Concerns grow as the fourth storm in a week hits Southern California, bringing flood advisories and renewed worry for burn-scar areas and vulnerable foothill communities like Altadena.
Michael Monks weighs in on the troubled Dodger Stadium gondola project, now facing turbulence as Los Angeles officials look to potentially halt it. The proposed $500 million aerial tramway would connect the stadium to Union Station, aiming to ease game-day traffic. Supporters argue it would reduce congestion, while critics cite studies showing minimal impact on car use.
Jay Leno opens up about his 45-year marriage and the emotional challenges of wife Mavis’ declining health due to dementia, sharing that he still “melts” when she looks at him despite the difficult journey.
As the storm moves through SoCal, another headline pops: Carmel, California considers banning pickleball in a city park after rising noise complaints from nearby residents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are
going to be in your blina tomorrow. We'll get to that,
but right now, we've got rain.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We've got more rain. It's pouring or not. Now look
out the window. It's not pouring.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's just raining in Burbank and yet another storm, you know,
another storm that everybody's got to deal with. Everybody's got
to take precautions. If you live in the burn Scar area,
you're flipping out. I totally get that. I understand that
I'm flipping out in Burbank. And we weren't burned out
of our house because we have too much water.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The backyard fills up with water and it fills.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Up into where the air conditioner is and it's creates
a big problem. I decided to get a some pump
out there and knock it out myself. But that is
one billionth of one percent of what people in the
burn Scar have to deal with. And every time something
like this happens, every time there's a another storm, they've
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got to sit there and they have that they have
a sleepless night. Tonight will be a sleepless night for
people live in the burn Scar area because you never know,
you never know, you know, if this is going to
be it, if it's going to be you know, absolutely
huge and wipe you out. It's it's just you know,
you've got to be aware of it, and you have
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to you know, I don't know if there's gonna we're
gonna have any warnings from the government, if there's any
flash flood warnings, I'm sure we will. You know, they
try to be very they try to be preventive and
preemptive with that stuff because obviously it can save lives.
And a lot of people think that those warnings. You know,
maybe they you're watching TV and your TV goes off
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for thirty seconds and you're annoyed by it because you
don't live in one of those areas. But the people
that do live in those areas can their lives can
be saved by those things, the emergency alert system. So
that's why we do it here and we will continue
to do it here. All right, Let's get into this weather.
Let's find out what's going on, when is it going
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to stop, and who's going to get the most of
It's it's here it's here.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Very difficult Thursday afternoon, beginning to shape up here in
southern California. Dangerous conditions now moving into the region. We've
got some thunderstorms that are beginning to pop up here
in southern California, and of course we've got rain and snow.
You can see that as we take that look at
your five Live Max Stoppler again stretching all the way
from San Luis Obispo now down in towards La County.
We're beginning to see a lot of this cold front
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moving further east in towards much of the Inland Empire
over the next hour or so. But it's much of
the La Basin, through the Santa Monica Mountains, all the
way through the San Fernando Valley and out to the
outskirts of much of the San Gabriel Valley and further
south towards the coast where we're looking at that flood advisory.
It's in place through the night to night and into
at least Friday the mid morning hours. But here are
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the hotspots right now, and unfortunately one of those being
Alta Dina that's where we're looking at. Of course, that
burn Scar area. We could see some mud slides, some
debris flow as well. Rain pockets of heavy rain now
starting to move towards the Altadena community here along the foothills.
Here's the Angelus Crust Highway, and here's Mount Baldy. And
look at that lightning strike. So the severe weather is
now beginning to move into southern California, and of course
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that moisture stretches all the way out towards Pomona as
well as Rancho Cucamonga and as far south as you
could see up on the screen to Rancho Palace, Verdies
now Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, the Naples area starting to
fill in with some of that heavier rainfall. We've got
snow now beginning to fall into the local mountains. That's
again the Angelus Crust Highway all the way up to
right Wood. Then we'll take a look up towards Big Bear,
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just beginning to see a little bit of those snow showers,
and as more snow is on the way, we've got
both a winter weather advisory and a winter storm warning
where we could pick up by Saturday morning Saturday afternoon
anywhere between about six to fourteen inches of snow. Details
about this system, and of course your weekend forecasts minutes away.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, there's going to be a lot again of nervous people. However,
if you do make it through this rain and a
lot of most people will. We're doing a live remote
and we we're expecting a lot of people tomorrow in
your Belinda, and hopefully you'll be there because you know,
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you might get a little wet, it might rain during
part of that. You know, that remote out there tomorrow.
But just think of this. It's a small sacrifice for
you to make too. I was gonna say to come
see me, but I wasn't a great sales tool. But
to feed these kids, you know, you've got to get
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out there. We've got to get raised money and pasta
and saw us to feed these kids.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's the fifteenth annual Pasta than it's here.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It all starts tomorrow and it's going to go on
for the next couple of weeks. Chef Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club,
that's his mom. Katerina provides meals for twenty five thousand
kids right here in southern California every single week. And
your generosity is the only thing that makes that happen
without your generosity. These kids don'ty. So if you can
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live with that, great Our live broadcast is Giving Tuesday,
December second, which Crozier.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I think is a week from tuesday. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Is it the Tuesday after Thanksgiving Day? Pretty much? Ten
days after tomorrow when we start. Thanksgiving is one week
from today. Thanksgiving is a week from today?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So December second, five am to eight pm. Wait, who's
going on seven to eight?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Is it me again?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Always giving? Yeah, that's such a gif. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Anaheim Whitehouse eight eight seven South Anaheim Boulevard. You can
donate any time at KFI AM six forty dot com
slash pastason I always like to do that. That's my
that's my bill handle every time he gives it. Every
time he gives a web addressed out, he always goes
up at the end KFI AM six forty dot com
slash pasta ton I. Also, you can go to smart
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and final donate any amounted checkout. Even if you're in
Arizona or Nevada.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You can go to Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Everybody loves Wendy's and they have the new Wendy's ten
D's have you seen these the chicken tenders?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh they're beautiful, really yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And they what a great name for him, the Wendy's
ten D's good name for him. Donate five hours or
more and Catarina's Club is going to give you a
coupon book and they can drop off pasta and sauce
and donations at Number one Collision Center in Coasta Mesa,
twenty seven to fifty Bristol Street. Number one Collision Center
in Coasta Mesa, twenty one seventy Bristol Street, and they're
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taking pasta and sauce donations right now. So we're gonna
be there live tomorrow four to eight pm. Smart and
Final in your Belinda twenty one, five hundred YORBA Linda Boulevard.
And the first two hundred and fifty people that show
up in the rain got Almighty's that a big number
are going to get a free bag. I don't know
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if there's gonna be anything in it, but you'll get
a free bag and you'll like that. You'll go home,
you'll tell friends, Hey, I went out in the rain
and I got this bag. So that'll be fun. All right,
Let's let's take a break here when we come back,
we're going to talk.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I'm going to listen to this.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Jay Leno is a very dear friend of ours, of
the show and just a really sweet man. He shares
an update on his wife's battle with dementia, and it's
really moving. It's really moving. So we're gonna come back
and play that. You're gonna want to hear this, all right.
