May 18, 2024 • 31 mins
LA police chase ends in multi-vehicle crash on 405 Freeway. Tim says do not eat the food at 7-Eleven / Kids born 2 years after 9/11 can now legally drink / Tim talks to a young receptionist about 9/11 who does not remember it / Kids used to be able to drink and drive in college / Dog poop on someone's shoe? GUEST: Elex Michaelson joins us to discuss Las Vegas / all the heavy news that happened this week (University protests, metro violence, Irvine shooting, and 405 car chase) / Jenn Psaki on “The Issue Is” / Shoutout to Elix’s dad. Roller Derby is making a comeback, and one 73-year-old Venice man is determined to train the next generation of skaters.
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It's camf I AM six forty andyou're listening to the Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio appf I AM sixforty. It's Combay Show. It's Friday,
all right. Trying to keep alittle light around here. We've had
a heavy week, ma'am. Heavyweek, heavy, heavy week. Boy
oh boy. We've had shootings onMetro. We had a ups driver that
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was killed in Irvine. We hadthe protest in Irvine, man oh man.
And then just when you thought,okay, we're done with it for
the week, the most one ofthe most radical chases I've ever seen happen
this morning on the four or fivefreeway. Evidently this woman, almost woman,
was screaming and yelling and keeping everybodyup all night because Los Angeles has
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become one big insane asylum, right, it's a big nuthouse in Los Angeles.
Now everybody's, you know, panic, nobody has any money to pay
any bills, and everybody's going everybodyhas a screw loose. And so this
woman gets in a van and shestarts high tailing it. And now they
don't know whether it's a woman ora man. It's it's an it's a
it's it's odd, it's it's undundetermined. Drugs a thing. Yeah,
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it really is a wild man,way too high. You know. I
always said, like, uh,you know, doing drugs is like playing
with a with a newborn, whereyou know, you can play with the
newborn for two or three hours,then you got to put it to sleep,
and it's got to sleep for awhile. Same with drugs. If
you're if you're doing drugs, youcan do them for you know, two
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three four hours, that's great.But if you start doing them on on
a on a forty eight hour basis, where you start on a Monday and
you don't stop till Wednesday night,that's too much. And drugs aren't getting
milder, no not, and podnever get milder. Yeah, pod is.
You know. Adam Krolla had agreat line. He said, when
we were younger, you smoked anentire joint, you caught a little bit
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of buzz. Now you take onehit and you're nude in the desert looking
for turtles. That's how how wrongthis crap is nowadays. So you have
to adjust your buzz. You've gotto find your buzz. And I think
that's why a lot of kids goto college, and you go to college
to find out where your max isand how how to control it. And
you have four years with a lotof enticement. You got peers around.
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Yeah, you know, you're allkind of you know, it's it's your
pressure together. You're you're hanging witheach other, you're protecting each other hopefully.
Yeah, you know. So yougo through the experimental phase that way,
learn your buzz. Go to collegeand learn where your buzz is,
because it's not. It's not agreat sight when you're fifty leaning over a
Las Vegas hotel room toilet, throwingup for three hours, been there and
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it's not and you feel like acomplete loser in life. Been there too.
So anyway, so this woman orthey don't really know. They think
it's a woman went crazy, goton the freeway going the wrong way,
and man, or man, itwas wild this morning? Why on the
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four oh five. The nice thingabout the morning chases though, and the
evening chases used to be great.So we used to cover them, and
Stu Mandel would cover him as well, and we'd have stew On to talk
about it, and he sort ofcovered it the way we did, where
you don't take it too seriously,and you exaggerate a lot of it,
and you know, you make itbigger than it is. And now he
does that in the morning. Butbecause people are sleeping in the morning,
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they miss out on Stu Mandel's greatcalls for the high speed chases. So
I'd like to replay it for you. This is what happened this morning on
the four or five with the wrongway driver. Now you can see that
that northbound freeway is kind of empty. Perhaps LAPD has done some kind of
blockage on the freeway. That vanjust continuing on. Now, you know,
you can see those speeds out there. We can venture to say that
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it's pretty accurate what we're getting rightthere. I can't say that that van
is going one hundred or even ninetynine miles an hour. Ooh, thepass
of that. That's great. He'strying to figure out what this with this
woman's you know, mentality and whereshe is in her life. What's the
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purpose? Give me a purpose forwhat you just did. What is the
purpose of that? WHOA what's thepurpose? I don't know, I don't
know. She didn't have an explanation. Is the purpose of that? That
person just sitting there innocent. Andnow that fan just colliding right there,
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somebody, some other passengers getting outjust on vehicle, the vehicle, unsuspecting
drivers again on their way to workand school, sitting there this morning.
Yeah, LAPD coming up. Okay, the person is out of the vehicle,
climbing out of the vehicle right there, but the roof of the car
climbing on top. Ye, climbingon top of the car and pointing at
the big ring again. I don'tknow what that fascination with these big rings
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are. But LAPD now they havethis situation. You know, you've got
injured folks. You have clearly aggressiontowards the LAPD officers. And the wild
thing about this chase is that thiswoman was so aggressive. One point,
she flipped the van around and shewas chasing the cops. She was chasing
the cops. It was crazy tosee how fast the cop was running to
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get away from her. I've neverseen that before, where the van was
hauling ass and then trying to chasethe cops down. I've never seen that
before. I've been looking at chasesfor thirty five forty years, never ever,
once have seen the car flip aroundand start chasing the cops around.
Never seen it, never and what'sthe purpose? And if this person tries
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to carjack this big rig, thisis going to end very poorly. That
weapon right there, that green laserthat is less than lethal, that is
a less than lethal so you know, possibly possibly this is coming to an
end right now. But what acrazy violent end right there? Crazy you
get hear that? What a crazyviolent end right there? What a crazy
violent end right there. And thatwas just a little bit of what LA
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was last week or this week.And we had fun, right We had
a full week of craziness. Irvineshooting of the ups driver, the Irvine
protests, the multiple stabbings and shootingson Metro. We had a wild week,
wild week in LA. And guesswhat, it's not even eighty degrees
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out yet. Wait till summer.You wait till summer, and watch this
happen ten times a day, tentimes a day. Everybody's broke, everybody's
nervous, and nobody has any ideawhat their future looks like. You know
before in the past, you'd havelike your old future planned out. A
lot of people, did you know, go to law school, become a
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lawyer, get married, have kids, but I don't bank my grandkids the
whole run. Now. People liveon an hourly basis, Like what am
I going to do next hour?I don't know, man, oh man,
There's some desperation out there. Andas Steckler always said, by my
old partner, Doug Steckler, oneof the funniest, smartest men I've ever
met my life, if not thefunniest and the smartest man I've ever met
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my life. He always said,the people who are the most dangerous out
there are people with nothing to lose. And we see him every single day
in the news every day. Whata crazy violent and right there, what
a crazy violent end, crazy violentend. What was he talking about?
