September 8, 2025 ⢠32 mins
Hour 2 (9.8.2025)Â
- 405 Freeway Tragedy: A tow truck driver was taken into custody after a deadly crash on the 405 in L.A.Â
- Phillies âKarenâ Ball Drama: A father and son spoke out about the viral moment when a fan demanded the boyâs home run ballâsparking a âwhat would you do?â debate.Â
- Event Update: The American Vision Windows team finally met Bill & Kathleen, while traffic backups continued from the earlier 405 pedestrian fatality.Â
- VMAs Recap: Despite fewer music videos overall, the VMAs crowned winnersâAriana Grandeâs Wicked track snagged Video of the Year.Â
- Santa Monica Emergency: The city is set to declare a fiscal emergency, citing huge payouts to sex abuse victims.Â
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyl from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM six is the Conway show we have.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The four h five is a mess.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Angel Martinez has been on it all afternoon since about
one point thirty, and let's get some information on this.
It looks it was a fatal accident and they arrested,
at least what Angel has told me, and Angel doesn't
lie that much. That much, the tow truck driver hit somebody,
that person died and the tow truck driver was taken
(00:37):
away in handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Is that after a breathalyzer.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
After a field sobriety test? According to the airborne reporter
at KTLA.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh boy, All right, well, I think everybody can put
two and two together there. Let's find out what's going
on here in the four or five. It takes about
an hour to get through this horrible crash.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That tow truck there at the left hand side of
your screen, that's one of the two vehicles involved in
this crash. As I come out wide, it's the southbound
four or five freeway just south of Screwball Center. And
the second vehicle here you see as I zoom in
that's the second vehicle involved in this crash. Now, it
was about two o'clock when the CHP got the call
of a body in lanes. They when they arrived, they
(01:19):
did find that person and they said that that person
was dead at the scene here. But now the investigation
into this crash continues. I can tell you that we
watched the tow truck driver being taking a field sobriety test.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, Angel was right, how about that field sobriety test
for the tow truck driver taking.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
A field sobriety test, And later a few minutes later,
that person was taken into custody. But now the back
up here on the four or five Freeway southbound, only
the carpool lane is open, but the southbound four or
five Freeway is backed up all the way back to
the one O one Freeway. It is impacting the eastbound
one on one Freeway as well. But it is a
traffic nightmare out here. Supputed a allivart there on the
(02:00):
left hand side is also packed with traffic coming southbound.
So bring your patients because this may be in effect
for several more hours as the HP continues their investigation
into this fatal crash. That's the latest overhead up in
sky five.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
All right, Sky five over this horrible crash. So that
four five traffic angel goes to the one oh one,
Does it go beyond the one oh one up towards
like Burbank and Victory, No, it, Pop would taken the
one oh one. And I told Bellio this because Belly
is going to get on the five freeway, Crozier's got
to get on the one thirty four, and then the
(02:34):
two ten. Whenever there's a backup, all the other arteries
back up as well. Is that happening today?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (02:43):
I was.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I was checking for that. And the one oh one
does look heavier than usual for this time of day,
as well as the five southbound. And you know you
mentioned bell you know the canyon roads and stuff that
you mentioned earlier. I took a look at them, and
Mullholland and Beverly, Beverly Glenn, that's what I was thinking of. Yeah,
(03:10):
just absolutely jammed approaching the four oh five.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So it's tough, okay, all right, we're just gonna have
to live with this. We'll be here with you till
seven o'clock and then Moe Kelly after seven o'clock so
just keep it on KFI. We'll try to keep it light,
try to keep you entertained. But think about the person
who got hit by the tow truck driver. They're on
their way home. They're going home to family or friends.
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They're going home, maybe they have plans tonight. They're going
to go to a dinner, maybe go see a movie.
They're going to go home, and you know, watch Monday
Night football. And now they're not, they're dead. And so
a little empathy, little sympathy for that chap who is
life ended on the four oh five.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And man, it can happen quickly. It can happen very quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So pack your patience. Let's relax, and we'll keep you
entertained till seven. And after seven it will be Moe Kelly.
All right, we've got a Phillies Karen. A woman who
was sitting in the outfield in the bleachers baseball was
(04:20):
hit for a home run in the Phillies game. And
everybody knows the rules when a baseball comes your direction
at a baseball stadium, everybody knows them. Everybody leaves their
seat and they go to try to get the ball.
As soon as somebody has control of that ball. Everybody
backs off. You didn't get it. Just because it hit
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near your seat or your seat doesn't mean that you
have rights to that ball. It's usually the most aggressive guy,
the quickest guy, and those balls bounce around. You know,
it's like being in a in a wind tun filled
with money. You know, he's just grabbing money, and occasionally
it bounces your way and you grab it. And you
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got that baseball. And what a day it was for
the guy. The father went over there, risked his life,
you could get hit the head and killed by that ball,
grabbed that ball and gave it to his kid, and
he hugged his kid real tight. And it was his
kid's birthday and he got, you know, tickets to the
Phillies game, and he was going to take his kid
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and his daughter and his wife to the Phillies game.
And he got that ball for his kid, hugged that kid,
and that was a special moment in that man's life.
Until a woman comes up and says, no, no, no, no,
that ball hit near my seat.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I deserved that ball.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And the father, who probably wasn't drunk because he didn't
fight it, took the ball out of his kid's glove.
And gave it to this woman, defusing the situation. The
father acted one hundred percent correct, one hundred percent right.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
It's the better man than me.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's a krozier I thought of you when that happened.
That woman would have been laid out if she attacked you,
because she touched him.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Too, yeah, grabbed him.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
And his reaction was just you felt so horrifb for
him because he didn't even see her walk up to
him until like she's screaming at him already, and he
was like, huh, who are you?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And he shook his hands like he saw a spider,
you know in the you know, like he's as an
arachnophobia and yeah, and then he and he takes you
know what he should have done, as he said, ma'am,
you can have that ball. Why don't you take it
out of my daughter, my son's mint And that would
have been a moment too. So he takes it out
of his son's mint, gives it to the woman and
she takes off. Okay, that is not the end of
(06:47):
the story. We'll have that story and what happened afterwards.
But this is a national story now, and man, is
that woman under a lot of pressure, probably too much,
probably too much. Right, she didn't kill anybody. She literally
went over and took a ball from a kid. But
that's where we are in life. Where you know, when
you go to a ballpark and you get a ball
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in the outfield, the first thing you do is you
look around and is there any five year old six
year old daughter or a girl or a boy who
was really anxious would love to have that ball, and
you try to give that ball to somebody else. That
was the nature back in the nineteen eighties, nineties, early
two thousands. Now it's every man for himself.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
You know, we had the thing a couple of weeks
ago with the guy who beat the crap out of
the woman in the Rose Bowl at the concert, and
he was caught.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Rest of that was on video.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
But everybody's saying back then, how come not one guy
is standing up to this dude and tell them this?