We're live on ki A six forty. Keep an eye
on the rain for you. We'll do that and I
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will see you tomorrow rain or more rain, and we'll
see you there at Smart and Final in your Belinda
right off the ninety one. Come on twenty one, five
hundred zero zero gift bags a boy, there are huge
gift bags going going out. But it's it literally is
tomorrow four to eight pm, two to one, five zero
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zero your Blinda Boulevard right off the ninety one, and
we'll do a live remote and we'll be out there
freezing and getting soaked with you.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
We'll do it live.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
We'll do it live, and we are very charitable to
these kids. You know where we could have canceled this remote.
You know they said it's a weather wise and canceled that.
We didn't because we know those kids have to eat,
so hope you have the same opinion.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We're live on six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It is The Conway Show. All right.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We have a very special guest here in Michael Monks.
Always nice to see you, buddy, Always nice.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
When you come in. You always upbeat.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I know, anger right befoot below the surface, but you
always keep it pretty contented.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I have gone through many classes to make that the
case is that right to keep it all under control.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Any of them voluntary are your most mandatory. Some was mandatory,
court ordered. Really you've had court ordered angry man.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
As a teenager, I was advised to attend some counseling sessions,
which we you know, we fulfilled.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Okay, all right, and here we are.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I like that edge though, yeah, I really do. I'm
appreciate that edge.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
A little rough around the edges.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, but that but you know what, that's great because
you come off as this sweet guy who saves cats
and you know it helps the environment. And really Denver
bad mouths anybody, but then you can swear up a
storm once you have pushed over the edge.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I have a little tolerance for ineptitude. But yeah, you
keep coming on this show. I love this show. They
didn't talk with you indeed.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
All right, so let's talk about this Dodger's gondola or gondola.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
However, he's like, the second week in a row we've
gotten to talk about the gondola.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But it's twenty five years in the making and I'm
tired of talking about it. When are they going to
put it together?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Well, this is Los Angeles, and you know, we don't
build anything that's right, I mean, we just don't. We
just talk about things. And last week the city Council
was like, we don't like this thing at all. They
voted on a resolution to formally oppose the gondola project.
And it's kind of a strange position to take because
even though there are some loud opponents from the Chinatown neighborhood,
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there are also a lot more who have signed petitions
saying no, we do want this in the same where
we do believe this will bring tourists in business.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But what happened to the town Star before you? This
le's back up for a second. Tell people where it's
going to go. Go Union Station and we.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Should refresh everyone, since twenty five years in the making,
it may have just been a blur at this point. No,
this is called technically, it's called the la Art la
Aerial Rapid Trends.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What a great name for Yeah. The only thing great.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
About it, indeed, because it's a it's like a gondola
that you would see. I don't know where would you
see a gondola in your life.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Maybe you would see one like this in Palm Springs,
the one that goes to the top exactly. Yes, I've
been on that, yes, exactly in Italy and sure, no
switch out.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah, so it's like a ski mountain kind of thing.
But this would take you from Union Station to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And you know what, everybody complains, all these rich go on,
all these rich people.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's got his finger on the button. He's ready, I
got it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
All these rich people complain about getting in and out
of Dodger Stadium. And then they turn around and vote
against his gondola. And there are a lot of complaints
about traffic.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Now, there are some conflicting studies to the opponent's credit
that maybe only six hundred cars would be removed from
current traffic flows if we build this thing, even if
there's six but it sounds remarkable because it's a one
point two mile route from Union Station to Dodger Stadium
with some stops in between there. And it proposes that
it would transport five thousand people an hour.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
So yeah, maybe the current studies say six hundred cars.
But if you could get people in the rhythm of
parking their car out in the valley, hopping on each
rapid bus line or on one of the subways that
the light rail trains, I would do that in a hartbeat. Absolutely,
comeing to Union Station, hop on the gondola and take
it up to.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It and by the way, in just seven minutes. That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But you know when I used to back when the
Red Line was a little safer than it is now,
I used to get on the Red Line in North
Hollywood with my Kings sweater on and go to a
Kings game with my daughter. I mean I would literally
get on the Red Line with my three or four
year old daughter. She would run around the you know,
the cable of the subway with her pal, and then
we'd go to the King game and then we'd come
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home and as every stop on the way to the
King game, more Kings fans will get on, And it
was like it was like a real sort of a
you know la thing to do. And now I don't
know if people are still doing that. I think for
special events you're seeing. And Metro reported a lot of
increased ridership during the Dodgers stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Place, that's great. The series I think they called it,
I love the Metro. If it was safer and cleaner,
I'd write it. I wrote it all the time before
before it fell about the Metro. Some Metro boards met today,
not the the Metro board, but the committees that the
board members serve on underneath the big board before the
big board meets, and I follow.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Those things too, And I'm going to tell you one
more thing.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Hey, Yeah, of all the people who are on this
station who have their own I guarantee you I've been
on that Metro more than all of them combined.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I used to take the Metro all the time. Why
are you mad about it? Because because I miss it?
I miss it. I miss I take it too, and
I wanted to succeed.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
And so I'm watching these meetings today and the crime
reports for each month come out and it looks like
it's holding pretty steady, like they're doing a decent job
as far as what is being reported and addressing some
of those situations. But that's what I've said the whole
time that I've been writing La Metro is this is
not a bad system on paper. It does get you
to a lot of flis great, and it's getting you
to more places. The problem is one perception, but also
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the reality. If it doesn't feel clean, if it doesn't
feel inviting, then no one will do. Now, this is
not a Metro project, this contract.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
But when I used to take the Metro, I used
to take the Red Line, there was always a police
officer on the on the not maybe not on my car,
but on the train, and people behaved. And then once
they remove those comps over budget issues, that's when I've
fell apart.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
The Metro agency is getting a police department of its
own starting in twenty twenty nine, so he got a
few years to wait, but they did hire the chief
and they're ramping up to that. So they're currently still
using LAPD and the La County Sheriffs to paf to
the Olympics. Yeah, so exactly will be really tested in
a lot of ways during the Olympics, but Metro does
have some overview of this project. They are the agency
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that proves this is why we can't build things right.
There are different environment overview processes that allowed, and this
is one they are. Indeed, Metro had already approved the
Gondola's environmental impact review a couple of years ago, but
it was challenged in court for not taking into consideration
enough of the construction noise, and so the judge sent
it back for that to be evaluated and then brought
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back to Metro, and that's what happened today. The Metro
Board has not fully approved this yet, that will come later.
This was the Executive Management board. But these are powerful people.
This board has made up some strong people.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
The chairs.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Fernando Dutro's a councilman in Whittier, but Supervisor, not to
downplay his position, but he's also the chair of the
Metro Board right now, is very powerful guy. Supervisor janas
Hanas on this committee. Supervisor Hill is at least Mayor
bass is on the sidel and they voted to approve.
One hundred and fifty people showed up to speak today
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at this Metro committee what was the mixed everty balance
mostly for forty balance. If the people were against it
are very well mobilized. They dominated the City council meeting
last week. But I think because the people are for
it have jobs. I think that you find a lot
of the activist class is just easily mobilized. They are
(15:31):
I don't even know if it's easy to say. I mean,
they are just organized. But that's the problem in a
tall citasage, and they get the message out, and if
you were an elected official, that's all you're hearing.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's the problem with the city in a lot of ways.