Was he talking about the Irvine protest? What a crazy violent end? Right
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there? Was he talking about theups driver, What a crazy violent had?
Right there? Was he talking aboutthe stabbing and encino on the bus,
What a crazy violent had? Rightthere? Was he talking about the
shooting last night on the metro onin Commerce. What a crazy violent and
right there was he talking about thechase this morning? What a crazy violent
end? Right there? We livein a crazy violent town. Gang I
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know, you know it and nobodysays it. But I'm telling you,
crazy violent town we live in.It's getting wild in La Wild. The
person's still up on that roof ofthat vehicle on the big rig. But
I am very concerned about the personinside that car right there. That was
definitely a hard hit. That vehiclecompletely stopped, and then that van just
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colliding on purpose with that on purpose. I like that term on purpose.
Yes, that goes back to nineto eleven when I was living in Tarzana
with my wife. Phone rang atlike, you know, six o'clock in
the morning, then six thirty,and I finally I listened to the answer
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machine, because back then you hadan answer machine and I could hear it.
And it was Doug McIntyre, friendof mine, said, he goes,
hey, Conway, you gonta wakeup. A plane flew into the
World Trade Center on purpose. Iremember him saying that on purpose, and
I'll always remember that. That's whatwoke me up, a nine to eleven
on purpose, on purpose, onpurpose, on purpose with that vehicle LAPD
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taking that suspect into custody right there. But again, what a crazy morning
out of here on the four orfive freeway, this ending in the Brentwood
area just before right at Bullsher Boulevard. Oh wow, Wow, I saw
something in a store the other daythat I couldn't believe. I'm gonna come
back and tell you what it is, and everyone is gonna your Your initial
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reaction will be, well, thatcan't be true, and then your secondary
reaction is, of course it's true. Something flipped me out when I saw
it two days ago, and aseven eleven flip totally. My wife pointed
it out and flipped me out ina seven eleven. But it's everywhere,
and I'm gonna come back and tellyou what it is, and it's gonna
flip you out, and then you'regonna say, of course it's true.
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You're listening to Tim Conway Junior ondemand from KF I am sixty all right,
I've been seven eleven about three daysago, I guess, and with
my wife, you know, notthe brag. I made a couple of
bucks. I can treat it toa slurpee, maybe a slim GYM.
Yeah. I here's a tip foryou. Don't go with the chicken wings
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at seven eleven. If you know, if you're gonna spend, if you
you have limited chicken wing dollars.I wouldn't throw them at seven eleven.
Are the ones on little rollers orthe like on the counter there? Yeah,
behind the counter those a little rolledup almost teket ale rights, Yeah,
those are horrible too. But Iasked the guy in seven eleven,
I said, hey, how muchare the chicken wings? And he said
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five for I don't know, eightdollars. When I said how much for
three? And he gave me threeand he charged me already on my credit
card. I'm like, no,no, no, I just wanted to
know how much they were. Ididn't want him. And now I took
him outside. I took a biteof one and I almost, you know,
rushed myself to the emergency room.It's dreadful, dreadful, and it's
not it's not a good review atall. They got a lot of work
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to do. When I was whenI was in college in Frostburg and Maryland,
there was our college was sort ofat the bottom of the hill and
in the middle of the night,you know, like you do in college,
you got to you gotta get somethingto ease sure. And it was
the middle of the winter, andup in Maryland it was it was foot
of snow. Easy. So wewalked all the way up to the ones
that was open in the middle ofthe night. It was the seven eleven
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and man them dogs and you putthe chili in. Yeah, two in
the morning. That worked. Yeah, Oh that's great. Yeah that was
back in the day though. Althoughthere is a timer on those, yeah,
they're set to go off. They'reset to go off around seven thirty.
There is regret afterwards. All right. So here's what flipped me out.
And I thought it wasn't real,and then have said, of course
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it's real, but it still flippedme out. I look at the counter
and it says May fourteenth, twothousand and three. I'm like, what
is that? May fourteenth, twothousand and three? What is that?
And I said to my wife,what is it? Why? Why is
that date there? And she goes, that's the date you have to be
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born before to buy liquor. It'safter two years after nine one one,
nine eleven, two years. Thesekids were born two and a half years
after nine to eleven, and nowthey're drinking. How it seems like nine
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to eleven was three years ago,four years ago? What year was so?
Born in two thousand and five,two thousand and five. Yea,
yeah, mine was born two thousandand one, three weeks before. Not
only oh is that right? Wow? You thought the whole world was probably
crashing down. I immediately thought,what did I bring my kid in?
Yeah? Probably right? Yeah?Sure, and yeah drinking now two thousand
and three, May fourteenth, twothousand and three. Now it's May seventeenth,
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two thousand and three. I wasWe had a meeting about a years,
you know, a half ago atMorton's downstairs. There was a new
client coming up, and went tohave dinner with them and see what they're
all about. They wanted to sortof sniff around what iHeart was all about,
and so I got down there.I got down there a little early,
and I'm talking to the reception andshe was very nice, and she
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said she was on the phone withher friend and they were going to go
celebrate a birthday. And I overheardher say the nineteen birthday. I'm like,
oh, your friend's turning nineteen,and she said, yeah, I'm
also nineteen. I said, oh, wh you don't remember nine to eleven
at all. It's just a it'sjust what your parents and grandparents have told
you. And she said, yeah, I don't remember anything about it wasn't
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born, and it's just what mymom and dad told me. It's what
my grandparents told me. My uncleis my aunts and right right then Darren
McMillan from KFI comes in, oneof the head sales guys that I heard,
and he sees me talking to thisattractive nineteen year old receptionist about nine
to eleven, and he goes,God, he goes, you really got
it with the chicks still bub Whatwas after that little Holocaust talk? What's
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the goat? What's the fallback?If that didn't turn her on? Right?
But speaking of college, I wentto Bowling Green State University. It
was about seventy below there. Itwas a harsh winner eighty one to eighty
two. If anyone was back there, you remember that it was a dreadful,
long, windy record cold temperatures.And I remember we were going to
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go to a party. It wasabout a mile from where we lived in
Batch Elder Dorm, Dortory, andwe're gonna go to a party, and
we got really drunk before we're gonnago to the party. So I said,
hey, guys, throw an extracoat because it's you know, it's
minus thirty eight out. It's gonnabe freezing you mom, yeah, thank
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you very much. And and theguy I was with, he goes,
oh, and he goes, don'tworry about a coat. We're driving,
I said, I said, Isaid, no, we're all drinking.