So how come that one person walked up burn say hey.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Leave them on?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, well why are you taking that kid's ball?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Also, I thought of you on a second level here,
if you would have caught that ball and you weren't
with your daughter, you know, you weren't with Sydney or
your wife, you would have looked around for some seven
or eight year old girl or boy to give that
ball to him. Sure, and that makes their That makes
their life. They'll remember that for the rest of their life.
What is it good for, you know, sitting on one
(08:12):
of your three fireplaces?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
What did she get out of doing that?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Nothing? All right, we'll come back.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
There's more to that story, though, and there's a happy
ending for this kid and the whole family, for her
woman who stole the ball, not so great. We're live
on KFI six forty Conway Show KFI AM six forty.
It is the Conway Show. All right, So this is
what we got in baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You heard that.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Maybe you've seen the story online some of the details.
Our baseball was hit into the outfield. It's up for grabs.
It's anybody's ball, and as soon as somebody has possession,
everybody backs off. It's that guy's ball. You'd missed, you missed.
So the guy gets the ball, gets to do his son,
puts in his glove, gives him a big hug on
(08:57):
his birthday, and that's gonna be a memory they have
for law time. Because it's on video. It was a
I think it was a national game or at least
a locally on TV, and now it's an international story.
So the guy gives the ball to his son, puts
it in his mid gives him a hug, and that's
a great dad son moment until this woman comes over
(09:19):
with this really short, two colored bicolored hair. It's like
gray and white on top and then underneath its black.
I don't know what she was going for. Looks like
a Mo Howard type of look. And I can't imagine
she went into super cuts and said, hey, give me
what Mo Howard used to wear. I don't think it's
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ever been said.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Maybe maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So she comes over and grabs him, grabs the dad
by the shoulder and says, hey, I was in that
seat that ball was hit. I was grabbing for it.
I deserve that ball. And the dad's like, look, it's
my son's birthday. Get out of here, and she gets
crazier and crazier. He defus uses the situation by giving
(10:02):
the ball to the woman.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And Karen ball Snatcher that's what they're now, Is that right? Yes,
Karen ball Snatcher?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
All right, So Karen Ball snatcher goes back with the
ball and the eunuch, dad, you know, who did the
right thing. It goes home and that's not that's you know,
a rap. Not so quick. The Phillies see it also
(10:34):
on videotape. The whole stadium sees it, and they invite
the father, the kid, and the whole party that they're
with down into the dugout and the guy who hit
the ball signs a bat and gives him the bat.
The Phillies give him a big guy you know package
of you know, I don't know, nick knacks from the
(10:55):
stadium mousepad if people are still using those coffee mug
an old baseball, and they give him, you know, some
souvenirs and also the Marlins, I think they're playing the
Marlins or whatever team they were playing. They give him
a souvenir package as well. But then this story goes
viral and now this woman is under a lot of heat.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Who did this and probably.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Semi justifiable if it was mild amount of heat, but
this woman is getting roasted and I don't think it
should turn her whole life upside down, but it is.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
It is, and she's taken a lot of heat.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
Phillies fans scrambling after Harrison Vader sent a home run
ball flying into the stands during Friday's game against the Marlins.
One man emerging victorious, gifting the ball to his son,
who was celebrating a birthday for foot watch as a
woman storms over to them because.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
Dad gets the ball for his kidnaily moment what and
so she decided to ruin it?
Speaker 8 (12:04):
She said, I saw it. The ball wasn't even in
the phone.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That father, and that woman doesn't know the rules of
the grand stand. Whoever gets the ball, it's their ball,
and you're you're a rap. If you didn't get it,
you're done.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
That father and son, Andrew and Lincoln felt well now
speaking out about the catch and confrontation on GMA.
Speaker 13 (12:23):
For the crack of the bat, watched the ball go
up in the air, and I knew it was going
to the right, but I didn't know where. So I
just started going to the right a little bit, hit
a chair and bobble between the armrests and I picked
it up.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And by the way, you don't have to be in
your own seat.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You can walk around into somebody else's area to try
to get that ball. But there are some rules, and
one of them is, whoever gets that ball, it doesn't
matter where you're sitting, how close you were, if you
had a mid or whatever. As soon as you have
possession of that ball, everybody backs off and it's yours.
And if it's a show, heyo, tani ball that you're
going to sell for you know, half million dollars two
(12:57):
years later. Whatever it is, it's yours, that's your ball.
He got the ball, he fought for it, he won,
gave it to his kid, and then the woman came
over and said, no, that ball should be mine.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
She's crazy, turned around and felt like super.
Speaker 13 (13:11):
Dad walked back to Lincoln, put it in his glove
and gave him a hug.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
It was exciting getting one of our first home run
ball ever from all our games.
Speaker 12 (13:20):
Andrew and Lincoln say they hadn't kind of rubbing it
into dad, right, Yeah, we went to a bunch of
games and my dad just got one.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
And I didn't really have control over it. When the
woman popped up. He'll eventually smoke weed and you know,
drank and you know, and then when he goes to
see a psychiatrist, by well, my dad he gave me
the ball, and then they took it back.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
And this is why I'm here.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Our first home run ball ever.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
What a great kid, this Lincoln. This kid deserves many balls.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Our first home run ball ever from all our games.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Ah, what a great kid to have.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
She like to have a son like that, that kind
of enthusiasm for dad getting out there get that ball.
Speaker 12 (14:00):
Andrew and Lincoln say they had no idea what was
about to happen next. In this now viral moment caught
on camera.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
When she screamed, you hear that woman, you took it
from me.
Speaker 13 (14:17):
When she screamed in my ear, that's when I you know,
everybody saw how shocked I was.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
And uh, you know when I turned and leaned.
Speaker 13 (14:25):
Back because she was really close, she had many many
inappropriate words to say around my kids.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, and and and the father did the right thing.
You know, you've got to diffuse that situation and make
sure your your daughter, your son, and your wife are
not injured at the ballpark. And the father did the
right thing.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
And all I could think was make her go away.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That's right, That's exactly right. This guy is a hero.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
All I could think was make her go away. Does
the right movie?
Speaker 11 (14:55):
He says some of the times this yout to have
a nice night with my will my family.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
Yeah, gives the woman the ball, that young Phillies fan.
