November 25, 2024 • 34 mins
Enormous increase when it comes to booze drinking in Americans since the pandemic. Many people are moving to California but wait, why are thousands more workers leaving California than arrived during a stretch last year. Here’s where they went. California to offer EV rebates if Trump kills $7,500 tax credit, Newsom says/ Menendez brothers' resentencing recommendation hearing pushed back to late January. Holiday Travel Hell at LAX/ Don’t be ‘that guy’ or ‘girl’ at the TSA airport security checkpoint.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I Am six forty At five six on a Monday evening,
the twenty fifth day of November. Doug mcatar in for
Tim Conway Junior here until seven mo Kelly at that time,
and we hope you stick around. Next hour, we're gonna
talk happy days fifty years since that American Treasure, one
of the most beloved TV shows ever appeared, and we're
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gonna have two of the writers from that series. They
got a new book out about that, Brian Levant and
Fred Fox Junior will be with us. But we've got
a bunch of stuff to get into this hour as well,
including and Richie just handed me this story about people
leaving California taking their jobs with them, and what are
we supposed to do because I got a story here.
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This is people are surging into the state of California.
This is the problem you got dueling stories. We'll get
into that in just a bit. But you know, the
holidays are obviously upon us, Thanksgiving on Thursday, and there's
a lot of eating and drinking that goes on, and
I want to focus on the drinking part, not necessarily
because Thanksgiving is known as a particularly big booze holiday.
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I mean, we got Saint Patrick's Day and Sink of
Demio and New Year's Eve, and we got the traditional
booze holidays. You got your candy holidays like Halloween and Easter,
and then you got your booze holidays like New Year's
Eve and Saint Patrick's Day and Sink of Demio. By
the way, as a descendant of the Irish, my grandmother
me sainted grandmother, who was not sainted, but she was
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born in Ruscommon, Ireland, and of course I always enjoyed
the fact that the Irish would get their day on
March seventeenth by engaging in essentially reinforcing every negative stereotype
about the Irish. Let's pass the plastic green derby to
buy weapons for the IRA that used to happen up
in the Upper East Side of New York when I
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was a kid, and then go get drunk and start
fights along the ride Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Oh yeah,
that's the way to celebrate your cultural heritage. Anyway, it's
a booze holiday, so Sink of Demile. But Thanksgiving is
traditionally an eating holiday, but that doesn't mean that there
is at booze consumed. And apparently we're really liking the booze.
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Since the year nineteen ninety nine until twenty twenty, according
to the CDC, there were fifty thousand, fifty thousand deaths
among adults age twenty five to eighty five, which is
up from just twenty thousand in nineteen ninety nine, so
the fatality from alcohol related illnesses, and this does not
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count accidents, by the way. This is things like certain
forms of heart disease, liver disease, nerve damage, muscle damage, pancreatitis,
and alcohol poisoning, as well as mental behavioral disorders. But
it did not include things like auto accidents and just
you know, falling out of the bed and hitting your
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head on the night table and bleeding out on the floor.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I mean things that happen when you're drunk.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So an enormous increase in the amount of alcohol abuse,
and particularly since COVID the pandemic. Apparently when people unplugged
from their work life, they unplugged the jug as well
and started juggalugging and have kept on chugg a lugging.
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Some forty eight eight hundred and seventy alcohol related deaths
were reported in twenty twenty, up from nineteen thousand, three
hundred and forty six in nineteen ninety nine. Now this
is again per year. This is like the entire death
toll of ten years of America's involvement in Vietnam.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And we're doing that with just booze.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
We're not even counting you know, fentanyl and all of
the other ways that we can offer ourselves with narcotics.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And look, it's.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Entirely possible that a contributing factor of these debts are
over the counters or other you know, substances that are
mixed in there, those toxic cocktails that people get involved in.
But what you know, whenever we have one of these
terrible school shootings and everybody kind of retreats to whatever
their safe zone is. For some people it's pointing to
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the guns. For other people, that's pointing to lack of
God in school. For other people, it's mental health. What
nobody ever wants to look at. As it may be
all of the above, it's the same what often gets lost.
You know, you have one of these terrible school shootings
and it turns out. It's a crazy kid. It's a
kid who's completely you know, everybody who encountered them said,
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these guy's a ticking time bomb, and nothing was done.
And then he gets a hold of a gun and
he kills his kindergarten classmates from twenty years ago. Well
somewhere along the line, whether we're talking about Matthew Perry
or the guy that you can see from the fourth
floor of your building who's homeless and living across the street,
who's living on the street and drinking out of a
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brown paper bag, at some point we really need to
start to talk about what it is about modern life
that makes it seem like a better choice for so
many people to anestatize themselves in whatever fashion they choose
to do so. And that's what all addictions are, whether
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it's booze or drugs, or sex, or gambling or shopping
or whatever it is you're trying to eat overeating, people
try to numb the pain or fill the void in
their life. This is These are all the psychobabble terms
that I picked up from listening to doctor Laura years ago.
I have no idea what any of this means.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I just know that.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
When people so many millions of people are choosing to
anesthetize themselves, numb their lives through some kind of medication,
whether it's legal medication, prescribe medication, stuff you can get
at Walgreens once they unlock it. You know, George Gascon
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was running things. You had to lock everything up, or
good old fashioned booze, mister booze. You know, because every culture,
every place on Earth, they have figured out how to
make alcohol out of something. If you got potatoes, you
made vodka. You made it out of potatoes. You know,
if the only thing you had were trees, then you
got wood grain alcohol. Right, But somebody has figured out
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how to ferment something to either make dinner go down,
or my guess is it wasn't to make dinner.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Go down easier.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It was to make the company they kept or the
voices in their head quiet down just a little bit. So,
you know, the data keeps showing up, and we keep
kind of bypassing this. You know, we've got all these PSAs,
and I know that there's all kinds of programs, and
there's twelve step programs and things that really work work
for lots of people, but we're never really asking the
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big question of what is it about life that makes
people feel the need to numb themselves?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And you know, with Robert F.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Kennedy Junior, by the way, about to run Health and
Human Services, one of the things apparently that he's interested
in pushing out there is more pot and more psychedelics.