How can we drive. We're toodrunk to drive? He goes, no,
No, Tim, he goes,we're too drunk to walk. We're
not too drunk to drive. We'retoo drunk to walk. We can't walk.
You know, we're gonna drive,but we can't walk. I'm like,
wow, these guys run a little, a little in the diamond lane
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for me. You know, theseOhio guys, what are you talking about?
When we stumbled down the sidewalk.We can't have that get in the
car. The Ohio guys that Iknew, they got all the DUI all
that information late in life. Likewe knew it out here pretty quickly.
It was a bad vibe. Theydidn't really pick up on that as quickly
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as we did out of here.That's that's basically where Frostburg is. It's
right near the tip of Maryland onthe far west side, so it's right
there by Ohio. So it's thesame general geographic area mentality, and the
West Side friends that went to Shepherd'sCollege in West Virginia all that same thing.
So you know what it was like. I mean those guys drunk.
If they drank and drove every day, oh yeah, I mean you know,
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they would they drive down the streetof the beer in their hand,
drinking while they're driving, absolutely andthink nothing of it. And you pointed
out, you're the you know,the woodsie, You're the the coward.
I couldn't believe it, man,But but what your jackets on, fellas.
But also you know, because theypicked up the don't drink and drive,
uh you know philosophy later on inlife. They also had some doozy
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accidents back there. I mean justwild, wild accidents. You know,
a guy doing one hundred and tenand he's said, all of a sudden,
doing your cartwheel over the train tracksand wipes out of a family.
And the beater cars yeah college,oh yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Cars you can see through the floorboardsand you can see what the streets
wet. I had a buddy whowe were driving in Bowling Green and he
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had dog doo dooo because I can'tuse the S word. He had dog
doodo on a shoe and we're probablywere on the seventy five. The highway
is seventy five, so we wereprobably doing sixty five miles an hour and
with the whole car smelled like doggas. So everyone's checking their shoes and
the driver on his left foot,he go, it's you. Let's stop
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the car and you know, getrid of that shoe. I'm dying in
here. And he goes, no, no, he guess, buddy,
I'll take care of it. Heopens his door at sixty five miles an
hour and drags his foot along thehighway until the dog crap is gone.
Never seen that before, never seenthat act. All he had to do
was have one little tiny speed bump, one of those little bumps in the
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road and bang. Every bone inhis foot would have been broken. And
you know what, it disappeared,The odor disappeared. I learned something new
from that guy. Nobody got hurt, and we were right on time for
the party. So no victim,no crime, I guess. And that
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one, you know, everybody cameup aces on that one. But I'll
bet if he continued that and therest of his life some kind of radical
story is going to be told ayou know, Thanksgiving when that thing didn't
work out? All right, crazyday, crazy week in Los Angeles,
and we cover all of it righthere on KFI A six forty. You're
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listening to Tim Conway Junior on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. Hopefully it'll
be a little lighter today than ithas been over the last couple of days.
A lot of heavy news, alot of heavy news, a lot
of bad news coming out of Irvine, a lot of bad news coming out
of the metro. Hopefully we cankeep it a little lighter, just a
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bit, just a tad, allright. A lot of people like you're
a Las vegae Is and you liketo know what hotels are opening, what
hotels are closing, what hotels haveseen the better day and are no longer
going to be around. We havenews for you. But first, the
biggest gambler I know, the biggestVegas guy I know, Alex Michaelson.
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How you bub throw it all onred Baby ding Dong with you? By
the way, have you ever beento Vegas? Of course I've been to
Vegas. I didn't I didn't knowwhat kind of guy you were. Have
you ever gambled? Sure? Andwhat do you what's your game? I
mean, I think blackjackets fun crapsis of course the most fun. I'm
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that's great at it. But I'maware with somebody who knows what they're doing,
that is by far the most funbecause everybody's like winning together, you're
playing it the most fun. That'sright, man. I'm with you.
And as a sports guy, Ienjoy a good sportsbook experience, that's right.
Hey, buddy, we had areally rough week here in Los Angeles
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with the protest US, a nervineups guy getting killed, the Metro shootings
and stabbings. I mean, it'sbeen a wild week. And then you
know, the cherry on the cakeof what this week was was that radical
Chase this morning. Yeah. AndI think with some of these things,
certainly the Metro and the Chase thing, it gets back to our you know,
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sort of foundational problem recently, whichis homelessness and drug addiction and mental
illness, and this idea that wejust sort of let people wallow and you
end up with this situation where theinnocent people who are doing the right things
are getting hurt because we are asociety have been afraid to say to people
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it's not okay to have people onthe streets who are clearly incapable of taking
care of themselves. And you lookat the Metro situation. I just interviewed
a few minutes ago Robert Moonda,the sheriff of La County, and he
said that of the people that havecaused crimes on Metro, ninety four percent
of them did not pay fares.Wow. Well, which is an example
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of a lot of these people,many of them are homeless or mentally addicted,
who are just staying on the Metroall day long, not paying any
money. Okay, And it's sortof become like a babysitting facility. So
I'll always start enforcing the rules andmaking people pay fairs. Might make Metro
a little safer. That's a greatidea. I'll trade you stat for stat.
You said ninety four percent of violenceon the Metro that people have didn't
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pay their fare. Okay, thatI'll buy that stat. Here's another one
for you. Ninety nine percent ofmillionaires in this world make their bed every
morning. So you want to makeyour bed and you want to pay your
fare if you have a shot atbeing anything in life. There you go
take going to that Are you referencingthat book by that general who I was?
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You're right, the fact that themost important thing is you got to
make your bed. That's exactly right. Look at you. That's exactly right,
buddy. I'm very well read.He's also the general that said you
don't want to go to war withthe United States because I guarantee you somebody
else will be raising your children.Kind of a tough guy. I do,
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yes, and and I have mymost of my life because I don't.
I feel like an unmade bed sayssomething about you. Well, and
that goes to the whole law enforcementtheory of you know, the quote unquote
broken windows theory. Yesh, I'mwith you. Don't allow small broken windows
because then problems fester. Maybe ifyou stop the UCLA and campon when it
was one or two ten, youwouldn't have to go in there when it's
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hundreds of people in there. That'sright, just saying that's right. What's
on the Big Show night? Iknow you got an exciting program. We've
got Jen Saki, the former wellpress secretary for Joe Biden, is now
an MSNBC host, has a newbook out, and we sat down with
her for the half hour for insighton what it's really like working not only
for Biden but also for a bumnless she worked for John Carey and becoming
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an anchor now and all the restof it. And she's a really smart
and interesting person. Whether you agreewith her or not, it was a
good conversation. Did you have theuncomfortable moment with her where she had to
change part of her book because shesaid that Joe Biden did not look at
his watch when the bodies came backfrom Afghanistan. I did ask her about
that, and we did have thatuncomfortable moment. That's uncomfortable, isn't it?
