November 19, 2025 • 30 mins
Thieves have a new shocking hack to steal your vehicle—and it’s so bizarre you won’t believe what they’re doing. The Francis Scott Key Bridge repair is now expected to cost $5 billion, all traced back to one tiny loose wire that triggered the catastrophic collapse.
Mark Asher joins the show to talk about his new trivia-packed book, “Gorillas Have Tiny Penises: A Book of Ironies,” featuring odd facts like Pizza Hut once being the biggest buyer of kale and penicillin being discovered completely by accident.
The crew also dives into The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, looking at how many actors have portrayed the Grinch and how Jim Carrey and Dennis Miller were influenced by comedy legend Tim Conway. Plus, OC streetcars are officially making a comeback.
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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 Conway Show. Yes,
gotta thank David vass Say for coming in. He was
with the Los Angeles Dodgers throughout that entire playoff run
and he was there in Toronto when they won Game seven.
(00:22):
How about that guy grows up a Dodger fan his
whole life, listen to Dodger talk as a kid like
I did a goofy kids, sitting in his probably you know,
his room, listening to a transistor radio, and then goes
on to work for the Dodgers and is in the
stadium practically in the dugout when the Dodgers win back
to back World Series in Game seven in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Wo cold deal, Cold Deal.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Hey, the holidays are here at the Disneyland Resort and
KFI wants to give you a chance to enjoy an
unbelievable season during the Disneyland Resort seventieth and Celebration Disneyland
Resort seventieth Celebration Experience seasonal Celebrations at Disney, Festival of
Holidays and the Nighttime Spectacular World of Color Happiness at
(01:11):
Disney California Adventure Park over at Disneyland Park, Rediscover holiday
classics like the Fireworks Spectacular, Believe in Holiday Magic, a
Christmas Fantasy Parade, and much more. Keep listening to KFI
for your chance to win a four pack of one day,
one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park.
(01:34):
Holiday offerings are available now through January seventh. Offering subject
to restrictions and change without notice. And we're giving those
away on Friday. That's going to be a big deal.
So I got to.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Come back on Friday. You could win. You could win.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
All right, Let's get into the crime here. If you
have an expensive car, there's a new way that thieves
are stealing these expensive cars and trucks, and this might
help you out. This might help you prevent your rather
expensive car or truck or suv from being ripped off.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Till today, we heard from one family who had their
truck stool and last Friday. They didn't want to talk
on camera, but they provided surveillance video that shows how
people are stealing high end truck cars and trucks here
in Anaheim Hills. Surveillance video shows someone breaking into this
truck and stealing it in a matter of seconds. But
(02:28):
it's how they pulled it off that has people in
Anaheim Hills talking.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's very bad.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean, it's really toughing.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
It is pretty frightening to think that someone could get
into somebody's vehicle that quickly.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
You're seeing cruise of three to four.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Anaheim Police Detective Heather Skaglioni says people are using new
technology to steal high end cars and trucks. In this case,
they stole a truck with help from a tablet made
for locksmith's.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Watch again, so.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
You see him walk up to the car. First he
knows he actually checks the handle, checks the handle, first,
sees the car's locked, heads over to the back window,
and he uses a window punch to break it. Once
it happens, because there's tent on the windows, the window
stays intact and he's able to peel it off.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
And climb it.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
And then he's being handed a like a locksmith tool,
a computer device uplugs into the computer system in the
car so you can quickly reprogram it and turn the
car on so we can leave with that truck.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Anah, I'm police say. The other way people are stealing
cars and trucks involves the use of an antenna while
standing in a doorway. Sergent Matt Sutter says they are
targeting newer cars and trucks with keyless entry keyfobs.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
That keyfob is constantly sending out a signal so that
when you walk up to the car, it just opens right.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Up for you.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
They hold an antenna up near the house trying to
pick up the signal from your keyfob that's inside your house.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You know that happened to us a couple of years ago.
We caught it on video where a white van came
down our alley and as the white van slowly drove
by our house, both of our garage doors opened up.
So they were surveilling the house and found the exact
frequency that they needed to open a bar garage. And
it's pretty alarming that somebody could do that. And so
(04:07):
now you have to make sure that you change the frequency,
which is the pain of the ass. And then you
got to lock the door to the garage and make
sure that's double locked. It's got to try to keep
people your whole life. You have to keep people out
of your house and from taking your stuff.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Once they pick up that signal, they send it to
somebody standing by the car, opens the car right up,
gets in, push the star button, and off they go.
What can people do to protect themselves?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Nothing. There's a few things they can do.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
One is to turn off the key fob feature that
allows you promote access.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
To your car.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
There's another thing called like a far day bag that
you can put your keyfub into. That block sets signal
from going out the purchaser. You can make out of
like aluminum foil.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Why do we have to do all that work?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Why is it always up to the owner of the
car to do all the extra leg work and buy
the expensive equipment to prevent their car from being ripped off?
It's always up to the guys and gals who are
playing by the rules. We always have to do more work.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I have, like a luminum foil.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
The other is to maybe destore your keys a different
place in the house. Some people like to hate their
keys next to the front door. Maybe you hide it
or put it somewhere further deep in the house so
they can't easily pick up the signal with that intel.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
My god, God, I.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Did ask if these cases are connected. Anaheim Police said
it is too early to tell, but they are saying
that this is a trend. No arrests have been made
and if you have video that may help investigators. Just recently,
Anaheim PD launched a program where homeowners can easily share
surveillance video with police to help them find the people responsible.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
All you have to do is.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Go to connect Anaheim dot org.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
There you go. All right.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, the one that went down
in Baltimore. It's going to cost five billion dollars to
fix that bridge, to replace that bridge, five billion dollars
when a ship hit it and the one and this
whole thing was caused by one tiny loose wire, one
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loose wire on that ship and people died and the
bridge went down. It's not going to be done until
twenty thirty, so we have another five years in repairing
that bridge and five billion dollars.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
It was a disaster. The NTSB says shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The whole bridge has fell out.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Federal investigators now revealing a loose wire was the root
cause of the deadly twenty twenty four collision of the
cargo ship Dolly into the Key Bridge in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
This tragedy should have never occurred.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Lives should have never been longed.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's right, As with all accidents that we investigate.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
This was preventable.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That's exactly right. This should have never happened. One loose
wire took out that bridge and killed those people.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
The National Transportation Safety Boards investigation showing one of thousands
of signal wires inside a breaker wasn't firmly in place,
likely since the DOLLI was built.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
When the wire slipped out out, it knocked out power,
including propulsion and steering. The ship's operator tells NBC News
in part these matters will be reviewed in detail with
our technical teams. The vessel owner and council.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Holdall traffic on the key bridge. There's a ship approaching
has just lost their steering.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
The ship slammed into the bridge where seven men were working.
