June 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Update on accident at Campbell Hall where two students were injured. 2 CA. Hotel guests sued Ventura hotel and won $2 million for being devoured by bed bugs. Meta Signs Nuclear Power Deal to Fuel Its AI Ambitions: The tech giant will buy power from an Illinois nuclear plant under a deal with Constellation Energy // Couple abandons kittens in San Bernardino dirt lot. // Could there be a change in snack packaging? Distraction scam' targeting elderly residents; La Mirada family out $50,000 worth of valuables. // Judge dimisses Flamin’ Hot Cheetos invention case. ABBA & AI building an ABBA Show
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I Am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We got that shocking news out of Campbell Hall, that
serious accident involving a juvenile victim, at least the one
that we know of, and there is an update.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Kind of interesting new information coming from the fire department
a short time ago. Want to get to the most
important piece of information. We do know that one teenage
student was rushed to the hospital in what LAFD calls
grave condition. In their latest update, the fire department says
five other people have since come forward, two students and
three adults to say they were also injured, although their
injuries are not like threatening. This new bit of information
(00:40):
kind of confusing, doesn't really explain what exactly happened here
this afternoon. But you can't see behind me off in
the distance, that's where police are trying to figure out
exactly what happened. We'll show you what we saw from
Air seven just after three this afternoon. If there's a
parent crash happened, first responders even putting up a sheet
between two SUVs and what these school calls these secondary
school carpool lane of that back parking lot. Now, the
(01:03):
head of Campbell School quickly sending an email to parents
this afternoon, which we have obtained, saying school health staff
first attended to that gravely injured teenager before an ambulance arrived. Now,
how those other five people were hurting all this remains
a mystery, But again those injuries do not appear to
be serious. Campbell Hall is a private K through twelve
school with about eleven hundred students. I am told by
(01:25):
students here this is finals week, so students some come
in the morning, some in the afternoon to take those
tests and leave throughout the day. So it's been a
pretty busy campus, both out in front and all the
way in the back. Actually, this is a school where
a lot of celebrities children go and have gone.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Niel Long, the.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Actress shove By a short time ago, mentioning her son
had graduated from here. But she was the one who
also told us a lot of the celebrities kids do
go to the school. We don't know eddy of the
identity rather of the victim, the teenager who was injured. Obviously,
Lafd and Lapd have been on the scene for the
better part of three hours. Now we're waiting for a
more clear and concise update to figure out exactly what
happened that parking lot, and obviously once we get that,
(02:01):
we'll bring that to you.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Now, that's the amazing part of this is that this story,
actually it's a weird thing to say, but has gotten
more encouraging than when it first broke. When it first broke,
it was suggested that there was a fatality here. It
was kind of played as a fad to complete that way,
based on various things that the cops were doing and
not doing, that the first responders were doing and not doing.
(02:27):
Now it seems as though maybe there wasn't a fatality involved.
I mean, that's why I say, perhaps it's a better situation.
Still super scary and still a little unclear, but I'd
suggest that the latest news out of that Campbell Hall
accident is a bit better. So we'll keep you posted
on that and let you know what's going on. And
(02:47):
it's certainly a shocking there was a major award. Granted,
you always hear about these lawsuits. You know, these people
sue Starbuck, people, sue Motel six, people you know trip
over this and there's a lawsuit two California hotel guests.
(03:09):
They sued a Ventura Hotel. They won a payout. It
is two million dollars. Now, why did they sue? They
said that they were devoured by bedbugs at this Ventura
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hotel the Shores in the Shores in is going to
have to cut a check for two million dollars in
what may be one of the largest bedbug related jury
awards ever. Gutierrez and Sanchez Alvarro Gutierrez Ramiro Sanchez stayed
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at the Coastal Hotel. They're on Seaward Avenue. How could
anything bad happen on Seaward Avenue, Ventura County. The bed
bugs latched onto the plaintiffs while they slept. This is
from the lawsuit, so they make it sound well. They
want to reflect the plaintiff's trauma in the lawsuit. The
(04:16):
bedbugs they latched onto the plaintiffs while they slept, suck
their blood until they were gorged. And they couldn't get
these bed bugs off of them. They resisted eradication. Again,
they used the formal language in their lawsuit. The plaintiffs
(04:38):
also claimed that hotel management was aware of the infestation
from numerous online reviews.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I see.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They failed to address the problem even though repeatedly would
come in online reviews, and that is I'm sure, well
not the whole deal. It is one of the reasons
they got a two million dollar payout. A representative from
these shores in not immediately available for response. Gutieras awarded
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four hundred thousand dollars for pain, disfigurement, grief, and emotional distress.
I mean, they must have had some real issues to
get this kind of settlement. Four hundred k for the pain, disfiguring,
grief and emotional distress. Sanchez awarded six hundred thousand for
similar damages, and the jury also awarding each person five
(05:27):
hundred thousand dollars impunitive damages. The hotel expected to appeal
that decision. I mean doesn't feel like there'd be an
upside to a bedbug infestation, But I mean, if you've
got to be bitten by bedbugs, nice to get a
big check of two million dollars. The one thing I
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would say from this is they were disfigured from this.
Maybe I don't understand what damaged bedbugs can do. They
say that they they were disfigured.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I read something where they like they were so lodged
in their their skin.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I see that they couldn't get them out, and then
they had to dig them out. Yes, yes, wow, yeah,
that's what they said. They suck their blood until they
were gorged, meaning the bed bugs were completely in there
and they couldn't get.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Rid of them. I guess it probably was pretty traumatic.
I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Doesn't help that there were a lot of complaints about
this and they didn't do anything apparently anyway, it's being.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And they resisted eradication.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, I love that. Not come out right, You can't
say and they wouldn't come out. You can say they
resisted eradication, and you can maybe get a you know,
a few extra one hundred thousand as a result of
using that furvieage.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Meta has signed a twenty year agreement to buy nuclear
power to power their AI tech companies, including Amazon, On,
Google and Meta, shining a pledge in March led by
the World Nuclear Association calling for nuclear energy worldwide to
triple by twenty fifty. I don't need to tell you
(07:10):
about the amount of power that is required to power
so much of AI. So between AI and crypto, you
are putting a tremendous strain on resources.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Another tech titan turns to nuclear power. Meta just signed
a twenty year agreement to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy.
