March 19, 2025 • 34 mins
KFI's Michael Monks joins Tim to discuss L.A.’s growing budget crisis, as the city's shortfall approaches a staggering $1 billion, with layoffs now seeming inevitable. Tim also catches up with The Foosh, fresh off his Uber side-hustle, to get answers about life behind the wheel. Plus, Tim previews his upcoming appearance at the San Juan Capistrano Swallows Day Parade and welcomes some beautiful weather headed to SoCal. Finally, Tim explores how AI is rapidly reshaping fast-food drive-throughs—and reminisces about the classic fast-food days with grimy ball pits—and provides an update on Tracy Morgan’s recent health scare at Madison Square Garden.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM sixty. It is the Conway Show. It's Wednesday, hoy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You know, it seems like Friday for some reason, and
I don't know what it is all day it seems
like Friday, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's Wednesday and the most.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Beautiful weather in the world outside today.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Get outside if you can. It's nice and warm, the
sun's out.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
There are no fires, there are no winds, there are
no floods, there are no earthquakes yet. So get out
and enjoy yourself today and get out of the car,
get out of the office, get out of your house,
walk around and enjoy yourself. I think you'll have a
better time walking around the neighborhood with your earbuds and
listen to KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
By the way, all right, Michael Monks's wetherus You got
Monks man?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
How you?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I am good? On this beautiful day. It's unbelievable. I'm
gonna cast a few clouds on it, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, without without you know, giving out your exact address,
what floor are you on downtown?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know you live downtown Los Angeles. I'm on the
third floor of a five story building. Okay, so you
can see a good view. I've got a view of
skid Row. Oh okay, all right, all right, all right,
all right. Yeah it's nice, it's entertaining. I thought maybe
you're on fires at night or beautiful. We have a rooftop.
We have a rooftop that I go to. It's got
a basketball court, it's got a pool, it's got you know,
I can see a view of the mountains. I'm surrounded
(01:24):
by the taller buildings downtown. Let's side, you're really swallowed
by it.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Do you get a waft of the odors from down below?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Occasionally it's unpleasant. Occasionally there's some unpleasantness.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Wait, do you seriously you can smell skid Row from
your apartment.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, skid Row's about two blocks over. I'm in the
Fashion district. Oh sorry, but the skid Row is obviously adjacent.
If you were a bad real estate agent, you would
say my unit was skid Row near skid Row adjacent
skid Row adjacent, right, which I don't think I've ever
read before. No, it's not a big selling point.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, all right, So the city of Los Angeles is
in some trouble financially?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Is that what's going on? Look, if you've heard me
talk about the city's finances over the six months, I've
been banging this drum for a long time. It's shocking
that they don't talk more seriously about it. It's like
it comes up in these meetings and then they come
up with these half baked ideas on what they can do,
like let's sell some property, or let's this generic, let's
find revenue. Let's find revenue. Taxes could be tax revenue
(02:18):
way down, sales tax, property tax, business tax, all that
stuff is down. The hotel tax from tourists coming in
all down. What's up? Expenses, especially legal settlements, hundreds of
millions of dollars over budget because of how much money
they've been paying in settlement. Now it's budget season, right,
this is the fun time for guys like me to
watch where the city is heading in the next fiscal year.
(02:39):
And it is not good. In fact, it's the worst
thing I've ever seen. Can I play some audio? Let's go, look, Hey,
this is going to be city administrator Matt Zebo. Okay,
before we play the audio, I do have a question
for you. When is the budget due and is it
in June. Here's how it works. Okay, the mayor is
the first person to release a budget. She will present
her proposed budget next month, late next month, so it'll
(03:01):
be like April twenty first, and then the city Council
gets its hands on it. They dive in, They hold
a bunch of hearings of all the departments, come in,
all the community people come in and say what should happen,
what shouldn't happen, And by the end of June, that
budget has to be in effect because it does take
effect on July first. Okay, the audio we're about to
play is who this is City administry or Matt Zaebo
(03:22):
spelling out how dire the situation has gotten.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Here we go the proposed budget the mayor will deliver
to this council in just over a month from today.
We'll close that gap, but it will require extremely difficult
cost cutting decisions. The severity of the revenue to climb,
paired with rising costs, has created a budget gap that
(03:47):
makes layoffs nearly inevitable. No, no, we are not looking
at dozens or even hundreds of layoffs, but thousands.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Oh my god, is that right, But isn't isn't that
a death spiral. It's not a good thing in a
city that is already struggling to deliver basic services. You
mentioned my neighborhood a little while ago in the Smells.
You know, there are some cities that clean up their areas.
They have staff that are assigned to go out and
clean the streets or to make sure that a neighborhood
(04:19):
is presentable, to keep the street lights on. LA has
struggled to fulfill those basic city services for a long time.
By the way, the budget gap he reference, may I
tell you a billion dollars. Oh my god. That's the
budget deficit that they are facing for the next fiscal year. Now,
as you said, there will be proposals in Maherbas's budget
to address it, but he is basically laying the groundwork
(04:40):
for an announcement that could include thousands of city positions
elimining what's the total budget. If the gap is a billion,
the budget is usually around eight billion dollars. Okay, okay,
And so when you get into budget talks, it's really
complicated because there's all these different funds in government. They
have a reserve fund, for example. They like to keep
it at about five percent of the budget. So five
(05:01):
percent of eight billion dollars that thing is real. Yeah, sure,
so that's less than half of where it needs to be.
So they want to replenish that first because that's their
rainy day fund. That's when things go awrye they might
need to dip into it, like they have had to
this year.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Right, But okay, so their budget for twenty twenty four
is going to pale in comparison for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I think twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I don't think twenty twenty four is going to be
a great year for the City of La No And
I think they might be off by two billion next year.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The twenty twenty four twenty five fiscal year has been
really bad because they expected a certain amount of revenue
that has not come in, and they plan for a
certain amount of expenses that has gone way over. So
when you combine those too, it's like your own personal income. Hey,
if I have less money coming in, but I'm spending
a lot more than I expected, you're running a deficit
and then you're in trouble.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Right And also, you know, look, we have a high
sales tax, we have high income tax we have, you know,
pretty high, but not the highest property tax and that
and that should be sufficient to run the city of
la And it's simon closed.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
No, it comes down to what are the priorities. And
this is what surprises me and watching this. You know,
I come from a small city at Covington, Kentucky, right
across from Cincinnati, connected by bridge. That city had a
budget crisis of fifteen years ago because to me, guess
of ten grand. No, it was millions. I mean, it's
a you know, we got forty three thousand strong in Covington, Kentucky. Okay,
budget of fifty million, and we lost two major employers. Okay,
(06:26):
it was a crisis. They stopped everything and they went
on to neighborhood tours to explain how serious the situation
was and what the cuts were gonna be and how
we were going to bounce back. And you haven't seen
that sense of urgency from a city like Los Angeles.
I've never seen it. That's what I mean. And this
meeting today where the city administrator was the clip you
heard he was talking to the city council. He was
(06:47):
at the council meeting today and it was a sobering
display to say, a billion dollar shortfall, thousands of layoffs.
We're in trouble. We have to make some changes right now.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Michael Monks is with US reporter here at KFA six forty.
I know the LAPD budgets around two billion, and man,
they're gonna have to dip into that. Unfortunately, while LAPD
is trying to hire more officers.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's exactly right. So now you're going to get into
some prickly situation. Last year, the LAPD did not suffer much.
