June 28, 2024 • 29 mins
Alex Stone -The big 4th of July exodus begins with today expected to be the busiest travel day ever at US airports. LGBTQ Mariachi Band / Brush fire in Simi Valley. Elex Michaelson – Biden V Trump post analysis. Traffic Heavy 15 into Cajon Pass / 260 unsolved home burglaries
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It's camf I Am six forty andyou're listening to the Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Is thebusiest travel day in the history of LAX
and here to talk about it isa a l e X Alex Stone,
how you bub I should be aLax relax I kind of like Lex Michaelson,
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but he's coming on too. Yeah, it's gonna be Alex and then
Alex Alex Talx Alex Alex Funny,this is gonna be a record amount of
people leaving LAX. What kind ofnumbers they looking at? Yeah, So
the belief is that when we getthe numbers, probably tomorrow for today,
that this is gonna be the busiesttravel day ever. I mean at all
airports and the TSA and the airlines. They think over three million people are
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gonna be flying today or least goingthrough checkpoints. What's weird, though,
is tim last Sunday was the busiestday that blew away all records for no
reason. You know, you wouldthink it would have been before Thanksgiving or
Fourth of July or Christmas, butjust all of a sudden, some random
Sunday in June that many people areflying now that all of a sudden,
they went, oh wait, lastSunday, all records since the beginning of
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you know that they've been keeping thesethings for airports. People were flying a
lot last Sunday, so it's goingto be busy. So far, it
looks pretty good. Nationwide, therehave been one hundred and eight flights canceled
today, and most of those havebeen flights Iner out of the US to
London because London's been having all kindsof problems today. But generally it's just
been some random flights here and there. United's had like fourteen flights fifteen flights,
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less than one percent of all oftheir flights canceled. So for a
day when people are getting away,it's actually looking really good. This lady's
flying out of Denver. She said, easy, piecey. It's been super
easy, like no hiccups, notrouble, there's no lines, security,
I got right in, checked mybag, super smooth. So every holiday
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we got to do where's everybody going? So Triple A says most popular places
is fourth of July. Based onbookings. Seattle is number one. Lot
of that is cruise ships, andthen Orlando, why Okay, Anchorage and
Honolulu wait, Anchorage is number three. Yeah, Anchorage number three is another
cruise thing probably, and they justkind of getting out there because Memorial Day,
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like Casper, Wyoming was one ofthe top wow where people were going.
It seems like kind of post pandemic. People want to get out and
not go to Yeah, of courseVegas is always up there, and sure,
yeah, Denver and others. Butso yeah, Triple I thinks sixty
million people are going to be driving, so it's going to be busy.
I mean, you heard it withMike O'Brien and Angel Martinez. There a
moment ago of how slammed it isif how many people are sitting listening to
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us in bumper to bumper traffic rightnow and this is this is the key
time. It is now, andit is tomorrow, and then people are
going to bail. Triple A putit this way. We're seeing that some
people are going to choose to leavethat Saturday or Sunday before July fourth,
work remotely from their destination Monday orTuesday, and then take the rest of
the week off and then come backthe following weekend. I like it.
The commute is going to be amazingnext week because everybody's out of here.
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So it's today, Tomorrow, Sunday, and just some numbers for you.
Hopper the website. Travel Website saysairfares are down eighteen percent this fourth of
July over last year. Over thefourth July period, hotels are averaging two
hundred and thirty two bucks a nightin the US over this time. Rental
rates rental car rates are stable overlast year, forty eight bucks a day
on average, So it's not remembercoming out of the pandemic we were like,
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oh my god, rental cars areinsane. Now it's forty eight bucks
on average. Seven percent more airlineseats are flying this fourth of July period
over last year. That's bigger planes, more planes being flown, and the
busiest airports if you're flying over thenext week and a half, going to
be Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver, which makes sense. Atlanta is Delta's
hub, Dallas American, Denver United, So if you're going through a big
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hub, it's going to be busy. You know what we're flying. We're
going to Portland for a couple ofdays later on in July, and I
booked the tickets last night and thenI saw both legs of the trip to
Portland and Portland back to Burbank seventhirty seven, Max, go sit next
to that hidden door in there.Hold on, you know here a little
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whistle of wind right in the face. Are you going anywhere with the kids?
Taking anybody out? We're gonna ina couple of days we're gonna go
up camping at Sakoya National Park.So that that should be good. That'd
be fun. Yeah. Yeah,Oh that's great, man. That is
a good day to get out thereand deal with the be snails and then
flies airs. If I get eatenby a bear, if I'm not around
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next week, you know what happened. Do you bring bear spray? Uh?
No, you can't bring it intothe national park. It's seen as
a weapon. No way. Yeah, So every national park, this is
what I've learned. Every National parkthey and you know, you go to
Yellowstone or they sell it there,they tell you you got to have it,
But there's grizzlies there. They aren'tin California, but if you go
into Sequoia or into King's Canyon,they're pretty much the same park. You
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are not allowed to have it.It's seen as having a gun or anything
else. Wait, but you can'tjust hide it in your luggage. You're
not. I guess you could.But you can't have that. You can't
have pepper spray. You can't haveany kind of of any you know,
aerosol weapon of any kind. Theydon't allow it. Wow, it sounds
like kfive didn't allow that. There, they tell you no bear spray when
you come in. Yeah, buddy, Arian Shannon, that's right. Have
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a great weekend. Thanks for comingon. We'll talk to you next week.
I have a great weekend. YouTubeBob all right, there he goes
Alex Stone with ABC News. Thatguy's great man. That guy always says
all the information. By the way, I noticed when we were when we're
listening to Angel Martinez is Angel withus? Angel you with us? Hey,
Timmy man, you sound really goodtoday. Really, Chris, are
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you at home? Are you atthe studio? What's going on? Yeah,
it's Friday and I'm working from home. Okay, it sounds great.
It sounds better than you did Mondaythrough Thursday. I don't know what it
is. Maybe you got great equipment. Maybe it sounds terrific. Thanks.
