September 24, 2025 • 30 mins
Alex Stone chats with Conway Jr. about Major League Baseball, which will bring in "robot umpires" in the 2026 season, although human umpires will not go away. The system is known as ABS and is already in place in tennis and has been used since 2006 to determine line calls. How will it impact sports betting? A man who stole a semi-truck earlier today was finally stopped when law enforcement rammed the truck he was driving with a SWAT vehicle. Michael Monks is in studio to discuss how LA will avoid laying off city workers this year, after Mayor Karen Bass negotiated deals with employee unions. The number of potential layoffs was more than 1,600 workers, amid a $1-billion budget shortfall. Local officials have a proposal to place public restrooms on the Runyon Canyon hiking trail, which are set to cost a whopping $1 million for two toilets!
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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. Real quickly
before we get to Alex, don't people know by now
not to come on the John Colebelt Show if they
disagree with him for an hour. It rarely works out,
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rarely works out. People don't remember Meg Whitman when she
came in. Her career was destroyed in one hour on
this show. One hour. And then when he when the
sheriffs were running, the guys who were running for sheriff,
they would come in here one at a time and
he would pick them off one at a time, bang,
bang bang, and their you know, and their careers slowly evaporated.
(00:43):
So I go back and listen to the three o'clock
hour John colevelt and it's the mayor of Santa Monica
and she's trying to tell everybody, you know, how great
the city is and it's safe, and it's this and
it's that, and John's just like, I live in that area.
I know what that area is like. You gotta go
listen to it though, if you missed it, it's a great.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Hour, all right. Alex Stone is with us, how you, Bob.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Ding Dong, I tell you you don't want to disagree
with John Cobelt, buddy.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I look, I don't like coming in here when when
when I come into work, because I think he's gonna
roast me, you.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Know, Nor do I when I know I have a
tough topic with him, I'm like, here we go. Yeah,
I'm not the spokesperson for whatever we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Right, because he'll ask you questions and they're like, wait,
man's that goes into opinion And I don't really have
an opinion.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm just giving the facts.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But but gone are the days of these umpires getting
these calls wrong?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah? So yeah, big change for baseball. And I don't
know about you. Growing up in the Bay Area, Tony
LaRussa on the age and during the Bash Brothers era
and everything, the thing I always wanted was for an
argument in baseball, and and you know, to see them
come out and put their hats backwards and get face
to face with the ump and fight it and kick
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some dirt. But all that's going to go away because
now they just go, well, let's check the computer and
we'll find out if the robot agrees with the human
ump but so officially it's called the ABS system, the
Automatic Balls and Strike System, but it's more known as
as the robot umps. But they're going to roll it out.
They did it in spring training this last year. It
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seemed to go well. They've been doing it in the
entire season for minor league Baseball, and so now Major
League Baseball says, here we go the regular season and
postseason next year that they're going to use the robot umps.
And what they're going to do is if a player
it's got to be pitcher, catcher, or batter once to
appeal the human umpires call. Each team will get two
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appeals per game. If their appeal is upheld, then they
don't lose that appeal, so then they continue it too.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But if they if the.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Human umpire was right and they appealed, then they lose
that that appeal. They got one and then none, and
all they got to do signal to the ump with
a tip of a cap or the helmet that they
want to trigger the review, and then they go to
the computer. And we talked to Tom Fernucci, you've seen
a writer at Sports Illustrated. He goes, well, I mean
this kind of changes a dynamic of baseball and the
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umps roll.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
This is historic because when you think about it, the
first umpire of the major leagues, they've been sort of
like Supreme court justices. There has been no higher court.
But now, for the first time, there's sort of been
a pellet court where if the batter, the pitcher, or
the catcher thinks the Empire made a mistake, they can say,
hang on a second, we are going to appeal and
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check what technology says.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So they're going to use twelve cameras around every stadium
called Hawkeye cameras around the field, and the play will
be reviewed when the member of the team decides that
they want to do it to use one of their
two and then a graphic will pop up on the
big screen in the stadium and then on the TV
broadcast with a robo umps call and saying whether or
not it was a ball or a strike and if
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that matches whatever the umpire said. And the MLB says,
tim this is gonna be quick, that the average review
is gonna be less than fifteen seconds to go that
quickly so they can keep things moving, and they found
in spring training it was quicker than that they.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Tested this system in spring training this season and the
average replay challenge took thirteen point eight seconds. Wow, and
there's only four challenges in the course of a game.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So they say it's not going to slow down the
Hawkeye technology. They've been using it in tennis since two
thousand and six to determine line calls. The NFL began
using it this year for first down calls. But the
big argument this whole thing is taking the human element
away from it, because that is a big part of
baseball that yeah, i'ms are going to get it wrong,
but it kind of you know, that's part of the game.
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And then arguing over what the human I saw and produces.
MLB understands that they don't want to take that out
of the game, but they do want to clean it
up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Nobody wants to see a game completely ruled by technology.
We still want the human element. But this is really
just dipping a toe into that water. Is the just
diving into the deep end of the pool.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So there's this whole argument is it good or is
it bad? And there are there are you said it's great, Yeah,
it's great. Yeah, I mean there are amps who say
kind of like body worn cameras with law enforcement, where
when they came in, you had one side saying, wonderful,
you're gonna double check us. We're gonna show you how
great we are. We'll show you we get things right.
And then you have another element saying, well, wait a second,
we don't need oversight. You know, like there's nuance to
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what we do, and there's context to what we do.
Same kind of thing going on there. And the argument
now one of the big reasons why, at least inside
some elements of baseball and sports writers they think this
is coming in yeats to keep it moving along and
to make sure that the umps are accurate and all that.
But sports betting has become so big with the apps
that there's so much money on the line now with
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any of these leagues the outcome, they got to get
it right.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The outcomes of games have been determined by these wrong calls.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh one hundred percent, and so I mean when it
comes down to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars
on the line for somebody who's betting that, they're gonna
make sure and they're gonna put a lot of pressure
on these leagues to get it right.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now you're like me, you're over forty, right, Yeah, and
when you hit forty, your eyes were like, you know,
starting to go south. Well, how about these guys. You
know a lot of these umpires are sixty or older.
There's one hundred miles an hour ball being thrown at you,
there's a fat catcher in front of you, and you
have a cage on your face, and you got to
see where that thing ended up.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's impossible.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, and you bring in any not to say they
would do this, but we all know a little bit
of bias, or you've got to chip on your shoulder
against one team or the other because you've had some
run in with one of their players, or they've gotten
mad at you before. And so this will take away
some of the claims of bias if they know they're
being double checked, and the computer can do check them.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
But really, you know what's really for it the umpires
because and I heard this and I bet you have
as well, because you know baseball better than I do.
