✈️ “Labor Day skies PACKED!” 🏙️ “Newsom’s homeless plan” 🏈 “Cowboys stun NFL — Micah Parsons trade!”
August 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Alex Stone reports that as Americans unofficially bid farewell to summer, the Labor Day travel rush is setting records. United Airlines expects to fly 3.1 million passengers, the busiest holiday travel period for airlines in 15 years. Domestic fares are up 10% from last year, with the average ticket at $231.
Michael Monks discusses California’s largest cities, Gov. Newsom’s new homeless encampment plan, and Councilwoman Jurado’s opposition to a proposed Home Depot in Eagle Rock, citing ICE raid concerns. Elex Michaelson recalls Palisades Park turning into a kids’ playground with fire engines and ambulances — a rare event that united Rick Caruso and Karen Bass supporters. He also teases big names in his phone contacts and hints at when he’ll announce his next job. NFL blockbuster trade: The Dallas Cowboys stunned fans by sending Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for Kenny Clark and two future first-round picks. Parsons quickly signed a record-breaking extension with the Packers, while the Cowboys bet on bolstering their run defense and playoff future.
Michael Monks discusses California’s largest cities, Gov. Newsom’s new homeless encampment plan, and Councilwoman Jurado’s opposition to a proposed Home Depot in Eagle Rock, citing ICE raid concerns. Elex Michaelson recalls Palisades Park turning into a kids’ playground with fire engines and ambulances — a rare event that united Rick Caruso and Karen Bass supporters. He also teases big names in his phone contacts and hints at when he’ll announce his next job. NFL blockbuster trade: The Dallas Cowboys stunned fans by sending Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for Kenny Clark and two future first-round picks. Parsons quickly signed a record-breaking extension with the Packers, while the Cowboys bet on bolstering their run defense and playoff future.
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Hey Bob about you? I was just saying, if you're live,
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That's possible, right, I mean I think eventually this will
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Speaker 1 (01:54):
Summer Labor Day RAUSH is on and they they say, Alex,
you know this because you're a news guy that they're
at ABC News. This is going to be the busiest
Labor Day weekend in the history of this country.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Don't they always say that holiday?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I went, I was watching KTLA, your competitor.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Sorry, and she goes, they go to live, Megan Henderson,
We're going to We're going to lax Live to see
the crowds, and she's at United Airlines.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
There's nobody there.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There's nobody there Isn't that the worst when you go
out to cover a story and the story's not there.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That is a.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Problem to cover rain, but it's usually two minutes before.
It's crazy busy, and then they go to and you're
going go to me, now, go to me now, right
then they go to you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I love the rain coverage where they go out it's
not raining, and then they focus on a little puddle
and you see a couple of drops.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You go there, it is yes, stormwatch and it's sprinkling
out there, but it was raining ten minutes before.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Also, I know the gas prices are a big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I saw a gas at two dollars and sixty nine
cents in Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
I know you're gonna say somewhere in California, because I
filled up at the Burbank Costco this morning for four
thirty if it was too something here, but if that
makes more sense in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Northern California, there's a gas station where it's ten dollars
a gallon northern California.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So then there's always those in downtown LA that are
like eight bucks, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Is it too late to have left? Are you gonna
buy Cannevoid traffic?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
So you know there's all these inricks and then other
companies that they do all the predictions of that you
were in the heart of it right now, you're gonna
be in the heart of it for the next couple
of hours. And then they say tonight it. You know,
if you go late enough, like eight nine o'clock, you
should be in the clear and then or you could
go early tomorrow morning. And that's kind of that's their
prediction and their idea of when you should go. But
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the return is they're saying, look, if you can come
back on Sunday night instead of at some point on Monday.
If you've ever driven like up the Five to northern
California coming back, I guess coming down the Five after
a holiday weekend like Thanksgiving or Labor Day, it is
just you slam it on your brakes, you speed up,
and every big rig that gets over and then you
slam on your brakes again. And you can avoid that
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a little bit if if you were to go tonight.
This is Kitty Nastro Booking website called going. She says, here,
do this late.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Evening or early evening until late evening. You want to
try to target that on the busiest day of this
Labor Day weekend, as well as try to target the
morning of Saturday if you can, and then coming back
on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yes, you're going to not a lot of people are
going to be on the roads during those times. So
on the gas price thing, for whatever reason, TRIPLEA didn't
put out at least we were told they didn't put
out their prediction that normally we say, you know, forty
eight million people are going to hit the roads.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They didn't do that this year.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
But gas Buddy is saying that that these are the
lowest I mean, still insane what we pay in California,
but these are the lowest prices that they have seen
in the national average since going back to the beginning
of the pandemic when prices took a nose dive. And
so that's going to up the number of people who
are willing and able to get in the car and
go somewhere, whether they're driving to Vegas or going to
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drive somewhere else. Matt mcclaan over a gas Buddy he's taught.
And again national averages, not California. But but then it
looks good.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Average prediction by gas Buddy for this weekend three fifteen
a gallon. Yes, that is the cheapest price that we
have seen since the COVID shutdown of twenty twenty. You
may recall we were paying two dollars and twenty two
cents nationally speaking during that time frame. But five years later,
this is the cheapest gas that we have actually come
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across really since since then. Three twenty nine is what
we were paying last year.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Can you imagine if we're paying three to fifteen a gallon?
We hope were going crazy. We'd been driving.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Everywhere, no kidding, But you know, it's really a tough
weekend to get away because you know, look, when you
get away in the summer for a weekend, you come back,
the kids are still out of school.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You know, you're going to work. You sort of you know,
it was a nice weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But now when you come back from this weekend, it's
game on for everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
In the house. It really.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Kids at school, they going back to work, you're going
to college.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Everybody's busy.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, the Northeast, they're still out of school, and they
don't go back until next week, so they've still kind
of got a little bit of summer to them. But but
we've all been back now for a month. I mean,
we did back to school last night and we were told,
you know, your kids are not gonna miss anything for
a trip because they've got a lot of learning to
do now that at least my son's in middle school.
And so now it's like real, you know, here we go.
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So for family, sure that that's hard to do, but
if you can get away the places that the.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
People are flying to.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
According to Expedia, they say, well, first of all, Hopper
is saying they're another website. New York City, Vegas, Seattle, Miami,
and Chicago are the top places people are going this weekend.
But Expedia does where they look kind of the off
the beaten path places that people are going, and they
found Sandusky, Ohio being number one if you're not going
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to Vegas or Orlando, that sort of place, big theme
park there, Rosemary Beach, Florida, Cape May, New Jersey, and
you know, they're different, little places that maybe you want
to go to a lake, maybe you want to go
out into the country, and that's where people are finding themselves.
But yeah, the average ticket price is here two hundred
thirty one bucks. Domestic airfares are up ten percent. United
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says that they think they're going to be flying three
point one million people this weekend and then it's going
to be the busiest ever on this same day, which,
by the way, about two hours ago, Spirit Airlines declared
bankruptcy again and they don't know if they're going to
be able to survive. This is the second time in
a year they've declared bankruptcy, so it's not roses everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But they're going to make it through the weekend. They
will make it through the weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Yeah, they say everything's gonna be fine Labor Day, but
they had put the feelers out there a couple of
weeks ago saying that they may not be able to
stay in business based on the current desires. You know,
we've talked about it where people now want a more
luxurious experience and they're going United American Delta Alaska, and
that's why Southwest is making all these changes to be
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a mainline airline that Spirit. People aren't gravitating any longer
toward the fifteen dollars airfare with all of the up
charges and kind of the atmosphere on board, and they're hurting,
so they have declared bankruptcy again.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know, when you're on American or United Alaska comes
to mind Delta and a fight breaks out on the plane,
you are shocked to the core. But if you're on
Spirit and a fight doesn't break out on the plane,
you're like, wow, I made it.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Well.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I think there's a different clientele. You don't typically find
as many business people flying on Spirit as you would
when they can get a first class upgrade and go
to the club and their corporate card is paying for
it on Delta, United, but in Southwest is kind of
somewhere in the middle. You get all the leisure travelers
and some business. But yeah, I think the clientele is
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very different on Frontier and Spirit and Allegiant than it
would be elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, I think Spirit, you know, it's everybody's last flight.
