October 1, 2025 • 35 mins
Conway asked listeners about their best sports night ever — his pick: the Kings finally winning the Stanley Cup. The government shutdown raises questions about ripple effects, from a top-secret facility that keeps cell phones online during disasters to canceled military flyovers at the Huntington Beach Pacific Airshow. In Brentwood, thieves stole the iconic Sinclair gas station dinosaur, while questions rise about driverless cars: if a Waymo gets pulled over, who gets the ticket?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Time
for Dodger Baseball is now? What time it is? It's
time for Dodger baseball?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Time for Dodger baseball.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
There's two schools of thought about telling you that the
Dodger game is on right now. First one is, don't
mention it. They're your competitor. Don't bring it up. Keep
doing the show, and don't mention the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The second one is tell people when there's something going
on in the town that's interesting, and they'll trust that.
In the future, you'll also tell them about stuff and
they'll come back because you're honest with the audience. And
I subscribe to that. I subscribe to the second version
of them. There's second selection. And when I listen to
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radio show, if I'm listening and they say, hey, there's
a you know, a rocket about the last launch off
in Ventura, and the host or the person knows that,
you know, twenty percent of the people are going to
shut the radio off and go outside and look at
the rocket whatever. But they come back because you're honest
with them and I'm being honest with you. The Dodgers
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are on and playing in the playoffs. I'm a huge
Dodger fan. My daughter act not accidentally purposely recorded me
last year when the Dodgers won the World Series, and
she just gave it to me, Belly, I'm gonna afford
this to you. This is I'm gonna afford a video
to you, Okay, and we can well, let's put up
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on social media. But this is me at last year,
at this time, late October. I think it was October thirtieth,
when the Dodgers won the World Series against the Yankees.
I think it was October thirty and so it was
practically eleven months ago, almost exactly eleven months ago, and
I was watching the Dodger game. My daughter was it
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was cold that night. She was under a blanket on
the couch. I was on the other couch. My wife
was on the couch with me, and we were watching
the Dodger game. And when the Dodgers won the World Series,
I went nuts. I'm gonna play the audio for you here,
but we're gonna put the video up. But this is
the audio of, you know, a guy in his late
fifties going crazy over a you know, stupid game, shouldn't
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happen this way. But I get too crazy. Here last pitch,
I'm leaning down towards the TV. I'm almost on my knees,
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jumping up and down. That's crazy. It's crazy of that
reaction over you know, people I've never met before. I've
never met anybody currently on the La Dodgers, nobody, and
yet I have that kind of reaction to them winning.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I've lost my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I had the same reaction to the Kings winning the
championship the Stanley Cup in twenty twelve and twenty fourteen,
And that kind of reaction comes from a lot of
losses in life. The Kings had fifty years of nothing,
but s you know, we'll get him next year. We're rebuilding.
We should have traded that guy. The guy's injured, This
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coach sucks, Get a new coach, get a new owner,
get a new stadium. It was constantly bad news for
fifty years, and then they won the championship and it
made it all that much better. And I think the
if you're a Las Vegas Knights fan, if you like
the NHL team in Las Vegas, the Golden Knights, I
think it was a curse. The Golden Knights won the
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Stanley Cup three or four years into their existence.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think you need.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
To have to have a really good long fan base
that is handed down from generation after generation after generation.
You need fifty years of nothing but getting your ass
handed to you, fifty sixty or seventy years of we'll
get him next year, we almost did it, We almost
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got him. And that brings the dad, the grandfathers, the uncles,
the aunts, the nieces, the nephews, and they become closer
in life because you all have this one goal that
you've never reached, and that is a championship. And that's
why when the Cubs finally won the championship, that city
broke down and it melted down. Everybody was so happy.
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They were crying, there was tears, they went nuts. And
the Las Vegas Knights didn't have that. They in their
third or fourth year they won the Stanley Cup. And
so what you've been a lifelong fan for what three
years or four years before you won the Stanley Cup?
Who cares? You need fifty years of s sorry use
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the whole word there. Fifty years of absolute s every
year and then you win the championship and it means
a lot more. You know, you call your grandfather, Like,
who in Vegas is calling their grandfather?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Like, hey Papa, we did it. He's like, what we
dead it? Vegas Knights?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
What at all?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
He's like, I didn't even go to the games. Well
we call grandma's she's dead. Oh kind of a bum out?
A bummer dad, Grandpa, Gonna be honest with you. You really
bum me out celebrating a championship. You tell me you
don't go and Grandma's dead, and I'm gonna call my
dad instead.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So he calls his dad, Hey dad, we did it.
Vegas Knights they win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, I was at the casino. I'm down about twelve
hundred at roulette. Can you call me back? But the
Vegas Knights just won the championship. Son, I'm getting my
ass handed to me. I lost in roulette, I took
a bad card, a bad beat at blackjack. I'm not
having any luck with video poker. Please call me back.
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I don't even know what the Vegas Knights are.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Click.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's the kind of reaction you get when you win
the championship after four years. O. Man, when you gotta
wait and wait and wait. It is fantastic. It is great,
the best, the best sports night I've ever had in
my life. Twenty twelve when the La Kings won the
Stanley Cup. Nothing comes close to that, nothing, nothing, and
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I enjoy I love watching the Dodgers win, but man,
watching the Kings win that Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I thought I'd never ever experienced that. Ever.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It was always like the worst or second to worst,
last second and last team in the NHL, always just horrible,
year after year after year of nothing but crap and
horrible players, horrible management, horrible owners, horrible facilities.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Everything was just drek.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And then they turned it around and they won the
Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And then they won it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
They won it in twenty twelve, lost in twenty thirteen,
and won it in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
In three in three years, they won two Stanley Cups.
It was the greatest two year, three year run in
my life. And may never.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Experience that again, but at least I got. I got
there and at when they won in twenty twelve. When
the La Kings won the Stanley Cup in twenty twenty twelve,
I had been a fan since the late nineteen sixties,
so I had thirty one, forty one, forty two, forty
I've been a fan for forty three forty four years
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before they won the Stanley Cup, at least forty years.
Drive into these games, paying to get in, watching them
get their ass kicked, watch them, you know, lose in
the playoffs to Edmonton, uh, you know, to Vancouver, to
all these teams that came in and just destroyed them.
And then they won the Stanley Cup and it was
one of the greatest nights of my life. But so
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you need a good thirty forty fifty years of losing before,
and it brings your family together.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
If you're a Mets fan, if you're a Chicago you know,
Cubs fan, your Guardians or Indians fan, or just you
know Detroit you're you know, you're fan of the Tigers
or Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You know what it's like.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
There's generation after generation of fans that get into it,
and you all have that you know, that miserable season
time after time after time, and it brings the family together.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Denver Broncos John Elway.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Great example, great example, John Elway and the you know,
the the Denver Broncos did nothing. They were a joke,
you know, they never did well. And then John Elway comes,
you know, flies by and they're one of the great
teams in the National Football League and it.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Took him years to win his SUP for Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's right, and it should you know, then you really
enjoy it. But I bet that city went nuts when
John Eloyd. My mom was there. My mom was a
big Raiders fan when I was younger. I don't know
why she hooked up into the Raiders, but she had Raiders,
you know, jerseys and loves the Raiders and always talked
about the Raiders, Raiders as Raiders that. And then she
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moves to Colorado and had to Steamboat Springs and Colorado.