The social media giant joins the growing list of big
tech names like Amazon and Google teaming up with the
nuclear industry to meet the steep power demands of AI
artificial intelligence. So let's bring in Riley Griffin. She's in
(07:47):
studio today, tech reporter with Bloomberg News. So Ryner, let's
talk about the deal. Why are we seeing this wave
of tech companies looking for more energy sources?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, you said, a Juliet, This is all about in
the demand for energy to power AI and the data centers.
Meta itself has said this year that it plans to
spend upwards of seventy billion in capital expenditures, largely to
fund that AI powerhouse momentum. And what we're seeing today
with Constellation really is about supporting the grid. It's about
(08:19):
clean energy and nuclear and ensuring reliability of energy because
this plant was actually at risk of closure.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
All right, So, speaking of Meta's AI ambitions, they go
beyond just the chat bots. Correct, Why don't we talk
about Zuckerberg's plan and where it puts Meta in this
AI race right now.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Unlike open AI and anthropic, what we're seeing right now
is that Meta is trying to apply AI across its
suite of companies that includes Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp. And at
the end of the day, Meta is an advertising company,
so it's trying to improve the advertising tools that it
provides to brands around the world and that fuel its revenue.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh that's interesting too, that they you forget that it's
more than Facebook. You know, they've got Instagram, WhatsApp, They're
a vast company. This reminds me. I don't think it's
gonna turn out this way, but this reminds me a bit.
Maybe if you followed Meta, they were talking about all
the money they were putting into the metaverse research and development.
(09:17):
Remember sort of the whole virtual reality that they were
getting into, that there's going to be a whole you know, city,
there's going to be a whole world in the metaverse.
And Meta formerly Facebook poured billions and billions of dollars.
I think they poured in close to fifty billion dollars
into all of that, and then the metaverse kind of
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has dried up as a thing. AI I think has
taken out of that research. I mean, maybe some of
you know where the metaverse thing sits, but it's certainly
not as hot as AI is now. And clearly they
view AI as the future. But again, AI crypto, these
are things that require tremendous amounts of energy, and so
the fact that they've made this deal twenty year agreement
to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy, that's huge. And
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they're not alone again, they're joined by Amazon and Google.
So that's the latest on all of that. A distraction
scam is going down in La we'll tell you about
that next.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoon You're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Boy, this makes me.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
This makes me really angry, and I think it will
make you angry as well.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
There were a total of four kittens, just about six weeks.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Old, and that's at the center of this story. Couple
abandoning these kittens, dumping them in a lot in San Bernardino.
They never would have a chance had people not seen it.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
There were a total of four kittens, just about six
weeks old, and an adult cat that is believed to
be their mom. Now, luckily, I.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Mean, I don't care if you're in the cats or
dogs or whatever. I mean that a level of crew
there that is just awful.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
There were a total of four kittens, just about six
weeks old, and an adult cat that is believed to
be their mom.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Now.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Luckily, at this time, we know that the four kittens
are okay, but officials are still looking for that mom
cat now. In that video, the woman claims that she
believed that there was some water out here, which apparently
led her to believe that this could be a proper location.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
For the cats. She's dumping them like you're trushed.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Terrible head them dump Seltzer.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That's not humane.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean, imagine yourself sitting out there with no water,
no shade. It was Friday after you're a new bar,
you're a kitten human.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I mean, imagine yourself sitting out there with no water,
no shade.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
It was Friday afternoon, temperatures around this time topping more
than one hundred degrees in San Bernardino.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You know this that he's being recorded.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Friends Elizabeth Lomally and Cassandra Villa Signor were driving down
East fortieth Street when they saw man and woman that
they say, we're dumping animals in this open field. At
North Harrison Street. You even see the woman shimmying the
cage at one point to get the cats out. We
noticed there was a cat and the kits in the video.
The woman claims the shelter wouldn't take them, so that's
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when both friends say they'll take the cats rather than
them being abandoned. Cassandras recording and Liz approaches them, you're
mad because we called you out about the cat.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
You guys came to dumb cats.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
It's hot, not how to run and.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Get a bods because they didn't want to give us
a cage.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And these people are saints, these people who interceded, these
people who jumped on the situation. I mean, really, you
could have easily just driven by Bravo for you too.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Cassandras recording and Liz approaches them, you're mad because we
called you out about the cat.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
You guys came to dumb cats.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It's hot, not how to run and get a bods
because they didn't want to give us a cage.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
As they're retrieving them, the cat, believed to be the
kitten's mother, runs away, and the man and woman, seemingly
irritated by the friends, pack up their cage and leave.
Liz and Cassandra reported the incident with Sambernardino Animal Services.
We're told in out of state rescue came and picked
the kittens up. Meantime, another rescue, Cats of San Bernardino,
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has been searching far and wide for the kitten's mother
with no luck.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
We've been going on foot, we've been using a drone,
we've been passing out flyers, and we've been able to
find three friendly kittens and a friendly cat in that
desert area. Well, we were searching, so we believe that
either someone else's dumping cats here or that couple had
dumped some other friendly cats in the area.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What is this with their cat dumping and the animal dumping.
I mean, it's just wrong. I've got to say this though.
On the positive side, animal rescue people are the coolest
and they really go the extra distance. They get their
posse together and they go out there and they search
an area. I love my animal rescue people. I just
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love you. And the other thing is, even if you're
not in an official group, you know you know who
you are listening. You're involved in animal rescue. If you
are involved in any kind of animal rescue, it's just terrific.
So you balance the disgust that I have for the
people who are dumping these creatures.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
You've reached down to the San Bernardino Police Department to
see if the two people have been identified and if so,
will they face any charges. While we wait for that response,
we're told this.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Is a legal abandonment of animals. It is illegal to
abandon any domestic animal, a cat or a dog. You
could be facing prison time or high fines and or probation.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
The many things they could have done and leave them
here now.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Sam Bernardino Police tell me that they have since launched
a criminal investigation. The Good Samaritans also say that woman
kept claiming that she was turning in strays, but they
really don't believe it because strays are usually unapproachable. In
the meantime, shelter officials say they usually don't take in strays.
They will take it and surrenders, but that's after the
owner has tried rehoming their animals.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Wow, that is really a disturbing story, But as I say,
it's balanced by those great people, the Good Samaritans that
became involved in that. Wow, really tough. There's some incredible
rescues around southern California. You know, when people say, hey,
are you involved in a rescue, we'd like to make
a donation, it's the holidays, whatever. I always suggest the
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homegrown rescues in your area. They need your help. And
so the great work that's done to rescue these animals
to give them a chance really extraordinary. I mean, you know,
these two sweet ladies, these two good Samaritans. They could
have started to go fund me around these cats, around
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these kittens, and probably you know, raised enough money to
sustain them for a few months, and then they could
have adopted them, adopted them out. That is anyway, thank
you for a Hollywood ending to that story, because it
certainly starts in a grim way with people just dumping
these creatures. When we come back, there is We had
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this story yesterday about how veterans are being scammed and
there just seems to be nothing beyond the red line anymore.
