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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It is The Conway Show. And we all survived the tsunami. Well,
I think most of us did. Let's say most people
in southern California survived him. I got a little freaked out,
you know, because the fires in January, we have earthquakes,
we had the Mega earthquake and Russia. We'll get into that,
and I sort of flipped out a little with my family.
(00:31):
We went up to the golf course in Burbank. I
dragged him out of bed at midnight. We had headed
up there to the golf course Castaways, and we sat
in the parking lot up at Castaways for an hour
and a half just to make sure until the coast
was cleared.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And we made it. We made it. That's great.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I thought you were concerned. Huh yeah, very concerned. Well, look,
it could have wiped you out. I mean, I don't
know if you remember the was it fuk Eshima where
the power plant blew up with the bigger earthquake and
the floods, they had a lot of people died Bllo
and then the other one in on Christmas Eve or
Christmas Day. Remember in Southeast Asia it wiped out seven
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hundred or five hundred thousand people.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You know, it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So so Tim, yes, man, what is the altitude of
the Castaways golf course?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, I funny you should ask, because I looked it up.
Fourteen hundred feet.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh, I was clear, and you made it.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, I was clear, but at home I was only
six hundred feet and I wanted to get that extra
you know, eight hundred feet or so, although it would
varied because on my wife's phone it said eight hundred
feet and I said, oh, let's go with fourteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm to go with mine.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But there was a kid selling shirts there for thirty
bucks each.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I thought was high.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
But we bought three Tsunami Strong shirts up a Castaways
and now I got those and I feel like an
idiot wearing those. It says Nami Strong twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is that what you're wearing today?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You like it. It's a little bit. I think they
misspelled tsunami. Yeah yeah they did. Yeah, they didn't put it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
They start started with an s T son Have ever
seen the guy wearing the what he thinks is a
butter finger shirt. No, and uh, it's online. I'll find
it for you, we'll post it. But it's this big, overweight,
drunk guy and he's wearing a shirt that says butt finger,
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but it but it, but it's spelled out in like butterfinger.
And a guy goes butt finger. He goes no, no, butterfinger,
and he's looking at his shirt. He's like, no, no, butter
butterfinger is No, it's butt finger. That's a great video.
I'll have to find it. Well, we'll toss it up there.
But how'd you do Angel? Were you a daredevil and
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you stayed at home near the coast like idiots?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I did, and I hung out on the roof for
a little.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, you got out there, Belliah, what'd you do in Irvine?
You're pretty much inland? But did you take precautions? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I stayed in my room, you did, yeah, but on
the second story. Yeah, I went to the second story,
Oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And stephush. How did you fare in Torrents? You're you know,
you're in a coastal zone there, in a tsunami zone.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Close.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm in Hawthorne or in Hawthorne. It's to keep anything
where you are. But you have some kind of connection
to Torrents. Yeah, no, I don't bust mine, but uh
but uh Hawthorn. Yeah, I went to sleep on the roof. Okay,
good for you, and I lean, what'd you do anything
special for the tsunami?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Do you worry about it? Oh? Well, I'm in a
tsunami zone. I look at my vista. Oh, you could
have been dead. Well, I know there was a helicopter.
It kind of freaked me out because I'm across the
street from me.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
There was a helicopter going over the Biona Wetlands telling
people to evacuate.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh my god, but I'm on the third floor. I
was okay, all right, Well you got are all cowboys.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'm not. You know, as you get older, you want
you don't take as many chances in life, and so
I didn't want to take any chances. And I you know,
I got out there and I'm like, okay, I got
to survive this. You know, there's a megaquake in Russia.
