August 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Dr. Jeff Werber warned pet owners about the dangers of heat, allergies, constant itching, and those controversial anti-bark devices that may do more harm than good. He also spotlighted rising veterinary costs as big corporations take over nearly half of animal hospitals, urging pet parents to choose vets who truly care. The hour turned emotional with the passing of TikTok’s beloved Judge Frank Caprio at 88 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, and wrapped with fitness guru Jillian Michaels clapping back at Netflix’s Biggest Loser docuseries.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We talked to Foosh, who as are devoted sound engineer
from his hospital bed. That was an hour one. We
also talked to doctor Jeff Werber, the noted veterinarian, talked
about the state of veterinary care now a couple of
specific tips. Also for pets in the heat. I thought
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the thing that was the takeaway on pets on the
heat is the way sidewalks and asphalt heats up to
really dangerous heat. You can really do damage to your
dogs by walking them on that heat, even after sundown,
because the heat is retained in a lot of that concrete.
So it's that seven second thing. If you put your
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hand down on the pavement, you can hold it there
for seven seconds, then, as the doctor was saying, then
it's ok to walk the dog on that payment. If
you can't hold it there seven seconds, then that pavement
can really damage your dog's pause. Anyway, this heat wave
continues into tomorrow, into the first part of the weekend.
(01:13):
It breaks a bit on Sunday. ESPN is making some
changes and the NFL making some changes mail NFL cheerleaders, Yeah,
your prayers have been answered.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
This morning, just weeks before the NFL regular season kickoff,
some teams are already playing defense after announcing male cheerleaders
would be joining their squads. Shortly after, the Minnesota Vikings
posted this video to social media featuring cheerleaders Blaze Chic
and Louis Kahan. Online backlash and hateful comments swiftly follows,
(01:55):
one user commenting how embarrassing, another writing, I just lost
all of my respect for the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know, in college, if you look along the college sidelines,
there are male and female cheerleaders. You know, they're like
I would call them gymnasts. So many the stuff they do,
that pyramid thing, tossing somebody up to the top, tossing
them back down again.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I mean, it is kind of part of college sports.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
The Vikings organization quickly defending their cheerleaders, saying in a statement,
male cheerleaders have been a part of previous Vikings teams
and have long been associated with collegiate and professional cheerleading,
adding we support all our cheerleaders and are proud of
the role they play as ambassadors of the organization. She
Can Cohn appearing to take subtle jabs at haters sharing
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this photo and their uniforms, writing with that.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Experience is like this since the time we started dancing,
growing up, far before we became NFL cheerleaders.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Speaking with GMA overnight, Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders Alex Dalton and
James sharing a message for their colleague.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
We know what it feels like to feel that somebody
doesn't support you for simply doing something that you enjoy,
and so it's been really a pleasure to be on
a team that has multiple boys where we can fall
back on each other.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I will say this, though, I do associate, and maybe
this is just because of television, I do associate NFL
with female cheerleaders. I just do. I'm just used to
seeing the Dallas Cowboy cheerters is a big thing. The
Dolphins cheerleaders, they were like you know, these are they
were almost franchises unto themselves. So I mean, don't get
(03:36):
me wrong, not dumping on this if this is the
new jam, but I'm just saying it is true as
a regular football viewer that I'm used to seeing. I'm
accustomed to seeing the women with the pom poms and stuff,
and look, maybe that's old school. And maybe I'm a dinosaur,
and you know, but I'm just saying that's what I've
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become accustomed to. Maybe I get accustomed to new stuff,
but this is apparently the controversial. I mean, I'm not
going to go on social media and dump on them.
I don't get that. I mean that, you really this
society has really lost its mind. Like when people have
time to go on and sort of make these people
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the source of derision, you know, it's just kind of crazy.
But it is also true that I associate the NFL
with female cheerleaders. ESPN and the streaming service launching new
chapter in the streaming wars starts tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
And it's all about the power of the bundle to
reduce churn.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
The launch of ESPN the unlimited.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
App for thirty dollars marks the start of Disney's aggressive rebundling.
Subscribers to ESPN also get Disney Plus and Hulu for
no additional fee for thirty dollars for the first year.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Disney is also bundling.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Its new unlimited ESPN app plus five one for forty dollars,
and is pairing its BN app with NFL Plus, also
for forty dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, that's not at all complicated. That sounds very straightforward.
I could almost follow like the last couple of bits
of that bundle. But what they want you to do
is stay on this sort of constellation of things that
they own. And now Disney owns a ton of stuff
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to help monetize. What are these acquisitions that Disney has made.
I mean they control the media escape in a large way.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Es Fox one for forty dollars and is pairing its
is Ben app with NFL Plus right, also for forty dollars.
This is all part of Disney's plan to supercharge its
streaming bundle to make those subscribers as loyal as cable
subscribers were for decades. ESPN, which collected the highest fees
from the PATV bundle, peaked at about one hundred million
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TV subscribers in twenty eleven, a number which declined to
six as of this June.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Wow, is that right? They went from one hundred million
to sixty one million.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
About one hundred million TV subscribers in twenty.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Eleven, okay, and then oh from twenty eleven.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
To the day, remember, which declined to sixty one million
as of this June yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I mean in twenty eleven it was a totally different landscape.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
So will unlimited streaming ESPN accelerate cord cutting? MAF and
Nathansen doesn't expect it to because the price is high
and without a TV bundle you'll need eight streaming subscriptions
to watch every major US sporting event plus YouTube Sunday
ticket for out of market NFL games.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Now, does everybody here still have cable? Does anybody cut
the cord at all? Or get YouTube TV or streaming
some other way? Or you guys and I as well
have cable for the Internet, and I have cable for
but I did I.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Haven't ate cable for twenty years.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Really, yea, I have it all.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
I have cable, I.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Have it all.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Yeah, I cut that cord one years ago. Man, you
don't miss it.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Not a bit.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
I yeah, definitely don't miss them bills.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I mean it's expensive. It's expensive just to have
the Internet, and they smack you hard. And I don't
know that the internet service is so great. But the
the thing that they've done here where they kind of
bundled stuff together, it is it gets harder. It feels
like three card Monty you know, you know when they're
sort of like, oh, you can have this, you can
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have this for forty dollars, or this for thirty dollars.
Year nfl out out of market games we have this
is Hulu and Disney Plus and Brav. I mean, it's
it's really difficult to not end up like Sharon Bellio
and just have everything.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Because yeah, I'm kind of Yeah.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
I started getting streaming when it really started to become
and about a year ago, I guess is when I
really started to notice the mergings of streaming apps, and
I got lost. And sometimes I feel like I'm positive
that I paid for the same streaming more than once.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Thank you. That's exactly what I'm getting at. I'm certain
that I'm duplicating, and I'm also certain that they won't
tell me, Oh, you know, you're actually paying for Hulu
and you're also it's in your bundle. But ESPN is
a big draw. Live sports is a big draw. That's
why it's a huge part of this Disney bundle.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
ESPN chief Jimmy Pataro telling us quote, there are more
bundling opportunities out there. We're in conversations right now, and
we think there could be more opportunities for the sports
van as we move forward, So look out for some.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Deals potentially bundles, maybe with the.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Likes of Peacock, which has the NBA and the Olympics,
or Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Oh that's true.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, and then there's sort of event specific things, pay
per view specific things.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
It's it's pretty wild. You know.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
When we come back, what's happening with those towers downtown,
you know the ones that are all graffitied up, They've
been vandalized, they've been abandoned. We'll update you on that
as we continue. All So, why Bed Bath and Beyond
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won't open new stores in California.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We'll tell you that as well.
