Mark Thompson in for Conway. Ring is taking heat after a Super Bowl ad sparked backlash — raising new privacy concerns about home security cameras and what data gets collected.
Monks & Merrill stop by in-studio (weekdays 12–3) with the latest headlines and some classic Conway back-and-forth.
A pricey L.A. parks controversy: hikers at Runyon Canyon are furious over a nearly $1 million restroom installation.
And in the grab-bag of wild news: Olympic drama as the ex-girlfriend of an athlete who admitted to cheating speaks out — plus Conway admits he’s oddly locked in on women’s curling… and Riverside ramps up enforcement to catch carpool lane cheaters.
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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):
K six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Where
is Conway? I am telling you he's taking a personal
day for some personal stuff. He has to attend to
Mark Thompson, I got the bat beam. It went up
early this afternoon. I respond to it. I don't ask
a lot of questions. I see if I can help
my my radio station, the corporate mothership of iHeart. I respond,
(00:35):
And so it is tonight. I had to move big dinner,
much anticipated dinner. It's been on the books for quite
some time.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Famous people.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
He is real estate agent to the stars, but he
won't tell me who the stars are. I think he
keeps it very close to the vest I know people. Yeah,
it's got the high end real estate. You know, Mark,
the Munson Ducks isn't working that all the time, Isn't
It doesn't work a Mark which having the reverse effect.
(01:05):
And he might be right. I wouldn't know because the
mansion tax, as you know, it kicks in at five million,
isn't it. That's what it is? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, anyway, we move the dinner slightly later so that
I could be here with you all, and we have
much to talk about. I have the new midday team
coming through, Monks and Meryl. It's alliterative. I like it already.
Monks is very talented, very gregarious, and very knowledgeable. When
(01:37):
I say talented, I mean as a news guy knows
his stuff. Merrill is all those things. Also, the two
of them together, I think it's going to be terrific.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Please don't call it ammen. Please don't call him eminem.
Oh yeah, thats ita, please please. I think it's just
called Monks and Maryl. I haven't heard anything else. Yeah,
that eminem would be a really brutal branding. But you know,
Monks and Merril. But they have to do that too.
They have to decide, Well, who do you put first?
You put Monks first, you put Meryl first. Let's try
(02:08):
Munks and Meryl. Just say it a bunch of times,
Monks and merroal Monks and Meryl. I think Maryland Monks
flows better. But you know, Monks is the news guy.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Heer son. So that's a weekday is noon to three. Anyway,
They're they're gonna step through. We have restroom controversy. And
I don't mean like the restroom here, these controversies around
this restroom here, they're pretty straightforward to here. At iHeart,
(02:35):
there's no controversy. You wouldn't discussed anymore. If you come
in late in the day and you're in the men's room,
you're getting the worst of the men's room. Men. We
are disgusting in a word. Now, no one on this
show falls into that category, because we have some sense
(02:57):
of decorum, we have some sense of responsibility, with some
sense we're not the only people in the world. But
others clearly on this floor use that restroom clearly, and
I'm just going to say this, I'll state it bluntly.
They urinate on the floor. It's clear. This is something
that you could write up, you could complain about formally,
(03:20):
but I'm not going to. This isn't even a story
about that. It's a story about a public restroom that
has taken on tremendous backlash and controversy from hikers. It's
right here in southern California, and I'll share that with
you because it's a sign of things like this to come.
(03:42):
And then there is a major public health emergency with
clinics closing around La County after funding cuts. We'll get
to all of that as we continue. The Super Bowl
ad from Ring has had the exact opposite effect. Ring,
(04:05):
which is the Amazon Home security division that was purchased
by Amazon for I want to say, was it a
billion dollars? Crows they got it for. I think they
got it for. It was a billion. It was a billion? Yes,
thanks step Yeah. Yeah. This is the crew on Shark
Tank that passed on Ring. Remember he went on Ring
(04:25):
and they passed on it. They ran one of the
most liked ads during the Super Bowl. It was a
spot promoting Search Party, which is a feature that helps
people find lost dogs. They use an AI to scan
footage from Ring cameras in a neighborhood. But you know,
you have to opt into this. Many viewers, though, found
(04:50):
this a little off putting. They worried about the surveillance
implications of a feature like this, and there's a lot
of backlash to it, and others thought, oh, this is heartwarming.
It's a you know, the story for a lost dog
that was found. It was a true story.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
One of our daughters called gen last night, my wife
and said, we have you guys have Ring right at
the house and we go ask.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
She goes, you need to get rid of it. You
need to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Because of the AI, because of the commercial.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It is true. The backlash is real. And Steph, will
you crank up this audio and I can I can
fire it here this morning.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It's the Super Bowl ad sparking controversy the home security
company Ring promoting a feature that scans footage from Ring
cameras in your neighborhood. The ad said to find lost.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Dog not Enkroser's neighborhood, but everybody else's neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Some people online questioning if the feature could also be
used to search for people, critics vowing to stop using
the company's products all together.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
As of today, I no longer use Ring doorbell.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Rival security camera company Wise even made a parody of
the ad, what.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
If we can make finding one lost dog require the
computational power of a small dicta led nation state.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But Ring says the feature was built a quote with
strong privacy protections from the start, saying it can find
only lost dogs and has no capability to find people.
Ring also says users can opt out of the feature.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
This is by the way that seems like it's not insignificant.
But what is left out there is you can opt
out of the feature, but your data is still getting
fed and could be subpoena, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So I think I think that's one of the things
that that came out of this Nancy Guthrie thing. Yes,
because she didn't pay the bill or whatever, but they
still had it on their servers.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, when the law enforcement authorities wanted it, they could
get it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I think that made people kind of think twice about
it themselves.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Yeah, this is a privacy first way of doing things,
but it also allows us to, you know, be better neighbors.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
My mission has always been to make neighborhoods safer.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Ring users also expressing concerns about the Amazon owned companies
partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, a company
that has contrast with law enforcement to use its automated
license plate readers, and Ring yesterday severed its partnership with Flock,
saying quote no videos were shared with the company, end
of quote. Flock saying it has engaged with customers to
(07:13):
again a quote, understand expectations around accountability, transparency, and lawful use.
That's the end of their quote. But this discussion is
likely to continue for a while.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Yeah, I keep a lot of attention on those companies,
which could ultimately be good for the companies, because all
news can be good news when it comes to a
business getting that kind of.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Press one way to put it. But I would say that,
you know, the desired effect of that ad, for example,
was to get people on board and excited about Ring
and excited about these additional capabilities around RING. So I
think in the you know, any publicity's good publicity department,
this might not actually be the case. So I mean, look,
(07:58):
they're already ending their relationationship with Flock. They're having to,
if you will, dismantle some of the various mechanisms that
were put in place to further their technology. So I
don't know about any tech. Any publicity is good publicity, but.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
A lot of public sentiment is in general going to
start turning a little bit more against big tech for
things like this that you know, it's the whether you
want to conspiracies or realities of the imposition of tech
into your daily lives. I think it's things like this
that are going to start having people sort of turn
away from.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Them and it's it's totally warranted. I mean, the paranoia
is rich. It's the old line. You know, just because
you're paranoid doesn't mean there aren't people really following.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But a lot of them would dismiss it thinking it
doesn't apply to them, doesn't mean anything. You can have
a little bit because what's the difference. But I think
things like this will get it to term no. I.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You know, you look at Pal and Teer, the Peter
Thiele run firm, You look at some of these other
big tech day to driven companies meeting personal data, surveillance data.
