January 15, 2026 • 33 mins
Michelle Kube stops by as our Lotto Captain, sharing an incredible story about her father, a reliability engineer at Grumman Corp who worked on a top-secret project—yes, the Stealth. Get Frank Kube!
Plus, spare tires are quietly becoming a thing of the past… wait, WHAT?! We break down what’s happening and why it matters the next time you’re on the road.
Then, we dive into America’s love affair with fast food—how it plays a bigger role in our daily lives than we realize, and why Wendy’s new $4 meal is getting everyone’s attention 🍔
And to wrap it up: first run-ins with a Waymo, Ben Kindel from Pitt, Ted Chen announces his retirement from NBCLA, and SpaceX makes an unexpected return following a medical emergency involving one of the astronauts 🚀
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are
live four to seven every weekday. People want me to
remind you then, so there you go. The Lotto captain
is with us. We have I think eighty two people
maybe less.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now and I'm waiting for everybody to give their twenty
twenty six you know, donations or contributions, so I think
right now there's like sixty five, so okay, twenty people missing.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Michelle Cube is the lottery captain. She buys tickets every week.
And when we hit the billion dollars, everyone's going to make,
you know, ten fifteen million dollars, except for Tim Kates.
Tim Kates is not going. He's out, he's not going
to be he's not going to get a cal the pit.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I told him, he's nuts. Yeah, he is crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You know, for forty dollars, why would you take that
chance where everybody else makes twenty million and you have
nothing exactly And he thinks, well, ruinal chip in and
give money, which they will, but it's not gonna be
a lot enough. Anyway. Did you see the Spaceship last night?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because you did.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Okay, I got a story here about Michelle Cube. Michelle
Cube worked as the producer of the Handle Show for
twenty eight years.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Six twenty six years.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That seems like a long time. Very yeah, But when
your beautiful dad passed away, I found out what he
did for a living, and I had a million questions
for you, and I still find it. The most interesting
parent of anybody who I've ever worked with or who
works here.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But your dad, he was involved in building the Space Shuttle.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, yeah, he My dad worked for Grumm and Aerospace
when we lived back on Long Island in New York.
That was a big, you know, employer back there, and
he worked. He worked for them thirty five years. He
was a reliability engineer and he worked on a lot
of big projects. They worked on the Lunar Lander. Wow,
so that was one of the projects. They did the
(02:03):
wings for the Space Shuttle they did. Yeah, so they
did that. They did the F fourteen Tomcat really and
then got the reason. We moved to California in nineteen
eighty six. And at the time, obviously I was the
only I mean I was in high school.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh, that's tough. It was tough and I was very angry,
bad and.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That was before social media, so you couldn't keep in
touch with everybody.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, no, it was awful.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But I didn't know why we moved, but we moved
here to California. We were originally gonna live in Irvine.
We ended up in Orange, but I didn't know it
at the time. But my dad was working on a
top secret project.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Can you couldn't tell you what it is?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Tell me about it. He would go to work.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
If my mom needed to get a hold of him,
she had to call somebody who had to call somebody
who had to call him, and then he would call
us back. I didn't find out until years later that
the project he came he came here to work on.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Was the Stealth Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So my dad was, you know, from Orange up to
Palmdale out to Area fifty one.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
He was in all he's been to Area fifty one.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He couldn't tell me until after he retired, right, he
had been to Area fifty one A couple of times.
Were they flying to Vegas and they get on the
Janet plane or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It looks like an old Western Airlines plane that flies
in there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But yeah, that's why we came to California was that
was the project he worked on. Because when they unveiled
the stealth he said to me, you see that plane
and I said.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, and he goes, that's why we moved to California.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Wow, And then I immediately felt bad for being an
awful teenager.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So they were working on that back in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, they had been working on that for several years.
It was you know, eventually Grumman became North of Grumman.
They came together and they had a big facility out
here in Burbank.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, they did. And yeah, that's the project that he
was working on. So then, oh, my god.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So your father not only worked on the wings for
the Space Shuttle, which have never malfunctioned, by the way,
but he also was able to, you know, for years
and years of testing, you know, different products and different designs,
able to create a plane that can absorb radar instead
of deflect it and keep these pilots safe and stealthy.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, and Mike, did.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They come up with that name?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I don't remember if they came up with the name
at the time. I can't remember what they were calling
at the time, but it was. It was at first
it was like Project X. I mean, it's always like
Project X. But I didn't know this either until more
recently when the second version of the Stealth was unveiled
up in Palmdale's that my brother in law who also
works for North Paste.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh really that project? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So the Stealth Bomber?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh my god. When So when you moved out here,
it was what year in high school? Were you a junior?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I was a sophomore.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Oh my god. So you had all these friends were
from New Jersey, New York, New York Island, New Jersey.
Were you popular in school?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I was, I would say, moderately popular and the most
popular kid.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
When I moved out here. It was awful because I had.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
My New York accent, which I lost over the years
unless I get really angry. But yeah, I mean I
would come out in the very first day of English class.
I went to Elmadina High School in Orange. That's where
I went to school, and the very first day in
English class, I'll never forget it, my teacher, mister Zimmerman,
asked me to He said, oh, you know, Michelle read
(05:20):
this page out loud.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh wow, And so I'm reading.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
This page out loud with this very thing New York accent,
and I'll never forget. A girl in front of me,
her name was Sean Leech, blonde, turned around and she
just like, oh.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
My god, where are you from? From New York? You
had a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But you know when when I remember my very first
girlfriend in I think it was third grade, maybe fourth grade.
Her her name was Gilly, and she moved over the summer,
but she didn't move across country. She moved to Orange
County and I never saw her again.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's that's back in the seventies, when you moved ten
miles you never saw that kid again. But you moved
across the entire country. And that's when you had to
call your friends, and it was expensive to do that.
There was message units, and mom and dad hated the
long distance calls. So you probably felt really alone out
here for it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
It was. It was really for like a year.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It was until I found a couple of really close
friends here. It was really hard, and I was miserable,
and in fact, my mom said I made them so
miserable that she was considering moving back.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Wow, is that right?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I was so miserable, right, and then we wouldn't have
the stealth bomber because you and your friends.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Michelle Cubans whether she produced a bill handle show for
a long time. What did he tell you about Area
fifty one that you can tell us?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Well, he wouldn't tell me much.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He just said he saw a lot of things there
that made him question how truthful the government is really.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, did he see any aliens?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He didn't. He didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He never said he saw any aliens. But they used
to go out there. That's where they would test all
of these planes. You know, they'd fly them out there
and that's.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
What So he would have to fly to Vegas then
to fly them to Area fifty one.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, and he said that was the weirdest part was
flying to Vegas and then going to this you know,
special terminal that had no name. The plane didn't have
any you know, markings on it except it was white
with the red the red stripe.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
They wouldn't let them. They couldn't leave the windows up.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
They had to leave the windows down, and they would
just they would fly in and you know, fly he
goes in.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It was very business like. You just you go there.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Nobody talks, he said, and they they're just you're there
to do what you do and then you leave.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Right and then it's only like a twenty minute flight.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Er, yeah, it's like twenty minute flight.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But what else did he tell you? Like, did he
tell you anything that he saw was odd?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
He said.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He he saw a lot of the planes and things
that they were testing. And at the time, you know,
the now that I think about it, he described them.
