May 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Real ID Deadline looming. CALLERS storm over Antelope Valley –Big Storm coming in // Dean Sharp, The House Whisperer --Custom Home Designer / Host of “HOME” on KFI AM 640
Saturdays 6-8AM, Sundays 9AM-Noon TODAY’S TOPIC: Springtime in the garden: Birds, Bees, Flowers, & Trees // More with Dean Sharp – what really works to stop mosquito bites // Baseball fan falls from stands / Safest cars for teens
Saturdays 6-8AM, Sundays 9AM-Noon TODAY’S TOPIC: Springtime in the garden: Birds, Bees, Flowers, & Trees // More with Dean Sharp – what really works to stop mosquito bites // Baseball fan falls from stands / Safest cars for teens
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, we
don't normally do this, but we have a lot of
people live out in Palmdale, Lancaster Lake, Los Angeles, Quartz
Hill area. Uh, here's the phone number. Are you guys
getting worked by this storm right now? It looks like
(00:22):
a lot of rain, a lot of thunder, a lot
of lightning, a lot of winds, possibly flash flooding. Does
storm just come through? Where am I misreading the radar here? Well,
we'll ask people. If you live in Palmdale and Low Valley,
call us at one eight hundred five two oh one
five three four. That's one eight hundred five to two
(00:46):
oh one five three four. Bellio's going to open the
phones or steph foh somebody will there they go, So
phone us up and tell us what's going on out there.
I'm nervous. We have a lot of listeners out there,
and I don't want anyone to get hurt or flooded
or lightning or thundered. Whatever's going on there. High winds,
(01:08):
high rain, crazy. So if you live out in the
Anil Valley, did some just come through or is this
an old raider I'm looking at that's possible as well.
All right, so if we get the phone calls, and
we might not, you might be all fighting that storm,
you know, batting down the hatches. So we'll see, we'll
see firsthand what's going on out there.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What's going on? All right?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The real ID we talked about it before. We can't
talk about it enough. You need a real ID starting
very soon or you're not going to get into government
buildings or.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Airplane seven days and counting till real ID becomes a reality.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, So do you know about the real ID?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, all right, so you have to May seven to
get that.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
At airports nationwide, a last minute push with a TSA
handing out reminder flyers.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Please make sure that they were giving this to passenger
that presents without a real ID.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
While a dozen states plus DC report more than ninety
percent compliance with the real ID law, sixteen states are
under fifty percent compliance. The lowest in the country is
New Jersey. Just seventeen percent have real IDs.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Wow, followed by that's an incredible low number. Seventeen percent
of people live in New Jersey. Those are people that
work in New York. You know, just did you live
in New Jersey doesn't mean you work in New Jersey.
You work in New York. You go off over that
bridge or through the tunnel every day, and you can't
get into a couple of federal buildings and you can't
(02:36):
fly on a plane because you don't have your ID.
Only seventeen percent of the people in New Jersey have
a real ID.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The lowest in the country is New Jersey, just seventeen
percent what Happened have real IDs, followed by Pennsylvania, Maine, Alabama,
and Arizona. But getting a real idea appointment at local
DMVs can take weeks and months.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
In New Jersey, they don't have any openings until August.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
There's a multitude of appointments online for other things.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
You put zero appointments for the real ID, So that's
kind of nerve wracking.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The real ID deadline has been postponed four times already.
It's taken twenty years since the real ID law was passed.
And direct response to the nine to eleven hijackets.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, you've had twenty years to do this. If you
don't have one, that's on you. You had twenty years
to knock this out.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
We want to make sure that we know who's on
the plane. That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
New real IDs have a star, a California Bear, or
say enhanced in some states. If you don't have a
real ID or a passport, be prepared. You could be
selected for extra tsa screening.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Here we go. You can miss a flight.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You had seven thousand, three hundred days to get your
real ID. It first went into effect twenty years ago.
You had seven three hundred days.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
To get it. Let's multiply that.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
By twenty four you had one hundred and seventy five
thousand hours to get that ID. One hundred and seventy
five thousand hours. What'd you do?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You blow it?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You didn't get it? Are you listening to your car
right now swearing that you don't have one? That's on you.
It's not my fault, not Bellios, not Croziers, A little
bit groziers, but it's not steph uge. We've been telling
you for a long time to get them. It's on you.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You goofed for passengers who don't have the real idea.
How much extra time will the screen take?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
At least nine hours, nine hours, thirty.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Minutes on top of the two hours that we asked passengers.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
To show up at this time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So wait a minute, what thirty minutes on top of
the two hours that we asked.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Passengers to show up at this time?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, you know in Las Vegas, this is a sort
of a branch a story that branches off of this.
In Las Vegas on they had the busiest Monday they've
ever had, one hundred and twenty thousand people trying to
get out of Las Vegas. A lot of them had
been there for spring break. But you know now right
(05:11):
now at the Las Vegas Airport.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Ow, you stepped on my foot? Up, move it? What
I said, move it. I'm trying to get this shop
for you.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I don't have big feet. Got almighty, man, you really
get involved. I can't imagine what living with you is like.
I thought you bang your knee again when you said no.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
She stepped on my foot. I've never had that happen before.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
The Las Vegas Airport they now recommend you get to
the airport three hours before your flight. So if you
have a three o'clock flight, you you got to get
there at noon, all right. To get to the airport
by noon from your Vegas hotel. That means you've got
to leave at eleven am, right, because traffic, you know,
(06:02):
the valet, the cab, whatever. You got to give yourself
an hour to get to the airport. Okay, she'd leave
at eleven am to get to the airport. You're at
the airport at noon. Your flight's at three. We're at
four hours already. The flight's an hour to LA we're
at five, and the trip home from LAX to your
house is an hour. If you're lucky, that's it. That's
(06:24):
six hours. One two, three, four five six. That's six hours. No,
I'm sorry, six and a half hours. It takes you
a half hour to get off the plane, get your bags,
then get in the car, and takes you an hour
to get home. It's six and a half hours to
fly from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. It's four to drive,
four hours to drive, six and a half hours to fly.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Somebody goofed. I don't know who it is. All right,
we'll go back.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We're gonna take a couple of phone calls here and
find out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Or let's do real quick. Then here, let's put up
Nikki online.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Four Here, Nikki, what's going on out there in the
Annelo Valley.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is it raining?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
I'm an augdl sing. Yeah, it's pouring and we got
a lot of thunder. I haven't seen lightning, but yeah,
it's it's raining pretty good right now.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
For people outside, I mean you and I know where,
Aguadol says. But for people who don't know where it is.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Where is that it's between Canyon Country Palmdale.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, but it's pouring. Huh.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Yeah, it's poring pretty good around here. Trying to feed
the horses and getting drenched and you.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Know, taking wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I talk to you, Elizabeth. What's going on out there
in Annelo Valleys?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It pouring. I'm looking at radar, Elizabeth. I'm Tad just
in case. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're a lake Elizabeth. Sorry, buddy, Tad.
