May 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Memorial Weekend travel, gas prices should be lower. Billy & Tina, the elephants at L.A. Zoo are being moved to Oklahoma. Have you ever used Ancestry, 23 & me? Do you care? // Conway trip with listeners conwaytrip@gmail.com Heat is going to cause electric bill to soar this summer // New Covid vaccine mandate policy is changing. Baby Shark Barber. Barber in DTLA playing #BabyShark to encourage homeless encampment to move...now he is offering haircuts if they will leave. #Covid #Vaccine // Costco Buy Now Pay Later #Costco #BNPL
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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. It is
the Conway Show. We have Memorial Day weekend coming up,
and a lot of people are gonna be getting their
car buzzing out to Morongo or out to Vegas, San Francisco,
San Diego. Maybe you're flying somewhere I don't know, might
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be enjoying yourself. But gas prices. People always want to
know what's going on with gas prices from Memorial Day weekend.
Maybe going out to the river. You're going out to
the Desert, Arizona, the Colorado River, Jump in that thing
and enjoy yourself out there. Man, that's a cool weekend,
three day weekend coming up. But how much are we
(00:42):
gonna be paying for gas in California.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, some good news if you're hitting the road for
the Memorial Day holiday prices that the pumps are down.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
In La County it's for eighty one for a gallon
of regular. That's about thirty six cents less than this
time last year.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In Orange County it's four seventy four at the pump.
And in Riverside County it's for sixty eight. This year,
Triple A projects about forty five million people would travel
at least fifty miles over the holiday period from the
Thursday to Monday, the twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So, Bellia, you're considered a traveler because you travel over
fifty miles to and from work, So you're part of
the crow traveler. You are a traveler.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I can expect lower gas prices.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I guess. So, I don't know. Maybe maybe Krozier I
was listening to his newscast and I didn't know this,
But TMZ is reporting there's a reason not to believe
them that the two remaining elephants at the La Zoo
have left the building, the two Asian elephants, Billy and Tina.
I believe they say it's empty. Now. Ah, that's horrible.
I like Billy and Tina. I think Billy was forty.
(01:46):
I think Tina was the older gal. She's sixty or
fifty nine, something like that. And I have been going
to the zoo. I went there as a child, I
went there to take my child. I've and I saw
the same elephants my entire life, whether it was Billy
or Tina or the other two. Jewel and is it,
(02:08):
Sean Ze. I think Jewel was sixty one, So I've
been looking at Jewel my whole life, and Jewel passed
away age related health issues by Tina and Billy have left.
There are no more elephants at the La Zoo. Now,
(02:28):
I might be out going out on a limb here
and may ask the craziest question ever, but when do
we get new ones? Is Lazo going to get some
new ones? We got rid of the older ones, bringing
in some babies now only if they stay babies. I
(02:52):
think that's the issue. But isn't that a big attraction?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
For the zoo. The elephants I got last time I
went was fifteen years ago something like that, and I
seem to remember back then they had just refurbished that. Yes,
you're right, ephant. It looked beautiful, huge. Yeah, yeah, I
enjoyed that.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I don't know if they still have elephants at the
Santa Barbara Zoo, but those are great. The San Diego
Zoo they've got some beautiful elephants, elephants, and I don't
know about the Wild Animal Park if they have elephants
or not, but you got to see them because they're
all going away. There's too many activists out there who
don't like elephants or love elephants. I don't know, can't tell.
But they're going away. So if you've not seen an
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elephant and you want to see one, you gotta get
to a zoo pretty quickly because Cher and her whole
crew are making them disappear.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
And San Diego, that San Diego Wild Animal Park or
whatever it's called, I don't know what it's called. That's
a great place to see the elephants. They've got a
great environment there for them. Yeah, it's wonderful, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I gotta get down there and look at him. I
heard though that they don't let the Irish in. Is
that true Irish?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
That sucks true. I can hide my Irish background. I
didn't know.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes I can't.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, well you can't. Well you're Italian.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I'm Italian Irish.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I wantn't know that.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
We've talked about this so many times. I don't really
do not listen to me. Maybe I don't remember your heritage.
Is that possible? Maybe I have listened?
Speaker 8 (04:25):
That is.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I'll give you that.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Where is your Irish come from your dad's side, my mom,
your mom's.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
My last name is Bellio. That's Italian, so that would
be my dad.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
So my mom is Irish.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I guess I could have figured that out. And is
your mom full blown Irish?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Does she like Saint Patrick's Day or does she like that?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
She does.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Put her in past tense?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, I appreciate if you wouldn't do that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But she loves she's a full blown what's her maiden
name Beecher Beecher. That's a cool name. It's pretty Irish,
ain't it.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
It sounds like her mother her was a mul Kern. Oh,
that's really very Irish.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, yeah, mul Kern yeah or something then, and.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Her great grandmother was a Green.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
All right. Did you ever do the background like the
twenty three and me or the heritage thing?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Not the twenty three and me. No, I've done the ancestry.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
How'd that work out?
Speaker 10 (05:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I found out some stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Ultimately, was it worth it?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I didn't want to keep paying for more with you?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
To be honest, I'm with you. My wife likes doing
that where she goes back like five, six, seven generations
and ten generations in her family and She's like, let's
do with your son, Like, eh, I'm good, I'm good.
Those people alone, they're no longer with us. Let's not
dig up any dirt on these people. Let me just well.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Also, you need people to add to it to find stuff.
So if you know, if people in your family tree
aren't doing that, it's hard to find stuff. I mean,
you can get census data and things like that, but
you kind of run out of things to get.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, my wife found my grandfather's signature when he came
to this country in I think it was nineteen I
think it was nineteen twenty eight. Yeah, and he came
to the United States nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I saw my grandmother's a signature at Ellis Island.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's this bomb thread at San Diego? Is that something
new here? Flight evacuate after a bomb thread of.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Wayian earlier today?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Boom? What's going on with people? All right? So I
so my d my grandfather got here nineteen twenty eight
from Ireland and she found the signature at Elis Island.
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That is cool.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I mean it's exact centric because we compared it to
signatures we found on checks that he had written in
its exact same signature. That's really neat.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
And did you see the census, because you can look
up the census and see like what their job was.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And I didn't look that up now, but I know
he moved to Cleveland. I don't know where he read
in Ireland and Cleveland was the move, but that's where
he ended up. And his first job was braiding Cleveland
hot back then. I don't know. I think he's just
you know, he just looked at a map and said,
I'll go there. That sounds Goodland. Well, they had a
big Irish population. I think you know, when you come
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to this country, you want to stick with your own
clan for a while, you know, because they give you
a break and they understand you a little more. Plus
he can't He was around when they had signs in
windows and doors the Irish need not apply. The Irish
were really discriminated against for a long time, and he
was part of that. So the only job that he
could get was held. He would braid horsetails at Thistledown
(07:39):
Racetrack because you would break I didn't know that he
braid the horsetail in the summer so the horse can
whip it around and keep the flies off it. And
that was his job. I think he got three cents
per tale that he braided.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And this was your grandfather.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's my dad's dad. Yeah, okay, yeah, but my dad's
dad was born without parents, never knew his parents, was
thrown right into an orphanage, and then for eighteen years,
eighteen years, he was passed on every Sunday, every Sunday,
you know, perspective. Perspective. Parents would come to the orphanage
(08:13):
and they'd line up the kids and they'd say, Okay,
I'll take that one or that one and this one.