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It is, But that's part ofwhat I'm thinking. She's now an
anchor who now has to do thison the other side and ask people uncomfortable
questions. Didn't feel that bad askingher about it when she has to do
it to other people now all thetime. So she's a pro. She
should expect something like that. Iwill be watching tonight's ten thirty right ten
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thirty Friday night. The issue isand you set yourself up perfectly for the
Democratic Convention in Chicago. The RepublicanConvention in Milwaukee and then the big vote
in November. Yeah, I knowgoing to both, are you no,
everybody? I don't think so now, I think in the past. But
the one, the most radical oneI think, is going to be Chicago.
I think that's gonna be fun togo to. You think there's going
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to be like riots in the streetslike nineteen sixty eight. Again, I
think so. I think so.I hope not, but I think so.
Look, it's gonna be hot,it's gonna be humid, and people
are pissed. We need Yeah,there needs to be a cease fire deal
before them, right, yeah,exactly right. But you really appreciate coming
on and and we'll we'll talk youagain next week. Father's Day is coming
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up, so I know you gotbig plans for Dad, and we'll talk
to you maybe about that next week. All right, sounds good, big
goal with you, buddy. He'slistening right now. Shout out to David
Michaelson. Wait is he listening rightnow? I think he is. He
listens most every weekend. Ah,that's beautiful. What a great dad,
you know. And real quickly aboutseven years ago and when my dad was
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still you know, feeling well andnot having people over. He invited me
over to his house on a Thursdaynight for dinner and and I said what
time? And he said seven o'clockAnd I said, well, Dad,
for the twenty second year in arow, I'm working on Thursday night.
He's like, oh, christ,I forgot sorry about that. Yeah,
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my dad, My dad isn't listeningfor me, He's listening for you.
Okay. And what is his name? What's your dad's name? My dad's
name is David Michaelson. Oh that'sa great name. Yeah, yeah,
it's like a rock star name.What was his dream before he settled to
raising you, you know, dopeykids? What was it? Does he
wanted to become an athlete or ishe into entertainment? I mean he was
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a hell of a basketball player.Okay, that probably would have been That
was a drink day. Yeah,and then he had you and that set
him back, ruined it. Butcame an accountant. Yeah, that's the
best. It goes to. Michaelsonruined his dad's dreams. His dad could
have been Jerry West and now he's, you know, working in a counting
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firm and thousand Oaks got almighty.I bet, I bet Alex feels horrible,
just terrible. A lot of kidshave killed their dad's dreams and mom's
dreams. Good night. You're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on DEMYA from KF
I am six forty. When Iwas growing up, there's a thing called
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the roller Derby and a bunch ofguys and gals on roller skates beating the
hell out of each other in thatsmall little arena. Did you see that,
crows? You ever had that inthe East Coast? The roller roller
Derby? Man, that was great. Do you ever go to one,
kids? No, I didn't either, but I always watched him on ksey
E T. They always had theroller Derby on ksey E T. I
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enjoyed that. Yeah. The arenawas in downtown Los Angeles. Yeah,
I think I think it was.Yeah, and it was I can't remember
the name. I think it wasThunderbirds. Was it the La Thunderbirds?
I think it was. Yeah.They had a man and a women's team
and they punch each other in theface, and you know, and and
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slingshot, you know, in oneof these smaller you know, roller skaters
around And I had no idea howthey scored points. That wasn't really a
familiar with how who won and wholost. But man I enjoyed that.
I enjoyed that always reminded me ofJames Conn's Thunderball Moviehays. That's right,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Interisticone. Maybe it's coming back though,
that's possible. Let's find out ifit's we're gonna get roller derby again.
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Cars doesn't skate as often as heused to seventy three. You started when
you were howl twelve. I startedtraining at the age of twelve. But
when he did, he was amongthe best in the roller derby world.
A brag, huh, amongst thebest, not the best amongst the best
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in the roller derby world. Hewas among the best in the roller derby
world. It was a passion thatI didn't know I had. Yeah,
it had to be. I didn'tsee a lot of people pulling out of
there with high end maseratis, didn't. I don't think there's a lot of
money in that game. He startedskating professionally when he was barely eighteen,
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inspired by some of these skating grates, and when I saw roller derby,
i't telling your mom and dad,you're not going to college. You want
to be a star in roller derby? M Okay, interesting, I just
had to try it. In sixtysix, I was putting the La T
Birds, that's all. That's whereit was. Okay, the T Birds,
But I think I was short forThunderbirds. Yeah. I think it
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was the T Birds. Maybe licensingthey couldn't yeah, maybe, but that
I remember that. I am abig fan of the Thunderbirds. Now he's
onto something new, training the nextgeneration of skaters. With the launch of
Extreme roller Derby face in Southern California. The excitement, the speed, What
did somebody doing wrapping Christmas gifts inthe background? What's the tape? With
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the launch of Extreme roller Derby Basein Southern California, We're packing everything up
to ship out. Not a goodaudio in the back Derby Base in Southern
California. The excitement, the speed, the knocking around, believe it or
not, the fall. Here atthe Venice Ocean Front Walk, Lewis found
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his first recruit, skater Sandry Mallory. Mallory, who's been skating since twenty
twenty one, says she is opento the idea of trying out for one
of the teams. Well, she'syeah, she's she's wanting to try out
for anything. She's been skating forthree years. She's been skating since twenty
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twenty one. What kind of bragis that? Mal This guy this other
guy's been skating for sixty years.Mallory, who's been skating since twenty twenty
one, says she is open tothe idea of trying out for one of
the teams. Right competitive, SoRonald rev could be an option. It's
fun. Skaters will train for sixmonths before the first competition next year.
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Wow. Lewis says he's excited torevive the sport in the City of Angels
and pay tribute to those who camebefore him. As he creates this new
generation of skaters, he hopes we'llmake history. Yeah. I was a
big fan. I really enjoyed TheTea Birds Thunderbirds, the voice of the
Tea Birds between nineteen fifty one andnineteen seventy two, The chick hern Dick
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Lane, Oh, Dick Lane.Okay, who coined the phrase whoa Nelly?
Is that right? Yeah? Wowman, that's going back. That
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It's camf I AM six forty andyou're listening to the Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio appf I AM sixforty. It's Combay Show. It's Friday,
all right. Trying to keep alittle light around here. We've had
a heavy week, ma'am. Heavyweek, heavy, heavy week. Boy
oh boy. We've had shootings onMetro. We had a ups driver that
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was killed in Irvine. We hadthe protest in Irvine, man oh man.
