January 5, 2026 • 40 mins
Experts break down the reported U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and what it could mean globally. Closer to home, Michael Monks shares a powerful story from Skid Row after rescuing a stray cat, while Conway covers local mountains reaching maximum levels of rain and snow. Plus, Jeff Thomas from iHeart Advertising joins the show for a look back at smoking and alcohol ads from earlier days and how attitudes—and rules—have changed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It is The Conway Show, all right, everybody's back from vacation.
Croziers here, Belli, O, Steph Fuje and Angel and this
is their first show of the year, and it's it's
unusual that everybody's here, highly unusual.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But everybody made it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Nobody got into car accidents, nobody overdosed, Nobody you know,
got arrested and is in prison.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We all made it. All made it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
No, we got into an airplane crash and had to
you know, sit in the hospital for twenty days or whatever.
But we're all back and we got a lot of
news to cover, and a lot has happened since we
have since we split about two weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Ago, was it two weeks ago?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Bellio.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Bellio is the one in charge of my vacation. She
puts in for her vacation and then just puts my
name down next to it, and.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, we go together, whether you like it or yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Whether I like it or not, that's what we do.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
But you went to you know, get Bellio when I
every every time we come back to vacation. People always
want to know what you do. Really, yeah, they don't
care about.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Me or Angel.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That's totally true. People always ask, you know, what does
Bellio do for vacation?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I go home and see my family and go home,
and where's home in Golden Colorado?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, all right, and you did that?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I did.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I went and saw my mom. Yeah, and sister, she's
doing well. She said to say hello to everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ah that's great.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So I go home and I do her whatever her
errands and chores she needs done.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But Bellio, here's why I brought it up, because when
you vacation, you work harder than you do on the show.
Speaker 8 (01:52):
I really do. All you do is vacation right now,
that's right, you're back. You're now on vacation again, just
started today. But you are a chore woman unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, and you have a list of things that either
your husband needs to have done, or your mom needs
to have done, or your brother.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Admitt my sister. I have few stuff that they can't
get done.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
That and I noticed that it's the stuff they don't
feel like doing, you know, right, they wait for me,
Oh do you mind getting to this, and right I do.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But I wanted to send you. Are you the oldest
or the youngest, the youngest? Are you the oldest daughter? Nope, okay, youngest,
All right, I'm gonna play something for you later on
the show that I sent my sister and my wife,
and it is dead on. It's the person with the
most pressure in the family. In the family unit, by far,
(02:44):
is the oldest daughter. The old the oldest daughter has
the most pressure amongst anybody in the family, much more
than Mom, much more than Dad, much more than the
other sisters or the other brothers. It's the older sister
that has to grow up me imediately and help with
the younger kids. And her quietness, as seen is seen
(03:08):
as strength, but really she has forgotten or not willing
to ask for help on anything. And it's a whole
It's about a minute long, and man, it's perfect. It's
exactly like my wife is the oldest sister in her house,
and my sister Kelly's the oldest sister. And then if
I go through my friends and I pick out, you know,
(03:31):
the oldest sister, it's dead on on every single one
of them. So if you're the oldest daughter of a
family out there, you have got to be congratulated because
you have the most pressure on you amongst anybody else
in the family, the oldest daughter. And I think that's
why when you know, dad goes sideways at the end
(03:52):
in his eighties, as George Carlin said, eighty to ninety
is not a good decade for guys. As dad goes sideways,
the oldest daughter is the one who's there for him
the most. Was that Was that true in your case?
Belly on, you're the older your older sister was there
for your dad?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Nothing? Where's Bell?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I'm right here, I'm sorry. What was that?
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Yeah? Got him?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's ten minutes in and we're still and now it's
I know.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I was catching up with everyone I see. Okay, so
good to see you. Okay, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
When your dad passed away, was it your oldest sister
that was there on a daily basis or did a
lot of the work.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes, and my mom, Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But that's what it is the oldest So look that up.
I mean, you know, I agree it totally.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I have a friend of mine who's oldest sister and
became like the second mom.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, it happened to my mom.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
My mom was one of eight kids and she had
a brother that died six months after he was born
by the name Tim, So I'm named after my uncle
died six months after he was born.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
How about that shot.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
That's a nice honor, is it, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Or you're rolling the dice twice? You know, Yeah, we
didn't get the first time. How about Tim again? And
I was definitely ill too. I could if they had to,
almost had to go for trips.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
You know, to Irish negative.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's right. I was Irish negative.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I need a full blood transfusion when I was born,
and I made it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I made it.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I made it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Go Timmy, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right, let's get into uh Venezuela, or as two
people I heard over the weekend on radio, call it Valenguela. Yep,
the president of Valenguela was removed. I heard that twice
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But here it is. It's Venezuela. Let's find out what's
going on with Maduro. He's out.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Let's find out what the experts are saying, because that's
a big deal here in the United States.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
I want to thank the men and women of our
military who achieve such an extraordinary success overnight with breathtaking speed, power, precision,
and competence.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
President Trump addresses the world after the US blitz on
Venezuela and capture of the South American country's president, Nicholas
Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores. Mister Trump calls them
narco terrorists who launched a deadly drug and firearms built
campaign against the United States and its citizens, explaining the
(06:27):
couple will now face charges on American soil.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
A White House account is posting.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Footage that apparently shows drug enforcement agents escorting the embattled
Venezuelan president through a detention center in New York.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How about that night, you know, you're watching little football,
maybe having a beer, and then one hundred and fifty
aircraft from twenty two different bases and thousands of American
soldiers come in and grab you, kill all your bodyguards,
and whisk you off to New York City where you're
probably spend the rest of your life. How about that
(07:01):
Saturday night. That's a Saturday night that he had, and
the only guy in the world that had that crazy
Saturday night.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Not everyone supports the US action, including political and policy
and legal experts who spoke with kt LA.
Speaker 11 (07:17):
Nicholas Maduro was dictator, was an authoritarian leader, stole the elections,
was a corrupt However, that does not justify the invasion
on military operation.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Ariel Dulitski is a human rights law professor at the
University of Texas in Austin. He considers the US military
action illegal, violating international law.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well is this radio Venezuela? What is this?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Is this the TV Venezuelan TV or what station is
this from Bello? Is this from Venezuela? This Venezuela television?
He considers the Valezuela. He considers the US military action illegal.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We should do that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We should play these clips and ask you do you
think that's local La TV or Venezuela's state run TV.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Hmm, pretty much the same, I would say.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
He considers the US military action illegal, violating international law
and the United Nations Charter tough s tough s. So
what would have been a better resolution in his opinion.
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Well, we have to support the opposition.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
In bit, please get out of here. Supporting the opposition.
Do that for thirty years? How'd that work out?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
The people from Venezuela are thrilled and it's their country,
so I'm happy for them.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Our first appearance of the year by Michael Monks, How
you Bob?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Happy New Year to you, Uncle t Bones.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
All right, let's before we get into people you know
are leaving and hate la, let's talk about your cats.
You have two cats and now you have to have
one neuter or spade. I guess she's space Spae the
girl cats. I found this cat on skid row a
couple months ago, brought her into the house.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
She's a little thing. I thought she was a kitten.
She's not. She's an old trollop from the streets. Is
that right? How old did they think she is?
Speaker 12 (09:15):
Well, they think she's about fifteen months, but they said
there was evidence that she's sexually active. Really, so we've
had a talk about that situation. Okay with her, right,
you're gonna get her fixed, and we're gonna get her fixed.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And that's when I had a cat. Last time we
had a cat fix it was forty five dollars. Is
that still the price range?
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Was that the it was the interwar years.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It was about thirteen years ago. Oh really, maybe seventeen
years ago. Wow, yeah, forty five hours. No, it's not
forty five dollars, I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 12 (09:43):
I called my vet downtown and I was like, just curious,
since you pretty much raked me over the coals anytime
I bring these cats in for their standard shots. How
much for a spae? They said between nine hundred and
twelve hundred dollars. Whoa, you gotta be kidding, not kidding you.