She's there for a week and she calls me. She goes,
how about this John Alwa and these Broncos, boy man,
are they coming a tough year. I'm like, what, how'd
you change teams in a week? Because I always liked
the Broncos. I never even mentioned the Broncos going on
with you? The one you're with ya? So, but she
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became a huge Broncos fan. The Nuggets, you know, Rockies,
the Avalanche, the whole run that's awesome. Yeah, great, Taoskar
just blew an easy catch in the first inning.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Great move.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
The Dodgers should be tied at zero zero going to
the bottom of the first Botsker Hernandez missed a pop up,
a very easy a pop up that I could have caught,
missed it, and the Reds scored two runs, and now
the Dodgers are in a hole, down to nothing after
the top of the first inning. Man, oh man, what
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a screw up that was. Look, he's a great player.
He had two home runs last night, and he's like
the heart and soul of that team. He's the guy
who throws sunflower seeds at you and you hit a
home run. Great guy, But man, he's got to feel horrible.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Just horrible.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
All right, let's get back in some more news here.
We've got a lot going on the I don't do
Spirit Airlines. All we do is Spirit Airlines story, and
it's always the same. They're going out of business. They're
going out of business. But how's this government going to
shut down going to affect everybody?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Is it not?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I don't know, let's find out if anyone's going to
be you know, left at the airport because the TSA, well, the.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Government is closed, shutting down for the first time in
nearly seven years, after lawmakers from both parties failed to
reach a deal. Today, in Washington, DC and other cities
across the country, the notices are up and the buildings
are closed. Democrats and Republicans arriving on Capitol Hill to
a stalemate. Still time for Democrats to pass this clean
bipartisan bill that's sitting before them.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Let's do it, and we encourage our Democrat colleagues to
do that.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Some federal agencies are considered essential.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Which means here we are the essential agency.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Social Security payments will continue, air traffic controllers and TSA
employees will keep flights moving right on. Non essential federal workers, however,
are staying home already. As many as four million are
preparing to go without paying.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Wow. Four million people without paychecks. That's horrible.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
With furloughs hitting the majority of agencies, the White House
is also threatening possible mass firings.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Republicans control the Senate, the House, and the White House.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
They must have a plan to solve this.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
All of this is happening because Congress can't agree on
a funding plan. The main sticking point is healthcare. Democrats
want to reverse Medicaid cuts and stop enhanced Obamacare subsidies
from expiring. Republicans say they simply want a short term
bill for seven weeks to keep the government running while
both sides work on a long term funding plan.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
All right, we'll keep you updated on that.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
But so far it's not effect it's affecting those four
million people by chance of affecting you are pretty pretty slim,
all right, self service. Not a lot of people know
how you when you make a phone call. Like let's
say you're driving from I don't know, San Diego to
Los Angeles and you're on a cell phone with another person.
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That phone, that call is being transferred every couple of
miles to another cell tower almost seamlessly. It's unbelievable technology.
And I think they call them switch rooms, but these
top secret switch facilities that keep cell phone, if cell
phones connected, A lot of people don't know the technology
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behind it. It is remarkable, really, truly.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Is we take for granted that our phones usually have
a signal. It's places like this that keep it up
and running.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Who knows what all.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
This stuff does, so we have some of the best
engineers in the contrary.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
This is one of verizons many secret switch facilities around
the nation where calls and data are routed.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
When you make the cellular phone call right and it
blatches onto that cell tower, it comes back to the core.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You're standing in the core.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
These switch rooms are the brains of the operation, filled
with racks of four G and five G transport gear,
routers and servers. This is where three G used to sit.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's gone.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
Guess what now they're planning for six G and seven
G next stop.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
How we're in backup systems.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
If we ever got here, it's really a doomsday scenario.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
In the DC power room, rows of backup batteries that
can keep this place running for seventeen hours. There's gotta
be a place to charge my phone around here.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I feel like it'd be really fast and a smaller
AC room.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
Lots of redundancy, lots of redundancy.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Has that always been that way?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's what made Verizon.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Verizon outside five giant diesel generators. All right, let's go
see the generator with tanks that hold up to ten
thousand gallons of fuel.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Diesel fuel could go bad if it sits too long,
so we always exercise to get the fuel moving.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Plus two portable trucks that can be deployed anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
We call them goats.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Goat stands for a generator on a truck back Inside.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's pretty good. A goat a generator on a truck.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Goat stands for a generator on a truck back inside.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
The control room mon churs it all twenty four to seven, so.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
If something goes wrong, we know real time.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
And if a cell tower goes down, Verizon's latest innovation
can restore service in seconds. This tether drone stays powered
from the ground. Base stations pull in a satellite signal
and broadcast it as a cell signal to the surrounding area.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Where let's say an entire cell service the tower was
destroyed by a fire. Yeah, we can fly this up
and have emergency coverage for our customers and our first
responders immediately.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'm rich Damia. That's rich on Tech. Yeah, rich on
Tech here on KFI. That's a great show. Gas station
when we come back, has been ripped off by not
what you think. It's not a typical guy comes in
with a gun, holds up the gas station attendant or
the clerk, and makes off with the money. It's something
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different and again a new low in southern California. It
happened in Brentwood. We're live on KFI amsick forty. Dodgers
down to nothing in the first.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on DEMYO from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, the gas station in Brentwood ripped off. But
they didn't get cash, they didn't get gased, they didn't
get snacks. A new low in Los Angeles. What they
steal from this gas station? What they take? Let's find out.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
From his Bunny ears to his Dodger Blue. The Sinclair
Dinosaur was a Brentwood favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, the Sinclair Dinosaur and all these Sinclair stations, a
lot of them have big dinosaurs out there.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You know, the kids love it, so beloved dinosaur from Brentwood. Yeah,
all the kids loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's exactly what I just said. All the kids loved it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
All the kids loved it. And here it is, come Saturday,
Dinosaur's gone.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Now somebody stole it. Night, Los Angeles. We throw a
lot at you. We throw a lot at you.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
For six years, the four foot fiberglass dinos stood at
the Clare station on San Vicente at twenty sixth Street.
But now he's extinct, gone. This prehistoric prankster and a
hoodie crept across the parking lot with a power tool
early Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
And what are you gonna do with it? You know?