You know, they just have enough money to get a
seat and get the you know, mom's funeral, and then.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
There are others flown on them. But there are others
who say the big front seat on Spirit is amazing,
and people choose it. But whatever's going on over there,
they're hurting, and they're saying they're gonna have to sell
off airplanes to make money.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
That.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I mean, they're at the point where if they're gonna survive,
they got to start selling planes.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You know, Spirit made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
They said for an extra you know, for one hundred dollars,
you get a big, beautiful seat up front, but for
another two hundred dollars, they'll let you fly the plane.
And that that didn't go well with the other passengers.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They were have you ever flown Microsoft flight simulate? Good?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
All right, go up there and you can knock this up.
You know you said San Dusky, Ohio. That's home of
Cedar Point in Ohio. If you ever been there with
the kids.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I never have been here.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It's amazing there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, that's unblue, a little joint. What's your plans with
the family, Just stay in town.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We're gonna be around.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
We gotta check out Halloween time at Disneyland tomorrow, so
we'll go down and do that best time at Disneyland,
I would argue that, and then Christmas with all the decorations,
So we'll be hanging around. What about you wait tomorrow?
The first day of Halloween, No, was last Friday a
week ago. Yeah, I'm just hanging out. I I don't
you know, I'll be looking at the horse races and
(10:05):
you know, maybe you horse races.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
No thinking about going to delmar you know. But the
problem is the four hour traffic, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yeah, I had to go down to San Diego to
do the Menendez Brothers last week. It took four and
a half hours to go from Glendale to San Diego.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It does, and you know, and the worst part is
when you leave.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
San Clemente, before you get to Oceanside, when you're going
through the you know where the Marines train, it's always
jammed there.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Always.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, I don't feel like it used to be. Yeah, no,
I think you're in that area. That's where you would
like just you take off and fly right there right now.
That's always bumper to bumper exactly, buddy, Thanks for coming
on a right Take care are they goes?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Alex Stone with ab Seed News ab Seed News. We
got Michael Monks coming up at four twenty and then
Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Why what a show we got going on?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
But when we come back or actually after Alex, I
want to talk to Krozier about the Cowboys because there
was some trade that everybody's getting down on.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But you've got it like a hot take on it.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Well, it's because I'm an actual fan and I pay
attention to the team.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Okay, all right, let's hear well, we're not just some
outrageous sports guy, all right, but it's it's Micah Parsons,
who's a four year veteran, a great.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Arguably the best defensive player in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And the highest paid now the highest play defensive event.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah right, I know, but but man, that's the maybe
the second trade that's gotten a lot of news out
of Dallas, you know, the Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Yeah, Dallas, PA.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right now, Yeah, that must have been all right.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, so after Alex Michaelson will, we'll have Krozer, who's
a big, big Cowboys fan, hug his entire life.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You grew up in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Which is very tough to be a Cowboys fan when
everybody all your other you know, friends and family members,
they're all Redskins fans.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Got chased around RFK Stadium many a time.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, and somebody said to me the other day, they said, well,
it's not Red Sins. It's it's Commanders, I said, I know.
But when as you was growing up, there was no
Commanders fans in Washington, d C. Yeah, they were Redchington
Football game. Yeah, there were Redskins fans. That's what the
name of the team was.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
People who played for the Redskins played for the Redskins.
They never played for the Commanders. And that's the that's
the real history.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Monks.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Monks, Monks.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You got Monks seven to nine pm every Saturday here
on KFI.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And all day long every weekday. And you're gonna be
live this weekend. I'll be live this weekend.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Absolutely, I'll be in the studio here starting at seven o'clock.
Lots of fun stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You know, when when I was growing up, and I'm
a little older than you are, but there was some
you know, my grandmother was a big fan of talk radio,
and I think that's where I started listening. And I
was frightened as a child by anything that moved out
in the valley. I grew up in the in the
late sixties early seventies when the murder rate was through
the roof and I always thought someone was gonna break
it and kill me. And so but as low sung
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is talk radio was live, not a tape, not a
you know, but a local live show. I felt good.
I felt comfortable. It's like somebody's with you, with me. Yeah,
somebody's with you.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's why.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
And I know you don't experience this because all the
A listeners at this station take the holidays off. But
the JV team like me, we're here and I can
tell you the last holiday season was very lonely in
this building listening to your old shows.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well, I there is something. Look for people driving right now.
There are people driving to Bronco or Vegas or San
francisc or whatever, and they're listening right now, and we're
making their drive a little shorter, a little less, you know, crazy,
because we're on live.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We're in the car with them. Yeah, it's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Every single day, you know, I drove down this is
a couple of years ago, from Oregon to a Los
Angeles and it was on a Sunday and you know
NFL Sunday, and I picked up a I was I
started six am from six am till nine am. When
the first game came on, there was this local sports
show and I I felt like that guy was in
the car with me.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
You know, It's why I don't like podcasts so much.
I don't mean to sound old here. I'm with you,
but I you know, and I don't want to diss
our company. We are obviously the largest podcast company in
America as well. But when you're listening to a podcast,
they don't have you know, Crosier doing the news.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
They don't have Angel doing the traffic. You're not getting
the updated forecasts and those sorts of elements that remind
you that this is happening right now while you exist.
You're listening to some recorded conversation that has already been polished,
and they're not with you.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I'm with you, We're with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Put the podcast down, turn on the AM band, and
let's get this party star right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
We got a surprise segment coming up. Pun Oh, you
didn't get any notes about this segment. Let me show
you what I got.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Who's your producer? What does it say under monks surprise segment?
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Oh well, let me tell you what's happening, because I'll
say look, I'll give you the brief line on one
of these stories, but I brought in two stories. Wow,
but I think one of them will make you more
excited thout the other one. First, Governor k news something.
He's launched this task force statewide to clean up home
camps right particularly on state right of way areas. He's
hitting the ten largest cities in California first. Can you
(15:06):
name those the largest cities? The ten largest cities in LA.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I mean, let me get California.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Four of them are in southern California. Three of them
in our market. Okay, largest cities in our market. Obviously,
Los Angeles Long Beach is one of them. They're in
LA County. Well, look, I'm gonna give you another hint here.
The next one is in Orange County. Okay, Orange County
is God?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Is it? God? Is it Anaheim? It's Anaheim? Okay.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
And the other one San Diego. Oh I see, Okay, Yeah,
so that's the one that's outside of the market. So yeah,
those are four of the cities that they're going to
be targeting first with this program. Remember last year, the
governor was like, I'm gonna withhold state funding from cities
that don't get their act together on cleaning up homelessness.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
So this is another act.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Like we talked yesterday about this tough on crime approach
that he's taking.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now now he's tough on homelessness.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
It does seem to be a pivot to change national
narratives about the state of California.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But it seems like we've done this before with the homeless.
You know, we've done the clean up before and then
they all go right.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Back to Well you see, I see it right outside
my window in the Fashion district every single time that
they clean up the street, which they've done only twice
since this started in the late spring that we saw
homeless tens start to pop up on our block surrounding
our apartment building. They'd come, they'd get them, and I
mean the same day. Right, These fos are bad.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I did a little research, not a lot, because I'm
a pretty lazy guy, but I don't there are a
lot of countries in this world that do not have
a homeless population at all.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, they don't tolerate it. Well, the world is everyone's home,
tim That's right, all right.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
What's the what's the second news story? Well, it's always
sad when a Macy's closes. You know they're closing. No,
I'm not telling you that this one closed a while. Obviously,
we lost the one downtown more recently. That's sad, But
the one an Eagle Rock closed a couple of years ago.
