October 23, 2024 • 31 mins
MARK LANGILL: team historian of the LA Dodgers and author of five Dodger-related books // Tim goes over all the events happening in LA this Friday and the traffic that they will bring // Southbound 101 in downtown L.A. closes for hours after water main break floods freeway // Long Beach Green Room Shoutout // Tim wanted to turn his kitchen into a bedroom
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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 apps. All right,
did you talk about the Dodgers. There are a lot
of events going on before we get to our next
guest here. There are a ton of events going on
this weekend in Los Angeles, and they're all happening on
Friday night. You got the Yankees Dodgers at Dodger Stadium
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World Series. You have the Lakers Suns at Crypto. You
have USC playing at Rutgers. You have a concert it
into It, and you have East La Classic at Sofi
Stadium and a concert at the at the Kia Form.
You have all those events going on starting at five
till about nine o'clock ten o'clock at night. All of
them are going to be going on at one point simultaneously.
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So if you're looking to leave the valley at three
point thirty to get to Dodger Stadium by four, good luck.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're not gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
All right, let's talk to We got a special guest
with us right now again named Mark langel I believe
that's how you pronounce his name. He's the team historian
for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I'm sorry, Mark langel Mark,
how are you, sir, Damn.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yay, thanks for coming on, man, I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
My pleasure. I'm in a suite right now at the
stadium overlooking batting practice and the World Series logo, and
obviously from well. It has been of a great, great
interest to everyone in the last couple of days as
far as just the memories and just his legacy here
at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What a great tribute.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Last night, after we all found out that Fernando Valenzuela
had passed away, the Dodger the entire stadium was lit
up in Dodger blue and then you know, the number
thirty four was put on all the big screens.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's a great tribute to a great man.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Absolutely. And this morning I got here at seven thirty
and the scoreboards had Fernando Forever and also in Spanish,
and just pictures of him. And I think there's two
sets of mourners to him. I think if you're old
enough to remember Fernando Mania in nineteen eighty one, you
remember him as this great player that came out of
nowhere and became a cultural icon, and if you're younger,
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you heard about the legend, and if you were lucky
enough to meet him, you realize just what a great,
down to earth, humble person he was. And so collectively
we're just all all smiles today as far as what
Fernando valence Wella meant and how lucky we were if
we knew him.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know, I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I think he did more for Los Angeles Baseball and
the Los Angeles community, and I think than any other player.
You can make a case that Jackie Robinson broke the
color barrier and did more nationally for the game, but
I think locally there's nobody that did any more positive,
anything bigger for the game than Fernando.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You know, you're absolutely right. And he never sought the attention,
but once it got to the point where he realized
what an icon he was in the community and what
he meant, he never shied away from being an ambassador.
He never shied away from community appearances, encouraging kids to
stay in school or doing clinics because he realized that
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he had that platform. So, you know, it was like
pulling teeth trying to get him to talk about himself
in the great moments, but he would do those community
events and he knew how to be an ambassador because
he knew what he represented both the southern California but
to Mexico as well.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, I remember, you know, two of the sayings growing
up that I remember. I remember Nancy Reagan talking about drugs,
you know, just say no. And I remember Fernando of
Avenezuela where he would come out and in broken English
he would say stay in school. I remember both those
very specifically.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
One of the great things was later in life when
he had his number retired, Carrie Osborne had done a
profile on him. He's our director of alumni relations, and
one of the things he said was most rewarding was
not the number of times, not the same or anything
like that. It was kids that came back twenty thirty
years later and said, you went to my school. You know,
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my parents looked up to you, I listened to you.
And he said that was the most rewarding part, to
be able to have an effect on the next generation.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, and Fernando, you know, he never was caught up
in anything. There was no DUIs, there was no messy divorce,
there was no you know, financial problems or he was
just he lived a really sort of quiet life, but
bigger than life.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
He never changed and that's why he was so beloved
by the teammates because behind the scenes, especially in eighty one,
they wanted to protect him. Bobby Castillo talked about he
could go on the town and do whatever he wanted to,
but it was like traveling with Elvis Presley in terms
of the Beatles, in terms of this mania. So they
wanted him to have this sanctuary in the clubhouse. And
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they realized he was a plateful kid. He was so
good at what he did. He just wanted to fit
in and be part of a team.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Mark Langel's with us. He is the Dodgers team historian.
How long you been the historian over there?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Mark, Well, this is my thirtieth year with the team.
I'm fifty nine. First Dodger game at seven, so fifty
two out of fifty nine years I've been at the ballpark.
And I was reflected this morning because I'm a tenth
grader at South Pasadena High School and we happened to
be on break in nineteen eighty one, so I was
able to see from reserve Section thirty thirty one, Fernando
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pitched that first shutout on opening day. A guess the astros.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I remember I was watching a documentary a couple weeks
ago about the Dodgers, and it now makes sense, but
I didn't think about it as a kid, or the
thousands of times I've been to Dodgers Stadium, and that
the same color that the Dodgers Stadium was painted, and
the same calligraphy, the same sort of you know font
that they use.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Both of those were lifted from Disneyland.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well and exactly right. Because and the stadium opens in
nineteen sixty two, Walter O'Malley takes the employees to Disneyland.
And it's not as a reward, it's look, this has
been here since nineteen fifty five. This is the standard
of entertainment in Southern California. So this is what we're
striving for. So it's not all blue color coded tickets
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and everything like that fan friendly. But Disneyland definitely had
an effect on how they wanted to operate Dodger Stadium
because there was already a great expectation as far as
entertainment for Southern California.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Fans and the Dodgers had a very very strict policy
about wearing sports coat and a tie on the plane
when you traveled, no tattoo, visible tattoos, no facial hairs,
and if you could got caught doing drugs or swearing,
then it doesn't matter how good you were, you were gone.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It was a different time. It was a time that
the O'Malley family owned the team, and there was just
certain principles that they live by, and it was just
a certain way, the Dodger way, not just on the field,
but off the field too as far as representing the organization.
And that has gone back to Brooklyn when Walter O'Malley
had taken over in nineteen fifty, so that carries over
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to the West Coast because they only had one chance
to make a good first impression. And that's the same
thing as far as the new owner, Stan Kasten comes
in and when he wanted to hire Janet Maurice Smith
to do all the ballpark renovations, he said, we only
have one chance to make a good first impression.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's great. I hope you enjoy the game.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I hope they set you up nicely in the stadium.