And I know that there's a whole school of science
that believes that psychedelics could be used therapeutically to treat
depression in other forms of mental illness. But you can't
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drive ten blocks, well, you drive ten blocks now in
LA and you're going to pass ten pot stars. They're everywhere.
And man, people love their pot. They just love it,
can't get enough of it. And the reason it's legal
and becoming legalized in more and more places is the
public wants it. So there's there's very little reward for
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politicians to be anti pot anymore. And you know, we
tried being anti booze and that didn't go over very well.
There's still dry counties, by the way, throughout the country.
You can go places where there's dry counties and there's workarounds.
By the way, you can I remember driving through Oklahoma
and I couldn't drive through it fast enough and I
stopped back in my booze days. I was driving through
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Oklahoma on my way to California, as a matter of fact,
and I thought, well, I'm gonna have a beer before dinner,
which meant that eight about two in the morning. But
I went into this place and said, no, this is
a dry county. He said, if you're going to drink here,
you got to go get yourself a drinking license. They go, well,
how does one get that? I go, you pay the
bartender two dollars, he'll give you one. I'm not making
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that up. Very very efficient bureaucracy here. You give them
two bucks, they give you a drinking license, and off
you go for the night. But nonetheless, with the rare
exception of a few dry counties here and there, for
the most part, booze and drugs are everywhere, and people
can't get enough of them. And if they're not, and
if it's not, you know, we talk about drugs, we're
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talking about the illicit stuff. But man, people are knocking
back every kind of everything that they can think of
to mask or hide whatever discomfort that they temporarily feel
or maybe chronically feel, which I certainly understand if you're
in chronic pain. But at some point we should step
back and say, why is life this uncomfortable? Because even
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in inexpensive cars, you've got air conditioning and electric windows
and dual climate control, and you've got you know, heini
heaters and the seat cushions, and you got a little
button you can push that warms the steering wheel. Now,
my wife has a Chevy Vault. This is hardly a
luxury car. Gasoline little tiny gasoline engine and an electric engine.
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So it's kind of the best of both worlds. Right
doesn't have a spare tire though, that's not good. But
it's got an electric thing that you can push this
button and it heats this, and it heats the steering wheel.
And I would have a hard time explaining that to
my grandfather. In fact, there's a lot of things about
modern life I would have a hard time explaining to
my grandfather. I couldn't explain whole foods to my grandfather.
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I couldn't explain Patagonian monkfish that's sixty five dollars a pound.
I could not explain that to my grandfather, who had
many years in his life when he didn't make sixty
five dollars a week. So but nonetheless, these are some
things that I think about a lot when I see
these stories about from nineteen ninety nine to twenty twenty,
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when the numbers were crunched, we went from twenty thousand
deaths a year from alcohol related disease to fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And there's something going on.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Here that we should really be examining, but I don't
think we are because we're too busy numbing.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI.
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I hope so k IF.
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worked at the other radio station, the Morning Team. I
was doing the overnight show. The Morning team did the opening.
They were doing a live remote from californ You Adventure
the day it was opening opening day, brand new theme park.
But here's the problem. Their show started at five in
the morning, the park opened to ten. The show ended
at nine, So for four hours the only thing you
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heard was them talking and a leaf blower.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
There was nothing. There was nothing going.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
On except gardeners, you know, just blowing leaves to make
sure everything was spotless. Were opening day at California Adventure.
If you're in radio long enough, you get some weird gigs.
You get some really strange gigs. I had to do
a remote one time from one of the big metal
buildings where they were doing the building the floats for
the rose parade. And here's the problem. It's a total
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picture story. It has no business being on the radio.
What am I supposed to be describing a guy putting
poppy seeds, gluing poppy seeds onto a giant flying you know, elephant,
and meanwhile the building has a metal roof and it
starts raining. So it sounds like I got twenty drummers
doing solos above the microphones. Anyway, So okay, I had
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this story here and I thought, oh, this is going
to be interesting because we've had ten thousand versions of
everybody's moving out of California because it's too expensive in
the crime and they can't stand all the regulations. Right,
So I've got that right here on my big official
rundown says California, here they come. And it's a story
that quotes the Association of Realtors Association the America, the
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National Association Realtors that reports that California moves made up
nine point four percent of all interstate moves nationally.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Quote, It's fascinating that for.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
All the grief California's taken in terms of higher cost
of living, more regulations, and increased media coverage of crime
in its major cities, it remains one of the most
desired states for people to move to in the United States,
according to Alex Bean, a financial literacy instructor at the
University of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
He said this. He told this to Newsweek magazine.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
When it comes to California, aspirations often over logic, and
they talked about my interstate migration rates that California was
the second most popular place to move to. Since twenty fourteen,
California has seen seven hundred thousand adults leave and this
trend could be reversing itself.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Okay, so that's story one.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
People are coming nine point four percent of all interstate moves,
in other words, moving from you're moving from Tennessee to
North Carolina and interstate move.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Almost ten percent.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Excuse me, found my own opinions hard to swallow. Almost
ten percent of all the people who moved within interstate
in the United States moved to California. Well that's pretty impressive,
except Richie Smart, alec producer comes running in and hands
me another story that says California home to rich pool
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of talent to major industries such as film tech.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You've heard it lost eighty to seven thousand workers to
other states.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So you know, go ahead and pick the facts that
you want to believe.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
This is part of the problem that we have in
the information age is deciding what's actually happening. Here's what
I have observed, and I don't know how to reconcile
it because my wife and I we asked this all
the time. Where are the people getting all this money?
Because every Sunday I get the papers. I like to
have the printed paper, and I pull the papers apart.
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And the La Times has this real estate section where
the homes are like thirty four million dollars. A cheap
house is fourteen million dollars. And then I get the
La Deli News House and there's like a two bedroom
fixer and Pacoima for a million five and that's a bargain.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
And the last three.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Weeks they've had a house on the front page of
the real estate section. It's so ugly and it's like
one point three million. I can't believe somebody would pay
one point three and apparently no one will, that's why
it's there for three weeks. But nonetheless, I see all
these four sale signs in the neighborhood and people buy them.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
They're buying them.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So for all the uh, the stories about people fleeing California,
the prices aren't coming down, and people keep buying this stuff.