Home Depot saw this site and said, you know what,
We're gonna tear down that Macy's and put a brand
(17:01):
spanking new home depot. They announced this just last week
at Eagle Rock Plaza.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Eagle Rock is very close than to the Glendale Home Depot,
which is close to the Burbank Home Depot.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You know it might be over home Depot.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
They're making a lot of money these days and also
drawing a lot of headlines, headlines that have also drawn
the ire of La City Councilman Isabelle Herrado, who says
she is now against this home Depot coming to Eagle Rock,
which is in her district, because she says this company
is basically complicit in the federal immigration raids that have
been taking place, especially at home Depot stores all across
(17:36):
southern California.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't think they are. I don't think they care.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
I've heard from activists who want the company to say something.
We know, you know that there are day laborers that
do hang outside of Home Depot stores, and Home Deepot
helped them get back. That's forty years. Yes, that's right.
And they've never kicked them off the lots or anything.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
They don't. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
So if they're suspected of being here illegally, they have
been tained more recently and an activist, especially with that boycott,
they called for to varying degrees of success. You know,
they said that Home Depot is complicit in this, and
the same thing has been said today by Councilman Isabelle Herado,
who says she will not support this new home Depot
because they she said it would basically be allowing violence
(18:20):
to take root in the community.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I think she looked crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now when you say she's not going to support it,
does she have the right to veto then?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
No, she's just I'm not going to go there going through.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
I don't know if they're going to have to apply
for some permits or whatever. But you know, she is
a Filipino woman, and she says that Eagle Rock Plaza
has long been a gathering place for the Filipino community.
I won't allow give her that violence to take root
in a neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Whenever I want to be with the Filipino groups, I
usually go to Eagle Rock Macy's and now I'd like
to go to Eagle Rock Home Depot to.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Hang out with them. Well, you may get that operation way.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I will say this about the Filipino crews. Should we
stop now? Maybe, but crows, I shouldn't do it. Okay,
I'm gonna do it anyway. I never get a vibe
that they are ever stepping out of line.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You think they're obedient, I know.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I think that they work their asses off, keep their
nose clean, pay their taxes, and help a lot of
people in the society. You always hear about them working
at hospitals or daycare. I think they give more back
to society than almost every other group.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Well, they are rising in the ranks. They've got a
member of city council and the city controller is also
a Filipino.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
My guys, I'm well, my wife's Filipino, my dad's Filipino.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
So seeing this is where we should have stopped ten
seconds earlier. We were so close to getting out of
here or I without problem.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I guess I'm confused. Yeah, Buddie, thanks for coming in.
Hell one quick question.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Yeah, because you guys were talking about like Monday and
Labor Day, and yes, of course I am going to
be here and you're not, Tea. But I have a
quick question because I saw the schedule and it says
Monks is out Monday.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Monks has taken Monday off.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Wow, so you aren't going to be here Monday. Well,
it's true that occasional are so you are in the elite.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I think he was saying.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
No, I think Monks was saying in the past when
he was working that there was a dead I will
say that my stock has risen here since the holiday season, absolutely,
and I now get to take the occasional day off.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
And all of the shows are most of the shows
are recorded. We've got another editor coming in.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Just clarification because of what Yeah, thanks for.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Calling me out, Crozer.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm tired of saying this on the air, but but
you need to hear it, and the LA and the
and the audience does as well. You have the number
one talk show on weekends in that time slot. There's
nobody in LA that and I've seen the ratings. So
he gets Monday off.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No, no, no, he does n get money. Maybe it
only does well.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Okay, already should but but seven to nine pm on Saturday,
it's the highest rated talk show in Los Angeles. You
know it's uh and you should ask them to see
those ratings. They should share them with you.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I just like to keep my nose clean, my head down.
I like to get to work, okay, and I like
to entertain and inform the people of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
All right, But if you go around talking about how
great you are in this station, you're gonna make a
lot more money, you think you?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, I try to stay humble. Am I doing that wrong?
Ask Shannon? I'm taking Monday off Crozier because I'm better.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Than you, all right, real live, thanks, buddy monks. Not Monday,
but Saturday, seven to nine pm.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Alex Michaelson has left Fox, but he has not left KFI,
and he joins us.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Alex, how you, bubb, I.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Will never leave you. Ding dog with you, dig dog
with you.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Hey, So you've officially left Fox.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They've taken your your parking pass, your key card to
get in. You're done I'm done, yes, and he severan's
pay comes along with that. No, not, Are you above
collecting unemployment?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Uh, you know, I'm I'm not. But I honestly I
had enough vacation pay saved up that by the time
I start my new thing, I will not go without
a paycheck.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So I see, Okay, that's good time. That's good planning,
good planning. Were you insulted that Fox didn't negotiate with
you before your contract expired?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Fox did negotiate me with me before my contract expired,
and we left on amiaicable terms. It's all good, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Do you uh?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Also, you're you've you've interviewed a lot of people, Governor News,
Donald Trump, Schwarzenegger, Karen Bass. Do you have Governor new
some cell phone number in your phone?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Do you have Schwarzenegger's?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I do not know. How about Karen Backer does does
almost nothing via cell phone. He does almost everything via iPad.
So interesting he's got like a flip phone.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I think I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I do not. Yeah, I try not to have their
direct cell phone numbers. I think there's it's healthy to
have a bit of a barrier to uh, to not
have that pressure.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, who's the biggest star in your cell phone?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Uh? In terms of like from the political world, people
that text me like, well, I don't know. Rick Caruso
prefers to do that, so he likes to reach out directly.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay Carusoe.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
By the way, did you see the big mistake that
they made in Pacific Palisades with the park they put
together for the kids?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
What was what? What was what was the big problem
with they?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You know, Pacific Falsades burned to the ground and one
of the things that they wanted to restore immediately was
a park where the kids can go in and feel
like they're they're home again and play in the park
and bring back those memories and start a fresh new
uh you know, place to meet and congregate and see
one another.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So they put this park together.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
They spend a couple million dollars, and in the part
you know they have in some parks they have like
a school buss, a little fake school boss. The kids
can get in and pretend they're on a school bus
or a tractor or a dump truck or whatever. But
in that park, in that park in Pacific Palisades, they
put the whole thing together and they put in two
(24:19):
fire engines and an ambulance.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, well that was and that was the that was
the park. I went out there the day when they
talked about bringing that together. That was the only joint
appearance of Karen Baths and Rick Caruso coming together working
with JJ Reddick of the Lakers. So that was literally
all of the might of both most opposing groups of
(24:44):
La the Bass and Caruso camp, and they're coming together
with all their brain power, and that's what we got.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
How many people okayed that before? You know, before it.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Was clear the answer is clearly not enough.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
But I mean nobody said, Hey, these kids have gone
through a lot of trauma. Let's not put fire engines
and ambulances in their in their playground.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah. I guess that. I guess Apparently people hadn't heard
of fire in Pacific Palace.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Unbelievable. All right, So Rick is in your cell phone?
Who else is in your cell phone?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Who's like a big celebrity that you could call or text?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You me?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I mean Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Right, somebody asked me this the other day. My two
big ones are Jay Leno. I got j Leno's phone number.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Charlie Fox who wrote Killing Me Softly, that's a solid one.
And L A p D Chief Jim McDonald Alan Hamilton,
who's the chart is the number one. He's the chief
of detectives at l A p D. That I think
those are solid.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Those are good. And me and you, of course thank
you for the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
When you're gonna announce your new job over at I
can't say it but where you're starting.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Probably in a few weeks, but I'll say this, being
off is great. I'm loving the time of this whole word.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
By the way, what an original take where you're out
of work and getting money and you enjoy that.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
The great There's a whole world out there that I
didn't realize exists.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I guess what do you do all day? Do you
get up at the same time you get up early?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Well, I didn't get up that early before because I
worked late late at night like like you. But I
get up actually earlier because I go to bed earlier
now because I'm not having to work until midnight every night.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What's early for you? Early for me is eleven, what's
early for you?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I've been getting up close to like six or seven.