Yeah, well, thanks for theheads out. Hats off to you.
Michael not so good. You're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
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I am six forty. All right, we'll talk to Alex Michaelson about the
debate. But I think people eithersaw it they wanted to see it.
Fifty million people. I thought thatnumber was low. I thought it'd be
hired not and I think a lotof people felt uncomfortable watching it, and
I don't know it was it wasan odd spectacle odd So I we'll do
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that at four thirty five with AlexMichaelson. I thought this was my idea.
You know, you ever have anidea and then somebody else does it
and they make a lot of money, and you always thought, oh,
that could have been me, thatcould have been me. Well, I
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think I had this idea like fouryears ago, and I didn't do anything
about it, so, which isis probably my fault. Then I didn't
do anything about it, and nowthey're you know, they're people making millions,
millions and hundreds of millions of dollarson this and I got no skin
in the game. So but Iguess that's on me that I didn't do
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anything, and I was lazy aboutit and didn't do anything, so what
the hell. But anyway, theseguys are making millions and millions, so
let's praise them for it. Theydid the hard work, they got involved.
It was just my idea, andideas are not worth very much.
It's the it's it's the actual processof creating it and moving forward. And
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they did it. I didn't.So they get the money, and I
don't screw it. Tonight we bringyou a Mariachi with a twist. Fox
Elevens Christie Bojardo shows us what drivesthis unique musical experience. Music is expression
and mariacci Argoti's de Los Angeles isshowing it's also freedom. Akoitis is Spanish
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for Rainbot, and founder Carlos sanmanDiego's In My Blood says it's the world's
first openly LGBTQ plus. That wasmy idea. I could have made a
lot of money. I didn't knowhow to do it. I didn't know
how to put it together. Butthat was my idea, lgbt Q plus
Mariachi band, and this guy didit. So he gets the hundreds of
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millions. I get nothing with it. You should have wanted. I don't
want to. I blame you alittle bit BELLYO for trying to you know,
you weren't as enthusiastic as I wasabout it. Well, Angel was
against it. Well Angel, well, I don't know why. You know,
she's worried about that that tennis elbow, but well she yeah, she
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wanted did you want to hear somework? And she wasn't going to Yeah,
And then she said what about thefirst tennis elbow? Mariachi Band,
I'm like, oh, that's themarketing on that doesn't work. We have
a brush fire on ABC seven hereand see me Valley. Oh is that
right? Let's flip on channel seven. I'm looking at it right now here,
Oh, see me Valley. Allright, let's find out where this
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is in the Seami Valley acres.Where is that flip on channel seven?
Here? Guys coming up dig dogwith you? Oh there at teller all
right, I tell you. Andwhen those board ups get some sleep and
as sharp as they come, allright, we'll find out more about that
fire. But man, I couldhave made a lot of money. LGBTQ
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Marianci Band, I'll always remember myidea first first openly LGBTQ plus Maci and
the first group he's played with sincehe became a Mariacci at eighteen or he
wasn't righted for who he is.I had to endure what it's like,
the buying, the homophobia, theharassment, the discrimination because I was openly
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gay. Yeah, I imagine themariachi is you know, is you know
probably you know, they're very oldfashioned, probably setting their ways, and
they probably aren't, you know,as open maybe as some other types of
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music. And I get that.I get that, you know, it's
an old archaic, you know,music by guys. They're dressed in traditional
you know, outfits and costumes anduniforms from centuries ago. And so when
you have a group like that's that'sbased in centuries old music, they don't
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like they'll make a lot of changes, he says, Like others in his
group, he was born in theUnited States, which drew the ire of
other Mariacci's who questioned his credentials.And in a genre that is male dominated
and embraces the manly man fell yeahsee you hear that, and embraces the
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manly man. Yeah, I shouldhave gotten into it. Fellow musicians regularly
challenged his placed in it. Igrew up in a Mexican household. This
type of mentality wasn't new to me. I grew up knowing and thinking that
being openly gay or being part ofthis community wasn't going to be accepted.
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So he created a group where hewould be accepted. In two decades and
three albums later, he's proud tobe playing Mexican folk music and inspiring even
people of other cultures to dance.A few years ago, we got invited
to perform at the American Embassy inSpain. This is during the Trumpet administration.
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That was a pleasant surprise, butthere has also been expected ugliness.
You just see all of the badthings that they say about you know,
how we're going to go to hell, or we're you know, we're going
to be condemned, or what wouldthis group know about mariachi music, or
how disrespectful we are to the suit. But now he plays through the negativity
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with others, including ya ya vescuzLofits. I have played some events here
and there where like you know,there's like one or two like haters.
They all like sour faces, butoh yeah they're they're they all work in
radio. No, there's like oneor two like haters. They all like
sour faces, but that sums upeverybody around here, sour pusses. You
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know, there's like one or twolike haters. I like sour faces,
but get it, man, youknow that's I mean, that's what I
get walking down the street. Butthey say the support and love for their
music bolsters their message. You know, I didn't know that that they look
down on people who were born inthe United States if you're in a mariachi
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band, I didn't know that.I was unaware of that. That they
will defy traditions, also singing inEnglish and about rainbows and passion for me
without apology, and for those whoalso feel judged. One trans teenage girl
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from a high school in Texas whoplays Mariashi there says that we are her
role models. Another apparent says thatthey introduced their child to us because they
feel that we're a positive influence.Wow, that's more than I could ever
imagine. There you go, anotheridea got away. So good for them.
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Hope they enjoy that. All right, We'll come back and talk to
Alex Michael sim a little bit aboutthe debate, and we're keep an eye
on the fire in See Me ValleySeeMe Valley is on fire the Hills,
not the town. You're listening toTim Conway Junior on demand from kf I
Am six forty. Alex Michael sinis with us. Alex, how you
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bob big dong with you? I'msorry we didn't put you up in time.
