Palestinian protests brought traffic to a standstill along Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is under fire for allegedly billing taxpayers for luxury expenses — including 5-star resorts and even safaris. Looking ahead, the Pacific Airshow returns this weekend, though without military flyovers. Conway jokes he’d never survive 9 G’s anyway. On the housing front, we break down why new apartments aren’t being built in L.A. And in sports, the Oakland A’s future is taking shape in Las Vegas, where a $2 billion domed stadium is rising on the old Tropicana Hotel site, aiming for a 2028 debut with seating for 33,000 fans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I AM sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Man a
lot of news, lots of news going on today. It
was nice to have Terry urtzem guy's an astronaut. And
he was asked by hold of them said.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
He was asked when he.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Goes on the stump, do you want to hear his
pitch to be a senator or you want to hear
stories about space? And nobody wants to hear about why
he wants to be a senator. They always want to
hear about space. The guy went to space. He's a
colonel in the Air Force and he went and he
went to space and he didn't go He didn't go
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to space with Jeff Bezos. You know, he didn't go
up for eight seconds and you know where he's nine
miles above earth. He was a real astronaut and very
rarely do you get to talk to somebody who did that.
It's huge all right back here on Earth. There was
a protest in the in a very busy hour. I
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think it was a five thirty five fifteen five thirty
on Wilshire. And that's not a good way to get
people's attention eep, but get pissed when they have to
sit there in traffic because you're waving those flags.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We just got over the scene here, still trying to
get some more details, but you can see from all
of the flags are blocking Wilshire Boulevard right here, Wilshire
at Granville, so just west of the four or five.
Obviously a super congested corridor this time of the day.
Perhaps not a coincidence that this is Yam Kapor as well.
Intersection quite a few people, well over one hundred. It
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looks like we have a big pickup truck here. They
just had a flag on the back of that as well.
LPD has a helicopter over. Definitely do not like when
they are blocking streets right now, so I would not
be surprised if they declare this an unlawful assembly. It's
not clear how long they've been blocking the intersection, if
they had just been on the sidewalk, or if they
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all just gathered and then got in the middle of
the street.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Here.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You can see a couple of motor units arriving now
at this point, so I'm sure they're going to come
and give them a warning, tell them to at the
very least get back to the sidewalks, or they may
come and shut this down. So we'll see how this progresses.
A peaceful protest so far pro Palestinian. It appears Wiltshire
at Grandville, just west of the fourtal five.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Pat Verbay, all right, that is I think it was
Desmond Sean and I'm looking at the traffic right now,
and it is.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It doesn't look bad.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It doesn't look like it's you know, completely swamped in
that area.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's what did you say, grand Film? I don't know
where Grandville is?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Is that he said it's west of the four or
five And if it's on Wilshire and Grandville, I don't
know where that is. If it's but if if anywhere
on Wilshire, it's going to be a pain in the
ass for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Grandville might be down I don't know. It might be
down near Barrington.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh yeah, okay, it's where bearing It's between Barrington and Westgate.
So it's where those big apartment buildings are that are
always in the news. They're trying to kick everybody out
and renovate them. They've been there since like the nineteen sixties.
There was a fire in there about ten years ago.
That was devastating to a lot of people. But that's
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where it's. It's on Wiltshire. He's right, and that whole
area is completely jammed. Wiltshire west of Barrington, west of
the four to five, So it's on the ocean side
of the foural five between Bundy, Bundy and Westgate to
the west and that's and then Barrington.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
To the north or the east, whatever that is, but
that's where it is.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
There's a protest going on at Grandville and Wiltshire and
so that's where it's all happening right now. But anyway,
that's just one of many stories that are happening now
throughout southern California. There's a murder suspect that's held up
somewhere in Brentwood or bel Air and they're looking for
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that guy or that gal as well. And then we
had the high speed chase that ended up off off
of Oxford and Olympic and so there's a lot going
on in La. You know, it's a it's an off day.
The Dodgers aren't playing today, so we did need some
entertainment and we got it, you know, from my guys
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and gals that are out there, you know, making life
interesting for everybody. All right, let's talk about California. In
the California Insurance Boss. Everybody's worried about their insurance going up,
whether it's your home insurance or car insurance.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
And.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Everybody is, you know, paying more and getting less coverage.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
So let's find out what's going on.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
California's insurance commissioner is a frequent flyer that's setting across
country but mostly all over the world. A nice gig, right,
especially if taxpayers are picking up the tab deeparating his
flights to business in first class, expensing, the five star resorts, days, chauffeurs,
limo service, even a Safari.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
The list goes on.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Man, I thought they would stop this crap, you know,
people in the government flying around on our dime.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I thought that was over. Evidently it's not. You know,
it just continues.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
People think once they get into public office, they can
do whatever the hell they want and nobody will care.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Thousands of records obtained by seven on Your Side investigates
show California's insurance Commissioner, Ricardo Latta, racked up the receipts
in recent years at least forty eight trips across the
globe to virtually every dot you see on this map
since he assumed office in twenty nineteen, and that may
just be scratching the tarmac, as years of his travel
records remain missing from the state.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That's the biggest concern.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
If you were to ask my office the purpose of
government travel, we'd be able to identify.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Every single benefit that came from these trips.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
All departments are required to identify a clear established need
to travel, and for out of country trips, a mission
critical purpose is required. But after nine months of questioning,
the California Department of Insurance was unable to specify those
reasons for a series of trips, including a five star
hotel stay in New York City for Pride Fest that
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coused taxpayers more than eleven thousand, six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
What wait a minute, You're going to New York for
Pride Fest. Don't we have Pride Fest out here? Don't
we have a Pride parade in Long Beach, in West
Hollywood and Hollywood? Why do you got to go to
New York for the Pride Fest? And eleven thousand dollars
for a hotel room for a week.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
That coused taxpayers more than eleven thousand, six hundred dollars
a four day trip, listed no insurance related meetings on
his calendar.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
How about that goes to New York on our dime,
spends eleven thousand dollars just down the hotel room. I
can't imagine what he You know, what the bar bill was,
or you know, the dinner bill or lunch or meals
with these guys, and that's probably fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And what do you do for us?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Nothing but a vip rooftop event with DJ Kitty Glitter
made the cut. Private security was hired to escort him
to various events on this trip, costing taxpayers more than
ninety four hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Wow, okay, now we're up to twenty five thousand for
the trip.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
The Department says it defers to California Highway Patrol for
any private security or transport travel expenses, adding CHP not
the commissioner makes those decisions based on things like threat assessments.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Well, I know that in this environment there's an increased
scrutiny and attacks.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I've been subjected to them too many do is not
unique to me. Record show Lada's five day trip to Bogata,
Columbia for an LGBTI political leaders conference cost taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Why is the insurance commissioner flying around to the LGBTI
or lgbt Q whatever it was. Why is he flying
to Bogatah for that? What does that have to do
with our car or house?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Insurance?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
For an LGBTI political leaders conference cost taxpayers more than
twenty four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay, now we're up to around fifty thousand just for
those two trips. For the trip to New York for
lgbt Q festival and then to Bogatah for another LGBTQ festival.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
That's five times more than we've previously reported. Receipts showed
more than seven grand was spent on taxi fares.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Wait seven grand on cabs.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Was spent on taxi fares?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The hell's going on with this guy?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Turns out a private security firm accompanied him at the conference. Well,
travel is not uncommon for California's insurance commissioner, and prior
commissioners have also traveled internationally. Political analysts are raising questions
about the frequency, cost, and lack of transparency with LATAs trips.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The state of California is nearly broke. It's worse than broke.