Speaker 11 (09:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Bed Bath and Beyond is not going to be opening
news stores in California.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Why would that be?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Executive chairman Marcus Lamonis said, the decision isn't political. It's
a response to the state's unfriendly business environment. California has created.
This is a quote, one of the most over regulated,
expensive and risky environments for business in all of America.
It's a system that makes it harder for companies to
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employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to
deliver value to customers.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
He said.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The retailer bed Bath and Beyond will have stores in
almost every other state. Again, they are trying to make
a comeback. They filed bankruptcy, what was it two years ago?
Speaker 8 (10:00):
I'm sure that was California's fault, though.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, exactly, I do think that, you know, it gets
a little old after a while, right, if you look
around the block, there are other businesses that are open.
I'm just saying, I mean, I don't dispute the fact
that there is, right, you know, a continue a continuing
regulatory environment here that isn't making it a breeze to
open and keep businesses open. But you know, as Crows
(10:24):
sort of hints, yeah, I was saying, maybe you can
zig and zag and I used to love that Bath
than Beyond maybe my favorite store.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Always fun to walk around.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
They go loop, yeah, buying stuff you don't even possibly need.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Exactly, that is truly what we need to don't we
need some linen napkins? Though, for seriously, we have some
linen that yeah, well we don't have these. You see
how they've got the orange embroidery look at.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
These lamp shades and mug racks.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Doesn't the garage need some of these lamp shades, Yes, exactly,
because that's where they're going to end up in the
fing garage anyway. So don't look for bed Beth and
Beyond to be back anytime. Soued Delta is getting sued
along with United Airlines. They are sued by passengers who
claimed they paid extra money to city in window seats,
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only to find themselves placed in seats next to a
blank wall. The inhumanity to be fair. If you're paying
for a window seat, dude, you got to give us
a window seat.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Apparently, they are seeking millions of dollars in damages for
more than one million passengers in each carriers. This is
a class action, right. These are people who all fall
into the class of angry passengers who want some kind of.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Accommodation.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The complaints say that some Boeing seven thirty seven, seven
fifty seven and Airbus A three twenty one planes contain
seats that would normally contain windows, but lack them because
of the placement of air conditioning ducks and other electrical conduits.
Things like that. Passengers say that Delta and United do
not flag these seats during the booking process, so you
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end up paying sometimes hundreds of dollars for these seats
that are by a window and there is no window.
And by the way, before you say well, there's nothing
that can be done, I mean, you know, it's a
computer rul. Other carriers do something and they don't have
this issue, like Alaska Airlines, American Airlines. So Delta based
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in Atlanta, United in Chicago, they, i would imagine, will
make some deal and everybody in that class action suit
will get you know, sixty three cents and the lawyers
will do very well. And maybe it does send a message,
you know, to clean up your act. Maybe it's not
about what you actually walk away with in terms of
a check to accommodate the problem, but it sends a
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message like, hey, you know this is serious. You're charging passing.
There's more money for a service you're not providing. In effect,
EV pickups are a bust.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm following these companies closely, and when you know the
unit sales numbers come out every month, I'm shocked to
see how small they are for EV's in general. But
also the fact that all these companies have tried to
get in with pickup trucks.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
First.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Why is that?
Speaker 12 (13:24):
I think when you had announcements from Rivan and Tesla
early on that they were going to go with trucks,
I think what everybody figured is the US pickup market
is so big that even if a small portion of
it went electric, you would still get a pretty big
chunk of buyers. And you had all of these reservations
people paying one hundred dollars to Tesla or Ford for
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the lightning. You know, Tesla said a million people, Ford
said one hundred and fifty two hundred thousand people at reservations.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, I mean I had no offense, but that Tesla
pickup that's kind of a bust for reasons that seem
to have nothing to do maybe with the overall market.
I mean, first of all, things like one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars just to you know, to get.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Into the driveway.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Then there issues with it falling apart with the cosmetics
of it. I got it that it's sort of this
futuristic thing. Maybe it was cool for an hour and
then you know, must got to be controversial, et cetera.
But the point is I don't know if that's you know,
the Bell Weather. I don't know if that's your litmus
test for how well it's doing. Now you can the
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other stuff that he's talking about, which is, you know,
counting the number of units sold.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That says a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
But I've seen some gorgeous pickup trucks that are EV's gorgeous.
But I mean those are just pickup trucks that would
be gorgeous with a combustion engine in them too. But
with the price of gas being what it is in California,
I would think this would be a really great alternative.
I mean it just you're not getting great gas mileagen
and in a pickup trick to begin with. I would
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think an EV would really give you a chance to,
you know, operate a huge, gorgeous pickup truck far more economically.
Speaker 12 (15:04):
You know, Tesla said a million people, Ford said one
hundred and fifty two hundred thousand people at reservations, and
they tooled up production for that, and GM piled in
and everybody said, geez, you know that this is really
going to hit. But those reservations didn't really turn in
to sales for a variety of reasons. One is pickup
trucks lose a lot of their range when you're towing
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or hauling something, and not everybody uses. In fact, the
majority of pickup owners probably never haul or tow anything,
but they like the fact that they can. And those
who do, particularly commercial users, say they don't. They just
don't get enough range. They don't get enough driving range
when they're actually doing the work they're trying.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh, that makes sense, that makes sense. Okay, that's one
thing on it.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
Yeah, and they're political reasons too, Matt. Republicans tend to
buy pickup trucks, or I should say pick up buyers
tend to be more Republican than not, and evie buyers
tend to be more Democrats than not, and a little
bit of a disconnect there. So people just haven't bought
them in big numbers, and everybody is struggling sell them.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Nonetheless, the industry can.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I hate that about America right now.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I just hate that that you're evaluating me based on
the car look. People have always you know, the curve
appeal of a car or whatever. That's always been something.
Let's face it, the cars are repping sort of a
personal profile. There have been huge studies on this and
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the marketing of these vehicles all has to do with, yeah,
you want the car to look good and kind of
be consistent with who you are, whatever it might be.
