February 27, 2025 • 32 mins
No Amazon, No Walmart.’ Protest calling for ‘economic blackout’ has some celebrity support. // Weather forecast on the eyesight for Oscar Sunday. / The nominations for the 2025 Oscars.// Menendez Brothers’ family hold news conference after Newsom orders risk assessment of possible release // Couple says they were forced to sit next to dead body for hours on Qatar flight/ Retail Closures as forecast for as many as 15,000 brick and mortar retail stores to close this year
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, there's gonna be an economic blackout on Friday, that's tomorrow.
They're gonna want everyone to stop buying crap tomorrow on Friday.
And I have a different opinion. I love my local Target, Walmart,
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Lowe's Home Depot. Those are the stores I go to
Ralph's Pavilions, and they suffered a lot during COVID. A
lot of people stayed away from COVID, A lot of
people were shoplifting after COVID. I saw shoplifting almost every
time I went out to any of those stores. Almost
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every time you saw somebody stealing something. And so these
stores have been under a tremendous amount of pressure for
the last five years. You see a lot of them
closing that forever twenty one they're going to close. There's
another there's a couple more stores that are tinkering with bankruptcy.
And eventually, if they all close, we're just going to
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have Amazon. That'll be our only option, and you won't
be able to They'll they'll be able to charge whatever
they want on Amazon, and we'll have to pay it.
That'll be a wrap. If you've gone to a mall
right late lately especially, you know, I think a sign
that a mall is not doing well is when there's
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a karate place in the mall. You know, kids are
kicking and screaming and punching each other, there's a karate
joint in the mall. I think that's the first sign
it's not going in the right direction. Another one when
there's an organized church in a mall. You know, our
Lady of Westfield or whatever they whatever it is, if
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there's a mall that has a church inside. Not going good,
not going well at home, and these malls are going
to go out of business if people stop spending money
and so the economic blackout. Well, you know, I understand
you want to get the attention of people. I think
we're taking out on the wrong folks, on the wrong businesses.
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You know, Target's a great business, Walmart, Lowe's Home Depot,
h Ross Dress for Less, all these stores are great staples,
and they're going to go away. If you keep boycotting
them and you don't show up and buy your stuff there,
they're going to go away. And then you're going to
be bummed, you got nowhere to go?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
February twenty eighth to twenty four hour economic blackout. No Amazon,
no Walmart, no fast food, no guess, not a single
unnecessary dollar spent for one day. We are going to
finally turn the.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Tables on what Who are you going to turn the
tables on? The people that work there?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Maybe you've seen segments like this on your social feeds.
This call for an economic blackout has been spreading. An
activist of urging Americans to refrain from making any purchases.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
How are you going to not buy anything?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You're gonna buy everything today, your stock up today, and
then not buy anything tomorrow. That doesn't work. That's the
store doesn't care. I heard mel Kelly talk about this
the other night, and he's right. You know, the stores
they operate on quarterly profits, not daily or hourly. And
he had a great point.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
A major retailers tomorrow on Friday. The nationwide protest comes
as people continue to endure rising prices on everything from
food and gas to housing and utilities. National consumer reporter
for USA Today, Betty Lynn Fisher, joins US Now from Akron, Ohio.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Betty, how you doing? What do you say?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
What?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Do you know, to talk about what this all means?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
So fill us in what is the purpose specifically of
this blackout morning?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
So you know, this started out, as you just saw
the video of John Schwartz, who goes by the one
called Jay on Instagram, and he says it started as
a bold idea where he was frustrated and wanted to
have consumers take take back a day and you know,
take a day starting tomorrow after midnight and for twenty
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four hours not to shop or spend any any money
anywhere in person or online, to just try to make
an impact on what he calls corporate greed.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Is there any hint to evidence as to how much
this is catching on and which companies we heard him
mention some of them, but which ones are being targeted?
And why this date of February twenty eight Yeah, I think,
you know, I.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Think he just came up with a date when he
was when he was coming up with this bold idea
for one day to start with.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
It does seem that this, this.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
You know, has become kind of a viral social media movement.
There has been a lot of there are also in
addition to this, this is this is the People's Union
is John Schwartz's group.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
This is kind of their initial one day boycott.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
They have since expanded and they'll be doing some other
other events too.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It sounds like a fun group, right everybody he sits
at home and doesn't do anything so.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Tomorrow for tomorrow. There's not any specific company that is targeted.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
They have mentioned companies like Target and Walmart and Amazon.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, if you stop going to Target, Target's going to
close stores.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Companies like Target and Walmart and Amazon. But the idea
is not to spend money anywhere.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Okay, So it's up to me.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I got to go out and spend a lot of
money tomorrow at Target. I urge people to do the opposite.
Go spend as much as you can afford tomorrow at Target,
Load up on Walmart, hit Lows, maybe Home Depot, maybe
both of them. You know, it's a nice day out.
What the hell?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
But then there are other efforts by the People's Union
as well as other organizations that have been upset with
companies such as Target and Walmart and Amazon.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Why are we upset with Target and Walmart?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
What have they done that have rolled back their diversity,
equity and inclusion efforts, as well as President Trump's elimination
of federal DEI.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Ah, it's all political, okay.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Programs since taking office.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, that's something I had seen over So if Kamala
Harris had won, would there be a boycott, No, not
at all.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So it's all political.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's the Democrats want you to stay home and not
spend any money. So if you're a Republican, go out
and spend as load of money.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Program since taking office.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, that's something I had seen over the past month,
as people voicing ways that they could show frustration from
DEI policies being rolled back. Is this likely to have
an impact on the economy though? I mean, one single
day of buying things you don't need could be supplemented
by buying them on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
That's right. Yeah, you know it's not going to have
any effect at all, right.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Right, you know, it remains to be seen.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
You know, I think that it's hard to know whether
or not there really is going to be something quantifiable
to show data that one day it's not.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
It's not kind of any packed at.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
All has made an impactor.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Like you said, first of all, nobody really knows about it.
I mean I just heard about it two days ago.
And it's not a it's not an international thing, it's
not a you know, a widely publicized event.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It's it's on the fringe.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Has made an impactor.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Like you said that people aren't buying today or aren't
buying on Saturday. There are other efforts by this group
and others to expand their boycotts to you know, week
long or month long. There are some that are right
now indefinitely boycotting Target. There is a call by the
religious community to start on ash Wednesday, March fifth of
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forty day fast of Target.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Also GI and Initiative.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Interesting people trying to figure out different ways of getting
the messages.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Hood. All right, there's a.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Good idea boycotting Target. Go boycott Target until they move
it out of your neighborhood. And then you've got to
get in a car and drive thirty miles to go
to your nearest Target. Right idea, dumbest idea ever. So
go out there tomorrow and spend as much as you
can at the all let's try to offset this thing.