And my grandfather lined up every Sunday for eighteen years,
and nobody said I'll take that guy. That is so heartbreaking,
isn't that horrible? Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
That is really sad.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, And he sort of had a sense of humor
about it, you know, after a while he's like, you know,
he would say, well, I don't pick you guys either, like, okay,
we definitely got right, I'll pick of that guy.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, it probably helped with the rejection to get over
the rejection.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. But he was
he was pick you. He was a real cheap guy.
And my dad tells a great story. And he was
the first guy on the block to buy a doorbell,
and he bought it for se from Sears for three dollars,
and it was gonna be another dollar to hook it up,
and he said, screw it. He's pretty handy. He'll hook
(09:07):
it up himself. And so my grandfather hooked up the doorbell.
But it didn't make a ringing noise. It would just
make a buzzing noise like h And he hooked it
up backwards so it would buzz all day and then
as soon as it stopped, he goes, I'll get it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Was he the one that answered the phone up the
telephone pole.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, he was too cheap to have the phone come
into the house. It was another dollar fifty to bring
it from the pole into the house. So he would
climb up the phone pole when it rang. So my
grandmother when she got a call from Romania from her parents,
you'd have to climb up the phone pole in the
rain to talk to her parents. That's a true story.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Do you have any photos of that, you know?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I think my dad had. I got to look for him.
I know that my dad had one with the phone
pole and the phone on top of it. That's amazing.
I gotta find that.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I could see where your dad got his humor.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah. Yeah, And my grandparents said through the Great Depression,
they're really cheap people. They had no money, and they
would fire the paper boy two weeks before Christmas so
they didn't have to lay a bonus on him for Christmas,
and then they pick up the paper in January every
year every year.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It's kind of what people do with streaming services.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, exactly. Was your grandmother the same one? When you
guys are going out to lunch, immediately it's oh, yeah, oh,
what's what are you gonna have for dinner? What are
you gonna have? She only talked about food. The next
The next meal, we'd be driving to RB's for lunch
and she'd be like, well, what should we have for dinner?
My grandma, Maggie, we haven't even had lunch and we're
you know, let's have lunch and then talk about dinner. Well,
(10:37):
I got to pull something. How the freezer and I
have a dinner exact same way. And yeah, my grandmother's
really both of them are really really cheap, and they
would write the paper boy. This is how they fired
the paper boy every year and write two weeks before Christmas.
They'd write on a piece of paper, paper boy, you're fired,
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mister Conway or missus Conway. That's all. My dad has
one of those notes, dear paper boy, you're fired missus Conway.
And then they'd pick it up the paper after middle
of January.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
What did that note say?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Welcome back Conway, Hope you enjoyed your Christmas.
Speaker 11 (11:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We so far have seven hundred and sixty four emails
of people that want to know where we're going to
take a trip. I'm going on a trip next year
with the listeners. We have seven hundred and sixty people
who have said they're interested in the details. You can
be added to that email. It's going to be a
(11:45):
seven day trip. I can't tell you where we're going yet,
but it's gonna be fun. I picked from eight different
trips and I picked the most fun trip. It's going
to be the most fun you could possibly have with
me for a week. If that sounds exciting to you,
you can email me Conwaytrip at gmail dot com. And
(12:11):
then on the twenty ninth of May, which is next Thursday.
I'll email you and then we'll make the big announcement
on May thirtieth and tell you where the trip's going
to be. But if you would like details before the
big announcement on the air, email me. It's my email.
(12:31):
Nobody else looks at it. Not selling it to anybody.
It's just mine. It's Conway trip at gmail dot com.
And just put trip in the subject and I'll tell
you where we're going. It might be fun right to uh,
we'll all hang out, we'll travel together for a week.
It might be the only one I do. It might
(12:52):
be a one off man all right, we'll see how
it goes. And but it's gonna be seven day trip
somewhere on this planet. It may be Europe. It may
be the Bahamas. It may be Canada. It might be Mexico.
It might be Hawaii, Asia. It could be India, it
(13:15):
could be Australia, Africa, it could be South America. Can
all go down to Argentina and find out where steffush
was family's from. So just emailing and then I will
tell you where the trip's going to be. There's no obligation,
you don't have to go. If you just want the
details Conway trip at gmail dot com and I'll let
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you know. Oh, we've already had Patrick, Brian, Martin and
Abbey have already sent in their emails from today. I'm
looking at them right now. They're coming in in real
time and I can see people who are emailing as
we speak. That's cool. Danielle, count me in, Larry, Vincent, Brad, Keith, Mandy.
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Where are we going? Where are we going? Now? I
can't tell you yet? You help? Do you believe me
that I will tell you at some point? I just
can't tell you right now. All right, let's get into electricity.
We all use it, and let's find out how expensive
it's going to be this summer. It's going to be
through the roof.
Speaker 12 (14:26):
As summer approaches, home electricity bills are expected to reach
record high levels as Americans try to stay cool, according
to a new report. Analysis from the National Energy Assistance
Directors Association shows, on average, people could be paying seven
hundred and eighty four dollars over the summer months of
June through September. It's more than six percent higher than
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last summer. It also marks a twelve year high. The
association tells CBS News at higher temperatures and inflation are factors.
CBS News Money Watch reporter Megan Cerulo has been following this.
She joins us, Now that's not a minor increase. I mean,
you know, people who are really watching their bills, that
could be a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes, six percent is a lot.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
How quickly have these prices risen over the years, It's significant.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Electricity costs, the cost of Coolingland's home has not risen
every single year since twenty fourteen. But as you noted,
there's a six percent anticipated increase this year from the
summer period, which is from June through September, up to
seven hundred and eighty four dollars. That's the national average
compared to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
So that's a significant spike.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And that's because both the cost of electricity is going
up and because of climate change, temperatures are rising, and
so American households are having to use more of that electricity.
Speaker 12 (15:39):
Tell us more about the rule of climate change and inflation.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Here we go. Put on your climate change had.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So because of inflation, electricity costs are rising. That's one factor.
Temperatures are expected to get to be hot, hot, this summer,
and so.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Like they are every year. That the is that what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Temperatures are expected to get to to be hot hot
this summer.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Like what like last summer? And I think it was
the summer before that it was also hot, wasn't it. Yeah,
two summers ago is hot. I think there's a pattern.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
And so NIATA used their data and looked at.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Je Lenno had a great joke. He said, everyone's gathering
to talk about global warming and they think they have
a solution. Yeah, just wait till December.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
With their data and looked at the weather forecasts.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I know it irritates the global warming crew, but that's
the design of it, and that's how.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
They came up with this analysis.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And because it both costs more and they're using more
of it, that's going to raise costs across the country.
And unfortunately, we're also coming off a cold winter, and
so folks are already behind on their heating bills.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And wait, I thought we had a global warming. We're
coming off of what a cold winter? We're coming off
of cold winter during global warming?
Speaker 8 (17:01):
A cold winter?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What the hell's going on?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And so folks are already behind on their heating bills,
and because if you don't turn your heat on, your
pipe clig in to free So that's not an alternative.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You know, I thought were just talking about the hot summer.