They keep buying the houses as fast. Now it's the
same thing with rents. There are rents and through the roof.
When I moved here, and granted it was a million
years ago now, nineteen eighty five, I moved to California
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from New York. I couldn't believe how cheap it was.
I mean, in Burbank, you were tripping over five hundred
dollars really nice, five hundred dollars a month, apartments really nice. Uh,
And now you pay five hundred dollars a month for
the parking spot.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's so crushingly expensive.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And I don't know how anybody can afford to move here,
especially a young person who's starting out, comes out to
you know, either you know, pursue some dream, or to
just get away from their family, whatever reason. I always
thought Califor used to say the Golden State on the
license plate. It would be so much better if it
said California moved away from my family state. Which is
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why so many people go to LAX. They have to
go back to make the annual pilgrimage, to go back
to wherever they're from, eat some turkey, and then get
back to the airport as fast as possible, and come
back here for all of our awarts and sins.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It's a great sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It is what you put up with the migration geography
is that's what holds families together as much distance as possible.
But it's genuinely it's it's it's a crisis and this
has been you know, we've talked about this issue for
years that one of the things, one of the great
conundrums is the is the hike in the minimum wage
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that you want people working at Wendy's when you go
through the drive through window, But where is the person
working at wendy supposed to live? Because if the Wendy's
is in Los Angeles, they can't be coming from sam
Bernado to get to Wendy's to work the third shift.
So they got to make enough money at your job
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in order to live within reasonable commuter distance of your job.
As long as we're going to still have service sector work.
And you know, the more expensive it gets, the more
automation comes in and robotics comes in to replace people
because the companies can't keep paying people twenty five thirty
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dollars an hour to do service worker jobs that a
machine could replace, or you can't find people to do it.
Because they can't afford to live anywhere near the place
that they are employed.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty five, eight.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Twenty fifth day of November.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Doug McIntyre in for Tim Conway Junior most Kelly at
seven o'clock. Next hour, we're going to talk Happy Days.
Fifty years ago that series with Fonsie and the Gang
debuted and we're going to have Ryan Levant and Fred
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at Amazon dot com By yours truly, Doug mcatyre. So
our producer Richie handed me another story here. You might
actually you were doing this story earlier, weren't you, Andrew
about Newsome offering seventy five hundred dollar tax credits for evs.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I believe I heard that.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
From the twenty four hour canfine iss me, and he's
saying that if Donald Trump cuts off the EV credits,
that California will pick up the slack and offer a
seventy five hundred dollars rebate on electric vehicle purchases going forward,
you know, as we retreat into states' rights, you know,
as the here in California, we are the epicenter of
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the resistance, according to Gavin Newsom. Now here's the question
I have about this story. With Elon Musk being buddy
buddy with the next President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,
what are the chances that when he and whoever else
he gets involved in with slashing and cutting all the waste,
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fat and abuse out of the budget, do you think
the guy that is the largest manufacturer of electric vehicles
in America is going to put the EV credits on
the chopping block in the new If I'd say, mister President,
you know I was very, very supportive of you during
the campaign, and it sure would help me out a
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lot if you were to keep the federal EV credits. Anyway,
we'll see what happens with that. But Gavin Newsom is
in the trenches right all right, ladies and gentlemen, the
men Endi, as you heard from the twenty five URKFI newsroom,
we're in court for the first time in twenty eight years,
and they were having this hearing because they were asking
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for a re sentencing, saying there's new evidence in the
case from all those years ago when they murdered their parents,
and the judge has deferred making a ruling on this,
I guess until early January. And what's fascinating about this
case is the position it puts new incoming LA Dish
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attorney Nathan Hawkman, the position it puts him in because
on the one hand, there's a lot of people across America,
including here in southern California, who saw the documentary series
of I saw the movie made about the Menendez and
they feel sorry for them. They feel like they were
terribly abused by their parents, especially the father. And we
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have a different attitude, at least in theory about child
abuse than we did thirty years ago. We allegedly take
it more seriously. Although, man, when you see how many
child abuse are, how many child abuse stories pop up
in the news on any given day, I really question
whether or not we've changed. If anything, it's gotten worse.
Maybe it's always been that way, but I suspect strongly
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that this digital universe has enabled more and more people
to reach out and pretend and you know, you know,
groom kids through you know, chat rooms, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But the bottom line is.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Gas Gone, of course was he's in favor of letting
everybody out of prison. So what a surprise that he
was in favor of letting the Menendez brothers go.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
But it's going to be Nathan Hoffman's ultimate decision. Now.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The question is if he chooses to do that based
on evidence, Well, he'll make the case. But there's a
lot of people who voted for Nathan Affman in La
County who were tired of the get out of jail
free cards that Gascone was handing out like some kind
of you know, the lucy goosiest game a monopoly in
history where there's basically crime but no punishment. Now, on
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the other hand, the original prosecutor in the case is
absolutely adamant that the Menendez brother should never be let
out that they were given a life sentence because they
murdered their parents in cold blood. And she's argued that
the movie didn't show them laughing and joking in court
when the jury wasn't in the room, and then getting
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all stone faced and serious when the jury returned to
the room, et cetera, et cetera. Now I wasn't there.
I didn't pay it to this thirty years ago. I
don't remember the details. This is what I do remember.
I do remember that even if you believe that the
father was a grave threat to their lives, if the
Menenda's brothers were justified and believe that the father represented
a grave threat to their life, what did the mother do?
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She might have been an enabler, which is certainly a
contributing factor to a terrible crime if the child abuse
was happening. But it's not, by the law, reason to
kill somebody in self defense. That's my non legal interpretation
of what happened here. But what we do know is
that Hakmann may want to based on facts and having
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served almost thirty years in prison, let them go, let
them walk, like Gascone said he wanted to do. On
the other hand, there's a political reality that he wasn't
elected to be lucy goosey with criminals. And the other
factor is there's the morale of the prosecutors and the
deputy days who supported his campaign, who were disgusted by
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the lucy goosey way that George Gascon conducted it, the
conducted the DA's office in the time he was in office.