I love Target, I love Walmart. I don't care about
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the politics. I loved it during Biden, I loved it
during Trump I loved it during Bush and you know,
an Obama. I just like the stars. Why does that
be political? Everything has to be political? That's right, that's right.
That's my favorite part of Walmart. I like the food,
and I do like their prices, by the way, But
everything is always political everything. You know, you listen to radio,
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you watch TV. I'm watching TV right now. There's one, two, three.
There's four stations on right now, Channel five, Channel four,
Channel two, and channel eleven. Three of them are about
politics right now. One of them has Trump on it.
The other one is talking about the beach and the
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erosion of the beach. Global warming is on one of them,
and then the fire debris where that's gonna go. That's
sort of well, that's not really as political as people think.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But there's politics and everything. Everything is consumed by politics.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And now we're gonna stay home and not spend any
money and involve politics and yet another area of our
life until it's involved in every single area. I guess
that's the key, right, Involve politics and every single thing
you say, every single thing you do, and it's going
to be a turnoff. Eventually, it's gonna be a huge turnoff,
you know, When I go home and watch TV. I
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watch a little bit of politics, but I'm done by
about eight o'clock and I want nothing to do with it.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I don't care either side. I just want out. And
I hear you on that, you know, I just want
to sit and watch it. But Denny, you start watching
TV and they start involving politics in plot lines as well.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
It's unreal. Can't get away from it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, maybe you can't hear for a little while, a
little while, you know, some things we do.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
But I like to try to stay with him.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (10:07):
You got the Oscars coming up. I know people are
really excited about that. Oscars are going to be on Sunday.
And you know, the last couple of days, it's been
eighty five ninety ninety seven. I think in Palm Springs yesterday,
I think I was a record breaker. And but is
it going to cool down for the oscars?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I guess we could find out. I think it's going
to rain for the oscars. He usually does, you know,
usually rains in the day before the day of find
out what's going to do this year. It's a big
deal for the Oscars. Bad vibes with this rain. Hope
that the rent doesn't rain these people out.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Danny Romero and the weather forecast.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
We now are within eyesight of the Oscars making sure
that tent is secure.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, you got a great shout of that. Look.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
Of course that be the reason because now this warm
weather ahead, we're now winding that down. And then here
comes the whole different story now, Clauds and yes, precipitation
rearing its ugly head right now. But down the Hollywood
Booevar we go, and there you can see the preparations
going on under that the covering will be the Oscars
Red carpet.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
And so let's give an idea.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
I think, look at noon on the red carpet show
hits US and it will go with sixty four degrees
the temperature, and there's forty percent chance of showers. By
the time you get to the actual show itself at
four pm outside sixty two degrees, forty percent chance of
showers there as well. We head towards nine PM, are
after the award show, cooling down now to sixty degrees
and had a little greater chance, fifty percent chance of
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showers right there on the Hollywood Boulevard of Dreams now today.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, all right, So it might rain during the Oscars,
might rain, and we're in the countdown to the Oscars.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Man, it's gonna happen on Sunday.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
It's hard to.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
Believe I'm standing on Hollywood Boulevard because this place is
getting so luxurious.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I mean, there's still something.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I think this is Sophie Flay. It sounds like Sophie
Flay with the ABC News.
Speaker 13 (11:54):
I mean, there's still some things to do over the
next few days, but the producers say there are some
exciting things in store.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Let's find out what these things are. So they rip
their pants. Oh no, somebody didn't get ozembic. They tore
through their jeans.
Speaker 13 (12:10):
The red carpet has been rolled down and hundreds of
people are working on the fishing touches, from lighting to
camera positioning and everything in between. It's a massive effort
here at the Adobey Theater. I'm told the iconic Oscar
statues are being brought in.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Wow, how about that? The iconic statues are bringing.
Speaker 13 (12:27):
Broad Is statues are being brought in today. We're lucky
that Hollywood Boulevard is right in our backyard. But media
from all over the world will get a spot on
these risers to get close to the stars.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, and you're gonna hear that from the stars they
rip their pants apart.
Speaker 13 (12:43):
The only star we've seen so far is Oscar's host
Conan O'Brien, who helped roll out the red carpet yesterday.
Speaker 14 (12:48):
I think his host I cannot ignore the moment we're in,
but I also have to remember it's threading a needle.
I also have to remember what we're here to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
My God, is he going to be serious for this
Oscars or are going to be a Hopefully it's.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Not ignore the moment we're in. Ah, come on, Conan,
come on buddy.
Speaker 14 (13:11):
I think his host I cannot ignore the moment we're in,
righte jokes, But I also have to remember what it's
threading a needle. I also have to remember what we're
here to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yes, Yes, celebrate the craziness in Hollywood.
Speaker 13 (13:25):
The Oscars team says the devastating only wildfires in January
will be incorporated into this year's theme.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
There will be a charitable component that people will be
able to interact with and they're free to donate if
they would like to. And there's special moments that are
that are going to happen throughout the show.
Speaker 13 (13:43):
The evening, we'll also pay tribute to Quincy Jones with
the performance from Queen Latifa. The Glamorous Night is just
three days away. Amelia Perez is the top nominated film
of the year with thirteen total nominations.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Have you seen that Crows? You see everything? Amelia Perez?
I tried watching it, Oh, about a half hour in
nothing huh through the flagon.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
It's all music and foreign language. Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It's a little bit uh yeah, a little tough to follow.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'm out. That's me getting out of the tent.
Speaker 13 (14:16):
Amelia Perez is the top nominated film of the year
with thirteen total nominations. A complete unknown in Conclave round
out the top nominated film Conclave.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Did you look at that? No, it is absolutely on
the list. I just keep hearing more and more great
things from all Yeah, same here. I want to watch
it so bad. I'm wann to look at that.
Speaker 13 (14:31):
Tonight Films with eight knots a piece.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
There'll be a lot of moments in the show where
we'll be pulling back the curtain and taking a look
at some of those behind the scenes stories as well
as celebrating everybody in.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Front of the camera.
Speaker 13 (14:41):
Yeah, and guys, you can see that they have a
tarp over the carpet here. They're trying to keep it
pristine before Sunday, but then that'll be peeled away as
they get ready for the stars.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
There you go, all right, the Oscars. It's a big deal.
This is a company town, company down, and it's a
big deal on Sunday. A lot of people, the entire
world is going to be looking at us on Sunday,
the whole world.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
So let's behave.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Nobody you know, raced down Hollywood, you know, running into
the tent.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Nobody you know.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Lighting off firecrackers or you know, stealing purses or pickpocketing.
Let's try to behave while the world looks at us
on Sunday. Because my mom used to say, when we
go to see the world, the world sees us.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
So let's try to behave on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Can you just try it a little bit, just a
little bit, give it a shot. Behave on Sunday, and
then on Monday you can start going crazy again. Right,
because La throws a lot at you, man a lot.