Both teams chipping in to create a happy ending.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Wow, how about that.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
Teams chipping in to create a happy ending.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
A good deep.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Oh they gave him some stuff.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Oh sorry, a good deep does go?
Speaker 10 (15:15):
Notice the Marlins gifting him a bag full of goodies.
And after the game, Harrison Bader himself sending Lincoln home
with a signed baseball bat.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Wow, it was really really exciting. I would have still
liked that home running ball to put in our room.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
But I think you'll get it. I think it's coming
your way. I think that woman eventually will give it
up very publicly and apologize everything else.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
It's all in the end, everything else, it's all in the.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
End, the kid said, But that I think that woman
is going to give that ball up. I think that
ball will also be his, and that kid's gonna be
a hero in school. You know, all the girls will
want to be next to him and and rub up
against him and be friends with him, and you know,
and want to date him later on, because that's a
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good kid. That's a good kid. And he's got a
good family. He's got mom and dad both there at
the ballpark. His sister's there. It's a family outing for
the kid's birthday. Ad father did everything right, everything right.
Got to give that guy an added boy as well.
But dad deserves Anata boy. The kid deserves an Ada boy.
The mother deserves an Ada girl.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And the and the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Sister who looked like she was shocked as to what
was going on, she deserves an ad of girl. And
the woman who took the ball I deserves nothing other
than people pointing out that she looks like Mo Howard
with that haircut. I don't know what she was going
for with that look. That short haired Mo Howard style
(16:50):
is out. It didn't even look good on Mo Howard.
I think it's called the Karen Bollsmatcher.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, it's the haircut. There's the haircut. Okay, well, well
see what happens. But she's under a lot of heat.
This woman a ton of it, and thank god, the
Phillies made it right. And now were they playing the Marlins.
The Marlins give him a package of souvenirs and they
made it right as well. Vibe, I don't know what
happened to society where we don't think of the kids first.
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I don't know where we started thinking of ourselves first.
I remember the guy at the US Open who stole
the hat from the kid, And now this woman is
stealing the ball. And you've got to remember, when you're
at the ballpark or you're in public, there's always going
to be a camera on you. There's fifty six thousand
people in the stadium. There's probably sixty thousand cameras in
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that stadium, and so whatever you do, you got to
always remember people are watching. And that woman has destroyed
her life. All right, The four or five is still jammed.
Still four or five southbound right around Getty is completely jammed.
You are completely screwed until probably eight o'clock tonight, a
(18:01):
death investigation on the four or five. It's going to
take it at least an hour to get through there,
maybe even longer from the one oh one past this accident.
But once you pass this accident, I think you're pretty good.
So stay calm, keep your patients. We'll be with you
till seven mo. After seven you might still be in
that jam, and we'll be right there in the car
(18:23):
with you. We're live on I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
KFI AM six forty. It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
On Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Went out and met a ton of listeners, a lot
of KFI listeners on Saturday at American Vision Windows. We've
both spent three or four hundred people out there throughout
the day. It was really cool. Yeah, Gary was out
there from the Gary and Shannon Show. Gary Hoffman and
his wife was there. I didn't know his wife was
(18:58):
there until the end when she said good bye'm I
don't know Shannon was here, and so it was really cool.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
It was a great event. There's a lot of people
out there.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
And I finally met Bill and Kathleen from American Vision Windows.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You have met them before? I've never met them. I
thought that was just a story that they made up.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And it's totally true that Bill and Kathleen started their own,
you know, window business because they couldn't find a good
window company to go to. And when I met him,
I'm like, I was like starstruck because that's like a
real celebrity to me. Guy who starts a successful company
has been around for twenty five years. You know, this
(19:39):
is not an actor in a sitcom. This is the
guy who started a major business and has grown that
business and has hired a bunch of people, made a
lot of people happy.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
With the windows. I'm like, oh, it's a kind of
a cool deal.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So American Vision Windows, they had an awesome, awesome event,
So go buy your windows, American Vision Windows.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's Pulta is still a mess.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
The Pulvita four or five southbound it's going to be
the one lane to get through there. And I just
looked up the traffic. That traffic on the southbound one
oh one starts right around Balboa, haven Hurst and Balboa
and it goes all the way to that that accident.
And then they're getting some lookie louse going northbound on
(20:25):
that one on that four or five as well?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Is that true? Angel?
Speaker 11 (20:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
And the delays on the northbound side are backing up
all the way out of Culver City, getting away from
Venice Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh, what a mess. It's a mess.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
But the other and then the one on one looks
jammed across the Sepulva across the valley flats there.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But the two the one thirty four.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You know, after you pass get out of Burbank and
Glendale looks kind of open until you get to I
don't know, maybe Monrovia or Arcadia Crozier pass.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, into Pasadena where it turns into the two ten,
it starts to get a little busy. But you know,
if you zoom in and check out Mulholland and then
all of the different arteries that head into Mulholland, especially
on the Canyon streets from between Mulholland and the one
oh one, it's just a nightmare through these areas.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, it sucks, all right, But we'll have an update
for you sou as that opens up.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You'll hear it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
First right here on KFI, and that will be great.
All right, we have Last night, I was watching television
and I was watching the Video Music Awards. I don't
know if they still had that, but they do, And
I don't know if there's any music videos that get
awards anymore. You know, that was set up to give
(21:49):
people awards for the best music video. Are there's still
music videos on MTV? Like if you watch MTV when
I was watching it, you know, the eighties or so
you just get you know, you'd get thirty or you know,
ten fifteen videos an hour and just watch all those videos.
But I guess Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga were the
(22:09):
big winners last night with the American American Video VMAs,
the Video Music Award and.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
The VMA Video of the Year. Yeah gooes too, Arianna Grande.
It was a bright night for Ariana Grande. Does this
get taller every time?
Speaker 9 (22:34):
The pop singer and wicket stars stood on pert tippitoes
while taking home two moon Person Awards, including.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The night's top honor Video of the Year.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
This project is about the hard work that is healing
all different kinds of.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Trauma, and Monster won Artists of the Year, beating out
Taylor Swift and Beyonce.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
I dedicate this award to the audience.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
You very much deserve a stage to shine on, and
I give you all my applause.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That was Lady Gaga. Nice quiet evening. Where'd they have
that Awards show? I don't know what arena it was
at that music all night.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's young Man's game, young man, Young women.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
The night was full of nostalgia, with Ricky Martin performing
a medley of his hip shaking hits as he received
the Latin Icon Award and Buster Rhymes was honored with
the first ever Rock the Bell's Visionary Award.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Mariah Kerry ran through.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You know, the only reason I knew was on TV
is because my television show that I normally watch at
seven o'clock on CBS was preempted, which is, what do
you know what's on Sunday nights on seven o'clock on CBS.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
This is six. That's right, that's right, I got it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's been oh yeah, yeah, and that that that program
has been around for sixty maybe seventy years. They got preempted.