So I was like, Okay, let me see what the
county or the city does like through the shelters. Okay,
(10:04):
they do. They offer it and it's much cheaper. It's
like a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Okay. You can't get in.
Speaker 12 (10:09):
Oh yeah, it's like you have to stalk like it's
Taylor Swift tickets coming out. You have to sit there
and refresh and refresh and refresh to see when an
appoint right, okay, and I live in downtown LA. That
that shelter was out. They were so backed up you
can't get in there. I'm going to Mission Hills on
Sunday morning from downtown at six thirty in the morning.
They want me to.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Drop this cat off where you're going to Mission Hills,
Orange County.
Speaker 12 (10:31):
Did I say Mission Hills? That's not right. Okay, that's
not right. I'll look it up. I get sometimes when
I do the forecast and you name all the different cities,
I get confused.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I do too.
Speaker 12 (10:40):
I've been here for sixty years. Let me find this.
It's uh, it's fall. It's in the valley. Okay, all right,
it's in the valley.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Then you're then that's off.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
It's su Paulvit in the two ten, it's a pulvit
in the one eighteen is yeah, Mission Hills. I think
that's your I think it's right. I think Mission Valley
was the now Mission Hills. Mission Hills. Okay, I think
that's off to Paulvita and want to.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, Mission Hills.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
You scare me because you know, being a relatively new
of course, people are very sensitive when I mistake.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, it wasn't always Mission Hills. It's like, you know,
North Hollywood wasn't uh, you know, parts of North Hollywood
like Ivy Springs, Glen Ivy. You know they change it
to take the hot the stink off. Yeah, and that
area was still mar and they tried to change it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Oh
was that right?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, all right, all right, let's get into why you're here.
People are leaving Los Angeles, and we always look at
U hauls as a tailsystemmetric.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
U haul puts the sally, gets them a lot of press.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
Of course, it's their own metrics, and we fall for
it because it's interesting and fun and it's fun to
dump on California, even though we do so lovingly. California
ranks fiftieth in the country for growth according to the
U Haul Growth Index.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The u haul, the moving and storage.
Speaker 12 (11:51):
Company, measures the number of one way trips from states
using their vehicles.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Okay, pods also a.
Speaker 12 (12:00):
Similar analysis every year, but we've got the u haul
one today.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Six months from now.
Speaker 12 (12:05):
U haul will also give us a mid year update,
which we'll all look forward to. But it says that
for the six year in a row, more people have
left California via U haul than come in.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Is it a significant number? Do they give out the number?
Speaker 12 (12:16):
They don't give out the raw number, but as a percentage,
it's more than half of the trips. And so the
state of California is sending people to Texas, Florida, South Carolina.
Texas and Florida the top two states for growth according
to the U Haul Growth Index, California on the very
bottom with Illinois and New Jersey. Ah okay, Now I
(12:39):
had a sign about four or five years ago that
this was going on.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
My sister in law got married in Lafland, Nevada, and
we had to get there quickly, so we flew to Vegas,
rented a car to go to Oh no, it took
a somebody picked U up in Vegas and drove us
to Laughlin and then to get home from Lafland, Nevada,
I was going to rent a car one way from
Laughland to Los Angeles. So I go to the car
dealership I think it was Enterprise, and there were no
(13:04):
cars available, and of course I didn't think ahead. So
I went next door and there was a guy who
had a car dealership, but it was dollar rent a car.
Plus he also had U hauls, and he said to me,
I can give you a U haul to drive your
family back Dela for free and we'll pay for the gas,
or you can rent a car. Now, I had lost
(13:24):
a lot of money on this trip, and I wasn't
sure that I could put my wife and daughter in
a U haul three of us is a breass driving
back to Los Angeles and still keep my marriage a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It would have been a good story. Have you driven
a U haul before? Yes?
Speaker 12 (13:41):
Not easy to drive if it's not something you don't
have any rear view, right, not very tough. You may
recall last summer I had told this story many times
in the air about the magic couch I purchased from
the Macy's out by your racetrack.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I had to get a U Haul to go pick
that thing.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
Oh that was a terrible experience. I mean, I'm not
dumping on U haul in general. You know the people
that that rent you hauls, that rent you them, that
own the businesses, they're like, I mean, there are some
shady operations like you don't when you google you haul,
you think, oh, there's a U haul store, right, there's not.
It's Joe's out in the middle of in some seedy
(14:19):
part of Koreatown that I had to go to to
get this U haul. No customer service skills to be here.
By the way, there's no gas in it, okay, right?
They always start with no gas. No gas in it,
you know, the guy says, hey, you might be able
to make it to the gas station with this. Yeah,
that's what I was like. I get it to Santa
Nita and this from Koreatown to pick up a couch it.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Now, did you learn the lesson not to buy cheap
couches or well?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
This was not a cheap couch.
Speaker 12 (14:47):
Okay, but this was an expensive couch that I got
as it was the floor model. I'm reminding you it
was a used couch. It wasn't used, sure, it was
bought new. It was just used by customers who were
walking by and maybe set their butt on it just
to try it out.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
For how many years maybe two? Two years of people
at the mall sitting on your couch. This couch is gorgeous.
It's changed the whole I feel like a wealthy man
when I go home. This couch retailed for almost five grand.
I got it for seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 12 (15:11):
They were so desperate to get rid of it, right,
and then caused another hundred so I think it was
still worth it. Now, the new cat we just mentioned,
she was in heat last month, and this is why
I realized I need to spay her because I can't
go through this again. They're screaming, she sticks her butt up.
You know she's wanting it, she needs it. They ca
(15:31):
the cat needs it, and my boy cat is neutered,
so he was of no help. But they also spray
that she peede.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
On the couch.
Speaker 12 (15:41):
Oh no, And we have a fancy vacuum steamer, but
that's pretty aggressive when they're in heat.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That we don't know what.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
We're gonna have to do to fix this, because you
can smell it on the couch today.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
No, that's hard, gets deep in the bones.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Buddy, you are you know what, God love you.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I don't know if you do this on purpose or
if you like you know, anxiety, but you really sort
of have lifted your life up to a level of
just ninety nine percent stress.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's chaos. I'm really quite sin. I'm really quite sin.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I know.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But you're a guy in the newsroom. I've noticed that
doesn't warm up to chaos. You don't like it. You
don't like when people do stupid things around here, and
yet you go home and you've turned your life into chaos.
Speaker 12 (16:35):
I do have a couple of cats there. I do
like structure. I need it or I'm a mess, right,
you know, I'm sure you can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's exactly.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
We're both a couple of degenerates. Session we need structure
to keep us from our vises.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's right, buddy. Thank you for coming in seven to
nine on Saturday.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
And on Wednesday our fire special where one year anniversary
will mark the one year anniversary of when the fires
really took hold here in La County. And you've got
a full two hour special that we're going to run
and then after that airs from nine to ten, I'll
be on live.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
That's great. Okay, So it's this Wednesday at seven pm, and.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Then it will air again on Saturday, nited seven. That's excellent.
Nice to see a man.
Speaker 13 (17:11):
Republican Rand Paul. The measure only needs a simple majority
to pass. That means three more Republicans would have to
join Paul to give it the needed fifty one votes. However,
Trump would likely veto any resolution to limit his power
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Pentagon chief Pete Heggs Seth says Arizona Democratic Senator Mark
Kelly will likely be demoted by the US Navy. ABC
Stephen Portenoy says it's link to Kelly's partner video that
urged troop to ignore illegal orders.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It's an administrative action that's short of a court martial.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It will likely see Mark Kelly losing his rank as
a retired Navy captain and would result in a reduction
in his military pension.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
Kellen was among the Democratic members of Congress who urge
troops to ignore the illegal orders and what hegseth caused
a reckless and seditious video. And the new year means
new fees on built in batteries.