But the umpires were purposely missing very obvious calls so
they could speed up this system. These hawkeye cameras coming
in to take that burden off of them.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh, I hadn't heard that. That is interesting. And then
the question of is the ultimate goal and maybe it's
not yet, but for MLB to let the computers do
all the balls and strikes eventually, let's talk twenty thirty
years down the road. And is that what the the
players and the fans would they want that? Then you're
essentially playing a video game. In a video game, wait,
so what is the rule? Now?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
How many can you challenge? Two?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Two in a game? And if you if it's upheld,
if you're right when you challenge it, you don't lose
a challenge. So it'll be a minimum of four two
on each side, and then there's more if they go
into extra endings.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But eventually they'll all be you know, it's all going
to be uh, you know what. Also, and I know
you're a big baseball fan, they have got to clear
up and identify what a check swing is.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You know, I got Yeah, you're point down first or third.
And then and those guys.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Are not even watching the game, you know, they're looking
at the crowd or looking at the scoreboard, or they're
they say.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
He went around and he didn't go around and no way. Yeah,
and after watching the Savannah Bananas. I think I would
be joined by many others saying major League Baseball needs
to pick up some of that. I mean, the speed
when we saw them down at Anaheim at Angel Stadium,
the way they move that game along, the music, the
fun they have. It really does make Major League Baseball
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seem slow and old. And it's they got to pick.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Up some of that.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, that's Savannah Bananas. They're selling out, you know, fifty
thousand seats stadiums.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Incredible and the story of you know, how they were
developed and why and and the owner of it. You know,
maybe not major League Baseball doing the guy on stilts,
but you know, everything else is pretty good. The dancing
umpire is the best.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Buddy, if you came on with sports every day, I'd
love it, you know, yeah, much more interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Than you know the I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Then I sentate bill that you know is out all
you know, shopping cards or something. Buddy, Thanks for coming on, man,
you're the best. You are the king of all news.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
O you.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Alex Stone with ABC News. Speaking of ABC, your favorite
host Jimmy Kimmel was on last time and I got
to listen to it in the car ride home. It's
listening to the Mo Kelly Program and listen to his
whole opening monologue, which was great. You didn't have to
wait till eleven. I heard early and then I watched
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it again at eleven thirty. And maybe you saw it,
maybe you didn't, but hopefully it's over. He's back, all
those jobs have been saved, and then we can go
back to, you know, goofing on each other.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
All right, dig dong, everybody. We all saw that pursuit
this morning. I saw the truck that was stolen. Turns
out both of those guys had warrants. I know, not
a shock that two guys running from the Fontana cops
both had outstanding warrants. I think both of them for
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grand theft auto and so they're cool in their heels
right now. But it was interesting to see the different
tactics that you you know, in LAPD has their hands
tied with these commissions and what they can and can't do,
and so they you know, there's a lot of following
these guys till the end. But man, you get out
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in Fontana or parts of Orange County and they'll just
crash their trucks into you the cops like we saw
today the bear Cat, the big you know, the big SUV,
swat car or truck.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That they drive around.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He just jammed it into that truck and tried to
get this guy to stop, and he stopped shortly afterwards
because he knows those guys were serious. And then when
the driver gets out of the car, he does everything
the cops tell him to do. He puts his hands up,
he takes a couple steps to his left, he takes
a couple steps back. He was getting on his knees,
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and one of the cops put a boot right in
the back of his in the square of his back,
and kicked him to the ground. Okay, that doesn't look
great if you're in La, but it works in Fontana,
it works in Orange County and these guys who steal
cars and trucks know the best way not to get
to not have a cops boot in the square of
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your back is don't steal cars and don't run away
from cops. And it probably does make people think twice
about running away from cops, so I'm all for it. Look,
if you run from cops, you know that there are
you know, at the end, you could get your ass
handed to you. And that's the what it used to
be before video cameras. You know, when a guy would
run away from the cops, the cops would tackle him
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and you know he would go back to you know,
his you know gang or guys or friends, whatever they go. Man,
it's not worth stealing cars around here. These cops are
will really rough you up. But the pursuit was wild
to watch it, and it's you can tell instantly that
it's an it's a Orange County or or Inland Empire
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pursuit by how aggressive they are with these you know criminals.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
That hour long pursuit ended right here at this intersection
of Franklin Street and Beach Boulevard. Police had that semi
truck surround it weapons drawn, but thankfully no one was hurt.
That that driver and passenger are now in custody while
police try and figure out the relationship between those two.
We're learning more details about those individuals.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, and it was odd to see the one guy
in the passenger seat reach out and grab something off
of a van. I don't know if it was a
pack of cigarettes or a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Or what he grabbed. But that was a wild, wild pursuit.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Here it goes.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You gotta pit him, you gotta pit them.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
A chase that began around nine thirty this morning in
Fontana came to a close about an hour later in
Buena Park.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's an undercover vehicle.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
They're out of their cars.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
It started out as a traffic stop in Fontana, but
the driver fled heading south into Orange County.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And you know what, you know what's great about I
was listening to Gary and Shannon following that pursuit. And
I've gotten some emails in the past saying that nobody
followed pursuits on radio until you did, meaning me and I,
and they think of this show every time they hear
a pursuit on the radio. Now, look, I didn't invent
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following pursuits at all, but we were just bored and
we had nothing to do, so we followed these pursuits
all the.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Time, all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But the one thing I would do, though, and I
don't know why the local news doesn't do that, is
follow ups as to where these guys end up. You know,
like you have your favorite pursuit, you know, whether it
was the tank in San Diego that was stolen and
the guy's driving over you know, mobile homes and RVs,
or whether it was the Mad Max one in the
central San Fernando Valley that ended up on Wells or
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Ventura and Tampa and where the dogs were flying out
of the car and there.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Was blood everywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Everybody has their favorite pursuits or the seven up truck
that takes the sharp turn and cans go everywhere, but
nobody really follows up on TV on what happens.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
To these guys. Where is that?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Like?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Where is that lady? Now?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Who was driving that RV, that Mad Max RV through
the valley with dogs flying out of the RV? You
know she in prison?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Now she in a home?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is she not with us anymore? Nobody has an update
on these people. We got to get updates on what's
going on with Easy. But that was a radical, radical chase.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Today, our Air seven was over the pursuit that crossed
multiple cities using freeways and surface streets. During the pursuit,
the passenger kept opening the door as if trying to
get out.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
It's pretty quiet around this neighborhood, so things like this
really don't happen too often. I've never seen something like
this happen in front of my eyes, where SWAT and
police teams are, you know, pulling people out of a
vehicle at gunpoints. So it says something I only see
on the news are online.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, it doesn't happen that often in your neighborhood. But
what it does, it's very exciting, very excited to watch.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
North County SWAT was in the area and began chasing
with its Bearcat armored vehicle and eventually brought the chase
to an end.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, don't mess with North County. I don't know what
that is. If that George County share for what that
is North County SWAT. North County SWAT, don't f with them.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Officers surrounding this semi truck with weapons drawn. The driver
and passenger were taken into custody. Police are still looking
into the relationship between the driver and passenger.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, it's getting wild out there. It's getting wild. The
whole country is getting crazy. We had those other shooting
in Dallas. We'll talk about that a little later as well.
