February 24, 2025 • 28 mins
Demi Moore got the SAG award for Best Actress, which Conway believes means she’s a lock for the Oscar. And then Alex Stone from ABC News joins the show to talk about the ever-rising prices of eggs and beef. // Tim discusses the sad passing of Roberta Flack at age 88, and his connection to Robbie Fox, whose father, Charlie Fox penned the song, ‘Killing Me Softly with His Song.’ // It's award season locally in LA and Tim was honored to be asked to present the LAPD Awards in addition to appearing in a Huntington Beach Parade, the San Juan Capistrano Swallows Parade, and an event in May with The Queen Mary ship. // iHeart and Fox Aviation Analyst, Jay Ratliff, joins the show to discuss the latest happenings with the American Airlines and Delta flights, as well as why it is statically still safe for you to fly.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I can't. I am six forty. It is the Conway Show.
Ah yeah, all right, everybody, it's Monday. Let's all gather
around the radio and I don't know, maybe learn something.
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I watched the Screen Actress Guild Award. We're gonna get
to our guest Alex Stone here in a second Screen.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Actor Guild Award. I thought was great.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It was on Netflix, so if you want to go
see it, you don't have to DVR it. You don't
have to, you know, miss part of it or watch commercials.
There's no commercials in it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
None. Zero.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And Demi Moore won Actress of the Year, so I
think she's a lock to get an Oscar on Sunday,
and I think that's kind of cool. Yeah, she's been
working her ass off for forty years, never won anything,
and now she might win Oscars the Oscar for Best
Actress or Best Female Actor.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't know what they call it nowadays, but you.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Know they use that term. I think SAGU is the term.
I gotta be careful talk about SAG. I got a
pendroon coming, but Sag uses female actor instead of actress.
Tell me the last time you heard this?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Man, I went to a bar last night called the
Money Tree in Tuluca Lake. Oh, and I was just
getting hammered and I ran into the most awesome female
actor you've ever seen in your life, the greatest female actor. Oh,
you got to meet her. She's my new girlfriend. She's
my female actor. Guys, don't talk like that.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
All right, let's talk to Alex Stone here. Alex Stone,
how you bob, male radio guy? What's going on? Yeah,
big male radio guy. Yeah, we're waiting for our pensions. Right.
Oh yeah, I gotta we love them. I gotta be
careful with Sag. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Hey, I saw on the on the rundown. Here we're
gonna talk eggs.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I can't do that. Is there anything else going on
that we can talk about?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Steak is going on. Let's do that. Let's do that.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You know, I went to Walmart over the weekend. There's
nine million eggs in that store. Oh good, they're everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Good.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I don't know where they're coming from. Turkey sent us,
you know, I think you know fifteen tons of them.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
The country Turkey or yeah, the country Turkey.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I don't know how I don't know. I don't know
if they're any good once they get here. I don't
know how long eggs survive. All right, we can talk
a little bit about eggs. What's going on with eggsit price.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Is well, a little bit of breaking news in the
egg world. But Dennis said a moment ago they're gonna
add on the search charge that waffle House has been doing,
except Denny's is saying that there is going to be
restaurant by restaurant and market by market that they're not
going to say, well, fifty cents an egg. It's going
to be so you know, California's gonna end up paying
more that sure, we always do.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
So.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, on the egg side of things, kind of like
oil prices where and then gas prices where oil goes
up and then gas prices go up after it. The
wholesale price of eggs now over eight bucks a dozen nationally,
ninety six percent higher than a year ago. So that
indicates that the four ninety five on average that the
country is paying now for a dozen of eggs, that
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that's going to go up because the wholesale price goes up,
and then the retail price goes up. But it's getting
more expensive. It's gonna keep getting more expensive. This lady
blown away by it was.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Literally shocked to see the dozen of eggs at nine
twenty six and Costco had him about twenty four to
twenty five dollars a four flat.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So twenty six point eight million birds have now been
lost in this outbreak of bird flu. Nine states. It's
confirmed in now, not just it had been a little
bit more regional. Here's the kicker on this whole thing,
though the Trump administration is expected to pretty soon hear
say that they want bird vaccinations, which it kind of
goes against the human vaccination thing, but.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
They don't have a choice. They gotta have eggs.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah and yeah, what are they going to say about
the birds? But I'm sure there's gonna be controversy around
did you want to eat eggs and that have been vaccinated?
But they got to stop this thing because it keeps growing.
Listen to this chicken former in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Already doing a good business. But I used to have
enough surplus eggs to sell to retailers who resold them
at farmers markers and stuff like that. But I have
been selling out every day and I've had at least
five new customers a week since this egg shortage started,
so I haven't had any extra to sell to the
retailers at all.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
When did people start eating eggs this much? When I
grow up toilet paper? Except it's odd.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's odd, and not only are people you know, talking
about eggs, but it's not just eggs.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Everything's expensive.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I went out last night to dinner with my wife
my daughter, and we went to a place I don't
want into place. I love the place, but you know,
those individual pizzas are like four or five or six slices, sure,
and we had three of those and two beverages fifty one.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh. I don't know how people afforded even fast food.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Now, yes, you're like, that was forty bucks right there,
that was fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I went to Chick fil A. I got myself a
five piece fries and a coke. My daughter got a sandwich,
fries and a coke and it was twenty six dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, I couldn't believe it. It's not cheap, but that's what
you and I used to pay for a steak. You know,
back in the old price you're right back at the menus.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And yeah, on the beef side of things, though, the
cattle prices are going up as well because not the
bird flu, but because of drought in Oklahoma and Texas
and Montana and higher supply costs. And I goes back
to drought as well for feed and whatnot. But this
guy's marketing specialist in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Cattle prices or record levels.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That's working its way up through the.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
System livestock marketing. But again it's supply and demand.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Less available cattle, shortage of beef cattle as the price
is going up.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So if you do steak and eggs, and if you
drive to get.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
There, you're gonna have to use your old paycheck to
have that one meal.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But you are.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I remember the last time we went to Sizzler. You know,
I think that cheesy bread, Oh my god, that garlic
bread they bring to the table. It's unbelievable. But I
think that the day of standing in line at a
steakhouse and then getting your meal is probably coming to
an end.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, but I love the Sizzler.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I went on to the one in Washington, and my wife,
my daughter and I brought a and I hate coupons.
