Tim talks to lucky caller 10, the winner of the Disney Pixar Fest ticket give-away / Young parents, old parents, young grandparents, old grandparents, one kid, lots of kids. Erewhon sues city to stop Sportsmen’s Lodge development in Studio City / LA County to release sterilized mosquitoes to fight against invasive species. Tim hates mosquitos with a passion, and mosquitos hate ThermaCell mosquito repellent with a passion. GUEST: Captain Ron joins us to promote his podcast, and discuss UFO’s and paranormal research / Cross toss with Mo’Kelly.
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It's CAMF I am six forty andyou're listening to the Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app giving away ticketsto Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park.
And our winner is Alfredo. Ithink out in Menafee and man,
oh man, that's a big deal. Let's talk to Alfredo here in Menefee.
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What's going on? ALFREDA? Howyou? I'm doing great? How
about you? All right? Congratulationsyou're a winner, man. Yeah,
thank you. Grandkids, we're goingto be very happy. Who are you
taking? How many kids are youtaking? Three grandkids? Yeah? Probably
three grandkids taking them to Disneyland.Oh, good for you. That's really
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cool and you'll enjoy that. Howold are you young man? Oh,
I'm forty five, forty five andyou got grandkids? Sure? How many
grandkids? You got? Got fourboys? Good for you? Oh that's
it exciting. How old are they? Youngest is nine in turn ten and
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the older is thirteen going on fourteen. But you have a fourteen year old
grandkid? Yeah? I started early? Yeah, food, all right,
I get it, man, Iget it. But you know what I
love starting early. You have moreenergy than if you start late. Definitely,
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you can hang with them. Grandkidsmom much better. That's right.
Grandkids are the best, man,That's what I hear. All right,
congratulations enjoyed Disneyland or California California Adventure, whichever one you choose. Have a
great time, and thanks for listeningto KFI man. Hey, thank you,
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all right, take care? Allright? There he goes Alfredo in
Menafee, forty five years old.He's got a fourteen year old. Let's
do the math on that. He'sgot a fourteen year old grandchild. So
how old the father or mother ofthat kid has to be? Eighteen thirty
two, so he probably started whenhe was seventeen or eighteen. I think
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eighteen. Yeah, that makes sense. You know, I've in Oregon,
where my wife is from. It'snot unusual to have kids at fifteen or
sixteen, It's really not. Iwas the second for both my father and
my mother. They had been married, each of them to other people before
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getting married to each other and havingme, and each of them had kids
prior to me. Really wow.And my dad was twenty when I was
born, okay, and my motherwas twenty one when I was born,
and they each already had been marriedand had a kid. My wife's mom,
so I guess my stepmother, Hi, mother in law, my mother
in law. She had my wife. She got pregnant at sixteen, had
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her at seventeen, I think,And no, sixteen, because I'm ten
years older than my wife. ButI'm only six years younger than her mom.
I'm closer to my wife's mother's agethat I am my wife's age.
So whenever we go on like roadtrips or anything, her mother and I
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are listening to the same music,and Jen's like in the back of old
farts listening to those old eagles crap. But I remember twice, once in
Bank America and once at Costco wherewhen we had our beautiful daughter, Sophia,
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and she was probably a year oldat the time. It happened the
same week. Both happened the sameweek, and I was holding her,
and both in Bank America and inCostco, a woman said, oh,
it must be so nice to bea grandfather, and I'm like, yeah,
it is, it's great, Itreally is terrific. I was only,
you know, forty six at thetime, but forty six in Oregon,
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that's great grandfather area. You startlate, wait, too late.
And you know, there's two differenttheories. You know, start early where
you have the energy to raise kids, or start late when you know you
have some you know, stability inlife where you can spend some time with
them. You don't have to hustleand bustle and work three jobs. Did
you you always kind of did youalways feel like you wanted to have one
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a little bit later? Or yeah, yeah, well no, we never
planned on having kids at all,and then my wife got pregnant, like,
wow, we're having a kid.We'll do that. I didn't know
that. I did not know that. I always knew I wanted to wait
later because my dad, because myparents were so young and growing up with
young parents and a dad that wasonly twenty years older than you. That's
great. That wasn't great. No, dude, I raised myself. I
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would if I had to do itall over again, I'd have nine kids.
I'd start earlier and have six,seven, eight, nine kids.
Yeah, and I'd probably do itto do it again, I'd probably do
a little earlier. Yeah, yeah, not like that. But but then
again, you know, you asksomebody who has six kids, and they
want to shoot you if you sayyou want six kids. You know,
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they've gone through hell absolute health becausethey have to have six kids and them
all turn out to be okay isalmost impossible. You know, you're gonna
have one that's involved with law enforcement. You're gonna have one that decides,
you know, at at eight ornine years old, they're gonna tat themselves
up and you know, and andpierce every part of their body. You're
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gonna have another one that was borna male but is experiencing with with being
a female. I mean, nowadays, you're gonna have a lot of variety,
a lot of variety with kids andand sometimes it's not your fault.
You know, your your your DNAand the kids DNA. Yeah, you
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have some effect on it, butnot as much as you think, not
as much as you think. Iknow a family where of three kids,
it's all three boys, Jewish familyin New York. The youngest one is
a rabbi, the middle kid isan actor, and the older kid is
in New Jersey on death row forkilling three people in a liquor store.
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Hold up, wow, all threekids raised under the same roof by the
same parents. See a rabbi,an actor and a death row inmates that
when you start getting into the firstchild, middle child. Yeah, I
guess the aspect where they all havedifferent personalities. There's a joke in that.