You know, the way he described them, it was like
describing drones, oh, you know today, like you know, so
he would tell me that they you know, these these
uh flying he goes, they look like flying saucers, but
(08:08):
is like, but there, they're drones. They fly on their own,
they're remote control. He goes in it, and they can
be loaded with munitions. I mean, this is way before
all of that, you know, all of what we use
right now.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
But when you see, like let's say you're watching the
Rose Bowl or the Super Bowl and they fly one
of those stealth bombers over the stadium, do you get
the sense that that that's really important?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yes, like your dad, it makes me. It makes me
cry every time.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
It makes me almost emotional, just to asking you about it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And what's funny is where we live now, you know,
right if we stand outside on our patio that were
just east of the Rose Bowl. So when it goes
over the Rose Bowl and it fly, it continues to fly,
flies right over our house.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
How could you not get emotional.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Every single time? Every single time I see it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I could just watch it on TV at a bowl
game that's not here in southern Calilifornia and just get
really emotional.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And if it wasn't for your dad, we may not
have had it as quickly or as stealthy.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
You know, he was one of many reliability engineers and
you know, he.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Just he loved what he did.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
His favorite project was the Stealth and then very close
to that was the F fourteen.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
How long was he with NASA or the government?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He was with uh G. He was with Grumman for
thirty eight years.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay, so he was good because GRAMA doesn't keep people
around for thirty eight years off of charity. No, you
have to be you have to you have to constantly
prove that you're the guy. And he did it for
thirty eight years.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
He did it for thirty eight years. That's incredible. Yeah,
and before that he was in the Navy in the
Air Force.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Did you look through his tool shed in his garage
when he passed away, did you find anything cool?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, we found a lot of great, you know, interesting paperwork,
like from his military days when he was stationed up
in Alaska. Really, my dad ultimately died of a pulmonary
pulmonary fibrosis, which is something they think think the reason
that he developed it later in life was because of
what he was exposed to when he was up in Alaska,
because he was up there in the fifties where they
were doing you know, they were inspecting planes after going
(10:09):
through the Russian you know bombing runs, right, you know,
they'd go and test and they didn't know, you know,
they didn't wear any protection, so who knows what kind
of radiation they were exposed to.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So yeah, I found a lot of.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That stuff, you know, just detailing his life when he
lived up in.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Alaska for the three years, so he was stationed up there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Could you go to Area fifty one and say, hey,
my dad said, I could come in. Is there any
way to get to Area fifty one outside of an airplane?
You have to go, you have to be you can you.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Can drive to a certain point, like, but it's far
away from.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Area, right, and they're going to stop you every time.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Going to stop you every single time.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, that is crazy. I love talking about that. I
think you know, when I found out your dad did
all that stuff, I was blown away. Yeah, and I
love the fact that he didn't tell you, he couldn't
tell you, and he kept those secrets.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You know, as a kid, you.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Don't you don't think about it, you don't care, and
then then when when you find out all this stuff
later in life, you're like, wow, I was such a jerk.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I wish I would have talked to him more about it,
but he couldn't have.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Mean after, you know, he talked about what he could
and you know, after he retired.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But yeah, he respected it a lot. And what's his name, Frank.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Frank Frank Cube, what a great name too. Yeah, hey,
Frank Cube's flying in from Vegas. Setter straightened up, Frank's coming.
That's great. I love that. Congratulations. I can see it
in your eyes when you see that stealth bomber. That's
really important to you. That's your that's your dad. That's
(11:40):
really cool.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, are your oldest daughter, No, the youngest, the youngest daughter.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
That's even worse that your your dad's favorite favorite.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Oh good, How many old are you?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I have a brother, an older sister, and an older brother.
My brother's the oldest.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Excellent, And you were wonderful to your dad in the end.
I mean, daughters are always better to their dads than
the sons. Always, always, in every case I've ever seen
in my life.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am sixty.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Bellio.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I thought that that last segment we did with Michelle
Cube was outstanding because of her.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
And I I can't tell you how crazy it is
that her father was very instrumental in creating the stealth
fighter and the stealth bomber.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I mean, that's that's such.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
An amazing story to hear all that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I don't know, right, and I don't know how you
will be. I don't know a level of importance in
this country. How you beat that, you know, I mean
creating that type of aircraft that can fly over a
country and be virtually undetected. And they had probably you know,
(13:05):
a million different shots at it that didn't work. And
they finally perfected it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
How many people do you think we're working.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
On it overall? I bet a lot, But it sounds
like he was the guy though.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yeah, you look like you said. He stayed there for
thirty eight years.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Those companies do not do any charity hires at all
at all. They only keep the guys who are producing
every year. And if you're not producing, you're gone. And
they kept him for thirty eight years. They don't keep
a single soul on the payroll of Rock and Dye. Uh,
(13:44):
you know, Douglas. What was the other one, what was
the other big fighter or military? I know it was
McDonald Douglas. What was the Grumman Northrip?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
North Rip growing. And they don't keep anybody around unless
you're pulling your weight. And and thirty eight years, you know,
that is one hell of life. And to see the
stealth bomber come over a stadium knowing your dad built that.
I don't know how you don't break down every every
(14:23):
single time. I have no idea how you do it.
So that's great, man. That is a That is a
sweet sweet man, sweet man. All right back here on Earth,
car companies are getting rid of something that well, we
sort of need and I don't know why they're getting
rid of it, probably because of the weight and the expense,
but they're getting rid of spare tires. So next time
(14:46):
you have a flat, you're screwed.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Buying a new car nowadays doesn't always mean that you're
getting a backup tire. Turns out the spare is sometimes missing.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
There.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
What's going on with the spare.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
And you only notice when you need Tisha Owens was
excited to buy a brand new Tulio Deprius.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I still thought it was just a new vehicle starphone
that we had not pulled out yet.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
But she was not excited to find out something wasn't included.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
There was an ordinary day going to work. It was
dark still, though, and I hit a pothole.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
After making it to her works parking garage, she and
her husband opened the trunk to get the spare, or
so they thought there was nothing.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
There was styrophone and a little kit, a tire inflation.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Kit, and okay, okay, I'm I actually agree with the
tire inflation kit. I had to use one of those
over the summer. I didn't have a spare tire because
the spare tire was flat because it was my fault.