In fact, they did pretty well in the budget compared
to a lot of the other departments. But at the
same time, they have not been able to meet their
hiring goals, and there's certainly community criticism about how fast
they're responding, what are they responding to, are they doing
a good enough job protecting the community. And then there's
(07:32):
the Fire Department. They did take you know, there's been
debate on what their budget looks like, but they didn't
get what they wanted, that's for certain. This year has
to be different for the Fire department because of the
political and community narrative around the wildfire and the palisades.
So how are they going to be able to keep
the LAPD at the same increase what they are giving
for LAFD, even if it's just window dressing to look good. Politically,
(07:52):
they're gonna have to take from animal services again, They're
gonna have to take from street services again, public works,
all of those public facing entities. Do you hopefully never
need to cop you hopefully never need the fire department,
but you always need your street to be in good condition,
You need the trash taken away and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And is anyone pointing fingers? Is it mismanagement? Is it
a million things?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
There are some on the council who blame the amount
of money that's been spent on the police department. For example,
their department is the highest funded. It's the one that
did not take a cut. And you hear that from
some corners. Mainly what you're hearing from the city administrator
and probably what you will hear from Mayor Bass is
simply that the city has taken a hit because of
the economic conditions they are also concerned about. But all
(08:34):
the other cities around here took a hit and they're
not suffering. That's that's what you're going to have conversations about.
LA is going to have to come to terms with
its la ness. It is. It is a place that
lives like a guy from La right that's spending at all,
living large, posting on Insta, but doesn't really have any money.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Michael Monks is with us reporter. I don't like that
term reporter? Is it journalist? Usually corresponding correspondent makes me
sound way more important? And I am do you say
the correspondent? Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I mean that's fine. I'm you know, I'm about I
say journalists because I think that covers Okay, enough, Okay,
but the death spiral. You know about this.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You know, if you live in San Francisco, they didn't
have enough money. They cut the budget, so they cut services. Well,
if you cut services, then the streets get rough, and
then the people who have money move out, and then
it lowers the tax you know, it lowers your tax revenue,
and then that circle continues down the drain until you become.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You know, it's mad Max. And what just happened to
a significant neighborhood in La It burned down, so all
that business revenue is gone, all of the people that
were visiting there, they're gone, and all exactly there's not
really an end in sight. By the way, this is
a city that has the Olympics coming, I know, Super
Bowl coming, an All Star Game coming. We are going
to be playing hosts again. The l anis of it all.
(09:49):
We're still throwing big parties, but we have no money this,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Fortunately, the silver lining in you know, if there is
ever anyone where fourteen thousand homes are lost, that fire
could have happened late twenty twenty five and into twenty
twenty six, twenty you know, or into twenty seven when
the Olympics were coming in.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
That would have been a disaster. Well not gone would
but at least we have three years to try to rebuild.
That's right, to rebuild itself. But the forecast, you know,
these budget people at city Hall are doing year's forecast
down the line. They've already had to adjust it from
last year, and it wasn't looking good. It wasn't supposed
to be looking a good until after the year. The
Olympics are here, and now it's even worse because of
what has happened this year, and they are thinking about
(10:30):
selling some properties, some buildings they don't know whish ones
they've basically been instructed to maybe look at what they
own and what it's time to start selling, because again
I keep using the phraser looking for change in the
couch cushion. What it's going to take is some transformative
approach to the way they prioritize what matters in the
city of Los Angeles and to people who live in it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is it less attractive to buy a house in a
city that has shortfalls like this?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I think you have to look around and see what
the neighborhood is like right when you're what's the school like,
what are the condition of the houses around me? What
does the street look like? It might be a beautiful home,
it might be a steal, but if there's potholes lining
lining it, or if there are homeless camps that are
not being intended to around it, if there's high crime,
you're going to pass on that steal and you're going
to live in the fashion district like me. Buddy.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Thanks for coming on, Michael Monks, You got monk, You
got Monks? Are you doing Saturday Night?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I'll be on seven o'clock to nine. We'll be talking
a lot regularly until Brian Long tells me otherwise. That's great. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I enjoy doing it, talking about the city
issues and county issues. Happy to do it seven and
nine pm Saturday, Saturday Night, The Monks Reports. You got Monks.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I love that dude, said Towala.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
He's the only guy in radio, and I say, is
over and over who doesn't give a rats ass what
anyone thinks about him. He is my radio idol. The
exact opposite of that, Mark Thompson. I listened to Mark
(12:13):
Thompson's YouTube show yesterday and he said, you know, they
were talking about the View, and he said, oh, you
know the view, it's like a yuck fest over there.
And Kim who does the news, She's like, excuse me.
He's like, oh, it's a yuck fest over there, and
she's like, oh, because they're women and just said yapping,
(12:34):
so it's a yuck fest.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He's like, no, no, no, Like ESPN does it too.
You know, just way too many hosts. You know, CNN
on election night nine people talking has something to do
with women, you know, there's just too many people talking
at the same time. And he went on an apology tour,
but all the goodwill he built up, you know, beating
Trump up every day for three years. And because he
(12:57):
said made one mistake, one mistake by saying anything negative
about the View, woo, he got his ass handed to him.
And then he was like, oh, maybe I'll watch the
View again. Maybe I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Maybe I'll take a look at it. You know, maybe
I was completely wrong about the View. Maybe it's the
greatest show ever. What happened, what happened over there?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
All right? So welcome back to steph USh.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You were out for a couple of days, went out
to make some money, eh, I sure did, driving Uber
for Saint Patrick's Day. Yes, sir, And you've aligned your
pockets huh. I tried, Yeah, did pretty well.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We were hours when you go when you drive Uber.
People won't know this, but steph Fush drives Uber and Lyft.
I believe you do both.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I had to resign up for Lyft, but yeah, I
do both, okay in general. And I and you were
doing that before you started here. And everytime there's real
big holiday you like to make some real money and
get out of here and go drive for Uber.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yep, there you go. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
He runs the Afternoon Drive show. He runs the boards
for the afternoon Drive show. I'm the most popular talk
station in America. And when he wants to go make
some money Uber Uber?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Uber? All right, and what were your hours when you
worked Uber? So Saturday was four pm to three am?
All right? Anybody throwing up? And no, I got really lucky? Wow? Yeah?
What's the charge for that? Nowadays? With Uber?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Well now they have it in different tiers, So it's like,
if it's not that bad, it's forty bucks. If it's
a little bit bad at sixty bucks, who desermines that Uber?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
The driver?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Uber?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They come on, take a look at this thing.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
No, no, I have to take like three or four
pictures and send it to them and then they give
me the analysis.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Really, how about that guy's job?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, Uber, right, he's collecting all the you know, it's
his job to sit there and look at throw up
pictures and decide how much that's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Exactly what a job that is? Right? How do you
ever get a meal in?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
You know, you sit down with your subway sandwich, your
foot log, and all of a sudden, oh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Here's another one. Let me take a look at that.
Oh no, it's everywhere.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Two hundred dollars back to my you know, turkey and
cheese exactly what a job pretty much? Yeah, And so
you send them pictures and how often how quickly they
do they respond.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
They're actually pretty fast they do. They do it within
like ten, ten to fifteen minutes, and they'll tell you
the charge. Yeah, what's the biggest charge you ever had?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Like a total? Well, twelve grand?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Well, originally it used to be two hundred every time,
no matter what. Really, Yeah, And then I guess people
were complaining because some people weren't making that big of
a mess, and so they're like, I guess they that's
when they started the different the different orders of how
much we can actually charge.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You. Do you get pissed when people throw up in
your car? Depends on how hot the girl is.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
I'm not happy about it, but I've been very lucky
that when it happens, it's just the end of the night,
so it's kind of like a bonus. Okay, is it
man or women throwing up? That's a good questions. I
would say, you know what, I can count on one
hand how many times has happened.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'd say four out of the five times, it was women.