What'd you say? Oh? Digdong with you? Buddy. Look,
I thought you guys did a greatjob hosting that event last night and
then the postgame show. That wascool, Thank you very much. Yeah,
I mean there was plenty to talkabout it. Yes, but let
me ask you a question. Ithought this was I don't want to say
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rude, but I want to sayI think maybe they preemptively designed this at
CNN. But as soon as CNNtook over the commentary of the event,
of the of the debate, everysingle person in that nine panels were destroying
Joe Biden, and I think thatI don't know where they got all that
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information. I didn't think he dida horrible job at all. Really,
okay, all right, all right, all right, okay, he didn't
do great, but it could havebeen worse. How could it have been
worse? He could He didn't passout, he didn't fall over. He
didn't throw up, you know heuh, he didn't have an ambulance did
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He did forget what he was sayingat one point he didn't didn't even fill
the time on the closing statement.Okay, but but you know what,
he beat medicare. But Alex,Alex, Look, you know, you
know news and I know news.We're news junkies. That's what we do.
We watch news all the time.And and we've known this for I
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don't know a year or so thathe's been like this. But there are
a lot of people that tuned intothat debate last night who thought he was
the old guy, and that wasa shock to them. And that's why
I think it was. It wasso politically damaging for him. This was
his moment. Uh, I don'there's here's right now. I mean,
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look, and politics, things happen, So you don't want to make predictions
because who knows what's going to happennext. But here's the challenge for him.
He was coming into this debate,he was already losing in all of
the swing states. He was behind, which is why they wanted the debate
to happen. They wanted these rules, they wanted to happen early. They
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wanted to do this debate to senda message to everybody in the country that
he is stronger and more in controlthan you think that these narratives about him
being too old or wrong and justyou watch. He's told us over and
over again, just watch me.And so they did it. Trump agreed
to it. CNN does it.They get a huge audience. The whole
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country is watching, and that's whatthey see. The image that they see.
It goes into every negative stereotype abouthim. And then so now the
question is how do you get outof that the way you would get out
of that in a regular campaign,like when Obama had a bad first debate
or George W. Bush had abad first debate. First off, they
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had another debate soon after. Butthey could go out and do a bunch
of interviews, do a bunch ofmedia maybe you know, do it interesting
podcasts, have fun, do abunch of events. Can he do that?
Okay? Capable? Okay, maybehe's not. But and again I'm
not a huge fan of his,but I will say this, he is
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the only guy in the United Statesand in the world that beat the much
hated Donald Trump a lot of peoplehate Donald Trump and he beat them.
He beat Donald Trump in the lastelection, and this is the way he
gets treated by CNN. Yeah,I mean that, Well, that is
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true. Politics is a tough business, and there could be some more humanity
in some of this. But theother thing that is true is the Joe
Biden that beat Donald Trump even fouryears ago is not the Joe Biden that
we saw on that stage last night. And he look eclipse of Joe Biden
like in twenty twelve. He's likean entirely different person. Okay, But
who is going to tell him tostep down? If it's Jill, if
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it's his wife that tells him tostep down, that she knows that that
is a that is the diamond laneto his funeral, because this is his
whole life. His whole life hasbeen politics, and whoever talks him out
of being president or running again isgoing to sign his death certificate. Yeah.
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I don't I don't know. Idon't know the dynamics of that and
how they communicate to each other.I mean, it's a very very uncomfortable
thing. And for anybody that hashad an aging parent or grandparent that has
lost his self, is you know, struggling. It's just it's so hard
on everybody in the family and juston a human level, it's just it's
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sad right now. You know whenwhen my dad was his age, my
dad was eighty one and he startedto, you know, lose his memory.
My sister noticed it first, andI kept telling her, no,
it's okay, he's okay, youknow, because he's very sharp on some
stories he tells me, and thenhe's not very sharp some days. But
my dad's responds ability when he waseighty one is to get up, eat
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breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner, watch TV, and go to bed.
Those are the pressures that my dadwas under, which was nothing.
But this guy is running the freeworld. Don't you think that pressure complicates
his condition? And tim you know, you don't age backwards. So he's
running to be the president in Januaryof twenty twenty nine at eighty six.
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Yeah, he's like this, now, how is he going to be a
few years from now? I getit, But man, there's a real
dilemma in the Democratic Party when youhave that many people come out on MSNBC,
The Daily Beast, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and they
all trash him last night, andnow they're all to have to figure out
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what to do for the convention.This is going to be a wild summer.
But if Joe Biden wants to stay, he can stay. Rules are
are that way. And so hecould be, you know, going to
this convention with all these gozz ofprotesters outside and all of these media members
who just called for him to dropout, and all of that happening,
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and he could say, you knowwhat, I beat Trump before they doubted
me, then they doubted me mywhole life. I'm the president. They're
all wrong. I'm going forward andand there's really nothing that can be done
to stop him, and and andyou know, and the challenge could be,
is he is he Ruth Bader Ginsburgwho stayed at the party too long
and then his legacy ends up gettingruined by the way. A huge compliment
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to you. I was watching youlast night on Channel eleven after the debate,
and everybody you had on was wasvery well educated and not an alarmist
and not a right wing wackle orleft wing wackle. You had. You
had very stable people on who arejust giving the facts. And I think
in today's day and age, Ithink that's that's unique. Thank you.
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Yeah, we had a rate panellast night, including John Cobo, our
friend from KFI, which was greatto see him represented, and Melanie Mason,
my fount from Politico. It's funto see Chris Matthews, your Hardball
host was but I think it.You know, I think the kind of
people I like to be on ashow with, which is why I like
being on your show every week,is people. Is people that talk like
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real people. You know, thethe the people say ding dong when they
got nothing to say. You know, you're being lied to bs. You
know, here's what the party toldme to say. Is so boring,
it's not interesting. And so whenthe whole country just watched something and we're
all having a reaction to something together, let's talk about it like we're like
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you're talking to your friend, andwork through it together and not pretend like
something didn't just happen that we allsaw happen. Buddy, I am full,
in full agreement with you, andI do this by design, and
I hope you know this. Butand again, you might be the exception.