How are you no worries?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
I'm you're a good tending, good boy.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
How are you doing? I'm good? Okay. What's going on
out there?
Speaker 7 (07:57):
It's raining, it's pouring.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
There's a couple of cells that are really really heavy,
and we got lightning.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We got any flash flooding going on, None that I've
driven into.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
I try and stay out of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But you know, okay, good, I'd be careful. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh that's amazing. Now were you a warned? Were you
aware that that weather was coming through?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I wasn't.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I was just I got my car washed earlier today.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh no, you're like me, dude. You're probably a racetrack guy,
Vegas guy to play the pony.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, you're a racetrack guy, and we always do things
the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Are you going out for the Kentucky Derby going to
San Nita.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I'm not going to sant Anita. I'm gonna be up north.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But you don't watch it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
They've got a great off track betting out there in
Anelope Valley.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
At the fairgrounds.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Yeah, you've been.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I've been a couple of times. I had a brother
who lived out in I don't know, somewhere in the desert.
My dad and I had to go out there because
he was fighting people. So my dad had to take
care of that.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And we stopped by the fair grounds on the way
back and lost some money at the Antelope Valley fair Grounds.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
It's beautiful inside. That's it's like a big barn. It
is that big red building.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yes, that's right. It's beautiful out there. Man, I'd love
to have lived out there. I tried to convince my
wife to move to Palmdale, Lancaster, and she said, no, but.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
You live in the you know, the Grand Burbank, don't you, buddy?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
You look pretty good.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I could add twice the property out there to buzz
around and get drunk and you know, ride at four
wheel or something.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, but you got that.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You got that police of the steps to people who
are who were out of line.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So that's pretty good too.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
All right, Buddy ding dong with you. Thanks for phoning. Man,
And everybody knows what a degenerate I am.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's weird. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Every guy calls up and goes, yeah, you got it
made out there. You go to talk, you go to Walmart,
you know, you got to a the good Will, You
pick up a guy good Will, You go to the track.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All right, all right, I gotta step it up.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So it's pouring out there, lightning, rain, thunder, craziness, and
it's coming towards you, Santa Clarita, it's coming towards you,
so be aware of that.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
You're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, we were ahead of the government warning on that weather.
You just heard it flash flowed warning for parts of
Los Angeles County. And it is very very strong and
very dark under those clouds coming out of the desert
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right into Santa Clarita.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Let's see what time is it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Six It's six twenty three, twenty four, so it's right
now it's coming. Oh, you can almost see it come
over the hills. Now, it's coming over the hills. And
if it continues on that route and it does make
it over the hills, which is a question, it'll come
right into the city of San Fernando and right into
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the valley. And this is a major cell that's really dark, pink,
which means lots of rain. There's a lot of lightning
associated with this and a lot of thunder if you
haven't put that together. From lightning comes thunder. And right
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now it's right around six point thirty. I'll tell you
where that is. It's about twenty miles south of Palmdale,
and it's still looking pretty strong. So if you live
out in that area, it's right on Angelus Forest Highway
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Angelus Forest Highway where Mill Mill Creek summits out there.
That's exactly where the storm is right now, and it's radical,
it's very dark, and a lot of people don't know this,
but if a storm comes directly south from Palmdale, if
you're standing in Palmdale and you took an airplane or
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a helicopter, you would go right into Pasadena. So please
be aware that we just had the warning. All right, Dean,
sharp as we it's Dean. How are you, sir? I
feel responsible because I washed my car today.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh is that right? You know? That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's what gamblers do. You know, they wash their car
and they don't look at the weather. Well, I'm not
really a gambler, but I'll say you are today. You
know what they talked me in last month? My car
wash talked me into that monthly, right, okay, And I
was driving around this morning. I'm like, you know what,
it's not a sunny day. But I asked I asked
my I'm not going to say her name. I asked
(12:47):
my computer. Hey, what's the weather like? Is there any
rain in the forecast?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
None? None, whatsoever? Buddy.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
I'm like, all right, you know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna act like a rich guy. I'm just gonna
roll into the car and just get my car washed
because I've already paid for it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And now now what's happening?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Ye see, it's gonna you're gonna get bombed, although you
might miss it.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Are you getting any rain up there?
Speaker 8 (13:08):
And there's still I just checked, there's still zero moisture
in the forecast. So okay, I think he's gonna head
maybe over the I don't know. We'll see, we'll see.
Nobody expected this thing.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It is coming directly from Palmdale towards Alta Dina right now,
as if Alta Dina needs another punch in the gut. Yeah,
but I don't know, if you know, I was born
and raised here and I still didn't know this. But
if you're in Palmdale and you literally got in a
helicopter and went due south one hundred percent south without
you know, west or east one hundred percent south, you'd
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end up in Pasadena. That's how far east Palmdale is. Yeah,
for sure, Yeah, absolutely true. That's gonna be radical. All right,
So spring has sprung the grasses, Riz, tell me where
the flowers is is? Are are people still doing spring
cleaning out here?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Or because we don't get snow as that not a
big deal.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Yeah, you know, I think we're kind of past that now,
you know, I think, tell you, tell you what. The
reason why this weekend we're focusing on the yard is
because that's that's where southern Calis go and breaks out right.
They're like, all right, I gotta I gotta get control
of these plants. I need uh, I need more birds
in my yard. I get this is the year that
we're gonna have a beautiful yard. Everybody, everybody says it
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every year. But you know, we're gonna help you out
if you're serious. How we're gonna help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Quick question and we're gonna take a break here, But
I want you to come back and answers because you
know where and I do. Do bugs appers kill mosquitoes?
We'll come back. I want you to answer that because
I don't know. I know you know, but I don't know.
We come back. We're gonna, okay, we're gonna tell you
whether bug zappers, you know, the ones with the purple
light and that you hear, you know, you hear the
last seconds of their life that they're gone, do they
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kill mosquitos or have any kind of effect with mosquitoes.
We'll come back and talk to Dean Sharp. It's good
raining like hell out there between Palmdale and Pasadena, coming
in towards Altadena area if it gets over the mountain.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
So be aware that you're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Dean Sharp is with us, and there's a lot of
rain happening from Annilal Valley all the way down to
the San Ferando Valley, so be aware that could be lightning,
thunder and flash flooding. So, Dean Sharp, the big question is,
I know you're not the bug guy. Do bug zappers
have any kind of effect on mosquitoes?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
All right? So, because I don't want one hundred emails.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Ah, you're going to get them, all right, because I
don't want that. I'm not going to say that bugs
zappers have never killed a mosquito, all right, But I
will tell you this, When a bug zapper kills a mosquito,
it's completely by accident, exactly right. Because here's the thing.