Now we're talking about pipes freezing.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Because if you don't turn your heat on, your pipe
clig in to free so that's not an alternative.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Hell.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
However, some households that might want to save money could consider,
you know, they could say, oh, we're not going to
turn on our air conditioners to save money. But that's
not obviously not something that experts recommend because.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That can lead to death. It could lead to death.
Scary health consequences, Yeah, concluding death.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
A scary health consequences, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Scary health consequences. How did he go? A really scary
health consequence got him?
Speaker 11 (17:44):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Heat?
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Scary health consequences?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
For sure?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Is this reasion specific?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
The seven hundred and eighty four dollars is the national average.
There are some places where electricity costs are going to
be higher than others, both because of the price and
because of temperatures. So states like Texas, Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Buckle up, everybody, Your electric bills are going to go
through the roof.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
This summer, Oklahoma, Arkansas, that's where consumers are going to
be spending the most on their electricity bills.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Costs are also going.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
To be high in New England, so Vermont, New Hampshire,
Main Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Of those states, did any of those regions surprise you?
Speaker 12 (18:20):
I mean, so you think of some of the New
England states, you think doesn't get that hot.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
This summer that was surprising.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
My guess is that that's because electricity costs are higher there,
even if temperatures aren't just high as god.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
They get us everywhere every which way, every time you
turn around, they're taking money out of our pockets. Everybody's
taking money, everybody. Man, We've got a lot of people
wanting to go on this trip. Since I just made
that announcement of it, was at seven hundred and sixty
four and now we're at eight thirty five. So in
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the last ten minutes, almost seventy people have sent an
inquiry about this trip, and it keeps going. So if
you want to sign up, we're almost at one thousand,
we're at eight thirty nine right now, and we're going
on trip. Whether you like it or not, you're going
you're gonna pay for it. You're gonna have fun, and
I'm gonna I'm gonna be with you. We're all gonna
have fun, all right. That's it. Bottom line. You're going.
(19:12):
It's a once in a lifetime deal. I'm not doing
it again. I'm just going once. I'm going on one
trip and it's your opportunity to come hang with me,
and I'll hang with you. We'll get drunk, we'll get
in trouble. You know, we'll probably be throwing off the
trip at some point, and you know, have to be
have cops talk to us about something.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Who knows you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
About twenty minutes ago. Fifteen minutes ago, I said, if
you want to go on the trip with me, I'm
going on this one trip. It's gonna be a seven
day trip. It'll be next June or July of next year.
And we had eight We had seven hundred and sixty
four people that have inquired about it. That number is
now eight sixty four. One hundred people have said let's go.
(20:00):
Is one of them? Galen, Patty, Leslie, Mary Kay, Scott,
Nancy and Julie Man like all these people, and it's
a lot of people. It's almost a thousand. Now. The
problem is I got to email everybody. I got to
separately email everybody. So if you don't get it right
away on May twenty ninth, it's because there are a
(20:23):
lot of them. But you're gonna get the you'll be
on the list and hopefully you can go. You know,
you can tell your family you're going, or bring your family.
I might bring my wife and my daughter. They might go,
and it's gonna be a cool trip. I know where
it is, but I can't tell you where it is
until for some reason, I don't know why, until May thirtieth.
So a week from Friday, we'll have the people coming
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in who are putting the trip together, and we're going
on a trip on your favorite rocket ship and it'll
be an experience of a lifetime. We'll all be traveling
for seven days together. By the end of it probably
be you know, throwing things at each other because we're
re tired of each other, but what the hell, you know,
it'd be a fun trip, and we'll have a party
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before the trip where everyone can meet and get together
and uh, you know, because when you go on a
trip with might be one hundred people or so, you
don't want to, you know, get on the plane and
everyone meet for the first time. You want to meet before.
So we'll have a list of all the people that
are your meeting. And maybe you guys have something in common.
I don't know you you have friends or family that
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want to go. But it's gonna be great. It's gonna
be the Conway Trip. It's gonna be a trip of
a lifetime. I'm excited about it, and I think I
think you'll be excited about the destination as well. So
just email me Conway Trip at gmail dot com and
just put in trip in the subject line, and I
will tell you at some point where we're all going.
And you, guys, if you if you already emailed me,
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you're going. Whether you like it or not, you're going.
You can't complain that it's too far away, it's too expensive.
Maybe next time may not be So you're going. You're gone.
Conway Trip at gmail dot com. All right, let's talk
about the I hate to talk about this, but the
vaccine policy. I think people are still getting vaccinated for
(22:14):
COVID by now. The rules have changed and now they're
going to talk about less people getting vaccinated. Only if
you're really old or really young.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
This news coming today from the FDA. The new vaccine
policy under the Trump administration will limit access to COVID
nineteen shots moving forward. Access will be limited to people
who are sixty five and older and others with underlying
health conditions. They won't be approved annually for younger adults
and children who are healthy. That said, the new mandate
will not impact anyone who wants to get the shot
(22:43):
that is currently on the market. It will apply to
any future COVID shots that are updated to match the
evolving virus now. Previously updated COVID vaccines had been recommended
each year by the CDC for everyone over the age
of six months.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I don't know anybody who's getting vaccine anymore. I think
that train has left the station, all right. Downtown LA
is a mass a lot of homeless people around there,
and a guy who owns a barber shop is playing
baby Shark loudly to get people to move on from
his barbershop, and I guess that has sort of backfired
on him.
Speaker 14 (23:15):
We will have to see what happens, but I can
tell you He's been in downtown Los Angeles for five
years and says his barbershop business has been taking a
hit because of that nearby homeless encampment. When all else failed,
Shallum Styles came up with this novel.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
What a great name for a guy in the barber business,
Shallum Styles.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Shallum Styles came up with this novel idea to try
to keep drifters away from his store.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
And if I see something, I clean it up, whether
it's graffiti on this beautiful cabanda that I built, or
it's puke or its feces, human poop. The cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What a town we live in? Right? Gay owns a
barbershop and he's got to go out and clean somebody's
s or its.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Feces, human poop that I'm cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
What it was this like nineteen twelve where you got
to go clean the horse crap off the streets. No,
it's twenty twenty five in downtown LA, supposedly the most
beautiful city, and I don't know, maybe in La.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Shallam Styles runs the Styles Barbara Lounge on East eleventh
Street in downtown Los Angeles. That sounds like a cool
hang tells us activity from people at a nearby homeless
encampment is cutting into his clientele vandalism public nudity. For example,
he recently found a naked woman sitting on the bench
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outside his front window and told her to leave.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
She started screaming on the top of her lung.
Speaker 14 (24:46):
He says conditions have only worsened in the five years
he and his staff have been grooming customers. However, please
for help from the city seem to have fallen on
deaf ears.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's right, she started screaming on the top.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
Of her lung.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah. Naked women running around screaming, so and the city's
not helping at all, and the top of her lungs. Yeah, Well,
you know what he meant. You know what he meant.
Speaker 14 (25:12):
So Shallum decided to turn up the noise.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Baby baby shut, baby Shut, Mommy shut, Mommy shut, Mommy shut,
do do mommy shuk.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Daddy is shut, daddy poop poop poop poo poop oop daddy,
pooh pooh, poo poo poo oop daddy poo poo poo.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Cleaned it up.