Is that right? Yep? Wow, that's so that's not good. No,
that's what happened. And is it usually younger gals throwing up?
Oh yeah, they're like in their mid twenties. They're partying
bachelorette parties and you know parties. You don't see a
granny on the way to the airport, you know, pausing
(16:32):
it exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh that's awesome, budd. So once they throw up in
the car, that's a wrap for that night.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Pretty much, because it does smell. I mean, it's you
can't who cleans it up? You know? There's yeah, I
clean it up. Oh my god.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Yeah, they try to do like a mobile cleaning thing.
But I'm like, no, if I'm in, If I'm in, uh,
you know, a thousand oaks and you're located in Englewood,
I'm not about to drive all the way down there
just so you can clean it up for me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Right, So you got to tackle that yourself. Yeah, do
you hear it coming? Like one time I did, and
I actually took the initiative to pull over. Every other
time that they've always been like bro bro bro bro
bro pull over, pull over, pull over, pull over.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
And I'm like, all right, Luckily I haven't been on
the freeway when that happens, and they just open the
door and it just all comes out.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Most people reach for the window, they try to toss
it out the window. Uh. That happened once. Yeah, and
I got on the side of the car. Oh my god.
How about the guy driving by in a convertible? Yeah? Okay,
So how much mone did you make? You make over
five hundred bucks? Uh? Just under that on St. Patrick's
(17:52):
day total of the weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Wow, that's pretty good, not bad. Yeah, that's great, dude.
I did you meet anybody?
Speaker 8 (17:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Can you do that?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Can you like if like if I like a girl
says hey, and I really like the haircut, I like
the goateee, I can pick up on that Argentinian skin
color of yours.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Have you ever dated somebody? Uh?
Speaker 7 (18:13):
No, they all just they have their they are they're
they're all set because usually the women that come out,
they're already uh planning the guys that they're going to
talk to when they get the car.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, but but are uh is there is it a
policy of Uber that you can't date the passengers? No,
there's no policy. No, really.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah, all right, that's pretty even though sometimes they treat
me like the therapist because they'll just tell me stuff
that they've never told anybody because they'll never see me again.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Really Oh yeah, wow, wow, got the stories. Oh that's great, buddy.
I believe I think I'd like that. I think I'd
like to drive uber and just talk to people like that.
Who am I kidding? I hate it?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
All right, that's wild, buddy. I'm glad you're back though.
Thank you back from ubering uber Ubert.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Hey, this Saturday, I'm going to be in the San
Juan Copistrano Parade. The Swallows are coming back to San
Juan Compistrano, And they said, hey, do you want to
be in the parade, and I said sure. Usually in
the area anyway, when the swallows come back, might as
well jump into that parade. So if you're in San
Juan Copistrano or anywhere in Orange County, come on out
to the parade. And it's going to be Saturday morning.
(19:25):
I think it starts at eleven ten thirty eleven, between
ten and eleven, I think it's eleven o'clock and it
goes all throughout the streets of San Juan Copistrano. All
the bars are open, all the restaurants are open.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's packed.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Last year, it rained like crazy. It poured during the
entire parade. I drove down there, beautiful skies, got down there,
little cloudy, and the moment that parade started, the exact
moment I felt one drop on my head, like, oh
that's interesting, and then it opened up and it poured
the entire parade. Well, the weather this year is going
to be quite different, quite different. Ye, it's gonna be
(20:01):
beautiful in San Juan Capistrano. So come on down and
enjoy yourself, bring the whole family, and man, you're gonna
love it. You're gonna absolutely enjoy it. I'm gonna get
you the exact weather here for San Juan Copistrano. Let's
see here sand Wan Copistrano. Okay, here it is for Saturday.
(20:24):
Forty nine is the low. Sixty nine is the high,
perfect weather, not a cloud in the sky, beautiful all day,
a hive of about seventy degrees.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That is sensational.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And speaking of weather, next week in the San Fernando Valley,
we're gonna be eighty four degrees, eighty five degrees on Monday.
It'll be eighty five degrees on Monday in the San
Fernando Valley. That's warm for this time of year. Pretty
warm Lancaster this weekend. Beautiful, no rain, beautiful out there
(20:57):
in the Upper Desert, Lancaster, Victorville, Old Palmdale, the whole
Antelope Valley. Saturday seventy one degrees, Sunday seventy eight degrees,
and then Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the low eighties.
So we've got some beautiful weather coming up for southern
California out on the coast people live on the coast.
(21:17):
Seventy degrees on Saturday, seventy one on Sunday, then seventy
six on Monday, which is fairly warm for the coast.
So that's gonna be a great weekend. If you're going
to the Big Bear, you going to the mountains, you
might be a little late for snow might be over
by the time you get up there. Friday sixty degrees
is the high. Saturday, fifty nine, Sunday sixty, Monday sixty seven,
(21:41):
almost seventy degrees in Big Bear. So whatever snow we
had in Big bear last week is going to be
gone by the time Monday rolls around. Sixty seven degrees
is not a good temperature to keep snow on the ground.
So it's gonna beautiful throughout southern California. And this is
the weekend to get out there with the family and
(22:05):
do something outdoors. You know, finally, for the first weekend
in quite some time, it's not gonna be rainy or
windy or smokey.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
It's just gonna be fantastic. So get out there and
enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Tracy Morgan, speaking of we talked to stef Fush about
throwing up and people throwing up in his zuber. Tracy
Morgan threw up at a at a basketball game and
a Knicks game NBA game. They had to stop the
game for ten minutes. Well, he was throwing up all
over the court. And when we come back, we'll get
an update on Tracy Morgan, how he's doing. He said
(22:39):
he had food poisoning.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I don't know. You want to believe him, but I
don't know. I don't know. We'll find out how he's doing. Though.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
He had to leave the game in a wheelchair and
they had to stop the NBA game for ten minutes. Well,
he's throwing up on everybody. That's embarrassing. He'll never live
that down.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway jun on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Fast Food is it's going to make some changes that
are going to affect your life. McDonald's and Taco Bell
are going to establish restaurants that are drive through only,
no more dining in, and so you don't have to
answer that question anymore when they say are you getting
it to go?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Are you dining in? Dining in? It's a it's said
Taco Bell. I missed the the hostess dying and the
Major D. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I passed the Major D station and went right to
the counter to order dining in. Dining in, God almighty,
that's great. That's a great term. Will you be dining in?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, I will not be. You know what think's going away? Krozier.
The ball pits where the kids play, I think that's
going away.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
The CESL contamulations. My daughter when she was young, she
used to like to play in the ballpit. Said as
much as I said no, she would, you know, pout?
And I finally said yes, and she and her friend
were rummaging around and that in that ball pit.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And she came out and on her arm she had
a clump of wet hair. I said, that is a
rap with the ball pits. Hrap.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
You know. They didn't do anything like nightly, like it
disinfected nightly.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
They monthly. Yeah, God almighty.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
But I think that those kids that played in the
ballpit every day, they never have to go to a doctor.
They're not getting anything. They have such a great immune system.