You come out here for vacation, you gotta be on
your toes. There's a lot of crap in the city.
So let's behave on Sunday while the world's watching us.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
All right, thanks, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
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Speaker 2 (15:53):
Benende's family had a huge news conference, and I want
to play it for you on interrupt.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I don't want to interrupt it. I want to play
for you uninterrupted.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
They're talking after Governor Newsom made comments about the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
So let's go.
Speaker 15 (16:09):
Currently in my home office. So that means we are
going to hope that Amazon does not decide to deliver
to my house with the next forty five minutes or so,
where you're going to hear my dogs lose their minds.
So with that, I had you have some remarks. This
is a pretty exciting time for us as the family
of Eric and Lyle Menendez, and I'd like to start
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with Governor Newsom's actions yesterday. They are a positive step
forward towards Eric and Lyles release. We are incredibly grateful
that Governor Newsom is paying attention to this case, particularly
those of us, those older family members, my mother, Terry Barralt,
Joan Vandermullen, Kitty's sister. This is for our family. It
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is a huge sigh of relief that someone in a
seat of power is paying attention to what we have
seen up close. Since Eric and Lyle have been incarcerated.
We have seen their rehabilitation over the last three decades,
with no hope until of release.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Until now.
Speaker 15 (17:13):
Eric and Lyle have changed countless lives since their conviction
in nineteen ninety six. Inmates have seen it, corrections, the
officers have seen it, and now we need the entire
criminal justice system to see it. The resentencing process has
been a long journey for us. Now with the new
directive to the Parole Board, we are confident that they
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will determine the brothers are not a risk to public safety,
proving what we have said all along.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Importance in this process is that this is not a
political one.
Speaker 15 (17:44):
We look forward to their transparency and for the findings
that they will that will be released for everyone to see. Now,
let's take a look at the criteria the parole Board
will look at. Number one is remorse Eric and Lyle
have expressed in men's remorse for their actions that night,
in the month and in the months after, repeatedly, decade
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after decade. I can personally attest to that.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
They look at. Number two is social history.
Speaker 15 (18:13):
Inmates, Corrections officers, and administrators have all gone on record
to say Eric and Lyle have been modeled people while incarcerated.
They have run several programs to mentor inmates who they
knew would see the freedom that they wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
That is remarkable.
Speaker 15 (18:29):
Third, plans for the future. The parole board will look
at their plans for the future, and Eric and Lyle
have already done so much tangible good work while incarcerated
for society. If released, they will continue to build on
the work they've started. They'll look at institutional behavior. Everything
I've just touched on shows that they have gone above
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and beyond to not only function within the walls of
a prison, but improve the culture of that facility. Through
their work, improved the community that surrounds them.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
And then they look at their age.
Speaker 15 (19:05):
You know, Eric and Lyle are both in their fifties,
we all are.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
They have spent the majority.
Speaker 15 (19:11):
Of their lives incarcerated, and incredibly they've managed to build
meaningful lives year after year, program after program, and then
they'll look at their lack of criminal history. They don't
have a prior criminal record outside of making a horrific
decision as a direct result of the abuse dured for
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over a decade. The parole board must also factor in
the fact that Eric and Lyle were still kids at
the time of their actions. So Lyle was twenty one
and Eric was eighteen at the time of the killens.
There is overwhelming scientific research that proves the human brain,
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especially areas that regulate impulse control and decision making, is
not fully developed until some is in their mid twenties.
As the mother of a seventeen and eighteen year old boys,
I can attest to that as well. Both the legislature
and the courts have recognized that youthful offenders have diminished
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moral culpability and a greater capacity for rehabilitation based on
widely accepted scientific evidence on adolescent brain development. They must
take that into consideration. I'll pass it over to Tamla.
Speaker 16 (20:32):
Thanks Anna, Maria. I just really want to go over
everything that they have done since they were convicted in
nineteen ninety six. I think it's incredibly important to stress
that Eric and Lyle went in to prison intocarceration during
their formative years and have for all intents and purposes,
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created careers for themselves while they have been incarcerated, and
that is incredibly moving for all of us. While incarcerated,
Eric has created and led several impactful programs which I
will detail now. The Life Care and Hospice Connections Program,
which is an eighty eight awareness and support group assisting
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disabled and elderly inmates while educating others about the challenges
faced by less able peers. The Victim Impact and Empathy
Program or VIBE, is a workshop fostering understanding and empathy
by incorporating victim impact elements from the Life Care and
Hospice curriculum. Alternatives to Violence Project AVP.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Is a series of.
Speaker 16 (21:43):
Workshops promoting non violent conflict resolution, self awareness, empathy, and
community building. The Starlight Piece Project is a program capturing
images of peace and areas affected by violence. It has
successfully coordinated thirty event leaders and engaged over one hundred
and fifty participants. Eric has also led twelve Step and
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meditation classes. This combines the twelve steps of Alcoholics, anonymous
and narcotics synonymous with mindfulness meditation and meditation practices, Insight
Meditation workshops which introduces inmates to the physical, emotional, and
spiritual benefits of mindfulness meditation. Eric has received dozens of
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commendations from prison supervisors for his leadership, mentorship, and his
service to fellow inmates, which are all detailed in the
People's motion requesting eleven seventy two point one recall of
sentence and resentencing hearing and with that, I will let
Anne Maria go into Lyle's.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Details of rehabilitation Thanks Tamra.
Speaker 15 (23:00):
Lyle has also made significant contributions creating and leading impactful programs.
The Adverse Childhood Experience in Rehabilitation AS program is a
program helping offenders explore their childhood experiences and impact and
impact and contributions to criminal behavior.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
The Green Space Project.
Speaker 15 (23:21):
Spearheading reducing recidivism by normalizing the prison environment. Over one
hundred inmates participated, marking the first time prison administration entrusted
an inmate to.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Lead such a redesign.
Speaker 15 (23:39):
The Rehabilitation Through Beautification Project r TV, a volunteer effort
supporting the Green Space Project through mural painting and landscaping.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Okay, all right, you got the idea, you know of
what's going on.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
We have an unusual flight that a couple says they
were forced to sit next to a dead body for
four hours. Hours and hours sitting next to a dead
body on a plane.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Wow, man, oh man? What happened here? How this go down?
Speaker 17 (24:20):
Some very tough moments for multiple families on a flight
from Australia after a passenger unexpectedly died.
Speaker 12 (24:26):
On board the flight.
Speaker 17 (24:28):
The body then seated next to an Australian couple for hours.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
A couple says it happened during their.
Speaker 17 (24:33):
Fifteen hour Cutter Airways flight from Melbourne to Doha.
Speaker 18 (24:37):
The airline in a statement to Nby by the way,
they don't say this in this story, but it was
a couple, an Australian couple, and they.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Noticed that the dead body was fourteen rows in front
of him, and the guy said, hey, we'll take that body,
put it between me and my wife for four hours.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
And that's how this's happened.