It does sound like a setup.You're right, I'll give you that,
Robin. It does sound like asetup for a joke. I got
these, you know, three Jewishkids, a rabbi, an actor,
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and an inmate. I'll walk intoa bar. Yeah, it does sound
like a joke. But it's it'sit's you know, it's tough nowadays.
I think it's always been tough,though, you know, you got it.
It's it's really hard to raise kids. It's the only thing that doesn't
come with a handbook. You know, when you go fishing, you have
to have a license. When youdrive, you have to devi a license.
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When you fly, you got tolearn to fly. You have to
have a license, you have tohave a you know, the drug test
on most jobs you get. Butwhen you have a kid, anyone can
do it. They don't tell youwhat to do and you're just on your
own. Did you read any ofthe books. I didn't read anything.
I read a few like early on, and I was just like what common
sense? Yeah, I did thatis it Lama's Lama's? Oh yeah,
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I tried that one time. Mywife scheduled it for opening Sunday during the
NFL, and I'm like, babe, you gotta be kidding. Well,
have a good time, baby,So I go with her. It's nine
thirty in the morning. We walkin. There's three couples in loosely fitting
sweats with no shoes on, reallyearthy types. Yes, And I walk
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in there with my wife and aboutten minutes into I said, hey,
Jenna said you can stay, butI'm gonna buzz out of here. I
got it, and she said I'mgoing with you. So we split.
Good for her, Good on her. And we didn't even give an excuse.
They're like, where are you going? We just kept walking and we
walked and we went across the streetto a I hop, had breakfast,
I went home and watched football.We got this. Yes, but that's
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why I don't like to tell peoplewithout to raise kids, because I didn't
like to be told either. Youknow, you don't like to be told
what to do, just like withkids. It's everybody's different. Yeah.
I offer some advice, but ifyou don't take it, I don't care.
But The greatest piece of advice Iever got was from a guy named
Jesse Jackson, Reverend Jesse Jackson.Maybe you heard of him, and I
was listening to one of his sermonsthat he was giving really early on when
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I had my daughter. She's probablya week old, and I remember him
saying in one of his sermons,it's not what you buy them, it's
where you take them. And thatstuck with me forever. And I took
my daughter everywhere I went, everywhereI went, and you did the same
too, Croche. Everywhere I went. She I always asked her or told
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her, you're going with me,You're going with me, And every single
day I went anywhere, she wouldgo with me. I when my dad
got remarried to the person I callmy mom, her big thing was always,
it's not what you spend, you'remaking memories. Yeah, it's about
and memories. Yeah, what didyour grandmother? Your mother always say smiles
per gallon. Was that something shesaid? Yes, that's somebody else.
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You're listening to Tim Conway Junior ondemand from KFI AM six forty. Beautiful
weather here in southern California this week, not so great in stove Pipe.
I don't know where that is.I think it's Death Valley Area stove pipe,
California, one hundred and nine degrees. One hundred and nine in stovepipe.
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The hottest temperature in the United Statesstove pomp stove top, stove pipe,
California. Lowest temperature was in Colorado, Gothic Colorado, twenty five degrees.
So for you temperature nuts out there, I got you covered. I
got you covered, all right.Somebody is sewing or a company is showing
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Sportsman's Lodge. I grew up goingto Sportsmen's Lodge, a lot of bar
mitzvahs, bot Mitzvah's, Sportsman's Lodge. It was the greatest destination, greatest
venue growing up, and now it'sbeing sued by Airwan. Airwan, why
are they showing what's going on?The supermarket chain. Airwon has filed a
lawsuit to stop a plan to redevelopStudio Cities iconic Sportsman's Lodge hotel. Lists
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to the hotel, the new developmentwould include more than five hundred apartments and
forty six thousand square feet of commercialspace. Why wouldn't Eirwan want that five
hundred customers at least maybe a thousandtwo people per apartment. I don't know.
Plans for the development moved forward lastmonth after the La City Council denied
Airwan's other opponents appeal of the project. The hotel, which used to be
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a popular events venue, permanently closedduring the pandemic. Yeah, very very
sad. All right, Mosquitos tothe rescue. There are mosquitos out there
that are killing other mosquitos. Maybeyou've noticed less mosquitos this year. I
have, maybe you have two.Maybe it's because other mosquitos are out there
murdering other other mosquitos. A battlewith insects in La County, and the
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innovative tool being used in this fightis another form of the same insect.
We are targeting a species that's responsiblefor transmitting some really nasty diseases. So
we're looking for a novel way inwhich we can that will aid us in
our fight. The target invasive eightiesegypty mosquitos, also known as yellow fever
mosquitos. Oh great, another additionto southern California. Welcome to socoal yellow
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fever mosquitos. Yellow fever mosquitoes Welcome, Welcome to the Nut House. Yellow
fever mosquitos, which the district sayshave rapidly spread across La County in the
last decade. The technology used bythe district to tackle this issue is called
sterile insect technique or SIT, andin this case it involves one particular approach.
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What we do is we use Xray technology to sterilize male mosquit You
know they used to. It's calledsterile insect technique or the sterile insect technique
used to be dropped by a helicopter, so it wasn't called SI. It
was called Wait, I can't usethat. You can't even spell it,
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steril helicopter insect technique. You can'tuse the acronym whatever. It's called sterile
insect technique or SIIT. And inthis case it involves one particular approach.