I hate coupons, but I saw it in the paper
and I brought it and it was a two for one.
You buy one dinner, you get the second one for free.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So I get up there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I gave him the coupon and the guy says, oh,
this is for week days only, and I said, oh.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Give me, I'll take it out you because no, no, let
me ask the manager.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You go, no, no, no, no, let's not hold this lineup,
rip that thing up.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Let's get move in here. Let's get move in here. Man.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm sweating my ass off, right because I'm the guy
holding the lineup to save you know, nine dollars. But
I used to enjoy, you know, going to a sizzler
and it was it.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Was not eight ninety nine or nine ninety nine for
the entire meal.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You get salad or soup, and you know, dessert, the
whole dessert bar and everything.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
And those days are yeah, to the end, you put
all those colorful springs.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's right, that's right. It's over. Is that one in
Korea Town still there? No? It closed.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And there was a guy who used to be the
program director here, and I can't remember his name, who
was it? Crows there used to be the program director
at and then went over to KBC. I can't remember
his name, but David Hall. David Hall used to go
to that. Yeah, David G. Hall used to go to
that sizzler and every day ratings came out, you know,
every month he'd go to that Sizzler and wait for
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ratings to come out, and he'd sit at a table
waiting for him to come out on his computer on
his phone.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
And that's where he thought it was good luck.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well that sizzler closed, and yet he still went to
the parking lot and sat in the parking lot ready
for the ratings to come out.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
But in the parking lot you can't get the Mexican
bar without right tough stuff that they had.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh it was so good a man.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And I remember the one right across from the Great
Western Form. You know, you go to the King Game
or Laker Gamer concert and eat at that Sizzler, and
you thought, just because you had a bowl of soup,
you could park there for free for nine hours, you know,
while the concert.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
World Suit Plantation, same thing. Oh I love suit Plantation.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I don't know if there's still anymore, right, it's during
the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I think it's also another one that is a miracle.
They're still around his chuck E cheese. I don't understand how.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That in the pandemic. There's no way. Do you remember
when they were trying to do during the pandemic? Just
take out pizza and oh yeah yeah, pizza isn't typically
what you're going there for.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
That's right, based on quality that I thought people are
paying just by the pizza, but apparently they did.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
We went to the one in Thousand Oaks. I took
my daughter there and she went to play games and
she had troubles one of the machines, so I went
to help her out. Came back and there were a
family of five sitting on our table eating our dinner.
It was just now theirs sounds about. I didn't say anything,
I say, guys, I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What am I going to.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Say to the guy bust his balls in front of
his kids? His kids always remember that pizza.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, yeah, I said, screw it, it's his pizza. Now,
that's good. The hell out of here. It's wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I appreciate you coming on, Bob Giant, ABC News, Right,
you got yeah, you got it all right?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All right? Thanks man? All right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Alex Stone with ABC News. That guy's on top of it,
man with the eggs and the and the steaks.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That guy's on it man. That guy's the best.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Really sad news that ROBERTA flag passed away. I was
a big fan. I went out last night with my wife,
my daughter, I mean my sister, my daughter, and we
drove out to Westlake to see how people in Westlake live.
And my sister had to get something from Target out
there off Lindero Canyon. It's just north of Lendero Canyon,
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and there's a target out there that if you're a
fan of Target, you should go. Look at this target.
It's immaculate. Every shelf is filled. There are very few
people in there. Everybody was behaving. It looked like it
was built too weeks ago. You know, it's been there
for eight or nine, ten years. It's spectacular. You got
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to see how the other half lives. Every once in
a while, Lindero Canyon. Target got to get out there
and look at this thing. It's unreal. So as we
were driving out there.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
The ROBERTA.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Flack came on with Killing Me Softly, and I said
to my daughter, I said, you know the guy I
grew up with, Robbie Fox.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And she goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was in your wedding.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, I've known the guy since seventh grade. But my
best pals his dad wrote that song killing Me Softly
that ROBERTA Flack sang.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And she said.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
My daughter said, Dad, you've told me this story like
fifty times. And I said, okay, all right, okay, Well,
as you get old, you know you repeat stories. That's
why my wife and I have a policy. So if
I start telling my wife a story that I've told
her a million times, she'll interrupt me with repeat, and
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it stops.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
The story stops. Repeat.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I got that from a buddy of my Mark Verge
repeat repeat, because he does it too. Oh guys, do that, Crozier.
I bet Jen's heard your wife has heard that same story,
same stories.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh yeah, ill and everything. Yeah, they got.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Almighty when guys get older. Look, there's a guy who
works here at this station last week told me the
same story three times, three times, works here, oKFI, and
I don't interrupt them with repeat but.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I should have. I should have anyway. ROBERTA.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Flack passed away at eighty eight. This is one of
the greatest songs in the world. Is that Killing Me Softly?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Ah Man legendary R and B singer ROBERTA.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Flack has died.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Killing Me Softly with this song killings So I don't
think there's a better song in the world.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I think that's the perfect song.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
A statement from her team says, the Killing Me Softly
singer died this morning surrounded by family. No cause of
death was given. Her illustrious career launched in the early
nineteen seventies with the Grammy Award winning hit The First
Time I Ever Saw Your Face and Killing Me Softly
with his song ROBERTA.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Flack was eighty eight years old. That song, ROBERTA.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Flack Killing Me Softly, was the number one song in
the world for decades, absolute decades. She was born in
nineteen thirty seven. February tenth, nineteen thirty seven just celebrated
her eighty eighth birthday in Black Mountain, North Carolina. I
grew up in a large musical family and learned how
to play the piano at age eight. Played in the
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church choir by age fifteen, she entered Howard University. By
age fifteen, she was at Howard University in Washington, DC,
one of the youngest students ever to enroll, and she
eventually changed her major from piano to voice and became
an assistant conductor at the university choir.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
What a life, What a life?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And what a beautiful song you always will always remember
for Birta Flack for that song killing me Softly with
his song, beautiful, beautiful song.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And we're getting into spring. Spring is sprung the grasses, Riz,
tell me where the flowers is?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's an old palm, and I think I need to
work on.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Spring is Sprung the grasses, Riz, tell me where the
flowers is? God Ah, I wasn't very good at writing
poems and I mean rhymes. I just don't think grammatically
we're there yet.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
The words rhyme, they do sound like each other.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Spring is sprung the grass has Riz telling me where
the flowers is is?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I'm sticking with it. So it's going to be in
the eighties from now until Wednesday. You know it might
reach ninety in Palm Springs put some low lying valleys,
or the high desert Low Desert ninety in February. So
that's kind of a cool deal. And so I think
we deserve this. You know, we've gone through a lot
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this year in southern California. We had the heavy winds,
we had all of course, the horrible fires, we had
the rains. We've had people stealing crap every night. Every
time you turn the TV on, another business is getting rolled,
or guys jumping into a house looking for watches and
jewelry and paintings and cramp and so we've gone through
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a lot, and I think we deserve this kind of weather.