We're in debt, and this guy's flying all all over
the globe to go to these conferences. And what do
they have to do with insurance? My guess nothing.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
For example, last November, Lada took a trip to Cape Town,
South Africa for an international insurance conference, but the conference
was only two days, yet receipt show taxpayers paid for
his entire two and a half week's stay at a
luxury hotel. Records are still missing from this trip, but
we can tell you his security detail alone caused taxpayers
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more than thirty three thousand dollars, and that's not including
any of the miscellaneous bills like expensive hiking equipment.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
I'm having a hard time understanding why hiking polls are
something that the state needs for insurance.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Yes, I'm with you, very very good questions, and taxpayers
paid for a visit to the Big five Safarian SPA.
To put that trip and perspective for you. We requested
all the travel records of legislators on both state insurance committees,
but received show a significant disparity.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Let me show you.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
What I mean. One example involving Lisa Calderon, the Assembly
Insurance Committee chair. She averaged roughly nineteen thousand dollars annually
over the past five years.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Okay, five years, she spent twenty thousand a year. That
seems reasonable for travel. This guy spends it in a
week for all.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Her taxpayer funded travel. Now compare that to Commissioner Lada's
CHP security detail exceeding thirty three thousand dollars for just
one trick. Commissioner Lada and Assembly Member Calderon's rule is
not a direct comparison in scope of representation, but the
Department has not provided the travel records from previous commissioners,
describing them as incomplete.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And he's not going to get fired, he's not going
to get suspended, he's not even going to get reprimanded.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We'll all just live with it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
We all just have to suck it up and realize
that these guys are going to be crooks. Until we
change these guys out, they're all going to rip us off.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
In fact, Lada's staff provided a list of five international
trips former Commissioner Dave Jones took during his tenure.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Why isn't this bigger?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
New did this guy spending you know, three four hundred
thousand dollars a year on travel.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Compare that to at least twenty one international trips lot
it took, including a luxurious ten day trip to Dubai
staying at a pricing five star resort. The Department says
this was to participate in United Nations policy panels and
insurance forums.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
A nightmare.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Another guy that's ripping off California and nothing's going to
happen to him.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
All right, well you voted him in. That's what you get.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We had Terry Urtz, who is an astronaut. He came
on with us that guy's cool running for Senate in Texas.
He's running against John Corny, and that it's gonna be
a tough run. We had a chase motorcycle chase that
ended up on Olympic in Oxford. Covered that there's a
protest on Wiltshire just west of the four h five
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near Bundy and Barrington. Covered that the rest of one
of the bodies, the two bodies that was found in
a car. We covered that today there's a murder suspect
that they're looking for in bell Air on the near Brentwood.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I believe we're.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Getting information on that a car that flew into a
Jewish school on the holiest holiday on the Jewish calendar.
I hope that's just a coincidence, and we're covering that
as well. Man, It's just a lot of news lots
going on today. But let's do something a little lighter here,
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and that is the Disneyland Gift.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And I think we're doing this tomorrow. Is that right,
belly owned tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
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Speaker 3 (13:24):
That's going to be tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That'll be a huge giveaway tomorrow, so you want to
be here for that, And then don't forget the air
show this weekend. It starts tomorrow. The countdown is odd.
Pacific Air Show Huntington Beach returns Tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday,
October third through the fifth with epic aerial stunts, ground
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and explore the all new stem Lab, next Gen stem
Lab and kid Soo Wow. The ultimate beach day for
the whole family. Get your tickets now at Pacificairshow dot
com Pacificairshow dot com. Gary Shannon will be out there
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tomorrow from nine am until one pm at the air
Show and that.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Should be a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
A big, big broadcast tomorrow for the air show. Is
Gary gonna fly in one of those planes. He does
that every year.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
He does start doing it this year. He has done
it in the past. He has. You were supposed to
and you ye decided.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
Remember the military planes aren't flying this year.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah right, military they are grounded.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Belly.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Do you remember the reason I didn't do it. I
don't because they wanted me to have a physical. Oh,
they didn't think I was in good enough shape to
do it. And I said, look, I when I go
out and do remotes, if I have to have a physical,
I'm not going. I'm out because I'm not in great shape.
So I'm not gonna do it. As much as you
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ask those Air Force or Navy pilots to be mellow
and not do nine g's, they immediately do nine g's.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I'm not into that. You
wouldn't want to pass out?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Why would I want to pass out? I pass out
in here, That's true. I get dizzy almost on a
daily basis. Yeah, so I don't need nine g's. I
need just third gear in my car. That's enough g's
for me to pass out. So I don't do it.
Have you ever done it? Crows, you've ever done the flying.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
With the Air Force?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Have not?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You could do it. You'd probably, you know, by the
end you'd be flying the thing.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I'd be for it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, you should do it. Belly, have you done it? No,
you haven't flown with the Air Force. No Ah, you
missed an opportunity you'd probably throw up. I would definitely
throw up. Yeah, I don't think I could do it.
You know, I wonder why if you do throw up
in the Navy or the air Force plane is when
you land? Is that on you to clean it up?
Get that going again? You get back to square one?
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I think, So are you supposed to do it yourself?
Or they give you a bag? You're blow in that bag.
I hope everybody's enjoying supper.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Ah. I did that once on a plane. It was
one of those Grand Canyon tours. Oh no, where it's
like the twelve sixteen Sedars. And not to be stereotypical,
but I had like three or four French guys behind
me who apparently enjoyed their meal last night. I feeling
it the next day. And I have like like a
VCR tape of like because my friend was sitting next
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to me and he was recording me just yeack in
the whole time.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh my god, you still have it?
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Yeah, I'm sure I got it somewhere. I gotta find
last Yeah, it's on VCR and just you could hear
the French guys just go fard.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Wait. So it was a tour of the Grand can.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Yeah. It was one of those two or three hour ones. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And it was was it early in the morning, it was.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Early midday morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the worst. And
it's like and those those planes are so just stuffy,
like there's no fresh air and it's just it's a can.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah. And they put as many people on there as
they can.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
And I thought I got about a half hour in
and I was like, oh, I was feeling a little bit. Yeah,
and then I thought, I'll tough it out. I'll tough
it out. And then the pilot comes on and says,
all right, well we're almost halfway, and.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I went, oh, no, oh, that's awesome. You know it
was I've done that before I took pilot license. I
took a pilot test, not I had lessons, and I
wanted to be a pilot at one point in my life,
and I took I got on. The first test, was fine,
the first lesson was fine.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I made it.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And then the second one, I was hungover and I
had just gone to Denny's for breakfast or I don't know,
ihop or something, and I lost it about ten minutes
out and I said, buddy, you got to get back
or else I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna destroy this plane.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
And I never went back.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
I bought my ex lesson flying lessons once because she
said she wanted to fly.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Most people get through one or two and then that's
a right. She didn't make the ten, but she got close. Yeah,
I would love to do that. I think that's one
of the coolest things in the world to pilot a plane.