Now you have it?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
What in your house? In your yard? And why what
are you gonna do? You're gonna sell it, You're gonna
just I don't get it. Stealing the dinosaur, It's like
stealing the Bob's Big Boy from Burbank.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That happens all the time. Tim, That's insane. I would
have that's commitment.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Though.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
The thief cuts the bolts from the ground, wraps the
fifty pound brontosaurs in a blanket, and then loads it
into a pickup truck and pulls away.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
God Almighty, you're never ever shocked by just the weirdos
in La.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
We getting phone calls. We're getting people coming over here
and asking about it.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's being a whole deal.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
This service station has been flooded with phone calls and flowers.
Actress Jamie Lee.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Okay, well, let me, let's back.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Up here, flooded with phone calls.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Wait, it's flooded with phone calls? Is that what she said?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
This service station has been flooded with phone calls?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And what do those phone calls say?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It's Larry. I stopped buying get guests every once in
a while. Oh Larry, what's going on? I noticed the
dinosaur's gone. Do you have any reaction to that? What
would you say to them? Dozens of calls?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Who's calling? And why would you? I don't get that.
You know, Hey, do you know your dinosaur's missing? Yeah, yeah,
we know, guys stolen. I'll hang up and listen to
your response. Off the air? What and flowers?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis and others posting about it on
social media. We loved it. We walked past it every
day and every season.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
He would decorate to the owner would decorate it in
different ways. It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Okay, well it's not dead. I mean you can buy
another one. It's an inanimate object. It's not a real dinosaur.
It's not a it's not a human being. It's a
little tiny statue. Why what has Brentwood lost their minds
over a stolen dinosaur? The reaction is unbelievable to.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
This, So sad, Keith, what so sad? How sad?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Can you f and be over the dinosaur at a
Sinclair station that's missing? Where are you in life where
that saddens you and that that brings you down? Maybe
to tears? Maybe you discussed it with some friends. What
happened to people in Brentwood?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So sad?
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Keith.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Simon had the dinosaur in his office for thirty years.
It was read back then, but me wanted to share the.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Smiles, okay, And now it's gone. You know, if you're
mentally healthy, you've moved on. If they get another one, great,
If they don't, I can survive that as well.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
So he sold it to the gas station owner, who
painted a green and put it right out front.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
There's a big long red light there and I can
shoot a picture coming off Sandercente at the people they're
always stopping there.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
And now LAPD has launched an investigation.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I think there's a lot more important things for LAPD
to do than to track down a stolen dinosaur from
a Sinclair station.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
And now LAPD has launched an investigation to find this
very long necked victim.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The person who took it.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
If you see my message, just bring the dinosaur back
at two thirty in the morning and just leave it
there and walk away.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, I'm sure that guy'll do exactly that.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
This dino napping seems to be a trend across the nation.
Similar dinosaur stolen from service stations in Utah, Texas and Colorado.
And we check some of them are on sale on
eBay for up to six thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Okay, well, then buy it and bring it back and
put it back up. There's a lot of money in
the in the gas game, or have a new one there.
There's a lot of different options, lots of options.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Out there for everybody. All right, let's talk about something
positive here. This is a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
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AM six forty. So that's a cool deal. And we're
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gonna be doing that. Are we doing it on the third?
Belly on ze?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
We'll give it away on the third.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Okay, which is the day after tomorrow? Is that Friday?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Third?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes, Okay, We're gonna do it on Friday.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And so somebody's gonna win the four pack of one
day one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disney California
Adventure Park.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And that's gonna be on Friday. So that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So come on back on Friday and somebody is going
to walk away with that. That is a cool deal.
I got a sad note for you here. There's a
big air show going on this weekend in Huntington Beach,
huge big ass air show. It's the Pacific Air Show.
It's gonna be on Huntington Beach. But we got some
very sad news. Because of the government's shutdown, there will
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be no military flyovers. No Air Force, no Navy, nothing.
Last year, the US military flew several modern jets, including
F thirty five Lightning and twenty two Raptor, and an
A ten Thunderbolt at the show. The Marine Corps also
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provided MV twenty two. Of those are the Osprey I
believe for the event, and while this is certainly disappointing news,
they are they said they're still excited to share the
Pacific Air Show in Untington Beach. It will continue as
scheduled this Friday, Saturday and Sunday with an outstanding lineup
of world class domesica international performances. Last year's air show
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will I'm sorry. This year's air show will still feature
the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, the United Kingdom Royal Air Force Falcons,
and aerobatic helicopter performances. World War II Arab bombers including
the B twenty nine super Fortress and the BEEF twenty
five Mitchell. They're going to fly with the over the event,
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but there will not be any US military aircraft this
year because of the government shutdown, so that if you're
going out there, don't expect to see those US military
You're not going to see the F thirty five or
the F twenty two Raptor, or the Thunderbolt or the Osprey.
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They will not be flying because of the shutdown, but
still go. It'll be still still be a fun event.
But you're just not going to see the best of
the best when it comes to the US military.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
If you're riding in a WAYMO and they get pulled over,
what happens? Who gets the ticket? Does Weaimo get it?
Do you get it? Do I get it? Does Bellio
get it? I don't know, we'll find out.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Still Cincinnati, two Dodgers Nothing in the top of the
third inning at Dodger Stadium. And tomorrow we've got a
really cool look ahead a topic we're going to be
covering tomorrow pretty extensively, and it's about apartment buildings. There
are very few apartment buildings being built in Los Angeles,
(25:07):
and tomorrow we will discuss that with you on why
that is. Maybele bring an apartment specialist in, but yeah,
almost no one is building new apartments in Los Angeles,
and tomorrow we're investigating it and We're almost done with
our investigation. Bellio's got a couple more sources to talk
to to finish that, and then we'll bring it all
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to you tomorrow after four pm.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Can a Weimo get a ticket?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
These driverless vehicles that get you around town? Well, police
in San Bruno, California, we're patrolling for drunk drivers when
they observed a car traveling erratically. But this couldn't be
chalked up to just another impaired or distracted driver. There
wasn't anyone behind the wheel. Officers were bewildered to see
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the car, a self driving Weaimo robo taxi. It made
an illegal U turn at a traffic light right in
front of them. They were sitting right there. If you
were there and driving that car, you would have never
done it right in front of a cop like that.
It was the first for both officers. The department wrote
in the post that which included photos of the officer
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peering through the window at an empty driver's seat. Because
the car did not have a human driver, officers could
not issue a ticket. Instead, officers contacted the company and
let them know about the glitch. Hopefully the reprogramming will
keep it from making any more illegal moves. The incident
(26:39):
highlights a gap in California law for hundreds of autonomous
vehicles rowing the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
When self driving cars violate the rules of the road,
law enforcement can penalize them, but not in the same
way as they do humans. The way state has been interrupted.
(26:59):
I'm sorry the way state law has been interpreted here.