I go to bed earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
get up at eleven? Really, what you do.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I get up?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I initially get up at six thirty quarter to seven.
My daughter goes off to work, and then I read
the Internet for a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Then I might take an hour.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah, what are your what are your go to sites
during the perusing of the news in the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That's interesting, that's interesting. I'll tell you what they are
because they're on my phone right now. I've got the
New York Post solid.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, I've got Fox News so soon.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
To be the California Post too.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'm very excited about that. Yeah,
I got the Fox News. I go with also Daily Mail,
La Times, and there's another one here, New York Daily News.
And I like to read the Vegas Newspaper. I like
(27:50):
to I feel like a gang member at gangster when
I read the What's going on in the Strip?
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I enjoyed it from nineteen sixty three when the gangs
are really controlling Vegas. Right, he puts on a good show,
all right, But.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The Vegas Journal I like reading that, you know, find
out what's going on on the strip and what's happening
in the in the real world, buddy, I'm very excited
about your new job. Is your family also excited?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
My family's excited. Yeah. And I got to spend some
time with them this week in Orange County, which was
really fun. Went to the beach together and got to
hang out, which was great.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, for people that don't know this, Alex Michaelson, who's
with us, He's our guest. He was at ABC for
a long, long, long time. Then they fired him, and
he went to Fox, and he was with Fox for
a long time and they fired him. And now he's
going on to a big national You're going national exposure
on your new big national show.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
It's amazing how I keep getting fired and yet I
keep getting getting a good show.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I know.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Look, I've been fired from every job I've ever.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Had my life.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I've never quite true, that's really true.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
How long have you been a KFI?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
In January of this year, right around when the fire started,
three days after the fires, it was fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Wow, fifteen years. Done with that, and I feel like
the new guy here.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Handle's been here longer, Gary's been here longer, Shannon's been
here longer, so has John and so has George Nori.
You know, me and Moe Kelly or are the new
guys here. And I've been here fifteen years, he's been
here thirteen years.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
You know, when I was in Huntington Beach this past week,
I took my parents to the hotel where I first
was online with you in Huntington Beach before the parade
and told them the story about that and sort of
reminisced about first meeting you when I was at ABC,
which was like eight or nine years ago, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Did they were?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They seem excited about it. They need a little more
than just the introduction.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
That was basically that was all I did for them
was just show them an empty room. Think of Conway.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, we get a live show there from a bar
on like the second story of that of that hotel,
and then the parade the next day.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It changed my life because it got it got me
into the Conway family.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I just got a note from Robin are board up
because Steph Fush is all banged up. I got a
call from Leno saying, lose his number.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
But you know I don't mean the listening.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I don't have Jay Leno listed under Jay Leno in
case I lose my phone, so I have him listed
under another name.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
What is it? Is? It? Is? It? Is it Conan?
Is it something that we would think or something?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Well, if I told you, then people would know if
they found my phone here it is it's j lemon Field.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, big into the car. It's that Jay Lemonfield.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
That's right, Jay Lemonfield.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And uh, but that's my biggest celebrity, uh, in my
in my rolodex.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And I'm proud of that too.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
And by the way, the only Hollywood celebrity, the only
Hollywood celebrity out of my dad's small niche niche group
that he used to hang with, you know, Bob Newhart
and and uh and Carol and and.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
People like that.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Jay Leno showed up at my dad's funeral and sat, uh,
you know, on our side with me at that funeral.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
And I will never forget that. One of the nicest
guys in the world.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
That's awesome. You don't have Carol Burnette's number.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I oh, let me check to see if I do.
I get a Christmas card from her every year. Let
me see if I have her number here. Let's see. Uh,
let's see, let's see if I could I do not.
Oh wait a minute, I do no, I do not.
(31:57):
Oh I got Adam Carolla. That's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah, that's a huge deal. I didn't even know I
had Adam Kroller's number until just now.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
That's okay, you gotta get him on the show. I
gotta get on that booking.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah we had him on this week. Yeah. I do
not have Cabernet's number. Now I just checked. I do not.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Buddy, you got to come back when you can come,
tell us where you're gonna go. Okay, all right, enjoy
your vacation.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I promise to do that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right, tag talk with you, Bob.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
All right, take care. There he goes Alex Michaelson's Conway Show.
We're live on KFI. Will come back and talk to
Cowboys and they're horrible trade, or, as Krozer says, may
not be that bad. We'll have some details from a
lifelong Cowboys fan.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We come back.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
There was a huge trade in football in the National
Football League that has everybody in sports talking. It's Michael Parsons,
who is the I guess arguably the best defenseman in football.
And he was on the Cowboys, I believe for four years,
four years and great past rusher. I don't know what
(33:09):
his sack total was two in a and a half.
That's a lot. And he was offered forty million dollars
a year to stay with the Cowboys. He wanted more,
and now he's off to Green Bay. Yes, sir, and
everybody says it's the worse trade in the history of
the NFL. But Krozier has a different take on it.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Well, the reality is that he wanted more than what
they were willing to give, and he he also didn't
like the way that Jerry kind of went behind the
union's back and tried to deal directly with with Micah
and not go through Micah's.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I thought that was outlawed rules.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
It is And the last thing I am as a
Jerry apologist. So yeah, I am not a fan of Jerry.
He could he can go away as soon as possible,
as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
But Parsons, you said, is injury prone.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
He gets he gets dinged up, especially he's notoriously been
tired at the end of almost every year. To me,
he is arguably, yes, a generational talent, as a lot
of people have called him, and yes they absolutely the
talent is there. To me, though I've there have been
times when I've been disappointed where he kind of disappeared
and when it really mattered most. There are too few
(34:16):
times for me when when it was needed most, he
wasn't there. Okay, and I'll take somebody like DeMarcus Whare
who played for the Cowboys as a Hall of Famer. Now,
he made plays like at the end of games when
it mattered most and they needed a stop or something
like that Mike And never, really very few times did
mikea do that. And he was always tired at the
end of the year. He never finished strong. And I
(34:39):
wasn't the biggest fan of his kind of attitude about
everything that kind of went on. I would want somebody
on my team that was like, I'm here, I'm playing,
I still got another year of my contract and it
may not be what I want. But Jerry has never
ever been afraid to pay absolute top dollar. I mean,
he's paid Dak Prescott more money then a lot of
(35:00):
people think he should.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Have, right, so how much so what did the Cowboys
get in exchange for Parsons?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
They got two.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
First rounders for the next two year, next two drafts
from the Packers, and they got Kenny Clark, Who's Who's
a defensive tackle who the Cowboys desperately need because their
biggest problem is stopping the run, not rushing the passers.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Right, And those draft picks will depend on how well
Green Bay does.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
Yes, and chances are very very likely that that will
be mid high twenties, maybe even thirties that they get
like to.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
The Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Oh, I see, okay, all right, So do you think
that that Michah Parsons is as good or better than
Aaron Donald?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
No? No, really no, you think Aaron Donald was better? Yes?
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Wow, for the exact reason that I pointed out, as
Donald showed up when it mattered, like when it really
mattered and you needed something in that moment, Donald could
definitely do it. And Micah Micah did it and he
got sacks and he would he would have clusters of sex,
he would have like three four sacks in a game,
but then he'd go quiet for a few games.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
A lot of it was consistency for me, and I
don't like it. I would like to have him here
or in Dallas, but considering the circumstances all of those things,
it's like, Okay, move on, and now we got forty
to fifty million dollars under the cap that we can
use to sign really good players, including once like George Pickens,
who we pulled from the Pittsburgh Steelers early this year.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You know what I call that segment? Great sports talk.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Hey Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now
you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime
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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.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We're live.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is not a recording. This is a live program here.