And guess what next week is another preemption for the
Emmy Awards. So two weeks in a war in a row,
I will not be watching sixty minutes.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
Right.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
Carrie ran through her biggest hits ahead of earning What
is Shocking Lee, her first vm A, the prestigious Video
Vanguard Award.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wait, I didn't know, Wait a minute, so Ariana Grande
has never won a Video Music award.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
R Carrie ran through. Mariah Carrey, Okay, right, Carrie.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Ran through her biggest hits ahead of earning What Is
Shocking Lee her first VMA, the prestigious Video Van Guard Award.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I never knew that that she never won one of those.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Awards, and she never wins any and then wins the Vanguard,
which is it was held at Ubs Ubs Arena in Elmont,
New York.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Okay, I don't I have no idea where that is?
Is that New York city? I don't nowhere, Elm, elmert Elmer, Elmont, Elmont, Elmont,
I don't know where that is. I just have one question.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
What in the same hill were you waiting for?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, that sounds like Bellyo. You put out a good video.
Yeah about that? Yeah, you're putting something out that's interesting.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
In the same hill were you waiting for? That?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Doesnt? Sound like Bello? When somebody's late?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We have a guest on the on the show that's late,
you'll hear Bellio down the hall in the.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Same hill, were you waiting for?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
John?
Speaker 9 (25:41):
The VNA's also paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with Aerosmith,
Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry, along with Ozzie's protege young Blood.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
All Right the Video Music Awards, What a night? All Right?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
We're live on KFI AM six forty KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's Gonnaway shown.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I loved Santa Monica as a kid. We used to
take the beach bus from the valley to Santa Monica,
go to the beach all day.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
It was an Orange Julius there. It was a great mall.
It was a great time.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And you know, we were I think in six or
seventh grade, so we were, I don't know, ten or
eleven years old. You get on the RTD, take it
to Spulvitem taken all the one to Westwood and then
Westwood to the beach, so it was three different buses.
And my mom and dad never were concerned about their
eleven year old taking the bus with my other buddies.
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It was just a different time, and Santa Monica was great.
The beach was nice, it was clean, it was safe,
and Santa Monica was kicking ass as a city. Not anymore.
Now it looks like they might and this is gonna
be a big problem for people out there. They might
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have to declare bankruptcy. That's not out of the question.
Fiscal emergency in Santa Monica. They had to pay out
a lot of money. I think it was two hundred
ninety two million dollars in lawsuits. I think it was
a nine to one to one operator that was getting
funky with I don't know, some kids or inappropriately acting,
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and that settlement was in the high two hundred millions.
That could wipe this city out. It's a beautiful town.
Beautiful town, little chimney, homeless and craziness near the ocean.
Third Street Promenade needs a facelift. But other than that,
it's really a beautiful, beautiful area of southern California.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
But they're in trouble financially.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
It's been years in the making for the city to
get to this point and even for the city council
to now have this discussion. One of the big issues
is that the city has paid out legal settlements amounting
to about two hundred and twenty nine million dollars. And
then also the city council says that they've received staff
report saying that revenue is just uncertain given economic situation
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around right now.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So Santa Monica, Okay, so it's two hundred and twenty
nine million. I remember a couple of weeks ago we
reported on this may have been a couple months ago,
that they're going to turn that city around by offering
people to drink on Third Street Promenade with outside of
a bar, you could buy a drink and walk from
one store to another and drink in public, which you
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can't really do in California unless there's specific legislation or
laws or.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Rules that have been changed.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And they changed them, so I don't know what the
rules are, but you can go there and enjoy a
drink and walk around. And they said that was going
to save the city. Turns out it really didn't have
much of an impact right now.
Speaker 11 (28:49):
So Santa Monica City Council recently approved the city budget
with a shortfall, and now the council is going to
decide whether to declare an emergency or what it's calling
fiscal distress. This is a acording to the agenda for
Tuesday evenings council meeting.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, they're going to have fiscal distress. And look, they
could declare bankruptcy. It's happened before to cities in California.
Not near the ocean. You think near the ocean, you've
got to going on very expensive real estate, a lot
of revenue coming in from property taxes. But they've run
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the city of Santa Monica into the ground. Financially.
Speaker 11 (29:26):
The report also cites financial struggles since the COVID nineteen pandemic,
for which the city says finances never really recovered. Back then,
the city cut nearly twenty five percent of its budget
and eliminated over four hundred permanent and temporary positions, acknowledging
that this limits city services. Those large legal settlements are
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for sex abuse allegations that have been paid mostly out
of the city's general fund, with fifty two million dollars
of that two hundred and twenty nine million coming from
other city funds. These payouts are for more than one
hundred eighty claims accusing a former Santa Monica police dispatcher
of sexual abuse. So this is how many claims was
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eighty claims accusing eight.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
One hundred and eighty one hundred and eighty claims.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
One hundred eighty claims accusing wow, one hundred and eighty
people abused by somebody before anybody dropped the dime on him.
So the city report also cites regional and national economic
uncertainties as leading to contributing factors here in Santa Monica,
and among them are the tariffs, deregulation, even the mass
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deportation effort by the Trump administration all creating uncertainty. That
staff report says, So now the council will discuss this
at Tuesday evenings meeting, and of course that always opens
the opportunity for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
That's what's going to happen.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
For public comment as well, if people have their opinions
to share with the city council.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
And I love the fact that they blame the tariffs.
You know, it's not mismanagement at all. It's the terriffs
that have knocked them out. The terriffs didn't affect Long
Beach or San Pedro or Huntington Beach or Dana Pointe
or Newport Beach or San die or San Francisco or
Seattle or Portland, but they affected Santa Monica to the
point where they will be going out of business. I
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don't know what happens if they have to declare bankruptcy.
I don't know what they do, but they're going to
radically reduce services and that's going to affect a lot
of people. If you live in Santa Monica. The tree trimming,
the you know, making it beautiful out there, a lot
of those jobs have been lost. I don't know if
they're going to reduce the police department. But that's that spinning,
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you know, circling the drain where you start losing services,
then people the property values go down, then people leave
Santa Monica. It's not a good thing outed Santa Monica.
They got to get that act together and hopefully they will.
Hopefully they will, but it is not good out there.
It is not good. Santa Monica going to a lot
of trouble right now.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Right we're live.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
If you're still stuck on that four or five southbound
near Getty, stay with us. We're on it. We'll tell
you when it's open, but we'll be here till seven.