Speaker 15 (18:02):
The fee is one and a half percent of the
product's price, up to a maximum of fifteen dollars, and
applies to everyday items from power tools and gaming consoles
to some greeting cards. It's part of Senate Bill twelve fifteen,
which aims to reduce the number of batteries ending up
in landfills. State officials estimate around seventy three hundred tons
(18:23):
of batteries are thrown away each year, either accidentally or illegally.
The new fee will reportedly help fund proper recycling and
help keep hazardous materials out of the trash. Chris Powers,
KFI News.
Speaker 14 (18:36):
Why the sky's cool, The cold tempts overnight tonight, gradually
clearing by midday tomorrow and a little warmer and then
temp's about the same and mostly daytime clear after that
to the weekend. Right now, sixty seven in Culver City,
sixty six in cent to any there's a crash in
South la This is on.
Speaker 16 (18:51):
The southbound side of the one ten, coming up on
Manchester Avenue. They've rolled this wreck out of lanes and
delaysers still recovering away from expos position. Just check out
that northbound side of the one ten freeway. It's going
to be kind of tough as well, delays and stretches
leaving the one oh five as you continue all the
way to the five in Allegian Park. The drive on
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the five southbound crowding up out of Los Phelis from
Los Philis Boulevard to the six oh five and is
still tough in Anaheim, eastbound side of the ninety one
leaving the fifty five freeway all the way to Green River.
Tough in Ontario both side to the fifteen between the
sixty and the ten and that fifteen southbound in the
Cahom Pass just before the one thirty eight. That's where
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the right lane remains off limits to clean up after
an earlier crash. Southbound delays still loading up from almost
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Fires ripped through Southern California. This is our reterm, this
is our nested. The management withdrew firefighters from the hotspot
Wednesday at seven pm.
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None of us. We're aware of the water issues with
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Belly just came in and said, did you promote Michael
Monks on Wednesday with his report on the fire? And
I said I did, and Bellio goes, oh great, Now
she was listening here.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I heard it, But what what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
But no, I said, when you came in here to
ask if we promoted Michael Monks is Special on Wednesday,
I said, we did, and if you were listening, you would.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Have heard that.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I don't. I don't listen.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Okay, all right, I get that. I get that.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
I totally understand that maybe this sickment might be maybe.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Maybe a little better.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'm hoping.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I'm hoping.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But that's okay. Look, I understand. You know you've been
doing it for a long time. How long you've been producing.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Radio twenty something years?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, even before you were doing sports radio. Yeah, so
maybe thirty. Yeah, and sports radio is always much more
interesting because it changes all the time.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
It's unpredictable with the score that thank you.
Speaker 16 (23:57):
Yes.
Speaker 17 (23:58):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
I also, uh, well, I don't listen.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
And sometimes I'm pulling audio for you, or I'm booking
a guest or something, so that working towards the show.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
It isn't that I don't listen to you.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I am not blaming you for not listen. All right.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Let's talk about the local weather, especially up in the mountains.
Snow people love getting up to the mountains. They love
the snow. They love taking kids up to the snow.
If you're young, snow is really a young person's game.
As you get older, snow is not your friend. If
you're in your seventies, ah, snow is your enemy. You know,
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it can take you down. You slip on the ice
to crack a hip and then it's a couple weeks
in cedars and then right off to forest lawn. So
snow is a young man's game or young woman's game.
But if you're young, or maybe you have young kids,
you have newborns or you know, toddlers, kindergarteners, whatever, you
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got to get them up to the snow and let
the kids experience that snow. It's a big part of
a child's life to experience snow for the first time
and get them up there. It's you know, you got
to open their lives up to that because you're not
going to get it here in Burbank or in Woodland
Hills or Malibu. It's just doesn't snow around here enough.
You got to get to the mountain. Let's find out
what's going on here. And if you can do it
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this weekend this year at.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Our climate side at least, which is at Big Bear Lak.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
We've not recorded any snowfall great none.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
To be sure, they have had plenty of rain Mountain
highways a mess, more than eleven inches.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Of rain flowing up here in the last two weeks. Wow,
is that right? Eleven inches and two weeks. That's huge.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
The average high temperature in Big Bear for December is
forty seven degrees. This year it's been sixty and.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
We actually did have a record high earlier in December
on the ninth that actually hit seventy two in Big Bear.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
How about that in December seventy two degrees in Big Bear.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
They hate this, so it's been you know, warmer winter
for them so far.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Looking at our Big Bear camp, you can see that
the ski and snowboard resorts have just enough snow to
keep some runs open.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, and the guy who runs it's either mountain high
or snow Summit, the guy that does the pr for them.
This guy's great. We got to try to belly, We
got to try to get this guy in the show.
He said that artificial man made snow is better than
natural powder, better than natural snow.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
That is a man who.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Has cajones the size of Burbank to say that, and
he said it with a straight face, and he hoped
that people would buy it.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And I love that guy.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
He just sat there and told us something that is
one hundred percent untrue and sold it like it was gospel.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Over at Mountain High, they're still completely closed following the
extensive damage that came in on the big Christmas eave storm.
But if you were desperate to find snow, the Snow
Valley has this small snowplay area available.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Okay, Snow Valley, get up the Snow Valley. They have
a small area that that'll probably be very crowded. But
having a snow resort, we're having a ski chalet. Or
you're in the ski business in southern California, man, every
year is panic time. Every single year. You have no
idea what's gonna happen? Excuse me? And it comes in
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really short spurts. Once in a blue moon, you'll get
a fantastic winter where you get six feet of snow
and that will not happen again for another thirty years.
But if you if you own one of the ski
resorts or a hotel up there, or a ski chalet
or whatever you rent skis whatever. Man, it's always, always,
every single day waking up and looking at that weather
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report and just getting depressed out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
It's not much, but during such a warm winter, they'll
take what they can get them. It's nice to get out,
get some fresh air. This is the first time he's
ever been in We've been living.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
In the tropics for the last couple of years, so
we just moved here from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So he was just one to feel what it felt like.
Speaker 17 (28:06):
So we were excited to see any snow.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Wait a minute, guy moved from Hawaii to Los Angeles?
Does he not go online see what's going on here?
He moved from Hawaii to LA with the homeless, the crime,
the weather, the fires, the craziness, and he did that move.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I guess that wouldn't have shown up on U haul stats.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I get it right, Yeah, I mean that's the American
Airline stat But he's got to be one person a
year that does that. I've never heard that move. I
moved from Hawaii to LA. I moved from Hawaii to Burbank.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
What and the National Weather Services they're crossing their fingers
about the forecast. They're saying it looks like overnight lows
here and Big Bear could drop into the mid twenties
over the next few days, which means hopefully snowmaking can
resume soon.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's not a good business to be in the snow
business in Southern California is real, dicey, and I bet
it takes years off of your life. If you're thirty
and you're in the snow game in Southern California, you
probably have the heart of a ninety year old because
every day is panic time, worried, panicked, screaming, money going out,
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no money coming in, angry as hell, and you can't
survive off of hot chocolate. There's just not enough money
in that game. I feel for people who are in
the Southern California snow game. Man, oh man, you guys,
you've got it rough and this year is Noah what
different seventy two degrees in December in Big Bear.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You knew coming in it was rough, and you decide
to get into it. So I hope it snows, but
it didn't look like it's gonna.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Hey, we got a guy coming up at five oh five.
He's ex de A, former DEA supervisor agent.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
His name is Jim shed S H E. D D.
And he's going to tell us what's.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Going on in UH, in the in South America, what's
going on with Maduro, what's going on with Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
And so that's at five oh five.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You're gonna want to come back if you're if you
got somewhere to go, or I don't know, maybe you need.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
A cigarette or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm oh sorry, I mean asked not to do that
this year, not to suggest that people go out and
smoke a cigarette.
Speaker 14 (30:44):
Sorry, the word you're going to cause an influx in
a huge, big jump in tobacco sales.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
Are they?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Either that or we couldn't get the cigarette money for
sales of the station we used to be able to
advertise cigaret. Like Jeff Thomas is sitting in here, one
of the heads of sales. Can you can you go on?