Traffic tickets can be issued only if there's an actual driver.
So California lawmakers have sought to close the enforcement loophole
loophole with legislation that will take effect in July of
next year.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
So that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know, if you're driving in a weimo and the
waimo does something stupid or illegal, you can't give it
a ticket. Nobody gets a ticket, you skate, nothing happens.
It's crazy, all right. Dodger's still down to nothing in
the third, bottom of the third inning. Dodgers are up
with nobody out. So we're keeping an eye on that game.
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Everybody here, big huge Dodger fans, and you may have
witnessed last night they took Game one. That was a
big deal. Last night watching it on TV at home
was great, said to my daughter, my wife watching these
Dodgers a.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Lot of energy tonight.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
More than fifty thousand fans packed Dodger Stadium tonight to
watch Shoho, Tani, to, Oscar, Hernandez and Blake. So now
they were the real stars of tonight's game. Now, I
will say as Ping just mentioned that eighth and he
was stressful for memory stress. Well, the Boys in Blue
were able to pull it off in the end.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, panic brothers.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
In the eighth Game one of the National League West
Wildcard Series turned out to be a wildly tense night
for the Dodgers. The raigning World Series champs were dominant
the first half. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Show heights the goat. Don't care what anyone says.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
The first seven games were awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Seven inmings were awesome. The last two names were bangful.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
The pitching, what about the pitching.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Blake snow smells, he's the best.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Our boys in Blue taking on the Reds, the Cincinnati
Reds in a best of three game series.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, and that's continuing out there tonight. All right, If
you were in the carpool lane, and you enjoyed the
carpool lane as a singleton, as just a single driver
and you have that special sticker on your car. Those
days are now over.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I sometimes question when you got those tinted windows as
to who's in that car. How many people are in there?
So we're not exactly sure, but we haven't seen any
CHP officers pull.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Anybody over either.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
It was great while it lasted, but as of today,
if you had that sticker on the bottom of your
car to allow you to ride by yourself in the
HOV lane, that is no longer the case as of today.
Here's what you need to know. The Feds are the
ones that canceled this. It wasn't the state DMV. The
federal government no longer allowing states to issue those clean
air Vehicle decals. So this is nationwide, not just here
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in California. But those stickers on the back bottom of
those bumpers that had allowed for single occupancy vehicles to
ride along ocupancy vple lane no more.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
As of today.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
All drivers have to follow the same rules and if
you don't, you risk getting a ticket, which also means
it added benefit to having an electric vehicle in the
first place is now also gone.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, a lot of people bought the electric vehicles. They
didn't really want them, but they bought them to get
to work and home in you know, maybe ten minutes
on the road fifteen twenty not anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You got to sit with everybody else.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Was a big part of my decision, and you know,
getting this car, and especially in LA with all the
traffic and whatnot.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
But I think it's really going to fuck the people
that were sort of on the fence.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yes, if you're on the edge on the fence and
didn't know whether to buy the electric vehicle or not,
maybe is going to push you towards a more traditional
gas powered vehicle.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
So something else that you need to know the EV
tax credit that's seventy five hundred dollars men, you might
get for buying a new EV, or four thousand dollars
credit for buying the use one that is over two,
which means owning an EV buying one is going to
be more expensive. Car manufacturers they may come up with
their own incentives to help offrase some of the costs,
but as of now things are really changing for EV drivers.
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That benefit is now gone. We'll bring you back live
here where we are again. We're on the four to
five freeway. We're just transitioning out of that carpool aid.
As you can see traffic so starting to pick up.
Maybe because some of these folks who perhaps would have
been in the carpooling.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah today now they're with you in the five lanes
for chumps.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Today they're not. Things are very different here on the roads.
So keep that in mind as you head out.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
You might have some friends there on the road with
you that were there before before. We live this morning
here along the four or five freeway, have drug heady stemick.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Ding dong with you.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
There was a beer spill on the two to ten freeway.
Maybe you drove past this.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
This crash involved three semi trucks and five vehicles. You
can see from this vantage point that there are at
least two semi trucks still on the freeway off to
the side, and that's still impacting traffic here this morning
on the westbound two.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Ten freeway in Azusa.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Now we know that one big rig actually split in
half following this major crash. If you take a look
at this video, you can see thousands of beer cans
and metal kegs spilled on the freeway, blocking a couple
of the lanes. Some cars were hit by debris after
this crash happened.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, there was a pretty radical accident. I wonder if
you're like me. You know, I enjoy drinking beer and
I do it pretty often. But I wonder if you're
like me. Where you see a beer truck. Maybe it's
a Budweiser, Heineken truck, I don't know, maybe a Corona
truck and you see it's a box truck. It probably
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has hundreds of or you know, hundreds and hundreds of
cases of beer on board. And I think about this
all the time every time I see one. I always
think to myself, have I had enough beer in my life?
Where I have wiped out an entire beer truck? And
I've got the answer for you, absolutely, one hundred percent.
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Or maybe you're on the two ten Freeway and you're
driving eastbound on the two ten and you just cross
the six oh five and you see those big, huge barrels.
I don't know if it's Miller or paps. I don't
know what's out there. I don't know who makes that
beer out there. But maybe you drive by and you
see these huge you know, they've got to be one
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hundred feet tall, maybe fifty seventy five feet toll and
there's these you know, huge cylinders where obviously they're storing
or making beer. And then you think to yourself, have
you wiped out one of those cylinders? And maybe you
have maybe enjoyed it. You know, you like beer and
you've gone in a lifetime, you have wiped out one
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of those big, huge tanks.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Certainly as possible, certainly possible.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
All right, before we go, we got an email here
from Diana Ramos and she wrote, I've attached a flyer
to this email. Here's some more information at the Pediatric
Cancer Research Foundation. The PCRF our mission is to sport
groundbreaking research and care for kids and families facing pediatric cancer.
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This October twelfth, about a week and a half away,
they're holding the eighteenth annual Dribble for Victory over Cancer
in partnership with UCLA Men's and women Basketball. It's a
family friendly community event includes a fan fest, dribble athon
on the u UCLA campus, autographs, playtime, It'll all be there.
(34:13):
But it's going to be October twelfth, and this, Uh,
Diana Ramo is very nice to bring this to our attention.
I can't imagine there's a more important group of people
that need attention than pediatric cancer.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
It's got to be the worst.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So dribble for Victory over Cancer at UCLA October twelfth,
eight thirty am at Drake Stadium, UCLA's Drake Stadium. And
as we get closer, we will tell you more about that.
But that's a that's a big deal. Dribble for Victory
over Cancer at UCLA, October twelfth, eight thirty am at
Drake Stadium. And again as we get closer, we'll mention
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that more often. All rights cone By Show, Dodger's still
down to zip in the the fourth inning. We're live
on KFI. Mo Kelly coming up next to his whole
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the iHeartRadio app.