Speaker 14 (25:44):
He started blasting baby Shark outside of his shop to
keep drifters at bay. Many considered the children's tune on
a perpetual loop more like torture. The move grabbed the
attention of the media as well as the building's limb
lord and law enforcement. Shallum would have to silence the sharks. However,
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customers understand his plike.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, you try everything you can. You know, nothing works,
nothing ever works.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
We're live on KFI AM six forty. We're up to
eight hundred and ninety five requests for the trip Conway
trip at gmail dot com. That's a lot, eight ninety five,
huge number. Now eight ninety six because of Robert Walsh,
he's become eight ninety six and Jean and Russell.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
KFI AM six forty Conway Show. We have nine hundred
and fourteen people that want to know about the trip
that I'm taking with them next summer. It's going to
be July of next year. I can tell you that
it's going to be a seven day trip somewhere in
the world. And May twenty ninth, I'm gonna try to
email everybody back to tell you where it's going to go,
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where we're gonna go. And on May thirtieth. We're gonna
have the people in who are in charge of this trip.
I think at five thirty, is that right, Bellio at
five thirty on a week for Friday?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
I believe yes.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And then we're gonna have all the details and it's
gonna fill up fast and people can be pissed that
they can't go because it's sold out. So hope you
can make it. Hope you make it. That'd be great.
I'm gonna be traveling now when you travel with me,
I'm not a morning guy, so but I'm a night guy.
I will be up all night with you.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
How late are we talking.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
To two o'clock? Drinking? Wow? I'll pick up cigarettes again,
so that'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Is that what you do?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't smoke now, but I will on the trip.
I'll pick up cigarette.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I don't know. You know, we'll be out of the
country and we'll be smoking, and then we'll be up,
you know, drinking. Maybe we'll fight, you know, at some
point there'll be a big fight. I don't know. But
it's gonna be a great trip. Sounds like. Sounds great? Well,
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you can go. You can buy a cabin and go.
It'll be great.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Sounds fighting, smoking, drinking. Your kind of trip sounds like
Christmas holidays.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
That's a classic. All right. Costco is rolling out buy now,
pay later for big online purchases. So here's how it works.
At Costco, the world's largest warehouse membership club, Costco has
started letting US customers that's you pay for large online
(28:38):
purchases with buy now, pay later with Affirm. I think
that's the financial dealer. New online pay option for US
Costco customers was then veiled by Affirm, and you can
buy buy now, pay later if you're approved, and you
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can buy anything between five hundred and seventeen thousand, five
hundred dollars, so you can buy some pretty big items
five hundred two seventeen thousand, five hundred dollars. You can
pay it over time. Large purchases available at six hundred
and twenty four locations in the United States and Puerto Rico.
At Costco, it's physically it's physical warehouses typically less than
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four thousand different types of products. And that's a cool deal.
So buy now, pay later. Here you go. All right,
we're up to nine hundred and nineteen people that want
to go on this trip. That's gonna be huge, smoking cigarettes,
drinking up late, possibly fighting. That's the trip. No, of
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course that's not. But everyone have a good time. I
think my wife's going. I think my daughter's going. Maybe
one of my daughter's friends will go with her and
she'll have one cabin because her dad's going to be
up at night late. You know, hopefully there'll be some
casino within driving distance of where we are, or you know,
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a card game can break out with the people going
with us, but we will need to gamble at some point.
Hollywood is going to be saved by Mayor Karen Bass.
How about this. She's going to single handedly save Hollywood.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
We need to be.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
Able to cut through the bureaucracy. That was the message
people in the local film and TV industry wanted to
get to Mayor Bass, And today they said she heard
them loud and clear.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Right here we go with a fresh By the way,
she was, she wasn't in that meeting in person. She
was on a zoom call from Guam. Is that wild
or Ghana? She's back at Ghana for some reason. What's
going on there?
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Freshly signed executive order, Mayor Karen Bass hopes to shine
the spotlight back on Hollywood as the nation's leader in
the film industry, an industry that Bass says is essential
to our city's identity and economy.
Speaker 15 (31:14):
It's not just about movies and TV shows. It's about
good paying union jobs, middle class livelihoods, small business success,
and the economic strength of our city.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
The mayor says, her executive order lowers costs and streamline
city processes for on location filming, making it easier for
studios and producers to shoot movies, television shows, and commercials.
It also increases access to iconic city locations like the
Central Library, the Port of Los Angeles, and the Griffith
Observatory Runway.
Speaker 16 (31:45):
Production has decimated local film and TV production.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's right, it's wipe this out.
Speaker 16 (31:50):
And this is a critical move to reverse that treat
The Mayor's new executive directive takes steps that the industry
has been advocating for for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Why are is she just taking steps now? Why did
we have to see Hollywood completely decimated before the local
government took steps. Why couldn't they do this two or
three years ago. It's a good question, isn't it. Whether
Republican Democrat independent politics has nothing to do with it.
Why couldn't the local government in LA Why didn't they
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see what was happening years ago during the strikes, the
actors strike, the Writer's strike, whatever other strikes were out there,
and then COVID had a huge effect. Why couldn't they
see three or four years ago that we needed help?
Why are they waiting till now?
Speaker 16 (32:36):
The Mayor's new executive directive takes steps that the industry
has been advocating for for.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
A very long time.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Nonprofits like Junior Achievement of Southern California are also filling
the impacts. It has facilities it would normally rent out
to production crews when not being used by students.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Business has been terrible.
Speaker 17 (32:53):
I can tell you that it's probably down eighty percent
what we used to be able to factor in our
annual budget with respect to film shoots, whether that was
a film shoot in our parking lot, in the lobby,
in our lunch room, in our offices, it's gone down
dramatically eighty percent.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Decline in local production eighty percent.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
This executive order goes into effect immediately.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Yeah, I've in Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
Ashley Mackie eighty seven, eye witnessed News.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Finally, finally, Finally somebody got the word that we need
some help here in Los Angeles. All right, one last
push here. I want to try to get this up
to one thousand. If you want to travel with me,
I recommend it. I'm pretty fun to travel with. I'm
not a pain in the ass. I don't borrow money
from people I travel with. I don't fight anybody. I
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don't wake up early, though, so you're not going to
see me, you know, at the pool, if there's a pool,
I'm not gonna be one of the guys reading a
book at six am on a chase lounge. That's excuse me.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
This is the big the big pitch, the big pitch,
the big pitch to all your great points why we
should vacation.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
That's right. I'm a good person to vacation.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
We're listening, all right, But I am.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I do get up late, and I'm usually you know,
hungover for the first couple hours, so you're gonna be
on your own for a little bit and then I
get rolling.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
So should people not talk to you for the first
two hours.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Well, there'll be in different rooms. They won't even see me.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Oh, you won't even like come out of your room until.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Until maybe noon or one o'clock, okay, and then once
I'm out, though I'm I'll be hot as hell. I'll
be waving to everybody. You know, d do. There would
be lots of that, you know, ding dong on all
the rooms with you know, wherever we are, it'll have
a ding dong sticker on, knowing that you're part of
our crew. But I'll be up late, you know, drinking cigarettes.
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You know, I'm a blow little weed, so that would.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Be the time to hang out with you.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's right late at night, that's right between three o'clock,
three pm and two am is my sweet spot. But
other than that, I'm out. I'm out. I am sleeping
or a'm you know, doing something without the crew, all right,
but that that'll be fun. Conway Trip at gmail dot com.