I don't know, maybe or not, but every guest that we have
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on this show is a Democrat.Every single guest I have on is a
Democrat. I find that more interestingbecause I know the Republican line. I
get that, I live that,I'm very close to that on my personal
life, and I'd like to havethe you know, the the counter to
that. And I like listening andI and like like, for instance,
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I'm you know, I'm good friendswith Mark Ronner, and and people probably
if they listen to Mark Ronner,they can understand, you know, where
he's coming from. And I thinkthe guy is great. You know.
I like having that different point ofview on the air. I enjoy it.
I just wish that more people fromthe younger generation would learn from you
on that front. Right, somany people now are coming up in echo
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chambers and right hearing stuff through socialmedia, and I think that's really dangerous
for the country. Funny, wegot to take off What's on the Big
Show? Now? You got byeight seconds We've got Jon Favreau, former
Obama speech writer, plus more withJohn Cobo, Chris Matthews, and our
panel from last night breaking down thedebate. You're the best, buddy.
I'll be watching tonight ten thirty.Thank you very much, ding John with
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you got it, buddy, itdoes it? Is it weird though that
I watch your show with just arobond. As long as you got a
Nielsen box, we'll take it,whether rogue whatever. All right, buddy,
you're the best. Thanks for comingon. How good weekend? Hey?
Hey, yeah, I watched thatwith a shorty Robond, you know,
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Shorty Road. Yeah, free ballingwith the Shorty Road watching politics.
Oh jeez, belly, Oh please, you know you love it. You're
listening to Tim Conway Junior on DeMayo from kf I am six forty.
A lot of traffic out there,listen to Angel Martinez and Michael brian Man
that four oh five Angel right outof England Wood and you're on the breaks
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all the way almost to the fourteennorthbound. Yeah, it's it's a mess
all the way from now the southend of Culver City, leaving the ninety,
all the way to that five mergeas you head into the Silmar and
then into the New Hall area.Oh that's horrible. You know why they
call it the four five No,because it takes you four oh five hours
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to get where you're going. Ah, that's great. Used to do a
comedy stand up at traffic school.You still doing that? Yeah, yeah,
Wednesday nights. Yeah right, peopleare gonna love that. Also,
it looks like the the Yorba,Linda, you know that that that area
is always a mess, the ninetyone, and it looks like you know,
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I mean Jesus, I mean almostsorry, gosh, leaving the five
eastbound on the ninety one, you'reon and off the break. You get
a little tiny break when you comeup on the seventy one, but otherwise
it's it sucks almost all the wayout to uh Riverside. Yeah, it's
terrible. And so is the fifteeninto the co home paths. I'm looking
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at that. That's horrible. Yeah, dark, Yeah, it's awful and
actually delayser almost connecting into Ontario forthe fifteen northbound. Oh jeez, this
sucks. It really does. Theone on one across the valley, both
south and north or east west,whatever you call it, there's a right
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around the four or five. It'shorrible around there as well. I mean,
so, I guess you know peopleare leaving on vacation with them Oh
yeah, getting out for that holidayweekend, some Independence Day action, that's
right. Dig dong with you allright? Thank you, Angel Martinez.
We have a there was there wasa lot of burglaries in the San Fernando
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Valley. I don't know why it'sbecome a hotbed for home invasion and burglaries,
but there are a lot of them. Two dred and sixty home burglaries
unsolved, unsolved in the San FernandoValley. I mean, what is that
all about? And they ransacked thewhole house. You know, they took
my watches, my wife's jewelry,her purses. The man will called Jake
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doesn't want his name used or hisface shown because of safety concerns, but
he wants to share his story becausewhat happened to him has happened to several
other homeowners in the Laurelwood neighborhood overthe past few months. There's not a
Laurel Wood is up in the hills, up in the Studio City Hills.
Over the past few months, there'snot a day that we don't think about
it, Jake says. Burglars dressedup as construction workers and used Wi Fi
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jamming technology to disable security cameras insidetheir home before getting away with priceless possessions.
Is this stuff that we have beenlike kept for many years and it's
very sad laped. North Hollywood detectivestell me this neighborhood is one of the
latest targeted in a series of homeburglaries in the North Hollywood and Studio City
areas. Did you hear that they'retargeting North Hollywood and Studio City series of
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home burglaries in the North Hollywood andStudio City areas, They say you're to
date there have been approximately two hundredand sixty of them. Them is the
same smashing rear windows or sliding doors. Detectives believe there are several different burglary
crews responsible. Yeah, you gotto try to get I don't know if
Winston is still an advertiser here,but Winston with a Y. We have
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those security screens on most of allof our doors and some windows, and
man, those are great. Youfeel great at night that it would take
a lot to get through those screens, and by that time you could get
a gun and kill the guy that'sdoing that. It's Winston with the Y.