Mosquitoes are not driven by attraction to light. That's not
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what they're looking for, right, So bug zappers are all
about that UV that black light bulb right in the middle.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's all.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
You know, it's drawn all kinds of insects, useful insects,
by the way. So I'm not a huge fan of
the bugs apper regardless, but you know, it's attracting moths,
you know, like moths to a flame. Moths are attracted.
Mosquitoes are attracted to uh, They're they're attracted to the
plumes of carbon dioxide. They're they're attracted to our exhale.
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They're attracted to our body odor, they are attracted to
lactic acids on our skin. That is what mosquitoes are
looking for. And when they're first flying around and headed
your way, they turn in your direction because they literally
detect a plume of CO two coming off of you
as you're sitting outside just exhaling, right, So that's what
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draws a mosquito in, not a UV light. And so
that's that's the god honest truth. Unfortunately, you go on
Amazon right now, if you were to put if you
were to type in mosquito, you know killing device, you're
going to get like eight hundred hits to bug zappers.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And unfortunately, it's just it's not true.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You know, if I didn't see this myself, I wouldn't
have believed it. But we were up in Oregon late summer,
and I was on a friend's boat and his wife
got off to go into the forest and go peepee.
And when she came back, she was running towards the
boat and she had a cloud of mosquitoes tailing her.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It has happened.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
It was unbelievable. Never seen any Look at my life.
I am a nature boy right of everybody in my family.
I'm probably the one who wants to be demands to
be outside more than anybody else. And I don't know
what it is about me. You know, I bathe, I'm clean,
but you know, I chalk it up to being like
my blood type is O negative. I'm the universal donor.
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And every mosquito in the world knows it. They're like
that guy. It's like with you.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I've had some decent luck with thermossel. If you had
any luck with that.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Thermoicel is a great little device that it puts out
a very very fine missed spray. It's not citronella or
anything like that. And as long as the wind isn't
blowing really heavily, if you got a little thermicell unit,
little battery charged thermicell unit. Set it next to you.
It's got about an effective twenty foot range.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
And so sometimes when we have people out on the
deck for an evening around the fire pit, I'll put
three or four out around and you know what, nobody complains, Oh,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I used the thermoscell and I had it literally on
my nightstand and I sparked it up, and my wife said, hey,
I think that's exterior only, and I said, I don't
give an f.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It is, though. You should really listen to her, tim.
I really sure.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
As long as I can not as long as I
don't get bit by a mosquito, I'm firing that sucker
up right next to me.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Yeah, okay, well, you know what can you do? You
didn't hear it here, but I'll tell you what they're that.
You know, you guys can find that at the local
sporting good store. I think they're at the big boxes.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Dude.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
They're about fifty bucks and there they are all.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Worth every dime every single time. My wife loves the
humming bird feeders. We've got a bunch of hummingbirds around,
but bees can't see that. I constantly see bees running
into this thing?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is that just me?
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Well, you know, it's not that they're it's not that
they can't see the feeder. But I don't know, I
don't know if everybody's ever wondered about this, because we're
gonna be talking about bees. Spring swarms are going to
be happening very short here, right, and everybody's going to
freak out and call pest control and say there's a
hive living in my tree and it's not true. So
we're gonna explain what the difference of that is this weekend.
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But uh, yeah, it's an interesting thing, right. Hummingbirds and
bees are after the same stuff. After they're after okay,
so they're competitors. And if you ever wondered why humming
bird feeders are always red or the syrup that you
put in them is red, it's because bees don't see red.
They don't see red. Their vision is biased towards the
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ultraviolet end of the spectrum, not the red end of
the spectrum. So hummingbirds are like, you know what, damn it,
we can see red. And so hummingbirds take advantage of
red flowers because they get tired of arriving at regular
colored flowers and finding that the bees have gotten there
first and have totally drained them. Well, the bees thing
the hummingbirds, I don't know. I've never seen a bee
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in a hummingbird actually get into a fight. I think
hommy the hommybrids are just frustrated that when there's a
lot of bees in the area, the flowers are all empty,
and so that's why they focus on red flowers. I
know you know a lot about trees.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
What is a good rule of thumb on when to
plant and how big a tree?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Were your favorites?
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Well, you know what, now is a great time to
plant a tree because you know we're heading right in
to growth season. It is not a good time to
do a severe pruning of a tree, though, Okay, you
don't want to shock the tree when it's trying to
stretch its arms out now and begin its growth cycle.
We want to wait till the tree falls asleep, you know,
like a good patient on the operating take. We don't
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operate when they're awake.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So you can trim it. You can't just go a
radical on it.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, No, no heavy pruning until autumn. But
right now, you know, you trim it up a little bit. No,
not a problem. But now it's a great timber plant.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And as far as tree size, hey, you know me,
the bigger the better. Yeah, and as big as you
can afford.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I love your rule of thumb that if you spend
thirty thousand dollars on a tree in your front yard,
your property value double. I mean, your property value goes
up twice what you spent on the tree, at least.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
At least that's just a fact. Not that I'm encouraging
the average homeowner to spend thirty thousand dollars. But the
fact of the matter is that if you're thinking about, like,
you know, what, what are we going to do? How
are we going to invest in our house and make
a make a huge ROI here is a reality. You
put a feature size tree, I mean one that comes
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in like a six foot box. Okay, you drop a
feature size, full grown tree in the front yard, and
that could cost you, you know, twenty thirty grand. The
National Institute of Realtors will tell you that on average,
that will raise the value of your house ten percent. Well,
think about that. Think about how what whatever your house
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is worth. Let's say your house is worth seven point
fifty Okay, that means a thirty thousand dollars tree. The
second it goes in the ground, just raise the value
of your house seventy five thousand dollars. What a great investment.
It is a great investment.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And it also helps with the shade, it helps with
the you know, the energy bills. They're just really it's
really terrific to have a bunch of trees around.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
There is absolutely nothing wrong with planting a tree, zero
things wrong with it. Helps the climate, helps the environment,
helps the neighborhood, helps you, helps the pocketbook. It's it's
the right thing to do.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So this weekend, Saturday six to eight and Sunday nine
am to noon, it's going to all be about the
backyard and getting ready for spring and summer.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Absolutely, birds, bees, flowers, trees, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm glad you came on tonight because I worried that
you were that fan in Pittsburgh that fell out of
the stands onto the field.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm glad that wasn't you. No, it wasn't. I wasn't.
I was worried too. Thanks for coming on, man, see it.
But all right, there he goes Dean Shart at the
house whisper to.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Mar No Saturday at six am until eight am and
then nine am until noon.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I kept thinking today's Friday for some reason. Yeah, I know,
I get that.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Were getting word that it's raining in the San Fernando Valley.
That storm that hit Palmdale is now coming into the
northern parts of the sand. Oh I just saw lightning.