But the idea, somehow that politics has so completely infected
every bit of life so that they can't sell evs
because that's a democratic thing. Seriously, I don't know, man,
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so pay five dollars at the pump, four fifty at
the pump. It's just seems like a you know, and
pickup trucks are a gop thing, Republican thing. Really, I
think pickup trucks are. They're like everybody I know, tons
of ae able to pick ups, who wouldn't who don't
even use that bed very much.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
They always you don't think you're gonna use it, but
you do.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Actually you don't think of Okay, you're buying it for
the cabin, dude, I can't tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
And the look, I get it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's part of the thing, but I just hate the
politics entering into it.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Just stinks, you know, to sell them.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Nonetheless, the industry keeps pushing towards this. In fact, I
was talking to Jim Farley yesterday. He was out at
Pebble Beach and he's touting this new affordable it's a
mid size pickup, so not a full size American machine,
but a mid size pickup that they'll build in Kentucky
for thirty thousand dollars. Why do they continue to push
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towards this goal.
Speaker 12 (17:51):
Well, price is one of the big problems with pickup trucks.
I mean, you look at GM's trucks, for example, they
can go five hundred miles on a church the Silverado
and the GMCC erat evs, that's quite a way, and
they do lose a lot of their range when you're
towing a decent amount of weight, but that's still three
hundred miles you can go if you're hauling something that's
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pretty good. But the trucks are very expensive. So if
you're a fleet buyer or if you're just an individual consumer,
you're looking to pay another ten twenty thousand dollars for
the electric version and you don't really get anything more
for that other than evs are pretty fun to drive.
But you know a lot of truck owners also like
the hum of their VA too, as opposed to the
silence of an electric motor.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Ya put that.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What is that thing that got the frats Tronic on
the Daytona, the Dodge Daytona, the EV. It's an electric
muscle car and it has a speaker. It'll sound like
there's a rumble next to you. Yeah, you got to
put that on it.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Well.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
So basically the end of that story is they're looking
at building out the smaller pickup trucks that are EV's
and maybe there's a consumer for that. But it's interesting
to see that this market I thought would really be
open to the kind of I think, fast aggressive sales
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that accompanied a lot of the other EV sales is
not there.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
It's just not there. The market's not what it should be.
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You get that kind of range that's five miles, four
hundred miles, you don't get that.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
On a regular EV typically.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I mean, I guess the Lucid has it maybe, and
some of them coming out have a little bit more.
But there's a lot great about these electric pickup trucks,
but they just can't move them off the lot, and
so maybe the smaller pickups that are EV's will do better.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
But that's the word on that.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
The the timeshare controversy, we'll tell you the story next.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Check out my show podcast called The Mark Thompson Show.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
We go live every day Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
We're eleven to one on the West Coast, two to
four on the East Coast.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
I've been National Radio Day one.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It is National Radio Day. Thank you very much, Michael Krozier.
In our KOFI newsroom. There's a there's a certain magic
in the hallway here on National Radio Day. You know,
the kind of lackadaisy or lack of days ago, you know,
(20:33):
just routinely filling out your time card sort of attitude
goes away on National Radio Day. There's certain bouncing our step.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
See more people post pictures of them in front of
a soundboard.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It is so funny. Yes, the throwback shots are a
true kick. Like you check them out on Instagram. You
can find them elsewhere. Everybody who's ever touched radio has
a radio picture.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
And I remember when I was on the.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
College radio station, they had these big dials for the
for the they call them pots. You know, you have
pot up, pot down, and they're huge dials. And then
sliders came in. Now we use sliders on the on
the big board. But in fact, I remember my first
slider board was when I worked in my first full
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time commercial radio when a job when I was the
night guy in Fritz Coleman was the afternoon guy Buffalo,
New York. I was mentioning that earlier and that was
my first, like that was a big time board. I
was so excited. And here's something else I had. This
is really cool. There was something called fold back. So
you hit this button and you don't need to wear
headphones anymore. You can hear on the speakers and because
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of something Robin can probably explain this. I don't even
know how this works, but there is a there's an
aspect to the way the sound is hitting the microphone
that doesn't cause feedback, and it was called fold back,
and you could use it instead of wearing microphones. I
always wore the headphones. But but that was the coolest thing.
I'd seen it at a couple of big radio stations,
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and there it was in my first big full time
job at wkb W Radio, we had fold back.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But here at Kofi at iHeartMedia, National Radio day takes
on a special significance. I haven't seen any particular celebrations
going on, though, just to be honest, I think the
social media celebration is really where most of the celebration
(22:50):
is going on. But Sharon did post a really cool
video on our Instagram, the Conway Show Instagram, so check
that out. And I posted a one a sort of
a semi good video also at Mark Thompson TV on Instagram.
The closest I've ever come to being held hostage occurred
(23:12):
in Mexico, and it was something I voluntarily walked into.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
In fact, I walked into it excitedly.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It was a free brunch and all I had to
do was be presented with a brief presentation about a timeshare.
I was a young person on vacation welcoming an opportunity
at a free brunch, and so I went and soon
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realized that I was not going to be allowed out
of there unless I really really pitched a fit, which
is not my way.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So I.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Will tell you that time share the pitches have changed.
They can be very convincing, very sometimes worth it, you know.
I mean, I know some people in timeshares they're happy
if it's kind of like a within the universe of
other timeshares, swap out things but oftentimes they can be difficult,
and this is a story of the difficulty.
Speaker 13 (24:21):
Trapped in a timeshare.
Speaker 14 (24:23):
An elderly couple of claims they were duped by a
major timeshare company and ended up with a surprise bill
for more than fifty thousand dollars. Boston twenty five is
cal Thompson talked to an industry insider about the best
way to escape if you want out of.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
Your deal, Sunshine.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
These are people you understand have already been through the presentation.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
They bought in some can't get out for my share.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Right on the water in Daytona Beach Shores, the c
Club four resort was the perfect place for Sandy and
Joseph Parks to enjoy their timeshare, originally bought by Sandy's
parents decades ago and fully paid for.
Speaker 15 (24:59):
Can we actually enjoyed it back when we had no
money to take the kids on vacation, they would give
us their week.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
They still love it and were intrigued when two men
from Capital Vacations suggested a change. According to Sandy, the
salesman told them they could trade out their week for points,
a move that would offer more options and flexibility to
check out other Capital Vacations Resorts.
Speaker 15 (25:23):
Never once did they say that there was going to
be any cost involved.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Weeks later, a surprise bill arrived that made them take
another look at their contract. Turns out it was to
purchase additional time shares for more than fifty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Wow, talk about blindsided. That is insane.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
We about fell out of our seat.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
Capital Vacations gets just over a one star rating on
Yelp review after review issue warnings we took the consumer
concerns in these types of posts and from the parks
to Capital Vacations. The company responded by email at this time,
we do not have a comment.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
We don't like to respond on national radio day to
any kind of questions about time.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
The company responded by email at this time, we do
not have a comment. That is the number one complaint
or the number one question we get is Hey, how
do I get rid of my timeshare? Brian Rogers runs
the Timeshare Users Group or TUG, with about twenty six
thousand members on Facebook. The forum for sharing timeshare information
has a lot of positive info, and Rogers himself has
(26:34):
his own timeshare, but he agrees they can be hard
to break up with. Here are your options. First, ask
the company to let you off the hook.