And then just when you thought,okay, we're done with it for
the week, the most one ofthe most radical chases I've ever seen happen
this morning on the four or fivefreeway. Evidently this woman, almost woman,
was screaming and yelling and keeping everybodyup all night because Los Angeles has
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become one big insane asylum, right, it's a big nuthouse in Los Angeles.
Now everybody's, you know, panic, nobody has any money to pay
any bills, and everybody's going everybodyhas a screw loose. And so this
woman gets in a van and shestarts high tailing it. And now they
don't know whether it's a woman ora man. It's it's an it's a
it's it's odd, it's it's undundetermined. Drugs a thing. Yeah,
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it really is a wild man,way too high. You know. I
always said, like, uh,you know, doing drugs is like playing
with a with a newborn, whereyou know, you can play with the
newborn for two or three hours,then you got to put it to sleep,
and it's got to sleep for awhile. Same with drugs. If
you're if you're doing drugs, youcan do them for you know, two
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three four hours, that's great.But if you start doing them on on
a on a forty eight hour basis, where you start on a Monday and
you don't stop till Wednesday night,that's too much. And drugs aren't getting
milder, no not, and podnever get milder. Yeah, pod is.
You know. Adam Krolla had agreat line. He said, when
we were younger, you smoked anentire joint, you caught a little bit
(01:53):
of buzz. Now you take onehit and you're nude in the desert looking
for turtles. That's how how wrongthis crap is nowadays. So you have
to adjust your buzz. You've gotto find your buzz. And I think
that's why a lot of kids goto college, and you go to college
to find out where your max isand how how to control it. And
you have four years with a lotof enticement. You got peers around.
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Yeah, you know, you're allkind of you know, it's it's your
pressure together. You're you're hanging witheach other, you're protecting each other hopefully.
Yeah, you know. So yougo through the experimental phase that way,
learn your buzz. Go to collegeand learn where your buzz is,
because it's not. It's not agreat sight when you're fifty leaning over a
Las Vegas hotel room toilet, throwingup for three hours, been there and
(02:39):
it's not and you feel like acomplete loser in life. Been there too.
So anyway, so this woman orthey don't really know. They think
it's a woman went crazy, goton the freeway going the wrong way,
and man, or man, itwas wild this morning? Why on the
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four oh five. The nice thingabout the morning chases though, and the
evening chases used to be great.So we used to cover them, and
Stu Mandel would cover him as well, and we'd have stew On to talk
about it, and he sort ofcovered it the way we did, where
you don't take it too seriously,and you exaggerate a lot of it,
and you know, you make itbigger than it is. And now he
does that in the morning. Butbecause people are sleeping in the morning,
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they miss out on Stu Mandel's greatcalls for the high speed chases. So
I'd like to replay it for you. This is what happened this morning on
the four or five with the wrongway driver. Now you can see that
that northbound freeway is kind of empty. Perhaps LAPD has done some kind of
blockage on the freeway. That vanjust continuing on. Now, you know,
you can see those speeds out there. We can venture to say that
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it's pretty accurate what we're getting rightthere. I can't say that that van
is going one hundred or even ninetynine miles an hour. Ooh, thepass
of that. That's great. He'strying to figure out what this with this
woman's you know, mentality and whereshe is in her life. What's the
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purpose? Give me a purpose forwhat you just did. What is the
purpose of that? WHOA what's thepurpose? I don't know, I don't
know. She didn't have an explanation. Is the purpose of that? That
person just sitting there innocent. Andnow that fan just colliding right there,
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somebody, some other passengers getting outjust on vehicle, the vehicle, unsuspecting
drivers again on their way to workand school, sitting there this morning.
Yeah, LAPD coming up. Okay, the person is out of the vehicle,
climbing out of the vehicle right there, but the roof of the car
climbing on top. Ye, climbingon top of the car and pointing at
the big ring again. I don'tknow what that fascination with these big rings
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are. But LAPD now they havethis situation. You know, you've got
injured folks. You have clearly aggressiontowards the LAPD officers. And the wild
thing about this chase is that thiswoman was so aggressive. One point,
she flipped the van around and shewas chasing the cops. She was chasing
the cops. It was crazy tosee how fast the cop was running to
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get away from her. I've neverseen that before, where the van was
hauling ass and then trying to chasethe cops down. I've never seen that
before. I've been looking at chasesfor thirty five forty years, never ever,
once have seen the car flip aroundand start chasing the cops around.
Never seen it, never and what'sthe purpose? And if this person tries
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to carjack this big rig, thisis going to end very poorly. That
weapon right there, that green laserthat is less than lethal, that is
a less than lethal so you know, possibly possibly this is coming to an
end right now. But what acrazy violent end right there? Crazy you
get hear that? What a crazyviolent end right there? What a crazy
violent end right there. And thatwas just a little bit of what LA
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was last week or this week.And we had fun, right We had
a full week of craziness. Irvineshooting of the ups driver, the Irvine
protests, the multiple stabbings and shootingson Metro. We had a wild week,
wild week in LA. And guesswhat, it's not even eighty degrees
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out yet. Wait till summer.You wait till summer, and watch this
happen ten times a day, tentimes a day. Everybody's broke, everybody's
nervous, and nobody has any ideawhat their future looks like. You know
before in the past, you'd havelike your old future planned out. A
lot of people, did you know, go to law school, become a
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lawyer, get married, have kids, but I don't bank my grandkids the
whole run. Now. People liveon an hourly basis, Like what am
I going to do next hour?I don't know, man, oh man,
There's some desperation out there. Andas Steckler always said, by my
old partner, Doug Steckler, oneof the funniest, smartest men I've ever
met my life, if not thefunniest and the smartest man I've ever met
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my life. He always said,the people who are the most dangerous out
there are people with nothing to lose. And we see him every single day
in the news every day. Whata crazy violent and right there, what
a crazy violent end, crazy violentend. What was he talking about?
Was he talking about the Irvine protest? What a crazy violent end? Right
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there? Was he talking about theups driver, What a crazy violent had?
Right there? Was he talking aboutthe stabbing and encino on the bus,
What a crazy violent had? Rightthere? Was he talking about the
shooting last night on the metro onin Commerce. What a crazy violent and
right there was he talking about thechase this morning? What a crazy violent
end? Right there? We livein a crazy violent town. Gang I
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know, you know it and nobodysays it. But I'm telling you,
crazy violent town we live in.It's getting wild in La Wild. The
person's still up on that roof ofthat vehicle on the big rig. But
I am very concerned about the personinside that car right there. That was
definitely a hard hit. That vehiclecompletely stopped, and then that van just
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colliding on purpose with that on purpose. I like that term on purpose.