Speaker 17 (25:01):
It was offering their condolences to the relatives of the
person who died and apologizing for the distress. We don't
have any details on the passenger who died or their
cause of death. Kelly KOBEA is joining.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Us now, and they don't turn around. The person died,
they don't turn around. That's odd. They must have been
more than halfway there, I guess wherever they were going
on cutter airlines.
Speaker 17 (25:20):
Just a difficult situation for so many here when somebody
dies in the middle of a flight.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yeah, especially the guy that died, right.
Speaker 17 (25:27):
Just a difficult situation for so many here when somebody
dies in the middle of a flight.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, mostly for the guy that died, the crew.
Speaker 17 (25:34):
Kind of figuring out what to do. The couple says
there were other seats on the plane. What happened here
in cases like this is to move the deceased person
to a seat with a few passengers, or to a
place with no passengers, if at all possible.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But yeah, but on a full flight, got to stick
them next to somebody. Somebody drew the short straw.
Speaker 19 (25:51):
Look, here's what happened. The husband and wife, Mitchell Ring
and Jennifer Collins. So the fellow passenger, a woman, came
out of the restroom about ten hours into the flight,
and collapsed very close to them in the aisle.
Speaker 12 (26:02):
They said the flight.
Speaker 19 (26:03):
Crew did everything they could to help her, but that
she simply couldn't be saved.
Speaker 12 (26:07):
Ring says.
Speaker 19 (26:08):
The crew then tried to move her up to business
class with an onboard wheelchair, but struggled to her move
her through the aisle.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And that's when he said, the crew, Okay, now what
she's you can read between the lines when what she's
trying to say here is the woman was huge in
the three hundred range to four hundred range, and they
could not move her.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
But struggled to get her.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
That's what that means. The long s unstruggled means big person.
Speaker 12 (26:41):
But struggled to her move her through the aisle. And
that's when he said.
Speaker 19 (26:46):
The crew looked at him, saw too, saw seats available
in the row of four, and asked if he could
move over, at which point they placed the woman in
the seat he had been sitting in and covered her
with a blanket.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Although I'll be honest with you, if I had a
choice of sitting next to somebody who is dead or
a baby crying, I take the dead person all day long, quiet,
you know, just sitting there minding their own business, or
if somebody I'd rather sit next to a dead person
than somebody who's talking the whole way. You know, they're
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telling you their life story the entire way. You try
to shut them down a couple of times fibertending to
sleep or hang yourself, and that doesn't work, and the
person keeps talking and talking and talking.
Speaker 19 (27:33):
That Ring's wife did move to another seat at the
invitation of another passenger, but he says the crew didn't
offer to move he and his wife, and that he
stayed put for four hours.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Four hours next to this corpse.
Speaker 19 (27:47):
He said the flight crew then told them to remain
seated once they landed, as medical staff boarded and handled
the woman's body as well as police right.
Speaker 12 (27:55):
In front of him.
Speaker 19 (27:56):
Now, the protocol in that instance is actually to disam
bark other passengers first before paramedics and police board to
take care of the body, preserving the dignity of the
deceased as well as the sensitivities of those on board.
We did reach out to the couple, they declined to
be interviewed out of respect to the airlines and the passenger.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
The flight was booked through.
Speaker 19 (28:18):
Quantas and operated through Kutar Airlines, and the couple told
NBC News that both airlines contacted them.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
They said, we've made it clear.
Speaker 19 (28:28):
They've been very helpful and supportive.
Speaker 12 (28:31):
They're now in Venice. That was their final destination.
Speaker 19 (28:34):
Frankly, they're just trying to get on with their vacation
at this point.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
What if that was their honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
You know, they're off to Venice having to sit next
to a dead body.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Oh babo. All right, here's.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Why it's not a good idea to boycott businesses tomorrow.
There's a forecast out there that say as many as
fifteen thousand brick and mortar stores might close this year.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
People who love to shop at Joe Anne the fabric store,
with about eight hundred locations around the US, time is
running out.
Speaker 12 (29:07):
I just finished a qrylton. I said, oh my god,
where am I going to go now?
Speaker 7 (29:10):
You like to go in and touch and feel and
look with colors, see if it matches things when you're
making stuff.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
You can do that online.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
But now the one time largest fabrics retailer in the country,
which has some nineteen thousand employees, is closing all of
its stores.
Speaker 12 (29:26):
I'm going to be sorry to see this come.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, So Joe Anne's is closing. Forever twenty one is
shutting down.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
It's just part of what's expected to be a record
setting year of fifteen thousand retail store closures.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
With do you hear that here? How many closing downeen thousand?
Fifteen thousand store closures.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Fifteen thousand retail store closures with Party City, Big Lots, Walgreens,
and Macy's just some of the companies shuttering locations.
Speaker 20 (29:53):
We've got policy up people with tariffs, We've got demand
up people in terms of competition.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
And there are some stores that are expanding, like Costco.
I think they're opening up nine new stores and one
of them is going to be in Brentwood. I don't
know where you're going to find that kind of space
in Brentwood, but they evidently they found it and they're
going to open up a Costco in Brentwood.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Whew.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
John Mercer is the head of global research at core Site,
a firm focused on technology's impact on retail. It's not
how much consumers are spending, it's all the other factors
around retail.
Speaker 20 (30:28):
Yeah, we think it's the context. We think consumer spending
is pretty strong. It's where that spending.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Goes nassive a summer sine hal.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
He says online discount retailers like Temu and Shean are
eating into many brick and mortar businesses as shoppers grow
frustrated with poor customer service and locked up goods and stores.
They're also chasing the cheapest prices, adding to the trouble
for retailers. Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy.
The Consumer Confidence Index released today down almost seven percent,
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the biggest monthly decline in almost four years. What if
your number of store closures expected this year raises the
question what's to become of the real estate occupied by
the retailers in all this upheaval?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
All right, he had another reason not to join the
economic boy blackout tomorrow. These stores are gonna are on
the They're on the brink of bankruptcy anyway. They can't
take more bad news. So get out there tomorrow and
shop till you drop. I guess that's what they say.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
I don't know. Somebody says it, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
At six twenty we have Dean Sharp coming up. That
guy's great Dean Sharp is going to be with us?
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Is he on tonight? Is Dean Sharp?
Speaker 9 (31:39):
With us tonight.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
I hope so I think he is. Doesn't he see
him on the sheet? But no, I don't see him
on the sheet either, But I know he's not. He's not.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
What's he doing? Oh, that's right, he's doing the oscars.
He's presenting a best House.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Busy. He's busy. I love that guy. All right, we'll
check up with We'll catch up with them next week.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
The big store here though, that we're following is Gene
Hackman has passed away with his wife and his dog.