They're a little expensive, but they'reworth their weight in gold. They're
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one hundred percent worth it. Theylook great and they keep people the hell
out of your house, and that'sworth a lot because you know, when
if you've ever had this in thepast where some of these burglarized your house,
you never get that feeling bag ofsecurity in your home. You can't
get it back. A lot ofpeople move after they've been burglarized because you
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really can't get that feeling back.You always feel like somebody was in your
home stealing your crap, and it'stough to get that back. So you
got to be very careful, gotto be a very vigilant out there,
you know, looking around the neighborhoodand looking around, talking to neighbors,
getting one of those neighborhood you know, watch deals and get that citizen or
one of those apps that tells youwhat's going on. But times are change,
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it, man, and it's gettingcrazy out there. All right,
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It's camf I Am six forty andyou're listening to the Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Is thebusiest travel day in the history of LAX
and here to talk about it isa a l e X Alex Stone,
how you bub I should be aLax relax I kind of like Lex Michaelson,
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but he's coming on too. Yeah, it's gonna be Alex and then
Alex Alex Talx Alex Alex Funny,this is gonna be a record amount of
people leaving LAX. What kind ofnumbers they looking at? Yeah, So
the belief is that when we getthe numbers, probably tomorrow for today,
that this is gonna be the busiesttravel day ever. I mean at all
airports and the TSA and the airlines. They think over three million people are
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gonna be flying today or least goingthrough checkpoints. What's weird, though,
is tim last Sunday was the busiestday that blew away all records for no
reason. You know, you wouldthink it would have been before Thanksgiving or
Fourth of July or Christmas, butjust all of a sudden, some random
Sunday in June that many people areflying now that all of a sudden,
they went, oh wait, lastSunday, all records since the beginning of
(01:06):
you know that they've been keeping thesethings for airports. People were flying a
lot last Sunday, so it's goingto be busy. So far, it
looks pretty good. Nationwide, therehave been one hundred and eight flights canceled
today, and most of those havebeen flights Iner out of the US to
London because London's been having all kindsof problems today. But generally it's just
been some random flights here and there. United's had like fourteen flights fifteen flights,
(01:29):
less than one percent of all oftheir flights canceled. So for a
day when people are getting away,it's actually looking really good. This lady's
flying out of Denver. She said, easy, piecey. It's been super
easy, like no hiccups, notrouble, there's no lines, security,
I got right in, checked mybag, super smooth. So every holiday
(01:49):
we got to do where's everybody going? So Triple A says most popular places
is fourth of July. Based onbookings. Seattle is number one. Lot
of that is cruise ships, andthen Orlando, why Okay, Anchorage and
Honolulu wait, Anchorage is number three. Yeah, Anchorage number three is another
cruise thing probably, and they justkind of getting out there because Memorial Day,
(02:12):
like Casper, Wyoming was one ofthe top wow where people were going.
It seems like kind of post pandemic. People want to get out and
not go to Yeah, of courseVegas is always up there, and sure,
yeah, Denver and others. Butso yeah, Triple I thinks sixty
million people are going to be driving, so it's going to be busy.
I mean, you heard it withMike O'Brien and Angel Martinez. There a
moment ago of how slammed it isif how many people are sitting listening to
(02:34):
us in bumper to bumper traffic rightnow and this is this is the key
time. It is now, andit is tomorrow, and then people are
going to bail. Triple A putit this way. We're seeing that some
people are going to choose to leavethat Saturday or Sunday before July fourth,
work remotely from their destination Monday orTuesday, and then take the rest of
the week off and then come backthe following weekend. I like it.
The commute is going to be amazingnext week because everybody's out of here.
(02:57):
So it's today, Tomorrow, Sunday, and just some numbers for you.
Hopper the website. Travel Website saysairfares are down eighteen percent this fourth of
July over last year. Over thefourth July period, hotels are averaging two
hundred and thirty two bucks a nightin the US over this time. Rental
rates rental car rates are stable overlast year, forty eight bucks a day
on average, So it's not remembercoming out of the pandemic we were like,
(03:20):
oh my god, rental cars areinsane. Now it's forty eight bucks
on average. Seven percent more airlineseats are flying this fourth of July period
over last year. That's bigger planes, more planes being flown, and the
busiest airports if you're flying over thenext week and a half, going to
be Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver, which makes sense. Atlanta is Delta's
hub, Dallas American, Denver United, So if you're going through a big
(03:43):
hub, it's going to be busy. You know what we're flying. We're
going to Portland for a couple ofdays later on in July, and I
booked the tickets last night and thenI saw both legs of the trip to
Portland and Portland back to Burbank seventhirty seven, Max, go sit next
to that hidden door in there.Hold on, you know here a little
(04:05):
whistle of wind right in the face. Are you going anywhere with the kids?
Taking anybody out? We're gonna ina couple of days we're gonna go
up camping at Sakoya National Park.So that that should be good. That'd
be fun. Yeah. Yeah,Oh that's great, man. That is
a good day to get out thereand deal with the be snails and then
flies airs. If I get eatenby a bear, if I'm not around
(04:27):
next week, you know what happened. Do you bring bear spray? Uh?
No, you can't bring it intothe national park. It's seen as
a weapon. No way. Yeah, So every national park, this is
what I've learned. Every National parkthey and you know, you go to
Yellowstone or they sell it there,they tell you you got to have it,
But there's grizzlies there. They aren'tin California, but if you go
into Sequoia or into King's Canyon,they're pretty much the same park. You
(04:48):
are not allowed to have it.It's seen as having a gun or anything
else. Wait, but you can'tjust hide it in your luggage. You're
not. I guess you could.But you can't have that. You can't
have pepper spray. You can't haveany kind of of any you know,
aerosol weapon of any kind. Theydon't allow it. Wow, it sounds
like kfive didn't allow that. There, they tell you no bear spray when
you come in. Yeah, buddy, Arian Shannon, that's right. Have
(05:09):
a great weekend. Thanks for comingon. We'll talk to you next week.
I have a great weekend. YouTubeBob all right, there he goes
Alex Stone with ABC News. Thatguy's great man. That guy always says
all the information. By the way, I noticed when we were when we're
listening to Angel Martinez is Angel withus? Angel you with us? Hey,
Timmy man, you sound really goodtoday. Really, Chris, are
(05:29):
you at home? Are you atthe studio? What's going on? Yeah,
it's Friday and I'm working from home. Okay, it sounds great.
It sounds better than you did Mondaythrough Thursday. I don't know what it
is. Maybe you got great equipment. Maybe it sounds terrific. Thanks.
Yeah, well, thanks for theheads out. Hats off to you.
Michael not so good. You're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
(05:53):
I am six forty. All right, we'll talk to Alex Michaelson about the
debate. But I think people eithersaw it they wanted to see it.
Fifty million people. I thought thatnumber was low. I thought it'd be
hired not and I think a lotof people felt uncomfortable watching it, and
I don't know it was it wasan odd spectacle odd So I we'll do
(06:18):
that at four thirty five with AlexMichaelson. I thought this was my idea.