I mean, you know, to have that kind of responsibility
where that plane and the passengers on that plane are
solely at your hands.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I mean that's a huge especially.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Like the smaller planes, because it's like the realization that
just under your feet is nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, and you could wipe out, you know, those seven
people instantly. It's a big responsibility. And I didn't think
I was up for it. After I took my second lesson,
I don't think I didn't have good I didn't. I
didn't have the.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Discipline it takes to become a pilot. Really, I can't
just let go.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I can't show up five minutes before and fly this
thing on.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
My oarse watching videos all right, you know that's interesting though, Belly.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Now the videos out there and simulators I wonder how
much of it can be done on the ground.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You don't have to fly, you know, Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Like remember that guy that flew the Alaska Airliner in
Seattle and eventually crashed it. He was just a mechanic, yeah,
and he just said, oh, I've played video games my
whole life and in the simulators, and he was able
to take an aircraft and fly it for around an
hour and a half and he's never flown before in
his life. But it's just on the simulator that he worked.
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So maybe I'll do that. I'll get a simulator going
and maybe not drink the night before.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
That'll be my plan. All right?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
How about how about getting out of plane captain not
Tim Conway and then bang, everybody's flying off the plane.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Got a mighty.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demayo from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Don't forget Gary and Shannon are doing a live remote
tomorrow at the air show. Bell Yo, where's that remote
going to be for? We can direct people to where
that remote is going to happen. Do you know any
idea she's out there, she's got headphones on. What do
you put your headphones on headphones. Where's the remote? The
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Gary and Shannon remote tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Do you know that the air show?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Let me check, I'm it should be on the wall
here somewhere, you know, whenever anyone's doing a remote, whether
it's Handle or John cole Belt or us or I
don't know, Moe Kelly or George Nori or any king,
and then the information should be on the wall and
people can look at that and go, hey, they're going
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to be at this restaurant tomorrow at nine am. I
guess I got to do that. I'll do it, you know,
I'll just get in there knock that out.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All right, there's a great article yesterday in your Los
Angeles Times. Almost no one is building new apartments in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Here's why.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Los Angeles developed developer Cliff Goldstein just completed a plush
new apartment complex on the West Side. But that's the
last one he's going to build in the foreseeable future.
Even though demand for housing in this region is hot, hot, hot,
many people who build apartments for a living have paused
putting shovels in the ground. Pause putting shovels in the ground,
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I should say, and that's it. There's just no profit
in anymore. So it's a needle in a haystack to
find an opportunity that makes financial sense to build today,
according to Goldstein, and then they used to have multiple projects,
as many as eight hundred total units being built at
the same time in Los Angeles, but no more.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
That's over.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
We haven't built a or we haven't bought a site
with the intention to develop it in over two years.
That's what this guy does for a living. And he
hasn't purchased a piece of property in two years. So
in two years from now, he'll be building nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And he says, I don't want to I don't know
when it will start again, but it's probably not going
to be soon. The supply of fresh rental units, which
make up a bulk of new housing in Los Angeles,
is petering out. Because wow, there's many reasons why the
vacancy rate is among the lowest in the country, will
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rental rates are among the highest nationwide. Still, the number
of new units under construction in Los Angeles has been
falling each quarter since the early part of last year,
and it's set to hit a new ten year low.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
According to the Real.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Estate data provided by Costar, Under nineteen thousand apartments were
under construction in the three months through September. That's thirty
percent fewer than three years ago. Thirty percent fewer. Developers
say that they can't raise the money they need to
build as many units because there's no big backers supporting
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him anymore. The years since COVID nineteen have demonstrated how
tangled regulation of the industry can get. According to LA Observer, here,
so investors are taking their money to other cities. LA
has been redlined by the majority of investment community. Do
you hear that LA has been redlined by the majority
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of the investment community. If the investors won't invest, then
you can't build. A developer without investors would be like
a king without clothes Corner Goldstein. He says, I'm an
optimistic developer who wants to develop, but the investment community
will not participate. Look, if these are the big guys
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in the business and they can't get their investors on board,
how are you going to build a duplex or a
triplex or small apartment building. You're not And this is
a big problem. In Los Angeles, prices went up, especially
at a very rapid pace in some of the categories
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most affected by tariffs all right, well, including iron steel
prices they've gone up by nine percent, copper wire cable
prices have jumped fourteen percent. California's construction industry depends on
migrant workers, and I think we've all seen what's going
on there. Around sixty one percent of construction workers in
the states, in this in this state, in California are immigrants,
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and twenty six percent of those are undocumented. So finding
construction labor is hard, and it's getting even harder. Every
time you go to a home depot, they're you know,
throwing another fifteen to twenty these Spanish guys out of
the country. Housing production in Los Angeles County has slowed
dramatically over the decades, dropping from over seventy thousand new
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units annually in the nineteen fifties to roughly thirty thousand
in the sevenventies and eighties, to fifteen thousand in the
twenty tens. So we went from seventy thousand new units
in the fifties to now fifteen thousand annually according to
a USC. So there's little land left and there's little
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desire to build. I don't know what that means. I'm
not big enough in the real estate game to know
if that's good or bad. I think if you're a homeowner,
that's probably good, you know, because the property value that
you have is going up because you can always tear
your house down and build a you know, five unit apartment.
(25:39):
And I think housing prices will always stay pretty high,
especially in smaller communities, you know, like a Culver City
or Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Burbank, Pasadena, Arcadia.
These small communities have their own police force. They they
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respond better to all emergencies, especially crime. The firemen are
you know, they got their own fire department most of
these small communities, and they respond quickly. They don't have
the big budget, the big headaches that LA Fire Department has.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And the schools. The schools are great too.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
My daughter went through Burbank schools and I thought it
was a terrific education. I thought her and her friends
got a great education. If I lived at LA in
the city of Los Angeles, I think I'd be hard
pressed to find a school.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Maybe now it's better, and I think it is, but
you know, six fifteen, sixteen years ago, when I put
her into school in the place where we'd lived in Tarzana,
I visited the school and I didn't feel comfortable putting
her into that school.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It just was not a great school.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I think LAUSD has made a remarkable comeback in the
last ten or fifteen years, though, And I've witnessed some
of these schools firsthand, and so is my daughter, and
I think they've they've really done a one eighty and
they're on their way back. So maybe in the next
you know, three four generations or maybe even less than that,
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LAUSD will be a premier place to, you know, to
put your kid into school. But I know all the teachers,
the administration, you know the faculty, and you know the superintendent.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
They work their ass off at LAUSD. They really do.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Every one of those people works for LAUSD. They care
about the kids, they want to teach. That's why they're there.