How about that? Oh that was a reflection the TV. Sorry,
but it's coming towards the San Fernando Valley. It's raining
in parts of Burbank and the North Valley. So if
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you're out near the five, the two ten, Lacannata to
the east San Fernando, the city of San Fernando, be
aware that this storm, this cell is coming and it's
bringing lightning, thunder and lots of rain with it. And
it's gonna if it makes it over the hill, completely
over the hill, it's going to come right into the
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small little town of San Fernando, the city of San Fernando,
not the valley, and I believe that's where it is
right now. So you got the two ten up there,
the five, the four or five, the fourteen freeway. All
of it is experiencing rain, sometimes heavy. We just had
an emergency alert about it, so it's pretty radical in
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some areas. Be aware of that, Be aware of that
storm that could really pack a punch. All right, cars
breaking down? All where the safest cars are?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
What do we got? Who?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
What do you say You're going to buy your kids
a safe car? If they're just starting to drive, you
want them a lot of great you know, us steal
around them or foreign steal, but a lot around to
protect them.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Between one point eight and two point eight million new
drivers a year hit the road for the first time.
Most of those are teams, and teams are three times
more likely to die in a crash than older drivers.
This list is intended to equip parents with suggestions on
safe vehicles that can be had regardless of your budget.
The annual rankings identify vehicles at three price points. The
(25:42):
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Consumer Reports rate as
safe for newly licensed drivers seventy four models under ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Wait, there's seventy four models of cars that are under
ten grand.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Seventy four models under ten thousand dollars, another forty eight
come with automatic emergency break and highly rated headlights that
can be found for under twenty thousand. A third priceier
batch includes twenty two new twenty twenty five vehicles equipped
with the latest crash prevention and safety technology, including a
seat belt reminder.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
It's a really important thing for teens because we know
teens are less likely.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
To buckle up. IIHS Senior VP Jessica Jermakian.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Parents should be looking to buy as much safety as
they can afford.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Do you hear that? That's a great rule of thumb.
Might be the best lesson we've played for you all year.
If you have kids that are just starting to drive,
listen to this carefully. If you have sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
year old kids, parents.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Should be looking to buy as much safety as they
can afford.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Okay, that is a great rule of thumb. Buy as
much safety for your kids as you can afford.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
We're looking for vehicles that will protect the teen in
the event of a crash and also help them prevent
the crash in the first place.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
The vehicles range from small sedans to large cars, small
and medium sized SUVs and minivans, with all earning good
crash ratings from IIHS. Not on the list especially small cars,
especially big SUVs, sports cars, or electric vehicles because they
have so much power they can rapidly accelerate. In IHS
(27:15):
says that might not be the best thing for a
new team driver. What's on the list Nissan CenTra used
between twenty fifteen or newer. You can have those on
average for as low as forty four hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's an amazing price. Forty four hundred bucks for a
Nissan CenTra that's a safe car.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
A Volvo S eighty also, even a Bui Concourse. Small
SUVs that can be had on the used market starting
well below ten thousand dollars up to newer vehicles that
have all the bells and whistles.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay, speaking of made in the USA, how easy is
it to buy only American made stuff?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Fairly complicated to do.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I believe could I complete my shopping list with one
big twist buy only American products?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
That's gona be very difficult to do, young ladies. First up, food.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Okay, so this is my regular list of staples. Plus
I want to make a shrimp pasta this weekend, so
we'll see how we do. First, stop bread made in
the USA. No problem with bread, all right?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Bread great? All right? What else is next?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
We'll see how we do. First stop, bread made in
the USA. No problem with bread, okay. Milk this also
made in California. Got to get the bacon. This is
made in Virginia. We're good so far on USA products.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Orange.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So it sounds so far. It sounds like a health nut.
Lots of bread, bacon, and milk.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Oranges, lettuce, strawberries, even rice easy to find. And I
made some swaps too. I need some tomatoes for the
pasta dish. These are a product of Canada. But good
news right next to them, these come from California.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, and how do you say? What are those green things? Culcumber? Culcumber?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
How do you say it? In America? Culcumber?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Good news? American farms churn out plenty of grains, dairy,
fruits and vegetables, and meat raised in the USA. Done
brown beef. But some produce on my list nowhere to
be found at this New York grocery store, including bananas Honduras, Honduras, Colombia, Honduras,
Avocados Mexico right there on the sticker and bell peppers.
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This is Canada, This is Mexico, Canada.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well, I didn't know bell peppers were flying in. I
knew avocados were in bananas, obviously, but I didn't know
bell peppers. Seems like everybody has a garden is growing
bell peppers.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
My shopping trip starts feeling like a scavenger hunt. Extra
virgin olive oil. How about the store brand here? Greece, Italy,
tu Nisia, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Portugal.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Nope, nothing in the USA with the olive oil.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
It looks like I'm gonna have to go with this
one that says it's one California.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But it's not cheap.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
This is twenty two.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Bucks for a bottle. Wow.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
American shrimp tougher to find Argentina, India, Indonesia, prompting us
to call three different grocery stores. Yeah, I'm looking for
American shrimp.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, that's gonna be tough. A lot of it comes
from India.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
The only place that had it a high end grocery
store in another town for twenty four dollars a pounds.
Sometimes buying American means spending more. Thank you so much,
We appreciate you. About eighty percent of the seafood consumed
in America comes from other countries strictly.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Did you know that? I had no idea that that's true.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
The seafood consumed in Listen to this number here, about
eighty percent of the seafood consumed in America comes from
other countries.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
No idea, eighty percent, eighty percent. I thought it all
came from that. You know, the world's most dangerous job,
all those guys fishing for crab up in Alaska.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Strictly American chocolate and coffee impossible to find. Classic snacks
like triscuts and oreos also off the table.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It triskets aren't made in American oreos are not made
in America.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Classic snacks like triskeuts and oreos also off the table.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I had no idea where they make of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Big Newtons are made in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Next up drinks. When it came to American wines, no problem.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
We'll go wide three out of natolik.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Okay, But what about tequila? Legally it has to come
from Mexico. What's the closest thing to tequila that we
could find that's American made?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
M milk nothing. I got it wrong.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Consumer Reports Brian Vines says, if you want to buy
all American, shop locally and seasonally, adding many iconic American
foods are important. It was really eye opening for me
to do a simple grocery run and realize things like
Oreo cookies or fig Newtons.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I were't how many different types of Oreos there were.
I was in Walmart last night and I counted seventeen
different kinds of Oreos just in one store in one day.
And imagine there's probably over the years, hundreds and hundreds
of different kinds of Oreos. You know, the double stuff,
the thin man and the covered uh you know, the
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white ones, the dark ones, the black and white ones.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
And they dominate.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
There were there was not another you know, uh cookie
on that shelf that stuck out and dominated like Oreos.
It's the number one cookie eleven months of the year.