There is no red line, and you start defrauding veterans
of their last dime.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
We had that story yesterday.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, when we come back, I'll tell you what's going
on in LA and again they've erased the red line.
You just wouldn't imagine this distraction scam that's going on.
We'll get to it next.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Might there be a change in snack packaging and the
change coming out of Texas. That's right. The state of
Texas a force a change that could affect the rest
of the country.
Speaker 11 (17:02):
A new potential state law in Texas could change the
way Americans eat snack foods. Nationwide requiring a warning label
on many popular food and drinks reading not recommended for
human consumption. It's targeting products using ingredients like bleached flower
food dyes, sweeteners, oils, and preservatives. Those are legal and
common in many processed foods in the US.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Not suitable for human consumption. I mean, it's pretty much
what my whole family was raised on. All of those chemicals,
all of those dyes that were you know, as American
as the synthetic apple pie that my family was raised on.
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Now get a warning label saying not fit for human consumption.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
Foods nationwide requiring a warning label on many popular food
and drinks reading not recommended for human consumption. It's targeting
products using ingredients like bleached flower food, dye, sweeteners, oils,
and preservatives. Those are legal and common in many processed
foods in the US, but some have faced regulation in
other countries. According to USA Today, the proposed rules could
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impact a wide range of processed foods and drinks, from
Dorito's to snacks like Twinkies, Ruffles, and M and M's,
to breakfast cereal to drinks like Gatorade and Mountain Tabor.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Do the dew Do the dew.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Hey, there's going to be a huge change. Then in
the KFI iHeartRadio snackery that we have here, I think
a lot of that stuff falls into the warning label category.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That whole drawer. Yeah, I'm guessing we do have a
snack drawer here. We sure do. Yeah, we should just
put one big label on it.
Speaker 11 (18:46):
If the legislation is signed by Governor Greg Abbott, Texas
would become one of the first states to require the labels,
potentially reshaping national food industry standards. The bill would mark
a victory for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior is
Make America Healthy Again movement, Kennedy testifying last month saying
that processed foods are a potential health danger for consumers.
Speaker 12 (19:07):
The food industry really is not profiting from keeping us
all sick, but it is keeping us sick.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Some food industry experts disagree with the legislation.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, I don't know a by just carrying the legislation,
I'll hear them to say in a second. But I'll
tell you one thing. There's no warning label that's going
to get people to wave off a Snickers bar or whatever. Okay,
there's no warning label that you can put on a
lot of this stuff that is going to get people
to change their habits of eating.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I mean, at least in the short term, you know.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
Some food industry experts disagree with the legislation. John Hewitt,
Senior vice president of State Affairs for the Consumer Brands Association,
urged the governor not to sign it. In the statement, saying, quote,
the ingredients used in the US food supply are safe,
adding it would create legal risks for brands and drive
consumer confusion and higher costs. This comes as some companies
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are working to remove artificial dyes from their products. The
FDA announced a ban on red dye number three earlier
this year. Now some food for thought on how standards
could be shifting.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah, red dye number three something else that my mother
fed us proudly every Thanksgiving.
Speaker 11 (20:14):
Three earlier this year.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Now there's a ban on it.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I remember when I I had a visitor from college
come down and he leaned over to him and he said,
you know what I love about your mother.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
She has real butter on the table. Oh thank god,
you said butter.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And I thought to myself, we have never tasted real
butter in this house. There is no way we have
real butter on any table in this house. There is
nothing that's not synthetic in this house. My mom was
a My mom went cheap. If it was inexpensive, then
she would serve it. That was it. There was no
regard whatsoever for what was in the box. She was
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raised in the shadow of the depression, and she was
going to make sure she didn't spend anything.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Bam on red dye number three earlier this year. Now
some food for thought on how standards could be shifting
in the United States. Also worth noting. In an often
divided Texas state legislature, this bill passed unanimously in the
state center.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Isn't that wild?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I mean, I just wouldn't have thought Texas, of all states,
would be out in front if you told me California
was in front, I'd think, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
That's probably the most shocking thing about the story. Thank you.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And somehow it was at RFK Junior whose strong armed
Greg Abbott to get this thing into the Texas legislature.
It's amazing, but again I don't know how successful they'll
be and actually changing people's habits, but at least they're
trying to get it out there.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Now. I just want to go get a Snickers.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I know. It's the power of suggestion, isn't it.
Got That stuff tests tastes good, all that synthetic stuff.
It's designed to hit our taste buds and you know,
our reception in all the right ways, so make us
happy exactly. The distraction scam that is now a big
part of.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
A new scheme in LA.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
They're targeting elderly residents and that's the part of this
that is really remarkable. Yet another example of how they
sort of erased the last line where you would hope
they wouldn't go after seniors.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I mean, sadly.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You know, seniors are scammed on the phone, seniors are
scammed online, and in this case, the way it works
is that, in this case, a seventy eight year old
mother is gardening outside her Lamarada home. A woman, and
we saw this on security camera footage, walks up and
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begins asking questions, you know, keeping her distracted. She what
a nice garden you have?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Have you been?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You really seemed to have a nice touch, whatever it
might be. Meanwhile, two other women slipped through a side
gate and into the women's house. They were very good,
very organized, said the daughter of the seventy eight year
old who was distracted. They knew where to go, they
knew what to take, they knew how to hide it.
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They knew what was valuable what wasn't. They took all
the right stuff. The woman's daughter says that the two
women who made it into the house while the seventy
eight year old was distracted, made off with high end
purses like Louis Vautant chanelle, expensive jewelry, and cash, all
of it toldly around fifty thousand dollars. One of the
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suspects concealed one of the stolen items under her dress
to appear pregnant. And apparently this is not a one off.
Investigated say, this is a larger trend. Distraction scams target
vulnerable seniors. LA County Sheriff Department is looking into several
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similar burglaries across southern California, so they're holding outreach meetings LASD.
They have a social media alert to the public. They've
also issued three community safety tips. Keep all doors and
windows closed, don't open the door for strangers, use a
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doorbell camera, never let unfamiliar people into your home. But
in this case, this woman didn't let them into the home.