Speaker 14 (26:43):
Just no.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
You may get out of the relationship but not get
money back. Second, you can always see if someone will
take it off your hands, but Rogers says, expect to take.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
A hit and now you're probably lucky to get between
zero and ten cents.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
On the dollar.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Third, there's the more extreme option. You can sim please
stop paying, but you talk to a lawyer first to
avoid financial or legal trouble. It's a wild situation that
there's no magic solution. If your parents have a timeshare,
you could end up on the hook for payments when
they pass, So make sure you have a discussion and
pay me a while to disclaim the inheritance.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
If you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
That is brutal. It's nice to know that Tug is
on this on the case. So look, I have never
had a time share, but I do know people who
actually are enjoying their time share, so I don't think
it's all bad. But it sounds like you got a
periscope up and make sure that you know your deal
is is legit and that you're not getting blindsided.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Christiti Field building downtown, that high rise. It's I think
it's set for auctioning of the property in September, so
there'll be some kind of resolution. There've been all sorts
of complications and they ran out of money. They built
this huge buildings. It's been graffiti eyes, it's been filled
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with homeless, with people hanging out there doing drugs.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
There are even some weird parties there.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
So they've got to pay creditors if they sell the property,
which they will do, they'll sell it at auction.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
But it's a.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Blight sort of on downtown Los Angeles right now, at
least that part and what's going to happen with it
is of interest to a lot of people who care
about downtown LA.
Speaker 13 (28:35):
The sale of those infamous graffiti towers in downtown LA
is currently in limbo. You'll remember the Chinese company building
the Ocean Wide Ploza development went bankrupt in twenty nineteen.
Taggers eventually breached the security fences around the abandoned property
and covered both towers with graffiti.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
The new owner of the.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Towers would be responsible for removing that graffiti, which maybe
why there's trouble finding a buyer. Experts say cost to
clean up and complete the towers could reach upwards of
a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, yeah, a billion dollars is what they're talking about.
And it's sixty percent completed right now.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
The other thing that does happen is that you know,
you've got to finish this tower, as we say, and
there's a lot of construction to be done, and you're
not doing it at a particularly good time because there
are tariffs that are affecting construction materials, and uncertainty about
how long the teriffs are going to last, what new
(29:30):
ones might arise. Labor costs have been increasing, so every
year you wait, it's getting more expensive to employ people
to build it. And then ice and the raids have
added this destabilizing effect on the construction labor pool. I mean,
the people you have the draw on that pool of
candidates is getting rocked right now. So these are all
(29:55):
things that are continuing to affect the future of this know,
this wonderful location, but you know this horribly uh unsightly
kind of.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Building.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So there's actually talk and this probably occurred to many
as you see how there is uh it's all been graffitiized, right,
so much of it's been graffitied. In fact, as you
look at it, you go, guys, how do they get
to that like Midway spot? Like down there, there's no
(30:31):
you know, it's there's no uh. I guess what I'm
trying to say is there's no way to safely navigate
the outside of this building to graffitiize some of these
areas that they've hit with graffiti and tagged, and yet
they've done it. So the thinking is you could turn
this building into commercial displays of one sort or another.
(30:54):
You could fill this entire building with all kinds of
you know, wrapping, like a wrapping, you know, drape it
and leave it.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
That's being talked about.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I mean, I don't know how realistic it is, but
it's one way you could go the finish the building.
You buy it at auction and finish it. That's going
to be a tough slog, but it is going to
happen in September, because that's for the auction is scheduled
for September later with mo Kelly is next and mow
Away Chris Merrill filling in my old pal, Chris Merril,
(31:30):
what's up? With you, sir, How are you well?
Speaker 16 (31:32):
I'm doing all right, although I if I'm honest. I
of course people don't know this, but I'm actually in
the KFI East studios.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, and I saw your video about National Radio Day.
You probably have a good radio or origin story. Hey, yeah,
kind of boring.
Speaker 16 (31:50):
But what struck me about your video was what the
hell is crows you're wearing? Could he find smaller shorts?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Were those?
Speaker 16 (32:01):
Did he steal those from a junior high e class?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Now Krozier not on mic right now, but I just
want to find this is even better.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I I in his defense, you know, he's a you know,
it's hot as hades here, it's a you know, a
four degrees. And I'm sure that if he could not
wear any shorts at all, he'd be happy. I mean,
it's it's that level of heat.
Speaker 16 (32:26):
I get it, and I think I think all of
us are happy that he did elect to wear the
shorts at all.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I was very concerned with that. When I saw it,
I thought, that is that is terrifying.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
It does feel bad, it does pop, it does I
feel bad for that video that moment Ronner has to.
Speaker 16 (32:42):
Sit in that chair after him. Oh Yeah, Well, I
was actually talking about early on my first radio gig.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
It started.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
January of two thousand, so it makes the math really
easy for me. But I was doing a morning show
at a small station in my hometown on.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
On nine to eleven.
Speaker 16 (32:58):
I was just talking about this today because interns around
that weren't even born when nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 16 (33:05):
I mean we were talking about we were talking about
Katrina and they were like, well, I was one when
Katrina happened, but I wasn't even here for nine to eleven.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
No, that is extraordinary. Yeah, wow, what a day that
had to be. Man, what you talk about baptism by fire? Geez?
Speaker 16 (33:19):
Yeah, I mean I think I've been full time for
about a year at that point, and I just I
remember we went to I mean we had no idea
it was going to a small, small radio station.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
We didn't even have monitors in the studio.
Speaker 16 (33:31):
So our sales manager was running down the street to
the kayak shop because they had a television, and she
would she would jodde down as many notes as she
could because she was watching, you know, the live TV news,
and then she would run back up the hill.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
And then here's the latest. Here's the latest that is crazy,
that is truly crazy. That is a good origin story.
Wow wow, Well.
Speaker 16 (33:55):
It really starts with I left college and my father said, well,
the local radio station is you should go in there
and put in an application.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
I said, okay, So that's how I ended up, Thanks Dad.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, yeah, I yeah, I started as a rock jock
years ago.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
That's how I believe it. Yeah, if you have a
rock name, there's a music.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Nor I wish my pal, my pal Bean Baxter.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Uh. He was.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
He was on Kevin and being here in l A
for years, he had a great name. They called him
because we came up at the same time. We were
like and that we actually worked at the same radio stations.