Then after seven mo Kelly, it looks like eight o'clock
might be the time that they open up that freeway.
If it's opened up before then, we'll let you know.
If it's after that, we'll let you know. Keep it
here on KFI for your updates all afternoon in that
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Supulvita pass. We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway
show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Now you can
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Always hear us live on KFI AM six forty four
to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand
on the iHeart Radio app.
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AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM six is the Conway show we have.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The four h five is a mess.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Angel Martinez has been on it all afternoon since about
one point thirty, and let's get some information on this.
It looks it was a fatal accident and they arrested,
at least what Angel has told me, and Angel doesn't
lie that much. That much, the tow truck driver hit somebody,
that person died and the tow truck driver was taken
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away in handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Is that after a breathalyzer.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
After a field sobriety test? According to the airborne reporter
at KTLA.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh boy, All right, well, I think everybody can put
two and two together there. Let's find out what's going
on here in the four or five. It takes about
an hour to get through this horrible crash.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That tow truck there at the left hand side of
your screen, that's one of the two vehicles involved in
this crash. As I come out wide, it's the southbound
four or five freeway just south of Screwball Center. And
the second vehicle here you see as I zoom in
that's the second vehicle involved in this crash. Now, it
was about two o'clock when the CHP got the call
of a body in lanes. They when they arrived, they
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did find that person and they said that that person
was dead at the scene here. But now the investigation
into this crash continues. I can tell you that we
watched the tow truck driver being taking a field sobriety test.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, Angel was right, how about that field sobriety test
for the tow truck driver taking.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
A field sobriety test, And later a few minutes later,
that person was taken into custody. But now the back
up here on the four or five Freeway southbound, only
the carpool lane is open, but the southbound four or
five Freeway is backed up all the way back to
the one O one Freeway. It is impacting the eastbound
one on one Freeway as well. But it is a
traffic nightmare out here. Supputed a allivart there on the
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left hand side is also packed with traffic coming southbound.
So bring your patients because this may be in effect
for several more hours as the HP continues their investigation
into this fatal crash. That's the latest overhead up in
sky five.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
All right, Sky five over this horrible crash. So that
four five traffic angel goes to the one oh one,
Does it go beyond the one oh one up towards
like Burbank and Victory, No, it, Pop would taken the
one oh one. And I told Bellio this because Belly
is going to get on the five freeway, Crozier's got
to get on the one thirty four, and then the
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two ten. Whenever there's a backup, all the other arteries
back up as well. Is that happening today?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (02:43):
I was.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I was checking for that. And the one oh one
does look heavier than usual for this time of day,
as well as the five southbound. And you know you
mentioned bell you know the canyon roads and stuff that
you mentioned earlier. I took a look at them, and
Mullholland and Beverly, Beverly Glenn, that's what I was thinking of. Yeah,
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just absolutely jammed approaching the four oh five.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So it's tough, okay, all right, we're just gonna have
to live with this. We'll be here with you till
seven o'clock and then Moe Kelly after seven o'clock so
just keep it on KFI. We'll try to keep it light,
try to keep you entertained. But think about the person
who got hit by the tow truck driver. They're on
their way home. They're going home to family or friends.
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They're going home, maybe they have plans tonight. They're going
to go to a dinner, maybe go see a movie.
They're going to go home, and you know, watch Monday
Night football. And now they're not, they're dead. And so
a little empathy, little sympathy for that chap who is
life ended on the four oh five.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And man, it can happen quickly. It can happen very quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So pack your patience. Let's relax, and we'll keep you
entertained till seven. And after seven it will be Moe Kelly.
All right, we've got a Phillies Karen. A woman who
was sitting in the outfield in the bleachers baseball was
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hit for a home run in the Phillies game. And
everybody knows the rules when a baseball comes your direction
at a baseball stadium, everybody knows them. Everybody leaves their
seat and they go to try to get the ball.
As soon as somebody has control of that ball. Everybody
backs off. You didn't get it. Just because it hit
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near your seat or your seat doesn't mean that you
have rights to that ball. It's usually the most aggressive guy,
the quickest guy, and those balls bounce around. You know,
it's like being in a in a wind tun filled
with money. You know, he's just grabbing money, and occasionally
it bounces your way and you grab it. And you
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got that baseball. And what a day it was for
the guy. The father went over there, risked his life,
you could get hit the head and killed by that ball,
grabbed that ball and gave it to his kid, and
he hugged his kid real tight. And it was his
kid's birthday and he got, you know, tickets to the
Phillies game, and he was going to take his kid
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and his daughter and his wife to the Phillies game.
And he got that ball for his kid, hugged that kid,
and that was a special moment in that man's life.
Until a woman comes up and says, no, no, no, no,
that ball hit near my seat.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I deserved that ball.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And the father, who probably wasn't drunk because he didn't
fight it, took the ball out of his kid's glove.
And gave it to this woman, defusing the situation. The
father acted one hundred percent correct, one hundred percent right.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
It's the better man than me.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's a krozier I thought of you when that happened.
That woman would have been laid out if she attacked you,
because she touched him.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Too, yeah, grabbed him.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
And his reaction was just you felt so horrifb for
him because he didn't even see her walk up to
him until like she's screaming at him already, and he
was like, huh, who are you?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And he shook his hands like he saw a spider,
you know in the you know, like he's as an
arachnophobia and yeah, and then he and he takes you
know what he should have done, as he said, ma'am,
you can have that ball. Why don't you take it
out of my daughter, my son's mint And that would
have been a moment too. So he takes it out
of his son's mint, gives it to the woman and
she takes off. Okay, that is not the end of
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the story. We'll have that story and what happened afterwards.
But this is a national story now, and man, is
that woman under a lot of pressure, probably too much,
probably too much. Right, she didn't kill anybody. She literally
went over and took a ball from a kid. But
that's where we are in life. Where you know, when
you go to a ballpark and you get a ball
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in the outfield, the first thing you do is you
look around and is there any five year old six
year old daughter or a girl or a boy who
was really anxious would love to have that ball, and
you try to give that ball to somebody else. That
was the nature back in the nineteen eighties, nineties, early
two thousands. Now it's every man for himself.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
You know, we had the thing a couple of weeks
ago with the guy who beat the crap out of
the woman in the Rose Bowl at the concert, and
he was caught.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Rest of that was on video.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
But everybody's saying back then, how come not one guy
is standing up to this dude and tell them this?