Six of them died after falling into the river. The
investigation revealing they were never alerted to the emergency on
the water and if the workers had been notified, they
would have had over a minute to evacuate before the
bridge collapsed.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh that's horrible, But how about the guy that went
in there and figured this out? You know, of all
the wiring, there must be hundreds of miles of wiring
on each one of these ships, and he found one
tiny loose wire that caused everything.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
The loan survivor and the families of the men who
died had filed a civil suit against the DOLLY, some
of them at Tuesday's meeting with their lawyers.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
It's been painful for the entire country to see this
happen and no one held accountable. So hopefully accountability as finalized.
That family's just here for justice.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, I wouldn't hold your breath. There's nobody held accountable
for anything in this country.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
The NTSB also making eighteen safety recommendations to prevent another
deadly catastrophe, including using motorist warning systems and creating protocols
to alert bridge workers in an emergency.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
In order to see safety change, we need our recommendations implemented.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
We have a really big voice and we're not afraid
to use it.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It's a big, bad deal, man, bad bad deal. And
that again, that bridge isn't gonna be done for another
five years. People have to go around the entire area
and there's tons of traffic there too. It's a complete mess.
All right, we're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It is The Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
We don't normally have authors on the show, but I
read this unbelievable book. And I've known this guy since
about seventh grade. His name is Mark Asher, and he's
not with us.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Asher.
Speaker 12 (08:56):
How you, bob? I'm doing great, Tim, How you doing, buddy?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I love this book. It's called Gorillas have Tiny Penises.
It has nothing to do you know, you're not you
don't remember our childhood.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But it has nothing to do with me.
Speaker 12 (09:12):
Right well, you mean no, I don't have no title.
Wants to do with you in a little way. Gorillas
have tiny penises, which is the irony.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
A male gorilla has an.
Speaker 12 (09:30):
Average direction size of one point one inch.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Wow, that makes me feel better.
Speaker 12 (09:35):
It makes me feel better as a man.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
You're stealing my line.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But but.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You in that department are what we get at.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know normally you're writing books about dogs. Your dog.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I know you wrote to all that ails you and
Humphrey was here, which is another which is a great
book about a pet loss that you had written but
where did you come up with this idea? And it's
filled with life's ironies. I love this book, man.
Speaker 12 (10:05):
Yeah, so it's interesting. I've written dog books for over
twenty years. But before I started dog books, I had
this idea where I would jot down these ironies and
I had a title that was just a basic title,
Isn't it Isn't it ironic?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (10:21):
And then I came across this fact about the male
Guerrillas and I was like, that's a great title. Let
me see if I can build on this short list
that I started twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So that's how it started.
Speaker 12 (10:31):
And I came up with you know, twenty years ago,
I had like things like Fonsie from Happy Days was terrified.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Of motorcycles, which is in the book.
Speaker 12 (10:39):
There's a dentist that invented cotton candy.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, that's right like that?
Speaker 12 (10:43):
And then yeah, and the Beach Boys didn't surf.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh that's another one.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, there's only like one of the Beach Boys knew
anything about surfing.
Speaker 12 (10:51):
Yeah, who was Dennis was the drummer, But Brian Wilson,
who wrote most of their hits, tried surfing once never
did it again. And funny enough. When he lived even Malibu,
he used to he put it, he built a sandbox
in his living room so he could write with his
toes in the sand to simulate the idea of being
on the beach.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That's correct, and I have to have.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
To bring in one dog back.
Speaker 12 (11:13):
The reason he got rid of the arrangement is because
his dogs started pooping in the sand in the sandbox.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That is awesome. But this is holiday, dude.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I mean, this is something you can give to you know,
mom or dad or your brother is something, and you
know it's always tough to get, you know, to come
up with a great gift for somebody.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
This is a perfect gift.
Speaker 12 (11:33):
It's a super accessible book. So when you open the spread,
on the left pages you have the synopsis of the irony,
and then on the right side you have the detail.
So even someone who's not a big reader could just
read the synopsis and I'll.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Read the detail. The details about a page long.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
But it's a super fun book, super super easy. It's
divided into four sections culture, politics, history, and entertainment, and
no page disappoints. There's just fascinating stuff on every page.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You know, I was talking to my wife Jen and
I said, Mark Asher is the only author in the
world where I've read all of his books.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Kind of crazy, huh.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And most of most of them are real most of them,
I mean some of them are picture books, I believe.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, it actually show way back when I was doing
a coffee table book.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, that's right, that's why we were back with.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, you had me on when you were with Steckler.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
A long time buddy.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
But yeah, it's I mean, I'll give you another one.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
That's I know. You were a big President Reagan guy.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
So President Reagan uh starred in a movie I think
in nineteen thirty nine called Code of the Secret Service,
and he.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Called it his worst film ever. He hated the film.
Speaker 12 (12:46):
But there's a kid watching the film named Jerry Parr
who goes on to become a Secret Service agent. Jerry Parr,
who was became a Secret Service agent, was the head
of detail protecting Reagan Wow Wow on the day he
was shot in nineteen ninety one. So Parr was the
one that pushed Reagan into the limo.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
To save his life and was the one.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
That decided to send him to the hospital because it's
protocol normally unless it's life threatening to take the president
back to the White House, which is something I didn't know.
But he saw the blood on him and said no, no, no,
immediately take him to George Washington Hospital.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
But how crazy is about that saved his life? Reagan
does this film? Reagan? Yeah, but Reagan does this film.
He hates the film.
Speaker 12 (13:26):
But there's a kid who seems the film becomes a
Secret Service agent that becomes his agent that ends up
saving his life.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
All all the kind of stuff that's in.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
There, So that really is great. That's a great uh.
I mean, that's a great part of the book. But
what a great story as well. You know, Ronald Reagan
saved by a guy who was inspired to get into
the Secret Service. But watching you know, Reagan's least favorite movie,
that's terrific.