It's getting crazy. It's getting Man, you are lucky if
you're not shot or run into by a car, or
hitting run or you know, robbed or or beaten, you know,
beaten up and robbed and burglarise. You're lucky every day,
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every day you're not a victim of crime. You have
won the lottery. Because it's getting crazy out there.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyl from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Before we get to Michael Monks. Crozer just reminded me
Santa Anita opens this weekend. So that's gonna be great.
I'll be out there with a hot bowl at chili,
you know, trying to double my daughter's college fund. It's
not going well. I'll give you that. So it's Santa
Anita opening weekend this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
All right. Michael Monks whether Monks.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Always nice to have you on the program, buddy, always
nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Oh okay, I'm sorry. I was just gonna say, uh,
put five on six for me.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Bro okay, all right, Monks getting over Walkingnmona.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
I had some allergies, That's all it was. It was.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Thank God, thank god. The dumb button is still on.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
I said dramatic. I didn't say a swear word said dramatic.
I did I said being dramatic.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Brozier heard it too.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
Buddy said, you're being dramatic effort.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh no, I I got it. Make sure the bosses
know that that is not what I said.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Look, the bosses give you a bonus when you have
that kind of attitude around here. All right, So, monks,
we got a lot to uh to go over here
first before we get into the layoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I know that this drives you crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
How in the world where we looking at six sixteen
hundred layoffs, you know, six months ago, and now we
found two point seven billion dollars to renovate the convention Center.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Well, I'm glad you set it up that way, because
these two stories are connected. I know I've been coming
on the show, your show, other shows here on KFI
for the past couple of weeks talking about the convention Center.
I know Michael Krozier is sick of running my stories
about it, but like it is great. Well, there's new
stuff every day about it. Yeah, but it is a
big deal and it stands and start contrast to the
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fiscal worries that we've been talking about since the springtime,
specifically the one billion dollar budget shortfall and the projected
sixteen hundred layoff city workers. Including some in the police department,
not sworn officers, but people who are instrumental in the
collection of crime data and stuff that will be used
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in prosecution. This was a scary period just several months ago,
and they've apparently been able to fix that situation where
Bass came out yesterday and said, look, we've got agreement
with all of the unions. Now we've moved some people around,
and we're peachy Keene.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, you know what, there was one idea they were
toying with. If Elon Musk donated three billion dollars to
the city of la they'd changed Los Angeles to Musk.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Is that true?
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Musk Angelus?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, I think it was going to be called yeah,
Elon Muskville.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Yeah, well, I know my neighborhood already has a certain
musk to it, if you will, So it might work out.
I'll tell you this. When we talk about sixteen hundred layoffs,
the city council, through its budget process, was able to
fix some of those problems themselves, so before the budget
was even adopted, they had gotten the number down to
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around six hundred. But the budget went into effect on
July one with those hundreds of layoffs still hanging out there.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
As a possibility.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
What has happened since is a lot of these workers
have been moved elsewhere. And so the thing is if
you were somebody who say you swept the street and
your job slated for removal, and this is just hypothetical.
If you're a street sweeper, now you might be at
the airport doing something, so the service may not be
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available to citizens. In fact, city Councilman Monica Rodriguez was
on the Bill Handle Show this morning with Nil Savedra,
and she explained it like this.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
At the end of the day that people are still
losing out in terms of the services in the city,
from the cuts that were achieved or were done to
our graffiti abatement, to street services, sidewalk repairs, street lighting,
all of those things her still being affected by these cuts. So, yes,
we were able to avoid layoffs, and that's always a
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good thing. There will be furloughs though, right there are
furloughs and there were a lot of compromises. LAPD a
lot of their overtime is going to be banked, so
that's ultimately going.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
To cost more.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
So there are services that still won't be provided. What
they are highlighting as a success them, they being the
mayor and other city leaders, is we kept everyone employed.
The question, Tim, is whether they will be able to
do that next time, because even during this budget crisis,
it was projected that there were going to be serious
financial challenges for the next several years through twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wow, So when did so? Next July? We have to
go through all of this again, it'll be before July.
The fiscal year starts July first, okay, and they usually
start in the middle of the spring the conversations about this.
What will happen is the mayor, the city administrator. They
will put out a proposed budget and that's where we
got this first billion dollar shortfall and sixteen hundred layoffs memo,
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and then the city Council Budget Committee will hold a
bunch of hearings and then they'll vote on a budget.
They'll make some changes, then the full city Council will
take it up, and then it goes back to the mayor.
And through all of those MACHI nations is how they
were able to close the billion dollar shortfall. But now, Tim,
they were scraping for every dollar to fix this situation,
and now they have committed to the next thirty years
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of having to spend about one hundred million dollars a year,
three decades of this wow to pay for this convention
center that the mayor signed off on today. All right,
let me ask you a question, Michael Monks, is whether
it's every Saturday night seventy nine pm here on KFI.
If and again the hypothetical you use somebody street sweeping
the streets in La they're going to be moved to
the airport. A. Do they have the skill to work
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at the airport? And B if that job was vacant
at the airport, maybe they weren't needed at the airport
and somebody, you know, could be terminated. This is not
a guaranteed lifelong job when you start working for the
city of La No.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
In fact, the reason that the airport positions and the
Port of Los Angeles positions were highlighted is because they
are budgeted differently. They are city entities technically, but they
have different boards and those sorts of things, and so
they did have positions that may have been comparable for folks.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
It was basically what.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
The council was calling a transfer portal. If you pay
attention to college sports, this new thing where players can
make themselves available to basically any other school in the
country and start playing immediately, a big change from how
it was years ago. That's what city council member were
calling this a transfer portal, So people whose jobs were
facing elimination, they could throw their name in the transfer
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portal and the human resources department would try to match
them up with something I see.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
All right, before you go, how did you learn because
you grew up in Kentucky, you know, I think in Kentucky, right, yeah, okay,
where did you learn to pronounce all these Spanish names
so accurately?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
I am a cultured soul.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
No, you're not all right? Where did you learn that?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Well?