We get out and we can play golf for tennis.
I don't know what you do, what your activity is,
but whatever your activity is, maybe you can enjoy them.
And so it's a ward season not only on TV
for movies and television, but also locally, and so I
was I was very thrilled to be asked by LAPD.
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I'm going to present their awards on April seventeenth for
their I guess the best of the LAPD cops.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That'll be a big deal. And then Huntington Beach. They
asked me back.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I don't know why, but to present the awards to
their police department in Huntington Beach. M see it, and
I got in sort of trouble their last time. They
haven't asked me back in about four or five years,
because last time I was there, I said, we're doing
a luncheon at the at the Beachfront Hilton there in
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Huntingdon Beach, and I was emcing and everything was going great,
and I said wow, I said, I just noticed this.
If all the great cops are in this room, then
all the really crappy ones are on the street. Who
And then somebody said, hey, that went over the radios
and you got to get to the four h five.
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Good luck, good luck man, oh man, that was a
rough ride. And then I'm doing something at the Queen Mary.
I blew this guy off. I said. He called me
last year in September. He said, hey, can you do
something in May of twenty twenty five? In September of
twenty twenty four. You don't even think you're going to
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be alive in May of twenty twenty five. So I
said yeah, and I forgot about it, and then he
wrote me back saying, hey, are we still on for
May seventh? I'm like, I don't know who this is.
And then he said, oh, you're doing the Queen Mary.
I'm like, oh, yeah, Christ, I forgot about that. Yeah,
I guess, I guess we're still on. What the hell?
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So I'll do that. And then the San Juan Capistrano Parade.
I said yes to that as well. And I think
I say yes to things when I'm buzzed at night,
and then when I wake up, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh, Christ, I'm gonna do that. But then I figured
this out. Croche.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
If I get arrested, you know, either for stealing stuff
or I don't know, stealing a car, Yeah, I throw
a uh my while drinking driving, I drive my car
into a wall or something, I get arrested for DUI.
I think a lot of these things will cancel, you know,
especially if it's pretty public. So I think it's a
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good way to get out a p lot of this crap.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Get him on your side, like L A P D.
You know I got arrested the other day. You still
want me?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh no, we can't have you, buddy. You're arrested, you
know you're you're You're not wanted here anymore? Okay, Hey,
Huntington Beach, I got arrested. I uh, I threw my
car into a brick wall after about nine Martin, you.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Still want me here? No?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
No, we can't use it, can't use it, can't use it.
All right, there's two off the list. What about Rotary Club?
Oh yeah, no, we've all had DUIs here. Come on down, Yeah,
you'll be fit right in. What about the San Juan Parade?
You have to have two of them. You had to
get in this parade. So you're still on for that?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
At some point I think we're gonna get Charlie Fox
on the radio.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
What's the latest, Matt? Did you talk to Charlie Fox?
I did, and he is coming on at five oh five.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Five oh five. He wrote killing Me Softly. He wrote
the song killing Me Softly. He also wrote some other songs.
I bet you would know. Have you ever heard of
the theme to Love Boat?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh? Come on? He wrote that, how about Lavern and Shirley?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He wrote that Schlamiel, Schlamazzo, housen Faff incorporated la dam Bah.
He wrote that maybe you saw a show called Happy Days?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
He wrote the theme song to that as well, Sunday, Monday,
Happy Days, Tuesday, Wednesdays Happy Days. He wrote that song
as well. So he's a uh, the nicest gentleman you
could ever ever meet in your life. And he said
he'd love to come on and talk about ROBERTA.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Fly. So at five oh five, what do you have?
Whatever you have to do?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Got to get back by five oh five and listened
to the man who wrote Killing Me Softly, And he's
got a great story as well, because it wasn't really
written for her initially, and you know when he wrote it,
it was for somebody else, and he's got a great
story on how she got connected to the project.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
So at five oh.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Five, Grammy Women, Grammy winning singer ROBERTA. Flack who passed
away today at eighty eight, and we're going to get
a big, huge, great story at five oh five, So
come on back wherever you got to go. They got
a cigarette and a beer both. I don't know what's going.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
On with you. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
Demyan from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
All right, Jay Ratliffe is with us.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
He is the iHeart and Fox Aviation analyst and man
Jay every time we turn the TV on, there's another
crazy air incident.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Huh, there's been a few. But you know, any time
that we've got a situation where we've had a commercial
accident or certainly a fatality, all of the general aviation
accidents start popping up. Now across my desk. Typically I'll
have one or two a week where I have a
general aviation accident that we have a report on, and
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we will, sadly have a loss of life of anywhere
between four and five hundred and fifty people a year.
And when we had the crash in DC, it ended
about a sixteen year run where we had no commercial
aircraft crashes here in the United States from February of
two thousand and nine until that point. So when you
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had that and then the Alaskan Airline crash that killed
ten people, you had that horrific medical aircraft that crashed
in Philly, all of a sudden, now everybody's just looking
at everything. And then of course we had the situation
in Toronto, which was a media frenzy. And every single
time that we've had an aircraft it's an assessment of
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land somewhere. If we had the two colliding in Arizona.