They put the helicopter in SIIT sterilhelicopter. Oh, never mind. And
in this case of why I comein, and in this case it involves
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one particular approach. What we dois we use X ray technology to sterilize
male mosquitos which don't bite. Andthen, yeah, I don't know if
you know that I do because I'ma I guess an expert. When it
comes to mosquitos. I get bida lot, so I have a lot
of anti mosquito crap around the house, and it's only the females that bite
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you. The males they are totallycool something in that they leave you alone.
They don't ask a lot of questions, they don't complain. They just
fly around, buzz around, evidentlybanging around with other skeeters, and never
bite you. They leave you alone. So anytime you're bit by mosquito,
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check out between the pins and itdoesn't have a wee wi ladies. Yep,
it's just it's just the ladies,sterilized male mosquitos which don't bite,
and then those will be released outand to mate with wild females. The
reason behind this method is because thetarget mosquitoes are resilient to common pesticides.
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They lay their eggs in small,hidden water sources in people's front yards,
backyards, patios, and elsewhere areaswhere mosquito control agencies can't easily access.
According to vector control officials, siitwill help reduce the population of these mosquitos
and reduce the possible threat of tropicaldiseases like dengey fever, chicken gunya,
zica, and others. Wow,this is like he was making up the
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pronunciation on at least a couple ofthose. And this is it. This
is in southern California. We gotall these, you know, wild diseases
buzzer around like then gay fever thengay fever, Chicken gunya, chicken gunyad
zica and others we're looking into.I like the chicken gunya. I'll take
the chicken gun yan with rice andbeans. Chicken gunya zica. Yeah,
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sounds like an exotic dish. Chickengunya zica and others. We're looking into.
Try to achieve a ratio of sterilemale to wild males in that area
of right around seven to ten toone. It's a plan we've seen executed
elsewhere with West Valley mosquito and vectorcontrol. The released male mosquitoes can't bite
and can't spread diseases. I canachieve the plan's goal. Once that happens,
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then those males will pie. Sowhat eventually happens again, those females
once they mate with one of oursterile males, any sperm that she collects,
then she will then store for allof her batches of eggs. But
again, if she's mated with oneof our males, then any of those
eggs that she lays will not beviable and we're not going to see any
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adults emerge as a result of that. It's cool, man, as somebody
went to school longer than I didto be able to go in and sterilize
these male insects like that. That'swild. Good for them. The male
mosquitos will be released within the areas, which include the neighborhoods of Alpine Village
and Seven Hills in sunlandt to Hunga. It's not meant to be an overnight
solution, but one that Vector Controlhas high confidence in moving forward. While
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they may see a few extra mosquitoesflying around that we're not going to be
adding to the biting pressure that they'reexperiencing. Hopefully, in the next couple
of months, we're actually going tobe reducing that bite. It's going to
look worse before it gets better.The plan moving forward is to continue these
weekly releases from now through October oftwenty twenty four. Based on the program
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success, the district hopes to expandit to other areas as well. All
right, well we come back.I'm going to tell you the only thing
that I've purchased in my life.I've purchased every single anti mosquito can spray,
you know, plug in light zapper, all that crap. I've purchased
everything. And there's only one thingthat I've discovered over the last twenty five
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years that works. One thing,and it's sold at all the you know
hardware stories. I'm going to tellyou about it when we come back.
The one thing that can wipe outat least in my house. It wipes
out mosquitoes. And I get bitall the time, and I don't have
one bite this year thanks to thispiece of equipment I'm going to tell you
about when we come back. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
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KFI A six forty. I've triedeverything to get rid of mosquitoes. I
get bit all the time. Mywife never gets bit, not once.
We can be outdoors in the middleof a swamp and I will have a
thousand mosquito bites. She doesn't haveone, not one. And I don't
know what it is. I thinkit's blood type and they, you know,
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they smell a different type of Idon't know, maybe a fear in
you or that your blood is juicierand better for them than other blood,
don't I don't want to do sweetmeat. Sweet meat, yeah, my
old nickname, good old days.But mosquitoes are pain in the ass.
I hate them. I will doanything to get them. And when I
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hear man, oh man crows.You guys see how crazy I get at
night. If I'm going to bedand I hear that in my ear,
I'm up. I'm up, I'mup, and I and I will be
swatting and sticking and throwing and grabbingand killing until I find that mosquito.
Just making that noise makes my headtwitch. Oh my god. And you
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hear it right in your ears,you're going to see them. Oh God.
So I tried everything. I've triedfumigation, I've tried the zappers.
I've spent thousands of dollars on tryingto keep mosquitoes out of my house.
I will say that the guys overat get her done. They know what
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they're doing. That guy's a specialistsof mosquitoes. He travels I don't I
think his name is Doug or Davidor Dan, I don't know. But
he travels the world and he goesto mosquito conventions. He's a pest control
guy in Burbank. He goes tomosquito conventions and he always is on the
latest kind of you know, mosquitoand Bateman and traps and stuff like that.
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So that guy knows what he's doing. But if you don't have the
money for that, you know,you broke like everybody, and you want
to go to home Depot, Low's, Target or Walmart. I have the
solution for you. Okay, Inow buy them. I don't care what
it costs. It's a little expensiveto get the fuel, but I buy
the thermost cell mosquito repellent. Itlooks like a it looks like a beer
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can and it comes with little fuelpackets. You put the fuel in it,
you turn the fuel on and youclick it and it lights up.
And then above on the can there'sthese blue strips that go in there and
it's supposed to keep mosquite. Youknow, it's fifteen feet away from you.
They recommended outdoors. I don't.There's no difference in my When I
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read how you know how to useproducts, I don't. I just breeze
over the indoor outdoor part. Ibring everything indoors everything is indoors with me.