Can you go on radio?
Speaker 9 (31:05):
Here?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
This guy's been in sales for a long long time, man.
What is your official title here? President of sales division?
Speaker 9 (31:13):
President?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And that's a big deal, right that is? And how
long you been in sales?
Speaker 9 (31:18):
A long time?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
How many years?
Speaker 9 (31:21):
Uh more than forty, is that right?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
So back when you started maybe also when I started,
you know, you couldn't advertise cigarettes, but it was right
on the cuts.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Yeah, they I think this cigarette ban on advertising ended
I want to say, very early seventies.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Yeah, O, very early seventies because and they never really
banned cigarette advertising.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
What let's get it back.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
What they said was you fight that fight too. What
they said was for every ad that you run advertising cigarettes,
you need to run another ad advertising the dangers of smoking,
right right, which is untenable to run. So that really
sort of effectively the broadcasters voluntarily said we're not going
(32:14):
to run any more cigarette advertiser, right.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
But that's true. Cigarettes come with the warning on the pack.
They also come with the warning you know on TV
all the vaping and stuff, and also gambling does as well.
You know, when we run a gambling spot, at the
end it's you'll call one and alcohol and alcohol, alcohol.
But you know what is missing in life and that
wipes out more people than all three of those combined
is food. You know, when you do fast food or whatever,
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at the end of it, you have to have to say, hey,
if you're a tons of fun called this number.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
You don't want to see the pop tart I had
for lunch today. There should have been a warning label
on that one.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yes, yes, sir, But anyway, so you came in to
tell us not only about the new show we're starting
on Saturday, but did last year we had a good year.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Yeah, it's great. Can if I continues to just be
a dominant station in the marketplace, and it's because of
people like you. It's says of our commitment to having
you know, the personalities that we have on from five
o'clock in the morning, you know, all the way up.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, yeah, and you know, you know it's really weird.
I've been on this station. I started in twenty ten
and it's now twenty twenty six, so sixteen years. Next
week will be sixteen years that I've been on the station.
And I'm the newest guy, right you know, Bill Handle's
been here longer, John cole Belt has been here longer,
so is Gary and Shannon, and then so I am
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the youngest. I'm the I have the least amount of
tens right here, yes exactly. And that's and that's after sixteen.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Years isn't that crazy. It just it just shows the
consistency of a format and the station. I guess, so,
you know, or that's the fact that like to me, Tim,
you have the best job in the world, Thank you
very much. Like why would you ever this cop?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's why I'm here? Why would you ever leave this job?
Speaker 9 (34:05):
That's why would you leave it?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
That's right, that's exactly right. You know, it's harder to do.
It's harder to have your own local talk show in
Los Angeles than it is to play for the Lakers.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
There are more Lakers than there are local talk show.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
Hosts in LA.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yes, and more Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
So I mean, look, physically it's harder to play for
the Dodgers, I bet. But but there maybe maybe they say,
hitting a baseball.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
You make more money than most of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
That's probably pretty good. That's probably right.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
But it is you know, when when I first started
working here and again it'll be sixteen years next next
week on January tenth, it is like playing for the
Dodgers the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
This is the big league, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I mean, this is if you asked anybody in America,
you know what station would you want to work for
as a talk show host, this would be on top
of their list.
Speaker 9 (34:55):
What really bears that out is the fact that KFI
is the most listen to radio station on the iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Is that right?
Speaker 9 (35:03):
Yeah, So the thousands of radio stations that are on
the app, KFI has the most listened to of any station.
And it's not just people in southern California, it's people
all over the country, right that love KFI, love the format,
love the stories. They can't get it anywhere else.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
This is Jeff Thomas is the divisional president of sales,
and I love that you have passion for radio like
I do. Like I'll tell you a quick story. When
I started in nineteen ninety six. It was Christmas Eve even,
nineteen ninety six, and about a year into working on
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kalis X, a guy who owns Sit and Sleep came
in and said he'd liked to buy a few ads, right,
And I thought myself, this guy's going to sell mattresses
on the radio. And it exploded into a business where
now Sit in Sleep is the largest the largest seller
(36:04):
of mattresses, perhaps in the United States, but certainly in California.
And it all started on radio, and he attributes all
of his success to radio.
Speaker 9 (36:13):
Yeah, and radio continues to be a big part of
their marketing. It's huge. Yeah, even even though that was
before like the digital age and when there was no
social media, no online advertising, and now you know, that's
a big thing. Larry Miller.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, Larry Miller's kids continues.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
To be, you know, a big supporter of radio and
a big believer in what we do in the format. Yeah,
and his family and you know, yeah, folks that work
with them.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And a lot of people say that, you know that
ads sales are going to you know, online or podcasts whatever.
But I mean, you know, if you just take the
you know the people that you know Advanced hair or
you know American Vision Windows, Marongo Prize, Pigs, Rnel Carriers,
you know Sweet James, a lot of them been here
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for nine ten years.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You know, it does work.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
And and here's what I love about radio advertising. I
heard somebody told me this. I think Rick D's told
me this. He said, if you have an idea for
a business and you want to see if it's going
to work in ten years, give it six months on
radio and they'll tell you whether it's going to work.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
And that, and that could save you a ton of money.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
Yeah, that's a really like good insight because the reality is,
if there's a market for it, we can help clients
sell it. And now you know, fewer people are using
Google to search. There's AI, there's all kinds of right,
different ways to find clients. You know, find find businesses
online if you're looking for a window company, or if
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you're looking for mattresses or whatever. Radio has the trust factor.
They trust people like you, like John, like Bill Handle,
like Gary and Shannon to really like give them a
valuable recommendation, kind of like a friend would give a
friend if they're going to see a movie or going
to a restaurant and they're looking for, you know, somebody
to recommend that to them.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
You're right because when I before I even worked here,
I heard John and Ken talk about Mountain View tire
and I need new tires, and I passed it by.
I'm like, oh, I heard them on KFI and I didn't,
you know, call and say what the price, what's the price?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Try to get a better deal.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I just if I heard it on John and Ken,
I knew that they are on the up and up,
and I got a sweet deal and had a great
experience and and so you're right.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
I think that that does help.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
But anyway, we're starting a new show on Saturday at
five pm and we're going to get some more details
on that.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
But that'd be a lot of fun. Buddy, I've been
working with you for sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
You've always you've always been the twenty ten about twenty ten,
twenty ten, been sixteen years and you've been here for
sixteen years.
Speaker 9 (38:47):
I've been here for twenty eight years, twenty eight. Yeah,
well that's great.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I mean, that's great.
Speaker 9 (38:52):
I have to be really honest, Like if you're in
Los Angeles at iHeart and you have stations like KFI
and then stay other stations that we have like Kiss
FM and you know Closed and you know five seventy,
all these great brands that we have, and then another
you know, eight hundred and fifty radio stations around the
country plus streaming and we're the largest podcaster. Where would
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you go from there?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Exactly?
Speaker 9 (39:17):
There's no other player in the space besides iHeart.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
How do people call you or or email you directly?
Speaker 9 (39:23):
Jeff Thomas, J E. F. F. Thomas, T H O
M A. S at iHeart with an I media dot com.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
All right, we're going to send you anybody listening to
that that segment who wants to throw ads on there.
Speaker 9 (39:37):
I would love to talk to anybody, reach out and
uh we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
They're going to email you directly. Perfect, excellent, Jeff Dice
to see it.
Speaker 9 (39:45):
Man, Happyanks, Tim, I appreciate it. I didn't expect this, so.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Happy to know you're bub happy. All right, welcome back
and talk to Jim shed S, a g d D.
He's a former de e, A agent and he knows
what's going on down in South America and Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
We'll talk about it. We're live on KFI AM six
forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It is The Conway Show, all right, everybody's back from vacation.