You have all of these where it gets people to
the point where they're thinking, Jay, I mean planes are
following out of the air. And of course I'm a
statistical based kind of guy, and I remind everybody, Look,
every year, we have what nine million departures here in
the United States commercially speaking, and when you realize that
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two and a half million people are so travel every
day with literally no problem and did so for an
extended period of time, yeah, it Look, I don't want
to minimize anybody's anxiety, because I understand it. But we're
talking about three different types of situations. It wasn't two
airplanes colliding in DC as a result of apparently air
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traffic control issue. We had a helicopter that was not
in its right position, either by fault or an equipment failure.
We have the situation in Alaska. We still don't know
what caused that plane crash, and we're learning more and
more about the Toronto crash. So these weren't like three
of the same time of incidents that took place. And
you know, I certainly point to that saying, Look, we're
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going to learn from each one of these and we're
going to continue to make cour marcial aviation even safer.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You know, Jay, I'm old enough to remember flying from
Lax to Cleveland to see my grandparents. See, I think
most of the time we were on continental or at
TWA and the flight crew and the pilots would fly
from Lax to a Cleveland and then you talk to
them while you're on the flight and they would stay
there for two or three days, get rested up, and
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then they'd take another flight, you know, from Cleveland to
Seattle or whatever. But I think nowadays, you know, with
a crew that starts at six in the morning, they
may have four or five or six legs during the
day before they end their shift. And I think, not
only does that take a toll on them, you know,
physically and mentally emotionally, but a toll on these airplanes.
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These airplanes used to fly once, you know, twice a week.
Now they're flying and landing, you know, four or five
times a day.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
But on the equipm the side of things, every piece
of an airplane has a part number, and every part
number has a very specific mandated FAA inspection date where
a part is either replaced or inspected for wear and tear.
So you may have an airplane that's sixteen years old,
and of course we're thinking, oh my gosh, I can
think of as having a car sixteen years old in
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my driveway. It's completely different because those airplanes, those engines,
the fuselage, the different parts of the avionics package, the
landing gears, attires, all of those components are inspected and
replaced or at least looked at on a regular basis.
In essence, the entire airplanes being rebuilt from time to time.
Now that doesn't mean we don't have mechanical situations where
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parts fail. It doesn't mean we have other situations where
human air factors into something that causes a near accident
or accident. But you know, when you look at the
United States, we have enjoyed, up until that DC crash,
the safest air ever that we've ever had in commercial
jet travel. When you look back at the various decades,
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I mean there was times we would go and have
four or five incidents a year here in the NY.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I remember that. I remember that. I remember the big one.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Those days have subsided and we're working really hard to
keep it that way.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I remember the all of them, you know, the big
one in Chicago with the DC ten flight eight hundred
that left out of you know, the seven forty seven
on TWA that left New York on the way to
Europe that exploded just off of the coast. I remember
all of them, and they're all, you know, really really gruesome,
and and you have to think, like, for instance, you're
old enough as I am to remember flight eight eight hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I think it was eight hundred, wasn't it Flight eight
hundreds left out of.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yes, so they said, when the nose cone in the
front of that plane blew off, it actually still ascended.
It went up for another thirty five seconds with you know,
three or four hundred miles an hour wind blowing through
the cabin, and you think about stuff like that, and
it's unnerving.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
It is.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And unfortunately, my position in the industry for two decades
had me sitting in on more briefings from the National
Transportation Safety Board than I would ever like to be
in and learning about accidents and what happened in the
aircraft and what happened to the crew or the passengers
and all of the things that occurred. Very unsettling. But
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when you look at the National Transportation Safety Board, as
they investigate every single incident. One of the things they
do is they will learn the cause or causes. Many
times there's many different causes, and then they will submit
to the Federal Aviation Administration five or six, eight, nine,
ten different recommendations saying here's what we learned, here's what
we can apply to commercial aviation to make things safer. Now,
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the FAA will get that list, and I would love
to say they adopt every one of them.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They do not.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
They may take one, two or three and say, hey,
we're going to do this. The airlines may push back
on costs for some of them, but for the most part,
we continue to learn. We have that horrible crash of
the Air Canada flight in Cincinnati. I think there was
eight or ten, maybe thirteen different things that came about,
and that number may be low. I'm counting on my
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sixty year old memory here. But the idea was that
there was a lot of those recommendations that we learned
from so that we now have the lights that point
us to the exit, and we've got materials on airplanes
or even more fire resistant than what we'd had before.
In fact, when you look at that Toronto crash, well,
the airplane seats did exactly what they're designed to do.
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Stay in place. Those seats we complain about that, you know,
keep getting smaller. They're rated for sixteen g's and they
stayed exactly where they were supposed to. The fuselage stayed together,
didn't break apart, didn't create a situation where we would
have more of the aviation jet fuel that these people
would be exposed to. And you look at all of
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the things that happened, that's what these airplanes are designed for.
And Bombardier which is the Canadian jet manufacturer there, they
built an incredible aircraft, just as Airbus and when Boeing
does it right that they do so, you know, that's
one of the reasons that with each one of these
accidents we continue to see more and more people survive
because so many times, you know, miracle on Hudson, the
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plane lands designed to float for a while, it did.
Allowed everybody to get off that airplane without any problem
at all, and you know, we just we just had
some injuries and thankfully no fatalities, and that that can
be the norm on things. I think obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't mind flying at all. I never get to frightened.
You know, I have no control over it, and I'm
not one of those guys, but I think those you know,
the people who inspect these planes, they're worth their weight
in gold, especially you know twenty years ago when we
discovered micro cracks and they were able to you know,
look look deep into a wingland stuff like that. Jay,
I appreciate coming on. I say, fly, fly, fly. It's
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very safe, and I think more people should.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Be like me right there with you, brother, right, all right,
thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, that's great, Jay Rattle. I hope he soothes
some of your raw nerves when it comes to flying.