Whispering willow by the way, whatis that? That's a product that
that Jen found. Oh is thatright? That eliminates mosquitos from it?
Really you can get like soap,or you can get like spread. Oh,
let me write that down. Mighthave to investigate that whispering willow.
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Whispering willow, there's a specifically likea eucalyptus and mint like a hand soap.
But there's their their products. Unbelievablebecause we we get you know,
the ankle biders that it becomes.Oh yeah, in the last couple of
years eliminates them. Is it deepfree? I would assume, so I
now just go megadeep. I buyDeep by the fifty five gallon drum.
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I sleep. Indeed, at nightI sleep, I open up one of
those fifty five gallon drums and theyjust sleep in there. I bring a
pillow and I sleep in fifty fivegallons of Deep every night. That seems
capable. Way, but it's calleduh, it's called thermos cll thermocell,
yeah, and thermo cell mosquito repellentand uh, those the little gas the
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fuel lasts, I don't know,a half hour hour two hours, whatever
it is. But they keep mosquitosfifteen feet away from you. I fire
one of those up, I putit next to the bed. I don't
care if it's gonna kill me,that doesn't interest me. At least it
won't be death by mosquito. That'sright, that's right. Yeah, how
did he go without any mosquito bites? That's how he went? Yeah,
he had a massive tumor, butno skeeters. But it's called thermos Cell.
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They should be an advertiser here,and I think they will be.
I'm going to change this during mosquitoseason. This will be the thermos Cell
studio. They sell them in likethe home depots, the hole, yeah,
all the places. And then youcan buy the replacement fuel, the
refills and the little pads, theblue pads as well, and you stick
them in there and Bob's your uncle. Man. There is a mosquito within
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twenty five feet of these things.It is beautiful thermo Cell mosquito repellent.
Go don't go to the lows inBurbank or Empire because that's where I buy
and I don't want it wiped out. You haven't stocked, Yeah, go
to another like go to your yourfavorite Lows, but not the one in
Burbank. That's where I buy.It should be like a Costco thing where
you can get it on a pallet. Well, I buy it by the
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you know, you can buy therefills, and I buy forty eight hours
of refills. I think it's likesixty bucks or so. I don't care
what it costs. It could besix hundred dollars. I don't like that
worn Yeah, yeah, yeah,you fall in love with it. Yeah,
you know, it's a relationship Ihave with that thermos Cell. So
go get it, But again,don't go to Burbank Lows, and don't
go to Bourbank Home Depot. I'mwiping them out already. So you got
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to go find it at your Low'sor Walmart or home depot, or they
even sell it at at Target.You got to go back into the seasonal
department. Thermo Cell mosquito repellent againlooks like a size of a beer can,
and it keeps mosquitoes away. Iteven works on those little ankle bier
ones. Everything everything I've gotten,I don't know what it works if outside
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or not, but I don't reallygo outside during mosquito season. It works.
I know it works inside, itworks indoors. And if I'm watching
a hockey game and I hear mosquitobuzzing around the house, I fire one
up, put it right next tomy no, the couch, and it's
not coming anywhere near anywhere near me. Man, they hate thermossell mosquitoes hate
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Thermo cell. So go get that. If you hate mosquitos like I do,
that's going to be your best friend. Congratulations del Fredo in Menafie.
He won the tickets. And there'sstill people texting an email and me figuring
out how he's a grandfather of afourteen year old at forty five, still
trying to do the math there.I don't know how that works out,
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but I guess you know, fourteenhe would he would have to have been
I don't know, fifteen or sixteenwhen he had a kid, and then
that kid would have to have beenfifteen when they had a kid. So,
oh, by the way, I'mgonna go to La County Fair this
weekend. Oh you are to gosee uh go down with Alfredo with Metafie.
I was gonna go. I wasgonna go check out and see because
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you know the under the grand standswhere they had the horse race and stuff.
That was where they have all thejudging competitions. That's why I know
where Mando was with the guacamal thing. They always have the post judging sort
of displays. I liked that.I was going to look for his see
if he got to think, Oh, that's cool, but any he keeps
taking his ribbons with him because he'salways posting the pictures with him. Yeah.
I like going through there where yousee the blue ribbons, yellow ribbons,
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red ribbons on all kinds of artwork. That person one for that my
one of my up in Oregon,our neighbor's daughter entered a table setting contest.
Oh yes, those are always interesting. What yeah, they said,
you set up a table and theyjudge you. I got him, mighty.
Where is the excitement in that?Is? That is fascinating stuff?
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To walk? Is that wild?It's it's just aisles of it and you're
like, wait what Yeah, soyou put a plate on there in a
fork and somebody gave you a ribbon. Huh, it's like theme stuff.
That's right, that's right, it'sreally something. You really look at him
and you go that one like yousaid it's like a plate in a fork
and mondo. For the fourth timehe's entered. He's won Best Guacamole in
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Los Angeles second last year. Butyeah, four out of five times he's
gotten first. That is wild.That still blows my way. It really
is very exciting for that man.He tweaked the recipe last year. That's
why he says he came in second. So he went back to the original.
Oh good, Yeah, he wentwith what got him there, that's
it. It was blue ribbons.All right, we gonna take a break
here, we'll come back. MoeKelly's coming up at seven bells. It's
also been an interesting week for him. He's been on all over this metro
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you know this uh you know,out of control violence that's our own metro
here in La. The feeling listeningto him like because I like you.
