between what the city took in and what it's
spent on parking enforcement.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So the City of La issued one hundred one hundred
million dollars in parking tickets, and it cost them one
hundred and sixty five million dollars to manage it. So
they gave out one hundred million dollars in parking tiggots
and they lost one hundred and sixty five million dollars
to manage it. That is why the city is in
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bad shape, A microcosm of how the city of Los
Angeles is not working and there are a billion dollars
in debt. So warrant you marn't you don't live in
the city of LA If you're you know, if you're
there forever, that's fine. You got to stay. The kids
are there, go to school, You've been there for generations.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
But if you're just moving into LA I would look around.
I'd look around. I relyve on KFI AM six forty
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, from
what I've seen here online, Bruno Mars allegedly does not
have a gambling debt. It says here that he owed
fifty to ninety million dollars in gambling debts. But the
MGM is denying it, and so are all these publications.
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There's only one publication out there that I found that says,
oh no, that's absolutely true Bruno Mars. It came from
I don't know Hot ninety seven dot com. I don't
know what that is. I imagine it's a radio station.
But everybody else is denying that. Bruno Mars owes money
for gambling. I guess he's a big poker player. And
(00:45):
I don't know how you get it ninety million dollars
down in poker. I think you have to go slots, craps, blackjack, roulette.
I think that's how you get there. But all these
other publications they're saying it's not true. MGM Resort says
it's not true. US Weekly says there's no billboard says
(01:05):
there's Bruno Mars jokes about his gambling debt rumors. So,
according to Billboard magazine, while MGM refuted reports of fifty
million dollar gambling debt compiled by Bruno Mars last year,
the superstar still has some fun with the casino rumors.
Bruno hit the jackpot to break a Spotify listener record
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earlier this week. When he took to the Instagram's to
Instagram story on Tuesday to celebrate the defeat of even
even joked about taking a chunk of his alleged debt
to the MGM. He said, I'll be out of debt
no time. The fifteen time Grammy winner captioned the post,
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and he's becoming the first artist who eclipse one hundred
and fifty million monthly Spotify listeners in the platform's history. Well,
his tour made three hundred million dollars, so he even
if he was fifty million dollars in debt, he certainly
had the money to pay it off. But I wonder
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why that rumor is out there, and and it's out there,
you know, anytime a thousand publications or denying a rumor,
I always think, Okay, there might be something there, There
must be something there, But I guess there's not yes,
they you know the guy's uh, you know, he likes
to play poker, but he's not in debt according to
(02:31):
all these publications as a debt free.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
All right, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
There's a recall here, and I know it's an allergy
season and a lot of people take Benadrill. Oh, Benadrill
beautiful drug. But I know there's a lot of places
too if you go to a CVS or Walgreens or
write aid. I think it's one of those drugs where
you can only buy seven of them a week, and
(02:57):
you have to go buy back the next week and
buy seven and show your license. And I remember when
my daughter wife was taking benadrill. I went to pick
it up for and they only gave me six or seven,
and then had to go back the next week to
get her seven more.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
But I guess people are taking benadrill and getting high,
so everybody else has to pay for it. If you
got allergies, you got to pay for it and going
back over and over and over just to get seven
or ten pills. But there's a recall recall with Benadrill.
Let's find out what's going on with this bena drill.
Tick dog with this bena drill. But benadrill does work.
(03:37):
I've taken in the past. It works beautifully. If you
have any kind of allergy, man, that cannot really help
you out.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
A drug manufacturer is recalling about twenty three hundred bottles
of a look of Benadrill elixir due to a risk
of child poisoning.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh no, this is important. Listen to this. Don't half
ass this. This is important. It can help you affect
your kids.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
A drug manufacturer Sure is recalling about twenty three hundred
bottles of a lick of Benadrill elixir due to a
risk of child poisoning. The recall involves one hundred millimeter
or a milli liter bottles sold on Amazon dot Com
between July twenty twenty three and October twenty twenty four.