Speaker 9 (22:28):
My spouse is Guatemali ah, and I have been studying
Spanish and I was actually a French minor, so i
have eight years of education in French and I'm very,
very affectionate towards the Romance language.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The only real Spanish I know I learned from Rick
D's is You're not thing yep, and that is exactly right. Yeah,
all right, but I appreciate you coming on. All right,
all right, Michael Monks every Saturday seven to nine pm. Yes, yes, yes,
but they'll say He knocks it out like he was
born in Guatemala, you know, with those with the pronunciation
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of names and streets and stuff like that. I guess
he's better at Spanish than, you know, than Mondo was.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Or that's true or steph Ooge.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You know, they're both having Spanic heritage and they you know,
they were struggling. But this guy knocks it out. You
can hear him every Saturday seven and nine pm right
here on KFI.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And you might be a hiker.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You might like to go up into the hills a
Burbank or the Hollywood Hills and bring your your walkman
with you.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And what they don't have those anymore. We've evolved a
little bit, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
The the I thought evolving was going from the cassette
walkman to the CD walkman. People had the CD, but
the problem with jogging with the CD walkman had skipped
all the time.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, that was a huge project.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I tried getting in shape with a walkman.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I swear to god.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I tried to get in shape with the walkman, putting
the headphones on and jogging. And now that lasted for
about a month. It was back in nineteen eighty eight,
and I would and Cool Mode was the cassette that
I had, and I would run around and listen to
that in my black trench coat.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So right, a lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Fun guy Sony still does make a walkman.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
But it's all digital now, oh it is, and they
go for like nine hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Really, why would you need one now?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Though?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You know, use your phone as.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
It's basically yeah, well it's basically like an MP three
player recorder so you can do more things with it.
But yeah, it's for like for professionals.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Remember when the MP three player came out, it was
huge and now they're like the size of a postage stamp. Yeah,
you know it is, uh, but the technology is sensational.
I mean it keeps moving and moving and you got it.
You got to stay on top of it or it
will fly by you. Like AI, you can't ignore AI.
You've got to somehow be a part of it, whether
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you are downloading you know, videos to understand it, or
reading books about it, or getting involved somehow with AI.
If you don't get involved with AI, you are going
to find it very difficult to find a job in
about five to ten years because they'll ask you what
you know about AI, and if you say nothing, they're
going to get the guy that knows a lot more
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than you. So got to stay on top of that.
Got to stay on top of it, all right. So
if you do jog, if you're out there with your
walkman or your you know, your MP three player or whatever,
your cassette player, and you go up into the run
Yon Canyon area, which is where is that off Laurel
and Cold Water, I think up near on Mulholland. You know,
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before you would have to worry about snakes and coyotes
and you could never relieve yourself anywhere. You either had
to make sure you went to the bathroom, you know,
go to Arts Deli on Ventur Boulevard and then go
up to the canyon, or hold it in and then
go to Arts Deli after you're done jogging. But now
they want to put toilets on Runyon Canyon and you
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are not going to believe what the price of this is.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
A million dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
A million dollars.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
A million dollars is an expensive dump.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah for uh toilet.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
A million dollars, it's not crazy. That's crazy. Okay, So
currently there are only porta potties here at Runyon Canyon,
but I'm told those are a nightmare. We do have
to get video of those porta potties. I'm gonna make
Ed do all the work.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Because it's a It really is remarkable how porta potties
have not made any advancements in a thousand years. You know,
TVs have come a long way. They used to be big,
and they used to be black and white. They used
to be heavy. It was a big, huge uh you know,
you had to wait a minute for it to warm
up to come on. Now there's flat screens as big
as your house.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
There's been huge advancements in computers in cars. But the
outhouse really hasn't done done anything. It's still going in,
sitting on a circle and doing your business on top
of everybody else's business.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
That's the outhouse. It it has no movement.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
I told it is as smelly situation.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Okay, you guys, let's show you some video.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
We know Reggy Canyon super popular. A lot of people
come here, Millions of people come to hike here all
throughout the year, and now here we are talking about bathrooms.
So the porta potties are available at the entrance of
the park, and several people think it's about time the
city installs these permanent ones. However, others believe it could
make matters worse to the already existing problems, problems like
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crime and fire hazards. And then there's the price of
the restroom, which we've all made very clear expected to
cost a million dollars dollars.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
If we were going to add a bathroom here at
iHeart at our Burbank studios, the KFI Burbank Studios, and
a contractor came in and said, hey, we can put
another bathroom here on the fourth floor. We'll put it
down near the newsroom, but it's going to cost you
a million dollars. He would be escorted out of the
building and people would go, oh, that guy's crazy.
Speaker 12 (28:19):
Well you know, yeah, really, Seacrest, I think had like
a million dollar bathroom up here.
Speaker 10 (28:23):
Yeah, but I don't like I talked about that bathroom too.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I bet that bathroom costs thirty grand, you know, to
put in maybe forty. But if somebody said a bit
a million dollars for a standard bathroom where I mean,
that's that's what that's where we are with the public money.
It's not your money, so nobody really cares for a
million bathroom, one bathroom, million dollars for you know, men's
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and women's toilets.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
A million dollars, which has some residents wondering how it
could be so much. Many are so upset that the
nonprofit Running Canyon Guardian started a campaign called save Running
Can and Stop the one million dollar bathroom project.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You know, when we have Dean Sharp on tomorrow, I'm
gonna ask him how big a house can you build
in the San Fernando Valley if you own the property,
how big a house could you build for a million
dollars that includes the windows, doors, electric plumbing, all that stuff.
I'll bet it's close to four thousand square feet, four
thousand square feet, maybe thirty five hundred square feet. You
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could build a nice house for one million dollars. The
price of it is usually the land, that's what's so expensive.
But building the house, I'll bet for a million dollars,
And we'll ask him tomorrow you could build a thirty
five hundred square foot home. And here it's just a toilet.