It's like the guys that grew up in Manhattan and
swam in the Hudson River. They never get sick. The
hose drinkers, Yeah, right, because they were swimming around human
bodies and feces their whole life.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
They've they've had their sh germs.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
So McDonald's they're also implementing AI across forty three thousand locations.
Will enhance the speed and efficiency, and so they're gonna
have just drive throughs McDonald's and and tacob I'm sure
Wendy's will follow suit as well. But Wendy's is experiencing
or expanding, i should say, the AI Voice assistance.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
So when you go to Wendy's, you'll be ordering through AI.
Currently in one hundred locations, with planned to roll it
out to four to five to six hundred locations. And
again they're focusing on accuracy and efficiency, although I don't
think Wendy's has to focus on accuracy and efficiency. I
never get the wrong order at Wendy's. Wendy's and in
(25:44):
and out and in and out I think is great.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
However, I think they a little if the one thing
I'd like to change about in and out to have
my order read back to me three times. When you
order it, they read it back to you, then the
guy who takes your money reads it back to you,
and then the woe too, hands are you the food
reads it back to you. I think we've got it
(26:09):
by then, you know, can you? I wonder if you
can put up a stop sign with your hand and go, hey,
I got it. I'm gonna take the chance that it's
not right here, but the reading back of the order.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But that's why it's always right. I get that, I
get that, I get that, but it's it's correcting it
on the third time. Though you said yes, yes, but
how the first two read backs and then the third one? No? Right,
But how how closely do you listen to the read
back anyway, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So he goes, all right, I got two burgers, two fries,
one with a mustard, I got animal fries, I got
two shakes one.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
But like wait what? But I bet you do this
when you're with four or five people in the car,
when they read back the order to you, you point
at the person who they're talking. They're repeating their order
like burger, oh, cheese, broke good, that's her, it's her, coke,
that's him, that's her, and he's got It's like a
(27:04):
traffic cop.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
So is in and Out basically treating you like an idiot,
thinking that the first two times they're not paying attention.
We go to do it one more time, just to
make sure that they hear us.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No, I think what in and Out does is they
get everybody on board used to if you run into
a customer to repeat the order back, And I think
it does.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
It does you know diminish how many times food is
brought back? And so I think it does save them
some money.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Chick fil A is going to do the They're going
to utilize drones and video analysis, sort of like game
films of streamlining streamlining their operations, their drive through operations,
and so the industry trend in fast food, our chains
are increasingly adopting AI and automation. They have this thing where,
(27:54):
you know, with French fries. I think it's called the
fry buddy, where now there's a robot that makes the
French fries, so you no longer need that position. So
I think a lot of these jobs are going away.
You know, a lot of these jobs and fast food
will eventually be handled by somebody. You know, buy a robot,
you know, something that can work twenty four hours a day,
(28:15):
never takes time off, never asks for an increase in salary,
never gets sick, and just keeps working. It's a huge
expense to begin with, but I think it pays off.
I think that fry buddy that does the French fries
for you, I think it's a sixty thousand dollars robot,
but I think it pays for itself, probably in two years.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You know, I don't know how often it breaks down.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Probably not as often as the milkhake machine or the
ice cream machine at McDonald's that seems to be always
on the fritz.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But I just enjoy fast food way too much. I really.
I eat like a twenty year old who's not going
to see thirty. I really do. I just love it,
Like you know, I know where the deals are.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I know Tuesday night at Del Taco, three tacos is
the deal on Tuesday and Thursday. I just enjoy it
and I probably shouldn't. Well, let's get into a Tracy Morgan.
Here an update on Tracy Morgan. They stopped the knixt game,
the NBA game for ten minutes. He was thrown up
(29:18):
all over the place. Let's find out if this guy's
better by now, don.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Jaim back with us.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
We got to talk about Tracy Morgan because that was
everyone was talking about it.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
He got sick, so he got sick.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
And in a recent Instagram posts, he shared that he
had about of food poisoning, which unfortunately can happen just
as sudden as that. I hope he's doing better. He's
reportedly doing better. He's sharing a lot of his posts online.
He's still being funny, which is a good thing, but
it's an important reminder to talk about food poisoning and
food borne illnesses.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Okay, I don't know if that's the case or not.
I don't know. With Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I imagine everybody who throws up on the NBA court
has to blame it on something other than massive amounts
of alcohol.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I don't know if Tracy Morgan drinks or not. I
wouldn't be surprised if he did.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
We talk a lot about these types of things because
they're very common and many patients come into the emergency
room for these issues. Just as a reminder of food
born illness is when bacteria or something contaminated is in
your food. That think rose in your body. Those symptoms
can happen days two weeks later.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Right, days two weeks later, not three minutes later. It
can happen days two weeks later. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I'm suspicious. I'm gonna stay on high alert that this
was food poisoning.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Food poisoning is when there's a toxin in your food,
often created by a bacteria, and that can create those
sudden symptoms that just unpredictably happen sometimes in.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The middle of a basketball game. And what's the best
way to treat it is it antibiotics? Go home, leave
the court and find a toilet.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Well, sometimes it can be antibiotics. The good news is
that when it comes on really strong and fast like that. Usually,
as we most know from our history and most of
us have experienced this, it goes away generally fast, and
the treatment is generally supportive.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Talked about this at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
What does that mean? Helping people with fluid hydration, making
sure that they're not having a fever or any other symptoms,
controlling those symptoms while.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
They get through the time. So at what point do
you see the doctor? If you do?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
And I don't know if you've seen this, the footage
of Tracy Morgan throwing up. Have you seen a crozier?
The video of Tracy Morgan tossing it? It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Stefus the the video? I have not any here about
this time right now. God, the video is unbelievable. It's
just him leaning over and everything comes out.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh if you can't treat moving back and forth like
a cat, who's about to you.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Know, it's almost like a like a Simpsons or the
Family guy, you know, where it comes straight out and
then goes everywhere on the court. It's horrible. And then
the poor guy is, you know, making twelve dollars an
hour having to come out and clean that up. Sorry
if you're eating, Sorry gang.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
If you can't treat your symptoms from the comfort of
your own couchs, then you have to talk to a provider.
You can suffer from the complications of food borne illnesses
or food poisoning again, like dehydration or other symptoms that
you need help controlling, but it's really important just to
remember to prevent them. And a lot of that happens
in our kitchen, washing our meats, washing our fruits and vegetables,
especially because people don't realize that bacteria travel on them.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All right, what's the main goal to stop this?
Speaker 9 (32:16):
Washing our meats, washing our meats. Got to wash your meat,
washing our meats, wash your meats. Everybody washing our fruits.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
And vegetables, especially because people don't realize that bacteria travel
on them. And then the US Department of Agriculture recommends
throwing food away after three or four days.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Is that right? Three or four days?