You can watch the game and we'd love to have
you back on after the series when the Dodgers win.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh my pleasures him. It's a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Thanks Mark, I appreciate it. Mark Langel.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
He's the historian for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Guy knows
more about Dodgers and the Dodgers Stadium than anybody living
right now. I can make that argument at Guy's encyclopedia
for you kids out there that don't know what that is.
Those are the books we had to look things up
before Google. You had to go to an encyclopedia. They
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don't have those anymore. Well they might, but nobody buys them.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
All Right, we can't stay.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
We can't say this enough that Friday is going to
be the next Carmageddon in southern California. You're going to
have sixty thousand people fifty eight thousand, sixty thousand people,
let's say sixty thousand people including employees at Dodgers Stadium.
Then you're going to have another fifteen to twenty thousand
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people in downtown Los Angeles at going to the Laker game.
So you got another fifteen thousand down there, and that's
another big deal. And then you've got another I don't know,
maybe twenty thousand, twenty five thirty forty thousand people at
USC where the USC Trojans are playing Rutgers at the Coliseum,
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and then there's a concert into it at the end
to it. Dome Elo is playing at the at the
Form the Key of Form, and then the East LA Classic,
the football game is at Sofi Stadium. All of those
events one, two, three, four, five, six, all six of
them are going on simultaneously, all six. At one point,
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all six will be going on at the same time.
So if you're going, let's say I don't know, Let's
say you live in Palmdale and you want the Dodger game.
Good for you got tickets, great good. I would leave
your house at nine point thirty quarter to.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Ten, just to be safe.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
What you don't want is to be on the freeway
at five o'clock. You have Dodger tickets and that game starting,
and you look at ways or Google Maps or whatever
it is, and you're an hour out, hour and a
half out, and you don't get there till the fourth inning.
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Don't take a chance leave five hours four hours before
the game.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Get there early, you know, better early than late.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Hit a hot dog, maybe a couple of beers in
you if you're not driving, and enjoy yourself. And see
how beautiful the stadium is. The weather's gonna be perfect.
It's gonna be eighty degrees. Let me see what time,
what exact temperature will be at first pitch? All right,
so let's do Dodger Stadium. We can do that specifically,
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Dodgers Stadium, Dodger Stadium, all right, the d g Er
Dodger Stadium at exactly on Friday at five pm. All right,
there it is right there at five eight pm, seventy
eight degrees, seventy eight degrees at first pitch seventy it'll
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be a high of eighty two. That'll come around two
twenty two thirty and then it'll cool off a little.
And at first pitch at five eight pm it'll be
seventy eight degrees, and then it'll tail off and by
the end of that game it'll be in the low sixties.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It'll be sixty three degrees.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
So bring a sweater or a jacket, something comfortable, maybe
long sleeve shirt, who knows, Maybe you can buy a
you know, if you got the money, you can.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Buy yourself a Dodger sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
By leave early and make sure you have some kind
of jacket or sweater because it's gonna get It's gonna
be seventy eight at first pitch, and then it's gonna
be sixty three when you leave that game.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Angel Martinez is back with us. How you bettt Hey?
Look at you, dinked long with.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
You, tink dong with you, Timmy.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So are you guys planning anything Friday? Anything special? Knowing
that there's gonna be three hundred thousand cars on the road.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Timmy, this is like our suit super Bowl, and we
have been in training over the parents four weeks. Yeah.
So Mike O'Brien and the pilot are practicing getting out
of the flight restriction areas in a timely manner, and
we're going to be over all of the hot spots
on Friday afternoon into the evening because it's going to
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be a doozy.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's going to be great. I could hear olive scratching.
That's how oh you got that?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's how excited she is.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
She is.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
She's excited as well. She's been practicing holding her scratches
during traffic.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, all right, well this is going to be a
big deal, you know, karm Ageddon.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Remember when they closed.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
The four h five, we did a live remote out
there on Ventura right near to Pulvita. This is going
to be worse than that. This is going to be
I would say, there's going to be you know, maybe
on the conservative side, one hundred thousand cars that'll be
in the downtown area that normally aren't there. And I
don't know how that downtown area absorbs a one hundred
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thousand cars that are not normally there.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah, it's going to be nuts. I mean, you were
saying if you're leaving from the valley to get to
Dodger Stadium, good luck. If you're trying to do that
at three in the afternoon, it's.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Not going to happen.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Like Timmy, Yeah, like Timmy was mentioning, make a day
of it. Can you really early enjoy yourself and just
get in there so you can just ease in and relax.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Right, And even if you don't go into the stadium,
if you get close to the stadium by you know,
two o'clock, three o'clock, maybe you eat somewhere off a sunset.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
There's some great restaurants down there.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You got Philips downtown, you know, And as long as
you're close to the stadium, I bet from Philips to
Dodger Stadium is still forty five minutes in traffic to
get inside.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Easy, easy, easy, you know. And they were suggesting that
people walk instead of wait for the shuttle buses to
take them down Shavez Ravine over to the parking line.
What is it like a mile away? And they were
suggesting that people just walk instead of digging the bus.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I don't know about that, but I don't know, you know,
what the transportation is.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I know there's buses from Union Station, and I think
they have a special bus, you know, lane that they
can take. But it's going to be a pain in
the ass to get there. But once you're there, you're
gonna feel great.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
If you get there at three o'clock for a five
o'clock game, two hours are going to fly by as
you watch batting practice, so you see, you know, you
watch the celebrities, the pile in.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's going to be a great event.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's going to be the attention of the United States,
the intent, the attention of the United States. Will all
be on Dodger Stadium on Friday night at five oh
eight pm. And if you have tickets, great news, you're
going enjoy yourself. But we will be here all day
long on Friday, guiding you through the traffic and the
hell that's going to be Friday night in Los Angeles.
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Keep it on KFI and all day long will help
you get through this.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, that car chase was a big deal. We had
talked about that. I saw it live on TV. A
woman at her wits end running wiprom cops and wiped
out at the m and she's no longer with us,
pretty sad, and it was caught on TV live footage
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of it. And it's it seems like society's breaking down.