You look at the way that in the early months
of this administration, even we had the doge going through
and a lot of the government websites were scraped for
(09:13):
personal information. Remember there was a big scandal about IRS
data that was out there and voter data that was
out there. So security data that was out there. They
don't even know where it is a lot of it now.
So I think people are right to be concerned. You know,
when we come back, how about Monks and Merrill, the
new Midday team. You've met them one on one, but
(09:34):
when we come back, we meet them together. Thompson here
for Conway batbeam went up. I came in quickly, drop
of the hat, and it's just fortuitous. It is my
luck that I get to meet the new Midday team,
Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Yes, it's nice to meet you, Thompson.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That is Monks and Merrill. Of course, hey there he is.
So how did they put you two guys together? How
did it happen? Give me the origin story.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
I think they had one spot and two guys that
they like.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Yeah, I mean we did a little bit of stuff
last summer when the protests were going on downtown.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's when they sent Michael down to He was great.
He was amazing, wasn't he a lot? Michael?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Go downtown? And Michael said, well, you know, there's gonna
be police president. Should I have like a kevlar vest
or gas mask or anything. I said, no, you're fine,
and they got then I got tear gas. Yeah, so
you know there. I was in the comfort of my
home studio at the time while he was doing that.
But I thought I worked with him, and I was like,
this guy knows this stuff. This guy is great. I
had a chance to do some more.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
We did the election night together and they liked it,
so you know, we're looking to revamp the schedule a bit,
put people back where I think an audience originally grew
to love. These folks like Tim Conway at nights, John
cole Belt in afternoon Drive, and they're giving us this
amazing opportunity. I mean, we've both been broadcasting for a
long time, and KFI is is sort of the mother ship.
(11:02):
I mean, that's that's where anybody would want to be.
I mean, even if you're on a national network somewhere,
if you had the chance to host a show on KFI,
it's something you're gonna think about because it's just so legendary.
And so for us to have this opportunity really means
a lot. We're gonna take it very seriously while also
having some fun and being informative.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I think it's gonna be great. It's gonna work out
really well. I mean, well, think about monks Is. He
lives in downtown, he knows this town and sits through
those supervisor meetings, and I mean there's a granular knowledge
that Monks has that's so very impressive.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
It helps not to have any friends, any interest in
any hobbies. You will friends, no, no, not at all.
I'm a boor at dinner parties, which people learn.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Wow, have you guys gone to dinner yet? Meryl?
Speaker 8 (11:47):
We hung out a little bit this last weekend. Yeah,
you know, I made him pick up the tab. But yeah,
he's got the full time gage, you know. Honestly, now
that you mentioned it, Mark, I haven't seen Chris eat
and it could be a deal breaker if you have
any quirks. Is I don't do noise while people are eating.
I need a very quiet meal.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Good.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I like this.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
So if there's like any food that falls out of
your mouth for any of that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's bad. Yeah, yeah, that'll be all over my shoe.
Who knew? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
I mean, yeah, how's this big hunk of a guy Michigan?
I mean, if you were picturing a guy from Michigan,
it's Chris Meryl.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Meryl is an imposing physical figure. Yeah, but we I mean,
I don't think that the eating things should be a
deal buster. If you guys need counseling, I'm available with you.
I should not be a deal buster. Yeah, so what
kind of stuff? But you the beauty of again Monks's
knowledge and living here for so long, I think, is
(12:38):
that the stuff you'll talk about, which is like the
day to day stuff of living in southern California is
stuff that you know, Monks is living day to day, right, MARYL.
I would think, So that's a luxury to have a
guy like that. It's a huge luxury, you know. And
I've been I've been in California.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Twenty twelve is when I first moved for my job
in San Diego, and then you know, kind of bounced
around a little bit, and I'm really excited to.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Be back here.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
As much as everyone else is trying to cal exit,
I've been spending the last few years trying to get
back to southern California because I just I love it.
In fact, you and I did stuff in the Bay
Area and I was I was really excited. I thought, oh,
I'm going to move to the Bay Area. And then
you know, they pulled the plug on you, and they
pulled the plug on the station. Oh yeah, yeah, was
incredibly successful. Are you even yes in any way to
(13:22):
believe me? They didn't want to pull the plug on
was mar but they did.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
The success Marril. There was the rest of the station
that was falling apart.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
They had the most fun show, very famously pulled the
plug on you, Mark, I mean you were on the
and that is and that clip is on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I hope.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
I don't want to open up the old wounds, but
I have watched the YouTube clip of that audio recording
of you on on KGO up in San Francisco where
you're in the middle of a show and suddenly you've
been informed that that format is gone. You're all out.
We're switching to sports betting.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, sports betting. They went to sports wagering. But here
is a I'll just give you in very short order,
the story behind that. At like seven minutes before we
went on the air, I get a call from the
general manager and program director and they tell me what's
going to happen. And they say, look, you're going to
go on the air here in a couple of minutes.
You'll do your show as per normal. And then a
(14:16):
quarter after ten it was on from ten to one,
ten to KNEW and I guess it was at a
quarter after ten. You'll just say the ID, the call
letters and where we are, kgo San Francisco and turn
your mic off and we're done. And I said, and
then they told me we're changing the format they started
(14:37):
the whole thing, it's a sad day, all that stuff.
I said, guys, we're a real legacy radio station. You
can't you know, this is a radical change. You're not
just kind of changing format. You're And then they do
that thing what they call washing out the audience where
they just play music and all this kind they're trying
to turn off everybody who used to listen to KGO
and set it up as a radio station about sports gambling.
(14:59):
So I said, would you just let me say there's
a big change communication you And I said, I'll do
it as a as an exciting thing. I said, how
about if I say there's an exciting new format coming here.
I said, I just some way to tell the audience
that this is the last of it, because otherwise I
don't think they're going to know what's happening. Don't you
feel that some They said, nope, we talk about it
(15:20):
and we want you to do it this way. And
I said, you know, I'm a good soldier this way.
I'll do it whatever you want, but you don't have
to worry about me like railing against the man or
I'm not going to That's not my style, right, And
so I really beg them to let me tell the
audience what was happening, and they said, nope, do it
this way, and so again I just did it like that.