That's where we are. Bye, We're live on KFI AM
six forty. It's Conway Show. We have we'll come back
(29:46):
with we have breaking news on Channel seven here the
Immigration Center shooting. We'll talk about that in Dallas as well.
We got some more information coon on that. We're live
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It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Real quickly
before we get to Alex, don't people know by now
not to come on the John Colebelt Show if they
disagree with him for an hour. It rarely works out,
(00:20):
rarely works out. People don't remember Meg Whitman when she
came in. Her career was destroyed in one hour on
this show. One hour. And then when he when the
sheriffs were running, the guys who were running for sheriff,
they would come in here one at a time and
he would pick them off one at a time, bang,
bang bang, and their you know, and their careers slowly evaporated.
(00:43):
So I go back and listen to the three o'clock
hour John colevelt and it's the mayor of Santa Monica
and she's trying to tell everybody, you know, how great
the city is and it's safe, and it's this and
it's that, and John's just like, I live in that area.
I know what that area is like. You gotta go
listen to it though, if you missed it, it's a great.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Hour, all right. Alex Stone is with us, how you, Bob.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Ding Dong, I tell you you don't want to disagree
with John Cobelt, buddy.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I look, I don't like coming in here when when
when I come into work, because I think he's gonna
roast me, you.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Know, Nor do I when I know I have a
tough topic with him, I'm like, here we go. Yeah,
I'm not the spokesperson for whatever we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Right, because he'll ask you questions and they're like, wait,
man's that goes into opinion And I don't really have
an opinion.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm just giving the facts.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But but gone are the days of these umpires getting
these calls wrong?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah? So yeah, big change for baseball. And I don't
know about you. Growing up in the Bay Area, Tony
LaRussa on the age and during the Bash Brothers era
and everything, the thing I always wanted was for an
argument in baseball, and and you know, to see them
come out and put their hats backwards and get face
to face with the ump and fight it and kick
(01:53):
some dirt. But all that's going to go away because
now they just go, well, let's check the computer and
we'll find out if the robot agrees with the human
ump but so officially it's called the ABS system, the
Automatic Balls and Strike System, but it's more known as
as the robot umps. But they're going to roll it out.
They did it in spring training this last year. It
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seemed to go well. They've been doing it in the
entire season for minor league Baseball, and so now Major
League Baseball says, here we go the regular season and
postseason next year that they're going to use the robot umps.
And what they're going to do is if a player
it's got to be pitcher, catcher, or batter once to
appeal the human umpires call. Each team will get two
(02:34):
appeals per game. If their appeal is upheld, then they
don't lose that appeal, so then they continue it too.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But if they if the.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Human umpire was right and they appealed, then they lose
that that appeal. They got one and then none, and
all they got to do signal to the ump with
a tip of a cap or the helmet that they
want to trigger the review, and then they go to
the computer. And we talked to Tom Fernucci, you've seen
a writer at Sports Illustrated. He goes, well, I mean
this kind of changes a dynamic of baseball and the
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umps roll.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
This is historic because when you think about it, the
first umpire of the major leagues, they've been sort of
like Supreme court justices. There has been no higher court.
But now, for the first time, there's sort of been
a pellet court where if the batter, the pitcher, or
the catcher thinks the Empire made a mistake, they can say,
hang on a second, we are going to appeal and
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check what technology says.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So they're going to use twelve cameras around every stadium
called Hawkeye cameras around the field, and the play will
be reviewed when the member of the team decides that
they want to do it to use one of their
two and then a graphic will pop up on the
big screen in the stadium and then on the TV
broadcast with a robo umps call and saying whether or
not it was a ball or a strike and if
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that matches whatever the umpire said. And the MLB says,
tim this is gonna be quick, that the average review
is gonna be less than fifteen seconds to go that
quickly so they can keep things moving, and they found
in spring training it was quicker than that they.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Tested this system in spring training this season and the
average replay challenge took thirteen point eight seconds. Wow, and
there's only four challenges in the course of a game.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So they say it's not going to slow down the
Hawkeye technology. They've been using it in tennis since two
thousand and six to determine line calls. The NFL began
using it this year for first down calls. But the
big argument this whole thing is taking the human element
away from it, because that is a big part of
baseball that yeah, i'ms are going to get it wrong,
but it kind of you know, that's part of the game.
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And then arguing over what the human I saw and produces.
MLB understands that they don't want to take that out
of the game, but they do want to clean it
up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Nobody wants to see a game completely ruled by technology.
We still want the human element. But this is really
just dipping a toe into that water. Is the just
diving into the deep end of the pool.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So there's this whole argument is it good or is
it bad? And there are there are you said it's great, Yeah,
it's great. Yeah, I mean there are amps who say
kind of like body worn cameras with law enforcement, where
when they came in, you had one side saying, wonderful,
you're gonna double check us. We're gonna show you how
great we are. We'll show you we get things right.
And then you have another element saying, well, wait a second,
we don't need oversight. You know, like there's nuance to
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what we do, and there's context to what we do.
Same kind of thing going on there. And the argument
now one of the big reasons why, at least inside
some elements of baseball and sports writers they think this
is coming in yeats to keep it moving along and
to make sure that the umps are accurate and all that.
But sports betting has become so big with the apps
that there's so much money on the line now with
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any of these leagues the outcome, they got to get
it right.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The outcomes of games have been determined by these wrong calls.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh one hundred percent, and so I mean when it
comes down to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars
on the line for somebody who's betting that, they're gonna
make sure and they're gonna put a lot of pressure
on these leagues to get it right.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now you're like me, you're over forty, right, Yeah, and
when you hit forty, your eyes were like, you know,
starting to go south. Well, how about these guys. You
know a lot of these umpires are sixty or older.
There's one hundred miles an hour ball being thrown at you,
there's a fat catcher in front of you, and you
have a cage on your face, and you got to
see where that thing ended up.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's impossible.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, and you bring in any not to say they
would do this, but we all know a little bit
of bias, or you've got to chip on your shoulder
against one team or the other because you've had some
run in with one of their players, or they've gotten
mad at you before. And so this will take away
some of the claims of bias if they know they're
being double checked, and the computer can do check them.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
But really, you know what's really for it the umpires
because and I heard this and I bet you have
as well, because you know baseball better than I do.
