Heat Wave Warning, Meteorologist Dallas Raines says fans can actually make you hotter once temps hit 95° — instead of cooling you, they can speed up heat gain. With a dangerous heat wave setting in, a red flag warning is now in effect. Forget the 405 — a new study says SoCal’s worst freeway is actually the 10. Casual restaurants are raking it in as cost-conscious diners chase value over fine dining.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's CAMF I Am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm here with Tony is filling in for a push
Tony on my show. He does two days a week
on the Mark Thompson Show over there on YouTube and
it's a podcast as well across the iHeart Radio network.
It's always good to see Tony, but I'm looking forward
to seeing Foosh Delicious return soon. Probably talk to him
tomorrow at this time. But Tony, great to see you
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on both ends of the day, morning and evening.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I can never leave. Yeah, Tony needs the money. You see.
Table's expensive.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, He's got a Dave and Busters that he sets
up in his garage.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
He can't quit you.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
He is in his garage.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's incredible.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
It is so incredible. He's so talented.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
He's he can always say can build a radio station.
I mean Tony can build a radio station. Yeah, but
he's decided to build a David Busters.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
It's it's the power of pinning the walls. Black goes
a long way, and he's got a following. On my show.
People are like way int him because they're also into
like the throwback heavy metal stuff that he likes, you know,
the music that he's into. So he's got a little
bit of a following there. Nice Thursday. Yeah, are you
(01:16):
what who's playing on Thursday?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Scorpions in Vegas? Scorpions in Vegas? Mark, where have you been? Ben?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Then Panta next week, man, I'll tell you what you're
doing this to need this job?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Then? So all right, the heat is coming. The heat
is here, and.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
They're really no I think get out of jail free
cards when it comes to the heat, and there are
heat advisories associated with what will be a withering heat wave.
This is the hottest weather that's moved to southern California
all year, and there are tips as to how to
deal with it, and some of them go against what
you might think.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
When is it too hot to use a fan? Here
at home depot a lot of folks looking into electric fans,
but researchers say, when it gets to ninety five or
one hundred degrees, not only do we see a point
of diminishing returns, it could also be harmful.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Wheny harmful or use a fan when it hits ninety
five degrees.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
Ninety five or one hundred degrees not only do we
see a point of diminishing returns, It could also be harmful.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
When temperature sore.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Wendy Ramo says she can't live without her electric fans.
But usually I have it all the time, and we
have one at work, and I have them even at
home in my house.
Speaker 9 (02:32):
When it gets to high, just sit it in front
of me and turn it on.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
But now several studies fine using a fan without an
air conditioner in a high heat can potentially cause more
harm than good. Some find that hard to believe.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
I probably still keep using fans because I feel like
it helps me.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
But the science says otherwise. Researchers say when the outside
air reaches the same temperature as your body, that's when
your fan can turn into a convection.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Oven skin temperature maxes out at around ninety five ahrenheight.
Pushing just warmer air over this skin surface is just
going to cause the body to gain heat more rapidly.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Doctor Robert Mead.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
With Wow, Wow, I've never known this. This is extraordinary.
How long have we lived in southern California with in
this blow torch of heat that we have to deal with.
I've never known that there could be any temperature at
which sitting in front of an electric fan wouldn't make
you feel better. I mean, the idea is that your
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body is cooled by that breeze, that wind, that flow
of air. I'm legit blown away by this information.
Speaker 9 (03:39):
In temperature max is out at around ninety five fahrenheit,
Pushing just warmer air over this skin surface is just
going to cause the body to gain heat more rapidly.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Doctor Robert Mead, with a Harvard School of Public Health,
studied seniors for several hours with a fan in a
ninety six degree room. While our body temperatures did drop
a degree or two, it's not enough. Other research found
fan use in high heat can be especially detrimental to
people with heart disease. In heat, the heart is to
work hard to bring warm blood to the surface.
Speaker 9 (04:09):
Just to increase in how much blood the heart has
to pump. Is what's thought to precipitate adverse party of
vascular events during heat waves.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But when oh my god, this uh, this is new detail.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
A lot of heat wave that I'm not encouraged.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
By precipitate adverse party vascular events during heat waves.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
But when it comes to running a fan at night,
doctor Mead says, that's a strategy that actually works.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
And if you're the outdoor temperature is actually cooler, drops
blow your indoor temperature. You can actually use a fan
to help draw air and from the outside and help
cool the home.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
That way, When does a fan work in soaring temperatures,
Doctor Mead says, your body uses sweat and evaporation to
expel heat. You can enhance that with a fan and water.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
I mean, there is some promising research showing you can
get you know, im provements in how much heat you're losing,
reductions in how hard your heart is working, reductions in
body temperature.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
God love science.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, I gotta say that this would have been one
of those studies where I would have said, really, guys,
you need to study it's hot water sitting in front
of a fan. It's way to cool yourself. How do
we need to study for this? But in truth, you
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do need to study for this, or a study anyway
can benefit you because you can track exactly how much
cooler you get. And in this case, I mean that
is breaking news. The fact that if the temperature exceeds
that of your natural body temperature, you could actually be
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doing harm to your body by sitting in front of
a fan. So mad respect to those who are involved with.
Speaker 9 (05:57):
Hard your heart is working reductions in body temperature. I
love science.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
We do love science. And when we say water with
a fan, we mean spritzing your face with water. But again,
don't forget the hydrate. As for running your air conditioner
all night, you can do that, but it can be expensive.
So when the outdoor air is cooler than the indoor air,
a fan you're a window is the best strategy.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
But Dallas, I don't know if.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
It's going to be cooler at night.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What can you tell us?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, Dallas, come on, Dallas, Well.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
That's gonna be a lot cooler, that is, during the day.
On that report you saw that it was like ninety
five ninety six degrees in your house. It should never
be that hot, of course. And also you can use
a little mister and that evaporative cooling will help me
if you just missed it around the fan, and some
fans have those already on them. But then if you're
living at the beaches you have nature.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
That'd be a nice maybe a Christmas thing, Sharon, a
fan with a mister already on it, you know, always.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
That I'm just that's what you would like.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh, I don't want to say that. I'm just kind
of pud it out there gifts planting a seed.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I will start saving up now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yes, I'd like one of the higher end ones.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Don't don't no, no, no, no no. You can't get
picky now if you get what you get and you
don't pitch a fig.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Missed it around the fan and some fans have those
already on them.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
But then if you're living.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
At the beaches, you have nature's ac coming it off
the ocean. Remember, our ocean temperatures are warmer right now.