It'll be a great trip. You'll have the time of
your life. You remember it forever, and I think it'll
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be uh, we're just doing one of these, so you
got to get involved. Conway Trip at gmail dot com.
Me Kelly Apax right here on k IF. I am
six forty
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It is
the Conway Show. We have Memorial Day weekend coming up,
and a lot of people are gonna be getting their
car buzzing out to Morongo or out to Vegas, San Francisco,
San Diego. Maybe you're flying somewhere I don't know, might
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be enjoying yourself. But gas prices. People always want to
know what's going on with gas prices from Memorial Day weekend.
Maybe going out to the river. You're going out to
the Desert, Arizona, the Colorado River, Jump in that thing
and enjoy yourself out there. Man, that's a cool weekend,
three day weekend coming up. But how much are we
(00:42):
gonna be paying for gas in California.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, some good news if you're hitting the road for
the Memorial Day holiday prices that the pumps are down.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
In La County it's for eighty one for a gallon
of regular. That's about thirty six cents less than this
time last year.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In Orange County it's four seventy four at the pump.
And in Riverside County it's for sixty eight. This year,
Triple A projects about forty five million people would travel
at least fifty miles over the holiday period from the
Thursday to Monday, the twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So, Bellia, you're considered a traveler because you travel over
fifty miles to and from work, So you're part of
the crow traveler. You are a traveler.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I can expect lower gas prices.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I guess. So, I don't know. Maybe maybe Krozier I
was listening to his newscast and I didn't know this,
But TMZ is reporting there's a reason not to believe
them that the two remaining elephants at the La Zoo
have left the building, the two Asian elephants, Billy and Tina.
I believe they say it's empty. Now. Ah, that's horrible.
I like Billy and Tina. I think Billy was forty.
(01:46):
I think Tina was the older gal. She's sixty or
fifty nine, something like that. And I have been going
to the zoo. I went there as a child, I
went there to take my child. I've and I saw
the same elephants my entire life, whether it was Billy
or Tina or the other two. Jewel and is it,
(02:08):
Sean Ze. I think Jewel was sixty one, So I've
been looking at Jewel my whole life, and Jewel passed
away age related health issues by Tina and Billy have left.
There are no more elephants at the La Zoo. Now,
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I might be out going out on a limb here
and may ask the craziest question ever, but when do
we get new ones? Is Lazo going to get some
new ones? We got rid of the older ones, bringing
in some babies now only if they stay babies. I
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think that's the issue. But isn't that a big attraction?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
For the zoo. The elephants I got last time I
went was fifteen years ago something like that, and I
seem to remember back then they had just refurbished that. Yes,
you're right, ephant. It looked beautiful, huge. Yeah, yeah, I
enjoyed that.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I don't know if they still have elephants at the
Santa Barbara Zoo, but those are great. The San Diego
Zoo they've got some beautiful elephants, elephants, and I don't
know about the Wild Animal Park if they have elephants
or not, but you got to see them because they're
all going away. There's too many activists out there who
don't like elephants or love elephants. I don't know, can't tell.
But they're going away. So if you've not seen an
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elephant and you want to see one, you gotta get
to a zoo pretty quickly because Cher and her whole
crew are making them disappear.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
And San Diego, that San Diego Wild Animal Park or
whatever it's called, I don't know what it's called. That's
a great place to see the elephants. They've got a
great environment there for them. Yeah, it's wonderful, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I gotta get down there and look at him. I
heard though that they don't let the Irish in. Is
that true Irish?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
That sucks true. I can hide my Irish background. I
didn't know.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes I can't.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, well you can't. Well you're Italian.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I'm Italian Irish.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I wantn't know that.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
We've talked about this so many times. I don't really
do not listen to me. Maybe I don't remember your heritage.
Is that possible? Maybe I have listened?
Speaker 8 (04:25):
That is.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I'll give you that.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Where is your Irish come from your dad's side, my mom,
your mom's.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
My last name is Bellio. That's Italian, so that would
be my dad.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
So my mom is Irish.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I guess I could have figured that out. And is
your mom full blown Irish?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Does she like Saint Patrick's Day or does she like that?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
She does.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Put her in past tense?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, I appreciate if you wouldn't do that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But she loves she's a full blown what's her maiden
name Beecher Beecher. That's a cool name. It's pretty Irish,
ain't it.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
It sounds like her mother her was a mul Kern. Oh,
that's really very Irish.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, yeah, mul Kern yeah or something then, and.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Her great grandmother was a Green.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
All right. Did you ever do the background like the
twenty three and me or the heritage thing?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Not the twenty three and me. No, I've done the ancestry.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
How'd that work out?
Speaker 10 (05:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I found out some stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Ultimately, was it worth it?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I didn't want to keep paying for more with you?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
To be honest, I'm with you. My wife likes doing
that where she goes back like five, six, seven generations
and ten generations in her family and She's like, let's
do with your son, Like, eh, I'm good, I'm good.
Those people alone, they're no longer with us. Let's not
dig up any dirt on these people. Let me just well.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Also, you need people to add to it to find stuff.
So if you know, if people in your family tree
aren't doing that, it's hard to find stuff. I mean,
you can get census data and things like that, but
you kind of run out of things to get.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, my wife found my grandfather's signature when he came
to this country in I think it was nineteen I
think it was nineteen twenty eight. Yeah, and he came
to the United States nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I saw my grandmother's a signature at Ellis Island.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's this bomb thread at San Diego? Is that something
new here? Flight evacuate after a bomb thread of.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Wayian earlier today?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Boom? What's going on with people? All right? So I
so my d my grandfather got here nineteen twenty eight
from Ireland and she found the signature at Elis Island.
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That is cool.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I mean it's exact centric because we compared it to
signatures we found on checks that he had written in
its exact same signature. That's really neat.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
And did you see the census, because you can look
up the census and see like what their job was.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And I didn't look that up now, but I know
he moved to Cleveland. I don't know where he read
in Ireland and Cleveland was the move, but that's where
he ended up. And his first job was braiding Cleveland
hot back then. I don't know. I think he's just
you know, he just looked at a map and said,
I'll go there. That sounds Goodland. Well, they had a
big Irish population. I think you know, when you come
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to this country, you want to stick with your own
clan for a while, you know, because they give you
a break and they understand you a little more. Plus
he can't He was around when they had signs in
windows and doors the Irish need not apply. The Irish
were really discriminated against for a long time, and he
was part of that. So the only job that he
could get was held. He would braid horsetails at Thistledown
(07:39):
Racetrack because you would break I didn't know that he
braid the horsetail in the summer so the horse can
whip it around and keep the flies off it. And
that was his job. I think he got three cents
per tale that he braided.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And this was your grandfather.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's my dad's dad. Yeah, okay, yeah, but my dad's
dad was born without parents, never knew his parents, was
thrown right into an orphanage, and then for eighteen years,
eighteen years, he was passed on every Sunday, every Sunday,
you know, perspective. Perspective. Parents would come to the orphanage
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and they'd line up the kids and they'd say, Okay,
I'll take that one or that one and this one.
And my grandfather lined up every Sunday for eighteen years,
and nobody said I'll take that guy. That is so heartbreaking,
isn't that horrible? Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
That is really sad.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, And he sort of had a sense of humor
about it, you know, after a while he's like, you know,
he would say, well, I don't pick you guys either, like, okay,
we definitely got right, I'll pick of that guy.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, it probably helped with the rejection to get over
the rejection.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. But he was
he was pick you. He was a real cheap guy.