So the first fifteen minutes I mentioned it because it
(15:40):
wasn't really a normal show. I just was kind of
killing time and I was still going through shock. We
did something like you know it's National Oreo cookie Day
or you know those Yeah, I hate that stuff. I
would never do that stuff, but I was doing it
that day because I'm just trying to get to a
quarter after. And then they they didn't tell anybody at
the station. I was the only person I knew seven
minutes because they didn't want they had to have a
staff meeting. They were worried about getting it was.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Really I was in I was on the teams meeting
and I trouble logging in actually, and then I got
messages from your producer that said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
We're done. Yeah, it's all over. It was incredible, it's wild. Yeah,
so but you're here. You're right, monks though that audio
is on YouTube, yeah, and it is dramatic. In fact,
I went searching for it after. I think you told
this story once before, and I was like, what is
he talking about. I've got to find it now. When
I pull up YouTube in the browser, it is that search.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
To this day, So like every day, I'm thinking about
it because you know, you've already populated the search and
it just kind of goes up, and I always start
there and start my my YouTube quest and I think
of that. But but here's the deal. You're here and
we love having you here. Story ended, Well, I've gotten
to watch you for the past two years. My anniversary
of being hired is tomorrow. Two years I've been here,
(16:50):
so I've seen you Tim Conway, John Cope, Belt, Bill
Handle and Gary and Shannon and you know, hearing Chris
Merrill on all those weekends. I'm p one listener to KFI.
I'm a dedicated fan. It is full of Hall of
famers and future Hall of famers, and it's just been
a graduate school of radio presentation. And so I'm thrilled.
(17:13):
I'm ready to work with Chris and see what we're
made of. We're gonna be learning with everyone watching us,
I think how this is gonna work, this new dynamic.
But I hope the audience is excited to at least give.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Us a chance. Oh, I think they'll be great. I
mean to you, it feels like you're gonna work on
the dynamic, but you already have the dynamic. You guys
are pros. But Chris I've always spoken very highly of
because he's had to fill in in a lot of
different time periods. I don't think that's easy. You know,
you have to change and I got I'm going to
take a break. Steph, how dare you? I have a
professional stuff? You don't need to do that.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Don't yell at him. He's got a Shania Twain shirt
on today, is feeling very sensitive.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Gosh, I love him. One thing does all right? I
do have to take a break, guys, Good luck, Noon
to three. Thanks mar Monks and Marylyn up finished the
compliment for Marrow, but forget it. That's fine stuff. Stuff
is getting tired of the whole thing, all right, Good
luck boys. Thanks? All right, next week it all starts.
Monks and Merril weekdays noon to three. Here on KFI
(18:14):
we are KFI A six forty.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It's his thing. Monks and Marrow weekday is noon to three.
Then you've got John cole Belt and then the Conway
Show will slip back into the night six to ten,
so that all happens beginning next week. There is a
controversy emerging. It's around a they still say commode anymore?
(18:45):
Is that a word that is still used when I
say com mode?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Does it still talk?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Does anybody know what that is? There is a there's
a portable bathroom that has the latrine some terraine there.
You gots a very u service like in the service
they say latrine. Yeah, thank you for your latrine service.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Controversial bathroom is right behind us, and Michael show you
some of the construction equipment out here.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Some people not happy about this at all.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Our first look at the controversial Runyon Canyon restrooms two
stalls and two water fountains for almost one million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Well, I mean it is two stalls and there are
water fountains. Now, Runyon Canyon, Krozer, it's over there. It's
kind of the hills, Hollywood Hills. I guess you'd call it, right.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Isn't that the popular place where everybody always talks about it?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Go, let's go to the run. Yeah, it's it's frequented
by celebrities and other Hollywood luminaries who kind of want
to get their hike on shot.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Two stalls and two water fountains for almost one million dollars.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Why did it cost the city million dollars?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
That's what a lot of people are wondering.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah, I don't really like that.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Last summer we were first to expose the city's plan
for the costly commodes, sparking.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh he uses the word commode. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Last summer we were first to expose the city's plan
for the costly commodes, sparking immediately he was.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Going for the literation. That's absolutely true.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
First to expose the city's plan for the costly commodes,
sparking immediate backlash.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Here it is, and this week the bathroom arrived, rolled
in on a trailer.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I thought it was absurd from the start, and now
seeing it, it's even more absurd.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
They wheeled in what looks like an extra large doghouse.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
A local group called the Runyon Canyon Guardians sought estimates
for a similar structure, claiming they found a quote for
about half the price.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Why would we need a bathroom here because we hike
here all the time and we've never used have you.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Ever used the bathroom here. I've used the porta partly
a couple of times, been in like that's it works.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Do you think this bathroom was needed? Yeah, some hikers
though in favor of the project. With roughly two million
people using the park every year, I don't have.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
A problem with them putting a porta potty there. I
don't have a problem with their being a bathroom there,
and I don't even have a problem with an upgraded bathrooms.
So it's not just a you know, basic bitch porta potty,
But I definitely feel like you could have gotten some
other bids and just a million dollars it seems like
a lot. I mean, I get it. It's two of them,
(21:18):
all right, so it's a half million apiece.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It They don't have to do plumbing or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It must it must be water, it must be you know,
this is a controversy that has existed, as you know,
in a lot of major cities. San Francisco quite famously
had their million dollar remember there, and their thing had
like automation, and they also had the trash cans. Remember
they paid all this money for trash cans in San
Francisco that cleaned themselves and emptied themselves and all this stuff.
(21:45):
I mean, and to be fair, if you're going to
put something in, why not try to integrate as much
technology as you can so at least the thing is
sort of state of the art.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And when it's industrial use, you know it's it's not
a regular bathroom.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Thank you. It's getting a lot of and you know,
sadly you have to worry about vandalism, you have to
worry about a homeless setup.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And this isn't replacing anything. This is these are just
brand new. Where they put them in there.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
They reference there were porta potties or at least a
porta potty. But I think this is the first sort
of semi permanent to permanent structure associated with a bathroom.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
But now that's why I'm wondering about the plumbing aspect
the case.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Sure that you're saying that's what probably was the pricey
item if.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
The plumbing, yeah, because I mean, like you're saying, yeah,
that's an outrageous cost.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But is there more to it that we just don't know? Yeah,
I promise you there is. It must be. But I
get that this is a great headline, A million dollars
for a bathroom. To be fair, it still seems like
a lot, even allowing for whatever plumbing they had to
have done it. Somebody, it feels like there's some grift
built into this somewhere. But again, i'd like to see
(22:53):
the line items.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
From some hikers, though, in favor of the project. With
roughly two million people using the park every.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Year, I think it's a fantastic idea.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
I'm in favor of it if it's regulated, it's monitored,
and it's kept nice.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
There's porta potties up there, there's also forests.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
In a statement to Fox eleven, yeah there is, but
you'd like for people to go in the designated bathrooms
as opposed to the and you know there are other
natural reasons for that, you know, to do with wildlife
and all the rest.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
So industrial and public use bathrooms typically cost between eighty
and five hundred thousand dollars for permanent site built high
traffic structure.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So on some level, I mean, this is on budget.