They're not earning millions of dollars, and I think they've
gotten the short end of the stick.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I think l A U.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
S D.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I think you'll see in the next you know, maybe
two to five, eight, nine, ten years, it'll be I
think a premier place and a safe place to put
those kids and get a great education. I really do
believe the new up and coming teachers you know that
are now in high school or in college are going
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to be terrific at what they do. I get a
lot of confidence in them.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
All right, The Los Angeles Dodgers will play again on
Saturday as they take on the Philadelphia Phillies. That'll be
Saturday evening. So whatever plans you have, cancel them and
watch television. I don't know if it's on ESPN or Fox,
someone who's producing it. Major League Baseball Stadium in Las Vegas.
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The Oakland A's are about to move to Las Vegas,
and I guess this stadium is going to be unbelievable.
It's going to include a theater, a hotel, and a
casino all in one place. This is a dream for
degenerate gamblers and alcoholics like.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Me, like me, big dog with this place.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
The twenty twenty five season now all done for the
Oakland A's, just as baseball talk in Las Vegas is
heating up, sound investigators obtaining an early release of this
rendering showing the area around the ballpark with two luxury
hotel towers totaling three thousand new rooms, a twenty five
hundred seat theater, and more than.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Three thousand new rooms, and Vegas is hurting right now
to get people to fill up the rooms that they already.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Have, totaling three thousand new rooms, wow, a twenty five
hundred seed theater all right, and more than a half
million square feet of retail dieting and entertainment, a.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Half million space, half a million square feet of new
retail space.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
What is going in there?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You know how many more doghouses or Carls or you know,
I don't know, in and out or Burger Kings are
going to go in there.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
The resort will also include a new casino and a
VIP experience.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Now we're talking my language. Casino in the ballpark.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
With direct access to the ballpark, which, of course we'll
be a Vegas sized go A's.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I'm going to become a big A's fan with the.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
World's largest video scoreboard in a view of the world
famous Las Vegas Strip.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Retired twenty years are ridetal and.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
In those twenty years of retirement after forty years working
in Las Vegas casinos, James Blog likes his sports teams.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Does this guy sound like he's been working in casinos
for forty.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Years retired twenty years al ritetal.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Yes he does, and in those twenty years of retirement
after forty years working in Las Vegas casinos, James Blog
likes his sports teams. Here at a bar to watch
Sunday's Green Bay Packers game, because if you couldn't tell
by his get up, he loves all things Wisconsin and June,
he'll get to see his beloved Milwaukee Brewers play the
A's at Las Vegas Ballpark. He says he's looking forward
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to that, but not so much to baseball.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, I think they're gonna be a lot more fans
of the opposing team, Like there'll be a million Dodger fans.
They want to go to Las Vegas to watch the
A's play the Dodgers. It will be wall to wall Dodgers,
heavy Dodgers, man heavy Dodgers on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Everything too close to the strippy. I know more tourists
come there and it's easy for to get to, or
it said convenient for local people.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
That's a guy who's had smoke blown in his face
for forty years, dealing blackjack for forty years, and a
guy's just blowing filterless cigarettes in his face for forty years.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
More tourists come there, and it's easy for to get to,
or it said, convenient for local people.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
There good, like any good baseball discussion a disagreement. Another
of those local people we spoke with has the exact
opposite opinion, based in part on the success of the
areas around the Raiders Allegiant Stadium in the Golden Knights
Team Mobile Arena.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
I think it fit perfectly fine, like I said, I mean,
it's on the strip, you know, besides the casinos and
all the other attractions. Why not catch a game.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You know, they may change the name of that team
and not called the A's. The A's have sort of
a stink attached to it. I remember, you know, they
had a good run in nineteen eighty nine, eighty eight,
eighty nine to ninety, but really nothing sense. They might
change it, you know instead of A's, maybe Aces. I
don't know, you know, like the car that's upon possibility.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
The closer we get to twenty twenty eight, though, it
still seems far away. The A's are playing their home
games in Sacramento, and next year their jerseys will say
Sacramento across their chest.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Wow, they're not even going with Oakland. They're going to
be the Sacramento A's next year.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
So the Oakland A's now the Sacramento as soon. Right here,
the Las Vegas A's recording live on the world famous
Las Vegas Trips.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Now, Las Vegas is no stranger to baseball. That city
has hosted many preseason games as part of Major League
weekend events. But the A's actually played their first six
games of the nineteen ninety six season at Cashman Field
in downtown Las Vegas at the time.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Renovation pelle O God Mighty the.
Speaker 10 (32:39):
Nineteen ninety six season at Cashman Field in downtown Las
Vegas at the time. Renovations at Oakland Coliseum were not
complete when the season started.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
What a place A casino in the stadium, twenty five
hundred seat theater, a million dollars, a million.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Square feet of retail space.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's going to all be done in the next couple
of years, all right, Charlie Brown's with us.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Hey, Chuck, you know you know what, Hey, I gotta
tell you this is so funny. My girlfriend, Hey, everybody,
she also hates this shirt.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, I don't hate it. It's a little silly. All.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
I'm going through it like a quarter life, where I
hope maybe it's probably a midlife.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Let's talk about the girlfriend. I didn't know you had
a girlfriend. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know a couple
in the industry. Uh no, I mean she's in an industry.
When you say the weather person, no it's not. It's
not who you're who you think it is. Uh, if only.
But but she also doesn't get the plane thing. She
doesn't understand I'm a big aviation person. Also, I wanted
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to be a pilot. I'm so excited about the air
show this weekend. She's like, something's wrong with you. No, no,
something's right with you. I thought so too, like as
in the right brothers, how about that? But I wanted
I took pilot lessons. I took two, and the second
one almost threw up everywhere.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I stopped because I don't I'm not responsible. You're responsible.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
I mean I play one on TV, but really, am
I that responsible? I felt like I wasn't serious enough
to less I did two. Yeah, I did two and
and we just I did a thing recently which you
should check out in Pasadena. There's a study that like
fifty percent of men think they can land an airplane
in case of an emergency.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
You know, one of them, me too.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
So we went out to this place in Pasadena where
they have a seven thirty seven simulator, right, and so
I've tested it out without any lessons. I've never flown
a seven thirty seven landed I did. Wow, I did
multiple times?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Is that right? Yes?
Speaker 7 (34:33):
And they threw me in like weather, difficult conditions.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Wait, wait, did they talk you into it?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Like he set up the plane so that I was
able to No, No, he didn't really talk me down.
He just said, here's the run away and he said,
kids who grew up playing video games, Wow, are really.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Good at this. That's awesome. Isn't that exciting? So you
should go. We should test and see how how good
you are. I would throw that thing right into a school,
you know.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
But could he do doing a fuel dump?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
What's on the big program today?
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Well, speaking of airplanes, we've got one of the pilots
for the Pacific Air Show who's coming on in a
little bit to talk about the show, they do the
takeoff and landings on the beach. He's gonna give us
some intel on that. No military jetsus well, no I
know that, but you know what they want us to know.
There's still a lot of cool stuff to see down there,
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that's right, which like the Snoopy plane.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
You know the Snoopy play, right, or they got the
I might go. Are you gonna go?
