December 22, 2025 • 37 mins
Mark Thompson breaks down why massive lines are forming outside California businesses — not because of quality alone, but because of FOMO. He explores how restaurants and brands create cultural “must-be-there” moments, then widens the lens to the wave of restaurant closures across Southern California following January’s wildfires, declining tourism, and Hollywood’s continued pullout.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I AM six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm feeling very Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Ye, they've they did something very smart here at the
big iHeart Radio complex. By the way, we are at
iHeart Radio, and that's why the app works so well,
because it's the iHeartRadio app where KFI AM six forty
and we are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, it
is the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Tim is away, Mark Thompson sitting in.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
One of the things they did smartly I feel here
at the iHeartRadio mother ship is they pulled back a
little bit on the over the top filling of the
tree with ornaments. I mean, I think you know again
you can you gotta be careful. There is a design
touch to Christmas or holiday ornaments. You get the tree.
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All the trees that iHeart gets very nice, tasteful trees,
but they can sometimes, you know, when you're the decorator
of the tree, you can oversteer a little bit, end
up with a little too much in the way of
those huge ball bles and you I mean again, tastefully placed.
They're wonderful, but if you over ballble. It is a
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terribly difficult thing to sort of back away from. You
kind of almost have to start all over. But in
years past there has been I think, and I have
sort of because it's not really in the spirit of
the holiday to be at all critical of a tree.
I have laid off on my criticism, but I do
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note it, and I've seen and talked to others who
do note it. And this year, beautiful trees perfect, not
too much and also not too little, not too spartan,
not too too vacant, gorgeous tree in the lobby. And
then of course we have a tree right here in
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the studio, mere feet from where I sit, and it's perfect.
It's festooned with all of the magic of the holidays.
So wherever you are, take us with you. Tomorrow will
be an extremely wet day and begins what will be
a series of incredibly wet days. I'm talking about rain
that will likely produce some evacuations, maybe some mud slides,
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et cetera. So we're watching all of that, and particularly
in the burnscarred areas. You note that northern California, if
you may be heading up there, I know a lot
of people do head up to Northern California for the holiday,
they are already being pounded, so definitely check on the
situation in northern California before you travel there. There's a
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huge line that is building up behind and around some
businesses in southern California. And the reason is everything to
do with these business is going away having announced that
they're closing, and what this crowd that really wants to
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get one more lick at these businesses will tend to
do to again avoid fomo, you know, fear of missing out.
So for example, I mean Cole's is a perfect example
in downtown because that French dip place, they saw crowds
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wrapped around the entire block at sixth in Maine, they
announced that they're closing, and you know, this is the
city's oldest restaurant in saloon and you had these long
lines all around it. A few months before that, the
Original Pantry Cafe again, another century old diner in downtown,
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huge lines when they abruptly closed that restaurant. So as
local restaurants are facing challenges to remain open, there's a
weird thing that happens because these restaurants that obviously aren't
doing sufficient business to remain open. That's why they're having
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to sort of swim upstream against this current economically that
is making the restaurant business so tough. When they announce
that they can't continue anymore, they all of a sudden
get huge crowds. Papa Christo's seventy seven years as the
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Greek restaurant that closed its doors forever, they had a
line that stretched down Pico and you end up with
social media influencers who also help supercharge all of this.
It's just a wild phenomenon, I guess it would be
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the word I'd use. So you have a bit of
nostalgia and you have a bit of of fomo all
happening at the same time, and there is something of
a cultural event to this. Said Moses. The owner of Coals,
said that the long lines the restaurant experience after announcing
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their closure were overwhelming in the best way possible. We
love the city and the support had shown us, and
we appreciate people waiting in line. The crowds in the
initial days after Coal's closure announcement prompted him Moses to
delay closing by forty five days, and then again they
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delayed it until November first.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And then again they delayed it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's still open now until December thirty first. So this
surge of customers that hit Cole's has kept them open
for months longer, but will not sustain business in the
long term. And so it looks as though, I mean,
they're trying to sell Coals to try to preserve the
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legacy of Coals. You know, it's been around for all
those years, as we've said. But once again it looks
as though they will close, although right now they're open
until December thirty first. Another restaurant that drew huge lines
was the original Pantry Cafe. They are announcing they're reopening
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new ownership there and they are crediting workers for staging
protests and getting fundraisers going that drew public attention, and
it's really exciting. This is happening in parts of the
city where there are restaurants so strained financially that they're
being helped by these like go fund me campaigns, is
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really what they are. And so legendary places are kept
open because of the commitment of the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But since.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I think you can point to COVID as having hobbled
a restaurant business, that's already pretty tough to keep going,
you know, but it's a it's a continued slide, you know.
In a new industry survey I saw this is close
to night sorry, close to eighty five percent of LA
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restaurant said that business went down in twenty twenty five,
and twenty twenty five has been a rough year, a
really rough year for the restaurant business. A lot of
things go into keeping a restaurant open, and a lot
of things go into that which produces a closure. I'm
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looking at Helm's Bakery in Culver City. Anybody who's been
through Culver City knows this is a huge, huge place.
They announced in early December they're going to be closing
the Longtime Restaurant Tour, announcing a number of factors, but
chief among them, he says, affordability is an operator an
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inconsistent consumer spending. He said, the forces that we don't
control might be bigger than the ones we do control.
With very few exceptions, there are few people doing okay.
There's a kind of malaise in town. It feels like
LA really lost a couple of steps. Late Night is gone,
he says, people are closing earlier. It just doesn't feel right.
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I grew up here, he says, and it's probably the
weirdest it's felt in my whole life, and I've been
through a lot of weird The The reality I think
also of this town, and I mentioned this before on KFI,
is that you know we've taken some body blows. You know,
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the January fires had a huge effect. Hollywood moving out
of town has a huge effect. We're just not the
production center that we were. The immigration raids, they didn't help,
downtown curfews. I mean, these are all things that affect
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these businesses. Tariffs, teriffs decimated these businesses in large measure.
Rising utility costs that too, and general inflation. And you
can add the declining numbers when it comes to tourism
in Southern California. I mean, that's.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
A huge, huge.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Influx of tourists who come to Hollywood and Southern California
for all kinds of different reasons. And over the summer,
international tourism fell eight percent. So there's a lot that's
wrong right now with the local economy in Southern California.