Eight point eight is a megaquake. That's the biggest earthquake
we've had in the United States. I'm sorry, in the
world on Earth in twenty years or so and so
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or fifteen years, it's a big deal. Eight point eight
earthquake is nothing to you know, to bat an eye
on and ignore across the sea when the waves are coming.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And you guys did disgusting.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
This was the moment one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded,
triggered tsunami waves and panic around the Pacific rim from
Russia to Japan to the US.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, it's amazing this thing happened off the coast
of Russia. And Russia isn't really known for their modern
buildings and their you know, all their safety codes and
building codes. And yet I read today that nobody died
and no he got hurt. And yet we're in you know,
on Maui running for the hills through Oprah's you know,
private property to get away from the ocean.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
God do we run scared in this country?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That eight point eight magnitude quake striking just before eleven
thirty am, eighty five miles off the Komchaka Peninsula on
Russia's far east coast. Building shaking violently, Doctors at this
cancer hospital forced to brace their patient in the middle
of surgery the front of this kindergarten completely sheared off.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How about that luck.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You're in a Russian hospital being treated for cancer, operated on,
which means it's very serious. You're being operated on for
cancer in the middle of the biggest earthquake we've had
in thirty years and eight point eight hits. When you're
under the knife, you've got to stay away from casinos
in the track.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You have spent your luck.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You're only born with a certain amount of luck in life,
and that guy with the cancer surgery just wasted all
of his It's all gone.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
The tremor setting off tsunami alerts from Russia to Japan, Alaska,
Hawaii in the West Coast, Terrified Japanese residents taking refuge
on the roof of a fire station in Hokkaido are
brick clinet in Tokyo Bay.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
People in Japan have been advised to stay away from
the water, and coastal defenses have been bolstered.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, you don't have to tell the Japanese twice man.
They learn pretty quick after they had their big tsunami,
after their big earthquake, they fortified everything, they rebuilt everything,
and they run for the hills.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
They don't wait around they learn like here.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Around the Tokyo Bay since the last major tsunami in
twenty eleven.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Sirens glaring on the beaches in Honolulu, astards, lifeguards urging
people to evacuate, the rush to higher ground resulting in.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
A massive gridlock. Put a nice, beautiful, relaxing Hawaiian vacation.
You know, you finally put enough dough together to take
your family to Hawaii, and this is what you get. Yes, wait,
I'm just getting a pina colada or margarito what the
trips called from me, an arm and a leg.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Lifeguards urging people to evacuate, the rush to higher ground,
resulting in.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A massive gridlock. You know, the reason you go to
Hawaii is to relax. When you go to Hawaii, you
go there to unwind, to get away from New York,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, to get away from these these criminals,
these idiots that are breaking into houses and businesses every day,
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to get away from the nutty homeless guys you know
who are living down the block. To get away from everything,
the heat, the smog, the noise. And you finally put
enough money to get together and take the family to
Hawaii and that's your vacation. The rush to higher ground
resulting in a massive gridlock. Wow, a massive gridlock. You
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left there because of gridlock. You left the mainland because
you hated gridlock.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
In a massive gridlock.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
There's the beaches of stands right now, parking lot it
is completely empty.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
See how this goes.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Some flights to Hawaii forced to turn around and go back.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh my god, this is a real overreactions.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Turn around, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I'm sorry, captain. Why are we turning around again?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, we're expecting two to three inches of water above
normal on Heilo, and we're also expecting about an inch
and a half of water in Honolulu above average, so
it's tight. Your seabelts will be turning around and landing
at lax. Sorry, you gots grid This.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Animation showing dozens of ships and boats racing out of
Honolulu Harbor and out to sea to ride it out.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Wow, what an overreaction we've had. It's amazing.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
In Hilo, a cruise ship having to depart early, leaving
some passengers behind.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We are on our way to a shelter and higher grounds.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
We did not make the ship.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, so they were on a ship that's costing five
grand a week, and now they're staying at a homeless
shelter because they panicked. The ship owners and the company
who were on the cruise panicked and left them behind.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
In California this time left showing boats bouncing in Half
Moon Bay Harbor and Crescent City near the Oregon border
sustaining damage, and as the West coast brace back. In Russia,
waves up to thirteen feet high, crashing ashore near the
quake's epicenter, rocks raining down, sea lions diving into the water.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And in Japan that's what they do anyway, don't they
sea lions diving into the water.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
HM, it'd be odd if sea lions were diving into
I don't know Gelson's but they weren't. They're diving into water,
which is what they do from the time they're born
until the time they died.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Sea lions diving into the water.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
And in Japan, these images of mass if sperm whales
washed ashore in Chiba Prefecture making headlines, but officials say
it's not related to the tsunami. The quake occurring on
what's known as a mega thrust fault. So called mega
thrust quakes can be among the most powerful and the
ensuing tsunami waves can travel up to five hundred miles
an hour, and the seismic activity also resulted in the
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eruption of Russia's largest volcano.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Research camera showing the glowing lava.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Seismologists are now expecting aftershocks to continue for weeks or more,
and they say they can't rule out the possibility of
another quake that's even larger than this one. But given
this magnitude eight point eight, it is stunning that so
far there has been no reported loss of life.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No loss of life, no injuries.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Man oh Man, I don't know how we skated, but
we did so Congratulations Russia, they pulled that off.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Later on we'll be talking to Jane Wells. Jane Wells
was in Hawaiian when the big waves hit. I guess
big waves foot maybe sixteen inches and we all made it.