The product was sold in a round, dark plastic bottle
with a pink and white label on the front with
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a word Benadrill in blue text. The packing of the
products is not child resistant, posing a risk of poisoning
if the contents are swallowed by young kids.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh boy, all right, well, the benadrill. You gotta be
careful out there if you're buying Benadrill online.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Don't know who's doing that, but.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
If you're doing that for your kids, be careful, be careful,
all right. The homeless population in Los Angeles County down
for a second straight year.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
That's good, ordered by Federal Judge David o'carter of the
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority or LASSA, criticize the lack
of data and financial systems used to keep track of
homeless programs, leading to wasteful spending, so responded Wednesday exclusively
to eyewitness News. The organization released preliminary data from the
twenty twenty five point in time homeless count, conducted not
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even one month ago. The loss of data, which covers
all of LA County except Glendale, Long Beach and Pasadena,
shows for the second year in a row, homelessness is down.
The raw data of the twenty anybody believe then, shows
for the second year in a row, homelessness is down.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You'd like to believe it, but I don't see any
evidence of that. As I drive around.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
The raw data of the twenty twenty three count found
over thirty six thousand homeless in LA County.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Wow, thirty six thousand people. And this is not even
people living in their car or you know living you know,
nineteen people living in an apartment. These are people just
living on the street. Thirty six thousand.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Found over thirty six thousand homeless in La County. Wow,
but a drop was seen last year with over thirty
two thousand, and this year that number is down to
twenty nine thousand.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Raw data that we're seeing is very encouraging and is
showing a five to ten percent reduction and unsheltered homelessness
that comes from this kind of alignment, the call of
a state of emergency and to focus on sheltered homelessness,
and that is encouraging and that is the reason why
we want to see city and county continue to work together.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know, I was listening to Adam Krolla. He had
a great point that homelessness is. You know, if it
was an issue of there just aren't enough homes, then
the fourteen thousand people that were burned out of their
homes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, the eat and fire,
the Palisades fired Malibu, then homelessness would skyrocketed.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
But it didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Almost one hundred percent of the people who were burned
out of their homes had a place to go. Whether
it was a hotel with FEMA, whether it's a friends,
whether they pay and renting a home. These are people
who found a place to live. So I think it's
it's more than meets the eye, you know, I think.
(07:11):
Uh And and he had Carol had a great comment.
He said that he was staying with with Jimmy Kimmel
when he was, you know, burned out of Malibu where
he couldn't get back to his condo and Malibu, and
he said, the reason why he was invited to stay
at Jimmy Kimmel's is because last time he stayed at
Jimmy Kimmel's, he didn't steal the silverware, money, his wallet,
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and all of his prescription drugs. So that's why he
was allowed to That's why he was asked back.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But if you use the bar steal anything.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Look, if I think when you invite somebody in who
you know is broke and they steal, that's happening in
our house. It's happened in our house. My without saying
who it was, you almost did Okay, all right. I
had a family member who went through some problems and
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stole my mom's.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Silverware and sold it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
This is this is twenty five, this is thirty years
ago or so. But my mom discovered her good silverware
that she got as a wedding gift when she married
my dad was stolen and sold at a I don't
know what do they call those pawn shop? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
And they were able to get back but they had
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to buy it back. You know, when you go when
you you have a computer stolen or TV or camera,
a phone or whatever, and it sold at a pawn shop,
you know you have to buy it back from the
pawn shop.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You don't just get it back for free. If you
want it back, Yeah, you want it back, you get
it back. You got to pay. I think you paid
what they paid for it. I don't think there's a
surcharge on it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's not. I don't think so. I don't think so.