There were young guys, and he was called Flash Phillips
on a rock station called uh I think it was
called Live one O five or something like that was
a W A v A in Washington.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Did he picked his own name or was that? I
don't know. I forget. I think they gave it to him.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I don't remember, uh, but yeah, but yeah, being back
to was Flash Phillips, slash all right, National Radio Day,
Uh wins down Chris Merril next f mo, Kelly and
U great talking to you.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
Chris Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Now, you can always hear us live on KFI AM
six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday
Speaker 9 (35:11):
And anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We talked to Foosh, who as are devoted sound engineer
from his hospital bed. That was an hour one. We
also talked to doctor Jeff Werber, the noted veterinarian, talked
about the state of veterinary care now a couple of
specific tips. Also for pets in the heat. I thought
(00:28):
the thing that was the takeaway on pets on the
heat is the way sidewalks and asphalt heats up to
really dangerous heat. You can really do damage to your
dogs by walking them on that heat, even after sundown,
because the heat is retained in a lot of that concrete.
So it's that seven second thing. If you put your
(00:51):
hand down on the pavement, you can hold it there
for seven seconds, then, as the doctor was saying, then
it's ok to walk the dog on that payment. If
you can't hold it there seven seconds, then that pavement
can really damage your dog's pause. Anyway, this heat wave
continues into tomorrow, into the first part of the weekend.
(01:13):
It breaks a bit on Sunday. ESPN is making some
changes and the NFL making some changes mail NFL cheerleaders, Yeah,
your prayers have been answered.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
This morning, just weeks before the NFL regular season kickoff,
some teams are already playing defense after announcing male cheerleaders
would be joining their squads. Shortly after, the Minnesota Vikings
posted this video to social media featuring cheerleaders Blaze Chic
and Louis Kahan. Online backlash and hateful comments swiftly follows,
(01:55):
one user commenting how embarrassing, another writing, I just lost
all of my respect for the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know, in college, if you look along the college sidelines,
there are male and female cheerleaders. You know, they're like
I would call them gymnasts. So many the stuff they do,
that pyramid thing, tossing somebody up to the top, tossing
them back down again.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I mean, it is kind of part of college sports.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
The Vikings organization quickly defending their cheerleaders, saying in a statement,
male cheerleaders have been a part of previous Vikings teams
and have long been associated with collegiate and professional cheerleading,
adding we support all our cheerleaders and are proud of
the role they play as ambassadors of the organization. She
Can Cohn appearing to take subtle jabs at haters sharing
(02:44):
this photo and their uniforms, writing with that.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Experience is like this since the time we started dancing,
growing up, far before we became NFL cheerleaders.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Speaking with GMA overnight, Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders Alex Dalton and
James sharing a message for their colleague.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
We know what it feels like to feel that somebody
doesn't support you for simply doing something that you enjoy,
and so it's been really a pleasure to be on
a team that has multiple boys where we can fall
back on each other.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I will say this, though, I do associate, and maybe
this is just because of television, I do associate NFL
with female cheerleaders. I just do. I'm just used to
seeing the Dallas Cowboy cheerters is a big thing. The
Dolphins cheerleaders, they were like you know, these are they
were almost franchises unto themselves. So I mean, don't get
(03:36):
me wrong, not dumping on this if this is the
new jam, but I'm just saying it is true as
a regular football viewer that I'm used to seeing. I'm
accustomed to seeing the women with the pom poms and stuff,
and look, maybe that's old school. And maybe I'm a dinosaur,
and you know, but I'm just saying that's what I've
(03:57):
become accustomed to. Maybe I get accustomed to new stuff,
but this is apparently the controversial. I mean, I'm not
going to go on social media and dump on them.
I don't get that. I mean that, you really this
society has really lost its mind. Like when people have
time to go on and sort of make these people
(04:19):
the source of derision, you know, it's just kind of crazy.
But it is also true that I associate the NFL
with female cheerleaders. ESPN and the streaming service launching new
chapter in the streaming wars starts tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
And it's all about the power of the bundle to
reduce churn.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
The launch of ESPN the unlimited.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
App for thirty dollars marks the start of Disney's aggressive rebundling.
Subscribers to ESPN also get Disney Plus and Hulu for
no additional fee for thirty dollars for the first year.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Disney is also bundling.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Its new unlimited ESPN app plus five one for forty dollars,
and is pairing its BN app with NFL Plus, also
for forty dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, that's not at all complicated. That sounds very straightforward.
I could almost follow like the last couple of bits
of that bundle. But what they want you to do
is stay on this sort of constellation of things that
they own. And now Disney owns a ton of stuff
(05:28):
to help monetize. What are these acquisitions that Disney has made.
I mean they control the media escape in a large way.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Es Fox one for forty dollars and is pairing its
is Ben app with NFL Plus right, also for forty dollars.
This is all part of Disney's plan to supercharge its
streaming bundle to make those subscribers as loyal as cable
subscribers were for decades. ESPN, which collected the highest fees
from the PATV bundle, peaked at about one hundred million
(05:55):
TV subscribers in twenty eleven, a number which declined to
six as of this June.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Wow, is that right? They went from one hundred million
to sixty one million.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
About one hundred million TV subscribers in twenty.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Eleven, okay, and then oh from twenty eleven.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
To the day, remember, which declined to sixty one million
as of this June yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I mean in twenty eleven it was a totally different landscape.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
So will unlimited streaming ESPN accelerate cord cutting? MAF and
Nathansen doesn't expect it to because the price is high
and without a TV bundle you'll need eight streaming subscriptions
to watch every major US sporting event plus YouTube Sunday
ticket for out of market NFL games.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Now, does everybody here still have cable? Does anybody cut
the cord at all? Or get YouTube TV or streaming
some other way? Or you guys and I as well
have cable for the Internet, and I have cable for
but I did I.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Haven't ate cable for twenty years.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Really, yea, I have it all.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
I have cable, I.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Have it all.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Yeah, I cut that cord one years ago. Man, you
don't miss it.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Not a bit.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
I yeah, definitely don't miss them bills.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I mean it's expensive. It's expensive just to have
the Internet, and they smack you hard. And I don't
know that the internet service is so great. But the
the thing that they've done here where they kind of
bundled stuff together, it is it gets harder. It feels
like three card Monty you know, you know when they're
sort of like, oh, you can have this, you can
(07:27):
have this for forty dollars, or this for thirty dollars.
Year nfl out out of market games we have this
is Hulu and Disney Plus and Brav. I mean, it's
it's really difficult to not end up like Sharon Bellio
and just have everything.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Because yeah, I'm kind of Yeah.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
I started getting streaming when it really started to become
and about a year ago, I guess is when I
really started to notice the mergings of streaming apps, and
I got lost. And sometimes I feel like I'm positive
that I paid for the same streaming more than once.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Thank you. That's exactly what I'm getting at. I'm certain
that I'm duplicating, and I'm also certain that they won't
tell me, Oh, you know, you're actually paying for Hulu
and you're also it's in your bundle. But ESPN is
a big draw. Live sports is a big draw. That's
why it's a huge part of this Disney bundle.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
ESPN chief Jimmy Pataro telling us quote, there are more
bundling opportunities out there. We're in conversations right now, and
we think there could be more opportunities for the sports
van as we move forward, So look out for some.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Deals potentially bundles, maybe with the.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Likes of Peacock, which has the NBA and the Olympics,
or Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Oh that's true.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, and then there's sort of event specific things, pay
per view specific things.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
It's it's pretty wild. You know.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
When we come back, what's happening with those towers downtown,
you know the ones that are all graffitied up, They've
been vandalized, they've been abandoned. We'll update you on that
as we continue. All So, why Bed Bath and Beyond
(09:03):
won't open new stores in California.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We'll tell you that as well.
