September 17, 2025 • 31 mins
Conway Jr. dives into the breaking news about late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air by the ABC due to inflammatory comments he made during his monologue about Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin Tyler Robinson. Kimmel said that the MAGA gang was trying to “score political points” off Kirk’s murder and stated the accused killer was “one of them,” a pro-Trump Republican. The FCC took exception to the host’s inflammatory political commentary. Plus, Michael Monks is in studio to talk about the LA Convention Center being painted for the Olympics in 2028.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k if I Am six forty and you're listening
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Appy if I Am six is the Conway Show?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well, this happened moments ago.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
ABC is dropping Jimmy Kimmel Live in Dense indefinitely over
comments that he made about Charlie Kirk. So it literally
is just happening, Krozer. When did that story come across
the news.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Well, our twenty four to seven iHeart News service just
put it across at four or five.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, all right, so maybe it happened Saturday. Just kidding,
just kidding, just kidding. Hey, I'll have to have a
conversation about that later. We noticed you made a crude
comment about the news department. But anyway, it's just coming
across and bell Leo, what do you say? You're at
(01:01):
the Jimmy Kimmel desk? What's going on there?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
All right? Okay, well we can't hear your Mike's not on.
I'm working on it, okay, but you're at the Jimmy
Kimmel desk. It's mad.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We've got a desk for everything. Well, you know, literally,
we do have a desk for everything, you know, there's
a there's a bunch of desk right out where we
work here, all right, So we don't know much about it.
I'll tell you what it says on the internet. But
it literally is breaking news. It's happening right now. Jimmy
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Kimmel pulled off the air. Let's put on CNN, Robin
if you can in there. I don't know what CNN
is in there for you. It's a different station for
me in here. But CNN is is is on it
doing a huge story and and I don't I guess
from what I understand, it has to do with something
he said about the shooter, about the the the Charlie
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Kirk shooter.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, go ahead, you know, pull it up see here.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Spoke out on that far right podcast. Then some stations
that are owned by other companies but affiliated with ABC
started to complain to ABC. We know one of them,
Next Star, which has about two dozen stations with the
ABC logo and all the ABC programming. Nextstar publicly announced
that they were going to drop Kimmel's show indefinitely.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Within a matter of minutes, we heard from Disney that
the show was being pulled all together. That suggests to
me that other station owners were probably also getting scared.
Other station owners were probably also coming up with backup
plans not to air Kimmel's show. But even though we're
talking about comedy, this is so serious, Aaron, America is
a less free place if late night comedians cannot do
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and say what they want. Of course, they can be
tuned out, people can change the channel. That's how we vote,
that's how we have our say in America. That's right,
But this really does have a chill effect across the
American media. And it's not just me saying it. We've
heard from the Group Fire in the past few minutes,
the free speech Group Fire saying, quote, the government pressured ABC,
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and ABC caved quote. We cannot be a country where
late night talk show hosts serve at the pleasure of
the president. But until institutions grow a backbone and learn
to resist government pressure, that is the country we are.
And just one more note, airon I've heard from Brendan
Carr in the past few minutes. He's very pleased about
Nextstar deciding to preempt the show. He has not officially
(03:30):
reacted to ABC's decision yet, but when I told him
about ABC's decision, to go ahead, and basically this is
a cancelation unless the show ever comes back. He did
send me a gift. He sent me a celebratory meme
as his reaction.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Arin, I mean, Bill, let me just ask you about
where we are.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
In this moment.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Okay, because fear has a domino effect. You have a
late night comedian who is first reaction to the horrific
assassination of Charlie Kirk, as Elizabeth just laid out, was
to say, my wife and I's thoughts go out to
that family. What a horrible thing. Right, made very clear
where he stood. By the way, hardcore free speech advocates
(04:09):
would say that that isn't even a caveat that is
needed in this conversation. Okay, but I'm not even But
I'm just making the point that he had taken that
sens He comes out the other night and he and
he merely as a late night comedian could do, said
and by the way, no one knows the full facts
about this assassin, and says, well, it could be this
and and that's what he says, could be could be maga.
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And to that he gets this response from the FCC chair.
I want to play a little bit more of you, Bill,
A little bit more of Brendan Carr here from the
FCC for you.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Here he is.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Maybe a license granted by us at the FCC, and
that comes with it an obligation to operate in the
public interest. But Frankly, when you see stuff like this,
I mean, look, we can do this the easy way
or the hard way. These companies can find ways to
change conduct, to take action Frankly on Kimmel or you know,
(05:02):
there's gonna be additional work.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
For the FCC.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Ahead, Okay, all right, thank you, Robin. All right, So
here's from Variety. ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely after
host Charlie Kirk comments. Disney's ABC said it would take
Jimmy Kimmel's popular get a pen out here and do
some editing here, Hold on one second, get a pen here,
(05:28):
all right, just a little bit of editing. Okay, all right,
I'm sorry, there was a word in there that didn't
make sense. A Disney's ABC said it would pull Jimmy
Kimmel's late night show off its schedule indefinitely after one
of the biggest owners of TV stations in the US,
next Star Media, said it would preempt airings of the
(05:49):
program following the host may the host remark about the
killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Next Star said Wednesday
that it's owned and partnered television station. You owned and
operated the O and OS now they call the owned
and partner television stations affiliated with ABC Television Network will
(06:10):
pre emp Jimmy Kimmel Live for the foreseeable future, beginning
with tonight's episode. Tonight's show, the company said it strongly,
quote strongly objects to recent comments made by mister Kimmel
concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the
show with the Tim Conway Junior Show.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
God Almighty, that was quick.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So I'll be on tonight channel seven at eleven thirty five.
Maybe Mark Brown will throw it to me, you know
like he does on Channel seven.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Can we start it with the Timmy Time theme?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's right, that's great.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And Tonight's guests are Michael Krozier, a long time iHeart employee,
Thanks for you got it, Sharon Bellio talking tonight about
her fro and her accident with her hair last weekend,
Robbin's going to be on, and also a Jael Martinez
coming on tonight to talk to do a segment called
(07:04):
how to make a sandal?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
So first time, long time, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That'll be tonight eleven thirty on Channel seven. So anyway,
next Ours said Wednesday that the that the company said
it strongly objects recent comments made about by mister Kimmel.
So in his monologue Monday night, Kimmel said that the
Maga gang was trying to score political points off Kirk's murder.