We're up to about seventy degrees. However, that's a lot
cooler than one hundred and five. Here's our map now
showing some of the tempts as we look for an
extreme heat warning starting Thursday now at eleven o'clock and
lasting until Saturday at night.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Man, I remember, I remember Dallas Rains when he first
came to LA he worked the mornings. Yeah, you think
of him on the you know, he's a primetime dude.
But doctor George was the guy who was this guy
who was the kind of grand old man. Doctor George
is kind of like this nutty professor looking guy. And
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he was on the regular six and eleven Channel seven news,
and Dallas was the morning guy. Now Dallas always you
understood Dallas would probably take over, but it was Johnny
Mountain and doctor George. And now Dallas is kind of
the grand old man himself, kind of wild to see
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how things have.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Evolved.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
As we look for an extreme heat warning starting Thursday
now at eleven o'clock and lasting until Saturday at nine
Palm Mill, Lancaster one six to one oh seven. That'll
be typical temperatures. And look at Inland, Orange County, from
Disneyland all the way to the Sanata Mountains there ninety
five to ninety nine degrees.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I think he still does.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
A good job at Dallas, well, I think he still
does a good job. Let me tell you it's tough.
You know, you're working at the widget factory every night,
watching the barometer, watching the temperature.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Dallas I think hits the ball pretty well.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
Even at the beaches, we'll see temperatures near eighty degrees.
We also have a red flag warning for southern California.
Now it's in unpopulated areas, but it's been my experience
over the years that inful red flag warning is issued
and it is hot. Usually the fires are started in
these areas.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
So if you have a fire.
Speaker 10 (09:16):
It could move fairly quickly those winds coming out of
the northeast, but they won't be very very strong, which
is good news for today skys.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That's huge, by the way.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's just that's the game changer, right, you don't know
the winds, then the fire danger moves into a different
category of concerns.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
Skies are clear down at the beach and it is
beautiful seventy two degrees. It is clear out at riverside.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Well, I get it all right, so then you get
the rest of the report. But so it sounds like
it's going to be hot getting hotter fire danger as well,
but no sense and is associated with it. And you
should get this Christmas A fan with a mister attached.
That is your summary of all of what you just heard.
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It is the Tim Conway Junior Show. Mark Thompson sitting
in for Tim on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
If you're in traffic now, you may be interested in
kind of a wild story. The four h five, according
to analysis, is not the worst freeway in southern California.
By the way, I wouldn't have said it is. I
would have said the five is the worst freeway in
southern California. But you know, again, we all have our
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impressions as to what is the worst freeway. But the
La Times is finding this way to quantify the driving
experience on each freeway, and they've ranked the top twenty five.
They look at average speed, the number of vehicles and
the number of vehicle miles of traveled, divided by vehicle
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hours of travel.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Or Q.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That's the common metric. The delays, the lost productivity, and
the fatal crashes. So average speed delays, lost productivity and
fatal crashes. So they scale these scores, and the best
freeways are around five hundred, the average freeway is around zero,
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and the worst freeways are around negative five hundred. So
let me get you to the rankings of the best
freeway to the worst freeway. The best freeway is kind
of a again, this is sort of a short freeway.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It's State Route two sixty one.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Not far from where a lot of big stars here
at KFI live, like Sharon bellioh. Thank you, Yes, sad,
it is a thank you. That is kind of my point.
In a way, it's not fair. It's a toll road
in Orange County. So it's a little over six miles
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connecting Irvine to State Route two forty one. It's called
Route two sixty one. Average speed of sixty six miles
an hour, delays the second least and lost productivity, second
least fatal crash is none fewest out of twenty five.
This is in twenty twenty two, which is the year
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they were looking at.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So this is ranked.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
This is ranking's best to worst.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, so that's the best freeway in southern California. But
as Angel was quick to mention, I mean it is
a toll road, so that automatically reduces traffic.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Right, it's really nice, by the way, I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
You're paying for it.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The ninety freeway is the second best freeway in southern California.
The ninety is the it's a little over twelve miles.
It's Marina del Ray to Culver City. It's that route right,
and then from Leahabra to Anna h Hills, sixty three
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miles an hour is the average speed fewest delays and again,
lost productivity, fatal crashes scores really well in that I'm sorry,
did I mention? I meant did I? I've got that right? Yeah, yeah,
exactly so. But again, it's one of California's shortest freeways.
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It runs from the four H five torinadl Ray. That's
that's what I meant to say. Yeah, it was au
poster run all the way to Orange County and it
ended up just being that route that we know. So
what's the worst freeway though, let me get to the
further down. It's again, wouldn't you say angel the five
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would be up there as a as a bad freeway
or would just put the four or five? Actually, when
you when you factor in some of these things they're
talking about average speed, delays, lost productivity, and fatal crashes, I'd.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Say the five. I mean, Bellio drives the awful part
of the five on the daily and it's only that
rare occasion where it surprises you and you just have
like a wide open drive and you're just like wondering,
where's everybody. But for the most part it's a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, exactly. I mean, when the sun's up, the five
is clotted. And you know, I say that because you know,
sometimes when I'm coming back from being a degenerate card
player at one of the card clubs, you know it's
late at night, that's different. You know, they can be
wide open, but it can also produce some kind of
phantom delay as well.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Anyway, they don't have was number ten?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, right, it's not there among the worst.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yeah, there's twenty two in this list, and so the
five was number ten, right?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Or no, there's more than twenty two.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah, they're twenty five.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, but so they have among the worst the bottom one, two, three, four.
I'll give you the bottom four real quick. The ninety
one Riverside Freeway Long Beach to Wenta Park. It's almost
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sixty miles long, ninth slowest out of the twenty five,
eighth most for delays scaled for the total mile miles
that you travel on that in fatal crashes and lost productivity.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It ranks poorly as well. That's the ninety one.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
The four oh five next in this worst freeway sweepstakes.
They're only two freeways again rating the way they do
worse than the four five. They say the average speed
is fifty three miles an hour. But I mean again,
these are averages. It's the second slowest out of the
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twenty five, and again in delays and lost productivity it
rates pretty poorly as well. No freeway, they say, may
be as hated as the four to oh five.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
The uh.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The San Gabriel Freeway. The six oh five is a
notoriously jammed road, they say, angel just over twenty eight
miles from Long Beach to Duarte, and that is the
second worst freeway in Southern California. Again, according to these things,
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the factors are average speed, delays the fifth most.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
They say the San Gabriel Freeway the six.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh five, lost productivity the third most, and fatal crashes
the eighth most, fifteen fatal crashes in twenty twenty two.