I had used it before and used it too much
and had flat and it was a big story. It's
(15:49):
a horrible story. But it was on the old car
that we had, the Lincoln Navigator, and I used one
of those cans with the inflation substance and the air
and it worked beautifully. Not only did work great, it's
still on the car and that was seven months ago
and still driving around with some kind of hole in
that tire, and that inflation kid today works better than
(16:12):
the spare tire. So I actually think that it's probably
not the worst idea in the world. R.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Giles dropped this tire right here.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Courtney McEwan ran into the same issue about a year ago,
a flat tire with no spare. Her dad told us
the air pump provided didn't help. In our case, it
wouldn't have worked because the hole in her tire was
in the sidewalk. Owen says the tire kid included in
her vehicle didn't work either.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
That's one thing I really want to emphasize.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Have you ever seen a guy rolling around with one
of those donuts on, you know he's got the little
tiny tire. I always love it when they're going like
it's a regular tire on there.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
They're driving like no different whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
That is really tough to go on a date when
you got the donut on the car, because it says
a lot about where you are in life. You know,
it's not a priority. The tires aren't a priority. And
you're picking up this guy's daughter and you've got to
don it on that car. That's a huge red flag,
(17:13):
a huge red flag. If your daughter's dating a guy
and he shows up and he's got to donate on
the car, you got to sit down with her and
him and see.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
What's going on with that guy? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's live.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
How about that we're live. We always like to talk
about fast food.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's what we all eat.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
You know, we're not supposed to eat it all the
time like I do, but I love it. I went
to Jack in the Box today, I went to Wendy's
over the weekend. I was going to go to Del
Taco last night. I finally decided to stay at home
and cook myself something bute. I get excited when I
go to fast food, I really do. I me too,
(18:03):
but I but I will say this steph foosh. I
used to never have to ask for the food to
be hot. Now I always ask, Like when I go
to Jack in the Box, I say, hey, can you
get the tacos out of the fryer and make sure
the fries are fresh?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That's that's if you get those cold you know you
get and not just from Jack in Box, anywhere you
get these cold, lazy fries that have been sitting around
for an hour.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Yeah, because everything else is like warm, but you can
tell the fries we're sitting there and waiting.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, And I absolutely there's nothing better in the world
than a plate of hot, greasy, salty French fries.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
It's just the best. And and McDonald's makes them. I
don't I think there's second to none.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
You know, you can't because all you can do even
if you're like, let's say you're not planning to get fries,
you were, are you in life? You smell it once
you roll up to the drive through. That's right, that's
exactly right.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You smell. So it's like I gotta get some.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, but we're we're you know, fast food.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Is part of our lives.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
We will sit behind forty two cars at in and
Out to wait for a hamburger, you know, a hamburger, fries,
and a coke, will sit there for forty minutes waiting
and think nothing of it, you know. And that's where
when I go with my daughter before, when she was
you know, younger, I used to spend that thirty to
(19:35):
forty five minutes asking her about her life. It was
just me and her in the car. I auld pepper
about their grades, what she's doing, what her friends are doing, what,
you know, what parties she's going to? Does she know
the parents on the sleepover? I would sit there and
ask her a million questions and we had that forty
five minutes that otherwise you would never get with your kid.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You can't sit at home and talk to your kid
for forty five minutes. There's too many distractions. They'll pick
up the phone, they'll walk away, and you just can't
keep them, you know, hostage. But in a car, you
can keep them hostage and pepper them with questions. And
that's what I used to use. That's why it's still
I love going to in and Out with my daughter.
(20:19):
And when I see that line and going out onto
the street, fifty cars touchdown, touchdown, I can now pepper
about all about her entire life in that line. Wendy's
drops a brand new four dollars meal. Let's find out
what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Ugur King just come out with a two for five menu.
We're gonna try everything on.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
It this morning. Fast food restaurants pulling out all the
stuffs to be your business.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Duncan And just upgraded their six dollar meal deal to
a five dollar meal deal.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
Wendy's launching a new Biggie Deals menu with meal pairings
at price points starting as low as four dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
So now you can decide how biggie you want to go,
which is.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Kind of beautiful.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
The menu let's cut customers customized meals. The least expensive
choice called Biggie Bites, lets you pick two items from
a variety of options for just four bucks. Meantime, Taco
Bell also announcing a new lux value menu coming next
week with ten items priced at three dollars or less.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh, I know where Steph Fush is gonna be. Taco
Bell ten items for three bucks or less.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
That's dangerous.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's a touchdown for you, buddy, touch them all, walk
off Homer for you. You are Taco Bell or Del
Taco preference A man, I love both of them. I
like the tacos at Del Taco, but the burrito no, yeah,
tacos at Del Taco, burritos at Taco Bell, steph, since
you're the consoleur.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Del Taco when I'm sober. Taco Bell after a night out. Nice,
definitely nice. It sounds about right.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I think the soft tacos at Del Taco were better
than Taco Bells generally.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I like Taco Bell Bell for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I used to love and Jack in the Box just
hung a light on the fact that people are going
there stoned at night. Remember he would the guy would
pull into Jack in the Box and the little dancing
doll with the hula skirt on the dashboard would talk
to him. He's like, oh, you're gonna get two tacos.
He's like, oh yeah. He's like talking to this little
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thing that's the stone guys, and he's getting in the
line to get that food. I have a friend who
went to Thanksgiving and they ran out of food at
a Thanksgiving dinner, which is impossible to do so he
got home, he was too stone to drive to Jack
(22:39):
in the Box, so he got into taxi cab to
Jack in the Box and the taxi cab pulled up,
pulled the back window up to the order window so
they could exchange money and food and everything. And I
said to Randy Wang, I said, so, oh did I.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Use his name? Oh? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I said, was that rock Bottom for you? And he said,
wasn't even close. He goes until you until you just
said that, I don't even think about it.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Did he did he.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Order any did he get the driver or anything?