It's KMF I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Time
for Dodger Baseball is now? What time it is? It's
time for Dodger baseball?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Time for Dodger baseball.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
There's two schools of thought about telling you that the
Dodger game is on right now. First one is, don't
mention it. They're your competitor. Don't bring it up. Keep
doing the show, and don't mention the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The second one is tell people when there's something going
on in the town that's interesting, and they'll trust that.
In the future, you'll also tell them about stuff and
they'll come back because you're honest with the audience. And
I subscribe to that. I subscribe to the second version
of them. There's second selection. And when I listen to
(01:02):
radio show, if I'm listening and they say, hey, there's
a you know, a rocket about the last launch off
in Ventura, and the host or the person knows that,
you know, twenty percent of the people are going to
shut the radio off and go outside and look at
the rocket whatever. But they come back because you're honest
with them and I'm being honest with you. The Dodgers
(01:24):
are on and playing in the playoffs. I'm a huge
Dodger fan. My daughter act not accidentally purposely recorded me
last year when the Dodgers won the World Series, and
she just gave it to me, Belly, I'm gonna afford
this to you. This is I'm gonna afford a video
to you, Okay, and we can well, let's put up
(01:49):
on social media. But this is me at last year,
at this time, late October. I think it was October thirtieth,
when the Dodgers won the World Series against the Yankees.
I think it was October thirty and so it was
practically eleven months ago, almost exactly eleven months ago, and
I was watching the Dodger game. My daughter was it
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was cold that night. She was under a blanket on
the couch. I was on the other couch. My wife
was on the couch with me, and we were watching
the Dodger game. And when the Dodgers won the World Series,
I went nuts. I'm gonna play the audio for you here,
but we're gonna put the video up. But this is
the audio of, you know, a guy in his late
fifties going crazy over a you know, stupid game, shouldn't
(02:36):
happen this way. But I get too crazy. Here last pitch,
I'm leaning down towards the TV. I'm almost on my knees,
(02:58):
jumping up and down. That's crazy. It's crazy of that
reaction over you know, people I've never met before. I've
never met anybody currently on the La Dodgers, nobody, and
yet I have that kind of reaction to them winning.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I've lost my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I had the same reaction to the Kings winning the
championship the Stanley Cup in twenty twelve and twenty fourteen,
And that kind of reaction comes from a lot of
losses in life. The Kings had fifty years of nothing,
but s you know, we'll get him next year. We're rebuilding.
We should have traded that guy. The guy's injured, This
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coach sucks, Get a new coach, get a new owner,
get a new stadium. It was constantly bad news for
fifty years, and then they won the championship and it
made it all that much better. And I think the
if you're a Las Vegas Knights fan, if you like
the NHL team in Las Vegas, the Golden Knights, I
think it was a curse. The Golden Knights won the
(04:00):
Stanley Cup three or four years into their existence.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think you need.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
To have to have a really good long fan base
that is handed down from generation after generation after generation.
You need fifty years of nothing but getting your ass
handed to you, fifty sixty or seventy years of we'll
get him next year, we almost did it, We almost
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got him. And that brings the dad, the grandfathers, the uncles,
the aunts, the nieces, the nephews, and they become closer
in life because you all have this one goal that
you've never reached, and that is a championship. And that's
why when the Cubs finally won the championship, that city
broke down and it melted down. Everybody was so happy.
(04:50):
They were crying, there was tears, they went nuts. And
the Las Vegas Knights didn't have that. They in their
third or fourth year they won the Stanley Cup. And
so what you've been a lifelong fan for what three
years or four years before you won the Stanley Cup?
Who cares? You need fifty years of s sorry use
(05:13):
the whole word there. Fifty years of absolute s every
year and then you win the championship and it means
a lot more. You know, you call your grandfather, Like,
who in Vegas is calling their grandfather?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Like, hey Papa, we did it. He's like, what we
dead it? Vegas Knights?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
What at all?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
He's like, I didn't even go to the games. Well
we call grandma's she's dead. Oh kind of a bum out?
A bummer dad, Grandpa, Gonna be honest with you. You really
bum me out celebrating a championship. You tell me you
don't go and Grandma's dead, and I'm gonna call my
dad instead.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So he calls his dad, Hey dad, we did it.
Vegas Knights they win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, I was at the casino. I'm down about twelve
hundred at roulette. Can you call me back? But the
Vegas Knights just won the championship. Son, I'm getting my
ass handed to me. I lost in roulette, I took
a bad card, a bad beat at blackjack. I'm not
having any luck with video poker. Please call me back.
(06:22):
I don't even know what the Vegas Knights are.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Click.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's the kind of reaction you get when you win
the championship after four years. O. Man, when you gotta
wait and wait and wait. It is fantastic. It is great,
the best, the best sports night I've ever had in
my life. Twenty twelve when the La Kings won the
Stanley Cup. Nothing comes close to that, nothing, nothing, and
(06:47):
I enjoy I love watching the Dodgers win, but man,
watching the Kings win that Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I thought I'd never ever experienced that. Ever.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It was always like the worst or second to worst,
last second and last team in the NHL, always just horrible,
year after year after year of nothing but crap and
horrible players, horrible management, horrible owners, horrible facilities.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Everything was just drek.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And then they turned it around and they won the
Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And then they won it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
They won it in twenty twelve, lost in twenty thirteen,
and won it in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
In three in three years, they won two Stanley Cups.
It was the greatest two year, three year run in
my life. And may never.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Experience that again, but at least I got. I got
there and at when they won in twenty twelve. When
the La Kings won the Stanley Cup in twenty twenty twelve,
I had been a fan since the late nineteen sixties,
so I had thirty one, forty one, forty two, forty
I've been a fan for forty three forty four years
(07:52):
before they won the Stanley Cup, at least forty years.
Drive into these games, paying to get in, watching them
get their ass kicked, watch them, you know, lose in
the playoffs to Edmonton, uh, you know, to Vancouver, to
all these teams that came in and just destroyed them.
And then they won the Stanley Cup and it was
one of the greatest nights of my life. But so
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you need a good thirty forty fifty years of losing before,
and it brings your family together.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
If you're a Mets fan, if you're a Chicago you know,
Cubs fan, your Guardians or Indians fan, or just you
know Detroit you're you know, you're fan of the Tigers
or Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You know what it's like.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
There's generation after generation of fans that get into it,
and you all have that you know, that miserable season
time after time after time, and it brings the family together.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Denver Broncos John Elway.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Great example, great example, John Elway and the you know,
the the Denver Broncos did nothing. They were a joke,
you know, they never did well. And then John Elway comes,
you know, flies by and they're one of the great
teams in the National Football League and it.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Took him years to win his SUP for Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's right, and it should you know, then you really
enjoy it. But I bet that city went nuts when
John Eloyd. My mom was there. My mom was a
big Raiders fan when I was younger. I don't know
why she hooked up into the Raiders, but she had Raiders,
you know, jerseys and loves the Raiders and always talked
about the Raiders, Raiders as Raiders that. And then she
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moves to Colorado and had to Steamboat Springs and Colorado.