And then finally, the world first freeway in Southern California
they say it is the ten. The ten freeway average
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speed is fifty two miles an hour. That's the slowest
out of every freeway in Southern California out of all
twenty five, delays the worst of all, twenty five, lost
productivity the eighth most, and fatal crashes ninety which is
the worst of all twenty five ninety in twenty twenty two. Again,
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it's a huge freeway and it's part of the interstate
highway system right coast to coast from Santa Monica to Jacksonville.
You can travel on the ten, but if you're just
looking to get from here to there quickly, it's a
pretty brutal ride. It was known to ten as the
Christopher Columbus trans Continental Highway with a big sign in
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Santa Monica, but then they removed the name a few
years ago, and a small stretch of the freeway is
named after Rosa Parks. That's your ten Freeway trivia, but
that they say is the worst freeway according to the
twenty five worst to best Freeways in Southern California.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Again, I believe.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I believe that because it's just nothing but solid single
digit speeds coming out of Santa Monica all the way
into downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, that's the crazy thing. It's not even when you
get close to you're coming from the beach or whatever,
it's still bumper to bumper. What a you know, just
a terrible run. The one oh five rates thirteenth worst.
I'm just now I'm the two ten, fourteenth worst. Yeah,
Now it's as interesting. La Times did it, so if
you're curious, you can find it on their website. That's
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that's the word I thought I would have I would
have bet a lot that it was the five. But
it's not the five and it's not the four H five?
Is the ten? Were KFI AM six forty. It's a
Conway show, Mark Thompsons sitting in on KFI on this Tuesday.
Speaker 11 (19:09):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Despite a lot of improvements, consumers still saying rising unemployment
and elevated risks of personal job loss creating anxiety and
as a result, value is still winning in the restaurant game.
It's interesting because fewer and fewer people, they say, are
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going out. It's playing out, that is to say, economic
anxiety in the foot traffic going in and out of restaurants.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So you look at you know, fast food visits and
they decline by two point three percent in the second
quarter of the year. Chains like ihob, Denny's, Wendy's Sweet
Green all saying sales are declining softer foot traffic there.
Some brands are adjusting, they say more successfully than others.
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Dominoes had a five point six percent gain. Papa John's
also getting growth after two straight quarters of losses. McDonald's
has outperformed, and they're going for value meals. I mean again,
this is sort of the changing nature of the consumer
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in America. Chili's gain ground. They had a three for
me deal starting a ten ninety nine that helped drive
a thirty one percent increase in same store sales from
a twenty one percent boost in traffic. So people are
there and they're actually ordering more or ordering a higher
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average in terms of what their cost will be than
is typical with a walk in taco bell five dollars
and nine dollars lux Cravings boxes, those are selling better,
so more and more, there is a challenge with fast
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casual restaurants. As they're talking Kava, they've added these loyalty members.
They say fifty thousand loyalty members a week. They have
eight million users of their their loyalty program. Sweet Green
has increased their protein portions as they're saying, they've added
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thirteen dollars in loyalty exclusive bowls. In other words, and
you notice this, all these chains get kind of inventive
about how they work in some additional pricing to perhaps
give you value and also increase the bottom line. But
there are a lot of economic factors that are out
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of executives control, and right now, no one really knows
what's happening with the American economy.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Americans are hungry for dining in.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Cheesecake Factory is a ten out of ten.
Speaker 12 (22:02):
If I have, I'm going.
Speaker 13 (22:05):
While KFC, Pizza Hut, and Popeyes all reported Saint Stores
sales falling, Full service casual restaurants like Olive Garden and
the Cheesecake Factory reported sales increasing.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
You know what's interesting to me about this is so
these aren't the restaurants where you go in, you stand
online and you order, you sit down. In these places
like Cheesecake Factory Olive Garden, do you sit down and
order or don't you? I thought you you order first
and then you go sit down. Isn't that right at
Oliver Garden Olive Garden?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, No, you sit down and then you sit down. Okay, yeah,
all right, all those times in Dan Tanna throw you off.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yes, I'm sorry. It's been a moment since I've been
to Olive God.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Laying down in the booth with your bad back.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Let's continue, shall we.
Speaker 13 (22:47):
With inflation at restaurants out pacing already sky high inflation
over the last five years, consumer.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I want a little credit. I knew the cheesecake factory,
saying I just took inflation.
Speaker 13 (22:56):
At restaurants out pacing with inflation at restaurants out pacing
already sky high inflation over the last five years. Consumers
are looking for big deals to draw them out. For
a meal at Chili's, It's a ten ninety nine value
meal bringing in customers.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
I shop at Leedo.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
And all the convenient places, and still I'm spending up
to fifty dollars.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
For one night meal.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
So the fact that this comes to forty with drinks,
with food and leftovers, it's just more convenient.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Oh and there's also the ambiance. Have you guys seen
those memes like from the office.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I feel gott in this Chili's tonight.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
It's like our only plan of the day is like
the Chili's trip.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
Chili's president Kevin Hawkman saying consumers these days want more
bang for their buck. What are consumers looking for when
they decide to go out and sit down for lunch
or for dinner?
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Number One, They're looking for a great value.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
What is interesting is this is happening at a time
where people are bulking even at fast food restaurant prices.
Speaker 12 (23:58):
People were posting like the receipts online for their combo meals,
and the combo meals could be fifteen dollars eighteen dollars.
At the end of the day, consumers are frustrated with
fast food prices. We've kind of slid in with a
little bit of a niche right now in casual dining.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
And it's not just Chili's.
Speaker 13 (24:13):
Analysts say, casual dining brands like Applebee's, Texas Roadhouse, BJ's,
and even Red Lobster, which fall for bankruptcy last year,
are seeing rebounds.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
The first thing they did is improve operations inside the restaurants.
The second thing that they did was market the value
offers that they had, or they came up with new
ones that resonated with consumers.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I mean, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They do face a challenge, and the restaurant game is
really interesting as a barometer of the economy because there
is such a great spectrum. Right you just have McDonald's
and the fast casual Chilis, and then as we learn,
you sit down at Olive Garden and cheesecake factory, and
you know, you begin to get more of a kind
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of fine dining experience as in the further up you go,
but you pay for that. And yet there are all
these consumer dollars that are being competed for by all
of these different companies. So as the economy becomes a
little uncertain and you feel consumer anxiety running through the economy,
it makes sense that some of those discounted meals, if
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you want to think of it that way, value meals
that there's a premium on those. And then once they
get that foot traffic, and that's when they get the
loyalty programs and those things that tend to upsell a
little bit so that they can feed their bottom line.