And my dad tells a great story. And he was
the first guy on the block to buy a doorbell,
and he bought it for se from Sears for three dollars,
and it was gonna be another dollar to hook it up,
and he said, screw it. He's pretty handy. He'll hook
(09:07):
it up himself. And so my grandfather hooked up the doorbell.
But it didn't make a ringing noise. It would just
make a buzzing noise like h And he hooked it
up backwards so it would buzz all day and then
as soon as it stopped, he goes, I'll get it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Was he the one that answered the phone up the
telephone pole.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, he was too cheap to have the phone come
into the house. It was another dollar fifty to bring
it from the pole into the house. So he would
climb up the phone pole when it rang. So my
grandmother when she got a call from Romania from her parents,
you'd have to climb up the phone pole in the
rain to talk to her parents. That's a true story.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Do you have any photos of that, you know?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I think my dad had. I got to look for him.
I know that my dad had one with the phone
pole and the phone on top of it. That's amazing.
I gotta find that.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I could see where your dad got his humor.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah. Yeah, And my grandparents said through the Great Depression,
they're really cheap people. They had no money, and they
would fire the paper boy two weeks before Christmas so
they didn't have to lay a bonus on him for Christmas,
and then they pick up the paper in January every
year every year.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It's kind of what people do with streaming services.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, exactly. Was your grandmother the same one? When you
guys are going out to lunch, immediately it's oh, yeah, oh,
what's what are you gonna have for dinner? What are
you gonna have? She only talked about food. The next
The next meal, we'd be driving to RB's for lunch
and she'd be like, well, what should we have for dinner?
My grandma, Maggie, we haven't even had lunch and we're
you know, let's have lunch and then talk about dinner. Well,
(10:37):
I got to pull something. How the freezer and I
have a dinner exact same way. And yeah, my grandmother's
really both of them are really really cheap, and they
would write the paper boy. This is how they fired
the paper boy every year and write two weeks before Christmas.
They'd write on a piece of paper, paper boy, you're fired,
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mister Conway or missus Conway. That's all. My dad has
one of those notes, dear paper boy, you're fired missus Conway.
And then they'd pick it up the paper after middle
of January.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
What did that note say?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Welcome back Conway, Hope you enjoyed your Christmas.
Speaker 11 (11:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We so far have seven hundred and sixty four emails
of people that want to know where we're going to
take a trip. I'm going on a trip next year
with the listeners. We have seven hundred and sixty people
who have said they're interested in the details. You can
be added to that email. It's going to be a
(11:45):
seven day trip. I can't tell you where we're going yet,
but it's gonna be fun. I picked from eight different
trips and I picked the most fun trip. It's going
to be the most fun you could possibly have with
me for a week. If that sounds exciting to you,
you can email me Conwaytrip at gmail dot com. And
(12:11):
then on the twenty ninth of May, which is next Thursday.
I'll email you and then we'll make the big announcement
on May thirtieth and tell you where the trip's going
to be. But if you would like details before the
big announcement on the air, email me. It's my email.
(12:31):
Nobody else looks at it. Not selling it to anybody.
It's just mine. It's Conway trip at gmail dot com.
And just put trip in the subject and I'll tell
you where we're going. It might be fun right to uh,
we'll all hang out, we'll travel together for a week.
It might be the only one I do. It might
(12:52):
be a one off man all right, we'll see how
it goes. And but it's gonna be seven day trip
somewhere on this planet. It may be Europe. It may
be the Bahamas. It may be Canada. It might be Mexico.
It might be Hawaii, Asia. It could be India, it
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could be Australia, Africa, it could be South America. Can
all go down to Argentina and find out where steffush
was family's from. So just emailing and then I will
tell you where the trip's going to be. There's no obligation,
you don't have to go. If you just want the
details Conway trip at gmail dot com and I'll let
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you know. Oh, we've already had Patrick, Brian, Martin and
Abbey have already sent in their emails from today. I'm
looking at them right now. They're coming in in real
time and I can see people who are emailing as
we speak. That's cool. Danielle, count me in, Larry, Vincent, Brad, Keith, Mandy.
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Where are we going? Where are we going? Now? I
can't tell you yet? You help? Do you believe me
that I will tell you at some point? I just
can't tell you right now. All right, let's get into electricity.
We all use it, and let's find out how expensive
it's going to be this summer. It's going to be
through the roof.
Speaker 12 (14:26):
As summer approaches, home electricity bills are expected to reach
record high levels as Americans try to stay cool, according
to a new report. Analysis from the National Energy Assistance
Directors Association shows, on average, people could be paying seven
hundred and eighty four dollars over the summer months of
June through September. It's more than six percent higher than
(14:46):
last summer. It also marks a twelve year high. The
association tells CBS News at higher temperatures and inflation are factors.
CBS News Money Watch reporter Megan Cerulo has been following this.
She joins us, Now that's not a minor increase. I mean,
you know, people who are really watching their bills, that
could be a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes, six percent is a lot.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
How quickly have these prices risen over the years, It's significant.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Electricity costs, the cost of Coolingland's home has not risen
every single year since twenty fourteen. But as you noted,
there's a six percent anticipated increase this year from the
summer period, which is from June through September, up to
seven hundred and eighty four dollars. That's the national average
compared to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
So that's a significant spike.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And that's because both the cost of electricity is going
up and because of climate change, temperatures are rising, and
so American households are having to use more of that electricity.
Speaker 12 (15:39):
Tell us more about the rule of climate change and inflation.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Here we go. Put on your climate change had.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So because of inflation, electricity costs are rising. That's one factor.
Temperatures are expected to get to be hot, hot, this summer,
and so.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Like they are every year. That the is that what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Temperatures are expected to get to to be hot hot
this summer.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Like what like last summer? And I think it was
the summer before that it was also hot, wasn't it. Yeah,
two summers ago is hot. I think there's a pattern.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
And so NIATA used their data and looked at.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Je Lenno had a great joke. He said, everyone's gathering
to talk about global warming and they think they have
a solution. Yeah, just wait till December.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
With their data and looked at the weather forecasts.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I know it irritates the global warming crew, but that's
the design of it, and that's how.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
They came up with this analysis.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And because it both costs more and they're using more
of it, that's going to raise costs across the country.
And unfortunately, we're also coming off a cold winter, and
so folks are already behind on their heating bills.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And wait, I thought we had a global warming. We're
coming off of what a cold winter? We're coming off
of cold winter during global warming?
Speaker 8 (17:01):
A cold winter?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What the hell's going on?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And so folks are already behind on their heating bills,
and because if you don't turn your heat on, your
pipe clig in to free So that's not an alternative.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You know, I thought were just talking about the hot summer.
Now we're talking about pipes freezing.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Because if you don't turn your heat on, your pipe
clig in to free so that's not an alternative.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Hell.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
However, some households that might want to save money could consider,
you know, they could say, oh, we're not going to
turn on our air conditioners to save money. But that's
not obviously not something that experts recommend because.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That can lead to death. It could lead to death.
Scary health consequences, Yeah, concluding death.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
A scary health consequences, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Scary health consequences. How did he go? A really scary
health consequence got him?
Speaker 11 (17:44):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Heat?