On the way home, I'm listeningbecause I want to hear that for segment
I'm with you. He just soundslike he's just so exhausted talking about it
because every day it's like another one. He's like, ah, all right,
and he ever does the I toldyou so, But he could he
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could start with that I told youunless you get straighten this out. It's
gonna get worse. You're listening toTim Conway Junior on demand from k f
I a M six forty
It's CAMF I am six forty andyou're listening to the Conway Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app giving away ticketsto Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park.
And our winner is Alfredo. Ithink out in Menafee and man,
oh man, that's a big deal. Let's talk to Alfredo here in Menefee.
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What's going on? ALFREDA? Howyou? I'm doing great? How
about you? All right? Congratulationsyou're a winner, man. Yeah,
thank you. Grandkids, we're goingto be very happy. Who are you
taking? How many kids are youtaking? Three grandkids? Yeah? Probably
three grandkids taking them to Disneyland.Oh, good for you. That's really
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cool and you'll enjoy that. Howold are you young man? Oh,
I'm forty five, forty five andyou got grandkids? Sure? How many
grandkids? You got? Got fourboys? Good for you? Oh that's
it exciting. How old are they? Youngest is nine in turn ten and
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the older is thirteen going on fourteen. But you have a fourteen year old
grandkid? Yeah? I started early? Yeah, food, all right,
I get it, man, Iget it. But you know what I
love starting early. You have moreenergy than if you start late. Definitely,
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you can hang with them. Grandkidsmom much better. That's right.
Grandkids are the best, man,That's what I hear. All right,
congratulations enjoyed Disneyland or California California Adventure, whichever one you choose. Have a
great time, and thanks for listeningto KFI man. Hey, thank you,
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all right, take care? Allright? There he goes Alfredo in
Menafee, forty five years old.He's got a fourteen year old. Let's
do the math on that. He'sgot a fourteen year old grandchild. So
how old the father or mother ofthat kid has to be? Eighteen thirty
two, so he probably started whenhe was seventeen or eighteen. I think
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eighteen. Yeah, that makes sense. You know, I've in Oregon,
where my wife is from. It'snot unusual to have kids at fifteen or
sixteen, It's really not. Iwas the second for both my father and
my mother. They had been married, each of them to other people before
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getting married to each other and havingme, and each of them had kids
prior to me. Really wow.And my dad was twenty when I was
born, okay, and my motherwas twenty one when I was born,
and they each already had been marriedand had a kid. My wife's mom,
so I guess my stepmother, Hi, mother in law, my mother
in law. She had my wife. She got pregnant at sixteen, had
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her at seventeen, I think,And no, sixteen, because I'm ten
years older than my wife. ButI'm only six years younger than her mom.
I'm closer to my wife's mother's agethat I am my wife's age.
So whenever we go on like roadtrips or anything, her mother and I
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are listening to the same music,and Jen's like in the back of old
farts listening to those old eagles crap. But I remember twice, once in
Bank America and once at Costco wherewhen we had our beautiful daughter, Sophia,
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and she was probably a year oldat the time. It happened the
same week. Both happened the sameweek, and I was holding her,
and both in Bank America and inCostco, a woman said, oh,
it must be so nice to bea grandfather, and I'm like, yeah,
it is, it's great, Itreally is terrific. I was only,
you know, forty six at thetime, but forty six in Oregon,
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that's great grandfather area. You startlate, wait, too late.
And you know, there's two differenttheories. You know, start early where
you have the energy to raise kids, or start late when you know you
have some you know, stability inlife where you can spend some time with
them. You don't have to hustleand bustle and work three jobs. Did
you you always kind of did youalways feel like you wanted to have one
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a little bit later? Or yeah, yeah, well no, we never
planned on having kids at all,and then my wife got pregnant, like,
wow, we're having a kid.We'll do that. I didn't know
that. I did not know that. I always knew I wanted to wait
later because my dad, because myparents were so young and growing up with
young parents and a dad that wasonly twenty years older than you. That's
great. That wasn't great. No, dude, I raised myself. I
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would if I had to do itall over again, I'd have nine kids.
I'd start earlier and have six,seven, eight, nine kids.
Yeah, and I'd probably do itto do it again, I'd probably do
a little earlier. Yeah, yeah, not like that. But but then
again, you know, you asksomebody who has six kids, and they
want to shoot you if you sayyou want six kids. You know,
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they've gone through hell absolute health becausethey have to have six kids and them
all turn out to be okay isalmost impossible. You know, you're gonna
have one that's involved with law enforcement. You're gonna have one that decides,
you know, at at eight ornine years old, they're gonna tat themselves
up and you know, and andpierce every part of their body. You're
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gonna have another one that was borna male but is experiencing with with being
a female. I mean, nowadays, you're gonna have a lot of variety,
a lot of variety with kids andand sometimes it's not your fault.
You know, your your your DNAand the kids DNA. Yeah, you
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have some effect on it, butnot as much as you think, not
as much as you think. Iknow a family where of three kids,
it's all three boys, Jewish familyin New York. The youngest one is
a rabbi, the middle kid isan actor, and the older kid is
in New Jersey on death row forkilling three people in a liquor store.
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Hold up, wow, all threekids raised under the same roof by the
same parents. See a rabbi,an actor and a death row inmates that
when you start getting into the firstchild, middle child. Yeah, I
guess the aspect where they all havedifferent personalities. There's a joke in that.
It does sound like a setup.You're right, I'll give you that,
Robin. It does sound like asetup for a joke. I got
these, you know, three Jewishkids, a rabbi, an actor,
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and an inmate. I'll walk intoa bar. Yeah, it does sound
like a joke. But it's it'sit's you know, it's tough nowadays.