They've got two of them, right, so I guess that's
those numbers times too.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Those ones that you were talking about in San Francisco
apparently cost one point seven million.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, and of course what they do is they trash
the crap out of it, you know, vandals just go
after it because it's become this controversial thing and nobody
wants to see it succeed. But this I love that
you put a specific on this price tag because it
just seems as though you just know that it's an
attention getter and it's a headline grabber, but being.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Legitimate to be, you know, on its face to be
pretty ticked off about it.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, you cou're right, it should whip your head around.
Of course. I mean, the city's bleeding out money and
then there's all this going for that. But apparently it's
somewhat it's in the higher end of that range.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
But in a statement to Fox eleven, councilwoman and manorial
candidate Nthia Ramin's office says, we're excited about this grant
funded restroom facility. Providing restrooms is basic park infrastructure that
benefits everyone who visits.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
I think that they're released.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I've never been as excited about a bathroom in my life,
said mayoral candidate. All Right, Uh, that's the situation. It's
controversial but probably needed, and it sounds as though the
budget wasn't blown out quite the way people are saying.
Now you're up to speed on the Runyon Canyon, Broom,
use it, hold it in until you get there, road
(25:04):
test it. Tell us how it is when we come back.
The cheating olympian's girlfriend speaks up about his confession of infidelity.
It's getting saucy.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Mark Thompson sitting in for Conway today, who he himself
will be moving. He'll be the evening guy back to
the evening where he's having all that fun. Six to
ten starts Tuesday. So the Olympics has been terrific. I
don't know, maybe I have a low bar. I'll tell
(25:47):
you what I watched. This is absolutely true. Last night
I watched women's curling and I was way into it,
and I didn't even really understand, like exactly how it worked.
But it on another level is super easy to understand.
It's a little like soccer, you know, I get it.
(26:08):
The ball has to go into the goal. I mean,
that's pretty much all you need to know. And then
there's a bunch of stuff like off sides and tripping
and you kind of begin to understand the intricacies of
soccer as you watch. The one thing that you know,
which is whether or not the ball goes into the goal.
So here it's a bull's eye and went into the ice.
(26:29):
And you know that those stones as they call them,
they need to get toward the center. And one teams
stones are one color and on another color for the
other team. And man, they are way good. And they've
got that sweeping thing that they do to kind of
create heat right in front of the of the disc.
(26:50):
I was way into it. I only wish I knew
how to bet on it. That was the only thing.
But this olympian, the Norwegian by athlete who went viral
for winning a bronze medal, then admitted in interviews to
(27:11):
cheating on his girlfriend and then pleaded with this girl
to give him another chance take him back. Well, this
whole thing is now beginning to button out, and she
his ex, has spoken.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Up following his bronze medal finish and biathlon sterla Holm Lagrid.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Made a tearful plea for forgiveness on live TV six
months ago. I met the love of my life, he said,
but then admitted that three.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Months into the relationship, he cheated on Tonight, the Norwegian
by athlete got a response from his I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
No offense, but three months in is like, I'm just saying,
that's real fast. You know, It's one thing. I was
with her for three years and I'm, you know, trainer.
In one night I stepped out. It was three months
together and he stepped out.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Three months into the relationship, he cheated on her. Tonight.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
The Norwegian biathlete got a response from his girlfriend in
a statement to a Norwegian paper. She wrote, it's hard
to forgive even after a declaration of love in front
of the whole world.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I'd like that on a drop. Can I get that drop?
Speaker 10 (28:28):
It's hard to forgive even after a declaration of love
in front of the whole world.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I'd like that on a drop. If I get it,
stupp please, I'll run that on my show. Okay, Yeah,
it's hard to.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
Forgive even after a declaration of love in front of
the world. Leggert said his girlfriend ended their relationship before
the Games, but he hoped she would realize how much
he loves her today.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
The unnamed woman.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
Thrown into an Olympic whirlwind wrote, I did not choose
to be put in this position and it hurts to
have to be.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, I wish I could break up with you all
over again. I thought we broke up. What is going
on here? Why is there media at my house?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
The love life drama has gone viral with mixed reaction.
That was our breakfast conversation this morning. I mean, at
least he's put him himself out there.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I respect it.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It is a high wire move to go for that
on the Olympic. It's not literally the metal stand, but
you know it's metal stand adjacent. It's a high wire
act and ask for us to get back together again.
I do give him some credit for that, you know.
(29:41):
I mean he could have just like quietly said, hey,
I just want to medal at the Olympics, and I
want you to know. I mean, I can't tell everybody
what I want to tell him, which is that this
it almost doesn't mean anything to me because we were
not together. Like that would have been like one move
you could make. But the idea somehow that you would
say that to the world. Wow, I mean, the guy
really rolled the dice, but he got selem.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I mean, at least he's.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Putting himself out there.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
I respect it some siding with her.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I think it wouldn't work for me, but I wish
him and her the best.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Logrid was asked if he regretted getting so personal. Maybe
there's a chance that she will see, well, she merely
means to me, and maybe not. The emotional moment captivated
the world.
Speaker 10 (30:27):
There are some things that even a mea culpa and
a bronze medal might not be able to fix.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Stephanie GOSKYBC News, Right, I.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Feel like, you know, all the king's horses and all
the king's men couldn't put their love back together again.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
You were six months, called her the love of his
life three months and he cheats on her.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, well he was just road testing a little bit,
road testing the relationship. You gotta do, vak Bridge, establishing
some perspective on the relationship, making sure, yeah, you know,
love of my life. I'm pretty sure you love in
my life. I'm just rolling around one night. I was
in love baby. I'll tell you, I'll tell you what is.
(31:09):
What is funny is we've become so accustomed to that
kind of thing, cinematically paying off, you know, in a movie.
This is exactly what he does in every Hallmark movie.
It works. But even in just regular rom coms, this
guy would do this, and by the way, it would
follow the same narrative we just heard, which is she
(31:31):
says forget it, no, I'm hurt, and he is despondent,
you know he is. He falls into a depression whatever
it might be, and then it pays off in Act three, right,
I mean, this that's happening now is the end of
this relationship. But if this were a rom com, it
(31:53):
would be everything that would happen, like probably at the
end of act of one.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You know, it's like till Eddy Murphy bit where he says, yes, yes,
I had sex with her, Yes, I had sex with
that woman. I mean love to you.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Wow. That's good. I've never heard that. Really, that's your
high ground here. If you're the cheating olympian, yeah, you're
the one I love. She's the one I slept with. Yeah. Wow.
But man, having broken up again, as Sharon Bellio says,
they were together for six months three months in he
stepped out. The relationship was only six months long, and
(32:31):
I understand there can be a great intensity during that
six months. But the idea somehow that she should still
have to be dealing with it. Hey, dude, I broke
up with you. I'm onto the next guy. You know.