Speaker 11 (23:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
He offered the driver food and the driver said he
was cool, but to pull up in a cab on
Thanksgiving to Jack in the Box, I said, is that
rock Bottom? Didn't even think about it? So we weren't
there yet. We weren't there yet. Oh no, But that's
such a great story.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
That's my favorite. That was that was that was a
really great like a bright spot. When I was working
super late in super long hours and I get someone
that was just just, i mean, completely wasted, and we
go to McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, whatever, and they're like.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What do you want, bro? And I'm like, okay, I'll
take a dicose. Are you sure I'll get you anything
you want?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
The cool that's right, were more stoners and Lyft or
uber Ah, that's a good question. Yeah, I would say
more in Lyft, Yeah, I would think so. Yeah, Yeah,
that's where it happened because the lift seemed like they
were cooler casual drivers. It seems like the lift drivers
were also stoned. You know, they got the big lips
(24:23):
on the car, the big eyelashes, the mustache. Yeahstage right,
that's what it was. Yeah, the mustache guy pulls up
on a mustache on the car.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Easy to spot, that's right. Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right, we're live Wendy's four dollars meal, so go
attack that.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I had my first run in with a Waymo today.
I was driving downtown to do jury duty and it
was sitting next to me and I looked over and
there's no driver, and I thought that I was odd.
There were people in the back. And then it pulled
forward and I was I was ahead of it and
(25:09):
it got behind me and I break checked it to see,
you know, if he was, you know, watching or on
his toes.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Did you really sure? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
You see what's going on with that guy? And immediately
it breaked and uh, guy, there was a gun that
came out of the front and shot me. So it's
kind of odd, but that those cars, it's odd to
be at a stoplight and you look over and there's
no driver in the car next to you.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
It's weird. It is really odd.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Do you guys know this name? Ben? Is it Kendle?
Let me see his last name is here, Ben Kendall
k I N D E L. He's one of the
stars for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League.
He's number eighty one on that team. He got an
assist tonight. He has twenty points in the National Hockey League.
(25:59):
He's five to eleven, one hundred and eighty two pounds.
He must have been great at the best player on
every team he's ever played for. He was drafted overall.
I think he was drafted in the first round. I
think he was drafted overall number eleven in the NHL draft.
So this kid has played forty two games. He has
(26:21):
twenty points, eight goals, twelve assists, and he was born
six years after nine to eleven. He was born six
years after the Twin Towers went down to New York.
Six years later he was born. He's eighteen, he doesn't
(26:46):
turn nineteen until April, and he's playing in the NHL
in front of twenty five thousand people at night and
producing he has twenty points. But how odd is that?
Where you know, most of us, everybody, almost everybody listening
right now, remembers nine to eleven like it was yesterday,
(27:07):
and this kid was born six years later, six years
after nine to eleven. It's incredible. It's unbelievable how quickly
time flies. If you were born, Let's say you were
born in two thousand and four. Okay, you're born in
(27:29):
two thousand and four, you're born three years after nine
to eleven. Legally you can drink in this country. You
can be born three years after nine to eleven and
legally drink in this country. You're twenty one years old.
That's unbelievable. How it seems like nine to eleven was
a few years ago. It does not seem like it
(27:51):
was twenty four years ago. Coming up on the twenty
fifth anniversary, the twenty fifth anniversary, you'll be in September.
I don't know where the time has gone to think
that we're coming up on the twenty fifth anniversary of
something that we all remember so distinctly. You could probably
(28:11):
remember forty or fifty facts about nine to eleven that
you can just rattle off. Where you were, who you
were with, how it affected your life, the things you
read on the news, the things you saw that day.
I remember being in we lived in Tarzana and how
eerily quiet it was because there were no planes and
(28:31):
no helicopters allowed to fly for days after nine to eleven,
and you'd walk outside and we lived in the flight
path the Van Ey's Airport, the busiest private airport or
smaller airport in the world, and nothing. You didn't hear anything.
There's no helicopters, no LAPD, no news helicopters, nothing, and
(28:52):
you walk outside and literally it was almost deafening how
quiet it was, and it it just doesn't seem like
twenty five years ago, twenty five years unbelievable. All right, SpaceX,
if you saw it last night, it was a big
deal watching the spaceship come back from space from the
(29:12):
International Space Station and land off the coast of California.
Maybe you saw it. Maybe you're up at twelve thirty
am like I was.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Those four as areas safely returning back to Earth earlier today.
They were supposed to be in space for about a
month or so longer, but they had to come back early.
Now this is the first time in the Space station's
twenty five year history where a mission had to be
cut short due to a medical related issue.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
On behalf of SpaceX and NASA Welcome home crew Evan.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I wonder what the emergency was. It had to be
a pre existing problem or an injury that happened up there.
It couldn't be COVID. It couldn't be the flu. It
couldn't be a cold. It couldn't be anything he caught.
Because they're tested before they go up there, and they're
free of the flu or cold or disease or anything
(30:02):
that's communicable. They can't catch anything up there. So it
had to be something that was preexisting, which I hate
that term, by something that has gotten worse while the
guy was up there, and either that astronaut didn't disclose it,
or NASA didn't know about it, or else they wouldn't
send him up there. Or it developed up there. Maybe
(30:23):
he banged his head against something, or his knee or
broke something. But it's interesting to find out, and we
may never find out, you know, because of the Hippo rules.
We may never find out what happened unless he discloses it.
NASA can't tell anybody, all right.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You can see it there splash down for NASA's SpaceX
crew eleven missions, splashing down off the coast of California
at twelve forty one am our time. The SpaceX recovery
ship and team were there waiting for the Dragon crew,
meeting them at the splashdown location. Now all four NASA
astronauts were safely collected off the coast of San Diego.
The members make up two Americans, one Russian, and one
(31:01):
Japanese astronaut. It took them about eleven hours for the
crew to get from space.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Back to Earth.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
This was a mission that began back in August, lasting
for one hundred and sixty seven days, and most of
those days, of course, were spent on board the International
Space Station.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Into our view for the first.
Speaker 11 (31:17):
Time, NAS astronauts Xena Cardman Mike Fink, Jack's astronaut Kimiye
Yui and Rose Cosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platanoff are all safe
and in good spirits. All crew members are currently undergoing
the routine post splashdown medical evaluation. The crew member of
Concern is doing fine. We will share updates on their health.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Oh so they could have stayed guy, Yeah, made everybody
come back, and they could have been If he's fine,
he could have hung out.