Speaker 11 (09:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Bed Bath and Beyond is not going to be opening
news stores in California.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Why would that be?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Executive chairman Marcus Lamonis said, the decision isn't political. It's
a response to the state's unfriendly business environment. California has created.
This is a quote, one of the most over regulated,
expensive and risky environments for business in all of America.
It's a system that makes it harder for companies to
(09:41):
employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to
deliver value to customers.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
He said.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The retailer bed Bath and Beyond will have stores in
almost every other state. Again, they are trying to make
a comeback. They filed bankruptcy, what was it two years ago?
Speaker 8 (10:00):
I'm sure that was California's fault, though.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, exactly, I do think that, you know, it gets
a little old after a while, right, if you look
around the block, there are other businesses that are open.
I'm just saying, I mean, I don't dispute the fact
that there is, right, you know, a continue a continuing
regulatory environment here that isn't making it a breeze to
open and keep businesses open. But you know, as Crows
(10:24):
sort of hints, yeah, I was saying, maybe you can
zig and zag and I used to love that Bath
than Beyond maybe my favorite store.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Always fun to walk around.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
They go loop, yeah, buying stuff you don't even possibly need.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Exactly, that is truly what we need to don't we
need some linen napkins? Though, for seriously, we have some
linen that yeah, well we don't have these. You see
how they've got the orange embroidery look at.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
These lamp shades and mug racks.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Doesn't the garage need some of these lamp shades, Yes, exactly,
because that's where they're going to end up in the
fing garage anyway. So don't look for bed Beth and
Beyond to be back anytime. Soued Delta is getting sued
along with United Airlines. They are sued by passengers who
claimed they paid extra money to city in window seats,
(11:14):
only to find themselves placed in seats next to a
blank wall. The inhumanity to be fair. If you're paying
for a window seat, dude, you got to give us
a window seat.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Apparently, they are seeking millions of dollars in damages for
more than one million passengers in each carriers. This is
a class action, right. These are people who all fall
into the class of angry passengers who want some kind of.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Accommodation.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The complaints say that some Boeing seven thirty seven, seven
fifty seven and Airbus A three twenty one planes contain
seats that would normally contain windows, but lack them because
of the placement of air conditioning ducks and other electrical conduits.
Things like that. Passengers say that Delta and United do
not flag these seats during the booking process, so you
(12:13):
end up paying sometimes hundreds of dollars for these seats
that are by a window and there is no window.
And by the way, before you say well, there's nothing
that can be done, I mean, you know, it's a
computer rul. Other carriers do something and they don't have
this issue, like Alaska Airlines, American Airlines. So Delta based
(12:33):
in Atlanta, United in Chicago, they, i would imagine, will
make some deal and everybody in that class action suit
will get you know, sixty three cents and the lawyers
will do very well. And maybe it does send a message,
you know, to clean up your act. Maybe it's not
about what you actually walk away with in terms of
a check to accommodate the problem, but it sends a
(12:55):
message like, hey, you know this is serious. You're charging passing.
There's more money for a service you're not providing. In effect,
EV pickups are a bust.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I'm following these companies closely, and when you know the
unit sales numbers come out every month, I'm shocked to
see how small they are for EV's in general. But
also the fact that all these companies have tried to
get in with pickup trucks.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
First.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Why is that?
Speaker 12 (13:24):
I think when you had announcements from Rivan and Tesla
early on that they were going to go with trucks,
I think what everybody figured is the US pickup market
is so big that even if a small portion of
it went electric, you would still get a pretty big
chunk of buyers. And you had all of these reservations
people paying one hundred dollars to Tesla or Ford for
(13:45):
the lightning. You know, Tesla said a million people, Ford
said one hundred and fifty two hundred thousand people at reservations.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, I mean I had no offense, but that Tesla
pickup that's kind of a bust for reasons that seem
to have nothing to do maybe with the overall market.
I mean, first of all, things like one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars just to you know, to get.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Into the driveway.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Then there issues with it falling apart with the cosmetics
of it. I got it that it's sort of this
futuristic thing. Maybe it was cool for an hour and
then you know, must got to be controversial, et cetera.
But the point is I don't know if that's you know,
the Bell Weather. I don't know if that's your litmus
test for how well it's doing. Now you can the
(14:28):
other stuff that he's talking about, which is, you know,
counting the number of units sold.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That says a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
But I've seen some gorgeous pickup trucks that are EV's gorgeous.
But I mean those are just pickup trucks that would
be gorgeous with a combustion engine in them too. But
with the price of gas being what it is in California,
I would think this would be a really great alternative.
I mean it just you're not getting great gas mileagen
and in a pickup trick to begin with. I would
(14:55):
think an EV would really give you a chance to,
you know, operate a huge, gorgeous pickup truck far more economically.
Speaker 12 (15:04):
You know, Tesla said a million people, Ford said one
hundred and fifty two hundred thousand people at reservations, and
they tooled up production for that, and GM piled in
and everybody said, geez, you know that this is really
going to hit. But those reservations didn't really turn in
to sales for a variety of reasons. One is pickup
trucks lose a lot of their range when you're towing
(15:25):
or hauling something, and not everybody uses. In fact, the
majority of pickup owners probably never haul or tow anything,
but they like the fact that they can. And those
who do, particularly commercial users, say they don't. They just
don't get enough range. They don't get enough driving range
when they're actually doing the work they're trying.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh, that makes sense, that makes sense. Okay, that's one
thing on it.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
Yeah, and they're political reasons too, Matt. Republicans tend to
buy pickup trucks, or I should say pick up buyers
tend to be more Republican than not, and evie buyers
tend to be more Democrats than not, and a little
bit of a disconnect there. So people just haven't bought
them in big numbers, and everybody is struggling sell them.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Nonetheless, the industry can.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I hate that about America right now.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I just hate that that you're evaluating me based on
the car look. People have always you know, the curve
appeal of a car or whatever. That's always been something.
Let's face it, the cars are repping sort of a
personal profile. There have been huge studies on this and
(16:29):
the marketing of these vehicles all has to do with, yeah,
you want the car to look good and kind of
be consistent with who you are, whatever it might be.