I think you're right.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
I activists are able to get to where they want
to be and to get their message heard. But there
were more people today at the Metro meeting speaking in
favor of the gondo to make sure their voices were
heard and it was approved. Interestingly, Mayor Bass, sitting on
this committee, voted in favor of this in spite of
the City Council's resolution last week.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All Right, Rick Caruz, who is built the Grove, he
built the Americana, the Commons and Pacific Palisades, the shop
at Pacific Palisades, he was willing to take on managing
the city of La for two hundred and forty thousand
dollars a year and become mayor of La. And LA
the dumb people in LA said no, thank you.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Well, respectfully, it's easy for a guy who was born
into money to say something like that, right, I mean,
you know, he's a rich guy, was born into money.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's hard for he's willing to become the management a
manager of LA.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And they said no. But why why do they say no? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Because La, because you exactly what you said. All these
organizations who are constantly stealing from the city would be
cut off because Rick would have cut all that crap off.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, why wasn't that the message? It should have been
the message. That's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Like we were talking to him, I was talking. I
won't say I was talking.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Okay, but here's why. But here's his message.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Okay, here's why it's not a message because outside of you,
who's doing city hall? When you go to city Hall,
do you see Channel two, four, five, seven, nine eleven there?
You see down TV stations there, but they're doing pup
pieces on crap.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
They're not doing your work.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Well, I mean, on the other hand, I mean people
do want Recruso to run again, to try again. You
hear a lot because they're waiting for some alternative, and
there are a couple of other candidates running, but nobody's
really energized. Some excitement too, because he's an outsiass Rick's
an outsider, and he's a developer. He's an outsider, and
they don't want outsiders in there because there's so many
people stealing from the city of La.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
All that gravy would have been cut off.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Why don't you run? I can't run. I got way
too much crap in my past.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, we know all about it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Like I can't manage my house, How could I manage
the city of La. I constantly mismanaging my life in
my house.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
All I want is a robust campaign next year from
all of the candidates who are really going to be
serious about their policy position, so that we can talk
about them here.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, you know who should run?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Who's been living in La since the nineteen nineties, John Colbo,
that's the guy that should run.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
I think he would probably recall himself self within three weeks.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Right, all right, buddy, thanks for coming in Saturday seven
to nine pm.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I talked about we'll dive into this more and all
the other issues in and around LA in Orange County.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
If you have if you're in the area, we're gonna
be in New Orba Linda tomorrow from four to eight.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
I'm gonna be here because somebody's gonna keep the home
fires burn now at right A right?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Great.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I love the fact that you keep an eye on
city Hall nobody else is doing. I appreciate you doing
that my pleasure. I know it's a pain in the ass,
and you get a lot of backglass, you get a
lot of you know, feedback saying hey, let off these guys.
I bet you get emails saying you know you're wrong
about this, you're wrong about that, but you're right. You're
keep an eye on those and keep your foot on
their neck.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Jay Leno is one of the nicest people I've ever
met my life, and he is He's just the same
guy you see on TV in real life, and he's
going through a tremendous challenge with his wife Mavis. And
I believe this was on CBS and they did a
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story on Jay Leno and Jay's wife Mavis. This thing is,
it's about six minutes and thirty seconds. I'm gonna play
it uninterrupted and you'll get a window into what this
man is really like in life. For people who never
met him, you've only seen him on TV. Maybe you've
seen him drive around his steam car in Burbank or
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in the valley. This is a great, great piece him
talking about the relationship he has with his wife who's
suffering from I believe dementia, in the late stages of
either Alzheimer's or dementia. So I'm gonna play it uninterrupted
and it's a great great piece.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Let Jay Leno has spent half a century making others laugh.
He started in stand up back in nineteen sixty nine
and would later go on to host The Tonight Show
for twenty two years. This interview, we find ourselves in
his famous garage, home to two hundred and fourteen collector's cars.
Jay tells me each car has a story, but today
(20:11):
we're sitting down to tell another story as he peels
back the curtain on life at home with his beloved Mavis.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
When you guys first.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Met, I was just reading some stuff about you. She
I mean, she was crazy about you, just talked about
I'm gorgeous shore. But she also said she never wanted
to get married. She was a big feminist. But somehow
being with you felt like home.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
What was it about her?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
I enjoy her company, like if I'm working on a car,
she said, over there with a book and read.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
It was just very what still is very comfortable.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Before she had this, I would always go home after
the time.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
She cooked dinner for our who watch TV.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Kin difference is now you just can't really talk about
a lot of things.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Conversations are different because Mavis is living with advanced dementia,
a condition she was diagnosed with after years of worrying symptoms.
Guys talk about, like the conversations that you have these days.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Well, I mean the conversation it'll be what's the poison?
And say something it doesn't quite make sense, and I'm going, no,
it's good, honey's all right. You know.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
You hear a noise outside? What's that?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
You know?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
No, it's fine, you know, I said.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
She wants to be reassured that everything is everything's okay, And.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Over the last handful of years, moments of unimaginable heartbreak.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
I mean, probably the toughest part was every day she
wake up and realized someone had called today to tell
her mother to pass away, and her mother died every
day for like three years, and it was just and
just not just crime. I mean, you're learning for the
first time.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I was. That was really tricky. Yeah, that makes it hard.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
As Mavis's caretaker, Jay provides not just love and reassurance,
but he also tries to maintain a sense of normalcy.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Does she enjoy a good meal? You know her advertise
really come back. I wish we could.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
I could take her out and go out to eat,
do things like that, but you can't really. I mean,
we'll get some help, want to take out of the carmel,
drive around and look at stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
And she likes that.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
But yeah, I mean I feel bad you reached its
point in your life where she'd loves to travel.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
So I'm sad that she can't do those things.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
But you know, there's so much stuff on YouTube, the
travel stuff, and we watch those things and you know,
the animal shows and real big with the flash cards,
well not flash cards, but see the picture. See this
picture who's at as President Obama? Oh I never met him. Yeah, honey,
we had dinner with her. That is how the White
House are you?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
We gonna laugh.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Mavis, in her own right, has an incredible body of
work an activist and philanthropist. She was nominated for a
Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand and two for her
work supporting women in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
You know, it's.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Interesting because she strikes me as a fiercely independent person.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Well, actually, you know that's part of it, because now
she really needs me, and I like that, and I
can tell that she appreciates it. And the idea that
you get married and you take these vows, nobody ever
thinks they'll be called upon to act on them.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You know.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
You get that part through better or worse, but even
the worst is.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Not that bad. You're still making her laugh. Yeah, yeah,
what does that? Last night?
Speaker 8 (23:19):
I said to her, guy goes to the doctor, I said, what,
Smati goes? When I press here, it hurts. When I
press my shoulder, it hurts. I press my knee cap,
it hurts. When I press my roob cage, it hurts.