You know, you ever have anidea and then somebody else does it
and they make a lot of money, and you always thought, oh,
that could have been me, thatcould have been me. Well, I
(06:39):
think I had this idea like fouryears ago, and I didn't do anything
about it, so, which isis probably my fault. Then I didn't
do anything about it, and nowthey're you know, they're people making millions,
millions and hundreds of millions of dollarson this and I got no skin
in the game. So but Iguess that's on me that I didn't do
(07:01):
anything, and I was lazy aboutit and didn't do anything, so what
the hell. But anyway, theseguys are making millions and millions, so
let's praise them for it. Theydid the hard work, they got involved.
It was just my idea, andideas are not worth very much.
It's the it's it's the actual processof creating it and moving forward. And
(07:25):
they did it. I didn't.So they get the money, and I
don't screw it. Tonight we bringyou a Mariachi with a twist. Fox
Elevens Christie Bojardo shows us what drivesthis unique musical experience. Music is expression
and mariacci Argoti's de Los Angeles isshowing it's also freedom. Akoitis is Spanish
(07:53):
for Rainbot, and founder Carlos sanmanDiego's In My Blood says it's the world's
first openly LGBTQ plus. That wasmy idea. I could have made a
lot of money. I didn't knowhow to do it. I didn't know
how to put it together. Butthat was my idea, lgbt Q plus
Mariachi band, and this guy didit. So he gets the hundreds of
(08:16):
millions. I get nothing with it. You should have wanted. I don't
want to. I blame you alittle bit BELLYO for trying to you know,
you weren't as enthusiastic as I wasabout it. Well, Angel was
against it. Well Angel, well, I don't know why. You know,
she's worried about that that tennis elbow, but well she yeah, she
(08:37):
wanted did you want to hear somework? And she wasn't going to Yeah,
And then she said what about thefirst tennis elbow? Mariachi Band,
I'm like, oh, that's themarketing on that doesn't work. We have
a brush fire on ABC seven hereand see me Valley. Oh is that
right? Let's flip on channel seven. I'm looking at it right now here,
Oh, see me Valley. Allright, let's find out where this
(08:58):
is in the Seami Valley acres.Where is that flip on channel seven?
Here? Guys coming up dig dogwith you? Oh there at teller all
right, I tell you. Andwhen those board ups get some sleep and
as sharp as they come, allright, we'll find out more about that
fire. But man, I couldhave made a lot of money. LGBTQ
(09:22):
Marianci Band, I'll always remember myidea first first openly LGBTQ plus Maci and
the first group he's played with sincehe became a Mariacci at eighteen or he
wasn't righted for who he is.I had to endure what it's like,
the buying, the homophobia, theharassment, the discrimination because I was openly
(09:46):
gay. Yeah, I imagine themariachi is you know, is you know
probably you know, they're very oldfashioned, probably setting their ways, and
they probably aren't, you know,as open maybe as some other types of
(10:07):
music. And I get that.I get that, you know, it's
an old archaic, you know,music by guys. They're dressed in traditional
you know, outfits and costumes anduniforms from centuries ago. And so when
you have a group like that's that'sbased in centuries old music, they don't
(10:31):
like they'll make a lot of changes, he says, Like others in his
group, he was born in theUnited States, which drew the ire of
other Mariacci's who questioned his credentials.And in a genre that is male dominated
and embraces the manly man fell yeahsee you hear that, and embraces the
(10:52):
manly man. Yeah, I shouldhave gotten into it. Fellow musicians regularly
challenged his placed in it. Igrew up in a Mexican household. This
type of mentality wasn't new to me. I grew up knowing and thinking that
being openly gay or being part ofthis community wasn't going to be accepted.
(11:15):
So he created a group where hewould be accepted. In two decades and
three albums later, he's proud tobe playing Mexican folk music and inspiring even
people of other cultures to dance.A few years ago, we got invited
to perform at the American Embassy inSpain. This is during the Trumpet administration.
(11:39):
That was a pleasant surprise, butthere has also been expected ugliness.
You just see all of the badthings that they say about you know,
how we're going to go to hell, or we're you know, we're going
to be condemned, or what wouldthis group know about mariachi music, or
how disrespectful we are to the suit. But now he plays through the negativity
(12:03):
with others, including ya ya vescuzLofits. I have played some events here
and there where like you know,there's like one or two like haters.
They all like sour faces, butoh yeah they're they're they all work in
radio. No, there's like oneor two like haters. They all like
sour faces, but that sums upeverybody around here, sour pusses. You
(12:24):
know, there's like one or twolike haters. I like sour faces,
but get it, man, youknow that's I mean, that's what I
get walking down the street. Butthey say the support and love for their
music bolsters their message. You know, I didn't know that that they look
down on people who were born inthe United States if you're in a mariachi
(12:45):
band, I didn't know that.I was unaware of that. That they
will defy traditions, also singing inEnglish and about rainbows and passion for me
without apology, and for those whoalso feel judged. One trans teenage girl
(13:07):
from a high school in Texas whoplays Mariashi there says that we are her
role models. Another apparent says thatthey introduced their child to us because they
feel that we're a positive influence.Wow, that's more than I could ever
imagine. There you go, anotheridea got away. So good for them.
(13:33):
Hope they enjoy that. All right, We'll come back and talk to
Alex Michael sim a little bit aboutthe debate, and we're keep an eye
on the fire in See Me ValleySeeMe Valley is on fire the Hills,
not the town. You're listening toTim Conway Junior on demand from kf I
Am six forty. Alex Michael sinis with us. Alex, how you
(13:54):
bob big dong with you? I'msorry we didn't put you up in time.