But the idea, somehow that politics has so completely infected
every bit of life so that they can't sell evs
because that's a democratic thing. Seriously, I don't know, man,
(16:51):
so pay five dollars at the pump, four fifty at
the pump. It's just seems like a you know, and
pickup trucks are a gop thing, Republican thing. Really, I
think pickup trucks are. They're like everybody I know, tons
of ae able to pick ups, who wouldn't who don't
even use that bed very much.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
They always you don't think you're gonna use it, but
you do.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Actually you don't think of Okay, you're buying it for
the cabin, dude, I can't tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
And the look, I get it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's part of the thing, but I just hate the
politics entering into it.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Just stinks, you know, to sell them.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Nonetheless, the industry keeps pushing towards this. In fact, I
was talking to Jim Farley yesterday. He was out at
Pebble Beach and he's touting this new affordable it's a
mid size pickup, so not a full size American machine,
but a mid size pickup that they'll build in Kentucky
for thirty thousand dollars. Why do they continue to push
(17:50):
towards this goal.
Speaker 12 (17:51):
Well, price is one of the big problems with pickup trucks.
I mean, you look at GM's trucks, for example, they
can go five hundred miles on a church the Silverado
and the GMCC erat evs, that's quite a way, and
they do lose a lot of their range when you're
towing a decent amount of weight, but that's still three
hundred miles you can go if you're hauling something that's
(18:11):
pretty good. But the trucks are very expensive. So if
you're a fleet buyer or if you're just an individual consumer,
you're looking to pay another ten twenty thousand dollars for
the electric version and you don't really get anything more
for that other than evs are pretty fun to drive.
But you know a lot of truck owners also like
the hum of their VA too, as opposed to the
silence of an electric motor.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Ya put that.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What is that thing that got the frats Tronic on
the Daytona, the Dodge Daytona, the EV. It's an electric
muscle car and it has a speaker. It'll sound like
there's a rumble next to you. Yeah, you got to
put that on it.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Well.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
So basically the end of that story is they're looking
at building out the smaller pickup trucks that are EV's
and maybe there's a consumer for that. But it's interesting
to see that this market I thought would really be
open to the kind of I think, fast aggressive sales
(19:13):
that accompanied a lot of the other EV sales is
not there.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
It's just not there. The market's not what it should be.
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You get that kind of range that's five miles, four
hundred miles, you don't get that.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
On a regular EV typically.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I mean, I guess the Lucid has it maybe, and
some of them coming out have a little bit more.
But there's a lot great about these electric pickup trucks,
but they just can't move them off the lot, and
so maybe the smaller pickups that are EV's will do better.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
But that's the word on that.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
The the timeshare controversy, we'll tell you the story next.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Check out my show podcast called The Mark Thompson Show.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
We go live every day Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
We're eleven to one on the West Coast, two to
four on the East Coast.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
I've been National Radio Day one.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It is National Radio Day. Thank you very much, Michael Krozier.
In our KOFI newsroom. There's a there's a certain magic
in the hallway here on National Radio Day. You know,
the kind of lackadaisy or lack of days ago, you know,
(20:33):
just routinely filling out your time card sort of attitude
goes away on National Radio Day. There's certain bouncing our step.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
See more people post pictures of them in front of
a soundboard.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It is so funny. Yes, the throwback shots are a
true kick. Like you check them out on Instagram. You
can find them elsewhere. Everybody who's ever touched radio has
a radio picture.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
And I remember when I was on the.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
College radio station, they had these big dials for the
for the they call them pots. You know, you have
pot up, pot down, and they're huge dials. And then
sliders came in. Now we use sliders on the on
the big board. But in fact, I remember my first
slider board was when I worked in my first full
(21:32):
time commercial radio when a job when I was the
night guy in Fritz Coleman was the afternoon guy Buffalo,
New York. I was mentioning that earlier and that was
my first, like that was a big time board. I
was so excited. And here's something else I had. This
is really cool. There was something called fold back. So
you hit this button and you don't need to wear
headphones anymore. You can hear on the speakers and because
(21:56):
of something Robin can probably explain this. I don't even
know how this works, but there is a there's an
aspect to the way the sound is hitting the microphone
that doesn't cause feedback, and it was called fold back,
and you could use it instead of wearing microphones. I
always wore the headphones. But but that was the coolest thing.
I'd seen it at a couple of big radio stations,
(22:18):
and there it was in my first big full time
job at wkb W Radio, we had fold back.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But here at Kofi at iHeartMedia, National Radio day takes
on a special significance. I haven't seen any particular celebrations
going on, though, just to be honest, I think the
social media celebration is really where most of the celebration
(22:50):
is going on. But Sharon did post a really cool
video on our Instagram, the Conway Show Instagram, so check
that out. And I posted a one a sort of
a semi good video also at Mark Thompson TV on Instagram.
The closest I've ever come to being held hostage occurred
(23:12):
in Mexico, and it was something I voluntarily walked into.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
In fact, I walked into it excitedly.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It was a free brunch and all I had to
do was be presented with a brief presentation about a timeshare.
I was a young person on vacation welcoming an opportunity
at a free brunch, and so I went and soon
(23:43):
realized that I was not going to be allowed out
of there unless I really really pitched a fit, which
is not my way.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So I.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Will tell you that time share the pitches have changed.
They can be very convincing, very sometimes worth it, you know.
I mean, I know some people in timeshares they're happy
if it's kind of like a within the universe of
other timeshares, swap out things but oftentimes they can be difficult,
and this is a story of the difficulty.
Speaker 13 (24:21):
Trapped in a timeshare.
Speaker 14 (24:23):
An elderly couple of claims they were duped by a
major timeshare company and ended up with a surprise bill
for more than fifty thousand dollars. Boston twenty five is
cal Thompson talked to an industry insider about the best
way to escape if you want out of.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
Your deal, Sunshine.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
These are people you understand have already been through the presentation.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
They bought in some can't get out for my share.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Right on the water in Daytona Beach Shores, the c
Club four resort was the perfect place for Sandy and
Joseph Parks to enjoy their timeshare, originally bought by Sandy's
parents decades ago and fully paid for.
Speaker 15 (24:59):
Can we actually enjoyed it back when we had no
money to take the kids on vacation, they would give
us their week.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
They still love it and were intrigued when two men
from Capital Vacations suggested a change. According to Sandy, the
salesman told them they could trade out their week for points,
a move that would offer more options and flexibility to
check out other Capital Vacations Resorts.
Speaker 15 (25:23):
Never once did they say that there was going to
be any cost involved.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Weeks later, a surprise bill arrived that made them take
another look at their contract. Turns out it was to
purchase additional time shares for more than fifty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Wow, talk about blindsided. That is insane.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
We about fell out of our seat.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
Capital Vacations gets just over a one star rating on
Yelp review after review issue warnings we took the consumer
concerns in these types of posts and from the parks
to Capital Vacations. The company responded by email at this time,
we do not have a comment.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
We don't like to respond on national radio day to
any kind of questions about time.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
The company responded by email at this time, we do
not have a comment. That is the number one complaint
or the number one question we get is Hey, how
do I get rid of my timeshare? Brian Rogers runs
the Timeshare Users Group or TUG, with about twenty six
thousand members on Facebook. The forum for sharing timeshare information
has a lot of positive info, and Rogers himself has
(26:34):
his own timeshare, but he agrees they can be hard
to break up with. Here are your options. First, ask
the company to let you off the hook.