And I don't know what to do about it. I
don't know how it can help or hurt. I don't know,
but it does seem like every single day you turn
the news on and there is chaos out there. Last
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night in North Hollywood, very popular shopping center on the
corner of Lancasham where Magnolia and or I'm sorry Riverside
becomes verdu Go, and then there's Kwanga and Langorsham, that
whole crazy intersection where like nine hundred streets meet, and
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there was three shops there that were robbed overnight, and
it happens every night. And the people who own these shops,
they don't know what to do. They do everything they can.
They put bars up, they have cameras, they have alarms,
some people sleep in their shops, and they just it
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doesn't stop.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It never ends.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Every single night in the San Fernando Valley, their stores
being broken into every night. I remember ever coming in
here in the last three or four months where there
hasn't been something that's been broken into, not once, And
so I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I don't know. It seems to be happening every single night,
every night.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And then we have the closings of a lot of
restaurants and shops and stores, and it feels odd. It
feels like this society is breaking down. We had Denny's
that's closing. We'll do a story about that. And then
we have the infrastructure in Los Angeles and a lot
of us, you know listening right now, live in Los Angeles,
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and you've seen it deteriorate since you were you know, younger.
The water mains breaking. These watermins break every couple of days,
and a streat gets flooded and it's not even news
anymore because it happened so often. Well now it's on
freeways and this is before the big earthquake. Can you
imagine what Los Angeles is going to look like when
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the big one hits and these one hundred and ten
year old water mains all break at the same time.
We might there might be a lot of people that
die from the earthquake, not from the shaking or buildings falling,
but from floods.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
You know, we've been talking about these these sort of
smashing grabs in the middle of the night where they
did where they ran the back of their truck or
car to these stores to get through the gate, and
the ATMs being stolen from outside of the front of
a lot of these stories seven eleven's and such. And
we were talking about that recently and I brought up
the whole why don't they put those ballards in front
of them, you know, those contract things. Well, the La
City Council they've advanced the proposal just today to fast
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track those permit applications to install ballards on streets for
public sake. Oh ad in front of Yeah. So it's
it's the counterintuitive stuff. It will always be playing catch
up to bad guys. Unfortunately, that's kind of the thing
about that.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
William Goldman, who wrote Butch Cassi and Sundan's Kid, they
were shooting in I think it was either Mexico or
New Mexico and they were doubling that for Bolivia because
it looked much like Bolivia. And a woman came up
to William Goldman, who wrote that script, and she said,
I don't know why you're doing a movie about crime.
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It doesn't pay. And he said, if it didn't pay,
it wouldn't exist. Thank you, And that's true. That maybe
that to be the motto of Los Angeles crime. If
it didn't pay, it wouldn't exist, and it does.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It looks it.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Made for honest people people want. Bad guys wouldn't get it.
They're gonna get in and they do.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And who was it that came on with us to
talk about I think it was Dean Sharp, yes, and
he said, thirty eight percent of homes that are robbed
or a guy that walked through the front door that
was unlocked.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Absolutely, And I think the percentage is even higher for
like cars that are stolen or or have had things
stolen out of them.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, unlocked or have keys in it. They just walk by.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
And I've seen people go to cars in a parking
lot one at a time and just check the door.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, like we used to check payphones for Nichols and quarters. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
I spend so much time telling all of our kids
when they leave the house, lock the door. And every
time I walk by the front door, it's unlocked, and
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Who's doing this? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I had to get off after my family as well,
because we live fairly close to a a place where
you can get coffee, and my wife would order coffee
and then she would walk to the coffee place to
get it and come back.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Nice to be nice to have that proximity, that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
But she would leave the door unlocked, go get the coffee,
and come back. And sometimes she would be gone for
ten minutes. And I said, sweetinge, in those ten minutes,
a guy can see you leaving the house, see the
doors open, go into the house, kill me, take all
our crap before you get home.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
And any recently we hear more and more about bad
guys putting remote cameras in neighborhoods just to watch for
that stuff to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
People leaving their house.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's right, that's exactly right. And now I'm even I
did go last night. My wife is out of town
and my daughter and I are home alone, and I
had to go down to the grocery store to get
some stuff. And even though she's nineteen, I'm nervous leaving
her at home. And I put all the locks on,
I put the alarm on, we got the dog, We've
got everything. The door stops, and I'm still nervous about
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flying down the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I still go. I'm not paralyzed. I still go. Sure,
head on a swivel down. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
But and now we've got the flooding going on, which
is gonna be another big problem here in Los Angeles,
and hopefully they can solve this, but before the Olympics
get here and before we invite, you know, twenty million
people that normally aren't here, and we get wiped out.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The flooding closed down in the one.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
O one, the one on one freeway, in boiled hids
The southbound lanes have been shut down since about one
thirty this morning because of flooding. What a mess for
the drive. Now, that's the one on one shop on
A four Street and Boil Heights. There was a water
main breaks you mentioned about one thirty, and it flooded
the freeway entirely. This is what it looked like early
this morning. There was water across both sides of the
one on one freeway at four Streets and they had
to shut it down in both directions, had to take
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traffic off. It was a real mess for the drive.
We'll come back out to our live shot and show you.
Now the one on one shoutbound is diverted onto the
one on one or ten e's to the south, and
so what you have in downtown is a real mess
for the five southbound. Off to the right side of
his screen. Could everybody diverted onto the Golden State South?
If you're gonna drive that, you need a lot of vetter.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
If I was this reporter, I would refer to south
as opposite of north. You know what I mean, not down,
I would say, I wouldn't say south. If I was
this reporter, I'd say opposite of North.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And why is that.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
I think you'll pick it up to our live shot
and show you. Now the one on one southbound is
diverted onto the one to one or ten east to
the five south, and so what you have in downtown
is a real mess for the five southbound. Off to
the right side of his screen, could everybody diverted onto
the Golden State South If you're gonna drive that, you
need a lot of extra time. We'll go back to
the actual incident there and show you once again. They're
a long way Philip and Jovannah from reopening the southbound lanes.
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They're telling us now it'll be some time later in
the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Opposite of North.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Sometimes it felt like he was really intentionally doing every es.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Word opposite of North. I don't get emails on that.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I got a shout out, a shout out going to
air in a security guard at Long Beach green Room.