Doctor says, you've got a broken finger.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You know she really laughed at that.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
What strikes me is Jay makes a decision each day
to shift his gaze to the positive.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
If I was a doctor, I was saying that the
patient is doing well.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Put it that way.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Does she bring up stuff from like when you guys
were younger, when you were dating.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Oh yeah, we we always do that, you know, when
I'm carrying her, carrylat in the bath and we do this,
and I call it Jane Mayvis is the prom is.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
In high school, you know, So you're back and forth,
and you know, she thinks that's funny. By the way,
that's it.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
No wonder why she's calm and feeling loved and all
those things, because that simple act of taking your wife
to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You know, it's not the most romantic thing. Really, when
you think.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Of Jay and Mavis going to the problem sounds pretty
pretty cool. These days, Jay finds small pockets of time
to perform. Comedy has been obviously the through line throughout
your life. What does comedy look like these days?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, I'm on the road a lot.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
You know, if I just took politics out of it,
I know, ticket sales abut twenty thirty percent, just because
nobody wants to be electioned. When you're on TV and
you can play directly to your audience and there's a
laugh track. And when you go to Indiana or Kentucky
or any other place in the country, you're always going
to have a third of the people who don't agree
with you politically, So why even go there.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Yeah, it's tricky to be a comedian these days.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I feel like I don't think it's any trick.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
No, no, you know, we've always had tough time. Things
are Actually it's not that it's better now, but the
thing I find fast, stuff that used to be the law.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Is now against the law.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
And that's great because the old day would just be
boom you just that's it, that's it.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Do you still you feel hopeful about where?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yes, I'm very hopeful.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
I am optimistic because ultimately it's a bit like a donkey.
Sometimes you got to hit in the head with the
two by four to get its attention, but eventually a
little listening.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
While much has changed in the landscape of comedy for
Jay and Mavis, so much of their love story remains
the same. How does mAbs show you that she loves
you these days?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
How do you know?
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Well, by saying it, you know, I can see the smile,
I can tell whim she's happy. So that's really it,
and that as someone who's in show business, I go
home and I get an audience reaction every night. I
please the person I'm entertaining, And when she looks at
me andles and says she loves me, I mean, I know.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I mean, when you think about Jay, this is so
interesting because he is such a glass half full person.
And he kept repeating, He's like, this is the first
time she's ever needed me, he said, his whole during
their whole life, she was so fiercely independent. She did
everything on her own. And now he goes, I get
to do this for her, like he likes to be
there for her, and he doesn't see it as a
(26:28):
sacrifice or.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Is something he has to do.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
But I mean their love story, that's really the way
you want it at the end, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
What a great guy Jay Leno sitting and standing by
his wife who's suffering from advanced dementia. And you never
know it when he comes in here, or when we
took a tour of his garage, or when you see
him on the streets of the San Fernando Valley driving around.
He never shows that side of him. But it's got
(26:55):
to be tough, and that's one of the true great
guys in show business, one of the best.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It is The Conway Show. And we're gonna be in Yourbalinda.
I don't care if it's raining or not. We will
be in your Balinda tomorrow four to eight pm at
Smart and Final, So please come on by and we're
gonna make sure these kids are fed. The rain right
now is in San Bernardino Riverside area. They're getting worked
(27:31):
right now with this rain, and it's going all the
way up. If you're taking the five Freeway fifteen, if
you're taking a fifteen freeway from La to Las Vegas,
maybe you get an early start on Thanksgiving, you're going
to visit mom or one of the casinos. Then you're
gonna have rain almost all the way there. And it's
(27:52):
right now. The heaviest storm in southern California right now
is in the middle of Barstow. Barstow is getting drenched
right now. But locally here in Los Angeles or in
the LA area. Pasadena just got worked. Ontario is getting
absolutely destroyed by this Water Mission VIAH and it's moving
(28:14):
on towards Riverside as well.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So lots of rain.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It just went through Los Angeles and now it's going
into Ontario Riverside Mission Viejo.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
A lot of it. Let me see here.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Five Okay, So at five point fifteen, in a matter
of I don't know, fifteen to twenty minutes, twenty minutes
from now, Victorville will be soaking wet. Right Wood will
be getting snow. There'll be snow up in Arrowhead and
in Big Bear, a lot of snow and a lot
of rain in Riverside right where the fifteen Freeway and
(28:52):
the ten to fifteen, the two fifteen in that San
Berndino area, Marino Valley, Banning, Paris, Menefee all getting soaked
right now. That's the storm that did come through Los
Angeles a couple hours ago, and now you're getting it
up in all the way from Victorville all the way
south the Mission Viajo. There's one huge line of rain
(29:15):
and storms that you're getting went by. As it goes
on throughout the evening, it's going to start to clear
out in Los Angeles. So by six point twenty there'll
be almost no rain in the city of La and
almost no rain in the County of La but later
on there might be some more. So you got to
(29:36):
be aware of them, got to be.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Aware of it.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I saw an article that Carmel, beautiful City of Carmel,
is one of the first cities that's going to ban pickleball.
You would think that everybody up in Carmel plays pickleball,
but this California town is banning pickleball over the noise
(30:01):
complaints from the paddles hitting the ball Carmel, California, which
I thought if somebody said pickleball was invented in Carmel, California,
I'll be like, Oh, that makes sense. But they're banning
it because of noise. Carmel's city council voted earlier this
month to permanently ban the sport at Forest Hill Park,
(30:24):
the only public pickleball location within city limits, making it
the first such ban in the state.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I agree with that. I am all for them.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Pickleball is not a sport, and I know a lot
of people out there to play it.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But the best.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Pickleball player in the world is about ten percent better
than the worst.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Pickleball player in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It's not a it's not tennis, it's not ping pong,
it's it's not it's it's a very slow moving game
where you can start playing pickleball today and be competitive
with people that have been playing it for years tomorrow.
And I know we get a lot of email on
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this saying you don't have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I do, I do. It's it's a dumb game. Croz.
You have ever tried pickleball? I have not. I would
like to.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Okay, well maybe we'll get you into it. Yeah, Angel,
you probably have tried it. You do everything. You surf,
you swim, you're pretty active.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
That that is true. But I am a purist and
I'm a tennis girl. I've been playing tennis since I
was eight years old. I didn't know that, and I
have not played a game of pickleball or even held
a racket.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, it almost seems like pickleball was designed for seventy
year olds who still wanted to be active, and now
kids are playing it and it's loud and it's just
it's a mess.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
So yeah, like what you said is true, though, like
the learning curve for pickleball is I call it the
like pickleball is to tennis what snowboarding is to skiing,
because if you snowboard for like three consecutive days, you're snowboarding.
But to learn how to ski it takes a long time.
(32:20):
Do you develop those skills?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I heard the snow I've never tried snowboarding, but I
heard the snowboarding.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It's all in the toes. Is that true?
Speaker 9 (32:28):
I don't know. I guess the edge control. Yeah, yeah,
I snowboard also, you do, okay, because yeah, when I
get tired from skiing, I hop on a snowboard.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
You're active, God, almight do something. Paddle Boarding and swimming
in the ocean. You've seen sharks while you're paddleboarding.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Is that true?
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Yes, that is true, and you still do it.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
They're just swimming down or underneath me. They're not looking
for a snack.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You want me to show you pictures?
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
A young surfer thought the same thing, and now she
doesn't have an arm.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
Yeah. But I do get scared out in the water.
There's been a time or two where I was out
in the water alone. There's nobody around me, nobody even
on the beach, and you know, the whole place is
just like teeming with sea life, birds and everything just
making all this sound, and then all of a sudden
everything goes quiet and there's nothing more bone chilling than that.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh does that mean there's a shark around?
Speaker 9 (33:27):
I thought that's what I felt like. It just gave
me the chills, and so I easily paddled in to
not make a lot of splashes and got out of
the water. That scared me to death.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You know what might be cool is to be paddle boarding,
you know, a quarter mile off off the coast with
a big earthquake kits.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That might be interesting.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yeah, that would be kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, because you're going to see the whole land move
and you're probably gonna not move much yourself.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
You coming out tomorrow night to the big gover remote.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Oh you all right?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Excellent, We're gonna see everybody tomorrow and uh and uh
smart and final and you ever litten it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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demand on the iHeart Radio app.