And we hope that the new year brings signs of
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better things ahead, some stability and maybe a reinfusion of money,
frankly and a thrive.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Economy into southern California.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So meantime, people are lining up for the final days
of many of these restaurants, Coles among them.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kfi
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
On KFIM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio ad
Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim Conway Junior. What's going
on with the Reiner case? I mean, it's just a brutal, awful,
terribly depressing story. Rob Reiner and his wife who is
madly in love with apparently Michelle Reiner, I mean again,
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family friends gathering to mourn privately. Prosecutors now moving forward
with this first degree murder charge against their son, Nick Reiner.
It's a legal process now that I mean just I
suppose on some level defies the pain. But there are
questions about sentencing, the death penalty, how California handles these
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high profile double homicide cases.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Here's little of what's going in the.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Week since the death of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and
his wife Michelle. NBC News has learned more about the
mental state of Nick Reiner before prosecutors say he fatally
stabbed his famous parents. Three sources with direct knowledge of
the case tell NBC News the thirty two year old
was being treated for a serious psychiatric disorder at the
time of the crime. The sources say Reiner, who had
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been open about his struggles with substance abuse, was diagnosed
with schizophrenia several years ago, and that his medication had
been changed or adjusted sometime before the killings. Hours before
the bodies were found, Nick Reiner had been disruptive at
a holiday party at Conan O'Brien's home, according to two
people familiar with the situation. He's now facing two counts
a first degree murder. Reiner did not enter a plea
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in his first court appearance last week, where his attorney
urged the public not to rush to judgment.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
There are very, very complex and serious issues that are
associated with this case.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Experts say Reiner's mental health is not only likely to
be at the center of his legal defense, but but
also impact the potential for the case to go to trial.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Looking at Nick Reiner's mental state right now could actually
stop these proceedings in their tracks. If he's not deemed
competent to stand trial. And move forward with the legal proceedings.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It's always interesting to me when they get to this
competence to stand trial question, because you know, some of
these people who are ruled not competent to stand trial.
Some of these people who are ruled who are essentially
focused upon to at least evaluate their mental state and
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whether or not they're competent to stand trial, some of
these people plan quite intricate stalking that precedes the murder
in this case. I'm sorry, just it's a cold blooded
fact that this is murder. I mean, you know, I
think there's a lot of emotion here. This person is
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clearly someone who's come on glued, and so in all
of these ways, you could say it was a crime
of emotion, or an act of emotion, or horrifying decision
made out of emotion passion instead, a crime of passion
is always the term that's used. But I guess what
I'm getting at is there is this odd standard we
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have to evaluate whether someone's competent to stand trial. They
seemed perfectly competent to plan what can oftentimes be a
complex waiting for their victims, and then the act of murder.
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It's an extraordinary thing that It strikes me as a legal.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Limbo move that they all try.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
To maneuver to get under to get their client a
softer treatment by the US legal system. This is a
long way of saying that we've seen it over and
over again, and I understand maybe a legitimate question in
many instances, and what they're suggesting here is, Hey, if
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the guy was diagnosed with schizophrenia, then the entire thing
falls into this category of he didn't have the mental
competence to make a decision as to how much harm
he would do or to really understand the repercussions of
what he did. Look, I'm tough on law and order.
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This is a pretty awful thing. I mean, I can't
think of things is that really are much more awful
than what he did. But the idea that you could
somehow use this loophole and you could use this hook
to hang what would be lighter treatment under the law,
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it strikes me as pretty gross. I mean, you've already
taken a grotesque act and you've begun to try to
muddy the water around competence to stand trial Again. I
don't see how you get to competence to stand trial.
I mean, but I understand. What they're going to say is, hey,
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guy was schizophrenic, you know, and for that reason he
may have not had been in his right mind.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Well obviously wasn't in his right mind. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
To me, it's just it's obviously profoundly sad. But the
way the legal system, you know, finds these ways to
you know, to hip check into some kind of other area,
to get clients who are guilty of cold blooded murder
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into some sort of softer treatment, it astounds me. It's
not just about Nick Reiner, it's about the system.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Itself to stand trial and move forward with the legal proceedings.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Now, with their autopsies completed, the bodies of Rob and
Michelle Reiner have been returned to their family. Over the weekend,
Saturday Night Live paying tribute to the comedy legend, sharing
this photo of Reiner, the show's third ever host, back
in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
A lot of you are wondering about the way I
look tonight. This is the way I look live, ladies
and gentlemen, This is the real me.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
In the New York Times, friends and relatives, also remembering
the love of his life, Michelle, an accomplished photographer, whom
they described as equal parts mama Bear, social planner and
glue of the family. Liz, just giving these new details
that you just laid out there about Nick Reiner's condition,
possible that he could plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Yeah,
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I mean, we should point out that his attorney has
not commented on any potential legal strategy, but according to experts,
the short answer is yes. However, they also know that
insanity is a very high bar to successfully plead. Any
action that he potentially took to cover up the crime,
like hiding a murder weapon, which by the way, has
still not been found, washing or changing clothes, all of
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that can undercut that defense.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I guess that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I mean, if there seemed to be some question of
whether or not there's legitimacy here to this whole issue
of competence to stand trial, or whatever other way in
which you're looking at a psychological profile to try to
in any way soften the blow of the legal system,
it would seem to me to be blunted.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That is to say, it would seem to me to
be counterfeited.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
By the fact that the guys hiding the murder weapon
checking into a hotel afterward. I mean, there's a real
I don't know, this is someone deeply disturbed, to say
the least, and to say the obvious, but I just
don't know how the legal system can permit this kind
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of search for loopholes when it comes to all of this.
It's so, so very sad. But that's the update on
the rob and Michelle Reiner murder and the son Nick
as well. When we come back, Yeah, we'll be talking
about it. Swarms of earthquakes rattling the state of California.
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There were four on Friday night. I'll give you the
state of the state on all of this as we continue.
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. We are on Christmas Week.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Watch you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Mark Thompsons sitting in for Tim Conway Junior. Tim's off
all week for Christmas. We've got the crew here in
fact that Mark Ronner has jumped into the news chair.
Magic Matt is in the chair for wasn't there a
DJ named Magic Matt? I feel like there was a
d like this, probably before your time, but no here
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in southern California. There was a DJ called Magic Matt.