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Scary health consequences?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
For sure?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Is this reasion specific?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
The seven hundred and eighty four dollars is the national average.
There are some places where electricity costs are going to
be higher than others, both because of the price and
because of temperatures. So states like Texas, Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Buckle up, everybody, Your electric bills are going to go
through the roof.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
This summer, Oklahoma, Arkansas, that's where consumers are going to
be spending the most on their electricity bills.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Costs are also going.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
To be high in New England, so Vermont, New Hampshire,
Main Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Of those states, did any of those regions surprise you?
Speaker 12 (18:20):
I mean, so you think of some of the New
England states, you think doesn't get that hot.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
This summer that was surprising.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
My guess is that that's because electricity costs are higher there,
even if temperatures aren't just high as god.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
They get us everywhere every which way, every time you
turn around, they're taking money out of our pockets. Everybody's
taking money, everybody. Man, We've got a lot of people
wanting to go on this trip. Since I just made
that announcement of it, was at seven hundred and sixty
four and now we're at eight thirty five. So in
(18:51):
the last ten minutes, almost seventy people have sent an
inquiry about this trip, and it keeps going. So if
you want to sign up, we're almost at one thousand,
we're at eight thirty nine right now, and we're going
on trip. Whether you like it or not, you're going
you're gonna pay for it. You're gonna have fun, and
I'm gonna I'm gonna be with you. We're all gonna
have fun, all right. That's it. Bottom line. You're going.
(19:12):
It's a once in a lifetime deal. I'm not doing
it again. I'm just going once. I'm going on one
trip and it's your opportunity to come hang with me,
and I'll hang with you. We'll get drunk, we'll get
in trouble. You know, we'll probably be throwing off the
trip at some point, and you know, have to be
have cops talk to us about something.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Who knows you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
About twenty minutes ago. Fifteen minutes ago, I said, if
you want to go on the trip with me, I'm
going on this one trip. It's gonna be a seven
day trip. It'll be next June or July of next year.
And we had eight We had seven hundred and sixty
four people that have inquired about it. That number is
now eight sixty four. One hundred people have said let's go.
(20:00):
Is one of them? Galen, Patty, Leslie, Mary Kay, Scott,
Nancy and Julie Man like all these people, and it's
a lot of people. It's almost a thousand. Now. The
problem is I got to email everybody. I got to
separately email everybody. So if you don't get it right
away on May twenty ninth, it's because there are a
(20:23):
lot of them. But you're gonna get the you'll be
on the list and hopefully you can go. You know,
you can tell your family you're going, or bring your family.
I might bring my wife and my daughter. They might go,
and it's gonna be a cool trip. I know where
it is, but I can't tell you where it is
until for some reason, I don't know why, until May thirtieth.
So a week from Friday, we'll have the people coming
(20:46):
in who are putting the trip together, and we're going
on a trip on your favorite rocket ship and it'll
be an experience of a lifetime. We'll all be traveling
for seven days together. By the end of it probably
be you know, throwing things at each other because we're
re tired of each other, but what the hell, you know,
it'd be a fun trip, and we'll have a party
(21:07):
before the trip where everyone can meet and get together
and uh, you know, because when you go on a
trip with might be one hundred people or so, you
don't want to, you know, get on the plane and
everyone meet for the first time. You want to meet before.
So we'll have a list of all the people that
are your meeting. And maybe you guys have something in common.
I don't know you you have friends or family that
(21:29):
want to go. But it's gonna be great. It's gonna
be the Conway Trip. It's gonna be a trip of
a lifetime. I'm excited about it, and I think I
think you'll be excited about the destination as well. So
just email me Conway Trip at gmail dot com and
just put in trip in the subject line, and I
will tell you at some point where we're all going.
And you, guys, if you if you already emailed me,
(21:51):
you're going. Whether you like it or not, you're going.
You can't complain that it's too far away, it's too expensive.
Maybe next time may not be So you're going. You're gone.
Conway Trip at gmail dot com. All right, let's talk
about the I hate to talk about this, but the
vaccine policy. I think people are still getting vaccinated for
(22:14):
COVID by now. The rules have changed and now they're
going to talk about less people getting vaccinated. Only if
you're really old or really young.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
This news coming today from the FDA. The new vaccine
policy under the Trump administration will limit access to COVID
nineteen shots moving forward. Access will be limited to people
who are sixty five and older and others with underlying
health conditions. They won't be approved annually for younger adults
and children who are healthy. That said, the new mandate
will not impact anyone who wants to get the shot
(22:43):
that is currently on the market. It will apply to
any future COVID shots that are updated to match the
evolving virus now. Previously updated COVID vaccines had been recommended
each year by the CDC for everyone over the age
of six months.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I don't know anybody who's getting vaccine anymore. I think
that train has left the station, all right. Downtown LA
is a mass a lot of homeless people around there,
and a guy who owns a barber shop is playing
baby Shark loudly to get people to move on from
his barbershop, and I guess that has sort of backfired
on him.
Speaker 14 (23:15):
We will have to see what happens, but I can
tell you He's been in downtown Los Angeles for five
years and says his barbershop business has been taking a
hit because of that nearby homeless encampment. When all else failed,
Shallum Styles came up with this novel.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
What a great name for a guy in the barber business,
Shallum Styles.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Shallum Styles came up with this novel idea to try
to keep drifters away from his store.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
And if I see something, I clean it up, whether
it's graffiti on this beautiful cabanda that I built, or
it's puke or its feces, human poop. The cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What a town we live in? Right? Gay owns a
barbershop and he's got to go out and clean somebody's
s or its.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Feces, human poop that I'm cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
What it was this like nineteen twelve where you got
to go clean the horse crap off the streets. No,
it's twenty twenty five in downtown LA, supposedly the most
beautiful city, and I don't know, maybe in La.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Shallam Styles runs the Styles Barbara Lounge on East eleventh
Street in downtown Los Angeles. That sounds like a cool
hang tells us activity from people at a nearby homeless
encampment is cutting into his clientele vandalism public nudity. For example,
he recently found a naked woman sitting on the bench
(24:40):
outside his front window and told her to leave.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
She started screaming on the top of her lung.
Speaker 14 (24:46):
He says conditions have only worsened in the five years
he and his staff have been grooming customers. However, please
for help from the city seem to have fallen on
deaf ears.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's right, she started screaming on the top.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
Of her lung.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah. Naked women running around screaming, so and the city's
not helping at all, and the top of her lungs. Yeah, Well,
you know what he meant. You know what he meant.
Speaker 14 (25:12):
So Shallum decided to turn up the noise.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Baby baby shut, baby Shut, Mommy shut, Mommy shut, Mommy shut,
do do mommy shuk.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Daddy is shut, daddy poop poop poop poo poop oop daddy,
pooh pooh, poo poo poo oop daddy poo poo poo.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Cleaned it up.