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Kirk a prominent conservative activist who was shot and killed. God,
I can't stand when they do that. You know, everybody
knows the story. Why do they always have to recap
the story? And Krozer shouldn't that be highlighted? So if
you know the story, you can skip it. But it
always has to be in the story, you know, it
always has to be there for people that just don't
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follow news, I guess, or maybe the people coming out
of a coma that's somehow they all of a sudden
are Maybe if you've been gone for the last week somewhere, Yeah,
maybe that's what it should be. Yeah, if you've been
on Mars, welcome back to Earth.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But if you're on Mars, you're still going to get news.
You get something, Yeah, you get Mars news.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But anyway, in the monologue Monday, Kittle said that the
MAGA gang was trying to score political points off Kirk's murder.
Kirk a prominent conservative activist who was shot and killed
on September tenth at a debate in the Utah Valley University.
Three days later, authority announced it the rest of the
suspect shooter. So anyway, it says, we hit some new
lows over the weekend with the Maga gang trying to
(08:30):
characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other
than one of them. That's what Jimmy Kimble said. He said,
we hit new lows over the weekend with the Maga
gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk
as anything other than one of them. Okay, And then
it turns out that, you know, there's a whole host
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of you know, reasons why this kid did it, and
none of them makes sense other than the one that
he had a boyfriend slash girlfriend who was transitioning and
hated Charlie Kirk. And so all the other people are saying, well,
we're still on standby. We don't know why he was killed.
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There's not the paint. The picture hasn't been painted yet.
It's not completed yet. It's complete. It's complete. And I
noticed that it's not just Jimmy Kimmel. But I watched
Channel seven News on Friday, and I think the reporter's
name is Tim Capudo. Does that sound right for ABC News?
I think that's him. He came on, he said all this.
(09:37):
You know, Robinson is a conservative guy, raised in the
Conservative Party of Utah, with a conservative mom and a
conservative dad, and he's a conservative back to you, essentially,
That's what he said. And then the next day, when
it came out that he was living with the guy
who was transitioning to a woman and that was his lover,
ABC never mentioned it at all. They never even talked
about Charlie Kirk. It was odd. It was odd. I
(10:01):
mean sometimes that look. I love local news more than anybody.
I'm a big fan. But local news doesn't understand that
the Internet is around. They're still operating like the Internet
doesn't exist, and people get the truth eventually from the Internet.
So you can't hide it anymore. You can't say he's
a conservative, you can't say he's a maga guy. Because
(10:22):
the internet will well is the great equalizer. They'll come
out and they'll tell you all the facts, like that
guy that blew up that that that clinic in Palm Springs,
I think it was an abortion clinic or abortion facility
in Palm Springs and he blew it to smithereens. And
I was watching the news and the FBI said, we
(10:44):
haven't identified who it is. We had identified why he
did it, we haven't identified exactly where he lives or
where he's he or what he's done and everything. And
I said to my wife, I said, oh man, they
don't know anything yet. And my wife, who was on
Twitter at the time, said, oh no, I got his name,
I got his address, I know where he is, I
know his friends, I know his family, I know where
he went to school. She knew all that stuff before
(11:05):
the FBI was reporting it on TV.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
So the tide is turned.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
People are getting their information mainly from KFI first, and
then Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and social media.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
That's what we've been saying more and more, like especially
like with Colbert being told that his contract's ending, that
whole idea that mainstream medium is not populated with viewership anymore.
It's all social media getting their information, their news and
stuff like that. So is this an easy thing for
Disney to do? With that argument of mind as well?
(11:41):
It's like we were going to do it because everybody
was saying, is Kimmel next right after Colbert? He's done?
So is this an easy way for Disney to get
out of that?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah? Maybe you know that.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Nate Bargets, given he was hosting the Emmys, made a joke,
but it wasn't really a joke. He said, why don't
you save your political speech for the internet and put
it on social media? Because and then he said, and
by the way, more people will see it than are
watching this show right now. And he made it as
a joke and people laugh, but it's true, it's true.
(12:12):
All Right, we'll come back. Jimmy Kimmel has a comment.
We have time to we'll play it. We'll come back.
Jimmy Kimmel has made a comment about him being suspended
from ABC News. When we come back. I will play
that comment for you on KFI. So keep it here,
tell your friends to come on over something to play
the comment. He was, I think it was sent just
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to us, So I think we're the only ones that
have it, so don't look for it online.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
We got it here.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I misspoke.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
We have the Jimmy Kimmel comment that he made that
got him suspended. If you're just tuning in, Jimmy Kimmel
has been suspended indefinitely and the show will not air tonight,
and we'll see what the future holds for Jimmy Kimmel.
And when that came in on YouTube, I thought it
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was the quote that he had made about this, but
it's not.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It's the quote that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
He that the controversy is about. And this I'll play
it for you. This is what he said on Monday.
And this is what brought a lot of the TV
station the owned in partner stations by Next Star and
I don't know how many stations Nexttar owns, but evidently
enough that Disney decided to remove Kimmel from the air,
(13:36):
suspended indefinitely. Here's the comment that he made on Monday
that was I guess what they're blaming for this, but
who knows what really is going on behind the scenes here?
Speaker 9 (13:47):
It is we hit some new lows over the weekend
with the Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid
who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of
them and do everything they can to score political points
from it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So that's the comment here, all played for you again
if you're half ass listening like most people.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
We hit some new lows over the weekend with the
Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and
everything they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
All right, so that they're saying that is the reason
he was suspended indefinitely. More news on Jimmy Kimmel and
the suspension of a show. Would they say they were
going to put there? They didn't know tonight his monologue
Monday night. Let me see. No, they didn't say what
was what's going there? Here's more news on Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
This ABC is Yankee Jimmy Kimmel's show indefinitely indefinitely after
remarks about Charlie Kirk. And this is just breaking. We
have the very latest, really shocking news just breaking here tonight.
As the FBI director today was accused of an Epstein
cover up, Cash Battel repeatedly testifying can't release the documents.
The courts, though, have said otherwise, as Trump tonight is
(15:03):
facing protests and questions about Epstein even on his trip
to London, and tonight a sheriff's warning to Tyler Robinson's
romantic partner.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So I think that was it, and good evening.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I'm Aaron Burnett and out front tonight. We do begin
with this very late breaking news. Jimmy Kimmel's late night
talk show has been pulled off the air, indefinitely. Pulled
off the air, indefinitely. ABC is just making this announcement
about Jimmy Kimmel live, just hours after the Trump aligned
chairman of the FCC went on a podcast threatening to
take action against ABC and its parent Disney about Jimmy Kimmel,
(15:37):
specifically over these comments by Jimmy Kimmel two nights ago.