It's still very safe to do. When we come back,
Charlie Fox will be with us. One of the greatest
songwriters of all time. He wrote the song killing Me
Softly as we remember Verda Flag Today, who passed away
at age eighty eight. He wrote that song. One of
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the most talented men in the world, and he's coming
on with us on KFI. It's a real treat, all right.
We're live Conway Show on KFI AM six forty Conway
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It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I can't. I am six forty. It is the Conway Show.
Ah yeah, all right, everybody, it's Monday. Let's all gather
around the radio and I don't know, maybe learn something.
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I watched the Screen Actress Guild Award. We're gonna get
to our guest Alex Stone here in a second Screen.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Actor Guild Award. I thought was great.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It was on Netflix, so if you want to go
see it, you don't have to DVR it. You don't
have to, you know, miss part of it or watch commercials.
There's no commercials in it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
None. Zero.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And Demi Moore won Actress of the Year, so I
think she's a lock to get an Oscar on Sunday,
and I think that's kind of cool. Yeah, she's been
working her ass off for forty years, never won anything,
and now she might win Oscars the Oscar for Best
Actress or Best Female Actor.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't know what they call it nowadays, but you.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Know they use that term. I think SAGU is the term.
I gotta be careful talk about SAG. I got a
pendroon coming, but Sag uses female actor instead of actress.
Tell me the last time you heard this?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Man, I went to a bar last night called the
Money Tree in Tuluca Lake. Oh, and I was just
getting hammered and I ran into the most awesome female
actor you've ever seen in your life, the greatest female actor. Oh,
you got to meet her. She's my new girlfriend. She's
my female actor. Guys, don't talk like that.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
All right, let's talk to Alex Stone here. Alex Stone,
how you bob, male radio guy? What's going on? Yeah,
big male radio guy. Yeah, we're waiting for our pensions. Right.
Oh yeah, I gotta we love them. I gotta be
careful with Sag. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Hey, I saw on the on the rundown. Here we're
gonna talk eggs.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I can't do that. Is there anything else going on
that we can talk about?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Steak is going on. Let's do that. Let's do that.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You know, I went to Walmart over the weekend. There's
nine million eggs in that store. Oh good, they're everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Good.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I don't know where they're coming from. Turkey sent us,
you know, I think you know fifteen tons of them.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
The country Turkey or yeah, the country Turkey.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I don't know how I don't know. I don't know
if they're any good once they get here. I don't
know how long eggs survive. All right, we can talk
a little bit about eggs. What's going on with eggsit price.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Is well, a little bit of breaking news in the
egg world. But Dennis said a moment ago they're gonna
add on the search charge that waffle House has been doing,
except Denny's is saying that there is going to be
restaurant by restaurant and market by market that they're not
going to say, well, fifty cents an egg. It's going
to be so you know, California's gonna end up paying
more that sure, we always do.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
So.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, on the egg side of things, kind of like
oil prices where and then gas prices where oil goes
up and then gas prices go up after it. The
wholesale price of eggs now over eight bucks a dozen nationally,
ninety six percent higher than a year ago. So that
indicates that the four ninety five on average that the
country is paying now for a dozen of eggs, that
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that's going to go up because the wholesale price goes up,
and then the retail price goes up. But it's getting
more expensive. It's gonna keep getting more expensive. This lady
blown away by it was.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Literally shocked to see the dozen of eggs at nine
twenty six and Costco had him about twenty four to
twenty five dollars a four flat.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
So twenty six point eight million birds have now been
lost in this outbreak of bird flu. Nine states. It's
confirmed in now, not just it had been a little
bit more regional. Here's the kicker on this whole thing,
though the Trump administration is expected to pretty soon hear
say that they want bird vaccinations, which it kind of
goes against the human vaccination thing, but.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
They don't have a choice. They gotta have eggs.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah and yeah, what are they going to say about
the birds? But I'm sure there's gonna be controversy around
did you want to eat eggs and that have been vaccinated?
But they got to stop this thing because it keeps growing.
Listen to this chicken former in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Already doing a good business. But I used to have
enough surplus eggs to sell to retailers who resold them
at farmers markers and stuff like that. But I have
been selling out every day and I've had at least
five new customers a week since this egg shortage started,
so I haven't had any extra to sell to the
retailers at all.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
When did people start eating eggs this much? When I
grow up toilet paper? Except it's odd.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's odd, and not only are people you know, talking
about eggs, but it's not just eggs.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Everything's expensive.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I went out last night to dinner with my wife
my daughter, and we went to a place I don't
want into place. I love the place, but you know,
those individual pizzas are like four or five or six slices, sure,
and we had three of those and two beverages fifty one.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh. I don't know how people afforded even fast food.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Now, yes, you're like, that was forty bucks right there,
that was fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I went to Chick fil A. I got myself a
five piece fries and a coke. My daughter got a sandwich,
fries and a coke and it was twenty six dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, I couldn't believe it. It's not cheap, but that's what
you and I used to pay for a steak. You know,
back in the old price you're right back at the menus.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And yeah, on the beef side of things, though, the
cattle prices are going up as well because not the
bird flu, but because of drought in Oklahoma and Texas
and Montana and higher supply costs. And I goes back
to drought as well for feed and whatnot. But this
guy's marketing specialist in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Cattle prices or record levels.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That's working its way up through the.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
System livestock marketing. But again it's supply and demand.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Less available cattle, shortage of beef cattle as the price
is going up.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So if you do steak and eggs, and if you
drive to get.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
There, you're gonna have to use your old paycheck to
have that one meal.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But you are.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I remember the last time we went to Sizzler. You know,
I think that cheesy bread, Oh my god, that garlic
bread they bring to the table. It's unbelievable. But I
think that the day of standing in line at a
steakhouse and then getting your meal is probably coming to
an end.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, but I love the Sizzler.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I went on to the one in Washington, and my wife,
my daughter and I brought a and I hate coupons.
I hate coupons, but I saw it in the paper
and I brought it and it was a two for one.