You know what the twelfth month is Girl Scout cookies.
They're the only ones that take it take it down
one month of the year, all right, don't forget Whango
Tango's May tenth, that's a week from Saturday. Get your
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tomorrow a xs dot com. Do it before the prices
go up. All right, Conway show me Kelly next right
here on kf I AM six forty
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, we
don't normally do this, but we have a lot of
people live out in Palmdale, Lancaster Lake, Los Angeles, Quartz
Hill area. Uh, here's the phone number. Are you guys
getting worked by this storm right now? It looks like
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a lot of rain, a lot of thunder, a lot
of lightning, a lot of winds, possibly flash flooding. Does
storm just come through? Where am I misreading the radar here? Well,
we'll ask people. If you live in Palmdale and Low Valley,
call us at one eight hundred five two oh one
five three four. That's one eight hundred five to two
(00:46):
oh one five three four. Bellio's going to open the
phones or steph foh somebody will there they go, So
phone us up and tell us what's going on out there.
I'm nervous. We have a lot of listeners out there,
and I don't want anyone to get hurt or flooded
or lightning or thundered. Whatever's going on there. High winds,
(01:08):
high rain, crazy. So if you live out in the
Anil Valley, did some just come through or is this
an old raider I'm looking at that's possible as well.
All right, so if we get the phone calls, and
we might not, you might be all fighting that storm,
you know, batting down the hatches. So we'll see, we'll
see firsthand what's going on out there.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What's going on? All right?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The real ID we talked about it before. We can't
talk about it enough. You need a real ID starting
very soon or you're not going to get into government
buildings or.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Airplane seven days and counting till real ID becomes a reality.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, So do you know about the real ID?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, all right, so you have to May seven to
get that.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
At airports nationwide, a last minute push with a TSA
handing out reminder flyers.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Please make sure that they were giving this to passenger
that presents without a real ID.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
While a dozen states plus DC report more than ninety
percent compliance with the real ID law, sixteen states are
under fifty percent compliance. The lowest in the country is
New Jersey. Just seventeen percent have real IDs.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Wow, followed by that's an incredible low number. Seventeen percent
of people live in New Jersey. Those are people that
work in New York. You know, just did you live
in New Jersey doesn't mean you work in New Jersey.
You work in New York. You go off over that
bridge or through the tunnel every day, and you can't
get into a couple of federal buildings and you can't
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fly on a plane because you don't have your ID.
Only seventeen percent of the people in New Jersey have
a real ID.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The lowest in the country is New Jersey, just seventeen
percent what Happened have real IDs, followed by Pennsylvania, Maine, Alabama,
and Arizona. But getting a real idea appointment at local
DMVs can take weeks and months.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
In New Jersey, they don't have any openings until August.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
There's a multitude of appointments online for other things.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
You put zero appointments for the real ID, So that's
kind of nerve wracking.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The real ID deadline has been postponed four times already.
It's taken twenty years since the real ID law was passed.
And direct response to the nine to eleven hijackets.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, you've had twenty years to do this. If you
don't have one, that's on you. You had twenty years
to knock this out.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
We want to make sure that we know who's on
the plane. That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
New real IDs have a star, a California Bear, or
say enhanced in some states. If you don't have a
real ID or a passport, be prepared. You could be
selected for extra tsa screening.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Here we go. You can miss a flight.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You had seven thousand, three hundred days to get your
real ID. It first went into effect twenty years ago.
You had seven three hundred days.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
To get it. Let's multiply that.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
By twenty four you had one hundred and seventy five
thousand hours to get that ID. One hundred and seventy
five thousand hours. What'd you do?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You blow it?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You didn't get it? Are you listening to your car
right now swearing that you don't have one? That's on you.
It's not my fault, not Bellios, not Croziers, A little
bit groziers, but it's not steph uge. We've been telling
you for a long time to get them. It's on you.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You goofed for passengers who don't have the real idea.
How much extra time will the screen take?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
At least nine hours, nine hours, thirty.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Minutes on top of the two hours that we asked passengers.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
To show up at this time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So wait a minute, what thirty minutes on top of
the two hours that we asked.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Passengers to show up at this time?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, you know in Las Vegas, this is a sort
of a branch a story that branches off of this.
In Las Vegas on they had the busiest Monday they've
ever had, one hundred and twenty thousand people trying to
get out of Las Vegas. A lot of them had
been there for spring break. But you know now right
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now at the Las Vegas Airport.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Ow, you stepped on my foot? Up, move it? What
I said, move it. I'm trying to get this shop
for you.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I don't have big feet. Got almighty, man, you really
get involved. I can't imagine what living with you is like.
I thought you bang your knee again when you said no.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
She stepped on my foot. I've never had that happen before.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
The Las Vegas Airport they now recommend you get to
the airport three hours before your flight. So if you
have a three o'clock flight, you you got to get
there at noon, all right. To get to the airport
by noon from your Vegas hotel. That means you've got
to leave at eleven am, right, because traffic, you know,
(06:02):
the valet, the cab, whatever. You got to give yourself
an hour to get to the airport. Okay, she'd leave
at eleven am to get to the airport. You're at
the airport at noon. Your flight's at three. We're at
four hours already. The flight's an hour to LA we're
at five, and the trip home from LAX to your
house is an hour. If you're lucky, that's it. That's
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six hours. One two, three, four five six. That's six hours. No,
I'm sorry, six and a half hours. It takes you
a half hour to get off the plane, get your bags,
then get in the car, and takes you an hour
to get home. It's six and a half hours to
fly from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. It's four to drive,
four hours to drive, six and a half hours to fly.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Somebody goofed. I don't know who it is. All right,
we'll go back.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We're gonna take a couple of phone calls here and
find out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Or let's do real quick. Then here, let's put up
Nikki online.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Four Here, Nikki, what's going on out there in the
Annelo Valley.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is it raining?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
I'm an augdl sing. Yeah, it's pouring and we got
a lot of thunder. I haven't seen lightning, but yeah,
it's it's raining pretty good right now.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
For people outside, I mean you and I know where,
Aguadol says. But for people who don't know where it is.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Where is that it's between Canyon Country Palmdale.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, but it's pouring. Huh.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Yeah, it's poring pretty good around here. Trying to feed
the horses and getting drenched and you.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Know, taking wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I talk to you, Elizabeth. What's going on out there
in Annelo Valleys?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It pouring. I'm looking at radar, Elizabeth. I'm Tad just
in case. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're a lake Elizabeth. Sorry, buddy, Tad.
How are you no worries?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
I'm you're a good tending, good boy.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
How are you doing? I'm good? Okay. What's going on
out there?