So there's a political dynamic to it, not just the
facts of the case. And at some point we'll get
that ruling from Nathan Hawkman, probably after the first of
the year.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I would guess, all.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Right, ladies and gentlemen, if you're headed out of town,
and a lot of you are that little tiny horseshoe
of hell known as Los Angeles International Airport, if you're
heading there, you have my deepest sympathies. I am going
eight point six miles on Thanksgiving Day and that's my limit.
I may not even come back. I might have to
spend the night just to avoid the return trip. But
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if you're heading to out of town for the holidays,
we wish you well. If you're going to be here
for a couple more days, please be with me. I'll
be in for Timmy tomorrow and Wednesday as well, and
of course KFI will be here on Thursday as well.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Doug Macatar in for Tim Conway Junior. Next hour. We're
going to talk Happy Days fifty years ago, that TV
series The Debut Dude, and we'll have Brian Levant and
Fred Fox Junior whore, both writers on the show, and
they've got a brand new book celebrating the fiftieth anniversary
of that landmark TV series.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
We got other stuff will yack about as well.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
In the meantime, those of you are heading to lax
for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Good luck. That's all I can tell. You called it
the horseshoe of Hell, which I think is genius. I've
just never heard that terminology before.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Well you should have been No, I don't know why.
That's the first time I've ever called it the horseshoe
of Hell. I've called the LA City Council the horseshoe
of stupidity, but that seems obvious because that's what everybody
calls that right. Here's the thing about LAX.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I have to.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
My wife is so tired of hearing my rants when
we come to LA from someplace, or we leave LA
to go to some place, because I hate the airport
with a blind passion. And the reason is there's nothing
that can really be done about it. We're spending billions
of dollars in the people mover they keep. You know,
it'll be here for the Olympics, that's all we know,
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and maybe that'll help. God knows. You look at that engineering.
If you haven't been to LAX recently, you can't believe.
It looks like something out of the Jetsons. They've just
had to fish this mono rail train track thing through
all the other buildings. I don't know how they did it,
but somehow they're doing it. And the idea is they'll
be an off off site parking area and then you
take this thing into the terminals and it should work
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better than trying to drive your subaro into the horseshoe
from help, but every other airport in the country, if
you fly to O'Hare, you fly to Chicago, and you
land at O'Hare and you get out, you take the
shuttle bus to the rental car place, and you get
your avis and you're driving for ten minutes at sixty
miles an hour, and you're still seeing O'Hare airport. You're
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still seeing signs for O'Hare airport or parts of the airport.
Highway speeds. LAX has squished its two blocks. There's no
place for it to go. So everything is squished in
forty four million people a year going through that little
tiny piece of real estate. It was plopped there ninety
years ago, and the neighborhood built in around it, and
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there's no way for it to spread its wings and fly,
so we're stuck with it. And that means that the
highest act of life. Well, actually I'm going to qualify
this driving someone to the airport. Taking a friend and
or loved one to the airport is the deepest commitment
of friendship and love and expression of love that we
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in Los Angeles can can bestow upon another human being.
If you are willing to take so much to the airport,
or maybe even worse, pick somebody up at the airport,
because then you're going to be parked somewhere hoping the
plane's not seven hours late. Is that is real love
or and here's here's the one qualifier. It's also an
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expression of how you want them out of your lives.
If you're willing to drive someone to the airport, that
doesn't qualify if you're picking them up. But if you're
willing to, Oh, I'll take you to the airport, I'll
walk you right to the gate. I'll buy a ticket
and make sure you get on the plane. I will
not get on the plane, but I will walk to
the gate with you. Meanwhile, there's a bunch of things
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that you can do to make it slightly less horrible.
It's like there are still people in this world who
pay at Ralph's with a check and those are the
people who invariably act like they are surprised that Ralph's
charges for groceries, and when they find out that they
owe money, they start phishing in their handbag. It's never
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a guy. They start fishing in their purse for a checkbook.
And then they have to look up at the signage
to see whether they're in Ralph's or Vaughn's. And then
they got to say, is it Ralph's with an apostrophe
s or is it just Ralph's with no apostrophe and
they write the check and scratchy little old lady handwriting
instead of having all that done in advance. Oh and
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then they got coupons. Okay, everybody hates you. Everybody hates
you if you're the person that does that. Well, if
you're the person that shows up at the airport, you're
going to lax at the holidays, and you're the once
a year flyer or the once every other year you
go to Grandma's house for some punkin pie, and you
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don't realize that this is not the time to wear
the thigh high Doc Martin boots that have to be
unlaced and kicked off before you go through security.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
All right, not the time to wear the Doc Martins.
It's just not if.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You have if you're on the kinkier side of life,
and you have some body piercings that aren't necessarily visible
in ordinary street clothes, and you people can fill in
your own your imaginations can fill in.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
What I might be implying here all right.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Now is the don't be upset if the wanding guy
is targeting your crotch. All right, your crotch is going
off like a pinball machine. You made that decision. The
rest of the flyers didn't. And you know, this is
a terrible time to find out that you left your
handgun in the bag from the last time you drove
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to Reno. All right, you know you didn't have to
go through metal detectors. And look, I understand I'm not
judging you. If I'm going to Reno, I want a handgun.
But the difference is if you're on the plane, not
a good time to find out the handgun is still
in your luggage because that's going to slow the line down.
Because if you are responsible for slowing the line down,
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then you become the aviation equivalent of the little old
lady with the checkbook at Ralph's who just is and
is it Ralph's? Is that it's apostrophe as isn't it?
It's Ralph's and ziz and possessive, not Ralph's implural. Anyway,
we got Fred Fox Junior, we got Brian Levant, we
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got happy Days to talk about next hour. But we
also have this interesting study that came out. Some scientists
are saying, for those of you who are eating vegan
and you're taking probiotics and you're doing pilates and you're cleansing,
and you're doing colon cleanses and all this stuff to
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extend your life. Scientists say that we human beings have
pretty much maxed out on how long we can live.