What Jimmy Kimmel did, I'm going to play it for you,
but I'll tell you what he did. He suggested that
the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk might have been a
pro Trump Republican.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
We hit some new.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
Lows over the weekend with the Magga Gang desperately trying
to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything
other than one of them, everything they can to score
political points from it.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Of course, he didn't celebrate it and do anything like that.
He just came out and talked about it. And you
saw what he just said. He said, we hit some
new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately
trying to characterize the kid who mergered Charlie Kirk as
anything other than one of them, and doing everything they
can to score political points from it. That's the direct
quote of what Jimmy Kimmel said. So why does that
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warrant this right? Again, it wasn't even a celebration, and
I know people are very torn on that and what
is free speech or not free speech? But here is
what the FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr just warned.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
You know, when you look at the conduct that has
taken place by Jimmy Kimmel, it appears to be some
of the sickest conduct possible. Obviously, Look, there's calls for
kim willby fired. I think you know, you could certainly
see a path forward for suspension over this and again,
(16:59):
you know, the FCC is going to have remedies that
we could look at.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Well, he said it, and then it happened a suspension
note he called Kimmel's words the sickest conduct possible. And
Kimmel wasn't coming out, He wasn't celebrating anything that happened
to Charlie Karkey was simply speculating as to what side
of the political spectrum. His killer came from What's happening
with Kimmel's show, though comes in the context, of course,
(17:22):
of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS announced it
was canceling that Colbert was a long time in vocal
critic of President Trump. Now CBS said that this was
due to financial reasons, which many, of course have doubted.
In this case, it doesn't appear that such a fig
leaf is even present, right, It is pretty clear this
is what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
All right, So we'll have updates on that. If Jervy
Kimmel makes a comment about it, we'll have that for you.
But it'll be interesting to see how this all shakes
down and what happens to the two hundred people that
work on that show. You know, did they have a contract.
Are they going to work on another show? Are they
going to be unemployed. There's a lot of people who
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own businesses that are around the Jimmy Kimmel show that
also make money off the Jimmy Kimmel audience. The Jimmy
Kimmel crewe right there at that theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
So we'll see what happens. I'm sure that Adam Krola
will have a comment as well. Adam Krola is one
of his best friends. And Jay Leno probably will have
a comment as well. There was a long standing feud
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that Jimmy Kimmel had with Jay Leno that I believe
they patched up, but both of them appeared on Bill
Maher's show Club Random, and they both talked about it.
And even though they both say it's water under the bridge,
you can still tell there's some bad blood from Kimmel
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to Leno.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I think Leno doesn't care either way. I think Leno.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Apologized where he should have called him back at a
certain point when Jimmy Kimmel was going to be moved
to the twelve thirty slot, Lenin was going to get
the eleven thirty slot, and Leno. You know, he just
didn't call him after that deal fell through, and he
said he should have and he apologized and that was it.
But I think Kimmel has held a grudge against Leno
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after that, So we'll get into that too. I'll play
it later on in the show. The audio from Bill
Maher's show Club Random, which is the best show that
he's ever done and the most popular. He gets millions
and millions of hits on every video that he does,
and he gets the biggest guests to come in just
(19:34):
for an hour, smoke, pot, drink and talk without commercial interruptions,
without limiting what they can say, without you know, the
language being believed, and it's it's become a favorite of
mine and a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The Bill Maher Club Random. All right, we're live.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Lot's going on, Jimmy Kimmel suspended, and we'll have more
information as it comes in.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Today you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
kf why sixty.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
The big news here in Hollywood is Jimmy Kimmel has
been suspended. The show is suspended indefinitely. So as soon
as we get more news on that, we'll have that
for you. But now the king of Saturday Night is
Michael Monks.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
How are you?
Speaker 10 (20:16):
But I'm well appreciate that it's been a pretty busy newsday,
especially here in the late after afternoon.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Could you take your Saturday Night show and go Monday
through Friday and that Kimmel's slow.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Do you have any connections I had an audition. I
don't have any connections.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I don't know anybody over there. I used to, I
used to, Yeah, I don't, you know. I don't like
late night, you know.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
Oh, I like that they do it around this time, though,
right they're probably finished for their record yet by now,
I think that might be kind of a bad hour.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, it might be finish for that show, might be.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But I heard there's also a Panda Express walking distance.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I'll be able to be nourished, yes, and then I
can nourish America.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
There you go, So the convention Center, you're on top
of that.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I am nobody else. I hope the audience is not
tired of this. This is important. I think it is.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
It's significantly important because it's not just a development project.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
This is a lot of money that we're talking about.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
And now there's a battle at City Hall over the
best way to move forward on this thing.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Right, And it's also a sort of a look inside
the way government operates in the City of Los Angeles.
How many dumb choices can they make?
Speaker 10 (21:18):
It is a mess at city Hall and they even
confess that during this week's budget committee, like, we don't
really know whether this is a good idea. We just
don't have enough information. And by the way, they've spent
fifty four million dollars just to get information.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Wow, fifty four million dollars. So it give us a
history like you did before.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Sure, briefly, the convention center, it's a little dated apparently
if you're into that sort of thing. They're losing out
on conventions to smaller markets. They say they just don't
have the space. It's not up to date. It means
a two point seven billion dollar expansion. That price is
up from the one point one we first heard, I
think early last year, and it's up from the two
point four we heard just last month, so the prices
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continue to escalate. What that means is the city would
basically finance this over the course of thirty years. The
cost of that each year to the budget is estimated
to be between one hundred and two hundred million dollars.
We already know the city is cash strapped. They were
very close to laying off a lot of people this year.