Bad news out of New Mexico. Maybe you're just hearing
that for the first time. It looks like that they've
been dead for a while though. His wife, Betsy, was
part of her body was mummified. So that's a bad
(32:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, there's gonna be an economic blackout on Friday, that's tomorrow.
They're gonna want everyone to stop buying crap tomorrow on Friday.
And I have a different opinion. I love my local Target, Walmart,
(00:28):
Lowe's Home Depot. Those are the stores I go to
Ralph's Pavilions, and they suffered a lot during COVID. A
lot of people stayed away from COVID, A lot of
people were shoplifting after COVID. I saw shoplifting almost every
time I went out to any of those stores. Almost
(00:48):
every time you saw somebody stealing something. And so these
stores have been under a tremendous amount of pressure for
the last five years. You see a lot of them
closing that forever twenty one they're going to close. There's
another there's a couple more stores that are tinkering with bankruptcy.
And eventually, if they all close, we're just going to
(01:12):
have Amazon. That'll be our only option, and you won't
be able to They'll they'll be able to charge whatever
they want on Amazon, and we'll have to pay it.
That'll be a wrap. If you've gone to a mall
right late lately especially, you know, I think a sign
that a mall is not doing well is when there's
(01:32):
a karate place in the mall. You know, kids are
kicking and screaming and punching each other, there's a karate
joint in the mall. I think that's the first sign
it's not going in the right direction. Another one when
there's an organized church in a mall. You know, our
Lady of Westfield or whatever they whatever it is, if
(01:55):
there's a mall that has a church inside. Not going good,
not going well at home, and these malls are going
to go out of business if people stop spending money
and so the economic blackout. Well, you know, I understand
you want to get the attention of people. I think
we're taking out on the wrong folks, on the wrong businesses.
(02:18):
You know, Target's a great business, Walmart, Lowe's Home Depot,
h Ross Dress for Less, all these stores are great staples,
and they're going to go away. If you keep boycotting
them and you don't show up and buy your stuff there,
they're going to go away. And then you're going to
be bummed, you got nowhere to go?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
February twenty eighth to twenty four hour economic blackout. No Amazon,
no Walmart, no fast food, no guess, not a single
unnecessary dollar spent for one day. We are going to
finally turn the.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Tables on what Who are you going to turn the
tables on? The people that work there?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Maybe you've seen segments like this on your social feeds.
This call for an economic blackout has been spreading. An
activist of urging Americans to refrain from making any purchases.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
How are you going to not buy anything?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You're gonna buy everything today, your stock up today, and
then not buy anything tomorrow. That doesn't work. That's the
store doesn't care. I heard mel Kelly talk about this
the other night, and he's right. You know, the stores
they operate on quarterly profits, not daily or hourly. And
he had a great point.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
A major retailers tomorrow on Friday. The nationwide protest comes
as people continue to endure rising prices on everything from
food and gas to housing and utilities. National consumer reporter
for USA Today, Betty Lynn Fisher, joins US Now from Akron, Ohio.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Betty, how you doing? What do you say?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
What?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Do you know, to talk about what this all means?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
So fill us in what is the purpose specifically of
this blackout morning?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
So you know, this started out, as you just saw
the video of John Schwartz, who goes by the one
called Jay on Instagram, and he says it started as
a bold idea where he was frustrated and wanted to
have consumers take take back a day and you know,
take a day starting tomorrow after midnight and for twenty
(04:13):
four hours not to shop or spend any any money
anywhere in person or online, to just try to make
an impact on what he calls corporate greed.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Is there any hint to evidence as to how much
this is catching on and which companies we heard him
mention some of them, but which ones are being targeted?
And why this date of February twenty eight Yeah, I think,
you know, I.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Think he just came up with a date when he
was when he was coming up with this bold idea
for one day to start with.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
It does seem that this, this.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
You know, has become kind of a viral social media movement.
There has been a lot of there are also in
addition to this, this is this is the People's Union
is John Schwartz's group.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
This is kind of their initial one day boycott.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
They have since expanded and they'll be doing some other
other events too.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It sounds like a fun group, right everybody he sits
at home and doesn't do anything so.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Tomorrow for tomorrow. There's not any specific company that is targeted.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
They have mentioned companies like Target and Walmart and Amazon.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, if you stop going to Target, Target's going to
close stores.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Companies like Target and Walmart and Amazon. But the idea
is not to spend money anywhere.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Okay, So it's up to me.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I got to go out and spend a lot of
money tomorrow at Target. I urge people to do the opposite.
Go spend as much as you can afford tomorrow at Target,
Load up on Walmart, hit Lows, maybe Home Depot, maybe
both of them. You know, it's a nice day out.
What the hell?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
But then there are other efforts by the People's Union
as well as other organizations that have been upset with
companies such as Target and Walmart and Amazon.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Why are we upset with Target and Walmart?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
What have they done that have rolled back their diversity,
equity and inclusion efforts, as well as President Trump's elimination
of federal DEI.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Ah, it's all political, okay.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Programs since taking office.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, that's something I had seen over So if Kamala
Harris had won, would there be a boycott, No, not
at all.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So it's all political.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's the Democrats want you to stay home and not
spend any money. So if you're a Republican, go out
and spend as load of money.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Program since taking office.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, that's something I had seen over the past month,
as people voicing ways that they could show frustration from
DEI policies being rolled back. Is this likely to have
an impact on the economy though? I mean, one single
day of buying things you don't need could be supplemented
by buying them on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
That's right. Yeah, you know it's not going to have
any effect at all, right.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Right, you know, it remains to be seen.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
You know, I think that it's hard to know whether
or not there really is going to be something quantifiable
to show data that one day it's not.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
It's not kind of any packed at.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
All has made an impactor.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Like you said, first of all, nobody really knows about it.
I mean I just heard about it two days ago.
And it's not a it's not an international thing, it's
not a you know, a widely publicized event.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It's it's on the fringe.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Has made an impactor.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Like you said that people aren't buying today or aren't
buying on Saturday. There are other efforts by this group
and others to expand their boycotts to you know, week
long or month long. There are some that are right
now indefinitely boycotting Target. There is a call by the
religious community to start on ash Wednesday, March fifth of
(07:39):
forty day fast of Target.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Also GI and Initiative.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Interesting people trying to figure out different ways of getting
the messages.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Hood. All right, there's a.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Good idea boycotting Target. Go boycott Target until they move
it out of your neighborhood. And then you've got to
get in a car and drive thirty miles to go
to your nearest Target. Right idea, dumbest idea ever. So
go out there tomorrow and spend as much as you
can at the all let's try to offset this thing.
I love Target, I love Walmart. I don't care about
(08:11):
the politics. I loved it during Biden, I loved it
during Trump I loved it during Bush and you know,
an Obama. I just like the stars. Why does that
be political? Everything has to be political? That's right, that's right.