And I don't know how I can prove that to you,
you know, I mean, this could be a recording. Who knows, right, Okay,
here's how I can prove it to you. Let's go
to a website. Let's all go to a website, and
then we're gonna talk to Alex Stone here in a second.
But if you go to a website, let's say, let's
(00:34):
all go to I don't know what's a good Let's
go to USA Today. Okay, let's go to the website
USA Today. Click on USA Today and Trump most Trump
tariffs are not legal US Appeals Court rules. So that's
the main story there. And then there's college football Labor
(00:54):
Day ESPN in the background. I could not have told
you what was gonna be on USA Today if this
indeed was a recorded program. Here's another one. Adam Sandler
wears rare tuxedo on red carpet. I didn't know that
that was gonna happen, and you think he's joking about
twenty twenty eight. Newsome asks about a third Trump term, or,
(01:17):
as Krozer says, a fourth Trump term. Right, Kroz, that's
exactly right.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I guess said Trump is trolling newsm all the time
by sending him hats and say Trump twenty twenty eight.
That's kind of cool. It's just kind of you know,
two kids going at it, right, Yeah, all right, Alex
Stone is with us. Alex, how you Bob?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There? You are?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Hey Bob about you? I was just saying, if you're live,
but how that maybe it's AI?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Tim?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
How do I not know if you're not AI?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's possible, right, I mean I think eventually this will
all be AI anyway, So what the hell?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
But goodbye?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Summer Labor Day RAUSH is on and they they say, Alex,
you know this because you're a news guy that they're
at ABC News. This is going to be the busiest
Labor Day weekend in the history of this country.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Don't they always say that holiday?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I went, I was watching KTLA, your competitor.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Sorry, and she goes, they go to live, Megan Henderson,
We're going to We're going to lax Live to see
the crowds, and she's at United Airlines.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
There's nobody there.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There's nobody there Isn't that the worst when you go
out to cover a story and the story's not there.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That is a.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Problem to cover rain, but it's usually two minutes before.
It's crazy busy, and then they go to and you're
going go to me, now, go to me now, right
then they go to you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I love the rain coverage where they go out it's
not raining, and then they focus on a little puddle
and you see a couple of drops.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You go there, it is yes, stormwatch and it's sprinkling
out there, but it was raining ten minutes before.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Also, I know the gas prices are a big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I saw a gas at two dollars and sixty nine
cents in Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
I know you're gonna say somewhere in California, because I
filled up at the Burbank Costco this morning for four
thirty if it was too something here, but if that
makes more sense in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Northern California, there's a gas station where it's ten dollars
a gallon northern California.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So then there's always those in downtown LA that are
like eight bucks, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Is it too late to have left? Are you gonna
buy Cannevoid traffic?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
So you know there's all these inricks and then other
companies that they do all the predictions of that you
were in the heart of it right now, you're gonna
be in the heart of it for the next couple
of hours. And then they say tonight it. You know,
if you go late enough, like eight nine o'clock, you
should be in the clear and then or you could
go early tomorrow morning. And that's kind of that's their
prediction and their idea of when you should go. But
(03:39):
the return is they're saying, look, if you can come
back on Sunday night instead of at some point on Monday.
If you've ever driven like up the Five to northern
California coming back, I guess coming down the Five after
a holiday weekend like Thanksgiving or Labor Day, it is
just you slam it on your brakes, you speed up,
and every big rig that gets over and then you
slam on your brakes again. And you can avoid that
(04:01):
a little bit if if you were to go tonight.
This is Kitty Nastro Booking website called going. She says, here,
do this late.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Evening or early evening until late evening. You want to
try to target that on the busiest day of this
Labor Day weekend, as well as try to target the
morning of Saturday if you can, and then coming back
on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yes, you're going to not a lot of people are
going to be on the roads during those times. So
on the gas price thing, for whatever reason, TRIPLEA didn't
put out at least we were told they didn't put
out their prediction that normally we say, you know, forty
eight million people are going to hit the roads.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They didn't do that this year.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
But gas Buddy is saying that that these are the
lowest I mean, still insane what we pay in California,
but these are the lowest prices that they have seen
in the national average since going back to the beginning
of the pandemic when prices took a nose dive. And
so that's going to up the number of people who
are willing and able to get in the car and
go somewhere, whether they're driving to Vegas or going to
(04:56):
drive somewhere else. Matt mcclaan over a gas Buddy he's taught.
And again national averages, not California. But but then it
looks good.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Average prediction by gas Buddy for this weekend three fifteen
a gallon. Yes, that is the cheapest price that we
have seen since the COVID shutdown of twenty twenty. You
may recall we were paying two dollars and twenty two
cents nationally speaking during that time frame. But five years later,
this is the cheapest gas that we have actually come
(05:24):
across really since since then. Three twenty nine is what
we were paying last year.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Can you imagine if we're paying three to fifteen a gallon?
We hope were going crazy. We'd been driving.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Everywhere, no kidding, But you know, it's really a tough
weekend to get away because you know, look, when you
get away in the summer for a weekend, you come back,
the kids are still out of school.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You know, you're going to work. You sort of you know,
it was a nice weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But now when you come back from this weekend, it's
game on for everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
In the house. It really.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Kids at school, they going back to work, you're going
to college.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Everybody's busy.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, the Northeast, they're still out of school, and they
don't go back until next week, so they've still kind
of got a little bit of summer to them. But but
we've all been back now for a month. I mean,
we did back to school last night and we were told,
you know, your kids are not gonna miss anything for
a trip because they've got a lot of learning to
do now that at least my son's in middle school.
And so now it's like real, you know, here we go.
(06:19):
So for family, sure that that's hard to do, but
if you can get away the places that the.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
People are flying to.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
According to Expedia, they say, well, first of all, Hopper
is saying they're another website. New York City, Vegas, Seattle, Miami,
and Chicago are the top places people are going this weekend.
But Expedia does where they look kind of the off
the beaten path places that people are going, and they
found Sandusky, Ohio being number one if you're not going
(06:49):
to Vegas or Orlando, that sort of place, big theme
park there, Rosemary Beach, Florida, Cape May, New Jersey, and
you know, they're different, little places that maybe you want
to go to a lake, maybe you want to go
out into the country, and that's where people are finding themselves.
But yeah, the average ticket price is here two hundred
thirty one bucks. Domestic airfares are up ten percent. United
(07:11):
says that they think they're going to be flying three
point one million people this weekend and then it's going
to be the busiest ever on this same day, which,
by the way, about two hours ago, Spirit Airlines declared
bankruptcy again and they don't know if they're going to
be able to survive. This is the second time in
a year they've declared bankruptcy, so it's not roses everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But they're going to make it through the weekend. They
will make it through the weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Yeah, they say everything's gonna be fine Labor Day, but
they had put the feelers out there a couple of
weeks ago saying that they may not be able to
stay in business based on the current desires. You know,
we've talked about it where people now want a more
luxurious experience and they're going United American Delta Alaska, and
that's why Southwest is making all these changes to be
(07:56):
a mainline airline that Spirit. People aren't gravitating any longer
toward the fifteen dollars airfare with all of the up
charges and kind of the atmosphere on board, and they're hurting,
so they have declared bankruptcy again.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know, when you're on American or United Alaska comes
to mind Delta and a fight breaks out on the plane,
you are shocked to the core. But if you're on
Spirit and a fight doesn't break out on the plane,
you're like, wow, I made it.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Well.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I think there's a different clientele. You don't typically find
as many business people flying on Spirit as you would
when they can get a first class upgrade and go
to the club and their corporate card is paying for
it on Delta, United, but in Southwest is kind of
somewhere in the middle. You get all the leisure travelers
and some business. But yeah, I think the clientele is
(08:46):
very different on Frontier and Spirit and Allegiant than it
would be elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, I think Spirit, you know, it's everybody's last flight.