Speaker 8 (32:38):
A partner of agriculture recommends throwing food away after three
or four days.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Ah, I fudge that a little. I go five to ten.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
The smell check doesn't always pass the vibe check. You
want to make sure to at least label your food,
or take a picture of it. The label or the
date goes into your phone, so you remember when you've
made it.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
The smell check doesn't always pass the check.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
With my wife because she doesn't know really when meats bad,
you know, and she's not really good at washing our
meats at Washington Meets.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
But so she's like, I don't know, is this any good?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I said, sweetie, Look, if there's ever a question to
throw it out, let's not you know, let's not you know,
pretend that this is not, you know, rancid.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So everybody got a Remember, here's a lesson of the hour.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
Washing our meats, Wash your meats, Wash your meats, washing
our meats, washing your meats.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You've got to wash your meats, all right, wash your
meat before this guy. When was the last time you
were told to wash your meat? Uh? Probably in like
seventh grade? Hmmm, maybe eighth.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I don't know, when's the last time you were told
to wash your meat? Croch Sunday, Washing our Meats.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM sixty. It is the Conway Show. It's Wednesday, hoy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You know, it seems like Friday for some reason, and
I don't know what it is all day it seems
like Friday, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's Wednesday and the most.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Beautiful weather in the world outside today.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Get outside if you can. It's nice and warm, the
sun's out.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
There are no fires, there are no winds, there are
no floods, there are no earthquakes yet. So get out
and enjoy yourself today and get out of the car,
get out of the office, get out of your house,
walk around and enjoy yourself. I think you'll have a
better time walking around the neighborhood with your earbuds and
listen to KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
By the way, all right, Michael Monks's wetherus You got
Monks man?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
How you?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I am good? On this beautiful day. It's unbelievable. I'm
gonna cast a few clouds on it, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, without without you know, giving out your exact address,
what floor are you on downtown?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know you live downtown Los Angeles. I'm on the
third floor of a five story building. Okay, so you
can see a good view. I've got a view of
skid Row. Oh okay, all right, all right, all right,
all right. Yeah it's nice, it's entertaining. I thought maybe
you're on fires at night or beautiful. We have a rooftop.
We have a rooftop that I go to. It's got
a basketball court, it's got a pool, it's got you know,
I can see a view of the mountains. I'm surrounded
(01:24):
by the taller buildings downtown. Let's side, you're really swallowed
by it.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Do you get a waft of the odors from down below?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Occasionally it's unpleasant. Occasionally there's some unpleasantness.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Wait, do you seriously you can smell skid Row from
your apartment.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, skid Row's about two blocks over. I'm in the
Fashion district. Oh sorry, but the skid Row is obviously adjacent.
If you were a bad real estate agent, you would
say my unit was skid Row near skid Row adjacent
skid Row adjacent, right, which I don't think I've ever
read before. No, it's not a big selling point.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, all right, So the city of Los Angeles is
in some trouble financially?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Is that what's going on? Look, if you've heard me
talk about the city's finances over the six months, I've
been banging this drum for a long time. It's shocking
that they don't talk more seriously about it. It's like
it comes up in these meetings and then they come
up with these half baked ideas on what they can do,
like let's sell some property, or let's this generic, let's
find revenue. Let's find revenue. Taxes could be tax revenue
(02:18):
way down, sales tax, property tax, business tax, all that
stuff is down. The hotel tax from tourists coming in
all down. What's up? Expenses, especially legal settlements, hundreds of
millions of dollars over budget because of how much money
they've been paying in settlement. Now it's budget season, right,
this is the fun time for guys like me to
watch where the city is heading in the next fiscal year.
(02:39):
And it is not good. In fact, it's the worst
thing I've ever seen. Can I play some audio? Let's go, look, Hey,
this is going to be city administrator Matt Zebo. Okay,
before we play the audio, I do have a question
for you. When is the budget due and is it
in June. Here's how it works. Okay, the mayor is
the first person to release a budget. She will present
her proposed budget next month, late next month, so it'll
(03:01):
be like April twenty first, and then the city Council
gets its hands on it. They dive in, They hold
a bunch of hearings of all the departments, come in,
all the community people come in and say what should happen,
what shouldn't happen, And by the end of June, that
budget has to be in effect because it does take
effect on July first. Okay, the audio we're about to
play is who this is City administry or Matt Zaebo
(03:22):
spelling out how dire the situation has gotten.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Here we go the proposed budget the mayor will deliver
to this council in just over a month from today.
We'll close that gap, but it will require extremely difficult
cost cutting decisions. The severity of the revenue to climb,
paired with rising costs, has created a budget gap that
(03:47):
makes layoffs nearly inevitable. No, no, we are not looking
at dozens or even hundreds of layoffs, but thousands.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Oh my god, is that right, But isn't isn't that
a death spiral. It's not a good thing in a
city that is already struggling to deliver basic services. You
mentioned my neighborhood a little while ago in the Smells.
You know, there are some cities that clean up their areas.
They have staff that are assigned to go out and
clean the streets or to make sure that a neighborhood
(04:19):
is presentable, to keep the street lights on. LA has
struggled to fulfill those basic city services for a long time.
By the way, the budget gap he reference, may I
tell you a billion dollars. Oh my god. That's the
budget deficit that they are facing for the next fiscal year. Now,
as you said, there will be proposals in Maherbas's budget
to address it, but he is basically laying the groundwork
(04:40):
for an announcement that could include thousands of city positions
elimining what's the total budget. If the gap is a billion,
the budget is usually around eight billion dollars. Okay, okay,
And so when you get into budget talks, it's really
complicated because there's all these different funds in government. They
have a reserve fund, for example. They like to keep
it at about five percent of the budget. So five
(05:01):
percent of eight billion dollars that thing is real. Yeah, sure,
so that's less than half of where it needs to be.
So they want to replenish that first because that's their
rainy day fund. That's when things go awrye they might
need to dip into it, like they have had to
this year.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Right, But okay, so their budget for twenty twenty four
is going to pale in comparison for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I think twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I don't think twenty twenty four is going to be
a great year for the City of La No And
I think they might be off by two billion next year.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The twenty twenty four twenty five fiscal year has been
really bad because they expected a certain amount of revenue
that has not come in, and they plan for a
certain amount of expenses that has gone way over. So
when you combine those too, it's like your own personal income. Hey,
if I have less money coming in, but I'm spending
a lot more than I expected, you're running a deficit
and then you're in trouble.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Right And also, you know, look, we have a high
sales tax, we have high income tax we have, you know,
pretty high, but not the highest property tax and that
and that should be sufficient to run the city of
la And it's simon closed.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
No, it comes down to what are the priorities. And
this is what surprises me and watching this. You know,
I come from a small city at Covington, Kentucky, right
across from Cincinnati, connected by bridge. That city had a
budget crisis of fifteen years ago because to me, guess
of ten grand. No, it was millions. I mean, it's
a you know, we got forty three thousand strong in Covington, Kentucky. Okay,
budget of fifty million, and we lost two major employers. Okay,
(06:26):
it was a crisis. They stopped everything and they went
on to neighborhood tours to explain how serious the situation
was and what the cuts were gonna be and how
we were going to bounce back. And you haven't seen
that sense of urgency from a city like Los Angeles.
I've never seen it. That's what I mean. And this
meeting today where the city administrator was the clip you
heard he was talking to the city council. He was
(06:47):
at the council meeting today and it was a sobering
display to say, a billion dollar shortfall, thousands of layoffs.
We're in trouble. We have to make some changes right now.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Michael Monks is with US reporter here at KFA six forty.
I know the LAPD budgets around two billion, and man,
they're gonna have to dip into that. Unfortunately, while LAPD
is trying to hire more officers.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's exactly right. So now you're going to get into
some prickly situation. Last year, the LAPD did not suffer much.
In fact, they did pretty well in the budget compared
to a lot of the other departments. But at the
same time, they have not been able to meet their
hiring goals, and there's certainly community criticism about how fast
they're responding, what are they responding to, are they doing
a good enough job protecting the community. And then there's
(07:32):
the Fire Department. They did take you know, there's been
debate on what their budget looks like, but they didn't
get what they wanted, that's for certain. This year has
to be different for the Fire department because of the
political and community narrative around the wildfire and the palisades.