I'm dating the grocery bagger now or whatever.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
The non olympian, right.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm done with Olympians, all you athletes. Yeah, get this
media off of my front. Stoop crazy. Well, he is
an Olympian and he's a metallist, so I know that
they'll be am confident there'll be a future for him
in the world of romance. Riverside. If you're headed out
(33:11):
that way or if you live in and around the
Riverside area, cops are cracking down on something and this
will affect everybody on the freeways. We'll get to that
in the next hour. Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway
Junior KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you
can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
K six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Where
is Conway? I am telling you he's taking a personal
day for some personal stuff. He has to attend to
Mark Thompson, I got the bat beam. It went up
early this afternoon. I respond to it. I don't ask
a lot of questions. I see if I can help
my my radio station, the corporate mothership of iHeart. I respond,
(00:35):
And so it is tonight. I had to move big dinner,
much anticipated dinner. It's been on the books for quite
some time.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Famous people.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
He is real estate agent to the stars, but he
won't tell me who the stars are. I think he
keeps it very close to the vest I know people. Yeah,
it's got the high end real estate. You know, Mark,
the Munson Ducks isn't working that all the time, Isn't
It doesn't work a Mark which having the reverse effect.
(01:05):
And he might be right. I wouldn't know because the
mansion tax, as you know, it kicks in at five million,
isn't it. That's what it is? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, anyway, we move the dinner slightly later so that
I could be here with you all, and we have
much to talk about. I have the new midday team
coming through, Monks and Meryl. It's alliterative. I like it already.
Monks is very talented, very gregarious, and very knowledgeable. When
(01:37):
I say talented, I mean as a news guy knows
his stuff. Merrill is all those things. Also, the two
of them together, I think it's going to be terrific.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Please don't call it ammen. Please don't call him eminem.
Oh yeah, thats ita, please please. I think it's just
called Monks and Maryl. I haven't heard anything else. Yeah,
that eminem would be a really brutal branding. But you know,
Monks and Merril. But they have to do that too.
They have to decide, Well, who do you put first?
You put Monks first, you put Meryl first. Let's try
(02:08):
Munks and Meryl. Just say it a bunch of times,
Monks and merroal Monks and Meryl. I think Maryland Monks
flows better. But you know, Monks is the news guy.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Heer son. So that's a weekday is noon to three. Anyway,
They're they're gonna step through. We have restroom controversy. And
I don't mean like the restroom here, these controversies around
this restroom here, they're pretty straightforward to here. At iHeart,
(02:35):
there's no controversy. You wouldn't discussed anymore. If you come
in late in the day and you're in the men's room,
you're getting the worst of the men's room. Men. We
are disgusting in a word. Now, no one on this
show falls into that category, because we have some sense
(02:57):
of decorum, we have some sense of responsibility, with some
sense we're not the only people in the world. But
others clearly on this floor use that restroom clearly, and
I'm just going to say this, I'll state it bluntly.
They urinate on the floor. It's clear. This is something
that you could write up, you could complain about formally,
(03:20):
but I'm not going to. This isn't even a story
about that. It's a story about a public restroom that
has taken on tremendous backlash and controversy from hikers. It's
right here in southern California, and I'll share that with
you because it's a sign of things like this to come.
(03:42):
And then there is a major public health emergency with
clinics closing around La County after funding cuts. We'll get
to all of that as we continue. The Super Bowl
ad from Ring has had the exact opposite effect. Ring,
(04:05):
which is the Amazon Home security division that was purchased
by Amazon for I want to say, was it a
billion dollars? Crows they got it for. I think they
got it for. It was a billion. It was a billion? Yes,
thanks step Yeah. Yeah. This is the crew on Shark
Tank that passed on Ring. Remember he went on Ring
(04:25):
and they passed on it. They ran one of the
most liked ads during the Super Bowl. It was a
spot promoting Search Party, which is a feature that helps
people find lost dogs. They use an AI to scan
footage from Ring cameras in a neighborhood. But you know,
you have to opt into this. Many viewers, though, found
(04:50):
this a little off putting. They worried about the surveillance
implications of a feature like this, and there's a lot
of backlash to it, and others thought, oh, this is heartwarming.
It's a you know, the story for a lost dog
that was found. It was a true story.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
One of our daughters called gen last night, my wife
and said, we have you guys have Ring right at
the house and we go ask.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
She goes, you need to get rid of it. You
need to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Because of the AI, because of the commercial.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It is true. The backlash is real. And Steph, will
you crank up this audio and I can I can
fire it here this morning.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It's the Super Bowl ad sparking controversy the home security
company Ring promoting a feature that scans footage from Ring
cameras in your neighborhood. The ad said to find lost.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Dog not Enkroser's neighborhood, but everybody else's neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Some people online questioning if the feature could also be
used to search for people, critics vowing to stop using
the company's products all together.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
As of today, I no longer use Ring doorbell.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Rival security camera company Wise even made a parody of
the ad, what.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
If we can make finding one lost dog require the
computational power of a small dicta led nation state.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But Ring says the feature was built a quote with
strong privacy protections from the start, saying it can find
only lost dogs and has no capability to find people.
Ring also says users can opt out of the feature.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
This is by the way that seems like it's not insignificant.
But what is left out there is you can opt
out of the feature, but your data is still getting
fed and could be subpoena, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So I think I think that's one of the things
that that came out of this Nancy Guthrie thing. Yes,
because she didn't pay the bill or whatever, but they
still had it on their servers.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, when the law enforcement authorities wanted it, they could
get it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I think that made people kind of think twice about
it themselves.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Yeah, this is a privacy first way of doing things,
but it also allows us to, you know, be better neighbors.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
My mission has always been to make neighborhoods safer.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Ring users also expressing concerns about the Amazon owned companies
partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, a company
that has contrast with law enforcement to use its automated
license plate readers, and Ring yesterday severed its partnership with Flock,
saying quote no videos were shared with the company, end
of quote. Flock saying it has engaged with customers to
(07:13):
again a quote, understand expectations around accountability, transparency, and lawful use.
That's the end of their quote. But this discussion is
likely to continue for a while.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Yeah, I keep a lot of attention on those companies,
which could ultimately be good for the companies, because all
news can be good news when it comes to a
business getting that kind of.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Press one way to put it. But I would say that,
you know, the desired effect of that ad, for example,
was to get people on board and excited about Ring
and excited about these additional capabilities around RING. So I
think in the you know, any publicity's good publicity department,
this might not actually be the case. So I mean, look,
(07:58):
they're already ending their relationationship with Flock. They're having to,
if you will, dismantle some of the various mechanisms that
were put in place to further their technology. So I
don't know about any tech. Any publicity is good publicity, but.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
A lot of public sentiment is in general going to
start turning a little bit more against big tech for
things like this that you know, it's the whether you
want to conspiracies or realities of the imposition of tech
into your daily lives. I think it's things like this
that are going to start having people sort of turn
away from.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Them and it's it's totally warranted. I mean, the paranoia
is rich. It's the old line. You know, just because
you're paranoid doesn't mean there aren't people really following.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But a lot of them would dismiss it thinking it
doesn't apply to them, doesn't mean anything. You can have
a little bit because what's the difference. But I think
things like this will get it to term no. I.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You know, you look at Pal and Teer, the Peter
Thiele run firm, You look at some of these other
big tech day to driven companies meeting personal data, surveillance data.