I just realized this, like a Shadow Stevens did, like
Shadows Stevens. Yeah, Magic met Are.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You Matt Allen?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Magic Matt Allen? Now that's exactly what I was thinking of.
Magic Matt Allen. And so he had, as I recalled,
toward the end of his run, he had like a
show after he was on broadcast. I believe he had
a show on Sirious and UH satellite radio and it
was like this party at his house and it always
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sounded like I have no idea if there was really
a party going on, but it was a great little
hook so that you know, they're all his friends are there,
they're barbecuing, and you know, he always made it sound
like and then he supported with social media stuff that
made it look they can party too.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Anyway, That was Magic Matt. We have our own Magic Matt.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Who was in the producer chair and of course Staffusch
now getting stronger every hour, and we get together during
the commercial breaks and we compare medications and it's wonderful.
Traditionally we have for the holidays, and you know, again,
if you're looking for the perfect gift for someone with
you know, aches and pains, just saying and Angel Martinez
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watching all things on the roads, and as I mentioned,
the roads will be getting trickier by the day. It
looks like Tuesday through Friday, we've got serious rain.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
What is that, Angel I said, Oh, oh.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, yeah, I'm talking about earthquakes, because there have been
a series of them, like these clusters that I'm been
affecting the East Bay of San Francisco, and seismic experts
acknowledge that sometimes swarms of quakes precede major quakes, but
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oftentimes also small quakes don't necessarily foreshadow a larger quake.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So with that shading on both sides, we.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Now I want to show you a short little history.
Let's come in for the closer monitor be a little
bit easier to see. You're looking at the last thirty
days of earthquake history. This is from a great website
called temblar dot net. They're San Ramon, so you've got.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Some several.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Wait wait wait, San Ramon's in the East Bay again
of the San Francisco Bay area. Just to organize your thoughts,
they're looking at these clusters that are occurring in northern California,
but it does relate to southern California, so stay with them.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
So you've got multiple earthquakes on here. They're color coded.
The deeper the shade of red on here are earthquakes
that have happened within.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
The last day.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You can see the four Devin just told you about
congregated here. But then these shade into lighter colors and
when you get into the yellow those so the.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Four have weren San Ramon in that East Bay community.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
When you get into the yellow, those are earthquakes that
happened thirty days ago. This swarm has continued now for
a month, and it's going right up along the Pleasanton
Fault and it runs right along one of the major
avenues there through this part of town, Acosta Avenue.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Okay, this again is in the East Bay of the
Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Up north.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
There's been a just kind of congregation of them right
along that drive there on southeast San Ramon. By the way,
there's the four. This was enough to feel, not enough
to do damage or four point zero. You're going to
feel it. And when we look at what the US
just has to say about people who did report this
through the region. Some people even said they felt it
in the city, but it was felt very light.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They no damage from this.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
There is no reason to believe that this swarm tells
us anything about the Pleasanton fault, where the likelihood of
stronger ones to come, the odds of a significant earthquake
are exactly the same tonight as they were six months ago,
all right, And that's what the size malogs have been
telling us about this. By the way, Yeah, the seventh
time since nineteen seventy that San Ramon has experienced a
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swarm like this.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
This happens. That's fun in San Ramon, I guess up
there in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
But the point is that while none of these quakes
has been particularly intense. I mean, he was just talking
about the fact that it's three point nine Saturday night.
You know that four struck on Friday night all through
this area. We've had similar swarms in Malibu and Ontario.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And the idea is.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I mean, just to be honest about it, that the
more frequent there's seismic activity, the more frequent these even
smaller quakes, the more we at least think about the
possibility of a big quake. And again it's very true
that there can be small quakes and even quake clusters
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that can foreshadow a bigger quake, but there's also no
guarantee that that's going to happen, and there's a very
very good chance that it won't correspond anyway. But I
mean California, regardless of whether there are clusters of shakes
or small shakers or big clusters, there is an overarching specter,
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you know, just a threat that there could be a
big quake in southern California. And they rate and again
this is geological averages. This is sort of what goes
into the computations of all the computer modeling associated with
the geolo of earthquakes, the seismology. There's a sixty percent
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chance of an earthquake of magnitude six point seven or
greater in the LA region by twenty forty three. I
know what you're saying, I want to get out of
the LA Region. I want to move to northern California.
Not that fast. Let me finish. In northern California, there's
a seventy two percent chance of it happening. You actually
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go up by twelve percent when you move to the
San Francisco Bay area. And again these are thirty year
estimates calculated by USGS and across California, they say a
forty eight percent chance of magnitude seven point five or
greater by twenty forty three, and a seven percent chance
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of a magnitude eight or greater. I mean seven point
five would be devastating. And they're saying there's a got
forty eight percent chance a flip of a coin that
that could happen by twenty forty three. The last thing
I'll share with you is this other piece of statistic,
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which I think is always interesting because every time there
is a quake, I'm always wondering, as you might be,
is that a foreshock of a bigger quake? And the
aftershocks Those of who have been in California for a while,
you know, they can really rock your world. So after
a big quake, the after shocks can be almost as
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intense and destructive. After every earthquake, there is a one
in twenty chance it'll be followed by a larger quake.
Only half of earthquakes have an easily detectable foreshock, the
other half do not. So again, a lot of statistics there.
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I think some statistics you can use and integrate into
your life. They always talk about prep and One of
the reasons that we do stories like this is to
remind you you should try to prep because it may
be in the case of a big one, it could
be a while before you know, the Red Cross shows
up with hot coffee and donuts. So you definitely need
to at least be aware. And these clusters of quakes
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that are affecting California right now again, seismologists say there's
no corresponding threat, but they remind us and make us
look again at some of these statistics.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So there you have it. It is the Conway.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Sure y'all like to scare everybody right before Christmas?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah right, nice work. I'm all cleansed out under your trees, everybody.