We all made it through the tsunami.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
There's a rental car company out there that's using AI
to scan the car and maybe charging you for damage
that wasn't done by you. And this is this is
a very serious big move because the rental cars want
to make more company more money. I get that, the
companies want to make more money. I get it, I
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get it. Bought this could all lead to people going
elsewhere to rent their cars.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Let's first find out. Then I got a.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Story about renting a car where I got screwed for
damage that I didn't do to the car. It happened
years ago, but I still remember the company's name and
the car.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
That I rented.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
When Kelly Huff Rogers picked up her rental car from
Hurts in the Atlanta Airport, she says she wasn't told
the company was using a new AI tool to inspect
the car for damages before and after her trip.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
We didn't see any damage, but.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
She says she got this bill shortly after returning the car,
an eighty dollars charge for a dime sized dent and
another one hundred and fifteen dollars in processing fees, for
a total of one hundred and ninety five bucks. In
your opinion, did you cause any undo unexpected damage to this.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Car outside of highway driving and local street driving. We
didn't do any other types of driving, so no, I
would think that whatever happened would have been considered normal
wear and tear.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Complaints like hers are popping up on social media after
Hurts began testing automatic inspection scanners at six US airports.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Okay, Herts is doing this. Hurts is out there to
really inspect these cars.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
After Hurts began testing automatic inspection scanners at six US airports,
including Atlanta, Houston, and Newark.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Here's how it works.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Renters drive through an archway of three hundred and sixty
degree cameras that instantly capture one thousands of high resolution
images of every angle of the car, even the undercarriage.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Wow, all right, all right, And if you drive, you're
gonna have, you know, little dings and little tiny dents
from crap that's flying around on the freeway.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Then artificial intelligence compares the images from pickup and drop
off and flags any changes, including minor dents and scuffs.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
This is superficial items on the hood of the car
where nobody's noticing or detecting.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Adam Fooley says Hurtz charged him three hundred and fifty
dollars for damages He says he couldn't even see.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Wow, oh man, Hurts. You gotta be careful, You gotta
be careful. I rented a car back in the late
seventies early eighties from a company called Ugly Duckling Rental Cars.
You know, there are sort of banged up cars you
could rent for fifteen twenty bucks a day. And I
was moving, so I needed to rent a car to
move all my stuff, and I rented a station wagon.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I remember this. I rented a station wagon.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Put all the stuff in, took it over to the
new place, brought it back and one of the the
the tail lights was hanging off. It was damaged and
hanging off, and they charged me. I think it was
one hundred and ten dollars, you know, which is almost
ten times what I paid to rent the car.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And I said, hey, I didn't do this. I didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I didn't, you know, cause this damage on the car.