I guess that's a weed dispensary at the green room
in Long Beach. Well, I wonder why we don't do
any spots for weed dispensaries. You know, there's some pretty
big ones out there has some money? Are we not
allowed to?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
That's a good question because, yeah, I've been saying that
for years.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Because it's still illegal federally, isn't it. Weed.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, so I wonder if this is you know, a
public station. You can't promote now, you know, can't be
I don't think we can sell machine guns.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Let's try.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Can you buy machine guns or can you sell them
here in California or LA? If you know the right
guys and there it is. I bet you could buy
a machine gun if you knew the right guys. Oh,
sure they exist, you know the right guys. Remember who
is the gut busted doing that? Was it Bob Petty
from Channel four? I don't want to disparage his name
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in case that's not him. Who's the guy that got
caught Bellio selling machine guns or high powered guns?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Or maybe it was not.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I'm gonna take it back that it was Tom Bob Petty,
but until we look it up, yes, it was Bob
Petty charged with illegally possessing and arranging to sell two, yeah,
two machine guns to a federal agent. Wow, back in
two thousand and one, man, that guy's going for it life.
You got to get him that. He flies a helicopter
for a living, which is very dangerous. And then on
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the side he's uh hawking machine guns. My kind of guy.
I'm surprised I never run into that guy. Probably hung
out Synchrome.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, come on, bet he's a track guy or vegas
guy's gotta be gambler.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Gambler.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That guy all right to shout out to air in
the security guard at Long Beach Green Room, we dispensary, huge,
huge shout out. Ah, and you've seen okay, he said.
The Crozier seems down to earth.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Right based on what do you not know?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
All the fireplaces, Yeah, three fireplaces, a hot tub's pool,
the big ass.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Pool, twelve acre backyard.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, right down to earth is just a you know, yes,
that's me. It's a blue collar out there.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
He just attended a gala. What's your favorite of your
three fireplaces in your house? The one in that bedroom?
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, isn't a fireplace in their bedroom? Do you have
a remote for it? No?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
No, it's old school, man, I mean it's it's gas,
but yeah, it's old school.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You can you burn lungs at it. It might be
able to be retro fitted. Sure, Oh but you can't.
Now you don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Oh, so you flip a switch, you get the turn
the gas on and light it with a match.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Nice and that that sucker goes on and it goes on,
It goes on. Man, that's crozy on stud That is uh,
that's good times. But we're the other two fireplaces, one
in the living.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Room, yeah, the one right below our bedroom because it's yeah,
and then one on the other side of the house
on in the front room. And when that one doesn't
even go because it doesn't have anything in it, it's
just kind of a dead fireplace.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Did you guys ever get the one placed in the
powder room downstairs?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
No, Actually, we were cutting down the size of that
that powder room because we it just needs to be
a half bath because we're getting more room into out
of our kitchen for it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So no room for a oh you're expanding the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Uh, well, we're gonna we're gonna take some of the
space from that bathroom because it's kind of useless space
and turn it and giving it to the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I really pissed off my wife about m maybe ten
years ago. I had a guy, a friend of mine
who is a construction guy, and he said he's in
the area. He goes, if you're not doing it, I'll stop,
I'll go to lunch. And I'm like, go, yeah, yeah,
come on bye. And he shows up and he's got
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his hard hat, you know, in the car, and he
you know, he's been working. So he's all dirty and crap.
And I said, buddy, I said, my wife doesn't know
who you are, doesn't know we're friends. I said, you
come in with me. She said, he's yeah, what's going on?
I said, I need you to come in and measure
the house for stuff, and he goes sure. So I
said we're gonna I need you to come in with
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a measuring tape and a notebook and take notes. And
he goes, all right, what are you doing? I said,
I want to turn the kitchen into another bedroom. And
he's like, what I said, just do it. And so
he comes in. Jen meets him and I said, hey,
he's here, we're going to I'm measuring the kitchen and
she was for what. And he starts taking measurements in
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the kitchen and she's like, what's going on? I said, well,
I'm gonna turn this kitchen into a bedroom, you know,
extra bedrooms in case we have a family of friends over,
they can sleep have their own room. And she said, well,
where are we going to cook? And I said, you
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don't cook and just stared at her. Wow, that was
a big battle we had.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
I can imagine did she like like, was she taking
aback and or did she react immediately?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I will tell you that the next couple of days
we had meals.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Oh, hey, that's a good thing, right, it was was
the was the food?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
No, it was right.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We were afraid to taste. It was terrific. Man, we
had meals. Yeah, got stuff, go ahead and eat that.
I made that for you.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, I was. I was just busting your balls. But
I think she took it personally and we had We
had some good meals.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Nice. Yeah, knocked out, but we do.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
We cook together, Like I'm the grill guy. Are you
the grill guy at home?
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah? But she doesn't touch the grill generally. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And I grill the meat and Jen does the potatoes,
the vegetables, sets the table and sofa, cleans up. And
we were pretty good the machine nice, yeah, but the
grill is the is still It's weird that in a
relationship the grill is still the guy's home. Yeah, I
mean that, And and they don't even like when their.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Wife gets near it. It's weird.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
I don't mind that. I'm I'm all for it. Jen's
been fantastic. She wasn't really much of a cooker prior
to meeting me, but so she has jumped in, full
full go. When I'm in the kitchen, she jumps in
and does yeah, yeah, yeah, Like you said, it's very
communal and interactive between us in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So it's great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I every time I've been to a guy's house and
they're they're grilling, you know, hamburgs, hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You know, chicken, steak, whatever, it's always the guy cooking. Always.
I've never seen a like a wife take over the grill.
Jen doesn't do the grill like outside or anything, but
she'll do the griddle in the kitchen stove.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's almost like we had talked about at one point.
Sushi chefs are always men. I've never seen a shoe
sushi chef that's a woman. Yeah, very rarely. Yeah, And
I don't know if that's a traditional thing. In Japan
or not. I don't know, but it seems like I don't.
I can't remember ever going into a place. And I'm
(30:32):
not a big sushi guy, but i still go with
friends who eat that. And I've never seen a woman
cutting that up.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Out of say, I don't know three hundred times that
I've gone to sushi in my life, less than three
than women.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Will say this, though women are the best at multitasking.
They're much better than guys at multitask, much much better. However,
there is one thing that women can't multitask with, and
I've noticed it over the last twenty years. There's one
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thing that even today I will I will stake my
life on it that I'm right here. There's one thing
that women cannot multitask with. And we'll come back them
and to tell you what it is. But it's only
one thing. They can multitask with everything, but there's one
thing that is a roadblock and they can't do it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Wow, that is a tease.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I will come back and tell you what it is.