It's going to be a wild ride.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Biblical apocalyptic rains starts tomorrow and we'll be lucky if
we avoid a quake before New Year's There's one more
for you.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
If you go up all the way north to Seattle,
they're due for a nine point zero Oh my, so
go inland, don't go north. Wow, why do you think
I moved here? Oh man?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Fine, I'll tell you the window of severe weather seems
to be sliding a bit, so it looks like Tomorrow
will be kind of a cloudy day. I'm just seeing
the latest with some rain beginning, scattered showers time thing,
and then it looks like things pick up a little
bit more. So when they say rain beginning Tuesday, I
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mean the real biblical rain that's going to leave the
two inches you know where you're saying, ok, an inch
an hour, we gotta have two inches an hour.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It appears as though it may be delayed by twelve
or eighteen hours, as it seems to But this is
going to be one of those things that's going to
be updated by the forecast shift. So I'd look forward
to be upget dated later tonight, even the timing. But
the point is, and the takeaway, as the kids say,
the takeaway, your takeaway is that it's going to really
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be rocking and rolling and wet and very wet here
in southern California in this period late tomorrow night through
the end of the week. Can you imagine what you
do with one point six billion dollars that's the estimated
jackpot for the power Ball, fourth largest jackpot in Powerball history,
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and I know you know that you have almost no
chance of winning. And yet when it gets up to
this level, what happens We all go, I know, we
don't really a bunch of a chance, and I'm going
to go, you know, take a nibble. Twenty four percent
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goes to Uncle Sam right off the top. You know, Uh,
that's a big hunk. Then you'll have to decide between
annuity payments spread over thirty years, and that lump some
would be then seven hundred and thirty five million dollars
before taxes. It could be though a massive change of lifestyle.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
It was no winner in Saturday Nights drawing, so the
powerball prize is now projected to hit one point six
billion dollars for today's draw. That makes it the fourth
largest powerball jackpot ever in the fifth largest lottery jackpot.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
In US history.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
And while no one hit all six numbers, there was
a big winner right here in southern California. That's because
one ticket sold at Rights Market in Oxnard matched all
five white balls, just missing the powerball, and that ticket
it's worth more than two million bucks. I'd say that's
pretty good, right. The store also gets a bonus.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Because I mean it's pretty good. But let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You get all six numbers, but you just missed the
powerball number.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You're thinking. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I mean, I'm not not looking down at two million,
but I came that close to a billion plugs.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
For more than two million bucks, I'd say that's pretty good, right.
The store also gets a bonus because they sold the ticket.
They get eleven five hundred dollars now kire Bluebird Liquor.
This store has earned a reputation over the years for
producing winners. Regulars will tell you there's even a ritual
which is exactly what it sounds like, kind of rubbing
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the lucky Bluebird statue right next to the cash register.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
One of the one of the things I love is
watching those morning shows where they throw out to the
reporter there. I was one. I was on Good to La.
You know, I wasn't a reporter out there, but they
would send you know, the I guess, send some stuff.
We go out there to various things. You let there
be a new Krispy Kreme donut opening and we have
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to go out there. But the lottery thing is like
one of the most common things you see these reporters
and they're out there in front of Bluebeard Liquor, and
they're like, over and over, it's the same thing. There
are people waiting. They ambushed them with the camera. I
mean it's the crack of dawn. They're at a liquor store.
The whole thing is just sort of sad, you know,
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chasing a billion dollar lottery payout that we all know
they're not gonna get. Nobody's gonna get. They have to do.
You know, what would you get? What would you buy
if you if you won the lottery? Though, what would
you buy? Would you still work? And you have to
just I always look, and maybe this is just because
I've seen so many of these things, I just look
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sort of like the whole thing. Everybody does plays their
part perfectly. The reporter plays their part perfectly. The person
online that Bluebird Liquor plays their part. You know, Well,
the first thing I do is I'd pay off my house.
Then I'd buy my folks a house. Then I'd buy
a new car. I'd like that Lamborghini. They all have
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answers that are you know, but.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
We all know, don't we Rubbing the Lucky Bluebird statue
right next to the cash register, a superstition that a
lot of people swear by. It sounds a little funny,
but apparently it works. So if someone does hit the
jackpot tonight, they're gonna have a choice take the full
one point six billion dollars paid out over time or
a seven hundred and thirty five million dollar lump sun
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before taxes. And here in California there's no state tax
on lottery wedding, so of course, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
They talk about California be in such an awful place
you want to win the lottery here kids, there's no
state tax on that big win.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
On lottery wedding, So of course the odds are very low,
but there is a chance, you're saying, there's a chance. Yes,
I am about one in two hundred and ninety two million.
It's a chance, right, Tickets just two dollars. Next trying
is tonight?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
How much is the Bezos yacht? Remember his super yacht
that cost? You could buy a Bezos super yacht with
your your money from the and still have money left over,
and still have money left over, that's absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
His his yacht was five hundred million. Oh oh it
was I thought it was like three hundred million. Five
hundred three hundred. You'll still have money, Yeah, three hundred
million some change. Man.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
You could get the Hope Diamond. The Hope Diamond is
only three hundred and fifty million dollars. I don't know
why you'd want the Hope Diamond, but I'm just picking
out some things. You could get an F thirty five
fighter jet if you wanted to one of those decommissioned ones.
A lot of people have private planes. You could get
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one of the F thirty fives for one hundred and
one million dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
We could fly to Positon together. We're got the whole crew.
It would take you nine minutes to get to the
pastas I know, right.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, you could also do that SpaceX tourism thing. You
know that they cost. They charge you fifty five million
a seat, so you could you know, that's nothing, that's
a rounding error to you. And and again, if you
want that Lamborghini, it's six hundred and eight thousand dollars.
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That's tax and license in your driveway. Your Lamborghini Rolte Raveulto?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Is that the new one? I don't know. I want
the kuon talk.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
See these are Jay Leno type questions like now, why
do you like that one?
Speaker 9 (35:40):
I just like the design of it. It's just so simple.
And it didn't hurt that it's the first episode that
he did with he had Jim carry on when he
did the Oh no that was Seinfeld. Never mind that
was a comedian's and cars coffee. But yeah, it was
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the first one. Oh, I see, so it was. It
was really cool. Like I just I always like the Lamborghini. Oh,
it's just they're so they're so pretty. Yeah, well you
have standards. Foosh, yeah, you do, well, I do. Now,
now we know what to get you for the holidays.
Oh yeah, for Christmas, thanks a little model of the Lamborghini.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Someday when you grow up. Look, I'll look for the
little present under the tree. Exactly, you've got it.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
When we come back, I will share with you the
hottest new trend and actually it kind of makes sense.
I think it's gonna land with you the hottest new
trend in gift giving. I'll share that with you. Next,
it is Conway's Show, Conway's Away this week, Thompson sitting
in on KFI AM six forty.