It's KMF I am sixty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are
going to be in your blina tomorrow. We'll get to that,
but right now, we've got rain.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We've got more rain. It's pouring or not. Now look
out the window. It's not pouring.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's just raining in Burbank and yet another storm, you know,
another storm that everybody's got to deal with. Everybody's got
to take precautions. If you live in the burn Scar area,
you're flipping out. I totally get that. I understand that
I'm flipping out in Burbank. And we weren't burned out
of our house because we have too much water.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The backyard fills up with water and it fills.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Up into where the air conditioner is and it's creates
a big problem. I decided to get a some pump
out there and knock it out myself. But that is
one billionth of one percent of what people in the
burn Scar have to deal with. And every time something
like this happens, every time there's a another storm, they've
(01:01):
got to sit there and they have that they have
a sleepless night. Tonight will be a sleepless night for
people live in the burn Scar area because you never know,
you never know, you know, if this is going to
be it, if it's going to be you know, absolutely
huge and wipe you out. It's it's just you know,
you've got to be aware of it, and you have
(01:24):
to you know, I don't know if there's gonna we're
gonna have any warnings from the government, if there's any
flash flood warnings, I'm sure we will. You know, they
try to be very they try to be preventive and
preemptive with that stuff because obviously it can save lives.
And a lot of people think that those warnings. You know,
maybe they you're watching TV and your TV goes off
(01:45):
for thirty seconds and you're annoyed by it because you
don't live in one of those areas. But the people
that do live in those areas can their lives can
be saved by those things, the emergency alert system. So
that's why we do it here and we will continue
to do it here. All right, Let's get into this weather.
Let's find out what's going on, when is it going
(02:06):
to stop, and who's going to get the most of
It's it's here it's here.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Very difficult Thursday afternoon, beginning to shape up here in
southern California. Dangerous conditions now moving into the region. We've
got some thunderstorms that are beginning to pop up here
in southern California, and of course we've got rain and snow.
You can see that as we take that look at
your five Live Max Stoppler again stretching all the way
from San Luis Obispo now down in towards La County.
We're beginning to see a lot of this cold front
(02:32):
moving further east in towards much of the Inland Empire
over the next hour or so. But it's much of
the La Basin, through the Santa Monica Mountains, all the
way through the San Fernando Valley and out to the
outskirts of much of the San Gabriel Valley and further
south towards the coast where we're looking at that flood advisory.
It's in place through the night to night and into
at least Friday the mid morning hours. But here are
(02:53):
the hotspots right now, and unfortunately one of those being
Alta Dina that's where we're looking at. Of course, that
burn Scar area. We could see some mud slides, some
debris flow as well. Rain pockets of heavy rain now
starting to move towards the Altadena community here along the foothills.
Here's the Angelus Crust Highway, and here's Mount Baldy. And
look at that lightning strike. So the severe weather is
now beginning to move into southern California, and of course
(03:15):
that moisture stretches all the way out towards Pomona as
well as Rancho Cucamonga and as far south as you
could see up on the screen to Rancho Palace, Verdies
now Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, the Naples area starting to
fill in with some of that heavier rainfall. We've got
snow now beginning to fall into the local mountains. That's
again the Angelus Crust Highway all the way up to
right Wood. Then we'll take a look up towards Big Bear,
(03:36):
just beginning to see a little bit of those snow showers,
and as more snow is on the way, we've got
both a winter weather advisory and a winter storm warning
where we could pick up by Saturday morning Saturday afternoon
anywhere between about six to fourteen inches of snow. Details
about this system, and of course your weekend forecasts minutes away.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Okay, there's going to be a lot again of nervous people. However,
if you do make it through this rain and a
lot of most people will. We're doing a live remote
and we we're expecting a lot of people tomorrow in
your Belinda, and hopefully you'll be there because you know,
(04:17):
you might get a little wet, it might rain during
part of that. You know, that remote out there tomorrow.
But just think of this. It's a small sacrifice for
you to make too. I was gonna say to come
see me, but I wasn't a great sales tool. But
to feed these kids, you know, you've got to get
(04:38):
out there. We've got to get raised money and pasta
and saw us to feed these kids.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's the fifteenth annual Pasta than it's here.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It all starts tomorrow and it's going to go on
for the next couple of weeks. Chef Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club,
that's his mom. Katerina provides meals for twenty five thousand
kids right here in southern California every single week. And
your generosity is the only thing that makes that happen
without your generosity. These kids don'ty. So if you can
(05:07):
live with that, great Our live broadcast is Giving Tuesday,
December second, which Crozier.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I think is a week from tuesday. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Is it the Tuesday after Thanksgiving Day? Pretty much? Ten
days after tomorrow when we start. Thanksgiving is one week
from today. Thanksgiving is a week from today?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So December second, five am to eight pm. Wait, who's
going on seven to eight?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Is it me again?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Always giving? Yeah, that's such a gif. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Anaheim Whitehouse eight eight seven South Anaheim Boulevard. You can
donate any time at KFI AM six forty dot com
slash pastason I always like to do that. That's my
that's my bill handle every time he gives it. Every
time he gives a web addressed out, he always goes
up at the end KFI AM six forty dot com
slash pasta ton I. Also, you can go to smart
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and final donate any amounted checkout. Even if you're in
Arizona or Nevada.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You can go to Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Everybody loves Wendy's and they have the new Wendy's ten
D's have you seen these the chicken tenders?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh they're beautiful, really yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And they what a great name for him, the Wendy's
ten D's good name for him. Donate five hours or
more and Catarina's Club is going to give you a
coupon book and they can drop off pasta and sauce
and donations at Number one Collision Center in Coasta Mesa,
twenty seven to fifty Bristol Street. Number one Collision Center
in Coasta Mesa, twenty one seventy Bristol Street, and they're
(06:47):
taking pasta and sauce donations right now. So we're gonna
be there live tomorrow four to eight pm. Smart and
Final in your Belinda twenty one, five hundred YORBA Linda Boulevard.
And the first two hundred and fifty people that show
up in the rain got Almighty's that a big number
are going to get a free bag. I don't know
(07:08):
if there's gonna be anything in it, but you'll get
a free bag and you'll like that. You'll go home,
you'll tell friends, Hey, I went out in the rain
and I got this bag. So that'll be fun. All right,
Let's let's take a break here when we come back,
we're going to talk.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I'm going to listen to this.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Jay Leno is a very dear friend of ours, of
the show and just a really sweet man. He shares
an update on his wife's battle with dementia, and it's
really moving. It's really moving. So we're gonna come back
and play that. You're gonna want to hear this, all right.
We're live on ki A six forty. Keep an eye
on the rain for you. We'll do that and I
(07:47):
will see you tomorrow rain or more rain, and we'll
see you there at Smart and Final in your Belinda
right off the ninety one. Come on twenty one, five
hundred zero zero gift bags a boy, there are huge
gift bags going going out. But it's it literally is
tomorrow four to eight pm, two to one, five zero
(08:09):
zero your Blinda Boulevard right off the ninety one, and
we'll do a live remote and we'll be out there
freezing and getting soaked with you.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
We'll do it live.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
We'll do it live, and we are very charitable to
these kids. You know where we could have canceled this remote.