Speaker 7 (07:57):
It's raining, it's pouring.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
There's a couple of cells that are really really heavy,
and we got lightning.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
We got any flash flooding going on, None that I've
driven into.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
I try and stay out of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But you know, okay, good, I'd be careful. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh that's amazing. Now were you a warned? Were you
aware that that weather was coming through?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I wasn't.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I was just I got my car washed earlier today.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh no, you're like me, dude. You're probably a racetrack guy,
Vegas guy to play the pony.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, you're a racetrack guy, and we always do things
the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Are you going out for the Kentucky Derby going to
San Nita.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I'm not going to sant Anita. I'm gonna be up north.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But you don't watch it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
They've got a great off track betting out there in
Anelope Valley.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
At the fairgrounds.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Yeah, you've been.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I've been a couple of times. I had a brother
who lived out in I don't know, somewhere in the desert.
My dad and I had to go out there because
he was fighting people. So my dad had to take
care of that.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And we stopped by the fair grounds on the way
back and lost some money at the Antelope Valley fair Grounds.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
It's beautiful inside. That's it's like a big barn. It
is that big red building.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yes, that's right. It's beautiful out there. Man, I'd love
to have lived out there. I tried to convince my
wife to move to Palmdale, Lancaster, and she said, no, but.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
You live in the you know, the Grand Burbank, don't you, buddy?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
You look pretty good.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I could add twice the property out there to buzz
around and get drunk and you know, ride at four
wheel or something.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, but you got that.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You got that police of the steps to people who
are who were out of line.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So that's pretty good too.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
All right, Buddy ding dong with you. Thanks for phoning. Man,
And everybody knows what a degenerate I am.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's weird. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Every guy calls up and goes, yeah, you got it
made out there. You go to talk, you go to Walmart,
you know, you got to a the good Will, You
pick up a guy good Will, You go to the track.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All right, all right, I gotta step it up.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So it's pouring out there, lightning, rain, thunder, craziness, and
it's coming towards you, Santa Clarita, it's coming towards you,
so be aware of that.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
You're listening to Tim conwayjun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, we were ahead of the government warning on that weather.
You just heard it flash flowed warning for parts of
Los Angeles County. And it is very very strong and
very dark under those clouds coming out of the desert
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right into Santa Clarita.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Let's see what time is it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Six It's six twenty three, twenty four, so it's right
now it's coming. Oh, you can almost see it come
over the hills. Now, it's coming over the hills. And
if it continues on that route and it does make
it over the hills, which is a question, it'll come
right into the city of San Fernando and right into
(11:10):
the valley. And this is a major cell that's really dark, pink,
which means lots of rain. There's a lot of lightning
associated with this and a lot of thunder if you
haven't put that together. From lightning comes thunder. And right
(11:30):
now it's right around six point thirty. I'll tell you
where that is. It's about twenty miles south of Palmdale,
and it's still looking pretty strong. So if you live
out in that area, it's right on Angelus Forest Highway
(11:52):
Angelus Forest Highway where Mill Mill Creek summits out there.
That's exactly where the storm is right now, and it's radical,
it's very dark, and a lot of people don't know this,
but if a storm comes directly south from Palmdale, if
you're standing in Palmdale and you took an airplane or
(12:13):
a helicopter, you would go right into Pasadena. So please
be aware that we just had the warning. All right, Dean,
sharp as we it's Dean. How are you, sir? I
feel responsible because I washed my car today.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh is that right? You know? That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's what gamblers do. You know, they wash their car
and they don't look at the weather. Well, I'm not
really a gambler, but I'll say you are today. You
know what they talked me in last month? My car
wash talked me into that monthly, right, okay, And I
was driving around this morning. I'm like, you know what,
it's not a sunny day. But I asked I asked
my I'm not going to say her name. I asked
(12:47):
my computer. Hey, what's the weather like? Is there any
rain in the forecast?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
None? None, whatsoever? Buddy.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
I'm like, all right, you know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna act like a rich guy. I'm just gonna
roll into the car and just get my car washed
because I've already paid for it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And now now what's happening?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Ye see, it's gonna you're gonna get bombed, although you
might miss it.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Are you getting any rain up there?
Speaker 8 (13:08):
And there's still I just checked, there's still zero moisture
in the forecast. So okay, I think he's gonna head
maybe over the I don't know. We'll see, we'll see.
Nobody expected this thing.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It is coming directly from Palmdale towards Alta Dina right now,
as if Alta Dina needs another punch in the gut. Yeah,
but I don't know, if you know, I was born
and raised here and I still didn't know this. But
if you're in Palmdale and you literally got in a
helicopter and went due south one hundred percent south without
you know, west or east one hundred percent south, you'd
(13:40):
end up in Pasadena. That's how far east Palmdale is. Yeah,
for sure, Yeah, absolutely true. That's gonna be radical. All right,
So spring has sprung the grasses, Riz, tell me where
the flowers is is? Are are people still doing spring
cleaning out here?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Or because we don't get snow as that not a
big deal.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Yeah, you know, I think we're kind of past that now,
you know, I think, tell you, tell you what. The
reason why this weekend we're focusing on the yard is
because that's that's where southern Calis go and breaks out right.
They're like, all right, I gotta I gotta get control
of these plants. I need uh, I need more birds
in my yard. I get this is the year that
we're gonna have a beautiful yard. Everybody, everybody says it
(14:25):
every year. But you know, we're gonna help you out
if you're serious. How we're gonna help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Quick question and we're gonna take a break here, But
I want you to come back and answers because you
know where and I do. Do bugs appers kill mosquitoes?
We'll come back. I want you to answer that because
I don't know. I know you know, but I don't know.
We come back. We're gonna, okay, we're gonna tell you
whether bug zappers, you know, the ones with the purple
light and that you hear, you know, you hear the
last seconds of their life that they're gone, do they
(14:52):
kill mosquitos or have any kind of effect with mosquitoes.
We'll come back and talk to Dean Sharp. It's good
raining like hell out there between Palmdale and Pasadena, coming
in towards Altadena area if it gets over the mountain.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
So be aware that you're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Dean Sharp is with us, and there's a lot of
rain happening from Annilal Valley all the way down to
the San Ferando Valley, so be aware that could be lightning,
thunder and flash flooding. So, Dean Sharp, the big question is,
I know you're not the bug guy. Do bug zappers
have any kind of effect on mosquitoes?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
All right? So, because I don't want one hundred emails.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Ah, you're going to get them, all right, because I
don't want that. I'm not going to say that bugs
zappers have never killed a mosquito, all right, But I
will tell you this, When a bug zapper kills a mosquito,
it's completely by accident, exactly right. Because here's the thing.
Mosquitoes are not driven by attraction to light. That's not
(15:58):
what they're looking for, right, So bug zappers are all
about that UV that black light bulb right in the middle.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's all.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
You know, it's drawn all kinds of insects, useful insects,
by the way. So I'm not a huge fan of
the bugs apper regardless, but you know, it's attracting moths,
you know, like moths to a flame. Moths are attracted.