Yes, that goes back to nineto eleven when I was living in Tarzana
with my wife. Phone rang atlike, you know, six o'clock in
the morning, then six thirty,and I finally I listened to the answer
(08:24):
machine, because back then you hadan answer machine and I could hear it.
And it was Doug McIntyre, friendof mine, said, he goes,
hey, Conway, you gonta wakeup. A plane flew into the
World Trade Center on purpose. Iremember him saying that on purpose, and
I'll always remember that. That's whatwoke me up, a nine to eleven
on purpose, on purpose, onpurpose, on purpose with that vehicle LAPD
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taking that suspect into custody right there. But again, what a crazy morning
out of here on the four orfive freeway, this ending in the Brentwood
area just before right at Bullsher Boulevard. Oh wow, Wow, I saw
something in a store the other daythat I couldn't believe. I'm gonna come
back and tell you what it is, and everyone is gonna your Your initial
(09:09):
reaction will be, well, thatcan't be true, and then your secondary
reaction is, of course it's true. Something flipped me out when I saw
it two days ago, and aseven eleven flip totally. My wife pointed
it out and flipped me out ina seven eleven. But it's everywhere,
and I'm gonna come back and tellyou what it is, and it's gonna
flip you out, and then you'regonna say, of course it's true.
(09:31):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior ondemand from KF I am sixty all right,
I've been seven eleven about three daysago, I guess, and with
my wife, you know, notthe brag. I made a couple of
bucks. I can treat it toa slurpee, maybe a slim GYM.
Yeah. I here's a tip foryou. Don't go with the chicken wings
(09:56):
at seven eleven. If you know, if you're gonna spend, if you
you have limited chicken wing dollars.I wouldn't throw them at seven eleven.
Are the ones on little rollers orthe like on the counter there? Yeah,
behind the counter those a little rolledup almost teket ale rights, Yeah,
those are horrible too. But Iasked the guy in seven eleven,
I said, hey, how muchare the chicken wings? And he said
(10:18):
five for I don't know, eightdollars. When I said how much for
three? And he gave me threeand he charged me already on my credit
card. I'm like, no,no, no, I just wanted to
know how much they were. Ididn't want him. And now I took
him outside. I took a biteof one and I almost, you know,
rushed myself to the emergency room.It's dreadful, dreadful, and it's
not it's not a good review atall. They got a lot of work
(10:41):
to do. When I was whenI was in college in Frostburg and Maryland,
there was our college was sort ofat the bottom of the hill and
in the middle of the night,you know, like you do in college,
you got to you gotta get somethingto ease sure. And it was
the middle of the winter, andup in Maryland it was it was foot
of snow. Easy. So wewalked all the way up to the ones
that was open in the middle ofthe night. It was the seven eleven
(11:01):
and man them dogs and you putthe chili in. Yeah, two in
the morning. That worked. Yeah, Oh that's great. Yeah that was
back in the day though. Althoughthere is a timer on those, yeah,
they're set to go off. They'reset to go off around seven thirty.
There is regret afterwards. All right. So here's what flipped me out.
And I thought it wasn't real,and then have said, of course
(11:22):
it's real, but it still flippedme out. I look at the counter
and it says May fourteenth, twothousand and three. I'm like, what
is that? May fourteenth, twothousand and three? What is that?
And I said to my wife,what is it? Why? Why is
that date there? And she goes, that's the date you have to be
(11:43):
born before to buy liquor. It'safter two years after nine one one,
nine eleven, two years. Thesekids were born two and a half years
after nine to eleven, and nowthey're drinking. How it seems like nine
(12:05):
to eleven was three years ago,four years ago? What year was so?
Born in two thousand and five,two thousand and five. Yea,
yeah, mine was born two thousandand one, three weeks before. Not
only oh is that right? Wow? You thought the whole world was probably
crashing down. I immediately thought,what did I bring my kid in?
Yeah? Probably right? Yeah?Sure, and yeah drinking now two thousand
and three, May fourteenth, twothousand and three. Now it's May seventeenth,
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two thousand and three. I wasWe had a meeting about a years,
you know, a half ago atMorton's downstairs. There was a new
client coming up, and went tohave dinner with them and see what they're
all about. They wanted to sortof sniff around what iHeart was all about,
and so I got down there.I got down there a little early,
and I'm talking to the reception andshe was very nice, and she
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said she was on the phone withher friend and they were going to go
celebrate a birthday. And I overheardher say the nineteen birthday. I'm like,
oh, your friend's turning nineteen,and she said, yeah, I'm
also nineteen. I said, oh, wh you don't remember nine to eleven
at all. It's just a it'sjust what your parents and grandparents have told
you. And she said, yeah, I don't remember anything about it wasn't
(13:11):
born, and it's just what mymom and dad told me. It's what
my grandparents told me. My uncleis my aunts and right right then Darren
McMillan from KFI comes in, oneof the head sales guys that I heard,
and he sees me talking to thisattractive nineteen year old receptionist about nine
to eleven, and he goes,God, he goes, you really got
it with the chicks still bub Whatwas after that little Holocaust talk? What's
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the goat? What's the fallback?If that didn't turn her on? Right?
But speaking of college, I wentto Bowling Green State University. It
was about seventy below there. Itwas a harsh winner eighty one to eighty
two. If anyone was back there, you remember that it was a dreadful,
long, windy record cold temperatures.And I remember we were going to
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go to a party. It wasabout a mile from where we lived in
Batch Elder Dorm, Dortory, andwe're gonna go to a party, and
we got really drunk before we're gonnago to the party. So I said,
hey, guys, throw an extracoat because it's you know, it's
minus thirty eight out. It's gonnabe freezing you mom, yeah, thank
(14:18):
you very much. And and theguy I was with, he goes,
oh, and he goes, don'tworry about a coat. We're driving,
I said, I said, Isaid, no, we're all drinking.
How can we drive. We're toodrunk to drive? He goes, no,
No, Tim, he goes,we're too drunk to walk. We're
not too drunk to drive. We'retoo drunk to walk. We can't walk.
You know, we're gonna drive,but we can't walk. I'm like,
wow, these guys run a little, a little in the diamond lane
(14:41):
for me. You know, theseOhio guys, what are you talking about?
When we stumbled down the sidewalk.We can't have that get in the
car. The Ohio guys that Iknew, they got all the DUI all
that information late in life. Likewe knew it out here pretty quickly.
It was a bad vibe. Theydidn't really pick up on that as quickly
(15:01):
as we did out of here.That's that's basically where Frostburg is. It's
right near the tip of Maryland onthe far west side, so it's right
there by Ohio. So it's thesame general geographic area mentality, and the
West Side friends that went to Shepherd'sCollege in West Virginia all that same thing.