That's my favorite part of Walmart. I like the food,
and I do like their prices, by the way, But
everything is always political everything. You know, you listen to radio,
(08:35):
you watch TV. I'm watching TV right now. There's one, two, three.
There's four stations on right now, Channel five, Channel four,
Channel two, and channel eleven. Three of them are about
politics right now. One of them has Trump on it.
The other one is talking about the beach and the
(08:57):
erosion of the beach. Global warming is on one of them,
and then the fire debris where that's gonna go. That's
sort of well, that's not really as political as people think.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But there's politics and everything. Everything is consumed by politics.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And now we're gonna stay home and not spend any
money and involve politics and yet another area of our
life until it's involved in every single area. I guess
that's the key, right, Involve politics and every single thing
you say, every single thing you do, and it's going
to be a turnoff. Eventually, it's gonna be a huge turnoff,
you know, When I go home and watch TV. I
(09:34):
watch a little bit of politics, but I'm done by
about eight o'clock and I want nothing to do with it.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I don't care either side. I just want out. And
I hear you on that, you know, I just want
to sit and watch it. But Denny, you start watching
TV and they start involving politics in plot lines as well.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
It's unreal. Can't get away from it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, maybe you can't hear for a little while, a
little while, you know, some things we do.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
But I like to try to stay with him.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (10:07):
You got the Oscars coming up. I know people are
really excited about that. Oscars are going to be on Sunday.
And you know, the last couple of days, it's been
eighty five ninety ninety seven. I think in Palm Springs yesterday,
I think I was a record breaker. And but is
it going to cool down for the oscars?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I guess we could find out. I think it's going
to rain for the oscars. He usually does, you know,
usually rains in the day before the day of find
out what's going to do this year. It's a big
deal for the Oscars. Bad vibes with this rain. Hope
that the rent doesn't rain these people out.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Danny Romero and the weather forecast.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
We now are within eyesight of the Oscars making sure
that tent is secure.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, you got a great shout of that. Look.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
Of course that be the reason because now this warm
weather ahead, we're now winding that down. And then here
comes the whole different story now, Clauds and yes, precipitation
rearing its ugly head right now. But down the Hollywood
Booevar we go, and there you can see the preparations
going on under that the covering will be the Oscars
Red carpet.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
And so let's give an idea.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
I think, look at noon on the red carpet show
hits US and it will go with sixty four degrees
the temperature, and there's forty percent chance of showers. By
the time you get to the actual show itself at
four pm outside sixty two degrees, forty percent chance of
showers there as well. We head towards nine PM, are
after the award show, cooling down now to sixty degrees
and had a little greater chance, fifty percent chance of
(11:32):
showers right there on the Hollywood Boulevard of Dreams now today.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, all right, So it might rain during the Oscars,
might rain, and we're in the countdown to the Oscars.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Man, it's gonna happen on Sunday.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
It's hard to.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
Believe I'm standing on Hollywood Boulevard because this place is
getting so luxurious.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I mean, there's still something.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I think this is Sophie Flay. It sounds like Sophie
Flay with the ABC News.
Speaker 13 (11:54):
I mean, there's still some things to do over the
next few days, but the producers say there are some
exciting things in store.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Let's find out what these things are. So they rip
their pants. Oh no, somebody didn't get ozembic. They tore
through their jeans.
Speaker 13 (12:10):
The red carpet has been rolled down and hundreds of
people are working on the fishing touches, from lighting to
camera positioning and everything in between. It's a massive effort
here at the Adobey Theater. I'm told the iconic Oscar
statues are being brought in.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Wow, how about that? The iconic statues are bringing.
Speaker 13 (12:27):
Broad Is statues are being brought in today. We're lucky
that Hollywood Boulevard is right in our backyard. But media
from all over the world will get a spot on
these risers to get close to the stars.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, and you're gonna hear that from the stars they
rip their pants apart.
Speaker 13 (12:43):
The only star we've seen so far is Oscar's host
Conan O'Brien, who helped roll out the red carpet yesterday.
Speaker 14 (12:48):
I think his host I cannot ignore the moment we're in,
but I also have to remember it's threading a needle.
I also have to remember what we're here to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
My God, is he going to be serious for this
Oscars or are going to be a Hopefully it's.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Not ignore the moment we're in. Ah, come on, Conan,
come on buddy.
Speaker 14 (13:11):
I think his host I cannot ignore the moment we're in,
righte jokes, But I also have to remember what it's
threading a needle. I also have to remember what we're
here to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yes, Yes, celebrate the craziness in Hollywood.
Speaker 13 (13:25):
The Oscars team says the devastating only wildfires in January
will be incorporated into this year's theme.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
There will be a charitable component that people will be
able to interact with and they're free to donate if
they would like to. And there's special moments that are
that are going to happen throughout the show.
Speaker 13 (13:43):
The evening, we'll also pay tribute to Quincy Jones with
the performance from Queen Latifa. The Glamorous Night is just
three days away. Amelia Perez is the top nominated film
of the year with thirteen total nominations.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Have you seen that Crows? You see everything? Amelia Perez?
I tried watching it, Oh, about a half hour in
nothing huh through the flagon.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
It's all music and foreign language. Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It's a little bit uh yeah, a little tough to follow.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'm out. That's me getting out of the tent.
Speaker 13 (14:16):
Amelia Perez is the top nominated film of the year
with thirteen total nominations. A complete unknown in Conclave round
out the top nominated film Conclave.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Did you look at that? No, it is absolutely on
the list. I just keep hearing more and more great
things from all Yeah, same here. I want to watch
it so bad. I'm wann to look at that.
Speaker 13 (14:31):
Tonight Films with eight knots a piece.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
There'll be a lot of moments in the show where
we'll be pulling back the curtain and taking a look
at some of those behind the scenes stories as well
as celebrating everybody in.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Front of the camera.
Speaker 13 (14:41):
Yeah, and guys, you can see that they have a
tarp over the carpet here. They're trying to keep it
pristine before Sunday, but then that'll be peeled away as
they get ready for the stars.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
There you go, all right, the Oscars. It's a big deal.
This is a company town, company down, and it's a
big deal on Sunday. A lot of people, the entire
world is going to be looking at us on Sunday,
the whole world.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
So let's behave.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Nobody you know, raced down Hollywood, you know, running into
the tent.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Nobody you know.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Lighting off firecrackers or you know, stealing purses or pickpocketing.
Let's try to behave while the world looks at us
on Sunday. Because my mom used to say, when we
go to see the world, the world sees us.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
So let's try to behave on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Can you just try it a little bit, just a
little bit, give it a shot. Behave on Sunday, and
then on Monday you can start going crazy again. Right,
because La throws a lot at you, man a lot.
You come out here for vacation, you gotta be on
your toes. There's a lot of crap in the city.