You know, they just have enough money to get a
seat and get the you know, mom's funeral, and then.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
There are others flown on them. But there are others
who say the big front seat on Spirit is amazing,
and people choose it. But whatever's going on over there,
they're hurting, and they're saying they're gonna have to sell
off airplanes to make money.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
That.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I mean, they're at the point where if they're gonna survive,
they got to start selling planes.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You know, Spirit made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
They said for an extra you know, for one hundred dollars,
you get a big, beautiful seat up front, but for
another two hundred dollars, they'll let you fly the plane.
And that that didn't go well with the other passengers.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They were have you ever flown Microsoft flight simulate? Good?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
All right, go up there and you can knock this up.
You know you said San Dusky, Ohio. That's home of
Cedar Point in Ohio. If you ever been there with
the kids.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I never have been here.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It's amazing there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, that's unblue, a little joint. What's your plans with
the family, Just stay in town.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We're gonna be around.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
We gotta check out Halloween time at Disneyland tomorrow, so
we'll go down and do that best time at Disneyland,
I would argue that, and then Christmas with all the decorations,
So we'll be hanging around. What about you wait tomorrow?
The first day of Halloween, No, was last Friday a
week ago. Yeah, I'm just hanging out. I I don't
you know, I'll be looking at the horse races and
(10:05):
you know, maybe you horse races.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
No thinking about going to delmar you know. But the
problem is the four hour traffic, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yeah, I had to go down to San Diego to
do the Menendez Brothers last week. It took four and
a half hours to go from Glendale to San Diego.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It does, and you know, and the worst part is
when you leave.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
San Clemente, before you get to Oceanside, when you're going
through the you know where the Marines train, it's always
jammed there.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Always.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, I don't feel like it used to be. Yeah, no,
I think you're in that area. That's where you would
like just you take off and fly right there right now.
That's always bumper to bumper exactly, buddy, Thanks for coming
on a right Take care are they goes?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Alex Stone with ab Seed News ab Seed News. We
got Michael Monks coming up at four twenty and then
Alex Michaelson.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Why what a show we got going on?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
But when we come back or actually after Alex, I
want to talk to Krozier about the Cowboys because there
was some trade that everybody's getting down on.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But you've got it like a hot take on it.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Well, it's because I'm an actual fan and I pay
attention to the team.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Okay, all right, let's hear well, we're not just some
outrageous sports guy, all right, but it's it's Micah Parsons,
who's a four year veteran, a great.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Arguably the best defensive player in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And the highest paid now the highest play defensive event.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah right, I know, but but man, that's the maybe
the second trade that's gotten a lot of news out
of Dallas, you know, the Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Yeah, Dallas, PA.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right now, Yeah, that must have been all right.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, so after Alex Michaelson will, we'll have Krozer, who's
a big, big Cowboys fan, hug his entire life.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You grew up in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Which is very tough to be a Cowboys fan when
everybody all your other you know, friends and family members,
they're all Redskins fans.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Got chased around RFK Stadium many a time.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, and somebody said to me the other day, they said, well,
it's not Red Sins. It's it's Commanders, I said, I know.
But when as you was growing up, there was no
Commanders fans in Washington, d C. Yeah, they were Redchington
Football game. Yeah, there were Redskins fans. That's what the
name of the team was.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
People who played for the Redskins played for the Redskins.
They never played for the Commanders. And that's the that's
the real history.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty Monks.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Monks, Monks.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You got Monks seven to nine pm every Saturday here
on KFI.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And all day long every weekday. And you're gonna be
live this weekend. I'll be live this weekend.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Absolutely, I'll be in the studio here starting at seven o'clock.
Lots of fun stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You know, when when I was growing up, and I'm
a little older than you are, but there was some
you know, my grandmother was a big fan of talk radio,
and I think that's where I started listening. And I
was frightened as a child by anything that moved out
in the valley. I grew up in the in the
late sixties early seventies when the murder rate was through
the roof and I always thought someone was gonna break
it and kill me. And so but as low sung
(13:00):
is talk radio was live, not a tape, not a
you know, but a local live show. I felt good.
I felt comfortable. It's like somebody's with you, with me. Yeah,
somebody's with you.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's why.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
And I know you don't experience this because all the
A listeners at this station take the holidays off. But
the JV team like me, we're here and I can
tell you the last holiday season was very lonely in
this building listening to your old shows.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well, I there is something. Look for people driving right now.
There are people driving to Bronco or Vegas or San
francisc or whatever, and they're listening right now, and we're
making their drive a little shorter, a little less, you know, crazy,
because we're on live.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We're in the car with them. Yeah, it's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Every single day, you know, I drove down this is
a couple of years ago, from Oregon to a Los
Angeles and it was on a Sunday and you know
NFL Sunday, and I picked up a I was I
started six am from six am till nine am. When
the first game came on, there was this local sports
show and I I felt like that guy was in
the car with me.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
You know, It's why I don't like podcasts so much.
I don't mean to sound old here. I'm with you,
but I you know, and I don't want to diss
our company. We are obviously the largest podcast company in
America as well. But when you're listening to a podcast,
they don't have you know, Crosier doing the news.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
They don't have Angel doing the traffic. You're not getting
the updated forecasts and those sorts of elements that remind
you that this is happening right now while you exist.
You're listening to some recorded conversation that has already been polished,
and they're not with you.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I'm with you, We're with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Put the podcast down, turn on the AM band, and
let's get this party star right.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
We got a surprise segment coming up. Pun Oh, you
didn't get any notes about this segment. Let me show
you what I got.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Who's your producer? What does it say under monks surprise segment?
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Oh well, let me tell you what's happening, because I'll
say look, I'll give you the brief line on one
of these stories, but I brought in two stories. Wow,
but I think one of them will make you more
excited thout the other one. First, Governor k news something.
He's launched this task force statewide to clean up home
camps right particularly on state right of way areas. He's
hitting the ten largest cities in California first. Can you
(15:06):
name those the largest cities? The ten largest cities in LA.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I mean, let me get California.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Four of them are in southern California. Three of them
in our market. Okay, largest cities in our market. Obviously,
Los Angeles Long Beach is one of them. They're in
LA County. Well, look, I'm gonna give you another hint here.
The next one is in Orange County. Okay, Orange County
is God?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Is it? God? Is it Anaheim? It's Anaheim? Okay.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
And the other one San Diego. Oh I see, Okay, Yeah,
so that's the one that's outside of the market. So yeah,
those are four of the cities that they're going to
be targeting first with this program. Remember last year, the
governor was like, I'm gonna withhold state funding from cities
that don't get their act together on cleaning up homelessness.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
So this is another act.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Like we talked yesterday about this tough on crime approach
that he's taking.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now now he's tough on homelessness.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
It does seem to be a pivot to change national
narratives about the state of California.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But it seems like we've done this before with the homeless.
You know, we've done the clean up before and then
they all go right.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Back to Well you see, I see it right outside
my window in the Fashion district every single time that
they clean up the street, which they've done only twice
since this started in the late spring that we saw
homeless tens start to pop up on our block surrounding
our apartment building. They'd come, they'd get them, and I
mean the same day. Right, These fos are bad.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I did a little research, not a lot, because I'm
a pretty lazy guy, but I don't there are a
lot of countries in this world that do not have
a homeless population at all.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, they don't tolerate it. Well, the world is everyone's home,
tim That's right, all right.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
What's the what's the second news story? Well, it's always
sad when a Macy's closes. You know they're closing. No,
I'm not telling you that this one closed a while. Obviously,
we lost the one downtown more recently. That's sad, But
the one an Eagle Rock closed a couple of years ago.