I know that you occasionally get these stories and say
we could live to be one hundred and fifty. These
guys all saying, no, this is pretty much yet. We'll
get into that story as well as a patient porch
pirate who pinched packages and I worked on that alliteration.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
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Speaker 2 (33:55):
Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I Am six forty At five six on a Monday evening,
the twenty fifth day of November. Doug mcatar in for
Tim Conway Junior here until seven mo Kelly at that time,
and we hope you stick around. Next hour, we're gonna
talk happy days fifty years since that American Treasure, one
of the most beloved TV shows ever appeared, and we're
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gonna have two of the writers from that series. They
got a new book out about that, Brian Levant and
Fred Fox Junior will be with us. But we've got
a bunch of stuff to get into this hour as well,
including and Richie just handed me this story about people
leaving California taking their jobs with them, and what are
we supposed to do because I got a story here.
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This is people are surging into the state of California.
This is the problem you got dueling stories. We'll get
into that in just a bit. But you know, the
holidays are obviously upon us, Thanksgiving on Thursday, and there's
a lot of eating and drinking that goes on, and
I want to focus on the drinking part, not necessarily
because Thanksgiving is known as a particularly big booze holiday.
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I mean, we got Saint Patrick's Day and Sink of
Demio and New Year's Eve, and we got the traditional
booze holidays. You got your candy holidays like Halloween and Easter,
and then you got your booze holidays like New Year's
Eve and Saint Patrick's Day and Sink of Demio. By
the way, as a descendant of the Irish, my grandmother
me sainted grandmother, who was not sainted, but she was
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born in Ruscommon, Ireland, and of course I always enjoyed
the fact that the Irish would get their day on
March seventeenth by engaging in essentially reinforcing every negative stereotype
about the Irish. Let's pass the plastic green derby to
buy weapons for the IRA that used to happen up
in the Upper East Side of New York when I
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was a kid, and then go get drunk and start
fights along the ride Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Oh yeah,
that's the way to celebrate your cultural heritage. Anyway, it's
a booze holiday, so Sink of Demile. But Thanksgiving is
traditionally an eating holiday, but that doesn't mean that there
is at booze consumed. And apparently we're really liking the booze.
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Since the year nineteen ninety nine until twenty twenty, according
to the CDC, there were fifty thousand, fifty thousand deaths
among adults age twenty five to eighty five, which is
up from just twenty thousand in nineteen ninety nine, so
the fatality from alcohol related illnesses, and this does not
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count accidents, by the way. This is things like certain
forms of heart disease, liver disease, nerve damage, muscle damage, pancreatitis,
and alcohol poisoning, as well as mental behavioral disorders. But
it did not include things like auto accidents and just
you know, falling out of the bed and hitting your
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head on the night table and bleeding out on the floor.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I mean things that happen when you're drunk.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So an enormous increase in the amount of alcohol abuse,
and particularly since COVID the pandemic. Apparently when people unplugged
from their work life, they unplugged the jug as well
and started juggalugging and have kept on chugg a lugging.
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Some forty eight eight hundred and seventy alcohol related deaths
were reported in twenty twenty, up from nineteen thousand, three
hundred and forty six in nineteen ninety nine. Now this
is again per year. This is like the entire death
toll of ten years of America's involvement in Vietnam.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And we're doing that with just booze.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
We're not even counting you know, fentanyl and all of
the other ways that we can offer ourselves with narcotics.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And look, it's.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Entirely possible that a contributing factor of these debts are
over the counters or other you know, substances that are
mixed in there, those toxic cocktails that people get involved in.
But what you know, whenever we have one of these
terrible school shootings and everybody kind of retreats to whatever
their safe zone is. For some people it's pointing to
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the guns. For other people, that's pointing to lack of
God in school. For other people, it's mental health. What
nobody ever wants to look at. As it may be
all of the above, it's the same what often gets lost.
You know, you have one of these terrible school shootings
and it turns out. It's a crazy kid. It's a
kid who's completely you know, everybody who encountered them said,
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these guy's a ticking time bomb, and nothing was done.
And then he gets a hold of a gun and
he kills his kindergarten classmates from twenty years ago. Well
somewhere along the line, whether we're talking about Matthew Perry
or the guy that you can see from the fourth
floor of your building who's homeless and living across the street,
who's living on the street and drinking out of a
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brown paper bag, at some point we really need to
start to talk about what it is about modern life
that makes it seem like a better choice for so
many people to anestatize themselves in whatever fashion they choose
to do so. And that's what all addictions are, whether
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it's booze or drugs, or sex, or gambling or shopping
or whatever it is you're trying to eat overeating, people
try to numb the pain or fill the void in
their life. This is These are all the psychobabble terms
that I picked up from listening to doctor Laura years ago.
I have no idea what any of this means.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I just know that.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
When people so many millions of people are choosing to
anesthetize themselves, numb their lives through some kind of medication,
whether it's legal medication, prescribe medication, stuff you can get
at Walgreens once they unlock it. You know, George Gascon
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was running things. You had to lock everything up, or
good old fashioned booze, mister booze. You know, because every culture,
every place on Earth, they have figured out how to
make alcohol out of something. If you got potatoes, you
made vodka. You made it out of potatoes. You know,
if the only thing you had were trees, then you
got wood grain alcohol. Right, But somebody has figured out
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how to ferment something to either make dinner go down,
or my guess is it wasn't to make dinner.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Go down easier.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It was to make the company they kept or the
voices in their head quiet down just a little bit. So,
you know, the data keeps showing up, and we keep
kind of bypassing this. You know, we've got all these PSAs,
and I know that there's all kinds of programs, and
there's twelve step programs and things that really work work
for lots of people, but we're never really asking the
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big question of what is it about life that makes
people feel the need to numb themselves?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And you know, with Robert F.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Kennedy Junior, by the way, about to run Health and
Human Services, one of the things apparently that he's interested
in pushing out there is more pot and more psychedelics.
And I know that there's a whole school of science
that believes that psychedelics could be used therapeutically to treat
depression in other forms of mental illness. But you can't
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drive ten blocks, well, you drive ten blocks now in
LA and you're going to pass ten pot stars. They're everywhere.
And man, people love their pot. They just love it,
can't get enough of it. And the reason it's legal
and becoming legalized in more and more places is the
public wants it. So there's there's very little reward for
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politicians to be anti pot anymore. And you know, we
tried being anti booze and that didn't go over very well.
There's still dry counties, by the way, throughout the country.
You can go places where there's dry counties and there's workarounds.