She was distracted, and they slipped in look out for
your neighbors. They said, a lot of elderly people that
don't have anyone checking on them can be vulnerable. I
told you about my mother. She was scammed for a
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lot of money. She found a thing, a pop up
on her computer. She thought her computer was locked up.
I mean a lot of older people don't know, and
even younger people can get sucked into this stuff. So
my mother calls the number. Once you've called the number,
they've got you and my mother and a lot of
older people are like this, very friendly, like you know,
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can't believe that someone would scam them. And the scam
was fairly sophisticated, and the sad part of it is
and she goes he gets these target gift cards for them.
My mother's never gotten a car target gift card in
her life. But this guy on the other end had
totally convinced her of something and she bonded with him.
These guys are very good. And even when we told
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my mother, we said, Mom, this guy's scamming you. This
is this is, this is ridiculous. This amount of money,
it's a lot of money. And she I think there's
maybe ego in it and embarrassment in it. She said, Oh,
Mark Bruce would never scam me. You don't understand. I
know him now, you don't. My mother's brilliant, she's a
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full bright scyle scholar, went to Yale. But you know,
it doesn't matter if you're a soft touch 'or a
soft touch. So seniors generally, I think, are vulnerable. They're
vulnerable to those kinds of scams that I just described,
and they're vulnerable apparently to even more aggressive scams.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And then the city of La and then the County
of La.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
In this case La Morata, the family was targeted and well,
they were scammed out of fifty thousand dollars worth of valuables.
So that's what they called the distraction scam.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Hey, you know that.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Ex janitor who says he invented flaming hot cheetos. By
the way, this is the Conway Show. We're just finishing
up here. We're mopping up before Moe get started. KFI
AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
The story of flaming hot Cheetos. It was one of
those Internet stories bounced around for a long time, and
(26:58):
there was this sense that there was this guy who
started flaming hot cheetos and there was a dispute beturned
in a legal dispute. And so this guy again who
was the ex janitor who says that he invented flaming
hot Cheetos, he actually went to court saying, look, this
is my invention, and Freedo Lay and the parent company
(27:22):
of Freda Lay, PepsiCo, they owe me money. Well, the
results are in, at least the legal results, and the
suit was thrown out. Yeah, so so much for that effort. Yeah,
(27:45):
it's still a good story just because they're thrown out
doesn't mean it's not true. But again, there'll be no
check cut from the Dorito's people, the ABBA people. How
are the members of Abba? The answer is in this
story about how Ai and an ABBA member are building
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yet another ABBA show.
Speaker 13 (28:23):
That's right. One of the members of Abba, Bijorn, is
taken on a new project, creating a musical with the
help of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Now they are done a musical. There has been an
ABBA musical. I think there were two of them, two
ABBA movies, or maybe there was the stage show and
they did the movie. But in any case, there have
been two major productions based on Abba, like jukebox musicals.
Really anyway, Bijorn wants to do another one, and Bjorn
is how old.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
At the age of eighty? In fact, are yeah, eighty
years old? Man?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I guessed seventy.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I was thinking seventy five. Maybe, yeah, eighty really feels
like kno. But hey, gotta say, there's a lot of
great music being done and written and performed by people
who are north of eighty. You know, I know herb
Aalbert is on his ninety year old is he really?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Birthday tour? Wow, I've got tickets to go see him.
At the Godack Dinner. I think it's in yeah, October
or something. Yeah, that's impressive. When I saw he was
still performing, I'm like, that's pretty crazy. That's pretty cool.
He's an amazing guy, Herb Albert. I mean what he
did with his career, what he did with founding A
and M Music, what he did for charity, what he
continues to do as a performer. He is truly amazing,
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Herb Albert. So he's ninety. So I saw the documentary
about Doc Severns and I think he's ninety, you know,
the old band leader for the Tonight Show. So I
guess this eighty thing is not like a cutoff.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
At the age of eighty.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
In fact, the artist says that AI isn't the creative
threat many in the creative industry fear. He calls it
a great tool. The musical is being made in partnership
with the folks behind the ABBA Voyage. They're virtual concert residency.
No word yet on how or when fans will be
able to see the musical, but Biorn says he's nearly
done writing it now.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
ABBA is doing a virtual concert residency. I have to
just look at this virtual concert residency where is that.
So the virtual concept means they don't have to show
up every night for the show, right. It's a virtual
concert residency featuring Abba and digital avatars of the Swedish
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pop group Abba. The concerts are accompanied by a live
orchestra and take place in the Abba Arena in London.
The show's been running in London since May of twenty
twenty two. Where have I been? There is a rumor
that it could come to Las Vegas. The uh Abba
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Tars is what they call them, See you get it
because they're avatars, but they're from Abba, so they call
them Aba. I don't even know they had a nickname.
That's pretty cool. They call them Abbaitars.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But it's been running in London and successfully running since
twenty twenty two. Anyway, Bijorn, who is eighty, wants to
do something else and wants to expand the footprint of Abba,
so that may happen. In Larchemont, they are sick of
the fireworks.
Speaker 12 (31:36):
The fourth of July is still a month away, but
fireworks already going off in the Larchemont area. This is
video from an incident on Melrose Avenue. People in the
area say they hear fireworks about five times a day.
This has apparently been going on for months now. Lately,
it's all anyone's talking about every time it happens, like,
what are we going to do? You know, no one
has a solution, starring.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
It's disruptive to our nervous systems, to.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
The animal, to the people, and there's no reason for it.
Speaker 12 (32:04):
The LAPD has received four calls about fireworks in the
past day or so. The department says there's not much
they can do until somebody sees who's setting them off.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
And by the way, if you call LABD on the
fourth of July and you report that illegal fireworks, or
on the third of July, or on the fifth of July,
and you complain that same way the Larchmouth residents are,
they'll tell you the exact same thing we'd like to,
but you've got to actually see it, see them in
the act. It's kind of scary. I mean, in large
mot I think the fire threat is probably not as
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great as you might find in other parts of LA
But I always worry around you know, so much dry brush,
that these illegal fireworks could ignite one of the things.