And the guy says, tough as you know, it's we
got to put it back together, and you're being charged
by it. And I said, okay, i'll pay for it
if you can show me the last guy that rented,
the last two guys that rented this car to see
if they also paid for that damage. And the guy said, okay,
that's a deal. You know, he was a young kid.
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He didn't know anything, and he looked it up, and
it turns out the last two people that rented that
car also charged for that exact same damage. And I said,
I'm not paying or I'm going to assue you, and
the guy took it off the bill. But a lot
of times people don't have the you know, that information
in their in their hands or at their at you know,
at will. They can't obtain or access that information. But
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I was fortunate that I did, and so I never
rented from Ugly Duckling. I may have told that story
hundreds of times to people, and they eventually went out
of business. They opened it up in nineteen seventy seven
and they folded in nineteen eighty nine. They were open
for what twelve years, and they went out of business
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because they were screwing people over and charging people more
and it was a scam. And I don't know what
Hurts is doing, but if Hurts is running these things
through AI and then I rent it and I bring
it back, I'm going to another company. Sorry, I'm just
not going to put up with that. You know. I
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don't abuse the cars when I rent them. I take
good care of them. But I'm not going to go
through that. I'm not going to be charged next to
three hundred dollars over for damage it I can't even see.
And I don't know why Hurts is doing this. They
seem to be making a lot of money as it is.
I just rent it from Hurts up in Portland over
the summer and had a great experience. But if they
start putting those X ray machines on and the AI,
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I'm out.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I'm going somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
When he tried to dispute the charges on the apps
chat feature, he says he could never get to a
human service agent. Fully says he won't pay until he's
able to talk to someone.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It hurts why. I don't understand why Hurts are doing this.
Hurts is the gold medal of rental cars. Everybody. When
you rent a car from Hurts, you feel great. You
feel like you're at the top shelf of rental cars.
The people there care about you. They got great cars,
they got great service, and that's why you pay a
little more for Hurts. When I rent a car company,
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whether it's dollar or I don't know, thrifty or Enterprise,
if I get a Hurts rent a car, I am
more comfortable knowing that they hurt stands behind their cars.
If it breaks down, they send you out a new one.
They don't charge you for little things that you're not
responsible for. So I don't understand the new management of
hurts and why they're doing this.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
It's an automated tree of options and prompts and all
an AI generated chatbot that just answers and points you
back to the charges, explains the charges.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Hurtz said they confirmed billable damage had been detected and added.
Of the two hundred and fifty thousand rental scan so far,
more than ninety seven percent showed no billable damage, and
damage incidents are declining at scanner equipped locations, The company
acknowledging it is still in the early stages and listening
to customer feedback.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, well they got to do more.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
To customer feedback.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, they got to do more listening listening.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I think listening to customer feedback.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, because customers don't want that.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Monks is here with that big ass hot dog. I
wanted to eat this, I got I got skipped over
last week. Any of the debut is already on the road.
But I was listening and I was so jealous, and
I knew Fush wasn't going to save any No, he
knocked off eleven last week. And Steph, Fush, what do
you want right now? What number we're in the hot
dog in these in these single the solo hot dog
(18:03):
contest that you're rolling for, you've had four. They were
just they were just I mean at four twenty five
they were done cooking. Wait and so in in twelve
minutes you've had four.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, that's crazy. Wow. Hey, it's a great display you
put together. You thank you. N I have to say apreiate.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You look like a guy again with love if you
weren't in radio and you're great at radio, but you
would be definitely selling hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You know what. I consider that a compliment.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That is a compliment because when you go to a
good hot dog guy on the road and he's got
everything together, you're like, you know, I'm a tip this guy.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You gotta go on.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Hot dog guy, because you would be the type where
it's like I got a guy, I got a hot
dog guy.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
You gotta go see Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
My brother sold hot dogs on the street in Encino.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
He got it, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He bought a hot dog card for like four or
five hundred bucks. And I drove by him. He was
outside of Gelson's, which is an odd place to be,
you know, because the people come in for a high
end groceries and not buying hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Off the street. And he was the middle of July.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It was one hundred and ten degrees in the valley,
and he was wearing a black sweater, black jeans, had
a black a black baseball hat on him, black shoes.