By the way, you can I remember driving through Oklahoma
and I couldn't drive through it fast enough and I
stopped back in my booze days. I was driving through
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Oklahoma on my way to California, as a matter of fact,
and I thought, well, I'm gonna have a beer before dinner,
which meant that eight about two in the morning. But
I went into this place and said, no, this is
a dry county. He said, if you're going to drink here,
you got to go get yourself a drinking license. They go, well,
how does one get that? I go, you pay the
bartender two dollars, he'll give you one. I'm not making
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that up. Very very efficient bureaucracy here. You give them
two bucks, they give you a drinking license, and off
you go for the night. But nonetheless, with the rare
exception of a few dry counties here and there, for
the most part, booze and drugs are everywhere, and people
can't get enough of them. And if they're not, and
if it's not, you know, we talk about drugs, we're
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talking about the illicit stuff. But man, people are knocking
back every kind of everything that they can think of
to mask or hide whatever discomfort that they temporarily feel
or maybe chronically feel, which I certainly understand if you're
in chronic pain. But at some point we should step
back and say, why is life this uncomfortable? Because even
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in inexpensive cars, you've got air conditioning and electric windows
and dual climate control, and you've got you know, heini
heaters and the seat cushions, and you got a little
button you can push that warms the steering wheel. Now,
my wife has a Chevy Vault. This is hardly a
luxury car. Gasoline little tiny gasoline engine and an electric engine.
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So it's kind of the best of both worlds. Right
doesn't have a spare tire though, that's not good. But
it's got an electric thing that you can push this
button and it heats this, and it heats the steering wheel.
And I would have a hard time explaining that to
my grandfather. In fact, there's a lot of things about
modern life I would have a hard time explaining to
my grandfather. I couldn't explain whole foods to my grandfather.
(10:14):
I couldn't explain Patagonian monkfish that's sixty five dollars a pound.
I could not explain that to my grandfather, who had
many years in his life when he didn't make sixty
five dollars a week. So but nonetheless, these are some
things that I think about a lot when I see
these stories about from nineteen ninety nine to twenty twenty,
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when the numbers were crunched, we went from twenty thousand
deaths a year from alcohol related disease to fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And there's something going on.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Here that we should really be examining, but I don't
think we are because we're too busy numbing.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI.
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Speaker 3 (11:04):
I hope so k IF.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
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I think of California Adventure, I think back to I
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worked at the other radio station, the Morning Team. I
was doing the overnight show. The Morning team did the opening.
They were doing a live remote from californ You Adventure
the day it was opening opening day, brand new theme park.
But here's the problem. Their show started at five in
the morning, the park opened to ten. The show ended
at nine, So for four hours the only thing you
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heard was them talking and a leaf blower.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
There was nothing. There was nothing going.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
On except gardeners, you know, just blowing leaves to make
sure everything was spotless. Were opening day at California Adventure.
If you're in radio long enough, you get some weird gigs.
You get some really strange gigs. I had to do
a remote one time from one of the big metal
buildings where they were doing the building the floats for
the rose parade. And here's the problem. It's a total
(12:42):
picture story. It has no business being on the radio.
What am I supposed to be describing a guy putting
poppy seeds, gluing poppy seeds onto a giant flying you know, elephant,
and meanwhile the building has a metal roof and it
starts raining. So it sounds like I got twenty drummers
doing solos above the microphones. Anyway, So okay, I had
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this story here and I thought, oh, this is going
to be interesting because we've had ten thousand versions of
everybody's moving out of California because it's too expensive in
the crime and they can't stand all the regulations. Right,
So I've got that right here on my big official
rundown says California, here they come. And it's a story
that quotes the Association of Realtors Association the America, the
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National Association Realtors that reports that California moves made up
nine point four percent of all interstate moves nationally.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Quote, It's fascinating that for.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
All the grief California's taken in terms of higher cost
of living, more regulations, and increased media coverage of crime
in its major cities, it remains one of the most
desired states for people to move to in the United States,
according to Alex Bean, a financial literacy instructor at the
University of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
He said this. He told this to Newsweek magazine.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
When it comes to California, aspirations often over logic, and
they talked about my interstate migration rates that California was
the second most popular place to move to. Since twenty fourteen,
California has seen seven hundred thousand adults leave and this
trend could be reversing itself.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Okay, so that's story one.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
People are coming nine point four percent of all interstate moves,
in other words, moving from you're moving from Tennessee to
North Carolina and interstate move.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Almost ten percent.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Excuse me, found my own opinions hard to swallow. Almost
ten percent of all the people who moved within interstate
in the United States moved to California. Well that's pretty impressive,
except Richie Smart, alec producer comes running in and hands
me another story that says California home to rich pool
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of talent to major industries such as film tech.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You've heard it lost eighty to seven thousand workers to
other states.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So you know, go ahead and pick the facts that
you want to believe.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
This is part of the problem that we have in
the information age is deciding what's actually happening. Here's what
I have observed, and I don't know how to reconcile
it because my wife and I we asked this all
the time. Where are the people getting all this money?
Because every Sunday I get the papers. I like to
have the printed paper, and I pull the papers apart.
(15:32):
And the La Times has this real estate section where
the homes are like thirty four million dollars. A cheap
house is fourteen million dollars. And then I get the
La Deli News House and there's like a two bedroom
fixer and Pacoima for a million five and that's a bargain.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
And the last three.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Weeks they've had a house on the front page of
the real estate section. It's so ugly and it's like
one point three million. I can't believe somebody would pay
one point three and apparently no one will, that's why
it's there for three weeks. But nonetheless, I see all
these four sale signs in the neighborhood and people buy them.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
They're buying them.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So for all the uh, the stories about people fleeing California,
the prices aren't coming down, and people keep buying this stuff.
They keep buying the houses as fast. Now it's the
same thing with rents. There are rents and through the roof.
When I moved here, and granted it was a million
years ago now, nineteen eighty five, I moved to California
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from New York. I couldn't believe how cheap it was.