Speaker 7 (35:29):
If I can get Tim lind to pick me up
on the way down. Okay, Okay, he's going, yeah, yeah,
he's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Just pick just pick me up, all right in for
mo Kelly, Andy Reesemeyer, the whole crew right here on
k I AM six forty Nice to see you man, Bye,
good luck. Charlie Conway Show on demand on the iHeart
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It's kf I AM sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Man a
lot of news, lots of news going on today. It
was nice to have Terry urtzem guy's an astronaut. And
he was asked by hold of them said.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
He was asked when he.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Goes on the stump, do you want to hear his
pitch to be a senator or you want to hear
stories about space? And nobody wants to hear about why
he wants to be a senator. They always want to
hear about space. The guy went to space. He's a
colonel in the Air Force and he went and he
went to space and he didn't go He didn't go
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to space with Jeff Bezos. You know, he didn't go
up for eight seconds and you know where he's nine
miles above earth. He was a real astronaut and very
rarely do you get to talk to somebody who did that.
It's huge all right back here on Earth. There was
a protest in the in a very busy hour. I
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think it was a five thirty five fifteen five thirty
on Wilshire. And that's not a good way to get
people's attention eep, but get pissed when they have to
sit there in traffic because you're waving those flags.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We just got over the scene here, still trying to
get some more details, but you can see from all
of the flags are blocking Wilshire Boulevard right here, Wilshire
at Granville, so just west of the four or five.
Obviously a super congested corridor this time of the day.
Perhaps not a coincidence that this is Yam Kapor as well.
Intersection quite a few people, well over one hundred. It
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looks like we have a big pickup truck here. They
just had a flag on the back of that as well.
LPD has a helicopter over. Definitely do not like when
they are blocking streets right now, so I would not
be surprised if they declare this an unlawful assembly. It's
not clear how long they've been blocking the intersection, if
they had just been on the sidewalk, or if they
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all just gathered and then got in the middle of
the street.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Here.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You can see a couple of motor units arriving now
at this point, so I'm sure they're going to come
and give them a warning, tell them to at the
very least get back to the sidewalks, or they may
come and shut this down. So we'll see how this progresses.
A peaceful protest so far pro Palestinian. It appears Wiltshire
at Grandville, just west of the fourtal five.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Pat Verbay, all right, that is I think it was
Desmond Sean and I'm looking at the traffic right now,
and it is.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It doesn't look bad.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It doesn't look like it's you know, completely swamped in
that area.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's what did you say, grand Film? I don't know
where Grandville is?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Is that he said it's west of the four or
five And if it's on Wilshire and Grandville, I don't
know where that is. If it's but if if anywhere
on Wilshire, it's going to be a pain in the
ass for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Grandville might be down I don't know. It might be
down near Barrington.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh yeah, okay, it's where bearing It's between Barrington and Westgate.
So it's where those big apartment buildings are that are
always in the news. They're trying to kick everybody out
and renovate them. They've been there since like the nineteen sixties.
There was a fire in there about ten years ago.
That was devastating to a lot of people. But that's
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where it's. It's on Wiltshire. He's right, and that whole
area is completely jammed. Wiltshire west of Barrington, west of
the four to five, So it's on the ocean side
of the foural five between Bundy, Bundy and Westgate to
the west and that's and then Barrington.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
To the north or the east, whatever that is, but
that's where it is.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
There's a protest going on at Grandville and Wiltshire and
so that's where it's all happening right now. But anyway,
that's just one of many stories that are happening now
throughout southern California. There's a murder suspect that's held up
somewhere in Brentwood or bel Air and they're looking for
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that guy or that gal as well. And then we
had the high speed chase that ended up off off
of Oxford and Olympic and so there's a lot going
on in La. You know, it's a it's an off day.
The Dodgers aren't playing today, so we did need some
entertainment and we got it, you know, from my guys
(04:33):
and gals that are out there, you know, making life
interesting for everybody. All right, let's talk about California. In
the California Insurance Boss. Everybody's worried about their insurance going up,
whether it's your home insurance or car insurance.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
And.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Everybody is, you know, paying more and getting less coverage.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
So let's find out what's going on.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
California's insurance commissioner is a frequent flyer that's setting across
country but mostly all over the world. A nice gig, right,
especially if taxpayers are picking up the tab deeparating his
flights to business in first class, expensing, the five star resorts, days, chauffeurs,
limo service, even a Safari.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
The list goes on.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Man, I thought they would stop this crap, you know,
people in the government flying around on our dime.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I thought that was over. Evidently it's not. You know,
it just continues.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
People think once they get into public office, they can
do whatever the hell they want and nobody will care.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Thousands of records obtained by seven on Your Side investigates
show California's insurance Commissioner, Ricardo Latta, racked up the receipts
in recent years at least forty eight trips across the
globe to virtually every dot you see on this map
since he assumed office in twenty nineteen, and that may
just be scratching the tarmac, as years of his travel
records remain missing from the state.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That's the biggest concern.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
If you were to ask my office the purpose of
government travel, we'd be able to identify.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Every single benefit that came from these trips.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
All departments are required to identify a clear established need
to travel, and for out of country trips, a mission
critical purpose is required. But after nine months of questioning,
the California Department of Insurance was unable to specify those
reasons for a series of trips, including a five star
hotel stay in New York City for Pride Fest that
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coused taxpayers more than eleven thousand, six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
What wait a minute, You're going to New York for
Pride Fest. Don't we have Pride Fest out here? Don't
we have a Pride parade in Long Beach, in West
Hollywood and Hollywood? Why do you got to go to
New York for the Pride Fest? And eleven thousand dollars
for a hotel room for a week.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
That coused taxpayers more than eleven thousand, six hundred dollars
a four day trip, listed no insurance related meetings on
his calendar.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
How about that goes to New York on our dime,
spends eleven thousand dollars just down the hotel room. I
can't imagine what he You know, what the bar bill was,
or you know, the dinner bill or lunch or meals
with these guys, and that's probably fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And what do you do for us?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Nothing but a vip rooftop event with DJ Kitty Glitter
made the cut. Private security was hired to escort him
to various events on this trip, costing taxpayers more than
ninety four hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Wow, okay, now we're up to twenty five thousand for
the trip.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
The Department says it defers to California Highway Patrol for
any private security or transport travel expenses, adding CHP not
the commissioner makes those decisions based on things like threat assessments.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Well, I know that in this environment there's an increased
scrutiny and attacks.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I've been subjected to them too many do is not
unique to me. Record show Lada's five day trip to Bogata,
Columbia for an LGBTI political leaders conference cost taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Why is the insurance commissioner flying around to the LGBTI
or lgbt Q whatever it was. Why is he flying
to Bogatah for that? What does that have to do
with our car or house?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Insurance?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
For an LGBTI political leaders conference cost taxpayers more than
twenty four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay, now we're up to around fifty thousand just for
those two trips. For the trip to New York for
lgbt Q festival and then to Bogatah for another LGBTQ festival.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
That's five times more than we've previously reported. Receipts showed
more than seven grand was spent on taxi fares.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Wait seven grand on cabs.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Was spent on taxi fares?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The hell's going on with this guy?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Turns out a private security firm accompanied him at the conference. Well,
travel is not uncommon for California's insurance commissioner, and prior
commissioners have also traveled internationally. Political analysts are raising questions
about the frequency, cost, and lack of transparency with LATAs trips.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The state of California is nearly broke. It's worse than broke.