And I said to him, I said, I don't want
to use his name, but it sounds like Matt. And
I said, hey, Pat, I mean Matt buddy. What's going
on with you? You're sweating your ass off and he goes yeah.
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He goes, it's really hot out. I said, you're wearing
all black. He said, yeah, Well I thought that would
deflect the sun. I said, oh, that's white.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He goes, oh. I knew it was one of the
one of the two. I knew it was one of
the two.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So he was a good hot dog guy, but he
sacrificed his own health in boiling on venturable of those
sweaty dogs.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah. I enjoyed the banter too.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
When you got a guy comes up, give me two
with mustard. I like that people have various specific orders.
That's right, you did a great job. Look a little relish.
I got a little mustard, little onion. Fantastic. It's freshly onions.
I cut them today around noon, one o'clock out right
around noon. I cut the onions. I can taste the freshness. Yes,
and they were there were from a smart and final.
They're beautiful, you know, uh sweet onions, the mustard, the ketchup.
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The buns are from Costco and they're fresh as hell.
I don't know how Costco makes money on the buns.
For three dollars and fifty cents, you can buy sixteen buns.
It's amazing. And if I if I had to go
into business, I'd definitely go into the hot dog business.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I think I can make some dough. You would be great.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And I'm glad we're talking about this because it's relevant
to what you brought me on ghost kitchens. For people
who don't know what a ghost kitchen is, monks, once
you explain it, it's sort of like a commissary. You know,
it's a centralized location that has a bunch of equipment
for cooking in it, and different people. You may have
like an exclusive lease to a certain section of it.
It may be something that other people can use. But
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you can set up a food business and you can
operate out of the food kitchen, primarily selling your products
through the food delivery apps, Uber Eats, door Crash, those types.
And it's a way to get started. It's an entry
to the food business without having to rent a brick
and mortar or own a brick and mortar in that
and that's expensive. It's you know, retail restaurant space is
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very expensive. Plus this is also another advantage. Let's say
you love Montes Steakhouse right in Woodland Hills, but you
live in Burbank. But Montese can open a ghost kitchen
in Burbank or Glendale, and the food, even though you're
ordering it from Montess and Woodland Hills, it's coming from Burbank,
maybe even blocks from where you live. And the problem
tim in the city of Los Angeles is people are
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going to know this and they're ordering Some of these
are very popular, right, and so you I've got a
little hot dog in my throat. These are very popular.
Plus you're eating. Yeah, you know I want to eat.
I shouldn't be eating. You know, I'm going to your
favorite place after work. We do pandicades. It's our Wednesday
night tradition.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Waitit you you and your family or my spouse and I. Yeah, okay,
you guys go to a Panda Express every Wednesday night.
That's our thing. I didn't know anybody. I just said, then,
you know, date to go to bend it. We look
forward to it all week long. I support it, that's all. Oh,
that's so great. You go to the same one. Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Do you ever try anything a sample? Any of the
new chicken that comes out firecrack. I tried the fire
orange chicken last time.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You know they changed the name of orange chicken. They
had to legally change it to orange orange breading.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Sorry. Stop, it's just really no chicken. You know. I
love it Panda Express.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I'll tell you what doesn't love Panda expread This and this.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
My stomach and my ass and everything else loved.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
They list the calories on there and it almost makes
you want to turn around and leave. But it smells
so good, and it it smells good we love it.
It's get the two item combo. I usually go full plate, yes,
and I'll get a you know, a little chow mane
or the orange chickens the favorite of like the honey sesame.
But you know, but I'm a I'm a snob and
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it comes to orange chicken. I wait till the new
badge comes out. Oh yeah, to get it really hot?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Nice?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You know, I'm gonna try the Beijing chicken tonight. The
the green string bean chicken is good?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
The Firecracker Chicken's good. I don't go any for any
seafood at Panna. I'm not there yet. I'm not a gambler.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
No, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, and it looks good, it looks great. I just
won't swim in those waters. Are you rice or Cholmaine?