They managed to avoid that, but by the way, they
only did that for now. They're gonna have more headwinds
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when the next budget cycle starts. So if you add
a two hundred dollars annual bill, it's only gonna make
it harder for them to keep the services that you need.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Right, and they they were gonna pay for most of it,
or a big portion of it with the video billboard.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
And then that is apparently not as great an option
as they thought because there are state regulations around where
digital billboards can go. They thought an Assembly bill was
going to get through this year. It did not in
order to allow for more revenue to come in, so
that has lowered the revenue forecast.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So it wasn't sixty million that went to twenty three
yeah or twenty seven yeah.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I mean cut it by two thirds, just about a
half two thirds somewhere between there. What they're looking at
now is the Budget Committee this week voted three to
two to support a different option. Wishes not to do
this big, massive project because one we don't know if
we can afford it. Two, we don't know if we'll
finish the first phase in time for the Olympics. This
(23:13):
is an Olympic venue in twenty twenty eight construction zone. Yes,
let's instead just get a report in a month on
how much it would cost and what the logistics would be.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Just to clean it up a little bit. Was just
a paint and vacuum.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Yeah, So on Friday, the full city Council is going
to get to decide on both of these issues. Okay,
they're going to take up both. And there hasn't been
a good city council meeting on a Friday and sometime,
so I am looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I was there my daughter had a chair competition at
the convention Center. So I was there two years ago,
and I got chicken strips for myself and my.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Wife and we're going to split it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And it was I think it was twenty three dollars
and fifty cents for three strips and Friday.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
How was it? Not great? Not great? Not great?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But how about this? I paid the twenty three fifty
I gave him a tip. I think it was like,
you know, three or four dollars tip and I said,
oh wait, the sauce is in here.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's a dollar. Yeah, and you got to be kiffy man.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
Yeah, that's why it costs two point seven billion dollars
to clean this thing up. Maybe they'll get some better
chicken strips.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's right. How can you scrip chicken strip I don't know, man,
the easiest thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
All right, So now they're just gonna paint The Olympics
are still going to have gymnastics there.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Yeah, you know, I got a issue of correction. I've
been saying gymnastics not entirely correct. It's not the crypto
will host like the exciting part of the gymnastics, but
there will be there's various gymnastics stuff. But they are
hosting table tennis, oh good, at the convention Center, in judo,
those sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
So it is it is an.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
Olympic venue that if they can't get this project, if
they do decide to go forward and they don't get
it finished in time that people are coming here, can
you imagine what that will look like? LA is on
pace to embarrass itself on the world stage.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Exactly, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I appreciate you coming by and we got more on
Jimmy Kimmel and we'll be following that story as well.
Thank you monks, Saturday seven to nine pm. As always
thinking things wrong with you.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
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Speaker 1 (25:13):
Forty if you're just tuning in the Jimmy Kimmel Show.
Jimmy Kimmel Live has been pulled off the air by
Disney and they didn't say permanently, but they said indefinitely,
suspended indefinitely. It's the lead story on all the cable
news stations. It will be the lead story on all
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the local news stations, especially Channel seven, because Mark Brown,
who's the anchor of the eleven o'clock News, would often
throw it to Jimmy Kimmel at the end. You know,
Jimmy kim will coming up in ten seconds, Here's who's
on tonight, and they would throw, you know, the show
to Jimmy Kimmel. And now tonight it's going to be different.
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And I bet that Mark Brown is a Jimmy Kimmel fan.
You know, they work for the same company. He probably
is run into him in you know, dozens of occasions
and you might see you know Mark Brown depressed tonight
that the potentially his friend Jimmy Kimmel is fired. Also
Adam Carolla is. I think Adam Carolla's best friend is
(26:18):
Jimmy Kimmel and and I and I think, you know,
that's gonna be hard for Adam Carolla because Adam Carolla
is doesn't share Jimmy Kimmel's politics, and but he has
a great friendship with him. And so it'll be interesting
to see what Adam Carolla has to say, what Stephen
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Colbert maybe tonight on Stephen Colbert's show, he mentions it.
What about Jimmy Fallon, He'll mention it tonight as well.
And these guys have to, you know, walk a very
tight rope because if they go too far, they know
they could get pulled the next day, and so they
don't want that. And so it's going to be very
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interesting to see tonight what Stephen Colbert says on CBS
Channel two, what Jimmy uh Fallon has to say, and
and what you know, Mark Brown's reaction and what Adam
Carroll's reaction will be. Tm Z I believe is doing
(27:24):
a piece on it. And since this news broke, CNN
has gone wall to wall, I think without commercials, maybe
with commercials on the on Jimmy Kimmel being pulled, and
it says the White House. White House's comment is ABC
(27:45):
is doing their viewers a favor by pulling Jimmy Kimmel.
We played earlier the Jimmy Kimmel comment that as that
is that the root of this suspension, and I'll play
it for you again.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
It happened night on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
We hit some new lows over the weekend with the
Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and
everything they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
All right, I've only met Jimmy Kimmel once in my life.
I was at a deli in Burbank. It's about I
don't know, maybe ten or fifteen years ago, and he
was at Pinocchio Deli and I was there and he
was at the counter.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I was at the counter.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
He had a lower number than me, so he got
to the counter before I did.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
She says, this was at Disneyland. No, it's at Pinocchio Delhi,
And that's not in Disneyland. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's it's also called something else, like Bella Vista or something.
He's got another sounds like yeah, but everybody calls it
the Pinocchio del It's great food, fantastic food. And I say, hey,
Jimmy Kimmel, and I introduced myself. He goes, hey, he goes,
I know you ate enough to have introducers.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I was.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
But you know, when we talked for a while, he
he had asked how my daughter was. I think she
was like six or seven at the time, and we
had a very pleasant conversation. And he took his sliced
meats and pasta and went one way, and then I
got my sliced meats and pasta and went the other way.
That's my only so good that's my only interaction personally
with him. But on a professional level, I was called
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by ABC about seven years ago and they said, we're
doing this show. It's God, I can't remember when the
name of the show. It's it's a live version of
odd Thing. It was a live version of All in
the Family, and Jimmy Kimmel is going to produce it,
and they're going to do a live version of All
in the family, and they said, hey, can we can
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we come on as an advertiser and promote that show,
And I said yeah, and they came on. ABC came on.
They got you know, terrific people at their in their
publicity department, and they came on and they purchased a
schedule and they were on for a month, and we
talked about it for a month and it went on,
it aired, it was successful, and Jimmy Kimmel won an
Emmy Award, and there was this very first Emmy Award
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and it was the very first time that ABC and
KFI were in partnership to promote one of their shows
and they won an Emmy. So look, I'm not saying,
you know, we're responsible for the Emmy, but I don't
think it hurt.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I do only get hurt.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
And maybe the way to get more Emmy's, Krozer and
more Oscars for these studios is through KFI. If it
worked once, it could work again. So when it comes
to Oscar season or Emmy season, Golden Globes, the Grammys,
the SAG Awards, this might be your show to come on,
(30:53):
buy yourself a schedule, promote the hell out of it,
and get the people who listen and vote in Hollywood
to vote for your project. Because it worked the one
time we did it. The one time we did it,
ABC came on, bought a schedule, promoted that show, and
it won an Emmy Award. It can happen again, and
you know how to get a hold of us. All Right,
(31:15):
if any more comes out of this, if Jimmy Kimmel
has a response to it, Adam Carolla, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon,
Stephen Colbert, we'll have it for immediately Conway Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear
us live on KFI AM six forty four to seven
pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the
(31:38):
iHeart Radio app.