Speaker 14 (26:43):
Just no.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
You may get out of the relationship but not get
money back. Second, you can always see if someone will
take it off your hands, but Rogers says, expect to take.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
A hit and now you're probably lucky to get between
zero and ten cents.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
On the dollar.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Third, there's the more extreme option. You can sim please
stop paying, but you talk to a lawyer first to
avoid financial or legal trouble. It's a wild situation that
there's no magic solution. If your parents have a timeshare,
you could end up on the hook for payments when
they pass, So make sure you have a discussion and
pay me a while to disclaim the inheritance.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
If you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
That is brutal. It's nice to know that Tug is
on this on the case. So look, I have never
had a time share, but I do know people who
actually are enjoying their time share, so I don't think
it's all bad. But it sounds like you got a
periscope up and make sure that you know your deal
is is legit and that you're not getting blindsided.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Christiti Field building downtown, that high rise. It's I think
it's set for auctioning of the property in September, so
there'll be some kind of resolution. There've been all sorts
of complications and they ran out of money. They built
this huge buildings. It's been graffiti eyes, it's been filled
(28:08):
with homeless, with people hanging out there doing drugs.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
There are even some weird parties there.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
So they've got to pay creditors if they sell the property,
which they will do, they'll sell it at auction.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
But it's a.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Blight sort of on downtown Los Angeles right now, at
least that part and what's going to happen with it
is of interest to a lot of people who care
about downtown LA.
Speaker 13 (28:35):
The sale of those infamous graffiti towers in downtown LA
is currently in limbo. You'll remember the Chinese company building
the Ocean Wide Ploza development went bankrupt in twenty nineteen.
Taggers eventually breached the security fences around the abandoned property
and covered both towers with graffiti.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
The new owner of the.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Towers would be responsible for removing that graffiti, which maybe
why there's trouble finding a buyer. Experts say cost to
clean up and complete the towers could reach upwards of
a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, yeah, a billion dollars is what they're talking about.
And it's sixty percent completed right now.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
The other thing that does happen is that you know,
you've got to finish this tower, as we say, and
there's a lot of construction to be done, and you're
not doing it at a particularly good time because there
are tariffs that are affecting construction materials, and uncertainty about
how long the teriffs are going to last, what new
(29:30):
ones might arise. Labor costs have been increasing, so every
year you wait, it's getting more expensive to employ people
to build it. And then ice and the raids have
added this destabilizing effect on the construction labor pool. I mean,
the people you have the draw on that pool of
candidates is getting rocked right now. So these are all
(29:55):
things that are continuing to affect the future of this know,
this wonderful location, but you know this horribly uh unsightly
kind of.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Building.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So there's actually talk and this probably occurred to many
as you see how there is uh it's all been graffitiized, right,
so much of it's been graffitied. In fact, as you
look at it, you go, guys, how do they get
to that like Midway spot? Like down there, there's no
(30:31):
you know, it's there's no uh. I guess what I'm
trying to say is there's no way to safely navigate
the outside of this building to graffitiize some of these
areas that they've hit with graffiti and tagged, and yet
they've done it. So the thinking is you could turn
this building into commercial displays of one sort or another.
(30:54):
You could fill this entire building with all kinds of
you know, wrapping, like a wrapping, you know, drape it
and leave it.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
That's being talked about.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I mean, I don't know how realistic it is, but
it's one way you could go the finish the building.
You buy it at auction and finish it. That's going
to be a tough slog, but it is going to
happen in September, because that's for the auction is scheduled
for September later with mo Kelly is next and mow
Away Chris Merrill filling in my old pal, Chris Merril,
(31:30):
what's up? With you, sir, How are you well?
Speaker 16 (31:32):
I'm doing all right, although I if I'm honest. I
of course people don't know this, but I'm actually in
the KFI East studios.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, and I saw your video about National Radio Day.
You probably have a good radio or origin story. Hey, yeah,
kind of boring.
Speaker 16 (31:50):
But what struck me about your video was what the
hell is crows you're wearing? Could he find smaller shorts?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Were those?
Speaker 16 (32:01):
Did he steal those from a junior high e class?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Now Krozier not on mic right now, but I just
want to find this is even better.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I I in his defense, you know, he's a you know,
it's hot as hades here, it's a you know, a
four degrees. And I'm sure that if he could not
wear any shorts at all, he'd be happy. I mean,
it's it's that level of heat.
Speaker 16 (32:26):
I get it, and I think I think all of
us are happy that he did elect to wear the
shorts at all.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I was very concerned with that. When I saw it,
I thought, that is that is terrifying.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
It does feel bad, it does pop, it does I
feel bad for that video that moment Ronner has to.
Speaker 16 (32:42):
Sit in that chair after him. Oh Yeah, Well, I
was actually talking about early on my first radio gig.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
It started.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
January of two thousand, so it makes the math really
easy for me. But I was doing a morning show
at a small station in my hometown on.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
On nine to eleven.
Speaker 16 (32:58):
I was just talking about this today because interns around
that weren't even born when nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 16 (33:05):
I mean we were talking about we were talking about
Katrina and they were like, well, I was one when
Katrina happened, but I wasn't even here for nine to eleven.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
No, that is extraordinary. Yeah, wow, what a day that
had to be. Man, what you talk about baptism by fire? Geez?
Speaker 16 (33:19):
Yeah, I mean I think I've been full time for
about a year at that point, and I just I
remember we went to I mean we had no idea
it was going to a small, small radio station.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
We didn't even have monitors in the studio.
Speaker 16 (33:31):
So our sales manager was running down the street to
the kayak shop because they had a television, and she
would she would jodde down as many notes as she
could because she was watching, you know, the live TV news,
and then she would run back up the hill.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
And then here's the latest. Here's the latest that is crazy,
that is truly crazy. That is a good origin story.
Wow wow, Well.
Speaker 16 (33:55):
It really starts with I left college and my father said, well,
the local radio station is you should go in there
and put in an application.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
I said, okay, So that's how I ended up, Thanks Dad.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, yeah, I yeah, I started as a rock jock
years ago.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
That's how I believe it. Yeah, if you have a
rock name, there's a music.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Nor I wish my pal, my pal Bean Baxter.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Uh. He was.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
He was on Kevin and being here in l A
for years, he had a great name. They called him
because we came up at the same time. We were
like and that we actually worked at the same radio stations.
There were young guys, and he was called Flash Phillips
on a rock station called uh I think it was
called Live one O five or something like that was
a W A v A in Washington.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Did he picked his own name or was that? I
don't know. I forget. I think they gave it to him.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I don't remember, uh, but yeah, but yeah, being back
to was Flash Phillips, slash all right, National Radio Day,
Uh wins down Chris Merril next f mo, Kelly and
U great talking to you.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
Chris Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Now, you can always hear us live on KFI AM
six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday
Speaker 9 (35:11):
And anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
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