You look at the way that in the early months
of this administration, even we had the doge going through
and a lot of the government websites were scraped for
(09:13):
personal information. Remember there was a big scandal about IRS
data that was out there and voter data that was
out there. So security data that was out there. They
don't even know where it is a lot of it now.
So I think people are right to be concerned. You know,
when we come back, how about Monks and Merrill, the
new Midday team. You've met them one on one, but
(09:34):
when we come back, we meet them together. Thompson here
for Conway batbeam went up. I came in quickly, drop
of the hat, and it's just fortuitous. It is my
luck that I get to meet the new Midday team,
Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Yes, it's nice to meet you, Thompson.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That is Monks and Merrill. Of course, hey there he is.
So how did they put you two guys together? How
did it happen? Give me the origin story.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
I think they had one spot and two guys that
they like.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Yeah, I mean we did a little bit of stuff
last summer when the protests were going on downtown.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's when they sent Michael down to He was great.
He was amazing, wasn't he a lot? Michael?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Go downtown? And Michael said, well, you know, there's gonna
be police president. Should I have like a kevlar vest
or gas mask or anything. I said, no, you're fine,
and they got then I got tear gas. Yeah, so
you know there. I was in the comfort of my
home studio at the time while he was doing that.
But I thought I worked with him, and I was like,
this guy knows this stuff. This guy is great. I
had a chance to do some more.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
We did the election night together and they liked it,
so you know, we're looking to revamp the schedule a bit,
put people back where I think an audience originally grew
to love. These folks like Tim Conway at nights, John
cole Belt in afternoon Drive, and they're giving us this
amazing opportunity. I mean, we've both been broadcasting for a
long time, and KFI is is sort of the mother ship.
(11:02):
I mean, that's that's where anybody would want to be.
I mean, even if you're on a national network somewhere,
if you had the chance to host a show on KFI,
it's something you're gonna think about because it's just so legendary.
And so for us to have this opportunity really means
a lot. We're gonna take it very seriously while also
having some fun and being informative.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I think it's gonna be great. It's gonna work out
really well. I mean, well, think about monks Is. He
lives in downtown, he knows this town and sits through
those supervisor meetings, and I mean there's a granular knowledge
that Monks has that's so very impressive.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
It helps not to have any friends, any interest in
any hobbies. You will friends, no, no, not at all.
I'm a boor at dinner parties, which people learn.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Wow, have you guys gone to dinner yet? Meryl?
Speaker 8 (11:47):
We hung out a little bit this last weekend. Yeah,
you know, I made him pick up the tab. But yeah,
he's got the full time gage, you know. Honestly, now
that you mentioned it, Mark, I haven't seen Chris eat
and it could be a deal breaker if you have
any quirks. Is I don't do noise while people are eating.
I need a very quiet meal.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Good.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I like this.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
So if there's like any food that falls out of
your mouth for any of that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's bad. Yeah, yeah, that'll be all over my shoe.
Who knew? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
I mean, yeah, how's this big hunk of a guy Michigan?
I mean, if you were picturing a guy from Michigan,
it's Chris Meryl.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Meryl is an imposing physical figure. Yeah, but we I mean,
I don't think that the eating things should be a
deal buster. If you guys need counseling, I'm available with you.
I should not be a deal buster. Yeah, so what
kind of stuff? But you the beauty of again Monks's
knowledge and living here for so long, I think, is
(12:38):
that the stuff you'll talk about, which is like the
day to day stuff of living in southern California is
stuff that you know, Monks is living day to day, right, MARYL.
I would think, So that's a luxury to have a
guy like that. It's a huge luxury, you know. And
I've been I've been in California.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Twenty twelve is when I first moved for my job
in San Diego, and then you know, kind of bounced
around a little bit, and I'm really excited to.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Be back here.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
As much as everyone else is trying to cal exit,
I've been spending the last few years trying to get
back to southern California because I just I love it.
In fact, you and I did stuff in the Bay
Area and I was I was really excited. I thought, oh,
I'm going to move to the Bay Area. And then
you know, they pulled the plug on you, and they
pulled the plug on the station. Oh yeah, yeah, was
incredibly successful. Are you even yes in any way to
(13:22):
believe me? They didn't want to pull the plug on
was mar but they did.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
The success Marril. There was the rest of the station
that was falling apart.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
They had the most fun show, very famously pulled the
plug on you, Mark, I mean you were on the
and that is and that clip is on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I hope.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
I don't want to open up the old wounds, but
I have watched the YouTube clip of that audio recording
of you on on KGO up in San Francisco where
you're in the middle of a show and suddenly you've
been informed that that format is gone. You're all out.
We're switching to sports betting.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, sports betting. They went to sports wagering. But here
is a I'll just give you in very short order,
the story behind that. At like seven minutes before we
went on the air, I get a call from the
general manager and program director and they tell me what's
going to happen. And they say, look, you're going to
go on the air here in a couple of minutes.
You'll do your show as per normal. And then a
(14:16):
quarter after ten it was on from ten to one,
ten to KNEW and I guess it was at a
quarter after ten. You'll just say the ID, the call
letters and where we are, kgo San Francisco and turn
your mic off and we're done. And I said, and
then they told me we're changing the format they started
(14:37):
the whole thing, it's a sad day, all that stuff.
I said, guys, we're a real legacy radio station. You
can't you know, this is a radical change. You're not
just kind of changing format. You're And then they do
that thing what they call washing out the audience where
they just play music and all this kind they're trying
to turn off everybody who used to listen to KGO
and set it up as a radio station about sports gambling.
(14:59):
So I said, would you just let me say there's
a big change communication you And I said, I'll do
it as a as an exciting thing. I said, how
about if I say there's an exciting new format coming here.
I said, I just some way to tell the audience
that this is the last of it, because otherwise I
don't think they're going to know what's happening. Don't you
feel that some They said, nope, we talk about it
(15:20):
and we want you to do it this way. And
I said, you know, I'm a good soldier this way.
I'll do it whatever you want, but you don't have
to worry about me like railing against the man or
I'm not going to That's not my style, right, And
so I really beg them to let me tell the
audience what was happening, and they said, nope, do it
this way, and so again I just did it like that.