But the umpires were purposely missing very obvious calls so
they could speed up this system. These hawkeye cameras coming
in to take that burden off of them.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh, I hadn't heard that. That is interesting. And then
the question of is the ultimate goal and maybe it's
not yet, but for MLB to let the computers do
all the balls and strikes eventually, let's talk twenty thirty
years down the road. And is that what the the
players and the fans would they want that? Then you're
essentially playing a video game. In a video game, wait,
so what is the rule? Now?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
How many can you challenge? Two?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Two in a game? And if you if it's upheld,
if you're right when you challenge it, you don't lose
a challenge. So it'll be a minimum of four two
on each side, and then there's more if they go
into extra endings.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
But eventually they'll all be you know, it's all going
to be uh, you know what. Also, and I know
you're a big baseball fan, they have got to clear
up and identify what a check swing is.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You know, I got Yeah, you're point down first or third.
And then and those guys.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Are not even watching the game, you know, they're looking
at the crowd or looking at the scoreboard, or they're
they say.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
He went around and he didn't go around and no way. Yeah,
and after watching the Savannah Bananas. I think I would
be joined by many others saying major League Baseball needs
to pick up some of that. I mean, the speed
when we saw them down at Anaheim at Angel Stadium,
the way they move that game along, the music, the
fun they have. It really does make Major League Baseball
(08:03):
seem slow and old. And it's they got to pick.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Up some of that.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, that's Savannah Bananas. They're selling out, you know, fifty
thousand seats stadiums.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Incredible and the story of you know, how they were
developed and why and and the owner of it. You know,
maybe not major League Baseball doing the guy on stilts,
but you know, everything else is pretty good. The dancing
umpire is the best.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Buddy, if you came on with sports every day, I'd
love it, you know, yeah, much more interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Than you know the I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Then I sentate bill that you know is out all
you know, shopping cards or something. Buddy, Thanks for coming on, man,
you're the best. You are the king of all news.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
O you.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Alex Stone with ABC News. Speaking of ABC, your favorite
host Jimmy Kimmel was on last time and I got
to listen to it in the car ride home. It's
listening to the Mo Kelly Program and listen to his
whole opening monologue, which was great. You didn't have to
wait till eleven. I heard early and then I watched
(09:02):
it again at eleven thirty. And maybe you saw it,
maybe you didn't, but hopefully it's over. He's back, all
those jobs have been saved, and then we can go
back to, you know, goofing on each other.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
All right, dig dong, everybody. We all saw that pursuit
this morning. I saw the truck that was stolen. Turns
out both of those guys had warrants. I know, not
a shock that two guys running from the Fontana cops
both had outstanding warrants. I think both of them for
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grand theft auto and so they're cool in their heels
right now. But it was interesting to see the different
tactics that you you know, in LAPD has their hands
tied with these commissions and what they can and can't do,
and so they you know, there's a lot of following
these guys till the end. But man, you get out
(10:04):
in Fontana or parts of Orange County and they'll just
crash their trucks into you the cops like we saw
today the bear Cat, the big you know, the big SUV,
swat car or truck.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That they drive around.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He just jammed it into that truck and tried to
get this guy to stop, and he stopped shortly afterwards
because he knows those guys were serious. And then when
the driver gets out of the car, he does everything
the cops tell him to do. He puts his hands up,
he takes a couple steps to his left, he takes
a couple steps back. He was getting on his knees,
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and one of the cops put a boot right in
the back of his in the square of his back,
and kicked him to the ground. Okay, that doesn't look
great if you're in La, but it works in Fontana,
it works in Orange County and these guys who steal
cars and trucks know the best way not to get
to not have a cops boot in the square of
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your back is don't steal cars and don't run away
from cops. And it probably does make people think twice
about running away from cops, so I'm all for it. Look,
if you run from cops, you know that there are
you know, at the end, you could get your ass
handed to you. And that's the what it used to
be before video cameras. You know, when a guy would
run away from the cops, the cops would tackle him
(11:24):
and you know he would go back to you know,
his you know gang or guys or friends, whatever they go. Man,
it's not worth stealing cars around here. These cops are
will really rough you up. But the pursuit was wild
to watch it, and it's you can tell instantly that
it's an it's a Orange County or or Inland Empire
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pursuit by how aggressive they are with these you know criminals.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
That hour long pursuit ended right here at this intersection
of Franklin Street and Beach Boulevard. Police had that semi
truck surround it weapons drawn, but thankfully no one was hurt.
That that driver and passenger are now in custody while
police try and figure out the relationship between those two.
We're learning more details about those individuals.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, and it was odd to see the one guy
in the passenger seat reach out and grab something off
of a van. I don't know if it was a
pack of cigarettes or a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Or what he grabbed. But that was a wild, wild pursuit.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Here it goes.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You gotta pit him, you gotta pit them.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
A chase that began around nine thirty this morning in
Fontana came to a close about an hour later in
Buena Park.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's an undercover vehicle.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
They're out of their cars.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
It started out as a traffic stop in Fontana, but
the driver fled heading south into Orange County.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And you know what, you know what's great about I
was listening to Gary and Shannon following that pursuit. And
I've gotten some emails in the past saying that nobody
followed pursuits on radio until you did, meaning me and I,
and they think of this show every time they hear
a pursuit on the radio. Now, look, I didn't invent
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following pursuits at all, but we were just bored and
we had nothing to do, so we followed these pursuits
all the.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Time, all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But the one thing I would do, though, and I
don't know why the local news doesn't do that, is
follow ups as to where these guys end up. You know,
like you have your favorite pursuit, you know, whether it
was the tank in San Diego that was stolen and
the guy's driving over you know, mobile homes and RVs,
or whether it was the Mad Max one in the
central San Fernando Valley that ended up on Wells or
(13:34):
Ventura and Tampa and where the dogs were flying out
of the car and there.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Was blood everywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Everybody has their favorite pursuits or the seven up truck
that takes the sharp turn and cans go everywhere, but
nobody really follows up on TV on what happens.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
To these guys. Where is that?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Like?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Where is that lady? Now?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Who was driving that RV, that Mad Max RV through
the valley with dogs flying out of the RV? You
know she in prison?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Now she in a home?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is she not with us anymore? Nobody has an update
on these people. We got to get updates on what's
going on with Easy. But that was a radical, radical chase.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Today, our Air seven was over the pursuit that crossed
multiple cities using freeways and surface streets. During the pursuit,
the passenger kept opening the door as if trying to
get out.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
It's pretty quiet around this neighborhood, so things like this
really don't happen too often. I've never seen something like
this happen in front of my eyes, where SWAT and
police teams are, you know, pulling people out of a
vehicle at gunpoints. So it says something I only see
on the news are online.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, it doesn't happen that often in your neighborhood. But
what it does, it's very exciting, very excited to watch.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
North County SWAT was in the area and began chasing
with its Bearcat armored vehicle and eventually brought the chase
to an end.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, don't mess with North County. I don't know what
that is. If that George County share for what that
is North County SWAT. North County SWAT, don't f with them.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Officers surrounding this semi truck with weapons drawn. The driver
and passenger were taken into custody. Police are still looking
into the relationship between the driver and passenger.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, it's getting wild out there. It's getting wild. The
whole country is getting crazy. We had those other shooting
in Dallas. We'll talk about that a little later as well.