I think they sort of work with the cops that way.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But otherwise the pawn shop would lose a ton of money,
you know. And so the way the pawnshop works with
the cops is they'll help people get their property back,
but they're.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Not going to lose money doing it.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I was wondering, when you pawn something, do you have
a choice of whether or not you or an option
of whether or not you intend to get it back
or I think back with the ticket, or whether or
not you're just here give me the money.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
No, I think you always have that option. And then
you know when you when that date expires. So there's
a date.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yeah, and then you got like a certain amount of time,
and then and then it's free for all.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You want to hear something horrible. A friend of mine
who lives in Burbank was writing a book and he
was eight hundred pages, nearly finished the book. It was
going to be done in the next you know, three
or four weeks. Guy broke in stole his computer, and
he didn't have the book backed up.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He did not have it backed up on his computer.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, you know, at some point you got to kind
of go, yeah, buddy, I was thinking the same thing.
But I did not say that to him. I did
not say that long pause before you go God, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, I did not.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I did not say to him you are an idiot,
because he was already in really despair.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
At no point in those eight hundred pages. After each page,
you didn't think save.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I one time when I record a commercial here at KFI,
I immediately save it and that only takes takes me
ten minutes, you know, twenty minutes to do this. Guy
wrote eight hundred pages and never backed it up.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But guess what.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
They found that computer at a pawn shop and he
brought it back and then it was able to recoup
the Yeah, very lucky, very lucky guy. But how about
having to recreate eight hundred pages of a book, all
the research, all the writing.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What was that detail?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
All of them?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah? What happened in chapter one?
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Again?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't remember it. That's great.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Back it up, back all that crap up. Somebody could
come in tonight and steal your stuff. Back up, Back
it up, everybody.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
All Right's Thursday. It seems like Friday. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yesterday seemed like Friday. Today seems like Friday. I don't
know what's going on. Maybe it's March madness. You know,
all these college.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Games going on.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
What a great time to be in college, you know,
for March madness. Get out there and enjoy those teams,
fly around and watch your college play, or may just
have a party at home. Oh great time to be
in college kids, great, great time.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Back here in Los Angeles, we got a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
We have puppy Paloos. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
To celebrate National Puppy Day with Puppy polusea.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And don't forget Our bi annual Puppy Palooza event is
this Friday. We'll be featuring puppies from SPCA LA and
thanks to our sponsor, Howards Appliances, all pet adoption.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
Fees will be way ABC seven and Howard's will also
be giving.
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
The whole thing is a commercial pet removing vacuum.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The Boston Celtics have sold. I didn't see this coming.
The Boston Celtics have sold. And there's a new owner
for the Boston Celtics, and it's sold for more than
more than any other sports team in the history of
the world.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
Celtics breaking news as well. The Boston Celtics. So let's
start with them. They have reportedly been sold. It is
a done, perfect time to sell them.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
They're coming off a national championship in the NBA, and
you're gonna get somebody who has a lot of money,
just loves this Boston Celtics, probably born and raised there
and just wants that team deal.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This news just coming in.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Thanks so much for joining us ality Mendezapperstone.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Yeah, we got news of that sale just a short
time ago. Here six point one billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Whoa six point one billion?
Speaker 10 (13:11):
Oh here six point one billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Remember when the Clippers sold for two billion, everybody thought, wow, man,
that's way too much for a team, way too much
for a team. And now it's a bargain to.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
A private equity firm out of California. Now that firm
is owned by a man who actually is from Georgetown,
mass So there are some connections here.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
There are sale.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
But this has been ongoing for quite some time now.
They were announcing this sale right after the championship, and
now the team has been sold.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
And a lot of people were in the mix in
terms of who was going to get it. We were
gonna try and It's interesting to see the local connection.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because yeah, Jeff Bezos was one of them. He put
a bid in and I guess he underbid everybody and
they said no, no, not going to Amazon.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
William chise On, this founder of the private equity firm,
went to Dartmouth and as you mentioned, is from mass
So let's get to Chris Forsburg right now.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Who has some.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Insight for us?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Chris?
Speaker 11 (14:04):
Do we have you?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
What's going on? Chris? We got you there, Bob there,
you are aesome Okay, so what were your thoughts?
Speaker 12 (14:09):
First thoughts when you saw this come down?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah? What'd you think?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
So what's interesting?
Speaker 11 (14:12):
There's been a lot of you hear perspective bidders. I
think all of us were running to Google, especially today.