It's happened, I mean, it has happened anyway. The Largemount
residents cannot get peace. They lay out all that money
to live in largemot and then it's fireworks that don't
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let them get any sleep and are constantly going off
day and night. Seems like a bad deal. Thanks to
my Conway crew, Crozier and Steffouche, Angel Sharon Bellio, it's
been a good ride. Let's hope Tim recovers comes back
tomorrow and all will be right with the world. Moe
(33:21):
Kelly is next. I'm going to go back to my
little YouTube hold and do the Mark Thompson Show over there.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
We got that shocking news out of Campbell Hall, that
serious accident involving a juvenile victim, at least the one
that we know of, and there is an update.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Kind of interesting new information coming from the fire department
a short time ago. Want to get to the most
important piece of information. We do know that one teenage
student was rushed to the hospital in what LAFD calls
grave condition. In their latest update, the fire department says
five other people have since come forward, two students and
three adults to say they were also injured, although their
injuries are not like threatening. This new bit of information
(00:40):
kind of confusing, doesn't really explain what exactly happened here
this afternoon. But you can't see behind me off in
the distance, that's where police are trying to figure out
exactly what happened. We'll show you what we saw from
Air seven just after three this afternoon. If there's a
parent crash happened, first responders even putting up a sheet
between two SUVs and what these school calls these secondary
school carpool lane of that back parking lot. Now, the
(01:03):
head of Campbell School quickly sending an email to parents
this afternoon, which we have obtained, saying school health staff
first attended to that gravely injured teenager before an ambulance arrived. Now,
how those other five people were hurting all this remains
a mystery, But again those injuries do not appear to
be serious. Campbell Hall is a private K through twelve
school with about eleven hundred students. I am told by
(01:25):
students here this is finals week, so students some come
in the morning, some in the afternoon to take those
tests and leave throughout the day. So it's been a
pretty busy campus, both out in front and all the
way in the back. Actually, this is a school where
a lot of celebrities children go and have gone.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Niel Long, the.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Actress shove By a short time ago, mentioning her son
had graduated from here. But she was the one who
also told us a lot of the celebrities kids do
go to the school. We don't know eddy of the
identity rather of the victim, the teenager who was injured. Obviously,
Lafd and Lapd have been on the scene for the
better part of three hours. Now we're waiting for a
more clear and concise update to figure out exactly what
happened that parking lot, and obviously once we get that,
(02:01):
we'll bring that to you.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Now, that's the amazing part of this is that this story,
actually it's a weird thing to say, but has gotten
more encouraging than when it first broke. When it first broke,
it was suggested that there was a fatality here. It
was kind of played as a fad to complete that way,
based on various things that the cops were doing and
not doing, that the first responders were doing and not doing.
(02:27):
Now it seems as though maybe there wasn't a fatality involved.
I mean, that's why I say, perhaps it's a better situation.
Still super scary and still a little unclear, but I'd
suggest that the latest news out of that Campbell Hall
accident is a bit better. So we'll keep you posted
on that and let you know what's going on. And
(02:47):
it's certainly a shocking there was a major award. Granted,
you always hear about these lawsuits. You know, these people
sue Starbuck, people, sue Motel six, people you know trip
over this and there's a lawsuit two California hotel guests.
(03:09):
They sued a Ventura Hotel. They won a payout. It
is two million dollars. Now, why did they sue? They
said that they were devoured by bedbugs at this Ventura
(03:30):
hotel the Shores in the Shores in is going to
have to cut a check for two million dollars in
what may be one of the largest bedbug related jury
awards ever. Gutierrez and Sanchez Alvarro Gutierrez Ramiro Sanchez stayed
(03:53):
at the Coastal Hotel. They're on Seaward Avenue. How could
anything bad happen on Seaward Avenue, Ventura County. The bed
bugs latched onto the plaintiffs while they slept. This is
from the lawsuit, so they make it sound well. They
want to reflect the plaintiff's trauma in the lawsuit. The
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bedbugs they latched onto the plaintiffs while they slept, suck
their blood until they were gorged. And they couldn't get
these bed bugs off of them. They resisted eradication. Again,
they used the formal language in their lawsuit. The plaintiffs
(04:38):
also claimed that hotel management was aware of the infestation
from numerous online reviews.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I see.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They failed to address the problem even though repeatedly would
come in online reviews, and that is I'm sure, well
not the whole deal. It is one of the reasons
they got a two million dollar payout. A representative from
these shores in not immediately available for response. Gutieras awarded
(05:06):
four hundred thousand dollars for pain, disfigurement, grief, and emotional distress.
I mean, they must have had some real issues to
get this kind of settlement. Four hundred k for the pain, disfiguring,
grief and emotional distress. Sanchez awarded six hundred thousand for
similar damages, and the jury also awarding each person five
(05:27):
hundred thousand dollars impunitive damages. The hotel expected to appeal
that decision. I mean doesn't feel like there'd be an
upside to a bedbug infestation, But I mean, if you've
got to be bitten by bedbugs, nice to get a
big check of two million dollars. The one thing I
(05:49):
would say from this is they were disfigured from this.
Maybe I don't understand what damaged bedbugs can do. They
say that they they were disfigured.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I read something where they like they were so lodged
in their their skin.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I see that they couldn't get them out, and then
they had to dig them out. Yes, yes, wow, yeah,
that's what they said. They suck their blood until they
were gorged, meaning the bed bugs were completely in there
and they couldn't get.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Rid of them. I guess it probably was pretty traumatic.
I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Doesn't help that there were a lot of complaints about
this and they didn't do anything apparently anyway, it's being.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And they resisted eradication.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, I love that. Not come out right, You can't
say and they wouldn't come out. You can say they
resisted eradication, and you can maybe get a you know,
a few extra one hundred thousand as a result of
using that furvieage.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Meta has signed a twenty year agreement to buy nuclear
power to power their AI tech companies, including Amazon, On,
Google and Meta, shining a pledge in March led by
the World Nuclear Association calling for nuclear energy worldwide to
triple by twenty fifty. I don't need to tell you
(07:10):
about the amount of power that is required to power
so much of AI. So between AI and crypto, you
are putting a tremendous strain on resources.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Another tech titan turns to nuclear power. Meta just signed
a twenty year agreement to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy.
The social media giant joins the growing list of big
tech names like Amazon and Google teaming up with the
nuclear industry to meet the steep power demands of AI
artificial intelligence. So let's bring in Riley Griffin. She's in
(07:47):
studio today, tech reporter with Bloomberg News. So Ryner, let's
talk about the deal. Why are we seeing this wave
of tech companies looking for more energy sources?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, you said, a Juliet, This is all about in
the demand for energy to power AI and the data centers.