Speaker 12 (13:49):
Yeah, there's just and it just varies all over the place.
I've got one in there about shopping carts. So when
shopping carts were introduced in the late thirties, no one
would touch him. So men didn't want to use them
because they thought that they would look weak and feminine,
and women were tired of pushing baby carriages, so no
one would touch shopping carts. Like people just preferred baskets
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and there was now something to like beat you over
the head just to get the last shopping cart.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
But if you read the book, you see.
Speaker 12 (14:18):
Like how they got past that, how the inventor got
past that that dilemma, so that they people started to
want shopping carts. So there's there's that. There's a great
one on kale. So kale back in the day before
it was a superfood, nobody ate kale, and Pizza Hut
was the largest purchaser of kale in the US back
(14:39):
in twenty twelve. They were They ordered like final something
fourteen pounds of kale and they used it to keep
the salad bar ingredients cold.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh nobody even thought of it or ate it. So
those are the quick just fight.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Going back to the shopping cart.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I might be old school, but when I go to
Costco or we go to Walmart, I never pushed the cart.
I always think that it's the woman's job to push
that cart. I feel like I feel feminine when I
push that cart.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I did for your old school man.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I gets, so you're a man of that. I get so, dude, you.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Are so stuteley all right, where can people buy this book?
They go to Markasher dot com or Amazon.
Speaker 12 (15:21):
Well, if you want to see all my books, markasher
dot com has all links. Going to Amazon has all
my dog books as well as Guerrilla Heals Tiny Penises.
If you go to Amazon and search for Gorilla Health
Tiny Penises, they'll they'll find.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
It there as well.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Excellent on Amazon or.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
My side, Amazon's the most correct.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So yeah, Amazon, you'll get it an entire plenty of
time for the holidays, and give it to the one last.
Speaker 12 (15:44):
Thing quickly, tim before I forget it. I've got the
price that I lowered for your listener, so the paperback
is only nine to ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
For the right day.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
So okay, that's a great deal, all right, excellent, Yeah,
all right, buddy, come on with us every time you
write a book.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
We'd love to have you on. Buddy, you're the best.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You are a giant stud, buddy. And I'm at the coliseum.
By the way, I'm at the coliseum with all the
chicks you dated the standing room.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
It must it must be empty.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Thank you too. All right, thanks man. That's sort of
an inside a joke.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That guy we just had on Mark Asher called a
buddy of mine, Robbie Fox, early on a Thanksgiving morning.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It's like, you know, eight in the morning.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And this was recorded on his answer machine. So I
heard it and and Robbie Fox picks up the phone
and goes hello, and Mark Asher goes, hey, buddy, I'm
at the coliseum.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
He's like, what what?
Speaker 12 (16:42):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Why are you at the coliseum.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, I'm here with all the girls you you dated
at The place is standing room only.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And I've used that line a million times. I'm at
the coliseum with all the chicks you dated, standing room only.
What a stud that guy is?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Markasher dot com. Gorillas have Tiny Penises? Get it for
a loved one in the next twenty four hours. It's
only nine dollars and ninety nine cents. I hope you
can afford that. Go to Markasher dot com or go
to Amazon Amazon dot com and it's called Gorillas Have
Tiny Penises. A Book of Ironies. That's a great book.
(17:19):
I love ironies. I'm gonna get you a copy of that.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Crouch all right.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
Really, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
The Grinch That Stole Christmas is a great movie, the
animated movie from the sixties seventies that we all watched
as kids. But I didn't realize how many different actors
played the Grinch. Jim Carrey in the live action film
in the year two thousand, Benedict Cumberbatch, he voiced the
Grinch in twenty eighteen, but Boris Karloff was the one
(17:56):
in the nineteen sixty six animated special that we all
know on How the Grinch Stole Christmas? You remember, you'll
probably remember this voice from The Grinch.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
This is classic. The Grinch got a wonderful that's a
great voice.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Bridge gotta wonderful.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, that's Bora's Carloff.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And then Josh Ryan Evans and Patrick Page and Matthew Morrison.
And then here's something that I looked up that was
sort of odd. Jim Carrey and Dennis Miller. Two very
smart guys and very funny guys. And if you go
to their wikipedias and look up Jim Carrey and Dennis Miller,
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they both were influenced when they were younger by a
comedian and actor named Tim Conway.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
How about that? How about that? Yeah, kids growing up
watching the Caraber Nuts show and then going on to
make millions and millions of dollars in show business. That's
a cool deal, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
The holidays are here at Disneyland Resort, and KFI wants
to give you a chance to enjoy an unbelievable season
during the Disneyland Resort seventieth Celebration. Experienced seasonal celebrations at
Disney Festival of Holidays and the Nighttime Spectacular World of
Color Happiness at Disney California Adventure Park. Over at Disneyland Park,
(19:28):
rediscover holiday classics like the Fireworks Spectacular, Believe in Holiday Magic,
a Christmas Fantasy Parade, and much much more. Keep listening
to KFI for your chance to win a four pack
of one day, one part tickets to Disneyland Park or
Disney California Adventure Park. Holiday offerings are subject are available
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now through January seventh, and offering subject to restrictions and
change without notice. And we're giving those away on Friday,
So be here on Friday and you might win.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Someone's gonna win those might as well be you, man,
thing wrong with you? Orange County is about to open
up the long awaited street cars street cars in Orange County.
They're coming back.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
They used to have been downtown LA way back in
the forties and fifties, and now Orange County is bringing
him back. And I think it's going from Santa Anna
to north by four miles or west by four miles.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Let's find out where the street car is going.
Speaker 13 (20:28):
Safety testing has started on Orange County's long awaited streetcars.
Eight all electric trains have been delivered, running on the
old Pacific Electric Line, which has been newly refurbished between
Santa Anna and Garden Grove.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Okay, that's where they're going, between Santa Anna and Garden grow.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Santa Anna and Garden Grove, all.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Right, And I don't know. I think Orange County, you know,
they get things done. We've been talking about that gondola
going from you know, the train station to Dodger Stadium
forever and there's current delays in that and that's been
taught in the talk in the works for twenty five years.
People have been talking about it for twenty five years,
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and not one single rivet or one single ounce of
cement has been put down, not a single wire nothing.