So let's behave on Sunday while the world's watching us.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
All right, thanks, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Benende's family had a huge news conference, and I want
to play it for you on interrupt.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I don't want to interrupt it. I want to play
for you uninterrupted.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
They're talking after Governor Newsom made comments about the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
So let's go.
Speaker 15 (16:09):
Currently in my home office. So that means we are
going to hope that Amazon does not decide to deliver
to my house with the next forty five minutes or so,
where you're going to hear my dogs lose their minds.
So with that, I had you have some remarks. This
is a pretty exciting time for us as the family
of Eric and Lyle Menendez, and I'd like to start
(16:31):
with Governor Newsom's actions yesterday. They are a positive step
forward towards Eric and Lyles release. We are incredibly grateful
that Governor Newsom is paying attention to this case, particularly
those of us, those older family members, my mother, Terry Barralt,
Joan Vandermullen, Kitty's sister. This is for our family. It
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is a huge sigh of relief that someone in a
seat of power is paying attention to what we have
seen up close. Since Eric and Lyle have been incarcerated.
We have seen their rehabilitation over the last three decades,
with no hope until of release.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Until now.
Speaker 15 (17:13):
Eric and Lyle have changed countless lives since their conviction
in nineteen ninety six. Inmates have seen it, corrections, the
officers have seen it, and now we need the entire
criminal justice system to see it. The resentencing process has
been a long journey for us. Now with the new
directive to the Parole Board, we are confident that they
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will determine the brothers are not a risk to public safety,
proving what we have said all along.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
Importance in this process is that this is not a
political one.
Speaker 15 (17:44):
We look forward to their transparency and for the findings
that they will that will be released for everyone to see. Now,
let's take a look at the criteria the parole Board
will look at. Number one is remorse Eric and Lyle
have expressed in men's remorse for their actions that night,
in the month and in the months after, repeatedly, decade
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after decade. I can personally attest to that.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
They look at. Number two is social history.
Speaker 15 (18:13):
Inmates, Corrections officers, and administrators have all gone on record
to say Eric and Lyle have been modeled people while incarcerated.
They have run several programs to mentor inmates who they
knew would see the freedom that they wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
That is remarkable.
Speaker 15 (18:29):
Third, plans for the future. The parole board will look
at their plans for the future, and Eric and Lyle
have already done so much tangible good work while incarcerated
for society. If released, they will continue to build on
the work they've started. They'll look at institutional behavior. Everything
I've just touched on shows that they have gone above
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and beyond to not only function within the walls of
a prison, but improve the culture of that facility. Through
their work, improved the community that surrounds them.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
And then they look at their age.
Speaker 15 (19:05):
You know, Eric and Lyle are both in their fifties,
we all are.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
They have spent the majority.
Speaker 15 (19:11):
Of their lives incarcerated, and incredibly they've managed to build
meaningful lives year after year, program after program, and then
they'll look at their lack of criminal history. They don't
have a prior criminal record outside of making a horrific
decision as a direct result of the abuse dured for
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over a decade. The parole board must also factor in
the fact that Eric and Lyle were still kids at
the time of their actions. So Lyle was twenty one
and Eric was eighteen at the time of the killens.
There is overwhelming scientific research that proves the human brain,
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especially areas that regulate impulse control and decision making, is
not fully developed until some is in their mid twenties.
As the mother of a seventeen and eighteen year old boys,
I can attest to that as well. Both the legislature
and the courts have recognized that youthful offenders have diminished
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moral culpability and a greater capacity for rehabilitation based on
widely accepted scientific evidence on adolescent brain development. They must
take that into consideration. I'll pass it over to Tamla.
Speaker 16 (20:32):
Thanks Anna, Maria. I just really want to go over
everything that they have done since they were convicted in
nineteen ninety six. I think it's incredibly important to stress
that Eric and Lyle went in to prison intocarceration during
their formative years and have for all intents and purposes,
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created careers for themselves while they have been incarcerated, and
that is incredibly moving for all of us. While incarcerated,
Eric has created and led several impactful programs which I
will detail now. The Life Care and Hospice Connections Program,
which is an eighty eight awareness and support group assisting
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disabled and elderly inmates while educating others about the challenges
faced by less able peers. The Victim Impact and Empathy
Program or VIBE, is a workshop fostering understanding and empathy
by incorporating victim impact elements from the Life Care and
Hospice curriculum. Alternatives to Violence Project AVP.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Is a series of.
Speaker 16 (21:43):
Workshops promoting non violent conflict resolution, self awareness, empathy, and
community building. The Starlight Piece Project is a program capturing
images of peace and areas affected by violence. It has
successfully coordinated thirty event leaders and engaged over one hundred
and fifty participants. Eric has also led twelve Step and
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meditation classes. This combines the twelve steps of Alcoholics, anonymous
and narcotics synonymous with mindfulness meditation and meditation practices, Insight
Meditation workshops which introduces inmates to the physical, emotional, and
spiritual benefits of mindfulness meditation. Eric has received dozens of
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commendations from prison supervisors for his leadership, mentorship, and his
service to fellow inmates, which are all detailed in the
People's motion requesting eleven seventy two point one recall of
sentence and resentencing hearing and with that, I will let
Anne Maria go into Lyle's.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Details of rehabilitation Thanks Tamra.
Speaker 15 (23:00):
Lyle has also made significant contributions creating and leading impactful programs.
The Adverse Childhood Experience in Rehabilitation AS program is a
program helping offenders explore their childhood experiences and impact and
impact and contributions to criminal behavior.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
The Green Space Project.
Speaker 15 (23:21):
Spearheading reducing recidivism by normalizing the prison environment. Over one
hundred inmates participated, marking the first time prison administration entrusted
an inmate to.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Lead such a redesign.
Speaker 15 (23:39):
The Rehabilitation Through Beautification Project r TV, a volunteer effort
supporting the Green Space Project through mural painting and landscaping.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Okay, all right, you got the idea, you know of
what's going on.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
We have an unusual flight that a couple says they
were forced to sit next to a dead body for
four hours. Hours and hours sitting next to a dead
body on a plane.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Wow, man, oh man? What happened here? How this go down?
Speaker 17 (24:20):
Some very tough moments for multiple families on a flight
from Australia after a passenger unexpectedly died.
Speaker 12 (24:26):
On board the flight.
Speaker 17 (24:28):
The body then seated next to an Australian couple for hours.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
A couple says it happened during their.
Speaker 17 (24:33):
Fifteen hour Cutter Airways flight from Melbourne to Doha.
Speaker 18 (24:37):
The airline in a statement to Nby by the way,
they don't say this in this story, but it was
a couple, an Australian couple, and they.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Noticed that the dead body was fourteen rows in front
of him, and the guy said, hey, we'll take that body,
put it between me and my wife for four hours.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
And that's how this's happened.