So the first fifteen minutes I mentioned it because it
(15:40):
wasn't really a normal show. I just was kind of
killing time and I was still going through shock. We
did something like you know it's National Oreo cookie Day
or you know those Yeah, I hate that stuff. I
would never do that stuff, but I was doing it
that day because I'm just trying to get to a
quarter after. And then they they didn't tell anybody at
the station. I was the only person I knew seven
minutes because they didn't want they had to have a
staff meeting. They were worried about getting it was.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Really I was in I was on the teams meeting
and I trouble logging in actually, and then I got
messages from your producer that said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
We're done. Yeah, it's all over. It was incredible, it's wild. Yeah,
so but you're here. You're right, monks though that audio
is on YouTube, yeah, and it is dramatic. In fact,
I went searching for it after. I think you told
this story once before, and I was like, what is
he talking about. I've got to find it now. When
I pull up YouTube in the browser, it is that search.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
To this day, So like every day, I'm thinking about
it because you know, you've already populated the search and
it just kind of goes up, and I always start
there and start my my YouTube quest and I think
of that. But but here's the deal. You're here and
we love having you here. Story ended, Well, I've gotten
to watch you for the past two years. My anniversary
of being hired is tomorrow. Two years I've been here,
(16:50):
so I've seen you Tim Conway, John Cope, Belt, Bill
Handle and Gary and Shannon and you know, hearing Chris
Merrill on all those weekends. I'm p one listener to KFI.
I'm a dedicated fan. It is full of Hall of
famers and future Hall of famers, and it's just been
a graduate school of radio presentation. And so I'm thrilled.
(17:13):
I'm ready to work with Chris and see what we're
made of. We're gonna be learning with everyone watching us,
I think how this is gonna work, this new dynamic.
But I hope the audience is excited to at least give.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Us a chance. Oh, I think they'll be great. I
mean to you, it feels like you're gonna work on
the dynamic, but you already have the dynamic. You guys
are pros. But Chris I've always spoken very highly of
because he's had to fill in in a lot of
different time periods. I don't think that's easy. You know,
you have to change and I got I'm going to
take a break. Steph, how dare you? I have a
professional stuff? You don't need to do that.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Don't yell at him. He's got a Shania Twain shirt
on today, is feeling very sensitive.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Gosh, I love him. One thing does all right? I
do have to take a break, guys, Good luck, Noon
to three. Thanks mar Monks and Marylyn up finished the
compliment for Marrow, but forget it. That's fine stuff. Stuff
is getting tired of the whole thing, all right, Good
luck boys. Thanks? All right, next week it all starts.
Monks and Merril weekdays noon to three. Here on KFI
(18:14):
we are KFI A six forty.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It's his thing. Monks and Marrow weekday is noon to three.
Then you've got John cole Belt and then the Conway
Show will slip back into the night six to ten,
so that all happens beginning next week. There is a
controversy emerging. It's around a they still say commode anymore?
(18:45):
Is that a word that is still used when I
say com mode?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Does it still talk?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Does anybody know what that is? There is a there's
a portable bathroom that has the latrine some terraine there.
You gots a very u service like in the service
they say latrine. Yeah, thank you for your latrine service.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Controversial bathroom is right behind us, and Michael show you
some of the construction equipment out here.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Some people not happy about this at all.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Our first look at the controversial Runyon Canyon restrooms two
stalls and two water fountains for almost one million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Well, I mean it is two stalls and there are
water fountains. Now, Runyon Canyon, Krozer, it's over there. It's
kind of the hills, Hollywood Hills. I guess you'd call it, right.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Isn't that the popular place where everybody always talks about it?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Go, let's go to the run. Yeah, it's it's frequented
by celebrities and other Hollywood luminaries who kind of want
to get their hike on shot.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Two stalls and two water fountains for almost one million dollars.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Why did it cost the city million dollars?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
That's what a lot of people are wondering.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah, I don't really like that.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Last summer we were first to expose the city's plan
for the costly commodes, sparking.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh he uses the word commode. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Last summer we were first to expose the city's plan
for the costly commodes, sparking immediately he was.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Going for the literation. That's absolutely true.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
First to expose the city's plan for the costly commodes,
sparking immediate backlash.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Here it is, and this week the bathroom arrived, rolled
in on a trailer.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I thought it was absurd from the start, and now
seeing it, it's even more absurd.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
They wheeled in what looks like an extra large doghouse.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
A local group called the Runyon Canyon Guardians sought estimates
for a similar structure, claiming they found a quote for
about half the price.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Why would we need a bathroom here because we hike
here all the time and we've never used have you.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Ever used the bathroom here. I've used the porta partly
a couple of times, been in like that's it works.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Do you think this bathroom was needed? Yeah, some hikers
though in favor of the project. With roughly two million
people using the park every year, I don't have.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
A problem with them putting a porta potty there. I
don't have a problem with their being a bathroom there,
and I don't even have a problem with an upgraded bathrooms.
So it's not just a you know, basic bitch porta potty,
But I definitely feel like you could have gotten some
other bids and just a million dollars it seems like
a lot. I mean, I get it. It's two of them,
(21:18):
all right, so it's a half million apiece.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It They don't have to do plumbing or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It must it must be water, it must be you know,
this is a controversy that has existed, as you know,
in a lot of major cities. San Francisco quite famously
had their million dollar remember there, and their thing had
like automation, and they also had the trash cans. Remember
they paid all this money for trash cans in San
Francisco that cleaned themselves and emptied themselves and all this stuff.
(21:45):
I mean, and to be fair, if you're going to
put something in, why not try to integrate as much
technology as you can so at least the thing is
sort of state of the art.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And when it's industrial use, you know it's it's not
a regular bathroom.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Thank you. It's getting a lot of and you know,
sadly you have to worry about vandalism, you have to
worry about a homeless setup.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And this isn't replacing anything. This is these are just
brand new. Where they put them in there.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
They reference there were porta potties or at least a
porta potty. But I think this is the first sort
of semi permanent to permanent structure associated with a bathroom.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
But now that's why I'm wondering about the plumbing aspect
the case.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Sure that you're saying that's what probably was the pricey
item if.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
The plumbing, yeah, because I mean, like you're saying, yeah,
that's an outrageous cost.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But is there more to it that we just don't know? Yeah,
I promise you there is. It must be. But I
get that this is a great headline, A million dollars
for a bathroom. To be fair, it still seems like
a lot, even allowing for whatever plumbing they had to
have done it. Somebody, it feels like there's some grift
built into this somewhere. But again, i'd like to see
(22:53):
the line items.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
From some hikers, though, in favor of the project. With
roughly two million people using the park every.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Year, I think it's a fantastic idea.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
I'm in favor of it if it's regulated, it's monitored,
and it's kept nice.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
There's porta potties up there, there's also forests.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
In a statement to Fox eleven, yeah there is, but
you'd like for people to go in the designated bathrooms
as opposed to the and you know there are other
natural reasons for that, you know, to do with wildlife
and all the rest.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
So industrial and public use bathrooms typically cost between eighty
and five hundred thousand dollars for permanent site built high
traffic structure.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So on some level, I mean, this is on budget.
They've got two of them, right, so I guess that's
those numbers times too.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Those ones that you were talking about in San Francisco
apparently cost one point seven million.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, and of course what they do is they trash
the crap out of it, you know, vandals just go
after it because it's become this controversial thing and nobody
wants to see it succeed. But this I love that
you put a specific on this price tag because it
just seems as though you just know that it's an
attention getter and it's a headline grabber, but being.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Legitimate to be, you know, on its face to be
pretty ticked off about it.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, you cou're right, it should whip your head around.