It was going to go from the train station all
the way to Dodger Stadium and it would take you
I think six or seven minutes and nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Nothing.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
We're excited.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It's the people who are blocking all this crap that
live in la and in Orange County. When you try
to block it, they just push you aside and they
build them anyway.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
We're excited.
Speaker 14 (21:38):
We're finally here. This is the first monastery car in
Orange County and it's something exciting. We're going to expand
our most from just ordinary bus service, which this project's
going to connect to about maybe eight or nine of
our core routes. So it's going to offer a lot
of folks in the core of our county access to
anywhere they want to go.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, there's the street car coming back to Orange County
early next year.
Speaker 13 (21:56):
The trains will hit the streets for several months of
practice run required before passengers climb on board. The four
mile route passes along Santa Ana's downtown train station and
Civic Center.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
To the west of Garden Grove, where.
Speaker 13 (22:10):
It connects with one of Orange County Transportation Authority's busiest
bus routes.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And they're going to expand this. This will eventually be
over the entire county. You'll be you'll see street cars everywhere.
It's a great idea.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
The OC streetcar can accommodate many more riders.
Speaker 14 (22:27):
It's a higher capacity service meeting that our average forty
foot bus carries roughly full about fifty people. The OC streetcar,
a single vehicle, carries two hundred eleven people.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So it's over foight. A single streetcar has. How many
people a single vehicle carre with two hundred eleven people?
Two hundred eleven people on a streetcar, the.
Speaker 14 (22:43):
Hell over four times four times a number of people
that you can carry.
Speaker 13 (22:47):
When service begins. The street cars will operate from six
am until eleven pm, and a few hours later on weekends.
Octa expects to have five thousand riders a day. The
cost to ride the streetcar is the same as the bus, two.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Dollars per trip.
Speaker 13 (23:04):
The first passengers could board as early as next summer,
but that's dependent on regulatory testing.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Orange County does it right, man. Another thing Orange County
does right that LA doesn't. They progress, They get things,
they get ideas, they pass.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Them, and they build them. What do we do in LA?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
We talk about them for twenty five years and then
we don't build them.
Speaker 12 (23:28):
On real.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Bad news here.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
La County has had its first death when it comes
to flu.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh boy, that didn't take long.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
La County has reported its first influenza death this season,
with officials noting the decrease. So the deceased was not
vaccinated against the flu, telling you to get vaccine. I'm
just reading the report here. An Apartment of Public Health
and said wednesday that quote an older person with underlying
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health conditions close quote who lived in La County was
the first flu associated death this fall and winter. Last
fall season killed hundreds of Californias hundreds for the details
about the person were not released. Officials only said that
they had not received a flu vaccine this year. So
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I understand not getting one. I understand not trusting vaccines.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I get it. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I'm just telling you that this older person who had
underlying conditions didn't get a flu shot, and now they're
not with us anymore. So you do the math for yourself.
All right, Let's talk about Frank Sinatra. He's become hot again.
Frank Sinatra and his music is taken off again.
Speaker 15 (25:00):
Frank Sinatra's returning to the Billboard charts thanks to this
new Penatonics.
Speaker 12 (25:09):
Is sickos car love to keep Me Warm.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I love that voice this time of the year.
Speaker 15 (25:20):
Sinatra originally released that song I've got My Love to
keep Me Warm back in nineteen sixty one, and Pentatonics
was able somehow to secure an unreleased vocal thanks to
the Sinatra's estate for their new album. Fun fact, Sinatra
was actually part of the first ever Billboard chart that
was in nineteen forty when he sang Wow with Tommy
Dorsey on Thehow.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Nearly one hundred years later, you know, eighty five years later,
he's back on the charts.
Speaker 15 (25:43):
With Tommy Dorsey on the track I'll Never Smile Again.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Funny.
Speaker 15 (25:46):
We're talking a lot about trains. Sinatra famously was a
massive train collector. He had a whole separate house in
California for just retreat trains and train collectibles.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, okay, speaking of train travel. With all of the
airlines being you know, all.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
The airplanes, all the flights being canceled, people are turning
to trains again to get around.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
This is a cool way. We're going back. We're going
back back.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
This morning.
Speaker 16 (26:16):
A rush to the rails as a growing number of
Americans are ready to roll into the holidays by train.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Is it more crowded on the trains?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Definitely more crowded. Yes.
Speaker 16 (26:25):
Amtrak reporting an increase in riders in recent weeks when
federally mandated flight reductions led to thousands of delays and
cancelations at major airports nationwide.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
With the uncertainty over air travel, if we have seen
an uptick in demand across the country, we expect to
see it throughout Christmas and tank skating holidays.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The surge would not be guy in demand across the
falling asleep while he's doing the interview.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
In demand across the country. We expect to see it
throughout Christmas and tank skating holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You know, you may only be on TV once in
your life if you're lucky. You know, news crew comes
by and interviews you. Let's give it some energy, let's
pick it up. Let's pick it up, let's get a
coffee in you. Let's have some energy.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
No, train service is great. Dig dog with these trains.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Take it all the way up to Seattle, and then
I watched one from Seattle to dcals great.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You know that's the kind of energy they're looking for.
Not this chapter.
Speaker 11 (27:22):
We expect to see it throughout Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Come on, buddy, you gotta get it up for once
in your life. You're gonna be on TV. Maybe once.
Speaker 16 (27:31):
The surge capping off a record year for Amtrak's ridership
and revenue.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
It comes as the.
Speaker 16 (27:36):
Railroad is working to improve aging infrastructure and introduce new
high speed trains with speeds up to one hundred and
sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
WHOA the sleeper trains. You know, if you can afford
that kind of stuff, they're great. You take it up
from LA to Seattle. It takes you about a day
and a half to get up there. Bought to see
the entire coast, and you know, crawl up the mountains
there to get over the Siscus to get to Oregon
and then into Washington. It's a beautiful trip, man, it's
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a beautiful trip.
Speaker 16 (28:08):
Well, the vast majority of Americans will still travel by
plane or car to reach their Thanksgiving destination.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Triple A estimates.
Speaker 16 (28:15):
Nearly two and a half million people will board trains, buses,
or cruises, up eight and a half percent from last year.
Carol Lumb booked to train this holiday season and the
Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
The train's a lot easier than driving. You never know
what the weather's going to be like, and plus the
train's a great way to travel.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You don't know whether the you know, the siscus up
there right as you go up over the mountain range
to get into Oregon. It sometimes that's closed for two
or three days, or you need chains, and it's very
dicey to get through there in the winter.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
But with the train, you just breeze through.