So you know what it was like. I mean those guys drunk.
If they drank and drove every day, oh yeah, I mean you know,
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they would they drive down the streetof the beer in their hand,
drinking while they're driving, absolutely andthink nothing of it. And you pointed
out, you're the you know,the woodsie, You're the the coward.
I couldn't believe it, man,But but what your jackets on, fellas.
But also you know, because theypicked up the don't drink and drive,
uh you know philosophy later on inlife. They also had some doozy
(15:43):
accidents back there. I mean justwild, wild accidents. You know,
a guy doing one hundred and tenand he's said, all of a sudden,
doing your cartwheel over the train tracksand wipes out of a family.
And the beater cars yeah college,oh yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Cars you can see through the floorboardsand you can see what the streets
wet. I had a buddy whowe were driving in Bowling Green and he
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had dog doo dooo because I can'tuse the S word. He had dog
doodo on a shoe and we're probablywere on the seventy five. The highway
is seventy five, so we wereprobably doing sixty five miles an hour and
with the whole car smelled like doggas. So everyone's checking their shoes and
the driver on his left foot,he go, it's you. Let's stop
(16:32):
the car and you know, getrid of that shoe. I'm dying in
here. And he goes, no, no, he guess, buddy,
I'll take care of it. Heopens his door at sixty five miles an
hour and drags his foot along thehighway until the dog crap is gone.
Never seen that before, never seenthat act. All he had to do
was have one little tiny speed bump, one of those little bumps in the
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road and bang. Every bone inhis foot would have been broken. And
you know what, it disappeared,The odor disappeared. I learned something new
from that guy. Nobody got hurt, and we were right on time for
the party. So no victim,no crime, I guess. And that
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one, you know, everybody cameup aces on that one. But I'll
bet if he continued that and therest of his life some kind of radical
story is going to be told ayou know, Thanksgiving when that thing didn't
work out? All right, crazyday, crazy week in Los Angeles,
and we cover all of it righthere on KFI A six forty. You're
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listening to Tim Conway Junior on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. Hopefully it'll
be a little lighter today than ithas been over the last couple of days.
A lot of heavy news, alot of heavy news, a lot
of bad news coming out of Irvine, a lot of bad news coming out
of the metro. Hopefully we cankeep it a little lighter, just a
(17:56):
bit, just a tad, allright. A lot of people like you're
a Las vegae Is and you liketo know what hotels are opening, what
hotels are closing, what hotels haveseen the better day and are no longer
going to be around. We havenews for you. But first, the
biggest gambler I know, the biggestVegas guy I know, Alex Michaelson.
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How you bub throw it all onred Baby ding Dong with you? By
the way, have you ever beento Vegas? Of course I've been to
Vegas. I didn't I didn't knowwhat kind of guy you were. Have
you ever gambled? Sure? Andwhat do you what's your game? I
mean, I think blackjackets fun crapsis of course the most fun. I'm
(18:38):
that's great at it. But I'maware with somebody who knows what they're doing,
that is by far the most funbecause everybody's like winning together, you're
playing it the most fun. That'sright, man. I'm with you.
And as a sports guy, Ienjoy a good sportsbook experience, that's right.
Hey, buddy, we had areally rough week here in Los Angeles
(18:59):
with the protest US, a nervineups guy getting killed, the Metro shootings
and stabbings. I mean, it'sbeen a wild week. And then you
know, the cherry on the cakeof what this week was was that radical
Chase this morning. Yeah. AndI think with some of these things,
certainly the Metro and the Chase thing, it gets back to our you know,
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sort of foundational problem recently, whichis homelessness and drug addiction and mental
illness, and this idea that wejust sort of let people wallow and you
end up with this situation where theinnocent people who are doing the right things
are getting hurt because we are asociety have been afraid to say to people
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it's not okay to have people onthe streets who are clearly incapable of taking
care of themselves. And you lookat the Metro situation. I just interviewed
a few minutes ago Robert Moonda,the sheriff of La County, and he
said that of the people that havecaused crimes on Metro, ninety four percent
of them did not pay fares.Wow. Well, which is an example
(20:10):
of a lot of these people,many of them are homeless or mentally addicted,
who are just staying on the Metroall day long, not paying any
money. Okay, And it's sortof become like a babysitting facility. So
I'll always start enforcing the rules andmaking people pay fairs. Might make Metro
a little safer. That's a greatidea. I'll trade you stat for stat.
You said ninety four percent of violenceon the Metro that people have didn't
(20:33):
pay their fare. Okay, thatI'll buy that stat. Here's another one
for you. Ninety nine percent ofmillionaires in this world make their bed every
morning. So you want to makeyour bed and you want to pay your
fare if you have a shot atbeing anything in life. There you go
take going to that Are you referencingthat book by that general who I was?
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You're right, the fact that themost important thing is you got to
make your bed. That's exactly right. Look at you. That's exactly right,
buddy. I'm very well read.He's also the general that said you
don't want to go to war withthe United States because I guarantee you somebody
else will be raising your children.Kind of a tough guy. I do,
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yes, and and I have mymost of my life because I don't.
I feel like an unmade bed sayssomething about you. Well, and
that goes to the whole law enforcementtheory of you know, the quote unquote
broken windows theory. Yesh, I'mwith you. Don't allow small broken windows
because then problems fester. Maybe ifyou stop the UCLA and campon when it
was one or two ten, youwouldn't have to go in there when it's
(21:38):
hundreds of people in there. That'sright, just saying that's right. What's
on the Big Show night? Iknow you got an exciting program. We've
got Jen Saki, the former wellpress secretary for Joe Biden, is now
an MSNBC host, has a newbook out, and we sat down with
her for the half hour for insighton what it's really like working not only
for Biden but also for a bumnless she worked for John Carey and becoming
(22:03):
an anchor now and all the restof it. And she's a really smart
and interesting person. Whether you agreewith her or not, it was a
good conversation. Did you have theuncomfortable moment with her where she had to
change part of her book because shesaid that Joe Biden did not look at
his watch when the bodies came backfrom Afghanistan. I did ask her about
that, and we did have thatuncomfortable moment. That's uncomfortable, isn't it?
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It is, But that's part ofwhat I'm thinking. She's now an
anchor who now has to do thison the other side and ask people uncomfortable
questions. Didn't feel that bad askingher about it when she has to do
it to other people now all thetime. So she's a pro. She
should expect something like that. Iwill be watching tonight's ten thirty right ten
(22:48):
thirty Friday night. The issue isand you set yourself up perfectly for the
Democratic Convention in Chicago. The RepublicanConvention in Milwaukee and then the big vote
in November. Yeah, I knowgoing to both, are you no,
everybody? I don't think so now, I think in the past. But
the one, the most radical oneI think, is going to be Chicago.