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I'm feeling very Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Ye, they've they did something very smart here at the
big iHeart Radio complex. By the way, we are at
iHeart Radio, and that's why the app works so well,
because it's the iHeartRadio app where KFI AM six forty
and we are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, it
is the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Tim is away, Mark Thompson sitting in.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
One of the things they did smartly I feel here
at the iHeartRadio mother ship is they pulled back a
little bit on the over the top filling of the
tree with ornaments. I mean, I think you know again
you can you gotta be careful. There is a design
touch to Christmas or holiday ornaments. You get the tree.
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All the trees that iHeart gets very nice, tasteful trees,
but they can sometimes, you know, when you're the decorator
of the tree, you can oversteer a little bit, end
up with a little too much in the way of
those huge ball bles and you I mean again, tastefully placed.
They're wonderful, but if you over ballble. It is a
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terribly difficult thing to sort of back away from. You
kind of almost have to start all over. But in
years past there has been I think, and I have
sort of because it's not really in the spirit of
the holiday to be at all critical of a tree.
I have laid off on my criticism, but I do
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note it, and I've seen and talked to others who
do note it. And this year, beautiful trees perfect, not
too much and also not too little, not too spartan,
not too too vacant, gorgeous tree in the lobby. And
then of course we have a tree right here in
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the studio, mere feet from where I sit, and it's perfect.
It's festooned with all of the magic of the holidays.
So wherever you are, take us with you. Tomorrow will
be an extremely wet day and begins what will be
a series of incredibly wet days. I'm talking about rain
that will likely produce some evacuations, maybe some mud slides,
(02:24):
et cetera. So we're watching all of that, and particularly
in the burnscarred areas. You note that northern California, if
you may be heading up there, I know a lot
of people do head up to Northern California for the holiday,
they are already being pounded, so definitely check on the
situation in northern California before you travel there. There's a
(02:45):
huge line that is building up behind and around some
businesses in southern California. And the reason is everything to
do with these business is going away having announced that
they're closing, and what this crowd that really wants to
(03:10):
get one more lick at these businesses will tend to
do to again avoid fomo, you know, fear of missing out.
So for example, I mean Cole's is a perfect example
in downtown because that French dip place, they saw crowds
(03:31):
wrapped around the entire block at sixth in Maine, they
announced that they're closing, and you know, this is the
city's oldest restaurant in saloon and you had these long
lines all around it. A few months before that, the
Original Pantry Cafe again, another century old diner in downtown,
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huge lines when they abruptly closed that restaurant. So as
local restaurants are facing challenges to remain open, there's a
weird thing that happens because these restaurants that obviously aren't
doing sufficient business to remain open. That's why they're having
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to sort of swim upstream against this current economically that
is making the restaurant business so tough. When they announce
that they can't continue anymore, they all of a sudden
get huge crowds. Papa Christo's seventy seven years as the
(04:33):
Greek restaurant that closed its doors forever, they had a
line that stretched down Pico and you end up with
social media influencers who also help supercharge all of this.
It's just a wild phenomenon, I guess it would be
(04:54):
the word I'd use. So you have a bit of
nostalgia and you have a bit of of fomo all
happening at the same time, and there is something of
a cultural event to this. Said Moses. The owner of Coals,
said that the long lines the restaurant experience after announcing
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their closure were overwhelming in the best way possible. We
love the city and the support had shown us, and
we appreciate people waiting in line. The crowds in the
initial days after Coal's closure announcement prompted him Moses to
delay closing by forty five days, and then again they
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delayed it until November first.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And then again they delayed it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's still open now until December thirty first. So this
surge of customers that hit Cole's has kept them open
for months longer, but will not sustain business in the
long term. And so it looks as though, I mean,
they're trying to sell Coals to try to preserve the
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legacy of Coals. You know, it's been around for all
those years, as we've said. But once again it looks
as though they will close, although right now they're open
until December thirty first. Another restaurant that drew huge lines
was the original Pantry Cafe. They are announcing they're reopening
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new ownership there and they are crediting workers for staging
protests and getting fundraisers going that drew public attention, and
it's really exciting. This is happening in parts of the
city where there are restaurants so strained financially that they're
being helped by these like go fund me campaigns, is
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really what they are. And so legendary places are kept
open because of the commitment of the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But since.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I think you can point to COVID as having hobbled
a restaurant business, that's already pretty tough to keep going,
you know, but it's a it's a continued slide, you know.
In a new industry survey I saw this is close
to night sorry, close to eighty five percent of LA
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restaurant said that business went down in twenty twenty five,
and twenty twenty five has been a rough year, a
really rough year for the restaurant business. A lot of
things go into keeping a restaurant open, and a lot
of things go into that which produces a closure. I'm
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looking at Helm's Bakery in Culver City. Anybody who's been
through Culver City knows this is a huge, huge place.
They announced in early December they're going to be closing
the Longtime Restaurant Tour, announcing a number of factors, but
chief among them, he says, affordability is an operator an
(08:06):
inconsistent consumer spending. He said, the forces that we don't
control might be bigger than the ones we do control.
With very few exceptions, there are few people doing okay.
There's a kind of malaise in town. It feels like
LA really lost a couple of steps. Late Night is gone,
he says, people are closing earlier. It just doesn't feel right.
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I grew up here, he says, and it's probably the
weirdest it's felt in my whole life, and I've been
through a lot of weird The The reality I think
also of this town, and I mentioned this before on KFI,
is that you know we've taken some body blows. You know,
(08:48):
the January fires had a huge effect. Hollywood moving out
of town has a huge effect. We're just not the
production center that we were. The immigration raids, they didn't help,
downtown curfews. I mean, these are all things that affect
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these businesses. Tariffs, teriffs decimated these businesses in large measure.
Rising utility costs that too, and general inflation. And you
can add the declining numbers when it comes to tourism
in Southern California. I mean, that's.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
A huge, huge.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Influx of tourists who come to Hollywood and Southern California
for all kinds of different reasons. And over the summer,
international tourism fell eight percent. So there's a lot that's
wrong right now with the local economy in Southern California.
And we hope that the new year brings signs of
(09:51):
better things ahead, some stability and maybe a reinfusion of money,
frankly and a thrive.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Economy into southern California.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So meantime, people are lining up for the final days
of many of these restaurants, Coles among them.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kfi
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
On KFIM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio ad
Mark Thompson sitting in for Tim Conway Junior. What's going
on with the Reiner case? I mean, it's just a brutal, awful,
terribly depressing story. Rob Reiner and his wife who is
madly in love with apparently Michelle Reiner, I mean again,
(10:42):
family friends gathering to mourn privately. Prosecutors now moving forward
with this first degree murder charge against their son, Nick Reiner.