I would love to see the Bill Chisholme search data
going up. I think one of the things you find
out pretty quickly is that he is a Celtics fan.
He has Massachusetts roots, New England roots with going to
Dartmouth College, and when you hear things like that, he
has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Celtis. I think that's
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an exciting starting point.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Can you imagine having that kind of money Crozier where
you just buy a team. You know, you grow up
watching the Dodgers or the Rams Cowboys in your case,
and you have enough money where you just buy the
stadium and buy the team.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That's got to be a cool feeling man, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah, money doesn't solve all your problems.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
However, I imagine your life gets really busy though, you know,
because they're going to look at you. If the Boston
Celtics don't make the playoffs and make a nice long run,
they're gonna be like, oh, the new owner is cheap.
You know, you're gonna be hearing a lot of crap,
especially in Boston. Oh yeah, right, you know if you
don't win every year in Boston, man, do you hear it?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And you know, with the bad sort of press that
the hedge funds get now for buying the big companies
and basically just filtering them out and selling off part
by part, right, I'm sure a lot of people are
worried about that right now, because it is a hedge
fund that's buying them.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, and when you spend six billion for a team,
it's hard to make that kind of money back, you know,
I mean, and then to get good players and sign
him to long term deals. Right, you know, it's just
nothing but money going out, and it will be interesting
to see if the Boston Celtics remain a hot team
after being sold six over six billion dollars.
Speaker 11 (15:45):
The hard point here is that we have to figure
out if he's willing to invest in this team, and
that's something he can't answer.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Oh, well, he's gonna answer in Boston. They're gonna make
him until he's in.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Front of a microphone.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
So we might have to be a little bit wait
and see exactly what his plan is for the future.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Of this team.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Now, when you come in and you buy a team
like the Celtics got, you gotta lose more money and
get great players and put together a great team. You
will get run out of town.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Especially some a team like the Celtics. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Actually probably exactly like the team like the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Like, I can't imagine another.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Team just the premier teams link Yeah, you know, going
to other sports. Yeah, Yankees dangers all that.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I mean, we we occasionally here, I mean we you know,
settle for rebuilding. They don't in Boston. They don't do
the rebuilding the Celtics. It's like Oh, we're not going
to go through three years of rebuilding. You get those
players out there.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Tonight to night.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyan from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, the day after tomorrow is the big San Juan
Kappastrano Parade. I think it's their sixty fifth annual parade.
It's my second annually. I'm a little behind the times.
When was this it was last year? Not even when
is this coming?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Dafter remurm Saturday and it's gonna be eleven am on Saturday.
Krozer is threatening to come down with the Lovely One.
I'm still waiting on Angel Bellio, Richie, Steph, Uje, the
whole grang. Everybody's invited on the show. And if you come,
that'll be great. You can push the cart that I'm
(17:21):
sitting in for the parade and all right, But we
do have the parade is always awesome. And we have
Jim Taylor with us. He's the president of the San
Juan Compistrano Fiesta Association.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I think it's his eighth year. Jim, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Kim Conway Jr. Thank you so much for having me
along with you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Buddy, Hey, do you still have You still have the
biggest belt buckle I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
I actually have a new one for you, Is that right?
Speaker 12 (17:53):
I do?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
I got a twenty twenty five commember of the belt
buckle for you. I'll give it to you on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Oh that's great. I'll have it on eBay on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Nice ice. This one has no fake no fake gemstones
this time around.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Okay, real classy guy? Am I right?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
You know we're on a budget, Jim.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I loved it last year. It rained throughout the parade,
but I thought that sort of added to it. It's
going to be beautiful this year.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Yeah, I figured nature otis one. It was brutal. I'm
just glad. You know when I texted you and said, hey,
do you want to do over right? And you're like,
I'm I'm there. So we're honored you're going to come
and join us, and South County and South Orange County
is thrilled you're coming. We've got of calls already. Yeah,
and went on way junior sighting.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
When you asked me to do it, it was at night.