We're in debt, and this guy's flying all all over
the globe to go to these conferences. And what do
they have to do with insurance? My guess nothing.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
For example, last November, Lada took a trip to Cape Town,
South Africa for an international insurance conference, but the conference
was only two days, yet receipt show taxpayers paid for
his entire two and a half week's stay at a
luxury hotel. Records are still missing from this trip, but
we can tell you his security detail alone caused taxpayers
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more than thirty three thousand dollars, and that's not including
any of the miscellaneous bills like expensive hiking equipment.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
I'm having a hard time understanding why hiking polls are
something that the state needs for insurance.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Yes, I'm with you, very very good questions, and taxpayers
paid for a visit to the Big five Safarian SPA.
To put that trip and perspective for you. We requested
all the travel records of legislators on both state insurance committees,
but received show a significant disparity.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Let me show you.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
What I mean. One example involving Lisa Calderon, the Assembly
Insurance Committee chair. She averaged roughly nineteen thousand dollars annually
over the past five years.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Okay, five years, she spent twenty thousand a year. That
seems reasonable for travel. This guy spends it in a
week for all.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Her taxpayer funded travel. Now compare that to Commissioner Lada's
CHP security detail exceeding thirty three thousand dollars for just
one trick. Commissioner Lada and Assembly Member Calderon's rule is
not a direct comparison in scope of representation, but the
Department has not provided the travel records from previous commissioners,
describing them as incomplete.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And he's not going to get fired, he's not going
to get suspended, he's not even going to get reprimanded.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We'll all just live with it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
We all just have to suck it up and realize
that these guys are going to be crooks. Until we
change these guys out, they're all going to rip us off.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
In fact, Lada's staff provided a list of five international
trips former Commissioner Dave Jones took during his tenure.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Why isn't this bigger?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
New did this guy spending you know, three four hundred
thousand dollars a year on travel.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Compare that to at least twenty one international trips lot
it took, including a luxurious ten day trip to Dubai
staying at a pricing five star resort. The Department says
this was to participate in United Nations policy panels and
insurance forums.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
A nightmare.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Another guy that's ripping off California and nothing's going to
happen to him.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
All right, well you voted him in. That's what you get.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We had Terry Urtz, who is an astronaut. He came
on with us that guy's cool running for Senate in Texas.
He's running against John Corny, and that it's gonna be
a tough run. We had a chase motorcycle chase that
ended up on Olympic in Oxford. Covered that there's a
protest on Wiltshire just west of the four h five
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near Bundy and Barrington. Covered that the rest of one
of the bodies, the two bodies that was found in
a car. We covered that today there's a murder suspect
that they're looking for in bell Air on the near Brentwood.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I believe we're.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Getting information on that a car that flew into a
Jewish school on the holiest holiday on the Jewish calendar.
I hope that's just a coincidence, and we're covering that
as well. Man, It's just a lot of news lots
going on today. But let's do something a little lighter here,
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and that is the Disneyland Gift.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And I think we're doing this tomorrow. Is that right,
belly owned tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, it's Halloween time at the Disneyland Resort and k
if I am six forty wants to give you a
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Speaker 3 (13:24):
That's going to be tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That'll be a huge giveaway tomorrow, so you want to
be here for that, And then don't forget the air
show this weekend. It starts tomorrow. The countdown is odd.
Pacific Air Show Huntington Beach returns Tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday,
October third through the fifth with epic aerial stunts, ground
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shaking displays, Enjoy live commentary, exclusive performer sightings and signings,
and explore the all new stem Lab, next Gen stem
Lab and kid Soo Wow. The ultimate beach day for
the whole family. Get your tickets now at Pacificairshow dot
com Pacificairshow dot com. Gary Shannon will be out there
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tomorrow from nine am until one pm at the air
Show and that.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Should be a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
A big, big broadcast tomorrow for the air show. Is
Gary gonna fly in one of those planes. He does
that every year.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
He does start doing it this year. He has done
it in the past. He has. You were supposed to
and you ye decided.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
Remember the military planes aren't flying this year.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah right, military they are grounded.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Belly.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Do you remember the reason I didn't do it. I
don't because they wanted me to have a physical. Oh,
they didn't think I was in good enough shape to
do it. And I said, look, I when I go
out and do remotes, if I have to have a physical,
I'm not going. I'm out because I'm not in great shape.
So I'm not gonna do it. As much as you
(15:01):
ask those Air Force or Navy pilots to be mellow
and not do nine g's, they immediately do nine g's.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I'm not into that. You
wouldn't want to pass out?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Why would I want to pass out? I pass out
in here, That's true. I get dizzy almost on a
daily basis. Yeah, so I don't need nine g's. I
need just third gear in my car. That's enough g's
for me to pass out. So I don't do it.
Have you ever done it? Crows, you've ever done the flying.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
With the Air Force?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Have not?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You could do it. You'd probably, you know, by the
end you'd be flying the thing.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I'd be for it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, you should do it. Belly, have you done it? No,
you haven't flown with the Air Force. No Ah, you
missed an opportunity you'd probably throw up. I would definitely
throw up. Yeah, I don't think I could do it.
You know, I wonder why if you do throw up
in the Navy or the air Force plane is when
you land? Is that on you to clean it up?
Get that going again? You get back to square one?
(16:01):
I think, So are you supposed to do it yourself?
Or they give you a bag? You're blow in that bag.
I hope everybody's enjoying supper.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Ah. I did that once on a plane. It was
one of those Grand Canyon tours. Oh no, where it's
like the twelve sixteen Sedars. And not to be stereotypical,
but I had like three or four French guys behind
me who apparently enjoyed their meal last night. I feeling
it the next day. And I have like like a
VCR tape of like because my friend was sitting next
(16:31):
to me and he was recording me just yeack in
the whole time.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh my god, you still have it?
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Yeah, I'm sure I got it somewhere. I gotta find
last Yeah, it's on VCR and just you could hear
the French guys just go fard.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Wait. So it was a tour of the Grand can.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Yeah. It was one of those two or three hour ones. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And it was was it early in the morning, it was.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Early midday morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the worst. And
it's like and those those planes are so just stuffy,
like there's no fresh air and it's just it's a can.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah. And they put as many people on there as
they can.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
And I thought I got about a half hour in
and I was like, oh, I was feeling a little bit. Yeah,
and then I thought, I'll tough it out. I'll tough
it out. And then the pilot comes on and says,
all right, well we're almost halfway, and.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I went, oh, no, oh, that's awesome. You know it
was I've done that before I took pilot license. I
took a pilot test, not I had lessons, and I
wanted to be a pilot at one point in my life,
and I took I got on. The first test, was fine,
the first lesson was fine.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I made it.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And then the second one, I was hungover and I
had just gone to Denny's for breakfast or I don't know,
ihop or something, and I lost it about ten minutes
out and I said, buddy, you got to get back
or else I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna destroy this plane.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
And I never went back.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
I bought my ex lesson flying lessons once because she
said she wanted to fly.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Most people get through one or two and then that's
a right. She didn't make the ten, but she got close. Yeah,
I would love to do that. I think that's one
of the coolest things in the world to pilot a plane.