It's getting crazy. It's getting Man, you are lucky if
you're not shot or run into by a car, or
hitting run or you know, robbed or or beaten, you know,
beaten up and robbed and burglarise. You're lucky every day,
(15:25):
every day you're not a victim of crime. You have
won the lottery. Because it's getting crazy out there.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demyl from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Before we get to Michael Monks. Crozer just reminded me
Santa Anita opens this weekend. So that's gonna be great.
I'll be out there with a hot bowl at chili,
you know, trying to double my daughter's college fund. It's
not going well. I'll give you that. So it's Santa
Anita opening weekend this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
All right. Michael Monks whether Monks.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Always nice to have you on the program, buddy, always
nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Oh okay, I'm sorry. I was just gonna say, uh,
put five on six for me.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Bro okay, all right, Monks getting over Walkingnmona.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
I had some allergies, That's all it was. It was.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Thank God, thank god. The dumb button is still on.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
I said dramatic. I didn't say a swear word said dramatic.
I did I said being dramatic.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Brozier heard it too.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
Buddy said, you're being dramatic effort.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh no, I I got it. Make sure the bosses
know that that is not what I said.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Look, the bosses give you a bonus when you have
that kind of attitude around here. All right, So, monks,
we got a lot to uh to go over here
first before we get into the layoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I know that this drives you crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
How in the world where we looking at six sixteen
hundred layoffs, you know, six months ago, and now we
found two point seven billion dollars to renovate the convention Center.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Well, I'm glad you set it up that way, because
these two stories are connected. I know I've been coming
on the show, your show, other shows here on KFI
for the past couple of weeks talking about the convention Center.
I know Michael Krozier is sick of running my stories
about it, but like it is great. Well, there's new
stuff every day about it. Yeah, but it is a
big deal and it stands and start contrast to the
(17:27):
fiscal worries that we've been talking about since the springtime,
specifically the one billion dollar budget shortfall and the projected
sixteen hundred layoff city workers. Including some in the police department,
not sworn officers, but people who are instrumental in the
collection of crime data and stuff that will be used
(17:49):
in prosecution. This was a scary period just several months ago,
and they've apparently been able to fix that situation where
Bass came out yesterday and said, look, we've got agreement
with all of the unions. Now we've moved some people around,
and we're peachy Keene.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, you know what, there was one idea they were
toying with. If Elon Musk donated three billion dollars to
the city of la they'd changed Los Angeles to Musk.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Is that true?
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Musk Angelus?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, I think it was going to be called yeah,
Elon Muskville.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Yeah, well, I know my neighborhood already has a certain
musk to it, if you will, So it might work out.
I'll tell you this. When we talk about sixteen hundred layoffs,
the city council, through its budget process, was able to
fix some of those problems themselves, so before the budget
was even adopted, they had gotten the number down to
(18:41):
around six hundred. But the budget went into effect on
July one with those hundreds of layoffs still hanging out there.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
As a possibility.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
What has happened since is a lot of these workers
have been moved elsewhere. And so the thing is if
you were somebody who say you swept the street and
your job slated for removal, and this is just hypothetical.
If you're a street sweeper, now you might be at
the airport doing something, so the service may not be
(19:09):
available to citizens. In fact, city Councilman Monica Rodriguez was
on the Bill Handle Show this morning with Nil Savedra,
and she explained it like this.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
At the end of the day that people are still
losing out in terms of the services in the city,
from the cuts that were achieved or were done to
our graffiti abatement, to street services, sidewalk repairs, street lighting,
all of those things her still being affected by these cuts. So, yes,
we were able to avoid layoffs, and that's always a
(19:38):
good thing. There will be furloughs though, right there are
furloughs and there were a lot of compromises. LAPD a
lot of their overtime is going to be banked, so
that's ultimately going.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
To cost more.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
So there are services that still won't be provided. What
they are highlighting as a success them, they being the
mayor and other city leaders, is we kept everyone employed.
The question, Tim, is whether they will be able to
do that next time, because even during this budget crisis,
it was projected that there were going to be serious
financial challenges for the next several years through twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wow, So when did so? Next July? We have to
go through all of this again, it'll be before July.
The fiscal year starts July first, okay, and they usually
start in the middle of the spring the conversations about this.
What will happen is the mayor, the city administrator. They
will put out a proposed budget and that's where we
got this first billion dollar shortfall and sixteen hundred layoffs memo,
(20:35):
and then the city Council Budget Committee will hold a
bunch of hearings and then they'll vote on a budget.
They'll make some changes, then the full city Council will
take it up, and then it goes back to the mayor.
And through all of those MACHI nations is how they
were able to close the billion dollar shortfall. But now, Tim,
they were scraping for every dollar to fix this situation,
and now they have committed to the next thirty years
(20:56):
of having to spend about one hundred million dollars a year,
three decades of this wow to pay for this convention
center that the mayor signed off on today. All right,
let me ask you a question, Michael Monks, is whether
it's every Saturday night seventy nine pm here on KFI.
If and again the hypothetical you use somebody street sweeping
the streets in La they're going to be moved to
the airport. A. Do they have the skill to work
(21:16):
at the airport? And B if that job was vacant
at the airport, maybe they weren't needed at the airport
and somebody, you know, could be terminated. This is not
a guaranteed lifelong job when you start working for the
city of La No.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
In fact, the reason that the airport positions and the
Port of Los Angeles positions were highlighted is because they
are budgeted differently. They are city entities technically, but they
have different boards and those sorts of things, and so
they did have positions that may have been comparable for folks.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
It was basically what.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
The council was calling a transfer portal. If you pay
attention to college sports, this new thing where players can
make themselves available to basically any other school in the
country and start playing immediately, a big change from how
it was years ago. That's what city council member were
calling this a transfer portal, So people whose jobs were
facing elimination, they could throw their name in the transfer
(22:07):
portal and the human resources department would try to match
them up with something I see.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
All right, before you go, how did you learn because
you grew up in Kentucky, you know, I think in Kentucky, right, yeah, okay,
where did you learn to pronounce all these Spanish names
so accurately?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
I am a cultured soul.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
No, you're not all right? Where did you learn that?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Well?