Home Depot saw this site and said, you know what,
We're gonna tear down that Macy's and put a brand
(17:01):
spanking new home depot. They announced this just last week
at Eagle Rock Plaza.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Eagle Rock is very close than to the Glendale Home Depot,
which is close to the Burbank Home Depot.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You know it might be over home Depot.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
They're making a lot of money these days and also
drawing a lot of headlines, headlines that have also drawn
the ire of La City Councilman Isabelle Herrado, who says
she is now against this home Depot coming to Eagle Rock,
which is in her district, because she says this company
is basically complicit in the federal immigration raids that have
been taking place, especially at home Depot stores all across
(17:36):
southern California.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't think they are. I don't think they care.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
I've heard from activists who want the company to say something.
We know, you know that there are day laborers that
do hang outside of Home Depot stores, and Home Deepot
helped them get back. That's forty years. Yes, that's right.
And they've never kicked them off the lots or anything.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
They don't. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
So if they're suspected of being here illegally, they have
been tained more recently and an activist, especially with that boycott,
they called for to varying degrees of success. You know,
they said that Home Depot is complicit in this, and
the same thing has been said today by Councilman Isabelle Herado,
who says she will not support this new home Depot
because they she said it would basically be allowing violence
(18:20):
to take root in the community.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I think she looked crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now when you say she's not going to support it,
does she have the right to veto then?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
No, she's just I'm not going to go there going through.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
I don't know if they're going to have to apply
for some permits or whatever. But you know, she is
a Filipino woman, and she says that Eagle Rock Plaza
has long been a gathering place for the Filipino community.
I won't allow give her that violence to take root
in a neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Whenever I want to be with the Filipino groups, I
usually go to Eagle Rock Macy's and now I'd like
to go to Eagle Rock Home Depot to.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Hang out with them. Well, you may get that operation way.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I will say this about the Filipino crews. Should we
stop now? Maybe, but crows, I shouldn't do it. Okay,
I'm gonna do it anyway. I never get a vibe
that they are ever stepping out of line.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You think they're obedient, I know.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I think that they work their asses off, keep their
nose clean, pay their taxes, and help a lot of
people in the society. You always hear about them working
at hospitals or daycare. I think they give more back
to society than almost every other group.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Well, they are rising in the ranks. They've got a
member of city council and the city controller is also
a Filipino.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
My guys, I'm well, my wife's Filipino, my dad's Filipino.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
So seeing this is where we should have stopped ten
seconds earlier. We were so close to getting out of
here or I without problem.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I guess I'm confused. Yeah, Buddie, thanks for coming in.
Hell one quick question.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Yeah, because you guys were talking about like Monday and
Labor Day, and yes, of course I am going to
be here and you're not, Tea. But I have a
quick question because I saw the schedule and it says
Monks is out Monday.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Monks has taken Monday off.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Wow, so you aren't going to be here Monday. Well,
it's true that occasional are so you are in the elite.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I think he was saying.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
No, I think Monks was saying in the past when
he was working that there was a dead I will
say that my stock has risen here since the holiday season, absolutely,
and I now get to take the occasional day off.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
And all of the shows are most of the shows
are recorded. We've got another editor coming in.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Just clarification because of what Yeah, thanks for.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Calling me out, Crozer.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm tired of saying this on the air, but but
you need to hear it, and the LA and the
and the audience does as well. You have the number
one talk show on weekends in that time slot. There's
nobody in LA that and I've seen the ratings. So
he gets Monday off.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No, no, no, he does n get money. Maybe it
only does well.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Okay, already should but but seven to nine pm on Saturday,
it's the highest rated talk show in Los Angeles. You
know it's uh and you should ask them to see
those ratings. They should share them with you.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I just like to keep my nose clean, my head down.
I like to get to work, okay, and I like
to entertain and inform the people of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
All right, But if you go around talking about how
great you are in this station, you're gonna make a
lot more money, you think you?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, I try to stay humble. Am I doing that wrong?
Ask Shannon? I'm taking Monday off Crozier because I'm better.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Than you, all right, real live, thanks, buddy monks. Not Monday,
but Saturday, seven to nine pm.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Alex Michaelson has left Fox, but he has not left KFI,
and he joins us.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Alex, how you, bubb, I.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Will never leave you. Ding dog with you, dig dog
with you.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Hey, So you've officially left Fox.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
They've taken your your parking pass, your key card to
get in. You're done I'm done, yes, and he severan's
pay comes along with that. No, not, Are you above
collecting unemployment?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Uh, you know, I'm I'm not. But I honestly I
had enough vacation pay saved up that by the time
I start my new thing, I will not go without
a paycheck.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So I see, Okay, that's good time. That's good planning,
good planning. Were you insulted that Fox didn't negotiate with
you before your contract expired?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Fox did negotiate me with me before my contract expired,
and we left on amiaicable terms. It's all good, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Do you uh?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Also, you're you've you've interviewed a lot of people, Governor News,
Donald Trump, Schwarzenegger, Karen Bass. Do you have Governor new
some cell phone number in your phone?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Do you have Schwarzenegger's?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I do not know. How about Karen Backer does does
almost nothing via cell phone. He does almost everything via iPad.
So interesting he's got like a flip phone.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I think I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I do not. Yeah, I try not to have their
direct cell phone numbers. I think there's it's healthy to
have a bit of a barrier to uh, to not
have that pressure.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, who's the biggest star in your cell phone?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Uh? In terms of like from the political world, people
that text me like, well, I don't know. Rick Caruso
prefers to do that, so he likes to reach out directly.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay Carusoe.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
By the way, did you see the big mistake that
they made in Pacific Palisades with the park they put
together for the kids?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
What was what? What was what was the big problem
with they?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You know, Pacific Falsades burned to the ground and one
of the things that they wanted to restore immediately was
a park where the kids can go in and feel
like they're they're home again and play in the park
and bring back those memories and start a fresh new
uh you know, place to meet and congregate and see
one another.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So they put this park together.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
They spend a couple million dollars, and in the part
you know they have in some parks they have like
a school buss, a little fake school boss. The kids
can get in and pretend they're on a school bus
or a tractor or a dump truck or whatever. But
in that park, in that park in Pacific Palisades, they
put the whole thing together and they put in two
(24:19):
fire engines and an ambulance.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, well that was and that was the that was
the park. I went out there the day when they
talked about bringing that together. That was the only joint
appearance of Karen Baths and Rick Caruso coming together working
with JJ Reddick of the Lakers. So that was literally
all of the might of both most opposing groups of
(24:44):
La the Bass and Caruso camp, and they're coming together
with all their brain power, and that's what we got.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
How many people okayed that before? You know, before it.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Was clear the answer is clearly not enough.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
But I mean nobody said, Hey, these kids have gone
through a lot of trauma. Let's not put fire engines
and ambulances in their in their playground.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah. I guess that. I guess Apparently people hadn't heard
of fire in Pacific Palace.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Unbelievable. All right, So Rick is in your cell phone?
Who else is in your cell phone?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Who's like a big celebrity that you could call or text?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You me?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I mean Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Right, somebody asked me this the other day. My two
big ones are Jay Leno. I got j Leno's phone number.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Charlie Fox who wrote Killing Me Softly, that's a solid one.
And L A p D Chief Jim McDonald Alan Hamilton,
who's the chart is the number one. He's the chief
of detectives at l A p D. That I think
those are solid.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Those are good. And me and you, of course thank
you for the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
When you're gonna announce your new job over at I
can't say it but where you're starting.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Probably in a few weeks, but I'll say this, being
off is great. I'm loving the time of this whole word.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
By the way, what an original take where you're out
of work and getting money and you enjoy that.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
The great There's a whole world out there that I
didn't realize exists.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I guess what do you do all day? Do you
get up at the same time you get up early?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Well, I didn't get up that early before because I
worked late late at night like like you. But I
get up actually earlier because I go to bed earlier
now because I'm not having to work until midnight every night.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What's early for you? Early for me is eleven, what's
early for you?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I've been getting up close to like six or seven.