You buy one dinner, you get the second one for free.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So I get up there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I gave him the coupon and the guy says, oh,
this is for week days only, and I said, oh.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Give me, I'll take it out you because no, no, let
me ask the manager.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You go, no, no, no, no, let's not hold this lineup,
rip that thing up.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Let's get move in here. Let's get move in here. Man.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm sweating my ass off, right because I'm the guy
holding the lineup to save you know, nine dollars. But
I used to enjoy, you know, going to a sizzler
and it was it.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Was not eight ninety nine or nine ninety nine for
the entire meal.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You get salad or soup, and you know, dessert, the
whole dessert bar and everything.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
And those days are yeah, to the end, you put
all those colorful springs.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's right, that's right. It's over. Is that one in
Korea Town still there? No? It closed.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And there was a guy who used to be the
program director here, and I can't remember his name, who
was it? Crows there used to be the program director
at and then went over to KBC. I can't remember
his name, but David Hall. David Hall used to go
to that. Yeah, David G. Hall used to go to
that sizzler and every day ratings came out, you know,
every month he'd go to that Sizzler and wait for
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ratings to come out, and he'd sit at a table
waiting for him to come out on his computer on
his phone.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
And that's where he thought it was good luck.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well that sizzler closed, and yet he still went to
the parking lot and sat in the parking lot ready
for the ratings to come out.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
But in the parking lot you can't get the Mexican
bar without right tough stuff that they had.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh it was so good a man.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And I remember the one right across from the Great
Western Form. You know, you go to the King Game
or Laker Gamer concert and eat at that Sizzler, and
you thought, just because you had a bowl of soup,
you could park there for free for nine hours, you know,
while the concert.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
World Suit Plantation, same thing. Oh I love suit Plantation.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I don't know if there's still anymore, right, it's during
the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I think it's also another one that is a miracle.
They're still around his chuck E cheese. I don't understand how.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That in the pandemic. There's no way. Do you remember
when they were trying to do during the pandemic? Just
take out pizza and oh yeah yeah, pizza isn't typically
what you're going there for.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
That's right, based on quality that I thought people are
paying just by the pizza, but apparently they did.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
We went to the one in Thousand Oaks. I took
my daughter there and she went to play games and
she had troubles one of the machines, so I went
to help her out. Came back and there were a
family of five sitting on our table eating our dinner.
It was just now theirs sounds about. I didn't say anything,
I say, guys, I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What am I going to.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Say to the guy bust his balls in front of
his kids? His kids always remember that pizza.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, yeah, I said, screw it, it's his pizza. Now,
that's good. The hell out of here. It's wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I appreciate you coming on, Bob Giant, ABC News, Right,
you got yeah, you got it all right?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All right? Thanks man? All right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Alex Stone with ABC News. That guy's on top of it,
man with the eggs and the and the steaks.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That guy's on it man. That guy's the best.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Really sad news that ROBERTA flag passed away. I was
a big fan. I went out last night with my wife,
my daughter, I mean my sister, my daughter, and we
drove out to Westlake to see how people in Westlake live.
And my sister had to get something from Target out
there off Lindero Canyon. It's just north of Lendero Canyon,
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and there's a target out there that if you're a
fan of Target, you should go. Look at this target.
It's immaculate. Every shelf is filled. There are very few
people in there. Everybody was behaving. It looked like it
was built too weeks ago. You know, it's been there
for eight or nine, ten years. It's spectacular. You got
(10:05):
to see how the other half lives. Every once in
a while, Lindero Canyon. Target got to get out there
and look at this thing. It's unreal. So as we
were driving out there.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
The ROBERTA.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Flack came on with Killing Me Softly, and I said
to my daughter, I said, you know the guy I
grew up with, Robbie Fox.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And she goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was in your wedding.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, I've known the guy since seventh grade. But my
best pals his dad wrote that song killing Me Softly
that ROBERTA Flack sang.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And she said.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
My daughter said, Dad, you've told me this story like
fifty times. And I said, okay, all right, okay, Well,
as you get old, you know you repeat stories. That's
why my wife and I have a policy. So if
I start telling my wife a story that I've told
her a million times, she'll interrupt me with repeat, and
(11:04):
it stops.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
The story stops. Repeat.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I got that from a buddy of my Mark Verge
repeat repeat, because he does it too. Oh guys, do that, Crozier.
I bet Jen's heard your wife has heard that same story,
same stories.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh yeah, ill and everything. Yeah, they got.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Almighty when guys get older. Look, there's a guy who
works here at this station last week told me the
same story three times, three times, works here, oKFI, and
I don't interrupt them with repeat but.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I should have. I should have anyway. ROBERTA.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Flack passed away at eighty eight. This is one of
the greatest songs in the world. Is that Killing Me Softly?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Ah Man legendary R and B singer ROBERTA.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Flack has died.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Killing Me Softly with this song killings So I don't
think there's a better song in the world.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I think that's the perfect song.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
A statement from her team says, the Killing Me Softly
singer died this morning surrounded by family. No cause of
death was given. Her illustrious career launched in the early
nineteen seventies with the Grammy Award winning hit The First
Time I Ever Saw Your Face and Killing Me Softly
with his song ROBERTA.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Flack was eighty eight years old. That song, ROBERTA.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Flack Killing Me Softly, was the number one song in
the world for decades, absolute decades. She was born in
nineteen thirty seven. February tenth, nineteen thirty seven just celebrated
her eighty eighth birthday in Black Mountain, North Carolina. I
grew up in a large musical family and learned how
to play the piano at age eight. Played in the
(12:48):
church choir by age fifteen, she entered Howard University. By
age fifteen, she was at Howard University in Washington, DC,
one of the youngest students ever to enroll, and she
eventually changed her major from piano to voice and became
an assistant conductor at the university choir.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
What a life, What a life?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And what a beautiful song you always will always remember
for Birta Flack for that song killing me Softly with
his song, beautiful, beautiful song.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And we're getting into spring. Spring is sprung the grasses, Riz,
tell me where the flowers is?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's an old palm, and I think I need to
work on.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Spring is Sprung the grasses, Riz, tell me where the
flowers is? God Ah, I wasn't very good at writing
poems and I mean rhymes. I just don't think grammatically
we're there yet.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
The words rhyme, they do sound like each other.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Spring is sprung the grass has Riz telling me where
the flowers is is?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I'm sticking with it. So it's going to be in
the eighties from now until Wednesday. You know it might
reach ninety in Palm Springs put some low lying valleys,
or the high desert Low Desert ninety in February. So
that's kind of a cool deal. And so I think
we deserve this. You know, we've gone through a lot
(14:22):
this year in southern California. We had the heavy winds,
we had all of course, the horrible fires, we had
the rains. We've had people stealing crap every night. Every
time you turn the TV on, another business is getting rolled,
or guys jumping into a house looking for watches and
jewelry and paintings and cramp and so we've gone through
(14:44):
a lot, and I think we deserve this kind of weather.