It's a legal process now that I mean just I
suppose on some level defies the pain. But there are
questions about sentencing, the death penalty, how California handles these
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high profile double homicide cases.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Here's little of what's going in the.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Week since the death of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and
his wife Michelle. NBC News has learned more about the
mental state of Nick Reiner before prosecutors say he fatally
stabbed his famous parents. Three sources with direct knowledge of
the case tell NBC News the thirty two year old
was being treated for a serious psychiatric disorder at the
time of the crime. The sources say Reiner, who had
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been open about his struggles with substance abuse, was diagnosed
with schizophrenia several years ago, and that his medication had
been changed or adjusted sometime before the killings. Hours before
the bodies were found, Nick Reiner had been disruptive at
a holiday party at Conan O'Brien's home, according to two
people familiar with the situation. He's now facing two counts
a first degree murder. Reiner did not enter a plea
(11:55):
in his first court appearance last week, where his attorney
urged the public not to rush to judgment.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
There are very, very complex and serious issues that are
associated with this case.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Experts say Reiner's mental health is not only likely to
be at the center of his legal defense, but but
also impact the potential for the case to go to trial.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Looking at Nick Reiner's mental state right now could actually
stop these proceedings in their tracks. If he's not deemed
competent to stand trial. And move forward with the legal proceedings.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It's always interesting to me when they get to this
competence to stand trial question, because you know, some of
these people who are ruled not competent to stand trial.
Some of these people who are ruled who are essentially
focused upon to at least evaluate their mental state and
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whether or not they're competent to stand trial, some of
these people plan quite intricate stalking that precedes the murder
in this case. I'm sorry, just it's a cold blooded
fact that this is murder. I mean, you know, I
think there's a lot of emotion here. This person is
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clearly someone who's come on glued, and so in all
of these ways, you could say it was a crime
of emotion, or an act of emotion, or horrifying decision
made out of emotion passion instead, a crime of passion
is always the term that's used. But I guess what
I'm getting at is there is this odd standard we
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have to evaluate whether someone's competent to stand trial. They
seemed perfectly competent to plan what can oftentimes be a
complex waiting for their victims, and then the act of murder.
(13:58):
It's an extraordinary thing that It strikes me as a legal.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Limbo move that they all try.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
To maneuver to get under to get their client a
softer treatment by the US legal system. This is a
long way of saying that we've seen it over and
over again, and I understand maybe a legitimate question in
many instances, and what they're suggesting here is, Hey, if
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the guy was diagnosed with schizophrenia, then the entire thing
falls into this category of he didn't have the mental
competence to make a decision as to how much harm
he would do or to really understand the repercussions of
what he did. Look, I'm tough on law and order.
(14:56):
This is a pretty awful thing. I mean, I can't
think of things is that really are much more awful
than what he did. But the idea that you could
somehow use this loophole and you could use this hook
to hang what would be lighter treatment under the law,
(15:19):
it strikes me as pretty gross. I mean, you've already
taken a grotesque act and you've begun to try to
muddy the water around competence to stand trial Again. I
don't see how you get to competence to stand trial.
I mean, but I understand. What they're going to say is, hey,
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guy was schizophrenic, you know, and for that reason he
may have not had been in his right mind.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Well obviously wasn't in his right mind. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
To me, it's just it's obviously profoundly sad. But the
way the legal system, you know, finds these ways to
you know, to hip check into some kind of other area,
to get clients who are guilty of cold blooded murder
(16:18):
into some sort of softer treatment, it astounds me. It's
not just about Nick Reiner, it's about the system.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Itself to stand trial and move forward with the legal proceedings.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Now, with their autopsies completed, the bodies of Rob and
Michelle Reiner have been returned to their family. Over the weekend,
Saturday Night Live paying tribute to the comedy legend, sharing
this photo of Reiner, the show's third ever host, back
in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
A lot of you are wondering about the way I
look tonight. This is the way I look live, ladies
and gentlemen, This is the real me.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
In the New York Times, friends and relatives, also remembering
the love of his life, Michelle, an accomplished photographer, whom
they described as equal parts mama Bear, social planner and
glue of the family. Liz, just giving these new details
that you just laid out there about Nick Reiner's condition,
possible that he could plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Yeah,
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I mean, we should point out that his attorney has
not commented on any potential legal strategy, but according to experts,
the short answer is yes. However, they also know that
insanity is a very high bar to successfully plead. Any
action that he potentially took to cover up the crime,
like hiding a murder weapon, which by the way, has
still not been found, washing or changing clothes, all of
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that can undercut that defense.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I guess that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I mean, if there seemed to be some question of
whether or not there's legitimacy here to this whole issue
of competence to stand trial, or whatever other way in
which you're looking at a psychological profile to try to
in any way soften the blow of the legal system,
it would seem to me to be blunted.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That is to say, it would seem to me to
be counterfeited.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
By the fact that the guys hiding the murder weapon
checking into a hotel afterward. I mean, there's a real
I don't know, this is someone deeply disturbed, to say
the least, and to say the obvious, but I just
don't know how the legal system can permit this kind
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of search for loopholes when it comes to all of this.
It's so, so very sad. But that's the update on
the rob and Michelle Reiner murder and the son Nick
as well. When we come back, Yeah, we'll be talking
about it. Swarms of earthquakes rattling the state of California.
(18:45):
There were four on Friday night. I'll give you the
state of the state on all of this as we continue.
Mark Thompson for Tim Conway Junior. We are on Christmas Week.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Watch you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Mark Thompsons sitting in for Tim Conway Junior. Tim's off
all week for Christmas. We've got the crew here in
fact that Mark Ronner has jumped into the news chair.
Magic Matt is in the chair for wasn't there a
DJ named Magic Matt? I feel like there was a
d like this, probably before your time, but no here
(19:29):
in southern California. There was a DJ called Magic Matt.
I just realized this, like a Shadow Stevens did, like
Shadows Stevens. Yeah, Magic met Are.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You Matt Allen?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Magic Matt Allen? Now that's exactly what I was thinking of.