Speaker 11 (31:43):
The crew member of Concern is doing fine. We will
share updates on their health as soon as it's appropriate
to do so.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
All right.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Officials have refused to identify the astronaut who developed the
health problem last week or explain exactly what happened, citing
medical privacy, but they are calling it a quote serious situation.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
All right, serious situation. Hey, I saw this on NBC
News last night and it was kind of shocking. But
Ted Chen, who's been with NBC, I think for I
don't know, thirty years, retired. He's going off to be
a preacher or pastor or something.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
So that is.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
He was a great reporter, great field reporter, did some
anchoring as well. Ted Chen with KNBC I think his
last his last newscast was last night. He was a
very familiar face with people live in Los Angeles. He's
been with NBC and on the air since nineteen ninety
(32:41):
five and signed out for last time Yeah Wednesday, before
off to his new Christian minister. He's going to become
a pastor, so kind an interesting life that dude's got
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live four to seven every weekday. People want me to
remind you then, so there you go. The Lotto captain
is with us. We have I think eighty two people
maybe less.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now and I'm waiting for everybody to give their twenty
twenty six you know, donations or contributions, so I think
right now there's like sixty five, so okay, twenty people missing.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Michelle Cube is the lottery captain. She buys tickets every week.
And when we hit the billion dollars, everyone's going to make,
you know, ten fifteen million dollars, except for Tim Kates.
Tim Kates is not going. He's out, he's not going
to be he's not going to get a cal the pit.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I told him, he's nuts. Yeah, he is crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You know, for forty dollars, why would you take that
chance where everybody else makes twenty million and you have
nothing exactly And he thinks, well, ruinal chip in and
give money, which they will, but it's not gonna be
a lot enough. Anyway. Did you see the Spaceship last night?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because you did.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Okay, I got a story here about Michelle Cube. Michelle
Cube worked as the producer of the Handle Show for
twenty eight years.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Six twenty six years.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That seems like a long time. Very yeah, But when
your beautiful dad passed away, I found out what he
did for a living, and I had a million questions
for you, and I still find it. The most interesting
parent of anybody who I've ever worked with or who
works here.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But your dad, he was involved in building the Space Shuttle.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, yeah, he My dad worked for Grumm and Aerospace
when we lived back on Long Island in New York.
That was a big, you know, employer back there, and
he worked. He worked for them thirty five years. He
was a reliability engineer and he worked on a lot
of big projects. They worked on the Lunar Lander. Wow,
so that was one of the projects. They did the
(02:03):
wings for the Space Shuttle they did. Yeah, so they
did that. They did the F fourteen Tomcat really and
then got the reason. We moved to California in nineteen
eighty six. And at the time, obviously I was the
only I mean I was in high school.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh, that's tough. It was tough and I was very angry,
bad and.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That was before social media, so you couldn't keep in
touch with everybody.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, no, it was awful.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But I didn't know why we moved, but we moved
here to California. We were originally gonna live in Irvine.
We ended up in Orange, but I didn't know it
at the time. But my dad was working on a
top secret project.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Can you couldn't tell you what it is?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Tell me about it. He would go to work.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
If my mom needed to get a hold of him,
she had to call somebody who had to call somebody
who had to call him, and then he would call
us back. I didn't find out until years later that
the project he came he came here to work on.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Was the Stealth Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So my dad was, you know, from Orange up to
Palmdale out to Area fifty one.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
He was in all he's been to Area fifty one.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He couldn't tell me until after he retired, right, he
had been to Area fifty one A couple of times.
Were they flying to Vegas and they get on the
Janet plane or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It looks like an old Western Airlines plane that flies
in there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But yeah, that's why we came to California was that
was the project he worked on. Because when they unveiled
the stealth he said to me, you see that plane
and I said.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, and he goes, that's why we moved to California.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Wow, And then I immediately felt bad for being an
awful teenager.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So they were working on that back in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, they had been working on that for several years.
It was you know, eventually Grumman became North of Grumman.
They came together and they had a big facility out
here in Burbank.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, they did. And yeah, that's the project that he
was working on. So then, oh, my god.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So your father not only worked on the wings for
the Space Shuttle, which have never malfunctioned, by the way,
but he also was able to, you know, for years
and years of testing, you know, different products and different designs,
able to create a plane that can absorb radar instead
of deflect it and keep these pilots safe and stealthy.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, and Mike, did.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They come up with that name?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I don't remember if they came up with the name
at the time. I can't remember what they were calling
at the time, but it was. It was at first
it was like Project X. I mean, it's always like
Project X. But I didn't know this either until more
recently when the second version of the Stealth was unveiled
up in Palmdale's that my brother in law who also
works for North Paste.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh really that project? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So the Stealth Bomber?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh my god. When So when you moved out here,
it was what year in high school? Were you a junior?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I was a sophomore.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Oh my god. So you had all these friends were
from New Jersey, New York, New York Island, New Jersey.
Were you popular in school?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I was, I would say, moderately popular and the most
popular kid.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
When I moved out here. It was awful because I had.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
My New York accent, which I lost over the years
unless I get really angry. But yeah, I mean I
would come out in the very first day of English class.
I went to Elmadina High School in Orange. That's where
I went to school, and the very first day in
English class, I'll never forget it, my teacher, mister Zimmerman,
asked me to He said, oh, you know, Michelle read
(05:20):
this page out loud.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh wow, And so I'm reading.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
This page out loud with this very thing New York accent,
and I'll never forget. A girl in front of me,
her name was Sean Leech, blonde, turned around and she
just like, oh.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
My god, where are you from? From New York? You
had a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But you know when when I remember my very first
girlfriend in I think it was third grade, maybe fourth grade.
Her her name was Gilly, and she moved over the summer,
but she didn't move across country. She moved to Orange
County and I never saw her again.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's that's back in the seventies, when you moved ten
miles you never saw that kid again. But you moved
across the entire country. And that's when you had to
call your friends, and it was expensive to do that.
There was message units, and mom and dad hated the
long distance calls. So you probably felt really alone out
here for it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
It was. It was really for like a year.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It was until I found a couple of really close
friends here. It was really hard, and I was miserable,
and in fact, my mom said I made them so
miserable that she was considering moving back.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Wow, is that right?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I was so miserable, right, and then we wouldn't have
the stealth bomber because you and your friends.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Michelle Cubans whether she produced a bill handle show for
a long time. What did he tell you about Area
fifty one that you can tell us?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Well, he wouldn't tell me much.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
He just said he saw a lot of things there
that made him question how truthful the government is really.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, did he see any aliens?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He didn't. He didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He never said he saw any aliens. But they used
to go out there. That's where they would test all
of these planes. You know, they'd fly them out there
and that's.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
What So he would have to fly to Vegas then
to fly them to Area fifty one.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, and he said that was the weirdest part was
flying to Vegas and then going to this you know,
special terminal that had no name. The plane didn't have
any you know, markings on it except it was white
with the red the red stripe.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
They wouldn't let them. They couldn't leave the windows up.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
They had to leave the windows down, and they would
just they would fly in and you know, fly he
goes in.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It was very business like. You just you go there.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Nobody talks, he said, and they they're just you're there
to do what you do and then you leave.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Right and then it's only like a twenty minute flight.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Er, yeah, it's like twenty minute flight.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But what else did he tell you? Like, did he
tell you anything that he saw was odd?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
He said.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He he saw a lot of the planes and things
that they were testing. And at the time, you know,
the now that I think about it, he described them.