Speaker 16 (28:50):
Some call it taking the scenic route, but others point
out how expecse I.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Think a lot of people call it. I don't think
some people call it.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Some call it taking the scenic rounde.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, I don't think that that person coined that phrase.
I think that that, you know, billions of people used
it before her or him.
Speaker 16 (29:06):
But others point out how expensive train trips can be.
For my child from her college in New York to
come home in Massachusetts one way, almost three hundred dollars.
Amtrak's president says ticket pricing is based on supply and
demand and that writers who have some scheduling flexibility can
save money.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
The more people who want to go on a particular train,
the higher the prices end up being.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, that's supplying demand. You learn that the first day
in business school. That's nothing new.
Speaker 16 (29:33):
And remember that even if you choose to take the train,
that your travel plans could still be derailed. Last December,
chaotic scenes like this plague train stations in the Northeast,
Amtrak forced to delay and cancel service.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, there you go, your train's canceled as well. That's right,
all right, Ronn Or who's on tonight, Bob? I believe
Chris Merrill. Chris Merrill, all right, Chris Meryl next with
the whole crow right here on KFI AM six forty
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Conway Show. Yes,
gotta thank David vass Say for coming in. He was
with the Los Angeles Dodgers throughout that entire playoff run
and he was there in Toronto when they won Game seven.
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How about that guy grows up a Dodger fan his
whole life, listen to Dodger talk as a kid like
I did a goofy kids, sitting in his probably you know,
his room, listening to a transistor radio, and then goes
on to work for the Dodgers and is in the
stadium practically in the dugout when the Dodgers win back
to back World Series in Game seven in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
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Speaker 1 (00:47):
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away on Friday. That's going to be a big deal.
So I got to.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Come back on Friday. You could win. You could win.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
All right, Let's get into the crime here. If you
have an expensive car, there's a new way that thieves
are stealing these expensive cars and trucks, and this might
help you out. This might help you prevent your rather
expensive car or truck or suv from being ripped off.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Till today, we heard from one family who had their
truck stool and last Friday. They didn't want to talk
on camera, but they provided surveillance video that shows how
people are stealing high end truck cars and trucks here
in Anaheim Hills. Surveillance video shows someone breaking into this
truck and stealing it in a matter of seconds. But
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it's how they pulled it off that has people in
Anaheim Hills talking.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's very bad.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean, it's really toughing.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
It is pretty frightening to think that someone could get
into somebody's vehicle that quickly.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
You're seeing cruise of three to four.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Anaheim Police Detective Heather Skaglioni says people are using new
technology to steal high end cars and trucks. In this case,
they stole a truck with help from a tablet made
for locksmith's.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Watch again, so.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
You see him walk up to the car. First he
knows he actually checks the handle, checks the handle, first,
sees the car's locked, heads over to the back window,
and he uses a window punch to break it. Once
it happens, because there's tent on the windows, the window
stays intact and he's able to peel it off.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
And climb it.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
And then he's being handed a like a locksmith tool,
a computer device uplugs into the computer system in the
car so you can quickly reprogram it and turn the
car on so we can leave with that truck.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Anah, I'm police say. The other way people are stealing
cars and trucks involves the use of an antenna while
standing in a doorway. Sergent Matt Sutter says they are
targeting newer cars and trucks with keyless entry keyfobs.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
That keyfob is constantly sending out a signal so that
when you walk up to the car, it just opens right.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Up for you.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
They hold an antenna up near the house trying to
pick up the signal from your keyfob that's inside your house.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You know that happened to us a couple of years ago.
We caught it on video where a white van came
down our alley and as the white van slowly drove
by our house, both of our garage doors opened up.
So they were surveilling the house and found the exact
frequency that they needed to open a bar garage. And
it's pretty alarming that somebody could do that. And so
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now you have to make sure that you change the frequency,
which is the pain of the ass. And then you
got to lock the door to the garage and make
sure that's double locked. It's got to try to keep
people your whole life. You have to keep people out
of your house and from taking your stuff.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Once they pick up that signal, they send it to
somebody standing by the car, opens the car right up,
gets in, push the star button, and off they go.
What can people do to protect themselves?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Nothing. There's a few things they can do.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
One is to turn off the key fob feature that
allows you promote access.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
To your car.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
There's another thing called like a far day bag that
you can put your keyfub into. That block sets signal
from going out the purchaser. You can make out of
like aluminum foil.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Why do we have to do all that work?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Why is it always up to the owner of the
car to do all the extra leg work and buy
the expensive equipment to prevent their car from being ripped off?
It's always up to the guys and gals who are
playing by the rules. We always have to do more work.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I have, like a luminum foil.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
The other is to maybe destore your keys a different
place in the house. Some people like to hate their
keys next to the front door. Maybe you hide it
or put it somewhere further deep in the house so
they can't easily pick up the signal with that intel.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
My god, God, I.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Did ask if these cases are connected. Anaheim Police said
it is too early to tell, but they are saying
that this is a trend. No arrests have been made
and if you have video that may help investigators. Just recently,
Anaheim PD launched a program where homeowners can easily share
surveillance video with police to help them find the people responsible.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
All you have to do is.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Go to connect Anaheim dot org.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
There you go. All right.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, the one that went down
in Baltimore. It's going to cost five billion dollars to
fix that bridge, to replace that bridge, five billion dollars
when a ship hit it and the one and this
whole thing was caused by one tiny loose wire, one
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loose wire on that ship and people died and the
bridge went down. It's not going to be done until
twenty thirty, so we have another five years in repairing
that bridge and five billion dollars.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
It was a disaster. The NTSB says shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
The whole bridge has fell out.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Federal investigators now revealing a loose wire was the root
cause of the deadly twenty twenty four collision of the
cargo ship Dolly into the Key Bridge in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
This tragedy should have never occurred.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Lives should have never been longed.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's right, As with all accidents that we investigate.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
This was preventable.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That's exactly right. This should have never happened. One loose
wire took out that bridge and killed those people.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
The National Transportation Safety Boards investigation showing one of thousands
of signal wires inside a breaker wasn't firmly in place,
likely since the DOLLI was built.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
When the wire slipped out out, it knocked out power,
including propulsion and steering. The ship's operator tells NBC News
in part these matters will be reviewed in detail with
our technical teams. The vessel owner and council.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Holdall traffic on the key bridge. There's a ship approaching
has just lost their steering.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
The ship slammed into the bridge where seven men were working.