Of course. I mean, the city's bleeding out money and
then there's all this going for that. But apparently it's
somewhat it's in the higher end of that range.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
But in a statement to Fox eleven, councilwoman and manorial
candidate Nthia Ramin's office says, we're excited about this grant
funded restroom facility. Providing restrooms is basic park infrastructure that
benefits everyone who visits.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
I think that they're released.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I've never been as excited about a bathroom in my life,
said mayoral candidate. All Right, Uh, that's the situation. It's
controversial but probably needed, and it sounds as though the
budget wasn't blown out quite the way people are saying.
Now you're up to speed on the Runyon Canyon, Broom,
use it, hold it in until you get there, road
(25:04):
test it. Tell us how it is when we come back.
The cheating olympian's girlfriend speaks up about his confession of infidelity.
It's getting saucy.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Mark Thompson sitting in for Conway today, who he himself
will be moving. He'll be the evening guy back to
the evening where he's having all that fun. Six to
ten starts Tuesday. So the Olympics has been terrific. I
don't know, maybe I have a low bar. I'll tell
(25:47):
you what I watched. This is absolutely true. Last night
I watched women's curling and I was way into it,
and I didn't even really understand, like exactly how it worked.
But it on another level is super easy to understand.
It's a little like soccer, you know, I get it.
(26:08):
The ball has to go into the goal. I mean,
that's pretty much all you need to know. And then
there's a bunch of stuff like off sides and tripping
and you kind of begin to understand the intricacies of
soccer as you watch. The one thing that you know,
which is whether or not the ball goes into the goal.
So here it's a bull's eye and went into the ice.
(26:29):
And you know that those stones as they call them,
they need to get toward the center. And one teams
stones are one color and on another color for the
other team. And man, they are way good. And they've
got that sweeping thing that they do to kind of
create heat right in front of the of the disc.
(26:50):
I was way into it. I only wish I knew
how to bet on it. That was the only thing.
But this olympian, the Norwegian by athlete who went viral
for winning a bronze medal, then admitted in interviews to
(27:11):
cheating on his girlfriend and then pleaded with this girl
to give him another chance take him back. Well, this
whole thing is now beginning to button out, and she
his ex, has spoken.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Up following his bronze medal finish and biathlon sterla Holm Lagrid.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Made a tearful plea for forgiveness on live TV six
months ago. I met the love of my life, he said,
but then admitted that three.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Months into the relationship, he cheated on Tonight, the Norwegian
by athlete got a response from his I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
No offense, but three months in is like, I'm just saying,
that's real fast. You know, It's one thing. I was
with her for three years and I'm, you know, trainer.
In one night I stepped out. It was three months
together and he stepped out.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Three months into the relationship, he cheated on her. Tonight.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
The Norwegian biathlete got a response from his girlfriend in
a statement to a Norwegian paper. She wrote, it's hard
to forgive even after a declaration of love in front
of the whole world.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I'd like that on a drop. Can I get that drop?
Speaker 10 (28:28):
It's hard to forgive even after a declaration of love
in front of the whole world.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I'd like that on a drop. If I get it,
stupp please, I'll run that on my show. Okay, Yeah,
it's hard to.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
Forgive even after a declaration of love in front of
the world. Leggert said his girlfriend ended their relationship before
the Games, but he hoped she would realize how much
he loves her today.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
The unnamed woman.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
Thrown into an Olympic whirlwind wrote, I did not choose
to be put in this position and it hurts to
have to be.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, I wish I could break up with you all
over again. I thought we broke up. What is going
on here? Why is there media at my house?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
The love life drama has gone viral with mixed reaction.
That was our breakfast conversation this morning. I mean, at
least he's put him himself out there.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
I respect it.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It is a high wire move to go for that
on the Olympic. It's not literally the metal stand, but
you know it's metal stand adjacent. It's a high wire
act and ask for us to get back together again.
I do give him some credit for that, you know.
(29:41):
I mean he could have just like quietly said, hey,
I just want to medal at the Olympics, and I
want you to know. I mean, I can't tell everybody
what I want to tell him, which is that this
it almost doesn't mean anything to me because we were
not together. Like that would have been like one move
you could make. But the idea somehow that you would
say that to the world. Wow, I mean, the guy
really rolled the dice, but he got selem.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I mean, at least he's.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Putting himself out there.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
I respect it some siding with her.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I think it wouldn't work for me, but I wish
him and her the best.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Logrid was asked if he regretted getting so personal. Maybe
there's a chance that she will see, well, she merely
means to me, and maybe not. The emotional moment captivated
the world.
Speaker 10 (30:27):
There are some things that even a mea culpa and
a bronze medal might not be able to fix.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Stephanie GOSKYBC News, Right, I.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Feel like, you know, all the king's horses and all
the king's men couldn't put their love back together again.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
You were six months, called her the love of his
life three months and he cheats on her.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, well he was just road testing a little bit,
road testing the relationship. You gotta do, vak Bridge, establishing
some perspective on the relationship, making sure, yeah, you know,
love of my life. I'm pretty sure you love in
my life. I'm just rolling around one night. I was
in love baby. I'll tell you, I'll tell you what is.
(31:09):
What is funny is we've become so accustomed to that
kind of thing, cinematically paying off, you know, in a movie.
This is exactly what he does in every Hallmark movie.
It works. But even in just regular rom coms, this
guy would do this, and by the way, it would
follow the same narrative we just heard, which is she
(31:31):
says forget it, no, I'm hurt, and he is despondent,
you know he is. He falls into a depression whatever
it might be, and then it pays off in Act three, right,
I mean, this that's happening now is the end of
this relationship. But if this were a rom com, it
(31:53):
would be everything that would happen, like probably at the
end of act of one.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You know, it's like till Eddy Murphy bit where he says, yes, yes,
I had sex with her, Yes, I had sex with
that woman. I mean love to you.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Wow. That's good. I've never heard that. Really, that's your
high ground here. If you're the cheating olympian, yeah, you're
the one I love. She's the one I slept with. Yeah. Wow.
But man, having broken up again, as Sharon Bellio says,
they were together for six months three months in he
stepped out. The relationship was only six months long, and
(32:31):
I understand there can be a great intensity during that
six months. But the idea somehow that she should still
have to be dealing with it. Hey, dude, I broke
up with you. I'm onto the next guy. You know.
I'm dating the grocery bagger now or whatever.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
The non olympian, right.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm done with Olympians, all you athletes. Yeah, get this
media off of my front. Stoop crazy. Well, he is
an Olympian and he's a metallist, so I know that
they'll be am confident there'll be a future for him
in the world of romance. Riverside. If you're headed out
(33:11):
that way or if you live in and around the
Riverside area, cops are cracking down on something and this
will affect everybody on the freeways. We'll get to that
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