You know, the way he described them, it was like
describing drones, oh, you know today, like you know, so
he would tell me that they you know, these these
uh flying he goes, they look like flying saucers, but
(08:08):
is like, but there, they're drones. They fly on their own,
they're remote control. He goes in it, and they can
be loaded with munitions. I mean, this is way before
all of that, you know, all of what we use
right now.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
But when you see, like let's say you're watching the
Rose Bowl or the Super Bowl and they fly one
of those stealth bombers over the stadium, do you get
the sense that that that's really important?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yes, like your dad, it makes me. It makes me
cry every time.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
It makes me almost emotional, just to asking you about it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And what's funny is where we live now, you know,
right if we stand outside on our patio that were
just east of the Rose Bowl. So when it goes
over the Rose Bowl and it fly, it continues to fly,
flies right over our house.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
How could you not get emotional.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Every single time? Every single time I see it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I could just watch it on TV at a bowl
game that's not here in southern Calilifornia and just get
really emotional.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And if it wasn't for your dad, we may not
have had it as quickly or as stealthy.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
You know, he was one of many reliability engineers and
you know, he.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Just he loved what he did.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
His favorite project was the Stealth and then very close
to that was the F fourteen.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
How long was he with NASA or the government?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He was with uh G. He was with Grumman for
thirty eight years.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay, so he was good because GRAMA doesn't keep people
around for thirty eight years off of charity. No, you
have to be you have to you have to constantly
prove that you're the guy. And he did it for
thirty eight years.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
He did it for thirty eight years. That's incredible. Yeah,
and before that he was in the Navy in the
Air Force.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Did you look through his tool shed in his garage
when he passed away, did you find anything cool?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, we found a lot of great, you know, interesting paperwork,
like from his military days when he was stationed up
in Alaska. Really, my dad ultimately died of a pulmonary
pulmonary fibrosis, which is something they think think the reason
that he developed it later in life was because of
what he was exposed to when he was up in Alaska,
because he was up there in the fifties where they
were doing you know, they were inspecting planes after going
(10:09):
through the Russian you know bombing runs, right, you know,
they'd go and test and they didn't know, you know,
they didn't wear any protection, so who knows what kind
of radiation they were exposed to.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So yeah, I found a lot of.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That stuff, you know, just detailing his life when he
lived up in.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Alaska for the three years, so he was stationed up there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Could you go to Area fifty one and say, hey,
my dad said, I could come in. Is there any
way to get to Area fifty one outside of an airplane?
You have to go, you have to be you can you.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Can drive to a certain point, like, but it's far
away from.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Area, right, and they're going to stop you every time.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Going to stop you every single time.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, that is crazy. I love talking about that. I
think you know, when I found out your dad did
all that stuff, I was blown away. Yeah, and I
love the fact that he didn't tell you, he couldn't
tell you, and he kept those secrets.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You know, as a kid, you.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Don't you don't think about it, you don't care, and
then then when when you find out all this stuff
later in life, you're like, wow, I was such a jerk.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I wish I would have talked to him more about it,
but he couldn't have.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Mean after, you know, he talked about what he could
and you know, after he retired.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But yeah, he respected it a lot. And what's his name, Frank.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Frank Frank Cube, what a great name too. Yeah, hey,
Frank Cube's flying in from Vegas. Setter straightened up, Frank's coming.
That's great. I love that. Congratulations. I can see it
in your eyes when you see that stealth bomber. That's
really important to you. That's your that's your dad. That's
(11:40):
really cool.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, are your oldest daughter, No, the youngest, the youngest daughter.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
That's even worse that your your dad's favorite favorite.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Oh good, How many old are you?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I have a brother, an older sister, and an older brother.
My brother's the oldest.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Excellent, And you were wonderful to your dad in the end.
I mean, daughters are always better to their dads than
the sons. Always, always, in every case I've ever seen
in my life.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
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Speaker 4 (12:16):
Bellio.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I thought that that last segment we did with Michelle
Cube was outstanding because of her.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
And I I can't tell you how crazy it is
that her father was very instrumental in creating the stealth
fighter and the stealth bomber.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I mean, that's that's such.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
An amazing story to hear all that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I don't know, right, and I don't know how you
will be. I don't know a level of importance in
this country. How you beat that, you know, I mean
creating that type of aircraft that can fly over a
country and be virtually undetected. And they had probably you know,
(13:05):
a million different shots at it that didn't work. And
they finally perfected it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
How many people do you think we're working.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
On it overall? I bet a lot, But it sounds
like he was the guy though.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yeah, you look like you said. He stayed there for
thirty eight years.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Those companies do not do any charity hires at all
at all. They only keep the guys who are producing
every year. And if you're not producing, you're gone. And
they kept him for thirty eight years. They don't keep
a single soul on the payroll of Rock and Dye. Uh,
(13:44):
you know, Douglas. What was the other one, what was
the other big fighter or military? I know it was
McDonald Douglas. What was the Grumman Northrip?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
North Rip growing. And they don't keep anybody around unless
you're pulling your weight. And and thirty eight years, you know,
that is one hell of life. And to see the
stealth bomber come over a stadium knowing your dad built that.
I don't know how you don't break down every every
(14:23):
single time. I have no idea how you do it.
So that's great, man. That is a That is a
sweet sweet man, sweet man. All right back here on Earth,
car companies are getting rid of something that well, we
sort of need and I don't know why they're getting
rid of it, probably because of the weight and the expense,
but they're getting rid of spare tires. So next time
(14:46):
you have a flat, you're screwed.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Buying a new car nowadays doesn't always mean that you're
getting a backup tire. Turns out the spare is sometimes missing.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
There.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
What's going on with the spare.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
And you only notice when you need Tisha Owens was
excited to buy a brand new Tulio Deprius.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I still thought it was just a new vehicle starphone
that we had not pulled out yet.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
But she was not excited to find out something wasn't included.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
There was an ordinary day going to work. It was
dark still, though, and I hit a pothole.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
After making it to her works parking garage, she and
her husband opened the trunk to get the spare, or
so they thought there was nothing.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
There was styrophone and a little kit, a tire inflation.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Kit, and okay, okay, I'm I actually agree with the
tire inflation kit. I had to use one of those
over the summer. I didn't have a spare tire because
the spare tire was flat because it was my fault.