So how come that one person walked up burn say hey.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Leave them on?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, well why are you taking that kid's ball?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Also, I thought of you on a second level here,
if you would have caught that ball and you weren't
with your daughter, you know, you weren't with Sydney or
your wife, you would have looked around for some seven
or eight year old girl or boy to give that
ball to him. Sure, and that makes their That makes
their life. They'll remember that for the rest of their life.
What is it good for, you know, sitting on one
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of your three fireplaces?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
What did she get out of doing that?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Nothing? All right, we'll come back.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
There's more to that story, though, and there's a happy
ending for this kid and the whole family, for her
woman who stole the ball, not so great. We're live
on KFI six forty Conway Show KFI AM six forty.
It is the Conway Show. All right, So this is
what we got in baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You heard that.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Maybe you've seen the story online some of the details.
Our baseball was hit into the outfield. It's up for grabs.
It's anybody's ball, and as soon as somebody has possession,
everybody backs off. It's that guy's ball. You'd missed, you missed.
So the guy gets the ball, gets to do his son,
puts in his glove, gives him a big hug on
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his birthday, and that's gonna be a memory they have
for law time. Because it's on video. It was a
I think it was a national game or at least
a locally on TV, and now it's an international story.
So the guy gives the ball to his son, puts
it in his mid gives him a hug, and that's
a great dad son moment until this woman comes over
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with this really short, two colored bicolored hair. It's like
gray and white on top and then underneath its black.
I don't know what she was going for. Looks like
a Mo Howard type of look. And I can't imagine
she went into super cuts and said, hey, give me
what Mo Howard used to wear. I don't think it's
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ever been said.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Maybe maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So she comes over and grabs him, grabs the dad
by the shoulder and says, hey, I was in that
seat that ball was hit. I was grabbing for it.
I deserve that ball. And the dad's like, look, it's
my son's birthday. Get out of here, and she gets
crazier and crazier. He defus uses the situation by giving
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the ball to the woman.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And Karen ball Snatcher that's what they're now, Is that right? Yes,
Karen ball Snatcher?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
All right, So Karen Ball snatcher goes back with the
ball and the eunuch, dad, you know, who did the
right thing. It goes home and that's not that's you know,
a rap. Not so quick. The Phillies see it also
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on videotape. The whole stadium sees it, and they invite
the father, the kid, and the whole party that they're
with down into the dugout and the guy who hit
the ball signs a bat and gives him the bat.
The Phillies give him a big guy you know package
of you know, I don't know, nick knacks from the
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stadium mousepad if people are still using those coffee mug
an old baseball, and they give him, you know, some
souvenirs and also the Marlins, I think they're playing the
Marlins or whatever team they were playing. They give him
a souvenir package as well. But then this story goes
viral and now this woman is under a lot of heat.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Who did this and probably.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Semi justifiable if it was mild amount of heat, but
this woman is getting roasted and I don't think it
should turn her whole life upside down, but it is.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
It is, and she's taken a lot of heat.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
Phillies fans scrambling after Harrison Vader sent a home run
ball flying into the stands during Friday's game against the Marlins.
One man emerging victorious, gifting the ball to his son,
who was celebrating a birthday for foot watch as a
woman storms over to them because.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
Dad gets the ball for his kidnaily moment what and
so she decided to ruin it?
Speaker 8 (12:04):
She said, I saw it. The ball wasn't even in
the phone.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That father, and that woman doesn't know the rules of
the grand stand. Whoever gets the ball, it's their ball,
and you're you're a rap. If you didn't get it,
you're done.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
That father and son, Andrew and Lincoln felt well now
speaking out about the catch and confrontation on GMA.
Speaker 13 (12:23):
For the crack of the bat, watched the ball go
up in the air, and I knew it was going
to the right, but I didn't know where. So I
just started going to the right a little bit, hit
a chair and bobble between the armrests and I picked
it up.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And by the way, you don't have to be in
your own seat.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You can walk around into somebody else's area to try
to get that ball. But there are some rules, and
one of them is, whoever gets that ball, it doesn't
matter where you're sitting, how close you were, if you
had a mid or whatever. As soon as you have
possession of that ball, everybody backs off and it's yours.
And if it's a show, heyo, tani ball that you're
going to sell for you know, half million dollars two
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years later. Whatever it is, it's yours, that's your ball.
He got the ball, he fought for it, he won,
gave it to his kid, and then the woman came
over and said, no, that ball should be mine.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
She's crazy, turned around and felt like super.
Speaker 13 (13:11):
Dad walked back to Lincoln, put it in his glove
and gave him a hug.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
It was exciting getting one of our first home run
ball ever from all our games.
Speaker 12 (13:20):
Andrew and Lincoln say they hadn't kind of rubbing it
into dad, right, Yeah, we went to a bunch of
games and my dad just got one.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
And I didn't really have control over it. When the
woman popped up. He'll eventually smoke weed and you know,
drank and you know, and then when he goes to
see a psychiatrist, by well, my dad he gave me
the ball, and then they took it back.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
And this is why I'm here.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Our first home run ball ever.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
What a great kid, this Lincoln. This kid deserves many balls.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Our first home run ball ever from all our games.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Ah, what a great kid to have.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
She like to have a son like that, that kind
of enthusiasm for dad getting out there get that ball.
Speaker 12 (14:00):
Andrew and Lincoln say they had no idea what was
about to happen next. In this now viral moment caught
on camera.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
When she screamed, you hear that woman, you took it
from me.
Speaker 13 (14:17):
When she screamed in my ear, that's when I you know,
everybody saw how shocked I was.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
And uh, you know when I turned and leaned.
Speaker 13 (14:25):
Back because she was really close, she had many many
inappropriate words to say around my kids.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, and and and the father did the right thing.
You know, you've got to diffuse that situation and make
sure your your daughter, your son, and your wife are
not injured at the ballpark. And the father did the
right thing.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
And all I could think was make her go away.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
That's right, That's exactly right. This guy is a hero.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
All I could think was make her go away. Does
the right movie?
Speaker 11 (14:55):
He says some of the times this yout to have
a nice night with my will my family.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
Yeah, gives the woman the ball, that young Phillies fan.
Both teams chipping in to create a happy ending.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Wow, how about that.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
Teams chipping in to create a happy ending.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
A good deep.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Oh they gave him some stuff.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Oh sorry, a good deep does go?
Speaker 10 (15:15):
Notice the Marlins gifting him a bag full of goodies.