I mean, in Burbank, you were tripping over five hundred
dollars really nice, five hundred dollars a month, apartments really nice. Uh,
And now you pay five hundred dollars a month for
the parking spot.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's so crushingly expensive.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And I don't know how anybody can afford to move here,
especially a young person who's starting out, comes out to
you know, either you know, pursue some dream, or to
just get away from their family, whatever reason. I always
thought Califor used to say the Golden State on the
license plate. It would be so much better if it
said California moved away from my family state. Which is
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why so many people go to LAX. They have to
go back to make the annual pilgrimage, to go back
to wherever they're from, eat some turkey, and then get
back to the airport as fast as possible, and come
back here for all of our awarts and sins.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It's a great sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It is what you put up with the migration geography
is that's what holds families together as much distance as possible.
But it's genuinely it's it's it's a crisis and this
has been you know, we've talked about this issue for
years that one of the things, one of the great
conundrums is the is the hike in the minimum wage
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that you want people working at Wendy's when you go
through the drive through window, But where is the person
working at wendy supposed to live? Because if the Wendy's
is in Los Angeles, they can't be coming from sam
Bernado to get to Wendy's to work the third shift.
So they got to make enough money at your job
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in order to live within reasonable commuter distance of your job.
As long as we're going to still have service sector work.
And you know, the more expensive it gets, the more
automation comes in and robotics comes in to replace people
because the companies can't keep paying people twenty five thirty
(18:27):
dollars an hour to do service worker jobs that a
machine could replace, or you can't find people to do it.
Because they can't afford to live anywhere near the place
that they are employed.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty five, eight.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Twenty fifth day of November.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Doug McIntyre in for Tim Conway Junior most Kelly at
seven o'clock. Next hour, we're going to talk Happy Days.
Fifty years ago that series with Fonsie and the Gang
debuted and we're going to have Ryan Levant and Fred
Fox Junior on have written a new book about Happy Days.
We'll talk to them next hour. I want to remind
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about this as long as I'm plugging, you know, I
obviously don't do this for a living. You've heard what
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I'm doing, so it can't be this. But I wrote
a book called Frank's Shadow, which I'm very proud of.
And if you're a reading type, or maybe you have
a reading type person on your shopping list for the holidays,
I encourage you to get to a fine bookstore, or
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at Amazon dot com By yours truly, Doug mcatyre. So
our producer Richie handed me another story here. You might
actually you were doing this story earlier, weren't you, Andrew
about Newsome offering seventy five hundred dollar tax credits for evs.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I believe I heard that.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
From the twenty four hour canfine iss me, and he's
saying that if Donald Trump cuts off the EV credits,
that California will pick up the slack and offer a
seventy five hundred dollars rebate on electric vehicle purchases going forward,
you know, as we retreat into states' rights, you know,
as the here in California, we are the epicenter of
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the resistance, according to Gavin Newsom. Now here's the question
I have about this story. With Elon Musk being buddy
buddy with the next President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,
what are the chances that when he and whoever else
he gets involved in with slashing and cutting all the waste,
(21:39):
fat and abuse out of the budget, do you think
the guy that is the largest manufacturer of electric vehicles
in America is going to put the EV credits on
the chopping block in the new If I'd say, mister President,
you know I was very, very supportive of you during
the campaign, and it sure would help me out a
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lot if you were to keep the federal EV credits. Anyway,
we'll see what happens with that. But Gavin Newsom is
in the trenches right all right, ladies and gentlemen, the
men Endi, as you heard from the twenty five URKFI newsroom,
we're in court for the first time in twenty eight years,
and they were having this hearing because they were asking
(22:26):
for a re sentencing, saying there's new evidence in the
case from all those years ago when they murdered their parents,
and the judge has deferred making a ruling on this,
I guess until early January. And what's fascinating about this
case is the position it puts new incoming LA Dish
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attorney Nathan Hawkman, the position it puts him in because
on the one hand, there's a lot of people across America,
including here in southern California, who saw the documentary series
of I saw the movie made about the Menendez and
they feel sorry for them. They feel like they were
terribly abused by their parents, especially the father. And we
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have a different attitude, at least in theory about child
abuse than we did thirty years ago. We allegedly take
it more seriously. Although, man, when you see how many
child abuse are, how many child abuse stories pop up
in the news on any given day, I really question
whether or not we've changed. If anything, it's gotten worse.
Maybe it's always been that way, but I suspect strongly
(23:30):
that this digital universe has enabled more and more people
to reach out and pretend and you know, you know,
groom kids through you know, chat rooms, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But the bottom line is.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Gas Gone, of course was he's in favor of letting
everybody out of prison. So what a surprise that he
was in favor of letting the Menendez brothers go.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
But it's going to be Nathan Hoffman's ultimate decision. Now.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The question is if he chooses to do that based
on evidence, Well, he'll make the case. But there's a
lot of people who voted for Nathan Affman in La
County who were tired of the get out of jail
free cards that Gascone was handing out like some kind
of you know, the lucy goosiest game a monopoly in
history where there's basically crime but no punishment. Now, on
(24:23):
the other hand, the original prosecutor in the case is
absolutely adamant that the Menendez brother should never be let
out that they were given a life sentence because they
murdered their parents in cold blood. And she's argued that
the movie didn't show them laughing and joking in court
when the jury wasn't in the room, and then getting
(24:43):
all stone faced and serious when the jury returned to
the room, et cetera, et cetera. Now I wasn't there.
I didn't pay it to this thirty years ago. I
don't remember the details. This is what I do remember.
I do remember that even if you believe that the
father was a grave threat to their lives, if the
Menenda's brothers were justified and believe that the father represented
a grave threat to their life, what did the mother do?
(25:04):
She might have been an enabler, which is certainly a
contributing factor to a terrible crime if the child abuse
was happening. But it's not, by the law, reason to
kill somebody in self defense. That's my non legal interpretation
of what happened here. But what we do know is
that Hakmann may want to based on facts and having
(25:26):
served almost thirty years in prison, let them go, let
them walk, like Gascone said he wanted to do. On
the other hand, there's a political reality that he wasn't
elected to be lucy goosey with criminals. And the other
factor is there's the morale of the prosecutors and the
deputy days who supported his campaign, who were disgusted by
(25:49):
the lucy goosey way that George Gascon conducted it, the
conducted the DA's office in the time he was in office.