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did you talk about the Dodgers. There are a lot
of events going on before we get to our next
guest here. There are a ton of events going on
this weekend in Los Angeles, and they're all happening on
Friday night. You got the Yankees Dodgers at Dodger Stadium
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World Series. You have the Lakers Suns at Crypto. You
have USC playing at Rutgers. You have a concert it
into It, and you have East La Classic at Sofi
Stadium and a concert at the at the Kia Form.
You have all those events going on starting at five
till about nine o'clock ten o'clock at night. All of
them are going to be going on at one point simultaneously.
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So if you're looking to leave the valley at three
point thirty to get to Dodger Stadium by four, good luck.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're not gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
All right, let's talk to We got a special guest
with us right now again named Mark langel I believe
that's how you pronounce his name. He's the team historian
for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I'm sorry, Mark langel Mark,
how are you, sir, Damn.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yay, thanks for coming on, man, I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
My pleasure. I'm in a suite right now at the
stadium overlooking batting practice and the World Series logo, and
obviously from well. It has been of a great, great
interest to everyone in the last couple of days as
far as just the memories and just his legacy here
at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What a great tribute.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Last night, after we all found out that Fernando Valenzuela
had passed away, the Dodger the entire stadium was lit
up in Dodger blue and then you know, the number
thirty four was put on all the big screens.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's a great tribute to a great man.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Absolutely. And this morning I got here at seven thirty
and the scoreboards had Fernando Forever and also in Spanish,
and just pictures of him. And I think there's two
sets of mourners to him. I think if you're old
enough to remember Fernando Mania in nineteen eighty one, you
remember him as this great player that came out of
nowhere and became a cultural icon, and if you're younger,
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you heard about the legend, and if you were lucky
enough to meet him, you realize just what a great,
down to earth, humble person he was. And so collectively
we're just all all smiles today as far as what
Fernando valence Wella meant and how lucky we were if
we knew him.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know, I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I think he did more for Los Angeles Baseball and
the Los Angeles community, and I think than any other player.
You can make a case that Jackie Robinson broke the
color barrier and did more nationally for the game, but
I think locally there's nobody that did any more positive,
anything bigger for the game than Fernando.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You know, you're absolutely right. And he never sought the attention,
but once it got to the point where he realized
what an icon he was in the community and what
he meant, he never shied away from being an ambassador.
He never shied away from community appearances, encouraging kids to
stay in school or doing clinics because he realized that
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he had that platform. So, you know, it was like
pulling teeth trying to get him to talk about himself
in the great moments, but he would do those community
events and he knew how to be an ambassador because
he knew what he represented both the southern California but
to Mexico as well.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, I remember, you know, two of the sayings growing
up that I remember. I remember Nancy Reagan talking about drugs,
you know, just say no. And I remember Fernando of
Avenezuela where he would come out and in broken English
he would say stay in school. I remember both those
very specifically.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
One of the great things was later in life when
he had his number retired, Carrie Osborne had done a
profile on him. He's our director of alumni relations, and
one of the things he said was most rewarding was
not the number of times, not the same or anything
like that. It was kids that came back twenty thirty
years later and said, you went to my school. You know,
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my parents looked up to you, I listened to you.
And he said that was the most rewarding part, to
be able to have an effect on the next generation.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, and Fernando, you know, he never was caught up
in anything. There was no DUIs, there was no messy divorce,
there was no you know, financial problems or he was
just he lived a really sort of quiet life, but
bigger than life.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
He never changed and that's why he was so beloved
by the teammates because behind the scenes, especially in eighty one,
they wanted to protect him. Bobby Castillo talked about he
could go on the town and do whatever he wanted to,
but it was like traveling with Elvis Presley in terms
of the Beatles, in terms of this mania. So they
wanted him to have this sanctuary in the clubhouse. And
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they realized he was a plateful kid. He was so
good at what he did. He just wanted to fit
in and be part of a team.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Mark Langel's with us. He is the Dodgers team historian.
How long you been the historian over there?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Mark, Well, this is my thirtieth year with the team.
I'm fifty nine. First Dodger game at seven, so fifty
two out of fifty nine years I've been at the ballpark.
And I was reflected this morning because I'm a tenth
grader at South Pasadena High School and we happened to
be on break in nineteen eighty one, so I was
able to see from reserve Section thirty thirty one, Fernando
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pitched that first shutout on opening day. A guess the astros.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I remember I was watching a documentary a couple weeks
ago about the Dodgers, and it now makes sense, but
I didn't think about it as a kid, or the
thousands of times I've been to Dodgers Stadium, and that
the same color that the Dodgers Stadium was painted, and
the same calligraphy, the same sort of you know font
that they use.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Both of those were lifted from Disneyland.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well and exactly right. Because and the stadium opens in
nineteen sixty two, Walter O'Malley takes the employees to Disneyland.
And it's not as a reward, it's look, this has
been here since nineteen fifty five. This is the standard
of entertainment in Southern California. So this is what we're
striving for. So it's not all blue color coded tickets
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and everything like that fan friendly. But Disneyland definitely had
an effect on how they wanted to operate Dodger Stadium
because there was already a great expectation as far as
entertainment for Southern California.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Fans and the Dodgers had a very very strict policy
about wearing sports coat and a tie on the plane
when you traveled, no tattoo, visible tattoos, no facial hairs,
and if you could got caught doing drugs or swearing,
then it doesn't matter how good you were, you were gone.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It was a different time. It was a time that
the O'Malley family owned the team, and there was just
certain principles that they live by, and it was just
a certain way, the Dodger way, not just on the field,
but off the field too as far as representing the organization.
And that has gone back to Brooklyn when Walter O'Malley
had taken over in nineteen fifty, so that carries over
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to the West Coast because they only had one chance
to make a good first impression. And that's the same
thing as far as the new owner, Stan Kasten comes
in and when he wanted to hire Janet Maurice Smith
to do all the ballpark renovations, he said, we only
have one chance to make a good first impression.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's great. I hope you enjoy the game.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I hope they set you up nicely in the stadium.
You can watch the game and we'd love to have
you back on after the series when the Dodgers win.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh my pleasures him. It's a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Thanks Mark, I appreciate it. Mark Langel.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
He's the historian for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Guy knows
more about Dodgers and the Dodgers Stadium than anybody living
right now. I can make that argument at Guy's encyclopedia
for you kids out there that don't know what that is.