I think that's gonna be fun togo to. You think there's going
(23:11):
to be like riots in the streetslike nineteen sixty eight. Again, I
think so. I think so.I hope not, but I think so.
Look, it's gonna be hot,it's gonna be humid, and people
are pissed. We need Yeah,there needs to be a cease fire deal
before them, right, yeah,exactly right. But you really appreciate coming
on and and we'll we'll talk youagain next week. Father's Day is coming
(23:33):
up, so I know you gotbig plans for Dad, and we'll talk
to you maybe about that next week. All right, sounds good, big
goal with you, buddy. He'slistening right now. Shout out to David
Michaelson. Wait is he listening rightnow? I think he is. He
listens most every weekend. Ah,that's beautiful. What a great dad,
you know. And real quickly aboutseven years ago and when my dad was
(23:56):
still you know, feeling well andnot having people over. He invited me
over to his house on a Thursdaynight for dinner and and I said what
time? And he said seven o'clockAnd I said, well, Dad,
for the twenty second year in arow, I'm working on Thursday night.
He's like, oh, christ,I forgot sorry about that. Yeah,
(24:18):
my dad, My dad isn't listeningfor me, He's listening for you.
Okay. And what is his name? What's your dad's name? My dad's
name is David Michaelson. Oh that'sa great name. Yeah, yeah,
it's like a rock star name.What was his dream before he settled to
raising you, you know, dopeykids? What was it? Does he
wanted to become an athlete or ishe into entertainment? I mean he was
(24:44):
a hell of a basketball player.Okay, that probably would have been That
was a drink day. Yeah,and then he had you and that set
him back, ruined it. Butcame an accountant. Yeah, that's the
best. It goes to. Michaelsonruined his dad's dreams. His dad could
have been Jerry West and now he's, you know, working in a counting
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firm and thousand Oaks got almighty.I bet, I bet Alex feels horrible,
just terrible. A lot of kidshave killed their dad's dreams and mom's
dreams. Good night. You're listeningto Tim Conway Junior on DEMYA from KF
I am six forty. When Iwas growing up, there's a thing called
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the roller Derby and a bunch ofguys and gals on roller skates beating the
hell out of each other in thatsmall little arena. Did you see that,
crows? You ever had that inthe East Coast? The roller roller
Derby? Man, that was great. Do you ever go to one,
kids? No, I didn't either, but I always watched him on ksey
E T. They always had theroller Derby on ksey E T. I
(25:51):
enjoyed that. Yeah. The arenawas in downtown Los Angeles. Yeah,
I think I think it was.Yeah, and it was I can't remember
the name. I think it wasThunderbirds. Was it the La Thunderbirds?
I think it was. Yeah.They had a man and a women's team
and they punch each other in theface, and you know, and and
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slingshot, you know, in oneof these smaller you know, roller skaters
around And I had no idea howthey scored points. That wasn't really a
familiar with how who won and wholost. But man I enjoyed that.
I enjoyed that always reminded me ofJames Conn's Thunderball Moviehays. That's right,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Interisticone. Maybe it's coming back though,
that's possible. Let's find out ifit's we're gonna get roller derby again.
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Cars doesn't skate as often as heused to seventy three. You started when
you were howl twelve. I startedtraining at the age of twelve. But
when he did, he was amongthe best in the roller derby world.
A brag, huh, amongst thebest, not the best amongst the best
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in the roller derby world. Hewas among the best in the roller derby
world. It was a passion thatI didn't know I had. Yeah,
it had to be. I didn'tsee a lot of people pulling out of
there with high end maseratis, didn't. I don't think there's a lot of
money in that game. He startedskating professionally when he was barely eighteen,
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inspired by some of these skating grates, and when I saw roller derby,
i't telling your mom and dad,you're not going to college. You want
to be a star in roller derby? M Okay, interesting, I just
had to try it. In sixtysix, I was putting the La T
Birds, that's all. That's whereit was. Okay, the T Birds,
But I think I was short forThunderbirds. Yeah. I think it
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was the T Birds. Maybe licensingthey couldn't yeah, maybe, but that
I remember that. I am abig fan of the Thunderbirds. Now he's
onto something new, training the nextgeneration of skaters. With the launch of
Extreme roller Derby face in Southern California. The excitement, the speed, What
did somebody doing wrapping Christmas gifts inthe background? What's the tape? With
(28:00):
the launch of Extreme roller Derby Basein Southern California, We're packing everything up
to ship out. Not a goodaudio in the back Derby Base in Southern
California. The excitement, the speed, the knocking around, believe it or
not, the fall. Here atthe Venice Ocean Front Walk, Lewis found
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his first recruit, skater Sandry Mallory. Mallory, who's been skating since twenty
twenty one, says she is opento the idea of trying out for one
of the teams. Well, she'syeah, she's she's wanting to try out
for anything. She's been skating forthree years. She's been skating since twenty
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twenty one. What kind of bragis that? Mal This guy this other
guy's been skating for sixty years.Mallory, who's been skating since twenty twenty
one, says she is open tothe idea of trying out for one of
the teams. Right competitive, SoRonald rev could be an option. It's
fun. Skaters will train for sixmonths before the first competition next year.
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Wow. Lewis says he's excited torevive the sport in the City of Angels
and pay tribute to those who camebefore him. As he creates this new
generation of skaters, he hopes we'llmake history. Yeah. I was a
big fan. I really enjoyed TheTea Birds Thunderbirds, the voice of the
Tea Birds between nineteen fifty one andnineteen seventy two, The chick hern Dick
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Lane, Oh, Dick Lane.Okay, who coined the phrase whoa Nelly?
Is that right? Yeah? Wowman, that's going back. That
is wild all right. KFI wantsto give you the chance to celebrate Friendship
and Beyond at the Disneyland Resort.Yeah, pixar Fest is back now through
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August fourth, so keep listening toKFI am six forty for your chance to
win. We have one of thefour pack one day one park tickets at
Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park tobe given away today, So we're gonna
do that. Let's do it atsix o'clock. Can we do it at
six o'clock? Is that we getthumbs up? Let's do it? Okay,
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Watch an exciting celebratory parade and taketo the as it takes to the streets
of Disney California Adventure Park and jointhe party at Fantasyland Theater at Disneyland Park,
and it's transformed into a fund zonefor the entire family. So at
six pm, at right after thatbreak there, right around six oh five
or so, we're gonna be givingaway tickets to Disneyland or Disneyland Park or
(30:45):
Disney California Adventure Let's see here afour pack of one day one park tickets
at Disneyland Park or Disneyland California Adventure. So come back if you have to
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