What'd you say? Oh? Digdong with you? Buddy. Look,
I thought you guys did a greatjob hosting that event last night and
then the postgame show. That wascool, Thank you very much. Yeah,
I mean there was plenty to talkabout it. Yes, but let
me ask you a question. Ithought this was I don't want to say
(14:18):
rude, but I want to sayI think maybe they preemptively designed this at
CNN. But as soon as CNNtook over the commentary of the event,
of the of the debate, everysingle person in that nine panels were destroying
Joe Biden, and I think thatI don't know where they got all that
(14:41):
information. I didn't think he dida horrible job at all. Really,
okay, all right, all right, all right, okay, he didn't
do great, but it could havebeen worse. How could it have been
worse? He could He didn't passout, he didn't fall over. He
didn't throw up, you know heuh, he didn't have an ambulance did
(15:05):
He did forget what he was sayingat one point he didn't didn't even fill
the time on the closing statement.Okay, but but you know what,
he beat medicare. But Alex,Alex, Look, you know, you
know news and I know news.We're news junkies. That's what we do.
We watch news all the time.And and we've known this for I
(15:26):
don't know a year or so thathe's been like this. But there are
a lot of people that tuned intothat debate last night who thought he was
the old guy, and that wasa shock to them. And that's why
I think it was. It wasso politically damaging for him. This was
his moment. Uh, I don'there's here's right now. I mean,
(15:48):
look, and politics, things happen, So you don't want to make predictions
because who knows what's going to happennext. But here's the challenge for him.
He was coming into this debate,he was already losing in all of
the swing states. He was behind, which is why they wanted the debate
to happen. They wanted these rules, they wanted to happen early. They
(16:10):
wanted to do this debate to senda message to everybody in the country that
he is stronger and more in controlthan you think that these narratives about him
being too old or wrong and justyou watch. He's told us over and
over again, just watch me.And so they did it. Trump agreed
to it. CNN does it.They get a huge audience. The whole
(16:30):
country is watching, and that's whatthey see. The image that they see.
It goes into every negative stereotype abouthim. And then so now the
question is how do you get outof that the way you would get out
of that in a regular campaign,like when Obama had a bad first debate
or George W. Bush had abad first debate. First off, they
(16:51):
had another debate soon after. Butthey could go out and do a bunch
of interviews, do a bunch ofmedia maybe you know, do it interesting
podcasts, have fun, do abunch of events. Can he do that?
Okay? Capable? Okay, maybehe's not. But and again I'm
not a huge fan of his,but I will say this, he is
(17:12):
the only guy in the United Statesand in the world that beat the much
hated Donald Trump a lot of peoplehate Donald Trump and he beat them.
He beat Donald Trump in the lastelection, and this is the way he
gets treated by CNN. Yeah,I mean that, Well, that is
(17:33):
true. Politics is a tough business, and there could be some more humanity
in some of this. But theother thing that is true is the Joe
Biden that beat Donald Trump even fouryears ago is not the Joe Biden that
we saw on that stage last night. And he look eclipse of Joe Biden
like in twenty twelve. He's likean entirely different person. Okay, But
who is going to tell him tostep down? If it's Jill, if
(17:56):
it's his wife that tells him tostep down, that she knows that that
is a that is the diamond laneto his funeral, because this is his
whole life. His whole life hasbeen politics, and whoever talks him out
of being president or running again isgoing to sign his death certificate. Yeah.
(18:18):
I don't I don't know. Idon't know the dynamics of that and
how they communicate to each other.I mean, it's a very very uncomfortable
thing. And for anybody that hashad an aging parent or grandparent that has
lost his self, is you know, struggling. It's just it's so hard
on everybody in the family and juston a human level, it's just it's
(18:41):
sad right now. You know whenwhen my dad was his age, my
dad was eighty one and he startedto, you know, lose his memory.
My sister noticed it first, andI kept telling her, no,
it's okay, he's okay, youknow, because he's very sharp on some
stories he tells me, and thenhe's not very sharp some days. But
my dad's responds ability when he waseighty one is to get up, eat
(19:03):
breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner, watch TV, and go to bed.
Those are the pressures that my dadwas under, which was nothing.
But this guy is running the freeworld. Don't you think that pressure complicates
his condition? And tim you know, you don't age backwards. So he's
running to be the president in Januaryof twenty twenty nine at eighty six.
(19:26):
Yeah, he's like this, now, how is he going to be a
few years from now? I getit, But man, there's a real
dilemma in the Democratic Party when youhave that many people come out on MSNBC,
The Daily Beast, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and they
all trash him last night, andnow they're all to have to figure out
(19:49):
what to do for the convention.This is going to be a wild summer.
But if Joe Biden wants to stay, he can stay. Rules are
are that way. And so hecould be, you know, going to
this convention with all these gozz ofprotesters outside and all of these media members
who just called for him to dropout, and all of that happening,
(20:11):
and he could say, you knowwhat, I beat Trump before they doubted
me, then they doubted me mywhole life. I'm the president. They're
all wrong. I'm going forward andand there's really nothing that can be done
to stop him, and and andyou know, and the challenge could be,
is he is he Ruth Bader Ginsburgwho stayed at the party too long
and then his legacy ends up gettingruined by the way. A huge compliment
(20:36):
to you. I was watching youlast night on Channel eleven after the debate,
and everybody you had on was wasvery well educated and not an alarmist
and not a right wing wackle orleft wing wackle. You had. You
had very stable people on who arejust giving the facts. And I think
in today's day and age, Ithink that's that's unique. Thank you.
(20:59):
Yeah, we had a rate panellast night, including John Cobo, our
friend from KFI, which was greatto see him represented, and Melanie Mason,
my fount from Politico. It's funto see Chris Matthews, your Hardball
host was but I think it.You know, I think the kind of
people I like to be on ashow with, which is why I like
being on your show every week,is people. Is people that talk like
(21:21):
real people. You know, thethe the people say ding dong when they
got nothing to say. You know, you're being lied to bs. You
know, here's what the party toldme to say. Is so boring,
it's not interesting. And so whenthe whole country just watched something and we're
all having a reaction to something together, let's talk about it like we're like
(21:42):
you're talking to your friend, andwork through it together and not pretend like
something didn't just happen that we allsaw happen. Buddy, I am full,
in full agreement with you, andI do this by design, and
I hope you know this. Butand again, you might be the exception.