You know they said it's a weather wise and canceled that.
We didn't because we know those kids have to eat,
so hope you have the same opinion.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We're live on six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It is The Conway Show. All right.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We have a very special guest here in Michael Monks.
Always nice to see you, buddy, Always nice.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
When you come in. You always upbeat.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I know, anger right befoot below the surface, but you
always keep it pretty contented.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I have gone through many classes to make that the
case is that right to keep it all under control.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Any of them voluntary are your most mandatory. Some was mandatory,
court ordered. Really you've had court ordered angry man.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
As a teenager, I was advised to attend some counseling sessions,
which we you know, we fulfilled.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Okay, all right, and here we are.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I like that edge though, yeah, I really do. I'm
appreciate that edge.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
A little rough around the edges.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, but that but you know what, that's great because
you come off as this sweet guy who saves cats
and you know it helps the environment. And really Denver
bad mouths anybody, but then you can swear up a
storm once you have pushed over the edge.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I have a little tolerance for ineptitude. But yeah, you
keep coming on this show. I love this show. They
didn't talk with you indeed.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
All right, so let's talk about this Dodger's gondola or gondola.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
However, he's like, the second week in a row we've
gotten to talk about the gondola.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But it's twenty five years in the making and I'm
tired of talking about it. When are they going to
put it together?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Well, this is Los Angeles, and you know, we don't
build anything that's right, I mean, we just don't. We
just talk about things. And last week the city Council
was like, we don't like this thing at all. They
voted on a resolution to formally oppose the gondola project.
And it's kind of a strange position to take because
even though there are some loud opponents from the Chinatown neighborhood,
(10:11):
there are also a lot more who have signed petitions
saying no, we do want this in the same where
we do believe this will bring tourists in business.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But what happened to the town Star before you? This
le's back up for a second. Tell people where it's
going to go. Go Union Station and we.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Should refresh everyone, since twenty five years in the making,
it may have just been a blur at this point. No,
this is called technically, it's called the la Art la
Aerial Rapid Trends.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What a great name for Yeah. The only thing great.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
About it, indeed, because it's a it's like a gondola
that you would see. I don't know where would you
see a gondola in your life.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Maybe you would see one like this in Palm Springs,
the one that goes to the top exactly. Yes, I've
been on that, yes, exactly in Italy and sure, no
switch out.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah, so it's like a ski mountain kind of thing.
But this would take you from Union Station to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And you know what, everybody complains, all these rich go on,
all these rich people.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's got his finger on the button. He's ready, I
got it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
All these rich people complain about getting in and out
of Dodger Stadium. And then they turn around and vote
against his gondola. And there are a lot of complaints
about traffic.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Now, there are some conflicting studies to the opponent's credit
that maybe only six hundred cars would be removed from
current traffic flows if we build this thing, even if
there's six but it sounds remarkable because it's a one
point two mile route from Union Station to Dodger Stadium
with some stops in between there. And it proposes that
it would transport five thousand people an hour.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
So yeah, maybe the current studies say six hundred cars.
But if you could get people in the rhythm of
parking their car out in the valley, hopping on each
rapid bus line or on one of the subways that
the light rail trains, I would do that in a hartbeat. Absolutely,
comeing to Union Station, hop on the gondola and take
it up to.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It and by the way, in just seven minutes. That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But you know when I used to back when the
Red Line was a little safer than it is now,
I used to get on the Red Line in North
Hollywood with my Kings sweater on and go to a
Kings game with my daughter. I mean I would literally
get on the Red Line with my three or four
year old daughter. She would run around the you know,
the cable of the subway with her pal, and then
we'd go to the King game and then we'd come
(12:19):
home and as every stop on the way to the
King game, more Kings fans will get on, And it
was like it was like a real sort of a
you know la thing to do. And now I don't
know if people are still doing that. I think for
special events you're seeing. And Metro reported a lot of
increased ridership during the Dodgers stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Place, that's great. The series I think they called it,
I love the Metro. If it was safer and cleaner,
I'd write it. I wrote it all the time before
before it fell about the Metro. Some Metro boards met today,
not the the Metro board, but the committees that the
board members serve on underneath the big board before the
big board meets, and I follow.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Those things too, And I'm going to tell you one
more thing.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Hey, Yeah, of all the people who are on this
station who have their own I guarantee you I've been
on that Metro more than all of them combined.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I used to take the Metro all the time. Why
are you mad about it? Because because I miss it?
I miss it. I miss I take it too, and
I wanted to succeed.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
And so I'm watching these meetings today and the crime
reports for each month come out and it looks like
it's holding pretty steady, like they're doing a decent job
as far as what is being reported and addressing some
of those situations. But that's what I've said the whole
time that I've been writing La Metro is this is
not a bad system on paper. It does get you
to a lot of flis great, and it's getting you
to more places. The problem is one perception, but also
(13:37):
the reality. If it doesn't feel clean, if it doesn't
feel inviting, then no one will do. Now, this is
not a Metro project, this contract.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
But when I used to take the Metro, I used
to take the Red Line, there was always a police
officer on the on the not maybe not on my car,
but on the train, and people behaved. And then once
they remove those comps over budget issues, that's when I've
fell apart.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
The Metro agency is getting a police department of its
own starting in twenty twenty nine, so he got a
few years to wait, but they did hire the chief
and they're ramping up to that. So they're currently still
using LAPD and the La County Sheriffs to paf to
the Olympics. Yeah, so exactly will be really tested in
a lot of ways during the Olympics, but Metro does
have some overview of this project. They are the agency
(14:18):
that proves this is why we can't build things right.
There are different environment overview processes that allowed, and this
is one they are. Indeed, Metro had already approved the
Gondola's environmental impact review a couple of years ago, but
it was challenged in court for not taking into consideration
enough of the construction noise, and so the judge sent
it back for that to be evaluated and then brought
(14:39):
back to Metro, and that's what happened today. The Metro
Board has not fully approved this yet, that will come later.
This was the Executive Management board. But these are powerful people.
This board has made up some strong people.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
The chairs.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Fernando Dutro's a councilman in Whittier, but Supervisor, not to
downplay his position, but he's also the chair of the
Metro Board right now, is very powerful guy. Supervisor janas
Hanas on this committee. Supervisor Hill is at least Mayor
bass is on the sidel and they voted to approve.
One hundred and fifty people showed up to speak today
(15:10):
at this Metro committee what was the mixed everty balance
mostly for forty balance. If the people were against it
are very well mobilized. They dominated the City council meeting
last week. But I think because the people are for
it have jobs. I think that you find a lot
of the activist class is just easily mobilized. They are
(15:31):
I don't even know if it's easy to say. I mean,
they are just organized. But that's the problem in a
tall citasage, and they get the message out, and if
you were an elected official, that's all you're hearing.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
That's the problem with the city in a lot of ways.