Mosquitoes are attracted to uh, They're they're attracted to the
plumes of carbon dioxide. They're they're attracted to our exhale.
(16:27):
They're attracted to our body odor, they are attracted to
lactic acids on our skin. That is what mosquitoes are
looking for. And when they're first flying around and headed
your way, they turn in your direction because they literally
detect a plume of CO two coming off of you
as you're sitting outside just exhaling, right, So that's what
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draws a mosquito in, not a UV light. And so
that's that's the god honest truth. Unfortunately, you go on
Amazon right now, if you were to put if you
were to type in mosquito, you know killing device, you're
going to get like eight hundred hits to bug zappers.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And unfortunately, it's just it's not true.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You know, if I didn't see this myself, I wouldn't
have believed it. But we were up in Oregon late summer,
and I was on a friend's boat and his wife
got off to go into the forest and go peepee.
And when she came back, she was running towards the
boat and she had a cloud of mosquitoes tailing her.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It has happened.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
It was unbelievable. Never seen any Look at my life.
I am a nature boy right of everybody in my family.
I'm probably the one who wants to be demands to
be outside more than anybody else. And I don't know
what it is about me. You know, I bathe, I'm clean,
but you know, I chalk it up to being like
my blood type is O negative. I'm the universal donor.
(17:51):
And every mosquito in the world knows it. They're like
that guy. It's like with you.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I've had some decent luck with thermossel. If you had
any luck with that.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Thermoicel is a great little device that it puts out
a very very fine missed spray. It's not citronella or
anything like that. And as long as the wind isn't
blowing really heavily, if you got a little thermicell unit,
little battery charged thermicell unit. Set it next to you.
It's got about an effective twenty foot range.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
And so sometimes when we have people out on the
deck for an evening around the fire pit, I'll put
three or four out around and you know what, nobody complains, Oh,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I used the thermoscell and I had it literally on
my nightstand and I sparked it up, and my wife said, hey,
I think that's exterior only, and I said, I don't
give an f.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It is, though. You should really listen to her, tim.
I really sure.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
As long as I can not as long as I
don't get bit by a mosquito, I'm firing that sucker
up right next to me.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Yeah, okay, well, you know what can you do? You
didn't hear it here, but I'll tell you what they're that.
You know, you guys can find that at the local
sporting good store. I think they're at the big boxes.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Dude.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
They're about fifty bucks and there they are all.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Worth every dime every single time. My wife loves the
humming bird feeders. We've got a bunch of hummingbirds around,
but bees can't see that. I constantly see bees running
into this thing?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is that just me?
Speaker 8 (19:23):
Well, you know, it's not that they're it's not that
they can't see the feeder. But I don't know, I
don't know if everybody's ever wondered about this, because we're
gonna be talking about bees. Spring swarms are going to
be happening very short here, right, and everybody's going to
freak out and call pest control and say there's a
hive living in my tree and it's not true. So
we're gonna explain what the difference of that is this weekend.
(19:45):
But uh, yeah, it's an interesting thing, right. Hummingbirds and
bees are after the same stuff. After they're after okay,
so they're competitors. And if you ever wondered why humming
bird feeders are always red or the syrup that you
put in them is red, it's because bees don't see red.
They don't see red. Their vision is biased towards the
(20:09):
ultraviolet end of the spectrum, not the red end of
the spectrum. So hummingbirds are like, you know what, damn it,
we can see red. And so hummingbirds take advantage of
red flowers because they get tired of arriving at regular
colored flowers and finding that the bees have gotten there
first and have totally drained them. Well, the bees thing
the hummingbirds, I don't know. I've never seen a bee
(20:33):
in a hummingbird actually get into a fight. I think
hommy the hommybrids are just frustrated that when there's a
lot of bees in the area, the flowers are all empty,
and so that's why they focus on red flowers. I
know you know a lot about trees.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
What is a good rule of thumb on when to
plant and how big a tree?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Were your favorites?
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Well, you know what, now is a great time to
plant a tree because you know we're heading right in
to growth season. It is not a good time to
do a severe pruning of a tree, though, Okay, you
don't want to shock the tree when it's trying to
stretch its arms out now and begin its growth cycle.
We want to wait till the tree falls asleep, you know,
like a good patient on the operating take. We don't
(21:15):
operate when they're awake.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So you can trim it. You can't just go a
radical on it.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, No, no heavy pruning until autumn. But
right now, you know, you trim it up a little bit. No,
not a problem. But now it's a great timber plant.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And as far as tree size, hey, you know me,
the bigger the better. Yeah, and as big as you
can afford.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I love your rule of thumb that if you spend
thirty thousand dollars on a tree in your front yard,
your property value double. I mean, your property value goes
up twice what you spent on the tree, at least.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
At least that's just a fact. Not that I'm encouraging
the average homeowner to spend thirty thousand dollars. But the
fact of the matter is that if you're thinking about, like,
you know, what, what are we going to do? How
are we going to invest in our house and make
a make a huge ROI here is a reality. You
put a feature size tree, I mean one that comes
(22:07):
in like a six foot box. Okay, you drop a
feature size, full grown tree in the front yard, and
that could cost you, you know, twenty thirty grand. The
National Institute of Realtors will tell you that on average,
that will raise the value of your house ten percent. Well,
think about that. Think about how what whatever your house
(22:28):
is worth. Let's say your house is worth seven point
fifty Okay, that means a thirty thousand dollars tree. The
second it goes in the ground, just raise the value
of your house seventy five thousand dollars. What a great investment.
It is a great investment.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And it also helps with the shade, it helps with
the you know, the energy bills. They're just really it's
really terrific to have a bunch of trees around.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
There is absolutely nothing wrong with planting a tree, zero
things wrong with it. Helps the climate, helps the environment,
helps the neighborhood, helps you, helps the pocketbook. It's it's
the right thing to do.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So this weekend, Saturday six to eight and Sunday nine
am to noon, it's going to all be about the
backyard and getting ready for spring and summer.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Absolutely, birds, bees, flowers, trees, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm glad you came on tonight because I worried that
you were that fan in Pittsburgh that fell out of
the stands onto the field.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm glad that wasn't you. No, it wasn't. I wasn't.
I was worried too. Thanks for coming on, man, see it.
But all right, there he goes Dean Shart at the
house whisper to.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Mar No Saturday at six am until eight am and
then nine am until noon.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I kept thinking today's Friday for some reason. Yeah, I know,
I get that.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Were getting word that it's raining in the San Fernando Valley.
That storm that hit Palmdale is now coming into the
northern parts of the sand. Oh I just saw lightning.