We get out and we can play golf for tennis.
I don't know what you do, what your activity is,
but whatever your activity is, maybe you can enjoy them.
And so it's a ward season not only on TV
for movies and television, but also locally, and so I
was I was very thrilled to be asked by LAPD.
(15:06):
I'm going to present their awards on April seventeenth for
their I guess the best of the LAPD cops.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That'll be a big deal. And then Huntington Beach. They
asked me back.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I don't know why, but to present the awards to
their police department in Huntington Beach. M see it, and
I got in sort of trouble their last time. They
haven't asked me back in about four or five years,
because last time I was there, I said, we're doing
a luncheon at the at the Beachfront Hilton there in
(15:40):
Huntingdon Beach, and I was emcing and everything was going great,
and I said wow, I said, I just noticed this.
If all the great cops are in this room, then
all the really crappy ones are on the street. Who
And then somebody said, hey, that went over the radios
and you got to get to the four h five.
(16:02):
Good luck, good luck man, oh man, that was a
rough ride. And then I'm doing something at the Queen Mary.
I blew this guy off. I said. He called me
last year in September. He said, hey, can you do
something in May of twenty twenty five? In September of
twenty twenty four. You don't even think you're going to
(16:22):
be alive in May of twenty twenty five. So I
said yeah, and I forgot about it, and then he
wrote me back saying, hey, are we still on for
May seventh? I'm like, I don't know who this is.
And then he said, oh, you're doing the Queen Mary.
I'm like, oh, yeah, Christ, I forgot about that. Yeah,
I guess, I guess we're still on. What the hell?
(16:42):
So I'll do that. And then the San Juan Capistrano Parade.
I said yes to that as well. And I think
I say yes to things when I'm buzzed at night,
and then when I wake up, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh, Christ, I'm gonna do that. But then I figured
this out. Croche.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
If I get arrested, you know, either for stealing stuff
or I don't know, stealing a car, Yeah, I throw
a uh my while drinking driving, I drive my car
into a wall or something, I get arrested for DUI.
I think a lot of these things will cancel, you know,
especially if it's pretty public. So I think it's a
(17:19):
good way to get out a p lot of this crap.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Get him on your side, like L A P D.
You know I got arrested the other day. You still
want me?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh no, we can't have you, buddy. You're arrested, you
know you're you're You're not wanted here anymore? Okay, Hey,
Huntington Beach, I got arrested. I uh, I threw my
car into a brick wall after about nine Martin, you.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Still want me here? No?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
No, we can't use it, can't use it, can't use it.
All right, there's two off the list. What about Rotary Club?
Oh yeah, no, we've all had DUIs here. Come on down, Yeah,
you'll be fit right in. What about the San Juan Parade?
You have to have two of them. You had to
get in this parade. So you're still on for that?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
At some point I think we're gonna get Charlie Fox
on the radio.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
What's the latest, Matt? Did you talk to Charlie Fox?
I did, and he is coming on at five oh five.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Five oh five. He wrote killing Me Softly. He wrote
the song killing Me Softly. He also wrote some other songs.
I bet you would know. Have you ever heard of
the theme to Love Boat?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh? Come on? He wrote that, how about Lavern and Shirley?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He wrote that Schlamiel, Schlamazzo, housen Faff incorporated la dam Bah.
He wrote that maybe you saw a show called Happy Days?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
He wrote the theme song to that as well, Sunday, Monday,
Happy Days, Tuesday, Wednesdays Happy Days. He wrote that song
as well. So he's a uh, the nicest gentleman you
could ever ever meet in your life. And he said
he'd love to come on and talk about ROBERTA.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Fly. So at five oh five, what do you have?
Whatever you have to do?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Got to get back by five oh five and listened
to the man who wrote Killing Me Softly, And he's
got a great story as well, because it wasn't really
written for her initially, and you know when he wrote it,
it was for somebody else, and he's got a great
story on how she got connected to the project.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
So at five oh.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Five, Grammy Women, Grammy winning singer ROBERTA. Flack who passed
away today at eighty eight, and we're going to get
a big, huge, great story at five oh five, So
come on back wherever you got to go. They got
a cigarette and a beer both. I don't know what's going.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
On with you. You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on
Demyan from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
All right, Jay Ratliffe is with us.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
He is the iHeart and Fox Aviation analyst and man
Jay every time we turn the TV on, there's another
crazy air incident.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Huh, there's been a few. But you know, any time
that we've got a situation where we've had a commercial
accident or certainly a fatality, all of the general aviation
accidents start popping up. Now across my desk. Typically I'll
have one or two a week where I have a
general aviation accident that we have a report on, and
(20:17):
we will, sadly have a loss of life of anywhere
between four and five hundred and fifty people a year.
And when we had the crash in DC, it ended
about a sixteen year run where we had no commercial
aircraft crashes here in the United States from February of
two thousand and nine until that point. So when you
(20:38):
had that and then the Alaskan Airline crash that killed
ten people, you had that horrific medical aircraft that crashed
in Philly, all of a sudden, now everybody's just looking
at everything. And then of course we had the situation
in Toronto, which was a media frenzy. And every single
time that we've had an aircraft it's an assessment of
(21:01):
land somewhere. If we had the two colliding in Arizona.