Magic Matt Allen. And so he had, as I recalled,
toward the end of his run, he had like a
show after he was on broadcast. I believe he had
a show on Sirious and UH satellite radio and it
was like this party at his house and it always
(20:02):
sounded like I have no idea if there was really
a party going on, but it was a great little
hook so that you know, they're all his friends are there,
they're barbecuing, and you know, he always made it sound
like and then he supported with social media stuff that
made it look they can party too.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Anyway, That was Magic Matt. We have our own Magic Matt.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Who was in the producer chair and of course Staffusch
now getting stronger every hour, and we get together during
the commercial breaks and we compare medications and it's wonderful.
Traditionally we have for the holidays, and you know, again,
if you're looking for the perfect gift for someone with
you know, aches and pains, just saying and Angel Martinez
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watching all things on the roads, and as I mentioned,
the roads will be getting trickier by the day. It
looks like Tuesday through Friday, we've got serious rain.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
What is that, Angel I said, Oh, oh.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, yeah, I'm talking about earthquakes, because there have been
a series of them, like these clusters that I'm been
affecting the East Bay of San Francisco, and seismic experts
acknowledge that sometimes swarms of quakes precede major quakes, but
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oftentimes also small quakes don't necessarily foreshadow a larger quake.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So with that shading on both sides, we.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Now I want to show you a short little history.
Let's come in for the closer monitor be a little
bit easier to see. You're looking at the last thirty
days of earthquake history. This is from a great website
called temblar dot net. They're San Ramon, so you've got.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Some several.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Wait wait wait, San Ramon's in the East Bay again
of the San Francisco Bay area. Just to organize your thoughts,
they're looking at these clusters that are occurring in northern California,
but it does relate to southern California, so stay with them.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
So you've got multiple earthquakes on here. They're color coded.
The deeper the shade of red on here are earthquakes
that have happened within.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
The last day.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You can see the four Devin just told you about
congregated here. But then these shade into lighter colors and
when you get into the yellow those so the.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Four have weren San Ramon in that East Bay community.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
When you get into the yellow, those are earthquakes that
happened thirty days ago. This swarm has continued now for
a month, and it's going right up along the Pleasanton
Fault and it runs right along one of the major
avenues there through this part of town, Acosta Avenue.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Okay, this again is in the East Bay of the
Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Up north.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
There's been a just kind of congregation of them right
along that drive there on southeast San Ramon. By the way,
there's the four. This was enough to feel, not enough
to do damage or four point zero. You're going to
feel it. And when we look at what the US
just has to say about people who did report this
through the region. Some people even said they felt it
in the city, but it was felt very light.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They no damage from this.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
There is no reason to believe that this swarm tells
us anything about the Pleasanton fault, where the likelihood of
stronger ones to come, the odds of a significant earthquake
are exactly the same tonight as they were six months ago,
all right, And that's what the size malogs have been
telling us about this. By the way, Yeah, the seventh
time since nineteen seventy that San Ramon has experienced a
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swarm like this.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
This happens. That's fun in San Ramon, I guess up
there in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
But the point is that while none of these quakes
has been particularly intense. I mean, he was just talking
about the fact that it's three point nine Saturday night.
You know that four struck on Friday night all through
this area. We've had similar swarms in Malibu and Ontario.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And the idea is.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I mean, just to be honest about it, that the
more frequent there's seismic activity, the more frequent these even
smaller quakes, the more we at least think about the
possibility of a big quake. And again it's very true
that there can be small quakes and even quake clusters
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that can foreshadow a bigger quake, but there's also no
guarantee that that's going to happen, and there's a very
very good chance that it won't correspond anyway. But I
mean California, regardless of whether there are clusters of shakes
or small shakers or big clusters, there is an overarching specter,
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you know, just a threat that there could be a
big quake in southern California. And they rate and again
this is geological averages. This is sort of what goes
into the computations of all the computer modeling associated with
the geolo of earthquakes, the seismology. There's a sixty percent
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chance of an earthquake of magnitude six point seven or
greater in the LA region by twenty forty three. I
know what you're saying, I want to get out of
the LA Region. I want to move to northern California.
Not that fast. Let me finish. In northern California, there's
a seventy two percent chance of it happening. You actually
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go up by twelve percent when you move to the
San Francisco Bay area. And again these are thirty year
estimates calculated by USGS and across California, they say a
forty eight percent chance of magnitude seven point five or
greater by twenty forty three, and a seven percent chance
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of a magnitude eight or greater. I mean seven point
five would be devastating. And they're saying there's a got
forty eight percent chance a flip of a coin that
that could happen by twenty forty three. The last thing
I'll share with you is this other piece of statistic,
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which I think is always interesting because every time there
is a quake, I'm always wondering, as you might be,
is that a foreshock of a bigger quake? And the
aftershocks Those of who have been in California for a while,
you know, they can really rock your world. So after
a big quake, the after shocks can be almost as
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intense and destructive. After every earthquake, there is a one
in twenty chance it'll be followed by a larger quake.
Only half of earthquakes have an easily detectable foreshock, the
other half do not. So again, a lot of statistics there.
(26:56):
I think some statistics you can use and integrate into
your life. They always talk about prep and One of
the reasons that we do stories like this is to
remind you you should try to prep because it may
be in the case of a big one, it could
be a while before you know, the Red Cross shows
up with hot coffee and donuts. So you definitely need
to at least be aware. And these clusters of quakes
(27:21):
that are affecting California right now again, seismologists say there's
no corresponding threat, but they remind us and make us
look again at some of these statistics.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So there you have it. It is the Conway.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Sure y'all like to scare everybody right before Christmas?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah right, nice work. I'm all cleansed out under your trees, everybody.