It's k if I Am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Appy if I Am six is the Conway Show?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well, this happened moments ago.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
ABC is dropping Jimmy Kimmel Live in Dense indefinitely over
comments that he made about Charlie Kirk. So it literally
is just happening, Krozer. When did that story come across
the news.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Well, our twenty four to seven iHeart News service just
put it across at four or five.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, all right, so maybe it happened Saturday. Just kidding,
just kidding, just kidding. Hey, I'll have to have a
conversation about that later. We noticed you made a crude
comment about the news department. But anyway, it's just coming
across and bell Leo, what do you say? You're at
(01:01):
the Jimmy Kimmel desk? What's going on there?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
All right? Okay, well we can't hear your Mike's not on.
I'm working on it, okay, but you're at the Jimmy
Kimmel desk. It's mad.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We've got a desk for everything. Well, you know, literally,
we do have a desk for everything, you know, there's
a there's a bunch of desk right out where we
work here, all right, So we don't know much about it.
I'll tell you what it says on the internet. But
it literally is breaking news. It's happening right now. Jimmy
(01:35):
Kimmel pulled off the air. Let's put on CNN, Robin
if you can in there. I don't know what CNN
is in there for you. It's a different station for
me in here. But CNN is is is on it
doing a huge story and and I don't I guess
from what I understand, it has to do with something
he said about the shooter, about the the the Charlie
(02:01):
Kirk shooter.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, go ahead, you know, pull it up see here.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Spoke out on that far right podcast. Then some stations
that are owned by other companies but affiliated with ABC
started to complain to ABC. We know one of them,
Next Star, which has about two dozen stations with the
ABC logo and all the ABC programming. Nextstar publicly announced
that they were going to drop Kimmel's show indefinitely.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Within a matter of minutes, we heard from Disney that
the show was being pulled all together. That suggests to
me that other station owners were probably also getting scared.
Other station owners were probably also coming up with backup
plans not to air Kimmel's show. But even though we're
talking about comedy, this is so serious, Aaron, America is
a less free place if late night comedians cannot do
(02:49):
and say what they want. Of course, they can be
tuned out, people can change the channel. That's how we vote,
that's how we have our say in America. That's right,
But this really does have a chill effect across the
American media. And it's not just me saying it. We've
heard from the Group Fire in the past few minutes,
the free speech Group Fire saying, quote, the government pressured ABC,
(03:09):
and ABC caved quote. We cannot be a country where
late night talk show hosts serve at the pleasure of
the president. But until institutions grow a backbone and learn
to resist government pressure, that is the country we are.
And just one more note, airon I've heard from Brendan
Carr in the past few minutes. He's very pleased about
Nextstar deciding to preempt the show. He has not officially
(03:30):
reacted to ABC's decision yet, but when I told him
about ABC's decision, to go ahead, and basically this is
a cancelation unless the show ever comes back. He did
send me a gift. He sent me a celebratory meme
as his reaction.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Arin, I mean, Bill, let me just ask you about
where we are.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
In this moment.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Okay, because fear has a domino effect. You have a
late night comedian who is first reaction to the horrific
assassination of Charlie Kirk, as Elizabeth just laid out, was
to say, my wife and I's thoughts go out to
that family. What a horrible thing. Right, made very clear
where he stood. By the way, hardcore free speech advocates
(04:09):
would say that that isn't even a caveat that is
needed in this conversation. Okay, but I'm not even But
I'm just making the point that he had taken that
sens He comes out the other night and he and
he merely as a late night comedian could do, said
and by the way, no one knows the full facts
about this assassin, and says, well, it could be this
and and that's what he says, could be could be maga.
(04:31):
And to that he gets this response from the FCC chair.
I want to play a little bit more of you, Bill,
A little bit more of Brendan Carr here from the
FCC for you.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Here he is.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Maybe a license granted by us at the FCC, and
that comes with it an obligation to operate in the
public interest. But Frankly, when you see stuff like this,
I mean, look, we can do this the easy way
or the hard way. These companies can find ways to
change conduct, to take action Frankly on Kimmel or you know,
(05:02):
there's gonna be additional work.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
For the FCC.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Ahead, Okay, all right, thank you, Robin. All right, So
here's from Variety. ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely after
host Charlie Kirk comments. Disney's ABC said it would take
Jimmy Kimmel's popular get a pen out here and do
some editing here, Hold on one second, get a pen here,
(05:28):
all right, just a little bit of editing. Okay, all right,
I'm sorry, there was a word in there that didn't
make sense. A Disney's ABC said it would pull Jimmy
Kimmel's late night show off its schedule indefinitely after one
of the biggest owners of TV stations in the US,
next Star Media, said it would preempt airings of the
(05:49):
program following the host may the host remark about the
killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Next Star said Wednesday
that it's owned and partnered television station. You owned and
operated the O and OS now they call the owned
and partner television stations affiliated with ABC Television Network will
(06:10):
pre emp Jimmy Kimmel Live for the foreseeable future, beginning
with tonight's episode. Tonight's show, the company said it strongly,
quote strongly objects to recent comments made by mister Kimmel
concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the
show with the Tim Conway Junior Show.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
God Almighty, that was quick.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So I'll be on tonight channel seven at eleven thirty five.
Maybe Mark Brown will throw it to me, you know
like he does on Channel seven.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Can we start it with the Timmy Time theme?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's right, that's great.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And Tonight's guests are Michael Krozier, a long time iHeart employee,
Thanks for you got it, Sharon Bellio talking tonight about
her fro and her accident with her hair last weekend,
Robbin's going to be on, and also a Jael Martinez
coming on tonight to talk to do a segment called
(07:04):
how to make a sandal?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
So first time, long time, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That'll be tonight eleven thirty on Channel seven. So anyway,
next Ours said Wednesday that the that the company said
it strongly objects recent comments made about by mister Kimmel.
So in his monologue Monday night, Kimmel said that the
Maga gang was trying to score political points off Kirk's murder.
(07:29):
Kirk a prominent conservative activist who was shot and killed. God,
I can't stand when they do that. You know, everybody
knows the story. Why do they always have to recap
the story? And Krozer shouldn't that be highlighted? So if
you know the story, you can skip it. But it
always has to be in the story, you know, it
always has to be there for people that just don't
(07:50):
follow news, I guess, or maybe the people coming out
of a coma that's somehow they all of a sudden
are Maybe if you've been gone for the last week somewhere, Yeah,
maybe that's what it should be. Yeah, if you've been
on Mars, welcome back to Earth.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But if you're on Mars, you're still going to get news.