I think you're right.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
I activists are able to get to where they want
to be and to get their message heard. But there
were more people today at the Metro meeting speaking in
favor of the gondo to make sure their voices were
heard and it was approved. Interestingly, Mayor Bass, sitting on
this committee, voted in favor of this in spite of
the City Council's resolution last week.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
All Right, Rick Caruz, who is built the Grove, he
built the Americana, the Commons and Pacific Palisades, the shop
at Pacific Palisades, he was willing to take on managing
the city of La for two hundred and forty thousand
dollars a year and become mayor of La. And LA
the dumb people in LA said no, thank you.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Well, respectfully, it's easy for a guy who was born
into money to say something like that, right, I mean,
you know, he's a rich guy, was born into money.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's hard for he's willing to become the management a
manager of LA.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And they said no. But why why do they say no? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Because La, because you exactly what you said. All these
organizations who are constantly stealing from the city would be
cut off because Rick would have cut all that crap off.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, why wasn't that the message? It should have been
the message. That's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Like we were talking to him, I was talking. I
won't say I was talking.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Okay, but here's why. But here's his message.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Okay, here's why it's not a message because outside of you,
who's doing city hall? When you go to city Hall,
do you see Channel two, four, five, seven, nine eleven there?
You see down TV stations there, but they're doing pup
pieces on crap.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
They're not doing your work.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Well, I mean, on the other hand, I mean people
do want Recruso to run again, to try again. You
hear a lot because they're waiting for some alternative, and
there are a couple of other candidates running, but nobody's
really energized. Some excitement too, because he's an outsiass Rick's
an outsider, and he's a developer. He's an outsider, and
they don't want outsiders in there because there's so many
people stealing from the city of La.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
All that gravy would have been cut off.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Why don't you run? I can't run. I got way
too much crap in my past.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, we know all about it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Like I can't manage my house, How could I manage
the city of La. I constantly mismanaging my life in
my house.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
All I want is a robust campaign next year from
all of the candidates who are really going to be
serious about their policy position, so that we can talk
about them here.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, you know who should run?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Who's been living in La since the nineteen nineties, John Colbo,
that's the guy that should run.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
I think he would probably recall himself self within three weeks.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Right, all right, buddy, thanks for coming in Saturday seven
to nine pm.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I talked about we'll dive into this more and all
the other issues in and around LA in Orange County.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
If you have if you're in the area, we're gonna
be in New Orba Linda tomorrow from four to eight.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
I'm gonna be here because somebody's gonna keep the home
fires burn now at right A right?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Great.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I love the fact that you keep an eye on
city Hall nobody else is doing. I appreciate you doing
that my pleasure. I know it's a pain in the ass,
and you get a lot of backglass, you get a
lot of you know, feedback saying hey, let off these guys.
I bet you get emails saying you know you're wrong
about this, you're wrong about that, but you're right. You're
keep an eye on those and keep your foot on
their neck.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Jay Leno is one of the nicest people I've ever
met my life, and he is He's just the same
guy you see on TV in real life, and he's
going through a tremendous challenge with his wife Mavis. And
I believe this was on CBS and they did a
(19:06):
story on Jay Leno and Jay's wife Mavis. This thing is,
it's about six minutes and thirty seconds. I'm gonna play
it uninterrupted and you'll get a window into what this
man is really like in life. For people who never
met him, you've only seen him on TV. Maybe you've
seen him drive around his steam car in Burbank or
(19:27):
in the valley. This is a great, great piece him
talking about the relationship he has with his wife who's
suffering from I believe dementia, in the late stages of
either Alzheimer's or dementia. So I'm gonna play it uninterrupted
and it's a great great piece.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Let Jay Leno has spent half a century making others laugh.
He started in stand up back in nineteen sixty nine
and would later go on to host The Tonight Show
for twenty two years. This interview, we find ourselves in
his famous garage, home to two hundred and fourteen collector's cars.
Jay tells me each car has a story, but today
(20:11):
we're sitting down to tell another story as he peels
back the curtain on life at home with his beloved Mavis.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
When you guys first.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Met, I was just reading some stuff about you. She
I mean, she was crazy about you, just talked about
I'm gorgeous shore. But she also said she never wanted
to get married. She was a big feminist. But somehow
being with you felt like home.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
What was it about her?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
I enjoy her company, like if I'm working on a car,
she said, over there with a book and read.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
It was just very what still is very comfortable.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Before she had this, I would always go home after
the time.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
She cooked dinner for our who watch TV.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Kin difference is now you just can't really talk about
a lot of things.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Conversations are different because Mavis is living with advanced dementia,
a condition she was diagnosed with after years of worrying symptoms.
Guys talk about, like the conversations that you have these days.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Well, I mean the conversation it'll be what's the poison?
And say something it doesn't quite make sense, and I'm going, no,
it's good, honey's all right. You know.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
You hear a noise outside? What's that?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
You know?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
No, it's fine, you know, I said.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
She wants to be reassured that everything is everything's okay, And.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Over the last handful of years, moments of unimaginable heartbreak.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
I mean, probably the toughest part was every day she
wake up and realized someone had called today to tell
her mother to pass away, and her mother died every
day for like three years, and it was just and
just not just crime. I mean, you're learning for the
first time.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I was. That was really tricky. Yeah, that makes it hard.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
As Mavis's caretaker, Jay provides not just love and reassurance,
but he also tries to maintain a sense of normalcy.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Does she enjoy a good meal? You know her advertise
really come back. I wish we could.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
I could take her out and go out to eat,
do things like that, but you can't really. I mean,
we'll get some help, want to take out of the carmel,
drive around and look at stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
And she likes that.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
But yeah, I mean I feel bad you reached its
point in your life where she'd loves to travel.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
So I'm sad that she can't do those things.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
But you know, there's so much stuff on YouTube, the
travel stuff, and we watch those things and you know,
the animal shows and real big with the flash cards,
well not flash cards, but see the picture. See this
picture who's at as President Obama? Oh I never met him. Yeah, honey,
we had dinner with her. That is how the White
House are you?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
We gonna laugh.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Mavis, in her own right, has an incredible body of
work an activist and philanthropist. She was nominated for a
Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand and two for her
work supporting women in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
You know, it's.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Interesting because she strikes me as a fiercely independent person.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Well, actually, you know that's part of it, because now
she really needs me, and I like that, and I
can tell that she appreciates it. And the idea that
you get married and you take these vows, nobody ever
thinks they'll be called upon to act on them.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You know.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
You get that part through better or worse, but even
the worst is.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Not that bad. You're still making her laugh. Yeah, yeah,
what does that? Last night?
Speaker 8 (23:19):
I said to her, guy goes to the doctor, I said, what,
Smati goes? When I press here, it hurts. When I
press my shoulder, it hurts. I press my knee cap,
it hurts. When I press my roob cage, it hurts.
Doctor says, you've got a broken finger.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You know she really laughed at that.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
What strikes me is Jay makes a decision each day
to shift his gaze to the positive.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
If I was a doctor, I was saying that the
patient is doing well.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Put it that way.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Does she bring up stuff from like when you guys
were younger, when you were dating.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Oh yeah, we we always do that, you know, when
I'm carrying her, carrylat in the bath and we do this,
and I call it Jane Mayvis is the prom is.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
In high school, you know, So you're back and forth,
and you know, she thinks that's funny. By the way,
that's it.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
No wonder why she's calm and feeling loved and all
those things, because that simple act of taking your wife
to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You know, it's not the most romantic thing. Really, when
you think.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Of Jay and Mavis going to the problem sounds pretty
pretty cool. These days, Jay finds small pockets of time
to perform. Comedy has been obviously the through line throughout
your life. What does comedy look like these days?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, I'm on the road a lot.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
You know, if I just took politics out of it,
I know, ticket sales abut twenty thirty percent, just because
nobody wants to be electioned. When you're on TV and
you can play directly to your audience and there's a
laugh track. And when you go to Indiana or Kentucky
or any other place in the country, you're always going
to have a third of the people who don't agree
with you politically, So why even go there.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Yeah, it's tricky to be a comedian these days.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I feel like I don't think it's any trick.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
No, no, you know, we've always had tough time. Things
are Actually it's not that it's better now, but the
thing I find fast, stuff that used to be the law.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Is now against the law.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
And that's great because the old day would just be
boom you just that's it, that's it.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Do you still you feel hopeful about where?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yes, I'm very hopeful.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
I am optimistic because ultimately it's a bit like a donkey.