Six of them died after falling into the river. The
investigation revealing they were never alerted to the emergency on
the water and if the workers had been notified, they
would have had over a minute to evacuate before the
bridge collapsed.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh that's horrible, But how about the guy that went
in there and figured this out? You know, of all
the wiring, there must be hundreds of miles of wiring
on each one of these ships, and he found one
tiny loose wire that caused everything.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
The loan survivor and the families of the men who
died had filed a civil suit against the DOLLY, some
of them at Tuesday's meeting with their lawyers.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
It's been painful for the entire country to see this
happen and no one held accountable. So hopefully accountability as finalized.
That family's just here for justice.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, I wouldn't hold your breath. There's nobody held accountable
for anything in this country.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
The NTSB also making eighteen safety recommendations to prevent another
deadly catastrophe, including using motorist warning systems and creating protocols
to alert bridge workers in an emergency.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
In order to see safety change, we need our recommendations implemented.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
We have a really big voice and we're not afraid
to use it.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It's a big, bad deal, man, bad bad deal. And
that again, that bridge isn't gonna be done for another
five years. People have to go around the entire area
and there's tons of traffic there too. It's a complete mess.
All right, we're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It is The Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
We don't normally have authors on the show, but I
read this unbelievable book. And I've known this guy since
about seventh grade. His name is Mark Asher, and he's
not with us.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Asher.
Speaker 12 (08:56):
How you, bob? I'm doing great, Tim, How you doing, buddy?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I love this book. It's called Gorillas have Tiny Penises.
It has nothing to do you know, you're not you
don't remember our childhood.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But it has nothing to do with me.
Speaker 12 (09:12):
Right well, you mean no, I don't have no title.
Wants to do with you in a little way. Gorillas
have tiny penises, which is the irony.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
A male gorilla has an.
Speaker 12 (09:30):
Average direction size of one point one inch.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Wow, that makes me feel better.
Speaker 12 (09:35):
It makes me feel better as a man.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
You're stealing my line.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But but.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You in that department are what we get at.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know normally you're writing books about dogs. Your dog.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I know you wrote to all that ails you and
Humphrey was here, which is another which is a great
book about a pet loss that you had written but
where did you come up with this idea? And it's
filled with life's ironies. I love this book, man.
Speaker 12 (10:05):
Yeah, so it's interesting. I've written dog books for over
twenty years. But before I started dog books, I had
this idea where I would jot down these ironies and
I had a title that was just a basic title,
Isn't it Isn't it ironic?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (10:21):
And then I came across this fact about the male
Guerrillas and I was like, that's a great title. Let
me see if I can build on this short list
that I started twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So that's how it started.
Speaker 12 (10:31):
And I came up with you know, twenty years ago,
I had like things like Fonsie from Happy Days was terrified.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Of motorcycles, which is in the book.
Speaker 12 (10:39):
There's a dentist that invented cotton candy.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, that's right like that?
Speaker 12 (10:43):
And then yeah, and the Beach Boys didn't surf.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh that's another one.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, there's only like one of the Beach Boys knew
anything about surfing.
Speaker 12 (10:51):
Yeah, who was Dennis was the drummer, But Brian Wilson,
who wrote most of their hits, tried surfing once never
did it again. And funny enough. When he lived even Malibu,
he used to he put it, he built a sandbox
in his living room so he could write with his
toes in the sand to simulate the idea of being
on the beach.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That's correct, and I have to have.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
To bring in one dog back.
Speaker 12 (11:13):
The reason he got rid of the arrangement is because
his dogs started pooping in the sand in the sandbox.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That is awesome. But this is holiday, dude.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I mean, this is something you can give to you know,
mom or dad or your brother is something, and you
know it's always tough to get, you know, to come
up with a great gift for somebody.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
This is a perfect gift.
Speaker 12 (11:33):
It's a super accessible book. So when you open the spread,
on the left pages you have the synopsis of the irony,
and then on the right side you have the detail.
So even someone who's not a big reader could just
read the synopsis and I'll.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Read the detail. The details about a page long.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
But it's a super fun book, super super easy. It's
divided into four sections culture, politics, history, and entertainment, and
no page disappoints. There's just fascinating stuff on every page.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You know, I was talking to my wife Jen and
I said, Mark Asher is the only author in the
world where I've read all of his books.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Kind of crazy, huh.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And most of most of them are real most of them,
I mean some of them are picture books, I believe.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, it actually show way back when I was doing
a coffee table book.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, that's right, that's why we were back with.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, you had me on when you were with Steckler.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
A long time buddy.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
But yeah, it's I mean, I'll give you another one.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
That's I know. You were a big President Reagan guy.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
So President Reagan uh starred in a movie I think
in nineteen thirty nine called Code of the Secret Service,
and he.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Called it his worst film ever. He hated the film.
Speaker 12 (12:46):
But there's a kid watching the film named Jerry Parr
who goes on to become a Secret Service agent. Jerry Parr,
who was became a Secret Service agent, was the head
of detail protecting Reagan Wow Wow on the day he
was shot in nineteen ninety one. So Parr was the
one that pushed Reagan into the limo.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
To save his life and was the one.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
That decided to send him to the hospital because it's
protocol normally unless it's life threatening to take the president
back to the White House, which is something I didn't know.
But he saw the blood on him and said no, no, no,
immediately take him to George Washington Hospital.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
But how crazy is about that saved his life? Reagan
does this film? Reagan? Yeah, but Reagan does this film.
He hates the film.
Speaker 12 (13:26):
But there's a kid who seems the film becomes a
Secret Service agent that becomes his agent that ends up
saving his life.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
All all the kind of stuff that's in.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
There, So that really is great. That's a great uh.
I mean, that's a great part of the book. But
what a great story as well. You know, Ronald Reagan
saved by a guy who was inspired to get into
the Secret Service. But watching you know, Reagan's least favorite movie,
that's terrific.
Speaker 12 (13:49):
Yeah, there's just and it just varies all over the place.