Really interesting to me anyway, that's what's happening at the
All you can Eat. Now do they have which one
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has the all you can eat salad bar? And that's
not Olive Garden.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Well, I mean they have the all you can eat salad,
soup and salad and breadsticks.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But yeah, the bar just order more, Oh you order more.
Ye see, it's not it's not a it's not a buffet.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, it's been a while maybe you're thinking of SYSM,
I am.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Thinking they was learning Hollywood. I used to go to
the Sillsler in Hollywood all the time. That's exactly what
I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Little wooden sticks that told you how your cook meat
was cooked.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I don't recall that, but I remember the that Center Island.
It was a big thing where you could have all
you could eat salad and then there's a dessert thing
with that soft ice cream one.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Carls Junior used to have the all you can eat
the salad.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Oh yeah, Cars.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
It was always a total mess.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
You want to get there early, Yeah, you really do.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
They had baked potatoes also a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, I think I remember that. Yeah, the Giddo.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Days, Tim Gotwent Junior show Mark Thompson Here on KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 11 (26:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I don't know if you've seen it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I mean, I can't imagine that you if you've been
online or had any kind of basic interaction with the
online universe, have missed it. But on the off chance
that you have, it's this viral now video, as I say,
of these two food bloggers and so they're on camera
because they're blogging, they're vlogging, and they're eating whatever, salmon sliders,
(27:13):
whatever they're eating. And it's a man and a woman,
and all of a sudden, a car comes careening through
the wall, the windowed wall, you know, the front of
this restaurant, and they get literally pushed out of the frame.
It's unbelievable. And as I say, it's all over the
(27:36):
place now. One of the reasons that I guess it
can be talked about the way it is being talked
about is because I don't believe they sustained any serious injuries.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It's kind of miraculous.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
The car comes right through the window and the wall
and just blows right into them.
Speaker 15 (27:51):
This Houston food bloggers had just been into salmon sliders
when all of a sudden, an suv slammed into the rest
where they were filming, sending them flying.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
The car just came out of nowhere.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
I mean, it was glass metal.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I thought we were going to die.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
I'm like, oh my god, this is it. This is
our last moment.
Speaker 15 (28:11):
The bloggers known as Nina Unrated and Patrick Blackwood capturing
every jaw dropping second inside Covey's culinary creations on Saturday
from the near miscollision that what just happened, the paramedics
arriving and their trip to the emergency room amazingly walking
away with minor cuts and bruises.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
It's one of the wildest things that can actually really happen,
like one in a million.
Speaker 15 (28:33):
According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the driver said
she thought her SUV was in park when she let
her foot off the brake the car rolled into the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
She has not been shot, Okay, I mean that makes
total sense. That checks out that you'd have it. But
and the car didn't roll into the restaurant. She punched it.
I mean, you don't go into that restaurant with the
kind of force of that vehicle without her punching it. So,
I mean, I'm not saying she did it liberally. I
don't think she did. But the idea somehow that there
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could be that degree of impact from the car just
rolling into the restaurant.
Speaker 15 (29:09):
According to the Harrison County Sheriff's Office, the driver said
she thought her SUV was in part when she let
her foot off the brake the car rolled into the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
She has not been charged.
Speaker 15 (29:19):
Have you guys actually been able to watch the video through?
Is it just replaying in your heads?
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Both, I've watched it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I don't understand how we're not I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
I'm not going to cry.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I'm not going to cry.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
I don't understand how we're not dead.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
This thing happened for a reason, and I'm just.
Speaker 15 (29:35):
Glad to feel a lot after a close call. They
won't soon forget George Soulis and be seen it that is.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It is really harrowing when you see it. It really
is unreal. But glad they're okay. I mean pretty extraordinary
that they walked away with with nothing more than just
being shaken up. Incredible. Valley Plaza in North Hollywood facing
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demolition as a public nuisance. Say it ain't so. The
dilapidated Valley Plaza in North Hollywood is a dangerous public
nuisance and the owner will have to pay for its
own demolition. It's a mixed use shopping center. Some businesses
are still there, but the major concern with several of
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the buildings is that they have so fallen into disrepair
it's not safe anymore. These buildings are empty, their sites
for fires, for break ins, and so there's a big
move for these buildings to be declared a public nuisance,
and at a meeting of the Border Commissioners of Public
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Building and Safety, they are saying tear it down. They've
been opened since nineteen fifty one and they were once
the pride of the valley, and now parts of the
plaza have deteriorated so significantly that the city is considering
demolition in North Hollywood. It was horrific, they say, to
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see what was going on inside, the trash, the human excrement,
just the condition that had been in It showed us
that none of the staff members or the owners of
the building even bothered to show up to see the
condition of their building. So you know right there from
the picture that they're showing that they don't care about
this property. They just care about the investment and they're
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just looking to make a dollar on this. This is
from Councilman Adrian Azarian. So now the city they recently
conducted a cleanup of these large homeless encampments on this
same property. Several nonprofits in the LAPD offering housing to
those who are affect and there are a lot who
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refused help. So they're working on cleaning up this site,
and they're trying to reach the building owners for the
resolution on this. But they've been trying to reach the
building owners for a long time and it may be
too late. Once they declare these buildings of public nuisance,
they will proceed with the demolition and that owner will
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be on the hook to pay for that demolition. That's
the Valley Plaza in North Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I feel like we're all like formerly the pride of
the valley, and now we're all becoming more dilapidated. It
won't be long before we're all Yeah. You know, do
you see that you don't see the human experience parallel?
Speaker 14 (32:47):
There?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Tomorrow we're joined by an award fitting, an award winning
veterinarian who is a wonderful communicator on all things dogs,
cats and your pets. So if you have any questions
for him and you want to get them to me,
I will pass them along to him. My address is
the Mark Thompson Show at gmail dot com. You can
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push me some kind of question, I'd be happy to
push it along to the doctor. Doctor Jeff Werber will
be with us tomorrow and we'll talk to him about
the coming heat wave and we're kind of in the
midst of it, but it even ramps up more intensely
later in the week. How to help our animals through
this and all the sorts of pitfalls of animal.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Husbandry.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Also tomorrow we talk to the foush from his hospital bed.