Those are the books we had to look things up
before Google. You had to go to an encyclopedia. They
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don't have those anymore. Well they might, but nobody buys them.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
All Right, we can't stay.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
We can't say this enough that Friday is going to
be the next Carmageddon in southern California. You're going to
have sixty thousand people fifty eight thousand, sixty thousand people,
let's say sixty thousand people including employees at Dodgers Stadium.
Then you're going to have another fifteen to twenty thousand
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people in downtown Los Angeles at going to the Laker game.
So you got another fifteen thousand down there, and that's
another big deal. And then you've got another I don't know,
maybe twenty thousand, twenty five thirty forty thousand people at
USC where the USC Trojans are playing Rutgers at the Coliseum,
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and then there's a concert into it at the end
to it. Dome Elo is playing at the at the
Form the Key of Form, and then the East LA Classic,
the football game is at Sofi Stadium. All of those
events one, two, three, four, five, six, all six of
them are going on simultaneously, all six. At one point,
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all six will be going on at the same time.
So if you're going, let's say I don't know, Let's
say you live in Palmdale and you want the Dodger game.
Good for you got tickets, great good. I would leave
your house at nine point thirty quarter to.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Ten, just to be safe.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
What you don't want is to be on the freeway
at five o'clock. You have Dodger tickets and that game starting,
and you look at ways or Google Maps or whatever
it is, and you're an hour out, hour and a
half out, and you don't get there till the fourth inning.
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Don't take a chance leave five hours four hours before
the game.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Get there early, you know, better early than late.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Hit a hot dog, maybe a couple of beers in
you if you're not driving, and enjoy yourself. And see
how beautiful the stadium is. The weather's gonna be perfect.
It's gonna be eighty degrees. Let me see what time,
what exact temperature will be at first pitch? All right,
so let's do Dodger Stadium. We can do that specifically,
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Dodgers Stadium, Dodger Stadium, all right, the d g Er
Dodger Stadium at exactly on Friday at five pm. All right,
there it is right there at five eight pm, seventy
eight degrees, seventy eight degrees at first pitch seventy it'll
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be a high of eighty two. That'll come around two
twenty two thirty and then it'll cool off a little.
And at first pitch at five eight pm it'll be
seventy eight degrees, and then it'll tail off and by
the end of that game it'll be in the low sixties.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It'll be sixty three degrees.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
So bring a sweater or a jacket, something comfortable, maybe
long sleeve shirt, who knows, Maybe you can buy a
you know, if you got the money, you can.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Buy yourself a Dodger sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
By leave early and make sure you have some kind
of jacket or sweater because it's gonna get It's gonna
be seventy eight at first pitch, and then it's gonna
be sixty three when you leave that game.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Angel Martinez is back with us. How you bettt Hey?
Look at you, dinked long with.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
You, tink dong with you, Timmy.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So are you guys planning anything Friday? Anything special? Knowing
that there's gonna be three hundred thousand cars on the road.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Timmy, this is like our suit super Bowl, and we
have been in training over the parents four weeks. Yeah.
So Mike O'Brien and the pilot are practicing getting out
of the flight restriction areas in a timely manner, and
we're going to be over all of the hot spots
on Friday afternoon into the evening because it's going to
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be a doozy.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's going to be great. I could hear olive scratching.
That's how oh you got that?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's how excited she is.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
She is.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
She's excited as well. She's been practicing holding her scratches
during traffic.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, all right, well this is going to be a
big deal, you know, karm Ageddon.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Remember when they closed.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
The four h five, we did a live remote out
there on Ventura right near to Pulvita. This is going
to be worse than that. This is going to be
I would say, there's going to be you know, maybe
on the conservative side, one hundred thousand cars that'll be
in the downtown area that normally aren't there. And I
don't know how that downtown area absorbs a one hundred
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thousand cars that are not normally there.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah, it's going to be nuts. I mean, you were
saying if you're leaving from the valley to get to
Dodger Stadium, good luck. If you're trying to do that
at three in the afternoon, it's.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Not going to happen.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Like Timmy, Yeah, like Timmy was mentioning, make a day
of it. Can you really early enjoy yourself and just
get in there so you can just ease in and relax.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Right, And even if you don't go into the stadium,
if you get close to the stadium by you know,
two o'clock, three o'clock, maybe you eat somewhere off a sunset.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
There's some great restaurants down there.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You got Philips downtown, you know, And as long as
you're close to the stadium, I bet from Philips to
Dodger Stadium is still forty five minutes in traffic to
get inside.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Easy, easy, easy, you know. And they were suggesting that
people walk instead of wait for the shuttle buses to
take them down Shavez Ravine over to the parking line.
What is it like a mile away? And they were
suggesting that people just walk instead of digging the bus.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I don't know about that, but I don't know, you know,
what the transportation is.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I know there's buses from Union Station, and I think
they have a special bus, you know, lane that they
can take. But it's going to be a pain in
the ass to get there. But once you're there, you're
gonna feel great.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
If you get there at three o'clock for a five
o'clock game, two hours are going to fly by as
you watch batting practice, so you see, you know, you
watch the celebrities, the pile in.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's going to be a great event.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's going to be the attention of the United States,
the intent, the attention of the United States. Will all
be on Dodger Stadium on Friday night at five oh
eight pm. And if you have tickets, great news, you're
going enjoy yourself. But we will be here all day
long on Friday, guiding you through the traffic and the
hell that's going to be Friday night in Los Angeles.
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Keep it on KFI and all day long will help
you get through this.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, that car chase was a big deal. We had
talked about that. I saw it live on TV. A
woman at her wits end running wiprom cops and wiped
out at the m and she's no longer with us,
pretty sad, and it was caught on TV live footage
(15:29):
of it. And it's it seems like society's breaking down.
And I don't know what to do about it. I
don't know how it can help or hurt. I don't know,
but it does seem like every single day you turn
the news on and there is chaos out there. Last
(15:52):
night in North Hollywood, very popular shopping center on the
corner of Lancasham where Magnolia and or I'm sorry Riverside
becomes verdu Go, and then there's Kwanga and Langorsham, that
whole crazy intersection where like nine hundred streets meet, and
(16:14):
there was three shops there that were robbed overnight, and
it happens every night. And the people who own these shops,
they don't know what to do. They do everything they can.