I was buzzed. I said yep. And then the next day,
I'm like a christ All right, well, I guess I'll
still do what the hell?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Well, Belliol told me what time to call, so it
all worked out.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I know she does that all the time. And I'm threatening.
You know, Krozier is threatening to come down too with
his wife. I hope there's room for everybody.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
There is, you know, a room for We need pooper scoopers,
so if somebody could follow your wagon.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I love the parade. It's all horse drawn. There's no mecanda,
there's no gas powered vehicles in it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Is that true?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
That's right. It's a completely non motorized parade, with the
exception of an eighty eight wheelchair or two. We always
make an exception. But yeah, everything's horse drawng We've got
nineteen wagon poles. We've got like nine marching bands, over
four thousand participants in the parade. Colorful ballet, folklorico dancers
got their lidsale this year, right, and that's the highlight there.
(19:31):
We've got the Budweiser Clysdales. I just saw them yesterday
when they're doing some practice runs, and those horses are amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, that's a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
What is the park there that they cordon off and
there's got a lot of booth there where people sell
their wares and food.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Yeah, so we have the Mercado Street Fair. It runs
from nine until six and over one hundred vendors, twenty
six food vendors, everything from hats and western aware. We
have a massive kid zone. This is a very family
of friendly event. Parking is always a challenge, you know,
because they get fifty thousand plus people down there. I
would suggest they take metro Link. MetroLink's doing a ten
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dollars ticket kids right free. It drops right in the
heart of San Juan Capistrano and you can park somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Ooh, I might do that. I might do that, might
catch a train down there. I had a terrific time
last time I was there with a state senator.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
I believe, Yes, Lori Davies. Assembly want Mary Davies.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Is she going to be there again this year?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
She will be in the parade this year. But you
remember last year, I mean, it wasn't just a rain
that was cause of an issue. Your wagon showed up late,
so you shared a wagon with her and that was awesome.
But this year I've got a special wagon dis for
you and your family, and you're gonna be great. We
got to git the very front of the parade so
you'll be able to get out it if you want.
But if not, we'd love for you guys to stick around.
I've got a golf cart sitting there with your name
(20:48):
on it to will ferry you back to where all
the festivities are.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Wow, all right, well I love it. I thought the
parade route was great. It wasn't too long, it wasn't
too short, it was just perfect. You guys really know
how to put on a parade.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
We appreciate that you have sixty five years, we finally
learned something.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And what's the new newer hotel down there? That's also spectacular?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
That is the inn at the Mission. They are parade
sponsored this year. Are presenting sponsors are Saint Margaret's Fiscopal School,
and Farmers and Merchant Bank, and and in the mission.
That's a beautiful hotel right across the street from the Mission,
san Ua Capistrano.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Just a couple of years, Yeah, it's spectatic.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
A couple of years. I do have to tell you,
I got a video mission San Juan today. The swallows
have returned. Oh they are back. You were going to
be in the parade.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, have they ever passed on a year? Have you
ever missed the swallows? Like they're not coming this sum No?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
No, they they get the memo, they get the calendar set.
I don't know how they show up. They always show
up honor about March nineteenth, and sure not, they're here.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I love Also the bars that line the parade route.
They're always packed and everybody and everybody's behaving down there,
which I enjoyed.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Yes, well it's taken a while to get them in
the line, but yes they're the San Juan is amazing town.
You got to swallows in there? And what do we
know all of California?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
What do we know about the Grand Marshal this year?
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Grand Marshall is Kathy Home and she runs the Equestrian Center,
and she she runs an organization called Outramas, which is
these rescue horses to help people with PTSD depression. Things
like that. She's a duke, big stalwart in the equestrian commune.
I do but you know, an awesome do gooder.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I've never been described to do good. But that's great.