Meta itself has said this year that it plans to
spend upwards of seventy billion in capital expenditures, largely to
fund that AI powerhouse momentum. And what we're seeing today
with Constellation really is about supporting the grid. It's about
(08:19):
clean energy and nuclear and ensuring reliability of energy because
this plant was actually at risk of closure.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
All right, So, speaking of Meta's AI ambitions, they go
beyond just the chat bots. Correct, Why don't we talk
about Zuckerberg's plan and where it puts Meta in this
AI race right now.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Unlike open AI and anthropic, what we're seeing right now
is that Meta is trying to apply AI across its
suite of companies that includes Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp. And at
the end of the day, Meta is an advertising company,
so it's trying to improve the advertising tools that it
provides to brands around the world and that fuel its revenue.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh that's interesting too, that they you forget that it's
more than Facebook. You know, they've got Instagram, WhatsApp, They're
a vast company. This reminds me. I don't think it's
gonna turn out this way, but this reminds me a bit.
Maybe if you followed Meta, they were talking about all
the money they were putting into the metaverse research and development.
(09:17):
Remember sort of the whole virtual reality that they were
getting into, that there's going to be a whole you know, city,
there's going to be a whole world in the metaverse.
And Meta formerly Facebook poured billions and billions of dollars.
I think they poured in close to fifty billion dollars
into all of that, and then the metaverse kind of
(09:40):
has dried up as a thing. AI I think has
taken out of that research. I mean, maybe some of
you know where the metaverse thing sits, but it's certainly
not as hot as AI is now. And clearly they
view AI as the future. But again, AI crypto, these
are things that require tremendous amounts of energy, and so
the fact that they've made this deal twenty year agreement
to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy, that's huge. And
(10:04):
they're not alone again, they're joined by Amazon and Google.
So that's the latest on all of that. A distraction
scam is going down in La we'll tell you about
that next.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoon You're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Boy, this makes me.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
This makes me really angry, and I think it will
make you angry as well.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
There were a total of four kittens, just about six weeks.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Old, and that's at the center of this story. Couple
abandoning these kittens, dumping them in a lot in San Bernardino.
They never would have a chance had people not seen it.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
There were a total of four kittens, just about six
weeks old, and an adult cat that is believed to
be their mom. Now, luckily, I.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Mean, I don't care if you're in the cats or
dogs or whatever. I mean that a level of crew
there that is just awful.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
There were a total of four kittens, just about six
weeks old, and an adult cat that is believed to
be their mom.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Now.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Luckily, at this time, we know that the four kittens
are okay, but officials are still looking for that mom
cat now. In that video, the woman claims that she
believed that there was some water out here, which apparently
led her to believe that this could be a proper location.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
For the cats. She's dumping them like you're trushed.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Terrible head them dump Seltzer.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That's not humane.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean, imagine yourself sitting out there with no water,
no shade. It was Friday after you're a new bar,
you're a kitten human.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I mean, imagine yourself sitting out there with no water,
no shade.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
It was Friday afternoon, temperatures around this time topping more
than one hundred degrees in San Bernardino.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You know this that he's being recorded.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Friends Elizabeth Lomally and Cassandra Villa Signor were driving down
East fortieth Street when they saw man and woman that
they say, we're dumping animals in this open field. At
North Harrison Street. You even see the woman shimmying the
cage at one point to get the cats out. We
noticed there was a cat and the kits in the video.
The woman claims the shelter wouldn't take them, so that's
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when both friends say they'll take the cats rather than
them being abandoned. Cassandras recording and Liz approaches them, you're
mad because we called you out about the cat.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
You guys came to dumb cats.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
It's hot, not how to run and.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Get a bods because they didn't want to give us
a cage.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And these people are saints, these people who interceded, these
people who jumped on the situation. I mean, really, you
could have easily just driven by Bravo for you too.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
Cassandras recording and Liz approaches them, you're mad because we
called you out about the cat.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
You guys came to dumb cats.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It's hot, not how to run and get a bods
because they didn't want to give us a cage.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
As they're retrieving them, the cat, believed to be the
kitten's mother, runs away, and the man and woman, seemingly
irritated by the friends, pack up their cage and leave.
Liz and Cassandra reported the incident with Sambernardino Animal Services.
We're told in out of state rescue came and picked
the kittens up. Meantime, another rescue, Cats of San Bernardino,
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has been searching far and wide for the kitten's mother
with no luck.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
We've been going on foot, we've been using a drone,
we've been passing out flyers, and we've been able to
find three friendly kittens and a friendly cat in that
desert area. Well, we were searching, so we believe that
either someone else's dumping cats here or that couple had
dumped some other friendly cats in the area.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What is this with their cat dumping and the animal dumping.
I mean, it's just wrong. I've got to say this though.
On the positive side, animal rescue people are the coolest
and they really go the extra distance. They get their
posse together and they go out there and they search
an area. I love my animal rescue people. I just
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love you. And the other thing is, even if you're
not in an official group, you know you know who
you are listening. You're involved in animal rescue. If you
are involved in any kind of animal rescue, it's just terrific.
So you balance the disgust that I have for the
people who are dumping these creatures.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
You've reached down to the San Bernardino Police Department to
see if the two people have been identified and if so,
will they face any charges. While we wait for that response,
we're told this.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Is a legal abandonment of animals. It is illegal to
abandon any domestic animal, a cat or a dog. You
could be facing prison time or high fines and or probation.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
The many things they could have done and leave them
here now.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Sam Bernardino Police tell me that they have since launched
a criminal investigation. The Good Samaritans also say that woman
kept claiming that she was turning in strays, but they
really don't believe it because strays are usually unapproachable. In
the meantime, shelter officials say they usually don't take in strays.
They will take it and surrenders, but that's after the
owner has tried rehoming their animals.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Wow, that is really a disturbing story, But as I say,
it's balanced by those great people, the Good Samaritans that
became involved in that. Wow, really tough. There's some incredible
rescues around southern California. You know, when people say, hey,
are you involved in a rescue, we'd like to make
a donation, it's the holidays, whatever. I always suggest the
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homegrown rescues in your area. They need your help. And
so the great work that's done to rescue these animals
to give them a chance really extraordinary. I mean, you know,
these two sweet ladies, these two good Samaritans. They could
have started to go fund me around these cats, around
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these kittens, and probably you know, raised enough money to
sustain them for a few months, and then they could
have adopted them, adopted them out. That is anyway, thank
you for a Hollywood ending to that story, because it
certainly starts in a grim way with people just dumping
these creatures. When we come back, there is We had
(16:11):
this story yesterday about how veterans are being scammed and
there just seems to be nothing beyond the red line anymore.