So how are they going to be able to keep
the LAPD at the same increase what they are giving
for LAFD, even if it's just window dressing to look good. Politically,
(07:52):
they're gonna have to take from animal services again, They're
gonna have to take from street services again, public works,
all of those public facing entities. Do you hopefully never
need to cop you hopefully never need the fire department,
but you always need your street to be in good condition,
You need the trash taken away and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And is anyone pointing fingers? Is it mismanagement? Is it
a million things?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
There are some on the council who blame the amount
of money that's been spent on the police department. For example,
their department is the highest funded. It's the one that
did not take a cut. And you hear that from
some corners. Mainly what you're hearing from the city administrator
and probably what you will hear from Mayor Bass is
simply that the city has taken a hit because of
the economic conditions they are also concerned about. But all
(08:34):
the other cities around here took a hit and they're
not suffering. That's that's what you're going to have conversations about.
LA is going to have to come to terms with
its la ness. It is. It is a place that
lives like a guy from La right that's spending at all,
living large, posting on Insta, but doesn't really have any money.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Michael Monks is with us reporter. I don't like that
term reporter? Is it journalist? Usually corresponding correspondent makes me
sound way more important? And I am do you say
the correspondent? Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I mean that's fine. I'm you know, I'm about I
say journalists because I think that covers Okay, enough, Okay,
but the death spiral. You know about this.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You know, if you live in San Francisco, they didn't
have enough money. They cut the budget, so they cut services. Well,
if you cut services, then the streets get rough, and
then the people who have money move out, and then
it lowers the tax you know, it lowers your tax revenue,
and then that circle continues down the drain until you become.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You know, it's mad Max. And what just happened to
a significant neighborhood in La It burned down, so all
that business revenue is gone, all of the people that
were visiting there, they're gone, and all exactly there's not
really an end in sight. By the way, this is
a city that has the Olympics coming, I know, Super
Bowl coming, an All Star Game coming. We are going
to be playing hosts again. The l anis of it all.
(09:49):
We're still throwing big parties, but we have no money this,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Fortunately, the silver lining in you know, if there is
ever anyone where fourteen thousand homes are lost, that fire
could have happened late twenty twenty five and into twenty
twenty six, twenty you know, or into twenty seven when
the Olympics were coming in.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
That would have been a disaster. Well not gone would
but at least we have three years to try to rebuild.
That's right, to rebuild itself. But the forecast, you know,
these budget people at city Hall are doing year's forecast
down the line. They've already had to adjust it from
last year, and it wasn't looking good. It wasn't supposed
to be looking a good until after the year. The
Olympics are here, and now it's even worse because of
what has happened this year, and they are thinking about
(10:30):
selling some properties, some buildings they don't know whish ones
they've basically been instructed to maybe look at what they
own and what it's time to start selling, because again
I keep using the phraser looking for change in the
couch cushion. What it's going to take is some transformative
approach to the way they prioritize what matters in the
city of Los Angeles and to people who live in it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Is it less attractive to buy a house in a
city that has shortfalls like this?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I think you have to look around and see what
the neighborhood is like right when you're what's the school like,
what are the condition of the houses around me? What
does the street look like? It might be a beautiful home,
it might be a steal, but if there's potholes lining
lining it, or if there are homeless camps that are
not being intended to around it, if there's high crime,
you're going to pass on that steal and you're going
to live in the fashion district like me. Buddy.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Thanks for coming on, Michael Monks, You got monk, You
got Monks? Are you doing Saturday Night?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I'll be on seven o'clock to nine. We'll be talking
a lot regularly until Brian Long tells me otherwise. That's great. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I enjoy doing it, talking about the city
issues and county issues. Happy to do it seven and
nine pm Saturday, Saturday Night, The Monks Reports. You got Monks.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I love that dude, said Towala.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
He's the only guy in radio, and I say, is
over and over who doesn't give a rats ass what
anyone thinks about him. He is my radio idol. The
exact opposite of that, Mark Thompson. I listened to Mark
(12:13):
Thompson's YouTube show yesterday and he said, you know, they
were talking about the View, and he said, oh, you
know the view, it's like a yuck fest over there.
And Kim who does the news, She's like, excuse me.
He's like, oh, it's a yuck fest over there, and
she's like, oh, because they're women and just said yapping,
(12:34):
so it's a yuck fest.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He's like, no, no, no, Like ESPN does it too.
You know, just way too many hosts. You know, CNN
on election night nine people talking has something to do
with women, you know, there's just too many people talking
at the same time. And he went on an apology tour,
but all the goodwill he built up, you know, beating
Trump up every day for three years. And because he
(12:57):
said made one mistake, one mistake by saying anything negative
about the View, woo, he got his ass handed to him.
And then he was like, oh, maybe I'll watch the
View again. Maybe I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Maybe I'll take a look at it. You know, maybe
I was completely wrong about the View. Maybe it's the
greatest show ever. What happened, what happened over there?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
All right? So welcome back to steph USh.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You were out for a couple of days, went out
to make some money, eh, I sure did, driving Uber
for Saint Patrick's Day. Yes, sir, And you've aligned your
pockets huh. I tried, Yeah, did pretty well.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We were hours when you go when you drive Uber.
People won't know this, but steph Fush drives Uber and Lyft.
I believe you do both.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I had to resign up for Lyft, but yeah, I
do both, okay in general. And I and you were
doing that before you started here. And everytime there's real
big holiday you like to make some real money and
get out of here and go drive for Uber.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yep, there you go. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
He runs the Afternoon Drive show. He runs the boards
for the afternoon Drive show. I'm the most popular talk
station in America. And when he wants to go make
some money Uber Uber?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Uber? All right, and what were your hours when you
worked Uber? So Saturday was four pm to three am?
All right? Anybody throwing up? And no, I got really lucky? Wow? Yeah?
What's the charge for that? Nowadays? With Uber?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Well now they have it in different tiers, So it's like,
if it's not that bad, it's forty bucks. If it's
a little bit bad at sixty bucks, who desermines that Uber?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
The driver?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Uber?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They come on, take a look at this thing.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
No, no, I have to take like three or four
pictures and send it to them and then they give
me the analysis.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Really, how about that guy's job?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, Uber, right, he's collecting all the you know, it's
his job to sit there and look at throw up
pictures and decide how much that's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Exactly what a job that is? Right? How do you
ever get a meal in?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
You know, you sit down with your subway sandwich, your
foot log, and all of a sudden, oh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Here's another one. Let me take a look at that.
Oh no, it's everywhere.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Two hundred dollars back to my you know, turkey and
cheese exactly what a job pretty much? Yeah, And so
you send them pictures and how often how quickly they
do they respond.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
They're actually pretty fast they do. They do it within
like ten, ten to fifteen minutes, and they'll tell you
the charge. Yeah, what's the biggest charge you ever had?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Like a total? Well, twelve grand?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Well, originally it used to be two hundred every time,
no matter what. Really, Yeah, And then I guess people
were complaining because some people weren't making that big of
a mess, and so they're like, I guess they that's
when they started the different the different orders of how
much we can actually charge.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You. Do you get pissed when people throw up in
your car? Depends on how hot the girl is.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
I'm not happy about it, but I've been very lucky
that when it happens, it's just the end of the night,
so it's kind of like a bonus. Okay, is it
man or women throwing up? That's a good questions. I
would say, you know what, I can count on one
hand how many times has happened.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'd say four out of the five times, it was women.