It's going to be a wild ride.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Biblical apocalyptic rains starts tomorrow and we'll be lucky if
we avoid a quake before New Year's There's one more
for you.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
If you go up all the way north to Seattle,
they're due for a nine point zero Oh my, so
go inland, don't go north. Wow, why do you think
I moved here? Oh man?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Fine, I'll tell you the window of severe weather seems
to be sliding a bit, so it looks like Tomorrow
will be kind of a cloudy day. I'm just seeing
the latest with some rain beginning, scattered showers time thing,
and then it looks like things pick up a little
bit more. So when they say rain beginning Tuesday, I
(28:36):
mean the real biblical rain that's going to leave the
two inches you know where you're saying, ok, an inch
an hour, we gotta have two inches an hour.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It appears as though it may be delayed by twelve
or eighteen hours, as it seems to But this is
going to be one of those things that's going to
be updated by the forecast shift. So I'd look forward
to be upget dated later tonight, even the timing. But
the point is, and the takeaway, as the kids say,
the takeaway, your takeaway is that it's going to really
(29:09):
be rocking and rolling and wet and very wet here
in southern California in this period late tomorrow night through
the end of the week. Can you imagine what you
do with one point six billion dollars that's the estimated
jackpot for the power Ball, fourth largest jackpot in Powerball history,
(29:30):
and I know you know that you have almost no
chance of winning. And yet when it gets up to
this level, what happens We all go, I know, we
don't really a bunch of a chance, and I'm going
to go, you know, take a nibble. Twenty four percent
(29:50):
goes to Uncle Sam right off the top. You know, Uh,
that's a big hunk. Then you'll have to decide between
annuity payments spread over thirty years, and that lump some
would be then seven hundred and thirty five million dollars
before taxes. It could be though a massive change of lifestyle.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
It was no winner in Saturday Nights drawing, so the
powerball prize is now projected to hit one point six
billion dollars for today's draw. That makes it the fourth
largest powerball jackpot ever in the fifth largest lottery jackpot.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
In US history.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
And while no one hit all six numbers, there was
a big winner right here in southern California. That's because
one ticket sold at Rights Market in Oxnard matched all
five white balls, just missing the powerball, and that ticket
it's worth more than two million bucks. I'd say that's
pretty good, right. The store also gets a bonus.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Because I mean it's pretty good. But let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
You get all six numbers, but you just missed the
powerball number.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You're thinking. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
I mean, I'm not not looking down at two million,
but I came that close to a billion plugs.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
For more than two million bucks, I'd say that's pretty good, right.
The store also gets a bonus because they sold the ticket.
They get eleven five hundred dollars now kire Bluebird Liquor.
This store has earned a reputation over the years for
producing winners. Regulars will tell you there's even a ritual
which is exactly what it sounds like, kind of rubbing
(31:31):
the lucky Bluebird statue right next to the cash register.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
One of the one of the things I love is
watching those morning shows where they throw out to the
reporter there. I was one. I was on Good to La.
You know, I wasn't a reporter out there, but they
would send you know, the I guess, send some stuff.
We go out there to various things. You let there
be a new Krispy Kreme donut opening and we have
(31:55):
to go out there. But the lottery thing is like
one of the most common things you see these reporters
and they're out there in front of Bluebeard Liquor, and
they're like, over and over, it's the same thing. There
are people waiting. They ambushed them with the camera. I
mean it's the crack of dawn. They're at a liquor store.
The whole thing is just sort of sad, you know,
(32:18):
chasing a billion dollar lottery payout that we all know
they're not gonna get. Nobody's gonna get. They have to do.
You know, what would you get? What would you buy
if you if you won the lottery? Though, what would
you buy? Would you still work? And you have to
just I always look, and maybe this is just because
I've seen so many of these things, I just look
(32:40):
sort of like the whole thing. Everybody does plays their
part perfectly. The reporter plays their part perfectly. The person
online that Bluebird Liquor plays their part. You know, Well,
the first thing I do is I'd pay off my house.
Then I'd buy my folks a house. Then I'd buy
a new car. I'd like that Lamborghini. They all have
(33:02):
answers that are you know, but.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
We all know, don't we Rubbing the Lucky Bluebird statue
right next to the cash register, a superstition that a
lot of people swear by. It sounds a little funny,
but apparently it works. So if someone does hit the
jackpot tonight, they're gonna have a choice take the full
one point six billion dollars paid out over time or
a seven hundred and thirty five million dollar lump sun
(33:29):
before taxes. And here in California there's no state tax
on lottery wedding, so of course, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
They talk about California be in such an awful place
you want to win the lottery here kids, there's no
state tax on that big win.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
On lottery wedding, So of course the odds are very low,
but there is a chance, you're saying, there's a chance. Yes,
I am about one in two hundred and ninety two million.
It's a chance, right, Tickets just two dollars. Next trying
is tonight?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
How much is the Bezos yacht? Remember his super yacht
that cost? You could buy a Bezos super yacht with
your your money from the and still have money left over,
and still have money left over, that's absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
His his yacht was five hundred million. Oh oh it
was I thought it was like three hundred million. Five
hundred three hundred. You'll still have money, Yeah, three hundred
million some change. Man.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
You could get the Hope Diamond. The Hope Diamond is
only three hundred and fifty million dollars. I don't know
why you'd want the Hope Diamond, but I'm just picking
out some things. You could get an F thirty five
fighter jet if you wanted to one of those decommissioned ones.
A lot of people have private planes. You could get
(34:44):
one of the F thirty fives for one hundred and
one million dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
We could fly to Positon together. We're got the whole crew.
It would take you nine minutes to get to the
pastas I know, right.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, you could also do that SpaceX tourism thing. You
know that they cost. They charge you fifty five million
a seat, so you could you know, that's nothing, that's
a rounding error to you. And and again, if you
want that Lamborghini, it's six hundred and eight thousand dollars.
(35:21):
That's tax and license in your driveway. Your Lamborghini Rolte Raveulto?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Is that the new one? I don't know. I want
the kuon talk.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
See these are Jay Leno type questions like now, why
do you like that one?
Speaker 9 (35:40):
I just like the design of it. It's just so simple.
And it didn't hurt that it's the first episode that
he did with he had Jim carry on when he
did the Oh no that was Seinfeld. Never mind that
was a comedian's and cars coffee. But yeah, it was
(36:01):
the first one. Oh, I see, so it was. It
was really cool. Like I just I always like the Lamborghini. Oh,
it's just they're so they're so pretty. Yeah, well you
have standards. Foosh, yeah, you do, well, I do. Now,
now we know what to get you for the holidays.
Oh yeah, for Christmas, thanks a little model of the Lamborghini.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Someday when you grow up. Look, I'll look for the
little present under the tree. Exactly, you've got it.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
When we come back, I will share with you the
hottest new trend and actually it kind of makes sense.
I think it's gonna land with you the hottest new
trend in gift giving. I'll share that with you. Next,
it is Conway's Show, Conway's Away this week, Thompson sitting
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