She's there for a week and she calls me. She goes,
how about this John Alwa and these Broncos, boy man,
are they coming a tough year. I'm like, what, how'd
you change teams in a week? Because I always liked
the Broncos. I never even mentioned the Broncos going on
with you? The one you're with ya? So, but she
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became a huge Broncos fan. The Nuggets, you know, Rockies,
the Avalanche, the whole run that's awesome. Yeah, great, Taoskar
just blew an easy catch in the first inning.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Great move.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
The Dodgers should be tied at zero zero going to
the bottom of the first Botsker Hernandez missed a pop up,
a very easy a pop up that I could have caught,
missed it, and the Reds scored two runs, and now
the Dodgers are in a hole, down to nothing after
the top of the first inning. Man, oh man, what
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a screw up that was. Look, he's a great player.
He had two home runs last night, and he's like
the heart and soul of that team. He's the guy
who throws sunflower seeds at you and you hit a
home run. Great guy, But man, he's got to feel horrible.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Just horrible.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
All right, let's get back in some more news here.
We've got a lot going on the I don't do
Spirit Airlines. All we do is Spirit Airlines story, and
it's always the same. They're going out of business. They're
going out of business. But how's this government going to
shut down going to affect everybody?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Is it not?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I don't know, let's find out if anyone's going to
be you know, left at the airport because the TSA, well, the.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Government is closed, shutting down for the first time in
nearly seven years, after lawmakers from both parties failed to
reach a deal. Today, in Washington, DC and other cities
across the country, the notices are up and the buildings
are closed. Democrats and Republicans arriving on Capitol Hill to
a stalemate. Still time for Democrats to pass this clean
bipartisan bill that's sitting before them.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Let's do it, and we encourage our Democrat colleagues to
do that.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Some federal agencies are considered essential.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Which means here we are the essential agency.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Social Security payments will continue, air traffic controllers and TSA
employees will keep flights moving right on. Non essential federal workers, however,
are staying home already. As many as four million are
preparing to go without paying.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Wow. Four million people without paychecks. That's horrible.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
With furloughs hitting the majority of agencies, the White House
is also threatening possible mass firings.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Republicans control the Senate, the House, and the White House.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
They must have a plan to solve this.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
All of this is happening because Congress can't agree on
a funding plan. The main sticking point is healthcare. Democrats
want to reverse Medicaid cuts and stop enhanced Obamacare subsidies
from expiring. Republicans say they simply want a short term
bill for seven weeks to keep the government running while
both sides work on a long term funding plan.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
All right, we'll keep you updated on that.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
But so far it's not effect it's affecting those four
million people by chance of affecting you are pretty pretty slim,
all right, self service. Not a lot of people know
how you when you make a phone call. Like let's
say you're driving from I don't know, San Diego to
Los Angeles and you're on a cell phone with another person.
(13:02):
That phone, that call is being transferred every couple of
miles to another cell tower almost seamlessly. It's unbelievable technology.
And I think they call them switch rooms, but these
top secret switch facilities that keep cell phone, if cell
phones connected, A lot of people don't know the technology
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behind it. It is remarkable, really, truly.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Is we take for granted that our phones usually have
a signal. It's places like this that keep it up
and running.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Who knows what all.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
This stuff does, so we have some of the best
engineers in the contrary.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
This is one of verizons many secret switch facilities around
the nation where calls and data are routed.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
When you make the cellular phone call right and it
blatches onto that cell tower, it comes back to the core.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You're standing in the core.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
These switch rooms are the brains of the operation, filled
with racks of four G and five G transport gear,
routers and servers. This is where three G used to sit.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's gone.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
Guess what now they're planning for six G and seven
G next stop.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
How we're in backup systems.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
If we ever got here, it's really a doomsday scenario.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
In the DC power room, rows of backup batteries that
can keep this place running for seventeen hours. There's gotta
be a place to charge my phone around here.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I feel like it'd be really fast and a smaller
AC room.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
Lots of redundancy, lots of redundancy.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Has that always been that way?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's what made Verizon.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Verizon outside five giant diesel generators. All right, let's go
see the generator with tanks that hold up to ten
thousand gallons of fuel.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Diesel fuel could go bad if it sits too long,
so we always exercise to get the fuel moving.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Plus two portable trucks that can be deployed anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
We call them goats.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Goat stands for a generator on a truck back Inside.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's pretty good. A goat a generator on a truck.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Goat stands for a generator on a truck back inside.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
The control room mon churs it all twenty four to seven, so.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
If something goes wrong, we know real time.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
And if a cell tower goes down, Verizon's latest innovation
can restore service in seconds. This tether drone stays powered
from the ground. Base stations pull in a satellite signal
and broadcast it as a cell signal to the surrounding area.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Where let's say an entire cell service the tower was
destroyed by a fire. Yeah, we can fly this up
and have emergency coverage for our customers and our first
responders immediately.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'm rich Damia. That's rich on Tech. Yeah, rich on
Tech here on KFI. That's a great show. Gas station
when we come back, has been ripped off by not
what you think. It's not a typical guy comes in
with a gun, holds up the gas station attendant or
the clerk, and makes off with the money. It's something
(15:51):
different and again a new low in southern California. It
happened in Brentwood. We're live on KFI amsick forty. Dodgers
down to nothing in the first.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on DEMYO from KFI
am six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, the gas station in Brentwood ripped off. But
they didn't get cash, they didn't get gased, they didn't
get snacks. A new low in Los Angeles. What they
steal from this gas station? What they take? Let's find out.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
From his Bunny ears to his Dodger Blue. The Sinclair
Dinosaur was a Brentwood favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, the Sinclair Dinosaur and all these Sinclair stations, a
lot of them have big dinosaurs out there.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You know, the kids love it, so beloved dinosaur from Brentwood. Yeah,
all the kids loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's exactly what I just said. All the kids loved it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
All the kids loved it. And here it is, come Saturday,
Dinosaur's gone.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Now somebody stole it. Night, Los Angeles. We throw a
lot at you. We throw a lot at you.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
For six years, the four foot fiberglass dinos stood at
the Clare station on San Vicente at twenty sixth Street.
But now he's extinct, gone. This prehistoric prankster and a
hoodie crept across the parking lot with a power tool
early Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
And what are you gonna do with it? You know?