I don't know, maybe or not, but every guest that we have
(22:06):
on this show is a Democrat.Every single guest I have on is a
Democrat. I find that more interestingbecause I know the Republican line. I
get that, I live that,I'm very close to that on my personal
life, and I'd like to havethe you know, the the counter to
that. And I like listening andI and like like, for instance,
(22:29):
I'm you know, I'm good friendswith Mark Ronner, and and people probably
if they listen to Mark Ronner,they can understand, you know, where
he's coming from. And I thinkthe guy is great. You know.
I like having that different point ofview on the air. I enjoy it.
I just wish that more people fromthe younger generation would learn from you
on that front. Right, somany people now are coming up in echo
(22:53):
chambers and right hearing stuff through socialmedia, and I think that's really dangerous
for the country. Funny, wegot to take off What's on the Big
Show? Now? You got byeight seconds We've got Jon Favreau, former
Obama speech writer, plus more withJohn Cobo, Chris Matthews, and our
panel from last night breaking down thedebate. You're the best, buddy.
I'll be watching tonight ten thirty.Thank you very much, ding John with
(23:15):
you got it, buddy, itdoes it? Is it weird though that
I watch your show with just arobond. As long as you got a
Nielsen box, we'll take it,whether rogue whatever. All right, buddy,
you're the best. Thanks for comingon. How good weekend? Hey?
Hey, yeah, I watched thatwith a shorty Robond, you know,
(23:37):
Shorty Road. Yeah, free ballingwith the Shorty Road watching politics.
Oh jeez, belly, Oh please, you know you love it. You're
listening to Tim Conway Junior on DeMayo from kf I am six forty.
A lot of traffic out there,listen to Angel Martinez and Michael brian Man
that four oh five Angel right outof England Wood and you're on the breaks
(24:02):
all the way almost to the fourteennorthbound. Yeah, it's it's a mess
all the way from now the southend of Culver City, leaving the ninety,
all the way to that five mergeas you head into the Silmar and
then into the New Hall area.Oh that's horrible. You know why they
call it the four five No,because it takes you four oh five hours
(24:27):
to get where you're going. Ah, that's great. Used to do a
comedy stand up at traffic school.You still doing that? Yeah, yeah,
Wednesday nights. Yeah right, peopleare gonna love that. Also,
it looks like the the Yorba,Linda, you know that that that area
is always a mess, the ninetyone, and it looks like you know,
(24:51):
I mean Jesus, I mean almostsorry, gosh, leaving the five
eastbound on the ninety one, you'reon and off the break. You get
a little tiny break when you comeup on the seventy one, but otherwise
it's it sucks almost all the wayout to uh Riverside. Yeah, it's
terrible. And so is the fifteeninto the co home paths. I'm looking
(25:14):
at that. That's horrible. Yeah, dark, Yeah, it's awful and
actually delayser almost connecting into Ontario forthe fifteen northbound. Oh jeez, this
sucks. It really does. Theone on one across the valley, both
south and north or east west,whatever you call it, there's a right
(25:34):
around the four or five. It'shorrible around there as well. I mean,
so, I guess you know peopleare leaving on vacation with them Oh
yeah, getting out for that holidayweekend, some Independence Day action, that's
right. Dig dong with you allright? Thank you, Angel Martinez.
We have a there was there wasa lot of burglaries in the San Fernando
(25:56):
Valley. I don't know why it'sbecome a hotbed for home invasion and burglaries,
but there are a lot of them. Two dred and sixty home burglaries
unsolved, unsolved in the San FernandoValley. I mean, what is that
all about? And they ransacked thewhole house. You know, they took
my watches, my wife's jewelry,her purses. The man will called Jake
(26:17):
doesn't want his name used or hisface shown because of safety concerns, but
he wants to share his story becausewhat happened to him has happened to several
other homeowners in the Laurelwood neighborhood overthe past few months. There's not a
Laurel Wood is up in the hills, up in the Studio City Hills.
Over the past few months, there'snot a day that we don't think about
it, Jake says. Burglars dressedup as construction workers and used Wi Fi
(26:41):
jamming technology to disable security cameras insidetheir home before getting away with priceless possessions.
Is this stuff that we have beenlike kept for many years and it's
very sad laped. North Hollywood detectivestell me this neighborhood is one of the
latest targeted in a series of homeburglaries in the North Hollywood and Studio City
areas. Did you hear that they'retargeting North Hollywood and Studio City series of
(27:04):
home burglaries in the North Hollywood andStudio City areas, They say you're to
date there have been approximately two hundredand sixty of them. Them is the
same smashing rear windows or sliding doors. Detectives believe there are several different burglary
crews responsible. Yeah, you gotto try to get I don't know if
Winston is still an advertiser here,but Winston with a Y. We have
(27:29):
those security screens on most of allof our doors and some windows, and
man, those are great. Youfeel great at night that it would take
a lot to get through those screens, and by that time you could get
a gun and kill the guy that'sdoing that. It's Winston with the Y.
They're a little expensive, but they'reworth their weight in gold. They're
(27:52):
one hundred percent worth it. Theylook great and they keep people the hell
out of your house, and that'sworth a lot because you know, when
if you've ever had this in thepast where some of these burglarized your house,
you never get that feeling bag ofsecurity in your home. You can't
get it back. A lot ofpeople move after they've been burglarized because you
(28:14):
really can't get that feeling back.You always feel like somebody was in your
home stealing your crap, and it'stough to get that back. So you
got to be very careful, gotto be a very vigilant out there,
you know, looking around the neighborhoodand looking around, talking to neighbors,
getting one of those neighborhood you know, watch deals and get that citizen or
one of those apps that tells youwhat's going on. But times are change,
(28:37):
it, man, and it's gettingcrazy out there. All right,
We're live. That was the firsthour that was fun whatever Conway Show on
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