They put bars up, they have cameras, they have alarms,
some people sleep in their shops, and they just it
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doesn't stop.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It never ends.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Every single night in the San Fernando Valley, their stores
being broken into every night. I remember ever coming in
here in the last three or four months where there
hasn't been something that's been broken into, not once, And
so I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I don't know. It seems to be happening every single night,
every night.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And then we have the closings of a lot of
restaurants and shops and stores, and it feels odd. It
feels like this society is breaking down. We had Denny's
that's closing. We'll do a story about that. And then
we have the infrastructure in Los Angeles and a lot
of us, you know listening right now, live in Los Angeles,
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and you've seen it deteriorate since you were you know, younger.
The water mains breaking. These watermins break every couple of days,
and a streat gets flooded and it's not even news
anymore because it happened so often. Well now it's on
freeways and this is before the big earthquake. Can you
imagine what Los Angeles is going to look like when
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the big one hits and these one hundred and ten
year old water mains all break at the same time.
We might there might be a lot of people that
die from the earthquake, not from the shaking or buildings falling,
but from floods.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
You know, we've been talking about these these sort of
smashing grabs in the middle of the night where they
did where they ran the back of their truck or
car to these stores to get through the gate, and
the ATMs being stolen from outside of the front of
a lot of these stories seven eleven's and such. And
we were talking about that recently and I brought up
the whole why don't they put those ballards in front
of them, you know, those contract things. Well, the La
City Council they've advanced the proposal just today to fast
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track those permit applications to install ballards on streets for
public sake. Oh ad in front of Yeah. So it's
it's the counterintuitive stuff. It will always be playing catch
up to bad guys. Unfortunately, that's kind of the thing
about that.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
William Goldman, who wrote Butch Cassi and Sundan's Kid, they
were shooting in I think it was either Mexico or
New Mexico and they were doubling that for Bolivia because
it looked much like Bolivia. And a woman came up
to William Goldman, who wrote that script, and she said,
I don't know why you're doing a movie about crime.
(18:51):
It doesn't pay. And he said, if it didn't pay,
it wouldn't exist. Thank you, And that's true. That maybe
that to be the motto of Los Angeles crime. If
it didn't pay, it wouldn't exist, and it does.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It looks it.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Made for honest people people want. Bad guys wouldn't get it.
They're gonna get in and they do.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And who was it that came on with us to
talk about I think it was Dean Sharp, yes, and
he said, thirty eight percent of homes that are robbed
or a guy that walked through the front door that
was unlocked.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Absolutely, And I think the percentage is even higher for
like cars that are stolen or or have had things
stolen out of them.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, unlocked or have keys in it. They just walk by.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
And I've seen people go to cars in a parking
lot one at a time and just check the door.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, like we used to check payphones for Nichols and quarters. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
I spend so much time telling all of our kids
when they leave the house, lock the door. And every
time I walk by the front door, it's unlocked, and
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Who's doing this? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I had to get off after my family as well,
because we live fairly close to a a place where
you can get coffee, and my wife would order coffee
and then she would walk to the coffee place to
get it and come back.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Nice to be nice to have that proximity, that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
But she would leave the door unlocked, go get the coffee,
and come back. And sometimes she would be gone for
ten minutes. And I said, sweetinge, in those ten minutes,
a guy can see you leaving the house, see the
doors open, go into the house, kill me, take all
our crap before you get home.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
And any recently we hear more and more about bad
guys putting remote cameras in neighborhoods just to watch for
that stuff to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
People leaving their house.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's right, that's exactly right. And now I'm even I
did go last night. My wife is out of town
and my daughter and I are home alone, and I
had to go down to the grocery store to get
some stuff. And even though she's nineteen, I'm nervous leaving
her at home. And I put all the locks on,
I put the alarm on, we got the dog, We've
got everything. The door stops, and I'm still nervous about
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flying down the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I still go. I'm not paralyzed. I still go. Sure,
head on a swivel down. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
But and now we've got the flooding going on, which
is gonna be another big problem here in Los Angeles,
and hopefully they can solve this, but before the Olympics
get here and before we invite, you know, twenty million
people that normally aren't here, and we get wiped out.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The flooding closed down in the one.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
O one, the one on one freeway, in boiled hids
The southbound lanes have been shut down since about one
thirty this morning because of flooding. What a mess for
the drive. Now, that's the one on one shop on
A four Street and Boil Heights. There was a water
main breaks you mentioned about one thirty, and it flooded
the freeway entirely. This is what it looked like early
this morning. There was water across both sides of the
one on one freeway at four Streets and they had
to shut it down in both directions, had to take
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traffic off. It was a real mess for the drive.
We'll come back out to our live shot and show you.
Now the one on one shoutbound is diverted onto the
one on one or ten e's to the south, and
so what you have in downtown is a real mess
for the five southbound. Off to the right side of
his screen. Could everybody diverted onto the Golden State South?
If you're gonna drive that, you need a lot of vetter.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
If I was this reporter, I would refer to south
as opposite of north. You know what I mean, not down,
I would say, I wouldn't say south. If I was
this reporter, I'd say opposite of North.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And why is that.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
I think you'll pick it up to our live shot
and show you. Now the one on one southbound is
diverted onto the one to one or ten east to
the five south, and so what you have in downtown
is a real mess for the five southbound. Off to
the right side of his screen, could everybody diverted onto
the Golden State South If you're gonna drive that, you
need a lot of extra time. We'll go back to
the actual incident there and show you once again. They're
a long way Philip and Jovannah from reopening the southbound lanes.
(22:45):
They're telling us now it'll be some time later in
the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Opposite of North.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Sometimes it felt like he was really intentionally doing every es.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Word opposite of North. I don't get emails on that.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
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Speaker 1 (23:06):
I got a shout out, a shout out going to
air in a security guard at Long Beach green Room.