I had used it before and used it too much
and had flat and it was a big story. It's
(15:49):
a horrible story. But it was on the old car
that we had, the Lincoln Navigator, and I used one
of those cans with the inflation substance and the air
and it worked beautifully. Not only did work great, it's
still on the car and that was seven months ago
and still driving around with some kind of hole in
that tire, and that inflation kid today works better than
(16:12):
the spare tire. So I actually think that it's probably
not the worst idea in the world. R.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Giles dropped this tire right here.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Courtney McEwan ran into the same issue about a year ago,
a flat tire with no spare. Her dad told us
the air pump provided didn't help. In our case, it
wouldn't have worked because the hole in her tire was
in the sidewalk. Owen says the tire kid included in
her vehicle didn't work either.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
That's one thing I really want to emphasize.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Have you ever seen a guy rolling around with one
of those donuts on, you know he's got the little
tiny tire. I always love it when they're going like
it's a regular tire on there.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
They're driving like no different whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
That is really tough to go on a date when
you got the donut on the car, because it says
a lot about where you are in life. You know,
it's not a priority. The tires aren't a priority. And
you're picking up this guy's daughter and you've got to
don it on that car. That's a huge red flag,
(17:13):
a huge red flag. If your daughter's dating a guy
and he shows up and he's got to donate on
the car, you got to sit down with her and
him and see.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
What's going on with that guy? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's live.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
How about that we're live. We always like to talk
about fast food.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's what we all eat.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
You know, we're not supposed to eat it all the
time like I do, but I love it. I went
to Jack in the Box today, I went to Wendy's
over the weekend. I was going to go to Del
Taco last night. I finally decided to stay at home
and cook myself something bute. I get excited when I
go to fast food, I really do. I me too,
(18:03):
but I but I will say this steph foosh. I
used to never have to ask for the food to
be hot. Now I always ask, Like when I go
to Jack in the Box, I say, hey, can you
get the tacos out of the fryer and make sure
the fries are fresh?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That's that's if you get those cold you know you
get and not just from Jack in Box, anywhere you
get these cold, lazy fries that have been sitting around
for an hour.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Yeah, because everything else is like warm, but you can
tell the fries we're sitting there and waiting.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, And I absolutely there's nothing better in the world
than a plate of hot, greasy, salty French fries.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
It's just the best. And and McDonald's makes them. I
don't I think there's second to none.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
You know, you can't because all you can do even
if you're like, let's say you're not planning to get fries,
you were, are you in life? You smell it once
you roll up to the drive through. That's right, that's
exactly right.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You smell. So it's like I gotta get some.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, but we're we're you know, fast food.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Is part of our lives.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
We will sit behind forty two cars at in and
Out to wait for a hamburger, you know, a hamburger, fries,
and a coke, will sit there for forty minutes waiting
and think nothing of it, you know. And that's where
when I go with my daughter before, when she was
you know, younger, I used to spend that thirty to
(19:35):
forty five minutes asking her about her life. It was
just me and her in the car. I auld pepper
about their grades, what she's doing, what her friends are doing, what,
you know, what parties she's going to? Does she know
the parents on the sleepover? I would sit there and
ask her a million questions and we had that forty
five minutes that otherwise you would never get with your kid.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You can't sit at home and talk to your kid
for forty five minutes. There's too many distractions. They'll pick
up the phone, they'll walk away, and you just can't
keep them, you know, hostage. But in a car, you
can keep them hostage and pepper them with questions. And
that's what I used to use. That's why it's still
I love going to in and Out with my daughter.
(20:19):
And when I see that line and going out onto
the street, fifty cars touchdown, touchdown, I can now pepper
about all about her entire life in that line. Wendy's
drops a brand new four dollars meal. Let's find out
what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Ugur King just come out with a two for five menu.
We're gonna try everything on.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
It this morning. Fast food restaurants pulling out all the
stuffs to be your business.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Duncan And just upgraded their six dollar meal deal to
a five dollar meal deal.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
Wendy's launching a new Biggie Deals menu with meal pairings
at price points starting as low as four dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
So now you can decide how biggie you want to go,
which is.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Kind of beautiful.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
The menu let's cut customers customized meals. The least expensive
choice called Biggie Bites, lets you pick two items from
a variety of options for just four bucks. Meantime, Taco
Bell also announcing a new lux value menu coming next
week with ten items priced at three dollars or less.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh, I know where Steph Fush is gonna be. Taco
Bell ten items for three bucks or less.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
That's dangerous.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's a touchdown for you, buddy, touch them all, walk
off Homer for you. You are Taco Bell or Del
Taco preference A man, I love both of them. I
like the tacos at Del Taco, but the burrito no, yeah,
tacos at Del Taco, burritos at Taco Bell, steph, since
you're the consoleur.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Del Taco when I'm sober. Taco Bell after a night out. Nice,
definitely nice. It sounds about right.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I think the soft tacos at Del Taco were better
than Taco Bells generally.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I like Taco Bell Bell for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I used to love and Jack in the Box just
hung a light on the fact that people are going
there stoned at night. Remember he would the guy would
pull into Jack in the Box and the little dancing
doll with the hula skirt on the dashboard would talk
to him. He's like, oh, you're gonna get two tacos.
He's like, oh yeah. He's like talking to this little
(22:19):
thing that's the stone guys, and he's getting in the
line to get that food. I have a friend who
went to Thanksgiving and they ran out of food at
a Thanksgiving dinner, which is impossible to do so he
got home, he was too stone to drive to Jack
(22:39):
in the Box, so he got into taxi cab to
Jack in the Box and the taxi cab pulled up,
pulled the back window up to the order window so
they could exchange money and food and everything. And I
said to Randy Wang, I said, so, oh did I.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Use his name? Oh? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I said, was that rock Bottom for you? And he said,
wasn't even close. He goes until you until you just
said that, I don't even think about it.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Did he did he.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Order any did he get the driver or anything?
Speaker 11 (23:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
He offered the driver food and the driver said he
was cool, but to pull up in a cab on
Thanksgiving to Jack in the Box, I said, is that
rock Bottom? Didn't even think about it? So we weren't
there yet. We weren't there yet. Oh no, But that's
such a great story.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
That's my favorite. That was that was that was a
really great like a bright spot. When I was working
super late in super long hours and I get someone
that was just just, i mean, completely wasted, and we
go to McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, whatever, and they're like.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What do you want, bro? And I'm like, okay, I'll
take a dicose. Are you sure I'll get you anything
you want?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
The cool that's right, were more stoners and Lyft or
uber Ah, that's a good question. Yeah, I would say
more in Lyft, Yeah, I would think so. Yeah, Yeah,
that's where it happened because the lift seemed like they
were cooler casual drivers. It seems like the lift drivers
were also stoned. You know, they got the big lips
(24:23):
on the car, the big eyelashes, the mustache. Yeahstage right,
that's what it was. Yeah, the mustache guy pulls up
on a mustache on the car.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Easy to spot, that's right. Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right, we're live Wendy's four dollars meal, so go
attack that.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I had my first run in with a Waymo today.