There is no red line, and you start defrauding veterans
of their last dime.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
We had that story yesterday.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, when we come back, I'll tell you what's going
on in LA and again they've erased the red line.
You just wouldn't imagine this distraction scam that's going on.
We'll get to it next.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Might there be a change in snack packaging and the
change coming out of Texas. That's right. The state of
Texas a force a change that could affect the rest
of the country.
Speaker 11 (17:02):
A new potential state law in Texas could change the
way Americans eat snack foods. Nationwide requiring a warning label
on many popular food and drinks reading not recommended for
human consumption. It's targeting products using ingredients like bleached flower
food dyes, sweeteners, oils, and preservatives. Those are legal and
common in many processed foods in the US.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Not suitable for human consumption. I mean, it's pretty much
what my whole family was raised on. All of those chemicals,
all of those dyes that were you know, as American
as the synthetic apple pie that my family was raised on.
(17:45):
Now get a warning label saying not fit for human consumption.
Speaker 11 (17:49):
Foods nationwide requiring a warning label on many popular food
and drinks reading not recommended for human consumption. It's targeting
products using ingredients like bleached flower food, dye, sweeteners, oils,
and preservatives. Those are legal and common in many processed
foods in the US, but some have faced regulation in
other countries. According to USA Today, the proposed rules could
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impact a wide range of processed foods and drinks, from
Dorito's to snacks like Twinkies, Ruffles, and M and M's,
to breakfast cereal to drinks like Gatorade and Mountain Tabor.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Do the dew Do the dew.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Hey, there's going to be a huge change. Then in
the KFI iHeartRadio snackery that we have here, I think
a lot of that stuff falls into the warning label category.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That whole drawer. Yeah, I'm guessing we do have a
snack drawer here. We sure do. Yeah, we should just
put one big label on it.
Speaker 11 (18:46):
If the legislation is signed by Governor Greg Abbott, Texas
would become one of the first states to require the labels,
potentially reshaping national food industry standards. The bill would mark
a victory for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior is
Make America Healthy Again movement, Kennedy testifying last month saying
that processed foods are a potential health danger for consumers.
Speaker 12 (19:07):
The food industry really is not profiting from keeping us
all sick, but it is keeping us sick.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Some food industry experts disagree with the legislation.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, I don't know a by just carrying the legislation,
I'll hear them to say in a second. But I'll
tell you one thing. There's no warning label that's going
to get people to wave off a Snickers bar or whatever. Okay,
there's no warning label that you can put on a
lot of this stuff that is going to get people
to change their habits of eating.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I mean, at least in the short term, you know.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
Some food industry experts disagree with the legislation. John Hewitt,
Senior vice president of State Affairs for the Consumer Brands Association,
urged the governor not to sign it. In the statement, saying, quote,
the ingredients used in the US food supply are safe,
adding it would create legal risks for brands and drive
consumer confusion and higher costs. This comes as some companies
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are working to remove artificial dyes from their products. The
FDA announced a ban on red dye number three earlier
this year. Now some food for thought on how standards
could be shifting.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah, red dye number three something else that my mother
fed us proudly every Thanksgiving.
Speaker 11 (20:14):
Three earlier this year.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Now there's a ban on it.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I remember when I I had a visitor from college
come down and he leaned over to him and he said,
you know what I love about your mother.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
She has real butter on the table. Oh thank god,
you said butter.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And I thought to myself, we have never tasted real
butter in this house. There is no way we have
real butter on any table in this house. There is
nothing that's not synthetic in this house. My mom was
a My mom went cheap. If it was inexpensive, then
she would serve it. That was it. There was no
regard whatsoever for what was in the box. She was
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raised in the shadow of the depression, and she was
going to make sure she didn't spend anything.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Bam on red dye number three earlier this year. Now
some food for thought on how standards could be shifting
in the United States. Also worth noting. In an often
divided Texas state legislature, this bill passed unanimously in the
state center.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Isn't that wild?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I mean, I just wouldn't have thought Texas, of all states,
would be out in front if you told me California
was in front, I'd think, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
That's probably the most shocking thing about the story. Thank you.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And somehow it was at RFK Junior whose strong armed
Greg Abbott to get this thing into the Texas legislature.
It's amazing, but again I don't know how successful they'll
be and actually changing people's habits, but at least they're
trying to get it out there.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Now. I just want to go get a Snickers.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I know. It's the power of suggestion, isn't it.
Got That stuff tests tastes good, all that synthetic stuff.
It's designed to hit our taste buds and you know,
our reception in all the right ways, so make us
happy exactly. The distraction scam that is now a big
part of.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
A new scheme in LA.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
They're targeting elderly residents and that's the part of this
that is really remarkable. Yet another example of how they
sort of erased the last line where you would hope
they wouldn't go after seniors.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I mean, sadly.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You know, seniors are scammed on the phone, seniors are
scammed online, and in this case, the way it works
is that, in this case, a seventy eight year old
mother is gardening outside her Lamarada home. A woman, and
we saw this on security camera footage, walks up and
(22:52):
begins asking questions, you know, keeping her distracted. She what
a nice garden you have?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Have you been?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You really seemed to have a nice touch, whatever it
might be. Meanwhile, two other women slipped through a side
gate and into the women's house. They were very good,
very organized, said the daughter of the seventy eight year
old who was distracted. They knew where to go, they
knew what to take, they knew how to hide it.
(23:16):
They knew what was valuable what wasn't. They took all
the right stuff. The woman's daughter says that the two
women who made it into the house while the seventy
eight year old was distracted, made off with high end
purses like Louis Vautant chanelle, expensive jewelry, and cash, all
of it toldly around fifty thousand dollars. One of the
(23:40):
suspects concealed one of the stolen items under her dress
to appear pregnant. And apparently this is not a one off.
Investigated say, this is a larger trend. Distraction scams target
vulnerable seniors. LA County Sheriff Department is looking into several
(24:01):
similar burglaries across southern California, so they're holding outreach meetings LASD.
They have a social media alert to the public. They've
also issued three community safety tips. Keep all doors and
windows closed, don't open the door for strangers, use a
(24:21):
doorbell camera, never let unfamiliar people into your home. But
in this case, this woman didn't let them into the home.
She was distracted, and they slipped in look out for
your neighbors. They said, a lot of elderly people that
don't have anyone checking on them can be vulnerable. I
told you about my mother. She was scammed for a
(24:45):
lot of money. She found a thing, a pop up
on her computer. She thought her computer was locked up.