I mean, you know, to have that kind of responsibility
where that plane and the passengers on that plane are
solely at your hands.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I mean that's a huge especially.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Like the smaller planes, because it's like the realization that
just under your feet is nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, and you could wipe out, you know, those seven
people instantly. It's a big responsibility. And I didn't think
I was up for it. After I took my second lesson,
I don't think I didn't have good I didn't. I
didn't have the.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Discipline it takes to become a pilot. Really, I can't
just let go.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I can't show up five minutes before and fly this
thing on.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
My oarse watching videos all right, you know that's interesting though, Belly.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Now the videos out there and simulators I wonder how
much of it can be done on the ground.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You don't have to fly, you know, Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Like remember that guy that flew the Alaska Airliner in
Seattle and eventually crashed it. He was just a mechanic, yeah,
and he just said, oh, I've played video games my
whole life and in the simulators, and he was able
to take an aircraft and fly it for around an
hour and a half and he's never flown before in
his life. But it's just on the simulator that he worked.
(19:29):
So maybe I'll do that. I'll get a simulator going
and maybe not drink the night before.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
That'll be my plan. All right?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
How about how about getting out of plane captain not
Tim Conway and then bang, everybody's flying off the plane.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Got a mighty.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demayo from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Don't forget Gary and Shannon are doing a live remote
tomorrow at the air show. Bell Yo, where's that remote
going to be for? We can direct people to where
that remote is going to happen. Do you know any
idea she's out there, she's got headphones on. What do
you put your headphones on headphones. Where's the remote? The
(20:12):
Gary and Shannon remote tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Do you know that the air show?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Let me check, I'm it should be on the wall
here somewhere, you know, whenever anyone's doing a remote, whether
it's Handle or John cole Belt or us or I
don't know, Moe Kelly or George Nori or any king,
and then the information should be on the wall and
people can look at that and go, hey, they're going
(20:42):
to be at this restaurant tomorrow at nine am. I
guess I got to do that. I'll do it, you know,
I'll just get in there knock that out.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All right, there's a great article yesterday in your Los
Angeles Times. Almost no one is building new apartments in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Here's why.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Los Angeles developed developer Cliff Goldstein just completed a plush
new apartment complex on the West Side. But that's the
last one he's going to build in the foreseeable future.
Even though demand for housing in this region is hot, hot, hot,
many people who build apartments for a living have paused
putting shovels in the ground. Pause putting shovels in the ground,
(21:26):
I should say, and that's it. There's just no profit
in anymore. So it's a needle in a haystack to
find an opportunity that makes financial sense to build today,
according to Goldstein, and then they used to have multiple projects,
as many as eight hundred total units being built at
the same time in Los Angeles, but no more.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
That's over.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
We haven't built a or we haven't bought a site
with the intention to develop it in over two years.
That's what this guy does for a living. And he
hasn't purchased a piece of property in two years. So
in two years from now, he'll be building nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And he says, I don't want to I don't know
when it will start again, but it's probably not going
to be soon. The supply of fresh rental units, which
make up a bulk of new housing in Los Angeles,
is petering out. Because wow, there's many reasons why the
vacancy rate is among the lowest in the country, will
(22:25):
rental rates are among the highest nationwide. Still, the number
of new units under construction in Los Angeles has been
falling each quarter since the early part of last year,
and it's set to hit a new ten year low.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
According to the Real.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Estate data provided by Costar, Under nineteen thousand apartments were
under construction in the three months through September. That's thirty
percent fewer than three years ago. Thirty percent fewer. Developers
say that they can't raise the money they need to
build as many units because there's no big backers supporting
(23:04):
him anymore. The years since COVID nineteen have demonstrated how
tangled regulation of the industry can get. According to LA Observer, here,
so investors are taking their money to other cities. LA
has been redlined by the majority of investment community. Do
you hear that LA has been redlined by the majority
(23:27):
of the investment community. If the investors won't invest, then
you can't build. A developer without investors would be like
a king without clothes Corner Goldstein. He says, I'm an
optimistic developer who wants to develop, but the investment community
will not participate. Look, if these are the big guys
(23:48):
in the business and they can't get their investors on board,
how are you going to build a duplex or a
triplex or small apartment building. You're not And this is
a big problem. In Los Angeles, prices went up, especially
at a very rapid pace in some of the categories
(24:10):
most affected by tariffs all right, well, including iron steel
prices they've gone up by nine percent, copper wire cable
prices have jumped fourteen percent. California's construction industry depends on
migrant workers, and I think we've all seen what's going
on there. Around sixty one percent of construction workers in
the states, in this in this state, in California are immigrants,
(24:33):
and twenty six percent of those are undocumented. So finding
construction labor is hard, and it's getting even harder. Every
time you go to a home depot, they're you know,
throwing another fifteen to twenty these Spanish guys out of
the country. Housing production in Los Angeles County has slowed
dramatically over the decades, dropping from over seventy thousand new
(24:54):
units annually in the nineteen fifties to roughly thirty thousand
in the sevenventies and eighties, to fifteen thousand in the
twenty tens. So we went from seventy thousand new units
in the fifties to now fifteen thousand annually according to
a USC. So there's little land left and there's little
(25:17):
desire to build. I don't know what that means. I'm
not big enough in the real estate game to know
if that's good or bad. I think if you're a homeowner,
that's probably good, you know, because the property value that
you have is going up because you can always tear
your house down and build a you know, five unit apartment.
(25:39):
And I think housing prices will always stay pretty high,
especially in smaller communities, you know, like a Culver City
or Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Burbank, Pasadena, Arcadia.
These small communities have their own police force. They they
(25:59):
respond better to all emergencies, especially crime. The firemen are
you know, they got their own fire department most of
these small communities, and they respond quickly. They don't have
the big budget, the big headaches that LA Fire Department has.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And the schools. The schools are great too.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
My daughter went through Burbank schools and I thought it
was a terrific education. I thought her and her friends
got a great education. If I lived at LA in
the city of Los Angeles, I think I'd be hard
pressed to find a school.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Maybe now it's better, and I think it is, but
you know, six fifteen, sixteen years ago, when I put
her into school in the place where we'd lived in Tarzana,
I visited the school and I didn't feel comfortable putting
her into that school.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It just was not a great school.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I think LAUSD has made a remarkable comeback in the
last ten or fifteen years, though, And I've witnessed some
of these schools firsthand, and so is my daughter, and
I think they've they've really done a one eighty and
they're on their way back. So maybe in the next
you know, three four generations or maybe even less than that,
(27:14):
LAUSD will be a premier place to, you know, to
put your kid into school. But I know all the teachers,
the administration, you know the faculty, and you know the superintendent.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
They work their ass off at LAUSD. They really do.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Every one of those people works for LAUSD. They care
about the kids, they want to teach. That's why they're there.
They're not earning millions of dollars, and I think they've
gotten the short end of the stick.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I think l A U.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
S D.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I think you'll see in the next you know, maybe
two to five, eight, nine, ten years, it'll be I
think a premier place and a safe place to put
those kids and get a great education. I really do
believe the new up and coming teachers you know that
are now in high school or in college are going
(28:01):
to be terrific at what they do. I get a
lot of confidence in them.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
All right, The Los Angeles Dodgers will play again on
Saturday as they take on the Philadelphia Phillies. That'll be
Saturday evening. So whatever plans you have, cancel them and
watch television. I don't know if it's on ESPN or Fox,
someone who's producing it. Major League Baseball Stadium in Las Vegas.