I think it's always been tough,though, you know, you got it.
It's it's really hard to raise kids. It's the only thing that doesn't
come with a handbook. You know, when you go fishing, you have
to have a license. When youdrive, you have to devi a license.
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When you fly, you got tolearn to fly. You have to
have a license, you have tohave a you know, the drug test
on most jobs you get. Butwhen you have a kid, anyone can
do it. They don't tell youwhat to do and you're just on your
own. Did you read any ofthe books. I didn't read anything.
I read a few like early on, and I was just like what common
sense? Yeah, I did thatis it Lama's Lama's? Oh yeah,
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I tried that one time. Mywife scheduled it for opening Sunday during the
NFL, and I'm like, babe, you gotta be kidding. Well,
have a good time, baby,So I go with her. It's nine
thirty in the morning. We walkin. There's three couples in loosely fitting
sweats with no shoes on, reallyearthy types. Yes, And I walk
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in there with my wife and aboutten minutes into I said, hey,
Jenna said you can stay, butI'm gonna buzz out of here. I
got it, and she said I'mgoing with you. So we split.
Good for her, Good on her. And we didn't even give an excuse.
They're like, where are you going? We just kept walking and we
walked and we went across the streetto a I hop, had breakfast,
I went home and watched football.We got this. Yes, but that's
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why I don't like to tell peoplewithout to raise kids, because I didn't
like to be told either. Youknow, you don't like to be told
what to do, just like withkids. It's everybody's different. Yeah.
I offer some advice, but ifyou don't take it, I don't care.
But The greatest piece of advice Iever got was from a guy named
Jesse Jackson, Reverend Jesse Jackson.Maybe you heard of him, and I
was listening to one of his sermonsthat he was giving really early on when
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I had my daughter. She's probablya week old, and I remember him
saying in one of his sermons,it's not what you buy them, it's
where you take them. And thatstuck with me forever. And I took
my daughter everywhere I went, everywhereI went, and you did the same
too, Croche. Everywhere I went. She I always asked her or told
(08:45):
her, you're going with me,You're going with me, And every single
day I went anywhere, she wouldgo with me. I when my dad
got remarried to the person I callmy mom, her big thing was always,
it's not what you spend, you'remaking memories. Yeah, it's about
and memories. Yeah, what didyour grandmother? Your mother always say smiles
per gallon. Was that something shesaid? Yes, that's somebody else.
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You're listening to Tim Conway Junior ondemand from KFI AM six forty. Beautiful
weather here in southern California this week, not so great in stove Pipe.
I don't know where that is.I think it's Death Valley Area stove pipe,
California, one hundred and nine degrees. One hundred and nine in stovepipe.
(09:31):
The hottest temperature in the United Statesstove pomp stove top, stove pipe,
California. Lowest temperature was in Colorado, Gothic Colorado, twenty five degrees.
So for you temperature nuts out there, I got you covered. I
got you covered, all right.Somebody is sewing or a company is showing
(09:52):
Sportsman's Lodge. I grew up goingto Sportsmen's Lodge, a lot of bar
mitzvahs, bot Mitzvah's, Sportsman's Lodge. It was the greatest destination, greatest
venue growing up, and now it'sbeing sued by Airwan. Airwan, why
are they showing what's going on?The supermarket chain. Airwon has filed a
lawsuit to stop a plan to redevelopStudio Cities iconic Sportsman's Lodge hotel. Lists
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to the hotel, the new developmentwould include more than five hundred apartments and
forty six thousand square feet of commercialspace. Why wouldn't Eirwan want that five
hundred customers at least maybe a thousandtwo people per apartment. I don't know.
Plans for the development moved forward lastmonth after the La City Council denied
Airwan's other opponents appeal of the project. The hotel, which used to be
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a popular events venue, permanently closedduring the pandemic. Yeah, very very
sad. All right, Mosquitos tothe rescue. There are mosquitos out there
that are killing other mosquitos. Maybeyou've noticed less mosquitos this year. I
have, maybe you have two.Maybe it's because other mosquitos are out there
murdering other other mosquitos. A battlewith insects in La County, and the
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innovative tool being used in this fightis another form of the same insect.
We are targeting a species that's responsiblefor transmitting some really nasty diseases. So
we're looking for a novel way inwhich we can that will aid us in
our fight. The target invasive eightiesegypty mosquitos, also known as yellow fever
mosquitos. Oh great, another additionto southern California. Welcome to socoal yellow
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fever mosquitos. Yellow fever mosquitoes Welcome, Welcome to the Nut House. Yellow
fever mosquitos, which the district sayshave rapidly spread across La County in the
last decade. The technology used bythe district to tackle this issue is called
sterile insect technique or SIT, andin this case it involves one particular approach.
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What we do is we use Xray technology to sterilize male mosquit You
know they used to. It's calledsterile insect technique or the sterile insect technique
used to be dropped by a helicopter, so it wasn't called SI. It
was called Wait, I can't usethat. You can't even spell it,
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steril helicopter insect technique. You can'tuse the acronym whatever. It's called sterile
insect technique or SIIT. And inthis case it involves one particular approach.
They put the helicopter in SIIT sterilhelicopter. Oh, never mind. And
in this case of why I comein, and in this case it involves
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one particular approach. What we dois we use X ray technology to sterilize
male mosquitos which don't bite. Andthen, yeah, I don't know if
you know that I do because I'ma I guess an expert. When it
comes to mosquitos. I get bida lot, so I have a lot
of anti mosquito crap around the house, and it's only the females that bite
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you. The males they are totallycool something in that they leave you alone.