Croziers here, Belli, O, Steph Fuje and Angel and this
is their first show of the year, and it's it's
unusual that everybody's here, highly unusual.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But everybody made it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Nobody got into car accidents, nobody overdosed, Nobody you know,
got arrested and is in prison.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We all made it. All made it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
No, we got into an airplane crash and had to
you know, sit in the hospital for twenty days or whatever.
But we're all back and we got a lot of
news to cover, and a lot has happened since we
have since we split about two weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Ago, was it two weeks ago?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Bellio.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Bellio is the one in charge of my vacation. She
puts in for her vacation and then just puts my
name down next to it, and.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, we go together, whether you like it or yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Whether I like it or not, that's what we do.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
But you went to you know, get Bellio when I
every every time we come back to vacation. People always
want to know what you do. Really, yeah, they don't
care about.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Me or Angel.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That's totally true. People always ask, you know, what does
Bellio do for vacation?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I go home and see my family and go home,
and where's home in Golden Colorado?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, all right, and you did that?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I did.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I went and saw my mom. Yeah, and sister, she's
doing well. She said to say hello to everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ah that's great.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So I go home and I do her whatever her
errands and chores she needs done.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But Bellio, here's why I brought it up, because when
you vacation, you work harder than you do on the show.
Speaker 8 (01:52):
I really do. All you do is vacation right now,
that's right, you're back. You're now on vacation again, just
started today. But you are a chore woman unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, and you have a list of things that either
your husband needs to have done, or your mom needs
to have done, or your brother.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Admitt my sister. I have few stuff that they can't
get done.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
That and I noticed that it's the stuff they don't
feel like doing, you know, right, they wait for me,
Oh do you mind getting to this, and right I do.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
But I wanted to send you. Are you the oldest
or the youngest, the youngest? Are you the oldest daughter? Nope, okay, youngest,
All right, I'm gonna play something for you later on
the show that I sent my sister and my wife,
and it is dead on. It's the person with the
most pressure in the family. In the family unit, by far,
(02:44):
is the oldest daughter. The old the oldest daughter has
the most pressure amongst anybody in the family, much more
than Mom, much more than Dad, much more than the
other sisters or the other brothers. It's the older sister
that has to grow up me imediately and help with
the younger kids. And her quietness, as seen is seen
(03:08):
as strength, but really she has forgotten or not willing
to ask for help on anything. And it's a whole
It's about a minute long, and man, it's perfect. It's
exactly like my wife is the oldest sister in her house,
and my sister Kelly's the oldest sister. And then if
I go through my friends and I pick out, you know,
(03:31):
the oldest sister, it's dead on on every single one
of them. So if you're the oldest daughter of a
family out there, you have got to be congratulated because
you have the most pressure on you amongst anybody else
in the family, the oldest daughter. And I think that's
why when you know, dad goes sideways at the end
(03:52):
in his eighties, as George Carlin said, eighty to ninety
is not a good decade for guys. As dad goes sideways,
the oldest daughter is the one who's there for him
the most. Was that Was that true in your case?
Belly on, you're the older your older sister was there
for your dad?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Nothing? Where's Bell?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I'm right here, I'm sorry. What was that?
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Yeah? Got him?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's ten minutes in and we're still and now it's
I know.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I was catching up with everyone I see. Okay, so
good to see you. Okay, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
When your dad passed away, was it your oldest sister
that was there on a daily basis or did a
lot of the work.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes, and my mom, Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But that's what it is the oldest So look that up.
I mean, you know, I agree it totally.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I have a friend of mine who's oldest sister and
became like the second mom.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, it happened to my mom.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
My mom was one of eight kids and she had
a brother that died six months after he was born
by the name Tim, So I'm named after my uncle
died six months after he was born.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
How about that shot.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
That's a nice honor, is it, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Or you're rolling the dice twice? You know, Yeah, we
didn't get the first time. How about Tim again? And
I was definitely ill too. I could if they had to,
almost had to go for trips.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
You know, to Irish negative.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's right. I was Irish negative.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I need a full blood transfusion when I was born,
and I made it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I made it.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I made it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Go Timmy, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right, let's get into uh Venezuela, or as two
people I heard over the weekend on radio, call it Valenguela. Yep,
the president of Valenguela was removed. I heard that twice
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But here it is. It's Venezuela. Let's find out what's
going on with Maduro. He's out.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Let's find out what the experts are saying, because that's
a big deal here in the United States.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
I want to thank the men and women of our
military who achieve such an extraordinary success overnight with breathtaking speed, power, precision,
and competence.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
President Trump addresses the world after the US blitz on
Venezuela and capture of the South American country's president, Nicholas
Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores. Mister Trump calls them
narco terrorists who launched a deadly drug and firearms built
campaign against the United States and its citizens, explaining the
(06:27):
couple will now face charges on American soil.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
A White House account is posting.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Footage that apparently shows drug enforcement agents escorting the embattled
Venezuelan president through a detention center in New York.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How about that night, you know, you're watching little football,
maybe having a beer, and then one hundred and fifty
aircraft from twenty two different bases and thousands of American
soldiers come in and grab you, kill all your bodyguards,
and whisk you off to New York City where you're
probably spend the rest of your life. How about that
(07:01):
Saturday night. That's a Saturday night that he had, and
the only guy in the world that had that crazy
Saturday night.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Not everyone supports the US action, including political and policy
and legal experts who spoke with kt LA.
Speaker 11 (07:17):
Nicholas Maduro was dictator, was an authoritarian leader, stole the elections,
was a corrupt However, that does not justify the invasion
on military operation.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Ariel Dulitski is a human rights law professor at the
University of Texas in Austin. He considers the US military
action illegal, violating international law.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well is this radio Venezuela? What is this?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Is this the TV Venezuelan TV or what station is
this from Bello? Is this from Venezuela? This Venezuela television?
He considers the Valezuela. He considers the US military action illegal.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We should do that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We should play these clips and ask you do you
think that's local La TV or Venezuela's state run TV.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Hmm, pretty much the same, I would say.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
He considers the US military action illegal, violating international law
and the United Nations Charter tough s tough s. So
what would have been a better resolution in his opinion.
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Well, we have to support the opposition.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
In bit, please get out of here. Supporting the opposition.
Do that for thirty years? How'd that work out?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
The people from Venezuela are thrilled and it's their country,
so I'm happy for them.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Our first appearance of the year by Michael Monks, How
you Bob?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Happy New Year to you, Uncle t Bones.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
All right, let's before we get into people you know
are leaving and hate la, let's talk about your cats.
You have two cats and now you have to have
one neuter or spade. I guess she's space Spae the
girl cats. I found this cat on skid row a
couple months ago, brought her into the house.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
She's a little thing. I thought she was a kitten.
She's not. She's an old trollop from the streets. Is
that right? How old did they think she is?
Speaker 12 (09:15):
Well, they think she's about fifteen months, but they said
there was evidence that she's sexually active. Really, so we've
had a talk about that situation. Okay with her, right,
you're gonna get her fixed, and we're gonna get her fixed.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And that's when I had a cat. Last time we
had a cat fix it was forty five dollars. Is
that still the price range?
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Was that the it was the interwar years.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It was about thirteen years ago. Oh really, maybe seventeen
years ago. Wow, yeah, forty five hours. No, it's not
forty five dollars, I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 12 (09:43):
I called my vet downtown and I was like, just curious,
since you pretty much raked me over the coals anytime
I bring these cats in for their standard shots. How
much for a spae? They said between nine hundred and
twelve hundred dollars. Whoa, you gotta be kidding, not kidding you.
So I was like, Okay, let me see what the
county or the city does like through the shelters. Okay,
(10:04):
they do. They offer it and it's much cheaper. It's
like a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Okay. You can't get in.
Speaker 12 (10:09):
Oh yeah, it's like you have to stalk like it's
Taylor Swift tickets coming out. You have to sit there
and refresh and refresh and refresh to see when an
appoint right, okay, and I live in downtown LA. That
that shelter was out. They were so backed up you
can't get in there. I'm going to Mission Hills on
Sunday morning from downtown at six thirty in the morning.