I go to bed earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
get up at eleven? Really, what you do.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I get up?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I initially get up at six thirty quarter to seven.
My daughter goes off to work, and then I read
the Internet for a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Then I might take an hour.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah, what are your what are your go to sites
during the perusing of the news in the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That's interesting, that's interesting. I'll tell you what they are
because they're on my phone right now. I've got the
New York Post solid.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, I've got Fox News so soon.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
To be the California Post too.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'm very excited about that. Yeah,
I got the Fox News. I go with also Daily Mail,
La Times, and there's another one here, New York Daily News.
And I like to read the Vegas Newspaper. I like
(27:50):
to I feel like a gang member at gangster when
I read the What's going on in the Strip?
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I enjoyed it from nineteen sixty three when the gangs
are really controlling Vegas. Right, he puts on a good show,
all right, But.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The Vegas Journal I like reading that, you know, find
out what's going on on the strip and what's happening
in the in the real world, buddy, I'm very excited
about your new job. Is your family also excited?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
My family's excited. Yeah. And I got to spend some
time with them this week in Orange County, which was
really fun. Went to the beach together and got to
hang out, which was great.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Okay, for people that don't know this, Alex Michaelson, who's
with us, He's our guest. He was at ABC for
a long, long, long time. Then they fired him, and
he went to Fox, and he was with Fox for
a long time and they fired him. And now he's
going on to a big national You're going national exposure
on your new big national show.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
It's amazing how I keep getting fired and yet I
keep getting getting a good show.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I know.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Look, I've been fired from every job I've ever.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Had my life.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I've never quite true, that's really true.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
How long have you been a KFI?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
In January of this year, right around when the fire started,
three days after the fires, it was fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Wow, fifteen years. Done with that, and I feel like
the new guy here.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Handle's been here longer, Gary's been here longer, Shannon's been
here longer, so has John and so has George Nori.
You know, me and Moe Kelly or are the new
guys here. And I've been here fifteen years, he's been
here thirteen years.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
You know, when I was in Huntington Beach this past week,
I took my parents to the hotel where I first
was online with you in Huntington Beach before the parade
and told them the story about that and sort of
reminisced about first meeting you when I was at ABC,
which was like eight or nine years ago, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Did they were?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They seem excited about it. They need a little more
than just the introduction.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
That was basically that was all I did for them
was just show them an empty room. Think of Conway.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, we get a live show there from a bar
on like the second story of that of that hotel,
and then the parade the next day.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It changed my life because it got it got me
into the Conway family.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I just got a note from Robin are board up
because Steph Fush is all banged up. I got a
call from Leno saying, lose his number.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
But you know I don't mean the listening.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I don't have Jay Leno listed under Jay Leno in
case I lose my phone, so I have him listed
under another name.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
What is it? Is? It? Is? It? Is it Conan?
Is it something that we would think or something?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Well, if I told you, then people would know if
they found my phone here it is it's j lemon Field.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, big into the car. It's that Jay Lemonfield.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
That's right, Jay Lemonfield.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And uh, but that's my biggest celebrity, uh, in my
in my rolodex.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And I'm proud of that too.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
And by the way, the only Hollywood celebrity, the only
Hollywood celebrity out of my dad's small niche niche group
that he used to hang with, you know, Bob Newhart
and and uh and Carol and and.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
People like that.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Jay Leno showed up at my dad's funeral and sat, uh,
you know, on our side with me at that funeral.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
And I will never forget that. One of the nicest
guys in the world.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
That's awesome. You don't have Carol Burnette's number.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I oh, let me check to see if I do.
I get a Christmas card from her every year. Let
me see if I have her number here. Let's see. Uh,
let's see, let's see if I could I do not.
Oh wait a minute, I do no, I do not.
(31:57):
Oh I got Adam Carolla. That's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah, that's a huge deal. I didn't even know I
had Adam Kroller's number until just now.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
That's okay, you gotta get him on the show. I
gotta get on that booking.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah we had him on this week. Yeah. I do
not have Cabernet's number. Now I just checked. I do not.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Buddy, you got to come back when you can come,
tell us where you're gonna go. Okay, all right, enjoy
your vacation.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I promise to do that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right, tag talk with you, Bob.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
All right, take care. There he goes Alex Michaelson's Conway Show.
We're live on KFI. Will come back and talk to
Cowboys and they're horrible trade, or, as Krozer says, may
not be that bad. We'll have some details from a
lifelong Cowboys fan.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We come back.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
There was a huge trade in football in the National
Football League that has everybody in sports talking. It's Michael Parsons,
who is the I guess arguably the best defenseman in football.
And he was on the Cowboys, I believe for four years,
four years and great past rusher. I don't know what
(33:09):
his sack total was two in a and a half.
That's a lot. And he was offered forty million dollars
a year to stay with the Cowboys. He wanted more,
and now he's off to Green Bay. Yes, sir, and
everybody says it's the worse trade in the history of
the NFL. But Krozier has a different take on it.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Well, the reality is that he wanted more than what
they were willing to give, and he he also didn't
like the way that Jerry kind of went behind the
union's back and tried to deal directly with with Micah
and not go through Micah's.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I thought that was outlawed rules.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
It is And the last thing I am as a
Jerry apologist. So yeah, I am not a fan of Jerry.
He could he can go away as soon as possible,
as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
But Parsons, you said, is injury prone.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
He gets he gets dinged up, especially he's notoriously been
tired at the end of almost every year. To me,
he is arguably, yes, a generational talent, as a lot
of people have called him, and yes they absolutely the
talent is there. To me, though I've there have been
times when I've been disappointed where he kind of disappeared
and when it really mattered most. There are too few
(34:16):
times for me when when it was needed most, he
wasn't there. Okay, and I'll take somebody like DeMarcus Whare
who played for the Cowboys as a Hall of Famer. Now,
he made plays like at the end of games when
it mattered most and they needed a stop or something
like that Mike And never, really very few times did
mikea do that. And he was always tired at the
end of the year. He never finished strong. And I
(34:39):
wasn't the biggest fan of his kind of attitude about
everything that kind of went on. I would want somebody
on my team that was like, I'm here, I'm playing,
I still got another year of my contract and it
may not be what I want. But Jerry has never
ever been afraid to pay absolute top dollar. I mean,
he's paid Dak Prescott more money then a lot of
(35:00):
people think he should.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Have, right, so how much so what did the Cowboys
get in exchange for Parsons?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
They got two.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
First rounders for the next two year, next two drafts
from the Packers, and they got Kenny Clark, Who's Who's
a defensive tackle who the Cowboys desperately need because their
biggest problem is stopping the run, not rushing the passers.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Right, And those draft picks will depend on how well
Green Bay does.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
Yes, and chances are very very likely that that will
be mid high twenties, maybe even thirties that they get
like to.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
The Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Oh, I see, okay, all right, So do you think
that that Michah Parsons is as good or better than
Aaron Donald?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
No? No, really no, you think Aaron Donald was better? Yes?
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Wow, for the exact reason that I pointed out, as
Donald showed up when it mattered, like when it really
mattered and you needed something in that moment, Donald could
definitely do it. And Micah Micah did it and he
got sacks and he would he would have clusters of sex,
he would have like three four sacks in a game,
but then he'd go quiet for a few games.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
A lot of it was consistency for me, and I
don't like it. I would like to have him here
or in Dallas, but considering the circumstances all of those things,
it's like, Okay, move on, and now we got forty
to fifty million dollars under the cap that we can
use to sign really good players, including once like George Pickens,
who we pulled from the Pittsburgh Steelers early this year.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You know what I call that segment? Great sports talk.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Hey Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now
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