They don't ask a lot of questions, they don't complain. They just
fly around, buzz around, evidentlybanging around with other skeeters, and never
bite you. They leave you alone. So anytime you're bit by mosquito,
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check out between the pins and itdoesn't have a wee wi ladies. Yep,
it's just it's just the ladies,sterilized male mosquitos which don't bite,
and then those will be released outand to mate with wild females. The
reason behind this method is because thetarget mosquitoes are resilient to common pesticides.
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They lay their eggs in small,hidden water sources in people's front yards,
backyards, patios, and elsewhere areaswhere mosquito control agencies can't easily access.
According to vector control officials, siitwill help reduce the population of these mosquitos
and reduce the possible threat of tropicaldiseases like dengey fever, chicken gunya,
zica, and others. Wow,this is like he was making up the
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pronunciation on at least a couple ofthose. And this is it. This
is in southern California. We gotall these, you know, wild diseases
buzzer around like then gay fever thengay fever, Chicken gunya, chicken gunyad
zica and others we're looking into.I like the chicken gunya. I'll take
the chicken gun yan with rice andbeans. Chicken gunya zica. Yeah,
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sounds like an exotic dish. Chickengunya zica and others. We're looking into.
Try to achieve a ratio of sterilemale to wild males in that area
of right around seven to ten toone. It's a plan we've seen executed
elsewhere with West Valley mosquito and vectorcontrol. The released male mosquitoes can't bite
and can't spread diseases. I canachieve the plan's goal. Once that happens,
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then those males will pie. Sowhat eventually happens again, those females
once they mate with one of oursterile males, any sperm that she collects,
then she will then store for allof her batches of eggs. But
again, if she's mated with oneof our males, then any of those
eggs that she lays will not beviable and we're not going to see any
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adults emerge as a result of that. It's cool, man, as somebody
went to school longer than I didto be able to go in and sterilize
these male insects like that. That'swild. Good for them. The male
mosquitos will be released within the areas, which include the neighborhoods of Alpine Village
and Seven Hills in sunlandt to Hunga. It's not meant to be an overnight
solution, but one that Vector Controlhas high confidence in moving forward. While
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they may see a few extra mosquitoesflying around that we're not going to be
adding to the biting pressure that they'reexperiencing. Hopefully, in the next couple
of months, we're actually going tobe reducing that bite. It's going to
look worse before it gets better.The plan moving forward is to continue these
weekly releases from now through October oftwenty twenty four. Based on the program
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success, the district hopes to expandit to other areas as well. All
right, well we come back.I'm going to tell you the only thing
that I've purchased in my life.I've purchased every single anti mosquito can spray,
you know, plug in light zapper, all that crap. I've purchased
everything. And there's only one thingthat I've discovered over the last twenty five
(16:07):
years that works. One thing,and it's sold at all the you know
hardware stories. I'm going to tellyou about it when we come back.
The one thing that can wipe outat least in my house. It wipes
out mosquitoes. And I get bitall the time, and I don't have
one bite this year thanks to thispiece of equipment I'm going to tell you
about when we come back. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
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KFI A six forty. I've triedeverything to get rid of mosquitoes. I
get bit all the time. Mywife never gets bit, not once.
We can be outdoors in the middleof a swamp and I will have a
thousand mosquito bites. She doesn't haveone, not one. And I don't
know what it is. I thinkit's blood type and they, you know,
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they smell a different type of Idon't know, maybe a fear in
you or that your blood is juicierand better for them than other blood,
don't I don't want to do sweetmeat. Sweet meat, yeah, my
old nickname, good old days.But mosquitoes are pain in the ass.
I hate them. I will doanything to get them. And when I
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hear man, oh man crows.You guys see how crazy I get at
night. If I'm going to bedand I hear that in my ear,
I'm up. I'm up, I'mup, and I and I will be
swatting and sticking and throwing and grabbingand killing until I find that mosquito.
Just making that noise makes my headtwitch. Oh my god. And you
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hear it right in your ears,you're going to see them. Oh God.
So I tried everything. I've triedfumigation, I've tried the zappers.
I've spent thousands of dollars on tryingto keep mosquitoes out of my house.
I will say that the guys overat get her done. They know what
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they're doing. That guy's a specialistsof mosquitoes. He travels I don't I
think his name is Doug or Davidor Dan, I don't know. But
he travels the world and he goesto mosquito conventions. He's a pest control
guy in Burbank. He goes tomosquito conventions and he always is on the
latest kind of you know, mosquitoand Bateman and traps and stuff like that.
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So that guy knows what he's doing. But if you don't have the
money for that, you know,you broke like everybody, and you want
to go to home Depot, Low's, Target or Walmart. I have the
solution for you. Okay, Inow buy them. I don't care what
it costs. It's a little expensiveto get the fuel, but I buy
the thermost cell mosquito repellent. Itlooks like a it looks like a beer
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can and it comes with little fuelpackets. You put the fuel in it,
you turn the fuel on and youclick it and it lights up.
And then above on the can there'sthese blue strips that go in there and
it's supposed to keep mosquite. Youknow, it's fifteen feet away from you.
They recommended outdoors. I don't.There's no difference in my When I
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read how you know how to useproducts, I don't. I just breeze
over the indoor outdoor part. Ibring everything indoors everything is indoors with me.
Whispering willow by the way, whatis that? That's a product that
that Jen found. Oh is thatright? That eliminates mosquitos from it?
Really you can get like soap,or you can get like spread. Oh,
let me write that down. Mighthave to investigate that whispering willow.