I mean a lot of older people don't know, and
even younger people can get sucked into this stuff. So
my mother calls the number. Once you've called the number,
they've got you and my mother and a lot of
older people are like this, very friendly, like you know,
(25:07):
can't believe that someone would scam them. And the scam
was fairly sophisticated, and the sad part of it is
and she goes he gets these target gift cards for them.
My mother's never gotten a car target gift card in
her life. But this guy on the other end had
totally convinced her of something and she bonded with him.
These guys are very good. And even when we told
(25:28):
my mother, we said, Mom, this guy's scamming you. This
is this is, this is ridiculous. This amount of money,
it's a lot of money. And she I think there's
maybe ego in it and embarrassment in it. She said, Oh,
Mark Bruce would never scam me. You don't understand. I
know him now, you don't. My mother's brilliant, she's a
(25:50):
full bright scyle scholar, went to Yale. But you know,
it doesn't matter if you're a soft touch 'or a
soft touch. So seniors generally, I think, are vulnerable. They're
vulnerable to those kinds of scams that I just described,
and they're vulnerable apparently to even more aggressive scams.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And then the city of La and then the County
of La.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
In this case La Morata, the family was targeted and well,
they were scammed out of fifty thousand dollars worth of valuables.
So that's what they called the distraction scam.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Hey, you know that.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Ex janitor who says he invented flaming hot cheetos. By
the way, this is the Conway Show. We're just finishing
up here. We're mopping up before Moe get started. KFI
AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
The story of flaming hot Cheetos. It was one of
those Internet stories bounced around for a long time, and
(26:58):
there was this sense that there was this guy who
started flaming hot cheetos and there was a dispute beturned
in a legal dispute. And so this guy again who
was the ex janitor who says that he invented flaming
hot Cheetos, he actually went to court saying, look, this
is my invention, and Freedo Lay and the parent company
(27:22):
of Freda Lay, PepsiCo, they owe me money. Well, the
results are in, at least the legal results, and the
suit was thrown out. Yeah, so so much for that effort. Yeah,
(27:45):
it's still a good story just because they're thrown out
doesn't mean it's not true. But again, there'll be no
check cut from the Dorito's people, the ABBA people. How
are the members of Abba? The answer is in this
story about how Ai and an ABBA member are building
(28:12):
yet another ABBA show.
Speaker 13 (28:23):
That's right. One of the members of Abba, Bijorn, is
taken on a new project, creating a musical with the
help of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Now they are done a musical. There has been an
ABBA musical. I think there were two of them, two
ABBA movies, or maybe there was the stage show and
they did the movie. But in any case, there have
been two major productions based on Abba, like jukebox musicals.
Really anyway, Bijorn wants to do another one, and Bjorn
is how old.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
At the age of eighty? In fact, are yeah, eighty
years old? Man?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I guessed seventy.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I was thinking seventy five. Maybe, yeah, eighty really feels
like kno. But hey, gotta say, there's a lot of
great music being done and written and performed by people
who are north of eighty. You know, I know herb
Aalbert is on his ninety year old is he really?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Birthday tour? Wow, I've got tickets to go see him.
At the Godack Dinner. I think it's in yeah, October
or something. Yeah, that's impressive. When I saw he was
still performing, I'm like, that's pretty crazy. That's pretty cool.
He's an amazing guy, Herb Albert. I mean what he
did with his career, what he did with founding A
and M Music, what he did for charity, what he
continues to do as a performer. He is truly amazing,
(29:39):
Herb Albert. So he's ninety. So I saw the documentary
about Doc Severns and I think he's ninety, you know,
the old band leader for the Tonight Show. So I
guess this eighty thing is not like a cutoff.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
At the age of eighty.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
In fact, the artist says that AI isn't the creative
threat many in the creative industry fear. He calls it
a great tool. The musical is being made in partnership
with the folks behind the ABBA Voyage. They're virtual concert residency.
No word yet on how or when fans will be
able to see the musical, but Biorn says he's nearly
done writing it now.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
ABBA is doing a virtual concert residency. I have to
just look at this virtual concert residency where is that.
So the virtual concept means they don't have to show
up every night for the show, right. It's a virtual
concert residency featuring Abba and digital avatars of the Swedish
(30:39):
pop group Abba. The concerts are accompanied by a live
orchestra and take place in the Abba Arena in London.
The show's been running in London since May of twenty
twenty two. Where have I been? There is a rumor
that it could come to Las Vegas. The uh Abba
(31:03):
Tars is what they call them, See you get it
because they're avatars, but they're from Abba, so they call
them Aba. I don't even know they had a nickname.
That's pretty cool. They call them Abbaitars.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
But it's been running in London and successfully running since
twenty twenty two. Anyway, Bijorn, who is eighty, wants to
do something else and wants to expand the footprint of Abba,
so that may happen. In Larchemont, they are sick of
the fireworks.
Speaker 12 (31:36):
The fourth of July is still a month away, but
fireworks already going off in the Larchemont area. This is
video from an incident on Melrose Avenue. People in the
area say they hear fireworks about five times a day.
This has apparently been going on for months now. Lately,
it's all anyone's talking about every time it happens, like,
what are we going to do? You know, no one
has a solution, starring.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
It's disruptive to our nervous systems, to.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
The animal, to the people, and there's no reason for it.
Speaker 12 (32:04):
The LAPD has received four calls about fireworks in the
past day or so. The department says there's not much
they can do until somebody sees who's setting them off.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
And by the way, if you call LABD on the
fourth of July and you report that illegal fireworks, or
on the third of July, or on the fifth of July,
and you complain that same way the Larchmouth residents are,
they'll tell you the exact same thing we'd like to,
but you've got to actually see it, see them in
the act. It's kind of scary. I mean, in large
mot I think the fire threat is probably not as
(32:36):
great as you might find in other parts of LA
But I always worry around you know, so much dry brush,
that these illegal fireworks could ignite one of the things.
It's happened, I mean, it has happened anyway. The Largemount
residents cannot get peace. They lay out all that money
to live in largemot and then it's fireworks that don't
(32:58):
let them get any sleep and are constantly going off
day and night. Seems like a bad deal. Thanks to
my Conway crew, Crozier and Steffouche, Angel Sharon Bellio, it's
been a good ride. Let's hope Tim recovers comes back
tomorrow and all will be right with the world. Moe
(33:21):
Kelly is next. I'm going to go back to my
little YouTube hold and do the Mark Thompson Show over there.
Don't move, stay right here on iHeartRadio. We are KFI
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