Now you have it?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
What in your house? In your yard? And why what
are you gonna do? You're gonna sell it, You're gonna
just I don't get it. Stealing the dinosaur, It's like
stealing the Bob's Big Boy from Burbank.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That happens all the time. Tim, That's insane. I would
have that's commitment.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Though.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
The thief cuts the bolts from the ground, wraps the
fifty pound brontosaurs in a blanket, and then loads it
into a pickup truck and pulls away.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
God Almighty, you're never ever shocked by just the weirdos
in La.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
We getting phone calls. We're getting people coming over here
and asking about it.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's being a whole deal.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
This service station has been flooded with phone calls and flowers.
Actress Jamie Lee.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Okay, well, let me, let's back.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Up here, flooded with phone calls.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Wait, it's flooded with phone calls? Is that what she said?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
This service station has been flooded with phone calls?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And what do those phone calls say?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It's Larry. I stopped buying get guests every once in
a while. Oh Larry, what's going on? I noticed the
dinosaur's gone. Do you have any reaction to that? What
would you say to them? Dozens of calls?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Who's calling? And why would you? I don't get that.
You know, Hey, do you know your dinosaur's missing? Yeah, yeah,
we know, guys stolen. I'll hang up and listen to
your response. Off the air? What and flowers?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis and others posting about it on
social media. We loved it. We walked past it every
day and every season.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
He would decorate to the owner would decorate it in
different ways. It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Okay, well it's not dead. I mean you can buy
another one. It's an inanimate object. It's not a real dinosaur.
It's not a it's not a human being. It's a
little tiny statue. Why what has Brentwood lost their minds
over a stolen dinosaur? The reaction is unbelievable to.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
This, So sad, Keith, what so sad? How sad?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Can you f and be over the dinosaur at a
Sinclair station that's missing? Where are you in life where
that saddens you and that that brings you down? Maybe
to tears? Maybe you discussed it with some friends. What
happened to people in Brentwood?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So sad?
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Keith.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Simon had the dinosaur in his office for thirty years.
It was read back then, but me wanted to share the.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Smiles, okay, And now it's gone. You know, if you're
mentally healthy, you've moved on. If they get another one, great,
If they don't, I can survive that as well.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
So he sold it to the gas station owner, who
painted a green and put it right out front.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
There's a big long red light there and I can
shoot a picture coming off Sandercente at the people they're
always stopping there.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
And now LAPD has launched an investigation.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I think there's a lot more important things for LAPD
to do than to track down a stolen dinosaur from
a Sinclair station.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
And now LAPD has launched an investigation to find this
very long necked victim.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The person who took it.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
If you see my message, just bring the dinosaur back
at two thirty in the morning and just leave it
there and walk away.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, I'm sure that guy'll do exactly that.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
This dino napping seems to be a trend across the nation.
Similar dinosaur stolen from service stations in Utah, Texas and Colorado.
And we check some of them are on sale on
eBay for up to six thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Okay, well, then buy it and bring it back and
put it back up. There's a lot of money in
the in the gas game, or have a new one there.
There's a lot of different options, lots of options.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Out there for everybody. All right, let's talk about something
positive here. This is a cool deal.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
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Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park from am KFI
AM six forty. So that's a cool deal. And we're
(21:54):
gonna be doing that. Are we doing it on the third?
Belly on ze?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
We'll give it away on the third.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Okay, which is the day after tomorrow? Is that Friday?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Third?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes, Okay, We're gonna do it on Friday.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And so somebody's gonna win the four pack of one
day one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disney California
Adventure Park.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And that's gonna be on Friday. So that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So come on back on Friday and somebody is going
to walk away with that. That is a cool deal.
I got a sad note for you here. There's a
big air show going on this weekend in Huntington Beach,
huge big ass air show. It's the Pacific Air Show.
It's gonna be on Huntington Beach. But we got some
very sad news. Because of the government's shutdown, there will
(22:44):
be no military flyovers. No Air Force, no Navy, nothing.
Last year, the US military flew several modern jets, including
F thirty five Lightning and twenty two Raptor, and an
A ten Thunderbolt at the show. The Marine Corps also
(23:05):
provided MV twenty two. Of those are the Osprey I
believe for the event, and while this is certainly disappointing news,
they are they said they're still excited to share the
Pacific Air Show in Untington Beach. It will continue as
scheduled this Friday, Saturday and Sunday with an outstanding lineup
of world class domesica international performances. Last year's air show
(23:29):
will I'm sorry. This year's air show will still feature
the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, the United Kingdom Royal Air Force Falcons,
and aerobatic helicopter performances. World War II Arab bombers including
the B twenty nine super Fortress and the BEEF twenty
five Mitchell. They're going to fly with the over the event,
(23:52):
but there will not be any US military aircraft this
year because of the government shutdown, so that if you're
going out there, don't expect to see those US military
You're not going to see the F thirty five or
the F twenty two Raptor, or the Thunderbolt or the Osprey.
(24:13):
They will not be flying because of the shutdown, but
still go. It'll be still still be a fun event.
But you're just not going to see the best of
the best when it comes to the US military.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
If you're riding in a WAYMO and they get pulled over,
what happens? Who gets the ticket? Does Weaimo get it?
Do you get it? Do I get it? Does Bellio
get it? I don't know, we'll find out.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Still Cincinnati, two Dodgers Nothing in the top of the
third inning at Dodger Stadium. And tomorrow we've got a
really cool look ahead a topic we're going to be
covering tomorrow pretty extensively, and it's about apartment buildings. There
are very few apartment buildings being built in Los Angeles,
(25:07):
and tomorrow we will discuss that with you on why
that is. Maybele bring an apartment specialist in, but yeah,
almost no one is building new apartments in Los Angeles,
and tomorrow we're investigating it and We're almost done with
our investigation. Bellio's got a couple more sources to talk
to to finish that, and then we'll bring it all
(25:28):
to you tomorrow after four pm.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Can a Weimo get a ticket?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
These driverless vehicles that get you around town? Well, police
in San Bruno, California, we're patrolling for drunk drivers when
they observed a car traveling erratically. But this couldn't be
chalked up to just another impaired or distracted driver. There
wasn't anyone behind the wheel. Officers were bewildered to see
(25:56):
the car, a self driving Weaimo robo taxi. It made
an illegal U turn at a traffic light right in
front of them. They were sitting right there. If you
were there and driving that car, you would have never
done it right in front of a cop like that.
It was the first for both officers. The department wrote
in the post that which included photos of the officer
(26:17):
peering through the window at an empty driver's seat. Because
the car did not have a human driver, officers could
not issue a ticket. Instead, officers contacted the company and
let them know about the glitch. Hopefully the reprogramming will
keep it from making any more illegal moves. The incident
(26:39):
highlights a gap in California law for hundreds of autonomous
vehicles rowing the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
When self driving cars violate the rules of the road,
law enforcement can penalize them, but not in the same
way as they do humans. The way state has been interrupted.
(26:59):
I'm sorry the way state law has been interpreted here.
Traffic tickets can be issued only if there's an actual driver.