(19:30):
Whispering willow, there's a specifically likea eucalyptus and mint like a hand soap.
But there's their their products. Unbelievablebecause we we get you know,
the ankle biders that it becomes.Oh yeah, in the last couple of
years eliminates them. Is it deepfree? I would assume, so I
now just go megadeep. I buyDeep by the fifty five gallon drum.
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I sleep. Indeed, at nightI sleep, I open up one of
those fifty five gallon drums and theyjust sleep in there. I bring a
pillow and I sleep in fifty fivegallons of Deep every night. That seems
capable. Way, but it's calleduh, it's called thermos cll thermocell,
yeah, and thermo cell mosquito repellentand uh, those the little gas the
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fuel lasts, I don't know,a half hour hour two hours, whatever
it is. But they keep mosquitosfifteen feet away from you. I fire
one of those up, I putit next to the bed. I don't
care if it's gonna kill me,that doesn't interest me. At least it
won't be death by mosquito. That'sright, that's right. Yeah, how
did he go without any mosquito bites? That's how he went? Yeah,
he had a massive tumor, butno skeeters. But it's called thermos Cell.
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They should be an advertiser here,and I think they will be.
I'm going to change this during mosquitoseason. This will be the thermos Cell
studio. They sell them in likethe home depots, the hole, yeah,
all the places. And then youcan buy the replacement fuel, the
refills and the little pads, theblue pads as well, and you stick
them in there and Bob's your uncle. Man. There is a mosquito within
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twenty five feet of these things.It is beautiful thermo Cell mosquito repellent.
Go don't go to the lows inBurbank or Empire because that's where I buy
and I don't want it wiped out. You haven't stocked, Yeah, go
to another like go to your yourfavorite Lows, but not the one in
Burbank. That's where I buy.It should be like a Costco thing where
you can get it on a pallet. Well, I buy it by the
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you know, you can buy therefills, and I buy forty eight hours
of refills. I think it's likesixty bucks or so. I don't care
what it costs. It could besix hundred dollars. I don't like that
worn Yeah, yeah, yeah,you fall in love with it. Yeah,
you know, it's a relationship Ihave with that thermos Cell. So
go get it, But again,don't go to Burbank Lows, and don't
go to Bourbank Home Depot. I'mwiping them out already. So you got
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to go find it at your Low'sor Walmart or home depot, or they
even sell it at at Target.You got to go back into the seasonal
department. Thermo Cell mosquito repellent againlooks like a size of a beer can,
and it keeps mosquitoes away. Iteven works on those little ankle bier
ones. Everything everything I've gotten,I don't know what it works if outside
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or not, but I don't reallygo outside during mosquito season. It works.
I know it works inside, itworks indoors. And if I'm watching
a hockey game and I hear mosquitobuzzing around the house, I fire one
up, put it right next tomy no, the couch, and it's
not coming anywhere near anywhere near me. Man, they hate thermossell mosquitoes hate
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Thermo cell. So go get that. If you hate mosquitos like I do,
that's going to be your best friend. Congratulations del Fredo in Menafie.
He won the tickets. And there'sstill people texting an email and me figuring
out how he's a grandfather of afourteen year old at forty five, still
trying to do the math there.I don't know how that works out,
(22:57):
but I guess you know, fourteenhe would he would have to have been
I don't know, fifteen or sixteenwhen he had a kid, and then
that kid would have to have beenfifteen when they had a kid. So,
oh, by the way, I'mgonna go to La County Fair this
weekend. Oh you are to gosee uh go down with Alfredo with Metafie.
I was gonna go. I wasgonna go check out and see because
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you know the under the grand standswhere they had the horse race and stuff.
That was where they have all thejudging competitions. That's why I know
where Mando was with the guacamal thing. They always have the post judging sort
of displays. I liked that.I was going to look for his see
if he got to think, Oh, that's cool, but any he keeps
taking his ribbons with him because he'salways posting the pictures with him. Yeah.
I like going through there where yousee the blue ribbons, yellow ribbons,
(23:38):
red ribbons on all kinds of artwork. That person one for that my
one of my up in Oregon,our neighbor's daughter entered a table setting contest.
Oh yes, those are always interesting. What yeah, they said,
you set up a table and theyjudge you. I got him, mighty.
Where is the excitement in that?Is? That is fascinating stuff?
(24:02):
To walk? Is that wild?It's it's just aisles of it and you're
like, wait what Yeah, soyou put a plate on there in a
fork and somebody gave you a ribbon. Huh, it's like theme stuff.
That's right, that's right, it'sreally something. You really look at him
and you go that one like yousaid it's like a plate in a fork
and mondo. For the fourth timehe's entered. He's won Best Guacamole in
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Los Angeles second last year. Butyeah, four out of five times he's
gotten first. That is wild.That still blows my way. It really
is very exciting for that man.He tweaked the recipe last year. That's
why he says he came in second. So he went back to the original.
Oh good, Yeah, he wentwith what got him there, that's
it. It was blue ribbons.All right, we gonna take a break
here, we'll come back. MoeKelly's coming up at seven bells. It's
also been an interesting week for him. He's been on all over this metro
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you know this uh you know,out of control violence that's our own metro
here in La. The feeling listeningto him like because I like you.
On the way home, I'm listeningbecause I want to hear that for segment
I'm with you. He just soundslike he's just so exhausted talking about it
because every day it's like another one. He's like, ah, all right,
and he ever does the I toldyou so, But he could he
(25:10):
could start with that I told youunless you get straighten this out. It's
gonna get worse. You're listening toTim Conway Junior on demand from k f
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