So there's a political dynamic to it, not just the
facts of the case. And at some point we'll get
that ruling from Nathan Hawkman, probably after the first of
the year.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I would guess, all.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Right, ladies and gentlemen, if you're headed out of town,
and a lot of you are that little tiny horseshoe
of hell known as Los Angeles International Airport, if you're
heading there, you have my deepest sympathies. I am going
eight point six miles on Thanksgiving Day and that's my limit.
I may not even come back. I might have to
spend the night just to avoid the return trip. But
(26:35):
if you're heading to out of town for the holidays,
we wish you well. If you're going to be here
for a couple more days, please be with me. I'll
be in for Timmy tomorrow and Wednesday as well, and
of course KFI will be here on Thursday as well.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Doug Macatar in for Tim Conway Junior. Next hour. We're
going to talk Happy Days fifty years ago, that TV
series The Debut Dude, and we'll have Brian Levant and
Fred Fox Junior whore, both writers on the show, and
they've got a brand new book celebrating the fiftieth anniversary
of that landmark TV series.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
We got other stuff will yack about as well.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
In the meantime, those of you are heading to lax
for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Good luck. That's all I can tell. You called it
the horseshoe of Hell, which I think is genius. I've
just never heard that terminology before.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Well you should have been No, I don't know why.
That's the first time I've ever called it the horseshoe
of Hell. I've called the LA City Council the horseshoe
of stupidity, but that seems obvious because that's what everybody
calls that right. Here's the thing about LAX.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I have to.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
My wife is so tired of hearing my rants when
we come to LA from someplace, or we leave LA
to go to some place, because I hate the airport
with a blind passion. And the reason is there's nothing
that can really be done about it. We're spending billions
of dollars in the people mover they keep. You know,
it'll be here for the Olympics, that's all we know,
(28:11):
and maybe that'll help. God knows. You look at that engineering.
If you haven't been to LAX recently, you can't believe.
It looks like something out of the Jetsons. They've just
had to fish this mono rail train track thing through
all the other buildings. I don't know how they did it,
but somehow they're doing it. And the idea is they'll
be an off off site parking area and then you
take this thing into the terminals and it should work
(28:33):
better than trying to drive your subaro into the horseshoe
from help, but every other airport in the country, if
you fly to O'Hare, you fly to Chicago, and you
land at O'Hare and you get out, you take the
shuttle bus to the rental car place, and you get
your avis and you're driving for ten minutes at sixty
miles an hour, and you're still seeing O'Hare airport. You're
(28:55):
still seeing signs for O'Hare airport or parts of the airport.
Highway speeds. LAX has squished its two blocks. There's no
place for it to go. So everything is squished in
forty four million people a year going through that little
tiny piece of real estate. It was plopped there ninety
years ago, and the neighborhood built in around it, and
(29:17):
there's no way for it to spread its wings and fly,
so we're stuck with it. And that means that the
highest act of life. Well, actually I'm going to qualify
this driving someone to the airport. Taking a friend and
or loved one to the airport is the deepest commitment
of friendship and love and expression of love that we
(29:37):
in Los Angeles can can bestow upon another human being.
If you are willing to take so much to the airport,
or maybe even worse, pick somebody up at the airport,
because then you're going to be parked somewhere hoping the
plane's not seven hours late. Is that is real love
or and here's here's the one qualifier. It's also an
(29:58):
expression of how you want them out of your lives.
If you're willing to drive someone to the airport, that
doesn't qualify if you're picking them up. But if you're
willing to, Oh, I'll take you to the airport, I'll
walk you right to the gate. I'll buy a ticket
and make sure you get on the plane. I will
not get on the plane, but I will walk to
the gate with you. Meanwhile, there's a bunch of things
(30:20):
that you can do to make it slightly less horrible.
It's like there are still people in this world who
pay at Ralph's with a check and those are the
people who invariably act like they are surprised that Ralph's
charges for groceries, and when they find out that they
owe money, they start phishing in their handbag. It's never
(30:43):
a guy. They start fishing in their purse for a checkbook.
And then they have to look up at the signage
to see whether they're in Ralph's or Vaughn's. And then
they got to say, is it Ralph's with an apostrophe
s or is it just Ralph's with no apostrophe and
they write the check and scratchy little old lady handwriting
instead of having all that done in advance. Oh and
(31:04):
then they got coupons. Okay, everybody hates you. Everybody hates
you if you're the person that does that. Well, if
you're the person that shows up at the airport, you're
going to lax at the holidays, and you're the once
a year flyer or the once every other year you
go to Grandma's house for some punkin pie, and you
(31:25):
don't realize that this is not the time to wear
the thigh high Doc Martin boots that have to be
unlaced and kicked off before you go through security.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
All right, not the time to wear the Doc Martins.
It's just not if.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You have if you're on the kinkier side of life,
and you have some body piercings that aren't necessarily visible
in ordinary street clothes, and you people can fill in
your own your imaginations can fill in.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
What I might be implying here all right.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Now is the don't be upset if the wanding guy
is targeting your crotch. All right, your crotch is going
off like a pinball machine. You made that decision. The
rest of the flyers didn't. And you know, this is
a terrible time to find out that you left your
handgun in the bag from the last time you drove
(32:25):
to Reno. All right, you know you didn't have to
go through metal detectors. And look, I understand I'm not
judging you. If I'm going to Reno, I want a handgun.
But the difference is if you're on the plane, not
a good time to find out the handgun is still
in your luggage because that's going to slow the line down.
Because if you are responsible for slowing the line down,
(32:46):
then you become the aviation equivalent of the little old
lady with the checkbook at Ralph's who just is and
is it Ralph's? Is that it's apostrophe as isn't it?
It's Ralph's and ziz and possessive, not Ralph's implural. Anyway,
we got Fred Fox Junior, we got Brian Levant, we
(33:09):
got happy Days to talk about next hour. But we
also have this interesting study that came out. Some scientists
are saying, for those of you who are eating vegan
and you're taking probiotics and you're doing pilates and you're cleansing,
and you're doing colon cleanses and all this stuff to
(33:30):
extend your life. Scientists say that we human beings have
pretty much maxed out on how long we can live.
I know that you occasionally get these stories and say
we could live to be one hundred and fifty. These
guys all saying, no, this is pretty much yet. We'll
get into that story as well as a patient porch
pirate who pinched packages and I worked on that alliteration.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Conway show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM
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