I hope that.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So it starts at eleven, What time do you want
me down.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
There, Well you want to get Yeah, you know what,
if you show up at twelve, we'll make arrangements. But yeah,
well we'll stop the break. Wait, Tim just showed up
and we'll search you somewhere, and you know what, everybody
will love you anyway. Yeah, if you want to get
down there, you know, nine ers. The main streets close
at ten, so it's always a challenge. So if you
(22:57):
can get in there before ten o'clock, okay, we'll be
good to go.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I also like the you know, the warm up to
the parade. Everybody's in it. Everybody's excited, the kids are excited.
It's a really cool deal man.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Well, we tried. Every announcer is a diva, and we
have twenty two announcers. Okay, so they all put on
a pre show to try and get the attendees who
are walking past their booth to stay for the rest
of the parade. So we do have pre show entertainment.
We've got lined answers coming out. We've got some special
singers coming out. I go out in the street with
a camera and a cordless microphone and do stupid trivia
(23:30):
and give away even stupider prizes.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Jim Jim Jim Taylor's with us for the president of
San Juan Kavastonal Fiesta Association. I know you can't do
this without big sponsors. So let's plug away. Who's given
the big checks this year.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Farmer's a Merchant Bank, Saint Margaret's Episcopal School, and in
at the Mission. Those are our three number one sponsors.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
All right, let's do it again, Farmers, Merchant.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Farmer's a Merchant Bank, Saint Margaret's Episcopal School, and in
at the Mission. There are three title sponsors and funded parade.
The City of San Juan, I suppose you could say
is the biggest sponsor because they pay. They pay a chunk, right,
But but you know, as far as the private communities,
the businesses, the donations, the fundraisers, it's pretty much a
community funded parade.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
And what do you created?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
It comes up to support it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
What do you do with cops down there? You have
your own police force or Orange County Sheriff.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Orange County Sheriff. They're phenomenal, you know, they have a
great presence. It's it's you'll see, it's a very secure place.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I love it, and so tell us what goes on?
Is there a Friday event or is it just Saturday
and Sunday.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Well, Friday, we do this thing called Huscow Day where
we travel around town and with a portable jail and
we arrest people who are not dressed in Western clothing.
That's always fine. And then at four o'clock in Los
Rios Park, I do I do our tenth annual frog
jumping contest where I have a Mark Twain impersonator and
I teach children how to gamble. That's always fine. Yeah,
they bet on the frogs.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh that's great, man, that really is cool.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
I met Don Barnes.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I think I met him in the past, but he
was at an event that I was em seeing in
Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
For their award show.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Is he going to be down there, Don Barnes, the
sheriff of the Orange County Sheriff Department.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Yeah, he may, he may. Maybe we have quite a
big police presidence. He's not in the parade as an entry, right,
but I'm pretty sure he's going to be down there,
you know. You know it's amazing. In twenty twenty two,
we had to cancel the horses for the state wide
horse quarantine because of the virus oh yeah. And Don
Barnes led up the parade with the Orange County Sheriff
color Guard. He rode in the swat vehicle and they
(25:32):
called me and he goes, hey, you want the helicopter.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I'm like, wow, And that guy knows on that show.
That guy's great.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
All right, I'll see you there, Jim. I appreciate you
thinking on me, man. That's really a cool deal. And
I'll see you there the day after tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I'm looking forward to seeing you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Thank you so much, Tim, all right, thanks Jimmy. Jim Taylor.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He's the president of San Juan Capistranto Fiesta Association. His
eighth year, my second year. Crozier's threatening to come down.
That's a cool deal. We'll just drink the time.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I like that idea. The metrolink. Yeah, right, So I
was trying to figure out, man, I don't want to
deal with that traffic, but I like that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know what, if you say you with the parade,
they usually, you know, open up the streets and let
you fly around there.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Although that's not true. I got yelled at I was parking.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I got I was parking a place where I didn't
know that I shouldn't be parking there and a lady.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I go, why the hell parking?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I'm like, oh, I don't want to deal with this,
just tell me where to park.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Right, You're already kind of in a strange place and
you get a tune from somebody like I'm just going home.