I will switch it up. Wow, I think this week
is chow main week. You didn't go half and half? Yeah,
you can't do that. I go, I'm an all in
kind of guy. Oh, this is what I've also. I know,
we gotta take a break. Stephan's please, you're on your
eighth bog. This is something I've noticed about Panda Express.
(23:38):
When you ask for soy sauce It's almost like you're
asking the guy or the woman for their daughter's phone number.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Like they're like, oh, did you think you one?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I know you gave me one, and I'm gonna use
more than the seven drops that you gave me in one.
Can I please get another? And they're like, well, wait
a minute, weren't you here last week and you got
to you know, they're very stingy with that extra package.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You would be so generous at your hot dogs stand? Oh,
I would absolutely, I'm generous here, you know, I just
the comments would blow all right? Can you stick around
with it? Yeah? We got to get there. We want
to finish.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And I love that you have an open date on
Wednesdays and pandics. That is so great, man. I think
you and I have much more in common that you
than you think. Yeah, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Two guys that are just about to blow each other's
heads off.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Michael Monks is with us. We're just talking about fast
food during the break. It is my favorite topic to
talk about. It's a good topic for guys to talk about.
You know, you spend a lot of time, maybe not
cooking for yourself, and you get to know these places,
you know your favorites and uh, it's also a way
to get some alone time.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Now you have a standing date every Wednesday at Pan Express.
How did that start by accident? Obviously? Absolutely there was
a late work night. Hey let's grab pan and now
every Wednesday that's what we did. At what time does
it matter?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
We hit the one on Wilshire and Koreatown by the
Home Depot there, and I do love the fact that
they stay open later the most restaurants, and the food
is always hot. You know, they're always bringing in fresh
of their fast.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah. I like a restaurant that's fast.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yes, and if you got closing time, they'll stick an
extra something in there for you for free.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't risk it. I'll go
into as if it's late, I'll go to the Roffs.
How long you've been in Los Angeles two years? Two
and a half, two and a half, you've not been
to King Taco? No, something's going on. I live downtown.
You know, you can't swing a cat without hitting a
taco sells man. There's a King Taco downtown that's on
Broadway Street, Broadway in first Yeah. But the King Tacos
(25:45):
are different compared depending on who runs them. I know
there's one off the seven to ten that's run by
I think a Guatemalan crew and that's crew. Yeah, and
that's really good. The one is run the one near
Dodger Stadium is mostly Mexican. That's also great. But the
one in Glendale, I feel like it's you know, it's
it's a fairly new one, so the grill isn't seasoned,
(26:07):
and I think I need to be seasoned for three
or four years before I slide into. The one at
Dodgers Stadium is sensational. It's about two miles from Dodger
Stadium and it's unbelievable. There's always a line, and it's
always the fastest, greatest food. And the people that work
at King Taco are always smiling and always they they
make you feel like you're at home. It makes all
the difference in the world. When the workers are into
the game, that's right, when they're paying attention, they're doing
(26:29):
the job right. And I don't care if it's authentic
or not. You know, if it's made up and you know,
behind the scenes, f that guy sell it. I don't care,
but I will say that King Taco is going to
be one of your favorites once you get you know,
we will once you stop with the panned every Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
We're thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
But I also I know where my good restaurants, my
good fast food places are. Like I'll drive if I
want a good Jack in the box, I'll drive to
Woodland Hills and past thirty of them because I know
the one in Woodland Hills always has the tacos and
the fries really hot. The one in Glendale on Pacific
fries and taco's always hot. You know, during the curfew
(27:06):
when they shut down downtown because of the violence that
was taking places back in June, and I live downtown,
I got a McDonald's on Alameda, and we were, you know,
hungry and stuck at home. It's like, let me just
sneak out and grab us some McDonald's wile that was
closed and had to go to the dreaded one on Olympic.