I've got one in there about shopping carts. So when
shopping carts were introduced in the late thirties, no one
would touch him. So men didn't want to use them
because they thought that they would look weak and feminine,
and women were tired of pushing baby carriages, so no
one would touch shopping carts. Like people just preferred baskets
(14:12):
and there was now something to like beat you over
the head just to get the last shopping cart.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
But if you read the book, you see.
Speaker 12 (14:18):
Like how they got past that, how the inventor got
past that that dilemma, so that they people started to
want shopping carts. So there's there's that. There's a great
one on kale. So kale back in the day before
it was a superfood, nobody ate kale, and Pizza Hut
was the largest purchaser of kale in the US back
(14:39):
in twenty twelve. They were They ordered like final something
fourteen pounds of kale and they used it to keep
the salad bar ingredients cold.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh nobody even thought of it or ate it. So
those are the quick just fight.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Going back to the shopping cart.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I might be old school, but when I go to
Costco or we go to Walmart, I never pushed the cart.
I always think that it's the woman's job to push
that cart. I feel like I feel feminine when I
push that cart.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I did for your old school man.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I gets, so you're a man of that. I get so, dude, you.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Are so stuteley all right, where can people buy this book?
They go to Markasher dot com or Amazon.
Speaker 12 (15:21):
Well, if you want to see all my books, markasher
dot com has all links. Going to Amazon has all
my dog books as well as Guerrilla Heals Tiny Penises.
If you go to Amazon and search for Gorilla Health
Tiny Penises, they'll they'll find.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
It there as well.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Excellent on Amazon or.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
My side, Amazon's the most correct.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So yeah, Amazon, you'll get it an entire plenty of
time for the holidays, and give it to the one last.
Speaker 12 (15:44):
Thing quickly, tim before I forget it. I've got the
price that I lowered for your listener, so the paperback
is only nine to ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
For the right day.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
So okay, that's a great deal, all right, excellent, Yeah,
all right, buddy, come on with us every time you
write a book.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
We'd love to have you on. Buddy, you're the best.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You are a giant stud, buddy. And I'm at the coliseum.
By the way, I'm at the coliseum with all the
chicks you dated the standing room.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
It must it must be empty.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Thank you too. All right, thanks man. That's sort of
an inside a joke.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That guy we just had on Mark Asher called a
buddy of mine, Robbie Fox, early on a Thanksgiving morning.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It's like, you know, eight in the morning.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And this was recorded on his answer machine. So I
heard it and and Robbie Fox picks up the phone
and goes hello, and Mark Asher goes, hey, buddy, I'm
at the coliseum.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
He's like, what what?
Speaker 12 (16:42):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Why are you at the coliseum.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, I'm here with all the girls you you dated
at The place is standing room only.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And I've used that line a million times. I'm at
the coliseum with all the chicks you dated, standing room only.
What a stud that guy is?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
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I love ironies. I'm gonna get you a copy of that.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Crouch all right.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
Really, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
The Grinch That Stole Christmas is a great movie, the
animated movie from the sixties seventies that we all watched
as kids. But I didn't realize how many different actors
played the Grinch. Jim Carrey in the live action film
in the year two thousand, Benedict Cumberbatch, he voiced the
Grinch in twenty eighteen, but Boris Karloff was the one
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in the nineteen sixty six animated special that we all
know on How the Grinch Stole Christmas? You remember, you'll
probably remember this voice from The Grinch.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
This is classic. The Grinch got a wonderful that's a
great voice.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Bridge gotta wonderful.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, that's Bora's Carloff.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And then Josh Ryan Evans and Patrick Page and Matthew Morrison.
And then here's something that I looked up that was
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smart guys and very funny guys. And if you go
to their wikipedias and look up Jim Carrey and Dennis Miller,
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they both were influenced when they were younger by a
comedian and actor named Tim Conway.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
How about that? How about that? Yeah, kids growing up
watching the Caraber Nuts show and then going on to
make millions and millions of dollars in show business. That's
a cool deal, all right.
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Someone's gonna win those might as well be you, man,
thing wrong with you? Orange County is about to open
up the long awaited street cars street cars in Orange County.
They're coming back.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
They used to have been downtown LA way back in
the forties and fifties, and now Orange County is bringing
him back. And I think it's going from Santa Anna
to north by four miles or west by four miles.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Let's find out where the street car is going.
Speaker 13 (20:28):
Safety testing has started on Orange County's long awaited streetcars.
Eight all electric trains have been delivered, running on the
old Pacific Electric Line, which has been newly refurbished between
Santa Anna and Garden Grove.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Okay, that's where they're going, between Santa Anna and Garden grow.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Santa Anna and Garden Grove, all.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Right, And I don't know. I think Orange County, you know,
they get things done. We've been talking about that gondola
going from you know, the train station to Dodger Stadium
forever and there's current delays in that and that's been
taught in the talk in the works for twenty five years.
People have been talking about it for twenty five years,
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and not one single rivet or one single ounce of
cement has been put down, not a single wire nothing.
It was going to go from the train station all
the way to Dodger Stadium and it would take you
I think six or seven minutes and nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Nothing.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
We're excited.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It's the people who are blocking all this crap that
live in la and in Orange County. When you try
to block it, they just push you aside and they
build them anyway.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
We're excited.
Speaker 14 (21:38):
We're finally here. This is the first monastery car in
Orange County and it's something exciting. We're going to expand
our most from just ordinary bus service, which this project's
going to connect to about maybe eight or nine of
our core routes. So it's going to offer a lot
of folks in the core of our county access to
anywhere they want to go.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, there's the street car coming back to Orange County
early next year.
Speaker 13 (21:56):
The trains will hit the streets for several months of
practice run required before passengers climb on board. The four
mile route passes along Santa Ana's downtown train station and
Civic Center.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
To the west of Garden Grove, where.
Speaker 13 (22:10):
It connects with one of Orange County Transportation Authority's busiest
bus routes.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And they're going to expand this. This will eventually be
over the entire county. You'll be you'll see street cars everywhere.
It's a great idea.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
The OC streetcar can accommodate many more riders.
Speaker 14 (22:27):
It's a higher capacity service meeting that our average forty
foot bus carries roughly full about fifty people. The OC streetcar,
a single vehicle, carries two hundred eleven people.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So it's over foight. A single streetcar has. How many
people a single vehicle carre with two hundred eleven people?
Two hundred eleven people on a streetcar, the.