Later with Mo Kelly next. Thanks everyone, This is the
Conway Show Mark Thompson on KFI AM six forty We are.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm here with Tony is filling in for a push
Tony on my show. He does two days a week
on the Mark Thompson Show over there on YouTube and
it's a podcast as well across the iHeart Radio network.
It's always good to see Tony, but I'm looking forward
to seeing Foosh Delicious return soon. Probably talk to him
tomorrow at this time. But Tony, great to see you
(00:30):
on both ends of the day, morning and evening.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I can never leave. Yeah, Tony needs the money. You see.
Table's expensive.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, He's got a Dave and Busters that he sets
up in his garage.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
He can't quit you.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
He is in his garage.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's incredible.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
It is so incredible. He's so talented.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
He's he can always say can build a radio station.
I mean Tony can build a radio station. Yeah, but
he's decided to build a David Busters.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
It's it's the power of pinning the walls. Black goes
a long way, and he's got a following. On my show.
People are like way int him because they're also into
like the throwback heavy metal stuff that he likes, you know,
the music that he's into. So he's got a little
bit of a following there. Nice Thursday. Yeah, are you
(01:16):
what who's playing on Thursday?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Scorpions in Vegas? Scorpions in Vegas? Mark, where have you been? Ben?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Then Panta next week, man, I'll tell you what you're
doing this to need this job?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Then? So all right, the heat is coming. The heat
is here, and.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
They're really no I think get out of jail free
cards when it comes to the heat, and there are
heat advisories associated with what will be a withering heat wave.
This is the hottest weather that's moved to southern California
all year, and there are tips as to how to
deal with it, and some of them go against what
you might think.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
When is it too hot to use a fan? Here
at home depot a lot of folks looking into electric fans,
but researchers say, when it gets to ninety five or
one hundred degrees, not only do we see a point
of diminishing returns, it could also be harmful.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Wheny harmful or use a fan when it hits ninety
five degrees.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
Ninety five or one hundred degrees not only do we
see a point of diminishing returns, It could also be harmful.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
When temperature sore.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Wendy Ramo says she can't live without her electric fans.
But usually I have it all the time, and we
have one at work, and I have them even at
home in my house.
Speaker 9 (02:32):
When it gets to high, just sit it in front
of me and turn it on.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
But now several studies fine using a fan without an
air conditioner in a high heat can potentially cause more
harm than good. Some find that hard to believe.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
I probably still keep using fans because I feel like
it helps me.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
But the science says otherwise. Researchers say when the outside
air reaches the same temperature as your body, that's when
your fan can turn into a convection.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Oven skin temperature maxes out at around ninety five ahrenheight.
Pushing just warmer air over this skin surface is just
going to cause the body to gain heat more rapidly.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Doctor Robert Mead.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
With Wow, Wow, I've never known this. This is extraordinary.
How long have we lived in southern California with in
this blow torch of heat that we have to deal with.
I've never known that there could be any temperature at
which sitting in front of an electric fan wouldn't make
you feel better. I mean, the idea is that your
(03:29):
body is cooled by that breeze, that wind, that flow
of air. I'm legit blown away by this information.
Speaker 9 (03:39):
In temperature max is out at around ninety five fahrenheit,
Pushing just warmer air over this skin surface is just
going to cause the body to gain heat more rapidly.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Doctor Robert Mead, with a Harvard School of Public Health,
studied seniors for several hours with a fan in a
ninety six degree room. While our body temperatures did drop
a degree or two, it's not enough. Other research found
fan use in high heat can be especially detrimental to
people with heart disease. In heat, the heart is to
work hard to bring warm blood to the surface.
Speaker 9 (04:09):
Just to increase in how much blood the heart has
to pump. Is what's thought to precipitate adverse party of
vascular events during heat waves.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But when oh my god, this uh, this is new detail.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
A lot of heat wave that I'm not encouraged.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
By precipitate adverse party vascular events during heat waves.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
But when it comes to running a fan at night,
doctor Mead says, that's a strategy that actually works.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
And if you're the outdoor temperature is actually cooler, drops
blow your indoor temperature. You can actually use a fan
to help draw air and from the outside and help
cool the home.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
That way, When does a fan work in soaring temperatures,
Doctor Mead says, your body uses sweat and evaporation to
expel heat. You can enhance that with a fan and water.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
I mean, there is some promising research showing you can
get you know, im provements in how much heat you're losing,
reductions in how hard your heart is working, reductions in
body temperature.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
God love science.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, I gotta say that this would have been one
of those studies where I would have said, really, guys,
you need to study it's hot water sitting in front
of a fan. It's way to cool yourself. How do
we need to study for this? But in truth, you
(05:27):
do need to study for this, or a study anyway
can benefit you because you can track exactly how much
cooler you get. And in this case, I mean that
is breaking news. The fact that if the temperature exceeds
that of your natural body temperature, you could actually be
(05:49):
doing harm to your body by sitting in front of
a fan. So mad respect to those who are involved with.
Speaker 9 (05:57):
Hard your heart is working reductions in body temperature. I
love science.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
We do love science. And when we say water with
a fan, we mean spritzing your face with water. But again,
don't forget the hydrate. As for running your air conditioner
all night, you can do that, but it can be expensive.
So when the outdoor air is cooler than the indoor air,
a fan you're a window is the best strategy.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
But Dallas, I don't know if.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
It's going to be cooler at night.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What can you tell us?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, Dallas, come on, Dallas, Well.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
That's gonna be a lot cooler, that is, during the day.
On that report you saw that it was like ninety
five ninety six degrees in your house. It should never
be that hot, of course. And also you can use
a little mister and that evaporative cooling will help me
if you just missed it around the fan, and some
fans have those already on them. But then if you're
living at the beaches you have nature.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
That'd be a nice maybe a Christmas thing, Sharon, a
fan with a mister already on it, you know, always.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
That I'm just that's what you would like.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh, I don't want to say that. I'm just kind
of pud it out there gifts planting a seed.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I will start saving up now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yes, I'd like one of the higher end ones.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Don't don't no, no, no, no no. You can't get
picky now if you get what you get and you
don't pitch a fig.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Missed it around the fan and some fans have those
already on them.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
But then if you're living.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
At the beaches, you have nature's ac coming it off
the ocean. Remember, our ocean temperatures are warmer right now.
We're up to about seventy degrees. However, that's a lot
cooler than one hundred and five. Here's our map now
showing some of the tempts as we look for an
extreme heat warning starting Thursday now at eleven o'clock and
lasting until Saturday at night.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Man, I remember, I remember Dallas Rains when he first
came to LA he worked the mornings. Yeah, you think
of him on the you know, he's a primetime dude.