And after the game, Harrison Bader himself sending Lincoln home
with a signed baseball bat.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Wow, it was really really exciting. I would have still
liked that home running ball to put in our room.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
But I think you'll get it. I think it's coming
your way. I think that woman eventually will give it
up very publicly and apologize everything else.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
It's all in the end, everything else, it's all in the.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
End, the kid said, But that I think that woman
is going to give that ball up. I think that
ball will also be his, and that kid's gonna be
a hero in school. You know, all the girls will
want to be next to him and and rub up
against him and be friends with him, and you know,
and want to date him later on, because that's a
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good kid. That's a good kid. And he's got a
good family. He's got mom and dad both there at
the ballpark. His sister's there. It's a family outing for
the kid's birthday. Ad father did everything right, everything right.
Got to give that guy an added boy as well.
But dad deserves Anata boy. The kid deserves an Ada boy.
The mother deserves an Ada girl.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
And the and the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Sister who looked like she was shocked as to what
was going on, she deserves an ad of girl. And
the woman who took the ball I deserves nothing other
than people pointing out that she looks like Mo Howard
with that haircut. I don't know what she was going
for with that look. That short haired Mo Howard style
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is out. It didn't even look good on Mo Howard.
I think it's called the Karen Bollsmatcher.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, it's the haircut. There's the haircut. Okay, well, well
see what happens. But she's under a lot of heat.
This woman a ton of it, and thank god, the
Phillies made it right. And now were they playing the Marlins.
The Marlins give him a package of souvenirs and they
made it right as well. Vibe, I don't know what
happened to society where we don't think of the kids first.
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I don't know where we started thinking of ourselves first.
I remember the guy at the US Open who stole
the hat from the kid, And now this woman is
stealing the ball. And you've got to remember, when you're
at the ballpark or you're in public, there's always going
to be a camera on you. There's fifty six thousand
people in the stadium. There's probably sixty thousand cameras in
(17:39):
that stadium, and so whatever you do, you got to
always remember people are watching. And that woman has destroyed
her life. All right, The four or five is still jammed.
Still four or five southbound right around Getty is completely jammed.
You are completely screwed until probably eight o'clock tonight, a
(18:01):
death investigation on the four or five. It's going to
take it at least an hour to get through there,
maybe even longer from the one oh one past this accident.
But once you pass this accident, I think you're pretty good.
So stay calm, keep your patients. We'll be with you
till seven mo. After seven you might still be in
that jam, and we'll be right there in the car
(18:23):
with you. We're live on I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
KFI AM six forty. It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
On Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Went out and met a ton of listeners, a lot
of KFI listeners on Saturday at American Vision Windows. We've
both spent three or four hundred people out there throughout
the day. It was really cool. Yeah, Gary was out
there from the Gary and Shannon Show. Gary Hoffman and
his wife was there. I didn't know his wife was
(18:58):
there until the end when she said good bye'm I
don't know Shannon was here, and so it was really cool.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
It was a great event. There's a lot of people
out there.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
And I finally met Bill and Kathleen from American Vision Windows.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You have met them before? I've never met them. I
thought that was just a story that they made up.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And it's totally true that Bill and Kathleen started their own,
you know, window business because they couldn't find a good
window company to go to. And when I met him,
I'm like, I was like starstruck because that's like a
real celebrity to me. Guy who starts a successful company
has been around for twenty five years. You know, this
(19:39):
is not an actor in a sitcom. This is the
guy who started a major business and has grown that
business and has hired a bunch of people, made a
lot of people happy.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
With the windows. I'm like, oh, it's a kind of
a cool deal.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So American Vision Windows, they had an awesome, awesome event,
So go buy your windows, American Vision Windows.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's Pulta is still a mess.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
The Pulvita four or five southbound it's going to be
the one lane to get through there. And I just
looked up the traffic. That traffic on the southbound one
oh one starts right around Balboa, haven Hurst and Balboa
and it goes all the way to that that accident.
And then they're getting some lookie louse going northbound on
(20:25):
that one on that four or five as well?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Is that true? Angel?
Speaker 11 (20:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
And the delays on the northbound side are backing up
all the way out of Culver City, getting away from
Venice Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh, what a mess. It's a mess.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
But the other and then the one on one looks
jammed across the Sepulva across the valley flats there.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But the two the one thirty four.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You know, after you pass get out of Burbank and
Glendale looks kind of open until you get to I
don't know, maybe Monrovia or Arcadia Crozier pass.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, into Pasadena where it turns into the two ten,
it starts to get a little busy. But you know,
if you zoom in and check out Mulholland and then
all of the different arteries that head into Mulholland, especially
on the Canyon streets from between Mulholland and the one
oh one, it's just a nightmare through these areas.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, it sucks, all right, But we'll have an update
for you sou as that opens up.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You'll hear it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
First right here on KFI, and that will be great.
All right, we have Last night, I was watching television
and I was watching the Video Music Awards. I don't
know if they still had that, but they do, And
I don't know if there's any music videos that get
awards anymore. You know, that was set up to give
(21:49):
people awards for the best music video. Are there's still
music videos on MTV? Like if you watch MTV when
I was watching it, you know, the eighties or so
you just get you know, you'd get thirty or you know,
ten fifteen videos an hour and just watch all those videos.
But I guess Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga were the
(22:09):
big winners last night with the American American Video VMAs,
the Video Music Award and.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
The VMA Video of the Year. Yeah gooes too, Arianna Grande.
It was a bright night for Ariana Grande. Does this
get taller every time?
Speaker 9 (22:34):
The pop singer and wicket stars stood on pert tippitoes
while taking home two moon Person Awards, including.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The night's top honor Video of the Year.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
This project is about the hard work that is healing
all different kinds of.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Trauma, and Monster won Artists of the Year, beating out
Taylor Swift and Beyonce.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
I dedicate this award to the audience.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
You very much deserve a stage to shine on, and
I give you all my applause.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That was Lady Gaga. Nice quiet evening. Where'd they have
that Awards show? I don't know what arena it was
at that music all night.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's young Man's game, young man, Young women.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
The night was full of nostalgia, with Ricky Martin performing
a medley of his hip shaking hits as he received
the Latin Icon Award and Buster Rhymes was honored with
the first ever Rock the Bell's Visionary Award.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Mariah Kerry ran through.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You know, the only reason I knew was on TV
is because my television show that I normally watch at
seven o'clock on CBS was preempted, which is, what do
you know what's on Sunday nights on seven o'clock on CBS.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
This is six. That's right, that's right, I got it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's been oh yeah, yeah, and that that that program
has been around for sixty maybe seventy years. They got preempted.