So California lawmakers have sought to close the enforcement loophole
loophole with legislation that will take effect in July of
next year.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
So that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know, if you're driving in a weimo and the
waimo does something stupid or illegal, you can't give it
a ticket. Nobody gets a ticket, you skate, nothing happens.
It's crazy, all right. Dodger's still down to nothing in
the third, bottom of the third inning. Dodgers are up
with nobody out. So we're keeping an eye on that game.
(27:39):
Everybody here, big huge Dodger fans, and you may have
witnessed last night they took Game one. That was a
big deal. Last night watching it on TV at home
was great, said to my daughter, my wife watching these
Dodgers a.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Lot of energy tonight.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
More than fifty thousand fans packed Dodger Stadium tonight to
watch Shoho, Tani, to, Oscar, Hernandez and Blake. So now
they were the real stars of tonight's game. Now, I
will say as Ping just mentioned that eighth and he
was stressful for memory stress. Well, the Boys in Blue
were able to pull it off in the end.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, panic brothers.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
In the eighth Game one of the National League West
Wildcard Series turned out to be a wildly tense night
for the Dodgers. The raigning World Series champs were dominant
the first half. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Show heights the goat. Don't care what anyone says.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
The first seven games were awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Seven inmings were awesome. The last two names were bangful.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
The pitching, what about the pitching.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Blake snow smells, he's the best.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Our boys in Blue taking on the Reds, the Cincinnati
Reds in a best of three game series.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, and that's continuing out there tonight. All right, If
you were in the carpool lane, and you enjoyed the
carpool lane as a singleton, as just a single driver
and you have that special sticker on your car. Those
days are now over.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I sometimes question when you got those tinted windows as
to who's in that car. How many people are in there?
So we're not exactly sure, but we haven't seen any
CHP officers pull.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Anybody over either.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
It was great while it lasted, but as of today,
if you had that sticker on the bottom of your
car to allow you to ride by yourself in the
HOV lane, that is no longer the case as of today.
Here's what you need to know. The Feds are the
ones that canceled this. It wasn't the state DMV. The
federal government no longer allowing states to issue those clean
air Vehicle decals. So this is nationwide, not just here
(29:31):
in California. But those stickers on the back bottom of
those bumpers that had allowed for single occupancy vehicles to
ride along ocupancy vple lane no more.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
As of today.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
All drivers have to follow the same rules and if
you don't, you risk getting a ticket, which also means
it added benefit to having an electric vehicle in the
first place is now also gone.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, a lot of people bought the electric vehicles. They
didn't really want them, but they bought them to get
to work and home in you know, maybe ten minutes
on the road fifteen twenty not anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You got to sit with everybody else.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Was a big part of my decision, and you know,
getting this car, and especially in LA with all the
traffic and whatnot.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
But I think it's really going to fuck the people
that were sort of on the fence.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yes, if you're on the edge on the fence and
didn't know whether to buy the electric vehicle or not,
maybe is going to push you towards a more traditional
gas powered vehicle.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
So something else that you need to know the EV
tax credit that's seventy five hundred dollars men, you might
get for buying a new EV, or four thousand dollars
credit for buying the use one that is over two,
which means owning an EV buying one is going to
be more expensive. Car manufacturers they may come up with
their own incentives to help offrase some of the costs,
but as of now things are really changing for EV drivers.
(30:44):
That benefit is now gone. We'll bring you back live
here where we are again. We're on the four to
five freeway. We're just transitioning out of that carpool aid.
As you can see traffic so starting to pick up.
Maybe because some of these folks who perhaps would have
been in the carpooling.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah today now they're with you in the five lanes
for chumps.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Today they're not. Things are very different here on the roads.
So keep that in mind as you head out.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
You might have some friends there on the road with
you that were there before before. We live this morning
here along the four or five freeway, have drug heady stemick.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Ding dong with you.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
There was a beer spill on the two to ten freeway.
Maybe you drove past this.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
This crash involved three semi trucks and five vehicles. You
can see from this vantage point that there are at
least two semi trucks still on the freeway off to
the side, and that's still impacting traffic here this morning
on the westbound two.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Ten freeway in Azusa.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Now we know that one big rig actually split in
half following this major crash. If you take a look
at this video, you can see thousands of beer cans
and metal kegs spilled on the freeway, blocking a couple
of the lanes. Some cars were hit by debris after
this crash happened.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, there was a pretty radical accident. I wonder if
you're like me. You know, I enjoy drinking beer and
I do it pretty often. But I wonder if you're
like me. Where you see a beer truck. Maybe it's
a Budweiser, Heineken truck, I don't know, maybe a Corona
truck and you see it's a box truck. It probably
(32:13):
has hundreds of or you know, hundreds and hundreds of
cases of beer on board. And I think about this
all the time every time I see one. I always
think to myself, have I had enough beer in my life?
Where I have wiped out an entire beer truck? And
I've got the answer for you, absolutely, one hundred percent.
(32:37):
Or maybe you're on the two ten Freeway and you're
driving eastbound on the two ten and you just cross
the six oh five and you see those big, huge barrels.
I don't know if it's Miller or paps. I don't
know what's out there. I don't know who makes that
beer out there. But maybe you drive by and you
see these huge you know, they've got to be one
(32:59):
hundred feet tall, maybe fifty seventy five feet toll and
there's these you know, huge cylinders where obviously they're storing
or making beer. And then you think to yourself, have
you wiped out one of those cylinders? And maybe you
have maybe enjoyed it. You know, you like beer and
you've gone in a lifetime, you have wiped out one
(33:22):
of those big, huge tanks.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Certainly as possible, certainly possible.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
All right, before we go, we got an email here
from Diana Ramos and she wrote, I've attached a flyer
to this email. Here's some more information at the Pediatric
Cancer Research Foundation. The PCRF our mission is to sport
groundbreaking research and care for kids and families facing pediatric cancer.
(33:49):
This October twelfth, about a week and a half away,
they're holding the eighteenth annual Dribble for Victory over Cancer
in partnership with UCLA Men's and women Basketball. It's a
family friendly community event includes a fan fest, dribble athon
on the u UCLA campus, autographs, playtime, It'll all be there.
(34:13):
But it's going to be October twelfth, and this, Uh,
Diana Ramo is very nice to bring this to our attention.
I can't imagine there's a more important group of people
that need attention than pediatric cancer.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
It's got to be the worst.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So dribble for Victory over Cancer at UCLA October twelfth,
eight thirty am at Drake Stadium, UCLA's Drake Stadium. And
as we get closer, we will tell you more about that.
But that's a that's a big deal. Dribble for Victory
over Cancer at UCLA, October twelfth, eight thirty am at
Drake Stadium. And again as we get closer, we'll mention
(34:55):
that more often. All rights cone By Show, Dodger's still
down to zip in the the fourth inning. We're live
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