But doctor George was the guy who was this guy
who was the kind of grand old man. Doctor George
is kind of like this nutty professor looking guy. And
(07:58):
he was on the regular six and eleven Channel seven news,
and Dallas was the morning guy. Now Dallas always you
understood Dallas would probably take over, but it was Johnny
Mountain and doctor George. And now Dallas is kind of
the grand old man himself, kind of wild to see
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how things have.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Evolved.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
As we look for an extreme heat warning starting Thursday
now at eleven o'clock and lasting until Saturday at nine
Palm Mill, Lancaster one six to one oh seven. That'll
be typical temperatures. And look at Inland, Orange County, from
Disneyland all the way to the Sanata Mountains there ninety
five to ninety nine degrees.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I think he still does.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
A good job at Dallas, well, I think he still
does a good job. Let me tell you it's tough.
You know, you're working at the widget factory every night,
watching the barometer, watching the temperature.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Dallas I think hits the ball pretty well.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
Even at the beaches, we'll see temperatures near eighty degrees.
We also have a red flag warning for southern California.
Now it's in unpopulated areas, but it's been my experience
over the years that inful red flag warning is issued
and it is hot. Usually the fires are started in
these areas.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
So if you have a fire.
Speaker 10 (09:16):
It could move fairly quickly those winds coming out of
the northeast, but they won't be very very strong, which
is good news for today skys.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That's huge, by the way.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That's just that's the game changer, right, you don't know
the winds, then the fire danger moves into a different
category of concerns.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
Skies are clear down at the beach and it is
beautiful seventy two degrees. It is clear out at riverside.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Well, I get it all right, so then you get
the rest of the report. But so it sounds like
it's going to be hot getting hotter fire danger as well,
but no sense and is associated with it. And you
should get this Christmas A fan with a mister attached.
That is your summary of all of what you just heard.
(10:00):
It is the Tim Conway Junior Show. Mark Thompson sitting
in for Tim on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
If you're in traffic now, you may be interested in
kind of a wild story. The four h five, according
to analysis, is not the worst freeway in southern California.
By the way, I wouldn't have said it is. I
would have said the five is the worst freeway in
southern California. But you know, again, we all have our
(10:32):
impressions as to what is the worst freeway. But the
La Times is finding this way to quantify the driving
experience on each freeway, and they've ranked the top twenty five.
They look at average speed, the number of vehicles and
the number of vehicle miles of traveled, divided by vehicle
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hours of travel.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Or Q.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That's the common metric. The delays, the lost productivity, and
the fatal crashes. So average speed delays, lost productivity and
fatal crashes. So they scale these scores, and the best
freeways are around five hundred, the average freeway is around zero,
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and the worst freeways are around negative five hundred. So
let me get you to the rankings of the best
freeway to the worst freeway. The best freeway is kind
of a again, this is sort of a short freeway.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It's State Route two sixty one.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Not far from where a lot of big stars here
at KFI live, like Sharon bellioh. Thank you, Yes, sad,
it is a thank you. That is kind of my point.
In a way, it's not fair. It's a toll road
in Orange County. So it's a little over six miles
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connecting Irvine to State Route two forty one. It's called
Route two sixty one. Average speed of sixty six miles
an hour, delays the second least and lost productivity, second
least fatal crash is none fewest out of twenty five.
This is in twenty twenty two, which is the year
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they were looking at.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
So this is ranked.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
This is ranking's best to worst.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, so that's the best freeway in southern California. But
as Angel was quick to mention, I mean it is
a toll road, so that automatically reduces traffic.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Right, it's really nice, by the way, I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
You're paying for it.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The ninety freeway is the second best freeway in southern California.
The ninety is the it's a little over twelve miles.
It's Marina del Ray to Culver City. It's that route right,
and then from Leahabra to Anna h Hills, sixty three
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miles an hour is the average speed fewest delays and again,
lost productivity, fatal crashes scores really well in that I'm sorry,
did I mention? I meant did I? I've got that right? Yeah, yeah,
exactly so. But again, it's one of California's shortest freeways.
(13:25):
It runs from the four H five torinadl Ray. That's
that's what I meant to say. Yeah, it was au
poster run all the way to Orange County and it
ended up just being that route that we know. So
what's the worst freeway though, let me get to the
further down. It's again, wouldn't you say angel the five
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would be up there as a as a bad freeway
or would just put the four or five? Actually, when
you when you factor in some of these things they're
talking about average speed, delays, lost productivity, and fatal crashes, I'd.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Say the five. I mean, Bellio drives the awful part
of the five on the daily and it's only that
rare occasion where it surprises you and you just have
like a wide open drive and you're just like wondering,
where's everybody. But for the most part it's a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, exactly. I mean, when the sun's up, the five
is clotted. And you know, I say that because you know,
sometimes when I'm coming back from being a degenerate card
player at one of the card clubs, you know it's
late at night, that's different. You know, they can be
wide open, but it can also produce some kind of
phantom delay as well.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Anyway, they don't have was number ten?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, right, it's not there among the worst.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yeah, there's twenty two in this list, and so the
five was number ten, right?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Or no, there's more than twenty two.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah, they're twenty five.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, but so they have among the worst the bottom one, two, three, four.
I'll give you the bottom four real quick. The ninety
one Riverside Freeway Long Beach to Wenta Park. It's almost
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sixty miles long, ninth slowest out of the twenty five,
eighth most for delays scaled for the total mile miles
that you travel on that in fatal crashes and lost productivity.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It ranks poorly as well. That's the ninety one.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
The four oh five next in this worst freeway sweepstakes.
They're only two freeways again rating the way they do
worse than the four five. They say the average speed
is fifty three miles an hour. But I mean again,
these are averages. It's the second slowest out of the
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twenty five, and again in delays and lost productivity it
rates pretty poorly as well. No freeway, they say, may
be as hated as the four to oh five.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
The uh.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The San Gabriel Freeway. The six oh five is a
notoriously jammed road, they say, angel just over twenty eight
miles from Long Beach to Duarte, and that is the
second worst freeway in Southern California. Again, according to these things,
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the factors are average speed, delays the fifth most.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
They say the San Gabriel Freeway the six.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh five, lost productivity the third most, and fatal crashes
the eighth most, fifteen fatal crashes in twenty twenty two.