Is that right? Yep? Wow, that's so that's not good. No,
that's what happened. And is it usually younger gals throwing up?
Oh yeah, they're like in their mid twenties. They're partying
bachelorette parties and you know parties. You don't see a
granny on the way to the airport, you know, pausing
(16:32):
it exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh that's awesome, budd. So once they throw up in
the car, that's a wrap for that night.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Pretty much, because it does smell. I mean, it's you
can't who cleans it up? You know? There's yeah, I
clean it up. Oh my god.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Yeah, they try to do like a mobile cleaning thing.
But I'm like, no, if I'm in, If I'm in, uh,
you know, a thousand oaks and you're located in Englewood,
I'm not about to drive all the way down there
just so you can clean it up for me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Right, So you got to tackle that yourself. Yeah, do
you hear it coming? Like one time I did, and
I actually took the initiative to pull over. Every other
time that they've always been like bro bro bro bro
bro pull over, pull over, pull over, pull over.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
And I'm like, all right, Luckily I haven't been on
the freeway when that happens, and they just open the
door and it just all comes out.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Most people reach for the window, they try to toss
it out the window. Uh. That happened once. Yeah, and
I got on the side of the car. Oh my god.
How about the guy driving by in a convertible? Yeah? Okay,
So how much mone did you make? You make over
five hundred bucks? Uh? Just under that on St. Patrick's
(17:52):
day total of the weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Wow, that's pretty good, not bad. Yeah, that's great, dude.
I did you meet anybody?
Speaker 8 (17:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Can you do that?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Can you like if like if I like a girl
says hey, and I really like the haircut, I like
the goateee, I can pick up on that Argentinian skin
color of yours.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Have you ever dated somebody? Uh?
Speaker 7 (18:13):
No, they all just they have their they are they're
they're all set because usually the women that come out,
they're already uh planning the guys that they're going to
talk to when they get the car.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, but but are uh is there is it a
policy of Uber that you can't date the passengers? No,
there's no policy. No, really.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah, all right, that's pretty even though sometimes they treat
me like the therapist because they'll just tell me stuff
that they've never told anybody because they'll never see me again.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Really Oh yeah, wow, wow, got the stories. Oh that's great, buddy.
I believe I think I'd like that. I think I'd
like to drive uber and just talk to people like that.
Who am I kidding? I hate it?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
All right, that's wild, buddy. I'm glad you're back though.
Thank you back from ubering uber Ubert.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Hey, this Saturday, I'm going to be in the San
Juan Copistrano Parade. The Swallows are coming back to San
Juan Compistrano, And they said, hey, do you want to
be in the parade, and I said sure. Usually in
the area anyway, when the swallows come back, might as
well jump into that parade. So if you're in San
Juan Copistrano or anywhere in Orange County, come on out
to the parade. And it's going to be Saturday morning.
(19:25):
I think it starts at eleven ten thirty eleven, between
ten and eleven, I think it's eleven o'clock and it
goes all throughout the streets of San Juan Copistrano. All
the bars are open, all the restaurants are open.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's packed.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Last year, it rained like crazy. It poured during the
entire parade. I drove down there, beautiful skies, got down there,
little cloudy, and the moment that parade started, the exact
moment I felt one drop on my head, like, oh
that's interesting, and then it opened up and it poured
the entire parade. Well, the weather this year is going
to be quite different, quite different. Ye, it's gonna be
(20:01):
beautiful in San Juan Capistrano. So come on down and
enjoy yourself, bring the whole family, and man, you're gonna
love it. You're gonna absolutely enjoy it. I'm gonna get
you the exact weather here for San Juan Copistrano. Let's
see here sand Wan Copistrano. Okay, here it is for Saturday.
(20:24):
Forty nine is the low. Sixty nine is the high,
perfect weather, not a cloud in the sky, beautiful all day,
a hive of about seventy degrees.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That is sensational.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And speaking of weather, next week in the San Fernando Valley,
we're gonna be eighty four degrees, eighty five degrees on Monday.
It'll be eighty five degrees on Monday in the San
Fernando Valley. That's warm for this time of year. Pretty
warm Lancaster this weekend. Beautiful, no rain, beautiful out there
(20:57):
in the Upper Desert, Lancaster, Victorville, Old Palmdale, the whole
Antelope Valley. Saturday seventy one degrees, Sunday seventy eight degrees,
and then Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the low eighties.
So we've got some beautiful weather coming up for southern
California out on the coast people live on the coast.
(21:17):
Seventy degrees on Saturday, seventy one on Sunday, then seventy
six on Monday, which is fairly warm for the coast.
So that's gonna be a great weekend. If you're going
to the Big Bear, you going to the mountains, you
might be a little late for snow might be over
by the time you get up there. Friday sixty degrees
is the high. Saturday, fifty nine, Sunday sixty, Monday sixty seven,
(21:41):
almost seventy degrees in Big Bear. So whatever snow we
had in Big bear last week is going to be
gone by the time Monday rolls around. Sixty seven degrees
is not a good temperature to keep snow on the ground.
So it's gonna beautiful throughout southern California. And this is
the weekend to get out there with the family and
(22:05):
do something outdoors. You know, finally, for the first weekend
in quite some time, it's not gonna be rainy or
windy or smokey.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
It's just gonna be fantastic. So get out there and
enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Tracy Morgan, speaking of we talked to stef Fush about
throwing up and people throwing up in his zuber. Tracy
Morgan threw up at a at a basketball game and
a Knicks game NBA game. They had to stop the
game for ten minutes. Well, he was throwing up all
over the court. And when we come back, we'll get
an update on Tracy Morgan, how he's doing. He said
(22:39):
he had food poisoning.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I don't know. You want to believe him, but I
don't know. I don't know. We'll find out how he's doing. Though.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
He had to leave the game in a wheelchair and
they had to stop the NBA game for ten minutes. Well,
he's throwing up on everybody. That's embarrassing. He'll never live
that down.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
You're listening to Tim Conway jun on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Fast Food is it's going to make some changes that
are going to affect your life. McDonald's and Taco Bell
are going to establish restaurants that are drive through only,
no more dining in, and so you don't have to
answer that question anymore when they say are you getting
it to go?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Are you dining in? Dining in? It's a it's said
Taco Bell. I missed the the hostess dying and the
Major D. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I passed the Major D station and went right to
the counter to order dining in. Dining in, God almighty,
that's great. That's a great term. Will you be dining in?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, I will not be. You know what think's going away? Krozier.
The ball pits where the kids play, I think that's
going away.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
The CESL contamulations. My daughter when she was young, she
used to like to play in the ballpit. Said as
much as I said no, she would, you know, pout?
And I finally said yes, and she and her friend
were rummaging around and that in that ball pit.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And she came out and on her arm she had
a clump of wet hair. I said, that is a
rap with the ball pits. Hrap.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
You know. They didn't do anything like nightly, like it
disinfected nightly.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
They monthly. Yeah, God almighty.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
But I think that those kids that played in the
ballpit every day, they never have to go to a doctor.
They're not getting anything. They have such a great immune system.
It's like the guys that grew up in Manhattan and
swam in the Hudson River. They never get sick. The
hose drinkers, Yeah, right, because they were swimming around human
bodies and feces their whole life.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
They've they've had their sh germs.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
So McDonald's they're also implementing AI across forty three thousand locations.