Speaker 17 (25:01):
It was offering their condolences to the relatives of the
person who died and apologizing for the distress. We don't
have any details on the passenger who died or their
cause of death. Kelly KOBEA is joining.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Us now, and they don't turn around. The person died,
they don't turn around. That's odd. They must have been
more than halfway there, I guess wherever they were going
on cutter airlines.
Speaker 17 (25:20):
Just a difficult situation for so many here when somebody
dies in the middle of a flight.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yeah, especially the guy that died, right.
Speaker 17 (25:27):
Just a difficult situation for so many here when somebody
dies in the middle of a flight.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, mostly for the guy that died, the crew.
Speaker 17 (25:34):
Kind of figuring out what to do. The couple says
there were other seats on the plane. What happened here
in cases like this is to move the deceased person
to a seat with a few passengers, or to a
place with no passengers, if at all possible.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But yeah, but on a full flight, got to stick
them next to somebody. Somebody drew the short straw.
Speaker 19 (25:51):
Look, here's what happened. The husband and wife, Mitchell Ring
and Jennifer Collins. So the fellow passenger, a woman, came
out of the restroom about ten hours into the flight,
and collapsed very close to them in the aisle.
Speaker 12 (26:02):
They said the flight.
Speaker 19 (26:03):
Crew did everything they could to help her, but that
she simply couldn't be saved.
Speaker 12 (26:07):
Ring says.
Speaker 19 (26:08):
The crew then tried to move her up to business
class with an onboard wheelchair, but struggled to her move
her through the aisle.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And that's when he said, the crew, Okay, now what
she's you can read between the lines when what she's
trying to say here is the woman was huge in
the three hundred range to four hundred range, and they
could not move her.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
But struggled to get her.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
That's what that means. The long s unstruggled means big person.
Speaker 12 (26:41):
But struggled to her move her through the aisle. And
that's when he said.
Speaker 19 (26:46):
The crew looked at him, saw too, saw seats available
in the row of four, and asked if he could
move over, at which point they placed the woman in
the seat he had been sitting in and covered her
with a blanket.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Although I'll be honest with you, if I had a
choice of sitting next to somebody who is dead or
a baby crying, I take the dead person all day long, quiet,
you know, just sitting there minding their own business, or
if somebody I'd rather sit next to a dead person
than somebody who's talking the whole way. You know, they're
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telling you their life story the entire way. You try
to shut them down a couple of times fibertending to
sleep or hang yourself, and that doesn't work, and the
person keeps talking and talking and talking.
Speaker 19 (27:33):
That Ring's wife did move to another seat at the
invitation of another passenger, but he says the crew didn't
offer to move he and his wife, and that he
stayed put for four hours.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Four hours next to this corpse.
Speaker 19 (27:47):
He said the flight crew then told them to remain
seated once they landed, as medical staff boarded and handled
the woman's body as well as police right.
Speaker 12 (27:55):
In front of him.
Speaker 19 (27:56):
Now, the protocol in that instance is actually to disam
bark other passengers first before paramedics and police board to
take care of the body, preserving the dignity of the
deceased as well as the sensitivities of those on board.
We did reach out to the couple, they declined to
be interviewed out of respect to the airlines and the passenger.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
The flight was booked through.
Speaker 19 (28:18):
Quantas and operated through Kutar Airlines, and the couple told
NBC News that both airlines contacted them.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
They said, we've made it clear.
Speaker 19 (28:28):
They've been very helpful and supportive.
Speaker 12 (28:31):
They're now in Venice. That was their final destination.
Speaker 19 (28:34):
Frankly, they're just trying to get on with their vacation
at this point.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
What if that was their honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
You know, they're off to Venice having to sit next
to a dead body.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Oh babo. All right, here's.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Why it's not a good idea to boycott businesses tomorrow.
There's a forecast out there that say as many as
fifteen thousand brick and mortar stores might close this year.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
People who love to shop at Joe Anne the fabric store,
with about eight hundred locations around the US, time is
running out.
Speaker 12 (29:07):
I just finished a qrylton. I said, oh my god,
where am I going to go now?
Speaker 7 (29:10):
You like to go in and touch and feel and
look with colors, see if it matches things when you're
making stuff.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
You can do that online.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
But now the one time largest fabrics retailer in the country,
which has some nineteen thousand employees, is closing all of
its stores.
Speaker 12 (29:26):
I'm going to be sorry to see this come.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, So Joe Anne's is closing. Forever twenty one is
shutting down.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
It's just part of what's expected to be a record
setting year of fifteen thousand retail store closures.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
With do you hear that here? How many closing downeen thousand?
Fifteen thousand store closures.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Fifteen thousand retail store closures with Party City, Big Lots, Walgreens,
and Macy's just some of the companies shuttering locations.
Speaker 20 (29:53):
We've got policy up people with tariffs, We've got demand
up people in terms of competition.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
And there are some stores that are expanding, like Costco.
I think they're opening up nine new stores and one
of them is going to be in Brentwood. I don't
know where you're going to find that kind of space
in Brentwood, but they evidently they found it and they're
going to open up a Costco in Brentwood.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Whew.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
John Mercer is the head of global research at core Site,
a firm focused on technology's impact on retail. It's not
how much consumers are spending, it's all the other factors
around retail.
Speaker 20 (30:28):
Yeah, we think it's the context. We think consumer spending
is pretty strong. It's where that spending.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Goes nassive a summer sine hal.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
He says online discount retailers like Temu and Shean are
eating into many brick and mortar businesses as shoppers grow
frustrated with poor customer service and locked up goods and stores.
They're also chasing the cheapest prices, adding to the trouble
for retailers. Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy.
The Consumer Confidence Index released today down almost seven percent,
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the biggest monthly decline in almost four years. What if
your number of store closures expected this year raises the
question what's to become of the real estate occupied by
the retailers in all this upheaval?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
All right, he had another reason not to join the
economic boy blackout tomorrow. These stores are gonna are on
the They're on the brink of bankruptcy anyway. They can't
take more bad news. So get out there tomorrow and
shop till you drop. I guess that's what they say.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
I don't know. Somebody says it, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
At six twenty we have Dean Sharp coming up. That
guy's great Dean Sharp is going to be with us?
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Is he on tonight? Is Dean Sharp?
Speaker 9 (31:39):
With us tonight.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
I hope so I think he is. Doesn't he see
him on the sheet? But no, I don't see him
on the sheet either, But I know he's not. He's not.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
What's he doing? Oh, that's right, he's doing the oscars.
He's presenting a best House.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Busy. He's busy. I love that guy. All right, we'll
check up with We'll catch up with them next week.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
The big store here though, that we're following is Gene
Hackman has passed away with his wife and his dog.
Bad news out of New Mexico. Maybe you're just hearing
that for the first time. It looks like that they've
been dead for a while though. His wife, Betsy, was
part of her body was mummified. So that's a bad
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bad scene in New Mexico. All right, We're live on
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