(28:31):
The Oakland A's are about to move to Las Vegas,
and I guess this stadium is going to be unbelievable.
It's going to include a theater, a hotel, and a
casino all in one place. This is a dream for
degenerate gamblers and alcoholics like.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Me, like me, big dog with this place.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
The twenty twenty five season now all done for the
Oakland A's, just as baseball talk in Las Vegas is
heating up, sound investigators obtaining an early release of this
rendering showing the area around the ballpark with two luxury
hotel towers totaling three thousand new rooms, a twenty five
hundred seat theater, and more than.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Three thousand new rooms, and Vegas is hurting right now
to get people to fill up the rooms that they already.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Have, totaling three thousand new rooms, wow, a twenty five
hundred seed theater all right, and more than a half
million square feet of retail dieting and entertainment, a.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Half million space, half a million square feet of new
retail space.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
What is going in there?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You know how many more doghouses or Carls or you know,
I don't know, in and out or Burger Kings are
going to go in there.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
The resort will also include a new casino and a
VIP experience.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Now we're talking my language. Casino in the ballpark.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
With direct access to the ballpark, which, of course we'll
be a Vegas sized go A's.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I'm going to become a big A's fan with the.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
World's largest video scoreboard in a view of the world
famous Las Vegas Strip.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Retired twenty years are ridetal and.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
In those twenty years of retirement after forty years working
in Las Vegas casinos, James Blog likes his sports teams.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Does this guy sound like he's been working in casinos
for forty.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Years retired twenty years al ritetal.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Yes he does, and in those twenty years of retirement
after forty years working in Las Vegas casinos, James Blog
likes his sports teams. Here at a bar to watch
Sunday's Green Bay Packers game, because if you couldn't tell
by his get up, he loves all things Wisconsin and June,
he'll get to see his beloved Milwaukee Brewers play the
A's at Las Vegas Ballpark. He says he's looking forward
(30:39):
to that, but not so much to baseball.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, I think they're gonna be a lot more fans
of the opposing team, Like there'll be a million Dodger fans.
They want to go to Las Vegas to watch the
A's play the Dodgers. It will be wall to wall Dodgers,
heavy Dodgers, man heavy Dodgers on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Everything too close to the strippy. I know more tourists
come there and it's easy for to get to, or
it said convenient for local people.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
That's a guy who's had smoke blown in his face
for forty years, dealing blackjack for forty years, and a
guy's just blowing filterless cigarettes in his face for forty years.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
More tourists come there, and it's easy for to get to,
or it said, convenient for local people.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
There good, like any good baseball discussion a disagreement. Another
of those local people we spoke with has the exact
opposite opinion, based in part on the success of the
areas around the Raiders Allegiant Stadium in the Golden Knights
Team Mobile Arena.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
I think it fit perfectly fine, like I said, I mean,
it's on the strip, you know, besides the casinos and
all the other attractions. Why not catch a game.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You know, they may change the name of that team
and not called the A's. The A's have sort of
a stink attached to it. I remember, you know, they
had a good run in nineteen eighty nine, eighty eight,
eighty nine to ninety, but really nothing sense. They might
change it, you know instead of A's, maybe Aces. I
don't know, you know, like the car that's upon possibility.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
The closer we get to twenty twenty eight, though, it
still seems far away. The A's are playing their home
games in Sacramento, and next year their jerseys will say
Sacramento across their chest.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Wow, they're not even going with Oakland. They're going to
be the Sacramento A's next year.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
So the Oakland A's now the Sacramento as soon. Right here,
the Las Vegas A's recording live on the world famous
Las Vegas Trips.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Now, Las Vegas is no stranger to baseball. That city
has hosted many preseason games as part of Major League
weekend events. But the A's actually played their first six
games of the nineteen ninety six season at Cashman Field
in downtown Las Vegas at the time.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Renovation pelle O God Mighty the.
Speaker 10 (32:39):
Nineteen ninety six season at Cashman Field in downtown Las
Vegas at the time. Renovations at Oakland Coliseum were not
complete when the season started.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
What a place A casino in the stadium, twenty five
hundred seat theater, a million dollars, a million.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Square feet of retail space.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's going to all be done in the next couple
of years, all right, Charlie Brown's with us.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Hey, Chuck, you know you know what, Hey, I gotta
tell you this is so funny. My girlfriend, Hey, everybody,
she also hates this shirt.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, I don't hate it. It's a little silly. All.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
I'm going through it like a quarter life, where I
hope maybe it's probably a midlife.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Let's talk about the girlfriend. I didn't know you had
a girlfriend. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know a couple
in the industry. Uh no, I mean she's in an industry.
When you say the weather person, no it's not. It's
not who you're who you think it is. Uh, if only.
But but she also doesn't get the plane thing. She
doesn't understand I'm a big aviation person. Also, I wanted
(33:41):
to be a pilot. I'm so excited about the air
show this weekend. She's like, something's wrong with you. No, no,
something's right with you. I thought so too, like as
in the right brothers, how about that? But I wanted
I took pilot lessons. I took two, and the second
one almost threw up everywhere.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I stopped because I don't I'm not responsible. You're responsible.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
I mean I play one on TV, but really, am
I that responsible? I felt like I wasn't serious enough
to less I did two. Yeah, I did two and
and we just I did a thing recently which you
should check out in Pasadena. There's a study that like
fifty percent of men think they can land an airplane
in case of an emergency.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
You know, one of them, me too.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
So we went out to this place in Pasadena where
they have a seven thirty seven simulator, right, and so
I've tested it out without any lessons. I've never flown
a seven thirty seven landed I did. Wow, I did
multiple times?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Is that right? Yes?
Speaker 7 (34:33):
And they threw me in like weather, difficult conditions.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Wait, wait, did they talk you into it?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Like he set up the plane so that I was
able to No, No, he didn't really talk me down.
He just said, here's the run away and he said,
kids who grew up playing video games, Wow, are really.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Good at this. That's awesome. Isn't that exciting? So you
should go. We should test and see how how good
you are. I would throw that thing right into a school,
you know.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
But could he do doing a fuel dump?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
What's on the big program today?
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Well, speaking of airplanes, we've got one of the pilots
for the Pacific Air Show who's coming on in a
little bit to talk about the show, they do the
takeoff and landings on the beach. He's gonna give us
some intel on that. No military jetsus well, no I
know that, but you know what they want us to know.
There's still a lot of cool stuff to see down there,
(35:23):
that's right, which like the Snoopy plane.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
You know the Snoopy play, right, or they got the
I might go. Are you gonna go?
Speaker 7 (35:29):
If I can get Tim lind to pick me up
on the way down. Okay, Okay, he's going, yeah, yeah,
he's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Just pick just pick me up, all right in for
mo Kelly, Andy Reesemeyer, the whole crew right here on
k I AM six forty Nice to see you man, Bye,
good luck. Charlie Conway Show on demand on the iHeart
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