They want me to.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Drop this cat off where you're going to Mission Hills,
Orange County.
Speaker 12 (10:31):
Did I say Mission Hills? That's not right. Okay, that's
not right. I'll look it up. I get sometimes when
I do the forecast and you name all the different cities,
I get confused.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I do too.
Speaker 12 (10:40):
I've been here for sixty years. Let me find this.
It's uh, it's fall. It's in the valley. Okay, all right,
it's in the valley.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Then you're then that's off.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
It's su Paulvit in the two ten, it's a pulvit
in the one eighteen is yeah, Mission Hills. I think
that's your I think it's right. I think Mission Valley
was the now Mission Hills. Mission Hills. Okay, I think
that's off to Paulvita and want to.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, Mission Hills.
Speaker 12 (11:01):
You scare me because you know, being a relatively new
of course, people are very sensitive when I mistake.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, it wasn't always Mission Hills. It's like, you know,
North Hollywood wasn't uh, you know, parts of North Hollywood
like Ivy Springs, Glen Ivy. You know they change it
to take the hot the stink off. Yeah, and that
area was still mar and they tried to change it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Oh
was that right?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, all right, all right, let's get into why you're here.
People are leaving Los Angeles, and we always look at
U hauls as a tailsystemmetric.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
U haul puts the sally, gets them a lot of press.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
Of course, it's their own metrics, and we fall for
it because it's interesting and fun and it's fun to
dump on California, even though we do so lovingly. California
ranks fiftieth in the country for growth according to the
U Haul Growth Index.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The u haul, the moving and storage.
Speaker 12 (11:51):
Company, measures the number of one way trips from states
using their vehicles.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Okay, pods also a.
Speaker 12 (12:00):
Similar analysis every year, but we've got the u haul
one today.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Six months from now.
Speaker 12 (12:05):
U haul will also give us a mid year update,
which we'll all look forward to. But it says that
for the six year in a row, more people have
left California via U haul than come in.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Is it a significant number? Do they give out the number?
Speaker 12 (12:16):
They don't give out the raw number, but as a percentage,
it's more than half of the trips. And so the
state of California is sending people to Texas, Florida, South Carolina.
Texas and Florida the top two states for growth according
to the U Haul Growth Index, California on the very
bottom with Illinois and New Jersey. Ah okay, Now I
(12:39):
had a sign about four or five years ago that
this was going on.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
My sister in law got married in Lafland, Nevada, and
we had to get there quickly, so we flew to Vegas,
rented a car to go to Oh no, it took
a somebody picked U up in Vegas and drove us
to Laughlin and then to get home from Lafland, Nevada,
I was going to rent a car one way from
Laughland to Los Angeles. So I go to the car
dealership I think it was Enterprise, and there were no
(13:04):
cars available, and of course I didn't think ahead. So
I went next door and there was a guy who
had a car dealership, but it was dollar rent a car.
Plus he also had U hauls, and he said to me,
I can give you a U haul to drive your
family back Dela for free and we'll pay for the gas,
or you can rent a car. Now, I had lost
(13:24):
a lot of money on this trip, and I wasn't
sure that I could put my wife and daughter in
a U haul three of us is a breass driving
back to Los Angeles and still keep my marriage a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It would have been a good story. Have you driven
a U haul before? Yes?
Speaker 12 (13:41):
Not easy to drive if it's not something you don't
have any rear view, right, not very tough. You may
recall last summer I had told this story many times
in the air about the magic couch I purchased from
the Macy's out by your racetrack.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I had to get a U Haul to go pick
that thing.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
Oh that was a terrible experience. I mean, I'm not
dumping on U haul in general. You know the people
that that rent you hauls, that rent you them, that
own the businesses, they're like, I mean, there are some
shady operations like you don't when you google you haul,
you think, oh, there's a U haul store, right, there's not.
It's Joe's out in the middle of in some seedy
(14:19):
part of Koreatown that I had to go to to
get this U haul. No customer service skills to be here.
By the way, there's no gas in it, okay, right?
They always start with no gas. No gas in it,
you know, the guy says, hey, you might be able
to make it to the gas station with this. Yeah,
that's what I was like. I get it to Santa
Nita and this from Koreatown to pick up a couch it.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Now, did you learn the lesson not to buy cheap
couches or well?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
This was not a cheap couch.
Speaker 12 (14:47):
Okay, but this was an expensive couch that I got
as it was the floor model. I'm reminding you it
was a used couch. It wasn't used, sure, it was
bought new. It was just used by customers who were
walking by and maybe set their butt on it just
to try it out.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
For how many years maybe two? Two years of people
at the mall sitting on your couch. This couch is gorgeous.
It's changed the whole I feel like a wealthy man
when I go home. This couch retailed for almost five grand.
I got it for seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 12 (15:11):
They were so desperate to get rid of it, right,
and then caused another hundred so I think it was
still worth it. Now, the new cat we just mentioned,
she was in heat last month, and this is why
I realized I need to spay her because I can't
go through this again. They're screaming, she sticks her butt up.
You know she's wanting it, she needs it. They ca
(15:31):
the cat needs it, and my boy cat is neutered,
so he was of no help. But they also spray
that she peede.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
On the couch.
Speaker 12 (15:41):
Oh no, And we have a fancy vacuum steamer, but
that's pretty aggressive when they're in heat.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That we don't know what.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
We're gonna have to do to fix this, because you
can smell it on the couch today.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
No, that's hard, gets deep in the bones.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Buddy, you are you know what, God love you.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I don't know if you do this on purpose or
if you like you know, anxiety, but you really sort
of have lifted your life up to a level of
just ninety nine percent stress.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's chaos. I'm really quite sin. I'm really quite sin.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I know.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But you're a guy in the newsroom. I've noticed that
doesn't warm up to chaos. You don't like it. You
don't like when people do stupid things around here, and
yet you go home and you've turned your life into chaos.
Speaker 12 (16:35):
I do have a couple of cats there. I do
like structure. I need it or I'm a mess, right,
you know, I'm sure you can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's exactly.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
We're both a couple of degenerates. Session we need structure
to keep us from our vises.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's right, buddy. Thank you for coming in seven to
nine on Saturday.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
And on Wednesday our fire special where one year anniversary
will mark the one year anniversary of when the fires
really took hold here in La County. And you've got
a full two hour special that we're going to run
and then after that airs from nine to ten, I'll
be on live.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
That's great. Okay, So it's this Wednesday at seven pm, and.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Then it will air again on Saturday, nited seven. That's excellent.
Nice to see a man.
Speaker 13 (17:11):
Republican Rand Paul. The measure only needs a simple majority
to pass. That means three more Republicans would have to
join Paul to give it the needed fifty one votes. However,
Trump would likely veto any resolution to limit his power
if it were to pass in Congress. Lisa Carton kafin News.
Speaker 14 (17:29):
This report broughts you by lausd adult Ed dot org.
Pentagon chief Pete Heggs Seth says Arizona Democratic Senator Mark
Kelly will likely be demoted by the US Navy. ABC
Stephen Portenoy says it's link to Kelly's partner video that
urged troop to ignore illegal orders.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It's an administrative action that's short of a court martial.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It will likely see Mark Kelly losing his rank as
a retired Navy captain and would result in a reduction
in his military pension.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
Kellen was among the Democratic members of Congress who urge
troops to ignore the illegal orders and what hegseth caused
a reckless and seditious video. And the new year means
new fees on built in batteries.
Speaker 15 (18:02):
The fee is one and a half percent of the
product's price, up to a maximum of fifteen dollars, and
applies to everyday items from power tools and gaming consoles
to some greeting cards. It's part of Senate Bill twelve fifteen,
which aims to reduce the number of batteries ending up
in landfills. State officials estimate around seventy three hundred tons
(18:23):
of batteries are thrown away each year, either accidentally or illegally.