You get something, Yeah, you get Mars news.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But anyway, in the monologue Monday, Kittle said that the
MAGA gang was trying to score political points off Kirk's murder.
Kirk a prominent conservative activist who was shot and killed
on September tenth at a debate in the Utah Valley University.
Three days later, authority announced it the rest of the
suspect shooter. So anyway, it says, we hit some new
lows over the weekend with the Maga gang trying to
(08:30):
characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other
than one of them. That's what Jimmy Kimble said. He said,
we hit new lows over the weekend with the Maga
gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk
as anything other than one of them. Okay, And then
it turns out that, you know, there's a whole host
(08:54):
of you know, reasons why this kid did it, and
none of them makes sense other than the one that
he had a boyfriend slash girlfriend who was transitioning and
hated Charlie Kirk. And so all the other people are saying, well,
we're still on standby. We don't know why he was killed.
(09:14):
There's not the paint. The picture hasn't been painted yet.
It's not completed yet. It's complete. It's complete. And I
noticed that it's not just Jimmy Kimmel. But I watched
Channel seven News on Friday, and I think the reporter's
name is Tim Capudo. Does that sound right for ABC News?
I think that's him. He came on, he said all this.
(09:37):
You know, Robinson is a conservative guy, raised in the
Conservative Party of Utah, with a conservative mom and a
conservative dad, and he's a conservative back to you, essentially,
That's what he said. And then the next day, when
it came out that he was living with the guy
who was transitioning to a woman and that was his lover,
ABC never mentioned it at all. They never even talked
about Charlie Kirk. It was odd. It was odd. I
(10:01):
mean sometimes that look. I love local news more than anybody.
I'm a big fan. But local news doesn't understand that
the Internet is around. They're still operating like the Internet
doesn't exist, and people get the truth eventually from the Internet.
So you can't hide it anymore. You can't say he's
a conservative, you can't say he's a maga guy. Because
(10:22):
the internet will well is the great equalizer. They'll come
out and they'll tell you all the facts, like that
guy that blew up that that that clinic in Palm Springs,
I think it was an abortion clinic or abortion facility
in Palm Springs and he blew it to smithereens. And
I was watching the news and the FBI said, we
(10:44):
haven't identified who it is. We had identified why he
did it, we haven't identified exactly where he lives or
where he's he or what he's done and everything. And
I said to my wife, I said, oh man, they
don't know anything yet. And my wife, who was on
Twitter at the time, said, oh no, I got his name,
I got his address, I know where he is, I
know his friends, I know his family, I know where
he went to school. She knew all that stuff before
(11:05):
the FBI was reporting it on TV.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
So the tide is turned.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
People are getting their information mainly from KFI first, and
then Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and social media.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
That's what we've been saying more and more, like especially
like with Colbert being told that his contract's ending, that
whole idea that mainstream medium is not populated with viewership anymore.
It's all social media getting their information, their news and
stuff like that. So is this an easy thing for
Disney to do? With that argument of mind as well?
(11:41):
It's like we were going to do it because everybody
was saying, is Kimmel next right after Colbert? He's done?
So is this an easy way for Disney to get
out of that?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah? Maybe you know that.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Nate Bargets, given he was hosting the Emmys, made a joke,
but it wasn't really a joke. He said, why don't
you save your political speech for the internet and put
it on social media? Because and then he said, and
by the way, more people will see it than are
watching this show right now. And he made it as
a joke and people laugh, but it's true, it's true.
(12:12):
All Right, we'll come back. Jimmy Kimmel has a comment.
We have time to we'll play it. We'll come back.
Jimmy Kimmel has made a comment about him being suspended
from ABC News. When we come back. I will play
that comment for you on KFI. So keep it here,
tell your friends to come on over something to play
the comment. He was, I think it was sent just
(12:32):
to us, So I think we're the only ones that
have it, so don't look for it online.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
We got it here.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I misspoke.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
We have the Jimmy Kimmel comment that he made that
got him suspended. If you're just tuning in, Jimmy Kimmel
has been suspended indefinitely and the show will not air tonight,
and we'll see what the future holds for Jimmy Kimmel.
And when that came in on YouTube, I thought it
(13:07):
was the quote that he had made about this, but
it's not.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It's the quote that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
He that the controversy is about. And this I'll play
it for you. This is what he said on Monday.
And this is what brought a lot of the TV
station the owned in partner stations by Next Star and
I don't know how many stations Nexttar owns, but evidently
enough that Disney decided to remove Kimmel from the air,
(13:36):
suspended indefinitely. Here's the comment that he made on Monday
that was I guess what they're blaming for this, but
who knows what really is going on behind the scenes here?
Speaker 9 (13:47):
It is we hit some new lows over the weekend
with the Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid
who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of
them and do everything they can to score political points
from it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So that's the comment here, all played for you again
if you're half ass listening like most people.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
We hit some new lows over the weekend with the
Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and
everything they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
All right, so that they're saying that is the reason
he was suspended indefinitely. More news on Jimmy Kimmel and
the suspension of a show. Would they say they were
going to put there? They didn't know tonight his monologue
Monday night. Let me see. No, they didn't say what
was what's going there? Here's more news on Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
This ABC is Yankee Jimmy Kimmel's show indefinitely indefinitely after
remarks about Charlie Kirk. And this is just breaking. We
have the very latest, really shocking news just breaking here tonight.
As the FBI director today was accused of an Epstein
cover up, Cash Battel repeatedly testifying can't release the documents.
The courts, though, have said otherwise, as Trump tonight is
(15:03):
facing protests and questions about Epstein even on his trip
to London, and tonight a sheriff's warning to Tyler Robinson's
romantic partner.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So I think that was it, and good evening.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I'm Aaron Burnett and out front tonight. We do begin
with this very late breaking news. Jimmy Kimmel's late night
talk show has been pulled off the air, indefinitely. Pulled
off the air, indefinitely. ABC is just making this announcement
about Jimmy Kimmel live, just hours after the Trump aligned
chairman of the FCC went on a podcast threatening to
take action against ABC and its parent Disney about Jimmy Kimmel,
(15:37):
specifically over these comments by Jimmy Kimmel two nights ago.
What Jimmy Kimmel did, I'm going to play it for you,
but I'll tell you what he did. He suggested that
the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk might have been a
pro Trump Republican.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
We hit some new.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
Lows over the weekend with the Magga Gang desperately trying
to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything
other than one of them, everything they can to score
political points from it.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Of course, he didn't celebrate it and do anything like that.