And guess what next week is another preemption for the
Emmy Awards. So two weeks in a war in a row,
I will not be watching sixty minutes.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
Right.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
Carrie ran through her biggest hits ahead of earning What
is Shocking Lee, her first vm A, the prestigious Video
Vanguard Award.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Wait, I didn't know, Wait a minute, so Ariana Grande
has never won a Video Music award.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
R Carrie ran through. Mariah Carrey, Okay, right, Carrie.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Ran through her biggest hits ahead of earning What Is
Shocking Lee her first VMA, the prestigious Video Van Guard Award.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I never knew that that she never won one of those.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Awards, and she never wins any and then wins the Vanguard,
which is it was held at Ubs Ubs Arena in Elmont,
New York.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Okay, I don't I have no idea where that is?
Is that New York city? I don't nowhere, Elm, elmert Elmer, Elmont, Elmont, Elmont,
I don't know where that is. I just have one question.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
What in the same hill were you waiting for?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, that sounds like Bellyo. You put out a good video.
Yeah about that? Yeah, you're putting something out that's interesting.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
In the same hill were you waiting for? That?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Doesnt? Sound like Bello? When somebody's late?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We have a guest on the on the show that's late,
you'll hear Bellio down the hall in the.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Same hill, were you waiting for?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
John?
Speaker 9 (25:41):
The VNA's also paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with Aerosmith,
Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry, along with Ozzie's protege young Blood.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
All Right the Video Music Awards, What a night? All Right?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
We're live on KFI AM six forty KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's Gonnaway shown.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I loved Santa Monica as a kid. We used to
take the beach bus from the valley to Santa Monica,
go to the beach all day.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
It was an Orange Julius there. It was a great mall.
It was a great time.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And you know, we were I think in six or
seventh grade, so we were, I don't know, ten or
eleven years old. You get on the RTD, take it
to Spulvitem taken all the one to Westwood and then
Westwood to the beach, so it was three different buses.
And my mom and dad never were concerned about their
eleven year old taking the bus with my other buddies.
(26:34):
It was just a different time, and Santa Monica was great.
The beach was nice, it was clean, it was safe,
and Santa Monica was kicking ass as a city. Not anymore.
Now it looks like they might and this is gonna
be a big problem for people out there. They might
(26:55):
have to declare bankruptcy. That's not out of the question.
Fiscal emergency in Santa Monica. They had to pay out
a lot of money. I think it was two hundred
ninety two million dollars in lawsuits. I think it was
a nine to one to one operator that was getting
funky with I don't know, some kids or inappropriately acting,
(27:18):
and that settlement was in the high two hundred millions.
That could wipe this city out. It's a beautiful town.
Beautiful town, little chimney, homeless and craziness near the ocean.
Third Street Promenade needs a facelift. But other than that,
it's really a beautiful, beautiful area of southern California.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
But they're in trouble financially.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
It's been years in the making for the city to
get to this point and even for the city council
to now have this discussion. One of the big issues
is that the city has paid out legal settlements amounting
to about two hundred and twenty nine million dollars. And
then also the city council says that they've received staff
report saying that revenue is just uncertain given economic situation
(28:05):
around right now.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So Santa Monica, Okay, so it's two hundred and twenty
nine million. I remember a couple of weeks ago we
reported on this may have been a couple months ago,
that they're going to turn that city around by offering
people to drink on Third Street Promenade with outside of
a bar, you could buy a drink and walk from
one store to another and drink in public, which you
(28:29):
can't really do in California unless there's specific legislation or
laws or.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Rules that have been changed.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And they changed them, so I don't know what the
rules are, but you can go there and enjoy a
drink and walk around. And they said that was going
to save the city. Turns out it really didn't have
much of an impact right now.
Speaker 11 (28:49):
So Santa Monica City Council recently approved the city budget
with a shortfall, and now the council is going to
decide whether to declare an emergency or what it's calling
fiscal distress. This is a acording to the agenda for
Tuesday evenings council meeting.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, they're going to have fiscal distress. And look, they
could declare bankruptcy. It's happened before to cities in California.
Not near the ocean. You think near the ocean, you've
got to going on very expensive real estate, a lot
of revenue coming in from property taxes. But they've run
(29:24):
the city of Santa Monica into the ground. Financially.
Speaker 11 (29:26):
The report also cites financial struggles since the COVID nineteen pandemic,
for which the city says finances never really recovered. Back then,
the city cut nearly twenty five percent of its budget
and eliminated over four hundred permanent and temporary positions, acknowledging
that this limits city services. Those large legal settlements are
(29:48):
for sex abuse allegations that have been paid mostly out
of the city's general fund, with fifty two million dollars
of that two hundred and twenty nine million coming from
other city funds. These payouts are for more than one
hundred eighty claims accusing a former Santa Monica police dispatcher
of sexual abuse. So this is how many claims was
(30:09):
eighty claims accusing eight.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
One hundred and eighty one hundred and eighty claims.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
One hundred eighty claims accusing wow, one hundred and eighty
people abused by somebody before anybody dropped the dime on him.
So the city report also cites regional and national economic
uncertainties as leading to contributing factors here in Santa Monica,
and among them are the tariffs, deregulation, even the mass
(30:36):
deportation effort by the Trump administration all creating uncertainty. That
staff report says, So now the council will discuss this
at Tuesday evenings meeting, and of course that always opens
the opportunity for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
That's what's going to happen.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
For public comment as well, if people have their opinions
to share with the city council.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
And I love the fact that they blame the tariffs.
You know, it's not mismanagement at all. It's the terriffs
that have knocked them out. The terriffs didn't affect Long
Beach or San Pedro or Huntington Beach or Dana Pointe
or Newport Beach or San die or San Francisco or
Seattle or Portland, but they affected Santa Monica to the
point where they will be going out of business. I
(31:16):
don't know what happens if they have to declare bankruptcy.
I don't know what they do, but they're going to
radically reduce services and that's going to affect a lot
of people. If you live in Santa Monica. The tree trimming,
the you know, making it beautiful out there, a lot
of those jobs have been lost. I don't know if
they're going to reduce the police department. But that's that spinning,
(31:38):
you know, circling the drain where you start losing services,
then people the property values go down, then people leave
Santa Monica. It's not a good thing outed Santa Monica.
They got to get that act together and hopefully they will.
Hopefully they will, but it is not good out there.
It is not good. Santa Monica going to a lot
of trouble right now.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Right we're live.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
If you're still stuck on that four or five southbound
near Getty, stay with us. We're on it. We'll tell
you when it's open, but we'll be here till seven.
Then after seven mo Kelly, it looks like eight o'clock
might be the time that they open up that freeway.
If it's opened up before then, we'll let you know.
If it's after that, we'll let you know. Keep it
here on KFI for your updates all afternoon in that
(32:21):
Supulvita pass. We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway
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Speaker 3 (32:28):
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