You have all of these where it gets people to
the point where they're thinking, Jay, I mean planes are
following out of the air. And of course I'm a
statistical based kind of guy, and I remind everybody, Look,
every year, we have what nine million departures here in
the United States commercially speaking, and when you realize that
(21:23):
two and a half million people are so travel every
day with literally no problem and did so for an
extended period of time, yeah, it Look, I don't want
to minimize anybody's anxiety, because I understand it. But we're
talking about three different types of situations. It wasn't two
airplanes colliding in DC as a result of apparently air
(21:44):
traffic control issue. We had a helicopter that was not
in its right position, either by fault or an equipment failure.
We have the situation in Alaska. We still don't know
what caused that plane crash, and we're learning more and
more about the Toronto crash. So these weren't like three
of the same time of incidents that took place. And
you know, I certainly point to that saying, Look, we're
(22:04):
going to learn from each one of these and we're
going to continue to make cour marcial aviation even safer.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You know, Jay, I'm old enough to remember flying from
Lax to Cleveland to see my grandparents. See, I think
most of the time we were on continental or at
TWA and the flight crew and the pilots would fly
from Lax to a Cleveland and then you talk to
them while you're on the flight and they would stay
there for two or three days, get rested up, and
(22:31):
then they'd take another flight, you know, from Cleveland to
Seattle or whatever. But I think nowadays, you know, with
a crew that starts at six in the morning, they
may have four or five or six legs during the
day before they end their shift. And I think, not
only does that take a toll on them, you know,
physically and mentally emotionally, but a toll on these airplanes.
(22:51):
These airplanes used to fly once, you know, twice a week.
Now they're flying and landing, you know, four or five
times a day.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
But on the equipm the side of things, every piece
of an airplane has a part number, and every part
number has a very specific mandated FAA inspection date where
a part is either replaced or inspected for wear and tear.
So you may have an airplane that's sixteen years old,
and of course we're thinking, oh my gosh, I can
think of as having a car sixteen years old in
(23:19):
my driveway. It's completely different because those airplanes, those engines,
the fuselage, the different parts of the avionics package, the
landing gears, attires, all of those components are inspected and
replaced or at least looked at on a regular basis.
In essence, the entire airplanes being rebuilt from time to time.
Now that doesn't mean we don't have mechanical situations where
(23:41):
parts fail. It doesn't mean we have other situations where
human air factors into something that causes a near accident
or accident. But you know, when you look at the
United States, we have enjoyed, up until that DC crash,
the safest air ever that we've ever had in commercial
jet travel. When you look back at the various decades,
(24:03):
I mean there was times we would go and have
four or five incidents a year here in the NY.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I remember that. I remember that. I remember the big one.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Those days have subsided and we're working really hard to
keep it that way.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I remember the all of them, you know, the big
one in Chicago with the DC ten flight eight hundred
that left out of you know, the seven forty seven
on TWA that left New York on the way to
Europe that exploded just off of the coast. I remember
all of them, and they're all, you know, really really gruesome,
and and you have to think, like, for instance, you're
old enough as I am to remember flight eight eight hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I think it was eight hundred, wasn't it Flight eight
hundreds left out of.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yes, so they said, when the nose cone in the
front of that plane blew off, it actually still ascended.
It went up for another thirty five seconds with you know,
three or four hundred miles an hour wind blowing through
the cabin, and you think about stuff like that, and
it's unnerving.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
It is.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And unfortunately, my position in the industry for two decades
had me sitting in on more briefings from the National
Transportation Safety Board than I would ever like to be
in and learning about accidents and what happened in the
aircraft and what happened to the crew or the passengers
and all of the things that occurred. Very unsettling. But
(25:20):
when you look at the National Transportation Safety Board, as
they investigate every single incident. One of the things they
do is they will learn the cause or causes. Many
times there's many different causes, and then they will submit
to the Federal Aviation Administration five or six, eight, nine,
ten different recommendations saying here's what we learned, here's what
we can apply to commercial aviation to make things safer. Now,
(25:43):
the FAA will get that list, and I would love
to say they adopt every one of them.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They do not.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
They may take one, two or three and say, hey,
we're going to do this. The airlines may push back
on costs for some of them, but for the most part,
we continue to learn. We have that horrible crash of
the Air Canada flight in Cincinnati. I think there was
eight or ten, maybe thirteen different things that came about,
and that number may be low. I'm counting on my
(26:10):
sixty year old memory here. But the idea was that
there was a lot of those recommendations that we learned
from so that we now have the lights that point
us to the exit, and we've got materials on airplanes
or even more fire resistant than what we'd had before.
In fact, when you look at that Toronto crash, well,
the airplane seats did exactly what they're designed to do.
(26:31):
Stay in place. Those seats we complain about that, you know,
keep getting smaller. They're rated for sixteen g's and they
stayed exactly where they were supposed to. The fuselage stayed together,
didn't break apart, didn't create a situation where we would
have more of the aviation jet fuel that these people
would be exposed to. And you look at all of
(26:51):
the things that happened, that's what these airplanes are designed for.
And Bombardier which is the Canadian jet manufacturer there, they
built an incredible aircraft, just as Airbus and when Boeing
does it right that they do so, you know, that's
one of the reasons that with each one of these
accidents we continue to see more and more people survive
because so many times, you know, miracle on Hudson, the
(27:13):
plane lands designed to float for a while, it did.
Allowed everybody to get off that airplane without any problem
at all, and you know, we just we just had
some injuries and thankfully no fatalities, and that that can
be the norm on things. I think obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't mind flying at all. I never get to frightened.
You know, I have no control over it, and I'm
not one of those guys, but I think those you know,
the people who inspect these planes, they're worth their weight
in gold, especially you know twenty years ago when we
discovered micro cracks and they were able to you know,
look look deep into a wingland stuff like that. Jay,
I appreciate coming on. I say, fly, fly, fly. It's
(27:51):
very safe, and I think more people should.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Be like me right there with you, brother, right, all right,
thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, that's great, Jay Rattle. I hope he soothes
some of your raw nerves when it comes to flying.
It's still very safe to do. When we come back,
Charlie Fox will be with us. One of the greatest
songwriters of all time. He wrote the song killing Me
Softly as we remember Verda Flag Today, who passed away
at age eighty eight. He wrote that song. One of
(28:21):
the most talented men in the world, and he's coming
on with us on KFI. It's a real treat, all right.
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