He just came out and talked about it. And you
saw what he just said. He said, we hit some
new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately
trying to characterize the kid who mergered Charlie Kirk as
anything other than one of them, and doing everything they
can to score political points from it. That's the direct
quote of what Jimmy Kimmel said. So why does that
(16:25):
warrant this right? Again, it wasn't even a celebration, and
I know people are very torn on that and what
is free speech or not free speech? But here is
what the FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr just warned.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
You know, when you look at the conduct that has
taken place by Jimmy Kimmel, it appears to be some
of the sickest conduct possible. Obviously, Look, there's calls for
kim willby fired. I think you know, you could certainly
see a path forward for suspension over this and again,
(16:59):
you know, the FCC is going to have remedies that
we could look at.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Well, he said it, and then it happened a suspension
note he called Kimmel's words the sickest conduct possible. And
Kimmel wasn't coming out, He wasn't celebrating anything that happened
to Charlie Karkey was simply speculating as to what side
of the political spectrum. His killer came from What's happening
with Kimmel's show, though comes in the context, of course,
(17:22):
of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS announced it
was canceling that Colbert was a long time in vocal
critic of President Trump. Now CBS said that this was
due to financial reasons, which many, of course have doubted.
In this case, it doesn't appear that such a fig
leaf is even present, right, It is pretty clear this
is what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
All right, So we'll have updates on that. If Jervy
Kimmel makes a comment about it, we'll have that for you.
But it'll be interesting to see how this all shakes
down and what happens to the two hundred people that
work on that show. You know, did they have a contract.
Are they going to work on another show? Are they
going to be unemployed. There's a lot of people who
(18:02):
own businesses that are around the Jimmy Kimmel show that
also make money off the Jimmy Kimmel audience. The Jimmy
Kimmel crewe right there at that theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
So we'll see what happens. I'm sure that Adam Krola
will have a comment as well. Adam Krola is one
of his best friends. And Jay Leno probably will have
a comment as well. There was a long standing feud
(18:26):
that Jimmy Kimmel had with Jay Leno that I believe
they patched up, but both of them appeared on Bill
Maher's show Club Random, and they both talked about it.
And even though they both say it's water under the bridge,
you can still tell there's some bad blood from Kimmel
(18:48):
to Leno.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I think Leno doesn't care either way. I think Leno.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Apologized where he should have called him back at a
certain point when Jimmy Kimmel was going to be moved
to the twelve thirty slot, Lenin was going to get
the eleven thirty slot, and Leno. You know, he just
didn't call him after that deal fell through, and he
said he should have and he apologized and that was it.
But I think Kimmel has held a grudge against Leno
(19:13):
after that, So we'll get into that too. I'll play
it later on in the show. The audio from Bill
Maher's show Club Random, which is the best show that
he's ever done and the most popular. He gets millions
and millions of hits on every video that he does,
and he gets the biggest guests to come in just
(19:34):
for an hour, smoke, pot, drink and talk without commercial interruptions,
without limiting what they can say, without you know, the
language being believed, and it's it's become a favorite of
mine and a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The Bill Maher Club Random. All right, we're live.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Lot's going on, Jimmy Kimmel suspended, and we'll have more
information as it comes in.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Today you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
kf why sixty.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
The big news here in Hollywood is Jimmy Kimmel has
been suspended. The show is suspended indefinitely. So as soon
as we get more news on that, we'll have that
for you. But now the king of Saturday Night is
Michael Monks.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
How are you?
Speaker 10 (20:16):
But I'm well appreciate that it's been a pretty busy newsday,
especially here in the late after afternoon.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Could you take your Saturday Night show and go Monday
through Friday and that Kimmel's slow.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Do you have any connections I had an audition. I
don't have any connections.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I don't know anybody over there. I used to, I
used to, Yeah, I don't, you know. I don't like
late night, you know.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
Oh, I like that they do it around this time, though,
right they're probably finished for their record yet by now,
I think that might be kind of a bad hour.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, it might be finish for that show, might be.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But I heard there's also a Panda Express walking distance.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I'll be able to be nourished, yes, and then I
can nourish America.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
There you go, So the convention Center, you're on top
of that.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I am nobody else. I hope the audience is not
tired of this. This is important. I think it is.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
It's significantly important because it's not just a development project.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
This is a lot of money that we're talking about.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
And now there's a battle at City Hall over the
best way to move forward on this thing.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Right, And it's also a sort of a look inside
the way government operates in the City of Los Angeles.
How many dumb choices can they make?
Speaker 10 (21:18):
It is a mess at city Hall and they even
confess that during this week's budget committee, like, we don't
really know whether this is a good idea. We just
don't have enough information. And by the way, they've spent
fifty four million dollars just to get information.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Wow, fifty four million dollars. So it give us a
history like you did before.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Sure, briefly, the convention center, it's a little dated apparently
if you're into that sort of thing. They're losing out
on conventions to smaller markets. They say they just don't
have the space. It's not up to date. It means
a two point seven billion dollar expansion. That price is
up from the one point one we first heard, I
think early last year, and it's up from the two
point four we heard just last month, so the prices
(21:56):
continue to escalate. What that means is the city would
basically finance this over the course of thirty years. The
cost of that each year to the budget is estimated
to be between one hundred and two hundred million dollars.
We already know the city is cash strapped. They were
very close to laying off a lot of people this year.