Speaker 9 (22:28):
My spouse is Guatemali ah, and I have been studying
Spanish and I was actually a French minor, so i
have eight years of education in French and I'm very,
very affectionate towards the Romance language.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The only real Spanish I know I learned from Rick
D's is You're not thing yep, and that is exactly right. Yeah,
all right, but I appreciate you coming on. All right,
all right, Michael Monks every Saturday seven to nine pm. Yes, yes, yes,
but they'll say He knocks it out like he was
born in Guatemala, you know, with those with the pronunciation
(23:04):
of names and streets and stuff like that. I guess
he's better at Spanish than, you know, than Mondo was.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Or that's true or steph Ooge.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You know, they're both having Spanic heritage and they you know,
they were struggling. But this guy knocks it out. You
can hear him every Saturday seven and nine pm right
here on KFI.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And you might be a hiker.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You might like to go up into the hills a
Burbank or the Hollywood Hills and bring your your walkman
with you.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And what they don't have those anymore. We've evolved a
little bit, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
The the I thought evolving was going from the cassette
walkman to the CD walkman. People had the CD, but
the problem with jogging with the CD walkman had skipped
all the time.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, that was a huge project.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I tried getting in shape with a walkman.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I swear to god.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I tried to get in shape with the walkman, putting
the headphones on and jogging. And now that lasted for
about a month. It was back in nineteen eighty eight,
and I would and Cool Mode was the cassette that
I had, and I would run around and listen to
that in my black trench coat.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So right, a lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Fun guy Sony still does make a walkman.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
But it's all digital now, oh it is, and they
go for like nine hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Really, why would you need one now?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Though?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You know, use your phone as.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
It's basically yeah, well it's basically like an MP three
player recorder so you can do more things with it.
But yeah, it's for like for professionals.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Remember when the MP three player came out, it was
huge and now they're like the size of a postage stamp. Yeah,
you know it is, uh, but the technology is sensational.
I mean it keeps moving and moving and you got it.
You got to stay on top of it or it
will fly by you. Like AI, you can't ignore AI.
You've got to somehow be a part of it, whether
(25:17):
you are downloading you know, videos to understand it, or
reading books about it, or getting involved somehow with AI.
If you don't get involved with AI, you are going
to find it very difficult to find a job in
about five to ten years because they'll ask you what
you know about AI, and if you say nothing, they're
going to get the guy that knows a lot more
(25:37):
than you. So got to stay on top of that.
Got to stay on top of it, all right. So
if you do jog, if you're out there with your
walkman or your you know, your MP three player or whatever,
your cassette player, and you go up into the run
Yon Canyon area, which is where is that off Laurel
and Cold Water, I think up near on Mulholland. You know,
(25:59):
before you would have to worry about snakes and coyotes
and you could never relieve yourself anywhere. You either had
to make sure you went to the bathroom, you know,
go to Arts Deli on Ventur Boulevard and then go
up to the canyon, or hold it in and then
go to Arts Deli after you're done jogging. But now
they want to put toilets on Runyon Canyon and you
(26:22):
are not going to believe what the price of this is.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
A million dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
A million dollars.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
A million dollars is an expensive dump.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah for uh toilet.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
A million dollars, it's not crazy. That's crazy. Okay, So
currently there are only porta potties here at Runyon Canyon,
but I'm told those are a nightmare. We do have
to get video of those porta potties. I'm gonna make
Ed do all the work.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Because it's a It really is remarkable how porta potties
have not made any advancements in a thousand years. You know,
TVs have come a long way. They used to be big,
and they used to be black and white. They used
to be heavy. It was a big, huge uh you know,
you had to wait a minute for it to warm
up to come on. Now there's flat screens as big
as your house.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
There's been huge advancements in computers in cars. But the
outhouse really hasn't done done anything. It's still going in,
sitting on a circle and doing your business on top
of everybody else's business.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
That's the outhouse. It it has no movement.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
I told it is as smelly situation.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Okay, you guys, let's show you some video.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
We know Reggy Canyon super popular. A lot of people
come here, Millions of people come to hike here all
throughout the year, and now here we are talking about bathrooms.
So the porta potties are available at the entrance of
the park, and several people think it's about time the
city installs these permanent ones. However, others believe it could
make matters worse to the already existing problems, problems like
(27:52):
crime and fire hazards. And then there's the price of
the restroom, which we've all made very clear expected to
cost a million dollars dollars.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
If we were going to add a bathroom here at
iHeart at our Burbank studios, the KFI Burbank Studios, and
a contractor came in and said, hey, we can put
another bathroom here on the fourth floor. We'll put it
down near the newsroom, but it's going to cost you
a million dollars. He would be escorted out of the
building and people would go, oh, that guy's crazy.
Speaker 12 (28:19):
Well you know, yeah, really, Seacrest, I think had like
a million dollar bathroom up here.
Speaker 10 (28:23):
Yeah, but I don't like I talked about that bathroom too.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I bet that bathroom costs thirty grand, you know, to
put in maybe forty. But if somebody said a bit
a million dollars for a standard bathroom where I mean,
that's that's what that's where we are with the public money.
It's not your money, so nobody really cares for a
million bathroom, one bathroom, million dollars for you know, men's
(28:47):
and women's toilets.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
A million dollars, which has some residents wondering how it
could be so much. Many are so upset that the
nonprofit Running Canyon Guardian started a campaign called save Running
Can and Stop the one million dollar bathroom project.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You know, when we have Dean Sharp on tomorrow, I'm
gonna ask him how big a house can you build
in the San Fernando Valley if you own the property,
how big a house could you build for a million
dollars that includes the windows, doors, electric plumbing, all that stuff.
I'll bet it's close to four thousand square feet, four
thousand square feet, maybe thirty five hundred square feet. You
(29:24):
could build a nice house for one million dollars. The
price of it is usually the land, that's what's so expensive.
But building the house, I'll bet for a million dollars,
And we'll ask him tomorrow you could build a thirty
five hundred square foot home. And here it's just a toilet.
That's where we are. Bye, We're live on KFI AM
six forty. It's Conway Show. We have we'll come back
(29:46):
with we have breaking news on Channel seven here the
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We got some more information coon on that. We're live
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