How about that? Oh that was a reflection the TV. Sorry,
but it's coming towards the San Fernando Valley. It's raining
in parts of Burbank and the North Valley. So if
(24:10):
you're out near the five, the two ten, Lacannata to
the east San Fernando, the city of San Fernando, be
aware that this storm, this cell is coming and it's
bringing lightning, thunder and lots of rain with it. And
it's gonna if it makes it over the hill, completely
over the hill, it's going to come right into the
(24:30):
small little town of San Fernando, the city of San Fernando,
not the valley, and I believe that's where it is
right now. So you got the two ten up there,
the five, the four or five, the fourteen freeway. All
of it is experiencing rain, sometimes heavy. We just had
an emergency alert about it, so it's pretty radical in
(24:54):
some areas. Be aware of that, Be aware of that
storm that could really pack a punch. All right, cars
breaking down? All where the safest cars are?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
What do we got? Who?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
What do you say You're going to buy your kids
a safe car? If they're just starting to drive, you
want them a lot of great you know, us steal
around them or foreign steal, but a lot around to
protect them.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Between one point eight and two point eight million new
drivers a year hit the road for the first time.
Most of those are teams, and teams are three times
more likely to die in a crash than older drivers.
This list is intended to equip parents with suggestions on
safe vehicles that can be had regardless of your budget.
The annual rankings identify vehicles at three price points. The
(25:42):
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Consumer Reports rate as
safe for newly licensed drivers seventy four models under ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Wait, there's seventy four models of cars that are under
ten grand.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Seventy four models under ten thousand dollars, another forty eight
come with automatic emergency break and highly rated headlights that
can be found for under twenty thousand. A third priceier
batch includes twenty two new twenty twenty five vehicles equipped
with the latest crash prevention and safety technology, including a
seat belt reminder.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
It's a really important thing for teens because we know
teens are less likely.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
To buckle up. IIHS Senior VP Jessica Jermakian.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Parents should be looking to buy as much safety as
they can afford.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Do you hear that? That's a great rule of thumb.
Might be the best lesson we've played for you all year.
If you have kids that are just starting to drive,
listen to this carefully. If you have sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
year old kids, parents.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Should be looking to buy as much safety as they
can afford.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Okay, that is a great rule of thumb. Buy as
much safety for your kids as you can afford.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
We're looking for vehicles that will protect the teen in
the event of a crash and also help them prevent
the crash in the first place.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
The vehicles range from small sedans to large cars, small
and medium sized SUVs and minivans, with all earning good
crash ratings from IIHS. Not on the list especially small cars,
especially big SUVs, sports cars, or electric vehicles because they
have so much power they can rapidly accelerate. In IHS
(27:15):
says that might not be the best thing for a
new team driver. What's on the list Nissan CenTra used
between twenty fifteen or newer. You can have those on
average for as low as forty four hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's an amazing price. Forty four hundred bucks for a
Nissan CenTra that's a safe car.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
A Volvo S eighty also, even a Bui Concourse. Small
SUVs that can be had on the used market starting
well below ten thousand dollars up to newer vehicles that
have all the bells and whistles.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay, speaking of made in the USA, how easy is
it to buy only American made stuff?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Fairly complicated to do.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I believe could I complete my shopping list with one
big twist buy only American products?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
That's gona be very difficult to do, young ladies. First up, food.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Okay, so this is my regular list of staples. Plus
I want to make a shrimp pasta this weekend, so
we'll see how we do. First, stop bread made in
the USA. No problem with bread, all right?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Bread great? All right? What else is next?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
We'll see how we do. First stop, bread made in
the USA. No problem with bread, okay. Milk this also
made in California. Got to get the bacon. This is
made in Virginia. We're good so far on USA products.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Orange.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So it sounds so far. It sounds like a health nut.
Lots of bread, bacon, and milk.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Oranges, lettuce, strawberries, even rice easy to find. And I
made some swaps too. I need some tomatoes for the
pasta dish. These are a product of Canada. But good
news right next to them, these come from California.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, and how do you say? What are those green things? Culcumber? Culcumber?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
How do you say it? In America? Culcumber?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Good news? American farms churn out plenty of grains, dairy,
fruits and vegetables, and meat raised in the USA. Done
brown beef. But some produce on my list nowhere to
be found at this New York grocery store, including bananas Honduras, Honduras, Colombia, Honduras,
Avocados Mexico right there on the sticker and bell peppers.
(29:19):
This is Canada, This is Mexico, Canada.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well, I didn't know bell peppers were flying in. I
knew avocados were in bananas, obviously, but I didn't know
bell peppers. Seems like everybody has a garden is growing
bell peppers.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
My shopping trip starts feeling like a scavenger hunt. Extra
virgin olive oil. How about the store brand here? Greece, Italy,
tu Nisia, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Portugal.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Nope, nothing in the USA with the olive oil.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
It looks like I'm gonna have to go with this
one that says it's one California.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But it's not cheap.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
This is twenty two.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Bucks for a bottle. Wow.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
American shrimp tougher to find Argentina, India, Indonesia, prompting us
to call three different grocery stores. Yeah, I'm looking for
American shrimp.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, that's gonna be tough. A lot of it comes
from India.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
The only place that had it a high end grocery
store in another town for twenty four dollars a pounds.
Sometimes buying American means spending more. Thank you so much,
We appreciate you. About eighty percent of the seafood consumed
in America comes from other countries strictly.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Did you know that? I had no idea that that's true.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
The seafood consumed in Listen to this number here, about
eighty percent of the seafood consumed in America comes from
other countries.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
No idea, eighty percent, eighty percent. I thought it all
came from that. You know, the world's most dangerous job,
all those guys fishing for crab up in Alaska.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Strictly American chocolate and coffee impossible to find. Classic snacks
like triscuts and oreos also off the table.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It triskets aren't made in American oreos are not made
in America.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Classic snacks like triskeuts and oreos also off the table.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I had no idea where they make of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Big Newtons are made in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Next up drinks. When it came to American wines, no problem.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
We'll go wide three out of natolik.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Okay, But what about tequila? Legally it has to come
from Mexico. What's the closest thing to tequila that we
could find that's American made?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
M milk nothing. I got it wrong.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Consumer Reports Brian Vines says, if you want to buy
all American, shop locally and seasonally, adding many iconic American
foods are important. It was really eye opening for me
to do a simple grocery run and realize things like
Oreo cookies or fig Newtons.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I were't how many different types of Oreos there were.
I was in Walmart last night and I counted seventeen
different kinds of Oreos just in one store in one day.
And imagine there's probably over the years, hundreds and hundreds
of different kinds of Oreos. You know, the double stuff,
the thin man and the covered uh you know, the
(32:02):
white ones, the dark ones, the black and white ones.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
And they dominate.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
There were there was not another you know, uh cookie
on that shelf that stuck out and dominated like Oreos.
It's the number one cookie eleven months of the year.
You know what the twelfth month is Girl Scout cookies.
They're the only ones that take it take it down
one month of the year, all right, don't forget Whango
Tango's May tenth, that's a week from Saturday. Get your
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