I guess that's a weed dispensary at the green room
in Long Beach. Well, I wonder why we don't do
any spots for weed dispensaries. You know, there's some pretty
big ones out there has some money? Are we not
allowed to?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
That's a good question because, yeah, I've been saying that
for years.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Because it's still illegal federally, isn't it. Weed.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, so I wonder if this is you know, a
public station. You can't promote now, you know, can't be
I don't think we can sell machine guns.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Let's try.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Can you buy machine guns or can you sell them
here in California or LA? If you know the right
guys and there it is. I bet you could buy
a machine gun if you knew the right guys. Oh,
sure they exist, you know the right guys. Remember who
is the gut busted doing that? Was it Bob Petty
from Channel four? I don't want to disparage his name
(24:09):
in case that's not him. Who's the guy that got
caught Bellio selling machine guns or high powered guns?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Or maybe it was not.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I'm gonna take it back that it was Tom Bob Petty,
but until we look it up, yes, it was Bob
Petty charged with illegally possessing and arranging to sell two, yeah,
two machine guns to a federal agent. Wow, back in
two thousand and one, man, that guy's going for it life.
You got to get him that. He flies a helicopter
for a living, which is very dangerous. And then on
(24:40):
the side he's uh hawking machine guns. My kind of guy.
I'm surprised I never run into that guy. Probably hung
out Synchrome.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, come on, bet he's a track guy or vegas
guy's gotta be gambler.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Gambler.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That guy all right to shout out to air in
the security guard at Long Beach Green Room, we dispensary, huge,
huge shout out. Ah, and you've seen okay, he said.
The Crozier seems down to earth.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Right based on what do you not know?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
All the fireplaces, Yeah, three fireplaces, a hot tub's pool,
the big ass.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Pool, twelve acre backyard.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, right down to earth is just a you know, yes,
that's me. It's a blue collar out there.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
He just attended a gala. What's your favorite of your
three fireplaces in your house? The one in that bedroom?
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, isn't a fireplace in their bedroom? Do you have
a remote for it? No?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
No, it's old school, man, I mean it's it's gas,
but yeah, it's old school.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You can you burn lungs at it. It might be
able to be retro fitted. Sure, Oh but you can't.
Now you don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Oh, so you flip a switch, you get the turn
the gas on and light it with a match.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Nice and that that sucker goes on and it goes on,
It goes on. Man, that's crozy on stud That is uh,
that's good times. But we're the other two fireplaces, one
in the living.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Room, yeah, the one right below our bedroom because it's yeah,
and then one on the other side of the house
on in the front room. And when that one doesn't
even go because it doesn't have anything in it, it's
just kind of a dead fireplace.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Did you guys ever get the one placed in the
powder room downstairs?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
No, Actually, we were cutting down the size of that
that powder room because we it just needs to be
a half bath because we're getting more room into out
of our kitchen for it.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So no room for a oh you're expanding the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Uh, well, we're gonna we're gonna take some of the
space from that bathroom because it's kind of useless space
and turn it and giving it to the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I really pissed off my wife about m maybe ten
years ago. I had a guy, a friend of mine
who is a construction guy, and he said he's in
the area. He goes, if you're not doing it, I'll stop,
I'll go to lunch. And I'm like, go, yeah, yeah,
come on bye. And he shows up and he's got
(27:16):
his hard hat, you know, in the car, and he
you know, he's been working. So he's all dirty and crap.
And I said, buddy, I said, my wife doesn't know
who you are, doesn't know we're friends. I said, you
come in with me. She said, he's yeah, what's going on?
I said, I need you to come in and measure
the house for stuff, and he goes sure. So I
said we're gonna I need you to come in with
(27:37):
a measuring tape and a notebook and take notes. And
he goes, all right, what are you doing? I said,
I want to turn the kitchen into another bedroom. And
he's like, what I said, just do it. And so
he comes in. Jen meets him and I said, hey,
he's here, we're going to I'm measuring the kitchen and
she was for what. And he starts taking measurements in
(27:58):
the kitchen and she's like, what's going on? I said, well,
I'm gonna turn this kitchen into a bedroom, you know,
extra bedrooms in case we have a family of friends over,
they can sleep have their own room. And she said, well,
where are we going to cook? And I said, you
(28:18):
don't cook and just stared at her. Wow, that was
a big battle we had.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
I can imagine did she like like, was she taking
aback and or did she react immediately?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I will tell you that the next couple of days
we had meals.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Oh, hey, that's a good thing, right, it was was
the was the food?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
No, it was right.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We were afraid to taste. It was terrific. Man, we
had meals. Yeah, got stuff, go ahead and eat that.
I made that for you.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, I was. I was just busting your balls. But
I think she took it personally and we had We
had some good meals.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Nice. Yeah, knocked out, but we do.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
We cook together, Like I'm the grill guy. Are you
the grill guy at home?
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah? But she doesn't touch the grill generally. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And I grill the meat and Jen does the potatoes,
the vegetables, sets the table and sofa, cleans up. And
we were pretty good the machine nice, yeah, but the
grill is the is still It's weird that in a
relationship the grill is still the guy's home. Yeah, I
mean that, And and they don't even like when their.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Wife gets near it. It's weird.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
I don't mind that. I'm I'm all for it. Jen's
been fantastic. She wasn't really much of a cooker prior
to meeting me, but so she has jumped in, full
full go. When I'm in the kitchen, she jumps in
and does yeah, yeah, yeah, Like you said, it's very
communal and interactive between us in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So it's great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I every time I've been to a guy's house and
they're they're grilling, you know, hamburgs, hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You know, chicken, steak, whatever, it's always the guy cooking. Always.
I've never seen a like a wife take over the grill.
Jen doesn't do the grill like outside or anything, but
she'll do the griddle in the kitchen stove.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's almost like we had talked about at one point.
Sushi chefs are always men. I've never seen a shoe
sushi chef that's a woman. Yeah, very rarely. Yeah, And
I don't know if that's a traditional thing. In Japan
or not. I don't know, but it seems like I don't.
I can't remember ever going into a place. And I'm
(30:32):
not a big sushi guy, but i still go with
friends who eat that. And I've never seen a woman
cutting that up.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Out of say, I don't know three hundred times that
I've gone to sushi in my life, less than three
than women.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Will say this, though women are the best at multitasking.
They're much better than guys at multitask, much much better. However,
there is one thing that women can't multitask with, and
I've noticed it over the last twenty years. There's one
(31:07):
thing that even today I will I will stake my
life on it that I'm right here. There's one thing
that women cannot multitask with. And we'll come back them
and to tell you what it is. But it's only
one thing. They can multitask with everything, but there's one
thing that is a roadblock and they can't do it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Wow, that is a tease.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I will come back and tell you what it is.
I have enough information to support this one hundred percent.
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