They managed to avoid that, but by the way, they
only did that for now. They're gonna have more headwinds
(22:18):
when the next budget cycle starts. So if you add
a two hundred dollars annual bill, it's only gonna make
it harder for them to keep the services that you need.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Right, and they they were gonna pay for most of it,
or a big portion of it with the video billboard.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
And then that is apparently not as great an option
as they thought because there are state regulations around where
digital billboards can go. They thought an Assembly bill was
going to get through this year. It did not in
order to allow for more revenue to come in, so
that has lowered the revenue forecast.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So it wasn't sixty million that went to twenty three
yeah or twenty seven yeah.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I mean cut it by two thirds, just about a
half two thirds somewhere between there. What they're looking at
now is the Budget Committee this week voted three to
two to support a different option. Wishes not to do
this big, massive project because one we don't know if
we can afford it. Two, we don't know if we'll
finish the first phase in time for the Olympics. This
(23:13):
is an Olympic venue in twenty twenty eight construction zone. Yes,
let's instead just get a report in a month on
how much it would cost and what the logistics would be.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Just to clean it up a little bit. Was just
a paint and vacuum.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Yeah, So on Friday, the full city Council is going
to get to decide on both of these issues. Okay,
they're going to take up both. And there hasn't been
a good city council meeting on a Friday and sometime,
so I am looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I was there my daughter had a chair competition at
the convention Center. So I was there two years ago,
and I got chicken strips for myself and my.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Wife and we're going to split it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And it was I think it was twenty three dollars
and fifty cents for three strips and Friday.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
How was it? Not great? Not great? Not great?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But how about this? I paid the twenty three fifty
I gave him a tip. I think it was like,
you know, three or four dollars tip and I said,
oh wait, the sauce is in here.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's a dollar. Yeah, and you got to be kiffy man.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
Yeah, that's why it costs two point seven billion dollars
to clean this thing up. Maybe they'll get some better
chicken strips.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's right. How can you scrip chicken strip I don't know, man,
the easiest thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
All right, So now they're just gonna paint The Olympics
are still going to have gymnastics there.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Yeah, you know, I got a issue of correction. I've
been saying gymnastics not entirely correct. It's not the crypto
will host like the exciting part of the gymnastics, but
there will be there's various gymnastics stuff. But they are
hosting table tennis, oh good, at the convention Center, in judo,
those sorts of things.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
So it is it is an.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
Olympic venue that if they can't get this project, if
they do decide to go forward and they don't get
it finished in time that people are coming here, can
you imagine what that will look like? LA is on
pace to embarrass itself on the world stage.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Exactly, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I appreciate you coming by and we got more on
Jimmy Kimmel and we'll be following that story as well.
Thank you monks, Saturday seven to nine pm. As always
thinking things wrong with you.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demya from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Forty if you're just tuning in the Jimmy Kimmel Show.
Jimmy Kimmel Live has been pulled off the air by
Disney and they didn't say permanently, but they said indefinitely,
suspended indefinitely. It's the lead story on all the cable
news stations. It will be the lead story on all
(25:34):
the local news stations, especially Channel seven, because Mark Brown,
who's the anchor of the eleven o'clock News, would often
throw it to Jimmy Kimmel at the end. You know,
Jimmy kim will coming up in ten seconds, Here's who's
on tonight, and they would throw, you know, the show
to Jimmy Kimmel. And now tonight it's going to be different.
(25:55):
And I bet that Mark Brown is a Jimmy Kimmel fan.
You know, they work for the same company. He probably
is run into him in you know, dozens of occasions
and you might see you know Mark Brown depressed tonight
that the potentially his friend Jimmy Kimmel is fired. Also
Adam Carolla is. I think Adam Carolla's best friend is
(26:18):
Jimmy Kimmel and and I and I think, you know,
that's gonna be hard for Adam Carolla because Adam Carolla
is doesn't share Jimmy Kimmel's politics, and but he has
a great friendship with him. And so it'll be interesting
to see what Adam Carolla has to say, what Stephen
(26:40):
Colbert maybe tonight on Stephen Colbert's show, he mentions it.
What about Jimmy Fallon, He'll mention it tonight as well.
And these guys have to, you know, walk a very
tight rope because if they go too far, they know
they could get pulled the next day, and so they
don't want that. And so it's going to be very
(27:02):
interesting to see tonight what Stephen Colbert says on CBS
Channel two, what Jimmy uh Fallon has to say, and
and what you know, Mark Brown's reaction and what Adam
Carroll's reaction will be. Tm Z I believe is doing
(27:24):
a piece on it. And since this news broke, CNN
has gone wall to wall, I think without commercials, maybe
with commercials on the on Jimmy Kimmel being pulled, and
it says the White House. White House's comment is ABC
(27:45):
is doing their viewers a favor by pulling Jimmy Kimmel.
We played earlier the Jimmy Kimmel comment that as that
is that the root of this suspension, and I'll play
it for you again.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
It happened night on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
We hit some new lows over the weekend with the
Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and
everything they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
All right, I've only met Jimmy Kimmel once in my life.
I was at a deli in Burbank. It's about I
don't know, maybe ten or fifteen years ago, and he
was at Pinocchio Deli and I was there and he
was at the counter.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I was at the counter.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
He had a lower number than me, so he got
to the counter before I did.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
She says, this was at Disneyland. No, it's at Pinocchio Delhi,
And that's not in Disneyland. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's it's also called something else, like Bella Vista or something.
He's got another sounds like yeah, but everybody calls it
the Pinocchio del It's great food, fantastic food. And I say, hey,
Jimmy Kimmel, and I introduced myself. He goes, hey, he goes,
I know you ate enough to have introducers.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I was.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
But you know, when we talked for a while, he
he had asked how my daughter was. I think she
was like six or seven at the time, and we
had a very pleasant conversation. And he took his sliced
meats and pasta and went one way, and then I
got my sliced meats and pasta and went the other way.
That's my only so good that's my only interaction personally
with him. But on a professional level, I was called
(29:27):
by ABC about seven years ago and they said, we're
doing this show. It's God, I can't remember when the
name of the show. It's it's a live version of
odd Thing. It was a live version of All in
the Family, and Jimmy Kimmel is going to produce it,
and they're going to do a live version of All
in the family, and they said, hey, can we can
(29:49):
we come on as an advertiser and promote that show,
And I said yeah, and they came on. ABC came on.
They got you know, terrific people at their in their
publicity department, and they came on and they purchased a
schedule and they were on for a month, and we
talked about it for a month and it went on,
it aired, it was successful, and Jimmy Kimmel won an
Emmy Award, and there was this very first Emmy Award
(30:14):
and it was the very first time that ABC and
KFI were in partnership to promote one of their shows
and they won an Emmy. So look, I'm not saying,
you know, we're responsible for the Emmy, but I don't
think it hurt.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I do only get hurt.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
And maybe the way to get more Emmy's, Krozer and
more Oscars for these studios is through KFI. If it
worked once, it could work again. So when it comes
to Oscar season or Emmy season, Golden Globes, the Grammys,
the SAG Awards, this might be your show to come on,
(30:53):
buy yourself a schedule, promote the hell out of it,
and get the people who listen and vote in Hollywood
to vote for your project. Because it worked the one
time we did it. The one time we did it,
ABC came on, bought a schedule, promoted that show, and
it won an Emmy Award. It can happen again, and
you know how to get a hold of us. All Right,
(31:15):
if any more comes out of this, if Jimmy Kimmel
has a response to it, Adam Carolla, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon,
Stephen Colbert, we'll have it for immediately Conway Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear
us live on KFI AM six forty four to seven
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