And then finally, the world first freeway in Southern California
they say it is the ten. The ten freeway average
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speed is fifty two miles an hour. That's the slowest
out of every freeway in Southern California out of all
twenty five, delays the worst of all, twenty five, lost
productivity the eighth most, and fatal crashes ninety which is
the worst of all twenty five ninety in twenty twenty two. Again,
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it's a huge freeway and it's part of the interstate
highway system right coast to coast from Santa Monica to Jacksonville.
You can travel on the ten, but if you're just
looking to get from here to there quickly, it's a
pretty brutal ride. It was known to ten as the
Christopher Columbus trans Continental Highway with a big sign in
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Santa Monica, but then they removed the name a few
years ago, and a small stretch of the freeway is
named after Rosa Parks. That's your ten Freeway trivia, but
that they say is the worst freeway according to the
twenty five worst to best Freeways in Southern California.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Again, I believe.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I believe that because it's just nothing but solid single
digit speeds coming out of Santa Monica all the way
into downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, that's the crazy thing. It's not even when you
get close to you're coming from the beach or whatever,
it's still bumper to bumper. What a you know, just
a terrible run. The one oh five rates thirteenth worst.
I'm just now I'm the two ten, fourteenth worst. Yeah,
Now it's as interesting. La Times did it, so if
you're curious, you can find it on their website. That's
(18:53):
that's the word I thought I would have I would
have bet a lot that it was the five. But
it's not the five and it's not the four H five?
Is the ten? Were KFI AM six forty. It's a
Conway show, Mark Thompsons sitting in on KFI on this Tuesday.
Speaker 11 (19:09):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Despite a lot of improvements, consumers still saying rising unemployment
and elevated risks of personal job loss creating anxiety and
as a result, value is still winning in the restaurant game.
It's interesting because fewer and fewer people, they say, are
(19:36):
going out. It's playing out, that is to say, economic
anxiety in the foot traffic going in and out of restaurants.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So you look at you know, fast food visits and
they decline by two point three percent in the second
quarter of the year. Chains like ihob, Denny's, Wendy's Sweet
Green all saying sales are declining softer foot traffic there.
Some brands are adjusting, they say more successfully than others.
(20:04):
Dominoes had a five point six percent gain. Papa John's
also getting growth after two straight quarters of losses. McDonald's
has outperformed, and they're going for value meals. I mean again,
this is sort of the changing nature of the consumer
(20:26):
in America. Chili's gain ground. They had a three for
me deal starting a ten ninety nine that helped drive
a thirty one percent increase in same store sales from
a twenty one percent boost in traffic. So people are
there and they're actually ordering more or ordering a higher
(20:46):
average in terms of what their cost will be than
is typical with a walk in taco bell five dollars
and nine dollars lux Cravings boxes, those are selling better,
so more and more, there is a challenge with fast
(21:07):
casual restaurants. As they're talking Kava, they've added these loyalty members.
They say fifty thousand loyalty members a week. They have
eight million users of their their loyalty program. Sweet Green
has increased their protein portions as they're saying, they've added
(21:27):
thirteen dollars in loyalty exclusive bowls. In other words, and
you notice this, all these chains get kind of inventive
about how they work in some additional pricing to perhaps
give you value and also increase the bottom line. But
there are a lot of economic factors that are out
(21:48):
of executives control, and right now, no one really knows
what's happening with the American economy.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Americans are hungry for dining in.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Cheesecake Factory is a ten out of ten.
Speaker 12 (22:02):
If I have, I'm going.
Speaker 13 (22:05):
While KFC, Pizza Hut, and Popeyes all reported Saint Stores
sales falling, Full service casual restaurants like Olive Garden and
the Cheesecake Factory reported sales increasing.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
You know what's interesting to me about this is so
these aren't the restaurants where you go in, you stand
online and you order, you sit down. In these places
like Cheesecake Factory Olive Garden, do you sit down and
order or don't you? I thought you you order first
and then you go sit down. Isn't that right at
Oliver Garden Olive Garden?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, No, you sit down and then you sit down. Okay, yeah,
all right, all those times in Dan Tanna throw you off.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yes, I'm sorry. It's been a moment since I've been
to Olive God.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Laying down in the booth with your bad back.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Let's continue, shall we.
Speaker 13 (22:47):
With inflation at restaurants out pacing already sky high inflation
over the last five years, consumer.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I want a little credit. I knew the cheesecake factory,
saying I just took inflation.
Speaker 13 (22:56):
At restaurants out pacing with inflation at restaurants out pacing
already sky high inflation over the last five years. Consumers
are looking for big deals to draw them out. For
a meal at Chili's, It's a ten ninety nine value
meal bringing in customers.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
I shop at Leedo.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
And all the convenient places, and still I'm spending up
to fifty dollars.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
For one night meal.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
So the fact that this comes to forty with drinks,
with food and leftovers, it's just more convenient.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Oh and there's also the ambiance. Have you guys seen
those memes like from the office.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I feel gott in this Chili's tonight.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
It's like our only plan of the day is like
the Chili's trip.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
Chili's president Kevin Hawkman saying consumers these days want more
bang for their buck. What are consumers looking for when
they decide to go out and sit down for lunch
or for dinner?
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Number One, They're looking for a great value.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
What is interesting is this is happening at a time
where people are bulking even at fast food restaurant prices.
Speaker 12 (23:58):
People were posting like the receipts online for their combo meals,
and the combo meals could be fifteen dollars eighteen dollars.
At the end of the day, consumers are frustrated with
fast food prices. We've kind of slid in with a
little bit of a niche right now in casual dining.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
And it's not just Chili's.
Speaker 13 (24:13):
Analysts say, casual dining brands like Applebee's, Texas Roadhouse, BJ's,
and even Red Lobster, which fall for bankruptcy last year,
are seeing rebounds.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
The first thing they did is improve operations inside the restaurants.
The second thing that they did was market the value
offers that they had, or they came up with new
ones that resonated with consumers.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I mean, it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They do face a challenge, and the restaurant game is
really interesting as a barometer of the economy because there
is such a great spectrum. Right you just have McDonald's
and the fast casual Chilis, and then as we learn,
you sit down at Olive Garden and cheesecake factory, and
you know, you begin to get more of a kind
(24:56):
of fine dining experience as in the further up you go,
but you pay for that. And yet there are all
these consumer dollars that are being competed for by all
of these different companies. So as the economy becomes a
little uncertain and you feel consumer anxiety running through the economy,
it makes sense that some of those discounted meals, if
(25:18):
you want to think of it that way, value meals
that there's a premium on those. And then once they
get that foot traffic, and that's when they get the
loyalty programs and those things that tend to upsell a
little bit so that they can feed their bottom line.