The new fee will reportedly help fund proper recycling and
help keep hazardous materials out of the trash. Chris Powers,
KFI News.
Speaker 14 (18:36):
Why the sky's cool, The cold tempts overnight tonight, gradually
clearing by midday tomorrow and a little warmer and then
temp's about the same and mostly daytime clear after that
to the weekend. Right now, sixty seven in Culver City,
sixty six in cent to any there's a crash in
South la This is on.
Speaker 16 (18:51):
The southbound side of the one ten, coming up on
Manchester Avenue. They've rolled this wreck out of lanes and
delaysers still recovering away from expos position. Just check out
that northbound side of the one ten freeway. It's going
to be kind of tough as well, delays and stretches
leaving the one oh five as you continue all the
way to the five in Allegian Park. The drive on
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the five southbound crowding up out of Los Phelis from
Los Philis Boulevard to the six oh five and is
still tough in Anaheim, eastbound side of the ninety one
leaving the fifty five freeway all the way to Green River.
Tough in Ontario both side to the fifteen between the
sixty and the ten and that fifteen southbound in the
Cahom Pass just before the one thirty eight. That's where
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the right lane remains off limits to clean up after
an earlier crash. Southbound delays still loading up from almost
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Speaker 2 (20:03):
iHeart one year ago.
Speaker 18 (20:06):
Well, it's been almost one year since the devastating Southern
California wildfires.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Fires ripped through Southern California. This is our reterm, this
is our nested. The management withdrew firefighters from the hotspot
Wednesday at seven pm.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
None of us. We're aware of the water issues with
the reservoir.
Speaker 19 (20:22):
KFI looks back in a special hosted by Michael Monks
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Show KFI AMS sixty It is the Conway Show.
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Belly just came in and said, did you promote Michael
Monks on Wednesday with his report on the fire? And
I said I did, and Bellio goes, oh great, Now
she was listening here.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I heard it, But what what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
But no, I said, when you came in here to
ask if we promoted Michael Monks is Special on Wednesday,
I said, we did, and if you were listening, you would.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Have heard that.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I don't. I don't listen.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Okay, all right, I get that. I get that.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
I totally understand that maybe this sickment might be maybe.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Maybe a little better.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'm hoping.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I'm hoping.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But that's okay. Look, I understand. You know you've been
doing it for a long time. How long you've been producing.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Radio twenty something years?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, even before you were doing sports radio. Yeah, so
maybe thirty. Yeah, and sports radio is always much more
interesting because it changes all the time.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
It's unpredictable with the score that thank you.
Speaker 16 (23:57):
Yes.
Speaker 17 (23:58):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
I also, uh, well, I don't listen.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
And sometimes I'm pulling audio for you, or I'm booking
a guest or something, so that working towards the show.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
It isn't that I don't listen to you.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I am not blaming you for not listen. All right.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Let's talk about the local weather, especially up in the mountains.
Snow people love getting up to the mountains. They love
the snow. They love taking kids up to the snow.
If you're young, snow is really a young person's game.
As you get older, snow is not your friend. If
you're in your seventies, ah, snow is your enemy. You know,
(24:36):
it can take you down. You slip on the ice
to crack a hip and then it's a couple weeks
in cedars and then right off to forest lawn. So
snow is a young man's game or young woman's game.
But if you're young, or maybe you have young kids,
you have newborns or you know, toddlers, kindergarteners, whatever, you
(24:56):
got to get them up to the snow and let
the kids experience that snow. It's a big part of
a child's life to experience snow for the first time
and get them up there. It's you know, you got
to open their lives up to that because you're not
going to get it here in Burbank or in Woodland
Hills or Malibu. It's just doesn't snow around here enough.
You got to get to the mountain. Let's find out
what's going on here. And if you can do it
(25:16):
this weekend this year at.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Our climate side at least, which is at Big Bear Lak.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
We've not recorded any snowfall great none.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
To be sure, they have had plenty of rain Mountain
highways a mess, more than eleven inches.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Of rain flowing up here in the last two weeks. Wow,
is that right? Eleven inches and two weeks. That's huge.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
The average high temperature in Big Bear for December is
forty seven degrees. This year it's been sixty and.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
We actually did have a record high earlier in December
on the ninth that actually hit seventy two in Big Bear.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
How about that in December seventy two degrees in Big Bear.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
They hate this, so it's been you know, warmer winter
for them so far.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Looking at our Big Bear camp, you can see that
the ski and snowboard resorts have just enough snow to
keep some runs open.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, and the guy who runs it's either mountain high
or snow Summit, the guy that does the pr for them.
This guy's great. We got to try to belly, We
got to try to get this guy in the show.
He said that artificial man made snow is better than
natural powder, better than natural snow.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
That is a man who.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Has cajones the size of Burbank to say that, and
he said it with a straight face, and he hoped
that people would buy it.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And I love that guy.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
He just sat there and told us something that is
one hundred percent untrue and sold it like it was gospel.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Over at Mountain High, they're still completely closed following the
extensive damage that came in on the big Christmas eave storm.
But if you were desperate to find snow, the Snow
Valley has this small snowplay area available.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Okay, Snow Valley, get up the Snow Valley. They have
a small area that that'll probably be very crowded. But
having a snow resort, we're having a ski chalet. Or
you're in the ski business in southern California, man, every
year is panic time. Every single year. You have no
idea what's gonna happen? Excuse me? And it comes in
(27:26):
really short spurts. Once in a blue moon, you'll get
a fantastic winter where you get six feet of snow
and that will not happen again for another thirty years.
But if you if you own one of the ski
resorts or a hotel up there, or a ski chalet
or whatever you rent skis whatever. Man, it's always, always,
every single day waking up and looking at that weather
(27:48):
report and just getting depressed out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
It's not much, but during such a warm winter, they'll
take what they can get them. It's nice to get out,
get some fresh air. This is the first time he's
ever been in We've been living.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
In the tropics for the last couple of years, so
we just moved here from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So he was just one to feel what it felt like.
Speaker 17 (28:06):
So we were excited to see any snow.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Wait a minute, guy moved from Hawaii to Los Angeles?
Does he not go online see what's going on here?
He moved from Hawaii to LA with the homeless, the crime,
the weather, the fires, the craziness, and he did that move.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I guess that wouldn't have shown up on U haul stats.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I get it right, Yeah, I mean that's the American
Airline stat But he's got to be one person a
year that does that. I've never heard that move. I
moved from Hawaii to LA. I moved from Hawaii to Burbank.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
What and the National Weather Services they're crossing their fingers
about the forecast. They're saying it looks like overnight lows
here and Big Bear could drop into the mid twenties
over the next few days, which means hopefully snowmaking can
resume soon.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's not a good business to be in the snow
business in Southern California is real, dicey, and I bet
it takes years off of your life. If you're thirty
and you're in the snow game in Southern California, you
probably have the heart of a ninety year old because
every day is panic time, worried, panicked, screaming, money going out,
(29:24):
no money coming in, angry as hell, and you can't
survive off of hot chocolate. There's just not enough money
in that game. I feel for people who are in
the Southern California snow game. Man, oh man, you guys,
you've got it rough and this year is Noah what
different seventy two degrees in December in Big Bear.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You knew coming in it was rough, and you decide
to get into it. So I hope it snows, but
it didn't look like it's gonna.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Hey, we got a guy coming up at five oh five.
He's ex de A, former DEA supervisor agent.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
His name is Jim shed S H E. D D.
And he's going to tell us what's.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Going on in UH, in the in South America, what's
going on with Maduro, what's going on with Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
And so that's at five oh five.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You're gonna want to come back if you're if you
got somewhere to go, or I don't know, maybe you need.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
A cigarette or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm oh sorry, I mean asked not to do that
this year, not to suggest that people go out and
smoke a cigarette.
Speaker 14 (30:44):
Sorry, the word you're going to cause an influx in
a huge, big jump in tobacco sales.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
Are they?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Either that or we couldn't get the cigarette money for
sales of the station we used to be able to
advertise cigaret. Like Jeff Thomas is sitting in here, one
of the heads of sales. Can you can you go on?