I was driving downtown to do jury duty and it
was sitting next to me and I looked over and
there's no driver, and I thought that I was odd.
There were people in the back. And then it pulled
forward and I was I was ahead of it and
(25:09):
it got behind me and I break checked it to see,
you know, if he was, you know, watching or on
his toes.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Did you really sure? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
You see what's going on with that guy? And immediately
it breaked and uh, guy, there was a gun that
came out of the front and shot me. So it's
kind of odd, but that those cars, it's odd to
be at a stoplight and you look over and there's
no driver in the car next to you.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
It's weird. It is really odd.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Do you guys know this name? Ben? Is it Kendle?
Let me see his last name is here, Ben Kendall
k I N D E L. He's one of the
stars for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League.
He's number eighty one on that team. He got an
assist tonight. He has twenty points in the National Hockey League.
(25:59):
He's five to eleven, one hundred and eighty two pounds.
He must have been great at the best player on
every team he's ever played for. He was drafted overall.
I think he was drafted in the first round. I
think he was drafted overall number eleven in the NHL draft.
So this kid has played forty two games. He has
(26:21):
twenty points, eight goals, twelve assists, and he was born
six years after nine to eleven. He was born six
years after the Twin Towers went down to New York.
Six years later he was born. He's eighteen, he doesn't
(26:46):
turn nineteen until April, and he's playing in the NHL
in front of twenty five thousand people at night and
producing he has twenty points. But how odd is that?
Where you know, most of us, everybody, almost everybody listening
right now, remembers nine to eleven like it was yesterday,
(27:07):
and this kid was born six years later, six years
after nine to eleven. It's incredible. It's unbelievable how quickly
time flies. If you were born, Let's say you were
born in two thousand and four. Okay, you're born in
(27:29):
two thousand and four, you're born three years after nine
to eleven. Legally you can drink in this country. You
can be born three years after nine to eleven and
legally drink in this country. You're twenty one years old.
That's unbelievable. How it seems like nine to eleven was
a few years ago. It does not seem like it
(27:51):
was twenty four years ago. Coming up on the twenty
fifth anniversary, the twenty fifth anniversary, you'll be in September.
I don't know where the time has gone to think
that we're coming up on the twenty fifth anniversary of
something that we all remember so distinctly. You could probably
(28:11):
remember forty or fifty facts about nine to eleven that
you can just rattle off. Where you were, who you
were with, how it affected your life, the things you
read on the news, the things you saw that day.
I remember being in we lived in Tarzana and how
eerily quiet it was because there were no planes and
(28:31):
no helicopters allowed to fly for days after nine to eleven,
and you'd walk outside and we lived in the flight
path the Van Ey's Airport, the busiest private airport or
smaller airport in the world, and nothing. You didn't hear anything.
There's no helicopters, no LAPD, no news helicopters, nothing, and
(28:52):
you walk outside and literally it was almost deafening how
quiet it was, and it it just doesn't seem like
twenty five years ago, twenty five years unbelievable. All right, SpaceX,
if you saw it last night, it was a big
deal watching the spaceship come back from space from the
(29:12):
International Space Station and land off the coast of California.
Maybe you saw it. Maybe you're up at twelve thirty
am like I was.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Those four as areas safely returning back to Earth earlier today.
They were supposed to be in space for about a
month or so longer, but they had to come back early.
Now this is the first time in the Space station's
twenty five year history where a mission had to be
cut short due to a medical related issue.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
On behalf of SpaceX and NASA Welcome home crew Evan.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I wonder what the emergency was. It had to be
a pre existing problem or an injury that happened up there.
It couldn't be COVID. It couldn't be the flu. It
couldn't be a cold. It couldn't be anything he caught.
Because they're tested before they go up there, and they're
free of the flu or cold or disease or anything
(30:02):
that's communicable. They can't catch anything up there. So it
had to be something that was preexisting, which I hate
that term, by something that has gotten worse while the
guy was up there, and either that astronaut didn't disclose it,
or NASA didn't know about it, or else they wouldn't
send him up there. Or it developed up there. Maybe
(30:23):
he banged his head against something, or his knee or
broke something. But it's interesting to find out, and we
may never find out, you know, because of the Hippo rules.
We may never find out what happened unless he discloses it.
NASA can't tell anybody, all right.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You can see it there splash down for NASA's SpaceX
crew eleven missions, splashing down off the coast of California
at twelve forty one am our time. The SpaceX recovery
ship and team were there waiting for the Dragon crew,
meeting them at the splashdown location. Now all four NASA
astronauts were safely collected off the coast of San Diego.
The members make up two Americans, one Russian, and one
(31:01):
Japanese astronaut. It took them about eleven hours for the
crew to get from space.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Back to Earth.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
This was a mission that began back in August, lasting
for one hundred and sixty seven days, and most of
those days, of course, were spent on board the International
Space Station.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Into our view for the first.
Speaker 11 (31:17):
Time, NAS astronauts Xena Cardman Mike Fink, Jack's astronaut Kimiye
Yui and Rose Cosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platanoff are all safe
and in good spirits. All crew members are currently undergoing
the routine post splashdown medical evaluation. The crew member of
Concern is doing fine. We will share updates on their health.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Oh so they could have stayed guy, Yeah, made everybody
come back, and they could have been If he's fine,
he could have hung out.
Speaker 11 (31:43):
The crew member of Concern is doing fine. We will
share updates on their health as soon as it's appropriate
to do so.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
All right.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Officials have refused to identify the astronaut who developed the
health problem last week or explain exactly what happened, citing
medical privacy, but they are calling it a quote serious situation.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
All right, serious situation. Hey, I saw this on NBC
News last night and it was kind of shocking. But
Ted Chen, who's been with NBC, I think for I
don't know, thirty years, retired. He's going off to be
a preacher or pastor or something.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
So that is.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
He was a great reporter, great field reporter, did some
anchoring as well. Ted Chen with KNBC I think his
last his last newscast was last night. He was a
very familiar face with people live in Los Angeles. He's
been with NBC and on the air since nineteen ninety
(32:41):
five and signed out for last time Yeah Wednesday, before
off to his new Christian minister. He's going to become
a pastor, so kind an interesting life that dude's got
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(33:02):
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