Speaker 14 (25:44):
He started blasting baby Shark outside of his shop to
keep drifters at bay. Many considered the children's tune on
a perpetual loop more like torture. The move grabbed the
attention of the media as well as the building's limb
lord and law enforcement. Shallum would have to silence the sharks. However,
(26:06):
customers understand his plike.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, you try everything you can. You know, nothing works,
nothing ever works.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
We're live on KFI AM six forty. We're up to
eight hundred and ninety five requests for the trip Conway
trip at gmail dot com. That's a lot, eight ninety five,
huge number. Now eight ninety six because of Robert Walsh,
he's become eight ninety six and Jean and Russell.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
KFI AM six forty Conway Show. We have nine hundred
and fourteen people that want to know about the trip
that I'm taking with them next summer. It's going to
be July of next year. I can tell you that
it's going to be a seven day trip somewhere in
the world. And May twenty ninth, I'm gonna try to
email everybody back to tell you where it's going to go,
(27:01):
where we're gonna go. And on May thirtieth. We're gonna
have the people in who are in charge of this trip.
I think at five thirty, is that right, Bellio at
five thirty on a week for Friday?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
I believe yes.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And then we're gonna have all the details and it's
gonna fill up fast and people can be pissed that
they can't go because it's sold out. So hope you
can make it. Hope you make it. That'd be great.
I'm gonna be traveling now when you travel with me,
I'm not a morning guy, so but I'm a night guy.
I will be up all night with you.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
How late are we talking.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
To two o'clock? Drinking? Wow? I'll pick up cigarettes again,
so that'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Is that what you do?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't smoke now, but I will on the trip.
I'll pick up cigarette.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I don't know. You know, we'll be out of the
country and we'll be smoking, and then we'll be up,
you know, drinking. Maybe we'll fight, you know, at some
point there'll be a big fight. I don't know. But
it's gonna be a great trip. Sounds like. Sounds great? Well,
(28:04):
you can go. You can buy a cabin and go.
It'll be great.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Sounds fighting, smoking, drinking. Your kind of trip sounds like
Christmas holidays.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
That's a classic. All right. Costco is rolling out buy now,
pay later for big online purchases. So here's how it works.
At Costco, the world's largest warehouse membership club, Costco has
started letting US customers that's you pay for large online
(28:38):
purchases with buy now, pay later with Affirm. I think
that's the financial dealer. New online pay option for US
Costco customers was then veiled by Affirm, and you can
buy buy now, pay later if you're approved, and you
(29:03):
can buy anything between five hundred and seventeen thousand, five
hundred dollars, so you can buy some pretty big items
five hundred two seventeen thousand, five hundred dollars. You can
pay it over time. Large purchases available at six hundred
and twenty four locations in the United States and Puerto Rico.
At Costco, it's physically it's physical warehouses typically less than
(29:28):
four thousand different types of products. And that's a cool deal.
So buy now, pay later. Here you go. All right,
we're up to nine hundred and nineteen people that want
to go on this trip. That's gonna be huge, smoking cigarettes,
drinking up late, possibly fighting. That's the trip. No, of
(29:52):
course that's not. But everyone have a good time. I
think my wife's going. I think my daughter's going. Maybe
one of my daughter's friends will go with her and
she'll have one cabin because her dad's going to be
up at night late. You know, hopefully there'll be some
casino within driving distance of where we are, or you know,
(30:12):
a card game can break out with the people going
with us, but we will need to gamble at some point.
Hollywood is going to be saved by Mayor Karen Bass.
How about this. She's going to single handedly save Hollywood.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
We need to be.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
Able to cut through the bureaucracy. That was the message
people in the local film and TV industry wanted to
get to Mayor Bass, And today they said she heard
them loud and clear.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Right here we go with a fresh By the way,
she was, she wasn't in that meeting in person. She
was on a zoom call from Guam. Is that wild
or Ghana? She's back at Ghana for some reason. What's
going on there?
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Freshly signed executive order, Mayor Karen Bass hopes to shine
the spotlight back on Hollywood as the nation's leader in
the film industry, an industry that Bass says is essential
to our city's identity and economy.
Speaker 15 (31:14):
It's not just about movies and TV shows. It's about
good paying union jobs, middle class livelihoods, small business success,
and the economic strength of our city.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
The mayor says, her executive order lowers costs and streamline
city processes for on location filming, making it easier for
studios and producers to shoot movies, television shows, and commercials.
It also increases access to iconic city locations like the
Central Library, the Port of Los Angeles, and the Griffith
Observatory Runway.
Speaker 16 (31:45):
Production has decimated local film and TV production.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's right, it's wipe this out.
Speaker 16 (31:50):
And this is a critical move to reverse that treat
The Mayor's new executive directive takes steps that the industry
has been advocating for for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Why are is she just taking steps now? Why did
we have to see Hollywood completely decimated before the local
government took steps. Why couldn't they do this two or
three years ago. It's a good question, isn't it. Whether
Republican Democrat independent politics has nothing to do with it.
Why couldn't the local government in LA Why didn't they
(32:20):
see what was happening years ago during the strikes, the
actors strike, the Writer's strike, whatever other strikes were out there,
and then COVID had a huge effect. Why couldn't they
see three or four years ago that we needed help?
Why are they waiting till now?
Speaker 16 (32:36):
The Mayor's new executive directive takes steps that the industry
has been advocating for for.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
A very long time.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Nonprofits like Junior Achievement of Southern California are also filling
the impacts. It has facilities it would normally rent out
to production crews when not being used by students.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Business has been terrible.
Speaker 17 (32:53):
I can tell you that it's probably down eighty percent
what we used to be able to factor in our
annual budget with respect to film shoots, whether that was
a film shoot in our parking lot, in the lobby,
in our lunch room, in our offices, it's gone down
dramatically eighty percent.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Decline in local production eighty percent.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
This executive order goes into effect immediately.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Yeah, I've in Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
Ashley Mackie eighty seven, eye witnessed News.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Finally, finally, Finally somebody got the word that we need
some help here in Los Angeles. All right, one last
push here. I want to try to get this up
to one thousand. If you want to travel with me,
I recommend it. I'm pretty fun to travel with. I'm
not a pain in the ass. I don't borrow money
from people I travel with. I don't fight anybody. I
(33:44):
don't wake up early, though, so you're not going to
see me, you know, at the pool, if there's a pool,
I'm not gonna be one of the guys reading a
book at six am on a chase lounge. That's excuse me.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
This is the big the big pitch, the big pitch,
the big pitch to all your great points why we
should vacation.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
That's right. I'm a good person to vacation.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
We're listening, all right, But I am.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I do get up late, and I'm usually you know,
hungover for the first couple hours, so you're gonna be
on your own for a little bit and then I
get rolling.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
So should people not talk to you for the first
two hours.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Well, there'll be in different rooms. They won't even see me.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Oh, you won't even like come out of your room until.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Until maybe noon or one o'clock, okay, and then once
I'm out, though I'm I'll be hot as hell. I'll
be waving to everybody. You know, d do. There would
be lots of that, you know, ding dong on all
the rooms with you know, wherever we are, it'll have
a ding dong sticker on, knowing that you're part of
our crew. But I'll be up late, you know, drinking cigarettes.
(34:46):
You know, I'm a blow little weed, so that would.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Be the time to hang out with you.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's right late at night, that's right between three o'clock,
three pm and two am is my sweet spot. But
other than that, I'm out. I'm out. I am sleeping
or a'm you know, doing something without the crew, all right,
but that that'll be fun. Conway Trip at gmail dot com.
It'll be a great trip. You'll have the time of
your life. You remember it forever, and I think it'll
(35:12):
be uh, we're just doing one of these, so you
got to get involved. Conway Trip at gmail dot com.
Me Kelly Apax right here on k IF. I am
six forty
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