Can you go on radio?
Speaker 9 (31:05):
Here?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
This guy's been in sales for a long long time, man.
What is your official title here? President of sales division?
Speaker 9 (31:13):
President?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And that's a big deal, right that is? And how
long you been in sales?
Speaker 9 (31:18):
A long time?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
How many years?
Speaker 9 (31:21):
Uh more than forty, is that right?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
So back when you started maybe also when I started,
you know, you couldn't advertise cigarettes, but it was right
on the cuts.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Yeah, they I think this cigarette ban on advertising ended
I want to say, very early seventies.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Yeah, O, very early seventies because and they never really
banned cigarette advertising.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
What let's get it back.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
What they said was you fight that fight too. What
they said was for every ad that you run advertising cigarettes,
you need to run another ad advertising the dangers of smoking,
right right, which is untenable to run. So that really
sort of effectively the broadcasters voluntarily said we're not going
(32:14):
to run any more cigarette advertiser, right.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
But that's true. Cigarettes come with the warning on the pack.
They also come with the warning you know on TV
all the vaping and stuff, and also gambling does as well.
You know, when we run a gambling spot, at the
end it's you'll call one and alcohol and alcohol, alcohol.
But you know what is missing in life and that
wipes out more people than all three of those combined
is food. You know, when you do fast food or whatever,
(32:38):
at the end of it, you have to have to say, hey,
if you're a tons of fun called this number.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
You don't want to see the pop tart I had
for lunch today. There should have been a warning label
on that one.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yes, yes, sir, But anyway, so you came in to
tell us not only about the new show we're starting
on Saturday, but did last year we had a good year.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Yeah, it's great. Can if I continues to just be
a dominant station in the marketplace, and it's because of
people like you. It's says of our commitment to having
you know, the personalities that we have on from five
o'clock in the morning, you know, all the way up.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, yeah, and you know, you know it's really weird.
I've been on this station. I started in twenty ten
and it's now twenty twenty six, so sixteen years. Next
week will be sixteen years that I've been on the station.
And I'm the newest guy, right you know, Bill Handle's
been here longer, John cole Belt has been here longer,
so is Gary and Shannon, and then so I am
(33:38):
the youngest. I'm the I have the least amount of
tens right here, yes exactly. And that's and that's after sixteen.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Years isn't that crazy. It just it just shows the
consistency of a format and the station. I guess, so,
you know, or that's the fact that like to me, Tim,
you have the best job in the world, Thank you
very much. Like why would you ever this cop?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's why I'm here? Why would you ever leave this job?
Speaker 9 (34:05):
That's why would you leave it?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
That's right, that's exactly right. You know, it's harder to do.
It's harder to have your own local talk show in
Los Angeles than it is to play for the Lakers.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
There are more Lakers than there are local talk show.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
Hosts in LA.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yes, and more Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
So I mean, look, physically it's harder to play for
the Dodgers, I bet. But but there maybe maybe they say,
hitting a baseball.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
You make more money than most of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
That's probably pretty good. That's probably right.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
But it is you know, when when I first started
working here and again it'll be sixteen years next next
week on January tenth, it is like playing for the
Dodgers the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
This is the big league, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I mean, this is if you asked anybody in America,
you know what station would you want to work for
as a talk show host, this would be on top
of their list.
Speaker 9 (34:55):
What really bears that out is the fact that KFI
is the most listen to radio station on the iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Is that right?
Speaker 9 (35:03):
Yeah, So the thousands of radio stations that are on
the app, KFI has the most listened to of any station.
And it's not just people in southern California, it's people
all over the country, right that love KFI, love the format,
love the stories. They can't get it anywhere else.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
This is Jeff Thomas is the divisional president of sales,
and I love that you have passion for radio like
I do. Like I'll tell you a quick story. When
I started in nineteen ninety six. It was Christmas Eve even,
nineteen ninety six, and about a year into working on
(35:42):
kalis X, a guy who owns Sit and Sleep came
in and said he'd liked to buy a few ads, right,
And I thought myself, this guy's going to sell mattresses
on the radio. And it exploded into a business where
now Sit in Sleep is the largest the largest seller
(36:04):
of mattresses, perhaps in the United States, but certainly in California.
And it all started on radio, and he attributes all
of his success to radio.
Speaker 9 (36:13):
Yeah, and radio continues to be a big part of
their marketing. It's huge. Yeah, even even though that was
before like the digital age and when there was no
social media, no online advertising, and now you know, that's
a big thing. Larry Miller.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, Larry Miller's kids continues.
Speaker 9 (36:32):
To be, you know, a big supporter of radio and
a big believer in what we do in the format. Yeah,
and his family and you know, yeah, folks that work
with them.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And a lot of people say that, you know that
ads sales are going to you know, online or podcasts whatever.
But I mean, you know, if you just take the
you know the people that you know Advanced hair or
you know American Vision Windows, Marongo Prize, Pigs, Rnel Carriers,
you know Sweet James, a lot of them been here
(36:59):
for nine ten years.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You know, it does work.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
And and here's what I love about radio advertising. I
heard somebody told me this. I think Rick D's told
me this. He said, if you have an idea for
a business and you want to see if it's going
to work in ten years, give it six months on
radio and they'll tell you whether it's going to work.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
And that, and that could save you a ton of money.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
Yeah, that's a really like good insight because the reality is,
if there's a market for it, we can help clients
sell it. And now you know, fewer people are using
Google to search. There's AI, there's all kinds of right,
different ways to find clients. You know, find find businesses
online if you're looking for a window company, or if
(37:40):
you're looking for mattresses or whatever. Radio has the trust factor.
They trust people like you, like John, like Bill Handle,
like Gary and Shannon to really like give them a
valuable recommendation, kind of like a friend would give a
friend if they're going to see a movie or going
to a restaurant and they're looking for, you know, somebody
to recommend that to them.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
You're right because when I before I even worked here,
I heard John and Ken talk about Mountain View tire
and I need new tires, and I passed it by.
I'm like, oh, I heard them on KFI and I didn't,
you know, call and say what the price, what's the price?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Try to get a better deal.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I just if I heard it on John and Ken,
I knew that they are on the up and up,
and I got a sweet deal and had a great
experience and and so you're right.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
I think that that does help.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
But anyway, we're starting a new show on Saturday at
five pm and we're going to get some more details
on that.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
But that'd be a lot of fun. Buddy, I've been
working with you for sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
You've always you've always been the twenty ten about twenty ten,
twenty ten, been sixteen years and you've been here for
sixteen years.
Speaker 9 (38:47):
I've been here for twenty eight years, twenty eight. Yeah,
well that's great.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I mean, that's great.
Speaker 9 (38:52):
I have to be really honest, Like if you're in
Los Angeles at iHeart and you have stations like KFI
and then stay other stations that we have like Kiss
FM and you know Closed and you know five seventy,
all these great brands that we have, and then another
you know, eight hundred and fifty radio stations around the
country plus streaming and we're the largest podcaster. Where would
(39:15):
you go from there?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Exactly?
Speaker 9 (39:17):
There's no other player in the space besides iHeart.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
How do people call you or or email you directly?
Speaker 9 (39:23):
Jeff Thomas, J E. F. F. Thomas, T H O
M A. S at iHeart with an I media dot com.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
All right, we're going to send you anybody listening to
that that segment who wants to throw ads on there.
Speaker 9 (39:37):
I would love to talk to anybody, reach out and
uh we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
They're going to email you directly. Perfect, excellent, Jeff Dice
to see it.
Speaker 9 (39:45):
Man, Happyanks, Tim, I appreciate it. I didn't expect this, so.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Happy to know you're bub happy. All right, welcome back
and talk to Jim shed S, a g d D.
He's a former de e, A agent and he knows
what's going on down in South America and Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
We'll talk about it. We're live on KFI AM six
forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
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