Will enhance the speed and efficiency, and so they're gonna
have just drive throughs McDonald's and and tacob I'm sure
Wendy's will follow suit as well. But Wendy's is experiencing
or expanding, i should say, the AI Voice assistance.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
So when you go to Wendy's, you'll be ordering through AI.
Currently in one hundred locations, with planned to roll it
out to four to five to six hundred locations. And
again they're focusing on accuracy and efficiency, although I don't
think Wendy's has to focus on accuracy and efficiency. I
never get the wrong order at Wendy's. Wendy's and in
(25:44):
and out and in and out I think is great.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
However, I think they a little if the one thing
I'd like to change about in and out to have
my order read back to me three times. When you
order it, they read it back to you, then the
guy who takes your money reads it back to you,
and then the woe too, hands are you the food
reads it back to you. I think we've got it
(26:09):
by then, you know, can you? I wonder if you
can put up a stop sign with your hand and go, hey,
I got it. I'm gonna take the chance that it's
not right here, but the reading back of the order.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But that's why it's always right. I get that, I
get that, I get that, but it's it's correcting it
on the third time. Though you said yes, yes, but
how the first two read backs and then the third one? No? Right,
But how how closely do you listen to the read
back anyway, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So he goes, all right, I got two burgers, two fries,
one with a mustard, I got animal fries, I got
two shakes one.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
But like wait what? But I bet you do this
when you're with four or five people in the car,
when they read back the order to you, you point
at the person who they're talking. They're repeating their order
like burger, oh, cheese, broke good, that's her, it's her, coke,
that's him, that's her, and he's got It's like a
(27:04):
traffic cop.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
So is in and Out basically treating you like an idiot,
thinking that the first two times they're not paying attention.
We go to do it one more time, just to
make sure that they hear us.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No, I think what in and Out does is they
get everybody on board used to if you run into
a customer to repeat the order back, And I think
it does.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
It does you know diminish how many times food is
brought back? And so I think it does save them
some money.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Chick fil A is going to do the They're going
to utilize drones and video analysis, sort of like game
films of streamlining streamlining their operations, their drive through operations,
and so the industry trend in fast food, our chains
are increasingly adopting AI and automation. They have this thing where,
(27:54):
you know, with French fries. I think it's called the
fry buddy, where now there's a robot that makes the
French fries, so you no longer need that position. So
I think a lot of these jobs are going away.
You know, a lot of these jobs and fast food
will eventually be handled by somebody. You know, buy a robot,
you know, something that can work twenty four hours a day,
(28:15):
never takes time off, never asks for an increase in salary,
never gets sick, and just keeps working. It's a huge
expense to begin with, but I think it pays off.
I think that fry buddy that does the French fries
for you, I think it's a sixty thousand dollars robot,
but I think it pays for itself, probably in two years.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You know, I don't know how often it breaks down.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Probably not as often as the milkhake machine or the
ice cream machine at McDonald's that seems to be always
on the fritz.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But I just enjoy fast food way too much. I really.
I eat like a twenty year old who's not going
to see thirty. I really do. I just love it,
Like you know, I know where the deals are.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I know Tuesday night at Del Taco, three tacos is
the deal on Tuesday and Thursday. I just enjoy it
and I probably shouldn't. Well, let's get into a Tracy Morgan.
Here an update on Tracy Morgan. They stopped the knixt game,
the NBA game for ten minutes. He was thrown up
(29:18):
all over the place. Let's find out if this guy's
better by now, don.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Jaim back with us.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
We got to talk about Tracy Morgan because that was
everyone was talking about it.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
He got sick, so he got sick.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
And in a recent Instagram posts, he shared that he
had about of food poisoning, which unfortunately can happen just
as sudden as that. I hope he's doing better. He's
reportedly doing better. He's sharing a lot of his posts online.
He's still being funny, which is a good thing, but
it's an important reminder to talk about food poisoning and
food borne illnesses.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Okay, I don't know if that's the case or not.
I don't know. With Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I imagine everybody who throws up on the NBA court
has to blame it on something other than massive amounts
of alcohol.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I don't know if Tracy Morgan drinks or not. I
wouldn't be surprised if he did.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
We talk a lot about these types of things because
they're very common and many patients come into the emergency
room for these issues. Just as a reminder of food
born illness is when bacteria or something contaminated is in
your food. That think rose in your body. Those symptoms
can happen days two weeks later.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Right, days two weeks later, not three minutes later. It
can happen days two weeks later. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I'm suspicious. I'm gonna stay on high alert that this
was food poisoning.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Food poisoning is when there's a toxin in your food,
often created by a bacteria, and that can create those
sudden symptoms that just unpredictably happen sometimes in.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The middle of a basketball game. And what's the best
way to treat it is it antibiotics? Go home, leave
the court and find a toilet.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Well, sometimes it can be antibiotics. The good news is
that when it comes on really strong and fast like that. Usually,
as we most know from our history and most of
us have experienced this, it goes away generally fast, and
the treatment is generally supportive.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Talked about this at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
What does that mean? Helping people with fluid hydration, making
sure that they're not having a fever or any other symptoms,
controlling those symptoms while.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
They get through the time. So at what point do
you see the doctor? If you do?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
And I don't know if you've seen this, the footage
of Tracy Morgan throwing up. Have you seen a crozier?
The video of Tracy Morgan tossing it? It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Stefus the the video? I have not any here about
this time right now. God, the video is unbelievable. It's
just him leaning over and everything comes out.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh if you can't treat moving back and forth like
a cat, who's about to you.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Know, it's almost like a like a Simpsons or the
Family guy, you know, where it comes straight out and
then goes everywhere on the court. It's horrible. And then
the poor guy is, you know, making twelve dollars an
hour having to come out and clean that up. Sorry
if you're eating, Sorry gang.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
If you can't treat your symptoms from the comfort of
your own couchs, then you have to talk to a provider.
You can suffer from the complications of food borne illnesses
or food poisoning again, like dehydration or other symptoms that
you need help controlling, but it's really important just to
remember to prevent them. And a lot of that happens
in our kitchen, washing our meats, washing our fruits and vegetables,
especially because people don't realize that bacteria travel on them.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All right, what's the main goal to stop this?
Speaker 9 (32:16):
Washing our meats, washing our meats. Got to wash your meat,
washing our meats, wash your meats. Everybody washing our fruits.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
And vegetables, especially because people don't realize that bacteria travel
on them. And then the US Department of Agriculture recommends
throwing food away after three or four days.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Is that right? Three or four days?
Speaker 8 (32:38):
A partner of agriculture recommends throwing food away after three
or four days.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Ah, I fudge that a little. I go five to ten.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
The smell check doesn't always pass the vibe check. You
want to make sure to at least label your food,
or take a picture of it. The label or the
date goes into your phone, so you remember when you've
made it.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
The smell check doesn't always pass the check.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
With my wife because she doesn't know really when meats bad,
you know, and she's not really good at washing our
meats at Washington Meets.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
But so she's like, I don't know, is this any good?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I said, sweetie, Look, if there's ever a question to
throw it out, let's not you know, let's not you know,
pretend that this is not, you know, rancid.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So everybody got a Remember, here's a lesson of the hour.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
Washing our meats, Wash your meats, Wash your meats, washing
our meats, washing your meats.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You've got to wash your meats, all right, wash your
meat before this guy. When was the last time you
were told to wash your meat? Uh? Probably in like
seventh grade? Hmmm, maybe eighth.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I don't know, when's the last time you were told
to wash your meat? Croch Sunday, Washing our Meats.
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