Speaker 14 (22:43):
Hell over four times four times a number of people
that you can carry.
Speaker 13 (22:47):
When service begins. The street cars will operate from six
am until eleven pm, and a few hours later on weekends.
Octa expects to have five thousand riders a day. The
cost to ride the streetcar is the same as the bus, two.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Dollars per trip.
Speaker 13 (23:04):
The first passengers could board as early as next summer,
but that's dependent on regulatory testing.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Orange County does it right, man. Another thing Orange County
does right that LA doesn't. They progress, They get things,
they get ideas, they pass.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Them, and they build them. What do we do in LA?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
We talk about them for twenty five years and then
we don't build them.
Speaker 12 (23:28):
On real.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Bad news here.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
La County has had its first death when it comes
to flu.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh boy, that didn't take long.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
La County has reported its first influenza death this season,
with officials noting the decrease. So the deceased was not
vaccinated against the flu, telling you to get vaccine. I'm
just reading the report here. An Apartment of Public Health
and said wednesday that quote an older person with underlying
(24:09):
health conditions close quote who lived in La County was
the first flu associated death this fall and winter. Last
fall season killed hundreds of Californias hundreds for the details
about the person were not released. Officials only said that
they had not received a flu vaccine this year. So
(24:33):
I understand not getting one. I understand not trusting vaccines.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I get it. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I'm just telling you that this older person who had
underlying conditions didn't get a flu shot, and now they're
not with us anymore. So you do the math for yourself.
All right, Let's talk about Frank Sinatra. He's become hot again.
Frank Sinatra and his music is taken off again.
Speaker 15 (25:00):
Frank Sinatra's returning to the Billboard charts thanks to this
new Penatonics.
Speaker 12 (25:09):
Is sickos car love to keep Me Warm.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I love that voice this time of the year.
Speaker 15 (25:20):
Sinatra originally released that song I've got My Love to
keep Me Warm back in nineteen sixty one, and Pentatonics
was able somehow to secure an unreleased vocal thanks to
the Sinatra's estate for their new album. Fun fact, Sinatra
was actually part of the first ever Billboard chart that
was in nineteen forty when he sang Wow with Tommy
Dorsey on Thehow.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Nearly one hundred years later, you know, eighty five years later,
he's back on the charts.
Speaker 15 (25:43):
With Tommy Dorsey on the track I'll Never Smile Again.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Funny.
Speaker 15 (25:46):
We're talking a lot about trains. Sinatra famously was a
massive train collector. He had a whole separate house in
California for just retreat trains and train collectibles.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, okay, speaking of train travel. With all of the
airlines being you know, all.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
The airplanes, all the flights being canceled, people are turning
to trains again to get around.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
This is a cool way. We're going back. We're going
back back.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
This morning.
Speaker 16 (26:16):
A rush to the rails as a growing number of
Americans are ready to roll into the holidays by train.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Is it more crowded on the trains?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Definitely more crowded. Yes.
Speaker 16 (26:25):
Amtrak reporting an increase in riders in recent weeks when
federally mandated flight reductions led to thousands of delays and
cancelations at major airports nationwide.
Speaker 11 (26:35):
With the uncertainty over air travel, if we have seen
an uptick in demand across the country, we expect to
see it throughout Christmas and tank skating holidays.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The surge would not be guy in demand across the
falling asleep while he's doing the interview.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
In demand across the country. We expect to see it
throughout Christmas and tank skating holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You know, you may only be on TV once in
your life if you're lucky. You know, news crew comes
by and interviews you. Let's give it some energy, let's
pick it up. Let's pick it up, let's get a
coffee in you. Let's have some energy.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
No, train service is great. Dig dog with these trains.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Take it all the way up to Seattle, and then
I watched one from Seattle to dcals great.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You know that's the kind of energy they're looking for.
Not this chapter.
Speaker 11 (27:22):
We expect to see it throughout Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Come on, buddy, you gotta get it up for once
in your life. You're gonna be on TV. Maybe once.
Speaker 16 (27:31):
The surge capping off a record year for Amtrak's ridership
and revenue.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
It comes as the.
Speaker 16 (27:36):
Railroad is working to improve aging infrastructure and introduce new
high speed trains with speeds up to one hundred and
sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
WHOA the sleeper trains. You know, if you can afford
that kind of stuff, they're great. You take it up
from LA to Seattle. It takes you about a day
and a half to get up there. Bought to see
the entire coast, and you know, crawl up the mountains
there to get over the Siscus to get to Oregon
and then into Washington. It's a beautiful trip, man, it's
(28:06):
a beautiful trip.
Speaker 16 (28:08):
Well, the vast majority of Americans will still travel by
plane or car to reach their Thanksgiving destination.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Triple A estimates.
Speaker 16 (28:15):
Nearly two and a half million people will board trains, buses,
or cruises, up eight and a half percent from last year.
Carol Lumb booked to train this holiday season and the
Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
The train's a lot easier than driving. You never know
what the weather's going to be like, and plus the
train's a great way to travel.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You don't know whether the you know, the siscus up
there right as you go up over the mountain range
to get into Oregon. It sometimes that's closed for two
or three days, or you need chains, and it's very
dicey to get through there in the winter.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
But with the train, you just breeze through.
Speaker 16 (28:50):
Some call it taking the scenic route, but others point
out how expecse I.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Think a lot of people call it. I don't think
some people call it.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Some call it taking the scenic rounde.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, I don't think that that person coined that phrase.
I think that that, you know, billions of people used
it before her or him.
Speaker 16 (29:06):
But others point out how expensive train trips can be.
For my child from her college in New York to
come home in Massachusetts one way, almost three hundred dollars.
Amtrak's president says ticket pricing is based on supply and
demand and that writers who have some scheduling flexibility can
save money.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
The more people who want to go on a particular train,
the higher the prices end up being.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, that's supplying demand. You learn that the first day
in business school. That's nothing new.
Speaker 16 (29:33):
And remember that even if you choose to take the train,
that your travel plans could still be derailed. Last December,
chaotic scenes like this plague train stations in the Northeast,
Amtrak forced to delay and cancel service.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, there you go, your train's canceled as well. That's right,
all right, Ronn Or who's on tonight, Bob? I believe
Chris Merrill. Chris Merrill, all right, Chris Meryl next with
the whole crow right here on KFI AM six forty
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