Really interesting to me anyway, that's what's happening at the
All you can Eat. Now do they have which one
(25:40):
has the all you can eat salad bar? And that's
not Olive Garden.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Well, I mean they have the all you can eat salad,
soup and salad and breadsticks.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But yeah, the bar just order more, Oh you order more.
Ye see, it's not it's not a it's not a buffet.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, it's been a while maybe you're thinking of SYSM,
I am.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Thinking they was learning Hollywood. I used to go to
the Sillsler in Hollywood all the time. That's exactly what
I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Little wooden sticks that told you how your cook meat
was cooked.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I don't recall that, but I remember the that Center Island.
It was a big thing where you could have all
you could eat salad and then there's a dessert thing
with that soft ice cream one.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Carls Junior used to have the all you can eat
the salad.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Oh yeah, Cars.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
It was always a total mess.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
You want to get there early, Yeah, you really do.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
They had baked potatoes also a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, I think I remember that. Yeah, the Giddo.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
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Speaker 3 (26:46):
I don't know if you've seen it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I mean, I can't imagine that you if you've been
online or had any kind of basic interaction with the
online universe, have missed it. But on the off chance
that you have, it's this viral now video, as I say,
of these two food bloggers and so they're on camera
because they're blogging, they're vlogging, and they're eating whatever, salmon sliders,
(27:13):
whatever they're eating. And it's a man and a woman,
and all of a sudden, a car comes careening through
the wall, the windowed wall, you know, the front of
this restaurant, and they get literally pushed out of the frame.
It's unbelievable. And as I say, it's all over the
(27:36):
place now. One of the reasons that I guess it
can be talked about the way it is being talked
about is because I don't believe they sustained any serious injuries.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It's kind of miraculous.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
The car comes right through the window and the wall
and just blows right into them.
Speaker 15 (27:51):
This Houston food bloggers had just been into salmon sliders
when all of a sudden, an suv slammed into the rest
where they were filming, sending them flying.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
The car just came out of nowhere.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
I mean, it was glass metal.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I thought we were going to die.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
I'm like, oh my god, this is it. This is
our last moment.
Speaker 15 (28:11):
The bloggers known as Nina Unrated and Patrick Blackwood capturing
every jaw dropping second inside Covey's culinary creations on Saturday
from the near miscollision that what just happened, the paramedics
arriving and their trip to the emergency room amazingly walking
away with minor cuts and bruises.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
It's one of the wildest things that can actually really happen,
like one in a million.
Speaker 15 (28:33):
According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the driver said
she thought her SUV was in park when she let
her foot off the brake the car rolled into the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
She has not been shot, Okay, I mean that makes
total sense. That checks out that you'd have it. But
and the car didn't roll into the restaurant. She punched it.
I mean, you don't go into that restaurant with the
kind of force of that vehicle without her punching it. So,
I mean, I'm not saying she did it liberally. I
don't think she did. But the idea somehow that there
(29:04):
could be that degree of impact from the car just
rolling into the restaurant.
Speaker 15 (29:09):
According to the Harrison County Sheriff's Office, the driver said
she thought her SUV was in part when she let
her foot off the brake the car rolled into the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
She has not been charged.
Speaker 15 (29:19):
Have you guys actually been able to watch the video through?
Is it just replaying in your heads?
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Both, I've watched it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I don't understand how we're not I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
I'm not going to cry.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I'm not going to cry.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
I don't understand how we're not dead.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
This thing happened for a reason, and I'm just.
Speaker 15 (29:35):
Glad to feel a lot after a close call. They
won't soon forget George Soulis and be seen it that is.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It is really harrowing when you see it. It really
is unreal. But glad they're okay. I mean pretty extraordinary
that they walked away with with nothing more than just
being shaken up. Incredible. Valley Plaza in North Hollywood facing
(30:04):
demolition as a public nuisance. Say it ain't so. The
dilapidated Valley Plaza in North Hollywood is a dangerous public
nuisance and the owner will have to pay for its
own demolition. It's a mixed use shopping center. Some businesses
are still there, but the major concern with several of
(30:30):
the buildings is that they have so fallen into disrepair
it's not safe anymore. These buildings are empty, their sites
for fires, for break ins, and so there's a big
move for these buildings to be declared a public nuisance,
and at a meeting of the Border Commissioners of Public
(30:54):
Building and Safety, they are saying tear it down. They've
been opened since nineteen fifty one and they were once
the pride of the valley, and now parts of the
plaza have deteriorated so significantly that the city is considering
demolition in North Hollywood. It was horrific, they say, to
(31:17):
see what was going on inside, the trash, the human excrement,
just the condition that had been in It showed us
that none of the staff members or the owners of
the building even bothered to show up to see the
condition of their building. So you know right there from
the picture that they're showing that they don't care about
this property. They just care about the investment and they're
(31:40):
just looking to make a dollar on this. This is
from Councilman Adrian Azarian. So now the city they recently
conducted a cleanup of these large homeless encampments on this
same property. Several nonprofits in the LAPD offering housing to
those who are affect and there are a lot who
(32:03):
refused help. So they're working on cleaning up this site,
and they're trying to reach the building owners for the
resolution on this. But they've been trying to reach the
building owners for a long time and it may be
too late. Once they declare these buildings of public nuisance,
they will proceed with the demolition and that owner will
(32:26):
be on the hook to pay for that demolition. That's
the Valley Plaza in North Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I feel like we're all like formerly the pride of
the valley, and now we're all becoming more dilapidated. It
won't be long before we're all Yeah. You know, do
you see that you don't see the human experience parallel?
Speaker 14 (32:47):
There?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Tomorrow we're joined by an award fitting, an award winning
veterinarian who is a wonderful communicator on all things dogs,
cats and your pets. So if you have any questions
for him and you want to get them to me,
I will pass them along to him. My address is
the Mark Thompson Show at gmail dot com. You can
(33:13):
push me some kind of question, I'd be happy to
push it along to the doctor. Doctor Jeff Werber will
be with us tomorrow and we'll talk to him about
the coming heat wave and we're kind of in the
midst of it, but it even ramps up more intensely
later in the week. How to help our animals through
this and all the sorts of pitfalls of animal.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Husbandry.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Also tomorrow we talk to the foush from his hospital bed.
Later with Mo Kelly next. Thanks everyone, This is the
Conway Show Mark Thompson on KFI AM six forty We are.
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