Turn around.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It really is great, though. It really is an awesome awesome.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
It sounds so cool. I love the aspect of the
non electric.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I hope you can make it down man, it's great.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Yeah, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
All right, ding dong. The City of Los Angeles is
in some financial trouble. They're about a billion dollars behind
a billion dollars. We talked yesterday with Michael Unks about
the dilemma that the City of Los Angeles is facing.
So let's get a little background and then a really
(27:08):
dumb thing that the City of La did.
Speaker 13 (27:09):
Even reporting on the budget concerns at Elis City Hall
for over a year. And now we can see a
real shift in Mayor Karen Vass's approach to solving it.
She has gone from wanting to fill hundreds of vacancies
to now calling on a comprehensive plan to save between
five hundred to nine hundred million dollars, and she's asking
these cuts to be made for the upcoming fiscal year.
Describing the need for sweeping reform of the city's budget.
(27:32):
Mayor bass is blaming it depart a downward economic trend
along with increased costs related to the Palisades fire. How
to fix it, bass is proposing changes to the number
of city departments, along with proposals to create payroll savings.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Here we go the death spiral in Los Angeles. Takeaway services,
which makes it, you know, crappier to live in LA.
And then more people move out because it's not so great, right,
and then you get less tax revenue. Then you've got
to fire more people. Then the services go down. Then
(28:06):
people don't like it, they move out, the taxes go down.
It's a death spiral. It happened to San Francisco. That's
exactly what happened to San Francisco, and now LA might
be next.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
Although specifics are not yet laid out, today's announcement opens
the door for major layoffs to occur.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Major layoffs thousands of people that take care of the
roads through the trees pick up the trash, make sure
the street lights are on, all the things that make
living in the city nice. A lot of those jobs
are going to go away because they wasted money.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
I spoke this afternoon to the city's chief administrative officer,
who will be recommending ways to help close the gap.
He explained one issue the city has faced is liability claims.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
The city is being sued at a much greater rate,
with much higher levels some judgment and settlements to the
tune this year of about three hundred and twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Three hundred and twenty million dollars in lawsuits the city
of Airline.
Speaker 14 (29:08):
So that combined with what we project to be a
three hundred and fifteen million dollar loss of revenue.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, all right, then they did something pretty dumb parking
tickets in LA. They're expected to lose money on parking tickets.
Who loses money on giving out parking tickets? Well, the
city of LA.
Speaker 15 (29:31):
Anyone who's received one of these brilliant seventy three dollars
citations for street cleaning knows that the pain of parking
in the City of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Is no joke.
Speaker 15 (29:42):
That said, the city is actually losing more money on
parking enforcement than it is from taking in all those citations.
They're expensive and annoying, but a painful fact of city life.
Nobody likes parking citations right, but now there may be
a reason to dislike them even more.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
The City of Los Angeles is spending tens of millions
of more money each year on parking enforcement than it's
actually pulling in.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
To hear that they're spending more on law enforcement and
giving out tickets than money coming in.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
From the parking tickets handed out.
Speaker 15 (30:15):
John Regardi is the managing editor of Crosstown LA, a
nonprofit newsroom focusing on data driven journalism. He's referring to
this new article by Nathan Elias, who points out that
over the last outpaced revenue.
Speaker 12 (30:28):
We've actually been looking at data going all the way
back to twenty sixteen, so we've seen a shift in time,
and it has worsened over the past few years. And
then we got to a situation where in the last
fiscal year there was about a sixty five million dollars
shortfall between what the city took in and what it's
spent on parking enforcement.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So the City of La issued one hundred one hundred
million dollars in parking tickets, and it cost them one
hundred and sixty five million dollars to manage it. So
they gave out one hundred million dollars in parking tiggots
and they lost one hundred and sixty five million dollars
to manage it. That is why the city is in
(31:07):
bad shape, A microcosm of how the city of Los
Angeles is not working and there are a billion dollars
in debt. So warrant you marn't you don't live in
the city of LA If you're you know, if you're
there forever, that's fine. You got to stay. The kids
are there, go to school, You've been there for generations.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
But if you're just moving into LA I would look around.
I'd look around. I relyve on KFI AM six forty
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