You know, you just know, you know the kind of
service you're gonna get. You're gonna know that the fries
are piping hot when they come out. You know the
(27:27):
ice cream machine is working. That's a big thing, right,
half of them are not working. I live walking distance
to a McDonald's in Burbank, and I never go to
it because I know the one that I can drive
to near Costco on Burbank and Victory is always hot food.
Hot food in the fast food game is ninety eight
percent of the game, absolutely, and the other two is
just just hand it to me like a person, right.
(27:50):
And I love fast food. Steph Fush and I talk
about it all the time. He's a big fan as well.
He comes in so excited when Taco Bell is offering
something new. It's like, you know, just it's like you
won the lottery. We got the fancy Taco Bell Cantena Downtown.
Oh that's a good one. Yeah, that's good one. It's fun. Yeah,
I like that's fun. And come on down. And the
cheese sauce they give you for the fries is beautiful.
(28:12):
It's always piping hot. You know you can you can
kill yourself with it. That's the way I like it.
But cold fast food place, cold fast food, I throw
it out. I don't take it back. I'm not one
of those guys I throw it out and go to
another one. I risked the money. I recently discovered ikes
the sandwich place, have not have not had it, though
loved it. Ikes Yeah, we got one of those in
(28:33):
the hood too, and it is buy some advertising. Yeah
let me, you brought me in for a reason. The
fact is this the ghost kitchens. These are the commissaries
where people can set up shop sell food on the
delivery apps. The problem is the delivery drivers, a lot
of them are hundreds of They're camping out outside these
ghost kitchens waiting for orders. They don't even necessarily have
order and that's become a problem for residents and traffic.
(28:54):
So what the city council did today was they have
asked for an ordnance to be drafted for consider They
want to create exclusion zones that will keep delivery drivers
from idling and parking in certain areas, particularly when they
don't have an order to execute. Yet they're trying to
find a way to support the businesses that are growing
in these places, support the drivers who are out trying
(29:17):
to make a living and hustling doing their best, but
also the residents who live in these communities that say
traffic is being backed up, it's dangerous to walk and
that sort of thing, So stay tuned on that. Additionally,
these ghost kitchens are zoned as catering shops, and so
that when you think about a catering business, you don't
have a lot of traffic coming through there. You may
have one guy coming up to pick up his order,
(29:37):
or you're leaving to take the order somewhere, not hundreds
of people. So they're also this councilman, Hugosda Martinez is
looking at how do we rezone these businesses more appropriately Saturday.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I'm sorry, Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead, let's play it.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Yeah, you know, in my district and across the city,
we're seeing ghost kitchens pop up in areas that were
not built to handle dozens of and hundreds of vehicles
coming in and out, idling and neighborhoods, causing nuisances to neighborhoods,
backing up traffic and creating unsafe conditions for walking or
for people walking or driving on the area.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Buddy, Saturday Night seven to nine, number one show in
Los Angeles, biggest show, number one talk show in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Gotta sell a panda ad. Yes, they do.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, they got to you gotta be Look if you
talked every Saturday from seven to nine about nothing but
fast food, it would be the number one show in
the world.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I know people love it.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
They do every time we talk, and Steph Foosh will
test this. Every time we talk about in and out,
we get emails saying, Oh, I had to pull off
freeway and get it.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I think Habit's better.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh, Habit's really good. Although it's really good. Yeah, Habit
is sensational. Although I went to Habit a couple months
ago to get I went inside ordered and my burger
was ready in like twenty seconds. I'm like, oh, that's
too quick, suspicious, that's too quick. That's that's what's going
on as well. We we we pre cook a lot
of them and then put them on to warm them
up and finish him. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
(31:02):
no no, that's not the game. That's not a twelve
dollars burger. That's not what you're paying for here. Now,
that's kind of service I would expect it. Timmy's dog,
fresh meat, everybody, fresh meat, buddy, Thanks for coming in
Saturday seven to nine.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
You got it all right.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
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