Sometimes you got to hit in the head with the
two by four to get its attention, but eventually a
little listening.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
While much has changed in the landscape of comedy for
Jay and Mavis, so much of their love story remains
the same. How does mAbs show you that she loves
you these days?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
How do you know?
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Well, by saying it, you know, I can see the smile,
I can tell whim she's happy. So that's really it,
and that as someone who's in show business, I go
home and I get an audience reaction every night. I
please the person I'm entertaining, And when she looks at
me andles and says she loves me, I mean, I know.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I mean, when you think about Jay, this is so
interesting because he is such a glass half full person.
And he kept repeating, He's like, this is the first
time she's ever needed me, he said, his whole during
their whole life, she was so fiercely independent. She did
everything on her own. And now he goes, I get
to do this for her, like he likes to be
there for her, and he doesn't see it as a
(26:28):
sacrifice or.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Is something he has to do.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
But I mean their love story, that's really the way
you want it at the end, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
What a great guy Jay Leno sitting and standing by
his wife who's suffering from advanced dementia. And you never
know it when he comes in here, or when we
took a tour of his garage, or when you see
him on the streets of the San Fernando Valley driving around.
He never shows that side of him. But it's got
(26:55):
to be tough, and that's one of the true great
guys in show business, one of the best.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It is The Conway Show. And we're gonna be in Yourbalinda.
I don't care if it's raining or not. We will
be in your Balinda tomorrow four to eight pm at
Smart and Final, So please come on by and we're
gonna make sure these kids are fed. The rain right
now is in San Bernardino Riverside area. They're getting worked
(27:31):
right now with this rain, and it's going all the
way up. If you're taking the five Freeway fifteen, if
you're taking a fifteen freeway from La to Las Vegas,
maybe you get an early start on Thanksgiving, you're going
to visit mom or one of the casinos. Then you're
gonna have rain almost all the way there. And it's
(27:52):
right now. The heaviest storm in southern California right now
is in the middle of Barstow. Barstow is getting drenched
right now. But locally here in Los Angeles or in
the LA area. Pasadena just got worked. Ontario is getting
absolutely destroyed by this Water Mission VIAH and it's moving
(28:14):
on towards Riverside as well.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So lots of rain.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It just went through Los Angeles and now it's going
into Ontario Riverside Mission Viejo.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
A lot of it. Let me see here.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Five Okay, So at five point fifteen, in a matter
of I don't know, fifteen to twenty minutes, twenty minutes
from now, Victorville will be soaking wet. Right Wood will
be getting snow. There'll be snow up in Arrowhead and
in Big Bear, a lot of snow and a lot
of rain in Riverside right where the fifteen Freeway and
(28:52):
the ten to fifteen, the two fifteen in that San
Berndino area, Marino Valley, Banning, Paris, Menefee all getting soaked
right now. That's the storm that did come through Los
Angeles a couple hours ago, and now you're getting it
up in all the way from Victorville all the way
south the Mission Viajo. There's one huge line of rain
(29:15):
and storms that you're getting went by. As it goes
on throughout the evening, it's going to start to clear
out in Los Angeles. So by six point twenty there'll
be almost no rain in the city of La and
almost no rain in the County of La but later
on there might be some more. So you got to
(29:36):
be aware of them, got to be.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Aware of it.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I saw an article that Carmel, beautiful City of Carmel,
is one of the first cities that's going to ban pickleball.
You would think that everybody up in Carmel plays pickleball,
but this California town is banning pickleball over the noise
(30:01):
complaints from the paddles hitting the ball Carmel, California, which
I thought if somebody said pickleball was invented in Carmel, California,
I'll be like, Oh, that makes sense. But they're banning
it because of noise. Carmel's city council voted earlier this
month to permanently ban the sport at Forest Hill Park,
(30:24):
the only public pickleball location within city limits, making it
the first such ban in the state.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I agree with that. I am all for them.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Pickleball is not a sport, and I know a lot
of people out there to play it.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But the best.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Pickleball player in the world is about ten percent better
than the worst.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Pickleball player in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It's not a it's not tennis, it's not ping pong,
it's it's not it's it's a very slow moving game
where you can start playing pickleball today and be competitive
with people that have been playing it for years tomorrow.
And I know we get a lot of email on
(31:10):
this saying you don't have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I do, I do. It's it's a dumb game. Croz.
You have ever tried pickleball? I have not. I would
like to.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Okay, well maybe we'll get you into it. Yeah, Angel,
you probably have tried it. You do everything. You surf,
you swim, you're pretty active.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
That that is true. But I am a purist and
I'm a tennis girl. I've been playing tennis since I
was eight years old. I didn't know that, and I
have not played a game of pickleball or even held
a racket.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, it almost seems like pickleball was designed for seventy
year olds who still wanted to be active, and now
kids are playing it and it's loud and it's just
it's a mess.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
So yeah, like what you said is true, though, like
the learning curve for pickleball is I call it the
like pickleball is to tennis what snowboarding is to skiing,
because if you snowboard for like three consecutive days, you're snowboarding.
But to learn how to ski it takes a long time.
(32:20):
Do you develop those skills?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I heard the snow I've never tried snowboarding, but I
heard the snowboarding.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It's all in the toes. Is that true?
Speaker 9 (32:28):
I don't know. I guess the edge control. Yeah, yeah,
I snowboard also, you do, okay, because yeah, when I
get tired from skiing, I hop on a snowboard.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
You're active, God, almight do something. Paddle Boarding and swimming
in the ocean. You've seen sharks while you're paddleboarding.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Is that true?
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Yes, that is true, and you still do it.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
They're just swimming down or underneath me. They're not looking
for a snack.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You want me to show you pictures?
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
A young surfer thought the same thing, and now she
doesn't have an arm.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
Yeah. But I do get scared out in the water.
There's been a time or two where I was out
in the water alone. There's nobody around me, nobody even
on the beach, and you know, the whole place is
just like teeming with sea life, birds and everything just
making all this sound, and then all of a sudden
everything goes quiet and there's nothing more bone chilling than that.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh does that mean there's a shark around?
Speaker 9 (33:27):
I thought that's what I felt like. It just gave
me the chills, and so I easily paddled in to
not make a lot of splashes and got out of
the water. That scared me to death.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You know what might be cool is to be paddle boarding,
you know, a quarter mile off off the coast with
a big earthquake kits.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That might be interesting.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yeah, that would be kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, because you're going to see the whole land move
and you're probably gonna not move much yourself.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
You coming out tomorrow night to the big gover remote.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Oh you all right?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Excellent, We're gonna see everybody tomorrow and uh and uh
smart and final and you ever litten it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
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Speaker 1 (34:05):
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